University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
43rd Year No.20
Monday, October 22, 1945
Lawrence, Kansas
Fire Kills Girl In Fraternity House
New Brunswick, N. J. (UP)—Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity at Rutgers university was suspended today as officials investigated a fire which killed one girl and two fraternity members.
Rutgers President Robert C. Clothier said it was against all campus and university rules for Patricia Katzman, 19, who was burned to death, and Corrine Pomer, 20, Ridgewood, to be spending Saturday night at the Sigma Alpha Mu house.
Police said Pfc. Raymond Schiff Jamesburg, N.J., on leave from Camp Shelby, Miss., brought the two girls to the fraternity house because they could get no accommodations in town.
Schiff and a fraternity brother Pvt. Robert Jaffer, 18, East Brunswick, N.J., on leave from Kessler Field, Miss., dated the two girls for a dance, police said, and decided to put them up in the fraternity house.
London. (UP)—Former Prime Minister Churchill told commons today that he was "disquieted" over the slow pace of British demobilization.
Denouncing the labor government's demobilization plan as inadequate, he said this was the "foundainhead of our domestic difficulties."
Man Goes Hunting Duck Shoots Him
Houston. (UP)—Stanley J. Bonner today treated a sore knee where a duck shot him.
He walked into his backyard Sunday to shoot "a couple of domestic ducks" with his .22 automatic. Duck number one dropped over dead at the first shot.
Duck number two remained alive and healthy.
Duck number two got mad and jumped on Bonner's arm, jarring the pistol causing it to discharge with the bullet lodging in Bonner's left knee.
Berlin. (UP)—The Rev. Martin Niemeeller is back in his Berlin pastorate for the first time in eight years today, ready to start on a religious campaign to help erase the last traces of Nazism from the German people.
Revolt Succeeds In Venezuela
Carecas, Venezuela. (UP)—Opposition to the revolutionary government today collapsed suddenly with a switch of western militarists from ousted President Isaias Medina to the military junta, which now claim complete control.
Demolitions set off Sunday by a British engineer unit blew open pens and toppled the massive concrete roofs and 60-foot outer wall.
Hamburg. (UP)—Germany's former "indestructible" U-boat pens, which defied some of the Allies heaviest air bombings, were in shambles today.
Rome. (UP)—Women of all the world were urged by Pope Pius XII yesterday in a radio speech to participate in public life, to cast their votes for "peace" and to protect the home against the inroads of totalitarianism and capitalism.
Research Director
JAMES MALONEY
Maloney to Head K.U. Research
To extend service to the state through research, Dr. James O'Hara Maloney, Wilmington, Del., has been appointed head of chemical engineering and director of the research foundation of the University, Chancellor Deane W: Malott announced today.
Dr. Maloney comes to the University from the DuPont engineering department in Wilmington, where he has been a technical consultant to operating departments on filtration, centrifuging, and insulation.
The chemical engineering department which he will head is scheduled to move soon to quarters in the new mineral resources building, Lindley hall. Headquarters for the University research foundation are now located in that building. The research organization coordinates and directs research activities of the more than 60 departments of the University.
Dr. E. A. Stephenson, former director of the foundation and head of petroleum engineering at the University, is on leave on account
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Language Exams Will Be Saturday
Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin, and Spanish, will be given in room 107, Frank Strong hall, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, W: H. Shoemaker, romance language department chairman, announced today.
Students with at least two units of high school credit in any one of these languages are eligible for examination. They may complete the college foreign language requirements by passing the examination.
Kniz to speak
Capt. Chester A. Kunz, commander of the University's naval training programs, will speak at the Rotary club and National War fund luncheon in Kansas City, Kan., Thursday.
Exercises in translating moderately difficult foreign language material, with the old dictionary, will make up the test.
Kunz to Speak
WEATHER
Kansas: Fair and warmer. Partly cloudy west, somewhat warmer west and central tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy with scattered showers west half late afternoon.
De Gaulle Trails Communists In French Election
Paris. (UP)Communists and Gen. Charles DeGaulle shared victory today in France's first general election in nine years.
Final semi-official returns from yesterday's election gave communist candidates 142 national assembly seats, a plurality of two over De Gaulle's second-place Socialist-Catholic Popular Republican party and of nine over Leon Blum's third-place Socialists.
The Paris area voted almost solidly Communist to give the party a plurality in the assembly for the first time in French history.
DeGaule's moderate party not only showed surprising strength in the assembly race, but the majority of his cabinet members won easily and he scored a landslide victory on his referendum demands for a newgency powers until it has been written.
As a result of the election,however,De Gaulle will shake up his cabinet and bring in more Communists and Popular Republicans to make it a coalition in which all French constitution and for emerthree top parties have about equal strength.
DeGaule himself was not a candidate, but his beliefs, policies and cabinet were on trial. The resultant vote of confidence vindicated his conduct since France's liberation and clearly strengthened his hand as never before for the tasks ahead.
Among leading political figures swept back into the assembly were Former Premier Edouard Herroit, whose once-powerful Radical-Socialist party dropped to fifth place with only 19 seats; Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, nominal leader of the Popular Republican party, and Communist Party Secretary Maurice Thorez.
