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of of of of of of of of API The Dependability Byline of Hope VOLUME 44-NUMBER 186 Star of Consolidated Hope, 1899; January Press, 18, 1927. 1929. HOPE, ARKANSAS, I I I I The Weather Arkansas: Little temperature change this afternoon and tonight, except slightly warmer in west portion this afternoon. THE BROADWAY THE BROADWAY FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943 (AP)--Means Associated Newspaper Press Enterprise Ass'n PRICE 5c COPY 113 Axis Planes Destroyed 9 Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor -ALEX. H.

WASHBURNKecping the Labor Record Straight Organization Is a Twenty-one thousand walked war plants yesterday in the most since Pearl Harbor. Ration Book 3 Applications 9 Mailed Public War Ration Book Three which will provide new stamps to replace those running out in existing books, will be distributed through the mails 10 residents of Hempstead County beginning late in June and ending July 21, Chairman 'I'. S. Me Davitt of the local war price and rationing board reported today. No immediate use will be made new book as it will become live only when current books run out in the Call, the chairman stressed.

Under a plan worked out by OPA, mailing of a simple pre-addressed postcard application will bring Instructions The pre-addressed postcard applications for Ration Book Three are going into the mails today, Hope Postmaster Robert M. Wilson said. When you ceive this card you should do the following: The name and full mailing address of the head of the family should be printed- plainly on form in the proper space. At the bottom of the form be sure to fill in the name and date of birth of every member of your family. Before malling.

tear off the small stub at the top of the card and keep this stub, as it has your serial number. rationing, three-cent stamp 011 the rest of the card and put it in the mail. ing4 the identification stub. the ap. plicant.

will post it between June 1 and June 10. Those postmarked later will not be processed until after August 1. The local board will not accept any applications between June 1 and August 1, the chairman said. I El householder fails to receive his new book within the specified time, he is to take the identification stub he has retained to the local board and there will fill out another application. A trace will be made to determine if the book was sent to faulty address.

If the original Book Three cannot be located, the Book Three to everyone in county. There will be 110 school house registration, as for the first two ration books. Application forms will be dropped every mail box here by postmen between May 20 and June 5, chairman has been informed. The head of the house will fill out cards for the entire family and post them between June 1 and June 10. OPA mail centers will begin sending the books late in Junc.

The chairman cautions consumers against rumors playing into hands of the enemy-such as those that OPA is getting ready to ration other articles. 'These rumors have 110 foundation." Mr. McDavitt clared. "Book Three is a replace. inent book, containing a new supply of stamps to take the place of those now being used up.

If the makes rationing of other commodities necessary. the public will notified officially by the government. In the meantime, we can do our part by stepping on rumors War Ration Book Three contains four pages of point stamps, similar to Book Two, but differing in sign and printed in brown There are also four pages of stamps to be used for sugar, coffee and shocs. Each page of 48 stamps bears design of different war chines, guns, tanks, aircraft riers and planes. Postcard applications will be tributed by mailmen.

Additional supplies will be given each office. After filling out the cardwhich has three ports- and detach- bouscholder will make a special affidavit and be given duplicate. Sister of Miss Beryl Henry Dies Thursday Mrs. O. V.

Wayman of Warren, sister of Miss Beryl Henry, of Hope, clied in a Little Rock hospital late yesterday. Funeral services are to be beld Saturday at Warren Top Jap Admiral Is Reported Killed In Action New York. May 21 Tokyo radio announced today Admiral 1soroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the combined Japanese fleet. who boasted he would dictate pence terms in the White House had been killed in action in April. A domestic broadeast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission said Yamamoto hact met death aboard a warplane "while directing general strategy on the front line," but gave no details.

Yamamoto was Japan's foremost. advocate of combined sci air and was known as one of the most able Naval stralegists in the empire. As spokesman for the Tokyo Naval Command he torpedoed the London Naval Conference of 1934. smashing the whole structure of Naval limitations and ending the building truce that gave the Pacilie Ocean two decades of peace. Almost a year before Pearl Harbor he was reported to have written to a friend: "I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington." The announcment of his death was contained in a terse communique issued by Japanese imperial headquarters.

