UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Searchers Fail To Find Flying Boat
- Steamship, Planes Report No Trace of 'Cavailor' Forced Down in Atlantic On Way to Bermuda
New York, Jan. 21.-(UP)-Two searchcraft search, an airplane and a steamship visited the last reported position of the Mission British flying boat Cavailor tonight without finding any trace of the plane or its eight men and five women occupants.
At 10:12 p.m., just nine hour after the 19-ton luxury airliner fell into the Atlantic 150 miles east of Ocean City, Maryland, none of nearly a dozen of airplanes and vespas had reported sighting it.
The Cavalier was making a regularly scheduled flight from New York to Hamilton, Bermuda when it stalled engines forced it down.
The Standard Oil tanker town, which turned off its course to speed to the rescue, arrived at the position given in the last report from the stricken crew and radioed "Nothing in sight. Everything clear."
"C. guard and other officials directing one of the greatest searches in recent years were agreed that the last position of the plane was at the spot where the Esso Baytown reported.
Coastguard pilot C. H. Allen returned to Floyd Bennett field after flying over the spot and finding no sight of wreckage or floating survivors. He reported that the force landing apparently had been made in range of the normally warm Gulf stream where there is a 5 mile current.
Failure of the first two craft on the scene to find the flying boat with its eight passengers and five crew members spurred plains for a great combined sea and air search to start at dawn.
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ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1939
Just to keep Joe Bowlm from being bored with himself at a party, Virgil Courtright put some itching powder in Joe's shoes. But somehow the itching powder crept up under his tux shirt where he couldn't scratch it with impunity. The humor content of such jokes is low, but at the same time they are very practical.
The status quo would like to know whether or not the engagement of Louise Bowen to Tom Mangelsdorf is or isn't. Phi Gian's say yes. Chi Omega's say no. The rest of us say what?
Tired of waiting for the welfare agency to bring them food, four starving Theta's entered a grocery store last Tuesday to get some carrots. But noticing the stove they bought weiners instead, went outside for sticks, begged crackers from the proprietor, and put them in D. J. Roberts, Doity Nobel, Betty Muchnic, and Dodie Dean.
No wonder seniors get to enroll early. They say they need two extra weeks in which to get tangled in a web of red tape.
When I heard that the Pi Phi had invited every Tom, Dick and Harry to their party last night I felt real bad because I didn't get a first edition of the invitations and since my middle name is Richard I naturally felt that I was entitled to one. But one thing there was, my house an in a be-ribboned package via Speck's Delivery Service—which appears to be a subsidiary of the Pi Phi Transportation System.
So it was that last night I hired myself to the Union ballroom where I did spend "An evening in Paris"—the party's theme—done in blue and silver with a French cafe. When a Mr. Smith of trumpeting from the rostrum, the seat was hearable and usually listenable, although I did whiff some of that "really now" stuff eminating from Jayne Coats.
Will Be Married Soon
PROF. HENRY LADD SMITH
Heury Ladd Slim, assistant professor of Journalism, who will be married within a short time to Miss Gretchen Keen, author book reviewer on the New York Herald Tribune.
Herald Tribune.
Recital in Hoch Tomorrow Night
★ Advanced Students in First Arts Will Present Programs Tomorrow
The Monday recital will include selections for organ, piano, violin cello, voice and ensemble.
"Fantasia in C minor" (Bucharest)
Janavie Fink, ed 39; organist; "Silver Cascade" (Niemann). George Pierson, fa 41; pianist; "Connais Tu Le Pays" (Thomas), Hortense Harris, fa 41; vocalist; "Sonata in D" (Haendel). Eugene Nininger, c42; violinist; "Novelle, Op. 21, No. 5" (Schumann). Marshall Butler, fa 42; pianist; "Ave Maria" (Percy Kahn). "King's Suite," Op. 21; "Rish Rourh in Hong Kong" (Chasson). Lily Wilkinson, fa 42; pianist; "Che Faro Senza Euridice" (Glunk) Edmonda Mercer, fa 39; vocalist.
Following is the program:
Hessler To Attend Meeting And Confer on Employment
Professor V. P. Hessler of the department of electrical engineering will spend the week of Jan. 23 to Jan. 29 attending the mid-winter convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and visiting the General Electric plant at Schenected, N. Y., the Commonwealth Edison Company plants and Western Electric plants in Chicago.
Stephenson Speaks on Well Testing at Hutchinson
During these visits he will have conferences with industrial officers concerning the employment of students, and the electrical brush investigations which he has been carrying on for the General Electric company and the Commonwealth Edison company.
Prof. Eugene A. Stephenson addressed the Kansas Society for Petroleum Engineers at Hutchinson Thursday night on the subject of "Methods of Testing High Pressure Oil and Gas Wells."
