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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940
French Smash Bridgeheads South of Somme
Paris, May 29—(UP)—An army spokesman reported today that French forces wiped out three German bridgeheads south of the river Somme while forces in the north inflicted heavy losses as they withdrew in the face of enemy pressure. The French asserted that the entire south bank of the Somme is now in their control and that French bridgeheads have been established at several points on the north bank. These bridgeheads might be employed as the spearhead of a counter-offensive should one be ordered.
Military sources and the high command made plain that the French lines along the Somme and the Aisne are being strengthened to withhold any fresh German drive south after the action in the north has been completed.
Throughout the night, after desertion by the Belgian army, the French and British fought, retreating slowly, against continuous German attacks, an army spokesman said, and kept up the fight today.
The army spokesman said, and the French high command asserted officially, that the Allied army, taking the full force of an attack by overwhelmingly superior forces, was fighting valorously and inflicting enormous losses on the Germans.
"Our troops are resisting in the north with admirable vigor against the enemy's desperate efforts," said the high command. "Absolutely certain reports permit affirmation that losses the Germans sustained yesterday and last night were particularly high."
The army spokesman, describing the Allied stand as heroic, told how Little rear guard units, detailed to hold back attacking German forces many times their number, were striking fast and hard into the German lines, hour after hour and day after day, and then retiring—those who were left—to the new Allied positions, each time farther back toward the channel coast.
Through last night, the spokesman said, fighting continued unabated, the Germans seeking to press their overwhelming advantage in numbers and equipment, the Allied rear guards stubbornly resisting, holding them back so that the bulk of the army, at least, could escape.
The situation was again what it had been last week when the Germans drove through their wedge into France—what the army informant called melee on a nightmare scale, in which groups of men little and big, fought to the death in individual action, and Allied mechanized units, tanks and armored cars, slashed back into the lines of the advancing Germans, tangling up the German advance guards into an inextricable mass of fighting men and then getting back—if they could.
Over the German advanced lines, it was reported, now swept scores and hundreds of new American-made planes, bombers and crack Curtiss fighters, thrown into the action as quickly as they arrived.
The way to the coast was still open. An army spokesman asserted this morning that the French still held Dunkirk, the chief Allied base on the coast, and even had men still in Calais.
Announce New Staff For Fall Kansan
The new staff for the University Daily Kansan this fall was announced as follows:
News staff: campus editors, Star Stauffer, 'c42, and Art O'Donnel, 'c41 Sunday editor, George Sitterley, 'c41 sports editor, Bob Trump, 'c42; news editor, Bill Koester, 'c41; telegraph editor, Orlando Epp, 'c42; photographic editor, Ed Garich, 'c42; rewrite editor, Wandalee Carlson, 'c42; madeup editor, Pat Murdock, 'cunc1; society editor, Jane West, 'c42.
Editorial Staff: Associate editors,
Bill Fey, c'41, and Mary Lou Randall,
c'41; feature editor, Mary McAn-
aw, c'42.
The news staff was selected by Roscoe Born, c'41, new managing editor, and the editorial staff was chosen by Gene Kuhn, c'40, newly editor-in-chief.
The new officers will take their positions at the start of next semester.
Twenty-eight Law Grads To Take Bar
Twenty-eight graduates of the School of Law will take the Kansas State Bar examination in Topeka. June 24. The examinations are given in the Supreme Court chambers of the capitol building.
Those who graduate in June and those who finish at the completion of the summer term are both eligible to take the June examination.
Those who will take the examination are: Alfred Anderson, Lee Brenneisen, Norman Brown, Eugene Buchanan, Chester Fleming, Donald Foss, Leighton Fossey, Ima Mae Goehring, Charles Henshall, Ulice Hoover, Floyd Kelly, Charles Kimball, Paul Lackie, Leon Lallier, Herbert Lodge, Oscar Mall, Dan Marshall, Glenn MaceCann, Cordell Meeks, Henry Onsgard, Edmund Page, Jack Shuss, John Stewart Frank Thompson, Charles Ward William Bajsinger, John Lastutter and Kenneth Wallace.
Miss Twente to Attend Confab
Miss Esther Twente, assistant professor of sociology, left today for Grand Rapids, Mich., where she will attend the National Conference of Social Workers and present a paper before the rural workers section on the "Utilization of Rural Resources." Miss Twente will return the latter part of the week.
Ford Says Plant Can Build 1,000 Planes Per Day
Dearborn, Mich., May 29—(UP)
—Henry Ford says he could turn out 1,000 warplanes a day at his gigantic River Rouge plant, and that he is ready to throw the resources of this world's largest factory into national defense.
Surveys of the plant already
Student Gives University His Butterfly Collection
Field began chasing butterflies in 1932. Since then he has added to the collection by trading the surplus
William Field, a graduate student in the department of entomology, has recently given his private collection of more than 2,000 North American butterflies to the Snow Entomological Museum.
Field turned the collection over to the museum because, like many hobbies it was growing so large that it threatened to get out of his control. The museum now lacks only 151 species, or kinds, of having a complete collection of North American butterflies, which Field said, makes it equal to any university or college collection in the country.
by army and navy experts and fight- have been made ing ships could be turned out at the 1,000 - a - day rate without adding any new buildings to it. Ford said. Production fa-
Production facilities would
Henry Ford have to be revised, company officials said, but within six months the entire plant, covering 1.096 acres and equipped with railroads, ships, blast furnaces, and more machine mechanics than any other industrial concern in the world, could be concentrated on output of airplanes, engines, and parts
K.U. Premiere On Tonight
The show, directed and authored by Prof. Allen Crafton of the department of speech and dramatic arts, will get two showings tonight. The second is at 9 o'clock.
