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NUMBER 107
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, MARCH 12. 1945
42nd YEAR
Melchior To Give Vocal Concert In Hoch Tonight
Lauritz Melehior, Dapish born Metropolitan opera tenor, will appear tonight in the fourth program of the 1944-45 University Concert course with Otto Seyfert at the piano. Students may be admitted to the performance, beginning at 8:20 in Hoch auditorium, by presenting activity books .
Scandinavion songs will open the program: "Hear You" (Sverre Jordan), Norwegian; "Fly My Thoughts" (Richard Henneberg), Swedish; "Spring Song" (Fini Henriques), Danish, and "I Love Thee" (Grieg), Norwegian.
In the second part, Mr. Seyfert will play a piano solo, "Isolde's Liebstod" (Wagner-Liezit). Mr. Melehior will continue the program by singing "Liebeseier" (Felix Weingartner); "Der Wanderer an den Nond" (Franz Schubert); "Standchen" (Richard Strauss); and "Cacilie" (Richard Strauss).
After intermission he will sing "Matinata" (Leoncavallo); "Lonely Night" from the MGM picture "Trill of a Romance" in which Mr. Melechior himself appeared; "The Star" (James Rogers); and "Life and Death" (S. Coleridge-Taylor). Following this last number Mr. Seyfert will give another piano solo, "Soirée de Vienne" (Schubert-Lietz). The final part of the program will be two Arias: "Siegmund's Liebeslied" (Richard Wagner); and "Westi la Guibba" from the opera "Pagliacci" (R. Leoncavallo).
Mr. Melchior will leave immediately after the concert here tonight for Hollywood to make another motion picture.
The "heroic tenor" has been a guest star on many radio programs, made the motion picture "Thrill of a Romance," and sung in many concerts in the present season, along with a full season with the Metropolitan opera in which he has been so popularly acclaimed for his ability to sing in the difficult Wagnerian roles.
Gordon Sabine Hired To Teach Journalism
Gordon A. Sabine, recently released from service as a lieutenant in the United States army, began his duties today as an instructor in the William Allen White School of Journalism. He will teach reporting and editing courses.
Sabine was hired as an instructor in the summer of 1942 but entered military service 10 days before reporting for teaching in September of that year.
Before entering service, he had been a reported, copyreader, assistant state editor, and assistant on editorial page makeup for the Wisconsin State Journal, in Madison, Wis., and reporter for the Lynchburg, (Va.) News and Advance. He also was Madison correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal and Chicago Sun, and edited the Wisconsin Wildlife magazine.
While in the service he did magazine writing, edited a year book, "The Tags," published at Adjuntant General school, Fort Washington, Md. An article written by him while in service in Iceland where he did censorship work, appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
Servicemen's Kansan Appears Again Today
It may be old stuff to those on the campus, but to the newshungry Jayhawkers in military service the Kansan Review just off the press for this week will be manna from heaven.
Organizations and individuals alike today were urged to get copies at the Kansan business office and mail them to their friends in service.
War Memento Group Selected
A committee to receive war memeents from University alumni serving overseas has been appointed by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
"Many of our servicemen are collecting war souvenirs. Actually much of this could be called nothing more than war junk. It is the hope of the University that the establishment of a systematic method of collection, classification, and display of war mementos will give historical value to items collected by our alumni," said Edwin Browne, chairman.
Already the University has received the flag of the city of Naples, now in possession of the School of Medicine in Kansas City. The entomology department has received a collection of insects from an alumnus in the South Pacific.
Committee members include Edwin Browne, chairman, Miss Florence Black, J. O. Jones, F. E. Melvin, Fred Ellsworth, and Allen Crafton.
"Mementos of Significance' is the theme of the campaign by the committee in a preliminary meeting last week.
The plan is for servicemen not only to send souvenirs of battle but also mementos of the countries in which they have served. Servicemen sending souvenirs should include the story which makes that souvenir significant, suggested Chairman Browne.
