The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 188, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 21, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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Stadeat Hewsfiper of the University of Oklahoma
The QMaMima Daily
23th Year No 188
Z990
Norman Oklahoma Tuesday May 21 1910
Price 5 Cents
ic French City Captured
CMBfWta Ifewi Coverage by the Associated Press
Suggs Emery
Win ASCAP
Scholarships
“Serenade to An
Heiress’ Is Best
In Regional Test
“Serenade to An Heiress”
musical comedy written by Char-
les Suggs and James Emery One
arts seniors Monday won a re-
gional musical comedy contest
conducted by the American So-
ciety of Composers Authors and
Publishers and the-authors will
receive $750 scholarships to con-
tinue study in their respective
fields
Suggs drama senior will enrol at
Yale university next fall and work
toward hie master’s degree In drama
Emery music senior will continue
study et Ohio State university
They were given their choice of
schools under provisions of the award
City Showing Planard
After they were notified of their
success Monday afternoon Suggs and
Emery said there wee a possibility
that "Serenade to An Heiress" might
be produced In Oklahoma City early
in June The show carries a cast of
150 acton and singers
The musical comedy was staged on
the campua last Thursday and Friday
night aa the annual Soner revue
The script and song lyrics for the
Show were written by Suggs Emery
wrote the music Several months of
work went Into writing the play The
two students began work on the pro-
duction shortly after last Thanksgiv-
ing and ffnlslied May 1 when they
submitted the manuscript and music
to the ASCAP Judges
Beth Activity Mrs
Suggs the aim of Mrs Rarhe Suggs
Ardmore recently won the 9T0 Holm-
berg sward gives annually to the
best student In the echo'd of drama
Ils la a member of Buffalo Mak hon-
orary society fur student of drama:
Kappa Kappa Pil nathmal honorary
hand fraternity and the University
Flayers As s student here lie has par-
tlciued In more than ten student
productions
Emery Is the aon of Mrs W It Em-
ery Shawnee ami the brother of In
Waller II Emery dirrclur of foren-
sic here lie Is a niemlar of laith
the university band ami inrh-nl is
and a mctnlier uf Kapa Kapiu INI
‘Whale Wreck Is
Scary to Submarine
RAN FHANCISCO May 20-4
Oiit Kliuiiji lln of tlie Japanese liner)
Tutula Mani Mild tlie vessel struck a
wliale at ws May It ami lie waa
afraid for a inoitur h lual isdlPInl
a 1th a sulnuai ine
tin Mikl the Impart alsait 3:3U
m awakennl Imiiiv lu—etigers ami
ratiM-d thr slop lu tll for an Instant
He ruslird In Hie lirldge IhiI msh
saw a M-laad of sharks allocking the
Injunsl wlutlr
Jimmy Tucker Wins
l’onliac Photo Prize
Jlmmv Turker proprietor nf the
F-’I pblww rervae 3IT WhHe
irtrH Na nn NniVttifH H M ln
IP-rid fliwl prise In a lpao rmtlr sl
sismsored ly 11011 isc magazine
Imure mgsn l-dd'loV by Ihe 109 -
liar Motor eiHUiwny
Tmkei'a idu-nrajH’ a a luhlng
aivne male gt a lake tnwr leaingtnnj
j
Il-nltw (mmIr— i
I Oil) I fly iVmennjjer j
Winn Sociology Award I
I
'
tiornlhv Aos-ilngrr intialesoa
tliv was anmaimisl Monday as luej
winner id the t1l timrg aesd
given annually lu Ihe tmlsiamllng'
renne woman aviolev NtieP-td 1
ne Id as aH la given In a ! -
itrtvt e-lelel l-V ll-e stvlotogy lm llby '
PM IPe kails Id holsl hij'
Hal Niemann Memorial Is CompletedlQ Coiflfort
jlrks Phillips
Thru Column
Met urnl above is the architerl'e drawing of the Hal Niemann native
etune terpentine trail which will be dedicated Friday afternoon Nie-
mann lout hie life while playing polo for the mtverelty in ltKSd Dedica-
