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Freshmen meet tomorrow morning at 9 See story on page 5. UNIVERSITY Or NEC3. BBBASM SE? IS 1932 Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students PCR'ODICAL ROOT4 VOL. XXXI X, NO. 1 Z 408 16 PAGES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1939 ImiyIM roroffles pledge 300 rushees participate in program Long rush week ends Saturday night after fire day round of parties Concluding the longest rush week in the history of the univer sity, 15 sororities pledged 248 girls out of approximately 300 rushees, Saturday night A five day rush week was ini tiated this year to give the rush ees more chance to visit and be come acquainted with the vari ous sororities. Other changes in this year's sorority rushing in cluded the open date on Saturday morning at which time girls could spend their date at any sorority they desired to revisit. Luncheon dates were shortened In accordance with the five day rushing plan. During rush week open lists of rushees were avail able to all sororities at the Pan Hellenic Council offices. Following is a list of the pledg ings at the various houses: Alpha Chi Omrra. Wary Ijt Adam. Ofcallala. Ruth Conklin. Hublrll. VirKinia mirt, Mitchell. FrancM Grtn, Valky. Faye Irwin. Fullrrton. Vircinla Inc, Grand IMnnd. Patricia MrNamara, Lincoln. Lillian Minor, Medicine Hat, Art. Canada. Hetty Jane Nichols. Valley. Kathryn Park. Lincoln. Genevieve Paul. Harvard. Constance Rathnurn, Lincoln. Maniia Ann i'.eed, Lincoln. Beth Rchroeder. Mitchell. Ruth riinu. North p.end. Phyllt June Hmilh. DiiluUi. Minn. Jean StuHevant, Linroin. Gtona Kwanaon, Lincoln. Maty Thorley, SprinKview. Lillian Wind, Lincoln. Alpha Omlcra PI. June Rrauer, Omaln. Mancarrt Okul, L'nC'ln. lrraine Chant. Sturria. 6 Dak. I'atrK-.a Green. Ijocoln. Kula Harding, Pierre, 8 Pak. Iorothr Heun.ann, 8rard Varrret Hupperl, Lincoln. Pauline Johnston. Lincoln. Ixm.thy Ijurh. Lincoln. Lu y M( Ijillcrty. Orri.'.ha IrU Mir: hall, Weepinic Water. Jeanne Mulder. Ijncoln. Petty Opfer. I.'moln. Martha Ann I'ukrrn.e. Uncoln. Patricia Rorenl.aum, Harvard. Janet Khaw. 0:n.,)i. Marline Waab. Litic(,ln. Elaine 6t-iiihnii-r. Council Plulfa. la. Alpha Phi. Hlldecarde Raker, Purtia Miriella Bauer. Om.il-a. All(e Ixtiix llerkrr, Lincoln. Mary Hird, Kctt al.luf f. Virginia Cliarilr. Koottl.luff. Jean Chriftie, Omaha. Jane Cufonuri. tard. Marilyn ;i.,lr ti lietruit, Mih. Nanry HillKan. Lincoln, l'arnrt H'"1rluid. Omni, a 8lnrley .t, Kcottfhlulf put llermmrhatia, Ln.ioln. 1'xrt.ara Ho'irrmn. Lincoln. Milton Kani, Omaha. Janet M'xin. Liocoln Mnnon Patton. Ijncoln. (Soe SOUOIUTIES on Page 6.) Come one, come all ! Prospective editors ana busi ness managers of the DAILY NEBRASKAN are invited to embark on their careers by com ing to the NEBRASKAN office, beginning tomorrow afternoon. The NEBRASKAN welcomes all persons interested in news re porting or soliciting advertising. Aspiring editors should report to managing editors Merrill Eng lund and Richard DcErown; ad vertising solicitors should see Arthur Hill, business manager. Reporters desiring to cover athletics should report to Miss June Bierbower, NEBRASKAN sports editor. Beats and assicin ments will be drvwn up the tlrct part of next week after appli cants have been given a chance to show their wares. f fraternity rush week gets underway F. D.R. seeks repeal arms embargo Changing of neutrality act faces stiff battle in coming special session By Otto Woerner, Ellsworth Steele Europe has unleashed her war dogs and in far-off America the "call of the wild" is again being heard like a vast echo of the sum mons that the United States an swered a generation ago. Every boom of the giant war guns asks the grim question of American men, "Are you reaay? At home, Idaho's Senator Borah is leading the battle against repeal of the arms embargo provision of the Neutrality act in a determined effort to keep America neutral. To repeal the embargo which pre vents sale of arms, ammunitions and implements of war to bellig erents, President Roosevelt has called congress into special session for this Thursday. Help Without Troops. "The proposal for repeal is based upon the pre gram of taking sides in the furnishing of arms," charges Borah who was one of the seven men who stood out against decla ration of war against Germany in 1917. "When it is said to me as a senator," he continued in a recent radio address to the nation, "1 want you to carry thru a program, the first step of which is repeal, the second step of which is the furnishing of arms and ammuni tions to one side, openly, persis tently and continually declared, then I know I am voting for inter vention. I am helping to take this nation into a European