1944
Publication Days Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Clear to partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Saturday except for possible afternoon thundershowers. Continued warm and humid
NUMBER 174
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 16. 1944
41st YEAR
8-Weeks Term Registration To Be Tomorrow
Registration for the eight-weeks summer session begins tomorrow, J. W. Twente, dean of the school of education, announced today. Approximately 75 teachers are expected to register as students for this special teachers session, which will end Aug. 12.
The state will issue emergency certificates for teaching in elementary schools to anyone who is a high school graduate and has attended this eight week session. Students who took the eight-week session last year may return again this year and receive another emergency certificate for the following year.
"The enrollment is expected to be a little short of last year," Dean Twente announced," as the increasing demand to relieve the manpower shortage becomes more acute."
Registration will be in the office of the registrar, and enrollment in classes in Dean Twente's office, 103 Fraser hall. All students entering the University for the first time will be required to take the psychological and aptitude examinations to be given July 1 in Hoch auditorium.
A two-weeks summer presession,
Guidance Institute and Workshop,
will be give from June 17 to June
80. By applying to the College Administrative committee of the faculty these special students can receive credit to earn a degree at a later date.
"Alexander Nevsky," a film masterpiece by the great Russian director, Sergei Eisenstein, was shown last night in Fraser theater as the final presentation of the Student Forums Beard for this year.
Forums Board Gives Last Show in Series
V-12 Band to Make First Appearance At 'Happy Hour'
The newly organized V-12 band will make its first public appearance tonight at the Memorial stadium before 1,000 trainees and their guests between halves of the navy athletic "Happy Hour." Don Cousins, PT-3, is director of the band.
Contest events of the evening include medicine ball, relays, 3-legged relays, volleyball games, bicycle relays, hog-calling, wheel barrow race, "hot pants" game, broad jump, piggy-back relay, speed ball game, tug-of-war, aud boxing. A special feature of the evening will be a tandem bicycle race.
A trio of University women, Joyce Hartwell, Dorothy Safford, and Mary Ann Gray, will sing "T'll Get By," "I Love You," and will accompany a vocalist of the band, Willard Osborne, to "A Poem Set to Music." Jack Howell, V-12 vocalist, will sing "I'll Be Seeing You." All numbers will be accompanied by the band. The band will be featured in "John Silver," "Begin the Beguine" and "Swanee River."
"The first contest, a medicine ball relay, will begin at 7:30. All spectators are requested to occupy section H to M on the west side of the stadium." said Lt. J. T. Zellor.
Chief Starkey and Lt. C. V. McGuigan, welfare officer, will announce the events over a public address system.
Scholarships Given To Latin Americans
Two Latin American scholarship students have been assigned to the University for next year by the Institute of International Education, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
Receiving the scholarship offered by the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, Pina Diaz Gomez of Bogota, Colombia, S. A., will take undergraduate work to prepare for a journalistic career. She will live in Corin hall.
Father Hates His Day Until Presents Arrive
(By a Journalism Student)
My father says he hates Father's Day. He says so quite loudly every morning beginning on June 1 of each year.
He seems to feel that his reputation as a shrewd, calculating business man hinges on the fact that he recognizes Father's Day as a commercial fraud. If he ran a men ready-to-wear, or a tobacco store, or a sporting goods establishment,
When the third Sunday of the month rolls around, he is more profuse than ever in his abuse. But when he opens his packages, he smiles, and when he rubs his hand over his bald head and pulls a tuft of hair at the back, we know he's pleased.
it might be different. But my father is a banker.
The two of us here at school haven't quite decided what specific form our "step to insolvency" will take this year. Last year even though the big boss rubbed his head appreciatively ever our striped ties,
Mother gave him socks, but because they were not real silk, he took them back. (No one, I am sure, wears black silk socks anymore but my father. He, however, refuses to give them up just as he refuses to shift to low shoes in the summer and to stop drinking hot mineral water in the mornings.)
he took them all downtown the next day and exchanged them for polka-dots.
We have thought about calling him from Lawrence, but he can't hear very well over the phone. In fact, calls to Father always end up with both of us talking to Mother about the laundry, the length of dresses, and other things which infuriate him.
So it's somewhat of a problem, but we'll think of something and send it off this evening. And when Father opens it Sunday morning, although we aren't going to be there we can see him clearly—first fuming, then smiling and rubbing his hand over his smooth head to pull that tuff of hair in back.
Youth Drowns In Jayhawk Pool Despite First Aid
A 15-year-old boy, James Yohder, drowned last night at the Jayhawk swimming pool despite the first aid efforts of men from the Lawrence fire department and Doradeen Perry, College junior, who gave him artificial respiration for an hour and a half.
The boy was swimming with several companions about 9:30 last night when, for some unknown reason, he suddenly went under and failed to reappear on the surface. It was sometime before his friends noticed his absence and called the life guard. Tom Dewitt, who dived in and after several minutes search, found the body.
As the boy appeared almost beyond help, Mr. DeWitt notified the fire department who immediately brought the machine resuscitator. While firemen were adjusting the machine Miss Perry, administered artificial respiration, continuing to do so at intervals for an hour and a half. The attempt to save the boy's life was given up shortly before 11 p.m., and the Funk Mortuary took charge of the body.
Miss Perry of Coffeyville, holds a Red Cross life saving certificate and has acted as life guard at various times at her hometown swimming pool. She is president of the Sigma Kappa sorority, band librarian, and a member of both Pi Lambda Theta and W.A.A.
