University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, October 9, 1945
43rd Year No.11
Lawrence, Kansas
Truman Says U.S.
To Keep Atom Bomb
Tiptonville, Tenn. (UP)—President Truman is firmly determined to keep from any other nation of the world, including all our wartime allies, the highly guarded secret of how the United States manufactured the atomic bomb, he said last night in a press conference here.
He favors, however, wide interchange of scientific knowledge concerning atomic energy in the hope that it will lead to a new era of world prosperity and peace.
Athens, (UP)—The government of Premier Petros Voulgaris resigned today after the EAM protested against its decision to hold elections in Greece.
Washington. (UP)—A war department spokesman predicted today that enlisted men who have served two or more years in the army will be eligible for discharge, regardless of points, by late next March.
Jap Gold Seized; Cabinet Is Reformed
Tokyo. (UP)—American occupation forces have seized more than 250 million dollars worth of Japanese gold, silver and platinum—some of it probably stolen from other lands—in the past 36 hours, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today.
The American forces struck swiftly while Premier Baron Kijiro Shidehara and his new government were being sworn in and were announcing their restoration program which included promises to combat food, clothing and housing shortages, reform the imperial diet system, purge inefficient officials, seek speedy repatriation of Japanese troops and civilians abroad, and restore free speech and assembly.
London. (UP)—The British labor government was challenged to a general debate on the foreign ministers' council today after Foreign Secretary Bevin disclosed that the conference foundered on a sudden reversal of Russia's stand on the Balkan peace treaties.
Washington. (UP)—Back-to-work movements highlighted the overall labor picture today as government officials reported progress in negotiations to end spreading strikes in the soft coal fields.
Belle Plain Explosion Wrecks Drug Store
Belle Plain. (UP)—A terrific gas explosion today tugged several buildings on the main street of this central Kansas community of 900 persons and caused at least one known death.
The buildings destroyed housed the Goheen drug store and the Chapman hardware store. Mr. and Mrs.Ira Y. Goheen and a clerk, Mrs.Pearl Poindexter, crawled out of the wreckage of the store, miraculously unharmed.
London. (UP) - The government announced tonight that troops will be called out to unload Britain's strike-bound food ships.
(Mr. and Mrs. Goheen are the parents of Lt. (tg) J. Richard Goheen, former KU, student who was killed last year in the war.)
Berlin. (UP) — The four-power court which will hear the Nuerenburg trials of Axis war criminals met for the first time here today.
Laval to Die For Treason
Paris. (UP)—A French court today found Pierre Laval, arch-collaborationist, guilty of treason and sentenced him to die.
Laval, who refused to attend the last two sessions of his five-day trial, was found guilty on both counts of the indictment—plotting against the security of the state and intelligence with the enemy.
The former chief of government at Vichy was not in the courtroom when his fate was announced. He rebelled against the tumultuous court procedure and sulked in his cell while his fate was being sealed.
The conviction had not been left in doubt since the early sessions of his trial in the paneled courtroom of the palace of justice. There two months ago Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was convicted and sentenced to death, only to receive a commutation to life imprisonment.
Laval also was sentenced to national indignity and confiscation of all his property.
Now Laval's only hope lay in an appeal to Gen. Charles De Gaulle. If that fails—and by all signs it will—Laval will be executed by a firing squad, probably at the Montrouge fortress just outside Paris and possibly by the end of this week.
Advanced R.O.T.C. Proposed for Veterans
An advanced ROTC class for honorably discharged veterans on the campus is being considered, Capt John D. Bradley, commanding officer of the ROTC, announced today.
Upon completion of two years of training under the proposed program, the trainee would receive a second lieutenant's commission in the army reserve. Any veteran is eligible for the training if he has served in the army for at least a year and has completed the regular training program. Names may be turned in to Captain Bradley.
Freshman Veterans to Meet
Veterans in the freshman class will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the men's lounge of the Memorial union. Freshmen problems and membership in the Veteran's club will be discussed.
Plans for the Homecoming game will be discussed at the All-Student Council meeting at 7:15 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Memorial Union, Mary Jo Cox, Council president, announced today.
To Discuss Homecoming
The Council will consider plans for a project to replace the peace conference, Miss Cox said.
One hundred tickets for violations of traffic regulations were left yesterday on motor cars parked along Oread street, traffic department officials announced this morning.
Parking is permitted on Oread street between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., only if the owner has a University permit.
Parkers Get 100 Tags
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with occasional light rains west and south central tonight and east and south tomorrow. Not so cool tonight.
Oh, My Aching Back Doctor Writes
Editor's note: The Daily Kansan believes more University students could profit by knowing more about their health service at Watkins memorial hospital. For this reason, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, health service director, will write a regular column on "Oh, My Aching Back!" or "How to Stay Out of the Hospital" for the Kansan. This is the first in this new Kansan feature series.
By DR. RALPH I. CANUTESON (Director, University Health Service
(Director, University Health Service)
For anything from a worried mind to an aching back, 85 out of each 100 of you K.U. students will have called at Watkins memorial hospital by the end of this school year. Care, treatment, advice, and pills will be administered, through your University health service.
The health service, with a fee of $7.50 each semester, differs from other hospitalization or medical care plans in that its main function is to produce and maintain good health rather than restore it.
In other words, the health service staff dishes out as much verbal advice as it does physical medicine.
