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NUMBER 47
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1943
41ST YEAR
Basketball Season Starts Tonight With Herington AAB Opponents; Many Substitutions Are Promised
Tonight at 7:30 the curtains' will rise on the 1943-1944 basketball season when Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen sends the 27th edition of his Kansas Jayhawk basketball teams on to the Hoch Auditorium floor to tagle with the Herington Army Air Base cagers.
"Phog" plans to do as much substituting as possible in these early season games. Don Barrington, Bill Lindquist, Bob Malott, and Bob Turner all will see action at forward. Dean Corder and L. J. Palmer will switch at the quarterback or center position. Den Diehl and Homer Sherwood will be first line reserves for guards Kirk Scott and Capt. Harold "Sparky" McSpadden. Gridsters George Dick and Charles Moffett, despite only two nights of practice, may see action as they both are valuable men. McSpadden and Dick are the two returning lettermen from the 1943 Big Six Championship Jayhawk team.
The Airmen boast of a "hot shot" in DeSchaeine, forward, who potted 20 points in the team's first game against Sterling College which was won, 54 to 24.
The officials will be Chief Specialist, K. J. Hantze, USN., and Elmer Schaake, assistant K.U. football coach.
The startink lineups:
**Kansas** Pos. Herington AAB
Barrington F Deitchman (c)
Lindquist F G DeSchaine
Corder C Scully
McSpadden G Johnson
Scott G DeGaetani
May Date or Stag It At Vice Versa Dance, Women Are Informed
University women may either bring dates or come stag to the Vice Versa dance after the basketball game Saturday night in the Union Lounge, Margaret Butler Lillard, Jay Janes president announced today.
All civilian and military men are urged to come stag if they do not have dates, and they will be admitted free, she said. The admission price for women will be 50 cents, and tickets may be purchased this week from any Jay Jane or at the door Saturday night.
Women will cast their votes for the pep king on the righthand stubs of their tickets, and the winner will be announced and crowned just after intermission.
Candidates for king are Robert Miller, V-12, Oakland, Calif.; Wayne Hird, College freshman, Lawrence; Alexander French "Sandy" Banks. M-5, Pasadena, Calif.; and Fray Cooper Johns, AST, Cleveland, Ohio.
College Boasts 650 in Service
Westminster College alumni in the service now number more than 650.
Kansan Will Publish Extra Edition Today
The Daily Kansan will publish an extra tonight. Faculty members and students may pick up their copies at the Kansan business office from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. They will be delivered to the Jayhawk cafe and Hillside drug stores no.1 and 2.
The extras will be delivered to the PT's and Lindley hall in place of the regular paper.
Student Recital Features Septet
An instrumental septet will be featured on the School of Fine Arts student recital program to be given at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser hall, D. M. Swarthouh, dean, announced today. Other numbers on the program will be given by four voice students and one piano student.
The septet will play the first movement from Beethevon's "Allegro." Members of the septet include Barbara Haas, clarinet; Mark Viesselman, bassoon; Hary Spencer, French horn; Peggy Kay, violin; Eugene Ninger, viola; Martha Lee Baxter, violoncello; and Ann Starr, bass viol.
The recital will open with a vocal solo, "Lullaby" (Scott), by Donna Hempler. Ruth Dudley will sing two solos, "Black Birds Song" (Scott) and "When Love Is Kind," an old English song. "Sequedille" from "Carmen" (Bizet) will be sung by Jeanette Coons.
Allen Rogers, pianist, will play Chopin's "Polonaiise in A Flat Major." Two solos by Merton Anderson will close the program. He will sing "Calm as the Night" (Bohm) and "A Resolve" (Fontenailes).
Ration point requirements will be reduced from 2 to 3 ration points and will give customers about 36 per cent more meat than in the past The ruling will become effective Sunday.
Washington, (INS) — OPA today announced a lowering of rations points for the entire list of beef cuts ranging from porterhouse steaks to hamburger.
Lower Ration Points For All Cuts of Beef
Today's action raises the civilian meat ration to about the same ration as last March.
The restrictions for tonight were modified late today by the Navy to permit V-12 men to play on the basketball team and for others to attend the game or other campus activities.
Restrictions Modified— V-12 Basketballers Play
Art Museum To Feature Persepe Crib
The Persepte Christmas Crib, representing the Nativity, will be the December feature at Spooner-Thayer museum. The old Italian way of handling the Christmas scene in its beautiful and unbelievable detail can be observed under the special lighting arrangements.
St. Francis of Assisi originated the art of Christmas cribs in 1223 to teach the story of Christ's birth to those who could not read. From that time until the 19th century, the making of cribs and their figures, called "Persepe" was widespread in southern Europe. The bodies of the dolls are usually of rags to make them pliable. The heads are often of terra cotta. Some are made entirely of papier-mache, and some are carved out of wood.
On one of her trips to Rome, Mrs. W. B. Thayer purchased the group, including the case in which it is arranged, when it was on exhibit at the Castle San Angelo. The castle was the home of Prince Massimo, member of one of Rome's oldest families.
