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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1939
NUMBER 69
Seeks Aid On Stadium Debt
Jayhawkers Headed for Chicago
Meet Loyola Monday Night In Coliseum
★ Fresh from Victory over
Sooners Kansens Ready
To Give Windy City Fans
Lesson in Basketball
By Jay Simon (Kansan Sports Editor)
Chicago may not know it, but very shortly it is going to have something worse than the Lake Michigan breeze to contend with. The sparkling Kansas basketball team that is now speeding toward the Illinois metropolis will more than likely knock the Windy City cage fans' hats right off their heads when it swings into action against Loyola University tomorrow night in the city's huge Coliseum.
After trouncing Oklahoma's highly tuited quintet, 46 to 26, in the Big six opener here Friday night, Dr. F. C. Allen and his efficient Jay-hawkers are ready to give the boys in the big city a lesson on "How to Win Basketball Games and Influence Cheer Leaders."
Loyola A Cage Stronghold
Kanasa’ jount with the Loyola Ramblers will be the finale of a doubleheader that pits Kanasa State DePaul earlier in the evening.
Last year Loyola rambled through 21 straight opponents before losing to Long Island University of New York in the finals of the National Intercollegiate tournament held in Madison Square Garden. It was rated one of the strongest teams in the country.
The current edition of the Chicago club is hubbed by George Wenkus, great star returning from last season, but it is not expected to have enough power to cope with the slick ball handlers and tight defensive players that Doctor Allen has rounded up.
The way they outclassed Jimmy McNatt and Co. here Friday night stamps the Kansans as leading contenders for the Big Six title, taken over last year by Oklahoma and Missouri.
It was Ralph Miller, cunning jun-
ior forward, who set the pace
against the Sooners. He accounted
for 13 points with four field goals
and five free throws and his floor
play was brilliant.
Miller the Ringleader
A Kansas basketball team that scores 46 points is torrid, but the offense was nothing compared to the defense. Bob Allen in the first half and Bruce Voran in the second hung on Mnatt like wet clothes on a fat man. The Sooner scooter, who had been averaging over 13 points, was able to get only one bucket, that from far out.
Dick Harp, second in the scoring column to Miller, and John Kline worked like trojans in the back court to hold the towering pivot-men. Hugh Ford and Herb Scheffler, well in check
Don Ebling looked more like the "boy scats" than they did as he led the fast breaks on the Oklahoma basket. Ebling counted two field goals and one hurry ball-donging was a big factor in the Jayhawkers' play.
Outscooted by Ebling
Kanaas jumped into a first period lead of 11 to 1 and there were nearly four minutes of the second quarter gone before the Sooners tallied from the floor. At the intermission the Jayhawks had won twice in the tiebreaker and continued to forge ahead in the second half.
The team left on the Santa Foe yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock with Coach Allen, trainer Dean Neesmith, and 10 players in the party. Players making the trip are: Ralph
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Dr. Canuteson Outlines Ways To Avoid Colds
Dr. R. I. Canutese, director of the student health service yesterday cautioned students regarding what he termed "the usual seasonal increase of respiratory infections." Eighteen of the 26 students recently admitted to Watkins Memorial hospital were suffering from colds.
Precautions to be taken by students to avoid colds, as outlined by Doctor Canuteson, include:
1. Use of handkerchiefs by "sneeezers" to avoid spreading infective droplets.
2. Washing hands before eating.
3. Obtaining plenty of sleep.
4. Avoiding dietary upsets, chilling, or anything which might lower the body's normal resistance to infection.
5. Avoiding crowded quarters where the chance of obtaining infections from others are greatly increased.
On KFKU's Fifteenth Birthday Program----
tation. At the left is Prof. Allen Crafton, who with his players wil present a dramatization.
6. Exercise
What About This Zero Weather?
- Snow Piles High, Traffic Sputters and Predictions Say 'More Cold'
It was not June in January last night. It was January in January in Lawrence and the North Pole. Snow started falling yesterday maging and continued throughout the day, piling up three inches by evening. The temperature rangeed from 10 to 14 degrees above zero.
W. T. Markham, center, member of the Board of Regents, and Chancellor Deane W. Malott, right.
will be principal speakers tomorrow night during the University radio station's anniversary presen-
Traffic sputtered because of the weather, but most of it went through. All highways were open, although some drifting was reported. Trains and buses plodded on to their destinations without much trouble, but individual cars had more difficulty; low batteries, poor brakes, and other combinations to cause a high death rate of that initial "turnover."
