University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, December 7, 1945
43rd Year No. 51
Lawrence, Kansas
British Loan Bill Gets Mixed Reception
Washington. (UP)—The proposed four billion, 400 million dollar loan to Britain got a mixed reception in congress today, with one influential member doubtful of London's ability to hold up its end of the agreement.
There was other criticism and some strong opposition to the loan, but indications were that congress would wind up by approving it.
Manila. (UP)—Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, first top flight Japanese war criminal to be tried, was convicted by a five man U.S. military commission today and sentenced to death by hanging.
Marshall 'Can't Recall When He Saw Note
Washington. (UP)—Gen. George C. Marshall said today that he could not recall exactly what time he saw the final intercepted Japanese messages before the attack on Pearl Harbor the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
Committee records show that the messages were intercepted by navy radio at Washington between 3:05 a.m. and 5:07 a.m. Dec. 7.
The attack occurred at 1:25 p.m.
Washington time that same day.
Cleveland, (UP)—Maj. Gen. Claire McNultt today praised former Ambassador Patrick Hurley for openly making charges about state department representatives in China, and added "I know personally that certain individuals sent out by the state department have represented their personal views in disregard of our national policy."
Washington. (UP)—Secretary of State James F. Byrnes declared today that Patrick J. Hurley's charges against U.S. career diplomats in China were without foundation.
Charge Raeder Led Norway Invasion Plan
Nuernberg. (UP)—Grand Admiral Erich Raeder talked Adolf Hitler into invading Norway after the Fuehrer had decided to keep all of Scandinavia neutral, British war crimes prosecutors charged today.
The prosecution described Raeder as he chief Nazi conspirator against Norway. For reasons of navy prestige, the admiral forced Hitler's hand, they charged.
Tokyo. (UP)—The trials of suspected Japanese war criminals including former Hideki Tojo, will begin next month. The 363 Japanese so far arrested will be tried before a court compased presumably of representatives from the four occupying powers.
Tonskau (UP)—Dr. Karl A. Menninger, Topskau, has been appointed manager of the Winter General Hospital, Cindy Daniel Blain, chief of the neuropsychiatric service of the Veterans administration, announced here today.
London (UP)—The House of Commons rejected a Conservative motion to censure the laborite government by a majority vote of 281 to 197 today after a heated exchange between Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill over the Labor party's socialist program.
ELY CULBERTSON
Former K.U. Student Missing on Flight
A former KU. student, Ensign Joseph T. Bossi, 20, is one of the navy fliers missing in the mysterious disapearance of five navy torpedo bomber planes from their Miami, Fla., base this week, the Daily Kansan learned today.
san Francisco.
His sister is Catherine Bossi, College junior from Arkansas City. She lives at 1232 Louisiana street, at Wright Place rooming house. She works in the registrar's office.
The navy notified Miss Bossi that her brother was missing last night.
United Press reports today said that the five bombers, carrying 14 navy personnel, had been missing since Wednesday. It was the first time in naval air history that a whole flight of planes had disappeared without trace.
In early 250 navy planes roared over the Atlantic today in a mighty search for the missing craft.
scientist for the University of Bossi, who was born Christmas day, 1924, enrolled in the University School of Engineering and Architecture Sept. 19, 1942. He attended for nearly two years, withdrawing April 26, 1944, to enter service.
Still Some Paid Jobs In Kansan Advertising
There are still some paid advertising positions open on the business staff of the University Daily Kansan, and interested students, who need not be journalism majors, may apply at the Kansan business office in the Journalism building.
Culbertson, Browne To Lecture Tuesday
Ely Culbertson, autho. of Culbertson peace plan and Lewis Browne, writer and lecturer, will give a discussion from two points of view on "What About Russia?" in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Browne will stress the importance of the psychological approach of the forces now at work in the capitalist nations which are trying to drive us into an early assault on the Soviet Union.
Mr. Culbertson will follow with an exposition giving the reasons why the Soviet Union eventually be driven to attempt an assault on us. The lecture will be the second number in the Community Lectures series.
New University Clubrooms
The University club is negotiating for a lease on property to be used as new clubrooms, it was learned today. The property is at 1005-7 Massachusetts street, next to the Blue Mill.
