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11, 1946
Friday, April 12. 1946
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
43rd Year No.121
Lawrence, Kansas
Spain Demands Proof Of Polish UN Charges
Madrid. (UP)—Official Spanish circles challenged Polish Ambassador Oscar Lange today to prove his UN charges, which they called absurd, that German scientists are working in Spain on new forms of warfare.
An autoritative source said that Spain will refuse to recognize the legality of any measure the UN may take against the Franco regime.
Atom Scientists Renew World-Control Plea
Washington. (UP)—The car-hungry public was told today that OPA ceiling prices on four 1946 model General Motors automobiles would range from $66 to $417 higher than in 1942.
Washington. (UP)The men who made the atom bomb today renewed demands for world control of their dread brain-child.
"Irreplacable time is ticking away" and the world is threatened with a perpetual war of nerves, they declared.
The scientists said other nations could develop the bomb in three to eight years and warned that an unrestrained arms race would lead undoubtedly to an atomic war of unpredictable destruction.
Washington. (UP)—The government relaxed its restrictive emergency housing order today to permit many groups of non-verans to construct new homes or other essential building.
The Civilian Production administration and the National Housing agency said priorities assistance would be granted to servicemen, veterans' widows, farmers, and other special groups.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman said today that he has been assured that the scheduled target dates will be met in the Bikini atom bomb tests, which he characterized as "of vital importance" to the national defense.
(By United Press)
Efforts to reopen negotiations in the soft coal strike failed today, and new labor troubles were brewing for the nation's railroads as a spokesman for 1,200,000 members of non-operating railroad brothers said the unions are preparing to serve new demands for a wage increase.
Communists Attack Manchurian Railroad
Chungking. (UP)—Nationalist reports said today that Chinese Communists have thrown 30,000 troops into attacks against the Peiping-Mukden railroad as part of a synchronized campaign against Manchurian rail communications.
Reykjavik, Iceland. (UP) — A Communist campaign to get the approximately 1,000 remaining American troops out of Iceland today failed to draw from the Icelandic government any indication whether it intends to grant the United States post bases.
Tokyo. (UP)—Allied sources indicated satisfaction today with the first free election in Japan's history as official and semi-official tabulations of 30,000,000 votes continued to roll up a sizeable majority for four conservative parties.
Washington. (UP)—The State department has made it clear that it "has no information" that German-owned factories in Spain are engaged in atomic research.
Little Man On Campus
"You're right. Meg. he was a fresh man."
F.D.R. Home 'Given' To U.S.
Hyde Park, N.Y. (UP)—Leaders of the nation joined the country folk of Dutchess county today in tribute to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
One year ago today, "the boss" died in a little cottage at Warm Springs, Ga., where he had gone in an effort to throw off a haunting weariness.
This afternoon, on the porch of the late president's graceful home high on the banks of the Hudson, President Truman pledged his administration to a continuing fight for the foreign and domestic policies of his predecessor.
Donald Ivan Kane, Fine Arts sophomore, has won a $15 award for his design of a bookplate for the Danforth Chapel hymnals.
The Missourian who was projected into the nation's highest office a year ago, endorsed its entirety his former chieftain's program.
"In the aftermath of a global war, the overall task is difficult. But it can be simply stated: it is to carry forward the underlying principles and policies, foreign and domestic, of Franklin D. Roosevelt."
The formalities today consisted of turning over the late president's home to the government. The sprawling house where he lived as a boy now becomes the property of the Interior department.
Junior and senior classes in commercial art submitted designs to the contest. The hymns for the chapel have already been ordered, according to Marjorie Whitney, design department. Kane held the rating of AEM 2/c while in the navy.
The radio hook-up today was one of the most elaborate in broadcasting history. The ceremonies will be around the world in 23 languages.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late president, conveyed the ancestral estate of the Roosevelts to the national government, and Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug formally accepted it.
Fine Arts Sophomore Wins
Danforth Bookplate Award
It will be a national historic site open to the public.
Student-Faculty Meet Tomorrow
"Education for Responsible Living in an Age fo Crisis" is the topic of discussion for the second student-faculty solidarity conference sponsored by Mortar Board and Sachem at the Lawrence Country club to-morrow.
The purpose of the meeting, sponsors explained, is to examine the purposes of liberal education, to measure the degree to which K.U. is achieving these ends, and to chart the steps which lie ahead in developing a more mature, responsible college community.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, 17 faculty members, and 58 students attending the conference will meet at 8 a.m. in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall to go to the Country club.
Marjorie Free, chairman of the committee on counseling, will speak on "The Counselling System." "Campus Governing Bodies" will be discussed by Mary Wisner, and Rosalie Erwin will discuss "Curriculum Changes."
The program for the day will include speeches by Wendell Nickell on "Obtectives of a Liberal Education," and Hildreth Stong, on "Activities."
James Case was elected president of the Snow Zoology club at it initiation dinner held last night.
James Case to Head Snow Zoology Club
Other officers chosen were Mary Maxine Smyth, vice president; Marilyn Nigg, secretary; and Arthur Chapman, treasurer. The retiring president is Muriel Stember.
An evaluation of the conference will complete the university.
