UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A. B. C. D.
VOLUME XXXVIII
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29,1940
NUMBER 32
Number 158: Bingo!
Must Enter Queen Race By Friday
Omph, personality, and participation in school activities will be judged as highly as beauty in the race this year for the Homecoming queen's crown.
The queen chosen to preside over Homecoming activities on Nov. 8 and 9 will have three attendants, all of whom will be chosen from the organized and semi-organized houses.
Each house may enter only one candidate, and any girl unattached to a sorority or a group may enter by self-declaration unsponsored.
Contestants must submit a picture of themselves to K. Wayne Davidson in the Journalism building, who will turn the prints over to the secret council of seven who will act as jurors. Entries must be in, on or before 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
All candidates will be asked to report, without charge, at Hixon's Studio at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening for a group picture. This picture will be used in news release in local, state, and Kansas City newspapers.
It is suggested that the aspirants wear evening dress for the picture since they will appear before the portrait.
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First Capsule Hits K.U.Man; 'Draft Okay'
(Draft numbers on page 7)
At noon today in the nation's capital, Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, drew the first draft registration number from a historic goldfish bowl, and it was 158.
Listening to a radio in a laboratory in Snow hall was Elmo D. Hardy, assistant instructor in entomology, who is teaching part time at the University while working on his Ph.D. degree. In his pocket was registration card No. 158. Thus Hardy became
Washington, Oct. 29—(UP)—This is how to tell your actual order number in your local board area after today's lottery.
You must know:
1. Your registration serial number.
2. The highest number issued any registrant in your board area.
With this knowledge study the numbers drawn ahead of yours and scratch off each number which is higher than the highest number issued by your local board.
If the highest number issued in your board area is 2,000, scratch off every number higher than 2000 drawn before yours. For instance if you have the fifth number drawn, say, 450, and they come in this sequence; 384, 4987, 7032, 12 and 450, scratch off 4987 and 7032. Your number—450 thus becomes order No. 3 in your area. You will be the third man to be sent a questionnaire and, if all three are class I-A men, you will be the third man called to camp.
the first man eligible to be called from Douglas County for the first peacetime conscription in the history of the country.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, who lives at 1323 Kentucky, were interviewed on WREN at 1 o'clock this afternoon.Both said they could "hardly believe" their senses when they heard the announcement of "158."Hardy offered the opinions that the (continued to page five)
'Lights Up'On Play Tonight
Now that Josie has someone to open her mouth and wiggle her ears and whinny for her, Porf. Allen Crafton of the department of speech and dramatic art feels that the new Kansas Players show, "White Wings," is all set for the opening tonight. It was only last Saturday that the actress who was showing Josie life at the front had to give up the show.
Like all shows, however, "White Wings" went on, and the fore deck of the animated horse which plays such an important role in the Philip Barry comedy, was adequately filled by Mrs. Allen Crafton. Virginia Bantleon backs up Mrs. Crafton in the aft position of papier mache Josie.
Minerva Davis took over the part of Mrs. Inch.left open when Mrs. Crafton took over Josie. She did the quick job of learning as full supporting role since last Saturday.
About 50 thespiana-minded students from Lawrence Memorial high school and from Haskell Institute watched a dress rehearsal of the play in Fraser theater last night and applauded it vigorously. They seemed especially to like Robert Calderwood, associate professor of the
Deane Butler as the heroine Mary Todd found their approval and Crafton in the dual position as director and Major. Inch (who does not budge one) caught their fancy. A new faculty-actor whom they hadn't seen before was James Barton and student-actor Frank Heck as Archie Inch, hero of the white wings in an age of the horseless carriage. Both were the objects of hand claps by the small audience. Don Dixon was liked both for the scenery he has designed and built and for his acting in the role of Grandpa Inch.
department of speech and dramatic art who plays Herbert, the cajolling driver of Josie as she draws her Victorian coach about the stage.
After a dress rehearsal Sunday and another yesterday the cast of "White Wings" has ended a strenuous four weeks of practice, ready for the four nights of performance. First night tonight will, however, have only about half a dozen of the original cast members. Director Crafton has suffered more from ineligibilities and actors dropping out from time to time during this show than any in years.
Ticket manager Don Dixon reports a steady (continued to page eight)
ELMO HARDY
—KO'd in the first round.
Lee To M.S.C. Post In Council Controversy
P. S.G.L. members of the Men's Student Council last night conceded a point to the Pachacamac minority council group, when they agreed to allow Richard Lee, junior engineer, to take a seat on the Council.
The issue of whether Lee would be allowed to serve on the body had its origin last month when Dave Oberlin, who was elected to the Council as a Pachacamac representatives to the School of Engineering, appeared before the Council to announce that he no longer would be able to serve on the body. Oberlin explained that he would no longer be enrolled in the University
and therefore be unable to serve on the Council.
P. S.G.L. Council members maintained that Oberlin had resigned his post and that according to the constitution of the governing body, his position could not be filled until the next regular election.
Last night the issue reached a climax when Lee appeared at the Council meeting to replace Oberlin, Pachacamac party leaders claimed that Oberlin had not resigned but had become ineligible with his withdrawal from the University. They maintained that the constitution provided that, if a representative becomes ineligible to serve on the Council, he may be replaced by another member of that party.
P. S.G.L.'s leveled their charge of the unconstitutionality of the move from the fact that Lee's absence had been recorded in the Council's of- (continued on page 91)
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Charges Lottery Graft
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 29.—(UP) Harold Christoffel, president of the Milwaukee County Industrial Union Council (CIO), demands today that Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra postpone the conscription lottery until all registrants are given certificates of their serial numbers.
Christoffel, in a telegram to Dykstra, charged that the conscription bordered on "a national scandal of the first magnitude."
"The registrant has not proof of his serial number nor any assurance against tampering with the numbers after the national lottery," he said.
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