,1945
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Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Thursday. Colder tonight. Low near 20. Warmer Thursday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945
NUMBER 94
42nd YEAR
New Italian Offensive Opens Against Nazis
BULLETIN
London — Unconfirmed radio reports say that the Russians have crossed the Oder river and are fighting on the plains before Berlin. Neither Germany nor Moscow have confirmed any such reports.
Persistent reports from Germany say the Yanks are mobilizing for a drive on the west wall, or the Siegfried line.
International News Service
Patton Strikes at Seven Points
Nazi Germany was hard hit from the south today. United States Fifth army troops under Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott opened a new offensive south of Bologna in Italy. Berlin said the Allies were extending their push all the way across the Italian peninsula with particular emphasis on the Bologna-Faenza area.
On the western front, Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third army
surged across the Sauer and Our
rivers at seven different points from
Luxembourg in a four - division
thrust along a 20-mile front.
In the east Russian forces poured across the Oder river and Berlin reported a general consolidation of Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin's troops for a mass offensive along a 300-mile front aimed at overwhelming Stettin, Dresden, and possible Leipzig along with the occupation of Berlin.
Manila Sees Street Fighting
Street fighting continued in Manila. But general Douglas MacArthur's forces gained control of incendious fires left by the Japanese in the northern area. A smash across the Pasig river to eliminate the enemy in the south was imminent.
French Will Address Y.W.C.A. at Monthly All-Membership Meet
Miss Eleanor French, executive secretary of the national student council of the Y.W.C.A., will speak on the subject,"Students-1945 Version," at the February all-membership meeting of campus Y.W.C.A. next Wednesday, Betty Pile, vicepresident and program chairman of the organization, has announced. The meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
"Y.W. members who are interested in professional Y.W.C.A. work." Miss Pile said, "will be given the opportunity to talk to Miss French about the field after the meeting." Miss French will also address members of the campus Y.W.C.A. cabinet and advisory board at a supper meeting Wednesday evening.
Miss French, who is a graduate of Smith college, was Y.W.C.A. secretary at Columbus, Ohio, for a number of years. She held the position of national personnel secretary of the student Y.W.C.A. before she took over her present duties. Her headquarters are in New York City.
US Builds Fuel Line To Aid War in China
Washington — (INS) — Leo. C. Crowley, foreign economic administrator disclosed to congress today that the U. S. is building a lendlease fuel pipe line paralleling the newly opened Ledo-Buma road into free China.
The 2,000 mile pipeline will be used to carry gasoline and oil for China's transportation and to provide aviation fuel for Chinese and American flyers now attacking the Japanese from bases in Burma.
M. A. Barber Is Series Speaker
Dr. M. A. Barber, assistant, associate, and full professor of bacteriology at the University from 1894-1911, will be guest speaker at the Phi Beta Pi Noble-Pierce Sherwood lectureship series in Fraser theater at 8 p.m. next Wednesday.
His topic will be "Control of Malaria in Greece" on which he is an authority because of his work done there with the Rockefeller foundation, explained Dr. N. P. Sherwool. Work on Common Cup Law
Dr. Barber graduated from the University in 1891. During the time that he instructed here he was instrumental in promoting a law against the common drinking cup after making a study of it in Kansas for the Kansas State Board of Health.
In 1908 he discovered what is now known as the Barber pipette method for isolating bacteria with a glass pipette. Dr.Koch, one of the founders of bacteria, paid high tribute to Dr.Barber for this discovery. Discovers Poisoning in Manila
Discovers Poisoning in Manila
With the Bureau of Science in Manila after leaving the University, he discovered a cause of food poisoning unknown before.
During World War I, he was with the Sanitary corps as a captain and later as a major. For two years following the war, he was with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Field investigations for malaria occupied his time from 1920-1929. Later he served with the International Health division of the Rockefeller Foundation, making malaria investigations in Greece in 1932.
St. Louis University Plans To Appeal for Trust Fund
St. Louis—(INS)—The Rev. Patrick J. Holloran, S. J., president of St. Louis university, said today that Chicago attorneys for the University plan to appeal to the Illinois supreme court after a $1,250,000 trust fund was awarded to Washington, St. Louis.
At the present time, Dr. Barber is living in Kansas City, Mo.
The bequest was made by the late Henry Stever, Illinois publisher. The money was awarded Washington University when the Illinois appellate court reversed the decision of Judge J. A. Graber, who originally granted the fund to St. Louis university.
Elizabeth Meguiar to Return To University February 9
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, dean of women, who has had a leave of absence, will return to Lawrence, Feb. 9. Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the dean of women, has taken her place in her absence. Miss Meguiar left last fall.
Downtown Is Eerie In Brownout
With nothing burning but the street lamps and the traffic lights blinking occasionally, the downtown district of Lawrence presenter an unfamiliar appearance last night to pedestrians (formerly window shoppers). The theaters were so dark that people had to go up to the window, buy a ticket, and go inside before they could tell what shows were on. The jewelry store windows were without illumination, too, a fact which is going to make it much harder for a couple to subtly hint to each other that they're both interested in diamond rings. Even the pin ball machines in the pool rooms refuse to light up, at least on the right number.
Only one outside neon sign was in evidence last night; that was a hotel sign. The department store windows were completely "browned out." The only place that looked particularly lived in was a lunch counter across the street. It had two lights on, but was open for business so that was legal.
