Hope W.S.G.A. Boost To Dormitory Drive Will Be Made Tonight
Sponsors of the dormitory fund drive looked to tonight's W.S.G.A. meeting today in expectation of a grant from the women's council to the campus-wide drive for dormitory aid.
The drive, initiated by the Men's Student Council, hopes to furnish several rooms or to buy bedding for Alumni Place, men's dormitory which will go into use next fall.
The M.S.C. boosted the drive to the extent of $75 recently. Donn Mosser, c'42, head of the drive, said he hoped the women's council would make an appropriation also.
At least 12 teams will compete in the house-to-house canvass to raise funds, Mosser said today. Captains of these teams are expected to be chosen tonight, and probably will meet tomorrow.
Attempts are being made to secure a room in Alumni Place, at the top of Fourteenth street, for the drive's headquarters. If these plans succeed, meetings of team captains and all committees will be held there, it was said.
Mosser said the committee planned to erect an indicator somewhere on the campus to show how the drive progressed.
The committee will ask both Pan-Hellenic councils for aid also. Mosser was not sure when this request would be made.
Alumni Place
Athletes Have Big Time Giving Mellerdrammer
By Jim Bell, c'40
The K-Club muscled its way to a three act decision over "Murder in the Old Red Barn, or The Price She Paid" before a full house in the Little Theater of Green hall last night.
Coach Rolla Nuckles and his team were in superb form. They jumped into a quick lead at the sound of the whistle and kept driving away until the final gun. John Naramore, who can do more things with his eyes than Jerry Cologna, Bill Beven, and Quido Massare led the assault.
The Musclemen proved once and for all that as actors K.U. has the finest athletes in the Bix Six conference. If they could only play Missouri on the stage of Fraser theater instead of Memorial Stadium! Man alive, it would be a slaughter! A Riot of Laughter
The play itself is a riot of laughter from start to finish. Most of last night's audience felt that it was even better than "The Drunkard," presented last year.
Naramore makes the play the success that it is. His ogling and heroic postures brought down the house last night and will probably continue to do so throughout the run which closes Thursday night. The knee-
Bill Beven, a burly pole vaulter, is a most pathetic heroine. She (I mean he) suffers tragically at the hands of the dastardly Naramore, who manages to make a fallen woman of her, kill their child, and at least a half dozen other persons during the 45 minute performance.
sagging, cross-eyed pose he affects while strung upon the gallows at the final curtain, is a masterpiece.
Quido Massare plays the revenge seeking gypsy like he plays guard on Gwinn Henry's football team—with deadly effectiveness. His garbled speeches are at times the funniest thing in the show.
Probably the most appreciated bit in the show last night was the appearance of the Bouncing Beauties, a beef trust chorus composed of Hartman, Jakie Fry, Chester Gibbons, Eldredh Cadawalader, Dick Driscoll, and John Burge. Their pong work on "Ain't She Sweet" done in the best Gillis manner, was called back for the only encore awarded by the audience.
The Famous Four quartet, directed by Otto Kiehl, was good for plenty of laughs at the end of the first act and following the final curtain. Besides Kiehl, the barber shop four included Harry Hill, Bill Arnold
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University DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Commencement and baccalaureate speakers will be Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Dr. John Charles
Distribution of degrees among this year's graduating class is as follows: Bachelor of Arts, 279; B.C. in nursing, 4; B.S. in medicine, 12; B.S. in business, 129; B.S. in education, 37; B.S. in engineering, 91; B.S. in fine arts, 52; LL.B. (law), 26; B.S. in pharmacy, 13; M.D. (medicine), 69; certificates of nursing, 37.
VOLUME XXXVII Z-229 LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940.
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Britain Girds For Nazi Attack On English Soil
More than 1.000 degrees and certificates will be awarded at the University's sixty-eighth annual commencement exercises Monday, June 10.
Included in the list are 285 degrees which have been earned by students either at the end of last summer session or at mid-semester of this school year and 749 degrees which will go to the June graduating class.
Army Air Officers To Examine 50 Men
NUMBER 149.
Four officers of the army air corps examining board landed at the Lawrence airport yesterday afternoon in a 12-ton Douglas bomber. They will be at the Watkins Memorial hospital today through Thursday giving physical examinations to men between the ages of 20 and 27 applying $ ^{4} $
1,000 Degrees To Be Granted
for admittance to the air corps
Lieut. Coleman Hinton, of Barksdale field, Shreveport, La., has been conducting interviews with applicants in the R.O.T.C. office in Fowler Shops. So far 50 men have applied for admittance. At the University of Nebraska, 29 of the 87 who took the examination passed, according to Lieutenant Hinton.
Lieutenant Hinton will leave Lawrence Tuesday and go to the University of Wichita where the officers are scheduled to interview and examine prospects next.
The candidates must be unmarried and must have completed two years of college work by the end of this semester. Those who pass the physical examination will be sent to civilian air schools for three months training and then will go to Randolph Field, San Antonio, for six months basic and advanced instruction. They will receive $75 per month, room, board and medical attention.
Seniors Meet Tomorrow
Members of the senior class will meet at 10:30 tomorrow morning at Fraser theater in the annual business session of the graduating students. This year students will be excused from classes that hour to attend.
Planned for the meeting are three phases of senior Commencement activities. The group will be conducted in its annual business session by Henry Schwaller, b40, president, at which time the senior dues will be voted.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, will talk briefly on fellowship among the graduates-to-be, a talk which Chancellor Lindley presented in former years.
Balfour Jeffrey, '28. of Topeka will speak to the seniors in behalf of the Alumni association. Jeffrey, chairman of the membership committee of organized graduates, was honor man of the class of 1928.
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London, May 14 — (UP) Great Britain prepared speedily today to meet a German bombing-parachutist troop attack on the British Isles.
By Wallace Carroll United Press Correspondent
There was growing conviction that a main objective of the Germans in their drive to the Dutch-Belgian coast was to establish bases within 100 miles of the British coast from which they could raid Britain and counter the harrying campaign which British planes are carrying out against German troops in the Low countries.
Guards had already been strengthened at all airports and similar key areas. Military authorities were perfecting plans for a voluntary rifle corps of World war veterans to combat parachutists. The aid of every man capable of handling a gun would be sought to patrol woods and open spaces, particularly from dawn to dusk, and to keep watch with field glasses for planes and parachutists.
It was reported that police stations all over the country already were stocked with arms and ammunition ready for immediate distribution in event of an emergency.
Thousands of soldiers and policemen already have been assigned to special anti-parachutist patrol duty. Steel helmeted soldiers stopped motorists, particularly in coastal areas, and demanded identification papers in connection with a nationwide round-up of aliens.
Germans Smash Into France
By Joe Alex Morris United Press Staff Correspondent
The German army smashed into the edge of France today.
Adolf Hitler's motorized legions sliced through Holland to the sea, broke past the Belgian main defense lines and reached Sedan, France, in a gigantic test of strength—the Battle of the River Meuse—that may decide the war in the Low Countries.
Everywhere, the Germans claimed, their armies and air force were making lightning progress-well ahead of schedule in a drive to seize Dutch and Belgian bases for a Blitzkrieg attack on England and possibly to assault the French Maginot line.
Dispatches from Allied sources
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