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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1945
Nazi 'Final Defeat' Underway
NUMBER 117
42nd YEAR
Dean Names 44 Engineers To Honor Roll
Five women and 39 men students are named to the dean's honor roll for the term ending Feb.24,J.O.Jones acting dean in the School of Engineering and Architecture announced today.
Students on the honor roll are as follows:
Freshmen, Duncan Ivan Sommerville, Joplin, Mo.; William Luther Heald, Jr., Salina; Harry E. Robson, Lawrence; John Hamilton Robinson, Kansas City, Mo.; Donald Leroy Lufelt, Ft. Scott; Robert Vernon Sellers, Bartlesville, Okla.; Dale Ivan Rummer, Wichita; Harry Dumont Reed, Larned; Winifred J阿曼 Rouse, Lawrence; John James Irwin.-Merriam; Wallace Thurman Street Wichita; James Birch Stuart, Newton; Lorraine Alene Rumssey, Council Grave.
Sophomores, George Frederick Adams, Salina; Richard Ralph Potter, Lawrence; Rex Edward Paulsen, Zenith; Dan Hanley Bartlett, Butte Mont.; Robert Emmett Smith, Kansas City; Marion Raymond Joy, Sawbay, Neb.; Hildreth Lewis Strong, Pasadena, Calif.; Vincent Joseph McCabe, Parkville, Mo.; George Andrew Darsie, St. Paul, Minn.; David Chapin Ballard, Topeka; William Oscar Nord, Chicago.
Juniors, Leonard Charles Brown,
Jr., Kansas City, Mo.; Preston Rively
Clement, Kansas City, Mo.; Rudolph
Carl, Lawrence; Ruth E. Green,
Berryton; Laurence R. McAneny,
Seattle, Wash.; Doris Barnes Chapman,
Scotia, N.Y.; James Housel
Thomas, Bartlesville, Okla.; Don
Rankin Learned, Belmont, Mass.
Ronald Abraham Hayenga, Rapid
City, S.D.; Harvey W. Morrow, Jr.
Colorado Springs, Colo.; Richard
Frelson Nelson, Kilgore, Tex.
Seniors, William Gaines Hoefer,
Higginsville, Mo.; Donald Charles
Cronemeyer, Chanute; Leland Sheaff
Bohl, Kansas City; Richard Mecfa-
hoover, Kansas City; Donald Ray
Hollis, Burbank, Calif; Claude Grah-
ame White, Witchita; Eugene Keasling Arnold, Kansas City, Mo.; Eldon Gene Luehring, Leavenworth and
Charles Thomas Black, Lawrence.
All-Musical Vespers Present Religious Palm Sunday Music
Starring Meribah Moore, solo soprano, the program offered the new composition of Carl A. Preyer, "The Lord is My Shepherd," as one of the outstanding numbers. Supporting Miss Moore in an especially arranged accompaniment were Waldemar Gelteh, violin; Raymond Stuhl, cello; Allie Merle Conger; and Ruth Oreutt, organ.
In recognition of Palm Sunday, the 85th annual All-Musical Vespers, presented by the School of Fine Arts in Hoch auditorium yesterday, was a program of religious music with over 250 students and faculty members performing.
Laurel Anderson, University organist, opened the program with a rhythmically precise rendering of the Overture to Handel's "Occasional Oratorio." Following the organ introduction the University Women's Glee club, directed by Irene Peabody, sang three numbers, Bach's Motet "Jesu, Priceless Treasure," and "Sheep May Safety Graze," along with Sateren's "We Praise Thee O God."
Alec Templeton to Appear Here April 9 in Last of Concert Series
The Vespers continued with a slow moment of Edgar Stillman-Kelley's "Quintet, Op. 20" in a somber tone done by Waldermalt Geltch, first violin; Peggy Kay, second violin; Ednah Hopkins, viola; Raymond Stuith, cello; and Ruth Orcault, piano.
K. K. Siemon Orchestra Plays
Anderson Opens Program
Churchill and Montgomery Cross Rhine Again Today
The University Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, gave "Andante Cantible" from Tchaikowsky's "Fifth Symphony." The program closed with Gounod's Motet "Gallia" done by the A Cappella choir with Meribar Moore singing the soprano solo. D. M. Swarthout directed the choir, and Gerald Hamilton played the organ accompaniment.
London — (INS) — Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Field Marshall Sir Bernard L. Montgomery crossed the Rhine again today in the wake of advancing Allied troops.
Alec Templeton, Welch pianist-composer, will appear as the final attraction of the University Concert course and a feature of the annual Music week festival April 9 in Hoch auditorium.
Mr. Templeton, who at the age of four composed his first piece, made his debut at five as an amateur musician, acting as solo pianist and conductor of the Children's choir in a concert at Cardiff.
First Teacher Was Guide
tion for his career and cherishing an abiding faith in his ability to perform any musical task and to meet any musical demand that was made upon him. She guided him through the examinations for entrance to the Royal Academy of Music, and after that success helped him to gain entrance to the Royal college.
His first teacher, Margaret Humphery from his native home, exerted a predominating influence upon his musical life, providing a solid fun-
His talent for mimicry with the touch of sardonic humor is what has made a fortune for Mr. Templeton. For even though he is a first-rate
Mimicry Made Him Famous
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Capture of Frankfurt Near; Yanks Near Ryukyu Isles
Japs Report New Yank Landings
International News Service
Tokyo today reported an electrifying new development in the Pacific—an "attempted" American landing in the Ryukyu chain of islands at the very threshold of Japan.
