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LAWRENCE, KANSAS; FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1945
42nd YEAR
NUMBER 151
Politicos to Battle Three-way
B-29'sContinue All-Out Attack On Jap Islands
International News Service
Meanwhile Japanese reports said Allied forces "crossed a stream" and a heavy coastal battle is now raging on Okinawa island. Marines Near Naha
American ground forces set the stage for capture of the islands capital city, Naha. Sixth division marines moved to within a half mile of the city after bridging the Asa river estuary in the face of bitter Japanese resistance.
Three fleets of American E-29 superfortresses smashed at the Japanese homeland today in the continuation of the all-out strategic air offensive against Nippon's war industries and air installations.
About 50 Mariana - based bombers made the day's third assault, hitting the Miyazaki air field in the industrial cities, Miyakanojo and Nittagaharar on Kysushu, southernmost of the Japanese homeland islands.
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Japs to Be Crushed Under B-29 Raids Doolittle Promises
London—(INS)—A promise that Japan will go down to defeat under the crushing impact of attacks by fleets of B-29 superfortresses 3,000 strong was headlined in the British press today.
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, commander of the U.S. eighth Army Air Force, told of plans to send more than 2,000 B-29's over Japan at a single time.
Doolittle said that if Japan continued to resist, that nation would feel the full weight of a bomber force greater than the 2,400 planes the eighth flung at Germany, according to a report in the London Evening Standard and, stressed Doo-little, they would be superforts.
Parties Announce Political Slates
Independent—P.S.G.L. candidates for All-Student Council representatives are:
District I, the College—Jean McIntire, Anna Marie Stevens, Mary Arlene Wisner, Lois Thompson, Donna Mae Wingerson, Billie Marie Hamilton, Elaine Thalman, Richard Hollingsworth, and Wendell Nickell, V-12.
District II, the School of Engineering and Architecture Dean Corder, V-12, Dale Rummer, and Robert Kunkle, V-12.
District III, the Graduate School and the Schools of Fine Arts, Education, Business, and Pharmacy—Jean Templeton, Phyllis Hyde, and Helen Howe.
District IV, the Schools of Law and Medicine—Guy Ashcraft. Candidates for class officers are:
Senior class—Emily Hollis, president; Jack Nichols, vice-president; and Thad Marsh, secretary-treasurer.
Junior class—Jim Crook, president; Barbara Burton, vicepresident and Charlotte Bartley, secretary-treasurer.
Sophomore class—Lois Marie Jamison, president; Mary Jane Zollinger, vice-president and Clarence Francisco, secretary-treasurer.
P.W.C.L.
Mary Margaret Gaynor and Thelma Harmon, P.W.C.L. candidates from District I.
Eileen O'Connor, candidate from District III.
W. I.G.S.—Pachacamac
The W.I.G.S.—Pachacamac parties will announce jointly a platform for the 1945 election.
Candidates for all-Student Council are:
Texas Professor Gives Lecture Shows Pictures of Paracutin
District I—Elizabeth Ball, Edith Marie Darby, Dixie Gilliland, Joan Harris, Sarah Marks, Mary Rosenau, Marjorie Shryock, Charles Moffett, and Joseph Bukaty.
District II—Leonard Brown, William Jenson, and Cecil Langford, all V-12 students.
District III—Meredith Gear, Caroline Morriss, and Burnett Replogle.
District IV—Frank Brosius. (continued to page four)
The evolution of Paracutin, famous Mexican volcano, was portrayed in motion pictures and a lecture by Dr. Fred M. Bullard, professor of geology at the University of Texas, in Fraser theater last night.
First Discharged Veterans to Be Returned To Civilian Life by New System Tomorrow
Washington — (INS) — The first veterans to be discharged under the army point system of demobilization, will be returned to civilian life tomorrow, the war department announced today.
The famous Mexican volcano which has destroyed several small towns in its vicinity 200 miles west of Mexico City, first emerged Feb. 20, 1943, and now spreads its lava and ashes from a cone 1,500 feet high.
They are being drawn from among
The first group totaled 2,500 yanks, the announcement said.
Dr. Bullard first visited Paracutin in June, 1943, when the volcano was three months old. In 1944 he lived
The men will be discharged from separation centers now operating at Ft. Bliss, Texas; Camp Chaffee, Ark; Jefferson Bartram, Mao,; Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.; and Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., among others.
the soldiers with long overseas service in all theaters who had been brought back to the United States for rest and recuperation prior to the cessation of hostilities in Europe.
B. J. O'Neal Elected Jay Jane President
The lecture was the final one of the 1944-45 series which are being sponsored by the lecture committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Betty Jo O'Neal, College junior, was elected president of Jay Janes, at a business meeting after the formal initiation dinner at the Colonial tea room last night.
