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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944
41st YEAR
NUMBER 168
Turkington Wins Speech Contest; Creel Is Second
Mary Ellen Turkington, College freshman from McCune, won the $10 first place award for her seven-minute speech on "Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins" in the finals of the "Know Your University" speech contest held last night in the Little Theater of Green hall.
The second prize of $5 was awarded to Patricia Creel, College freshman from Lawrence, who spoke on "The Bureau of Correspondence Study." Julia Ann Casad, College sophomore from Wichita, received honorable mention for her explanation of "The YWCA."
The "Know Your University" speech contest will not, however, permanently replace the "Campus Problem Contest." Speakers in the "Campus Problem Contest" present a University problem upon which they advocate action be taken. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate interest while that of the "Know Your University" contest is to inform.
Approximately 100 students and faculty members heard the nine finalists deliver their informative speeches.
Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech, said she considered the entire contest "very successful" and that the faculty of the department of speech and drama split the same type of contest might be tried again next year.
Miss Anderson said sponsors of the contest this year were particularly pleased with the audience's response to every speaker.
Darby, Class of '19, Elected Supervisor in California
Raymond V. Darby, a graduate of the College in 1919, was recently elected as one of five supervisors on the Los Angeles county Board of Supervisors.
Tin Cans Salvaged From Union
Over twenty men, representing the American Legion and several University departments headed by C. G. Bayles of the buildings and grounds department, have been devoting time to the salvaging of about 7000 tin cans which were being accumulated back of the power plant. These men who have been volunteering their time knock out the ends of the cans and flatten them with axes preparatory to shipping them to a smelter where they will be melted down and the tin salvaged for the manufacture of war products.
Junk Jewelry of Coeds Bartered for War Relics
From Tulagi in the Pacific, Martha Johnson. College senior, has received shell bracelets with a matching necklace, cats eye stones for intaglio ring cuttings, and a pair of ivory boar's tusks.
Bracelet From Trauma
During the spring freezes, the buildings and grounds department
Several months ago junk jewelry was in demand for bartering purposes in the wilds of the world. To at least eleven women on the campus, a fair trade was made for as a total they have received foreign and native-made oddities sent by friends in the service from 10 different fighting areas. These curios have been arranged in an exhibit in the loan lobby of Watson Library by Miss Mildred Hershey, reference librarian. The exhibit will end tomorrow.
Although the American Legion is sponsoring a nation-wide salvage drive, these particular cans came from the Union building where naval units stationed here as well as many students get their meals every day.
Violet Conard, Education sophomore will remember Tarawa, for she now owns a bracelet that has seen action; it was made from some of the electrical wining of a Japanese plane. A less significant, but more
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Violin soloist with the symphony orchestra will be Doris Sheppard, Business junior from Larned. The program will include works from the compositions of Mozart, Wieniawski, Brahms, Tachaikowsky, Ippolitow-Ivanow, and Strauss.
Spring Concert Will Be Tonight
Activity tickets will admit students, and there will be no admission charge for men in uniform, Professor Wiley announced. There will be a light admission charge for others. Those with complimentary tickets will be required to pay a federal tax at the door.
Presenting its annual spring concert, the University symphony orchestra will appear at 8 tonight in Hoch auditorium under the direction of Prof. Russell L. Wiley of the School of Fine Arts.
Japanese also furnished the aluminum for Margaret Patterson's bracelet. "Somewhere in the Pacific" the closest she can get to its origin Miss Patterson is a College junior. Fan From Samoan Islands
A feather edged fan from the Samoan islands was sent to Eloise Wright, College junior, and her sister, Ruth Wright, College sophomore, was given a seed necklace. Both of the gifts display the fine weaving for which the natives of these islands are famous.
beautiful gift from this same area is a shell breach.
Three necklaces, a hair ornament,
and a bracelet, all made of shells,
were sent from New Caladonia to
Mary Evelyn King, College sophomore. Miss Hershey also contributed to the display with a delicate silver bracelet from Panama. One silver and a coin bracelet accompanied by a butterfly wing brooch were sent from Mexico to Mrs. R. R. Stucky, an employee in the periodical department of the library.
Allies Prepare Beachheads For Nazis' Counterattack; Reds Strike In Rumania
Commencement Details Reveal Busy Schedule
Baccalaureate exercises will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 25, in Hoch auditorium. Mr. Ingham also announced that the University A Cappella choir would sing for this event.
A schedule of events of the 72nd annual Commencement from June 25 to June 29 has been announced by the commencement committee and printed schedules are now available for seniors and others who are interested, in the registrar's office, the business officer and the dean's offices, H. G. Ingham, chairman of the commencement committee has announced.
June 28 a Big Day*
The senior breakfast will be served in the Kansas room of the Union building at 8 a.m. Thursday, June 29. At 10:30 a.m. the annual alumni business meeting will be in Fraser theater. Although plans are not complete, the University luncheon has been scheduled for 12:15 p.m. in Robinson gymnasium, Mr. Ingham said.
