17, 1944
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NUMBER 24
42ND YEAR
The K-Union was last published in 1942 by members of the Student Union Activities Association.
Skits Selected From 5 Houses For Rally Friday
Five short skits were selected last night to be featured in the Homecoming rally Friday, Pat Penney, chairman of the rally committee, said today. Organized houses who will perform Friday are Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Corbin hall, Watkins hall, and Pi Beta Phi.
Presentation of the University football team, and the 17 candidates for Homecoming queen, will be made Friday night. The game captain, introduced /by Coach Henry Shenk, will announce the three winning queen candidates.
Boogie-wooie played by McKenzie Ferguson, and twirling by Rose Hosking, are two features of Friday's rally. Don Cousins, V-12, master of ceremonies.
Yells will be led by Jim Conard. Aloise Brown, Frances Muhlenbruch, Virginia Urban, and Pat Pennev.
Jay James and Ku Kus will divide into three groups, and make a "clean sweep" of all organized houses Friday at 7:30 p.m. The three groups will reunite at Fowler grove, where the band will lead the way to the stadium.
Judges for last night's tryouts were the cheerleaders, and members of the Homecoming committee. Members present were Fred Ellsworth, Mary Olive Marshall, Joan Burch, Pat Penney, Joanna Wagstaff, Clarke Henry, Beverly Bohan, Marjorie Free, Pat Graham, and Virginia Wickert.
League of Nations May Be Discarded
Washington — (INS) — The white mable dwelling of the ill-fated League of Nations on the shores of Lake Geneva was slated for the discard today following President Roosevelt's proposal of an itinerant security organization which would meet in various capitals of the world.
The President's plan was regarded in diplomatic circles as a concession to the Russians who were expelled from the League of Nations and who now describe it as having been born in sin and having fallen into "political bankruptcy."
One of the "gaps" still left open in the Dumbarton Oaks plan is what to do with the old League of Nations when the "United Nations" organization is established.
K-Union Out Nov. 1 With Gilliland Editor
The K-Union, an informative publication of the Memorial Union building, will be printed this year, and the first issue will be distributed free of charge in the enrollment line Nov. 1, Dixie Gilliland, editor, said today.
On the staff of the publication are Elizabeth Baker, Ann Cadwalader, 3. Ann Brown, Betty Jo O'Neal, Pat Penny, and Mary Jane Waggoner. All are members of the Union Activities - publicity committee, Miss Hillill stated.
Buttons Tell Of Political Campaigns
Campaign buttons reviving 80 years of political contests, form a colorful pre-Nov. 7 display at Thayer museum.
Two 1860 campaign medals, with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side, are the earliest buttons of the collection. The California Union Ticket for 1864 names Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson to lead the nation, and lists California presidential electors for that year.
Franklin and "Teddy" Roosevelt buttons and stickers predominate in the display. Progressive party slogans promise "a full dinner bucket, sound money, good markets, and prosperity." Five Franklin D. Roosevelt buttons represent four terms of political promoting.
Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Landon, and Grover Cleveland campaign buttons are displayed.
The political exhibition was prepared by Mrs. Ruth Rider, curator of Thayer museum.
Seven Senior Men Initiated by Sachem
Sachem, senior men's honorary society, initiated seven new members last night at a banquet in the Colonial tearoom. Following the dinner, officers for the coming year were elected.
new members include Lew Purinton, Donald Cousins, Donald Buechel, Dewey Nemec, Eldon Luchring, Donald Alderson, and James Roderick. Membership in the society is limited to senior men who have a 1.6 grade-point average. In addition to scholarship, members are chosen on the basis of leadership and service to the University.
Donald Buechel was elected chief sachem to succeed Clinton Sloan. Other officers elected were Eldon Luehring, chief warrior; and Lew Purinton, secretary.
Attending the banquet were Harold McSpadden, Eugene Verhage, Sidney Walker, Clinton Sloan, Bill Mowery, Prof. F. C. Allen, Prof. Henry Werner, Dean Gilbert Ulmer, Prof. J. O. Jones, and Prof. E. M. Hopkins.
$2,200 Raised In WSSF-NWC Student Drive
Topping $2,200, the World Student Service fund and War Chest drive is officially closed, Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, YWCA secretary, stated today. Pledges may still be paid until the end of the six-weeks session, she said. Members of the soliciting committee will contact those who have not already paid their pledges at Henley house.
Soliciting in the campaign was done entirely by students. PT's were addressed by two students and asked for contributions on Thursday, Oct. 5. Men's and women's organized houses were given their first opportunity to contribute on Monday, Oct. 9. Each student who assisted with the solicitation appeared at two houses.
Robert Gibbon and Martha Ellen Woodward, co-chairman of the drive in commenting on the University's week-long all-out effort, said, "Our appreciation goes to the students and faculty of the University, workers and donors, for the splendid way in which they backed the WSSF-War Chest drive. They have made it a success of which we are all proud."
Although receipts of the drive now fall $325.25 short of the $2525.25 goal, it is possible that the goal may be reached when pledges have been realized, Mrs. VanderWerf said.
