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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 95
Gen. Arnold Soon Will Go To England
(International News Service)
(International News Service)
A major step in prosecution of the all-out aerial warfare designed to bring down the German reich to destruction was taken today with the promotion of Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold to full generalship, and disclosure that he will leave shortly for England to aid in mapping out bombing campaigns against Germany
bombing campaigns against Germany.
With bad weather slowing all operations in Tunisia and a few major changes reported on the Soviet battlefront, the promotion of Gen. Arnold emerged as the chief war development of the day and lent added emphasis to the airmindedness of the United Nations.
This late move by President Roosevelt was interpreted by Washington circles as confirmation of the leak that the strategists of the United Nations' high command have definitely decided that Hitler must be defeated first and Japan taken care of second.
MacArthur Bombs Bases
Gen. Douglas MacArthur continued his steady bombing of enemy bases north of Australia. Allied bombers blew a Japanese submarine to bits at Lai on the island of New Guinea. Other enemy bases were raided on New Britain island and Surmata in the Panda Sea yesterday.
The chief development in Tunisia was a slashing bayonet attack by (continued to page five)
Instructors Graduate From 'Judo' Class
"Judo" instructors completed their training last week after many weeks of instruction under Lt. Russ H. Lay. Two men were chosen from each platoon to learn the "unarmed defense of the American soldier," after which they will return to their own units as instructors.
Of the many parts of the instruction, the men learned how to break body and wrist holds, and how to attack a sentinel at night. Lieutenant Lay believed so in "learning by doing" that some of his pupils received broken ribs.
Music Room Will Feature Beethoven And Enesco
Beethoven's Concerto No. 4 in D major and Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major will be played in the music room of the Memorial Union building at 2:30 this afternoon.
After these recordings attendants will play requests of visitors until 5.30.
Spring Begins Today As Weatherman Says It Will Be Warmer
With the official beginning of spring today came reports which promised warmer weather and no more moisture.
Spring, however, will find many patches of snow and ice, leftovers from the past week's unseasonable cold spell. Mild freezes were reported overnight from many cities.
Forensic Meet Draws Eight Universities
All University representatives for the annual Missouri Valley forensic meet to be held at KU next week March 25 to 27, have been selected
The meet will get under way with a banquet in the Union Building Thursday at 6.30. Howard E. Hill, chairman of the speech department at Kansas State, will be the toast-master.
Art Nelson, College senior, will represent KU in the oratory contest to be held Thursday evening.
John Waggoner, College senior, and John Adams, graduate, will uphold the negative side of the debate question, "Resolved: That Congress should pass legislation providing for the conscription of all men and women between the ages of 18 and 64 for armed service, agriculture, and industry." The affirmative debate team consists of Bob Plumb, College senior, and Bill Conboy, College freshman. Debates will be held Friday morning, Friday afternoon, and Saturday morning.
Art Nelson, and Bill Conboy will represent the University in extemporaneous speaking.
Eight schools will participate in the contest: University of Texas, University of Oklahoma, Wichita University, University of South Dakota, University of Nebraska, Kansas State, Iowa State, and the University of Kansas.
Final Vespers Features All Musical Types
Final all-musical vespers of the School of Fine Arts at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Hoch auditorium will feature all types of music, both choral and instrumental, with band, orchestra, glee clubs, string quartet and A Cappella choir taking part, Dean D. M. Swarthout said yesterday.
The University symphony orchestra will begin the concert with "Romantic Symphony" finale—allegro con brio (Howard Hanson) under
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Eat, Eat, Be Merry---
Featuring a discussion by J. E. Toher, personnel director of the Pratt and Whitney aircraft corporation of Missouri, the School of Business Wasp Night entertainment has been set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the men's lounge of the Union building.
Wheeler Gives Reasons Of Increased Food Sales
Toher to Address Business School
Mr. Toher, formerly a labor dispute mediator for the United States Department of Labor, will discuss personnel problems and needs of his company, and will be available for conference with students interested in employment.
A gay spirit of play and carousing in an effort to compensate for war anxieties and tensions is one of the reasons for increased per capita consumption of food, according to R. H. Wheeler, professor of psychology. It is the good old theory of "eat, drink and be merry..."
