NOVEMBER 29,1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 2017
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Marshall Sent Message Warning of Possible Nip Action Before Pearl Harbor Attack, But It Didn't Help Any
Chief's Alert Order Decoded Too Late
Washington. (UP)—The so-called "final message from Washington," one of the biggest "could-have-beens" in the whole unhappy story of Dec. 7, 1941, went into the record of the Pearl Harbor investigation today.
Gen. George C. Marshall, then army chief of staff, filed the message to Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short in Hawaii at 12:18 p.m. (Washington time) on Dec. 7. That was 6:48 a.m. Honolulu time.
"Japanese are presenting at 1 p.m. Eastern standard time today what amounts to an ultimatum" it told the Pearl Harbor army commander. "Also they are under orders to destroy their code machine immediately. Just what significance the hour set may have we do not know but be on alert accordingly. Inform naval authorities of this communication."
The message arrived, by commercial cable, at 7:33 a.m. Honolulu time =22 minutes before the first Japanese planes struck.
But it never did any good.
The army board which investigated the Pearl Harbor defeat criticized Marshall on this point in its report last August.
It was not decoded and delivered until 2:58 p.m.-seven hours and three minutes after the attack.
Short told the army board that had
The board said it had not been "satisfactorily explained" why the message was sent by time-consuming commercial cable when FBI radio, for example, could have gotten it were in 20 minutes.
A message been sent by "scrambler phone" — a device for scrambling telephone messages which are unscrambled by a similar device at the receiving end — he believed that "we would probably have gotten more of the import and a clearer idea of danger."
"And," he said, "we would have had time to warm up the planes and get them in the air to meet any attack."
Russ Win Important UNO Commission Post
London. (UP)—Russia won an important position on the United Nations Preparatory commission when K. Kiselev was elected vice-chairman of the technical committee, number four on trusteeships.
Gullermo Belt, Cuban ambassador to Washington, was elected chairman of the trusteeship committee, on which the Russians place great importance since they are seeking the trusteeship of one of the former Italian colonies in Africa.
the technical committee, number five on the new international court of justice and legal questions, elected Egyptian foreign minister Abd El Hamid Badawi Pasha as chairman and the delegate from Peru, Ricardo Rivera Schreiber, as vice-chairman.
Committee number one on general assembly elected Erik Colban, Norwegian ambassador in London, as chairman, and Manuel Perez Guerrero of Venezuela as vice-chairman.
Japan Heads New Club
at Art Majors
Jacquelyn Logan, is the president of the newly organized University Art club. Other officers elected Tuesday night were:
LuAnne' Powell, Vice president,
Barbara Meyer, secretary; Helen
Dietzel, treasurer; Marion Greenlee,
historian, and Roy Rogers, sergeant
at arms.
No Session—Wonder Why?
Washington. (UP) — Chairman Alben W. Barkley, announced today the Pearl Harbor investigating committee will not have a session Saturday. He said the recess has "nothing to do with the Army-Navy football game to be played at Philadelphia that day."
A Million Servicemen Home From Pacific
Pearl Harbor. (UP)—Almost one-third of the servicemen who were in the Pacific ocean areas when Japan signed the surrender on Sept. 2 have been returned to the United States, Pacific fleet headquarters announced today.
In Washington the war department announced that 252,000 soldiers returned to civilian life during the week ended Nov. 23, bringing the total released since May 12 to 3,366,000.
A navy press release said 1,104,655 army, navy, and marine corps personnel of the 3,400,000 in the Pacific on V-J day had been transported to the United States on shipboard by Nov. 25. In addition, 23,655 liberated prisoners of war, civilian internes, and civil service workers were returned home.
The navy estimated that by Jan 1, ships of the "Magic Carpet" fleet will be returning about 350,000 returning servicemen monthly.
A total of 341 vessels has been assigned to the fleet of which 162 vessels with a passenger capacity of 227,000 were reported loading in the Pacific or enroute to the United States.
Roosevelt Stamp Collection Goes on Auction Block
New York. (UP)—President Roosevelt's stamp collection valued at approximately $100,000, has been given officially to the auctioneer by executors of the late president's estate.
To Prevent Air Attacks From Unguarded Arctic
Washington. (UP)—The government, heeding warnings from its top air generals, is taking steps to safeguard the nation against air attacks through the unguarded Arctic approaches.
Station in Clouds
The University of Chicago has been authorized to set up an experimental station aboard a free balloon within a 350-mile radius of Chicago.
Chicago (UP)—A radio station in the clouds has been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
The balloon will be used in the university's studies on cosmic rays,
Japs Sounded Out Latin Views on War
Washington. (UP)—Japanese diplomats in the spring of 1941 were trying to find out how Latin American countries would react in the event of a U.S.-Japanese war, it was disclosed today.
