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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, MAY, 15, 1944
41st YEAR
NUMBER 151.
V-12 Unit to Have 25 Per Cent Cut In November
An over-all reduction of 25 per cent in the enrollment of 70,000 students under the Navy's V-12 program on Nov. 1 was announced Friday by Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of naval personnel.
No college training unit will be eliminated entirely, Admiral Jacobs told representatives of educational institutions at the V-12 conference at Columbia University, unless the school requests or requires such an action because of inability to fulfill the Navy contract. No unit will be decreased below a minimum 250.
Present quotas of V-12 students will be maintained at the 131 colleges and universities offering V-12 training during the July 1-Nov. 1 term, according to Admiral Jacobs. The program will continue so long as the Navy needs additional young officers to fight the war, he said. The size of the program in the future will depend on the magnitude of the need.
Since the opening of the Navy college program on July 1, 1943, more than 23,000 men have been trained as officer candidates. Five hundred V-12 students enrolled at the University last summer; approximately 300 are enrolled this semester.
In his address to the educational representatives, Admiral Jacobs reported on officer candidates who have seen active service. He indicated that the Navy would continue to bring back men from overseas service and place them in training programs. He praised the work of the V-12 program and predicted that it would affect American education for a long time.
Physical Education Institute Begins Programs Tomorrow
A committee to work out programs for the Wartime Recreational Training Institute, offered by the National Recreational Association of America and sponsored by the University department of physical education and to plan a beneficial course according to the needs of the list of registrants, will meet at 4 this afternoon in Robinson gymnasium. The committee is composed of members of the physical education department; Miss Barbara Jewett, instructor of design and representative of the occupational therapy department; two representatives of the Lawrence recreational committees; and Mrs. Anne Livingston, who, with Pat Rooney, will instruct in the institute. They are from the National Recreational Association of America of New York City.
It has been estimated that 125 will attend the institute which begins tomorrow and will continue until Saturday, Miss Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education, said.
Beginning tomorrow, sessions will be held during the week days, from 8 to 10 p.m. up to and including May 19. Saturday there will be a morning session from 10 to 12. The closing session will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. All sessions will be (continued to page four)
Dog Life To Be Tough For 40 Days
Strange as it may seem, the "campus dogs" have almost disappeared.
Strange as it may seem, the "campus dogs" have almost disappeared. A 40-day quarantine has been placed on all dogs in the county as a precautionary measure against the spread of rabies. Will J. Miller, state livestock sanitary commissioner, issued the quarantine last Tuesday. Red quarantine signs have been posted on the campus and beginning today, all dogs running loose will be shot by the police in accordance with the order.
Members of the police department, according to the ordinance, are given the duty of picking up the dogs. Numerous calls have come in to the police station telling of dogs running loose and definite action will be taken today on all such dogs.
With this proclamation, an "integral" part of the campus scenery will be erased. Barking at the students, napping in the afternoon sun, and other such dog pleasures are now taboo for "man's best friend." The dog is now in the dog house.
A Cappella Gives Concert Tonight
At 8 tonight in Hoch auditorium the A Cappella Choir, under the direction of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will present its spring concert.
The program will be given in four sections with a short intermission between the second and third groups. The opening group of four numbers will begin with "Alma Redemptoris Mater" (Palestrina), featuring Merton Anderson, Fine Arts freshman, as tenor soloist, and will follow with "Song of Praise" (Heinrich Schutz) "Art Thou With Me" (Bach), and "Brother James' Air" (Gordon Jacob).
The second section will be of Russian numbers with "Glory Be to God" (Rachmaninoff), "Heavenly Light" (Kopylow), and "The Earth Is the Lord's" (Nikolsky).
Following the intermission the choir will sing "Hosanna" (F. Melius Christiansen), "Come, Shepherds, Follow Me," (John Bennett), "The Blue Bird" (C. V. Stanford), and "Exaltation" (F. Melius Christian).
It is strongly advised that all students, on and off the campus, use extreme caution in approaching stray dogs about the city. Since the animal shot by local police officers last week has proved to have had rabies, and is known to have bitten at least five other dogs in the vicinity, it is possible for more rabid animals to be on the loose.
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Ushers for this evening's concerts will be Juanita Basinger, Martha Baxter, Beth Beamer, Frances Gulick, Donna Hempler, Marian Howell, Donna Nichols, and Frances Sartori.
The last group of numbers of the program will feature American folk songs and a Negro spiritual. These include the Arkansas folk song of "The Weak and Rambling One," Noble Cain's arrangement of Stephen Foster's "O Susanna," and the Negro spiritual "The Glory Train."
Newspapermen Plan White Memorial Here
Allies Trap Nazi Units In Italy
Allied troops attacking on the Italian front have scored a new triumph today by closing a steel trap on the important Ausente valley, west of Castelforte, cutting off important German units.
Dispatches reaching Naples in the wake of a communique announcing penetration of the Gustav line said that American and French troops of the fifth army have sprung the valley trap in a wide pincer movement.
The Moscow radio advising Europe that "titanic battles are approaching" called upon the peoples of Axis satellite countries to reyolt against Germany action must be taken now, Moscow warned. Tomorrow may be too late.
