UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 154
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Jayhawker And Sooner Nines Clash
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Adverse Weather May
Force Teams To Play
Double Header Here Tomorrow
With the Oklahoma Sooner baseball squad arriving yesterday afternoon under prevailing cloudy weather, it was a question whether their scheduled two-game series with the Jayhawkers would open this afternoon.
The coaches of the two schools went into a huddle as soon as the Sooner squad arrived and decided to play a double header tomorrow sin case the field is too heavy for action today. If the doubleheader is played, the first game will start at 1:30 p.m.
In the Oklahoma aggregation, the Jayhawkers will be faced with probably the strongest competition in the Big Six, and are leading the Big Six with two
Riley, the leading hitter on the southern squared, pounded the ball for 557 in the opening game of that series, while Morris, pitching for the Scoowers, held the Agkeys to six hits and then scores the last five innings.
Big Six Standings
| W | L | O | Pet |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | 1.000 |
| Missouri | 6 | 2 | .754 |
| Kentucky | 3 | 2 | .754 |
| Nebraska | 4 | 2 | .428 |
| Kansas State | 3 | 5 | .375 |
| Kansas | 2 | 6 | .250 |
The visiting squad has five regular hits: hitting over 300, and will bring a corps of seven pitchers, namely Jackson, Morris and Skinner.
victories and no losses. In a two-game series with the Oklahoma Aggies Tuesday and Wednesday to determine the state championship, the team won the first game 6 to 5 were nosed out in the second 3 to 2.
On the other hand, the Jayhawks after their split with Missouri, soon firstly to be coming into their own. Coach Conger's team displayed a good brand of baseball that was up to 4 to 3 decision, over the Tigers.
"If our boys can lessen their number of errors and overcome the bad timing jins, we stand a good chance to win." Coach Conger said yesterday.
If the game is played today, it will begin at 3:30 p.m.
Following are the probable starting lineups;
Kansas Position Oklahoma
Johnson 2b Gulledge
Kappelman ss Cross
Mackenzie 1b Crown
Anderson c Beavers
Holcom lf Berryman
Cadwalader rf Blackwell
Thomas b Beer
Dickin 3b Rillie
Nmcally Zoth
by Hugh Wire and Dearthy Nettert
on the SHIN
Dorothy Netperton
Friday the 13th... POME.
Holding hand... More hands
hanging on the table... Mud in
your eye... Warden's report.
... Bands try out... Banquet
notes.
Today is Friday the thirteenth. If you flunk a test or get felled by a ladder you can blame it on the date. With only eight more days of school it might be wiser just to feel lucky that the calendar doesn't skip Friday.
POME
Into Pi Phi land I stole on a dare To learn the answer to a maiden
A gorgeous blonde creature knelt by
n. bad
As thru the trussion I thrust my head. Her word reached me above the door, and shocked me so I fell to the floor. But I leaped to my feet and shrieked
"The answer is known, oh boy, oh boy!"
LAWRENCE. KANSAS. FRIDAY. MAY 13, 1938
I learned it, I learned it, there and then.
then,
When she ended her prayer with a
Ernie Sanders
Dick Martin is making quite a thing of his palm-reading talents. He has set up a concession on one of the stone seats in the library entrance. We saw him reading a young lady's
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Good Earth
Gives Grass
New Deal
For the first time in four years the Bermuda grass on the stadium field has successfully passed through the winter. The field is well covered, and the blue grass, planted with the Bermuda, is thriving.
"Next fall the field will be much better than it ever has been since the Bermuda grass was planted," Gwinn Henry, director of athletics at the University of Texas day. Every other winter the grass has been frozen out, he explained.
"We also intend next fall to sow some kind of English grass that comes up in October and makes the field look pretty all through the football season." he added. "I've seen it on our school and its very beautiful."
English Test Is Tomorrow
Have Students Gained Credits or Knowledge From Courses?
Can you write English?
That is what a faculty committed wants to know about the 146 students who have registered for the proficiency test in English to be given tomorrow morning at 1 o'clock.
