. Wenther Unsheatled tonight; clear and colder tomorrow. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The Official Stuaent Paper of the University of Kansas Highest priced Greek house $38,500. How property depreciates. VOL. XXVIII NOTICES SERVED TO ERASE TAXES OR FILE ANSWER County Commissioners and Treasurer Must Appear Before State Supreme Court Dec. 29 ASSESSMENT $17,495.23 Reply Would Comply With Alternative Writ Granted by Justice W. A. Johnson Yesterday in Topeka Notices were served today on the Douglas county commissioners, John McCormack and Jeffrey Barker, state tax commission to erase the University and Baker fraternity taxes, both of which are available to roll, or appear before the supreme court. Dec. 29 and give reasons for the decision. Face Real Estate Tax of $18,419 Until the status of the fraternity is waived, a clause in the state constitution and a legislative law is decided, the organized labor advocates may demand a real estate tax of $18,140.40 and a personal tax of $12,548.40, according to the Baldwin University clerk. The real and personal tax combined at Baldwin university total $3,196.40. The total valuation of real property of $45,600 in homes houses here is equated to $44,180. The new property is placed at $43.500 and the property at Baldwin amount is $9,750. Alpha Delta Pi Valuation Highest The Alpha Delta Pi sorority property is based on the university's own or any organized house on the campus Its property is valued at $3,500, and the tax statement issued by the county is valued at $2,750. $3,900. The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity ranks second in valuation with $3,000, and a subsequent fee of $1- Other fraternities and sororites are valued at the following figures, and have been issued tax statements for the following amounts on real property. Kappa Sigma -valuation $20,000 $444.81; Alpha of Pit Delta and Theta $563.79; Beta Theta -valuation Xi chapter of Sigma Kappa -valuation $25,000; $908.50; Alpha Kappa Alpha价 valuation $3,000; $1092.91; Alpha valuation $365.15; Beta Gamma -valuation $10, 290; $707.87; Flt Delta Phi -val- uation $10,290; $707.87; Flt Delta Phi - valuation $395.77; Beta Theta Ti -valuation $8,900; $395.77; Beta Theta Ti -valuation $20, 290; $395.77; Beta Theta Ti -valuation $436.08; Acasta -valuation $17,500; taxes $655.55; and Kappa kappa Gamma -valuation $22,000 Highest Fraternity $31,075 Phi Alpha Pi - valuation $25,950, 100 taxes Phi Alpha Pi - valuation $48,950, 100 taxes $400.95; Alpha Xi of Sigma Chi - valuation $15,300, taxes $400.95; Kappa Alpha Gamma - valuation $1,000, taxes vacant tot $400; Kappa Alpha Omega - valuation $1,000, taxes vacant tot $400, taxes $187, Kappa Alpha Bldg. - valuation $00, taxes $27.1; Kappa Alpha Theta - valuation $00, taxes $27.1; Kappa Alpha Omega - valuation $00, taxes $27.1; Kappa Alpha Mu - valuation $600, taxes $218; Kappa Appeal - valuation $7.25; Sigma Alpha Mu - valuation $7.25; Phi-valuation $11,290, taxes $40.71. Beta chapter of Sigma Lambda-valuation $5,000, taxes $603;309. Pi valuation $4,500, taxes $603;309. Alpha Omega Pi-valuation $15,500, taxes $811;378. Alpha Kappa Lambda-valuation $811;378. Delta-zation $4,800, taxes $174;43. Zeta-zation $4,800, taxes $174;43. Alpha Omega-validation $13,075, taxes $11,192; and Alpha Pi Alpha-valuation $5,000, taxes 53 Houses Back Petition The alternative writ of mandamus issued yesterday by Justice Johnson in reply to a petition set forth by the law committee was "The State of Kansas to the board of county commissioners, the county treasurer, and the tax commission of the We go home a week from next Friday. Shopping days are getting few. LAWRENCE. KANSAS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930 "Whereas, the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity of Lawrence, K., a corporation, for itself and for and on behalf of the state of Kansas, presented to this court its motion, verified by affidavit, for an attorney, that he is required to be board of county commissioners of Douglas county, John Metsker, of Jackson County, the defendant of the state of Kansas, the defendants, a copy of which motion is attached hereto, made a part hereto, and sentenced to death. Must Annear Dec. 29. "Now, therefore, in order that sure and speedy justice shall be done in the premises in behalf of said plaintiff, if you and each of you, are hereby compelled to give your receipt and service of the writ to cancel and erase from the tax roll of Douglas county, Kan., the