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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, APRIL 23.1945
NUMBER 137
42nd YEAR
Americans Make New Landings Around Okinawa
International News Service
The fierce battle for the island of Okinawa, 325 miles south of the main Jap home island, took a new turn today when American amphibious forces made new landings on islands bracketing the battle area.
Take Banare, the first of the islands, which was invaded Sunday, was reported captured while half of Sesoko, the second island, was in American hands at last reports. On Okinawa itself the bloody fight for Naha continued with unabated fury, and the Americans were meeting with frantic resistance at all points.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique issued in Manila reported fresh advances by American troops invading Mindanao, southernmost and second-largest of the Philippine islands.
Staples Is K-Club Queen, Attendants O'Conner, Gillespie
Polly Rye Staples, College sophomore and Delta Gamma pledge, was crowned K-Club queen by Gov. Andrew Schoepel at the K-Club dance in the Memorial Union ballroom Saturday night with a wreath of white carnations.
Miss Staples and her two attendants, Jane Gillespie, Pi Beta Phi, and Eileen O'Connor, Kappa Alpha Theta, were introduced by Gordon Reynolds, queen selection committee chairman. Miss Staples was presented a bouquet of white snap-dragons, and her two attendants received red carnation bouquets.
Miss Staples is from Ft. Madison, Iowa. Miss Gillespie, College junior is from Sioux City, Iowa, and Miss O'Connor, Fine Arts freshman, is from Wichita.
Les Brown and his band played for dancing from 8 to 12 p.m.
Guests included Gov. and Mrs.
Schoeppel, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Quigley,
Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Allen, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Shenk, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Schaake, and Mr. and Mrs.
Broderick Johnson.
Henry Smith Honored With'45 Guggenheim Fellowship Award
Before his service in the Navy, he was assistant professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota. After the war, Lt. Comm. Smith plans to carry on, during his post-service Fellowship year, studies of America's part in the development of world air routes and of the history of our foreign air policy.
Lt. Comm. Henry Ladd Smith, a former faculty member of the department of journalism at the University, has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship award for 1945.
He is the author of "Airways: The History of Commercial Aviation in the United States."
E. D. Stouffer, dean of the graduate school, was the first person from the University to receive a Guggenheim award. He studied mathematics in Italy in the middle 1920's
The provisions of the award are that all expenses will be paid during one year of study.
Prof. Manuel Maldonado-Koredell, Mexican scholar, who came to the University last October, is the first of the Guggenheim scholars to study here.
Browning to Head Ottawa Department
Flies Over Hump She had flown "the Hump" from China into India, where she had to wait four months for passage to the United States. Her parents, Dr. and
Dr. Roy W. Browning, field representative of the University extension division, has been appointed head of the department of education an psychology at Ottawa university, A. B. Martin, president, has announced.
Dr. Browning received his bachelor of arts degree at the University in 1920 and later his master of arts and doctor of education in the fields of administration and curriculum. At the University he has been assistant in education, with curriculum laboratory, in the School of Education, and with the bureau of correspondence study of the extension division.
Visitor From Chengtu Relates Many Interesting Experiences Of Her Life and Travels
At Ottawa university he will teach courses in education and psychology and will have charge of teacher placement and follow-up. He will also be director of admissions for the college.
Washington—(INS)—Truman sud-
denly summoned the naval and mili-
tary high command to a White
House conference at 2 o'clock EWT
this afternoon. The conference was not on Truman's regular calling list for the day.
Truman Calls Emergency Meet
The troop ship, on which she returned to the United States carried wounded men and soldiers returning on furloughs, and docked at Los Angeles on February 28.
Flies Over "Hump"
Blond, attractive, green-eyed Jean Graham, 18, of Chengtu, China, smiled with an "I've done this before" expression as she told about her travels which have taken her to all parts of the world. Miss Graham came to Lawrence to visit Elizabeth Baker, College junior, for the weekend.
"When I arrived in Los Angeles I just walked around and looked in the store windows," Jean said. "They were wonderful. You don't see things like that in China." She laughed and added, "I was almost afraid to cross the street."
Mrs. David C. Graham, will remain in China for another four years.
She remarked about how good the hamburgers in the United States tasted, especially after the buffalo meat that she had to eat in India. "The Red Cross met us when we got off the ship with ice cold glasses of milk and I filled up on it. In India I
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Red Flag Raised in Berlin As Russians Overrun City
Chemistry Will Revolutionize Daily Life
-VanderWerr
Recent discoveries in chemistry will make the standard of post-war living the highest ever known Dr. C. A. VanderWerf told the University's Chemistry club at a dinner in the Memorial Union building Friday night.
Dr. VanderWerf told of the different areas in which chemistry would revolutionize daily life, and of some of the advances being made in such fields as plastics, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibers, high octane gasoline, chemotherapy, food, and insecticides. He stressed the impact of these developments upon the economic life of the nation and the world.
"In recent years due to the work of chemists and chemical engineers, chemical technology has advanced to the point where every man, woman and child in this country could enjoy a standard of living after this war far higher than anything the world has ever known before." Dr. Vander-Werf said.
Jay Janes to Sponsor D-Day Wednesday
Dandelion Day will be observed Wednesday, Betty Jo O'Neal, Jay Jane chairman, announced today.
