UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXVI
Japan Bombers Strike; Cut Chinese Railway
Land Forces in Surprise Invasion Press Towata Weichow, Key City in Outer Defences of Great South China Metropolis of Canton; Attempt To Crush Chang Kai-chek
Hongkong, Oct. 13—(Thursday)—(U, P.)—Japan cut the Hong Kong-Canton railway from the air today while her land forces drove toward Weichow, key city in the outer defenses of the great South China metropolis of Canton.
The Japanese were pressing their surprise invasion of South China, designed to crush Chinese nationalist Generalissimo Chang Kai-Chek and force an early end of the 15-month old Chinese-Japanese war, with every means they had—airplanes warships, mechanized land forces and infantry men.
southwest of Canton a n d
dightly north of the small port
of Hichung on Viasa bay where
the Japanese landed from 40,
000 to 30,000 soldiers early yester-
day.
A motor road leads from Weichow to Carton, and once the outer city is taken the situation of the metropolis on which Britain's Hong Kong colony depends for most of its trade, will be precarious.
A great battle was developing south of Weichow, which is
Chinese provincial government was mobilizing 1,000,000 men to resist the invasion, but British military intelligence reports said most of them were poorly armed and lacked airplanes, tanks and modern artillery.
One report was that the Japanese were leading additional soldiers today from their big military base in Kyoto to the east of their Viasa fay foothole.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938
A British correspondent who flew over the area said he saw more than 100 Japanese ships packed in Viasa's bay from which landing vessels were transporting thousands of men ashore.
Meantime there was no indication that the Japanese would head a warning delivered the Tokio government by British Ambassador, Sir Alexander L. Craige, who warned Japanese Premier and Foreign Minister, Prince Funimaro Konoe that *Anglo-Japanese* relations might be imperiled by the Japanese invasion of South China.
Camera Club Holds First Meeting in New Social Room
Le Cercle Francais Elects
The K. U. Camera club held its first fall meeting in the new social room of the Union building Tuesday night. Lowell Pellma, c39, was in charge. After a short business session members were asked to tell why and to what extent they were interested in cameras. Following this refreshments of doughnuts and cider were served.
on the... SHIN
Jessie Bradbury, zunel, yesterday was elected president of La Cercle Frances at the organization's first meeting of the year Other officers chosen: vice-president Alma Bigwell, c40; and secretary-treasurer, Norman Rehg, c40. The club will meet again Wednesday.
by jimmy robertson
Hank Dreber has temporarily sworn off most of his social activities, and it's all because of Theta's look—a-like twig, Virginia and Louise Wiles. Hank squired Louise to the mid-week Wednesday night along with Beta brother Buzzy Banks and Virginia.
After the ball was over, Hank blithely descended the stairs with Virginia and told his bewilderedDATE, Louse, that they would meet her and Buzzy in the car. In the meantime Buzzy was looking valiant for Virginia. Such social hari-kari on the part of Mr. Dreher might have been pardonable had the girls worn dresses of the same color.
Overheard at Brick's Kenny Postlethwait saying a person has to have a college education to read John Randolph Tye's column. To which a nearly same-age friend that's why nobody reads it."
Remember way back in the fall of 1936 when la belle la Bash took
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Directory Comes Out Next Week
Within 10 days the University official student directory will be available to students at the office of George O. Foster, registrar. The last check has been made and the directories are ready to go on the press.
Walter Yost, fa 39, is this year's directory editor and is being assisted by Dr. W. H. Schoewe of the geology department, the WSGA, the M.S.C., and the entire staff of the registra's office.
The student directory is an annual, free to students, giving the addresses, phone numbers, a n c e m g e n i t y of the university as well as of the faculty employees, and officers. There will be more than five thousand copies.
Ratner Speaks Next Friday
Following the dinner a parade will be given from the Campus to downtown Lawrence where a rally will take place over the station WHEN from 8 to 8:30.
Senator Payne H. Ratner, Republican candidate for Governor of Kansas, will be the featured speaker at a banquet to be given in his honor at the Memorial Union Building Friday evening, Oct. 21. Tickets can now be obtained from members of the Young Republican Club of the Ratner Governor Club who are sponsoring the banquet.
