Friday, January 25, 1946
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, January 25, 1946
43rd Year No. 75
Lawrence, Kansas
Lewis, Mine Workers Return to AFL
Miami, Fla. (UP)——The United Mine Workers and their burly chief, John L. Lewis, today were returned to membership in the American Federation of Labor and Lewis gained a seat on the AFL executive council.
Asked what the significance of the return of the UMW was to labor, AFL president William Green replied:
"It is significant in this respect that the workers of the country are placing more emphasis on the need for unity and solidarity. This is the second large organization to return to us after experimenting with the CIO. The other was the International Ladies Garment Workers."
Chicago. (UP)—Representatives of nearly 200,000 striking CIO United Packinghouse Workers voted today against returning to work when the government takes over the meat plants at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.
Chinese Students Protest Against British
Chungking. (UP)—Almost 10,000 Chinese students marched to the British embassy tonight, demanding the return of Hong Kong and Macao to China and protesting construction of a Royal Air Force airfield near Kowloon.
The students called for thorough accomplishment of the cease-fire order in China's civil war, release of political prisoners and punishment of traitors.
Another 600 would be due for release April 1.
Topeka, Kan. (UP)—Col. Clarence Crumrine, commander of the Topeka army air field, said today that 800 of the 1,900 servicemen stationed at the base would be discharged within the next few weeks under the latest army schedule.
Houston, Texas. (UP)—Bourbon wine and brandy flowed ankle deep when a street grader barged into a liquor store and banged together a stiff 7 thousand dollar cocktail.
Garden City (UP) - Five carloads of wheat today were on their way to the starving people of Europe as a gift from Garden City.
An inter-church committee of men started the move about Thanksgiving to collect grain for shipment to war ravaged countries.
'T was a Tough Fight Sam, But You Win
Townline. N.Y. (UP)—The nation became fully united today.
Residents of this tiny crossroad village voted to rejoin the last after holding out as the last Confederate stronghold in the United States for 84 years.
Only 23 die-hard residents voted to keep the confederacy's stars and bars flying over the village. But 89 residents buried old animosities and voted to "go Yankee."
Budapest. (UP)—Premier Zoltan Tildy submitted to the national assembly today a bill abolishing the monarchy and proclaiming Hungary a republic.
How About a Trip To the Moon?
Washington (UP)]—Army scientists looked confidently ahead today to vast explorations in solar space with radar.
It is now possible, they believe, that radar-controlled space ships some day will fly the airless void between the planets, electronically gathering and transmitting to earth data thus far beyond man's knowledge.
Army signal corps engineers, it was revealed last night, have bounded radio pulses of extremely high frequency and energy against the moon and fielded them at the speed of light on instruments at the Evans signal laboratory, Belmar, N.J.
For the first time they have demonstrated certainly that ultra-high frequency radio waves can penetrate the ionosphere, the electrified outer areas of the earth's atmosphere beyond which ordinary radio waves cannot go.
Signal corps scientists achieved their first contact with the moon, 238,857 miles away, on Jan. 10, the pulses completing the round trip in about two and a half seconds. They used a modernized radar set directly descended from the less powerful model which spotted Japanese planes 132 miles from Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The U.S.A. signal corps had been studying "the problem of reaching other celestial bodies with radar" for several years.
Cundiff, Two Newcomers,
Laudon Are Licensed Pilots
Four more Jayhawkers have taken to the air. Shirley Cundiff and Sue Newcomer, College sophomores, Ann Newcomer, College senior, and Prof. L. R. Laudon, geology professor, passed the flight test for a private license given this week by David C. Detamore, C.A.A. inspector, Kansas City.
Some Guy Must Have Gone Home in a Barrel
Losing one's shirt at the races is understandable but leaving one's trousers in the library leaves even best-dressed man undressed.
When sweaters, mittens, glasses, scarves, rings, and swimming suits, or even some guy's pants, are forgotten in the rush for knowledge it's time for the students to go home for a long, long rest.
The rapidly growing list of unclaimed articles left at the library makes the student jokes about the absent-minded professor seem mild by comparison.
One distressed coed apparently removed her saddle shoes to relieve her aching feet and then walked out of the library "leavig her shoes behind her."
"Textbooks and notebooks might find a place here," says C. M. Baker, director of the library, "but where can we file coat linings and cigaret cases?"
cases? Even the dignified army and navy have lost their hats in the dash for chow.
"It's an amazing list," added Mr. Baker, "and if it continues to grow I may retire and go into the second-hand business."
Tune In at 640, Stay-at-Homers
The Kansas-Iowa State basketball game will be broadcast tonight at 7:30 over WOI. Iowa State college radio station, Ernest C. Quigley, director of athletics, announced today.
WOI is 640 on your dial.
Yesterday, Men ---Today, Books
There will be a shortage of textbooks next semester.
The book supply will lag behind the increase in enrollment, a survey of Lawrence book stores and the army and navy supply departments showed today.
With only one per cent of the nation's paper supply alloted to textbook printing, publishers are taking many books out of print. Strikes have aggravated the situation considerably, a Lawrence book store manager explained; and faculty members have failed to order to meet the enrollment increase. Many orders have been changed because publishers could not supply the books wanted.
Veterans under the G.I. bill of rights get their books free, but the books have to come from Lawrence book stores. The veterans' office has about 100 books turned in by veterans who have dropped courses. These books will be sold to other men under the G.I. bill, Leonard Axe, veterans' bureau director, said today.
today.