war." Proponents ot repeal believe that by furnishing war materials to the allies. America can help them win without having to send troops to fight Germany. To con sider such views as neutral is im possible, and to argue that the United States could so aid the allies and remain neutral is to ignore the costly lesson of the World war. In Europe, German airplanes and motnrized units are penetrat ing dc-ep into Polish territory. Despite counter-claims the Poles nppoar to be taking a severe lick ing, and may he expected to col liTsn coon. Propn:nd'i efforts and censorships make any estimate (Tie NKWS HOUNDUP page 7.) Turkey population of state thumbs nose at F.R., R.C. Turkey mortality in Nebraska will not be doubled this year stu dents will not get two vacations and even though the president did change the date of Thanksgiving, our football schedule will not be clianged because the season ends too early. For a while it looked as If we might have two Thanksgiving Then we didn't know if we even had one. Gov. Cochran settled the argu ment here in Nebraska when he decided that things should go on as before and that the List Thurs day In the month was the only time when we should eat to live. Which means one thing: If turkeys could vote, Cochran would be a cinch In the next election! S despite disruptions In calen dars of other states, university stu dents will take their Thanksgiving vacation from Nov. 29 to Dec, 4, 248 as Frosh gun girl small, dainty; Will notuse rifleonNUmen When a man bites a dog . . . And, when the University of Ne braska receives, as an entering freshman, the Rocky Mountain Women's trapshoting champion, a winner in clay pigeon contests for some five years . . . that's news, too Such a rarity is Ilene Davidson, little, with big, dark eyes and dainty hands which one wouldn't suppose could be half way com fortable fingering a trigger, and a string of titles as long as her es pecially light made-to-order gun stock. She won her present title by shattering 96 out of 100 ducks in the Labor Day tournament at Cas '43 cop brand is heated for frosh steers Yippee! Roundup time is here again! This week 13 mighty moguls of the well known ranch, Innocen tius, are once more on the prod preparing to corral and brand the fresh herd of one year critters, recently brought in from summer pasturage in the far comers of the far flung dust bowl range. To segregate the young steers belonging to this particular cor ral, it has been the tradition of this freshman rustling society to place a bright red brand, this year inscribed with the marker '43, over the undernourished cranium of all additions to the outfit. ; Riding the range. Leaving it to the university scouts to ride the range and to bring the s'.rays together, the so ciety lies in ambush, fanning their irons, and awaiting the wide-eyed, locoed and frightened freshmen as they proceed along the hazardous registration line. The branders wait until the young ones are broken in spirit by the repeated strappings of L. E. Cundcrson's money la.sh, and until their forelegs arc wearied by the pawing of innu merable registration blanks. Then comes the time. The green doggies, removed of all protrusions and the fat of a summer's work from around the rerir poekets, stagrer thru the cor ral gate and tome face to face with a crowd of dominating (See CAPS page 12.) Ncbraskan holds first open house Honorarics to sponsor mixed social tomorrow First publications open house ever held at the university will take place tomorrow afternoon in the publications offices In hc Union basement. The affair, which is being given under the sponsorship of Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, journal ism honoraries, will be held from 2 to 3:30 p. m. Purpose of the open house Is to give publications staff mem bers and students wishing to be come staff members a chance to become acquainted. Students wishing to work on any of the publications are wel come. Refreshments . will be served. raslhSmi g ends; per, Wyo., just one week before her 19th birthday, winning over a Denver veteran who "had medals all over her and scared me to death." Ilene has won the crown of Ne braska women shooters for two straight years, '37 and '38. This year she journeyed to the "grand American" held at Vandalia, O., to place fourth in the handicap. She's proud and who wouldn't be' 49 out of 50 scores with which she beat several male sharp shooters "on a real windy day." How did it all happen? "Well, my daddy wanted to take me hunting with him, so he had to (See TRAPSHOOTEPv page 7.) Pilot training course awaits CAA contract Dean 0. J. Ferguson to administrate program for air preparedness Only execution of a satisfactory contract with the civil aeronautics