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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1943
NUMBER 94
Legislature Deadlocked By Salary Bill
Topeka (INS)—Deadlocked over a county officials' salary bill which threatened to put the law makers in dutch with court house officers whose salaries might be reduced, the Kansas legislature today was still hours away from adjournment.
Leaders today said they hoped to break the deadlock and end the session sometime this afternoon. Unless leaders regain control of the house, there was a prospect that the session might be prolonged further.
The deadlock came last night when the senate refused to accept the house amendment to the county salaries bill. Then the house farmer members broke away from the leadership and insisted upon passage of the minor livestock bill before adjournment.
The legislature clock still showed that it was noon. The sergeant-at- arms stopped the clocks in both houses yesterday. Leaders said they believed they would be able to move the clocks up to thir right time this evening.
Army Discharges Older Soldiers For Farm Work
Washington, (INS) — Formal discharges today were obtainable before May 1, for soldiers over 38 serving within the United States to perform essential farm work, according to a war department announcement.
Men over 38 years of age serving overseas may be released under the same order by submitting applications prior to June 1, 1943.
Simultaneously the department issued a restatement of general farm policy, asserting that widespread furloughs for individual soldiers under 38 to engage in farm work are not contemplated except in emergency situations.
The department said troop units will be assigned to emergency harvesting of vital crops only after such requests are transmitted to the army by War Manpower Chairman Paul V. McNutt.
In emergency cases, troop units may be employed under command of their own officers to supplement
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Army Air Force Commander Is Promoted To Full General
Washington (INS)—President Roosevelt today promoted Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander of the army air forces, to be a full general.
The president's promotion of Arnold is expected to get speedy confirmation in the senate.
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After casting ballots in Marvin hall Tuesday, engineers must now wait patiently until 10 o'clock tomorrow night to learn who is their Hobnail Hop queen.
Results of the voting are being kept secret by the engineering council. In past yars it has been the custom for the lawyers to attempt to abduct the engineer's queen in retaliation for the painting of their beloved "Uncle Jimmy" Green.
Last year the engineering council keep the queen's identity secret until the middle of the dance to check any lawyer's attempt. The idea of secrecy caught on and is becoming traditional.
At noon today Frank Lichty, engineering council president, said that "advance ticket sales point to a big University party in Hoch auditorium tomorrow night." An added inducement to the dance will be 50 cases of cokes, he said.
Contestants for the queenly crown include Charlotte Friotch, Alpha Chi Omega; Dorothy Hanneman, Alpha Delta Pi; Juanita Bowman, Alpha Omicron Pi; Virginia Marshall, Chi Omega; Helen Hovey, Delta Gamma; Dorothy Chapin, Gamma Phi Beta; Nancy Teichgaerber, Kappa Alpha Theta; Peggy Ballard, Kappa Kappa Gamma; and Helen Todd, Sigma Kappa.
Schoeppel Will Not Hurry In Reappointments
Topeka (INS)—Governor Schoepel indicated today he will be in no hurry about making appointments to fill the 34 department head positions following the action of the senate in refusing to confirm the names he submitted yesterday.
All those turned down were individuals holding recessed appointments made by former Governor Payne Ratner. If Gov. Schoeppel waits until the senate adjourns, he can then either reappoint the individuals which the senate refused to confirm or pick new appointees to take their places.
In most cases, including the state board of regents, he is expected to retain the present personl.
The senate, meeting in executive session, had yesterday turned down 34 of the 36 appointments the governor sent to it for confirmation. The only two confirmed were Alfred Williams, Pratt, to the state corporation commission, and Mark Bennett, Topeka, to the tax commission.
Senate leaders, said that since all the others were holding recess appointments from former Gov. Payne Ratner they were turned down so that Gov. Schoeppel can either give them additional recess appointments of name other men to take their places.
FBI Agent Tells Of Enemy Spies
By JEANNE SHOEMAKER
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Relating inside stories of what the FBI learns about espionage agents and how it apprehends them, Charles G. Campbell, special agent of the FBI from Kansas City, Mo., entertained engineers and their dates in his after dinner speech at the engineering banquet last night.
