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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1944
NUMBER 100
41st YEAR
AST's Continue Class Program In Army Spirit
Despite the fact that the majority of the AST trainees at the University will be assigned to troop duty before April I, they are carrying on in true Army spirit with no let-down in the program, Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, director of the local unit, said today.
said today.
"Trainees are showing a high degree of leadership in both classroom work and military duties, and are carrying on in the best traditions of the service," Lt. Col. McMorris complimented the men.
The Secretary of War has sent a personal message to each trainee regarding the action which reduced the AST to 35,000 trainees, including 5,000 pre-induction students, and releases about 110,000 trainees for troop duty.
War Secretary Sends Messages
This message states:
You have been working under high pressure to master as quickly as possible those essentials of College training of greatest importance to your development as a soldier. The time has now come for the maturity of you to be assigned to other active duty.
"To break the enemies defenses and force their unconditional surrender it is necessary to hit them with the full weight of America's manpower. Because of this imperative military necessity most of you will soon be ordered to field service before the completion of your normal course.
Most Will Be in Ground Force
"Most of you released from the ASTP will be assigned to the Army Ground Forces for duty with Divisions and other units. Your intelligence training and high qualities of leadership are expected to raise the combat efficiency of those units. The thousands of ASTP trainees who have already been assigned to field service have set high standards for you to follow."
Concerning the proposed plan advocated by a special committee of college presidents for the enrollment of 100,000 volunteer 17-year-old high school boys, Lt. Col. McMorris stated that should this be put in effect, the University of Kansas has facilities, including housing, mess, and text-books, for about 700 reservists.
Government to Run L.A. Power System
Mr. Roosevelt directed all federal agencies to cooperate to the fullest extent possible in carrying out the order which authorized Secretary of War Stimson,' to continue operation under the present management.
Washington, (INS) — For the first time since Pearl Harbor the federal government today took over functions of a municipal government when President Roosevelt by executive order directed the war department to operate the strike-bound power system of Los Angeles, Calif.
The order also authorized the war department to provide protection to the plants and facilities and to all employees remaining on the job or any new employees that might be used to keep the plant operating.
Trail Left On Sidewalk By Prowler
Slowly, every step resounding on the pavement, a man, dragging one foot, progressed up Gower drive last night around 11:30. The thud, scrap of his step went past the Kappa house and sounded halfway up the walk leading to Battenfeld hall. Then there was a scream—a man's scream, long, terrifying and pathetic. Two shots were followed by a second scream.
This morning students going up the walk to the Hill found they were following a trail of dark red stains.
Every night for a week, this routine has taken place shortly after women's closing hours—first the dragging step up the hill and then the scream. Women in the Theta house were frightened first. Then the night walker began screaming nearer the Kappa house. Last night his efforts to terrify penetrated to Watkins and Miller halls. Frantic calls were put in from one woman's house to another where students were so terrified they could not work in their basement study halls
The wave of terror soon awakened housemothers, who realizing the screams were a product of some sadistic joker, called the police anyway to quiet their girls. With searchlights, policemen went all over the ground between Tennessee and Lilac lane—but discovered no one.
In the light of today, even the women who were most frightened last night, are laughing about the prowler. His dark red stains on the walk could have been blood—but they aren't. They are catsup.
Senior Caps, Gowns Ready Saturday
Exhibit B, found five feet from the catsup trail, is a broken record with "My Heart Tells Me" on one side and "No Love, No Nuthin'" on the other.
Caps and gowns for seniors graduating this semester will be issued from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in room 201 Robinson gym, Harlan McDowell, chairman of the cap and gown committee announced today. McDowell said that although it was hoped all seniors would get their caps and gowns Saturday, it would be possible to get them from 1 to 3 Sunday afternoon.
The traditional senior breakfast will be served to graduating seniors at 9 a.m. Sunday in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, Jean Oyster, chairman of the senior breakfast committee said.
Tomorrow's issue of the Daily Kansan will be the last until Tuesday, March 7, because of examinations and between semester vacation.
Those seniors who are graduating Sunday can get their invitations at the Business office, according to Jill Peck, chairman of the invitations committee.
Tomorrow's Kansan Will Be Last Issue Until March 7
Red Cross Pursues Detroit Hall
The Red Cross recently furnished
a lounge and recreation room in
Benton hall for V-22 trainees at
Washburn University.
Red Cross Furnishes Benton Hall
Barkley Resigns Senate Position After FDR Veto
Washington, (INS) — Alben Barkley of Kentucky, Democratic floor leader of the senate assailed President Roosevelt's veto of the tax bill today in a speech resigning leadership of the senate. Grim-faced and bold in voice, Barkley began his speech by saying that he would prefer to answer the President's argument on veto of the tax bill in consideration of an effort to override the veto.
Barkley has been majority leader of the senate since 1937 and was key note speaker and permanent chairman at the 1940 Democratic convention in Chicago which nominated President Roosevelt for the first third term in American history. The expected resignation of Barkley from this key post marks the first time any such action has been taken by a Roosevelt lieutenant since the inception of the New Deal.
