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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1944
NUMBER 15
42ND YEAR
Three Students Struck by Car On Highway 40
Three University students were injured about 8:30 p.m. yesterday when they were struck by a motor car about five miles west of Lawrence on U. S. highway No. 40.
Those injured were Walter William Ritt of Kansas City, College freshman, Kathryn (Pat) Maloney of Wichita, also a College freshman, and Jack Lasley, a V-12 sophomore in the School of Engineering. All three were taken to Watkins Memorial hospital. Dr. Ralph I. Canutelson, director, said today that both Miss Maloney, whose condition is fair, and Ritt, whose condition is good, suffered from cuts, bruises, and shock. Lt. Comdr. M. E. Grosz reported that Lasley's left leg was broken above the ankle. "He is getting along all right." Gross added. Group Was On Picnic
One of the cars backed out on the road and slipped in a ditch, R. W. Sanders, deputy sheriff, said. Two other cars backed out on the road and parked on the north side of the highway facing east. "They were on the wrong side of the road," Sanders expalined.
At the time of the accident, the students, who were Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Alpha Theta pledges, were returning to Lawrence from a picnic with the other members of their pledge classes from a picnic grounds west of the city.
Most of the students got out of their cars, left the lights on, and stood on the shoulder of the road between the two parked automobiles.
Frahm Says He Was Blinded
A car driven by Cecil Framh of Lawrence approached over the hill Sanders said. Frahm said he was blinded by the lights and swerved to the right in an effort to avoid hitting the cars and it was then he struck the group of students.
The men and women who witnessed the accident estimated that Frahm was driving more than 50 miles an hour when the accident occurred. The bystanders also said Frahm side-swipe both the cars and dragged two of the victims about 50 yards down the highway.
Driving Rain Causes Damage on Campus
A four-inch rain driven almost horizontally by a strong wind hit the campus at 3:25 yesterday afternoon and caused slight damage in cases where windows were open.
Many of the students jumped from the road when they saw the oncoming car and others avoided injury when persons standing next to them pushed them from the car's path.
The extent of the damage is not known. Among the buildings affected, was the journalism building where the f leaked, causing rain to drip in classrooms.
Yesterday's rainfall were continuation of intermittent rainfall since Sunday. Students' hopes were encouraged by the appearance of the sun yesterday morning, but these hopes were blanketed by a heavy formation of clouds that hung from the sky causing rain.
Pep Rally Tomorrow
A pep rally will be staged at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow in the Union Memorial building to give the football team a cheering send-off for its game with Tulsa Saturday night at Tulsa.
Last week students gathered in the Union and gave the players a send-off with their game with Colorado. Students also had a parade down the main street to the station where the football team was sent to Colorado with a rousing cheer from the students from the University.
The team will leave for the game with Tulsa at 6:50 tomorrow night on the Sante Fe.
The team will return at 9:00 Sunday morning.
V-12's Included In Drive Tonight
V-12's are asked to make their contributions to the War chest and the World Student Service fund at 7:30 p.m. today, Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, YWCA secretary, has announced. Although the drive for the rest of the University does not begin until Monday, solicitors will visit the various PT's tonight, she said, and give the Navy a chance to give the drive a successful send-off
Solicitors and the PT's they will visit are as follows: PT I, Betty JO'Neal, College junior, and Joan Bauer, College senior; PT II, Beverly Bohan, College senior, and Kathleen Hazen, Business senior; PT III, Mary G. Marsh, College sophomore, and Marvel Eno, Fine Arts sophomore; PT IV, Barbara Sherrard, College junior, and Patty Creel, College sophomore; PT V, Patricia Graham, College sophomore, and Joan Veatch, College junior; PT VI, Elizabeth Clawson, College junior, and Jeanne Shoemaker, College senior; PT VII, Mary Morrill, College junior, and Violet Conard, Education junior; PT VIII, Barbara Haffner, College sophomore, and Shelia Guise, Fine Arts junior.
Committees Named For Homecoming
Doris Bixby, chairman of the Homecoming committee of the All Student Council, has made the following appointments on the various committees to make plans for the homecoming:
Friday night rally committee — Pat Penney, chairman, Mary Olive Marshall, E. C. Quigley, Clarke Henry, Virginia Wickert, and Marge Free.
Queen committee — Lloyd Eisenhower, chairman, Pat Graham, Persis Snook, and Charles Moffett.
Publicity committee — Elizabeth Baker, chairman, Fred Ellsworth, and "Phog" Allen.
Dance Committee — Elinor Kline,
chairman, Eugenia Hepworth, Betty
Jo O'Neal, and Dean Henry Werner.
Half entertainment committee — Joan Burch, chairman, Russell Wiley, Beverly Bohan, and Joanna Wagstaff.
Army reserve and veterinary training programs on the campus of Colorado State College will be discontinued in December.
Blood Donation Campaign Ends 40 Short of Goal
Student response to the Red Cross blood donation campaign was good and the number of rejections low, according to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, chairman, as he saw the drive end with 464 pint donations, just 40 short of the goal.
As the result of the six visits to Lawrence, the blood bank obtained 2487 pints. Josephine Abbitt, veteran leader of the student group, received high commendation from Director Canuteson for her efforts. She passed the gallon honor through her nineth donation. Mildred Kirkham, of Lawrence, did likewise. Other gallon-donors are Leslie Waters and Harry Downs.
Dr. Canuteles addressed the students in a letter today, as follows:
Students who volunteered as donors for the Red Cross mobile unit of the Blood Donor Service have the personal satisfaction of knowing they have made a priceless contribution toward the welfare of boys in the Armed Services.