unpaid, unwalfaw. It is also necessary that you be assessed against the property of the plaintiff, and all others similarly situated and as set out and described in plaintiff's motion, and to strive to avoid any such action. These assessments from the tax rolls of said county, or that you appear and show cause to the contrary before this court may proceed in their favor thereafter as said matter may be heard." "Hereof fail not at you peril, and have you then and there this went and make due return of your execution of the judgment." "Signed: D. A. Valentine. court of supreme court. "The above court," the defendants, and each of them, are hereby directed to do the things therein. The defendants, in state said writ, the contrary, is stated in said writ, Sambo: W. A. Johnson, chief justice of the supreme court of Kansas." Shepard's Love Affair Brought Out in Trial Devotion for Grace Brandon Chlined as Motive for Crime Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 10. (UP) - Information of the love of Major Charles Shepard for Miss Grace Brandon, San Antonio, was given the jury today when numerous notes and messages from the major were submitted to the court, evidence at the trial of the officer for the administration of poison to his wife. Love for Miss Brandon is claimed by the two women. The major portrayed no emotion in evidences of his emotions were paraded before the courtroom. Miss Brandon It was brought out that the major itch on 25 of this year ordered 25 roses sent to Mrs Brandon's day one, for each year." The crowd brushed away the messages. Miss Brandon ordered only 25 roses were sent Miss Brandon in May, 1923, three weeks before the death of her husband. The defense contended that Shepard expressed love for Miss Brandon only after the death of his wife. The testimony of Theodore and Curtis McCook, brother of Mrs. Shepard was that Shepard was appalled by the death, but that he left Los Angeles the day after she was buried there. Delta Phi Delta Meets Delta Phi Delta holds a business meeting in the Union building. Christmas cards made by the different members were passed around. Plains were made for an art exhibition. Chicago's chapter of the Chicago Art institute, to be shown next spring. "Nineteen Pueblo tribes live along the Rio Grande river and one more is located on a tributary. All except one of these tribes own a farm machinery and live in somewhat modernized pueblos. The Jamez tribe regards the use of anything but the plow and hoe against their religious beliefs, and that man of this tribe was severely beaten and deprived of his land when he bought a cultivator not long ago. Senate Approves Unemployed Relief Appropriation Bill Mr. Burws is a former student of K. U. and has spent the past eighty years in the district covering New Mexico, northern Arizona, southern Colorado, and western Pennsylvania. Three tribes live in this area and all except one are agricultural. "The Navajos," he related, "are the most picturesque. They are nomadic, Emergency Measure Provides $110,000,000 for Public Works Washington, Dec. 10 — (UP)—Regardless of what may have happened to the harmony program brought by the administration, he stresses this winter, the senate moved today to relieve unemployment with an appropriation of $110,000,000 within the next year. Visiting Engineer From Southwest Says Most Indians Take to Machinery PASSED IN 3 MINUTES Washington, Dec. 10—(UP)–Houer is preparing for a liberal use of the veto power at this session of Congress, according to friends and advisers. Houer represented as determined to keep unemployment and bread expendi- ment levels low and to budget the budget even if it requires a veto fight with the senate and house. "The dams and major construction are built by the government but most coral work is done by the Indians, and they must be operated by them that they own part of the project and feel free to use it, otherwise they would probably hesitate or even refuse to work there." The Corps of Engineers plained C. A. Burns, engineer for the United States Indian irrigation service, who is here at Albuquerque for a visit from the faculty of the School of Engineering. Chairman Jones had called up the emergency bill passed by the house yesterday and consideration was begun. A few minutes earlier the appropriations committee approved the bill slightly amended from the form passed by the house. It provides for a vast program of public work designed to create jobs. Hoover Vetoes Forescen The president's political associates