UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1940
Z-229
NUMBER 108
Jayhawkers Draw a Bye In Playoff
Kansas drew a bye in Kansas City yesterday morning for the Big Six playoff tournament which will be held in Wichita Monday and Tuesday. Kansas' loss to Oklahoma Friday night left the conference in a three way tie between Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma and the playoffs are necessary to determine the Big Six representative in the N.C.A.A. eliminations
Missouri and Oklahoma will play in the Forum in Wichita at 8:30 Monday night. The winner of this game will meet the Jayhawkers Tuesday night in the same place. Officials for Monday's game are M. G. Volz, Lincoln; and G. W. Duval, Jr., Kansas City, Mo. The American Legion is sponsoring the play-off tournament.
Winner of this series will represent the Big Six against Oklahoma A. and M., Missouri Valley champion, in Oklahoma City on March 16. The victor at Oklahoma City will come to Kansas City to represent the fifth district in the N.C.A.A. semifinals March 22 and 23.
Reuben Henry Brown, c'42, 21-year-old Kansas City, Mo., Negro youth who faces charges of burglary in connection with the theft of instruments valued at $468.50 from the Holyfield Music store, was released from the Douglas county iail yesterday on bond.
Brown Released On $1,000 Bond
The $1,000 bond was signed by his father of Kansas City, Mo., and H. W. Stone. A preliminary hearing for the youth is set for March 20 at 10 a.m. in Justice of the Peace Robert Oyler's office.
Brown was arrested March 7 and was charged with the Holyfield burglary at an arraignment in Oyler's office Friday afternoon. At the time of the arrest, officers found two of the instruments from the music store in Brown's room in the basement of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house, Gower place. Brown was employed as houseman at the sorority.
Hospital Gets Five Appendectomies In Three Days
Virginia Ruse, c'41, who underwent an appendectomy yesterday afternoon at Watkins Memorial hospital brought the total of such operations up to five for the past three days.
Milton C. Jaegli, c'43, and Virgil Courtright, b'40, started things off when they were operated on last Thursday. Hazel Scheer, fa'uncl., followed them to the operating room Friday night, and Arlene Auchard, c'43, was operated on yesterday morning.
All patients are doing well. Dr. R.I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, said.
M.S.C. to Modify Smoking Bill Tomorrow Night
Action on the proposed bill to modify penalties for violation of the Anti-Smoking bill will be taken at a meeting of the M.S.C. in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building at 8:15 tomorrow night, C. H. Mullen, c'40, president, stated yesterday.
The new bill, proposed by Jim Postma, 1'41, would fine first offenders from $2 to $5, second offenders $5 to $10, and for a third offense the student would be suspended from school for a semester. Dissatisfaction resulting from judgment meted out to three students who recently violated the law led to a proposal that the penalties be modified and permanently drawn up by the Council.
It has been indicated that the new bill, if adopted, would be as effective as one providing for more serious punishment. Since the trial of the first three violators, when a severe sentence was imposed and suspended, there have been no known violations of the law.
The Council also will act on the peace treaty with Kansas State which is designed to terminate hostile outbreaks between the student bodies of the respective schools following football games, Mullen said. A previous treaty of this type pertains only to pre-game activities, while the new one, as revised by Mullen, concerns post-game occurrences as well. Both schools, having agreed to the revision, the Council will decide upon a plan to send four or five delegates to Manhattan to draw up the agreement.
Band Program Has Number For Everyone
Popular songs, hymns, symphonies, and light classical compositions are included in the program for the thirty-third annual Spring concert of the University of Kansas Band which will be presented at 8:15 tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium.
The band will play 12 numbers in all, and there will be music for every listener, whether his interests run to such classical numbers as Jean Sibelius" Finlandia", or whether he prefers such popular songs as the recent Victor Herbert hit "Indian Summer."
As curtain-raiser for the program, Director Russell L. Wiley has selected Haydn Wood's "Manx Overture" which contains folk tunes from the Isle of Man.
Next will come two of the high spots of the evening when Lorenzo Fuller, fa'40, and Eugene Crabb, fa'41, present solos with band accompaniment. Fuller will sing the Ferde Grofe arrangement of "Old Man River" from Jerome Kern's musical comedy, "Show Boat", and Crabb will play a cornet solo of Schubert's "Ave Maria."
Two student directors, Jack Dalby, fa'40, and Curtis Johnson, fa'40, will lead the band in "Vistas" (Gillette), and "Indian Summer" (Herbert) respectively.
Symphony numbers on the program will include "Roumanian Rhap-sody No. 1" (Enesco), "Finlandia" (Sibelius), "Symphony in C Minor,
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'Y' Candidates Are Price, Iwig
Candidates for the Y.M.C.A. election, to be held in the basement of Frank Strong hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, were chosen by a nominating committee of the organization yesterday. Those chosen were:
Dorsey Makes Junior Prom 'Red Hot'
Fan the Jayhawker's brow if that Junior Prom wasn't the hottest class party the Hill has ever sweated through!
