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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26.1943
NUMBER 44
41ST YEAR
South American Dictators Using U.S. Money to Arm for War Against Neighbors, Butler Charges
(International News Service)
Washington, (INS) — Senator Hugh Butler, (Rep.) Nebraska, charged today that an American "dance of the billions" in Central and South America is arming dictators for war, creating a hemispherical WPA and spreading fear of a post-war depression when handouts cease.
The United States, he said, is spending 6 billion dollars in these countries in three years while the annual budget of all the countries is slightly over 1 bilion dollars.
Highlights from the report fol-
low:
(1) Airport being built in Cuba with runway reportedly seven miles long.
(2) Although American planes help protect Mexico, she is charging import tax on aviation gasoline.
(3) The United States is committed to buy surplus Mexican goods whether or not they are needed and at highest prevailing prices. In Mexico the huge staff of American "do-gooders" is referred to as "the army of occupation."
to as "the army of occupation."
(4) A contractor was given two sets of plans, one for a hotel and one for a railroad station, and he built the hotel in the middle of the railroad yards in Antilla, Cuba, and the railroad station was built on the hotel site.
(5) American funds are spent promoting promoting festivals honoring important people.
Committee Gets Patton Report
! Washington, (INS)—Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's special and complete report on the Patton incident was given to the senate military affairs committee this afternoon.
The report covering all details of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's striking a shell-shocked soldier in a civilian hospital tent, was received from Eisenhower today by Secretary of War Stimson and immediately given to the committee.
The house meanwhile cheered a demand from Representative Fish (Rep, N.Y.) that "we have no further publicity" on the Patton case and that "we leave the affairs of the army to the army itself."
Canteen Tea Dance To Be Held in Lounge
A canteen tea dance will be held in the Union lounge from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, Joanne Johnson, chairman of the Student Union Activities committee, announced.
The dance is stricly a "no date" affair, with the women students acting as hostesses. The public address system will be used to supply the music.
Willkie to Speak at Colorado U. Wendell Willkie will give a public lecture at the University of Colorado, Monday.
The Army-Navy activity tickets and student activity tickets will admit service men and students.
The first issues of the Jay-hawker are being distributed from 2 to 5, this afternoon, at the book exchange, Janet Marvin, editor, has reminded students. Single issues will be on sale for those who do not have subscriptions.
Navy,Army Gobbled Gobblers
The traditional Thanksgiving turkey confronted men of the armed forces stationed at the University when they sat down to Thanksgiving dinner in their respective mess halls yesterday.
Machinists and V-12's fed in the Union building, received a dinner that included 1000 pounds of turkey and 800 pounds of potatoes, dressing, gravy, banana-nut salad, cranberries, pickles, green beans, celery, rolls, pumpkin pie, coffee, and milk.
A-12's dining in the mess hall of Lindley hall, were served 800 pounds of turkey, 500 pounds of potatoes, gravy, dressing, crberry sauce, peas, tomato and lettuce salad, celery, olives, pickles, apples, grapes, coffee, milk, hot rolls, and pumpkin pie.
Berlin Suffers Repeated Bombings; Allied Planes Sweep to Southwest
(International News Service)
The bomb-wrecked Nazi capital of Berlin fought fresh conflagrations today that were started during the night by British Mosquito bombers in the fifth attack by the R.A.F. in eight days.
The raid was combined with an attack by heavy aircraft on the city of Frankfurt-on-Main in southwest Germany.
Planes of the bomber command also laid mines in Nazi-controlled waters. The night's operations cost the Royal Air Force 13 craft.
The devastating cycle of Allied aerial assaults continued in daylight today when strong formations of bombers swept out over the Continent in a southwestwardly direction.
Student Teachers Practice in Eudora
Three student teachers enrolled in the Home Economics Education courses are making visits to the Eudora High School department of home economics, Miss Lucy McCormick, instructor of home economics at the University announced
The purpose of the trip is to acquaint the student teachers, Shirley Bales, Donnice Schwein, and Betty Brownlee, with more types of departments, especially the Smith-Hughes program.
London, (INS)—King George VI declared Wednesday that Britain, with the help of the United States and other Allies, will pursue the war until the people of the world have been delivered from fear of aggression.
Each girl has already spent one day at the practice job, and will return several times before the semester is over, said Miss McCormick.
Britain to Pursue War-King George
The statement was contained in a proclamation opening the ninth session of the present parliament.
News From War Fronts
(International News Service)
German army forces in Russia again were on the run as powerful Soviet columns surged westward through White Russia after smashing a 37 mile breach in the Nazi defense line.
The immediate effect of the new drive was to force German evacuation of the operational base of Gomel.
Britain's eighth army in Italy pushed the Germans back along the center of the battlefront to gain high ground dominating Castel Di Sangro.
