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Thursday, April 22, 1943 DAILY NEBRASKAN . JIul (Daih TkJbhaAkcuv FORTY-THIRD YEAR Subscription Rates are Jl.00 Per Semester or $1.50 for the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 5 Cents. En tered as second-class matter at the postotice In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act ot Congress March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act f October 3. 1917. Authorized September 30, 1922. ' Published daily during the school year except Mon flays and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by Students of the University of Nebraska -under the su pervision of the Publications Board. i EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Managing Editors. .. .George Abbott, Marjorie May News Editors John Bauermeister, Pat Chamber- lin, June Jamteson, Marylouise Goodwin. Dale Wolf. Sports Editor Norrls Anderson. ' Editor Alan Jacob Business Manager Betty Dixon Offices Union Building. Day 2-7181. Night 2-71D3 Journal 2-3330. A Wise Jump . . . The oilier day a coed writing to the Daily Nobraskaji asked why the senior class was planning to raise money for a-memorial when there were so many more important uses to which money can be put. Wednesday, the senior gift committee charged that the .junior woman, "not even in the University of Nebraska a full year," had heard an idea and' immediately got excited about it, for the committee announced that original intentions involved the purchase of War bonds. This paper is happy to learn of the sen iors' decision to, arrange a campaign in con junction with the nation's J3 billion dollar war loan drive, but more than a little dis tressed at their apparent antipathy toward the letter-writer's jumping to conclusions. It is rather good to sec somebody getting actually excited over war bonds or contribut ing to a worthy war relief charity. It is good to see someone disturbed at what appears to be pure and simple waste of money for some thing which has no connection with the war effort. That is why we encourage the letter writer to continue getting excited over every drive for money that does not involve the war effort. And that is why we also urge every sen ior to contribute .2 or more in the campaign lor bonds lor a senior class memorial. The First of May The first of May is approaching, and al tho that date does not hold the tremendous interests of other May Jsts, women, particu larly those in activities, are looking forward to that day anxiously. Saturday, May 1, is Jvy day. The traditional Ivy day activities will be carried on by the women alone. There are not enough men on the campus, not in uniform, to form much of an audience. So it's up to the girls. Rumor you have heard of the word, no doubt has it that the new Mortar Boards have already been named, have been named for months. The Ivy Day queen was elected a long time ago. So the great secrets will soon be unfolded. The whole ceremony seems rather insig nificant in the light of world events, but it really isn't. Ivy day has become an integral part of the university. Every alumnus has memories of Ivy days pre, actual and post. So it is up to the gals to continue the great old tradition. And they had belter not forget any of the trimmings, because there are 330 fellows who will be watching the activities from the third floor of the library. QiwJta&IsL QiwbiL "If you let the fire in the furnace die out it will take some time to get it going again. The study of the liberal arts was the first to be suppressed by Adolf Hitler in Germany. While unfortunately we have had to emulate the Germans in many military matters, I be lieve it most undesirable to copy them by blacking out the cultural lighthouses of civil ization. When Hitler came to power ten years ago some of the first scholars he threw out were not Jews but philosophers, psychologists, political and art historians. They dealt with values which could not be measured by chron ometers and galvanometers, but which were none the less real. The nazis knew these men could see the fallacies in Hitler's philosophy. The universities of America, however, realize that they must make the necessary sacrifices, and unless they actually do so as a part of the present catastrophe they will not deserve to be - V . . - Mail Clippings Pat Chamberl'm,' Censor DAVE MARVIN, Barb BMOO of this year Ls at Camp Roberts, Calif., he "and a lot of other Nebraska men of fairly recent vintage." After a lot of heavy censoring, the letter reads: "ART SCHMATE sits on one side, writ ing a letter.. GORDON JENKINS (Phi Gam) lies in an elaborate state of, undress on the other side. SIDNEY OTTO, two beds away, couldn't be presented in court for the same reason. BOB LAW seems to suffer somewhat from the effort he put forth on a woodpile this afternoon. He's asleep (a favorite recreation around here). BOB ROSKNLOF and BOB 1RVIN (King of Hearts of last year) are located in the same barracks as the rest of us, but upstairs . . . AVe are only one group of Nebraska boys, and there are at least one or two other groups lo cated here. The gaps in the Nebraska ranks are filled by men from Kansas State, Coe col lege, Notre Dame and Midland. "Since we arrived Sunday night the pla toon has spent the time getting acquainted, doing detail and marching. We arc so good at drill that the non-coms live in a perpetual state of astonishment, while Bob Irvin tells me that a squad that he was in this morning had one of the lieutenants doing a jig. Per haps our sudden ehnifgc in actions is due to the California weather. Here at Camp Rob erts the day is apparently destined to be a cool one, but suddenly ami strangely turns out to be piercingly hot. When we are assigned to work our enthusiasm is as cold as the day." After praising the service men's library, Dave goes on to admire the service men's club entertainment and dances. "This astounds me, for there are (censor marks) thousand men packed into this area, dependent almost entirely on the camp re sources