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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 30.1945
42nd YEAR
NUMBER 121
Officers Take Oaths at First Council Meeting
Oaths of office were administered, council decisions, and division reports were given at the first meeting of the complete Independent council last night in the Union building.
Dean Henry Werner administered the oath of office to Rosalie Erwin, president, who then took charge of the ceremonies for the rest of the council. June Peterson, College sophomore, was elected secretary of the organization and Marian Minor, College freshman, was elected treasurer.
The council voted to cooperate with the office of the dean of women in making an employment survey of all University students by furnishing workers from the welfare division to help obtain the results. The method of getting more complete organization of the precincts was to be left to the precinct representatives.
The activities division was selected to encourage the cooperation of students living in unorganized houses to participate in the stunt night program.
Dance Plans Submitted
Lee Alexander, men's chairman of the welfare division, reported that the house surveys are ready for distribution.
Tentative plans and dates for the Record dance. Sweetheart dance and Weiner roast-Vice versa party were submitted by Jack Nichols, social chairman.
Valid Excuses Required
Three plans for political reorganization were given by Virginia Rader, chairman of the political division.
The council voted that council members having more than two absences during the semester without valid excuses would be expelled from the council.
Washington, (INS) — Information that Germany has developed "well arranged postwar plans for the perpetration of Nazi doctrines and domination" was disclosed by the state department today.
Roberts Wins Wichita Contest
Orville Roberts, representing K. U., won the Missouri Valley Oratorical contest last night at Wichita university, Prof. E. C. Buehler, of the department of speech and drama said today, in a message from Wichita. In competition with entrants from six other schools, Roberts gave his winning oration, "The Spoken Word," in which he traced the development of modern civilization through the communication of ideas by speech. It was this oration that won the All-University Oratorical contest here Tuesday night.
Three teams will represent K. U in the debates scheduled for today at the Missouri Valley Forensic League tournament. They are Orville Roberts and Jean Moore, Betty Stevens and Jim Crook, and Clyde Jacobs and Sarah Marks. These debates will conclude the tournament.
Germans Plan to Keep Doctrines of Domination (BULLETIN)
Keep Your Wit And Your Wits This Sunday
Don't kick that hat! There's a brick under it.
Don't pick up that purse! It's nailed to the floor.
Don't eat that chocolate! It's full of red pepper.
Of all days in the year, April Fools day enjoys a character of its own in that it, and it alone is consecrated to practical joking. The custom is for persons, usually the younger generation, though adults are often given to the temptation, to practice various impostures upon their unsuspecting neighbors.
For successful April fooling, it is necessary to have considerable degree of coolness and a straight face. You should also have the inside news on what particular aspect of everyday living the victim is most ready to be imposed upon.
The best time for April fooling is around breakfast time, when few have had occasion to remember what day it is or have had a warning from some early victim of pranksters.
An Ancient Custom
The wide prevalence of the practice indicates that it had a very early origin, and many explanations are offered, none in agreement, for the celebration. The origin of the tradition seems lost in the mists of antiquity, but the impression prevails that the custom has something to do with observance of the spring equinox. In India, for numberless centuries, the feast of Hule was ob-
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Brazilian Novelist And Editor to Speak In Fraser Hall May 8
Erico Verissimo, Brazilian novelist and editor, will speak at Fraser theater at 4:30, May 8, according to Raymond Nichols, chairman of the University convocation and lecture committee.
Social Case Work Studied by Class
Mr. Verissimo is now a visiting professor at the University of California. Before coming to California, he was editorial director of a South American publishing house which began publication of Portuguese editions of well-known American authors such as Carl VanDorn and John Dewey.
Author of a Brazilian best seller,
"The Black Cat on the White Snow."
Mr. Verissimo spent a year in the
United States gathering material for
the book which is a series of
sketches on American life.
The Synagogue Council of America, representative religious body of American Jews, has dedicated the observance of Passover "to the liberation of all mankind from the yoke of slavery." Terming the Yalta agreement a "new declaration of independence and interdependence," Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, council president, said, "The tyrants of our own time will be humbled and brought low as was Pharaoh of old." Saturday has been designated as Passover United Palestine Appeal Sabbath in a proclamation signed by leaders of the American rabbinate. On that day sermons will be devoted to the importance of Palestine in shaping a secure future for Jews convicted by war.
Passover packages will be distributed to Jewish service men to make conformance with Jewish customs possible. Wounded Jewish service men in overseas hospitals will receive Passover packages for the first time, Ralph E. Samuel, chairman of the city Army and Navy
Sociology students studying social case work under the direction of Miss Esther E. Twente are taking laboratory trips to Topeka and Kansas City. They are working under the supervision of the Kansas vocational rehabilitation division.