All students are invited to attend, according to Dean F. T. Stockton, and the department is particularly anxious for women interested to be present since the new Pratt and Whitney plant for the construction of naval air craft engines will be one of the large employers among war industries of this area.
"I don't think it is sheer nervousness, for nervous people must eat less because of indigestion," Professor Wheeler said. He also said that increased drinking stimulates eating, but alchohol in moderate amounts acts as an appetizer.
said. Many people are working night shift and can't sleep well in the daytime. Their lack of sleep makes them want more food than
Another factor in our increased capacity for food is that we have had colder weather this winter than in normal year and when it is colder, we require more food.
Everyone is spending more physical energy d the more we work the more Professor Wheeler
Professor Wheeler listed other obvious reasons for the food shortage—lack of labor to harvest crops, more money being spent, and the urge to buy all we can for fear we won't be able to get the commodities later.
Dorothy Chapin Is Queen of Hop
Dorothy Lee Chapin, lovely, brunette Gamma Phi Beta, was crowned queen of the School of Engineering's annual Hob Nail Hop last night in Hoch auditorium.
Crowned Hop Queen
The queen was attended by Virginia Marshall, Chi Omega.
Dorothy Lee Chapin
Woods Is Winner Of Gas Fellowship
Jack Woods, of Wichita, and a senior in chemical engineering, has been selected one of 17 winners of a fellowship to the Institute of Gas Technology in Chicago. These men, all of whom will have received their bachelor's degrees at the end of this semester, will begin the Institute's four year graduate training program in June.
These 17 represent 14 colleges in 10 states, and were selected from a group of about 150 candidates interviewed at 37 schools. The announcement of Woods' appointment to the Institute came through Harold Vaatborg, director.
Miss Ruth Polk, nurse on the staff of Watkins Memorial hospital, has been called to active duty with the Army Nurse Corps. She will report to Camp Crowder, Mo., Wednesday, March 31.
The fellowship includes an annual salary of $1135 to cover expenses. Work in the summer in the gas industry is a part of the required curriculum.
Part of the program of the Institute in the light of war needs is work on war research projects in the laboratory. One of the recent developments was a method of making synthetic rubber from gas.
Miss Polk Called To Service
The Gas Institute, established a year and a half ago, is a means of training men for the gas industry, undertaking fundamental and applied research, collecting and disseminating scientific information, and stimulating independent research throughout the country.
Helen Hovey, Delta Gamma, and Frank Lichty, president of the Engineering Council, presented her a slide rule to use as a scepter.
Miss Chapin, a college sophomore from Medicine Lodge, is the fifth Gamma Phi in seven years to be chosen by the engineers to reign at their Hop. Gamma Phi's were chosen in 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1941.
The Hop itself was described by Lichty as an "unqualified success." Some 300 couples, both engineering students and students from other schools, danced as Pope and Bachmann's band furnished the music. For the first time since the spring of 1940, the Hop was open to all University students and their dates.
Law students again failed to get revenge for the painting of their "Uncle Jimmie" Green by the engineers. It has been the custom for lawyers to attempt to kidnap the engineers' queen in retaliation for the insult to their statue.
Despite threats each year by the lawyers to steal the queen, records show no successful kidnapping effort in many years. Last year, just to add more difficulties to the kidnapping if attempted, the name of the queen was kept a secret until the coronation, and the secrecy was again followed this year.
House Committee Rejects Ruml Plan
The house ways and means committee described the Ruml tax plan as a threat to war morale, a stimulus to inflation and an injustice to the small taxpayer, declaring the scene "is like robbing Peter to pay a bonus to Paul."
The report was signed by a committee which does not favor the bill. The other committee would retain the present year-late payment system, imposting a 20 per cent withholding levy on pay envelopes to persons willing to pay two years' taxes in one year to get on a current pay-as-you go basis.
K-Book Staff Headed By Joy Miller, Editor Bill Norris, Manager
Final approval has been given to the appointments of Joy Miller and Bill Norris to the positions of editor and business manager of the K-book.
Chosen as assistant editors are: Janet Marvin, Beth Maxwell, and Donna Clair Jackson. Assistant business managers are: Glenn E. Gilpin, Ruth Tippin, and George Tiffany.