Nazis Fight For Grip On Channel
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London, May 23—(UP)—Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced today that the Germans hold the channel port of Abbeville.
Churchill made the announcement to the House of Commons. He declared that heavy fighting is going on in and around Boulogne.
Boulogne is one of the two principal French channel ports closest to Great Britain. The other is Calais.
Churchill declared that the Geman armed forces which cut the corridor across France have now penetrated to the rear of the Allied armies in Belgium and now are attempting to interrupt their communications.
By Joe Alex Morris United Press Staff Correspondent
The Germans fought fiercely today to extend their foothold on the English channel, driving toward Calais and bombing the British channel harbor of Dover despite sharp Allied attacks on the flanks of their narrow corridor through northern France.
An Allied spokesman in London warned that the "situation remains very grave," particularly as regards communications with the Allied armies in north-
The renewed German thrust toward Calais and the narrowest part of the English channel (Dover is only 25 miles from Calais) was accompanied by a sunburst of declarations in Berlin that the attack on England will begin shortly.
Allies Fight to Break Channel Spear Allied forces both to the north and south of the German corridor were fighting stubbornly to break through.
fighting stubbornly to break through.
The French high command reported that its troops had driven back into the outskirts of Cambrail and that the battle in the north was being waged with "greatest violence." The British reported that fighting of equal violence was going on a short distance to the west between Arras and Baupaume and that their troops were holding their own.
The British high command said the Germans had attacked along the line
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Paris, May 23.— (UP) —The newspaper Excelsior said today that British, French and Belgian counter-spies had arrested more than 200 German spies who allegedly had revealed the Allied defense plans and had helped demoralize civilian morale at the start of the Blitzkrieg.
Mexico City, May 23.—(UP) — President Lazaro Cardenas said today that any elements, internal or foreign, attempting to endanger Mexico's "absolute neutrality" would be dealt with strongly.
His statement coincided with reports of an increase in the number of Germans arriving in Mexico.
Five Class Reunions This Year Grads Will Flock Back
Five class reunions, will bring several hundred University alumni back to the campus for the commencement week program here June 7-10.
The fifty year class, which is
The senior alumni group, made up of all alumni who have passed their golden anniversary, will have its annual dinner at 4:30 p.m., June 9, in Memorial Union building. All of the alumni who were graduated before 1890 will be eligible for the group this year. Cyrus S. Crane, '87, Kansas City attorney, will be toastmaster at the dinner.
the duinger.
The senior alumni will hold their annual commemorative service at 2:15 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium. At this short service, the names of all members of the group who have died within the past year are read to the accompaniment of organ music. The service usually features a vocal number and lasts approximately 20 minutes.
scheduled to meet Sunday, June 9,
at 12:30 p.m. at Evans Hearth, will
call back John Rush, William Allen
White, and other members of the
class of '90.
The reunion of the class of 1900 this year is nothing unusual. It has been held annually for the past 40 years. The meeting always draws such alumni as Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marcy of San Diego, Calif., who recently contributed $1,000 to the men's dormitory fund. Prof. W. J. Baumgartner of the department of zoology is chairman of this "naughty naught's" meeting. Their reunion dinner will be held in the Union building at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, June 9.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII Z-229 LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940
Senate Shows Speed On Defense Measure
NUMBER 156
Summer School Has 4 Institutes On Its Schedule
Four conferences will be held at the University during the summer session. These include the Kansas bankers' clinic, June 12-14; a fourday course in fire casualty and surety insurance, June 18-21; the second annual reading institute, June 24-29; and a conference on the improvement of the educational program in Kansas schools, June 18-21.
The educational conference is part of the program on "The Improvement of Instruction in Kansas," carried on jointly by the state department of education, Kansas State Teachers association, Wichita University, Emporia Teachers College, Fort Hays Teachers College, Pittsburg Teachers College, Kansas State College, and the University of Kansas.
The reading institute, sponsored by the School of Education and the Extension Division, is designed for teachers, supervisors, specialists, and administrators in primary, intermediate, junior and senior high schools.
Recreational facilities offered during the summer session will include various sports under the direction of Dr. F C. Allen, professor of physical education; a student-managed forum each Tuesday night, community sings, Sunday night vesper services, concerts and lectures.
The insurance course lecturers will conduct classes on rates, coverages, and kinds of protection for property. The course will be under the auspices of the Extension Division and the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents.
See Vote On Plans For Union
Final decision on proposed plans for remodeling the basement of the Memorial Union building was expected this afternoon when the Student Union Activities committee meets to consider a revised set of architect's drawings.
Henry Werner, chairman of the Union Operating committee, said the plans were received from the architects, Bloomgarten and Frohwerk of Kansas City, earlier this week and that the student committee undoubtedly would take action on them this afternoon.
Expanding of the Union fountain is one of the certain changes to be made. The work is to be completed before the opening of the fall semester.
3 Youths Confess Car Theft
Johnny Jennings, Lawrence youth, received a scalp wound from the shotgun of Deputy Sheriff Wayne Owens last night as he and a companion, Sam Uttinger, 22, also of Lawrence, resisted arrest when caught with auto accessories, which they later confessed to have stolen. The two youths, along with Charles Howe, 22, of Lawrence, who was arrested following last night's incident, confessed to stripping tires, wheels, and other accessories from the car of Roy Edwards, c'42, Tuesday night.
Police Challenge Boys
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'We'll Finish What They Start,' Pittman Says
Washington, May 23.— (UP) — Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee hailed the Senate's unanimous, quick approval of the $1,823,522,724 army defense fund today as "notice to the world that we are going to finish anything they start."
Debate begins today on another record-breaking peace-time defense measure—the $1,473,756,728 Navy department appropriation bill—and administration leaders predicted that it, too, would get a unanimous vote.
The Army and Navy bills will boost the 1941 defense fund well over the $3,000,000,000 mark. Including the additional funds expected to be asked for naval aircraft and deficiency funds now being spent, the emergency defnese cost soon will be zooming toward $4,000,000,000.
Both the Army and Navy bills must be acted upon by the House which originally approved smaller sums. But leaders there promised to rush them through with as much dispatch as displayed in the Senate.
The Army bill, carrying unprecedented peace-time appropriations for airplanes, tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, and an increase of $3,000 men in the army's enlisted strength, was approved by the Senate late yesterday, 74 to 10. Only a few voices were raised even against the bill's provision for granting President Roosevelt a $132,000,000 "blank check"—half in cash and half in contractural authority—to spend where he believes necessary.
The Senate's answer to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg's proposal to create a joint congressional committee to "police" operations of the "blank cheek" fund was a loud "no." Senator Elmer Thomas, Okla., in (Continued on page seven)
Jap Sentiment Favors Entering War on Side of the Germans
Tokyo, May 23—(UP)—Sentiment favoring Japan's active participation in the European war on the side of Germany—with the Netherlands East Indies the Japanese reward for a totalitarian victory—reached increasing proportions today.
Several influential leaders and a number of newspapers joined a movement calling for abandonment
of the Japanese policy of non-involvement, especially after Germany informed Japan that she is "not interested in the East Indies problem."
The off. ' Domei news agency interpretedtn. German notification regarding the Fast Indies as giving Japan the officer of attorney' and a "free hawk in the islands." The
agency added that Germany no doubt would uphold Japan in whatever action she took regarding the East Indies.
Some neutral sources said, however, that the German stand regarding the East Indies might be intended to create tension between Japan and the United States, forcing the United States to keep its fleet in the Pacific.