1945
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Daily Kansan
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NUMBER 73
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1945
42ND YEAR
Students Plan Organization Of Independents
A group of independent students eld a meeting in the men's lounge the Union building last night to scuss the forming of an over-all dependent organization on the mpus.
The trend of the conversation amed to be along four different is and the object of the group is include these four "divisions" in
a c organization. The divisions
distressed by the group last night
are the social, the welfare, the pos-
ical and the activities division.
Students volunteered to draw up a constitution, to propose plans for financing the organization, and to provide some means for representation in the organization. This committee will meet again tomorrow night; faculty and administrative members will meet with the group in an advisory capacity.
Joanne Riney, Donald Alderson, Johnnie May Mann, Lois Thompson, Anne Stevens, Lorraine Carpenter, Robert Campbell, Jack Nichols, June Peterson, Rosalie Erwin, Rosemary Harding, Virginia Rader, and Jeanne Shoemaker are volunteer members of the committee. They elected Virginia Rader chairman.
William Beven Killed When Plane Crashes Near Fallon, Utah
Capt. William A. Beven a graduate of the University in 1941, was killed last Friday when an army transport plane crashed on a training flight west of Fallon, Utah, and burst into flames.
Captain Beven was a prominent late while at the University, being a high jumper in track and a three year letter man. He received his bachelor of science degree in education in 1941 and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
Captain Beven enlisted in the air corps after his graduation and took part in the North African invasion, after which he flew supplies over the "hump" in to China for 15 months before his return to the United States. He received the distinguished flying cross for his work in the Orient.
Captain Beven is survived by his wife, the former Shirley Tholen of Leavenworth, and a four-weeks-old son. Mrs. Beven is a graduate of the University and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. A large portrait of her as she appeared in 1941 as Diamond Jubilee queen of the University hangs in the Alumni office.
Ingham to Tennessee For Instructor's Meet
Mr. Ingham is the director of the Kansas fire school.
H. G. Ingham, director of the extension division, left yesterday for Memphis, Tenn., to attend the 17th annual Fire Department Instructors conference, Jan. 9 to Jan. 12.
The conference was arranged by the Western Actuarial bureau and the Memphis fire department. It standardizes firemanship and training and develops new plans for promoting training programs for the assistance of fire schools during the year.
Students Need Tickets For Game... Students will not be admitted on their activity books to the conference basketball games which begin here Friday, Jan. 12, Mr. Earl Falkenstein financial secretary of the athletic association announced today.
O.P.A. Exempts College Clubs
Washington — College fraternities and clubs are exempt from federal price control, the office of price administration announced today.
Where there is no effort at profit either directly or indirectly, no ceiling price will be placed on room rents the O.P.A. said.
At the same time the O.P.A. cracked down on landlords who were racketeering by forcing tenants to purchase cheap furnishings at high prices before renting furnished houses and apartments. The procedure has been that the landlord pleaded inability to furnish a house and propose the wouldbe renter supply money for the furnishings. As much as $2,500 profit for a single house would be made in this manner.
Prof. Beth to Speak At Press Corotion In Wichita Thursday
Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman on the department of Journalism, will go to Wichita Thursday, where he will be a guest speaker at the fifty-third annual convention of the Kansas Press association, which will be held there Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Beth will discuss "Kansas First School of Journalism," plans for the new William Allen White School of Journalism, which will be set up sometime in the future at the University. An explanation of the William Allen White Memorial will be presented by R. A. Clymer of the El Dorado Times.
William L. White will speak to the newspaper men on Russia, and Robert L. Casey, Chicago Daily News war correspondent, will also address the group. Bruce R. McCoy, manager of the Louisiana Press association will speak on "Plasma for Life Blood of Your Newspaper."
Students have been spoiling the sugar in the sugar bowls at the Union fountain by putting salt and other foreign particles in them so the bowls have been removed from the tables, Miss Ruth Quinlan, director of the fountain, said today.
Fifty-two students passed the foreign language proficiency tests given recently at Indiana university.
Sugar Spoilers Cause Shortage at Fountain
Program for the convention was planned by J. Howard Rusco, secretary-treasurer, who was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1938.
An article appearing in yesterday's Daily Kansan explained that the bowls had been removed because of the sugar shortage. According to Miss Quinlan the shortage resulted from "adolescent" students who spoiled the sugar in the bowls.
52 Pass Tests at Indiana U.
Hummel Art Is Subject Of Display
A collection of Hummel cards and pictures now on display on the department of German bulletin board poses the question, "Who is Hummel?" Hummel prints, with their distinctive children subjects, are found on many post cards and greeting cards.
Berta Hummel is a German mun, whose artistic career began at an early age in her native Bavarian village. As a child she had shown the desire to sketch and paint and so took up art studies in the State art school in Munich, from which she was graduated with exceptional honors. In 1933 she entered a convent where she continued her artistic activities more intensively than before, branching into religious subjects.
Friends in this country have feared that since the war Berta Hummel was either interned or perhaps killed by the Nazis, but the belief now is that she was for a time in a concentration camp and later escaped into Switzerland, for she is still sending her plates to the United States to be printed. These delightfully refreshing boy and girl faces which have won so much acclaim from appreciative Europeans are now being received with equal enthusiasm by the American public.
