UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
NUMBER 147
Z-229
Blasts Vote Fraud
Charges that a "fraternity machine" illegally controlled the School of Engineering election yesterday were made today by Presson Shane, e'41 vice-president of the Men's Student Council.
Tom Arbuckle, e'41, was elected president of the engineering student body in the contested voting. Dick Lee, e'42, won out in the balloting for vice-president, with Darrel Liston, e'41, as secretary-treasurer, and Rex Bailey, e'41, as senior representative.
Shane charged that a machine-manned election committee allowed proxy voting by members of three engineering fraternities. "A voter would just present a slip saying he was entitled to vote for someone else," Shane said, "and the committee would accept the ballot." Five Ballots to One
Shane said one fraternity man was given five ballots. The proxy voting was challenged at the polls, the protest claims, when an independent poll watcher discovered it. "The election committee would just draw aside and decide that proxies were okay," Shane said, "and the man would go ahead and vote."
The election committee, Shane explained, was composed of three machine men and two faculty members. One of the faculty men is a sponsor of one of the machine's fraternities, Shane said.
More Votes Than Names
Shane revealed that only 291 names were crossed off in voting directories, but that 307 ballots were cast. "The discrepancy of 16 votes shows further fraud in the election."
A third charge that fraternity men allowed voting without activity
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Dismiss Jury After Ten Hours Without Decision
Because it had recieied no decision after 10 hours of deliberating, the jury in hte case of Robert Palmer, former graduate student, was dismissed last night.
Palmer, charged with possession of intoxicating liquor, was denied permission to enroll at the University the second semester after he and his wife were arrested on liquor charges last February.
Mrs. Palmer recently completed a 30-day jail term imposed on her when their apartment was raided while Palmer was away. Her husband was released then on insufficient evidence, but was later re-arrested.
Mrs. Anna Olinger Retires From Director Duties
Mrs. Anna Olinger, for the past 12 years associate director of the Westminster Foundation, has announced her retirement from duties, effective August 31. Mrs. Olinger is the widow of the late Dr. Stanton Olinger, student pastor of the foundation from 1911-1917.
Miss Blanche Yeomans has been recommended by the local Westminster committee to fill the position of associate director, beginning September 1.
Winston Churchill Is England's New Prime Minister
Hitler Leads Troops Into Low Countries
Amsterdam, May 10—(UP)—Germany invaded Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg in a lightning blow by land, air and sea forces under the personal direction of Adolf Hitler today, but the Low Countries fought back with support of Great Britain and France.
Major fighting developed along the Dutch and Belgian frontiers and coastline.
Allied mechanized troops were reported advancing rapidly through Belgium to meet the Germans driving forward over a "wide front" in the Northwest in an effort to win new bases of possible aerial Blitzkrieg on England.
(A German wireless broadcast claimed that German troops had oc-
Hunt Club on to Show; One Casulty Mars Trip
The K.U. Hunt club left Bonner Springs this morning for Kansas City with one casualty to mar its cross country excursion. Al Muzenick, fa'40., is suffering from a dislocated hip, an injury he received when he was thrown from his horse as the group was arriving at the Bonner Spring's summer-camp, where they spent the night.
Two other riders who returned to Lawrence today are Ed McComas and Fritzi Meyn.
"Nez," 5-gaited mare, with Frances
At 8 o'clock tonight, 12 of the equestrians will take part in a ten minute demonstration at the Sportsman's Horse Show and Exposition as to how equitation is taught at the University of Kansas.
Gray as rider, will be entered in the amateur race of the show.
After the Horse Show tonight, the riders will return by car to Lawrence. The horses will be shipped back by truck.
Plenty of Room for Senior Cakewalkers Tonight Only 350 Tickets Sold for Dance
Bonner Springs turned out en masse to greet the Hunt club last night. After a dinner at which they were guests of the Bonner Springs Rotary club, the group went to a show.
Unless a couple of hundred Joes around the Hill decide this afternoon and evening to gcrape up two bucks and stag or drag their way to the Senior Cakewalk tonight, there will be plenty of elbow room in the Memorial Union ballroom tonight.
It was "estimated" this morning that about 350 tickets had been sold for the music of Will Osborne and his patented slide rhythms.
