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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1944
41st YEAR
High School Students Fill Campus For District Music Festival; Rains Do Not Affect Attendance
Three hundred and eighty-nine Kansas high school students invaded the campus today in an effort to display their musical ability in the district high school musical festival which began at 8:30 a.m. today. The heavy rains and resulting floods have not impaired the attendance, according to Russell Wiley, campus coordinator.
Topeka, Lawrence, and Shawnee Mission groups each had three number one ratings of the total of thirteen which were released by noon by Clifford Dean, superintendent of the Lawrence city schools and general manager of the festival. Topeka received number one ratings for the girls' quartet, the cornet trio, and the flute quartet. The clarinet quartet, the brass sextet, and the woodwind quartet scored the highest ratings for Lawrence, while Shawnee Mission hit the high mark with their boys' quartet, the drum trio, and the violin quartet.
No Number One Rating in Piano
NUMBER 140
Other schools whose entries received the top score were: Gardner,
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Trainee Culp Chosen To Train as Cadet
Kenneth J. Culp of Monroe, Mich., ASTRP, has been selected by the war department to continue military training as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorris, commandant announced today.
Trainee Culp has completed three terms of basic engineering in the ASTRP at the University and will not be eighteen until June 25. He is a graduate of Monroe High School in Michigan. He received a scholarship to the University of Michigan in 1943, but entered the Army Reserve program. Culp has participated in the AST program at the University for the past nine months. He will report to his new assignment May 3.
"Trainee Culp's matriculation at Virginia Military Institute, known as the West Point of the South, and the school which produced Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, is considered a most desirable assignment," said Colonel McMorris. "Upon completion of the training there he will receive a commission in the regular army of the United States."
Civilians Take Test In Medical Aptitude
Medical aptitude tests for civilian students began at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon under the direction of Dr. Parke Woodard of the School of Medicine. The examination, which is given in cooperation with the American Medical College, determines the student's ability in interpreting medical subject matter.
Thirteen students had registered for the test this morning.
Crews Handle Tricky Staging In'Nine Girls'
A number of records have been bought by Prof. Allen Crafton to produce the sound effects for the play "Nine Girls" to be presented by the class in directing Monday and Tuesday night in Fraser theater. The lighting effects have also caused another problem, as the switch board is on the right side of the stage and the set for the play calls for a solid wall on that side. This prevents the electrician from seeing any of the action, which makes it impossible to cue the lighting to the stage action.
Ted Lehman, College senior, with the assistance of Shirley Wagner, College freshman, is spending his afternoons and nights trying to sort
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University of Texas Under Investigation Of AAUP, SACSS
Austin, (INS)—Tangled fairs of the University of Texas growing out of faculty uncertainty over tenures are under the scrutiny of two national collegiate associations, it was disclosed today as regents met for their monthly deliberations.
For the consideration of regents were two communications from the secretary of the American Association of University Professors and from President Rufus C. Harris, of Tulane, who said the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools voted to "inquire into some matters pertaining to the University of Texas."
Deadline for the entries in the William Herbert Carruth Memorial contest is at noon Monday, Prof. John E. Hankins, chairman of the committee of awards, warned today. Three typewritten copies of each entry signed by an assumed name must be handed in to the Chancellor's office. A sealed envelope containing the real name and address of the author and bearing the assumed name and exact title of the poem on the outside should accompany the poem.
Monday Is Deadline For Poetry Entries
No regularly enrolled student may submit more than one poem, which may be of any length or classification.
Indian Literature Survives in Verse, Says Dr. Voegelin
Although no written language of any sort existed among the North American and Indian groups, various literary forms have survived through oral transmission, Dr. Erinnie Voegelin told her listeners in Fraser theater yesterday afternoon.
A member of the anthropology department of the University of Indiana at Bloomington, Ind., and the editor of the Journal of American Folk Lore, Dr. Voegelin spoke here under the sponsorship of the departments of English and sociology.
The greatest bulk of the literature of these groups has consisted of songs or verse and the narrative prose forms of myths and tales with certain common features and yet a few sharp divisions between the Eskimo and American Indian forms, Dr. Voegelin commented. Especially outstanding among the common features pointed out in the verse of the two general cultural groups were the repetition of rhythm, conciseness of idea, liberty of diction, and comparison and personification used in imagery.
Dr. Voegelin noted the outstanding lack of personality and psychological interest in the tales, although they succeeded in reflecting the daily life of the people with a high degree of faithfulness. These tales often served as a body of historic knowledge for the various tribes.
Although the American Indian and Eskimo groups have been found to have a few common elements, each general group has not only its particular distinguishing features, but also its distinctive cultural groups which are by no means uniform, Dr. Voegelin stated.
Scholarships Given Two Battenfeld Men
Two such scholarships are awarded to residents of the hall each semester, said Dean Ulmer, on the basis of scholarship and contribution to the group life in the men's dormitory.
