UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939
NUMBER 40
Malott Appoints Axe Chairman Of Homecoming
With a view to making preparation for the University Homecoming game Saturday, Nov. 25, Leonard H. Axe, associate professor of economics, was named general chairman of the home-coming committee by Chancellor Deane W. Malott yesterday afternoon.
The homecoming committee under the leadership of Chairman Axe will work out details for the celebration which is an annual affair at the University. "The committee will be announced in about two or three days," Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, said last night.
Faculty members and students will make up the general committee. Included will be the president of the Men's Student Council, the W.S.G.A., Jay-Janes, Ku-Ku's, and the head cheerleader. Other students will also serve.
Action Necessary
"I am meeting with Mr. Nichols in the morning to draw tentative plans for the game," Professor Axe said last night "With the time for homecoming so near at hand immediate action and much work will be necessary."
When the general committee is called into session, sub-committees will be named and such traditional matters as choice of the Homecoming queen, the torchlight parade, and organized houses' decorations will be discussed. Because of the full holiday declared last Friday for the Kansas State game, the hoody day was covered this year.
Game Changed
On the gridiron, homecoming graduates will see the Missouri and Kansas teams clash for the forty-eighth time in the history of the two schools. The game, usually a Turkey Day tide, was charged to Saturday because of the conflicting date of Thanksgiving in the two states. The team which wins will take as its trophy, the old Indian tom-tom which was put up by the alumni of both schools.
Graduate will be entertained by the Relaya Club at the Eldridge hotel the evening and morning before the game. Plans for the Kansas-Missouri football smoker and rally on Thursday night have been made by the University club of Kansas City. At the smoker coaches, former athletes, and old grades will give impromptu speeches. Alumni from Kansas City will come to the game on a special train.
To Hold Bazaar For Y.W. Funds
- Annual Christmas Display
Will Show Varied Gifts
On Dec. 11, 12, 13
The annual Y.W.C.A. Christmas
bazaar will be held this year on
Dec 11, 12, and 13. Ea Paddock,
one of the Y.W.C.A. announced
yesterday.
The main lounge of the Memorial Union building will house the bazaar. From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. students and faculty members may purchase Christmas gifts from the articles on display in the bazaar.
tince Ann Jones, c'41, general chairman, has announced the chairmen of the various committees to work for the barr. These chairmen are: Agnes Bety Stracman, c'42, selling committee; Shirley Ruble, c'41, setting up display; Beulah Talbich, c'41, publicity; Verta Lee Miller, c'41, inventory; and Joan Moore-head, c'42, invoicing chairman.
The merchandise to be sold at the bazaar is secured from all over the United States. The china is sent from Seattle Wash.; the Mexican silver and jewelry come from El Paso, Texas; the art comes from Pueblo. The art exhibit is supplied by the Delta Phi Delta art fraternity.
Two New Planes For Air Training Arrive at Airport
Two of the five 65-horse power Aeronica airplanes which are to be used as training ships for the University aeronautical training course have arrived at the Lawrence Municipal airport, Don Anselm Aircraft,飞雁
ing instructor announced yesterday. The planes will attain a speed of 165 miles per hour.
Sextuplets Born To Snow Hall Parents--the Rats
Mrs. Erasmus Rat, apartment 19 department of zoology, Sewall hall gave birth to xseuptela, Cyrus Anderson, gr, is pleased to announce. Both mother and babies are doing as well as can be expected.
Two Faculty Members Speak
The proud father, Mr. Erasmus Rat, being a normal social being is generously排出 cigars and candy. All interested may receive their share upon congratulating the proud father.
Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Prof. Joseph H. Taggert, professor of economics, were speakers yesterday afternoon at the north-cast group meeting of the Kansas Building and Loan association in Lawrence.
Another Cornhusking?
'On to Nebraska' Move Begins With Rally Tomorrow Morning
Another "cornhinking contest" will begin next Saturday when the University's football team, a goodly percentage of her students, and several hundred alumni move down on La Salle for annual football game with Nebraska.
