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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1944
42ND YEAR
Union Arranges Travel Agency For Rides Home
NUMBER 4
A new travel agency to help students find rides home has been added to an expanded intramural program featuring ping-pong and bridge tournaments, and regular canteen parties and mid-week dances to form the program of the Union activities board for the coming year, Eugenia Hepworth, chairman of the board, has announced.
Students interested in helping with the 1944-45 Student Union plans may fill out application blanks at the activities office in the sub-basement of the Memorial Union building between 2:30 and 5:30 any afternoon this week. Miss Hepworth said. The board plans to announce names of new committee workers Monday.
Agency Obtains Rides
The new travel agency will contact both students who plan to drive their cars to various points and those who wish ride, Miss Hepworth explained.
Four Fill Union Offices
In addition to this feature of the board activities, a committee will have charge of regular Thursday night forums for various campus organizations, and a coffee party committee is being organized to sponsor informal afternoon parties for departments of the University. Any department interested in these coffee parties, Miss Hepworth urged, should contact the committee.
Other officers on the Union activity board this year are Jane Atwood, vice-president and social chairman; Betty Bixby, chairman of the forums committee; Barbara Prier, chairman of the intramurals committee; Elaine Wells, chairman of the coffee's committee; and Dixie Gilliland, publicity, chairman.
Offices of activity board secretary, chairman of the travel agency, and chairman of the business committee are yet to be filled, Miss Peworth said. Names of these officers will be announced Monday.
Chicago U Has New Entrance Exam
Chicago, (INS)—Another step in the University of Chicago's program to "abolish education book keeping" was taken today.
The University's three-day placement test, completed today by 800 entering student, for the first time in educational history abolished the traditional "credit system."
The test determines the student's qualifications for entrance and determines whether he will enter as a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior, President F. M. Hutchins announced.
Volker Did Not Present University with $1,000,000
University officials today denied that the University of Kansas had received $1,000,000 as a "Christmas present" from William Volker, wealthy Kansas Citian, as an article in the latest Newsweek stated. Mr. Volker assisted in the education of a German exchange student some time ago, but he did not give a $1,000,000 gift.
Twenty-one Kansas WACs are among the approximately 1800 members serving in the Mediterranean area.
Students Must Pay Fees Tomorrow or Be Penalized
"Students who have not yet paid their fees should do so by tomorrow if they wish to escape paying a penalty," Karl Klooz, bursar at the business office, warned today.
For three days beginning Friday a daily penalty of fifty cents will be added to fees. If they are not paid by Monday of next week, the fee card will be checked against the enrollment card, and enrollment of the student will be cancelled, Mr. Klooz stated.
ASC to Publish Sour Owl Again
An attempt to again publish the Sour Owl, humor magazine of the University is under consideration by the All-Student Council.
Hugh Shirk has been appointed advertising manager.
In ordinary times the publication comes under the direction of the Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity. Because of the loss of the fraternity members to the service, the magazine was not published the past two years.
"In the interest of the campus," the All Student Council is planning to begin publication of the magazine sometime in October.
The publication committee made it known to the council that it could not levy on the present "Our Own" reserve funds and that publication of the magazine by the student organization could extend only to such time as the original publishers return in sufficient numbers to carry on the work.
Envoys Appointed To Five Nations
Congressional leaders made plans to begin a seven-weeks pre-election recess tomorrow or Friday, reasonably confident that President Roosevelt will not veto the reconversion or surplus property proposal bills.
Washington, (INS) — Heralding further the speedy end of German domination of Europe, President Roosevelt today nominated American ambassadors to five nations. New envoys were nominated for Poland, Belgium, Holland, Yugoslavia, and Norway.
AI announcement was momentarily expected which would recognize the DeGaullist committee of liberation as the official government of France.
Conspicuously absent were the countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which is interpreted to mean they probably will lose their independent status as free countries and will be annexed to Russia.
Nineteen-year-old Lucile Land Lee's Summit, Mo., junior in the School of Education, reached the women's tennis throne when she defeated Mrs. Len Prosser 6-1, 0-6, 7-5. This was the first loss for Mrs. Prosser in four years in the Kansas City tournament singles competition.
Land Takes Women's Net Title
Miss Esther Twente of the department of sociology will leave today for Wichita to attend a meeting of the South Central Association. The topic of discussion will be the adoption laws of the state.
K.U. Receives Gift of $1,000 From McCollum
The University has received a one thousand dollar gift from Dr. Elmer V. McCollum, professor of biochemistry in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. The endowment was made to help a self-supporting boy or girl who is studying chemistry at the University.
The donor, one of America's outstanding authorities on food, remembered how tired and sleepy he was while a student working his way through college.
Dr. McCollum is the discoverer of vitamin A and has an imposing record of other accomplishments and honors in the field of food and nutrition. He took his bachelor of science degree in 1903 and his master of science degree in 1904 at the University. He worked in food research at the University of Wisconsin and later at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. McCollum recently was given the Borden award by the American Institute of Nutrition. This consisted of a gold medal and a check for one thousand dollars. It is this money which he is turning over to 'he University of Kansas.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott said, "The University is pleased to re-ceive the gift of a girl, and particularly to participate in the fine honor which has come to Dr. McCollum."
The gift will be held and administered by the K.U. Endowment Association and the department of chemistry.
