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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
JANUARY 17,1947
Design Professor Displays New Sunnyside Apartment
"I decided I should practice what I preach," said Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design, as he displayed his newly furnished apartment in Sunnyside.
"Of course," he admitted, "I had the jump on everyone else I helped choose the color scheme for the walls. It made my ov decorating job a little easier." ___
Each unit has walls of the same color—rose in the living room, blue in one bedroom, green in the second bedroom, ivory in the kitchen and bath, and ivory woodwork, he explained.
Professor and Mrs. Jacobson, who were in the first group of tenants to move into Sunnyside, started from sorath in furnishing their first real home. Previously, they had lived in a single room in Lawrence, waiting for Sunnyside to be finished.
First, they studied the lay-out of the room and drew diagrams of furniture placement. Then they included the furniture market.
For the living room, they chose a three blue sofa, a rose easy chair, and a platform rocker upholstered in cream. To this they added end tables, a desk, a radio, and lamps. A rug of deeper rose shade than the walls covers the floor.
In the blue bedroom, Mrs. Jacobson matched her white curtains and bedspread with a white skirt on her dressing table. Professor Jacobson bought two unfinished chests and stained them. A large blue rug of woven grasses completes the decoration.
The green bedroom was converted into a study.
"Best room in the place," Professor Jacobson contends, "Space for my desk and my paints, and since it's a back room, my wife has no excuse for trying to straighten it up."
It may be the professor's private room but for all that, it shows a woman's touch. The studio couch in the corner is covered in gay striped material of leigh, yellow, and green. Matching draves and a small Nunda lag are the finishing touches.
Red and white is planned for the small kitchen, although the chairs with their red leather seats haven't arrived yet. Professor Jacobson dug up an old flewer linoleum rug and painted it red. And Mrs. Jacobson is still shopping for gingham curtain material.
The Jacobsbons had no trouble selecting the proper pictures. In the living room hang two of the professor's oil paintings while water colors, chosen for their blending colors, decorate the bedroom walls.
Asked about cost, Professor Jacobson shook his head.
"It depends on whether or not you start as we did, buying everything. Eoughly, it costs about $400 to furnish a living room and $300 for the bedroom but that includes furniture. If you have furniture and rugs, your only cost would be your curtains and odds and ends you might want to add."
But the best thing about Sunny-side, they both agreed, was its nearness to the campus.
"You can get up when the whistle blows." Professor Jacobson grins, "and still make class on time—if you don't stop to shave."
'Life Of World Depends On Asia'
"Asia is going to determine the life of the world, Dr. Harold G. Barn of the School of Religion, told the Y.M.C.A. movie forum yesterday.
"Superior people dictating terms to an inferior people," he said, "has been the attitude of the United States toward China.
"And we should not wander at China's internal struggles," Dr. Barr added, "when our own political house—in which a labor leader defies the President and one state has two governors—is not in order."
Dr. Barr's talk was preceded by a pictorial film on China.
Mutual distract between the Communists and the central government prevents national unity, Dr. Barr explained. The Communists want a part in the central government before laying down their arms, but the central government refuses to accept terms.
Sullivan To Choose Sunflower Queen
Frank Sullivan, state commissioner of insurance, will represent Governor Frank Carlson at the Sunflower ball tonight in the Military Science building.
Mr. Sullivan will choose the queen of the ball from a list of five candidates which include Shirley French, Sidney Letson, Gwendolynne Jones, Tiffany Lilly. The competing girls were chosen by a three-man faculty board.
The dance, which will be held from 9 to 12, will be semi-formal.
Philadelphia (UP)—Nineteen-year-old Harriett Serr, New York, won first prize in "Promising Musicians contest" conducted by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia over Dorothy Merriam, Winfield, Kan., who was awarded second place.
Kansan Is Second Musician
Alhambra, Calif. (UP)—Rodriguez Cardinal Villeneuve, 63, ranking North American Catholic, died at Ramona convent here today, of a heart attack.
Cardinal Villeneuve Dies
Big Six School Heads Will Discuss Problems
Tariff Power May Be Cut
Chancellors and presidents of Big Six schools will meet soon to discuss common problems of state schools, Chancellor Deane W. Malotl has announced. The date has not been set.
