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Pledges Growing For Memorial In Kansas City
To meet the need for improved social and recreational facilities on the Kansas City campus of the University School of Medicine, alumni are being acquainted with the scope of a proposed student union building. Preliminary pledges of $40,000 have already been collected.
Plans for the building anticipate social and recreational rooms in the basement and first floors with four dormitory floors above. Double dormitory rooms would house 100 students, and twenty single rooms would offer space for alumni and visiting doctors.
To Be Francisco Memorial
A memorial for Dr. C. B. Francisco, the social and recreational features would include meeting rooms, reading room, study rooms, cafeteria, snack-shop, extra classrooms, and possibly a chapel.
Bowling alleys would supplement the game rooms and cafeteria in the basement floor plan.
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of State Stettinius revealed today that a note has been received from the French government asking for more details on the Yalta agreement with respect to liberated areas.
Ball Room Extension Planned
Tentative plans provide for a ball room extension of the main building affording a large dance or assembly room with stage and floor capacity for 200 couples.
France Curious About Yalta
The legislature has made it possible to build an adequate student union around an endowment by issuing bonds to be retired in 20 years from the net income from dormitories, classrooms, cafeteria, and student union dues.
Plumbing Unrepaired In Fraser Hall After Workmen Quit
The three plumbers, who had requested a raise from 70 to 90 cents an hour through the regular state civil service channels, were told at the time of their resignation that the administration would consider their case at its convenience, preferring to deal with wage questions affecting a larger number of employees at one time. The men had given the required week's notice when they quit, Mr. Nichols said.
The campus has had no plumbing service the last 29 days because the University still has been unable to replace the three plumbers who quit their jobs March 10 for higher-paying commercial positions.
Efforts are being made to replace these men, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today, but attempts have been unsuccessful. The University is prepared to pay higher wages of new plumbers, Mr. Nichols added, but he designated no specific salary increase.
Restroom facilities for women are out of order in Fraser hall, but employees of the buildings and grounds department said they did not know "when or how anything would be done" on repairs.
K. U Hospital Has First Birth Of Triplets
Triplet daughters were born Thursday at the University of Kansas hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dee, Kansas City, Mo. No hospital authority could recall a previous birth of triplets at the hospital.
It was also the first time that it had ever happened to Jack Dees, the 28-year-old father, who piloted a B-25 bomber in the African and Sicilian campaigns and who received his army discharge January 1. The present Dee's apartment is big enough for only two and that is the reason that the father hastened from the hospital shortly after the birth of the babies to look for a place to move his family.
Meanwhile the three little girls were starting life by an adjustment to small quarters. They were in an incubator three feet long, with an 18-inch width and height. Two lay side by side and the third was cross-wise at their feet.
The glass incubator was at the front of the nursery, just before the window center. They had a window audience most of the day.
Committee Plans Graduation Day
Commencement activities will begin with the senior breakfast, Sunday morning, June 24, and end with commencement that night, according to plans made by the student-faculty commencement committee at a meeting Friday afternoon.
Following the 7:15 breakfast at the Union ballroom, baccalaurate will be held at 9:30 in Hoch auditorium.
The Alumni association will meet in Fraser at 2 p.m., and at 4:45, a supper will be given in the Union ballroom for the seniors, their families, alumni, and faculty members.
The committee decided to hold all the activities on one day following a meeting of the senior class at which the class voted for such a plan. The plan was adopted because it allows students to get away a day earlier and makes it possible for more parents to attend the exercises, according to Dean Gilbert Ulmer, chairman of the commencement committee.
Commencement will begin at 8 p.m. in Memorial stadium.
Nazis Scorch Own Cities; Japs Reinforce Okinawa
Yanks Wage Tough Fight For Okinawa
International News Service
In the Pacific there was every indication that the battle of Okinawa was developing into one of the toughest of the Pacific war as Jap defenders estimated between 60,000 and 80,000 troops laid down a terrific concentration of all types of fire.
The enemy defense of the island is radiating from Shuri at both Tomb Hill and the low ridge north of Kakazu, with our forces getting to the Japs at an increasing cost of casualties. The doughboys were forced to withdraw from the Kakazu ridge but still controlled the elevation although not exactly occupying the top.
Meanwhile a Japanese Domei dispatch declared that "the imperial navy has been mobilized for a grand offensive and special attack corps planes are taking off for the Okinawas.
