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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.1941
NUMBER 79.
Henry's death brought a prolonged investigation of radical activity on the campus and the Board of Regents probe committee ended the whole affair by giving the University a clean slate.
Senator William D. Reilly, a law school alumnus of 1923, made an impassioned speech in which he mentioned Don Henry, the University student who was killed in the Spanish civil war in 1937.
committee as a whole the senate took up the bill which makes it illegal for the state or any of its schools to "contribute to the support" of any person known to be a member of a Nazi, Fascist, or Communist organization "or any affiliated society."
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BY MOLLAT CONKLIN Charges that Communist party members were still at large on the campus were raised again yesterday when state Senator Clarence P. Oakes introduced a bill designed to curb subversive activities in Kansas.
Senator Reilly, however, charged that there were still members of the Communist party on the pay roll of the University. Senator Skovgard also addressed the committee and brought up the four-year-old Henry case.
Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard University observatory, will lecture on "The Defense of the Universe" at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in Fraser theater.
Senator Oakes, who was instrumental in the last Red investigations, said the radical situation at the University had been largely cleaned up.
Doctor Shapley is distinguished for his theory and formula for computation of the distance between astronomical bodies in terms of light years, which he developed while at Mount Wilson observatory from 1914 to 1921.
The new bill declares unlawful any attempt to aid, advocate, advise, or teach the "duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence."
Violation of the bill, if passed, will bring a penalty of $10,000 or 10 years imprisonment.
Astronomer To Speak Here
Hill Will Play Host To Legislators Delegates To Make Annual Tour
Gov. Payne H. Ratner, Lieut. Gov. Carl E. Friend, and Kansas legislators will see another basketball game, but this time they won't be crowded into a small space and shown the need for a fieldhouse.
At the invitation of Chancellor Deane W. Malott, the group will be guests of the University Monday afternoon and will see the Kansas-Nebraska basketball game that night. It will be only three weeks following the legislators' trip to Manhattan, where they saw the K-State-K.U. game.
To Tour Campus
The legislators and their families are expected to arrive here about 3 o'clock and will be received by a general entertaining committee at the Memorial Union building. After a tour of the campus, including Dyche museum, Templin and Battenfeld halls, and Haworth hall, Chancellor Malott will address the group
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in the ballroom of the Memorial Union.
Students to Play Hosts
A committee of women will entertain those wives of legislators not making a tour of the campus.
Representatives of various University organizations will be assigned certain solons for entertainment at dinner. Entertainment plans have been made and the personal invitations from the student hosts and hostesses are not to be sent until they receive word from the general entertainment committee, Bill Farmer, chairman, said today.
Two years ago a caravan of legislators and their families, 250 strong, spent a day on the campus, and saw the Kansas-Missouri game.
The Lawrence chamber of Commerce is furnishing transportation to and from Topeka for the legislators and their families.
Errors Still After Lawson
Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College is a man besieged with typographical errors.
When he wrote an article for the Kansan an "n" left off the word "none" left Dean Lawson looking like a war-monger. Graduate student John Crutcher said so in the way of signs
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Watkins Hospital Busy With Exams and Surgery
Watkins Memorial hospital employees have been rushed the past two days giving physical exams to 80 students who have registered at the University for the first time, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the health service, said today.
Examinations will continue this week for new students who are late in registering.
Surgery cases mounted in number in the hospital between semesters. Joe Moseley, business senior, underwent major surgery Thursday,
the last day of finals. On Saturday, Velma Cassel and Russell Chambers, both fine arts seniors, were at the hospital for minor surgery.
John Stubbs, education sophomore, underwent major surgery Monday morning; Dick Treece, major opera-
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Stranathan In
Kester Resigns As Head Of Physics Department
Dr. James D. Stranathan will replace Dr. F. E. Kester as head of the department of physics, effective at the end of the semester, according to an announcement from the Chancellor's office.
Doctor Kester has headed this department at the University since 1901. He will continue as a regular member of the physics teaching staff.
Doctor Kester received his undergraduate degree from Ohio State University in 1895, and his master's and doctor's degrees from Cornell in 1899 and 1905. He did graduate work at the University of Goettingen from 1903 to 1904. Doctor Kester was an instructor in physics at Ohio State in 1899, and became an assistant professor in 1901. He came to the University in 1909.
Doctor Kester, who is one of the starred men in "American Men of"
Dr. Stranathan (left) and Dr. Kester.
Science," has contributed widely to scientific journals in his tenure of office at the University. Four children are graduates of the University.
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Doctor Stranathan, who will become chairman of the department next year, is a graduate of the University, receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees here. Since his graduation from the University in 1921, Doctor Stranathan has been a member of the physics faculty, with the exception of time out for graduate study at the University of Chicago, where he received the doctor of philosophy degree in 1932. In Chicago he studied under late A. A. Michelson and A. H. Compton, both Nobel prize winner in physics.
During the War I, Doctor Stranathan served in the United States Army. He contributed to many research publications.
Eighty-one sophomores in the University School of Medicine were promoted Saturday to the Kansas City division, after serving their first year and a half here.
English Teacher Dies In Wichita
Announcement was made today of the death of Miss Myra Hull, instructor in English, by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor.
Miss Hull's death occurred early this morning at Wesley hospital in Wichita. She had been ill for the past month, but was not taken to Wichita until last week. She had been granted sick leave for next semester.
Miss Hull was an alumna of the University, having received her A.B. degree June 17, 1919; and her A.M. degree June 9, 1920. She became associated with the department of English in 1920 and had been an instructor in rhetoric and English literature since that time.
The following sophomores have been notified by mail of their promotion:
Frances A. Allen, Claude E. Arnett, Samuel Glen Ashley, Charles Elbert Ayling, Howard V. Blair, Lowell B. Baker, Edward E. Baumhardt, Anol W. Behm, Vern A. Berkey, Clyde D. Blake, Jr., Almon D. Blanchat, Robert E. Bolinger, Ben H. Boltjes, Robert M. Brooker, Robert W. Brooks, Harry J. Brown, William H. Browning, Clarence L. Brumback.
Larry L. Calkins, C. Sanford Carl-
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