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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1943
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 103
V-1, V-7 Will Be Called July 1
Pat Foster Chosen ISA Sweetheart
Patricia Foster, tall, shapely blond of Miller Hall, was chosen sweetheart of the Independent Student Association by the men attending the ISA Jay Trop dance last night in the main lounge of the Union building.
Miss Foster, who is from Overbrook, was presented a large bouquet by Ty Schuerman, president of the ISA. Last year she ran a close second to the 1942 sweetheart, Martha Fairhurst.
Miss Foster was attended by Johnnie May Mann, Nadine Hunt, Mary Martha Hudelson, and Dorothy Mae Nelson, who were also given flowers at the time of the presentation of the sweetheart.
Nearly 300 students attended the semi-formal party to dance to the music of Bachmann and Fope's band.
Topeka Is Winner In Fire Contest
Washington, (INS)—The National Fire Waste council yesterday announced that the city of Milwaukee is the grand winner in the 1942 Inter-Chamber Fire Waste contest. Topeka was winner in fourth class cities.
Milwaukee was picked as the grand winner for all population classes in the annual contest which is sponsored jointly by the Fire Waste council and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The winners for the six classes are: Class 1—cities of more than 500,00 population, Milwaukee; Class 2—cities from 250,00 to 500,00 population, Providence, R. I.; Class 3, cities from 100,00 to 250,00 population, New Haven, Conn.; Class 4—cities from 50,00 to 100,00 population, Topeka, Kans.; Class 5—cities from 20,000 to 50,000, Newburgh, N. Y.
In grading winners, credit is given for fire loss records, educational activities in fire prevention, organization for fire defense, and permanent improvements to eliminate fire hazards.
The twenty V-7 volunteers who will report to the Navy April 29 will meet tomogrow night at 7 o'clock in the men's lounge of the Union building to make plans for the trip, spokesmen for the volunteers said today.
V-7 Volunteers To Meet
Will Discuss U S-Russian Relations
The relationship between Russia and the United States will be discussed in the first of the spring series of Bull Sessions from 9:30 to 10:00 o'clock tomorrow night over KFKU. The series is sponsored by Forums board with John Waggoner, College senior, in charge.
Participants on the program this week are Ed Kelley, College junior; Wendell Tompkins, College senior; Colleen Poorman, College senior; John Triplett, College sophomore.
This list added to the Lawrence townspeople will surpass the original call for 400. If enough more volunteer, a second blood bank will come the first week of May. Volunteers may call Lawrence Red
"Pleased and encouraged" with student response in the last two days to the call for donors for the Red Cross blood bank, Dr. R. I. Canuteson announced this morning that 42 students and faculty members have volunteered since Thursday noon, making a total of 150.
Donors Reach Total Demanded For Blood Bank
"Pleased and encouraged" with student response in the last two days to the call for donors for the Cross, headquarters telephone number 803, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Several men students volunteered who will be in the intramural track meet Thursday and Friday when the first mobile unit will be at the Community building and who consequently will not be allowed to
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Large Crowd Expected For Concert
Among Professor Skilton's compositions to be featured will be the "Deer Dance," a number played by many of the large American symphony orchestras. Professor Skilton is said to have taken the melody for this number from tribal songs sung to him by Indians at the Haskell Institute. The number was originally written for a string quartet but later made into an orchestral arrangement. Indians Will Dance
Indians from Haskell Institute will dance to the rhythmic beat of drums throughout the Cheyenne melody, "War Dances." Miss Meribah Moore will take the soprano solo in "The Call of Kansas." Th poem of the song written by Esther Clark Hill, a former resident of Kansas. In 1930 the song won first prize from the Kansas Federation of Music clubs.
A large crowd is expected to hear the fortieth anniversary concert of the University Symphony Orchestra honoring the founder of the orchestra, Charles Sanford Skilton, which will be given at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium.
Included on tomorrow night's concert, also, will be the "Overture of 1812," (Tschaikowsky). This number will feature Marian Miller, piano, Martha Dooley, organ, Robert Jenkins, chimes, and Eugenia Hebworth, gun. The overture was written in celebration of the Russian victory over Napoleon.
