UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1948
PAGE EIGHT
Meyers Pleads Innocent To Perjury Charges
Washington—(UP)—M a j. G e n.
Bennett E. Meyers, retired air force procurement officer, today pleaded innocent to government charges of perjury in connection with senate testimony on war contracts.
Meyers also pleaded innocent to charges that he induced Bleriot H. La Marre to perjury himself before senate investigators. La Marre already has pleaded guilty to perjury charges.
Federal Judge David A. Pine set Feb 16 for the start of Meyers' trial on a six-count indictment charging perijury and subornation of perijury. If convicted on all counts, the dapper, balding 52-year-old general would be liable to a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison.
La Marre is the youthful former president of the aviation electric corp, who testified that Meyers reaped most of the wartime profits of the company.
La Marre said Meyers set up the company, and in his capacity as a procurement officer for the air forces, drew contracts to it. He said Meyers induced him to lie to senate investigators about his part in the deal.
Truman Asks For Tax Cuts
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warned that inflation was dangerously out of hand and must be checked to prevent depression. To that end he asked again for the cost-of-living controls which the November-December emergency session of congress considered and largely rejected. These included authority for limited rationing of scarce commodities and for wage-price ceilings.
Seays Employment Is Up
583 boys. On the brighter side, Mr. Truman reported 14,000,000 more Americans have jobs today than in 1933 and our yearly output of goods and services up two thirds. Those 10 years roughly cover the period of World War II. But he said we could increase our annual output by at least one third above the present level and nearly double our standard of living compared with 10 years ago.
He asked congress again for enactment of universal (military) training. His message carefully avoided use of the politically explosive word "military" in making this request.
Band To Present Concert Jan.20
Rested after a week's trip to the Orange Bowl game, the University concert band began practice for its annual winter concert this morning.
The two-hour concert will be given Jan. 20 at 8:15 in Hoch auditorium, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, band director. The program has not been determined, but will include several orchestral arrangements for band and a group of band compositions.
Activity tickets will admit to the concert.
Will Talk On Siberia
Edmund Kostka, Polish graduate student, will give the second talk in a series on Siberia at 4 p.m. today in 102 Fraser hall.
The talk will be on Kostka's contingent and forced labor in Siberia
Kostka and his family were seized by the Nezis in 1839, when Germany invaded Warsaw, and were herded with other Poles into boxcars and sent to Siberia. They were ordered to take only what they could carry, Kostka said in his first talk. They cunt for days without receiving any food from their captors, Kostka said. Mrs. Rachael Soloveitchik, sponsor, will conduct the singing of Russian songs.
6 Student Recitals To Be Given Today
Four voice majors, one cello and one piano major will be presented on the program of the weekly Fine Arts student recital at 3 p.m. Thursday in Frank Strong auditorium.
The program follows: "Sonata in D major K. 576" (Mozart), by Ralph Conner, piano; "When I Think Upon the Maidens" (Michael Head), by Raymond King, voice; "O Do Not Grieve" (Rachmaninoff), and "The Cherry Tree Doth Bloom" (Foottle), by Elaine Rodgers, voice; "Hills of Home" (Fox), by Greecy Simms, voice; "Adagio and Allegro" (Bochercini), by John Ehrlich, cello; "Se Florindo e fedele" (Scarlatti), and "Eyes of Blue" (Orth), by Ann Houe, voice.
Professor Edwards To Read Postoy On KFKU Jan. 13
Dr. M, D. Clubb, chairman of the English department, read "The Eve of St. Agnes," by Keats, on the KFKU "Poetry for Pleasure" series last night.
A. C. Edwards, associate professor of English, will read next week The programs are broadcast at 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays.
No Fleas For This Lady, Who Survived Atom Blast
St. Louis—(UP)Lady, once the queen of Bikini atoll, is a lady. She never scratches.
The reason, said Coxswain James Nestor, 19, who adopted the frisky black-and-white terrier that survived the atomic experiments at Bikini, is that "all her fleas must have been blasted away by the bomb."
Lady is believed to have been the only dog on Bikini to pull through the double blast in the atoll's lagoon. One year after the experiments in 1946, she was found running about one of the sand spits by an advance group of seabees searchine for signs of radio-activity.
She was taken aboard the transport U.S.S. Chilton by the seabees and turned over to Nestor.
In Under Observation
When the Chilton docked again in the United States, Nestor asked if he could take Lady to his home in St. Louis. Navy officials assented on the condition that the dog undergo extensive observation.
