FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Ratner, Malott Wedell, Harris Judge Contest
Gov. Payne H. Ratner, Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Hugo T-Wedell, Justice of the Supreme Court and president of the Alumni association, and Fred M. Harris, chairman of the Board of Regents, will participate in the starting show for forensic activities at 8:15 Thursday, in Fraser theater, E. C. Buehler, director, announced today.
Money for the three prizes, fountain pens, was provided by the state Chamber of Commerce. Participating in the contest will be Dick Oliver, business senior; Emily Jean Milam, college senior; Russell Baker, business senior; Merrill Peterson, college junior; Bob Hutchinson, college freshman; and Grier Stewart, college senior.
Governor Ratner will preside at a speaking contest, sponsored by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, in which six students will participate in discussing Kansas problems. Chancellor Malott, Justice Wedell, and Harris will serve as judges.
The following subjects will be discussed by the speakers: "Kansas Resources," "The Kansas Complex," "The Short Ballot," "Winning the Peace," "The Kansan in National Defense," and "Rural Education in Kansas." The speeches will be ten minutes each.
College Girls Entertain Soldiers
Girls of Mills college, oldest woman's college west of the Mississippi, are doing their bit for defense by entertaining groups of soldiers from nearby army posts.
The first group of 25 service men were entertained at tennis, bridge, badminton and swimming in the afternoon, served a buffet supper, and were guests at informal dancing in the evening.
Rosemary Gnaedinger, chairman of student social activities, says that by the end of the year each girl student will have had at least one service man as her guest.
Forty-eight per cent of University students are entirely or partially self-supporting.
Irish Horseman Now an Attorney
Don C. Miller, one of Notre Dame's immortal "four horsemen" has taken on a new job—that of federal district attorney.
Miller, the kid who couldn't even make the freshman team at Notre Dame, but who was later singled out by Rockne to team up with Layden. Stuhldreher and Crowley in one of the greatest backfield combinations of all time, was lifted this time from his private law practice by President Roosevelt to take the federal post.
Miller's career since his graduation from Notre Dame's law school in 1925 has been a mixture of football, law practice and politics.
In football, he had varying success in a number of coaching jobs. In politics, however, Miller and the voters never could team up. Attempts to land on the municipal bench never materialized, either by appointment or by election.
Miller had a good record in the field for which he will always be remembered. He served as backfield coach at Georgia Tech, assistant at Ohio State under Sam Wilham and as coach at St. Xavier prep school in Louisville, Ky.
The former halfback always maintained his Cleveland law practice connection and returned to it after each venture into the coaching field.
The "four horsemen" seldom got together in the year following graduation, what with Layden holding out at his alma mater or, more lately, carking the professional footballers, and with "Sleepy" Jim Crowley commanding the fortunes of Fordham, Michigan State or way points.
The marriage of Miller to Mae Lynch, pretty Terre Haute, Ind., society girl in 1931, however, brought about a grand reunion of the highly publicized Irish backfield. The three other members of the quartet served as ushers at the wedding here.
The Millers have five children-all daughters.
McCaldo and Lafelmere, "college educated steers," have added $300 to the student loan fund at the University of Nebraska Agricultural College.
Educated Steers Pav
Presented to the agricultural colleges by interested Nebraskans, the steers spent several months in college feedlots before they were sold to provide funds for the education of worthy students.
Examination Schedule
JAN.22 to JAN.29,1942
THURSDAY, JAN. 22
a.m. 3:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 3:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 1:30 to 3:20
p.m. 4:30 classes, all hours at 3:00 to 5:20
FRIDAY, JAN. 23 a.m. 10:30 classes,5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 p.m.10:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
a.m. 8:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 8:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
a.m. 1:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 1:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 2:30 to 4:30
SATURDAY, JAN. 2
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MONDAY, JAN. 2
a. m. 9:30 classes,5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 p.m. 9:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
TUESDAY, JAN. 2
a.m. 11:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 11:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
Texas Prof Has Process For 'Gas' Rubber
White-haired, persistent Dr. Eugene Paul Schoch expects to help the United States win its war against his native Germany with a new process for making synthetic rubber from the abundant waste natural gas of Texas' petroleum fields.
a.m. 2:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 2:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 1:20 to 4:20
By UNITED PRESS
The product already is being called "Schoch rubber" and patents for it have been applied for. The state of Texas is expected to provide funds for expanding research and the U.S. government to furnish the money for factory construction.