tion eervtcce will be held at 4:15 Friday afternoon on the polo field
etnee named in hit honor (See elory inutile)
Youth Admits finals to Herald
i Commencement
Sunday’s edition of the Oklahoma
Dally in which Comfort criticized
newspapers for creating a war hys-
teria ‘MuzxIp’ Not rwrpoae
" I don’t want to muzzle him” Phil-
lips said “but I think the university
paper should not print his views”
In retaliation Comfort suggested
"Let him call out the militia against
statement to county authorities that Beginning at 930 Sunday morning
he killed hi aunt with an ax handle! June 2 senior hnd faculty member nd conuU in0uv Adolf Hler’
and beat her husband so severely! will gather In front of the Armory
that he died nine days later pleaded to march In the traditional academic
Ax Murders
Guilty Plea Entered
On Arraignment
PAULS VALLEY May 20 MfM
D Tuggle who admitted In a signed
"I started out after Comfort during
the last legislature" Phillips said
guilty Monday to two charges of procession to the Fieldhouae for the "ut he newspapers called me a
murder j baccalaureate sermon ! wtc'1 hunter I haven't changed my
The 21-year-old McAlester youth' Slirakcr fw the sermon to begin ! mind nd tlta “"'y rtrengthens my
was arraigned before Dlatrlrt Judge J 10 o clocK trill be A Frank Smith !conv‘cUon‘’" v
Ben T Williams who set Thursday Houston Tex former Methodist Comfort was fired as chaplain of
for sentencing bishop of Texas Oklahoma and In- the Central State hospital following
Three day ago Tuggle plead rd in-dian Mission conferences and chair- charges that he encouraged commun-
ism in a speech before a meeting of
the Oklahoma Youth legislature in
Oklahoma City
Bradley Favors Continuance
nncpiit “by reanon of Insanity” when man of the rommlsKlon on rural
he waa arraigned In county court j work of the Methodist church
He was arrested last Thursday near nua) academic procession
Atoka a week after Mr Sadia Jones Rilin fnnn t 0:30 M(ndayj
was beaten to death and her 67-yir'j morning 39 minutes before Hie coin- The column to which Phillips re-
old husband Wilburn Jmw jmenerment lieglns In the FIcI'Hioukc j ferred sakl that the present convlc-lO-yearold
niece Alma Tuggle were awee Taylor ciiaintiun of the it Ion that Adolf Hitler will Invade
iett unconscious ar tlielr farm home division of the department' the United States is “so preposterous
near Stratford of economies at Columbia will de-jthat It would aeenf only an imlM-rllc
liver tlie commencement address or a mad man coulil scrlouslv con-
Daily to Cease
publication Today
Staff Announced
i
With tlila Ikmit tin nklaliiana Dally
erodes pnlillrniMi until June 3 wlien'
It will lie resumed umler the editor-i
alilp of Nancy Itoyal Norman Ihlnl:
rnetl editor III imilV history
Tlie suiiniM-r Dully will I
d In tabloid sie and Ivuusl five
dav a week Turalay thru Xalinday!
Hilling June ami July I
Tlie aimuner staff will include!
Fram-la v'liey Tn um-i-h liny til
vin Iii'iimrlgtil: iH-ggy (lav Hie
Tinm-r ami Gene INini-'
i tiw iPflt I'sH
Ml Isali of HkLilHiina t'lty
Tin staff fis- the flr-t senirsirr of
Ute BHu-41 I'-nn as onmium-nl Mon-
dav by Mi-s Iboat Wlm will mill the
I lolly for that seuo-lv will lm hale
tlie fidkiw lug
Ft am Is tiillb-y HialMglng lllor:
tlaivme I vari e Kl llemi news sll -
in city Hitr: Kiliiii
j Walker Ehlormlu aivieiy eiliior
ami lull Morrison Do out spotla li-
”r'
(-harRril n
Oil Stock Tramtfer
R farmer liOSCH
MllrH Mhrtl rhstged
i iddainlng money umler fsi-e
1 pb-wlrd md guilty
— —
’ wnm arrsioe-l ledore Ivri JuNtpyj
'llumlde Wrl -h mining folk m-ms
Nrfrll rmtge k'lntly with hrIr "I Momlay to jal Faig-
losHiard Williams and W A ltearHl rhibu-n ru-he to the shelierl
