1944
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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
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the were n inthe fifth army dropped leaflets urging civilian refugees to leave. Then the Flying Fortresses went over. The first wave of bombers dismantled the robin's-egg-blue monastery steppe, which for so many centuries has looked down upon Campagna. Then other four-motored bombers roared over, and the monastery was engulfed in smoke. Its historic white walls took on a sickly yellow color characteristic of bombed buildings. With Monte Cassino reduced to ruins for the third time in its history, the way was cleared for more rapid advances along the road to Rome.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1944
41ST YEAR
Invasion Is Near. Latest Bombing Minelaying Show
(International News Service)
Two major developments on farflung battle fronts indicated that Invasion Day is drawing near. Flying fortresses attacked the monastery of Monte Cassino south of Rome to eliminate it as a German garrison, artillery nest, and observation post. The British admiralty announced that 200 thousand square miles of water embracing nearly the whole of the Bay of Biscay and north to St. George's Channel, which separates Wales and Ireland, had been rendered dangerous to shipping, presumably by mines laid from air and sea. These were vastly different incidents, but both pointed to the same thing: that anything the Nazis have done to block an Allied advance to the heart of Hitlerism will be undone as speedily, remorselessly, and methodically as possible.
From the embrauses of the ancient monastery German guns have shot at Allied lines. Nazi telescopes and field glasses have looked down into American and British trenches guiding enemy artillery fire.
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Clearing Weather Aids Allies
German jabs against Allied positions in the beachhead section were repulsed. The Allies were aided immeasurably by clearing weather which enabled full-scale resumption of smashing aerial assaults which reached the record figure of 1,500 separate sorties. A broadest by Allied controlled Bari radio said the Allies have regained all ground lost since Feb. 3, and now are consolidating positions.
Cables from London frankly described the Bay of Biseay operation as a prelude to invasion. Friend and foe alike were warned that these waters extending 360 miles into the Atlantic from Scilly isles in the English channel and then south 400 miles were mined. The measure foreshadowed intensified Allied naval sweeps designed to wreck German sea communications in this vital zone entirely and tie up all Nazi naval transports to the Reich by way of French waters.
Other Allied bombers lashed out to the northern area of the continent. Four-motored bombers of the eighth army air force again struck the Pas de Calais area of France while lighter craft attacked wide-spread German coastal defenses throughout the daylight hours.
Fewer Attend Graduate Schools
The war has caused attendance at graduate schools of southern universities to fall off 40 per cent since the school year of 1940-41.
Made in the U.S.A.
Col. Craig Will Visit, Inspect AST Classes
Col. Maleolm E. Craig, of the infantry, and director of the Army Specialized Training activities in the Seventh Service Command, will visit the University tomorrow and Thursday, according to Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris. He will observe informally the AST daily program and will consult with the commandant and University authorities.
Colonel Craig desires to inspect as many classes as possible during his visit here.
He succeeds Col. Raymond W. Briggs, who for many years was in charge of the ROTC in the Seventh Service Command. This will be Colonel Craig's first visit here.
Students to Present Second of Advanced Recitals Wednesday
Twenty students in the School of Fine Arts will present the second of the two midwinter advanced student recitals Wednesday evening in Fraser theater.
Frances Gulick will open the program by playing two piano numbers, etudes by Chopin. Other piano numbers will be "Allegro" from "Vienna Carnival Scene" (Schumann) by Mary Margaret Smith, "Sonata in F Minor" (Schumann) by Dorothy Shoup, "Paraphrase on Themes" from "Rigoloetto" (Lisztt) by Yolande Meek, "Reflections on the Water" (Debussy) by Katherine Kufahl, and "El Vito" (Manuel Infante) by Beverly Greiner.
Norma Antone will sing "Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento" (Paissella) and "Ninna-Nanna Toscana" (Sadero), "The Spirit Flower" (Cambell-Tipton) will be sung by Margaret Hall. Other voice solls will be "Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee" (Watts) and "Spring Song of the Robin Wonnan" (Cadman) by Norma Jean Lutz, "Ah Love But a Day" (H. H. A. Beach) by Carolyn Southall, "La Gigrometta" (Sibella) and "Bois Epais" (Lully) by Margaret Emick, "L'Altra Notte in Fondo al Mare" (Boito) by Zendera Kass, "Hear Ye, Israel" (Meldessohn) by Arlene Nickels, "Voce Di Donna" (Ponchelli) by Betty Dell Mills, and "Tu Lo Sai" (Torelli) and "Old Mother Hubbard" (Hely-Hutchinson) by Merton Anderson.