Both army and navy R.O.T.C.
units will sell surplus medical texts
to the University for re-sale to
students, Raymond Nichols, executive
secretary, has announced.
With very few books left from last semester, the W.E.C. book exchange probably will not have any more texts for the spring term than it had for the fall, June Peterson, manager, said today. Every effort will be made to buy used books immediately after finals for re-sale, she added.
Paid Advertising Job Open on Daily Kansan
The position pays a monthly salary and a bonus, Mr. Cole explained. Applicants need not be journalism majors. Deadline for the letters of application, which should state the student's qualifications and experience, is Monday, and letters may be turned in to the Daily Kansan business office in the Journalism building.
Students interested in the position of advertising manager of the University Daily Kansan may apply for that post by letter Lee S. Cole, journalism instructor and business adviser to the newspaper, announced today.
The Jayhawk Flying club hopes to complete a plan whereby the G.I. bill of rights will pay flight training expenses of veterans enrolled in the course, W. M. Simpson, club adviser and professor of aeronautical engineering, told a group of prospective student fliers last night.
G.I. Bill May Pay Vet Flight Training
Fourteen students are now enrolled in the ground school and 10 in the flying school, he said. Six students in the class have passed their flight tests.
Kansas Plans 'Black-Out' For Cyclone Five Tonight
The Kansas Jayhawkers invade Ames, Iowa, tonight to face the defending Big Six champions in what may prove to be the hardest fought game of the current season.
On the basis of conference contests played to date, we two teams could be more evenly matched in the statistical depart-
Can I-S Stop Him?
Lindley Will House Classrooms, Labs
Lindley hall will not be used for student housing next semester. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today.
After an announcement yesterday by Capt. Chester A. Kunz, navy commander, that Lindley will be turned back to the University, Mr. Nichols explained that the new space would be used for classrooms and laboratories.
Three To Discuss Clothing Drive Sunday
A round table discussion of the victory clothing drive will be given by Shipman Winter, College freshman; Lt. James Boerwinkle, assistant professor of naval science, and Chaplain William Knox, head of the clothing committee, at 10:15 p.m. Sunday over station WREN.
Life's Just One D---- Text Book After Another
It's here—the last weekend before finals.
Next week will bring the familiar final-week furor, as several thousand students consume quantities of coffee and sprain their brains making up for lost time. But first comes the problem of how to spend these few remaining days of freedom.
There are any number of ways to while away the long hours. There's the March of Dimes dance; you can go to Ames to yell at the basketball game; celebrate in the "City;" drop in at home to surprise the old folks; catch up on your correspondence; take in the Lawrence movies; try out your bowling arm; go for a long walk; shop for valentines; or sleep it all off.
If you just can't dream up anything else, you might try studying. Spend an exciting afternoon at the lab making up those back chemistry experiments, have a date with a dictionary, or dust off that text-book you didn't ever get around to opening.
Or, be like the harrassed senior who, when asked 'how he thought he would spend the last weekend before finals, gasped.
mats, gasped.
"At this point, I don't think!"
ment. K.U.'s offensive average in four games is 49.3,
while Iowa State rests at 49.0.
The Cyclones' defensive mark is 40.0, and K.U.'s is 39.7. In addition, the match will be fought on the Cyclones' home boards, where they have a reputation for being notorious tough.
Kansas will be counting heavily on All-American Charley Black to toss the winning margin through the Iowa State baskets; but Black meets a rough opponent in the Cyclone six-footer, Jim Stark. Stark trails Black in Big Six averages with a 17.0 percentage, and Coach Louis Menge's team will be relying heavily upon him to stop Black.
The Cyclones have been a jinx to Kansas since 1943, when they were beaten by the top-nutch "Iron Five" Jayhawk team.
Now, Iowa State remains the only stumbling block between the Kansas and the Big Six crown. If the Jayhawkers can defeat the Cyclones in tonight's tilt, they will have gone a long way down the road toward the Big Six championship.
Crowd Packs Fraser To See Four Plays
Maniacs looking for a peart necklace, an automobile journey with imaginary props, a theater manager trying to get rid of his patrons with the audience becoming actors themselves—these experiences were enjoyed by the group which packed Fraser theater to see the Dramatic Workshop plays last night.
"Submerged," presented by an all-Navy cast, pictured the last moments of six men doomed to death in a submarine.
The four one-act plays wrote the first productions to be directed, acted, and produced entirely by students since 1921.
In order of presentation, the plays were "Thank You, Doctor," by Gilbert Emery, directed by Jo Ann Tindall. College junior; "Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, directed by Glenna Thompson, College junior; "Submerged," by H. S. Cottman and L. Shaw; and "Too Much Business," by Mary Coyle Chase, directed by Sarah Holl. College sophomore.
Battenfeld Awards To Ashcraft, Hamilton
Guy Ashcraft, Business senior, and Jerald Hamilton, College sophomore, have been awarded John Curry Battenfeld scholarship awards. Dean Paul B. Lawson announced today.
The awards of $50 each are given in recognition of outstanding achievement in scholarship and for contribution to the life of the hall. The awards are financed by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Battenfeld, Kansas City, Mo., in memory of their son, John Curry Battenfeld, who was a K.U. student.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy, slightly warmer east. Cloudy with snow flurries north and west and vain changing to snow flurries southeast, colder tonight. Lowest temperatures 25 to 30. Saturday cloudy with snow flurries and much colder.