University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
44th Year No.142
Friday, May 16, 1947
Lawrence, Kansas
Editor To Speak In Lecture Series On July 24
R. J. Blakely, member of the editorial staff of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, has been added to the list of speakers of the summer session lecture course, Dean George B. Smith said today.
He will speak in the open air amphitheater between Hoch and Haworth hall on July 24. Gerhart Seger, ex-member of the German Reichstag, will open the lecture series June 26. Four more speakers will be announced before the end of this semester.
A graduate of the University of Iowa, Blakely did graduate work at Harvard in 1937. He joined the staff of the Des Moines paper in 1938. After Pearl Harbor he worked in the Office of War Information until 1943, then enlisted in the Marine corps.
Mr. Blakely won a field commission, and served as a forward artillery observer for the Third and Sixth Marine divisions. Wounded on Okinawa, he recovered in time to go into North China after V-J day.
He will be the principal speaker at the annual "Recognition Day" convocation at Kansas State college May 20.
By Bibler
AWS Plan New Council
A new Presidents' council is being organized under the supervision of the Associated Women students, the new governing body for women.
A judiciary board for disciplinary matters for women was considered by the Associated Women students' senate at their first meeting Thursday. The board will be composed of five members, the dean of women, the president of the senate, and three other senate members. It will have power to judge cases of women students infringing upon the rules.
The council will be composed of the presidents of each women's organization. The presidents must petition to become members. They may see Betty van der Smissen for information about petitioning.
The purposes of the council are to prevent duplication within the government, to have a common assembly for responsible officers, and to coordinate activities and administration for women.
Funeral services for Lerci Beck Jr., 36, assistant instructor of physics, will be held at 3:30 p.m. today at the Plymouth Congregational church.
"The constitution now being considered by the senate will be submitted to the women for ratification this year," Miss van der Smissen said.
Mr. Beck died Wednesday at Watkins Memorial hospital after a week's illness. He was an instructor in the University physics department for the past year, and was a sanitarian in the Lawrence-Douglas county health department for seven months in 1945.
He is survived by his wife, Esther Doser Beck, and his parents, who live in St. Joseph, Mo. Burial will be in St. Joseph on Saturday.
Beck Funeral To Be Today
Little Man On Campus
"I hear 'Rope' Engleman's still trying to get those five G.'s."
Tau Beta Pi Will Initiate
Initiation of 24 pledges will be held at the annual banquet of Tau Beta Pi, at the Union Monday.
Pledges will be initiated in the Pine room at 5:30 p.m. The fraternity then will adjourn to the Kansas room for the banquet.
The honorary engineering fraternity dropped action on establishment of an undergraduate honor award. Arthur Toch, honor award chairman, reported that an undergraduate award would have to be given on scholarship alone, and would not include engineering subjects.
Establishment of a memorial by the fraternity is progressing and suggestions include a tutoring service and a credit evaluation committee.
The last meeting of the semester will be held May 27, in Marvin hall. Officers will be elected, and a faculty advisor will be chosen.
Is She Calhoon?
This is Dianne Stryker, a member of Kapna Kappa Gamma, and a College sophomore. She is a candidate for Jayhawker beauty queen and lives in Fredonia.
WEATHER
Kansas — Mostly cloudy with showers extreme south and extreme west. Warm, extreme northwest today. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature tonight. Lowest temperature 55-60. Warmer Saturday.
Sigma Xi Initiates 34
Dr. Theodore M. Speery, professor of biology at Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, spoke "On Going Native" before 174 members of Sigma Xi science fraternity at the annual initiation banquet Thursday night.
Dr. Raymond Moore, president, introduced the speaker who told how efforts are being made to conserve the fast disappearing native prairie flowers. Dr. Speery said there are few areas of native flowers remaining in the prairie states and that these areas should be preserved.
New members initiated last night are associate members: Warren R. Alexander, John A. Bacon, Barbara Ann Baker, William B. Bass, Luther H. Buchele, Paul W. Fairchild, R. E. Hartley jr., Burton B. Hodgden, Wesley A. Innes, Louis J. Lipovsky, Jean Elizabeth McCalley.
John Lee Margrave, Loy W. Morgan, Thomas Wayne Porter, Kenneth George Redman, Herbert S. Wallace, and Richard Curtis Webster.