Eugene Schwartz, College junior, and Lee Leatherwood, senior engineer, have been awarded $50 Battenfeld scholarships, Dean Gilbert Ulmer, chairman of the Battenfeld Scholarship Committee, has announced.
The scholarships are given by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Battenfeld of Kansas City, Mo., who built the hall in 1940 as a memorial to their son, John Curry Battenfeld, who was a student with the class of 1941.
Lt. Robert Coleman Visits Campus While on Leave
Lt. Robert Coleman, who as a College senior, left his position as editor of the Daily Kansan last spring for army service, visited the campus yesterday while on a two-week leave. He is to report at the Army air base at Salinas, Calif., Monday to resume his training as a fighter pilot. He has been visiting his parents at Junction City, and acquaintances at Columbia, Mo.
Death Occurs at 12:08 After 6-Day Illness
Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of the Naval Training School, this afternoon ordered the flag at Frank Strong hall lowered to half-mast in respect to Secretary Knox. It was announced that further official statement would be issued tomorrow.
Washington, (INS)—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox died at his home at 12:08 p.m. today from a series of heart attacks. Knox was ill only six days.
His death brought the American flag to half-mast in every naval establishment and on every American warship around the world.
The house and senate immediately adjourned out of respect to his memory.
In Washington a wide open house investigation of the government's seizure of the plant was ordered today by the house rules committee after a stormy session. Senators angrily announced the seizure in open debate.
Ward Meeting Avoids Soldiers By Adjourning
One of Secretary Knox's last official statements was made
The meeting was immediately adjourned to the Crystal ballroom of the Blackstone hotel because of the presence of "trespassers."
Chicago, (INS)—Th annual meeting of stockholders of Montgomery Ward and Company was called to order today in the company's general office building under the watchful eyes of military police with six bavonets.
Reserves Have New Uniforms
ASTRP reservoirs appeared on the campus this morning in regular army uniforms, after being outfitted yesterday at Ft. Leavenworth. The change in uniform does away with blue lapels for Reservists and with shoes which they had heretofore been required to provide for themselves.
Only half the ASTF Reservists at the University, those who will remain for more training after their third term, were affected by the change. The third term ends tomorrow.
The other half will leave for active duty, according to Lt. Col. McMorris, and were not included in the group sent to Ft. Leavenworth in trucks yesterday.
The Colonel said he thought the new uniforms would do much to improve the appearance of the men.
Jap Airdromes Fall To US at Hollandia
(International News Service)
(International News Service)
Into the twelfth straight day roared the current Allied bombardment of Continental Europe today. Air fields and repair shops deep in France were bombed again and fortresses struck at the Cherbourg region of France.
During the hours of darkness preceding the daylight attack huge RAF planes drubbed the Reich at Stuttgart and at the aircraft city of Friedrichsafen.
All of Hollandia's airdromes fell to American invasion troops and now are in use by American bombers.
with Secretary of War Stimson that the navy and army should be combined at the conslusion of the war.
Mr. Knox, who was born in 1874, in Boston, Mass., began his public career as a reporter on the Rapids Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich. From there he worked up to city editor manager of circulation, and towards the close of the last century, he became publisher of the Sault Ste. Marie News.
Mr. Knox was later associated with the Hearest publications, but in 1931, he became the publisher of the Chicago Daily News.
A Rough Rider in "Teddy" Roosevelt's cavalry, Mr. Knox served in the Spanish American War, and joined the field artillery at the outbreak of the First World War. He was raised to the rank of a major in December, 1917.
His first political appointment was made in 1908, when he joined the governor's staff in Michigan. A successive number of appointments followed. A staunch Republican, he won the party's nomination for vicepresident, and became Alf Landon's running mate in the 1936 election. He was appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1940 by President Roosevelt.
Mr. Knox received his bachelor of arts degree in 1898 and his doctor of law degree in 1936 from Michigan College. He completed work on his literature degree in 1933 at the University of New Hampshire.
Ten Trainees to Have Advanced Training
Ten ASTRP trainees of the University AST units have been recommended for advanced ASTP further-term engineering, Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorris, commandant, announced today. Term three of the ASTRP training will be completed tomorrow.
The trainees will begin basic military training at army training centers on or about May 15. Upon completion of this training they will be assigned to universities or colleges for renewal of their ASTRF training in term four engineering.
The men who have been recommended are: Robert William Abel, Sheldon, Iowa; Thomas James Alexander, Kansas City, Kan.; William Henry Brigham, Urbana, Ill.; Carman Myers Feree, Indianola, Iowa; Willis John Jensen, Laramie, Wyo.; Charles Steward Johnson, Hays; Joseph Leopold Klemenhagen, Long Prairie, Minn.; Samuel Edward Probst, Casper, Wyo.; Alfred Carl Scheer, Davenport, Iowa; and William Albert Winslow, Hannibal, Me.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday,
Somewhat warmer tonight. Not much change in tempera-
ture tomorrow.