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NUMBER 93
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1945
42nd YEAR
Frosh Schedule Second Election For Legal Voting
When an early tabulation of votes showed that 843 freshmen, many of whom were still appearing at the polls for what was supposed to be their initial vote, had already cast more than 1000 ballots in the Heart Hop queen election, freshmen election officials began to realize that even in an honest class it is not practical to stage on election without poll lists and identification re-
Votes Legal After 2:30
To curb the number of votes pouring into ballot boxes from freshmen who overworked their franchise and from upper classmenn, delighting in the opportunity to relive the conflicts of their youth, poll workers began at 2:30 to mark voters names off in a student directory. As a result 83 legal votes were cast in the entire election. The other voters will have to appear at the polls again. Perplexed with the problem of picking some 700 legal ballots out of a total of a thousand, the freshmen have given up and called a second election in Fraser hall on Wednesday.
Hall on Wednesday.
"We've saved the ballots of the 83 persons who voted legally," said Joan Woodward, College freshman,
"so those people won't need to bother about voting again.
All Candidates to Be Listed
"Wednesday, to, we hope to have a complete list of the candidates printed on the ballots" she announced, thereby disclosing another minor technicality that kept the election from being what it should have been. Of the 17 candidates, it seems the names of only 16 appeared on the ballot.
Fitzgerald Leads Oscar Nominations; Many Others Named
Barry Fitzgerald, movie actor, has made "Oscar" history, by being nominated for the best performance by an actor, and the best performance of a supporting actor.
Mr. Fitzgerald gets the double nomination for his portrayal of a priest in "Going My Way," a picture which was chosen as one of the last year's best five presentations.
Other nominees for best-actor awards are Bing Crosby, for "Going My Way;" Charles Boyer, for "Gaslight;" Cary Grant, for "None But the Lonely Heart;" and Alexander Knox for portraying a wartime president in "Wilson." Other possible candidates are Ingrid Bergman, "Gaslight;" Claudette Colbert, 'Since You Went Away';' Bette Davis, "Mr. Skeffington;" Greer Garson, "Mrs. Parkington;" and Barbara Stanwyck, "Double Insecurity."
The Oscars will be presented March 15 in Grauman's Chinese theater, Hollywood.
M. U. Does Forestry Experiments Minnesota university faculty members are working on economic resource problems with an experimental forest not far from the university.
A.F.L. Council Challenges Need of 'Work or Jail' Bill
Miami, Fla.—(INS)—The American Federation of Labor executive council today sad sent telegrams to all members of the U.S. senate appealing for defeat of the "Work or Jail" bill and challenging the need of compulsory manpower legislation#
The council declared that 'the manpower supply is adequate to meet the demands under a voluntary system, and there is no need for compulsion."
Wilkins Chooses All New Program For Concert Here
The program chosen by Marie Wilkins for her concert at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium will be entirely new to her Lawrence audience, Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts has announced Her program will be as follows:
Aria: "O Let the Merry Bells Ring Round" and Aria: "Let Me Wander Not Unseen" from "L'Alegro," and "O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Mie" from "Semele" (G. F. Handel); "Air with Variations—Deh! Torna Mio Ben" (Heinrich Proch); "A des Oiseaux" (Georges Hue); "Les Colombes' and "Seguidile" poems by Gautier, (Manuel de Falla); "La Villanella" (Eva Dell' Acqua);
"Echo Song" (arranged by Thrane); "The Stuttering Lovers" (arranged by Herbert Hughes); "The Nightingale and the Rose" (Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakoff); "Long, Long Ago" (Miguel Sandoval); Aria: "Je Suis Titania" from "Mignon" (Ambroise Thomas).
Duet With Husband
The program will close with "Duets Manon" from the opening act of the opera by Jules Massenet, in which Mrs. Wilkins will be assisted by her husband, Joseph Wilkins, now head of the School of Fine Arts department of voice.
Literature Not Taught Properly For Students
Charging that in the present educational system literature is not being presented to students as it should be taught, Prof. George Reynolds, chairman of the department of English at the University of Colorado, yesterday afternoon addressed students and faculty members in Fraser theater.
"The low repute into which literature has fallen is due to the substitution of utility reading for reading for living." Professor Reynolds who was introduced by Dr. John Ashton, professor of English, maintained. "Literature for fact has been substituted for literature for life. This utility reading can never bring what we who believe in literature hold out as its general rewards," he said.
—Reynolds
Unless some provision can be made for a change in the educational setup, reading will become more and more rare at a time when a literature of courage and daring is needed to dispell existing defeatism, he stated.
Early Bird
Gets Best
Date-Hurry
"You K. U. coeds had better hurry and get your dates for the Vice-Versa dance before the date bureau gets to them," said Nancy Tomlinson, chairman of the Jay Jane date bureau today.
Any young gentleman, be he short or tall, blond or brunette, plump or slim, can be "fixed up" by the date bureau which will begin to function today with headquarters in the Union lounge. Members of the agency will be present from 5 until 7 p.m. in the lounge to register members of the shyer sex. After the vital statistics are taken—height, coloring, etc., the young man's preferences will be considered—and the bureau will contact the proper young lady.