New initiates of the club are Arthur Chapman, Helen Jones, Helen Lucas, John Mansfield, Joao Mooijin, Anna Lee Murphy, Marilyn Nigg, Owen Peck, Betty Ann Sandwell, O. Dale Smith David Stockwell, Jane Wegert, Benjamin Weybraw, and Ruth Williams.
Louis Kuitert spoke on malaria control along the Leio road using illustrative slides of the raad.
Malott Slaps Congress For Mixup In Student Housing
Chicago. (UP)—Deane W. Malott, chancellor of the University of Kansas, said today that congress has made available "nearly free" education for more than 10 million returning veterans with no conception of the resultant strain on college facilities and no adequate means of aid.
Urey To Speak Here Monday
Dr. Harold C. Urey, atomic scientist from the University of Chicago, will speak at an all-University convocation at 10 a.m. Monday, in Hoch auditorium, on "Atomic Energy: Master or Servant." The convocation will be sponsored by the Forums board.
Monday morning's schedule is as follows:
8:30 classes 8:30-9:05
9:30 classes 9:15-9:50
Convocation 10:00-10:50
10:30 classes 11:00-11:35
11:30 classes 11:45-12:20
Dr. Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of heavy hydrogen. He became a member of the Uranium committee in June, 1940, and from that time directed the work on the separation of U-235 by the centrifugal and gaseous diffusion method at Columbia university. He is now in the research institute at the University of Chicago.
"We had no idea what Harold was working on during the war," Miss Daum said, "but we did know that it was something to end all wars."
Dr. Urey will arrive in Lawren Saturday night, according to Miss Bessie Daum. 18, his sister-in-law, assistant librarian in the Lawrence public library. Dr. Urey and Frieda Daum were married here in Miss Bessie Daum's home, 1801 Mississippi street, in 1926.
Dr. Urey, former chairman of the chemistry department at Columbia university on the Willard Gibbs medal awarded by the Chicago section of the American Chemistry society in 1934.
Engine Seniors Interviewed
By Aircraft Representative
Frank Coe, engineering personnel manager of an aircraft company in Stratford. Conn., interviewed graduating seniors in aeronautical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering yesterday.
Mr. Coe stated that the shortage of aeronautical engineers is greater than before the end of the war. He said that it will be at least six years before the supply of engineers is able to take care of the large demand.
Lilyan Warner New President Of Physiotherapy Group
Miss Lilyan Warner, physical therapist at Watkins hospital and instructor of physical therapy of the School of Medicine, has been elected president of the newly organized Kansas chapter of the American Physiotherapy association.
Miss Warner came to the University January 1, after spending three and one-half years in the Physical Therapy corps of the army, two years of which were spent in overseas duty.
5,400 Feet of Pipes For Sunnyside Unit
The 5,400 feet of pipes which are lying on the slope south of the campus are part of the preliminary work being done on the new Sunnside unit, which will house 900 students next fall.
The largest of the structures, Mr. Beal said, will be a six-family unit, 100 feet long and almost 26 feet wide, with two bedrooms and front and rear porches.
Addressing a national conference on the education of veterans in colleges and universities sponsored by the National Education association, Malotl said that instead of attacking the problem with the same energy and resources that created war plants, "the national housing activities merely have pecked at the problem.
"Most educational institutions report record-breaking enrollments, the tide of applications still rises, and there is discussion that the educational facilities will break down, that the G.I. bill was fabricated by educators, and now they can't handle the job. Some Washington politicians are thus running for cover, at the gargantua which, in their generosity and gratitude to 10 million or so soldiers, they created with little help or advice from the educational institutions."
He praised education for meeting the emergency by providing credit for military service, short courses, refreshers, and in general, by doing all that could be done in the face of an "enormous" amount of "red-tape" and a "disheartening conflict of authorities."
"If the whole story could be told of the activities, imagination, and ingenuity of the colleges and universities, it would be an epic of history in the life of our nation," he declared.
Malott said that the University of Kansas is spending nearly $200,000 this year in emergency housing, and eating facilities—housing under the Stadium, in one whole floor of the art museum, and parts of "an already crowded gymnasium."
"In the last analysis, housing would appear to be the limiting factor," he revealed, "housing for students—both veterans and others, housing for faculty, and in some instances housing for educational and training facilities. There is no overall attack on the problem. A central core of understanding and interest is required."
"Wartime housing is being sliced up like a jelly roll and moved to campuses, again as a token of help, if the university installs the utilities and grades the land—engaging in expenditures of educational funds to the extent of many thousands of dollars."
Malott said the problem must be attacked "with promptness and vigor." He recommended first an over-all factual appraisal of the nature and extent of the problem, leading to a tabulation of the service personnel to be released by next September, the number wanting further education and the schools they want to attend.
"One way or another we have extended our facilities to care for 800 married students, and more than 1200 single men and women. And still the applications come in from five to 25 a day," he declared.
'Big Name' Band For K-Club Dance
A "big-name" band will play for the K-Club Varsity, May 11, Harold Hunter, Varsity dance manager, announced today.
Bands being considered are those of Jimmie Lunceford, Boyd Raeburn, and Horace Heidt under the direction of "Shorty" Sherock, Hunter said.
"We expect to have one of these bands signed by sometime next week," Hunter added.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today, tonight and Saturday. Warmer today and in east half tonight and Saturday. Low tonight. 40 to 45.