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Friday, February 22, 1946
43rd Year No. 86
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Chinese Blame F.D.R. For Yalta Agreement
Chungking. (UP)—Thousands of Chinese students, led by professors, Gold anti-Russian and anti-communist demonstrations today while newspapers carried the texts of a protest signed by 20 educators condemning the Yalta agreement and blaming the late President Roosevelt.
The educators' protest called the Yalta agreement a "black spot in modern diplomatic history endangering future world peace."
"We can not forgive the late President Roosevelt for signing this agreement despite all his kind help toward China and his great efforts in the war against the Axis powers," the protest said.
Washington. (UP) -The state department repeated today that the United States made no commitments at Yalta granting Russia prior claim to Japanese investments in Manchuria as reparations.
This statement was made by the department in releasing the full text of the Sino-Soviet treaty of friendship signed in Moscow last August by Russia and China.
Bowles 'In Favor' Of Meat Price Increase
Washington (UP) The senate banking committee was told today that economic stabilizer Chester Bowles favors an increase in meat prices to meet higher wages granted packing house workers.
Packinghouse workers recently received a 16-cent-an-hour wage boost after a walkout and government seizure of the packing plants. A government fact-finding board recommended price increases to cover 11 cents of the 16-cent increase.
Washington, (UP)—Civilian production chief John D. Small said today that 10 pairs of some kind of stockings is the most each woman in the United States can expect this year.
He said in a letter to Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, Connecticut Republican, 30 million pairs of nylon stockings should be produced each month of 1946.
St. Louis, Mo. (UP)—The largest group of atomic bomb scientists to assemble since V-J Day gathered in St. Louis today for the inaugural of Dr. Arthur H. Compton as chancellor of Washington university.
Dr. Compton, Nobel prize winner, directed the University of Chicago's metallurgical laboratory atomic project.
Republicans Want Conscription Ban
Washington. (UP)—Despite President Truman's objections, House Republicans appeared to be gaining support today for their plan to seek abolition of peacetime conscription through worldwide agreement.
The Republicans want the United States to lead such a move in hopes it may eliminate any need for compulsory military training here. Their strategy is to get the military affairs committee to put aside the president's training bill and give their proposal a trial.
Bombay. (UF)—Frenzied Indian mobs roamed uncontrolled through the heart of Bombay today, fighting battles with police, burning buildings and attacking British civilians in support of a naval mutiny in the harbor.
Federation Calls Telephone Strike For March 7
Union To Disregard Emergency Service; May Blackout News
(By United Press)
The nation is threatened with the most paralyzing strike in its history if the National Federation of Telephone Workers and its affiliated unions does not reach a wage settlement by March 7.
This was the picture painted for Americans today by NFTW president, Joseph Beirne who announced that the walkout will take place at 6 a.m. on the strike date.
Beirne said that 160,000 Federation members would walk out and that 100,000 other workers would honor the picket lines. The strike will tie up telephone service in 43 states.
The nation's link with the outside world might be severed, since operators on overseas switch boards in the U.S. are union members.
Proposed strike measures are more severe in the last telephone strike.
"Radio wires and news wires may suffer a blackout with no telephone company personnel to maintain them," union officials declared.
Beirne said that the Federation will give no consideration for emergency service. He also stated that the executive council had reached no decision on what action to take if communications industry
A message from Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellambach urging the Federation "to avoid strike action until further negotiations take place," was received 25 minutes after the work stoppage date had been set.
"My reply to Schwefelbach's message will be that the workers are going on strike March 7. If he wants to confer with me, I will be in Washington next week," Beirne declared.
The unions are asking for a $2-a-day wage increase and a return to a 40-hour work week. Beirne indicated earlier that the Federation might lower its minimum wage demands of 65 cents an hour.
'Reserve Rooms Now Miss Miller Urges
Room reservations for the summer session may be made now, according to Miss Marie Miller, adviser of women, who urges students who visit reservations in a dormitory to make them immediately.
Corbin, Watkins, and Miller halls will be open. Miss Miller said today. Corbin will be operated on the same basis as last year, with meals being served in the morning and at night. Watkins and Miller halls, which will not be worked on a cooperative basis, will offer rooms with or without kitchen privileges.
Plans for sending a representative to the national convention of Phi Chi Theta, professional business sorority, were discussed at a meeting in the Union last night.
The convention will be held at French Lick, Hot Springs, Ind., in June. Plans were made for the national inspection sometime in March.
Phi Chi Theta To Send Convention Representative
VA Representative Here
A training officer from Veterans Administration at Kansas City will be on the campus next week, and any veteran wishing an interview with him may make an appointment in room 2. Frank Strong hall or telephone K.U. 40.
Zip! And Your 'Entrance Exams' Are Graded
Mildred Hack, College senior, lends a hand to the complicated test-scoring machine which occupies a corner of the Guidance bureau's front office. With a snap of her finger, the machine goes whirr—zii!" and a complicated test that may have taken an hour or so to answer is all graded.
You Wrote Tests for Hours, But Machine Grades Them in Seconds
It can think-almost-and it has no head.