authority remains before a course in ground work and civilian pilot instruction is opened to at least 40 university men as part of the school s curriculum. Chancellor C. S. Boucher and the board of regents have author ized Finance Secretary L. E. Gun derson and M. A. Shaw, president of the board, to effect contract. Dean O. J. Ferguson, of the col lege of engineering, will adminis trate the new flying program. Fil ings for membership in the classes to be conducted will be turned in at Dean Ferguson's office when the filing date is announced. Consider year contract. All upperclaMiinen measuring up to the physical and scholastic tests to be put to the applicants are eligible for the course. Altho the contract proposed is for one year, the civil aeronautic authority pre sumes that civilian flight instruc tion will be t arried on in co-opcia-tion with colleges for at least five years. Civilian pilot certificates will be awarded these completing the course. College of enpineeiing instiuc tors will conduct courses in navi gation, aviation mechanics, flight rules and regulations, aeronautical in.'itrunicr.ts, meteorology, para chutes, etc., In a course requiting 72 hours of ground work and from 35 to 50 hours of flying instruction. To insure student pilots. According to preliminary plans of Dean Ferguson, students en rolled in the flying course will at tend five different classes a week (See FLYING page 12.) PWA increases dorm allotment by $1,621 L. E. Gundcrson, finance secre tary, has been advised by It. A. Radford, regional director of PWA at Omaha, that the allot ment for construction nnd re modeling work on women's dormitories at the university has been Increased from $101,250 to $102,871, an increase of $1,621. Major work under the PWA al lotment was the construction of Julia L. Love Memorial hall and Northeast hall, which were opened to students Saturday, l-F Council opens Greek mens year Office will release date sheets at 4:30 today--2, 5,8 tomorrow Fraternity presidents, rush chairmen, and rushees assembled yesterday at 1 p. m. in Morrill 20 for the first Interfraternity Coun cil meeting of the year to discuss rushing rules and mutual difficul ties and problems concerning rush week. President Merrill Englund wel comed fraternity men and asked for full co-operation in observing rushing rules as a start to what promises to lie "the most success ful year the Council will have seen." Those assembled were informed that the Interfraternity Council office will be open this afternoon from 2 to 5 p. m., that date sheets for individual fraternities will be released at exactly 4:30 this after noon, and that the Council office will be open tomorrow from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. and from 7 to 9 in the evening. Date sheets will be available tomorrow at 2, 5, and 8 p. m. Rush chairmen calling for date sheets must call for them on the hour, Englund warned, as none will be given to them at any other than the times specified above. Lists due Tuesday. Pledge lists are due at the Coun cil office Tuesday morning by 10 a. m. No names will be released for publication until every fratern ity has submitted its list of pledges. An innovation in the service the Council office performs for fra ternities was explained at yester day's meeting by Englund. In the event a rushee fails to show up at a chapter house for a scheduled date, that house may call the Council office to find out the last previous date the rushee filed. However, Englund asked rush chairmen to allow sufficient time for a rushee to arrive, "twenty minutes to half an hour," before calling the Council office. The rest of the meeting con sisted of a general discussion of rushing rules printed on rush cards. For the coincnienre of all fraternity men nnd rushees the NKl'.KASICAN prints those that apply today and toiiiorow: For Fraternities. 1. Fraternities may provide ru:hecs with transportation. 2. No fraternity shall make public a list of pledges or re pledges before announcement of those lists by the judiciary com mittee. 3. No fraternity may pledge a rushee who has not paid his $1.00 fee at the Interfraternity Council office at Morrill 10. 4. Violations of any of the above rules by any member of any fraternity, holdover pledge, or alumni shall subject the fra ternity, upon conviction by the (Continued on page 3.) Student paper bridges city, farm campuses vVrth.Mie- nixt. .isiyi of . the DAlUV'&LfcrUSrtAN,, thi tvo carrruic) "of 'trVunivornty will bo, hound, tCvQViiec.fon the, .first mby a'pcsmrci'. wispneif. A specol 4cttln:v(l(. Jbe'.tfcvdWd excluk'yely ,t,q ,ag coljogs pews, and tlcili:.corpcsffprtcJtrft4 will keetne.NtaaASKliVS: read ers uHo-date on what Is har l pen ln sn the farm campus.