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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
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Dance Recital To Be Given Tonight
Tau Sigma Production
First of Three Weekend
Attractions; Tom row
Night 'Penny Wise'
The first of a list of free attractions available to Universi $ \gamma $ students this weekend will be a descriptive dance recital given tonight in Fraser theater by Tau Sigma sorority.
Tomorrow night the Wichita University players will present a recently popular New York drama, "Penny Wise." This is the only dramatic production by a group outside the university that will be seen on the Campus this year. A final performance will be given by the Kansas Player Saturday afternoon, also in Fraser theater.
Tickets for all three productions may now be obtained without charge at the ticket office in Green hall. Admission each night will be by ticket only. The office is open from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 4
Listener Behind Scenes
The demonstration tonight will take the listener behind the scenes and show the why and how of the dance; how it is composed and why thse of 1000 differ from the dances of today. The program is under the direction of Mrs. Alice Sherbon Bauman, University graduate, in co-operation with Elizabeth Dunkel, Tau Sigma coach.
Music for the modern group was written especially for them by Frank Cunkle, professor of organ, and Alice Russell, fa39, and Joyce Vetter, fa39, will be accompanists. The performance will be repeated Saturday morning for the benefit of the college teachers. A formal organization of college dramatics teachers which meets here this weekend.
Interpretive Group Listed
Those in the Interpretive Group are Catherine Dunkel, *d*38; Jayne Coats, *c*39; Marion Dresser, *b*uncl; Arlene Irvine, *b*39; Easler Gikson, *ed*39; Denny Hughes, *f*41; Isa尼斯 Beshitt, *c*uncl;莎丽 Gills, *c*uncl; and Carolyn Green, *e*41. The Modern Technique Group includes Dorothy Bucher, *c*39; Geraldine Ulm, *ed*40; Mickie Learden, *ed*40; Anna Grace Doty, *f*38, and Anne Rightmire, *f*40.
Proff. Allen Crafton of the department of speech and dramatic art urges all those who plan to attend these three performances to procure their tickets at once, since the seating capacity of Fraser theater is limited. Tickets will not be available at the door.
The Modern Dance Group will include Annette Lawrence, ed'uncl Marjorie Rowland, c'38; Fern Hill c'40; Hilda Slentz, fa 40; Virginia Appel, c'41; Ruth Olive Brown, c'40 Patiye Payne, c'41; Irene Moll, ed'38 Betty Sayles, c'40; and Helen Cooper, c'38.
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"Slinky" Stockton sees victory for sluggish faculty. Pralle a and Edgerton dehaled. "Czar" Steiger. Spring at Corbin. Grandaddy speaks . Lawn party...
Today is the big day for the business students. They fold up their books and go out to the south forty to watch the Seekers of Wisdom battle the Giants of Knowledge in one of the fastest and funniest baseball games in these parts. Two teams will take the juniors, they hope, and then meet the fighting, fumbling faculty in the finale.
We watched the faculty work on yesterday afternoon and they've got a team that makes the Pirates look like sissies. They got so used to stealing bases that they took them home after the practice. Dean "Slinky" Stockton is going to manage the team this afternoon, and lead the "Fight, vallantly, fellow" cheer in his slack moments.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS. THURSDAY. APRIL 28. 1933
Rainfall Assures
Kansas of Wheat Crop
Garden City, April 27—(UP) Rainfall over a wide area restored growth to winter wheat and renewed hopes for a good crop tonight.
The precipitation, which started last night, continued for several hours, settling dust and filing streets with water.
Farmers reported that the fall was the heaviest since Decoration Day last year. High winds, accompanying the rain, caused damage to farm buildings. Several roofs were blown from homes, garages and barns.
The rainfall was measured at more than an inch here. Hugoton, Scott City, Dodge City, Sublette, Cimarron, Lake Ala and Lakai also reported road showers.
Ise and Osma Talk on Spain
Students and Others Hear Professors Talk at Foodless Luncheon
Twenty hungry students and hall a dozen others heard John Ise, professor of economics, and J. M. Oma, professor of romance languages, speak at a foodless luncheon in the Memorial Union lounge yesterday noon. The "luncheon" was sponsored by the A.S.U., and was a part of a national fast originated by the youth division of the Medical Bureau and North American Committee To Aid Spanish Democracy.