The display was originated by a committee composed of Fred Elsworth, alumni secretary; T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design; J. J. Kistler, assistant professor of journalism; Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the Chancellor's office, and R. A. Heady, instructor in journalism. The exhibit is sponsored by the Alumni association.
The latest thing in University public relations is the display of life on Mt. Oread now featured in Center Frank Strong hall.
Exhibits of this sort have been prominently displayed in Salina and Junction City. Ellsworth expressed the hope that displays of this kind will aid in making the University better known to the state at large.
Student reaction varied. Some students rolled in cold water; others grimmed and bore it; still others just bore it. No organized snow battles or games of "Fins" and "Reds" were reported although isolated detachments mentioned some well-aimed sniping.
The police department reported no accidents, no fires and nobody picked up. "We've been having it all wrong," she said, the policeman on the telephone.
The weatherman continued to predict "continued cold," at least until Monday morning which, as any color expert can tell you, is the warmest day of the year. So predict the clock on Blake hall would stop before morning.
Feature of Hill Life Is Display In Strong Hall
Definitely: It is not June in January. That must be December you're thinking of.
It's KFKU's Birthday Tomorrow
Mallot and Markham Are Main Speakers On Special Program
By Stanley Stauffer, c'42
The University radio station, KF KU will commemorate 15 years of broadcasting tomorrow night when a special anniversary program is presented over that station from 10:30 until midnight.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott of the University and W, T. Markham of the Board of Regents will be the main speakers/of the evening session, which will be spoken at 10:35 while Markham's address is scheduled for 11:05.
Governor Payne H. Ratner, who was to be the principal guest speaker, will not speak on the special anniversary program, not will Fred Harris, chairman of the Board of Directors, who was also scheduled to speak.
The University Glee Club and the University Band will contribute musically to the program and the department of speech and dramatic art will add a dramatical presentation of Kansas history, "Johnny Frye and the Pony Express." A dramatization of K.U.-M.U. football will be presented and also on the program will be a school of the air skit and a music appreciation presentation.
Station KFKU first on went in the air Dec. 15, 1924, and regular broadcasts were begun a month later. The University station now broadcasts on a daytime power of 5,000 watts and shares time with WREN of Lawrence on a frequency of 1.2-120 kilocycles.
At 11:05 Markham will give his address which will be followed by the football dramatization presented by Prof. E. L. Elliob, Guy V. Keeler of the University extension division and Dr. William Benson, "Boots" will then be read by Robert Calderwood. At 11:36 the Glee Club songs "Toreador Song."
The program goes on the air at 10:30 p.m. with the Glee Club singing the School Alma Mater and "I'm A Jayhawk" After Cancellor Malot's five-minute address, the University band will play "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise." The School of the Air Skit, the music appreciation skit, and the dramatic skit follow.
Among those alumni who will come to Lawrence for the broadcast will be John Henry of Omaha, Karl Koeper of K.M.B.C. in Kansas City, and Walt Lochman, sports announcer over K.M.B.C.
A letter from John Patt, president and general manager of WG AR in Cleveland, Ohio, will be read. A representative to champion to broadcast from KFKU.
Prof. Allen Crainton and a cast of players will present the historical skit of Kansas, at 11:30 and at 11:50 a presentation of University personalities who are making radio their profession will be made.
Will Discuss Reading Problems
The topic of discussion on the University of Kansas roundtable at 9:30 o'clock Thursday night over KFKU will be "Reading Problems in our Public Schools."
The staff of Dr. A. H. Turney, Dr. Bert Nash of the School of Education, and Lee Gemmell of the extension division, will present the program. This staff is promoting and supervising the reading diagnostic clinics as a University extension team to many high schools of the state.
Noted Reporter Will Speak Here
H. R. Knickerbocker, forene
newspaper reporter, will speak on the University of Kansas Lecturo
course February 21.
Originally scheduled to appear early last fall, Knickerbocker was unable to leave his work in covering the European war.
Knickerbocker, winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1530, has recently returned from the European war and is speaking in Kansas City Wednesday.
