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Homecoming Queen THE MORNING CHRONICLE MEMBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XX OFFICIAL CITY PAPER MANHATTAN, KANSAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1940 SIXTEEN PAGES Two Sections NUMBER 200 Wildcats Defeat KU, 20-0 14,000 Watch K-State Drive To A Victory The Kansas State Wildcats crunched methodically to a 20 to 0 homecoming victory over Kansas University at Memorial stadium yesterday afternoon in a game that featured straight, hard, offensive football by the cats, interspersed only occasionally with a sparkling play. The Kansas State attack sputtered few times as the Wildcats hammered at the Jayhawk goal all afternoon and sharply repulsed every K. U. scoring threat outside the Miss Fay Elmore, above, of McCracken, a freshman in home economics Kansas State 20-yard line. at the college and a member of Chi Omega, is the 1940 Homecoming Day This announcement made the Kent Duwe, junior quarterback, queen.

was at homecoming game Saturday by Jack Haymaker, Blue Key president. Miss Elmore was had the day that he has been pointpresented to the football fans by Fred Harris, chairman of the boarding toward all fall. The long-stridof regents, between halves of the game. ing back roared through the ample The queen was chosen by students atetnding the Homecoming dance holes which Kansas State's superior sponsored by Blue Key Friday, October 18. With Miss Elmore were three attendants: Miss Barbara Schmidt, line created in the Jayhawk forDelta Delta Delta, sophomore general science from Junction City; Miss ward wall.

He personally accounted Jane Galbraith, Alpha Delta Pi, junior in home economics from Cotton- for 140 yards of the 270 the Falls; Faye Lillie, Kappa Gamma, Junior in home Wildcats gained on the ground. His wood and Miss Kappa economics from Atwood. average gain was four and three- Charge Young Asserts Anything Goes In COP Drive TOPEKA, Oct. -20 State Democratic chairman Charles E. Young declared today "no state has ever seen such an anything-goes campaign as Kansas.

Republicans now are putting on in their efforts to re-elect Governor Ratner." "They are flooding the state with falsehoods and misstatements to try to deceive and confuse voters of all classes," Young added in a statement. "They even hive the Rev. M. Lee Sorey, Ratner's former Parsons pastor and, at present one of his paid political henchmen, putting out a most vicious untruth to try to fool the other ministers of the state and to try to arouse religious prejudices in this campaign." AIN'T SEEN NUTHIN' The Democratic leader said Mayor F. H.

La Guardia of New York, a supporter of President Roosevelt, recently asserted the Wendell L. Willkie forces "seemingly believe anything goes in a campaign." "What the Willkie forces are doing back there ain't nothin' to what the Republicans are trying to do out here in Kansas," Young said in a telegram sent to La Guardia. "If, you'll fly to Topeka next week at my expense, I'll show you some Kansas Republican tricks that are being used to try to fool and deceive the voters which will open your eyes as they were never before opened. "If you can induce President Roosevelt to come along with you, I'll show the both of you some daily newspaper tactics that will make you feel that you have a fair and unbiased press in your part of the country." SUPPRESS NEWS Young's statement asserted, cannot conceive of the great New York dailies ignoring all-important facts as most of our big newspapers out here are doing. "Most of our newspapers have tried to suppress the news about the official Senate record which shows that Governor Ratner allowed a big utility company to put up the money for him to take an ocean voyage vacation cruise after his election in 1938 and that thereafter he lowered the assessed valuation of that utility's properties nearly $2,000,000.

"Most of these newsppers are trying to make their readers believe Ratner stands for a merit system in state, of government in spite of spoils stack: system of his administration." SERVICES FOR AN INFANT Graveside services were Saturday at Sunset cemetery the held. infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barry, route three. The baby died at birth Saturday morning.

Dr. James A. Leach, pastor of the First Methodist church, was in charge of the rites which were arranged by the Courser-Mast Funeral home. The child was one of a set of male twins. One' is still alive.

