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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, AFRIL 26, 1944
NUMBER 138
1st YEAR
Rivers Rise as Rain Continues; Freight Train Gets Through With Mail Sacks This Morning
With an overcast sky and intermittent showers menacing the already over-loaded levees along the river bank, city officials and residents alike are worriedly watching the slowly-rising Kaw and Wakarusa rivers.
At the recording taken this noon, nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain had fallen here since yesterday morning. River gauges revealed that the waters were coming up again at the rate of two-tenths of an inch per hour, the latest report giving the stage at 16.8 feet.
It has not been necessary to call out University students and trainees since late Monday night, but they are standing by in case they are needed. City employees were out strengthening the North Lawrence levees this morning as a precaution against an unusual rise in the river. Trains Bring Mail Again
Although train service is still irregular, some trains are now getting through, announced post office officials today. A freight train, coming down from Topeka, brought one big load of mail early this morning, Santa Fe train, running from Emporia to Kansas City, arrived with mail from the west about noon. East bound mail was then dispatched on this same train.
By rowing a large sack of mail across the Marais des Cygnes river, and receiving one in return, mail carriers were able to get at least a few parcels through to the south, yesterday afternoon. This will probably not be necessary today, however, the post master stated, as he expected the carriers to be able to get through by truck.
Temporary Route Was Established
Trucks were also used yesterday to take mail up to Tonganoxie where they connected with another mail
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Allies Attack Turin; Yanks Near Hollandia
Once again the Luftwaffe remained in hiding during most of the multipronged attack on Hitler Europe today. Industrial targets in the Brunswick area and other points in western Germany were attacked without the loss of a single plane. German war facilities in Italy were dealt a new blow, and railway targets and enemy installations as well as a German aircraft plant in the northern industrial city of Turin was attacked.
(International News Service)
Seizure of the main Japanese airstrip at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea by American invasion forces, grew more imminent as Yanks drove to within a little more than a mile of those dromes. Little organized resistance was encountered.
The Japanese were revealed in a dispatch from Chindit headquarters in Burma to have suffered heavily during efforts to break an Allied railroad block. At least 1,000 enemy troops were killed, and many others wounded in the battle fought by every available man, including elderly garrison forces.
Goering Is Promoted To Captaincy in AAF
Orlin J. Goering, a student from 1941 to 1942, has been promoted to the rank of captain in the AAF. He is a communication officer of the A-36 Invader fighter-bomber group of the 12th AAF in Italy. The A-36 Invaders of his group are now making daily dive-bombing attacks on enemy rail and highway transportation, gun positions, and troop concentrations in central Italy.
Captain Goering enlisted in the AAF in May, 1942, attending the army air force communications school at Scott Field, Ill. He was commissioned a lieutenant in September, 1942. The Sicilian and Italian invasions were the first he participated in after his arrival overseas in May, 1943.
US Takes Over Mail Order Firm Despite Protest
Chicago, (INS)—Sewell Avery, board chairman of Montgomery Ward and Company today defied a White House order, empowering the department of commerce to seize the Chicago plant of the mail order firm.
Wayne C. Taylor, undersecretary of the department of commerce, announced after a conference with Avery that the planthad been taken over in name of the United States government despite Avery's refusal to recognize an order procedure issued by President Roosevelt.
"Nine Girls," the murder melodrama with an all-girl cast, which is to be presented by the directing class May 2 and 3, has proved one of the most popular college plays of the present season, and will perhaps be given more college productions in 1943-44 than any other play." Prof. Allen Crafton, of the speech department announced.
Directing Class Play Popular in Colleges
The setting of the play is in the living room of a sorority club house in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. One of the women students is murdered just before the action of the play gets under way. One of the women in the club house holds a clue to the murder and so she must be killed to avert suspicion from the real murderess. In this way the play continues for an hour and three quarters until the real murderess is discovered and the curtain falls.
The set and furniture have been built by Allen Crafton. Heading the cast is Roberta Sue McCluggage who is the murderer, which is revealed (continued on page four)
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Executive Praises KU Designs
In acknowledging the reception of some drapery and gift wrapping designs made by students of Miss Marjorie Whitney, associate professor of design, which were sent to the Benmont Papers company of Bennington, Vt., E. L. Chadbourne, a member of the company said, "The designs you sent to me are the best I have ever received from any art school or design department. We wish to express our sincere congratulations on the excellence of these exhibits."
Miss Whitney said that she had sent the designs to the company hoping that they would purchase some, but the sale was hardly possible since they were not made with this company specifically in mind. In his letter to Miss Whitney, Mr. Chadbourne said that they did not feel justified in buying any of the designs for immediate use though they were close to the company's exacting standards and might have been approved for purchase if similar material were not on file.
Mr. Chadbourne stated that he had been dissatisfied several years ago when 14 of the nation's leading art schools submitted more than 1,500 designs in answer to a request for designs applying to a specific need.
Miss Whitney said that the department plans to make some designs especially for the BenMont Company's needs.
Fun Fest to Feature Three Dance Types, Singing, and Games
Comic dances interpreting "Anchors Aweigh," "Bicycle Built for Two," and "Humoresque" will be given tonight in the floor show of the Fun Fest, sponsored by the American Association of University Women, in the Community building.
