UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 154
JAYHAWKS WIN BIG SIX TRACK TITLE Fire Sweeps 100 Blocks in Chicago Ten First Places Go To Kansas At Lincoln
ESTIMATED LOSS NEAR $25,000,000; MANY HOMELESS
Disaster Believed Worst Since Famous Conflagration of 1871; Starts in Stock Yards Area
RELIEF WORK BEGUN
Parks and Theaters Opened to Hundreds of Refugees; Troops Keep Order
Chicago, May 19—(UP)—The most disastrous fire since that which almost destroyed the city in 1871 started in Unior Stock Yards here tonight and swept 100 blocks on the South side before it could be brought under control.
The fire, fanned by a strong wind, caused damage estimated to be between 10 and 25 million dollars. Hundreds were left homeless and many firemen were injured. All the equipment which could be summoned to aid from surrounding towns fought the fire for more than five hours.
Edward J. Kelley began immediate direction of relief activities. All South side parks were open to the refugees. Cots, furnished by the state militia, were placed in parks and theaters near the stricken area.
Physicians who were called to the scene were amazed that there was not a tremendous loss of life.
Fire Marshal, Michael J. Corrigan described the fire as the second worst in the history of Chicago.
The great fire of Chicago. Oct. 9-11
1871, destroyed 18,000 buildings with the estimated property loss of $196,000,000.
The flames started in Mrs. O'Leary's barn either from spontaneous combustion of hay or the kick of a cow upsetting a lantern.
Kansas Engineer to Appear
May Issue Will Be Out Tomorrow
Includes New Departments
Several new departments and a new two-color cover with un unusual lettering has been introduced in the May issue. This will appear on all campus tomorrow.
The frontispiece of the publication pictures an engraving of a scenic highway through the hills of northeastern Hungary. This highway is the work of American road engineers and contractors.
A new department designed to fill the need for a survey of the engineering developments has been inaugurated with this issue. Then there is an article giving a resume of the history of Fowler shops. This building was done by the architectural father, through the interest of Prof. L I Blake, who taught physics then.
Other articles include a paper by Loren Craig, e35, "The Engineer in Public Life," and excerpts from an article by Stanley Learned, e24, on the "Orientation of the Technical Graduate to the Commercial World."
This issue is the first one to be published by the new stuff.
TOPEKA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
WINS EMPIORA FIELD MEE
Emporia, Kan, May 20. — (UP) — Negro athletes from the Kansas Vocational School at Topeka easily won the Kansas High School Track and Field Meet at Emporia this afternoon. Their total points were 33. Wichita East was second with 12 1-3 points. Newton was third.
The only record broken at the meet took place when Galen Blackmoor of Eldorado run the 880 yard event in 1:58.2 seconds.
To Attend President's Meeting Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Raymond Nichols, secretary to the chancellor, will attend a meeting of five state school presidents at the Hotel Jayhawk in Topeka Saturday morning.
Campus Flower Bed Reset With 1400 Geraniums, 1200 Joseph's Coats
Using 1400 red geraniums, approximately 1200 Joseph's Coat plants, and myriads of tiny border grasses, University gardeners yesterday afternoon finished resetting the triangular flower bed which is situated between Green and Fraser hills at the junction of Fourteenth and Oread streets.
The bed formerly was filled with variegated tulips which building and grounds department workers removed only last week.
The mottled leaves of the border plants, set in rows around the geraniums, make a pleasing setting for the bed. As the plants develop the symmetry of the bed will be nearly perfect.
Workmen completed a rectangular bed in front of the Administration building last week in which a similar array of flowers and foliages was carried out.
Journalism Students Hold Annual Banquet
I. C. Swayze Tells of Interviews With Radio and Film Celebraties
Approximately fifty students of the department of journalism and members of the journalism faculty attended the Memorial Union cafeteria Friday evening.
John Cameron Swayze of the Kansas City Journal-Post, main speaker of the evening, spoke a word of encouragement to those entering the journalistic profession. In a rapid fire manner he responded with a lively and in his life as a reporter, mentioning interviews with such personages as Rudy Vallee, and Kate Smith
In speaking on "Radio and the News," Mr. Swayzey, told of the facilities offered by the various networks for getting the news on the air and assured his listeners that the radio would never complete take the place of the newspaper.
Maurice Rice, c34; acting as toastmaster introduced the following speakers: Margaret Gregg, c34; Alfred J. Graves, instructor in journalism; Arnold Kretzman, c34; and Prof. L. N. Flint, chairman, of the journalism department,
A midget edition of the University Daily Kanan, edited by Jack Tarkins, c'35, which contained all the latest dope on the celebrities of the department was printed for the occasion. The edition was illustrated with cuts borrowed from another book; more captions referring to personages familiar about the journalism building.
