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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 49
EXTRA Army Plans to Call Reserves In January
In a release received from Washington from the combined Army and Navy Manpower Commission this afternoon, Registrar Laurence Woodruff, Coordinator of Military Information for Students, announced the following information concerning enlisted men on the campus.
All Army reservists will be called at the end of the present semester. This does not make any differentiation between the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps or the Army Air Corps Reserve.
Concerning those students enrolled in the School of Medicine and who have already received their probationary commissions, they may continue with their commissions and will be allowed to graduate. As an alternative, they may resign their commissions and enlist in the Army as a private and be called to active duty in May.
At that time the Army will return them to their respective schools but order governmental supervision. They will be receiving government pay for schooling, subsistence, and uniforms until they graduate.
Senior ROTC men will be called in May whether they have graduated or not. Juniors in technical engineering courses enlisted in the AERC will be allowed to continue until May.
At a date to be announced all V-1, V-5, and V-7 men who are regularly enrolled in college will be placed on active duty with full pay. On July 1, 1943, if a student has completed seven semesters he will be allowed one more, if he has completed six he will receive two more. Those who have completed three, four, or five semesters will be allowed a maximum of seven semesters. Those students having one or two semesters on July 1 will be
two semesters on July 1 will be given a maximum of six semesters.
All V-5 enlistees will be called in May regardless of their status in school. All V-1 and V-7 men who are medical students will be continued under an accelerated curricula in approved schools and will be allowed to complete their course
Engineers enlisted in the navy will be allowed a total of eight semesters. The courses for both the navy and the army will run yearround.
Enlistments for those students not yet 18 years of age will be allowed until March 15, 1943.
Weather
Falling temperatures this afternoon and tonight, much colder today, lowest temperatures 15 to 20 degrees, extreme west and near 15 degrees central and east portions.
Tonight's Midweek Dance Postponed
The midweek dance, slated for Memorial Union lounge from 7 to 8 o'clock tonight. has been postponed until after Christmas, because of the conflicting YMCA-YWCA freshman dance at the time in the Kansas room, Newell Jenkins, Union Activities president announced today.
Hold Johnson Rites Today
Funeral services were held this afternoon at Trinity Episcopal church for Prof. William Savage Johnson, 65, chairman of the department of English from 1924 to 1940, who died of an embolism Tuesday night at Lawrence Memorial hospital after a seven-week illness. Burial was at Oak Hill cemetery.
Professor Johnson had been teaching classes in English literature this semester before becoming ill. He remained at his home, 1509 Crescent drive, for a week before entering Lawrence Memorial hospital. Here 34 Years
Professor Johnson came to the University to teach in 1908 after receiving his bachelor of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees at Yale in 1900 and 1905. He taught at Yale three years before coming here. He had been a member of the English faculty continuously for 34 years.
During his years at University, Dr. Johnson strengthened the department of English. He brought many of the present members of the department to the University.
His influence on students was em- phasized by a student who wrote Professor Johnson before his death, "... I could not realize how much my work (with you) would mean to me later—both in knowledge and most important, in heightened enjoyment of every-day living."
Professor Johnson was born Augs. (continued to page seven)
All Men To Meet
Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today that a special meeting of all men students in the University is to be held at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon in Hoch auditorium. At this meeting the Chancellor will give some specific information that the University has received from the war manpower commission, as to the effect of new policies concerning the enlisted reserves and other university men.
The war manpower commission, headed by Paul V. McNutt has adopted a new program for the induction and further education of men of university age. The Chnacellor will give as much detailed information as he has available and will answer any questions that men may have concerning the program.
In the meantime, the University administration urges all men students to "keep an even keel" and to take no action as a result of rumors that have been flying thick and fast.
British Coup Blasts Rommel In Retreat
Concert to Rodeo-must lose some forty men to the army within the next few weeks. "Nevertheless," said Mr. Wiley, "The band will continue, and the regular (continued to page seven)
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's hopes of trundling his defeated axis army more or less intact into the fortifications of Western Tripoli or Tunisia were blasted today by a brillaint British coup which chopped his retreating divisions into two pieces and paved the way for his ultimate annihilation.
