University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, October 8, 1945
43rd Year No. 10
Lawrence, Kansas
Situation Eases But Strikes Go On
washington. (UP)—Labor disputes kept nearly 500 thousand workers off their jobs today as the government sought to end strikes hampering reconversion. Vital petroleum nearly normal and the tangled Detroit labor picture cleared today but strikes in the nation's soft coal fields still challenged government ingenuity.
"Ike Not Certain Hitler Is Dead."
Amsterdam. (UP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was on record today as declaring that Adolf Hitler's death was not considered a certainty. The American commander, interviewed while en route to the Hague, said that Soviet generals had shown evidence supporting their theory that Hitler still may be alive.
London. (UP)—Rudolf Hess, former deputy fucher of the Nazi party who flew to Britain on a fantastic mission in 1941, left by plane for Germany today to stand trial as a war criminal.
Still Hunt Jap Loot As Cabinet 'Reforms'
Tokyo. (UP)—Armed American guards tonight surrounded the Japanese navy ministry after U.S. officials said hoards of loot from Japan's lost empire might be stored in official government buildings. Meanwhile, Premier Designate Baron Kijuro Shidehara completed his "stop gap" cabinet of liberals whose average is 61. Members will take office tomorrow and will serve until next year's elections.
Washington. (UP)—The Supreme Court today refused to reconsider its decision of June 18 holding membership by-laws of the Associated Press in violation of the federal anti-trust laws.
90-Point Vets Coming Home
Manila. (UP)—All American army enlisted men in the western Pacific command with 90 discharge points or more, or who are over 38 years of age, were ordered today to report to assembly centers within 48 hours for shipment home.
Army officials said only certain medical, language and communications specialists were being retained among the high-point and over-age men.
Washington. (UP)—A conscientious objector has won the congressional medal of honor.
The man is PFC Desmond T. Doss, Lynchburg, Va., who won the medal for outstanding bravery as a member of the medical corps on Okinawa the war department announced today.
Shanghai. (UP)—The Japanese executed 14 American airmen at Formosa only two months before Japan's surrender and while Tokyo was seeking peace terms from the allies, it was revealed today
WASHINTON. (UP)—The executive board of the Oil Workers Union (CIO) has decided to accept the government's compromises for setting its wage dispute and call off strikes against companies which also agree to the proposal,
Cubs Even Series
Chicago. (UP)—The score of the sixth game of the World Series:
Detroit ... 010 000 240 000-7 13 1
Chicago ... 000 041 200 001-8 15 3
Trial Proceeds Without Laval
Paris, (UP)—The treason trial to Pierre Laval was resumed today without the defendant, defense counsel, or defense witnesses.
Laval's trial, the most fantastic in French history, reopened an hour and a half behind schedule after Judge Pierre Mongibiaux and Minister of Justice Henri Teingen tried in vain to induce the former Vichy premier to change his find and come to court.
With the defendant remaining defiantly in his cell, court observers believed the trial might wind up tomorrow with the prosecutor's summation and the delivery of judgement.
Mongibeaux ordered the trial to proceed despite a storm of protest against the court procedure which had seen judge and jury taunting Laval and making it clear that they were bent on condemning him.
Laval himself was not at the palace of justice. In a statement to the press he said he did not propose to appear again before a jury which last week shouted epithets at him and a judge whose conviction of his guilt was made crystal clear.
Today's first witness was Gen. Paul Doyen, former head of the French armistice delegation and now military governor of Lyon, who testified that the German had demanded the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine and made other territorial demands through the armistice commission on which he served.
"Germany's intention was to dismember France," he said. "To all Frenchmen who could use their hands, the line of duty was clear—to continue the struggle. Any man who supported a policy of collaboration was a traitor. That was the kind of a man Laval was."
Twenty men of the Army Specialized Training program recently arrived on the campus from duty at Fitzsimmons General hospital, in Denver. They are enrolled as freshmen in the school of medicine.
Army Medical Students Enroll
There are only seven days remaining in which to mail A.P.O. Christmas packages without a written request, R.C.Abraham, superintendent of the University post office warned today.
Week to Go on Xmas Mail
The boxes to overseas service persons cannot weigh more than five pounds; cannot be more than 15 inches long, nor more than 36 inches in length and girth combined. The boxes must be of heavy cardboard, tin or wood, and must be securely wrapped.
From Mooseburg, Germany, to Mt. Oread has been quite a change for George Robb. At Mooseburg, with the seven members of his B-24 crew, Robb was a prisoner of war. On Mt. Oread he is a College sophomore.
Lack of food was the worst part of being a prisoner, Robb said. He lost 30 to 35 pounds during the first three weeks that he was a captive, and other captives also lost. Red Cross food parcels alone saved thousands of American prisoners from starvation. These food parcels were
George Robb Finds Mount Oread Big Change From Prison Camp
Students will have the choice of going on inactive duty upon signing an agreement to complete their education at their own expense, or of being sent to the fleet.
More than 150 medical and dental students will go on inactive duty under this arrangement. Freshmen medical students will be put on the inactive list about Feb. 7, sophomores on Oct. 29, juniors and seniors on Dec. 1, and dental students on Jan. 26.
V-12 Dental and Med Students May Go On Inactive Duty
V-12 medical and dental students will be placed on inactive duty or sent to the fleet upon completion of any term starting prior to Nov. 1, Capt. William Kunz. NROTC head, announced today.
"We will make every effort to clear them through the seperation center in time to permit their enrollment next semester," Captain Kunz said.
"Present indications are that all of them will sign the agreement and go on inactive duty," Captain Kunz stated.
