UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXV
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
Funeral Services Held For Kelly
NUMBER 19
5
Authorities U n c o r e v
No Clue of Assailant;
Re w a r d s Are Offered
In Topeka
Funeral services for Russell Kelly were held yesterday afternoon on the Wall-Diffenderen mortuary in Topeka, with student friends as pall bearers. Interment was in Mount Hone cemetery.
Henry Werner, men's student adviser, Miss Mary Olson, former secretary of the CSEP, and Mrs. Frank Parker, secretary of the men's em-12 services along with about fifty other students of the University.
The pall bearers were Keith Corbin, e'38, Bob Sleeper, e'38, Herb Kraus, c'uncel, Lewis Kieffer, e'38, Charles Curnell, and Bob Spicer Manhattan.
As yet authorities have uncovered no elue that might lead to the identity of the assailant, who viciously attacked Kelly on the evening of Sept. 24.
The scene of the accident was definitely established yesterday as occurring in Shawnee county, approximately four miles west of Stull. State patrol officers, with the co-operation of both Douglas and Shawnee counties, continued their investigation yesterday concentrating their efforts in Lawrence and in Topeka.
No Clues Yet
Two Rewards Posted
Two 300 rewards have already been posted. The reward is the arrest and conviction of the slayer, with the possibility that further rewards may be offered in the next few days. An added reward may be made by the state, and the Douglas business owners is also considering the matter.
Two Rewards Posted
Sheriff Fred Vogler spent yesterday afternoon in Topeka, conferring with highway patrol officers on the case.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1337
on the SHIN by Virgil Mitchell
Since Friday; Jody Stewart is taking in washings at the Pi House now that she has nothing to do during the long evenings. . . The lasses out Gamma Piway hold one of those bovee sessions so dear to the hearts of the stronger sex hereabouts. Mainstays therein, the girl's favorite pair, Greta Glison—and Dorney of the Sour Owl Dormans. . . Rhythm Children at the Battle of Bands Saturday eve included that Truckin' Bill Southern and "wishful" Camilla Scott. . . Half the ladies on the Hill formed a welcoming committee to give the glad hand to "lazy" Bash, Kansas City's foremost and trickiest model of things to wear. The countdown unfurried during the whole weekend. . . Barney Pipes mispost the prex of the A.O.P. for a pledge and now Barney is getting a new line—some people hope.
Mystery: Who, we are asking, was the gal who dropped a loaded suitcase from the Theta story of the A. O, Pi house on the eye of Oct. 1 along about 1 a.m.? Three mysterious figures were wining flowers and absconded figures before our curators could determine the whats and whyfors. Jane Flood could not be found to make a statement on this unusual bit of horseplay.
...Mushmic, one of the members of the traveled set, has gone literary and purchased a Roget's Thesaurus
Also since Friday: Bash continued. ~Silks and net hose, and black rose rosette-shaped blossoms that float orchid ostrich plumes, and the shortest skirts yet.
...The weekend promised to be damp and so it was. From all indications things are back in the old swing ... The weather reminds us that the coming week may prove rather warm, what with the Star and other sheets conducting a "Red" investigation around the campus. For those who can't think of any way to get into the SHIN we have established a "Mind Slipping Depot." Just hand in your name with as
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To Cast Experimental Plays At Dramatic Club Meeting
One act plays for future experimental laboratories will be cast in today's meeting of the Dramatic Theater, "In the Limber in the Lilium Theater," Green, NJ.
A sketched entitled, "If Men Play Jacks Like Women" will be presented by James Bradfield. Joel McKenzie, from John Nelson, members of the club.
All apprentices and actives are required to be present.
Hill Poets To Try Out
Rhadamanthi Contest
Manuscripts Are D a e
Oct. 20
Manuscripts for the 1937-38 tryouts for membership in Rhadamantha, national college poetry society, must be turned in not later than Wednesday. Oct. 20, Harriet Steele, an assistant editor of the newspaper, announced yesterday. Any University of Kansas student is eligible.
Trouvit papers, all of which must be turned in under pen-names, should be given to Prof. Allen Crafton at the speech office, 5 Green Street, London, and considered, but each manuscript must include at least fifty lines.
Each person may submit material under as many pen-names as he wishes, but each group must meet the requirements of minimum length. Manuscripts, Miss Stephens stated, must be typed, double-spaced, and must be accompanied by a signature from the author's pen-name on the outside and enclosing the real name of the author.
The club's first meeting will be held next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the Green room, Frasher hall. Alan Crafton, professor of speech and dramatic arts, and Martin Maloney, '37, former president of Rhodamanthi, will discuss the adaptation of poetry to the radio.
Six Students Commissioned
R. O.T.C. Selects Second Lieutenants For Training
Six recent graduates of the R.O. T.C. at the University, selected by Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, are now undergoing one year's active-duty training as officers in the regular army of the United States.
