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NUMBER 14
39th YEAR
POSTPONEMENTS Rain Out Two Parades Change Dates
Uncooperative thunder-clouds, several doses of procrastination, and general complications have combined to make Hill events just one postponement after another.
The most immediate activity put off until a later date is the Torchlight parade, scheduled for tonight, in which KuKus and Jay Janes were to make a circuit ride of all organized houses, singing and cheering to arouse enthusiasm for the game Saturday. The torchlight parade will be held the Thursday night preceding the next home game that with Iowa State on Oct. 25, Roy Edwards, president of KuKus, said today.
BULLETIN
Genevieve Harmon, president of Jay Janes, announced that the Torchlight parade will be held tonight if no more rain falls. The group will meet at 10 o'clock this evening at Memorial Union building.
The Lantern parade, also slated for tonight, might be cancelled if
weather continues to be unsympa-thetic, but the dinner preceding it will go on as scheduled.
Although the Nightshirt parade has oscillated between October 3 and October 24 since school started, the definite decision is in favor of the latter date, Edwards said. So on October 24 as originally scheduled in the K Book, pajama-clad collegiates will sturt their stuff in traditional fashion through downtown Lawrence.
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14 Engineers Leave Monday For St. Louis
Fourteen electrical engineering seniors will leave Lawrence Monday on their annual inspection trip which this year features a tour of St. Louis and attendance at the southwest district convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
The trip has been scheduled much earlier this year to enable the seniors to attend the convention.
Due to strict defense regulations, visits to power plants would have been prohibited had not the students gone as representatives to the A.I.E.E. assembly. V. P. Hessler, head of the department and faculty
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Jay Janes Elect Six Members
Jay Janes, women's pep organization, elected six new members at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in the pine room of the Memorial Union building, Genevieve Harman, president, said today.
Selection of these new members brings the Jay Jane membership to 50. The new pledges are: Peggy Schell, Delta Gamma; Isabel Bennie, Alpha Delta Pi; and Margaret Boyle, Mildred Stoenner, Marjorie Rader, and Evelyn Nielson, independents.
The new members were elected to fill vacancies in the organization made by persons failing to return to school. New members will be pledged next Wednesday.
Shift Two of Faculty
John H. Nelson
Gilbert Ulmer
Five Members Added to Squad of Cheerleaders
One sophomore and four freshmen cheerleaders have been chosen from a group of 50 applicants who tried out at Memorial stadium yesterday afternoon.
The new sophomore cheerleader is Mary Todd; freshmen are Paul Moser, George Gray, Ruth Russell, and Dorothy Chapin.
Judges for the event were Doris Twente, representing the W.S.G.A.; Bob Trump and Fred Robertson, representing Sachem; Bob Johnson, K-man; Dave Watermulder, acting president of the M.S.C.; Margot Baker of the Jay-Janes; and Roy Edwards, head cheerleader.
The new cheerleaders' duties consist of leading cheers at rallies, helping in the organization of pep parades, and assisting the regular cheerleaders in working out novel ideas for pep demonstrations. Regular cheerleaders in future years will be chosen from this group.
The complete cheer-leading staff
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Sun Valley, Rose Bowl Beckon Through Rain ★★★ ★★★ Bartlett. Evans Hold Top Spots
Henry Skorga, independent, and
Rain today kept the voters away from the ballot box in the Kansan newsroom and there was little change in voting in the Holiday Excursion Contest.
The bad weather reminded candidates how nice free trips to Sun Valley and the Rose Bowl will be when cold winter winds are blowing down the Kaw valley.
Ray Evans, Phi Delta Theta, and Miriam Bartlett, Pi Beta Phi, lengthened their lead slightly today.
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Ray Evans, Phi Delta Theta. 7399.
Henry Skorga, Independent, 6760.
Kenneth Nicolay, Delta Tau Delta
4405
Kemeth Ketchum, Independent,
4821.