Good Morning: It was a once- or A generation- -bridge game for Mrs. George Brannigan of 1681 Humboldt last night. She dealt herself a perfect no-trump hand, bid seven- after she recovered her composure and, of course, made it. Playing contract with her husband and Mr. and Mrs.

A. C. Andrews of 902 Ratone, Mrs. Brannigan picked up four aces, four kings, four queens and the jack of spades. Even her opponents admitted the hand was on the up-andup, with Brannigan making the deck and Andrews cutting it.

Red face department: When Jack Hurlburt, leaving a card pinochle game early the other night, was asked by his wife, "Well, haven't you forgotten something?" he could think of only one thing, for he already had paid his respects to his hostess. "Well, do you want me to kiss you right here before everybody?" he blurted. And did the card players howl! -0 Kansas State rooters refused to take it seriously yesterday when fun-loving K. U. pallbearers mournfully bore the corpse of Kansas State across the football field, and sure enough the corpse came back in the fourth quarter to make another touchdown.

Mrs. Fay Austin enjoyed the homecoming celebration yesterday- almost as much as other. Manhattanites. She says she'd be a lot happier, however, if someone hadn't put the snatch on her little, striped Persian kitten. Apparently the feline bore a too-close resemblance to a small wildcat.

Discuss Teaching Changes With War And Defense Move Kansas Business, Economics Group Has Annual Meet Teachers of economics and business, in Kansas colleges strongly urged a revision of undergraduate, courses pertaining to fiola an annual meeting on the Kansas State College campus Saturday morning. Discussion centered around the subject of the impact of war and the national defense on beginning courses in economics, busiI ness. and accounting. AGREE ON CHANGE The group agreed that some change must be made in the courses to insert a current interpretation of the vital problems of today in order that the pupil might view the problems from a broader aspect, They suggested that applied economics be the theme of a course that might include the answer to the problems. In approaching the question of what changes in teaching would be brought about by the war, those attending the session were of the opinion that the courses should be made more realistic to accomplish its purpose in interpreting present problems.

SIX IN DISCUSSION Among the speakers who took part in the informal discussions were Dean Frank Stockton of the department of business and economics at Kansas University; Prof. L. L. Waters, KU; Sister Joseph Marymount; Hugh Wales, Washburn; Ralph Brand, Chanute junior college; and Dr. Harold Howe, Kansas State College.

A. E. Janzen, president of Tabor College, presided at the meeting. Expect Contract Awards At Fort Washington Will Approve Projects Soon, Star Declares KANSAS CITY, Oct. 26, (P) Award of contracts for construction Riley, costing about $4,000,000, is expected at Washington within a few days, the Kansas City Star said today.

Three contractors, the newspaper said, were expected to share in the big enlargement program at the Fort, site of the Camp Funston training field in the World war. Named were the Long Construction company, Kansas City, the Manhattan Construction, Muskogee; and M. W. Watson, Topeka. None of the representatives of the companies contacted would confirm the report.

The program, the Star said, was believed to include 190 barracks buildings and necessary warehouses, recreation, stable and other buildings. Fort Riley is to be headquarters for the second cavalry and also will be a cavalry replacement center. HIS GRANDMOTHER DIES George Wayne Mast of Manhattan has received word of the death of his grandmother, Mrs. A. W.

Mast at Beatrice, Neb. Funeral services will be held at Beatrice Monday. Report And Albanians In Brief Clash Italians Suspend Airline Service to Greece--Keep Mum ROME, Oct. 26 (P) -Greek and Albanian troops were reported tonight by the official Rome radio to have clashed in Albanian territory between the towns of Koriza and Porto Edda. The radio said two Albanian soldiers were declared killed, three wounded and six Greek soldiers were captured.

