University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, April 21, 1947
44th Year No.123
Admiral Finlay Pushes Probe Of Texas Blast
Galveston—(UP)—Read Admiral Gordon T. Finlay, conducting the hearing into the Texas City disaster, promised that "one of the most important witnesses" of the entire investigation would appear before the federal board today.
The admiral was displeased with the present pace of the proceeding. He indicated this following the argument Saturday between John R. Brown of Houston, attorney for Lykes Bros., and Edwin Longscope of New York, representing the French government.
The flare-up occurred after Brown questioned L. D. Boswell, a long-shoeeman goreman who was aboard the Grand Camp before the explosion which rined the Texas City waterfront. The questioning concerned smoking regulations aboard the ship.
The investigation thus far has revealed:
One. Smoking regulations aboard the Grand Camp were lax and at least some personnel were not aware that the ship was carrying ammonium nitrate.
Two. Some doubt has arisen as to the manner in which the ship's officers conducted firefighting. The fire was discovered one hour before the explosion.
Three. The ammonium nitrate was consigned by three midwestern ordinance plants to the French supply council, an agency of the French government.
Army Capt. John D. Lutz, an official representative of the secretary of war and the army-navy munitions board, said he planned to state that "pure carelessness" was the primary cause of the disaster.
Forty-five freshmen in the University R. O. T. C. will embark on an 8 week practice cruise aboard the battleship U. S. S. Iowa this summer.
The midshipmen will arrive at San Francisco from K. U. on June 22 and will embark aboard the U. S. S. Iowa on June 28 returning to San Francisco on August 22.
ROTC Freshmen To Take Cruise
Travel expenses will be allowed the men while they are traveling to and from San Francisco. Upon return you receive a one month leave with pay.
Aboard ship the men will hold the status of midshipmen, U. S. N. R., and will receive full pay. Continuing with scholastic work in navigation, seamanship, and other naval subjects, the midshipmen will also take part in all ship-board drills.
The midshinmen will be given liberty time in Canadian, Hawaii Islan, and West Coast ports.
Geltch To Give Recital
Prof. Walde玛 Gelfith, of the School of Fine Arts, left Friday for John B. Stetson university at DeLand, Fla. Tuesday evening he will present a violin recital for faculty and students of the school.
To Keep Dorm Room,
Contract By Wednesday
All women who wish to retain rooms in University dormitories must have their contacts in the dean of women's office by noon Wednesday, Dean Margaret Habein announced today.
Any room not contracted for by this time will be reserved for new students entering K.U. next fall.
Carlson Attacks Democrat Spending
Kansas City, Mo. — (UP) — Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas today described the Democratic party's policy as "trying to bully our way through domestic and international troubles with dollars."
Speaking at a meeting here of the Republican National committee, Carlson asserted.
"Inside our nation, this Democrat policy has caused great masses of people to look to government and politics for their welfare. Outside our country, this Democrat policy has made whole nations dependent upon the credit of the United States."
The Kansas governor declared the U. S. treasury is not the "world's honeypot, although the political entrepreneurs of other nations and of our own city machines may think so."
A workshop for rural and city elementary school teachers, to be hold June 12-25, is being sponsored by the University School of Education. A part of the summer session, the two-week course will offer two hours of optional senior or graduate credit.
Carlson predicted national ruin if this country does not "deny ourselves the momentary gains of subsidies and handouts."
He said, "Lenin, godfather of communism, predicted that the United States would spend itself to destruction. The Democratic policy of spending American dollars to meet the threat of the communist words appears to be a losing battle, since words are so easily coined."
Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the University alumni association, attended the meeting. He is on a tour of eastern cities, reorganizing alumni clubs.
Thornton McClanahan, '44, was elected chairman of the University of Kansas alumni association in Washington D.C., at a recent meeting of the group. Mrs. Milton Dye, a student in 1920, and Miss Helen Kinney, '33, were elected to other offices.
Kansas Teachers To Learn
Latest Teaching Methods
Alumni Association Elects McClanahan Chairman
Marshall Invited To NIUN Conference
George C. Marshall, secretary of state, has been invited to attend the National Intercollegiate United Nations association conference at the University on November 17 by the central executive committee of tme Universities of Kansas and Missouri.
James F. Byrnes, former secretary, has already accepted an invitation to address the 2,000 delegates who are expedite from universities and colleges in the country.
Invitations to the conference. one of the largest ever held, have been refused to students in colleges in foreign countries because of housing difficulties, Gene Moore, national chairman, said.
ASC Debate Kills Move To Vote On Memorial
Drive, Campanile Would Be Built Regardless of Decision, Werner Says
A move to allow the students to vote in the spring election on the current plans for a war memorial was smothered at a special meeting of the All Student council Friday. Short tempers and caustic remarks flared up at the meeting.
Rare editions, paintings, statues, samples of information, and craft-work will be displayed by the Spanish department during the Cervantes day celebration Saturday. The display to be held in 117, 119, and 113 Frank Strong hall, is in charge of Miss Agnes Brady, associate professor of romance languages.