don WHh idilsluln SI Vat from Vlrr“M!e Ideak lulls Of Wales BW4V (nan
ker Cleyeuml rtuuny (super w the war dangers thieamping Hie rad t
rrhane for What tNuniv Atinrjml OnU'hrMt roast id Enguml I
William T Toner ihatgre was wmtii-l H Ike smapl flight uf the
j)iHingstetm ha- when Ihe war lirokei
ksi smiiitv
Tlie inlotiPsIPet Bother ststrd' last hoeinlier tlmy were taken It ran
tkt khtfett I-— -I es a wealthy eillumhin ami tdher laige lenirre of
man attd imtistsl Kr lo Imy 'Hilt"lt In what Ihe antliis ilP-a
si-k in a oii'r aim h wsspsi imsight was the safely id England's
‘epUat" Tiae Mil Williams and nsistal tuorll
lliSliliol eSmtlv SwiH lie SI ir-i They arrived In Walrs Humlay in
ot atta'gord this Wrk
Following thr iwrirpMMon crw Mt II"
the FWdhouse platform where sen- Carter nradlev editor of the uni-
tors will rerrlve tlielr diplomas thcjvanlty paper said lie favored con-
annual slimml-senlor lunelimn uHljtlnuanre of the column
he liekl In tlie union Iwllroom -
1 Xancv Itoyal Norman who will
Joseph lientom-lli noted tenor and
university graduate will sing at the
citmtiM-niriurnl exen-Uea
rrf If l
JpljUUU llUrYtirU
m 11
10 UianCS HrOWIl
(Iiailes 1 Brown Mi-Alealcr hm
I'ren ai’ln-ted lo ren-ivnl a MlWtOj
arlmLindiip for llie year inkt-41 to j
the Harvard graduate w-lvinl nfliual'
1 m-M adiniiiislral on
Brown a senkv In the rollege of
tni-im- admliiMrailon was given
one of Ihe nutloual m-h'dai’ship
gw arils which Were tvtsdvml liy 11
students fivun 27 rollegeu clKr-rn limn
a total nf m1 candidate
! The selvllotts were
iMt-is of a holaik- fe hk
K u
tniele mi tin
h-venient cx -
iism unk’idar o' llvliii-s pnnonal In
bwh-wa ami gcitMil ai'iiimlc for'
Iw'llmt
I If at Ihe rml uf HP Brat ar sat'
’ bfaeiory wsk has Isyn tkme tlutj
I a lH'lai Nhli are extemM a yrar for
Ihe ("inph’lkm of a masicr'a degree
i Welsh Open Homes
I rlill'lmn
LO 1 ICCIP ‘ 1111(1 Tf 11
) rABBIFF Wales May SU-hAV-
1 12 iill U shw
Governor Suggests
‘So This Is Life
Be Dropped by Daily
“So This Is Lifenja column ap-
pearing each Sunday in the Ok-
lahoma Daily written by E N
Comfort dean of the Oklahoma
school fl religion Monday be-
came the source of charges and
counter-charges as Governor
era did not stop but continued on six miles beyond Laon in a south-! ference of aircraft manufacturers
westerly direction to the Oise-Aisne canal that at Prc8ent thy M'1 10
At the end of 11 da-s of the German blitzkrieg thru the low JonM-chllrmwl o the RKC
countries and into France the high command said the nazi flag was Mld hIg Igcncy wsg to
waving over the citadel of the city which Von Kluck’s army took ! erate with the banks In making se-
in August 1914 and which remained in German hands until Octo- cured loans for defense purposes
her 1918
At the same time another German thrust veered to the north After enafrrring with the uatioaN
Ion C Phillips suggested that headin toward the English channel with the object of trapping Bel-! Pencil"! aircraft builders In a sca-
the column be dropped from theigtan and British units on the right flank of the allied defense forces !lon Monday nlBht Secr?tary ? the
student paper
against Comfort for hla wl umn lnlllrt
edit the Oklahoma Dully this summer
and the first semesli-r of next year
said Monday she has not yet decided
whether ’So This Is Life" will be
'continued aa a luilv fi-ature
! "I Inti-nd to talk with Dean Orni-
iiondiiv”
fiat iiIhiui his i-oluinn” she said “and
lb vide whether it should lie run
"Any tlerlzlon will not lie affected
ly tlie governor's Miggestlim lssue1
llrrtiert Falla lo t'ommrnt
II II Ilorhert illi's tiv of the sehisil
'nf Journalism and chairman of the
-erviiv !eiii giving us "one of Ihe
reaxHix" the ciliitiiy id llhtlilo' !
