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Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
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Daily Kansan
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Weather Forecast Fair, continued warm tonight and tomorrow.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1944
41st YEAR
Phyllis Moser, College freshman from Sabetha, was operated on for an emergency case of appendicitis, at Watkins Memorial hospital Friday night.
NUMBER 177
Seven Concerts Are Scheduled For Summer
The schedule of musical events for the six-weeks summer session starting July 1 was announced today by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
The University summer session band will give the first of its two out-door concerts July 20, under the direction of Prof. Russel L. Wiley.
Hilda Ohlin, soprano with the Chicago Opera company, will appear July 24 in a concert in Fraser theater. Miss Ohlin has also appeared as soloist with the Apollo club and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at Vassar College, at the "Messiah" festival at Lindsborg, and at Green hall in New York.
Alexander Schnieder, violinist from the Budapest String Quartet, and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord artist, will present a recital July 13 in Fraser theater under the sponsorship of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, philanthropist of Washington, D. C. The harpsichord is the forerunner of the present day piano.
The faculty recital of the summer will be July 31 with members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts appearing in piano, voice, violin, two piano and ensemble numbers.
The University summer session band will present its second outdoor concert on Aug. 3.
The All Musical Vespers of the summer session will be presented Aug. 6 in Hoch auditorium. This program will feature the summer session chorus under the direction of Dean Swarthout and the summer session orchestra to be organized under Professor Wiley.
The final musical event of the summer will be a recital by advanced students of music studying during the summer session.
PhyMis Moser Has Appendectomy
Frazier to Direct Philbrook Art Center
All events will be open to holders of activity tickets. The general public will be admitted without charge to all events except the violin and harpsichord recital and the concert of July 24.
Bernard "Peco" Frazier, of the department of design, has been appointed director of the Philbrook Art Center at Tulsa, Okla., the board of the Southwestern Art association has announced.
Mr. Frazier is a sculptor of national recognition. An exhibition of his sculpture has been on display at Philbrook since the middle of M.
Mr. Frazier is a graduate of the University, receiving his bachelor of arts degree in 1929. As a student here he was a member of Sachem, Scarab, and Delta Phi Delta. He held conference championships and Big Six records in track. Mr. Frazier will assume his new duties sometime after July 1.
GI-Joes Will Get More Pay If Approved Bill Passes
Washington, (INS)—The house military affairs committee today approved two bills designed to increase the pay of infantry GI Joes and give glider-born treops 50 percent additional "hazard bonus."
Foot soldiers on combat duty will receive a maximum of $10 additional pay.
20 V-12 Student Officers Named
Twenty new V-12 student officers were appointed yesterday for the next semester, Lt. C. A. Michelman, assistant commanding officer, announced.
They are PT-1, John Wildgen, assistant regimental commander; David Whyte, apprentice petty officer; and William Rugles, master of arms: PT-2, Robert Turner apprentice petty officer; and Paul Finck, master of arms. Others are PT-3, George Verhage, battalion commander; Evin Blase, apprentice petty officer; and Walter Siegerist, master of arms: PT-4, Harold McSpadden, apprentice petty officer; and Rolland Hamilton, master of arms: PT-5, Eugene Stinson, apprentice petty officer; Maxcy Chase, master of arms: PT-6, Willard Frank, apprentice petty officer; and Robert Bayles, master of arms.
The list also includes: PT-7, John Stevenson, battallion commander; Richard Hoover, apprentice petty officer; and Howard Ryan, master of arms; PT-8, Clinton Sloan, regimental commander; Herbert Heim, apprentice petty officer; and Edison Shive, master of arms.
Americans, Japs Clash In Pacific Naval Battle
Kansans To Be Cited For Important Service
They will be sent to pre-medic training at Asbury Park, N.J., and United States Naval Hospital at Norman, Okla.; midshipman school at Columbia University, New York; Naval R.T.C. at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.; and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; physical education training at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.; engineering training at Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and Case School, Cleveland, Ohio; deck officer's school at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and supply training at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Sixty Will Transfer To Other V-12 Schools For Advanced Training
Fred M. Harris of Ottawa, lawyer, legislator, and state regent, is to be cited. Others chosen from their respective fields are Theodore C. Alfred, Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star; W. T. Grant, president of the Business Men's Assurance Company in Kansas City, Mo., and one of the Mid-West's most active leaders in civic, music, and art affairs; and Edward P. Lupfer, engineer of Buffalo, N. Y., builder of the Peace Bridge across the Niagara River and other outstanding projects.
Sixty V-12 trainees will be transferred to advanced training units at the end of the semester, according to Lt. C. A. Michelman, assistant commanding officer.
Former Professor a Comptroller
Harold F. Bergstresser, assistant professor of accounting in the School of Business from 1924 to 1926, is now comptroller of the Crocker-Burbank Co.
The sixth person honored this
Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes ranking American on the Allied Military Government staff for continental Europe and former chief of military government on General Eisenhower's staff in Africa, Sicily, and Italy, is one of those honored. Fred Hulme, Jr.
Fred Harris Among Those Cited
Six Kansas alumni at home and abroad who have reflected honor on the University have been selected to receive "Citations for Distinguished Service" from the Alumni Association of the University.
Awards to all who can be present will be made at the annual alumni meeting June 29. Immediately following the awards those cited will take part in a panel discussion on the University and Postwar Reconstruction. Walter G. Thiele, justice of the supreme court of Kansas, will be chairman of the discussion, Fred Elsworth, alumni secretary, announced.
