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University DAILY KANSAN
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1946
44th Year No. 22
Lawrence, Kansas
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Harry Woodring To Speak At 9 Tonight
K. U. students tonight will have their second chance in two weeks to see and hear a major party candidate for governor.
Harry H. Woodring, Democratic candidate, will speak at 9 tonight in the Lawrence Community building, 115 W. 11th street, under the auspices of the Douglas county Democratic committee and the K.U. Woodring for Governor club.
From 8 to 9 tonight, radio stars from radio station WIBW in Topeka will present a show.
After the speech by Mr. Woodring, a dance will be held in the Community building. Music from a tenpiece band will begin at 9:40 p.m. and last until midnight.
PSGL, Pachacamac To Discuss Politics
Mr. Woodring today is touring Douglas county and surrounding towns. His speech tonight will be rebroadcast over WREN and other Kansas stations.
Two representatives each of the P.S.G.L. and Pachacamac parties will discuss, "Student politics and student government at K.U." at the freshman Y.M.C.A. meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Myers hall.
Pachacamac representatives are Bill Spicer, chairman of the A.S.C.斌 committee; and Gene Allred, M.C.A. representative on the A.S.C.
Representing P.S.G.L. are George Goldwell, P.S.G.L., president; and Austin Turney, secretary-treasurer of P.S.G.L. A. W. Davidson, professor of chemistry, will act as director and mediator of the discussion.
After the discussion the freshman Y.M.C.A. will elect officers. The names of all nominees must be in the Y.M.C.A. office by 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, and each nomination must be sined by at least three Y.M.C.A. members.
Quonset Study Hut Will Open Thursday
By Bibler
Having trouble finding a place to study?
If so, why not try the new quonset hut study hall located north of Frank Strong which opens Thursday morning?
C. M. Baker, director of Watson library, today urged that all students not requiring library books study in the hut, thereby relieving the congestion in the reading rooms. Lighting in the new study room is excellent, he added.
The hut will be open Monday thru Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
'Reds Keep Divisions For War'—Churchill
London. (UP)—Winston Churchill indicated in commons today that he had reports that Russia has more than 200 divisions on a war footing in the occupied territories of Europe "from the Baltic to Vienna and from Vienna to the Black Sea."
Churchill, wartime prime minister and now opposition leader in common, accused the Russians of breaking their pledges at the Yalta conference.
He spoke in commons debate on foreign affairs after Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called upon the united nations for action to prevent misuse of the veto on the security council.
Little Man On Campus
'But he has a wonderful personality.'
Revolving Stage Changes Scenes In Five Seconds
One of the most effective devices for keeping up the rapid pace of the modern theater, the revolving stage, became a part of the University theatrical equipment this fall.
Constructed by volunteer labor from the department of speech and drama, the stage is now a part of Fraser theater, and needs only the application of a paint brush before it is completely finished.
The audience is taken from an apartment, to a railroad station, to a courtroom, and even through a dream sequence, involving a palace and a fantastic park. Through these scene changes, the dialogue is halted only once—for intermission.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, and Donald Dixon, assistant professor of the same department, are the key men behind the addition.
Rapidity comes in handy in the production of the next play being offered by the department. "Beggars on Horseback," which will be shown for a four-night run starting Nov. 4, requires 23 scene changes.
Players step off the revolving
The stage, designed by Professor Dixon, is built on top of the old stage in Fraser theater. It adds only six inches to the original stage height.
In the center is a large circle, 26 feet in diameter.
The top of the circle is flush with the boards of the rest of the stage, fitting closely so that there is just a thin line to show where the stationary part ends and the revolving part begins.
The center of the circle rests on a pin sunk into the old stage. From the center, wooden braces extend to the perimeter. On the braces are 72 casters, each three inches in diameter, which support the stage as it is revolved.
The scene can be changed by three or four stagehands, who push the stage around in a matter of a few seconds. Only a slight squeaky noise can be heard by the audience.
The stage cuts the time of scene-changing from a possible high of five minutes to a maximum of only five seconds.
The scenery can be set up on one side of the backdrop while action is taking place on the other side. Thus, while the heavy is knifing his victim in front of the audience, the stage-hands can be setting up the court-room scene for his trial.
stage, walk forward, the curtain closes behind them, they carry on a few lines of dialogue as the stage revolves, the curtain opens and the players step back into completely different surroundings.
The stage will be retained for future productions. For "Elizabeth the Queen," which will be presented later in the year, the circle will be divided into three parts instead of two.
Maynard B. Barnes, American representative in Bulgaria, reported that Russian General Sergei S. Biryusov, without consultation with American and British officers, ordered the Bulgarian information ministry to suppress the American appeal for a free press and unfettered elections.
Washington. (UP)—The state department said today that a Russian general has prevented publication in Bulgaria of the United States' appeal for fair elections in that country.
A state department spokesman said that the Russian move was in "direct contradiction" of assurances regarding freedom of the press set forth in a letter from the Bulgarian prime minister to Byrnes.
