UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 5.1940
Britain Pushes Economic War
England Plans Mass Building Of Marine
London, April 5—(UP)—Big scale plans for mass production of merchant ships and for cutting Germany's line of supply to the Balkans were made public today as part of a new and far-reaching extension of economic warfare throughout the world.
Reports that Germany was diverting Scandinavian iron ore shipments from the North sea to the Gulf of Bothnia, to await the spring thaw;
announcement that Australia would institute contreband control Monday; disclosure that despite Japanese anger, Britain intended to exercise full belligerent rights in the Asiatic Pacific to keep Russia from sending Germany supplies along the Trans-Siberian railroad, all combined to show how Britain was extending the relentless tentacles of its blockade throughout the world. Program Unprecedented
A report by William Westwood, secretary of the Ship Constructors' and Shipwrights' association now aiding the Admiralty, disclosed plans for an unprecedented program of mass shipbuilding, in which each yard would build but one type of ship.
Earlier it had been made known that the Admiralty was considering the construction of concrete freight ships to test whether, as some experts asserted, they could be built
more swiftly and cheaply than steel ships, and thus conserve steel supplies. Some such ships, built during the World War, are reported till in service.
Westwood's shipping report said that the government had already started its effort to break all world shipbuilding records with a program of "emergency ships" to be built in yards all over the British Isles, and add tennage to the merchant fleet faster than Germany in any calculable submarine, mine and airplane offensive could sink them. Different Type for Each Yard
Each yard is to build the particular type which experts find it can construct fastest and most economically.
It was emphasized that mistakes made in the World War, when Britain and then the United States were building ships at feverish speed, would be avoided and that all ships would be built to last.
Werner, Students To I.S.A. Meet
At 5:45 a.m. yesterday Henry Werner, Men Students' Adviser, and five members of the student body, Carter Butler, c'41 Charlotte Seel, fa'41; Howard Sells, c'43; Paul Gilles, c'43; and Mary Gene Hull, c'43, left for Purdue university and the third annual meeting of the National Independent Student Association, to be held tomorrow and Saturday.
Last year a stormy March day greeted delegates to the second meeting of the national group which was held here on March 31 and April 1. But 120 visitors from 24 colleges and universities attended the two-day meeting. The University of Oklahoma led the out-
of-town registrations then with delegates.
The first meeting of the national association in 1938 was at the University of Oklahoma. A total of 115 delegates registered that year.
Lawrence Relaxes---
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viewed a bit of Lawrence history in South Park.
When the time to relax came, stars and fans did just that. At $4 a throw, stars and fans relaxed all over the Country Club. The dance was rather stiff at first but later things really got underway. The house saw that the customers were all satisfied and they were.
And that's about the way with Lawrence today—satisfied. Satisfied with a picture that turned out much better than they expected. Satisfied with a festival that brought 40,000 or 80,000 persons to Lawrence for a big time.