1946
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, January 21, 1946
43rd Year No.71
Lawrence, Kansas
With De Gaulle Out, Reds Bid in France
Paris (UP)—The Communist party made its greatest bid for power in France today by demanding that its leader Maurice Thorez be named president to succeed Gen. Charles DeGaulle, who resigned last night.
The Communists issued a communique demanding election of Thorez to the DeGaulle post after a noontime meeting of Communist deputies. Thorez is secretary general of the party.
Frankfort (UP)—Brig. Gen. George S. Eyster, U.S. army deployment chief for the European theater, announced today that men who have been declared "surplus" will not be sent home immediately if they lack the necessary discharge point scores.
UNO Adopts Atomic Energy Commission
London. (UP)—The UNO political and security committee adopted unanimously today the Moscow resolution for establishment of an atomic energy commission.
Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand accused France and South Africa of treating the UNO trusteeship charter as a "scrap of paper" by trying to keep their old League of Nations mandates from control of the new world organization.
Washington (UP)—President Tru-
man today nominated his naval aide,
Commodore James K. Vardaman,
Jr., of St. Louis, to a 14-year term
as a member of the Board of Governors of the federal reserve system
Tokyo. (UP)—The first reparations demanded from Japan were ordered seized by Gen. MacArthur's headquarters today in a directive placing under Allied military control nearly 400 Japanese aircraft plants, army and navy arsenals and war material laboratories.
Social Democrats Win 3-2 in Germany
Frankfurt. (UP)—A final tally on Germany's first free elections since 1933 revealed today that the left-wing Social Democratic party scored a three-to-two popular victory yesterday over the rightist Christian Democrats in the heavily Catholic Rhineland.
Athens. (UP)—A force of 1,500 to 2,000 rebellious Greek monarchists opened an attack on the Peloponnesian port of Kalamata today in an effort to overwhelm the loyal garrison before the arrival of government reinforcements from Athens.
New York. (UP)—The possibility of a strike of 32,000 transport workers which would tie up subway, elevated, street car, and bus lines which carry 6,500,000 New Yorkers daily increased today as the chairman of the city board of transportation defied the union and denied its right to strike.
Nashville, Tenn. (UP) — A little rooster from a chicken yard near the Cumberland River was just about between the devil and the deep blue sea when two dogs got after him recently. But the little rooster headed for the river, kept on going, swam the river in six minutes flat — and left his befuddled pursuers
Steel Pots Cool, 750,000 Strike
Pittsburgh (UP)—The all-time record strike of 750,000 steel and aluminum workers was in full swing today throughout the nation.
There was little disorder as pic-
kets took up posts—in many places
in snow and slush—at more than
1,200 plants in 30 states and reduced
steel production to a mere trickle.
The Sheffield plant at Kansas City Mo. was closed at midnight and 400 workers went on the picket line.
Indications were that this would be an orderly strike as operators, especially the big producers, were shutting down for a long and bitter struggle.
Bethlehem steel announced that it was closing its plants and not attempting to produce steel in the interest of peace and order. Republic steel made a similar announcement:
CIO Pres. Philip Murray is scheduled to make a nation-wide radio speech at 10:30 tonight over the American Broadcasting Company network, explaining the steel workers side of the wage dispute.
The strike broke at 12:01 a.m. today, after a week's postponement Negotiations between the union and U.S. Steel corporation, the "Bellweather" of the steel industry, broke down in Washington Friday.
The corporation rejected President Truman's compromise proposal of an $18\frac{1}{2}$ cent wage increase and insisted it could not pay more than 15 cents. This was ten cents under the union's original demand.
the union's original. The shutdown of the industry will cost the nation 200,000 tons of steel a day, according to U.S. Steel corporation figures. This would be enough to build 1,750,000 refrigerators or 117,000 new automobiles.
Band To Give Concer In Hoch Tonight
Fortified by a four-hour rehearsal last night, the University 105-piece band will present its winter concert at 8 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Shirley Sloan, clarinetist, will play a fantasia on themes from "Rigoleto" (Verdi). Betty Barkis, marimba and Allen Rogers, piano, will be featured in "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Grainger), "Rhapsodic Fantasie" on themes from "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" (Liszt), and "Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakov).
Paul Stoner will play "Cubana" (Bennett), the only violin solo written with band accompaniment. Leo Horacek will play a clarinet solo from "Stabat Mater" (Rossini).
Other numbers will be "Oberon Overature" (Weber), "Vlatva" (Smetana), "Vanished Army" (Alford), "Manhattan Beach" (Sousa), "Othello Suite" (Coleridge-Taylor), and "The Seafarer" Haydn-Wood).
Mr. Titus, a fellow in the American Guild of Organists, played numbers by Croft, Couperin, Bach Francek, Bonnet, Russell, and Hausserman. ___
Parvin Titus, Cincinnati organist, included one encore, an improvization on "Old Hundred" (Grace), in his Hoch auditorium vesper program Sunday.
Lawrence Promoted
Titus Adds Encore
Lt. Charles E. Lawrence, on duty at the University of Kansas hospitals, has been promoted to rank of captain.
To Hays State
RALPH HUFFMAN
Huffman Leaves Football Staff
Ralph "Red" Huffman, Kansas line coach during the 1945 football season, will become head football coach at State Teachers college, Hays, Feb. 1, E. C. Quigley, athletic director, announced today.
Quigley added that there will be an "immediate" replacement. The head coach, to be announced Feb. 1, will choose his own first assistant.