The broadcast added the Admiral Mincichi Koga had been named Yamamoto's successor and "already was in command." Koga formerly was commander of the Japanese fleet in Chinese waters. Yamamoto had served as commander-inchief of the combined fleet since Aug. 30, 1939. He previously had served as vice minister of Naval affairs and as (Continued on Page Three) More Walking in East Due to Fuel Shortage Washington, May 21 -(P)- 'The prospect of doing more walking now or less cating later loomed in the cast today as FL growing gasoline shortage threatened fond production in several seaboard states and turned speculative fedcral eyes on the T-rations of commercial transportation vehicles. Pleasure driving on supplementwry and C-rations was tabooed for the nation about two weeks ago by a terse official reminder that The From Homes that By The Associated Press Spreading waters from the rampaging Mississippi and Missouri rivers brought added concern 10 southern Illinois and Missouri today as other smaller streams in six mid west states rose relentdestruction in the flood stricken lessly.

causing further widespread zone. As the two big rivers joined to. gether carly today some 10 miles northwest fo the nornsal confluence near Alton. the numpersons driven from their homes by the disastrous floods was close to 100,000 as estimated by Red Cross officials and other observers. Hundreds of civilian recruits including high school boys and girls in sotne towns labored throughout the night in towns garded as in imminent danger.

aiding engincors and soldiers in the struggle to hold back the ing waters. Red Cross officials rushed relici to the stricken families and govcrument engineers and soldiers aided civilians in evacuating homes in hundreds of towns and cities and farms. The Red Cros; office at St. Louis said that in Illinois. Missouri, Arkansas and Ok.

lahoma, more than 80,000 were homeless, while in Indiana official and unofficial observers estimated 12,000 were foreed to flee their homes by the floods. The number left homeless in Kansas, the sixth state affected by the flood, was not calculated. While thousands of farni lands were inundated in the six "states and damage to crops was estimated at millions of dollars, there was degree of optimistic concerning the crop situation expressed by crop experts in Chicago. They said the most serious aspoet of the flood situation as it applied to nation's food supply concerned corn, planting of which has been delayed by the floods. But, they said, it was considered possbile that this loss of time would be made up) by warm, sunny weather during the summer.

They added that in the big crop arca al late spring had delayed corn planting 011C or two week.3, No Relief for Liquor Drouth Until August Flood Waters Force 100,000 before farm lands were inundated. They also said that the danger exists in the fact that autumn frosts may kill the crop Defore it is matured, because of the late plantings. A loss of between 5 and 15 per cent of the oats crop in some states was indicated, the experts said, but they added that winter wheat in much of the southwest had not been touched by rain. Lite last night the Missouri river broke through weakened points along the channel and rushed northward across country in castern S.L Charles County to meet the overflow of the Mississippi near West Alton, Mo. Every levee was out along a mile stretch from Aguusta to St.

Charles, which was considered in immediate danger. "It's 110 telling where the Missouri will go now," said R. A. LaWgenbacher, St. Charles county farm agent, who earlier had cstimated damage in the county at $2,000,000.

At S1. Louis, Lt. Col. W. F.

Lawlor of the Army Engineer's office revised the previous crest for the Mississippi upwards to 37 to 37.5 feet expected Sunday or Monday. The latter figure would be the highest mark since the 38-foot level of 1903 and the second highest on record. The river stage last night was about 36 fect. Lawlor described as danger points along the Mississippi liarsonville, Grand Tower and Degonia (Ill.) arcas and Fountain and Columbia (Ill.) arcas. St.

Charles, was regarded as in serious danger and, engineers said, it was the concentralion point of the flood danger in the arca of the two big rivers. Al Beardstown, the Illinois river 27.1 feet, an alltime reached, and girls worked a with citizens and soldiers placing 20.000 sandbags along the mile long scawall. In Indiana, the north half of Vinceunes was threatened as the Watbash river carly today topped 26 feet the highest level in history Army engineers directed workers Continued on Page Four) Russians Smash Furious Nazi Offensive Moscow. May 21 'The movement of German self-propolled barges across the Black Sea and attempts of a Nazi infantry force to fight its way through the Russain attack arc northeast of Novorossisk have been smashed by Soviet artillery and planes, re ports from the front said today. The Soviet midugiht communique said ships of the Red fleet and planes patrolling the Black Sea sank six of the enemy barges.

filled with troops. near the post of Anapa and near Kerch. Anapa lies below the Taman peninsula. northwest of Novorossisk. and Kerch is at the tip of the peninsula that juts out of the Crimea.

