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NUMBER 127
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1944
41st YEAR
Committee Picks Sixty Beauties To Attend Tea
Sixty University women were chosen Monday to attend the Jayhawker tea Thursday afternoon. Earle Crawford, chairman of the judging committee for the Jayhawker beauty queen contest, announced this morning. The women were selected from almost 300 photographs entered in the annual beauty queen contest.
According to Crawford, the women selected in the preliminary judging are:
Barbara Barber, Jeannette Shears, Shirley Hargiss, Betty Pile, Joanne Miller, Marion Miller, Jerry Nelson, Shirley Salley, Gloria Nelson, Patsy Piller, Beverly Stucker, Polly Roberts, Mary Louise Laffer, Barbara Winn, Marie Bennett, Marion Montgomery, Norma Lutz, Alice Goff, Maxine Kelley, Frances Schloesser, Dorothy Hardy, Vir-
Ann Zimmerman, Janey Hayes, Patty Orr, Frances Lawrence, Peggy Sanderson, Shirley Rauch, Harriet Hutchinson, Ruth Green, Joyce Shook, Marilyn Carlson, Doris Turney, Pat Tuller, Heloise Hillbrand, Frankie Mullenbruch, Peggy Schroeder, Elaine Wells, Norma Henry, Martha Metcalf, Norma Anderson, Barbara Neely, Betty Lou Perkins, Sara Jane Worsley, Dottie Shelden, Paula Reeve, Aileen Ainsworth, Mary Ruth Murray, Jeanne Atkinson, Betty Jo Everly, Pat Foster.
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"Peter the Great," celebrated Russian film, will be brought to Fraser theater at 7:30 Thursday evening by the Student Forums Board, Joy Miller, chairman of the board has announced.
'Peter the Great' Is Forums Board Show
The Navy Band of the primary training command from the Fairfax naval air station in Kansas City will be featured with the George Rhoades Studio and the Hagen-Roberts Studio, both of Kansas City, Mo., in the Navy Happy Hour to be given at 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
The 20-piece band which is directed by Paul Crumbaugh, USN, will play three specialty numbers. Lt. (j.g.) L. S. Kennedy, assistant public relations officer of primary training command of the Fairfax Air Station, will accompany the band, Virginia Johnson, vocalist from the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Mo., will be featured with the band.
The Happy Hour will be a musical variety show in which members of the studios and the band will present baton routines, songs, dances, specialty numbers, and short skits. Imo Thomas of Kansas City, Mo., will be the master of ceremonies.
George Rhoades and his assistant, Pat Mendon, will give a double baton twirling number.
Happy Hour Is Tonight in Hoch
Maudell Hagen of the Hagen-Roberts Studios will present a song and (continued on page four)
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University Receives Rare Gift From Col. Karl F. Baldwin
A unique gift of valuable Australian minerals and ore specimens has come to the University from Col. Karl F. Baldwin, military attach at Melbourne, Australia. Colonel Baldwin was commander of the R.O.T.C unit at the University of Kansas for five years from 1936 to 1941
Many of the samples sent by Colonel Baldwin were from a suite of ore and associated minerals from the Broken Hill Mines in the south of Australia, which were originally brought into production by former president Herbert Hoover. They include high-grade specimens of the silver-lead minerals, argentiferous galena, pyromorphite and cerussite, the iron bearing zinc mineral, marmatite, and the copper mineral, chalcopyrite. Associated with these are certain gangue and accessory minerals including pyrrhotite, quartz calcite, garnet, rhodonite, bustamite, fluorite, and sturtite.
The sturtite mineral is found in few places other than the Broken Hill district, and the large crystalline specimens sent by Colonel Baldwin are especially prized by the geology staff. "The large pink crystals of beautiful rhodonite offset by white calcite are strikingly beautiful, while the tiny hexagonal barrel-shaped pyromorphite crystals on cerussite will be appreciated for their rarity by all mineralogists," said Prof. Tell Ertl, assistant professor of mining engineering. "Some of the quartz, especially a sample with brownish-pink spessorit garnet, show an opalescence which approaches chatoyant (cat's eye)." Sample of Pure Yellow Copper
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, to whom the gift was sent, has turned it over to the department of geology where it will be used in rounding out an already priceless mineral collection.
Rarely Found Elsewhere
One sample, an almost pure piece of canary yellow chalcopyrite (copper) was from the well-known Mt. Isa Mines, at Queensland, Australia. Another was from an Australian meteorite which presents evidence of the composition of the center of our earth.
Three small pieces of magnificent precious opal in-the-rough complete the lot. The smallest of these is almost spherical and is approximately the diameter of a dime. It presents an eye-catching flash of colors which cover a wide range from yellow, orange, and red, through green and blue.
Colonel Baldwin also sent to Chancellor Malott a collection of Russian war posters. These are to be turned over to the department of design along with a former collection of Australian war posters which Colonel Baldwin sent several months ago. Miss Marjorie Whitney, head of the department of design, is making a collection of American war posters.
Seniors Asked For Information By Commission
To aid military authorities in assigning men to appropriate jobs in the war effort, the war mampower commission has requested all second-semester seniors in certain fields to fill out questionnaires which are now available in the registrar's office, L. C. Woodruff, registrar, announced this morning.
This directive applies to all seniors in the fields of engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, meteorology, and geology who will graduate by July 1, 1944, and especially those men in a 2-A draft classification, explained Mr. Woodruff.
The questionnaires, which are to be filled out in his office as soon as possible, include blanks about the student's military experience, marital status, special abilities, foreign travel, and other information which would help in making recommendations for assignments in the war effort according to the person's capabilities. These, together with a record of the student's transcript, will be sent in immediately to the war manpower commission by the University.
