FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Nazi Prisoners BecomeSaboteurs
Washington, (INS)—A high diplomatic source in Washington has revealed that fifth column activities have been started within Germany by some of the 6,000,000 foreign workers and war prisoners whom the Nazis have conscripted into forced labor.
Reports received by the American and British governments
indicate that French workers and war prisoners are leading the fifth column activities, which range from sabotage to "Robin Hood" raids on small towns and villages.
Although these fifth column activities are not systematically organized and are on a relatively small scale, nevertheless they have reached such serious proportions that the Germans have been compelled to form civilian home guard units to protect the highways and small towns.
Hit At Communication Lines
At the risk of instant death if caught, the foreign workers and war prisoners slip out of their camps or places of residence at night and carry out sabotage missions. Sometimes they operate alone and sometimes in small groups.
They pull up railway ties, cut electric wires, and in some instances are reported to have engaged in sniping with small arms. They also hold up and rob Germans found at lonely spots along the roads. Some Form Guerilla Bands
After carrying out their nightly forays, the Allied fifth columnists sneak back into their camps or abodes before daylight. Those who fail to get back roam the countryside. While it is feared that most of them eventually get caught, there have been reports that a few are operating as guerrilla bands in the more isolated areas.
Reports have been received that the Germans have had considerable trouble with these foreign workers in the heavily bombed areas of Germany. When the British are carrying out a heavy raid on one of the big industrial cities, police control breaks down and it is difficult for the Germans to keep track of the foreign workers.
Start Fires To Guide Bombers
in one instance, they are reported to have started fires to help guide the British raiders at night.
The Fighting French have received reports that the Germans, in an effort to stamp out these activities, have picked out at random as many as 50 war prisoners at a time and shot them.
Existence of this spirit of resistance has encouraged the belief in Allied quarters that the army of 6,000,000 foreign workers, including war prisoners, in Germany may prove an extremely effective fifth column weapon when the United Nations forces start closing in on Hitler's third reich.
Turkish Engineers Study in Michigan
Ann Arbor Mich., (ACP)—Nine new students from Turkey, three of them civilians and the others officers in the Turkish army, are studying engineering at the University of Michigan during the spring term. They bring to 21 the number of students from Turkey enrolled in the University.
Two of the civilians, Orhan Koraltan and Faruk Baysal, traveled by train from Turkey to Lisbon, Portugal, passing through many German-occupied countries of Europe, in order to reach the United States by plane. The other civilian student Halil Ozbash, made the entire trip by plane, traveling across Africa. All three came from Robert College in Istanbul.
The six officers, all lieutenants, were sent to Michigan by the Turkish embassy in Washington. Five of them have been studying at Robert college. The sixth is a graduate of the Turkish military college and, prior to the war, studied for two years at the aeronautical school in Paris.
The Harvard university department of fine arts is offering a special six-week evening course in industrial and civil camouflage.
MARY LARSON --
(continued from page three) later in the form of a comprehensive. The lapse in time gives the student a chance to think over the material covered.
Miss Larson plans to return to Sweden for further study after the war.
100-yard back stroke: West, Beta Theta Pi; Stephens, Templin Hall; Kaul, Sigma Chi; and Kahle, Triangle.
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SWIM MEET----
200-yard relay: Phi Gamma Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, and Phi Delta Theta.
The following relay teams were entered in today's finals;
Medley relay: Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi.
Relay Teams Entered
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Sabados, 107, Advises Quit Working After Hundredth Birthday
Chicago, (INS)—Arpad Sabados, who celebrated yesterday what he reckoned was his 107th birthday, had his own simple prescription for longevity. It was:
"Quit working when you reach 100."
Sabados came from Hungary 60 years ago, is six feet tall, weighs 256 pounds and "never felt better" in his life.
Anyone could follow that regimen, he thought.
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Rubber-From-Oats Formula Developed By Chemist-Alumnus
Furfural, a product made from oat hulls, was worked out by H. J. Brownlee, chief chemist for the Quaker Oats Chemical company. The chemical was developed on large scale production at the main plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is being used for synthetic rubber.
Mr. Brownlee was graduated from the University in 1913. While he was in college he participated in athletics and was captain of the football team.
Mr. and Mrs. Brownie plan to attend Commencement activities in which their daughter, Jean, a senior in the College, is participating.
Students Strike After Boy and Girl Are Suspended
Trenton, N. J., (INS)—Students of Rider college went on strike today over imposition of "Blue" laws, concerning drinking.
About 400 of the 600 students are on strike, Dean J. Goodman Gill said. He added he thought the strike would end quickly as soon as the "home front" was informed of the circumstances.
Triple-Threat Fliers To Help Blast Axis
Fort Worth, Texas, (INS)—Taking a leaf from the book of American football, Major Gen. Barton K. Yount announced yesterday that the army has developed a program for training "triple-threat men" to serve on axis-blasting bomber teams.
Gen. Yount, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, said graduates of the new program will be qualified as skilled $ ^{*} $
Graduates will be assigned to four-engine bombers, enabling the navigator to be relieved by the bombardier, and vice versa, on long, tiring missions in the theaters of operation. Likewise, either the bombardier or navigator will be capable of operating their flexible machine guns or acting as a substitute at any gun position. Under, the new program, each of the war planes will have the equivalent of two bombardiers and two navigators.
Outstanding graduates of the regular course at Flying Training Command Bombardier schools will be selected for the three-way aerial education.
The plan is already in operation, and as the process of selection is expanded, will be accelerated rapidly.
will be quained as skilled bombardiers, navigators and gunners.
California Riveter Gives
$40 Weekly for War Bonds
Los Angeles, Calif., (ACP)—Somebody wondered how John Echternach, full-time riveter at North American Aircraft Corp., Englewood, Calif., could subscribe $40 of each weekly pay check to buy war bonds. "It costs me nothing to live," he said. "I Get my board and room for managing the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. You see, I'm also a full-time student at the University of California, Los Angeles."
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Pi Lambda Theta Pledges 11 Women
Eleven women were pledged into Pi Lambda Theta, honorary education sorority, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building.
The women who were pledged are Mary Louise Belcher, Betty Burton, Edith Ann Fleming, Hazel Graves, Doris Larson, Mildred McMullen, Clara Kay Smithmeyer, Mary Roberta Steele, Phyllis Struble Margaret Titus, and Dorothy May Wiggins. They will be initiated in April.
Miss Maud Ellsworth, assistant professor of education, gave a short talk about the Kansas State Teachers Association.
Mortar Board Gives Dinner
A dinner was given by members of Mortar Board for their roommates in the English room Wednesday evening. Mortar Board members were guests at a tea from 4 to 5,30 yesterday afternoon at the home of Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser to women.
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