UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
NUMBER 44.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1940
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RAF Continues Blasting Berlin Italian Fleet
No official statement was forthcoming as to the nature of these questions but suggestions were spread by Nazi sources that they concerned Hitler's projected "world order," continental peace after the war, Turkey and the Near East and economic relations.
The British thought Germany might have obtained permission to build aircraft factories on Russian soil, out of reach of British bombers
United Press Staff Correspondent Great Britain hurled the might of her air power at the Axis today, striking at the heart of Berlin where Soviet Premier V. M. Molotov wound up his negotiations and blasting again at Italy's crippled war fleet in the base of Tarranto.
British aerial initiative overshadowed conclusion of the secrecy-shrouded Nazi-Soviet negotiations. Molotov left by train for Moscow at 11 a.m. A German communique said that the talks with Adolph Hitler had been conducted in an "atmosphere of mutual trust" which resulted in "umanimity of opinion on all questions of interest to Germany and Russia."
The last hours of Molotov's stay in Berlin were marked by a demonstration of Britain's growing air power. London reported that Royal Air Force bombers flew through stormy skies to attack Berlin during the hours when the Soviet em-
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent
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Dorsey, Stauffer New Kansan Heads
With this issue of the Kansan, Gray Dorsey takes over the reins of the paper as the new editor-in-chief and Stan Stauffer as the newly elected managing editor. Both positions were filled at a meeting of the Kansan Board yesterday afternoon.
Dorsey and Stauffer, both journalism majors, replace Gene Kuhn and Roscoe Born to serve as heads of the editorial and news departments of the Kansan for the next nine weeks.
Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity, will sponsor a lecture Nov. 22 by Walter C. Alverez, M.D., head of the division of medicine at Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Doctor Alvarez has been a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota and is well-known for his articles on physiology and pathology of digestion.
Lecture Next Week To Honor Sherwood
He will discuss "The Art of Medicine" in a lecture presented in honor of Dr. Noble Pierce Sherwood, professor of bacteriology here.
Students Rally At Station Cheer Team Off
More than 300 University students gulped their lunches and disregarded the exceptionally cold November weather at noon today to spark their football team on its far eastern trip to Washington.
Led by the members of the Ku Ku's and Jay James the shivering students crowded on the station platform to yell to the University's 30 gridmen who crowded on the Washington-bound train. Cheerleaders Bob Wright, Hal Ruppenthal and Roy Edwards led the group.Gwinn Henry, Jayhawk coach responded
"They can beat us, but they can't whip us. At least not as long as we have the greatest student body in the world."
from a baggage trukk with the customary:
By recommendation of Andrew F. Schoeppel, chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission, Dr. Stephenson was appointed official Kansas representative to a meeting of the engineering committee for interstate oil compact, with representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Michigan, and Colorado. This group chiefly is interested in studying pro-ration methods of production regulation in the various states.
The Jayhawkers boarded the train for Washington D.C. where they meet the George Washington University eleven in Griffith stadium Saturday afternoon. They will stop tomorrow afternoon for a practice session at Martinsburg, Va.
Stephenson Named For Oil Board
location of production of the organization.
Dr. Eugene A. Stephenson, chairman of the division of petroleum engineering at the University, returned today from Chicago where for the last three days he has attended the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute.
"Kansas Fights", a yell for each coach and several of the new yells were chanted on the platform as the team left.
Tickets Now On Sale For Beaux Arts Ball
Dr. Stephenson is a member of the committee on well spacing and al-
The annual Beaux Arts ball sponsored by Delta Phi Delta, Washburn art fraternity, will be held at the Women's club in Topeka Saturday, Nov. 23.
PROF. EUGENE A. STEPHENSON
Red Cross Gets $40 From Hill
Jay Janes turned out 100 per cent in support of the University Red Cross drive Tuesday and Wednesday. Forty-five girls took in a total amount of $40.41. There were 516 pennies.
First honors go to Virginia Houston with a total of $3.79; second to Nancy Carey; third to Jean Norton; fourth to Nadine Schuerman; and fifth, tie between Nancy Prather and Genevieve Harmon.
