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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943
41ST YEAR
Cagers Hit Road For Washburn Rockhurst Tilts
The Kansas Jayhawks will take the road for the first time this season as they journey to Topeka to take on the Washburn Ichabods in Whiting Fieldhouse tonight and to Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium where they will clash with the Rockhurst College Hawks Saturday night.
The Jayhawks will help inaugurate the season for both their rivals, and with four games already behind them, Kansas should take the floor as favorite in both games.
Ichabab Look Good
However, Dee Errickson's Ichabods are hardly being taken lightly as his rangy youngsters have been reported as looking good in pre-season practice.
Both Kansas and Washburn will have two football players in their starting lineup calculated to reinforce the backline defense and supply under-the-basket power. Opening for the Blue at guards will be Frank Becker, 200-pound tackle standout, and Andy Shaltanus, for-
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Allies Advance On Two Fronts
(International News Service)
NUMBER 54
In Italy and Russia, Allied activi-
ties today mounted and important gains were recorded in far-flung theaters of action.
Soviet forces finally seized the railway junction of Znamenka in the Ukraine in an offensive which crumbled the German defenses and endangered the Nazi holding at Krivoi-Rog and Kirovgrad.
The attempted large scale Nazi offensive west of Kiev bogged down despite enemy use of extensive mechanized forces. A Russian offensive fanning out within the helper bend meanwhile made good progress and a large number of Germans again are faced with encirclement.
On the Italian battlefront Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Allied fifth army cleared up remaining enemy strong points and completed occupation of the entire eastern bank of the Garigliano river. Gen. Clark's forces solidified their positions along the river by taking the town of Rocca Devandro, last important enemy pocket of resistance.
$200 From AST's Buys Gifts for Veterans
Trainees of the Army Specialized Training program have raised a fund of approximately $200 to be used for the purchase of individual Christmas gifts for wounded veterans of this war who are in Winter General hospital in Topeka, Col. W. L. McMorris, commander of the University army units on the Hill, announced today.
Col. McMorris said this was one way in which the trainees chose to build the Christmas morale of who have been wounded on war battlefronts.
All Students Invited To Dedication Dance
Dean Gilbert Ulmer, chairman of the University committee in charge of the reception formally opening the new Military Science building tonight, today pointed out that the reception was not formal and that guests were not expected to wear formal clothes.
He also emphasized that students were being given a special invitation to the dance following the reception at 9:30, and that they were cordially invited to attend the dance without attending the reception before.
Military Only In New Building
The new Military Science building is built strictly for military needs. On the basement floor, the garage, the rifle range, and the brig are the most interesting features. The garage is used for storing artillery material. The rifle range, to be used for rifle practice, has a steel wall at one end of the room in front of which the targets will be placed.
The brig is more for exhibition purposes than anything else. It is a small room with one small, high, barred window. It is used to store ammunition, and valuable records.
On the first floor are the offices of Army officials, four classrooms, and a big supply room, used for clothing and military supplies.
The second floor, or the top floor 's the drill hall, a room constructed so that the men can drill in it in inclement weather. At the present time, however, it is being used as a gymnasium.
An armament room, in which rifles, machine guns, and other small weapons are stored. is the other spot of main interest on the second floor.
Debate Squad Gives Exhibition Debates
Hal Frusen and Henry Miller, members of the University debate squad, are debating before high school groups in Texas this week, according to Prof. E. C. Buehler, debate coach. They are debating the high school question of reconstituting the League of Nations.
Word received from the debaters yesterday by Professor Buehler stated that they had just debated before an audience of 950 high school students. This is the only debate tip planned for the year, Professor Buehler said.
The School of Fine Arts student recital was given yesterday afternoon in Fraser theater by five Fine Arts students. The program opened with a piano solo. "Polichinelle" (Fachmaninoff) by Jerry Bales.
Students Give Recital
The program closed with a violin solo by Helen Pierson. She played the second and third movements, adagio and allegro moderato, from "Concerto in E Minor" by Conus.
Arleene Nickels sang Handel's "Relieve Greatly" from "The Messiah", "Au Bord d'une Source" (Liszt), a piano solo, was played by Beventy Greiner. Zendra Kass sang "Und od die Wolke" (von Weber).
Vespers Sunday To Offer Music And Tableaux
The 20th annual Christmas Vespers with tableaux will be presented at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium by the faculty and students of the School of Fine Arts.
Starting at 3 p.m., Christmas carols will be played from the balcony of the auditorium by a brass quartet composed of Eugene Arnold and Warren Taft, cornets, and Gaylord Gasal and Lonnie Kelly, trombones. Fifteen minutes preceding the service, chime carols will be played as the audience assembles. Organ Will Open Program
At the opening of the program, Laurel Everette Anderson, of the School of Fine Arts faculty, will play an organ number, "Accourez Pastoureaux" (Henri Busser), which will be followed by the candle lighting ceremony, performed by Tommy Hankins, son of Prof. and Mrs. J. E. Hankins, and Fred Coombs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Madison Coombs.
