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Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy and colder.
NUMBER 89
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1944
U.S. Traps Japs Left Helpless In Marshalls
(International News Service)
Abandoned by their battle-weary navy and stripped by American air power of protection from the skies, thousands of Japanese faced death or capture in the Marshall islands today. Powerful and steadily expanding forces of the marines and infantry troops swarmed through the atolls of the Marshalls cleaning up last pockets of enemy resistance in the Kwajalein area and bringing closer the moment for annihilation of a vast enemy unit left trapped and almost helpless in their cynical abandonment by the war lords of Tokyo.
Enemy fortifications there have not come to expectations but there is no doubt regarding the man-power Japan expended in garrisoning the Marshalls, for 9,000 were encountered and disposed of in Kwajalein alone.
There may be as many as 30,000 Japanese trapped in the 32 far flung atolls of the once peaceful islands that lie directly on the road to Tokyo.
The bulk of Japan's strength in the islands remains on the atolls of Wolfe, Malaoelap, Jaluit, and Milli.
the islands remains on the atolls of Wotie, Maloalap, Jauhit, and Milli, of which have been pounded incessantly by American bombers operating against virtually no aerial resistance. Casually figures for initial phases of the Marshall undertaking released by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific area, listed known enemy dead at 8.366 as against 286 Americans killed. Rarely, if ever, have such proportionate losses occurred.
For the second time in succession the Missouri Valley Forensic league will be held at the University. On March 23, 24, and 25, the University of Kansas and Kansas State College will be hosts to the annual tournament, Prof. E. C. Buchler, secretary of the league, announced.
K.U. to Be Host To Speech Group
The schools in the Missouri Valley league are: the state universities of South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana; Kansas State College, Wichita University, Iowa State College, and Creighton University. The old Missouri Valley oratorical association, which has been sponsored over 30 years, is combined with the debate league, which was active for 24 years.
Tournaments will be held in debate, oratory, and extemporaneous speaking. The topic question this year is, "Resolved: That a permanent policy of peace control by the federal government should be adopted."
Two Submarines Reported Lost
Washington, (INS) — Two United States marines, the Cisco and the S-44, were reported today by the navy as overdue and presumed lost while on patrol with their estimated crews of about 110 officers and men.
Last Services Held For Mrs. Lindley
Funeral services for Mrs. E. H. Lindley, wife of the former chancellor of the University and active participant in University and Lawrence affairs for over 25 years, who died Saturday, were held yesterday afternoon in Spooner-Thayer Art Museum.
The Rev. Theodore Aszman officiated at the services yesterday. Music was provided by the University String quartet, by a vocal duet by Miss Irene Peabody and Miss Mirebah Moore, and by a violin solo by Waldemar Geltch, professor of violin.
The body has been cremated and the ashes, at the close of the war, will be spread upon the Pacific, where the former chancellor died when he was returning with Mrs. Lindley from a trip to the Orient.
War Bond Rally For Army Tonight
In answer to War Department requests that military personnel, officials and enlisted men, make regular payroll monthly deductions for the purchase of war bonds, the AST unit at the University will hold its war bond rally from 7 to 7:30, this evening, in Fraser theater, Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, has announced.
The purpose of the rally, at which Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen will be the featured speaker, is to increase the number of soldier trainees making regular purchases of war bonds, and bring up the total from 70 per cent of the men to 90 per cent, Col. Mc-Morris said.
"It is the desire of the Secretary of War that not less than 90 per cent of the military personnel deduct at least 10 per cent of their pay for war bonds" Col. McMorris continued. "These requirements are more than being met by the officials and enlisted cadre on duty with the local AST unit."
Monthly bond purchases, made by 100 per cent of the Army unit, amount to almost 20 per cent of their pay. Lt. Col. McMorris buys a $100 war bond monthly, and recently买 a $500 bond in participation with the Fourth War Bond drive. The AST unit also buys several thousand war stamps extra each month, besides their allotments.