There was no immediate indica-1 lion whether the boats were attempting to bring more reinforce. ments to the Axis now compressed into four distriets in the Tanan peninsula, or whether this I marked the beginning of an Axis attempt at an evaenation. The Germans still possess 1111- merical superiroity 111 the region. it was said. but are unable 10 shape il satisfactory defense against sharp surprise attacks mounted by bold Russian scouts and gucrrillas.

Four German infantry regiments attempted to storm the Red lines northwest of Novorossisk alter laying down a heavy, barrage. but were met with volleys of Soviet gunfire, the midnight war bulletm said. In one sector, a Russian unit was (hit on the flanks by superior enemy forces. The right flaul: managed to hold, but on the left flank the Germans were reported to have come on until the Red Army men were fighting them off with fists, bayonets and point blank pistol fire. Reinforcements which moved in swiftly under cover of night urrived in time to turn the tide of battle.

front advices said. ('The noon communique, recorded by the London Soviet radio monitor from a Moscow broadcast. said Russian artillery pounded more German blockhouses out of Continued on Page Four) 27,500 Bomber Plant Workers Out on Strike Dtroit, May 21 -(A')- Employes of a sixth war pinat of Chrysler Croporation joined in a United Automoblic Workers (CIO) strike move today as regional War Labor Board officials entered a conference with management and union executivs. The walkout of day shift workers in the bomber plant nf the Chrysler Desoto division brought the number of strikers and other idle cuployes in the corporation's war fnetories 10 nearly 27,500. IL was Detroit's inost serious stoppage since Pearl Harbor.

Edwin E. Wilte, regional WLB director, summoned Chrysler top executives and officers of the striking UAW-CIO unions to attend the closed conference and explain why work cannot be resumed immediately pending settlement of current disputes. Before today's niceting Leo Lamotte. director ol the union's Chrysler division, called 011 the strikers to return to work, and in a statement said "there are certain individuals within our own union who are ready to sacrifice the interests of the workers in the shop and endanger the nation al war, to advance their own political aggrandizement." Lamotte, charging that Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO international vice president, was a principal figure in the unauthorized strikes, said "Reuther's boys pulled these strikes." Informed of Lamotic's statements, Reuther said "Lamotte's conduet will be handled and setLied through the regular channels of the international union." He declined elaborate this com- Flood Threat to Emergency Pipelines Fort Smith, May 21 -(A)-Floodweary lowlanders treked back to high ground along the ArkansasOklahoma border today as the unruly Arkansas river piled on A new record breaking flood on top of allother barely two weeks old.

The river, which set a record of 11.7 feet here lust weck, surged toward 1 a a a a 40-41 stage forecast for tomorrow. The major worry here hinged on the probable effects of the new rise 011 Army pantons baring three eight-inch emergency water pipelines across the -out approach to the Van Buren highway bridge. Army engineers constant watch at the span. The domestic water situation here showed gradual improvement. Water Commissioner Jay Medlin said the emergency mains were emptying 4,500,000 gallons into the reservoirs every hours and 200 000 gallons were on band last night.

Downstream. U. S. engineers spokesmen expressed concern over the Fourche Island levee near Little Rock. 11 was on of the four levees ml of 29 between here and Pinto Bluff to withstand last week's flood.

F. 1.. Person, coordinator of the engineers' flood forces, said if the water reached the 29 foot stag forecast for Little Rock "the situation there tat Pourehe will be hopeless." Other dikes intact are the North Little Rock levee the Faulkner County No. and the North Little Rock-Gilletic. All are under patrol and Camp Robinson soldiers are strengthening The Pankkner dike.

Meanwhile. the White River was rising rapidly but. its predicted stage WitS less than last weck's. Near Brinkley the Cache river. white tributary reversed 11: flow last night as the pressure of the White's overflow backed up the Cache.

