University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, October 25, 1945
43rd Year No. 23
Lawrence Kansas
MacArthur Cuts Jap-Nazi Liaison
Tokyo. (UP)—Gen. MacArthur today cut the Japanese government's last link with the outside world.
He ordered the government to turn over all diplomatic and consular archives and property throughout the world to the Allies, to recall all diplomatic and consular employees, and to cease all but routine contact with foreign governments.
contact with officers. The action forestalls any concerted plotting by Japanese and Nazi diplomats still at large.
GMC Faces Strike, Chrysler Next
Chungking. (UP)—A Chinese Communist communique said today that fighting had broken out nearly three weeks ago between government forces and a brigade of the new fourth (Communist) army.
Detroit. (UP)—The CIO Auto Workers union voted 70 to 90 per cent today to strike against General Motors if necessary to enforce a 30 per cent wage increase. They also started a similar action against the Chrysler corporation.
Washington, (UP)—Ration values of butter, margarine, lard, shortening, and oils were reduced by the OPA today from 12 to eight points a pound for the rationing period beginning Sunday.
forming the OPA also validated five new ration stamps of 10 points, effective Nov. 1. They are red stamps W1, XI, Y1, anw Z1, and green stamp N8, good until Feb. 28.
Tokyo. (UP)—Dispatches from Nagasaki said tonight that city authorities were planning to erect an "atomic tower" in memory of the victims of the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on the city Aug. 9.
Oxford University Honors Eisenhowers
Oxford, Eng. (UP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower headed a group of war leaders who received honorary degrees from Oxford University today.
Other recipients included Ambassador John G. Winant, Gen. Mark Clark, Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder.
Washington. (UP)—Marine corps headquarters announced today critical scores for discharges will be cut to 50 points for marines and 20 points for women marines effective Nov. 1, and that the women's reserve will be demobilized by Sept. 1, 1946.
Chicago. (UP)—Joe E. Brown, the wide-mouthed comedian, today held the bronze star medal, the highest military award for a civilian.
Brown was awarded the medal last night for his achievements as a civilian volunteer with the U.S.O.
Kokomo, Ind. (UP)—Don Bowman of Indianapolis found a way to combine squirrel hunting and golf. He whammed a golf ball into a tree at the American Legion course in Kokomo. Out tumbled a big fox squirrel—dead. The shot was legal. Bowman had his hunting license in his pocket.
WEATHER
Kansas — Increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer in south tonight followed by scattered light showers and cool in northwest tomorrow.
'Training Plan Doomed'----VFW
Washington. (UP)—One major veterans organization, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has written off President Truman's one-year draft plan as doomed to defeat at the hands of educational and religious pressure groups.
VFW therefore will continue to plug for an alternate plan under which each young man would serve a three-year hitch in the national guard or naval reserve, getting his training at home.
VFW joined the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans in praising the president's stand for compulsory peacetime training, but did not endorse the one-year plan.
Though the organization will not buck the president, it will continue to support its own proposal.
Lt. Ernest F. Horn Joins Naval Staff
Ketchum cited the outspoken opposition to the compulsory training plan now by college presidents, the National Education Association, the Association of American Colleges, and the American Council of Education.
ASC Vice-President
Lt. Ernest F. Horn is a new instructor in naval science and tactics, Capt. Chester A. Kunz, commander of the University N.R.O.T.C., announced today.
Lt. Horn was overseas for 20 months with the amphibious force in the Mediterranean. He reports here from duty with the V-12 unit at Ursinus college, Collegeville, Pa.
He received his bachelor of science degree from Kansas State Teachers college in Pittsburg in 1942.
Lt. Horn will begin his duties here Nov. 1 when the 12-week semester starts.
EUGENIA HEPWORTH
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Hepworth's Name Means 'Activity' In University Life
Eugenia Hepworth, vice-president of the All Student Council, has become the name synonymous with activity on the University's campus for the past three years.
"Genie" or "Hep" has had a finger in many campus activities since the fall of '42 when she was a freshman.
The activities of the diminutive whirlpool of energy are too long to list but one of the highest honors she has received is the Mortar Board presidency, a post that her sister, Marian, held in 1943.
"Genie" is 5 feet, $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches tall,
but put 5 feet 5 inches on a drivers license when she was 16 "thinking I would get there, but I never did." The drivers license is now used for the car she drives around the campus.
Majoring in public school music, she would like to get a masters degree and then teach or enter musical therapy.
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Politicians Have 'Killed' Victory Landon Tells Kiwanis Club Here
Politicians have lost the fruits of military victories and America is headed for a third world war "unless there is an immediate and basic reorganization of our foreign policy." Alf M. Landon told the Kiwanis club here today. The 1936 Republican presidential candidate said the United Nations organization
Stump Me, F.P.A. Dares Us
If you want to try to stump Franklin P. Adams, who is speaking at 8:20 tonight in Hoch auditorium, have your questions, with answers, typed and ready to submit to the ushers.
Mr. Adams will answer the questions after his lecture, with Prof. Allen Crafton, speech and drama department, as master of ceremonies for the quiz.
Mr. Adams visited wounded service men at Winter General hospital in Topeka today. At 6:30 p.m. he will be the dinner guest of Raymond Nichols, assistant to the chancellor, in the Union.
Tonight's lecture is the first of the Community Lecture series. Activity books will admit University students.