THE TOP TEN CANDIDATES
Men
Eldon Beebe, I.S.A., 2406.
Joanne Basore, delta Gamma, 2003.
Miriam Bartlett, Pi Beta Phi, 5640
Ruth Kelley, Independent, 5283.
Georgia Mae Landrith, I.S.A., 4187
Shirley Henry, Gamma Phi Beta,
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Women
By noon today 50,340 votes had been cast in the contest. According to the rules 549,660 more votes are needed to assure second place winners of trips to the Sugar Bowl
Among the women Georgia Mae Landrith, I.S.A.; Shirley Henry, Gamma Phi Beta; and Joanne Basore, Delta Gamma, were in third, fourth and fifth places.
Ruth Kelley, independent, were still in second place. Kenneth Nicolay, Delta Tau Delta; Kenneth Ketchum, independent; and Eldon Beebe, I.S. A., followed the men leaders in that order.
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Rally Tomorrow
A prelude, in the form of a giant rally, to the opening game of the home football season will be given tomorrow morning at 10:20 in front of Robinson gym, Roy Edwards, head cheerleader and KuKu president, announced today.
The rally will be complete with music by members of the University band and short talks by the coaches and a team member. Everyone is urged to attend and lend his support.
Miao Declares Japanese Are Tired of War
"The Japanese have suffered just as much as we have in four years of war, and they are getting tired of it," declared Dr. J. A. Miao, commissioner of health of Yunnan Provincial Health Administration of Kunming, China, when he spoke on "China at War" in Fraser theater yesterday afternoon.
"At the same time we fight, we are keeping up our industries. Our government is looking ahead. All students are exempt from conscription. They are continuing their education in the interior as if there were no war like conditions," he said.
Economically China is hard hit. The daily commodities have gone up ten or twenty times, Miao said.
Rikisha prices have hit a new high. The Chinese coolies are in demand since the building program has raised wages for everyone but the government employees.
Miao said that in the past month China was getting more material from this country than ever before. Approximately 70 per cent of the men in technical jobs in China were educated in the United States. Al-
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Nelson, Ulmer Receive New Appointments
Dodgers, 3 to 2
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Two schools of the University received new assistant deans today, when Chancellor Deane W. Malott appointed Dr. John H. Nelson, who since 1934 has been assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to the position of assistant dean of the Graduate School, and Dr. Gilbert Ulmer, associate professor of education and Mathematics, to take over Nelson's former post as assistant dean of the College.
This will be the first time that the Graduate School has had an assistant dean.
Dr. Nelson who received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell in 1923 and his A.B. degree from Wofford College in 1918 became associate professor of English at the University of Kansas in 1925. He was made full professor in 1931. While studying for his doctorate at Cornell, he served as an instructor in the English department. During the summers of 1923, 1924 and 1925, he toured European nations, and studied at Oxford in the summer of 1925. He has collaborated with Dr. F. C. Prescott of Cornell, in writing a textbook entitled "The Prose and Poetry of the Revolution," and has written widely on literary subjects for North American Review. He served in the U.S. Army in the World War.
Ulmer Here Since '31
Dr. Ulmer, who has been on the University staff since 1931, received his A.B. degree from Butler University. Previously he had studied engineering at Purdue and had engaged in practical engineering work for three years. In the fall of 1931, he be-
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The idol of Flatbush, Whitlow Wyatt, pitched masterfully this afternoon to lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees in the second game of the World Series.
After a somewhat shaky start, "Ole Whitelaw," as he is known to Dodger fans, settled down and hurled superb ball. Trailing 2-0 after four innings of play, Brooklyn tied the score in the fifth inning and then went ahead in the sixth.
Dolph Camilli, who struck out three times yesterday, drove in the winning run this afternoon. Losing pitcher was "Spud" Chandler, who gave way to "Fireman Johnny" Murphy in the sixth. The scene of the series shifts to the Brooklyn park for tomorrow's game.