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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 15,194
Bring Along Your Brass Knuckles We're Going to Visit Congress
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—It is a nerve-shattering experience. I can tell you, visiting the house of representatives in these parlous times. Makes you wish you'd remembered to bring along your air raid warden hat in case the ceiling falls.
So there were two leading congressmen trying to climb down each other's throats without even removing their broogans. The Democrats were cheering. The Republicans were going, "Boo, Boo, Boo," an unidentified snake-in-the-grass was hissing, and I was scared. I have watched riots develop in my day. I started to scram.
Old hands in the press galleries restrained me. They said this was nothing unusual in the springtime of an election year. They said the boys (everybody now was shouting) simply were getting in practice for the political battles to come. They said the ceiling recently had been reinforced and the danger was slight. I resumed my seat, but I remained on the alert, ready to jump.
Rep. Frank B. Keefe, Oshkosh Wis., Republican, said he'd read in the papers that Democratic Leader John W. McCormack had made a speech last Saturday night claiming all the Republicans on the Pearl Harbor investigating committee had acted disgracefully. He said he had not, either, performed disgracefully. That started it.
McCormack laughed. He said he meant all the Republicans on the committee except Keefe, for whom he had the highest regard. The Republicans booed; the Democrats cheered.
Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart Fresno, Calif., said, hey, he was a Republican and he was on the committee. He said he'd been insulted. He said he defied McCormack to show him one place in 1300 pages of Pearl Harbor testimony where he'd said anything disgraceful.
"I care not for the attacks of the left-wing smear-bund," the chubby Gearhart shouted.
Hooray, the Republicans cried
Boo, the Democrats booed
"Can the gentleman from California say he has not been witch hunts screamed the tall, gray-hooded McCoy? The boors versed sides again with the
"I defy you . . ." shouted Gearhart.
"You . . . You . . ." yelled Mc-Cormack.
They shook their fists. They made so much noise the stenographer, who was supposed to record the words of the statesmen for posturity, laid down his fountain pen. His expression was what I'd call resigned.
There was so much noise now you almost could see it. The speaker banged his gavel. The hissing grew louder. A soprano congresswoman screamed for order, order, order. Gearhart said he'd been subjected to no more criticism than Keefe.
"You are trying to ride on in on the back of the gentleman from Wisconsin," McCormack yelled. "I am not." Gearhart yelled back.
"The gentleman from Wisconsin is an entirely different kind of gentleman than the gentleman from California." McCormack screamed.
"Why " shouted Gearhart.
"You"
"Yes," shouted McCormack, "I said it Saturday and I say it again that the Republicans on that Pearl Harbor committee (not you, Keefe) were trying to smear President Roosevelt."
"Will you yield?" demanded Rep. Robert Rich of Pennsylvania.
"No, no, no," McCormack shouted. And so on for about 10 more minutes. Then everybody got busy on the second deficiency bill. The ceiling didn't fall. Next time I'll act brave. I am learning, as you can see, about politics.
Gambling Near UN
New York. (UP)—Four men were caught shooting dice a few blocks from the new United Nations site in Flushing.
Magistrate Maurice Simmons warned, "You might disturb the peace of the world with that gambling." He gave them a suspended sentence.
Lichfield Inmate Refuses to Testify
London. (UP) — A prosecution court martial witness has refused to testify about his alleged mistreatment as an inmate of the Lichfield army prison camp because of the "treatment I have received in the London guardhouse" where he was confined while awaiting his court appearance.
The reluctant witness was William F. Pond, former enlisted combat service man, who is under a seven-year sentence with dishonorable discharge for being AWOL.
Pond said he was "afraid" to testify because of the treatment of prisoner-witnesses in the London guardhouse.
Pond was called to testify in the trial of Staff Sgt. James M. Jones, one of the enlisted men accused of brutality at Lichfield. He said he had made a sworn statement to the "investigating general" here. He did not explain further.
The prosecution asked for a recess to study Pond's attitude.
Last week Capt. Earl J. Carroll, assistant prosecutor, resigned. In a letter he charged that prosecution witnesses held in the London guard-house were being discouraged from giving testimony and conditions were so harsh there that several prisoner-witnesses had broken out of confinement.
At the opening of today's session, Brig. Gen. E. D. Betts, judge advocate general of the European theater, pledged that the trial of eight enlisted men charged with brutality at Lichfield would be conducted "without prejudice to the defense."
It's Not Such A Cold, Cold World After All,Cripple Finds
Chicago. (UP)—George Barr, Chicago chemical manufacturer, believed today that most people are kind and honest despite a world filled with strife.
To prove his faith was not misplaced, Barr made a $500 investment in human nature. It paid off four to one.
Barr, 34. a cripple, selected the names of 500 persons, most of them from the telephone book and mailed each a $1 bill, enclosing a letter stating that the money was his contribution to the Illinois Association for the Crippled.
"I'm sending these dollars," his letter said, "in the belief that every one will come back, and that each dollar will bring several more with it.
"Remember, both my dollar and your dollar go to help crippled children and adults. Have I made a good really kind realy kind really kind —or tyrally heartless?"
