University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, January 18, 1946
43rd Year No. 70
Lawrence, Kansas
Governor Threatens To Call Troops In Strike Disorder
Kansas City. (UP)—Gov. Andrew Schoeppel threatened today to send between 1,500 and 2,000 state militiamen into Kansas City, Kan., if the local police force is unable to maintain order at the Swift and Co packing plant.
The governor's warning came after a third pre-dawn setto outside the Swift plant, which is not struck by its independent union employees but is blocked by a big CIO picket line.
More than 1,500 persons rebuffed police efforts to break the picket line this morning.
Washington (UP)—The Pearl Harbor committee today rejected six to two a motion to invite former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a witness.
Extend Draft Act, Hershey Asks
Washington. (UP)—Selective service director Lewis B. Hershey today a.ked Congress to extend the draft act immediately and amend it to provide that every inductee serve a specific term, preferably 18 months.
Hershey flatly rejected, however, a proposal that the present draft age, 18 through 25, be raised to speed the flow of replacements to occupation theaters. Instead, he recommended that the army and navy lower their physical qualifications to make more men in the present age group eligible for induction.
London. (UP)—Egypt called upon the colonial powers today to place all their colonies, concessions and protectorates, as well as mandates, under a United Nations trusteeships system at once.
Pauley Is Named Navy Undersecretary
Washington. (UP) -Edwin W. Pauley of California was nominated by President Truman today to be undersecretary of the navy.
Pauley succeeds Artemus L. Gates, who resigned several weeks ago.
London (UP)—The Big Three have promised France that they will not "arbitrarily reject" peace treaty recommendations made by other nations at the forthcoming Paris peace conference, it was announced officially today.
Detroit (UP)—Preliminary success in the use of the new drug streptomycin in the treating tuberculosis was revealed today to more than 600 child specialists attending the annual convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Cheshire, Conn. (UP)—An Eastern Airlines plane caught fire in flight today and crashed in flames in a wooded patch near the state reform- oratory, killing its 13 passengers and crew of three.
crew of the
The plane was enroute from New
York to Boston when the crash
occurred.
There were no survivors, state police reported.
Union Accepts, U.S. Steel Rejects Truman Proposal
Washington. (UP) — U.S. Steel corp. today rejected President Truman's compromise proposal for settlement of the steel wage dispute although the union accepted it.
Mr. Truman, the White House announced, proposed a general wage increase of $ 18^{1 / 2} $ cents per hour, retroactive to Jan. 1.
It appeared most likely that the union's 700,000 men would go on strike Monday in the light of the corporation's rejection.
corporations rejection. White House secretary Charles G. Ross was asked whether Mr. Truman had any further plans for action to avert a strike. "No," Ross replied.
At noon the President received from Philip Murray, head of the Steelworkers union and President of the CIO, a letter accepting the proposal.
proposal.
About an hour later, Mr. Truman received a letter from Benjamin F. Fairless, president of U.S. Steel, rejecting the offer.
It was understood that the CIO believed acceptance of Mr. Truman's proposal would not undermine the position of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) who are demanding wage increase of $19^{1/2}$ cents an hour.
A presidential fact-finding board recommended that amount for 175,000 striking employees of General Motors.
MOTORS.
A raise of 18½ for the steelworkers and 19½ cents for the automobile workers would restore the relationship which prevailed at the beginning of 1941. ___
YW Board Member To Speak at 'Y Fair'
Mrs. Porter Brown, Salina, Y.W. C.A. national board member, will speak at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the men's lounge of the Union, at the Y.W.C.A. conference, Mrs. Christine Alford, secretary, announced today.
Other events in the all-day "Y Fair" will be displays by workshop groups and a panel discussion on the atomic bomb.
Some will be eligible for discharge on the point system, Captain Kunz explained. Those with previous service will be sent to San Francisco for general detail. Others will go to the training station at Great Lakes.
Ninety to 100 NROTC students at K.U. will leave next month because they will not agree to complete the spring semester regardless of demobilization plans, Capt. Chester A. Kunz announced today.
100 Sailors To Leave At End of Semester
Titus To Play Bach, Franck Numbers
The organ recital by Parvin Titus, fellow of the American Guild of Organists, at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium, will include the following numbers:
"Voluntary" (Croft), "Benedictus"
(Couperin), "Prelude and Fugue in
B Minor" and "Sonata VI in G"
(Bach), "Choral in E" (Francis),
"Song Without Words" (Bonnet),
"The Bells of St. Anne de Beaupre"
(Russell), and "Aria Haussermann).
Guy Ashcraft, ASC Representative, Proctors Battenfeld
Guy Ashcraft, a 20-year-old senior in th School of Business is a representative from districts three and four to the All-Student Council. He is on the publications committee.
Guy, who likes sports, is majoring in accounting. He lives in Osage City, and is president of the KuKu club and proctor of Battenfeld hall
Bridge Winners In Semi-Finals
Semi-finals in the intramural bridge preliminaries will be played Tuesday in the Union lounge and will consist of nine tables, Virginia Neal, chairman of the tournament, announced today.
announced today.
Players in the semi-finals will be the first, second, and third-place winners of the preliminaries played last Tuesday, Miss Neal said. If any one of the first three teams is unable to participate, the fourth-place winners will automatically take its place. Scoring sheets have been placed on the Union bulletin board, she added.
she added.
The final game will be held Jan. 29 when a silver cup will be presented to the winning team.
Section A, north-south teams:
Robert Rosenfield and Tommy Mayhew, first; Max Hand and Donald Frisbie, second; Shirley Otter and Mary Schnitzler, third; Lloyd Eisenhower and Robert Mallonee, fourth.