Following the meeting, Professor Stephenson was asked to initiate a movement among the leading technical societies for the solicitation of committees to study and recommend a standard code of procedure for testing and sampling high pressure wells.
University of New Hampshire criflemen have won 23 matches in 24 starts.
Committees Continue Search For Chancellor
Elimination of Candidates
Is Job of Two Committees
Seeking New Head for University
Several candidates for the position of Chancellor to succeed Chancellor Lindley, whose resignation will become effective June 30, have been eliminated because of certain political affiliations, Raymond Nichols secretary to the Chancellor said yesterday. Others have been eliminated because of lack of experience and the requisite degrees.
The search for the new Chancellor is being carried on by two committees, a faculty committee and an alumni committee. The faculty committee was formed first to pass on the qualifications of candidates for the University's highest office, and to make recommendations to the Board of Regents, in order to ensure that the Alumni committee was formed later to insure the selection of a Chancellor acceptable to the alumni.
"The selection of a Chancellor must necessarily be made carefully said Nichols." "It will be very difficult to find a man who can carry on the work of Chancellor Lindley with the same degree of success. The two committees will not rest until such a selection has been made."
Tau Sigma Hears Dance Professor
Many people can dance but not walk is the theory that Miss Dorea Spath, teacher of modern dance in Kansas City, brought out before Tau Sigma, honorary dance center. Thursday night in Robinson gym.
Miss Spaeth, who has studied in Berlin and at the Bennington School of Dance in Vermont, went on to say, "We walk with the body, not with the legs. It is in the torso that ethnic motion of the walk begins."
"There are three essentials in the technique of the modern dance," she explained. "The technique of body movement which consists of the problem of structure and muscular impulses; the technique of movement which is made up of clap movements; the vibrated motion; and the technique of form in the dance which exists in time-space-force."
"There are only three kinds of movement," she said. "The movement of nature, a machine, and the human body."
Miss Ellen Payne, general secretary of the W.C.A. left Friday afternoon for Fort Scott, where she will visit friends. From Fort Scott she will go to Dallas, Texas on Y.W. C.A. business. She is expected to return next Thursday.
Y. W.C.A. Secretary Goes to Dallas
Beat Iowa State
'College Humor' Gets 'Sour Owl' Picture By Special Request
If the inside of the Sour Owl measures up to the feathera, Dick LaBanc 29, editor, might do some exhuberant hooting when this month's issue goes before the public tomorrow, for College Humor magazine was impressed enough with the "feathers" to request that the cover picture be sent to them.
The picture is one of the adagio dancers and members of the University basketball team posed between two players. The Kansas game in Hoch Auditorium.
Featured in the "innards" for a basketball story by "Phog" Allen, and cartoons by Gordon David, fa'40, Dick Hart Haward, fa'39, Clem Fairchild, b'39 and Dick Martin, c'39 have contributed poems. Another feature will be an article written by Orman Wanamaker, b'39, assistant business manager of the University Daily Kansan, and Dick Ludeman,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Douglas, Olathe were injured in a motor accident Friday evening while returning home from a visit with their daughter, Dorothy Douglas, fa42. Both are in the Lawrence Memorial hospital, but will probably be dismissed tomorrow.
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Student's Parents Injured in Crash
The car, a 1936 Terraplane,
crashed into a culvert on highway 10
about two miles west of Eudora when
Douglas attempted to pass another
car, also going east. Officers investigat-
ing the accident said that the couple miraculously escaped death,
while their wrecked car was cut almost in half.
William F. Barnes, fs, and Lola May Barbillah, b'40, arrived at the scene soon after the accident and seized in taking the two to the hospital.
Douglas, received a brain concussion and cuts about the face and head, and Mrs. Douglas received a broken nose, severe cuts on her face and forehead, and body bruises and cuts.
ipeech Contest Begins With Thursday's Broadcast
The first of a series of six weekly contests sponsored by the Student Forum Board and the department of speech and dramatic art will be heard over WREN Thursday at 8 p.m. The subject will be “What's Wrong With Kansas” and the winner will receive $5 and is to represent the University at the annual oratorical contest to be held at Topperk School in Kansas Day contest will receive cash from Governor Farnett
The students who will speak Thursday are Havold Mulligan, c39 Russell Baker, c42 Blaine Grimes, Mac Wayne, c46 and Stewart
Then judges, who have not yet been announced will award the prizes on the basis of plan and arrangement of the speech, use of language, and effectiveness of delivery.
NUMBER 79
Kansas Meets Iowa State Tomorrow
★ Jayhawkers Are Slight Favorites To Win Over Cyclones; Began 'Hiting Against Wildcats
Dr. F. C. Allen's Jayhawkers, a basketball team that doesn't know when it is licked, heads for Ames this evening to meet the Iowa State Cyclones tomorrow night in the last sesame of the next semestar for the Kansas Club.
