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42nd YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1945
NUMBER 159
Americans United Membership Drive to Begin Tonight;31 Students Will Speak at Organized Houses
Thirty-one students will speak during dinner meetings at all organized houses today and tomorrow about "Americans United for World Organization."
Patricia Graham, College sophomore, and acting chairman of the students backing the world organization group, outlined plans for the dinner speeches at a Union building meeting yesterday. Wilda Vermillion, College freshman, presented a sample talk with points the 31 speakers may emphasize.
Goal of the Americans United is senate ratification of a treaty empowering the United States to enter some future international peace organization. Prof. H. B. Chubb, of the political science department, is Kansas state chairman.
Students speaking in organized houses are Dolores Custer, Jean Kaufmann, who will go to Battenfield, Carruth, and Phi Beta Pii houses; June Peterson and Sara Jean Scott, to PT 7 and 8; Hazel Wathen and Mary Margaret Gaynor, PT 5 and 6; Sarah Marks and Anita Landrum, Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Chi; Sie Diggs and Barbara Moffett, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Gamma Phi Beta.
Mariette Bennett will speak at Watkins and Miller hall; Jane Atwood and Leatrice Gibbs, at Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Kappa Psi house; Gortrude Leslie and Elizabeth Anne Pratt, at Locksley and Tipperary; Mary Anne Ardrey and Virginia Williams, Alpha Omicron Pi and Alpha Delta Pi; Mary Lou Shehew and Nancy Goering, PT 9 and 10; Mavis Lukert and Caroline Morrisr, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa KappaGamma, and Harmon.
Ralph Kiene and Barbara Johnson will go to Phi Delta Theta, Pi Beta Phi, and Alpha Chi Omega; Shirley Wellborn and Neva Unruh, Delta Gamma and Chi Omega; Lois Thompson, Wright Place, Corbin and Foster halls; Paul Conrad, Sigma Kappa and Jolliffe; Julia Ann Casad and Emmalouise Britton, Zeta Phi Beta, Campus and Westminster; Mary Breed, Phi Gamma Delta and Tau Kappa Epsilon, and John Wetmore, Jayhawk Co-op and Phi Chi.
A.S.C. to Choose State Activity Head
Chairman for the State-Wide Activities will be chosen this week by the Traditions committee of the All Student Council, Eugenia Hepworth, chairman of the committee, said this morning.
The committee chooses the chairman from recommendations of persons who have had previous experience in the State-Wide Activities. The recommendations are submitted to the committee by the present chairman of the activities and the alumni secretary. Their selection is presented to the All Student Council for approval.
The State-Wide Activities commission works in cooperation with the Alumni association in advertising the University in the state, especially in the high schools. Frances Morrill, College senior, is the present chairman.
Quigley In Kansas City
E. C. Quigley, athletic director, is in Kansas City, Mo, today, working on the stadium drive. He will return to the campus late tomorrow.
May Enlarge Union Building
Plans for the extension of the Union building on the south side will be considered by the Union operating committee meeting at 4:30 p.m. Monday, in the Pine room, Henry Werner, chairman, announced today.
Officers for the Union activities for the coming year will also be elected, Dean Werner announced.
The Union operating committee consists of eight students and nine faculty and alumni members and includes;
Doris Bixby, College senior, Robert Buechel, Donald Cousins, Engineering junior, Marjorie Free, College junior, Persis Snook, College senior, Eugenia Hepworth, Fine Arts junior.
Evelyn Mercer, Business junior,
Robert Henry, Engineering sophomore,
Milton Allen, Ogden Jones,
professor of geology, Fred Ellsworth,
almui secretary, and Karl Klooz,
bursar.
Beulah Morrison, professor of psychology, Hermina Zipple, director of food service, Henry Werner, chairman, dean of student affairs, Elizabeth Meguiar, dean of women, and Leslie Waters, professor of economics.
Infantry Advances On Okinawa Today; Seize Yonabaru
International News Service
Meanwhile, the three-way assault on Shuri continued with American infantrymen reported within 500 yards northeast of the city.
American infant pressed a 1400-yard advance on Okinawa today and seized Yonabaru, eastern anchor of the trans-island defense system.
Washington — (INS) — The White House today confirmed reports that President Truman has received the resignation of Attorney-General Francis Biddle.
In the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur's troops liberated Malay-Balay. Australian troops continue to consolidate their divisions on Tarakan while MaeArthur's bombers again raided Formosa.
In fierce hand-to-hand combat, the 96th division drove the Japs from Conical hill.
Francis Biddle Resigns As U.S. Attorney General
It was indicated that the resignation would be accepted.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
Miss Sealy, Alumna,
To Speak Friday
In Personaltiy Meet
Miss Marie P. Sealy who will address University students Friday afternoon in the second session of the Personality for Successful Living conference is a graduate of the University of Kansas and a former president of the New York alumni association.
She will speak to students at the 2:30 meeting of the conference on the subject of "Getting and Keeping a Job," stressing particularly aspects of job getting.
As a student at the University, Miss Sealy was secretary of the Women's Student Governing Association, secretary of the Women's Athletic Association, a member of YWCA, Torch, honorary society for senior women which has now become affiliated with the national Mortar board. She was also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Miss Sealy will arrive in Lawrence Friday morning and will be entertained while on the campus at the Kappa Alpha Theta house.
Seven Will Present Fine Arts Recitals Tomorrow Afternoon
Seven students from the School of Fine Arts will present the regular student recital in Fraser theater tomorrow afternoon at 3:30.
