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NUMBER 334
41ST YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1943
Russians Spoil 20th Anniversary Of Munich Putsch
(By International News Service)
The 20th anniversary of the Munich beer hall putsch which sent the Nazi party off on its inglorious career today found Adolf Hitler hard put to explain the unbroken series of German reverses which have followed the Allied invasion of North Africa.
Africa.
With Russian troops pounding toward the frontiers of Rumania and Poland and the German lines in Italy cracking, there seems to be little the Fuehrer can say to his people except to hold on and await the worst.
In years past the Munich beer hall anniversary always was a red-letter day with the Nazis. African Anniversary Also
This was also the first anniversary of the Allied landing in North Africa. A year ago today American forces scrambled ashore on the beaches of Algiers and Morocco while Hitler was still reasonably powerful and puppet Benito Mussolini ridiculed the whole affair.
In the wake of a comparatively heavy Nazi attack on a London suburb which cost many lives when an enemy bomb blasted out a crowded dance hall, speedy Mosquito bombers went across the English channel against enemy positions on the continent.
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New Students Meet Chancellor
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will speak to all new students—army, navy, and civilian—at an assembly at 4:30 this afternoon in Fraser theater. The assembly will be open to everyone, but is designed primarily for new students. Joseph Wilkins, professor of voice, will lead the audience in singing "Star Spangled Banner" and "Crimson and Blue," and will sing a solo, "On the Dneiper River" (Moussorgsky). Officers and administrators of the military units on the campus will be introduced and will speak briefly. Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, commandant of the army unit; Prof. B. A. Nash, University administrator of the army programs; Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of the V-12 unit and the machinists' mates naval training school; Lt. C. A. Mickelman, officer in charge of the V-12 unit; and Prof. L. H. Axe, University V-12 administrator, will speak.
This will be the last opportunity to take these examinations until spring, Dr. Turney stated.
May Register Today For A-12, V-12 Exams
There is still time today for qualified men students to register for the A-12 and V-12 qualifying examinations to be held tomorrow in Fraser theater, A. H. Turney, in charge of the tests, said. Candidates should present themselves between 8:45 and 8:55 a.m. tomorrow, he said. Full information may be obtained at room 121, Fraser hall.
Kansan Opposes Council Regulation of Policies
The Daily Kansan does not recognize its "supervision and regulation" by the All-Student Council as set forth in Bill Number Five, published for the first time in this issue.
In attempting to control the Daily Kansan along with other student publications through its constitutional power to regulate extracurricular activities, the ASC errs in assuming that the Daily Kansan is extracurricular. It is not. Although work on the newspaper is open to all University students, the conduct and actual publication of the Daily Kansan is so inextricably bound up with the department of journalism, and hence with the University and its administration, that it cannot be termed extracurricular.
The bill as it now stands makes few changes for the Daily Kansan in Chapter Four which deals exclusively with the student newspaper. It rightfully acknowledges the Kansan Board to be the governing body of the paper. However, it proposes that an ASC committee sit with the Board. Although the change is unprecedented, the Kansan Board does not quarrel with this provision, and it invites the committee to see how the problems of the Daily Kansan are handled.
On the other hand, the Board objects to the phrase, incorporated in the section giving the Kansan Board control of its own activities, which states "providing that such activities shall not infringe upon the established policy of the All-Student Council in the protection of student rights." This could be used to give the ASC arbitrary power over the Daily Kansan's policies.
Biggest threat to a free and outspoken Daily Kansan is the blanket clause in the first section of the first chapter giving the ASC control of all student publications. This states "that all publications associated with the University of Kansas in which students participate, organize, manage, edit, or support shall be under the supervision and regulation of the All-Student Council." This clause seems to vest unlimited authority in the ASC, and the Daily Kansan has as much to fear from domination by a student political organization as from censorship by a University administration.
In view of the need for cooperation and good will between the student newspaper and the student governing body, the ASC is urged to change the ill-chosen words in the two named sections and allow the Daily Kansan to continue to publish free from fear of coercion and political control.
Clapper Starts Career As Journalist at KU
By Kelma Smith
He's still a Kansas man and can not see himself spending millions to build a home in keeping with traditions that are no longer useful just as he cannot see using traditions that are no longer useful in public affairs.
It took the nerve of a Kansas boy to wake the chancellor of the University of Kansas at 2 o'clock in the morning to get a confirmation on a news story, and the same nerve to carry him to Washington, D. C., where he gained recognition as the ablest columnist America has ever known. This same nerve led him to admit that he did not know anything about military affairs, an unpardonable sin in the newspaper world. Raymond Clapper, who attended the University from 1913 to 1916, has just settled down as a home owner in the Spring Valley section of Washington, D. C., where his conservativeness has shocked the plantation type of spenders in that section.
Mr. Clapper probably does more
to find his own stories than any other man in Washington. He does not side with either political party, and therefore is not invited into the realms of either as readily as the "yes" man. He reports the news as he sees it, and he sees it pretty well as his annual income tax returns show.
Ray Clapper, the Average Man's columnist, as the "Saturday Evening Post" has named him, is a learning man. This is one secret of his success. He makes one feel that he has gone to the trouble of finding out all of the facts of public affairs that spring from healthy American curiosity, and best of all, he is still a Kansas man.
