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Daily Kansan
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Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. Locally moderate to heavy showers in east. Somewhat warmer tonight, increasing winds tonight and Wednesday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1944
41st YEAR
NUMBER 157
Mail Order Firm Ignores FDR's Labor Order
Chicago, (INS) — Montgomery Ward and Company announced today it was flatly refusing to comply with President Roosevelt's directive to obey a war labor board order.
In a telegram addressed to President Roosevelt, Sewell Avery, board chairman of the house, said that the company will not extend the present contract with a CIO union but will insist that a plant election be held first to determine whether the union represents a majority of the employees. It was held likely that the government would take over the plant.
(International News Service)
A mass meeting of minority stockholders of Montgomery Ward and Company is scheduled for Friday in Chicago in protest against the action of company officials in defying the government, according to the newspaper PM.
Kaw River Recedes; Wichitans Reoccupy Water Soaked Homes
In Kansas the Kaw was falling throughout its entire reaches. The Neosho was returning to its banks in the Burlington area, but below Burlington it was rising and forecasts of nine feet above flood stage at Iola and Chanute were issued.
The Verdigris crested at Independence at 13 feet above flood stage and caused one of the worst floods in the area's history. The Marais des Cygnes was still rising at Trading Posts and will reach its crest there tomorrow.
Washington, (INS)—The navy announced today that Ujelang was occupied Saturday and Sunday by U. S. forces which quickly overcame light opposition.
The occupation of Ujelang brings American forces to the western-most position to be occupied in the Central Pacific, only 644 land miles from the Japanese bastian of Truk.
The Big Arkansas rampaged south of Wichita to Oklahoma inundating thousands of acres of wheat while farmers surveyed washed out bridges and their peach crop ruined by hail.
Five thousand Wichitans went back to their water soaked and mud plastered homes, eyeing skies, that promised more rain. Soldiers at Camp Phillips continued to stand over dykes and bridges as trains bean feeling their way south and east out of the still water-filled city. A $200,000 bond issue will be floated by the county for repair of community property devastated by the floods.
Bomber Crashes in Montreal Street Montreal, Quebec, (INS)—At least 15 people were believed killed and an entire Montreal block was wrecked today when a librator bomber burst into flames in midair and crashed into the street.
BULLETIN
Ralph May Made All A's But 5 Hours
Ralph Waldo May of Oskaloosa Kans., has set a scholastic record in the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Kansas that will be something for future generations of students to think about. At the beginning of the second semester of his senior year he has 125 credit hours of grade A and 5 of grade B, giving him a grade point average of 2.96 out of a possible 3.00. According to acting Dean J. O. Jones, this is one of the highest scholastic averages attained by any student in the history of the school.
Ralph May is an aeronautical engineering major. He is president of both K.U. honorary engineering societies, Sigma Tau and Tau Beta Pi; and was also editor of the "Kansas Engineer." He is a Summerfield scholar.
The Civil Aeronautics administration has selected him to research in the CAA laboratories at Langley Field, Va., after his graduation in June.
Stringer to Be At Union Swing
The Union Swing-with-Stringer will be held from 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday in the lounge of the Union building with the music of Dean Stringer and his deans of music. The Union Activities committee, sponsor of the dance, has announced that the band will be placed at the end of the lounge to allow more room for dancing.
"There will be good music and good arrangements," Eugenia Hepworth, vice-president and chairman of the social activities of the committee, announced, "so everyone should come."
Mr. Stringer played for the carnival several weeks ago and since then has been called back several times by the organized houses. He has also been playing for the USO in Kansas City and has been offered a summer job playing in USO centers all over the country.
L. P. Cookingham, city manager of Kansas City, Mo., will address members of the social science groups at 9:30 tomorrow morning on the problems of city government. He will speak at the initiation dinner of Pi Sigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity at 7 p.m. at the Colonial Tea Room.
Cookingham to Speak To Groups Tomorrow
Students interested in attending the speeches are welcome, although reservations must be made for the dinner, W. E. Sandelius, professor of the political science department, has announced. Mr. Cookingham will be in the University Club room of Green hall from 10:30 to 12 a.m. and from 2 p.m. throughout the afternoon. Students are welcome to talk to him then, Mr. Sandelius said.
Good Flying Days in Kansas Kansas has the most good flying days per year of any state in the Union.
Indian Legends Will Be Subject Of Dr. Voegelin
Dr. Erminie W. Voegelin, of the anthropology department of the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Ind., will lecture on "Unwritten Legends of the American Indians" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Fraser theater under the sponsorship of the departments of English and sociology. The lecture is open to the public. J. W. Ashton, professor of English announced.
Dr. Voegelin is editor-in-chief of the Journal of American Folk Lore, the publication of the American Folk Lore Society which is an international organization of anthropologists, folk lorists, and all those interested in popular customs and literature.
Dr. Voegelin and her husband, Carl Voegelin of the staff of the Aryan language training course at the University of Indiana, have spent several years engaged in field work with various groups of American Indians; and she has become a recognized authority in the field of Indian stories. At present she is writing a section dealing with this subject for an encyclopedia of the social sciences. Since the pioneering Dr. Franz Boas in the early years of this century, no work has been done in the field of Indian legends more original than that of Dr. Voegelin, Professor Ashton stated.
Kansas Life Pictured In Articles
Appearing currently in The Kansas Historical Quarterly are articles of interest to all Kansans, chief of which is "Lewis Bodwell, Frontier Preacher; The Early Years" by Russell K. Hickman.