An ensemble number, "Ave Maria" (Bach-Gouned), played by Walderam Geltch, violin; Martha Lee Baxter, cello; D. M. Swarthout,
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ISA Mixer to Be Saturday Night
The ISA mixer dance in the Union lounge from 9 to 12 tomorrow evening is being planned for those who will attend only a short time and also those who want to dance the entire evening, said John Sells, president of ISA.
Many mixer dances will be called so that both men and women may attend stag and get acquainted. Some students are expected to divide their time between the mixer and the house parties being given the same night.
ISA members will be admitted upon showing their membership tickets. Admission will be charged non-members.
Betty O'Neal Elected New CVC Major
Joan Burch, head of the committee to decorate the mess halls of servicemen for Christmas time, announced that she would like for as many CVC members as possible to meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday night in the Union building to begin work on the decorations.
Betty Jo O'Neal, College sophomore and member of Gamma Phi Beta, was elected major of the Coed Volunteer Corps yesterday afternoon at a meeting in the Kansas room.
V-12's Granted Lawrence Liberty This Weekend
Lt. C. A. Mickelman announced this morning that as yet no change had been made concerning week- end liberty restrictions. All V-12's will have Lawrence liberty this weekend.
Plans Unchanged For New Building's Opening Tonight
The snow has altered only slightly the plans for the opening of the new Military science building. They have been changed to the extent that visitors are asked not to park on the field back of the building. Because the snow has made the ground soft, Col. W. L. McMorris, commander of the University army units, said today that it would be impossible even for cars with chains to park there. Visitors are asked to share cars, park on University drive and hard surface roads and walk down to the building
Navy Announces New Training For Electricians
The training program for the electrician's mates who will replace the machinist's mates will be under the supervision of the School of Engineering and Architecture, with Prof. J. O. Jones as acting dean. The training for the navy men will be divided into three branches—shop practice, electrical laboratory training, and mathematics.
Hausman to Supervise
There will be no change in quartering and feeding the men under the new setup, according to Fred Montgomery, University director of the naval program. He said that they would continue to be housed in the west wing of Frank Strong hall and will have their mess quarters at the Student Memorial Union building.
Paul G. Hausman, assistant professor of shop practice, will supervise the shop training. In the electrical laboratories, Dr. V. P. Hessler, professor of electrical engineering, will preside. Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School and professor of mathematics, will have charge of the mathematics taught to the electrician's mates.
No Change in Quarters
FDR Presents Scroll For Bravery in Malta
Zaletta, Malta.—In their recent series of conferences, the United Nations "have struck blows for the human race," President Roosevelt told the people of Malta in a surprise visit to this bomb-battered Mediterranean island on Wednesday, an official announcement disclosed today.
The American Executive came to Malta from Cairo to congratulate the people of this island on their bravery and fortitude in the face of 2,300 Axis bombing attacks and to present to them a richly illuminated scroll "on behalf of the American people."
Canteen Dance Is Non-Date Affair
The third canteen dance, a get acquainted affair planned to be a regular feature, will be given in the Union lounge from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, Joanne Johnson, president of the Union Activities committee, stated.
Those men with activity books or cards will be admitted free. Without this card, the admission is 55 cents. All women will act as hostesses as this is absolutely a "nondate" affair, Miss Johnson said.
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy, little change in temperature tonight. Saturday fair and warmer.
on the sidewalks which will be marked with signs.
The informal reception will begin at 8 o'clock tonight and is in honor of Col. Karl Baldwin, former ROTC commandant at the University who obtained the land grant for the building, and for the donors who made the building possible.
Guests will be taken on a tour through the new building which was made possible by private gifts, and state appropriations, as well as the land grant. They will also go through the receiving line which will be composed of Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott, Col. W. L. McMorris, Mrs. McMorris, and Mrs. Carl Baldwin who came from California. Col. Baldwin is now in Australia serving under Gen. Douglas McArthur.
To Have Receiving Line
Faculty members and their wives will be at the doors to receive guests and a group of 19 University women students will assist in the reception.
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Ashton Regains Stolen Auto
Prof. J. W. Ashton, chairman of the English department, has recovered his 1941 Buick sedan which was stolen Tuesday. A resident of Topeka telephoned him yesterday and said he had found the car abandoned near his home. In it the man had found papers giving Dr. Ashton's identification.
The car had evidently been run into a curb or damaged in some other way so that one of the wheels was thrown out of line. Because of this interference it could no longer be driven. The car is now in a Topeka garage.
The sedan was taken from in front of the Ashton home at 1105 Louisiana street.
Five Groups Planned For YWCA Freshmen
Freshman members of the Young Women's Christian Association will be divided into five discussion groups by geographical location, according to the plans which have been formulated recently. Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, executive secretary of the YWCA, stated today. Groups will meet in sorority and other organized houses in their location. Each group will meet at the same time, but the five topics of discussion will be rotated.
The discussion groups will be led by one faculty member or Lawrence resident and one student. The topics include "The Meaning of Democracy," "Brotherhood on the Campus," "Your Philosophy of Life," "College Curriculum and After College Career," and "The Christian as a Citizen."
The first meeting of these freshman groups will be held on Thursday, Jan. 13. The time and places of meeting have not been set definitely.