Democratic colleagues announced this afternoon that Senator Barkley will be re-elected leader of the senate tomorrow but the Kentuckyan announced that he did not want that to happen.
"I didn't resign as a gesture," Barkley said. Several Democrat senators said Barkley would be re-elected unanimously after he submits his resignation to the party caucus tomorrow.
Hard to Enroll Men Of 17 in AST Course This Summer—Malott
Chancellor Deane W. Malott today expressed his belief that there would be some difficulties in the plan of enrolling 17-year-old volunteers for army specialized training this summer, as proposed by a committee of college presidents in Washington yesterday.
"If they had a definite plan by which their college training would fit definitely into the war program, I would find more favor in it, but just to send them to college for a few months and then jerk them away into service without having correlated their studies definitely with military training seems a waste of time and effort for the boys as well as the college," he said.
The army's pre-induction program for 17-year-olds now includes fewer than 5,000 boys, but under a plan submitted by the educators committee, headed by Edmund E. Day of Cornell University, 100,000 boys would be brought under college training.
Three Navy Officers Visit Machinist's Mates Today
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Three high-ranking naval officers chose today to make routine visits to the machinists' mates division on the campus, Chief Yeoman George Starkey announced today. They are Rear Admiral E. G. Morsell, district supply officer, Lt. Comdr. Parker Holden, district ship service officer, and Lt. Nancy V. Forsman, district women's reserve officer,
Will Speak Friday On Science and War
Dr. E. R. Weidlein
Fire Damages Downtown Shops
The most costly Lawrence fire in 14 years resulted in an estimated $30,000 damages when flames of unknown origin swept through the Hanna Radio shop and Pierson's candy store late last night. Although these two establishment were the only ones which suffered heavy losses, five upstairs offices and the Servicemen's Club were damaged by water and smoke. The report was turned in to the Lawrence fire department at 11 p.m. The blaze was brought under control at 2 a.m., but firemen remained on the scene until 8 o'clock this morning.
The origin of the fire has not been determined, said Paul Ingles, fire chief, but it is believed to have started in the back of either Hanna's or Pierson's, in the ceiling. Seventy-five feet of ground was included in the scope of the fire.
Many radios, refrigerators, and other mechanical devices which were in repair at Hanna's, were destroyed.
Both stores are charred and cluttered with debris, although the walls are still intact.
College Award Saves Masters From Want
New York, (ACP)—An $800 award for "eminence in literature" promises to relieve the difficult straits that have befallen the once fabulously successful poet, Edgar Lee Masters, author of "Spoon River Anthology."
The award, presented jointly by the University of California, Harvard University and the Poetry Society of America, came just in the nick of time, his wife said.
The 74-year-old author is recovering from pneumonia and malnutrition. His bills were paid by the Authors League of America. He was discovered ill in a charity ward last December.
Bitten, brusque and proud. Masters had been dependent upon royalties from poems published more than 25 years ago. His recent books have earned little, his friends said, and "Spoon River Anthology" royalties, still coming in, have been just enough to pay the rent since around 1937.
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Weidlein to Talk At Convocation Friday Morning
Dr. E. R. Weidlein, director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of Pittsburgh, Pa., will be the speaker of an all-University convocation Friday at 10:30 at Hoch auditorium.
Dr. Weidlein was graduated from the University in 1969 with a major in the department of chemistry. He received much of his training under the late Dr. H. P. Cady, one of the nation's outstanding scientists, in the days when the industrial fellowship system had its beginnings in hall. He became assistant director of Mellon Institute in 1912 and director three years later.
The special musical program for the convocation will include a violin mazurkaj. "Obertass" (Weinemanski) played by Helen Pierson junior in Fine Arts, and accompanied by Yolande Meek, junior in Fine Arts, Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts announced today. G. Criss Simpson, assistant professor of organ, will play an organ prelude and postlude, and Joseph W. Wilkins, professor of voice, will lead the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner."
Injured ASTP Moved to Topeka
Paul Ellsworth Horton. ASTP from Denver, who was riding in the car driven by Rhoades, is in Watkins Memorial hospital recovering from bruises and mild concussion. He will be released tomorrow.
Arthur Rhoades, ASTP from Merriam, who was injured in an automobile accident on U.S. highway 24 early Sunday morning, was removed yesterday afternoon from Watkins Memorial hospital to Winter General hospital in Topeka, according to Dr. R. I. Canutson, director of student health at the University.
In addition to bruises and lacerations, examination yesterday revealed that Rhoades had injured a vertebra of the neck, and will be confined about six weeks or more, according to Dr. Canuteson.
Miss Betty Dunn, who was also in the car driven by Rhoades, and Mr. and Mrs. John Riggs, occupants of the other car involved in the accident, are patients at the Lawrence Memorial hospital.
Library Hours to Hold Between Semesters
Regular library hours will be maintained between semesters as far as possible, depending upon the available help, according to M. Cherles M. Baker, director.
Because some of the service units will remain on the campus, a few of the reading rooms will be kept open, said Mr. Baker. ___
S.C.I. to Present Free Movies
Free movies, sponsored by the Carolina Players and the Bureau of Visual Education, will be presented for five Sundays at the University of South Carolina.