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Publication Days Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1943
NUMBER 51
41ST YEAR
Allies Strike Hard On Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor
(International News Service)
(International News Service)
The second anniversary of Pearl Harbor found the United Nations on a violent offensive against the Japanese and Germans in far-flung theaters of combat today.
In the Central and Southwest Pacific, in Italy, and on the vast battle line in Soviet Russia, the enemy was attacked in ever-increasing force, with military action shaping up to make good the promises and commitments of the conferences recently coulided in Cairo and Teheran.
Rumor Says Meeting With Ononu The Pearl Harbor anniversary found the United States fleet so vastly strengthened that a sortie was undertaken against the Marshall islands in the Central Pacific 400 miles northwest of the recently captured Gilberts, by a carrier task force. Tokyo admitted the aerial enslaughter, claiming that 20 out of 100 American planes had been shot down.
With the Germans unable to make
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The film may be obtained by payment of transportation charges.
K.U. Calendar Staff Appointed
Five appointees to the staff of the 1944 University Calendar were announced today by Beverly Bohan, editor. They are Betty Lou Perkins, business manager; Mary Olive Marshall, photographic editor; Bob Noll, circulation manager; Mignon Morton and Ruth Richards, secretaries.
"The past few days we have been completing arrangements for the printing and second binding of this year's calendar." Miss Bohan said. "We can promise that the calendar will come out before the first of the year."
The film includes scenes taken in training camps, on maneuvers, and in actual battle. An outstanding point of the film is the sequence of recent army and navy motion pictures taken of an invasion in the southwest Pacific and the establishment of a beechhead.
The University Press under the direction of T. C. Ryther will print the calendar, and the Western Bindery company of Topeka will do the binding.
"Radio at War," a 24-minute sound film portraying the part communications are playing in World War II, will be available to schools, colleges, and civic organizations about Jan. 1. The picture is sponsored by Radio Corporation of America in cooperation with the communications branches of the army and navy.
Communication Films Available to Schools
Honorable Enemy to Be Revenged
By Martha Jean Johnson
"Japs Attack Pearl Harbor" . . . a headline of Dec. 7, two years ago. Imperialistic headquarters in Tokyo announced that a state of war existed between Japan and the United States and Great Britain. Before the declaration reached Washington by air or cable, Japan, in one of the most infamous assaults of all time, made a sneak attack on Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, and the American possessions in the Pacific.
Pearl Harbor was left burning, blackened, razed. In the bay, the battleship Arizona, and the target ship Utah were bombed until irreparibly damaged. Japanese parachute troops landed in the Philippines. Guam was raided repeatedly by squadrons of Japanese planes. The casualties for that one day were listed as 2,340 killed, 946 wounded.
A year ago today, Dec. 7 was not so exciting. There were no flaming headlines announcing shocking treachery to the world. War had been declared on Japan a year ago. The army officials were worried. A year had passed, and, in spite of the valuable experience gained, there had been little progress.
Today is the second "anniversary" of Dec. 7. American forces are beginning to get somewhere after two years of fighting in the Pacific. The Japanese have reason to regret their perfidy. The Japanese officials can no longer propagandize the people in telling them that the Americans are soft and weak, that they will crumble easily under a superior offensive. The Americans have been met in actual combat and many Japanese killed. The Japanese should realize by now that the American people will not stop fighting until Dec. 7, 1941 is revenged.
Court Denies Kansas Waters of Arkansas
Washington, (INS) — The state of Colorado won a complete victory yesterday in the Supreme Court in a dispute with Kansas over a diversion of water of the Arkansas river for irrigation purposes.
The special master had recommended a division of water, proposing to award 925,000 acres to Colorado and 185,000 to Kansas. Rejecting this, the court said Kansas had not proved she was entitled to it.
The high court enjoined the Finney County Water Users Association, Kansas, from further prosecuting a suit against Colorado.
The controversy involved use of water for irrigation in Western Kansas counties and in Central Colorado from Canyon City to the state line.
Booths for selling Christmas seals to the Navy men were set up in the Union building today. Virginia Rader, College junior, is in charge of the sales. No reports have been turned in yet on the amount of seals sold. Miss Joie Stapleton, chairman of the student drive, said.
Christmas Seal Booths Set Up for Navy Men
Current Events Argued Weekly By British Army
American soldiers, members of the University ASTP unit, formed a large part of the audience that filled Fraser theater yesterday afternoon to hear Dr. W. J. Hinton, director of studies in the British Information Services, discuss the educational program for British soldiers stationed at home and abroad. Dr Bert A. Nash, professor of education, introduced the speaker.
In September, 1941, Dr. Hinton related, the British Army Council decided that some scheme was needed whereby the growing demand among British service men for a clearer knowledge about current affairs and national issues might be satisfied. The result was the establishment of the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (the A.B.C.A.), whose function it is to provide soldiers during working or training hours, instruction and discussion about the outstanding and vital problems of the day.
