University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1946
44th Year No.31
Lawrence, Kansas
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"She's the best student I have."
Kansans Get Opportunity To Speak; Snow, Rain May Hurt Republicans
Topeka. (UP)—Kansas voters went to the polls today with an opportunity to express themselves on the issue of legal liquor.
Both Republican and Democratic party spokesmen claimed that the victory would be theirs, that their man would get the governorship, chief prize in the voting.
The weather was an imponderable actor.
The southwest section was blanketed in snow, and week-end rains had thoroughly soaked other portions. If this tends to reduce the rural vote, most impartial observers thought it would work against Frank Carlson. Harry Woodring's greatest show of strength was expected in the urban areas.
An 11th hour issue, raised by Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio, Republican national committee campaign director, was a charge "subtle actions are being taken by the Pendergast machine to extend its corrupt power into Kansas."
Mr. Carlson, in his last appeal for votes, charged the Democratic leadership in Kansas was "using any means, fair or foul, to get Kansas into the hands of those who are in the New Deal brotherhood, to help keep the Truman-Pendergast-Woodring group in control of the nation in 1948."
"Tax it for all it's worth," he said, "and put those taxes to work for the people of Kansas instead of the people of Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado."
Mr. Woodring, speaking by radio from his home at Topeka, termed today “V-M Day” and explained that is was "Victory over the Machine Day."
He charged Mr. Carlson had declined to discuss the state issues throughout the campaign and said it was time for Kansas to let liquor come into the state legally.
WEATHER
Kansas—Mostly cloudy today with occasional showers west and south except snow or sleet extreme west. Partly cloudy north. Mostly cloudy south tonight with showers southeast.
150 Campus Ballots Cast By Noon
In-state absentee balloting for today's general election began this morning on the second floor of the Military Science building with an estimated 150 persons casting their ballots by noon.
James K. Hitt, University registrar; in charge of election judges and clerks, predicted that voting would reach its peak between 1 and 3 p.m. Polls will close at 7 p.m.
Sample ballots have been obtained from 51 Kansas counties for absentee voters, listing local candidates. Voters from the remaining 54 counties will have to know the names of their candidates because the absentee ballot does not list names of county officers, candidates for congressmen and state representatives from the particular district. These names must be written in, Mr. Hitt said.
The winning team of the Y.M.C.A membership drive committees will be honored at a dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday in the East room of the Union.
Winning Y.M.C.A. Team To Be Honored At Dinner
Homer Sherwood, business junior, served as chairman of team who obtained the most members in the drive.
Winning committee members are Robert Ramsay, Donald Wells, Don McIlrath, Louis Goehring, and Charles Black. Glenn Varenhorst and Roger Arnold directed the drive.
Russian Army Man To Speak On Soviet Union
Gen. Victor A. Yakhontoff, former officer with the Russian armies, will speak on "The Soviet Union: Facts and Opinions" at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in Frank Strong auditorium.
Making a 3-month tour of the United States, General Yakhtonoff is sponsored by the national council of American - Soviet Friendship and will be brought to K.U. by the student Forums board.
A recently completed foreign tour took him through Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Kharkov, Rhostov on Don, the Caucausus, Crimea, and Stalingrad in Russia as well as Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, China, and Japan.
General Yakhontoff served as assistant secretary of war and later as acting secretary in the Kerensky cabinet at the start of the new Soviet state.
He has watched closely the development of the Soviet Union since 1918, and made extensive tours of the U.S.S.R. in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, and 1936, as well as in 1946.
Weather Favors G.O.P. Nationally
New York. (UP)—American voters, with good weather over most of the nation, streamed to the polls by the millions today to decide whether Democrats or Republicans will control the 80th congress.
president Truman was among the early voters in the nation's first peacetime general election since 1940—an election in which his party's sway over congress appeared in the greatest danger since Franklin Delano Roosevelt led it to power in the early 1930s.
Mr. Truman, his wife, and their daughter Margaret cast their votes the Democratic party at the
rial hall only a block from his nome at Independence, Mo.
Election day dawned bright and clear in most sections of the country, bolstering pre-election estimates that the number of ballots cast would range from 34 to 40 million.
The worst weather prevailed in the southwest, with rain, sleet and snow threatening to limit voting in some parts of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas.