A group of reproductions of Madonnas will be exhibited in the north gallery on the second floor. They are the property of the department of drawing and painting of the University. These, with a smaller group owned by the museum, and a collection of foreign postcards depicting the Nativity, feature such outstanding early painters an Memling, Botticelli, Luini, Raphael, and Albrecht Aldorfer. The postcards are from museums all over the world.
Freshman Coeds To Vote Thursday
Freshman women will vote for their representative to the All-Student Council from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the poll on the first floor of Fraser, according to Clarence Engle, chairman of the ASC elections committee.
Rosemary Harding, of Ottawa, a first semester College freshman, is the PWCL candidate, and Cynthia Smith, a second semester College freshman, is the candidate of the WIGS political party. Both candidates are independents.
Women must present their ac- tivity books to vote. Engle said.
Freshman women must have their pictures on their activity books to enable them to vote in the election tomorrow, Mary Morrill, student council member, said.
Restrictions Made On Army and Navy
Wednesday night liberty has been canceled for all Navy trainees on the campus as a preventive measure against the flu epidemic in nearby localities, announced Chief George Starkey. Only Lawrence liberty will be granted Naval units this weekend.
All Army trainees have been restricted to the campus for this weekend. Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris also announced that taps will be at 10:30 instead of 11 p.m. in the future.
Four United Nations Leaders May Guarantee Japanese-Nazi Defeat, Make Ready for Global Onslaught
(International News Service)
The military, political, and diplomatic machinery created by the United Nations to insure defeat and ultimate dismemberment of the German and Japanese empires of conquest was thrown into high gear today.
Immediately following a historic conference with Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek in Cairo, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Beverly Bohan Appointed New Calendar Editor
The editor of the University calendar and the committee to investigate Negro omission from the University band and glee club were announced and the book exchange bill was passed at a meeting of the All-Student Council last night in the Pine room.
Peggy Davis, ASC president, named June Mack as chairman of the committee to investigate Negro omission from the glee club and University band. Other members of the committee are Virginia Rader, Grace Curry, Dick Miller, and Thornton McClanahan.
Janet Marvin, chairman of the publicity committee, announced the appointment of Beverly Bohan, College junior from Coffeyville, as editor of the University calendar.
Bill number 13, providing for the ASC book exchange, was read for the third time and passed by the Council.
Dec. 12 Date Set For Traditional Christmas Vespers
Christmas Vespers this year will be held at 4 p.m. Dec. 12 in Hoch auditorium, Donald M. Swarthout dean of the School of Fine Arts announced today. Only one performance will be given, breaking a tradition begun in former years when it was necessary to repeat the Vespers in the evening in order to accommodate the large group which came for the services.
The program will be centered about the University A Cappella Choir of 85 voices under the direction of Dean Swarthout. Numbers by the choir will include Rachmaninoff's "Glory to God on High," Adam's "Antique Noel," Carl Augustus Fischer's "Song of Mary" with Miss Meribah Moore as soloist, and a special number, "Hodie Christus Natus Est," by Dr. L. E. Anderson, professor of organ. Dr. Joseph F. Wilkins of the department of voice will also be featured as a soloist, in addition to instrumental soloists and accompanists.
KU Symphony Orchestra to Play The University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will present one of
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Keynote Is Defeat for Axis
Churchill made ready for a meeting with Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin of Soviet Russia the first personal contact among the three leaders since the war began.
The keynote of the current meeting, according to unofficial sources, is defeat accomplished against the Berlin-Tokyo axis in a manner that will guarantee to all posterity that neither Germany or Japan will ever rise again to menace the security of the world.
The Stalin conference is expected by Washington to lead to the following concrete results:
1. Synchronization of American, British, and Soviet grand strategies for an all-out offensive against Nazi Germany in the spring.
joint Ultimatum to Germans
(International News Service)
Allies Prepare for Onslaught
News From War Fronts
The whole tenor of information leads to the conviction that the Allies are ready for a great global onslaught.
3. Detailed plans for the military occupation of Germany after the Nazi defeat and fuller understanding for close political and economic cooperation among the victors after the war.
2. Delivery of a joint Angle-American-Soviet ultimatum to the German people promising that unless Hitler and the Nazis are quickly overthrown, the most devastating assaults the world has ever known will be visited upon them.
Impressive victories were piled up by the British eight army in Italy, Spearheads of General Montgomery's forces bit deep into the main defenses of the German line, gaining as much as five miles.
At the same time, Allied bombing planes staged a devastating attack upon the historical city of Fiume on the Adriatic while others assaulted western Italy.
British based planes raided objectives in occupied France maintaining unabated aerial pressure against the continent, while in Russia, Soviet army troops gained on most areas of the front despite the necessity of evacuating the rail center of Korosten.
Aerial activity against widespread Japanese bases featured in the developments in the Southwest Pacific.