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NUMBER 117
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,TUESDAY,MARCH 28,1944
41ST YEAR
Russians Near Balkan Gateway; New Jap Thrusts
(International News Service)
Russian troops today were almost at the threshold of Cernauti, the third largest city of Rumania and gateway to the Balkans and northern terminus of the royal Rumanian state railway line leading southward to the Ploesti oil fields and to Bucharest.
Meanwhile, savage street fighting raged in the streets of Nikolayev after Russian troops blasted their way into the city despite strong enemy resistance.
Other Russian forces were only 12 miles from Gassy, holding a 51 mile stretch on the east bank of the Prut river presumably poised for a leap into old Rumania itself.
Formations of Allied bombers and fighters streaked out across the English Channel in new daylight raids against the Continent, and the German controlled Luxembourg radio went off the air.
Allied bombers based in the Mediterranean carried out 1400 new attacks in support of ground troops at the deadlock Cassino and Anzio beachhead battlefronts, featured by widespread assaults against railway yards, warehouses, and factories in the Rome area.
On the Asiatic front Japanese troops thrust a new invasion column toward the Indian communication center of Kohima.
War Casualties
The war department announced today the names of 498 soldiers wounded in action. The list included five Kansans. They were:
Asiatic area
Sgt. Roy Tuttle, 717 Bokey St., Kansas City.
Mediterranean Area
Mediterranean Area
Sgt. Donald G. Detwiler, 845 East 7th St. Ottawa; Pca. Shelby E. Krouse, 1128 Scott, Kansas City; 2nd Lt. Filbert Munoz, 730 Pacific Ave., Kansas City; and Pfc. George C. Wilken, Lakin.
San Francisco Fire Claims Many Lives
San Francisco, (INS)-Fire which claimed 24 lives and injured 29 persons as it destroyed a small San Francisco hotel early today was described as "undoubtedly of incendiary origin" by fire chief Albert J. Sullivan. Racing through the 3-story hotel, with lightning speed the flames trapped many in their beds. Others were forced to jump from their windows as firemen spread rescue nets.
Three Professors Attended Petroleum Engineers Meeting
Recent maps and publications of ecological methods were exhibited at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Engineers last week under the sponsorship of the University geological survey department. Prof. J. C. Frye and Prof. M. L. Thompson, of the survey staff, and Prof. L. R. Laudon, of the geology department, returned Saturday after attending the convention in Dallas as University representatives.
Former Students Get Commissions in Navy
Ensign Turner, whose home is in Kansas City, was enrolled in the School of Education from 1940 to 1943. Ensign Fitzgerald received his bachelor of arts degree as a journalism major in 1939.
Swarthout Is NASM President
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, was elected president of the National Association of Schools of Music at a joint convention last week in Cincinnati of the Music Teachers' National Association and the National Association of Schools of Music. Dean Swarthout returned today.
Resigning after 21 years as secretary and president of the MTNA, Dean Swarthout will succeed Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, as head of NASM. Jan Chiapusso of the piano faculty presented a paper at the Piano Forum. Others representing the University were Joseph Wilkins, head of the department of voice; W. Otto Miessner, head of the department of school music; Laurel Everette Anderson, acting head of the theory department; Jeannette Cass of the theory faculty; and David Lawson, music student in the Graduate School. Karl Kuersteiner, of the Fine Art violin faculty, now on a year's leave for study at the University of Michigan, was also present.
Have you done your part? Have you given all you possibly can to the Red Cross Will you have a fair share in helping the boys fighting overseas, in caring for the needy at home, and in sending a few things to the men in prison camms?
Red Cross Needs Help; Do Your Part
The Red Cross still needs donations to reach the quota of $1,000 set for the civilian students here on the Hill. The amount received so far is $890.12, and tomorrow is the last day of the drive.
Miss Marie Miller, co-ordinator of the civilian Red Cross Drive on the campus asks that all the money be turned in tomorrow.
Reporting to members of the College faculty on the two conferences which he attended last week, Dean Paul B. Lawson will speak at 4:30 p.m. today in Fraser theater. General and liberal education, as well as post-war problems, will be included in his discussion.
Lawson to Speak To Faculty Today
Dean Lawson stated today that more than two thousand delegates were present at the annual convention of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Representatives from approximately seventy colleges and universities attended the Conference of University Administrators on General and Liberal Education which took place later in the week. Both meetings were in Chicago.
"I still feel that we can make the quota by tomorrow," Miss Miller said, "and I also feel that the students are anxious to do their part, we are so near the quota."
The department probably receiving the most complaints from students and faculty is the buildings and grounds department, but the tables have turned and the heckled department is now making known some of its difficulties. >
War and Students Bring Hardship To Buildings, Grounds Department
If you have been sitting in class drawing pictures on the dusty window pane or clearing away a space on the glass to see if the sun is still shining, blame the war not the buildings and grounds department. The average age of their janitors is 63 years which is upheld considerably by 82-year-old G. B. McCarty, who has been serving the University since 1927 and is now keeping the anatomy department orderly.