Koriaza (Koritsa) is some 15 miles from the Greek frontier. SUSPEND AIR SERVICE (Albania has been a part of the Fascist empire since its seizure by Italian troops on Good Friday of 1939. (Greece is a gateway to Turkey and the Dardanelles. (Marine circles in Athens said today that the Greek fleet would engage in day and night maneuvers near Salonika from October 28 to January 1.) Today Italy was reported to have suddenly suspended air service to Greece until November 4 under circumstances suggesting to some foreign observers that the Fascists were thus setting a deadline for that little country to end its friendship with Britain and bow to the axis. DRIVE NEAR IN EGYPT, Nothing was said officially about the action--which had a certain apparent parallel in the postponement of Italian steamship sailings shortly before the country entered the but the Italian press war against France and Englandes has stated that there must be "clarification" of the position of Greece, and Turkey as well.

This gesture occurred almost simultaneously with a statement of the official Rome radio that the long expected major Fascist offensive in Egypt was imminent. Newspapermen Attend Meeting At I Two hundred fifty Kansas newspapermen attended a meeting on the campus in Kedzie hall Saturday, where they were entertained at a luncheon given by The Kansas State Collegian, the department of industrial journalism and printing. Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, journalism organizations, helped serve the luncheon, The fall meeting of the Fourth District association was also held in Kedzie at 10:30 o'clock, with the address of welcome given by Russell I. Thackrey, head of the department of journalism, and the response by Harry Valentine, of the Clay Center Times. The newspaper men attended the game Saturday as guests of the department of athletics.

Parents Will Go "Back To School" Monday Evening The junior and senior high school P.T.A. groups will sponsor a back to school night Monday evening at the high school at 7:30 o'clock. This is a traditional program sponsored by the P.T.A. in which the parents take the places of pupils for short classes. Five class periods will be held.

After the classes the parents will meet at the home rooms and later at the school auditorium for a program and refreshments. A membership drive is being conducted in connection with the back to school Dr. King Resigns Washburn Presidency TOPEKA, Oct. 26, (P) -Dr. Philip King has resigned as president of Washburn College, Paul B.

Sweet of Topeka, chairman of the board of trustees, announced today. Frank L. Ripley, Topeka businessman, has been named chairman of a committee to recommend King's successor. President King will remain with the college, Sweet said, until a successor also has been selected for L. W.

Feezer, who resigned Monday as dean of law school. Feezer will leave at the end of the present semester. Coming to Washburn in 1930 as associate president, Dr. King succeeded to the presidency the following year upon retirement of Dr. Parley P.

Womer, CARLSON RITES MONDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Lena Carlson, who died Friday at her home at 431 Yuma, will be held at 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at St. Luke's Lutheran church. The Rev. H.

H. Frohn, pastor of the church, will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in Sunset cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home at 431 Yuma today. A QUIET TITLE ACTION Suit for a quiet title has been filed in the district court by H.

A. Storey against the Cincinnati and Kansas Land company and others. Wire Briefs REPORT HERRIOT HELD BERNE, SWITZERLAND, Oct. 26 (P) A Rome dispatch to the Swiss Telegraphic Agency said tonight that Edouard Herriot, president of the former chamber of deputies, had been 'reported arrested somewhere in unoccupied France. BAUDOUIN QUITS NEW YORK, Oct 26 (P) The resignation of Paul Baudouin, foreign minister of the Vichy a Government, was reported tonight in a broadcast of the British Broadcasting corporation heard here by NBC.

Pierre Laval, vice premier of the Vichy government, has taken Baudouin's portfolio, the report said. WILL PAY WITH BASES BERN, SWITZERLAND, Oct. 26 (AP) Diplomatic onlookers to. night said they believed France would pay for Axis concessions by "loaning" to Germany and Italy her Mediterranean air and sea bases near East Africa, under much the same conditions as Britain now holds Egyptian bases. The government of old Marshal Petain is expected to get more "unoccupied" territory under her deal with Hitter; use of Paris for its capital and gradual release of French prisoners of war.