Washington (UP)—A two-way move was underway in congress today to strip the State department of some of its powers to cut tariffs. It now has authority tc slash tariff rates up to 50 per cent without congressional approval.
"Big Six schools are linked by athletics," Chancellor Malott said, "but as large state schools we have similar problems in regard to housing, veterans, finance, and academic standards."
Dykes Bars Arnall From Rotunda Desk
Altanta (UP)-Ellis Arnall was barred from his temporary executive quarters in the rotunda of the state capitol today and was stormily booed by scores of supporters of Herman Talmadge as he walked away quietly.
When Governor Arnal entered, he faced Rep. James Dykes, a Talmadge backed legislator, across his small desk and said, "Jimmy, I want my office."
"Ellis, you remind me of a hog. The more you give him the more he wants."
Grinning, Mr. Dykes planted his braids on his hips and said;
There were no troopers inside the little office with Representative Dykes but he had said he would bodily eject Governor Arnall if necessary.
When Governor Arnall began his statement to the press he said that he had been denied access to the capitol. Representative Dykes snapped. "That's a lie."
Governor Talmadge said he had spent last night at Lovejoy, Ga., but that he would be at the mansion tonight and from now on.
When asked specifically what he planned to do about the suit brought by Governor Arnall, Governor Talmadge said, "I don't know, I don't have any plans, I will probably do nothing."
Nobel Winners Teach Elementary Science
Chicago, (UP)—Two of the University of Chicago's three Nobel prize winners are spending part of their time teaching elementary courses.
Dr. Enrico Fermi, who set off the first chain reaction in a war-time laboratory underneath the university's Stagg field, is teaching a beginning course in physics, and Dr. Harold C. Urey, who won the Nobel prize for his development of "heavy water"—important in atomic energy—has a basic course in chemistry.
Their explanation is that they think the students ought to get "started out right" and that research is important in teaching. Both are continuing their research work in the university's new institute for nuclear studies.
The third Nobel prize winner, James Franck, is continuing his work in photosynthesis, or the study of the process by which sunlight is converted into chemical energy in a plant.
Oslo. (UF)—The Norwegian government announced today its willingness to consider an agreement with Russia for Soviet military bases in the strategic Arctic Spitzerben islands if the United States, Britain and four interested European powers approve.
Norway Announces Willingness To Agrec With Russia
A communique said the government and parliament were considering a request by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov to renew negotiations on Soviet requests for joint Soviet-Norwegian defense of Spitzerbergen.
Molotov also has requested negotiations on common Soviet-Norwegian economic interests in the bleak archipelago barely 600 miles from the North pole, the communique disclosed. Spitzerbergen is under exclusive Norwegian sovereignty by the 1920 Paris treaty.
Wide Changes Seen In Proposals For New Labor Laws
Washington. (UP)—The 80th Congress is virtually certain to make changes in the Wagner Act and to enact new laws regulating the activities of unions.
Republican leaders, who interpret their November triumph as a people's mandate to tackle the labor question, may have the support of President Truman on some of their proposals.
The form of the legislation which eventually will reach Mr. Truman is still uncertain due to serious differences over the problem among the Republicans themselves. The GOP leaders who probably will have most to do with it are Sens. Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, and Joseph H. Ball, of Minnesota.
So important does Taft consider labor legislation that he is passing up the chairmanship of the Senate finance committee. In its place, he is ready to take over the Senate labor committee.
No one can predict the type of legislation that Taft and Ball will present finally to their Republican colleagues. But from the past records of both men and of other GOP stalwarts who will have considerable influence over labor legislation, it probably will cover these points:
ONE. Some form of "cooling off" period between the time that a union takes a strike vote and the time that the strike becomes effective.
TWO. Outlawing or drastically restricting jurisdictional strikes and boycotts.
THREE. Granting employers the right to petition the National Labor Relations Board for a collective bargaining election among employees in their plants.
FOUR. Some form of mediation or arbitration in strikes where the national "health, welfare and safety is involved...
