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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY. APRIL 24.1944
41st YEAR
University Army Grades Rank Highest in U.S.
This standing is based upon terms one and two examinations and includes all reservists as well as the AST soldier trainees. The results announced last Friday did not include all of the tests taken by the reserve trainees. Information received today concerning the ASTR's results on the test correlated with the regular enlisted AST trainees results placed the University units in the highest rating.
Unofficial information from headquarters AST division, Omaha, Neb., reveals that the scholastic ratings in all subjects of the War Department achievement tests taken by the trainees of the University AST and ASTR on January 21 and 22 were the highest of any institution in the country.
353 Students Enter District High School Music Festival
The ASTR trainees received six firsts and two seconds out of twelve tests.
Three hundred fifty-three students from 24 Kansas high schools have entered the district music festival which will be held at the University all day Friday, Russell L. Wiley, has announced.
Chapel was a daily part of the routine of University life for nearly 50 out of the 78 years of its existence.
Professor Wiley, University band and orchestra conducter, is in charge of all arrangements for the festival on the campus. Clifford Dean, superintendent of the Lawrence city schools, is district manager of the event.
Opening at 9:30 a.m. Friday and closing at 5 p.m., the festival will be held in Hoch auditorium and Fraser theater, according to Prof. Wiley. Entries have been made in vocal and instrumental ensembles and vocal and instrumental solos, he said. No bands, orchestras, choruses, or glee clubs will appear.
Class A, B, C, and D high schools will be represented in the festival, said Professor Wiley but musicians will not be segregated according to the size of their schools.
Texas Convention Bars All But Indians, Caucasians
Students in the festival will not compete against each other. They will be ranked according to excellence in four divisions.
Dallas, Texas, INS)—All races except Caucasian and Indian will be barred from participation in Democratic precinct convention in Dallas county. May 6. The county executive committee had enforced today resolutions which closed participation in the convention to members of Mongolian, Malayan, and Ethiopian or Negro race.
NUMBER 136
Yanks Surprise Japs At New Guinea Base
(International News Service)
American forces were closing in on the big Hollandia airbase in Dutch New Guinea, in the largest invasion of the southwest Pacific war, following a triple landing that carried the troops of Gen. Douglas MacArthur 500 miles nearer to the Philippines.
Streaming ashore between a terrific air and naval bombardment of Japanese positions, the Americans quickly seized three air strips and other objectives and drove toward the air base, possession of which will place the Allies within comparatively easy bombing range of the Philippines.
The Japanese were taken completely by surprise and 60,000 enemy troops faced isolation and eventual death or surrender.
Carrying the greatest offensive of
the war into the eighth consecutive day, American bombers based in both Italy and England struck in great strength today against Adolph Hitler's fortressed Europe. From Britain went bombers to attack Friedrichshafen and Munich, while from Italy went bombers to attack the railway yard at Bucharest and military installations in the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania.
Folk Culture Remedy For Present Art, Ashton Tells PKA
Some 1,750 heavy bombers escorted by an equal number of fighting planes participated in the two-way assault. These American daylight forays followed a blistering series of RAF aids on industrial areas in Belgium and the German industrial city of Mannheim.
Indications mounted that a large scale Russian drive through Poland is in the making. Soviet troops were within sight of Sevatopol.
"The most basic example of this attitude (the tendency of artists to express themselves) is James Joyce," stated Professor Ashton, "particularly in his work 'Finnegan's Wake' where even the normal uses of language are put aside for tricks of style which are practically unintelligible to a person who is looking for meaning in the conventional way."
The present day tendency of some artists to produce only for the sake of expressing themselves without any particular concern for communicating ideas and emotions to other peoples should be remedied by the return of the folk culture, in a broad sense, emphasized John W. Ashton, professor of English, at the annual meeting Friday night at the Hearth of Pi Kappa Lambda, national honorary musical society.
Four students were initiated into the society, the highest honor awarded to a music student. The new members are: Justine Peterson Kloepper, M o n u m e n t; Suzanne Schmidt, Freeport; Leora Adams DeFord, Clay Center; and Max Hughes, Colby. E. T. Gaston, president of the organization, presided as master of ceremonies. The next banquet and initiation services will take place next year following the Music Week festival.
"The same thing is true in the painting "Surrealism"; and in music there are approaches to it in some of the experiments of composers who seem to be more interested in experiment for its own sake than in the development of musical ideas. We need to return to the arts as companions of everyday life which characterizes people in what we think of as simpler cultures than the current one."
Professor Ashton emphasized the need for the close relating of all the arts of life and that without that close relation the arts lost much of their effectiveness.
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Honor Roll Lists Sixty-one V-12's
The University V-12 office has released the honor roll of 61 trainees who received an average of "B" or better for the winter term. Of the 277 V-12's remaining here at school the following are listed on the honor roll:
D. E. Albert, E. K. Arnold, W. L.
Basham, C. T. Black, E. W. Blase,
L. S Bohl, T. R. Botts, L. C. Brown,
Jr., D. R. Buechel, P. R. Clement,
Don Cousins, J. A. Crask, D. C.
Cronemeyer, D. W. Diehl, C. H.
Douglass, G. R. Dunlap, J. D. Farber,
J. I. Gibson, W. B. Harding,
W. C. Hargiss, R. L. Hartzell, R. A.
Hayenga, W. C. Heymlan, J. K. Hig-
don, S. R. Hill, Jr., D. R. Hollis, R.
M. Hoover, J. R. Hunter, R. M.
Johnson, R. K. Johnson, M. J. Kauflan,
C. W. Keller, F. R. Kenney, E.
E. Kordes, W. C. Larson, D. R.
Learned, E. G. Luchring, B. Lutz,
R. F. Maurer, L. R. McAneny, W. E.
Meyer, I. H. Mintz, H. G. Moon, H.