Digging will begin at 4:30 and continue until 6:30, when an all-school picnic will be held in Fowler grove. Food served by Jay Janes will include sandwiches, apples, potato ships, ice cream, and cokes, donated by organized houses. Don Cousins and his navy band will play for a street dance in front of Bailey chemistry lab climaxing the day's activities.
The judging committee, which will award a $25 war bond to the best posie puller includes Evelyn Mercer, chairman, Mary Dell Burnside, Betty Jeanne Whitney, Virginia Rader, Ann Redding, Dolores Sulzman, and Ann Young.
Diggers must bring their own implements and containers, Miss O'Neal said, and diggings will be weighed in at a corner of Fowler grove.
Big Three Confer Prior to Conclave
Table committee includes Emily Stacey, Nancy Tomlinson, Virginia Wickert, Donna Jean Morris, Elizabeth Baker, and Ruth Cawood.
Washington—(INS)—Foreign ministers of the United States, Russia and Great Britain, recessed their conferences for lunch today after conferring for an hour and a half in an effort to remove all differences among the Big Three and insure the success of the San Francisco conclave.
Conferring at the state department were Secretary of State Stettius, Foreign Commissar Molotov and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden.
Yanks and Russians Near Junction South of Capital
(International News Service)
The red flags of Russia which Adolf Hitler tore down in contemptuous arrogance when he invaded the Soviet Union almost four years ago, made their reappearance in the acrid breeze of burning Berlin today.
"Until the boys come home' or until somebody writes some good dramatic plays for all-girl casts, all we can do is call off the production of plays," Prof. Allen Crafton said today.
Scarcity of Males Causes Spring Plays To Be Cancelled
"Stage Door," the spring play to be presented by the department of speech and drama, has been cancelled, owing to the lack of male actors. Professor Crafton announced.
"This play is about as easy to cast from the standpoint of men actors as any play we could choose," Professor Crafton explained.
"The only plays left that we could cast are badly written, second-rate plays for all-girl casts. There seems no point in giving a bad play which would, with justification, be criticized by our audience," he added.
Ruth Russell Opens Senior Recital Series With Voice Concert
Amid persistent reports that Russian and American troops already have affected a junction splitting greater Germany into two flaming and defeated halves, Soviet tanks, mobile guns,
Ruth Russell, Fine Arts senior, inaugurated the senior recital season with a voice recital in the Frank Strong auditorium yesterday afternoon. Miss Russell, Lawrence, is a soprano from the studio of Alice Moncrief.
Miss Russell was accompanied by Allen Rogers. She received many bouquets of spring flowers, between selections. Miss Russell wore a pink chiffon gown, with long flowing sleeves, trimmed in matching sequents on the cuffs and around an off-the-shoulder neckline.
Ushers were Norma Jean Lutz, Katharine Kufahl, Marian Miller, and Mary Margaret Smith.
The series of senior recitals will continue with the recital of Mary Margaret Smith, pianist, in Fraser theater, May 2.
Orders for Announcements Are Still Being Accepted
The business office will continue to accept orders for senior class graduation announcements and personal cards until 5 o'clock this afternoon, stated Donald Alderson, class president.
"If you haven't placed your order yet, be sure to do so, and take your money with you," he said in a final warning to seniors.
armoured cars and infantrymen plunged deep into the Nazi capital.
Paris observers were skeptical over reports broadcast by the Nazi controlled Oslo radio that Hitler has taken personal charge of Berlin's ramshackled defenses.
Soviet tanks were reported on the Unter den linden in the heart of the Nazi capital, and the U.S. third army and seventh armies opened a general offensive against the national redoubt of southern Germany.
Red. Yank Junction Expected Today Headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announced this spectacular new combined thrust while CBS reported in a dispatch from the Ninth army front that a meeting between Russian and American forces can be expected today. At the same time, United States Ninth army quarters confirmed that a "conversational contact" has been established between Soviet tankmen and American forces.
Nazis Sav Hitler Still in Charge
Swinging about in a looping "end run" that spread over 125 miles of new battlefront, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton sent armoured third army units racing 30 miles to the southeast from last reported positions. They blasted their way into Regensburg one of the principal garrisons blocking their way to Munich and Berchtesgaden. Other Third army forces swung east to towns on the fringe of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.
French troops operating around captured Stuttgart, surged into Sagmariangen, last-known headquarters of Marshal Henri Petain, Vichy government.
Meanwhile, BBC said that the British Second army has launched a powerful new attack on Bremen Germany's second port, supported by powerful formations of the R.A.F.
He was sketched by Prepaganda Minister Goebbels as being on hand for leading into battle the remnants of his Wehrmaefit and storm troop forces, backed up by 12-year-olds delighting in the name of "werewolf." British Attack Bremen
On the Italian front, the Allies pushed close to Ferrara, a key communications hub controlling the last German escape routes from Italy.
Marshal Tito's Yugoslav troops captured Susak, important Adriatic harbor across the border from Friu-ume.
Topographic Map Completed
A new topographic map of the Andover quadrangle has been mapped cooperatively by the state and federal geological surveys, John C. Frye, assistant director at the University said.