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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1,
1947
Communists Fling Challenge In French Strike
Only the Communists, who are in a majority in the leadership of the confederation's 6,000,000 members, signed the announcement. That indicated that labor, too, was splitting apart. The non-Communist minority headed by Leon Johaux said it would issue its own statement later.
After a meeting of the general labor confederation, the Communist majority issued a statement saying the talks with the government were over. It added:
Paris — (UP) — The Communist majority of the general confederation of labor flung an all-or-nothing challenge at the French government today, announcing that it would never negotiate to settle France's chaotic strikes if emergency measures now before the assembly become law.
"The confederation bureau states that no new negotiations could begin once the infamous laws now being discussed by the assembly are promulgated."
New strikes plagued the crippled country. The assembly debated amid Communist-created bedlam the measures which Premier Robert Schuman demanded to put legal weapons in the hands of the government.
The first part of Schuman's program, a new "law for defense of the republic," was passed last night. The bills under consideration today were aimed almost exclusively at stopping the Communists from getting control of unions and using the strike as a political weapon.
Dispatches from Nice said some gas and electricity still was going to homes, but communications and transport workers were out.
One Post Card-King Size
cards bear a message and hundreds of signatures asking Senator Capper to support a congressional bill for increased monthly pay for veteran students. Left to right for
THIS WILL BE a postmaster's nightmare—officers of Armanav sign a giant postcard, one of two which they will send to Sen. Arthur Capper in Washington. The
the Armanav organization are Catherine Bennett, secretary; Weldon Scardino, treasurer; Luster Main; Gary Kersten, vice-president; and Lyle Martin, president.
Activity Tickets Won't Admit—
University of Kansas football fans who hanker to see the Orange bowl can begin their long trip by giving their ticket order to the athletic department business office today.
About 500 tickets have been allotted to the K. U. athletic office and are expected to be worth between $5 and $7 each. Definite information on the cost, distribution, and location has not yet been received.
French Crisis Threatens Meet
News Of The World
London—(UP)—The French strike crisis threatened today to slow down still further the snail's pace of the Big Four foreigner ministers conference.
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of France planned to return to Paris tonight for urgent consultations with his fellow cabinet members.
If he is absent tomorrow, Bidault might assign his deputy to sit in for him on the council of foreign ministers. But no decisions would be possible without Bidault.
One member of the American delegation admitted that the ministers were parrying for time while the issue was being joined in France.
"The East and the West are debating their conflict with words here," he said. "In Paris, the cold war is being 'fought' in the streets and the chamber of deputies. If the Communists win in Paris, our arguments here will become even more academic."
'Cost Of Living' Leads 1947 News Stories
New York—(UP)—The high cost of living was the biggest news story of 1947 in the United States in the opinion of United Press editors who announced today their annual list of the 10 outstanding news events of the year.
Under the high cost of living were included inflation, the removal of many war-time price controls, the efforts of Republicans in congress to reduce taxes, the housing shortage and the attempts of manufacturers to meet the heavy demand.
The UP. P. list from the viewpoint of American newspaper display;
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the high quality of living
2. The cold war.
3. Passage of the Taft-Hartley law and subsequent litigation.
4. The Hughes-Meyers investigation.
5. Texas City disaster.
Shuts Out Reds
7. Partition of India.
5. Texas City disaster.
6. Princess, Elizabeth
9. Arab-Jewish controversy over Palestine.
6. Princess Elizabeth romance
7. Position of Queen Elizabeth II
8. Series of airplane disasters.
FRANCE'S new premier, Robert Schuman, talks to the press in Paris. The 61-year-old Popular Republican movement leader has ignored the Communists by naming six members of his own party, five of the Socialist party's right wing, three middle-of-the-road Radical Socialists and one moderate Independent Republic to his cabinet. (International)
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New York—(UP)—December 7 to 13 has been set for the observance of the 100th anniversary of the famous hymn of the United States Marine Corps.
USMC To Celebrate 100th Year Of The 'Hymn' From Dec. 7 To 13
The one place the Marines haven't been able to land is on the origin of the tune for the song that's known to every boy in the land, Marine Corps officials report.
In an exchange of correspondence between Col. A. S. McLemore of the Marine Corps and Walter F. Smith, second leader of the Marine band, it was attributed to a Spanish folk song later incorporated into a French opera, "Genevieve de Brabant."
Col. McLemore wrote that the tune was very popular in Paris in 1878 when the opera "ran for hundreds of nights."
Smith said that "one of the members of the band, who has a Spanish wife, (said) that the air was one familiar to her childhood, and it may, therefore, be a Spanish folk song."
But there is no doubt as to the origin of the words.
There have been hundreds of verses. The now standard opening line, "From the halls of Montezuma," was added by an unknown fighting man after the Mexican War when the leathernecks captured the castle of Chapultepec, or "the halls of Montezuma."
"The shores of Tripoli" refer to Marine glory 40 years earlier when Lt. P. N. O'Bannon and his small force of Marines helped capture Derne, Tripoli, in the war with the Barbary pirates.