The rally tonight marks the beginning of a competitive drive between companies B and C, of Lindley hall, in the purchase of war bonds and stamps. The drive will end Feb. 25, and the winner will be given a buffet supper at the Union building on Sunday, Feb. 27.
Betty Jo O'Neal, CVC major, in charge of the Fourth War Loan drive on the campus, will be on hand with several CVC bond salesgirls at the AST rally tonight, so that the trainees may begin their purchases immediately.
Moscow, (INS) — Nikopol, key manganese center of the center bend fell today to Red army troops, Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin announced in a special order of the day only a few minutes after he had told of a crushing German defeat in that area. The enemy forces in that area have been routed, he said.
Capt. Benjamin Clark, adjutant is in charge of the AST Bond rally.
Soviets Take Manganese Center
AST's to Play At Bond Party Saturday Night
A band composed of Army trainees on the campus will play for the War Bond party Saturday night in the Military Science building, Betty Jo O'Neal, CVC major, announced today. The dance, jointly sponsored by the Coed Volunteer Corps and the Union Activities committee, will climax the campaign to sell war bonds and stamps which the CVC has sponsored in cooperation with the Fourth War Loan drive now in progress all over the nation.
The total of contributions made in the campaign is now $3,139. Miss O'Neal said she definitely believed that the goal of $5,000 would be reached by the deadline date, Feb. 12. The figure should be boosted considerably tonight when CVC members sell bonds and stamps to ASTP trainees after their bond rally held at 7 o'clock in Fraser theater, Miss O'Neal stated.
At the dance war stamps and bonds will be on sale. Admission to the dance will be a 25 cent war stamp and gives the purchaser a free chance on a war bond. With each 10 cent war stamp purchased, the purchaser is entitled to a vote for queen who will reign at the dance.
Candidates for queen are Shirley Kelley, Miller hall; Betty Lou Perkins, Chi Omega; Dorothy Warren, Pi Beta Phi; Jane Atwood, Gamma Phi Beta; Nancy Neville, Kappa A1 p h a Theta; Virginia Brehm, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Margaret Whightsil, Delta Gamma; Alice Ackerman, Alpha Chi Omega; Dolores Grossenbacher, Alpha Omicron Pi; Peggy Small, Sigma Kappa; Marjorie Shryock, Alpha Delta Pi; Jeanice Allen, Watkins hall; and Ruth Prentice, Corbin hall. The name of Betty Young, College sophomore, has not been announced before. She is a candidate from Jolliffe hall.
U.S. Warns Finland For Pro-Axis Action
Washington, (INS)—Secretary of State Cordell Hull, announced today the United States government has formally warned Finland against the consequences of continuing to remain in the war on the side of the Axis powers. Hull said the American government had notified Finland that the resulting consequences of Finland's collaboration with Germany and the continuance of war against America's allies must be born solely by the Finland government.
Hull's announcement followed Stockholm's report that the Finnish government had asked what the American attitude would be toward Finland if German troops were withdrawn, but the Finns continued in a state of defensive war with the Soviet Union.
The American warning to Finland is believed to have preceded the launching of the Soviet aerial offensive against Finland which has resulted during recent days in the bombing of Helsinki by hundreds of Russian bombers.
Mrs. Zilch Will Attend Press Feed
Beating her way through the jungles of Africa, Eleanor L. Zilch is on her way back to the states, members of the Kansan board have learned. Eleanor, wife of Elmer A. Zilch, patron saint of journalism, reports that she is cutting her latest birth control campaign tour short so that she may be in Lawrence in March for the annual journalism department dinner.
Eleanor will take the place of her beloved husband as guest of honor at the departments social highlight. For years Zilch, inventor of the Zilch Zippy Linotype, has been overcoming great difficulties to attend the dinner—last year he left a foxhole in Bataan to journey by blimp to Lawrence.
