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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943
NUMBER 107
40TH YEAR
Band To Present Spring Concert
Patriotic songs, together with South American and Oriental melodies, will hold spotlight positions in the program to be given by the University Concert band at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will sing two World War
songs, "Over There," and "Wake Up America." Professor Crafton served in France as operations officer of the 25th bombardment squadron of the United States Army in the last World War.
"Roses of Picardy," featuring David Lawson, vocalist, and Dannie Machmann, trombonist, will add to the patriotic atmosphere of the program.
"Cubana," a South American rhapsody written by David Bennett, will be featured on the program. James Lerch will play the violin solo. A suite of serenades by Victor Herbert will include Spanish, Cuban, Chinese, and Oriental melodies.
As an added attraction, Bill Sears, will give an exhibition of electric baton twirling.
The program to be given tomorrow night was announced as follows:
"Star-Spangled Banner." (Key-Leaman), "Heroic March." (Guy Holmes), "A Suite of Serenades," 1. Spanish, 2. Chinese, 3. Cuban, and 4. Oriental, "Song of the Flame."
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Relax Requirements For Okla. Teachers
Oklahoma City, (INS)—Teaching certificate requirements have been issued by the Oklahoma board of education to meet the emergency of the growing teacher shortage existing throughout the state.
The board, to cope with the problem adopted recommendations of a group of state educators to reduce the number of semester hours needed for a one-year elementary certificate. Hours were reduced from 65 to 60, making the second cut since the war started. Originally 76 hours were required. Provision was made also for issuance of a temporary elementary certificate on a 40 to 60-hour basis and adjusted to renewal under certain conditions.
Recommendations included organization in each county of a pool of potential teachers available to fill positions in the county or anywhere in the state, and plans for temporary transfers and transportation of children when suitable teachers cannot be secured.
Debate Frat Initiates Today
With the fewest new members in the history of the organization on this campus, Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity, will initiate two men at 3:30 this afternoon in Green hall, Professor E. C. Buehler, said. The two new members are Art Nelson, College senior, and Bob Plumb, College senior.
Allies Lunge Forward; Sfax Is Captured
By International News Service Allied forces in North Africa lunged forward today on all fronts and in the air in an all out effort to push the Germans and Italians into the sea.
New advances were scored in the north as the British Eighth army and columns of the second American corps in possession of the important coastal city of Sfax, rallied to British General Sir Bernard Montgomery's order "on to Tunis."
Home Front Feels Attack
Meanwhile as the German homefront still shuddered under impact of an assault last night on Duisburg and other objectives in the industrial Ruhr, British fighters and light bombers soared across the channel to assault transport facilities in northern France and Holland.
In the Medjez-el-bab area in Africa, the British Eighth army ad-
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1943 Honors Convocation On Tuesday
Honors convocation, formerly scheduled for Thursday, will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday in Hoch auditorium. Robert Lawrence Stearns, president of the University of Colorado and speaker at convocation, called late Friday afternoon to inform Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, of the necessary change.
Approximately one hundred fifteen names of honor students will appear on the printed program Tuesday. These include the upper 10 per cent of the seniors in all schools of the University, and the leading student or students in other classes.
Students to be honored will receive notices tomorrow to appear back stage so that they may be seated in a reserve section of the auditorium. Other honors and awards will be made by Chancellor Deane W. Malott from the stage.
President Stearns, speaker, has practiced law in Denver since 1916, when he was admitted to the Colorado bar. He has been president of the University of Colorado since 1939. In 1917 and 1918, he was a captain in the Army Air Corps.
President Stearns was born in Halifak, Nova Scotia, in 1892. He received his bachelor of arts degree
Casting around they dug up enough of the precious fuel to arrive at Hoch A torium only two hours later and missing but one member of the crew, a trumpeter
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Band Is Two Hours Late Junior Prom
Arriving before an impatient Junior Prom crowd shortly before 10 o'clock last night, Jack Teagarden and his band changed hastily to formal dress behind the curtains of the Hoch auditorium stage and broke into the first number at 10:55 p.m.
The spokesman for the band told Kansan reporters a tale of wartime travel woe. From an engagement in Wichita, the band intended to take the 3:50 p.m. train to Lawrence, but found at the last moment that the train would be four hours late. Dispatching two members of the band in their truck with the instruments, they besieged the local rationing board for gas enough to transport them to the dance. The board was unmoved.
