University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, Nov. 21, 1946
44th Year No. 43
Lawrence, Kansas
By Bibler
Legal Action Against Lewis Set For Today
John L. Lewis may have more of a defense in his position than is generally believed, Prof. D. Gagliardo, of the economics department, observed today.
By making demands for the miners and then maintaining silence, Mr. Lewis hopes to gain advantages for the miners and at the same time embarrass the administration politically, Professor Gagliardo says.
He added that although Mr. Lewis must now appear for contempt of court, he may argue successfully that the restraining order against his action should not have been made in the first place. He may try to prove that the court order is in violation of the Norris - LaGuardia anti-junction act.
Washington. (UP)—The government today worked feverishly on legal action to punish John L. Lewis for failure to prevent the walkout of 400,000 soft coal miners.
Federal lawyers planned to present to Judge T. Alan Goldsborough shortly after lunch a formal request that the United Mine Workers (AFL) president be held in contempt for defying the jurist's restraining order against the walkout.
The court after hearing the government's suggestions will decide whether contempt procedure against Lewis shall be civil or criminal.
President Truman stood pat on his decision to show no quarter in the government's slugging match with mine chieftain John L. Lewis.
The Justice department also had laid the groundwork for prosecution of Mr. Lewis and other UMW leaders for violation of the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike law, which forbids encouraging strikes in government-operated properties.
Mr. Lewis was expected to contest contempt action and the court order on grounds that the order violated the Norris-Laguardia Anti-Injunction act. The government contended the Norris-Laguardia act did not apply to a case involving the government.
Principal union demands were to get the present 54-hour pay of $75.25 weekly for a new 40-hour week, the equivalent to raising basic hourly wage rates from 1.18 1/5 to $1.77; to increase the tonnage assignment for a union welfare fund from the present five cents to 10.
Today thousands of Pennsylvania's hard coal miners stayed away from work in sympathy with the bituminous strike.
Hoecker To Discuss Radiation Effects
Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, K.U. physicist who witnessed the underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini atoll in July, will discuss some of his observations on "What Happened at Bikini," at 4 p.m. today in 305 Bailey laboratories.
Dr. Hoecker will discuss the biological effects of radiation, which
is and human beings and the ionization of atomic particles.
Little Man On Campus
32 Men Now Settled In Stadium Housing Unit
Living quarters for 16 more University men are being made available today with the furnishing of the second section of the Memorial stadium housing unit, Irvin Youngberg, housing director, said today.
McCook hall, the stadium unit, is partitioned in half with 16 men living in each section. The men will live in two rooms and study in two others, Youngberg said.
"She keeps saying it's part of her homework."
Irish Brogue May Be Style After Next University Play
The next play to be staged at the University by the Kansas players, Sean (pronounced "shawn") O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," will mark the reappearance here of one of the Irish playwright's most popular works.
During the 1920's, before he turned to his autobiographical writing. Mr. O'Casey was considered the foremost playwright writing in English.
His plays were first produced at the Abbey theater in Dublin, which was referred to at that time as the world's foremost theater, because of the number of great plays which were written for it and produced upon its stage.
The play will be presented for four nights beginning Dec. 9.
Mr. O'Casey's plays were bitter and humorous in the Celtic tradition of mixing their comedy with high tragedy. The announcement of a new O'Casey play was comparable to an announcement of an O'Neill play today.
It has certainly proved his most popular, having appeared continuously in the repertoires of American theaters, both professional and amateur, for the last 15 years. The Kansas players in 1930 gave the third production of the play in America.
Of his plays, "The Plough and the Stars" is the most tragic and dramatic, but "Juno and the Paycock" is generally considered his best piece of work.
The main characters are Juno Boyle and her husband, Jack, "the paycoek," (Irish dialect for peacock) and their two children, Johnnie and Mary. The play relates their struggles to carry on against an environment of desperate social and political conditions.
"Juno and the Paycock" tells the story of an Irish family of the lower classes in Dublin, during the troubled days of 1922, following the free state revolution, and while Ireland was still in an unsettled condition.
For two acts the spirit of Irish good nature and comedy predominate, but in the third act tragedy overtakes the household with the inevitability of an old Greek drama.
IM Championship Playoff Tomorrow
The intramural football finals will bring together Phi Gamma Delta and Sigma Chi in Memorial stadium at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
Officials for the championship encounter will be Henry Shenk, Ray Kanehl, and Reginald Strait, of the physical education department.
The game will match the strong ground attack of Sigma Chi against the Phi Gam aerial display. Each team has dropped one game in regular season play, but both worked their way into the finals with Wednesday night victories.
Sigma Chi dropped Phi Kappa Psi, while the Phi Gams overpowered Beta Theta Pi. Deadline for the game will be 4:15.
