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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1943
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 116
K.U. Is Doing Its Part--at the University. These classes do not give the student credit hours toward a degree but they have been a part of the University's curriculum for nearly a year.
University Now Trains 1085 Students For War
That education has a vital role to play in the war effort is shown by the actual military training taking place on this campus. A survey was made by a Kansan reporter to show just how many persons are enrolled in these programs and to classify them according to their outline by the government and enrollment at K.U.
Approximately 1085 people are attending war training classes
Machinist Mates Is Largest Group The largest training group on the hill is the Naval unit of Machinist's Mates training in Fowler shops. Also attached to the same group and under the same officers is the cooks and bakers school.
The cooks and bakers school, composed of 26 trainees, assists in cooking the food for the several hundred Machinists' Mates and officers.
Thirteen Officers Head Training
Thirteen officers are responsible for the Naval Training Station and there is a total of 36 men attached to the ship's company, a permanent group. The ship also employs six civil service employees.
Sixty Women in Aeronautics Classes Sixty women are training for aeronautical technician jobs. These women are trained with different airplane companies and also a few government contracts.
The department of physics and electrical engineering is training 60 students, nearly all women, for jobs with the Radio Aircraft Laboratory, a branch of the United States Signal Corps at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Marine Flyers, Too
The Marines have landed, too. Marine flyers, 35 of them, are training at the local airpot and living in the former Delta Chi fraternity house.
An intermediate course given by (continued to page five)
Connally Asks Bill To Outlaw Strikes
Washington, (INS)—With the nation facing a disastrous coal strike, Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex) today announced that he will ask the Senate Thursday to enact a bill outlawing all strikes.
"There are enough votes to pass it." he asserted.
He predicted its adoption.
With every indication in Washington pointing to a soft coal strike within the next 72 hours, Connally warned that he will seek passage of his own anti-strike measure.
The Connally bill authorized the President to take over plants or mines in the event of strikes, freeze labor relations during periods of controversy, and set up official wage boards to adjust disputes.
ROTC Announce Plans For Ball Thursday In Hoch
Adding the traditional formal military note to the University social season the annual ROTC ball scheduled for 8:45 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium will provide a climax to Spring social events.
Strictly an invitational affair, the ball will feature a program presented by ROTC personnel and the music of the Bachmann and Pope orchestra.
Representatives of naval and military groups in this vicinity are expected to be present, and a large crowd is anticipated, according to Sgt. William Kollender of the military science department.
Orr To Be Speaker At Medical Banquet
Dr. Thomas G. Orr, professor of surgery at the University hospital at Kansas City, Kan., will be the main speaker at the annual Medical School banquet at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
All pre-medical students who have been accepted for medical school have been invited to attend the banquet this year, students in charge of the banquet said, explaining that with the speed-up program in the medical school, it was believed that pre-medics should be allowed to attend this year.
School To Elect At Capers Lunch Thursday Noon
String Books Due May 6, for County Correspondence
County correspondents must turn in their string books to the alumni office by Thursday, May 6. Harlan Cope, chairman of the County Correspondents Bureau, announced this morning. Prizes will be awarded for the best string books.
Prizes will be awarded for quality, regularity, and originality. Judges will be a group of University staff member. First prize will be $25,
second prize $15, and third prize $5.
Ten $2 prizes will also be given.
Taking a half day vacation the School of Business will combine its school election with its new idea of a Commerce Capers luncheon at 12:30 Thursday noon, said Willis Tompkins, president of the school, yesterday.
Dissolving their former plan of having two political parties in the School of Business, the students will nominate their candidates from the floor and elect them after the Commerce Capers luncheon. All 1:30 and 2:30 classes in the School of Business will be dismissed for the election, Tompkins said.
During the last two years the School of Business has not had its traditional Business School Day, but this year the school has decided to revive the idea in a milder form of a luncheon known as the Commerce Capers. A skit, to be in the form of a take-off on professors and classes in the school, is being planned by a committee headed by Clarence Mollett, junior. Chancellor Dean W. Malott will give a short speech and Prof. John Ise of the School of Business, who holds a degree from the School of Fine Arts, will lead the singing, Tompkins said.
Tickets are available in the School of Business office or from Jane Lorimer or Marion Bunyard, Tompkins said.
