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H n. weirs smoieer jaymwK rfh BAILYlEBBlSKffl 7-408 Vol. 40, No. 23. Behm chosen cadet colonel Lincoln senior takes high post as list named Phil Weber, Don Baird made licut. colonels, many have new posts Forrest Behm, senior from Lin coln, has Been given the position of cadet colonel in the appoint ments announced by the military department Phil Weber of Lin coln is new cadet lieutenant colo nel, executive, and Donald Baird, Wayne, is adjutant. . The list of appointments fol lows: BBIOADK. Cadet colonel, commanding, Forrest E. Brhm. Lincoln. Cadet lieutenant colonel, executive, Pbtl X. Weber, Lincoln. Cadet lieutenant colonel, adjutant, Don Hid W. Baird. Wayne. Cadet captain, 8-1, Richard E. Hiatt, Lincoln. Cadet captain, 8-2, Ray A. Griffin, Her 0hey. (See HONORS, page 2) First faculty recital of year set for today School of music faculty members will play in Union ballroom at 3 First of this season's series of faculty recitals, sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon, music honorary so ciety, will be presented today at 3 p. m. in the Umon ballroom. Those faculty members to appear in the recital are Miss Marian Wolfe, 'cellist; Herman Decker, baritone; Herbert Schmidt, pianist, and Earnest Harrison, accompanist. The program is as follows: Sonata for Piano and Violon cello, Op. 99, Brahms; Allegro vi- (See FACULTY, page 2) Seeing double . . . Hunter chooses double cast for Double Door9 production To name leads at opening Tryouts for "Double Door," Uni ' versity Theater's second produc tion, ended Friday and the cast was selected yesterday, with Ann Kinder and Sylvia Lotman com peting for the feminine lead, and Robert Black and Clarence Flick candidates for the male lead. However, competition for rolei will not be over until the opening night, Armand Hunter, Theater director, announced yesterday. Instituting a new system de signed to get the best out of the actors, Hunter has selected two or three students for each part, and all will be eligible for the open ing night performance. Therefore all will "be on their toes" in order to get the part. , Rehearsals will begin tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the Temple, Stu dio theater. The entire cast in cludes: Avery Ann Kinder and Syl via Lotman. Telson Robert Black and Clarence Flick. Louise Betty Wait and Dor othy Filley. William Richard Putney and Jlobert Veach. Ann Darrow Barbara Scott, Bet tie Cox and Roberta Estey. Victoria Van Bret Ann Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Lincoln; Nebraska The weather Weather for Lincoln and vicinity is reported as. fair Saturday night and Sunday, slightly cooler Satur day night For the entire state, the report is fair Saturday night and Sun day, slightly cooler east and cen tral Saturday night. Poll reporters must come to office Monday All reporters assigned to the NEBRASKAN poll are to pick up their questionnaires in the NEBRASKAN office between 9 a. m. and noon Monday. Ques tionnaires are to be turned in to R. S. Combs by 4 p. m. Mon day. Inch credit will be given to all workers according to numbers of "votes" canvassed. Editor reveals Flash contents as campus awaits publication Action shots of student life bulwark of new mag "Candid pictures taken between midnight and 1 a. m., outside sorority houses the past three weeks may cause some mild sen sations when Flash, ex-Awgwan, hits the campus Monday morning," George Frischer, editor, predicted Saturday. There may even be some changes in a few of the well established romantic couples, he said. Distribution stands will be set up at social science and Andrews hall for the distribution of individ ual subscriptions. Individual copies and subscriptions can be purchased at the same places. Humor Included. Besides the campus pictures, a special eight-page section devoted to humorous stories, cartoons, and Jokes will be featured. Some of Beard, Virginia Thede and Gen evieve Wilde. Mr. Chase Romulo Soldevilla and Jack Hendrix. Mortimer Neff Clarence Flick and Robert Black. Rip Van Bret Max Whit taker. Lambert Robert Veach and Robert Gelwick. Dr. John Sully Clifford Mead and Neale Morrow. Republicans plan free dances rrepac for Lancaster county's young re publicans are sponsoring a free dance in the Lincoln hotel ballroom at 7:45 p. m. Monday in celebra tion of National Republican day. All university students, and their friends are invited; Dave Haun's orchestra will play. Ken neth Wherry, republican state chairman, will talk. Dancers will hear Willkie's radio address to the Young Republicans of the nation. The university Willkie club will also hold a free matinee dance Tuesday at 5 p. m. in room 315 in the Union. University students are invited to attend regardless Sunday, October 20, 1940 Ruth Ann Sheldon is queen of Farmers' Ball By Ralph S. Combs. Amidst a panorama of corn, spotlights, gingham, and overalls, pretty brownette, Ruth Ann Shel don was presented as Queen of the annual Farmers' Formal in the ag activities building last night A picturesque presentation was the highlight of the ball. Two by two the attendants, the other girls who filed for the honor, marched onto the pedestal and each removed a husk from the huge ear of corn, disclosing the newly elected queen. Twenty-year old Queen Shel- the material in the old Awgwan will be eliminated because of the limited space. Action shots of the Cornhuskers on and off the gridiron, pictures of student groups listening to ra dio accounts of Nebraska games, and shots of intramural football play will be run. Flashed in the magazine's pages will be photographs of the fresh man classification tests, pictures of freshman girls (to help upper- classmen choose their dates), and (See FLASH, page 2) Women's deans hear Dr. Stein Croups will meet here for talks, luncheons With a business session at 11 a. m. in Ellen Smith hall, the Ne braska State Deans of Women as sociation will begin its. day of as semblies next Friday. Following the business session. at which officers for the state di vision and association will be elected, the group will hold a luncheon in the Union. Dr. Robert J. Stein will