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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1942
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High School Debators On Hill Friday
Debaters from 21 Kansas high schools, including district championship, winners will gather here Friday and Saturday for the final state debate tournament of the season.
Sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association, the event will be scheduled in rounds according to classes A, B, and C. Meetings will be held in Green hall, Blake hall, Fraser hall, and Frank Strong hall.
District championship winners who will participate in the class A tournament are Coffeyville, Topeka, Russell, Newton, and Winfield. Other schools in this class which have been invited to complete the brackets are Wyandotte, Wichita North, and Dodge City.
The six championship winners in class B are Hiawatha, Bonner Springs, Abilene, Kingman, and Ellsworth. Herington and Effingham have also been invited to take part in the competition.
Blue Rapids, Cunningham, Kingsdown, and Lebanon are the district winners in the class C tournament; Moundridge is the invited member of this group.
The double round robin schedule will be used in the tournament this year. Each school in the separate classes will meet all the other entries in that class. In previous contests, the elimination process has been used with the winners being chosen from the semi-finalists and the finalists.
Three judges will be used in each debate on the question of compulsory military service. University faculty members and advanced forensics students will serve as judges in the contests.
Pneumonia Patient Released From Hospital
Fowler Shops to Offer Advanced Welding Course
Curtis A. Burton, second year law student, has been dismissed from Watkins hospital, where he was confined with pneumonia. Burton is convalescing at his home in Topeka and will return to classes Monday.
A new course in advanced welding is being offered in Fowler Shops this semester. Students who take the course will have the opportunity to specialize in structural steel welding, pipe and high pressure welding, and aircraft welding.
Three other pneumonia patients are convalescing at the hospital: John Reber, College freshman; Walter Voigtlander, sophomore engineer; Alice Timp, College junior.
The welding manifold line in the welding shops has been moved to the center of the room to provide more working space.
Will Speak Tomorrow
Dr. F. E. Melvin of the University department of history who will speak tomorrow night in Fraser theater when the University's new World at War class holds its second session. For a list of other speakers of the course, see page eight.
K.U. Graduate Dies in Crash
Norman R. Meeks, 27, second lieutenant in the U. S. Army air corps and a graduate of the University, was killed yesterday when the training plane in which he was flying crashed at Blue Springs. Mo
Meeks, with second lieutenant Boyd V. Mann, 29, Olathe, had taken off from Sherman field at Ft. Leavenworth in a two-place, open cockpit plane about 4 p.m. for a routine training flight. They crashed at Blue Springs, 30 miles southeast of Leavenworth, about half an hour later. Both men were killed instantly.
Meeks graduated from the University in 1939 with an A. B. degree in history. During his senior year, he was president of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Men's Pan-Hellenic council. He was very popular on the campus, and many of his friends are still attending school.
Following his graduation, Meeks was in the oil business in western Kansas. Last Sept. 22, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in a national guard unit; and he entered the federal service Oct. 6.
Skill in the art of painting with the air brush and by tempera is shown in the exhibition of work done by the Commercial Art class of Prof. T. D. Jones in the department of design.
Art Exhibits Flash In Frank Strong Hall
The work on display in the corridor of the design department is of decorative heads, suitable for magazine covers or for all decorations.
Meeks is a native of Wichita. His mother, Mrs. Gertrude Doran, of Wichita, survives him.
Professor Jones commented that, so far as he knew, the University was the only school in the country that trained students in the skill of air gun painting.
Student Registrees Will Report to Armory Monday
Saw War at First Hand
Julie Henry Nessly Relates Experiences Of Year In Samoa
By Joy Miller
JULIE NESSLY
"It seems strange to be with people who aren't vitally interested in the war," declared Julie Henry Nessly, graduate of 1940, who has just returned from Samoa where her husband, Jack Nessley, '39, is stationed. $ \circ $
A small, vivacious redhead with tiny lines of having experienced too much too recently etched around her eyes. Mrs. Nessly told of her life in Samoa with a straightforward
intentness. About subjects tabooed by government regulations—the Samoa bombing and wartime conditions in Samoa, she was discreetly silent. To Samoa a Year Ago
About the effect of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Samoa, Mrs. Nessly could say little, except that "everyone was stunned. We just couldn't believe it! Of course, the men were called to arms, ready for any old thing!"
