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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 16. 1944
41st YEAR
NUMBER 152
Kappa Epsilon Wins Top Award In U.S. Contest
Individual ratings were also given. Frances Blair, senor, took second place in the examination. Betty Jeanne Whitney, sophomore, and Lucile Baker, junior, won sixth and eight places respectively.
The national scholarship award of Kappa Epsilon, honorary pharmacy sorority, has been won by the University of Kansas chapter. J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, announced today. The award was made on the basis of an examination sent out by the national officers of the organization. This chapter made the highest rating of all the chapters of the sorority in the United States.
Third place in the scholarship average for regular class work in pharmacy was also awarded to the local chapter.
Opening with the National An-
men, the 75 members of the A Cappela Choir under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts presented their spring concert in Hoch auditorium last night.
A Cappella Choir Concert Praised
Herbie Kay Dies in Dallas
The choir sang the first two sections which were ecclesiastical numbers with tenderness and fine tone shading. The group performed as an eight-part chorus in "Song of Praise" (Heinrich Schutz), exhibiting its intensive training.
"Glory Be to God," a Russian hymn, was sung with a great contrast in tone shading, starting with a wisp of tone, developing to a powerful crescendo, and fading to the same gossamer tone of the beginning. The most somber of the Russian church music was "Heavenly Light." "The Earth Is the Lord's" was also played.
Herbie Kay, nationally known band leader, died Thursday night in a Dallas hospital. Kay, who was 40 years old, has been ill several months.
After the intermission the choir sang the rhythmic and electric "Hosanna" (F. Melius Christiansen), followed with the pure, light "The Blue Bird."
“O Susanna,” the familiar folk tune, received the greatest applause from the audience. Also in the last numbers of the program were the Arkansas folk song, "The Weak and Rambling One" and Nobel Cain's arrangement of the Negro spiritual, "The Glory Train."
Dean Swarthout announced as a surprise not only to the audience but to the singers themselves, an encore, "Breathe on Me O Breath of God" (Van Denman Thompson).
K Club to Meet Tonight
A meeting of the K Club has been called for this evening by George Dick, president. The meeting will be held at 6:45 at the K Club room in Robinson gymnasium. Dick urged all members to be present as there is some very important business to discuss.
Miss Hat,
Nightgown?
See Hospital
In spite of students' apparent anxiety to leave Watkins hospital after convalescing, it seems somewhat odd to the hospital staff that the following list of items have not been claimed by now.
A yellow nightgown belonging to either A. R. S. or K. P.; "Introduction to Human Physiology," which belongs to some J. P.; underwear and socks of C. E.'s; a man's grey-blue felt hat in good condition which was left in room 241; more underwear of D. P.'s; and a white wool scarf belonging to an anonymous student.
The list grows more interesting with still more underwear belonging to A. C.; a pair of men's shoe trees, left in room 254; house slippers belonging to a V. H.; a pair of brown knit gloves of M. F.; and numerous toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste, all in usable condition, belonging to N. S., H. R., P. A., J. N., or C. S.
If these articles have not been claimed by May 20, the hospital staff will assume that the owners have made the tremendous adjustment of living without them, and the collection will either be donated to a worthy organization, or a spring clearance sale will be held.
Dean Moreau Visits Law Professors On Leave From Staff
Returning from a week's trip to Washington, D. C., and Philadelphia, F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, reports that all the law professors on leave are busily engaged in vital work.
Dr. J. B. Smith, now major in the Judge Advocate's department, is working on important legal matters. Smith was recently cited for a unique law plan, the Louisiana Law Institute.
George E. Palmer, chief attorney for the rent section of the OPA will soon make another swing around to regional offices throughout the country and may be able to stop in Lawrence en route.
Prof. H. H. Lesar, who was with the U. S. Civil Service commission, is now Lieutenant (j.g.) in the navy in Philadelphia. He expects to be transferred to more active duty in the near future.
Several students have been admitted to the hospital in the past few days, because of severe cases of sunburn, resulting from indiscriminate exposure to the sun in an effort to produce a quick tan.
Students Get Sunburn From Over-Exposure
The hospital staff would like to remind the students that the sun has been hidden all spring, and the skin could not be accustomed to its rays.
Exposure to the sun should be a gradual affair, beginning with 20 to 30 minutes at a time, and increasing the time daily. Under no circumstances should one expose himself for two or three hours, said Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson today.
Battle Stiffens As Allies Fight On Gustav Line
Allied and Axis armies were locked today in a battle of growing intensity in and around the Nazi's Gustav line. The forces of the United Nations continued to march forward by ousting the enemy from several war towns and mountain tops.
Both sides according to Nazi-controlled propaganda outlets are throwing reinforcements into the fray. The threat to Cassino, anchor point of the enemy's Gustav line, suddenly became severe when Allied forces slashed the highway linking that city with the sea. The Eighth Army according to one battlefront report now has little more than a mile to cut off Cassino from the rear.
Other German detachments were hurled out of Stigno and San Giorgio by French and American troops. All enemy resistance in the Ausente valley also seiged during the day. Allied bombers and fighters aided the advancing infantry and tank units while along the coastal strip war ships which steamed close to the shore poured tons of TNT and steel into Nazi installations and highways. A Swiss newspaper reported that as a result of the Allied bombings all rail lines in northern Italy are disorganized, and the main line from Florence to the fighting front severed completely.
