University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, December 14, 1945
43rd Year No. 56
Lawrence, Kansas
Michigan U. Finds Influenza Vaccine
Ann Arbor, Mich. (UP) - The University of Michigan announced today that an effective vaccine against influenza has been produced by its school of public health.
The vaccine was developed as part of a military medical program and until recently was available only to the services.
Its availability to civilians will depend on the speed with which it is produced commercially.
Heidelberg, (UP)—General George S. Patton today was pronounced by his physicians out of danger "barring unforeseen complications."
Col. R. G. Spurling, Louisville, Ky., Patton's physician, added, however, that Patton still faced the possibility of partial paralysis for the remainder of his life.
Britain Accepts Loan On U.S. Conditions
Washington. (UP)—The U. S. program to create freer world trade conditions took a step forward today with British Commons' acceptance of the terms of the four billion 400 million dollar American loan and the Bretton Woods monetary and economic plan.
Under the terms of the loan Britain agrees to reduce or abolish many of her long-standing trade restrictions.
Washington. (UP) - Sen. George
shall will leave tomorrow for his
new post in China as the personal
ambassador of President Truman,
the White House announced today.
(UP)—CIO United Auto Workers pickets let non-striking office workers enter five General Motors plants today, and the Senate labor committee postponed consideration of President Truman's proposed labor legislation until after the holidays.
Washington (UP)—Louis B. Mayer,
Hollywood film magnate, led the list
of high U.S. salary earners for the
1943-44 fiscal year, a treasury report
disclosed today. He received
$908,070 from Loew's, Inc.
British Experts Tackle Two-Ton Live Bomb
Croydon (UP)—Britain's top bomb disposal experts today tackled the job of removing, pound-by-pound, 3,000 pounds of live TNT from the unexploded two-ton Herman bomb which has lain buried deep in a south Croydon residential district since it was dropped by the Germans nearly five years ago.
Two young British engineers were lowered into the 43-foot deep crator for a second try at disarming the bomb, the largest unexploded missile remaining to be extracted from the British countryside.
Denver. (UP)—A demand that 2,275 excess housing facilities be moved from Wichita, Kan., to Denver alleviate the increasing housing shortage of Denver was presented to Gov. John C. Vivian and city officials today.
Nuerenhberg. (UP)—Top Gestapo officials estimated in August, 1944, that the Nazi extermination campaign against the Jews had taken approximately six million lives, including about four million Jews killed in special extermination camps, the war crimes tribunal was informed today.
Pearl Harbor Legal Staff Quits
Washington (UP)—The Pearl Harbor committee's legal staff resigned today with a charge of time-wasting and Chairman Alben W. Barkley, D., Kentucky, threatened to resign.
Chief Counsel William D. Mitchell told the House-Senate investigating committee that he and his three colleagues would quit as soon as they could be replaced.
He said the hearings were dragging on much longer than he had expected them to and that he and his staff had not yet been permitted to present new data hitherto never made public.
Mitchell said that a month of public hearings has convinced the legal staff that the inquiry cannot be completed by early January as all of them had contamplated it would.
Barkley expressed regret at the legal staff's decision. He added, however, that the time also had come when he must determine whether his duties on the committee outweigh his responsibilities as Democratic leader of the Senate.
Mitchell notified the committee at the start of today's session that the hearings have reached a point where a complete replacement of the committee's legal staff is necessary.
He said the legal staff had worked day and night and Sundays for two and a half months preparing pertinent evidence that has never been reproduced at any previous inquiry about Pearl Harbor.
The decision climaxed a running battle between the legal staff and Republican members of the committee which began even before public hearings were opened a month ago.
"Since the start of the hearings it has become increasingly apparent that some members of the committee have a different view than that entertained by counsel, either as to the scope of the inquiry or as to what is pertinent evidence." Mitchell said.
Mitchell mentioned no names. But there was no doubt that his remarks were addressed at three of the four Republican members of the 10-man committee.
Kansas: Fair and cold tonight and tomorrow. Low temperatures tonight 5 to 10 below zero northwest to 8 to 12 above zero extreme southeast portion.
WEATHER
That will be after February, when most of the navy uniforms will disappear from the Hill. With them will go an era in University history, that of service of the state's greatest school to the men of its country.
Someday not too distant, one K.U. coed will turn to another and sav:
"Remember when all those yum-yum sailor boys were on the campus?"
ON THE INSIDE
To mark this event of more than passing interest, the Daily Kansan has rounded up a few anecdotes and a bit of the significance of the navy's passing, complete with pictures.
It's a pretty lively yarn, including a couple of stories no one ever dared print before. Page 4.
Odd We To Print It?
Did you ever thing that it was odd that Odd Williams is called Odd? Just take a look at the boy and you will find that he is not really odd, even though every one calls him Odd. Perhaps Odd's mother, when she looked at him for the first time, said "How odd!"
Odd Williams proved himself not to be so odd when it came to playing on a basketball court. In fact Odd was not odd at all. He really is Odd though, isn't he?
Could be that Odd was like Odd McIntiite so everyone called him Odd because it was odd that he was like Odd?
His real name is Edgar, which he hates. It's his nickname, that's Odd.
Intricate isn't it?
Gibson to Report On Atom Conference At Student Meeting
Prof. Hilden Gibson, political science department, will report on the Atomic Age conference which he attended in Denver this week, at the student atomic discussion meeting at 8 tonight in the English room of the Union.
Mrs. Jean Cardiner, College senior, acting chairman of this non-federated group, stated that the only motivation for these discussion meetings is interest, and that anyone, student or faculty member, may attend, ideas, reports, correspondence, and research on the constructive use of the atomic bomb, she added, offers opportunity for the furthering of internationalism.