Allied forces held the upper hand in repeated smashes against the Japs in the Pacific all the way from the Gilberts westward to the enemy-held Netherlands East Indies. Gen. Douglas MacAthur's headquarters said the fall of Sattelberg, Jap New Guinea base, was imminent after Australian air forces beat down repeated Jap counter-thrusts.
Continued patrolling and artillery action with no important changes in ground held was reported from the fifth army front in the West. Headquarters said that extremely unfavorable weather continued across the whole battlefront but planes of the air force hammered at German troop concentrations and gun positions.
Pharmacists Elect; H. G. Barr Speaks
The Rev. H. G. Barr spoke on vitamins at the weekly assembly for pharmacy students at 11:30 a.m.
Officers of the School of Pharmacy were elected at the assembly last week. They are:
President, James Brock, senior;
vice-president, Ella May Nail,
junior; secretary-treasureur, Sam
Zweifel, sophomore.
Fine Arts Faculty Denies Barring Of Negroes From Participation In Campus Musical Organizations
Negro students are not barred from University musical organizations, according to faculty members of the School of Fine Arts. The All-Student Council decided Tuesday to appoint a committee to investigate why they do not belong to these organizations.
Miss Irene Peabody, director of the Women's Glee Club, said, "There are no Negroes in the Glee Club. Some have tried
Seven cheerleaders, including three service men, were chosen by the pep committee at final tryouts in the Union building Wednesday night. Each applicant presented an original yell and routine, and was judged on originality as well as ability.
7 Cheerleaders, 3 Service Men, Picked in Finals
Those chosen were:
Ruth Krehbiel, College senior, head cheerleader; Catherine Foster, College junior; Alice Louise Brown, College junior; Emma Jane Station, College freshman; Don Ireland, V-12, PT2, from Seattle, Washington; Fray Johns, AST, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Gene Puckett, V-12, PT1, of El Paso, Texas, formerly head cheerleader at Texas A. and M.
Joan Moore, College junior; Alberta Cornwell, College freshman; and Pat Tuller, College freshman, were selected as assistant cheerleaders.
Vice Versa Dance
Sweater-Skirt Affair
The pep committee included Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball coach; Ray Kanehl, substituting for Henry Shenk, football coach; Fred Ellsworth; Margaret Butler Lillard, president of Jay Janes; Bob Pugh, substituting for Reed Whestone, Ku Ku president; Mary Morrill, ASC representative; and Ruth Krehbiel, chairman of the committee.
All men will be admitted free to the dance and tickets for women will be 50 cents. Jay Janes will sell tickets next week, and they may also be purchased at the door.
The Jay Janes Vice Versa dance, which will be held in the Union lounge after the K.U.-Fort Leavenworth basketball game the night of Saturday, Dec. 4, will be a sweater-skirt affair this year. Margaret Butler Lillard, Jay Janes president, announced today.
Women will cast their votes for the pep king on the right-hand stubs of their tickets, and the winner will be announced and crowned just after intermission. Candidates for king are Robert Miller, V-12, PT8, Oakland, Calif.; Wayne Hird, freshman in the college Lawrence; Alexander French "Sandy" Banks, V-5, Pasadena, Calif.; and Fray Cooper Johns, AST, Cleveland, O.
out, but their voices weren't good enough to make it and didn't fit in. The examinations are given on a purely competitive basis."
"They are not barred from the Band and Orchestra," said Prof. Russell Wiley, director of both organizations. "One of our best violinists in the Orchestra is a Negro girl. At present there are no Negroes in the Band because none who tried out was good enough to make it. There were two in it last year, though."
The Orchestra has never barred Negroes. In former years, they were kept from membership in the Band. That was for the reason that they are kept off some football teams. The band works as a unit, going on trips and such, and 'there is close bodily contact.'
The registrar's office has no count of how many Negro students are enrolled in the University and in the School of Fine Arts.
Murder Play Set Next Week
The cast for the 92nd production in the 21st season of the Dramatic Workshop "under the same management" goes into final rehearsals tomorrow. Prof. Allen Crafton said today as he made several attempts to describe the play to be presented next Monday and Tuesday evenings. "Ladies in Retirement," he concluded, "is one of those plays that need no program uses."
"Ladies in Retirement" has been rated as one of the most popular plays in the last several years and was a topper in the summer theater this year. The New York Times stated, "During a period of war the public loves a good rauder mystery to get its mind off battles and bombings." "Ladies in Retirement" features a fine murder in the third scene, Professor Crafton explained.
Students holding activity tickets may exchange stubs for admission tickets in room 5, Green hall today, Monday, and Tuesday. Professor Crafton has announced. There will be no season tickets and no reserved tickets sold for plays in Fraser theater this year, he said.
The seven-character cast, six women and one man, represents a group of players who are far more experienced than the usual casts in university productions, according to Professor Crafton. Alice McDonnel, College senior, known to student audiences for her performances in previous workshop
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