Members of Tau Sigma, honorary dance sorority, who will present the numbers are: Frances Davison, Jean Boardman, Laura Belle Moore, and Martha Trate, all of the~School of Education.
David Rose's "Holiday for Strings" will be given a modern dance interpretation by the following members of the dance sorority: Evelyn Smith, Betty Ball, Betty Noble, and Joan Power, all College students.
Other features of the floor show, for which Prof. A. J. Mix of the botany department is master of ceremonies, are a Mexican folk dance by Senor Ramon Savejo and Senora Soledad Nunez; numbers in cowboy costume by the University High square dancers, with Miss Ruth Hoover, chairman of the women's physical education department, as caller; and popular songs sung by Ruth Russell, Fine Arts sophomore.
Dancing in the ballroom, from 9 to 12 p.m., will be to the music of Kansas City's Rio Grande Serenaders, Mexican string orchestra. Preceeding the dance there will be an hour of square dancing called by Miss Hoover. Games will be played in the game room.
Miss Joie Stapleton, assistant professor of physical education, is general chairman of the Fun Fest.
Spring Commencement Exercises Will Be on June 29 This Year; Four Classes to Have Reunions
Former V-12 Is Killed In a Plane Crash
Melvin Ray Hartley, Jr., 18, of Baxter Springs, who was a former student in the V-12 program here, was killed in the crash of a training plane at Limon, Colo., Lt. C. A. Michelman, assistant commanding officer of the University V-12 unit, reported today.
Seaman Hartley was transferred to the Olathe Naval Training Station on February 29 to await assignment to V-5 training. He entered the V-12 program on July 1, 1943.
Flood Situation May Affect Music Festival
The effects of the flood on the attendance at the district high school music festival Friday cannot be determined, according to Prof. Russell Wiley, coordinator of the campus festival. However, he added that approximately 300 students from 25 schools are scheduled to perform.
Vocal and instrumental solos and ensembles will be held during the day in Hoch auditorium and Fraser theater. Twenty instrumental ensembles and 80 instrumental solos will be given from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in Hoch auditorium. The 32 vocal ensembles will commence at the same time in the Kansas room of the Union building, continuing until 11:30 a.m. Also from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. the piano, violin, viola, and cello solos will be presented in Fraser theater. The vocal solos, numbering 76, will be in Fraser theater from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Competition Eliminated
Students in the festival will not compete against each other but will be ranked according to the National Rating System. The judges will be: For instrumental, Arthur Harrell, superintendent of music in Jefferson City, Mo.; vocal, Leon Willgus, chairman of the music department of Kansas Wesleyan, Salina; piano, D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts; string, Waldemar Gelch, professor of violin.
Twenty-four Schools Plan Trim
Twenty-five Schools
The schools scheduled to send representatives are Topeka, Lawrence, Turner, Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Sabetha, Paola, Wyandotte, Highland Park, Robinson, Bonner Springs, Silver Lake, Baldwin, Richmond, Leavenworth, Everest, Troy, Fairview, Stanley, Holton, Gardner, Appanoose Rural, Washington, Linwood, and Huron.
Roosevelt Wins in Massachusetts Boston, (INS)—Late returns today revealed but mild support among Massachusetts Democrats for any campaign to block a fourth term for President Roosevelt. Anti-fourth termers won only four seats to the convention.
Spring commencement exercises will be held on Thursday, June 29. H. G. Ingham, general chairman of commencements has announced.
All senior activities will be concentrated on the 29th, said Mr. Ingham according to present plans. The only possible exception is a reception being tentatively planned for the evening of June 28 in the military science building.
The senior class breakfast will be held on the morning of commencement and combined class and University officials are working now on plans for the annual University luncheon at noon of the same day.
Last year for the first time in several years the luncheon was held in Robinson gymnasium. The gymnasium is being considered again this year for the event.
According to custom, commencement day is also the day on which class reunions are held. Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, has announced that the following classes are scheduled to meet: class of 1894 for 50th anniversary; class of 1904 for 40th anniversary; class of 1919 for 25th anniversary; and class of 1934 for 10th anniversary. If it is possible for any of these reunions to be held, they will take place
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Houses Co-operate In Tin Can Salvage
The tin can salvage drive, which is to end the last of this week, is progressing. very favorably on the campus, according to C. G. Buyles, who is in charge of the campus canvass.
Beginning last Monday, the drive on the campus was directed principally toward the University houses such as Corbin and Battenfeld halls the co-operative houses, and the army and navy units, Mr. Bayles explained. "At the last check-up all the houses were co-operating splendidly," he said.
Members of the Lawrence American Legion will be around at the end of the week to collect the tin. They have requested that the houses already have the labels and ends of the cans removed and the cans flattened by the time they make the collection.
Patton View Private London Leaders Say
London, (INS)—London diplomatic circles took the view today that Lt. Gen. Geo. S. Patton, Jr., was expressing only his own opinion yesterday when he told a British welcome clu for American soldiers that the United States are destined to rule the world.
But in Washington the midest label tacked on Gen. Patton's London speech by Igislature was "unfortunate."
The war department withheld comment, but army officials privately admitted amazement at Patton's declaration.