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NUMBER 91
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2.1945
42nd YEAR
Coat Pocket Fire Calls 10 Firemen To Green Hall
While two fire companies with a total of 10 firemen professionally played a single stream of water over two smoldering overcoats on the ground outside Green hall this morning, law students and their professors shifted nervously from one foot to the other and eyed onlookers with embarrassment.
One among them, they knew, must have left a burning pipe in his coat pocket causing the small conflagration which eventually burned up a second coat, smoked a streak on the wall of the small room where students and professors hang their wraps, and filled the first floor of Green with smoke.
The individual who turned in the alarm and dragged the burning coats outdoors is keeping as silent as the coat owners.
The call came in at 10:45, Paul Ingels, fire chief said. Two companies always answer any alarm on the campus, he explained.
"I don't think we'll ever know whose coats they were. If I'd left a burning pipe in my pocket and caused all this commotion, I'd never tell," said F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, himself coatless.
Marie Wilkins To Give Concert
Marie Wilkins, who won nationwide attention when she successfully sang Lily Pons' part in the opera "Lakme," will appear on the University Concert series on Feb. 7 in Hoch auditorium.
Drake U. Resumes Sing
Drake University is resuming the
University sing after a lapse of two
years.
Drake U. Resumes "Sing"
Mrs. Wilkins will offer an entirely new program from the one she used in her concert here last year, D.M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said. As a closing number, she will sing an operatic duet with her husband, Joseph Wilkins, tenor, professor of voice at the University.
Now a member of the Metropolitan Opera company as a result of her success in "Lakme," Mrs. Wilkins has been on a concert tour this season.
Winifred Hill Gallup, who assis- ted Mrs. Wilkins at her concert in Hoech auditorium last year will again be her accompanist.
London — (INS) — A German broadcast heard in London today said that the meeting of the Big Three was underway at a Rumanian Black sea port.
Nazis Say Big Three Meet in Rumania
The spokesman said the Premier Stalin had invited president Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to meet there to demonstrate that Rumania was part of the Soviet sphere of influence and that Russia would not tolerate Allied protests of Rumania were incorporated into the Soviet.
Kansan Review No.2 To Be Out Monday
The second issue of the University Kansan Review will be ready for distribution Monday.
The Review contains items taken from the Daily Kansan this week and is in a form to be sent by students to those in service with their regular letters.
The price of this paper will be one cent and as many copies as desired may be purchased.
They will be sold at the Daily Kansas business office.
Nothing would please a man or woman in service any more than the mine run of news from home and the campus, Bert Brandt, ace war photographer said. "Do your part in sending him or her the news."
Frosh to Choose Queen Monday
Freshmen will vote Monday to elect the queen of the Freshman Heart Hop which is to be held Feb. 10, Joan Woodward publicity chairman for the freshman class, announced this morning.
The freshmen will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Fraser theater to discuss final arrangements for the dance.
Movies Will Depict Life in South America
The booths will be erected in Fraser hall, and every member of the freshman class is eligible to vote, Miss Woodward said. A poster for publicizing the Hop was to be submitted with each candidate. All of those posters are to be turned in by Monday and may be left at the main desk in the lounge of the Union building. Miss Woodward stated.
Life in South America, especially Brazil, will be depicted in motion pictures to be shown in 102 Journalism building, Monday at 9:30 a.m and 3:30 p.m. All University students and faculty members are invited to attend the shows, said Elmen F. Beth, acting chairman of the department of journalism.
A two-reel technicolor film, "Good Neighbor Family," will compare home life in North and South America. A new March of Time film, "Brazil," will show the advances made during the war and will emphasize the prospects for trade between Brazil and the United States.
This show will be the third in a series presented this semester by the department of journalism. Students and faculty members of the departments of political science, sociology, and history have attended.
Osteopath Bill Given To House to Discuss
Topeka — A bill which would permit osteopaths who are able to pass an examination in medicine and surgery to practice surgery and prescribe narcotics under license in Kansas was offered in the house of representatives yesterday by Rep. J. L. Lattimore, a Topeka physician.
The osteopaths were pleased with the action but they still prefer to have their own examining board which the bill does not provide.
Don't Crook On a Book!
WANTED: Books, books, and more books.
Lost, strayed, or stolen away—but forget that finders keepers, losers weepers stuff!
This is Return That Book Week,
and when you find the right books
in the wrong places, take them
where they belong.
The University has at its beck and call in the library every kind of book that students and faculty need for their work, but many volumes "disappear." To call for a book at the library and have the librarian say, "Well, that book isn't checked out, but we can't find it," is most disturbing. And that does happen, much too often.
So when you see a book with that lost look, RETURN it immediately.
Bribe-Taking Athletes Barred From Sports At Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, N.Y.—A committee of six faculty members and two students, one of whom was Bob Leder, member of the basketball team that accepted bribes from gamblers to throw the Brooklyn-Akron game, yesterday voted to bar the five bribe-taking athletes from further participation in the college's sports.
