12.1946
University DAILY KANSAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, April 15, 1946
43rd Year No 122
Lawrence, Kansas
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tenus Had Nothing on This Coed
One arm in a sling is bad enough, but Mary Jean Monroe still can laugh with life with both her arms in slings.
Miss Monroe, College sophomore from Fleming, Colo., broke an elbow and a wrist while attempting some trick riding in a University equitation class. The accident happened March 27, but she has been attending class the past two weeks.
Main trouble now is that she can't feed herself. The only book she can carry is her Spanish text—"because it will fit in my sling," she explained.
"My friends have been nice about helping me study and eat," the coed declared, "but I still can't do any of my written assignments."
She gets to about four hours of lectures a day, and the doctors at Watkins Memorial hospital, where she's been staying, predict the casts can come off in about two months-just in time for the end of the semester. (Daily Kansan photo by Ralph Andrea).
No Coal Settlement; Sugar Strike Averted
(By United Press)
The coal mine strike entered its third week in a deadlock today, but two east coast sugar refining firms agreed to wage settlements to end a brief strike of about 4,500 employees at six plants averting a serious disruption of sugar production.
Moscow. (UP)—Soviet Russia was assured today of a steady flow of essential raw materials as the result of new trade agreements with her Eastern European allies and special treaties with some of her former enemies.
Houston, Tex., (UP)—Houston's housing Week" today was posted for two weeks, the chairman
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Uniang Intervenes In Political Crisis
Chungking. (UP) - Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek intervened directly today in the Nationalist-Communist political crisis as 30,000 Communist troops, were reported besieging a small Nationalist garrison at Changchun, capital of Manchuria.
Chinese quarters said that if the move succeeded it might relax conflict in Manchuria which is rapidly assuming the aspects of full-fledged civil war.
Iran Withdraws From UN Dispute
The council starts a difficult week with the showdown with the Russians on Iran already overshadowed by the preliminary diplomatic maneuvering over Franco Spain. During the "cooling off" recess of nearly a week there has been an intensive buildup for a crucial test later this week over Poland's charges against Franco Spain.
New York (UP) — Iran's decision to withdraw its formal charges against Russia failed today to alter the determination on most United Nations Security council members to keep the Iranian case on the agenda until May 6, the date Russia has promised to get out of Iran.
Iran's last-minute decision to support the Soviet demand for immediate dropping of the Iranian case promised another bitter debate and another Big Three split when the council meets this afternoon.
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala declines to comment on his new instructions.
After all these years, we find the ally Kansas isn't a "news" pap. after all. Or so someone said at the Solidarity conference. Page 8.
Student political leaders would help by remaining active all year, not just at election time, a Kansas Open Letter points out. Page 2.
On The Inside
There'll be 35 teams in the Kansas Relays, despite the wartime lapse. Page 6.
It's tough being to touch, the campus cop says, and we just can't do it all the time. Page 3.
That new play is a madhouse, as rehearsals clearly show. Page 5.
U.S. Has Only 'Second-Rate' Scientists On Atomic Research, Urey Declares
Let Civilians Control A-Bomb, He Asks
A limited world government with world control of atomic energy under the United Nations, is the only solution to the atomic bomb problem. Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel prize winner and member of the University of Chicago faculty, told a Hoch auditorium convocation this morning.
George Caldwell, chairman of Forums board, which sponsored the convoction, on "Atomic Energy, Master or Servant," introduced Chancellor Deane W. Malott, who introduced Dr. Urey.
"We have three alternatives in dealing with the atomic bomb," Dr. Urey said.
The first is to do nothing, and let the world drift on, producing World War III in 25 years or less. In five years, other countries will acquire the same facilities we have. Imagine the situation if a small controversy should arise, such as those we have had with Russia in the past few weeks. We all would live in a constant state of tension and fear.
"The second solution." Dr. Urey continued, "is immediate attack, while only we have the bombs and facilities for making them. But then what? The United States would have to become another Rome, ruling the world by force for many decades, until the hatred our attack had instilled had been forgotten."
The only solution which the scientists who developed atomic energy favor, Dr. Urey said, is world control of the atomic bomb, and world control of war.
Mrs. Martha Truman Here for Wedding
The atomic bomb has made the world into two political units, the United States and Russia, with their friends and satellites, he said.
Mrs. Martha Truman, 93-year-old mother of the president of the United States, celebrated the anniversary of her son's first year in office Friday by attending the wedding, in Myers hall, of Miss LuEllen Hall, a family friend, and Henry Pauspin, engineering student.
"Don't put anything in the paper about me," she said. "Tell them about that beautiful bride."
When someone suggested that she be carried upstairs in a chair, to the wedding reception, she declared, "I don't need any chair," and proved it, going upstairs aled only by a white bamboo cane.
Dr. Urey will be in the men's lounge of the Union building at 4:30 today to answer student's questions on matters of atomic interest. The meeting, sponsored by the Forum board, is open to the public.
"The long-term solution we must work for is a world government with legislative, judicial, and executive powers, which it draws from the people, not from the nation-states.
The scientists who developed the atomic bomb regret its use as a weapon, but have a real pride of accomplishment in having understood another field of nature and nature's laws. Dr. Urey said.
