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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1945
NUMBER 140
42nd YEAR
'Phog' Thanks Faculty, Students For Generosity
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, chairman of the campus Red Cross drive, said today he wished to express his "hearty thanks" to those who had been so generous and cooperative in making the Red Cross drive a success.
Dr. Allen said he felt the contributions were exceptional with the reduced personnel, especially military and naval, from last year. He highly commended the students on their part.
Dr. Allen commented that he had not set a quota for the campus drive for he felt that all K. U. students and faculty could be relied upon to contribute intelligently to drives of this kind.
Faculty donations were $2,710.50.
and students contributed $1,473.37
a total of $4,183.87. Last year's
drive netted $4,555.11.
"Had we had the same number of persons on the campus this year as last, 'Im sure we would have exceeded last year's total,' Dr. Allen said.
"Many faculty members and their wives contributed generously downtown, too," he added, "and we weren't able to count these contributions on the Hill total."
Jay Janes Donate $100 to Stadium Debt
The Jay Janes will give a $100 bond in the current drive to erase the Memorial stadium debt, Mary Olive Marshall, president announced today.
The Jay Janes voted to give the bond in compliance with E. C. Quigley's request that various student organizations on the Hill aid in the drive. The bond will be presented to Mr. Quigley sometime next week, Miss Marshall said.
The formal spring intiation of Jay Jane pledges will be held Thursday, May 10, Miss Marshall also announced. The initiation dinner, followed by the formal ceremony, will be held at the Hearth.
Dance proceeds from the All-University dance to be sponsored on May 4 by the Student Union activities will go into the Danforth Chapel fund, Eugenia Hepworth, president, announced.
Dance Proceeds To Be Given to Fund
The informal dance will be in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. The Navy V-12 band will furnish the music.
In addition to dancing there will be added attractions which have not yet been announced. ___
Headquarters for the I. S. A. and Independents have been set up next to the Jayhawk office in the subbasement of the Union, Rosalie Erwin, Independent president said today.
I.S.A. Headquarters Located in Union
The office, which has been remodeled, opened Monday morning to take care of business for the two organizations.
University Receives Grant of $52,257 For Nursery Project
The University has received a federal grant of $52,257, allotted by the Federal Works agency, to cover cost of maintenance and operation of child care projects in Lawrence and at Sunflower Village, Senator Arthur Capper has announced.
The fund will aid in the maintenance and care of the 247 children served by the five units, according to Mrs. Ralph W. Bunn, administrative director of the University Nursery schools. The grant will cover the period ending June 30, 1945.
The child care program, which includes five units in Lawrence and Sunflower Village, is sponsored by the University. The nurseries in Lawrence are located at the Unitarian church, 1201 Vermont street, and the University Nursery school, 1100 Missouri street.
A double nursery school and an extended care school are the three units at Sunflower Village.
K.U. Has Second Largest Circulating Film Library
Rainfall Occurs On Half of Days In This Month
Mr. Montgomery became interested in the showing of pictures as a sideline to his teaching. The University has had a Bureau of Visual Instruction for 38 years, having its beginning in 1907. In the department there are only five full time people and 20 assistants. This department now ranks second in its size to all departments of its kind in the United States. All Educational Films
A motion picture running 24 hours a day for a month could be shown by the Bureau of Visual Instruction if its complete library of 4,000 reels was placed end to end in one continuous film, Fred S. Montgomery, director of the Bureau, said today. And, he added, the subjects would include everything "from molecules to mountains, from Hannibal to Hitler."
All the films that the department handles are educational ones. The department has an estimate of 4,000 reels and the Museum of Modern Art has about a half million feet of film. The department has shipped some 25,000 reels to 41 states, most of these going to schools, churches, and other various organizations. To acquire a motion picture a certain
The total rainfall from 7 a.m. yesterday until the rain stopped last night was 1.42 inches, according to Prof. C. J. Posey, cooperative weather observer. So far in April, rain has fallen on 14 out of the 28 days.
Cancellation of the Adele Anderson recital was announced by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts today.
Anderson Recital Tomorrow Cancelled
The sun has, temporarily, at least, replaced the rain and cool winds that have prevailed during the past several days.
Miss Anderson, soprano, was to appear tomorrow in Fraser theater for a short voice recital. She received word today that her mother is critically ill following a heart attack and is returning immediately to Seattle.
However, with four days remaining in the month there is still a chance of overtaking the record rainfall of 9.11 inches for the month which fell in April, 1944.
The Little Blue river was a half foot over its banks at Hanover last night, and the Neosho river was still flooding at Parsons and Oswego. A bridge between Ottawa and Garnet on the Mariais des Cygnes river has been washed out, and buses are running behind schedule because of the detour they are forced to make, according to information received from the bus depot.
The artist was in Kansas City for a recital yesterday, and after visiting here was to go to New York for an audition with the Metropolitan opera company.
Miss Anderson was to have been the guest of Miss Mabel Elliott, professor of sociology.
fee is charged according to the desired picture.
The Bureau of Visual Instruction now handles only 16 millimeter films. This size film is not very inflammable because it is a safety size film, but when it gets extremely hot it will melt.
