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41ST YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943
Nazis Admit Retreat In Russia and Italy
(International News Service)
Frank German admission that the Allied invasion of Italy was responsible as much as any single factor for the new Nazi disaster in Russia was made in Berlin today.
With the Nazis giving ground both in Italy and in the Soviet Union—slowly in the first instance and at break-neck speed in the other—the Berlin radio carried a summary of the situation by Lt. General Kurt Dietmar, $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $
"The fighting in Russia has taken a turn for the worse." Dietmar said. "We see the battle approaching the frontiers of the Reich. It now depends upon the morale of the people whether this unfavorable military event is to be merely a setback or a crucial, irrefrievable retreat.
official spokesman for the German high command.
Nazi Retreat Disorderly
"We stabilized the Italian front at the cost of weakening our positions in Russia."
Russian sources characterized the German withdrawal as "disorderly," as the Nazis sought to escape the closing jaws of a Soviet trap. Triple prong advances were registered by Soviet army units in the Krivol Rog and Meliotop areas. Russian troops fanned out to the north, west, and southwest, driving the Nazis before them.
Town after town was seized and although the Germans threw huge amounts of reinforcements into battle and fought stiff rear-guard actions, the Russians moved closer to the last railway line and highways which might afford the Germans speedy escape from the Dneiper loop and the Crimea.
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KFKU Saluted Navy In Special Broadcast
Significance of Navy Day, 1943, was expressed last night in words, music, and drama on the special navy broadcast over KFKU saluting the United States Navy. Chancellor Deane W. Malott, unable to attend the broadcast, recorded his speech for the program. He spoke for the University in paying tribute to the machinists' mates, V-5, and V-12 units on the campus and to navy men all over the world.
Lt. A. H. Buhl, commander of the navy units at the University, spoke on the traditions and spirit of the navy. A chorus composed of 18 navy students sang the familiar navy songs, as they sing them marching to and from classes. They were accompanied by the University Band in "Anchors Aweigh," "Marine Hymn," "Here Comes the Navy," and "Remember Pearl Harbor." The band was especially transcribed for the navy broadcast.
"The Eagle of the Sea," a sketch written and directed by Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and drama, gave the history of one of the navy's first ships, "Old Ironsides." Professor Crafton was narrator of the sketch, and the other parts were presented by members of his Fundamentals of Speech class.
Russell L. Wiley, director of the University band, announced the program.
NUMBER 24
Washington, (INS) — President Roosevelt called upon Congress to take action now to provide a minimum fund of one billion dollars for education and rehabilitation of men and women in the armed forces in the post-war period.
F.D.R. Asks for Post-War Fund
The Chief Executive sent a special message to Congress to which was attached recommendations of a special committee which has made a long-range study of post-war educational opportunities for service personnel. "While the successful conclusion of this great war is by no means within our sight," Mr. Roosevelt said, "yet it may well be said that the time to prepare for peace is at the height of war.
"We at home owe a special and continuing obligation to these men and women in the armed services. After the war the best way we can repay a portion of that debt is to see to it that those men and women are demobilized into an economy that is sound and prosperous with a minimum of unemployment and dislocation."
Five Elected to Student Court By ASC Vote
Five members were elected to the student court, two new members were sworn into seats on the All-Student Council, and the first reading of a bill was heard at a meeting of the ASC last night in the Pine room.
Betty Felt, College junior, was sworn in to the council as representative of the student housing association, replacing John Margrave, not in school this year, and Charlotte Price, College sophomore and a member of WIGS, was sworn in as a representative to replace Martha Dooley, who is not in school.
After they were nominated by Peggy Davis, president, and approved by a two-thirds vote of the council, Comora McGregor, a second year law; Virginia Schaefer, College senior; Persis Snook, College junior; John Anderson, engineering junior; and John Scurlock, second year law; were appointed members of the student court. Miss Davis appointed Miss Schaefer to sit on the council as a representative from the court. The chief justice of the student court will be selected by the School of Law faculty.
Bill number five on publications was read to the council for the first time by Clarence Engle, secretary. Miss Davis announced the appointments of Anne Louise Rossman, College senior, as editor of the student directory, and Patsy Piller, College junior, as chairman of the Statewide Student Activities Commission.
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St. Howie saw few WAC's in Africa. Most of the non-native women were Red Cross workers as all the Europeans had left.
THE WEATHER Freezing temperatures tonight.
The BBC (British Broadcasting company) is the best source of news
Gunner on 35 Bombings Returns on Furlough
Leaves were spent in Cairo and Tel Aviv, Palestine. Cairo was described by Sgt. Howie as being very cosmopolitan. All races could be seen in British uniforms. The men spent their pay for melons, grapes, and eggs which they bought from the natives for "outrageous" prices. This was the only food they had that wasn't canned.
By Kati Gorrill
Staff Sgt. William Howie, K.U graduate now in Lawrence on furlough from the Middle East Air force, has been on 35 bombing missions over Austria, Sicily, Italy, and Rumania in the past five months. He was stationed on the Mediterranean sea in Libya.On missions Sgt. Howie was gunner in a B-24 Liberator. He has spent part of his furlough speaking before various Lawrence clubs.
His longest raid lasted 14 hours. That was the one in which 177 planes leveled the Polesti oil fields in Rumania. It was also the only raid flown at low altitudes. He has bombed harbors, railroad yards, and plane factories.