And if you can't write English, then you'd better learn, if you expect to graduate from the College in June, 1940, or after. For you to succeed in college, you need ten senior standing in the College after September, 1939. This means that after you pass the test you must spend two semesters in residence to receive a degree from the College in Arts and Sciences. Will Words Essays
"This is a definite step toward substituting proficiency for credits," said Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College. "This means it's not how many courses you passed in the school, but how much of what you have learned that counts."
The test will not be over grammatical rules, nor rhetorical principles. Students will spend two hours writing essays on two or three of a long list of titles worked out by our faculty. The test will be judged on treatment of subject, organization of material and grammatical accuracy.
No student who has not registered will be allowed to take the examination tomorrow. The students who have registered should not forget to bring identification cards and ink. Paper will be furnished.
No Aid Available
No name should appear on the papers handed in, but simply the number which was assigned the student when he registered. Students will not be given more than one to communicate with each other during the test.
Tests will be given three times a year; once at the beginning of each semester and in the spring.
The committee is composed of three members of the department of English and two members from other departments. Prof. J. B. Virtue, chairman, Wm. M. Howie, Prof. Margaret Lynn, all of the department of sociology; Prof. Robert Taft, of the department of sociology; and Prof. Robert Taft, of the department of chemistry, are members of this year's committee.
Raze Oldest Medical Building
A part of the original university, the old medical building is built of red brick and is unusual in that its small round windows are set high up in the walls. In those days the science of anatomy was considered something of a black art, and Jefferson wanted to give the students working on the cadavers privacy from prying eyes.
Charlotteville, Va. —UP) The oldest university medical building in America, built by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia in 1825, will be razed this summer to make room for the garden around the new million dollar Alderman Memorial library.
The new library, named after Edwin Alderman, first president of the university, will be dedicated on June 13 as part of the centennial celebration of the alumni association. More than 300,000 volumes in the university's many libraries will be centralized in the new structure, which has provisions for expansion to provide room for about 3,000,000 volumes. It has seats for 1,000 students.
Install New Officers
W. A. A. held its annual banquet at Eavens' Hearth last night for the purpose of installing the new officers on April 22 and initiating new members.
Ruth Baker, ed'38, the retiring president, took charge of the installation and initiation ceremony. The new officers are the following: Mary Kay Lattner, ed'39, president; Geraldine Ulm, ed'40, vice-president; Alina Biguev, c'39, secretary; Alice Paden, ed'39, treasurer; D. J. Wilser, ed'39, business manager; Leois Wisler, ed'40, point system manager
Managers for the various sports were also installed. They are: Irene Moll, *ed*, 38; hockey; Margaret Var Cleave, *ed*, ucball; baseball; Virginia McVey, c尔, 41; basketball; Betty McVey, c尔, uncle; Mary Ad Edgeriment, c尔, swimming; Lenora Grizzel, ed尔, minor sports.
The following new members were initiated: Ethel Mal, c'38; Marguerite Myers, fa 38; Jula Ellison, fa 40; Clement O'Brien, Joan Taylor c'41; Hilda Schenzel, c'47.
Ruth Baker was awarded a cup for having more than 2,000 points won by participation in athletics and be recommended by an advisory committee. K.U. blazers awarded to those receiving 1350 points in athletics, dance or wore were presented to Margaret Curt尔德; Alain Edelson, ed38; Grassie Marcia King, ed40; Maywee Wood, ed38
Margaret Van Cleave, ed'unel, was in charge of a short program which followed the banquet.
Letters were awarded to those winning 600 points in athletics, dancing or rifle. Geneva Detlor, b39; Simpson, Simon; m39; Marian Dresser, b'uncel; Helen Geis, c49; Ire McAdoe ed', d41; Denise Lemoine, c40; and Catherine Dunkel ed', 38 were awarded K.U. letters.
Want Wage Reduction
Washington, May 12—(UF)—A tremendous struggle between railway labor and management took shape tonight as rail executives invoked the Railway Labor act in an attempt to force a 15 per cent, $200,000 wage reduction, effective July 1.
Pleading poverty and asserting that the industry "faces a crisis more difficult than in 1932" the carriers' joint conference committee served notice on all railway unions representing more than 900,000 employees and laid down the conditions and defended this action as "both necessary and justified."
Both the American Federation of Labor and its rival Committee for Industrial Organization, representing more than seven million organized workers, have pledged complete support of the civil unions. They fear that the largest country in the nation would start a wave of pay slashes.