For president; Ed Price, c'42, and Sam Iwig, c'42. For vice-president: Keith Martin, c'42, Richard Rupp, c'42, and Charles Wright, fa'42. For secretary: Lloyd Estes, c'42, Hartwell Jewell, c'43, and Bill Miller, c'43.
taken up by couples who only stood and listened to Dorsey, Helen O'Connell, lovely songstress, and Bob Eberly, crooner par excellent.
Stuffed shirts were wet shirts after four hours of milling to Jimmy Dorsey and his gang's "contract" music. It was good. No doubt about it. One-fifth of the floor space was
Clothes renting agencies must have made a fortune on this party. Everybody and his body went formal with an exception sprinkled hither andyon.
Twas the saxophone's night. Eve- and you.
ry time Dorsey or his rival, Herbieing the works" on virtually ever Haymer, and his tenor sax went out Beefy "Buddy" Schutz was "shoe on a "go" the crowd burst into ing the works" on virtually ever applause.
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Huskers Capture Big Six Indoor With 35 $ \frac{1}{5} $ Points
By Harry Hill, c'40
Kansas City, March 9—(Special to the Kansan)—The Nebraska Cornhuskers, paced by carrot-topped "Red" Littler who won firsts in both the 60-yard dash and the quarter mile, won the Big Six indoor track meet here tonight as the conference made its debut in the Municipal auditorium's newly constructed track. Three thousand fans were on hand to see the Huskers nose out the favored Missouri team by less than three points.
Nebraska tallied 35 1-5 points, Missouri 32 1-2, Iowa State 20 1-5, Kansas State 19 1-2, Oklahoma, 14 1-2, and Kansas. 10 2-5
Still a Star---
How They Finished
Nebraska 35 1-5
Missouri 32½²
Iowa State 20 1-5
Kansas State 19½²
Oklahoma 14½²
Kansas 10 2-5
Elmer Hackey, a far cry from the national collegiate champion of last year, is still the best in the Big Six when it comes to tossing the shot. He won last night at the indoor meet at Kansas City with a toss of 45 feet 9 inches.
Sixth Radio Play To Be Tuesday
Students in the radio speaking class will present their sixth play of the year at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening over station KFKU. The play, "Belle Lamar" by Dion Boucicoult, is directed by Rolla Nuckles. The cast includes Esther Mitchell, c'43; Mac Wynne, c'40. Gordon Brigham, c'40; Jim Hart '', c'40; Jim Meredith, c'41; Larry david, fa'40; Shirley Ruble, c'41; and Gerald Smith, ed'41.
The Jayhawkers only first place came in the broad jump when J. R. Jones leaped 22 feet $10^{1/2}$ inches to nose out Missouri's Sol Schumitkzy,
60-yard dash—Won by Littler, Nebraska; second, Matthews, Oklahoma; third, Akers, K-State; fourth, Mathes, Kansas. Time, :06.3.
Oother Kansas points were picked up when Darrel Mathes placed fourth in the 60-yard dash. Bill Beven and Jack O'Hara were two of the five who tied for second in the pole vault. Thompson ran fourth in the 880, and the relay team came in fourth behind the record setting Cyclone quartet.
Important factors in Nebraska's winning over the Tigers were John Munski's failure to do better than third in the two-mile after he had won the mile in the comparatively slow time of 4:28.4, and J. R. Jones of Kansas nosing out Missouri's Schumitzky in the broad jump.
Conference officials said that two sets of records would be kept from now on, one for cinder tracks and the other for boards. All performances tonight were written in as records for board tracks.
60-yard low hurdles—Won by Smutz, Nebraska; second, White, Missouri; third, Dodge, K-State; fourth, Johnson, Missouri. Time, 07:1.
Times in the 880 and mile relay bettered the existing cinder track marks. Marshall Reeves of Missouri turned in a 1:56.9 in the half and Iowa State turned the relay in 3:28 flat. The summaries:
Shot put—Won by Hackney, K-State; second, Wibbels, Nebraska; third, Potter, Oklahoma; fourth, Council, Missouri. Distance, 45 feet, $ \frac{9}{2} $ inches.
Pole Vault—Won by Hunt, Nebraska; five men tied for second; Bevan, Kansas; O'Hara, Kansas; Binning, Iowa State; Fender, Oklahoma; and Scott, Nebraska. Height, 18 feet.
60-yard high hurdles—Won by White, Missouri; second, Smutz, Nebraska; third, Morris, Oklahoma; fourth, Darden, K-State. Time: 07.7. 440-yard dash—Won by Littler, Nebraska; second, Gahan, Oklahoma; third, Graves, Iowa State; fourth, Radtke, Nebraska. Time: 51.8.
Mile run—Won by Munski, Missouri; second, Brooks, Nebraska; third, Hughes, Iowa State; fourth, Cook, Nebraska. Time: 4:28.4.
Two mile run—Won by High, Kansas State; second, Cunningham, Iowa State; third, Munski, Missouri;
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