UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1942
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 35
Four Members Of MSC Sworn In Last Night
Four new members were sworn in last night at the regular meeting of the Men's Student Council in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Two of the new members filled vacancies in the PSGL representation. Clarence Miller, engineering senior, District III, and Edward Colburn, college sophomore, District IV, took PSGL seats on the council, replacing Murray McCune and Verlyn Norris.
Wallace Bradshaw, college freshman, is the new Pachacamac freshman representative on the Council and Bob Lundy, college freshman, is the new PSGL freshman representative.
Trophy To Athletic Office
The KU-K-State peace trophy which was retained this year after KU won the annual football game with Kansas State, will be turned over to the athletic department to keep until next year's game, the Council decided. The trophy has been on display in the Union building.
A report on the progress of the TB stamp selling campaign, which will begin the first week in December, was given by Council representatives on the TB committee.
Larry McSpadden, dance manager, reported that the prospect of further
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Vice Versa ★★★ Women Stag It At Hoch Dance
Hoch auditorium floor will be polished with wax for the Vice-Versa dance Saturday night, Mary Kay Brown, Jay Jane president, has announced. Since dancers would bring their own wax if the floor is rough, Jay Janes will polish it beforehand, and then pay to have the wax removed.
Women will dress informally in sweaters and skirts and either bring dates for 75 cents or come stag for 50 cents. A female stagline will do the cutting as dates dance to Danny Bachmann's music which begins at 9 p.m. A Fep King will be elected and crowned by women at the dance. Candidates for Pep King, who were chosen by Jay Jane, are Scotty Knox, College junior; Dean Gates, pharmacy senior; Hoyt Baker, education sophomore; and Ray Evans, business junior.
This is the second year that Jay Janes have sponsored a Vice Versa dance to raise money for their scholarship fund. The $100 scholarship will be given in the spring to some coed according to her need, scholarship, and participation in campus activities. All money for the scholarship will come from the profits of the dance.
Smash Jap Armada In Solomons Battle
Washington, Nov. 17 — A large Japanese armada was smashed yesterday in the greatest victory of the war when the United States Navy and Army bomber planes sank 23 ships and damaged seven others in a three-day battle in the Solomons. Correspondents term the fight the real showdown between American and Japanese forces in the South Pacific, and consider it the greatest naval engagement since the battle of Jutland in World War I.
Only two cruisers and six destroyers were sunk on the American side, and officials say that the number of casualties was not extremely large. The Japanese are estimated to have lost approximately 24,000 men.
Editor Returns
McCann--OWI
Dick McCann, who graduated from the University in 1940, related many interesting stories to friends on the campus this week about his work in the Office of War Information. Washington, D. C.
McCann, Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the 1940 Jayhawker, first secured a job in the Office of Facts and Figures through friendship with Archibald MacLeish, head of the office. When MacLeish's bureau was merged with the Office of War Information, headed by Elmer Davis, McCann started to work for Davis, and was active in the office for six months.
McCann said that his work gave him entry into almost every governmental bureau in Washington. He mentioned that OWT's Elmer Davis is rapidly solving its administrative problems and that it is developing into an efficient and valuable agency.
McCann left yesterday for the reception center at Ft. Leavenworth to be inducted into the army.
War Plans Will Not Change Basic Study
Plans to bring the University into a more strict war program to cooperate with the new Selective Service Act, recently signed by President Roosevelt, will not under the present program interfere with students who are now training for special fields and objectives, Deane W. Malott, chancellor, said today. None of the plans which are under consideration now call for the elimination of any school or department of the University. and
By winning nine of their sixteen debates, a Kansas debate team composed mainly of freshmen and sophomores took third place in the annual William Jewell debate tournament Saturday at Liberty, Mo. The tournament was won by Emporia State Teachers College with Central College, Fayette, Mo., receiving second place ahead of Kansas.
The Kansas debaters were Dick Royer, College sophomore; Sterling Hess, College sophomore; Wallace Grimes, College freshman; Bob Hutchison, College sophomore; Eugene Shepard, College freshman; Carl Bell, College sophomore; Bill Conboy, College freshman; and Bob Isaac, College junior.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, took freshmen and sophomores to the tournament this year in oreadr to give them some early season experience against college varsity debaters. The William Jewell tournament was the first college debate for several of the freshman debaters.
