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NUMBER 98
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1944
41st YEAR
Hirohito Reveals Japan's Failure In Conducting War by Purge Of War Lords Sugijama, Nagano
Still staggering from the loss of 26 ships and more than 250 planes in a record-breaking American air assault against Truk, Japan reeled under a new invasion stroke at Eniwetok island in the Marshalls, whose western half was seized by U.S. shock infantry and marines. The net result was an unprecedented shake-up in Japanese military and naval leadership in which top officials paid the price of their inability to foresee American
offensive thrusts and take adequate precautions against the enormous losses that followed.
Outstanding victory of the political-military purge by which Hiroshito expressed his annoyance was an old line Japanese Fascist, Field Marshal Sugijama who attracted international attention in 1938 by jamming a totalitarian mobilization bill through the Japanese diet and making an open confession of his hopes for Japanese world conquest. Second in importance was Admiral Nagano, chief of the Japanese navy general staff. Sugijama's administrative tasks were taken over in person by General Tojo. Naval Minister Admiral Shimada assumed Admiral Nagano's duties.
Will They Commit Hari-Kar1?
Ostensively both Sugijama and Nagano became "advisers" to the war cabinet, but unless the old Japanese custom of hari-kari has fallen into disuse, these two militarists may soon depart this world by means of their own choosing. Broadcasts from Tokyo gave no hint into public日本 reaction over the set-backs, but by removing two of his favorite war lords from high office the Emperor made a public admission that Japan's war is not going any too well.
In announcing the changes in the high command the Emperor conceded heavy Japanese losses at Truk although the enemy figures naturally were below the verified tabulations issued by the navy department at Washington. According to the Japanese version, 18 vessels including 5 warships were sunk while 120 planes were lost. Adm. Chester Nimitz's figures in his communique showed 19 ships definitely sunk, 7 others probably sunk, and 250 enemy planes definitely destroyed or probably destroyed.
American Successes Continue
There were clear indications of continuing American successes at Eniwetok where an important air strip already has been seized and whose complete occupation will give United States forces a mighty aerial and naval base only 770 miles from Truk. The latter garrison in the smashed so soundly that Allied sea Carolines is believed to have been and air strength may be able to by-pass it in the future. So terrific was the first day's punishment meated out by carrier-based American planes that on the following day bombers attacked without interception choosing their targets freely and with exquisite care.
Loyola Religious Bulletin Published
Loyola Religious Bulletin Published The first issue of the Loyola Religious Bulletin, published by the St. John Berchman's, pharmacy school, was recently published at Loyola University.
Grad. Artist Sends Work From Italy
Seven watercolor pictures painted by a graduate from the University while he was overseas are now on exhibit in Spooner-Thayer museum. Corp. Edgar Stareck, a graduate in the department of drawing and design in 1940, is now in a medical battalion at an army evacuation hospital in Italy. Of the paintings he has done while he has been in the army, only these seven are here in the museum. The pictures, packed in a wooden box, arrived from Italy two months after they were sent.
The most exceptional painting is one corporal Stareck titled "Dawn Over Biberate Harbor," Karl Mattern, associate professor of drawings and painting, said. Corporal Stareck sent the pictures to Professor Mattern, who has had them framed for the exhibit. The painter participated throughout the Tunisian campaign. He was painting in New York at the time war broke out. After Pearl Harbor he volunteered and was sent to Ft. Devens, Mass. He served in England and Africa and is now in Italy.
Others of his paintings are "Night Raid Over Bizerte," "Headquarters in Feriana" (Africa), a landscape in southern Italy, and one of northern Italy, a scene of a surgical aid station, and a scene of parachuters.
Corporal Stareck sent the titles of his pictures separately in a letter to Professor Mattern. He also wrote, "I am at present doing illustrations for medical installations." He studied under Prof. Albert Bloch, of the department of drawing and painting, while at the University.
Free tickets for the purchase of war bonds will be given by the local theaters through Feb. 29th, Stan Schwahn, manager, announced today. This is an extension of eight days from the first announcement, and comes as the result of the government's designation of the month for the close.
Theaters to Give Tickets for Bonds Bought Until Feb. 29
"The new bond headquarters is now located in the Bell Music Co. store, and anyone desiring tickets can obtain them there or from any theater cashier by presenting the validated theater bond pledge," Mr. Schwahn said. He said there had been a splendid response to the sale to date.
Continuance of V-12 Assured By Admiral
Leadership lectures for sophomores are being offered at the University of Cincinnati.
Rumors that the Navy V-12 program will be discontinued were proved false by a letter which Chancellor Deane W. Malott received today from Rear Admiral Carpenter of the U. S. Navy.
The letter quotes Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of naval personnel, as saying:
"The Bureau of Naval Personnel has recently received a number of inquiries concerning reports that the Navy college program may be discontinued. All inquirers have been advised that the navy department has no plans to discontinue this program.
"While changing war-time conditions may from time to time necessitate revision in the quotas for the program in order to conform with the needs of the service, the navy does not contemplate discontinuance of the program."
AST's Await Effect of Cut In Army Program
The extent to which the University of Kansas will be affected by Friday's announcement by the War Department that the Army Specialized Training program will be reduced to 35,000 men after April 1 is not yet known by University authorities, Chancellor W. Malott revealed today. He thought it possible that trainees in the advanced medicine course and 17-year-old reservoirs might continue training here.