Alec Templeton To Give Concert In Hoch Tonight
Alec Templeton, pianist and radio artist, will demonstrate his skill in creating composition on the moment from tunes given him by the audience in his concert in Hoch auditorium, 8:20 tonight. He will combine in his improvisations as many as four tunes into a musical number.
Mr. Tempelton, who appears as the final attraction in the University Concert course and as a part of Music week, will include in his program both classic and burlesque music.
Improvisations His Specialty
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Alec Templeton
The Artist Is Becoming a Real Part Of Human Society, Downes Says
There is still, Mr. Downes feels, a gap between the artist and society. This, he says, is partly a carry-over from the past when the artist was set
"The artist will become more and more a real part of human society." Olin Downes stated today in his convocation speech.
Mr. Downes, New York Times music critic, spoke today as the opening event of music week. Chancellor Deane W. Malotti introduced him as a "musician, author, critic, and great human being."
The University band played before and after the lecture. Still a Can However
"I am one of those," he said, "who dislikes the concept of the artist in the past, when he was treated like a child or a plaything of the public."
Still a Gap, However
Mr. Downes says that the war is
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aside as something only responsible to churchmen or kings, and partly because of the irresponsibility of the artist who is unwilling to meet society.
He cited Archibald MacLeish's idea that irresponsible writers are ignoring the important things about them, and paralleled this with his disgust for the gap between society and the musician owing to the artist's living in another world. He blames some of this irresponsibility to the "profound immorality of society" and the cynicism which the last war created. But to a large extent these men are falling by the wayside, he believes.
Forty Chosen to Go To Tea for Judging Of Javhawker Queen
Forty photographs of contestants for the Jayhawk beauty queen have been selected by a committee of eight judges to attend an informal tea at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansan room of the Memorial Union building.
From this selected group of women fifteen will be chosen to be photographed for the final judging which will be done in Hollywood. The forty women who were se-
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Joy Godbehere, College freshman; Virginia Larsen, Fine Arts freshman; Peggy Sanderson, College sophomore; Virginia Winter, College freshman; Barbara Carroff, College junior; Martha Metcalf, College sophomore; Jean Saffell, Fine Arts
German Fire Engulfs 10,000 Square Miles
International News Service
Huge fires engulfed 10,000 square miles of northwestern Germany today, indicating unprelailed Nazi destruction of key cities in the path of Allied armies hanmering through the suburban outskirts of Bremen and Hannover. The Brussels radio reported British troops already in the suburbs of Breman. Frontline dispatches indicated the early fall of Hannover, major communication center, and BBC reported that American ninth army tanks are within sight of the city and have reached a point three miles from its center.
The U.S. First army was within 138 miles of Berlin as units of Lt. Gen. Hodges's forces smashed east to Duderstadt, northeast of Nuelhausen. Trapped in western Holland are an estimated 80,000 Germans, supreme headquarters said, as Canadian forces carved their way toward the Zuider Zee north of Zwolle.
Non-Combat Troops Taken
General Eisenhower's headquarters said these soldiers were mostly noncombatant troops, whose capture will simply mean 80,000 Germans for the Americans to feed.
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The Americans and British may be slowed down by the German-kindled fire. One returning reconnaissance flyer who described the blowing flames over an area of 10,000 miles said: "It looked like the end of the world."
One hundred fifty seniors from 75 high schools in Kansas took preliminary examinations in seven cities in Kansas Saturday as candidates for Summerfield scholarships.
At Marvin hall under the direction of A. H. Turney, professor of education, 52 seniors from 28 Kansas high schools took their examinations. Six other cities selected as seats for the examinations include Concordia, Dodge City, Hoxie, Parsons, Salina and Wichita.
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Kansas Seniors Take Summerfield Exams
The final examination will be held at the University on May 7 and 8, before selecting the final candidates. Chosen Summerfield scholars will vary from 10 to 20 depending on evidence of superior ability, character, training and future usefulness to society.
The scholarship is extended for eight semesters to holders who maintain the required standard. Allotments guarantee necessary expenses to the scholars, depending upon the need of the person. The fund is provided by Solom E. Summerfield of New York City who is a graduate of the University.
Annually students at the University whose scholastic record warrants attention of the Summerfield committee are given the Summerfield award.