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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1943
Allies Expect Fall of Nazi Rail Center
Boeing Flying Fortresses and Lockheed Lightnings streaming out over the Mediterranean on bombing and reconnaissance missions ran into two separate squadrons of German planes. Not a single American plane was lost in either engagement, which took place between Tunisia and Sicily some 10 miles north of Cap Pen.
Early German surrender of Vyazma, a highly important rail center whose possession by the Nazis has constantly endangered Moscow, appeared inevitable today as United Nations forces scored encouragingly on widespread fronts.
(International News Service)
Masahirle, the Royal Air Force continued its endless pounding of the Nazi Reich. The famous old industrial city of Nuremberg, once of Adolph Hitler's favorite retreats but now just a big cog in the German war machine, was singled out for attack last night.
The continued Soviet gains in Russia had a close parallel in Tunisia where coincident with a further retreat by Marshal Rommel's forces at the Mareth line, the United States army air force recorded a notably victory.
Throughout the day RAF and American bombers and fighters slashed at Occupied France and western Germany.
White developments in the European and African theaters continued to Allied favor, a new note of alarm was sounded in Australia. Highly placed military leaders again issued stern warnings against overoptimism.
Contiues Pounding
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, declared flatly that American forces are "stronger than ever" in, the south Pacific while Japanese lines of communication are growing weaker.
The Japanese still have strong garrisons on numerous islands fringing Australia to the north and east, and the menace of an attempted invasion of the huge island continent remains ever present.
Japs Still Strong
These warnings from military sources close to General MacArthur were at variance with announcements in Washington.
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University Geologist Represents Kansas At Washington, D.C.
Dr. John C. Frye, assistant state geologist, has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he represented Kansas at the annual meeting of the Association of American State Geologists. The meeting this year was devoted primarily to the closer coordination of state and federal organizations in the search for strategic minerals used in war materials.
Such new federal organizations as the War Production Board and the Bureau of Economic Warfare were represented by their mineral advisers. The directors of the Federal Geological Survey and the US Bureau of Mines attended the sessions as usual.
Dance Sorority To Pledge Ten at Services Tonight
Tau Sigma, women's dance sorority will hold pledging services tonight for Grace McCandless, College junior; Donice Schwein, College junior; Frances Davison, junior in education; Martha Ann Trate, junior in education; Betty Bown, junior in education; Nancy Abel, College junior; Jean Fergus, College freshman; Norma Jean Lutz, College freshman; Laura Belle Moore, sophomore in education; and Frances Gillman, junior in education.
Q. If War Savings Stamps should be lost, stolen, or destroyed, can they be replaced?
A. No. They should be kept in a safe place and exchanged for War Savings Bonds at the earliest opportunity.
A. Ten years from the issue date.
Q. When do War Savings Bonds mature?
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Q. Can a Bond be issued in the names of two persons as coowners?
A. The Treasury Department, Division of Loans and Currency, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Ill., should be notified immediately, reference being made to the series, year of issue, date, denomination, and serial number of the Bond, and the name and address of the registered owner. Instructions as to proof required will then be sent you.
A. Yes, but only individuals may be so named. Corporations, associations, churches, and lodges may not be named as coworkers.
Remember—the longer you keep War Bonds, up to 10 years, the more valuable they become.
Q. What steps should be taken when a Bond is lost, stolen, or destroyed?
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Nelson Sees Job Reduction Late This Year
Washington, (INS)—The vast war production program of the United States will reach a peak late this year and will be followed by a slackening of employment, War Production Board Chairman Donald M Nelson told a senate appropriations committee in hearings released yesterday.
"In October, November and December will be the peak of our industrial operations, and then it will level off," Nelson said.
Asked if demands for manpower would decrease, Nelson replied:
"It will not be so great, and, as it levels off, there will be a slackening of employment, because there will be greater efficiency."
He said the WPB is counting upon a steady drop in the number of man hours required to produce airplanes.
"It is one of the things that has to be worked out," he stated. "It can be worked out. The ingenuity of the Americans, the ingenuity of the farmer, the ingenuity of everybody. has to be brought to bear to work out the job.
"Industry generally is improving efficiency in the production of war goods as both management and labor become more familiar with it," he explained.
"We have gone through this thing for a year. I can show you where after you have gone through it with a group of airplane people, they would say, we just can't produce these planes", because they weren't going to have the manpower or they wouldn't have something else—and the same with tanks and the same with guns.
Drop In Plant Production
Admitting that the nation faced a hard problem in manpower, Nelson declined to become excited over the current problem of production of food.
Same Trouble With Planes
"But we just have to use our ingenuity to meet the problems. There are problems and there are difficult problems. Everything we have done for a year in this country has been a difficult problem. It has not been easy."
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Army Drafts Pigeons To Carry Messages On Far Battlefronts
Chicago, (INS) — With plenty of billing and cooing, 5,605 swift-flying homing pigeons, the symbols of peace, were off to the wars yesterday, drafted by the army to carry messages in the far-flung battlefronts.
Among the new recruits, the second flock to be drafted by the army from Chicago, are some valued as high as $300 each which have flown 1,000 miles in two days.
Bondfield Expresses Gratitude For Fund Raised For Nursery
J. A. Ruzek, pigeon draft and liaison man between the army and the American Racing Pigeon union, said the birds' destination was a military secret. He declared, however, that pigeons have done a marvelous job in this war, but that the bird death toll was exceptionally high in the Solomons.
L. M. Coombs, principal of the Universit High School and instructor in the School of Education, spoke to the members of Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary business fraternity, Thursday evening at a professional meeting held at the chapter house.
L. M. Cocombs Addresses Business Fraternity
Miss Margaret Bondfield, former member of the British cabinet who spoke at the University last month, has expressed her appreciation of the work of the University in establishing the Jayhawk Nursery in a letter to Rev. E. F. Price, dean of the School of Religion.
"It was a great pleasure meeting some of those actively engaged in raising funds for the Jayhawk Nursery which has been such a wonderful haven for the bombed out children from Birmingham." Miss Bondfield writes. "I shall certainly visit the nursery when I return to my country and tell them of my visit to the University."
Believes A Fourth Term Possible. Washington - Senator James M. Mead of New York is convinced that "If the war is on, the American People will draft President Roosevelt for a fourth term."
Mr. Coombs spoke on the history and the aims of education.
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Musicians Entertain Navy Trainees
Two faculty members will participate in a program for the US Naval Training Station at 7:45 tonight in Hoch auditorium, Karl Kuersteiner, professor of violin and orchestra and director of the programs, said today.
Numbers included on tonight's program will be vocal solos, "Home on the Range" (Guion), and "Come to the Fair" (Martin) by Joseph F. Wilkins, professor of voice; violin solos "Intermezzo" (Provost) and "Fiddlin' the Fiddle" (Rubinoff) by Donald Michel; reading, selected, by Robert Calderwood, professor of speech; vocal solos "My Man" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" by Bettie Cohagan; dance "Adagio" by Kathryn Schaake and Betty Frank Carey. Community singing will be led by Professor Kuersteiner. Martha Dooley, Hope Crittenden, and Gene Jennings will be accompanists.
The series of entertainments for the Naval Training Station are under the supervision of Lt. W. T. Butorec, regional director.
Million Year Old Fossil Pearls Given To Dyche
Two fossil pearls have been found and contributed to Dyche museum by Silas Brown, field man for the Geological Survey. The pearls were washed out of Cretaceous rocks and redeposited in Pleistocene streams. The pearls, about one million years old, were found in Republic county, Kansas.
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