To Hold Quack Club Picnic At Clinton Park Sunday
Full Members: M. Dale Arvey, Rollin Harold Baker, George Tally Brooks, Byron J. Chronic Jr., Lendell Cockrum, D. Warren Creik, Donald D. DeFord, Donald S. Farner, Edwin C. G呼爾海, David N. Hume, Mitchell Korzenovsky, Alvin P. Leonard, Warren K. Lowen, Joao Moen, Lolita Pannell, Thomas G. Roberts, Robert Schatten
The annual Quack club picnic will be held Sunday at Clinton park. The group will elect officers, present awards, and initiate minor Quacks
Retiring officers of Quack club
and Olivia Garvey, president, and
Marvyn
Club members are to meet at Robinson gymnasium at 8 a.m.
Honor Man Not So Astute In His $5,000 Moot Suit
Engleman's Truck Stuck In Legal Muck; Eddy's Not 'Solly' For Trolley's Folly
By HAROLD D. NELSON
Howard Engleman, honor man of the year, lost his $5,000 personal injury suit against Miss Carla Eddy in a five-hour rib-tickling session of moot court Thursday night.
Engleman charged Miss Eddy, Rapid Fire Transit company "trolley-woman," with negligence in an accident involving his coal truck and her
Tickets For 'Henry V'
On Sale At 201 Fraser
Tickets for University students for "Henry V," British motion picture showing at the Patee theater Wednesday and Thursday, are available through the English office, 201 Fraser, for $1.
The student performance will be at 7 both nights, but students will be able to attend any showing at advertised prices. Only two tickets will be sold to each student from the English department, J. E. Hankins, English professor said.
Dove To Appear Again May 21
The final issue of The Dove for the 1946-47 academic year will be distributed May 21. Staff members are Bob Campbell, Henry Pinault, Beth Bell, Deane and Duane Postlethwaite, Esther Dudgeon, and Rhoten Smith.
In this issue the Dove promises to meet the Eagle in an open contest. Eleven articles "specifically taking issue with the Eagle," have been written, staff members said. These articles will "show the weaknesses in the position of the Eagle in its last issue."
For its main article the Dove has taken the question "Is a leftist government necessarily incompatible with democracy?" As a specific answer to the question, a study of the Swedish economy has been made.
Caniff's Copper?
Another article will reveal the "danger represented by Little Orphan Annie." The issue will also have the regular Dove features, poetry, and the "Campus Gripe" column. The paper will be distributed as usual at points around the campus. Tables will be set up at Frank Strong hall, the Union, the Library, and Marvin hall.
This is Nina Green, who is another candidate for Jayhawker beauty queen. A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, she is a College junior from Kansas City, Mo.
street car. He also charged her with mental and physical incompetence.
Playing to a full house, Engleman, Miss Eddy, their attorneys and witnesses had spectators howling. Counsel turned out for the occasion in suits and ties. Miss Eddy and the other female witnesses influenced the six-man jury in legendary fashion.
Swarms With Lawyers
Impaneling of the jury began at 7 p. m. under direction of Judge Malcolm Miller. The small pen surrounding the judge's bench swarmed with attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant. Said one spectator as the bailiff rapped for order:
"What an array of counsel! The place books like a railroad trial. They always have one lawyer who can read plus a dozen more with strong hacks for carrying an armful of case books."
All actors played their parts to the limit. Engleman's case broke down when Miss Eddy's attorneys began cross-examining "Dr." Granville Bush, Jr. Star witness for the plaintiff, he was destined to give professional support to the charge that Miss Eddy was "mentally incompetent." Fun And Games
"Dr." Bush testified that he was graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1927. He further stated that he attended John Hopkins university, where he specialized in surgery for two years. The cross-examination went something like this:
Q. How old are you Dr. Bush?
A. 40
B. 30
Q. And you were graduated in 1927? How do you account for the fact that you were only 10 years old at the time of your graduation from medical school!
A. I guess I was a child prodigy or the victim of a hurried education. Bugs In Court Room
As the trial progressed, bugs began to collect in the court room and jurors squirmed in their straight-backed chairs.
Final pleas were made to the jury at 11:30, and the jury filed out. Counsel mopped their brows, lit cigarets, and continued to argue obscure points among themselves. When the veredict was read Engleman promptly and loudly fired his lawyers.
Miss Eddy smiled. Now she could go back to her street car with no inhibitions.
"I feel wonderful," she said. "Today is my birthday, and the jury's midnight veredict was my first present."
Extend Deadline On News Contest
Hometown correspondents may still win a share of the $105 prize money given by the Student State-wide Activities commission. The deadline for entries has been extended to May 29, Dwight Deay, chairman, said today.
Six awards are given each year to students who turn in the best scrap- books of news clippings sent to them from hometown papers. First prize is $10, second prize $25; third prize $15; and three prizes of $5 each.
Because the deadline has been extended, those who have already submitted their entries may make additions to them, Deay said.