Voters in 47 states were participating in the crucial elections in which 33 governorships and a host of other state offices also were at stake. The non-participating state was Maine, which did its balloting in September.
Seventy-six Democrats and 11 Republicans were elected to congress as the polls opened. They either had no opposition or only token opposition.
The fair weather generally prevailed was expected to favor the Republicans by encouraging a turnout in rural areas, where a significant part of GOP strength lies.
K.U. Debaters Visit Southeastern College
K. U. debaters Hal Friesen and Keith Wilson are taking part in the second inter-collegiate contest of the year today at Southeastern Teacher's college. Cape Girardeau, Mo.
The team is discussing the negative aspect of the question. "Resolved, that labor should have a direct voice in the management of industry."
Prof. E. C. Buehler, debate coach, accompanied the team and will address students at the Teacher's college tomorrow. His topic will be "You, your voice and your speech."
British Labor Leader Will Speak Tomorrow
WILFRED WELLOCK
Wilfred Wellock, former Member of Parliament and active British Labor leader, will speak in Frank Strong auditorium at 4 p.m. Wednesday on the "British Labor Party."
This address will complete Mr. Wellock's two-day schedule of appearances in Lawrence under the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee. He is presented on the campus by the Y.W.C.A. Y.M.C.A., the Westminster Foundation, and the department of political science.
Cabinet members of the student religious groups will entertain at a coffee hour at 4 tonight, honoring Mr. Wellock. He will be the guest at a dinner at 6 tonight given by the representatives of the campus groups sponsoring his appearance and by members of the Plymouth Congregational church and the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy.
Here's The Chance Of A Lifetime For K.U. Coeds
"British Foreign Policy" will be the subject of his address at the Plymouth Congregational church at 8 p.m. tonight.
Women instructors and graduate students interested in doing subsitute housemother work should see Martha Peterson in the women's employment office, 228 Frank Strong hall.
Houses To Hear Explanation Of W.S.S.F. Drive
Eighteen campus organized houses will hear explanations of the World Student Service Fund drive to raise money, through student contributions, to give aid to the underprivileged peoples of the world.
"We must rehabilitate 400,000 people," Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, regional Y.W.C.A. secretary, told W.S.-S.F workers at the kickoff rally Monday night in Hoch auditorium.
Money from this year's drive will be spent for books, rest camps, and food, according to Mrs. Jones. China India, Burma, Japan, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Greece are the countries most in need now, she said. Mrs. Jones worked with W.S.S.F. and with the Yale fellowship in Europe.
Keith Congdon, co-chairman of the drive, introduced the speaker and explained organizational plans to the workers. A film, "Freedom From Famine," was shown.
The following speakers will explain the drive to organized houses at dinner meetings tonight:
Ernest Freisen, Chi Omega; Russell Mammel, Gamma Phi Beta; Kennett Bech, Sigma Kappa; Marvin Martin, Jollife hall; Gloria Gray, Phi Delta Theta; Dorothy Heschmeier, Phi Gamma Delta.
Dolores Custer, Sigma Nu; Marietta Joan Rettig, Beta Phi P1; Benjamin Foster, Nu Sigma Nu; Laura Schmid, Miller hall; Newell Jenkins, Ricker hall; Keith Criswell, Templin hall; William Vandiver, Watkins hall; Patrick Lanahan, Brier Manor. Kenneth Beasley, Sleepy Hollow; Robert Renn, Harman Co-op; Virginia Powell, Delta Tau Delta; Ernest Wildhagen, Locklesk hall; Betty van der Smissen, Beta Thepi P1.
Town Hall Meeting Will Not Be Held
The Y.M.C.A. town hall will not meet tonight. Members and others who attend the town hall meetings are asked to attend instead the lecture by Wilfred Wellock, journalist and world observer, at 7:30 in the Plymouth Congregational church. He will discuss British foreign policy.
Man-Sized Shears Clip Cast
Dr. Robert Allen, Jayhawker team physician, is shown here using foot-long shears as he takes the last clip to remove the cast from Bill "Red" Hogan's broken leg. Hogan, who was injured in the K.U.-Denver game, probably won't be passing and running for the Jayhawkers this year, though there is an outside chance he may see action in the last game of the season. (Daily Kansan staff photo.)
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