V-12s to Be Guests At Moore Concert
V-12s To Begin Leaves; To Go All Over Nation
Navy V-12 students at the University of Kansas will be guests of the Concert Course management at the Grace Moore concert Nov. 6, Dean D. M. Swarthout, School of Fine Arts, announced today. Miss Moore will sing several songs for the service men themselves, a feature of her concerts over the country.
Navy men stationed here as members of the V-12 unit on the campus will begin their between-semester leaves Friday, L. W. Mineau, chief yeoman of the unit, said today. They will go to all parts of the United States.
This is Miss Moore's first appearance at the University, Dean Swarthout stated.
Some of these 350 men will go to their homes on the west coast in California, Oregon, and Washington. Others will travel as far in the opposite direction to their homes in Florida, Virginia, Connecticut and other eastern states.
Season ticket holders may now secure their seats for the concert series at the Fine Arts School office. Tickets to "Poryge and Bess," an extra attraction, will be given out at a later date.
Approximately 330 men will be given leaves extending from Friday until midnight November 1, Chief Mineau said.
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Approximately 60 new men will join the unit on here or about Nov. 1 according to present available figures, the unit official said. Actually, fewer than that number of men may be sent here.
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unit will be detached from service here to join other V-12 units, go to Midshipman School, or to other duty Dineau said.
Mineau said many of the V-12 men had expressed a desire to remain on the campus until Saturday night in order to participate in campus Homecoming activities. These men will then leave for their homes on Sunday.
A very few may remain in the vicinity of Lawrence for the duration of their leaves.
William McCray Simpson, will come Nov. 1 to become chairman of the department of aeronautical engineering at the University. Professor Simpson formerly taught at the University of Missouri.
Yank Subs Destroy 32 Japanese Ships; Aachen Fight Lags
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The American submarine war against Japanese shipping reached a new crescendo today as the navy announcement revealed an additional 32 Nipponese vessels including seven war ships, had been sunk by Yank under-sea craft. The commune listed three destroyers, three escort vessels and one mine layer in the combatant category, and revealed that carriers of the U.S. third and fifth fleet had destroyed 3,080 Jap planes in four and one-half months.
Continue Philippine Fight
American bombs continued to blast troops and installations in the Philippines today while Pacific fleet headquarters revealed that six islands in the Ulthi Atoll, 85 miles northeast of Yap in the Carolines, were seized in an unopposed landing Sept. 20 and 21. The Japanese-Philippine radio announced that 80 U.S. carrier planes attacked Ma-
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Music Club Decides To Have Speakers
Guest speakers over month was one of the measures approved last night at the opening meeting of the Music Appreciation Club in the Union building, said Elaine Wells chairman of the club. The first speaker will talk Nov. 7.
Shirley Carl was elected secretary of the organization.
It was decided to cancel the meetings for the next two weeks because of finals and vacations, Miss Wells added.
The purpose of the club is to give students who are interested in classical music the opportunity to listen to the records they want to hear, she explained. The meetings last an hour. The first part is taken up by a short business session, after which the period is spent listening to the music.
2. Greater recognition of merit and more rapid promotion.
New Chairman Will Come Nov.1 To Aero Dept.
1. Increased salaries for clerical, administrative, and fiscal personnel of the foreign service.
A 30-year-old engineer, William McCray Simpson, direct from the air craft industries in California, will take over Nov. 1 as professor of aeronautics and chairman of the department at the University. The announcement came this morning from the office of Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Professor Simpson was graduated in 1936 from the University of Oklahoma. He received his master's degree at Texas A & M in 1937 and a Ph.D. at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940. According to J. O, Jones, acting dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, Professor Simpson has a brilliant record as a scholar, teacher and technician.
Since 1942 he has been stress analyst for the Douglas Air Craft Company at Santa Monica, Calif. Previous to that he was instructor in structural design at the University of Missouri.
Professor Simpson will come to Lawrence in a few days. He is married and has a son 9 months old.
He replaces H. S. Stillwell who goes to the University of Illinois after building up the department at K.U. during the past two years.
House May Revise U.S. Foreign Service
Washington-IN—The outlook appeared bright today for the congressional enactment of legislation designed to modernize our foreign service and to facilitate the handling of postwar international problems by the department of state.
A bill described by state department officials as embodying "the greatest revision in more than a decade" is expected to receive the approval of the house committee on foreign affairs when congress reconvenes Nov. 14.
The bill approves the following points:
3. Ranges for hire of highly qualified technical and scientific employees and transfer of experts in other governmental agencies.
University Buys 36 Flags For United Nations Display
Color will brighten the campus soon in thirty-six flags of the United Nations which have been purchased by the University and which will be displayed as soon as a suitable place is selected, Ray Nichols, executive secretary, said today. At the present, the mezzanine of Frank Strong hall, and Hoch auditorium are being considered.
The flags are four by six feet and the staves are nine feet long and an inch and a half in circumference. They are topped by a metal point.
Newcomers' Club Will Meet
Plans for the year's program of the Newcomers' Club will be made at a business meeting at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. F. C. Allen, 801 Louisiana, Mrs. George March, has announced.