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41ST YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944
Fair, colder in southeast portion.
Not as cold in extreme northeast tonight. Thursday
fair and warmer.
NUMBER 70
ASC Makes Appointments
Germans Boast Of U.S. Losses In Air Struggle
(International News Service)
Nazi Germany had a field day today in claiming enormous losses dealt out to the eighth United States Army Air Force in the greatest air battle of the war over the Reich yesterday.
The eighth Air Force Command delayed its own details of the record-breaking combat, which occurred when a huge formation of American planes, estimated to include 700 four-motored bombers, attacked a still undesignated target in northwestern Germany.
The Nazi's claimed that 136 of our planes were demolished and that about 100 American planes were compelled to jettison their bombs in the frontier areas. The Germans conceded that two Nazi fighter planes were lost while the crews of seven other planes are missing.
Bombers Pound Athens Port
The Mediterranean High Command meanwhile announced a devastating blow against the port of Athens. Heavy American bombers hattered the city and its harbor installations by daylight, and a few hours later Royal Air Force Wellintons went over to finish the job.
Allied planes also were active over the Italian front, where American and British troops of the fifth army slashed through rain-swollen creeks and over muddy terrain to oust the Germans from strategic high ground on the road guarding Rome.
Vatutin Reaches Bug River
General Vatutin's first Ukrainian army was reported to have reached the Bug river in the Ukraine, while other units surrounded the rail junction of Sarny, deep inside old Poland. A new Soviet offensive carried the Russians toward the railway intersection of Sheptoza.
Anna Bines Speaks On Meat Points
Tokyo reported a heavy Allied air raid on both ends of the island of Formosa, presumably from bases in China, while the Allied Pacific Command disclosed a blistering new raid on the New Britain base of Rabaul, in which 16 Japanese planes were shot down and two warships and 15 barges set on fire.
Miss Anna Bines, home economist with the National Livestock and Meat board located in Chicago, gave a talk on "Meat Extenders and the Use of Low Point Meats", to the home economics department and all students interested this afternoon at 1:30.
An expert on how homemakers can stretch meat points, Miss Bines is a graduate of the University of Illinois, and was formerly connected with the extension service in Illinois.
The National Livestock and Meat board is an educational and research organization representing all branches of the livestock industry.
Fire in Green Causes Slight Damage
Three fire trucks, the fire chief, and the police chief all arrived at Green hall last night to investigate the cause of smoke filtering up from the basement. While a crowd of some 50 to 75 onlookers assembled firemen searched the basement and found that some papers had caught fire in the men's lavatory.
The fire chief described the damage as very slight.
Four Victory Speakers Will Address Co-ops At Meeting Thursday
Four Victory Speakers will give talks at the meeting of the Co-op club at seven o'clock Thursday evening in the Colonial tea room. Those who will speak, and their topics are: Richard Stutz, "German Airpower"; Paul Fairechild, "Tanks in Modern Warfare"; Robert Stockton, "Trades in the Navy"; and Beverly Presley, "Lend-Lease and How it Works."
The Victory Speakers are a group of University students organized by Prof. E. C. Buehler, of the speech department, for the purpose of bringing to the public pertinent information pertaining to the war effort. The plan, according to Professor Buehler, is to discuss some phase of the war or post war plans. It is not a debate, said Professor Buehler; the students merely present the information.
Others Have Been Chosen
Others on the team are Leeta Marks, "Nurses' Aid," Elizabeth Baker, "Medicine in Modern War;" Williaim Hough, "Mythology in World War II—the Gremlins;" Howard Sutherland, "Music in the Camps;" and Kathleen Jones, topic not selected. The group plans to present 25 or 30 programs in the next two months.
This program was organized in the fall of 1942 and is intended only for the duration, according to Professor Buchler. In groups of three or four, the students travel over Kansas and Missouri, giving their speeches. Last year they presented 66 programs and talked to eleven thousand people.
Among the cities in which the groups spoke last year are: Belleville, Concordia, Marysville, Sabethan, Chanute, Humbolt, Iola, Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo., Topeka, Ottawa, Baldwin, Eudora, and Bonner Springs. A faculty member accompanies the team and acts as chairman of the group.
Visited Many Cities Last Year
Aviation Cadet Deane Warren Kiefer, of Lawrence, a student in 1942-43, has reported to the Coffeyville army air field for his basic flight training.
"The programs were enthusiastically received last year," commented Professor Buehler. "I received many letters from superintendents of the various schools and they were generous in their praise. I hope we can have as good a program this year."
Kiefer Reports to Coffeyville
Rubinstein Lists Selections for Concert Here
With his program already chosen,
Artur Rubinstein, world - f am e d pianist was prepared today to make
his first appearance on a Lawrence
platform in Hoch auditorium at 8:20
tomorrow evening.
As guest soloist with the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, he scored a great success at Kansas City, Mo., last night. His performance of the celebrated Tschakowsky piano concerto was enthusiastically received.
The "Sonata, Op. 57 in F Minor" by Beethoven will be the Rubinstein's opening number on the program tomorrow night. The "Intermezzo in C Major" and the "Rhapsody in B Minor" by Brahms will follow. Three numbers by Chopin, "Ballads in A Flat," "Nocture," and "Scherzo in C Sharp Minor," will complete the last offerings in the first group.
