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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1945
NUMBER 112
42nd YEAR
'Hub' Meyer, President Kansas Press Association, Will Speak On American Press Here March 28
H. A. "Hub" Meyer, president of the Kansas Press association and publisher of the Independence Daily Reporter, Independence, Kans., will speak to members of the journalism department and will be the guest of the Press club at a dinner Wednesday, March 28.
He will arrive Wednesday morning and address the Elements of Advertising class at 11:30 a.m. and the History and Art of Printing class at 3:30 p.m. Mr. Meyer's subjects will be the wartime problems of publishing and post-war developments which will affect the press. Any students interested in journalism may attend either lecture, There will be a question period at the close of each address. At the dinner Wednesday evening he will speak on the recent activities of the Kansas Press association and the future of the American press.
Born in Ohio
Mr. Meyer was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, but he lived most of his earlier life in Washington, D.C. He was graduated from the Staunton Military academy and from George Washington university. For six years he served as assistant to Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, where, according to Mr. Meyer, the newspaper bug first bit him when he handled the press relations of the department.
After serving as a captain in the air corps during the first World War, he entered the oil business where he looked particularly after publicity, press, and public relations matters. In 1940 he and his son, Herbert A. Meyer, Jr., who was graduated from the journalism department here in 1936, purchased the independent Daily Reporter. Most of Mr. Meyer's work has been with publicity and public relations work, which interested him in the newspaper publishing field.
Third Year As President
The Kansas Press association is an organization whose membership includes nearly all the papers in the state—approximately 400. Mr. Meyer's visit will be the third consecutive year that the president of the association has spoken to the journalism department. Last year, Pete McKechnie, of the Kiowa County Signal at Greensburg, was a guest, and in 1943 C. W. Wheeler, business manager of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle spoke. Each year the presidency alternates between the publisher of a daily and a weekly paper.
Proficiency Exam Taken By 150 Juniors and Seniors
Results of the required English proficiency examination, taken Saturday by 150 juniors and seniors, will be announced within the next five weeks, John B. Virtue, associate professor of English, said today.
The names of the persons passing the examination will be posted on the bulletin board across from the College office and in the Daily Kanan
Senate to Check Food Situation
Washington (INS)—The Senate today unanimously passed a resolution authorizing the Agricultural Committee to make a "full and complete" investigation of the food situation.
H. A. MEYER
Editor and Publisher
Daily Reporter, Independence, Kas.
Sigmund Romberg To Feature Music From Current Hit
Sigmund Romberg, who brings with him to Lawrence, April 11, a group of singing artists and a 50-piece orchestra, will be the main attraction of the University's annual Music Festival Week, April 8 to 16. Mr.Romberg will feature music from his smash hit musical on Broadway. "Up In Central Park."
The Hungarian - born, world-famous composer is of a family of artists and writers, and is related to the wife of Johann Strauss. Actually Mr. Romberg never attended a music
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Carelessness Provides Job For Mendoza
Pablo Mendoza is his name.
Pablo Mendoza is his name.
He is the short-statured Mexican whom one sees jabbing at bits of paper and other discarded material about the campus.
Some have referred to him as one-jab Tony because they say that if he does not succeed on the first jab there is no repeat.
When Mendoza came to the campus a few years ago, his income was from the sale of the paper that he collected and sold to the junk dealers. Now he is on civil service pay and his income has increased probably 600 per cent—he gets $92 a month.
This situation had led administration officials to realize that the carelessness of students is causing them real expense. And students are really careless, they say. On one occasion Mendoza was off duty a month with a broken arm. During that time the campus gained the appearance of abandoned picnic grounds.
Charge Dropped Against K.U. Coed After Arrest for Falsifying Credit
The only solution to the problem, it is believed, lies in studentbody self discipline and the home training of students in general.
A colorful yarn on liberal shopping, a psychological experiment, and a charming, frivolous coed, Elva Geraldine Wallace, junior in the School of Business, landed on the
Iceland Base Censor Tells Experiences At Press Club Today
The only explanation given by the state prosecutor at 2:30 p.m. today was that he released Miss Wallace "in view of the fact that she is young and that this was her first offence. Furthermore, the two complaining witnesses, Peck's and Harzfeld's didn't care to prosecute."
Censorship and newspapers in Iceland will be the topic of an off-the-record discussion by Gordon Sabine, new instructor in journalism, at the first Press club meeting of the Spring semester. The meeting will be at 4:30 today in room 107 of the Journalism building.
Kansas City. Mo—(INS)—Mar. 19
Mr. Sabine, who has just been discharged after two and a half years in the armed service, was an Iceland base censor for 18 months. He will give a short talk, and then club members will hold a round table discussion. Members of Press Club and anyone interested in journalism are invited to attend the meeting.
Kansas City, Mo. (INS)—Mar 10
Charges of obtaining merchandise
under false pretenses were dropped
today against 19-year-old Elva Geraldine Wallace of Wichita, Kans., pretty, blonde, University of Kansas coed accused of charging $100.17 of merchandise to the accounts of two Kansas City women. Miss Wallace charged $272.29 worth of merchandise to another account last December.
