University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1945
43rd Year No. 58
Lawrence Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Reds Aided Revolt Iran Government Says
Tehran. (UP)—The government of Iran charged today that the Azerbaiyan uprising was fomented by a member of the Baku Communist party and that Russian forces in north Iran hamstrung Tehran's efforts to crush the rebellion.
An official statement by the government charged that a Soviet foreign affairs memorandum to the United States concerning the immediate withdrawal of Allied troops from Iran "by no means is consistent with the actual facts, which by now are well known throughout the world."
Washington. (UP) "The house to-day passed and sent to the senate a bill to restore the two-cent postage rate on first class local mail.
Television Conspiracy Attacked by U.S
New York. (UP)—An anti-truss suit charging Paramount Pictures Inc., and four other corporations with a worldwide conspiracy to control manufacture and sale of revolutionary equipment that makes possible projection of television pictures the size of motion picture screens was filed by the government in US. district court today
"The suit said the defendants' acts delayed the opening of a new field of public entertainment and education."
Washington. (UP) - Charles A Lindbergh, noted aviator and one-time non-interventionist, today favors a world organization backed by "overwhelming" power to prevent an atomic war.
Washington. (UP)—Finland is still paying her World War I debt to the United States on time. No nation but Finland has kept up with her principal and interest on World War I debts to this country.
Washington. (UP)—The house today passed and sent to the senate a bill to provide for return home of the bodies of service personnel who died abroad in World War II.
Heavy Seas Damage Troopship in Atlantic
London. (UP)—The U.S. heavy cruiser Augusta, loaded with homeward bound American troops, flashed word that she had been damaged by heavy seas in a north Atlantic gale today and was turning back for emergency repairs in a British port.
London. (UP)—The United Nations preparatory commission today formally approved Jan. 10 as the opening date of the first meeting of the UNO assembly.
Chicago (UP)—The Journal of the American Medical association reported today that a new drug, tridione, was destined to remove the blighting effect of epilepsy.
London. (UP)—Mrs. Randolph Churchill was granted an uncontested divorce decree on grounds of desertion today after she testified that the former prime minister's only son chafed at the bonds of matrimony and seemed to prefer bachelor life.
Books Due Friday
All library books are due Friday, Dec. 21, C. M. Baker, library director, said today.
The library will be open daylight hours during Christmas vacation, and closed Christmas day and Saturday afternoons, he added.
UAW Rejects Pay Raise Offer
Detroit. (UP)—The CIO United Automobile Workers union today rejected the Ford Motor company's 15 cents an hour pay raise offer—the highest proposal so far—as the union stuck to its demand for a 30 per cent, industry-wide wage boost.
Tied to the Ford proposal was a condition that the raise would not become effective until car and truck production reaches or exceeds 80,000 units.
In making the wage offer, John S. Bugas, Ford's industrial relations director, said that the company "has decided to risk an additional 33 million dollars" in 1946. Last week, he said that Ford, "even without wage increases," would lose 35 million dollars under present prospects for next year.
"Theoretically, we could ask the government to raise ceiling prices enough to cover wage increases." Engas said. "We do not think it wise to go that road at this time because the present government policy is based on the belief that only rigid adherence to OPA ceiling prices can prevent inflation."
In Detroit, Packard Motor Car company announced today that a progressive shutdown of its Detroit plant has started because of a "suppliers strike" and that nearly 10,000 employees would be idle by Christmas eve.
Quill Club Elects 20 New Members
Twenty new members have been elected to Quill club, John E. Hankins, professor of English, announced. They were chosen on the basis of manuscripts which they submitted.
The new members are attending meetings now although the formal pledging will not take place until next spring. Thirty-three poems, sketches, and short stories were entered for consideration, Professor Hankins said.
Beverly Baumer, Mary Ella Barber, Dorris Bickel, Patricia Glover, Jean Hatch, Helen Hoyt, Helen Jones, Lois Lauer, Harry Lees, James P. Nelson, Teresa June Norton, Alverta Niedens, Janice Ohrle, Donald Ong, Joanne Riney, Barbara Schreiber, Beverly Jean Stucker, Eloise West, Betty J. Wood, and Frank Curry are the new members
Christmas party for the Statewide Activities commission will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Men's lounge of the Student Union, Anne Scott, chairman, announced today. A short business meeting will be held after the party.
Statewide Activities Group To Have Christmas Party
O.T. Party Tonight
The Occupational Therapy club will have a Christmas party at 8 o'clock tonight in the design department, Miss Sarah E. Roberts, occupational therapy, announced today. Susan Sackett and Roberta Watson
will present a marjonette show.
Anna Stevens Is One Council Member Who Can Cook
ANNA MARIE STEVENS
Anna Marie Stevens, College representative from district one to the AJI-Student Council, is chairman of the auditing committee, a member of the charter committee, and constitutional adviser to the Council.
"Steve," as she usually is called, lives in Frankfort and is a senior in the College. She is vice-president of the Independents organization, a member of the Jay James, a proctor in Western Civilization, and president of Omicron Nu.
Her future plans are still undecided. She likes organ music and ping pong, and says dancing and cooking are her hobbies.
Briggs to Speak
Charles Briggs, personnel relations manager for the Marley Cooling Tower company in Kansas City, will be the guest speaker for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers meeting at 7.30 tonight. Mr. Briggs will discuss, "Engineers in Business" in room 206 Marvin hall.
