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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945
NUMBER 138
42nd YEAR
Final Commencement Schedule Provides Change of Baccalaureate Service From 9:30 to 11 a. m.
Baccalaureate services, originally scheduled for 9:30 a.m. have been changed to 11 a.m. in the final commencement schedule which has been announced by Dean Gilbert Ulmer, commencement committee chairman. The change to the later hour has been made so that more parents will be able to attend, Mr. Ulmer said.
The activities which will be held Sunday, June 24, are scheduled as follows:
7:30 a.m. Senior Breakfast Kansas room
11:00 a.m. Baccalaureate
Hoch auditorium
2:15 p.m. Alumni association annual meeting,
3:15 p.m. Commencement recital,
School of Fine Arts,
High auditorium
4:45 p.m. All-University Commencement Supper,
8:00 p.m. Commencement,
Meredith
Contact Alumni Office
Dean Ulmer suggests that members of the graduating class who are interested in finding rooms for their parents contact the Alumni office. No hotel rooms will be available.
The class will assemble in Hoch auditorium for the baccalaureate services at 11 a.m. and will wear their caps and gowns.
The traditional smoking of the pipes of peace will climax the senior breakfast. This ceremony is the final bond to unite the senior class of 1945. Don Alderson, class president, said. The class prophecy and the class history will be read at the breakfast.
The School of Fine Arts is preparing the commencement recital with studentd faculty members participating.
Supper Replaces Luncheon
The All-University commencement supper takes the place of the lunch- ench which was formerly held in Rob- binson gymnasium. Members of the senior class and their guests will attend the supper.
The commencement program will begin at 8 p.m. with the tradition march of faculty and students down the Hill from the back of Frank Strong hall to the memorial stadium. The commencement speaker has not been selected.
Old Clothes Drive Nets Ton from Campus
Nearly one ton of clothing was collected in the YWCA drive for used garments last week, Dean Henry Werner announced today.
Included in this total were the 180 pounds of band uniforms and 140 pounds of clothing collected at the L. S. A. party Friday night.
"This quota means about one pound of clothing was donated from each student," Dean Werner said.
Kansan Board Elects New Staff Members
Three new staff members for the Daily Kansan were elected by the Kansan board yesterday, Dolores Sulzman, chairman, has announced.
They are editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Baker, College senior, managing editor, Hanna Hedrick, College junior; and assistant managing editor, Mary Turkington, College junior.
D-Day Called Off
Dandelion Day has been called off, Betty Jo O'Neal, social chairman of the Jay Janes who were sponsoring the day, announced this morning.
"We can't wait indefinitely on the weather and many of the dandelions have gone to seed already." Miss O'Neal explained.
Glee Club to Make Final Appearance In Concert April 30
Eighty members of the women Glee club will present the annual spring concert in Hoch auditorium at 8 p.m. Monday Miss Irene Peabody, director, announced today.
In addition to choral numbers, the program will include a "jam session" by the Navy V-12 band directed by Don Cousins, who is also master-of-ceremonies for the concert.
Selections by the glee club will include "Thus, Then, the Law of Spirit" from "Jesus, Priceless Treasure" (Bach) and "Summer Evening," an old Finnish folk song, featuring Norma Jean Lutz, mezzosoprano, Fine Arts junior.
As an extra attraction on the program, four members of the Glee club will present a comedy skit, "In a Little Red Schoolhouse." They are Martha Laffer, College freshman, Nancy Slater, College freshman, Margaret Hall, Fine Arts senior, and Anne Scott, College freshman.
The spring concert will be the final appearance this season of the Glee club. Student activity tickets will admit. Members of the Phi Mu Alpha, musical sorority, will serve as ushers.
Washington, (INS) — The Senate Military Affairs committee today approved the nomination of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton and Courtney Hodges to be full generals.
Patton. Hodges Are Full Generals
Junction Due With Reds; Yanks Gain on Mindanao
Super Forts Blast Jap Plane Factory 19 Miles from Tokyo
International News Service
American troops in the Philippines surged through Mindanao today for 30 miles and drove a powerful wedge between the Japs on the southernmost island of the archipelago.
Temperature Drops Despite Season
Bitter fighting continued to rage on Okinawa where the United States 10th army maintained its pressure against the Japanese defenses around Naha. There was no indication in the communique of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, however, of any major change in the situation.
Large forces of American superfortresses, estimated to number between 100 and 150, blasted the Japanese Hitichi aircraft factory today only 19 miles west of Tokyo. It was one of the few remaining enemy plane factories which had not previously felt the wrath of American super-fortresses.
"How long can this go on?" students ask one another as they pull sweaters on over their heads. "Spring is here, or hasn't somebody let Mother Nature in on the secret?"
Yesterday the highest temperature was 61 degrees between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. At 7 p.m. it had dropped to the lowest temperature yesterday—48 degrees.
