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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943
NUMBER 61
40th YEAR
Air Crash Kills Knight, 34 Others
Washington — (INS)—The War Department announced today that 35 persons, including the famous novelist, Eric Knight, two officials of the State Department and two FBI executives were killed when a 4-engined airplane crashed in the jungles of New Guinea on Jan. 15 in the nation's worst plane disaster.
According to Maj. Gen. Harold L George, chief of the Air Transport Command of the army, the passengers aboard the big ship were enroute "over seas," some of them to North Africa.
Best Seller Author
On Way To Africa
Gen. George, in making the announcement warned the public that the number of persons killed in single aircraft crashes in the future will grow larger.
Knight, a Major in the air corps and one of the victims of the tragedy was the author of the best seller, "This Above All."
Besides Knight, those killed included P. E. Boxworth, head of the New York office of the FBI who directed the hunt for the German saboteurs after they were landed in this country by Nazi submarines last June.
Pennsylvania College To Train Food Managers
Pennsylvania State College has set up a new seven-month's course to give technical training in food management and nutrition. This course will turn out dietitians' assistants, who will qualify as food managers. They will be able to go straight into industrial plants where trained cafeterial dietitians are badly needed.
Sol Lewis Will Begin Radio Series
Mixing homespun humor and comment on current affairs Sol Lewis, "Country Editor," former instructor in the department of journalism at the University, will begin a series of radio commentations as viewed through the eyes of a philosophical, small-town newspaper-man. The program will be on station WREN at 4:45 p.m. on Saturdays.
Mr. Lewis, editor and publisher of the Lyden Washington Tribune, was brought to Lawrence by Merle Thorpe, then head of the department and now editor of the Nation's Business magazine. Associates remembering Lewis describe him as a short, fat, likeable fellow.
Blue network listeners heard Lewis for the first time when he appeared on the American Town Meeting of the Air, five months ago. The discussion was "The Role of the Press during Wartime." Lewis, in his humorous and sensible approach to the topic, was a favorite target of the Town Hall audience in the
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Merger Campus Bands Will Combine
A merger of the two Hill bands is being planned for the immediate future, according to Danny Bachmann and Johnny Pope, the leaders of last semester's bands. This merger was necessary because of the loss of several members of both bands to the armed forces.
The new band will hold auditions tonight at the WREN studios to pick out the members who will make up the thirteen-piece orchestra next semester. The first dance featuring this band is scheduled for Jan. 29.
The band will be called Bachmann and Pope's band.
Funeral Rites For Rev. Koelb Tomorrow
Funeral services for the Rev. Howard E. Koelb, pastor of the First Baptist church will be held at the church at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The Rev. Mr. Koelb, pastor for more than seven years, died Tuesday morning at the University hospital in in Kansas City, after an illness of two years.
Tripoli's Fate Sealed; Ahead on Other Fronts
His death was from the recurrence two weeks ago of leukemia, a disease from which he has suffered for two years. Mrs. Koelb was with her husband the last few days in Kansas City.
The Rev. Mr. Koelb is survived by his wife, and two daughters. Mary Elizabeth and Helen, all of the home, and his mother, who is spending the winter in Lawrence. Ministers To Be Pallbearers
Bearers at the funeral will be ministers of other community churches. Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler, (continued to page five)
Drive for Jayhawk Nursery Nets $900
Nearly $900 has been collected in the drive for money to maintain the Jayhawk Nursery, Dr. A. J. Mix, chairman of the committee in charge of the drive, said yesterday. The Lawrence Junior Red Cross voted early this week to contribute $25 to the drive. Contributions from other sources have been coming in regularly, he stated.
Allies Get Little of U. S. Food
The United States has shipped more than a billion dollars' worth of food to its fighting allies under the Lend-Lease formula up to November 30,1942,and this has been important in sustaining them, but in relation to total supply this represents only a few forkfuls missing from the American dinner table, the Office of War Information disclosed this week.
Approximately a teaspoonful of milk, a pinch of sugar, half-a-dozen canned peas, a shred of beef, a sliver of butter and an eye-dropper full of coffee constitute the amount of food subtracted from the average American meal by the government's policy of sending food to Russia and Britain.
