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NUMBER 49
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1943
41ST YEAR
RAF Continues Berlin Bombing 2 Newsmen Lost
(International News Service)
Large new areas of Berlin were left in smoking ruin today in the wake of a fresh assault by heavy bomber formations of the Royal air force.
Hundreds of four-motored planes lashed out against the capital in a repetition of last week's offensives which destroyed fully one-third of Germany's military, industrial, and political hub.
Lowell Bennett Lost
It was apparent the Nazis were waiting for the attack, for they sent into the skies all available fighter planes. Despite this savage interception, the Germans could not beat off the attack.
Forty-one bombers were lost—and with them two news correspondents. One was Lowell Bennett of International News Service, a 25-year-old veteran of the German blitz on London, of the campaign in North Africa, and of the war itself.
Returning pilots reported Berlin dotted with "very large fires" and it was apparent that huge new damage was meted out to the city which stands today as the most heavily attacked of any in the world. Battle Rages for Two Hours
According to Stockholm reports, the battle raged for two hours and 146 dead airmen were taken from wrecked bombers.
Council Will Launch Christmas Seal Drive Saturday Morning
The Student Christmas Seal drive will get underway at 11 o'clock Saturday morning when intramural managers or their representatives from every organized house meet in the Pine room of the Memorial union to outline a canvass of the Hill, Mary Morrill, chairman of the public relations committee of the All-Student Council, has announced. Miss Joie Stapleton, of the physical education department, chairman of the student drive, will speak to the group.
The Christmas Seal drive to raise money for the tuberculosis fund is being sponsored by the All-Student Council through its public relations committee. Other members of the committee are Charlotte Price, Virginia Rader, John Sells, and Ruth Krehbiel.
Washington, (INS) — Madame Chiang Kai-shek today cabled to Vice-President Wallace and House Speaker Sam Rayburn her warm appreciation for enactment of the Chinese exclusion repeal bill which she termed a deed which will "echo around the world." Her message was read to the house at the direction of Speaker Rayburn.
OPA Issues New Gas Coupons Washington, (IN S) — OPA announced plans to issue new "T gas coupons.
A quotation has not yet been set for gales by students.
Mme Chiang Kai-Shek Wires Appreciation of Bill
15 MPH Speed Limit Extended to 11th St.
The 15-mile-an-hour speed limit existing on the Hill has been extended by the chief of police from Oread to 11th street, past the Phi Kappa Psi and Triangle houses, now occupied by Naval Air Corps cadets. University military authorities asked that the extension be made.
Riggs to Give Lecture Sunday
An illustrated lecture on North American dinosaurs will be given at 3:30 Sunday afternoon in the Little Theater in green hall by Elmer S. Riggs, honorary curator of paleontology at Dyche museum and for many years curator of paleontology at Field Museum in Chicago.
Mr. Riggs will describe the discovery of these great extinct reptiles in North America, the conditions under which they lived, the way their fossil remains are buried in the rocks, petrified, and preserved through millions of years. Illustrating with many of his own photographs, Mr. Riggs will show colored pictures of mounted skeletons of dinosaurs as they are exhibited in a number of museums. He will also show pictures of restorations of the animals as they are believed to have appeared when this continent had a much warmer climate and when lowland and shallow water stretched over the region now occupied by the Rocky mountains.
A sidelight to his speech will be Mr. Riggs' account of his own work and that of a number of University of Kansas men who have had an active part in collecting and studying these great monsters of the past.
This lecture is the second of a series of three sponsored by Dyche museum with the desire to give students and the public a further understanding of the exhibits in the museum.
Fine Arts Students Presented Recital
An instrumental septet, a piano solo, and four voice solos were presented on the School of Fine Arts student recital program yesterday afternoon in Fraser theater. The recital opened with a vocal solo, "Lullaby" (Scott), by Donna Hemppler.
The septet, composed of Barbara Haas, clarinet; Mark Viesselman, bassoon; Harry Spencer, French horn; Peggy Kay, violin; Eugene Ninger, viola; Martha Lee Baxter, violoncello; and Ann Starr, bass viol, played the first movement of "Alllegro" (Beethoven).
"Sequedille" from "Carmen" (Bizet) was sung by Jeanette Coons. Two solos, "Calm as the Night" (Bohm) and "A Resolve" (Fontenailles), sung by Merton Anderson, closed the program.
Ruth Dudley sang two solos,
"Black Bird's Song" (t and
"When Love Is Kind," al
lish song. The one piano solo was
presented by Allen Rogers. He
played "Polonaise in A Flat Major"
(Chonin).
Salt, Dates Flourish in Desert The chief products of the Sahara desert are salt and dates.
Carlson Speech Now Postponed Indefinitely
The John Roy Carlson lecture has been postponed indefinitely because Hoch auditorium is not available to the Student Forums Board on Dec. 16, owing to an orchestra rehearsal, Jay Miller, chairman of the board, announced today. Mr. Carlson's agent has indicated he can not come to the University at any other time before the Christmas vacation. Moreover, the board feels there is a question whether the congressional investigation of Mr. Carlson would be completed at the time set for the lecture.
Mr. Carlson, author of the best-seller "Under Cover," was originally scheduled to speak Dec. 9 but was forced to cancel the engagement because of "unexpected and unavoidable government commitments."
