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Publication Days published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Warmer tonight.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944
NUMBER 105
41st YEAR
Ticket Sales Assure Success Of Junior Prom
Chauncey Downs and his orchestra arrive tomorrow night for the Junior prom. Already 200 tickets have been sold for the formal varsity, all classes cooperating to help the juniors make the dance a success, according to Heloise Hillbrand, University dance manager.
The 12-piece negro band is the second this year to come to the campus for University dance. The ticket sale before the night of the dance has insured success of the prom, Miss Hillbrand stated. Don Alderson and Virginia Rader, representing the Junior class, are assisting in the sale of tickets and plans for the dance.
Chauncey Downs a former University student, comes to the campus from his recent engagements at Meadow Acres, Topeka, the Frog Hop, St. Joseph, and the Pla-Mor, Kansas City. He is scheduled to appear with his orchestra on the Fitch band wagon.
The Junior prom takes place to-
trow night in Hoch auditorium,
9 to 12, and is the first formal dance
this year for the whole University.
Navy Names New Student Officers For This Semester
Clinton C. Sloan, Missoula, Mont., was named as the new regiment commander of the V-12 unit by Ensign H. L. Ware at general quarters held in Hoch auditorium Wednesday night. Sloan, PT 6, will thus assume the duties administered last semester by William Hargrave, who has been transferred to other V-12 training.
Riggs Lecture Sunday Afternoon
The E. S. Riggs lecture will be at
8:30 p.m. Sunday in Green hall,
Retaining the division of the houses into the Pacific and Atlantic fleets, John R. Stevenson, PT 2, Tescott, was named as battalion commander of the Pacific fleet, and John J. Wildgren, PT 8, Canon City, Colo., was appointed as commander of the Atlantic fleet.
The eight acting chief petty officers of the PT's were also named. They are Roland Ostlund, PT 1; G. Harald Frank, PT 2; Warren Riegle, 3; Gordon Erickson, PT 4; Charles Delano, PT 5; James Teener, PT 6; Harold McSpadden, PT 7; and Edwin W. Blase, PT 8.
The student officer system, set up last semester under the direct control of Ensign Ware, is similar to that used in the Naval Academy, and facilitates the supervision of the large number of trainees in the unit. Arm insignias are expected soon, and will be worn by all the student officers.
As assistants to Regimental Commander Sloan, Ensign Ware named George E. Verhage, PT 7, Downs, and Robert Lillibridge, PT 3, Hutchinson.
The positions of company commanders, officers who were in charge of two PT's, were abandoned this semester, Ensign Ware announced.
J. F. Lynn Is Missing In European Action
Lt. James F. Lynn, a student from 1939-41, has been missing in action over Germany since February 21. A pilot on a Flying Fortress, Lieutenant Lynn was recently awarded the air medal and Oak Leaf clusters.
He was employed as a salesman at the Firestone Tire and Rubber company in Kansas City before enlisting in the air corps in October 1942.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs James E. Lynn of Johnson County.
Youths Advised To Take Exams
Seventeen-year old Kansas high school boys are being urged to take the army-navy examinations for pre-induction college training by Deane W. Malott, Chancellor of the University, and Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College.
The two Kansas educators issued a joint statement while they were in Washington to determine how their institutions may operate most practically in the war program.
According to their statement, "The joint army-navy examinations will be held March 15 at various high schools and colleges in Kansas. Any boy who will complete his high school work by July 1 is eligible."
Boys who pass the examinations may choose between army or navy training. They will be sent to college at government expense and will take courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, and other subjects.
Chancellor Malott and President Eisenhower said, "Trainees will serve their country well and will be better prepared for the future if they obtain even a limited amount of college work now.
"All trainees will remain in college at least until they are 18. In the army training program, each boy will receive at least six months' training. In the navy the length of the program will depend upon the type of training selected."
Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical fraternity for women, entertained with a luncheon at the Colonial yesterday, honoring Mrs. Ava Comin Case of Ann Arbor, Mich., national president.
Both educators said that their schools have all the equipment and personnel essential to sound preinduction training programs, and that their facilities are at the disposal of the government.
An informal program was presented in the afternoon to active and alumnae Lawrence members who were present, said Mrs. Robert Kloepter, president.
Music Club Honors National President
YWCA Cabinet Retreat To Be Tomorrow at Henley
The YWCA will hold its cabinet retreat at Henley house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. The discussion will be on the changes in the program for this semester. Plans will then be made to carry out these changes.
Hoefgen Dies Today in First State Hanging
Lansing, (INS)—Earnest Hoefgen, 32-year old veteran of crime, was hanged today at Lansing for the murder of Bruce Smoll, 18-year-old Kansas State College student. The hanging was the first legal execution under state jurisdiction in Kansas since 1870. The trap was sprung by a professional hangman from a near-by state at 1:01 a.m. and Hoefgen was pronounced dead fifteen minutes later. Among the witnesses of the execution was A. E. Smoll of Wichita, father of the youth Hoefgen was convicted of slaying.
Governor Andrew Schoepel indicated yesterday that he would take no steps to halt the execution and no appeal to the supreme court of the state was taken.
Hoefgen was credited with two slayings. The first was the hatchet murder of George Richet, Independence, at Wichita Falls, Tex., and Bruce Smoll, 18-year-old Kansas State student.
