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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1944
NUMBER 124
41st YEAR
Chancellor Cherrington Will Speak May8 on Latin America At Annual Honors Convocation
Benjamin Cherrington, chancellor of the University of Denver, has been selected as speaker for the annual honors convocation to be held Monday. May 8, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced this morning.
Popular among the students at Denver University, Chancellor Cherrington has spent considerable time working with young people and has been asked to make addresses at several colleges in years past. Latin America's relations with this country, of which he has made an extensive study, will be the subject of Chancellor Cherrington's address here.
At the convocation, held every year late in the spring semester, the names of students ranking in the highest 10 per cent in scholarship of the senior class of each school, and of the leading juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in each school are announced. These students will sit in a special section at the assembly and will have their names printed on the programs.
Announcement is also made of the student from the graduating class of the previous year who, in the judgment of an all-University committee, made the largest contribution to student life during his University career. Selection is based on character, scholarship, breadth of interest, unselfish service, and leadership.
Bucharest Said To Be in Panic
(International News Service)
Dispatches from Istanbul reported a state of "indescribable panic" in Bucharest, the capital of Rumania today, ascribing this to the imminence of Odessa's capture by Russian troops and to steadily increasing Allied air assault against enemy communication lines in the Balkans. German propaganda broadcasts again said allied bombers were enroute to "Southeast Germany."
As a direct result of yesterday's heavy American bomber raid on the Ploesti oil fields, the Istanbul report said Rumanian authorities no longer are able to maintain order.
State Second in Grain Sorghums
Meanwhile battle front dispatches received in Moscow said that soviet vanguards were "in sight" of Odessa and 200,000 German troops were threatened with entrapment. A rail junction 37 miles northwest of Odessa was captured and the main Nazi escape line thus severed.
From the British Isles bombers carried out an effective attack on Toulouse deep in southern France. In Naples a Mediterranean airforce spokesman announced that Allied airmen destroyed 157 enemy planes in Sunday's heavy attack on the Austrian industrial city of Styr—the greatest toll yet taken in that theater.
Kansas is second only to one other state in production of grain sorghums, from which starches for food and other uses can be made. Grain sorghums also are used extensively as stock feed.
Several Killed in Explosion At Hastings, Neb., Plant
Hastings, Neb. (INS)—At least three persons and possibly eight were killed today in an explosion at the Hastings naval ammunition depot. Damage was estimated at $500,000 and an official investigation has been launched.
K.U. Observes Army Day With Special Retreat
In honor of Army Day the post flag of the University AST Units, which is flown only on special days, is flying beneath the Stars and Stripes on the flag pole north of Lindley hall.
A special retreat formation will be held at 5:30 this evening with the entire unit, including officers, staff members, regular trainees, and medical trainees, standing in ranks.
A Special Army Day greeting to the service was received at University military headquarters today from Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army:
"Traditionally Army Day has been an occasion when the Army engaged in parades and demonstrations for the public throughout the country. The necessities of war have made it inadvisable to transport and divert troops for this purpose. This year, as any other day, April 6 will be one of hard work to carry us that much nearer to victory.
"To every man and woman in the Army, we owe an increasing debt of gratitude for the fortitude and spirit with which their duties are being performed."
Gen. John J. Pershing, General of the Armies of the United States, also sent a special Army Day greeting to which he added: "I know that while the way will be hard and costly, victory will be won."
Dr. E. Raymond Hall, recently appointed chairman of the department of zoology and director of Dyche Museum, has been elected president of the American Society of Mammalologists of which he was formerly vice-president.
Hall ASM President; Hibbard Is Director
"The men will continue their academic and military activities throughout the day as usual," said Col. Watson L. McMorris, commandant of the University AST Units. "Attendance of all study hall periods tonight will be optional with the trainees."
Claude W. Hibbard, curator of vertebrate paleontology, has been re-elected to the board of directors for the term of 1944-46.
State Leads in Wheat Production
State Leads in Wheat Production Kansas leads the nation in wheat production and in flour milling.
Willkie Returns Home After Withdrawal From GOP Race
Chicago, (INS)—Crestfallen but determined to smile, Wendell Willkie, journeyed homeward today on the last leg of a trip that began in the hope of reaching the White House and ended prematurely in admitted defeat.
Willkie stopped briefly in Chicago enroute to New York from Omaha where yesterday he withdrew from the race for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination.
Willkie declined to answer questions as to whether he would bolt the Republican party or support its candidate.
Wendell Willkie announced his withdrawal from the 1944 Republican presidential nomination race last night in Omaha. After a 50-minute speech on foreign policy before an audience of 3,000 persons who had expected to hear him as a presidential candidate, Mr. Willkie delivered a brief statement of his desire not to be nominated and the reasons for his action.
The test of his strength in the Wisconsin primary resulted in an overwhelming support of Gov.
