1941
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Hunting Buried Treasure No Joke to Capt. Craig
When he first set out to find treasure buried in the ocean bed, Captain John D. Craig, who will appear in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 Monday night, thought the adventure a big joke.
He has since turned it into a serious profession, of which adventure movie producing is an important part. Monday night he will present a color film, "The Philippines," which he himself produced.
Captain Craig has found treasure, done scientific research at the ocean bottom, and filed photographic records. Turning inventor to secure necessary paraphernalia for his work, he has produced the Craig-Nohl diving dress, the most modern type of helium-oxygen headgear for exploration and photography below the ocean's surface. Dive to Hunt Jewels
Craig was engaged to photograph the salvage of the Lusitania, but this project was given up after World War II began. He led an expedition to salvage the Merida, a wreck said to hold within its hull the lost jewels of the Empress Carlotta, only to find that the ship contained no treasure.
At Silver Shoals he explored the ocean bed, securing photographs of sunken Spanish galleons embedded in a coral forest for the last three hundred years.
Not confining his activities to physical effort, the Captain turned literary and published a best-seller, "Danger Is My Business." Investigated Philippines
Since that book he has been casting around for another story of equal interest. He believes he has found a significant subject in the Philippines, on which he will lecture Monday night.
To secure this story Craig went to "America's last frontier in the Pacific" and photographed all phases of Philippine life, including previously unexplored sections of the country.
He interviewed American and Philippine officials, business men, American and British refugees, Chinese and Japanese militarists, and men in the street to insure getting every viewpoint and unbiased fact.
Craig will include in his talk here his interpretation of the Far Eastern and the Philippine situation.
Former Student In Air Squadron
A former student of the University, First Sergeant Cecil F. Leis, Kansas City, is now a member of the Fifty-First school squadron of the Air Corps Gunnery school stationed at Las Vegas, Nev. In addition to being the first sergeant of his squadron, Leis is a parachute mechanic.
Sergeant Leis majored in English, mined in biology, and was a member of the rifle team here. He took basic R.O.T.C. training here also.
Leis enlisted in the army Aug.
5, 1937, at Ft. Leavenworth.
Eaton Will Lead Discussion On Education of Free Men
Orville Eaton, supervisor of instruction in English at the University High School, will act as chairman of a discussion tonight by supervisors of that school. Topic for discussion will be "The Education of Free Men," an appraisal of the American Council on Education report.
DeCorrevont Says He Was Badly Nurtured
Chicago—(UP)—Bill DeCorrevont, Northwestern University football star, said in a radio interview that he didn't believe his "Full football possibilities were brought out" in his collegiate career at Northwestern.
DeCorrevont, highly publicized when he played high school football at Austin High School, Chicago, said he had wanted the interview because he felt there were some questions about his collegiate career that football fans would like cleared up.
He said he had feelings of regret, but none of bitterness.
"The fact I wasn't an All-American isn't the reason I have closed my college football with many regrets," he said. "For a number of reasons, I don't believe my full football possibilities were brought out.
"I have a feeling of regret, not regret that I didn't make the All-American team, but rather a feeling that I could have played better on the field than on the bench. You can't be picked all-anything on the bench."
He said he had been mistaken in some reports on the coaching of Lynn Waldorf before he enrolled at Northwestern.
"I had been told that flexibility was a definite mark of Waldorf-coached teams—that he built his offense according to the material, not to any grooved style." This fact seemed to further my own chances of making good in college football, but I was wrong," he said.
DeCorrevont said the school had done much for him "outside of football," and that he did not plan to play professional football.
Christmas gifts and novelties are being sold at the Y.W.C.A. bazaar in the lobby of the Memorial Union building today and tomorrow. The bazaar opened yesterday and will be open tonight until 9 o'clock. Hours tomorrow will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Xmas Is Soon Reminds YWCA
Indian dolls in native costumes, book ends, baskets, linen goods, jewelry from China and India, brass and copper ware, pictures, and oriental perfume are among the display of gifts. Illustrated sugar lumps from Berea College, Berea, Ky., are also offered. Men's hand-woven ties and leather and woven change purses are included in the variety.
Candy and baked goods were sold by the Y.W. members yesterday. The pastry not sold yesterday is on sale at Henley house at reduced prices.
Kansas Lawyers Will Conduct Tax Probe
A two-day legal institute on taxation will be conducted at the University on Dec. 6 and 13, under the auspices of the Kansas Bar Association and sponsored by the University of Kansas School of Law. All lawyers in the State have been invited to attend the institute.
Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law states that the study is timely because tax rates are going up fast and people are becoming tax conscious. With the new year approaching, lawyers will be called upon to prepare income tax returns, Moreau said.
The institute will be directed by Prof. Leslie T. Tupy of the School of Law; Ellis D. Bever, tax expert of the Wichita bar; and Henry H. Asher, tax expert of the Lawrence bar.
The program this Saturday consists of two sessions, the first to be held from 9:30 a.m. until noon on the subject "Income Tax Problems of the Average Taxpayer." Prof. Tupy will be in charge of this meeting.
Bever will conduct the second session on "Income Tax Problems Pertaining to Capital Gains and Losses," starting at 2 p.m. Both meetings will be held in the little theater of Green hall.
On the morning of Dec. 13, Asher will lead a discussion on "Income Tax Problems of Decedent's Estates" and in the afternoon Bever will again conduct a session on "Taxpayer vs Commissioner—Procedure of an Income Tax Matter through the Administrative Departments, Bureau of Tax Appeals, and Courts."
A luncheon will be held Dec. 6 in the Memorial Union building and a banquet Dec. 13.
Melvin To Lecture Tuesday in Kansas Room
"Vision That Became a Fact," University history lecture by F. E. Melvin, associate professor of history, has been postponed to Tuesday. This lecture, formerly scheduled for Dec. 1, will be given in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
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South America Wants Allen's Game--"Goal-Hi"
"Goal-Hi," the game invented by Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, director of physical education at the University, is catching on in South America. With the increasing emphasis being given to physical education by the Latin-Americans, a need is being felt for games in which the youth of those countries can find wholesome recreation.
A letter received from Senor Raul V. Blanco, professor of physical education for the National Commission of Physical Education of Uruguay, asks for particulars concerning the modified basketball game. Sr. Blanco is a member of the Pan-American Congress of Physical Education which includes representatives from Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. Another letter, this one from A. E. Garrison, formerly of the University of Kansas, now in Batoga, Colombia, contains a similar request.
"These young people are hungry for games," it reads. "There has been no time given to amusements of any kind for children until recently. Even now children under 15 are barred from the evening movies." Instruction booklets are being supplied the South-American educators by the makers of Goal-Hi equipment in St. Louis.
Cincinnati U. Prof.Will Lecture On Weather Effects
Dr. C. A. Mills, professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati, will lecture on "Climatic and Weather Effects Upon Man," at 7:45 p.m. Thursday in Frank Strong hall auditorium. He will illustrate his lecture with lantern slides.
Dr. Mills is the speaker in the fifth annual Nobel Pierce Sherwood lectureship. He is the author of scientific publications on blood coagulation and control of hemorrhage, immunity and anaphylaxis, diabetes, toxic goiter, and other phases of internal secretion and metabolism. The meeting is open to the public.
Defense Snatches Aluminum Needed For Traffic Lights
Independence, Mo., —(UP)— The defense program is giving Independence some trouble.
In the first place the government built an ordnance plant on the outskirts of Independence. Then the resulting increase in traffic was so tremendous that the city council put in a rush order for 20 traffic lights.
But they got word today that they couldn't get them because aluminum is used in their manufacture, and aluminum is needed in the defense program.
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