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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1944
K.U.-Air Base Game Is Today
The University of Kansas baseball team meets the Herington army air base here this afternoon at 3:30. This will be the second game of the season for the Jayhawks, and will be played under newly appointed coach, Elmer Schaake.
Little is known of the army team, but they are expected to be a strong opponent. The Kansas team will have had a three day rest since their curtain-raiser against Iowa State at Ames, last Saturday, and should have a little more confidence on the field today. The team had natural first-game litters at Ames.
Coach Schaake intends to start about the same lineup that played in the Cyclone game, with a few exceptions. Saffell pitched a good game Saturday despite a sore finger hurt in the first inning, but will probably rest today to give it a chance to heal and then be ready for this Saturday's contest with the Sedalia air base. Slipsager will probably get the call for mound duty.
The infield has been the best thing about the ball club with Corder and Wolett looking especially good. Rohrbaugh has been good on first, and has shown he can hit. Gaba will be on third base. The outfield will probably be Scalzo, Smith, and Farber, who also has shown his ability to get the base hits. At the catching spot will either be Sinclair or Dahleen.
The Jayhawks are coming along and are gradually shaping into a ball club with some strong potentialities.
Tennis, Horeshoe Games Being Played
Preliminary rounds in the intramural tennis and horseshoe tournaments were held last week, with second and third rounds due to be completed before Saturday night. Semi-finals and final matches must be played before June 3. Eight second round games are scheduled for both of the tournaments.
An intramural track and field meet, consisting of fourteent events, will be held Friday afternoon at five e'clock.
Team Managers to Discuss Intramural Track Meet
An intramuralurs managers' meeting will be at 4:30 p.m. today in the physical education office at Robinson gymnasium, George Dick, senior in the School of Education, announced this morning. The group will discuss the intramural track meet scheduled for Friday, May 26, in which the men's organized houses will participate.
KFKU PROGRAM
Today—
9:30 p.m. Symphonic Favorites.
"Symphony No. 101 in D Major"
(The Clock), (Haydn).
Tomorrow—
2:30 p.m. French Lesson. Mattie
Crumrine, radio instructor.
2:45 p.m. Spanish Lesson. Maude
Elliott, radio instructor.
The name Margaret actually means "a pearl."
VARSITY Shows 2-7-9
TODAY Thru Wednesday
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
PAULETTE GODDARD
VERONICA LAKE
"So Proudly We Hail"
And
"Jive Junction"
Bert Brandt Gets Set To Take War Pictures
"If it hadn't been for some mighty generous people in Lawrence, I'd not be here in London with the greatest opportunity of my life ahead of me," said newspaper correspondent and University graduate, Bert Brandt, in a letter from England to Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary.
Brandt, has been in Italy for the past seven months covering the Italian campaign for Acme News-pictures Inc., and is now in London awaiting the second front. He was graduated in 1939, after working his way through school with his camera by taking pictures for the Jayhawker and the Sour Owl, a former student publication. He was also a quarter-miler and spinner of the University track team.
That he was the favorite campus photographer in those days was evidenced by the generosity displayed when Brandt lost all his cameras and clothes in a fire at his boarding house. At this time the students took up a collection and bought him a new press camera; Dean Henry Werner, lent him money for clothes; and the women of a sorority, whose beauty Brandt had illustrated in one of the campus publications, invited him to live in their house until he could find other accommodations. Brandt boasts today that he is the only man ever to receive such an invitation.
War Correspondent Has Fun
After he was graduated, Brandt was manager in Kansas City for Acme Newspictures, Inc. Later he worked for the same syndicate in Washington and New York. Last year he was sent to Italy as a member of the American Photographers pool. Some of his best pictures have been published in many of the nation's newspapers and magazines.
"War correspondent work is like a lot of jobs, fun at times, hard work at times, and maybe sometimes just a trifle dangerous," Brandt said. "I was in on most of the fighting up to Cassino and saw quite a bit of action around there as well as at San Vittore and some of the other towns we took on our way up bloody Highway 6," he said.
Brandt told of many narrow escapes in his letter to Mr. Ellsworth. While covering landings on an Italian beachhead he dived under a buldozer to escape dive-bombing Germans; but they machine-gunned
his protecting cover, and oil from the machine poured down on him.
"I didn't mind the clothes so much," he said, "but I hated having a perfectly good camera ruined."
Brandt said that he spent a month on the beachhead and his ship was straffed as they left. From this experience he exhibits a bullet hole in his camera.
He Traveled 23.000 Miles
"K.U. students certainly get around," the photographer declared. Brandt believes he proves this point by the fact that in the past seven months he has traveled 23,000 miles "by boat, train, jeep, plane, ox cart, motorcycle, landing craft, and good old shanky ponies."