During the year, said Dean Lawson, we find students who applied and failed to receive or who did not apply for the scholarship in high school. On the basis of their scholarship at the University, they are awarded the scholarship.
Richard R. Potter, engineering sophomore, Rudy Carl, engineering sophomore, and Dale Allen Rogers, fine arts sophomore, have been named Summerfield scholars, Dean Paul B. Lawson announced today.
Carl, Potter, Rogers Receive Summerfield Scholarship Award
It is hoped that this might be the beginning of a display which would become a "cross-section of history of civilization." Predictions are that it might be the beginning of a center of the mementos of the University contribution to human experience throughout the world. Perhaps a museum might be established similar to Dyche Museum, suggested Chairman Browne.
Two methods of informing servicemen are through publication in the Graduate Magazine and a news letter to be sent to men overseas.
Preliminary examinations for Summerfield scholarships this year are to be held March 31, in several places over the state. Nominations are already coming in from high school principals.
Engineers Gain Two More Points On Rhine River
Internattonal News Service
Spanning of the Rhine by American engineers at two additional points north of the original crossing site at Remagen was reported by the Germans today as U.S. first army forces rapidly expanded the width and depth of their bridgehead on the east bank.
With headquarters reporting that the bridgehead opposite Remagen had been expanded at least to a width of $12^{\frac{1}{2}}$ miles and a depth of $21^{\frac{1}{2}}$ miles, the Germans asserted that virtually all of Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges first army forces had moved eastward into the bridgehead. Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead
The American ninth and Canadian first armies in the north wiped out the last of the Nazi bridgehead on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Wesel.
Furious air assaults meanwhile were carried out against the Germans on both the western and eastern fronts. American and British planes lashed heavily at undisclosed objectives while the Soviet air force out in strength, pounded ceaselessly at the area of Settin on the Baltic.
Soviet ground troops swept toward Danzig and Gydnia and moved westward through Hungary. B-29's Attack Nagova
In the Far East, irreparable damage was done to the Japanese airplane manufacturing city of Nagoya in another assault by 300 B-29 super fortresses, paralleling and following by only 24 hours the attack which wiped out a third of Tokyo.
The desperate marine corps battle of annihilation on Iwo Jima island continued without letup.
Singapore, also was attacked again while in the Philippines Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops moved in on recently moved Mindanao.
Scholarship Committee Announces Donnelly Awards
J. H. Nelson, chairman of the scholarship committee, has announced the following Donnelly Scholarship awards for the spring semester:
No flight instruction was given Saturday to the club members but ten planes, ranging from Cub trainers to a Stinson five-place plane, were lined up on the field for their inspection. The object of the gathering was to acquaint the club members with the facilities of the field and the equipment which they will use in training.
The fifteen members which were present lined up in front of the ten airplanes, and Chancellor Malott addressed them, welcoming them into the club. The chancellor was present both as unofficial sponsor of the new club and as an aviation student, as he has been taking flying lessons.
Independent Girls Give Bronze 'Uncle Jimmy' Saturday Bath
Several pictures were taken which will be used later for publication.
Sara Roslie, $50; Vernita Pearl
Inloes, $50; Dorothy Marie Shockey,
$50; Marion Minerva Spearmen, $50;
Lily Washington, $50; Mary Arlene
Wisner, $50; and Alfred Infante, $25
"We have made a very successful start," Professor Simpson said. Chancellor Malott expressed the hope that "this is the beginning of what may become one of the best aviation programs in the country."
The Jayhawk Flying club was initiated at the Municipal airport Saturday afternoon with fifteen new members, and Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Prof. William M. Simpson, head of the department of aeronautical engineering, and C. H. McMillan, manager of the airport, attending.
Flying instruction started Thursday and the majority of the members have had one flying lesson, Professor Simpson said. The first ground school class will meet tomorrow.
