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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1941.
Grad Plans Fast Return
Mrs. Joseph Newlin, who attended the university in 1866 and now lives in California, is making plans to fly back for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary in June, said Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, as he sketched today plans for class reunions next month.
Eighteen class reunions are underway, Ellsworth said, but since several classes will meet together, at least 48 groups have made definite plans for their reunions. More plans are coming in every day.
Many notables will be among the graduates who assemble for the celebration. Two have definitely made plans to attend are R. R. Price, of the class of 1897, who organized the University extension division and now heads the extension division at the University of Minnesota, and Sidney Prentice, who is an artist for the Carnegie museum in Pittsburgh and for the American Museum of Natural history in New York City.
Prentice also works for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington and
is regarded as the world's foremost artist in reproducing fossil remains.
artist in reproducing fossil remains. The classes of 1906, 1907, and 1908 have sent out a pamphlet to members which announces their reunion and dinner on June 8.
uinter the box.
It tells of members who have achieved fame who plan to attend the reunion. On the bottom of the sheet are pictures of men and women in costume of the turn of the century, with a slogan: "When men were men, and Gibson girls were sweethearts."
Art Banquet Will Precede Concert
The annual School of Fine Arts banquet, second of three major Fine Arts Day events, will provide approximately 200 persons with food, fun, and information at 6 o'clock tonight in the Memorial Union ballroom.
Earl E. Harper, director of the University of Iowa School of Fine
THADDEUS KOZUCH
. . plays tonight.
Arts, will be the after-dinner speaker, talking of "Fine Arts and the Present Crisis."
A program of musical numbers, both light and serious, has been arranged which will include group singing led by Joe Williams.
Following the banquet comes the annual Young American Artist program which this year offers two outstanding young artists—Virginia Haskins, coloratura soprano from the Chicago Opera Company, and Thaddeus Kozuck, brilliant young Polish-American pianist.
Berlin Says Hess
Hopes To Make Peace
London, May 13.—(UP) — Radio Berlin today quoted the semi-official National Socialist Korrespondenz as saying that papers Rudolf Hess left behind showed he was under the impression that owing to previous personal contact with the British he could reach an understanding with them.
No. 3 Nazi
A Traitor
(Editor's note: the following was compiled from United Press releases.)
Indications seeped through the British and German censorships today that Rudolph Hess, Nazi No. 3, is both a deserter and a traitor—that he flew deliberately to enemy territory intending to betray the innermost secrets of Nazism and the German war machine.
If so, it would be a tremendous aid to the British cause, the equivalent of a whole series of major victories, for Hess is one of the few Germans who can say when, where, and how Adolf Hitler intends to strike next, describe with authority the internal condition of Germany, and point out the weaknesses in German defenses and armed might. Was Personal Deputy
Hess's position in the Reich was that of Hitler's personal deputy and Reichminister without portfolio. His strength in Germany lay in his closeness to Hitler; he had acted as private secretary and faithful watchdog for him. Although Hess had no government department, he acted as co-ordinator of other ministries in the government.
Hess became Hitler's private secretary and most intimate friend in 1920, when they joined forces to overthrow the Munich communist regime. For 20 years more, until last week, he was slavish in his devotion to Hitler and the party. His blind faith in Nazism, and the esteem and authority that he enjoyed under Nazi rule, all made his flight to Britain the more astounding.
The former head of the Nazi party is now 47 years of age. He was born in Egypt of German parents and enlisted in the German Infantry during World War I, but later transferred to the air service.
Has All German Secrets
The importance of Hess in the German government is shown by the fact that neither the Nazi party nor the German naion could have any secrets from Hess. He had not only the right but the duty to inquire into the functions of every government department and he was deputy party leader. In 1934 Hitler decreed that Hess "must, whether personally or through the agents when he appoints, participate in the formation of every law enacted, irrespective of the department from which it originates."
In Beer Hall Putsch
prisoned for their part in the Munich beer hall putsch. During their imprisonment together Hitler dictated every word of his famous "Mein Kampf" to Hess.
The "traitor," as Hitler now calls Hess, was entrusted with much of the "strategic" speechmaking in Nazi Germany.
He joined with Hitler after the war, but in 1923 both were im-
He was one of the first to use the concentration camp as a device for dealing with political dissenters, and was often cruel in enforcing policy. Yet Hess was second, only to Hitler as the most popular man in Germany. He is modest, and the only Nazi official who has not tried to get rich through the party.
He often made references to God and religion in his speeches, and believed that God favored the German cause in the present war.
In political matters it was almost impossible to see Hitler, except through Hess. His position and close friendship with Hitler has made him probably the most well-informed man concerning German affairs in the world today.
OLIN DOWNES---young critic should apply his discriminatory powers first to the field of art in which he is most interested. "If you go to an opera and find that you don't like it," he said, "you show the first sign of a good critic when you get up and walk out.
to talk and that he would be treated as an honorable prisoner of war.
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Lord Halifax party on the same train,
and screaming Kansas City sirens.
Tests Voice at 6:45
Tibbett tried his voice with his manager at 6:45 o'clock last evening, and the manager decided it was in no condition for a concert. Tibbett felt that he would get about half way through the program and then have to quit.
Dean Swarthout says the concert has been re-scheduled for May 21, a week from tomorrow. The concert certainly will be given this time. Swarthout told a Fine Arts Day convocation audience in Hoch auditorium this morning.
Reason: One member of the School of Fine Arts faculty has purchased tickets to Tibbett concerts for the past five years and has never yet attended one. The faculty member will be cut off of town next week.
WILL AID BRITAIN---race Sunday. Several weeks ago he was turned down by the army because of physical defects . . . what in the world does Uncle Sam want—anyway! . . . In the same meet Campbell Kane, nation's half-mile champ, won the mile in 4:11.8 with Ralph Schwartzkopf second and John Munski third . . . kinda reminds one of the Relays in reverse, doesn't it?
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was his desire to break away from
the current Nezi war policy and to
escape responsibility for it.
It was said that Ivone Kirkpatrick, foreign office expert sent to Glasgow to question Hess, had made only a preliminary report. Informants sold that physicians had examined Hess thoroughly and were ready to certify him wholly sane.
It was emphasized that there would be no attempt to force Hess
Reliable informants in official quarters said Hess seemed like a man imbued with the zeal of a convert against the present trend of Nazi policy and that he was eager to unpack his knowledge. They dismissed suggestions that his flight might have been a Nazi trick so that he could give false information.
There were indications that while official statements might be issued soon on Hess, they would leave out any information which he might disclose of the many Nazi secrets he had been entrusted with.
Is a Nazi Rift
The amazing parachute landing in Scotland of Hess, Hitler's shadow for more than 16 years, was generally held to mean than there was a rift, grave and possibly wide, in the Nazi leadership.
The government had withheld all information of Hess's landing for two full days. It was not until the
German radio had disclosed last night that Hess was missing that the government made it known that Hess had parachuted to safety in Scotland and was a prisoner of war in a Glasgow hospital.
It was assumed that Churchil personally was handling the situation and that it was on his instructions that the foreign office had sent Ivone Kirkpatrick, director of the foreign division of the Ministry of Information, to Glasgow to take charge of the questioning of Hess.
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