UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Huskers Take Big Six Track Title
Kansas Places Fourth;
Manski Cracks Camp's
Conference Index Mile
Record
Columbia, March 5.—(UP)—John Munski, University of Missouri sophomore, set a new Big Six conference indoor record for the mile tonight as the University of Nebraska won its third straight conference indoor track championship.
Cornshucks won of 12 first place to score 38 points for the victory Missouri and Kansas State tied for second and third with 23 points each Kansas was fourth with 20. Oklahoma State finished last with 9 points.
In the pole vault, Bird of Kansas dislocated his elbow after vaillting 13 feet and the event ended in a tie with Sargent of Iowa State.
Munski broke Glen Cunningham's Big Six indoor mile record of 4:20.3 with his time of 4:12.9 A few minutes after setting the new mark, Munski ran in the two-mile event and finished third.
Dixon, the Missouri 60-yard dask man, turned in an upset by eking on a victory over the favored Torribio Oklahoma's defending champion.
50-yard dash —Won by Dickson, siourt; Torrey, Oklahoma, second Wilder, Iowa State, third; Foy, Kay sa. four, time. 6.2 seconds.
440-yard dash -Won by Simmons Nebraska; Finley, Oklaoma, sec ond; Barrett, Oklahoma, third; Cox Kansas, fourth. Time, 51.8 seconds.
Shot put-Won by Mills, Nebraska; Pepf, Nebraska, second Vanderbilt, Kansas, third; Friedland Kansas, fourth, Distance, 48 feet
Mile run—Won by Munsyli, Missouri; Klam, Kansas; second; Miller Kansas; third; Cooper, Nebraska fourth. Time: 4.19.2
60-yard high hurdles—Won by Frank, Nebraska; Hotkiss, Kansas State; second, Gibson, Nebraska; third Dodge, Kansas State; fourth, TIME
High jump--Won by Baxter, Nebraska; Muhaffley, Kansas State; Cox, Kansas; Miller, Mississippi. Fourth. Height. 6 feet, 3 inches.
1-two-mie-run-Won by Mitchell, Kansas State; Hoffess, Kansas State, second; Huffess, Kansas State, third; Bailey, Missouri, fourth. TIME: 880-yard-run-Won by Gahan, Oakland; Klann, Kansas, second; Bailey, Missouri, fourth. TIME: 1358.7.
60-yard low hurdles—Won
Gish, Nebraska; Masoner, Kansas
second; Frank, Nebraska; third
Missouri, fourth. Time, 7.4
seconds.
Pole vault- Tie for first between Bird, Kansas and Sargent, Iowa State, Tone. Oklahoma, Beaure, Missouri. Height, 13 feet. For third, Height, 13 feet.
Mile relay—Won by Oklahoma Missouri, second; Kansas, third; Kansas State, fourth. Time, 3.31.
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on the SHIN by Mitchell and Wire
We are sorry to announce that our partner in "Shin," Virgil Mitchell, had to go to Hutchison because of a broken neck. We'll try to hit on one cylinder today.
This letter was so pleasing that we thought it worth while to print for the benefit of Mother Nature if nothing else;
'Aye, and 'tis a shame! That we as educated students should so train the grass that even a barrere of any sort should need to be erected, especially one of ugly, carnivorous looking barbed wire.
"If it is necessary for students to be herded along the well trod sidewalks, let it be done in some means which is in harmony with the Camps."
Maybe a "red" snow-fence would be more appropriate.
This warm weather seems to have some of the boys and girls fooled as to what to wear. Some guys refuse to put away the old top-cowl until they are sure this warm sunshine isn't just suckers' bait. At least, the lawyers think it is spring. They are knocking off 15 or 20 minutes of each class period to toot their whistles at couples passing by their fort. These
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Women's Glee Club Broadcasts Over KFKU
The University Women's Glet Club broadcast over KFKU yesterday afternoon. The program includes a number of new members, the club and a selection by the sextet.
This program was as follows:
"Chanson de Marie Antinette"
("Madame-Andrews") and "Nymphs
and Fauna" ("Ramont-Ambrose")
glee club.
"Sylvia" (Speaks), arranged by Carrol Nickels of the School of Fine Arts; sextet.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1938
"Star of Water" (Albenz-Oliver-Andrews), "Spain's Scenarius" (Gradeados-Harris), and "Swing Low" (Burley) by Burlepage); glauc club.