Cervantes Day To Be Observed
Books, pamphlets, and maps of Latin America published and distributed by the Office of Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the U. S. Office of Education will be shown. Most of the exhibits were secured by Miss Brady, who worked with the Office of Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs during the war.
Rare editions of "Don Quijote"
the rare by Cervantes, and
reproductions of paintings and etchings of Don Quijote will be shown.
Several statues of the Don, including one carved of wood from Mexico,
will be on display.
Lengthy debate was held on the Memorial vote question, with some edge going to the opponents, when some candid comment and advice were offered by Henry Warner don
Miss Brady Got Them
A collection of children's beeks from Latin America will share display space with newspapers and magazines from Spain and various countries of Latin America. 200-Year Old Dolls
Shackrats Will Fete Zilch, Sage Of Lower Burpovia
A set of dolls in Spanish conquistador costume which were made by hand 200 years ago in Bolivia will be shown with other antique dolls and samples of handicraft.
J. M. Osma, professor of romance languages, will demonstrate the Spanish recordings which are used in University Spanish laboratory system.
His most important discovery solved a problem that had baffled leading scientists for years. Zilch came through. He discovered what makes the light go off in the refrigerator. And It Works. Too
As an inventor he had perfec ted a cigarette lighter that has withstood
By ELMER A. ZILCH
The eminent journalist, Elmer A. Zilch, will arrive on the campus Wednesday. Shackrats (journalism students) will gather in the Kansas room at 6 p.m. Wednesday to honor this great type louse.
Zilch is coming!
Mr. Zilch comes straight from his
Mr. Zilch comes straight from his prohibitionless haven of Lower Burpovia. Having been graduated from the class of '42 (1842, that is), Mr. Zilch visits his alma mater this time each spring.
But not only is Mr. Zilch an author He's a discoverer, inventor, and connoisseur, mostly a connoisseur.
He has put the University on the map with his superb journalistic accomplishments. He's the man whose best seller, "The Life and Loves of the Type Louse," has the country laughing and scratching.
It's A Lousy Book
nearly a million tests without failing once. It weighs only two tons.
As a connoisseur, Mr. Zilch's taste runs to Scotch. For ten consecutive years he has been named by the W. C.T.U. as the "Man We'd Most Like to See Die of Thirst."
His imbibing tendencies date back to his childhood, when he was able to say "beer" before he learned "mama."
With the advent of the 18th amendment, Mr. Zilch decided to found a new country in protest. He took a bevy of blondes, 60 carloads of beer, and a distillery to a place he named "Lower Burpovia."
In a wire received Friday by the department of journalism, Mr. Zilch said, "I'm coming. I'm coming. For my head is bending low. And may I survive another drought in the citadel of prohibition."
Roll Out The Barrel
- was offered by Henry Werner, dean
* of student affairs.
Memorial Will Be Built
"The War Memorial, as I understand it, is going to be constructed. It is going to be built and carried through regardless of what is said by this body or by the student body," he said.
Speaking of potential effects of a vote, he said, "Whether it goes positive or negative is bringing up questions which are of no import and are no longer moot. You would be subjecting yourself to ridicule."
What students vote on the question of admitting Oklahoma A. and M. into the Big Six may have a decided effect on the final decision of the administration, he said.
**Agiee Question Is Live**
"The issue is a live one. No student will say that this is voting on a dead issue," he explained.
The Council decided to put on the student ballot any party polling 5 per cent of the voters, or showing paid membership of 5 per cent of the students, by the submission of dues stubs, was reached. Opponents preferred that party status be determined by petition.
The question was raised in reference to the status of the new campus political party, the League of Student Voters. Observers did not be adversely affected by the would be adversely affected by the ruling.
Request Election Roll:
A request for a non-partisan rally the day of the elections was passed and referred to the administration, and a committee investigating student wages was granted authority to continue its inquiry.
Request Election Rally
The sponsors of the move for a student vote on the Memorial driveway campanile said that students have to express themselves on the matter.
They were told that student-elected council members, representing student opinion, had approved the plan, and that an entire year had been devoted to canvassing student opinion and veteran opinion before the plan had been adopted.
Students Contribute Small Part
Opponents answered that student voters had not elected candidates who had made the question an issue.
Howard Engleman, A.S.C. president, said that students are giving them the fund total, and that the other 19-20hs have the right to say what is done.
"Why not submit the Rev. Mr. Green's opinions to a student vote?" asked Bruce Bathurst, College sophomore.
Stephenson To Speak To Chemical Engineers
The student section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will meet in the Pine room at 7:30 p.m. Jessica Rosso Blair McGrew, president, said today.
Dr. Eugene Stephenson, of the petroleum engineering department, will speak on "The Duties and Responsibilities of a Technical Witness." Dr. Stephenson has appeared as such a witness at numerous hearings over the country, McGrew said.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy today and tonight, with scattered showers west today and in east tonight. Tuesday fair, cooler extreme northwest and warmer extreme northeast. Tenight cooler west half. Low temperatures 35 to 45 tonight. Tuesday cooler east.