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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1944
41st YEAR
RAF Commander To Give Address Here March 16
Wing Commander W. V. Crawford-Compton, fighter pilot of the Royal Air Force will speak at 4:30 p.m. March 16, in Fraser theater. His talk will be especially for cadets in the CAA-WTS program, but the public also has been invited to attend.
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Wing Commander Crawford-
Compton, worked his way from New
Zealand to join the RAF in 1989.
He is the founder and leader of a famous New Zealand Spitfire squadron. Accredited officially with downing 17 enemy aircraft, crippling 19 others, he has also engaged in fight combat against three battleships, the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen. He fought in the raid over Dieppe, and recently accompanied American flying fortresses over Germany.
He was awarded the DSO and DFC, and holds the United States Silver Star.
The New Zealand wing commander is in this country as a guest, and comes to the University through the British Consulate in Kansas
Choir Has Openings For Next Semester
New places in the University A Cappella Choir will be open for the second semester, Dean D. M. Swarthout, director, has announced. Two or three more basses, two tenors, and two alto of better than average ability can be used. One credit a semester is allowed for this activity by almost all schools of the University.
Since the A Cappella Choir was organized last September, it has lost 18 men who could not remain for the full school year. Their places have been filled by 18 new members of the choir.
The choir will give a full concert program in the spring; will sing again in the final vespers in March, and will present the dramatic "Stabat Mater" by Rossini with the K.U. Symphony Orchestra during Music Week in April.
George March, assistant engineer in the water laboratory offices, is a candidate for councilman in the Republican primary.
KU Man Seeks City Post
Dean Swarthout said those wishing to enroll in the A Cappellis Choir in the sections having vacancies should get in touch with him at once.
Washington, (INS) — Yielding to President Roosevelt's veto, the senate banking committee today reported a resolution to continue the Commodity Credit Corporation until June 30, 1945, minus the anti-immigration rider originally on the bill.
Banking Committee Yields
The graduate recital of Max Hughes, pianist, which was scheduled for Wednesday evening, has been postponed. The date for Mr. Hughes' recital has been set for 8 p.m. March 15 in Fraser theater.
Hughes Recital Postponed
Patterson to Enroll, Talk With Pre-Nurses
Women students interested in nurses training will have the opportunity to confer with Miss Sara Patterson, superintendent of nurses at the University of Kansas hospitals in Kansas City, by making an appointment to see her Thursday, the College office announced today. Appointments must be made in the College office, Miss Veta B. Lean said.
Not only will Miss Patterson discuss nurses training with any student interested, but she is able to enroll women in the pre-nursing course if they desire.
No Peace Promises To Battered Germany, Churchill Pledges
(International News Service)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill today ruled out for defeated Germany the possibility of any easy peace, any bargain, or any deal predicated upon pledges or promises. In his first war review to the House of Commons in almost half a year the Prime Minister stressed the appalling devastation which still lies in wait for Germany at the hands of Allied bombers.
The present gigantic air offensives are only the beginning he said, and they will be widened and multiplied as the months go by. Churchill contributed much to world understanding of the war and its outcome by describing in some detail what Germany in surrender and defeat will face from the victorious Allies.
No Conditions At Surrender
Terms of unconditional surrender do not mean the German people will be enslaved or dispoiled Churchill said, but he added, it does mean the Allies "will not be bound to them at the moment of surrender by any pact or obligation."
Churchill continued, "No such agreements will be admitted by us as were used by Germany after the last war for surrender in consequence of Pres. Wilson's fourteen points. If we are bound by our own consciences to civilization we are not bound to the Germans as a result of a bargain struck."
Germany automatically is barred from the promises and commitment of territorial integrity inherent in the Atlantic charter, the Prime Minister said. He revealed that in the course of the conferences at Tetheran he and Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin have agreed upon compensation for Poland at the expense of German soil, and he added, "There will be no question of the Atlantic Charter applying to Germany as a matter of right and barring territorial transfers or adjustments in enemy territory."
"That," he added with solemnity, "Is the meaning of unconditional surrender."
Clapper's Mother Returns To Home in Kansas
Poland to Get Nazi Territory
Mrs. Julia Clapper, mother of Raymond Clapper, KU alumnus, has returned to LaCyne, Kan., to make her home with her brother, Albert Crow, a retired army sergeant. She had been living with her son in Washington, D.C., but since his death has decided to return to the scenes of her childhood.
Graduates Get Reserve Tickets For Services
Contrary to earlier announcements, tickets will be issued to graduates so that their relatives and friends may sit in the reserved section of Hoch auditorium for the graduation exercises Sunday, Feb. 27, Harold G. Ingham, head of the University commencement committee, has announced.
Seniors will receive four tickets when they get their caps and gowns in Robinson gym, between 10 and 12 a.m. and 1 and 5 p.m., Saturday. Graduates may obtain as many additional tickets as they need, at the Chancellor's office.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Governor Andrew Schoeppel, Lester McCoy, chairman of the Board of Regents, the faculty, and graduate students will all be in the procession. The faculty will be seated in the front of the auditorium opposite the graduates.
The commencement services will begin at 3:50 Sunday afternoon at Frank Strong hall and will be continued in Hoch auditorium at 4:00 p.m.
Buehler to Start Red Cross Drive On Campus March 1
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, has been appointed head of the University Red Cross drive which will open March 1. Dr. F. C. Allen, Lawrence chairman of the 1944 campaign made the appointment.
Complete plans for the drive at the University have not been made, according to Professor Buehler, pending a meeting Thursday in which details will be drawn. There will be no quota for the campus, but a heart appeal will be made to all students. The quota for Lawrence is $29,100, 60 per cent above last year's aim.
