UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE KANSAS TUESDAY, MAY 13. 1941.
38TH YEAR.
NUMBER 145.
'Traitor' Hess Defies Hitler Laryngitis Foils 3,500 Will Aid Britain ToSaveHumanity
Larry Again Fails K.U. Crowd
Last night was another of those now-traditional nights when Lawrence was not in Lawrence.
The first "Lawrence," of course, refers to Tibbett—that perennially laryngital world's greater baritone. The second Lawrence, strangely enough, refers to Kansas. The wandering warbler last night again had laryngitis.
Last year, also, Tibbett was on the University concert course. Laryngitis hit him right in the middle of the season, and forced him to cancel all remaining contracts. That prevented his 1940 appearance in Hoch auditorium.
It's Laryngitis
This year the tricky throat disorder sort of crept up on the baritone from the blind side. Although various factors attending his arrival in Kansas City yesterday were unfavorable to his health, it was not until 7 o'clock last night that he notified Dean D. M. Swarthout of the concert cancelation.
The telephone call from Tibbett's manager, announcing the concert cancellation, came so late that more than 3,500 persons had assembled at Hoch auditorium before learning the singer would not appear.
Many out-of-county cars were on the campus, indicating that some persons had come considerable distance. A last-minute radio announcement of the cancellation failed to notify a large portion of the crowd.
Johnnie Evans, Tibbett's manager, attributed the baritone's throat trouble to a chilly Pullman on which the singer arrived in Kansas City yesterday, noisy members of the
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Dinner To Honor Flint Clapper Will Speak
L. N. Flint, who will retire from the chairmanship of the journalism department in July, will be honored June 5, with a dinner sponsored by the department, it was announced yesterday.
Raymond Clapper, noted Washington correspondent who is a graduate of the department, will return to his alma mater as the speaker at the dinner.
The dinner will be given in connection with the University's diamond jubilee celebration, June 5-9. Clapper will be the only speaker at the dinner in honor
of Professor Flint, under whom the columnist studied.
A total of 1,500 graduates of the department, editors and business managers of Kansas newspapers, and many of Flint's personal friends have been invited to the dinner to shake hands with the guest of honor—one of the pioneers in the field of journalism education.
Flint has been a member of the University faculty for 35 years and chairman of the department of journalism for 25. Although he is retiring as head of the department this year, he will continue next year as a member of the teaching staff.
Since the announcement of his retirement, hundreds of congratulatory letters and telegrams have been pouring into his office.
Clapper, the headliner speaker at the banquet, attended the University from 1913 to 1916. He was chief political writer for the Washington bureau of United Press from 1923 to 1929, when he became chief of the bureau. Clapper became associated with Scripps-Howard in 1936, and since then his Washington column has become one of the most
Raymond Clapper
... returns to Honor Flint
widely read in the country. He is author of the book, Racketeering in Washington."
In 1933 the columnist was president of the Washington Gridiron club, and in 1938 was national honorary president of Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity.
Egg-Laying No Requirement For Omelet Sampling Criticising Is Human Nature
After addressing Chancellor Deane W. Malott as "Mr. President," Olin Downes, New York Times music critic, recovered beautifully to tell approximately 2,000 convocation-goers in Hoch auditorium this morning how to "Be your own music critic."
Criticizing the old idea that "What we want to do is probably wrong and what we don't want to do is probably good for us." Downs said exactly the opposite is true in any type of criticism. "If music means nothing to you, leave it alone," he said.
thing a person must gain spontaneously, willingly.
Music appreciation, said the noted critic, is not something which can be driven into a person. It is some-
He pointed out that even the amoeba, to which a Times reader has compared Downes in intelligence and critical ability, exercises a great power of criticism. He scrutinizes every piece of material which washes past him, and when something good comes by, he shows his approval by eating it.
Olin Downes . . . be a music critic.
"Criticism," said the writer for the Times, "is something absolutely essential to all living things."
Although Downes is himself a proficient musician, he says that "It is not necessary to be able to lay an egg in order to sample an omelet."
The Times scribe suggests that a
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BULLETIN
Berlin, May 13.—(UP)—Rudolph Hess flew to Great Britain in defiance of Adolph Hitler's orders, the Nazi party said today, because by personal sacrifice he hoped that he could reach an "understanding" that would prevent "the complete destruction of the British empire."
(There have been indications in
London, May 13.—(UP)—Rudolph Hess dropped by parachute on a Scottish farm with the words "I have come to save humanity," British quarters reported today in advancing the sensational theory that the No. 3 Nazi split with Aodlph Hitler because he believed the fuehrer is leading Germany toward full partnership with communist $ ^{\circled{1}} $ Russia.
British quarters reported that Hess' intense hatred of the Communist regime and his belief that Hitler had embarked the third Reich along a path of increasing collaboration with Russia well might prove to have motivated the Nazi leader's strange flight to Britain.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who appears to have taken personal charge of the affair, went to Buckingham Palace for an audience with King George VI which was believed to concern Hess.
On the basis of information available to British sources, it was said that Hess appeared to be affected with an almost religious fervor. These quarters said that in his first interviews with British officials he talked in general terms which indicated that the question of German collaboration with Russia might be the chief motive behind his weird behavior.
dispatches from Europe for some days that Germany and Russia may be moving at this time into a phase of closer cooperation. Rumors have circulated that Hitler and Josef Stalin might confer shortly.)
British sources indicated that Hess might believe that, rather than cooperate with hated Russia, Germany should make peace with Britain.
These indications seemed to be borne out, in part at least, by the known fact that Hess' dislike of Russia and Communism has for years been notable for its violence. Intimate Change of Heart
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British intimated that Hess had undergone a change of heart, that he believed Germany was headed for disaster and that he might—although this was mostly rumor and speculation—reveal some of the secrets of Germany in war time or even the plans for future war moves.
Engineers
Nominate Candidates For Election
Students in the School of Engineering met in a general convocation in Marvin auditorium today to make nominations for the election of the Engineering Council, which will be held May 20.
The Engineering Council is the governing body of the School of Engineering. It consists of a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, representatives from seven departments of the school, and a representative from each class
Nominations made today were:
For president: Dick Lee and Stuart Bunn; for vice-president: John Harkness and Richard Gray; for secretary-treasurer: Allen Shontz, Norman Sammanel, and Richard Winslow.
For the department of chemical engineering, Charles Means, Byron Kern, and Jack Bauman; civil engineering, Arthur Olsen, Francis Domingo and Robert Kuhnlein; mining and metallurgical engineering, Neal Ferry and Charles Carey; petroleum engineering, Paul Thayer, Frank Zimmerman, and James Cordell.
Architecture, Browder Richmond, Conrad Curtis, and Frank Godding; electrical engineering, Arthur Wahl
and Joseph Frankovich; mechanical engineering, Eugene Nelson, Marvin Sollenberger, and Richard Large.
Running in the class elections are; senior representative, Dorus Munsinger, James Brown, and David Rosen; junior representative, James Walker, Vernon McKale, and Robert Royer; for sophomore representative; Richard Dearing, James Waugh, and Russell Atkinson. The freshman representative will be elected next fall.
The election will take place May 20 in Marvin hall. As there is no party system in the School of Engineering, and little electioneering, it is expected that the election will take place with a minimum of violence.