fiNiifist sakl he na glad tout tlie” B ipi-iliilisi rtil uniaii kitk- rili-n
governor hail Uken such urtkm iSCilttOrCn SllOWCl'S kslglng tliemn-lv In k-v tswitions manufactured pro-
i "I ant gla1 the goverm boa r-ully Tla woHd to suais-ml rlvil jiiW H( lrmit
awakencil ut hot" Cimifort said aa- I'artly cloudy with uraii'T'! sli-w vim- j4 plie'-nn-nt rpiiieim-nM In
llrk ally "Thai- lie- flint time Ihe era Is Fnlerul Forecaster lliiiry WH1- the navv lame In t— Hm-rtiv hV'
halav Wdii- (1 iirlm W Fih’r iiirei-iiq- of naval v
shore e-liblikhiiH'iita Iiefnit tile InsiM' I ")n--moat
iniiimi'o-e
tiiRiiH i iihi " in- iiiRi i ii h tiR!fniHrniim r
'gio'ermir has ever evpiswatsl a ikwlre ' gren’s pieillriion for
"
to help Ihe tinivcillv I in certainly dav a outhsik Is fair
i '
glal he Is-rn isinverinl I
"
Utililies Department Puts Official Ban
On Petting in South Oval-Stadium Area
An tdlHial Ism on loafing pet-
ting nr nierr rr-'ing on Hie south
oval sladiiiiii area id tlie rauinis
Ims l-ell m-tltlllefl by Hie Ih-purt-meut
of lit llliie- It was trained
Ktmday lilglil when for Ihe see-
te
Ho hl girl were f'irerl
( hr arrN
l-iilwl With siwerfut fla-h-
three nltlliN-s deportment
mtaera were tnndliiig the distikt
giHhiy night They warnul alt
risiples in the smikrii gai'h-n in
Hie stadium nr ai tlie grass lliru
vail tlie llner-l'iia k aien to "keep
Halving"
Wader W K i fall MiN’i-iUrmk-n(
d lit times said Monday ttmt he
as Nini! for Ihe S' Unit "I
sent ihe lw ilown tlwr nil last
Vital Position of World War
Re-Taken by Nazi Legions
Another Thrust Veers North
The capture of Laon for centuries a strategic position 75 miles
northeast of Parts was claimed Monday night by the German high
l command
Even there the German announcement said nazi storm troop-
" War's destructiveness IjelgiunT wM' Wght home sha
J° United States citizens with the word that the great Louvain li -
brary erected on Herbert Hoover
ican university students had been destroyed by fire
Newspapermen touring the front
abreast of Adolf Hitler saw the build- W
Ing In ruins its 700000 volumes con-! -w in
Mderod lost j HalV O WlllffS
Thrust Uaine for Xaxle J
The German high command said the rp 1 tvr
hitting thrust to the west-awayl 1 OWtlTCl W (IF
from the rood to Paris— gained be-
tween 20 and 30 miles In a line north
from St Quentin which Is In German
hand’ 1
ly successful the new drive would
Imperil 300000 British soldiers on
the Allies' northern flank It would
also gain new bases for a lethal at-
tack on England Just 20 miles across
tha channel from Calais France
More than 60000 Germanised troops
comnrislng five full divisions were'
engaged In the march acmsz the
plains of northern France
Hplit It Attempted i
The main objective It appeared
was to drive a wedge between the:
French forces defending Paris and monstrationx
the allied force In Belgium
Allied troops in the north Immed-
iately dropped lack to meet tlie n-w
threat on the channel ready fur a
hacka-to-the-sea stand against the
menace of a nasi Invasion of England
(Prime Minister Churchill already lias
warned tliat England's "own day" nf
defending her mil la "imminent”)
Ililler Order Shift
The lighting ahift In lariir wul
to lie dictated by Hitler followed re-
ports that General Weygnitd new
commander In chief of the Alii'-- was
massing an army to "pinch oft" the
50-mila deep German salient into
France on the Meuse river front
The French aiknim ledgi-d late
Monday a nasi report that Si (juni
in n niirt northeast of fans Hr
'scene of siHiie of the Idmall'isi figh'lng
in the World wr ha Mien to '-
Germans in a furkais IniI tie
Germans luroms uaim
‘Reslricled zre:iM
Are I'ntndled
Week Htleiid In keep 'lie i'i--'-
decent until ihe eml of tlie ---ter"
lie mpI
Kraft’s woikmen luel an o-Ui
llotisl Ntirprlx- M'ShIsv vvwm v -i
When a runtiiitiiiM Iwiiiun e
fmiml fljltig fissn tlie flag )-i-tlie
Miulh eml id Hie fstilwil "
Kraft Iduiiusl this on '’Niiilli Vi'li
nr university simk-nu irvtog '
smart"
The Itag ishisinPsI uf
iwl muslin fisir by sis with
tlw hammer ami stikle id —
Viet smenretl ml ( with vla"-al
Tlie sile had Iwrn gressnl toil (d-
J ting a lad-b-r tlie workmen had
square by contributions of Amer- '
ROME May 20 — (Id — Italy swung'
her war preperatlon Into a new high
gear Monday night as the feeling '
grew stronger In many Italian minds
that her entry Into the conflict would !
