MANY OF DEAD TO LIE IN GRAVES OF FRANCE
More Than 30,000 of U. S. Soldiers Will Rest Forever in Foreign Soil
FRENCH BURIAL SITES USED
Permanent Fields to be Romagne Belleau, Flanders Field Near Bony, and Suresnes
By Webb Miller
(United Press Staff Correspondent.) (By Mail). >More than thirty thousand bodies of American soldiers and civilians buried in French fields of French soil have been chosen as the final resting-places for the bodies—four bits of France that "will remain forever America." The permanent fields of honor will be Romane, Billeau, Plandet, Flandre and Surens on school-outskirts of Paris.
The Romagne field will hold the majority of the bodies of men killed in the Argonne fighting, 14,000 in all; the Belleau field on the hillside near Belleau Wood will hold 4,300 bodies; Surrey will hold 4,800 bodies of wounded who died in Paris hospitals, while Flanders Field will contain 2,100.
At present the American Graves Registration Service is engaged in disinterning the bodies intended for shipment back to the United States. Up to the present 46,000 bodies have been disinterred and shipped. Nearly five thousand bodies are lying at the ports awaiting transport. By October all the bodies requested for shipment back home will have been shipped. Then the Gray Division of the Graves Registration is tasked with disinterring the remaining bodies in the four permanent fields.
A commission headed by Colonel C. C. Pierce, had arrived from the United States and approved the choice of the four permanent comerces to be presented to him, composed of W. M. Kendall, C. M. Moore, James Greenleaf and Major George Gibbs, architects and artists, are inspecting the sites with a view to recommendation to make them the most beautiful burrying places in Europe.
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This task will occupy nearly all of next year. The size of the task—and incidentally an idea of the debt of the allies to America—is more vividly shown by a map in the office of Major C. L. Sappmon of the Graves Registration Department than could be told in words.
At every point where the body of an American soldier was buried was stuck up a red pin. The map which comprises all of the burial sites in Liberated studded with red pins—from the Pyrenees to the Argonne, from the Alpes-Maritimes to the English channel—the soil of France is sprinkled with American dead. Altogether, there were that at 550 different points there were buried American soldiers, sometimes a lonely grave, sometimes a dozen, sometimes hundreds. Many of the graves are hundred feet away. At these places wounded soldiers died in hospitals or soldiers on leave died and were buried on the spot. The line of American communications from the ports to the fighting lines can be traced anew and red pins indicating burial places.
More than 400 Americans are engaged in various parts of France and Belgium in disintering the bodies for 4,500 bodies will have been shipped. The nearest of kin of 19,861 have specifically requested that the bodies remain in France or receive a specific request for shipment home will remain also.
When finally completed the permanent cemeteries will resemble the National Cemeteries in the United States—longic precise rows of grassy mounds with spacious walks between. At the head of each grassy mound, stone marker with the name and organization of the soldier lying be-
The permanent fields are being designed as shrines for Americans in Europe for all time to come. Already hundreds of friends and relatives of the fallen are flocking to the graves. The American Army will have a lower number than unidentified than any allied country. The Graves Registration Service expects eventually to identify all except a very few bodies.
The Memorial Day Committee of the American Lotion is already preparing for the observance, which will be placed @ everyAmerican grave in France.
Fern Jewell, c'23, mtends to spend Saturday and Sunday with friends in Atchison.
Francis Brown, e23, will spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Kansas City, Mo.
Home Economics Club Elects
The Home Economics Club have held election of officers Thursday and today. The election by ballot is in the office of the home economics department. The candidates are, President Nebraska vice-president, Fay Buckle, Beatrice Bell; secretary, Hazel Smith, Ellen Fearing; treasurer, Emma Houghton, Vanian Stanley.
BY THE WAY
Sigma Phi Sigma observed Mother's Day Sunday with a dinner at the chapter house. Mothers present were Mrs. accolade L. Porter, Mrs. J. G. Kerr, Mrs. W. J. Schneider, Mrs. C. M. Crews, Mrs. Olive Brush, Mrs. E. H. Kendall, Mrs. Embleton, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Gathn and Mrs. Clara, E Godev.