A good date and a good time are the two guarantees made by the Jay Jane agency. "Bashful beatus" are a thing of the past, so, fellows, here's your chance. The bureau will be open today, Thursday and Friday from 5 until 7 p.m., and also Tuesday and Thursday of next week.
All women's houses will be contacted by the bureau and first come, first served. So hurry, hurry, hurry! The early bird gets the best date!
Pierson Will Star In Faust Fantasy
Helen Pierson, concert master, will play the Faust fantasy for violin, at the concert Thursday evening in Hoch auditorium, presented by the 75 piece University Symphony orchestra. Prof. Waldear Gelch, Miss Pierson's teacher, will conduct the orchestral setting for this work, with Tschaikowsky's "Symphony No. 5" as the outstanding selection, Russel L. Wiley, director, said.
Beethoven's "Overture Leonore, No. 3" which is considered the best and by far the most popular of the three Leonore overtures, will also be included on the program, Mr. Wiley said.
Two Coleridge-Taylor numbers are to be played, and the program will close with the brilliant "Far-undole" from "LArlesiense" (Bizet).
The organization held its five-hour dress rehearsal from 7 to 12 p.m. Sunday. Final rehearsal will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. today, according to Mr. Wiley.
Activity tickets will admit students to the concert.
House Banking Committee Approves George Bill
Washington — (INS) The house banking committee today unanimously approved the George bill which stripped the commerce department of all jurisdiction over federal lending agencies. The committee voted down all Republican amendments which would further tighten the senate-approved measure.
M.U. Has Winter Festival
A all-university sleigh ride, followed by a torchlight parade and a dance in the field house climaxed University of Minnesota this past weekend.
Yanks Concentrate on Home Island As Japanese Surrender Manila; Germans Say Reds 35 Miles Away
(International News Service)
Washington, (INS) - The White House declined to confirm London's report that President Roosevelt is out of the country and is attending the Big Three conference.
Ten Faculty Members Will Judge Debate
Allied armies on the western and eastern fronts slashed into Nazi defenses in Europe today while Yank forces mopping up pockets of Japanese resistance in Manila turned eyes toward the Japanese home island.
The University will provide ten judges for debate tournaments of class A and class B high schools to be held Saturday at the University and at Horton, H. G. Ingham, director of the extension division has announced.
Jonathan Daniels administrative assistant to the president said he could not comment but that Citrine "had no official post in the British government."
Churchill was to have addressed a conference of the World Trade Union congress and Sir Walter in a casual offhand manner announced that he was unable to attend because "a conference was arranged between the great powers and it is taking place at this very moment."
Faculty members who will judge the class A tournament at the University are John E. Hankins, professor of English; E. O. Stene, associate professor of political science; and Mr. Ingham.
Shawnee Mission High School, Topeka High school, and Wyandotte High.school will participate in the Class A tournament. Schools which will take part in the class B debate are Bonner Springs, Washington Rusal high school at Bethel, Effingham, Hiawatha, Horton, Troy, and Valley Falls.
The following will act as judges of the class B district tournament at Horton, sponsored by the Kansas High School Activities association; John W. Ashton, professor of English; E.C.Buehler, professor of speech; Mrs.E.C.Buehler; Gerald L. Pearson, principal of the University high school; Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College; Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science and sociology; and J.W. Twente, dean of the School of Education.
London, (INS) — President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Stalin are now conferring in the second historic meeting of the Big Three, Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the World Trades Union congress declared today. This was the first announcement that the long expected meeting was underway.
Three powerful Yank columns which drove into the Philippines capital liberated more than 5,000 Allied military and
Big Three Meet Is Underway
civilian prisoners held by the Japanese today were given the watchword "On to Tokyo." No Japan Resistance Surprises Allies
Military experts in Washington regarded the Jap failure to make a more determined resistance on Luzon as the complete surprise which was contrary to all the enemy's strategy.
On the eastern front, the first White Russian army swept up the eastern bank of the Oder river along a 70-mile front and out-flanked the key Reich city of Kustrin and Frankfurt.
Soviets 35 Miles From Berlin
There were hints over the Berlin radio that the Soviets had crossed the Oder at points other than in the region of Kenitz and the Germans said the Soviets were only 35 miles from Berlin.
While the United States first and third army columns punched new holes in the Siegfried line defense, strong forces of Yank heavy bombers pierced the skies and there were indications that a raid as destructive as the master sweep of last Saturday is under way.
Euskirchen Threatened
First army columns blasted their way toward Schleiden along the route which the Germans withdrew from the Ardennes salient and threatened the big Nazi communications hub of Euskirchen.
The third army drove into the main west wall defenses southeast of St. Vith while further south United States seventh and French first armies closed in on the retiring German forces remaining on the west bank of the Rhine.
Graham, Nichols Run For I.S.A. Presidency
Patricia Graham and Jack Nichols, both College sophomores, have been selected by the Independent Student Association council as candidates for president of the organization to serve from March, 1945, to February, 1946.
Three candidates for class representatives will be nominated from the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes at an election to be held in the Fine room of the Memorial Union building Wednesday evening. Two from each class will be elected by secret ballot Feb. 14.
At the Wednesday meeting Jack Nichols will present a summary of I.S.A. financial status, and Patricia Graham will discuss relations with the new student organization. Nomination and election procedures will be explained by Dick Hartzell, V-12 junior in the School of Engineering and Architecture.