Huffman was graduated from Hays where he was All-Central conference center for two years. After two years coaching at Atwood High school and Dodge City Junior college. Huffman joined the Hays physical education department in 1941. He came here Sept. 1. He received his master of science degree from the University of Missouri.
Huffman, a former Kansas Ban Johnson star at Larned and Beloit, was to have coached baseball here this spring. His resignation will in no way alter plans to have a varsity baseball team, however, according to Quigley. The new baseball coach will be announced soon.
Cut Government Spending, Increase Industrial Pay, Keep Price Control President Proposes to Congress
Washington. (UP)—President Truman sent to congress today a message proposing to cut government spending almost in half in the 1947 fiscal year and urging general industrial wage increases. He opposed further tax reduction at this session.
The Chancellor asked Sam 40 help care for the buildings four years ago when help became so scarce on Mt. Oread. When the shortage was over
He asked for emergency extension of price control authority and urged that it be expanded to put a ceiling on sales prices of old and new houses.
Sidney Anderson, Eddie Roper, Francis Brooks, Donald Livingston, Gene Estep, and Harold Harvey, V-12 students, will present "Submerged."
Glenna Thompson is director of "The Happy Journey." Members of the cast are Haney Scott, Ruth Ann Bird, Carolyn Keith, Kathleen Howland, Jack Cannon, and Robert Freeto.
The plays, in the order of presentation, are "Thank You, Doctor," by Gilbert Emery; "Submerged," by LaVergne Shaw and H. Stuart Cottman; "The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder; and "Too Much Business," by Mary Coyle Chase, author of "Harvey."
Four one-act plays will be given by Dramatic workshop at 8 a.m. Thursday in Fraser theater, Virginia Urban, president, announced today.
Freeto.
Sarah Heil will direct "Too Much Business." Nancy Goering, Sarah Heil. B. Ann Brown, William Lytle, William Vandiver, Robert Tucker, C. D. Kabler, Richard Ong, and Benjamin Shanklin comprise the cast.
"Thank You, Doctor" will be directed by JoAim Tindall. The cast consists of John Elliott, Robert Koenig, Margaret Gosney, Emily Stacey, and Robert Mickle.
Dramatics Group To Give Plays
Activity tickets will admit students to the performance.
Life Began at 65 for Sam Elliot ---That Makes Him 10 Years Old
Dramatic Workshop members assisting in production are Keith
When Sam was a boy he used to look up from the Elliott home in the valley and see Fraser, then the only building on Mt. Oread. Although family responsibilities kept him from attending the University, five of his six children were able to fulfill his childhood ambition. Miss Maude Elliott, assistant professor of romance languages, is his daughter. His father, Robert Elliott, introduced the bill to locate the state university at Lawrence, when he was a member of the Kansas Legislature.
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"Life began for me at 65," smiles sunny Sam Elliott, good Samaritan of the campus. That was 10 years ago, when he retired from mail carrying after 46 years' service to Lawrence and the University.
Sam stands erect, has snowy white hair, rosy cheeks, and bright blue eyes that sparkle as he speaks. Fraser hall, where he has a workshop way up on the fifth floor, is his headquarters.
and he turned in his resignation, the Chancellor just laughed and said the University couldn't get along without him.
So Sam is still brightening the campus, and he likes being a part of the school he's watched develop during his lifetime. He's been acquainted with every chancellor since Dr James Marvin, the third chancellor He recalls Chancellor Lindley's definition of religion, "A passion for the best."
best.
Sam invented a new way to clean blackboards, which he calls his discovery of "lower mathematics." Instead of the weekly washing, they get a daily wipe with ordinary dusting mop mounted on a board.
Recently he has been kalsomining unused blackboards to brighten dark classrooms. A mere mention of something to be done sends Sam off to a flying start, and it's always a thorough job when he's finished.
Henry blue eyes twinkle as he says,
"It's exciting when I can find something
to do to help someone else.
"You get out of life what you look for." he believes.
- Its May 16 expiration date if voluntary enlistments are inadequate. Mr. Truman said.
The President deplored work stoppages and called for collective bargaining adjustment of disputes. He said long continuation of major strikes would heavily check the re-conversion program. But he gave no plans to cope with labor problems other than collective bargaining, fact finding boards, and a general upward wage trend. The communication, a combination budget and annual message on the state of the union, contained upward of 30,000 words and was read by clerks.
The President estimated fiscal 1947 expenditures at nearly 36 billion dollars compared with more than 67 billion dollars in the current fiscal year. Receipts in fiscal 1947 will be 31 billion dollars, compared with 38 billion this year.
College Schedules Available Today
Schedules of classes in the college are available to students for making tentative enrollment plans for next semester, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean, announced today.
A pre-enrollment advising period for freshmen and sophomores in the College will be held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, he said. Those wishing to talk over plans for next semester may see their advisers at the hours posted on the Bulletin board opposite the College office.
Students who will achieve junior standing this semester should not see their advisers until the enrollment period. They will declare majors and consult a faculty member representing that department on the enrollment floor.
Students are urged to make out a tentative plan of classes before seeing their advisers in order to save time in the conferences, Dean Ulmer added.
Davis to Discuss Far East Tomorrow
Prof. W. W. Davis, of the history department, will discuss "The United States and the Far East" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater, in the America at Peace lecture series.
He will discuss the possible rise of imperialism under a new name, disarmament of Japan, and conditions in China, Indonesia, Manchuria and Korea.
Professor Davis visited China, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria in 1834, and has taught Far Eastern history for more than 20 years.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today, tonight and tomorrow. Continued cold today and slightly colder tonight. Low temperatures 10 north and 20 south. Tomorrow slowly rising temperatures.