Anabel Keeler will play a harp solo, "Concertino, Allegro Con Fuoco" (Carl Oberthur). Martha Lee Baxter will offer two cello numbers, "Sarabande (Corelli) and "Scherzo" (Van Goens).
Violin numbers will be "Concerto No. 4 in D" (Mozart by Peggy Kay, "Concerto" (Mendelssohn) by Nancy Freeto, and "-Concerto" (Conus) by Doris Sheppard.
The freshman honor women of last year will be the guests of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary sorority, at a tea to be given at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon, Marian Hepworth, president, announced.
Freshman Honor Women To Be Guests of Mortar Board
The musicians are students of Miss Ruth Orcutt, Prof. Jan Chiapusso, Miss Irene Peabody, Prof. Waldemar Geltch, Miss Meribah Moore, Prof. Carl Preyer, Prof. Alice Moncrieff, Prof. Joseph Wilkins, and Dean D. M. Swarthout.
The tea will be given in Chancellor Deane W. Malott's home.
Eleanor Z. Treks Trail Wrong Way
Mrs. Eleanor L. Zileh, who will be guest at the annual dinner of the journalism department in March, has been temporarily delayed in her journey to the United States by a stop-over in the Canary islands. The word came this noon by dispatch from the South African News Service.
Mrs. Zilch was captured by a tribe of head hunters on her way from the interior of Africa to the coast. However, when the ruling chiefian returned from a Willikie rally in the Congo, she was rejected.
According to the dispatch, Mrs. Zilch, wife of the noted journalist, Elmer A. Zilch, could obtain no passage, except on a freight boat going to South America. She was quartered with an ourangoutang.
Eleanor told representatives of the press in the Canaries that she enjoyed the crüise as far as it went. She said she considered it "unfortunate" that the boat was sunk by a submarine but that she found the 10-mile swim to the islands "very invigorating."
Mrs. Zilch says she has been doing some lecturing on birth control, the work that took her to Africa, in the Canary islands but her spirit is no longer with the cause, and she is anxious to return to the United States and her husband's work, journalism and distilling.
Dr. Walker to Speak To YWCA-YMCA
Highlighting the Religious Emphasis week for today Dr. Edwin Walker, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, will speak this afternoon at a combined YWCA-YMCA assembly. The joint meeting will be held in the Kansas room of the Union building.
A short program will precede Dr. Walker's speech. Margaret Snodgrass, freshman, will play a piano solo. Group singing has been arranged by Betty Pile, business junior.
Thursday night there again will be speakers in organized houses. Evening speakers include Rev. Edwin Price at Delta Gamma, Rev. Harold Barr at Alpha Chi Omega, Dr. Calvin VanderWerf at Sigma Kappa, Dr. Homer Jack of the Unitarian Church at Harmon Co-op, Dr. Hilden Gibson at Pi Beta Phi, Rev. O. E. Allison at PT2, and Harry O'Kane at PT6.
Students are also invited to attend the mass meetings held each night through Friday this week by the Lawrence Christian Mission with Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of San Antonio, Texas, as speaker at 8 p.m. in the First Methodist Church.
The Christian Mission will sponsor a Uunion Young People's dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Trinity Lutheran church with the Rev. Orlo Choguill of the First Presbyterian church of Emporia as speaker. Reservations are to be made before tomorrow noon.
Dr. Gerhard K. Kalisch, mathematics instructor, spoke at a coffee hour to the minorities commission at Henley house at 4:30, yesterday afternoon. He spoke on "The Rise of Semitism in Germany."
Kalisch Speaks at Coffee Hour
161 Seniors to Receive Degrees In Graduation Exercises Feb.27 Before Taking Final Examinations
To Interview Seniors About Commissions
Three curtain calls for Miss Irene Peabody, mezzo-soprano, expressed the appreciation of the audience for the fifth faculty recital last night in Fraser theater.
A traveling board from the Office of Naval Officers Procurement in Kansas City will be on the campus tomorrow to interview and process men who are interested in commissions for special duties in the navy. J. O. Jones, acting dean of the school of engineering announced today.
Miss Peabody sang "Ah! Mio Cor" (Handel) with deep feeling and a sensitive nobility. The sorrowful song of Andromache with its deep conflict and anguish was from the scene of Andromache from "Achilleus" (Bruch).