Mrs. Nessly was still in Samoa
When a student on the Hill, Mrs. Nessly was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and a physical education major. Jack Nessly was a Beta Theta Pi in the school of business, and cheerleader for several years. The couple went to Samoa about a year ago where Jack is still in active marine service.
Sands Lecture Is Canceled
Samoa, as Mrs. Nessly described it, is a mountain in the middle of the south seas about six thousand miles from the west coast. It is strategically placed, on the route to Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. It has a damp, warm climate, the temperature never dropping below 75 degrees "Right now Samoa is in the midst of summer, which makes Lawrence' weather seem colder than ever, although I guess this is what you'd call mild."
when it was bombed, but was completely noncommittal about the attack. All women in the Pacific were evacuated and brought to San Francisco—a trip about which nothing could be said, "but we did wear our lifebelts constantly."
The English drama lecture and dramatic characterizations by Miss Dorothy Sands of the New York stage, scheduled for Feb. 18, has been postponed, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary in the Chancellor's office, announced today.
In the United States about a week and a half, and in Lawrence since Sunday, Mrs. Nessly thinks she will possibly stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn Henry. "It's good to be back—even if I don't know as many people on the Hill as I used to, but I like to remember all the fun I had in Samoa—before the war!"
The lecture by Miss Sands was a part of the scheduled Community Lecture course.
A Mountain In the Sea
The postponement is due to the overwhelming success of the Theater Guild play, "Papa is All," which is being held-over in New York City and in which Miss Sands has a role.
Although Hawaii is commercialized, Samoa is still for the Samoans, who are kindly, religious people, Mrs. Nessley said. "We had native (continued to page eight)
WEATHER
Efforts are being made to secure a substitute lecturer on the same or similar subject.
Continued fair with no extreme change in temperature tonight or tomorrow.
To Speak on Campus Problems Tonight
Tryouts for the annual campus problems speaking contest will be held at 7:30 tonight in the little theater of Green hall. This preliminary contest is open to any student at the University.
Subjects of the speeches, which are to be four minutes in length, may be of any campus problem, either specific or general. Judges for the contest will be James Barton, instructor of speech; Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech; and Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech.
Students chosen in tonight's competition will participate in the finals at 8 p.m. next Tuesday. Winner of the final contest will receive a silver cup presented by the Men's Student Council and the Women's Self-Governing Association. The program is open to the public.
No Special Place for University
No separate place of registration will be provided University students who must register for military service Monday, it was emphasized today by James K. Hitt, assistant registrar.
Hitt sought to make clear to all University men that if they are eligible for registration, tha t act must be performed in the Lawrence armory Monday between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
At that same time, all male residents of Douglas county eligible for the registration will appear at the armory. No other place of registration has been provided in Douglas county.
Bruce Cameron, chairman of the Lawrence draft board, received word from the state draft offices today that no person enlisted under the V-7 program of the naval reserve shall be required to register Monday.
Any man is eligible for the registration who reached his 20th birthday on or before Dec. 31, 1941, and who has not reached his 45th birthday on Feb. 16, 1942.
Certain accommodations are allowed those whose employment or physical condition prevents their Monday appearance. A legitimate excuse, such as riding on a bus, train, or ship, will excuse the person from registering. For such persons, registration will be allowed on Sunday, Feb. 15. But registration may not be on Sunday only for convenience.
Unless excepted by certain sections of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as amended by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve act of 1941, persons of the above ages who are residing in continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, must register.
Cameron expressed the hope this information would clarify doubt and confusion on the campus regarding the situation.
A person who is from another county may register in Douglas county, give his home address on the second line of the registration card, and the card will be sent to his county and he will be under the jurisdiction of the local board in that county. Those males who are excepted from registration by Section 5 (a) are: Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy, the marine corps, the coast guard, the
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