Edouard Daladier, another former premier and Radical-Socialist leader, was defeated in the Vaucluse district by the Socialist candidate.
Julia Ann Casad Heads Student Religious Council
The newly elected officers of the Student Religious council are Julia Ann Casad, president; Mary Holtzclaw, vice-president; and Marjorie Robbins, secretary and treasurer.
Political Chief
This is Mary Margaret Gaynor, new head of the Greek women's political party. Miss Gaynor also is the society editor of the Daily Kansan.
Twin Jobs Baffle Engineers
In correlation with the splitting of the atom, the School of Engineering and Archecture will soon disprove the old problem in physics that it is physically impossible for a body to occupy two separate spaces at the same time, Dean J.O. Jones, said today.
The theory will be disproved Nov. 1 when professors in engineering will start classes in Marvin hall for the 16-weeks term and at the same time be in Robinson gym for the enrollment in the 12-weeks term.
Since it is a matter of getting a quick change of schedules from Washington or of breaking the theory, Dean Jones thinks the latter will be more probable.
Registration for both winter terms will be held Oct. 31 in Frank Strong hall. No schedule will be followed in the order of registration.
He said the milliners had been surprised by the great demand for
Enrollment of N.R.O.T.C. and civilians in the 12-weeks "Indian summer term will be Nov.1 in Robinson gym with classes beginning Nov.2. The schedule is as follows*
8-9-H Q Z
9-10-B W X
10-11-F G I P
11-12-A J T
1-2-C N V
2-3-L M U Y
3-4-D E K O
4-5-R S
Enrollment for the 16-weeks term will be Oct. 31, 206 Marvin hall and classes will begin Nov. 1. There will be no schedule for the order of enrollment.
Ooo-la-la, Milady Must Have Something Dache-ing in Headgear
New York. (UP) - High priced hats—from $20 to $40—were selling like hotcakes in New York today, and millinery authorities said the basic budget price paid by women for an everyday hat had risen from a prewar $5 to $8.95.
Joseph Lipship, director of the millinery stabilization committee, trade coordinators, said the hat business this fall was "terrific" and that it appeared hatlessness was "going out—and fast."
"When a woman decides to get dressed up this fall, she wants a hat. Last year she didn't care, if her hair looked pretty. This year she does—and we can't get enough quality hats to meet the demand."
expensive and high priced headgear. He cited as an example a single model of a rare feather hat that went on display with a $300 price tag—wholesale. It sold two hours later, and was priced for retail sale at over $400.
"And the maker got orders for more—and more," he said.
He said fur hats, at prices ranging upwards of $100, were also in great demand. Beaded and sequined headgear for evening wear was another best seller—and with no complaints about price."
Lilly Dache, maker of custom made hats, also reported an upswim in prices. She said that while her average hat sale was formerly $39.50, it had now risen to $45 "and there is no limit to what they'll pay for something special."
Greek Women Form New Political Party
Nine of the 10 sororities on the campus have organized a women's Greek political party and will participate in the freshman election, Mary Margaret Gaynor, party president, announced today. Kappa Alpha Theta is the only sorority which did not join.
The new party was organized to replace the Progressive Women's Co-operative league and the Women's Independent Greek society which included both Independent and Greek women until the Independent women formed their own party last spring.
Other officers of the new party are Patricia Penney, vice-president; Bonnie Holden, secretary; Barbara Johnson, treasurer; and Mary Morrill, campaign manager. The party has not yet adopted a name, Miss Gaynor stated.
PSGL Will Have Primary Convention
The Progressive Students Governing League will hold its primary convention for freshman class officers and freshman men's representatives to the All-Student Council at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night in the Memorial Union building, Guy Ashcraft, party secretary, announced today.
"The primary convention system has been used by the P.S.G.L. in the last two elections to insure a more democratic representation in nominations," Ashercraft said. This has taken the place of caucus system formerly used.
Tri-Delt's Organize
The campus is getting an 11th active sorority this week as Delta Delta Delta organizers are interviewing prospective members and checking applications through the office of Miss Martha Peterson, Pan-Hellenic secretary. The chapter plans to obtain a roaming house by next semester, organizers said.
Crozier to Speak At WSSF Dinner
Miss Lois Crozier, Topeka, Rocky Mountain region secretary of the World Student Service Fund, will speak on "The World Student Service Fund at Work" at the "500" dinner at 6 p.m. tonight in Myers hall, which officially will open the combined University drives.
June Peterson, chairman, is arranging the dinner, with Marjorie Robbins and Julia Ann Casad assisting.
More than 300 persons are expected to attend the dinner tonight, Jeanne Blanchard, co-chairman of the drive, said.
Co-chairman for the drive with Miss Blanchard is George Caldwell. Other personnel include Bill Hollis, men's worker; Meredith Gear, women's worker; Charles Dillon, Glenn Warner, Mariette Bennett, and Sally Houck, division leaders; and Jim Crook, chairman of the speaker's bureau.
All Dramatic Workshop candidates who signed up for backstage work will meet in the Little Theater at 130 p. m. tomorrow.