UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
NUMBER 59.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939.
Mock Court Comes to Drab Finish
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A spicy second degree kidnap trial in mock court came to a drab finish Friday when the jury returned from its deliberation with a verdict.
For half an hour jurors weighed evidence but were unable to decide whether Wilford Montgomery, plaintiff, was the innocent victim of second-degree kidnapping, or was guilty of all-mighty party in a Toneka hotel.
- Jury in Kidnapping Trial
Steays Out Half an Hour;
Is Unable To Arrive at
Decision
Montgomery charged that on an early rush week night he was inveigled into driving four Sigma Rho Chi men and five dates to a Topica hotel where he was held for 28 hours while the others spent the night drinking and dancing. Montgomery tried several times to escape, he said, but each time the boy fell down on his a laptop, telling him that he could not go until he pledge Sigma Rho.
By Roscoe Born. c'41
Defense attorneys paraded the four defendants and their five sorcery friends before the jury to tell that Montgomery was in favor of the party, that he was far from being the shy, innocent character which he appeared to be. Montgomery was restrained, the defendants said, because he was intoxicated and they tried to drive his car. Defense witnesses also testified that Montgomery made "improper advances" toward the party, and that the defendants were forced to manhandle him to protect the girls: Four Hold Defendants Innocent
Montgemery Not Shy
Eight jurors were able to accept the prosecution's story and voted for conviction. Four held that the defendants were innocent and that Montgomery brought action as a defendant. The judge was unable to pleade the Sigma Ebo fraternity.
The case was written and planned by Robert McNair Davis, professor of law. The taw school holds several of these mock trials each year to give law servers some practice in actual court conditions.
The second of this year's trials will begin sometime this week in the court room in the basement of Green hall.
Extend Chess Tournament Closing Date to Monday
Final closing date for entries in the All-University Chess and Checker tournament has been extended until noon Monday, according to Wilford Ferry, c40, director of the tourney. Hours are set by a fill in application blanks at the hostess table in the lounge of the Memorial Union building.
“Unless more entries are received, the tournament will not be played,” Perry said. “If it was, the Contest while 12 entrances are needed to fill all brackets,
On the Shin
By Reginald Buxton
Kirech tire up one column that had the above item in it so just to show her you can't intimidate the press, make your best for fashioned glamour girls.
Out of luck trying to woo Thea Beth Clemson, Phi Psi Bill Anderson disgustedly remarked. "Okay, I'm going to bring an overcoat or a Pi Phi."
Agnes Mumert: (After a date with Leo Johnstone) I'm certainly disappointed in Leo.
Smug as a Beta with a jail and almost as overboring, the Pi Fai's still insist their national officers prevented them from having their pictures in Life magazine. "Porky" Kirsch's story is a bit different and amusing. Our picture and anoum to so well - I guess," says Porky.
Leo: (After the same occasion)
I'm disappointed in Agnes.
Shin: (After hearing both sides)
There must have been a mutua misunderstanding.
In Life Magazine---
Picture University Women
**Fellow's note:** The Kauan survey on Life's "Kauan Girl" was conducted questioning the first person who answered the telephone. In this way, try to understand the student's role in the student body, the Kauan reporter endured to find the general consensus.
By Shirley L. Johnson, c'41
Doing everything from reading the morning mail to learning to clothes babies in three-corped trousers, University coeds are pictorially represented in the Dec. 11 issue of Lice magazine.
The series of pictures was taken three weeks ago when writer Judith Chase and photographer Alfred Agent agent a week-end on the Campus.
The exterior view of four sorority houses and Corbin hall were shown, with special features of social life in sorority houses.
The breakfast scene showing handkerchiefs and towels tied around the girls' heads is typical. The Theta "putting out her pin" is a representative scene in the sorority houses.
Featured pictures of the Johnson sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma
Mosquito Boats To Patrol Coast
---As They Are?
