1946
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1946
43rd Year No.79
Lawrence, Kansas
Argentina Aided Axis, U.S. Charges
Washington, (UP) —America's troubled relations with Argentina hurtled toward a showdown today as the state department unleashed an unprecedented attack on the totalitarian policies of the Argentine military regime.
In a blistering 32,000-word "blue book" indictment, the department charged Argentina with violating her wartime neutrality by giving "positive aid" to the axis and by even now giving nazis a western hemisphere base for building a new war machine.
The statement, tacitly urged the Argentine people to oust the Peron-Farrell regime and its "terrorist methods."
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes said the United States planned no further action until it had a chance to discuss its charges with the other American republics.
He indicated that endorsement of the U.S. indictment might lead to a hemispheric move to expel Argentina from the United Nations or to subject her to a hemisphere-wide diplomatic quarantine.
Chicago, (UP) —Ice skating star Sonja Henie today was granted a divorce from New York millionaire sportsman Dan Topping on charges of desertion.
Ickes Resigns, Warns Of Huge Oil Scandal
Washington, (U.P) —President Truman today accepted the resignation of Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, who left the cabinet with a warning against the kind of political pressure which produced the Teapot Dome oil scandal.
Ickes' resignation, ending nearly 13 years in the same post, will be effective Friday. Assistant Secretary of Interior Oscar L. Chapman will succeed Ickes until Mr. Trumman picks a permanent successor.
Ickes said the former Democratic national treasurer tried to get him to drop a suit for federal title to oil-rich tidelands by holding out the promise of Democratic campaign contributions by oil men.
Detailing his recent public battle against Edwin W, Pauley, California oil man nominated by President Truman to be Undersecretary of Navy, Ickes declared that his department had been subjected to political pressure.
Pauley denied the charge. At a news conference on Feb. 7 President Truman, supporting his nominee, said Ickes might well have been mistaken. The Pauley nomination is headed into a finish battle in the senate, with the outcome highly uncertain.
Strike Situation Eases Over Nation
The strike situation in three major American cities looked brighter today. In Pittsburgh, Pa., an independent utilities workers union called off its 20-hour strike.
(By United Press)
In Philadelphia, trolleys, buses, subway and elevated trains rolled today for the first time in 48 hours after CIO transport workers accepted a 12-cent an hour wage increase.
Banks, stores and factories in New York city re-opened today after Mayor William O'Dwyer lifted his emergency decree which had halted all but the most essential services for 18 hours.
Record-Breaking Crowds Sign Up for Classes
Were you in Robinson gymnasium signing up for classes yesterday? This is what the "madhouse" looked like, as thousands of students filled out 25,000 or more class cards, and argued with advisers, deans, and just
Hepworth Is New ASC President
Eugenia Hepworth, College senior, will assume duties as president of the All-Student Council at the first meeting of the semester Tuesday night, she said today.
She automatically succeeds Mrs Mary Jo Cox Youngblood, who was president during the past semester, and who will not return to school. The office of vice-president will be filled by the Council, Miss Hepworth said.
Kansas—Mostly cloudy, light snow and colder east half today. Partly cloudy tonight except cloudy with light snow extreme southeast early tonight. Colder southeast. Low tonight.15-20. Tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer.
WEATHER
Leonard Brown and Cecil Langford, Pachacamac representatives, and Dean Corder, P.S.G.L. representative, all from district 2 are leaving with the V-12 unit, and will have to be replaced, Miss Hepworth added. Other vacancies have been left by Shirley Corlett, WIGS representative from district 1, Council smoking chairman, and Jean Templeton, Independent representative from district 3, elections chairman.
All-Student Council Bill Number
2, Chapter 6, Tenure of Office, states
that:
"In event the president of the All-Student Council should fail to return to school or shall in any way become ineligible, the vice-president shall assume the office of president, and the office of vice-president shall be declared vacant and be filled by the All-Student Council.
"The vice-president shall be elected by the All-Student Council from among elected members from the several districts. The position which the vice-president represented on the Council shall be filled by the party which the president shall have represented unless the president shall have belonged to no political party in which case the Council as a whole shall fill the vacancy."
Pass the Vodka---
Don Cossacks
Are Coming
--anyone. Main theme of the gathering was one of pleasantness, though, as everyone pitched in and took the iong lines, the longer waits, and the closed classes in good humor.
Pass the vodka tovarish, the Don Cossacks are coming.
They sing in Hoch at 8:20 tonight, and if you think it takes a bunch of sissies to earn a living by warbling, you're as wrong about the Russians as Hitler was.
"A new Russian song about a girl who had a very bivalve lover who merely sighed and said nothing." (Not a K.U. man, certainly.) "He sent the girl a letter composed only of dots which she did not understand, but for some reason her heart was sweetly melted. Who knows who?"
The Cossacks, you notice, just (continued on page eight)
Led by Serge Jaroff, the little man who eyesbrows melody out of these sons of the steppes, the Cossacks will chant through a 14-piece program ranging from "Recollections of Tschalkovsy" to "Who Knows?"
That "Who Knows?" piece is as problematical as the future of the world. Program notes describe it:
Enrollment Goes to 5,135 New High In K.U. History
Enrollment reached 5,135, new high at the University today.
Students who haven't their new activity tickets may be admitted to the Don Cossack program at Hoch auditorium tonight by presenting their fee cards at the door.
Surpassing some of the pre-registration predictions, the number of students on The Hill flew more than 500 above any previous semester, and threatened to soar even higher.
Miss Stallard was a member of Jay Janes, Dramatics Workshop, and Alpha Omicron Pi.
Ruth Stallard, a senior in the School of Fine Arts, died Monday morning at her home in Perry. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon.
Fee Cards Admit to Concert
Ruth Stallard Dies at Home
threatened to so ever right.
New and former students, most of them veterans and most males, made the difference. There were 1,919 in this category this morning, and Dr. Lawrence Woodmuff, the registrar
'What's In a Name?'— Big, Suave George (Hubba-Hubba) Sauer Isn't
'Hubba-hubba!'
That's the most apt description a coed could muster today when she saw big, suave George Sauer, K.U.'s new football mentor.
The tweedy, handsome ex-lieutenant commander walked into Robinson gym m Monday and is now a integral part of the physical education set-up.
Family and football are Sauer's favorite topics of conversation, "and they always be tied for top honors because I love them both," he added.
The little Sauer is bracer is really smooth. "just like her mother," he grinned.
Business-like in manner, the new coach announced that spring football practice would get underway, March 11.
"With four 1945 bowl teams on next year's schedule, I'm not making any predictions," he said cautiously, but the former Nebraska threat has some winning "T" blueprints up his sleeve.
GEORGE SAUER
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The figures today were more than a third above last fall's enrollment. Many departments broke records—the School of Engineering and Architecture was typical, with 947 students now, compared with a previous top of 71.
Laurence Woodruff, the registrar,
thought this would rise above 2,000.
A housing shortage feared during January has failed to develop, administration officials declared. All students have rooms, and there's space for 100 more persons within existing emergency housing facilities.
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ON THE INSIDE
We're happy to have a "suburb" to the campus these days, and that's the reason for Sun Snots.
Sun Spots is a brand-new column about our Veterans Village at Sunflower. It appears for the first time in today's Daily Kansas, but you'll see it every week hereafter.
Little George Rippie, the columnist, wields a big pen in Sun Spots. If you're living in Sunflower, or know someone there, you'll like it. See page 8.