From 8 until 10 the disappointed promenaders danced to
From 8 until the recordings. By the time, Teagarden arrived, the majority of them had seated themselves in the downstairs seats.
ill in Wichita.
An inquiry was made for an available trumpeter upon the campus, and John Pope of the Bachmann-Pope band was suggested as the only one who could fill in upon such short notice. Pope was finally reached and before midnight he was in the Teagarden band taking solo bows to enthusiastic applause. Other students made their appearances with the band: Donald Cousins, freshman engineer, took over as one of the saxophone players shortly after midnight, with Phil Cato starting on the drums at 12:30 a.m.
Meeting in hasty conference backstage soon after the band's arrival were Henry Werner, men's adviser; Vincent Harris of the Business Office; Raymond Nichols, executive (continued to page five)
Dr. Sears Says War No Necessity
BY EVELYN RAILSBACK
"The false belief that war is a biological necessity is the primary obstacle to peace," Dr. Paul B. Sears told members of the Kansas Academy of Science and others at a banquet in the Kansas room last night.
Sixty-seven persons who registered were not allowed to give their blood because of physical defects. Four hundred and thirty-six persons actually went to the Community building to give their blood.
Blood Donors Give 369 Pints To Mobile Unit
Three hundred and sixty-nine pints of blood were given to the Red Cross mobile unit by people of Lawrence and University students Thursday and Friday. This blood, which was taken at the Community building, was sent to Chicago in cold storage where it was dehydrated, packed in glass containers along with glass-cased units of distilled water, and it will be used for men in the service.
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Medics Resign Commissions
Dr. Sears, who is chairman of the department of botany
Most of the medical students and pre-medics of the University have resigned their commissions in the army to take advantage of the army specialized training program which will go into effect sometime after June. Approximately 60 medical students on the campus and 150 in the University School of Medicine in Kansas City have commissions in the army.
Three fourths of the University medical students and pre-medics will be on active duty with the army or the navy when the programs go into effect, Dr. C. W. Asling, anatomy professor estimated. These men will be given base pay by the army, put in uniform and sent to school here taking the same courses under the same teachers that they would have otherwise. Their tuition, board and housing will be provided by the army. Dr. Asling stated that there is a possibility that they will be housed all together.
On graduation those men with physical, professional, and other qualifications will be commissioned first lieutenants in the medical corp and after an acceptable internship will go directly into service. The commission resigned was that of second lieutenant in the medical administrative corps of the army.
at Oberlin college in Oberlin, Ohio, spoke as part of the seventy-fifth anniversary meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science held on the campus yesterday.
He assured listeners that war is unnecessary and that it is the job of science to reduce the area of uncertainty in political life so that unnecessary disputes would be eliminated. "This war is being fought in the hope of abolishing future wars; that is essentially a moral problem, but it involves the scientific question of fact." Science Will Bring Peace
Science Will Bring Peace
Peace is essentially a problem in human relationships, which are dealt with in the science of ecology; complete understanding of this science will eventually bring lasting peace, Dr. Sears stated.
After Dr. Sears' lecture a cake honoring the 75th anniversary of the Kansas Academy of Science was cut by the oldest member present. Dr. Raymond Wheeler, retiring president of the Academy, talked about the effect of climate on human behavior in history.
Dr. Harvey Zinszer, head of the department of physics at Fort Hays Kansas State college, will be president of the Academy as it begins its 76th year. President-elect is L.D. Bushnell of Kansas State College at Manhattan, and vice-president is J.W. Breukelman of Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia. John C. Frazier of Kansas State will retain his position as secretary and F.W. Albertson of Hays College will remain the treasurer.
Two KU Professors On Council Dr. Wheeler, A.C. Carpenter of Ottawa, and Claude W. Hibbard, professor in the department of zoology at the University will make up the executive council.
W. J. Baumgartner, professor in the zoology department on the Hill, and Paul Murphy of K.S.T.C. at Emporia will be managing editor and assistant editor, respectively, of the Academy publication.
Contributions of nine different sciences to the war effort were discussed by leaders in each field at a symposium yesterday afternoon. Discussion leaders were bacteriology and medicine: Dr. Noble P. (continued to page five)
Bull Session To Discuss Vichy "Vichy France and North Africa" will be discussed by the Forums board panel representatives over KFKU from 9:30 to 10 o'clock Monday night. John Scurlock, first year law student, will act as chairman, and other participants will be Laird Campbell, College sophomore; Thornton McClanahan, College junior; and Evelyn Nielson, College senior.