UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948
Noon Meeting Of 80th Congress Starts 1948 Race
Washington — (UP) — The 1948 presidential campaign begins today with the noon meeting of the second session of the 80th congress. President Truman's GOP opponent will run for the White House on the record of this congress.
The basic issue upon which Mr. Truman and the Republican congress will disagree is what to do with our prosperity and the flood of money rolling into the United States treasury.
Practically all other major issues come down finally to the question, "how much shall be spent where and for what?" As congress meets, the disposition of the Republican majority is to pare down Marshall plan expenditures and set aside a large chunk of federal revenue for income tax reductions.
President's Speech Tomorrow
Mr. Truman probably will indicate his presidential year tax plans tomorrow in his annual message to congress. He probably will elaborate on the subject in his economic and budget messages Friday and Monday. House Republican leaders promise a tax reduction bill early in the session reducing income taxes by about $5,500,000,00 for big and little people.
Cold arithmetic proves someone is going to be disappointed. Mr. Truman estimated in August that this year's treasury surplus would be about $4,700,000,000. Unofficial estimates since then have raised surplus sights as high as $6,500,000,-000. But there still isn't enough money for Republican tax reduction and Marshall plan expenditures. That is the basic congressional problem.
Fiscal 1949 Budget
1926 Mr. Truman reportedly is preparing a 441 billion budget for fiscal 1949. Advised of that figure, Chairman John Taber, R., N. Y., of the house appropriations committee snapped:
The only avowed presidential candidate among congressional Republicans is Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. He wants to cut taxes and trim Marshall plan spending.
"It's too damn high!"
This session preliminary to the nominating conventions will be in large measure a contest between Tafi's leadership of the Republican congress and Mr. Truman's leadership of the Democratic party. Congressional Republicans will make the GOP platform. Mr. Truman's recommendations to the congress will make the Democratic platform.
Rayburn Celebrates Birthday
Washington—(UP)—House Democratic leader Sam Rayburn of Texas observed his 66th birthday today as well as the opening of the second session of the 80th congress.
Rayburn, who will mark his 35th year in the house on March 4, spent the day quietly doing his normal legislative chores. Rayburn was speaker of the house in the democratically-controlled 79th congress.
Engineer Named To Build Kansas Dam
Topeka—(UP) — A 19-million dollar Cedar Bluff dam for west central Kansas was a stop nearer realization today with the naming of a construction engineer.
Rudolph Walter, federal junior civil engineer, was named to build the dam on the Smoky Hill river in Trogo county, near Ellis. Present plans call for an earth fill structure 121 feet high, with a crest length of more than $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles.
The dem was projected as a part of the Missouri river basin development. Congress allotted $300,000 for it in the current fiscal year food control act.
The dam would impound a reservoir of 353,290 acre feet of water. A small portion of that amount would be reserved for municipal storage uses to serve Russell, Hays, Victoria and Gorham.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
Annex Work Creeps Along
The time lag in the Watson library and Union annex construction has been attributed to unfavorable weather and to lack of necessary building materials.
However, construction on the library annex progressed during the warm weather at Christmas time. The foundation footings were completed before the vacation. The foundation walls were finished during the vacation and odd jobs were cleared away, according to Ray Huff, contractor.
Hermina Zipple, Union director, said that the bottleneck which was caused by the "lack of materials" has been removed and work is progressing steadily. The annex floor has been completed, and the walls have been plastered. Miss Zipple expects to announce the annex completion soon.
Mr. Huff, explained that the library annex workers will stop work soon and will not resume construction until March. The reason for work stoppage is partly due to lack of structural steel and partly because of the freezing weather which would hamper construction.
The Union Activities Short Spin mixer dances have been canceled for the remainder of the semester because of low attendance, but will be resumed next semester, Joe Modrell, short spin chairman, said today.
No More Short Spins Until Second Semester
The University band and orchestra will present a joint concert in the Kansas City Music hall either the first or second week in March, Russell L. Wiley, director of the two music organizations, said today.
Band, Orchestra Will Play In KC
The concert is for members of all their directors, and parents. Admission is by ticket only. Tickets may be obtained by the directors of the various groups by writing to Professor Wiley.
New Delhi — (UP) — The Indian army reported that 200 Moslems were killed today when some 4,000 of them wearing uniforms and steel helmets attacked Naushaer in Kashmir.
Over 4500 tickets were requested for the concert last year. The Music hall seats only 2300.
200 Armed-Moslems Killed
A $500 contribution for the purchase of a bell to the University of Kansas World War II Memorial fund has been made by Mrs. LaVon G. Costello of Kansas City, Kans.