Mayhew, Walsh Are Slick Weather Victims
"Correspondence with University students in this and in other countries, as discussed in the two previous meetings, should help us understand the rest of the world," she said.
Several bruises and a black eye, resulting from a sled ride Wednesday, were the only "slick weather" casualties reported at the Watkins Memorial hospital this week. Dr. Ralph I. Canutsson, director, said this morning. The victims, Patricia Walsh, College freshman, and Tommy Mayhew, business junior, were treated and released yesterday.
High School Play Tuesday
The senior class of the University High school will present "Arsenic and Old Lace," at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser theater.
What a Cold, Cold World It Is
Houston, Tex. (UP) — C. D. Warren stopped at Houston's busiest intersection and stepped in the doorway of a drug store to get out of the rain.
A tall man walked up, shivered and remarked:
Warren agreed. Then the man pulled a billfold out of his pocket. "But I've got some money," he said.
"Looks like it's gonna get cold."
"Me too," relied Warren, not to be outdone, as he flashed 80 bucks.
"Reckon I'd better take yours too," said the stranger, pulling a nickel-plated pistol. The tall man took the billfold and disappeared in the rain and passing crowd.
Directs Program
DEAN D. M. SWARTHOUT
Pay Raise Nearer For K.U. Veterans
The 500 K.U. veterans are virtually assured bigger and easier-to-get loans and more liberal education benefits today as House-Senate conferences agreed on amendments to the G.I. bill of rights.
The amendments, springing from widespread dissatisfaction with some of the provisions of the original bill, now go to the respective houses for approval, the United Press reported.
The changes in the bill would:
Raise substance allowances for veterans taking educational or training courses from the present $50 a month for single veterans and $75 for married veterans to $65 and $90 a month. Disabled veterans would get $105 a month instead of the present $92, with extra allowances for dependents. The age limit would be lifted on veterans wanting to go to school and they would be permitted to take correspondence courses and short-period, high-cost technical courses.
Permit the government to guarantee veteran real estate loans up to $4,000 instead of the present maximum of $2,000.
Music, Tableaux Will Highlight Holiday Vespers
The annual School of Fine Arts Christmas vespers and tableaux under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, will be presented at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium by the University a cappella choir, the string and symphony orchestra, and two ensembles.
Student participants in four tableaux, entitled "The End of the Journey," "Nativity," "The Wise Men," and "Exultation," will be Jack Hollingsworth, Mary Sherrard, Ailson Jones, Roy Rogers, Billy Schafer, Howard Canniff, Austin Harmon, Marion Greenlee, Annette Etter, Eleanor Pack, Jeanice Allen, and Ina Roderick.
Soloists with the choir are Nadyne Brewer and Barbara Day. Robert Jeral Hamilton will accompany the choir's presentation of Savino's cantata "O Wond'rous Star" at the organ. Prof. Laurel Everette Anderson will accompany other numbers. Prof. Joseph Wilkins, tenor, will sing two solos from Handels' "Messiah".
Participants in two string ensembles will be Prof. Waldemar Gelth, Helen Pierson, Ednah Hopkins, Prof. Raymond Stuhl, Martha Le Baxter, Meryn Anderson, Ruth Ann Starr, Prof. Allie Merle Conger.
Prof. Russell L. Wiley will direct the orchestra and the string orchestra, and D. M. Swarthout, dean of the Schol of Fine Arts, will direct the a capella choir and the audience.
'Practice of Democracy' Group Sponsors Civil Rights Talk
The Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, some of whose members hold K.U. faculty positions, is sponsoring a talk on "Civil Rights Laws" in a public meeting open to students at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Community building.
The speaker will be Philip Dergance, Lawrence attorney and former assistant attorney-general of Colorado.
Kolich Undergoes Operation
John Kolich, N.R.O.T.C. junior, underwent an appendicitis operation at the Watkins Memorial hospital Tuesday.
13 Women (Besides His Wife) Are In Hank Brown's Hair-um
By FRANK CURRY (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
Brigham Young had nothing on Henry Morgan Brown.
Right now Henry has a 13 point lead on Brigham. Henry, you see, is "house popa" at Ricker hall, but stop drooling, fellas, Mr. Brown is married to the house mother.
Henry and his wife, Ernestine, were faced this fall, with the problem of finding a place to live. Also there was the problem of jobs. Being house parents seemed a complete answer to these problems.
"Tina got a job and we got a place to live." Hank explained.
Hank and Tina are popular with the girls at Ricker. He, it seems, is known among the 14 girls for his ability to play nursery rhymes on the piano. While his wife declined to comment on Hank's musical gift, he explained:
"I'm taking up piano where I left off . . . about 15 years ago."
In addition to his music, Hank
finds time for his studies as a College junior majoring in psychology, and for his work at the Photographic bureau. He was a photographer in the Navy. His wife, besides being Ricker hall's house mother, is a freshman in the College.
In his spare time Hank acts as a sort of general handy man.
"I lock up," he says as he draws up to his full six feet four, "and I look after the automatic stoker."
Henry has a red bathrobe he wears around the house. Last Christmas Tina gave Hank a book of jokes, and now, when the conversation gets dull, he reads the girls jokes, or pops popcorn for them.
"I'm a popcorn fanatic, I guess," he admitted. His wife agrees bitterly.
"Hank tries to look like a college Joe, but he only looks like a big, clumsy, awkward guy," she finishes fondly.
The 14 girls sigh and admit it's nice to have a man around the house.