TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Ursula Parrott Acquitted Of Concealing Deserter
Miami, Fla., (INS)—Ursula Parrott, famous novelist, was found not guilty last week in Federal court on charges that she smuggled a soldier out of a prison stockade and concealed him from the army. The jury was out less than 17 minutes.
The all-masculine jury cleared Mrs. Parrott of the charges of aiding and concocting a deserter $ ^{2} $
The all-masculine jury clear aiding and concealing a deserter and impairing the loyalty and discipline of the armed forces, which had been pressed against her since December 29.
According to the testimony of Maj. Walter S. Danuser, officer in charge of the stockade, the author had paid 20-minute visits to Pvt. Michael Neely Bryan on four consecutive days. On the fifth day, December 28, Mrs. Parrott and the soldier spent two hours together, seated in the rear of her motor car.
Major Danuser had gone home when a stockade check revealed that Private Bryan was missing. The officer and the Miami Beach provost marshall, Maj. Henry Tyson, described that search was made useless when 24 hours later Mrs. Parrott and Private Bryan surrendered at the office of A. L. Raithel, Miami narcotics agent.
Bart A. Riley, attorney for the defense, directed his questions during the trial to show that Mrs. Parrott, with the unwitting help of Bryan, had been a big factor in the smashing of a marijuana ring in New York.
RECORD PROVES---ing basketball a "big time" sport. "Sure," he said, "we have played in Madison Square Garden many times, and we have done all right there, too. Also, we have been in our share of N.C.A.A. playoffs. Of course, the University of Kansas Athletic Association should have had its just share of the proceeds, which it didn't get. But what I mean by "big time" basketball is a practice of lucrative scholarships, easy jobs, and all that goes with such. Maybe we'll have professional basketball after this war, however. Who knows?"
(continued from page four) his education will have little to worry about concerning his place in the sun."
For illustration, he named a couple of dozen of stars, some of them all-Americans, who have played at Kansas during the last 20 years—all of them occupying important executive posts in the business world. Preparation for living, he pointed out, was their first aim. Athletics came second. Too many of the young men today looking for easy jobs and big scholarships are selling their birthrights for a mess of pottage. Things won't be like that when they get out of school, he said.
"Phog" says he is opposed to making basketball a "big time" sport.
Allen maintains that he is not opposed to professional sports—far from it. But as a goal for college men, they are misleading, as well as disillusioning. It is his aim, he points out, to make the young men under him realize that hard work on the job they are doing is the first and main objective of education.
Of course the chief reason for Allen's long winning streaks is the members of his teams themselves. When interviewed privately, nearly all of them admit that they came to K.U. to play under Allen because they figured he would produce a winner. And he has—nineteen times out of his 26 years on Mt. Oread.
Dr. Storer Discusses Chemical Astronomy
Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of physics and astronomy, discussed chemical astronomy for the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers last night at its monthly meeting in the Kansas room.
Possibility of life on the planets, description of the "dense" stars, and calculation of the distance of stars from the earth were subjects included in Dr. Storer's talk.
Court Rules Today On Sheriff's Job
Topeka, (INS) — Sheriff George W. Hale, Wichita, convicted of liquor law violations in Ottawa yesterday, will probably know by tonight whether he will be out of office temporarily at least.
The state supreme court was expected to hear before adjournment today application of Attorney General A. W. Mitchell to suspend Hale from office pending the outcome of the ouster suit already filed.
Montana Mine Death Total Now 74 Bear Creek, Mont., (INS) — The death toll in the Smith coal mine disaster near Bear Creek, the worst in the history of Montana, today was placed at 74 when officials finally abandoned hope for the 60 miners still entombed. Fourteen bodies previously were recovered.
(continued from page three) most of whom are alumnae of this chapter, were initiated Saturday. They are Virginia Brehm, Hutchinson; Polly Roberts, Hutchinson; Hanna Hedrick, Newton; Jeanne Branine, Newton; Jane Ham, Garden City; Sibyl Duff, Kansas City.
Sue Elliott, Kansas City; Beverly Frizzell, Larned; Virginia Gunsley, Emporia; Joanne Hayden, Kansas City; Hoeloise Hillbrand, Wichita; Vera Margaret Hurt, Lawrence; Marilyn Maloney, Lawrence.