- Navy Moves To Build
Nucleus of Powerful
Fleet
United Press Staff correspondent Washington, Dec. 9—(UPI) The Navy moved tonight to build the nucleus for a powerful fleet of high speed "Mosquit" boats for coastal patrol as president Rosewell directed creation of a new naval district for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Walter H. Lucas, c'43, underwent a major surgical operation yesterday morning at Watkins Memorial hospital. His condition was described as "good" by hospital attendants last night.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Chas. Edison placed a $3,000,000 order with Electric Boat Co., Craton, Conn., for 11 motor toped boats and 12 motor submarine chassers designed by Hubert Scott-Paine of the British Power Boat Co. Scott-Paine recently demonstrated the new "mystery" boats which rely on speed and deception to American authorities. They were reported unofficially as capable of making 50 miles an hour
The Navy plans to concentrate the new craft, when finished at Norfolk, Va. into a special squadron. They will be under a unified command and each type will be rigorously inspected to determine the best type for any massed production program. On other occasions, the tiny vessels have provided efficient in making surprise raids and in patrolling.
Initiation services were held for 11 pledges by Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building. The initiation was followed by a banquet at which Dean Paul B. Lawson was the featured speaker.
Intiates were: Charles Wiles, e*40
Louis Smithmeyer, e*40 Bob Tibbets,
e*40 Stafford Rubil, e*40 Clyde
Pace, e*40 Joe Clark, e*40 Glenn Fryn-
Gale, e*40 Carole Maleff, e*40
Grew, e*41 Carl MaFarnec, e*41
and Wray Fogwell, e*41
Lucas Undergoes Operation
Doris and Helen, the beautiful of Kansas girls, Life in Miller and Watkins hall was depicted by four who live on the cooperative plan.
The general consensus of opinion is: The pictures in Life were good publicity for the University, but a more representative view of college life on the Hill should have been presented.
Bob Lucy, c'40, (Alpha Tau Omega; "it is a fair view of the life, but it would have been better if a few men had been shown." Karl Riddle, c'41, Vernon Dumayne, c'43 and Glenn Foy, c'49, independents, and said "After all, men are just as good news as women."
"A more general view given by representing more sororities would have been better," said John Dickinson. c43, (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) Carrison, Arizona Tala Diahi with Dickinson and also suggested "more close-ups."
Bert Dickerson, b'41, (Phi Kappa Pai): "They should have pictured more sororites, as it is, it is a partial view."
*Cross section views of the University should have included more activities such as scenes at dunnes, cottages and car parks.
Boy Koester, c.42 (Deltal Upson).
Muriel Osgood, c'urnel, (Kappa Alpha Theta) felt the "choice of pictures of life in a sorority house were very good." Mary Madge Lloyd still said. "The sorority life pictured was very much like life in Miller."
A Corbin hall girl said, "It makes K.U. look like a matrimonial bureau."
Ida Anderson, fa 43, commented, "If it was to show University life, they should have shown more scenes on the Campus."
Speaking for several Kappa Kappa Gamma women, Mary Louise McNown, fa43, said, "The representation as a whole was very good, and the pictures from our house were very natural."
Richard White, e. 40, said, "It isn't quite fair to the independents who were not given much representation."
Frosh Squad To Present Demonstration Debates
Four members of the University freshman debate squad will appear in debates in Manhattan, Chapman Salina, and Junction City tomorrow according to E. C. Buchler, professor of speech and dramatic art.
Members of the touring squad are Ralph Shenman, c'40; Verlyn Norris, c'43; James Gillie, c'43; and Jack Wagner, c'42.
The freshmen will present demonstration debates and also meet teams of various high schools.
Noted Literary Figure To Speak At Convocation
Louis Untermeyer—poet, anthropologist, farmer, historian, lecturer novelist, critic, biographer, and punter—will appear at the University of Chicago morning as speaker for the second convocation of the school year.
Class periods will be shortened to 35 minutes each to allow Mr. Untermerny from 10 to 11 a.m. to crack the code and answer questions. What Americans Read—and Why?
