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NUMBER 171
1st YEAR
Staff Sgt. Vernon H. Kaufman Robert Kaufman, father, Route 2. Haddam.
Helmke Writes Best 1944 Essay In Lewis Contest
Tech. Sgt. Merle E. Ingmire, Mrs Zona V. Ingmire, mother, Route 4, Coffeville.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944
4 Prize winning essays in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Applied Christianity essay contest for 1944 are "Can Christian Ethics Solve the Filipino Problem?" by Florence Helmke, College senior of Iuka, second prize; and "God's Children," a study of juvenile delinquency by Jeanne McGrew, College freshman of Lawrence, third prize, Prof. Lulu Gardner, chairman of the committee on awards, made the announcement today. No first prize was awarded this year.
Staff Sgt. Harold R. Lusk, James C. Lusk, father, Route 5, Osage City.
The School of Fine Arts today announced the schedule of the remaining concerts on the University calendar for this term.
The committee serving as judges in the contest included Professor Gardner, chairman; Prof. Sara Laird of the English department; Mattie Crumrine, instructor in the romance language department; and Prof. Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the journalism department.
Awards in the contest were $100 for first prize, $75 for second prize, and $50 for third prize. Contestants wrote on current problems in their relationship to the applied teachings of Jesus.
Schedule Announced For Fine Arts Events
Margaret Dunn, pianist, student of Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, will be presented in her graduate recital for the master of music degree at 8 p.m. June 24, in Fraser theater.
On Monday evening, June 19,
seventeen students will be presented
in the second advanced student re-
sital in Fraser theater.
Candidates for the master of music and bachelor of music degrees and selected voice students will present the annual commencement reaital at 8 p.m. on June 28, in Hoch auditorium as one of the events of the Commencement program.
Tech Sgt. Charles N. Chase, Mrs Emogene Chase, wife, Box 66, Selan.
Sgt, Norman J. Huschka, John J.
Huschka, father, Route 1, Ellinwood.
Washington, (INS)—The War Department made public today the names of 597 United States soldiers missing in action in the Asiatic, European, Mediterranean, and the Northwest Pacific areas.
War Casualties
Staff Stg. Chester C. Fikes, Miss
Mamie Fikes, aunt. Arma.
The names included the following from Kansas:
Ist Lt. Dean H. Hart, Roy D. Hart, father, 208 7th street, Garden City.
European area:
Graduates Take Part In Invasion
Two University graduates, Lt. John Fletcher and Lt. (jg) William Belt already know more of the preparations and dangers involving an invasion than many members of the armed forces can be told until the armistice is signed and Allied strategy becomes common knowledge.
Lt. Fletcher, a member of Beta Theta Pi and a graduate from the School of business in 1942, was a member of Admiral Don Moon's naval staff in the invasion. As communications officer, he was present at all early conferences which prepared for the assault.
Lt. Belt, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a graduate in 1939, is serving aboard the USS Tuscaloosa which has figured prominently in the invasion and has repeatedly been reported sunk during the past week over the German radio. The Tuscaloosa, which once guided Canadian destroyers against German raiders is one of the ships most feared and hated by Germany. During the invasion, the Tuscaloosa's crew rescued many airmen and marines, and has continued to make their cruiser detested by enemy forces in the European waters.
Faculty Will Discuss Teaching, Advising In the College
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will have a meeting at 4:30 Friday afternoon, Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, announced, to continue the discussion on the improvement of teaching and to receive a report and discuss improvement in advising.
In addition to these two special orders of business action on a number of courses will be taken. Mimeograph copies of both reports and an announcement of the meeting have been sent to all members of the faculty.
Continuing last month's discussion on improvement of teaching, the committee, which was appointed last fall, headed by Beulah Morrison, psychology professor, faculty members will also hear and discuss the report on improvement of advising prepared by a committee of which Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, is chairman.
United States Leads In Peace Planning Connally Reveals
Conally, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and also head of a bi-partisan group of senators named to confer with Cordell Hull, secretary of state, on postwar policy, said the United States already has taken the lead among United Nations in the peace planning field.
"I think I'm authorized to say that the United States already has submitted a general outline and framework of a peace organization among some of the United Nations," Conally said.
Washington, (INS)—Senator Tom Connally, Texas, announced in the senate today that the United States already has submitted to some of the Allied natonis a general outline for a postwar peace organization.
The announcement came during the first major clash in the senate over foreign policies since Pearl Harbor.
The first of two advanced student recitals was presented by fifteen students in the School of Fine Arts last night in Fraser theater. Because of illness, Jane Gary was unable to give her vocal solo as previously announced.
Students Play Advanced Solos
Revealing good training and concert ability, the students of piano, voice, violin, and cello were warmly applauded by the audience.
Those participating in last night's program were Marian Miller, Dorothy Shoup, Yolande Meek, Katharine Kufahl, August Vogt, and Allen Rogers, piano students; Margaret Emick, Evelyn Walton, Carolyn Southall, Norma Antone, Elaine Talley, and Arleen Nickels voice students; Peggy Kay, and Nance Freeto, violin students; and Martha Lee Baxton, cello student.