To more than 250 people crowded into the Kansas room of
Of special interest to engineers was his explanation of how unsuspecting-looking pen and pencil sets work as highly explosive bombs, and how small lead pencils are converted into incendiary time bombs by filling them with two acids which eat through metal to each other and explode when jammed into the wall of a factory.
the Memorial Unoin building. Mr.Campbell explained how German saboteurs are trained in a special school just outside Berlin. They are taught engineering, taken through German factories and shown how to cripple vital machinery,how to make small bombs with chemicals which can be obtained in drug stores,and given innumerable minute instructions.
Pens Are Used For Bombs
Pictures showing the principles of camouflage and models demonstrating actual constructions have been put on permanent display in the Fourteenth street entrance to Thayer museum by T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design.
The models include comparison of visibility by an army truck painted to blend with the surrounding vegetation and one painted brown; an airplane painted blue underneath and brown on top to disguise it; a wire net interwoven with painted cloth to hide armament; and displays showing how irregular false pro-
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Pictures To Display Camouflage
Twenty V-7 Men Report April 29
Twenty members of the V-7 Naval Reserve volunteered to report for midshipman's training April 29, according to Laurence Woodruff, co-ordinator of military information, today.
The following students, all seniors who will receive their degrees April 13, Hubert Ulrich, Edwin Lindquist, Alan Houghton, Ralph Schaake, Clark Page, Delbert Campbell, Robert
Summerfield Exams Given Last Saturday
Freliminary examinations for 53 prospective Summerfield scholars were held in room 206, Marvin hall, Saturday. Lawrence was one of 12 Kansas towns in which the examination was offered.
A total of 201 nominees for Summerfield scholarships met in Blue Rapids, Colby, Concordia, Emporia, Garden City, Great Bend, Hutchinson, Norton, Parsons, Salina, Wichita and Lawrence for the examination.
Only half as many places offered the similar examination last year, but the number was doubled this year because of difficulties in transportation. A card was sent to each nominee to assist him in selecting the most convenient place for examination.
After the examinations are graded, approximately 30 nominees will be chosen to return for the final examination to be given Monday and Tuesday, April 12 and 13. Definite plans have not been made for this exam, but probably the former plan of interviews the first day, and the written examination on the second day will be used. Mrs. Flora S. Boynton, office secretary of the Endowment Association, said.
CancelNaturalization Of Lawrence Man
Topeka, (INS) — The United States district attorney filed suit in federal court here today to cancel the naturalization of German-born Walter E. Gudert, Lawrence, who is charged with being an open Nazi sympathizer.
Gudert, who is 41, recently filed a statement with his draft board claiming he is a conscientious objector, it is said by officials.
Chubb Addr sses Kiwanis Club
Prof. H. E. Chubb of the department of political science spoke at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis club at Wiedemann's yesterday. In his talk on "American Foreign Policy," Professor Chubb told of the traditional American policies and the changes in them made necessary by shifting world conditions.
Knox, Barrett VanDyke, Robert Bell, Duncan McGregor, Fred Humphreys, Cliff Parson, Arthur Black, Larry McSpadden, Pierre Kimball, Jr., Gerald Tewell, Ernest Hyde, Jr., Robert McCort, Robert Plumb, and John Waggoner, volunteered.
The men will probably be sent to Notre Dame University for their basic or midshipmen's training. The Board of Regents voted last fall to give graduating seniors who are entering the armed forces full credit for their semester's work if they would remain in school until April 13.
Approximately 45 Reservists were eligible for this voluntary enlistment but only the above 20 could arrange their affairs so that they could leave April 13.
Those members that will not leave April 13 will be called at the end of the semester according to Navy department earlier in the semester. Because of the large number of reservists in some specialized or technical training school the Navy asked for the voluntary enlistments.
Watkins Contributes Entire Quinine Stock
In response to an urgent call that all available quinine and quinine salts now held by retail and hospital pharmacies be pooled under the control of the defense supplies corporation, Watkins Memorial hospital is contributing its entire stock of quinine and quinine salts.
Although the development of atabrine, a synthetic drug used in place of quinine, has helped relieve the shortage caused when the Japanese cut off our major supply from the Pacific region, the supply of quinine for our armed forces in regions where malaria is prevalent is critical.
Summer Russian Class Depends Upon Enrollment
Dean Paul B. Lawson has asked that those students who are interested in enrolling in Russian in the summer sessions consult Sam Anderson of the German department, or Dean Lawson, as soon as possible.
The University will be glad to offer this language in at least one of the summer sessions provided there is sufficient demand to organize a class.