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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MARCH 18.1947
Party To End Memorial Drive
An "Underworld party" March 29 in the Union will climax the Student Memorial drive, Kropi Kiene, engineering sophomore, and chairman of the party committee, said today.
"All rooms of the Union will be available for the party and will be decorated differently."
"The English room will be a cafelet with a coke bar. The ballroom will be decorated like the underworld. We hope to have faculty waiters, too."
"We hope to make the Kansas room into a maze, but the decorations for the Pine room have not been decided yet." Kiene added.
The fountain will be open and the main floor will not be decorated.
Bob Douglas' band will play for the dance.
The party is given by the Student memorial committee with the cooperation of the Union Activities committees.
The party committee is: Ralph Kiene, chairman, Thomas Ackermann, engineering sophomore, Gene Alford, engineering sophomore, Betty Boling, college sophomore, Carolyn Campbell, education junior, Norma Kennedy, College junior, Ann Nlearned, College freshman, Carolina Morris, fine arts senior.
Owen Peck, College senior, Judith Tihen, College junior, Mary P. Tomlinson, College sophomore, Elaine Wells, College senior, Joan Woodward, College junior.
Robert Oberhelman, College sen-
lor, Elleen O'Brien, College junior,
John Sells, education junior, Mura-
lan Snake, College junior.
You Get Double-If Your Wife Was A G.I.
Married couples receive $180 monthly while attending school if both are veterans and have children.
Veterans administration announced today that the married woman veteran with children may draw $90 monthly under the G.I. Bill although her husband gets the same amount by listing her as a dependent. A child serves as the wife's dependent.
In making the announcement the Veterans administration stated that the maximum allowance would be paid if the married veteran's outside income did not exceed $110 a month, to be paid to his husband and wife. Women Veterans may receive $55 monthly if they have no children.
Independent Women's Senate Discus Election With P.S.G.L.
The Independent Women's senate meet with P.S.G.LE, representatives last night and agreed on a combined meeting to discuss election plans. The meeting is to be 7:30 p.m. Monday.
'The Face Is Familiar . . . '
She is active in intramurals, and was on the girl's championship team this year. Sports, especially track, 's her first love; athletics one of her main interests. She worked in the athletic department for two years, and as secretary to Phog Allen.
This sophomore in the college is "55", and has blue eyes and black hair, a combination that made her attendant to the Homecoming Queen this year, and later, Queen of the Alaskan Command. She loves to talk, and her major is sociology.
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Y.W.C.A. To Eleci Officers Monday
Y. W. C. A. election of cabinet officers for 1947 will take place Monday. Meredith Helmsohn, election chairman, will maintain an election booth in the center of Frank Strong from 8 to 5 p.m. during that day.
K. U.'s Own 'Little Church Around The Corner'—
After election, the new officers will be installed and serve for the remainder of the year. Further cabinet members shall be chosen by the newly elected officers. Those wishing to apply to cabinet positions may apply at Henley house.
Candidates for president are: Patricia Graham, treasurer of Y. W C.A., vice-president of I. S A., pass president of Inter-dorm council, a member of the All Student council and the Dean's honor roll; and Emaileuse Britton, president of Carruth University V. A. C., representative to the University Women's Council, member of the Student Religious council and Law Janes
Candidates for secretary include Dorothy Hoover, Helen Piller, Marvel Foster, Leah Uehling, Carol Helmers, and Nancy Smith.
Candidates for Student Religious council are Ruth Murphy, Sheila Wilder, Marián Osmond, and Melba Whiting.
District representative candidates
re Alice Wismer and Betty van der
Smissen.
All-Student Council candidates are Margaret Eberhardt and Betsey Sheidley.
Those on the nominating committee were Miss Martha Peterson chairman of the Y. W. C. A. advisory board Mrs. Christine Alford executive secretary of Y. W. C. A. Mary Breed, president; Octavia Walker and Elaine Walker, elected from the cabinet; Betsey Sheidley and Elizabeth Mallonee, from the membership at large.
Danforth Chapel To Have First Anniversary
Danforth Chapel will have its first nonvarsity on April 2, the day it was formally dedicated at an all-University convocation a year ago.
