UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1941.
NUMBER 60
39TH YEAR
Red Plays Xmas-War Hop
Hart Reports Japanese Fleet Flees
Manila — (UP) — Admiral Thomas C. Hart, commander of the Asiatic fleet, revealed today that a Japanese battle fleet fled to avoid battle when American warships approached.
Official communiques reported that American war planes have taken a heavy toll of Japanese planes and ships.
Hart said a 29,300-ton Japanese battleship of the Kongo class had suffered one heavy hit and two lighter hits when bombed by a naval plane. The bombs put the warship out of control. This success was in addition to the sinking of 29,-300-ton Haruna, Hart added to information released in Washington last night.
Hart said the American fleet "contacted" the Japanese war fleet a considerable distance off Manila. The enemy ships sheared off to avoid battle.
Developments today:
American submarines are ranging the narrow seas of the war zone and are expected to report major successes when they communicate with their home bases.
American and Phillippines plane; have struck hard at the Japanese air force; Filipino pilots were credited with shooting down two Japanese planes in action and the Americans bagged 11.
Hart said the navy's cavite base eight miles southwest of Manila, had been hit by a powerful Japanese airplane attack. There were extensive fires and great damage was done, he said. Small ships lying at the yard were also damaged.
One bomb directly hit a dispensary, Hart said, and everyone in it was killed, including nurses and doctors. He emphasized that the dispensary was in the center of a fortified area.
He said that loss of life figures had not been completed but that it was known most of the dead were civilians.
Hart said that submarines of the Asiatic fleet had not yet reported. "But we expect big results," he added.
Jane Howe, K.U. Grad,
Uninjured in Jap Bombing
Jane Howe, a graduate of the University in 1938 and now working as laboratory technician at Queen's hospital, Honolulu, is reported "safe and working" according to a cabiagram received Wednesday evening by her mother, Mrs. J. L. Howe of Lawrence.
3-Way Jam On Tonight
Hill dwellers with a yen for hopping and spiced cider, and minus the two dollars that was to be spent for Aunt Genevieve's Christmas present, will convene for the Sophomore Hop in the Memorial Union ballroom from 9 tonight to 1 a.m. for a session in the modern art of "jamming."
Chief instructor will be Rod Nichols, assisted by his crew of 12 musicians.
The Hop will go three-fold by introducing, besides dancing, Christmas celebration and a farewell to soldiers.
The band will be introduced by its theme song, "Wail of the Winds," with Nichols' torrid trumpet doing the wailing.
The pre-Christmas celebration has been dedicated by the sophomore class and the varsity dance committee to those who are leaving the University to join the armed forces.
The Hop will be changed into a party by the addition of balloons, noisemakers, and serpentines, by the consumption of hot spiced cider and wafers, and by the presence of mist- tioe.
Jim Burdge, dance manager, states that there are a number of tickets available, and that the 750 limit will prevail.
Tickets are on sale at the business office in Frank Strong hall, the hostess desk in the Memorial Union building and downtown at Bell's music store.
Topeka-(UP)—The Kansas State board of education today authorized the issuance of temporary teaching certificates to qualified persons to replace teachers called to army service and those who have resigned to accept defense jobs.
Kansas Needs Prep Teachers
The board also said that in some cases married women who were teaching were resigning their positions so their husbands could claim deferred status because of dependents.
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It was said that many teachers had resigned their low-pay jobs to accept employment in defense industries at increased pay.
The board said that several hundred small schools in the state would have to close after the first of the year unless new teachers can be found.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy and warmer northeast.
RED NICHOLS
Ensign Eddie Olsen, a graduate of the School of Business in 1937, was the first K.U. casualty reported in World War II. Olsen's parents in Bonner Springs have received word he was killed in action during the Japanese raid on Hawaii Sunday.
K.U. Grad Killed In Jap Raid
Olsen enlisted in the naval reserve two years ago. Since completing his training at the Great Lakes Naval Training School on Lake Michigan, he has been stationed with the United States fleet in Pearl Harbor.
Ensign Olsen was a member of Delta Tau Delta. After graduation he worked in Kansas City for two years before he enlisted in the navy.
