University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, May 22, 1947
44th Year No. 146
Lawrence, Kansas
Four Law Suits Still Pending In District Court
By Bibler
Two suits involving the University and two involving a faculty member are pending before Judge Hugh Means in the Douglas County District court.
The University is contesting a decision by the Douglas county pro bate court giving the Ellis library to Mrs. Irene Ellis. Ralph Ellis of Berkeley, Calif., brought his $250,-000 natural history library to the University in February, 1945. Later he signed a document giving it to the University in the event of his death.
Widow Contested Will
After Mr. Ellis's death in December, 1945, Mrs. Ellis contested the probating of the document. She contended that it was not a will, and that her husband was mentally incompetent to make a will. Mr. Ellis was both confirmed in a mental hospital by order of a California court.
Judge Means already has ruled that the document signed by Mr. Ellis was not a will. However, he has not decided yet whether it is a contract to make a will. If it is, Mrs. Ellis will have to fulfill it, and give up her claim to the library.
Little Man On Campus
The American Unitarian Association of Boston has asked the court to decide if it can deed Ricker hall to the University. The property was left in a will to the Unitarian society, and its home is a home for "poor women and girls." Under Unitarian management, the home was never self-supporting.
Ricker For "Poor" Women?
The annual spring concert by the 115-piece University concert band will be presented at 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium. Prof. Russell Wiley will direct the group.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy through Friday with scattered thunder-
showers today and east tonight.
Cooler today and east and south tonight.
Low tonight 50 to 55. Warmer west Friday.
Wagnerian classics will open and close the program. "Introduction to Act 1 of Lohengrin" and the descriptive "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "Reingold." Leo Horcain, fine arts senior, will play a cornet solo; Shirley Sloan, fine arts sophomore, will present a clarinet solo; and the Three Queens, Jeanne Peck, fine arts freshman, Dorothy Brenner, fine arts junior, and Anna Noe, fine arts freshman, will play a trumpet number as a special feature of the concert.
K.U. Band Will Give Spring Concert
Mr. Hetzel, Lawrence agent for the transit company, claims that he is liable under the I.C.C. code for only 30 cents a pound for the goods destroyed. However, Professor Clubb has never signed a bill of lading, which is in violation of the I.C.C. code. Judge Means has to decide whether the transit company is liable under the I.C.C. code, or under common law.
Clubb Seeks Furniture Damages M. D. Clubb, professor of English, has brought two suits against the Aero Mayflower Transit company for damages. A truckload of furniture for that profession. Clubb was shipping the Profilower. Okla., was loaded by fire. He is asking for full value of the property destroyed, and for damages incurred in getting a court order to release a second load of furniture held by Park Netzel, Jr.
The court has been asked to decide if women students who work can be classed as "poor women and girls," and if this will fulfill the terms of the will. Club Seeks Furniture Damages.
"Are you sure you've never had any previous experience?"
K.U. Gets New Oil Tank
With a new 450,000 gallon oil tank the University hopes to avoid another critical shortage of fuel oil as happened last winter. The tank is being put in at 19th and Michigan streets.
"We were really staring at the bottom of the barrel last winter. We had an eight day emergency supply of fuel and it was just about gone," C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said.
The new tank will increase the emergency fuel oil supply eight days to 50 days. Eventually a pipe line and pumping equipment will connect the tank and the power plant. A truck will haul oil until the line can be obtained.
Mr. Bayles said the installation was necessary because of the increased consumption of fuel.
Union To Introduce New P.A. System
The address system includes loudspeakers in all rooms except the music room. The $1,250 unit will be used from the student activities office. Beginning next fall it will be used for news broadcasts, musical programs, entertainment, and announcements.
The Union's new public address system will be inaugurated at an open house in the Union lobby from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
The open house is being sponsored by the announcements committee. Allen D. Smith, College junior, will be the master of ceremonies. Popular records not yet released for sale to the general public will be played during the hour. Cokes and cookies will be served.
Members of the committee are Harriet Harlow, chairman; Virginia Patch; Thornton Cooke; Margaret Cloyd; Janet Belt; William Tincher; and Gene Alford.
Mrs. Truman Better
Grandview, Mo. — (UP) — Mrs.
Martha E. Truman, resting easily in her gently swaying oscillator bed, was reported by the White House physician today to be "progressing nicely."
College Has New Majors
Six new courses and two new majors will be offered in the College curriculum.
The courses are, Masterpieces of World Literature I and II, three hours credit each, Creative Writing, 2 hours, appointment courses, Political Geography, three hours, General Climatology, two hours, and Interrelation of the Arts I and II six hours.
The Interrelation of the Arts course will emphasize the similarities of music, drama, poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture. It will consist of two class periods and one laboratory each week.
Work may begin next fall on the
week beginning from Sunday to
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of 15°F, of 18°F, of 21°F, of 24°F, of
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A double major of the Humanities major and a major in English, German, French, History, Journalism, Latin, Philosophy, Spanish, Speech, or Drama will be offered.
English Faculty Changes Poetry Reading Dates
Dates of the two remaining performances of the series of the informal readings of English poetry presented by the department of English have been changed.
The poetry of W. B. Yeats, by Robert W. Stallman, will be presented Tuesday, May 27 instead of Thursday, May 29. Modern English poets, by Ray B. West, Jr., will be given Tuesday, June 3 instead of Thursday, June 5. The readings will be held in 110 Fraser hall at 7:30 p. m.