Prof. William C. Hoad, also a graduate of the University and a former faculty member, plans to be present at the commencement exercises this year to receive his citation of which he was notified last year. Because he was then unable to attend, Professor Hoad will receive the award with this year's group. Designer of Potter Lake to Be Here
year with a citation for distinguished service is Miss Helen Streeter, supervisor of elementary education in the Kansas City, Kan., schools. Her inspiration to fellow teachers and to the pupils, with whom she has worked for twenty years has won her recognition.
The plan giving citations to alumni was started in 1941 at the time of the University's 75th anniversary celebration. Since that time the honor has gone to 36 alumni including the late William Allen White; the late Raymond Clapper; Dr. Edward Weidlein, director of Mellon Institute; Major Gen. Ennis Whitehead, second in command to General Kenney in the air forces of the Southwest Pacific; and to other men and women of national fame in their professions.
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Designer of Potter Lake to Be Here Professor Hoad, graduated in 1908, was on the engineering faculty from 1900 to 1912. He organized the sanitary engineering division of the state health department and was the designer of Potter lake. He is now a retired professor of engineering at the University of Michigan.
By International News Service
A blanket of secrecy possibly imposed because of the necessity of radio silence shrouded events in the far Pacific today where American and Japanese naval units were believed engaged in the long awaited showdown battle.
Little was known outside of the fact that Japanese units, perhaps the entire battle fleet of Nippon, were sighted east of the Philippines — presumably venturing forth to challenge the
Jayhawker Out On Saturday
The Jayhawker office will open to distribute the spring issue of the Jayhawker magazine at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, according to present plans, Mary Morrill, editor of the publication announced today
Capper Printing Company in Topeka called the Jayhawker office this morning saying that if everything goes as scheduled the magazines will be shipped from Topeka early Saturday morning. The truck should arrive in Lawrenee around 10:30.
To facilitate every student's obtaining the final issue of the magazine as well as the cover, the Jayhawker office will be open Saturday afternoon until 5:30 and all day Monday and Tuesday, Miss Morrill announced.
She urged students to make a special attempt to pick up their Jayhawkers before leaving school. The Jayhawker office will not be open during the summer session. Consequently it will be impossible to obtain issues by mail.
Install ASC President And Representatives
Installation of the newly elected president and representatives of the All Student Council was held last night at a picnic in Fowler Grove. Those who took the oath of office were:
Peris Snook, junior, president;
Marjorie Free, freshman; Elizabeth Baker, sophomore; Martha Ellen Woodward, junior; Virginia Wickert, freshman; Joan Burch, sophomore; Bewerly Waters, sophomore; Patricia Graham, freshman; Bud Eisenheower, freshman; Harold McSpadden, junior; Bob Turner, junior; Bill Kanaga, sophomore; Don Cousins, sophomore; Dewey Nemec, senior; Evelyn Mereer, sophomore; Beth Beamer, sophomore; and Clarke Henry, senior.
Blanks Rate Highest In Softball Standing
Intramural point standings for the softball season just ended, were released today. Points are awarded on a basis of games won and games played, with added credit for teams which win their way into the playoffs. The standings:
Blanks ... 153.4 Sigma Chi .107
Phi Gams ... 143.4 Battenfeld ... 96.3
Betas ... 112 Phi Delt ... 64.2
Delts ... 112 Phi Psi ... 53.5
American naval squadron off
American naval squadron on Saipan. A Japanese spokesman asserted that "Nipponese sea and air forces have successfully engaged" the American armada, but Admiral Chester W. Nimitz promised that the American fleet now operating in those waters has plenty of power to take care of anything the enemy can offer.
"We are prepared for it, looking for it and hoping for it." Nirmilzai said.
All students and faculty members are urged to check out their caps and gowns between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Saturday in room 282 Robinson gymnasium, Dick Dunham, chairman of the cap and gown committee, announced today.
Nimitz Says Americans Ready
for it and hoping for it." Namitz said. From supreme Allied headquarters of the AEF force in Europe continued news of good progress on the part of American troops closing their are about the vital French port of Cherbourg.
Caps and Gowns Available Saturday
Warning that the "hard core of the defensive has not yet been reached," a headquarters spokesman declared that at present there is little hard fighting, with the Germans continuing to withdraw into the fortress city.
Two towns comprising a portion of the outer ring of defenses were occupied by the Allies. Other troops meanwhile, were engaged in heavy fighting in the area of Tilly-sur-Seulle in the center of the beachhead line.
American bombers, more than 1,000 strong, hammered Berlin in the heaviest daylight bombardment of the war. Other planes continued to hammer at Nazi robot planes emplacements and unofficial reports declared that two of those launching sites have been captured.
Bembers Hammer Berlin
If a student or faculty member finds it impossible to check out his cap and gown Saturday, he may check them out from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. Those who can't obtain caps and gowns on the previous dates, must get them between 4 and 5 Wednesday afternoon.
All caps and gowns should be checked in immediately following the commencement exercises Thursday night. However, room 202 will be open at 8:30 Friday morning and caps and gowns may be checked in then, Mr. Dunham said.
Mattie Crumrine to Attend Yale
Miss Mattie Crumrine, French instructor in the department of Romance languages and literatures, will leave next week for New Haven, Conn., where she will attend Yalq University.