1944
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Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
Daily Kansan
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Fair, not quite so cool tonight,
Tuesday, fair and warmer,
clear and warmer Wednesday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1944
42ND YEAR
The party chairmen have obtained campus headquarters for their parties. The Democratic and Republican headquarters are in the lounge of the Memorial Union building, while that of the Socialists is downstairs in the Book Exchange. At "headquarters" one can obtain literature exalting one's favorite party and depreciating that to which one is opposed.
Harry O'Kane, Pauline Turner Resign Positions
Resignations of two University staff members, Harry O'Kane and Miss Pauline Turner, were announced today by school officials.
O'Kane, executive secretary of the YMCA and director of the employment bureau, will leave November 1 to take a position with the YMCA at Houston, Texas. I came to the University in September 1941.
He feels that he is not needed so much here now with service men leaving and so few men students left. The organization in Texas has built a new building and is a growing thing in the city, he said.
big Four Announce Peace Plan O'Kane To Leave Dumbarton Oaks Meet Sets Up World Council
O'Kane has participated in many activities on the campus and in Lawrence, teaching Sunday School and assisting in running the Service Club here.
Politics Get Into Swing On Campus
She received her bachelor of arts degree from Bates University, Lewison, Maine, and her master's degree from Columbia University.
She has taught in various high schools including the training school at Columbus University. She came here two years ago.
Miss Turner, instructor in secretarial training in the School of Business, has resigned, F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, said today.
The campus is blossoming these days with would-be politicians. Among one's friends, there is at least one party chairman or ward boss. Many persons proudly display the name of their chosen candidate on lapel or sweater. Each party howls at the others—Democrats at Socialists for taking votes from Roosevelt; Republicans at Democrats at bureauacry; Democrats at Republicans for conservatism; Republicans at Socialists for radicalism; and Socialists at both for spinelessness. Literature for and against all parties is appearing.
Although the Socialist party wasn't originally organized here, a group of students decided that in all fairness, it should be represented by an organization on the campus. So those students, therefore, have organized themselves into a campus Socialist party. The chairmen are Sarah Marks and Luther Buchele.
First Army Closes Pincers On Aachen Driant Fight Rages
A pincers movement narrowed the German escape corridor to four miles today as American first army forces closed in on Aachen. Meanwhile bitter fighting for position of Ft. Driant continued as American troops made headway in the underground chambers of the fortification. Other Yank units stormed the northern half of Nazers-Les-Metz, driving the Germans from their positions.
(International News Service)
The American third army overran four villages northeast of Nancy as (continued to page four)
Solicitors calling at the houses during the evening, said Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, YWCA secretary, will emphasize the importance of giving and the part the money will play in relieving the suffering of fellow students and prisoners of war in war-torn areas of the world and service men wherever they may be.
All-out giving to the combined World Student Service Fund and War Chest should begin tonight when student solicitors will visit the organized houses of the University, announced Martha Ellen Woodward, co-chairman of the drive.
Solicitors Open Drive Tonight For WSSF Fund
Money need not be paid tonight, she said, if a pledge card is filled out. Students in unorganized houses will be contacted individually later in the week and may at any time come to Henley House with their contributions.
The more thoughtful tobacco users have hoarded up cigarettes or cigars while on visits out of town. They say that Lawrence has been short more than other cities. This may be due to the greater number of persons here in connection with the allotment to merchants on the basis of the old-time normal sales.
The representatives of the drive and the houses which they will visit are:
Kathleen Hazen and Beverly Bohan, Phi Kappa Psi; Persis Snook and Mary Ellen Halstead, Beta Theta Pi and John Moore Co-op; Joan Veach and Patricia Graham, Battenfield and Carruth halls; Joan Bauer and Betty Joe O'Neal, Delta Tau Deltai;
One merchant said he would like to have the shoe coupons that are
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Students Jerk Along in Last Stages Of Shortage's 'Nicotine Jitters'
Even when the stores do get in their limited supply, they are usually sold out within an hour. It is no unusual sight to see men and women standing in line for the one package of cigarettes allowed each customer, if and when a merchant has any to sell.
If you have been horrified at the sight of K.U. students violently jerking down the campus lately, just blame it on the new disease which has become so prevalent in Lawrence, the "nicotine jitters."
The malady appears in men and women, both young and old, who "sour" each drug and grocery store in town for cigarettes and cigars, only to find that nine times out of ten there just "ain't any!"
