WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Refugees Risk Death To Flee from Norway
New York—(UP)—There were three children, two women and two men huddled in the cabin of a 70-foot cutter on the turbulent North Sea — somewhere between Norway and England.
Day had just broken. They had put out the night before from a little town on the Norway coast, bound for England because Nazi domination had become intolerable. They had risked death before a firing squad in attempting to escape and now,
three of their journey accomplished, death threatened from the air.
Grenade Hits Chimney
In the cabin, the children of Mrs. Elsa Johansen, who told this story, looked curiously at their mother.
"They showed no fear," she said, "and I tried not to.
"When the plane was directly over the cutter its crew dropped hand grenades. One grenade fell through the chimney and into our cabin stove, where it exploded. The stove door flew open, and sparks and ashes flew out, but fortunately the stove did not burst. None of us was hurt."
Her oldest child, Roy, 8, asked his mother what the trouble was.
Students Shine In War Effort
"College and university students have a definite role in the war preparedness and defense program," said Miss Elizabeth Wilson, Washington, D.C., who represented the Consumers' Division of the Office of Price Administration, school and college section, on the campus yesterday. Miss Wilson discussed with University authorities possible programs for the conservation of materials vital to war activity.
She pointed out that although the program is still in a formative stage, this is the first time in our history that college students have been affected and organized in such a war effort.
The proposed program, when worked out, will probably be an educational one. Miss Wilson commented, with the emphasis on the conservation of materials, how to use substitutes, and other topics of importance to the nation in the world crisis.
She also pointed out that all over the nation the students are showing a great eagerness for cooperation. One of the biggest problems is that of formulating constructive programs rapidly enough to absorb student energy, Miss Wilson concluded.
ROTC Commissions For Men at 18
Graduates of the R.O.T.C. course at the University now may receive reserve army commissions at the age of 18 years, the Military Science department announced yesterday, in compliance with an order of the war department. The previous age limit of 21 has been lowered for R.O.T.C. students to assure that they are issued commissions immediately upon their graduation.
A University military spokesman said yesterday that the new ruling in no way implied a shortening of the four-year R.O.T.C. course.
'America Today Panel Series Starts Tuesday
The first in a series of five student meetings to be held during the next month for the discussion of the general topic, "America Today," will be held in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. The meeting will be a roundtable discussion and will last an hour.
The meetings are part of the special emphasis period sponsored by the University chapters of the YMCA and the YWCA, working together on the program. The period will be for student discussion and enlightment on the present conditions in the country since war was declared.
The panel discussion will be under the direction of Gilbert Ulmer, asst. dean of the College. Two faculty members, Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science and sociology and D. Gagliardo, professor of economics, will participate in the meeting along with Joe Murray, managing editor of the Lawrence Journal World.
Neal Ukena, college senior and chairman of the "America Today" commission, expressed hope that many students would attend. He stressed the fact that the meeting, although sponsored by the two "Y" organizations, was for all students on the Hill and not limited to the members of the two groups.
Four other meetings have been planned by the commission but are not definite as yet. Plans call for three lectures and one more panel discussion before the series is over
Upon graduation, they will be commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Air Corps Reserve, and will be given the coveted silver wings symbolic of the aeronautical rating of pilot.
Three to Pilot Combat Planes
Before entering the final and advanced course at Stockton Field 10 weeks ago, the cadets completed 20 weeks of primary and basic training. In the advanced course they were taught to fly the large combat airplanes of the Army air corps and became acquainted with meteorology, radio code, navigation, engineering, signal communication and other professional and military subjects.
Three former University students will be graduated soon from the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Stockton, Calif. They are Charles Weber, Jr., Ted M. Winzer, and Lyle D. Lutton.
Congress Now Considering Secrets Bill
Washington, Feb. 18.—(UP)—Congress has before it today a Justice department "Official Secrets乳lf" which would substitute claw-tooth penalties of fine and imprisonment for the present system of voluntary censorship established by President Roosevelt.
The bill was drafted merely to provide a penalty for the copying of names from Civil Service Commission personnel records for use as a commercial mailing list, but it is so loosely worded as to cover practically everything pertaining to a government office. The bill is not limited to information possibly of aid to an enemy. If literally construed, a newspaper reporter probably could be indicted, tried and punished severely for publishing a confidential memorandum which proved a government official to be guilty of moral turpitude. The bill would enable cabinet officers and agency heads to suppress—for a time, at least—or to demand punishment for publication of anything at all pertaining to their offices which they decided to label "secret or confidential."
Roosevelt Declines Comment
President Roosevelt, who evidently knew nothing about the bill nor its implications, declined at his press conference yesterday to comment on it, other than to say he could not define in these days what is military information and what is not.
The text of the proposed measure plainly showed that by a loose definition of what constitutes an official secret, the bill almost automatically could supersede the present voluntary censorship arrangement.
Van Nuys Gives Warning
Inquiry at the Justice department indicated, however, that the bill was proposed without any intention of obtaining punitive censorship regulation. It appears to be an instance in which the legal drafting officers of the department may have used phraseology extending considerably further than they were attempting to reach and did not realize how far they had gone.
How would you like to learn to square dance? If you would like to, why don't you attend the dance being held Friday night at 8 o'clock in Robinson gymnasium?
"It looks to me," said one person who examined the proposed legislation, "like a case of setting a bear trap to catch a rabbit."
Grandpa's Pet Sport Revived
During the early part of the evening, instructors in the physical education department will teach the beginning steps and how to make simple squares. Later, the group will take up the formation of more intricate squares.
In the past as many as seven squares have been formed with eight persons to a square. The dances are held every other Friday night in Robinson.
Speech Department Will Read Plays
The department of speech and drama is making plans to present staged readings of modern plays in addition to the two plays offered on the activity and season tickets. The three plays now being considered for presentation are "Mrs. Moonlight" by Benn Wolf Levy, "The Watch on the Rhine" by Lillian Hillman, and "The Male Animal" by Thurber and Nugent.
These performances will be more pretentious than common play readings but not so elaborate as a regular stage presentation. They will resemble a radio version and performance, but the readers will be seen. Each play will be cut to a reading time of approximately one hour.
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Definite arrangements for the presentation of the plays have not been made, but rehearsals for "Mrs. Moonlight" will start immediately, the department announced.
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