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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1944
41ST YEAR
Officers to Visit Car us to Test V-12 Transferees
Naval aviation medal and line of officers will visit the V-12 unit at the University of Kansas Friday and Saturday to give mental and physical examinations to V-12 trainees who have indicated a desire to transfer from V-12 to V-5 naval aviation training
the same time, civilians who wi
would find out if they are qualifi-
cated or enlistment in naval aviation
will be given an opportunity to do so. They have been advised to go to west wing of Frank Strong hall either Friday or Saturday.
Applicants must be high school seniors or graduates from 17 to 26, inclusive. They will be given final mental tests and preliminary physical examinations. Those found qualified will later be called to the Kansas City Office of Naval Officer Procurement at government expense to complete their enlistment.
No high school seniors enlisting now will be called for training until after their graduation, and it is expected that all will be given two semesters of college work before beginning their regular naval aviation training which requires from 16 to 18 months. Civilian college students enlisting now may be deferred until the end of the school year if they so desire.
It has not yet been determined when V-12 students who pass the flight examinations will be transferred to the V-5 program training program which leads to commissions as flying officers in the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve
Medical officers who will be here Friday and Saturday are Lieut. Com. James E. Bowman, flight examiner and senior medical officer of the Office of Naval Officer Procurement in Kansas City, and Lt. Millard P. Jones of the Hutchinson Naval Air station. Lt. Jones recently returned to the United States after nineteen months at advanced bases in the Pacific. Also in the group will be Lt. Theodore M. O'Leary of the Kansas City officer procurement office, and five medical corpsmen.
Christmas Seal Sale Totals $347 at Noon
Proceeds from the sale of Christmas tuberculosis seals totaled $347 at noon today, Miss Joie Stapleton, assistant professor of physical education, announced:
Miss Stapleton said that there are still some organizations who indicated they would like to pledge Christmas seal money and have not yet turned in the money. The campaign closes at noon tomorrow, and all money must have been turned in to Miss Stapleton at her office in Robinson gymnasium by then, she said.
Tuberculosis seals were sold to Navy employees before Christmas in the Union cafeteria by University students. The committee included Maxine Jones, chairman; Margaret Emick, Nadine Potter, Ruth Stoll, Hazel DeWald, and Emadee Gregdry.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
To Visit Campus
Ted O'Leary, a University of Kansas graduate, and son of a former English teacher at the University will visit the campus tomorrow and Saturday in examining V-12 students who wish to transfer to V-5.
Third Program For Technicians To Begin Jan. 31
Upon the request of the Boeing Airplane Company of Wichita, and North American Aviation, Inc., of Kansas City, the University will offer its third program for training women as aeronautical technicians beginning Jan. 31, University authorities announced today. The department of aeronautical engineering, under the auxuries of the School of Engineering and Architecture, will administer the program.
Airplane company authorities have announced that some of the graduates of the two former technician training programs conducted here are now receiving salaries of $200 to $300 per month while employed in aircraft construction. During the twelve weeks training period, the young women received approximately $100 per month, while being carried regularly on the payrolls of the two aircraft companies.
Laboratory Equipment Added
H. S. Stillwell, chairman of the department of aeronautical engineering, said today that since the training of women as aeronautical technicians began, approximately a year ago, nearly $150,000 worth of aircraft equipment has been added to the laboratory facilities of the department, much of it having been acquired from the United States Army Air Corps within the past four months.
This equipment, with the recent completion of a testing laboratory for aircraft engines, provides the University with one of the most completely equipped modern aeronautical engineering laboratories for engineering schools in the country. Can Obtain Details in Fraser. ...
Stillwell received a personnel report from Boeing this week indicating that of the 75 women who completed their training in the first program here and were transferred to the plant on Sept. 1, 71 were now employed in the Wichita division.
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World Meet Revealing To Delegate
"For five days at Wooster, 500 of us actually lived in the kind of world felowship everyone dreams of for the post-war world," Julia Ann Casad, College sophomore, said of her recent trip to the Student Christian Conference at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
Delegates to the conference were housed in college dormitories whose regular occupants had gone home for the Christmas vacation. They ate in large dining rooms at the college.
"It was quite an experience to sit down for lunch and find a Negro girl at your left, a Chinese girl at your right, a Japanese boy a few seats down, and maybe a German boy and a French girl sitting side by side across the table from you," Miss Cassd recalled.
21 Foreign Nations Represented
In addition to the delegates representing every section of the United States and Canada, 42 students from 21 foreign nations attended the conference. The countries were England, New Zealand, Uruguay, Peru, China, Puerto Rico, Nigeria, Guatemala, Columbia, Bulgaria, Argentina, Germany, Gold Coast, France Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Trinidad Ceylon, India, and Sierra Leone.
The students from Germany and France had been in the United States before the war. One French girl had no knowledge of her parents' whereabouts at the present time. Her home had been on the outskirts of Paris. One of the German boys spoke to the delegates about the Student Christian Movement in Germany, which functions underground despite all efforts to suppress it.
