UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1940.
NUMBER 155.
Airport Officials Mum on Student Crash
Airport officials today bluntly refused to give details of a student plane crash, believed to have occurred between here and Topeka a week ago.
The training plane, thought to have been bearing one student flyer
and an instrucctor, crashed into trees which prevented its takeoff from a small wheat field, it was said.
the plane out of the small field where it landed.
Unofficial sources said the ship's occupants were practicing 'foreed landings' and were unable to bring
No one was thought to be injured and the extent of the damage was not officially announced. Reliable sources, however, estimated the damage at approximately $600.
Bill Ashcraft of the Ashcraft Flying School, who is in charge of the actual training of the University students, said he had nothing to say about the accident.
At the airport this morning, Aschar refused to say why he couldn't
give details of the wreck. Others at the airport said they were "not putting out anything on this."
Student flyers said today they were told to keep quiet about the wreck and its details.
Allies Strike Back To Retake Arras
K.U.'s 'Army' Gets Awards At Barbecue
The R.O.T.C. finished its last day of drill this semester with the presentation of awards and a barbecue in Memorial stadium this evening.
The Units formed in front of Fowler shops at 4:30 this afternoon and marched in column formation behind the University band to the stadium. The awards were presented to various organizations within the Units, and to individual cadets for records of outstanding work during the year.
The Chancellor's cup went to com-
the name of the battalion is en-
having the highest rating in drill,
appearance, bearing and attendance.
The name of the Battalion is engraved on the Chancellor's cup, and a red ribbon appended to the company's guidon. Cadet Captain D. R Hopkins, b'40, commanded the company.
The American Legion cup went to (Continued on page five)
Red Cross Fund Drive To Campus
The drive for funds for the Emergency War Relief by the American Red Cross began at the University today and will extend through next Wednesday. A committee headed by E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, will conduct the drive, part of a nation wide move to aid war victims.
All persons connected with the University will be asked to contribute. They may specify the country they desire their contribution to aid.
Eighty-five per cent of the money raised will be used in direct war relief and 15 per cent will be used in the sewing rooms in Douglas county.
Born, Kuhn To Edit Kansan
Eugene Kulin, c'40, was elected editor-in-chief and Roscoe Born, c'41, managing editor of the University Daily Kansan for next semester at a meeting of the Kansas board yesterday afternoon. Harry Hill, c'40, will be the new chairman of the Kansan board. Virginia Gray, c'41, was elected secretary.
Weygand Moves To Cut Through Nazi Life-Line
By Joe Alex Morris United Press Foreign News Editor
Gen. Maxime Weygand rallied the armies of the Allies today after a dramatic airplane flight over the blazing battle lines that criss-cross Flanders and Picardy for hundreds of square miles.
Back at headquarters he gave quick, decisive orders. Within a few hours the French high command claimed the recapture of Arras, splitting the German life-line to Abbeville on the English Channel.
The outcome of the enormous conflict still was uncertain. Scores of major and minor engagements raged from the banks of the Aisne at Rethel to the mouth of the Somme at Abbeville and north in Flanders and Picardy.
Germans Deny Loss of Arras
At the moment that Paris reported that German flying columns at Abbeville on the English channel had been cut off by the recapture of Arras, the German high command asserted that the Abbeville forces had struck to the north from the Somme toward Montreuil and St. Pol. The Germans said an attack on Arras was repulsed.
With German and Allied troops inter-laced and fighting behind each other's lines and across communications and supply (Continued on page eight)
Britain Takes Dictatorial Powers Over Men, Industry and Money
London, May 22.—(UP)—Great Britain mustered its entire resources of men, industries and money under dictatorial powers today to meet the "grave peril in which the nation stands."
The government presented to Parliament for immediate passage of a far reaching bill giving it full dictatorial control over all men and material resources.
The measure provides:
1. Full government control over all industries and commerce with absolute powers to dictate production, close down factories or even destroy property where and if necessary;
principle,
3. Complete powers to draft labor, diverting it and employing it as necessary for the national defense;
2. A 100 per cent tax on excess profits;
3. A 50 per cent tax on excess profits;
4. Control over national banking facilities;
The bill became a law at 6:19 p.m.
(11:19 a.m., CST) after both houses of Parliament had approved it and Royal consent had been given.
5. All persons and all property in the British Isles to be at the full service and direction of the government;
of Commons that the government would rush to final passage a measure giving it complete control over all of Britain's resources to meet the critical German threat.
The sweeping action to centralize powers in the government came after Maj. Clement Attlee, member of the inner war cabinet, told the House
All of Britain's manpower, and all of her vast industrial and financial resources must be placed at the disposition of the government without a moment's delay, he declared.
The government seeks control. A-
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Name Dean Of Pharmacy From East
J. Allen Reese, assistant professor of pharmacy in the Medical College of Virginia, is the newly appointed dean of the School of Pharmacy, it was announced by the Chancellor's office today.
Dr. Reese will succeed Dean L. D. Havenhill in September, after his retirement July 1. Doctor Havenhill has been a member of the pharmacy school for the past 40 years and head of the school for the past 15 years.
The new dean received his B.S. degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1930, his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Florida in 1938. He has had considerable experience in the various laboratories of the University of Florida and the Virginia Medical College. Dr. Reese is a member of several national committees and has been selected by the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association to head a project of popularizing medicines of the United States Pharmacepia and National Formulary. He is only 34 years of age, which makes him the youngest dean on the campus. He is not married.
English Head Appointed Today
Dr. J. W. Ashton, of the University of Iowa, has been named to succeed W. S. Johnson as chairman of the department of English. Professor Johnson is retiring from his administrative duties, but will teach
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