The Flying Eagle
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
1th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1943
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
NUMBER 77
Allen Lashes At Athletic Lobbying
Mobile Unit Of Red Cross Here April 8
Plans have been made by the Douglas County chapter of the American Red Cross to bring the Mobile Unit of the Red Cross Donor Center from Kan- City to Lawrence April 8 2019 to collect blood from University students, and Lawrence and Douglas county residents wishing to contribute to the red Cross blood plasma bank. The blood donated will be used by the army and navy for treatment of war injured men and women.
Registration for contributions will begin about March 29, Dr. Ralph vanuteson, director of the Student health Service and chairman of the Red Cross blood donor's committee announced today.
The new plan will not interfere with blood donations for the blood bank at the University hospitals for civilian disaster, Dr. Canuteson aid.
Any person in good health between the ages of 18 and 60 years of age is eligible to contribute, according to Dr. Canuteson. Minors must have the written consent of their parents.
The blood donors' committee composed of Dr. Canuteson, Mrs. C. K. Amidon, Mrs. Ralph Canuteson, Mrs. J. Dodds, and Mr. Dolph Simons attended a meeting Saturday in Kansas City, Missouri, for instructions and observation of the Kansas City blood donor center.
Lindley HallKeys Given to University
Lindley hall, the new mineral resources building which has been under construction since the middle of December, 1941, was completed except for electrical wiring last week. C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, announced The contractors have given the keys of the building to the University
The building cannot be occupied yet, however, as the electrical wiring has been held up because of lack of copper wire. Mr. Bayles said that although priorities on most materials for the construction of Lindley hall, including copper wire, have been secured, much material has been slow in arriving. He explained that it would be impossible to tell when the copper wire will be here
WEATHER
Continued mild today, slightly warmer. Little change in west portion tonight.
Pan-American League Meeting Is Postponed
The meeting of the Pan-American League which was announced for tonight has been postponed until Wednesday, Feb., 24, Antonio Lulli, president of the League, announced. The meeting will be at 8 p.m. in the Pine room.
Representatives of the army and navy visited the campus today gaining information as to facilities for housing special training classes in event that they were needed. No commitments of any kind were made, and there is no definite statement as to whether any additional units other than those already stationed on the campus and those to be sent here in June will be established.
Army and Navy Study Facilities To House Units
The visit of the military representatives coupled with the word that new units were established at Kansas State College and Missouri University, taking over fraternity houses as places of residence, gave rise to speculation as to similar plans here. At Manhattan students were drastically searching for lodging in private residences, and a similar situation existed at Columbia, Mo.
Here there is the possibility that University buildings may be used and the fraternity houses may not be needed.
It is thought by University officials that more definite information may be obtained within a few days
At both places the fraternities voluntarily gave over their houses under lease to protect their own financial investments now endangered by reduced membership.
Dr. Margaret Brennan, who received a doctor of philosophy degree in psychology from the University in June. 1942, will speak on "Experiments on Dynamics of Human Behavior in normal and hypnotic states." This lecture will be given on Monday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in room 21. Frank Strong hall.
Brenman To Discuss Hypnosis Experiments At Psychology Club
Dr. Brennan did research at the University on inner narratives of human behavior utilizing hypnosis as a technique of investigation. She is now continuing her research on this same subject at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka.
Students Attend T
More than 75 stu dended the informal tea of th e department yesterday afl he English room of the Union
US Soldiers Still Retreat From Rommel
(International News Service)
Nazi field Marshal Erwin Rommel pushed American soldiers out of three hard-won positions in the Tunisian battle front today.
With Sbeitla, Kasserine, and Feriana in south-central Tunisia abandoned by badly battered armored units and the Allied command in Africa admitting heavy casualties in men
In Washington Secretary Stimson admitted that this was a "serious setback" but insisted that it was not unexpected and suggested that it neither be exaggerated or minimized. Await Reinforcements
and presentation, a timeless picture
was anything but encouraging.
While Americans gave up their three towns on the untenable Tunisian plains and moved back to the protection of hills to regroup, reform and await British reinforcements, here were already signs that the attack launched by Rommel Sunday morning had begun to spend itself.
