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A fund of $100,000 is to be raised, $50,000 of which will be sent to China and the remainder to Europe. The organization is an outgrowth of the Far Eastern Service Fund which has been active on the campus in past years.
Fred Eberhardt, college junior, was appointed chairman of the University's World Student Service Fund drive at a meeting of the heads of all major campus organizations in the Memorial Union building yesterday afternoon.
"The drive," said Eberhardt, "probably will be held the first week in May. The drive is going to be big, our goal will be high, and we will need the cooperation of every student on the campus."
Bill Farmer, who presided at the meeting, declared, "The drive has a worthy purpose, but it cannot hope to succeed unless it receives the whole-hearted cooperation of every student on the Hill. The money obtained through the drive goes directly to students in refugee and internment camps of conquered countries—an almost unbelievable minimum is used for administrative expenses."
Name Eberhardt WSSF Chairman For Fund Drive
WSSF is an international organization established for the relief of Chinese and European students deprived of educational facilities by the war.
Eberhardt is now at work organizing committees and selecting staff members and expects to have an effective working system established by the time the drive begins early next month.
A complete check made yesterday afternoon by members of the five University fraternities robbed yesterday morning lowered the amount of money taken from the original estimate of $225 to $212.
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Complete Check Puts Frat Robbery Total at $212
The losses as finally reported are Sigma Alpha Epsilon, $113; Pi KapPa Alpha, $18; Phi Kappa Psi, $15; Alpha Kappa Psi, $54, and Phi Chi, $12.
High Voltage Houdinis At Work Seek Exhibit Prize Again
BY BILL FEENEY
The department of electrical engineering, winner of the Sigma Tau trophy for the best exhibit at last year's Engineering Exposition, is out to repeat in this year's show, which will be held April 18 and 19.
If the present plans are carried out, any visitor who does not develop a bad case of the d. t.'s from watching some of the mystifying stunts will see a really educational exhibit.
The high voltage Houdinis are busy working out the proposed
Hamburgers on Ice
stunts. Some of the features include a panful of sizzling hamburgers packed in ice, with no fire or other source of heat apparent; a coffee can spinning round and round on two rods, although no motor is present; a "speech scramble" which changes the frequency of a person's voice and produces some wierd results; a "Jacob's ladder" in which an unending stream of sparks passes between two copper rods; and a block-sorting device, in which blocks traveling along a belt are sorted according to color.
exhibit will feature a display of the latest types of illumination units, including a "ster lamp", in which ultra-violet rays are utilized to kill germs. An entirely new exhibit is the display of electrical equipment used in an automobile. A plywood framework, resembling the body of a car, will contain all the equipment in working order.
Along more practical lines, the
To Show FM Transmitter
A frequency modulation transmitter, which cuts down radio static to a minimum, will also be on display. For the "ham" radio opera-
13 Women Enter Relays Queen Contest; Photographs Sent To Unknown Judges
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The race is on:
Thirteen women have entered this year's contest for Queen of the Kansas Relays. Entries were completed yesterday and pictures of the hopefuls have already been sent to an undisclosed track team which will compete in the relays. This team will choose the lucky woman. team will pick two girls who will team will pick two girls who will act as attendants to the winner.
Representatives of 10 sororities and
3 women's dormitories entered the contest. The women, selected by members of their respective houses, include Virginia Covingtn, Alpha Chi Omega; Florence Cooper, Alpha Delta Pi; Terry Morgan, Alpha Micron Pi; Virginia Gear, Chi Omega; Marjorie Anderson, Corbin Hall; Ruth Rodgers, Delta Gamma; Mary Millsom, Gamma Phi Beta; Mary Burchfield, Kappa Alpha Theta; Jo Ann Perry, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Helen Rymph, Miller Hall; "Teddy" Comley, Pi Beta Phil; Clara
Lee Oxley, Sigma Kappa; and Evley Kamprath, Watkins Hall.
Last year's winner was Helen Johnson, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the track team from Nebraska did the selecting.
The selecting team is not disclosed until the results of the contest are known. In past years when the team was known before the results, members were subject to "pressure" from Kansas students, who were trying to get their particular choice for the position elected.
Junior Prom Ticket Sale Total Climbs As Dancers Prepare For Bob Crosby
Tobacco bales were moved out when Bob Crosby and his band began playing their first engagement, and now it looks as if the pillars in the Union ballroom will receive similar treatment if the ticket sale for the Junior Prom Monday night continues at the present rate.