At 54, Untermeyer is at the peak of a career which has included a bit of nearly everything. Since 1925, when he quit the jewelry business, he has lived by his wit—and it's been a merry life for Untermeyer, his family of three, and his many friends who call upon him at his Stony Water farm near Elizabethtown, N.Y.
He breezes in, takes command of the situation, invites himself to dinner, and starts talking about literature, art, books, authors, or what name he. He usually brings along manuscript so that he may disregard it.
- Louis Untermeyer Will Make Second Appearance Here Thursday; Topic Is 'What Americans Read'
Untermeier will be making his second appearance here. He appeared on the 1834-35 lecture course, which makes him practically a native of Lawrence—because Untermeier is a stranger nowhere.
Carnegie Corporation Presents $2,500 Gift to Memorial Union
Santa Claus again will be host at the Union open house to be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18. The image of the Memorial Union building
Santa To Be Host At Open House
Christmas carols will be sung by the crowd; other entertainment will be presented by the Corbin hall girls, the modern choir, the men's glee club, and folk dancers from the department of physical education.
Prof. Allen Crafton of the speech and dramatic art department, will be master of ceremonies.
A photograph, 600 records, albums, and indices, valued at $2,500, have been presented to the Memorial Union building by the Carnegie corporation. New York, and other cities, will be visited after the Christmas holidays. Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the building, announced yesterday.
Refreshments will be served by the Ku Ku's and the Jay James. Almost 300 persons are expected to attend during the afternoon.
Dr. and Mrs. Hobart M. Smith, who have been doing research work at the University, have gone to Mexico on a year's fellowship from UCLA. The team will collect specimens of reptiles and amphibians for the museum.
Smiths to Mexico on Fellowship
house the Carnegie gift. Plans are now underway for informal music appreciation programs in the room. The music set consists of a phonograph with a chair-side and speaker cabinet, the records, the card index according to composers, titles, medium (bass, duos, wind, stringed), and forms (operas, ballads, suites, sacrets), a compartment album cabinet, a set of albums, and a music dictionary.
One hundred and twenty-three accounts are represented in this report, which was audited by Charles McCreight of the burster's office.
BY OLDETTE BROTHERS, c. 41
A total of $148,868.70 was spent by student organizations during the 1938-39 terms according to the sixteenth annual report of the treasurer of the students organization fund. This is a total of $7,543.44 over the expenditures of 1937-38.
A music room has been completed and furnished on the third floor of the Memorial Union building to
Student Organization Expenses Have Increased
The total disbursements of the Memorial Union, $50.949.68, were considerably less than the preceding
By Olene Brooks, c'41
Foreaster R, J. Lloyd, whose bureau charts weather reports for much of the Middlewest, said it was just one of those things that wasn't likely to last long. Nevertheless, a warm weekend in golfers and the weekend motorists.
Kansas City, Mo. Dec. 9—(UP)—Even the weather bureau admitted tonight that it was baffled by the balmy weather prevailing in every section of the United States except New England.
Temperatures in the 50's and 60' were common. The coldest spot is the United States was Greenville Me, which had a temperature this afternoon of 18 degrees, about normal.
year's total which was, $55,556.34.
The Union balance was $11,894.12 compared to the $3,013.43 balance of the 1937-38 term.
Sale of Christmas Seals Continues in Union Lounge
Other organizations with large balances include: Jayhawker magazine with $858.31 on the credit side of the ledger; Sour Owl magazine with a balance of $706.02; the Dramatics Club with a balance of $1,644.04 and a balance of $1,044.04; and a balance of $4,739.70 and books valued at $4,722.80 on hand.
Balmy December Weather Baffles U.S. Forecasters
Expenditures for dances last year amounted to $8,076.69. This includes money spent on varies, mid-week dances, and four class parties. A balance of $680.92 in the varsity budget contributed to Union Union. The balance for 1937-38 which was presented to the Union was only $434.74.
