1944
Publication Days Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Fair and continued mild tonight and Thursday.
NUMBER 75
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1944
41ST YEAR
Changes Made In Requirements For KU Medics
A new provision affecting the combined curriculum for College and Medicine students was passed by the administrative committee in the faculty meeting yesterday in Fraser theater, Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College announced today.
Because a number of pre-medic students have been sent in the Army Specialized Training Program to other institutions, these men will be unable to satisfy the requirement that the last 30 hours of college work previous to registering in the School of Medicine be done in residence study in the College. The committee recommended that this requirement be waived for candidates for the bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree combined with the doctor of medicine degree, who by military necessity are compelled to take all or a part of the last 30 hours of college work previous to registration in the School of Medicine in some other institution.
This provision concerns only students who have been unable to take the 30 hours in residence because of their enrollment in a reserve program. Dean Lawson emphasized.
At least 18 pre-medic students who were obliged to take their last 30 hours before applying for admittance to the School of Medicine at Yale University because they were sent there by the ASTP, will be affected by the new ruling. They will be able to enroll in the School of Medicine in March, Dean Lawson said.
Dr. Bauer to Speak Of Medical Trends
Dr. W. W. Bauer, director of the American Medical Association Bureau of Health Education, will speak on "Modern Trends in Medicine and Public Health" in Fraser theater at 8 o'clock Friday evening.
Dr. Bauer, brought to the University from Chicago through the Noble Pierce Sherwood Lectureship, is sponsored by Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity. His address will be the seventh annual program presented at the University through the lectureship. Last year Dr. Karl Menninger of the Menninger clinic in Topeka spoke.
The lecture Friday is open to the general public.
Scholarships Given To Battenfeld Men
Lew Wallace Purinton of Osawatomie and Samuel Zweifel of Luray have been awarded Battenfeld hall cash scholarships of $50 each, the committee on residence hall scholarships has announced. These scholarships, which are provided by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Battenfeld of Kansas City, Mo., who gave Battenfeld hall to the University in memory of their son, John, are awarded on the basis of scholarship and contribution to the life and welfare of the residence hall.
Purinton is a junior in the College and Zweifel a sophomore in the School of Pharmacy.
Allen in Charge of KU Sales For Benefit Ball Jan.28
Dr. F. C. Allen will assist in selling tickets to the Benefit Ball given by the Douglas county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Jan. 28 at the Community building, Mrs. J. W. Stone, the chairman announced. He will have charge of sales at K.U.
Religious Groups Choose Theme
Choosing "A religion for living, today and tomorrow" as the central theme for the Religious Emphasis week to begin Feb. 13, representatives of the various student religious groups met in Myers hall yesterday afternoon and planned the general organization of their program.
With Doris Bixby as chairman of a central committee that is providing the Religious Emphasis week program, the group detailed special responsibilities to the individual members. Chosen to secure discussion leaders for the various groups were David Rau, Claudine Chamberlain, and Mrs. Rachel Vander-Werf. Dorix Bixby was selected to contact the organized houses; Fleta Penn and Paul Juelfs, the various student religious organizations; James Wray, the army units; and Harry O'Kane, the navy units. Responsibility for publicity promotion was given to Elizabeth Prentice and Florence Helmke.
Tentative plans for the general activities of the week were briefly considered by the group for future action.
Air WACs to Begin Campaign to Recruit K.U. Women Today
(International News Service)
Lt. Mark G. Treat, director of Air WAC recruiting in the Second congressional district; Sgt. Donald Grove; Air WAC Pfc. Evelyn Leasure; and Air WAC Lt. Alice Pechner make up the personnel of the unit. The first three were here in November.
University women interested in joining the Air WACs will have the opportunity to interview recruiting officers of the air force today, Thursday and Friday. A mobile recruiting unit consisting of a large silver-painted Army truck and trailer is in Lawrence to serve as headquarters for information about Air WACs.
To be eligible for the Air WACs, the candidate must be between 20 and 50 years old, have no dependents under 14, be of excellent character, and be able to pass the Air Force mental and physical examination.
Prospective Air WACs will be given rides in an Army airplane Sunday morning. The plane is attached to the Lawrence CAP squadron.
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferred today with Lord Halifax, British ambassador, in the mystery of Moscow's separate peace accusation against Great Britain.
Hull Confers with Halifax
Russian Fleets In Baltic Used Against Nazis
(International News Service)
Soviet Baltic fleets a hithertofo-negligible factor in the Russo-German war emerged today as a surprise weapon against Nazi domination.
Brief dispatches from Moscow disclosed a new offensive west and south of the city of Leningrad in which giant naval guns based at Kronstadt played a leading role, possibly forshadowing major fleet action against the German-held coast of Esthonia. Just 17 months after the seige of Leningrad was broken, the Russian attack south of Oraniendaum and north of Novgorod swept through carefully prepared Nazi defenses and poised a real threat to the heavily guarded front of Esthonia, gateway to ancient German Gourland, the whole Baltic Littoral, and East Prussia.
The offensive was timed to coincide with continued Russian progress to the south where Soviet troops drove deeper into the heart of old Poland, and tore the frontier of Rumania. Moscow described the offensive around Leningrad as "triphibious" operation, for dive bombers attached to the Baltic fleet played a leading role along with the big guns of Kronstadt in supporting the land advances.
The Germans were reported falling back south of Oraniendaum under pounding of the long-range Kronstadt guns. The city itself is the hump of an important network of railways and the key of German communications in the entire northern area.
