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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1943
"Sardine Streamliners" - - ing fallen handbags and ripped hose. Around the platform of the train, the shoving straining crowd trampled one another in an effort to get a foothold on the platform before the porter closed the gate. Probably half piled on when the steps were drawn up. Friends were divided. Martha Young, Corbin hall business senior, was among the last edge on; and she happened to be holding a friend's purse. Jeanne Spencer, 1134 Mississippi law freshman, was left holding the bags—both her own and her roommate's.
Vacationing Students Find Traveling Congested
Standing room only was what the average student found if he made the holiday homeward by bus. Conditions were some what better on most of the trains with the notable exception of the afternoon Union Pacific from Kansas City to Lawrence dubbed the "Sardine Streamliner" by a standing sailor.
The Union Pacific agent estimated that 785 round trip tickets were purchased during the period from Dec. 22 to 27. The included trains seemed $ \textcircled{4} $
The Union Pacific agent estin were purchased during the pe heaviest loaded trains seemed to be the westbound; and the largest crowds jammed the station for the 8:48 and 9:15 trains the evening of the 24th. The Santa Fe agent estimated that he sold 1,000 tickets with the heaviest sales falling on the 22nd at 5 p.m. He checked 422 pieces of student luggage. No travelers had to wait for later trains at either station, however.
Rush Tuesday Morning
The congestion at the bus station demonstrated the effects of reduced mileage and increased travel burden more than at the railroad stations. Bright students thought they would check out in the wee hours, catch the southbound 2:15 a.m. bus Tuesday morning after hearing the glad tidings, and avoid the rush. The only fault with this scheme was that it occurred to so many. The bus was late, and had it arrived empty, the crowd in the station could not all have been seated. It was well filled.
The harrassed agent pushed his way through the crowd around the door of the bus to consult with the driver. Just as he almost reached the door, he slipped on the ice and fell. Even while falling he continued to shout, "Stand back and let these women and kiddies who have waited here since one o'clock get a seat. Stand back . . .." Due to the overloaded buses earlier in the day, several passengers had been obliged to wait. The 9:30 p.m. bus was as heavily loaded as the 1 p.m. Student On Mack
After those who had waited and the early ticket purchasers were on, a large crowd still remained, begging for standing room. After long deliberation, women and then men were admitted, only they had to check their baggage for later shipment.
One exhausted student crawled up on the baggage rack and slept there until congestion was relieved at Ottawa.
Large Crowd Returns on UP
Probably the largest crowd of returning KU students boarded, or attempted to board, the afternoon Union Pacific out of Kansas City. The waiting room was packed, and a solid crowd, was jammed in Gate 11. Its size didn't diminish much when the service men, who were allowed to board the train first, had left. When the gates were opened the subsequent surge was terrific. Continual wails went up concerning fallen handbags and ripped hose. Around the platform of the train, the shoving straining crowd trampled one another in an effort to get a foothold on the platform before the porter closed the gate. Probably half piled on when the steps were drawn up. Friends were divided. Martha Young, Corbin hall business senior, was among the last edge on; and she happened to be holding a friend's purse. Jeanne Spencer, 1134 Mississippi law freshman, was left holding the bags—both her own and her roommate's.
Luggage was stacked so high in the aisles that two military police men were unable to crowd through to take a required count of the number of service men present. There was no room for falling; so students jostled against one another in safe discomfort into Lawrence where they took up the battle once more, this time for possession of someone's lap in a taxi.
More Kansas Doctors To Report for Army
Topeka, Jan. 2, (INS) — Kansas' supply of doctors and dentists will be further depleted, the Kansas State Medical Association reported today.
The majority will go to the army, officials said, expressing some concern over a shortage which may become acute. Already many communities are short of doctors and dentists in the larger cities report all are being overworked as more and more are entering military service.
WAR DEP'T REVEALS -
(continued from page one) of kin has been notified by the War Department.
U. S. Army personnel killed in action in the south Pacific includes:
tion in the south Pacine. Kansas: Arnold, Pvt. Frank L., Mrs. Amelia Arnold, mother, 124 No. Ninth St., Osawattomie.
Knight, Pvt. Lewis E., Lewis E. Knight, Sr., father, 774 North Second St., Lawrence.
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Francisco. He then went to Australia where he is a military attache in the American legation at Melbourne. In his letters to the Chancellor Colonel Baldwin speaks of traveling extensively.
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Mrs. Baldwin is living in California, and their two sons are in the army. One of them was captured in the fall of Corregidor.
Drake's in '43.
Drakes
University Celebrates New Year
New Year's Eve Party Attracts Hill Students
A crowded dance floor was a common sight at the New Year's Eve party in Hoch auditorium when students gathered to celebrate the coming of 1943. Tables of food, a floor show, and variety entertainment were popular features in the events of the evening. Students in the picture are awaiting the new year.
Confetti and Noise Add To Gay Crowds At Tables
Grouped around one of the many tables at the University New Year's Eve party were: first row, right to left; Bob Douce, Jane Miller, Sally Fitzpatrick, Bussy Robbins, Nelsen May, Mary Tudor Hanna; second row: Virginia Brehm, Bob Bayles, Bob Harwi, and Mary Merrill.
Colonel Baldwin is an honorary member of the Rotary Club in Lawrence, and attends Rotary meetings in Australia. He is well-versed in the Jap language, having served in Japan as a military attache representing this government there during the First World War. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal for his services in Japan. He also was awarded the order
of Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government.
FOOD PROBLEM - -
(continued from page one) for their amounts of purchase are merely reduced.
One landlady obtained more than usual quantities from the shelves in a local chain grocery Saturday in hope that she might get by the cashier and save added search for the same articles in other stores. She failed.
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Phil Koury of the Kansas City Star says it's the Best picture of any year.
3 WEEKS IN THRU
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Physical conditioning is combined with practical training in woodcraft in a course being given at the University of Michigan.
LAUGHS AND LOVELIES! JUNGLE
JIVE! TROPICAL TEMPOS! HUND-
DREDS OF HIP-SWAYING HONEYS!