Daily Kansan Selects Ten Top News Events of 1942 -- Page 2
Daily Kansan
THE VALLEY
40TH YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3.1943
NUMBER 55
Allies Score Major Gains, Sea Battle On
By International News Service
The Red army pounded irresistibly ahead on four major fronts today. The Soviet scored major gains on the central front west of the recaptured railway junction of Velikie Luke, in the middle Don region northeast of Rostov in the Caucasus south of Elista and west of the bloody but unbowed city of Stalingrad.
In Tunisia, Libya, continental Europe and the southwest Pacific, meanwhile, the allies hammered the axis with increased vigor. Bombers Blast Tunis
Allied bombers blasted the harbors and railroad yards at Tunis yesterday in what appeared to be one of the most devastating raids yet made on the capital city.
In Libya, Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel seemed to be digging in for a stand along a line extending from Misurata to the Wadi Sem
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Seniors To Have Pictures Taken
Senior students graduating or leaving school at the end of this semester will be able to have pictures taken for the Jayhawker magazine's senior edition to be printed this spring, Duane Smith, business manager for the magazine, announced yesterday.
A special photographer from Topeka will be at the Jayhawker office in the basement of the Memorial Union building Tuesday and Wednesday and will take photographs during the following hours: 9:30 to 10:30, A to D, inclusive, 10:30 to 11:30, E to I; 11:30 to 12:30, Jto M; 1:30 to 2:30, N to P; 2:30 to 3:30, Q to S; 3:30 to 4:30, T to W; 4:30 to 5:30, X to Z, and any student who cannot be available during the regularly scheduled hour The picture-taking will cost $3.
New Postage Stamp Coming January 14
A new two-cent stamp, adding tribute to those nations which, with the United States, are joined in a determined effort to overcome the enemies of democracy will be issued January 14.
The date of issuance was chosen by Frank C. Walker, Postmaster General, to coincide with the opening of United States Week, sponsored by the motion picture industry, with the support of various governmental agencies.
ISA Election Plans Are Changed Again, President Announces
"The ISA elections will probably be postponed until after finals," Mary Gene Hull, president, said yesterday. Tentative plans made earlier this week were to hold the election dance for selecting new district representatives and candidates for general election this week.
"Since so many things are taking place this week, it is almost impossible to hold election then," she explained.
Plans were made before Christmas vacation to hold the election last Wednesday. Students had just returned from the extended vacation by then, so that plan had to be changed.
Grant Loans to Medic Students
Four loans from the Kellogg loan fund totaling $451 have been granted to medical students for next semester and two additional loans have been approved for summer school, making a total of 67 loans amounting to $6.708.50 granted thus far Henry Werner, chairman of the loan fund committee, announced.
W. K. Kellogg foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., has granted the School of Medicine $5,000 in extra grants in addition to the $10,000 grant made last fall to help students of medicine who are in the accelerated program.
Qualifications for loans include participation in the accelerated program, scholarship standard acceptable to the University, and need of financial assistance. The loans are repayable one year after finishing internship at two and one-half per cent interest.
Mr. Werner said that medical students desiring loans may apply at his office in the basement of Frank Strong hall or in Kansas City to Dr. William G. Gordon, office of the dean. University of Kansas hospitals.
A collection of Australian posters which was received by Chancellor Deane W. Malott this fall from Col. Karl F. Baldwin, former commander of the ROTC units in the University, was placed in the lobby of the Memorial Union building yesterday. Many of the posters emphasize the proximity of the enemy and danger, and some are the "Slip of the lip will sink a ship" type that are shown in the United States.
Former ROTCColonel Sends War Posters
After five years as a professor of military science and tactics, Colonel Baldwin left the University for an assignment at the Presidio in San
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Ballet Troupe Will Perform On Hoch Stage
University students and faculty members, sailors, and townpeople will have an opportunity to attend a performance of the Monte Carlo Ballet, one of the top ballet groups of the world, in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 Tuesday evening.
The program opens with "The Magic Swan," with the music score by Tschalikowsky played by the ballet group's own symphony orchestra. The audience will be treated to a ballet of unusual beauty featuring four dancing stars and with a dozen other dancers in the finale.