"The Red Cross wants your money," said Dr. Allen. "A bond is a loan, now let's give. We don't need quota, this is a possessive, a heart appeal with the slogan "Your Red Cross at his side." Let's answer Berlin and Tokyo with our Red Cross contributions."
Money given to the Red Cross is nearly all used for the benefit of military men. The home service work is done quietly but it contributes much to the morale of fighting men by providing the contact between home and military camps scattered all over the world. Among other activities on the home front are blood plasma collection, production of millions of surgical dressings and garments, the Nurses Aides and Home Nursing programs, and nurse recruiting.
Liberal Education Not Widespread
St. Louis (INS)—Liberal education is practically non-existent in America today except in one or two places, according to Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Speaking recently at St. Louis university, Dr. Hutchins accused Liberal Arts colleges of giving "patch-work courses," and allowing majors, minors, and specialization.
Closing Time for Coed Houses During Examinations Posted
Closing hours for women's houses, starting tomorrow night and extending throughout final week, will be 11 o'clock with the exception of Saturday night, when they will be 12:45, Jill Peck, president of the WEC, announced today.
Kansan Board Elects New Staff
Jenne Shoemaker, College junior, was elected editor-in-chief, and Virginia Gunsoll. College senior, was elected managing editor of the University Daily Kansan, yesterday at a meeting of the Kansan Board.
The Board decided at the same meeting that the Kansan will be published for the last time this semester on Thursday, Feb. 24. It will resume publication March 7.
Miss Shoemaker takes the place of Anne Louise Rossman, College senior. Miss Rossman was elected assistant managing editor. Miss Gunsolly takes over the duties of Ruth Tippin, College junior.
The two new staff members will appoint their respective staffs and present them for approval at a Kansas board meeting Wednesday evening. The new staff will serve during the first half of the spring semester.
Two AST's Injured In Car Collision
Paul Ellsworth Horton, ASTP from Denver, Colo., and Arthur Rhoades, ASTP from Merriam, are in Watkins Memorial hospital suffering from injuries received in an automobile accident which occurred at 12:45 a.m. Sunday, a mile east of the junction of highways 59 and 24.
Both students suffered minor bruises and lacerations and will be confined to the hospital for a few days.
Others injured and recovering in the Lawrence Memorial hospital;
John Riggs, 920 Connecticut St,
dislocated hip and lacerations. Riggs is employed as a steaflitter foreman by the University.
Mrs. John Riggs, 920 Connecticut street, lacerations and bruises.
Miss Betty Dunn, 1346 New Jersey street, lacerations and bruises.
According to Harvey Schmedemann, state highway patrolman who investigated the accident, Mr. and Mrs. Riggs were coming west in a 1941 Chevrolet, and Rhoades, driving a 1941 Buick coupe, was going east when the two cars collided. Both cars were badly wrecked.
Schuman Misquotation In Kansan Corrected
A misquotation in yesterday's Kansan story on Dr. Frederick L. Schuman's address in Hoch auditorium was called to the editor's attention and has been confirmed by Dr. Schuman. The Kansan quoted him as saying, "And—something which every Republican with the exception of Wendell Willkie already knows—Franklin D. Roosevelt is a conservative with a small C also." The statement should have read, "And—something which no Republican with the exception of Wendell Willkie knows."
FDR Charges Vetoed Tax Bill Shows Privileges
Washington, (INS) — President Roosevelt, in a caustic message to congress today, vetoed the new tax bill charging that it provided "special privileges to favored groups." He said that the tax measure was a relief bill "for the greedy." In an extremely bitter statement, the Chief Executive said that the measure was "wholly ineffective" and he called on congress to pass immediately a tax bill which would provide "adequate revenue for wartime needs," to support the stabilization program, and to "hold firm against the tide of special privilege."
Throwing the gauntlet to congress,
Mr. Roosevelt continued that the vetoed measure is "not a tax bill but a tax-reliety bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy." He further lashed at congress with the charge that the legislative body had "failed wholly to take any step toward simplification of tax returns for the individual payer." He bitingly said that the tax payers "now engaged in an effort to win the greatest war this nation has ever faced are not in a mood to study higher mathematics."
'Close Quarters By Craftons Set For March 7-8
What happens to a middle-aged couple during the 36 hours after a murder will be revealed in the presentation of a two-character play by Somin, "Close Quarters," starring Prof. and Mrs. Allen Crafton as the first dramatic activity of the new semester. The play will make its initial appearance at the University at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, in Fraser theater, Professor Crafton of the part of speech has announced, "Close Quarters" will run through Wednesday, March 8.
Both Professor and Mrs. Crafton have had professional experience in acting. They worked together in one of the well-known experimental theaters, "The Prairie Playhouse" and Mrs. Crafton was a member of Walter Hampden's company. Professor Crafton appeared in vaudeville, at the Castle Square stock company in Boston, in Shaw's "Candida", and other plays.
Ranging from Hamlet to singing burlesque songs, Professor Crafton has played nearly fifty parts here in Lawrence. Among his achievements are Harvey Green in "Ten Nights in a Barroom"; Liliom, the judge, in "Beggar on Horseback"; Ernest Inch in "White Wings"; and Esdra in "Winterset."
Since coming to Lawrence 20 years ago, Mrs. Crafton has appeared in a number of parts, including Geertrude in "Hamlet"; Juno in "Juno and the Paycock"; and probably gave her best characterization as Mrs. Midget in "Outward Bound." Her last appearance was as the front end of the horse, Josie, in "White Wings." According to Professor Crafton, she was given this part because she could whinny realistically.