"We intend to bring Mr. Carlson to the campus before spring." Miss Miller said, "if proper arrangements can be made."
Nursery School Open House Set
The University Nursery School at 1100 Missouri street will hold open house from 3 to 5 Sunday afternoon for persons wishing to observe how war workers' children are cared for while their parents are employed.
Twenty-one children between the ages of two and five are enrolled in the school, which was started last summer as a combined University and federal project for the purpose of providing adequate care for the children of employed mothers.
School Is Up-to-Date
Generally under the supervision of the department of home economics, the school is one of the most modern and up-to-date in this area, both in the equipment and the methods used. Special stress is laid upon physical, nutritive and social care of the child, and there have already been instances where children have shown improvement of various defects, such as faulty speech.
Air Attacks Heavy On Japs in Pacific
Day's Activities Carefully Planned The pupils report at 6:45 in the morning and remain until 6 in the evening. The day's activities begin with indoor play until 9, when
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command in the Southwest Pacific announced a heavy air attack against a Japanese convoy off New Ireland in which a troop-laden transport was sunk and several other vessels damaged.
At the same time Allied bombing planes raided the airdrome at Wewak, New Guinea, damaging head-quarter buildings and runways. General MacArthur announced conclusion of a special conference with Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia at which plans were laid for "prolonged operations against Japan."
Tea Dance Tomorrow For Service Men
A tea dance for service men to be admitted upon the presentation of a service identification book, will be held from 3 to 5 tomorrow afternoon in the Union lounge, Joanne Johnson, chairman of Union activities, said today. Refreshments will be served, and Miss Johnson urges a large crowd for the entertainment.
Vice-Versa Dance Saturday
The Army band will play for the Jay Jane Vice Versa dance Saturday night in the Union lounge immediately following the basketball game with Hutchinson naval air station, Margaret Butler Lillard, Jay James president, announced today. The dance will be a sweater-skirt affair.
University women may either bring dates or come stag, and all civilian and military men are urged to come stag if they do not have dates, she said.
Men Admitted Free
All men will be admitted free, and women may purchase tickets this week from any Jay Jane or at the door Saturday night.
A pep king will be chosen during the evening and crowned just after intermission. Women will cast their votes for king on the right hand stubs of their admission tickets. Four Candidates for King
Candidates for king are Robert Miller, V-12, Oakland, Calif., Wayne Hird, College freshman, Lawrence, Alexander French "Sandy" Banks, V-5, Pasadena, Calif., and Fray Cooper Johns. AST. Cleveland, Ohio.
Four Candidates for King
Jay Janes will sell cokes from the coat-checking booth, Mrs. Lillard said.
Allies Advance, Meet Heavy Resistance Along Battlefronts
On the Italian front, troops of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British eight army seized the heavily defended town of Castell-Frentano, eight miles north of the Sangro river and hammered on toward San Vito, the former terminus of the German supply line.
Forces of the United States fifth army picked up new territory in the Calabritto sector despite heavy enemy artillery fire. Gen. Mark W. Clark himself was under fire of the Nazi guns but was not injured.
Dispatches from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters reported desperate German resistance all along the battlefront.
There were few changes on the Russian front, where Germans were reported massing their forces for a general counter-offensive west of Kiev. Northwest of Gomel and in the Zholben, Soviet army troops maintained their advance.
London, (INS)—The loss of one of Britain's newest destroyers, the Hunworth, was announced by the admiralty in a communique which gave no further details.
Britain Loses New Destroyer
Harding Elected To Council Post By Freshmen
Rosemary Harding, College freshman from Ottawa and member of PWCL, yesterday defeated her opponent by 29 votes to win the election for freshman representative to the All-Student Council, Crescent Engle, chairman of the ASC elections committee, disclosed at 8 o'clock last night.
Two hundred and forty freshman women voted in yesterday's election, he said. The votes were cast from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. yesterday at the poll in Fraser.
Miss Harding will be sworn in and will take her seat on the Council at the meeting next Tuesday, Peggy Davis, ASC president said.
The WIGS candidate was Cynthia Smith, College freshman from Baldwin.
Harry E. Barnes
'War Just Part Of Revolution'
Real Criminal Is War System
"We must wake up and realize we are at a crisis. We must find out what the realities of the world are, and then consider how to handle them to win the peace. Lastly, we must consider our prospects for doing this.
The war is simply a secondary manifestation of the present great world revolutionary period. It is more unsettling than the first world war was, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes told a small audience at the opening Community lecture last night.
"Peace in the world order, like charity, begins at home. We can't have poverty, unrest, and suffering at home and export Utopia. Men who can't run the United States are claiming they can run the world. The United States is not showing the world the way to peace."
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Hoffman Quits Post; CVC Re-nominates
Jean Hoffman, College senior, announced her resignation as major of the Coed Volunteer Corps at a meeting of the lieutenants and sergeants last night in the Fine room. She scheduled an election for the new major to be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Fraser theater.
Four nominations for major were made last night, and any other nominations will be received from the floor at the meeting Thursday, she said.
Candidates for major are Betty Leibbrand, College junior; Betty Jo O'Neal, College sophomore; Pat Scherrer, College junior; and Joan Burch, College sophomore.
Plans for decorating the mess balls of all the servicemen on the campus at Christmas time were discussed, and it was decided that the CVC members will knit mittens for the Jayhawk shelter children, Miss Hoffman said.