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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
(1) 40% of the total sales are from domestic customers.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942
Bleak Holiday Season
No Tree Lights
Lawrence wears a rather bleak Christmas face this year. The government commanded "lights out," and innumerable strings of multicolored stars and star brackets went into storage on the top floor of the Lawrence National Bank building for the duration of the war. All that remains of previous years' decorations are twenty-four large metal candles and unlighted evergreen ropes and trees along
Massachusetts' white way.
What Lawrence lacks in decoration, though, it is going to make up in Christmas spirit. The Santa Claus parade; group carolling in the residential sections, and a community sing broadcast over WREN are major parts of festivities planned by the Chamber of Commerce. A Christmas fund is specifically set up each year as part of the Community Chest to pay expenses. Contributors have a choice of having their money used that way.
Santa Arrives in Sleigh
In laying plans, even a white Christmas has been ordered by W. B. Dalton, parade organizer, for Santa Claus' arrival this afternoon at 4 o'clock. St. Nick will ride in a sleigh pulled by two registered chestnut mares, and escorted by twelve other horses. One of the escort horses has that name "White Christmas."
Parade Has Many Features
Santa's sleigh is a two-seater, rare in the United States. It was purchased in Leavenworth from Bayer Brothers, a carriage-making firm whose special form of craftsmanship has been handed down from generation to generation for 85 years. Parade Has Many Features
Other features of the parade include a trio of "gasless carriages," and a float designed by Bernard "Foco" Frazier, of the University art department, for the nativity scene posed and costumed by Girl Scouts. There were no pet entries for children this year.
The gasless carriages are a bicycle-wheeled roadster, a trap (two-wheeled, one-horse carriage on 'springs'), and a phaeton (light, four-wheeled buggy). Each of the last two has a history almost as typically Christmas as Santa Claus himself. The phaeton was purchased for $1200 in New York fifty years ago by R. A. Long, and brought back as a gift to his wife. She used it to show horses. The trap was made in Emporia but remained in stock there for the same fifty years, until it was purchased brand-new within the past year by Fritz Meyn.
The float will be used again Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 21 and 22, for carolling excursions being arranged by the Ministerial Alliance of the city. It will probably travel through the residential sections and stop every few blocks. Wednesday evening it will park in front of the Wren building for the community sing.
Santa Claus will be present at Wren building again Wednesday evening during the sing for the children in the crowd. Participants, many of them expected to be University students, will gather at 7:30, and the program will go on the air promptly at 8 o'clock.
Education Carries on In Russia In 1942, 170,000 students were graduated from colleges in the Soviet Union.
Former Kansans Now With Army Engaged In Camouflage Work
Arthur Berger, who was graduated from the University in 1925, is at Fort Belvoir, Va., the largest camouflage school in the nation, teaching camouflage to U. S. engineers stationed there. Berger studied landscape architecture at Harvard, and before the war was a prominent landscape architect in Toledo, Ohio.
Three men formerly connected with the University are now engaged in camouflage work for the army, according to word received recently by Dr. A. J. Mix, chairman of the botany department here.
W. B. Durell, former instructor in the botany department here, is now engaged in camouflage work in Norfolk. Va. In a letter to Dr. Mix, Durell stated that on one project alone he had planted 125,000 trees. George M. Fisher, landscape gardener at the University last year, is working in camouflage at Syracuse, N. Y.
(continued from page one) to the Universities in uniform for advanced training.
OUTLINE PLANS--is now used to choose candidates for officers' training. The navy's plan differs only slightly.
Medical students will be placed on active duty at the end of the next semester and then will be returned to medical schools in uniform. Naval reservists in V-1 and V-7 will be allowed to continue past the next semester for a number of semesters which will be determined by their classification in school. Not Yet Named
Not Yet Named
Schools to be included in the service education plan have not as yet been selected. This University is among those which have applied for consideration as a training school, and Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, is at present engaged in filling out detailed information blanks required by the Manspower Commission.
Under present plans the army and navy will contract for college facilities at which qualified young men are to be trained following their 13 weeks basic training period. Men numbering approximately 250,000 under these programs will be uniformed.
