University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, January 7, 1946
43rd Year No. 61
Lawrence, Kansas
Army to Hold 375,000 in Pacific
Manila. (UP)—Lt. Gen. W. D. Styer told angry G. I's marching in protest through the Manila streets today the U. S. army will keep a post-war garrison of 375,000 in the Pacific to protect American interests.
A giant rally of 20,000 soldiers was staged at the city hall in early evening to protest demobilization.
London. (UP)—American delegates to the United Nations assembly today indicated that discussion of an atomic energy commission would await the arrival of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, whose agreement at Moscow regarding the commission lacked full support of the delegation.
U.S., Britain OK Austrian Government
London (UP)—The Brits foreign office branch for Germany and Austria announced today that the British government has recognized the new government of Austria.
British recognition coincided with a similar move by the United States.
Laguna Beach, Calif. (UP) -Gangling Slim Summerville, who spent 35 years in motion pictures, will be buried tomorrow in Inglewood cemetery. Summerville, 54-year-old comedian, died Saturday night at his beach home of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Washington. (UP)—The government asked men's clothing stores today to put "for veterans only" signs on most if not all their stocks of hard-to-get apparel.
37 Killed, 200 Injured In Southern Tornado
(UP)—Tornadie winds, slashing haphazardly at sparsely populated sections of Mississippi and Arkansas, today brought the toll of week-end storm casualties to at least 37 persons killed and 200 injured.
Coila, Miss., a village of 150 persons, was demolished.
Manhattan. (UP)—A new 4-H service award carrying college scholarships of $250 each for the outstanding club boy and girl in Kansas was announced today by state 4-H club headquarters at Kansas State headquarters.
In addition to the scholarships, the winners will receive a $100 educa-
tional trip and speaking tour of the stude.
Washington. (UP)—Earl G. Harrison, who surveyed conditions of Jews in Europe for President Truman, told the Anglo-American Palestine Committee today that European Jews were leaving Poland as early as last July in an effort to escape persecution and death.
He referred to a statement by Gen. Sir Fredrick Morgan, UNRRA chief in Germany that Jews were leaving Poland in an organized movement.
Hangking (UP)Gen. George C. Hall, U. S. special envoy, announced today that "good progress had been made" at the first formal meeting of the three-man peace committee to study a formula for ending China's civil war.
Tri Delta Buys House on Louisiana
Delta Delta Delta has bought the house at 1115 Louisiana street which will serve as a chapter house until building plans can be completed, Louise McIntire, pledge president, said today. The building will be ready for occupancy in April.
Labor Talks Of Its Own Party
(By United Press)
Formation of a labor party was suggested today as current labor disputes indicated that more than 1,500,000 workers may join 376,000 already idle unless settlements are reached within a week to 10 days.
The warning of formation of a labor party came as three big C.I.O. unions continued their drives for ware increases.
John Green, Camden, N.J., president of the International Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, told 1,105 delegates to the C.I.O. union's 11th convention at Atlantic City that there should be more instead of less political action by unions in their fight to maintain and extend gains in behalf of labor.
In disputes of nationwide scope: ONE. Seven hundred thousand members of the United Steel Workers, second biggest C.I.O. union, were scheduled to walk off their jobs Jan. 14.
TWO. Officers of the United Electrical Workers, next in C.I.O. strength, set a Jan. 15 strike date for 200,000 members employed by General Electric, Westinghouse and General Motors.
THREE. A.F.L. officials authorized 135,000 meat workers to join 200,000 C.I.O. packinghouse workers in a work stoppage slated for Jan. 16.
Navy Lowers 'For Sail' Flag Until July
By MARTHIA JEWETT (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
The navy will stay until July.
The V-12 and N.R.O.T.C programs will be continued until July 1, according to word received from Washington, Capt. Chester A. Kunz, navy commanding officer, announced today.
Navy programs were to have been discontinued at the close of the present semester, Capt. Kunz said. Congress now has passed a bill extending the navy education programs until June 30.
Plans have been made for all V-12 and N.R.O.T.C. students to occupy the six PTs now in operation to make room in Lindley hall for about 75 navy V-5 students who will arrive on the campus in time for the second semester. These V-5's will be freshmen and will enroll in freshman courses.
The navy will continue to use all the University facilities it now has. fraternities will continue to occupy their present houses.
Captain Kunz said he did not know from what section of the United States these V-5's would come, but it was possible that some would come in from the fleet.
The sailors at the University won't be discarding their bell-bottom trousers for the new-styled uniforms before July, Capt. Kunz continued.
The new uniforms have been sent to selected naval stations to be used by navy personnel to determine their advantages.
Announcing-
A son Reverdy L. Mullins, III, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Reverdy L. Mullins, Jr., Friday in the Lawrence Memorial hospital. Mullins is a junior at the University and is a staff announcer of the University radio station KFKU.
K.U.-Tigers Battle Tonight
Local basketball fans will see the 1946 version of the Kansas basketball team in action tonight when the Jayhawkers meet the Missouri Tigers in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 in their first conference game.
Students will be admitted by basketball season tickets or may purchase tickets at the door. Basketball season tickets which include five home games may still be obtained at the athletic office.
For the first time since his return to the campus Otto Schnellbacher, the second member of the Iron Five to return to the court, will play on home territory. During the three encounters at the All-College tournament in Oklahoma City, he massed 23 points for the Jay-hawkers.
In the first round of the all-college tourney, the Jayhawkers stopped Rice Institute by a 42 to 34 margin. After Rice knotted the game 7-all, Kansas flew ahead to a 24 to 11 edge at the half, and sailed through the second half with ease.
