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Moderate to locally heavy showers Continuing today. Saturday partly cloudy with little change in temperature.
NUMBER 135
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1944
41st YEAR
High School Track and Field Meet Will Attract State's Best Tomorrow; Rain Will Not Prevent Contest
If only the weather man would turn track enthusiast and let the sun shine brightly today and tomorrow, everything would be in readiness for the 40th Annual Interscholastic Track and Field Meet at the stadium tomorrow.
Ray Kanehl, director of the meet, today expressed a hope for "less rain and more sunshine" so that the track would be fast for the races. However, rain or shine, the meet will be run off according to schedule.
Twenty Class A and 22 Class B high schools have filed entries for Saturday's classic. The list includes: Class "A" High Schools
Atchison Co. Community High School, Effingham; Atchison; Argentine, Kansas City; Hutchinson; Leavenworth; Marysville; Paola; Shawnee-Mission; Summer; Topeka; Wamego; Wichita East; Wichita North; Emporia; Olathe; Ottawa; Salina; Ft. Scott; Wyandotte; Liberty Memorial, Lawrence.
Class "F" High Schools
Axtell; Burlingame; Bururton; Ha-
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Professor Liebermann will discuss a new device designed to detect very small changes in the velocity of sound which are related to the structure of molecules.
Liebermann To Attend Convention Prof. Leonard Liebermann of the physics department will speak before the convention of the American Physical Society at Pittsburg, Pa., April 28 and 29. The meeting will be held at the Mellon Institute.
52 Graduated From NT School
Graduation exercises for the first platoon of electrician's mates to be graduated from the University Naval Training School, are being held at 3:30 this afternoon in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. The 52 men in the platoon have completed a 16-weeks training course in electrical training.
The diplomas will be presented to the trainees by Lt. A. H. Huh, commanding officer. Addresses will be made by Lieutenant Buhl, Lt. T. R. O'Hara, executive officer; Lt. C. V. McGuigan, welfare and recreation officer; Dr. V. P. Hessler, professor of electrical engineering; Paul G. Hausman, professor of shop practice; and Chief Electrician J. H. Malloy, school officer.
The honor man of the group, Seaman James Mullin Dick of North Hollywood, Calif., will be given a rating of electrician's mate, third class. Four other trainees will also be given third class ratings. They are Rolland Brooks, Los Angeles; William Hjaltain, Bellingham, Wash; Raymond Thomas, Cotton Valley, La.; and Burrel White, McGregor, Texas. The other men of the platoon will be awarded ratings of firemen, first class.
Brooks and Dick will remain at the school for 16 weeks as trainee instructors.
Lieutenant McGuigan is the company commander. Hjaitalin is the trainee commander.
AST's Take Achievement Test Today and Tomorrow
Terms one and three of the reserve trainees in the University AST program are being given the War Department achievement tests today and tomorrow. This is the third achievement test to be given since the AST program was started on the campus.
Honors Assembly Will Combine With Two Talks
Honors Convocation will be combined with two lectures on Pan-American relationships for the observance May 8 of Inter-American day at the University, Chancellor Deane W. Malott has announced.
Dr. Harold E. Davis will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Fraser theater on "Education for Inter-American Cooperation." Sponsored in his appearance here by the department of Romance languages, Dr. Davis is director of the division of education and teachers aids in the office of Nelson Rockefeller, coordinator of inter-American affairs in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Davis' address will be preceded in the morning by an address by Benjamin Cherrington, chancellor of the University of Denver who will speak at the annual Honors Convocation. Chancellor Cherrington's subject will also be related to Pan-American problems.
signest 10 Percent to be Announced Following tradition at the convocation in the morning, the names of students ranking in the highest 10 percent in scholarship in the senior class of each school, and of the lead-ing juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in each school are announced. These students will sit in a special section at the assembly. Their names will appear on the programs.
100 Students to Hear Wife of Governor
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Approximately 100 students will attend the tea sponsored by the Vocational Information group of the Young Women's Christian Association at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Miller hall at which Mrs. Andrew Schoeppel, wife of the Governor of Kansas, will be the speaker and guest of honor.
Invitations have been extended to the junior and senior members of the YWCA, the YWCA advisory board and cabinet, and members of Mortar Board, according to Mrs. Calvin VanderWerf, executive secretary of the YWCA. Mrs. Schoeppel will speak on "Women United for a Better World." Mrs. Raymond Nichols, chairman of the social committee of the YWCA advisory board, is working with the vocations group in planning the tea.
Rain Halts Picnics, Planting
If baked potatoes and oat meal do not appear on the menu at your house next year, you can blame it on the weather this spring, according to agricultural authorities. The excessive amount of rain the past two months has delayed the planting of crops in many cases, especially oats and potatoes.
Substituted for these two products in this section of the country are acres of corn and kafir corn. Local farmers report that some of the crops already planted are being washed out, and the muddy fields make it impossible to cultivate others.
Picnics and hikes scheduled for this weekend by campus organizations are rapidly being cancelled as the grey skies continue to drip gently but steadily.
The sunshine yesterday, however,
provided a break in the monotonous drizzle and allowed swells in Kansas rivers to pass on without reaching the flood stage.