The University campaign, under the leadership of a veteran nine-time donor, Jo Lee Abbitt, was well conducted. Student response was good, and the rejections rate was low.
Sincerely.
On behalf of the Red Cross I want to thank these loyal students.
Ralph I. Canuteson.
Yank Forces Batter New Siegfried Break; British Open Drive
(International News Service)
American first army forces hammering at German positions on the western front drove a new assault through the Siegfried line at Palenberg. Allied forces, meanwhile, reported a one-mile gain by British troops which opened the new offensive against Arnhem in Holland.
The Yank drive before Cologne made slow progress against heavy Nazi opposition. A German salient in the Rurnouth area was eliminated.
Local engagements took place in the Metz area, but grim fighting was reported in the Parrroy forest in the foothills of the Western Vosges. Heavy Fighting in Italy
Patriot forces were reported to have assisted an Allied invasion of Greece by sea and air, in which invasion forces immediately seized Patras, Nazi stronghold in the Pelotonnesus area. British invasion troops landed on the Greek mainland Tuesday night meeting negligible resistance after paratroopers dropped from R.A.F. Dakota transports in broad daylight. Soviet's Speed Ahead.
Stubborn Nazi defense fighting was reported in Italy where the Germans claim repulse of strong American fifth army attacks in the Truscan Appenines.
Soviet forces on the southern flank of the eastern front raced through Yugoslavia with lightning speed, spearheading 25 miles across flat terrain in the last 24 hours to approach within 15 miles of the capital city of Belgrade.
Other Russian units joined forces (continued to page three)
University Plans Use of Buildings Left By Military
Closing of the Army Specialized Training Reserve program and the Electricians' Mates school at the University of Kansas will produce the problem of reconverting present military buildings back to civilian operation.
Last Graduation Of EM's Friday
The final graduation exercises for electrians' mates of Company 7 will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon in the Frank Strong auditorium.
From the 58 graduates, William Keetan Manning has been chosen honor man with a grade average of 95.
Lt. C. V. McGuigan has been the company officer for this group and J. C. McCoy the company petty officer. The platoon leader for Company 7 was John Hurwitz, and section leaders were O. F. Collum, E W. Heinz, Jr., and C. N. Nunn.
The graduates will leave Saturday morning for duty elsewhere
J. H. Malloy, chief electrician, will leave this week for further duty in the electrical training field at Gulfport, Miss. He has worked with the University in coordinating the program.
D. Alexander, chief machinist mate, who has been on duty here as instructor in Fowler shops, is leaving this week for duty at Great Lakes, III.
Discontinuance of the naval unit will leave the front part of Fowler shops and the west wing and entire top floor of Frank Strong hall available for civilian use.
Scrivner Will Open Conference Tomorrow
Rooms 204, 208, 210, 212, and 214, in the west end of Frank Strong will be used as classrooms for civilians Nov.1. This will
Congressman Scrivner is a member of the Congressional Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. He will open the conference at 10 tomorrow morning. The afternoon session will begin at 2 o'clock in the Kansan room with Dr. Leonard Axe presiding.
Everett P. Scrivner, congressman from the second district, will be one of the important figures in the meeting of the representatives of the Kansas colleges and the various schools, departments and veterans' organization in a meeting on the campus tomorrow for a conference on veterans' training.
Carl Kunsemuller and O. Myking Mehus, members of the veterans' bureaus of Wichita and Kansas City, will deliver addresses in the Frank Strong auditorium. They will lead in a discussion of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act and the GI Bill of Rights respectively. W. M. Pulford of Topeka will explain the program of the State Board for Vocational Rehabilitation during the afternoon.
Space Committee Appointed
be the first time they have been used for civilian classes since the spring of 1942.
Already the third floor auditorium of Frank Strong hall is in use. Extensive remodeling will be done to the first and third floors of the west wing before it will be ready for civilian use, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced. A committee in charge of the assignment of space includes Dean E. B. Stauffer of the Graduate School, Dean Paul B. Lawson, of the College, and Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor.
According to present plans, the department of design and occupational therapy, now located in the basement of Spooner-Thayer museum, will be moved back to the third floor of the west end of Frank Strong. All clay work including kilns, now in the basement of Haworth hall, will also be moved to this new location. The painting and drawing department will occupy the east end of the third floor of Frank Strong hall, the Chancellor said.
Lieutenant Buhl Stays Awhile
Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of the Naval Training School here, and members of his staff will remain at the University to handle the work of disposing of records and files. One of the chief jobs to be completed is the disposition of naval equipment. Lieutenant Buhl stated that such disposition will be directed by the Bureau of Naval Personnel. He assumed that some of the material will be sent to other naval stations if needed; otherwise it will go to a general distributing center.
The University has made a bid on instruments, machine tools, and lighting equipment, but no answer has been received, it was announced. Unit History Underway
The V-12 unit will use room 222 for supplies.
An album, depicting the history of the naval unit, is being compiled by Fred Montgomery, head of the Bureau of Visual Education, and head director of the Naval Training Program at the University. Two copies will be made; one will be placed (continued to page true)
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Cards Lead 2-0
St. Louis—The St. Louis Cardinals went ahead 1 to 0 in the second game of the 1944 World Series today when pitcher Max Lanier's bunt got away from Nelson Potter to allow the second baseman to advance to third from where he scored a minute later on an infield out in the last half of the third inning.
Browns: Potter and Hayworth
Cards: Lanier and W. Cooper.