Mr. Montgomery thinks that the showing of motion pictures is doing a magnificent job to educate the people. Showing motion pictures builds attitudes, teaches skills, creates by animation, and can recreate It is a proved fact that more ques
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Erwin Heads New Y.W.C.A. Officers
New Y. W. C. A. officers for next fall were elected yesterday, Lonnie Kelley, president, announced today.
They are president, Rosalie Erwin; vice-president, Frances James; secretary, Mary Wisner; treasurer, Dixie Gilliland; student council representative, Emily Stacey; district Y. W. C. A. representatives, Elizabeth Evans.
The two representatives for the student religious council are Charlotte Price and Marjorie Robbins.
Russians Storm Heart of Berlin As Reuters Reports Yank-Soviet Link-up on Central German Front
There were bright prospects that the "big four" would lead the 46 delegations to early solutions of the confrontial trusteeship, Polish and Argentine issues.
(International News Service)
The Russian "three vote" bid and the veto power of the "big five" in the security council are equally important. However, they are not likely to be settled in the early days of the conference.
Russian troops stormed through the heart of Berlin, almost to within hand grenade range of their main objective—Adolph Hitler's chancellery on the Wilhelmstrasse.
Moorhead To Speak At Journalism Dinner
William B. Moothead, who has been the Kansas City Star police reporter for more than 32 years, will speak next Wednesday to members of the journalism department at a dinner at the Colonial tea room.
San Francisco, (INS) — The United Nations conference for a new world security organization moved solomly toward its first business session today under a plea from President Truman to give suffering humanity a "better world" with enduring peace.
Big Four Solemnly Begins Business Session Today
The newspaper Red Star, official organ of the Russian army, reported that the Soviets now are in the geographical center of Berlin, closing in on high-ranking administrative buildings which the Nazis defended with grim tenacity.
Postoffice Carries On Duties Over Difficulties Caused By War
Recently he turned teacher, and lectures to fledgling policemen in Kansas City courts, giving them his slant on the crime job and the policeman's lot, gained from his own experience.
Already the enemy capital has been encircled, and to the west, the Russian plunged 24 miles and overran the town of Ketzin, less than 35 miles from the Elbe river.
Mr. Moorhead, a native of Kansas City, has worked with 16 police chiefs and many hundreds of policemen and detectives during his many years of news coverage.
"All of us are working over time these days, from a few minutes to
"Women say mail carrying is too hard work," one of the postoffice personnel declared today, concerning the manpower shortage. "But we've lost only two carriers, and with the aid of school boy substitutes we manage wartime mail without feminine help," he added.
A Reuter's dispatch from supreme headquarters said that a
The Lawrence postoffice, busy with increased mail from the Sunflower Ordnance works and servicemen, is continuing without curtail- ing regular services.
as much as four hours," the assistant, who has been with the postoffice since 1922, explained.
"The biggest loss in help has not been among the carriers as much as the clerks."
Increase in Stamp Sales
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Seven clerks have left their jobs, making it hard to keep all stamp windows open. There is an increase of stamp customers, the sale amounting to about $20,000 in the past year. The mail deliveries are made by 17 carriers and two parcel postmen, the
large scale link-up between
lied and Soviet armies along
scores of miles of the central
German front "appears to have
taken place."
It is believed in Paris "that the official announcement is at hand," Reuters said.
Hitler's Redoubt Under Pressure
Hitler's Redoubt Under Pressure Hitler's much touched national redoubt came under increasing pressure from the west when Gen. George S. Patton's Third army crashed to within 78 miles of Berchtesgaden and to some 11 miles from the Austrian frontier.
V-Bomb Attacks on England Cease In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced to Commons that Nazi V-bomb attacks on southern England and the British capital have ceased. Simultaneously, the security blackout covering details of these assaults was lifted partially and correspondents reported 1050 V-2 bombs hit Britain killing 2754 persons and injuring 6523. The assaults started Sept. 8, 1944, and ended last March 27.
In northern Italy, German control seemed to be disappearing. Both Genoa and Turin were reported liberated by Italian patriots and street fighting was said to be in progress inside Milan.
The Americans crossed the Danube at three places, while far to the north the British Second army occupied Bremen and pushed ahead in fighting nearly as bitter as that facing the Russians in Berlin.
Advancing Allied armies pushed northward from the Po river toward the Brenner pass, sweeping beyond Mantua to points within less than 20 miles from Verona.
BULLETIN
New gains were made on northern Luzon Islands. On Okinawa also American marines pushed ahead but their progress was slow and Japanese defense bitter.
New York, (INS) — The Swiss Telegraph agency said today that it had received "reliable reports" that Benito Mussolini had been captured by Italian patriots in the town of Pallanza on the west shore of Lake Maggiore.
The Swiss dispatch, disclessed by the O. W. I., said that the report indicated that Mussolini reached Fallanza after fleeing from Milan.
Moscow, (INS) — The Capture of Brutenn, in Czechoslovakia, was announced tonight by Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin in his second special order of the day. The first announced the fall of Stettin, Baltic port for Berlin.