Professor Osma, introduced by the chairman of the meeting, Norton Knight, gr, condemned the United States' arms embargo and labeled the British policy "absolutely perfidious." He pointed out that Franco's forces were aided by Italy and Germany, and asserted that the fall of Barcelona would mean war between France and Germany.
Professor Ise advocated boycoting Fascism by not buying Fascist goods or traveling in Fascist countries. He maintained that students should be more aggressive in their fight against 'fascism.
The purpose of the lunchmen was to collect the money saved by not eating to aid Spain. Though some students ate their lunch early or munched candy bars, the collection amounted to $14 and saved dollar bills supposedly by not eating, and contributed them. The collection amounted to $14.
Pittman Defends Super-Navy Bill
Washington, April 27. — (UP) Senator Kirk Pittman, Dem. Nov.) chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and foreign policy spokesman for the administration in Congress, declared today that the Senate must prepare for what as the most effective means of preserving peace.
Addressing a Veterans of Foreign Wars delegation which presented it Congress more than four million petitions demanding that this government keep America out of war, Pittman endorsed President Roosevelt's super-navy program as a peace initiative and said the administration was "striving seriously and sincerely to maintain actual neutrality."
He said that the administrator was opposed to military alliances conquest, invasion and interference in the domestic affairs of other governments.
"One of the most effective ways to preserve peace is to be prepared for war," he declared.
Dr. Ralph I. Cautones, director of the student health service, will speak on "The Health Setup at the University of Kansas" at 230 today before a group of nurses attending the Nassau Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Canuteson Speaks Before Nursing Convention
COLLEGE SOPHOMORES
The talk will be given at a round-table discussion of student health in connection with the National League for Mental Health and 201 of the municipal auditorium.
Registration for the proficiency examinations in English composition will be held May 2-7 at the College office, 121 Frank Strong hall. No student will be permitted to take the examination on May 14 unless he has previously registered.
J. B. VIRTUE, chairman,
Faculty committee.
Liberal and Conservative Will Lecture
Forums Board Speakers Are T to Present Different Views on Governmental System
Students will have an opportunity today to hear both liberal and conservative views on the United States system of government. "The Labor Movement in America Today" will be the subject of the talk by Harry W. Laidler, executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy, at the noon tunnel conference in the Alameda Public Library from 3:30 this afternoon Doctor Laidler will speak on "The Student and the Social Challenge." He will present the so-called "liberal" view.
P Philip Sidney Hanna, editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, will speak this evening at 8:30 in Frank Strong hall auditorium. His subject will be "Can We Improve Our American System?" Mr. Hanna's point of view will be a more conservative view.
Since 1931 Mr Hanna has been editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce. For this journal he writes a daily column, "The Roundtable of Business." Prior to 1931 Mr Hanna worked on the Economist, published in Chicago, and later was financial assistant for the Chicago Tribune. He was Michigan state bank examiner in 1918 and 1919, and chief examiner in 1920. At one time Mr Hanna was financial editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, and was manager of the Detroit news bureau of the Wall Street Journal.
Doctor Laidley is now director of the League for Industrial Democracy. He was formerly president of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in the department of political economy of Columbia University and is a member of the New York Bar Association. In 1836 he was socialist candidate for governor of New York state. Doctor Laidley has written many articles in america, including "A Program for Modern America," which was pronounced one of the best 10 non-fiction books of 1936. Last year he published "American Socialism."
These two speakers are sponsored by the Forums Board in co-operation with the League of Industrial Democracy, the Collegiate Forums of America, and the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W. lectures are open to all interested.
Women's Glee Club Gives KFKU Broadcast Tonight
The Women's Glee Club will present the following program over station KFKU at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening;
"May Day Carol," an English folk-song (arranged by Deems Taylor).
Chester Woodward of Toplea president of the Alumni Association was on the Campus yesterday, confering with various persons.
"Swing Low, Sweet Charlie," a spiritual arranged by Clifford Page (harmonization by Burleigh).
"Tales From the Vienna Woods (Strauss-Riegger.)
Alumni Association President On Campus Yesterday
Authorized Parties
Corbin hall, Formal Dance, 12 p.m.
Phi Kappa Psi, Freshman Class Picnic, 11 p.m.
Miller hall, Spring Formal, 12 p.m.
Friday, April 29
Amherst, Portsmouth, 19 n.m.
Pi Kappa Alpha, Spring Formal, 12 p.m.
Ricker hall, Spring Formal, 12 p.m.