A Review of Vacation Activities
Kansas suffered it first loss in nine starts when the Oklahoma Aggies, led by 7-foot Bob Kurland, took the Jayhawkers, 46 to 28, in the semi-finals of the tournament. The Aggies defensive grip was so tight that the Jayhawkers scored only two field goals during the last half, both of them in the first three minutes.
And They Called It 'A Time for Rest'
It's been a long, long time—since Christmas vacation began 17 days ago. And what a vacation!
Faculty members vacationed according to the particular term in which they were teaching, some returning with the 12-week students Dec.31.
For students in the 12-week semester, it ended a week ago. For others, it ended at 8:30 this morning, or later if alarm clocks had forgotten how to go off. Tomorrow will be time enough to take a deep breath and begin the last-month grind before finals. Today, the memory lingers on.
Here are some of the important things which took place while you were gone;
700 Back Early
Christmas vacation ended a week ago today for 700 University students, mostly veterans and navy trainees enrolled in the 12-week term which began Nov. 1.
The short term was arranged to enable veterans released from the service after September to enroll during the fall and winter months, instead of waiting until the spring semester. The term also accommodates the N.R.O.T.C. program which began at K.U., Nov. 1.
Students enrolled in the November terms received a shorter vacation so that they might complete the session in time to enroll with other University students in the regular spring semester which begins Feb. 11.
Faculty members holding administrative positions had Dec. 24 and Christmas day as holidays.
Lowell H. Pronske, 17, engineering freshman from Linn, died with his father, Paul E. Pronske, oil dealer, when the plane in which they were riding crashed near Linn, Dec. 28. Both men were licensed pilots, and the plane had been a Christmas gift from father to son.
Lowell Pronske Dies
The former student Pronske was a pledge to Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Campus veterans are among the nation's discharged servicemen who will receive a $15 pay hike under the G.I. Bill of Rights and Public Law 346 (for disabled veterans) soon.
Vets Get $15 Raise
The University was represented by many staff members at various teachers meetings at cities over the United States during the holidays.
At Teachers Meetings
Presenting papers at one or more meetings were Profs. E. C. Buehler, speech department, who attended the Delta Sigma Rho meeting, Columbus, Ohio; John C. Frye, L. R. Laudon, and M. L. Thompson, geology department, at the Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Miss Anna D. McCracken, instructor in the correspondence study bureau,
at the Southwestern Philosophical conference, Dallas, Texas; L. L. Barrett and W. H. Shoemaker, romance language department, at the Modern Language association of America, Chicago, Ill.; L. R. Lind, department of Latin and Greek, at the American Philological association, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dean F. J. Moreau, School of Law, at the Association of American Law Schools, Chicago.
Other staff members who attended association meetings in Pittsburgh were Dr. R. C. Moore, Russell Jeffords, Ada Swineford and Dr. Claude Hibbard. Dean J. H. Nelson, assistant dean of the Graduate school, attended the meetings of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago.
Bond-a-Day for Quigley
It was a happy new year for Athletic Director E. C. Quigley, who ended 1945 ahead of his goal to sell "a bond a day" to reduce the Memorial stadium indebtedness.
On New Year's eve, Quig had received 370 $100 bonds, and the stadium debt had been reduced $50,000.
He has set the same goal for 1946.
$20,000 for Housing
Santa Claus left a gift of $20,000 from an anonymous donor in the University's stocking during the Christmas holidays, Chancellor Deane W. Malott has announced.
According to specifications, the money is to be used for University housing.
Downs Aided In Biological Warfare Study
By JANE ANDERSON
(Daily Kansas Feature Editor)
A group of 40 scientists and technicians under Miss Cora Mitchell Downs, professor of bacteriology at the University, spent the war years seeking preventive measures for infectious diseases which might be spread through the United States by enemy biological warfare, Dr. Downs revealed today.
Head of one of the projects in bacteriological warfare at Camp Detrick at Frederick, Md., from August, 1943, until October, 1945. Professor Downs directed the work there and also set up a similar research laboratory at the University.
Helping her with the project were Luther Buchele, assistant instructor in bacteriology; Mrs. Tom Hamilton, Kansas City; Jean Elder, Lawrence; Lt. (j.g.), Barbara Owen, Kansas City; and Capt. L. L. Coriell, Detroit; W. Linston Miller, Paola; Lt. William Tanner, Aurora, Ill.; Lt. (j.g.) Mary Abts, Iola; Dr. Kenneth Goodner of the Rockefeller Foundation; Dr. Clara Nigg, New Brunswick, N.J.; and Dr. T. H. Hayes, Missoula, Mont.; all graduates of the University's bacteriology department and some of them former students of Professor Downs.
The United States did not intend to use disease germs as a defensive weapon, but the work consisted of finding ways of detecting and com-
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Postlethwaite to Head Memorial Office
The return of Maj. Kenneth E. Postlethwaite, Mankato, to the University as a staff member was announced today by Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, Maj. Postlethwaite will direct the office of the Memorial association in its collection of funds and in the building of a scenic driveway and campanile, as the University's memorial to its more than seven thousand students and former students serving in World War II.
Maj. Postlethwaite has been connected with the University since 1930 as a student, as director of the news bureau, and as a newspaper correspondent. He left Lawrence January 6, 1941, as a second Ente刃ant with the Kansas National Guard. Later he was transferred from the infantry and made a public relations officer in charge of air raid wardens and other volunteer defense organizations in western Oregon. Later he was transferred to Ft. Monmouth, N.J., as orientation and education officer.
Journalism Offers First Extension Course
The first extension division course in journalism offered by the University will be started tonight in the Hotel Continental, Kansas City, Mo. Designed for editors of trade journals, company magazines, and employee publications, it was outlined by Prof. Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the department of journalism.
Demand for the specialized training came primarily from members of the Kansas City unit of the Southwest Association of Industrial Editors.