College students have access to a number of advice and informative services—university guidance, counseling, and information bureaus, letters from home, and the ever-ample advice from relatives, ministers, housemothers, and lovelorn columnists. But there are always problems which seem to require some expert advice from an M.D., or at least a nurse. Here are a few questions we've been asked at the hospital:
Will I get syphilis if I kiss a girl? How can I lose 10 pounds by Saturday so I can wear my new formal? Should I stay up to study for a quiz or get more sleep? Why do I go to sleep during lectures?
Therefore, the worried mind. Such questions are the basis for more than 3,000 consultations
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Betty Jean Whitney, senior, was elected president of the students in the School of Pharmacy, it was announced today. Marvin Inloes was chosen vice-president and Wayne Curry, sophomore, is secretary-treasurer.
Pharmacy Students Elect Officers
Potter Appointed To Engineering Staff
PHILLIP J. POTTER
Appointment of Phillip J. Potter as associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University, effective Nov. 1, was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Professor Potter, former assistant professor at Bucknell university, Lewisburg, Pa., also has held the positions of junior engineer for the Philadelphia Electric Co. in Philadelphia, and instructor in mechanical engineering at Swarthmore college.
lege.
He received his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1934, and his master of science degree in mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania in 1942.
Free Movies Added to Night Shirt Parade
A committee consisting of Dean Werner, Raymond Nichols, George Hedrick and Stanley Schwahn of Lawrence, Owen Peck, Michael Kuklenski, Betty O'Neal, and Eugenia Lenship, has charge of arrangements for the parade and rally in South park.
The Nightshirt parade—with all its traditional trimmings, plus free movies (officially) for all paraders—will be back this year on Nov. 16, Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, said today.
Exams Up for Some
Finals are here again for students who enrolled in the 16-week semester in July. Exams are scheduled for Oct. 17, 18, 19, and 20, Prof. Verner Smith, chairman of the calendar committee, announced today.
143 Selected To Direct Union Activities
One hundred forty-three students were named today to Union Activities committees, Alberta Cornwell, president, announced.
Students were selected on the basis of information in application blanks blanks filled out Thursday and Friday. Committee chairman selected their committees.
"More than 200 students applied for committee positions." Miss Cornwell explained, "and all those who could not be assigned will be placed on the waiting list."
Committees will meet this week to plan work for the year. The new members are:
Publicity—Joan Harris, chairman, Pat Allen, Ted Amberg, Don Blim, Gladys Blue, Janis Burkholder, Eileen Deutschman, Sally Houck, Paul Jackson, Dorothy James, Virginia Larson, Jill Landauel, Frances Lawrence, Joyce Mallen, Elsen
Social Committee-Joan Woodward,
chairman.
Midweeks: Bob Freico, Nancy Love,
Marie McCormack, Margaret
Wright, and Martha Yingling.
Big Dances; Phyllis Byrnes, Dion Bleosse, Dick Carmean, Barbara Ford, Harriet Harlow, Vincent Leonhard, Sue Newcomer, Marion Sheldon, and Eleanor
Hilbrook and Administration: Pearl Brodhecker, Arleen Felskamp; Alice Goldsworthy, Laura Griffith; Mary Lu Hill, John Briptyt; and Lee Sullh.
Business, Howard Joseph, chairman;
Hortense Bredell, Betty Brothers; Jane
Brown, Belinda Cannon; Mary McClary,
McClary, William Nagle, Warren L.
Reed, Lorna Rink, Betty Sargent, Gloria
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Malott, Bradley Talk On Veteran Housing
(Special to the University Daily Kansan)
Washington - Chancellor Denee W. Malott, of the University of Kansas, was here today to confer with Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans bureau administrator. Chancellor Malott is seeking some way to obtain housing in Lawrence for discharged servicemen desiring to return to college.
Before returning to Lawrence, Chancellor Malott will attend a conference of university presidents at the University of North Carolina. A discussion will be held about the attitude of universities toward compulsory military training and the continuance of the draft.
The chancellor will attend the 100th anniversary of naval ROTC at Annapolis Naval academy today.
Podium Yields to Pulpit as Two Profs 'Double-Talk'
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DEAN PAUL B. LAWSON
From podium to pulpit every
seven days.
This is the role of Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and R. Edwin Browne, director of public relations at the University and instructor in radio journalism.
Although not an ordead minister, Dean Lawson for the past 20 years has been the pastor of the West Side Presbyterian church.
The dean is enthusiastic about his Sunday job, but he adds, "It's time for my congregation to have a new pastor; the church grows stale with the same man for 20 years."
Because his work at the University is restricted to college persons, Dean Lawson believes his church life, with its cross-section of the average American and his problems, helps to keep him from growing "lop-sided."
"The only regret I have," he added,
"is that I have so little time to spend with my congregation. Actually, they
Since March of this year, Mr. Browne has been pastor of the Re-organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Lawrence, with world headquarters at Independence, Mo. The democratic arrangement of the church, with its various departments dividing the pastor's usual duties among several persons, enable Mr. Browne to continue his work at the University, he said.
do more for me than I could ever do for them."
Mr. Browne has made numerous plans for get-togethers with the students on the campus.
"The student in the university today does not have to be fanatically religious," Mr. Browne explained. "He only needs to be reminded that there is a God, and to apply his religion to his everyday life."
Ordained as a minister in 1936, Mr. Browne first was a pastor at the Bennington church group in Kansas City, Mo.