Rev. McGucken Dies at Loyola
Chicago, (INS)—Catholic educators today mourned the death of the Rev. William J. McGucken of St. Louis University, St. Louis. He died Thursday night at Loyola University in Chicago. Father McGucken was head of Missouri Jesuit schools.
Proficiency Exam Again Saturday
Second proficiency examination in English will be given at 8:30 a.m., Saturday. It will consist of a three-hour examination in essay form. Grading will be on the basis of clear and correct English prose written on three subjects chosen from lists presented to the students. Five faculty members will judge the papers for clarity, orderliness of presentation of ideas, and grammatical correctness, J. B. Virtue, professor of English, announced.
Registration may be made at the College office in Frank Strong hall today through Wednesday. Juniors and seniors are eligible to take the exam, and are urged by Mr. Virtue to do so as early as possible.
Geltch Violin Recital Tonight Open to Public
Waldemar Geltch, head of the School of Fine Arts department of violin, will present the third faculty recital of the season in Fraser theater this evening. The program, beginning at 8 p.m., will be open to the public without charge.
Mr. Geltch will open his recital with "The Ascension" (Cecil Burleigh), sonata for violin and piano. Allie Merle Conger, of the School of Fine Arts piano faculty, will assist him at the piano.
The sonata will be followed by three movements from Mozart's "Concerto No. 4 in D Major," the allegro, Andante cantabile, and rondo. A suite for violin and piano entitled "Much Ado About Nothing" (Eric Korngold) will be played by Mr. Geltch and Miss Conger. The movements of the suite to be played are "Girl in Wedding Gown," "March of the Wake," "Garden Scene," and "Hornpipe."
The program will close with the "Gypsy Dance, A Minor" (Nachel) and d "Hora Staccato" (Dinicu-Heifetz).
Before coming to the University in 1920, Mr. Geltch was professor of violin at the University of Wisconsin. Before that, he was on the faculty of the University of South Dakota and the Nashville Conservatory of Music. He has had an extensive concert schedule.
Homecoming Dance Planned for Nov.20
A Homecoming dance will be given from 9 p.m. to 12 m. Nov. 20 in Hoch auditorium and arrangements have been made for the floor to be waxed for the occasion, Heloise Hillbrand, University dance manager, announced today.
The dance will be a sport affair, she said, and Kay Stark and his twelve- piece band from Kansas City, Mo. will play. Tickets will be $1. date or stag and will be on sale next week.
next week. "We hope to make this first dance a big success," Miss Hibrand started. "If the students all turn out for the Homecoming dance and we realize that we can count on their support in the future."
Sixty-one Pass First English Proficiency Test
Sixty-one students have passed the first proficiency examination in English, Prof. J. B. Virtue announced today.
Inviting those who are interested in seeing their examination papers to come to his office in 501 Fraser hall, Professor Virtue announced office hours as follows:
10:30 to 12, or 1:30 to 3 p.m. Tuesday;
day; 2 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday; 10 to
12 a.m. or 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday; and
2 to 5 p.m. Friday.
The following students passed the first examination:
Betty Amick, Barbara Baker, Phil Borden, Lester Bowles, Doris Brewer, Catharine Brown, Martha Lou Cable, Dorothy Marie Car, Dorothy Chapin, David Clyde, Jean Cody, Roy Coffey, Ramona Conway, Ruth Culp, Harriet Davis, Evelyn Emry, Rosa Lee Erickson, Joel Fant, Rosemary Farney, Betty Fink, and Margaret FitzGibbon.
Kati Gorill, Virginia Grissold,
Virginia Guill, Norma Henry, Betoose
Hillbrand, Elizabeth Helder, Blaine
Howard, Margaret Husted, Martha
Johnson, Mildred Julius, Shueley
Kelley, Carol Kent, Barbara Kile,
Mary Louise Laffer, Mary Olive
Marshall, Lula-Belle McPike, Joy
Miller, Wilson Miller, Elwood
Marron, Frances Ann Morrill, Betty Jean
Nelson, Charlotte Nelson, and Jessamine
Nodler.
Jeanne Overstreet, Gwendybyn Paine, Mary Pippin, Ruth Prentice, Anna Fern Regier, Hannah Roberts, Jeanne Shoemaker, Mary Singer, Harold R. Smith, Kelma Smith Geraldine Speck, Marion Ruth Stoll, Muriel Swanson, Ruth Tippin, Mary Elizabeth Todd, Ann Wellington, and Joanne Williams.
Happy Hour in Hoch Tomorrow
The Navy "Happy Hour" in Both auditorium tomorrow evening will open with music by the University band under the direction of Prof. Russell Wiley. The program will start at 7:45 p.m. and will be open to the public.
Two choruses composed of machinists' mates and University students will sing songs from World Wars I and II. The Floradora girls nine machinists' mates in disguise, will dance after a rope climbing contest.
Seaman 2e R. K. McCaugay and
Lawrence Jahnke will play the harmonica and accordion. Harold Helps
V-12 pianist; L. W. Koski, fireman
3ie, singer; and Betty Cohagen,
singer, will perform.
Coal Production Lags International News Service
Resumption of normal wartime coal production lagged today as many of the nation's pits remained idle or were only partially manned. While in most sections the raines were being worked at or near full capacity, exceptions were reported in western Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Indiana.