More than 100 weddings have taken place in K. U.'s own "Little Church Around the Corner" according to Dr. Leonard H. Axe, director of University services. The first such ceremony was held March 20, 1946, when Leone Sandow, College sophomore, married Robert Fisher, student in the College. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are still attending the University.
"It has been busy almost every minute of the day, giving faculty members and students a beautiful setting for silent meditation as well
The Chapel has more than lived up to its original intention to "give wisdom, strength, and courage to those who seek respite there," said Dr. Axe recently.
Daily uses include meetings at 7 a.m. by the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.; meetings at 5:30 p.m. by the Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship; and organ music at 4 p.m. Regular services at 6 p.m. by the Church of the Latter Day Saints and at 7:30 p.m. Thursday by the Christian Scientists
as services and weddings."
The William H. Danforth foundation of St. Louis sponsored the Chapel; the electric organ was the gift of A. B. Weaver of Lawrence as a tribute to his father, A. D. Weaver; the painting "Christ at Gethesmane" was contributed by members of the Clarency H. Poindexter family; and the architect, Edward W. Tanner, of Kansas City, gave his services as a memorial to his mother, the late Mrs. Harriet E. Tanner. Additional contributions were made by the University faculty and students.
'Choir Deserves More Concerts'
The a cappella choir last night presented an enjoyable evening of 16th and 17th century church music, Russian sacred songs, modern and contemporary numbers, and folk songs.
By WALLACE ABBEY
While sometimes endeared with romantic musical expressions hardly fitting their true types, the liturgical and Russian pieces were nevertheless impressive. Dividing a choir into eight parts and hoping they stay on pitch is a high hope indeed.
The better half of the concert came after intermission when the choir presented a more appealing group of modern and contemporary numbers.
Poulence "Tenebrae Factae Sunt," with its modernistic discords was one of the evening's high spots. The pert little folk song, "Cindy," afforded a welcome interlude from the heavier pieces.
At times throughout the performance there was an unfortunate lack of blending between the high and low voices. The sopranoes at times loosed a piercing attack which certainly made the singer in the broadcasting booth. In other places the attacks and releases of the entire choir were muddy.
The choir wound up with a glorious climax in "Ride On, King Jesus." This spiritual with its four solos, was probably the best of that group. Faulty pitch caused Sidney Dawson, bass, to reach down a fathom or two for his low notes, but he found them admirably.
Judging from the overall quality of its performance, the a cappella group surely deserves more than one major appearance on the campus.
Harpsichord, Violin To Be Concert Feature
A concert of 18th century chamber music will be presented as an extra feature of the University concert series at 8 p. m. Wednesday in Fraser theater.
The team of Ralph Kirkmatriek harpsichord, and Alexander Schneider, violin, will perform the music of Couperin. Bach, Mozart, Handel, Tartini, and other 18th century composers on the instruments for which it was written.
Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist, was graduated from Harvard in 1931. Awarded a traveling fellowship for two years of study in Europe, he studied in Paris with harpsichord artists. In 1936, Mr Kirkpatrick received a Guggenheim fellowship for research in 17th and 18th century music.
He organized the Alberi trio, a chamber ensemble, which gave a concert at K. U. two years ago. The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge medal was awarded Mr. Schneider in 1945 for eminent services to chamber music.
Alexander Schneider is a Russian by birth. At the age of 19, he conducted concerts of the symphony orchestra at Frankfurt, Germany. He was a violinist in the Budapest quartet, which toured Europe, North Africa, the East Indies, Australia, and America.
Dr. Monty Belot will speak at the University club smoker to be held at the club rooms. 8 p.m. Wednesday Dr. Belot, a Lawrence physician was formerly a member of the staff of Watkins hospital. His subject will be "Recent Advances in Medicine"
Tickets for the concert may be obtained at the School of Fine Arts office.
Dr. Belot Will Speak To University Club
Hosts at the smoker will be Prof. Carl Slough, of the Law School, and O. K. Petefish, Lawrence attorney.
G-M Founder Dies
Guests are welcome.
New York-(UP)-W. C. Durant, who founded the General Motors corp., in 1908 died at his home here today after a long illness.
'Wonder What She Does In Spare Time?'