Wiley Presents Band In Annual Fall Concert
The sale of Christmas seals now going on in the lounge of the Memorial Union building will continue through Thursday of next week, eventually to be displayed, Millburn, 18th, and Marion Horn, c. 40, student directors of the sale of seals.
Of the 20 classes represented in the report, the class of 1917 is the oldest. It has the smallest balance of any class with $6.50 in the treasury. The class of 1938 has the largest balance which is $109.09. The classes usually draw from their funds to cover reunion expenses and for contributions to the Memorial Union.
Guy C. Simpson Presents Organ Vespers Today
★ Fine Arts Instructor To Play Second in Series; Program Includes Works of Bach, Jonogen, Reubke
The list of expenditures by the
Guy Criss Simpson, who has studied in Paris under Marcel Dupew, will present the second in this year's series of University organ vespers at 4 a'clock this afternoon in Hoch auditorium.
Simpson is at present dean of the Kansas chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He earned the degree of bachelor of music in both organ and piano in the School of Fine Arts.
"The Ninety-Fourth Psalm" best known of Julius Reumke's works, will conclude the program. Actually, a fantasy in three movements, this is just one of the best examples of the romantic school of orran music.
In a program open to the public, Simpson, instructor in organ and theory in the School of Fine Arts will play compositions of Bach, Jong, and Reunhk. He will open the vesper recital with "Dorothea Toccat and Fugue" (Bach). This will be followed by "Cantabile" (Jongen).
class of 1539 includes 650 cob pipes, eight pounds of tobacco, and the printing of '39 on the pipes. The cost of these items amounted to $12,000,000 were presented as favors to the senior at the senior breakfast last year.
From the 123 organizations the state, derived a total of $1,142.40 sales tax.
The student organizations fund was established in the fall of 1923 to fill the need for a centralized finance of student organizations.
Blames Dimped Knees for Failure In Classroom
Reno, Dec. 9—Three dimpled knees of Elsie Crabtree got her a lot of publicity and a 2,800 mile tour through the west, but they also caused her to lose so much time from the classroom that today she withdrew from the University of Nevada for the year. The publicity started when the clean of women touched to her beauty cadrum major active.
Elise, however, assured the students and the football squad that she would be back next fall to lead the band.
U.C.L.A.-Trojans In Scoreless Tie
- Both Teams Undefeated for Season; To Select West Coast Bowl Eleven Later
Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Dec. 9—(UP) -The football teams of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles battled to a scoreless tie before 103, 300 fans today. The underdog U.CLA. eleven stopped every scoring threat of the Trojans in a game that left both teams undefended for the season.
It will be up to the seven faculty members of the Pacific Coast conference to decide the West's representative team. Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
Each team missed a chance to score. U. S. C. muffed its opportunity with a fumble over the U.C.L.A. goal line in the first period, while a 73-yard march by U.C.L.A. in the final quarter reached the Trojan two-yard line before it was stopped.
Kenny Washington, UCLA.A's great negro halfback, almost became the goat of the afternoon when he humbled on the first play and Ed Dempsey recovered for U.S.C. on the Bruin 28.
Flashing through a big hole in his right guard, Landsdell was smacked hard on the 3-yard line. The ball bounced out of his hands over the goal line. Woodrow Strode, giant U.CLA, end. picked it up and raced 16 yards, but the officials to the U.CLA to the U.CLA on the Brain 20-yard line. U.S.C. never got another good scoring chance.
Washington, who starred for 58 minutes—until he left the game to win a great ovation from both sides of the field, almost pulled the game out of the fire for the Brains in the final period.
Tennessee Defeats Auburn 7-0
Shields-Watkins Field, Knoxville,
Tenn., Dec. 9 — (UP) — Sophomore
Johnny Butler ran Tennessee right up
to the Rose Bowl doorway today with a 40-yard touchdown dash that set back Auburn 7 to 0 and enabled the Volunteers to finish the season with a perfect record.