A pep rally, to be held after 9:30 classes on Friday in front of Rob-
Hitler Escapes Beer Cellar Blast By Few Minutes
- Explosive Body Shetters
Nazi Party Shrine Shortly
After Hitler Speaks Commemorating Putsch
Munich, Nov. 8—(UP) Chancellor Adolph Hitler escaped by minutes tonight, a blast caused by an "explosive body" which shattered the Burgerbrau beer cellar where he had just finished delivering a speech to the survivors of his abortive Putsch of 1923.
Several persons, presumably veteran Nazis and comrades of Hitler in the 1923 Putsch, were killed in the explosion, which occurred inside the beer cellar—shrine of the Nazi party—at 9:35 p.m., only 27 minutes after Hitler had finished his 57-minute speech.
It was not revealed whether any of the dead were high-ranking Nazis, but such prominent leaders as Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels and deputy party leader Rudolph Bayer the brook-shirted audience crowding the beer cellar to hear Hitler.
Informed quarters admitted that the explosion was caused by an "explosive body" and not by a defective baller. Munich police authiti- ted to investigate the details of the blast 'self' or the number of casualties
Although the explosion occurred 27 minutes after Hitler finished his speech in which he told the Nazi veterans that he had ordered Germany prepared for five years of war, it was believed that end of time actually clapped between his departure and the blast.
After the close of his speech the Nazis rose and sang Deutschland Uelter Alles and the Hospice which require several minutes.
Hiller came to Munich to carry out his annual custom of addressm the veterans of the 1923 Putsch or the anniversary of the unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Germany. His speech, bitterly attacking Great Britain, promoting a German victory, was broadcast throughout the Reich.
If the "explosive body" was set off as part of a plot against Hitler's life, it was the first known direct attempt of that kind.
On few occasions are so many Nazi leaders brought together in such confined quarters—at one time, it was presumed that Hitler, after leaving the beer cellar, had departed for Berlin.
inseum gym, will mark the first phase of the "on to Neirabusa" movement. Bill Waugh, b40, head cheerleader, will officiate at this 10-minute rally. Coach Gwim Henry will speak, and several members of the football team.
Munich, Nov. 8.—(UP)—Chancellor Adolf Hitler revealed tonight it
More elaborate plans have been made for a parade in Lincoln. When the Union Pacific special train arrives at the station in Lincoln, Kansas supporters will fall in behind the University land and parade from the Union Pacific team to the hote where the team is staying.
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The train is scheduled to leave Lawrence at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, and will arrive in Lincoln at 11:30 a.m. All those who drive up are asked to join the parade at this time, and with the band through the town.
The event is being sponsored by the pep organizations.
One Hundred Seek Parts in New Play
More than one hundred campus thespians tried out for the next dramatic production, "The Night of January 16th." The cast of 24 members will be announced within the next few days, pending approval of the elegibility committee. A two-week period of tryouts ended last night.
The play is a mystery-comedy and will be under the direction of Prof Allen Crafton, chairman of the department of speech and dramatic art. Rehearsals will probably start next Monday night for the cast.
Photography Show In Union Building
The club has also arranged a homecoming competitive exhibit of photographic prints which will be the first of its kind this year. The Mihoise display includes oil prints and photographs, covering a wide range of subjects.
An exhibit of 50 prints by Leonard Misme, internationally famous Belgian photographer, will be burged today in the Memorial Union building. The exhibition is sponsored by the K.U. Camera Club.
Band Leaves On Pre-Game Tour Today
Last minute attempts to manufacture knowledge in mass production, worried looks adorning usually gaueties, and arms sagging with educational volumes, mark those students whose thoughts have turned from afternoon "coke dates" and bridge to mid-semester, descended upon the University this week.
One hundred-twelve members of the University band. Prof. Russell L. Wiley, band director, and Mrs. D. R. Witherup of Kansas City, chaperone, will leave at 3:30 pm today for a two-and-one-half day concert tour before graduate Lincoln at the University-Nebraska game Saturday.
Pass the Aspirin--the M.S.C, the M.C. the imam is slim. Pachinochaua holds 10 Council seats to the League's 11. Tomorrow's vote will ever party strength in the M.S.C.
