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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1943
NUMBER 50
41ST YEAR
Machinist's Mate Trainees Replaced by Electricians
Replaced First Uniformed Group on Hill To Be Changed
Ending a tenure which began in July, 1942, the naval school for machinist's mates at the University will be discontinued when the last complement of sailors who arrived in November have completed the four months of training which qualifies them to serve as Navy firemen or machinist's mates, naval authorities at the University announced today.
Henceforth, the U. S. Naval Training School on Mt. Oread will prepare enlisted men for positions as electrician's mates aboard ship. New complements of trainees will arrive this month. The number of trainees in the new program will be the same as the machinist's mates school, Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of University naval units, said.
The machinist's mates were the first of the uniformed groups on the Hill. Their coming caused many changes in the campus set-up—the west wing and fourth floor of Frank Strong hall had to be requisitioned to house the men, and many offices and departments were required to shift to other places as a result.
Army Planning Christmas Show
A second army variety show, "Goldbrickers of 1943," is being planned for Tuesday, Dec. 14. The show will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 7:45, according to Stan Hagler, member of the directing committee.
Although similar in outline to "At Ease," variety show presented by the army Oct. 29, "Goldbrickers of 1943" will be made up of entirely new numbers with the single exception of a twin piano act being called back by popular demand.
A Christmas vein will run through most of the numbers, said Hagler, naming as two specialties, "White Christmas" and a take-off on "A Night Before Christmas."
Members of the planning committee are George Mahahn, Joe Williams, Ronald Hadley, Ed Markle, Joe Epstein, and Stan Hagler.
Joe Telecson, Robert Stummi,
Henry Cohn, S. Wahlers, Harry
Kingsberry, T. McReynolds, Oleerest Morris, Dutch Kreiger, Mick Kroger, S. Dollinski, J. Walker, and R. Tornabene are assembling properties and assisting with back stage work.
Second oldest college publication in the country is the Round Table of Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., founded in 1853.
College Paper Founded in 1853
100 Species Dinosaurs ---- Riggs
Dinosaurs lived in a period that covered millions of years and passed out of existence 55 million years ago at the time of the Rocky mountain uplift, Elmer S. Riggs, honorary curator of vertebrate paleontology of Dyche museum, explained yesterday afternoon at Green hall in the second of a series of lectures open to the public.
Dinosaurs were first discovered in North America in 1877 by a schoolteacher in the little town of Morrison, Colo., on the eastern slope of the Rockies. The first entire skeleton ever set up in a museum was put in the American museum in New York City about 1908. KM De Preuviren
KU Men Do Excavating
Mr. Riggs showed slides of the sites where he, Harry Menke, and other University of Kansas men excavated for fossil remains at the Bone Cabin Dinosaur quarry in Wyoming, the quarries near Grand Junction, Colo., and at Dinosaur National Monument quarry at Jensen, Utah.
"Nearly 100 species of dinosauras are known," Mr. RiRiggs said. Some are scarcely larger than a house cat, while others are 15 feet high. Mr. Riggs showed colored photographs of the restoration of the flesh eating dinosaurs, the duck bill dinosaurs, the horn dinosaurs, and the bird-like dinosaurs, some of which were not much larger than an os-trich.
Takes Two-Year Preparation
Estimating the cost of excavation and restoration of a dinosaur, Mr. Riggs said the one he worked on in Colorado, for Field museum cost about $25,000. It took three months for the excavation, 18 months for the preparation, and a year to mount and adjust the specimen.
He was chosen from a group of four candidates by the women casting votes on their ticket stubs. Other candidates were Robert Miller, V-12, Oakland, Calif.; Wayne Hird, College freshman, Lawrence, and Alexander French "Sandy" Banks. V-5 Pasadena, Calif.
The third of the series of lectures will be given in January by Dr. Claude W. Hibbard on the methods and techniques of field work. Further lectures may be sponsored by Dyche museum in the spring.
Fray Cooper Johns, an AST from Cleveland, Ohio, was elected and crowned pep king at the Vice Versa dance in the Union lounge Saturday night.
Alice Go.I, Jay Janes social chairman, placed the crown upon Johns' head just after intermission.
Johns Crowned Dance Pep King
Music for the dance was provided by the Army band.
Giving a 10 per cent increase in deaths in Kansas from tuberculosis last year over deaths in 1941 as one of the reasons for a more intensified Christmas Seal drive on the campus this year, Miss Joe Staplerton, chairman of the student seal drive, spoke to representatives from 27 houses Saturday morning in the Pine room as the opening gun in the drive.
Houses Told Christmas Seal Drive Opened
Miss Stapleton enumerated the uses of the tuberculosis fund in Douglas county giving monthly clinics, county-wide tuberculosis testing, and supplying cod liver oil to needy children as the most important. She pointed out that if the county will permit, X-raying wives of service men who are eligible for Emergency Maternity Service will be included in the program.
The drive chairman pointed out
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His ship was torpedoed, and he spent five and a half days adrift on the Atlantic with 12 of the ship's company and the ship's dog. They were picked up by an American destroyer and returned to England. The rest of the company of 43 were lost.
