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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
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NUMBER 102
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1944
41st YEAR
Craftons Give 'Close Quarters At 8:15 Tonight
Tonight at 8:15 the first curtain will rise on "Close Quarters," Somin's two-character play starring Prof. and Mrs. Allen Crafton, to be presented in Fraser theater. The second and final presentation will be tomorrow night at the same time.
The setting of "Close Quarters" is the flat of Gustav and Liesa Bergmann in some city in central Europe. The time of the play is the period between World Wars I and II.
Gustav Bergmann has been associated with the labor movement and has risen in influence in his party. Just at the moment of his greatest triumph, Sander, the minister of state, is murdered. Circumstantial evidence points to Bergmann. Added to this situation is the very peculiar behavior of Bergmann's wife when she learns of the murder. The action of the play concerns the lives of these two people during the 36 hours following the death of Sander.
No admission will be charged for the performances, according to Professor Crafton. The public has been invited, but since the seating capacity of Fraser theater is limited, it will be necessary to secure tickets before the performance at the ticket office in Green hall. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow.
Students should present their activity tickets, either the winter or spring ones, at the ticket office. Townpeople and others may also obtain tickets either by telephoning KU 174 or by going to the ticket office, Professor Crafton said.
Malott Attends Two National Conferences
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, who has been in Washington, D.C., since Tuesday attending two conferences and taking care of University business, is expected to return Saturday.
Tomorrow and Thursday the Chancellor will attend an advisory meeting of business men with the United States Department of Commerce. He is one of the 60 businessmen in the United States chosen to attend the conference.
Last weekend Chancellor Malott represented the National Association of State Universities, of which he is secretary-treasurer, at a United States office of education conference. The conference was called to discuss congressional legislation of post-war training and rehabilitation of men and women returning from the armed forces.
Hackler, KU Graduate, Killed in Air Crash
Ensign Harold L. Hackler, graduate of the School of Fine Arts in 1939 and a former pupil of Prof. W. Otto Miessener, was killed in a plane crash at Picific Beach, Wash., while participating in gunnery practice.
Before entering the service Ensign Hackler was music supervisor of Oakley, Kans., schools and formerly music director at Paseo high school in Kansas City.
Capt. Herman Hauck Japanese Prisoner
Capt. Herman H. Hauck, '37, who was captured when Corregidor fell, was not killed by the Japanese as reported by the Daily Kansan recently but is a prisoner in Japanese custody, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hauck of Valley Falls announced. Their last word from him was at Christmas. His father-in-law, Lt. Col. Lloyd Biggs was killed, however, as reports originally stated.
Mr. and Mrs. Hauck recently were taken home from the Kansas City hospital where Mrs. Hauck had been undergoing treatment and Mr. Hauck was given care for injuries received in an automobile accident while he was driving to the hospital to visit Mrs. Hauck.
Start Destruction Of Berlin
The consensus voiced by travelers who reached Stockholm after experiencing the daylight assaults on Berlin seemed to be that the German capitol might not last out the month if American bombers team up with the R.A.F. in steady round-the-clock bombing. "Continuation of attacks on such a scale" said one observer in the Swedish capitol "will mean—judging from the dislocation that I saw—that the morale of hundreds of thousands of Berlin residents will crack."
Huge fires raged throughout the city, explosions that crumbled whole square blocks into ruins and a pall of pungent smoke that numafied the daylight all contributed to the terror that resulted when perhaps 1,000 four motored fortresses and liberators escorted by fighter planes visited Berlin, the travelers said.
The latest official tabulation from headquarters of Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz in London showed that 68 heavy bombers, a record number, were lost in the attack, as against this number 176 German fighter planes were destroyed.
In Italy sharp fighting flared in the Cassino sector. Increased enemy activity was noted on the long dormant British 8th army front along the Adriatic where two small German attacks against Indian positions were repulsed. A 40 mile an hour gale hampered both ground and air forces at the Anzio beachhead.
In New Guinea the Admiralty islands and northern Burma the Japanese were dealt stunning blows. Dispatches from an advanced American base deep in the jungles of northern Burma revealed that veteran American forces fighting for the first time as a unit on Asia had completed a road block threatening extinction of 2,000 Japanese trapped near Walawumb.
On the Ukranian front, Soviet troops rolled across the Odessa Lwow-Warsaw railroad line toward the Rumanian frontier.
Leo Hellmer Visits on Campus
Leo Hellmer, former laboratory instructor in the psychology department, recently visited on the campus. In the army a year, Hellmer is stationed with the air corps at San Antonio, Tex. where I does psychological examining. He received his doctor of philosophy degree in psychology from the University in 1941 and was a psychologist in the Child Guidance center in Wichita.
Army to Expand Training of Men Aged 17 to 19
University authorities were advised today that the War Department had approved a considerable stepping-upof the A-12 program and is urging all the universities, colleges and secondary schools in the country to exert every effort to encourage young men who have graduated from high school or who will be graduated by July 1, and who are under 18, to take the qualifying examinations to be given on March 15. In Lawrence, the examinations will be given in Fraser Theater under the direction of Dr. A. H. Turney of the department of education.
The action of the War Department in expanding the Army Specialized Training Reserve program follows the suggestion of the Committee on the Relationships of Education to the Federal Government of the American Council on Education, and enthusiastically endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School principals. The program will provide for the Army a much needed supply of men with at least two terms of specialized training at the college level.
