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Commandos Stress Protection In Tomorrow's Training Class 4 Apntinr flpfpnsp against various hand A S V -V V " C weapons in close combat, the military depart ment's commando class will resume training tomorrow morning at 8:30 in room 10 of Ne braska hall. Beginning with the basic principles of safety precautions and defense positions against kicking with either foot against knife attacks, all students will be given a thorough training in the unarmed defense of the Ameri can soldier. Assisting 1st lit. Robert Adams in instruction will be William Edwards, who will take up instruction of combat swimming with the students. Another phase of tactics encountered often in "raider warfare" will be the numerous methods of takiner a prisoner. Men connected with any form of sabotage or espionage will be forced to use any number of methods of taking prisoners in order to accomplish their mission, it was learned. The commando class started again last week with a comparatively large turnout of students. It will continue throughout the se mester, meeting every Saturday morning. Open only to military students, specifically seniors, the course is taught and under the authoriza tion of the military department. Organized for the first time this year, as a conditioning course for senior officers, the mili tary department has encouraged all senior drill men to turnout and participate in the activities. Vol. 43, No. 13 Lincoln Nebraska Friday, February 19, 1943 (Geirsillafl. Weunalto Him HJnriiciPini Smumdlsiv At cu Incendiary bombs, not poison gases, are what civilian pop ulations have most to dread in war from the air, asserts Dr. Gerald Wcndt who will speak on "The Science Front and Total War" in an address sponsored by the Uni-Union series at 8 p .m. Sunday in the Union ballroom. , As one of America's leading chemists as well as a writer and lecturer of scientific developments, Dr. Wendt has made startliug developments in products and processes. During the World War I he served as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Division and aided in the development by the United States military and chemical experts of several new toxic gases and of the gas mask. If the enemy's planes sowed incendiary bombs over a city's - 111 111 !! A. roof-tops, however, the story would dc completely amereni. These bombs would spead liquid fires of chemical composition (See WENDT, page 4.) Scholarship Receives Two Contributions The latest contributors to the war scholarship fund are the University YWCA and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Their contributions bring the total amount contributed to $1,225.75. According to an announcement made by John Jay Douglass, pres ident of the Student Foundation, the following have contributed to , (See DONATIONS, page 4.) gloat pyaon torts aounpofls Box socials in place of hour dances Friday and Saturday; nights start the WSSF program for this week end. The boxes, provided by the sororities, will be auctioned off to the fraternity; assigned last week. Sunday night the young people's groups of all the churches will have as their main topic of discussion the WSSF and its functions. Speakers for the programs will be provided upon phoning Tom Yamashita. Hold Convocation. Monday a convocation will be held on ag campus in the morning and on this campus at night. Speakers for both meet ings will be Brank Fulton, lecturer from China, Japan, Korea ana jHancnuna. The programs are an introduc tion to the intensive WSSF drive to raise Nebraska's quota of $1,000 for student relief. Foundation of a new university In China requires $600 of the auota. the rest to go for books and materials for stu dents now interned or imprisoned in foreign countries. Besides help ing the students. AWS Board Chooses Coed Follies Skits Present Typical Nebraska Coed AWS-sponsored Coed Follies will include five skits and three cur tain acts this year, it was an nounced yesterday by members of the AWS board. Selection of the skits was completed last night. Entered in the Follies are Alpha Chi Omega's "Greek Myth," Alpha Xi Delta's "Relax with WAAC's, Delta Delta Delta's "Rosie the Riveter," Kappa Alpha Theta's "Always a Cornhusker" and Sigma Delta Tau's "Nebraska Unlimited." Board members in charge of the respective skits are Jo Martz, Dorothy Carnahan, Mary Jo Latsch, Mary Lou Holtz and Vir ginia Steurmer. Pick Curtain Acts. Curtain acts include Chi Omega's "Musical Varieties," Pi Beta Phi's "Dark