Saturday morning the band will arrive in Lincoln in time to meet the special train from Lawrence and participate in the rally at the station. Following the rally the band will lead the University press convention. The meeting will return to Lawrence the midnight evening.
Hiwatha, the first stop for the band, will be reached tonight where the band will give a concert under the Bridge in a public school and city clubs.
Exams Here Again !!
The trip will be made in three busses, financed by the band's travel fund. The travel fund is formed by a group of students aside from student activity tickets.
About this time every year, attentions are centered upon nine-week exams, and students take note of the old problem, "Why Mother and Dad are sending me to college." But still no library records have been broken in preparation for these mid-semmers.
Twelve senior civil engineers, accompanied by Prof. W. F. C. McNeum and Associate Professor G. W. Bradshaw, will make an inspection trip of the Lehigh Portland Cement company at Iola, and the dam and power plant of the Grand Darg Authority at Vintna, Okla.
Friday morning the band will go to Omaha for a series of performances. In the morning it will give two concerts at Technical High School and in the afternoon two more at Benton High School. Friday evening the band will halve at one of Omaha's interhigh school games.
"It seems to be the tendency," said C. M. Baker, director of libraries, for students to rely more on library resources than to use library books."
- Ono Hundred Twelve Members To Visit Hiawata and Omaha on Route to Lincoln
The dam at Vitina is one of the largest and longest that has been constructed. It is a multiple arch dam measuring 6,500 feet in length. Engineers who are going on the inspection trip are: A. E. Williamson, Dwight Metzler, D. C. Lucas William Stevenen, Clyde W. Pace Jr, Leonard Schroeter, Jogel Fogel Bill Shears, Joe Clark, P. G. Osterholm, P. L. Flanders, and W. B. Davis.
Winter and Ruppenthal Speak to Spanish Club
C. J. Winter, professor of Spanish,
and Karl Ruppenthal, 141, spoke
yesterday at a meeting of the Spanish
Club. Professor Winter described
a trip to Puerto Rico and Ruppenthal
spoke on a tour of Mexico.
Civil Engineers Will Make Tour This Weekend
Back into the regular routine after mid-mesure, dark futures of low grades and extra study hall hours become a distant shadow, and the calendar rises to heights of 15 feet. Students only at a near vacation time
A more 1,360 books were checked from the Watson library desks Monday, as compared with the corresponding day before mid-semester last year, when students used 1,525 books.
Later in the program, Nancy
Cook, fai 44, and Ruppenhap sang a song of Spanish songs. The
Spanish Club is composed of students in the department of Spanish.
Meetings are held in room 113
Frank Strong hall on alternate Wednesdays at 3:30.
Conversation has it that Thanksgiving holidays are a savior for broken health caused by intense study, an opportunity to catch up on lost sleep, and a splendid time to really see the family again.
School will close for the holidays after the last class Wednesday, Nov. 29, and will re-open Monday morning; Dec. 4.
Politicians Eye Polls as Frosh Vote
Seek Council Posts for P.S.G.L...
George Starry, c'45, and Bob White, c'13, yearling politicians who will attempt to defend the P.S.G.L. majority in the Men's Student Council. If the freshmen grant a Council post to either of these two today the League's majority in the M.S.C. is safe.
On Same Track for Pachacamac---
Dixie Miller, c'43, and Art Black, c'43, on whom Pacchiaume's chances for a Men's Student Council majority rest in the freshman election today. The polls will open at 9 a.m.
I.S.A. Districts Are Reorganized
- Four Areas Replace Ten Established Earlier in the Semester
The Independent Student Association will be reorganized into four districts it was announced yesterday by David Whitney, c'42, general manager of the organization. Action was made necessary by the cumbersome regulation of the districts set up earlier this fall, Whitney
AV a recent meeting the officers of the organization approved the reorganization but plans were not effective until yesterday.
"The new arrangement will facilitate government of the districts, and simplify planning of parties, intra-activity and club activities." Whitney said.
District number one will include all LSA. members living north of an east-west line that divides Ninth street, west of a line north-south from Ninth to 14th street midway between Indiana and Louisiana streets, and then west along University Drive.
