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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945
NUMBER 85
42nd YEAR
Band's Program Lists Selections, Baton Exhibition
The University band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will present a program of classical, march, patriotic, and circus numbers at its concert Monday evening in Hoch auditorium.
George Rhoades, navy medical student at the University hospital in Kansas City, will give an exhibition of baton spinning and fire baton twirling during the evening. Majorette Rose Hosling, Dorothy Higginbottom, Glenda Luehring, and Geneva Pierano, will appear with him. Rhodes was head of the drum major staff while he was attending the University.
The program will be as follows:
"The Star - Spangled Banner"
(Key), "William Tell Overture"
(Rossini), "Tarantella" (Thalberg),
and Three Negro Dances="Rabbit Foot," "Hoe Cake," and "Ticklin' Toes" (Price).
"King Cotton" (Sousa), "Glory of the Gridiron" (Alford), "Onward Spirit of Kansas" (Laffer), "Cyrus the Great" (King), and "Stars and Stripes Forever" (Sousa).
"Il Guarany Overture" (Gomez), "Cowboy Rhapsody" (Gould), "Indian Love Call" from "Rose Marie" (Friml), and "Frescoes Suite" — "Vienna Waltz, Sea Chanties," and "Military March" (Wood).
"Royal Hippodrome, Big Top" (King) and "Pony Boy" O'Donnell), "Angels of Mercy," the Red Cross Hymn (Berlin), "Semper Paratus" Coast guard hymn (Van Bosk erck), "Smilin Through" (Penn), "The Infantry, Kings of the Highway" (Dapp), and "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" from "Lohengrin" (Wagner).
Activity tickets will admit students to the concert.
Benny Tired of 'Funny Man' Role On the eve of his fiftieth birthday anniversary, Jack Benny, comedian said yesterday that he was tired of being funny and planned to go into the picture producing business after the war.
BULLETIN
Paris — Army officials here today said they had plenty of supplies for a new offensive on the western European front against the Germans and hinted that such an offense might occur soon in view of the withdrawal of German troops from the west for the protection of the eastern front.
It was believed that the spearhead might be on the direct route to Cologne.
King to Rule Vice Versa Dance
A king will reign at the Vice Versa dance to be sponsored by the Jay Janes Feb. 17, it was decided at their meeting yesterday afternoon. Every organized house, including residence halls and fraternities, and every PT will submit one candidate to the Jay Janes, according to Mary Olive Marshall, president of the pep organization.
After all of the names have been submitted, the Jay Janes will select four candidates from the entire group. From these final nominations, students attending the Vice Versa dance will select the king. Each ticket holder will be allowed one vote. Anne Young and Edith Marie Darby will contact the houses and the PT's.
The tickets will go on sale Wednesday. Betty Jo O'Neil, social chairman, said that women could come with or without dates and that the women will cut at the dance.
Airplane Crash Kills Soviet Ambassador
They Won't Forget, Don't Forget Them
Mexico City — (INS) — Constantin Oumansky, Soviet ambassador to Mexico and formerly envoy to the U. S. was killed early today in the crash of an airplane as the big craft took off from a field.
Oumansky made his last public appearance Wednesday night when he attended a ceremony of the Polish Mexican democratic union, a Lublin organization to celebrate the liberation of Warsaw.
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We're off to a bang, as Dr. R H. Wheeler stamps a hearty approval on the idea, and personally wants at
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They haven't forgotten you, don't you forget them!
Russians Reach Baltic Sea; Berlin 125 Miles Away
Blood Drive Plea Answered by 157
"A remarkably good response" answered the call for blood donors yesterday, according to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the donor committee. One hundred fifty-seven students registered, Dr. Canuteson said, which will more than fill the quota.
Because the rate of rejection is high among women students, Dr. Canuteson estimated only 75 per cent of the volunteers would be accepted.
Twenty-five men from the building and grounds department also registered, representing over 30 per cent of the department's employees.
The blood bank will be open from 10 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 1 and 2 at the Community building. Students who missed their opportunity to register yesterday may still call 640 for appointments, Dr. Camuteson said.
Wallace Offers Idea For 'New' New Deal
Washington—INS—Henry A Wallace today proposed that the federal government underwrite a minimum of 57,000,000 peace-time jobs as a part of a gigantic "new" new deal in the post-war era. The former vice-president nominated to succeed Jesse Jones as secretary of commerce, aired his views while testifying before the senate commerce committee which would strip the department of commerce of its vast lending agencies.
Wallace said he would accept President Roosevelt's appointment until the end of the war, even if congress takes the RFC and other huge agencies from his jurisdiction.
Paul O'Leary Named Dean of New School
Paul M. O'Leary, "22, has been named dean of the school of business and public administration to be established July 1 at Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., it was announced yesterday.