The program which Paul Snyder, piano professor, will give in his first recital here at 4 p.m. Sunday in Fraser theater, will be as follows:
Snyder Recital First In Musical Series
Traser Instrument
Sonata, Op. 57, Beethoven; Six
Moment Musicales, Op. 94, Shubert;
Sonata, Op. 35, Chopin.
Other coming musical events are the University Symphony orchestra concert Monday night, and the School of Fine Arts Christmas Vespers and Tableaux, Dec. 16.
Donor of Henley House Dies in Los Angeles
--served here this morning.
Mrs. Henley left Lawrence for California in 1924, after suffering a nervous breakdown from overwork.
She spent a great deal of her time in Lawrence philanthropic enterprises.
Mrs. A. Henley, donor of Henley house, died yesterday in Los Angeles, Calif., according to a telegram received here this morning.
prises.
Henley house, 1236 Oread, was donated to the Y.W.C.A., Jan. 12,
1822, by Mrs. Henley for a recreation center and meeting place for
University women.
LEWIS BROWN
Kansas — Continued fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Low temperature tonight 35 to 40.
WEATHER
Carnival Free To Stag Women
Activity books will admit women without dates to the Union carnival in the Military Science building tomorrow at 8 p.m., Joan Woodward, chairman said today.
Admission tickets will be sold downstairs and carnival tickets at a booth on the floor, she said.
Johnny Beach and his orchestra will play for the carnival, an informal skirt and sweater affair, Miss Woodward explained.
Booths added yesterday are bottles throwing, Tau Kappa Epilon; fortune reading, Alpha Omicron Pi; and palm reading, Kappa Sigma.
Despite campus rumors today that the increased number of influenza cases had made it necessary to postpone the carnival, the event will be held as scheduled.
Melvin's Talk Changed To Wednesday
Prof. F. E. Melvin's talk "Is the United States Part of an Atlantic Community of Nations," in the America at Peace series, has been changed from Tuesday to Wednesday night. The lecture will be at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater.
Dr. G. E. Abernathy Here
Dr. G. E. Abernathy, in charge of the southeastern Kansas district office of the State Geological survey, Pittsburg, is in Lawrence for conferences with geological survey staff members.
He Moves the Chairs in Hoch
This Has Been A Busy Week For Hallie
This has been a tough week for Hallie Harris, BMOC.
He was hurt while hiding an idiot who
This has been a tough week for Hallie Harris, BMOC Hallie is the little University building custodian who faces such a Gargantuan task in moving the seats on and off the floor of Hoch auditorium every time there's a basketball game or a concert there.
Monday night, of course, there was a basketball game in the auditorium. That meant the lower floor had to be cleared of 1.040 chairs, so there'd be room for the cagars to pop baskets, not the customers.
That meant the lower floor had to be filled again, to the tune of 1,040 seats plus accessories.
Then Tuesday night, Blanche Thebom loosed her
merzo-soprano voice in Hoch.
Naturally, Miss Thebom had to have a dressing room, and since Hoch has none, one had to be improvised for here under the stage.
(and that muslin walk) are cleared away again.
Hallie doesn't quite do all this work alone. He has a crew of 20, and it takes them four hours a clearing job. The seats have to be dusted every time they are broken out, too, and that's included in the job time.
Those movable seats come in 28 rows, spaced very precisely, and during weeks like this one has been, Hallie doesn't have a moment to sit in a one of his rows.
Hallie came to his present job in 1923. His biggest year was 1943, when the auditorium seats were moved and removed 36 times. He's in charge of all campus buildings except the Union. Whenever an activity meeting takes place, it's his business to organize the seating arrangements.
That BMOC after his name? Oh, yes. Not the usual Big Man on Campus. Hallie is the BUSY Man on Campus.
And of course Miss Thebom had a long train to her concert gown, and a yard-wide strip of muslin had to be tacked on the stage floor as a path over which the gown train could trail.
"Excuse me," he said.
And, oh yes. To tell there's another basketball game. That means those 1,040 chairs, plus accessories.
He had to rush off and place a cushion on a piano bench for a student recital.
186 Pass English Proficiency Test, 15 With Honors
Busy, indeed.
A total of 186 students passed the English proficiency examination, Nov. 10, Mrs. Robert Calderwood, proficiency examination chairman, announced today. Only 20 persons failed.