REPORT HEAVY RAIDS BERLIN, Oct. 27 (Sunday) Several hundred German fighters and bombers, a force described by informed sources as "unusually strong," attacked England last night and early today, it was reported here. They were said to have taken off from bases ranging from France to' Norway and carried bombs weighing to two tons. Informed sources said six British planes were shot down and two German planes were missing after an "uninterrupted series of attacks on England and her captal" yesterday. William Ratliff Dies Early Today At Age Of 83 Was Father of Three Residents Of Manhattan William F.

Ratliff, 83-year-old retired farmer and merchant, died early this morning at his home, 723 Houston, after a six-week illness. Born in Hancock county, September 14, 1857, he came to Kansas in 1884, moving to Manhattan 21 years ago. During the ten- year iod from 1879 to 1889 he was member regiment. of He the was a Seventh member of Cavalry the Seven Dolors Catholic church. He is survived by five daughters, Mrs.

V. E. Bates, 614 North Delaware, Mrs. Harold Bates, Salina, Mrs. E.

M. Rosser, Denver, Miss Esther Ratliff, Denver, and Mrs. L. M. Wilkinson, Kansas City, three sons, William L.

Ratliff, 817 Laramie, Joseph F. Ratliff, of the home, and John B. Ratliff, Topeka. His body was taken to the Conroy funeral home, where funeral arrangements are being made. Beta Theta Pi Fraternity Wins Decorations Prize Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 500 Sunset, was named first place Homecoming decorations winner in an excellent field of exhibits, Prof.

W. C. Troutman, judge, said Saturday. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 221 North Delaware; and Sigma Epsilon fraternity, 1856 Heights, won first and second honorable mention, according to the judges. Prof.

Troutman, speaking for the judges, stated, "decorations this year were distinctly professional, and showed an amount of intelligence and effort on the part of the groups. It was very difficult to make the decision." Judges included Prof. Troutman, Miss Dorothy Barfoot, and E. H. Dearborn.

The winner of the contest received a trophy at half-time festivities at the game Saturday. Senator Clark Speaks Out For The President ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26, (P) Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who voted as a delegate at the Chicago convention against the renomination of President Roosevelt, broke his campaign silence tonight to announce his support of the President for a third term. "I am a life-long Democrat," Clark declared in a prepared aldress, "but if I believed that the election of any other candidate promised greater safety and well being for nation as a whole, I would unhesttantly leave my party, resign my seat in the United States Senate and give him my whole-hearted support." He said 'an examination of Wendell Willkie, the Republican presidential nominee, and his "leads me to no such Secretary Hull Slaps Dictators Says They Would Reduce Mankind To 'A Master-Slave Relationship' To Be 'Maintained By Brute Force' WASHINGTON, Oct.

26 (P) -Secretary Hull described the rulers of Germany, Italy and Japan tonight as "wouldbe conquerors" engaged in a relentless attempt to reduce mankind to "a master-and-slave relationship among nations and individuals, maintained by brute force." Speaking before the National Press club over a nationwide radio hook-up, the secretary of state listed efforts by these nations "to take by force what they say they need or want" as he reviewed what he called "the whirlwind developments of one of the saddest and most crucial decades in the history of mankind--that of the nineteen-thirties." "The rulers of these nations," the secretary continued, "have repudiated and violated in every essential respect the long-accepted prin- Fallen France Will Co-operate With Conqueror Agreement Puts Former Republic In Axis Orbit Fees Surprised At Democrat's Vicious Jabs TOPEKA, Oct. 26 (P) State Republican chairman Walter Fees tonight slashed back at Democratic chairman Charles E. Young's charges of campaign "falsehoods and misstatements," terming them "vicious and absolutely unprovoked attacks on Payne Ratner." "I am surprised," Fees said, "that Mr. Burke permits his campaign manager to make, these repeated vicious attempts to besmirch the character of so fine a man as Payne Ratner." 'VICIOUS ATTACKS' Fees declared he did not object to legitimate campaign, statements, "but I do I think the people of Kansas will object, to such vicious and unprovoked attacks as those made on Payne Ratner today by the Democratic chairman." "I resent, too, his repeated attacks on our fine newspapers in Kansas," the G.O.P. chairman asserted.