Explosion Burns Three
Attempt To Blow Glass
In Study Room Results
In Near Tragedy
Three students escaped serious injury yesterday when an alcohol blow torch being used to blow glass from a study room at 1320 Ohio street.
Tom Palen, c'39, and Charles Hass, c'40 were treated at Watkins Memorial hospital for burns on the face and hands. Hass was then released but Palen was still confined to a wheelchair though he was not harmed seriously.
George Lupfer, c'41, third member of the trio, escaped with singed hair.
George Looper, 84, a member of the tri, escaped with singed hair. The explosion, which occurred shortly after the kidnappers left closet, moved a partition several inches, and threw glass into the street. The top of the torch flew upward and embedded itself in the ceiling of the room.
Fire, resulting from the explosion was extinguished by beating with bedclothes after wall and curtains were damaged slightly.
Senior Pianist Appears Today
Mary Jane Bruce, pianist from the auditorium of C. A. Prey. will present her senior recital this afternoon at the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
Miss Bruce has already presented a number of concerts. She has studied piano with Ester Shaw Gibson and with Carl A. Prayer. She has worked with the University's work with Laurel Everette Anderson and Charles Sanford Skillton.
Her performances have been complimented by critics and the press. Blance Lederman, of "Musical America," says: "Mary Jane Bruce is a richly endowed young artist, possessing qualities of head, hand and heart—a combination that Arthur Schnabel predicts will carry her to the heights in her chosen field."
Her Performances Praised
Professor Preyer, her teacher,
writes: "Mary Jane Bruce, the gifted
pianist whom it has been my privi-
ledge to teach, is undoubtedly one of
the most outstanding pupils who has
been taught by her." She teaching. She is a natural-born artist and I can promise anyone a real thrill in bearing her play."
"Mary Jane Bruce is a young pianist of unusually fine qualifications as a concert artist and one I feel well suited to play." says Dean Donald M. Swartwhack.
Wauhillau La Hay, program director for radio station KVOR in Colorado Springs, says: "Mary Jane Bruce, in two seasons of concert work on KVOR in Colorado Springs, has distinguished herself as a brilliant young pianist. Her programs are alive!"
Miss Bruce has broadcast over stations WREN, WDAF, KMBC, KFKU, KCKN and WHB.
The following numbers will be included on her program this afternoon.
Frequently on the Air
Dance Memories (Goossens).
The Mariante Show (Goossens)
A Giddy Girl (Ibert).
Carnavat, Opus 9 (Schumann).
Suite burgamesque (Debussy).
Andante Spiniato and Polonaise
(Chonin).
Against the Fading Sky: a mood (M. J. Bruce).
Batters in the Sun (Governor).
Strauss Waltz—Thousand and One Nights, Concert Transcription (Carl A. Preyer).
Gaio-ko Stokowski Wedding Rumored
Rome, March 5. —(UP) —The glamourous Greta Garbo and Leoplid
Stokowiak composer and conductor,
have made plans to be married in
Mexico on May 20. —weeks, a reliable
source said tonight.
A Giddy Girl (Goblin)
Bathers in the Sun (Severac).
Late Wire-- Glenn Sets Another Mark
? Kansas City, Kan., March 5—(UP) S. L. Vance, 75 died in a hospital here from injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile containing three Universities. He was the main street of De Soto, Kan., tada
Baltimore, March 3—(UP)—Glenn Cunningham, the flying Kansan, set a new world record for a flat track indoor mile tonight in winning the U.S. Open by 57 seconds. University of Maryland Fifth Regiment Armory track and field meet.
The old record, set by Joe McClusky, in winning the same mile event last year, was 4.19.8.
Cunningham last Thursday set a new world record for both the indoor and outdoor mile by running the distance in 4:04.4.
A crowd of 6,000 watched Cunningham brace the tape 12 yards ahead of a fellow Kansan, Archelite who was the time wan 4 minutes. 15 seconds.
Students' Car Kills K. C. Mar
Officers said the driver was Terry Lilly, a junior from Kansas City, Mo., and that with Lilly were Robert Brower, Ottawa, and William Griswold, Kansas City, Mo., all University of Kansas students.
A new menace to flood sufferings appeared when officials of East Riverside warned citizens to take typhoid inoculations and condenied all the water in the town 57 miles east of here. Attempts were made to haul fresh water from Ontario Calif.
Lilly was placed under $100 benn for appearance Thursday at De Soto on the charge of reckless driving. None of the students was injured.