The board, which is comprised of two line officers and one medical officer, wishes to contact men who will be graduated in March from the School of Engineering, and majors in physics and mathematics. They will arrive at 10 a.m. and will remain all day in the office of the dean of engineering, Dr. Jones said.
Peabody Liked In Voice Recital
The melodious 'If You Pass Through My Garden" (Richard Kountz) was one of the main high lights of the program. Miss Peabody gave a gay interpretation to the light song of the lady bug, Marienwurmchen" (from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn") by Schumann. Her offering of "Gretchen Am Spinnrade" (Schubert) received the greatest applause from the audience.
The mezzo-soprano sang the rem. iniscent, tearful "Novembre" (Tremisot). Miss Peabody followed this number with the dainty, light-hearted 18th century melody, 'Tambourin.'
In her last group Miss Peabody sang the English songs by American composers. "Shy One" (Emerson Whithorne), "The Last Hour" (Walter Kramer), and "Gifts" (Alec Templeton) were expressively sung. She closed the program with the effective "The Bird of the Wilderness." (Edward Horsman).
Hoopes Will Be Speaker For Oklahoma City Clubs
Miss Allie Merle Conger was Miss Peabody's piano accompanist.
Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes of the department of English will on Thursday leave for Oklahoma City, Okla., where she will speak at a dinner given at the Oklahoma City Club by a state educational sorority that evening.
At a luncheon given by the Oklahoma State Council of English Teachers, Miss Hoopes will speak on "People in Poetry." She will include some of her own character sketches in verse in her programs.
Commencement on Feb. 27, at which 161 seniors will receive degrees, does not conform with the schedule of previous University commencement exercises.
The Navy V-12 program is the cause for the topsy-turvy arrangement by which the graduates will receive their diplomas before completing their final examinations ending on Feb. 28. The V-12's have received orders to leave which allows no time for graduation after finals.
The following will receive diplomas and their respective degrees from the University of Kansas. Diplomas in School of Business
Candidates for bachelor of science degrees in business are Mary Elizabeth Bright, Rochester, N.Y.; William John Cordts, New York, N. Y.; Doris Jean Cosley, Kansas City; Dorothy Jean Ellis, Cameron, Mo.; John Chadwick Weaver, and Kathleen Schmidt French, both of Kansas City, Mo; Mary Martha Hudelson, Powhant; Thelma Claudine Scott, Topeka; Betty June Sullivan, George K. Reeder, Leonard Dee Roll and Virginia Hagan, all of Lawrence.
In education, candidates for bachelor of science degrees are Kathryn Jeanne Haycock, Kansas City, Mo.; Ernest C. Plath, Lawrence, and Hannah Christina Reisacker, Kansas City.
Degrees in Architecture
Louise Harris Brown, Topeka, is a candidate for a bachelor of science degree in architecture. Mark Utley Viesselman, Lawrence, is a candidate for a bachelor of science degree in architectural engineering
Candidates for bachelor of science degrees in aeronautical engineering are Carl Wallace Davis, Jr. Kansas City, Mo.; Richard V. Ramsey, El Dorado; Jack Louis Walton, Florence; and Max Reed Whetstone, Topeka.
In chemical engineering, the candidates for bachelor of science degrees are David Leroy Chamberlain, Jr., Jefferson Woolf Mitchell, Jr., Frederick Charles Stults, all of Kansas City; Henry Howard Cornstock, Howard M. Gadberry, Charles Robert Owley, and John Lester Sanks, all of Kansas City, Mo.; John Warren Michel, St. Joseph, Mo.; John L Rodgers, Independence; Raymond Francis Thompson, Jeanneette, Pa. Degrees in Civil Engineering
Candidates for bachelor of science degrees in civil engineering are Harelold L. Federbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Howard Coons Jones, Troy, N. Y.; Lewis Clinton Rozelle, Lawrence; Lawrence Eugene Rundell, Ottawa; Randall Lee Glick, and Robert Wareham Lambert, both of Kansas City, City.
In electrical engineering candidates for bachelor of science degrees are Thad Franklin Bellinger, Frank C. Blue, Clarence Leroy Coates, Jr., David Evans Shaad, all of Lawrence; Roy Billman Stambaugh, Hanster; Arthur Harrison Benner, Leaver-worth; William Harper Duke, St. Johns, Ariz.; David Harold Hax, Kansas City, Mo.; John Francis Holmes, Ottawa; Robert Mayer Kloepper, Lancaster; Richard Dean Miller, Hutchinson; William Albert Reardon, Junction City; Richard
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