Pi Lamba Theta, honorary educational security, held initiation Wednesday night at 1310 Tennessee for the following, woman: Isabel Noble, Jennie Glendeming, Herberta Towner, Irene Song, Innez Froz, Augusta Rosenberg, Grace Banta, Hazel Bowers and Sophie Utermann.
Madge Lutz, c'24, will spend Saturday and Sunday at her home in Kansas City, Mo.
Dorothy Henry, c'23. will spend Saturday and Sunday at her home in Tonganoxie.
Florence Nipple, c'22, spent Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. L, McNary of Garnett, visited her daughter, Mabel McNary, c22 Sunday at the Lakota house.
Dr. Martha M. Bacon entertained the K, U. Women's Medical Association at the Alemannia house Wednesday at the
The Mathematics Club met Wednesday afternoon in Fraser Hall. The meeting was lead by Jessamine on the "Story of Hypatia."
Miss Della Unruh of Larned, the class of '15, is an instructor in the department of public health and sanitation at Ohio State University. She was formerly a member of the school of nursing force employed by the board of education of Kansas City, Missouri.
Homer Blacker, c24., will spend the week-end at his home in Gardner.
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will entertain with its annual spring party at Eagle's Hall tonight.
Lois Burr of Leavenworth will spend Saturday with Mary Alice Putney, c24.
Grace McGuire, c'22, will speno Saturday in Leavenworth.
Mrs. George W. Kaufman will spend Sunday with her daughter, Gladys Kaufman, c23.
Normile O'Brien, c23, will spena Saturday and Sunday in Leavenworth.
Keefe O'Keefe, c'24, will go to Kansas City, Saturday.
Donald McCauley, e23, went to Kansas City, Mo., today on business.
Earl McKinney I23, will go to Kansas City, Mo., tomorrow on business.
Mise Uunra is a graduate of the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia. She became a graduate nurse the Bell Memorial Hospital at Rosedale after being graduated from K. U. Sue taught for several years in the Normal School at Hayes and in the high school at Larned.
Bethany Circle held a reception for their mothers from 3 to 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the parliars of the Christian Church.
Miss Unruh is a member of Pi Sigma, honorary nurses' sorority. -
Agnes Boyd, special, spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents in Kansas City.
Katherine Hold, c'24 is sick at the University Hospital.
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Henrietta McKughan, A. B. 171, is working on the Oregon Journal. Miss McKughan will start on a four months' hike in May. Before this trip she has taken two hikes in the mountains of Washington and Oregon Her hike last year was in the Olympics. She has written articles on the out doors in many sporting magazines.
rs. M. J. Fleming spent the last few days with her daughter, Irene "Leming, sp."
Lois Ferguson, c'23. went to Man-
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Captains of MacDowell Fraternity will meet in Professor Soderkund's studio, Room 19, Monday at 4:30.
MacDowell Fraternity members will meet Tuesday at 4:30 on the Museum steps and go from there for a picnic in Woodland Park.
There will be a dress rehearsal for the May Fete Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, on the golf links north-east of Potter's Lake. This rehearsal is imperative. — Adelaide Steger.
The last meeting this semester of Geological and Mining Engineers will be held next Monday at 4:00clock in Hawthorn Hall. This will be an important, and plans for next year will be discussed.-Bob Gilbert.
Unitarian Young-populus Meeting Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Miss Maude Elliott will lead a discussion on How shall we Treat Our Criminals in this high trial hour! All preate at 6 o'clock. Special music. All are welcome,
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The Annual
MAY FETE
Saturday, May 14, will be held in the grove north of Potter's Lake
CENE is laid in an old English town. The chimney sweeps, milkmaids and all divisions of the historical trade guilds will be represented. You will enjoy the Lord of the May, for even the cast finds him very amusing.
This is one of the oldest May Fete ideas, but has never been used before at Kansas University The costumes are to be splendid.
Next Saturday.
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