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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 6.1947
Police Seek Two In Spencer Case
Kansas City. Kan. (UP)—Still without a tangible lead to the slayer of Lewis J. Spencer, 27-year-old male nurse student, beaten to death with a soft drink bottle in his sixth floor living quarters at the University of Kansas hospital, police here are seeking a woman for questioning.
Also sought for interrogation was a man in a chinchilla coat, seen in the hospital two or three times the right of the murder. The man, a total stranger, appeared "agitated and nervous," witnesses told police, and left for the last time shortly before midnight.
An inquest was scheduled for today. Mr Spencer's father, L. A Spencer, a Greeley, Colo., barber here to return his son's body to Greely for burial, was unable to give police a lead. He said his son was "studious, accustomed to good company" and had no known enemies.
Detective said they have been informed that Mr. Spencer was met by a woman in the hospital's waiting room early Thursday night, a few hours before he was slain. Mr. Spencer was seen leaving the building with her.
Sunflower Wives Can't Boil Water Without Gas
Some K.U. students living at Sunflower Village returned from their vacations and found out what it's like to be "cooking without gas."
Extreme cold weather caused heavy demands on the village's gas supply which resulted in a complete shutdown. The cast section of the village is furnished with electric stoves. Those with gas stoves either are elsewhere or cooked hot plates and coal heating stoves.
No Seat-Saving At Game,
Falkenstien Reminds
You can't save a seat for the basketball game tomorrow night, or have one saved for you, Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, reminded students today.
In case you want a seat which someone else is "saving," just call an usher, he advised.
Eight K.U. Professors Attend Conference
Eight K.U. professors were official delegates to annual meetings of educational societies during vacation.
They were:
Prof. Edward Robinson, to a Southwestern Philosophical conference. Dallas, Texas.
Prof. H. T. U. Smith, to the Geological Society of America convention. Chicago.
Prof. Walter Kollmorgen, to a meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Columbus, Ohio.
Prof. Robert Schatten, to an American Mathematical society conference, Swarthmore, Pa.
Prof. William Young, to a meeting of the American Society of Geologists, Bologna.
Prof. A. B. Leonard, to a Paleontological Society of America meeting Chicago.
Prof. Robert Stallman, to the meeting-place of the Modern Language association. Washington, D.C.
Prof. A. J. Mix, to a Mycological Society of America conference, Boston.
Remodel Post Office
Remodeling of the K.U. post office in the basement of Frank Strong ball, scheduled to be completed today, will probably take another week, R. C. Abraham, superintendent, has announced.
When the additional room is available a mail carrier for Sunnyside will be added to the staff.
News of the World
China Suspends Airlines
- Shanghai. (UP)-China's two major airlines were ordered today to suspend operations for one week following the fourth plane crash within 11 days in which a total of 113 persons have been killed.
Jap Naval Chief Dies
Tokyo (UP)—Fleet Admiral Osami Nagano, chief of the Japanese naval general staff when Pearl Harbor was attacked, died Sunday of bronchial pneumonia.
It was Nagano who, shortly after the Japanese surrender, admitted "full responsibility" for the Pearl Harbor sneak blow in an interview with the Japanese press.
European Command Changed
Washington. UP)—The army, in a shake-up of its European command, announced today that Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay will succeed Gen. Joseph M. McNarney as commander of U.S. army forces in Europe.
Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes will succeed Gen. Mark W. Clark as chief of U.S. forces in Austria.
Domestic Atomic Commission
Lake Success. (UP)—Warren R. Austin, chief American delegate to the UN, probably will call on members of the five-man domestic atomic energy commission for help in pushing America's atomic proposals through the UN security council, informed sources said today.
Dairen Situation Deplored
Mr. Austin became chief American negotiator as a result of Bernard M. Baruch's sudden resignation.
Washington. (UP) — The United States today deplored the "unsatisfactory situation" at Dairen, Manchuria, where the Russians abruptly ordered an American cruiser to leave port.