Students Receive Diffenbaugh Loans
A total of $6,437.95 has been issued to 20 students at the University, the annual financial statement of the trustee in the estate of Henry J. Diffenbaugh of Kansas City showed The loans were issued under the terms of the trust.
Mr. Diffenbaugh left $50,000 in his will to be loaned to worthy, deserving, and needy students, residents of Missouri, who are attending this University. On the recommendation of the University, the loans are made by the First National bank of Kansas City.
Similar trusts were left by Mr. Diffenbaugh to Baker University and the University of Illinois. The total in each trust is now Kansas $68,719.47; Illinois; $122,589.99; and Baker, $68,863.46.
Dean Woody Thompson, adviser of men at the University of Iowa at Iowa City and professor in the School of Business, will visit on the campus this afternoon and observe how student affairs are conducted during wartime at the University. He will interview Chancellor Deane W. Malott and other faculty members and students who are connected with the student relations here.
Iowa Dean Will Visit Here To Study Student Life
College Forms Red Cross Unit
The first Iowa unit of the American Red Cross is being formed at Iowa State College.
4 Navy Officers Arrive From Washington Today
Ilaison party consisting of four naval officers from Washington is visiting the University V-12 unit today and tomorrow, Lt. C. A. Michelman, assistant commanding officer of the V-12, has announced. The officers are Lt. Comdr. Farrington, Lt. Stone, Lt. Narmore, and Lt. Matthews.
Allies Advance On All Fronts
(International News Service)
In Italy east of the Garigliano river bridgeheads American troops of the Fifth army flanked by French and Moroccan fighters clashed with enemy forces on the outskirts of Cassino, and there was every indication of an early decision in the struggle for this vital key point, blocking the road to Rome.
With new major American offensive moves in the Pacific expected almost momentarily, last dispatches from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters told of heavy blows dealt out to the Japanese in ground fighting in the Arawe area of New Britain while widespread new air attacks were carried out against enemy shipping north of Australia.
Allied aerial activity played a major role again in the Mediterranean theater. Heavy bombers struck for the second successive day against north central Italy, concentrating on badly battered objectives in the Florence area. Coincident with these air assaults, destroyers of the British Navy ranged their guns against targets on both sides of the Adriatic, shelling numerous enemy supply ports.
Medics to Receive Degrees Jan.31
The winter commencement program for the University School of Medicine will be at 8 p.m. Jan. 31 in Fraser theater, Twenty-six seniors in the V-12 Navy unit at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City are expected to receive the degree of doctor of medicine. Further plans for the graduation program have not yet been completed.
At present the seniors in this V-12 Navy unit are on duty as apprentice seamen. If commissioned at commencement they will become lieutenants (jg) in the Medical corps but no definite announcement has been made regarding the commissioning.
The seniors in the unit are William Follett Anderson, Evert Cleon Beaty, Milford Brent Campbell, George Carper Chaney, Thomas Waller Critchfield, William David Francisco, Florian Giles Freeman, Robert Frederick Hagen, John Max Haight, William Hayne Holmes, Craig Scott Jones, Robert Miller Knox, James Grant Lee, Jr., Harold Lloyd Low, James Neill Lysaught, Garlord Eugene Manahan, Floyd Earl Muck, Earl George Padfield, Jr. Charles Clifford Parmley, Charles Ray Phelps, Ralph Roswell Preston, Frank Judson Price, William Addison Silentz, Charles Enns Stevenson, William A. Tanner, and Robert Emery Trekell.
Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy on Aug. 29, 1942.
Just CAA Unit, Not All V-5's To Be Canceled
Dr. Frederick L. Schuman, lecturer, teacher, and writer, will speak on "the Riddle of Post-War Europe" at a University convocation scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Feb. 21, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, has announced.
Contrary to reports released in Topeka Sunday that all V-5 training would be discontinued next summer throughout the nation, an official letter received by Lt. R. A. Neil, commander of the University's V-5 unit, from the Kansas City Naval Aviation office yesterday stated that just the Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training School, one school out of the five attended by V-5 cadets in their training period, would be discontinued July 1. Lieutenant Neil explained that when the V-5 program was enlarged last year, the Navy contract with the CAA, which already had ground and flight training schools established at colleges over the nation, for the training of civilian students to provide a training school of 16 weeks for the naval aviation cadets. It is this contract with the CAA that will be discontinued July 1. Lieutenant Neil stated.
"It is definitely established that the CAAWTS is to be discontinued as such next summer," the letter stated. However, no word was received as to the discontinuation of the training of cadets. Lieutenant Neil added.
Dr. Schuman received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago and taught there until 1936. He has also taught at Harvard and the University of California. He is the present holder of the Woodrow Wilson professorship of government at Williams College. He has appeared frequently on the Chicago Round Table and the Town Meeting of the Air radio programs.
Lieutenant Neil said that it has been known for some time, among Navy men, that the CAAWTS, the type here at the University, would be discontinued next summer.
Convocation Feb. 21 To Present Address By Dr. F. L. Schuman
Dr. Schuman has travelled extensively in England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, and the Balkans. He observed on the scene the inauguration of the first Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union and the Nazi revolution in Germany.
Among his 10 published books are "Germany Since 1918," "Europe on the Eve," "Night Over Europe," and "A Primer of Power Politics."
Stimson Demands Service Act
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson demanded enactment of a national service act today on hite ground that there is a deep feeling of 'resentment and injustice" among soldiers over "strikes and failures" on the home front. Stimson told the senate military affairs committee that the morale of the nation's fighting men is being threatened by strikes and home-front bickering.