University Daily Hansan
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1947
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Have No Defense Against A-Bomb Professors Say
The statement by Russia's V. M. Molotov that the atom bomb was no longer a secret had far from the effect the Russians expected in the United States. The general attitude seemed to be "So you've gotten the secret, now see if you can make the bomb."
When asked if they thought Russia had the atom bomb and what Defense the United States could use, your University faculty members offered comment.
Allen Doubts Have Bomb
Ethan P. Allen, political science professor: "There is no defense against the atom bomb. It's probably true they have the secret but frankly, I doubt if they have had time to develop a bomb."
W. E. Sandelius, political science professor: "I believe Mr. Molotov was merely trying to infer they had the bomb. This is merely a part of the war of nerves. But the statement makes it all the more evident there must not be war."
We Can't Check Them
Grant Pistorius, physics instructor: "No, I don't think they have the atom bomb, but since they are isolated, they are able to make such statements and we are unable to check on them. However, there is no defense against the atom bomb."
J. D. Stranathan, head of the physics department: "As for a satisfactory defense against the atomic bomb, there is none, nor is there any hope for one in the near future. If a defense is satisfactory, it must be nearly perfect and ready for immediate action." Prof. Stranathan declined to comment on whether he thought Russia possessed a bomb.
Reorganization Is KFKU Subject
"Where Do We Go From Here", a 30-minute dramatization of the conflict over rural school reorganization, will be presented by KFKU at 9:30 tonight.
The program is written and produced by Gene Courtney. Loren Kennedy, graduate student, will be narrator. Other members of the cast are Darlene Van Biber, Jack Labowitz, Sarah Jane Belt, Lee Rie. Herbert Coles, Wallace Foster, Bill Mitchell, Warren Bowman, Russell Chamberlin, A. F. Davidson, Glenn Hunt, Charles MecArthur, Frank Rotman, Patricia Kelly, and Diane Stryker.
KU Medical Center To Give Courses
A three-day refresher course in obstetrics and gynecology will be held at the University Medical center in Kansas City from Nov. 17 to 19, Harold Gr. Ingham, director of the University Extension postgraduate medical program, said today.
The Kansas Medical society and the State Board of Health are sponsors with the University School of Medicine. Dr. Clayton Beecham of Temple university, Dr. William E. Rapp of Stanford university, and Dr. Robert H. Maxwell of Wichita will be guest instructors.
Prof. Crafton To Speak
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will speak at the coffee forum in the Kansas room of the Union at 4 p.m. today. The title of his talk is "Fifty years with Hollywood."
DR. ROBERT G. FOSTER, visiting professor of home economics and sociology, will speak on "Breaking Away from Home Ties," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater. This is the second lecture in the Youth and Marriage series.
Eclipse To Be Visible Here
A partial eclipse of the sun will be visible in Lawrence tomorrow, N. W. Storer, professor of astronomy, said.
The sun will first be touched by the moon at 1:30 p.m. The eclipse will reach its maximum at 2:07 p.m. At this stage of the eclipse 1/15 of the sun's diameter will be covered by the moon. The moon will leave the sum at 2:44 p.m., Prof. Storer said.
Prof. Storer said that since the first eclipse was predicted in 585 B.C. by the Greek astronomer Thales, predictions have become more and more accurate. On Jan. 24, 1925 scientists predicted that the lower edge of the shadow of an eclipse to occur that day would cross 5th Avenue in New York City between 94th and 95th streets. Photo-electric devices set into place to check the accuracy of the prediction recorded that the scientists had been correct. Prof. Storer said.
Exams Postpone Table Tennis
The annual fall semester table tennis tournament previously scheduled for today, Wednesday, and Thursday has been postponed because of conflicting mid-semester examinations. Thomas Hanna, chairman of the Union activities intramural committee, said today.
National food policies will be the topic of the Young Men's Christian association at their second town hall forum, 7:30, tonight in the Kansas room of the Union.
