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NUMBER 42
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1943
41ST YEAR
Berlin in Rubble After Heaviest Raid by RAF
(International News Service)
Vast destruction was reported in Berlin today in the wake of the heaviest raid yet made against the German capital by the Royal air force.
More than a thousand big British bombers raised to 10,000 tons of bombs the total dropped upon the city so far this year. The bombing wrecked huge blocks of buildings, factories and government offices and left gigantic fires raging whose flames were visible for more than 70 miles.
Nothing the Germans ever did to London approached the mass devastations left by the RAF bombers.
Correspondents of Swedish newspapers said the Swedish and Finnish legations in Berlin were destroyed completely while the legations of Denmark and Hungary were wiped out or severely damaged. The Swedish consular buildings nestled close to those of Japan.
Solid banks of clouds obscured Berlin but the powerful new flares used by the RAF lighted up the target as clearly as in the daytime.
A dispatch from Bern said that the entire passenger railway system of Germany is suspended presumably as a result of Allied air assaults.
American troops are now in possession of Abemama, and Atoll, as well as Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert islands. Land fighting continued, but the Japanese fleet continued to keep out of range of American guns.
Bad weather still hampered operations on the Italian front, although air activity was widespread, while in Russia the Soviets cleared out Nazi forces from most of their positions on the right bank of the Dnieper river and scored new advances in several sectors.
BULLETIN
London, (INS)—Throughout the afternoon hours today, wave after wave of Allied war planes shuttled across the English channel in continuation of the intensified aerial offensive which last night battered Berlin.
King Will Be Chosen At Vice Versa Dance
A pop king will be chosen and crowned at the traditional Jay James Vice Versa dance which will be held the night of Dec. 4 in the Union Lounge, Margaret Butler Lillard, Jay Janes president, announced today.
Candidates for this year's pep king are Bob Miller, Wayne Hurd, Sandy Banks, and Fray Cooper Johns. Women will cast their votes for the King on the right-hand stubs of their tickets, and the winner will be announced just after intermission.
The theme of the dance will be signified in the initials CMB, the meaning of which will be announced that night.
Tickets for the dance will be 50 cents for women and men civilians, and all servicemen will be admitted free.
Knox Calls Campaign Short-Cut to Tokyo
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of Navy Knox today described the American offensive in the Gilbert islands as the beginning of a new campaign to drive the Japs out of Truk and other mandated islands on a "short-cut route" to Tokyo.
'Patton Struck Invalid Soldier' ---Eisenhower
Algiers, (INS) - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower disclosed to war correspondents today that on one occasion, while visiting a front line hospital in Siecle, Lt. Gen. George Patton, commander of the United States seventh army, did slap an American soldier who he thought was malingering.
The official disclosure of the slapping incident was forced upon General Eisenhower by a report of the affair published by Washington Columnist Drew Pearson who stated that Patton was severely reprimanded by General Eisenhower.
General Eisenhower reiterated that Patton was not reprimanded. This term in military parlance involves official punishment. General Eisenhower did, however, mercilessly castigate Patton over the affair, be said.
Patton subsequently apologized to the soldier.
Besides apologizing to the soldier, he also apologized to hospital commander, a nurse and a doctor involved in the incident, and then Patton called on each division in the seventh army and related the incident, explained that his feelings got the better of him and he was 'very regretful.'
Pre-School Nursery New Project
One of the newest projects carried on by the University is the University of Kansas Nursery School located at 1100 Missouri, west of Memorial satium. It is proving valuable to the home economics, sociology, and psychology departments
Miss Dorothy Sutton, professor of psychology, is conducting a course in the testing of pre-school children, and Miss Esther Twente's sociology class is helping care for the children. The school will be valuable to child development classes.
A Lanham grant, which is an emergency nursery fund for the duration of the war, was made late last spring, according to Miss Mary Elizabeth Evans, director of the school. Because Lawrence is situated in a defense area, a need for a school for pre-school age children arose. Supported by the Lanham fund, the University, and nursery school fees, the school was started in July at New York School, intended primarily for children of employed mothers, but also for some children of unemployed mothers. Six weeks later it was closed because of the infantile paralysis epidemic.
Reopened In New Location
It was reopened in its present location on University property at 1100 Missouri the first week in October. The seven-room house is being remodeled to fit the needs of little children. Inside, the furniture, playthings, and facilities are built especially for small children. Outside, in a fence-enclosed playground, there is playground equipment which includes a sand-pile, a jungle-jim for climbing, and a slide. The garage will be used for a wood workshop.