Candy was passed to the girls as they brought in their receipts. Such a good job was done by these girls, should remind faculty members who haven't "paid up" to do so at once.
E. C. Buehler, chairman for the University Red Cross committee, expressed his satisfaction of the results of the drive by saying, "The girls did a mighty fine job."
Kandt Is Chief Justice of M.S.C. Supreme Court
The four old men of the Student Supreme Court have at last been able to reach a decision, and Bill Kandt, senior law student, was chosen as the chief justice of the court.
The four justices of the court were chosen earlier in the year by the two student political parties. Wilbur Leonard and Curtis
No Lamentation Here's a Vacation
Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today that all classes will be dismissed on Thursday, Nov. 21, the day of the football game with Missouri University at Columbia.
The library and all offices and laboratories are to remain open as usual. Classes will be resumed on Friday, Nov. 22.
'No Pressure From Oklahoma'- Gerald Tucker
Norman, Okla., Nov. 14-(UF)—Gerald Tucker, 18-year-old Kansas high school basketball star, said today that he had transferred from Kansas State at Manhattan to Oklahoma University voluntarily and that there had been no "pressure put on him" by Oklahoma coaches
"It was just a case of making the Kansas people angry for a while or (continued to page eight)
Burton are the members chosen by the Progressive Student Government League, while Moe Ettenson and Harry Wiles are the representatives on the court from the Society of Pachacamac.
Kandt was chosen unanimously by the four justices as the logical man for the slot of chief justice. As Harry Wiles said of the appointment, "Kandt is the most non-partison man we could think of. There was absolutely no dissention from either party concerning the appointment."
Wiles replaced Bob McKay of Pachacamac earlier in the year, when Bob resigned to take his place on the Men's Student Council as representative-at-large.
Burton replaced Kenneth Hamilton for P.S.G.L. and Wilbur Leonard was appointed by the League to fill the vacancy of Bill Farmer when he left the court to take over the presidency of the M.S.C.
At the present time there are no cases on the docket of the student court.
Law Fraternity Initiates Two
Phi Delta Phi, law fraternity, at its monthly dinner meeting at Wiedemann's Tuesday night initiated two new members, Bill Kandt and Edwin Westerhaus.
Book Has Seen 48 Homecomings Register Contains 5,000 Names
Several hundred University students have gone in one door of the registrar's office, more or less listlessly given their names to an impersonal clerk, and lift by another door with 1940-41 University of Kansas directories under their arms. No romance just accepted routine.
Hundreds of University students have sat down at study tables, and with poised pencils, gone over those directories to put a check mark by the names of acquaintances and friends. In 1907, Lawrence merchants
For the thirty-second time, students have gone through this ritual—and there's romance. Not just the boy-girl stuff that prompts most of the check marks, but the story of how it came to pass.
Since the first issue in 1907, the directory has had its quota of ups and downs. One year it wasn't published because there was no money for a directory. Another year officials thought it impossible to get an accurate listing of students' names and addresses. Still another year the Kansan published a tabloid section in order to give the student body a workable directory.
In 1907, Lawrence merchants, seeing the need of a directory and conscious of the advertising value to them, in such a gift to the students, formed an organization to compile and print the name lists—with repeated reminders of the relative merits of trading with member business houses. That year the directory was about the size of a pocket notebook. The next fall, the shop-keepers looked back on a successful year of student trade and published a more imposing, more ad-conscious catalog of undergraduates. They included the rules and regulations of campus organizations in that issue of the booklet.
In 1909, state officials set aside a fund for publication of directories in state schools, and for the next few years the directory was printed by the state.
Then, while bombs were dropping in Europe during the first World War, University officials dropped a bomb-shell on the campus—there would be no directory for the year 1918-19, because they said, the war-conscious students were too restless to remain at one address. The Men's Student Council wasn't satisfied with that reason, and petitioned the Chancellor to permit that body to put out a directory to be sold at cost. Delayed until the first of the year by red tape, the directory finally was sold to students for 25 cents during February of 1919.
That fall, the M.S.C. got an early start and made the catalog of students its pet. Members solicited ads from business houses, and the compilation of names and addresses was (continued to page eight)