W. Morrow, R. J. T. Neustrom, J.
L. Ott, V. L. Reynolds, G. A. Rogers,
J. E. Simpson, C. C. Cloan, L. R.
Smith, J. S. Steiner, J. R. Stevens,
J. W. Teemer, G. E. Verjage, J. L.
Vondracek, G. D. Wampler, J. J.
Wildgen, J. R. Wilson, R. H. Wright,
Jr., and R. A. Wuellner.
V-12 Representatives Place at Convention
Representatives of the University of Kansas placed second and third in the speech contest sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at its annual meeting held this weekend in Omaha, Neb. Robert F. Maurer, V-12, who spoke on "Compressibility of Liquid Hydrocarbons as a Source of Error in Metering" received the second class rating, and a talk on "Cathodic Protection of Pipe Lines" by Joseph R. Wilson, V-12, placed third. Maurer was toastmaster at the luncheon.
Others from the University who
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Volunteers Brace Dikes, Feed Workers
The U. S. weather forecast for today is:
Fair tonight, colder with frost. Increasing cloudiness and rain.
Approximately 250 University students left their classes today to help fight back the flood waters of the Kaw and Wakara rivers, the latter reaching the highest flood stage in its history. Many of these students, most of whom were army and navy trainees, have been on duty all night, filling and tying sand bags, strengthening dikes and levees, and aiding the Red Cross in feeding the workers and evacuating a few families in the lowlands near the river.
At the worst spot, Wichita, where thousands were made homeless by the amaging Little Arkansas, the waters were at a standstill but threatened other communities all the way to the Oklahoma line.
(International News Service)
Arriving on the scene even before the state guard, 30 CAP's, about half of whom were University students, volunteered their services early
Floods Isolate Towns and Kill Three People
Ottawa and Emporia were isolated by floodwaters, and although route 24 was closed, traffic between Topeka, Kansas City, and Wichita was possible through other routes.
More than five inches of rain fell over the weekend in many parts of the state.
(International News Service)
Flood fighters in Missouri and Kansas today worked under murky skies to save levees and bridges while the known death toll, directly attributed to floods, stood at three. Waters from gorged rivers continued to pour through towns and over farm lands; and although more rain is promised for tomorrow, the respite today abated present danger.
Electricians Praised As Diplomas Given
Commending the 52 men of platoon one, company one, of the University Naval Training School on their excellent record while in training here, Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer, presented the trainees the first to be graduated from electrical training, diplomas Friday afternoon. The exercises were held in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
In their addresses to the men, Dr. V. P. Hessler, professor of electrical engineering, and Paul G. Hausman, professor of shop practice, congratulated them on their fine conduct in the classroom and on their cooperation in the class work.
"Platoon one has made the best record of any group graduating from the school in conduct, disciplinary action, and in scholastic standing." said Lt. T. R. O'Hara, executive officer. "Your behavior about the ship and in your academic and military work has left a fine example for future platoons to follow."
"This platoon was especially handicapped at first by lack of materials and by the fact that we were still training machinist mates at that time," said Lt. C. V. McGuigan, company commander and welfare and recreation officer. "However, your orientation under these circumstances has been exceptional, and we are proud of your record."
James Mullin Dick of North Hollywood, Calif., was cited as honor man of the division and received a rating of electrician's mate third class. Dick and Rolland Brooks, Los Angeles, will remain at the school for 16 weeks as trainee instructors.
vesterday afternoon to help fill and
tie sand bags, remaining on duty until 1:30 last night. Women students from the various houses came down about 2:30 yesterday afternoon to offer their services to the Red Cross in taking food and hot drinks around by truck to workmen and evacuating a few families from North Lawrence.
Two fraternity groups, consisting of ten each, came down to the river bank to offer their services early in the evening, working until midnight when they went home to rest, but called up an hour later saying they were ready to come on duty again.
At 3 p.m. today the height of the Kaw river was 22 feet 9 inches, and the waters were gradually falling
As the flood waters rose, more volunteers were called for and 90 AST's were sent down at midnight to assist the city workers. Twenty navy cadets arrived at the same time and a few hours later 40 more cadets appeared as a relief squad. Early this morning 55 medics offered to throw up extra dikes and bank the existing levees with more sand bags. With river waters falling slightly this morning, 50 electrician's mates of Companies 2, 3, and 4 relieved the trainees who had been up all night and took over the task while the V-12 units are standing by to lend further assistance if necessary.
In a morning report the Kaw river which had reached a high mark of 23.3 feet sometime after midnight (a point six-tenths of a foot below the flood stage reached last year), had dropped about five-tenths of a foot with a further drop expected this afternoon and evening. The Wakarua river, which extended over an area four-fifths of a mile wide yesterday afternoon, had also dropped over half a foot from the 28 foot flood stage. Two small bridges, in out-lying districts of the county had been washed out, according to the county engineer, but the majority of the roads into Lawrence were passable by this morning with the road to Ottawa the only one still blocked.
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8-Year-Old Children Aid Adult Workers To Fill Sand Bags
Providing stiff competition for many of the adult workers at the river banks yesterday, four or five little eight-year-old children were industriously filling and tieing sand bags to have ready for the volunteer workers with which to back the levees.
Among other volunteers, according to Ship Winters who was super-intending the work, were two WAC's from Kansas City, one of whom had participated in a recruiting drive at the University several month-age.
A former resident of Lawrence, now living in Topeka, also drove down last night to offer his services on the levees.