TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Japanese Get Drop On U.S. Fleet
Plan Strategy To Scatter Naval Units
Washington—(UP)While the U. S. Navy is searching the Pacific for Japanese fleet units, naval experts agreed that Japan's two immediate objectives appeared to be to keep units of this country's fleet and air force scattered over a wide area of the Pacific, and to prevent the bombing of Tokyo and other industrial centers.
Reliable sources said Japanese troops had landed on the small island of Lubang, only 80 miles from the city. Reports said Japanese had landed only a small force, and it was assumed preparations were being made by American forces to attack.
In support of the first conclusion, Navy sources pointed to the Japanese bombings of widely scattered American areas, rather than a concentrated move against a single objective. These sources believe that Japan's scattered operations may be a smoke screen for a major operation which, possibly, is in the final stage of preparation.
Enemy planes bombed the Manila area by moonlight early today and flames leaped up on the southern side of the city after an air raid alarm at 3 a.m. There were two earlier alarms, but no planes appeared.
Japan asserted today that its fighting forces, in an unbroken series of successes, had started a land attack on Singapore, destroyed more than 300 American planes in assaults on the Philippines and Hawaii, and bombed America's Midway Island 1,300 miles west of the Hawaiian Islands.
First news of the assertion that Singapore was now under direct attack came in a German official news agency dispatch from Tokyo, heard in London by the United Press listening post.
The dispatch said the Japanese imperial stag had announced that Japaneses land troops were now attacking the Singapore area.
Christmas Talk Features YM-YW Assembly Today
Members of Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. held their regular monthly membership assembly this afternoon in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
Miss Leona Handler, director of the Lawrence Unitarian church, addressed the group on "The Significance of Christmas." Miss Handler returned six months ago from Transylvania, where she represented the Unitarian church for a year and a half.
Royal Humbert, graduate student, sang old English Christmas carols. The assembly discussed plans for the National Student Assembly to be held in Miami, Ohio, Dec. 27 to Jan. 3.
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Travel Bureau
Prepares For Xmas
Students and faculty members desiring passengers and rides for the Christmas holidays are asked to turn their names in to the Union Travel Bureau so that the Bureau will be able to notify them of possibilities, Frank Arnold, chairman of the Union Travel Bureau, said today.
The Bureau acts only as a connection between passengers and persons having room for riders. People applying for rides are notified of opportunities, but all arrangements are left to the passenger and driver.
Names should be turned in at the Student Union Activities office in the Memorial Union building.
Keith Spaulding Presides at ACU Convention
Thirteen represented the University at the convention. They were Miss Hermina Zipple, director of food service, Bill Overton, Nancy Kerber, Georgia Ferrel, Ruth Beeler, Mary Gene Hull, Heidi Viets, Bob Hodgson, Fred Mitchelson, Don Keplinger, Earl Clarke, Carl Hines, and Spalding.
A Kansas man took the spotlight at the twenty-second annual convention of the Association of College Unions held in Lincoln, Nebr., last weekend and attended by 119 students representing campuses from Montana to Florida. Keith Spalding, president of the-Student Union Activities board here, was elected by the assembled students to serve as chairman for the conference.
Student unions of 54 colleges and universities in 23 states were represented at the conclave, which sought to solve problems in operation and activity-planning of unions. The conference opened Friday morning and closed Saturday night.
Spalding as chairman introduced at the general meeting Saturday afternoon a motion which burst the only bombshell at the convention. It was a motion which the student representatives had authorized him to make, providing that in the future the site-to-be for a student union convention be chosen two years in advance. The faculty contested the issue, the motion lost, and Spalding was appointed chairman of a committee to frame and propose a substitute motion. The proposition thus composed was passed.
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Philippines Are Solid for U.S., Declares Craiq
Some 500 persons wondered as they listened to Captain John B. Craig's lecture on the Philippines last night in Hoch and saw color films of the Islands if those Islands were at that moment being bombed. In light of the present situation, Craig's talk was significant.
Captain Craig went to the Philippines last summer with an assignment to take pictures for Paramount News and to investigate. He now believes that the northern islands, those of the Sulu group, do not want to be given independence in 1946. All the Philippines are solidly behind the United States, Craig said.
"The Moros and the Igorots think that we Americans are selling them down the river," Craig observed. These natives respect Americans because of American fighting superiority, but they will never allow themselves to be governed by the Philippines Christians of the southern islands, Craig said. When and if our government gives the entire Philippine group complete independence, he believes that revolt will follow.
Must Change Industries
Chief industries in the Philippines are sugar and coconut oil, which constitute 86 per cent of their commerce. However, new industries must be built up before the Islands become independent if they are to survive economically, since these products could not enter the U.S. duty free if they did not come from a U.S. possession. The $2,000,000 that has already been raised through excise taxes to help the Philippines establish new industries has not been wisely used, Craig declared.
In his color films of the Islands,
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He was especially concerned about conditions on the potentially wealthy island of Mindanao, where easy going Americans have let Japan get a hold upon the people. For some time children in the schools of Davao, leading city on the island, have been taught Japanese curriculum, have bowed to the North and said a prayer for the Japanese Emperor every morning instead of saluting the American flag. Japan's work in Mindanao was in preparation for the current bold stroke, Craig observed.
Captain Craig carried the Explorers club flag to Magellan's tomb and to the Lost Horizon gold mine in the interior of the islands.
Craig said he found the people of the Philippines whole-heartedly behind America. "We have been Santa Claus to the Philippines," he assured the audience.
Business Honor Man To Speak at Forum
Arthur Cromb, School of Business honor man in 1930 and now treasurer of the Standard Steel works at North Kansas City, Mo., will speak at the School of Business
Cromb will speak on "Some Production Headaches in the Steel and Aluminum Fabricating Business."
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