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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942
The Voice of
VOICE for VICTORY
NUMBER 46
40TH YEAR
Trial Black-out In Nine States Monday Night
The trial black-out in the Seventh Service command area, which includes Lawrence and the University, will take place from 10 to 10:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14. Nine states make up the area which will be totally darkened — Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, and Iowa.
Four Whistles Give Signal
At 10 o'clock, short intermittent blasts from four whistles, lasting $1 \frac{1}{2}$ minutes, will announce "lights out" and will be the signal for all persons on patrol duty to start their patrol. The all-clear will sound as one long, continuous blast at 10:20 o'clock. The signals will be made simultaneously at Haskell Institute, the University, the water plant, and the paper mill.
At the warning signal, all University buildings will be darkened from the power plant, except Watkins Memorial hospital, Watson library, anatomy building Jolliffe hall Ricker hall, and Hopkins hall. Wardens in those buildings will be responsible for turning out lights.
In dormitories, it is important that someone be stationed on each floor, near the head of stairs, equipped with dim-flashlight. These assistants will be selected and instructed by the building warden.
Wardens Will Patrol
Wardens will be stationed at posts inside campus buildings, and navy studnets will patrol outside the buildings, so that no one will be peritted to enter or leave during the blackout. These appointed wardens, their posts, and their telephone numbers will be published soon. C.V.C. wardens will help with supervising the fraternity and sorority houses, according to Patricia Scherrer.
Each warden, and each assistant must have a flashlight, dimmed with a mask, and must wear a white band, of his own devising, on his left arm. Flashlight masks may be procured from Mr. Ryther, in the Journalism building.
To accommodate the black-out, closing hours on the Hill that Monday night have been set up to 10 o'clock instead of 10:30, according to Mr. Ryther.
Registration Still Open For Proficiency Exam
Registration for the English proficiency examination to be given at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow is still open to students of junior or senior standing who have been unable to register before. Registration in the College office is required in order to gain admittance into the examination rooms.
Students are urged to take the examination at the earliest opportunity because they must enroll in and receive credit for 24 hours of work after paying the examination
Fitness Institute OnCampusTomorrow
Cooperating with the nation's physical conditioning program for the young men of the country in the war effort, the University will hold the first physical fitness institute tomorrow for the high schools of northeastern and eastern Kansas, Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, announced today.
This institute is an outgrowth from the Seventh Corps Service Command Physical Fitness conference for high schools held month at Lincoln, Neb. All*
This institute is an outgrowth ice Command Physical Fitness a last month at Lincoln, Neb. All members of the University physical education staff attended the Nebraska meeting. All high school physical education instructors and students in this area have been invited to the institute tomorrow.
The University was to have conducted such institutes last Saturday at Atchison, Kansas City, Ks., and at Garnett, but these meetings were canceled because of the heavy snow. Dr. Allen Supervises
The conference will be under the supervision of Dr. Allen, assisted bv
members of the physical education staff—Henry Shenk, R. R. Strait, and Misses Joie Stapleton, Beverly Bliss and Ruth Hoover. Greetings to the conference will be brought for the University from Chancellor Deane W. Malot. The members of the staff will be assisted by Captain George B. Smith, of the department of military science and tactics. The staff members will supervise the demonstrations which will be staged by members of the "leader's corps" of the K U toughening program. Members of the corps are Ray Evans.
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The freshman men will be out in force today, at least those who became 18 in July or August, to register in Uncle Sam's selective service for the armed forces. The ranks will probably be considerably diminished, though, because of the visits of the various recruiting board's to the campus.
Younger Men Sign Up Today
The government is suggesting that sometime between today and Thursday these young men go to their draft board and leave their names for future reference. Beginning next Friday and ending December 24, the boys who became 18 in September and October will get a chance to add their names to the list.
Just so men with birthdays in November and December won't feel left out, a special week is being set aside for them too. It starts December 26 and ends December 31. Those
Klein announced that the next meeting of the organization would be Dec. 17, again in Marvin hall. A governing committee will be elected at this meeting and plans for the future will be discussed. The department of aeronautical engineering will show moving pictures on the development of aviation.
Possibilities wer discussed for having speakers from the air fields in this part of the country and of obtaining films on the subject of aeronautics.
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Reserves Meet; Hear Gage Urge Preparation
Kenneth Razak, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering was the second speaker. Razak promised the reservists the full support and cooperation of the department.