Bi-District Legion Meet Here Sunday All Legionnaires are expected to: attend a bi-district meeting of the American Legion al the local pion hall mis Sunday. May 23. Col. Hendrix Lackey, state cummander, and Bert Presson. state adjutant.

will preside. meeting is for Legionnaires in the area bounded by Diorkr. Nashville, Texarkana, Lewisville, Stamps and Hope. Convention News Given Rotarians James 11. Jones.

president of the local club, and E. F. McFaddin, past International director, told Hope Rotarians at Hotel Barlow today noon about the proceedings at Rotary International's convention in St. Louis this week. The convention included 200 delegates from foreign countries.

Today's luncheon was presided over by Roy Anderson in the ab. sence of President Bill Wray, Mr. Anderson paying tribute to the club president who leaves office at the end of Junc. Guests today were: George Griffin, Dallas, Texas: Charles Lincoln, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; and Major Linus Walker, of Hope, and Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis.

FDR Reveals Plans for New Blows Ready By The Associated Press President Roosevelt disclosed today that preliminary plans for the next great. Allied blows against the Axis will be submitted by British American chiefs of staff tonight, and Japan appeared high among the 1argels as the chief executive said a large majority of American forces outsid the United States are in the Pacific. Mr. Roosevelt said recommendalions Allied military, naval and air advisers would be studied by himself and Prime ister Churchill over the weekend and that" final decisions would, probably be made next week. Washingion quarters, however, declared the collapse of Japanese resistance was imminent haps only a matter of hours as survivors of the hard hit enciny garrison were tightly bottled up at Chicagot at" the north-1 cast tip of the island.

American military observers said that with the fall of Attu, the big Japanese base at Kiska, 916 miles to the east, faced a complete blockade by U. S. ships and plans and could look forward only to surrender or death. On the Southwest Pacific front. Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's quarters announced 21. Japanese planes attacked four Allied points in New Guinea inflicting minor damage at Douglas Harbor, Milne Bay, Dobodura and Port Moresby the enemy continued to show signs of aerial reinforcement. Altogether, more than 150 Japanese planes hav been used in raiding Allied New Guinea bases since last Friay. U. S.

Flying Fortresses and Libcrators dropped 18 tons of bombs on the large enemy base at Rabaul, New Britain, in the third attack there this week, and other Allied airmen hit the Japanese strongholds al Gasmata and Cap Gloucester, New Britain. In Burma, the British Command announced briefly that "patrol actviity continues" on the Arkan front, along the Bay of Bengal, where the Japanese have been thrusting close to the frontier of India. RAF bombers continued to pound the enemy's supply lines yesterday. following up two days of record setting forays by U. S.

Army fliers who dropped 225 tons of high explosives on the Japanese invaders Tuesday and Wednesday. Mosquito Air Fleet Again Blasts Berlin London, May 21 (A') -Swift Mosquito bombers of the RAF bombed Berlin last night for the second successive night and the fifth time since May 13, it was announced today. Simutaneonusly other British bombers and fighters struck at enerny industries and communications at widespread place in both France and Gerinauy, including Bremen and Essen. Mines also were laid in chemy waters, an air ministry communi-1 que said. Despite the scope of the tions.

all th RAF planes except one reutrned safely to their bases. The Berlin radio acknowldged that. British plancs had been over Germany again but characteristinally made light of the raids, describing them as "ineffective nuisance attacks." The daily communique of the German High Command. broadeast from Berlin, made no mention of the latest a1- tack on the Nazi capital. Details of the RAF attackson enemy transport were given by the air ministry news service.

World's smallest independent state. Vatican City, is about the size of an 18-hole golf course. 2-Day Toll Over Sicily, Sardinia Hits Record 186 Legalized Right off the job in three Chrysler serious manufacturing strike In Washington the United Automobile Workers' (CIO) president, R. J. Thomas, Have a curious twist to his statement.

Asserting that the strikes were unauthorized, Mr. Thomas said: "The men involved in the strikes have legitimate and serious grievances, but I bclieve that they and their leaders are making a mistake by seeking to adjust these grievances through strikes. Their action will lend comfort to those forces which are trying to smash organized labor and to put over vicious anti-labor legislation." Mr. Thomas infers that the right congress do the fortunes of nationwide labor organizations rest. And we are at war.

the And the people ure angry. of men to Or gunize so that they have in their grip an entire industry, even the whole nation, is an inherent right. Bul that isn'l so. is a legalized right, made SU net of the congress. Under common law there never was any right to organize labor into vast groups with huge treasuries, nor had capital the inherent right to form huge Companics.

