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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THUSRDAY, APRIL 1, 1943
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 101
107 Donate Blood To Red Cross
Two organizations, Pi Beta Phi sorority and Newman club, Catholic young people's society, have pledged their entire membership as blood donors.
In the belief that other groups would wish to join the 100 per cent donor societies, the Red Cross announced today that students and faculty members*
who want to donate blood may call 803, its headquarters in Lawrence, within the next week. Advising that release blanks for parental consent for those under 21 are available at the University hospital, Dr. Ralph I. Cauntson urged that students call before Saturday noon.
CVC, headed by Jean Hoffman,
College junior, and the Joint WSGAMSC committee, headed by George Worral, College sophomore, are calling all organized houses on the Hill and asking for blood donors.
Students and Faculty Participate
Sixty students and 47 faculty and staff members have volunteered for the Red Cross blood bank which will have a unit at the Community building April 8 and 9. The list of donors which follows does not include those who have volunteered to give blood collected at Watkins Memorial hospital for civilian use.
Student donors are Donald Young, William Park, Nelda Budde, Roberta Johnson, Ruth Blethen, Marjorie Houston, Alice Timpe, Mary Louise McNown, Bill Dixon, Connie Her-
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Army and Navy Exam on Friday
Students wishing to enlist in some Naval Reserve program before next fall will have their last chance at 9:00 tomorrow morning in Fraser theater where A. H. Turney, professor of education, will give applicants the A-12 examination.
That the members of the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps are advised to take this examination was indicated in a statement from army headquarters at Omaha, Laurence Woodruff, co-ordinator of military information, said today.
The examination is scheduled to last two hours; because of preliminaries, students should not expect to finish until sometime after 11 o'clock. Turney announced.
High school students will also take the examinations.
Youth Groups Plan To Relieve Shortage Of Farm Workers
In an attempt to work out a plan for supplying youth labor to the farmers, Governor Schoeppel conferred yesterday with Dean H. Umberger, of the extension division of Kansas State College, and Lawrence Norton, chairman of the USDA War Board in Kansas.
Commencement Plans For 1943 Are Announced
A general program for 1943 commencement has been outlined by H. G. Ingham, director of the Extension division.
Plans for Sunday, May 16, include: Commencement programs in the churches at 11 a.m.; class and group reunion dinners at 1 p.m.; the University reception in the Union lounge at 2:30; premiere showing of the movie, "KU in the War," in the Kansas room at 3 and at 3:40; commencement recital of the School of Fine Arts in Hoch auditorium at 4:20; and baccalaureate services in Memorial stadium at 7.30.
On graduation day itself, Monday, May 17, the following events are scheduled: Class of 1943 breakfast in the Union building at 8:15; the annual Almuni Association meeting in Fraser at 9:45; the University luncheon in the Union building at 12:15; Phi Beta Kappa annual meeting at 4 p.m.; and commencement exercises in the stadium, with the Naval Training group participating also, at 7:30.
Constitution Receives Light Vote at Noon
With only a small number of students appearing at the polls this morning to vote on the new student government constitution, evidence early this afternoon still indicated that the total vote would be light.
A total of only 208 ballots were cast at the three polling places by early afternoon. Women and men cast nearly the same number of ballots, women students marking 105 ballots while 103 men had voted.
Law students and medical students voting in Green hall had cast only six ballots at the time of the count; 36 engineers had voted in the basement of Marvin hall; and only 61 men from all other schools had made the trip to the basement of Frank Strong to vote.
The constitutional change, which would combine the activities of the MSC and WSAG in a single governing body, needs only a student majority to become effective. While tabulation was not scheduled to start until after the polls close, the apparent lack of interest in the election was attributed to the prevalent belief that the proposal would pass, council members explained.
MSC and WSGA officials in charge of the election said that voting was expected to pick up after afternoon classes were out and that a fairly representative vote might be cast by the time the polls closed at 5 this afternoon.
Women Needed In Signal Course
The nationally renowned Coolidge String Quartet will present a concert at 8:20 Wednesday evening as the fifth number on the University Concert series, Dean Donald M Swarthout has announced.
A school for under-engineer trainees for the United States Signal Corps will be opened at the University on April 19, and for this session, the second offered at the University under the Engineering Science Management War Training program, enrollment will be restricted to women. This school, as was the first training program, will be sponsored by the United States
Coolidge String Quartet Will Play Wednesday
Each member of the quartet, composed of William Kroll, first violin, Jack Pepper, second violin, David Dawson, viola, and Naowin Benditzky, cello, has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras. Their string combination is considered well-blended ensemble work, founded on fine musicianship and authoritative collaboration.
Dean Swarthout originally had planned only five major attractions on the concert series this season; but when Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a musical denefactress of Washington, D. C., and for whom the quartet was named, offered to pay half the expense of bringing the quartet to Lawrence, Dean Swarthout accepted the offer.
Author and Cast Succeed In "Distinguished Service"
BY JOY MILLER
If the manpower shortage and exigencies of "wah" can produce plays like "Distinguished Service," then even the darkest cloud has a silver lining. For the dramatic department's only 1943 presentation, which opened Tuesday night in Fraser theater for a three-day run, skipping tonight, was the perfect answer to the 64 dollar question: "How to spend an enjoyable evening feeling patriotic without waving flags?"
No escapist's pipe dream, "D.S." with one mighty wallop knocked the indifference and apprehension of boredom out of first-nighters who trooped into Fraser hall Tuesday night with the air of suspicious martyrs. But those who upon arrival had marked the nearest exit, completely and fatally underestimated the crafty Crafton, the dramatics department.
The deathbed scene taken from the play presented Tuesday, Wednesday and tomorrow night in Fraser theater include the following players from left to right: Jane Peake, Rosemary Utterback, Francis Perkins, and Bobbie Sue McCluggage.
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Signal Corps, Wright field, Dayton, Ohio, and the United States Office of Education.
The school will be administered by the Extension division of the University, under the ESMWT program, of which Guy V. Keeler, of the University Extension, is director for Kansas and Western Missouri. Capt. Walter F. Thorpe, of the U. S. Signal Corps, from Wright field, will be in Lawrence, Monday, April 5, for interviews with senior women from the University who are interested in this branch of service as a war effort.
Women Must Be 18
Keeler pointed out that all applicants, upon their acceptance by the government for the training program, would become Civil Service employees of the government, at a starting salary of $1440 per year, plus 21 per cent for overtime.
Minimum requirements for entrance into the training program are a minimum age of 18 years, one year of college, and three units of (continued to page five)
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Tavares To Talk Here Tomorrow
Dr. Hernane Tavares, eminent Brazilian internationalist, professor of biology at the University of Sao Paulo, and professor of educational biology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Sao Bento, will speak tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in Fraser theater. His subject will be "The Brazilian Way of Life."
Dr. Tavares will be available for student interviews from 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Spanish office, 117 Frank Strong hall. He will speak tomorrow night at 8:00 at the University club in the Memorial Union building.
In 1942, the noted Brazilian visited over 60 colleges and universities in the United States, on a traveling scholarship. His appearance at the University is another cooperative effort in the University program to promote closer inter-American relations between the United States and the Latin American nations.
Dr. Tavares, who received a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1935, is only 32 years old.
Easter Egg Rolling Canceled
The traditional Easter egg rolling held annually on the White House lawn until last year has been canceled again, according to word from Washington.