Carolyn Harper, c35, Lena Wyatt, c35 and Julia Markham, c35, were awarded prizes for having sold the most tickets to the banquet.
NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE FRATERNITY INITIATES SEVEN
Pi Stigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity, hold initiation Thursday evening for the following: Robert Braden, c35; Roy Johnson, c35; Albert Evans, c34; Tom Page, c34; Gunnar Mykland, c35; Fred Malo, c34; and Frederic Parkes, c35.
The meeting was followed by a dinner attended by about 20 members. The wives of the members of the political science faculty were guests. Following the dinner, H. B. Chub, assistant professor of political science, gave a report on his trip to the International Relations club conference at Grimnell University, Prof. F. H. Guild then entertained with some tricks of magic.
Three new officers, to serve next year, will be installed into office at the farewell meeting of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary professional fraternity for junior and senior geology and mining students, at the home of Prof. C. M. Young, Thursday evening.
THREE OFFICERS INSTALLED
IN SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON
Patrick McManus will be installed as president, Fred Boggs, vice president, and Jim Brazil, secretary-treasurer. The meeting will be in honor of four graduating members. They are Duncan Cantrell, who is outgoing president, Edgar Gift, Charles Rohrer, and G. B. Grable.
Big Six Lifts Ban From Broadcasts Of Football Games
Solution of Radio Problems to Be Left to Individual Schools, Directors Decide
Lincoln, May 19—(Special-Big Six faculty representatives at their meeting here yesterday voted to permit each school to decide for itself what its policy should be regarding the broadcasting of athletic events, particularly football. No official statements were available here as to the policy that the schools will follow, but Dr. Allen of Kansas has, in the past, repeatedly expressed his regret that the financial risk was too great to permit broadcasting.
It was indicated in athletic circle
that it嫩sbraska would not broaden
its field.
"Last year we provided popular priced tickets for many of the games, making it possible for almost anyone interested to attend."
"We would like to do something for the loyal alumni who find it impossible to get back to the games, but since such a heavy burden of carrying the athletic program is put on the shoulders of the football games, including payments on stadium bonds and the cost of maintaining most of the other sports, we do not see our way clear." Dr. Allen said here today.
The faculty representatives voted to permit athletic management to provide meals for athletes when classes were not in session, as for example, the early days in the fall, after football men have reported and before classes start, and for basketball men in the Christmas holidays.
The 30 hours of completed work in the past two semesters, heretofore required of students in engineering schools, was cut to 28, to be more in conformity with the 27 hours required for students in liberal arts colleges.
Following the discussions, Dr. Bergman of Iowa State was elected chairman of the faculty representatives for the incoming chair and Dr. Reeves of Oklahoma State.
No action was taken on the matter of permitting students entering college from a junior college to compete without waiting one year, as freshmen are required to do.
The faculty representatives at the Friday evening session voted to approve golf as an intercollegiate sport, but disapproved of boxing.
At a dinner at the country club Friday night for faculty representatives directors, and coaches, Dean Thompson Nebraska, urged colleges to provide more sports that students can take to occupy increasing leisure time.
The committee on scholarships at the University today announced that Rozella Blood, a graduate student in the department of physiology, has been awarded the Ida H. Hyde scholarship for study at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Mass.
Rozella Blood Receives Scholarship fo Study at Marine Biological Lab.
This scholarship of $100 was established in 1927 by Dr. Drida H. Hyde, first professor of physiology at the University of Kansas and in charge of that department from 1898 until 1920.
Miss Blood received her bachelor of arts degree from Wichita University in 1932, and the following year was granted he degree of Master of Science.
Lincoln, May 19—(UP)—Albert Voss,
University of Kansas, won the singles
championship of the Big Six tennis
meet here today when Albert Uphor,
University of Oklahoma, faded under
the strain of the intense heat and Voss
blazing game. The match went the full
way, University wins. Voss finally winning 4-
6:1 1:6 6:3 6:1
Voss Wins Tennis Singles Championship of Big Six
But Kansas Loses Team Victory When Sooners Take Doubles
Four University of Kansas graduate have been awarded this scholarship. I 1928 it was held by C. Ruth Shaw, 192 by Marie Scott, 192 by Ruth Jan Gardner, and 1932 by Barbara Bartelere
The University of Oklahoma won the college championship of the net game, however, by winning the doubles from the Kansas team, the other finalist. Upson and Rollins won from Voss and Kenneth Kell in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
Company H of the Twentieth Kansas Infanty took the Rock Chalk to the Philippines in 1898, and it became the battle cry of the soldiers there. As the entire line moved over the top, the "Rock-Chalk-Joshhwk-K.U." could of course be heard above the dut of shot and ship.