Campaigning just like she taught school, petite, white haired Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse ran for secretary of state of Connecticut in 1940. She couldn't tell funny jokes to the voters, so she talked economics, gave her views on the war she was sure we were to be involved in, and or election day won by a landslide. She received more votes than the governor
"I was the most surprised woman' in Connecticut," she related.
Mrs. Woodhouse, opening speaker of the Careers for Women conference, entered politics in 1940 and "like an old firehorse" has been going ever since. In 1944 she was elected to Congress and claims that it was "the most interesting work I have ever done."
"People have got to stop looking down on politics and regarding congressmen as a group of dunderheads," she said. Referring to the 79th congress she said.
"I have never been with a finer group of men who worked harder."
She admitted that some congress personnel are undesirable, "but whose fault is it?" she asked.
Politics hasn't occupied all the time of this energetic woman. She is professor of economics at Connecticut Women's college, on a leave of absence while she serves as Executive secretary of Democratic women, holds a doctors degree from Chicago University, has edited trade journals, and found time to rear two children.
Mrs. Woodhouse attended McGill university in Montreal, Canada and did graduate work at the University of Berlin, "because they were so good in economics."
"I'll match my children to any two young people in the country," she says. Her son enlisted as a grease monkey in the Air Corp and became a captain, and her daughter is a graduate of the University of North Carolina.
"I have always been interested in why there were so many poor people
MRS. C. G. WOGDHOUSE
in the world, and I decided that the only answer is better government.
Washington. — (UP)— Congressional demands for a full outline of American policy toward communism—everywhere from China to the Balkans—today threatened to delay President Truman's program to aid Greece and Turkey.
"My advice to young people interested in politics is to register as a member of one of the two big parties I have no use for a third party Then they should go see their ward chairman, help register. Girls should should join the League of Women voters. Women can have as much influence as they'll work to get, and politics is the place to work up," she said.
Congressional sources said that unless prompt and clear-cut answers were forthcoming, there was scant hope of meeting the administration's March 31 deadline for action on the Greco-Turkish program.
Demands for information include details on U.S.-Chinese relations in respect to communism in the Near East; the fulfillment of lend-lease commitments to Russia in the form of oil equipment; and a portion of European relief which is marked for Soviet-dominated Poland.
News of the World
Forrestal Urges Unification To Prepare For Global War
Washington.—(UP)—Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal said today that unification of the nation's armed forces as proposed by the administration would give the United States the means to back up a "firm foreign policy" and prepare for "modern warfare."
Congress Demands U.S. Soviet Plan
Moscow-(UP)—Foreign Minister George Bidault, after a midnight conference with Premier Josef Stalin, will present the French plan today for preventing Germany from again becoming a world menace.
The nation's military policy is part of its foreign affairs. Secretary Forrestal told the senate armed services committee. The plan for unification of the armed services, he said, would integrate military and foreign policies in a manner which would help prepare the United States for any global war.
Bidault Tells French Plan After Talk With Stalin.
Diplomats Ask Informaton
On MacArthur's Japanese Plan
Lake Success, N. Y.—(UP)—United Nations diplomats asked for more information today before commenting on Gen. Douglas MaeArthur's plan to place Japan under U. N. control.
There was doubt that General MacArthur was expressing official United States policy on Japan.
Some quarters interpreted his statement as an expression of American faith in the UN. Some contended, however, that the statement could be taken as an indication that the United States wanted to unload responsibility for policing defeated Japan as soon as possible
Washington.—(UP)—John L. Lewi was is expected today to bow to the supreme court and cancel within a week his signal for another soft coal strike on April 1.
His compliance would assure the nation uninterrupted coal production at least until June 30, expiration date of the government's authority to operate the soft coal mines and it would also save the UMW $2,800,000 more in fines. The high court set March 25 as the deadline for withdrawal when it agreed Monday to issue its mandate in the contempt case 11 days ahead of time.
Lewis Expected To Cancel Proposed Coal Strike
Kurtz, Kansas City Director, May Lead Houston Symphony
Houston, Texas. —(UP)— Ernest Hoffman, conductor of the Houston symphony orchestra, resigned today, effective at the close of the current season. Directors of the Houston symphony society were in New York arranging for a success. Many Houston music lovers believe that Efrem Kurtz, 40-year-old director of the Kansas City philharmonic, may succeed Mr. Hoffman.