The following graduates were selected: Second Lieutenants, Charles Ransom Roderic, Conrad William Foster, Carlen Bentied Starks, Bill Bryan, Herman Heubner Hauck, and John Anthony Poie.
At the completion of this year's training these men will be eligible to enter competitive examinations for appointment in the regular army. Last year fifty appointments were made to the regular army f 10m if some of them fail. If any trainees should fail to be appointed, the War department will secure their positions in governmental or civilian agencies.
The staff of the new publication will be announced by Coleman as soon as it is approved by the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity which sponsors the magazine.
Owl To Appear Again Next Week
The second issue of the Sour Owl will make its appearance on the campus the last of next week. More color issues are in prevalent in this issue of the magazine.
There will be a series of pictures of the less publicized side of campus life. With the continuance of pictures there will also be a continuance of several articles that were started in the first issue. Dave Hamlin, CT, will conclude his article with "Troubles of a Sour Owl Edit."
"The new science department which is new to the readers of the law this year will be continued more laborately in this issue," according o James Coleman, c38, editor of the magazine.
Plans are in the making for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Owl The anniversary number will appear in January.
Naismith Trophy Fund Established
Dr. James A. Naisimh, professor of physical education and the inventor of basketball, will present a trophy in memory of his late wife to the winner of the national inter-college basketball tournament held annually in Kansas City.
A announcement of the memorial trophy was made by Naismith Sunday at a meeting of the Missouri
Valley Amateur Athletic Union in Kansas City.
At this same meeting Doctor Naismith was elected first vice-president of the Missouri Valley A.U. A.W. Haylett, head coach at Kansas State College, was elected president of the union to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of John C. Grover.
Naimish has created a permanent fund for the purchase of the trophy and the fund will be perpetuated by a provision made in his will.
Eight Apply For Office
A. vacancy in the Women's Self-
Governing Association has been
elected by the resignation of Mar-
rissa O'Brien, president of the
sophomore class.
The following sophomore women have made application for the office: Betty Jane Boddington, Nell Clark, Julia Edson, Mildred Ewing, Harriet Goodwin, Marie Norton, Ann Rightmore, and Velma Wilson.
Recommendations of the committee composed of Doris Stockwell, Bette Wasson, and Joyce Vetter will be presented to the Council at the regular W.S.G.A. meeting tonight at 130.
Chicago, Oct. 4;—(UP)—President W. D. Scott, of Northwestern University, announced tonight that Dr. F. D. Fagg, Jr., director of the United States bureau of air commerce, has been appointed dean of the university's School of Commerce and will assume his duties "as soon as he terminates his affairs with the air department."
Fagg Appointed Dean Of Northwestern Commerce
Fogg was a professor of law at the University when he was granted a leave of absence to direct the air department activities.
Work on the telescope was started in 1927, when Dinamore Alter was professor of astronomy here. He obtained the co-operation of William Tilbury to establish manufacturer, and an amateur astronomer of much skill. The University provided a disc of pyrex glass, material since used for the 290-inch telescope for California and Mr. Pitt spent a year grinding
Council Quiet Before Storm
After ten years of work, and waiting, a fine 27-inch reflecting telescope has been installed, complete at the University, and is ready for use, subject to such adjustments necessary for a bit of new mechanism.
The Council discussed further the problem of combining the Midwestern Conference of Colleges and Universities with the annual convention of the National Student Federation of America in December. The Midwestern Conference is tentatively planned to be held here in November. No action was taken on this question.
Mountings for the telescope were cast in the Fowler Shops foundry, and the framework for the telescope was designed by Manley Hood son of Professor Hood. Much of the telescope was built by Bodh, and his brother Henry.
Uneventful Meeting
Last Night Precedes
Expected Political
Battle Next Week
The publication period of ten days, calling for petitions of candidates for the seats, has not yet expired. It is understood, however, that both parties have their petitioners lined up. The opinion is that the candidates for the vacated seats will, as in 2016, be defeated in the votes of both parties who were defeated in the regular election last spring.
The quiet of last night's meeting portends a stormy session when the Council meets next week to fill seven vacancies left by the report of the Commission, which took five Pachacamas and two P.S.G.L. from their seats, and left P.S.G.L with a majority in the body and an excellent opportunity to annex an even greater majority in order to fill the positions next week.
Two years ago, when it was announced that Dr. John Strong, a KU. graduate in 1926, has developed a method of plating mirrors with aluminum instead of silver, it was arranged that he would so finish the焊
The Men's Student Council met in a short and unevenful meeting in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building last night. The legislative body has chosen to meet each week for the present, thus cutting the volume of business to be considered at each meeting.
