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Raymond Clapper, Alumnus, Killed In Airplane Crash Over Marshalls
Clapper and Wife Walked From K.C. to Enter K.U.
Coeds to Have One-Day Try At WAC Life
"University junior and senior women will be given a chance to see what the life of a WAC is like," Lt. Betty Veatch of the Topeka army recruiting office, announced to the campus today.
Her announcement, accompanied an invitation to all coeds to take part in an all-day experiment Saturday, Feb. 12, which will begin at 8 a.m. with a talk by Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, commander of the University army units, and will end with a reception at 4 p.m.
Working in co-operation with Col. McMorris, his staff, Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, and Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, Lt. Veatch has arranged for the coeds to get a cross section of a day in the WAC's.
Will Give Mental Tests
After Col. McMorris' talk, the women will be given the mental alertness tests that all women are required to take before entering the WAC's. After this there will be a short period of close order drill.
In the next hour, movies, which have not been released before to the public, will be presented. These movies were made in Hollywood by the signal corps. They are the complete story from the rise of Hitler in 1932 through all the events since then up to the present day.
To Have Mess in Lindley
The students will have mess in regular army style in Lindley hall at noon. After this there will be a
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Stevens to Talk To Senior Class
Richard B. Stevens of Lawrence, president of the Alumni association, will address seniors at their first class meeting at 10:30 Wednesday morning in Fraser theater, Jane Lorimer, president of the senior class, announced today. Plans for graduation and a class gift will be discussed at the meeting.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott has requested that all faculty members excuse seniors from their 10:30 classes Wednesday, according to Raymond Nichols, executive secretary. He urges all seniors to attend.
There will be a meeting of the chairmen of senior class committees at 7:30 tonight in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Because he had so little money, Raymond Clapper and his young wife walked to Lawrence from Kansas City to enroll in the University of Kansas in 1913. They felt that they should save the little money they had for fees and living expenses, so they walked—hitch-hiking was unheard of in those days.
L. N. Flint, professor of journalism who taught Clapper in 1915 and 1916, said, "Raymond Clapper's career was watched by all of us in journalism because he started from scratch and
won his race. As a student in our classes he showed maturity beyond his years and the sort of independence that delights a teacher and which, in Clapper's case, holds the secret of his success as one of the leaders in the thought of a nation."
Boundless energy marked Ray Clapper's whole career, in his rise from a printer to a leading Washington correspondent and political commentator. In spite of his fame, Clapper remained wholesome, writing for the average American. He told his friends, "When I sit down to my desk I write for the people I know out in Kansas."
Energy Marks Career
Kansans have followed Clapper's career with personal interest for he was born near LaCygne in Linn County, May 30, 1892, grew up and attended school in Kansas City, Kansas, and attened the University for three yea s. He left school to become a member of the Kansas City Star staff in 1916.
Couple Returned to School
In addition to all their outside jobs, the Clappers carried a full-time schedule, did all the house work and the laundry. Saturday mornings, they got up at 4 a.m. so Mrs. Clapper could go to Kansas City where she spent the morning giving music lessons.
He married Olive Ewing May 30, 1913, the same year they entered the University. Mrs. Clapper was 17 years old, a junior, and Clapper was only 20. They both quit school and Ray continued working as a printer in a shop operated by two women in Kansas City. A month after their marriage, Clapper decided they should return to school, so they came to the University. Shortly after classes began, Clapper landed a job as a correspondent for the Kansas City Star, while Mrs. Clapper gave music lessons.
Clapper soon became managing editor of the University Daily'Kansas; the job then paid $25 a week which bolstered their sagging income.
Once, Clapper got the chancellor of the University out of bed in the middle of the night to query him on a last-minute news break. The chancellor commented at length, and then politely asked the identity of the metropolitan editor. Clapper was a bit taken aback, but resounded firmly that he was a journ-
As M. E. Roused Chancellor
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Blood Donations Started at 10 Today; 640 Volunteers Sign
The Red Cross blood donors' service began taking blood donations at 10 a.m. today, it was announced by Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, chairman of the committee for Douglas county.
