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NUMBER 43
42ND YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1944
Freshmen Poll 92 Votes By Noon In Class Election
Ruth Tippin, editor of the Daily Kansan, has measles, Dr. Paul Cauteson, director of the University health service reported this morning. Miss Tippin has been in Working hospital since Friday evening. Three appearances of measles appeared this morning.
From 7:30 this morning until noon 50 freshman women and 42 freshman men of a total of nearly 700, cast ballots for freshman class officers and representatives on the All Student Council at polls established in Fraser hall. Balloting will continue, Joan Burch, chairman of the elections committee of the council, announced, until 6 o'clock this evening.
For women's representative, Jean McIntire, WIGS candidate, is running against Shirley Wellborne, PWCL, John Irwin, PSGL, is opposing Sam Hunter, Pachacamac, for the position of men's representative.
A great many students, according to the election board, have not been able to vote because they have not presented their activity books. Activity books or fee receipt cards must be presented at the polls for identification by all voters, the board stated.
Candidates for the class offices for PWCL-PSGL include: Ann Scott, president; Everett Hill, vice-president; and Kay Wheelock, secretary-treasurer.
Candidates for the WIGS-Pachacamaac are: Ralph Kiene, president; Sara Hell, vice-president, Pat Allen, secretary-treasurer.
Kansan Editor Has Measles
Ballots will be counted at 7 o'clock this evening in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building by representatives of all political parties, Miss Burch announced. An All Student Council adviser will be present for the counting, she said.
YWCA to Dispose of Books, Make Survey
Two new projects were discussed and plans outlined at a meeting of the YWCA World and Community Service commission Thursday night.
Barbara Smith will have charge of a group from the commission who plan to dispose of a hundred books left from the World Student Service Fund book drive held on the campus last year. Books in which marks can be erased will be cleaned and sent to the WSSF warehouse in New York, for shipping to neutral countries where they will be distributed through the Red Cross to prisoners of war. Books which are too badly mutilated will be sold, and money received will be sent to the WSSF.
Several members of the World and Community Service commission are helping with scout work in Lawrence now, Martha Woodward, chairman of the commission, said. The group has also been rolling bandages for the Red Cross regularly. Because of local bandage quota was filled recently, the commission has formed the new plans.
In cooperation with the Ministerial Alliance of Lawrence, Phyllis Cooper will head a group of commission members who plan to make a survey of the Sunday school preference of Lawrence children.
Closing Hours to Be 12 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday
Closing hours for all University women on Wednesday and Thursday nights will be 12 p.m. Miss Marie Miller, assistant adviser of women, announced today. The regular closing hour of 12:30 will be resumed Friday.
Believed to have taken a total of $11 before being scared from the hall, a strange man went from room to room yesterday afternoon in Corbin hall, being mistaken by some residents as an electrician, by others as a father who was looking for his daughter. It was not until several bill folds were discovered wrong side out and a total of $11 found missing, that Corbin women and Mrs. H. P. Ramage, housemother, became suspicious of the visitor.
Corbin Burglary Follows on Heels Of Kappa Theft
"The hall was full of electricians testing our bell system," explained Mrs. Ramage, "so when a strange man started to come in the dining room and then left quickly when he saw me, I was not alarmed. Many of the girls, too, mistook the man, whom we believe is responsible for the missing money, for an electrician, when he accidently walked into occupied rooms and then retreated without saying anything"
According to Mrs. Ramage the suspected thief is about 40 years old. He was wearing glasses she said, a brown felt hat and a dark jacket. May Be Kappa Thief
Unless the Corbin suspect is apprehended and found, also, to be connected with the Kappa burglary yesterday morning, there is no way to apprehend the thief who took $80 from the Kappa Kamma Gamma house yesterday morning, according to police. Any finger prints or evi-
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"Tune in Yesterday," a comedy centering around the confusion of sorority life in wartime, will be presented by an all-girl cast Dec. 12 and 13, in Fraser theater, Prof. Allen Crafton announced today.
All-Girl Cast to Give 'Tune in Yesterday' On Dec.12 and 13
Writing the play in a prologue, Crafton lays the scene in 1947 when two alums come back for rush week. The action of the play, however, takes place during three days in the early war years. The plot centers around the difficulties that Zeta Beta Mu suffers in trying to keep its sorority open during war-time. Girls are leaving college to join the WAVE's, to get married, and to become welders. The climax is reached when it is necessary to ask their hated rivals, the OB Nu's to live with them in order to keep their house open. However, one of the Zeta Beta Mus' comes back to college, and the quota is met without the OB Nu's.
Four-weeks' grade reports for all non-veteran College freshmen and sophomores who are doing unsatisfactory work (below C) are due in the College office December 4, Dean Paul B. Lawson, has announced. All grades of each veteran will be due at that time.
Portrayal of Negro Life In Catfish Row Will Draw Record Audience Tonight
Early Grades To Aid Students
Dean Lawson explained that for years the freshmen-sophomore advisers and the dean's office have believed that the grades issued at mid-semesters are too late to help many students. The Committee on the Improvement of Teaching of the College faculty recommended last spring that earlier quizzes be given.
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A record crowd of 3,000 to 3,500 is expected to attend the musical comedy, "Porgy and Bess", tonight. D.M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, announced today. Approximately 2,200 tickets have already been sold.