Birth of a Nation Will Be Presented As Forums Movie
"Birth of a Nation," 1916 motion picture masterpiece to be shown as the next movie presentation, was discussed by the Student Forums Board at last night's meeting, according to Joy Miller, chairman.
Filmed by David Wark Griffith, undisputed master of the motion picture, "Birth of a Nation" through its technique and expressiveness contributed much to this medium that is considered fundamental in the industry today. The first great movie to be filmed in America, "Birth of a Nation" is being shown by the Student Forums Board at the request of students and faculty members who believe that the present generation misses much of educational value in not having the picture accessible to them.
The theater of 1915 will be recreated when "Birth of a Nation" is shown at 7:30, May 25, in Fraser theater, Miss Miller pointed out. A piano accompaniment for the silent film, an original score especially composed for the picture by Joseph Carl Breil, will be played by Anna Mae Johnston, College sophomore.
Plans were made for a student panel discussion of the political issues of 1944 to be scheduled for an open meeting in the men's lounge in about three weeks. Outstanding student speakers on the campus will take sides on the issues and those attending the discussion may ask questions at the end of the meeting, Miss Miller said.
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125 Kansas Leaders Will Attend First Lecture Session Tonight At Recreation Training Institute
War of Principles Or Power? Asks Alf
Chicago, (INS)—Former governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas today demanded that the "government decide whether this war is a conflict of principles or whether it is just a grab for world dominion."
Stray Dogs Shot To Halt Rabies
Seven dogs running around loose have been shot by the city police since yesterday afternoon in accordance with the 40-day quarantine in the county, according to Body Skinner, sheriff.
Landon told members of Rotary International in Chicago that every unbiased, observant citizen knows that a lack of information and clear direction—the failure of Franklin Roosevelt to enlighten his countrymen concerning his plans, the failure to crystalize our aims in terms more comprehensive than unconditional surrender of the enemy in this war have all confused and disappointed our citizens.
The dogs in Lawrence and on the campus have virtually "disappeared" but there are a few strays still out, according to the office of the chief of police, C. A. Bliesner. None of the animals shot was on the campus at the time but several dogs have not been quarantined and students are warned to avoid all dogs as a precautionary measure against rabies.
Glee Club Elects; Plans Picnic Supper
Meeting yesterday afternoon in Hoch, the Women's Glee Club elected officers for the next season and announced plans for a picnic supper to be held at 4:30 Thursday afternoon at Potter Lake.
The police have received numerous calls from Lawrence residents notifying them of the presence of stray dogs in the neighborhood, and these dogs have been shot. Numerous persons are letting their dogs out at night in an attempt to evade the quarantine ruling. The police began yesterday shooting all dogs running loose, regardless of time or place.
Those chosen as officers for the next season include Margaret Hall, Fine Arts junior, Oakley, president; Patricia Coolidge, College freshman, Kansas City, Mo., business manager; Beverly Stucker, College sophomore, Ottawa, secretary; Mildred Carpenter, College sophomore, Lawrence, libarian; and Norma Jean Lutz, Fine Arts junior, Dodge City, student director.
Sooner Educator Dies
William Bennett Bizzell, for 16 years head of the University of Oklahoma, died Saturday night.
Under the direction of Mrs. Anne Livingston and Mr. Pat Rooney of the National Recreational Association of New York City, the first session of the Wartime Recreation Institute, sponsored by the physical education department, will be from 8 to 10 tonight on the East first floor of Robinson gymnasium. About 125 recreation leaders from state clubs and organizations are expected to attend, said Miss Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education and hostess of the Institute.
The Japanese also gave ground before the first major Chinese offensive of the war.
The Institute will present a balanced program planned according to the needs of the registrants by a committee that met with Mrs. Livingston yesterday afternoon. The first part of the evening sessions, which will continue every night at the same time until, and including Friday evening, May 19, will include lectures and discussions. After a ten minute intermission, the sessions will continue with practical activities including ways of starting a party, activities and games.
Japs Lose Ground In China's First Major Offensive
All these courses have been arranged to help equip the young untrained workers and many new volunteers of all ages who have entered the field as recreational personnel, said Prof. F. C. Allen of the physical education department Mrs. Livingston will teach activity programs, techniques, organizational procedures, practical suggestions, music for fun, mixers, and parties for special events.
Fees for the entire week's course are $1.50, and students of the University and other colleges will be charged $1.00. Any single session is $0.50. There will be a morning session Saturday from 10 to 12 o'clock. The closing session will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday following a luncheon for members of the Institute at Lindley Hall.
General Chiang Kai-shek's ground forces which already have crossed the Salween river in Yunnan province hammered out new gains under the protection of the American 15th air force and closed in on the big enemy base at Tengchung with a tripronged drive. One column "Virtually encircled" a large enemy detachment while another inflicted two casualties on the Japanese for every one suffered by its own troops.
The greatest battle yet fought in the India-Burma theater came to an end when Allied forces occupied all of a ridge before Kohima supply base.
In the southwest Pacific Japanese air bases were reduced to rubble by American airmen who hit the Scoutens themselves.
"Damage was extensive." Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in summarizing the result of the operation.