Parents' Day Dinner, Memorial Union building
Mr. Woodward has recently returned from a trip to South Africa On his return he spoke at three alumni meetings in the East, at New York, Philadelphia and Washing-on.
Kappa Phi and Wesley Foundation, Party, 12 p.m.
Kappa Sigma, Dance, 12 p.m.
Saturday, April 30 Limited Date
ELIZABETH MEGUIR, Advisor of Women for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
'Love and Marriage' Lectures Close Tonight
The last lecture in the 'Love am
Marriage' series will be given to-
night at 8 o'clock in the Memoria'
Union ballroom.
The Rev. Mr. Harrison will tell particularly of his experiences with young people who have come to him for advice. Mr. and Mrs. Stukey, students at the University who have studied in the US or on family budgeting and other problems which confront young marriage couples.
The four speakers will be the Rev Carter Harrison of the Trinity Episcopal Church, Mrs. Harrison, Mano Stukey, ed.40 and Mrs. Custy, c38
Parents' Day Promises To Be Best Folks Will See Week-end of College Life in Company of Sons and Daughters
The Parents' Day celebration which will be held Saturday and Sunday promises to be one of the best yet held. The program starts on Monday morning at 9, when the parents arrive at the Memorial Union building.
The parents may visit any of the places of interest on the Campus. At 2:30, "Winterset" will be given in Fraser theater and is open to all parents without charge. At 5:30 there will be a reception in the Memorial Union building, and at 6 o'clock the day dinner.
Program of Music
Mrs. F. C. Allen will preside at the dinner, and the main address by Mrs. Willard Greene will follow. Her subject will be "Pengy of the Flint Hills." Then there will be an address by Chancellor Lindley, and following that Gweene Landrith, c'39, president of the W.S.G.A., will present tire prizes: One to the parents who have come the greatest distance from school; the largest number of children in the University at the present time, and another to the house having the best proportion of parents present.
The musical program will consist of the following: A selected string trio composed of Alexander Fielder, c38; Arthur Fielder, c38; and Mary Jane Bruce, fa'38; and the Jay-hawker male quartet composed of Arthur Wolf, c39; Donald Wood, b29; Richard White, c38; and Richard Stark, c38, accompanied by Robe Glotzhack. The group singing will then be led by E. Thayer Gaston. The ensemble parents a chance to rest for 'Sunday after a vigorous day of college life.
Buy Tickets in Advance
Sunday at 11 o'clock they may go to church with their sons or daughters, and at 1 p.m. have dinner with them. At 3 o'clock "Hansel und Gretel," sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon, will be given in Hoechoria audium and is open to the public without harge.
Students are asked to buy dinner tickets for their parents in advance, either at the business office or at the Union desk. These tickets will not be available after 5 o'clock tomorrow, and the students are also asked to register for their parents at that time, because this registration will be used to decide the winners of the contest.
Justice Thiele practiced law in Lawrence after his graduation until his election to the supreme court in 1965, six years he served as city attorney.
These two days not only present an opportunity to become acquainted with other parents, but also give the children the work and spirit of the University.
Walter G. Thiele announced yesterday that he will be a candidate for a second term as a justice of the Court of Appeals. The Thiele was graduated from the School of Law in 1910, and has retained an active interest in the University. During the year 1935-1936 she president of the Alumna Association.
Thiele Runs for Re-election To Kansas Supreme Court
Regent in Hospital With Throat Infection
Lester McCoy of Garden City, a member of the Board of Regents, is ill in the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City. He is suffering from infection and his condition was said to be "satisfactory" yesterday.
Famous Opera Will Begin Music Week
Performance of 'Hansel and Gretel' Is Next Sunday; Nearly 200 Groups To Take Part
The opening of the fourth annual Music Week celebration will be the presentation of Adelheid Wette's opera, "Hansel and Gretel," at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium. Mu Phi Epsilon, professional music security, is the sponsoring organization.
Miss Orrene Yowell, president of Mu Phi, will direct production along with Miss Ruth Orcutt, assistant professor of piano. Joseph Wilkins, professor of voice, is in charge of the general stage direction.
Members of the cast are the same who presented the opera last year. The players are:
Peter, a broom maker, Charles Neiswender;Grieve, his wife, Mrs. Henry Werner; Harsley, Mary Louise Beatie; Gretel, Mrs. Jain Chiapuso; The Witch, Alice Moncrieff, Sandman, Keith Davis and gingerbread children, members of Mu Phi Epsilon.