Hense to Speak On Photography
Practical problems which face a news photographer will be discussed at 3:30 p.m., Thursday in 107 Journalism by Earl Hense, staff photographer of the Kansas City Star. All University persons who have an interest in news photography are invited to attend the meeting, explained Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the department of journalism, although Mr. Hense will be prepared to talk especially to students in the news photography course.
Photographs taken in the court room during the trial of George Welsh were taken by Mr. Hense for the Kansas City Star. The shot taken after the verdict is one of the best photographs of that type, believes Professor Beth. Mr. Hense will try to answer all questions which his hearers wish to ask about photographic techniques in the news field.
Hs has been a news photographer for more than 20 years; formerly he was on the staff of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In Great Britain when the present supply is exhausted, women will be able to buy only one hat every three years.
Allies Take Leads In Two Theaters
(International News Service)
Bursting bombs exploding among vital military installations in two theaters of war today roared a new symphony of destruction for Adolf Hitler's fighting machine and the factory front that supplies it.
Competing with mechanical engineers from five other schools, Warren Snyder, senior engineer, won second place and a prize of $15 for presentation of his paper, "Bearing Strength of Plastics," at the student branch meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers held in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday and Friday.
Dlisburg, vital cog in Nazi war production, was hit by the R.A.F. in a night raid which was quickly followed by a flight
The two-day meeting was attended by "about 25 mechanical engineers from the University and a good representation of the faculty," said Prof. E. E. Ambrosius of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Snyder's Paper Places Second In ASME Meet
The other schools represented at the ASME student branch meeting were the University of Nebraska, the University of Missouri, Missouri School of Mines, Kansas State College, and Washington University at St. Louis.
WAAC Officer Talks To Senior Women
Telling senior women that the WAAC considers them good officer material, Miss Anne Lee Buchen, Third Officer of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and assistant recruiting officer, Kansas City, spoke in Frank Strong hall yesterday afternoon.
"Any woman between the age of 21 and 44 who can pass the mental alertness test and is deemed eligible after an interview by a recruiting officer will be sent to Officer's Candidate's School," Miss Buchen said.
Lt. Buchen interviewed Mary Gans, Elaine Boney, and Mary Ethwyn Franks, all college seniors, last night in the office of Miss Florence Black, coordinator of military information for women. Miss Gans had already had her test, but Miss Boney and Miss Franks were tested and then interviewed.
With her assistant, Cpl. Hobbs, Lt. Buchen interviewed and gave mental alertness tests to other University women today in Miss Black's office.
of bombers crossing the English channel in daylight in the direction of France. Allies Blast in Tw
And in the Tunisian theater, Allied planes battered the enemy in the combat area, pounded his supply lines at the rear, broke up at least one convoy raid and roared over Italy to blast an important airfield in the northernmost raid ever conducted by the command. Ground fighting meanwhile found the British and Americans etching out new gains.
Latest dispatches from other fighting fronts gave this picture.
Washington Announces 14 Raids
ing fronts gave us pictures. London -Between 300 and 400 British bombers,17 of which were lost, dropped a terrific weight of explosives on Duisberg, it was announced.
Moscow—Fighting on the Russian front switched abruptly from the far south of the late Ilmen and Volkhov river sectors to the northwest where the Nazis have launched small-scale drives against red defenders.
Washington- Fourteen more raids against Japanese positions in the ALEutians including one on Attu and 13 on Kiska, were carried out Sunday, the navy announced. The attacks broke a lull caused by bad weather which began last Tuesday.
The navy also revealed that Liberator bombers hit enemy positions at Kahili in the Shortland island area last Saturday. The announcement of the raids came soon after Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had said air raids against the east and west American coasts were possible but unlikely.
Pee Wee Kansan Is Featured At Dinner
Students and teachers in the department of journalism will hear John Cameron Swayze, ace radio commentator for KMBC, at the annual Kansan Board dinner in the Colonial Tea Room tonight.
The Pee Wee Kansan, miniature parody on the Daily Kansan, will be featured. Awards will be made to outstanding students in journalism
Included in the awards will be Sigma Delta Chi's naming of the journalism man of the year and members of the senior scholastic key society; the Henry Schott award to promising junior men in the department, and the L. N. Flint awards for the best editorial, news story, and feature story appearing in the Daily Kansan during the past school year.