More Rainfall In California
Los Angeles, March 5 - (UP) - More showers fell on rain-weary southern California tonight as thousands of federal and state relief workers toiled to find the bodies of missing persons believed to have perished in this week's $30,000,000 rainforest and flood.
Stageband Wins Santa Anita
Rain fell intermittently on the workers as they dug through storm-tossed debris, occasionally adding another name to the list of known death, which tonight reached 130. At least one hundred still were missing.
Santa Anita Race Track, Aceandah,
Calif., March 5—(UP)—Stagehead,
owned by Col. Maxwell Howard and
trained by Earl Sande, once the
greatest of jockeys, wrote turf history today when he won the $100,000 Santa Anita handept from a field of 18 horses.
WEATHER
The three-year-old colt, which only two weeks ago woken the $50,000 Santa Anita dury, clipped the great Seabiscuit by a scant pant. Pompon was third and Gosum, an outider, got up for fourth money.
Kansas: Fair to unusual in east portions tonight, not much change in temperature. Don't plan picnics too far in advance. No jonquils yet.
Women Marksmen Make High Scores
Helen Denlinger, fa 38, and Mary Alice Berthet, fa 38, members of the women's rifle team, tied for first place in the shooting scoring 99 out of a possible 100 shots.
With a score of 58, Barbara Kirchhoff, f'38, Helen Narnarom, fa'40,
and Helen Hoffman, c'39, tied for second place.
New uniforms were purchased by the team last week. They are white coveralls with the Jayhawk in color on the front and "K.U. Women's Rifle Team" written across the back
The team has won six victories out of the 13 matches in which they have competed. Six matches remain to be played.
Mary Alice Gorrell, c'40, also a member of the team, has shot the neper perfect score in markmanship his season.
A meeting of the time will be held in Fowler shop at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow when the team to compete in the annual rifle tournament at Kemper Military Academy at Boonville, Mo., March 11 and 12 will be named. All members are required o attend the meeting.
John Fentron, Hutchinson, president of the Kansas Young Republicans, will address the K.U. Young Republican Club Tuesday night in the men's lounge of the Union building at 8 p.m. Mr. Fentron is serving his second two-year as president of the club. He is recognized as one of the outstanding Kansas Young Republican leaders.
Young Republican Club
To Hear State Leader
Tuesday Night
John Fontron Will Speak
Blaire Grimes, c29, president of KU. Republican Club, in announcing the meeting stated: "Mr. Frontron's interest in college Republican Clubs, and his wide political experience particularly with younger people qualify him as a good speaker for this occasion. Mr. Frontron is a graduate of the University."
This meeting is part of the election-year program of the K.U. Republican Club. Republican women as well as men are invited. Plans for the extension of membership drive will be discussed. Mr. Forton has not stated the subject matter of his talk.
Fresco, Calif., March 5—(UP)—Intermittent blows of smoke were sighted in a wild, uninhabited section of Califores today and it was believed possible they might be signals from the lost Transcontinental railroad which airtimer missed since Tuesday night with nine persons aboard.
Smoke Signals May Be Plane
Highway Patrolman Floyd Yoder sighted the smoke and reported it to E. Raymond Cato, chief of the state patrol, who informed T.W.A. officials. Yoder said the smoke rose from the mountains in sporadic bursts "as though someone might be simiall."
The smoke was approximately 10 to 15 miles east of West Point. Old residents of the area said no one lives in the section and believed it would have been possible for an airplane to make a safe landing there.
R.O.T.C.
Appointments
Announced
Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, commander of the R.O.T.C. units at the University, announced yesterday the appointment of the following cadet commissioned and non-commissioned officers:
Ettenson and Bryant
Are Named Battalion
Commandees of Student
Military Units
First Battalion Commander, Major Moe Etterson; First Battalion Adjutant, Norman Smith; Colonel, Staff Sergent G. Lawrence (color bearer).
Second Battalion Commander, Cadel Major Bryant Bryant, commander of the 1st Brigade; Lieutenant John Hilliard; and Cadet Staff Stargegent, W. F. Ripponte color
Company officers in the first battalion are:
Company "A"
Company Commander, Cadet Cap
fighters. Cadet 1st Lieutenant William
Mackey, Cadet 1st Lieutenant John
Henderson, Cadet 2nd Lieutenant
Polson, Cadet 2nd Lieutenant
Howard Moreland, Cadet 2nd Lieutenant
James Caps, and Cadet 1st Ser-
ter.
