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NUMBER 104
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9. 1944
41st YEAR
Bombers Deal Death Blows To Dying Berlin
(International News Service)
For the second day in succession and the fourth time in less than a week four-motored bombers of the U. S. army air force went roaring over Berlin in daylight and dropped another devastating load of high explosives and incendiaries to hasten the end of the dying capital. Vital war and industrial targets were assaulted in great strength again today and it was assumed that irreplaceable losses were once again suffered by the German air force.
Official tabulations of German sacrifices in yesterday's record American attack upon the capital showed that 125 Nazi interceptor planes were shot down. This boosted to 301 Nazi craft as a total shot down in two previous assaults over a 48 hour period—and today's bag is yet to be counted.
Once again Berlin was merely the major target of round-the-clock assault. Enemy shipping, communication lines, and supply depots on the Western Italian coast were pounded together with the Orte railway yard, 25 miles north of Rome, and the San Stefano railway destroyed. A squadron of from 50 to 60 Nazi planes attempted an attack upon an American convoy off the coast of North Africa but was beaten off and the ship suffered no damage.
V-12's Arrive From Overseas And Other Units
Giving up petty officer and seaman first ratings to receive once again the rate of apprentice seaman, over 100 men who had been on active duty with the fleet or at shore stations both in American and foreign waters joined the University's V-12 unit March 1, along with nearly 60 civilians and several transfers from other V-12 units; Lt. C. A. Michelman, commanding officer of the V-12 unit, announced recently.
Although a few of the men from active duty had not yet received a petty officer rating, the majority of the men wore rating badges of one to three stripes beneath their branch
Jay Janes to Give Jamboree for Navy, Army, and Civilians
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Plans for the annual Jay Jane Jamboree, to be given at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 17, in the Union lounge, were made yesterday at the organization's meeting in the Pine room of the Union building.
This year, the Jamboree will be given not only for members of the Jay Janes, but for all men and women of the University, including members of the Army and Navy units.
The Jamboree will have a St. Patrick's Day theme, Alice Goff, chairman announced. Refreshments will be served and an hour of dancing in the lounge will follow.
Major Taylor Moved From K-State Here
Maj. Delos C. Taylor, (C.A.C.), a former member of the ROTC staff of Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorris at Kansas State College, has been assigned to the AST Su No. 3704 here. Major Taylor has been ordered to his new post upon the special request of the local ASTP Commandant, Col. McMorris.
Johnson Rites Today at 3 p.m.
Funeral services are being held at 3 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian church for Prof. William Hamilton Johnson, 87, former faculty member at the University from 1903 to 1932. He died at 11 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Memorial hospital, where he was being treated for a fractured hip resulting from a fall at his home Feb. 19.
Professor Johnson became a member of the University faculty in 1903 and began his work of improving Kansas high schools. Before his appointment to the faculty of the University, he was the head of the department of history and political science at Kansas State Normal, now Emporia State Teachers College.
He took charge of the appointment bureau in the University in 1915, and nine years later became the head of University High, then known as Oread Training School. From 1903 to 1915 Professor Johnson was state high school supervisor. Since his retirement he had been working on a history of education in Kansas. He also wrote several bulletins on the ways of raising the standards of high schools.
Born in Delphi, Ind., Feb. 25, 1858,
Professor Johnson moved with his family to Kansas as a young boy.
He attended Ottawa University and received his A.B. degree from the University of Kansas in 1885. He received his M.A. degree at Johns Hopkins University. Before teaching at Emporia State Teachers College,
he taught in Lawrence, Emporia, and Helena, Mont., high schools.
Professor Johnson was married to Helen Scott of Emporia in 1891. He is survived by one son, W. S. Johnson of Jefferson City, Mo., and one sister, Mrs. James Kerr of Ottawa. The Rev. Theodore Aszman is in charge of funeral services, and burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
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Professor Johnson was a member
Dr. Nash Named To Direct Home For Delinguents
Dr. Bert A. Nash, University coordinator, has been appointed by Gov. Andrew Schoeppel as director of staff for the Kansas receiving home for children to be established at Atchison. He will take over his new duties on April 1, but the home
Dr. Nash is professor of education and director of the educational clinic of the University. He has been a member of the advisory o commission of children's institutions
in Kansas since the committee was created, and it was through his efforts in two legislative sessions that the receiving home was created in 1941.
will not open for operation until May 1 because of difficulties in obtaining the staff and remodeling the building.
The establishment of the home will provide a change from the turning over of children by juvenile courts to charitable societies for care or the sending of delinquent children to the boys' industrial school at Topeka or the girls' industrial school at Beloit. Under the new organization the juvenile court judges are permitted to send only babies to societies and no children may be sent to any institution except the receiving home.
Band Leader Comes to Alma Mater To Play for Junior-Senior Prom
Two Courses Withdrawn By School of Business
At the receiving home a juvenile delinquent will be observed and a report will then be sent to the juvenile court judge telling of the findings and making recommendations as to what should then be done for the child's welfare.
Prof. F. T. Stockton, Dean of the School of Business, has announced that the Public Utilities and Property Insurance courses have been withdrawn because of the light enrollment, and the instructors of the courses have been assigned to new work.