Massed Bands To Perform
The Festival, which bids fair to top the list of successful occasions of like nature in previous years, will culminate in a concert by a massed band of 79 pieces and a massed festival orchestra of 300. Saturday evening in Hoch auditorium.
Nearly a score of organizations will co-operate in observance of the annual Music Week, with the University and its various musical groups taking a prominent part. Haskell Institute, the Lawrence public schools, Rotary, and Kiwis Clubts will assist in the program for the week, which opens on Sunday with special services and musical programs in the churches of the city, and the annual home concert of the Westminster A Coppelli Chair, at the First Presbyterian Church in the evening. At 3 o'clock the same afternoon the Haskell Institute Institute Bund will present a concert on the Haskell campus.
Guest Will Direct
Monday noon a special musical program will be presented before the Rotary Club, and at 3:30 a chamber music recital by the University String Quartet and numberson by the two-piano team of Alice Russell, fa23, and Joyce Vetter, fa29. That evening at 7:30 cclock, the Lawrence Public School Music Festival will present the Elementary School chorus, Junior High School Band, and Girl Child Church Sister, Junior High School Sinet, and A Cappella Chorus, Directors for the event will be Mabel Barnardh, Rudolph Woth, Joe Williams, and Oliver Hobbs.
Helen Marshall, brilliant young American soprano and radio star, formerly of Joplin, Mo., will be heard on the Young American Artist Program at 8:20 o'clock. This is an extra offering on the University Concert Course. Student activity tickets will admit.
On Tuesday evening at 8:29 comes the recital of the Clavium or color organ, the final attraction of the University Concert Course this year.
Clavilux Included on Program
Wednesday is Fine Arts day. Dr. Howard Hanson, well-known American composer and director of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, will be the speaker at the University convocation at 10 o'clock
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Alice Neal Is Chosen New Head of Home Ec Club
The following officers of the Home Economics Club were elected Tuesday afternoon for the next school year; President, Alice Neal, c'39; vice-president, Helen Buhler, c'uncl; secretary, Patty Woodward, c'40; treasurer, Mary Cavaness, c'39; social chairman, Maria Schaul, c'miss. Miss Olga Hosely was chosen as the faculty advisor of the club.
The election followed a talk by Mrs. R. C. Mitchell of Baldwin on "Home Life in Sumatra." She also introduced national clothing and art work.
Alumni Exchange Presidency Of Chamber of Commerce
Two University alumni exchanged the position of president of the Lawwrence chamber of commerce at the meeting on Tuesday night.
Dolph Simons, "25, of the Lawrence Journal-World, was the outgoing president, and is succeeded by Don Brand, lawyer.
Cunningham Wins Kansas City Handicap
Kansas City, April 27—(UP)—Glenn Cammingham, the master miler who attended the University of Kansas, tonight ran a mile in 4:17.2 on an indoor tawnbank track to beat two other runners in a handicap race. It probably was Cunningham's first time on such a surface. Second was Joe Ryan, who had a 75-yard handicap, and last was Charles Toberin, who started 50 yards ahead. The race was the feature of a
The race was the feature of a horse show and sportsmen's exposition at the American Royal building.
Y.M.C.A.Polls Open Today
Two Candidates Drop Out of Race; Moritz Remains Unapposed
According to latest reports last night Paul Moritz remains unopposed as president as polls open for the YMCA, election today.
Zeke Cole, c'40, present Campus problems commission chairman, and Brent Campbell, c'41, present vice-president of the "Ys" freshman council, continue the contest for vice-president of the college secretary are Diek McCann, c'40, chairman of the "Ys" travel forums; and John Lintner, c'39.
Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the "Y" office, room 5, Memorial Union building.
The University athletic board, in a lengthy session last evening, approved in general a budget for 1958-39 similar to that of the current year. Major and minor sports of this year will probably be continued next year, including baseball, which was off the Kansas program for several years because of lack of student interest in the sport. All local members of the board were present at a 6:30 dinner, after which expenditures were taken up item by item and scrutinized. Satisfaction was expressed with the heaters that were installed early in the season, and the team to practice under the stadium. All university letters, and freshman
Athletic Board Approves Budget
All varity letters and freshman numerals thus far earned had previously been approved.
Frontenac Students Strike
Frontenac, April 27—(UP) -Students in the junior and senior high schools of Frontenac refused to attend classes today.
