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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 30.1945
Turk Would Give Us Hades If She Knew We Called Her Mary Ellen
More than anything else Mary Elen Turkington, College senior, likes horses and people.
And more than anything else she dislikes being called Mary Ellen.
As for liking people "Turk" (as anyone who knows better calls her) seems to have gotten somewhere. A walk across the campus with her proves she knows a lot of them. She speaks to at least four out of every five students she meets.
"The best six months of my life I gave to my profession." Turk could say with all sincerity. A thoroughbred Shack Rat, she took over as editor of the Summer Session Kansan in July. For eight weeks she did everything on the paper from writing and editing copy to spraying the type lice.
Because she has lived 17 of her 19 years on a farm, Turk has a deep respect for horses — and their brand of sense.
Several weeks of recuperation and she was behind the desk as managing editor of the Daily Kansan. Beginning of school editions, a week of eight-pagers, and working in a new staff kept her on her feet all hours of the day (and night.) She was managing editor until the staff changed Nov. 16.
Looking back at her early days in newspaper work, Turk considers the time she had the fine arts office and women's intramurals for a reporting beat. There was a time when she had to decide between physical education and journalism. (She had no trouble deciding about fine arts—"I'm just not the type," she says without hesitation.)
"TURK"
Turk served the Daily Kansan as news editor, assistant managing ed
itor, and assistant sports editor last year. Last summer she was Lawrence correspondent for the Kansas City Star. She is now the International News Service correspondent for Lawrence.
Judging from her professional experience on the campus and her plans to work on a newspaper in the future, it would seem Turk will devote considerable more of her best years to the news racket.
A congenial type of person, Turk has a nice way of saying exactly what she means. She truthfully admits that after two years she is outgrowing a hair-utw which was entirely too close to a close shave. She and her Corbin hail roommate have a motto, "First up, best dressed," as one leaves for class with the clean shirt.
Turk came to K.U. in June, 1943,
Jap Officers Admit Beheading Airmen —But Respectfully
Kwajalein, Marshall Is. (UP) — Ten Japanese officers on trial for the murder of five American airmen admitted today that the fliers had been beheaded and staked their lives on pleas they were ignorant of international law and only followed orders.
One accused officer said he paid his "respects" to an American flier before swinging the broad-edge execution sword.
Defense counsel submitted a statement in which the accused men did not deny that the executions had been committed on Mille Island in February, 1944, but claimed that none of the defendants had originated the execution orders.
Lt. Kyoshi Feuta, commander of the north naval sector on Mille, a veteran of 26 years service with the Japanese Imperial navy, contended he was not aware of any regulations regarding the treatment of prisoners of war as set forth in the Geneva convention.
a few days after she was graduated from the McCune high school. Her pre-K.U. days were just ordinary she says — going to school when you couldn't think of a good excuse and working around summers. Some of her summer "positions" have been, clerk in a grocery store, waitress in a cafe — and then there's the summer she drew beer on top at a local place.
She will receive a bachelor of arts degree in journalism in June — that is if Juck, the INS, and educational subsidies from home hold out.
A member of Jay Janes, Kansan board, Press club, and W.A.A., Turk uses her spare time to help with Corbin hall intramurals and activities. She has made her mark in speech classes and won first place last year in a campus speech contest.
$100,000 Question:
Male or Female?
Muskogee, Okla. (UP)—Baby Jo Ella Hull gurgled contentedly in her crib today unmindful that she was the central figure in a hundred thousand dollar sex-mixup case.
A suit that amount was filed in district court here late yesterday by the mother, Mrs. Charles Hull of Checotah, Okla., who alleged she had been told her baby was a son at the time of birth last July 7.
Not until 10 days later when mother and baby returned from the Oklahoma Baptist hospital in Muskogee did Mrs. Hull learn that the infant was a girl.
The frantic mother — recalling baby-mixup cases in other cities in the past — immediately returned to the hospital but was assured she had given birth to the girl instead of a boy.
The suit asked $50,000 damages for mental pain and anguish suffered by the mother, causing her to lose weight. The other $50,000 was demanded for asserted negligence in record-keeping.
Dr. Charles Ed White, obstetrician who delivered the Hull infant and one of the defendants in the court action, said flatly that "I know Mrs. Hull has the baby that she gave birth to."
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The War Is Over For Mrs. Jack Mohler, Kansan Bookkeeper
The war is over for Mrs. Jean Mohler, bookkeeper for the University press and the Daily Kansan. Her husband is on his way home from 8 months in the Pacific.
Jack B. Mohler, 21-year-old navy machinist, will land at San Pedro, Calif., tomorrow, report in St. Louis for discharge, and arrive in Lawrence next week.
Entering the navy after his graduation from Eudora high school in 1943, Mohler served on an LCT in the Normandy invasion in June, 1944, and in the battle of Okinawa, where his ship was sunk by a Japanese suicide plane last summer.
"It's a wonderful feeling — I can't describe it," Mrs. Mohler says of her husband's approaching return. The couple was married last February when he had a 30-day leave.
Mohler plans to enter the School of Engineering next semester as a freshman.
Kansas is 208 miles wide and 411 miles long.
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UNION CARNIVAL December 8th
Johnny Beach and His Band
MILITARY SCIENCE BUILDING UNION ACTIVITES 9 to 12 p.m.