The University Rattner for Governor n Club of which Wilbur Leonard c'39, is chairman, was the first club to be organized supporting the Senator in his race for nomination. Last spring a banquet was given in his honor here with more than three hundred attending.
Yesterday the University Young
Republican Club opened official
headquarters in the basement of
the library and will be evening
every afternoon and evening.
Tau Sig Tryouts For 31 Tonight
Four new members have been elected to Tau Sigma, honorary dancing society, and 31 other women will be given additional tryouts at 7 o'clock tonight at Rohan Hall. The following will report tonight.
Row C-1 Earnes, Jean Wilkins, Jane Robinson, Mary Lou Eckstrom, Inez Rice, Jean Sanderland, Ellen Irew, Bett Ann Yankee, Mary Ellen Brissius, Libby Metcalf, Alice McGill.
Row B--Patsy Meagher, Suzanne Adair, Ruth Mary Nelson, Barbara Owen, Patricia Green, Bernadine Green, Constance Rutforder, Gayle Little, Suszane Lowderman, Mary Ewers.
Row A~Victory Hawkey, Marinyn McBride, Doris Johnson, Dorie Outhard, Ousty Millilee, Mike Carey, Mary E. Kirsner, Jean Werner, Meir McFearland
Frances Fussmen, Janet Wallace, Miriam Cheeseman, and Betty Blue are the new members.
JAY JANES
There will be an important meeting of the Jay James at 4:30 p.m. today in the Pine room.
COUNCIL MEETS
D. J. WILLCUTTS, President
Open House Saturday For Independents
There will be a special meeting of the Men's Student Council today at 1:00 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union
BLAINE GRIMES. President.
Open house for independent students will be held in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building immediately after the Kansas-Oklahoma football game Saturday. The affair will be in honor of Oklahoma's delegation of the Independent Student Association.
Suzanne Maloney, c39, president of the LSA, said all independents are invited to attend and enjoy refreshments. She added that those who wish to see her desk in the Memorial Union building by tomorrow evening.
Dancing and other entertainmen has been planned.
Parents' Day Features Grid Tilt
The Jayhawkers will open their Big Six season before a Parent's Day crowd of between 10,000 and 15,000 persons Saturday, if the figures on advance sales are any indication of the total attendance which may be expected.
Kansas Editors Al's of
Convene Over Weekend;
Jayhawk-Sooner Track
Teams Compete
The Kansas-Oklahoma contest is likely to have considerable bearing on the Big Six race, and is drawing a great deal of attention. Kansas and Oklahoma have both defeated the Texas team, and Oklahoma has a victory over Rice to its credit. All going down before Monday, the Kansas came back Saturday to pile up a big score against Washburn.
Last year the Kansas team seemed to be going down in defeat until the last minute of play, when he scored a goal. Winning—downdown of the game.
So no one knows what will happen Saturday, but whatever it is, it probably won't be dull. Add to this fact that 'Saturday will be Parents' day. We know the reason for the large attendance expected appears. In addition to the parents attending the game, Kansas newspaper editors have been invited to attend the game as guests of the athletic department. The annual editors' roundtable meetings will be held on the campus Monday afternoon in the game the annual Parents' Day banquet will be held in Memorial Union building.
The Jayhawk and Sooner two-mile run teams will participate in a race before the game, which will start at 2 o'clock. The race will start at 1:15. Between halves of the game, the team must advance to the field. It has not been learned whether or not the Oklahoma band plans to attend the game.
Prof. C. S. Skilton, of the School of Fine Arts, will speak to members of the MacDowell Colony Club Tuesday night on present European cultural conditions as he saw them during his travels last year.
The game will be broadcast, play by play, from three radio stations: WREN of Lawrence, KMBC of Kansas City, and WKY of Oklahoma City.
Reserved seat tickets may be purchased for $2.25, and general admission tickets will be on sale the day of the game for $1.10. The latter admit the holders into the north brow of the stadium. Hours and students will be admitted into this section of the stadium for 25 cents.
The organization will meet in the Memorial Union building Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be on sale for 75 cents in the Memorial Union building, at the fune Arts office, at 112 W. 6th St., the company, and in the English office.