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Other officers are Mary Morrill,
vice-president; Donna Jean Morris,
secretary; Emily Hollis, treasurer;
Nancy Tomlinson, social chairman;
Emily Stacey, notifications chairman;
and Ann Young, publicity chairman.
The pictures displayed lava Bocas at close range, a lava cascade, bombs coming from the crater, and views of advancing lava fronts. One lava flow advanced to within 30 feet of his cabin before stopping.
Cox, Hepworth Are Candidates For Student Council Presidency; May 17 Set for Date of Election
for three months in an observation cabin near the volcano where he took pictures to show the various stages in the development of the cone.
The grove, which will bloom at graduation time, will be a part of the new picnic grounds around Potter lake. The gift will be dedicated to members of the class killed in World War II, whose names will appear on a bronze plaque in the center of the grove.
The Chancellor, who has told the class that their gift will be matched dollar for dollar by the University, said that all future trees added would be planted in the class name. He asked that the class appoint a committee to supervise perpetual care of the trees, which will be planted immediately by the University.
A Senior Cakewalk is being planned for June 9. Ruth Prentice, chairman of the reception and dance committee, announced. Plans for the orchestra dance are being made by the committee together with the Varsity dance committee.
Plays Are Featured At Dramatics Meeting In Fraser Sunday
Mary Jo Cox, Corbin hall, and Eugenia Hepworth, Pi Beta Phi, will represent Independents—P.S.G.L. and W.I.G.S. Pachacamac, respectively, as candidates for All-Student Council president in this year's three party political battle, an oddity in the campus political situation. The election date has been set for
Two one-act plays were given last night by 15 pledges of the Dramatics club in the Little Theater of Green hall.
Seniors Present Crabtree Grove
"A grove of pink and white flowering earbtrets will serve as a living reminder to future classes that there really was a class of 1945," said Robert Buechel, chairman of the senior class gift committee. The trees were chosen as the class gift to the University at a class meeting this morning in Frank Strong hall.
The plays, "Getting Pinned" and "Our Dearest Possession," were selected, cast, and directed by the pledges with no help from the active members of the club or faculty members.
“Our Dearest Possession” was of a serious nature dealing with a controversy between a young widow and her domineering mother-in-law. “Getting Pinned” was a farce during which every girl in a certain house on the campus of a Midwestern college got “pinned.”
The casts included Elizabeth Evans, Joy Godhehere, Grace Piros, Louine Brown, Patricia Graham, Suzanne Hamel, Mary Lou Mathews, Marjorie Dinsmore, William McGarry, Joan Harris, Clyde Jacobs, Ruth Ann Bird, and Lee Baker. Joan Woodward and Rebecca Vallette directed the plays.
P. W.C.L.A Third Factor
P. W. C. L. A. Third Factor
Mary Morrill, president of the Progressive Women's Cooperative League, announced today that her party will continue to remain a third factor in this year's election in an attempt to prevent a Greek-Independent split in campus politics, but will not sponsor a candidate for A. S. C. president.
Announcement Made Jointly
Announcement of candidates was made jointly by the men's and women's presidents of the parties that are backing each other in the political front.
Rosemary Harding, Independent political chairman, and Clyde Jacobs, leader of the Progressive Student Government League, made joint announcement of their party slates as did Patricia Scherrer, president of Women's Independent-Greek Society, and Richard Danneberg, leader of the Pachacamac party. Miss Morrill announced the candidates for P. W. C. L.
Members of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor society, will present their annual vespers in Fraser theater at 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Music Honor Society Will Present Vespers
Anne Krehbiel will open the program with a piano solo, "In Thee Is Joy" (Bach-Busoni) followed by "Bourree," a harp solo by Anabel Keeler; and a piano solo, "Sheep May Safely Graze," by Katharine Kufahl.
A double trio consisting of Eugenia Hepowr, Helen Howe, Marguerite Hedrick, Ellen Utely, Ellen Wagenfield, and Lylas Ruhlen, will sing "Berceuse" (Gretcheninoff) and "A Moonlight Song" (Charles Cadman). Margaret Snodgrass will continue the program with a piano solo, "Rhapsoy in B-flat Minor" (Brahms) followed by "Nocturne in G" a violin solo by Peggy Kay; "Ballade in F Minor", piano solo byorgilia Wenrich; "Capice No. 24", violin solo by Helen Pierson.
An ensemble for violin, cello, and piano, will play "Trio in C Major" (Brahms). Members of the group are Peggy Kay, Martha Lee Baxter, and Margaret Snodgrass.
Kansan Board Approves
Daily Kansan staff appointments were approved Monday afternoon by the Kansan board, Dolores Sulzman, chairman, announced.
Campus editors, Mary Margaret Gaynor, Betty Jennings, Mary Ann Gray, and Betty June Craig; news editor, Dixie Gilland; society editor, Virginia Van Order; sports editor, Loren King; and exchange editor, Pat Penny.