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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950
THE AIR FORCE Drum and Bugle corps will make its debut at the Kansas Relays parade Saturday. First organized six weeks ago, the corps has been rehearsing six hours a week in preparation for Saturday's event.
The Air Force Drum and Bugle corps, which has been organized at the University under the direction of Capt. John W. Barley, assistant professor of air science, will make its debut at the Kansas Relays parade Saturday.
Drum And Bugle Corps To Make Debut Saturday
The corps has been rehearsing for nearly six hours every week since its formation six weeks ago, in order to be ready for the relays celebration.
Some of the men who are in the corps have had no previous experience with the instruments they play. Instruction was given the new men by Paul Dring and Robert Zurbruchen, College sophomore.
Eight bugles and nine drums were sent to the air force unit here. There are not enough instruments to go around but Captain Barley said
that they had received all they could for the present.
Much of the music has been written by Dring and Zurbuchen. Some of the titles are reminiscent of service lore. One of them is "The Purple Shaft," and another is "The Captain and the Colonel."
Because of supply difficulties, the corps will not wear the new air force blue uniforms. The uniforms shown in the picture are green twill, similar to the officers uniforms worn during the war.
Journalist Turned Librarian Reported Trials And Strikes
A journalist turned librarian is de Lafayette Reid, assistant director of libraries at the University since September 1, 1949. Mr. Reid received his bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1938 and was a reporter on the Caruthersville, Mo., Democrat-Argus.
He recalls 11 murder trials he reported in 11 months and the "share croppers" strike" of 1939 that led to his affiliation with the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Farm workers loaded family and goods into dilapidated wagons and moved onto the highways surrounding Caruthersville, center of the second largest cotton producing county in the south. Pennsicott county. First news
DE LAFAYETTE REID
Library work was part of the ex-reporter's college career. At Shurteff college in Alton, Ill., he worked in the library. He acquired more experience as a student assistant at the University of Missouri library between 1936 and 1938.
of the unusual strike reached the Post Dispatch through Mr. Reid, who became a staff correspondent for the newspaper.
He received a bachelor of science degree in library science in 1940 from the University of Illinois. While working for his degree, he assisted in the Order department of the University of Illinois library.
In 1946 Mr. Reid went to Galesburg, Ill., where he was the librarian of the Galesburg division of the University of Illinois. He received his master of science degree in library science in 1948 while at Galesburg. This undergraduate extension of the University of Illinois was discontinued in June 1949.
"My trip to Lawrence and the University of Kansas was the most convenient one I could make." Mr. Reid said grinning. Lawrence was the only location, out of the positions he considered following the close of the extension library, that was served by a through train from Galesburg.
Contacts with student library workers Mr. Reid finds one of the most rewarding phases of his work. As well as supervising student library personnel, the assistant director manages University branch libraries.
Answer Ready For Soviets
Topeka Capital Promotes Grads
James L. Robinson and John F. Wheeler, '49 graduates of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, have received promotions on the Topeka Daily Capital.
Robinson has been appointed state editor and Wheeler will be assistant city editor. The appointments were announced by James Reed, executive editor of the Topeka paper.
While at the University, both held executive positions on the Daily Kansan. Wheeler was feature editor and city editor and Robinson was an assistant city editor, telegraph editor, and editor-in-chief.
Washington, April 18—(U.P.) The United States today charged that Soviet fighter aircraft shot down an unarmed American naval plane over the open waters of the Baltic sea.
Youth Dies in Auto Crash
Turner, Kan, April 18—(U.P.)A 17-year-old Linwood, Kan was killed last night and three other persons were injured in a head-on collision of two motor cars on highway 32 near Turner.
Washington, April 18—(U.P.) The United States planned to reply—firmly but calmly—today to Russia's angry protest that an American plane violated Soviet territory 10 days ago and exchanged fire with Soviet fighters.
State department officials completed a draft of the American reply, and arranged to dispatch it to the Russians immediately unless some new hitch developed.
The U.S. note is based on the "true facts" in a highly secret report relayed to President Truman and the state and defense departments by military leaders in Europe who investigated the disappearance of an unarmed navy privateer the same day.
Michael J. McDermott, state department press spokesman, has criticized Russia for its lack of "calmness and restraint" and has said the United States will not follow suit.
Russia protested a week ago that an American bomber committed an "unheard of violation of the elementary rules of international law" by flying over Soviet-controlled Latvia on April 8. The Russian note said the American plane fired on Soviet fighters and that they opened fire in return.
The one possible clue to the fate of the American plane—a yellow rubber life raft picked up in the Baltic sea—was on the way to Copenhagen for examination by American air force men who have been directing the search for the missing aircraft.
It was on April 8 that the unarmed navy privateer, a four-engined aircraft, disappeared in the same general area. Most officials here have gone on the theory that the Russian fighters shot it down.
World News At Press Time
Cholera Epidemic In India
Calcutta, India, April 18—(U.P.) Calcutta's cholera outbreak reached epidemic proportions today and hospitals were unable to remove victims as fast as they died.
Valetta, Malta, April 18—(U.P.) Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will celebrate at a cocktail party on the destroyer Chequers tonight the news that she expects her second child in late July or early August.
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ASC Refuses To Enforce Strong Hall Smoking Rule
The All Student Council has decided that since the Council did not order the north and south wings designated as no-smoking areas the student court could not enforce the smoking rule in this case.
If a non-smoking rule is to be enforced in the basement of Strong hall, the chancellor will have to enforce it.
A smoking committee report by Arthur Ford, chairman, resulted in this action. In the report Ford revealed that psychology teachers had been smoking in their offices and that Chancellor Deane W. Malott had sent word to stop it.
Seemingly it was an outgrowth of this action that led to the posting of "no-smoking" signs in the two areas.
Ford's report outlined generally the smoking situation on the campus. The Council voted not to accept the portion which dealt with the Strong hall basement smoking.
Ernest Friesen, Council president, said "By striking out the section dealing with smoking in the basement of Frank Strong, it would be
up to the chanceller to enforce it, the court wouldn't."
Robert Bennett, vice-president,
said "If we let this pass we would be acting like a rubber stamp."
WAC's Start New Styles
Newton. Mass.—(U.P.)—Unwilling to be outdone by the Army's WACS, city officials hope to outfit their new policewomen in Hattie Carnegie uniforms.
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