University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, May 24, 1946
43rd Year No. 147
Lawrence, Kansas
Congress May Hear Truman On Strike Crisis
Washington. (UP)—Sen. Harry F. Byrd, (D.-Va.), said today that President Truman is giving "full consideration" to Byrd's request that he appear before congress and ask additional powers to cope with the strike crisis.
Byrd first made his request in a statement Thursday night. He repeated it directly to the president today when he went to the White House as part of a group to witness the signing of legislation raising the pay of federal employees.
"I urged him," Byrd told reporters, "to come before congress to ask for whatever is necessary to stop strikes, if he needs any additional power, and for the power to punish those who are guilty of breaking laws.
"He said he was giving his full consideration."
Asked when he thought the president should appear before a joint session of the House and Senate, Byrd said, "the sooner the better."
"Iif the strike is not settled today, I think he ought to come tonight or tomorrow morning, to dramatize the situation."
Civil Engineers Meet For Award Banquet
The Kansas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers will attend a dinner meeting in Topeka tonight.
Forest Kenney won the award for the University last year.
Annual awards of junior membership in the national society to the outstanding senior engineering student of the University and Kansas State college will be announced.
Henry C. Beckman, regional engineer of the United States Geological survey, will be guest speaker. He will talk on geological survey functions, and the development of the Missouri river basin project.
President Asks Committee For Continued Price Control
Washington. (UP) — President Truman's request that price controls be continued for another year to-day failed to have much influence on a senate committee drafting a new price bill.
General committee reaction to the presidential letter was that it would have little, if any, effect.
Kansas Twister Kills Three,
Wrecks Homes and Crops
the retiring officers are president,
Anne Stevens; secretary, Joanna
Wagstaff; and treasurer, Beverly
Stucker.
Kansas City, Mo. (UP)—Three persons were dead and at least three others injured today as a result of tornadoes which swept over Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska last night causing extensive damage to homes and crops.
The new officers at Omicron Nu, national honorary home economics fraternity for women, are President, Ruth Cawood; secretary, Eva Lee Yung; and treasurer, Elizabeth McCune. The election was held at 1 pm. Thursday.
Lon Gile, 73, and his wife, 70, were thrown 300 feet into the air and killed when a tornado ripped apart their suburban home in Holmes Park. Mrs. Bertha Coder, elderly Enosdale, Kan., woman, was killed when the twister struck her home shortly before dusk.
Cawood To Head Home Ec Fraternity
'Power Behind The Throne' of Kansas Institutions
Here is the state board of regents, who met on the campus recently and approved an increase in student fees and the campus bookstore. First row (left to right): Miss Betty Mulloy (stenographer); Willis N. Kelly, Hutchinson; Dr. L. B. Spake, Kansas City (chairman); Oscar Stauffer, Topeka; Hubert Brighton.
Miller Hall Wins Softball Title
Topeka (secretary). Second row: Chancellor D. W. Malott; Mrs. Leo Haughey, Concordia; F. N. Harris, Ottawa; Drew McLaughlin, Paola; Grover Poole, Manhattan; Lester McCoy, Garden City. Not in picture: J. E. Driscoll, Russell. (Daily Kansan photo by Max Kernghan.)
Miller Hall won the women's intramural softball championship Wednesday afternoon when it defeated Alpha Delta Pi, 5-0.
The meeting is open to students wishing positions on the editorial, advertising, circulation, and writing staffs.
Iva Rothenberger, Miller Hall's Bob Feller, allowed no hits and struck out 11 batters in the shutout game. Ruth Green was behind the plate for the new champions. Losing battery was Lucille Land and Joan Anderson.
Students who wish to work on the Bitter Bird next year will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the men's lounge of the Union, the editorial board of the humor magazine announced today.
Members of the 1946 championship team include Green, Rothenberger, Jean Kopp, Erma Lea Volkel, Dorothy Scroggy, Marie Schreiber, Lucille Rothenberg, Marylee Masterson. Polly Wegscheider, and Berniece Stroun.
Runners-up in this year's finals include Marjorie Bentley, Pearl Geiger, Land, Anderson, Pat Limbeck, Pat Zoller, Jean Cooper, Connie Markley, Rosemary Hall, and Gwen Harger.
Bitter Bird Asks Applicants To Meet Monday Night
Rothenberger to Give Last Senior Recital
Lucile Rothenberger, a pupil from the studio of Jan Chiapusso, will present the final senior recital of the school year at 4 p.m. Sunday in Frank Strong auditorium.
Her program will include numbers from Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Rubinstein, Prokofieff, and Grieg. In the final number, the opening movement of Grieg's "A Minor Concerto," she will be assisted at the second piano by her teacher.
Miss Rothenberger is president of Mu Phi Epsilon, music sorority, vice-president of Miller hall, and a member of the University A Cappella Choir. For four consecutive years before coming to the University, she won first place for piano in the Federation of Music Club contests.
'Engineer' Features 'Hop' Queen, Humor
The queen of the Engineers' Hobnail Hop and personality sketches of Men of Marvin are among the features of the May issue of the Kansas Engineer now available, Robert Kunkle, editor. has announced.
