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42nd YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945
NUMBER 84
Court to Handle Student Violators Of Smoking Rules
Clamping down on smoking rule violators, the All-Student Council decided last night that council members will take down the names of violators and turn them in to the student court. The action will not begin until Monday when buildings and grounds men will have signs in halls and lobbies where smoking is prohibited.
Halls, lobbies, and basements, in which smoking is permissible are as follows:
Appointments will be made during the next few days to fill vacancies in the student court, Persis Snook, Council president announced. The minimum fine for violation of the smoking rules is $2.
The basements of Frank Strom hall, of Green hall, and of Worlort hall; the smoking room of Marvin, the concrete floors of the Electric lab and the Hydraulic lab; the Mechanical lab; the press room of the Journalism building; anywhere in Snow hall except on the stairways; and the front lobby of Hoch auditorium. Dr. Raymond Hall, director of Dyche museum, will announced where students may smoke in Dyche. Smoking is prohibited in all other campus buildings.
A report by the engineering division of the enrollment committee stated that with the limited number of students in the School of Engineering and Architecture there is not much of a problem now. The report showed, however, that a pre-enrollment for all students would solve the problem of freshmen and
phomore engineers who must take math courses in the College by a certain semester and often find such courses closed by College students before they have an opportunity to enroll.
Faculty Should Send "Dimes" to F. C. Allen
Faculty members who do not attend the President's Birthday ball either on the campus or down town have been asked to send their contributions to F. C. Allen, instead of
giving them to ticket sellers as an outright contribution.
This was urged when student ticket sellers yesterday accepted contributions from faculty members who did not wish dance tickets.
"Ticket salesmen are not authorized to accept any outright contributions whatsoever," said Dr. Allen. "From the money they collect is subtracted the expense of the dance bands, but straight contributions sent to the committee will go entirely to the infantile paralysis fund.
Freshman class members will plan the Freshman Heart Hop scheduled for Feb. 10, at a meeting in Fraser theater at 4:30 p.m. tomarow, Ralph Kiene, president, announced today. The dance will be held in the Military Science building, Kiane said.
Freshmen to Plan Hop at Meeting.
Members of the Freshman Executive committee, consisting of a representative from each organized house and officers elected last fall, decided at a meeting last night that the dance will be open to all University students.
Each organized women's house on the campus will select a freshman as a queen candidate. All nominees will be voted on by the entire class at a later date, Kiene said. Names of candidates should be submitted to Guynelle Jones or Joan Woodward before tomorrow morning, it was announced.
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The weekly summary of news for the men and women in the service, whose hearts are still atop Mt. Oread, is really your paper. You have created the news that is fired back to you daily, in the Kansan; you and your work and activities are the things for which those absent are fighting for, so how about a helping hand in building the paper form?
If you have an idea on what you think they might be most interested in, drop into the Kansan office and give us your suggestions. You have been writing letters, answering questions and learning the things that the service men and women want most to know about. An idea from even a few Jayhawkers will help us to glean from the stack of daily
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Those of us who have complained about the bulky packages necessary to send the issues of the Kansan, the extra postage, the crowding of the already overloaded mails, and other difficulties involved in mailing Daily Kansan issues, can dismiss this from your mind. For once each week, you can slip a single-sheet, baby Kansan in a letter to a service friend, written especially for her or him, that will summarize the week's activities on the hill. Society and sports, speeches and plays will be only a few of the highlights.
D G Gives 'F' War Bond
Delta Gamma became the first sorority at the University of Kansas to donate a series "F" war bond to the athletic association for the liquidation of the $113,000 debt on Memorial Stadium, Ernest C. Quigley, athletic director, announced today.
The $100 bond was presented on behalf of the chapter by Doris Bixby, chapter president, and a delegation including Elizabeth Beach, Elizabeth Esterle, Patty Vance, and Pat Miller.
Dean Nesmith Leaves For Embarkatoin Port With Service Army
Dean Nesmith, former trainer and assistant coach in the department of physical education, who left last week for duty in the army of specialized service overseas, left today from New York for port of embarkation. In a letter to his wife, Mr. Nesmith said that he arrived-in New York at 10:30 a.m. Monday, and reported immediately to Lt. Col. H. W. "Hez" Clark, chief of athletic branch of the army service forces. In the afternoon, he was fitted for his uniform, and spent some time in the briefing room.
Besides Dean Nesmith, the personnel going overseas for specialized duty includes: administrative officer, Seward C. Staley, director of physical education at Illinois; football coach, Cecil Isbel, Purdue; football, Howard Hobson, Oregon University, who won the National Collegiate Athletic association basketball championship in 1939; trach and field, Bill Hargiss, former football and track coach at K.U., and recently athletic director at Pratt Whitney, Kansas City, Mo.; officials, Don White, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; boxing and wrestling, Billy Cavanaugh, West Point; and baseball, Ethan Allen, former pitcher for the New York Yanks.
