UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1940
Big Six Moguls To Meet in K.C.
Nebraska, a staunch opponent of bowl games in the past and now a Rose Bowl participant, will have to explain her change of attitude to Big Six coaches, athletic directors, and faculty representatives when they meet in Kansas City, Mo., Friday and Saturday with other important business hanging fire.
By MILO FARNETI
The moot point of Nebraska accepting the Rose Bowl bid and getting conference permission after voting against Oklahoma and Missouri participation in the Orange Bowl in 1938 and 1939 will not come in for much discussion officially at the meeting, but may
clear the way for opening negotiations with some other conference for future New Year's Day bowl games.
This desire of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri to schedule a bowl game between the Big Six and another strong conference has a logical reason. Other conferences are favoring bowl commitments. If the Big Six does not act quickly, it may find itself without any "bowl" to eat from.
Big Ten faculty representatives meet in Chicago Saturday to decide if their champion shall meet the Pacific Coast champion annually in the Rose Bowl. On their decision hinges the bowl plans of all the colleges in the country. The Big Ten is recognized as the leader in football legislation and is widely initiated by smaller conferences.
If the Big Ten decides affirmatively, other conferences will follow the leader by making similar
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Valley Debaters Here In March
Debate teams representing 11 schools in the Missouri Valley Forensic organization will hold their annual tournament at the University in March. The tournament question, which has just been released is "Resolved: That the United States should have conscription of capital in the event of war."
The last time that Kansas played host to such a meet was in 1934.
The Missouri Valley Forensic organization is a debate league on the order of the Big Six. The organization includes the Universities of Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Creighton, Iowa State and Kansas State.
Pierce Is New Sports Editor
With today's issue of the Kansan, Don Pierce becomes sports editor for the winter sports season. He succeeds Bob Trump who is now campus editor of the Kansan.
Pierce, who last week climaxed his four years of football at the University by being named honorary pivot man on four or five All-Big Six teams, will write a daily column, "As We See It," beginning today on the sports page.
NUMBER 53
Malott Stresses Dangers to U.S.
That Americans must recognize the external and internal dangers which face the United States today, and realize their duty toward resisting these dangers, was the plan for action set forth by Chancellor Deane W. Malott in a speech at the annual parish meeting of the St. Andrew's Episcopal church in Kansas City, Mo., last night.
Addressing the largest crowd ever assembled at a parish meeting, the Chancellor spoke of the dictatorial regimes existing in Europe today as "enforced gangsterism" and pointed out that "our gravest responsibility would come after the fighting in Europe had ended when we would be called upon not only to furnish physical assistance to a prostrate Europe but to offer an alternative to Hitlerism."
In closing, Chancellor Malott declared that if the American people contribute enough toil and sweat to ridding the world of dictatorial governments, they can, perhaps, escape the blood and tears that England now endures.
Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star and alumnus of the University, introduced the speaker.
Marietta Fills Vacated Seat In Hill Court
Bob Marietta, first year law, has been named to the Student Supreme Court by the Progressive Student Government League to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Wilbur Leonard, second year law.
Here's That Roque--awhile, but Till doesn't want to get in a rut.
There are no cases on the court docket at present according to Bill Kandt, senior law, chief justice of the court. However the court is expected to consider in the near future about 10 parking violation cases.
The addition of Marietta still gives the five-man court a 100 per cent law school representation. The other members besides Marietta and Kandt are Moe Ettenson, senior law, and Harry Wiles, second year law, both Pachacamacs, and Curtis Burton, first year law, and the other P.S.G.L.
Play Ducats Go On Sale
Tickets for the new Dramatic Club play "Cradle Song" will go on sale tomorrow morning at the office in hte basement of Green hall, according to manager Don Dixon. Students may exchange their activity book stubs for reserved seats on any of the four nights of the play.
