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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MARCH 12, 1945
Sportorials
By Loren King
Who said "Phog" Allen was just seeking publicity when he started his basketball racket expose? Interesting little items of fact keep turning up every now and then, the latest of which is the strange status of Lawrence Pearlstein, one of the five players of the Brooklyn College team who were expelled. Mayor La Guardia in a radio broadcast yesterday disclosed that investigation showed Pearlstein was not a student in the school.
The report to Mayor La Guardia from Edgar Bromberg, commissioner of investigation, charged the faculty with "laxity, indifference, and negligence . . . that on boards the unpardonable." "Pearlstein carried books around the campus and to practice," Bromberger said, but the evidence showed that all his papers had been falsified. He even had fooled the coach, "Tubby" Raskin, who said that he had never been in doubt as to the player's academic standing.
How the High Schools Play
The Lawrence-Topeka game Saturday night, deciding the regional AA championship, was a thriller, and it seems there were fireworks afterward. Overheard yesterday in a downtown drug store, "We ran four carloads of those Toppea boys out of town last night."
We'd like to lead some cheering for the University High basketball team, to congratulate them on what Gearald L. Pearson, principal, called their best season in many years. The
Kindlesparger Has 1200 Flying Hours
Capt. John L. Kindlesparger has achieved a primary goal of all pilots by attaining more than 1000 hours of operational flying. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Kindlesparger, 1215 East Irene ave., Salina, Kansas, and has 1200 overseas hours to his credit. Now a member of the "1000-hour club," Capt. Kindlesparger is currently assigned to a ferrying squadron of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service at a busy air base in Italy.
He attended the University of Kansas before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 where he received air crew training at Ontario, Canada.
Overseas since September 1943, Capt. Kindlesparrow was stationed in England and North Africa before beginning his tour of duty in Italy. He has been authorized the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with four bronze stars for participation in the following campaigns: Sicilian, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno and Southern France.
Capt. Kindlesparger's squadron has been engaged in supplying the Allied armies in Italy and Southern France by flying high priority flight and passengers to the fronts as they are needed.
Ernest Brown Serves With Red Cross Overseas
One of 200 Negroes now serving overseas with the Red Cross is Ernest Leroy Brown, Jr., who was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1936. Mr. Brown has arrived in New Guinea for further assignment in the Southwest Pacific as an American Red Cross assistant field director.
Before his Red Cross appointment Mr. Brown was director of the Workers Aid club and was a journalist on the Negro Labor News, both in Houston, Tex. Previously, he was with the Kansas City Call. He is a graduate of Lincoln High school, Kansas City.
The Pre-nursing club will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Miller hall, Jeanne Moser, president, said today.
team won 13 out of 16 games in the regular season, and came as far as the semi-finals in the regional tournament at Washington Rural, Bethel. They were a good little bunch of players, and have done their school and the University credit.
Incidentally, does the University High team have anything to call itself but the University High team? How about a nickname? If there is one down there we haven't heard it on the campus.
Lawrence Wins AA Regional
By winning a thrilling 41 to 39 victory over Topeka here Saturday night, Lawrence High school claimed the right to compete in the semi-state meet for Class AA basketball teams this weekend. Lawrence led all the way, C. Penny was high scorer for Lawrence with 20 points. Other national results were as foll-
Other regional results were as follows:
Class AA — Columbus 38, Pitts-
burg 20.
At Pittsburg (Finals)
At Beloit Class A — Minneapolis 26, South
Class A — Altamont 27, Cherry-ale 25 (overtime).
Class B — Arma 29, Pleasanton 24
Class A (finals) — Garden City 33,
Liberal 25.
Center 25.
Class B — Courtland 43, Athol 31.
At Garden City
Clark A-6804, Fairbanks, Alaska.
At Beloit
Class B (finals) — Mullinville 35,
Johnson 19.
At Fredonia
Class A — Fredonia 46, Eureka 40
Class B — Moline 32, Madison 25.
At Junction, City
Class AA - Salina 41, Junction City 37.
Class A - Abilene 40, Clay Center 25.
Class B—Kipp 32, Enterprise 19.
At Newton
Class A — Wichita Cathedral 24,
Hillsboro 22.
Class AA — Newton 40, ElDorado 15.
Class B — Halstead 50, Burrton 2
At. Colby
Class A — Colby 37, Goodland D
Class B — Oakley 52, Page 37.
At Chanute
Class AA — Coffeyville 35, Chanute 33 (overtime); Ottawa 52, Independence 40 (consolation).
Three Students Receive Residence Hall Awards
The residence hall scholarship committee has announced the following awards for the spring semester:
Virginia Powell, Olathe, and Max ine Weir, Kansas City, Kan., appointed to Miller hall; and Mariar Delores Pugh, Kansas City, Mo., appointed to Watkins hall.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
you're rolling along through mountainous western country. Suddenly your train stops. Ahead—a signal light has turned red. The "talking fence" has flashed its warning to the engineer.
Technically known as the "slide detector fence", it is erected parallel to Union Pacific tracks as a protection against falling rocks, trees or other possible obstructions. Any such object striking the fence breaks an electrical contact, "setting up" signals miles down the track to warn trains approaching in either direction. A trainman must then make a thorough inspection before trains can proceed.
Union Pacific uses every possible precaution to safeguard its passengers and freight . . troops and war materials . . transported over its Strategic Middle Route uniting the East with the Pacific Coast.
The "talking fence" is but one of the many safety devices developed by our nation's railroads. Such improvements result from enterprise and initiative; characteristic American traits that built the Union Pacific . . . that built Your America land of equal opportunity for all.
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