Second trip Successful
Open New Front To Crush Hitler, Big Three Plan
Mr. Hinton has been with the Ministry of Information since March of 1940 when he was loaned to it by the London Institute of Bankers. He started for New York in January of 1942 to take over duties as director of the United States branch.
The second trip he flew and reached New York in August, 1942. He compares his work to that of the director of the London agency of the Office of War Information.
Adrift on Atlantic enroute to America
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Pierre J. Huss,
INS Staff Correspondent
Cairo, (INS)President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Joseph Stalin, and a handfull of highest political and military officials of the three great Allied powers drafted a dramatic blueprint for victory against Nazi Germany in a four-day conference at Teheran, Iran, an official announcement revealed today.
The statement disclosing the most historic meeting of the century which brought together the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union revealed that the Big Three have arrived at a decision to bring Hitler to his knees with the opening of a full-fledged second front.
Second Front Guaranteed
The confereses confined their talk in the four-day meeting which lasted from Sunday, Nov. 28, through Wednesday, Dec. 1. strictly to the war in Europe.
Pledge Elimination of Tyranny
Hinton to Speak on Campus Today On 'Reconstruction in Britain'
Stalin got a black and white guarantee that a second front, plus an activated third front, presumably in the Mediterranean, would be forthcoming. Blade Elimination of Taranu
"I am not on a lecture tour at present," Mr. Hinton said. "I'm on a tour of observation to find out what Americans are doing and thinking about post-war reconstruction. There's a tremendous lot of study and planning going on over here. It's more coordinated by the government than British planning is."
Two speeches will be given on the campus today by W. J. Hinton, director of studies of the British information services. At 4:30 p.m. he will meet the general public in Fraser theater to discuss British army education. He will speak to the University Club at 8 p.m. in Green hall on "Reconstruction in Britain."
Big Three Celebrate Churchill's Birthday
Pledge Elimination of a Grilling The pledge was given in solemn language and at the conclusion of the conference the official communique said:
Cairo—Reports coming from Teheran are that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Stalin celebrated Churchill's 72nd birthday anniversary last Tuesday in a dinner party in which many toasts were drunk to the leaders of the three large nations. The drink?—mainly tomato juice.
"We have concerted plans for the destruction of German complete agreement on the scope and timing
WEATHER
Mostly clear. Colder in east and central portion tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer.
Allies Step Up Attack in Italy
(International News Service)
The Allied offensive in Italy was stepped up today in tune with the decision of the Teheran conference for concerted military moves to destroy Nazi Germany.
Against the most savage resistance encountered since the landings at Salerno, troops of the Allied fifth army under Lt. Gen. Mark Clark smashed through Nazi mountain defenses after seizing three more strategic heights overlooking the Liri valley.
And on the British eighth army end of the line General Montgomery's forces shook off desperate German counterattacks and pushed up the Adriatic coast ten miles beyond the previously breached Sangro river.
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In the face of unrelenting Soviet attack a huge Nazi army was reported fleeing across a 15 mile wide Dnieper river bridgehead just ahead of two Russian columns driving upon the rail junction of Zhlobim. This full scale Nazi retreat was set in motion by savage Russian thrusts along the right bank of the river
of operations which will be undertaken from the east, west, and south."
Impllying a shortened world war through relentless increasing attacks, the Triumvirate laid the ground work for a post-war family of "Democratic nations" cooperating under a guarantee to secure peace. The three pledged elimination of tyranny which would ban the "scourge and terror of war for many generations."
Teheran Set Speed, Unity Record
The harmony of the meeting was climaxed with a remarkable tribute by Stalin to the United States when he declared during the course of a dinner that without the massive American war-production the United Nations could not, or would not, have won the war.
The difficult problem of Russo-Japanese relations was deftly circumvented through the previous conclave in Cabo attended by Boosevelt, Churchill, and Gen. Chang Kai-Shek. The Russians obtained from this meeting, leaving intact the Allied plans for crushing Hitler and then Hirohito.
The meeting at Teheran set a record for speed and unity. The official announcement pointed out that not a single hitch or dispute marred the consultation and that the three principals concurred in all major decisions. They worked out specific plans and policies with key military and political delegates.
Stalin Compliments U.S.
President Roosevelt arrived at the Iranian capital at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.27, and Churchill landed an hour later. Each was taken immediately to his respective legation. In the evening the President accepted the Soviet invitation to reside at the Soviet Embassy and moved in Sunday. Although Stalin had only to cross a short distance from the Russian frontier, it marks the first time he was known to be out of the country since before the Red Revolution.
Mrs. Jones to Be Hostess To Wives of KU Engineers
Mrs. Ogden Jones, 1505 University Drive, will be hostess at a dessert bridge party given by the Wives of KU Engineers at 7:45 Tuesday evening. She will be assisted by Mrs. Ralph Tait, Mrs. Mertha Shaad, Mrs. Emery Johnson, and Mrs. A. M. Ockerblad.