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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 194$^{2}$
300 Attend Tacky Party
Women Carry Out Vice Versa Theme; Some Call For Dates
BY EVELYN RAILSBACK
Clad in faded, patched clothes and costumes of clashing colors, more than 300 students attended the tacky Vice-Versa party in the main lounge of the Union building Friday night. Be-ribboned pig tails, freckles, and straw hats were quite in style.
The fellow in patched overalls with orange high-topped shoes and the girls in paper skirts had particularly outstanding costumes.
Bachmann and Pope's band played fast music which encouraged the jitterbugs present. The stag line, which was composed almost entirely of women, was an unusually active one.
Women carried through the Vice Versa theme even to paying for cokes and opening doors for their dates. A few brave souls even called for their men.
Nearly every man had a corsage, and the women's choices were highly original. Carrots tied with pretty ribbons, radishes arranged against firmly doilies, or bright-colored gum drops wrapped in cellophane be-decked nearly every male breast. One man wore a gardenia in his hair.
John Ashton Serves As Public Speaker
Dr. John W. Ashton, chairman of the department of English, is working overtime as a public speaker these days. Thursday and Friday of this week, he attended a regional meeting of the American Library Association at Topeka, where he was discussion leader in two panel discussions concerning what the libraries can do to make people more actively interested in planning for the post-war world.
Monday, Dr. Ashton will go to Independence where he will speak to a convocation of the High School and Junior College at one o'clock. That evening, he will be the speaker in the Independence Community Lecture Series.
Tuesday Dr. Ashton will go to Shawnee, Okla., to appear before "The Speech of the Month Club," on the subject, "Literature and Life." He will wind up his week's engagements at Emporia Tuesday with an address at the Scholarship Recognition Day at Emporia Teachers College, on the subject "Scholarship In Wartime."
Alumnus Will Command Lincoln, Nebraska Air Base
Lt. Col. John W. Williams, engineering '23, was recently appointed commander of the Lincoln Air Base at Lincoln, Nebraska. He was transferred from Majors Army Air Field, Greenville, Texas where he served as an executive officer since its opening last July.
Col. Williams is a veteran of World War I and holds a Senior Pilot rating with 4,000 hours of flying time in over five years of service in the Army Air Corps. He was employed by Detroit Aircraft before he returned to the service in 1934.
Teagarden Is At Topeka Tonight
Teagarden Is At Topeka Tonight The Teagarden orchestra which played here last night will play at Meadow Acres tonight.
Dance Manager Applications Are Due April 21
Applications for dance manager of all-University dances may be filed in room 1 in Frank Strong hall before April 21, Henry Werner, adviser of men, announced yesterday.
Any student interested is asked to write a letter of application stating his qualifications. These letters will be considered by a committee of four representing the student government with Werner advising.
The student's previous experience and his knowledge of what other students want are two qualifications which Werner said will be considered. The applicant's academic standing will enter in somewhat.
Duties of the dance manager include making all arrangements for hiring bands for all-University dances in cooperation with the business office. In addition he works unofficially with the president of the Student Union Activities board. The dance manager receives a remuneration.
Dance manager this year was Larry McSpadden, business senior.
Many Lose Lives As Merchant Ship Sinks
An East Coast Port, (INS) — Forty-three officers and men lost their lives in the sinking early this month of an American merchant ship by a submarine off the east coast of the United States, the navy announced today.
It was the first Allied Nations' ship to fall prey to Axis U-boats off America's east coast in the last eight months the navy said.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
VARSITY
THRU
WEDNESDAY
Sunday BOB HOPE PAULETTE GODDARD
In
"Nothing But The Truth"
"MOSCOW STRIKES BACK"
Edward G. Robinson
Narrator
News - Novelty
RETURN DATES
"Gone With the Wind"
April 20-21
"HITLER'S CHILDREN"
April 27-28
University Band Presents Concert Tomorrow
Shown above is the University of Kansas Band which will present its annual spring concert tomorrow evening in Hoch auditorium, beginning at 8 o'clock.
Sgt. Dell Love, a former University student now with the eighth Army Air Force was one of 430 recipients of the air medal decorations announced recently in London.
Sgt. Love was a senior in the School of Business when he left the University between semesters last year. From his home near Lawrence, he went directly to Shepherd Field, Texas, for his first air air corps training. Before he left the country last September, he had taken further training in Barksdale Field, La., and Ft. Myers, Fla.
Approximately five per cent of all men and women employees are college graduates, he said, and they come from 325 domestic colleges and from foreign colleges in 34 different countries. According to Muir's report, engineering degrees predominate, numbering 6000. There are 500 with degrees in physics, chemistry, or science, nearly 800 with liberal arts degrees, and more than 1000 with degrees in business administration.
University Alumni Employed by G.E.
General Electric and associated companies employ 105 University of Kansas alumni among the 9,222 college graduates in their employ, R. C. Muir, vice president of General Electric and chairman of the company's education committee, reported recently.
GRANADA
SUNDAY—4 Days
Sgt. Dell Love Awarded Air Medal Decoration
All You've Ever Dreamed of in One Great Show
The Beautiful Powers Models
3 Big Songs
and
BENNY GOODMAN
and His Orchestra
'No One Gets Fat In Bombing'-Raye
Hollywood, (INS)—Martha Raye was back from the wars today with an effective but unpleasant recipe for reducing.
"Believe me," she said. "I've got the answer to how to lose weight. You don't get fat in a bombing."
The comedienne entertained American troops in England and Africa, mostly under fire, for six months.
She said her greatest ambition was to entertain "our boys in Tokyo."
Students Speak At Colloquy
Three students of the School of Pharmacy spoke at the regular pharmacy colloquy Tuesday morning. Ray Garrett, senior, discussed the manufacture and use of military explosives; Russell Mount, senior, described the uses of atabrin hydrochloride, a chemical used in conjunction with quinine in the treatment of malaria; and Fleming Wilson, junior, explained the use of vitamins.
Kinney Develops New Use for Clay
E. D. Kinney, professor in the department of mining and metallurgical engineering here, has developed a new process for the extraction of alumina from Kansas clay.
The alumina is used to produce aluminum metal, and Professor Kinney has applied for a joint patent with the University. He began his research work last summer in accord with the geological survey here.
Kansas clay is high in mineral content and there is a possibility of a great increase in Kansas industry if this extraction process is used, Professor Kinney said.
Captain Mary S. Bell, director of the WAAC for the Seventh service command, formerly was dean of woment at Coe college, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Dean of Women Now a WAAC