The French and Belgian boys were greatly impressed with this savage musical endence, and soon the Rock Chalk became a trench cheer. Returning troops brought back tales of the fame of this K.U. yell.
The final points standings of the Big Six team was Oklahoma 5, Kansas 4, Nebraska 3, Iowa State 2, Kansas State
The Summaries:
First Round: Voss, Kansas, defeated Waller, Iowa State. 6-2, 6-4; Rollins Oklahoma, defeated Dean, Nebraska. 13-11, 6-4; Upsher, IowaState, defeated Butler, Kansas State. 6-1, 6-3; Haegen Nebraska, defeated Hawley, Iowa State.
Preliminaries: Walla, Iowa State, defeated Hoagland, Kansas State, 7-5, 6-4 Dean, Nebraska, defeated Pike, Mission State, defeated Kansas, 6-1, 6-2.
Semi-finals: Voss, Kansas, defeated Rolls, Oklahoma, 8-6, 6-4; Upsher, Oklahoma, defeated Haegen, Nebraska, 6-4, 2-6, 6-0.
In the World War the Rock Chalk was carried to France with the soldiers. Enlisted men were so shuffled about that regiments were made up of soldiers from all states. Finally University of Kansas men hit upon the idea of broadcasting their yell to see if there were any Kansas men in each military unit they passed. They would about 200,000 people hear and from the other regiment would usually hear the concluding, "K.U." in answer.
Preliminaries: Butler-Hawley, Iowa State, defeated Walker-Hoagland, Kansas State, 6-1, 6-2; Haegen-Shafer, Nebraska, defeated Powell-Levine, Mines
The Kansas Rock Chalk, termed "the most famous college yell in America," will celebrate its forty-eighth birthday, tomorrow. Since May 21, 1886, the haunting intonations of this call have been chanted round the world by K. C. Fletcher, a writer equally across battlefields, and into the most remote and strange places.
'ROCK CHALK' YELL REACHES FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF FAME
Semi-finals: Kell-Voss, Kansas, defeated Waller-Hawley, Iowa State, 6-3; 6-0; Rolls-Upsher, Oklahoma, defeated Hasegun-Shafer, Nebraska.
Haunting Call Has Been Chanted 'Round the World, Before Royalty, and Across Battlefields
During the Olympics at Antwerp, the nobility assembled there requested that a typical American college yell be given. The group of athletes gathered there from every part of the United States chose as the most representative and impressing, the Rock Chalk, Jayhawk of the University of Kansas.
The famous yell was also used in China during the Boxer rebellion and on the mission fields. It has been heard in South Africa and in the diamond fields of South Africa.
The Rock Chalk was originally introduced by the Science club of the University, which was composed of advanced students and faculty members of the science department. E. H. S. Bailey, professor of chemistry who died here last spring, was the originator of the famous chant and submitted it to
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Hall and Cunningham Win Three Events Each in Annual Outdoor Conference Meet; Dees and Harrington Break Records in Shot Put and Javelin. Throw
Javelin Throw
Lincoln, May 19.—(Special to the Kansan)—Getting off to a slow start the University of Kansas track team, pre-meet favorites, finished strong here this afternoon to win their third Big Six outdoor track and field meet and put an end to the two-year supremacy of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Jayhawkers won nine first places and shared another in the pole vault to amass $67\frac{1}{2}$ points, more than 11 points more than the Cornhuskers who finished second with 55 1-3 points.
Oklahoma, picked by the Jayhawker coach, "Bill" Hargis, before the meet as the probable winner, was far behind the Huskers in third
Winners Are Announced For Lewis Essay Prizes
Memorial Established by Husband of Former Student in 1911
The winners in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Prize Essays in Applied Christianity at the University of Kansas were announced today by Prof. L. E. Sisson, chairman of the committee, and are as follows:
The Hattie Elizabeth Lewis memorial was established in 1911 by Prof. George Edward Patrick, of Washington, D.C., in memory of his wife, Hattie Elizabeth Lewis, a former student of the University. The memorial fund provides prizes, amounting to $250 annually, for the best essays on some phase of the great works of application to the teachings of Jesus to the Practical Affairs of Life."
first prize to Edgar Langsdorff, c'33,
Topena, for an essay on "The Teachings
of Jesus and the Treaty of Versailles",
second prize to Frances Woolley, c'33,
Kansas City, Kan., for an essay on "The
Application of the Teachings of Christ
to the Relationship Between the United
States and Japan," third prize to John
Hirst, gr. Kingman, for an essay
"The Thesis of the World and the
World," fourth prize to Edward
Mieke, sp.'c, Berlin, Germany, for an
essay on "The Problems of Youth."