At noon today the sale of paste-boards had reached 108 with only two days having passed since those first-of-the-month allowances were received by the students. Fifty-seven tickets have been sold at the
Nelson Sponsors
Bull Session With Purpose
First meeting of the Symposium, a new round table organization, described by its founder and sponsor, Jim Nelson, college senior, as a "bull session with a purpose," will be held at 7:30 Sunday evening in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Purpose of the organization, Nelson, a philosophy major, said is to relate the various current problems in national and international affairs with ethical and philosophical principles.
At each meeting a speaker will address the group, and a round table discussion of the subject will follow his talk.
Business Office; 38 tickets at the Hostess desk in the Memorial Union building; and 13 tickets at Bell Music Store.
In the summer of 1935 Crosby was a vocalist with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's band when he was approached by Gil Rodin, a veteran sax player who had started Ben Pollack's orchestra and given Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Jack Teagarden their first important musical jobs.
On April 20, Harry Woodring, former governor of Kansas and former secretary of war, will discuss our involvement in the European war.
Rodin, Matty Matlock, Eddie Miller, and Nappy LaMare had left Pollack's orchestra and were in need of a good-looking leader who could talk for them, conduct, sing and generally get them organized. In an hour it was decided and a week later the Bob Crosby Bobcats opened in Wilson, N. C., where they had to remove tobacco bales to secure enough dancing space.
Speakers next Sunday night is Hilden Gibson, instructor in political science, who will speak on "Profits and Patriotism."
At first the Crosby musicians were
Malott Delivers Two Speeches in Kansas City
uninhibited Dixielanders, musically speaking. But now the band is not playing all Dixieland. It is quieter and makes more of an appeal to the oldsters. The old Dixieland jazz is not entirely lacking however for the Bobcats, "the band within a band," feature that New Orleans rhythm in all of their specialty numbers such as "Stumblin" and "Coquette."
Chancellor Deane W. Malott spoke this afternoon before a meeting of the Kansas City Women's Club and remained to speak at the annual Phi Delta Kappa banquet at the Wyandotte High School tonight.
3,000 Prepsters Will Attend Music Festival
The University will play host to more than 3,000 high school musicians from northeast Kansas at the District Music Festival on the Hill tomorrow and Saturday.
The festival is one of 10 district contests being held throughout the state this weekend under the sponsorship of the Kansas State High School Activities association. Neal Wherry, principal of Liberty Memorial High School, has charge of the Festival here.
Divisions of the Festival will be held in Marvin hall, Frank Strong hall, Myers hall, and the Memorial Union building.
School of Fine Arts faculty members who will serve as judges for the contests are Dean D. M. Swarthout; Russell Wiley, director of the University Band; Waldemar Geltch, professor of violin; and Miss Meribah Moore and Miss Irene Peabody, associate professors of voice.
Clarence E. Sawhill, former Liberty Memorial high school teacher, and now a member of the University of Illinois music faculty, also will be a judge for the two-day festival.
Students who qualify in the contest will go to Topeka May 8, 9, and 10 for the regional contest.
New Aeroncas Arrive Tomorrow
Three Aeronca training planes, which will replace the ships damaged in the fire at the Municipal airport, are being flown here from the factory at Middletown, Ohio, by members of the staff of the Ascraft flying service. The planes are expected to arrive here tomorrow.
The fire caused only a one-day delay in the training program. Bad weather grounded the student pilots yesterday, but three groups of the primary students were in the air today.
Aquarium Exhibits Battling Fish Better Than a Bull Fight
By GERALD TEWELL
A couple of bettas will fight until one dies.
You see, a betta is a fish—that is in Siam a betta is a fish. And when you put two male bettas together, they do fight. In fact, people in Siam, where these fish are found, place bets on who will win just like the Mexicans bet on the bull fights.
If you want to see a nice speciman of a betta, go to the aquarium in the basement of Snow hall where Frank Kalich, assistant instructor in zoology, and Allen Graffham, college freshman, are working to rebuild the Univer-
They Own Fish
All of the 11 varieties of tropical fish now in the aquarium are owned by Kalich and Graff.
ham. However, the department of zoology intends to increase the aquarium population by the end of the semester.
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