Lawrence merchants report an increased sale in pipes now that women are resorting to their use during the "cigarette famine." Also the old practice of "rolling your own" is becoming popular again. It was jokingly suggested by a student that the University start a special course in the art.
going to be used by cigarette-cigar-hunters who wear out sole leather seeking smokes while the scarcity is on.
Many cigar users are resorting to mail ordering from Florida and other cigar makers who sell to the retail trade.
Gasoline, sugar, and coffee shortages have been accepted by the American people, but the tobacco shortage is the "last straw" to many. They cannot understand why there should be such a shortage since we have access to as much tobacco as ever. However, they must realize that a great majority of the cigarettes and cigars are being sent to service men, and that these men need their "smokes."
Washington, (INS)—The United States, Great Britain, Russia, and China disclosed a master plan today to keep the world at peace by methods ranging from the gentle pressure of diplomacy to the full military might of the Big Four.
The government representatives at the Big Four powers lifted the veil of secrecy from the Dumbarton-Oaks conference and revealed agreement on a 12-chapter document designed to
Willkie Dies In N.Y. Hospital
New York—INS—Funeral services will be held here Tuesday afternoon for Wendell L. Willkie, the 52-year-old Hoosier lawyer who received more votes in 1940 than ever before were cast for a Republican presidential candidate. Willkie died early Sunday. His body will be taken to Rushville, Ind., for burial after the return of his son from foreign military service.
A heart ailment which followed a streptococcic infection of the throat caused his death. Penecillin had overcome the infection, but the heart muscles were weakened as the result.
Mrs. Willkie, also suffering from throat trouble, was at his side when death came. Her husband had seemed improved an hour before his death, and he was removed from the oxygen tent. He talked with those about him and seemed in good spirits. The heart spasms returned, however, and he again was placed in the tent through which Mrs. Willkie could see him.
Born at Elwood, Ind., Feb. 18,
1892. Wendell Lewis Willkie was the
son of Herman F. and Henrietta
(Trisch) Willkie. He was graduated
from Indiana University in 1913 and
received his doctor of laws degree
there in 1919. He practiced law until
1933 when he joined the Commonwealth
and Southern corporation of
which he became president.
Homecoming Queen To Be Named Oct. 20
The Homecoming queen at the University will be selected Friday night, Oct. 20, and will be presented at the KU-Nebraska football game on Saturday, Bud Eisenhower, chairman of the queen committee, announced today. Judges for the event have not been selected yet, he added.
Each organized house will select one representative, according to present plans, but the committee will meet tomorrow to make final arrangements, which will be announced Wednesday.
Names of the candidates should be submitted by Oct. 18 to any member of the queen committee, composed of Pat Graham, Charles Moffett, and Persis Snook, Eisenhower said.
prevent all war in the future Prime features of the agreements are:
1. A new international security organization is set up patterned roughly after the old League of Nations to be known as "The United Nations." All countries whether they fought in the war or not, will be eligible to become members of "The United Nations."
2. A "military staff committee" is created empowered to carry out measures of force as directed by the security council of the United Nations.
Special services, to be performed by faculty members of the University, will be auctioned off at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon on the steps of Frank Strong hall. The auction is announced by the YMCA-YWCA committee which is sponsoring the War Chest and World Student Service fund on the campus. Proceeds from the auction will go to the War Chest.
Profs Place Services On Auction
3. There will be 11 seats on The United Nation governing council, six to be occupied by the smaller nations of the universe. France will eventually be added to make the Big-Four the Big-Five.
4. The document provides for the continuance of "regional arrangements" which have been used to maintain peace in the geographic areas of the world, such as the Pan-American peace machinery and was viewed as a concession to the Russian proposal which called for "spheres of influence" in the postwar peace plan.
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Among those whose services will be sold to the highest bidder are Dane W. Malot, chancellor; Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Henry Werner, men's student adviser; Calvin VanderWerf, of the department of chemistry; Hilden Gibson of the department of political science; R. H. Wheeler, of the department of psychology. A complete list of the donors and their services will appear in tomorrow's Kansan. The auctioneer will be Allen Crafton, of the department of speech and drama.
All members of the faculty and student body may bid announced Neal Woodruff, committee member.
Organized houses are urged by the sponsoring committee to pool their funds, as many of the services are not individual, but for whole houses.