"I do not believe any other state has a finer group of newspapermen than has Kansas, and from my own observation their news columns are remarkably free from partisanship. They print the Democratic news the same as the Republican news. Fees declared he resented Young's "on what he calls Governor Ratner's political henchmen." "As a matter of fact we do not have a single paid worker in the state of Kansas," the G.O.P. chairman asserted, adding: 'ON HIGH PLANE' "All the work being done by the state organization is voluntary work, representing a sacrifice of time and money by sincere supporters because of their belief in good sovernment. "We have kept our Republican campaign on a high plane," Fees continued.

"Neither Governor Ratner, myself, nor any one officially connected with the campaign has made any effort to besmirch the reputation of the Democrat candidate for gover101. "We have even refrained from using known facts as to his parole record as of the state board of administration and the ecord the management of the penal institutions under his control. "I have abiding faith," Fees stated "in. the people of Kansas that hey will not countenance such mudFlinging tactics by the Democrat campaign managers and that this vill be reflected in their votes 5." tWO ACCIDENTS REPORTED A sedan driven by Bob Brewer of 100 South Delaware and a tudor driven by Jack Warner of Clay Center collided at Tenth and Humboldt at 9:45 a. m.

Saturday. Both cars were badly damaged but no one was injured. A truck driven by H. C. Achenbach of 801 Bertrand and a coach driven by H.

G. Miller of 908 Bertrand collided at Juliette and Leavenworth at 4:25 p. m. Friday. Both vehicles were damaged.

tenths yards. LINE HAS IT'S WAY The Kansas 'State line, featuring' the play of Guard Ed Huff, Tackle Weiner and End Wally Swanson, forced tue University boys to play just as they wanted them to all afternoon. On offense, there were copious holes and when the linemen went to the defensive they choked the Jayhawk running attack to' a net gain of 47 yards. You can't go any further without mentioning the play of Ray Rokey, a junior back who found himself on offense and defense when he replaced the injured Chris Langvardt in the first quarter. counted the first -State touchdown by grabbing Kent Duwe's nine-yard forward in the first quarter.

He put the ball in position for the second score with a 39-yard jaunt through the Jayhawk, team just before the ended. On defense his clean-cut tackles and two pass interceptions were nice to watch. On one interception he came back for 20 yards, but clipping penalty nullified his work. KIRK FINDS HOLES Art Kirk, the senior who captained the Wildcats yesterday, was as dependable as ever. He too found holes in the Jayhawk and his defensive play was powerful.

His pass interception and gallop of forty yards back up the field was a highlight of a second half that was dull at times. Then there was Gene Snyder, the (Continued on Page 4.) FOR Hallowe'en Hot Kreamy Maid 15c dozen. Duckwalls. Dear Boss: Dear Boss: Our Little Jimmy is the cutest draft exemption I ever saw, but he's got to begin learning just how far he can work his daddy. His special toy is an ordinary teaspoon, bent double to discourage swallowing and jabbing in the eye." He waits until his daddy is comfortably seated behind a magazine and then heaves the spoon out of his crib to the floor.

For a minute he eyes the He grunts at the spoon, then' spoon, soberly. at his daddy. When no action is forthcoming he sets. up a thin wail. This soon develops into 8 lusty.

yell directed squarely at his daddy behind the magazine. So his daddy searches for the spoon with one hand while holding the magazine with the other and continuing his Automatically, the spoon is returned. Peace settles over all for a moment until a metal clang tells that the spoon has again been lost. The process is repeated. Aftre a dozen automatic returns, his daddy refuses to go on.

It's then his mother enters, returns the spoon and remarks it's a pitty Little Jimmy can't get, any attention at all. Well, so long, THE CUB. By OKIN VICHY, France, Oct. 26, (P) France moved officially into the axis line-up in Europe tonight with her government's announcement that Adolf Hitler and Marshal Philippe Petain, France's chief of state, had agreed in principle to work together to restore peace in Europe. The announcement, endorsed by the French cabinet, marked an historic about-face for France and put this vanquished country on the threshhold of negotiations on concrete points of agreement with her German conquerors.