The theme of the second ballet, "Rodeo," deals with the problems of an American woman getting a suitable man. The story is built around an afternoon in a ranch corral and a Saturday evening dance in the ranch house. The dancers will be accompanied by the orchestra playing the music of the American composer, Aaron Copeland.
The program will be concluded with the "Blue Danube Waltzes," depicting Vienna life in 1860 and the love story of a young lady for a hus-sar. Music used in this last ballet was composed by Johann Strauss.
Practically all reserve seat tickets, except those in the very front of the auditorium had been sold yesterday afternoon. it was announced.
Gallagher To Speak To Sigma Delta Chi At Dinner-Initiation
Group singing will be led by Warren Williams, business senior, and toasts for the evening will be given by Chancellor Malott and Mr. Ellsworth. Officers of the class of '43 will be present and will be introduced during the evening.
Wes Gallagher, head of the Kansas City Bureau of the International News Service, will be guest speaker at an initiation and dinner to be given by Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity, at 5:30 Tuesday night in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Jim Gillie will be the toastmaster at the banquet. A class history and class prophecy will be given such as those presented at the annual senior class breakfasts in the spring commencement program. The smoking of the traditional corn cob peace pipes will also be a feature of the mid-year banquet.
War Department Reveals Names Of 407 Killed
Maurice Barker, College senior, will be initiated into the fraternity preceding the dinner.
The list includes 27 officers and 107 enlisted men killed in action in Africa, 15 officers and 33 men in the European area. 14 officers and 85 men in the south Pacific, 10 officers and 21 men in the southwest Pacific, and 5 enlisted men killed in action at sea. In each case, the next
Washington, Jan. 2 (INS) — The names of 407 U.S. soldiers killed in action were announced today by the War Department. The announcement includes casualties in the southwest Pacific, south Pacific, African and European war areas, and at sea.
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Plans Are Complete For Senior Banquet
Final arrangements for the senior banquet for students to be graduated in January are being made by the officers of the class of '43. The banquet will be at 6:30 Thursday in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Invitations were mailed to more than 100 students Thursday, and other guests for the banquet have been invited.
Faculty members of the University who will be guests of the first semester class of '43 will be Cancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Werner, Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nichols, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ellsworth.
Food Problem Acute In Boarding Houses
The problem of providing food for students in private boarding houses is becoming more acute each week, landladies declare. Because of rationing, quantities of meats and other items of food are difficult to obtain from retail stores.
Boarding house operators, therefore, are spending much time going from one grocery or meat-market to another getting enough for the day's supply of the ravenous college students. That they have a large number to provide for makes no difference in their situation, these women have been advised. Those who have enough boarders to buy supplies wholesale are having less trouble.
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Forums Board Arranges For Two Lectures
Erskine Caldwell, novelist, crusader, and lecturer, and Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, have been secured by the Forums Board as lecturers in the next two months. Cousins will lecture Jan. 21 on "The Literature of Democracy," and Caldwell, only recently back from Russia, will speak Feb. 25 on "My Experiences in the Russian War."
Arrangements are being made for one of the two speakers at a special convocation. The other one will be heard, as has been the custom in the past, in the evening.
Has Brilliant Career
Norman Cousins, just over thirty, has had a brilliant career. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and has served on a Presidential economic conference. He is recognized today as one of America's foremost authorities on literature and on world affairs.
Early in 1940 he was appointed Executive Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Before coming to the Saturday Review, he was for five years an editor of the magazine Current History, which gave him his close interest in world affairs and where he gained a reputation as a distinguished literary critic as well as an authority on history in the making. He has directed literary forums for the National Broadcasting Company on which America's most prominent authors have participated.
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Many Homeless In Flood Areas
By International News Service Estimates of the number of persons made homeless by the flood waters of the Ohio river were revised upward toward 50,000 today with damage approaching the two million dollar mark.
A highway department official who toured much of the 500 mile length of the flooded valley said that 30,000 evacuees were being cared for in Red Cross shelters, while additional thousands were still being evacuated by highway department trucks and other means from lowlands along the lower reaches of the river.
A ray of hope was seen as the river crested at Marietta, about 195 miles upstream from Portsmouth and about halfway between there an. East Liverpool where the Ohio begins to border the Buckeye state.