Both the Crystal and the Grill ooms will be used for dances. The and, yet to be selected, will play n the Crystal room and a public dress system will carry the music o the Grill room.
The President's birthday hall, annual charity drive for the infantile paralysis fund, will be held at the Edridge hotel, Jan. 27 from 9 to 12 p.m. Half of the proceeds will remain in the local fund, the other half is to be sent to the national fund, according to O. D. Lile, chairman of the committee in charge of the dance.
Annual Birthday Ball To Be Held January 27
The B.P.O. Elks club already has contributed $10 to the paralysis fund. It is the first local contribution from the committee above committees the general chairman has named 80 members as a general committee for the party.
Jack Mill is in charge of the downtown sales tickets. The committee assisting Lile includes W. C Hunsinger and Francis Kappelman
Tryouts For New Play Tomorrow
Trouys for the forthcoming production by the Dramatic Club will begin at 2:30 oclock Monday afternoon in the little theater. Green hall Prof. Robert Calderwood will direct the production.
Station Is Integral Part of University For Fifteen Years
By Lillian R. Fisher, c'41 KFKU is 15 years old
Apparatus for a radio station to have a 500 watt sending set and two 150 foot towers, spaced 250 feet apart was shipped to the University of Kansas on Nov. 8, 1924. The wave length was 278 meters.
A grant of $20,000 taken from the general budget of the University, included the cost of the towers, antennae, transmitter, and equipment of the studio, which is on the second floor of the electrical engineering laboratories back of Marvin ball.
Broadcast Alumni Reunion
KFKU was dedicated Dec. 15, 1924 when it broadcast that year's annual alumni reunion. The tuning-in number for the radio reunion was the "Stars and Stripes Forever," played by the University band Chancellor E. H. Lindley then officially dedicated the new radio station. The University orchestra Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club, and members of the School of Fine Arts also assisted.
In spite of previous trial broadcasts, KFKU did not begin its regular broadcasting schedule until Monday evening, Jan. 5, 1925. Harold G. Ingham, director of the extension division head chairman of the radio committee was in charge of program runs. Prof. George C. Shaudhari, head of electrical engineering was in charge of the radio apparatus.
Soundproof Studio Is Unique
The studio consists of two rooms, in one of which is most of the broadcasting equipment. There are three large unit panels, the first of which receives the music or speeches from the studio itself, the second, which amplifies the sound and the third, which is a power panel. A small receiving set is used to enable the operator to determine just how well the program is getting out.
The next room, the studio proper, is as nearly sound proof as it can be made. The walls are covered with a heavy sound absorbent material, one inch thick, the windows are double with sound resisting air space between them, and all over it is hung heavy (canvas drapery). A telephone enables the announcer to communicate with the operator in the next room without leaving the studio.
The first play-by-play report of a K.U. basketball game was given Feb. 2, 1925 when Kansas met Oklahoma.
First Out-of-Town Broadcast
First Out-of-Town Broadcast A novel experiment was carried out Feb. 27, 1925, when KFKU broadcasted the proceedings in the Kansas house of representatives at Topeka. It was the first time that any session of the Kansas legislature had been broadcast, and one
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Athletic Board Asks Councils To Donate From Reserve Fund
New Yorker Is Guest Speaker For 'Y' Week
★ National Secretary of Far Eastern Fund To Lecture at Various Group Meetings
Miss Molly Yard, national secretary for the Far East Student fund from New York City, will be the guest speaker during the "Know Your "Y" Week," which begins today. Miss Alice Machenberg, statistician for the Kansas City Council of Social Activities also will speak
Miss Yard will talk Thursday when the, y. M, and the, y. W, cabinets meet at 7:15 a.m. in Henley house for breakfast. She will speak again at 12:30 o'clock to the advisory boards of Y. M, and Y. W, in the English room where a lunchroom will be served.
Miss Achtenberg will lecture to the race commission at 7:45 p.m. Thursday at Henley house.
The remainder of the weekly program is as follows: R. A. Schweigler, dean of the School of Education will speak before the camp leadership group at 3 p.m. Sunday in Robinson gymnasium on "Nature of the Child"' fellowship supper at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in屋ley house for new students; combined Y. M. and Y. W. meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Men's lounge of the Memorial Union building when Miss Yard will speak; race commission group meeting at 7:45 o'clock Thursday night at Henley House; a talk by the Rev. J. E. McGregor at 7:45 p.m. The Germany at 4:30 o'clock Friday in Henley House; Creative Leisure Dance at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night in Robinson gymnasium; and terminating the "Y Week," the Rev. Joseph King will speak at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Estes Co-op at "Values of Estes."