Douglas county has passed last year's amount of money received for the benefit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with $1,476.17 turned in for the 1945 drive, Mrs. J. W. Stone, chairman of the drive, announced today. Several hundred dollars are still outstanding. Mrs. Stone added.
Leder did not vote, and the decision therefore became unanimous.
March of Dimes
Collects $1,476.17
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen turned in $101.71 from the K.U. faculty and University high school, and the Alpha Omega service fraternity collected $226.27 from the tickets sold for the President's ball last Friday night in the Military Science building, Mrs. Stone said. These campus donations along with the contributions of the Lawrence organizations and townsepeople totaled $1,476.17 for the county.
"We thought we would be heroes when we decided to confess and expose the gambling racket," said Leder, who recently was appointed to the athletic committee because of his good campus record.
A complete report on the Sunflower Ordnance Works, and other Lawrence organizations still have not been received. Mrs. Stone said. She stated that she understood the March of Dimes has been extended on Feb. 15, for all those who still wish to contribute.
One faculty member was quoted as saying, "What these boys did was just an extension of common practices in basketball throughout the country. We resent the attitude that basketball is 99 and 9/10 per cent pure, and the only stinkers in the game go to Brooklyn, college."
Russians Report New Offensive To South as Allies Reach Rhine Americans in Sight of Manila
By International News Service
Russia's armored might thundered at Berlin's inner gateways in the east today while on Germany's western front Allied forces ripped into the Siegfried line and smashed forward to the Rhine at several points.
The Hobnail Hop, traditional dance of engineering students which was suspended the last two years will be held this year as usual on St. Patrick's day, March 17, it was announced today by Walter Siegerist, V-12 chairman of the dance committee.
The Hobnail Hop honors St. Patrick, patron saint of engineers.
A queen will reign over the Hop, Siegerian, said. Members of a special committee will select two girls from each organized house, and these girls will be voted upon at the dance by the engineering students.
Engineers Plan St. Patrick's Hop
Vagtborg Is Pleased With University's Research Facilities
In the Philippines spearheads of two American arboresc prepared to close a giant nutcracker on the entire Manila bay area on Luzon as they rolled to within visual distance of Manila.
As Berlin placed Red forces within 39 miles of the panicstricken capital, Moscow reported still another new Red offensive to the south which reached to within 10 miles of the Oder in Berlin's home province of Brandenburg. The new offshoot pointed toward a junction with the northern wing of the First Ukrainian army, reported at the outskirts of Luben.
The research facilities of the University of Kansas, like other research institutes should receive the support of private industry in this area, according to Harold Vagtborg, director of the Midwest Research institute, with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. He was a guest at the University yesterday, and toured the campus research projects with Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Mr. Vagtborg expressed pleasure at the diversified fields in which research is going on at the University, Chancellor Malott said. He was also pleased with the extensive laboratory equipment and facilities for carrying on research projects which he found here.
The tour of the University included examination of Kansas Industrial Development commission projects in plastics, oil, and gas in the Engineering Research building, and projects of the geological survey, chemistry department, the science departments of Snow hall, and Marvin hall.
Capt. Amos Was Japanese Prisoner
He had been a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Corregidor.
Capt. Frederick G. Amos, a graduate of the School of Engineering in 1929, was one of the 513 war prisoners rescued by the American Rangers and Filipinos from a Japanese Prison camp.
Russians Fire on Frankfort
Widening the central invasion front to 100 miles with the capture of more than 150 Brandenburg towns the Reds—according to Berlin—swept across the Oder and trained artillery on Frankfort, best major city defending the capital.
Front correspondents said there were indications for the Koenigsberg area that the Red army was planning to storm the east Prussian capital from all sides to force currender of the Nazi hold-out garrison there. Red spearheads smashed northwest of encircled Koenigsberg to within seven and one-half miles of Danzig bay.
French, Americans Enter Colmar
On the western front American and French fought their way into the strategic city of Colmar in the Rhine-Strasburg sector today. (FCC monitors in New York recorded a French radio broadcast saying Colmar has fallen.) The entry into the strategic town came while two American armies to the northwest pushed Germans back to the Siegfried line, backed by swarms of planes which battered heavily at enemy communication lines.
Saralena Sherman Rides in P-38 Plane
In the Philippines powerful American columns converging on Manila from the north and south were within visual distance of the city. Reports from the infantry and air force said the Japanese already have set fire to the Manila dock area and other military installations.
Saralena Sherman, college graduate in 1843, now in public relations work for the Army Air Forces in Honolulu, took her first ride in a newly designed tank of a P-38 Fighter plane recently. Accompanied by a Yank Magazine correspondent, Larry McMannis, Miss Sherman rode in a pursuit ship which had been converted into an emergency hospital ship.
"It was like a crazy, fast sled ride," wrote Miss Sherman. "We went down the runway, just a few feet off the ground and over the island and ocean at over 350 miles an hour."
At the University, Miss Sherman was managing editor and associate editor of the Daily Kansas.