The Marine hymn was officially adopted in its present three-verse form by Maj. Gen. John A. LeJeune, major general commandant of the corps, in 1929.
With the aid of the local newspaper and radio station, Mrs. Kuhn then invited Ann Arbor residents to make rooms available in their homes and register them with her. Offers poured in.
Mrs. Kuhn offered a room for rent in a housing-hungry town that has some 20,000 University of Michigan students.
Lawrence Housewives Please Take Note
Applicants converged on her six-room house. They flooded her rooms, lined up outside, and rang the telephone incessantly.
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(UP)—A 25- year-old mother, Mrs. Dennis Kuhn, is becoming the unofficial housing expeditor of Ann Arbor.
She invited homeless persons to register and began directing the most needy to the places available.
Students To Meet Team Tomorrow With Rally
A rally to welcome the team will be held at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Union Pacific station.
Richard Wintermote, head cheerleader, urges as many as possible to attend.
Ministers To Meet Dec.30
"We feel that, with a conference of this nature coming but once in a life time to any given area, every minister ought to have an opportunity to meet some of the leaders, and to feel some of the great forces working toward Christianity that will accompany it." Mr. Hanson said in letters to 4,000 ministers in the area.
Ministers from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska, will attend a one-day Ministers' conference at the University Dec. 30. The conference is being held this year in conjunction with the North American Student Conference on Christian Frontiers which wil be held from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, by Hobart Hanson, director of institutes and conferences for University extension said today.
Some of the important speakers who will be here to address the N. A. S. C. and the ministerial conference include: Dr John R. Mott, worldwide leader of Protestantism and corecipient of the 1946 Nobel peace prize; Dr Roswell P. Barnes, associate general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; and Mr. Malcolm Adiseshiah, associate general secretary of the International Student Service at Geneva, Switzerland, who has just completed a tour of Eastern Europe and Asia.
With the expected 2500 students attending the Student Conference, the housing situation will be very tight. Visiting ministers will be advised if possible to make arrangements to stay overnight in nearby towns, Mr. Hanson said.
Members of the arrangement committee for the ministers' conference include: Hanson, Dr. Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College; Rev. C. W. Thomas, minister to students of the First Baptist church; and Rev. Edwin Price, director of the Wesleyan foundation.
Council Amends K-Book Salaries
Sen. James P. Kem, was set to push his amendment to require that persons receiving American help be presented with certificates stating the origin and nature of the relief.
Flying his light plane, Delmer has been home every weekend except four this semester. Both of them go home whenever the weather permits and when nothing much is going on at the University. During the week they live at Corbin hall and Battenfeld hall respectively.
But Sen, George W. Malone, said he may offer a new amendment requiring recipient countries to pay for a portion of American relief supplies in local currencies. Those monies, Malone said, could be used by the U. S. to purchase Italian oil oil, French nickel and chromite, and other supplies. Malone last week led an unsuccessful drive to cut the relief bill by $197.000.000.
Although home is 180 miles away, it is only a matter of 70 minutes or so for LaVerla Harris, senior, and her brother, Delmer, junior in the College.
The constitution of the All Student council has been amended so that editors and managers of the K-Book will receive salaries ranging from $10 to $25 as determined by the Student Publications board. In addition to the salaries, which will go to editors, assistant editors, business managers, and assistant business managers, the amendment provides for bonuses for the editor and business manager. Each may receive a bonus "not to exceed the profit or 10 per cent of the total amount of money collected from advertising, such bonus to be awarded at the discretion of the Student Publications board."
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Prior to this amendment, the editor was paid $10 and staff members received 10 per cent of the amount of advertising which they sold and collected. There was no bonus provision.
That town of 7000 people does not have too good an air field, he said, but it isn't bad if you learned to fly there.
Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, was ready to take the floor with another appeal for immediate Senate action on the Fuel and Famine Relief bill. He was expected to point to new Communist difficulties in France as a sample of what was in store for friendly European countries this winter.
Delmer bought the plane, a twoplace Culver 'V', early last spring. He received his private pilot's license a year ago this fall at his home in Concordia.
Senate leaders hoped for a final vote today but the prospect of a new series of restrictive amendments left them some doubt. In the House, the Foreign Affairs committee was scheduled to vote on whether to reverse a tentative decision to slash 18 per cent from the proposed aid for France, Italy and Austria.
The Harrises Fly Home For Vacation
Washington—(UP)—Secretary of State George C. Marshall's "deadline" for passage of the $597,000,000 Foreign Aid bill expired today with the measure approved by neither House nor Senate.
Marshall told Congressional committees repeatedly before leaving for London that the plight of the three countries made it essential to start the relief good flowing by Dec. 1.
Foreign Aid Not Approved
Laudon To Speak At Forum
Dr. L. R. Laudon, professor of geology, will discuss "Geological Exploration by Air" at the coffee and forums meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Union ballroom.