The painist will open the second group with Debusy's "Prelude" and "Ondine." He will play "Kujawiak" (Karol Rathaus), dedicated to the memory of Paderewski. Rubinstein will include in his program Shostakovich's "Polka" and "La Maja Y El Ruisenor" (Grandos). The musician will close his concert with "Triana" by Albeniz.
Rubinstein will leave immediately afterward for St. Louis, where he will appear as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony orchestra.
Dr. E. H. Taylor Takes Wartime Position In Washington, D.C.
Dr. Edward H. Taylor, professor of zoology, will leave this evening for Washington, D.C., to take over a wartime position, the nature of which he cannot reveal. Dr. Taylor, who began teaching at the University in 1927, has been granted a leave of absence for the duration, and plans to return after the war. His classes will be taken over by other members of the staff of the department of zoology.
Dr. Taylor will leave his famous reptile collection here at the University, where it is kept in Snow hall. This collection of over 30,000 specimens is one of the most complete collections of types of reptiles to be found in the United States. Dr. Taylor has many rare specimens which cannot be found in museums, making his collection extremely valuable. Chiefly a foreign collection, it includes reptiles from South Asia, the Philippines, South Pacific islands, where he spent 12 years, and Mexico, where he has spent his summers exploring for the past 16 years.
Dr. Taylor hopes to continue adding to the collection when he returns to the University after the war is concluded.
pointments Council Seats Five, Announces Cabinet Committee Members
Appointments to the All-Student Council cabinet and to standing committees in the Council were announced, five new members were seated, and a list of class officers was given to an eligibility committee to be acted upon, at a meeting of the Council in the Pine room last night. Names of the class officers will be released later this week, Peggy Davis, ASC president, said.
Ryther, Davidson Flint Will Attend Press Convention
Three University of Kansas faculty members will attend the annual convention of the Kansas Press Association which will open at the Jayhawk hotel in Topeka, Thursday evening, and will be in session until Saturday noon. Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College, and William McGaffin, well-known war correspondent, will be the principal speakers of the convention.
Those who will attend from the University are K. W. Davidson, director of information and journalism instructor; Thomas C. Ryther, director of the University Press, and journalism instructor; and L. N. Flint, professor of journalism.
McGaffin will speak off-the-record to Kansas newspaper men at the morning session of the convention. Jan. 15. His address will be based on his experiences in Cairo where he was chief of the Middle East news bureau of the Associated Press.
In the case of Virginia Schaefer, College senior, declared ineligible to sit on the All-Student Couni
Eisenhower, who was head of the domestic division of the Office of War Information before becoming president of Kansas State College, will speak on "War Information." He will outline the machinery for keeping America informed on war developments as well as discuss propaganda as a psychological weapon.
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Aeronautic Program Plans Are Finished
Final plans for recruiting trainees for the third aeronautical technical program, which will open in the University Jan. 31, were made yesterday when W. D. Evans of the War Manpower Commission met with local employment authorities and Guy Keeler, director of the Engineering Science Management War Training program.
The program will open as scheduled, Mr. Keeler announced today, and women interested in the training may apply at the office of the ESMWT in room 109. Fraser hall.
Those who are graduated from the training course will be employed in North American Aviation Incorporated, Kansas City; and Boeing Aircraft company, Wichita, he said.
ident court, the ASC is awaiting the decision of the case which is scheduled to be appealed before the Student Court faculty advisory board.
Five Took Oath of Office
Miss Davis administered the cath of office to Rosomary Harding, freshman in education; Gene Kittle, College freshman; Harry Johnson, sophomore in education; Thad Marsh, College freshman; and Jack Button, College sophomore. Miss Harding was elected and Kittle was appointed to represent the freshman class, College freshmen; and Jack Button, were seated to fill vacancies which occurred in the Council.
Engle Is Chairman of Committees
Members of the cabinet who were appointed by Miss Davis were Clarence Engle, Thorton McClanahan, Doris Bixby, Richard Miller, Janet Marvin, Reed Whestone, and Jill Peck.
The permanent committee appointments as made by the comittee on committees which is composed of Clarence Engle, chairman, Jill Peck, and Thornton McClainhan, were announced by Engle, secretary of the Council.
Members of the elections committee, which supervies all student elections, are Clarence Engle chairman; Ralph May, Mary Olive Marshall, Dorothy Bowersock Perry Davis, June Mack, Reed Whestone, and Harry Johnson.
The Parking committee, which issues parking licenses and supervises general enforcement of the parking rules, consists of Ruth, May, chairman; Mary Morrill and Virginia Rader.
Senate Bill Seeks Draft of Six Million
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Washington, (INS)—Senator Austin, Republican, Vermont, told the Senate military affair's committee today that his national service bill would make six million 4-Fs and other millions of fathers as well as women subject to draft for non-combatant service.
William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor declared today that enactment of national service legislation as requested by President Roosevelt would place American workers in "involuntary servitude" with disastrous effects to war production, and would not prevent strikes.