UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Z-229
NUMBER 119.
VOLUME XXXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1940.
Contest Ends At 8 O'clock This Evening
Furious balloting and intensive campaigning marked the final day of the Kansan's contest to select escorts for Claire Trevor and John Wayne at the world Premiere of "Dark Command" tomorrow night.
Dark horses continued to thrust their way into the race when Pi Beta Phi switched its allegiance from Bill O'Shea, of Phi Gamma Delta, to Harry Ham, a Phi Delt, and announced a candidate of its own in Mary Jane Shartel.
Sig Chi's Serenade”
The Sigma Chi's were beating the political drums hard last night when they canvassed the campus sorority houses with an out-of-tune German band in a final effort to induce coeds to cast their ballots for Dick Mize.
Though no ballots have been counted as yet, a hot race for the feminine honor is forecast between Virginia Ford, Chi Omega, and Kayo O'Sullivan, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Contest Over At 8
The ballot boxes will be at the Kansan office until 8 tonight for late voting. At that time they will be taken to the Eldridge hotel for counting. Results will be published in tomorrow's Kansan. No results will be given until that time.
Pick Miss Cinderella
The most popular coed in the balloting will be escorted by John Wayne to the premiere. The most popular male will take Miss Trevor. Lawrence merchants today disclosed the name of their "Cinderella girl," who will be escorted to the World premiere of "The Dark
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Parties Announce Election Promises
P.S.G.L.
Platform
Springing candidates and a platform on the campus at once, the Progressive Student Government League today gave men a chance to kick-if they want to about recent League refusals to athletic board pleas for funds.
It was P.S.G.L. who yawned in the face of the athletic association's deficit recently and refused to sanction a $1,850 grant to the sportsmen. But the League is still sticking by its guns. Plank number one in the red-tag platform says:
Athletic Program
"P.S.G.L. is certain that its refusal to grant $1,850 from activity ticket funds to the athletic association is sound and defensible. The K.U. athletic program is too involved for $1,850 to solve it. Only by bringing the University winning teams can we solve the athletic problem fundamentally. We propose to employ the activity reserve fund for useful projects on which small appropriations are more than a drop in the bucket: intramural programs, a speakers' bureau, and other activities which will be of benefit to all the students."
- The rest of the League's platform:
"Extension of the scope of stu-
gvernment. Students should have a voice in determining University
curriculum. P.S.G.L. proposes a facu-
ulty- student committee in each school to investigate and suggest improvements in the organization of the curriculum as a whole, the improvement of a given course, and th
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Though Pachacamac nominated five days ago, the Rising Sun candidates from District I were omitted from the final decisions. Those candidates were announced by Pachacamac today.
President of M.S.C.-Bill Farmer, I'41.
Long-silent P.S.G.L. came out with a complete slate of candidates this morning to make preparations for April 16 complete.
District I: Russell Mosser, gr;
Eugene Ricketts, l'41; Moyne Lich-
lyter, m'42.
District III: Presson Shane, e'41;
"Spud" Bunn, e'41; Elmo Maiden,
e'43; Tom Schlegal, e'40.
District II: Hugh Bruner, b'41; Lee Huddleton, b'41; Charles Wright, fa'42; Joe McAnarney, ed'41.
League Presents Its Candidates
District IV: Don Ebling, c'40; Jim Burdge, c'41; Jim Fleming, c'41; Fred Robertson, c'42; Warren Livingood, c'42; Ernest Klema, c'41; Curtis, Burton, c'40; David Rice, c'41.
A charge of possession of intoxicating liquor was filed in Douglas county district court yesterday against Robert N. Palmer, 1231 Kentucky, a former student at the University.
The League's candidates are:
Justice of the Peace Robert B. Oyler drew up a justice court complaint following Palmer's arrest Saturday night, in the absence of County Attorney Beach, and Palmer was released Sunday morning on a $500 bond signed by his father and Oyler.
The charge, filed by County Attorney Milton P. Beach, was the result of Palmer's arrest Saturday evening after city police raided the Palmer apartment and found an alleged five pints of whiskey and six one-half pint bottle of rum.
By Stan Stauffer, c'42
Local Police Charge Robert Palmer Again
Palmer is scheduled to appear in Oyler's Justice of the Peace court Saturday.
Senior Class: president, Oliver Edwards, c'41; treasurer, Bill Hogle, b'41.
Sophomore Class: president, Verlyn Norris, c'43; treasurer, Dan Merrriot, c'43.
Junior Class: president, Bob Fluker, c'42; treasurer, Ben Matassarin, c'42.
The District I candidates for Society of Pachacamac are: Bob Jessee, l'42, Stan Friesen, m'42, and Max Replogle, ed'40.