Winners in Tuesday's preliminaries include:
Section A. north-south teams:
Section A, east-west teams:
Section A: case
Earl Stanton and James Kennedy,
first; Sarah Heil and Shirley Smith,
second; Mavis Lukert and Shirley
Guenther, third; Glen Warner and
William Ellis, fourth.
SECTION B.
Mary Ann Jackson and Joyce Hartwell, first; Ann Star and Betty Loeffler, second; Bruce Worthington and Donald Randolph, third; William Weiser and Ralph Hedges, fourth.
Section B, north-south teams:
Wesler and Hempel Section B. east-west teams:
Section B, east-west teams:
James Pike, Alvin Russo, first;
Keith Bunnel and John Armel, second;
Sara Rothrock and Kathleen Wright, third; Howard Childress and Arthur Johnston, fourth.
Haage Undergoes Operation
Robert M. Haage, junior engineer from Garden City, underwent an appendectomy yesterday at the Watkins Memorial hospital.
Chips Down For K.U. Five In Sooner Tilt Tonight
The Kansas Jayhawkers face a tough mid-semester examination, when they tangle with the undefeated Oklahoma Sooners in Hoch auditorium tonight.
The Crimson and Blue quintet will be using all the tricks in the books—and maybe a few crib notes in the form of trick to pass their
Ballet Paints Beauty With Music, Motion
By MARIAN THOMSON (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
They went to the ballet—almost 4,000 of them.
4,000 of them.
The freshmen in "fats," the professors with "don't-forgate-that-quizitomorrow" smiles, the seniors in fur coats, the sailors in (oddily enough) bell-bottom trousers, the Lawrence matrons in white wool dresses and tall green hats, the sleepy children—they all were in Hoch auditorium last night.
They drosed through the graceful "Swan Lake," they applauded Michael Kidd as the flexible handman in "On Stage," and laughed through Dimitri Romanoff's amorous adventures in "Bluebeard."
Many of them couldn't tell an entrechat from a pas de deux, but they could enjoy beauty of motion, color, and music, and they could watch their neighbors.
watched them in the hall. The woman in the first balcony wrote three letters. The tall sophomore read his program to his date, then sailed it out over the crowd. The bald-headed man in the warm upper balcony rolled up his shirt-sleeves.
sleeves.
And the little girl in the yellow dress said, "But he isn't like the Bluebeard in my storybook, Daddy," before she went to sleep.
Pattern Paints Too Only He Sits Still
It looks easy—if you know how.
Prof. Karl Mattern, of the drawing and painting department, showed members of the University Art club how to turn a blank paper into a fall landscape in an hour, at a meeting this week in the Memorial Union.
this week
Using his favorite 20-year-old brush to apply watercolor wash over a preliminary sketch, Professor Mattern entertained his audience as he worked.
worked.
"It's more fun to paint out of doors," he remarked. "The flies on your picture and the ants in your paint keep you company, and there are always the people who look over your shoulder and say, 'I wouldn't do it that way.'"
Then there was the small boy who marched up to Professor Mattern one day and announced:
"You're an artist."
The artist agreed.
"Bet you couldn't paint that," challenged his critic, pointing to a glamorous pin-up bathing suit advertisement on a nearby billboard.
insult on a man.
"Maybe not," Professor Matterm conceded, "but have you ever seen real people who looked like that?"
rear people.
"Sure," he declared condescend-
ingly. "I've been out to the swim-
ming pool lots of times!"
The hour had passed, and Professor Mattern showed the club the completed picture of a house, a hill, a road, some trees, and plenty of sky.
See? It's easy, if you know how
plays—in an effort to pass their most crucial test so far in the conference race.
The K.U. squad will be attempting to keep the visiting team jinxed, as it has since March 3, 1944, the last time the Jayhawkers lost on their home court.
Scores of fans will miss tonight's contest, since the athletic office hung out a "Standing Room Only" sign early this week. A record crowd is expected to jam into Hoch auditorium.
Tonight's fray is the blue plate special on the Big Six basketball menu this weekend in bringing together the conference's only unbeaten members.
Coach Bruce Drake, in his eighth season as head basketball mentor
Big Six Standings
Won Lost Points
Won Lost Pointe
Kansas 3 0 143
Oklahoma 2 0 127
Iowa State 2 1 148
Missouri 1 2 113
Nebraska 1 3 176
Kansas State 1 4 181
at Oklahoma, will be aiming for his third victory in eight steps against Coach Forrest (Fhoe) Allen's Jayhawkers, in a game that will decide undisputed possession of first place in the conference standings.
Drake is the only coach in the loop who has held his own with the "Master of Mt. Oread" in games won and lost, each winning eight. The Sooners lost a 53-46 non-conference game to Kansas in the Oklahoma City tournament earlier this season.
But in tonight's battle the chips are down. A win for Oklahoma will give them an advantage in the conference race as the Jayhawks must still face the Sooners at Norton.
sill face the Sob. Big Six fandom will be watching with interest the "cop and robber" act between Charley Black of Kansas and Capt. Jack Landon of Oklahoma.
Black, the All-American forward returned from the armed forces, is the robber in the act, averaging 16.3 points per game in Big Six play, and Landon known as "Mr. Zero" on the defense for his au-tight guarding, is the policeman.
Black scored 23 points in the first meeting between the two teams. Paul Courty was assigned to guard the forward phantom, but the six-feet three-inch Kansas star was unstoppable.
In the first meeting with Kansas this season, Landon was detailed to follow Otto Schnellbacher. So effectively did Landon check Schnellbacher, the Kansan was white-washed from the field.
The Sooners will be without the services of their ace center, six-feet five-inch Aubrey McCall owing to illness.
WEATHER
Kansas — Generally fair west, partly cloudy east tonight and tomorrow. Colder north and west tomorrow. Low tonight 25 west, 33 east.