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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 13. 1944
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Thirteen Accept Bids To Attend Post War Meet
The first day's mail brought acceptance from thirty representatives of thirteen colleges in Kansas in response to the invitations to attend the postwar educational conference at the University April 17 and 18.
One out-of-state guest will be J. C. Knode, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Mexico, who represents the United States Office of Education.
A refusal came from the head of the college department of the U.S. Office of Education at Washington, Dr.F.J.Kelly, one time dean of education and later dean of administration at Kansas. Dr.Kelly expressed a keen desire to return for the conference next week but was unable to arrange his schedule so as to permit the trip.
Dean Paul Lawson said this morning that persons interested in the discussions next Monday and Tuesday are welcome to attend the sessions, which will be held in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
The universities of Wichita and Washburn, the state's two municipal universities, each will send five representatives to the conference.
Large Audience Hears Thomas
If, in war time, we can work cooperatively and efficiently, why can't we do the same in peace time economy? This was the question asked of students and faculty members by Norman Thomas, national figure in the Socialist party, in his final address at the University yesterday afternoon in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Brought to the University through the Student Forums Board, Mr. Thomas spoke three times yesterday to large audiences of students and faculty members. In his first address at 9:30 a.m. in Fraser theater he discussed the international postwar scene. He continued this discussion at a luncheon given in his honor at the University Clubroom in the Memorial Union building.
At the luncheon, Mr. Thomas, discussed the various plans which have
Six Grads to Publish Research Summaries
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Six summaries of doctoral dissertations in education will soon be ready for distribution, H. E. Chandler, secretary of the Teachers Appointment Bureau, has announced.
Entitled "Graduate Research in Education and Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations in Education," the booklet will include the titles of master and doctor theses since 1940. These have not heretofore been published, as the last booklet was issued in February, 1940.
The students whose summaries will appear in the new edition are Dorothy M. Pollock, Earl Edgar Dawson, John P. Sheffield, Clifton B. Huff, Roy W. Browning, and Leonard P. Elliott.
8 Die in Infirmary Fire
Ex-Student Is Injured By Tornado
A scalp injury and a punctured hip with a number of bruises were the extent of the injuries of Evan R. Hollingsworth, College junior withdrawn, who was one of 15 hurt when the C.P.S. camp at Magnolia, Ark., was demolished by a tornado Tuesday.
"What I need now is clothing," wrote Hollingsworth to the Rev. Edwin F. Price, dean of the School of Religion. He told Mr. Price that he lost practically all of his belongings as the wind tore the former CCC camp to fragments and scattered it for miles.
Others in the camp were more seriously wounded and one young man may lose an arm.
Hollingsworth went to the camp before the end of the first semester. He was a member of the Methodist church choir.
George Pierron Wins Kappa Psi Key Given Top-Rank Pharmacist
George J. Pierron has been awarded the Kappa Psi Scholarship key for outstanding scholastic achievement in the School of Pharmacy, the office of the School of Pharmacy announced this morning.
Kappa Psi, honorary pharmaceutical fraternity, annually awards, the scholarship key to the pharmacy student who ranks first in his graduating class.
Pierron was graduated from the School of Pharmacy on Feb. 27. He is now a member of the School of Medicine at the University.
A pledge of Phi Chi, national medical fraternity. Pierron was also awarded a gold medal by the Lehn and Fink Pharmaceutical House for his scholastic record.
"Peter the Great," celebrated Russian film which will be presented in Fraser theater this evening through the Student Forums Board, gives a detailed panorama of Russia at the time of Peter the First, who opposed his own nobility to bring Europe to Russia, according to Joy Miller, chairman of the board.
Movie to Be Shown In Fraser Tonight
Simopuy, she said, will play Peter in the film. The Russian actress, Tarassova, of the Moscow theater, takes the part of his wife.
Shown with a short feature, the film will begin at 7:30 p.m. Miss Miller has announced, and no admission will be charged.
The film is interesting also, said Miss Miller, for its picture of the pre-urease of new conflicts upon a society.
Many dry chemicals, both dangerous and nondangerous, are now shipped in paper and fiber containers.
Pumphrey Inspects Campus AST Units
Lt. Col. Fred H. Pumphrey of the curricula branch of the AST division headquarters, Washington, D.C., is visiting the University AST units today and tomorrow.
"Colonel Pumphrey will inspect the AST reserve program which is being conducted on the campus," said Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorris, commandant of the University AST units.
Air War Begins New Offensive
(International News Service)
Heavy bombs from the Mediterranean theater also broke into southern reaches of the greater Reich blasting air fields and factories throughout Hungary.
The Allied aerial offensive against the European continent mounted to a new pitch of intensity today. Budapest, the Rhine-mainz area of Nazi Germany, industrial objectives of airports in Belgium and France, the so-called invasion coast at Pas de Calais, and ballbearing plants at Schweinfurt Augsburg, and German airforce installations at Lechfeld were hit.
In Rusisa the Soviet's grip on the Crimean penninsula was tightened with the recapture of Feodosiya, vital port and railway junction on the Black sea. The Soviet air force meanwhile assaulted the Lwow in Poland following yesterday's full-scale raid on the Rumanian Black seaport of Constanta.