Rail labor leaders already have decided to resist the cut and threaten a nationwide strike unless the Rail-land board can bring about a settlement.
Hill Dancers Will Swing To 'Clouds of Joy'
Another big feature of the Andy Kirk orchestra, and one that will surely delight everyone, is Pha Terra, the golden voiced singer. She is the young singer who made "Until We Met" the most talked-of song of 1936.
The 15-piece Cloud outfit, after fulfilling a long engagement at the New Grand Terrace in Chicago, will allow its dancers to appear at Witt's Witt's Pla-Mor
Songbird
In *Thercei*, featured vocalist with Andy Kirk's band who helped the "Clouds of Joy" popularize such song hits as "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" and "What Will Tell My Heart."
The raids, which began at midnight with the raid on Valenica, were carried out by black-tipped bombers flying in perfect formation and apparently choosing working-class districts as their targets.
Rebel Planes Raid Coast
Featured with Andy Kirk will be Mary Lou Williams, newly crowned "Queen of the Ivories," who has won the admiraation and acclaim of a dozen Broadway music critics. She is also a famous female pianist, who recently won the acclaim of Leonard G. Feathers, European music critic, as America's foremost female swing stylist.
Barcelona, May 12—(UP)—Spain-
Insurgent bombers from the Baileric island of Majoza, heralding a resumption of the rebel offensive along the Mediterranean, today raided cities along a 200-mile stretch of the coast with a toll of 70 dead and scores injured.
Barcelona, torn from repeated air raids which have taken upwards of 1,200 lives, was the heaviest sufferer; counted 46 dead—men, women and children—and 48 wounded after two afternoon attacks.
Spanish Insurgents, in
Two Air Attacks, Resume
Offensive
Hill dancers will swing to the tune of that red hot sizzling ensemble of merry, mad music makers, Andy Kirk and his "Clouds of Joy." Saturday, May 21, at the Farewell Varsity.
The first Barcelona raid came at 2:36 p.m., when five bombers, swooping in from the Mediterrania, dropped 20' heavy bombs, killing five and wounding six persons. An hour and a half later another rebel squadron flew over the port district, killing 41 persons.
At least eight persons were killed in Valencia and 11 persons were killed and 42 wounded in Cahuala three miles north of Valencia.
House Passes Relief Bill
Washington, May 12.
President Roosevelt's $3,054,425,000
relief bill, designed to provide five
million jobs and increase consumer
purchasing power, and a sweeping
attack on the depression, was passed
by the house tonight and sent to the senate.
The final vote was 328 to 70. It came after a routine motion to recommit, a parliamentary move to kill the measure, had been made.
By Helen Geis, c'40
One, sponsored by Rep. Marvin Jones (D., Texas), orders the WPA to aid needy farmers regardless of whether they are on certified relief roles. It was approved 324 to 110. Affected Cities.
Only three changes were made in the measure in the grueling ten-hour session.
er, by Rep. Gerald Bouleau
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Then on May 21, he will be here in person to play in his rhythmic and synceped style.
Andy Kirk has become one of the most popular recording artists in America, and the waxworks made by the Andy Kirk crew have been more popular in the past year than ever. Among his new recordings are "Down Stream" and "Little Joe from Chicago," two big sellers for Decca. Other even better recorded recordings by Andy Kirk are "Christopher Columbus" (first recorded by the Kirk band) and "Gal叫 Storm the Band" (Many Leo Williams), "What I Will I Tell My Heart" (1837 hit) and "Tell All Gain Somehow" (his most recent hit). Many of these recordings by the band have been placed in Hill restaurants and the Union fountain.
The party, lasting from 9 until 12 p.m., will be informal like any varsity dance. Tickets will be sold for 75 cents at the business office or the building starting next Monday. The ticket sales will be limited to 500.
Other speakers who discussed the national political situation were Martin Maloney, gr, Paul Moritz, c39, and Eldon Smith, c39. Professor E. C. Buchler accompanied the students to the meeting.
Lintner Wins
Kiwanis Speech Contest
John Lintner, c. 39, was the winner of the extemporemal speech contest held by the Kansas City Kiwanis Club yesterday. Members present acted as judges of the contest.
