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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
2nd YEAR
Brownout Lifted for Nation; Civilians to Have More Gas
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,WEDNESDAY, MAY 9,1945
NUMBER 149
Washington—(INS)—War mobilier Fred M. Vinson today lifted the midnight curfew and the ban on horse racing in disclosing a broad 10-point home front program for the war against Japan. One high point as the announcement that there will be from 8 to 16 per cent more gasoline available for civilian use.
The flood lighting of the Washington monument and the capitol dome night told Washington that the coal browntown was over. The dome will be darkened again today as it as been since Pearl Harbor but brownout regulations for the public at large are lifted permanently.
More 'A' Gasoline
BOFA and the petroleum administration said the predicted 50 percent increase in A-card gasoline stations probably must wait 30 days least, pending studies of army and navy fuel needs. Except possibly
for tires, no other alleviations of rationing now is in sight.
No Conventions Yet
The office of Defense Transportation said it was not "even considering" lifting the prohibition against conventions, because the transportation problem will grow more serious as emphasis shifts to the Pacific war.
A spokesman said OPA in general would stand by its policy of holding reconversion prices on washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and other long absent goods to the 1942 level.
Metnowhile the war department today advised all the theater of war commanders to put into effect the new selective service provision that 18-year-old inductees are to have six months of training before going into combat. The message went immediately after President Truman signed the law at the White House.
Student Generation Has Greatest Peace Interest, Chubb Says
"It is to your generation that aasting world peace means most," Prof. H. B. Chubb, state and local chairman of the Americans United World Organisation, told students meeting to plan campus organi in the Union building Monight.
Messor Chubb urged students to attend the community Americans United forum which will be in the Liberty Memorial High school auditorium, May 15.
Charles Sessions
The group, composed of representatives of the Men's Inter-fraternity, (continued to page four)
Chapultepec Security Pact Is Authorized
San Frisco—(INS)—Latin America won a momentous victory in the United Nations conference today when the United States agreed to authorize the use of the Chapultepec security pact to suppress local aggression in the western hemisphere. This means the nations of the western hemisphere can maintain peace among themselves without obtaining unanimous approval of the "big five" or the world security council before acting.
Hemorrhage Fatal to Dr. Henry
Dr. J. B. Henry, a graduate of the University's School of Medicine in 1903, died of a cerebral hemorrhage yesterday at the Lawrence Memorial hospital.
Haggart Explains New K.U. Whistle To Council President in Ceremonv
The 200-pound whistle which was salvaged by Captain Haggart from a German transport sunk in Leghorn harbor, Italy, has been used on the campus to announce the University's V-E Day assembly and is now in operation to announce the between classes periods. University authorities and students are not yet satisfied with the German tones produced in its three organ-like tone chambers.
The new whistle for the University and how it works is demonstrated to Persis Snook, president of the All-Student council by the donor of the gift, Capt. Robert A. Haggart, U.S. Maritime service, in the acceptance ceremony held on the campus last week.
and it will be over-hauled before it entirely replaces the old "factory" whistle which has announced changes in classes at K.U. for twenty-two years.
Captain Haggart salvaged the whistle while serving on the S.S. Cleveland Abbe of the American President Lines. Present for the presentation ceremonies were Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Miss Snook, Dewey Nemec, Eugenia Hepworth, Earl Barney, Marge Free, and Apprentice Seaman,
Sessions Elected To Kansas Hall of Fame
Charles H. Sessions, former managing editor of the Topeka Daily Capital, has been elected to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame, Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the department of journalism has announced.
A photograph of the editor will be added to the collection of 27 portraits in the Journalism building news room who have been elected since the Hall of Fame started in 1931.
Mr. Sessions died in Topeka on Christmas day, 1942, after 54 years of newspaper work. He had been managing editor of the Daily Capital since 1919 except for three years when he was postmaster at Topeka.
He was Secretary of State for Kansas for two terms, 1911-15, and served as secretary to two governors. He was a member of the Kansas State Utilities commission from 1917-19. He has also been director of the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Free Fair, the Topeka Chamber of Commerce, and of Capper Publications, Inc.
"Topeka Tinklings," his column contained contributions from many Kansas readers and other editors frequently quoted from it.
Harris Has Charge Of Convocation Stage
The stage in Hoch auditorium was arranged for the V-E Day convocation by Hallie Harris, Buildings and Grounds custodian.
