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NUMBER 128
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1945
42nd YEAR
Joseph Knitzer, Violinist, to Give Recital Tonight
Joseph Knitzer, violinist, will appear at 8 tonight for the Annual Young American Artist, program in Fraser theater. Mary Strickler Knitzer, his wife, will accompany him at the piano. There will be no admission charged.
The program, announced by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will be as follows:
Mr. Knitzer has performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Symphony, the National Symphony, Washington, D.C., and the Detroit Symphony orchestra.
"Chacone" (Vitali), "Concerno No. 2 in D minor" (Wieniawiki), "Nocurte C minor" (Chopin), "March of the Watch" (Korngold), "La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin" (Debussy), and "Songs from the Homeland" (Smetana). His last two numbers will be "Prelude" (Gershwini-Heifetz) and "Tzigane" (Ravel).
Was Solist With Philharmonia.
At 14, Mr. Knitzer made his debut as soloist with the New York Symphony orchestra under Walter Damrosch as the youngest soloist ever to play with the orchestra; Won Schultz Memorial Award
He has won the Walter Naumberg award, the National Federation of Music clubs prize, and the Schubert memorial award.
Independents Plan Party to Help YWCA In Clothing Drive
A party, combining a good time with helping the YWCA in their drive for old clothes, will be given for the Independents on April 20, Rosalie Erwin, president announced
The Old Clothes party will be in the Union lounge from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. with admission price being one piece of clothing to be donated to the drive. In this way persons living in unorganized houses can have an opportunity to contribute. As a part of the entertainment, stunts will be given by the various houses represented.
Final plans for the party will be completed Thursday at the council meeting.
Five prisoners at the Leavenworth federal penitentiary commandeered a laundry truck and the driver and escaped after stealing some officers' uniforms to which they changed.
Six miles north of Lawrence they abandoned the truck and stole an automobile belonging to Lyle Weeks, a farmer, freeing the driver of the truck.
Escaped Prisoners In Vicinity, Armed Wearing Uniforms
Then they fled north, but a tire blew out at Williamstown and they abandoned the Weeks automobile for another and continued north. From there the trail was lost.
The escaped prisoners had been employed on a golf course and were able to overpower the guard in making their escape.
No Neutral Nations to Be At California Conference
Washington, (INS) — Neutral nations have been definitively ruled out of the San Francisco conference, Secretary of State Stettinius said today. He added that 42 national organizations in the United States have been invited to send consultants to the conference in a plan to reach out to the crossroads of America for participation.
Capacity Crowd Hears Templeton
On - the - moment improvisations brought enormous applause as Alec Templeton played before a capacity audience last night. The artist, who plays the piano entirely by ear, has been on a concert tour for the past 33 days, returning to New York each weekend to play for the New York Sunday concerts.
The last half of the program, made up of Templeton specialties, proved to be most enthusiastically received. Combining "One Meat Ball," "Rhapsody in Blue" (Gershwin), "Warsaw Concerto," "Albumblatt," (Wagner), and "Star Dust," (Hoggy Carmichael), which were suggested by the audience, he composed a melody which he played in the style of various composers.
Five notes suggested by the audience were organized into a tune which he played in the styles of Bach, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, and Ravel.
The last improvisation included Tschakowsky's "Piano Concerto," "Candy," "Accentuate the Positive," and "Hymn to the Sun," which he also played in the style of various composers.
"Second Prelude" (George Gershwin) and "Polka" from the "Golden Age" (Shostakovich) were encore numbers preceding the intermission.
Encores following the scheduled program included vocal impersonations of "Ole' Man River" in the style of a baritone and a typical Englishman. Ruy Vallee was also impersonated singing the "Call of the Valkyrie."
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Speaking on his experiences in the Polish campaign, as a Russian prisoner of war, and as a member of the Polish underground movement, Jan Karski, author of "Story of a Secret State" will be presented by the community lecture course at 8:20 p.m. in Fraser theater, Monday. Activity tickets will admit students.
Traveling back and forth all over the Fortress Europe, he had many encounters with the Gestapo. Finally caught by the enemy in the Slovakian mountains, he attempted suicide by slashing his wrist only to awake, in a German hospital, evidently considered too valuable to be permitted to die. He later escaped with the help of doctors and nurses, who, like himself, were members of the Underground.
Born into a well-to-do Polish family, Lieutenant Karski was educated and trained for the diplomatic corps at the University of Lwow, and at Geneva and London.
When he was sent to the United States to report to President Roosevelt and the State department, he brought with him 1,200 pages of Underground documents on microfilm.
As an officer in the polish artillery, he was captured by the Soviets, imprisoned in Russia, and won his release by posing as a German who was to be exchanged and sent back to the Reich to work. Jumping into a forest from a moving German prison train in the middle of the night, he walked for 12 days until he reached Warsaw. When he found that many of his friends and family had been killed, and the Army virtually wiped out, he contacted the Polish Underground and became the official courier between the Underground in Poland and the Polish government in London.
PolishP.W. To Lecture
Mr. Karski has received his country's highest military decoration, the Virtuti Militari. It is his conviction that Poland will take an important place among the other great democracies of the world.
Blind Student Pianist Meets Alec Templeton, Famed Maestro
"This certainly is a privilege, Mr. Templeton."
(They all say that, he thought.) “Ah, Mr. Templeton, there’s something more you should know. Miss Long plays the piano, too.”
"How do you do, Miss Long," Just another nice young co-ed, he thought.)
