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Weather Forecast Mostly cloudy with occasional rains and thunderstorms tonight. Little change in temperature. Possibly cloudy and warmer Thursday and Friday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1944
42ND YEAR
Here until October 20, Dr. Lemus will make several other appearances before classes at the University and at places in the vicinity.
NUMBER 14
Army to Discontinue Its Program; Electricians' Mates Leave Saturday
Dr. Lemus's visit to the United tates is sponsored by the Division of Inter-American Educational Relations of the U.S. office of Education. He has been in the United States for seven months visiting and lecturing to the students of various schools throughout the country.
ASC to Plan Homecoming Events With Bixby Committee Chairman; Schedule Freshman Election Nov.16
The All Student Council will be in charge of arrangements for the homecoming weekend, Oct. 20 and 21, Persis Snook, president of the Council, announced today.
At a meeting of the Council yesterday, Miss Snook appointed the following council members to the homecoming committee: Doris Bixby, chairman, Lloyd Eisenhower, Virginia Wickert, Joan Burch, Harold McSpadden, Patricia Graham, and Elizabeth Baker.
Students and faculty members representing campus organizations will meet with the committee soon to coordinate plans for the weekend functions.
Doris Bixby, committee chairman, stated. These are Mary Olive Marshall, Jay Janes; Clarke Henry, KuKu Club; Jim Conard, head cheerleader; F. C. Allen, department of physical education; Ernest C. Quigley, Athletic Association; Russell Wiley, University of Kansas Band; Fred Ellsworth, Alumni Association; and George Hedrick, secretary of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Elizabeth Baker will be in charge of publicity.
Summer session council members will be recognized at the ASC Banquet Oct. 10. Those eligible to receive council keys include Doris Bixby, Don Cousins, Jeanne Hollis, Jeanne Harris, Harold Shrock, Marion spearman, Kenneth Reasons, Dewey Necem, Harold McSpadden
At yesterday's meeting, the All Student Council voted to hold the freshman election Nov.16.
Miss Snook appointed the following to the ASC Cabinet: Marjorie Free, Doris Bixby, Donald Cousins, Clark C. Henry, Joan Bureh, Martha Ellen Woodward, and Jack Button.
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Government Classes To Hear Dr. Lemus Compare Nations
Dr. Isidro Lemus Dimas, professor of law at the University of Guatemala who is now visiting at the University, will speak before American government classes on "Comparison of the Governments of the United States and Guatemala" at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Dr. Lemus has set up headquarters in the department of romance languages in Frank Strong hall. He asked someone to come and talk with him who is interested in Latin-American affairs. His special fields are Central American law and anthropology.
Veterans' Bills To Be Discussed
The morning session will start at 10 o'clock and the afternoon session, at 2 o'clock, will be devoted to specific questions about the bills and the problems of handling this training.
Representatives of Kansas colleges and of the various schools, departments and veterans organizations will assemble on the campus tomorrow for a one-day conference on veterans' training.
Carl Kunsmuller and O. Myking Mehus, representatives of the veterans' bureaus at Wichita and Kansas City, Mo., will deliver addresses in the assembly room of Frank Strong hall. They will explain public laws 16 and 346, the G.J. Bill of Rights) which provide for veterans' training.
Mr. Mahus will discuss the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation act as well as the G. I. Bill of Rights.
Attendance at the conference mainly is through invitation, but Dr. Leonard Axe, director of veterans training service at the University, said that anyone directly interested in veteran training and welfare may attend.
Alfred E. Smith Dies After Long Illness
Browns Lead, 2-0
St. Louis—George McQuinn, veteran St. Louis Brown's first baseman, poled a long home run with Gene Moore on base in the first half of the fourth inning to send the Brownies ahead of the Cardinals 2-0 in the first game of the World Series here today.
New York (INS)—Former governor Alfred E. Smith died at 5:28 a.m. today after an illness of several months. The aged Democratic political leader, who rose from New York's eastside tenement district to become a U. S presidential candidate and four-time governor of his state, was 70 years old.
Batteries:
Cardinals: M. Cooper and W. Cooper
Browns: Galehouse and Hayworth.
Chancellor Praises Electricians
With the completion of the training of the final unit of the Electricians Mates School, the University closes one of its many significant war programs.
Deane W. Malott.
"This particular Navy school was the first of our war schools, beginning its training more than 27 months ago. Its inauguration required the evacuation of many thousands of square feet of civilian plant facilities, the retraining and recruiting of a new faculty, new responsibilities for messing and housing, the installation of many thousands of dollars of new equipment, and a constant series of negotiations with the United States navy as we worked toward a common objective.
"The success of the program had depended upon the loyal cooperation and hard work of many members of the University faculty and staff, and upon the realistic, generous, and understanding cooperation of the officers of the navy responsible for the operation of the program on the campus.
