University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1949
43rd Year No.63
Lawrence, Kansas
O.U. Fights Case On Negro Admittance
Oklahoma City. (UP)—A test case involving an Oklahoma law barring Negroes from attending white schools in the state will be filed in federal court soon.
The suit will be the outgrowth of the refusal of University of Oklahoma authorities to admit a Chickasha Negro girl, Ada Lois Sipuel, 21, to the University law school. The University refused her admission on the premise it violated a state law which prohibits Negroes and whites attending the same school.
Topeka. (UP)—Rep. Frank Carlson, Concordia, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Kansas.
China Will Make Big Army Reductions
Chungking. (UP)—The Chinese government announced today that its armies will be reduced from their present wartime strength of 4,830,000 men to 1,800,000 during the first six months of this year as part of a bread program to unify and rehabilitate war-torn China.
The plan was calculated to speed up unity negotiations by easing Communist fears that the Nationalist government planned to retain a huge army as an instrument of domestic policy.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman will combine his budget and state of - of the - union messages and send them to congress next Monday.
Washington. (UP)—Acting Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall said today that the United States may have to decide soon whether to abandon millions of dollars worth of surplus property overseas or keep men in the army to guard it.
New York. (UP)—Promoter Mike Jacobs announced today that the Joe Louis-Billy Conn world's heavy-weight boxing bout will be held at Yankee stadium Wednesday night, June 19.
Kimmel Testifies On Sabotage Alert
Washington, (UP)—Adm. Husband E. Kimmel said today he did not know until after the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941, that army defenses of Pearl Harbor were alerted only against sabotage.
The deposed commander of the Pacific fleet told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee he knew army defenses in Hawaii were placed on the alert in response to warnings from Washington.
But he said he did not know it was just an alert against sabotage.
Detroit. (UP)—The CIO Auto Workers union today formally announced its willingness to accept a general settlement of its industry-wide pay boost demands at less than its original 30 per cent demands.
Welch, W. Va. (UP)—The 14th victim of an explosion in No. 9 mine of the New River and Pocahontas Coal co. died today as federal inspectors prepared to enter the shaft to determine the cause of the blast.
Meat Strike End Not In Sight
Chicago. (UP) — Meat packing plants across the nation were closed by a strike today, and CIO leaders spiked hopes for an early end to the walkout.
Lewis J. Clark, president of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers union, announced that he could not accept the request of Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach to halt the strike during further negotiations on the union wage demands.
Clark also said his union was turning down a suggestion by a striking AFL meat cutters union that the two unions "postpone a continuation of the strike."
Clark said, however, he would go to Washington late today to confer with government mediators tomorrow.
In Kansas City a thousand CIO United Packinghouse Worker strikers from other local plants today blockaded the gates of the Swift & Co. plant, halting operations at the plant where an independent union voted yesterday against joining the national strike, and "manhandling" the plant manager when he sought admittance.
The strike for higher wages kept nearly 300,000 CIO and AFL packinghouse workers away from their jobs. The walkout started at 12:01 am.
Packingnouses were shut down in all the big meat-producing centers-Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, South St. Paul, and elsewhere.
Chicago, the nation's meat packing capital, was hardest hit. About 25-000 workers joined the strike at the Chicago stockyards area.
Meat Substitutes Will Last Nearly a Month
(By United Press)
They may get tired of it, but housewives will find enough poultry, eggs, and fish to keep going for nearly a month, even with the meat strike which broke out on schedule early today.
A United Press survey of the major cities disclosed that a pack- inghouse strike would shut off meat supplies within a week to civilian consumers, but that meat substitutes are at an all-time high.
The department of agriculture in Washington reported that meat supplies in storage probably could be stretched over a seven to 10-day period. Poultry stocks are at near-record levels, the department said, and fish supplies are "fair." Cheese products, however, are inadequate for even normal needs.
Hardest hit by the meat strike would be the inland meat centers, where retailers already reported a pre-strike buying spree. Denver packing officials predicted the city would be "practically meatless" two days after the strike.
days later The American Meat Institute, spokesman for the industry, warned gloomy that interference with the normal flow of meat "undoubtedly would throw considerable quantities of meat into the black market."
Judge John G. Somers, president of the Kansas bar association, addressed the first School of Law convocation at 10:30 today in Green hall.
Lawyers Hear Somers
Judge Somers discussed the practical aspects of legal practice.
There Will Be A Lot Of Us Next Semester
There will be a lot of us next semester.
On the basis of the 100-a-day rush of veterans on the registrar's office since Jan. 2, L. C. Woodruff, registrar, told College faculty members at their regular meeting yesterday that enrollment will soar from 3,800 to a record 4,800 in February.
Looking further into the crystal ball, Mr. Woodruff estimated next fall's enrollment will reach the 6,000 mark.
Religion 'Trial In Union Tonight
Religion will go on trial at 8 p.m. tonight in the men's lounge of the Union, before a student jury selected at random, Julia Casad, president of the Student Religious council, said today.
An indictment given to Dean F. J. Moreau, judge, charges that the church has devoted its time to doctrinal matters and empty formalism, encouraged superstition and fear, died its program to ancient and obsolete thinking.
The statement further accuses the church of failing to develop a program of realism, remove the lust for wealth and power, get its people to think of fundamental matters, and develop a program which reaches the bulk of active and dominant people.
Lloyd Cuningham, third year law student, will be prosecuting attorney, assisted by Mrs. Calvin VanderWerf. Marvin Thompson, second year law student, and Jeanne Ackley, Danforth fellow, will represent the defense.
Carla Eddy, first year law student will be bailiff.