Rhythm" and Rosa Bouton's "The Usual Way." Board members assisting are Shirley Heldt, Ann Craft and Pat Sand. Seventeen organized houses en tered tryouts for the show, and those not represented in the show itself will participate in the style show, according to board members. Presentation of the Typical Ne braska Coed, replacing the Best Dressed Girl award, will take place during the show. Skits will last five minutes curtain acts, three. Radio Official Sees Bright Future for World Television Television and the facsimile newspaper are now scientifically "ready to go," said Bill Wiseman, WOW promotion manager, speak ing at the journalism dinner sponsored by Theta Sigma Phil last night. Wiseman spoke following a thir ty minute radio show broadcast over UNEB. The show included a "Hit or Miss" program, featuring four members of the audience, and a variety show. The speaker opened his talk by saying, "We are living in the interesting and exciting period the world has ever known," and added that he thought any 'red blooded young person" w o u 1 i choose this age to live in had they a choice to make. (See WISEMAN, page 2.) 'I Saw a Fantasy That Came toLifi e BY GEORGE BLACKSTONE. I saw a play Wednesday night, "Thunder Rock" by name. It wasn't an ordinary sort of play. It wasn't funny. There was no farce. In fact there was no plot. But somehow the characters came to life. Somehow the director, Joe Zimmerman, had cre ated a rhythm of movement that held me spellbound. But I saw something more than a play. I regained an outlook on life that a college student can easily lose sight of in these times. As the play unfolded, a comforting philosophy was revealed: That our problems will be solved "is the one inevitability." Even in pantomime the University Theater's production of "Thunder Rock" would have been effective because of the stage action that was blended together to make the play come to life. The characters were in constant motion, not as mere robots, but as real people reacting normally to the impulse of the moment. The business of Streeter's lighting the match for Charleston is just one of the bits of detail that produced a realistic effect. (See DRAMA, page 2.) A V's Eye View . . . I j "I ,,; j'..:r - flV ' 1 "v ' , f :" I T- i I v v I; - '...'" ... Foorinf victory books thru the "V" for Victory book corral in the Union loLby are Ed Faytlnger (left) and Gil Ryder, heads of Corn Cob and YMCA collection groups respectively. Includes Russian. Theirs is not the question of In tellectual relief it is a question, of getting enough food to keep students from starving. The Rus-. sian students are also included in this year's list of the needy. Last June it was possible for the WSSF to get into direct contact wiW Russian students, who like Chi nese students, have become refu gees from universities which have been destroyed. They are courageously moving? inland and continuing their educa tion under incredible hardships, (See WSSF, page 4.) War Council, Daily Sponsor Service Drive For War Fund The war manpower commission of the War Council in cooperation with the Daily Nebraskan is form ulating a new plan for circulation of the Daily through mail sub scriptions. In accorfiance with the War Council's policy of keeping in touch with the students in the armed services, they have obtained the cooperation of the Nebraskan to send copies of the school paper for the remainder of the semester. Subscriptions are priced at $1.25 a semester. Fifty cents of this will go to the war scholarship fund, and the remaining 75 cents will be used to help defray expenses of printing and mailing. Beginning the first of next week leaders of the war manpower commission will check out sub scription books from Betty Dixon, business manager of the Ne braskan. All persons desiring subscriptions for themselves or friends may buy them from these members of the War Council next week. Glattly Starts Choir on Fred Waring Plan The UN campus will soon be hearing the four-part, Fred War ing harmony arrangements by a group of Nebraska students. Tryouts for the new harmony choir, styled after Waring, will be held tonight at 5:30 in room 215 of the Student Union. Donald E. Glattly, of the school of music, is the originator of the idea and nponsor of the choir. About 20 singers will be picked from tryouts and will sing modern music including puch arrange ments as "Begin the Beguine," "Summertime" and "In the Still of the Night." All students interested in par ticipating are invited to come tonight