Republicans Prepare Plans
Committee Agrees on Course of Action for 1940 Campaign
Chicago, May 12—(UP) The Republican committee on program agreed tonight on a three-way plan of action in its efforts to determine rank and file views in shaping party principles and platform for 1940.
Dr. Glenn Frank, committee chairman, who presided at the meeting of the nine regional chairmen appointed three months ago to “feel the pulse” of the nation said a naval official would be the first method of attack.
Frank and his aides began drawing up the questionnaire immediately, and they were expected to have a tentative draft ready for inspection. The organization proceeded through the machinery of the regional national G.O.P. committee.
The decision to employ the ques-
tionaire was made by Frank and
the regional chairmen as they hei-
their first meeting after adjourn-
ment of the program committee of
215 three months ago.
Three procedures, Frank said, will be used in taking soundings. They were:
1. Questionaires, to be printed within a few days and transmitted to the national committee for distribution.
2. Regional conferences, in which leaders of various groups such as labor, agriculture, economics, money etc., will be invited to participate they will seek to go beyond party will hold up outside interest in the party.
3. A forum plan which Frank said had been tried through various methods in Indiana, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Counsels
Counselors
The last of three meetings of the new Federation of Counselors was held yesterday afternoon with Dean Browder in the school of Education as the speaker.
Dean Schweigler pointed out to the women that they must supply psychological support to the freshmen because they will be going through the same terrors as freshmen that the counselors experienced themselves. The main reason for nostalgia or homeiness is that the woman has not yet achieved psychological maturity.
Miss Meguiar then pointed out the fine points of the speeches made Wednesday by Miss Beulah Morrison and Dr. E. H. Lindley. She also commented more fully on the duties of women and the importance of their interest in this activity to gain any value from it.
Dorothy Trekell, c'38, the chairman of the counselors, then told the women about the new booklet, "What's Wht on the Hill" that is going to be put out this summer, by D J Willetts, ed'39. All countenances would be devoted to contribute to this valuable booklet issued for the freshmen.
At the close of the meeting the women introduced themselves to become better acquainted.
WEATHER
This was the last meeting of the year.
Kansas; partly cloudy to cloudy and somewhat warmer Friday. Saturday partly cloudy, warmer in south and extreme east.
NOTICE
Students who attended the educational clinic in the fall are asked to recheck reading rates, vocabulary and eye movements in room 16, Fraser hall today. Clinic hours are 8:30 to 5 p.m. The same clinic hours will be in effect on May 16 and 20.
BERT NASH.
Senior Class Decides On University Gift
Will Assets Each Member a Dollar To Finish the Room Oppose the Pine Room; Approve 35 Cent Fee for Senior Breakfast; Ray Wright Urges Group To Join Alumni Association
May Invade South China
Unlike the stormy session of last year, the class of '38 met in complete harmony yesterday when they assembled in Fraser theater to decide upon a senior budget and to vote upon the gift which custom decrees each graduating class shall leave to the University.
Developments in the Japanese campaigns of conquest which may make this nation of 400,000,000 persons a "second India" included:
Japanese Are Reported Massing Men and Ships in Formosa
1. Following their occupation of Amoy, Fukien, port city of 250,000 population, the Japanese, according to foreign observers, had massed 60,000 men in Formosa and were moving to China mainland for the south China campaign originally scheduled to start last Christmas day.
2. A spokesman of Gen. Shumroku Hata, Japanese commander in central China, said that the 45-mile Chinese Lunghai railway line defending the provisional Chinese government in Hankow would be severed tomorrow. He said that the first Japanese column to break through the enemy line at Hsin-an-chen, south of Tucheng and east of Suchou-fu.
The report of every committee was accepted by the assembled seniors without a dissenting vote. Following the recommendation of Don Voorhees, chairman of the gift committee
3. The United Press learned at Henkow that the Japanese have called off temporarily their drive into the Mohammedan areas of northwest China after a refusal by a German company to purchase Ma Hung Kwei of a Japanese offer to make him emperor of a new Mohammedan puppet state.
Shanghai, May 13.—(UP) -The Japanese army and navy were reported to be massing men and ships for an invasion of south China today.
