U.S., British, Red Armies Join
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945
42nd YEAR
NUMBER 141
Off to the San Francisco world organization conference went Eloise Knox of Topeka, as a group of fellow students in the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas stand by. She is representing their paper, the University Daily Kansan, as staff correspondent at the security meeting.
Miss Knox is a graduate of Eskridge, Kansas, high school and is a former student of Strickler business college, Topeka. Other students in the picture (LEFT TO RIGHT): Eleanor Albright, Winfield; Eliabeth Baker, Larned; Mary Morrill, Hiawatha; Jane Anderson, Lawrence; Louise Schiesser, Eskridge; Joanne Hayden Cates, Mission; and Marjorie Skeen, Eskridge.
West Will Give Baccalaureate
The Rev. Samuel E. West, St.
James Episcopal church, Wichita,
will deliver the baccalaureate sermon in Hoech auditorium, at 11 a.m.
June 24. Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
The commencement speaker has not been selected.
The All-University commencement supper, replacing the luncheon held in previous years in Robinson gymnasium, will be in the Memorial Union ballroom. Members of the graduating class and their guests will attend.
Graduates who are interested in finding rooms for their parents and guests should contact the alumni office, room 226, Frank Strong hall, since no hotel accommodations will be available. ___
Sigma Xi Elects Nine New Members
Membership in Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific society, was attained by nine persons Thursday night at a meeting of the society.
The six persons elected to full membership are C. Phillip Kaiser, graduate student working on a doctor's degree in the geology depart-
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Women's Glee Club To Give Year's Final Performance Monday
"K.U. and You," a bulletin describing courses, special services, and activities at the University, is being mailed today by the public relations bureau to 16,000 graduating seniors in every Kansas high school.
The Women's Glee club, which is giving its last performance of the year at 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium, has received favorable recognition from recent performances.
The bulletin includes an invitation from Chancellor Deane W. Malott and the deans of the nine schools, for high school seniors to write to the K.U. registrar for further information about K.U..
Chancellor Sends Bulletin Over State
Winter General hospital, Topkea where the club appeared, has asked for a return performance. The captain in charge at the hospital feels that it is the right kind of program
Walter Martie and his band, from St. Joseph, Mo., will play for the dance in the lounge of the Memorial Union building from 8:30 to 11:30. The queen and two attendants will be crowned at intermission. Every person attending the dance will have one vote for the queen, Jack Nichols said.
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The folder includes pictures of the chancellor, the deans, an air view of the campus, scenes of student activities, and a sketch of the Danforth chapel to be constructed on the campus.
Candidates for the title of "Sweetheart" of the I.S.A. semi-formal Sweetheart Dance on May 12 have been named by Jack Nichols, president.
The 10 candidates are Giselle Roy and Willa Wolfe, Corbin hall; Pat Dodge, Tippinger; Ruth Brown, Locksley hall; Gracie Piros; Miller; Lula Hughes, Watkins; Elizabeth (Betty) Young, Jolliffe; Mary K. Booth, Foster; Mary Olive Marshall, College senior, and Elemor Albright, College senior, representatives of the unorganized independents.
Queen Names For ISA Dance Are Announced
Goering Reported Executed
Each candidate was selected by her individual house and the representatives of the unorganized independents were chosen by a committee of the I.S.A. council.
London — Herman Goering, head of the Nazi air force, was reported today to have been executed. The Hamburg radio said he had resigned following a heart illness.
V-E 'Draws Near' As Eisenhower Tells of Junction
(International News Service)
Washington, April 27 (INS)—President Truman today announced the long expected junction of American and Soviet armies at Torgau, on the Elbe river, 75 miles south of Berlin.
The President tersely asserted, "The enemy has been cut in two!"
The juncture took place when patrols of the two armies met at 2:40 p.m. EWT April 25.
A junction in force of large units of the two armies followed at 2 p.m. EWT yesterday (April 26).
Units of the American 69th Division were the first to meet the Soviet armies.
President Truman said that the junction does not mean that the hour of final victory in Europe is here, but, he declared "The hour draws near."
The President called upon the American nation not to relax efforts on the home front in any manner until our enemies are finally subdued in Europe and in the Pacific.
Mr. Truman hailed the junction of the Anglo-American armies with the Soviet forces as a "great triumph of Allied arms and Allied strategy" and "a tribute to the courage and determination of Franklin Roosevelt as no words could ever speak."
Simultaneous announcement of the junction but with different statements were made also in London and Moscow.
Summer School Schedule Has Three Programs
If demands warrant it, an intercession of four weeks will be offered beginning Aug. 20 and continue to Sept. 15 for veterans and pre-induction students desiring additional credit before entering the armed services.
Three programs will be offered this summer at the University, J. W. Twente, director of the summer session, announced today. An eight weeks session will begin June 26 and end Aug.18. A sixteen weeks session to begin July 2 will continue through Oct.20.
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armed services.
Courses will be offered in 30 departments, chiefly for advance students and teachers, Dean Twente said, but there will be courses available to entering freshman, also.
able to entering freshman The summer session schedule will be released next week and may be obtained at any dean's office.
The William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry contest closes at noon Tuesday and manuscripts should be submitted to the chancellor's office before that time, John E. Hankins, professor of English, reminded students this morning.
Poems may be of any length or classification but no contestant may submit more than one poem. No poem previously published will be admitted to the competition. All resident students regularly enrolled
For further information students may write or apply at the office of the summer session director, room 103, Fraser.
Poetry Contest to End Tuesday Noon; Prizes Awarded in June
The battle of Germany moved into its final stage today with official announcements in London, Washington, and Moscow that American, British and Soviet armies have joined hands at Torgau, on the Elbe river.
Formal announcement was made in the three major world capitals the moment Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flashed word from his supreme headquarters in Paris that an initial patrol junction expected on Wednesday had been expanded into a solid, unbreakable fusion of Angle-American-Russian solidarity.
At the same time American Third army troops rolled over the Austrian frontier today in a giant thrust which saw cooperating columns capture and outflank Regensburg, key point in the German defense line. Regensburg fell to the 65th and 71st Infantry Divisions at 3 p.m. (9 a.m. EWT).
Yanks Maneuver Against Redoubt The assault into Austria, the first independent nation swallowed up by Hitler, heightened the growing threat to southern Germany's so-called national redoubt. Third army troops moved to positions within 85 miles of Soviet units operating against the redoubt from the east. Third Army into Austria
The Austrian frontier was crossed a few miles west of the points where Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany meet. Patton's troops speared inside for six miles under the first impetus of their fresh thrust. The Seventh army neared Augsburg in its penetration of the redoubt area.
American Delegates Parley on Trusteeship
San Francisco, (INS) — A "clean up discussion" of the important international trustee question occupied the American delegation to the United Nations conference after a late night session with high-ranking navy and army advisors.
The delegation adjourned a two and one half hour closed door discussion at 11 p.m. (PWT) to return
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