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NUMBER 110
The council will appoint two V-12 members to serve on the council at their first meeting next Monday night. If the majority of the Navy trainees should leave the campus, two civilian students will be appointed by the council to fill the V-12 vacancies.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1945
Jack Nichols Elected New I.S.A. President
Jack Nichols, junior in the School of Business, was elected president of the Independent Student Association at their mass meeting in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building last night.
Six other students were elected to the council to fill the class representative vacancies. The representatives from the freshman class are Shirley Wellborn, College; and Barbara Jury, School of Fine Arts. The homone representatives are Lorraine Carpenter, School of Fine Arts; and Tommie Thompson, College. Jacqueline Goodell, College; and Bill Hollis also in the College; are the representatives from the junior class.
Pat Graham, College sophomore will be a representative at large.
First Inter-Frat Meeting in 1889 The first inter-fraternity meeting at the University was held on March 8, 1889.
His wife, Mrs. Gretta J. Wright,
and two children, Jimmy 5, and
Nancy 2, live in Denison, Kan.
Don Alderson, retiring president,
conducted the meeting last night.
Jack Nichols gave a financial report
and Dick Hartzell explained the
election procedure. Emily Hollis
read the minutes of the mass meeting
of the I. S. A. of one year ago.
Captain Wright was attached to a division of Chinese soldiers when they launched their offensive early in May in an attempt to drive the Japanese from Yunnan in order to reopen the Burma Road supply route. He is entitled to wear a bronze star on his Asiatic Campaign bion for his services in the field with this division.
Medical Graduate Returns from China
Capt. Paul R. Wright, 37, who studied for his degree of doctor of medicine at the University in 1940, has recently returned from an assignment as a Y-Force medical officer supporting a Chinese division in the Salween Campaign of Western Yunnan.
Wright, the son of medical missionaries in China, was graduated from the Shanghai American school in 1925 and from Washburn university in 1934. He entered the army in September 1942, and served in the air corps at Mitchell field, Long Island, before being ordered overseas.
Eight months after he had been sent overseas to India, Captain Wright was sent to a Y-Force Infantry Training center where he instructed Chinese medical personnel in a field medicine training program. The Y-Force was the American military mission which trained, equipped and supplied the Chinese Expeditionary force for the Salveen campaign, first sustained Chinese offensive in seven years of war against the Japanese invaders.
Florence Lydia Snow Writes Memoirs
"Pictures on My Wall: A Lifetime in Kansas," a volume of memoirs by Florence Lydia Snow, of Lawrence, appeared as a product of the University of Kansas Press today.
The book presents a picture of the development of Kansas and its culture and contains in particular accounts of the early days of Neosho Falls.
Miss Snow, a poet of considerable repute, has been active sixty years in literary circles in Kansas. She describes early days at Baker university where she was a classmate of Bishop W. A. Quayle, and her visit to Washington with her uncle, James Harlan, formerly in Lincoln's cabinet.
She likewise narrates her long friendship with Eugene Lee Hamilton, English poet and friend of the Brownings.
Inductees 18-20 Now Go to Army
Washington All inductees between 18 and 20 years of age inclusive, with a few exceptions, will be placed in the army during the next three months.
An agreement reached with the navy calls for earmarking the 18-20 class for the army "to satisfy needs for young infantry replacements."
During the three-month period the navy requirements will be filled with men 21 to 38 years old.
The exceptions to the arrangement are those inductees who qualify and are assigned to special navy programs, such as radio technicians and combat aircrewmen.
Most of the men entering the army in recent months have been channeled into the infantry replacement system, and eventually into combat divisions.
Selective service calls recently were increased to give the infantry more men, but this was done only after other branches of the service had been scoured for men who could be trained as infantrymen.
The University's first woman dean was appointed in 1878.
First Woman's Dean 1878
Colored Inks Determine Date Scale of Males
Girls in the dormitory at Radcliffe College have a system by which they keep their housemates well informed of how they feel about their dates.
When they arrive at the house, they register the time, but in a complicated form of using colored inks. If just a nice time was had, the entry is made in green ink. But going down the scale of impression, brown ink is used to designate, "thoroughly routine." "An utter flop," rates yellow, while, pink represents a date based on "a high intellectual plane."
For those fellows that show the gals a "perfectly swell" time, red is entered on the books. But the man that rates purple ink has reached the highth of popularity. For he is classified, "too, too, divine."
Ruth Orcutt to Give Recital in Hutchinson
Sponsored by the Women's Civic Center, Hutchinson, Ruth Orcutt, associate professor of music, will appear in a piano recital, Friday afternoon, March 16. On Saturday Miss Orcutt will conduct a repertoire class for piano students and return to Lawrence that evening.
The program consists of "Fantasie-impromptu," "Etude Op. 10 No. 3," "Ballade in G Minor," "Bereuse," "Scherzo in B Flat Minor," all by Chopin. She will continue with "Seguidillas" (Albeniz); "Legend" (Villa-Lobos); "Novelle" (Poulenc); and "Capriccio" (Dohanyi). The third part of her program will be the "Etude-Caprice" (Ganz); "Improvisation" (MacDowell); "Egecid" (Kroeger); and "Concert-Etude" (Preyer). She will close the recital with "Tarantella" by Liszt.
Miss Orcutt will be the guest of Miss Lelia Sanders, piano teacher, while in Hutchinson. Her classes will not meet on Thursday and Friday.
Army Casualties Increase
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of War Stimpson reported today that army casualties increased 15,353 during the past week. Total army, navy and marine casualties are 857,589.