The two extreme ends of the band risers had to be removed to pull the blue curtain for the background against which the 8 by 12 foot American flag was dropped from the center. Screens were used to "camouflage" the risers behind the flag and to complete the setting the 38 United Nations flags were carried over from Frank Strong hall. These flags were placed in their standards with 19 flags flanking each side of the stage.
Europe 'At Peace'; Guerilla Fighting Still Continues
(International News Service)
Europe embarked on its first whole day of peace in more than five and one-half years today when the guns of war in the continent's most bloody conflict were officially silenced at midnight.
But the problems left in the wake of war furnished emphatic evidence that Europe's troubles did not end when Germany signed a final document of unconditional surrender.
Renegade German fliers attacked Prague and other areas of Czechoslovakia in the hours preceding the arrival of Soviet forces which liberated the country.
Sixteen Enter Carruth Contest
There were street riots in Oslo and Copenhagen.
Sixteen entries to the Carruth Memorial Poetry contest have been received from University students John E. Hankins, professor of English, has announced. Awards of $50, first prize, $25, second prize and $15, third prize will be made this June.
Leslie L. Rutledge, 32, and Robert Penn Warren, novelist, poet, and critic have been selected as judges for the contest.
The United States Seventh army inherited a problem of its own with the capture of Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Goering. $ ^{ \mu} $ is, in all probability now war criminal number one.
Leslie A. Rutledge received his bachelor of arts degree at this university in 1932, his master of arts in 1933, and his doctor of philosophy from Harvard in 1938. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, from which he is on leave of absence to do war work in Washington.
Robert Penn Warren has taught English at Louisiana State university, Iowa university, and Minnesota university. He is now on the staff of the Library of Congress.
Local committee members include John E. Hankins, Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, Miss Rose Morgan, and Haldeen Braden. English professors.
Names of prize winners will appear on the commencement program. A volume of poetry will be presented to each contestant awarded honorable mention.
Pan-Hell to Sponsor Spring Formal Party
The Lawrence high school dance band will play for the dance.
The spring formal of the Women's Pan-Heilenic association will be held in the Military Science building from 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday, Jane Miller, president, announced today.
Chaperones are Mr. and Mrs. Corlett Cotton, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Steeper, and Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Woodruff.
Invitations have been extended to all members of women's greek social organizations at K.U.
McMorris to Omaha For Army Conference Of 7th Service Area
Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, military science professor, has been called to Headquarters, 7th Service command, Omaha, Neb., for a conference with the commanding general of the 7th Service area.
All post commanders in the 7th Service command will take part in this conference on army matters scheduled for Thursday and Friday, Colonel McMorris said. Colonel McMorris will return to the University Saturday morning.
Goring started his career as a prisoner with a fanciful tale to the effect that Hitler had sentenced him to death on April 24, but that he had escaped with the aid of his "own" airmen.
Field Marshal Albert Kesesch, German commander-in-chief on the Western Front since early in March, also was captured.
With President Truman's ultimatum to Japan for unconditional surrender still ringing throughout the world, American forces and those of their Allies hammered relentlessly at the Japs in the Pacific.
In Moscow and throughout Russia celebrations of the tremendous victory over shattered Germany were in full swing. The Russians were not told officially of the complete capitulation until the early hours of this morning, Premier Stalin preferring to await the signing of the ratification of the surrender terms in Berlin before proclaiming final victory.
The increasing attention to early victory that will be given there was highlighted by a formal announcement by Gen. Harold McNarney, Allied commander in the Mediterranean that American veterans of the Italian campaign are already on their way to the Pacific.
E.S.M.W.T. Program To Be Discontinued On June 30
The Engineering - Science - Management War Training program of the extension division will be discontinued on June 30. Chancellor Deane W. Malott has announced.
The program, beginning in December, 1940, has had an enrollment of 50,000 with classes in 41 cities in Kansas and in four of the larger cities in Missouri.
The program started as engineering defense training and by July, 1941, 3500 persons were enrolled in war production courses designed to train them for production of war materials. 12,060 Persons Were Enrolled
In July, 1941, the program expanded and was called the Engineering - Science - Management Defense Training." During 1941, 12,000 persons were enrolled. In 1942 the name was again changed to "Engineering - Science - Management War Training." Approximately 18,000 persons were accepted from July, 1942, to January 30, 1943.
"The University is proud of the opportunity that the federal government gave us to participate in the war program," Chancellor Malott said. "Although the government provided funds the University was in complete charge of the educational program."
100 Instructors Appointed
During the course of the program (continued to page three)