The sixth annual Skirt Swing, formerly called the Gingham Frolic, will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. The frolic is the first chance of the year for the women of the University to pick their escorts—from their own sex. It is presented by W.S.G.A. and W.Y.G.A., and all University women are invited attend.
New 27-Inch Telescope Installed At University After 10 Years Work
The "Big Apple" and "truckin'" will be featured as contests, with prizes for the winning dancers. Louie Kuhn and his band will furnish the music for the dancing. Special entertainment will be furnished by Jane Coats, c'unel, who will dance, and Dorothy Fitz, c'sp, who will sing. Doug Willis, c'will, is a mate of ceremonies, Margaret Stough, fa38, and Velma Wilson, c40, have charge of all arrangements.
All women are urged to attend, as this is one of the most important and most entertaining "mixers" of the year for women alone.
'Skirt' 'Scorts
'Skirt' in Skirt
Swing Session
Kansas: Generally fair today am.
Wednesday except locally unsettled
at times; considerably cooler today
or tonight.
WEATHER
K. U. reflector. The mirror, thus treated, was returned from California Tech. of Pasadena, ten days before it been put in its permanent setting.
The aluminum surfacing has the definite advantage over silver as a mirror coating in its permanence. Whereas a silvered mirror rapidly loses its reflecting power, due to the formation of a silver oxide, the aluminum retains its brilliance, apparently indestructible. After a metal oxide layer was found that an aluminum oxide is formed on the surface that is not only transparent, but is hard, forming a real protection for the glass.
Professor Stoere plans to make use of the telescope in photometric work, photographing given stars through red and blue plates and from the comparative pictures compute the heat of the star.
While on his vacation this summer, Professor Storer spent several days at his alma mater, Connecticut Wesleyan, examining the observatory there, and also visited the observatories of Ohio Wesleyan, University of Pittsburgh, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
There are still approximately one hundred students in the University who have not paid their fees, although the deadline for payment was Wednesday, Sept. 29.
FEES UNPAID!
terday that some of these students have received extensions and agreed to pay upon certain future dates, but that many are being assessed daily penalties for not attending or arranging for extensions.
Students who fail to meet the requirements of the University as regards the payment of fees for their classes are dropped from their classes.
Will Speak
To Freshmen
Dean Paul B. Lawson
To Address Students
On Why College?
Dean Paul B. Lawson will speak to all new freshmen on "Why College?" Thursday evening at 7 o'clock at Fraser theater.
For the second year the committee on Fredman Week is providing a series of lectures as a means of help-keeping. The courses are designed to point out
PAUL B. LAWSON DEAN
purposes of higher education and to offer suggestions concerning how to study and the related problems.
The series of four freshman lectures supplement the activities of Freshman Week, and are scheduled to be given after the student has already begun to face the problems of the class room. The first series is to begin the student in making a successful start in his academic work.
Three more lectures will be giver in this series by faculty members The next is scheduled for Oct. 14.
Coughlin Blasts Roosevelt and Black
Royal Oak, Mich., Oct. 4—(UP)—Father Charles E. Coughlin tonight said he hoped justice Hume Black would intervene in the case of Roosevelt's "personal stupidity."
"There is nothing 'alleged' about Black's Klan affiliation," he said. "Justice Blake swore a solemn oath before a fencing cross that he would exercise hostility to Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims, that oath as he takes a new oath to sustain the constitution of the United States."
The interview, reporters were informed, was the last Father Coughlin would grant this winter. Hereafter, these duties must be put to him in writing.
Casey Jones Establishes Law Office
Casey Arthur Jones, 37, has
established a law office at Hill City
Kan., since graduation.
"K" CLUB MEETING
There will be a meeting of the "K" Club in Robinson gymnasium beginning at 7:30 this evening. All members are urged
wADE GREEN,
President.
FRESHMAN LECTURE
J. H. NELSON.
J. H. NELSON,
Chairman of Freshman
Week Committee.
All new freshmen in the University are required to attend the freshman lecture at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in Fraser theater. Attendance at this lecture will be carefully kept.
Lindley Begins 'Red' Investigation
Chancellor's Probe Reveals Major Part of Funds For Henty's and Graeber's Transportation to Spain Apparently Came From New York and Kansas City
The funds provided for the transportation of Don Henry and Kenneth Graeber, University students, to the war in Spain in which Henry met his death last month, apparently were not raised on the Campus.
A personal investigation of communistic activities among the students of the University, launched Saturday by Chancellor E. H. Lindley, has revealed that the major part of the funds apparently came from the East.
American Flier On Trial in Spain
'Investigation into the connections the boys made to get
Salamanca, Spain, Oct. 4- (UP)—Harold E. Dahl, American aviator who will go on trial for his life to tomorrow before a Spanish Insurgent court martial, said tonight that he was "bumped off by a firing squad."