Wearing a perky blue straw hat with three big white gardenias and a blue veil, Mrs. Truman kissed the bride and groom, met old friends, and enjoyed punch and wedding cake. Her daughter, Miss Mary Truman, who played the wedding music, sat beside her, introducing guests to her, and seeing that they did not tire her.
Nickels Recital Tonight
Arleene Nickels, soprano from the studio of Miss Meribah Moore, will give her senior recital at 8 tonight in Frank Strong auditorium. Her accompanist will be Marjean Carr.
'Other Nations Have Top Men on Job, But Best Americans Aren't With Government'.
The United States is working on atomic research "without even a good skeleton crew," while other nations are assigning their top scientists to the job. Dr. Harold C. Urey, key figure in the wartime development of the atomic bomb, told the Daily Kansan today.
The University of Chicago professor was on the campus for a convoca-
Campbell Elected Relays Queen
Carolyn Campbell, Fine Arts sephomore, will reign as Queen of the 21st annual Kansas Relays, Saturday. Miss Campbell is a member of Pi Beta Phi from Kansas City, Mo.
As queen, Miss Campbell will be presented to Relays officials, visiting dignitaries, and spectators, and will have her regal serenity heckled by photographers' flash bulbs.
The Relays royalty were selected by the University of Iowa track squad from 23 photographs.
The queen's attendants will be Georgia Lee Westmoreland, Delta Gamma, and Jeanne Gorbutt, Gamma Phi Beta. Miss Westmoreland is a sophomore in the School of Education, from Kansas City, Mo. Miss Gorbutt is a College sophomore from Topeka.
Miss Campbell will serve as the first Relays queen since 1942. The Relays became a war casualty for three years after the 1942 carnival.
Virginia McGill reigned as the last Relays queen, and her escorts were Gloria Brinkman, Chi Omega, and Mary McCleary, Delta Gamma. They were picked by the University of Minnesota track team.
New Kansas Engineer Staff Announced
The Kansas Engineer staff for 1946-47 has been appointed by the Engineering student council. The appointees, who will take over with the next issue, are Robert Kunkle, junior, editor; John Thiele, sophomore, and Morris Borene, freshman, assistant editors; Barbara Hume, College freshman, business manager; Harold Vagtborg, freshman, advertising manager; and Joann Ruese, sophomore, circulation manager.
The following members of the outgoing staff were awarded Kansas Engineer keys in recognition of their services: Richard Nelson, senior; William Andrews, senior; Betty Jennings, College senior and Frank Darden, junior.
Urey said most of America's top-tight atom scientists weren't working for the government now. They are pulling for the support of the McMahon bill to put atomic energy under civilian control, he said.
"What the government has left is a crew of fairly competent men—second-raters but still pretty good—who are working on atomic energy, but certainly not looking into any more of the atom bomb's secrets," he said.
Urey said establishment of civilian control of atomic energy with "a good five-man civilian commission in charge" should help direct America and the world away from another war.
"That is," he added, "unless Mr. Truman lets Groves (Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, wartime military head of the atomic work) have his finger in the pie. Groves is a completely impossible man to work with, and if he gets in, even as a retired military man, then the top scientists of the country will have nothing to do with him.
"Good men simply won't work on the atom bomb the way the army wants them to," he continued. "At least a civilian commission wouldn't throw out a competent scientist just because it didn't like him, which is what the military did."
Urey predicted that atom research would be directed "toward developing weapons more deadly than the original A-bomb if there is the slightest indication that we are heading toward a third war.
"The world will be on that warpath again if we don't establish adequate control of atomic energy within five years," he said.
Secrets of the atom bomb aren't even "scientifically interesting." Urey said. "This is one place where even a Mata Hari can't help spy—a good figure isn't any assistance when it comes to understanding voluminous scientific reports."
Urey foresaw a "working world government by the end of the century" as an outgrowth of the atomic bomb. That government, he said, "might work out of current international peace efforts, or it might have to be helped along by a third world war."
WEATHER
Kansas—Cloudy with rain today.
Tonight partly cloudy except cloudy with rain southeast and extreme south. Fair Tuesday. Cooler today and southeast quarter tonight.
Beautiful Girls Don't Go to College, Showman Billy Rose Maintains
New York, (UP)—“With very few exceptions, beautiful girls don't go to college,” Billy Rose, New York showman, declared today.
"Judging beauty is an important part of my business." Rose said. $^{b}$ This year I've waded through pictures of hundreds, possibly thousands, of college girls trying to find the prettiest for their class magazines.
"I start out anxious to find some fresh beauty, a fascinating face, a pretty pair of legs, a gorgeous figure. But I'm convinced that with very few exceptions, beautiful girls don't go to college.
"It seems to me that when a girl
realizes she has a gorgeous figure she figures she doesn't have to fool around with higher figures. When a girl is beautiful she either marries, goes into show business or becomes a model. She doesn't go to college."
Rose said he certainly had nothing against college girls. He just prefers a brains and beauty combo. Such a girl can come to him dripping with degrees and he'll be only too glad to hire her. After all, the publicity wouldn't be bad, would it?
"As a matter of fact, I wouldn't hire a showgirl for the Diamond Horseshoe unless she had a fair amount of gray matter," he said. "But being brainy doesn't necessarily mean a college education."