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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2. 1945
42ND YEAR
NUMBER 68
On the Russian front the Nazis fell back more than 200 city blocks in enbattled Budapest. Reports said the Germans were setting fires in the Hungarian capitol in an effort to stem the Russian attack.
U.S. Third Army Repulses Nazis, Retakes Towns
(International News Service)
American Third army troops surged back still farther against the Germans today, recapturing three towns and frustrating fierce Nazi efforts to retake recently encircled Bastoge.
Action on other fronts of the global war also was in Allied favor. In the Far East, American medium bombers raided he west coast of Luzon about 125 miles northwest of Manila, sinking at least eight enemy ships.
The Nazis fought fiercely but vainly to retake Bastogne, while they staged desperate defensive battles along the entire front.
The German counter attacks were seen by headquarters as an enemy effort to prevent the closing of the escape gap, now narrowed to some 16 miles. Two German panzer armies might be caught in the trap if the escape gap were closed by the Americans.
The American advance north of Istostge was admittedly slowed by the Nazi attack but the Germans made only slight gains.
In Italy Allied bombers struck at bridges and an ammunition dump, despite bad weather which cancelled most operations.
President to Meet Stalin And Churchill Soon
Washington—(INS) — President Roosevelt disclosed today that he will meet with Prime Minister Churchill and Soviet Marshall Stalin soon but did not indicate the date or place of the forthcoming meeting. The president also disclosed that he will send his "state of the union" message to congress next Saturday. The budget message probably will be heard the following Tuesday.
V-12 Reduction Probable Mar. 1
University officials are expecting a reduction in the number of navy trainees March 1, but the exact cut is not yet known. It was estimated at the University senate meeting yesterday that the number assigned here might be approximately 280, more than 50 less than are enrolled this term.
A 16-week summer term except for medical students and perhaps V-12 students, was not considered by the University senate. Should the navy send trainees here this summer they will be cared for under a separate instructional arrangement.
In hte meanwhile the administration has turned its attention to the program for training returning veterans. A report to the senate by Guy Smith, chairman of the committee on veterans problems, said that nearly 600 types of programs are on file and are being studied for possible application here.
Resolutions Not Popular This Year, Poll Indicates
Resolutions, what are they? The results of a survey of faculty and staff members of the University concerning their New Year's resolutions didn't put much light on this question as most professors gave reporters a negative answer when asked what they had resolved for the coming year. Lack of time and the futility of the idea in general were the chief explanations.
Chancellor Didn't Have Time
Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, department of psychology, looked askance at the very thought of resolutions, and stated, "No, I haven't made any. What's the use of new year's resolutions—I never keep 'em"
Chancellor Malet laughed jovially and exclaimed, "New Year's resolutions? Why, I haven't had the time to make or break any!"
Miss Maude Elliot, professor of Spanish, stated that the only resolutions she had made were for her classes. "For example," she said, "I resolve for my students to learn more Spanish—more pleasantly!"
R. C. Abraham, superintendent of the University post office, said, "I haven't made any and haven't broken any—no, not even mentally. I just do the best I can, always."
Will Not Eat Persimmons
Miss Winona Venard, mathematics instructor, claims, "I didn't make any to save myself from breaking any. I didn't even exert myself." Coach Honny, Shenk, guffwed
Coach Henry Shenk, guffawed loudly when queried as to his resolutions then thought for a minute and said, "Well, I resolved to quit eating persimmons." Then seriously he said, "I have lots of plans, but they may not materialize. The trouble is that everything you say is used against you."
Miss Lucille Aust, of the department of home economics, resolved to go to bed early. She started the year off right by hitting the hay at 3 a.m. New Year's eve.
Ross Moser, assistant instructor in physiology said, "No I didn't make any resolutions. A person usually procrastinates all year long waiting for New Year's to start breaking bad habits. Then after New Year's he starts breaking his resolutions. High school kids may believe they can keep resolutions, but from there un, people know they can't."
Miss Esther Twente, of the department of sociology, decided to profit by her past years' experience and make no resolutions. "They were getting to be more fun to break than to make," she explained. Aust Plans More Sleep
Miss Sarah Peters, of the department of German, decided not to get sidetracked in class except when she wants to be.
Kirk Was Preoccupied
Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, has kept her resolution to make no more resolutions.
Kirk Was Preoccupied
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Aust Plans More Sleep
Fag Fiend Has Guilty Conscience
Fifty minus two is 48—but the Chi Omegas are happy even with the depleted supply of cigaret cartons that were returned to them by the still unidentified Fag Fiend. The thief was 60 cents short in his payment for the two missing cartons, but Ernestine Karr, Chi O, who brought the cigarets back from her home in Paola after the Christmas holidays, is ready to call the controversy a draw.
Miss Karr, who is the daughter of a wholesale merchant in Paola, and who is herself a registered dealer, has been running the cigaret concession in the Chi Omega house for some time. The cigarets disappeared from the living room of the house sometime Wednesday evening.
Police were called to the house Thursday, but could find no trace of the missing cartons. The box containing the 48 cartons and $3 was found Friday evening in front of the house in a car owned by Patricia Rolley, also a Chi Omega.
Campus Coke Room To Open Saturday In Union Building
"The Last Resort" campus coke and dance spot, sponsored by Student Union Activities, will open at 7 p.m. Saturday night, Eugenia Hepworth, Union president, has announced. The "Resort" has been set up in the University. Club room in the basement of the Memorial Union building.