"What else can they do but stick me up against the wall? This is war and my a prisoner of war. I am ready for an ideal just for cold cash."
Dahl, who will be tried before a military tribunal of a colonel and five captains, will base his thin hope of escaping death on a plea that the Loyalists forced him to fight against his will.
"They'll shoot me, I know," said the 28-year-old filer from Champaign, Ill., who was captured July 19. The attacker fell down behind the Inaugurated lines.
When he left his bride of six months behind and joined the Loyalists at a salary of $1,500 a week, he said he thought he was going to be a technical aviation adviser. He will insist that he is no commander in the that he needed money and that the Loyalists still owe him $4,000.
Reorganize News Writers
Hill News Reporters Representing K an s as Papers To Be Chosen
To reorganize the Student Correspondents' Bureau, a general committee composed of University officials and students prepared a list of tentative correspondents elected from University students representing practically every newspaper in the state. Through this organization, news and information concerning individual students and the University will be disseminated throughout the state.
Anyone wishing to volunteer as correspondent for his community is urged to leave his name at the Alumni office before 5 oclock this evening. Final choice of members has not been made.
Plan To Enlarge Bureau
G. H. Mullen, c'39, is chairman of the general committee. Other members of the general committee are: W. A. Dill, professor of教育; Fred Ellsworth, secretary of Alumni Association; Alice Haladem-Julius, c'38; Doris Stockwell, c'39; Door Hees, c'38; Dorothy Caldwell, c'38; Velma Wilson, c'39; Phil Ruap, c'38; and Harry O'Riley, c'38.
The committee plans to enlarge the bureau and increase its efficiency in sending news of the University to home community newspapers, meeting of the correspondents will be held to be followed by another in two weeks. During the year meetings of members of the bureau will be held every month to furnish the writers news information concerning the University.
Represents Many Communities
"The committee has worked carefully on this matter." Mullen said yesterday. "So far the outlook for the co-operation of students is good. Anybody can see at a glance the benefits to the University that this news would bring. We are determined to make this organization the most effective in its three years of operation."
Sponsored by the M.S.C., the W.S. G.A., and the Alumni office, the bureau was organized three years ago. Since then the organization has grown to include more than a hundred members, representing as many communities in the state of Kansas
Lindley Wires Henry's Parents
sections the boys made to get funds for the trip indicates at this early date that apparently the major part of the funds came from New York. Some of the contribution may have come from Kansas City," Chancellor Lindley said.
Doctor Lindley said he would try to establish by his investigation whether the two students were induced to go to Spain by urging or subterfuge and where the funds were obtained to pay for their transportation.
According to information received by the Kansasan from Dodge City last night, Don had told his parents he was going to France when he left last summer. He intimated that he was enabled to make the trip through a scholarship Later, he was introduced to the workwith a college news bureau when he joined the Spanish Loyalist army.
Probe Begun Saturday
The investigation was started Saturday after requests for a red probe were made by Ed Henry, Dodge City, father of the slain student. Chancellor Lindley said yesterday that inquiries were being made as rapidly as possible and that a statement would be made as soon as all Campus sources had been egrefully checked.
Doctor Lindley said he had wired Mr. Henry offering to aid in any investigation he desired. Henry appeared on the Campus this summer
The Chancellor's telegram to Mr. Ed Henry:
"The whole University mourns with you and your family the tragic death of your fine son. We will be glad to assist in any way we can," Don's mother said. Don's letters will be important. His sympathy extends to us all.
Chancellor.
(Signed) E. H. LINDLEY Chancellor
to make inquiries about his son after some time had elapsed since hearing from him. He requested then that University officials aid him in learning of Don's whereabouts in Spain.
Letters Found in Trunk
Letters Found in Trunk Henry raised the question as to where the funds came from to provide transportation for the men to Spain. Mrs. G. A. Graeber, mother of Kenneth Graeber who accompany his father, Sarah Graeber knew nothing about where the men obtained the money. Later, however, Henry was reported to have found letters in a trunk left in New York by Don which indicated that the transportation may have been provided by communistic sympathizers.
One of the letters, which was sent from Kansas City and evidently accompanied some money, is reported to have been traced to the sender.
Wages and Crops Appear On Roosevelt's 'Must' List
St. Paul, Oct. 4. —(UP)—Control of surplus crops for farmers a d minimum wages for the workers head the list of "muts" which President Roosevelt will press in the next session of Congress, he said, as it was paused for a brief speech en route home from the Pacific Northwest.
Earlier, the president hinted that he would call a special session this fall to pass a law providing for "an ever-normal granary" and a measure establishing minimum wages—maximum hours with anti-child-lab positions.
"As a result of both of these," the President said, "the actual cost for relief for the unemployed should decrease, and existing taxes—not higher taxes—should make the financial problem of local, state, and federal government more easy."