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Friday, May 1, 1942 TdailV nebraskan 4 UN Library Releases List Of 11 New Books for May Since the entrance of the United States into the war, books of nil kinds have flooded the market. The UN library has released the following list of new books that are available at the library: The Panama Canal in Peace and War, by Norman J. Padclford. The canal is a focal point of national defense, a base of operations for the protection of the hemisphere, an instrument of national influ ence. This book brings together within convenient compass a store of facts and figures that might be obtained otherwise only by mining dreary government reports. Inagua: which is the name of a very lonely and nearly forgotten island, by Gilbert C. Klingel. The author, an American naturalist, was shipwrecked on this island on the outer fringes of the Bahamas and remained for a time to carry on scientific work. His account contains much interesting comment on the natives. The Japanese enemy, his power and his vulnerability, by Hugh Byas. The mind of Japan is the unknown country wherein the war for the Pacific was hatched. The author has studied this mind for years as a correspondent in Tokio. Air Base, by Boone T. Guyton. This is a description of what goes on at an air base, by a test pilot for Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft War in the Air, September 1939-May 1941, by David Garnett. A critical survey of the development of the air war in all its branches from the time of the conquest of Poland to May 1941. Ireland, past and present, by Tom Ireland. This covers the Emerald Isle from the days of Saint Patrick to the present God's back pastures, by Arthur W. Hewitt This book is another testament of its author's love of the church in country places and his invincible faith that here the minister finds his greatest opportunity and the church its roost promising field. Let there be mercy. The Odyssey of a Red Cross Man, by John Maloney. This gives the reader an idea of the hardships and suffering that the little people of Europe were forced to endure through the first eighteen months of Hitler's war. What the citizen should know about the marines, by John H. Craige. Outlines the organization and duties of the United States Marine Corps. A mass of material is set before the reader in clear and stim ulating detail. Wings of Defense, by Burr W. Leyson. With authority and clarity Captain Leyson here sets down the total picture of America's war planes and her growing system of aerial warfare. AH out on the road to Smolensk, by Erskine Caldwell. An eye witness story of Russia at war with Germany. Senior Musical Student Gives Recital Mav 7 The university school c" fine arts will present Janet Steckelberg in a recital at the Temple theatre Thursday, May 7. Other music events including the annual performance of student soloists with the university orches tra, the annual music scholarship contest and an All-State music course for high school students will be held at a lat r date in the Temple theat: and the Union. Mount Holyoke's recent junior show spent three hours trying to prove that a tax on college girls' brains would net the government no revenue. Snooping Around News and Views from Other Colleges Gus Stubbs, of the Loyola Ma roon's exchange desk, seems to have a nose for news and stuff especially stuff. For his column last. Thursday, he nosed out the following. Biues In Berlin. My fuehrer done told me, When I was in Munich, My fuehrer done told me, Hans . . . A Russian will fall back, And give you the east front, But when the winter snows come, A Russian's a two-face, A worrisome thing, who leaves you to sing, The Blues in Berlin. From Smolensk to Moscow, From Kiev to Lubin, Wherevervthe panzers go, I've taken some big towns. And made me some big talk. But there's one thing 1 know. A Russian's a two-face. A worrisome thing, who leaves you to sing, The Blues in Berlin. From Daily Kansan. Cornhusher Hits Campus On May 10 The date that everyone on the campus is waiting for will be here soon. No its not the final day of school. It's the long awaited date for the presentation of the lf42 Comhusker. Shirley Russel, editor of the Comhusker, announced Tuesday that the 1942 edition of the uni versity annual will be off the press and in the hands of students. May 10. That is. if Uncle Sam's priorities do not hold up the pro ducts line of the annual Be cause of the numerous engravings that feature the 1942 edition of the Comhusker printing and bind ing has been slowed up. International Dancer Presents Program Here Elizabeth Burchenal, interna tionally known performer in America at folk dancing, will be presented in a recital this week end by the Nebraska State Phys ical Education association. Scheduled for 8:30 p. m. Fri day in Grant Memorial hall and 9 a. m. Saturday in the Union ball room, the program will cost $1 for both presentations or 50 cents for one. Elizabeth Burchenal is from the Folk Art Center of New York City. Red Guidon Fetes Federal ROTC Officers Red Guidon, field artillery mili tary science society, entertained federal ROTC officers in Lincoln for the annual inspection at a din ner in the Union last night. With Cadet Capt. Gera'd Beat tie as toastmaster, 75 tdvanced military students heard Col. Ray- Don Lentz Heads Clinic On Music at Rapid Cily Don A. Lentz, conductor of the University band, will go to Rapid City, South Dakota Saturday, May 2, to conduct a band and orchestra clinic. mond W. Briggs, seventh corps area ROTC officer from Omaha, Col. Charles A. Thuis of the Uni versity of Nebraska, and Lieut Col. J. A. Chase, field artillery in structor at the University of Mis souri speak. Is Right For Ivv Dav! v . 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