Churchill Predicts Early Peace As First Army Enlarges Bridgehead; Fierce Fighting on Iwo Is Ended
(International News Service)
Y.W.C.A. Will Hold Local Convention Here April 14-18
The change was made necessary because the national convention was cancelled this year because of transportation difficulties. It will begin on April 14 and continue until April 18. Two members of each commission were chosen to work on the program for the convention.
A local convention of the W. Y.
C. A. to replace the annual National
convention was arranged yesterday
afternoon at a Y. W. C. A. meeting.
Amid Nazi reports that the U. S. first army has crossed at the wide Cologne Frankfort Autobahn east of the Rhine, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's first army ripped across the Moselle river today and opened a bridgehead covering 27 square miles of German soil.
The meeting also included a vote given in favor of "coffees" to be given each Thursday during April at the homes of faculty members to discuss recent peace conferences such as the Yalta agreement, Dumbarton Oakes, and Chipultepec, the Mexican conference.
Hope Miller to Give Organ Recital Sunday
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's spokesman announced that the third army had crossed the Moselle southwest of Coblenz, opening the beachhead nine miles wide and three miles deep, while other units of that veteran force opened a heavy assault southeast of Trier.
An organ recital by Hope Crittenden Miller will be given from 4 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Trinity Episcopal church.
Mrs. Miller, a senior in the School of Fine Arts, will play the following: "Fugue in G Minor" (J. S Bach); Chorale-Prelude, "Hark a Voice Salth All are Mortal" (J. S Bach); "Pastorale" Second Symphony (C. W. Widor); "Ave Maria" (Schubert-Nevin); "Allegro-First Sonata" (Gluptant).
Sabine Dispells Illusions of Iceland
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Iceland—the cold barren island of the north giving house to the Eskimo and the igloo, is the impression most of us have of this almost mythical nation. However, Lieut. Gordon Sabine, now instructor in the journalism department, can vouch for the fact that there are no Eskimos in Iceland, nor are there any igloos.
He returned last October after 18 months of press censorship work in the "Land of the Midnight Sun." Mr. Sabine in civilian life was a newspaper man with a knack for turning up "exclusives." In fact, he "happened" to be in the office of the Icelandic newspaper "Visir" when the second extra in the newspaper history of that country was born. D-Day was the occasion for the extra, it scoring a 65-minute beat.
How cold does it get in Iceland? That's a military secret says Mr. Sabine. Germany and practically all other nations can forecast their weather from the forecast in Iceland.
Another important "first" for Iceland is the fact that the first American outpost established in this war was in Iceland. Iceland was the only country to refuse Hitler the right to establish a land base in 1939. "If we weren't there now," said Professor Sabine, "the United States couldn't get supplies through to Russia and England. In fact the Allies might have lost both England and Russia had Hitler taken Iceland in 1939." Over Iceland, the Americans shot the first German plane in this war.
Being press censor did not impress Mr. Sabine as being too difficult a task until he found that all the papers were written in Icelandic. Consequently, his first task was learning the Icelandic language.
The wind reaches gusts of 125 miles an hour strong enough to knock any man flat. It's also strong enough to blow any army house over. That's why, explained Mr. Sabine, the army houses, which are called "nissen huts," are built half underground. Their construction is metal. No trees are seen in Iceland and there is very little vegetation.
Mr. Sabine was the only American soldier present when Icelandic Congress decided to break off all relations with the Scandinavian countries. The King of Denmark had personal rule over the country, although in name only. But, says Mr. Sabine, Iceland is independent and an isolationist country. "She wants to be alone."
$ \textcircled{2} $Churchill Is Optimistic
Meanwhile Prime Minister Churchill delivered a prediction far exceeding in optimism his other utterances. Should the war in Europe end before the summer ends, or even sooner, "We shall have reached a considerable milestone in our journey." In the European war, he stressed it "might well" come to its conclusion before the summer months are over.
At the same time a Stockholm newspaper of good repute denied reports that the Nazi Reich has made another compromise peace approach to the Allied, and has met with unequivical rebuff.
Debating the proposition, "Resolved, that one year of full-time military training should be required of all able-bodied American boys before they have attained their twenty-fourth birthday," K. U. will meet the University of Nebraska here at 8 p.m., Wednesday, in Green hall, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, announced today.
Soviet Troops Move Toward Baltic On the Eastern front the Soviet troops plunged toward the Baltic in two areas and steady advances were made west of the Oder between captured Kuestrin and Frankfurt.
Formal American occupation of Iwo Jima island in the Pacific was concluded, although fighting continued in one rapidly diminishing Japanese pocket of resistance.
Dr. O. Myking Mehus To Interview Veterans
Nebraska to Debate Here on March 28
Dr. O. Myking Mehus of the regional veteran's bureau in Kansas City, Mo., will be in Lawrence Monday, Dr. Leonard Axe of the local veteran's bureau, said today.
Also scheduled is a debate with the University of Missouri at the joint session of the Kiwiarians and Co-ops here at 8 p.m., April 19, at the Colonial tea room. They will debate the same proposition.
Dr. Mehus, who is chief vocational rehabilitation and education division officer in Kansas City, will speak at the Rotary club Monday noon and will interview veterans in the afternoon at the veteran's bureau office in the basement of Frank Strong hall.
British Troops Clear Japs From Area of Mandalav
Mandalay, (INS) — British army troops today cleared all Japanese from the area of Mandalay north of Ft. Dufferin, masted stronghold in the center of the area.