By legal enactment government mitted the formation of corporations, for capital, and of nationwide unions, for labor. Without such special enactment al law many of the practices of Business and Big Labor would fall into the category of conspiracy. The special rights that congress is persuaded to grant certain classes of citizens carry with them the responsibility for a satisfactory performance. Abuse of the corporation laws will cause a company to be charged with anti-trust violations, Abuse of the labor laws will cause congress to repeal that special immunity to prosecution for spiracy which was granted labor unions. Let Mr.

Thomas talk all he wants to about "vicious anti-labor legislation." What he really means is that he is afraid 1hic government will simply revoke the privileges it created. On SO slender a strand as the prevailing voting majority in the Treasury Set to Collect Income Taxes Washington, May 21 The treasury is all set to start current collection of income taxes--if con. gress ever agrees on a bill accepta able to the president. Officials disclosed today that plans have progressed to such A point that payroll deductions could be started within two Or three weeks after the president signs a bill, although they would prefer more time it possible. In preparation for the huge aciministrative task, large quantities ol paper were purchased last month and about 200,000,000 forms have been prepared for distribution to some 60,000,000 workers.

These are the forms on which the workr will furnish, information concerning dais marital status and number of dependents, so the employer can make the proper deductions from his salary. Extra forms wre ordered printed to provide at least two for cach worker and leave al ancrous surplus to take care of wastage and spoilage. The worker will keep one and turn the other in to his employer. Arrangements hav been mude to expedite delivery of the forms through the district collectors offices as soon as a bill is signed. If income taxes are to be collected on a current basis through regular deductions from workers' pay envelopes, the treasury would like to see the necessary legislation enacted in time to get the system into operation by July 1.

EL DORADO FLIER KILLED El Dorado, May 21 Howard Kenner, 25. El Dorado Army flier who won the Air Medal for bravery over enemy lines, was killed ni North Africa April 3. the War Department today ielegraphed his wife. Mrs. Geraldine Kenner.

Kenner had been 011 duty in Nroth Africa since November, A second licutenant, he received bis wings al Randolph Field, Texas, last August. -Africa Allied Headquarters in North Africa, May 21 (AP) American fighters and bombers destroyed enemy plancs in widespread and devastating. raids yesterday against Sardinia during what was officially called "one of: the greatest victory days, in the history of the Strategic Air Force." The Strategical Air Force, under command of U. S. Maj.

Gen. James H. Doolittle, is made up. U. medium and RAF medium' bombers.

IlLs formation was announced April 15. Allied headquarters spokesmen said that, in a swift hit and. run sweep over Northwestern Sardinia, P-38 Lightnings, outfitted as fighter-bombers, dropped three bombs on a dam 10 miles east of Sassari near the Gulf of Asinara. Results were not announced. Aircraft a half dozen types participated in the whirlwind aerial action in which 91 Axis planes were shattered on the ground and 22 Axis pilots engaged in air combat were sent crashing in flames.

The Allied communique, announced that seven planes shot down were Merseburg 323s, the huge Grman transports which are capable of carrying 120 men each or about 10 tons of freight. The roll call of enemy aerial disaster thus was brought to. 186. planes in two days. Allied aircraft destroyed 73 Axis planes aloft or on the ground the day before in similar beavy stashes al Italian "Mediterranean bases.

The RAF and the U. S. A.A.F; disclosed in a joint communique that they had destroyed 5,172 Axis planes in air combats in the Mediterranean area between the entrance of Italy into the war June 10. 1940, and the collapse Axis resistance in Tunisia this month. Sine the German and Italian ground forces tossed in the sponge, however, Allied airmen have brought down 89 more planes; swelling the North African total 1,846 and the list in all the Med-.

iterranean arca to 5,261. This figure does not include hundreds enemy, planes blastd on the ground. One American plane was lost Continued on Page Four) Hope Boy Is Outstanding at Hendrix it never had been legal Motoring for fun Dally banned for all drivers in more than a dozen eastern states yesterday at noon. But the "all-timic low" in eastern supplies instead appeared of 10 be growing worse better, aggravaled by midwestern flond damage to FL main oil supply line from the southwest. Tractors were halted 011 thousands of farms.