"Miss Perry did a splendid job, keeping calm and cool and taking charge of the situation while our workers were busy," stated Paul Ongels, fire chief. "Her service was highly commendable and deeply appreciated."
EM's Are Graduated; Were Given Banquet
Graduation exercises for platoon one of company three from the University Naval Training School are being held at 3:30 this afternoon in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. The 58 men in the platoon have completed a 16-weeks training course in electrical training. Platoon two will be graduated Friday, June 30.
The diplomas will be presented to the trainees by Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer. Addresses will be made by Lieutenant Buhl, Lt. T. R. O'Hara, executive officer, chief warrant officer John Malloy, Lt. Paul Ashby, company commander, and Lt. Orville Hood, education and school officer.
The honor man of the group, Seaman C. F. Maltby, of San Francisco, Calif., will receive a rating of electrician's mate third class. The trainee commander is M. L. Beggs, Concord, N.H.
Company's 1 has Highest record The last farewell banquet of the summer was held last night for platons one and two of Company three at the Lawrence Community Center.
Company 3 Has Highest Record
"Company three has made the highest scholastic rating of any of the EM groups," said Lt. Paul Ashby in a farewell address. "For the past 16 weeks, you have exhibited a fine cooperative spirit in your training
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Japan's Steel Center Was Target Of B-29's, Two of Which Were Lost Nazis Mass 300,000 in Caen Area
Nazis Bomb British With Secret Weapon
Henry Miller, now in service, was named honor man in forensics at a dinner of the department of speech and drama. Wednesday evening at the Heart.
In retaliation for continued setbacks and in an attempt to buck up morale, the Nazis hurled pilotless planes, their long boasted secret weapon, against southern England today.
Miller Awarded Forensics Honor
The planes, really wing-equipped bombs, whipped over the coast under radio control and hurled explosives about the country indiscriminately. The British public remaining calm, promised that counter measures would be taken.
Early indications were that the pilotsless missiles could not be directed against the specific objectives but aimed merely against a general area.
Before students, faculty and guests of the department awards were given to Roberta Sue McCluggage and Ted Lehman for excellence in acting and to Alice McDonnell and Shirley Wagner for honorable mention. The award for the student who has been of the most service in the production of public plays was presented to Patricia Ann Creel.
was presented to Harlan Creech Prof. Robert Calderwood presided over a short program following the dinner. Prof. E. C. Buehler announced the names and presented certificates of membership to the new members of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary forensics society. Leea Mattsa, president of the chapter for the coming year, received a certificate of membership as did Mrs. Lois Blackburn Wilson, Jack Button, John Adams, and Robert Gibbon.
Professor Buchler called special attention to the work of Richard Stutz, Patricia Creel, Leeta Marks, and Jay Gunnels for their victory speeches.
French Book Prize Will Be Presented
The annual French book prize will be presented next Tuesday morning at 10:30 in room 119, Frank Strong. The recipient of the award, which has been established for underclassmen, is determined by a vote of the French faculty. According to W. H. Shoemaker, professor of romance languages, one of the prerequisites of the award is excellence in scholarship.
The book prize was established four years ago as an award of the French government through its diplomatic representative in Chicago and is made through the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
(International News Service)
With Allied troops carving out fresh advances in their drive into French Normandy attention turned today to the Pacific theater where the Japanese were struggling to regain their equilibrium under four hard American blows in the last 24 hours. The war department in Washington identified the target of yesterday's history making B-29 attack as the Nipponese steel manufacturing center, Yawata, 550 miles southwest of Tokyo.
Great damage was inflicted on the vital production center despite anti-aircraft opposition, and not a single raider felt to Japanese guns. Two planes were lost through accidents, but the crew of one was saved.
Taking off from a newly built base in China the big planes started huge fires and explosions among vital industrial targets. The Tokyo radio claimed that in addition to Yawata the planes hit the cities of Moji and Kokura and damaged the Oriio-Hakata railroad.
Tokyo also reported an attack by an American task force on the Bonin islands 550 miles south of Tokyo, asserting that the outpost of Chichijima and Iwojina were the main targets.
The third assault was an air attack on the Korean peninsula adjacent to the home islands.
In France, American troops driving to sever the last communication lines to Cherbourg reached a point only $2_{1/2}$ miles from St. Sauveur, which controls that artery. British forces pressed two miles below caumont to stand 25 miles inland from the channel.
K. U. delegates to the annual conference of the Student Christian Movement will leave immediately after finals for Estes Park, Colo. The conference will be in session from June 22 to July 1. Dr. Harold Case, minister of the Oak Park church of Scranton, Pa., who was formerly of Topeka, will be the main speaker.
Students to Attend Colorado Conference
Russian progress across the Karelian Isthmus and Allied advances above Rome in Italy continued unabated.
College students who plan to attend are Lonnie Kelley, junior; Barbara Burton, freshman; Jeanne Shdemaker, junior; Lucille Paslay, sophomore; Marjorie Wright, sophomore; Betty Jane Monte, sophomore; Geraldine Catlett, freshman; Luther Buchele, senior; Neal Wood. ruff, sophomore; Thornton McClanahan, senior; Jack Button, sophomore; Wendell Niokell, sophomore; David Battenfeld, freshman; and Bob Stewart, freshman, according to Mrs. Calvin VanderWerf, executive secretary. Dr. and Mrs. VanderWerf are also going.
Robertson to Leave Alumni Office Mrs. Ellis Kahn, a graduate of the School of Business in 1941, is replacing Jean Robertson as assistant secretary of the Alumni Association.