for entertainment, for there are no large towns within easy traveling distance of Camp Roberts. I am filled with awe when I watch the efforts of the officials of the serv ice organizatoins to move mountains, for they sometimes succeed ..." Jim FERGUSON, Delta Sigma Pi, has en listed as a naval aviation cadet in the navy re serve and lias been sworn in at' the Kansas City selection board. He is now back on the campus waiting his call. When ordered to active duty, he will probably report to a U. S. navy flight preparatory school for a 12-week course in ground school subjects, military drill and navy essentials. LT, MARK ALLEN, marine eorps fighter pilot, and AGR of last year, and Mary June Buck of Lincoln, were married Tuesday night, April 20, at the Grace Methodist church. The couple left last night for Miami, Fla., where Lieutenant Allen is stationed. DONALD E. GROGGINS and MAURICE WRIGHT have received the gold bars of sec ond lieutenants at the Medical Administrative Corps OSC graduation at Camp Barkeley, Texas. The newly-commissioned second lieu tenants, following a 10-day graduation leave, will report for their first station assignments. HAROLD HANSEN, Farm House member of this year, istationcd at Columbia university at the Midshipmen's School there. Here is part of his letter: "There are three other boys from Nebraska here: WALLACE W1MBERLEY, "PINKY" HOLM, and 1RV1NO FRIEDMAN (SAM). Here at Columbia the Navy has taken over three twelve-story dorms, about 12 Midship men in all. Just a warning to other V-7 men, they sura keep us busy. . ." a part of the main stream of civilization after the war." Prof. James H. Breasted, art his torian at the University of California, warns that cultural subjects must be preserved dur ing strenuous war days. HilgerL,Joyce,Fitzinaurice Fly to Glory Overseas (Continued from Page 1.) By the V-Mail Editor. It was high noon a year ago when v" Doolittle's sauadron of big B-25 bombers droned in at wave-top level over the coast 01 .Tnnnn. It was ten hours earlier than the attack had been sched uled, but the bombs dropped with unerring accuracy over the indus trial heart of Japan. In Tokyo, Yokahama, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka, 80 Yank fliers blew nn a easoline plant, blasted an aircraft factory and a shipyard where a cruiser was muiaing, nn. steel and power plants, macmnery wniks nnd railroad vards. ' and made direct hits on a new cruiser or battleship under construction. Sighted Jap Ship. Because the naval task force surrounding the Hornet (aircraft carrier from which the bombers took off) was sighted by an enemy patrol ship some 800 miles from the coast of Japan, the fliers were compelled to take off ten hours ahead of schedule in rough weather and 400 miles further out to sea. Every man knew that his chances of surviving were just about that much decreased. "There was not the slightest hesitation," the official report says. "General Doolittle and his men were-cager to take off." Not one of the planes reached the Chinese landing field to which all were supposed to go, the addi tional 400 mile flight to the island and a storm encountered after leaving it having drained away their gasoline reserves, forcing them to crash all except the one that leached Russia. Out of 80 Men. .. Of the 80 officers and men who took part in the famed Tokyo raid, one was killed, two are missing, eight are prisoners or presumed to be prisoners of Japan, five are interned in Russia, and 64, mclud ing those who were injured, got home thru China. Full details of the Tokyo raid were kept with the utmost secrecy by the war department to protect those fliers who were still missing, and to permit the naval task force to elude Japanese surface vessels which were between the American warships and the outer Pacific. Cpl. DON FITZMAURICE, one of Nebraska's heroes who took part in the Tokyo raid is listed as miss ing according to word received by his parents. They have known that Don has been missing for many months, but could not reveal the official information until now. Repeated efforts to learn whether or not Don is a Japanese prisoner have been unavailing. However, the parents have learned that the pilot and the co-pilot of the plane on which he was a bombadier are Jap prisoners. Last January the war depart ment sent Don's Distinguished Hy ing Cross to his parents. UN Capt. DICK JOYCE was one of Doolittle's raiding paily who bailed out over the mountainous back country of China, and who finally got to the Chinese airport safely. Dick describes the experiences of the rajd as his "greatest thrill." Landing in a parachute 40. miles from the airport (he learned later) he. with the aid of some Chinese characters scribbled on a dirty piece of paper, hiked thin rough, mountainous country and by strange Chinese faces to the air port. Hungry. He was plenty hungry when he arrived, too, having had only some wild berries and four chocolate bars for the four days it took him to follow natural landmarks back to civilization. The only regret Dick had after the four days, was the loss of those splendid B-25 bombers, which China and the United States could have used again. At UN, Dick was captain of the Husker baseball team, and a mem ber of Pershing Rifles, Scabbard and Blade and Phi Kappa Usi. Lost Over Ajrica . . Lt. DON 111LGERT, fornwr Uni versity of Nebraska and Lincoln high swimming star was an nounced missing in action, April 5, on the North African battle front, according to word received by his parents Tuesday. Overseas since October, Hilgert's ship, a P-28 Lightning, was "named for his wife "The Jayney Jo." He and his family were looking for ward to a leave within a month. OL P.rf.cl Cast; Qijl Lovely Sheer Rayons LOO and 135 We've a splendid stock of beautiful sheers by flrtcraft L Miller. Townwear, Admiration and Gotham. Smooth-looking, long-wearing styles in proportioned lengths. Ideal Easter gifts get a supply for yourself too. . Other Gift Suggestions Ilandbagg C,lOVe$ Kerchief $ Flower$ Jewelry Dickey Perfumeg