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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945
NUMBER 145
42nd YEAR
Foresee New German Surrender
Petitions Entered For Independent Primary Slates
All petitions for primary election candidates of the Independent party have been turned in, Rosemary Harding, political chairman, said today.
Mary Jo Cox, Corbin, is the candidate for All Student Council president.
Candidates from the College, district 1, for All Student Council representatives are Jean McIntire. Tipperary; Octavia Walker, 1046 Mississippi; Lois Thompson, Miller hall; Mary Arlene Wisner; Tipperary; Lena Moe, 1245 Oread; Alamada Boller, 833 Indiana; Eumie Carlson, Tipperary; Margaret Wenski, 1234 Oread; Billie Marie Hamilton, 1244 Louisiana.
Betty Copeland, Jolliffe; Julia Fox.
1000 Ohio; Elaine Thalman, 1234
Oread; Donna Wingerson, 1244 Louisiana; Roberta Jacobus, 1245 Oread;
Wilda Vermillion, Locksley; and Pat Graham. Corbin.
Candidates from the Graduate, Pharmacy, Fine Arts, Business, and Education schools are:
Phyllis Hyde, 1221 Oread; Mary Dell Burnside, 1215 Lydas Ruhlen, Watkins; Jean Templeton, Locksley; Helen Howe, 1700 Tennessee; Betty Cunningham, Foster. The senior class officer candidates re Anna Marie Stevens, Watkins; Louise McIntire, Tipperary; and Emily Hollis, Corbin.
Junior class officer candidates are Barbara Burton, 1721; Charlotte Bartley, Foster; Dolores Farrell, Jolliffe; and Jackie Goodell, Foster.
Candidates for the sophomore class officers are Marian Minor, Tipperary; Lois Jamison, 745 Ohio; Lor-
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Blondie Borrows New Account
Wichita, (INS) — Elva Geraldine Wallace, 19, former University student, who left the campus following her arrest at Kansas City earlier in the year, was arrested here yesterday on complaint of Oklahoma City department store owners that she had obtained $400 worth of merchandise from them on other person's accounts.
Police said they understood that the mother was making the payments good and that the girl would be released today.
Organizations wishing to obtain a grade report for their freshmen and sophomores should send statements with these persons when they see their advisers. Grades are to be obtained from the advisers and not from the individual instructors.
Miss Wallace's arrest at Kansas City was for the same complaint. At that time she said she had obtained the materials to serve as Christmas gifts to campus friends.
Underclassmen To See Advisers
The advisers names and their office hours are posted on the bulletin board opposite room 229 in Frank Strong hall. Dean Ulmer urges students to consult this list and select a convenient advisory time early in that three day period so that much of the last day rush can be avoided.
All freshmen and sophomores in the College except V-12 students and veterans must see their advisers on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, announced today.
Organizations may send a list of their, seniors and seniors, who are
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Campus Gets New 200-Ib German Whistle Lugged from Italy by Donor, Capt. Haggart
Carrying a 200-pound whistle 25-000 miles requires a great deal of persistent effort but that is what Capt. Robert A. Haggart, a former student at the University and now of the U.S. Maritime service, succeeded in doing so that the University could have a new whistle.
Captain Haggart and the whistle arrived at the University this morning and immediate preparations are being made to replace the "factory whistle" that now announces the "shift changes" between classes with the new melodious three toned whistle, before VE-day is proclaimed.
Captain Haggart "obtained" the whisle from a 22,000 ton German transport vessel which the Germans scuttled in the Italian harbor of Leghorn when they had to retreat before the Allied forces. As near as the captain could determine, the name of the German vessel was the Orinka II, which had formerly been used in the South American trade and later at the outbreak of the war in transporting troops to Africa Captain Haggart also belives that the
vessel had been used in the evacuation of the Africa corps.
The whistle is an organ type whistle with three tones which can be adjusted to make different chords. It is one of the five whistles which Capt. Haggart and several others salvaged. "The other whistles have all been distributed," the Captain said. They tested the whistle by hooking it up to one of the steam lines on their ship.
Hannegan Is New Postmaster General
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Washington —(INS)— Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic National committee chairman, today prepared to take over his new duties as postmaster general, June 30, following his appointment by President Truman. He succeeds Frank C. Walker, who volunteered his resignation.
Churchill Said To Be in Gemany; Hamburg Taken
Paris, (INS)—Rumors circulated in reliable French circles tonight that the unconditional surrender of German armies in northern Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Norway may be forthcoming soon.
