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STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 140.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE KANSAS TUESDAY. MAY 6. 1941.
38TH YEAR.
BUSINESS DAY Freckles and Straw Hats Tomorrow Speeches and Election
Seniors in the School of Business will protect themselves from sunstroke and freckles tomorrow by wearing sailor straw hats, the outward manifestation of the annual School of Business Day.
In the morning business students will hear prominent alumni of their School address their classes. Arthur Cromb, '30, treasurer of Standard Steel in Kansas City, will speak at 8:30 a.m. to the class in corporation finance. Ed Dennis, '31, advertising representative for radio station WHB, will speak to the class in market management at 8:30.
Earl Woodford, graduate in 1933,
junior executive of the Standard
Charles Newell, graduate in 1934, director of the Kansas Unemployment Compensation division, will address at 11:30 a.m. the class in labor economics. Cheney Prouty, graduate in 1929, Kansas City, Kan., insurance man, will speak to the class in investments at 11:30 a.m.
Oil of Indiana will speak to the auditing class at 10:30 a.m.; and W. E. Anderson, graduate in 1925, produce wholesaler and commission merchant of Topeka, is expected to appear before the class in marketing at 11:30 a.m.
A lighter touch will come in the afternoon when seniors and juniors compete in a softball game at 1:30 p.m. The senior class team will be captained by Bill Hogben, and the junior team by Howard Rankin. The winning team will play a team made up of faculty members.
Prof. L. L. Waters will be captain and catcher for the faculty. The identity of the faculty's starting pitcher remains a mystery.
The School of Business election will begin at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in the west end of the first floor of Frank Strong hall. The polls are expected to close at 12:30 p.m. after a hotly contested election. Candidates of the Coalition party are Bob Fluker, for president; Ed Lin-
quist, vice-president; Billie Doris Jarboe, secretary; Max Howard, treasurer. Candidates of the Commerce party, which last year won the election by a close margin, are Eldon Beeble, president; Chain Healy, vice-president; Mary Ewers, secretary; and Roy Edwards, treasurer.
To Hold Dinner
The annual Business dinner will begin at 6 o'clock in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. R. S. Howey, professor of economics, will be toastmaster. Homer B. Fink secretary-treasurer of the Santa Fe offices in Topeka; and Ted V. Rodgers, president of the American Trucking Association, Inc., will be the main speakers.
Both men will speak on current problems affecting rail and motor transportation, with emphasis on the improvement and development of rolling stock and equipment, and the impact of the war situation on rail and motor transportation.
Cookingham To Speak At Banquet
L. P. Cookingham, city manager of Kansas City, Mo., will be the speaker at the banquet of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity, 6:30 o'clock tonight in the English room of the Memorial Union building.
Cookingham has been manager of Kansas City since last May, and before that time he held the same position at Saginaw, Mich.
"Kansas City couldn't have selected a better man for the position, on the basis of his past record and experience," W. R. Maddox, assistant professor of political science, said today.
He will be introduced by E. O. Stene, assistant professor of political science, and will speak on the general topic of problems in public administration.
Before the banquet, 14 new members will be initiated. They are Mary Margaret Anderson, Vivian Clark, Lane Davis, Otto Kiehl, Jennie Irene May, Melvin McDonald, and James Meredith, college seniors.
Russell Barrett, Ellen May Arnold, Malcolm Miller, and Fred Robertson, college juniors. John Jacobs, Edward Harmon, and Kenneth Moore, graduate students, will also be initiated.
Following the initiation there will be an election of officers for next year.
The dinner is open to all political science majors and other students in the department who are interested Tickets may be purchased in the political science office.
University Plans Scholarships Extend Hand To South
At least two South American students will study at the University next fall if $400 can be raised to pay their fees.
Room and board has already been secured for two South American men. The three men's residence halls, Carruth, Battenfeld, and Templin, have agreed to provide for one while Delta Upsilon fraternity will look after
Stauffer appointed the following to head committees: skits, Kay Bozarth; banquet, Betty West; tickets, Heidi Viets; speaker, Orlando Epp; awards, Stan StauFFER; Pee-Wee Kansan, Bob Trump.
ter the other student.
The annual Kansan Board banquet will be held May 16, in the Colonial Tea Room, Stan Stauffer, chairman of the Board, announced today.
The men would come to the University in cooperation with the plan sponsored by the U. S. Office of Education, of developing more cordial relations in education between the United States and South American republics.
In accordance with this idea a number of South American students will take graduate work at various colleges and universities throughout this country, and an equal number of American students will study in South America.
Gray Dorsey will be toastmaster at the banquet.
Daily Kansan Governing Board To Hold Banquet
"I hope that we will be able to find some way to finance some students," Professor Werner said, "and thus do our part in one of the vital ways of influencing to the good."