Orchestra Will Offer Distinctive Selections At Concert Thursday
The University Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will present five selections at its annual winter concert at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium, Prof. Waldemar Geltch will be guest conductor of Wienianski's "Faust Fantasy" in which his student Helen Pierson will be violin soloist. Opening with "The Star-Spangled Banner" the program will be as follows:
Health Association Cancels Meeting
The American Student Health association has cancelled its annual meeting for the third time since the beginning of the war, Dr. Ralph I. Sanuteson, president, announced today.
"Leonore Overture, No. 3" (Bethoven); "Sympathy No. 5 in E minor," (Tschaikowsky; "Faust Fantasy" (Wieniawski); Suite from the music to "St. Agnes Eve," largamente and adagio (Coleridge-Taylor); and "Farandole" from "LArlesienne Suite No. 2" (Bizet).
The "Faust Fantasy," in which Miss Pierson will be featured, was inspired by the music from Gounod's opera "Faust." It composer, Henri Wienlaowski, was a famous Polish violinist, who spent much of his life touring Europe as a concert virtuoso.
The action is in line with the requests of the office of defense transportation to limit group travel, Dr. Canuteson explained.
The last meeting, the only one since 1941, was held in Cincinnati, March 1943.
Washington—(INS)—Gen. H. H. Arnold commander of the army air forces is a patient in the army hospital, a victim of overwork, the war department announced today. General Arnold's condition is not serious.
General Arnold Is In Army Hospital
Dr. Clendening Wills $50,000 to K.U.
Funeral Services Held Today for Dr. Ernest Robinson
Women Will Discuss Political Issues
In 1898, Dr. Robinson was contract surgeon with the regular army in the Boxer rebellion in China, and later served in the Philippines, as a surgeon at the Second Reserve hospital in Manila. He was a major on the army surgical staff in the first world war.
Dr. Robinson received his bachelor of arts degree from the University in 1893, and his doctor of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1896. He was the son of Prof. David Robinson, the first head of the department of Latin of the University.
Dr. Robinson was a member of the Missouri State and Jackson County Medical association, Academy of Society, Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Sigma, Medicine, William Pepper Medical the University club, and was a fellow in the American College of Surgeons.
Funeral services for Dr. Ernest Franklin Robinson, Kansas City, Mo., surgeon, who died unexpectedly Monday afternoon at his home from a heart attack, were held at 2:00 p.m. today at the Stine and McClure chapel on the plaza in Kansas City. Dr. Robinson would have been 73 on Feb. 13.
University women interested in the independent women's political movement will meet at 4:30 pm. Friday in the English room of the Union building, Virginia Rader, acting chairman of the new independent organization, has announced.
Issues of a political nature will be discussed by the group, and results will be presented later to the entire organization.
A mass meeting of independent students is scheduled for Monday evening, Miss Rader said. At this time the constitution will be discussed and voted on, and plans concerning organization and finances will be considered. All independent students, living either in unorganized or organized houses, are eligible to participate.
Osteopaths Introduce Bill to Expand Rights
Kansas osteopath introduced their own measure today in the house of representatives to expand their rights to practice.
The new bill, introduced by three osteopaths, K. A. Bush, Harper; I. E. Nickell, Smith Center; and T. B. Powell, Larned, would permit osteopathic physicians to administer narcotics.
This bill would give the state board of osteopathic examination more expansive power, than the bill introduced last week by Dr. J. L. Lattimore, Topeka, which was a compromise gesture to avoid controversies in the house of representatives as in previous sessions.
Dr. Logan Clendening left a bequest of $80,000 to the University Endowment association to be used for the department of medical history. The bequest was in his will which was filed late yesterday in the probate court, Kansas City.
The money is "to be used for the department of medical history under the uncontrolled and unrestricted direction of the administrative committee of the School of Medicine," according to a statement in Dr. Clendening's will.
Leave Books to Medical Library
Dr. Clendening's books, which were among his most valued possessions, were left to the library of medical history in Hixon laboratory at the University. Included are those which he had in his home as well as those he had lent to the library in recent years. The books deal principally with the history of medicine and science.
He was found dead in the bedroom of his home in Kansas City, January 31. A graduate of the School of Medicine in 1907, Dr. Clendening had been associated with the University hospitals and School of Medicine for the past 25 years. Chancellor Praises Gift
"The generous bequest of the University's revered professor, Dr. Logan Clendening, is the kind of act which characterized his long years of service to students and to medical science in general." Chancellor o Deane W. Malott said this morning. "Among the wide interests of Dr. Clendening, medical history claimed a good portion of his attention.
"He had collected over the years one of the most highly prized libraries in the medical profession on medical science with an emphasis on the history of medicine. At his own expense he had hired a secretary to act as librarian for medical students who referred to the volumes housed in his office. With the bequest of this library to the University, hundreds of other students will be enabled to follow in that tradition. And, with the additional financial bequest, in such a generous amount, it will be possible for additional research to be conducted and for other books to be added through the years.
"We expect our department of medical history in the School of Medicine of the University to become one of the finest in the country. In so progressing, we will be but following in a tradition established by Dr. Clendening." Chancellor Malott said.
Swarthout Is Honored For Service to MTNA
In recognition for his years of service in the Music Teacher's National association, an association book has been dedicated to D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Only two other men in the association have received a similar honor throughout the 68-year history of the organization. The volume contains the proceedings of the Cincinnati annual meeting last March and a full halftone photograph of Dean Swarthout, followed by two pages of history of his services to the organization by James T. Quarles, president.