Publication Days Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast
1
Scattered thunder showers.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,MONDAY, MAY 21, 1945
NUMBER 157
42nd YEAR
United Groups Will Set Up Peace Meeting
To help promote United States participation in a world peace organization, the Y.W.C.A., American United group, Forums board, and the University administration, have agreed to establish a mock world conference on campus next November. Betty Bixby, chairman of Forums board announced today.
Each organized house will represent a country, according to size, and all students in these houses may participate by working on the committees that will meet before the final session to decide upon the issues and proposals to be made. Delegates will be sent from the houses to meet and decide the country they will represent.
Preliminary Planning Started
The preliminary planning has already begun and a spring organizations group is being formed. To explain plans to the students the speaking committee will go to the organized houses during dinner Tuesday and Wednesday to ask for delegates to help with the preliminaries and to decide upon a chairman and the committee heads for the conference. Will End With Convocation
Convocation, June 12, with the theme "Should the United States take part in an International Peace organization?" will climax the activities of the Spring planning group. H. B. Chubb, professor of political science, Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science and sociology, W. W. Davis, professor of history, and Orville Roberts, College junior, will participate in the discussion.
The administration has announced that it will cooperate by providing courses in line with the conference for the fall semester, Miss Bixby announced.
University Stadium Fund To $30,000
More than $30,000 in cash and bonds has been donated to the Memorial stadium fund, E. C. Quigley announced today.
Twelve campus groups have presented checks or bonds to the stadium drive, Mr. Quigley announced They are Delta Gamma, Pi Beta Phi Alpha Delta Pi, Corbin hall, Jay Janes, Tipperary, Locksley, Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega, Phil Delta Theta, Kappa Alpha Theta, and All-Student Council.
Mr. Quigley will go to Kansas City Wednesday to work on the drive there which has already brought $8,900.
13 Rabbits Arrive At Dyche Museum
Dyche museum has received 13 specimens of the nuttall cottontail rabbit for the cooperative study carried on by the United States public health service and the University of Kansas. These specimens represent marginal localities of occurrence, and are to be safeguarded for science in special quarters now being prepared in the museum.
The public health service has sent rabbits to the museum at intervals for the past five months.
Commencement To Be Essentially Local To Comply With ODT
Commencement at the University this year will be essentially a local affair owing to Office of Defense Transportation restrictions. Dean Gilber Ulmer, chairman of the commencement committee, has announced.
The alumni office intends to work with local members of the 25-year class to arrange a token reunion largely by mail, Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, said. Several members of the 50-year class plan to attend the commencement to receive their gold medals but no other reunions will be held.
Chancellor Pleased With Conference
Parents who plan to be in Law-
(continued to page two)
I was very greatly impressed and much pleased with the conference of faculty-student leaders on Saturday. The students present showed broad understanding of and keen interest in, the University's problems and in the opportunities and responsibilities of the students thems.lves in forwarding the usefulness of the University.
Mortar board and Sachem in arranging for and participating in these discussions exerted leadership of enduring importance. I hope there may be more such conferences in the future.
Deane W. Malott, Chancellor of the Universi
Y.W. Cabinet, Board To Have Joint Dinner
The Y. W. C. A. cabinet and advisory board will have a joint picnic dinner at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the home of Miss Helen Wagstaff, chairman of the board.
New members of the board, announced today by Rachel Vander-Werf, executive secretary, are Mrs. Ernest Snodgrain, representing Lawrence members, and Mrs. N. Wyman Storer, faculty wives; Miss Dorothy Sutton, and Miss Mattie Crumrine, faculty members. They will hold their regular monthly business meeting after the dinner.
Mrs. G. E. B. Lindquist, Lawrence, and Julia Ann Casad, College junior, are in charge of the dinner. The joint meetings occur three times a year.
U.S. Fleet Near Kyushu, Jap Quarters Report
(International News Service)
Jap quarters said today that a formidable U.S. fleet is provelling the waters of the far Pacific, aiming possibly at the southernmost island of Japan.
Student-Faculty Understanding Is Mortar Board, Sachem Aim
Only last weekend carrier-based war planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet hammered 18 Jap airdromes on Kyushu and Chikoku, destroying or damaging at least 284 planes.
However, American airmen in the last week have stepped up considerably their assaults on Kyushu, from which island the Japs have mounted considerable air opposition to the Yanks in the Okinawa islands, 325 miles to the southwest.
The tough leathernecks engager the fanatic Jap defenders in hand-to-hand fighting as they pushed forward one prong of a pincers closing in on the town. Timed with this blow was a 400-yard gain by units of the 77th division bringing the doughbags within a few hundred yards of Shuri.
In the vicious battle for Okinawa, elements of the first Marine division drove forward in a bloody gain of almost a half mile and smashed the outer defenses of the Jap bastion of Shuri.
Following up earlier reports that a powerful task force steamed out of the Marianas islands several days ago, the Jap broadcast intimated that the floatilla may be heading for Kyushu. This was pure conjecture, however, in for fact the presence in those waters of any fleet unit other than those supporting the 10th army in Okinawa went entirely unconfirmed in reputable Allied circles.
Engage in Close Combat
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said the Yanks were meeting the heaviest kind of resistance on Okinawa. Nimitz also reported that the 6th Division Marines beat off a strong enemy counter attack in the ruins of Naha, Okinawa's capital.
The "Shack" literally had its top blown today when high winds lifted chunks of its tiled roof and flung them down on the tarred roof of the journalism annex. The damage was slight.