Bucharest Bombed As Invasion Nears
(International News Service)
The German Trans-oceanic agency reported today that Bucharest, capital of Rumania was blasted by Allied planes today. Other Allied bombers were out in force against pre-invasion targets in Europe following a major night onslaught which carried the record number of 1,100 R.A.F. planes to the miserable ruins of Cologne.
Nazi broadcasts filled the air with reports of imminent assaults upon the continent asserting that "the greatest concentration of ships since Dunkirk—including British, American, French and other Allied vessels—is massing in British home waters. Every day now," the German broadcast continued, "Allied troops trains are leaving London stations taking men to channel ports on the east and south coast."
Badoglio's Cabinet Has Six Anti-Facists
Naples, (INS) — Marshal Pietro Badoglio formed a new Italian government today, according membership to representatives of all six anti-facist groups in the nation.
The cabinet list was submitted to King Victor Emanuel for his approval and presumably for that of Crown Prince Umberto who will take over once the Allies have entered Rome.
The Communist leader Ercole Enclo was given a post as minister without portfolio, as were Count Carlo Sforza, former foreign minister, who went into self-imposed exile when Mussolini seized power and Benedetto Croce, Italy's outstanding liberal and philosopher.
Stabilization Fund Agreed Upon
Washington, (INS)—Senator Robert Wagner, (Dem., N.Y.) chairman of the senate banking committee, announced today that technical experts of 30 nations have agreed on principles to govern an international stabilization fund.
Electricians School Receives High Rating at Farewell Banquet For First Group to Be Graduated
John Wray Visits Parents On Furlough From Nevada
A/C John L, Wray, former University student, is spending a furough from gunnery school in Lawrence with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wray.
Results of the War Department achievement tests given in 26 Universities in Cycle 2 to ASTP trainees on Jan. 21 and 22 disclosed that KU has an extremely high standing, Col. Watson L. McMorris, commandant of the University AST units, announced today.
In term one, the regular ASTP trainees competing with 29 other schools ranked third in chemistry and physics and fourth in mathematics. They ranked fifth on the composite score of six tests given. These six tests were in chemistry, English, geography, history, mathematics, and physics.
Cadet Wray has been receiving gunnery training at Las Vegas, Nev. Before his enlistment, he was employed at the Sunflower Ordnance Works.
In term two, competing with 31 schools, the AST trainees stood first in chemistry and physics, second in English and mathematics and ranked fourth on the composite score. Ranked in Upper Ten Percent
ASTP Ranks High On Military Test Given 26 Colleges
"Although we did not qualify first in any subjects in term 1," Colonel McMorris said, 'our general standing was among the upper 10 per cent."
Competing with six schools in term one, the ASTPR trainees ran-
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University Alumni To Attend Reunion
More than 300 graduates and former students are expected to attend the alumni banquet and program which will held in Kansas City next Tuesday evening, according to Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary.
The banquet will be held at 6:15 in the President Hotel, Mr. Ellsworth said. Landon Laird, columnist for the Kansas City Star will be master of ceremonies.
Already planning to attend from the University are Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott, Dean and Mrs. Paul B. Lawson, Dean and Mrs. F. J. Moreau, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shenk, Mr. and Mrs Karl Klooz, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stephens, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Davis, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Burdick and Mr. and Mrs. Els-worth
Chancellor Malott will speak to the alumni and a program will be given by the Strolling Troubadors.
Several students from the University will also give a short program.
The University Naval Training School (Elec.) was notified yesterday that it had received one of the highest ratings of similar schools in the United States, Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer, announced last night at the farewell banquet held for platoons one and two or company one at the Lawrence Community center.
The party was the first one to be given in honor of the electricians mates since the school was converted from machinist to electrical training. Platoon one will be graduated this afternoon at 3:30 and platoon two will be graduated on Friday, May 5.
Serving as master of ceremonies,
Chief Yeoman George O. Starkey,
kept the program of farewell speeches lively. Short speeches were given by seven officers.
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Quartet Stars In 'Stabat Mater'
The solemn and religious "Stabat Mater" by Rossini, presented by approximately 150 students and faculty members, drew a crowd of 800 people to Hoch auditorium last night for the last major event of Music Week.
Of the ten sections into which the program was divided, the eighth part with its brilliant orchestral passages and choral crescendos, was the most popular with the audience. Opening with a brass arrangement, followed by a tympani roll, the phrases were repeated with variations throughout the number. The soprano solo, was sung by Miss Meribah Moore. Crashing chords at the end composed a fitting climax to the section.
The quartet, composed of Miss Moore, soprano; Miss Alice Moncrieff, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Wilkins, tenor; and Harold Thompson, bass, opened the program with a combined chorus and quartet number accompanied by the University Symphony orchestra.
Wilkins Pleases Audience
With the brass section again predominant at the beginning of the second number, the strings and the tenor voice of Joseph Wilkins soon took up the melody. The voices of Miss Moore and Miss Peabody were expertly blended in the third sec-
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Engineers Attend Omaha Convention
R. F. Maurer and J. R. Wilson V-12 Engineers, today gave speeches at the sectional convention of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Omaha.
Attending the convention with them were John Hillard, Charles F. Smith, Walter L. Siegester, Henry Moon, and the adviser of the local organization, Wray Fogwell. Plans for the trip were made Thursday when Maurer and Wilson addressed the local group.