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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
38TH YEAR.
LAWRENCE KANSAS FRIDAY, MAY 23.1941
Design Dept. Ranks High
University department of design students are working on Chintz and draperies designs. Thirty will be submitted to H. C. Perleberg, Philadelphia publisher, to be published next fall in a large portfolio together with designs from five other leading art schools.
NUMBER 153
In a letter to Miss Marjorie Whitney, acting chairman of the department of design, Perleberg said, "We are enlisting the cooperation of six of the best art schools of the country in order to put before the public and at its disposal the best that these young artists can produce."
The portfolios will be sent, Perle-
Publisher Asks For Contributions From University
berg says, "to a very carefully selected list of persons eminently interested not only in new ideas, but in the artists who create them. The portfolio will also go to all main libraries throughout the country, so that the artists and their work will ever be present to the mind and eyes of everyone interested in the subject."
Take Classes To Dyche 6,000 Visitors
Miss Whitney said that students were working on the designs, and that a collection would be submitted when enough are completed. Final designs probably will not be finished and ready for publication until school starts next fall.
An estimated 6,000 visitors will have explored Dyche Museum of Natural History at the close of the five day period that it was open to students this week. The museum will close this evening and will remain so until the official opening June 6.
Dyche museum opened Monday morning for the first time in eight years, and attracted thousands of both students and sight-seers in the five days. The unofficial opening of the museum was to allow students to see the exhibits before the summer vacation began.
The popularity of the museum grows each day. A comparatively small crowd of 500 people, mostly students, visited the museum on the first day of it's opening, but this number was doubled on the second day. Many Lawrence citizens as well as University students and tourists viewed the exhibits.
150 Visit Wednesday
Wednesday saw 1500 throng into the museum, including several classes in the departments of geology and design. This number was matched Thursday and at least that many are expected today, the last day on which the museum will be open until June.
There are bird specimens in the museum which cannot be found in any save the larger museums in the country. C.W.Hibbard, assistant curator of the museum, states.
Only in Large Museums
Many students have made repeated trips to the museum, showing a continued interest in the exhibits. It is impossible to view the exhibits thoroughly in the limited time the museum will be open, but these students are trying to cover it as thoroughly as possible in the time allotted.
The third floor bird collection, one of the outstanding bird collections in the country, is proving popular. There are several specimens of birds now extinct in the world; other specimens include birds once known in Kansas, but which are now extinct here.
Taking the fact literally that the museum is open to students, the kindergarten class of McAlester school in Lawrence visited the museum yesterday.
Still the most popular is the great (continued to page eight)
May Have K.U. Flying Cadet Unit
There will be a University of Kansas flying cadet unit in the Army Air Corps if the army's flying cadet examining board can recruit 20 University men during a two-week examining period beginning Monday.
The war department has arranged to train students from individual colleges or cities as particular groups. These groups will be known as a Flying Cadet unit. If two groups of 20 each are organized these units will be designated as Unit One and Two.
The men will be assigned to the same elementary flying school and class, and every effort will be made to permit the members of the unit to complete their flying training together.
A special meeting of the Dormitory Operating committee has been called by Henry Werner, chairman, for 10 a.m. tomorrow at Templin hall.
The committee will meet to approve the new constitution drafted by members of the three mens' residence halls on May 6. The constitution sets up the government and regulations of the halls which will be in the hands of the residents themselves.
Halls To Approve Constitution
CLIMBS SANS TROUSERS
Prankster Flies Swastika on Fraser
Student Risks Life
Shortly before 11 o'clock, Ivan King, the patrolman on night duty was called and, followed by a group of students, climbed the south
tower to lower the flag. When the party reached the base of the flagpole, it was discovered that the rope to lower the flag had been cut and that it would be necessary to climb the pole to remove the emblem.
Removes Trousers
Risking his life on a swaying pole five stories above the campus, C. A. Gilmore, college junior, climbed the 30-foot flag pole atop the south tower of Fraser hall at 11 o'clock last night to pull down a Nazi swastika raised there earlier in the evening by practical jokers. Black on White
The swastika, painted in black on white muslin, was first discovered around 9:30 o'clock by students leaving Watson library. By 10:30 o'clock a group of nearly a hundred students mainly from Battenfeld, Carruth, and Templin halls, had gathered on the east side of Fraser hall watching the flag as it blew in a strong northeast wind.
