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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945
NUMBER 105
42nd YEAR
American Troops Cross Rhine Reds 25 Miles
Legislature Approves $800,000 To Remodel Library, Fowler Shops Lindley Hall, University Hospital
Ruth Anderson Returns to Teach Ruth Anderson, who was graduated from the School of Pharmacy in March, 1944, is now an instructor in the School of Pharmacy this semester.
Funds totaling $800,000 for the improvement of three buildings on the campus and one at the University of Kansas hospital, in Kansas City, Kan., were approved by the 1945 Kansas legislature yesterday.
The building bill passed through the Senate Tuesday and through the House of Representatives yesterday with an overwhelming majority.
Watson library will be extender to the west to provide additional reading and reference rooms. Fowler hall, the present quarters for the engineering shops, will be released to the journalism department. A modern fireproof shop building will be added to the south end of the Mineral Resources building.
The William Allen White School of Journalism will occupy Fowler shops after the building is remodelled. Four stories are to be added to the connecting corridor at the University hospital.
Ruth Anderson Returns to Teach
Work will commence on these improvements as soon as it is possible to acquire building materials. No definite dates have been scheduled for beginning the work.
Anderson Will Give Organ Vesper Recital On Sunday Afternoon
The organ vesper recitals will be resumed Sunday afternoon, March 11, when Laurel Everette Anderson, university organist, will present a program of organ selections from Hanel, Bach, Ghys, Brahms, and Simonds.
Mr. Anderson, who has been at the University since 1927, is a professor in theory and organ. He received his bachelor of music degree from Oberlin in 1921 and his master degree from there the following year. While he attended Oberlin, he was a pupil of George Whitfield Andrews and Arthur Heacox.
Following two years as head of the organ and theory department at Grinnell college, Mr. Anderson went to Paris where he studied organ under Joseph Bonnett and Louis Vierne, and composition from Raoul Laparra. He was organist of the American church while he was in Paris.
Mr. Anderson has done extensive organ recital work and has appeared at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago and at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.
The recital on Sunday afternoon will begin at 4:00 and will last approximately an hour.
Davis to Speak At Convocation
Jerome Davis, foreign correspondent for Canadian and American newspapers, will speak on "Russia As I Saw It" Wednesday in Hoch auditorium in the first convocation of the spring semester. Mr. Davis has just returned from a 10 months' visit in the Soviet Union.
Leaving the United States in the summer of 1943, Mr. Davis spent several weeks in England where he interviewed many leading people and visited English army camps. He left England in October for Russia, stopping at Lisbon, Cairo, and Teheran. He stayed at the latter city for several days waiting for proper weather to fly over the mountains into Russia.
He spent one night each in Baku and Astrakhan, four days at Stalingrad, and arrived in Moscow on Nov. 5.
From the fall of 1940 until leaving for Europe, Mr. Davis was director of the Prisoner-of-War work in Canada for the Y. M. C. A. World alliance. His father, Jerome Dean Davis, lieutenant colonel in the Civil war and missionary - statesman, founded the first Christian university, Doshisha, in Japan.
Mr. Davis is author or co-author of 14 volumes on international, economic, social, and religious questions. He has written articles for the Atlantic Monthly, Century, New Republic, Nation, Survey, and Collier's magazines.
Mr. Davis has taught at Boston university, Dartmouth college, Harvard, the University of Wisconsin, and in the New School for Research in New York. For three years he was president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Thayer Exhibit Shows Samplers
Twenty six from the 68-piece Thayer museum collection of 17th, 18th, and 19th century samplers are being shown this month in the north galley on the second floor of the Museum.
Macbeth Is Story of Man Who Wed 'Dumb' Wife
These samplers were made by young girls from the ages of 8 to 14 to show their mastery of the alphabet and the needle. They became a kind of formal picture in which skill and beauty of stitching were represented. The samplers contain maps, sentimental poems, and Bible quotations done for the most part on linen. One sampler was done by the mother of Prof. E. M. Hopkins, when she was 13 years old.
Red Cross Drive Yields First Results
There are three Spanish samplers, one Italian, and one French, as well as early American ones on exhibit.
Along with this exhibit, two cases of Pennsylvania-Dutch slip-decorated pottery are featured. These dishes have all been used for baking purposes.
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, director of the University Red Cross drive, announced yesterday that he had mailed letters to all faculty members and employees of the University, soliciting funds for the campus quota. The letters, which were delivered Monday morning, have already shown results. More than 100 contributions had been received by noon today. Allen reported that some persons had brought their contributions before the letters were sent out.
