University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, October 15, 1945
43rd Year No.15
Lawrence, Kansas
Pierre Laval Dies Before Firing Squad
Paris, (UP)—A French firing squad executed Pierre Laval today, pumping 11 bullets into his sagging body as he cried "Vive La France" after he had tried to cheat justice by gulping a vial of poison.
The arch-traitor, crying his innocence to the last, was shot in the courtyard of Fresnes prison at 12:32 p.m. (5:32 a.m. CST). In a final gesture of bravado he asked permission to give the "fire" command to his executioners, but the request was denied.
New York. (UP)—The nation's largest seaport began humming with activity again today after a 15-day paralysis when thousands of striking members of the international longshoremen's association returned to work.
Milan (UP)—Palmiro Togliatti, minister of justice and leader of the Communist party, last night urged the Allies to withdraw their occupation forces and permit Italy to govern itself.
A crowd of 160,000, the first mass meeting held in Milan since the liberation, answered Togliatti's suggestion with shouts of "away with the Allies."
Chungking. (UP)—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said today that he expects the early withdrawal of Russian and American troops from Manchuria and northern China and that he is planning a trip to the United States "as soon as time permits."
36 Ships Damaged In Okinawa Typhoon
Washington. (UP)—The Navy reported today that 36 light naval vessels were grounded, damaged or sunken in the typhoon which swept Okinawa last Monday and Tuesday.
The Navy said it had no figures on total casualties but that next of kin of dead and missing personnel were being notified by telegram.
Chicago (UP)—An increase in butter production and release of 80,000,000 pounds by the army will combine to take butter off the ration list by Dec. 1., the American Dairy association predicted today.
Washington. (UP)—Agriculture department officials revealed today that a speed-up in relief shipments of American food to liberated Europe will move 8,350,000 tons of food from this country to liberated areas during 1945.
Ex-Prisoner of War Is Lucky Victim
San Antonio. (UP)—H. G. Scheel thinks he was a lucky guy.
Recently discharged from the army after 13 months in a Nazi prison camp, he was waiting for his train to Oakland, Md., when he met a girl. He talked with her a while until his train pulled up, then bade her goodbye. No sooner had he boarded the train then he missed his wallet and $100.
Buenos Aires. (UP)—Argentina's new ruling triumvirate freed today the last of the political prisoners jailed by ex-strong man Col. Juan Peron and moved to replace the old military government with a civilian-dominated cabinet.
He insists that he was lucky after all. She had overlooked $641 he had in another pocket.
Halsey's Fleet Approaches S.F.
Aboard USS Samuel M. Moore, off California Coast. (UP)—Warships of Adm. William F. Halsey's victorious U.S. Third fleet, carrying 45,000 fighting men to shore leave, furlough or discharge, approached the California coast today on the final lap of a triumphant, trans-Pacific homecoming.
Within a few hours a column of Bull Halsey's fighting ships, headed by the flag battleship USS South Dakota and three other dreadnaughts, will steam into San Francisco bay and drop anchor—home at least from the greatest naval war in history.
An unproarious celebration was in the making at San Francisco—for sailors and landlubbers alike. Not since 1908, when the "great white fleet" visited the bay, has San Francisco been as inspired for a navy welcome as she was today.
Battleships in the vanguard of the armada were the South Dakota, Indiana, Alabama, and Wisconsin. Behind them were the aircraft carriers Yorktown, Bon Homme Richard, and Hornet; the Cruisers Vicksburg and Oakland; and the destroyers Blue, Moore, DeHaven; and the submarines Baya, Stickleback, Kraken, Piloftish, Loggerhead and Puffer.
Reading Room Open Gibson Announces
A reading room in room 201, Fowler shops to be used by students enrolled in Western civilization is ready for use this week, Hilden Gibson, adviser of the course, said today.
The room will be open from 9 to 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Books may be checked out from the room for overnight use between 4:30 and 5 p.m. All books checked out overnight must be returned to the reading room before 9:30 a.m. Books checked out on Friday must be returned Monday morning.
Fines corresponding to those used in Watson library will be imposed. Library rules will be in effect in the reading room.
Miss Quintilla Anders, Lafayette, La., will direct the new speech clinic soon to be established in the School of Medicine at the University hospitals in Kansas City, Chancellor Deane W. Malett announced today.
Anders to Direct K.U. Speech Clinic
Service in the clinic will be available to both clinical and private patients, who will be given medical examinations and psychological tests before entering, the chancellor continued. Work will be coordinated with the physical medicine and neurology departments.
The clinic will provide training and rehabilitation for lisping, stuttering, foreign language dialects, cleft palates, and other speech difficulties, Chancellor Mallot said.
Miss Anders was graduated with honors from Southwestern Louisia a institute at Lafayette, in 1944. She received her master of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, with a major in speech and emphasis in speech correction.
New in Physics
This is Dr. Frank Hoecker, new associate professor in the physics department.
Registration Begins Oct. 31 for Short Term; Semester Starts Nov. 2
Registration for the 12-week term will be Oct. 31, enrollment Nov. 1, and classes will begin on Nov. 2. Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, announced today.
On those dates, about 275 naval ROTC students will enter K.U. for a term which will end with the regular fall semester, and will give veterans and others who could not enroll in September a chance to work for 12 hours credit, or about four-fifths of a normal semester's credit, and to be ready to enroll in the regular spring semester.
The 12-week term will offer courses in engineering, liberal arts, and business, and prerequisite courses for such fields as law, medicine, and teaching.