Miss Sarah Peters, instructor in German, who has arranged the exhibit from her collection of Hummel cards and pictures, also has two of the little imported porcelain figures designed by Berta Hummel.
The display will be posted for the next week in the south wing of Fraser hall on the third floor.
Buehler Plans Oratorical Contest On Campus in March
All college students interested in oratory are invited to enter, Prof. Buehler said. Thirty dollars in cash prizes will be awarded winners. There will be a first prize of $15, a second prize of $10, and a third prize of $5.
The annual all-University oratorical contest will be held about March 15, Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech and drama has announced.
Two rules apply to the contest. Orations are to be original and on any subject, and a written copy of the oration must be handed in on the night of the contest.
The winner will represent the University in the Missouri Valley oratorical contest to be held at Wichita, March 22, 23, and 24. Participating in the Missouri Valley contest will be the University of Texas, the University of Louisiana, the University of Oklahoma, Kansas State college, the University of Arkansas, Iowa State college, Wichita University, Creighton university, and the University of Kansas.
Professor Buehler said that the contest has always been annual, with the exception of last year when the "Know Your University" speech contest was held in its place.
Professor Buehler emphasized the fact that all who intend to enter the contest should give their names to him as early as possible.
Japanese Report Yank Assaults In Philippines, Landing on Luzon As U.S. Communiques Are Silent
Excited Japanese radio reports of new American assaults in the Philippines continued today in the face of official U. S. silence. The war department did announce however that B-29 superforts from China and Mariannas bases had attacked the Japanese homeland and the Japanese-held island of Formosa.
White Will Speak In Convocation Thursday Morning
Mr. White's observations on Russia have called forth several attacks from Pravda, the official Russian newspaper, which claims he was prejudiced against Russia and did not comment fairly on certain parts of her program.
The second convoitation of this week has been called for Thursday morning, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, announced this afternoon. W. L. White, of Emporia, will be the speaker. His subject will be "Russia." Mr. White recently completed a tour of Russia with Eric Johnson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Since then he has written a book on what he saw there. Parts of it have been printed in the Reader's Digest.
Mr. White is well-known as a war correspondent, author of the best-seller "Journey for Margaret" and as the son of William Allen White. The convocation will be held in Hoch Auditorium at 10 a.m., said Mr. Nichols.
For the third straight day network and government monitors reported continuous Japanese chattering about an American
President Submits Budget of 87 Billion
Washington — (INS) — President Roosevelt submitted his fifth wartime budget to congress today, for the fiscal year 1946; calling for expenditures of 70 billion dollars for war—the first sizeable decrease in military spending since the beginning of the defense program in 1940. The figure represents a drop of 19 billions below the level maintained in 1944 and 1945.
The Chief Executive asked Congress to appropriate a total of 87 billion dollars for the year.
President Roosevelt appealed for sharp increases in farm security administration borrowing power to assure money for purchase of farms and to provide federal aid to small low-income farmers.
He proclaimed the need for a new long-range labor policy implemented by a permanent type of war labor board to meet the "strain or the reconversion period" and the post war era.
Clipper Crashes En Route To Africa, Killing Several
Miami, (INS)—At least eight persons were killed and 15 were missing among the 12 on board in the crash of a Pan-American clipper at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Seventeen passengers and fifteen crew members were on the huge plane which left Miami yesterday on its way to Africa.
task force which the Japanese said was shelling the Lingayen gulf coast.
MacArthur Ignores Assertions
Almanac Nimitz announced from Pearl Harbor that Pacific fleet carrier aircraft continued to pound Jap bases near the Philippines yesterday and also carried out attacks against Formosa and other targets.
General MacArthur's commander ignored all enemy assertions, confining itself to reporting that American bombers had dumped 125 tons of bombs on Manila and Clark airfield, and bombing and strafing installations on central Luzon.
Joe Poundt Luong Landing
Blue network and NBC reported that a Japanese radio broadcast asserted last night that American troops had landed on Luzon.
Nazi on Defensive in Europe
Today in broadcasts heard by federal government monitors the Japanese radio asserted that the task force it had mentioned so frequently was now withdrawing from Lungayen gulf and that planes attacking the task force had firmly resolved "to frustrate the enemy's scheme to invade Luzon island."
On the European western front the Nazi forces were on the defensive along the entire northern front.
Fierce American assaults in spite of blizzards and biting winds gushed the Germans back in some sectors, but Nazi withdrawal from the Marche area is not yet general.
American armored and infantry troops have advanced to within four miles of the last German escape route out of the shrunken Belgium-Luxembourg bulge.
On the eastern front new German attempts to break through to the rescue of included comrades in Budapest were repelled by the Russians west and northwest of the city. German losses were described by Russians as heavy.
Sisters Will Speak In Missouri Debate
Leeta and Sarah Marks will go to the University of Missouri. Wednesday to take part in a debate before the League of Women Voters They will speak on the affirmative of the subject "Resolved, that the legal voting age should be lowered to 18."
Both students have had wide high school debate experience. Miss Leeta Marks, College senior, is president of Delta Sigma Rho, national forensics fraternity. Miss Sara Marks is a College junior.
Boston Students Protest
Boston University students picked the office of Pres. D. L. Marsh last month in protest against faculty censorship of the B. U. News, campus newspaper.