UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1947
New Vet's Club Elects Kersten Temporary Head
A new veterans' organization, the Armanav club, elected Gary Kerston, engineering sophomore, temporary chairman at an organization meeting Tuesday.
The policies of the Armanav as outlined by Kersten are
1. To deal with veterans affairs on the campus only.
2. To clarify information supplied to the students by the Veterans administration and to eliminate confusing red tape.
3. To aid individual student veterans through a contacts committee.
Kersten said that a veterans' organization which is nationally affiliated tends to neglect the local problems of their members.
"The Armanav club will have no national affiliations." Kersten said.
Luster Main, chairman of the constitution and by-laws committee and he hoped a non-profit foodstore be established at the University.
A meeting open to all University veterans will be held some time next week.
Democrats Elect Woods
The University Young Democrats have elected William Woods president. Woods, president of the Ku Ku club last year, is not registered at the University this year.
Other officers are Paul D. Barker, College sophomore; and William A. Guilfoyle, second-year law student, vice-presidents; Elizabeth Gilman, College junior, secretary-treasurer; and Vincent E. Baker, sophomore, membership chairman.
They will represent the University
convention in Westgate. Oct. 25 and 28.
The club will hold a forum on the proposed platform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the recreation room of the Union. The platform contains sections on universal military training, drivers' licenses, gambling, and bonuses for veterans.
Phi Mu To Have Smoker
Members of Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity, will hold a smoker at 7:30 tonight, in the English room of the Union. Prospective pledges will be entertained with singing, and refreshments will be served.
Engineers' Wives To Meet
Prof. J. O. Maloney will be guest speaker at the Engineerettes meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. He will also conduct a tour through Marvin hall for the group.
The 'Play About A Play' Has Dual Roles For All Actors
Something new will be on tap for University audiences beginning Monday when "Joan of Lorraine" is presented by Director Allen Crafton and an all student cast headed by Darlene Van Biber, College junior, and Jack Labowitz, fine arts junior.
The Maxwell Anderson vehicle strictly up-to-the-minute entertainment. Professor Crafton picked the recent Broadway hit starring Ingrid Bergman to give student actors and actresses a chance "to do something contemporary for a change.
Rehearsal In Final Stages.
The cast is working overtime every evening as rehearsals swing into the final stages. Parts have been learned and stage action is rapidly approaching the smooth polish which is expected of the veteran cast.
"Joan of Lorraine" is a play about a play. Miss Van Biber takes the part of Mary Grey, the role portrayed by Miss Bergman on Broadway, Mary Grey, in turn, plays Joan of Arc. Every member of the cast plays a dual part. This appears to be a difficult task for actors often believes the presentation will be easily followed by the audience. Bare Stage Used
The elaborate stage setting and costumes usually necessary will not be needed on this occasion. Most of the story is set on a bare stage.
The action opens with a rehearsal, Jimmy Masters, the director, played by Jack Labowitz talks about his lab problems until Mary Gray arrives.
Then a run-through of the play begins. The action shifts back and
which opens in Fraser theater is
forth from rehearsal to play. The actors appear in street clothes and half-completed costumes on the unset stage.
Star And Director Quibble
The scenes between rehearsal are with argument. The star and director get into disputes and she threatens to walk out. She thinks the drama to walk out. Joan of Arc over into a character who compromises too much with evil.
Miss Van Biber played a lead in "Double Door," and carried a long role in "A Midsummer Nights Dream."
"I like this role better," she said, "although it will be harder to do because we have to act without scenery or costumes to bolster us up."
Labwitz had a role in "Thy King-
ing," the last spring
Exchange. Activity Ships
Activity ticket slips will be exchanged for reserved seat tickets at the office in Green hall beginning tomorrow. The ticket office will be open every 12 noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. every day through the last day of the play.
Students are asked to get tickets early since Fraser theater seats only 680 persons.
Here's A Chance To Pull Up Those Low Language Grades
Students enrolled in either elementary French or Spanish will have an opportunity to pull up sagging grades when new tutoring classes begin today.
Classes will run from 1 through 5 p.m. daily except Saturday in Frank强 Hall.
A schedule for the various sessions is listed on the bulletin board outside of the department of Romance languages.
Russia Stalls, Chubb Says
"Although Russia is obstructing the United Nations, she doesn't want war with the United States now. She is stalling for time," said Prof. Herman B. Chubb, faculty adviser of the International Relations club, at its Tuesday meeting.
Professor Chubb said that the United States will eventually collide with Russia, but she does not want war until she is prepared, and time is on her side.
New club officers are Kenneth Beck, president; Dale Judy, vice-president; Margaret Meeks, secretary; Russell Mammel, treasurer, and William Mitchell, program chairman.
KuKu's To Back Frosh Pep Club
The Ku Ku's, University men's pep club, voted to sponsor the newly organized freshmen men's pep organization at a meeting Tuesday night in the Union.
Members debated whether the freshmen club should serve as a training group for the Ku Ku's and whether graduation to the Ku Ku will be expected. Details will be worked out after the new group is organized.