Report Demands Eire Oust Nazis
Washington, (INS)—Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, promised today to issue within the next 24 hours a formal statement on reports the United States government has demanded that Eire close the German and Japanese legation in Dublin. Hull said he was taking up immediately all aspects of the Irish situation. The American and British governments are known to have become increasingly concerned over the activities of the Axis representatives in Eire.
Scholarships Given To English Majors
BUY WAR STAMPS
Prof. Josephine Burnham of the English department, chairman of the Edna Osborne Whitcomb scholarship committee, announced this week the awarding of scholarships to Barbara Duree, College senior; Mrs. Juana Riedel, College junior; and Florence Helmk, College senior.
The Edna Osborne Whitecomb Scholarship Fund was established through the bequest of Mrs. Whitcomb, widow of Prof. S. L. Whitcomb, a former member of the English department, to provide scholarships for self-supporting women English majors with an interest in the field of original writing. Because the scholarship had not been awarded for two years, the committee found that there was enough money available to appoint three scholarships at this time.
BULLETIN
New York, (INS)—Irvin S. Cobb, the sage of Paducah who rose from a 16-year old newspaper writer to a position of prominence as one of the nation's top humorists and writers died today following a long illness. He was 67.
University Red Cross Drive Next Week Sponsored by CVC Extend County Drive Several Days
Lt. Manning Replaces Capt. Archie Morris
Orders transferring Capt. Archie Morris (Cav.) to the Kansas City Medical Detachment, ASTSU 3704, have been revoked, Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorris, commandant of the ASTP unit, announced today. In his place Lt. John T. Manning, Jr., has been assigned to command the detachment. Lieutenant Manning is a former member of the ASTP staff at the University.
Band and Orchestra Have 14 Vacancies According to Wiley
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director of the University band and orchestra, announced today that there are eight vacancies in the orchestra and six unfilled places in the band.
Starting the semester with a 75-piece band and a 67-piece orchestra, Professor Wiley listed openings in the orchestra:
One bassoon, two french horns,
two violas, two violins, one tympany.
In the band, three cornets, one french horn, one tuba, and one baritone are needed.
"Any student interested in playing in either organization should see me this week," said Professor Wiley. "We have instruments on hand to furnish to students playing in the band or orchestra."
"We are preparing a beautiful orchestral program for this semester," commented Professor Wiley. "I believe that it is even more delightful than the winter concert as it is more pretentious."
In preparation for the spring concert in May, the orchestra is practicing Brahm's "Second Symphony." "A Midsummer Night's Dream," overture by Mendelssohn; "Rumanian Rhapsody Number One" by Enesco; Wieniawski's "Concerto in D Minor;" for the violin and orchestra with Doris Sheppard as soloist; "Caucasian Sketches" by Ivanov; and music from "Romeo and Juliet" by Tehaikovsky.
The band is practicing "Symphony in C Minor" by Ernest Williams; "Celtic Set," a suite of reels and hornpipes by Henry Cowell;" "Die Fledermaus" by Strauss; "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." "The Toy Trumpet" by Raymond Scott; "Scene du Bal" by Eric Coates; and "El Relicario" by Padilla.
For the Music Week Festival which will be the third week in April, the orchestra will do "Stabat Mater" by Rossini with the A Cappella choir, under the direction of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Barbara LeSuer and Elaine Sehon, both College sophomores, have entered the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City as nurse cadets.
LeSuer. Sehon Are Now Cadets
The School of Engineering and Architecture announced this week that the photo-elastic laboratory has now been completed and its facilities are available to the engineering technicians of Kansas. The laboratory has been developed and built in conjunction with plastics research at the University, for which the Kansas Industrial Development commission has appropriated $25,000.
CVC will sponsor the Fed Cross drive directed to civilian students on the campus, which will begin next week. Betty Jo O'Neal, major, has announced.
Setting their goal at $1,000, an average of $1 from each student on the campus, CVC made final plans for their campaign at the regular meeting last night in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Laboratory Finished For Stress Analysis
Serving on the committee to contact civilian students are Shirley Kelly, Barbara Johnson, Betty Leibbrand, Margaret Ott, Mary Louise Rowse, and Mildred Thomson.
The organized houses will be given an opportunity Monday evening to subscribe to the Red Cross Fund, and all students not living in such houses will be solicited individually. In the meantime, Miss Marie Miller announced that contributions could be left at the office of the adviser to women by students for whom such an arrangement would be convenient.
The Douglas county Red Cross War Fund campaign which started last Wednesday morning has been extended several days in an effort to reach the county quota of $29,100, about two-thirds of which has already been obtained.
With $2,223.46 of the University's quota of $4,000 already collected from the faculty members and employees, Prof. E. C. Buehler of the Speech department, chairman of the
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the laboratory, which has been developed under the supervision of F. L. Brown, professor of applied mechanics in the School of Engineering, is especially valuable in the field of structural engineering in the determination of stress analyses. The methods used employ the polariscope, a source of polarized light. Models of the items to be tested, such as bridge spans, aircraft parts, or any structural material, are made from bakelite or some other transparent plastic.
"The process takes the guesswork out of stress analysis," declared Professor Brown. "A lot of problems considered difficult by old methods are solved easily by the principles of photo-elasticity."