WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1941
17, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Snails Cause Dyche Worries On Ice---Or Were They?
By DEAN SIMS
Whether the snails walked in the ice, under the ice, over the ice or whether there was any ice there at all is, bluntly, the question facing the Dyche museum staff.
It's all because they found a new deposit of fossils last summer in a remote part of Western Kansas. This deposit is absolutely the only thing of its kind*
ever found in this state.
"The job before us will take at least three or four years and, in the end, we hope to find out whether these animals whose remains we find, lived in a glacial or inter-glacial stage," stated assistant professor of zoology A. B. Leonard, worker in the research.
Fossils Are Washed
When this deposit of fossils was located last summer, there was little time to probe very deeply into it. Only a sample of the fossil-bearing earth was brought back to the University.
The problem of separating the fossils from the earthen matter is being solved by a process of washing. This method has been used to a certain extent by other groups engaged in similar research, but this University is engrossed in developing the process to near perfection.
These fossil were recovered from a bed of silt, which lay beneath a layer of volcanic ash. This silt layer is known to be of the Pleistocene age, commonly known as the "ice age."
So far, the fossils recovered from this layer of silt, some 20 feet beneath the earth's surface, have been principally snails and small rodents. There is a scattering of the remains of beaver, turtles, frogs, and birds. Quadruneds 700?
As the work progresses in this new field, the workers expect to find bones of the camel, elephant, and early horse, as they are known to have existed here during the Pleistocene.
The museum staff believes that this deposit is the bed of an ancient stream because of the many fossil fish bones and scales found mixed with the silt and snails.
The research staff of the museum, assisted by several NYA students is slowly putting together tiny bits of bone fragments to form the skeletons of the creatures they once were. The job is slow and tedious and the workers see several years of work ahead of them.
U.S. May Sieze All French Ships
Washington — (UP) — The United States today was reported planning to seize several other French merchant ships under the same procedure used in taking over the luxury liner Normandie yesterday.
The 1,029-foot Normandie was taken over under the war-time law of Angaria, which provides that fair and adequate compensation must be paid. Thirteen French liners aside from the Normandie are tied up in American ports.
Sources close to the negotiations reported that the United States government does not plan to take any of the French vessels being used in trade with Martinique.
Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla. meantime, asserted that Vichy France may play an important role in German plans for a winter offensive in the Mediterranean area.
U.S. Submarines Score in Far East Naval War
Manila, -(UP)- United States submarines have been "involved" in two successful attacks in the Far Eastern naval war. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet, said today.
Three submarines have been in action, he said. Two attacks were successful, the third failed.
Hart declined to give details or to say whether Japanese warships, troop transports or auxiliaries were involved, but a formal navy communique was expected soon.
It was announced that the Compania Maritimas inter-island steamship "Corregidor" had hit a mine and sunk in Manila Bay during the night.
An army communique, announcing "no change in the ground situation" and "no air activity reported since Tuesday," was taken to mean that United States and Philippine defense forces continued to fight Japanese invasion troops to a standstill at key points of Luzon, the main island. There had been no air raid alarm in 48 hours up to noon today in the Manila area.
A correspondent of the Manila newspaper Mabyhay, telephoning from a northern province, reported that all volunteers and air raid wardens had been mobilized and armed to back up a Filipino division which had repelled a bus-riding Japanese force attempting a drive southward.
The Japanese, in buses—possibly landed from transports—attacked the Filipino division near the northern provincial border, the correspondent said.
Expecting the Japanese to reorganize, the correspondent said, the Filipinos mobilized all available men and armed them with rifles.
The Filipinos met them with artillery fire, and, after a short skirmish, starting at 5:30 p.m. yesterday, the Japanese fled.
The enemy planes, at roof-scraping altitude, machine gunned the infantrymen's barracks, the witness said. The Filiipinos replied with the only weapons they had, their rifles. One Japanese aviator bailed out at once, the witness said, and was shot to death as he parachuted.
'Blame' Board Investigates Unpreparedness
A witness who reached Manila told the Manila Bulletin that he saw a handful of Filipino infantrymen shoot down three low-flying Japanese planes with their rifles at a northern air field.