The charges were dropped at the request of the management of the department stores at which the bills were charged.
In a talk with Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, yesterday afternoon Mrs. J. W. Wallace, 1244 North Topeka, Wichita, said that her daughter would withdraw from school. Miss Wallace accompanied her mother to Lawrence and returned to Kansas City with her.
"It is my belief that the girl was sincerely sorry for what she had done," Miss Meguiar said this morning.
front page of the Kansas City Star yesterday as the "feature story of the day." Miss Wallace, described as "one of K.U.'s slick chicks," was arrested in Kansas City Saturday for charging clothes at Peck's department store against the account of another woman. She was also accused of the same practice at another store.
Admitted Charges, Denies Motives
Although Miss Wallace admitted
all the charges made against her
regarding her various shopping esca-
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Hawthorne Daniel Will Discuss 'Uncle Sam's Return to Seven Seas' In Lecture Course Wednesday
HAWTHORNE DANIEL
Nazis Withdraw North of Saar
(International News Service)
A German withdrawal north of the Saar river eastward toward the Rhine was officially reported by supreme headquarters today. Armored units of the United States Third army under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, drove four miles through the Saar, forcing a major Nazi withdrawal from the area of St. Wendel. The Third army's threat to vital Siegfried positions mounted by the hour. Clean up Coblenz
A spokesman for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announced final complete cleanup of all German opposition of the Rhine river city of Coblenz.
Meanwhile German troops on the Seventh army front to the south have virtually completed their withdrawal into the Siegfried line and have begun violent counter attacks in the Sarr-Brucken area. New Blow at Jap Islands
United States naval headquarters at Guam finally confirmed a new and powerful aircraft carrier b l o w against the Japanese islands of Honshu and Kyushu. Aided by land-based superfortresses, some 1700 carrier planes, presumably from Adm. Mark Andrew Mitscher's giganic task force 58, ripped and tore at vital enemy installations on these two islands.
Charm Editor to Speak To Women Here Tuesday
Miss Dorothy Huston, mid-west editor of Charm magazine from Chicago, will address university women at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Miss Huston is being brought to the University through the efforts of the Independent Student association.
No admission will be charged and all university women are invited to hear the talk which will stress poise and make-up.
Discussing the role of the United States in world affairs during the next 100 years. Hawthorne Daniel, navy war correspondent, author, and authority on the Pacific, will speak on "Uncle Sam Returns to the Seven Seas," in Fraser theater at 8:20 p.m., Wednesday, under the auspices of the Community Lecture course.
In his lecture Mr. Daniel analyzes the colorful, romantic interplay of economic, industrial development, sources of basic raw materials, rate of population increase, competition of other nations, racial initiative and industry, religious and moral integrity as factors in the rise and fall of world power. He will discuss the significance of the tremendous shift of sea power which has occurred during the present generation, as well as the development of air power.
Forecast American Leadership
Long before the Germans offered their theory of Germany as the "Heartland" of a world to be dominated by them, Mr. Daniel was pointing out that North America—not Germany—was bound, to become the most influential portion of the world. In July, 1939, two months before Germany invaded Poland, he told an audience, not only that the war in Europe was coming, but also that France would fall, that Scandinavia would be invaded, and that the United States would be forced to fight Japan.
The uncanny accuracy of these forecasts resulted from Mr. Daniel's long study of world developments from the beginnings of the "industrial revolution" and the American revolution. It is this study, on which Mr. Daniel has spent much of his time for twenty-five years,
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War funds for the University Red Cross drive now total $3,665.97, with almost half the returns yet to be made, Dr. F. C. "Phog" the Chairman of the Campus drive, said today. Student contributions, collected by Jay-Janes and V-12's, have reached $1170.47, including donations from 9 organized houses and two unorganized houses. Faculty donations stand at $2,435.50 to date.
Red Cross Donations Mount to $3,605.97
Individual contributions were:
Phi Delta Theta, $20.25; Sigma Kappa, $59.22; Delta Tau Delta,
$23.00; Phi Beta Pla, $123.25; Miller hall,
$46.50; Locksley hall, $40.00;
Delta Gamma, $67.00; Phi Beta Pi,
$38.00; Gamma Pla Beta, $54.00; 1215 Oread,
$14.00; 1234 Oread, $13.35;
Corbin hall, $108; Foster, $12.85; Chi Omega,
$138.75; Alpha Delta Pi,
$65.50; Kappa Alpha Theta, $133;
Westminster, $20; Tipperary, $14.75;
Jolliffe, $18; Jayhawk Co-op, $10;
Watkins, $48.14; Beta Theta Pi, $28;
Battenfeld and Carruth, $33; Phi Gamma Delta, $13; Alpha Omicron Pi, $32; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, $24; Ricker, $2; Nu Sigma Nu, $42; 1245 Louisiana, $5 1244 Louisiana, $17; miscellaneous, $21.01.
Contributions of University High school students totaled $40.