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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 114
Japs Give Up One or More Island Bases
(International News Service)
The war's spotlight hopped abruptly to the far reaches of the Pacific ocean this afternoon when the navy revealed that American forces have seized at least one and possibly more islands in the Japanese-dominated Ellice group.
The islands lie some 900 miles below the vital Nipponese base at Jaluit, one of the three keystone enemy bastions in the Far Pacific and which hinges, in turn, upon highly fortified Truk. All three are in the mandated Caroline group. Hitler Loses 101 More Planes
Thousands of miles away skillful Allied airmen were credited in two official statements dealing with action in as many different theaters of the destruction of another 101 of Hitler's dwindling stock of war planes.
Allied headquarters in North Africa announced that 38 more Nazi-Fascist planes, including 20 lumbering German aerial transports, were shot down in that area. And a statement issued at London disclosed
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Shown above are the nine women representatives of the new Associated Students' Council, who were chosen Tuesday in a special election in which PWCL candidates won five out of nine seats.
George Williams college of Chicago and State Teachers college, Dickinson, North Dakota, have been approved by the Joint Committee for the Selection of Non-Federal Educational Institutions for inspection by the Navy department. The joint committee approved Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, Cal., for inspection by the War department and for possible contract for training in oceanography for the Army Air Forces.
Three more colleges have been added to the list of those declared suitable for the placement of war training programs by the Army and Navy, the Office of War Information announced.
Eight Get Larger Programs
More Colleges For Trainees Added To List
Eight schools previously approved are now eligible for additional programs.
The new members are, from left to right: front row, Jill Peck, Betty Lee Kalis, Peggy Davis, Martha Dooley, and Janet Marvin; back row, Mary Martha Hudelson, Mary Olive Marshall, Mary Morrill, and June Mack These nine will take office as soon as men students elect their representatives, after which the council will take over the duties formerly administrated by the MSC and WSAG.
For inspection and possible contract by the Navy department for the basic program: Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg, Kan.; University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky;; Tufts college, Medford, Mass.; Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Texas.
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They Represent Women
Transfer to V-5 Must Be Made Before May 15
Members of the V-1 Naval Reserve who are qualified to continue training in the Navy College Training program will not be permitted to transfer to V-5 after May 15, 1943.
Students who enlisted in V-1 with the intention of transferring to V-5 before November 1, 1943, and who still desire such transfer, should submit their requests on the proper form immediately.
Officer candidates are needed with equal urgency in the various other officer candidate classes, particularly for engineering duty, and the above announcement is not to be construed as a special request for volunteers for aviation training, according to the Naval communique
Junior and senior engineering students may not transfer to V-5 at this time without approval of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.
Washington, (INS)—Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, (D) Mont., pleading for draft exemption of fathers, said yesterday that American air forces abroad alone will match the Axis at the end of 1943.
Senator Wheeler Pleads For Exemption of Fathers
"It is estimated that the total of all United Nations air forces will be twice that of the Axis powers," said Wheeler.
Wheeler quoted what he said were official figures to show that it is unnecessary draft fathers in order to comply with high command plans for overseas forces.
Easter Service
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At Sunrise
An open-air sunrise Easter service will be held at 6:30 Sunday morning on the lawn between Myers chapel and Spooner-Thayer museum, Bill Harris, president of the Student Christian Federation has announced.
The Rev. Lawrence Deever, of the United Brethren Church, will be the main speaker. There will also be musical numbers, Harris said.
The service is being sponsored by the Student Christian Federation and the Lawrence Ministerial Alliance.
Pilots Receive Commissions
Lieut. Stanley Stauffer, Topeka, received an A.B. degree at the University in 1942. He was president of Phi Delta Theta, national social fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, and publisher of the 'University Daily Kansan.
In a class of graduating cadets from every state in the nation, France, Canada, Honolulu, Puerto Rico, and Alaska, in five Texas flight schools, six were former students of the University. Each received silver pilot's wings and commissions as second lieutenants or flight officers.
The other graduates and their years at the University are as follows: Lieut. James C. Shive, Turon, 1939-40; Lieut. Valentine S. Rader, Howard, 1940-41; Lieut. Albert C. Bracke, Atchison, 1938-40; Lieut. K.W. Claybaugh, Topeka, 1940-42; and Lieut. Dean H. Rice, 1936-39.
Swayze Will Be Kansan Board Dinner Speaker
John Cameron Swayze, ace radio commentator for radio station KMBC at Kansas City, will be the guest speaker at the annual Kansan Board dinner to be held Tuesday evening at the Colonial Tea Room, John Conard, board chairman, announced today.
Swayze, a former student of the University is recognized as one of the top radio journalists in the country. He has also had experience in the newspaper world, having served on the Staff of the Kansas City Journal.
Swayze's father, J. E. Swayze, resides in Lawrence.
The board dinner is an annual award banquet at which honors for the school year are awarded to leading students in journalism. Included in the awards are 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 University Daily Kansan during the past school year. The staff for the fall term of 1943 and newly elected members of the Kansan Board will also be announced.
Mortar Board Officers Elected
New officers of Mortar Board, senior won n's honorary organization, who rently have been elected are Maria Hepworth, president; Edith Ann teming, vice-president; Margaret l. tiller, projects chairman; Peggy Dav, secretary; Jill Peck, treasurer; a.d.Joy Miller, historian.
Values of Life In Worship Places, Brown
Supreme and everlasting values of life are exemplified only in places of worship, said Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean emeritus of the Yale School of Divinity, in the Good Friday convocation sermon at Hoch auditorium this morning. Dr. Brown read the scripture lesson from the Book of Isaiah, and addressed students and faculty members on "The Value of Worship."
Directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts, the audience sang the hymns, "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" (Maker) and "Lead On, O King Eternal" (Smart). The University a capella choir sang "Forsake Me Not" (Rosenmueller), with the soprano solo sung by Helen Colburn, fine arts senior.
Professor Anderson Played
"People who worship believe in something; they have fixed stars in the firmament of heaven," Dr. Brown continued. "People who worship stand for something; everyone needs perpendicular as well as horizontal relationships," he parodied.
Prof. Laurel Everette Anderson of organ and theory played the prelude, "Saviour of My Heart" (Brahms), and Free Improvisation as the organ postulate.
Illustrating his idea of "honest, intelligent worship" with the Bible story of the woman at the well, Dr. Brown explained the psychology
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Colleges Have Lost 7,000 Men Teachers
An Office of Education survey discloses that colleges have lost more than 7,000 men from their faculties.
During the year 1939-1940 there were 5,068 men and 4,059 women on the staffs of junior colleges alone. In the current year, 1942-43, on the basis of latest reports, there was only a one-man edge in the number of faculty members in junior colleges. Men numbered 4,372; women, 4,371.
They gained 470 women, giving a net decrease of 6,550 college faculty members. Teachers' colleges and normal schools have lost both men and women.
The number of male students in colleges of all types has dropped in the three-year period by more than 22 per cent. In 1939-1940 there were approximately 900,000 men in all the colleges. Today the number is less by more than 200,000. Half the men students have left the teachers' colleges and normal schools, one-third have dropped from the rolls of junior colleges, and one-fifth have left the universities, colleges, and professional schools.
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