Failure To File Reports Won't Stop G.I. Checks
Veterans Must Fill Out Form 1961 Estimating Monthly Outside Earnings
Snails Tell Leonard Of Pliocene
A Veterans administration announcement that some veterans attending school under the G.I. Bill will not get their first checks because of a failure to turn in a report of outside earnings prior to Nov. 5 will not affect veterans at the University, Dr. E. R. Elbel, local V.A. bureau director, said today.
150,000 Vets Won't Get Checks
Washington (UP)—Some 150,-000 students attending college under the G.I. Bill may go without initial subsistence checks, the Veterans' administration announced today.
That number had failed to turn in a report of their outside earnings before Nov. 5, the announcement said. That report, form No. 1961, must be filled out even though the veteran is unemployed, the V.A. added
Ticket Deadline Set At 5 Today
When the decision was made two weeks ago by the Washington, D.C., office, Dr. Elbel said he made special arrangements with the Kansas City,
Deadline for student purchases of basketball tickets was extended to 5 p.m. today, Earl Falkenstien, director of ticket sales, said today.
"About 4,800 students have bought tickets and the bulk of sales came Wednesday, the original closing date of student priorities," Mr. Falkenstien declared.
He indicated that tickets would be available to the general public soon, but cautioned that the situation "would have to be studied first, in view of the increased demand for student tickets Wednesday which complicated the picture."
In increase in the cost of student tickets this year is designed to offset the loss of revenue that would have resulted from the sale of tickets to the general public, Mr. Falkenstien said. Price of last year's tickets was $1.24 plus tax for eight games. This year's price is $1.75 plus tax for four games.
No price has been established for tickets to be sold to the general public and Mr. Falkenstien estimated that 2,500 students will attend each of the home games on the half-schedule basis. Hoch auditorium will seat 3,500, which leaves 1,000 seats available to non-students under present estimates.
"Some tickets must be sold to the public to keep the athletic department from losing money," Mr. Falkenstien said.
By classifying a snail it is possible to learn what sort of food it ate and therefore what sort of vegetation existed when the snail did. Snails may lead unimportant lives but they build houses which last a million years or more.
It may hail snails in Snow hall if ever there is an earthquake on Mt. Oread, Prof. A. B. Leonard, department of zoology, approximately 400,000 classified and catalogued snail shells in his office which would scatter to the four winds, should such a catastrophe occur.
Professor Leonard prefers to work with living specimens and classify them by their tongues or radula. This method eliminates possibilities of mistakes.
When a snail sets his tongue to wagging, the din and clatter must be terrific—to other snails. Snail's tongues are large in comparison with their bodies and have teeth on them. Teeth identify a snail conclusively. Professor Leonard stated.
Professor Leonard studies snail shells, ranging from microscopic sizes to those one inch in diameter, for interpretation of conditions in the past. Many of the shells date from the Pliocene age, of about one million years ago.
The shells, collected from Kansas and surrounding states, are classified by size and appearance, but
$\textcircled{M}$ Mo., office to waive the ruling in the case of K.U.
"During the registration period, when most veterans were to sign the forms, we ran out twice because of the large numbers of University veterans," he said, "so we didn't feel the veteran should have to suffer for something that wasn't his fault."
That request was granted earlier this week by Paul Lind, registration officer in Kansas City.
The first checks for veterans here will not be affected, but all subsequent checks will be held up until the outside earnings form is filled out.
The form, No. 1961, is entitled Estimate of Compensation from Productive Labor. It asks for an estimated monthly sum for outside earnings (taken on an average of a 3-month period) with the signature of the outside employer certifying that that amount is correct.
Many veterans have already filled out that form, Dr. Elbel said, but if there is any doubt, the veteran should by all means get another form from the local office and mail it in as soon as possible.
Even if the veteran is unemployed, he must fill out the report, Dr. Elbel added.
Some veterans have received the form through the mail, he said. In case they have already been returned, the student need not worry that his checks will be held up.
The purpose of the form is to determine if the veteran needs the full $65 or $90 subsistence allowance. If a married veteran earns more than $200, including his GI Bill check, the subsistence check will be cut accordingly.
For the single veteran, the total income which he can have and still get a full GI Bill check is $175.
In cases where board and noom is furnished a veteran, an estimate of the value of that service is to be included as outside earnings. Any other earnings, even ROTC, must be added, Dr. Elbel said.
Although there are no indications vet, Dr. Elbel said that there might be a spot check with employers to affirm the validity of the veteran's report. Any false statement, he added, is a misdemeanor.
'Scarlet Pimpernel Shown In Fraser
The first of a series of historical and foreign movies, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater.
The plot of the picture concerns an underground movement of English nobility and French loyalists during the French revolution.
The movies are sponsored by the Forums board and will be shown every six weeks. The foreign movies will be in French, German, and Russian, with English captions. Admission is free.
WEATHER
Kansas- Cold wave with strong northerly winds today and tonight. Occasional snow flurries today west and north and in east tonight. Friday mostly cloudy, colder south and continued cold north.