Professionals to Aid In Campus Production Of Hansel and Gretel
Meanwhile the Allied air offensive against fortressed Europe entered upon the thirty-first consecutive days with huge fleets of bombers plastering military installations throughout northern France and along the Pas de Calais invasion coast area. The entire network of French radio stations left the air.
This followed a substantial breach in the heavily defended Gustav line and advances by Allied spearheads to within five miles of the Adolf Hitler line, second Axis defense which must be breached before a direct assault on Rome.
The professional touch will not be lacking in the presentation of the fairy opera, Hansel and Gretel, which will be given May 21 and 22 by the School of Fine Arts. Aiding Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music society, in its production are several faculty members who have had previous experience with the opera.
Stage director Allen Crafton, professor of speech, also aided in previous performances and is making the scenery. Mr. Crafton remarked that the first opera which he saw was a presentation of Hansel and Gretel.
Miss Jeannette Cass, assistant professor of music theory, who is singing the part of the Witch, has seen the opera given by the Metropolitan Opera company and by the San Carlo Opera company of Kansas City. Also she helped put it on at the University of Idaho.
Prof. Joseph Wilkins, who is musical director, helped in presenting the opera when it was last given at the University in 1937 and in 1938. He has also seen it performed by the Chicago Opera company and by other companies.
Miss Cass to be Witch
Having sung in Hansel and Gretel in the Chicago Opera company under the direction of Isaac Van Grove (continued, to page four)
Foundation Will Give Awards Ask for New Journalism Building
"We thought at first of having a part of the money given out as scholarships, but later we gave up this idea and settled on the idea of prize awards," Mr. Rusco said. "We had in mind that the state erect a building especially for the school of journalism and that this building be named for William Allen White."
Annual Prizes Would Be Given To Journalists
Interviewed by the Daily Kansan this morning, Howard Rusco, secretary-manager of the Kansas Press Association, said that it was the desire of the committee of newspapermen meeting yesterday in Topeka that the William Allen White Memorial Endowment be used much as is the Pulitzer Endowment now. They would have prizes awarded each year for outstanding journalistic endeavor and have these awards made through the University department of journalism.
Edwin F. Abels, editor of the Outlook, told the Daily Kansan today that the committee was agreed that after $75,000 was raised for the White memorial fund through which the prizes for superior journalistic endeavors would be rewarded, attention would be turned to getting a new journalism building for the University which would be known as the William Allen White Memorial building and then to establishing a school of journalism. Journalism is now a department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"We probably will not have a meeting of the committee until sometime in June," said Mr. Abels. "Just what will be done will be left to the committee, but the group that met at Topeka Sunday was pretty much agreed on what it wanted."
Gunsolly Now Editor Of S.O.W. Newspaper
Miss Virginia Gunsolly, managing editor of the University Daily Kansas for the past nine weeks and senior in the department of journalism, has accepted a position as editor of the Hercules Powder Company's plant newspaper.
Beginning this afternoon, Miss Gunsolly will work part-time until school is out, then will take over her duties on a full-time basis. In addition to her job as editor of this weekly paper, The Sunflower Sentinel, Miss Gunsolly will write a good share of the news going into the paper, and will also write publicity stories for the plant to be distributed to other papers.
That the legislature and the Board of Regents will be asked to authorize construction of a new journalism building on the campus, was announced yesterday by a group of newspapermen who met in Topeke and took preliminary steps to establish and finance a William Allen White memorial foundation to encourage better journalism in Kansas.
The University was recognized as an important factor in training for journalism by the newspaper men as they set about to raise at lease $50,000 and possibly $100,000 to be used as a basis of the foundation from which awards for superior newspaper work will be made. The recommendation for the building came as an additional thought.
The journalism staff of the University was in complete ignorance of the plan of the newspaper men. Although it was known that a meeting to establish a foundation was arranged, it was not known that the recommendation to the legislature was being considered.
Attending the Topeka meeting yesterday were Representative F.B. Ross of Emporia; R. A. Clymer, El Dorado Timelion; Milton Tabor, Topeka Daily Capital; W. T. Beck, Holton Record; Oscar Stauffer, State Journal; Carl Rott, Winfield Courier; Ed F. Abels, Douglas County Outlook; John Redmond, Burlington Republican; and Howard Rusco, Kansas Press Association. Mr. Clymer, Mr. Stauffer, Mr. Abels, and Mr. Rusco are University alumni.
Henry J. Allen of Wichita was named chairman of the foundation committee, and Fay N. Seaton of Manhattan is secretary. Nineteen other Kansans, representing various professional, educational and business interests, will be chosen for the committee. The organization will be chartered to act as an institution.
Twenty-one Attend Meeting
The editors stressed that the establishment of the foundation would not interfere with plans of Emporia citizens for establishing a memorial of their own. They expressed a feeling that Mr. White would have preferred the type of memorial that the press association are undertaking.
Two ASTP Trainees Transferred to Iowa
Two ASTP reserve trainees who were enrolled in Term I have been transferred to the AST Unit, No 3703, at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, commandant of the University ASTP unit, has announced.
The men, Orlan W. Willis and Delbert L. Moore are the only trainees in the ASTP who have been sent here recently. They left the University last Thursday.
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