Brandt said that he is now planning a reunion "in an English substitute for Bricks" with Sgt. John Randolph Tye, a College graduate in 1939, who is now in the air corps public relations at one of the bases in England.
During this time he has become acquainted with Eisenhower, Montgomery, Tedder, Doolittle, Spaats, and even Churchill.
Prof. Ryther Still III With Throat Infection
T. C. Ryther, superintendent of the University press and journalism instructor, who has been ill for the past two weeks, is still at his home with a throat infection and probably will not be able to return to his classes until the first of next week, according to his doctor. Elmer F. Beth, acting head of the department, is taking over Mr. Ryther's classes in his absence.
TWELVE FACULTY---addresses. Dr. Schwegler spoke at commencement exercises May 18 at Linwood and gave the baccalaureate address April 29 at Effingham. Professor Buehler made commencement addresses May 13 at Effingham and May 18 at Beattie.
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Three other faculty members have each made one address. Bert A. Nash, professor of education, spoke at Rock Creek, May 18; Gerald L. Pearson, field representative of the University extension division, made an address May 18 at Burton; and Roy W. Browning Field Representative of the extension division, delivered the commencement address May 18 at Doniphan.
GRANADA
ENDS
WEDNESDAY
OWL SHOW Saturday Night SUNDAY----4 Days MARIA MONTEZ JON HALL "THE COBRA WOMAN" in Technicolor
He Joined the Navy and Saw World But Lamkin Wants to Be a Doctor
"Join the navy and see the world!" They weren't kidding when they said that to Dorwin "Doc" Lamkin, now of PT7 and late of Pearl Harbor, Attu, Tarawa, Wake Island, and other parts of the Pacific battle area. He joined the navy to see danger.
He joined the navy when he was 18, just after he was graduated from high school at Hutson, Wis., in 1940. After boot camp at Great Lakes, he was sent to Bremerton, Wash. There he boarded the U.S.S. Nevada. He was still on the Nevada when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. The Nevada was hit and partly sunk. "Doc" was one of the men who stayed on the ship during the bombing and sinking.
Three months ago "Doc" was a pharmacist's mate first class — the next-to-highest rating an enlisted man can have. Now he's an apprentice seaman, the lowest form of navy life. But this is one Mac who's grateful for the chance to go to college. He is in earnest about becoming a doctor.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific fleet gave him a citation for "meritorius work." The commanding officer's citation for work during the attack on Pearl Harbar read "for daring zeal and devotion to duty."
"Doc" first applied for V-12 training last May. After passing two reviewing boards, he made it and came home from the Pacific on a merchant marine ship.
Joined Navy at Fighton
At Pearl Harbor, one of "Doc's division officers, a Bob Rowland from Kansas, was instrumental in helping him get transferred to the medical department. Transferring was difficult because "Doc" had spent a year learning to be a fire control striker, and the navy didn't want him to change jobs. His first week at K. U. he discovered that Bob Rowland is the son of the University book store proprietor.
Bars Show Past Service
Explaining the four bars he wears on his jumper, Doc said, "The yellow one is the American Defense bar for duty at sea before the declaration of war. The striped bar means I've seen active duty in one zone of the American theater of war. The red and yellow bar (yellow for the enemy and red for the rising sun) is an Asiatic Pacific campaign bar. The silver and bronze stars on it mean six engagements. The red bar is a Good Conduct bar—stands for three years of undetected crime."
From March to Nov., 1942, "Doc" was "out of the war" attending hospital corps school and clinical laboratory technicians' school on the west coast. He got back into action, though. He was present at the bombardment of Attu and Kiska and actively engaged in the largest attack on Wake Island. He was at the occupation of Tarawa and Makin Island and participated in the heaviest naval attacks on the Marshall Islands. Kwajalein, Mille, and Watje are more than just names in the news to "Doc." The actual details of the fights are military secrets.
Cruisers See Action
"I was unfortunately on a heavy cruiser, which means we did a lot of fighting," he said. "Out there everything you do is measured against 'Will I be alive tomorrow?'
John Hankins Will Speak Before English Majors
"The biggest thing with the men at sea is that they want to get home to the United States, even above winning the war. About once every 45 minutes a new rumor starts that we're going back to the U. S. I could almost kiss the ground when I landed. It's easy to lose that appreciation, though. Already, in as short a time as I've been here, I'm beginning to take things for granted again."
Prof. John E. Hankins of the English department will speak on "How Poets Write" at the last meeting of the year for English majors at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in room 205 of Fraser hall. Prof. John W. Ashton has announced that all English majors are invited to attend.
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