Lady spent a month under the care of navy scientists in San Francisco, who feared she might have been affected by the atomic blasts or radioactivity. What happened to her there hasn't been disclosed, but she was returned to Nestor with a
clean bill of health.
"She hasn't a scar of any kind." Nestor said when he turned Lady over to his parents here. "She's a little near-sighted, though. But no feces. Hasn't had any since we found her."
Lady, after her life in the tropics,
doesn't care much for cold weather.
On chilly days she wears a natty
blue topcoat bearing the insignia
of amphibious forces with the one
chevron and crossed anchors of a coxswain.
Nestor believes Lady was left on the stoll before the bombs were exploded by some unit that forgot about her in the rush to evacuate. When the seabees discovered her she was wild and apparently enjoying her freedom.
Lady Is Well-Dressed
Labor Party OK's Wallace For President
A rabbit trap baited with a hambone was her undoing.
New York—(UP)—The American Labor party today officially endorsed the third party candidacy of Henry A. Wallace for president and immediately lost the powerful labor support that had been its backbone since its formation in 1936.
Even before a meeting of the ALP's executive board adopted a resolution supporting Wallace, officials of the Amalgamated Clothing
Washington—(UP) —A. F. L.
President William Green today lined up with other labor leaders opposed to Henry A. Wallace as an independent candidate for president.
"I'm against him." Green announced. "Creation of a third party is a great political mistake and labor generally will be opposed to Wallace."
Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers (CLIO.), and Jack Kroll, director of the CLIO. political action committee, are among other labor leaders to come out against Wallace.
Green has also declared against Sen. Robert A. Taft as a Republican presidential nominee.
Workers and three other C.I.O. unions walked out of the meeting. The action was the second mass withdrawal of right-wingers since the party was formed to back the second-term candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The bolt of union officials from the A.L.P. was led by Hyman Blumberg, executive vice president of the Amal-gamated, who announced his resignation as state A.L.P. chairman.
At the same time, 17 other Amalgamated officials who held important posts in the A.L.P. resigned. There were followed by officials of the United Automobile Workers, United Steel Workers, and the Railway clerks union.
After the union leaders had walked out, the meeting, under the chairmanship of Rep. Vito Marcantonio, A.L.P., N.Y., adopted the resolution which said that the A.L.P. was "proud to be the first full-fledge statewide political party to pledge its support to Wallace."
Students Ignoring Traffic Patrolman
"Pedestrian traffic at the intersection of Mississippi street and Jayhawk drive is becoming intolerable," Robert Corwin, University traffic officer said today.
"Students are not obeying the traffic supervisor's commands. They are stepping in front of traffic and endangering themselves. Traffic officers are for the benefit of the students and the pedestrians as well as the drivers must obey all signals."
AWS To Sell Campus Cards
New forest green whipcorn uniforms, which were ordered several months ago, are expected to arrive soon, Mr. Corwin said. The delay has been caused by a shortage of Scotch safety tape, which is being used in the weaving of the uniforms. The tape reflects light and will be especially effective at night so that approaching motorists will be able to see the officers.
Yellow safety raincoats have arrived and will be used in severe weather, Corwin and Archie Dumas, traffic officers, will wear white caps with the new uniforms while the four car markers and night watchmen will wear green caps. The uniforms, which are made to highway patrol specifications, will be complete with Sam Browne leather belts
Postcards of campus scenes, sponsored by Associated Women Students will be distributed the first part of second semester.
A joint meeting of the A. W. S. House and Senate to discuss the activities of the committees will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, in the Union.
Reading Can Be Easy Despite Your Fixations
Do you know your fixation rate? How about your regressions?
If you're curious you can find out at the University reading clinic. A fixation is a pause. In fact it's a stop. It's how many words you read at a time. Regression is reading and looking back to see what that last word was. Maybe he's bad at least 57 fixations since you started reading this
You've probably had at least 35 fixations since you started reading this
Friend To Run For State Senate
Topcka—(UP)—Announcement of former Lieutenant Governor Carl Friend of Lawrence for state senator brought statehouse predictions today that Rep. Ed Abels of Lawrence would enter the race immediately.
Representative Abels, this morning, told the University Daily Kansas that he has nothing to say about his possible candidacy, but that he will make an announcement tomorrow.
Mr. Friend announced his candidacy for the Douglas-Jefferson county district senate seat yesterday on the Republican ticket.
Eight years ago, when it was Douglas county's turn, Abels took himself out of the race in deference to Robert Rankin, who was elected. He was expected, in capital gossip, to join the fray against Friend and conduct a vigorous campaign.