say he would welcome a fight with Congress on the issue of increased government spending, as prepared to face it on this measure. A little applied psychology is used by the government in getting the Indians of the Southwest to use irrigation projects built for them. Javhawker Deadline Jan. 12 Class Pictures Should Be Submitted To avoid confusion, payment for the photographs should be made at the Freerock studio, while payment in the book must be made at the Jayhawk office. A receipt from the photographer is essential when pictures are turned in for payment. The official photographer for the Jay-hawke classes section in Honer Freeman's photography building. Appointments for pictures should be made at that place, when the glasses should be turned in or when the activity cards must be filled out. The deadline for the submission of pictures for the classes section of the 1921 Jodykwaher was Wednesday, April 25, and the book of the selected date being Jan. 12. Receipts of class pictures up to the present time has been most gratifying, the REGULAR THURSDAY RECITAL WILL BE GIVEN TOMORROW by Then, Sanity Announces the program is as follows: Violin and piano, "Allegretto, from Sonata in F." Marjurie Erisson and Helen Thomas piano, "Aur Bord D'issue Source" (Laura) by Cecilia Fischinger and the river, (Chaar Edwards), "Lift Thine eyes" (Fredric Legan), Veneia Sтепка; painel, "Noël" (Gardiner), "Joyous Isle" (Debussy), Enysworth Swearth voice, "Inartent Charmant" (Masquet), "Baulet" (Ravel), Plaut (Ravel), Raymond McNabeyn The regular Thursday afternoon recital, of the School of Fine Arts will be given in the University auditorium tomorrow at 3:20. ranning over a territory one hundred and twenty miles wide by two hundred and twenty miles long to tell exactly where they are because they may be in one place today and thirty miles from their tomorrow move-in area, sheer on sheer, with them. The Navajo house or bogan looks like a large bee hive. It is from fourteen to twenty feet in depth, so it can make it. The walls are a framework plastered with mud or adobe as it is called. The entry way only opens up only a few aperitives made in the house." "They are very superstitious. One custom they have is that of never entering a house where one of their guests is sleeping, because it is very powerful and will not allow a sick person to be taken to a hospital unless he is sure the person will die. Then they are very anxious to send them back home. And so the government may care for the remains. Lately they have been bringing the sick in before they get so bad." I know of only one dance that is known to the authorities as many ceremonies," Mr Burns stated. "The government is trying to develop the Navajo land and get them to take care of it," said Mr. Eisenhower, who that about half or one third of the work on irrigation projects must be done by the Indians themselves as only the dams are built by the government. Comedy Deadline Extended No. 71 Josephine Edmonds Is Chosen to As assist Frances Wilson With Show All manuscripts for the musical comedy must be in by Jan. 7. The deadline was Dec. 15, but it was voted last night by the W.S.G.A. council, to The comedy is to be written by students and a prize of $30 is awarded to the winner. The winning comedy, "Royalty" was the comedy presented year and year in College Galleria. Josephine Edmons, a member of W.S.C.A. council, was appointed to assist Miss Frances Wilson, director of the show. The council voted to give $25 to the fund that is being raised to send student representatrices to a conference which is being held Dec. 26, at Detroit. Myra Little is to be the woman representative from the University to the con- High School Students Debate This Week-end Forty-One Teams Are Entered in Invention Tournament of Extension Division About 200 high school students will be the guests of the University this week-end at an invitation debate tournament. There are five sections - presentation and the department of speech. This tournament is for training purposes only and there will be no awards. Only one more school will be allowed to enter the tournament in March, and three already entered. The following学校 have entered teams. Elsworth, 2 Burlington, 1 Fort Scott, 2 Holton, 3 Columbia Road, 4 Lafayette, 5 Adelson, 6 Siedgwick, 7 Topeka, 8 Osawatomic, 2 Hartford, 1 Junction City, 2 Fairview, 1 Topek Catholic, 1 Bonner Spring, 1 Scramble, 2 Lakewood, 3 Moline, 4 Oksana (Kansas City), 3 Argentine, 2 Roseland, 3 and Nevada, Mo, 3. Organized