UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1943
PAGE EIGHT
Former Student Cited as Hero In Combat
Commander Raymond G. Decewall, student in '16, and an uncle of Mary Margaret Felt, College sophomore, received the Navy Cross in September for "heroism in combat with the enemy during the period December 32, 1941, to January 4, 1942, in organizing, administering, and directing the United States Naval forces of the inshore patrol off Corregidor island, Philippine islands."
Commander Deewall directed mine laying operations, channel patrol and distant night patrols to intercept landing parties under fire from dive bombers and horizontal attacks by the Japanese.
Davis Is Head Of Food Agency
Washington, (INS) Acting to avert a crisis in the critical food situation. President Roosevelt today appointed Chester A. Davis of St. Louis as director of the "administration of food production and distribution" and virtual czar of the nation's food supply.
Mr. Davis, formerly head of the AAA, and now president of the Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, will take over most of the authority now held by secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; although the White House said the new food agency will function within the Agriculture department.
Two Book Reviews To Be Sponsored By Church Organization
Mrs. Robert Calderwood is giving two book reviews this spring under the sponsorship of the Woman's Calendar of the Plymouth Congregational church.
"It's Your Souls We Want" by Stewart Harmon, Jr., will be reviewed next Wednesday at the Plymouth Congregational Church by Mrs. Calderwood. On April 9, she will review "Wide Is The Gate," by Upton Sinclair.
Mrs. Calderwood is a reviewer for the Kansas City Star. She gave a series of reviews last year for the organization.
Jakosky Attends Chicago Meet
Dean J. J. Jakosky, of the School of Engineering and Architecture, is in Chicago this week attending a chemaurgic conference as a representative of the State Industrial Commission.
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The current Graduate Magazine will reach alumni in a few days, according to Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association. The magazines were mailed today.
This issue of the magazine carries a picture of Brigadier General Ennis C. Whitehead, '20, foremost among K.U. soldier alumni. The magazine carries the usual number of class notes about alumni, including five and a half pages of notes about alumni "On Duty for Uncle Sam."
A picture of four recent alumni, Ensign Dave Prager, Ensign Bill Buzick, Lt. (j.g.) Dick Treece and Capt. Earl Radford, who held a reunion in San Diego, is also stories about the Jayhawk Nursery, the basketball team, and appropriations made for the University, are also included.
Tulsa Doctor Finds Percentage of Facial Fractures Increased
Tulsa, Okla., (INS) — Automobile and industrial accidents have caused the number of facial fractures to jump 400 percent in the past four years, according to Dr. W. B. Stevenson of Amarillo, Tex., who was the principal speaker here today before the Southwestern Society of Orthodontists.
Dr. Stevenson predicted that the war will cause many complex facial injuries that will test the ingenuity of the nation's best doctors.
"Kinds of fractures now are still the same as they were 80 years ago, when people were kicked by horses instead of struck by automobiles." Dr. Stevenson said.
Spanish Club Shows Films Of Latin America Scenes
El Ateneo, the Spanish club, held an open meeting today to show pictures of scenic beauty of some of the neighbor republics of Latin America. The films from the collection of those of the Coordinator of Inter-American affairs, are available here through the repository of films in the University Extension division.
The films shown today included two reels of Mexican scenery, two if Colombia, and two of Guatemala.
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Spanish Classics Are On Display In Library
Now on display in Watson Library, is part of the collection "Clásicos Castellanos," a group of Spanish classics, which are a memorial to Prof. Arthur Leslie Owen. Professor Owen was for sixteen years head of the department of Spanish and Portuguese; he died in 1934.
(International News Service)
There were two main theaters of action today on the Mareth line. One was at the northern end of the line, where troops of General Sir Bernard Montgomery's eighth army fought bitterly to expand a foothold within the fortifications themselves.
This beautifully bound collection; including such works as "Poema del Cid," the earliest great Spanish poem; Cervantes, "Don Quixote de la Mancha," and some of the compositions of the nineteenth century author, Juan Valera; is a gift from some of Professor Owen's former students.
Yanks Battle To Dislodge Nazi Barrier
(International News Service)
All Allied Units Are Intact
The other was east of the town of Maknassy where hard bitten American forces opened a concentrated barrage of mortar, machine gun, and small arms fire in an effort to dislodge the German troops from the last bit of high ground that separates them from the sea.
Precursor to All-out Offensive
A brief dispatch from one International News Service front line correspondent gave every indication that this barrage precursor of an all-out offensive attack which if successful will enable the Americans to stream down the road from Makkassy to Mahares on the seacoast and forge the last definite link in the chain of iron and steel designed to trap Field Marshall Rommel and squeeze him to extinction.
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Faculty Family Serves Country In War Effort
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Capt, and Mrs. Carroll D. Clark,
former faculty family, have been
serving in the war effort. Capt. Clark
of the Army Air Force, on leave
from the sociology department of
the University, teaches at Selman
Field, La. Mrs. Clark, in addition to
being a member of the Lawrence
Board of Education and of the Douglas county health board, is supervisor for women workers at the Hercules Powder company.
Capt. Clark is an instructor at the pre - flight school for navigators and bombardiers and an officers training division in the
chemical warfare. He teaches Safeguards on Military Information, Military Discipline, Chemical Warfare and Squadron Administration. He is also chief editor of publications, which includes adaptations of manuals and instruction books.
Following an operation in December, Capt. Clark was on sick leave until last month. When he returned he enrolled in a special course in chemical warfare.
able armies the world has ever known, all Allied units are intact. Casualties have been heavy, but materiel losses apparently are far less than those of the enemy. Allied air superiority is now unquestioned and the overwhelming effects of this will soon be felt.
In the southwestern Pacific General Douglas MacArther's bombers covered a wide area of enemy held territory, attacking the northern shore of New Britain island and bases other objectives in New Guinea and the northern Solomons.
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Choir to Picnic At Swarthout Home
Following this afternoon's rehearsal and a private hearing from radio station KFKU of the records made of the choir's concert program, the A Cappella choir will have a picnic supper and a program worked out by the social committee at the home of Dean and Mrs. Donald M. Swarthout.
The choir is preparing two patriotic numbers, "A Song of Faith," (John Alden Carpenter) and "The Two Americas," (Domenico Savino), to sing with the University Symphony Orchestra in May during the annual Music Week.
Savino's composition contains certain strains and motives of Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian, and other folk melodies. It was composed to create a better understanding among the countries of the western hemisphere.
Sgt. Verberg Visits University During Five Day Furlough
Sgt. John J. Verburg, former student in the University was in Lawrence this week on a five-day furlough. He visited his wife, Mrs. Eldora Goodnough Verburg, who is employed as a nurse at Watkins Memorial hospital.
Sgt. Verburg is now in a Military Police battalion stationed at Ft. Custer, Mich. While a student at the University, Sgt. Verbburg was a linotype operator for the University Daily Kansam.
Brewster Will Deliver Lecture on Resources
Prof. R, Q. Brewster, of the chemistry department, will give a lecture tomorrow night at Prescott on "Prospective Uses for Kansas Resources in War and Peace."
Helen Maxine Pringle, Mary Alice Pringle, and Caterina Fruin will accompany Professor Brewster. The Misses Pringle will sing at the program, and Miss Fruin will give a demonstration of Dutch folk dances.
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