Mr. O'Leary was at Cornell from 1924 until 1939, when he became chief economic analyst in the department of commerce. Two years later he was called to Washington by the council of national defense. In 1942 he was in charge of rationing under Leon Henderson in the office of price administration. He resigned from the O. P. A. to become director of the Washington staff of the Research Institute of America. He resumed his teaching duties at Cornell a year ago.
Mr. O'Leary was born in Lawrence, His father, the late Prof. R. D. O'Leury, wa3 a professor of English at the University for 41 years.
While at the University Mr. O-Leary majored in economics. He was a member of Phi Kappa Fsi fraternity.
(International News Service)
Red army forces swarmed six miles inside Germany today to capture Gleiwitz, large industrial and communications center, the biggest prize on German soil to fall into Russian hands. The Russians also were reported at the outskirts of Breslau, the chief industrial center of German Silesia. Moscow radio said the Soviets had driven to within 125 miles of Berlin.
A series of 11 senior recitals will be presented this year by students of piano, voice, and violin, the School of Fine Arts announced. Students and the dates for their recitals are as follows.
Series of 11 Recitals Will-Be Presented By Fine Arts Seniors
Ruth Rusell, voice, March 18; Doris Turney, violin, April 25; Mary Margaret Smith, piano, May 2; Yolande Meek, piano, May 7; Peggy Kay, violin, May 9; Emadee Gregory, piano, May 14; Katherine Kutah, piano, May 16; Zendra Kass, voice, May 23; Helen Pierson, violin, May 27; Elaine Talley, voice, June 3; and Leora Moreland, voice, June 13.
Seniors scheduled for recitals are from the studios of Mrs. Alice Moncrieff, Cary Preyer, Jan Chiapuso, Joseph Wilkins, Miss Meribah Moore, Waldemar Geltch, and D. M. Swarthout.
Morrill Calls Heads Of Counties Together
The county chairmen of the Statewide Activities commission will meet in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. to discuss their duties in the county organization, Frances Morrill, president of the commission, announced today.
The function of the county,chairman is different from the duties of a county correspondent, although in some cases, the two offices are combined, Miss Morrill said.
The purpose of the county chairmen is to organize social meetings for the correspondents of their counties and to organize certain kinds of advertising such as arranging high school assemblies, distributing K. U. calendars, and arranging display boards, Miss Morrill added.
American Troop Ship Sunk In European Waters
Refreshments will be served at the meeting.
Washington, (INS)-Secretary of war Stimson revealed today that an American troop ship had been sunk by Germans recently in European waters with 248 men killed and 517 missing. There were 2200 soldiers on the transport which was unidentified by the navy.
Americans on Mindoro Island
Radio reports from the Japanese today said the Americans had landed on Mindoro Island in the Philippines and were moving northward against stiff opposition in a pincer-like movement toward Bataan.
an advance of at least 23 miles in less than 24 hours.
The Germans said the Russians had reached the Baltic sea, meaning that east Prussia is isolated from the rest of German-held territory and an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 Nazis are trapped.
Events were reported from the flaming 800-mile eastern front with bewildering rapidity. The Third White Russian army was revealed to have reached the first defenses of Koenigsberg, capital of east Frisia, where all German attempts to throw them back were smashed. Haguenau Reported Soon To Fall
American headquarters on the western front hinted that the French city of Haguenau on the U. S. Seventh army front soon may fall.
A report from Stockholm said that government records were being moved out of Berlin by truck as the government prepared to evacuate the city.
The British Second army smoothed farther into the reich to reach points up to 10 miles from the Holland frontier, while to the south the French counter-attack in the Colmar region gained from one to three miles. There were mounting indications that the Nazis were moving at least part of their west front strength toward the east in hopes of stopping the Russians.
Americans Reach Clark Field
London radio reported that American troops on Luzon island are overrunning Clark field, meeting only token opposition.
American forces were reported by Tokyo radio to have reached through for new attacks on Japanese installations. The enemy transmitter said a task force of four cruisers and eight destroyers had hit the two islands in Bonis and also told of single superfortress attacks last night and early today.
Dr. Dillon Will Tell Of Unit 77's Activity
The activities of Evacuation hospital No. 77 during the war in Africa and in the Mediterranean will be explained tonight by Dr. T. G. Dillon, an associate in the department of surgery at the University School of Medicine, Dr. Dillon will speak at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater.
He will show colored movies of the work of the unit of which he was an executive officer until his release from the army a month ago. The hospital unit is composed of doctors and nurses from the Kansas City area, some of whom are from the University of Kansas hospital. The members of the unit spent months in preparation for the work before leaving Kansas City in May, 1942.