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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1941
War Summary -was Mr. Peter "Pete" Schweitzer, partner in the law firm of Recht and Schweitzer, who had his outfit in his home in Long Island.
British Claim Capture Of Tobruk
H BY HARISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
Great Britain claimed unofficially today the capture of another Italian desert base, that of Tobruk on the Libyan coast.
United Press Staff Correspondent Richard D. McMillan was at the Tobruk front and cabled a dispatch describing preparations for the final assault which got underway at dawn yesterday. He reported that British scouts already had undertaken feeling-out operations against the next British objectives, Bomba and Derna 50 and 130 miles farther west.
Tobruk's garrison of an estimated 20.000 Italians was expected to boost Marshal Redolfo Graziani's losses since start of the British offensive to 100.000.
Fall of Tobruk under the siege of the fighting Australian desert corps was reported unofficially by the Australian War Minister J. A. Spender. Confirmation was awaited in the next communique of the middle east high command at Cairo.
Bomb Garrison
Within a few hours after start of the Tobruk attack the ring of forts around the base had been breached on a broad front and tanks and Australian infantrymen were pouring through the gaps.
British naval units pounded the garrison and Royal Air Force planes maintained a constant bombing.
The Italian high command admitted that the defenses of Tobruk had been penetrated from the east. The Italians gave the strength of the attacking force as three Australian divisions, two heavy artillery regiments, two armored divisions and a French motorized formation.
The Italians admitted the persistence of British attacks against East Africa where thrusts were being made into Eritrea from the Sudan and north into Ethiopia from Kenya Riots In Rumania
Reports from the Balkans indicated that Gen. Ion Antonescu was getting control of the situation in Rumania after a struggle with radical Iron Guard elements.
Calling CQ
Ham Contacts New York Relatives Chat
By CHUCK ELLIOTT
"Calling CQ, CQ, hello CQ, CQ. This is W9ZCB, located in Lawrence, Kan., standing by. Come in anybody."
And that's the way it started. It was on one of those cold, windy days during the first week of school this month that Bud was trying to gain contact with another "ham." He had given this same call several times and was thinking of signing off when —wait. Here it came.
Calling W9ZCB, calling W9ZCB This is W2MDQ in Hewlett, Long Island, listening and ready to carry on. Come in W9ZCB in Lawrence, Kansas."
From then on the story unravelled as naturally and as easily as a rolling ball of yarn. Introductions revealed that W9ZCB in Lawrence was Ralph "Bud" Weir, sophomore engineer from Parsons, who was talking over his rig in his room in the Fhi Delt house. W2MDQ in Hewlett
After contact was firmly established, Pete (first names are an established practice with "hams" over the short-wave bands) queried Bud as to his knowledge of the professors at the University, particularly of A. W. Davidson, professor of chemistry.
With this as a lead, it was found (continued on page eight)
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Plan Flying Vacation- Deliver New Plane To Embryo Pilots
If fine arts students see a faculty member flying to class next semester, it will be nothing to get up in the air about.
employed with the British-American company.
Ruth Orcutt, associate professor of piano, who recently passed her C.A.A. ground school tests and has only five hours of solo flight to her credit, has been delivered an Aeronca 65 airplane.
The plane, bought in partnership with Grace Hess, librarian at Haskell Institute, is similar to those used in the local CAA flight training program. Miss Hess recently completed her first solo flight. The two women plan to take a flying vacation trip next summer.
Billy Carter, Lawrence merchant,
has ordered a plane similar to Miss
Orcutt's and expects delivery early
in March. Carter plans to form a
flying club of aviation enthusiasts
to share expenses in maintaining
the plane.
Hubert Walker, who was graduated from the department of geology last June, was a visitor of the department yesterday. Mr. Walker is
Van Hartman, college junior, has ordered an Aeronca on which he expects delivery about March 1.
Geology Grad Visits Department
Instituted for the purpose of keeping vacationing Phi Beta Kappas out of the house while the rest are trying to study, the plan has some definite merit.
Book-Weary Will Have Late Hours
Like a Christmas present in July to some students comes the announcement that closing hours during final week will be 12:20 am.
