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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1040
Young G.O.P.'s Plan Ratner Dinner
Plans for a dinner in honor of Governor Payne Ratner, who will visit Douglas county the latter part of this month, were the main topic of business at the meeting of the Young Republicans club last night in the Memorial Union building.
Rudy Savely, c'42, and A. I. West, c'41, were named to have charge of the membership drive of the group which seeks to increase its roll with students who can not vote as well as those who vote.
The next meeting of the group will be at 7:30 o'clock next Tuesday night, announced Bill Douce, e'41, president of the organization.
Record Circulation For Reserve Books
The reserve desk at Watson library set a new record for circulation Tuesday, C. M. Baker, director of University libraries, announced today. The number of books checked out was 1,342, surpassing the earlier record on Sept. 28, 1937, of 1,335. One reason for so much study in the fall is that professors assign outside readings early and students work with more zest at the first of the year.
Steel railroad rails have an average life of fifteen years, but some laid half a century age still are in service.
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the home ministry. Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of the exchequer and a Chamberlain man, provided one surprise. He went into the war cabinet, presumably as a concession to die-hard Tories.
Some changes which had been forecast did not come off. Lord Halifax and Lord Beaverbrook stayed on the job as foreign secretary and aircraft production minister, respectively.
There had been forecasts both would go.
The cabinet changes came against
a background of British air activity that appeared to exceed that of Germany and Italy.
British Bomb Objectives
Berlin had a 90-minute air raid alarm. Stockholm reported British planes bombed objectives in Copenhagen, including an airfield, sowed mines in the waters of the Oeresund, and dropped bombs on Malmoe, Sweden—the last presumably by accident.
Other British bomber squadrons blasted at the French coast invasion ports, and at Stettin, Hamburg, Bottrop, Cologne. Hamm, Wilhelmshaven, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend and Calais.
In East Africa British squadrons attack Italian positions at Gura, El Uak, Buna, and Assab with a loss of two planes, according to the Italian report.
One of the most important British objectives was the great Krupp munitions works at Essen where much of Germany's heavy arms and munitions are produced.
German air raids on London appeared to be lighter than usual. Night activity was notably reduced, possibly as a result of new defense techniques now being utilized by the British. A famous boys' school in southeast Britain was bombed but damage in London was reported slight.
However, London announced that the plan for evacuating children overseas had been suspended, probably because of the submarine dangers but officially because of the stormy winter shipping season. Hitler, Mussolini May Meet Again
Rome reported that another meeting between Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini might be in the offing. Spain's envoy, Ramon Serrano Suner, extended his stay in Rome to have another conference with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, and possibly to see Pope Pius. The Pope was said to be preparing to issue an Encyclical against communism.
The Encyclical was said to be inspired by the more active position assumed by Russia in the world as a result of pressure from both sides in the European war.
Three new Italian divisions, totaling some 45,000 men, were reported
by Athens to have been concentrated on the Albanian-Greek border, bringing forces there to about 200,000 men. Vichy heard of the completion of joint German-Italian
plans for a land, sea and air drive on Gibraltar, presumably with Spanish cooperation.
In the Far East Japan had a harp scare and war-like defense exer-
ciences. A new chief of the Imperial General Staff-Gen. Gen Sugiyama was named, Britain prepared to reopen the Burma road as a source for supplies to China, Oct. 17.
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