Skilton To Tell Club Of European Conditions
Authorized Parties
Friday, Oct. 14
Saturday, Oct. 15
Parents' Day Banquet, Union building. 6:00 p.m.
Phi Gamma Delta, house, 12 p.m.
Parents' Day Varsity, Union building, 9:30 to 12:00 p.m.
Women's Hockey Team Defeats Baker 8-2
Saturday, Oct. 15
ELIZABETH MEGUAI
Advent to Women for
the Joint Committee on
Student Affairs.
The University women's field hockey team defeated Baker University women 8-2 yesterday afternoon at Baldwin in the first women's intercollegiate competition of more than a decade.
The feminine Jayhawkers invaded Baker and, in one of the roughest games ever played by many of the contestants, outclassed the Baker team in almost every department.
The squad which went to Baker included: D. J. Willetts, ed'39; B. Jenkin, c'41; J. Henry, ed'uncl; A. Anderson, ed'uncl; V. Bell, c'41; D. Ursler, I. McAdoo, A. Biglow; F. Lawson, R. Nelson; C. Cammon; M. Lawson; P. McCormick; M. Learnard; Michel Learndar; M. K Lattner; J. Byrn; Owen, Ledyard, Andrews, Koelzer, Barackman, Herriman, and Paden.
Hall specialized in power drives off tackle and broken field running. Before he came to Kansas he played halfback. In spite of the fact that he worked in the plumging position against Notre Dame his broken field running received considerable comment.
Ed Hall, c'41, the Joyhawk full-back who received a broken ankle in the Washburn game, was released from Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday. Hall, whom Kansas coaches say, shows promise of becoming one of the greatest backs in Kansas history, cell early in the game last Saturday, a victim of unnecessary roughness.
EdHall Limps From Hospital
Washburn Game Victin Released on Cratches Out for Rest of Season
Coach Adrian Lindsey had great hopes for this sophomore. Ed started in both the Texas and Notre Dame games. Just prior to the season's opener against Texas, Lindsey told a Kansas sports writer that he was going to play a sophomore at Clarence Douglas did in the same point.
Hall is the second Kansas man injured in the past two Washburn games. Last year Dave Shirk was clipped and injured, so that he played most of the remainder of the season with his leg tightly taped.
In all probability, Hall will be out for the rest of the season Coach Ad Lindsay sees little chance of using him before next season.
NUMBER 22
Football 'Lousy,' Hill Girls Alive,' Says Writer Tunis
"I wanted to find out what the students of a midwestern university were like, and if what that Kansas City man said was true."
A Kansas City alumnus of the University had recently told Tunis that the students here were lifeless and he came over to find out. After visiting briefly, he beckoned with "Fhog" Alen and got the basketball mascot to take him around to chat with some of the students.
"Football is a terrible game," commented John R. Tunis, nationally known magazine writer, in an interview early yesterday afternoon at the Santa Fe railroad站. And with that statement you have a pretty good picture of Mr. Tunis, America's foremost sport "debunkers."
Getting back to the football satirization, Tunis said the sport is "lous" and that he only goes to one game a year. He takes in the annual Harvard Yale contest because he is not playing on the Crimson eleven.
Women Have Lots on Ball
"Why, those girls I talked with (speaking of a group of Pi Phi's) who Dr. Allen took him to visit have more on the ball than any of your Easterners." he mused. "They are really live wires."
Two years ago Tunis wrote an article entitled "More Pay for College Football Stars," in which he listed Kanaas as being "the most important Notre Dame semipro. We asked him if his opinion had changed any since the recent
The dapper and youngish-looking scribe is headed for the Pacific coast and is west of Chicago for the first time in his life. It was also the first time he had ever been interviewed, and before we were through his newspaperman instinct got the job, he was going to find a few interesting questions back at your writer
Riotous Rally On Tap For Nightshirters
Paders Will Gather
At Union; Snake-Dance
Downtown for a Free
Show and Eats
By Jay Simon, c'uncl
Assisted morally, and materially by a "flying squadron" composed of Ku Kui's and K-knom, a large crowd of students clad in a colorful array of pajamas, nightgowns, shirt-tails, and nightcaps, will gather in front of the Memorial Union building at 7 o'clock tomorrow night to participate in the annual Nighthirt parade.