Sen. James F. Swoyer of Oskaloosa, present senator, was expected to retire in the "gentlemen's agreement" custom of alternating the post between the two counties.
Abels, publisher of the Lawrence Outlook, was G. O. P. house caucus chairman during the 1947 legislature and headed the lower chamber committee on state affairs.
Friend, lieutenant governor in 1939 to 1943, ran for governor in 1942 but lost in the primary to Andrew F. Schoepel by less than 9,000 votes. He was state senator from 1933 to 1937. The Lawrence lumberman has served as a member of the state board of regents and the Kansas university Endowment association.
Dr. Shrewsbury New Head Of Chemical Organization
Dr. Charles K. Shrewbury has been elected chairman of the Kansas City section of the American Chemical society. He succeeds Dr. Calvin VanderWerf of the University.
article. An average person reads around two words at a time.
Joseph Holly, assistant director of the clinic, says that the normal number of fixations a minute for light reading is from 60 to 70, regressions. 10. At that rate you'll read approximately 400 words each minute. But for chemistry or math, you might drop as low as 25 words a minute.
The reading clinic uses movies to figure out regression and fixations. Light reflections from your eyes are photographed as you read. This is accomplished by a gadget that looks like a caliber .50 machine gun.After the film is developed, it takes about five minutes to compute your regressions and fixations.
There's an audogram to check your hearing, which does effect your reading, and more important, your pronunciation. Then there's the metronoscope. It's used in remedial work and helps correct your regressions and fixations, and thus your reading speed.
If you want to take the free reading tests, visit 18, Fraser hall and check next semester's schedule.
Construction will begin as soon as structural materials are available and necessary plans are completed, Mr. Jones said.
The addition will allow for much-needed office space, additional lounging space, and an increase in the size of the ballroom.
Ogden S. Jones, Union operating The new building will be added on to the south wing of the Union and will increase the size by "one third or more its present size," Mr. Jones said.
Union Will Be Enlarged
Talk Over Woodson Lake
Dave Leahy, director of the Kansas Forestry, Fish, and Game Commission, visited Dr. J. M. Jewett, of the State Geological Survey, Tuesday to confer about possibilities of building a lake in Woodson county.
Plans to enlarge the Union will soon be past the blue print stage, committee chairman, said today. Oden S. Jones, Union president
Thursday, January 22, 1948, to Thursday, January 29, 1948, Inclusive
The complete schedule for final examinations as approved by the University senate calendar committee is given below. Printed copies of the schedule with complete instructions can be obtained in University administrative offices.
Classes Meeting at: Will Be Examined At:
Examination Schedule Sets Finals For Jan. 22 to 29
Classes Meeting at:
8 A.M., M W F sequence*    1:30- 3:20 Thursday January 22
8 A.M., T T S sequence**   10:00-11:50 Saturday January 24
9 A.M., M W F sequence*    10:00-11:50 Friday January 23
9 A.M., T T S sequence**   8:00- 9:50 Wednesday January 28
10 A.M, M W F sequence*    8:00- 9:50 Monday January 26
10 A.M, T T S sequence**   8:00- 9:50 Tuesday January 27
11 A.M, M W F sequence*    1:30- 3:20 Saturday January 24
11 A.M, T T S sequence**   1:30- 3:20 Tuesday January 27
12 Noon, M W F sequence*    8:00- 9:50 Thursday January 29
12 Noon, T T S sequence**   3:30- 5:20 Wednesday January 28
1 P.M., M W F sequence*    10:00-11:50 Monday January 26
1 P.M, T T S sequence**   1:30- 3:20 Friday January 23
2 P.M, M W F sequence*    10:00-11:50 Wednesday January 28
2 P.M, T T S sequence**   1:30- 3:20 Wednesday January 28
3 P.M, M W F sequence*    10:00-11:50 Thursday January 29
3 P.M, T T S sequence**   1:30- 3:20 Monday January 26
4 P.M, M W F sequence*    3:30- 5:20 Friday January 23
4 P.M, T T S sequence**   1:30- 3:20 Thursday January 29
5 P.M, M W F sequence*    10:00-11:50 Thursday January 22
5 P.M, T T S sequence*    10:00-11:50 Tuesday January 27
General Biology (All Sections)    8:00- 9:50 Friday January 23
French 1
French 2
German 1
German 2
Spanish 1
Spanish 2
(All Sections) ... 8:00- 9:50 Saturday
Physics 5 & 6 (All Sections) ... 8:00- 9:50 Thursday January 22
Chemistry 2, 2E, 3, 3E (All Sections). 3:30- 5:20 Monday January 26