Filling tions closed by the scores, and linse of cars squeezed up before those remaining open. With the War Food tion declaring that unless there is quick relict some farm lands will not be planted at all this year, high government sources said the next step probably will be reducLion of gasoline used by commercial vehicles such as trucks, taxis and buses. Such action would come from the Office of Defense tion which is holding emergency huddles with officials of WFA. the Office of Price Administration and the Petroleum Administration. OPA spokesmen expressed doubt that the full pleasure driving ban would be extended to the midwest.

but there was talk that all supplementary coupons might be reduced both in value and in number issued. In addition to contending that some commercial vehicle mileage might be reduced without drastically harming transportation, some federal officials said the T-rations were reported to be principal source of gasoline black markts. This. they held, was another reason why such rations could be cut considerably. Meanwhile.

construction eL an eight-mile temporary 20-inch line to bypass flood damage near Litthe Rock. to the main oil supply line from the southwest was planned by War Emergency, Pipelines. but Manager Burt E. Hull said in Cincinnati it would be "two weeks, at least, before we can get oil moving." Shuttling tank cars now are transporting part of the oil from beyond the break. but A officials here polnted out that use of those cars for the Jongr haul thus tightens the task of Aching the oil ou to the eastern area.

Washington, May 21 No steps to relieve the liquor drouth can be expected before August at the carliest. War Production Board officials said today, despite prossure from liquor retailing groups for resumption of some whisky production. By August il. may be possible to determine whether or nut the country's stockpile of industrial alcohol is adequate to permit distilIces Ens now praduce nothing else to devote part af their 10 to rage ale 10' said 10 permit any substantial diversion of that grain into hard liquor distillaton. Wheat is plentiful.

on the other hand, and if limited beverage alcobol production is allowed, this grain is more likely to be used. It would be distilled into "neutral grain spirits" for use in making blended whiskies. The distillers themselves, who previously were active in seeking a "vacation which they preferred to call a "lax producing in which whiskey could made, have dropped into the background of the present agitation. Their place has been taken by retailers' organizations, who say a shortage has led 10 widespread price violations and black market conditions, and, to some extent. by spokesmen for the "monopoly" states which operate their own liquor stores.

These slates have been hit harde by dealor rationing than the non-monopjoly states for several reasons, one being that most of them did not try to maintain large inventories. They hud virtually 110 stocks, therefore, to cushion themselves against the shortage. The loss of tax revenue is the argument most frequently vanced by proponents of beverage whiskey production. and onU jdeemed likely to appeal to sena- aftors and congressmen from the fected states. After the income tax, liquor taxes are the biggest revenue producer in a number of states, particularly since the abrupt decline of gasoline luxes wider mileage rationing.

Conway. May 20--Special to the Hope Star--Edward Lester, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D.

Lester of Hope is one of the more than sixty who are scheduled to receive diplomas at the Hendrix College commencernent exercises May 26. The bacealaureate sermon will be delivered by Rev. Edward Harris, pastor of the Conway Methodist Church, on the morning of May 23, The graduation address will be delivered by Ed McCuistion of Little' Rock, Arkansas state director of negro education. the graduation exercises fifty. one are scheduled to receive bachelor of arts degree: one the bachlor of music degree, and fourteen the associate of arts degree.

The honorary degree of doctor of laws will be conferred upon Judge J. S. Utley, circuit judge of the third division of the sixth judicial district of Arkansas and Hendrix graduate of 1906. The honorary degree of doctor of divinity will be conferred upon E. T.

Wayland. Hendrix graduate of 1912 and editor of the Arkansas Methodist. The doctor of Juws degree will be conferred posthumously upon J. J. Harrison, Hendrix graduate of 1914, who died recently.

Lester, a candidate for the degree of bachelor of arts, has made an outstanding record at Hendrix. He is a member of Alpha Chi, honorary scholastic fraternity: Tau Omega social fraternity; Blue Key. national leadership fraternity; Tau Kappa Alpha, debate club; was editor of the college yearbook; a member of the Booster club and 01 the social commitice and student-faculty relations committee. Lester was featured as an outstanding student in the yearbook for two years and was mentioned in the Who's Who of American Colleges and Universities for the past two years. and was also on the dean's list.

Although he left for active military service carlier in the year Lester will receive his degree in absentia,.