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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943
U. S. Flying Fortresses Blast Sardinia
A squadron of nearly 100 huge Flying Fortresses—the largest aggregation of four-motored American bombers ever assembled for attack—was disclosed today to have carried out a gigantic raid against the Sardinian port of Cagliari to wreck in advance any mass evacuation of the Africa Corps from Tunisia.
White British and American forces in three separate areas of the embattled country made slow but steady progress against enemy mine fields and stiffened resistance, the American aerial crew comprised the main development of the day.
Axis Demands Use of Watercraft
With defeat inevitable the Axis was reported requisitioning fishing boats, lugs, and other small crafts all along the shore of the Mediterranean.
From other fronts there were few major changes to report.
Soviet troops were active in the Caucasus where a new campaign was launched in hopes of recapturing the Black sea naval base of Novorossisk.
MacArthur's Men Attack Japanese General Douglas MacArthur's airmen in the Southwest Pacific carried out a series of six harrassing aerial assaults on Japanese bases in various parts of New Guinea.
Three more air assaults on Japanese positions in the Aleutians and another bombing attack against the enemy base at Munda in the central Solomons were reported this morning by the navy.
Lt. Candlish To Talk About WAAC's Here
Lt Dorothy Candish of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps, will be in Lawrence, Wednesday, April 7, to speak to senior women and to interview any candidates who might be interested in enlisting in the organization, Miss Florence Black, coordinator of military information for women students at the University announced today.
Lt. Candish will speak to the senior women as a group at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday in Room 9, Frank Strong Hall, the psychology lecture room.
She will be available for interviews on Thursday from 8:30 to 12, and
from 1:30 to 3:30 in the mathematics office. Interested senior women
should consult Miss Black for further details.
Offer Courses in Puppetry
New theater courses in puppetry are offered at Western college, Oxford, Ohio.
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Stimson Predicts Advances In Tunisia
Washington, (INS) — Despite United Nations victories in Tunisia, Secretary of War Stimson warned today that a "great deal of heavy fighting" may yet be expected.
In his weekly war review the secretary pointed out that when Marshall Rommel's fleet Africa Corps joins the Axis army in the north, they will form a powerful force that will be capable of strong resistance.
Before the final phase of the Tunisian campaign, there will be a great deal of heavy fighting, Stimson said. He added that "operations in Tunisia are progressing favorably."
A meat rationing certificate was cancelled in Philadelphia yesterday which had been issued the day before to Paul Oliver, blind owner of two seeing-eye dogs.
SeeingEye Dogs Can't Get Their Ration
The certificate called for two pounds of meat a day for the two dogs, but the local OPA office explained that animals are not eligible for rationed meats under the regulations.
The owner said that he would share his own meat with the dogs and include more cereal, vegetables, and eggs in their diet.
AUTHOR AND CAST---like a well-directed choir—everyone did her best, and no soloist was featured.
(continued from page one) and women in general. Before many minutes had elapsed, the audience was breathing the putrifying air of Bataan with the Florence Nightingales of the G-I khaki. Similar to "Cry Havoc"
In choosing army nurses for the subject of his play, Professor Crafton must have had an eye on what was currently popular—OWI dramatic opuses lauding the nurses' heroism and one of the leading plays on Broadway. "Cry Havoc," having an all-woman cast to depict the life of Bataa nurses. At any rate "Distinguished Service" gave a new slant to the old theme, and this, coupled with some very refreshing lines which express Crafton views on life and literature ("How can you know all you do if you haven't read Hemingway?"), make it possible for six scenes to take place in the same setting with the women doing nothing more than emoting, reminiscing, going off the beam, or staggering onto the stage nearly dead with fatigue and still have no drag in action or lag in interest.
With the only furniture on the stage doubledeck beds and a table and chair, and with the walls covered with gray paint to give a dug-out shack effect, priority paint that Professor Crafton probably had to give the greatest performance of his life to get the burden of the play was thrown onto the broad shoulders of the east,which being all women,was completely competent. Acting Is Convincing
Ham, especially the corn-fed kind, was noticeably lacking from the bill-of-fare, but then it's pretty scarce any place in Lawrence these days. Taken as a whole, perhaps the best word for the play is "convincing." The acting was on a high level of performance, and rarely did any actress fall below it. The play was
Rommel Says No Surrender In Hot Battle
With Allied advance forces in Tunisia — Faced with disaster as Allied armies drove steadily forward on all fronts, Nazi Feld Marshal Rommel today issued an order to his troops demanding utmost compliance with Adolph Hitler's edict of no surrender.