Secretary of war Stimson in Washington confirmed the Allied air war entered a new phase the past week when 500 to 2,000 American planes from the British isles swept over Europe at one time to blast prize targets. Stimson also told of heavy blows against Japan's heavy air power in the Pacific, recalling that Allied airmen wiped out an entire concentration of 288 Japanese plane replacements at Hollandia in New Guinea.
From the southwest Pacific came word that the 25-year-old record held by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker for destroying enemy planes in action was smashed with official recognition given to the 26-kill of Capt. Richard Bong of Poplar, Wis.
In seven brief minutes of combat over Hollandia, Bong down his 26 and 27 plane and made himself America's fighter ace number one.
Graduate Is in Italy With Medical Unit
Pfc. Don Baumhard, a graduate from the School of Pharmacy in 1942, is stationed now with the 54th Medical Battalion in Italy. In a recent letter to the office of the School of Pharmacy, Pfc. Baumhard tells of his work taking care of medical cases in a ward tent. He speaks of having seen many monasteries and castles on the nearby mountains of Italy.
Pfc Baumhard is a member of Kappa Psi, pharmaceutical fraternity.
27 Saved From County Home; Fire Began in Basement, 1:30 a.m.
Eight persons are dead and one severely injured as the result of a fire which destroyed the Douglas County Farm and Home three miles southeast of Lawrence at 2 a.m. today.
The dead are:
The dead are:
Mrs. Ida Clark, 80
Mrs. Alice Bebout, 86
Mrs. Elizabeth Whitelaw, 76
Fred Plateman, 88
Girl's Act Saves Life Of Woman
An outstanding rescue act was performed by Miss Betty Spooner, who was serving as a maid in the county infirmary, destroyed by fire las night. Miss Spooner, 17, a Lawrence girl, awoke in her room on the first floor, noticed the blaze, and found her way to third floor. She picked up Mrs. Peter Luzius, 85, a totally blind inmate of the home, and carried her down to safety. She then attempted to wake Peter Luzius, husband of the rescued woman, but was unable to arouse him. She was overcome with smoke and was forced to leave. Mr. Luzius, who was almost blind, was burned to death.
Miss Spooner, who is of slight build, said today that she didn't know where she got the strength to carry Mrs. Luzius and declares that she couldn't do it again.
Miss Spooner aided in pulling one man out of the basement, and in helping the other persons out of the house. Although homeless before, Miss Spooner has already been offered a home.
Miss Spooner had worked at the home for seven months.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Luzius came from Germany to Lawrence in 1885 and lived at 638 Mississippi street. They entered the home in November, 1943.
Ashton, Calderwood To Go to Wichita
Prof. John W. Ashton, chairman of the English department, and Mrs. Robert Calderwood, English instructor, will be on the program of the 27th annual conference of Kansas College Teachers of English which they will attend Friday and Saturday at the Municipal University of Wichita. Professor Hankins of the department of English will also attend the conference.
Mrs. Calderwood will participate Friday afternoon in a round-table discussion on "What the War Does to the College English Program." Appearing with her in the discussion will be Dr. Gordon Eaker of Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg, chairman, and Geraldine Hammond of the University of Wichita.
Professor Ashton will lecture Friday afternoon in "The Traditional Ballad and the Study of Literature."
William St. Clair, 88
Isaac Tabor, 71
Lafayette Tabor, 82
(brothers) Peter Luzius, 83
Still smoking at noon, the ruins of the $35,000 two-story infirmary building, were a mere shell of walls and a huge pile of bricks where the walls had caved in. The eight bodies were left in the ruins until the walls could be pulled down away from the wreckage to insure safety for the rescue workers. Heat was still rising from the building this afternoon.
Invalid Leaps To Safety
Reserved Hoskinson, invalid suffering from paralysis of the right side, is at the Lawrence Memorial hospital with two broken legs resulting from a leap from the window.
Mrs. Mildred B. Watson, Douglas county welfare director, is in charge of the 27 surviving inmates. Four are temporarily at the county jail, and the others are quartered in the basement of the Community building. Mrs. Watson expected that they will be with relatives, or in boarding homes by tonight. Three were transferred from state hospitals in Osawatomie and Topeka to the county home, and negotiations are being made to return them.
Started in Laundry Room
The fire started in the laundry rooms in the basement. The caretaker believes that an overloaded electric control to handle the automatic switches for the pumps caused the fire.
All of the occupants were in bed asleep and those who lost their lives suffocated when the top floor and roof caved in. George Hoskinson, caretaker; Miss Betty Spooner, dining room girl; Miss Maris Schott, cook; and Andrew Lee, occupant.
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Classical Association To Meet Here Soon
The Classical Association of Kansas and Western Missouri will meet here on Saturday, April 22, Prof. L. R. Lind of the department of Latin and Greek, president of the association announced today. Meetings will be held in room 206 of Fraser hall.
In addition to papers which will be read by the various members of the organization, Prof. C. A. Forbes of the department of classics of the University of Nebraska will give two lectures. In the morning session he will discuss "Athletics Now and Then," and in the afternoon he will speak on "Book-of-the-Month and Book-of-the-Ages," a comparison of ancient Greek and modern American literature. He is considered an authority on Greek physical education, Professor Lind announced.