Mr. Woodruff, who explained that such information would be of great benefit to the student if he is drafted or assigned to essential civilian industry, urged that all such seniors fill out the questionnaires within the next few days.
Scheduled to arrive in Lawrence by train from New York at 8:48 a.m. tomorrow, Norman Thomas, several time Socialist candidate for president, will speak to students first at 9:30 a.m. in Fraser Theater, Joy Miller, chairman of the Student Forums Board which is bringing Mr. Thomas to the University, has announced.
Thomas Will Speak Three Times Tomorrow Before Students
Mr. Thomas will also address students and faculty members at a luncheon in the University Club dining room in the Memorial Union building and at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. His addresses will be informal with an opportunity for questions from his audience.
The luncheon tomorrow noon will begin at 12 o'clock. Guests are to go through the cafeteria lines in the Union cafeteria before being seated in the University Clubroom. Students and faculty members who have classes until 12:20 are invited to come to the luncheon following their class periods.
The meeting at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas room will be in the form of an open forum. All students and faculty members who can come are invited to attend.
Mr. Thomas will leave early Wednesday evening for Minneapolis.
Philip C. Kaiser of the University geological survey staff has returned to Lawrence after spending a week in Wichita. Kaiser has been working with the survey branch office there.
Kaiser Returns From Wichita
Floods Follow Storms in Kansas; Several Towns Isolated Today; Fourteen Deaths in Southern States
Rain Stops Gardeners and Busses
It was reported at 11 a.m. today that the latest mill pond reading for the Kaw river measured 15 feet.
Since Sunday morning, rainfall for this area, according to C. J. Posey, volunteer weather observer, measured 2.7 inches. This has greatly affected the Wakarusa river which has risen to 28 feet, according to A. L. Holcom. Flooding stages for this river begin at 27 feet.
April showers may bring flowers but we have our doubts, for gardeners and farmers of Douglas county are complaining that small backyard rivers are washing out the carefully planted seeds. There is even a look of discouragement and anxiety in the eyes of those University professors who planted victory gardens a few weeks ago.
Delta Sigma Theta Plans National Meet
Transportation has also been affected by the heavy rainfall. It was reported at 11 a.m. today that buses to and from Tulsa, Okla., had been canceled temporarily and that buses from Albuquerque, N.M., and Denver, Colo., which were due in Lawrence at 8:27 and 9:23 a.m. had not arrived yet.
Announcement of a national convention to be held in August at Wilberforce College, Wilberforce, Ohio, was made here Saturday at the regional meeting of Delta Sigma Theta, national colored sorority.
Delegates to the meeting represented chapters at Langston University, Iowa State, Lincoln University, Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg, Washburn University; and graduate students from Oklahoma, Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka, and Kansas City, Mo.
In the election, Alice Monroe of the Gamma Beta chapter in Topeka was chosen new regional director. June Mack, College senior from Topeka, represented the local chapter of which she is the president, and Cozetta Wilson of Ottawa was alternate.
Court Holds Law Unconstitutional Washington (INS) — The supreme court in a 7 to 2 decision yesterday held unconstitutional a Florida law under which a man failing to perform work under contract can be imprisoned.
The delegates decided to present suggestions concerning scholarship, initiation, and undergraduate chapter problems to the national meeting.
Holding that the law offends provisions against peonage, the high court's decision frees Emmanuel Pollock, a negro who was convicted of getting $5 from his employer and failing to perform the work promised.
(International News Service)
The fourth annual Central League of Campus Co-ops conference will be held here Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Delegates from campus coops in the Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas region will gather to air their problems, seek insight into their solutions, and gain more knowledge of the cooperative movement.
Kansas is one of several states in the Middlewestern plain area drenched by two days of rainfall to the point of floods.
Isolation of cities and towns in the eastern part of the state was reported, but the state had no fatality the water works system and a fi-
Fourteen deaths and injuries to 141 persons were reported today in Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas, as a result of storms and flood. Three persons were reported missing.
Initial reports show that 315 families are affected by the heavy rain which followed storms and forced many creeks and rivers out of their banks.
In Kansas the Neosho, the Verdiagris, and Marais des Cygnes rivers, in eastern Kansas today overflowed their banks inundating hundreds of acres of farmland and closing highways to all traffic. The Neosho spilled 7.6 feet above its banks at Burlington, 5 feet at Chanute, and 4.3 at Emporia. The Verdigris reads 10 degrees above flood stage at Independence while the Marais des Cygnes rose 5 feet above its banks at Quenemo and 2 feet above at Ottawa. Another 4 feet rise at these points is expected. Flooded highways isolated Burlington and Independence and partially cut off Emporia, Coffeyville, Ottawa, and other towns in the area. Heavy rains accompanied by high winds caused property damage at Walnut and Hutchinson last night.
League of Co-ops Will Air Problems At Conference
Although the conference is primarily held for the exchange of ideas on student co-ops, this year several members of the Consumers Cooperative association of North Kansas City, Mo., have been invited to speak to the students on their relationship to other cooperative enterprises. Gardner W. Heidrick, CCA personnel director, will address the conferences on that subject at one of the Saturday morning meetings.
The educational director of the Consumers Cooperative association, Merlin G. Miller, will take part in a round table discussion on "Reconstruction through Co-ops" with Prof. Lealand Prichard of the economics department and Dr. Homer Jack, Unitarian minister.
Highlight of the conference will be the Saturday night banquet at the Unitarian church. Miss Gladder, Haskell, secretary of CCA's educational department, will be the guest speaker. Entertainment will be provided by KU Co-op members.