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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1945
NUMBER 98
42nd YEAR
Allen Exposes Sports Gambling in South
What is probably the largest college and high school sports gambling joint in the United States was exposed today by Coach Forrest C. (Phog) Allen as being in the very heart of Lexington, Ky., where Hayden Kirkpatrick, secretary-treasurer of the Thoroughbred Record, recently made the charge that gambling on college sports was not connected with betting on horse races, and told Allen to put up or shut up.
"Members of your staff," messaged Allen to Kirkpatrick, surely must know of the gambling place above the Mayfair saloon, 224 East Main street, whose secret telephone number is 2732. (the golden ring)
is 3730 (the saloon number is
121) where as much as $500, 000 is handled on weekends in bets on college and high school sports and races.
Gambling Room Over Saloon
"Go through the saloon which is a blind for the gambling joint; go up a back stairway to the second floor and you will find there the gambling room and the blackboard on which all of the races of the United States and Cuba had been posted and where college and high school games of importance are posted with their various odds. Recently in the Kentucky-Georgia Tech game the odds gave Kentucky 23 points.
"There you'll find," continued Coach Allen," telephone connections with Chicago, New York, St. Louis and New Orleans, and the gamblers can get these places quicker than an army general. Their telephone bill runs between $2,000 and $3,000 a month."
'Phog' Says Commissioner Needed
Coach Allen reiterated his earlier statement that none but a commissioner of college and high school sports can dry up the gigantic gambling and booking places, saying, "A strong hand is needed to fight against gambling which is throttling the throat of the college game."
Four New Nominees Enter Race for Title Of 1945 Pep King
Four new nominees have been turned into the Jay Janes for the nomination of their pep king for the Vice Versa dance to be given Saturday, Feb. 17, in the Military Science building.
The four new nominees are Ted Battchelder, Psi Kappa Psi; James Gregath, PT 5; Bob Miller, PT 8; and Sam Hunter, Sigma Chi. Other nominees for the candidacy are Don Cousins, Phi Delta Theta; Lynn Leigh, PT 9; Sam Crow, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Wally Rouse, Phi Gamma Delta; Gus Daum, PT 10; Charlie Moffett, Delta Tau Delta; Gordon Reynolds, PT 6; Bill Hollis, Battenfield hall; and Don Alderson, Carruth hall.
The pep club king will be chosen by votes cast at the dance and will be crowned by the Jay James during intermission.
Washington (INS) Representative Mansfield (D.-Mont.) predicted in congress today that American supplies to China will more than double this year as a result of the completion of the Ledo-Burma road and construction of a parallel pipeline.
1. S. Supplies to China Increase
Erwin, Cox Head Independent Organization
Rosalie Erwin, College sophomore, was ecteled general chairman of the Independent organization and Mary Jo Cox, junior in education, vice-chairman, at a mass meeting of independent students held last night in the Union lounge.
The constitution, written by a committee headed by Bob Campbell, was unanimously approved and adopted. The constitution provides for the establishment of four divisions: activities, politics, welfare, and social, to accomplish the purpose of the organization, which is "to organize independent students into an effective body which will aid them in realizing their individual potentialities."
Membership for all Independents
Membership is conferred on every independent student enrolled in the University, and each student may participate in whatever function of the organization that he may wish.
In the social division, social activities will be directed by the Independent Students association, and relationship with the I.S.A. will be one of cooperation.
The political division was formed to insure true independent representation by reforming the existing political structure through adoption of the direct primary. Until the number of independent women, the men's half of the political division will be inactive and the women's
Women to Coordinate with PSGL
Two thousand dollars has been donated to the fund for the Danforth chapel by the Women's Pan-Hellenic council, on behalf of all Kansas university sorority women, alumnae and actives, Carol Stuart, president, announced today. The money is to provide stain glass windows for the new chapel when it is constructed.
Pan-Hellenic Gives Windows for Chapel
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The Council voted in a meeting recently to have monthly exchange dinners between sororities. The first dinners were held the first of February.
Plans are being made for an all-university dance this spring to be sponsored by the Pan-Hellenic council, Miss Stuart added.
Personal Rating Can Be Obtained By Each Teacher
If the faculty and course evaluation survey being conducted by the All-Student council shows definite results and not a vagueness or signs of "horse play" on the part of the students, a complete, comprehensive report will be sent to the administration in each school, Doris Bixby, reporting for Sara Marks, chairman of the evaluation committee, told the members of the A. S. C. at a meeting held last night.
The blanks for the survey were given to representatives yesterday afternoon to be distributed all over the campus.
A report will be made to the council at the first meeting of the new semester, and each teacher will be contacted by letter, inquiring if he would like to see his individual rating in the poll. If the instructor replies affirmatively, he will be sent a complete report, with numerical tabulations, compilation of remarks, and so forth.
Teachers May See Reports
The "must" course evaluation on the tabulation sheet, should be used only if a student thinks it is a course that should be taken by every student in the University, whether he is in the College, Engineering, Fine Arts, or the other schools, the Council agreed.
