University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, Dec. 17, 1945
43rd Year No.57
Lawrence, Kansas
UNO Site Selection Postponed to January
London. (UP)-The UNO preparatory commission decided today to postpone at least until the assembly meeting in January selection of a specific site in the United States for the permanent headquarters of the United Nations organization.
Dallas, Tex. (UP)—Greyhound bus service in the southwest was resumed today after a 45-day strike tieup. More than 2,000 workers were involved.
A conciliation settled the dispute Friday night with drivers getting approximately three-quarters of a cent a mile raise and terminal workers from $5 to $15 a month more.
Total Moon Eclipse Tomorrow Night
Washington. (UP)—Barring inter-
fering cloud formations, you can
watch the moon turn from silver to
coppery red tomorrow night in the
first total eclipse visible in this
country since Aug. 26, 1942.
The preliminary phases of the lunar eclipse will start at 5:38 p.m. The period of totality will begin at 7:40 p.m., and will last until 9 p.m., according to the naval observatory
During the period of totality the moon will be in the earth's shadow, accounting for the apparent change in color.
Manhattan. (UP)—A survey made at Kansas State revealed today that of 350 service veterans who have returned to school, 19 per cent were enrolled in veterinary medicine.
Detroit, (UP)—Thousands of non-trickling General Motors office workers returned to their jobs today and the CIO United Auto Workers union announced it had advised local unions to permit clerical forces to pass picket lines.
Washington. (UP)—The Supreme Court today granted a formal stay of execution to Japanese Gen. Tomoruki Yamashitta, who has been sentenced to hang at Manila as a war criminal. The court granted the stay until it has time to consider his appeal for a civil trial in this country.
New Policy May Help Unify Chinese Groups
Washington. (UP)—Diplomatic observers believed today that President Truman's new statement on U.S. policy toward China had better prospects for unifying China's two vital political groups.
Mr. Truman called for a truce between Chinese Nationalists and Communists and for eventual consolidation under the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. He intimated that American financial and economic assistance in postwar rehabilitation might not be forthcoming if China did not respond.
Washington (UP)—The Pearl Harbor investigating committee heard today that the navy provided special equipment to break Japanese codes for the U.S. Asiatic fleet at Manila but not for the Pacific fleet at Hawaii where Japan struck the war's opening blow.
Cold Wave Grips Nation; 58 Die
(By United Press)
Fifty-eight persons were reported to have died over the weekend because of the cold, fog, snow, and slippery highways as a cold wave gripped the nation. Subzero weather swept the midwest and north while temperatures in the sunny south tumbled to below freezing.
Another snow storm was sweeping across Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska today and the regional forecast office at Kansas City predicted that as much as four inches might fall in northeastern Kansas and the northern two-thirds of Missouri.
It was snowing today in Nebraska in Kansas and in northwestern Missouri.
Sleet, snow or freezing rain was forecast for northern Oklahoma and the snow may change to sleet in southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri tomorrow.
Heavy winter fog was blamed for a train wreck at Kollock, S. C., that cost the lives of at least seven persons yesterday, and transportation in the Buffalo, N. Y., area was paralleled in one of the greatest snowstorms in the city's history. Forty-eight inches fell during the storm
Some trains, especially on the New York Central system, were delayed because of the Buffalo blizzard. Many were being rerouted through Detroit and Windsor. East-west planes were grounded in many of the northern cities.
Coldest city was Williston, N.D.
with a 22 below.
Five persons died in Colorado during the weekend in highway accidents and car-train wrecks in Illinois took six lives. West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania each reported at least one slippery highway death.
Excepting slight moderation in some areas, no major relief from the cold wave was expected this week, the weather bureau said.
Koo's Speech to Open Religious Week
T. Z. Koo, Chinese Christian philosopher, will speak at the convocation to open Religious Emphasis week Jan. 15, Julia Ann Casad, president of the Student Religious council, announced today.
The committee plans to have a "trial of religion" with a student jury and a case presented by students and faculty members, according to Miss Casad. It also is planning informal group meetings and house discussions.
The religious council recently chose students to elect a committee to plan activities for Religious Emphasis week. Those serving on the committee are Lois Thompson, Jack Hollingworth, and Ruth Puls.
The questionnaires regarding Religious Emphasis week which were distributed last week have been collected and the results are being tabulated.
Religious Emphasis week will end Jan. 20 with a union meeting of all religious groups in the University.
Thev're Out (And Down) on Potter Lake
Kansas—Tonight cloudy with light to moderate snow east. Colder west and extreme south central. Low temperatures 5 above extreme north and west to 15 above central. Partly cloudy and colder Tuesday, preceded by light snow extreme east in morning.
WEATHER
They're out (and down) on Potter lake again.
Sunday night about twenty persons alternately skimmed over three inches of ice (measured by two Navy boys and dates, using an ice pick and a ruler) and huddled around a fire at the edge of the lake.
Weather reports indicate the cool (?) temperatures will continue to keep Potter in condition for the ice capades, if the skaters can keep themselves in condition—where it counts.