25 days of a 30-day term for pleading guilty to a liquor charge February 21. Mrs. Palmer had been arrested when police raided the Palmer apartment February 2. Palmer, also arrested shortly after the raid, was dismissed when Mrs. Palmer entered a plea of guilt to the charge
Palmer's wife, Mrs. Wilma Palmer, was recently released from the Douglas county jail after she had served
Palmer was formerly a student at the University but was refused second semester re-instatement after liquor charges were brought against him in February.
Call For Relay Queen Applicants
University coeds desiring the "queenship" of the Kansas Relays must send their photographs to room 103 of Robinson gymnasium before Monday, April 8, according to an announcement today by Sam Sifers, senior manager.
The queen and her two attendants will be selected by one of the visiting university track squads competing in the Relays. Last year queens submitted their photographs to the critical scrutiny of the men on the University of Iowa track team. Betty Martin, of Kappa Alpha Theta was chosen for Queen and her attendees were Kappa Gamma's Betty Bell and Virginia Beverly of Chi Omega.
Former Relays Queens are: Elizabeth Short of Pi Beta Phi, "her majesty" in 1938, Isabel Bash of Gamma Phi Beta, the 1937 choice, and in 1936 Betty Lou McFarland also of Pi Beta Phi was the queen.
Rising Sun Platform
Both sides were ready to square off for the April 16 political imbroglio today when Society of Pachacamac issued a six-plank platform for the campaign.
No mention was made of the athletic association controversy which merited plank number one in the P.S.G.L. platform.
Back Engineers
Position of honor in the platforms goes to the Engineering Exposition. The Exposition seems headed for a place on the University budget no matter who wins the election. Both Pachacamac and the League went on record in favor of such a move.
The Pachacamac platform follows:
The Pachacamac platform follows:
"1. Further the development of men's dormitories for independent students.
"2. Have the Men's Student Council sponsor an All-University Carnival, the proceeds of which to be given to the University athletic fund.
"3. Enforce stricter inspection of rooming houses to improve lighting and sanitary conditions.
4. Take the Engineering Exposition fund out of politics and place it on the University budget.
5. Establish and maintain a placement bureau for the securing of employment for all graduating students and continue the support of the present School of Business Placement bureau.
"6. Agitation for more stringent inspection and regulation of all persons handling student food."
Baldwin To Manhattan
Col. Karl F. Baldwin, professor of Military science, will go to Manhattan May 6 and 7 to inspect the coast artillery of he R.O.T.C. unit at Kansas state college. On May 20 and 21 he will inspect the coast artillery at Minnesota University.
To Hold Honor Convocation On April 18
Notice
Guy Stanton Ford, president of the University of Minnesota, will be the speaker at the honors convocation to be held in Hoch auditorium, April 18, Raymond Nichols, secretary to the chancellor announced today. Mr.Ford will speak on scholarship in the United States in the last 75 years.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will be guest speaker at the annual dinner of the Chicago Alumni group, tomorrow.
The purpose of the convocation will be to announce the honors for the past year. The leading student or students of each class in each school will be introduced along with the upper ten per cent of the senior class in each school. The presentation of the honor award to the student "having made the greatest contribution to the school and upon qualities of leadership, scholarship, breadth of interest, unselfish service, and character," will be made.
Last year Dean Moorhead and Don Vorees were co-winners of the award.
There will be a K-Club meeting tonight at 7:30 in the K-Room in Robinson gym.
The same evening, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi will hold a joint banquet in the Memorial Union building celebrating the fifthti anniversary of each. All members and alumni from Kansas and Missouri will be invited.
Malott to Speak At Chicago Meet
The entire lower floor of Fred Harvey's has been reserved for an expected crowd of 200.
Dean Paul B. Lawson will also attend from here.
Bill Arnold, president
Start Filming Campus Movie This Afternoon
The movie on K.U. life is on location. In other words, the filming has begun, with the announcement today of a list of the principals by Allen Crafton, director.
Trick shots of the campus taken from a WP. model of the University compr the set so far but this afternoon anstorm was filmed in the studio in Fraser hall. Whether or not the sprinkler system rain
storm is successful will not be known until the film is developed.
The following persons have been selected to play the principal parts in the film but their characters have not been announced: Madge Kirby, c'40; Doris Johnson, c'40; Martha Alice Horner, c'42; Ann Rightmire, fa'40; Mary McAnaw, c'42; Becky Trembley, c'43; Lies Hixon, sp'41; Jim Arnold, b'41; Larry David, fa'40; David Watermulder, c'42; Fred Littoy, l'42; and Bill Bowers, l'42.