Debate Team Places Third
A large crowd attended the season's first all-musical vespers which the School of Fine Arts presented Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium. Most of the University's musical organizations participated in the festive occasion, and the offerings were largely on the inspiring side.
Following the orchestra, the Men's Glee Club, led by Joseph Wilkins, introduced a gentler mood with
Sunday's Vesper Service Attended By Large Crowd
The opening selection on the organ, "Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne" by the Dane, Dietrich Buxtehude, set the tone for the entire program, played in the florescent style by Laurel
Professor Buehler and Jim Gillie, business senior, served as judges at the tournament. Other teams competing in the tournament were Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Mo. Baker University, Baldwin; Nehraska Wesleyan, Lincoln, Neb.; Wentworth, Saint Paul's College, Parkville, Mo.; Missouri Valley, Marshall, Mo.; and William Jewell.
the entire program of Everette Anderson. The University Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Karl Kuersteiner, continued in a cheerful vein with a reading of the "Finale" from Tschalkowski's fourth Symphony.
Manneys arrangement of a Russian air, "Hark, the Vesper Hymn Is Stealing." Next, the club sang Grieg's "Land Sighting." In this chorus Howard Sutherland, baritone, was heard in an effective solo.
The next number was "Elegie and Serenade" played in a refined manner by the University String Quar-
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Chancellor Malott urged that all men students continue at the work they are now doing until definite announcements are made.
"The President of the United States, in signing the new Selective Service Act," Chancellor Malott said, "indicated fundamental changes would be requested of Universities in fitting them into the War Training Program.
Expects To Participate
"Details of the plan are being worked out in Washington and will be available shortly. This University expects to be a part of that plan. Until it is announced, men students should carry on their present work. It seems unlikely that the plan will affect courses or credits this semester.
"The University intends also to provide various types of training for women, who wish to aid, or whose help may become necessary, in the war effort. Plans for furthering such work are now under consideration by a special committee of the faculty here.
To Continue Basic Courses
"In addition," Chancellor Malott continued, "the University intends, on the basis of any information now available, and on the basis of conditions at present, to continue the fundamental divisions and courses of study. There is no plan at present contemplated to eliminate any school or any department of this University, or to cut off training for students who are now pursuing their studies toward their chosen objectives."
Independents Hold First Skating Party
A skating party for members of the Independent Student Association was given last week at the downtown skating rink. More than a hundred students attended this first ISA skating party.
"Last week's party was an experiment. It was so successful that the organization will undoubtedly have another skating party this year," said Mary Gene Hull, president of the ISA.
An hour dance will be held from 7 to 8 tomorrow evening in the Kansan room of the Memorial Union building. The party is a non-date affair. Non-members who come with an ISA member will be charged 25 cents, the president explained.
BUY WAR STAMPS
Fire Causes Slight Damage In Haworth
A fire which caused considerable excitement but no damage broke out in some bales of paper stacked in the geology laboratory of Haworth hall at 8 o'clock last night. The cause of the fire is undetermined. Four of the six bales in the laboratory caught fire and smouldered causing much smoke. The Lawrence fire department extinguished the blaze.
Scotty Knox, college junior, and Phil Kaiser of the State Geological Survey, were the first to the scene of the fire. The men used extinguishers on the blaze and succeeded in slowing the fire. The fire department then removed the bales from the building.
The fire was controlled in time to prevent the flames from reaching the high voltage box which was directly behind the bales.
"The fire was not caused from combustion," the fire chief reported, "and the cause of the chief is yet unknown. No damage was done, however."
The geology department had baled the papers to send to war relief societies.
University Enters Radio Debate Series
The department of speech and drama has been registered for the second series of National Intercollegiate Radio Prize Debates, according to E. C. Buehler, professor of speech. The University's representative has not yet been chosen.
In the first series of radio debates held under the auspices of the American Economic Foundation with the cooperation of the Blue Network, students of 185 universities and colleges representing 44 states were entered. The success of this contest prompted the Foundation to initiate the second series.
The subject of the debate is, Resolved: 'Should American Youth Support the re-establishment after the war of competitive enterprise as our dominant economic system?'
Girl Band Will Not Practice Tomorrow
The all-girl band will not meet for practice tomorrow night as was originally scheduled, Russell L. Wiley, organizer and director of the band, announced, because there is no place available for practice at that time.
The first meeting for rehearsal organization, and election of officers will be at 2 p. m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
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