"It is unfortunate that the Army's training program has constantly been beset by surprises, contradictions and lack of clarity, which has resulted in a sense of futility and frustration on the part of students and the universities alike," the Chancellor stated.
No Further Details Given
"Until further details of the Army's program are available, we shall carry on as at present. There can be very little certainty in times of war. But the war effort can best be served if all of us, students, faculty and administration, do our best day by day, to add our part to bringing about the conclusion of the struggle," he explained.
In regard to transferring Lindley hall from a barracks to classroom, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said that nothing would be done until further word was received on the number of army trainees who will be retained at the University. If they continue to send medics and pre-induction students, Lindley hall will have to be used to house and feed them, he said. AST's Granted Leave Friday
While awaiting word about their future, ASTs at KU were given leave Friday night by Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, commanding officer.
This drastic curtailment of Army programs will affect the University of Kansas the least of any of the Kansas colleges. The enrollment of 4,069 consists of only 2,286 military trainees, and a large percentage of these are naval trainees. Pittsburgh State Teachers also has naval trainees, but Kansas State, Emporia Teachers and Hays Teachers will find their enrollments cut approximately in half.
Soviet Union Holds Solution To Postwar Riddle of Europe Schuman Tells Large Audience
Openings Announced In Band, Orchestra
Openings will be available for new members in the band and orchestra at the beginning of the new semester, according to Russell L. Wiley, director. Players of the French horn, bassoon, tuba, cornet, trombone, string bass, or tympany are especially needed, he said.
The department has several instruments, such as French horns, bassoons, and tubas, available for use, Mr. Wiley said. He has asked that students planning to become members of either the band or the orchestra arrange with him for an audition before enrollment begins.
Sells Elected ISA President
Other members on the council representing their classes are freshman, Cynthia Smith; sophomore, Dorothy Cooper; junior, Jo Ann Roberts; senior, Esther DeBord.
John Sells, sophomore in engineering, was elected president of the Independent student Association council at the election dance Saturday night.
Representatives-at-large are Don Alderson, business junior; Emily Hollis, College sophomore; and Harlan McDowell, business senior.
Two Navy V-12 representatives will be selected to the council at its first meeting, March 13.
FDR to Veto Tax Bill Fights With Congress
Washington, (INS) — President Roosevelt and congress seemed headed for a fight today over the Chief Executive's leadership in do that Mr. Roosevelt will veto the $21\%$ billion dollar tax bill sometime tomorrow. Such a veto would follow within a few days similar action on a bill banning food subsidies, as a method of beating inflation.
Congress, in the latter case, upheld the presidential veto and today began work on a bill extending the life of the Commodities Credit Corporation.
The President today conferred with the army and navy high command on the general war picture in Europe and the Central Pacific, and Paul V. McNutt in another lengthly conference. The talk with McNutt immediately gave rise to speculation in informed circles that the WMC head may become work director under the Baruch blueprint for reconverting industry from war to peacetime production following the conference.
Illinois U. Has 345 Mid-year Grads Three hundred forty-five students will receive diplomas at the University of Illinois' second wartime mid-year commencement.
The Soviet Union holds a solution to the "Riddle of Europe," Dr. Frederick L. Schuman, professor of political science at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., told an audience of 1500 in Hoch auditorium this morning.
It is up to Great Britain and the U.S.A. to find a better solution, he counseled.
After a caustic review of United Nations policy with respect to France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland, Spain, and Finland, Dr. Schuman declared that the United Nations' motto was, "Come weal, come woe, my status is quo," and that the United Nations' statesmen were set upon restoring "everything as it was before, only a little more so." Schuman Names 'Conservatives'
"Winston Churchill is a conservative with a capital C." he said. "Secretary of State Hull is a conservative, with a small C. And—something which every Republica so with the exception of Wendell Wilkie already knows—Franklin D. Roosevelt is a conservative with a small C also."
There is nothing wrong with conservatism, he hastened to add, but the conservative United Tasties' solution for the riddle of Europe simply won't work. In the first place the plain people of Europe don't want it. And in the second place, the Soviet Union won't permit it. Russia Has Postwar Plan
Russia's plan for postwar Europe does not call for the communizing of Europe nor the abolition of private property, Dr. Schuman explained. It is a program to abolish fascism in favor of democracy, monarchy in favor of a republican form of government. It does not mean the annexation of areas nor the restoring of the international anarchy of national sovereignty.
The Soviet solution, Dr. Schuman said, "calls for racial equality plus the organized fostering of national languages and cultures in confederations in which frontiers have no economic or military significance.
Such a solution, Dr. Schuman pointed out, will end the conflict between Teuton and Slav which brought on the first and second World Wars. It will end war because the Slavs will be organized into a confederation which will include Russia, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Greece, with maybe other nations in addition. France may be expected to restore its old Russian alliance, and against such a powerful front Germans, British, or Americans would never dare wage war.
May Be Other Solutions
As alternatives to this Russian solution, Dr. Shuman suggested that the British and Americans, working together might hit upon a better answer to the problem, but this he deemed unlikely. Or, he suggested, the British, Russians and Americans working together might (continued to page two)
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