Student leaders said they vore on strike in protest against the resignation of J. E. Crawford as superintendent, after nine years' service. Jus Dittman, speaking for the board of education, said the students had declared a holiday for themselves in celebration of a victory in the Mineral Belt league track meet, held yesterday.
Dittman admitted, however, that Joe Skubitz, vice-principal at Arna had been named to succeed Crawford.
Crawford said he resigned after a disagreement with board members over use of school funds. The students walked out after he had asked them to remain in their class rooms. The strikers paraded through town carrying banners demanding Crawford's restatement.
KU KU MEETING
There will be an important meeting of the Ku Ku's Monday night at 9 o'clock in the Union building for the purpose of nominating officers for the commissioners are required to be present.
BILL BAILEY, President Ku Ku's
MARRIAGE FEATURE
KEN HILTON,
C. Chairman
The last in the series of lectures on Love and Marriage will be held in the Union cafeteria tonight at 8 o'clock. This topic "Marriage Harmony" will discuss by Mr. and Mrs. Mano Stukey and Rev and Mrs. Car Harrison. Everyone is invited.
Election Will Start Business Day
Activities for the Day
Include Junior - Senior
Ball Game and Evening
Banquet
Coalition party candidates are:
President, Ralph Elson, b'39; vice-president, Harold Snyder, b'39; treasurer, Clark Myers, b'39; and treasurer, Bill Gossage, b'39. Commerce party candidates are: President, Harry Brown, b'40; vice-president, Morton Jones, b'39; secretary, Lorraine Pyle, b'uncl; and treasurer, Keith Deav, b'39.
The election of officers in the School of Business will open activities of Business Day today. The polls will open at 9 a.m. and will close at 2 p.m. All students in the School of Business are eligible to vote on presentation of activity tickets and payment of a fee of 25 cents.
Classes in the school will be dismissed at noon. This afternoon a baseball game is scheduled to be played on Friday and Saturday. The name will be written "C."
posed of members of the
The climax of Business Dav will be a banquet at 6:30 this evening in the Memorial Union building, Maurice Brideinthal, Sr. an alumnus of Columbia University, as the pal speaker. Mr. Brideinthal was for a number of years president of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and served a term as president of the Kansas State Bank Association. J. H. Taggart, associate professor of economics, will preside as toastmaster and host the evening will be Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Moe Etttenson, a senior in the School of Business.
The program will consist of numbers by Ross Robertson's Modern Choir and a solo by Charles Neiswender, b'38, who will be accompanied by Robert Goltzbach, c'40 E. B. Stouffer and Mrs. Stouffer a dMr. and Mrs. Maurice Breidenbul will be guests of honor.
Tickets for the banquet may be purchased from members of the committee in charge of arrangements or from the business office. Seniors in the school of Business are invited to bring members of their families to the dinner.
Four Killed In Plane Crash
Visalia, Calif., April 29—(UP)—Bodiss of four persons—the two members of one family—were returned here tonight for burial after they had been taken from the wreckage of their airplane, which had crushed en route to Death Valley during a storm.
The dead were: Dr. O. L. Lambert, an optometrist who had adopted flying as a hobby; his wife; Mrs. Frank Blain, mother of Mrs. Lambert; and Miss Dorothy Davis, Doctor of Optometry. The year-old daughter of the Lamberts missed the fatal trip because there was no room for her in the plane, which crushed into a snow bank on Sunday peak Monday morning.
Forest rangers and CCC enrolleea found the plane today.
University Band Presents Program Over KFKU
The University Band, under the direction of Prof. Russell L. Wiley, presented a 30-minute program of selected numbers last night from 9:45 to 10:15 o'clock over radio station KFKU.
The varied program consisted of the following numbers: "Frescoes Suite", part 3, a march by Haydon Wood; "Three Aces" (Herbert Clarke), a trio for corns, played by the Jayawk Trumpeter, consisting of Robert Boyle, fa'un. Lee uncle; Peter Sawyer, fa'un; excerpts from the open book, "Persil" (Wagner); "Capricorn" (Jascha Guerweich), a solo for saxophone played by Russell Chambers, fa'41; "Perpetuum Mobile", a novelty number by Strauss; and excerpts from "Tarantelle" (thalberg).
Captain Brady Ordered To Panama Canal Zone
Captain William I. B. Brady, instructor in coast artillery in the department of military science and tactics, has been transferred to the Panama Canal by the war department. His term of service here will continue until the end of the school year.