The tabulation sheets are to be collected Thursday, Miss Bixby said, and the committee members will have a general summary ready by the start of next semester. Buechel Takes Button's Bliss
Bob Buechel, freshman medical student, was elected secretary of the All Student Council to replace Jack
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Legislators To Be Guests at Dinner
The dinner will be served, under the direction of the Jay James, women's pep organization at 5:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Table decorations have been designed by students in the department of design with the assistance of Miss Margaret Eberhardt.
University students will furnish entertainment for 37 members of both houses of the Kansas legislature who serve on the ways and means committee at a dinner which will be given for the visiting committee eveniing.
Eleanor Brown, sophomore in the School of Fine Arts, will play a piano selection. Don Cousins, V-12 senior in the School of Engineering and Architecture, will play a clarinet solo with McKenzie Ferguson as his accompanist. Norma Jean Lutz, junior in the School of Fine Arts, will sing an original composition by McKenzie Ferguson, who will accompany her.
The ways and means committee will arrive about 3 p.m. today and will be shown the main points of interest on the campus. They will attend the Oklahoma basketball game as guests of the K.U. Athletic association.
Jayhawks to Meet Top Sooner Five In Decisive Battle
In a battle that may decide the Jayhawker's chances for the championship, Phog Allen's men clash with the Oklahoma quintet at 7:30 tonight in Hoch Auditorium to avenge the 1-point defeat suffered onthe Norman boards Jan.20.
Meanwhile the capture of the Hungarian capital of Budapest was announced officially tonight in a special order of the day issued by Premier Marshal Josef Stalin.
The Germans were driven out of Cleve at the northern end of the Siegfried line and surrounding villages were overrun by British and Canadian troops of the Canadian First army.
Coach Allen insists that he will not reveal the starting line-up until two minutes before the game, but he has announced
Latest reports places these forces only 1500 yards from the Rhine. Third Army, Progressive
Berlin Displays No Emotion Over Yalta Meeting
(International News Service)
Berlin displayed feeble reaction today to the conference at Yalta of the "Big Three"—Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
Full transcript of the Yalta declaration were broadcast to German people but the best Germany could do was to identify the declaration as "one of hatred in which the determination of those who wish to perpetuate the war, destroy and reduce to a state of misery the German people."
Third Army Progressing
Budapest in Red's Hands
New progress also was recorded by the U. S. Third army which linked up bridgeheads across the Our and Sur rivers. The Russian drive toward Berlin fanned out from the Oder river and was complemented by increased gains along the Bober and in Silesia.
In the Philippines, fresh ground progress was made in Manila and blistering air attacks were carried out against the Japanese garrison on Bataan and Corregidor.
Eventually He'll Hit It
Twice this week students have gone to bed with the positive promise from the weather man that they would go to classes next day through rain, and twice they have seen sunny skies.
The weather man is persistent and the forecast is that before the Daily Kansan is read today, rain will have fallen.
While today the University basks under balmy breezes, 40 years ago the temperature was 21 degrees below zero and mention was made by newspapers then of the 22-degree-below temperature of 1899.
Partly cloudy and continued mild this afternoon and tonight and Wednesday.
W. L. Brooks, state superintendent of public instruction, will be interviewed on the "Your Kansas Government" program tonight at 9:30 p.m. over station KFKU.
Brooks to Be Interviewed
KU Must Stop Sooners
that Kirk Scott will be the game captain.
It's up to Kansas to put the Sooners out of the running. The Southernners go on to Ames Saturday night to play the Cyclones and, if they should take both games, the championship would be salted away in the Oklahoma sack.
The K. U. men will be remembering the earlier meeting with the Sooners when against their own smoothworking attack Harold "Scooter" Hines, sparked an Oklahoma rally that tied tip the game and nabbed the victory 44-43 in the overtime.
Sooners Defeated K. U. in 1944
Coach Allen's Jayhawkers lost both encounters with the Sooner cagars in the 1944 season. The first, played in Hoch auditorium, faded by the score, 24-23, and the return engagement on the Oklahoma court was lost 39-35, despite Don Barrington's top count for the evening, 18 points.
Coach Bruce Drake has hopes that a repeat tonight will set up the Sooners for their crucial weekend game with Iowa State. His ball club showed strength in its 49-36 victory over Kansas State Feb. 10, revenge for the Sooners for the K-State upset earlier in the season at Manhattan that found the Wildcats victors, 54-53.
The 1943 Allen-coached combination, Big Six champions, took one from Oklahoma on the home court, 42-35, and played the closest game of the season with the Sooners at Norman, winning 48-44. Band Will Play At Half
The University band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will play several numbers during the intermission.
A resolution, introduced by Senator Cassile, McPherson, in the state senate yesterday, would authorize the calling of an election in November, 1946, when the people of Kansas could vote on whether they wanted a new constitution or not.
Kansans May Be Called to Revise Their Constitution
The Kansas constitution one of the oldest in the country, was written in 1839, and under it Kansas, as a state, was admitted into the Union in 1861. Since then, in 1879, only once has the idea of a constitutional convention been suggested, and then it was rejected. Many states of the Union require their constitutions to be revised every twenty or thirty years, but Kansas people have not had a chance for a constitutional revision for 65 years.
Kansans have accepted thirty-five amendments and rejected twenty-two amendments to the present constitution, and the amendment to raise the pay of the legislatures has been rejected five times. Most of the taxation amendments put before the people have been rejected. Two have been passed in recent years.