By International News Service
Striking swiftly and taking the enemy entirely by surprise, Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery sent a "mile a minute"
Band Scores Hit With Two Hours Of Variety In Hoch
For its fall concert, the University of Kansas Band presented a full two hours of entertainment in Hoch auditorium last night. The program was like a huge variety bill, with echoes of the concert hall, the vaudeville stage, the sawdust ring, and the rodeo in the various offerings. Credit is due Russell L. Wiley, director of the band for assembling the program.
By MICKEY ROWSEY
More than 100 reservations had been made by noon today at the booth in center Frank Strong hall, Hines said today. Several organized houses are making their reservations at blocks of tables, and Hines suggested That if other houses were planning to do likewise they should make their reservations immediately.
Party Ticket Sale Tops 150 Today
More than 150 tickets to the New Year's Eve Party have been sold at the Business Office since the sale opened Monday, Carl Hines, chairman of the ticket committee, announced today. The count was made when the Business Office closed at 5 o'clock last night.
Near the end of the program Mr. Wiley explained some of the difficulties under which he had labored this semester. Half of his players were new at the beginning of the termb, and now he
armored corps streaking south into the Libyan desert below El Agheilla and then brought it back to the sea Waiti Matratin, the head of a dried up stream on the coastal road 60 miles to the west.
A large portion of the Marshall's forces are now in a pocket between Montgomery's advanced force and the balance of the British army of the Nile, moving forward as rapidly as possible to catch up with Rommel and destroy his tattered remnants.
Allied bombing and fighting planes maintained steady pressure against Axis positions along the Eastern coast of Tunisia. On the Russian front, the Germans attempted new counter attacks before sub zero weather again overtakes the Nazi legion, but all crumpled before charges of Soviet tank forces which took a heavy toll of enemy troops, especially at Stalingrad.
Trainees To Receive CPT Wings Saturday
A wing presentation ceremony, in which 50 trainees in the CAA War Training Service at the University will participate, will be held at the Lawrence Municipal Airport at 11:30 o'clock Saturday morning. Silver wings which will be presented the men indicates completion of all the preliminaries of the primary flight training program and that they have made their initial solo flight.
The wings, which bear the inscription "Enlisted Reserve CPT" are awarded the army and navy service trainees who are taking the
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Qualified Men To Continue College Work
Washington.—(INS) The army and navy today jointly announced plans to permit qualified youths of college age in the armed forces to continue their education and at the same
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of War Stinson admitted today that the army-navy plan to send enlisted men to colleges and universities will tend to temporarily destroy "liberal education in America," but he warned that the expansive program is absolutely necessary.
Responding to numerous questions on whether the plan would "go a long way to destroy liberal education," Stimson replied:
"Temporarily, yes, so far as able-bodied men of college age are concerned, but in the long run, emphatically, no."
time have the chance to become commissioned officers.
It was explained the armed forces will utilize resources of the nation's colleges and universities "to maintain a steady flow of young men suitable for specialized educational technical training."
The educational program is a result of the recent amendment to the selective service and training act which reduced the draft age to 18 and eliminated "the principal source of men college students."
Major differences between the army and navy educational programs was that the navy will accept for technical training high school graduates or students with equivalent formal education who are 17 years old and have their parents' permission to enlist.
The joint army-navy announcement stated that selection of the colleges and universities under the educational program "will be governed by the facilities available for their responsible participation in the educational training program." Procedure for selection of the colleges will be "announced shortly," it was added.
Educators To Discuss Plans For New System
Topека, (Ins.)—State School educators will meet here Friday to formulate plans to permit high-grade 17-year-olds who are high school seniors, to go to college for the rest of this school year so they may have some college credits before going into the service. All state colleges will be asked to arrange new courses to accommodate them.