houses are being asked to fill. Rain Is Improbable For This Vicinity Says A. M. Hamrick Geology Trip Is Tomorrow Kansas City, Dec. 10. -(UP)—The busiest time of the night and early tomorrow is little probability in rain this winter. A M Hamrick, government forecaster, said. The maximum temperature probably will not exceed 45 or 50 degrees, about twice the maximum temperature for high mark. Tonight's minimum is expected to be up at 35 degrees. Cloudy skies and cooler temperatures but, well, but there was no precipitation, except light spruenkles in some of the other areas. By tomorow afternoon the skies are expected to clear, and the sun to shine. It will be cool tomorrow but not cold for this season. The classes in elementary geology plan to make a trip to Pomona tomorrow to study the erosional features of the surrounding territory. Stops will also be made at Viland and Baldwin to study the structural features of the Special Train Will Carry 250 Student To Study Structures at Pomona FIRST COPIES OF BUSINESS SCHOOL NEWS READY TODAY The first issue of the Business School News, a publication edited by students of the School of Business, is ready for distribution, and copies may be obtained in the office of the School of Business. Six hundred copies were printed. A special Santa Fe train has been chartered to accommodate the 250 students who plan to make the trip. The train will leave at 730 tomorrow, when it arrives at 6 tomorrow evening. Hot coffee and sandwiches will be served on the train. Professors W. H. Schowe and G. L. Knight will be in charge of the trip. Another coach will be mounted Winsor of the geology department will make the trip also. In Congress Today Senate—Continues consideration of Jus- ner materia bill. Indian Affairs committee meets to question depart- ment of interior officials. Appropri- ations sub-committee to report on proposed postal policy and treasury appropriation. House — takes up calendar bills Naval Affairs committee begins hearings on naval building program, Military Affairs committee considers Muscle Shoals legislation immigration compliance immigration Joint committee on international revenue continues hearings on mining depletion. Activities Planned by County Groups in Meetings Today Officers Elected and Year Books Ordered During Convocation Club counts met at the convention, bour this morning to elect officers and members of the interested interests of the University throughout this and adjoining states represented in the convention. The management chairmen, chosen by the general county club committee, were in 62 CHAIRMEN REPORT At noon today 62 county club chairmen had already turned in reports of their organization, and the committee of the county club committee. Many other counties are known to have met and completed their organization this week, and they will report their meetings later today. An important part of the work of the meetings today was the ordering of the counties. Last year 329 Jyahwahners were sent to high schools throughout the county, and a larger number will be sent this year. A number of the counties which have ordered for Jyahwahners over last year, and 40 books were paid for this morning. Meetings Planned Most of the county clubs which reported this morning are planning meetings, programs and the like in their counties during the Christmas holidays. Several have asked for window displays which are available at the alumni There will be a joint meeting of students and alumni at Smith Center, in which students will be planning a dinner Dec. 29, the night of the Salina-K. U. basketball game. The following courses have been offered: English, language and have requested faculty speakers for their program Sedgwick, Butler, Prat, Barra, Harper, Anderson Five Districts. Report The state has been divided into 1 districts, each of which will be represented in high school leaders' page of the Joyhawk by three prominent district leaders. Each district had only two pictures. Five districts have already met and decided upon the counties to be in the district. The counties chosen thus far: District 2, Haskell, G琅 and Clark; District 3, Phillips, Jewel and Osborne; District 7, Biley, Geary and Shawnee; District 11, Douglas, Johnson and Wandiote. Team Returns From Tour Debaters Compete on Prohibition and Chain Store Question The University of Kansas delegate team returned this morning from an extended debating tour during which they visited Garnett, Coffeyville, and Iola. The questions under debate were the