Allen has designated Robinson gymnasium as the central location to which contributors may come. Allen will turn the money over to the general drive headquarters downtown. Last year the University contributed more than $4,000 to the Red Cross War fund.
"Macbeth' is another story of a man who married a dumb woman, and it is a convincing demonstration of the 'Gang Buster's' radio slogan: 'Crime Doesn't Pay,'" Prof. Allen Crafton said today. "A number of critics have declared that it is the greatest tragic play in the English language."
Plans for organization of the student drive are well underway, and Allen expressed his confidence in the full cooperation of the students in this undertaking.
The production of "Macbeth" starring Prof. and Mrs. Crafton tonight will depart from the traditional method of presenting Shakespeare, added Professor Crafton. The play has been cut and streamlined into the domestic tragedy centering
Persons attending the performance tonight or Friday night in Fraser theater are asked to be on time. The doors will close promptly at 8:15. No admission will be charged.
Shakespeare's plays have been given all over the world for over 300 years. During the present war they have been popular in the army camps. "Forty million audiences can't be wrong," smiled Professor Crafton.
around Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. By using the movie and radio techniques of a "musical curtain," the playing time has been cut down to slightly over an hour.
Cross Rhine Reds 25 Miles From Nazi Berlin
(International News Service)
Headquarter, American Armies — The American first army has crossed the Rhine south of Cologne, official sources announced today.
A bridgehead was established on the east bank, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's spokesman announced.
The crossing was made at 4:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.) yesterday.
(BULLETIN)
Moscow, (INS)—Massive Red army forces developing twin offensives on Berlin and Danzig were reported across the Oder and within 25 miles of the German capital.
Dr. Miessner Tells Of War Music Meet In Chicago Last Week
The advances were described in a special order of the day by Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin.
At a recent meeting of the council Dr. Messner made a pea for the democratization of music by providing music instruction in schools without the payment of private lesson fees, so that it may no longer be "a luxury for the privileged few in a country where mass education is an accepted fact."
Dr. W. O. Miessner, chairman of the department of music education, returned Sunday from Chicago where he attended a meeting of the Music War Council of America of which he is the head of the music in education committee.
The Music War council was organized in March, 1942. Its activities include the collecting of musical instruments for the armed forces and veterans hospitals and the sending of phonographs to military units in all parts of the world.
Dr. Miessner also urged "the liberation of American music from the European domination of our different musical institutions and enterprises," as he told of the tendency on the part of many people to worship foreign artists and the music of foreign composers.
Classes Permanently Set This Week
"Class switching will be halted after this week," announced Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, today. "All students in the college who may for some reason find it necessary or advisable to change to another class, must do so this week," he said.
He feels that this decision will first of all help the students since the semester is but 16 weeks long, and late enrollment in a class robs them of the first important class days. The tell-tale results too often show up at the end of the semester, he commented.
Earlier in the year Dean Lawson urged students to take fewer hours and do a better job.
With the Allied victories along the Rhine, came news of new Soviet successes. Russian troops gained control of 70 miles of the Cedar river's western bank, pushing to within 28 miles of Berlin.
Fall of Bonn Predicted As Yanks Clamp Down
On the Burma front, the Japanese received a setback as British troops smashed on the northern outskirts of Mandalay. Enemy resistance still was unbroken on the savage battle of Iwo Jima, but new gains were recorded while Gen. Douglas MacArthur pressed forward methodically with the removal of the last Japanese garrisons remaining in the Philippines.
Jans Lose in Mandalay
American first army troops fighting in the outskirts of Bonn clamped tighter the northern arm of a steel pincers now shutting about an estimated 50,000 Nazis today as the southern army, former by the U. S. Third Army, pressed forward at a mile-an-hour gait.
Latest reports placed Third Army forces under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton only six miles from Coblenz.
Supreme headquarters described the fall of Bonn as "immigrant." British. Canadians Push On
Bid to Argentina Seen In Acceptance of Resolution
To the north, British and Canadian forces opened an all-out attack against the sole remaining bridgehead of the Germans west of the Rhine. The Paris radio said these troops had captured Veen.
Mexico City, INS) — Argentina will be invited today by the Inter-American Conference of foreign ministers to accept the resolution approved by the conference in what is interpreted as a move to open the way for the attendance at the world security conference in San Francisco.
Malott Will Attend Washington Meeting
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will be in Topeka tomorrow for the regular meeting of the Board of Regents. Sunday Mr. Malott will leave for Washington, D.C., where he plans to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the business advisory council of the department of commerce.