F. P.O. Christmas boxes may be mailed until Nov. 15 without a request.
Westman Takes Over As K.U. Taxidermist
A former University student, Robb, was a lieutenant in the army air corps. His experiences with the Nazis began when he and his crew were forced to bail out on March 14, 1945, over southern Austria, on a routine bombing mission from Italy. They were captured immediately upon landing. A few day later they were transported to Frankfort on the Main and from there taken to Nuremburg for questioning. This consisted of attempts to proclaim tary information from the prisoner, Red Cross Carceels Saved Many
C. Howard Westman, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, has arrived in Lawrence
to assume the work of taxidermist
for Dyche museum of natural history.
He was on the staff of the University of Michigan for eight years, during which time he received the degree of master of science in zoology. Formerly of Alexandria, Minn., Mr. Westman studied taxidermy at the University of Iowa, the only University in the United States granting a bachelor of arts degree in taxidemy.
distributed through the International Red Cross and their neutral representative when the Nazis failed to fear prisoners enough to sustain life.
Besides the shortage of food, living quarters and facilities were crowded and filthy, Robb reported. Hundreds of prisoners were herded into long low barracks without sufficient bunks, while others lined in teents and slept on the ground. Some Wait Two Years for Liberation!
Some Wait Two Years for Liberation When the 14th Armored division drove through Moosburg on a Sunday morning late in April, it was a great day for the prisoners. Many of them had been awaiting liberation for over two years and at first could not believe that they were actually under Allied control again. From Germany, Robb and thousands of other prisoners of war were returned to the United States.
Later Robb and his crew were marched with a group of 10,000 American prisoners from Nuremberg to Moosburg, where they were imprisoned for the duration of the war.
Whistle Replaced
The old University whistle, which can be heard throughout Lawrence, once again is announcing class changes for Jayhawker students. It replaces a German ship whistle, presented to the University last spring by Capt. Robert A. Haggart, who is shown here handing over the captured Nazi whistle to Persis Snook, former All-Student Council president.
ASC Names Pollock To Edit Directory
Marjorie Pollock, fine arts senior, is editor of the new student directory. Dixie Gilland, publicity chairman announced today.
Other directory staff members are Ann Alexander, college freshman, assistant editor; Ann Young, college junior, business manager; and Nancy Goering, college sophomore, advertising manager.
The editor was chosen at a meeting of the publications committee of All-Student council Friday night. The committee consists of Miss Gilliland; Eugenia Hepworth, vice-president of ASC; Guy Ashcraft, council member; Henry Werner, dean of student affairs: Karl Klooz, bursar; and Gordon Sabine, instructor in journalism.
Board To Consider Retiring Debt Bonds
Calling of additional bonds for retirement of the stadium debt will be discussed at the annual dinner-meeting of the K.U. Physical Education corporation board at 5 p.m. today at the Officer's club in the Memorial Union building.
An election of officers will be held, Karl Klooz, bursar and secretary of the board, announced.
Bonds totaling $25,000 were retired in June, bringing the indebtedness of the stadium to $83,000 at this meeting the board will consider retiring an additional $15,000 Dec. 1.
WEATHER
Kansas; Fair tonight and tomorrow. Cooler tonight with low temperatures 25 to 30 extreme west to 40 to 45 southeast with heavy frost and freezing temperatures west and extreme north and light frost in east.
Drive Approved As Memorial To K.U. Veterans
Official approval for a carillon tower and a scenic drive as the University's World War II memorial was given by the state board of regents in Topeka this weekend.
The memorial will be financed by contributions from students, faculty members, alumni, and friends of the University.
Charles B. Shaffer, Kansas City, Mo., president of the K.U. Alumni association, will be on the campus Friday to talk with faculty members about the drive. The site for the tower has not been chosen.
The suggested route for the drive begins on the east, either on Oread avenue or Mississippi street, and runs a nearly level contour around the brow of the Hill. It will cross the present main University drive at the flower bed near the engineering buildings.
The drive will provide opportunities for other memorials and individual memorials, Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, said today.
Kansas Tornado Blew Up I.S.C.
The boys from where the tail corn grows were completely befuddled by the magnificent play of the green and inexperienced Kansas eleven. They had expected to make a clean sweep. Instead they were outplayed and outfought by the valiant Jaw-hawkers from the starting whistle until they were "saved by the bell" at the finish.
A Kansas tornado swept the Iowa State Cyclones all over the Memorial stadium gridiron Saturday afternoon.
Tall Corners Get Clipped
At 11 a.m. Saturday the visiting football team was lounged in easy chairs in the hotel lobby, discussing the prospects of an afternoon's "practice" with the Jayhawks in a bored manner.
At 4p.m., the bewildered Cyclone squad sat glumly on the bench, obviously wondering what it was all about.
Liberty Ships Pictured In New Thayer Display
A scoreless, but exciting first half kept the spectators on their toes. Many who had expected to drift out at the end of the first half stayed around to watch the follow-up of little Dick Bertuzzi's first half interception and 35-year run, Leroy
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"Ships for Victory," a group of photographs showing the steps in building Liberty ships, will be displayed in the north and south galleries on the second floor of Thayer museum until after Navy day. Mrs. Mary Margaret Warner, curator, announced this morning.
The series of more than a hundred pictures shows shipbuilding from the blueprint stage to the launching and christening ceremony. Some have been enlarged to mural size, with illustrations in techniques of photography.
The exhibit, organized by the Kaiser Shipbuilding corporation and the Portland, Ore., museum of art, has been shown in several large cities.