"The stories are now coming back of the exploits of our trainees on the seven seas. To them go the congratulations of the University. To the officer personnel who have been in charge of our school, our sincere friendship and good wishes for the future."
Navy V-12 To Be Cut; Pre-medics To Leave
Yank forward elements on the main road to Bologna advanced two miles nearer the cathedral city, seizing the towns of San Benedetto and San
In Italy, American fifth army forces hammered out new gains along a wide front near the center of the Gothic line, surging forward through heavy mud and beating back desperate German counter-action.
Heavily censored battle front dispatches and the "blackout" decree by General Dwight D. Eisenhower indicated that the advances continued slow and difficult, due to unfavorable weather which would nullify Allied advantages of mobility.
The closing of two more training programs of the armed forces at the University, was announced today from the office of Deane W. Malott, chancellor.
Yanks 33 Miles From Cologne Seize Ruhr Valley Strongpoint
"The Navy is now concluding a very pleasant and successful two and one fourth years' cruise at the University. It has been a splendid example of teamwork. The University faculty and staff have been magnificent in their prompt adjustments to the needs of the Navy and their cooperation has been unfailing. I would also like at this time to thank the people of Lawrence for their hospitality and spirit of generosity which has always been shown to all naval personnel under this command. A Navy 'Well Done' to all who have contributed to the success of this important training program."
(International News Service)
Dispatches Censored
Southward the American 3rd army seized Fort Driant, five miles southwest of Metz, one of the key defense points in the Metz area. Capture of the fort put U.S. forces in position to strike telling blows against the powerful military and industrial centers of the Ruhr valley.
American first army assault columns which smashed through the Siegfried line north of Aachen, battled forward today into German defenses and pressed eastward to positions within 33 miles of the Rhineland in Cologne.
Fifty-eight men in the last class of Electricians' Mates will be graduated and moved out Saturday, Oct. 7.
Lieutenant A. H. Buhl, Captain of the ship, issued the following statement today:
K. U. Cruise Good---Buhl
Notice came yesterday from the 7th Service Command headquarters of the army that the Army Specialized Training Reserve program will be discontinued November 1. Lindley hall, new University building for mineral resources will be turned
Andrea 14 miles from the city. Other American units occupied the vital heights at Mt. Battagelia and hurled back what appeared to be the last in the series of desperate Nazi counter assaults attempting to regain possession of the strategic position.
River Floods British*
In the eastern fighting Russian forces slashed 48 miles beyond previously reported positions to take the Yugoslav rail center of Petrodrug within 38 miles of Belgrade, and severed one rail escape route for Nazi fighting near Yugoslav capital.
On the Adriatic flank of the line, heavy rains which flooded the Fluminico river limited British eighth army units to patrol activity.
Soviet forces stand within 27 miles of the Belgrade-Munich and Belgrade-Budapest railroads, seizure of which would sever Nazi forces in Yugoslavia and Hungary.
In the Pacific Liberator bombers struck a telling blow at the Jap 3-million-dollar oil depot at Balik Papan, in Borneo, as other U.S. planes hammered Jap shipping, airports, and ground installations throughout the Celebes, Moluccas and Solomons, and the Philippines.
back to the University for laboratory and class room use
Nearly 400 men in uniform will be left on the campus, however. The Navy V-12 will remain, although their number will be reduced by 30 per cent Nov. 1. Army and Navy medics also will stay, but the premedical training for the military groups will be closed by Nov. 1.
Liquidation of the Electricians' Mates School brings to a close a Navy Training program which started at KU. July 1, 1942 as the U.S. Naval Training School (Machinists' Mates). This university was one of the three Machinists Mates Training schools established by the navy.
Installation here was made in Frank Strong hall where the entire west wing and the top floor were used as living quarters and offices. Mess was served in the Memorial Union building. The ballroom on the second floor was converted into a mess hall. At one time some 3500 meals were served daily to the combined forces of the Electricians' Mates and the V-12 students. 800 Machinists' Mates Train
Washington—INS—A foreboding of things to come in the Pacific war loomed today as President Roosevelt summoned the military and naval high command for a conference at the White House.
Machinists' Mates Train
Peak enrollment of the Machinists'
Mates was 800 trainees. They came
monthly in classes of 125 to 200, each
class remaining 16 weeks. The Elec-
tric training is five years (four).
Navy, Army Officers Meet at White House
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The White House Strategy meeting followed on the heels of a conference on the west coast among the navy's high-ranking admirals and both sessions indicate that momentous events are shaping up in the war to crush Japan. Similar meetings have proceeded daring thrusts in the Pacific.
Will S. Clayton, of Texas, today resigned as surplus war property administrator.
Clayton, in so doing, kept a pledge he made several weeks ago through criticizing the war surplus property bill enacted by congress and signed yesterday under protest by President Roosevelt.
Clayton said the job he was doing could not be conducted on a business basis under terms of the legislation.