Flying Club Initiated At Local Airport; Has Fifteen Members
One of the University's labor problems was solved and the spring cleaning season opened when "Uncle Jimmy" Green and his bronze young friend were given a bath Saturday morning by the Independents. Armed with buckets, brushes, oil, and water, some 20 University women representing the Independent organization, attacked the statuary in front of Green hall and for two hours scrubbed at the baked and hardened coats of white wash covering it.
Passers-by may have thought that the man-power shortage had reached a new crisis when they observed jeans-clad girls embracing the cold bronze of Uncle Jimmy and his stalwart protege. Little did they know! Those tender half-nelsons were necessary for the maintenance of a foothold on wet, oily metal and marble. Even bare feet didn't help much "Sunny" Jones found.
Platoon after platoon of Navy V-12's paused in their Saturday parade. They left-faced in front of statue, at eased, and gave helpful comments—whistled and otherwise.
Law students openly applauded and offered honorary LL.D's.
Henry Werner, Dean of Student Affairs, arrived on the scene as the job neared completion. He squinted through his dark glasses at the assemblage and queried, "Are you from Manhattan?" When informed that the labor shortage—not guilty K-State conscience had prompted the action, he expressed his whole-hearted approval and admired Dean Green in his gleaming new coat of oil.
"We would have cleaned the statue long ago," said C. G. Bayles, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, when he accepted the Independents' offer, "but we had neither the time nor the men to spare. The University will be impressed that a group of students had enough concern to offer their services."
If anyone is impressed, the oily, white-wash splattered girls would prefer that it be the Engineers and hope the Hobnailers will spend St. Patrick's day in bed. Also the night!
Supreme Court Will Not Review Ward Co. Case
Washington—(INS) The supreme court today denied the government's petition for review of a decision of Federal district Judge Philip Sullivan, of Chicago, holding the soldier seizure of Montgomery Ward & Co. plant in nine cities invalid.
The appelate court held that the mail order firm had not been engaged in the manufacturing of war materials and therefore did not come under the powers of the president to take over war industry in event of labor-operator disputes.
The government maintained that the labor dispute at the Montgomery Ward plants was so closely interlocked with those of war industries that failure to control that would result in a general breakdown of war manufacturing efforts.
It was forecast that the supreme court would avoid this case because it would open the way to a flock of labor cases of a ticklish nature.
Jay Janes, V-12's Aid K.U. $4000 Drive For Red Cross Fund
Booths 'will be erected in Fraser, Frank Strong hall, and the Union building, where students who have been missed by the Jay Jane Red Cross canvassing, may make their donations Thursday and Friday of this week. Mary Olive Marshall, president of Jay Janes, said today, Miss Marshall said that the Jay Janes would also canvase the unorganized women's houses to collect contributions for the $4000 K.U. quota.
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen has announced that 17 V-12's who have seen overseas service will assist in the campaign. They are R. D. Johnson, Frank Haas, Milford Collins, Ken Knuth, Vern McCoy, Dorwin Lamkin, Jerome Sayler, Raymond Glasnapp, Richard Jarden, Gus Daum, John McGuckin, Walter Androes, Fred Helm, Eugene Fetesch, Dan Watson, A. N. Chalupnik, and John McShane.
Also assisting in the drive will be Bob Buechel, Lew Purinton, Bob Stewart, Gordon Reynolds, Billy Chestnut, R. J. Atkinson, Charles Moffett, Wally Rouse, Earl Stanton, Dewey Nemec, and Don Alderson. These men students will attend dinner at the various women's houses on Wednesday evening, and the Jay Janes will visit the men's houses.
R.O.T.C. Enrollment Closes Thursday
Thursday noon has been set as a deadline for enrollment in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, Col William L. McMorris announced today.
"The two-year training for which the University grants one and a third hours of credit each semester will be especially valuable to young men who expect to be called into service," said Colonel McMorris, who added that arrangements for enrollment may be made at the military science building daily.