1946
University DAILY KANSAN STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, May 6, 1946
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France Rejects Left-Wing Parties
Paris. (UF) — France swung
arply to the right today rejecting
the Communist - Socialist national
constitution by an emphatic margin
of more than 1,000,000 votes.
The resounding and unexpected defeat of the left-wing parties in the national plebescite is certain to have strong repercussions in the national parliamentary elections of June 2. A new constituent assembly will be elected then, charged with drafting a constitution to replace the one turned down by the French people yesterday.
Tokyo, (UP) — Former Japanese premier Hideki Too and 26 other war crime suspects pleaded innocent today to 55 charges of "aggression, murder, and vicious crimes against humanity." Their trial date was set for June 3.
Washington. (UP) — A railroad spokesman predicted today the nation's rail carriers will lose $345- 000,000 if wages, prices, and freight rates remain at present levels.
Lie Has No Report Of Iran Evacuation
New York. (UP) — Trygve Lie, United Nations secretary-general, said today that he had received no reports from either Russia or Iran that Soviet evacuation of Iran has been completed.
Iran is expected to report today that the last Red army troops have left, but a Russian reply was doubtful in view of a Soviet decision not to participate in any further Security council discussion of Iran.
Washington. (UP)—Camille Gutt of Belgium was elected managing director of the newly 'organized $8,800,000,000 international monetary fund.
Jerusalem. (UP) - Black-veiled Moslem women today mauled British policemen who tried to break up a parade of several thousand Arabs demonstrating against the Anglo-American commission report on Palestine.
Trieste Deadlocks Foreign Ministers
Paris, (UP)—The Big Four foreign ministers today found themselves in a solid deadlock with Britain, France, and the United States lined up firmly against Russia's demand that Trieste go to Yugoslavia.
New York. (UP) — Kansas may expect construction of at least 40,100 housing units as its share of the current veterans' housing program designed to produce 2,700,000 homes by the end of 1947, the Tile Council of America reported today.
Tokyo. (UP)—Herbert Hoover said today that the food crisis is the "most acute the world has ever seen" and urged that food be imported into Japan.
Plans Made For Student UN Meeting
Truman Urges Military Cooperation
Washington. (UP) President Truman urged today that the army and navy be authorized to expand their peacetime military collaboration with other American countries.
He recommended to congress a program that envisages all the armed forces of the Americas using the same equipment and being trained in the same combat tactics.
His program is designed to make more effective the pledge of all the American republics to defend each other against aggression.
Washington, (UP) — Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift, commandant of the marine corps, accused the war department today of harboring a "well advanced and carefully integrated" plot to scuttle his band of fighting leathernecks.
Washington, (UP)—Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, leader of the fight against the British loan, today called for a world-wide disarmament conference before the United States grants additional foreign credits.
Nanking. (UP)—China's top truce negotiators today were reported making an on-the-spot investigation of the critical Hupeh situation where 60,000 Communists are reported facing annihilation by 310,000 Nationalists.
Assignments of the 27 major countries of the United Nations have been made to organized houses in preparation for the student UN conference, May 18, Donald Ong, chairman of the planning committee, said today.
Unorganized students who registered at the business office or in political science classes have been assigned to the major countries, Ong said.
Supervising the work of each nation will be members of the Forensic league and political science majors. The executive committee for the conference includes Virginia Neal, Orville Roberts, Richard Hawkinson, Jean Moore, Shirley Wills, Charles Crowley, and Ong.
Organized houses, their nations and supervisors are as follows:
Battenfeld, United States, Jim Crook; Delta Gamma, Russia, Terry Harriot; Locksley, Great Britain, Shirley Wellborn; Phi Delta Theta, France, Richard Schiefelbusch; Kappa Kappa Gamma, China, Virginia Rogers; Chi Omega, Canada, Keith Wilson; Carruth, Iran, Kenneth Beasley; Kalpha Alpha Theta, Mexico, Buford Trible, Pi Kappa Alpha, Poland, Robert Bock; Alpha Omicron Pi, Belgium, Patricia Creel; Corbin Brazil, Richard Scovel.
Watkins, Chile, Russell Barrett; Miller, Colombia, Floyd Krebhiel; Joliffe, Greece, Constantina Fotopoulos; Gamma Phi Beta, Elizabeth Evans; Alpha Delta Pi, Netherlands, Paul Mason; Tau Kappa Epsilon, Venezuela, James Nelson; Zeta Phi Beta, Phillipines, Thelma Harmon.
Harmon, Yugoslavia, Vernon Howard; Delta Tau Delta, Norway, Shirley Wills; Delta Upsilon, Turkey, Hal Friesen; Kappa Sigma, New Zealand, Delores Custer; Alpha Chi Omega, Czechoslovakia, Joy Godhehere; Sigma Kappa, India, Robert Groom.
Supervisors have not been assigned to Sleepy Hallow, Union of South Africa; Beta Theta Pi, Argentina, and Ricker, Australia.
"Also," Ong explained, "five houses submitting only two names as delegates were assigned to other nations."
Houses and unorganized delegates will be contacted before Tuesday. Each nation will work on two problems assigned for the conference, he explained.
Debaters To Compete At West Point May 17
Orville Roberts, college senior, and Jean Moore, college junior, will make up the negative team to debate the subject, "Resolved, that the United States should adopt a peace-time policy of military training."
