UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945
42nd YEAR
Medic Students Engineers Keep 3-Semester Plan
The School of Engineering will retain the three-semester navy calendar even though other schools of the University will revert to the twoterm basis, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
Army and Navy medical students in the present class and the new class arriving in September will also remain on the three-semester basis, the School of Medicine has announced.
Engineers Use Navy Schedule
Civilian engineers will continue in the same program as the navy, Dean J. O. Jones, School of Engineering said. A new 16-week semester will start in the School of Engineering July 1.
Whether a new V-12 group will enter the University in July has not been officially disclosed yet by the navy office.
In order to synchronize the University schedule with that of the Navy college training program for engineers which began with some 500 trainees atthe University, the first regular 16-week summer session for the engineering students opened July 1, 1943.
Medical School Accelerated
Subsequent semesters for the engineers opened the following November, and March, 1944, which completed the first year of the three-semester plan.
The School of Medicine began June 3, 1942, with an accelerated program which enables students to receive a degree in three years. Students who enrolled then as freshmen in the School of Medicine will graduate this June, instead of the regular graduation in June, 1946.
Y.W.C.A. Election Being Held Today
Election of new Y.W.C.A. officers for next fall is being held today in Frank Strong hall.
The candidates are:
President, Rosalie Erwin and Frances James; secretary, Mary Breed and Mary Wiser; treasurer, Dixie Gilland and Barbara Moffett; student council representative, Emily Stacey and Octavia Walker; district Y.W.C.A. representative, Elizabeth Evans and Fronzena Jackson.
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Two student religious council representatives will be elected from candidates, Julia Ann Casad, Sheila Guise, Charlotte Price, and Marjorie Robbins.
We Can't Stop B-29s, Tokyo Radio Moans
San Francisco—Radio monitors today heard Tokyo's admission that the Americans cannot be stopped and that "Japan faces extermination."
The Japanese broadcast said that the homeland could not cope with the B-29 raids which have made three million Japanese citizens homeless.
honestly.
While Tokyo was bemaoning its fate, B-29's blasted a munitions factory on the island homeland to bits.
One navy spokesman said that Japan's air and naval threat has been reduced to a minimum.
Annual Inspection Of R.O.T.C. to Be Next Monday
The annual inspection of the University's R.O.T.C. senior unit will be held Monday, Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, professor of military science announced this morning.
Col. Malcom E. Craig, director of military training, Headquarters 7th Service Command, Omaha, will conduct the inspection. He will be accompanied by Capt. John Rackley, signal corps.
The inspection is scheduled from 9 to 11:30 a.m. during which infantry drill and practical work in military subjects will be demonstrated. Military classes will be inspected between 1:30 and 3 p.m. All drill and classes will be conducted in the Military Science building.
"The University has always received an excellent R.O.T.C. rating in the past. It is expected that a similar rating will be attained this year although the enrollment due to war-time conditions is extremely small," Colonel McMorris said.
Union Activities Will Give Interviews
Interviews of applicants for the positions of president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer of the Student Union activities will be given within the next two weeks, Eugenia Hepworth announced this morning.
"There have been several good applications from students not previously connected with the Union and we feel that the interviews will help us to decide," Miss Hepworth said.
The interviews will be given by the Union Operating board.
WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy with light rain.
Sour Owl Staff Freed From Ban
Sour Owl staff members are once more participating in student activities from which they were barred last November by University authorities, after publication of the humor magazine. The ban was officially lifted April 10.
The magazine, sponsored by the All-Student Council, was classified as "unavailable" by postal authorities and became the center of an all-university controversy last fall. The staff was barred at that time from all future participation in University activity.
Profits from the magazine were turned over to the all-student council and are at present in a separate fund, according to Persis Snook, council president. No decision has been made as to how the money will be used, she said.
Clark Henry and Harold McSpadden, editors; Bob Ramsey, business manager; Georgia Paulette, secretary; Jason Dixon, photographic editor; Bill Kanaga, feature writer; Bob Cowling, cartoons; J. A. Mayer, ad layout; and Hugh Schirk, advertising manager.
Staff members of the magazine included:
Close Combat Delays Yank-Red Junction
Washington — (INS) — House-to-house and hand-to-hand fighting in the battle for Berlin today appeared to explain the further delay in the "Big Three" announcement of the joining of Russian and American forces in Germany.
Anticipation of the formal announcement of the juncture remains on an hour-to-hour basis.
London reports said it was believed that the Russians had asked that the formal tri-power announcement be withheld until occupation of Berlin by Russian forces is completed.
Almost Unknown to 135 Million, Truman Becomes Their Leader
(Editors Note: Continued from yesterday's Kansan.)
He plays Chopin particularly ex-
Playing the piano is his favorite hobby, and he is proud of the fact that he once took a lesson from the great Ignace Paderewski, who taught him the intricacies of a minuet.
When Mr. Truman, as vice-president, had his picture taken at the Press club here playing a piano, with Lauren Bacall, the movie actress, perched on top of the piano, friends called to warn him of such publicity and he was advised to say that he didn't know the picture was being taken, "I knew it was taken," he answered. "But I had to let the picture be taken or act like an old stuffed shirt."
partly. He has a large collection of records, all classical. He has no use for the popular tunes, but can play them when there's a party and Mr. Truman is brought to the piano for a "sing."