An officer shouted an order for the Filipinos to lie flat on the ground. But when the remaining two planes came back, the witness said, the Filipinos knelt, poured a volley into the Japanese planes and shot down both of them.
Washington—(UP)Predictions that some naval or military careers would be blasted by the presidential investigators of Hawaiian defense conditions were heard generally today as the joint Army-Navy board gathered for its organization meeting.
Meantime, Hawaii had been under intermittent attack again—enemy warships shelled two of the islands, one of them a naval air outpost.
Four Officers on Joint Board
Wake and Midway island garrisons still are fighting off the Japanese. Japan claims that Guam has been captured.
The four officers named by President Roosevelt to conduct the Hawaiian investigation under chairmanship of associate supreme court justice Owen J. Roberts were: Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, retired; Brig. Gen. Joseph P. McNarney, an active air corps officer; former chief of naval operations William H. Standley, and former commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet Joseph M. Reeves. Both naval officers are retired. Reeves had air commands in the navy during his rise to command of the fleet.
They will seek to fix the responsibility for the fact that the armed services were not "on the alert" on Dec. 7, when Japanese planes bombed the fleet and military establishments at America's most important Pacific outpost. The board has the power to call any army or navy officer to the sessions for questioning.
Wesley Foundation, and Kappa Phi, Methodist sorority, will hold a Christmas banquet at the Methodist church at 5:45 tomorrow evening.
The placement bureau of Bemidji (Minn.) State Teachers college has placed 96.4 per cent of all candidates for positions in the last five years.
Methodists to Hold Banquet
The Psychology club met this afternoon in room 21, Frank Strong hall. Carl S. Packer, assistant instructor in psychology, spoke on "The Southard School of Problem Children and Its Summer Camp." He illustrated the discussion with pictures.
Water Nymph Disposal Stumps First' Designer
Packer Gives Illustrated Lecture on Problem Children
Group Will Go To Hawaii
Roberts, having obtained leave of absence from Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, will call the board for organizational purposes today and it will proceed shortly—the time is not fixed—to Hawaii. It is estimated that at least a fortnight will be required to organize, reach the islands, investigate, and return.
The navy department in Communique No. 9 announced yesterday that "enemy vessels" had fired on Johnston island and that an enemy submarine had shelled Maui, a major island in the Hawaiian group just southeast of Honolulu. Johnston island is a dot some hundreds of miles southwest of the Hawaiian group.
Elden Tefft, fine arts junior, is now added to the immortal hall of "firsts." He recently completed a 26-inch high ceramic figure for a garden fountain, which makes him the first student of this University ever to create so large a clay figure.
The point of "now what to do with it" confronts Tefft at present. He has made up his mind to either sell it for a fairly nice sum, or, perhaps, set it $ \textcircled{1} $___.
Teft took photographs of the nude figure as his work progressed. He now has a pictorial record of the different stages in the building of his fountain nymph.
Step one saw him building the figure from water clay. Then he made a mould of it from plaster. Thirdly he pressed clay into this mould and re-surfaced the figure. As the last step, the clay figure was baked for hardness.
Teft's only comment concerning his masterpiece was, "I worked a lot harder on this one-hour course than I ever did on a two-hour, so I hope I get an A."
Vocal Selections To Be Spotlighted In Music Concert
Singing will move into the spotlight in this week's fine arts concert to be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. The program will include four voice numbers, one piano number, and one number by the ensemble.
The program:
Come and Trip It (Handel), Shirley Collins singing.
The Maids of Cadiz (Delibes),
Georgia Bear singing.
Sonatine (Ravel), Martha Dooley at the piano.
Sapphire Ode (Brahms), Marjory Dickey singing.
Christmas Candle (Warren), Dorothy Mae Nelson singing.
Quintet in C Major (Schubert), Ensemble-Leora Adams, first violin, Marvin Zoschke, second violin, Donald Michel, viola, John Ehrlich, first cello, and Glen Royer, second cello.
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Professors Discuss Family Life
"Enriching Family Life," will be the subject of the KFKU discussions tonight at 9:30 in the University of Kansas roundtable series.
Those taking part in the discussion will be Maude Ellsworth, instructor in education; Edna A. Hill, professor of home economics; Dr John W. Ashton, professor of English; and Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, assistant professor of education and public school music.
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