Cadet Sergentsi: Harvey Steele, Vincent Rifhman, Mrum Harries, Jesse Gamber, Robert Brooks, Warren Fisher.
Cudet Corporals: Calrence Hammond, William Duke, Edward Garward, Frank Yaussi, Franklin Hass, Elon Horiz, and Samuel Forsyth.
Privates, First Class; Charles Baer Jermione Hellings, Martin Peterson Godfrey Rice, and Fred Van Matre. Couparay "B"
Company Commander, Cadel Capain Charles Ward. Company officers, Cadel Ist Lieutenant Daniel Richard Ludeman, Cadel Ist Lieutenant Harry Narrancee, Cadel 2nd Lieutenant Dale Martin, Cadel Ist Martin Thunen.
Cadef Sergeants: Richard Kane, Jake McCoy, Dale Whitaker, Herman Speier, Robert Doolittle, and George Dixon
HOPEY
Cadet Corporale: Wyth Wright,
Robert Marietta, Herman Barkman,
Wavne Robb, Philp Whitman, Har-
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Most 'Alluring She'
And Fascinating He'
Contest Begins Today
The "Most Alluring She" and the "Most Fascinating He" contest start today and end Thursday, April 7. Bill Grant, business manager of the following plans for the contest: With each ticket purchased from the theater the student will receive a ballot. The men will vote for their choice among the women and the women will vote for their choice among the men. These votes are to be placed in a ballot box at the
In addition, a ballot box will be placed on the Campus the latter part of this month. Each student in the University will be allowed one vote in this box. Each vote here will count two points, while those placed in the ballot box at the theater will count one. To insure fairness in the election, ballots will be numbered.
They Leave Tomorrow on Singing Tour
The winners will be announced April 8. They will receive a trip to New York City and will be made for a five-day stay at the Park Central hotel. They will be entertained at the Stork Club, Leon and Eddie's and the Manhattan room of the Pennsylvania hotel. In addition arrangements are now being made to get seats for an NBC program at Radio
Personnel of the University Men's Glee Club which leaves tomorrow for a week's tour of Kansas towns:
• Front row: Roger Weltmer, Gordon Kohman, Philip Russell, Claude Durese, Jack Cooper, Prof J. F. Kinsh, crom McCormoran, Ian Lennard, John Heyford, Jeff Stuart, Dr. R. D. Amassey, Im Laeron, Jack Dailey, D. O. Dieter, Carrol Nickels, Ernest Figs,
Dick Gray, • Third row: Riald Rosacker, Blaine Grimes, Charles Pillion, Bill Hamilton, Melvin White,
Goblitz Hochsch, Everett Bubler, Herbert Regier, • Fourth row: Dwight Kurth, Don Woods, Rubach, Jarvis Baldwin, Eric Lloyd, • Fifth row: Ian Scott, Ms Tinklespaugh, James Richard Kisher, Lyman Harrison, Vernon Landon.
News Men Will Discuss Propaganda at Town Hall
Charles V. Stansell, associate editor of the Kansas City Star, and Marco Morrow, assistant publisher of Capper Publications at Topeka, will discuss "Newspapers as Propaganda Mediums in a Democracy" at home on Monday evening "New Town Hall to the Unitarian Church, this evening at 8 o'clock."
Prof. Edward N. Doan, of the department of Journalism, will preside. Journalism students and members of the faculty are invited to meet with Dr. Doan at the Unitarian Church for a discussion of the world political situation.
Glee Club To 11 Towns
Men Will Sing Varied Program on Annual Concert Tour
Eleven town will hear the University Men's Glee Club this week during its annual tour under the direction of Prof. Joseph Wilkins.
The group leaves tomorrow noir by chartered bus for Ottawa where the first concert will be presented by the group, Wichita, Witchita, Newton, Abi, Wichita, Witchita, Newton, Abi.
PROF JOSEPH WILKINS
lene, Council Groves, Junction City,
Chapman, Burlingame and Osage
City.
A varied program will be presented on the tour including an original musical sketch, the Jayhawker quartet and a violin solo—in addition to numbers by the entire organization.
Present Musical Sketch
The musical sketch, entitled "The Serenaders", is written and directed by Jack Laffer, c39, who is also student director of the Glee Club
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Fireman Killed In Train Leap
William Gross, Kansas City, Kan.
was killed last night when he jumped
from an east-bound Rock Island
train three miles west of
Lawrence.