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Faculty Favors Blue Cross Plan
Favorable returns have begun to reach the University Business Office from a letter sent to seven hundred faculty members and other employees of the University of Kansas offering participation in the Blue Cross, a group hospitalization plan. The letters were sent over the signatures of the board of directors of the Teachers and Employees Association of the University of Kansas. On request of Chancellor Deane W. Malott, the board studied several hospitalization plans and chose this one to offer to the University group. The Blue Cross is sponsored by
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The Blue Cross is sponsored by the Kansas Hospital Service Associ-
KU Group to Give 'GI's' Easter Show
Easter entertainment for soldiers will be provided by a University group which will go to Leavenworth Sundav.
Ted Lehmman, College senior, and Shirley Jae Wagner, College freshman, reported favorites of the Thanksgiving Day program at Leavenworth, will return with humorous monologues. Those contributing musical entertainment are Norma Lutz, sophomore mezzo soprano; Prof. Walderal Geltch, violinist, with an ensemble of seven student violinists; and a group of 20 from the women's glee club, directed by Margaret Hall, junior in the School of Fine Arts. The musical numbers consist of both sacred and popular selections.
Prof. Allen Crafton of the speech department, organized and planned the show's continuity and hopes to accompany and act as master of ceremonies.
Music Week Will Start April 16 With Vespers Given by Children; Szigeti Will Be Star of Week
Northwestern Faculty, Coeds Give Blood for Japanese
Evanston, Ill. (INS)—Two faculty members and six coeds have donated blood in attempts to save the life of Ikuo Oyama, 54, Japanese research associate in political science at Northwestern University. Oyama has been connected with Northwestern since 1933.
A spokesman for the AAF declared that the decision to temporarily halt increases in the training program was reached in order to provide a larger pool of men for the ground forces. As the result the AAF will not accept any new candidates for flight training either from civilian life or from other branches of the armed services for at least three months.
Army Air Force Denies Charges It Broke Faith
The AAF explains students now being withdrawn from air corps training at colleges will be affected in accordance with their standing before entering the college course; and men volunteering for the air forces on induction would remain with the air forces but probably would not receive flight training unless they are already in the process of training.
University Co-ops Will Be Hosts At Co-op Conference
Washington, (INS)—The army air forces sought today to refute charges that it is "breaking faith" with air corps cadets and civilian training pilots as the result of curtailment of the air force's training program.
University co-ops will be hosts to delegates from the other campus co-ops in the Central League at their annual conference next weekend. The Central League includes the campus co-ops in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas.
This year marks the fourth anniversary of the Central League of Campus Co-ops, which was formed in order to assemble members to exchange ideas on administration of co-operatives, discuss general and specific problems of the various coops, see the relation of their co-ops to the larger co-op movement, and take a look at the co-operative movement of the future.
This will be the second year that the University co-ops have been hosts to the conference, for the CLCC conference was held here in 1941. Last year degrades from the University co-ops went to the University of Missouri.
The annual Music Week festival for the University and Lawrence will open Sunday, April 16 and continue through Friday, April 21. D.M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, announced today.
The opening major musical event of the week will be Monday evening when Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, will present a recital in Hoch auditorium. This will also be the closing attraction on the University Concert series for the season.
Vocal and instrumental musical groups from the grade, junior, and senior high schools of Lawrence will open the week's activities with a Vesper program at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium. Participating will be a primary rhythm band of one hundred children, elementary school and junior high school choruses, and the senior high school band. They will be under the direction of Mable Barnhard, Jeanne Scott, and Oliver Hobbs.
John Jacob Niles, lecture-recitalist, will present a program of American folk songs and ballads Tuesday evening in Fraser theater. He will be accompanied by the dulcimer "Life" magazine recently carried a five or six page illustrated feature story on Mr. Niles.
Wednesday evening will feature the annual Young American Artist program, an event inaugurated by Dean Swarthout several years ago to provide encouragement to superior talent. Sidney Foster, young concert pianist of New York City, will present the concert that evening.
Judge Queen Photos Monday Evening
The University A Cappella choir will present the final major musical event at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium. Accompanied by the University Symphony Orchestra and with Meribah Moore, Irene Fenbey, Joseph Wilkins, and Harold Thompson as soloists, the choir will sing the Rossini "Stabat Mater." More than one hundred and seventy-five persons will have part in the program.
The annual banquet and initiation of the new members of Fi Kappa Lambda, national honorary musical society, will be held Friday evening as the final event of the week.
Photographs entered in the Jayhawker beauty queen contest which closed yesterday afternoon will be judged at 8 o'clock Monday evening in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building, according to Mary Morrill, editor of the Jayhawker magazine.
Judges will be Wallace Grimes,
College junior, Willard Frank, sophomore in the School of Engineering;
Bob Stewart, College junior, Ed Read, College senior, and Earle Crawford, College sophomore.
Women selected from the photographs will be invited to attend a tea at which the same committee will choose a smaller group to be photographed for the final judging by some non-University person.