We Have Ants In Our ----p. m., when the moon's north edge is exactly in the center of the shadow caused by the earth's passing between the moon and the sun. At 10:30 p.m., the moon will begin to reappear.
Two thousand ants returned to college last week.
The ants were sent to the National museum at Washington, D.C., two months ago, where they were classified. They are to be placed in the entomology collection at Snow hall.
Nylons Hit Lawrence
Want a pair of nylons?
Fifteen hundred pairs came into Lawrence this morning.
Want a pair of nvlons?
May Extend V-12 Program
But don't break your neck rushing. There were 3,400 names on the store's nylon list before the hose arrived.
K. U. sailors may stay here after all.
Two carloads of new laboratory equipment have been delivered to Lindley hall. This equipment, to be installed when space is available, includes fixtures for chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, mining and metallurgical engineering, and geological survey, and chairs for the auditorium.
KFKU to Broadcast 'A Christmas Carol'
There has been no official termination of the University's contract to house and feed the sailors here, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, revealed today. The contract is for such services "as long as the navy needs them," he explained. Lindley Gets New Equipment
Original plans announced Dec. 5 were to abolish the V-12 program as such at the end of the current semester. Such a change would have released five fraternity houses and Templein hall for civilian housing during the second semester.
That news, not unwelcome to many segments of the University community (especially the coeds), came today from Washington, where Monday Congress passed legislation extending the V-12 program until June 30.
The darkest period will be at 8:20
Why Couldn't It Have Happened On the Navy's Night Out?
The legislation now needs only President Truman's signature to keep the nearly 400 sailors on the campus from deciding whether they shall go to sea or pay for their own schooling after Feb. 1.
A traditional KFKU Christmas broadcast is the reading of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" by Prof. Robert Calderwood of the University department of speech and drama. "A Christmas Carol" will be given at 9:30 tonight.
KFKU's Christmas eve broadcast will feature "Carols From Many Lands," and the Christmas night program will include English carols and the transcribed reading of "Mr. Pickwick's Christmas," by Charles Laughton.
“It's only a paper moon—”
It's only a paper moon.
But if won't be a moon at all tonight, during the first total lunar eclisee since Aug. 25, 1942.
There is no particular advantage in viewing the moon through a telescope, Professor Storer said today, so the observatory will not be open to the public.
Astronomy students, hoping that snow clouds will have done a disappearing act, plan to watch from the observatory on top of Lindley hall, when the earth's shadow first slices off a piece of moon at 6:30 tonight.
N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, will explain the stages of the eclipse to the students, while other observers over the campus try to figure it out for themselves.
If Columbus had not beaten them to the draw, tonight's star gazers could prove that the earth is round, by noticing that the shadow which passes over the moon is curved and realizing that this shadow is the earth.
Just for the record an astronomical almanac furnishes the information that the moon has been or will be eclipsed $5.200^{1}$ times between 1206 B.C. and 2163 A.D. The next eclipse is scheduled for April 12, 1949.
There's only one drawback. Why couldn't it have happened on the navy's night out?
It'll Be Tough Getting Home For Christmas
Going to get home for Christmas?
That became the leading campus question today as snow continued to fall on already dangerous highways and trains that were hours off schedule.
The weatherman said today that the snow would continue to fall all day and into tonight with the temperature dipping to near zero. Eleven degrees above zero at about 11 a.m. today has been recorded as the low for the past 24 hours.
The record low for this year was three degrees below zero Sunday. Yesterday's thermometer registered between five and 15 degrees above zero all day. Last year's lowest temperature was four below zero in February.
Santa Fe trains were reported running about eight hours late, but Union Pacific trains were on time up until noon. Highways through at the state were still open but becoming increasingly dangerous. Long distance buses were running on time, and city buses were only slightly off schedule.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today that if weather conditions became much worse there was a possibility that school would be dismissed.
C. G. Bayles, of the building and grounds department, estimated the snow depth at about 6 inches. He said there had been no power failures. He had no idea how many miles of walks were being cleared off this morning but "everyone who isn't doing something else is showing snow," he said.
Lawrence railroad ticket agents believed today that transportation from Lawrence at the end of the week would be at least as difficult as it was at Christmas time last year.
L. H. Corte, ticket agent for the Santa Fe, said that several extra chair cars had been ordered to alleviate traveling conditions for students leaving Lawrence this week end. The cars will be equally distributed on east and west-bound trains if they arrive, he said.
Lawrence railroad men attribute the transportation tie-up to the fact that more trains are needed for transporting troops to the west coast, as well as for returning veterans from Eurone.
Bus ticket agents do not yet plan any special weekend busses, but Miss Bothene Dixon, ticket agent, said that extras will be put on if needed.
J. H. Robinson, Union Fastie ticket agent, said he believed the railroad transportation jam would not clear up before next summer.
Western Civilization Offers Make-up Quiz
A make-up Western Civilization examination will be held in reading room at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow for these students who were unable to take the preliminary examination Saturday, Prof. Hilden Gibson announced today,
Students who took the examination Saturday and are interested in their scores may call or see their proctors at the Western Civilization office.
Dean Moreau to Chicago
Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law will attend a convention of the Association of American Law schools in Chicago, during Christmas vacation.