Cheerleaders will take charge and will call upon members of the team and the coaches to give short pep talks, and to appraise the Jay-hawkers' possibilities of crushing the Sooners'Saturday.
At 6:30 the "flying squadron", armed with leather palettes, will leave the Memorial Union building and scatter, to round up and "encourage" freshmen and upperclassmen to attend the traditional event.
Led by the University Band, Jay James, and Ku Ku's, the assembly will march four abreast down Indiana, up Sixth Street, and will walk along the street to South Park, where they will gather for a huge rally.
Plans for the parade are being completed by a committee composed of Henry Werner, adviser to monitor; Bill Bailey, c29, president of the Lawrence Chamber; Richard Browne, head cheerleader; D. J. Willcutt, c39, president of the Jay James; Lyman Corlis, b29, president of the K Club; Hedrick Hedrick, secretary of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce; Raymond Nielson, executive director of the Chancellor, and Russell Wiley, director of the University Band.
As in former years, Lawrence theaters will be opened to the rallers. At 9 o'clock the Dickinson, Varsity and Pacees will be opened. The theater master will present a special program for the palmata-clad students.
Following the pep session, doughnuts, cider, and apples will be served to the freshmen and organizations participating.
Three to Women's Glee Club
Dorothy Garrett, b'41. Ju 'nce
Coehran, c'42, and Peggy Ghormely
fa'42, have been added to the see-
clement section of the Women's
Glee Club.
game between the Jayhawkers and Irish.
Doesn't Keep Up With Football
Doesn't Keep Up With Football
He said he hadn't been keeping up with football enough to make an for the 1936 article had come from sources other than his own observations .
But he did add this: "When a professional club like Harvard gets beat by Cornell, a strictly amateur team would be just right, just don't know how to pick 'em."
Prior to his taking up magazine writing, Tunis was a tennis expert on one of the large New York pa-
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The University Fencing Club yesterday elected Kalman Oravetz, c'40 president of the organization. Other officers elected were Bill Tuxal, c'40, vice-president; Donna Hughes, f'41, secretary-treasurer, and Tom Orr, gr, armour. Orr is the retiring member.
Fencing Club Elects Oravetz President
The club decided that meetings would be held on Tuesday and Friday afternoons at 4:30. As a membership drive is now in progress, President Oravetz says that it is important that all members attend all meetings.
Although the organization is new on the Hill, it already has 25 members and expects to increase its number to 40 this year.
Editors Here For Meeting
Jim Rapport, varity fencing coach, announced at the meeting that the men's and women's fencing teams would work out on Saturday mornings. Several matches with teams in Kansas City have been arranged for the near future. Last year the Kansas fencing squad went through its schedule undefeated. With several veterans back and a group of promising newcomers this year he reports the outlook is bright.
Newspapermen Replace Journalism Professors In Tomorrow's Classes
Paul Moritz, c39, president of the University Y.M.C.A., has been given additional responsibilities for Student Christian Movement leadership by virtue of his recent election as chairman of the National Intercollegiate Christian Council, an organization of all student Christian movements in the United States. He was elected to this position at the N.J.C.E. meeting at Berce, Ky. Sept. 4-19.
Moritz Chosen Chairman Of Christian Council
Bv Ken Postlethwaite
By Ken Fossetwane
If you haven't meandered up to the fourth floor of the Memorial Union building to a new Nuremberg P-unit, you can have '1' room on your ought to reprimand yourself slightly and see that you get that little job done for, as rooms are, it has something.
Varying Architectural Types In New Union Building Room
The Student Christian Movement is a branch of the World's Student Christian Federation which is made of all nationalities and creeds.
One hundred editors of Kansas newspapers and their wives have accepted the invitation of the department of journalism to sit in roundtable sessions to be held here Saturday morning. The total number of informal discussions will not be known until tomorrow.
The new room, which as yet is unnamed, is Miss Hermina Zipple's pride and joy. As manager of the Union building she is responsible largely for the selection of the architecture and furnishings which have converted an unused garret into what we now popularize as the most popular and widely used gathering places on the Campus.
The movement deals with religion, peace, welfare, and other problems that the students are confronted with today.