Mother Gives $500 For Tower Beli
The bell will honor the memory of her son, Lt. Edward V. Costello, air forces, lighter pilot who lost his life in a plane crash in New Mexico, April 2, 1947. Lt. Costello attended the University in 1943.
CIO May Quit Labor Party
Albany,—(UP)—The American Labor party in New York state faced a split today over the third party presidential candidacy of Henry A. Wallace.
In a strongly worded resolution adopted by the state C. I. O. executive board at a four-hour meeting yesterday, C. I. O. unions were urged to withdraw from the A. L. P. if the party "persists in the support of Henry Wallace."
*Vehicles For Wallace*
It recalled that in May, 1946, Wallace declared formation of a third party would guarantee a reactionary victory by splitting the liberal vote.
"By his acceptance as first lady, presidential candidate, he is transferred to his own prediction of 1946 into reality," the statement continued.
"The resolution warned that the American Labor party—which polled 500,000 votes for the late President Roosevelt in 1944—is being sought as the vehicle for the Wallace candidacy. . . Through the activities of Vito Marcantonio and others who have consistently adhered to and followed the Communist party program and policy."
The statement also supported the Marshall plan to help hungry Europe, which Wallace opposes.
"While the supporters of Mr. Wallace pretend to speak in the name of labor, the labor movement in the United States as a whole is on record as being opposed to a third party movement for the identical reasons that Mr. Wallace himself had outlined."
'Opnoses Third Party'
"It will not only increase the chances of a Republican victory—it will give encouragement to the extreme right wing forces of the Republican party to put up a most reactionary candidate and run him on a platform calculated to rob the workers of their gains."
An independent ticket, the C. I. O. chieftains said, would be an anti-labor ticket.
The University band halts its parade from the Union station through the streets of Miami in front of Dade county courthouse on West Flagler street to play its repertoire of Kansas songs and the Crimson and Blue alma mater. Band members sang the alma mater in four-part harmony, and gave the fans a preview of the KU. yells. Director Russell L. Wiley, extreme left, led the musicians.
—University Daily Kansan photo by Bob Dellinger.
Funeral Services For Dr. Dains To Be Tomorrow
Funeral services for Dr. Frank Burnett Dains, 78, professor eiuseritus of chemistry, who died early Monday morning will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Episcopal church in Lawrence. The Rev. Donald O. Weatherbee will officiate.
The burial will be at Oak Hill cemetery, Pallbearers are Prof. Arthur Davidson, Prof. G. W. Stratton, Prof. Robert Taft, Prof. Henry Werner, Prof. Ernest Griswold, and Clarence Grothause, research associate.
Dr. Dains first served as an assistant professor at the University in 1933-94. He was one of the founders of the University chemistry department and was a member of the faculty for 32 years, retiring in 1942. Dr. Dains was graduated from Wesleyan university in 1890 with the degree of bachelor of philosophy. In 1891 he received a master of science degree from Wesleyan and a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago in 1938.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, University Psi Usilon, Kansas Academy Science, American Chemical society, History of Science society, and Deutsche Chemische Gessellschaft.
Dr. Dains is survived by Mrs.
Daina and a niece Mrs. Clara Jean
Daina Williamson of Durham, N.C.
Pelts being shown are racoon, mink, spotted skunk, striped skunk, red fox, gray fox, coyote, opossui, muskrat and weasel.
Fur Exhibit Opens Today
The feature of the exhibit is a group of prize winning raw pelts from the 1946 national raw fur show held in Chicago by Sears, Roebuck and Co.
A fur exhibit stressing the conservation and processing of pelts opened today in Dyche Museum. The exhibit will remain on display during the trapping season.
The exhibit's purpose is to illustrate the value of the Kansas fur crop and to show how it could be increased through more efficient practices, according to Russell Camp, museum preparator.
The uncured pelts are kept at 60 degrees Fahrenheit in a special show case.
Furs trapped in Kansas last winter were valued at $750,000. However, it is estimated that this could be increased to $1,500,000 by application of conservation methods.
The dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Dr. Mike Stutzman, will talk on "Cast Iron and its alloys."
The University student chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers will meet with the Kansas City, Mo., chapter tomorrow night at the Advertising and Sales Executive club, 913 Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo.
University ASTE To Meet In KC
The program will begin at 8 p.m.
A. M. Sargent executive director of
A. S.T.E. will speak on "Wheels
Across Africa."
Now Little Junior Will Clow In Dark
Dallas, Texas—(UP)—Junior's days of hiding from mama in the dark may be approaching an end.
The southwestern men's apparel club, now holding its spring summer market here, has come up with mama's answer—a jacket with stripes of the same kind of luminous material used for highway signs sewn on.
With the aid of the new invention, junior can be made to glow like a stop sign.