address the women's deans on "A Psychiatrist Speaks." Dean Hosp presides. Nebraska's Dean Helen M. Hosp will lead a round table discussion on the subject of "Social Sensi Uvilv" after a discussion of this (See STEIN, page 2) stassen rally of political affiliations. Tuesday, the evening following Young Republican day, a state wide rally in the university coli seum will feature Minnesota' Governor S Lassen. B. Frank Wat' son, in charge of entertainment, is arranging to have a band and community singing prior to the appearance of principal speakers of the evening. There will be no reserved seats for the rally, Guy Chambers, coun ty chairman, announced. Young Republicans and College republi cans will furnish ushers and usher ettes for the meeting. Reserves play big part as Kansans wilt under eight-marker avalanche (Br MeeM wire U D By Jim Evinger. Memorial Stadium, Lawrence, Kas. Kansas had a little surprise party cooked up for Nebraska Sat urday, but the Cornhuskers put on an act of their own to swamp the don made her appearance in an ensemble of autumn colors a white blouse and a brilliant yel low checked skirt. The Queen was met at the head of the stirs by Glenn Thacker, her escort, and she marched down the aisle fol lowed by her attendants. The building was done in a rus tic and rural fashion bales of hay, fences, and corn. The over head canopy of a flock of ducks flying south added the most mi nute touch. Sternie Sternberg's orchestra played for the approximately 500 farmers and farmerettes dressed in overalls, cowboy hats, brilliant socks, gingham dresses, hair-ribbons and sun-bonnets. The queen's attendants wore outfits similar to the rural royalty five of them in white blouses and green checked skirts, and the other four in white blouses and tan checked skirts. This color scheme carried out the theme of the en fire dance tan and green, sym bolic of the autumn harvest and Nebraska's goldenv fields. The nine attendants were Dora Baisinger, Mildred Bauder, Helen Claybaugh, Ida Schweiger, Betty Jo Smith, Margaret Chraiklll, Al berta Timmas, Sylvia Zochell, and Rhoda Chesley. Houghton college confers LLD on Dean Thompson T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs, was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by Houghton college at Houghton, N. Y., yes terday where he gave the home coming and founders' day address. Dean Thompson attended Houghton from 1909 to 1912, then he came to Nebraska where he re ceived his B. A. degree in 1913, his M.A. in 1915, and his Ph.D. in 1921. Dean Thompson has been on the faculty of the university since 1918; he was made dean cf student affairs, the office he holds today, in 1927. British-Indian editor Ratcliffe to be second convo speaker S. K. Ratcliffe, noted English journalist and lecturer, will speak at the second university convoca tion Monday morning, Oct. 28. The convocation will open at 11 a. m. in the Temple. Ratcliffe will speak on "Britain What Now?" He has spent 25 years lecturing in the United States on the subject of the Brit ish empire and this country. He has delivered a series of addresses at Town Hall, New York, since its establishment there in 1915. At Yaie he lectured on the Bromley and Block foundations, and at Cor nell on the Messenger and Schiff foundations. Editor in India. Ratcliffe spent five years in India as acting editor cf the Statesman, leading daily news paper of Calcutta, While there, he was a member of the senate of Calcutta university. On his return to England he was a speaker in the extension department of the University of London for ten years. During recent yean Ratcliffe AILT NEBRASKA?) Jayhawkers, 15,000 fans. 53-2, here before All week, the boys from down here on the Kaw river had planned an upset of Nebraska. However, the Huskers reversed the surprise and walked over the Kansans by eight touchdowns. Reserves played an important part in the game as the first team scored once in the opening period and twice in the third quarter. Second, third and fourth stringers carried the mail in the other can tos in great style. The Jayhawks were keyed up at the start of the game and then wilted in the second quarter when the Scarlet avalanche started to roll. Summary. A summary of the touchdown scoring reads like this: Number 1 Forest Behm and Co captain Ray Prochaska blocked Ed Suage's punt on the Kansas 8. Three plays later, Vike Francis plunged over from the 1. The Vis count added the extra point from placement. The counter came with, seven minutes gone in the period. Number 2 Harry Hopp raced 41 yards to the Jayhawks' 4 as the (See GAME, page 3) Uni Pep Queen filings close at 9 tomorrow Names must be entered at Daily office; election will be held Thursday Filings for Cob-Tassel party's Pep Queen must be submitted to the DAILY office by 9 p. m. Mon day. At polls on both city and ag campus all students will vote Thursday for the queen to be pre sented at the Corn-Cob Tassel Homecoming dance in the coliseum Oct. 26. To be eligible for nomination candidates must be either of soph omore or junior standing, be carry ing 12 credit hours this semester, have a weighted average of 80 the proceeding semester with no in completes, and must have carried 27 hours or more last year. Corn Cobs and Tassels, in a joint meeting Tuesday, will select eight candidates from those filed, and their names will appear on the election ballot. The election will be conducted by Tassels and Corn Cobs under supervision of the student council. has been an editorial writer for tthe London Daily News and the New Statesman and Nation. He is a constant contributor to impor tant magazines in England and America. Wilson first to have pic snapped Robert Wilson, ag college senior, awoke on the morn of Sept. 30, trotted down to the TownsenA stu dios and thus gained the "honor" of being the first student to have his picture taken for the 1941 Cornhusker. A second industrious lad awoke a few days later and did approxi mately the same thing. He was Robert Ordissono, teachers college junior. Since then 39 students have awakened to the fact that Corn husker pictures are underway. The rest of the campus is ap parently still asleep. i