Acting upon the suggestions made at the conference last year, Prof. L. N. Flint, head of the department of journalism, has not made ar- tions to the press in which he planned the roundtable that have been so well liked in the past.
As in recent years complimentary tickets to the Kansas-Oklahoma game will be given to each editor or newspaper representative and his
Eight Kansas editors will arrive tomorrow and replace the regular faculty by lecturing to the journalism classes. Most of the classes will be open forums in which the students may discuss with the editors facts pertaining to work in the newspaper field.
The room defies christening because of the various styles used in its composition. There are: New England hockers, French chateau dining furnishings; English wing-backed chairs and an Italian refinement table. But don't get the idea that its a budge-podge because it isn't. Everything
blends into an attractive cosmopolitan whole.
And that, incidentally, is what we would suggest as the name for the room — "the Cosppolitian Room."
Local Talent Used in Designing
Prof. Verner Smith, of the Engineering School, is responsible for the architectural lay-out which includes pegged plank floors, half timbered walls and hand beamed ceiling timbers.
Mrs. Raymond Crow, fa32, designed the chandelier, and with the aid of her husband, Raymond Crow, c32, hammered them out of copper. Ms. Crow also made a hand-hammered copper tray which was presented to the room by the class of 1933. The tray has a featured place in the room above the large fireplace.
The fireplace, incidentally, is a genuine wood-burning one, complete with polished brass anddorns and the usual set of tongs, poke
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Stanford Men Veto Drink Pledge Gridiron Fighters Down Proposed Temperance Idea Promoted by University Dean of Men
Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 12—(UP) —Reports that an effort to force Stanford University football players to sign a pledge not to drink liquor might have played a part in the team's ledge defeat by little Santa Clara University were current today.
John Bismuth, *deem of men* and the reported originator of the pledge idea, said it would not be able to do that. The coach, Tiny Therlhull, the football coach, said he didn't think the matter seriously affected the team's play."
Bunn, who started his athletic career at the University of Kansas, under Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, a great enemy of lionier, was a very successful basketball coach at UConn before he was named dean this year.
Failure to comply, it was said, would carry such penalty as refusal of aid from the university in obtaining employment, withdrawal of the right to drive a car on the cane or no "sponsor" job for athletes.
In his new job, the rumor is, he asked varsity men and student leaders to sign a pledge of personal abstinence and also to assume responsibility for drinking habit in fraternity houses and student halls. Smoking at some collegiate affairs also was frowned upon.
Resentment came to a head just before the Santa Clara game and some varsity players talked of turning in their suits because they felt they were discriminated against. Later influential alumni settled the trouble by producing a modified pledge in which responsibility for others was not assumed by the signer.
Shoemaker Honored
At Banquet Yesterday
Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Shoemaker were entertained yesterday evening at a banquet given by members of the faculty of the department of romance languages, in honor of his recent appointment as chairman of the department. The dinner was held in the old English room of Memorial Union Building.
Because this was the first departmental meeting of the year, the program was confined to short talks by the faculty members, who told of their work and experiences during the summer. Three members of the faculty spent the summer in foreign countries. R. G. Mahote, professor, G. Houdet in France; Miss Maude Elliott, assistant professor, in Puerto Rico; and Mrs. Virginia Melvin, instructor, in Cuba.
First Jaybawker Out This Month
The first issue of the Jayhawker will be in the hands of the students sometime between Oct. 25 and 30, according to Tom Yoe, cuh' editor. Featured in this edition will be a photographic article on the formation and maintenance of unorganized houses, a story of rush week, illustrated and treated in an unusual manner, and an introduction of new professors to students of the Hill. New, toos, will be a satirical story on "lincs" - registration lines, stags line, and "girl-boy" lines. "We are doing everything we can, with our limited finances, to give the Universe a chance to live." The Jayhawker, Yoe said. "The trend toward candid photography is being continued and the feature articles are being kept up. However, we have not forgotten that the Jayhawker must serve as a college yearbook as well as a magazine."
Several purely photographical pages will be devoted to Hill personalities and candid camera features of freshman activity. Continued from last year will be the practice of placing a highly photogene young woman in an unusual position and displaying her confidence as the Jayhawker cameraman is reported to have done excellent work.
Jayhawk style this year will be similar to last year's except for an increase in pictures and a change of type face.