At this time Gilmore volunteered to climb the pole and remove the flag, an act made doubly dangerous by the wind which caused the flag pole to whip back and forth. In order to obtain a better grasp, Gilmore removed his trousers and his shoes and socks, then clad only in a shirt and shorts, he slowly worked his way up the flagpole.
When he neared the top of the pole, he managed to reach up and grasp the end of the rope. Then relaxing his group, he slid down to the top of the tower. In sliding down Gilmore burned the inside of his legs and cut his feet. Swastika Backwards
The flag which was turned over
to the Lawrence police was made of four sections of muslin sewed together with a swastika clumsily painted in common black paint. The prankster turned the barbs backward and made an Indian good luck sign of the flag.
The person or persons who raised the flag, apparently made their way to the fifth story of the north tower, through a window to the roof of Fraser hall, and then across the roof to a window in the south tower of Fraser. From here it was possible to reach the flagpole without encountering a locked door.
No Clues
$18,000 Wardroe
University authorities and Lawrence police report that they have no clues as to the identity of the prankster. University officials declined to comment this morning on the punishment that would be meted out to the offender should he be caught.
Entrada Well Costumed
For Spectacle
Those red shirts and yellow ties seen about the campus in the last two days are part of the advertising for the Coronado Entrada, but they play no part in the $18,000 wardrobe cost for the spectacle.
For a full year before the New Mexico showing, costume designers under the direction of Lucy Barton, did research work for the wardrobe to assure its authenticity.
Another problem was that of showing a definite contrast in costumes on the stage. This was accomplished by having Coronado's armor in gold and that of his companion, Castenda, in silver.
All the gay red costumes of the Mexican villagers are contrasted in yellow and blues against the plain browns of the Indians.
The handling of the wardrobe is one of the most important parts of the entrada. Costume racks and tables must be kept in a large store room and a system of quick distribution must be arranged so the various scenes may be conducted without delay.
Poetry Publishers Announce Contest
New Directors, a Norfolk, Conn. publishing company that publishes works written in the newer trends of literature, has announced a new poetry contest for places in the 1941 edition of Five Young American Poets.
The editors of New Directors will serve as judges of all entries which must be sent in by June 15. Verses, plays, narrative poems and translations will be considered.
Doubt On Battle
BW UNITED PRESS
LONDON—Fierce fighting in Crete with outcome in doubt, British fleet holds off Nazi convvoys but Germans rule air; Iraqui attack on Falluja repulsed; little air action over Britain.
BERLIN — Rumor Germans near victory in Crete; claim two British battleships hit, four cruisers sunk, 10 cruisers damaged, other warships hit in air attacks around Crete; claim 110,300 tons of British shipping sunk, largely in big convoy attack in north Atlantic and off West Africa; claim Iraqis capture Falluja.
ROME—Report British noncombatants evacuating Cyprus; claim Italian motor torpedo boats hit three British crusers, Italian plane sinks 5,000-ton cruiser.
VICHY — Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan claims France will never give navy to Germany, denies Adolf Hitler asked for navy, French declaration of war on Britain or rule of French colonial possessions.
ANKARA—British hint Baghdad occupation near; Turkish press at Istanbul suggests Turkish occupation of Syria.
Thomas To Tell America's Role
The role of America in world affairs will be discussed at 8 o'clock Monday night by Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Thomas holds degrees from Princeton University and from Union Theological Seminary. He discontinued his career as a minister while engaging in New York social work. Since that time he has been editor of Nation, has written widely in books and periodicals, and has made frequent radio broadcasts.
Thomas' appearance here is part of an extended tour of American campuses. The tour is sponsored by a national committee, and the Lawrence appearance is being sponsored by an unorganized student peace group.
9 Join Entrada
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Mexico Wav
University students will go Mexican at the Coronado Entrada to be held in Memorial stadium Thursday, June 5, in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration. Nine students have been added to the cast for the Mexican village.
Marjorie Owen, fine arts freshman; Diana Irvine, college junior; and Saralena Sherman, college sophomore, will represent Tau Sigma, women's honorary dance group, in the scene.
Men who will turn Mexican are Carl Hendrichson, freshman engineer; Bunch Davis, freshman engineer; Thurman Hill, college freshman; Ray Helgesen, college freshman; Tom Dawson, college freshman, and Bob Douce, college freshman.