Air Assault Stepped Up
'Shack' Blows Its Top in Wind
With a better understanding between students and faculty members as their aim, members of Mortar Board and Sachem and 64 guests participated in a one-day conference at the Lawrence Country club Satday.
the common task of the University by Lonnie Kelley, its policy was discussed by Chancellor Deane Malott, Wendell Nickell, and Rosalie Erwin. K.U. Traditions Called Important
The first discussion group, led by Betty Leibbrand, chairman, was "K.U. says hello," which stressed the importance of a good introduction of the campus community to new students, and a continuation or intensification of K.U. traditions.
Student government was the main point of the second group, "Citizens of Kansas University," headed by
"Judging from remarks made by both faculty and students, the conference was very successful," Beverly Bohan, president of Mortar Board. said.
(continued to page two)
University Debate Team Discusses Peace Conscription
"With this as a beginning," she added, "we hope to continue the conference next year on a larger scale." After an introductory statement of
Two teams of the University debated the question, "One Year of Military Conscription in PeaceTime in this Country" Thursday night at an open meeting of the Dorsey-Liberty post of the American Legion at the Legion rooms.
The exhibition debate was carried on by Jean Moore and Clyde Jacobs, College sophomores, on the affirmative side, and Orville Roberts, College junior, and Jim Crook, College sophomore, on the negative side.
London—(INS)—The Labor party today asked for a general election, and official steps are said to be under way to grant it. One probable date was July 5, and the other July 11.
Labor Party Asks For New Election
Prime Minister Churchill had hoped that there would be no election until the end of the war with Japan.
A Cappell Choir Gives Annual Concert In Hoch Tonight
Campaigning has started, however, the conservatives backing a 12-point program. The Labor party program is to be announced this week.
Decision to ask for the election would be sought were made on the return of Clement R. Attlee, deputy prime minister and major figure in the Labor party, from the United Nations conference in San Francisco last week. He returned at the same time that Anthony Eden, conservative, did.
The A Cappella choir, directed by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will present its annual home concert in Hoch auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight.
The program will be given in four sections with a short intermission between the second and third groups. The opening group of four numbers will begin with "Alleluia" (Palestrina), and will follow with "O Vos Omnes" (Vittoria), "Flora Gave Me Mairest Flowers" (John Wilbyle), and "Cantate Domino" (Hans Leo Hassler).
The second section will be of Russian numbers with "Cherubim" Tschaikowsky) as the opening selection followed by "The Lord's Prayer" (Gretchanioff), featuring Ruth Reisner as soprano soloist, and two Russian folk songs, "Spinning Top" (Rimsky-Korsakoff) and "Firefires," a traditional folk song.
Following intermission the choir will sing "Ave Maria" (John B. Archer), "The Falling of a Star" (Battishill - Middleton), "I Behold Her, Beautiful as a Dove" (Healy Willan), and "Out of the Silence" (Cyril Jenkins).
The last group of numbers of the program will feature Negro spirituals. "Listen to the Lambs" Nathaneil Dett) will be featured by Ruth Russell as soprano soloist, followed by "It's Me, O Lord" (Noble Cain). "Wade in the Water" (Cain) will be the closing selection.
Kansan Board to Meet
Members of the Kansan board will meet in Room 107 of the Journalism building at 4:30 this afternoon, according to Dolores Sulman, board chairman.
Foster to Grant Coeds Interviews After Address
An informal question period and personal conferences for students with Dr. Robert G. Foster who will speak at an All-University convocation Friday morning are being arranged now through the office of Miss Edna Hill, head of the department of home economics.
At 11 o'clock, immediately following Dr. Foster's address on "How to Make Marriage Work" which will open a two-day University conference on Personality in Successful Living, students who have particular questions they wish to hear the speaker discuscs may meet with him in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, Miss Hill has announced.
Will Answer Written Questions
Questions Dr. Foster will answer at that time will be written ones which students have submitted to the home economics office, room 104 Fraser hall, before Thursday evening. These questions will be sorted into groups to be presented by Dr. Foster by a committee lead by Donna Jean Nichols, Fine Arts senior.
Tau Sigma will have an initiation dinner and initiation ceremonies at the Hearth tomorrow evening. The full schedule will be available.
Personal interviews with Dr. Foster Friday afternoon can be granted to only a limited number of students, according to Miss Hill. Students who are interested in talking to the lecturer are advised to leave their names and the time they would like to meet with him in the home economics office before Thursday evening. Dr. Foster's schedule of personal appointments is being arranged by Betty Jo Everly, College senior. Miss Everly will notify each student of the time her appointment has been granted.
Tau Sigma to Have Initiation at Hearth
The following girls will be initiated:
Dr. Foster comes to the University with wide experience in counseling young people. He has taught special courses at the University of Chicago, Cornell university, the University of Nebraska, Iowa State college and other large universities, has worked in the extension service of the United States department of agriculture, served as chairman of the family section of the American Sociological Society, in the Detroit Social workers club, on the National Council on Family Relations, and in many other organizations concerned with family life and welfare.
He is the author of the book "Marriage and Family Relationships" and at present is director of the family life department of the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit.
Barbara Barcroft, Margaret Barker, Joyce Wauro, Tassie Brooks, Virginia Rachel Fuller, Meredith Gear. Glenda Luehring, Beverly Mendenhall, Pat Miller, Marian Minor, Barbara Moffett, Shirley Celschler, Margaret Ott, Cassi Parsall, Ruth Russell, Barbara Varner, Joan Woodward, and Maurine Zimmerman.
Pi Mu Epsilon to Elect Members
Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics group,
will meet at 4 p.m., room 211. Frank
Strong hall, to elect members.
Winnona Venard, sponsor, said today.