Starting tonight, closing hours for all University women will be 12:30 a.m. and will remain so until Tuesday, Feb. 4. Men may not be entertained in women's houses after 8 any night during finals except Saturday, Jan. 25.
Exams for Some Begin Tomorrow; Others Friday
THURSDAY A.M. 3:30 classes, 5, 4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 23 P.M. 3:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 1:30 to 3:20
P.M. 4:30 classes, all hours at 3:30 to 5:20
FRIDAY A.M. 10:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 24 P.M. 10:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
SATURDAY A.M. 1:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 25 P.M. 1:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
MONDAY A.M. 9:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 27 P.M. 9:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
TUESDAY A.M. 8:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 28 P.M. 8:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
WEDNESDAY A.M. 11:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 29 P.M. 11:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
THURSDAY A.M. 2:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
Jan. 30 P.M. 2:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
Suddenly realizing that less than 24 hours stands between them and a head-on collision with the dreaded final examinations, most of the Hill's student population turned today to laboratories, libraries and quiz files in a concerted effort to prepare themselves for the approaching $ ^{\textcircled{1}} $
Students not enrolled in 3:30 and 4:40 classes had another day of grace, since only examinations in those late afternoon subjects will be held Thursday.
However, almost every one of the University's nearly 5,000 students can count on indulging in mental gymnastics Friday since the finals in 10:30 classes are scheduled for that time.
While studets prepared for a week of swearing and sweating into the early morning hours, faculty members calmly were proceeding to prepare the final examination questions.
One consolation for the troubled student body lies in the fact that for better or for worse when they complete finals a week from tomorrow, their work will be over for a while. Instructors, however, must look forward to tedious hours of checking papers and filing grade reports.
ROTC Will Take New Enrollees
All men who are enrolled in the department now and do not plan to be in it next semester must return all equipment immediately. Col. Karl F. Baldwin added.
Even if you haven't marched before, it isn't too late. Enrollment in classes of ROTC will be open next semester to new enrollees.
Educators Plan For Defense
Washington, Jan. 22-(UP)—A committee of nine well-known educators today began work on a program to revitalize education and fit the nation's schools into the defense program.
The educators, here under the auspices of the National Education Association, seek to "make democracy real" in the country's school systems.
"These men," an NEA official said, "will work out a program that will enable education to do, in its sphere, what industry is doing for national defense."
Attending the conference area Howard W. Wilson, professor of education, Harvard; Chester W. Holmes, assistant superintendent of schools in the District of Columbia; Stanley Dimond, of the Detroit public school system; Roy Hughes, director of social studies in the Pittsburgh schools; Allen Y. King, supervisor of social studies in Cleveland schools; Harry Bard, Baltimore; George Johnson, St. Louis; Carl Aretz, Philadelphia; Fred Alexander, state department of education, Richmond, Va.
"We can build all of the ships, tanks, and guns we want," the NEA official said. "but people who don't appreciate democracy won't fight for
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Sleuths Can Have Field Day at 'Cock Robin'
All super sleuths should be on hand when "Cock Robin" opens the night of Feb. 17 in Fraser theater. A murder will be committed before the eyes of the audience and chances are they won't know the guilty person until the plot unfolds. In the story, a dress rehearsal by a group of amateur players is in
progress on a stage. One of the players becomes worried over a duel scene in which he is a participant and also the unlucky man. He is not keen, therefore, about playing this scene with an enemy who has all the advantages of shooting at him. After quieting his ears, McAuliffe, (Allen Crafton),
director of the play, says:
"You play a scene like this with 10 characters in it and a lot of shooting and action, before an audience of 600 people and ask everybody to write down what he saw—and what do you think you'll get? Six hundred different stories—that's what you'll get.
So, if afterwards any of you want
One of the actors takes this sug-
to kill the author of this piece, or the guy who directed it, take my tip and don't do it in a dark alley or in the middle of a desert because they'll be sure to get you if you do. Just bump us off in a crowd in full daylight with 500 witnesses—the chances are you'll get away with it."
gestion to heart and during the actual performance that night, kills another member of the cast.
Don Dixon and James Barton, instructors in speech and drama, are constructing the scenery and with the exception of final week, steady rehearsals will be continued throughout the mid-semester vacation.