The University debating team will travel to the United States Military Academy at West Point to take part in a debate May 17.
Prof. E. C. Buehler of the speech department who is planning to go with Moore and Roberts said they may fly to West Point, but final details of travel have not been worked out.
Rear Admiral Cometon Visits K.U. V-12, N.R.O.T.C. Units
Rear Adm. F, A. Cometon, medical officer of the ninth naval district. Great Lakes naval training station, was on the campus today to inspect the medical facilities of the N.R.O.T.C. and V-12 units.
He arrived this morning from Chicago and visited Chancellor Malott, leaving at noon for Olathe to continue his routine inspection of all naval units in this area.
U.S. Reconversion Falters As Coal Shortage Spreads
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Washington. (UP)—Sen. Scott Lucas, Illinois Democrat, today called for criminal prosecution of coal strike leaders.
(By United Press)
Thousands of workers were laid off today, and more factories reduced their output as the coal shortage tightened its grip on the nation.
The coal famine already had plunged Chicago, Washington, and Philadelphia into semi-darkness, and five railroads had cut their midwestern
Engleman Case: He's Eligible
Howard Engleman's nomination for the presidency of the All-Student council was approved Friday in a unanimous decision of a five-man faculty committee.
The question submitted to the committee was a clarification of Article V, Section 2 (a) of the "Rules Governing Student Affairs," which reads in part: "No student shall be eligible for the presidency who has not served on the council."
The committee was appointed by Dean Henry Werner, at the request of the two rival campus political organizations, to decide the eligibility of Engleman, Pachacamac.-N.O.W. candidate, who will oppose Wendell Nickell, P.S.G.L.-Independent, in Thursday's election.
Engleman was installed last week to fill the post of Inter-Fraternity councilman, left open by the resignation of Glenn Warner.
"The language of the constitution could be considered as leaving the question open to reasonable doubt, but the committee decided it was not its duty to determine the 'intent' of the constitution if the action met the requirement of the 'letter' of the constitution," Prof. John E. Hankins, committee spokesman, said.
Other faculty members were Professors John G. Blocker, E. R. Elbel, Paul D. Haney, and W. H. Shoemaker.
Professor Hankins explained the P.S.G.L.-Independent contention as being that "the statement of the constitution was intended to mean that candidates for the presidency should have adequate experience in the council to make them valuable to the University when elected."
The opposing Pachacamac view, he said, was based on a literal interpretation of the constitutional provision in question.
Clyde Jacobs represented the P.S.G.L.-Independent parties before the faculty committee. Robert Holland represented Pachacamac-N.O.W. Professor Hankins described the meeting as "entirely amicable and good-natured."
The on again-off again Raeburn case is off today.
On-Again, Off Again Raeburn Is Off Now
The K-club varsity Saturday probably will be cancelled, if Raeburn's band is unable to appear. Hal Hunter, dance manager, said today. The committee will attempt to postpone the dance and have Raeburn play at a later date.
A telephone call to Raeburn's Hollywood agency this afternoon will decide the question which arose when a telegram was received by Hunter from Raeburn on Saturday. Raeburn's band travels by Army transport and due to the shortage of transportation, the Army has cancelled all plane reservations.
service sharply to save fuel.
Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of the office of defense transportation, said the strike of soft coal miners will affect the railroads another year, even if the walkout is settled soon.
Johnson said coal which should be moving now will have to be moved by rail next fall. This, he said, will cause a freight log-jam at the time when reconversion is hitting its stride.
Meanwhile, the steel industry cut still further the flow of steel from blast furnaces and open hearths. The Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation announced that it would close the world's largest steel mill at Gary, Ind., today.
All but about 50 of Chicago's 334 motion picture theaters were closed today, and officials said they would remain closed until the coal strike is settled.
In Washington congressmen and industry representatives charged today that United Mine Workers Chief John L. Lewis is seeking to make his union more powerful than the government by usurping the constitutional power of congress to levy taxes.
They testified before a house judiciary subcommittee which began considering legislation to outlaw royalty payments on industrial production. Lewis' foremost demand in the coal strike is a union-administered health and welfare fund for his miners. It would be financed by a royalty on all coal mined.
The hearings began amid a congressional clamor over the 36-day-old soft coal strike and amid indications that new government settlement moves may be imminent.
Rep. Howard W. Smith charged that the National Labor Relations board had failed in its duties by not acting against Lewis' demand.
Sen. Scott W. Lucas previously had warned the senate that the bituminous coal strike "could easily become an insurrection against the government" and demanded that the President seize the mines to stop it.
Smith said the national labor relations act provides that it "shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer . . . to contribute financial support" to any union. He said the NLRB, proceeding under this provision, should subpoena the UMW before it and order it to desist.
"If they failed to desist, then they should be called before the courts," Smith said.
In a scathing attack on Lewis, Lucas told the senate that the strike "is revolutionary in character and scope." Lewis, he charged, is following in the footsteps of those economic royalists whom he helped tumble from the throne in years gone by."
"This is one of those new breeds of strikes beginning to harass the United States which have no legal or moral justification." Lucas said.
Informed sources have indicated that Mr. Truman so far has developed no plan for seizing the mines. The Railway Express agency has banned all express shipments, effective May 10, except essential services.
WEATHER
Kansas—Mostly cloudy today and tonight becoming partly cloudy Tuesday. Scattered showers north today and in central and south tonight, and in southeast corner Tuesday.