FIVE. Outlawing of "force and violence" (including, possibly, mass picketing) during a strike.
SIX. Union "responsibility" in the observance of collective bargaining contracts.
Dentlands for more drastic legislation, including repeal of the Wagner Act and "labor courts" to settle disputes, probably will arise from GOP ranks. But responsible Republican leaders, not wanting to stir up solid union opposition in the 1948 presidential elections, probably will head off such proposals.
All of the Republican proposals will meet bitter opposition from the remnants of the left wing bloc which was cut down in the November elections. But the GOP can count on the support of many southern Democrats who were never happy over New Deal labor legislation.
In the past 10 years, the most serious effort to restrict union rights and privileges came to a head in the last session with the passing of the Case bill. It was passed by both houses of Congress, but vetoed by President Truman.
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Francis Case, R., S.D., was a catchall for practically every idea of anti-New Deal Congressman in the past few years. Republican leaders now feel that President Truman might have accepted a considerable portion of the bill had it been sent up to him a piece at a time.
It is highly unlikely that the 80th Congress will re-enact the same measure. But many of its provisions undoubtedly will be incorporated into new legislation.
Law Fraternity Dines
Graduating seniors of Phi Delta Phi, professional law fraternity, were honored by a fraternity hamburger dinner held Thursday at the Dine-A-Mite. Charles Arthur, fraternity magister, was in charge, assisted by Richard Rogers and Robert Bond.
Lutherans To Meet
A musical program will follow the Sunday evening supper of the Lutheran club which will be held at 6 p.m. in the Trinity Lutheran church.
Expedition Nears Little America
With Byrd expedition off Little America, (UP)-Advance ships of the Byrd antarctic expedition reached the Bay of Whales last night and a ski-borne reconnaissance team scouted to within binocular-sight of Little America. The task group was anchored at the Bay's mouth, unable to go inside and establish a base yet because of thick ice. The ships were to go in and unload one at a time as soon as the icebreaker north-wind cleared enough open water.
The seouting party was put ashore from the northwind and reached within a mile of Little America III, the base used from 1939 to 1941 by the last Byrd expedition.
Looking through binoculars at the camp site, the party saw building ventilators and radio antenna poles sticking out of the snow, apparently much as the 1941 expedition left them.
The scouting team was unable to select a site for a new base because low clouds and snow limited visibility.
At stake in the so-called Tide- lands case is control of an estimated 200 million barrels of oil in the land beneath the marginal seas.
Tokyo. (UP)—Victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts who suffered from such ailments as injury to their blood streams and loss of hair have recovered, a U. S. bomb casualty commission disclosed today.
Bills were introduced in both the house and senate last week to give states titles to land extending from the shore to the three-mile limit. President Truman last summer vetoed a similar bill.
U.S. Convicts Nazi Spies
Shanghai, (UP)—Twenty-one Nazi members of the notorious "Ehrhardt bureau," which continued to supply the Japanese with military intelligence after Germany had surrendered; were convicted today by a U.S. military tribunal and sentenced to prison terms of from five years to life.
The brief was in support of its request that the court find that the federal government, not the state of California, holds title to the underwater lands extending three nautical miles from the low-tide mark on the Pacific shores.
A-Bomb Victims Recover
Washington. (UP)—The government, in a brief filed with the Supreme court, today claimed sole title to the oil-rich land beneath the marginal seas off the California coast.
London, (UP)—A committee of 23 prominent political, intellectual, and religious leaders led by Winston Churchill today opened a campaign for a United Europe on the note that "if Europe is to survive, it must unite."
Churchill Leads Campaign
Government Claims Oil-Rich Land Title
Tulsa (UP)—Tulsa University's all-American quarterback, Clyde Le-Force, today signed a two year contract to play professional football with the Detroit Lions of the National league.
LeForce To Play Pro Ball
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Legislature Nearly Ready
Topeka (UP)—The earliest completed organization of the legislature in many years was in prospect today for the 35th Kansas general session. House Speaker Frank Miller said he had decided upon chairmen for all but three of the 43 committees the lower chamber will have.