Marshals Seek Arsonist
San Francisco, UP]—Fire marshals searched among the charred timbers in the basement of a lower Market street office building today for evidence that would indicate an arsonist started to five-alarm fire described by authorities as the "worst San Francisco fire in 10 years."
Aboard U. S. S. Mt. Olympus with Byrd Expedition. (UP) — A monstrous iceberg, as large as Yankee stadium, threatened for several hours today to smash into two ships of the Byrd expedition but finally changed course and drifted harmlessly by.
Iceberg Threatens Byrd
Books Will Be In Ample Supply
Textbooks will be in ample supply when the second semester begins at the University in February, L. E. Woolley, manager of the student bookstore, said today.
Recent large shipments, including 8,000 books this week, have filled shelves and stockrooms to capacity
Although publishers have increased prices, the increases have not been so great as might be expected, according to Mr. Woolley. Paper costs have skyrocketed but increased volume brought by the boom in college enrollments has held total costs to a moderate increase of from 15 to 25 cents for the average text.
The demand for new books has increased much more than the proportional increase in enrollment. Veterans attending school under the GI bill receive text books at no cost to themselves. There is a tendency for the veteran to keep his old books since there is no need to turn them in for new ones.
"Odd" students may get to see motion pictures or "even" basketball games, and vice versa, if the visual instruction bureau's photographers can keep up with Big Six ball handlers.
The same movie men—Russell Mosser, supervisor, and Ross Wulf-kuhle, technical assistant—who took pictures of all K.U. football games except Denver expect to film home basketball contests from the second balcony of Hoch auditorium.
Although They're Being Snapped For Phog,
You May Get To See Home Game Movies
They took test shots of the Idaho game. Dec. 11, which Mr. Mosser said "came out pretty well." The films are taken for Dr. F. C. Allen as an aid in training his squad.
sometimes go half a minute at full speed."
According to the photographers, it's harder to follow a basketball up and down the floor than to catch a halfback skirting left end.
The football motion pictures, originally planned as a help to the coaching staff, cost the athletic department some money. The Nebraska game bill, including some extra Homecoming shots, amounted to $230.
On that day, the photographers used up 1,600 feet of color film, at the rate of $15 for each 100 feet. Black and white film costs $12 a hundred.
Honest To Gosh, KFKU Presented Jazz Concert
Three of the games—Nebraska, Kansas State, and Missouri—were photographed in color.
"And now this is KFKU presenting a jazz concert..."
"In football, the action usually doesn't last more than four or five seconds at a time." Mr. Mosser explained. "In basketball, players
"The hell you do," he told his radio. "Say that again, slowly."
The original Jayhawker's left eyebrow almost flew off.
All equipment came from the visual instruction bureau. The film is sent away for developing.
"... which we dedicate to the freshman engineers at K.U."
That was too much. The Jay- hawker fell into a stupor which wasn't at all caused by the fact it was New Year's night.
True enough, if you were listening to KFKU Wednesday night, you heard the announcement of the jazz concert by Miss Mildred Seaman dignified one more director for the station, a famous staed in Spain the usually staed (Spanish lesson at 2:30, book review at 2:45) University radio voice.
Welcome Back!
Both the jazz and the dedication were unusual. Both stemmed from a letter to the editor of the Daily Kansan, in which a "freshman engineer," as he described himself, compained that KFKU played programs that "students tune out."
The letter appeared in the last paper before the Christmas vacation. It asked for some "Hit Parade" tunes, instead of "Beethoven's 96th violin concerto in Z cubed."
The New Year's tunes weren't of Hit Parade variety—they sounded about 20-25 years old—but they certainly were dance music. The program of Lady Jayne at Midway, Miss Sarah broke in to dedicate "Somebody Loves You" to "Peaches," another freshman engineer.
Remember We Said We Would Be Waiting For You — And We Are!
READY TO SERVE YOU—
Hamburgers
Value of the films doesn't end when the athletic season is over. Movies of the one-point victory over Missouri, which gave K.U. a share in the Big Six football title, are still making the rounds of Kansas towns, Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, said today.
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