Among the foods now scarce in (continued to page two)
Industrial Camouflage Is Offered
Industrial Camouflage is being offered again this semester by the department of design. The course which consists of lecture, demonstration, laboratory, and field work is open to anyone interested. It offers two hours of credit.
Tom Douglas Jones, assistant professor of design, directs the study, with the assistance of nine other teachers, all specialists in the several fields needed. Required know-
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Professors Attend Meeting In Topeka
Dr. Mabel Elliott, associate professor of sociology, and Miss Esther Twente, assistant professor of sociology, attended a meeting of the Kansas chapter of the American Association of Social workers last night in Topeka. Miss Twente spoke to the association on "Personal Recruitment for Professional Education in Social Work."
THE WEATHER
Warmer today and tonight except little change in temperature west portion tonight. Wind 25 to 35 miles per hour.
More American Troops Move Into Guadalcanal
By International News Service
Tripoli, famed in American history for the exploits of Stephen Decatur in trouncing the pirates of the barbary coast, lay athwart the path of a rapidly advancing British army in North Africa today and there was every indication that within a few hours a flag of democracy will fly over the city long oppressed
Kansas Bar Assoc. Seeks Full Control
Topeka, (INS)—A promise of a spectacular fight in the legislature was seen today in attempts of the Kansas Bar Association to get a law passed which would give the organization full control over Kansas lawyers.
It was charged that the measure would present the Bar Association an air tight "closed shop" monopoly of the legal profession. Sylvan Brunner, prominent Pittsburg lawyer, and W. F. Lewiston, Wichita, attorney, registered emphatic protests against the bill today before the Senate judiciary committee.
B. L. Sheridan, Paola, president of the Kansas Bar Association, and (continued to page seven)
Lindley Hall Held Up By Priority Rating
Lindley hall, the new mineral resources building, will not be ready for use until it can rate a priority number given only to those buildings which are considered essential to the war effort, according to L. Rafter, state building inspector.
Wire priorities were expected two months ago. The fact that its nonessential use will not merit its acquisition of the copper, was learned when Roy W. Stookey, state architect, made a recent trip to Washington.
Just how the building will be used during the war has not been announced, although many war uses have been suggested. This situation is expected to be cleared un shortly.
The tool shack has been removed since the excavation was filled last week, and the workmen's office has been moved to the first floor of Lindley hall. Red linoleum is being laid in the halls and on the library floor. Only a handful of workmen are necessary to finish the 212-room structure.
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While Soviet troops smashed on toward Rostov and Kharkov the German and British air forces exchanged blows in continuation of the savage air-war set in motion by two devastating RAF attacks on Berlin over the weekend, international attention was focused on Tripolitania.
Fall A Matter of Hours
In Washington Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson stated that the fall of Tripoli is only a matter of a few hours, and reported that the over-all picture of United Nations warfare against Germany, Italy, and Japan is "decidedly bright."
Patterson told of heavy army reinforcements moving into Guadalcanal, the "literal annihilation" of 15,000 Japanese in New Guinea, and he even made the surprising announcement that respite has been granted the U. S. Marines who with such incredible courage captured and held vital areas of the Solomons against overwhelming odds. Patch Assumes Command
Maj. Gen. Alexander Patch of the U.S. Army has taken over command of troops on Guadalcanal relieving Maj. Gen. Alexander Vandergrift of the marines who led the invasion of Tulagi, fought shoulder to shoulder with his men, and slept with them on the damp ground until an engineer unit — without his knowledge and permission—built a raised wood floor for his tent. The marines, Patterson said, are now taking a well earned rest.
In spite of increasing difficulties in obtaining food, the men's residence halls are operating more smoothly than ever, according to reports from the housemothers at the halls.
War Can't Stop Residence Halls
All of the halls are still in operation, with the exception of Hopkins hall, which was evacuated at the end of the fall semester to be used to house women enrolled in the aeroautical training program here.
All vacancies in the remaining four halls have been filled, and the total number of men living in the dormitories is now 162.
Fifty-five of those live at Batten-
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