Tri-Delt Officers Visit Campus
Mrs. J. A. Nye, former traveling secretary of Delta Delta Delta, left Lawrence today after a visit in connection with the establishment of a chapter at the University.
Miss Patricia Kienker, the sorority's executive board representative will remain in Lawrence several days.
Adviser List Poste $ ^{d} $
Names and office hours of advisers for all College freshmen and sophomores, are now listed on the bulletin board outside the College office.
It's Cold Without My Tie, Wheeler Wails Profs Sell Themselves (Good Prices, Too)
Talented faculty members sold for fancy prices on the auction block yesterday in front of Frank Strong hall, bringing $646.50 to the World Student Service fund.
Chancellor Malott and Dean Lawson will wash the car in front of the steps of Frank Strong hall. As the bidding ceased, Chancellor Malott declared woefully, "I have the feeling they're going to bring more than one car."
The services of Chancellor Deane W. Malott as car washer went to Alpha Omicron Pi for $65. Auctioneer Allen Crafton during the bidding tossed Dean Paul E. Lawson in for good measure.
The "unknown" barbershop quartet, Dean Gilbert Ulmer, Prof. Hilden Gibson, Prof. Russell L Wiley, and Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, will serve as singing waiters for the Sigma Kappa's. The quartet, which brought the day's highest bid of $65.50, refused to give the crowd a sample of its singing.
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Auctioneer Crafton, clad in flowing black coat and tie and waving a ventilated hat, next offered for sale a hand-painted tie belonging to Prof. Raymond H. Wheeler.
"The reason we're so valuable," Professor Gibson explained, "is that few people have ever heard us sing, and no one has ever heard us twice."
"With the tie," Professor Crafton declared, "goes a date with Doc. He'll pay for everything, including the popcorn."
Delta Gamma got the date for $57, and "Doc"
"Sandy will not only answer your phones during the rush hour," Professor Crafton promised, "he will also tell you the answers to Western Civilization."
also tell you the answers to Western University.
Dean Paul B. Lawson will be call boy for one hour at the Alpha Delta Pi house. "Dean" Helen Rhoda Hoopes' services as call girl were secured by Alpha Chi Omega.
Wheeler relinguished his tie, a cosmic swirl of brows, reds, and yellows.
Prof. Walter Sandelius will go on phone duty for Corbin hall.
LATER, HE MUTTERED. "I WISH THEY'D HURRY THIS AUCTION UP—IM AWFULLY COLD WITHOUT MY TIE."
Chi Omega.
Dean Henry Werner will be a waiter for Gamma Phi Beta, and Prof. E. C. Buehler will perform the duties of a general handyman at an open house for Locksley hall.
Professor Crafton's hammer descended for a final blow as he declared, "The auction's over—anything sold after this is spurious, inferior, and illegal."
Locksley hall.
Miss Veta Lear will supervise Pi Beta Phi freshman study hall for one night.
Prof. Hilden Gibson seized the hammer and shouted, "I offer for sale the spurious, inferior, and illegal Allen Crafton, who will serve as toastmaster at any function you select."
The bidding proceeded, interrupted by Professor Crafton's shouts of "I'm not worth that much, don't bid any more." Kappa Kappa Gamma obtained his services for $65.
broke down before it had a chance to prove itself as a real force and now is "entangled with the wreckage of the London council of ministers."
"We have got to have a better a different and more fundamentally sound organization than the United Nations," Landon said.
"We must start a new foundation on solid rock if we are to have real collective security and if civilization is to escape destruction."
"We are seizing strategic bases in a 'speak easy' sort of way and then wonder why the world should look at us with cynicism and suspicion," he said.
Landon said it was not too late to build a lasting peace "if we recognize that we have been sucked farther and farther into the destructive whirlpool of balance of power politics and race hatreds and are calling that economic security."
he said.
"The race between Russia and the United States to obtain strategic bases is fooling no one but the American people, who still are being doped with soothing syrup that the difference between ourselves and Russia is one of language and inexperience in foreign affairs."
Landon recommended that we should reverse our present policies of administration in Germany, possibly internationalize atomic weapons and "key" portions of the world and abandon the policy of imperialistic territorial grabbing.
In the Far East, he said, we have had the respect of all Asians, outside Japan, because of our treatment of the Filipinos. However, he warned, "we are losing it as fast as we use our forces to restore British, French, and, until last week, the Dutch as masters."
Landon said "Despite our ideological war banners, we have participated in the ancient blood evil of shifting territories to satisfy the conflicting claims of a victorious coalition."
He warned that no country ever was taught democracy with a bayonet, that political and religious philosophy of no country has yet been uprooted by a foreign army.
Women 'Christen New Dormitories
The dormitory at 1941 Massachusetts setts has been named Brian Manor. Women living at 1420 Ohio street have chosen Sleepy Hollow for their dormitory name.
Two new University women's dormitories have been officially manned, Miss Marie Miller, assistant advisor of women, announced today.
Officers of Sleepy Hollow ball are LaVerla Dell Harris, president; Bette Forbes, vice-president; Doris Cox, secretary-treasurer; Gwendolyn Jones, social chairman; Eileen O'Brien, interdorm council representative; Margaret Kalin, intramural manager; Joyce Wornom, song leader.
leader.
Mrs. J. W. Whipple is the housemother at Briar Manor and Mrs. C.
W. Arick is the housemother at Sleepy Hollow.