Jury members are Eugene Alford, engineering freshman; Lee Cockrell, College freshman; Dean Johnson, Engineering freshman; Bertha Louise Morrow, College sophomore; Mary Gayle Marsh, College junior; Eleanor Brown, College senior; Sarah Marks, College junior; Jack Nichols, Business senior; Frances James, College senior; Lucy Hunter, College junior; Frank Eberhardt, Engineering junior; and Mary Beiderwell, College junior.
Kansas—Generally fair and warmer with increasing southerly winds tonight. Lowest temperatures tonight middle 20's. Fair tomorrow, warmer east.
WEATHER
ASC Approves Proposal For New Humor Magazine
Publication of a humor magazine, "The Bitter Bird," as an average between the "Jayhawker" and the old "Sour Owl," was authorized last night by the All-Student Council, provided that the editorial board of the magazine can raise a proposed $200 deposit.
Lord Halifax To Speak Here
Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, will speak at an all-University convocation next Wednesday.
Terry Harriott, College sophomore and editorial board representative for the proposed publication, presented the matter to the Council and
Four soloists will be featured with the University band at its annual winter concert at 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium, Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director, said today.
The diplomat is expected to speak in British-American relations.
Mason's Swimming Shorts Display A Swastika--You Know Where
Leo Horacek will be accompanied by the band in a cornet套件, "The Inflammatus" from "Stabat Mater" by Rossini, "Fantasia" on themes from "Rigoleto" will be a clarinet solo by Shirley Sloan. Paul Stoner, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts, who received his master's degree from the University of Iowa, will play a violin number "Cubana" and will be accompanied by the band. "Fantasia" on themes from the "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" by Liszt and the "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Korsakov, will be solos by Betty Barkis.
Band Concert Has Four Feature Soloists
Viscount Halifax was minister of agriculture from 1924 to 1925; vice-roy and governor general of India, 1926-1931; secretary of state for war. 1935; leader of the House of Lords, 1935-1938; and secretary of state for foreign affairs from 1938 to 1940. He has been British ambassador to this country since 1940.
He was a lieutenant colonel in the Yorkshire Dragoons during the first World war, and has been an honorary colonel since 1935.
Lord Halifax received his education at Eton college, Christ college, and Oxford university. His honorary degrees include degrees from Leeds, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Toronto, Dublin, London, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Syracuse, Princeton, State College of Idaho, College of Puget Sound, Oxford, Durham, Philadelphia Divinity school, and Ohio Wesleyan.
"That problem didn't last long," he
You really oughta see John Mason's swimming shorts.
The story—and the shorts—started last spring, when Mason was with the Yankee division, pushing forward into Austria. When V-E day had come and the fighting gone, the Lawrence man decided he needed a little recreation.
Mason, a College freshman before he went into the army in 1942, has the shorts at his 623 Indiana street home now, and they're enough to make Adolf Hitler squirm in his grave.
Swimming was the easiest sport available, but he had no trunks.
explained today. "I found a big old Nazi flag, and just made a pair of swimming shorts out of them."
The shorts are just part of a collection of German flags, guns, and knives Mason brought home with him. He was discharged from the army last week, and plans to re-enroll in K.U. next semester.
"Boy, those prisoners looked daggers at me," he laughed. "I bet that was the first time they'd ever seen a swastika in exactly that place!"
Everything went fine until one day Mason detoured by the prisoner of war stockade on his way to the swimming "hole."
explained that the board expects to publish a 40-page magazine, sell it for 25 cents a copy, solicit no local advertising, and "probably" have Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, English instructor, for a sponsor.
The magazine will be published in Lawrence and all money taken in by the publication will be deposited in the business office under the name of the magazine.
The editorial board expects to publish the "Bitter Bird" during the remainder of the present school year, and after the "Sour Owl" comes back, the new publication will "fight it out" to see which publication will continue, Herriott said.
The "Sour Owl," a humor magazine published by Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, became a war casualty in February 1942, but was revived again in November, 1944, with the All-Student Council sponsoring the publication. Clark Henry was editor of the magazine.
The 1944 "Sour Owl" was banned from the mails for the first time in its history, because it "contained obscene literature," postal authorities ruled. A further investigation of the magazine by the administration resulted in all staff members whose names appeared on the title page being barred from all student activities and prohibited from holding any office or employment at the University.
Members of the "Bitter Bird" editorial board are Keith Wilson, George Padgett, Richard Ehrman, Frank Curry, Donald McCaul, Gene Glotzbach, Richard Ong, and Herriott.
Mrs. Calderwood explained today that she has not yet made up her mind definitely about accepting the faculty sponsor's post, but that she is "entertaining the thought seriously."
Turney Elected
The Western Civilization elected Austin Turney, Jr., chairman of its new program committee, at a meeting last night in Green hall. Prof. Hilden Gibson served as moderator in a discussion, "Democracy."
Other members of the committee are Anita Bedell, Beverly Pike, Robert Ryberg, and Virginia Joseph.
ON THE INSIDE
One of the most famous poems ever written by a K.U. man — "Each In His Own Tongue," by William Herbert Carruth. Page 2.
A full page of society news, including three of the organized house series. Page 3.
K. U. has a "patron saint," and she gave us dormitories, scholarships, and a hospital. Page 4.
Our Graduate School dean "rests" his mind by considering the moon, the planets, and the stars. A profile on Page 5.
The inside dope on the Jayhawker "darkhorse" track team, plus the men's intramural basketball league standings. Page 6.
The U.S. will keep peace in the Pacific by keeping island bases there, U.P. Analyst Louis Keemle declares. Page 8.