"Far Above the Golden Valley," a movie of University life, will have its world premiere at 8 o'clock tonight in Fraser theater.
Tickets for the showing are rare. Another run of the picture will be open to the public, however.
Dean Stockton on Committee
Dean Frank T. Stockton of the School of Business has been appointed a member of the Marketing Advisory Committee of the Division for the Blind of the Kansas State Department of Social Welfare.
Sweden is the home of Europe's tallest men, with Scotland second.
specimen to "butterfly chasers" in other parts of the country, much as stamp collectors trade stamps. He has some of the smallest species known on this continent, and also some of the largest. The smallest ones are less than one-half inch in wing spread, and the largest "giant swallow-tail" measures more than five inches. The color and design of many of the butterflies will cause the onclicker to catch his breath, while others are dull and common.
The collection contained 374 species, and added 87 new species to the museum's 661. Field has spent much of the last semester combining the two collections which now total nearly 5,000 butterflies.
Animal Restoration In Dyche Reaches Half Way Stage
Klaus Abegg, taxidermist, who is cleaning and repairing the stuffed animals in Dyche museum, has completed the renovation of about half of the larger animals, which will be replaced in the natural history panorama on the first floor of the building as soon as the huge glass-encased display is finished.
The group of larger animals that Mr. Abegg has been working on include deer, elk, bears, wolves, buffalo, and goats. Approximately 60 of these larger animals have been combed, brushed, sewed, and glued to restore their original color and smoothness.
In August Mr. Abegg and his assistant, Malcolm Brumwell, gr., will go to Michigan to gather birch trees and moss for a sectional setting in the panorama.
Buildings to Replace Tents for Geology Camping Students
Buildings instead of tents will be available for geology students who plan to attend the summer camp in Canyon City, Colo., this summer. The buildings, now being erected, were the result of contributions by 45 alumni of the department of geology, and will be ready for occupancy when the camp begins June 13.
Almost every summer since 1922, geology students in this and other Universities have taken advantage of the ideal location which the area around Canyon City affords for the practical study of geology.
It is strictly a University of Kansas camp, instructed by Prof. K. K Landes of the department of geology, but graduates of schools throughout the country attend its sessions.
The camp, which is located about 12 miles from Canyon Park, will last six weeks. Those who attend this year are: Eugene Maxwell, e'40, Ben Bagrowski, c'41, Irvin Rink, c'41, Jack Menish, c'40, Oren Baptist, e'40, Harry Patton, c'41, Luther Gustafson, c'41, Stuart Earhart, c'41, Albert Kvansicka, e'43, Robert Morton, Birmingham Southern College, James Clark, Kansas City, Mo., Russell Jeffords, Wallingford, Conn., Karl Becker, Manchester, N.H.
Westminster Choir Closes Season at Kansas City
The Westminster A Cappella choir presented its last concert of the year Sunday night before 600 persons at the First Baptist church of Kansas City.
On the program was an anthem "When Morning Gilds the Skies," composed by Powell Weaver, organist and choir director of the Kansas City church. Mr. Weaver was in the audience to hear the number, which he originally dedicated to Dean D. M. Swarthout and the choir.
The choir will sing for the next two Sunday morning services of the Lawrence First Presbyterian church. On June 9, the choir will appear for the last time under the baton of Dean Swarthout with a presentation of two or three of the anthems studied during the year.
Moose, before submerging their heads to feed on acquatic plants. drop their ears at an angle which prevents water from entering.
Chose 105 Women To Guide Frosh
One hundred and five University women will help aid the freshmen women in orienting themselves to campus life next year. The committee in charge of these freshmen counselors, under the supervision of Miss Meguair, adviser to women, are Alice Anne Jones, c'41, chairman; Betty Kimble, c'41, Ruth Spencer, c'41, Jean Stauffer, c'41, Jean Steele, c'41, Charlotte Steele, fa'41, Betty Van Deventer, c'41, Mary Jane, c'41, Winifred Hill, fa'41, Othene Huff, fa'41, Othene Huff, c'41, and Mary Lou Randall, c'41.
The counselors are: Margaret Neal, c'42, Jean Werner, fa'42, Kay Stinson, c'42, Nancy Carey, c'42, Miriam Bartlett c'42, Lois Howell, c'42, Barbara Jo Wilson, c'42, Beth Kirby, c'42, Elizabeth Curry, c'42, Lillian Fisher, c'42, Joyce Standiferd, c'42, Marcia Molby, c'42, Genevieve Harmon, c'42, Mary Frances Sullivan, c'43, Mary Lynn Tuley, c'43, Betty Brune, c'41, Mary Louise Baker, c'42, Dorothy Gear, c'42, Dorothy Howe, c'42, Katherine Hartley, c'42, Alta Bingham, ed'42, Helen Edlin, fa'42, and Nadine Hunt, c'43.
Patty Bowser, c'43, Bernice Randell, c'41, Lenore Knuth, fa'42, Sue Johnstone, c'42, Margaret Whitehead, c'42, Jean Brownlee, c'43, Reola Durand, c'43, Betty Bridges, c'41, Annette Woods, c'42 Barbara Whitley, fa'43, Leah Edmonds, fa'42, Peggy Smith, c'42, Beatrice Hagedorn, fa'41, Jean Klusman, fa'41, Millie Regier, c'41, Ruth Mary Chandler, c'41, Martha Jane Hayes, ed'41, Joan Taylor, c'41, Olivia Cole, fa'41, Virginia Ford, ed'41, Barbar Koch, c'43, Jean Bailey, c'43, Margaret Learned, c'42, Joan Taggart, c'43, Betty Jean Hess, c'43, Myra Hurd, c'43, Betsy Dodge, fa'43, Patty Biglow, c'43, Viola Knoche, c'41, Helen
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