Jewish 'Feast of the Passover Receives World-Wide Observance
The purpose of this division is to aid in the treatment of handicapped adults. The Kansas Children's home and Children's league work with delinquent, dependent, and neglected children.
Passover ceremonies, observed by Jews throughout the world, began at sundown Wednesday night and will continue for a week. The "feast of unleavened bread" will commemorate the deliverance of the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery.
Passover was ushered in with sundown services in synagogues and was followed in thousands of homes by the ceremony of retelling the dramatic tale of the Eodus. Final Passover holy days will occur this year on Wednesday and Thursday, on which days synagogue services will be held in the morning and on the preceding nights.
committee of the National Jewish Welfare board, announced yesterday. Two thousand packages containing enough ritualistic food for one week have been sent by this organization to Army and Navy hospitals while 2,500 packages have been forwarded to advanced areas.
Allies Override German Resistance; Isolate Ruhr Industrial Valley; German Eastern Wall Crumbling
BULLETIN
Navy Veteran Heads V-12
Moscow—(INS)—Red army troops captured the bottled Baltic port of Danzig and reportedly occupied Kuestrin 35 miles east of Berlin today as the enemy's eastern front began to cave in all the way from its northern flank to the approaches to Vienna.
The operators complained it would cost them 180 million dollars a year if they agreed to her proposal.
Lewis and the United Mine Workers had agreed to her proposal that they drop their demand for 10-cent-a-ton royalty, and it was thought that this would pave the way for settlement because the operators had contended this point alone stood in the way. They however found other points on which to take issue.
Washington, (INS) — The war labor board today summoned representatives of the bituminous coal miners and operators to a public hearing tomorrow to show cause why the present contract which expires April 1 should not be extended.
Miss Perkins said she had proposed an extension of the present scale with new agreements to become retroactive.
After a conference of miners and operators last night Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, said that the operators had rejected her last-minute proposals which she earlier said the miners had accepted.
(International News Service)
W. L.B. Orders Coal Hearing
Lieutenant Copping says it is hard to tell what the effects of V-12 training programs will have on post-war
Before joining the naval reserve in February, 1943, Lieutenant Copping served as high school principal in New York beginning in 1931. He was graduated in 1931 from New York State College for Teachers, Albany, with a bachelor of arts degree. He received his master of arts degree in 1935.
With almost 35,000 German prisoners taken in the last 24 hours alone, huge Allied armies smashing across the Reich flattened out sporadic nests of enemy resistance today, isolated the Ruhr valley, and plunged through to points little more than 175 miles from Berlin.
After joining the navy, Lieutenant Copping attended the Naval Indoctrination School, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, N. Y., and the Armed Guard Schools at Boston, Mass., and Little Creek, Va. He served at sea as an armed guard officer from July, 1943 until November, 1944, in the American theater and European, African, and Middle Eastern theaters.
Lt. Arnold B. Copping, USNR, who has been with the University Navy program since Nov. 10., 1944, is the new commander of the V-12 unit. Lieutenant Copping takes the place of Lt. Comdr. A. H. Bubl, who has been transferred to the east coast for further training.
The Brussels radio said that Allied spearheads were within six miles of Muenster.
education plans, but he believes that the V-12 program offers valuable training. "Kansas university has done an exceedingly fine job in making the naval program here a success," Lieutenant Copping remarked.
A new security blackout continued to cloak advances of numerous spearheads. Mon-Up Begins
"Consider the lilies of American fields" is the motto of U.S. florists this Easter. They won't be getting many from outside.
Headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announced that infantry troops of the United States first and third armies were engaged in mapping up numerous towns.
Canadian Army Strikes
British advances southward to outflank the Ruhr valley entirely by junctions with United States ninth army troops probably in the Federborn area continued, headquarters said.
The long-dormant Canadian first army sturgek suddenly and swept into Nazi-held Netherland territory of between six and seven miles.
Easter Lilies Grown in U.S.A. Instead of Japan
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's sixth armored division drove 21 miles to the northeast.
Soviet troops were only 40 miles from Vienna and Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin announced the capture of Nove Zamky, 50 miles from Bratislava in Slovakia.
In the 46th day of non-stop air assault against the Reich more than 2,300 American war planes blasted three of Germany's leading cities today.
Japan, growing Bermuda-type lilies under ideal conditions, cornered the pre-war market on these symbolic flowers, supplying 95 per cent. From 25 to 30 million lilies decked prewar American homes and altars; this year there'll be only one-tenth that many. Of these, a few thousand will be flown in from Bermuda, some others from Mexico. The bulk will come from our own South and West.
Original Easter lily was the pure white Madonna or Ascension lily from southern France. Now Creolees from Florida and Louisiana are whiter, have more sheen. Growing profusely in the Mississippi Delta, these are world's finest hybrids. Since the war they've jumped 500 per cent in production. Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D.-La.). one of the state's largest growers. This year he
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