3, 1941.
All-Stars In Crosby Lineup
When musicians like a band, it must be good. When the public approves, it has to be good. Bob Crosby and his band will show Junior Prommers Monday night how they won the approval of both groups of popular dance music critics.
Up to this morning, 136 tickets had been sold for the Prom. The business office reported 70, Union Lounge 47, and Bell's Music store 19 sales.
Although Bob Crosby is the headline feature, the music of the band is a big attraction. Its distinctive "Dixieland" style is really a takeoff from the original Dixieland jazz.
The popularity of Crosby's music is apparent from its radio and newspaper ratings. Collier's magazine recently selected several members of the Crosby group on its all-American Swing Band, and Paul Whiteman picked four Crosbyites on his all-American. Each season the number of men picked from the Crosby group in the highly-regarded "Metronome" and "Downbeat" polls far outstrip any rival.
In the last "Metronome" all-star poll, the Crosby Swingers demonstrated that they are to swing what the Yankees used to be to the baseball. Three members of the group captured first places. Eddie Miller, sax; Jess Stacy, piano and Bob Haggart, bass, rated tops; and Irving Fazola, clarinet, rated second to Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. The "Downbeat" poll indicated the same predominance of Crosby musicians among top-flight performers.
UNIVERSITY
DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941.
38TH YEAR.
Musicians Swarm Campus
Musician 3,000 Arrive For Two Day District Festival
It's not all play. Podunk and Mudville and Topeka and Wyandotte high schools didn't send their students to Mount Oread for a spring vacation. They sent them here to (continued to page eight)
BY JOHN CONARD
All the Hill's a beehive, and the bees upon it merely students — or high school musicians.
Three thousand prepsters are on the Hill for the annual northeast Kansas District Music Festival today and tomorrow. Yes, 3,000 of them. Thus, when you meet a body comin' through the rye or down Oread avenue today your chances are about one out of two for meeting a happy, carefree high school student instead of the usual worrywrn book-laden college Joe and Jane.
Lawrence Police Continue Search For Frat Burglar
You know they're here, all right. College students generally don't have Greyhound super-coaches to knock around in. They don't usually wander over the campus in droves of 20 or 30, with each member of the drove wearing a white shirt and black jeans or skirt.
Fight for Honors
Lawrence police continued the hunt today for the burglar who entered and robbed five fraternity houses of $212 early Wednesday morning.
The police report no more robberies in organized houses since the five Wednesday.
NUMBER 121.
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Visitors Spend Morning Inspecting 'College Life'
"Hey, where's room 32?"
"Is Shawnee Mission competing this year? I wonder if they will have the same good-looking drummer?"
This and more like it was heard when 3,000 Kansas high school students hit the Hill this morning by bus, car, and jalopy to attend the District Music
Festival day sounds helmy doesn't it?
"Oh, Alice, your collar has a smudge on it—think it will show—anybody got an eraser?"
How About Dandelions?
"Let's lock this place over. What is all this stuff about a dandelion
day—sounds balmy, doesn't it?
"Do you think you'll go to college?"
"Yeah, but I'll go to K.State—" "Oh you've been before?"
THE WEATHER
In Chartered Buses K.U. Band Leaves Monday
"How do you get to Frank Strong hall—?" "I don't know. 'I'm a stran- (continued to page eight)
Cloudy tomorrow with high temperature between 45 and 50.
Three chartered buses will transport the University of Kansas band out of Lawrence Monday on its spring concert tour—a quick round-up of 11 towns in four days.
The band will be directed by Russell L. Wiley, associate professor of band. At each town, the local high school director will direct one number.
Friday will be the busiest day with concerts in Augusta lunch in Wichita, and concerts in Buhler and Hutchinson. Saturday noon will bring triumphant return to Lawrence and Easter vacations.
Leaving Hoch auditorium at 4:30 p.m., the band will play its first concert at Garnett High School Monday night. Tuesday the Band will play a morning concert at Iola and an afternoon and evening performance in Independence. Coffeyville is scheduled for Wednesday morning and Fredonia for Wednesday afternoon and evening. Thursday.
will bring a rest with only an evening concert at El Dorado.