A new date will be set soon, he said. Applications are still available at the hostess desk in the Union building or the Union Activities office.
Dr. Milton Vogel, executive secretary of the Kansas Council of Churches, Topeka, and Dr. L. J. Pritchard, associate professor of finance, will discuss United States grain shipments to Europe.
YMCA To Discuss Nation's Food Plans
The installation of a 5-inch gun and director in the Military Science building has been completed, Capt. John V. Peterson, professor of naval science, said today.
Gun And Director Installed In Military Science Building
The gun is to train N.R.O.T.C students in gunnery and fire control procedure.
22 Nominated For Queen Of Homecoming
Nominations of 22 Homecoming queen candidates were announced today by James K. Hitt, chairman of the queen committee. A queen and two attendants will be chosen from the group.
Each candidate will be interviewed by the judges. They will be newcomers to the University who have been carefully screened to prevent any affiliation with campus organizations. They will vote by secret ballot.
Complete secrecy will be provided until announcement time, and local pressures and influence will be held to a minimum, Mr. Hitt said.
Nominees and their sponsors are:
Sigma Kappa — Mary Lou Brewer;
Kansas City, Mo.; Chi Omega — Beverly Brooks, Coffeyville; Pi Beta Phi — Carolyn Campbell, Kansas City, Mo.; Kappa Alpha Theta— Patsy Claryd, Wichita; Kappa Kappa Gamma — Carolyn Coleman, Wichita; Locksley hall — Marjorie Dilsaver, Kensington; Delta Delta Deltra — Margaret Doll. Larned.
Gamma Phi Beta — Rosemary Gaines, Lawrence; Delta Gamma—Carol Harris, Kansas City, Mo.; Alpha Delta Pi-Barbara Onewer, St. Louis, Mo.; Foster hall — Martha Hutchinson, Maryville, Mo.; Harmon Co-op—Diane Johnson, McPherson; Templin hall—Clara Jane Lutz, Hoisington; Watkins hall—Eleanor MHCarg, El Dorado; Corbin hall—Ruth F. Mitchell, Waldo and Vada Nicholas, Johnson.
Monchonsia hall—Beverly Nissley, Litchfield Park. Ariz.; Alpha Chi Omega—Barbara O'Neal, Wichita; Miller hall — Dorothy Jean Scroggy, Wichita; Alpha Omicron Pi—Bea Senor, St. Joseph, Mo.; Hopkins hill—Rosetta Snow, Bartlesville, Okla.; Theta Phi Alpha—Jean Sullivan, Kansas City, Mo.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair and warmer northwest today, generally fair and warmer tonight. Low tonight 25 to 30 west and 30 to 35 east. Wednesday mostly cloudy, light snow northwest, warmer southeast.
C. A. PREYER, professor emeritus of piano, died Monday at the Research hospital in Kansas City. He was 34 years old and had been in poor health for several months.
Professor Preyer was professor of piano at the University for 46 years, and from 1915 until his retirement in 1939 he was associate dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Born in Germany in 1863. Professor Preyer came to America at the age of 24 and in 1890 became director of music at Baker university. In 1893 he came to the University as a professor of piano.
He was well known for his work as a composer, having won the National Composers contest in 1939 with his "Sonata in E Flat."
Geology Students Take Ozarks Trip
Thirty-seven students in the historical geology class under Cecil G. Lalicker, professor of geology, spent the week-end on a field trip in the Ozarks country in Missouri.
The group first went to Sedalia and from there to Warsaw. They studied Ordovician and Mississippian rocks and collected fossils.
The group spent the night in sleeping bags on the lake-shore near Warsaw.
They spent the second day collecting fossils and studying Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rocks at Osceola and Monegaw Springs, Mo.
Abend And Davis Agree Peace Hopes Are Slim
Both sides of the question "Is Russia a Force for Peace?" were presented Monday by Hallett Abend and Jerome Davis in a debate which opened the Community Lecture course at the University.