The program will open with a piano solo, "Palisades" (Carl A. Preyer), by Betty Lou Hughes. Her second selection will be "Scherzo in E minor" (Mendelssohn). Norma Antone will sing "Song of the Shepherd Lehl," from "Snegourotchka" (Rimsky-Korsakof).
"Kitty of Coleraine" (Irish Folk song), and "My Johan" (Grieg-兰安洛) will be sung by Billie Joan Kent. Anabel Keeler, harpist, will play two French selections by Grandjany, followed by Warren Alexander who will sing "Lungi dal caro bene" (Secchi).
Elaine Talley will sing "Clare de lune" (Szule), and "A des oiseaux" (Hue). Nadyne Brewer will close the program with "Over the Steppe" (Gretchaninoff) and "O' thou billowy harvest field" (Rachmaninoff). Miss Brewer is a voice major.
Council to Vote on Point System Next Week After Third Reading; Final Vote Postponed Last Night
Campus Blooms In Navy White
"Yum! Look good enough to eat!" That was the female reaction.
"Humph! Look like pajamas!" That was the civilian male reaction.
Uniform of today, however, is whites and raincoats, described by one coed as a "gruesome twosome."
Too good to last, the pleasant springiness of W-day faded into oblivion today, and the sailors feel "just too ducky" in their whites tromping through the drizzle.
Yesterday was the long-awaited W-day of the navy, when the K. U. trainees blossomed forth in their whites on an untypical sunny Kansas morning.
Each spring new comments are heard on the whites, most of which are favorable.
"They really brighten up the campus," is heard most often.
Prize comment of this season came from one freshman who moaned, "I just can't recognize a soul. You can't tell where their white suits end and their white faces begin!"
pus," is heard most often.
A small handful of army or civilian men usually sniff disdainfully a V-12 saunters by and remark, "Dig those short pants! Gad, man, who poured you into that suit?"
A.E.F. Officers Seize Flensburg Leaders
Flensburg, Germany—(INS)—Officers of the Allied expeditionary force today arrested all members of the so-called Flenburg German government, together with the remaining members of the German general staff.
The prisoners included Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz, and Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl. The latter signed the initial surrender for Germany at Reims.
Meanwhile, it was learned that Adm. Gen. Hans Von Friedebung one of the German signatories of the unconditional surrender, committed suicide.
'Worst of War' Seen in Manila Karl Baldwin Writs Malott
"Fort Santiago, where the last stand was made, is largely a mass of battered stones," he reported. A low flight over Manila Harbor, Cavite, and Regregidor showed the last two places battered beyond imagination, he said.
Quantities of abondoned Japanese AA guns and heavy ordnance, burned - out Japanese airplanes, truck convoys, tanks, and railway trains show the efficiency of the Allied air attack which the Colonel said was "superb."
Manila, the city blasted by internal bombs, will have to be rebuilt, is the belief of Col. Karl T. Baldwin, former head of the department of military science and tactics, who recently wrote Chancellor Deane W Malott.
Colonel Baldwin, who sent a collection of nine posters by Japanese artists to contribute to the "War Memento" collection of the University, is now military attach in the American Legation at Melbourne. Manila Three-fourths Gone
"In and around Manila, you see the worst of the war." he wrote. "At least three-fourths of the city proper is gone."
Allied Air Attack Superb
"The harbor is full of sunken ships—mostly Japanese. Only 60 or 70 show above the water, though there are probably over 200," he continued.
Colonel Baldwin's room which was spared internal bombs, had no door, no mirror, and no window panes. Three shell holes went through the room.
The activity point system, All-Student Council Bill No. 15, will go to a third and final reading at the regular meeting of the council next Tuesday, Persis Snook, president, said today.
The council heard the second reading by Robert Buechel, secretary, last night, when the final vote was postponed to next week.
The purpose of the activity point system, according to Martha Ellen Woodward, point*system committee chairman, is to regulate and limit the number of offices a student may hold in campus organizations and the number of campus organizations to which he may belong. Miss Woodward said the activity point bill, if enforced, would bring about more efficient leadership, and active participation in campus activities. Committee to Manage
The point system, according to the bill, will be managed and directed by an activity point system committee (A. P. S. C.), composed of one faculty member and three students, to be appointed by the council president with the approval of two-thirds of the council. The commit-
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Churchill to Form New Cabinet
London—(INS) —Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned his office today and immediately accepted an invitation from King George to form a new government.
Churchill's resignation, which automatically resolved his war cabinet, was predicated solely on refusal of the British labor party to accede in continuation of the coalition government up until the moment of Japan's complete defeat.
Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Parliament will be dissolved June 15.
The new interim government will not include representatives of the Labor party, one of the strongest elements in the major parties.
Churchill was in conference wilt King George for 50 minutes this morning in presenting his resignation and receiving his commission to form a new government.
It was expected that the campaign would be extremely spirited, the Conservatives taking up the argument that Churchill should remain until the end of the war with Japan, and the Laborites seeking immediate reforms such as nationalization of natural resources, better housing and working conditions, and a policy of government more friendly to the Russian government.
Ingham Attends Chicago Meet
Harold G. Ingham, director of the extension division, is in Chicago this week discussing Kiwanis International objectives for 1945. Mr. Ingham is past president of the Lawrence Kiwanis club.
Theranv Club Elects New Officers
Officers for the coming year were elected at the meeting of the Occupational Therapy club last night. Marilyn Nigg was elected president, Mary Susan Sackett, vice-president; Dorothy Bruce, secretary; and Roberta Watson, treasurer.