The burly chieftain of the Africa Corps, gradually being hemmed in on all sides, called upon his troops to fight to the last man "at every hill and on the last beach."
His order clearly confessed realization that before long he and his forces will be driven into the sea.
In effect, the order means that the war in Tunisia will become more violent every day. It will soon be "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" in the best position of Africa from the time Roman legions trod this same battleground.
Mendenhall Assumes New Duties in Army
First Lt. Clarence Mendenhall, who was graduated from the University in 1928, is now in charge of the communications system at the basic training center for the Army Air Forces in Kearns, Utah.
As post signal officer his duties are to supervise the telephone and telegraph systems and insure their efficient operation. Before being commissioned in July, 1942, he had supervised the installation of telephones at several army posts.
While at the University he was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi and played basketball and baseball.
Mary Cheney as the courageous head nurse was more than adequate even if she did charge around on a white horse a little too much. But since to draw a line between histrionics and a faithful presentation of the hectic, soul-weary life of the overworked nurses on Bataan may be to make only a negligible distinction, it would perhaps be acceptable to put down any tendency of the cast to overact to their instinctive feeling that in the same stress and strain the nurses themselves would react in that way.
Men and Love Enter
Lois Blackburn Wilson's performance as "Maybe-I've-got-something-youain't-got" Maxie was consistently perfect, and her feud with Jo (Betty Dunlap) over a man was one of the humorous high spots of the play. Dunlap, by the way, did a finished job in giving her man-crazy role a certain naive charm. Alice McDonnell, Betty Rowton, and Edith Ann Fleming, veterans of previous dramatic presentations, gave among the best performances of their University stage careers. Rosemary Utterback was the appealing little nurse who died (in an actually short deathbed scene); Jane Peake lived the role of the emotionally unstable Theda, and Frances Perkins was a perfect Kalla. Bobbie Sue McCluggage, a newcomer to University drama, did a good job of giving her role insight and humor.
As Puck Said . . .
Students Play Childish Pranks On April First
The annual excuse for playing practical—and impractical— jokes on friends—and enemies—has arrived with April 1, "April Fool's Day."
Short-sheeted beds, ice in shoes, wet towels in pillow slips. 5:30 (a.m.) telephone calls, and the ancient "Your shoestring's untied" joke are a few activi-
Short-sheeted beds, ice in sk 5:30 (a.m.!) telephone calls, an untied" joke are a few activiities adopted by April Fool pranksters.
Dale Robinson of Battenfeld hall was "studying big" at 12:30 lats night when the telephone rang. When he answered, a feminine voice inquired, "Is this one-nine-four-three?" Upon his puzzled reply that the number was 234, the caller shouted gleefully, "April Fool."
Emily Post Wouldn't Approve
Waitresses at Corbin hall rebelled last night, giving the diners table spoons and gravy ladles with which to eat, egg cups, cream pitchers, and dessert cups from which to drink. Chairs had been placed in heats, and forks were provided for serving butter. Alarm clocks scattered about the dining room went off intermittently during the meal.
Mrs. Charles F. Brook, housemest,
her, rang a bell to make the an-
nouncement, "April Fool."
Eiance Gets Birth Announcement
One attempted prank fell flat when "Flossie" Brown did not sleep in
her bed which had been short-sheeted.
One unidentified woman student sent her fiance a birth announcement.
Two of a group or girls living together in an apartment plan to hide tonight's dinner in the oven and walk out, leaving their companions to starve and wonder.
Fenton, Tenenbaum Are Now Lieutenants
Two former students, Robert M. Fenton and John Joseph Tenenbaum received commissions as second lieutenants last week.
Lt. Fenton, Kansas City, attended the University from 1937 to 1939. He won his wings as a bombardier in the Army Air Forces at the West Texas Triangle, Midland, Texas.
Lt. Tenenbaum, Hewlett, N. Y., was prominent in football and track at the University. He was commissioned upon the completion of the Officer Candidate course at the Infantry School at Fort Benning.
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