The Martinez Sierra drama will take to the stage of Fraser Theater Tuesday night with 14 members of a 15-member cast being students, and 11 of the 14 members being women. The one odd character is Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech, who was borrowed for
Symphony To Stage Eulenspiegel's Pranks
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You may or may not be acquaintée already with Till. You should be, because back in the fifteenth century he was the life of the party. The story of his pranks was recorded in a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss. Till was a cut-up, always in trouble. The story picks him up as he decides to ride old Dobbin through the village market place, where he scares the geese away honking and makes the peasant women spill their cranberries.
Donald Duck, Dopey, and Pinocchio all had their day. Tomorrow night another fictitious rogue, Till Eulenspiegel, will have a fling at public favor when introduced by the University of Kansas symphony orchestra in its annual winter concert in Hoch auditorium.
His next brainstorm is to dress in monk's robes, solemnly smug, and bless people. This is all right for
Drama now comes to him by way of a beautiful blonde. Till falls hard for her. He thinks he is doing all right, until the affair comes to a showdown and she jits him.
Deeply hurt, Till swears vengeance. He loses all faith, becomes morose, mean, ready to shout "Down with everything." He sinks so low that he takes up the anti-social practice of telling everyone that there is nothing to have faith in. He makes ugly faces at people.
Once he has a flash of fear for what
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British Need Of Aid Near
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
American ships and perhaps economic aid appeared imminent for Great Britain today to offset an Axis onslaught by bomber squadrons and U-boats against key industries and overseas supply lines of the British Isles.
A program for speeding greater assistance to Britain was worked out at Washington by Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as dispatches from Europe told of a spreading offensive against Britain, with air attacks on at least five industrial centers, and plans for Nazi submarines to operate "in packs like wolves" against British shipping.
Report Italians Falling Back
The Greeks reported that Italians on the north front appeared to be falling back farther in the Lake Ochrida sector, but a strong trench position still was held by a rear guard on the road toward Elbasan.
On the south front, according to dispatches from the battle lines, fighting proceeded in snow storms and along the coast, in marshes where there was deep mud and muck.
Balkan Tension Relaxes
Elsewhere in the Balkans the threat of serious immediate explosions seemed to be lessened. In Rumania, a government decree empowered authorities to take over all pipe lines and accessories of oil companies and to seize all Jewish shipping.
In the Far East, warfare continued unofficially between Siam (Thailand) and French Indo-China, with the Siamese reporting they had destroyed a French transport ship that attempted to land troops on the Siamese side of the Mekhong river. According to reports at Bangkok, many lives were lost in the engagement.
Churchill Says No To Armistice
London, Dec. 4. — (UP) — Prime Minister Winston Churchill's refusal to propose or agree to a Christmas armistice still stands despite the appeal of Pope Pius, authoritative quarters said today.
Churchill's "no" of last week was described authoritatively as his "last word." There is nothing, from prevent belligerents from refraining from military operations during the Christmas season, it was said.
It was said that Germany had strewn the seas and land with mines and time bombs which no agreement could prevent exploding.
In authorizing a shift in Christmas Eve masses from midnight to early afternoon in order to meet the blackout regulations in nations at war, the Pontiff expressed hope that voluntarily or by agreement the belligerent nations would agree to a tuletide truce.
The Pope's appeal, contained in a letter to bishops, followed by nearly a week Churchill's rejection in the House of Commons of Christmas armistice suggestions. The Pope's appeal was not directed specifically to any belligerent state.
Italians Claim Greeks Halted
Rome, Dec. 4 — (UP) — Greeks launched numerous attacks, supported by artillery, but were unable to crack the Italian lines on the Albanian front, the High Command communique said today.
The Italians then counter attacked.
It said that an Italian submarine torpedoed a British destroyer in the Atlantic last Sunday; that Italian planes struck two British cruisers with aerial torpedoes in Suda bay, off northern Crete; that Italian planes shot down six Greek planes of the PZL type near Tirana, Albanian capital.
The communique read:
"On the Greek front repeated attacks by numerous enemy units supported by heavy artillery preparations were held by the stubborn resistance of our troops, which also vigorously counter-attacked.
"Our air formations supported action of the land forces with violent bombings, especially in the zone west of Erseke (Central front.) The ports of Preveza and St. Maura (Greece) were successfully attacked by our bombers.