The 15 students who passed with honors were Jane Anderson, Julia Ann Casad, Rose Coughlin, Marie Horsman, Harry Hughes, Joan Jay, Marguerite Kerschen, Floyd Kichbel, Margaret Lawler, Warren Neal, Grace Piros, Elizabeth Pratt, Rhosten Smith, Margery Stubbs, and Lois Thompson.
The papers on the whole showed sound thinking, and for the most part were well organized, Mrs. Calderwood said.
Students who passed with some question will be called in to the proficiency office. Any student who took the examination and whose name does not appear in this list should see Mrs. Calderwood or Miss Hpnahh Roberts in the office, 591 Fraser hall. Anyone who took the exam may see his paper if he wishes.
The proficiency office is open Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday. 9:30 to
11:20 a.m. and 3:20 to 5 p.m.
On Tuesday and Thursday it is open
9:20 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3:20 to
5 p.m.
Others who passed away Robert Adkins, Eleonore Alkiss, Mary Alfred, Levin Antimone, Kenneth Barker, Barbara Barcott, Jennee Barton, Claudia Barley, Yvonne Bardin, Cindy Bell, Marian K. Booth, Beth Brown, Eleanor B. Brown, Henry Brown, Klein Brown, Helen Brunke, Kathleen Burkle, Richard Butch, Joseph Carlson, Edna Carothers
Donna Jean Carpenter, Helm Carpenter, Joan Carry Catherine Ackerman, Janet Canail Conway, Raymond Cornell, Aluria Corneil, Laurel Cue Crabtree, Marion DeVault, Sue Crabtree, John DeVault, Louise Durbin, Ralph Edwards, Linda Eisenhower, Irwin W. Elliott, Anthony Ellis, Elisa Finkle, Fuldlein Finkle, Mitten Firestone, Beverly J. Fox, Richard Fricker.
Beverly Frizel, Mary Carton, Donneth Gentry, Betty Geppelt, Betty Glipin, Garrett Graber, Derek Margo, Margaret Goesney, Barbara Groves, Mildred Hack, Barbara Haffner, Billie Hamilton, Thomas Hanna, Thomas Hanna, Rosemary Harding, Kathryn Hawn, Natale Heaceck, Marjorie Hawn, Natalie Hickle, Lloyd Jean Hoffman, Jeanne Holman, Wild Harteo
Sarah Houck. Frank Howard, Joy Howland, Betty Huffman, Beverly Jeye jodey Jodey, Mary Jenkins, Mary Jenkins, Jane Johnson, Jonice Jones, Howard Joseph, J. D. Kabler, Barbara Mackey, Ada Louise Kopper, Warren Kump, Martha Leafman, Arnilda Lincoln, Dorena Lindquist, Mary Longeer, Longquist, Ann Longoose, Marie Mhone.
Bolivar Marquez, Dearcel Maiden Donna McChesney, Stanley McEwen, Regina McGeorge, Jane Gomez McGhee, Duncal Ballard, Mary Jo Mercer, Martha Metiself, Moshke Nimur, Nevin, Jeon O'Carnor, Daniel Goupt, Beatice Catherine Ogden, Bonnin kong, Jane Owen Counsellor Hubert Verkins, Wimberly Perey, June Peterson.
Sarah Phipps, Arthur Pincomb, Dorothy Pinkston, Virginia Ford, Baymond Deane, Poolehill Rendall, Tongaunie, Rinney, Barbara Roberts, Kate Roberts, Catherine Rodeker, Margaret Roney, Mary Louise Samson, Mrs. Jawad Islerle, Charles Snels, Dorothy Shelden, Dorothy Shields, James Sloop, Sylaia Snull.
Charles Smith, Marylyn Stacey, William D. Somerville, Emily Jane Stacey, Virginia Lou Stephenson, Grant Stevens, Marcus Bouchard, Edward Bruce Sneath, Stough, Edward Bruce Swain, Elaine Thalman, Frances Thelen, Eleanor Thompson, Edward Todd, Helen Neva Johnson, Marion Vernier, Mary Vermilion, Evelyn Voeg, Betty Wahlstedt.
Elizabeth Wakenhut, Octavia Walker,
Phyllis Warren, Frances Weegschuler,
Maxine Weir, Martyl Milling,
Wicklun, Carlity Cunningham, Willee,
Betty Yew, Kathleen Wright,
Anna Young, Eva Lee Yung, and Lucy
Smith.