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY---
Marilyn McEwen, Wichita; Elizabeth Prentice, Lawrence; Nancy Robertson, Kansas City; Annie Lou Rossman, Trenton, N. J.; Lucy Smith Lawrence; Rosalie Wrightman, Sabetha; and Mary Morrill, Hiawatha. ..guests at the initiation were Mr. R. E. Padfield, Wichita; Mrs. Arthur Weaver, Mrs. Ruth McNair, Mrs. G. W. Smith, Mrs. Jack Nessley, Mrs. Frank Watkins, Mrs. Dolph Simons, and Mrs. Wayne Clover, Lawrence; Miss Betty Lou Young, and Mrs. Wallace Springer, Chanute; Mrs. Mike Seltzer, and Miss Bette Jane Hamilton, Kansas City; Miss Nancy Munger, Kansas City, Kans.; Miss Leah Belle Duff, Topeka; and Miss Lillian Drebbelis, Sebetha.
. . guest at Sunday dinner was Robert Harwi.
... dinner guests Monday were Mrs.
Ruth McNair and Patty Birlow,
Lawrence.
Keown Rests Comfortably
Don Keown, Kansan sports editor who is in Watkins Memorial hospital suffering from pneumonia, is reported resting comfortably.
Washington Sees Postwar Plans Starting Soon
Washington, (INS)—Authoritative quarters in Washington believe the time is approaching when the United States, Great Britain and Russia should try to reach a joint understanding concerning the post-war treatment of the Germans.
There are strong indications in official and diplomatic circles that the United Nations generally are likely to favor drastic control and decentralization of Germany's over-developed war industry.
This problem is expected to figure prominently in some of the discussions which Undersecretary of State Summer Welles announced last week would be started "at once" by the American government with other members of the United Nations.
These discussions are intended to deal largely with post-war economic problems, and it is anticipated that they will include the question of how a defeated Germany should be treated economically.
Dr. Alexander Loudon, Netherlands ambassador in Washington, recently advocated that Germany's industry be controlled by an allied commission for two generations after the war.
Decentralization of Germany's over-developed war industries is expected to be carried out in part by transferring a considerable amount of machinery to those European countries whose industries have been destroyed by the German military might.
In American quarters, the view prevails that no specific time limit can be set; that it must depend entirely on how long it takes the German people to give convincing evidence that they have abandoned for all time the philosophy of superior race and conquest by force.
Diplomatic observers believed the industries which are left intact must be strictly controlled and prevented from being used for warlike purposes. It is felt that most of them could be used to develop materials needed for the reconstruction of Europe.
There is a strong belief in United
Never Too Late To Get Re-Married Says Couple, 72-78
Clayton, Mo., (INS)—"Two people just can't be married for 32 years, as we have been, and then try to get along without each other for the rest of their lives," Mrs. Lula Rooney, 72, declared last week after remarrying William Rooney, 78.
Mr. and Mrs. Rooney were divorced three years ago after 32 years of marriage and were remarried at Clayton.
"We realized we weren't getting any younger, and we are so fond of each other that we decided to kiss and make up," Mrs. Rooney said.
William Rooney, a justice of the peace for the past 16 years, recently married three elderly couples about his own age, and decided "There really must be something to marriage, after all."
Jay Janes Initiate Three New Members At Supper Meeting
The Jay James initiated Jeanne Haycock, education senior; Joanne Johnson, College sophomore; and Betty Lou Welty, fine arts sophomore at a meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Kansas room of the Union building.
After the meeting, a spaghetti supper was served.
Miss Maude Elliott, assistant professor of romance languages, and Miss Florence Black, associate professor of mathematics, Jay Janes sponsors, attended the meeting.
Fleming and Wilson To Debate Thursday
Edith Ann Fleming and Lois Blackburn Wilson, College juniors, will participate in a series of debates on the University of Missouri campus Thursday, Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech said
Nations diplomatic circles that Germany's economic life generally must be restricted after the war until the German people have given evidence of good faith in helping the peaceful reconstruction of Europe.
The subject of the debate is "Resolved: That this house deplores war marriages." Fleming and Wilson will take the negative approach. The debate will take place before a student audience.
OPA Raises Ceiling Prices On Wheat, Says It Will Soon Control Prices
Washington, (INS) — Capitulating to Congress after a row over consideration of benefit payments in fixing farm prices, the OPA has announced it would soon set up price control on wheat.
Salary Limitation Illegal, Says Princeton's Mvers
The capitulation came as the OPA revealed that it had raised ceiling prices on soft wheat flour by approximately eight per cent in the East, South and Midwest. The price increase means the cost of crackers, cake, and biscuits at retail stores will be boosted.
Dr. Myers, in Los Angeles for a series of addresses, declared:
Los Angeles, (INS) — President Roosevelt's $25,000 salary limitation order was described yesterday as "unparadonable, illegal, and unconstitutional" by Dr. William Starr Myers, head of Princeton University's government and political science department.
"It is doubtful that congress could pass such a law constitutionally, but clearly it is absolutely unconstitutional for the executive to do so."
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