Allotment Bill To Committee For Approval
The $8,133,000 biennial allotment for the state's schools was approved for passage by the House of Representatives yesterday and was sent to the legislative conference committee for approval of minor House changes in the bill.
The state legislature stopped the clock at noon today, and
adjournment is expected late this evening or tomorrow. Make No Changes
The $232,000 appropriation for the proposed Mineral Industries building was unchanged by the House, and is almost assured of passage with the rest of the bill.
The house made no changes in the bill in respect to appropriations for the University, and when the bill is reported out of conference committee some time tonight, it is expected that the University appropriations will remain unchanged.
Minimum of Argument
The House accepted the report of the ways and means committee with a minimum of argument and passed the bill after only 20 minutes discussion. The state senate passed the bill last week, and the House ways and means committee changed the bill only as respected some building for Kansas State Agricultural College.
C. W. Porterfield, representative from Jackson county, spoke briefly against the $325,000 allotment for the Mineral Industries building, but made no motion to amend the bill.
The action of the House cleared away the biggest direct appropriation of the session and left only one other appropriation measure on the calendar, a bill to balance the state books and the state tax levy.
Summer Students To Live In Dorms
Rooms in Templin, Battenfeld, and Carruth halls will be rented to students during the summer session. Henry Werner, dean of men, said today. The three halls, which house 120 men, will have room for only half that number during the summer.
Miss Carlotta Nellis and Mrs. R. D. Montgomery will have charge of the dormitories, with housekeeping scheduled to be done by student help. Rent rates for single rooms for the entire summer session will be $24; for double rooms, $18; and for triple rooms $14.
To Conduct ROTC Inspection Soon
Col. C. A. French, professor of military science and tactics at the University of Minnesota, and Lieut. Col. Harold H. Davis, professor of military sieve and tactics at the University of Arkansas, will conduct the annual federal inspection of the University R. O. T. C. April 30 and May 1.
French will inspect the coast artillery unit and Davis will inspect the infantry unit.
Col. Raymond W. Briggs, who is in charge of all R. O. T. C. units in the Seventh Corps area, will also make the corps area inspection for the commanding general.
The University R. O. T. C. has never received less than an excellent rating in the inspections and is busy preparing the men for the tests.
Col. Karl Baldwin, commander of the University R. O. T. C. and Lieut.
Carol Carleton Smith, associate professor of military science and tactics at the University, will also conduct federal inspections in April.
Baldwin will inspect R. O. T. C. units at Washington University, St. Louis, April 22 and 23, and Smith will inspect the R. O. T. C. unit at the Municipal University at Wichita, April 24 and 25.
For Jayhawker
Shoot Seniors
Now is the time for all good seniors—in spite of lost credits, past-due papers, and make-up exams—to pose for the "birdie."
In other words, senior pictures for the Jayhawker are due at the Jayhawker office sometime within the next two weeks.
After Closing Hours
Union Soda Squirts Clean House
BY WALLY KUNKEL
BY WALLY KUNKEL
You girls with your 10:30 closing hours couldn't have had this fun—nor you diligent males who were at home making up mid-semester incomplete.
After the Union Fountain had cleared itself of all the straw-chewing couples and had tossed them into the cold, cold rain outside so that it might have a little rest. I played innocent bystander and had my fun. Probably made a pest of myself, but—
I came to the conclusion that about the best friends the majority of students on this Hill have are the soda-jerkers in the fountain, despite those yellow slips they so proudly sling around.
Constantly on the go, and with those eternal mountain-phrases, "warm one", "raw", "cow", and "two on a raft", they give a very popular conception of perpetual motion. And they don't stop this hubbub when everyone is gone. That's their cue for work.
They're a bunch of all-around guys. One counts the money. Another starts slinging the dirties. A San-Quentin hair-cut locks the door, and another grills and dives into a hunk of soapy water. Everything is discussed from politics to cokes and back again.
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"Golly, who was that babe Jim had tonight?" and Sonny Halle, dishwasher, comes up for air.
"I don't know. Here's some coffee, anybody want some?" Potter (continued to page eight)