Mr. Nesmith, who lettered at tackle in football for three years at K. U., has two brothers in the service, Glen, with the paratroopers in Bastogne, and Ole, naval lieutenant, who was football captain at K. U. in 1934. He also has one brother who was killed at Corregidor, Jan.9, 1942.
Mr. Nesmith's wife and two children, Leslie Wallace and Ida Louise, are remaining in Lawrence at their home, 936 Alabama.
Militarists Press "Work or Fight" Bill
Washington— (INS) — The military and naval high command appeared before congress in a secret session today and made a spirited request for an all-out effort to win the war and to hasten the adoption of "work or fight" legislation.
The unprecedented meeting in the auditorium of the congressional library was addressed by Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary of Navy Forrestal, General Marshall, and Admiral King. It was the first time the big four has appeared before senators and representatives together.
Reds Threaten Oppeln, Breslau; Cross Oder River in Wide Front; Stalin Announces New Offensive
(International News Service)
The twin German-Silesian capitals of Oppeln and Breslau were gravely imperiled today by the onslaught of the mighty Soviet First Ukranian army. An unconfirmed report reaching London said Red army troops have entered Koenigsberg, ancient capital of east Prussia.
A new Soviet offensive in the area north of Miskolc, Hungary, east of Budapest, was announced by Premier Stalin.
Miss Helen Skilton, of Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed an instructor in design for the spring semester and will take over some of the instruction formerly given by Prof. T. D. Jones who has resigned.
Miss Skilton is a daughter of the late Charles Stanford Skilton, famous as an organist. She was graduated from Ferry hall, Lake Forest, Ill., and attended Connecticut college for Women, New London, Conn., and the University of Kansas.
She was employed five years at the Layne Bryant company store in Chicago as advertising illustrator, and as assistant advertising manager. She afterwards studied in a commercial illustration studio in New City City, and then managed the Austin - Skilton Commercial Art service in Kansas City, Mo., for two years. She and her father toured Europe in 1937-38 and she spent six months in the study of design in Vienna. Recently she has assisted in the war effort as a draftsman.
New Program to Halt Rising Clothing Cost Announced by Bowles
Helen Skilton To Teach Design
Soviet troops swept across the Odler river at one point, at long a front estimated by Berlin at 100 miles. These reports said that crack hand driving Russian forces definitely have established one bridgehead over the last natural line of defense before Berlin.
A program to check the rise in clothing prices and to shift the emphasis from high priced and nonessential garments to the essential and lower priced clothing will go into effect within the next few months, Chester Bowles, administrator of the office of price administration, announced in a communication to the Daily Kansan today. The program has been worked out by the O.F.A. and the war production board in consultation with clothing industries.
The results of the joint program, Mr. Bowles said, should be as follows:
Results Anticipated
1. Within the limits of supply, textiles will be channeled into more essential and lower priced types of apparel.
2. Manufacturers will produce in the same average price lines in which they were producing two years ago.
3. On the average, this clothing will be of better quality for the price.
1. Most clothing will carry bags
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On the western front the German salient in Belgium virtually ceased to exist with reported American capture of Vianden, last communications point remaining in Nazi hands following seizure of St. Vith. It was reported that the Germans were abandoning the bulge, whose western fringe has buckled to within five miles of the German frontier.
Yanks Advance on Clark Field
Troops of the French First army scored an advance of several miles at the northern end of the pocket near Strasbourg. The British Second army was advancing steadily from the eastern Netherlands in the Sittard area.
In the Philippines Yank infantrymen swept past the Bamboo air-drome sector toward Clark field; first major objective on the road to Manila, 50 miles away. The advance which the Japanese must oppose or yield the big airfield, continued in the face of sniper fire.
Yanks Capture Concepcion
General MacArthur's communique announced the fall of Conception, 18 miles southwest of burned Tarlac. Capture of the town placed the American 37th and 40th divisions in position to execute a pincer drive on Clark field.
The liberation forces on Luzon swept through the infamous camp O'Donnell, prison camp, where American victims of the Batman death march were taken in May, 1842.
U. S. Serbs Want Tito Out, Allies In
Washington, (INS) — The Yugoslav problem was thrust into the forthcoming big-three conference today by the formal request of American Serbs that "an Anglo-American commission be created immediately and sent into Yugoslavia to protect the people against the totalitarianism of Tito's partisans."
Three Serb organizations presented a petition to the White House charging Marshall Tito, with being a dictator and urging that the regular Yugoslav army be placed under command of General Eisenhower.
Arabian Nights Dance at Illinois Arabian Nights tales will be the theme of a dance sponsored by the Mortar Board society at the University of Illinois next week. Profits from the dance will be donated to the Red Cross.