UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
38TH YEAR.
LAWRENCE KANSAS SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1941
NUMBER 129.
Two Records Broken
Ben Hibbs To Speak At Seventy-Fifth Dinner
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JOHN MUNSKI-MISSOURI
JACK DEFIELD-MINNESOTA
Winner of the special invitation mile, Munski turned in a 4:13.4 mile, surprisingly fast for the cold, windy day. Jack DeField, Minnesota, tied with Bill Williams, Wisconsin, at 13 feet.
Best Known Journalism Graduate
Ben Hibbs, one of the most successful journalists ever graduated from the University, will return to the campus as the featured speaker at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary dinner, Raymond Nichols, secretary to the Chancellor, announced this morning.
Hibbs, editor of the "Country Gentleman," has "gone up" steadily in his profession since his graduation from the University in February of 1924. While on the campus he was a star reporter and managing editor of the Daily Kansan.
He went to work immediately after graduation on a Pratt newspaper, but deserted the writing field soon after to become publicity director of Fort Hays State Teachers' College. However the reporting bug was under his skin and he successively became managing editor of a Goodland paper and the Arkansas City Traveler.
In 1929 he became associate editor of the "Country Gentleman" and last year took over the editorship as one of the youngest men in the field. Through the vast circulation of the "Country Gentleman" the 39-year-old editor reaches more than 10,000,000 people each month.
New honors came to him last week when he was appointed to the board of directors of the Curtis Publishing Company at Philadelphia.
The Seventy-fifth Anniversary dinner at which he will speak, will be Saturday, June 7, in the Memorial Union building.
Rah Rah Boys To Try Out For Cheer Posts
Applications for cheerleaders must be filed in the office of Henry Werner, adviser of men, by April 28, and tryouts will be held Wednesday April 30.
WEATHER FORECAST
Heretofore cheerleaders have been chosen in the fall but this year that plan has been changed by a joint bill of the M.S.C. and the W.S.G.A. This change has been made because of crowded activities at the beginning of school in the fall.
Partly cloudy, cooler in the east portions with possible showers.
Gardeners Jump Gun
Early Start
Like Oklahoma's famous Cherokee Strip run, this University's coming Dandelion Day also has its "sooners."
These modern claim-runners are men from the gardening department, who yesterday began a program of weed eradication a full four days before the $ ^{\textcircled{3}}$
date set for the student campaign.
Within a few hours after the gardeners had begun their work, several piles of yellow-headed victims attested to the skill of their tools.
Chief sufferers from the invasion will be the dandelion teams of Mary Lou Randall, college senior, and Bob Holmer, education senior. The territory north of the anatomy building invaded by the gardeners is the area assigned to them for digging.
The men said that they were merely attempting to remove a few of the worst eyesores from the campus. One commented, "Don't worry. There will be plenty of flowers left for you lads and assies next Wednesday."
Student Directory Applications Due
The editor for the 1941-1942 student directory will be chosen April 28, Bill Farmer, president of M.S.C. said yesterday.
Anyone interested in the editorship may apply by letter stating his qualifications and experience. All applications must be in the N.Y.A. office by April 25.
5,000 Attend Relays Yesterday
Most of the crowd of 5,000 who attended the nineteenth annual Kansas Relays yesterday had left the stadium when Archie Harris, big Indiana negro, made one last supreme effort
A Cappella Choir In Home Concert Tomorrow Night
The University A Cappella Choir under the direction of D. M. Swarthout, will give its home concert tomorrow evening in Hoch Auditorium, at 8 o'clock.
Two solo voices will be heard in numbers with choir accompaniment. Minerva Davis, contralto, and a student of Prof. Joseph Wilkins will sing the solo part in the Ganshow number, "Sleep, Holy Babe." Edgar Haage, baritone pupil of Alice Moncrieff, will take the solo role in the arrangement of the negro spiritual "Ise Mighty Tired."
One of the most unusual choral numbers on the entire program Monday evening is a number coming out of the present war zone itself, a Balkan folk melody entitled "Trans-sylvanian Lament," (Kodaly).
and slung the discus 171 feet 63-4 inches for a new Kansas Relays record.
Two numbers written nearly four hundred years ago will be on the program, one of them by Palestrina, written for six independent voice parts and a number for Advent "Born Today," (Sweelinck) written in five voice parts. One group of four numbers will be from the Russian Choral School.
His gigantic heave which lacked only a yard of going out of the field was slightly less than three feet short of the world's record of 173 feet $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches. Jack Hughes, the
Complete results of the Relays may be found on page 4.
burly Texan, who won the discus here for the past two years also shattered the old Relays mark of 154 feet with a throw of 160 feet $3 \%$ inches.
Indiana Breaks Record
The only other mark, officially broken was the university sprint medley relay mark which was shattered by the Indiana foursome of Cochran, Riley, Burnett and Kane. The Hoosier quartet negotiated the mile in 3:25.2 to clip a tenth of a second off the time set by Oklahoma last year. Campbell Kane, national intercollegiate half-mile champion, passed Texas' sensation sophomore, Mac Umstaadt in the back stretch. He was clocked in 1:51.1.
A strong southwest wind prevented Carlton Terry, blond Texas sprinter, from tieing the world's record in the 100-yard dash. He won the (continued to page eight)
ENGINEERING EXPOSITION Electricals Win Sigma Tau Trophy First Three Time Winner
The department of electrical engineering has lived up to its promise to win the Sigma Tau trophy for the best exhibit at this year's Engineering Exposition.
Committee of F. J. Moreau, dean, the School of Law; Marcia Beatty, secretary to J. J. Jakosky; and Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancecellor, yesterday named the electricals as winners of the silver loving cup on a basis of workmanship, showmanship, ingenuity and general interest. The department of architecture was awarded second place in the contest.
Third Time Winner
This marks the third time the cup has been in the hands of the elec-
tricals. Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, first awarded the trophy in 1931, to create inter-departmental interest and competition in the Exposition. The electricals won that year, and retained possession of the cup until 1934, when the architects won. The architects repeated in 1936. In 1938 the chemical engineers triumphed. And the electricals came back after a six-year wait. So, when this year's show came around, the electricals and the architects had each won the cup twice, and both departments made vigorous efforts to be the first three-time winner.
The electrical engineers show was given in the Engineering laboratory in back of Marvin hall. In addition to many novelty features, such as
frying hamburgers on ice, a manpower machine, "Jacob's Ladder," and a block-sorting device, the electricals showed many of the latest developments in the field of electrical engineering. Among these were a frequency modulation transmitter, which cuts down static over a radio, a portable amateur radio station, electrical equipment used in an automobile, and the latest type of illumination units.
The architects, runners-up in the contest, featured the work of students in the department. They changed the senior drafting room into a modernistically - styled display room, and exhibited sculpturing, crayon and water color renderings, and clay and balsa wood models of buildings.