American headquarters remained silent on the report.
Japanese garrison forces were said to be "fiercely" engaged in "intercepting". the Yank assault troops, which were described as numbering in the thousands.
It is known that the United States has a task force in the vicinity of the Ryukyu islands which are represented on the map as a chain of dots extending southwest of the Japanese mainland at a distance of not more than 150 miles. The islands are midway between Japan and Formosa.
Radio reports from Tokyo said that the attempted landings had been made on four islands, the largest of which has the base of Nahu.
Formosa was heavily bombed over the weekend and a reconnaissance flight revealed that the southern part of the large island has a virtual blackout because of the destruction of utility properties.
E. C. Quigley, director of athletics, is in Beatricle, Neb., where he will speak before the Y.M.C.A. today.
A total of 174 inches of rain fell in this community during the weekend. Most of the water fell during the deluge of Saturday forereon which turned streets into small rivers.
A wind that developed cyclonic proportions ripped a roof off a building at DeSoto Saturday, and severed a power line that served the Sunflower Ordnance works.
Heavy rains in the Osage and Lyon counties area Sunday sent the waters of the Marais des Cygnes and Neosho rivers over their banks.
YWCA Vespers to Be Wednesday in Fraser
A pre-Easter vesper service will be given by the Y.W.C.A. in Fraser theater at 4:30 Wednesday. The Girls' Glee club, under the direction of Miss Irene Peabody, will sing three sacred numbers. Patricia Creel, chairman of the dramatics commission, has charge of the worship service. Members of the Jay Janes will usher.
Cloudy skies gave way to clear, sunny, weather today.
Quigley Speaks at Beatrice
Reds in Hungary Drive to Junction; Vienna Next Stop
BULLETIN
London, (INS)—Red army forces pushed to within 38 miles of the Austrian border today with the capture of the town of Papa, Marshal Joseph Stalin announced.
London—(INS)—On the eastern front, violent fighting is underway in Hungary, where two Soviet armies smashed toward a junction.
The second Ukrainian army plunging forward in a new offensive toward Budapest, engulfed the German stronghold of Esztergom and drove to within 20 miles of a junction with spearheads of the third Ukrainian army to the southwest.
The third, smashing toward Vienna, captured the town and railroad station of Varosloed and more than 50 other towns and villages.
On the northern end of the eastern front, German resistance was diminished further with the capture of the Nazi strongpoint of Heiligendeil, the last remaining German center of resistance southwest of the east Prussian capital.
Other Red army forces captured the towns of Oliva and Klein-Katz
K.U. Debate Team To Meet Nebraska
Debaters from the University of Nebraska forensic team will arrive to meet the K.U. debate team at 8:15 tomorrow night in the Little theater of Green hall.
K. U., represented by Gene Moore, College sophomore, and Orville Roberts, College junior, will uphold the negative side of the proposition, "Resolved, that the federal government should enact legislation requiring one year of military training for all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 21."
This will be the first of a series of 10 debates held on the same subject by the Missouri Valley Forensic League, explained E. C. Buehler, professor of speech. All of these debates will take place between the present date and April 20.
Among K.U.'s opponents are Kansas State College and the University of Missouri, three debates being scheduled with the latter. They will appear before the student body here April 4 and again the following night for the benefit of the Kiwanis and Lawrence Cooperative clubs.
David Lloyd George Dies
David Lloyd George Dies London — (INS) — David Lloyd George, prime minister for Great Britain in World War One, died today.
Jayhawker Began in 1901
The first of the present series of Jayhawkers was published in 1901.
Allies Surge Toward Berlin
International News Service
BULLETIN
With the U.S. third army—(ONS) —Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army entered the outskirts of Frankfort today.
With the First Army—(INS)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme high commander, said he expected the first army troops to "lick everybody they come up against. They did it all across France and I should see no reason why they should stop on the road to Berlin."
American and British troops, more than a million strong, rode rough-shod over the remnants of the German army today and with the capture of Frankfurt imminent, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters announced that Germany's "final defeat" now is under way.
With troops of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army over the Rhine in a new sector near Boppard and closing in on Frankfurt from two directions, battlefront dispatches placed advanced American units 120 miles inside the Reich-250 miles from Berlin and only 280 miles from an inevitable junction with Russian forces. 300,000 Nazis Out of Action
The once-powerful German armies assigned to defend the Rhine have been "ignominiously routed" and some 300,000 first-class Nazi troops put out of action in the present offensive, Gen. Eisenhower's spokesman said.
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Two-Piano Recital Will Be Wednesday
The two-piano recital scheduled for Wednesday evening by Georgia Weinrich, of Kansas City, Mo., and Allen Rogers, of Topeka, students in the School of Fine Arts, is being prepared under the guidance of Allie Merle Conger, in charge of work in piano ensemble in the School of Fine Arts.
The two students, under Miss Conger's direction, have arranged a program of two-piano literature which will include such compositions as the Saint-Saens Variations on a theme by Beethoven and the melodious Strauss waltz "Artist's Life."
The performance Wednesday evening will be the first two-piano recital given at the University in several years. The program will begin at 8 p.m. and will last approximately an hour.