Tomorrow's forecast states that it will be fair and warmer in the east. No rain has been predicted for tonight or tomorrow.
Of the 127 College students who passed the proficiency examination in English composition this semester, five received honor rank in recognition of markedly superior work, Prof. John B. Virtue, chairman of the committee, announced. Those given this honor are Ted Batchelder, Mary Breed, Elinor Kline, Betty Jo O'Neal, and Leon L. Thomas.
Honors Given Five for Work In English Test
This is the first time that special recognition has been given, according to Professor Virtue. He added that the committee felt that the papers were unusually good this time and that recognition of superior work should be made.
Students took the examination on March 17. The College plans to give it again sometime during the summer.
Those passing the examination were: Josephine Abbitt, Barbara Alexander, Margery Ameinre, Larry Arnspiger, Mary Ella Barber, Earl Barney, Ted Batchelder, Rex C. Belisle, Dayle Benscheid, Peggy Sue Biggs, Elizabeth Bixby, Eldo Boehmer, Mary Breed, Alice Louise Brown, Jeanne Branine, Ulyce Luen Buess, Shirley Jean Carl, Ferne Edith Carter.
Patricia Ann Creel, Dorothy Davis, Phyllis Davis, Dorothy Deem Doris Jane Demaree, Robert A Driver, La June Dunn, Rosale Er
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Almost Unknown to 135 Million Truman Becomes Their Leader
Editor's Note: Continued from Wednesday.
By Caswell Adams
Wash. — (INS) — When President Harry S. Truman was chosen vice-president, he said:
"This job has been called the graveyard of politicians. I guess I'm in it."
'Emblem That Nodody Knows' Is Honorable Discharge Button
He belittled himself,but now that
Termed "the emblem that nobody knows," the discharge button will be seen in ever-increasing numbers on the campus and recognition of it is important.
It is the identification of one who has served his country in the armed forces—it is the Honorable Discharge button.
Is this little gold button on the lapel of the civilian coat familiar to you?
The Daily Kansan is joining other publishers in showing this emblem so that you will readily recognize it. The newspaper matrix was furnished by the Publishers' Auxiliary, trade
publication, sponsoring the campaign.
vice-presidential seeming unimportance, but no belittling now.
One of the first men to visit the President's office after he sat at his desk for the first time Friday morning was Secretary of State Stettinius. The Secretary was announced and the President ordered that Mr. Stettinius come in. As the Secretary he has come to the peak job in the world, he feels the weight of the position greatly, also remembers his advanced to the desk, Mr. Truman smiled affably and said:
"I should have kept you waiting. You kept me waiting once for an hour and a half when you were Lend Lease Administrator."
Already the President has startled the secretariat in his office by bobbing out of his chair every so often and wandering out the door into the ante-room where the high officials of the nation wait to see him. He grabs one by the hand and pulls the man into his office.
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Mr. Roosevelt had been virtually a prisoner behind his desk and the men in the reception room could winnow the guests without a word
Soviet Encirclement Of German Capital Almost Complete
International News Service
International News Service Russian soldiers seized the Nazi eagle by the neck and began to ring the life out of it today with almost complete encirclement of Berlin.
British Three Miles from Bremen British troops battling toward Bremen advanced to points within three miles of the southeastern outskirts of the great northern seaport.
With official news of a junction between Soviet and American forces in central Germany expected hourly, Russian tanks rumbled through the streets of the capital six abreast.
Soviet advance guards operating far to the west and southwest of Germany's capital sent wireless messages to the United States first and Ninth armies which said: "Stay where you are. We are coming to meet you."
Stockholm dispatches said the first Ukrainian and first White Russian armies had made a junction in the heart of the capital after swinging around its boundaries north and south.
Close in on Bavaria
A security blackout hit developments on the Italian front, but American and British units were reported advancing up to and probably beyond the Po river on a broad front. British troops stormed Ferrara and American units moved into La Spezia, once Italy's greatest naval base.
In a sweeping drive into Adolf Hitler's Bavarian national redoubt, three large areas of southern Germany already have been isolated by French and American troops closing in on Munich, the birthplace of Nazidom. Latest reports placed advanced allied units only 50 miles from the great city, capital of Bavaria.
Troops of the United States Seventh army and the French First army have captured Ulm on the Danube. Augsburg is now in direct threat of Seventh army troops only 44 miles away while Third army forces are closing in on Regensburg.
Lt. Robert L. Coleman, student at the University from 1940 to 1943 has been missing in action over Germany since April 1, the War Department has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Coleman of Junction City.
Lt. R. L. Coleman Missing in Action
Lieutenant Coleman entered the army air corps as an aviation cadet in February, 1943, during the middle of his junior year at the University. He was serving as editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansan when he left for the service.
A pilot of a P-38 fighter plane, he had been overseas since early in January.
First Building Cost $20,000
Old North College building was built in 1866 at a cost of $20,000.