If the negotiations are successful, it is probable that an announcement will be made at the White House in Washington.
The end of the war in Europe grew nearer todaybut Allied armies kept hitting the enemy on all fronts.
(International News Service)
The British Second army forged a new juncture with Russian troops along the Baltic and captured Hamburg, the Reich's greatest port.
1. The London Evening Standard reported that fleeing Nazi soldiers believed a general surrender of the German army has taken place.
However the apparent eminent collapse of German armed might overshadowed for the moment the activities of the armies. Rapid developments included:
2. The semi-authoritative British Press Association reported that Commons was "agog" with speculation over whether Prime Minister Churchill may already be in Germany "for the surrender ceremony."
The reports of the newspapers, however, were totally unconfirmed from Allied headquarters. The possibility Churchill may be in Europe arose after his unexplained absence from Parliament became known.
Rolond Monson, Standard correspondent with the British Second army in the Wismar sector where the Britains made a new link-up with the Reds, said, "Panic-stricken hoards" of enemy troops were pouring into Allied lines, seeking safety from the Russians.
Reports Unconfirmed
Spearheads of the British Second marched into prized Hamburg at noon German time, shortly after the town's radio announced Hamburg would not be defended. The radio then left the air.
The British-Russian juncture near Wismar, between Rostock and Luebeck, gave the Allies control of virtually the entire German Baltic coast. A German pocket in the Schleswig-Holstein sector remained, but it has been cut off.
British Into Hamburg
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In Berlin, the Russians mopped up the remnants of the defeated German garrison. Long streams of enemy prisoners were straggling
Special Whistle To Call V-E Day Convocation
President Vetoes Service Amendment
Plans for the VE-day convocation have been announced by the student-faculty committee in charge of the program.
Following the announcement by President Truman of the unconditional surrender of Germany, the University whistle will blow.
An all-University assembly, with appropriate program, will be held in Hoch Auditorium at 11:30 a.m. the same morning, if the announcement comes before 11:30 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Washington, (INS) — President Truman today vetoed a congressional amendment to the selective service act which would provide deferment of essential farm workers of draft age.
Introduced by Elizabeth Baker, press club president, Mr. Moorhead told of the many famous cases he had covered, including the McErloy napping, the Chester murder, and the
The President in his veto message said, "In time of war, it is the paramount obligation of every citizen to serve his country to the best of his ability."
A fight to override President Truman's veto.
If the announcement comes after 11:30 on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, the assembly will be held the next Monday morning.
Mr. Moohead, who has covered crime news in Kansas City for the past 32 years, said that this upward surge can be attributed to the restlessness of returned servicemen and their longing to continue life in an adventurous vein.
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On the day of the assembly, the 11:30 classes will be dismissed. All other classes will meet as usual.
Moorhead Explains Technique and Cases At Press Club Dinner
The committee in charge of the VE-day assembly is Raymond Nichols, chairman; Lloyd Shafer, freshman in medicine; Marjorie Free. College junior; Elinor Kline, College sophomore; Paul Conrad, College freshman; and Persis Snook, College senior.
An upward surge in crime can be expected with the return of the war veterans, William M. Moorhead, Kansas City Star police reporter, told Press Club members, journalism students, and faculty members gathered at the Colonial tea room last night.
Blackwell Thinks U.S. Looks Good After Three Months Under Nazis
Sgt. Robert Blackwell, former K- U. student, arrived in Lawrence yesterday after three months in a German prison camp.
A machine gunner in the 422nd Infantry regiment of the 106th division, Bob was taken prisoner December 16, the first day of the battle of the Belgian bulge, when his regiment was overwhelmed by a surprise German counter offensive.
"We got to Bad Orb on Christmas day, but we were moved in box cars to the Ziegenhiem camp a month later," Bob, a Sig Alph here from 1941-'43, tells.
Packed 60 to 65 in a car, the men sat huddled together with no room
to move or stretch their legs for five days.
"We'd travel a few miles and then sit off on a siding for what seemed like days. Of course, the Germans didn't care when we got there."
Prison Train Bombed
"We were given one loaf of bread for six men, twice, and a little molasses to put on it, while enroute to the camp." Bob remembers. "The one bottle of water they gave us didn't last long, so we had to moisten our mouths with the frost that our breath formed on the insides of the
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