Complete Reports on the Music Festival on pages 4. and 5.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
Complete Reports on the Music Festival on pages 4 and 5.
VOLUME XXXIV
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1837
NUMBER 149
AIRSHIP DOWN IN FLAMES; 40 DEAD
Dance Manager Slate is Selected
M.S.C. Goes Into Recess To Pick Men
Revised Forums Bill
Is Discussed and New
Committees Appointed
In Meeting
After nearly an hour and a half of discussion on a revised forum ball and the appointment of 14 committees, the Mimi Student Council abandoned regular procedure last night and went into recess. For the purpose of expedition in selecting a chairman, party excuses were laid and party choosemen whom they considered their best candidates for the position. Meeting was then called to order, the press asked to leave the room, and candidates were discussed and voted upon. When the press was again admitted it was learned that the following men will comprise the slate for varsity dance competition: Eleanor Conderman, Elwyn Alvarez, et al.; Floyd Kelley, c©28, and Paul Kilm, c©38.
Purpose of Revised Forums
This slide will be referred to a committee composed of Bill Cochrane, manager of the Memorial Union Henry Warner, advisor of men and John Paul, present variety dance manager. From the slide this committee will choose the variance dance manager for next year.
Rooming House Inspection
The purpose of the served form bill which was given its third and final reading and approved by Council is to facilitate the examination of social problems of local or general scope. It provides for continuity in the Forums Board and the same time removes the objection of a new board from the hands of the two student governing bodies in places it in the hands of a temporary committee composed of two members from each body and three members from the old Forum Board.
Roaming House Inspection
A committee composed of Phil Garrant c38, chairman; Clifford Willis c38, Great Hines c38, Frank Harwell c38 and Norton Knight, gr, was appointed for the purpose of investigating changes in working conditions in the Memorial Hall building. The committee was further empowered to make recommendations to the council for action to be taken in connection with the report admitted to the old council by Roland Welborn, gr, on student labor conditions.
After careful consideration with many recommendations made by Council members on a policy on roaming house inspection it was decided that a committee be appointed to render with authorities on the most efficient method of establishing a systematic roaming house inspection service.
In order to prepare for the Conference of Midwestern Colleges and Universities, to be held at the University next fall, three committees were appointed to make preliminary matters for conducting the conference.
on the SHIN by Kenneth Morris
In the spirit of true tradition and what we hope is mutual admiration, we dedicate this column to both sexes of the visiting bandsters.
Incident 1. Stepping into what she thought was the big romance of her life, Lucy Springer of the Chi Oi cozy accepted a spring ride with a gallant shirt yesterday afternoon. After the customary Springer coke
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Wheeler and Students Attend Annual Convention
The following members of the department of psychology left today for Urbana, IL, to attend the annual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association; R. H. Wheeler, M.D., with instructor of psychology; Henry Van Sweiringen, gr., Theodore Van Sweiringen, gr., and John B. Coleman, c37. Doctor Wheeler will present a paper on "The Dynamics of Social Evolution - its Configuration and the Character" at the convention.
Kenneth Lewis, c39, was an nominee yesterday by Dr. W. S. Johnson, as winner of first prize in the annual Carruth Memorial Poetry Contest for 1537. Second place went to John Schlossberg, as winner of place to Mariegue Houston, counsel Maye H. Leonard, gr. Frances P. Hall, foul, 239, and Harold Report, gr. received honorable mention. The judges in the contest this year were Robert Nathan, nationally known post and critic Dan Hubs, association member, and Dr. W. S. Johnson, head of the department of English.
Lewis will receive $90 for his poem, "Hemingway at Dawn," Majesty, $40 for "Symphony from a Smoking Car;" and Miss Honor, $20 for "Mars in a Vell." Leonard, Hull and Raport will receive books in recognition of their honorable mention.
The Carruth Memorial Fund was established in 1927 to commemorate the late William Herbert Carruth, nationally known poet, graduate of the University in 1880 and for 30 years head of the department of German, and at one time vice-chancellor of the University.
Friends of Professor Carruth started the contest by raising a fund from donations, the interest from investment used as the prize money.
The manuscripts submitted in the content may be obtained at room 203 in Fraer from 9:30 to 10:30.
WEATHER
Some of the loveliest weather we've had yet is predicted for today and tomorrow, with some not so good possible in scattered areas.
Parade of Bands Will March Today
Twenty-seven bands will parade down Massachusetts street this afternoon at 4:30 as one of the major activities of Music Week and the Music Festival.