Kuersteiner Scrambles Fine Arts
Kuersteiner Scrambles Fine Arts The concert will conclude with (continued to page five)
Recognizing an ever-widening interest in problems of the post-war world, a University committee on post-war international problems has been set up under the chairmanship of Dean F. T. Stockton, School of Business.
Faculty Organizes For Peace Plans
One of a large number of American schools cooperating in the work of a national committee, the University group, incl. B.F.W.W.Davis, $ ^{\circ} $
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One of a large number of A the work of a national commi cling Prof. W. W. Davis history department, Prof. H B. Chubb, political science department, Prof. Mabel Elliott, sociology department, and Prof. E.C.Bue尔r, speech department, will be charged with submitting opinions on a number of aspects of various questions of postwar settlement.
As a means of developing an informed public opinion and passing the results on to government agencies opinions of the committees are compiled at headquarters and utilized in summaries forwarded to Congress in order to indicate the viewpoint of
Called July 1 V-1 Reservists May Be Returned
Members of the Naval Reserves, V-1 and V-7, will report for active duty July 1, according to Laurence Woodruff, coordinator of military information.
The reservists are being notified by the Navy department of the day that they will be placed in uniform Mr. Woodruff
Allied Progress Is Satisfactory To Eisenhower
By International News Service
By International News Service From no less an authority than the commander in chief of Allied forces in north Afrcia, America's Dwight D. Eisenhower, has come word that the Allies are making "satisfactory progress" in their efforts to drive the Axis out of Tunisia.
Eisenhower's statement was made at a press conference at Allied headquarters following his return from 36 hours of conferences with British Generals Sir Harold Alexander and Sir Bernard Montgomery. Eisenhower also visited American flying units attached to the British Eighth army as well as part of the forces commanded by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
Wind Slows Allied Advances
Meanwhile American forces southeast of El Guettar threw back a Nazi tank attack and then launched a new drive of their own in an ef-
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Mu Phi Vespers To Be In Hoch Today
The second of two annual vespers given by Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary music society, will be presented at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Hoch auditorium.
The program will consist of vocal and piano solos, organ numbers, a violin solo, a vocal trio, and a piano ensemble.
Members taking part in the program are Hope Crittendon, Dorothy Mae Nelson, Margaret Titus, Margaret Kay, Juanita Austill, Margaret Fultz, Winifred Hargrove, Martha Dooley J.anne Scott, and Suzanne Sch.
KanagA Writes of Action
Of Alumni on Guadalcanal
After seven weeks on Guadalcanal, Lt. C. W. Kanaga, Jr., '42, is at a rest area in the South Pacific, he stated in a letter to Fred Elsworth, alumni secretary, recently.
He wrote that Capt, William K. Jones,'36, and Lt. Jack Hoover, law '41, had also served on Dugalcanal
emphasized that the orders were vague on some points, but the orders did state that the men would be called to active duty July 1.
Reservists in the V-1 program may be put in uniform and then returned to school, Mr. Woodruff said, adding that later announcements will probably clear up the V-1 situation.
This is the first notice the reserves have had concerning any action on the part of the Navy department since the call a few weeks ago for V-7 volunteers.
A few pre-medics have received notice that they will be called to active duty, given the rank of apprentice seamen, and sent to medical school for seven additional semesters.
These notices that the men are receiving are not orders to report but notices that they will receive orders sometime soon.
Announcing a lack of living accomodations, Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, has requested that all University students and faculty members who know of available rooms and apartments report them to the office of the adviser of women.
Rooms Are Needed For Special Students
Rooms are needed for from 75 to 100 women students coming to the University April 19 for six months of special training.
Apartment calls have been received from University staff members, Miss Miller said, and suggested that married students who are leaving tell her of available apartments for the benefit of other married students and staff members who have not been able to obtain adequate apartment spaces.
Pi Lambda Theta To Have Initiation-Dinner Tuesday
Pi Lambda Theta, honorary women's educational fraternity, will hold its initiation at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Dr. R. A. Schwegler will be the speaker at a banquet in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building at 6:30 p.m.
Dorothy McGinnis is in charge of reservations for the banquet.