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Nazi Thrusts Although Deep Slowed Down
(International News Service)
The security blanket over the U.S. First army front was lifted today to disclose officially that the Nazies had made major penetrations through the American lines. Reports from the front said that Yank counter-offensive had begun to slow down the German advance. Within 18 Miles of Liege
By Monday noon, one German column had advanced 20 miles and had reached Stavelot, Belgium. Resistance also mounted on other fronts, but the U.S. Seventh manager to smash its way more than a half mile into the Seigfried line. Headquarters said a force of 300 German paratroopers were dropped to the west of Malmedy in an attempt to disrupt American communications. The three Dutch radios said the Germans had sent one spearhead to within 18 miles of Liege, but added that the Nazi thrust had been sealed and the push to Luxembourg was being stopped.
Yanks Mop Up on Levte
On the Italian front the British Eighth army made limited gains north of liberated Faenza despite a series of strong German counter-attacks. In the Pacific, two veteran American columns closed in on the dwindling pocket of Jap resistance in the northwestern sector of Leyte. Captured Valencia air port already has been put in to operation by the Yanks. On Mindaro island the Americans drove through the jungles unopposed on their way to enemy positions. Bitter fighting flared on the Russian front as the Soviets smashed into Czechoslovakia for a five mile gain. The Red armies closed in on the vital Slovak rail junction, Kosice, from three sides.
'Kiss Strike Off at LSU
Baton Rouge, La.-(INS) A threatened "kiss strike" of the student body of Louisiana State University was off today.
Students protested an edict by President W. B. Hatcher that "promiscuous kissing" on the L. S. U. campus must cease.
Gloria Jeanne Heller, a coed from Havana, Cuba, who was dismissed when she circulated a mimeographed statement ridiculing the kissing ban, will not be reinstated.
The strike plan was dropped after the president of the student council conferred with President Hatcher and cautioned a mass meeting of students not to take action that would harm the school.
Kansan to Be Out At Noon Tomorrow
All news items must be turned in to the Kansas desk before 10 a.m. she said. The paper will go to press at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
Students may get copies of the University Daily Kansan at 12 p.m. tomorrow, Kati Gorrill, managing editor, has announced.
The Kankan will resume publication after vacation on Thursday
Dec. 28.
Christmas Greetings
The faculty and the executive officers of the University extend to every student a very personal wish for a merry Christmas.
Deane W. Malott,
Chancellor
'Quig' Continues To Erase Debt With Gift Bonds
Ernest C. Quigley, director of athletics, will speak at the University of Kansas Alumni club in Chicago, Jan. 29, to advance another stride in his drive to erase the debt of the Memorial stadium.
This morning's mail and the mail yesterday afternoon brought in $4200 in bonds to Mr. Quigley's office to apply on the debt. Mr. Quigley said that the program is just in second gear.
Will Also Speak In Detroit
After his engagement in Chicago, Mr. Quigley will speak at Detroit on Jan. 31, and will probably go on to Cleveland and Cincinnati that same week.
In organizing the drive, Mr. Quigley obtained lists of every University of Kansas alumni, living or dead, and arranged them in order according to counties. He also has a list of at least five key men in every county on whom he knows he can depend to help see the drive through. He had 10,000 copies of the "K. U. Halo Club" letters printed and has sent the letters to these men in each county who distributed them among the K.U. alumni living in that county.
Alumni Contacted Personally
In addition to contacting the alumni in this way, Mr. Quigley has personally traveled all over the state making speeches, attending luncheons and dinners, and returning with bonds for the stadium.
Mr. Quigley has talked with K.U. alumni in Abilene, Salina, Lindsborg, McPherson, Newton, Halstead, Hutchinson, Wellington, and Topeka this week since his 1:30 p.m. broadcast in Topeka Sunday afternoon. He also attended two luncheons, one in Hutchinson and one in Wichita. He will attend a dinner in Topeka tomorrow night and will contact alumni in Kansas City, Friday and Saturday.
He Makes Him Clear
Mr. Quigley's attitude toward this campaign is appropriately expressed in a telegram sent in answer to a request of Dale O'Brien, president of the KU. Alumni club in Chicago, for Mr. Quigley to appear as their guest speaker at their Kansas Day dinner. The telegram read:
Marjean Carr will play "Un Sospiro" (Lliszt) and Joan Vickers will sing "Se Saran Rose" (Artitti). Robert Overstreet will play Mozart's "Sonata in F" with Allegro, Adagio, and Allegro assai.
"Yes sir, I'll be at the Lawson YMCA hotel at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29. You birds better have your check books."
The weekly student recital will be given at 3:30 Thursday afternoon in Fraser theater.
Five Will Perform In Weekly Recital
"Ruth Rousseff will sing Bachelet's "Cherne Hurt" and as the last number on the program, Anae Krebhel will play Debbiey's "Faut d'Artifice."
Greenhouse Features Orchids
Orchids to you! Here in the middle of a bleak colorless Kansas winter, with a below freezing temperature, there are orchids blooming on the University of Kansas campus. Lovely, delicate blossoms in various shades of lavender recline majestically in the tropical summer house where one finds an aura of the romanticism of the South Seas.
There are a number of different types of orchid plants being developed in the summer house, but the ones in bloom at present are privately owned and being cared for by employees of the Buildings and Grounds. There are three of these plants, with four blooms on one plant, four on another with two more coming, and two blooms on the third. These are the catelaya trianicea. Hybrid Orchids Bloom This Year.
Among the other types in the summer house is one that could be grown successfully in a home, but it is smaller and much less showy than the others. Early last July some hybrid orchids bloomed for the first time since they were received by the University as seedlings four years ago and they will probably bloom every summer. Usually orchids do not bloom until they are seven years of age, but these plants were not that old. In October the labiata type of orchid bloomed with seven blossoms, three on one stalk and four on the other.
Hybrid Orchids Bloom This Year
Plants Are From the South
These orchids do not receive a great deal of special care. They are kept in moss roots of ferns with very little dirt and given a chemical feeding every six weeks or two months. The temperature of the summer house is thermostatically controlled and never gets below 73 degrees.
The orchids were all imported from southern countries such as Brazil, Central America, and the Hawaiian Islands.
Twente's Class Works On Individual Projects
Athens—(INS) Greek guerrilla forces today captured Royal Airforce headquarters in Greece located in a hillside resort 10 miles northeast of Athens.
Several members of the laboratory section of Miss Esther Twente's class in social case work Twente's class in Social Case Work are working on individual projects
Among those doing special work are Betty McDonald and Mary Louise Harling, who are working at the State Division for Vocational Rehabilitation in Kansas City, Kan., and Louise Cochran and Elizabeth Todd, who are doing special work with the same organization in Topeka. One student, Barbara Winn, is doing a project at the Missouri Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Kansas City, Mo.
These students spend approximately two days each month outside Lawrence working on their special projects, Miss Twente said.
Myrtle Glover, Virginia Rader, and Marjorie Bentley are working with the Kansas Children's Home and Service League in Topeka; and another student, George Dick, is doing observation at the State Employment Service in Lawrence.
College Faculty Approves Courses In Biology and Western Civilization To Be Required For All Freshmen
Approval of new courses in biology and western civilization was given by the College faculty yesterday, only after the proposed social science course had drawn intense discussion and a substantial number of negative votes. Time did not allow for action on proposal No. 6 of the faculty committee, which would permit special major fields.
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Kansan Board Okays News and Editorial Staff Appointments
Although all of the houses still have not turned in money, the amount collected exceeds that in the past few years by about $100. Miss Hepworth said. During the campus drive seals were purchased from representatives in each house, and in Robinson gymnasium.
Seal Drive Total Reaches $485.59
Houses contributing and amounts are, Gamma Phi Beta, $13.35; Alpha Delta Pi, $13.50; Pi Beta Phi, $13.16; Sigma Kappa, $10; Alpha Omicron Pi, $16.35; Kappa Kappa Gamma, $23; Kappa Alpha Theta, $25; Corbin Hall, $27.35; Chi Omega, $25;Delta Gamma, $10; 1245 Oread, $5; Batten-feld hall, $7.10; Tipperary, $18; Harmon Co-op, $5; Campus house, $5; Miller hour, $15.40.
With 38 organized houses contributing, the final collection from the sale of tuberculosis seals totaled $485.59, Eugenia Hepworth, campus chairman, said today. Leading the organized houses in sale of seals with $30 was Alpha Chi Omega, and leading the men's organized houses was Beta Theta Pi with a total of $28.
The Kansan board approved the news staff for the rest of this semester yesterday.
Editorial associates for the new staff are Elizabeth Baker and Joan Veatch. Campus editors are Betty Jennings, Dixie Gilliland, and Ruth Tippin. Betty Jo O'Neal will continue as society editor. Kati Gorrill will be news editor, Virginia Van Order will be exhale editor, and Jeanne Shoemaker will keep her position of wire editor.
The two new courses in biology will be required of all freshmen, and are designed to give them a background and basic understanding of all of the branches of exact science in this group.
The editorial associates were appointed by the editor-in-chief, Dorothy McGill and the news staff members were put up for approval by the managing editor Delores Sulzman and the assis it managing editor. Maxine Ro
Miss McGill, Sulaman, and Miss Rowsey were elected to their positions by members of the Kansas board a week ago.
The next regular Kansan board meeting will be January 8.
They are designed to eliminate the preparatory courses of each branch and prevent duplication.
The first course of three hours will include lectures, demonstrations and assigned field work. The second three hours will include laboratory work.
Amendments were made and considerable interpretation given to the courses in western civilizedtoin before they were adopted. The amendments provided that a committee of six faculty members from departments concerned shall supervise the courses and that the University shall supply adequate funds for instructional and tutorial work and library supplier.
The motion on the amendment to supply funds was seconded by Chancellor Malott as a gesture to insure its success.
The principal objection to the courses on western civilization was not the objective and aims, but the methods proposed, opponents of the measure said. Besides being in conflict with the idea back of the English and speech courses already approved, they said the courses would not work with beginners. They suggested applying them to upperclassmen, or at least making them optional.
Dean Paul B. Lawson announced that the credits would not count as a part of work required in any department major.
The Y. W. C. A. vesper program will begin at 7:30 tonight at the Methodist church, Elizabeth File, chairman of the Y. W. C. A. membership meetings committee, has announced. A program of Christmas music, tableaux, and a Christmas narrative has been planned.
YWCA Will Sponsor Vespers This Evening
Mary Jo Cox has charge of the music for the vespers. Patricia Creel is director of the dramatic's commission group, which will present the tableau. Marjorie Free, social chairman of the Y, W, C, A, will have charge of refreshments, which will be served following the program.
Vespers Collection, $392.75,
Exceeds All Other Years
The collection taken at the Christmas Vesper Sunday for the School of Fine Arts Scholarship fund exceeded that of any previous year with a total of $892.75. The previous high amount was $333.74 which was collected last year.
Included in the collection were 60 one-dollar bills, 140 half-dollars, 492 quarters, 870 diploes, 685 nickels, 850 pennies, 1 bus token, 1 Milwaukee milk, 2 won tokens and one Air Mail stamp.