1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH, 8, 1940.
NUMBER 107.
Nab Student For Music Store Theft
Reuben Henry Brown, Jr., c-42, house man at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, was arrested at 5 p.m. yesterday and charged with the theft of instruments valued at $468.50 from the Holyfield Music store, Feb. 19.
The 21-year-old Kansas City, Mo., youth was arraigned this afternoon in the justice of the peace court of Robert Oyler. At the time of Brown's arrest yesterday, police found two of the stolen instruments in his room in the base-struments in his room In the basement of the sorority house at Gower place.
Brown's arrest last night was said to clear up the two week old burglary of the Lawrence music store. Douglas county sheriff's men and the city police with the cooperation of the detective division of the Kansas City police department have been checking Kansas City pawn shops since the theft and picked up seven of the stolen instruments. With the two instruments found in Brown's room and the seven recovered from Kansas City pawn shops, all of the stolen merchandise has been accounted for.
Brown, police said, admitted having pawned the rest of the instruments but declared that he had purchased the nine instruments from an orchestra leader for $10. Police said that they had found the instruments at seven different shops in Kansas City.
Brown's arrest followed the sale of one of the instruments Saturday morning when he identified himself by showing his driver's license to the pawnbroker.
Local Engineers Take Top Honors
Electrical engineering students of the University walked off with the two top honors and $25 out of $30 in cash prizes for the best papers presented last night at the March meeting of the Kansas City section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, of which K.U. and Kansas State are branch members.
First place was won by Brewster Powers, e'40; for his paper "Background for Engineering Through College Training." Second place was awarded to Dale Whitaker, e'40, and Richard Scott, e'40, for their paper "The Effect of Saturation on Alternator Regulations." Third prize went to J. Edmund Wolfe, of Kansas State, for his topic development of "A New Curve-Tracing Oscilloscope." The prizes were $15, $10, and $5.
K.U.-Sooner Tonight For
Co-Captains--has decided to replace high-scoring Ralph Miller with Howard Engleman, the boy who scored 44 points in two games against Oklahoma last year. Engleman missed the early season game with a bad knee, but has been going great in his last two starts. He
Don Ebling
Dick Harp
These two Jayhawkers will lead Kansas against Oklahoma tonight at Norman.
Kansan to Issue Extra Tonight
Because of the great interest in the Oklahoma basketball game, the Kansan will publish an extra edition tonight with complete results of the important contest.
Jay Simon, the Kansan's sports editor, is in Norman, Okla., to cover the game. His story, along with complete statistical results will be distributed to organized houses and Hill hangouts soon after the game's conclusion.
The Kansas will have half-time and final scores on the contest.
Call either KU 25 or KU 26.
KANSAS pos. OKLA.
Don Ebling f Jimmy McNatt
H. Engleman f Bill Richards
Bob Allen c H. Scheffler
Dick Hart g Marvin Mesch
John Kline g M. Snodgrass
Officials: Parke Carroll (Kansas City) and Ted O'Sullivan (Missouri).
By Jay Simon (Kansan Sports Editor)
Battle Title
About 9:30 tonight Kansas will have won its seventh undisputed Big Six Championship in 12 years or the conference standings will be in a terrible mess.
The Jayhawkers met Oklahoma in Norman to see whether they get the loop title disputed or undisputed.
If the Sooners go down before Dr. F. C. Allen's team, the Jayhawkers will wind up in first place with nine victories against one loss. But if Oklahoma wins, Kansas must move over on the top perch and make room for the Sooners and Missouri as well.
There is already a three-way tie for last place as Iowa State, Nebraska, and Kansas State finished with two and eight.
Miller Will Not Start
Kansas gave the Sooners a 46 to 20 thumping here last January in the opening game of the Big Six race and now must defeat this revenge-bent pack of cagers on their own planks in order to get the flag with no strings attached.
Each team will have one new face in its starting lineup. Doctor Allen
H. ENGLEMAN
tallied 10 points against Missouri and
13 against Creighton, while playing
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Here Tomorrow---
Helen O'Connell, who will sing with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra at the Junior Prom tomorrow night.
Belief that there is slight danger of Sweden's being swallowed up by any foreign power was expressed by Wilfrid L. Husband, student of world affairs and alumnus of the University, during his lecture appearance last night in Hoch auditorium.
Speaking on the question, "Can Sweden Stay Out?", Husband told a fair-sized crowd that Hitler will never permit Stalin to occupy Sweden because this move would put Russia in a position to attack Germany by air.
'Sweden Not In Danger,' Says Husband
Even if Hitler would stand by and allow Russia to invade Sweden, the attempt would probably result in failure, the speaker said.
"Finland has already demonstrated what a tiny nation, fighting for a just cause can do against Russia. Sweden is twice as large and has twice as many resources as Finland. Moreover, Sweden has now available an
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A New Alma Mater Waring Will Broadcast University Song May 3
A new University song, written by Fred Waring, will make its debut on that band leader's radio program May 3. Bill Hogle, b'41, said last night after a telegram from Mr. Waring.
The song is a result of Hogle's two weeks self-undertaken efforts to obtain the signatures of students on a petition requesting the band man to write a new college歌. Hogle's special delivery airmail letter, containing the signatures of over 1200 students, was mailed Tuesday evening and got lightning results in the form of a tele- The telegram reads as follows: gram at 6 o'clock last night. (Continued on page eight)
Junior Prom Is Tomorrow; 5 Ducats Left
Financial success for the Junior Prom was assured with the sale of all but five or six of the 650 tickets for the dance by noon today. The final success of the party, and of coming parties, remains with Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra who are furnishing the rhythmic racket tomorrow night.
The Prom is the first of the University class parties that have come out on top since Kay Kyser's band drew 750 couples and 1,000 spectators to Hoch auditorium last May 16.
No Corsages
Pan-Hellenic rules regarding corsages will remain in force tomorrow night, Dan Rhule, ed'40, president of the organization, said today. The rules discourage "corsaging" by finding the fraternity whose members buy floral decorations for their dates.
In an effort to make the limitation University-wide the MSC extended it to independent men last year, and although it has not been taken up by this year's council it is presumed that the independents will consider the tradition still in force. C. H. Mullen, l'42, MSC prexy, said this afternoon.
Curfew At 12
The party is being held from 8 to 12 so as to coincide with University rulings concerning Sunday dancing. The few tickets that are left will be sold to first comers at the University business office, the Memorial Union lounge, and Bell's Music store.
Several tickets had been returned by students who were unable to attend the party because of unforeseen circumstances, Charles McCreight, of the University business office said this noon.
Aggies Put O.K. On Peace Move
Russell Leeper, president of the student council at Kansas State College, in a letter to C. H. Mullen, M.S.C. president, today approved of Mullen's plan to revise the existing treaty between the two schools concerning pre-game activities, to include post-game feuding.
The local student council will meet in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building at 8:15 Monday night. At that time it is possible that a delegation of four or five members of the council will be appointed to make the trip to Manhattan to form the new agreement. Mullen said. In his communication today Leeper asked that the meeting be held there. The first
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