The thing that impressed me was the way the tubas reflected the character of the players. You could see that some of the tuba players had made a mistake by not taking up the flute, or the oboe. They played as if they were sitting at a babbling brook, making music for the wood nymphs to dance by. Honestly, chief, the tuba in the hands of the right person has a dainty and lovely soul. This sort of person is apt to be extremely self-conscious, standing very stiff and afraid to look at the
The University band and the Hassell Institute band will take up the vanguard of the parade, which will wind along Massachusetts from the foot of the Kaw River bridge to South park. Major Fred O. Wickham will direct the parade, which will also include a procession of cars bearing the guest conductors and judges brought here by the Executive committee of the Music Festival.
The several bands, along with a few drum corps, will participate in a marching contest to be held in Hookwell stadium at 8 o'clock tonight. Twirling contests and marching contitions are included in the program.
Lawyers To Finish Mock Trial Soon
A special field demonstration will also be given this afternoon by the Wentworth band, which has entered the festival as an unclassified band without intention of competing in the contests along with the class A, B, and C bands. Its purpose for attending is for criticism only.
The Cub Reporter Hears the Tuba Solos
The weeks trial of Dr. George Brown, accused of murdering John Adams, manager of the Globe Furniture company, in his office last March 15, rapidly approached its end in Green Hall yesterday afternoon, with counsel for both sides expecting a verdict before court is adjourned tonight.
The major part of the festival program for today includes stage performances and sight-readings by B and C class bands. Hearings of class A bands will begin tomorrow. The Memorial Union building will contain a sculpture of non-contesting balls this afternoon at 1 o'clock.
The state had concluded its case and the defense was in the midst of its presentation when Judge William Carpenter appeared before a judge of Law, adjourned court yesterday.
It's pretty obvious that not many people know this. The audience consisted mostly of the friends and relatives of the solists. There were also the doorkeeper, a student studying German, and the junior, bringing the total to about 25 or 30. Then there were the judges, too, sitting in the theater. I suppose one of my aesthetic senses became dulled ever after the beauty of tuba music after three or four hours of it.
Well, chief, I'm sure glad you seem me over to hear the tuba solos. I really am. I didn't think so much of the idea until I'd heard the gruntitions in action, but I have discovered that even an unwieldy battered and tarnished tuba can be a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
The defendant, to whom the state yesterday attempted to assign a motive of jealousy over the affection of comely Loretta Briggs, Adams' private secretary, showed no ill effects of the day's gruelling, at adjournment. Attorneys for the case are Ernest Haas, Ernest Ayers, Frank Wilmer, Chauncey Zimmerman, and Kenneth Hodson. Defending Doctor Brown are Leigh Fischer, Henry Butter, Charles Roderick, Wade Pipkin, and Robert Oydler. All lawyers are third-year law students.
Well, chief. I'm sure glad you sent❤️
Well, that's about all I saw over there, chief, except I think we ought to give those tuba players some sort of recognition for the amount of energy they expend. It doesn't make any difference whether the player is pumy and anaemic looking or like primo Camara, it takes a lot of wind to fill all that iron they wrap around their necks, and when they get through with a couple of lung-bursting cadenzas and a finale that must run their blood pressure up to a dangerous point, most of them stagger off in the last stages of exhaustion. Maybe they didn't know what they were getting into when they took up the tuba.
judges. If you watch his hands closely you can see how nervous he is. The natural-lorn tuba player, on the other hand, strides out onto the stage, tunes up with loud blasts, and then lights into his selection as if he were going to get it over in one corner of the stage and punch the stuff out of it. Instead of playing something soft and sweet of the pastoral type, he will play either something very fast and jolly that reminds you of Falschfist in a tavern or something fierce and warlike that sounds like the battle of the Marne or a bull fight.
Aerial Death Trap
- Von Hindenberg . . . the huge German aircraft, on its last Trip to this country, nears the mooring mast where it crashed last night.
Engineers
Elect Stafford
Council Head
Heaviest Vote in Years
Cast as Engine School
Goes to Polls in Annual
Election
Edward Safford was elected president of the Engineering School Council in an election held last night by a vote of 10 votes over his closest opponent.
The results of the election were a follows:
The voting was the heaviest in several years,with 322 votes cast.
President
Edward Safford, c38 133
Karl Johnson, func1 123
George Pro, c38 52
Proctor Ritchie, c'39 141
Ray Horrell, c'38 96
Stirling Poison, e'38 81
Secretary-Treasurer
George W. Russell, c28
Hervey Vigour, c29
Senior Representative
Frank Reagan v.190
Norvin Sollers, e uncl
Junior Representative
Lester Haug, e'39
Sophomore Representative
William Witt, e40
Wayne Wyatt, e40
Architectural Representative
Richard Good, e39
James Bounds, e39
Tom Gerrenygham, e38
Chairman Luck McGregor, e1mel
Lichen Price, e1mel
Leon Moberly, e40
Civil Representative
Raymond Rogers, e38
Arthur Latham, e38
Will Fetrick
Electrical Representatives
Herbert Kraus, e1mel
Lyman Ketelson, e39
Mason Miller, e40
Mechanical Representative
Fred Thudion, e40
Charles Loveghue, e38
Mechanical Representative
Leo Johnson, e40
A.S.M.E. Elects
Officers were elected last night to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in an election in which Ralph S. Tait, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, acted as honorary chairman.
