University DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, Nov. 8, 1945
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, Nov. 8, 1945
43rd Year No. 33
Lawrence, Kansas
NROTC May Be 'Little Annapolis'
Washington. (UP)—Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal has approved a plan under which half the navy's future officer strength would be obtained elsewhere than from the traditional Naval Academy at Annapolis.
It provides for three sources for officer personnel, including 14,000 candidates selected by state boards each year to be given four years of college training in 52 ROTC colleges at government expense.
Washington. (UP)—British Prime Minister Clement Attlee will be invited to address a joint session of Congress next week, House speaker Sam Rayburn announced today.
Attlee arrives here Saturday for atomic bomb control discussions with President Truman and Canadian Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King.
To Release 50-Point Soldiers on Furlough
Washington. (UP)—Speeding its plans to demobilize overseas veterans, the army has announced that enlisted men with 50 to 59 points now on furlough or temporary duty assignments will be discharged.
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The War department also announced that U.S. soldiers who were held as prisoners of war for more than 60 days are now eligible for discharge no matter what their point scores may be.
The order, it was estimated, will affect an estimated 25,000 former war prisoners.
Helsinki. (UP) — The Finnish government today ordered the arrest of ex-President Risto Ryti and seven other former government officials accused of leading Finland into war against Russia.
London. (UP)—Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin appealed to the great powers on behalf of the British government today to "put their cards on the table" in order to dissapate the uncertainty over the atomic bomb.
Patterson Calls For 'Civilian' Soldiers
Washington. (UP)—Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today that development of atomic bomb and the suddenness with which it can strike "nomously increased" the need for trained citizen soldiers capable of swift mobilization.
He warned that in any future war "The United States will be the first target of attack."
Washington. (UPI)—The Senate foreign relations committee today approved a bill giving the United States delegate on the United Nations security council specific authority to vote American troops into action to preserve the peace.
Washington. (UP) The dams of the Tennessee valley, source of power for the atomic bomb project, were among the objectives of the eight Nazi saboteurs who landed in this country by U-boat in 1942, it was revealed today.
Washington. (UP)—The United States favors scuttling the remainder of Germany's submarine fleet but is willing to divide the remnants of the Nazi surface fleet among the big three, if it was learned today.
U.S. to Give Planes to China
Chungking (UP)—All 3.000 American planes in the China theater will be transferred to the Chinese Nationalist government, the nationalist newspaper Ta Kung Pao said today as Communist charges of American intervention in China's undeclared civil war mounted.
A Ta Kung Poa dispatch from Nanking cited Air Maj. Gen. Chou Chih-Jou, director of the Central government's air commission, as authority for the statement that all American planes from fighters to over-the-hump transport in this theater will come under Nationalist control.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's government, whose air force numbered only a few planes during the war, began an extensive program to train air crews Monday to take over the planes, the dispatch said.
The Communist organ New China Daily, meantime, said two separate Chinese Communist commanders had sent protests to Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, American commander in China, against alleged American intervention in China's internal strife.
Wedemeyer told newsmen in Chungking yesterday that American forces may begin the evacuation of North China by mid-November. He categorically denied charges that American troops were aiding Nationist forces in actual fighting.
'Show Rally Spirit,' Coach Urges Students
School spirit is at a new low this year according to Coach Henry Shenk.
"I honestly believe that if more students would get out to our pregame football rallies, our team would show a marked improvement," he said.
Coach Shenk urged all students to attend the rally at the stadium at 4:15 p. m. tomorrow. The rally will be held at the east dressing room, and will be led by cheerleader Alberta Cornwell. The K. U. band will play.
"Because so many of our games have been played away from home this season, there has been a marked lack of interest on the part of the students," Coach Shenk said. "If all the students will turn out for the rally tomorrow, we will see a 100 per cent improvement in the caliber of the teams performance."
Kansas City. (UP)—The first real cold wave of the season whipped across this part of the Midwest today, knocking the mercury down from the balmy summer-like weather of yesterday toward the 20-degree mark.
Immediately after the rally, the team will leave for Milwaukee where they will play Marquette Saturday.
15-Degree Temperature Forecast for Tomorrow
terraces J. R. Lloyd, regional forecafter, said the cold front, backed by a strong high pressure system feeding off 24-below temperatures in Canada, would push the temperature in northwest Kansas and southeast Nebraska to about 15 tomorrow morning.
LATEST!
Wife of K.U. Sailor Found Dead in Hotel
Mrs. Jack Dillard, 22, the wife of an NROTC student at the University, was found dead in her room at the Eldridge hotel shortly after noon today, police reported.
Mrs. Dillard had been visiting her husband here, and it was he who discovered her body, hotel authorities said.
Dillard was transferred to the KU. NROTC unit from Washburn university just a week ago. He lives in PT-6.
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She had registered with a home address of 1430 Penrose drive, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Coroner C.B. Rumsey said Mrs. Dillard died of drowning. Her body was found in a bathtub, and there were no marks of violence, he said.
'Beat K-State Is Phone Greeting
"Beat K—State" will be the telephone greeting of organized houses next week. All houses will be asked to answer telephone calls in this way, after identifying their houses, Eugenia Hepworth, chairman of the Homecoming committee, said today.
Freshman men will wear "Beat K-State signs, to be distributed by KuKu's Wednesday.
Kirk's went onstage.