Wednesday, June 28, is the date of three events. The Mortar Board reunion for present and former members will be at 5 p.m. at the home of Mrs. E. E. Bayles, 1408 Kentucky. The School of Fine Arts recital will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 8 p.m. The Commencement reception and dance will be in the first floor lounges of the Union building at 9 p.m. Graduating seniors are invited to attend, said Fred Ellsworth, secretary of commencement committee.
Class of 10 Lacks Plans
The class of 1919 is the only class that has yet made plans for their reunion which is to be at 4:30 p.m.
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Class of '19 Lacks Plans
The bi-weekly movie presentation of the Student Forums Board has been postponed until next Thursday evening, according to Joy Miller, chairman of the Board.
Movie Postponed By Forums Board
A Russian masterpiece, "Alexander Nefsky," will be shown at that time. The movie was postponed because of the conflict with the annual spring symphony orchestra concert tonight, Miss Miller stated.
Washington, (INS)—Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said that latest reports reveal American casualties, excluding those resulting from action in France, total 217,135 dead, wounded, missing, or prisoners of war.
U.S. Casualties 217,135 Secretary Stimson Reveals
Blood Bank Given 412 Pints of Blood By Lawrence Donors
This visit of the Blood Bank brought the total number of pints donated from Lawrence to 2023.
Receiving a total of 412 pints, the Mobile Unit of the Red Cross Blood Donor Service concluded its third and last day in Lawrence, yesterday.
John Sineberger, of the Naval Training Unit, donated his 9th pint of blood; Jo Lee Abbitt, College sophomore, donated for the eighth time; both Vincent Lumbleaux, of the Naval Training Unit, and Mrs. Paul O'Leary, donated the seventh time; and Leslie Waters, Emory Scott, and Mrs. Floy Ulrich, all of Lawrence, donated for the sixth time.
Nineteen persons donated for the fifth time, 39 for the fourth time, 67 for the third time and 111 for the second time. One hundred sixty-nine made their first donations.
General Clark Confers With Pope Pius XII
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(International News Service)
Pope Pius XII received American
Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark today in a
private audience and later greeted
Allied members of the three-starred
general's official party. The Pope
and General Clark talked for
approximately 10 minutes in the Pope's
offices in the Vatican library.
Previously the Pope had received some 300 British, American and Allied war correspondents in an unprecedented interview and urged them to make peace the guiding principle of their writing.
Mortar Board Elects Bohan As President
Members of Mortar Board, honorary senior women's society, elected the following officers for next year at their meeting Tuesday in the office of Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women: Beverly Bohan, president; Betty File, vice-president; Mary Olive Marshall, secretary; 'Helen Pierson, treasurer; Martha Ellen Woodward, program director; and Betty Leibrand, social chairman.
The newly initiated members of Mortar Board received instructions from the old members and also discussed plans for next year's work.
Sateve Club Picnic Will Be At Unitarian Church Today
The Sateve Club picnic scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today will be held at the Unitarian church, 12th and Vermont, because of the rain, Dr. Homer A. Jack, minister of the Unitarian church, announced this morning. If the weather clears up this afternoon, however, the picnic will be held at Clinton park.
(International News Service)
Allied troops consolidating their beachheads in western France and plunging inland through belts of Nazi fortifications girded today for a showdown battle with German tactical reserves which were reported moving up for a counterattack.
At the same time the DNB German propaganda agency reported that the Red army has launched its anticipated major offensive choosing the Iasi sector of Rumania to strike its heavy blow. The report which lacked confirmation said the Reds gained several kilometers but asserted that the Nazis and Rumanians gained back much of the territory.
Once again the Allied ground units were reinforced constantly by air-borne British, Canadian, and American troops which landed in a steady stream. And again the Allied air forces ripped the beachhead sectors and strategic targets farther inland. A thousand fortresses and liberators plastered Nazi positions at the front with tons of TNT. Germans Admit Allied Influx
German broadcasts spoke of fresh Allied troops being poured into France with a strip of coast above captured Bayeaux reportedly the scene of many of the landings. One such force already has driven seven miles inland according to the enemy accounts.
Allied reconnaissance planes found great concentrations of enemy transport and troops in Normandy, and they were hit hard by Allied fliers. Allied progress was described as "up to expectations in some areas but lagging slightly behind in others because of tough enemy opposition."
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told
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Jackson, Miss. (IN5)—Texas anti-New Deal Democrats who began a party split that may balk the fourth term today had the support of Miss-issippi Democrats who today refuted the Democratic administration with more emphasis.
Democrats Split In Mississippi
The state convention yesterday specifically absolved the state's nine electors from any responsibility to vote in the electoral college for the party's presidential and vice-presidential candidate should the Democratic national platform disregard demands of the south. Those demands included any plank against social and racial equality and against abolition of the poll tax.
McCluggage Chosen to Head Dramatic Workshop Group
Roberta Sue McCluggage, College junior, was elected president of the Dramatic Workshop at a meeting of the group Tuesday afternoon in the Little theater of Green hall.
Other officers chosen are Mary Louise Laffer, vice-president; Laura Belle Moore, secretary; and Margio Johnson, treasurer.