Richard Wintermote, cheerleader,
explained to the club the reason for
abandoning the plan to cheer each
line-up out of the line-up at
football games.
News Of The World
So many player changes are made that it is impossible to follow all of them, he said. Wintermote and the Ku Ku's agreed to clap for each player as he returns to the bench from the field.
Urges Separate Treaties
Washington—(UP)—Former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes urged the United States today to challenge the Soviet Union with threats of separate peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Japan, and to prepare—if necessary—to drive the Red army out of Germany by force.
Embittered by nearly two years of futile negotiating with the Russians, Byrnes advocated "better and more" atomic bombs as an answer to the Soviet refusal to accept the U. S. atomic energy plan.
He proposed a 10-step "course of action" for restoring "peace" which would start with immediate abolition of the "worthless" Big Four council of foreign ministers, which Byrnes created, and would end, if the Russians refused to go along, with World War III.
His proposals are made in his memoirs, "Speaking Frankly," published today by Harper Brothers.
New York—(UP)—The last of 69 persons aboard the old flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen when it made a forced landing in mid-Atlantic yesterday were rescued early today by the coast guard.
A brief message from the coast guard cutter Bibb reported that all were safe and the six-year-old flying boat probably would be destroyed. It was leaking badly. Those rescued today included 17 men and one woman who had spent a perilous night aboard the Sky Queen.
Coast Guard Rescues Last Plane Victims
The Ku Ku's decided to scatter out over the stadium for one or two of the yells in the Kansas-Kansas State game. They will work in cooperation with the cheerleaders and attempt to get the yelling started. The Jay Janes will be asked to join in this pep stunt.
Lake Success, N. Y.—(UP)—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was set to counter Russia's warmongering campaign in the United Nations today with a challenge to all countries of the Soviet bloc to knock down barriers to the free flow of information
Challenges Soviet Bloc To Permit Freq Speech
Roy Harris, composer of the "Folk Song Symphony," was the guest Tuesday of Dean and Mrs. D. M. Swarthout.
Mr. Harris was en route from his Colorado home to New York and Boston. While in Boston, he will consult with Dr. Sergei Koussevitch of the Boston Symphony orchestra. Dr. Koussevitch recently commissioned Harris to write a symphony. It will be his seventh.
Composer Is Guest Of Swarthouts
'Y' Elects Spiegel, Chesky
Dale A. Spiegel, College sophomore was elected vice-president and Robert H. Chesky, College sophomore was elected district representative of the Y.M.C.A. Tuesday night to fill vacancies in the cabinet.
The Independent Student association mid-week mixer will be held from 7:30 to 9 tonight in the Union ballroom.
ISA Mixer To Be Tonight In Union
Freshmen candidates for the All-student council election Tuesday will be introduced to I.S.A. members at the dance.
Hank Brown will provide record dance music.
Admission will be 15 cents for all students, with no charge for I.S.A. members.
$3,475 To KU For Gas Research
Two University faculty members have received a grant of $3,475 for the study of the effects of bacteria on petroleum and natural gas.
The grant was made by the University Research foundation from funds obtained from the Kansas Industrial Development commission.
Dr. E. Lee Trecee, associate professor of bacteriology, will have charge of the project. Mitchell Korzenovsky, bacteriology instructor, will do the laboratory work.
"The initial grant is for fundamental research, but we are confident the results will have commercial application," Dr. J. O. Maloney, director of the foundation, said.
The study will seek means of pre-venting the spoiling of high-octane fuel by bacteria. It is possible bacteria might be used to reclaim land contaminated with waste oil, Dr. Maloney said.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolle, Calif., is conducting similar studies. Mr. Korzenovsky inspected the work there during the summer.
VA To Cut Leave Pay
No more 30-day leave payments will be granted at the close of the school year. The Veterans' administration will credit students with 15 days leave in the future. Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans' bureau, said today.
Veterans who do not want to lose training time must indicate that they are wanted at the end of the last comment or term of attendance, the director said.
Allotment Raised For Some Vets Under PL-16
The new_law, effective Sept. 1, requires no action by trainees. The increases are scheduled to be paid with the next check.
The director mentioned the case of a married student, 30 per cent disabled, who receives a pension of $41.40, and $90 subsistence. His subsistence will be raised to $93.60, bringing the total to $135.
Dr. Elbel emphasized that veterans whose allowances are already above the new minimum will not receive an increase. A married student, 40 per cent disabled, who already is paid $145.20, will receive no increase.
A more substantial increase will be granted to married students, 30 per cent disabled, with one child. The total monthly pay will be raised from $131.40 to $155. Increases of $15 are given for each additional child.
Such students who are receiving less than the new minimum of $135 a month for married students, $115 a month without dependent, and $155 for married students with one child, will receive automatic increases.
Allotment increases may be in store for some University veterans according to new provisions of Public Law 16.
Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans' bureau, said that changes in payments concern only those students with a disability of 30 per cent or more.
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