KuKu's will direct K.U. students to a reserved section on the 50-yard line at the Homecoming game in Memorial stadium, Nov. 17. Lawrence stores will be closed from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., for the game. The 70-piece K-State band will play at the game.
the game. George TiDona and his 11-piece band from Kansas City will play for the Homecoming varsity Saturday night. The band, which is composed largely of ex-service men, has two vocalists.
Resident Students May Vote In City Election Nov.20
University students who have been residents of Kansas for six months and of Lawrence for 30 days and who can prove Lawrence to be their home are qualified to register for the special city election Nov.20, H.C. Fischer, city clerk announced today.
Registration will be open at the city clerk's office in the city hall tonight and tomorrow night until 10 p.m.
KU Med School 'Obsolete,' Dean Wahl Tells Missouri
Lawrence. (UP)—The tempest stirred up in Missouri's legislative kettle by the testimony of K.U.'s medical school dean boiled back onto this campus today, with considerable off the record comments but little quotable material. Dr. H. R. Wahl,
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for 21 years dean of the University's medical school, told Missouri legislators last night that he had found the split system of medical education—two years at Lawrence and two years at Kansas City, Kan.-impractical.
Vacations Vary For Three Terms
Dr. Wahl for his part said he was misquoted in his references to the man in charge of the small K.U. hospital located here. That man, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, for 16 years
Chancellor Deane W. Malott of the University said he had "no comment on anything" today but it was understood University authorities regretted the situation which had arisen. It was learned Wahl had testified before the Missouri committee with the knowledge of University officials.
Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation dates for students enrolled in the 12, 16, and 18-weeks sessions will vary several days in length. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today.
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Students enrolled in the 12 and 16-weeks sessions which began Nov. 1, will be granted only Thanksgiving day, Nov. 22. Eighteen-week students in the regular semester, will be dismissed after 12:20 p.m. Nov. 21 and will not return for classes until 8:30 a.m. Nov. 26, Mr. Nichols said.
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Christmas vacations for all three sessions begins Dec. 22, after the 11:30 classes. Classes will convene at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 31 for students of the 12 and 16-week sessions and on Jan. 7, 1946, for 18-week students.
"V-12 students cannot have a longer vacation and still meet navy requirements," Mr. Nichols explained.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Cloudy tonight, be-
coming generally fair by tomorrow,
afternoon. Much colder in southeast
and extreme east tonight and to-
morrow. Scattered light rain or snow
tonight. Low temperatures tonight
20 to 25 northwest, to 35 southeast.
That is the attraction which is drawing 33 students to the roof of Lindley hall this fall, for night classes in astronomy.
Star gazing for credit.
"We arrange the night classes to suit the students and, if possible, the weather," he explained. So far this fall the night classes have had good luck with clear skies, and have spent
affirmed as authority in the beginning class is the largest enrollment for several years," Professor Storer said.
the night periods locating constellations and gazing at the moon through the smaller of the University's two telescopes.
(Sigh.) "It looks just like its picture!" "Is there really any cheese on it?" (Sigh). "Oh I wish Johnny had taken this class." (Sigh). So go the remarks during the night class sessions.
Prof. N. W. Storer explained today that he has 32 students, five of whom are men, in his beginning astronomy class, and is teaching an exclusive one-woman class in advanced astronomy this semester.
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The professor is contemplating some changes in the night class.
some changes in the images.
"Thirty-two persons can't look through one telescope at the same time successfully," he admitted.
The other telescope is resting, unassembled, in a Lindley storeroom. Another dome will be erected "sometime" to house the big 'scope.
head of the school's health service and president of the American Student Health association, took issue with Wahl's remarks as reported from Jefferson City.
"I said he was a good doctor but not a good teacher." Wahl said, "That he doesn't shine very much with students as a teacher."
with students It was understood Canuteson called Wahl to demand an understanding of just what had occurred. Wahl declined to issue any statement but was understood to have explained the "misquoted" remarks fully to the man he hired 16 years ago.
As quoted in the Kansas City Times this morning, Dr. Wahl had criticised the University of Kansas program of education for doctors as "obsolete."
He said this in speaking to the University of Missouri curators, who are considering the establishment of the last two years of the Missouri medical course in Kansas City, away from the University campus.
Dr. Wahl told the Daily Kansan today he was "misquoted" and "mis-interpreted" in many of his remarks to the Missourians.
He had been quoted as advising against the entrance into the K.U. medical school of the son of one Missouri senator.
"I did advise against his entrance," the dean explained to the Daily Kansas, "but that discussion was done very jocularly. There are a lot of factors against this particular boy coming to our school—one important thing is that he is an out-of-state resident and Kansas residents are given preference when we consider students for entrance."
Dean Wahl was quoted as saying students admitted to the Watkins Memorial hospital on the campus here never had been used as subjects for clinical teaching. He was quoted as saying this was because medical officials in charge of the hospital in Lawrence were not good teachers.
"That clinical material could be used with the right man in charge," the dean was quoted as saying.
Today, he stated he meant this only as a comment on the teaching ability of Dr. Canuteson and the other doctors on the hospital staff here.
"I think the hospital on the campus there is second to none in the country in student health service," Dr. Wahl told the Kansan.
Dr. Canuteson has been head of the University health service since 1929. A graduate of the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, he is president of the American Student Health Association, one of the top national honors accorded medical men in his work.
cal men in his work. He is also vice-president of the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health association, executive council member of the Mississippi Valley conference on Tuberculosis, member of the Kansas Medical society tuberculosis committee, a fellow in the American Medical association, a member of the American Public Health association, and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, distinguished honorary medical fraternity.