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The internationally famous musician was here for a concert in Hoch auditorium. He met many persons during the day, but when he was introduced to Frances Long, the conversation took on a more personal interest.
"Yes, Mr. Templeton, she does.
And she's blind, too."
"Oh, do you? How interesting." (Seems like everyone I meet plays the piano.)
"Mr. Templeton, this is Frances Long."
Blind? Another blind pianist?
And then Alee Templeton, himself
probably the most famous blind pianist
the world ever has known,
K. U.'s own and only blind pianist had the thrill of her life last night. She met Alec Templeton.
The two sightless musicians talked several minutes. Miss Long, who is a special student in the School of Fine Arts, and who studies under the direction of Allie M. Conger, associate professor of piano, was interested in Mr. Templeton's reaction to transcribing music into Braille.
"It's a great help for many persons," the concert and radio artist replied. "But I find it's too slow for me—I learn my music from victrola records and from having an assistant tell me the notes."
And Miss Long, who started teaching piano last May and now has 11 pupils, wondered whether the subject of harmony really is as important as a music school would have its proteges think.
Like most great pianists, Mr Templeton's favorite still is classical music. he told Frances.
really was interested.
"Yes, indeed." Alec answered.
"I've taken a lot of harmony. I don't know where I'd be without the background."
“Of course, that doesn't mean I don't be boggle wooie, too,” he
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Allies Gain Along Western Front As Russians Begin Eastern Attack; Marines Move Slowly on Okinawa
(International News Service)
Spectacular gains by Anglo-American armies all along the Western Front coincided today with furious new attacks by the Russians in the east.
American Ninth Army troops stormed into the great industrial city of Hannover, communications hub in northern Germany, now shattered to virtual ruins by continued allied and air artillery bombardments. Other units of the Ninth swung
Romberg to Play 'Midbrow' Music
Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer, with his "Middlebrow Music" will appear at 8:20 to tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium. He will bring with him three vocal soloists and a 50-piece orchestra.
"Middlebrow Music" is his name for his own compositions and those of Lehar, Friml, Strauss, Kreisler, Kern, and Gershwin, whose selections he will play for the third musical program of the festival this week.
Mr. Romberg, who was trained in his native country by his father, is able to play the violin, piano, 'cello, trumpet, and drums. His favorite instrument is the organ on which he composed some of his hit tunes.
The artist has the ability of learning from memory a new piece by playing it over once, being able to scan music in whole parts, and taking three measures in a glance.
His library of music, containing 5,000 scores, ultimately will be presented to the Library of Congress, Washington.
Annual Art Exhibit Will Be on Display
The annual High School Art exhbit will be on display in the lobby of the Memorial Union building all day Friday and Saturday morning.
This exhibit has always been held in connection with the High School Art conference which is held yearly in the spring, but due to ODT restriction on travel the conference will not be held this spring.
Any junior or senior high school student may send work to be exhibited. Only 10 pieces are allowed to be exhibited from each school. Art students may submit paintings, drawings, commercial art, or handicrafts. There are no prizes given, the work of the students is sent here just to receive criticism and each piece of work has a criticism written out for it and then sent back to the teacher and child.
These criticisms are thought to raise the quality of are work over the state, and to make every child feel that his work is important. By these criticisms instead of prizes, art instructors believe that the exhibitor feels as if he is working to improve himself. These criticisms are helpful to the teachers, because by these they know if they are working toward the right goal. University students who are training to teach art find these exhibits and criticisms to be of great help to them.
The Luxemborg radio said that British Second Army troops already are in Bremen.
around to the east of the city and cut the six-lane autobahn super highway to Brunswick. Third Army Snashes "Burrier"
The German radio said that Lt. Gen. Patton's United States Third Army had smushed the southern German province of Bavaria which the Nazis described as their "fortress barrier."
The Third gained nine miles on a 25-mile front, cleaned up enemy resistance south of Gotha and sped north to link up with United States First Army troops northwest of Muehlausen.
The Russians continued savage fighting in the heart of once-leVELY Vienna.
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army sped south and east to Geislingen on the road to Stuttgart.
Germans virtually trapped at the north seaport of Breman and Ende den were reported making desperate efforts to flee those towns, increasingly menaced by steadily advancing British forces.
Other Russian troops in Czechoslovakia and beyond Vienna surged forward for an eventual junction with Allied armies sweeping forward on the Western Front. The Soviets hailed the capture of the East Prussian capital of Koenigssberg as a major triumph. Marines Gain on Okinawa.
The Ruhr pocket behind the lines was further reduced. The Ninth Army drove three miles and reached a point southeast of Essen.
Ruhr Pocket Reduced
Complementing the ground action, United States Eighth Air Force heavy bombers — 1300 strong — smashed at seven airfields for Nazi jet planes in the Berlin area.
Fighting on the vital Pacific islands of Okinawa mounted in fury but American marines driving toward the northern end of the Jap stronghold made advances up to 4000 yards.
The marines seized half of the Metebu peninsula and 10th Army Forces smashing toward the southern end of the island fought a bitter battle from cave to cave for costly minor gains.
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KU Faculty, Students Aid Rotary Honor Music Week
The Lawrence Rotary club observed Music week yesterday with a 30-minute program at a luncheon at the Eldridge hotel.
Faculty and students of the School of Fine Arts, who put on the program were Ima Jean Billings, freshman, Winifred Hill Callup, '42, Waldemar Geitch, violin instructor; and Marian Miller, senior,