Army men who have completed or are completing their basic training may apply for the specialized training. Selection of men will be made in much the same manner as
May Apply for Training
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Rommel's Rear Guard Trapped By Eighth Army
The battle which Field Marshal Erwin Rommell strove so hard to escape broke out in Triportitania today, as General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery and his British Eighth Army clashed with remnants of the Axis rear guard trapped at Wardi Matratin in one of the most brilliant offensive coups of the war.
An official announcement from Cairo said that heavy fighting rages in the vicinity of Zautaen Nofilia 95 miles west of El Agheila.
Active war news on other fronts meanwhile was sparse. The Royal Air Force meanwhile carried out a 400 plane raid on northwestern Germany, and British marines sank 3 Axis supply ships in the Mediterranean. American fighter and bomber planes heavily attacked Japanese bases at Honai. French Indo-China, Allied jungle fighters inched forward on New Guinea, and Soviet troops carried their fighting to Byell on the bleak plains of the Dvina River, only 75 miles from Smolensk.
The army-navy training plan will operate on a basis of three 16-week semesters. The administration pointed out that the shortening of the University Christmas vacation has already made such a policy practicable at this college.
"We hit the nail on the head in that respect," said Nichols yesterday. He pointed out that few additional changes will have to be made by the University if it becomes one of the technical training sites. Liberal Arts 'Remains'
Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College of Liberal Arts yesterday declared that while some University departments must be decreased in importance, that many will receive even greater emphasis. He declared that the College of Liberal Arts will
JAYHAWKER
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Malott's Father Seriously Ill
Chancellor Deane W. Malott received word today of the serious illness of his father, M. H. Malott, president of the Citizens' National Bank, of Abilene. He planned to leave today immediately after the men's student convocation to be with his father.
It is expected by school officials that, should the University be chosen as a training base, the studies of army men on the Hill will be closely regimented, but that naval trainees will have more choice in their selection of studies. This, it is expected, will keep many of the less technical departments going.
play a large part in the new training program if it comes to this Campus.
"And then, too," it was declared, "there are always the women students, the men under 18, and other men students not in uniform whose needs must be met."
CITY DAIRYMEN---
(continued from page one) milk, which is a violation of the city ordinance.
By this action, the city was deprived of about 3,000 quarts daily, or approximately 40 per cent of the daily consumption. Many people were without milk entircly, and all the available supply was bought up quickly. The Jayhawk and Lawrence Sanitary dairies had many calls, but were able to supply only their regular customers.
On Dec. 11, the city council passed a resolution permitting grade C milk to be sold. It must not, however, be pasteurized in the same equipment as grade A.
This concession will not relieve the shortage, since grade C milk costs local plants more than grade A. and they must charge one cent less for it than for grade A as provided in OPA regulations. Thus the solution to the problem awaits the OPA's granting of the pending request for a raised ceiling price.
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School Boys Smash Enemy Saboteurs!
Fred Bartholomew Bill Halop
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Hit No. 2
The Flaming Epic of America's First Guerrilla Fighters.
LLOYD NOLAN
CAROLE LANDIS
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'Manila Calling'
X-MAS SPECIAL
X-MAS SPECIAL
"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"
First Time in Lawrence
Feature No. 2
"Wild Geese Calling"
APO Sells TB Seals In Watson Library
Tuberculosis Christmas seals are being sold at a table in the lobby of the library by members of Alpha Phi Omega, men's service fraternity Don Pomeroy, president of the fraternity, said. The sale ends today.
A committee composed of Harlan Cope, college junior, chairman; Bob Buchner, college freshman; Bernard Wolkow, college sophomore; and Fred Schneider, college freshman, had charge of the sale of seals. Don Pomeroy stated yesterday that this committee had formerly planned a service project for needy Lawrence families but had given it up because the families didn't need help this Christmas.
The University of California Library has a collection of 47,056 Chinese volumes.
And
Six-Shootin'Son of the Saddle一
THIS THEATRE SELLS WAR-BONDS AND STAMPS
SUNDAY—4 Days
It's the Very Funniest of All the
Aldrich Family Riots!
'Henry Aldrich, Editor'
JIMMY LYDONDS
HENRY ALDRICH