The officers chosen were; chairman, George Russell, e'78; vicechairman, George Cobb, e'p;president, James M. Doyle, e'28; secretary, Don Barrett, e'37
Mining Representative
Leo Johnstone e'49
Wray Shockley, e'unel
Chi Omega, Chapter House, 12:00 m.
Alpha Delta Pi, Memorial Union,
12:00 p.m.
Tau Beta Pi, State Lake. 9:30 p.m Saturday, May 8
Alpha Gamma Delta, Chapter House 12:00 p.m.
Authorized Parties
Friday, May 7
Chi Omega, Chateau House, 128
Phi Gamma Delta, Chapter House,
12:00 p.m.
Theta Tau, Eldridge Hotel, 12:00 mm
ELJZAEBETH MEGUAR Advisor of Women for The Joint Committee on Student Affairs
Ninth Regional Music Competition Festival combined with the Third Annual Mid-Western Band Festival.
Program of Events for Friday and Saturday Friday, May 7
3 am. Class B Bands, Stage Performance Auditorium
Class B Bands, Sight Reading Marvin hall.
Class B Chorus, High School auditorium.
Class C Bands, Stage Performance Fraser hall
Class C Bands, Sight Reading Spooner-Thayer museum, ground floor:
Class C Chorus, Central Administration auditorium.
10 a.m. Second Rebearsal, Festival Band, Ballroom, Memorial Union building.
p. m. Class B Bands (cont.), Stage Performance, Auditorium.
Class B Bands (cont.) Sight Reading, Marvin hall.
Class B Chorus (cont.), High School auditorium
Class C Bands (cont.), Stage Performance, Fraser hall.
Class C Bands (cont.), Sight Reading, Spooner-Tuver museum
mg. Spooner-Taylor museum.
Criticism for non- contesting
kinds (classification rules not
thought) , Memorial Union
building.
2. p.m. Special Field Demonstration,
Marching Tactics, Flood Maneuvers, Wentworth Military Academy Band, directed by Captain Pike, Kansas Stadium (open to everyone).
4:30 p.m. Grand Parade, all bands participating. (Parade forms at 4 p.m. on West Stitk St., leading from Massachusetts St.-head of parade forms at south Stitk and at Sitth and Massachusetts.)
5:30 pm. Festival Banquet in homo of distinguished guests, (open to everyone informal)
p. m. Marching Contests, bands and drum corps.
ning Contests, bands and drown corps.
Twirling Corps.
Marching Demonstrations.
(Special Field Demonstrations by the Wentworth Military Academy Band, Captain Pike, director). Haskell Stadium. Single Admission, 50%. May 8
8 a.m. Class A Bands, Stage Performance, Auditorium
Class A Bands, Sight Reading,
Marrin ball
5 a.m. Class A Chorus, Fraser hall
1 p.m. Class A Bands (cont.), Stage
Performance, Auditorium.
Performance, Auditorium.
Class A Bands (cont.), Sight Read-
Class A Bands (cont.), Sight Reading Marvin hall
Class A Chorus (cont.), Fraser hall.
3 p.m. Final Rehearsal, Festival Band, Auditorium.
Rehearsal, Festival Chorus, Fraser hall.
Massed Festival Band.
Massed Festival Chorus.
8 p.m. Gala Concert:
Westminster A Cappella Choir.
(Auditorium. Festival Season)
Omaha Central High A Cappella Choir.
Tickets admit - Single Admission, 50 cents.)
Explosion Rends Hindenburg
Lightning Sears Hydrogen-Filled Bag As It Neans Mooring Mast in Lakehurst, N. J.; 60 of 100 on Ship Survived; Victims Leap From Flaming Craft As It Titches; Von Echner Not on Board
Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J., May 6.—(UP) The dirigible Hindenburg, carrying 100 persons on her first passage of the North Atlantic this season, caught fire after an explosion tonight and came down in flames. The naval air station announced that 60 persons had survived. Captain Max Pruss, commander of the ship, was among the survivors.
So was Captain Ernst Lehmann, who formerly commanded the Hindenburg but who relinquished his post to work on designing and construction of other dirigibles in Germany. He made this trip as an adviser.