"None of these men," said Superintendent C. G. Bayles, "are young enough to wash outside windows on the upper stories of the University buildings, so until we are able to employ someone capable of doing the job, we'll have to continue listening to the complaints." 90 Students Employed Once
At one time the department employed 88 students with approximately four and five hundred on
the waiting list of the College Students Employment Program. Now there are no student employees in the department and it is impossible to hire any, declared Mr. Bayles, but in the past the department has helped more than 750 students to attend the University he added.
99 Students Employed Once
"We have even appealed to professional window-washers in Kansas City, but all we heard were laughs," said the superintendent. "The agency there told us that they have employed a one-armed man for the task and women are now commonly hired."
Students Also Bring Problem
The war, however, is not responsible for the other complaint of the department. The students themselves have literally destroyed much of the patient work of the department in their landscaping work. A "highway" almost twenty-five feet wide has been trampled across the lot in front of Watson Library, and the blue grass has been completely killed. Some of these paths have been covered with gravel to prevent widening the barren space as in front of the Fowler Shops and Blake hall.
Speech, Drama Festival to Have Varied Activities in 2-Day Meet; State High Schools to Take Part
Former Girls Staters Will Have Gabfest Tomorrow
All former Girls Staters will have a chance to get together and recall old times at the first Girls State gabfest of this year which will be conducted Wednesday night at 7:30 in Watkins hall. Girls who have attended in any other state are invited as well as all the Kansas alumnae.
SSAC to Discuss KU's Good Will
The State-wide Student Activities Commission will meet in the Kansas room of the Union building at 7:15 this evening. The county chairmen and the correspondents will be present to learn how to spread knowledge and good will for the University in their own communities. Patty Piller, chairman of the executive board, said.
A committee composed of Elizabeth Baker, Althea Shuss Vratil, and Elizabeth Kindig are making arrangements for the affair. Girls who plan to attend are urged to contact one of the committee members so that the size of the group can be estimated.
Raymond Nichols, secretary to the Chanceellor, and Prof. K. W. Davidson, director of information will speak to the members.
Postcards have been sent to remind the members of the meeting, and a reply has been requested. Refreshments will be served.
Paul McNutt Declares Manpower Sufficient
Washington, (INS) — War manpower chairman Paul V. McNutt declared today that "the manpower situation is relatively good" and that neither "pressure" to get 4-F's into war work nor any form of national service act is necessary.
Providence, R. L., (INS)—M mayor General Lewis B. Hershey, national draft director, declared today that selective service is prepared to ask the war and navy departments to induct into "work battalions" 4-F registrants who do not contribute "materially and substantially to the war effort."
German Instructor Surprised By Kaffee Klatsch Tuesday
Sarah Peters, instructor in the German department, was surprised last week witt he Kaffeet Klatsch given by a group of her students in German II meeting for a special study session. The old German custom of mid-morning coffee was observed with the serving of coffee, cookies, nuts, and mints by the students.
Members of the group were Julian Norris, Sarah Lee Drais, Helen Huebert, Frances Blair, George Yeckel, and Frank Stannard.
Eight varied activities will be carried on during the two-day festival which is being sponsored by the department of speech and drama at the University. High schools from over the state will participate.
The annual Speech and Drama festival will be held at the University on Friday and Saturday. Gerald L. Pearson of the extension division has announced. The activities will take place in Fraser theater and Green hall.
Among the entertainment offered will be one-act plays, radio dramas, orations, prose readings, dramatic and humorous readings, extemporaneous speeches, informative speeches, and after dinner speeches. a cafeteria-style dinner Friday evening in the University Chubroom of the Union building will climax the day's activities. A social hour will follow the dinner.
Twelve High Schools Register
High Schools Register Advanced registration lists the following 12 high schools which will be represented:
The one-act plays will get under way at 1:45 p.m. Friday in Fraser theater. The Tonganocue High School will present "Revenge" and the University High School will follow with "The Ghost Story." "A Cup of Sugar" will be presented by the Overbrook group. Starting at 9 a.m. Saturday the students from Valley Falls will present "The Purple Rim." Rossville High will put on "Women Who Wait," and the group from Newton will conclude the one-act plays with "Which Is the Way to Boston?"
Newton, Washington Rural at Bethel, Rossville, Tonganoxie, Bonner Springs, Wyandotte, Valley Falls, Seneca Catholic, Overbrook, Topeka, Lawrence, University high school, and Shawnee Mission. Both teachers and students will attend the festival.
Spanish Club Will Hear Music And Playlets Wednesday
Certificates of award will be given to the high ranking group. The judges for the events will be Allen Crafton, professor of speech; Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech; Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech; E. C. Buchler, professor of speech; H. G. Ingham, director of the extension division; and Mrs. M. M. Bair of the extension division. All who are interested in speech and drama are invited to attend the functions which are free, said Mr. Pearson.
To Give One-Act Plays
Spanish music and playlets will be featured at the meeting of the El Aieneo Spanish Club at 4:30, Wednesday afternoon in room 11F of Frank Strong hall, Louise Hatch, chairman of the club's program committee, announced.
"Anyone who has an understanding of spoken Spanish is invited to attend," stated Miss Hatch.
Wadsworth Resolution Adopted
House Adopts Wadsworth Resol
House Adopts Wadsworth Resolved Washington, (INS)—The House today adopted the Wadsworth resolution setting up a 21-man postwar policy committee and appropriated $25,000 for the committee's activities.