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University DAILY KANSAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, March 1, 1946
43rd Year No. 91
Lawrence, Kansas
Big Four Poised To Unseat Franco
Paris, (UP)—Spain was officially sealed off by land from the European mainland today amid continent-wide protests against the Franco regime.
In Madrid, General Francisco Franco and his cabinet will meet tonight to consider counter-measures against France for closing the French-Spanish frontier, reliable sources said.
Meanwhile in Washington the big four powers appeared determined today to take all steps—short of direct intervention within Spain—to unseat the Franco regime.
Nebraska Considers K-State President
Buenos Aires. (UP) - Col. Juan D. Peron led Dr. Jose Tamborini for the 68 crucial Buenos Aires electoral votes today and maintained a small nationwide lead in the presidential election returns.
Lincoln, Neb. (UP)—Speculation over naming a new chancellor at the University of Nebraska today centered around Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Kansas State college, Manhattan.
University regents said no candidates have been approached to fill the position vacated by the resignation of Dr. Chauncey Samuel Boucher.
Those in favor of Eisenhower's appointment said that as a midwester and brother of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, he would win immediate popular approval.
Norman, Okla. (UP)—Revival of an outlawed secret society among University of Oklahoma students—the D.D.M.C.-was indicated today but school officials withheld comment temporarily on the fiery cross erected by the group on the campus last night.
The blazing cross, seen by 5,000 basketball fans leaving the fieldhouse last night after the Oklahoma-Kansas game, was the first incident attributed to the D.D.M.C. since the late 1930's.
D. D.M.C.—believed to stand for Deep Dark Mystery club—was banned by the University regents after a series of hazing incidents in 1836 and 1937.
Hollywood. (UP)—Movie commentator Jimmie Fidler faced a million-dollar libel and slander suit today for allegedly referring to the movie "scarlet street" as immoral and censor-baiting.
Rail Strike Threatens; GM Nears Settlement
(By United Press)
Negotiations were resumed at Detroit in the 101-day walkout of 175,000 CIO United Auto Workers after an unprecedented past-midnight session. It was reported that only a few minor issues blocked settlement.
The General Motors strike, one of the most costly in U.S. labor history, threat of a nationwide railroad tieappeared near an end today but the up increased.
From Cleveland came a renewed threat of a strike by 390,000 members of two railroad brotherhoods, which would stop trains on 300 main lines.
President A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, said a strike date would be set March 6 unless there was a settlement of the dispute, involving changes in operational rules and a 25 per cent wage increase asked by trainmen and locomotive engineers.
Cagers Await Decision on Play-off
'Rock Chalk Croak Phog' Doesn't Daunt Our Famed Cage Mentor
DR. FORREST C. "PHOG" ALLEN
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You'd think he had never been there before by the ring of his enthusiasm, but the 1946 basketball pennant his husky club wrapped up this week was Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's 27th championship
His Big Six teams have finished below second only three times. From 1922 through 1927, his red and blue five snagged six consecutive Missouri Valley crowns. At Warrensburg Teachers, where he prepped before coming to Kansas for the second time in 1920, his clubs won seven straight flags. He opened his career with two sucessive championships in 1908 and 1909.
The veteran tutor's Jayhawkers, riveted on experience, weight and speed, settled the issue here Monday by clubbing Iowa State, 69-41. They added a formal touch Thursday night in whipping Oklahoma at Norman in the season's finale. playing the same annulil
While the game has changed from the era of the zone defense and bargain counter scores, the standing guard, elimination of the center jump, and the current fast-break craze, Allen's clubs have kept on
How the Phogger, who turned 60 last November, still can turn on champions like Fords on an assembly line continues to fascinate the roundball world.
This year's title made the 12th Big Six crown Allen and his neverending stream of battling, talented kids have snared. Eight of these flags, including this year's, were undisputed, giving K.U. a record of twice as many unshared banners as the remainder of the conference clubs combined.
He has been shelled by apple cores at Nebraska, taunted by signs of "Rock Chalk Croak Phog PU" at Iowa State and ridden with the cry of "Where's Junior" when the tide of battle turned against one of his basketball sons, Bob or Mitt.
Oklahoma bagged the 1929 flag, Missouri the 1930 title, and Iowa State the 1935 and 1945 gonfalons. K.U. was lone ruler in '31, '32, '33, '34, '36, 38, and '43 before the present title. The Hawkers were co-champs in 1937, 1940, 1941, and 1942.
Allen has lived through every storm, converting the non-believers, and blasting aside every bar of opposition.
But the tireless tactician sheds the howling like Ray Evans shakes off opposing rebounders. He lets his team do the talking, and the record speaks for itself. This year's club dropped only one verdict in a barbed-wire program of 20 games.
K. U. teams are fast breaking these days in a manner that might stun some of the old Missouri Valley aces. But they still operate off the same sound fundamentals that have characterized Allen units from the start.
That is the secret of the doctor's success.
He assumes an incoming prospect knows little or nothing when he arrives at Robinson gym and brings the lad down to earth immediately with stringent application of fundamentals. Kansas clubs shoot, pass, dribble and pivot from the first day of practice until the last. They may be beaten occasionally but they're never accused of sloppy execution.