The first prize last year was won by Keith W. Johnson of Eureka.
Sigma Chi Has Celebration
Golden Anniversary Observed With Dinner at Eldridge
Alpha Xi chapter of Sigma Chi, national social fraternity celebrated its golden anniversary with a banquet at the Eldridge hotel yesterday evening. Approximately 200 alumni and active members attended. Chester W. Cleveland, grand mentor and grand historian of the fraternity was the principal speaker. Others speakers included Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Justin D. Bowersock, who presided as toastmaster.
Prominent officers in the fraternity who were present were Dudley Doolittle, ex-praetor of the Missouri Valley province; Fred Armstrong, Jr., present praetor of the Missouri Valley province and Edwin F. Parker, "30, of Boston, Mass., grand praetor of the New England-Novia Scotia province.
Following the banquet moving pictures showing the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the national fraternity held in 1830 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, the birthplace or college, were shown at the Varaty theater.
The celebration will continue today with meetings at the chapter house.
Students of Lawrence Memorial High School presented the play "Shirt Sleeves" Friday night in the high school auditorium.
ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
The cast included Dorothea Weingartner, Keith Swinehart, Romana Harnar, Don Phelps, Robert Bailey, Blossom Ewing, Janice Elliot, Barbara Kirchhoff, Margaret Montgomery, David Scott Lawrence Boggs, Virgil Elig, Harry Naramore, Irene Moll, Lucille Willert Finif Groebe, and Charles Goble.
CAST OF SEVENTEEN GIVES
ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
The business staff consisted of Bernice Benson, Frederick Snyder, Mildred Messenheimer, Charles Bonenrake, Harold Brown, and Anna Grace Doty.
place with $44\frac{1}{2}$ points, exactly 23 points behind the strong Kansas entry. Kansas State was fourth with 26 1-3 points. Missouri was fifth with 22 5-6 points, and Iowa State, with $21\frac{1}{2}$ points, trailed in last place.
Paced by Cunningham and Ed Hall, cinder path players who won six first between them, the Jayhawks finished the afternoon with a burst of speed and strength that was even greater than athletes from the five other conference schools had expected. Cunningham repeated his iron-man performance of last year by successfully outdistancing the field in three events, the 880-yard run, the mile run, and the two-mile run. Hall, who won both the 100 and 220-yard dashes last year, repeated this year, and added the broad jump to his winnings. In addition he ran anchor on both of the University relay teams, crossing the finish line a winner in one of them, the mile relay. The Kansas half-mile relay team failed to place.
Cunningham who has not run more than two races on any previous occasion this year was excused from participation in either of the relays. John McNown replaced him.
Only two of the existing records fell, both of them in the field events and both by members of the championship Kansas team.
Elwyn Dees, whose threw of 50 ft. $1\%$ in inches in his first trial in the shot put yesterday broke the record of 49 ft. $11\%$ in inches set by Hugh Rhea of Nebraska in 1832, was still the champion today. A heave of 48 ft. 9 inches by Gillis of Oklahoma was the nearest that anyone came to the mark.
Paul Harrington, participating in his last meet for the Jayhawkers as was Dees, threw the javelin more than 11 feet farther than the record on his last trial. His throw went 208 ft. $11 \frac{1}{4}$ inches, and broke the old record of 197 ft. $91 \frac{3}{4}$ inches set by Ben Marks of Oklahoma in 1932. Harrington's amazing throw, which bettered the Kansas Relays record by more than 2 feet, was not witnessed by most of the crowd. Judges called the javelin participants back on the field after the crowd had left when it was discovered that only three trials had been given to each man instead of four as the new regulations call for.
Kansas' other first place came in the mile relays which the Jayhawkers won in 2:39. The Kansas team protected an early lead given it by Schroeder, despite the fact that Cunningham did not run.
In the pole vault three Kansans, Gray, last year's winner in the event; Coffman, Big Six record holder; and White shared first place with Lyon, Iowa State. The bevy of valuers cutted 13 feet 3.5-8 in two inches less than the present record.
The only other record which was threatened the 220-yard low hurdle mark of 23.3 seconds, held by J. Welch of Missouri and set in 1890. Heylambertus, Husker star, cleared the low sticks in 23.4 seconds this afternoon, and won the Knappenberger of Kansas State with won the bighurdles in 14.9.
Besides the first place winners, the Jayhawkers had a number of men who stretched their total, although the first two have been nearly enough to be a victory.
Pitts of Kansas was second to Hall in the broad jump, and Coffman got a fourth. In the high jump, McGuire, winner of the event in several meets this season, tied for third place. Borel took a fifth in the mile run, Fred Harris, football star, got a fourth in the high jumps and a fifth in the low hurdles.
Oklahoma led throughout the early
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