A.K. Lambda's Reactivate
Alpha Kappa Lambda, men's national social fraternity, was reactivated at the University recently. Fourteen members were initiated. Dean Paul B. Lawson, an honorary member, was principle speaker at the banquet honoring the initiates.
The group reorganized under the direction of Dean F. J. Moreau, School of Law, and members of the Iota chapter of the fraternity from Kansas State.
Initiates are James Kaneh, Paul Farrar, Charles Dillon, Dwight Hause, Virgil Whitsitt, Lloyd Grady, Burton Canfield, Warren Shaw, Dale Spiegel, Glenn Hahn, Warren Alexander, Everett Simmons, Ted Beaver and Robert L. Davis.
Whitsitt was elected president; Farrar, vice-president; Grady, secretary; Beaver, steward; Simmons, treasurer; and Dillon, chaplain.
Honorary members on the campus are George M. Beal, professor of architecture; Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education; Ray Kanehl, instructor of physical education; Harold Dilley, instructor in history. Clayton Crosier, instructor in civil engineering, is faculty advisor.
The fraternity will open a chapter house in September at 1127 Ohio.
Butchers' Union Calls Off Strike
There will still be meat on the table in Greek houses and dormitories which faced a shortage because of Monday's butcher strike in Kansas City.
E. W. Williams, president of the Kansas City Meat Dealers association and Howard P. Root, business agent for local No. 576, Amalgamated Butchers, Hotel Suppliers and Meat Cutters of America (A.F.L.) announced that a tentative agreement had been made.
Cigareets and Whuskey
Tri Chi Iota's Try Leander
The age old adage that crime does not pay was drubbed into another victim last night.
Leander was not present at his trial. He left his home at 1121 Kentucky early Wednesday morning, and had not returned when the mock trial began at 7 p.m.
The effigy of Dan Leander, special ministry student, was tried, sentenced, and hanged, after irate fraternity brothers had convicted him of "malicious misrepresentation of facts."
An eight-man jury which prosecutor Fred Sutton insisted was
The whole thing started when new social fraternity, came to the story that his organization, Phi Sig-ma Iota and Delta Lambda Iota, other newly organized fraternities, were against tobacco, liquor, and abuse of pledges.
When the article appeared in the Daily Kansan Wednesday, disgusted members of the newly-formed fraternities decided that Leander, Tri Chi Iota president, was responsible for the damage done by the anonymous member.
The whole thing started when an anonymous member of Tri Chi Iota, new social fraternity, came to the Daily Kansan office Wednesday with a
strictly "bi-partisan" lost no time in convicting the suspect.
To emphasize their amazement at the tobacco and liquor announcement, prosecutor, defense counsel, judge, and jury flouted 8 inch stogies. A half-empty bottle of liquid morale protruded from one juror's hip pocket.
Judge Russell Barrett sentenced the expressionless victim to be hanged until dead. Overcome by emotion, the prosecutor shouted, "The defendant was lucky to live in a country where such a minor penalty was inflicted for so severe a crime."
Truman Strikes At Communism With Aid Bill
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—President Truman, activating an historic United States foreign policy, today signed into a law the 400 million dollar Greek-Turkish aid bill. He promised it would not be used to benefit any particular group or faction in either of the recipient nations.
"We intend to make sure that the aid we extend will benefit all the peoples of Greece and Turkey, not any particular group or faction," the president said.
Signed In Kansas City
The process of approving the measure which is aimed primarily at halting the spread of Communism in the Middle East was stripped of ceremony. Using one pen, Mr. Trumann signed the bill in the small dining room of his apartment on the top floor of the Muehlebach hotel.
The bill authorizes the chief executive to provide the Turks and Greeks with financial aid and military equipment as an antidote and preventative for Communism. Turk Aid Is Military
Greece will get 300 million dollars worth of aid, equally divided between military and relief assistance. Turkey will get 100 million dollars-all of it in military help.
President Truman acknowledged that "this is a serious course upon which we embark." But he warned that "should we fail to aid Greece and Turkey in this fateful hour, the effect will be far reaching to the West as well as to the East."
Phi Chi Trophy Taken By AOPi
The Phi Chi-A.O. Pi feud broke out again last night with a rough wound of trophy swapping and swiping.
Bill Mowrey, Phi Chi social chairman, said:
"While we were eating dinner, several AOPI's raided the house and took some trophies from our mantlepiece. When we discovered the loss, we went to the AOPi house and recovered the trophies.
"The whole thing started at one of our dances last October. One of our trophies was taken by a Phi Chi. This raid was planned to recover our trophy. The whole thing was done in fun, and it just turned out to be a little rougher than we expected."
"Later in the evening, other AOPis raided our house again, and attempted unsuccessfully to retrieve the trophies. The whole thing was all in fun. Water was sprayed around liberally. However one of the fellows, Bill Whitehead, tripped and suffered a slight injury."
Social chairmen of the two organizations issued a communique at 12:30 today, saying that a Phi Chi delegation would go to the AOPI house to discuss the recovery of the trophies. White flags will be used.
Dorothy Heschmeyer, social chairman of the AOPi's, gave this version of the story:
Western Civilization Tests To Be Saturday
Four hundred and sixty-three students have registered for the final examination in Western Civilization, James K. Hitt, registrar, said.
The exam will be given Saturday in three classrooms in Bailey, Snow, and Lindley halls. Students are assigned to a classroom when they register.
Students who have not yet registered but who plan to take the exam, should sign up in the registrar's office as soon as possible, Mr. Hitt said.