Of the 411 who replied, 339 sent back the dollar with something additional—from $100 to 25 cents, he said. Seventy-two sent back the dollar and 89 so far haven’t sent back anything.
Washington. (UP) — The OPA has removed price controls from perfume and hair beautifying cream but will continue them on lipstick, toothpaste, nail polish and face cream.
Price Lid Off Horse Blankets; OPA Still Sits On Lipstick
The agency also announced that controls would be removed at once. These includes, washing machine covers, flags, fishing lines and coat hanger covers.
The contributions, in addition to Barr's $411, totalled $2,069.50.
O. P.A. said it was lifting controls on such items as perfume because they were "luxuries."
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K.U. Faculty Migrated To Emporia Campus
Emporia became a second K.U. campus this weekend when staff members and students from the University attended meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, and the Kansas section of the Mathematical Association of America with the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics.
Attending the mathematics meeting were:
Lois Harkleroad, Lucy Buess, Florence Richert, June Montgomery, Prof. Florence Black, Prof. Wealthy Babcock, Mrs. Minnie Robertson, Miss Lucy Dougherty, Otho Rasmussen, Prof. Philip O. Bell, Dean Gilbert Ulmer, Prof. H. E. Jordan, Prof. J. J. Wheeler, Dean E. B. Stouffer, Marvin Rolfs, Prof. G. W. Smith, Prof. G. B. Price and Edison Greer, president of the Kansas section.
Representatives of the entomology department at the Kansas Academy of Science meeting included Prof. H. B. Hungerford, Prof. Ray Beamer, Prof. Kathleen Doering, Prof. L. C. Woodruff, Josiah Cox, George Brooks, Leon Hepner, Robert Gunter-ert, Louis Kuitert, William Wellhouse, Edward Todd, Loy Morgan, Wayne Porter, Edwin P. Marks and James Norman.
Those attending from Dyche museum were Prof. E. R. Hall, director; Dr. D. F. Hoffmeister, assistant curator; Claude Hibbard, curator; Russell Kemp; Elmer S. Riggs, honorary curator; and Manuel Maldonado, graduate student.
Prof. R. H. Wheeler, James Coleman, Evan Stevens, Verlyn Norris, Robert Parkinson and George Yeckel represented the psychology department. Dr. Coleman presented a paper "Popular Misconceptions of the College Student."
Cotton Demand Stops Quotas, Allotments
Washington (UP) - The House agriculture committee today approved a bill to forbid establishment of marketing quotas and acreage allotments for cotton in 1947 because of continued heavy demands.
The action was taken on the re- recommendation of a special cotton subcommittee headed by Rep. Stephen Pace, D., Ga.
The committee asked the Agriculture department to hold up preliminary work on the 1947 cotton quota and allotment program until Congress has a chance to act on the measure.
The subcommittee said its recommendation was based on the fact that cotton will be in great need this year and probably next due to growing exports, high domestic consumption and heavy demand for production of fats, oils and protein feeds.
Jap Subs Are Being Sunk By Big Four Powers
Washington. (UP)—Japanese submarines taken by the Allies after the surrender are being sunk without_exception under a four-power agreement, it was learned authoritatively today.
The agreement was reached early last November among the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China.
Apparing in court here in a separation allowance case, he said wife beating "may occasionally have a salutary effect" and added that mental cruelty is "worse than physical cruelty."
Kendal, England. (UP)—Atty E. H. Inman believes that it is all right to beat your wife once in a while
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"You know, one thing the guys overseas caught on to in a hurry was that a buddy's race, religion or ancestry just didn't matter. A bullet coming your way didn't know the difference, and you didn't ask the guy who shared your foxhole where his parents came from or what church he went to back home. He was in there pitching on your team. That was what mattered up front-and it's all that matters back home."
Schoeppel Receives Gift From General Wainwright
From a Philadelphia tobacco dealer with the compliments of the hero of Bataan came a pound of the General's personal blend.
The governor explained that when he acted as Wainwright's host during last year's bond drive here, the two men discussed their mutual interest in pipe and humidor collections.
Topeka, (UP) — Gov. Andrew Schoepel today received a personal gift from General Jonathan Wainwright.
While serving with the army in Japan, Weir decided to invest his $400 savings in air mail stamps because he had no place to bank the money.
Lockport, Ill. (UP)—Robert M. Weir was stuck today with $400 worth of six-cent air mail stamps.
Stuck With Stamps
Yesterday Weir, discharged from the army, went to the post office to cash in his stamps. The clerk said post office regulations forbid the repurchase of postage stamps.
"And who wants to buy $400 worth of 6-cent stamps when airmail stamps are 8 cents now?" asked Weir.
Five species of sturgeon are found in Canadian waters.
Weir tried the treasury department. The treasury said such transactions must be handled by the post office department.
32 Convicts Volunteer in Experiment
San Quentin, Calif. (UP)—Lantz two San Quentin prison convict volunteers today awaited results of an experiment which may help science rid the world of rheumatic fever.
The prisoners, some of whom are serving life terms for murder, offered themselves as "guinea pigs" for injections of whole killed hemolytic steptococcus—the infection which always precedes the dread disease.
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first American woman to receive a medical diploma.
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