"Plan X-17," a story by Rod MacIvor, and a curriculum survey by George Adams are humorous articles.
Frank Darden and Hilly Stong are the authors of profiles of engineers Dave Ballard, Herbert Hoover, Dick Nelson, and Hilly Stong.
"Slide Rule Slips, pilfered by Darden and Nelson," is a regular joke feature.
Members of the staff are Kunkle, editor; John Thiele and Morris Borene, assistant editors; Jo a nn Ruese, circulation manager; Barbara Hume, business manager; Charles Baer, faculty adviser; Harold Vagt-borg, advertising manager; and John Verburg, technical adviser.
Farner To Conduct Two 'Bird Walks'
The Museum of Natural History will sponsor conducted bird walks on the campus at 4:00 p.m. Saturday and at 8:30 a.m. on June 1.
Dr. Donald J. Farner, of the department of zoology, will conduct these walks and will instruct the group on the history and habits of the birds observed.
Those interested in these tours will assemble at the reception desk in the foyer of Dyche museum 15 minutes before the start.
K.U. Band Gives Spring Concert
The 110-piece University of Kansas band under the direction of Russell L. Wiley will present its annual spring concert Monday, May 27 at 8 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
This year's concert will have as instrumental solists Leo Horacek, Jr., coronetist, and Marshall Butler, pianist. Mr. Horacek, who will be soloist in "Bride of the Waves" (Herbert L. Clark), spent three years in the navy returning to the University last November. He is a graduate student and is teaching trumpet in the department of music.
Mr. Butler will be soloist in David Bennett's "Reparte," a modern rhapsody written especially for piano and band. While in the army, he played on various army shows in France and Germany.
Another feature will be Bill Sears, baton twirler, who returned to the University last January from the army. While in the army he served with the 103rd army band as a musician, drum major, and baton twirler in France, Germany, and Austria. He will teach baton twirling, gun twirling, and flag swinging at the University during the summer.
The band will play the first movement of Fauchet's "Symphony in B Flat," Sigfried's Rhine Journey" from the opera "Gotterdammerung" by Wagner, and "Flight of the Bumble Bee," by Rimski Korsakov.
What's The University Coming To? Now That Long Line-to-Pay-Fees Is Eliminated
University students for the summer and fall sessions no longer will face the prospect of sweating a long line for the payment of fees. All fees must be paid in advance of enrollment during the registration process Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, said today.
Summer session students who were registered for the spring semester, 1946, will not be required to register again but will only call at the business office, according to the letter system, for fee cards and payment of fees.
All fees must be paid before enrollment, excepting private music lessor fees, and organ or piano rental fees, which are payable within four days after enrollment. Students who register will pay their fees during the registration process.
Students admitted to the University for the first time, and former students who have not been enrolled during the 1945-'46 school year, must register. Fees will be collected from such students at the time of registration.
Despite Strike K.U.Has Food For Two Weeks
Lawrence Supplied For Only Five Days; Little Relief Seen
You won't starve—yet. The railroad strike won't hit the K.U. beltline for about two weeks, a check of the University food service and organized houses revealed today.
The Union cafeteria Thursday received enough meat to last for three days. Miss Hermina Zipple, director, said, and more may be trucked in soon. The cafeteria gets chickens, fresh vegetables, and bread locally, and has enough canned goods to last for two months, she explained.
"The strike would have to last at least two weeks before we felt any shortage." she said.
University housemothers reported that their present supplies will last for about two weeks.
Lawrence citizens may be hungry within five days. Locally-owned grocery stores, some of which have up to 80 per cent of their produce shipped in, report that their supplies of perishables will last from two to five days. No meats are expected.
Five trains came through Lawrence Thursday night and this morning. The Santa Fe Chief which left Chicago last night was due here at 1 p.m. today.
Chain stores can hold out for about five days with present sources of fresh produce with lettuce, onions, and radishes being purchased from local farmers.
"Right now we can take care of anyone in any direction," he said.
Flour supplies will remain adequate, local bakers asserted, as all their flour is trucked in. They fear a possible shortage of wrappers and cartons, which are shipped by railroad.
Railroad officials said that the trains were manned by officials who had been engineers and brakemen. The trains were not overly crowded and only five persons from Lawrence decided to take a chance on traveling.
The Lawrence bus station reported only normal activity and travel. Extra cars are available if needed according to C. S. Woodland, manager.
Mails were still moving, according to W. B. Kirby, superintendent of mails. Nothing but first class matter is being accepted, and that with a maximum weight of one pound. Enough trains ran last night to clear all mail from the post-office.
As to the possibility of flying the mail out, Mr. Kirby said that if it became necessary, the government would use any means to keep the mail moving.
The local airport reported only one charter flight yesterday and it could not be definitely attributed to the strike.
Western Union reported an increase of telegrams saying "can't come" or "Won't start."
Engineers To K.C.
Twenty engineering students and Prof. E. S. Gray, department of mechanical engineering, are in Kansas City, Mo., today, inspecting mechanical engineering processes and manufacturing methods.
WEATHER
Kansas—Generally fair today, tonight and Saturday. Cooler east and south today. Warmer Saturday afternoon in west. Low tonight lower 40's west to middle 50's east.