Band and Choir Present Joint Concert
iv John Bondeson, c'38
The Great Gusto's Bag of Tricks Wins Plaidts of Audience Composed Largely of Musicians
By John Bondeson, c38
In joint concert last evening at the University Auditorium were presided over by Woutminster A. Cappella Choir and the Worcester Band, under the baton of Russell L. Wiley. The program featured several solos by members of the organizations, as well as an imposition of the great Gusto, the magnifier, by Jack Dallaby, a member of the band His tricks with colored handkerchiefs contributed to the heavy response from the audience.
The Westminster choir presented two groups, one of which was composed of Negro spirituals. Although several singers were absent, the body gave balanced and even readings, amid the clattering and hanging of chairs in the wings and in the halls of the church, so that the takes taken in one number by Ted Val Sloan, fa37, whose voice, although not big, is of pleasing quality.
The program opened with a Bach choralle, "Come, Sweet Death," played by the band. Then came the first group by the choir, coming onto the platform single file from their shadowskys' "Praise Ye the Name of the Lord" was the best-liked selection from the first group.
Second Part of Concert
Second Part of Concert
In the second part of the concert, Richard Gage was presented as clarinet solist in the "First Concert" by Welter, and Rex Corner in a tuba by Hurlock, by Hurtchik. Each did a thorough and blessing his instrument. Monsurggyk's "Coronation Secem" from the opera Baldou Godomoon showed the band in its best form.
The four spirituals sung by the choir in its second appearance were: "Every Time I Feel the Spirit," "Little David Play on Your Harp," "Steal Away," and "Father Abraham." Their shadings were delicate and the well-blended voices pleased the audience. In his choir because of mattention and conversations of some of the younger guests in the audience.
In the last portion of the program, an interesting sound-effect was noticed in the band of the drummer. The piece was the march, 'Skyliner' by Alford, and the novel effect seemed to be an electric motor with rotating rubber blades which was held over the drum, producing the startlingly realistic effect of a giant plane motor. The familiar 'Flight of the Bumblebee' by Rickie Kane kwow was followed by Robert Hampel's demonstration of the fire buton, always a favorite on the band programs. The feat was performed skillfully and elicited warm applause from the spectators.
Van Dyck Plays Solos
A descriptive gypsy phantasy was the final number of the program, and was given a thorough and interest-
Van Dyk Plays Sols
James Van Dyk presented as a
bass solo the "Fantastic Original"
of Mantin. He performed difficult
features with ease, and tied the
band a merry chase throughout
the entire selection.
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Both Pruss and Lehmann were said to be badly burned. Captain S. T. Amts, another officer, also survived.
The giant ship had been riding through a heavy storm, bright with lightning, awaiting a favorable chance to land.
Approached Field
Bulletin
She approached the field shortly before 7:30 p.m. (eastern daylight time) and pointed her nose for the mobile mooring mast a mile away.
A radio report late last night gave 33 as the total number dead in the Hindenburg dirich crash. Of the 64 who survived the flaming airship, 44 were members of the crew and 29 passengers.
The ground crew ran out and picked up the lines that were thrown overboard.
The big green ship was about 200 feet of the ground and was just ready to nose into the mooring mast.
There came a loud explosion.
Flames shot out and raced up the fabric of the big bag, swollen with inflammable hydrogen.
The Hindenburg thumped to the ground, sending out vast clouds of smoke. A few hundred persons had gone inside and received the Hindenburg. Woman on the ground. Through the smoke a few persons could be seen leaping from the ship.
Highways Jammed
The wreckage was still burning at 9.25 p.m. (EDT) and the girders glowed red. Highways to Lakehurst were jammed with automobiles carrying medical aid from Ashbury Park, driver, Lakewood, and Philadelphia.
The wreckage lay a quarter of a mile west of the hangar and 400 yards north of the mooring mast. Some eye witnesses said they believed the motor in the left rear gonda exploded. No one reported having seen a lightning flash at the time of the explosion. The first reaction of all persons who saw the fire was that the fire was used by the crew of the ship. All neighboring cities mobilized aid. All pilot automobiles at the naval air station and from surrounding areas were conscientized.
'No Time To Think'
"There was no time to think of anything else to do," said Joseph Stare of Douglass, New York, a town he heard the explication and jumped.
Holding his 3-year-old daughter in his arms, Sir he said had taken the Hindenburg because he missed a steamer at Harve, France, on Monday and sailors plunged heroically into the hot wreckage in an attempt to haul out passengers and members of the crew. There was a flurry of minor explosions after the Hindenburg settled to the ground probably in the flames at their way back from the air compartments in the big gas bag.
"We ran when we saw the ship was on fire," said Harry Wellbrook, member of the ground crew. Then when she hit the ground we went back and tried to drag out some when she hit the ground we went back and tried to drag out somevivors. We got three bodies out. All of them were burned beyond recognition. The ship was making her first trans-Atlantic crossing of the
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