Faculty Meets Tomorrow
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium, Dean Paul B Lawson announced today.
New members will be introduced, and problems confronting the faculty this year will be discussed.
Sgt. John J. Verburg expects to be discharged soon and will return to work at the University Press, where he was employed as a linotype operator before going into the service.
Verburg Expects to Return
Campus Buildings and Dorms Get Varied Accessories for Fall
Convocation Time Changed
Classes at 10:30 a.m. m. tomorrow will be dismissed, except those in the July semester which will be taking final examinations. Other morning classes will run the usual 50 minutes.
The change in the convocation schedule was made this week for the speaker, Gen. Ennis Whitehead. It also prevents conflicts that would arise in the V-12 final examination schedule, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said.
Madhouse-on-the-Potomac Is on Its Way Back to Civilization
The first six lectures will deal with problems of world relations, and the second series with problems of domestic economy.
Homecoming Planners To Meet Tomorrow
They'll even bow when you walk into an apartment house, thank you for considering their establishment, and shake your paw. This, to a Washingtonian used to getting insulted for being alive, is an amazing phenomenon.
Washington. (UP)—The White House, after four years of peeling gray around the edges like a high class version of Tobacco Road, is dazzling white again today.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will, begin the University's "America at Peace" lecture series, with his talk on "The United States and the United Nations," at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater.
Prof. W. E. Sandelius, of the department of political science is chairman of the series, which will consist of 11 lectures by members of the University faculty. The lectures will be given on alternate Tuesdays, ending April 16. Station KFKU will broadcast part of each program.
The Homecoming committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Alumni office to discuss Homecoming plans, Eugenia Hepworth, chairman, announced today.
While this has had no great effect yet on rentals, the landlords are growing polite.
You can take this fact as a symbol that madhouse-on-the-Potomac] is on the way back to becoming a civilized city. The army silently is folding some of its tents and wondering what in blazes to do with the Pentagon.
Committee members are Fred Ems worth, alumni secretary; Russell L. Wiley, band director; Alberta Cornwell, head cheerleader; Michael Kuklenski, president of Ku Ku; Betty Jane O'Neal, Jay Janes president; Leroy Robison, k-club president; Jean McIntire, Lois Thompson, and Caroline Morriss, All-Student Council traditions committee; George Hedrick, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce; and F. C. Allen and E. C. Quigley, athletics.
Malott to Launch 'America at Peace' Lectures Tomorrow
About 30,000 military persons will leave town in the next eight months; 10,000 of them will take their furniture along.
The automobile showrooms are being repainted and my man promised me the two hub caps that have been deremed if I wouldn't like to order a missing since 1942. He even won new car to match the hubs.
I even got a seat yesterday on a street car, although I believe this was a mistake and probably will not be repeated soon.
This season's oysters are extra plump, my laundry is doing shirts now in a week and a half instead of three, and the tailor shop around the corner actually sews holes in pants while you wait. Nothing like that has happened in Washington since Pearl Harbor.
Old timers doubt that the capital ever will become the sleepy town soon to walk down Pennsylvania it was before the war, but I expect avenue without being jostled, stepped on, bumped, sideswiped, or bawled out by a cop.
It will be a happy day.
New faces will be evident on campus buildings as well as among students if the buildings and grounds department continues its work.
One hundred desk lamps and tables will be ready in room 318, Lindley hall, when the NROTC arrives, C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, announced today.
A stairway is being built between second and third floors in the elevator shaft, and temporary partitions are being installed.
In Haworth hall, workers are building concrete storage tanks in the geology annex to be used to hold cadavers. This is a part of the remodeling being done to house the anatomy, geology, and biochemistry departments.
Basil Green, contractor, is at work in the basement of Dyche museum building a concrete ramp, laying a floor, and making an exit toward the Union building.
Alterations in the kitchen of Watkins Memorial hospital have been completed for R. Dalph Canuteson's classroom and employees' quarters.
Three temporary fire escapes have been built in the girls' dormitories at Locksley hall, the Hearth, and at 1420 Ohio. In the latter hall, to be named soon, there has been a complete renovation. The sleeping porch has been glassed in, the chimney rebuilt, the stonework pointed up, locks reconditioned; electric wiring done, interior painted, grounds cleaned up, kitchen cabinets built in, and new kitchen floor and linoleum laid, new furnishings have also been purchased.
Each Kansas Town To Have K.U. Writer
A correspondent for every town in Kansas is the ultimate goal for the Statewide Activities commission.
Members send University news to their home town papers, sponsor K.U. displays, and obtain speakers for their local high school or civic groups.
The commission, sponsored by the All-Student council, promotes good-will and understanding over the state for the University.
The executive committee and the correspondents chosen to represent their home papers will be announced soon, Ann Scott, chairman, said today.
The All-Student council offers annual prizes of $25, $15, $10, and $2 for the best and most consistent writing.
Upside-Down Flag 'Merely an Accident,' Navy Head Says
The American flag flying upside down over the Military Science building yesterday was "merely an accident." Capt Chester Kunz, commanding officer of the Navy V-12 program at the University said today.
Several University men headed by H. Terry Herriot, righted the flag after the mistake was discovered, late yesterday afternoon.
"A flag is flown upside down only as a distress signal," Capt. John D. Bradley, commanding officer of the University unit, explained.
WEATHER
Kansas: Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature tonight. Tomorrow fair and slightly warmer.