The University's Army Air Corps Resrvists held their first meeting last night in Marvin hall. Henry G. Klein. business senior and organizer of the enlistees, acted as chairman of the meeting. Fifty-five men attended.
"You should work toward what is coming in the future while you are here in school," said Col. Gage. "You can learn lots of the fundamentals needed in flying.
Col. J. R. Gage of the military science department was introduced by Klein as the first speaker. Gage advised the future flying cadets to get all possible training offered by the University in the line of work that will confront them after induction.
Col. Gage also stressed the importance of R.O.T.C. training to the enlisted man, no matter what line of service he was going to enter.
committee from the Neodesha Chamber of Commerce Wiley in the spring of 1941 and suggested
Cowboy Band to Perform In University Concert
Local concert history will be made Wednesday when a concert band shares the program, with a cowboy band for following the intermission Russell Wiley's buckaroos will take over the stage.
of over 100,000 August 19-23, 1942. The organization became known around the campus and in Lawrence, so it was decided to maintain it as a campus as well as a traveling cowboy band. Three weeks ago the band appeared before the Lawrence Rotary Club—the first appearance it has made before a Lawrence audience.- Rotary members decided to sponsor a big party for the people of Lawrence and the officials and employees of the ordinance plant to be held sometime in January. The cowboy band will furnish music for this event; and the proceeds from the sale of tie-
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A committee from the Ne called on Professor Wiley in th that he organize a cowboy band out of his University band. The 25-piece organization first appeared at the state rodeo in Neodesha in August.
Director Wiley decided to continue the organization with the idea of playing rodeos and fairs wherever bookings were available during the vacation session. He was in contact with rodeo managers from coast to coast including those of the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, the Ft. Worth Stock Show, and the Cheyenne Round Up. The band played for 8 performances at the Iowa State championship rodeo, one of the three largest in the nation for a crowd
Investigate Student Union Possibilities
University students may, in the future, have at their disposal more recreational facilities of all kinds in the Memorial Union building as a result of investigations being made now by the Union operating committee.
The operating committee composed of four members of the MSC, four members of the WSGA, an alumni representative, and four faculty members appointed by the Chancellor, met recently and discussed the possibilities of more and smaller group recreations.
A sub-committee was appointed to investigate the possibilities of increased dance floor space in the Union building including the lounges and any other possible space. This committee composed of Vernon McKale, Marge Rader, Newell Jenkins, Jill Peck, and Henry Werner will also investigate the possibilities of game playing space and of producing movies under the Union auspices.
A second committee appointed to study the possibilities of a new music room in the Union building is composed of Peggy Davis, Bob White, Miss Hermina Zipple, and Harry O'Kane.
C. E. Russell and Georgia Ferrel were appointed to bring in nominations for president to replace Nation Meyer whose resignation as president of the Student Union activities board was accepted by the committee. He was given a vote of thanks and appreciation for his work in Union activities.
Union Meeting
The University Memorial corporation, which directs the operations of Memorial Unions activities, will have its annual meeting at 11 a.m. Dec.19.at the Union building.Business of the meeting will be presentation of annual reports. Election of offices, and filling of corporation vacancies.
FDR Declares Axis Have Lost Initiative
Washington, (INS), Declaring that the Axis powers temporarily have lost the initiative and that "we must do all we can to keep them from regaining it." President Roosevelt today revealed that the number of American troops overseas will total over one million by the end of this month.
At the same time, President Roosevelt, in sending a report on lendlease activities to Congress, declared that "the Japanese have been recklessly expending ships and men in the Solomons, the battleground of our own choosing."
County Chairmen Chosen; Plan Propaganda Program
County chairmen have been elected by the correspondence committee of the State-wide Activities committee. These newly elected chairmn will meet in the lecture room of the Journalism building at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. A six-fold purpose will be outlined to the chairmen. These points are to send out University calendars to high schools, to send out Jayhawkers to high schools, to write personal let- $ ^{a} $
ters to high school seniors telling them of the special opportunities the University offers, especially in war training courses. Their fourth purpose will be to back up the home town correspondents and see that they are functioning properly, and the fifth to send out
large displays portraying life on Mount Oread.
The newly elected county chairmen are as follows:
Allen, Newell Jenkins; Anderson,
Vernon McKale; Atchison, John
Sells; Barbon, Comora MaeGregor;
Barten, John Shelton; Brown, Fran-
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