Russian Interferes With Bulgarian Vote
P.S.G.L.-Independent Candidates Win All Five Freshmen Offices
This government will endeavor to get the news to the Bulgarias on the "voice of America" radio broadcast.
Food Lids Off
Washington. (UP)—OPA today took the price lids off nearly all foods and beverages except sugar and rice.
OPA also took price ceilings of all food and drink sold in restaurants. Both actions are effective at midnight.
Truman To Define U.S. World Course At UN Assembly
United Nations Hall, Flushing, N.Y. (UP)—The United Nations General assembly will convoke its first full-fledged "Town Meeting of the World" today to hear President Truman re-define America's course in a world still beset by the wounds of World War II and harassed by whispers of wars to come.
The first assembly meeting on American soil—and actually the first dedicated to the host of problems bothering the world—goes to work for at least six-and-a-half weeks this afternoon.
Mr. Truman was scheduled to arrive by plane from Washington and speak from the great mahogony and gilt dais of the world parliament at 3:30 p.m.
The statesmen of 51 nations brought their hopes for lasting peace and security to New York City world's fair building—a structure originally dedicated to "the world of tomorrow."
Three thousand representing most of the world's 2,200,000,000 people, the diplomats were led by such world personages as Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, United States, Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, Soviet Russia, and Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa.
The first half of the 1946 assembly session was a relative warm-up meeting held the past winter at London. Major debates were deferred then because the UN was taking its first breaths.
President Truman's address, keynoting the anxiety of all peoples for the success of their statesmen's search for peace, was the only real business of the day.
Despite the temporary tinge of carnival spirit, the UN's most representative body gathered in an atmosphere clouded by international friction. The assembly faced a calendar of business pockmarked by plain threats of stormy sessions to come—battles among the big five powers, battles between the big nations and small nations over the UN veto power, and a score of troublesome scraps over localized issues.
The suspicion and the differences between Russia and the western powers—the United States, Britain and the many countries which support them in today's international politics—sat at the core of the assembly's machinery.
While the assembly struggles with them, the same differences will get special attention after Nov. 4 in the private meetings of the big four council of foreign ministers to be held concurrently with the assembly sessions.
Training Officers Will Aid Veterans With Problems
Training officers for the veterans administration will visit the University tomorrow and Friday to aid veterans enrolled here.
Veterans who have questions or problems pertaining to matters handled by the veterans administration may contact R. H. Pease or W. L. Lockridge in room two, Frank Strong hall.
The P.S.G.L-Independent ticket made a clean sweep of the freshman elections Tuesday, electing all independent candidates to the five offices to be filled.
The two freshman representatives to the All Student council will balance the two parties in total representation with 15 members each.
The Pachacamac-N.O.W. combination will retain an I to 9 majority of non-organizational members. (The organizational members may be deprived of their vote by a vote of one-fourth of the other members.)
The winners of the election are:
All Student Council
Men: Norman Jennings, P.S.G.L. defeated Ernest Friesen, Pachacamac. 625 to 415.
President: William Tincher, P.S.-G.L., won over Lynn Winslow, Pac-hacamac, 797-543.
Women: Janet Rummer, Independent, defeated Ann Learned, N.O.W. 156-145.
Secretary - treasurer: Clara Jane Lutz, Independent, won over Joan Vermillion, N.O.W., 784-553.
"P.S.G.L. appreciates the interest shown in student government," said George Caldwell, P.S.G.L. president, and "proposes to justify this interest by promoting a constructive program in the All Student council."
Vice - president: Lawrence W, Blake, P.S.G.L., defeated Marybelle Shepherd, N.O.W. 785-511.
The total vote cast was 1343, the independents getting 59 and 60 per cent of these votes except for the women's council representative where they -won by only 11 votes.
The Modern mixed choir, featuring special Fred Waring musical arrangements, will hold its first postwar tryouts at 7:30 p.m. next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Lindley auditorium.
Modern Mixed Choir Tryouts Next Week
Musical numbers for KFKU, halftime basketball entertainment, and Christmas caroling formerly were presented by the choir.
That organization, an extra-curricular unit dropped during the wartime male shortage, is being handled by student directors, Phyllis Fretwell and Haworth White.
More than the traditional 30 members are expected to join this year. White said today. Any student is eligible.
Lewis May Lead New Wage Fight
Washington (UP)—Backed by his threat of a national coal strike next month, John L. Lewis appeared to be reaching today for leadership of a drive to win new wage increases and destroy remnants of government wage control.
His bold dash into a fight with Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug put him into a strategic position to lead that drive. It also raised the threat of a nationwide bituminous mine shutdown—perhaps on Nov. 1, perhaps on Nov. 20—as winter approached.
Even if the government should negotiate, the miners could terminate the agreement Nov. 20 under Mr. Lewis' interpretation. He held that either party could terminate the agreement on five days' notice after 15 days of negotiations:
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy, little change in temperature today, tonight and Thursday. Low tonight lower 40's in west and mid 50's in east.