UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 16. 1940.
NUMBER 151.
Senior Gift To New Dorm Hiked $1,100
Senior class president Henry Schwaller estimated today that the contributions of the class toward furnishing and decorating Alumni Place would exceed $1,800, instead of the $750 previously estimated.
Schwaller based his estimate on the fact that the class will recke $600 on senior invitations and an additional $750 from senior class dues.
Profit from the rental of caps and gowns for graduating seniors will further boost the amount by $200, Schwaller said. With a profit expected to result from the annual senior breakfast in the Memorial Union building, the fund will be further increased to the $1800 fund now estimated, Schwaller said.
Over 70 Editors To Honor Malott Saturday Night
Acceptances arriving today indicated more than 70 Kansas newspaperpapersm and University journalism students will attend the Sigma Delta Chi banquet Saturday night in honor of Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
An informal program, with William Allen White of Emporia as master of ceremonies, will be designed to allow the Chancellor to meet personally as many of the visiting editors as the time will permitt.
Mr. Malott, a member of Sigma Delta Chi and a journalism student when he attended the University, will move from table to table, eating each course with a different group. The banquet will be held in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union kuilding.
Among prominent newspapermen who have notified banquet officials they will be present are Oscar Stauffer, Arkansas City, publisher of several Kansas newspapers; Marco Morrow, Capper Publications, Topeka; Drew McLaughlin and Drew McLaughlin, Jr., c'38, Miami Republican, Paola; Ea.r.l Knauss, Garnett Review; Paul Mickelson, Associated Press bureau in Kansas City; George Lerrigo, Overbrook Citizen; Will T. Beck, Holton Recorder; and Walt Neibarger, Tonganoxie Mirror.
Nazi Forces Batter Allies At Louvain
Here's What Nazis Claim
Berlin, May 16—(UP)—The German High Command reported today that Nazi armies were hammering forward through southern Belgium in a drive designed to encircle the Allied defenders before Louvain, Brussels and Antwerp.
The German armies that smashed across the River Meuse in France near Sedan were reported in the High Command communique to have beaten off powerful counter-attacks in the Maginot Line defenses, where the biggest French tanks were thrown into battle in an attempt to break the German foothold.
While the Germans clung to their positions in the Sedan sector, however, the Nazi drive across the Meuse river south of the Belgian town of Namur and thence westward continued, the High Command said.
"Our divisions extended their successes on the western bank of the Meuse river and here again defeated French armored forces," the communique said. This drive, intended to slice across southern Belgium, was an attempt to cut off the Allied forces defending Brussels and Antwerp by a flanking movement while ther Nazi forces engaged the British, French and Belgians along the Dyle river defense line and at Namur.
The High Command communique said nothing about the fighting before Antwerp or Brussels, although it was known that severe battles were in progress along the Dyle river front. (This may have indicated that the Nazis were concentrating on widening their advance south of
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Bulletin
Washington, May 16- (UP) President Roosevelt today proposed to Congress a $1,182,000,000 emergency national defense program and called for 50,000 military and naval airplanes to meet the threat of modern war.
The combined air strength of the army and navy now is 5,563 planes.
President Roosevelt proposed to put national defense factories on a 24-hour basis.
Europe Calls Graduate To See War With Ambulance Corps
The long rows of pictures of the University World War dead on the wall in Memorial Union building are enough to throw the fear of war and death into the average student and graduate—but not Robert Scott Raymond, a business graduate of 1934.
Bob, older brother and "spit listed as ambulance driver in France for the American voluntary ambulance corps.
He will sail on the S.S. Manhattan for Genoa, Italy, this Saturday. This is the only port in Europe still docking American ships. Should Italy go to war on the side of Germany while Bob is enroute to that country, he
may encounter some difficulty in getting into France—if he is lucky enough to escape being imprisoned.
The 27-year old "soldier-of-fortune" who since graduation has worked for his father in the furniture business in Kansas City, said re-
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Ducats for Premiere Are Going To Be Scarce
By Wandalee Carlson, c'42
How to wrangle an invitation to the premiere of "Far Above the Golden Valley" will be the problem of University students from now until May 29.
Who will be among the favored few to feel the thrill of an opening night with all the Glamour of orchids, directors, spotlights and such stars as Ann Rightmire, Ester Mitchell, Les Hixon, Fred Litttooy, and David Lawrence? there will be three
Out of the 700 able to attend the opening in Fraser theater a majority of the invitations will go to the cast of approximately 300 and professors of the University. But even if you aren't among the lucky ones you will still have a chance to see the picture. Unless plans are changed
there will be three or four showings of the forty minute film immediately after the premiere.
A sneak preview of the picture was held yesterday in the motion picture class of Allen Crafton, director of the film and professor of speech and dramatic art. This was held mainly for the purpose of editing.
Kansans Tops Air Exams Show
Five more applications for admittance to the army air corps were accepted this morning, Major H. W. Beaton, pilot of the "Flying Carpet Examining Board," announced at noon today.
This number brings the total of accepted applications to 19. A total of 45 applications were considered.
"A little more than 42 per cent of the applications were accepted, a better average than for any of the other schools we have visited," Major Beaton said. "However, the average for our entire trip which includes about 17 colleges and universities will probably not be more than one out of four. Until we came here, the average was only about five." glasses, or had another
The pilot of the "Flying Board" remarked, however, that about 10 applicants were not formally examined. "It was obvious that they were either too tall, too light, had to wear
glasses, or had another defect that made it impossible to consider them," he said.
The "Flying Carpet Examining Board" is composed of Major Beaton, (See below)
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Here's What Allies Claim
Paris, May 16, (UP), A spearhead of German armored columns battered Allied lines outside Louvain, martyr city of the World War, today in a thrust for Brussels and Antwerp.
Louvain was described as the vortex of hurricane battle that raged from Sedan on the Maginot Line to the Bastion of Antwerp where the Allied left flank is anchored.
French advices asserted that the Germans were striving to repeat the techniques of their polish campaign by hurling amored columns through the allied defense lines for lightning blows against rearward communications.
These efforts, it was said, are concentrated at the lines defending Louvain, again battered and bombed 20 years after it was devastated in the German sweep through Belgium in 1914.
The Louvain lines are held by the British as are the bulk of the positions from Louvain north to Antwerp. They are aided by Belgian troops and by some remnants of the Dutch army which managed to reach the Allied lines.
The Faris Soir reported that a great battle was raging between Antwerp and Namur and that Brussels was the immediate German objective. The Germans were understood to be using little artillery except for the comparatively small guns carried by the armored troops and the cannon-equipped heavy tanks.
LONDON, MAY 16—(UP)—Admitting that Belgian forces had withdrawn in an orderly manner at some points before a powerful German tank and airplane attack. Belgian Minister of Communications Paul Delfosse asserted today that the Germans were suffering heavily and that the Liege, Namur and other forts held out.
PARIS, MAY 16.—(UP) — The battle on the Namur-Sedan front has become a war of movement with motorized elements and aviation on both sides taking part, the High Command said in its morning communique today.
"In the superior interest of conducting operations we can not furnish at the present time information
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