claims of the Supreme Court against repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. Members of the team were Burton Kingsbury, 123, freshman debate coach, Joe McDowell, 121, junior辩论教练, Mr. Csiulli, Russell Strobel, 133, and Joe McDowell, 131. The first step of the team was at Garnett where the question was directed to the Best Interests of the American Public5. was depleted in the high school. Hilgen Gibson and Keith Fitzpatrick received the question and Russell Strobel and Joe McDowell took the negative. Rice was depleted in the question and Russell Strobel and Joe McDowell now teaching at Garnett last year and now teaching at Garnett high school, chairman at the debate. Monday evening the question, the control device should be Repealed and the Control of the Liquor Traffic Be Left to the Current Topics club at Iola. The chain store club question was again debated before the Lions club at Coffeyville Tuesday evening and marked the closing debate of the trial. This kind has been attempted and it is expected to be a regular event in the future as the tour was decidedly a success. The debates were well attended and the hospitality of the various organizations at the club were given was of the highest order. WOMAN SEEKS NEW RECORD IN WEST-EAST AIR JOURNEY FOUR PAGES Wichita, Dec. 10—(UP) -Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N., Y. woman, fiering, the West-East transcontinental flying record for women, took to flight on Tuesday in today for New York. With 400 gallons of gasoline in the fuel tank of her Lockheed Monoplane, the woman filer planned a non-stop flight from Birmingham late yesterday after a non-stop flight from the coast and was considerably ahead of the record a SPANISH CLUB ENTERTAINERS TO SHOW PORTO RICAN LIFT Lupita and Margarita Omon, son and daughter, are the hosts of their cousin Rafael Alonso, will entertain the members of the Spanish club at its meeting tomorrow. The entertainers of the afternoon came from Porto Rica several months ago and, dressed in native costumes they will attempt to give the Spanish club a vivid picture of Porto Rican life. They will come with time, with their songs and short talks. Christmas carols sung by the whole group and Spanish games will take up the remainder of the time. W.S.G.A. Fashion Parade Shows Correct Apparel Miss Meguar Explains Various Types of Clothing Worn by Models The women of the University learned last night about "the perennial sub-journals" she read at the W. S. G. A. fashion show held in the auditorium in central Administration Building, where women modeled coutures appropriate for every occasion likely to arise on campus. School costumes, both correct and incorrect, spectator and active sports attire, hostess dresses and evening frockes and costumes appropriate for such occasions as varisties were displayed, as well as pajama ensembles and bathing suits. Miss Elizabeth Meguin, assistant professor of home economics, introduced the models and spoke to students appropriate for each occasion. "The most important thing." She said, to de-identify one's street thing it, and then put your clothes. The costumes presented in the fashion show were chosen, not because they represented the very latest fashion, but because they combined fashion with appropriateness to the occasion, personality, according to Miss Muriart. Helen Stockwell played the violin and Mary Lou Earlencbaugh the piano during the program. The fashion show will be presented again tonight at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of central Administration building. The models, chosen from a large group who tried out one or more Margaret Bishop, Goldie Bates, Kathleen Asher, Bernice Grissell, Adoller Tolel, Ethier Conger, Dorothy Branson, Emily Anne Allison, Margaret Johnson, Dorie Dickson, Eugene Davis, Marie Campion, Anne Courtenay, Caroline Rob House, Betty Nuzman, Mary Marlis Mailton, Anna Louse Bondy, Lucia Jacquith, Will Have Christmas Tea Oread Students To Give Program in Myers Hall Dec. 17 Wednesday afternoon Dec. 17. Students of Oreo training will perform the Meyers half startling at 3 p.m. The Oreo school orchestra will play during the afternoon and the students will sing several numbers. Each of the two sephonema dramatic clubs will perform. The group under the direction of Mrs. Roberta L. Green, of the English department of the training school, will teach Ms. Bees's "Boss." The cast for this play is Jimmy, Erwin Branson; Beth, Brule Brown; Anita Charra, Castilla Children; Aunt