In the first half of the last canto,
Frank Root's lad's put on the pressure to rack up 12 points to Kansas' four for a 33 to 21 bulge. "I two rapid-fire buckets that shoot the score from 29 to 33 and the Wildcat mob is in a frenzy—to put it mildly . . . It is in State that calls time, not Kansas . . . Weshe and Reid have been playing their hearts out to run up this lead and they can hardly walk . . . The same five men have been carrying the Wildest Jumpers running in a constant stream of replacements . . . The band swings out with a red-hot tune and the crowd is confident it will be a jubilant Aggieville this night.
The team started rolling in high-effort Friday night when Kansas State was defeated, 40 to 38, after a desperate comeback in the last 10 minutes when the Aggies were outscored 19 to 5. It was the first time since the Texas invasion that the hoop-hitters have got "hot," and it marks them as slight favors to hand the Cyclones their second defeat of the current season. A victory would project the Kansas entwined into the thick of the tilt fight with four victories against two losses.
Whirlwind Finish Nips Ags
By Jay Simon, 'cunel
A few facts and fancies on the Jayhawks' Friday night triumph over Kansas State by one who happened to be in the midst of a very partisan Aggie rooting section:
Wildcats Stop Engleman
Although the team's leading scorer, Howard Engleman, was throttled by the Wildcat defense Friday night, the improvement noted in Ralph Miller and Don Ebling was particularly encouraging. Lyman Corlis was able to spark as he chalked up 12 points to lead the point-makers.
After the tally was nip and kick most of the first half, State put on a brief rally to take a 21 to 17 lead on baskets by Wesche and Reid. Starting the second half Manhattan put on a scoring drive that run their lead to 33 to 12 with 10 minutes left. Here the Jayhawks uncoerked as courageous a rally as Frank Merrill ever turned in to tip the Aggies at the finish by two points.
It was Miller, Corlis, and Ebring who were pacing the attack during the final ten minutes, but Bruce Voran and John Kline were turning in yeaon performances in hustling the ball.
It was an iron-man Kansas State team that the Jayhawks faced. Only one substitute was sent into the fray, then not until six minutes before the finish. Ervin Reid with 15 points and Homer Wesche with 13 were the big guns in the State attack.
At seven bells the Wildcat gym is fairly throbbing with students and in 15 minutes the alleged 2,600 seats (or perhaps the 2,600 alleged seats) are filled to overflowing . . . The game hasn't gone two baskets until the entire balcony crowd is on its collective feet . . . The "seats" are used only at the half and during time-outs . . . In the course of the first period the count is knotted five times . . State leads it to 7 after ten minutes, but Kansas rallies to it up. It's four quick baskets before the game ends; I give the Angies their 21 to 17 margin to rest on.
Couch Leo Menzel has three of his players in the list of leading Big Six scorers. Gordon Nicholas, a sophomore, is heading the team in points with 34 in three games for an average of 11.3. Trailing him are Harris with a 10.7 mark, and Beresford with a seven point average.
Iowa State Upset Sooners
Iowa State turned in a big upset last Monday night when it dumped Oklahoma 51 to 42 at Ames. Previous to the Sooner game the Cyclones down Kansas State, 47 to 36 and lost to Missouri, 35 to 56
Kansas: Partly cloudy to cloudy and much colder today. Tomorrow unsettled; not so cold in extreme north portion.
With only 10 minutes to whittle down the 12-point lead, it looks as if the Jayhawks will go to pieces . . . Surely they'll start bombarding from long range, you think . . . But Captain Corlies steadies his mates during the rest period, and with he and Ralph Miller passing brilliantly, Don Ebling and Bruce Vora hustling the leather from the backboards, and Johnny Kline turning in a brilliant defensive chore, the Kansas team begins to move . . . With six minutes to go State is still ahead by eight points. . . It looks like the clock is going to catch up with the deserved Jays . . . Root sends in
his first recruit . . . Kansas has them on the run, but still eight points looks like a safe margin.
Corlis and Miller are still unruffled and keep the team in there pitchin'. . . The Chanute star pops one from the side and Corlis buckets his fifth long shot of the game. . . Voran, who is rebounding beautifully, connects from close quarters and now Kansas is trailing only 32 to 34. . . It looks like they may be able to make it for, State is fearing
... Wesche is awarded a pair of free throws and he calmly tosses them both in to make it tougher . . . But Miller fairly streaks under the hoop and cans one from over his head and Eblings follows suit to tie up the ball game at 36 . . . There are three minutes left, plenty of time for most anything but a four-minute egg . . . H e Reld seems to have just enough pace to win the game, 15th points with a field goal in close, and Kansas grabs the ball and charges back down the court . . . It's Ebling who loops one from the side to keep his team in the running . . . 38-38 and two minutes left to play.