"Schoch rubber" is reputed to be twice as durable as real rubber when used for automobile tires and much less expensive to produce than other known forms of synthetic rubber.
Doctor Schoch, born at Berlin, Oct 16, 1871, came to Texas when he was a boy and attended high school at San Antonio. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 1894 and was granted a doctor of philosophy degree from Chicago University in 1902. He joined the University of Texas chemistry faculty in 1897, while attending summer school in Chicago, and specialized in industrial chemistry research.
THURSDAY, JAN. 29
As director of the university Bureau of Industrial Chemistry, Doctor Schoch has devoted years to research on the problems of changing natural gas, of which much has been wasted in production of oil, into useful liquid and solid products.
"Boys and girls want to cind things before the lads go off to war," said a court house attache at Omaha, Neb., which reported a 150 per cent increase in December marriage licenses.
Marriages Take Wartime Jump
United States' entry into the second World War touched off a marriage boom across the nation in the traditional wartime pattern.
Still others, officials suspected, were trying to escape provisions of the selective service law by claiming dependency deferments. At Denver, Colo., state draft officials said there seemed to be "an alarming tendency to use marriage as a method of draft evasion." Some officials discounted that factor, however, and recalled that the draft became effective more than a year before the outbreak of war.
A United Press survey of marriage license figures in representative cities reveals increases ranging as high as 150 per cent, compared with corresponding periods a year earlier, for the week following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
County clerks and judges who issue licenses and perform marriages said the upturn followed the characteristic trend for a period after the outbreak of war.
Others seeking marriage licenses were workers who had found steady jobs in the booming defense economy.
Prominent in the marriage rush, they said, was the soldier who thought he might be sent soon to some distant foreign post. That soldier figured he might not see his girl again for a long time—perhaps never.
University Represented In Kansas Magazine
The "Kansas Magazine" an annual publication of essays, short stories, verse, and Kansas art has been received at the University. Three members of the University faculty are represented in the 1942 edition.
Bernard "Poco" Frazier, instructor of architecture and design, is represented by his stoneware figure of a horse modeled from native clay. The contribution of Franczeska Frazier, his wife, is a terra cotta figure entitled "Adolescent" which took the sweepstake's prize in sculpture at the Kansas Free Fair in 1939. the State Geological Survey, is represented by an exhibition of glazed pottery made from clay found on Mt.
Marjorie Whitney, chariman of the department of design at the University, has a photographed exhibit of rugs, hangings, and runners designed and woven by her.
Norman Plummer, a ceramist of
Margaret Craver, a graduate of the University who is now teaching at the Wichita Art association, contributed a photographed display of a teapot and box handwrought in silver and enamel.
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Administration Fights Removal Of La Guardia
Washington — (UP) — Administration leaders today planned a fight in a Senate-House conference to restore leadership of the office of Civilian Defense to Mayor Florello H. La Guardia of New York.
protecting American civilian deprotecting American Civilian Defense populations to the war department yesterday. The senate version of the same bill did not touch the OCD's administrative setup.
The bill probably will be sent to conference today where administration leaders hope to eliminate house amendments which would upset the present OCD administration, and leave Mrs. Franklin D. Rosevelt, OCD co-director, as well as La Guardia, out of a job.
The bill originally was an authorization for the present OCD to spend an unlimited amount of money for civilian defense. The senate passed it without extraneous amendments.
When it came up in the House yesterday, the first amendment limited the spending authorization to $100,000,000. Then, after heated debate over the ability of one man to run not only New York City but the civilian defense setup, another amendment transferring the entire job to the war department was accepted, 187 to 168.
Before the final vote another amendment to establish an assistant secretary of war as head of the civilian defense was defeated by one vote.
Thus, under the House version, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson technically would assume La Guardia's present duties.
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