Sulphuric Acid Stops Automobile
Imperial forces intensified their drive for the vital Lunghali corridor railway in central China which needed to be cut in two within 39 hours.
All experts agreed that the 10-month-old undecaled Chinese-Japanese war was entering a critical phase.
Northampton, Mass., May 13—(UP) While Carl Hauff, Jr., was driving his new automobile, the engine suddenly "froze." Amazed at discovering the engine had disintegrated, he notified police. They decided a vandal had poured sulphuric acid into the gasoline tank and radiator, completely ruining the engine.
Friday, May 13
Friday, May 19
Delta Upsilon, chapter house, 12 p.m.
Authorized Parties
Delta Sigma Theta and Kappa Alpha Psi, Memorial Union ballroom. 1 p.m.
Phi Kappa Psi, state lake, 8:30 p.m.
Sigma Chi, chapter house, 12 p.m.
Triangle, state lake, 11 p.m.
Student Amer. Inst. of Elec.
Engineers, 1537 $ _{1/2} $ Tennessee, 12
p.m.
Saturday, May 14
Saturday, July 14
Delta Chi, chapter house, 12
p.m.
Kappa Alpha Theta, Memorial Union ballroom. 12 p.m.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Eldridge hotel, 12 p.m.
Sunday, May 15
Sigma Nu, chapter house, 12 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, state lake, 10 p.m.
Colored Students, dance, Robinson Gym, 12 p.m.
Westminster Foundation, 1221 Oread, 11 p.m.
ELIZABETH MEGUJAR
Advocate of Women for the
Joint Committee on Student
Affairs.
the seniors voted to accept an assessment of $1 each to finish the room opposite the Pine room in the north-east corner of the Memorial Union building.
The fund thus raised will be supplemented by the profit derived from the sale of the senior invitations, and will amount to between $900 and $1200. The cost of completing the room has been estimated at $3500, depending upon the style in which it is finished. Vechears said the Union Operating Committee has agreed to provide the money for the credit and give the class of '38 credit for the total improvement.
Fees Must Be Paid
An English style of finish is being considered by the state architecture for the room but it has not been decided upon definitively. The room when completed will be used as a living room and will probably be furnished with a partition which will allow it to be converted into two meeting rooms.
A fee of 35 cents was approved for the Senior Breakfast and the menu was approved upon the recommendation of Dean Mouthed, chairman of the committee. Those items, with the addition of the 50-
Senior fees are payable at the Business office and must be paid before May 25. Fees must be paid before a diploma will be issued.
Wright Speaks
cent rental charge for caps and gowns, set the budget at $1.85 for each senior. The University fee of $7.50 for each diploma is a separate charge and was not included in the budget.
The question regarding membership in the Alumni Association was settled to the evident satisfaction of the seniors when it was announced that membership would again be on a voluntary basis. This agreement was reached last year and the alumni are required to demonstrate customary practice of the senior class joining the association as a body.
Grant Couchard, president of the class of 38 and in charge of the meeting yesterday, introduced Ray Wright, alumni and Lawrence insurance agent, who urged the class to join the Alumni Association.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley also spoke to the group and urged them to become better acquainted with the institution and part in all commencement activities.
Senior Reminders, listing the activities of Commencement Week and the rules and procedure for obtaining caps and gowns, were distributed. These reminders will be available at the Business office for the seniors who did not attend the meeting.
Mathematics Fraternity Will Imitate Nine
Six new members will be initiated to Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity, this afternoon at the Memorial Union building.
The initiates are Marie Brown, gr;
John Burger, c'uncl; Rosemary
Delap, c'89; Wilfred Good, gr; William
Orbison, gr; G. B. Price, assi-
tistant professor of mathematics;
Virginia Smith, c'38; Dorothy
Whitla, c'38; and Kenneth Wood,
c'38.
A dinner will follow the initiation.
Life Expectancy Of Cats on Increase
Santa Cruz, Calif., May 12—(UP)
"The customary nine lives of a cat have been increased to ten, thanks to the use of artificial respiration. Fireman Al Hammond, properly trained in burning car headlights burning house here, and rescued a pet angora kitten that was overcome by the smoke and fumes.