Group Quite Friendly
"Despite the differences in race, nationality, and background, they were the friendliest group of people I've ever been among." Miss Casad said of the delegates. "I think it was because they all believed in the same things, and were working for the same dreams. It wasn't so much the things that were said at the conference that I shall remember, but the fact that we were living real brotherhood."
Delegates were kept busy every hour of the day. In the mornings they attended seminars; they heard various speakers in the afternoon until 3:30, when they were free to browse in the library and get acquainted with each other. After dinner there were more discussions.
Appeal to Survey Branch For Aid at Russell, Kansas
Seminars were divided into three main groups: "The World" "North
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Dr. T. B. McLaughlin of the cooperative ground water staff of the Geological Survey has recently appealed to the Survey branch at the University for aid in relieving conditions at Russell where he is supervising the drilling operations of the core rig owned and operated by the Geological Survey. Russell has been faced with a water shortage for some time, and drilling in the vicinity is designed to help secure a more adequate city water supply. The department is working on a solution to the problem now.
the problem now.
DuPont and British Firms Accused Of Conspiracy to Control Sale, Price Of Chemicals, Arms, Ammunition
(International News Service)
Washington, (INS)—The Justice Department in an action alleging violation of the anti-trust laws, charged today that two big American firms and a British company "conspired" to control the sale and price of chemical products, fire arms, and ammunition.
The firms were named as the DuPont Company, the Remington - Rand Arm Company, both American, and the Imperial Chemical Industries Limited of Great Britain.
Reds Pour Deep Into Poland
The mighty armies of Soviet Russia drove deeper into old Poland and toward the frontier of Rumania today, pouring Nazi Germany's military life-blood onto the battlefield while enormous new devastations was visited upon the Reich by Allied war planes.
(International News Service)
Non-stop American and British aerial onslaughts against targets in Europe kept pace with the sweeping Russian advance, and on the Italian battlefront the American fifth army pressed a large scale offensive against the German-held bastine of San Vittore, blocking the road to Rome.
Allied bombing planes shuttlecock back and forth across the English Channel in an unending stream following a heavy night attack upon Stettin, the fort of Berlin, and a new raid on the German capitol itself by mosquito bombers. Full details of the Stettin assault were not available but great damage was believed done.
Berlin Suffers Tremendous Loss
In the battle of Berlin, the British thus far have lost only 2,000 men. With them went 272 R. A. F. heavy bombers in the last ten large-scale assaults against the Nazi capital. But against this sacrifice Berlin has suffered:
Several square miles of the city wiped out completely.
50 pgr cent of its war production stopped.
Enough buildings destroyed to render 3 million persons, more than half of the city's population, homeless.
Government administration virtually paralyzed with major headquarters demolished or damaged.
Popular morale hammered also to the breaking point. Tennessee
On the Russian front Soviet troops liberated 60 more towns and villages and General Vatutin's first Ukrainian army pressed toward the Rumanian frontier while other units headed toward the town of Sarny in Poland Steady progress was reported for American troops operating in northern New Britain Island. Unbroken aerial activity accompanied ground action in the far Pacific as well as upon the Italian fronts.
Lt. Col. Wimmer Is Working In Transportation Corps
Lt. Col. Eugene R. Wimmer, a student in '25, is now with the production division of the transportation corps in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was formerly with the transportation corps in Washington.
The charge was contained in a complaint against the three concerns and their principal officers filed in the United States district court in New York today.
Seventy-five Army Specialized Training Program trainees may soon go into troop duty as the result of deficiencies in studies or conduct, Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris announced today.
It was charged that DuPont and the British company engaged in "a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade and commerce in chemical products, arms including war material, and ammunition in the United States and with foreign nations, and have been and are now parties to contracts and agreements in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act."
Remington-Rand, said to be controlled by DuPont, is charged with having entered the conspiracy in 1933.
The suit alleged that the two American firms and the British company had entered agreements with the German Die trust to control world sale of chemicals, firearms, and ammunition. Outbreaks of the war prevented the completion of the agreement with the Germans.
May Send 75 Into Troop Duty
The ASTP board which recently reviewed the academic and leadership standings of all trainees bound 68 deficient academically. They have been reported to Headquarters, Seventh Service Command, as available for assignment to troop duty.
The cases of seven other trainees charged with violations of ASTP standing orders governing conduct and discipline are under consideration by the Commandant for determination as to whether they should be eliminated from the program.
The 68 trainees with academi failure will be withdrawn from classes, effective Friday.
Three Professors Speak Over KFKU
Prof. W. E. Sandelius of the political science department, Prof. W. Ashton, chairman of the English department, and Fletcher McCord, assistant professor in the psychology department, took part in a discussion program at 9:30 p.m. yesterday over station KFKU. Their subject was More's "Utopia."