State department records revealed instances in which Japanese envoys hinted the possibility of war to learn the attitudes of Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Colombia, and the Dominican republic.
This development came near the close of day-long testimony by Joseph C. Grew, last U.S. ambassador to Japan. Meanwhile, Rep. Frank B. Keefe, a committee member, asked for all communications between the late President Roosevelt and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7, 1941.
Committee Chairman Alben W. Barkley, indicated that one of the next big-name witnesses before the committee would be Gen. George C. Marshall. Barkley said the former army staff chief would be called to the stand before he leaves for China as President Truman's personal envoy replacing ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, resigned.
The state department records of Japanese diplomatic activity in Latin America revealed that in each case the Japanese envoy was told the American nations would present a United front in the event of war.
Pittsburgh. (UP) -Freshman radium class $-5,000 per lecture.
Frosh Radium Class Once Cost Pittsburgh $5,000 a Lecture
The University of Pittsburgh's fall term catalogue could have listed such a course at one time. Because that's what the lectures used to cost—but the students didn't know it—and neither did the professor.
It was Dr. Alexander Silverman's lecture, and he used $180,000,000 worth of radon gas in six years in the accompanying demonstrations, given three times in one day in each semester.
His former student, Dr. Glenn D. Kammer, became associated with a chemical firm in 1913 and began to work with radium.
Recently Dr. Silverman explained how the costly classes came about.
Radium is a solid, Dr. Silverman explained, and it is composed of atoms. About half of the atoms break up or disintegrate and give off two gases. One is helium and the other radon.
When Dr. Kammer experimented with the gas back in the early 1920s it was known only as "radium emanation." No uses were known for it.
And so Dr. Kammer presented Dr
the "COLLEGE JEWELER"
Students' Jewelry Store 41 Years
Washington. (UP)—The OPA says with a sigh, that the American public is unpredictable.
Not Appreciated By Public, OPA Says
After all the gripes about the rationing of meat and shoes, the public didn't send OPA a single letter of appreciation when these programs were ended.
911 Mass. St.
Washington. (UP) A navy spokesman revealed today that a torpedo accidentally fired by a U.S. destroyer missed the battleship Iowa while the Iowa was carrying the late President Roosevelt to the Cairo conference.
"The psychological reaction of the public is too much for the OPA to figure out," one OPA official said.
Torpedo Missed Iowa With F.D.R. Aboard
The incident took place on Nov. 14, 1943. The destroyer William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo which exploded some distance astern of the Iowa. The late President and the U.S. Chiefs of Staff were aboard the Iowa at the time en route to Cairo.
The navy spokesman said the explosion took place at a considerable distance from the ship and caused no injuries either to the ship or to its personnel.
An investigating board found certain personnel of the Porter inefficient in performance of duty and he officers and men concerned were admonished."
Today, a sealed tube of the gas now widely used in radium therapy, filled with one millicurie, or less than one-millionth of an ounce of radon, sells for $2.50.
Silverman with three three-and-a-third ounce bulbs of radon each day he gave his lecture on radium.
Chicago (UP)—A survey by L. V. Sorenson, city traffic engineer, has disclosed that an estimated 817,792 persons enter the downtown business district of Chicago each day.
Chicago Crowd
But back in the early '20s Dr. Sil-
verman used $15,000,000 worth a day just to show the fledgling students how it glowed.
Fishbein, Sullivan Attack Truman's Federal Health Plan
(By United Press)
President Truman's plan for compulsory health insurance underwent attacks from two quarters today as men of the medical profession became articulate on the subject.
The movement . . . is the first step toward regimentation of utilities, of industries, of finance and eventually of labor itself," he told the sixth annual conference of the professions-industries on the extension of medical service group insurance programs.
In New York, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that a compulsory health program would be the first step toward regimentation similar to that which led to the downfall of Germany.
"This is the kind of regimentation that led to totalitarianism in Germany and the downfall of that nation. Its prime consideration is deduction from the pay of the worker and taxation of the employer so that the government does for the people most of the things that our people . . . have been accustomed to do for themselves."
Dr. Sullivan, retiring president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. spoke at a luncheon of the south central section of the American Urological Association, in Kansas City, Mo.
Meanwhile Dr. Andrew J. Sullivan, Chicago, declared that any scheme of compulsory health insurance was highly utopian and impossible of fulfillment.
"The Wayne-Murray-Dingle, bill is not a bill offered in response to spontaneous demand of the public," he said, "but is the result of a long-time propaganda campaign of various labor organizations."
He said the International Labor organization "has assiduously and insistently labored for a long period of years for socialization of medicine throughout the nations of the world."
The first governor of Kansas was Andrew H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania.
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