Christmas Vespers To Feature Choir, Calderwood. Brass
Dr. R. C. Moore, Kansas state geologist, left last night for Chicago to attend the council meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Moore Goes to Chicago Meet
The sponsoring organizations are Democracy's Volunteers, a national student youth organization, University Forums Board, and Symposium.
Civil Liberties Day is to be held in recognition of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Constitution.
In keeping with President Roosevelt's recent proclamation of Dec. 15 as Civil Liberties Day, three University student forum groups will sponsor a discussion of civil liberties problems at 7:45 p.m. Monday in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law, will act as chairman of the discussion. Principal speakers will be Rabbi Marshall Miller of the Congregation Ohev Shollon, Kansas City, Kan.; Pev. Joe King of the Lawrence Congregational church; Prof. A. H. Turney of the department of education; and Edwin Abels, Lawrence publisher.
Campus Draft Situation Remains Unchanged
The prospect of having to draft an additional 2,000,000 men faces United States Army officials today. This would be necessary, military authorities said, to bring the United States land forces to wartime strength. $^{1}$.
"Washington has told us nothing yet. We are still acting or original orders," Bruce Cameron, chairman of the local draft board, said today on the University and Lawrence draft situation.
Commemorate Bill of Rights' 150th Birthday
One of the features of the sixty-eighth Christmas Vespers to be presented in Hoch auditorium at 4 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. Sunday will be four tableaux arranged by the combined efforts of the departments of design and drawing and painting.
Vernon Mahon, college freshman, will leave Monday night for active duty in the U.S. Navy. He will go to the West coast where he believes he will be stationed aboard a destroyer.
"The Padada," an old Mexican religious ceremony still popular below the Rio Grande, will be pictured in one tableau.
Bob Whitehead, college freshman, withdrew from school earlier this week to enlist. He was undecided as to which service he would join.
Mahon has served four years in the Navy. When it seemed probable that he would be recalled because of the current situation, Mahon re-enlisted.
n At present, there are 1,500,000 men in uniform. Supplemented by en-
listments, the draft will have to increase this number to 4,000,000, according to a statement made yesterday by Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of national selective service.
Hershey said that as many men as possible will be taken from the present 21-35 age group. Gen. M. R. McLean, director of the Kansas selective service board, has announced that local boards are to submit all registrants with the classification of 1-A to physical examination. It is probable that physical requirements will be relaxed.
General Hershey has indicated that the draft age might be lowered to 18, and also that men over 28 who have been deferred might be called.
The ceremony is practiced in the homes of the Mexicans for nine days preceding Christmas.
The procession placing gifts before the Padada alter is led by a little boy and two little girls wearing flowers in their hair. They are followed by four men carrying long poles with wreaths on the end of them to frighten away the bad spirits. Two men will wear masks, one representing death and one the devil.
McClure to Be Madonna
The second scene, entitled "The Annunciation," will feature Rosemary McClure, fine arts senior, as the Madonna. She will be kneeling in front of an angel.
"The Road to Bethlehem" will be the third tableau. "The Madonna of the Window," will show the Madonna with an angel on either side and the three kings in the lower part of the picture. The scene is from a huge rose window.
Special scenery for the tableaux have been painted by Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting.
Calderwood to Read
The A Capella Choir, under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, will sing four numbers. The Christmas choralogue, "The Visit of the Magi" will be read by Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech, with the choir humming in the background.
Before each performance begins, a brass quartet will play a 20-minute program of carols from the auditorium balcony. A part of the program will be a brass ensemble playing, "Fantasy on Christmas Carols," by Robert Palmer, instructor in piano.
During the Vespers, Jay Janes will take a free-will offering to be given to the Fine Arts scholarship fund.
Ticket Sale To Aid Soldiers
Proceeds from the sale of tickets for the picture "Nothing But the Truth" will be used to furnish recreation rooms for Lawrence and University men stationed at Camp Robinson, Ark.. it was announced this morning by organizations supporting the benefit.
Prizes will be given the women's house and the men's house selling the most tickets.
The picture is sponsored by the American Legion, Masonic lodge, Elks, Beta Sigma Phi, Business and Professional Women's club, Chamber of Commerce, several cooperatives, the DAR, Eagles, Odd Fellows, Junior Chamber, Kiwanis, GAR, Lions, P-TA, Rotary, Soroptimist, United Spanish American war veterans and their auxiliary.