Gardiner Heads Atomic Age Group
Students interested in atomic energy and a world organization for its control organized the Atomic Age association at their meeting in the Union building Friday night after Prof. Hilden Gibson's report on the Rocky Mountain atomic energy conference which he attended in Denver.
Mrs. Jean Gardiner, College senior, was elected chairman of the group and Marjorie Bentley, Loren King, Rosalie Erwin, Octavia Walker and Jeanne Ackley were named to the association executive council.
"There is no secret about atomic energy; the only advantage the United States, Great Britain and Canada have is the 'know how'." Professor Gibson said.
Professor Gibson pointed out that student discussion of the problem had reached conclusions similar to those of the conference; that is, that the most practical defense is avoiding wars, but if war comes, the bomb will be used, and lacking a world organization, we cannot control the bomb by national ligation.
"A world state is in the cards!" concluded Professor Gibson. "The only question is whether we have it with another war or not."
The association plans to meet again Jan. 11.
A public morning worship service, directed by the Y.W.C.A., will be held in the Myers hall chapel at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
YW Plans Worship At Myers Tomorrow
Julia Ann Casad will have charge, with the help of the Worship Workshop of the Y.W.C.A.
Dramatic Group to Meet
Dramatic Workshop will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, in the Little Theater of Green hall Virginia Urban, president, announced today.
The program will feature a choral reading, "The Conqueror," by Belle Cumming Kennedy. Other persons taking part are Florence Hope, Dorothy Hoover, Emalouise Britton, Jeanne Ackley, and Dora Ann Brown. Organ music will be provided by Mary Jo Cox, and carols will be sung by the audience.
All-Student Council members will sing Christmas carols at each organized house between 9:30 and 11 p.m. tomorrow, Mary Margaret Gaynor, public relations chairman, announced today.
Council to Carol For Chapel Fund
The group is caroling to raise money for a student contribution to Danforth chapel. Collections will be made at each house when the group sings there.
The faculty has given approximately $630 toward building the chapel and the student body has contributed nothing. The Council has planned the caroling trip to give students an opportunity to add to the chapel fund.
How the contributions will be used depends upon the aount raised, Miss Gaynor said.
After the caroling the group will meet at the home of Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, for refreshments.
Western Civilization Forum Tonight
The Western Civilization forum will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Little theater of Green hall.
"Liberalism of John Stuart Mill vs. Liberalism of Dewey" will be discussed by W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science.
$2,500 Award Offered for Best K.U. Manuscript
A $2,500 annual literary award will be given for the best manuscript submitted by a University student or faculty member for five years beginning in June, 1947, by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York Publishers, the Daily Kansan learned today.
The award, administered through the William Allen White School of Public Information, will be "the most important of this kind the University ever has had," according to Dr. John H. Nelson, assistant dean of the Graduate school.
Details of the award, released by Putnam's in New York today, merely said "the first award, to be announced in June, 1947, will be for a completed manuscript or project." It did not specify the type of manuscript, but it did limit participants to University students or faculty members.
Dean Nelson pointed out that entries will not be confined to journalism students or faculty. Complete eligibility rules will be announced later, he said.
Judges will be Chancellor Deane W. Malott; Kenneth L. Rawson, Putnam's editor, and Fredric Bobcock, Chicago Tribune book editor.
University Eases Housing Shortage
The housing shortage at the University of Kansas is being licked, according to Dean Henry Werner, director of student affairs.
Housing facilities for 64 men will be constructed under Memorial stadium by the fall term next year.
Release of fraternity houses in February by the Navy will give students six more roofs over their heads. One of the houses, Templin Hall, will be used to use 40 girls
Four University-owned houses, next to the stadium on McCook street, are being converted into women's dormitories and will be ready for 35 students by February. These houses will have runways constructed between them and they will be under the direction of one housemether.
Independents Meet Tonight
Plans are being drawn for an addition behind Robinson gymnasium to provide facilities for 56 men.
The Independent council will meet at 7 o'clock tonight in the Pine room of the Union, Anna Marie Stevens, vice-president of Independents, announced.
Four More Days Till Vacation--- If the Profs Let Us Live That Long
Just four more days.
But what days! Students will not find time hanging heavy as they mop their fevered brows and whir into extra pre-vacation exams Christmas parties, term papers, caroling, last-minute shopping, basketball games, and packing.
In between times, they can attend classes.
Just in case anyone has not heard, the University's first peacetime Christmas vacation in half a decade will begin officially with the 12:20 whistle Saturday. It is a safe guess, however, that students with no Sat-
unday morning classes will have left Lawrence far behind by Friday night.
Sailors and 12-week students will be back in time for New Year's eve, returning Dec. 31, while students in the regular fall term will begin classes Jan. 7, after 17 days of freedom.
Termination of the Southwestern Greyhound strike raises hopes that the Thanksgiving mob scene at the bus station will not be repeated, and prospective travelers decide they can safely sing "Till Be Home for Christmas" without having to hitchhike.