The second and final advanced student recital for this term will be given at 7.30. Monday evening in Fraser theatre.
Melvin Impressed by Normandy In His Peacetime Visits
Rommel Reported Dismissed
In 1911, Professor Melvin went abroad to do some research work spending the greater part of his time in France around Rowen and in the parts of Normandy where the fighting is taking place. He landed at La Havre which is one corner of the
The countryside in Normandy with the winding valleys and beautiful apple orchards and cattle meadows is one of the most impressive sights in the world, related Dr. F. E. Melvin, professor in the history department.
London, (INS—A report that Nazi field marshal Irwin Rommel has been dismissed as field chief of German anti-invasion defenses was published by the London Evening Standard today.
invasion coast and had the chance to observe the port facilities.
The Seine river empties into the ocean there forming what is sometimes referred to as the Seine bay. The water is very deep and aids in making it a good port. From La Havre on up to Dunkirk there are great high cliffs with only a very narrow beach which would be an obstacle to any troops trying to land there. From La Havre to Hanfeur and on to Insigny in the other direc-
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Allies Try to Outflank Caen in France As Germans Increase Resistance; Rapid Advance in Italy Continues
Allied troops smashing forward in a vast arc to outflank the strategic French city of Caen from the south captured the pivot point of Troarn in action today, which a headquarters spokesman labeled an "outstanding success."
Jayhawk's Existence Attacked
On a western sector of Cherbourg peninsula American doughboys seized the village of Montebourg, while unofficial dispatches reported that advanced patrols now are within 11
Open season was declared on the Kansas Jayhawk several weeks ago when it was attacked on the theory that school textbooks state that not only is it a real bird, but that it is a native of this locality. The group of educators attacking the bird appointed a committee to investigate, but the last report was that the little bird will still perch in the textbooks of school children.
John J. Ingals wrote that the Jayhawk was a mule among birds, the illicit offspring of a jay and a hawk.
The invention of the Jayhawk is often attributed to Pat Devlin who said he was a Jayhawk and that that was any bird who made his living off another bird. When making this statement he had just returned home from a plundering trip across the border in 1856.
"The Mythical Jayhawk," by Kirke Mechem, recently was issued from the plant of the state printer at Topeka, suggesting possible origins of the bird which it terms entirely mythical.
"It was an early bird and it caught many a Missouri worm. It did not allow salt to be put on its tail," he added in referring to the Jayhawk, a term which the Missouri pro-slavery groups attached to the Kansas anti-slavery groups.
Suggestion from geologists are that the imprints of the bird in cretaceous chalk such as referred to in the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" yell, give evidence of the existence of the famous bird. One of these imprints is in Dyche museum Pig- (positioned on a very fine
Veterans Benefit Bill Sent to President
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Washington (INS)—Congress gave its final approval to the "GI Bill of Rights" and sent the broad veteran's benefit legislation to the White House. President Roosevelt is expected to sign the measure before the end of the week.
The conference report on the American Legion sponsored measure guaranteeing World War II veterans 52 weeks of unemployment compensation, college training, loan and hospitalization was adopted by the house without debate.
The senate yesterday similarly approved the senate-house conference agreement without a dissenting vote
Cost of the legislation is estimated upward of $6,500,000,000.
The Germans sought to stem the continued Allied advance by flooding the countryside from Troarn all the way to the sea. Headquarters spokesmen however said the general situation is "very gratifying."
miles of the port of Cherbourg itself.
One detachment took the city of Villeroy near the road joining Bayeux with St. Lo, while another occupied village of Lehan. Still other Allied detachments have fought their way to the road junction of Pont L'Abbe.
Today's advances carried the Allies to points outside the range of supporting warship fire. Enemy prisoners now total more than 10-000 and already five Allied airstrips are in operation on the beachheads now 80 miles wide.
By daylight today the Allies again sent out swarms of aircraft from the Mediterranean. These blows followed gigantic RAF night operations in which more than 1000 planes took part. A synthetic oil center and Cologne were hit.
Munich, Austria, and oil installations near Venice were pounded by the Mediterranean bombers. Allies Continue Advance in Italy
The ground fighting in Italy saw both the Fifth and Eighth armies continue to advance northward in the area above Rome.
On the Russian front the Red army took more than 30 Finnish strong points in its continuing drive across the Karelin Isthmus. Stockholm sources reported the Finns are evacuating the civilian population of Karelian vipuri.
Eisenhower, Churchill Visit Battle Front
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
(INS)—General Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday visited the beachhead of his Allied forces in France. He talked with officers and enlisted men and visited the shattered town of Isligny which had been taken by Americans Saturday.
It was also revealed that Prime Minister Churchill also visited one section of the Normandy area.
General Eisenhower was accompanied by General George C. Marshall, chief of staff; General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the air force, and Admiral Ernest J. King. They spent five hours on their tour and then returned in a destroyer to England.
Graduate Is Network Organist
Arlo Hults, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts, is now staff organist for the Blue Network with which WREN is affiliated. We is the son of Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Hults of Lawrence.