Platoons Meet Every Week
"This experiment, which is probably the greatest educational venture of the war, has been fully justified by its results," said Dr. Hinton. He remarked that it was paradoxical that a country as "conservative" as his should attempt anything so revolutionary as setting aside precious hours in which to tell soldiers what they were fighting for, and to enable them to study other matters which would make them
The meeting was the first in the clubs new bi-monthly schedule. The group will meet next on Jan. 3.
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Col. Baldwin Cables Congratulations
A cable of congratulation on the completion of the new Military Science building, which will be opened to the public Friday evening, has been received from Col. Karl Baldwin, former ROTC commandant at the University now in service in the Pacific.
"Congratulate you and the University upon military science building dedicated during our nation's vital struggle for human freedom. May it serve gloriously through centuries of peace. Sincerely with you, Karl Baldwin."
Mrs. Baldwin, who now lives in California, will be a guest of honor at the public reception Friday night
Addressed to Chancellor Deane W, Malott, the cable reads:
Dr. H. B. Hungerford spoke to the club on "The Life of John Henry Comstock," well-known entomologist.
Patsy Piller, College junior, was elected vice-president of the Entomology Club at the regular meeting of the group yesterday afternoon. Miss Piller fills the place of Ann Zimmerman, College sophomore.
Piller Elected Officer Of Entomology Club
Want Socks Darned, Joe
Boys in the ASTP who wish to have clothing mended, buttons sewed on uniforms, or socks darned may take them to the sewing room of the home economics department at 4:30 Thursday afternoon where the Home Economics Club will meet, Miss Lucille Aust, instructor of home economics announced today. This is the third meeting in which the club has mended clothing for the trainees.
College Grades Due by Dec.15
Mid-semester grades will be due in the College office Dec. 15, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, has announced. Mid-semester examinations are being given through this week and next.
Freshmen and sophomores will meet their advisers Thursday and Friday after vacation, Dec. 30 and 31, for individual conferences on the progress they are making.
The School of Fine Arts will follow the same schedule as the College.
In the School of Engineering and Architecture, mid-semester grades will be due Jan. 5. Students will be able to get their grades from their advisers from Jan. 10 to 22.
Dec. 15 will be the last day for free withdrawals from classes.
Dramatic Workshop Tryouts to Be Held For New Students
Dramatic Workshop acting tryouts for students who entered the University at the beginning of the current semester, will be held from 3:30 until 5:30 Thursday afternoon in the Little Theater of Green hall. Alice McDonnell, president, announced.
In addition to new students, those who passed preliminary tryouts for membership in the Workshop during the five week session and were unable to return for second tryouts are invited to the Little Theater Thursday, she said.
Tryouts will be conducted by Prof. Allen Crafton and Miss McDonnell with the assistance of other Workshop members.
V-12's May Attend Campus Functions
Lt. C. A. Michleman announced today that, by a recent V-12 order, trainees are permitted to attend recognized extra-curricular functions on the campus. Included in this group are lectures, dramatic presentations, concerts, and basketball games. To attend, however, it is necessary that the trainee have a good academic standing.
A University Mandolin, Guitar and Glee Club was organized on the Washington University campus in February, 1901.
Musical Clubs at Washington U.
Naval Training Will Continue In Fowler Shops
The transition of the University naval training program from machinist's mates to electricians' mates announced yesterday by naval authorities, will involve no great physical changes at the University, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today. Fowler shops which have been the chief base of operations for the machinist's mates will continue to be used in the naval training program, and new electrical laboratories will be installed in the space vacated by the army personnel when the move into the new military science building is effected.
Bench work necessary in the training will be continued in Fowler shops as before. Lathe work, an essential part of the machinist's mates training, will be discontinued, but Fowler shops will be used as usual by the mechanical engineering students in the School of Engineering at the University as it has since the beginning of the school for machinist's mates.
Much of the instruction in the new program will be given in the electrical engineering laboratories of the engine school, the Chancellor's office said, particularly in the field of alternating and direct currents.
There will be a few personnel changes occasioned by the shift, Chancellor Malott said. Dr. V. P. Hessler, chairman of the department of electrical engineering, will be in charge of the University's administration of the program.
Ens. William W. McCrum 22, of Kansas City, Mo., former student of the University, and a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, was one of three naval aviation men burned to death Saturday in a collision of motor cars at Talatka, Fla.
Ensign McCrum Dies In Collision in Florida
The body is being brought to the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur McCrum, 6036 Eellevute avenue, Kansas City.
McCrum signed up for naval aviation training while a student at the University a year ago. He received his first training at Corpus Christi, Texas, and was sent to Hollywood, Fla., for more training in the aviation school. With a pilot's rating to his credit, he and his companions were on the way home on furough.
Ensign McCrum was a graduate of Southwest high school, Kansas City, Mo., was a student on the University campus two years, and had one year's schooling at the University of California.
Hospital Staff First Group With 100 Per Cent Seal Sale
Watkins Memorial hospital, with a one hundred per cent contribution, is the first department of the University to complete their Christmas Seal sale, according to Prof. E. L. Treece, in charge of sales. Every staff member and employee of the hospital has contributed to the drive.