The victorious British Army o' Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery has taken up battle positions directly in front of the Axis forces. The British moved into Medenina 65 miles inside Tunisia after a 45 mile advance in the space of 48 hours.
Rommel moved some 60 odd miles through American positions from Sunday to Thursday and by taking Fernia reached a point only 12 miles from the Algerian frontier.
Twelve Miles From Front
Any Nazi satisfaction resulting from the minor Axis success was dwarfed by the continuing magnitude of fresh disasters in Russia. Soviet armies swept ahead on the 500 mile front capturing scores of towns while the Germans tell back steadily.
On the aerial front the RAF attacked Northwest Germany in the night while fast American bombers from North Africa raided Axis airdromes on the Italian islands of Sardinia. In the far east Gen. Douglas McArthur's bombers continued attacks on Jap bases in New Britian and New Guinea while American submarines sank five more Jap ships and damaged two.
Three Hundred Students
Attend Mid-week Dance
Approximately 300 students attended the Midweek last night in the main lounge of the Memorial Union building. Bachmann and Pope's band played.
The next Mid-week will be from 7 to 8 Wednesday night in the main lounge.
NCAA Also Target Of Coach's Attack
Phog Allen, effusive Jayhawk basketball coach, today chided his fellow mentors who "are lobbying for the continuance of intercollegiate sports so that they themselves can continue to receive large salaries for the direction of varsity teams."
Criticizes Lobbyists
Again the target of Allen's verbal attack was the NCAA, which recently expressed itself as being "shocked" by service
DR.F.C.ALLEN
... ready for service
Seniors Take Poll On Dance Plans
A poll is being taken among all senior students to decide whether opinion is favorable to having the annual senior dance and reception Saturday night, May 15, Mary Gene Hull, chairman of the senior reception and dance committee, said today. She is conducting the survey among all independents, those at large, and those in organized houses.
Betty Rowton is contacting all sororites and Larry McSpadden is taking the poll among all the men in organized houses. The survey has just been started and returns are so small that it would be impossible to estimate what the results will be, Miss Hull said.
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Seniors are being asked if they are in favor of continuing the dance and reception on the Saturday night before graduation or of having a reception on Sunday afternoon, the day of Baecalaureate services, for the faculty and their parents. Opposition to the dance seems to be that there won't be enough senior men left by graduation time to make the dance worth planning for. If the poll shows the majority of seniors favor the dance and reception, the party will probably be held in the Lounge of the Memorial Union building, Miss Hull said.
orders which have indicated that a complete discontinuation of intercollegiate athletics may be necessitated in the near future.
Declared Allen: "I am for what the services feel is necessary. After all practically all of the big Navy and Army officers are former college men, and many of them are former athletes themselves. They, certainly, would wish to continue college athletics as long as such a continuation is in line with the nation's war effort. "Nobody could ask fairer treatment" he added.
Faces Loss of Players
"I want those boys to be where they will do the country the most good, for I know that that is where they, themselves, desire to be," commented the basketball coach.
Allen, himself, is faced with the loss of four of five members of his starting basketball five in the near future. Charley Black, scoring ace of the quintet, is a member of the Army air corps reserve, while Armand Dixon, Ray Evans, and Otto Schmellbacher are members of the army enlisted reserve.
Many athletic coaches, Allen declared, are, in the realization that with the passing of varsity competition they will receive cuts in salary, using all possible pressure to assure the continuation of intercollegiate sports under the pretense of building up men physically for the services.
"If they are really interested in building up men for the services,"
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School of Pharmacy Releases Honor Roll
Five freshmen, two sophomores, four juniors, and two seniors were on the School of Pharmacy honor roll for the first semester of this year according to the list just released today by Dr. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy. Included in the freshman list was W. C. Robson, 45-year old former Burlington, Kansas, farmer, now enrolled in the School of Pharmacy. Robson made a grade index of 2.82 out of a possible 3.00.
On the honor roll were:
Freshmen—Betty Joanne Whitney, W. C. Robson, Sam Zweifel, Jr., Stanley Smith, and Mavis Lukert; Sophomores—Betty Davis and Lloyd Diederi; Juniors—Dewey Nemec, Frances Blair, John Fankhauser, and Charlotte Robson; Seniors—Bill Bass and Ray Garrett.