MINISTERS APPROVE It followed a 75-minute meeting of the Vichy cabinet where Petain and his second in command, vice premier Pierre, Laval, explained what they talked about this week in conferences with Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister. "The council of ministers unanimously approved their declarations," the announcement said. SEE PEACE DRIVE The terse communique said merely that Hitler and Petain had held a "general examination of the situation and, in particular, the means of reconstructing peace and were in accord on "the principle of collaboration." This, two days after Petain's meeting with the fuehrer in Nazioccupied Paris, seemed to political observers to be a clear sign of an impending "peace offensive." A New Editor For Chronicle Al Makins, K. S. C.

Grad, Will Replace Charles Platt Al Makins, now of the Pratt Fribune editorial staff, will become managing editor of The Morning Chronicle tomorrow, succeeding Charles Platt, who has held the post for the past 22 months. Makins is a graduate of the Kansas State College department of journalism and a former reporter for the Mercury-Chronicle. While in school he was editor of the Royal Purple, student annual, and president of the senior class and Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity. Platt will return to Kansas State for graduate study. d'onler Here Monday.With Showers Possible Forecast for Kansas: Partly cloudy, cooler extreme west portions Sunday; Monday mostly cloudy, showers east portion, cooler.

The maximum temperature for the 24-hour period ending at 7 o'clock Saturday night was 83 degrees. The minimum temperature for the same period was 59 degrees. A year ago the maximum was 90 and the minimum was 53. Precipitation: 24 hours to 7 p.m. .00 October to date .36 1939 same period 1.29 Normal for October 2.16 Year's normal to Nov.

1 28.68 1940 to date: 22.79 Same period 1939 26.46 Young Democrats Hallowe'en Party. Banquet and Hotel Wareham Tuesday, Oct. 31. Speaker, Senator Joseph S. McDonald.

Advance tickets. Kansas Shop. Admission 00-1 IN EA mankind." all these are weapons. constantly used by the conquerors for the invasion and subjugation of other nations." These same nations, Hull declared -presumably in reference to Germany's reported efforts to secure the French fleet and Japan's warship building program- -have as an objective "the securing of control of the high seas." "They adhere to no geographic lines and they fix no time limit on their programs of invasion and destruction," he went on. NOT MERE EXCESSES "They cynically disregard every right of neutral nations, and, having occupied several such countries, they then proceed to warn all peaceful nations that they must remain strictly neutral until an invading force is actually crossing their borders.

"They threaten peaceful nations with the direst consequences if those nations do not remain acquiescent, while the conquerors are seizing the other continents and most of the seven seas of the earth." The aggressions, Hull said, should not be regarded as "mere excesses of exigencies of war, to be abandoned when fighting ceases." He added: THREATEN FREEDOM "By deed and by utterance, the would -be conquerors have made it abundantly clear that they are engaged upon a relentless attempt to transform the civilized world as we have known it into a world in which mankind will be reduced again: to the degradation of a master-andslave relationship among nations and among individuals. maintained by brute force." As a result of these aggressions, Hull said, dangers have been created which threaten the human freedom, national independence and order under law of all peaceful nations, including the United States. "Only once before in our national existence (during the revolution) has as grave a from without threatened the nation," he said, "as the danger which looms on the international horizon." ORGANIZED CONQUEST At another point, he said that "there can be nothing more dangerous for our nation than for us to assume that the avalanche of conquest could under no circumstances reach any vital portion of this hemisphere." are in the presence not of local or regional wars, but of an organized and determined movement for steadily expanding conquest. Against this drive for power no nation and no region is secure save as its inhabitants create for themselves means of defense so formidable that even the would-be conquerors will not dare against them the hand of attack." SECRETARY HULL A Describes "one of saddest and most crucial decades in the history of mankind.".