It is a fast worker, this machine. The International scoring machine used by the guidance bureau can grade papers at the rate of from 250 to about 400 an hour, or in one-eighth the time required for complete hand scoring of the same number of tests.
Six hours after more than 900 new students had answered (or tried to answer) approximately 682,000 questions on aptitude and psychological tests at the start of the semester, the scoring crew in the guidance bureau knew they had graded nearly all of the papers, and most of them were checked by the scoring machine.
The mathematics tests were the only ones not graded by the machine, because answers involving written words and figures cannot be machine-scored.
To be graded by the International scoring machine, tests must be written with special graphite pencils because the marks of ordinary lead pencils do not have enough electrical conductivity to make the machine record the score.
Open house will be held in the new location Wednesday night. The club formerly had quarters in Green hall.
Results of these tests, which have been used here for the past 10 years, do not exclude any student from entrance to the University. However, the four tests designated "aptitude" and "psychology" examinations do aid in detecting students' readiness to college work, by estimating their skill in fundamental subjects. Results are used in placing and advising students.
After the machine is set, the operator inserts the answer sheet, presses a lever, and reads the grade, which is indicated by a pointer on an illuminated dial. Percentile grades, which are available to the student, then are computed.
The University club will move to its new club rooms at 1007 1-2 Massachusetts street Monday, Prof Verner Smith, club secretary-treasurer, said today.
Election of officers for this semester's Pre-nursing club has been postponed until March 4.
University Club Moves To Massachusetts Street
Election Postponed
'Draw One' May Win Cartoon Contest
The weekend is a fine time for fun, and if you can draw funny situations as well as get into them, you can win a prize in the Daily Kansan's campus-wide cartoonist contest.
Deadline is Wednesday, and entries showing the artist's ability to create and draw humorous cartoons will be received at any time until then. Prizes worth more than $50 will go to the top six winners.
Independents To Talk Of Merging Parties
In an attempt to plan a single group under one name, the Independent Student association and the Independents political organization will hold a series of joint conferences, beginning Thursday. Lois Thompson, president of the Independents, announced today.
The program committee named to plan discussion topics includes Jack Nichols, business senior; Shirley Wellborn, College sophomore; Ruth Green, Engineering junior; Marylee Masterson, College sophomore; and Alberta Moe, College junior.
The conferences are open to all independents, and invitations are being sent to several faculty members who have shown an active interest in the organization, Miss Thompson said.
Housing Shortage May Kill Boy's State This Year
The housing shortage will probably cause the cancellation of the Boy's State and Girl's State this year, the extension division said today. The problem of where to house 100 boys and girls with the present housing conditions has yet to be solved.
Atom Scientist To Speak Here At 10 Monday
Compton to Speak On 'New Challenge To the Humanities'
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington university and atomic bomb scientist, will begin the spring series of "Big Name" convocations in Hoch auditorium at 10 a.m. Monday.
Dr. Compton will discuss "The New Challenge to the Humannites." His Monday speech will be followed Tuesday by an address by the Earl of Halifax, former British ambassador to the United States, who will speak on "British-American Relations."
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In 1927 Dr. Compton won the Nobel Prize for physics, awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. He discovered the electrical character of the cosmic ray and directed the world cosmic ray survey in 1931-1933. He also has been consulting physicist for the General Electric company since 1926.
company since 1925. He was awarded the Rumford gold medal by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927.
The class schedule for Monday is as follows:
8:30 classes 8:30-9:05
9:30 classes 9:15-9:50
10:30 classes 11:06-11:35
11:30 classes 11:45-12:20
Convocation 10:06-10:50
Recreational activities, home decoration, and child care were discussed last night as social activities got under way at the meeting of veterans' wives at Sunflower village. A committee was appointed to plan
Crowley Will Head Alpha Phi Omega
Tentative plans were made for a tour of the University by high school students on the morning of the Kansas Relays.
Election of officers and discussion of plans for acquainting Kansas high school students with the University featured the meeting of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, in the Union last night.
Officers elected were Charles Crowley, president; Russell Brown, vice-president; Robert Wehe, secretary; Donald Colvin, treasurer; Clarence Atkins, alumni secretary; Carlon Pryor, historian; Thomas Allen, sergeant at arms; Robert Judy, publicity chairman.
Vets' Wives Open Social Activities
T. W. McDonald, head of Rental Office at Sunflower, will find a space to be used as a club room other than the grade school auditorium where they met last night, he told the wives.
Mrs. Deane W. Malott, Mrs. E Russell Carter, president of the KU Dames, Mrs. N. P. Sherwood, sponsor of KU Dames, and Mrs. Albert Seelye welcomed the group.
Stouffer's Car Damaged
E. B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate school, reported today that his parked car was damaged when another car collided with it in front of Haworth hall at 5:15 p.m. yesterday. The left rear fender of Dean Stouffer's Chrysler was considerably damaged when his car was shoved into a light post.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair and continued mild today, partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow, colder extreme northwest tonight. Low tonight mid 30's extreme west to 40 cast. Colder northwest tomorrow afternoon.