Butler, substituting for the injured All-American George Cafego, swung around left end and cut down the ball. Butler's performance period for the only score of the game.
Otherwise, Tennessee, not the same mighty football force that bowled over Alabama and Louisiana State so handily earlier in the season, had its hands full with an Auburn eleven power plus power in the fourth period.
Speech Contestants To Give Five-Minute Talks Over WREN
"How Can America Keep out of War?" is the topic upon which entrants in a 5-minute speech contest will talk at 8 p.m. Thursday over WREN. The contest is sponsored by the department of speech and dramatic art in cooperation with the union peace club. The winner, determined by a combined vote $v$
three judges and the audience, will receive a $5 prize.
This is the first of a series of WREN programs, called "Student Opinion on the Air". The main see-how to begin after the Christmas holidays.
Trouvys for the contest will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. Members of the department of speech and dramatic art will speak in front of the entrance to speak over WREN.
Musicians Play Tomorrow Night In Auditorium
★ Saxophone Quintet, Three Solists Take Spotlight On Program; 'Onward Kansas' Is Featured
Three solos and the saxophone quintet will take the spotlight when Russell L. Wiley directs the University band in its annual fall concert in Hoch auditorium at 8:15 to morning night.
Marshall Butter, fn'42, pianist,
will present "Repartee" (David Bemet)
in the initial solo number.
Dennis Brooks, c'40, will give a solo
presentation on the trombone of
Arthur Sullivan's well-known "Lost
Chord." From the opera, "Stabat
Nater" (Rossini), Eugene Crabb,
fn'41, will play the cornet solo, "In-
flamatus."
Play Group of Songs
Five Saxophonists will combine to play a group of songs, "Excerpts from Familiar Airs." Taking part will be Joe McAnarney, ed'41, writer of the arrangements to be used; Russell Chambers, 'f41; Bud Baizer, gr; James Berkson, 'f42; and Clvde Bysom.
A newly-written symphony for bands, "Symphony in C Minor" (Ernest S. Williams) will be introduced to the Midwest when Director Wiley leads the band in the Larghettio-allegro and larghetto movements of the composition.
Laffer's March to Be Presented
“Onward, Kana s.a.” University march number composed last year by Jack Laffer, ‘39, will be played by the band in the form of an arrangement by Bill Ward. ‘fa 40, a drummer in the band. The March was written as a part of the musical composition last year for a comedy production, “Cum Laude.” Other number on the program are:
"Bravada, Pame Doble" (Frederic Curzon), "Scenes from the Sierras" (David Bennett), "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (paraphrase by Harry Alford), "The Moosquite" Parade ("Whitney-Yoder"), "Memories of Stephen Foster" (Arnexed by Lucien Caillot), "Waltzes from 'Die Fledermaus'" "Johann Strauss", "Scenes from the Nibel-ungen Ring from opera 'Valkyrie'" (Wagner).
Put Final Touches On Hill Production
Formal dress rehearsal for "Night of January 16th" will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and again at 7:00 tion. The actors will remain in make-up and costume throughout the afternoon and evening and will have dinner served in Fraser theater.
After a Saturday rehearsal which lasted most of the afternoon, the dress rehearsal, and also running through Monday, the Director Allen Crafton expects to have the finishing touches on the play and the entire performance set for opening night Tuesday.
Tickets sales have been unusually ast, according to ticket manager Dionixon. He advises students to exchange their activity books for an issue in an available tickets are issued from office a the baseement of Green hall.
Lawrence Dance Instructor To Perform for Tou Sigma
Mrs. Alice Bauman, '30, will dance with her group for the meeting of Tauga Sigma at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening in Robinson gymnasium. The group was Alice Sherbon, is now an instructor or of dancing in Lawrence.
Science Clubs Combine for Party
The Bacteriology, Botany, Entomology, and Zoology clubs will have a combined Christmas party in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday.