University DAILY KANSAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, April 1, 1946
43rd Year No. 112
Lawrence, Kansas
Most Talked Abouture in Years
Senate, Regents Upset Chancellor
K.U.ToGetExtraHolidays Field House,9 a.m.Classes
It was the first time such a step had been taken since Malott's inauguration as chancellor, seven years ago.
Future policies, established by the University governing groups, came as a iolt to the Chancellor.
"Hrumph!" he told the Daily Kansan in a special interview.
"Hrumph": he told the Daily Kansan in a special interview.
"Hrumph": Dean Paul B. Lawson echoed in carefully chosen syllables.
Students hailed the move as indicative of the progress of student government and mature thinking on the part of campus leaders.
"It's about time," the All-Student Council exclaimed at a special meeting called this noon.
Policies outlined by the two governing groups are:
ONE: Classes to begin at 9 a.m. daily to give professors more time to prepare lessons for the increased number of students.
TWO: Two yearly movable holidays, to provide for student "walkout" celebrations after athletic victories.
THREE: Twenty minute breaks between classes, to give students and professors more time to walk the increased distance between buildings brought about by the University's expansion.
FOUR: Student reserved seats for all campus and out-of-town athletic events.
FIVE: Classes excused for weekly pep convocations during football and basketball seasons.
SIX: A new field house, complete with swimming pool, basketball arena to seat 8,000, spacious dressing rooms, club rooms for the K-Club, women's and men's gymnasiums, indoor track, to go into construction immediately.
SEVEN: Athletic scholarships for University men. (This step was highly commended by Dr. F. C. Allen.)
EIGHT: Activity fee reduced to $2 yearly, with same provisions as former book.
NINE: Library open from 1 to 10 p.m. every Sunday.
TEN: A fine for professors lecturing over the whistle, or giving assignments over holidays, with A.S.C. members to serve as Prof Proctors.
ELEVEN: Women's closing hours extended to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights; midnight all other nights.
TWELVE: No general biology requirement for College students.
THIRTEEN: A concert course designed for students to include programs by Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra, and others.
Commenting upon the measures, Daily Kansan executives said, "We agree—today IS April Fool's Day."
Russian Troops Start Evacuation of Iran
Tehran, (UP) — Russian troops are starting to evacuate Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan province and main Red army headquarters in Iran, an official American source said today.
Athens, (UP) — Premier Themistocles Sofouli submitted his government's resignation today when it became evident that the Royalist Populist party would win a majority of the votes cast yesterday in the Greek general election.
Allies Thwart Attempt At New Nazi Group
Frankfurt. (UP) — American and British counter-intelligence agents held 200 suspected "postwar" Nazis for questioning today after a surprise midnight roundup which smashed an attempt to form a new Hitler-type government in Germany.
Aboard USS Goodrich off Sasebe, Japan. (UP) — Twenty-four of Japan's remaining operational submarines were sent to the bottom today in a U.S. navy operation known as "Boad's End."
Sinking of the submarines was part of the Allied plan to destroy Japan's potential war weapons.
Strikes Hit Coal Transit Industries
There was little prospect of a settlement for at least two weeks, when the full force of the coal stoppage will begin to be felt. The White House adopted a hands-off policy, saying that President Truman is leaving the handling of the strike to Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach.
John L. Lewis' United Mine workers began a countrywide strike against the soft coal industry today, threatening an immediate slowdown in steel production and gradual paralysis of the nation's harassed reconversion program.
The strike of the 400,000 miners affecting soft coal production in 26 states began officially at midnight with the expiration of the wage contract between the UMW and the mine operators. The miners follow a traditional policy of "no contract, no work."
Some big steel companies said the strike would force them to begin closing blast furnaces "almost immediately." Others could continue full-scale production for two weeks or so.
(By United Press)
Danforth Chapel Dedication Begins Tonight
Schwellenbach put the problem for the present in the hands of Conciliator Paul W. Fuller, once a coal miner and later a representative of the miner's union.
Meanwhile, in Detroit, public transportation facilities were paralyzed today as more than 5,000 AFL streetcar and bus operators struck to back demands for a wage increase.
Formal dedication activities of Danforth chapel will begin tonight with a reception in honor of the principal donors at the chancellor's residence.
Pres. Kenneth I. Brown of Denison university, Granville, Ohio, will address an all-student convocation on "The Ensign Said, Take Good Care of Life," at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel will give the greeting at the convocation and the A Cappella choir will sing "Credo" by Gretchaninoff, with Imogen Billings singing a soprano solo.
A service will be held at the chapel before the convocation to which principal donors and other guests, including about 30 students, have been invited. The Student Religious council is sponsoring a luncheon in the English room of the Union, and a reception for Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth of St. Louis will be held in the Kansas room from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Poindexter, donors of the painting "Christ at Gethsemane" for the chapel, will be guests of Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott during their stay. Mr. and Mrs. Danforth are guests of Dean and Mrs. Paul B. Lawson.
The class schedule for tomorrow is as follows:
8:30 classes----8:30-9.
8:30 classes - 8:30-9.
9:30 classes - 9:30-10.
9:30 classes - 9:50-10:20.
Convocation — 10:30-11:40.
11:30 classes — 11:50-12:20.
Peace Meet Prospers At Kansas State
Manhattan. (Special) — The International Security Assembly, a "peace conference" modeled after the United Nations Organization, will hold its second general meeting at Kansas State college, April 9.
Atom bomb control, sovereignty versus world organization, universal language, and international airways will be the chief topics of discussion. Judge Hugo T. Wedell will be the guest presiding officer, and Gov. Andrew Schoppel will speak. Delegates from high schools and colleges over Kansas will be guests.
From a planning committee of 11 students, organization of the ISA was started a year ago to create student interest in national and international affairs.
"We don't wait for the UNO to make decisions, but run our organization as we would run the UNO," Lois Meisner, student chairman, said.
Each of the 30 organized houses chose a country, important in world affairs. Large dormitories were given the larger, more influential nations. Each house chose a chairman, secretary, librarian, and faculty sponsor.
Coincidentally the first organization meeting which the ISA planned fell upon VE day.
"This gave us a rousing start, and created much student interest," Miss Meisner said.
Members of the committee wrote embassies to get all of the pamphlets and books possible about the countries and their problems.
"As a student project, the ISA has been quite successful—students will lose interest as they become more complacent, but the project will continue into next fall," Miss Meisner told the Daily Kansan.
With the fall semester came renewed student interest in the project. Representatives from foreign embassies were invited to speak at Kansas State. Included were representatives from Great Britain, Sweden, Russia, and the Dominion of South Africa. Colored films, showing cultural and historical aspects of the countries, were shown once a week.
'Further Retaliation Would Be Childish'
Lawyers Ask Truce After Kidnapping 'Hop' Queens
The campus was back to more of its pre-war "normal" today-with the engineer-lawyer feud topping the list of recent peacetime "comebacks."
Developments in the wrangle went like this during the weekend:
ONE. The lawyers kidnapped 11 of the 15 candidates for "Hobnail Hop" queen Saturday afternoon.
TWO. The engineers had a queen anyway—Barbara Neeley.
THREE. The lawyers took the "kidnappees" to a dinner and a dance, and claimed "they had more fun than they would have had at the engineer dance, anyway."
FOUR. The Engineers, most of whom thought "it's good to see a little life in the lawyers," accused the lawyers of stealing the queen ballot box, along with the prospective queens.
Glad to See Some Life In Law School Engineers Declare
The lawyers today denied that charge, and came up with an offer of a truce, "now that we've evened up the painting of Jimmy Green." Detailed comments from the two sides were as follows:
Disappointed as they were at the Hobnail Hop Saturday night, some of the campus engineers were willing to chuckle today over the kidnapping of their queen candidates.
"I'm glad to see a little life in the Law school after all these years," Lichty grinned.
Engineering Council Pres. Frank Lichty recalled that he sat at his hotel room window Satur-day afternoon, and watched the coeds being kidnapped, as they streamed into a photography studio across the street. He never guessed the lawyers were "ambushing" the girls there.
Robert Kunkle, another Engineering council member, wasn't so happy
University authorities said "no punishment" would be the rule for the participants in the abduction.
Dean Henry Werner allowed "it's something for the dean of women to consider."
"If the laws count the ballots, and their results don't tally with ours, let 'em crown their own queen," he declared.
And Dean Elizabeth Meguiar added "I'm not going to do anything about it—the girls were out after closing hours, but it was somewhat unwillingly."
'Bitter Bird' In Initial Landing
The Bitter Bird has 44 pages of stories, articles, poems, cartoons, and photographs of campus scenes. Its next issue will be published the first of June, Herriott said.
University Glee Clubs Present Concert Tonight
Orville Roberts, College senior, and Jean Moore, College junior, won two out of three events in the Missouri Valley Forensic League contest held last week at Austin, Texas.
Jane Gillespie, Pi Phi and a senior in psychology, won the "Alluring She" contest; and George Gear, Phi Psi, freshman engineer. and letterman on the football and basketball varsity teams, was elected the "Fascinating He."Pictures of the winners are shown on the two center pages.
Firemen extinguished a blaze behind Hillercrest house at 1:20 today. The fire started in a pile of lumber in the backyard, but no damage was done to the house.
The University men's and women's glee clubs will present their first joint concert in three years at 8 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Now We're Even For Jimmy Green, Lawyers Answer
A war casualty, the men's group was reorganized last semester and composes about half of the 120 voices in the combined groups.
The first issue of the Bitter Bird, campus humor magazine edited by Terry Herriott, went on sale today in the Union, Frank Strong hall and Fraser hall.
Hillcrest Has Fire
A lawyer "committee," in a letter to the Daily Kansan today, pointed out that "we feel we are far from even for all we have suffered for three years, but we are willing to call a truce" with the engineers.
The letter pointed out that "due to depleted forces," the lawyers have been forced "to accept whatever the war was prepared to do" during the war years.
"Any further retaliation would be childish," the lawyers said.
I think they had a better time when they would have at the ball, he added.
Graduate Lawyer Maloolim Black. declared "most of the girls were good sports" after they were lured into a bus for a picture Saturday, then driven away from Lawrence.
Roberts, Moore Win At Speech Meet
A crowning touch to the abduction was the presence of Ruth Green. Miller hall candidate for queen. She didn't get to the dance—and she's an engineer herself.
The lawyers reported they informed housemothers of the candidates of the coed's safety, and telephoned them long distance when they learned the women wouldn't be home by regular closing hours. Most of the coeds were back home by 1:30 a.m. Saturday after dinner and dancing with about 15 lawyers.
Roberts placed first in debate competition on the subject "American Politics" more won first with the book "The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse."
In the past 12 years, the University has placed first six times in oratory and five times in extemporaneous speaking. Roberts won the oratory competition last year, and Moore took first in extemporaneous speech.
Eleven other schools are members of the forensic league: Louisiana State, Texas, Arkansas, Washington of St. Louis, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa State, South Dakota, Creighton, Wichita, and Kansas State.
The debate team, consisting of Moore, Roberts, James Crook, business junior, and Robert McKay, graduate student, placed fourth with the subject, "Resolved that Congress should enact legislation for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes."
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair and continued warm except slightly cooler extreme west in afternoon, high 80 in northwest to 90 in east and south today; tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler.