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Clearing somewhat, colder tonight.
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NUMBER 56
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1944
42ND YEAR
He has interviewed production heads, union leaders, and political leaders from coast to coast and has done research in a wide variety of industries. He is now preparing a book analyzing the political, social and economic rises threatening in the United States.
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Will Answer Audience Quesitions
Mr. Janeway is probably as qualified a speaker on the post war reconversion as any in America today. As a writer for Life and Fortune magazines, he has taken the measure of the country's present and post war capacities in the economic field, and of the nation's basic thinking on most current issues.
Janeway Lecture Is Postponed Until Tomorrow
If there is enought time after the lecture, Mr. Janeway will answer questions from the audience.
Eliot Janeway will not speak to night Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, announced this noon. Because of weather conditions Mr. Janeway's plane was grounded in Chicago this morning. The plane was late in getting to Chicago so that he was unable to make train connections to Lawrence for tonight's lecture.
Mr. Janeway's lecture, "Reconversion to Prosperity," will be given at 8:20 tomorrow evening in Hoch auditorium, Mr. Nichols said. The play, "Tune In Yesterday," will be given in Fraser theater as scheduled. Activity Tickets Admit
The lecture tomorrow night will be the second of the Community Lecture series. Students will be admitted with their activity tickets.
A resolution declaring all forms of hazing a menace to the welfare of all educational institutions was passed at the 36th annual meeting of the National Interfraternity conference held in New York City, recently.
Hazing Condemned By Frat Conference Held in New York
The resolution was proposed by George Starr Lasher, director of the School of Journalism at Ohio University. Recently the University of Wisconsin chapter of Theta Chi was disciplined for paddling its pledges
By placing the responsibility for prohibition and enforcement upon the local administrative officers, fraternity leaders hope that this will solve the problem. The question has been up before the group for several years and some of the group had already banned hazing before the resolution was passed.
Bob Stewart, newly elected president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, said that the enforcement of the hazing rule on the University of Kansas campus would be left to the discretion of the individual fraternities.
A request was also made that all violators of the resolution should be disciplined.
Fraternities Will Enforce
All form of mental and physical torture including paddling are to be included in the order banning all forms of hazing.
Coalition Takes Over Italy; Socialist Parties Excluded
Rome—(INS)—A four party coalition from which Socialist and Action parties were excluded took over the administration of Italy today following the approval of the new cabinet of premier Trano Bonomil by the Allied control commission.
Play Cast Enters Final Rehearsals
Grease paint and costumes have been donned for final rehearsals by the cast of "Tune In Yesterday," as they polish scenes of the year's first dramatic production to be presented in Fraser theater, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Centering around sorority life in wartime, the plot of "Tune In Yesterday" is filled with good dialogue. Zeta Beta Mu's problem of keeping its house open midst the confusion of the man shortage causes much worry for the all-girl cast, but will furnish laughs for their audience, according to Prof. Allen Crafton, playwright and director.
Scenery for the play was designed by Professor Crafton. Although new materials, canvas, and paint are almost impossible to obtain because of wartime restrictions, he has patched and painted old scenery for the play. Most settings for amateur plays generally flap and wobble, giving an unrealistic appearance, but Professor Crafton guarantee that his scenery is built solidly. Because he did not want to rent or borrow furniture, he has also made a set of modern furniture for the play.
Tickets may be purchased in the basement of Green hall from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. Although there will be no reserved seats, activity book stubs must be exchanged for tickets.
Five to Go To Colorado On Ski Trip
Arrangements for the first project of the new winter sports club, a ski trip to Colorado during the Christmas holidays, are underway, according to Rudy Carl, co-chairman of the organization. Five members of the club have agreed to go on the trip and several other names may be added to the list later. Carl said. The trip was discussed at a meeting of students interested in skiing Thursday night.
A meeting of the entire club has been planned for tomorrow night in the men's louge of the Memorial Union building. Time of the meeting has been changed from 7:30 until 7 o'clock, because of the play which will be presented later in the evening. The club will elect officers at this meeting.
A meeting of the Emergency War Manpower council will be held at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night, at the Chamber of Commerce. Dean F. T. Stockton said this morning that some proposals for increased part-time employment of University students may be presented.
Skiing is fine on the campus now, carl said. The slope back of Frank Strong hall is an excellent place for beginners to learn the sport, and for more experienced skiiers to practice turns.
Mannpower Council to Meet
Snow Spices Campus Life
Always about this time of year, when classes are becoming routine and life in general lacks that spark of variety—it snows. And whether you like snow or not, the whiteness, the cold, and the ice, coming for the first time in a year, present something new to think about.
This year's snow started in on its first of six inches Saturday morning around 9 o'clock. And from 9 until 10 there was the excitement and thrill of, "It's snowing." Then until late in the afternoon we endured the trying middle stage; the snow wasn't deep enough for sledding, black spots were still uncovered, but the snow itself kept coming down. Saturday it fell diagonally making it virtually impossible to walk north. But the University students were few who figured this out and got off the bus at the Crown drug store to work south with their Christmas shopping.
The snow seemed very wet Saturday afternoon; it still seems wet. Particularly when you have just participated in the now popular mass snow fight in which one fraternity or PT challenges an entire women's house to battle.
British Troops Star Sweep Through Suburbs of Athens
But with the wetness and the bruises and broken ankles there is the variety craved. For certainly it is variety when Pi Phi seniors are stuck in a snow drift between Kansas City and Lawrence during the first $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours of their open house—when a girl steals the show at the A.O. Pi open house with a new leg cast under her formal—when bob sleds skid around the Chi Omega circle taking a toll of three disabled students in one evening—and when students gather at the top of the steps by Battenfeld to watch Battenfelders, Theta's, Kappa's, and V-12's go down, because every other one will fall.
Athens — (INS) — British forces started a large scale sweep through the eastern suburbs of Athens at dawn today in an all-out attempt to drive the left-wing rebels from the strife-torn capital.
Hall Is Voted Queen Of CVC Bond Drive; Sales Total $84,432
Jo Ellen Hall, Alpha Chi Omega, was elected War Bond queen at the University War Bond dance Friday night in the Military Science building. This brought to a close the University War Bond drive,
A large crowd of about 300 couples bought war bonds and stamps which gave Miss Hall 510,350 votes. The runners-up were Beverly Ballona, Alpha Delta Pi, who received 211,724 votes, and Eleanor Pack, Pi Beta Phi, with 32,921 votes. One vote was allowed for each ten cent war stamp purchased. The number of votes increased with higher bond denominations.
The total amount of war bonds and stamps sold during the seventy-day drive, was $84,432.70, according to Beverly Jane Waters, head of the University Bond drive. This total includes all bonds and stamps bought by the Navy, those sold in the booths in Fraser hall and Frank Strong hall, and those purchased at the War Bond dance. The Navy purchases amounted to about $4,000, Miss Waters said.
Don Cousins and his Navy band played for the dance with the assistance of Chief Gathings. Faculty members who sold stamps and bonds at the dance were: Miss Winona Bernard, Miss Veta B. Lear, Prof. J. J. Wheeler, Dean and Mrs. Henry Werner, Prof. Leslie Waters, Prof. Guy Smith, Prof. Elmer F. Beth, and Clifton Calvin of the business office.
The success of this year's Bond drive was much greater than last year's drive, when bond and stamp sales totaled $19,000, Miss Waters stated.
Yanks Capture Last Supply Port In Philippines
International News Service
The battle for the Philippines took a dramatic turn today as veteran U.S. troops seized the Leyte port of Ormuc, last Jap portal for reinforcements and supplies, and doomed the enemy forces on the southern flank of the Yamashita lines to death or capture.
At the same time three other columns closed in on the big Jap area from the south, east and north in an all-out drive to clear strategic Lylete of the enemy, and to prepare for a new campaign against other occupied islands in the archipelago.
The Tokyo radio meanwhile reported that American superfortresses swept over the Jap capital twice during the weekend. One raid hit the city last night and the second early today.
A large crowd is expected for the annual Christmas Vespers which will be presented Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium by the School of Fine Arts, Dean D. M. Swarthout announced today. Four tableaux depicting Christmas scenes will be presented by the department of design and painting to accompany the music, he said.
Advance on Durin and Zulich
On Europe the American First army advanced more than a mile in twin fronts toward the vital Nazi strongholds of Durin and Juilich, as the Germans were reported bringing up strong reserves to counter a threatened drive by First said Ninth army units.
Christmas Vespers To Be Given Sundav
On the eastron front the all-out battle for Budapest is underway and Soviet columns are closing in on the capital from three directions as U.S. troops enter the battle.
To the south, a hard-hitting Third army thrust another bridgehead across the Saar river and beat back two serious counter-attacks. Heavy fighting also was reported on the U.S. Seventh army front centered about 13 miles south of Strasbourg in the town of Hagenau. Other Seventh army troops drove a mile closer to strategic Colmar.
Budapest Battle Continues
In Italy, Germans knelt a crack reserve Panzer legion against the British closing in on Feenza but the counter-attack was driven back with heavy Nazi losses. Patrol skissler were the only activity on the First army sector.
In addition to the candle light processional and recessional by the A Cappella choir of 90 voices, the choir will sing four choral numbers. The Symphony Orchestra will be heard in two numbers. Also included on the program will be a brass ensemble selection and a number played by 14 violins and two hamps.
A free will offering will be taken during the service for the School of Fine Arts Scholarship fund, Dean Swarthout said.
U. S. Builds Largest Airplane
The United States is developing planes bigger than the B-29's. Three new type long-range airplanes for use in the Pacific war include the B-36, the largest airplane ever attempted in this country.