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Daily Kansan
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42nd YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,TUESDAY,MAY 8,1945
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NUMBER 147
THE NAZIS QUIT V-E DAY
Convocation To Be Today; Class As Usual
Students and faculty will assemble in Hoch auditorium today at 11:30 for an all-University convocation in observance of V-E Day.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will deliver the main address.The program is as follows:
Prelude, Gerald Hamilton, organist.
Hymn, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."
Address, Chancellor Deane W.
Malott.
Hymn, "Traditional Duke Street Hymn."
Benediction, James P. Carey.
ostlude, Gerald Hamilton, organist.
Members of the convocations committee, headed by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, which planned the program are Persis Snook, Elinor Kline, Ted Schafer, Paul Conrad, and Marjorie Free.
Churches to Have V-E Worship Services
The churches of Lawrence will hold worship services at 2 p.m. today in their respective churches or church groups and will follow that with a community service at 8 p.m. in the Community building. Chancellor Malott will speak at the evening service.
Class will be as usual with the exception of the 11:30 hour which will be replaced by the all-school convoitation.
Congregations holding individual services in their own churches will be: Trinity Episcopal, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Trinity Luth-eran, North Lawrence Baptist, St. Luke's A.M.E., Friends, First Baptist and Centenary Methodist.
Combined services will be held as follows: the First Presbyterian and Plymouth Congregational churches, at the Presbyterian church; First Methodist and First Christian at the Methodist church.
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Four congregations, the Free Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, Nazarene and Church of God, will hold
Kansas Hails Her Famed Citizen, General Eisenhower of Abilene
In line with eventual opening of a second European front, the United States War department designated General Dwight D. Eisenhower as commander of the new war theater
He worked summers to finance his college education. Turned down at Annapolis because he was too old, (21), he went to West Point and received his bachelor of science degree in 1915. He joined the 19th infantry at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, after graduation from West Point, and was promoted to a lieutenant in 1916 Just before leaving Texas in 1917 he was promoted to captain.
General Eisenhower. "Ike" to his friends, was born on October 14, 1890, in Tyler, Texas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Eisenhower. "Ike" spent most of his childhood days in Abilene, Kan.
65th battalion engineers at Camp Meade, Md. He was promoted to the temporary rank of major and awarded the Distinguished Service medal at Camp Meade for his "marked administrative ability in the organization and preparation for overseas service of technical troops of the tank corps."
He obtained his pilot's license at the age of 48.
In 1919 Eisenhower organized the
"I'm crazy about flying," he explained to one of his friends. "There's exaltation being up there in the blue all by yourself. If you want to take a look at something, you dive down and look at it. If you don't like it, you soar up and find something else. You can do any darn thing you like."
During the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941, General Elsenhower "kept (continued to page eight)
Fight Ends 4 p.m.; Sunday Set Aside As Day of Prayer
(International News Service)
The most savage, destructive war in European war history will come to an official end today at 4 p.m. C.W.T. when the Germans accepting Allied terms for unconditional surrender will lay down their arms.
Reichsführer Karl Doenitz, successor to Hitler, broadcast the announcement that all guns would be silenced at 11 p.m. British double summertime.
Washington—(INS)—President Truman, speaking to a victorious nation, today told the American people that the hour of complete victory has come in Europe and that Germany has surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces.
At the same time the President directed a grim warning to Japan that now that the war is over in Europe, the greatest military machine in all the world's history will be unloosed upon the Japanese homeland to bring about its utter destruction of unconditional surrender.
"This is a solemn but a glorious hour," he said.
The President sent the nation his victory broadcast at 9 a.m., CWT.
Eisenhower Informs
"General Eisenhower informed me that the forces of Germany had surrendered to the United nations," The President said, "The flags of freedom fly over all Europe."
The unconditional surrender, which ended the war in Europe after five years, eight months, and six days, was signed at Reims, France, at 2:41 a.m., French time, Monday. Col. Gen. Gustav-Jodl, new chief of staff for the German army, signed for Germany. For the supreme Allied command, the surrender agreement was signed by Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff for General Eisenhower.
It was also signed by Gen. Ivan Susloparoff for Russia and by Gen. Francois Sevez for France. General Eisenhower was not present at the signing.
The major reason given for the delay in making the official proclamation of the surrender of Germany and the end of the war in Europe is this: that the German communication system had so badly disintegrated that it required hours to send the proper orders to all of the German commanders fighting in isolated and scattered areas.
Another reason for the delay, as explained by Churchill, was that the Allied powers insisted upon getting a clear-cut surren- (Continued to page eight)