22,1945
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NUMBER 83
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1945
42nd YEAR
Director Wiley's Frosty Windows Donated to Ball
"Lots of good entertainment is being planned for the evening of the President's Ball," William Jenson, student chairman in charge of arrangements for the dance, said today. The dance, to be held from 9 p.m. until 12 m., Friday, will be informal. Tickets for the ball are on sale at the business office in Frank Strong hall. The price of a ticket is $1.00 instead of $1.25 as is announced on the posters publicizing the dance.
Windows frosted with no less than an epsom salts-and-beer mixture will add enchantment and atmosphere to the auditorium of the Military Science building Friday evening where the campus "March of Dimes" campaign will culminate in the President's Ball.
The window 'frosting in spite of the ingredients, is very decorative, Mrs. F. C. "Phog" Allen, in charge of the campus campaign, said. And, he pointed out, the 'frosting' does not conflict with James Bynes', director of war mobilization and reconversion, orders to cut down on display in conducting fund drives. The window trimming is left over from the band and orchestra "Snowflake Ball." Russell L. Wiley, director of the band and orchestra and originator of the "frosting" is contributing the window art to the ball.
Don Cousins and his Navy V-12 band will wylay for the dance. Cousins is in charge of the entertainment for the evening. Profits from the dance will be added to campus donations which will be remitted to the headquarters in Lawrence for the infantile paralysis fund.
Loan Bill Delays Wallace Nomination
Paratrooper and Dancer Convicted in London
Washington — (INS) —The senate commerce committee today delayed action on nomination of Henry Wallace to be secretary of commerce in order to consider a bill to divorce hugt loan activities from the department.
Former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones has accepted the committee's invitation to testify at an open hearing on the bill tomorrow. Wallace has likewise been invited to testify.
London —(INS) A mixed jury in old Bailey court, in a precedent-shattering verdict today found a young American paratrooper and an English strip-tease dancer guilty of the murder of a London cabby and sentenced them to be hanged. Pvt Carl Hulten, 22, of Boston, Mass., was the first American soldier to face a capital charge in a British court.
The RFC, biggest lending agency, was reported to be operating in utmost confusion with high ranking officials and clerks "up in the air" over their future.
Beauty Queens Nominated
Eighty-three co-eds have been nominated for beauty queen at the University of Indiana.
Navy Answers Senate By Citing Record
Washington, (INS) — The navy defended itself today against charges by members of the senate war investigating committee that manpower was being wasted at the Norfolk navy yards in conditions amounting almost to treason.
It was charged that witnesses said they worked only half time and some spent 30 per cent of their time on private jobs such as making 50 checker boards for private jobs.
The navy answered by referring the committee to the record of the yard's achievement.
W.P.B. Will Turn Lights Down Low In New Brownout
Whether students would appreciate lights on the campus being turned a little lower in the evenings is a question—but not for debate. Because whether students like it or not, in accordance with new provisions to conserve electricity recently released by the War Production board, all unnecessary lighting on the campus must go.
Brownout to Save Fuel
The purpose of the new "brown-out," effective Feb. 1, according to the W. P. B. is to save fuels used in the generation of electricity. Among the newly prohibited uses of electricity are outdoor advertising and outdoor promotional lighting, outdoor display lighting except where necessary for the conduct of the business of outdoor establishments, outdoor decorative and outdoor ornamental lighting, show window lighting except where necessary for interior illumination, marque lighting in excess of 60 watts for each marque, white way street lighting in excess of the amount determined by local public authority to be necessary for public safety, outdoor sign lighting except for directional or identification signs required for fire, police, ete., and directional or identification signs using not more than 60 watts per establishment, for doctors and for hotels, and other public lodging establishments.
Appeal to Kansas City Office
Violations of the new "brownout" will be reported to the W. P. B. officials in Kansas City to whom offenders may appeal if they consider compliance with the order in their particular case works an exceptional or unreasonable hardship.
Children Find New Playground
Small children living in the vicinity of the campus have found a new playground under the stadium, where the department of areonautical engineering has had to store four or five airplanes for lack of storage space elsewhere. The airplanes, which are still air-worthy, are also the favorite roosting place of pigeons, according to J. O. Jones, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Approximately $100,000 worth of equipment, gifts to the University is stored in various places throughout the campus, because at present the aeronautical engineering department lacks room to set it up for use. Plans are being made for the construction of a new building for the department, but it is doubtful that the building will be completed any time within the next two years, according to Dean Jones.
Four Curtain Calls Hail Chiapusso in Annual Piano Recital
Many parts of the airplane have been carried off by neighborhood children, who seeing a loose piece of the disassembled planes, have picked them up for their own use in playing "Smilin' Jack" or other typical child games.