Hortense, Genevieve Hamilton; Mr. Dunn, Tom Hurley; Jonghender, Bender. The club supervised by Mr. Harold Minniear will present "The Fever Ward." Parts in this play will be taken by Lita, Katherine Beehue, Amy Arnold, Amy Art, Leslie Hutchison; Marion, Jane Allen; Doctor, Vaughn Pontin. INLAND WATERWAYS OPPOSED BY EDITOR OF RAILWAY AGI Washington, Dec. 10—(UF)--Americas' railroads are drained straight toward disaster while the public does nothing to avoid this tragedy, Samuel O. Dunn, editor of the Railway Age, reported that several rivers and harbors contested today. He injected a discordant note into a symphony of praise for inland waterways, by inland waterways and by waterways almost invariably was more costly than by railroad. SLIDE LECTURE TO BE GIVEN AT CIVIL ENGINEER'S MEETING The pictures and notes on the lecture are supplied by the parent society and given entirely by students. R. M. Hair, e31, assisted by D. E. Bonjour, e31, will have charge of the moving picture and slide lecture at the meeting of the student section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Marvin Four Bandits Rob Kansas City Bank of $60,000 Dollars Employees Held Prisoners While Robbers Escape With Cash WAIT FOR TIME CLOCK The employees were escorted to the directors room and kept under guard there while the bands were waiting for the time clock to release the doors Kansas City, Dec. 10—(UHP)—Twenty-five robbers were held at National Bank here were held nearly an hour early today by four robbers who escaped with $89,000. B. F. Moore, paying teller, was the first employee to report for duty. He asked Moore if she had covered him with a revolver. Moore was escorted to the directors' room, told to "sat down and make him happy," but not to attempt to give the alarm. The bandits gained entrance to the building when a porter opened the doors at 7.30 a.m. They compelled him to leave, and the police arrived for the other employees to arrive. As each employee arrived, he was escorted to the director's room, and told him that they were plained that the hour at which the doors of the vault would be released by the time clock was known to them. He then asked them some time," he said, "and that clock is due to unlock the doors at $230 a.m." The bank crowded into the directors room. When the time clock released the mechanism locking the doors of the room, the men stood guard over prisoners in a third stool guard over prisoners in the directors room. Quickly the men entered the vault and backed out of the building where the third man covered their retreat. They ran to an automobile parked inside and filling and all drove away in the car. December Owl Out Friday "Hard Times" Number Day Late Due to Copy Deadline Extension The December issue of the Sour Owl will come out Friday instead of Thursday for the release, due to the fact that the deadline for cop copies of the book "The Owl Enlaced" "Hard Tries" will cover color page which is the first this year and was drawn by Huddlop Wen- The "Hard Times" number will continue the campus personalities feature and a new fashion feature from Vague. The series features a collection of hard times as related to Christmas and will be the official directory to the Hill's leading Santa Clauses. Searle Edwards, editor of the Owl announced that there will be much art copy in this volume. This will be the last Owl for 1930. Kenneth Sleum, c. 13, newly appointed circulation manager of the Sour Owl, has announced that he is dismayed of obtaining more men to sell the masterpieces. He said he met with a meeting of the sales staff for 10 o'clock tonight, at the Kappa Sigma house. Nobel Prizes Are Awarded Two Americans Are Honored in Presentation by Swedish King Stockholm, Sweden, Dec 10, (UP)- King Gustaf of Sweden presented the Nobel Prize in Medicine, medicine and literature in an impressive ceremony in Stockholm's vault Sit Chambrabhushra Veozhnaka, Raman, an Indian and professor of physics at IIT Delhi. He is a graduate of physics prize. Prof. Hans Fischer, of Mamich received the award for distinctions in physics. The two other awards were received by Americans. Dr. Carl Landsteiner of New York, who was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine and the 1500 librarian prize was given to Stina Nielsen, a Swedish woman. Oslo, Norway. Dec. 10 — (UP) — A warning that western civilization might "disappear in universal clauses" if inward travel is allowed today by frank K. Bellogh. Christmas suggestions in Kansan Ads are always practical.