Arrangements for running the coke room have not been completed as yet, Miss Hepworth said, but according to present plans it will be open on Friday and Saturday nights for University students and their dates. Plans to open the "Resort" on weekday afternoons from 4:30 until 5:30 are also being considered.
Press Club Will Elect Officers
At Journalism Meeting Today
Appliqued curtains and table cloths have been made by the coke room committee of Student Union Activities, headed by Edith Marie Darby, with the assistance of students of the department of home economics. Large wall murals for the room have been furnished by the School of Fine Arts.
The dance spot on the campus has been planned, Miss Hepworth said, because of the crowded conditions in Lawrence restaurants and dance spots.
Others on Miss Darby's committee who have been helping with arrangements for the room are Mary Zeller, Patricia Coolidge, Ann Young, Jean Saffell, Roberta Frowe, and Pat Williams.
Election of officers for the coming year will be held at 4:30 p.m. today by the Press club at a meeting in Room 102 of the Journalism building, Ruth Tippin, president, has announced. Plans will be discussed for a dinner meeting Sunday with Bert Brandt, war photographer and graduate of the University.
The University Press club is open to all journalism students.
New Academic Schedule Approved; Summer Term, Final Exam Period. Two 18-Week Semesters, Planned
A new academic schedule, which calls for two 18-week semesters and an 8-week summer session each year at the University, was approved yesterday at a meeting of the University Senate, composed of all faculty members who are associate professors, professors and deans. A resolution was also passed to have specific periods for examinations for the fall semester, Feb.21 to Feb.24, during which time regular classes will not meet.
F.B.I. Captures Two Nazi Agents
The F.B.I. said the men landed Nov. 29 and had $6,000 in cash, revolvers, compasses and forged credentials, including draft papers and birth certificates.
New York—(INS)—The F.B.I. revealed today that two Nazi agents who had been landed by a submarine on an isolated section of the Maine coast with instructions to sabotage American war production have been captured in New York City.
Commencement Plan Is Still Indefinite
One of the men was an American by birth who had served a brief bitch in the U.S. navy before being discharged for suspected pro-German sympathies. He was born in Connecticut and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years. The other was an active German agent in South America for several years before he was arrested there interned in Texas and eventually repatriated to his homeland.
Definite announcement cannot be made of commencement plans a spokesman for the administration said today.
The limited number of persons qualified for graduation in February made the midyear commencement such as the one conducted last February seem improbable this year.
Whether the spring commencement will be on Monday, June 25, or Tuesday, June 26, is a question. Monday would be the better date from one stand point because it would give parents of the graduates opportunity to make the trip over the week end. But faculty members think that Monday would not give them enough time to record grades and approve names for the oriente program, and are sking for Tuesday.
Kancher Contributes Species to Museum
Six rare species of birds and animals to be included in a research collection have been presented to the Museum of Natural History by Mr. J. R. Alcorn, a rancher of Fallon, Nebr.
The lesser snow goose, California quail, Beechey ground squirrel, varigated ground squirrel, Nevada muskrat, and the kit-fox are included in the collection.
The accelerated program which has been in effect since July, 1943, was necessitated by the establishment of military units on the campus. Proposals for the new schedule were drawn up by the University calendar committee and presented by Verner Smith, chairman. They were passed with minor amendments. The examination schedule for the
The examination schedule for the fall semester is:
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Morning: 10:30 classes — 5 4. $\mathbb{H}$ hour
classes, 8 to 10 o'clock
- 10:50 classes - 2 and 1 hour
classes, 10:30 to 11:30 c.clock.
mood. 4:30 classes — 5, 4, 3
hour classes, 2 to 4 o'clock
4:30 classes — 2 and 1 hour classes,
4:30 to 5:30 o'clock.
Thursday, Feb. 22
Morning. 11:30 classes — 5, 4, 3 hour
classes, 8 to 10 o'clock
bouncy, 1:30 classes -- 5, 4, 3,
hour classes, 2 to 4 o'clock.
11:30 classes - 2 and 1 hour
classes, 10:30 to 11:30 clock
1:00 classes — 2 and 1 hour classes,
4:30 to 5:30 o'clock.
9:30 classes — 5, 4, 3 hour classes,
8 to 10.
9:30 classes — 2 and 1 hour classes,
10:30 to 11:30.
3:30 classes — 5, 4, 3 hour classes,
2 to 4.
3:30 classes — 2 and 1 hour classes,
4:30 to 5:30.
Saturday, Feb. 24
8:30 classes — 2 and 1 hour classes,
10:30 to 11:30.
8:30 classes — 5,4, 3 hour classes;
8 to 10.
2:30 classes - 5.4, 3 hour classes,
2 to 4.
(Three hour classes on Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday sequence will be examined as two hour courses with the time extended to two hours if necessary.)
2:30 classes — 2 and 1 hour classes
4:30 to 5:30.
the schedule for the academic year 1945-46 is:
1945 Summer Session
June 27. Wed. — Registration and enrollment.
June 28, Thurs. — Classwork begins in all departments.
Aug. 18, Sat. — Final examinations.
Academic Year 1945-46
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Army Personnel Is In Charge at Wards'
Chicago—(INS)—The army today installed its own operating personnel at the ten Montgomery Ward and Co. plants taken over by the government last week. War department representatives said the operating personnel included officers with long experience in the merchandising field who were instructed to replace all non-cooperating personnel and carry on all acts necessary to the business.