Henry L. Black, freshman engineer of Belleville, has recently received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The appointment was made by Representative Frank Carlson of the Sixth Congressional district.
Black Appointed to Naval Academy
In a Civil Service entrance examination to the Academy given in September, Black made the highest grade. He was given the principal appointment by Representative Carlson.
Black has made high grades in the School of Engineering at the University this summer. He is a resident of Battenfeld hall.
Pharmacy Honor Roll Announced By Dean
Three students were named by Dean J. Allen Reese as eligible for the summer session honor roll. The students selected are Raymond Thompson, Belleville, freshman; Carl Robson, Lawrence, sophomore; and Lucille Baker, Leavenworth, junior.
March Order Set For Parade Today
The order of march for the Navy Day parade was announced today by Howard Sutherland, secretary of the board of education, who is in charge of the parade arrangements. The parade will begin at Sixth and Massachusetts at 5 p.m. today, and will march along Massachusetts to 13th, passing the official reviewing stand in front of Weaver's Ninth.
Displays in Stores Draw Attention
Hundreds of Lawrence citizens have been attracted by the window exhibits in Lawrence featuring naval displays in observance of Navy Day today. The displays were arranged under the supervision of Miss Maud Ellsworth, assistant professor of education, assisted by Mrs. Deal Six and Mrs. Earl Patton.
Two outstanding displays are arranged in the windows of the Bell Music company. One features the model of a German submarine built by Richard Stutz. The sub, which is actually a working model containing a motor, will dive, travel under water, and arise to the surface as does an actual ship. It required a full year in building and was constructed from scrap metal and other materials.
The other window at Bell's contains a collection of model ships lent by Lawrence citizens. Among the ships are five lent by the Bureau of Visual Instruction at the University, of which Fred Montgomery is director. These models are the Wanderer, a New Bedford whaler; the Thor, model of a Viking ship; an Egyptian galley; a model of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria; and a model of the Mayflower. In the display, also, is a model of another of Columbus' ships, the Pinta, lent by Mrs. Deane W. Malott. This ship was made by Honolulu school children.
Another model of the Santa Maria was lent by Mrs. Don Haworth, and Miss Alice Hosford, secretary to Chancellor Malott, supplied a model of a galley used during the time of Columbus. A copy of Henry Hudson's Half Moon was lent by Mrs. O. M. Hixon, while Fritz Meyn's collection supplied a model of Old Ironsides. Dr. L. E. Anderson lent a model of a French sailing vessel, and his son, Whitfield, furnished a model of a mosquito patrol boat.
In the windows of the Outlook are a series of chalk drawings by Richard LeSuer depicting the battles of the Pacific and ship models
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Ships, Lives, Property Lost in Atlantic Gale
New York, (INS)—Four ships were driven aground, two persons killed, and millions of dollars property damage reported today as the result of a coastal gale which swept the entire Atlantic seaboard.
Whipping ashore along the coastline from southern New Jersey to Maine, the rain-bearing wind swept the ships ashore off the New Jersey coast. They were identified as merchantman James Longstreet and the S. J. Lukkenbock, Exilona, and the Fort Douglas.
Although no loss of life was reported in any of the ship groundings two persons died in storm-inspired motor accidents in New York and New Jersey. Prompt action in stringing buoys to the stricken vessels was credited with saving the lives of the crews.
The first division of the parade will include four companies of Army men from the University; the three University Navy units, V-5, V-12, and machines mates; and the University band.
The second division will march in the following order; the Home Guard, the Liberty Memorial High School band, the Civil Air Patrol, the Spanish-American war veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Red Cross, and the float bearing the navy queen, Giselle Roy, and her attendants, Joyce Shook and Shirley Otter.
The third division will include the Haskell band, the Boy Scouts, and other patriotic units.
In the reviewing stand, according to Mr. Sutherland, will be Adj. Gen. M. L. McLean, representing Gov. Andrew Schoepel, who is unable to attend; Dr. E. C. Buckle, Douglas county Navy Day chairman; Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, commanding officer of Army units at the University; Lt. A. B. Huhl, commanding officer of Navy units at the University; and Mayor C. B. Russell of Lawrence.
Chancellor Deane Mallet is un-
able to attend the parade, as previ-
ously announced, because of a
speaking engagement in Pitttown.
32 Lab Technicians Take Short Course In Protozoology
Thirty-two laboratory technician arrived on the campus today for the special one-week course in medical protozoology, according to Harold G. Ingham, director of the University extension division. The course, arranged by the department of zoology and the extension division, will be conducted by Miss Mary E. Larson, assistant professor of zoology, in Snow hall.
The course in medical proteozology was designed to provide laboratory technicians with an opportunity for special study in the field of tropical diseases, Mr. Ingham said. The lectures by Miss Larsen will stress life histories and diagnosis, but the major amount of time will be spent in actual laboratory work.
The first session of the course stressing preliminary work in malaria, began at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Snow hall. The course will close Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 10.
Final Play Tryouts Set For Tonight
Final tryouts for the play, "Ladies in Retirement," will be held in the Little Theatre, Green hall, at 7:30 tonight, according to Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and drama.
Language Bulletin to Be Released The fall issue of the Kansas Modern Language Association bulletin, edited by Prof. W. H. Shoemaker, who is also president of the association, will be released tomorrow. The bulletin, which comes out three times a year, is designed for language teachers in colleges and high schools in Kansas.