This time, however, certain forces are proving too much for even Zilch. Eleanor reports. The erudite newspaper man has been strung upside down in a Japanese prison camp for a year and a half now. Although he has become accustomed to the position, and is at present fairly comfortable, it is impossible for him to get away for the dinner.
Mrs. Zilch reports she has been meeting with only moderate success in South Africa with her campaign and is thinking of abandoning the work to reopen her husband's distillery in Kentucky.
Naval Trainees On Honor Roll
Because more than 90 per cent of their personnel invest regularly more than 10 per cent of their pay in War Bonds, the three Navy V-12 school connected with the University have been placed on the bond honor roll of the ninth naval district.
This was the report received late yesterday from the officer in charge of the sale of War Bonds to personnel of this naval district.
The three groups thus honored are the Medical trainees of the University, both here and at the University hospital in Kansas City, the dental trainees at the University of Kansas City, and the engineering and pre-medical trainees here.
In percentage of participation in the buying of bonds, the Dental school ranked first with 97.9 per cent of its personnel investing more than 10 per cent of their pay. The officers of the school here participated 100 per cent, the V-12 trainees 94.9 per cent and the Ships Company 90 per cent. The Medical students participated 91.6 per cent. The three groups are continuing to uphold the quota.
Ann Jane Ward Studies New Languages in WAC
Pvt. Anna Jane Ward, a student from 36-40, has been assigned to the technical library at the WAC proving ground in Aberdeen, Md.
Private Ward, who hopes to make use of her knowledge of languages in the Army, plans to add Chinese and Japanese to the eight others she knows.
She received her basic training at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.
Variety, Laughs To Characterize 'Happy Hour'
Mixing a variety of musical entertainment with light comedy, the Naval Training Station will present the Navy's "Happy Hour" at 7:45 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
The show will open in patriotic theme with Rollin Wittig. S.2e, leading the audience in the national anthem.
The Naval Training Station band, under the leadership of Joe Lueero, F/2c, will then officially present itself to fellow shipmates and to the University in general. The band will play four numbers on the program, two of which are to be "Johnson Rag" and "7-20 in the Books," Lucero stated.
Rones. Words Contorted
Two contortionists, one with h words and the other in ropes, will follow the band in that order. Ted Lehman, senior, will present his now famous dialogue on old English punctuation, complete with asterisks. Then some Navy trainee, as yet unknown, will be bound in ropes and permitted to flop around on the stage until he extracts or endicates himself, whichever happens first. The women of the University will then take over, with a trio composed of Joan Veatch, sophomore; Annette Bigelow, freshman, and Kathryn 'O'Leary, freshman, followed by a tap dance by Jean Richmond, freshman.
March of Time in Silhouette
A short history of the Naval Training school, in the form of a March of Time, will be presented in silhouette, preceding the baton twirling of Betty Young, sophomore.
A trio of 18th division seamen, Ronald Hill, Egon Hansen, and Joe Lucero, accompanied by Raymond Sanborn, also of the 18th with a guitar, will be followed by a "Call from the South Pacific," a two man dialogue.
A tap dance by Maxine Lindley will be followed by another historical presentation in silhouette, this one of the life of one of the station officers.
Betty Cohagen, dean of the "Happy Hour" performers, will sing "Speak Low," a companion by Sarah Frances Phipps, freshman, the last number before the finale of the show, "Here Comes the Navy."
lackson Was Honor Graden Pre-Flight Training
Lt. Maurice B. Jackson, a graduate in 1941 and son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, 901 Michigan street was an honor graduate of the naval college for primary flight instructors at the Naval Air Station, New Orleans, La., recently.
While at the University, Lieutenant Jackson was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, Owl Society, honorary fraternity for junior men; and the basketball team.
Russian Planes Blast
Latviian, Estonian Capitals
London, (INS) — The Leamingrad radio reported today that Russian war planes have blasted Riga, capital of Latvia, and Tallinn, capital of Estonia. The London Evening News recorded the broadcast.