Taking the affirmative Mr. Davis emphasized that "Russia had the best peace record in Europe between the first and second World wars." He compared the post-war Soviet rec- $ \textcircled{*} $
compared the post-war Soviet record with the United States program of "aid to Greek and Turkish fascists who worked with Hitler."
ating "one of the worst periods of hysteria in the nation's history."
Mr. Davis and Mr. Abend agreed that there is little hope for friendship and cooperation between the United States and Russia. Some sort of world government stronger than the United Nations is the only hope for permanent peace, they replied in answer to a question from the audience.
Mr. Abend argued that following Russia reparation claims and extending credit to the Soviet would be appeasement and would not work with Russia just as it did not work with Hitler and Japan.
"After taking part in an unsuccessful invasion of Russia in 1918, the United States blocked the country and would not recognize the Soviet government for 16 years," Mr. Davis said in support of his claim that Russia is justified in distrusting the United States. Reparations Are Appeasement
Declaring that "Russia is a nation on the march." Mr. Abend, who was chief far-eastern correspondent for the New York Times for 15 years, took the negative side. He blamed the Soviet policy of "expansion and broken promises" for the present tension between Russia and the United States.
Little Knee For Peace
Mr. Davis, who has made 11 trips to Russia and is the author of several books on the Soviet Union, blamed the American press for cre-
Mr. Davis claimed that Russia is an equal force for peace with the United States. He mentioned American attempts to block a Swedish loan to Russia and support of Dutch "imperialists" in Indonesia as instances of United States interferences in internal affairs of other nations.
UN Hopes Soar For Partition Of Holy Land
Lake Success, N.Y.—(UP) —A sudden Soviet-American agreement on the partition of Palestine caused Zionist hopes to soar, and sent United Nations delegates into day and night sessions to decide Palestine's future before momentum is lost.
A weeks-long deadlock between the United States and Russia was broken when the two big powers agreed on a seven-point partition program that would end British rule in Palestine May 1, and set up independent Arab and Jewish states by July 1.
The United States and Russia also made some reluctant compromises on the role that the veto would play in the partition set-up. The compromises came at private meetings of delegates from the United States, Russia, Canada and Guatemala. The same four delegates scheduled new sessions today to hammer out further details.
Conspiciously silent were the delegates of Great Britain, who awaited the results of a British cabinet meeting today. But some delegates believed that Britain still could wreck the partition proposals.
The Soviet-American compromise proposed that Great Britain maintain law and order in Palestine between the time UN acts on Palestine, and the time that the two new states would be born. Twice before, Great Britain has refused to enforce the partition scheme, or even play a major role in enforcement.
The compromise by the United States and Russia was the most important agreement the two assembly titans have made at the current assembly session, which today went into its ninth week.
The Saturday incident was revealed as anti-Lookabaugh sentiment stirred ominously on the campus, fired by the Aggie football team's 0-13 loss to Tulsa Saturday.
Disgusted Aggies 'Hang' Lookabaugh
Stillwater, Okla.—(UP)—Football fans discouraged by Oklahoma A. and M.'s showing this season hanged Coach Jim Lookabaugh in effigy Saturday night but three students broke up the demonstration, the Aggie student newspaper reported today.
The O'Collegian, campus newspaper said a projected "holiday and day of mourning" Monday also fell through after the abortive hanging-burning.
There was rumor of action in the student senate, and campus sources said feeling was high in favor of buying off the coach's present contract or firing him outright if it is legally possible.
The name heard most often in the talk of a possible successor to Lookabaugh was that of Bo Rowland, former head coach at the University of Oklahoma and now athletic director at Oklahoma City University.
Lookabaugh reportedly has a five-year contract at $10,000 a year, with four years to go.
Faculty Payday Advance Postponed
Moving the faculty payday ahead a week as previously announced was not possible this month because the state auditor's office has not yet installed the equipment necessary for the speed-up, according to Karl Klooz. University bursar.
Mr. Klooz said that he has not been told whether the checks will arrive early in December.