Those eligible to sit for the qualifying examinations include (1) men who are graduated or will be graduated from high school by July 1, 1944, and who have reached their 17th birthday but are not yet 17 years and 9 months; (2) a limited number of those between 17 years and 9 months of age and 22 are eligible for the ASTP after the completion of their basic military training; (3) and men who are high school graduates between 17 and 19 years of age by the same date may express a preference for the V-12 program of the navy.
Enlisted men now assigned to the ASTP for instruction in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine will be continued in the program. Also ASTP students currently enrolled in pre-professional training in those branches will be continued and upon successful completion of their work, will be advanced to the medical or dental phases of the program.
Pollom, Marine Pilot Missing in Action
Second Lt. Don Pollom, students at the University from 1939 to 1943, was reported "missing in airplane flight," according to a telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester B. Pollom of Topeka, Feb. 23. Lieutenant Pololl has been in combat duty since December in the Pacific area as a Marine fighter pilot.
A Don Pollom week, dedicated to the former athletic star, started at Topeka High School Monday to run through this week in connection with the school's war bond drive. In his senior year in high school, Pollom was elected king of the all-school party.
The last letter received from Polom by his parents was written three weeks before he was reported missing, and he stated then that "we expect plenty of excitement in about a week." The official notification of his absence came from Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, Marine commander, and the explanatory letter following has not yet arrived.
Lt. Pollom was prominent in both track and football in high school and the University. In April, 1938, he established a national inter-scholastic record for the 200-yard low hurdles. The Topeka Daily Capital chose him as halfback on the all-state high school football team in 1839. He was prominent in college athletics in his freshman year as well as in varsity athletics.
Sororities to Hold Open House for V-12
ATTENTION! Navy V-12 Trainees
Sororites on the campus are sponsoring informal open houses for the newly arrived navy V-12 students Thursday and Friday afternoons from 4:30 to 5:30. All PT houses have been invited, according to Heloise Hillbrand, who is working with Lt. C. A. Michelman to help new students get acquainted.
Those sororites holding open house Thursday afternoon are Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Gamma Phi Beta, and Kappa Alpha Theta. Those holding open house Friday are Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Navy V-12 trainees may obtain their second semester activity tickets now at the Memorial Union Building, the Business Office, or at the Kansan business office in the Journalism building.
With the purchase of these tickets V-12 trainees receive the University Daily Kansan and privileges for use of the Memorial Union building. Such privileges—in the University Daily Kansan include complete campus news, news about trainees, latest world news by International News Service, Big Six and other sports news, official announcements, editorials and special features. Their privileges in the Memorial Union include use of the game room and music room, admission to Union dances, special union events, use of lounge and reading matttter, use of stationery, use of rental library, and other privileges as announced from time to time.
For the special purchase of V-12 men a combination Kansan-Union ticket has been priced at $2.00; and a ticket for the Kansan only or for the Union only sells for $1.50. These tickets are not transferable.
Junior Prom To Feature Chauncey Downs
Chauncey Downs and his "Soldiers of Production," featuring Inez Ray, singer, will supply the music at the junior prom, a formal varsity. Saturday March 11 from 9 to 12 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
The 12-piece orchestra has appeared in leading ballrooms throughout the country. Formerly at Roseland Ballroom, New York; Freystone, Detroit; Adolphus Hotel, Dallas; last summer at Fairyland Park, Kansas City; and currently fulfilling engagements in this part of the country at the Frog Hop, St. Joseph; Meadow Acres, Topeka; and Plamor, Kansas City. Chauncey Downs with his orchestra is scheduled to appear on the Fitch Band Wagon in the near future.
The dance is sponsored by the Junior class, and is under the direction of Haloise Hillbraid, University dance manager. Miss Hillbrand, as chairman of the Varsity committee and Don Alderson, as chairman of the Junior class dance committee, are working together to plan the dance.
Capt. Archie Morris (Cav.) has been transferred from his duties here as Battalion commander, AST SU 3704, to the AST Medical Detachment, Kansas City, Kansas. Capt. Morris, relieves First Lt. Ross H. Ley, CAC, who has been ordered to duty with troops at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo.
The formal varsity is open to all students on the campus according to Miss Hillbrand. Virginia Fader is in charge of ticket sales, and women will visit the various array and navy houses this week to explain and sell tickets.
Morris Transferred To Kansas City, Kans.
Lt. Ley is the fourth officer of the University of Kansas AST Unit to be assigned to troop duty within the past few weeks. The War Department contemplates relieving many troop age officers from nontroop duty in the near future. They will be released for duty with troops in the Army Ground Forces and given such assignments as will best serve the war effort, according to Col. W. L. McMorris, CAC commanding officer.
Graduate Attached To English Hospital
Josephine Blades, who received her bachelor of arts degree in 1928 and her master's in 1931, wrote recently to Miss May Gardner, professor of Spanish, of her experiences as a Red Cross worker attached to the 91st evacuation hospital in England.
Miss Blades was one of 20 Red Cross women who arrived in Oran two days after the last raid. From there her outfit was sent to Bizerte, then to Sicily, and from there to England.
Eric Allen Is Dead
Eric Allen Is Dead Eric Allen, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon, died Sunday.