Homecoming Edition
Daily Kansan
Hi, Oldtimers!
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941.
39TH YEAR
NUMBER 49
Homecoming Officially Opens
Homecce Big Time Begins Tonight
"More entertainment than ever before offered," was what Gilbert Ulmer, general chairman, offered Homecoming visitors today as activities got underway.
House decorations were already prominent on the lawns of both organized and unorganized houses. Judging in this division will begin this evening, and be completed tomorrow morning.
Last minute entries were expected to swell the number of floats appearing in the traditional parade at 7:05 to well over a score. Riding in the parade will be queens from both Universities and their attendants. Organizations sponsoring entries in the parade are asked by committee members to have their floats at the South park by 6:45 p.m.
Actual events will be launched with a dinner hour program broadcast over KFKU at 6 p.m. Coaches, players, and student leaders will be heard.
Rally at WREN
The parade will end on Eighth and Kentucky, where participants will join in the huge outdoor rally to be held and broadcast in front
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Thespians Prepare To Thunder
Rehearsals are being held in Green hall while the stage in Fraser is being made ready.
"Thunder Rock" was hailed as the outstanding American play success of that season. At present the play is being filmed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer in England, with Brian Donlevy in the leading role.
"Thunder Rock," a three-act drama by Robert Ardrey which will play a three-night stand in Fraser theater beginning Dec. 9, was given originally in 1939 by the Group theater in New York.
The play was not a great success in New York. During the next year, 1940, however, the play was presented in London and despite the fact that London was being repeatedly bombed, the theater remained filled night after night.
The play was released this year for amateur production in America. Allen Crafton, director of the play, stated that already dozens of colleges and universities have given it or are planning its production. He added that reports from productions already given indicate the play has been a big success with college audiences.
Red Nichols To Swing Out For Soph Hop
Red Nichols, celebrated trumpet player and composer, will appear with his band at the Sophomore Hop, from 9 to 1 o'clock, Friday, Dec. 12, in the Memorial Union ballroom.
Considered among the first of the dance orchestras to develop and launch the present "swing" craze. Red
RED NICHOLS
Nichols and his crew have enjoyed success in the recording field. They have made hundreds of records prized by collectors of "hot" disks.
Red-headed Nichols, a veteran in the orchestra field, has been one of the country's outstanding trumpet players for the past 15 years. He first
Expect 20,000 Crowd
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Unless the weather man sticks his tongue in his cheek and throws snow all over the Hill tomorrow, at least 20,000 football fans are expected in Memorial Stadium for the annual Kansas-Missouri grid clash.
Two years ago the Jayhawks and Tigers drew a crowd of over 23,-000, which tomorrow's game may well duplicate.
Students danced in the Memorial Union ballroom this afternoon before going to the football field to hold a rally for the Jayhawkers as the team went through its last practice before meeting Missouri.
Bunny Hunt Off
★★★
"Ain't Human"
Extermination of some 300 rabbits running at large on the University campus has proved to be too jumpy an undertaking for Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity.
As the rabbit population of the Hill increases the food supply decreases and the hungry bunnies have taken to eating everything but the corner stone of Frank Strong hall.
Alph Phi Omega saw the need for urgent action and immediately set upon the idea of arming every student with a shotgun to "bump off" the "hairy ones."
Kansas jackrabbits are known for their immense proportions and ferocity, and Alpha Phil Omega, reminded of this fact, was not one to risk life and limb in battling the bunnies.
All that John Tweed, who was in charge of the plan, had to say on the matter was "It ain't human to kill rabbits."
Missouri Rates Heavy Favorite
BOB STEUBER
They End Grid Careers Tomorrow
JAY KERN
80B FLUKER
RALPH MILLER
Lengthening the odds considerably by the loss of five regulars, a scrapy Kansas Jayhawker eleven backed against the wall by a potent Missouri Tiger crew, will go into battle tomorrow afternoon definitely weakened. On the sidelines will be End Hub Ulrich, Tackles Gene Long and Jack Tenenbaum, and backfield men
By CLINT KANAGA
HUBERT ULRICH
Kansan Sports Editor
MARVIN VANDRYSER
MONTE MERKEL
Ray Evans and Don Ettinger. In
Ray Evans and Don Ettinger. In contrast, Missouri, favorite by a 27-point margin, reports no serious injuries.
Tackles Long and Tenenbaum are definitely out of the game. Evans, who was confined to Watkins hospital until yesterday, and Ettinger, out since the Oklahoma game with a severe back injury, may both see some action. There is a slim possibility that Ulrich will play. However, Ulrich's ailment is a bad shoulder separation, and if he does play, he will be handicapped by intense pain and a useless arm. More Impressive Record
Probable Starting Lineups:
Probable Starting Lineups:
Kansas Pos. Missouri
Dick (183) LE (191) Santow
Meade (228) LT (205) Brenton
Fluker (209) LG (192) Jeffries
Hardman (182) C (191) Jenkins
J. Kern (184) RG (190) Fitzgerald
Hodges (211) RT (212) Wallach
Hagen (190) RE (178) Ekern
Miller (174) QB (157) Ice
Gibbens (162) LH (174) Adams
Vandavee (183) RH (188) Steuber
Nible (183) FB (194) Chase
Missouri has a much more impressive record than Kansas with seven wins in eight starts this season. After losing its opener 12-7 to Ohio State, the Tigers on consecutive weekends defeated Colo-
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'Unity' Group Makes Report
Five major Hill organizations, the Ku Ku's, the Jay Janes, the M.S.C., the W.S.G.A., and the K-Club, held special meetings last night to hear a report of the joint-council committee on campus unity which recounted the events of last week-end and Monday, and recommended that an apology be made to the Chancellor and to the University.
The report issued by the unity committee, made up of representatives of the M.S.C., the W.S.G.A., and the faculty, was a part of the group's endeavor to construct a complete picture of what happened on the campus from game time Saturday until Monday night. All the organizations agreed with the report in substance, but in several cases recommended that changes be made before the final report be sent to the student governing councils (continued to more trurks)
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