merely be a matter of time and new '
demonstrations against England and I
France broke out
bnuse leader inquire na to "how tha
l administration Intends to finance
these new demands"
i Representative Rayburn democra-
I tic leader said that serious consider-
! at ion was being given to that problem
I and that a recommendation from the
j executive department probably would
Antl-Brltlsh and anti-French de-: he made Rayburn said the American
broke out anew A ' pmple "re willing to pay the blU"
shouting group of Italian youths waa :
held off from tlie British consulate Cnnii fir Whpplpl
ly anH ers who appeared to block “'”“ iTHttlLl
their advance IfeeS ScpiiratlOIl
Foreign Minister Fnant ClarntN n v
sprei-h in Milan Sunday left Italians
rvprrllng Mussolini to rally thrm to
tlielr army— Jas as hr did whra he
htasehed the romiaeat of Ethiopia-
HELENA Mont May 20-(PV—
Senator fkirtnn K Wheeler here to
Count Ulano said Italy would wait ! attend the Democratic slate conven-
imly “ihe ordir of the day" from II tin hlcli 0-ns Tuemlav said Mon-
Duce "when he will have decid'-il U)-'' iaV Du fnllnl Kialea should nut per-
Navy Wants to Lift
Civil Service Rule
WASIllNiITiiX
navy Miki-miM
May 2d— (1’!— A
(-I ronun'-u- M’Hi-
navy spokr-miii si-k-l imwn- M-m-
day o 14 the navy ripum I' riv1
mplmes without reuunl to tie- rlvd
I
e-ubk-n doen hv I'C I'i-iV it’l-ih-i-n
-sh n
Tin- aim eiiinit moii wa mol
ih'iet-fiil S 001 v tug'll the of
fiiiev who acco-iisl Ilia IM’Iv its
Hii-r -aid "We n-iel kivr fun
elf lilt riHIph's" Ilo-V IIII
Ho uiei wa wet Sabir
IIV llgtll toil tin- lllIM V
ilinia‘iipi i-iiM- id lie i-i a In iii-hi
if tin- -iilli ovd v inii - "'Va
It I to pnn lln-m oir t--r lie-
O' i-1 turn- Hi M-inzi i ic I'io of-
fill v -si I
lie- in that to dm mu agi- Ike
“ms king” i harm lei l-ln- Mie
iusiIIi oval loiiugats was the fli-l
Mliiial mtum taken In Ihsi d-m
tiiov lima a mmiili ago when
I’tiiknt inor'l idsl no- lien-
t'lrveland MMinti v poll'hat hope-
fuls w ill twain filing fm' nffae at N
a m this morning when X K Wcsii
prvrli nsih'V ebsIPm Isiuid rlialfi
man la-g'iis Sri pi mg tiamea for the
ilrons ra'ie J-rieisiy In July
Ike filing opI ilsrv at A p m
Ft Ida v llegishatbOl uf Virteis Wilt
l-yi-t June tn "d rle June 2 ten
a'i-1 Women H-ih'i-ntN m he'-ji tin- isvg t-e(o the pitmuy
RFC Loans
For Defense
Projected
WASHINGTON May SO— (AV-The
nlf$ht to nitric whch lack capital
for expansion necessitated by the na-
t tonal defense program while s con-
!
Indent capital and enough workers to
meet the present demnads of the na-
tkmul defnnee program without sac-
rificing labor standards
The development came as a sur-
prise to some officials who had been
discussing the possibility of RFC
loans for the purpose of building ad-
ditional plants or of having tha gov-
ernment build new plants retain
ownership and lease them to private
owners
This possibility remained apparent
ly In the long range picture
Meanwhile a congress pushing the
defense funds thru at top speed heard
Representative Martin republican
mlt the Euro van war situation to lm-terfi-re
w uh effort to aulve this coun-
try's dotiMStiir irnlili-ma
'The war situation" lie told newa-
' paper mfi"i the nvwt lniirtant
problem at the moment and every-
one In Wahingtm has hla niliwl on It
That should not ih-lir U however
a
m r ” J1
dffiulttw at hretw
!! lived umh-r diffiniltl'W ot tnane
“I low ore we going to g"t BUSH-
IN n1 mi -)i i ! r luck to woi-k? Ilow
are we going hi reduce funn prlre
fur’h'-r linerbKiire of farm naa-tgages
wholl ail t" the nunil'iT of um-in-
Atkins (o Join Staff
Of Children Hospital
w II A'kms uiiiMin Infirmary
I liv i uit Monday m-elyed make
lHit he wPl wihW at rilppl-l Olil-
ovii' 'i nf n t iiklalneua t'lty dur-
ing the roouner months
AH in i will work prlmipallv w Ph
ilipnirtp- run unlit Krteemtier l
Ulan lie will siraln ao-moe his ilulP-a
St He ll’flinisiy
rilime IVrifMl Will
ItcKin Thin Morning
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