Several weeks later he went to Chicago and his friends gave him a small dinner. When Mr. Truman entered the room, there was a piano in the corner, with a clothing dummy from a department store on top of the piano. Mr. Truman took one look, laughed, and walked straight to the piano and started to bang out some old favorite tunes.
Truman and Stimson Go Into Conference
Spoken and written thoughts that Mr. Truman's lack of contact in the international world would handicap this country were put definitely at rest today by Edward D. McKim, of Omaha, who has watched the presi-
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Washington — (INS) President Truman today made an unscheduled and sudden visit to the war department, where he conferred for about 20 minutes with Secretary of War Stimson and other military leaders.
Shortly after Mr. Truman entered Stimson's office, General George C. Marshall, chief of staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, naval commander-in-chief, joined them.
Yanks Crack Gate To Nazi Redoubt; Push to Danube
Moscow—(INS)—Berlin has been completely encircled by Russian troops, Premier Joseph Stalin announced tonight in a special order of the day.
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In the wake of giant British planes that showered six-ton earthquake bombs on Adolph Hitler's mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden, fast-moving American troops cracked open the gateway to Germany southern redoubts today.
Last year he was unable to speak since he was detained in a Japanese concentration camp, where he was placed after giving Emperor Hirohito a hot-foot during a gin-rummy game.
Since Mr. Zilch's escape from the prison camp, he has been covering the fighting fronts in Germany for the Daily Bleat, where he has gained a name for himself by Roman-riding two tanks at once.
However, Eleanor Zilch, his wife, substituted for him at the dinner, which is the most elaborate banquet known to civilized Kansas.
Announcement that the biggest bombs of Britain's arsenal had been dropped on Hitler's notorious villa and S.S. guard barracks nearby followed disclosure that U. S. Third army units had reached the Danube, the principal natural line of defense guarding southern Germany's "inner fortress."
Elmer A. Zilch Rides Once More On Army Trucks
The doughbys affectionately call him "Gluefoot Zilch."
When Mr. Zilch traveled here by dog-sled in 1941, it was his first visit to the Middle West. Believing that he would have to "rough" it, he pitched a tent near the journalism building and lived on a week's supply of canned goods and water.
The journalism department has received word that Elmer A. Zilch, the patron saint of journalism and editor of the New York Daily Bleat will be in Lawrence May 9 to speak at the annual Zilch dinner.
Mr. Zilch, who is famed for his discovery of type lice and the invention of the Zilch Zippy linotype, first spoke to journalism students and faculty members in 1941. Since then his visit has become an annual event.
Mr. Zilch's regular visit and the Zilch dinner are annual affairs, sponsored by the journalism department.
Polish Issue Claims 'Big Four' Attention
San Francisco — (INS) — Leaders of the "Big Four" delegates resumed their conferences here today on the Polish representation issue and other pressing matters concerning the establishment of a peace organization.
Meanwhile government leaders of 46 United Nations marshalled in the midst of mankind's greatest carnage to open the historic congress today for the outlawing of future war.
K C U. Dames, Organization for married women students or wives of students, was formed here in 1910.
The conference opens at 6:30 p.m. C.S.T. Secretary of State Stettinius will preside. His first act will be to introduce President Harry S. Truman, who in a speech broadcast from Washington will welcome the delegations to America.
K. U. Dames Organized 1910
In Berlin, subways became the leading battleground of Europe. Soviets Hold Half of Berlin
Soviet troops, already in possession of one-half of Germany's blazing capital, and forging a steel ring around the rest of it, plunged underground in pursuit of Nazi forces fighting a last-ditch battle.
Concrete information on the progress of fighting was meager. The Hamburg radio reported the Russians had broken through German defense lines near the Ostkreutz station.
The Soviet high command confirmed previous dispatches disclosing that troops of the first White Russian army and those of the First Ukrainian army had linked up inside Berlin.
Patton Near Austrian Border
Coincident with a British Second army offensive against the oncegreat North Sea port of Bremen, American forces under command of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton reached points within 18 miles of the Austrian border.
Student recitals will be resumed tomorrow with nine members of the School of Fine Arts performing at 3:30 p.m. in Fraser theater.
German resistance in Italy crumbled following allied crossing of the Po river in force, and thousands of prisoners were taken. The war in the Pacific was confined to mopping up operations against the Japanese on Okinawa and the Philippines.
Instrumental Quartet Will Be Featured On Student Recital
Marjorie Cooper, junior, will open with a piano solo "Humoreske" (Rachmaninof); Leona Moreland senior, will sing "Die Jungle Nonne" (Schubert); and Lucile Rothenberger, sophomore, will continue the program by playing "Sonata. Opus 81" (Beethoven). Frances Hodges, freshman, will play "Chaconne" (Durand-Salvedo) on the harp.
Patricia Burke Cloud, freshman, will sing "Oh Patria Mi'n" from the opera "Aida" (Verdi). An ensemble with Margaret Snodgrass, piano; Peggy Kay, violin; Ruth Russell, viola; and Martha Lee Baxter, 'cello; will close the program. They will play "Piano Quartet in G minor" (Brahms).
There will be another recital next week. The following Thursday Prof. C. P. Osborne, philosophy department, will talk to students of the School of Fine Arts on the "Problems of the Aesthetics."
Hitler Reported Injured
Stockholm - Wholly unconfirmed reports reaching here today claimed Adolf Hitler had been injured in an "accident" during the Berlin fighting.