Has Three Assistants
Governor Presents Queen to Homecomers
Besides Miss Evans, who received (continued to page four)
Shown above are (left to right)
Lt. R. S. Neil, University student in 1931; Heloise Hillbrand, Home-
coming queen; and Gov. Andrew Schoenpel.
The picture was taken between halves of the Kansas-Missouri game Saturday afternoon when Governor Schoeppel honored Miss Hillbrand and her attendants, Nancy Jane Petersen, and Margaret Gurley, by presenting them flowers—Kansan Photo.
Carlson, Author of 'Under Cover Will Deliver First Forum Lecture
The queen and her attendants were escorted to the field by Army and Navy Officers.
Forum's Speaker
John Roy Carlson
15 Former Students Take Teaching Jobs Since 5-Week Term
Fifteen former students of the University of Kansas have received teaching appointments since the 5 week session, the School of Education announced yesterday.
They are:
Elizabeth Dunn, A. B., 1932, high school Spanish and English in Ulysses; Martha Dooley, a student in 1942, high school music in Mahaska; Jean Nicknick, B. M. E. 1942, junior high school music in Santa Fe, N. M.; George Figgs, B. S., 1938, high school mathematics and science in Eudora.
Julia Perry Guzman, A. B., 1928,
high school Spanish and Latin in
Burlingame; Henrietta Terrell,
a graduate student in 1943, science
and mathematics in Wellsville; William
Beck, B. M. E., 1935, high
school music in Colby; Fannie McKerns,
B. S. E., 1941, high school
physical education in Dodge City.
Dorothy Gehret Cress, B. M. E., 1941, high school music in Camden, Ark.; George F. Highfill, mathematics at Arkansas State A & M in Jonesboro, Ark.; Frances Perkins, A. B., 1943, speech and English at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.
William P. Foster, B. M. E., 1941, music at the Normal and Industrial School in Ft. Volley, Ga.; Mary S. Barker, a student in 1926, high school music in Protection; Lina M. Shippy, a graduate student in 1943, High School English in Moundridge; Selma Moore McCune, A.B., 1943, high school commercial English in Effingham.
Wednesday Closing Hours Set at Midnight—Meguiar
Closing hours tomorrow will be 12 m., and Thursday, they will be 10:30 p.m., Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser to women, announced today.
The weekend closing hours will be the same as usual, Miss Meguiar stated.
John Roy Carlson, author of "Under Cover," an expose of fifth column and other subversive enemy groups in this country, will be the speaker at the first lecture scheduled by the Student Forums Board, at 8:20 p.m., Dec. 9 in Hoch auditorium, Joy Miller, chairman of the board, announced today.
In his book, which the New York Times places first on national confliction best-seller lists, Mr. Carlson describes his investigations of the underground activities of well-financed and highly-organized Nazi agents in America.
Masquerades As Nazi
For four years he masqueraded as a Nazi enthusiast, traveling all over the nation uncovering and documenting the plans and secrets of what he terms the "American Gestapo." His talk in Hoch auditorium will present his startling revelations.
An American of Armenian origin, Mr. Carlson was graduated from New York University's School of Journalism in 1932 with a bachelor of science degree. For years he was a newspaper reporter, until on a research assignment for Fortune magazine, he discovered the extent to which Nazism had penetrated this country. He became so amused that he gave up his position with Fortune and devoted his full time to undercover work.
Outwits Nazi Agents
His adventures range from sitting in on a secret session of Nazi agents in Yorktown to prying loose a German "cell" in Utah. Once he was grilled for six hours in a cellar in New York by Nazi agents ready to put him to death had he not convinced them he was loyal to their cause.
Because of such experiences, Mr. Carlson is now in constant danger of assassination, according to his lecture-manager, Clark H. Curtis of New York. Not only does Mr. Carlson use a pseudonym, but his movements are given as little publicity as possible while he is on tour.
No photographs may be taken of him except in silhouette. He is described, however, by Mr. Gettin as a "youngish, bright-eyed, alert and keen newspaper man."
SCOTUS Permits Labor Picket Labels
Washington, (INS)—The supreme court ruled yesterday that union pickets can label employers "laborist" and can picket a business despite claims that it is operated by partners and has no employees.
The high court reversed a New York state injunction against picketing of two Bronx cafeterias.
Justice Frankfurter who wrote the opinion said the New York Court of Appeals may have misconstrued earlier opinions of the high tribunal. The union men pickedet the cafeterias which owners said were operated by partners and their were no employees to join the union.
"To use loose language or under-defined slogans that are part of the conventional give-and-take in our economic controversies—like "unfair" or "fascist"—is not to falsify facts, the court ruled.