Mantled with sound fundamentals. Allen's teams adapt their system of play according to the weakness and strength of the foe.
Although basketball is his first love, Allen's appetite for activity can't stand a one-track gear.
He is president of the Lawrence Country club, president of the civic action council, councilmarr from the first ward, secretary of selective service board No. 1 of Douglas county, governor district 123, Rotary International, member of the executive board, member of the aviation chairman of the K.U. Red Cross and polio drives, chairman of the Douglas county cancer drive for the coming year, and head of the physical education department.
Football Players Meet New Coach Mondav
Deadline for entries in the Jay-sawker beauty queen contest is 4:30
am. Monday, Hanna Hedrick, editor,
said today.
Football players will meet the new backfield coach, "Vie" Bradford, at a skull practice at a skull practice, at 7:15 p.m., Monday, room 202 Robinson, Coach George Sauer said today.
Beauty Queen Deadline
Aggie Reply to N.C.A.A. Bid Due Tomorrow; 'We Aren't Afraid of Them,' Allen Declares
After ending their third undefeated Big Six cage season, the Kansas Jayhawkers were back home this afternoon, awaiting word from Coach Henry Iba and his Oklahoma A. and M. Cowboys, concerning the N.C.A.A. proposal for a playoff between the two teams.
Pending a meeting of the A. & M. athletic cabinet tomorrow, Iba had nothing to say about the proposed meeting. When told that Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, Kansas coach, had commented that he was not afraid of him, Iba grinned, "That sounds like Phog."
Allen, in an exclusive statement to the Daily Kansan today, accepted the invitation with the Aggies.
"We will meet Iba any day in the week except Sunday," Allen said.
The decision to call for a play-off game to determine which team would represent District 5 in the N.C.A.A. westerns in Kansas City this month was announced by George Edwards, selection committee chairman.
"We have no reason to fear the Aggies," Allen told the Daily Kansan in an interview earlier this week, "and we would welcome a chance to meet them again."
"We can measure up to them in every way," he added.
If both teams accept the invitation, a block of seats will be reserved for students, Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, said today.
No date or place has been set for the game, Edwards said, adding that Kansas City's municipal auditorium is unavailable.
Quintet Squeezes By O.U. But Black Misses Record
By DON PIERCE (K.U. Sports Publicist)
Oklahoma City. (Special)—The Kansas Jayhawkers pulled out of the Soonerland capital this morning with their third undefeated basketball championship in Big Six history and a one-way ticket into an NCAA fifth district playoff against the Oklahoma Aggies.
Iba could not be reached for comment after the game, which he watched from a spot halfway up in the floor bleachers smack on the mid-floor stripe.
Adding a 52-45 triumph over Oklahoma's tough Sooners in Norman Thursday night to their 69-41 title clincher over Iowa State last Monday in Lawrence, Phog Allen's Hawkers earned their first NCAA bid since 1943. critical six minutes, Drake's bat tling gang turned in
hitched scribe.
KU's triumph was the third over OU this season. It also moved the 1946 edition of the Jayhawkers into the same select class with the unbeaten champs of '43, '36 and '23. Oklahma is the only other Big Six club to vault to an unblemished championship, sweeping the honour in 1929.
There was much speculation here as to whether KU even would get a chance to meet its arch intradistrict rival despite the official invitation from George Edwards, fifth district committee chairman. Reliable sources persisted before the game that Hank Ibak, iron tutor of the national champion Cowboys, would not be inveigled into a playoff and would look toward New York and the Madison Square Garden invitational tournament if asked to joust with the Jayhawks.
All of them took turns punishing the hustling Sooners off the glass backboards, and jammed home 39 of their club's points. Big Charlie, all-around bulwark all season, missed his bid for a new seasonal scoring record by a scant three points. But it was his six quick points at the tag end of the furious tussle that broke the Sooner's back.
Ruddered by Dick Reich, their bulky 200-pound center, who held Black to eight tallies until the final
Allen had only praise for both sides. "Those Sooners pushed us all the way, but our better condition paid off," he said immediately after the game, "That was the only difference I could see between the two teams."
Fired by the between halves dressing room announcement from Allen that winning meant, a playoff bid, Kansas called upon a stellar clutch performance from Charlie Black to overcome its toughest test of the year.
The contest is a show for this trio of champions coming back after lengthy stints in the service to take up where they left off in 1943.
critical six minutes. Drake's battling gang turned the contest into a tense struggle all the way. The Redlegs bagged momentary leads of 11-10 and 40-39 and earned a 28-28 tie at one juncture, but could not keep their defensive toils wrapped around Black, Otto Schnellbacher and Ray Evans.
His 14 tallies hiked his total for the season to 173—an average of 173 points per conference game—two markers behind Gerald Tucker's all-time mark, but his trio of crucial goals were more precious than any record. With his mates leading only 41-40, Black tipped in Wendell Clark's missed free throw, then cancelled Paul Courty's short left hand push with a wheeling right hander off the post to give KU a last two minutes with a miraculous
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WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy, cooler, and windy today and tomorrow. High temperatures today in low 50's. Low tonight in upper 20's. High tomorrow in upper 40'.