Hill jitter-bugs who aren't planning on going because they think that slide-rhythms mean waltz time, are mistaken. Extremely popular around Chicago, Osborne and his band were among the first to beat out swing arrangements.
The first band leader on the Hill this year to sing his own vocal refrains, Osborne will remind most listeners of Rudy Vallee. A singer of the crooner type, Will fronts and vocalizes for the organization. A large number of Osborne's recordings are currently on the discs at the campus hang-outs. At the Jayhawk swing addicts are currently enjoying the screwy "Could I But Kiss Thy Hand, O' Babe," "You Call It Madness," and a swing arrangement of one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies, "Hungry for a Rhapsody."
So far as real technique goes, Osborne may equal any band heard on the Hill this year. Undoubtedly his
band will be minus the blare and slip-shod high notes put out by the newly-formed Charley Barnett organization which was here for the Frolic. Osborne's style of sliding rhythms is gotten by a combination of three slide trumpets and three trombones. A record released within the last year called "Listen to the Slide Cornets" best illustrates his style.
The band has made many recordings and made history by setting an all-time record of broadcasting 14 times a week. The dance begins at 10 o'clock tonight, and lasts until 1 in the morning. Closing hours are at 1:30 a.m.
cupied the Hague, capital of the Netherlands.
Nazi airplanes roamed a vast part of western Europe, bombing Dutch, Belgian and French airports and communications centers including big channel ports. Four bombs were dropped on an English town near Canterbury. German and French planes battled over Switzerland and the Nazis dropped 17 bombs on a Swiss railroad near Balse.
Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg appealed to the Allied powers for assistance after 59-year-old Queen Wilhelmina—who celebrated this week the longest reign in the Dutch dynasty—had appealed to the people to resist the invaders and King Leopold of the Belgians, had followed the World War example of his father and taken command of the
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London, May 10—(UP) Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned tonight and Winston Churchill agreed to form a new government.
The new government, it was agreed without exception, shall be one of national unity in which Labor, Liberals, and Conservatives alike join to meet the threat of the dreaded German Blitzkrieg.
The change of government was being accomplished in record breaking speed for the ordinarily slow and traditionally British parliamentary city. England Shows Speed
Only this morning it was generally believed that despite the unleash of the German attack on the Low Countries and the imminent threat to the British Isles, it would be ten days or a fortnight before the new government might be formed.
But sudden conferences were held. The Labor party agreed to go into the government if Chamberlain quit. Within a few hours the preliminaries which would give England a
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Cops to Convoy--c'43; Marianna Bantleon, c'40; Margaret Barber, ed'40; Maxine Miller, c'41; Virginia Appel, c'42; Ruth Mary Nelson, ed'40; and Jane Blaney, c'40.
K-Club Cuties To Return In Time for Curtain Call
Arrangements are being made for a police escort for members of the Jayhawk baseball team who are in the cast of the K-Club melodrama, from Aggieville to the east city limits of Manhattan, so that the boys will be on hand for the opening curtain Wednesday night.
The members of the Kansas ball club who will travel by special car from Manhattan to Lawrence are Monte Merkel, ed'41, John Burge, ed'41, Larry Hensley, b'41, and Ray Napier, e'40.
Cokes and popcorn will be served during the play by 13 campus lassies selected by Julia Ruth Henry, ed'40, and Mary Noel, c'40, who are also directing the chorus. The bar maids were selected from girls representing four Hill sororities: Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Gamma Phi Beta. Girls taking part are Betty Ann Yankee, b'40; Betty Gene Sayles, b'40; Helen Hay, c'40; Mary Noel; Julia Ruth Henry; Betty Van Ardsale, c'40; Elizabeth Evans,
Jake Fry, ed'43, shifty halfback, has been showing real ability as a dancing chorein in the chorus. Chet Gibbens, c'41, has replaced Ed Suagee in the dance.
Julia Ruth Henry is making arrangements for the tables and chairs to be used at the K-Club performance.
Kistler and Ellsworth To Attend Topeka Meet
J. J. Kistler, assistant professor of journalism, and Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, will attend the meeting of the Southwest Association of Industrial Editors at Topeka Friday.
Professor Kistler is superintendent of the journalism press at the University and Ellsworth is editor of the Graduate Magazine.