District three will include all members living on Ohio street from the center of 11th street south to an imaginary line running east and west between Miller and Wakka in southeastern Louisiana, include all those living on Louisiana street between those north and south boundaries.
The second district is bounded on the north by the center line of Ninth street to a point half-way between Indiana and Louisiana. From that point the area extends south to eleventh street, then cast to the mid-point between Ohio and Tennessee streets, south to the center of 13th street and cast for the west and south boundaries.
The last district will include th
students living south of the center
of 13th street west to include bodl
sides of Tennessee street, and south
of the line east and west between
the parishment puts Watkins hall in
the third district and Miller hall in
the fourth district.
Alone in Race
Howell Hill, c'43, who recently denounced the party politics of the Men's Student Council and announced his candidacy for the freshman M.S.C. post. Hill is running independently.
First Organ Recital Sunday
Laurel Everette Anderson, professor of organ and theory, will begin the series of organ vesper rituals at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium.
Mr. Anderson earned his bachelor of music and master of music degrees in organ at Oberlin Conservatory, studying later under Louis Vierre and Laparra in Paris.
Included on the program Sunday
will be works of Bach, Buxtehude,
Copperin, Brahms and Bruce Schoen-
d's "Bionda Prelude on the Dieu
Troisième"
Professors Charles Sanford Skilton, G. Crisis Simpson, and visiting organists will present four or five recitals before Easter education.
Geologists On Trip to Mountains
Dr. Robert M. Dreyer, instructor in geology, and his structural geology class left this morning on an annual survey trip to the Arbuckle mountains in Oklahoma. The group will return Sunday night.
Ballots Today Will Decide M.S.C. Rule
By Roscoe Born, c'41
Fate of the Hill's political parties and of 13 wearing politicians hangs in the balance today as freshman men go to the polls to choose their representatives in student government.
Freshman candidates who await an approving nod from classmates in tomorrow's election are:
Balloting begins at 9 a.m. in the basement of Frank强壮 hall and in Marvin hall. When **11** polls close at 5 p.m., the "dinky cap" will have chosen a president, a treasurer, two dance managers, and two represidents from the State Council. And all political eyes are fastened on those two M.S.C. posts. Though the Progressive Student Government League now dominates
M.S.C. Representatives
Art Black (Pacchaume)
George Starry (P.S.G.L.)
Howell Hill (Independent)
Bob White (P.S.G.L.
Dixie Miller (Pachaeamae)
President
President
Ralph Sheneman (Pachac-mae)
Elmo Maiden (P.S.G.L.)
Treasurer
Treasurer
Glee Smith (P.S.G.L)
Ed Palmer (Pachacamac
Dance Managers
Wendell Tompkins (P.S.G.L.)
Frank Bures (Pachacamac)
Howard Sells (P.S.G.L.)
Harry Smith (Pachacamac)
Freshmen could do five things with their two Council selections: 1 Award both posts to Pachasacan; 2 Pachasacan to Pachasacan a Council majority.
2) Award both posts to P.S.G.L. This would not affect reactive voting strengths in the M.S.C. but would entrench the League even more.
( 3 ) Award one post to each party. This would leave P.S.G.L still in the majority.
5) Award one post to the independent candidate and to Fachacama. In such a case the vote of the independent would be all-important. If the unaffiliated man should cast his vote with P.S.G.L. then the Council would control the Council. Similarly Pachacama would be in the majority should they receive the independent's support.
4) Award one poet to the independent candidate and one to P.S.GL. P.S.GL. would still have the greatest power however the independent candidates.
This gives Pachacaceae two chances for effective strength in the M.S.C. and leaves P.S.G.L. in the favored position with four chances to remain dominant.
Asks Students To Enroll Now In Equitation
With horseback riding approved as a University course for all students, both men and women, those interested in enrolling in equitation for the second half of this semester are requested to make application at the physical education office immediately. E. B. DeGroot, instructor in the department of physical education, announced yesterday.
Enrollment will be closed next Tuesday.
The course will give a half hour of college credit. The riding classes will be held twice a week. DeGroot will handle the beginners and Gayle Vott will teach the advanced course.
The classes will start Nov. 20.