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1 CENTIMETER = 0.3937 INCHES -
1 METER = 39.37 INCHES OR 3.28083 FEE T OR 1.0936 YDS -
1 INCH = 2.54 CENTIMETERS - 1 DECIMETER = 3.937 IN. OR 0.328 FOOT
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXVIII
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9,1940
NUMBER 18
Dorms Show Force in Engine School Election
By JIM SURFACE
Of potential political significance was the election held yesterday in the School of Engineering and Architecture in which the freshman class elected Claude White, e'44, of Battenfeld Hall, representative on the Engineering Council.
White ran in opposition to the professional fraternity combine which in previous years has been able to garner the majority of votes and offices in the school.
This defeat of the "combine" was largely due to
the power thrown in by a concerted effort on the part of the three new men's dormitories. Although the dorms did not form a formal party in opposition to the old hegemony, they made their power felt by combining for the first time the votes of the independent engineering students.
The future of either, or both, of the present political parties depends on the significance of tsis move and its development in general csiool politics. If the engineering school should split definitely
along fraternity and independent lines with the three dormitories as the latter's leader, this would take the control of the school from the hands of Pachacamac party and make it more of an even split. In past years Pachacamac has been able to count on a good majority in the engineering school obtained by the engineering fraternities; this was their stronghold. But the control shifting indicates the engineering school might become again an independent political front.
Registration Plans Take Shape
Axis May Hit At Balkans Africa, Orient
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Operations of the Axis powers and Japan threatened new military blows in the Balkans, North Africa and the Far East today, but the real war raged most fiercely in the air over Germany and the British Isles.
Nazi warplanes smashed with bombs and machine guns at streets in London and other cities where the wreckage of buildings, hospitals and homes was piled higher than ever as a result of furious attacks in the last 48 hours.
In London, one bomb destroyed a big section of a hospital in which 108 patients were housed, apparently taking a heavy toll of lives. Another bomb crashed through an air raid shelter in which 150 persons had sought safety, killing eight or more. The toll mounted as Nazi pilots circled back to drop incendiary bombs on the scene and as others glided low to machine gun streets in British towns.
R. A.F. Strikes at Naval Bases
The heavy all-night attacks on Britain were echoed by the crash of British bombs in Germany, where the London air ministry said that great damage had been inflicted on the Nazi naval bases at Bremen and Wilhelmshaven and the invasion ports along the English channel and in Holland.
Objectives included oil refineries, power stations, war factories and other targets in line with Prime Minister Winston Churchill's promise that the task of destroying the German war power would not be interrupted in order to carry out reprisal bombings of Berlin.
Nazi sources at Berlin reported that about 30 British bombers had been turned back by Nazi night fighters when they tried to enter Germany from the North Sea.
Phelps Speaks In Hoch Tonight On Truth, Poetry
William Lyon Phelps who has a name as one of the foremost living critics of English literature will open the community Lecture series with his lecture on "Truth and Poetry" in Hoch Auditorium at 8:20 tonight.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
—Call Billy
Dr. Phelps, known to thousands of undergraduates as Billy, will give an informal talk which promises to be of interest to
Swarthout Talks in Kansas City to MacDowell Club
Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts spoke Monday evening at the opening meeting of MacDowell Study club of Kansas City, Kan.
any person who has any interests in reading the literature of England and America.
Students will be admitted to the lecture by presentation of their activity tickets. Faculty members and ownpeople may buy tickets for 35 and 50 cents. Season tickets for the entire Community Lecture series be obtained at the business office.
The professor emeritus of Yale University long has been known as an advocate of free speech, and anecdotes from his latest book, "Autobiography with Letters," illustrate how he maintained freedom of speech at Yale University up to the week of the outbreak of war with Germany in 1917. While universities throughout the country closed their doors on speakers who maintained that the United States could maintain neutrality, Doctor Phelps obtained permission for them to speak to Yale audiences.
Dr. Phelps will be introduced to members of the University faculty at a dinner given by Chancellor Deane W. Malott at 6:30 tonight at the Memorial Union building.
Few Frolic Ducats Left; No Corsages
Only 15 of the original tickets for the Freshman Frolic remain it was announced today by Fred Littooy, dance manager. A limit of 750 tickets was made so that those who purchased admissions would be able to
TOMMY DORSEY
—No Flowers.
dance as well as listen to Tommy Dorsey's orchestra.
The "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" will also broadcast on a national hook-up over station WREN the same night at 10 o'clock. This (continued to page eight)
R-Day Board Of Nearly 50 To be Used
Plans for setting up a registration board to assist in the registration of student of the University of Kansas on Oct. 16 are being carried to completion by George O. Foster, who was appointed chief registrar for the University by T. R. Gerhart, county clerk of Douglas county.
The board will consist of volunteer workers, clerks, stenographers and office personnel.
Although no funds are available for the payment of those who serve on the registration board there has
Registration will take place in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., Oct. 16, instead of from 7 until 9 in the morning as announced in yesterday's University Daily Kansan.
been a whole-hearted response and cooperation on the part of those asked to help. It is expected that the board will consist of from 35 to 50 persons.
A school for the registration board will be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, at which instructions will be given regarding the procedure to be followed in registering the students. The registration board also will be sworn in at this time. Announcement as to the time and place of this meeting will be made later.
Although 1,250 registration blanks (continued to page eight)
WSGA Wants Pepleaders in Skirts
Skirts, not slacks, for feminine cheerleaders were endorsed last night by the Women's Self-Governing Association in its meeting in the Memorial Union building.
This opinion was unofficially expressed Monday by the Men's Student Council when Paul Yankey, b'41, told the Council that "no girl looks good in slacks."
The women's council made light of the recent morality decision that feminine cheerleaders must wear slacks instead of
skirts or shorts.
The W.S.G.A. legislators agreed that girl cheerleaders need not do a great deal of tumbling and that skirts were necessary to establish the feminine touch. Furthermore, the council said, the cheerleaders will be so far from the stands that in slacks, they will look like male cheerleaders.
To members of the M.S.C., shorts for the women are preferable with skirts running second.