Interviewed in Kansas City, Mr. Downs said he was looking forward to returning to his alma mater and that he hoped the Junior Prom would be a great success.
ASTP's Bid Farewell To Clark in Assembly
At one time Mr. Downs was the only Negro to play in the 104-man Lensing Symphony Orchestra.
As a student at the University Mr. Downs worked at the Sig Alph house. He was also employed at the Beta house where his main assignment was peeling potatoes. He left the Beta kitchen to go on tour as a piano player.
When Chauneyce Downs arrives in Lawrence with his band to play at the Junior From Saturday it will be more or less a return engagement. The Negro band leader was a student at the University from 1921 to 1923 and played for many Mt. Oread dances during his college career.
Thirty gallons of ice cream, 25 cases of coca cola, 75 dozen doughnuts, 40 dozen cookies, and 50 cartons of cigarettes were consumed by ASTP trainees last night in a farewell assembly for Capt. Benjamin F. Clark (Inf.). The party was held in the mess hall after 9:30 study hall.
As a student, Mr. Downs did not have his own organization — he played in Buddy Rogers' band. Finally he left Rogers to go on tour with Hattie McDaniel, celebrated Negro star of "Gone With the Wind." Miss McDaniel was just starting on her dramatic career.
After interviewing two candidates, the Jayhawker board elected Mary Morrill, former secretary of the magazine, to be editor for the remaining term to fill the vacancy left by Janet Marvin.
"The occasion was in observance of the departure of Capt. Clark whose efficient and loyal service as adjutant of the ASTP has been outstanding." stated Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorris. "The men took this opportunity to show their appreciation of the interest shown by Captain Clark in their personal welfare and technical progress in the program."
Captain Clark will leave Lawrence Friday to assume duties as professor of military science and tactics at the Omaha, Nebr., high schools.
Morrill Editor Of Jayhawker
Necessary experience for the position, according to Karl Klooz, chariman of the Jayhawker board, included high scholastic standing, either a journalism major or experience in journalism course, and preferably some past experience in the publishing of school annuals.
Virginia Schaefer, College sophomore, was recently appointed business manager of the magazine to replace Bob Ramsey, V-12, who resigned last semester because of his restricted program.
The board will meet again within the next two months to select a new editor and business manager for the coming academic year.
Barr Quits Pastorate To Teach Full Time
In order to devote his full time to teaching in the Bible College here, Rev. Harold Barr, pastor of the First Christian Church, has announced his resignation from the church's pulpit to become effective July 1.
Rev. Barr has been pastor of the Christian Church for seven years. He came to Lawrence from Liberty, Mo., where he had been pastor of the First Christian Church for 13 years.
Vander Werf to Lead AAUW Discussion
Prof. Calvin Vander Werf, assistant professor of chemistry, will lead a panel discussion on "The Coning Peace and Our Part in It" following a dinner to be given by the American Association of University Women at 6:30 this evening at the Hearth.
W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science; Robert McNair Davis, professor of law; and George R. Rinehart, assistant professor of journalism, will assist Professor Vander Werf in the program, which was planned under the direction of the international relations committee of the AAUW.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
Trapp Family Will Present Unique Concert
The Trapp Family Singers, composed of seven sisters and their mother, will present a concert of unusual old church and folk music of many lands next Monday in Hoch auditorium.
Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp and her daughters, Johanna, Agatha, Hedwig, Maria, Martina, Rosemary, and Eleanore, comprise this unique family group, which is under the conductorship and musical directio n of the family priest, the Rev. Franz Wasner. In addition to singing, all of the performers are talented in the playing of such rarely-heard ancient instruments as the recorder, spinet, and viol de gamba.
The appearance of the Trapp Family Singers in Lawrence is one of more than ninety concerts being presented by the Baroness and her daughters in leading cities from coast to coast on the family's fourth transcontinental American tour. On Monday the musical group will appear in the colorful peasant costumes of their native Austria.
Helen Edith Yount and Louis Arnauld Weidman, both seniors in the school of law, were among the seven young lawyers admitted to practice yesterday by the Kansas supreme court.
In addition to a group of seidom-performed music for the sixteenth century blockflutes, spinets or virginals, and viols dama gambal varying sizes, the Trapp family will sing folk songs of the Austrian Alps. Also on the program are performances of several recently completed transcriptions by the Rev. Wasner. These will include popular American and English folk melodies which the family have assimilated on their concert travels, and new settings for the "Londonderry Air." "Home on the Range," and "My Old Kentucky Home."
Two Law Students Admitted to Practice
Activity tickets will admit students, and others may obtain tickets at the School of Fine Arts office in Frank Strong hall.
The group was one of the smallest to be admitted in recent years. Miss Yount, whose home is in Galena, is president of Campus house and a member of PWCL senate.
Weidman has served during the past semester as Chief Justice of the Student Court. His home is in Lawrence.
Other law students admitted to practice with the two University students were Frederick David, Swoyer, Winfield; Clair Warren Rodgers, Mankato; Joseph Skubitz, Arma; Louis H. Plummer, and Roy Clayton Garvin, both of Kansas City.
Crafton to Speak in Ottawa
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will go to Ottawa next Monday to speak at the First Methodist church. His subject will be "This Is Kansas."
BUY WAR STAMPS