Four curtain calls expressed the response of the audience which packed Fraser theater last night to hear the performance of Jan Chiapuso, professor of piano, in his annual faculty recital. Professor Chiapuso's delicate sensitivity of interpretation and flawless technique were apparent throughout his hour and a half program.
The selection best received by the audience was the brilliant "Islamey, Oriental Fantasy" (Balakirew). His other number from the romantic school, Ravel's "Jeux d'Eau" (the Fountain) was played with dash and enthusiasm. Schulz-Eveler's arrangement of "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" (Strauss) also won the approval of the audience.
A novel recognition was accorded the artist when his history of music class presented him with two baskets of fruit at the close of his third group. Las-week, when asked by the class if he would like to receive flowers, he said he preferred fruit.
Nazi Wehrmacht, Home Guard Fall Back in North, West Poland; Russians 138 Miles from Berlin
"The schools and the teachers of Kansas have made and are making important contributions to the war effort," Mr. Phillips said. "It is the desire of the Kansas State Teachers association to continue to cooperate in every way possible with our government in the winning of this war. Despite the fact that public education in Kansas is confronted with great problems at this time on which action should be taken at the council of administration, we know it is the desire of every teacher in the state to give full cooperation to our government. Therefore, all plans for the 1945 council of administration are cancelled."
Such meetings of small committees as are necessary will be held later under compliance with the war mobilization director's request, Mr. Phillips indicated.
Cancellation of the council of administration meeting scheduled at Emporia on Feb 1 to 3 has been announced by Clyde U. Phillips, president of the board of directors of the Kansas State Teachers association. This action is in compliance with the request made by James F. Byrnes, war mobilization director, applying to conventions of fifty or more persons.
The council of administration would have brought together approximately 1,000 school leaders and board of education members of the state to consider pressing school problems. The state delegate assembly, which would normally meet at this time, is also cancelled.
-Watch for the Servicemen's Weekly-
Radio dispatches from Russia this afternoon said that Red army troops were at Posen, 138 miles from Berlin and 17 miles from the important Silesian capital of Breslau.
KSTA Cancels Annual Meeting
BULLETIN
Right! That's what we said. The Daily Kansan will publish a weekly.
the top articles.
Features, sports stories, all-campus society, and a compilation of Rock Chalk Talk items will be among the top articles.
Jan. 29 will see the birth of a baby Kansan, a one-page sheet for servicemen containing all the important and interesting campus news for the past week, to be published weekly. The new offspring, which is as yet unnamed, will be edited by Ruth Tippin, College senior.
Miss Tippin will select those articles printed in the Kansans, for the week preceding publication of an issue, which she thinks will be of interest equally to those servicemen who have recently left school and those who have been out of the University for several years, for those who are stationed in the United States and those abroad.
(International News Service)
The paper will be printed on Saturdays and distributed to those who call for it on Monday after noon. The first issue will be printed this week, and
The Nazi Wehrmacht and home guard units fought dispairingly for their homeland today as their western Poland defense fell inward under the pressure of the mighty Russian winter offensive.
will be folded inside the regular edition of the Monday Kansan.
In east Prussia to the north other Russian armies raced toward the Baltic in a giant pincer movement threatening
Danzig and all Reich holdings east of the old Polish corridor to the sea.
As the Red armies swept through German defenses inside the Reich, the Berlin radio broadcast appealed for the people to "take up arms and fight to the last ditch."
Red armies drove deeper into German Silesia and east Prussia where the fortress cities of Isterburg-and Tannenberg already have fallen in the drive toward Danzig and Koenigsberg. At last reports, Koenigsberg was only thirty miles from forward units.
U. S. Army Approaches St. Vith
Third army forces gained east of the Sauer river and repulsed German counter attacks southeast of Remich. British Second army troops encountered heavy fighting north of Echt in Holland.
Superforts Attack Nageau.
On Germany's western front American forces, advancing in the wake of an air blow by more than 3,000 Allied planes, squeezed the Ardennes salient to about one-tenth its greatest depth. American First army forces pushed to the outskirts of St. Vith, last remaining enemy stronghold of the Belgium bulge.
Superforts Attack Nagoya
In the war against Japan, a fleet of superfortress bombers struck at the Nipponese aircraft production at
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Movie Here to Show K. U. Hospital Unit
A colored movie of the activities of Evacuation hospital No. 77 will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday in Fraser theater. The hospital unit is composed of doctors and nurses from the Kansas City area, and most of them are from the University of Kansas hospital.
Comments on the pictorial record of the unite's work in the African campaign and in England will be made by Dr. T. G. Dillon, who was executive officer of the unit until his release a month ago. Dr. Dillon, now practising in Kansas City, has the rank of associate in the department of surgery of the University School of Medicine.
The members of this hospital unit trained many months in preparation for their work before leaving Kansas City in May, 1942. Raymond Nichols said this morning that he believed the movie would be of particular interest since so many members of the unit are remembered by students, faculty members, and townspeople.