Added to yesterday's total of 637 volunteers, which surpassed the community's goal, 3 more volunteers have made appointments. They are:
Cards have been sent to all volunteers reminding them of their appointments and giving them diet instructions, Dr. Canuteson said. He also stated that it was very important that the donors follow these diet instructions carefully to make the blood satisfactory for dried plasma.
Robert Wuellner, V-12 engineering freshman; M. Lillian W. Karpowski. College freshman; and Jacquel Meyer. College senior.
It is hoped that all volunteers will be prompt in keeping their appointments, said Dr. Canuteson.
Josephine Abbitt, who is in charge of recruiting student donors, will announce registration results soon, which have been tabulated according to the percentage of each organized house.
Where Is Jap Navy, Ask Pacific Reports
The mystery of the whereabouts of Japanese navy, still the number one enigma of the war, deepened by the hour today by fresh reports from the Marshall islands indicating early capture of Namur and Kwajalein. Stepped-up offensive action by United States troops and marines following initial seizure of 12 atol beachheads and capture of Roi island made imminent the fall of Namur and Kwajalein.
(International News Service)
Gibson to Discuss Labor Over KFKU Tonight
Prof. Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science and sociology, will discuss the question "What About Labor?" with Mrs. Marvin LeSuer, president of the League of Women Voters, over KFKU at 9:45 tonight.
Death of Newspaper Columnist In Plane Collision in Mid-air Reported by Navy; None Saved
Washington, (INS)—The navy announced today that Raymond Clapper, newspaper columnist, was killed in an airplane crash while covering the invasion of the Marshall islands. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, notified the navy of Clapper's death. Nimitz said the accident occurred when the plane in which Clapper was flying collided with another in mid-air and fell into a lagoon. There were no
Killed in Plane Crash
RAYMOND CLAPPER
Raymond Clapper
By Prof. L. N. Flint
Raymond Clapper was a self made journalist. When he became a student in the newly established department of journalism, he lost no time in showing all of us that he was going places. He was a hard worker in his classes, and showed enterprise and ability in his work on the Daily Kansan, both as reporter and executive.
His career since school days has been watched by his K.U. friends with a sort of family pride mixed with an I-told-you-so assurance. It seems now that we always knew that he would move to the top of his chosen profession, with a great following of readers both in his own country and abroad. The rewards that came to him were great, both in prestige and influence and in money, which he could appreciate because he had started from scratch.
Perhaps we should have fore seen that his devotion, as a journalist, to his obligations to the public would, in war time, lead him into many dangers here and there around the world and finally to death. We shall miss Clapper. Yes, in more ways than one, we shall miss him.
survivors, the navy said. Clapper had joined the Marshall island task force after an extended tour of fighting fronts in the southwest Pacific. He was a columnist for the Scripps-Howard syndicate.
Last summer and fall he made an aerial inspection trip to Sweden, Great Britain and the North American and Mediterranean fighting areas. He flew over Rome with an American bombing mission when the Italian capitol was hit for the first time.
Clapper's first newspaper job was editor of the Daily Kansan. After leaving the University, he joined the Kansas City Star and transferred from the Star to the Kansas City Bureau of the United Press in 1917.
In 1918 he joined the UP bureau in Washington, and from 1925 on he covered every national political convention and every national campaign. He was made chief of the Washington Bureau of UP in 1929. He was assigned to the White House, Congress, and various government departments, and among his top jobs was the covering the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 and the London Disarmament Conference in 1930.
Clapper and White On Same Program
The last public appearance of Raymond Clapper in Kansas was at the banquet here June 5, 1941, in which L. N. Flint, retiring as head of journalism was honored. Clapper came by airplane from Washington and did not remain for the commencement next day owing to an appointment on the West Coast. Pictures of Flint, White and Clapper were published in group pose in the Alumni magazine.
The toastmaster who introduced Mr. Clapper was the late William Allen White of Emporia. Clapper's death followed White's in less than a week.
Portal-to-Portal Pay Discussed
Washington, (INS) — President Roosevelt's special committee studying the portal-to-portal issue laid the groundwork for a final decision in the long-standing coal wage dispute with a preliminary report showing that the nation's coal miners travelled underground an average of 5.29 miles a day.