TUF
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940
NUMBER 160.
Sweep To Channel
CAA Student Flying Program Continues During Summer
84 Ready For New Course At Airport
Eighty-four students this morning had notified Prof. Earl D. Hay, director of the student flight training course, of their intention to enroll in the summer flight training course here and indications pointed to an enrollment that would overflow the tentative 100-student quota requested by C.A.A. officials last night.
Professor Hay last night received a call from Washington, D.C., requesting that he determine the number of students interested in enrolling for a summer course. He was asked to reply by 10 o'clock this morning.
Radio Helps Cause
Radio broadcasts were made over a local station and organized houses were called last night in an effort to learn the number interested. Government officials suggested that a convocation be held to notify students that a summer course would be offered, but the plan was discarded as being impractical with the start of final examinations today.
Professor Hay said he believed 150 students would apply for the summer course, although the number would be lessened by the strict medical examinations given appli-
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War Bulletins
Dublin, May 29—(UP)Mobilization of regular army troops and first line volunteers, and urgent measures to defend the country from invasion, were speeded up today.
Paris, May 29—(UP)—Long trains of oversize gliders, towed to great altitudes by bomber planes and then cut loose, are being used to transport German parachute troops by night to points behind the Allied lines in northern France, it was reported today.
Paris, May 29—(UP)—The Paris Soir reported today that King Leopold had arrived at Brussels castle, which the German high command authorized him to occupy.
London, May 29—(UP)—It was reported without confirmation here today that the Japanese commercial and friendship mission, now visiting Italy, had reported to Tokyo that Italy's early entry into the war is certain.
Washington, May 29—(UP)—Mass production of new popular-priced gas mask for civilians-designated by the army as Mi-i-i—will be started soon as part of the national defense program.
Officials said today that the mask was developed by army experts and, of special importance in event of an emergency, can be manufactured entirely from domestic products.
Rolla Nuckles Resigns To Go to Northwestern
Rolla Nuckles, instructor in speech and dramatic arts, has resigned his position at the University, effective at the end of this semester, Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department announced today.
Nuckles will serve as instructor in
speech at Northwestern University this summer and will receive his master's degree in speech and dramatic arts at the completion of the summer term there.
Weather
Fair in east portion, partly cloudy with showers in west tonight and Thursday. Little change in temperature.
W.S.G.A.
Passes
Dance Bill
The varsity dance manager bill providing a new system of paying the manager and restricting his activities, passed by the W.S.G.A. and M.S.C., will become effective when signed by the Chancellor.
The amended bill, passed May 21 by M.S.C., was accepted last night by W.S.G.A., at the last meeting of the council. The amendments provide that the dance manager be selected by a committee of five, composed of two members of M.S.C., two members of W.S.G.A., and the retiring dance manager. The new dance manager will be paid $5 for each varsity dance and the whole salary for the year not to exceed $100.
Jean Steele, c'41, and Barbara Koch, c'43, were appointed as W.S. G.A. representatives on the varsity dance committee. Dave Oberlin, c'41, and Jim Burdge, c'41, will represent M.S.C.
The Federation of Freshmen Counsellors will receive $50 from W.S.G.A. to use in carrying out the orientation program in the fall for freshmen women.
Plans for freshman week next fall were discussed but no definite action was taken.
NOTICE
The library will be open tomorrow between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., it was announced today.
University Club Seeks New Room In Union; May Give Up House
The University Club today announced definite intentions of moving from their present location at 1433 Ohio street into the Sunflower room of the Memorial Union building.
The club is negotiating with the Memorial Union operating committee in regard to renting the Sunflower room at $1,200 a year. The operating committee met yesterday afternoon and agreed that the following terms for the lease of 1,600 feet of floor space would be acceptable to the building:
"First, that the rental would be
"Second, that the Union would install a suitable floor, paint the walls, install proper electrical fixtures and provide light, heat and janitor service.
$1200 per annum.
"Thirdly, that the lease would expire at the end of two years with a renewal subject to the approval of both parties."
The Sunflower room is the floor space just west of the present cafeteria. The proposed location for the University club headquarters would be this space and a small addition which is now part of the cafeteria.
The proposal is still subject to the approval of the building committee of the University Club which will meet with the Union building committee within the next 10 days.
The entire floor space would total 1,600 feet.
J. D. Stranathan, chairman of the nUniversity Club committee, said that in all probability the club would accept the terms as offered by the Union building. Stranathan said said that the new location would provide a lounging room, club room, and a location for the club's social functions.
In its meeting yesterday, the operating committee also ruled that if the University Club undertook to accept the conditions as offered it was to be understood that there would be now curtailment of present students facilities and functions. The committee also ruled that beyond the proposed lease no further floor space in the building could be allotted to other than strictly student affairs.
The committee also voted to set aside the net rental from the proposed University Club lease as part of a special building fund.
German Push To Ostend
By Joe Alex Morris (UP) Foreign Editor
German troops drove forward on three sides today in an attempt to "seal the fate" of the Allied army of the north—400,-000 British and French soldiers fighting desperately with their backs to the English channel.
Tremendous pressure appeared to bring near a complete Nazi triumph in the Battle of Flanders. Berlin claimed capture of Ostend, Bruges, and Diximude, in Belgium, and the great French northern industrial center of Lille. There was still no indication of a major Allied counter-offensive.
British Take Narvik
One ray of good news flashed through to spark Allied morale. The British high command announced a seven weeks campaign above the Arctic Circle in Norway had been crowned with success in the capture of the iron ore port of Narvik.
But on the Northern Franco-Belgian front the Germans were striking for the kill. Aided by capitulation of the Belgians who had held the left flank, German forces slashed into the narrow Allied foothold along the sea and the high command asserted that the fate of the Army of the North had been sealed.
Hold Two Parts
Only two bomb-shattered explosion-wrecked ports remained in Allied control for the withdrawal of their troops from the German trap. These were Dunkirk, reported by the Germans to be under their artillery fire as well as air bombardment, and Zeebrugge, World War German submarine base.
How long the Allies could hold these ports was uncertain. The Germans were only 10 or 12 miles from Dunkirk and Zeebrugge. What once had been an Allied sector of hundreds of square miles today was only a strip of sandy coastline, about 40 miles long and hardly more than 15 miles wide at any point. By capturing Ostend, the Germans split the Allied territory in two.
The sector had been riddled by criss-crossing German columns, each one reducing the Allied territory until today there was little more left than bridgeheads at the last two ports of Dunkirk and Zeebrugge through which the desperate effort at evacuation was being made. See Fail Of Zeebrugge
German losses in the effort to deal an annihilating blow at the Allied Army of the North were known to
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