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Box Score--
KANSAS (40)
g      f      pf
Engleman, f    1   0 2
Eling, f    3   2 0
Miller, f    4   2 3
Gold, f    0   0 0
Reid, f    0   0 0
Florell, f    0   0 0
Allen, c     0   0 0
Voran, c     0   0 0
Corlis, g     5   2 0
Kline, g     0   0 2
Harp, g     2   0 1
Hoggen, g     0   0 0
Totals 17 6 8 40
KANSAS STATE (38)
g ft pf
Reid, f 7 1 2
Boes, f 3 0 0
Wesche, c 4 5 2
Dricier, g 1 0 2
Kramer, g 0 2 2
Miller, g 0 0 1
Totals 15 8 9 38
Corlis Cages 'Em-
LYMAN CORLIS
-Stellar guard who has captured the team in its last six starts, led the Jazzyhawker scorers in the third game of Friday with 12 points.
He Came Through--
- DON EBLING - FORWARD
Junior forward whose long shot and free throw late in the second half, gave KU a tie, and scored in the first quarter of Kansas State Friday night.
Oread High Debaters Meet Bonner Springs
The first and second debate teams of Oread Training School met the teams of the Bonner Springs School Friday at Bonner Springs. Members of the Oread teams are: Marie Barlow, Seba Eldridge, J. Herrman, Peter Anderson, Charles Ise, Peggy Osmond, Charles Ise, Lou Cook, and Hearn Hartmann.
DAVID WHITNEY. President.
Freshman Committees Meet Today
Two committees of the freshman class will meet today in the lounge of the Memorial Union building
The committee on vocational forums will meet at 11 a.m., and the committee on University Traditions will meet at 7 p.m.
Alexander Resigns I.S.A. National Post
★ Fockole's Name Submitted For Vacant Chairmanship; Membership Drive Starts Monday
Charles Alexander, whose attempt to control the Independent Student Association failed, resigned Friday night from the national chairman's ship of the L.S.A. Alexander, who only a week ago was announcing the resignation of Susan Maloney, c'30, as president and his appointment to direct the department. He signed the fact that he would not be in school next semester.
The newly organized executive body met Friday night at the Memorial Union building. The council submitted the name of Louis Focke, c39, new president of the LSA. to Dean J. F. Finlay of the University of Oklahoma, executive secretary of the LSA. for the national chairmanship left vacant by Alexander's friend, the Officer
Council Elects Officers
The executive body elected the following officers at the meeting: Ruth Warren, c40; secretary; Tom Resmees, c40; secretary; Jerry H. Sullivan, v44; corresponding secretary.
A committee consisting of Bill Vickers, c. 40 John Oakson, c. 40 and Lloyd Estes, c. 42, was selected to draft a constitution for the organi- nee presented for approval at a music conference after the final examinations.
Fockele announced that the council will meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the lounge of the Memorial Union building. Plans will be apped out for the membership trive which will get under full uniform before meeting will be held in the Union building t 7 p.m. tomorrow.
The council passed a resolution for open meetings, and Focke urged all independents to attend the meetings.
The plan to offer three big dances for the membership price of a dollar is still in effect, announced Fockele. "With membership in the LSA. and three dances being offered for one dollar, I believe the membership drive will be a great success."
Smith To Wed New York Girl
Henry Ladd Smith, 32-year-old assistant professor of journalism, surprised faculty associates and friends in Lawrence when he obtained a marriage license yesterday afternoon in the Wyndotte County courthouse in Kansas City, Kan. He is survived by his sister Keene, 26-year-old assistant to Lewis Gannett, book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune.
Professor Smith explained that he and Miss Keene plan to be married sometime during semester examination week, as soon as his fiancees arrive in Kansas City, Mo., after finding someone to take her position in New York. They expect to live in Lawrence.
Miss Keee was graduated from assar College in 1934 and has been with the Tribune for the past three years. Professor Smith came to the campus last fall from the University of Wisconsin.
Research Report by Zurcher Chosen for A.I.E.E. Meet
A treatise on electricity by L. A. Zurcher, instructor in electrical engineering, has been chosen from a group of research reports from all parts of the country to be delivered at the mid-winter convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in New York.
M. Zurcher's paper on "The Sensitivity of the Four-arm Bridge" He will leave this afternoon to attend a conference, scheduled for Jan. 23-27.
Leisure Commission Will Skate
The Creative Leisure Commission members will go roller-skating at the Rollerdrome this afternoon. All those wishing to go should meet at Henley house promptly at 2 p.m. Your Moor, Co-chairman, announced
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