"The Letters of John Ferguson," gives a vivid account of Washington county's number one citizen and his dealings with the difficult Plains Indians. Crop and weather reports, all told in characteristically bad rhetoric, add interest.
Concluding part II of "Lewis Bodwell, Frontier Preacher," Hickman tells of the frontiersman's varied experiences in which the slavery question figured prominently. Bodwell, assuming religious leadership of this era of Kansas history, led the crusade against slavery.
Tales of unserupulous cattlemen fraudulent agents, and ignorant politicians are recounted in "Irregularities at the Pawnee Agency." Indian Bureau administration was notoriously bad at this time.
Other outstanding features of this issue are "The Letters of John Ferguson, Early Resident of Western Washington County," "Irregularities at the Pawnee Agency" by Stanley Clark, and "Circuit-Riding in South-west Kansas in 1885 and 1886." All deal mainly with the Indian problem.
The Quarterly is published by the Kansas State Historical Society.
Pesky Yellow Weed Is No Excuse To Have Wartime Dandelion Day
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"When the faculty took over the task two years ago, they did it in their off hours," he hinted.
This famous innovation of the University was first suggested by Charles Wright of Topeka and Bill Farmer of Paola, who gained the support of the Men's Student Council in organizing in 1941 a holiday on which the entire student body took a day off from their studies and spent the morning eradicating the weed. In the afternoon an impromptu carnival was held during which a prize was awarded to the student who could capture and retain a greased pig released among the crowd. A
"Neither the faculty nor the buildings and grounds department will object, however, if the students see fit to dig dandelions in their spare hours or on Saturday—in fact, we'd be overjoyed if they would," assured the dean.
Public Invited To Hear McKechnie
If the University is to observe "Dandelion Day," it will be on the student's own time Dean Paul B. Lawson said recently. Dandelion Day formerly was an annual spring holiday.
Because of the intensified war program, under which not even an Easter vacation was possible, University authorities do not consider it necessary or appropriate to devote an entire day to digging up the pesky yellow flowers when not over two or three hours of concentrated effort would be sufficient to rid the campus of the yearly spring menace, and the rest of the time would probably be spent in merry-making, Dean Lawson said.
Persons outside of the journalism department are invited to hear Mr. McKechnie at any time and to attend the Press Club dinner, Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the journalism department has announced.
Pete McKechnie, who will address University students twice Wednesday and be a guest at a dinner of the Press Club Wednesday evening is editor and general manager of the "Kiowa County Signal" and president of the Kansas Press Association.
Following the Press Club dinner at 7 o'clock in the Colonial Tea Room, he will speak on "Opportunities for Women in Journalism." Questions and discussion will follow each of his three addresses.
Mr. McKechnie will speak first at 11:30 in room 107 of the Journalism building. He will speak again at 3:30 in the same room. His morning address will concern the practical problems in retail advertising. His second talk will be on publishing problems during and after the war.
In addition to his experience with the "Signal." Mr. McKechnie has served in the advertising department of the Hammermill Paper company doing copy writing and layout work. His lectures, consequently, will give students practical instruction in both the editorial and advertising side of journalism,
Flood Waters Cause Delay In Mail Service
Unless mail is brought to Lawrence by some extraordinary method there will be no mail service except locally until tomorrow evening at least, according to postal authorities today. None of the three train companies are operating yet due to the excessive high waters which have washed out their tracks, and weakened bridges on all sides of Lawrence during the past few days.
Station agents reported that they expected a few trains to be able to get through from the northwest tomorrow afternoon and other routes to open up the following day and night unless the rain today continues through the night. As quite a few students had gone to Ottawa, Coffeyville, and other points south over the weekend, they will be unable to return to classes until Thursday at least and maybe Friday.
The crest of the flood which reached Lawrence late Sunday night or early Monday morning was recorded at 23.3 feet and has not risen again since then. A mark of 18.8 feet was recorded this morning with the river expected to fall]even more from now on.
River Waters Down Five Feet
Seventeen students have qualified to receive both standard and advanced Red Cross first aid certificates after completing the special instruction course offered last semester, Dr. Parke Woodard, associate professor of physiology has announced. The certificates may be obtained now at the School of Medicine office, Dr. Woodard said.
Two groups of V-12's volunteered to take their turn on the devies last night, going down to the river about 6 o'clock and working until after midnight. The 40 men who were on alternating shifts with the electrician's mates and were all that were needed at that time, were not called back and no students are working out there today as the necessary bank has all been done and the danger is apparently past.
Majority of Roads Now Passable
Although the surfacing has been washed off a few of the highways in the county, the majority of the roads are quite passable now according to the county engineer. He also stated that the wide area covered by the backwaters of the Wakarusa was providing the county with valuable information as the county is open.
17 Students Receive First Aid Awards
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Those who have earned the award are Katherine Burchfield, Dorothy Carr. Caroline Carson, Pauline Earnheart, Richard M. Fox, Roy R. Graba, Mary Jane Hayes, Barbara Heinsohn, Mrs. Ruby E. Ingham, Carolyn P. Kerford, Kathryn Ann Krehbiel, Vivian McBeth Sutherland, Pauline Schultz, Ethel Mary Schwartz, Janet Lee Sloan, Marjorie G. Snyder, and Bonnie S. Tutz.
The first aid course, formerly presented by the home economics department, is not being offered this semester.