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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1943
Music Causes Promotion--- Former Cello Professor Organizes Army Quartet
Verifying the fact that musical ability never goes unnoticed long, the University's former professor of cello and violin, Raymond Stuhl, has been promoted to the rank of a corporal in the Army Air Corps on the strength of his cello playing.
Former Professor Stuhl, who has been stationed at Camp Luna, Las Vegas, New Mex., since he left here in the middle of
October, organized a string quartet in which he plays cello, shortly after he arrived at camp. At first, according to his wife, Mrs. Alberta Stuhl, an instructor in the School of Fine Arts, the quartet played old favorites like "Old Black Joe" for the cadets around the camp. But soon they became so well known that they were playing classical string quartets from Mozart, Beethoven, and others, for music lovers in Las Vegas and surrounding towns.
Now the string quartet broadcasts 45 minutes every Sunday afternoon from a Las Vegas radio station. A major in the medical division of Camp Luna hearing their broadcasts, met and asked the men to play a house concert for his friends one night, said Mrs. Stuhl. On the strength of this concert, they have been playing at other ranches in the vicinity.
In order that the quartet might have plenty of time to practice, a captain at the Army Air Corps camp signed an order that the men rehearse four hours a day, excusing them from the usual army jobs such as k-
The three other members of the camp who were also promoted to corporeals are a first violinist, a former member of the Gordon quartet; a second violinist, who used to play with the Cincinnati symphony orchestra, and a violist from Ottawa, Kansas.
RAF Bombs Burma Airdrome
British Headquarters, New Delhi, India, -(INS) -American liberator bombs, manned by RAF crews, smashed the Japanese airdrome at Magwe, Burma, in a night attack, an official communique reported Wednesday. Many bursts were observed in the target area from heavy bombs including 1,000-pounders.
First Aleutian Surface Action Since August
Washington, (INS) — Slipping through the North Pacific, American war ships on February 8 bombarded Japanese positions on the Attu island in the western Aleutians, the navy reported today.
It was the first American surface action in the Aleutian area since August 8, when U.S. warships blasted Japanese positions at the main base on Kiska Island.
Apparently because of foggy weather prevailing in that area result of that latest attack were not observed.
The same navy communique disclosed that on February 18 American airmen in the South Pacific again blasted Japanese bases in the central Solomons but results were not reported.
The Aleutian attack indicated that the Japanese in recent weeks have succeeded in reinforcing this former American island which the Japs occupied last summer.
AP In Million Dollar Suit
Toledo, O.—A suit for one million dollars against the Associated Press and the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal was filed yesterday by the officers of the Marine Workers Union. The suit is said to have grown out of alleged charges that the marine workers refused to unload supplies in a South Pacific base for marines fighting the Japanese. The charge was hotly denied.
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His Bandello On His Knee
Dr. W. O. Miessner, professor of education and public school music, is showing Betty Steil, freshman in Fine Arts, the intricacies of the bandello, his new musical instrument. The bandello, a combination of lute, banjo, and mandolin, was invented recently by Dr. Miessner for use by school children in basic music education. It is composed almost entirely of wood, with no metal except in the strings, and is designed to sell for only a few dollars.
Shark Tooth Given Dyche By High School Student
The tooth of a shark common to the Pennsylvanian age has been found and donated to Dyche museum by Charles Svoboda, University High School student. The specimen was discovered in a creek bed on a farm northwest of Lawrence.
The tooth is the first of its kind to be found in Kansas and the only specimen in Dyche museum.
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No Immediate News Print Cut
Washington, Feb. 20 (INS) — The W. P. B. announced today that a second scheduled cut in news print consumption—a proposed reduction of not more than 10 per cent which would have been effective April 1—is to be "held in abeyance for the time being."
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Education Leaders To Meet in Topeka
The Kansas State Educational Association will meet in March on April at Topeka, decided a committee on the annual conference, meeting Thursday in the office of Dr. J. W. Twente, dean of the School of Education. If possible, the conference will be held in connection with the Inter-American Institute, the date of which will be announced soon, according to Miss Ruth Kenney, executive secretary of the Association.
Committee members present were W. T. Markham, member of the Board of Regents and President of the Kansas State Vocational Association; C. O. Wright, secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Association; Marco Morrow, former managing editor of the Capper publications; C. M. Miller, of the Kansas State Vocational Association; Dr. F. T. Markham, of Washburn Municipal University; and Harold G. Ingham, director of the University extension division, Miss Ruth Kenney, Fred Montgomery, and Miss Helen Wagstaff, all of the University extension division.
Midweek Will Be Given Wednesday
A midweek will be given from 7 to 8 o'clock Wednesday evening in the Memorial Union lounge, Newell Jenkins, chairman of Union Activities, announced yesterday. The dance will be conducted as the other midweeks, Jenkins said.
Jane Reid Is Ill of Pneumonia Jane Reid, president of Alpha Omicron Pi, is seriously ill of pneumonia at the Watkins Memorial hospital.
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"RANDOM HARVEST" Adapted from the M-G-M Picture by FRANCES BARBOUR
"Admit it Doctor . . . you think my memory is gone forever!"
The County Asylum at Melbridge, England, harbors Smith (Ronald Colman), an amnesia boy . . . wreckage of the war. Again, he begs Doctor Benet (Philip Dorn) to release him but the kindly Doctor refuses, knowing he is friendless and homeless. Out on the grounds later that day, whistles suddenly blow, announcing the Armistice;
In the excitement, Smith escapes through the open gates. At the village of Melbridge, he enters a tobacconist's shop. Strangely the proprietress disappears into the back. A girl suddenly speaks, Paula Ridgeway (Greer Garson) member of a theatrical troupe. Guessing that Smith is from the Asylum, she urges him to leave.
Paula's tender heart is captured by Smitty and she takes him to the local pub, where he gets lost in the crowd. Later, she brings him to her dressing room and he watches her performance from backstage. He is entranced by her for she is the first person to show a true interest in him and make him feel like a human, being.
"You're right. She probably is telephoning the Asvulum."
"Well now Smithy what am I going to do with you?"
"Don't thank me Smithy. Don't talk. Just rest."
That night Paula finds that Smithy has the 'flu. She takes him home and nurses him. When he recovers she has good news for him. The manager of their troupe is giving him a job on their next tour. Smithy is overjoyed. Next day though the manager learns that he is from the Asylum! Be sure to read tomorrow's episode.