Just how K Club members will force freshmen to wear their caps has not yet been decided; however it is generally agreed that the traditional paddle will be used.
The K Club, an organization founded in 1899 to promote athletics, school spirit, and traditions, is made up of University athletes who have earned varsity letters. Membership is expected to expand this year because of the addition of baseball and track teams.
Frosh Caps Return As Style
Red and blue freshman caps will again blossom out on the campus this fall after a year of absence, and members of the K Club will see that no cagey freshman evades the tradition of wearing caps on specified dates, said George Dick, K Club president. A shipment of the caps is expected sometime next week.
The K Club will meet Tuesday and plans will be made to restore pictures of various athletic captains of the past to the display in the K room in Robinson Gymnasium.
Language Classes Popular
Foreign languages are becoming an increasingly popular field of study at Texas University. A much larger number of students are registering for Spanish, French, German and Russian, and, despite war conditions, Portuguese, Czech, Greek and Latin classes have about the same number of enrollees as in 1943.
Daily Kansan Now Available In Three Campus Buildings
Civilian students may get their copies of the Daily Kansan hereafter at Frank Strong hall, the Memorial Union building, or the Daily Kansan business office. Group houses should have a representative call only at the Daily Kansan business office after 3:30 p.m.
Military trainees who have subscribed may get their copies at the same places by producing their activity coupons, or their joint Union-Kansas ticket.
Faculty members should call the Kansan immediately and arrange for delivery of their papers if they have not already subscribed.
Response to the annual tuberculosis survey now being conducted in Watkins Memorial hospital has fallen far below original expectations, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, hospital director, said today. Only one fourth the number expected have had examinations made.
Response Is Below First Expectations In T.B. Survey
"Response to the survey on the part of faculty members has been especially poor and has caused the survey to fall far below par." Dr. Canuteson charged only the
rays in the eradication of tuberculosis is not fully appreciated by many people."
Examine 40 Faculty Members
Examine 40 Faculty Members
By Tuesday night only 588 individuals had reported for x-rays. Of this number only 40 were faculty members.
Totals for other groups were:
New students—230.
Other students—151.
Employees—71.
Navy—77.
University High—19.
Tonight the survey comes to a close as far as women at the University are concerned. Tomorrow marks the last day in which men may have x-rays taken.
Moscow Reveals Terms Of Russo-Finnish Armistice
"The test is a required part of the physical examinations of students," Dr. Canuteson said. "For faculty and employees it offers an easy way to comply with the ruling of the Board of Regents for periodic examination."
Stockholm (INS)—Conditions of the armistice between Finland and Russia were released today.
Under the armistic Finland will retire to her 1940 border established after the last Russo-Finnish war, surrender the airtiport of Petsamo to Russia, and lease the Porkkla headlands to Russia.
Maj. D. Elmo Hardy, who received his doctor's degree from K.U. in 1940, has received the bronze star medal for "displaying unusual initiative and professional knowledge in connection with the use of DDT insecticide as a larvicide distributed by aircraft, accomplishing a very difficult, scientific task wilt distinction, thereby contributing to knowledge and success in the control of the mosquito in this theater." He is classified as a malariologist in the India-Burma sector of the China-Burma-India theater.
Allies Advance In Holland As Nazis Retreat
(International News Service)
German troops that five years ago dashed out of Germany on a parade of conquest and overran practically all of Europe and North Africa, started a hasty retreat back across the Rhine today on a 50-mile front extending from the Holland frontier to the Rhur valley in the south.
Allied forces in Holland plunged ahead in a drive designed to flank the northern anchor of the Siegfried line, speeding 37 miles into German defenses to reach past fallen Elndhoven to the region of the Rhine city of Ejmegen.
Yanks, Nazis Fight Bitterly
Bitter fighting between Yanks and stubbornly resisting Germans east and southeast of Nancy was reported after the American third army smashed back repeated Nazi counterattacks.
Japs Weaken at Pelaliu
A heavy artillery duel raged at the beleaguered city of Metz while Allied air might smashed at German installations in the city of Rheydt and München Gladbach near the German-Belgian and German-Dutch frontiers.
Fifth Army Ahead in Italy
In the Pacific most of the eastern coast of Pelaliu is now under control of the marine first division. Only two Jap pockets of resistance remain to be cleaned out on Angur island.
In Italy the American fifth army the vaunted Nazi defense position on a six mile front above Florence and drove to within three miles of the key road center of Firenzeola.
Tryouts to Decide Year's Productions
On the eastern front a twin Russian drive to crush Nazi armies in the Baltic state was said to be raging in its fifth day.
Tryouts, to be held next Friday afternoon in the Little Theater of Green hall, will determine the number of plays that will be produced this year, according to Allen Crafton of the department of speech and drama.
The Russian first Baltic army tore huge gaps in Nazi defense positions as they smashed to within nine miles of the Latvia capital of Riga. The third Baltic army stormed ahead in Estonia to Valga, key railroad junction for the northeastern sector of the Baltic state.
Professor Crafton is expecting several boys to appear for the tryouts this year so that the play casts will consist of both men and women. Last year because no boys took an interest in plays, a production "Nine Girls" $^{24}$ was produced with an all-girl class.
Next week Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech and drama, will call a meeting of all students interested in extra-curricular speech work, consisting of debate and other speech contests. Mr. Buehler pointed out that the November term will have a good many speech students.
New Drama Coach at OU