Gross, the fireman, who feared a wreck when the connecting rod of the engine broke, leaped to his death against the command of the engineer who tried to assure him that there would be no accident.
Railway traffic was held up for about two hours while an engine was being obtained to replace the damaged one.
Gross' body was taken to a Lawrence mortuary.
Will Present Radio Skit For High School Assembly
Two radio skits "Romeo and Juliet" and "Johnny Frey on the Frye Express" will be presented Friday at a Liberty Memorial High School assembly program. The plays were given last Tuesday before a meeting of the American Association of University Women at Junction City
CANCEL CONTEST
Those included in the cast are Robert Robhole, c; 39; Joe Meyers, c; 38; Marjorie Crum, c; 38; Margaret Crum, c; 38; Michael Biddle, c; models include speech and dramatic arts
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and dramatic art, announced yesterday that the freshman-sophomore oratorical contest scheduled for Tuesday was open to students of any number of entrants was not large enough to warrant having the contest.
Band Invites Musicians To Concert
College and High School Representatives To Attend Annual Program Tomorrow Night
Representatives of seventy-five high schools and colleges will hear the thirty-second annual University band concert tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium as guests of honor.
Rhansody Rumba a Feature
Director Schrepel of Humboldt, Neb. High School and the instrumental director of Kansas Wesleyan College at Salina have announced their attendance with a number of their students. Professor Wiley expects a large attendance from Kansas City and Topka as well as from Clay Center, Hawitha, Horton, Efingham, Pleasantman, Chanute, Baker University, and Ottawa University.
The concert will feature music written especially for symphonic bands. Only two of the twelve numbers, "Prelude to Act III from *Les Misérables*," and "Battle of Benedict" (the torture of *Boeatice and Benedict*) (Berlioz), are orchestral transcriptions.
English atmosphere will be provided by three new Hadyn Wood compositions: "Frescoes Suite," a Southern Rhapsody; "Virginia," a Mannin Veen," a tone poem built from six bass lines; and Manf. Frank Cunkle of the School of Fine Arts will be featured at the organ during the latter piece.
"Rhapody in Rhumba" by David Bennett, who was for a number of years official arranger for the National and Columbia broadcasting companies, and by Paul Whiteman, will be played. "Rhapody in Rhumba" is "true to modern swing," according to Director Wiley.
Three visiting conductors, *Univer Hobbs of Lawrence Liberty Memo* H. H. Mackenzie, *E. Thayer Gaston*, supervise of music in the Garden City schools, who is now doing graduate work at the University, will conduct the band in spring classes. They are quoted of class A, B, and C bands for the national music context to be held here in the spring.
The complete program follows:
Opens at 8 o'Clock
Introduction to Act III, from "Lo-
hengrin" (Wagner), "Tarantella" (Thalberg), A Southern Rhapsody,
"Virginia" (Hadyn Wood), Valse
"Lulie," solo for Euphonium (Walter Rogers), by James Van Dyck.
Valse Caprice, tri for three cornets (Short), by Robert Boyle, Lewis Maser, Leo Horacek.
Overture to "Beatrice and Benedict" (Berlioz), class A—conducted by Mr. Hobbs.
Overture, "Builders of Youth" (O'Neil), class B—conducted by Mr. Ray.
Overture to "The Call of Bagdad" (Boieidieu), class C—conducted by Mr. Gaston.
Fresses Suite, by Hadyn Wood.
The Fire Baton, in four colors,
by Robert Hammel. The colors
were designed by Mr. Hammel in
the chemistry laboratory.)
"Ciribiribin," March Paraphase hv Alford.
"Rhapsody in Rhumba," by Benett.
Minnin Veen (Dear Isle of Man)
(Hadyn Wood), Mr. Cunkle at the organ.
The program will begin at 8 p.m. and will last one hour and 20 minutes without intermission. Activity tickets will admit.
W.S.G.A. To Hold Mass Meeting
The names of all candidates in the W.S.G.A. election Thursday will be read at the mass meeting which will be held in the auditorium of Frank Strong High School for applications for candidacy closed yesterday afternoon at 2:30.
Several amendments are to be voted upon in the coming election. One is to allow a Miller hall representative a seat on the council without a vote. Another is to make the requirements of the secretary and the last is to change the requirements of the secretary from five to three semesters.
SECOND BAND
The Second Band will rehearse tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
REX CONNER
JAMES VAN DYCK