"Porgy and Bess" is a portrayal of Negro life in Catfish Row and the plot revolves around the love of Porgy and Bess and their hardships. Bess' man, Crown, is jealous of Porgy and attempts to kill him but the tables turn and Crown himself is killed. Porgy is taken away by the police and Bess, in despair, goes away with Sportin' Life, the dope peddler. When Porgy returns he finds no trace of Bess and the musical ends as he begins his long search.
The cast includes Ela Motes as Bess; William Franklin as Boggy; Ava Lorg as Sportsa Life; Wyrean, Glennon as Gown; Ahmed Hibbard
The box office will open at 7 p.
m. where tickets will be available.
The performance will begin at 8:20.
Resolution Introduced For Pearl Harbor Probe
Alexander Smallens will conduct the musical with Tibor Kozna as assistant director. The Eva Jessey Choir will do the ensemble singing.
Washington—(INS)—A resolution for a senate investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster was introduced today by Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan. Ferguson declared that he does not believe that military secrecy is the real reason for withholding army-navy Pearl Harbor reports. At the same time he disclaimed any attempt at partisanship in the probe proposal, pointing out that he had withheld it until after the election.
The resolution, which calls for a special five man committee to investigate the tragedy, seemed to be piling up support in all quarters.
as Serena; and Henry Davis as Robbins.
Nazis Retreat on 100-Mile Front As Allies Go Into Saar, Rhineland; 118 Jap Planes Shot Out of War
(International News Service)
While copies of the Sour Owl rest in the local postoffices pending instruction from Washington as to whether the publication is mailable or not, reports of administration investigation of student participation in the publication of the magazine which raised a storm of protest, are current.
Weakened by a thrust of the French first army which carried to the Rhine, the German Wehrmacht was retreating on a 100-mile front along the entire southern border of the western European front. French troops were already reported fighting across the Rhine, as they advanced plus gains registered by the U.S. seventh army threatened to unhinge the southern flank of German defenses.
Reports that the administration is investigating the publication were circulated over the campus today. Dean Henry Werner said that no definite action has been taken yet, as too many facts remain to be cleared up.
The local post office officials report that they are holding the magazine in the post office until word has been received from Washington as to whether the Sour Owl is considered as obscene literature and therefore not mailable. Yesterday through a misunderstanding, many students were not able to mail copies of the publication because of the refusal of the post office to accept them. The post office expects to hear from Washington next week.
Inquiry Is Begun Into Sour Owl
A meeting of the editors of the Sour Owl and of administration officials was held last night at the Nu Sigma Nu house.
CVC Makes Plans For War Loan Drive
The French hammered to within eight miles of Mulhouse while the seventh army reached a point less than five miles
Guy V. Keeler To Attend Installation At Wichita
The efforts of the University of Kansas to sell war bonds and war bond subscriptions will be concentrated within a period of one week during the Sixth War Loan drive, Beverly Jane Waters, Lt. Gen. in the CVC, reported that there will be a War Bond dance during the University drive. A king from one of the fraternity or PT houses and a queen from either an independent or a sorority house will be crowned at this dance. A definite date for the dance has not been announced.
Guy V. Keeler, director of the Engineering Science and Management War Training, will attend the installation meeting and dinner of the first Kansas safety organization to qualify for a chapter in the American Society of Safety Engineers tonight. The meeting will be held in Wichita.
Within the last three years, the
extension division has trained more
than 1000 Specialist Radiologists.
from Sarrebourg where street fighting was reported in progress by the German DNB agency.
Allies Pry Deeper
Following the historic fall of Metz yesterday, the other Allied arm in the north pried their way deeper into the Rhineland and Saar with advances ranging upward from one to two miles. Numerous villages were overrun as Yank artillery battered a four-lane Adolf Hitler highway between Aachen and Colonie.
Large Crowd Present At Union Carnival
On the eastern front the Red araya was locked in a desperate struggle to isolate Miskole, Hungary's nith largest city, and clear the Nazis from the northeastern approaches to Budapest.
About 800 people attended the Union carnival Saturday night, according to Eugonia Hepworth, president of Student Union Activities. Although total proceeds from general admission charge and booth receipts has not yet been compiled, Phi Kappa Psi is believed to have taken in the most money. The Phi Psis report a profit of $76.
Chinese Raid Jap Targets
China-based super fortresses 70 to 80 strong, raided industrial targets on Kyushu, southernmost island in the Japanese homeland. Further word was awaited, meanwhile, on the latest carrier-based aerial blow against the Philippine-Manila area. Incomplete reports indicated that at least 118 Jap planes were destroyed along with two large cargo ships and one large tanker.
General MacArthur's battling doughbies on Leyte continued to press in on a trapped Jap division in the Limon sector after beating back enemy attempts to relieve the encircled unit,
Admittance and concession tickets were all sold, and some resold. Miss Hepworth said. Money taken in by the concession stands, as well as gate receipts, will be turned over to Union activities, to be placed in a fund which will be used to finance future Union parties and activities.
Each organized house sponsoring a booth was asked to pay for its own decorations, but houses which ran coke and ice cream stands were allowed a certain amount for purchase of the goods. Any house which is in doubt about its容积 list should send a representative to the Union Astronomy club in the Memorial Union building at Miss Hopkins hall.
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