The purpose of "Y" week, according to John O. Moore, secretary of the Y.M.C.A., is to inform the student members as to the program being carried on and to the part they can take in it.
Hamilton Is Recovering Satisfactorily at Home
Dan Hamilton, former student who was originally injured Dec. 16 in an automobile crash in which John C. Battenfield, c41, was killed, was said to be recovering satisfactorily yesterday at his home in Toneka.
He was released from the Lawrence Memorial hospital Dee. 3. Hamilton, son of John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee, suffered a brain concussion.
Mother Of Student Mies
Mary, M. Mary M. McAwan, mother of Frances McAwan, c42 died
of France in an Excellent Springs, Mo., hospital.
Mother Of Student Dies
Woollcott To Dine With K.U. Group Before Lecture
Alexander Woollick, dramatic critic and actor, who will appear on the University lecture series next Wednesday night, has accepted an invitation to dinner Wednesday evening before his lecture, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, announced yesterday.
Nichols, who is chairman of the Lecture Course committee, is arranging the dinner which will be held in the Memorial Union building. A special guest list is being prepared for the occasion.
Several organizations on the campus are eager to entertain Woocott coopted people to accept social engagements but, as yet have received no reply. Nichols said.
By Roscoe Born. c'41.
By Rocse Born, c. 41.
Obstacles as big as the stadium it wants to pay for appeared about to block the University Athletic Board last night in its attempt to pay off approximately one-seventy-second of the long-standing debt on Memorial stadium.
Reserve Built From Fees
Asked by the Board to draw a bucketful out of the ocean-size stadium debt, the Men's Student Council seemed about to turn thumbs down last night.
The buckeful in question is the $2360 "activity reserve fund." Fifteen cents of every activity fee students pay is sent to the activity reserve coffers and use of the money can be granted by the "Central Activities committee" under the jurisdiction of the M.S.C. and the W.S.G.A.
The ocean in question is the $133-
000 bonded indebtedness the Athletic
Board now faces on yet-to-be-filled
Memorial stadium. In the face of
that debt, the Board asked the central
activities committee to alleviate
the pressure to the extent of $1850
from the reserve fund. The committee agreed, and that amount, all
but $450 of the total activity fund;
took its first step into the stadium field.
Needs Two Amrovals
But the money still has two steps to go. The central committee's grant is invalid if not approved by both student councils. It appears doubled that the proposal will pass the U.S. C.I.C. which meets tomorrow night.
P. S.GL, student political party which now controls the council, last night announced itself as "looking unfavorably on the appropriation at the present time." If, because the party has sponsored sports which include baseball, golf, must be discontinued, the party said it would reverse its decision.
The League described the activity und as a "drop in the bucket" compared to the huge stadium debt. save Money For Students' Use
Secondly, party members added, the money could more profitably be used on handball courts, tennis courts, intramural grounds, or intramurals in general. The League said it would to save the money for students' use and didn't believe activity fee fund should be used on the stadium.
Pachacamac, opposition party in the council, last night had no official statement to make on the question. With the League in the negative stage, however, the proposal has 18th chance to be approved by the M.S.C.
Kansas Alumni To Meet Fridau
The University of Kansas Alumni Association \*will hold a directors' meeting at 3:30 p.m. Friday. The directors will have their dinner with their wives in the English room of the university building. Then they will attend the basketball game
The directors will discuss constitutional changes to be submitted to the general members. They will also consider plans for the spring membership campaign and commencement activities.
Paul Endacott, 23, of Burtlesville
Ikla, president of the Alumni Association,
will be present.
N. Y.A. Applications Are Due
Applications for several second semester N.Y.A., vacancies to be filled now are due at the office of Martha Tillman, executive secretary o the organization, in the basement of Frank Strong hall.
Vacancies In Women's Glee Clubs
Chico
Any woman who sings either second soprano or first alto, also wishes to try out for the University Women's Glee Club may do so by reporting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at 300 Frank Strong hall: Each woman trying out is requested to bring a solo with her.