British Air Raids
By UNITED PRESS
London — R.A.F. raids middle Rhine, striking heavily at Mannheim and Frankfort-on-Main, also attacks Boulouge, Cherbourg, St Nazaire, Stavanger; Germans attack Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast, eight night raiders shot down; surprise Nazi daylight attack on Dover area; troops from Basra reinforce Habbaniya, possible Nazi aid to Iraq via Syria worries British.
Berlin—Heavy air attacks on British ports, admit light British raids in southern, southwestern Germany; British cruiser claimed hit by air bomb at Suda Bay, Germans occupy Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios; Iraq oil sources said to be in Iraqi hands, no hint whether Nazi aid will be given.
Istanbul—U. S. citizens reported evacuating Bagdad, en route to Basra, martial law in Bagdad, fighting reported along Mosul pipeline.
Moscow-Josef Stalin reports Red army rebuilt and strengthened in light of European war experience.
Bupastep-Report Germans win Syrian permission for planes to fly over enroute to Iraq; general Iraq mobilization reported.
Maybe No Cakewalk
Rome—British repulsed in counterattacks at Tobruk, Sollum; Italians occupy six islands of Cvelacels group.
Contrary to rumors that the Senior Cakewalk is to be held May 17 Fred Littiooy, Varsity dance manager, announced today that no band has been signed.
Litttoy further said that the Cakewalk would not be held if a band was not contracted for soon.
Seniors Vote To Decorate Union Room
A campus beautification project, which was first proposed, was rejected. This was followed by a lively debate over whether to present a handball court to the University or to place the money in the trust fund.
The senior class voted at its meeting this morning to set aside a trust fund to be used for finishing one of the new rooms in the proposed north wing of the Memorial Union building.
This will be the class's memorial on the Hill.
Don Morton, business senior and class president, presided. Prof. L H. Axe, chairman of the Operating committee of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration, spoke to the seniors concerning commencement plans.
The class financial report was given by Jim Arnold, business senior, and class treasurer, and Paul Yankey, business senior, presented a report of the senior breakfast committee.
Commencement announcements and class dues were also discussed. It was decided to assess $1.85 for class due. The due will be proportioned a follows: 50 cents for cap and gown, 35 cents for the. senior breakfast and $1 for the class memorial. There are approximately 750 members in this year's graduating class.
Sigma Xi To Induct 23 New Members
Those initiated tonight will bring the total membership of this chapter of Sigma Xi, now 51 years old, to 950.
Twenty-three new members will be initiated into Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity, at initiation services in the Fine room of the Memorial Union building at 6 o'clock tonight. The group will gather in the ballroom for its annual spring banquet at 6:30.
Reservations indicate that there will be a record crowd at the banquet. G. W. Smith, professor of mathematics, and vice president of the University chapter, will be toastmaster.
WSSF Dines On Bread And Soup Tonight
As a climax to preliminary Tag day activities, active participants in the World's Student Service Fund will dine on bean soup and black bread tonight for the sake of wartorn refugees.
Tabulation of contributions from 15 members of the faculty showed a total of $60 today. No accurate figures available on student contributions.
The prison fare "banquet" will be attended by members of the 20 teams, members of the faculty, and any other interested persons tonight at 5:30 in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Tomorrow all students not wearing tags will be solicited by members of the 20 teams. Slides will be shown on a screen in the center hall of Frank Strong hall, and a meter in front of the library will periodically indicate increases in contributions toward the $1,000 goal.
Since the ballroom is not available tomorrow night, a WSSF midweek will be held a week from tomorrow night, the profits going to the fund.
Fourteen sophomores have been elected to Owl Society, junior men's honorary society, Jack Dunagin, president, announced today.
Owl Society Elects Fourteen
The members of Owl Society are selected on the basis of leadership, scholarship, and character, and are elected by the members of the preceding society. A two-point grade point average must be maintained for membership in the society.
The group, elected Sunday night, are Paul Gilles, Verlyn Norris, John Waggoner, John Conard, Willis Tompkins, Wendell Tompkins, Carl Unnhar, Warren Snyder, Jim Walker, Chuck Elliott, Bob White, Dan Merriott, Howard Sels and Vernon McKale.
Initiation for the new members will be held Wednesday, May 14, in the Memorial Union building, and will be followed by a banquet in the ballroom.
'Bundles' Stops
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Yielding the field to the World's Student Service Fund drive, Bundles for Britain has restricted its campaign to the downtown district.
Bundles for Britain, with the aid of campus beauty queens, had planned to solicit student donations, but believing that two drives at the same time would deaden the effectiveness of both, stopped its campaign on the Hill.