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WEATHER t?attf WeftUatr Bwcm Fair and cooler today with high, est temperature near 63 dffms. ENGINE BOYS OPEN HOUSE mmmt Vol. 47 No. 128 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Thursday, May I, 1947, VA SnabsosfteGnee Vets' Checks Delayed Until Congress Takes Rush Steps Because funds of the Veterans subsistence program have been ex hausted, no student veteran sub sistence checks for April can yet be mailed. To get subsistence checks to veterans attending schools across the country, Congress is expected to act at once to pass a deficiency appropriations bill. Wh,at hap pened, reports from Washington indicate, is that the subsistence department, like many another business, simply did not fully an ticipate financial demands that would be made against it. Sub sequently vets' checks will be held up until Congress passes the emer gency bill, which will then place the necessary funds at the dis posal of the subsistence program. Don't Call VA. Student veterans are requested not to call at the VA office on campus, or write the VA at Kan sas City or Washington. The situ ation is a national one and can not be remedied until Congress places the emergency funds with the subsistence program. "While delay of checks is an noying," Prof. J. P. Colbert, chief of the University's VA told The Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, "It is no fault of the University vet eran administration." Temporary delay of checks will be financially embarrassing to many, he said, but will probably last only a few days longer. April subsistence checks, the lo cal VA office reported to Colbert, are already filled "out and waiting to be mailed from the Kansas City branch, pending Congressional ac tion. Subsistence checks, $65 for un married student veterans and $90 for married G. I. students, were affected by the exhaustion of funds. Disability checks, which come from another fund, were not affected. Sinfonia Presents Quintet, Glee Club Soloists Tonite J, rM SINFONIA WOODWIND QUARTET grouped around Lawrence Tagg, seated, includes, left to right, Norman Todonhoft, Eugene Tedd, Darwin Fredrickson, and Don Wenzlaff. When Sinfonia presents its an nual spring concert tonite at 7:30 p. m. in Temple Theater, the Sin fonia glee club, a woodwind quin tet and four instrumental soloists will be heard in an unusual pro gram. The glee club, the only male thai us on the campus, Is di rected by Harry Ilarter. The glee club will sing five ar rangements of Fain's "Good Green numbers, closing with Harter'g ar Acres," a panoramic impression' of the midwest. Brass ensemble and tympani augment the choral group lor this number. The Turtle Dove," by English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams and "Sour wood Mountain," a Kentucky mountain song are also included. The fraternity's woodwind quin tet, the only one to be heard in Lincoln this year, will play Forsch's "Suite Modique." The P. Monteux To Conduct Here Friday Pierre Monteux, San Francis co's genial, rotund, picturesque Frenchman who is permanent conductor of the great San Francisco Symphony Orchestra appearing at the University Coli seum Friday night, has been ac claimed by critics as "one of the great men of music" (Claudia Cassidy of the Chicago Tribune) and "one .of the greatest among living conductors" (Virgil Thomp son of the New York Herald Tribune). Aside from being known as a great conductor, Monteux is also famed as a builder of orchestras. For five years after World war I he led the Boston Symphony Or chestra, and helped mold it into the instrument it is today in the hands of Sergei Koussevitsky. Monteux came to San Francisco in 1935 when the orchestra was at its lowest ebb, due to a financial muddle and a loss of personnel caused by the depression. In 12 years Monteux has built the San Francisco Symphony into a sym phonic organiztaion which is rec ognized as one of the finest in America, according to reviews of critics all over the country. A tireless worker and an exact disciplinarian, Monteux is held in great respect by his men as a mu sician, and in great esteem as a person. Monteux is the least the atrical of conductors, believing as he does that it is the music, not the personality of the man waving the stick, that is important. quintet Includes clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon, and French horn. Soloists are James Price, Lincoln Symphony violist, who will play two numbers. Jack Snider who will perform a fantasy for Frcnrh horn, and duo-piano team of Gail Hatch and Ronald Barnes. The program, open free to the public, includes: Suit Mndlquc TVr'b Prelurlr Vaia rprk Scberxo htittrt Qulnlrt Brau ftoir Trbuy Jamaican Rumba Brtijumin-rrlmroiw James Trice, viola Kfilay In T Major..... Cohro Jar Snider. French born Concerto tot Two Piano fLodron") . ., Mozart Call Hatch and Ronald Barnea Ood'a Son liu Made Ma Free Crlec Cruclflxua Hartur The Turtle Dove. ...... .Vaufhan-Wllliama Hourwo1 Mountain ........... arr. Maim Uoo4 Qreen Acre. .... ,IMU. .Fain -Barter Ivy Day Schedule in. Band music. Entrance f Ivy and Daisy Chains. Presentation of 1947 May Queen and Court. Ivy Day Oration, Fred erick Stiner. Ivy Day Poem. Planting: of ivy by jun ior and senior class president. Inter-sorority tin, m. Processional of Ivy Day Court. Inter-fraternity sine. Recessional of Ivy Day Court. Masking of 1947 Mortar 9 a. 9:39 9:45 10:99 19:15 10:25 19:39 1 P. 15:15 2:15 2:39 Boards. 3:45Tapptng of 1947 Innocents City Candidates Slap Lincoln Taxing System The Lincoln taxing policy was the center of severe criticism by city council candidates Rees Wil kinson and Willard Townsend dur ing their talk before the joint meeting of the university and Lin coln chapters of the American Veterans committee Tuesday eve ning at the YMCA. Both of the speakers maintained that the present tax system abounds in inequalities and out moded assessment methods. Townsend described the present tax system of Lincoln as, "A lean to, on a lean to, on a lean to." Following the meeting, the ex ecutive council of the university chapter reviewed the action of the Veterans Administration that will delay the May subsistence allow ance checks. The council decided to send telegrams to Nebraska's congressional representatives ask ing for their assistance in expedit ing the arrival of the delayed May allowances. Charter Received. Morris Brodwin, AVC university chapter chairman, informed the membership that the group had been approved by the AVC na tional committee and that a chap ter charter had been received. The University of Nebraska now joins all the other Big Six univer sities in having an AVC chapter. Home Econ MajorsPromotc Building Drive 7 Home Economics Student-Faculty Council sponsored class meet ing for women on .g Campus this week to promote interest in the construction of a national Home Economics building. The building is to be built in either Chicago or Washington by 1949, when the National Home Economics Association will cele brate its fortieth anniversary. It is to be comparable to such edi fices as the American Medical Association building in Chicago. Executive headquarters for the Home Economics association will be established there. Each Home Ec student through out the nation is asked to con tribute fine dollar to heln con struct the building. An estimated 17,000 bricks at fifteen dollars each will be needed to pay for the building. All donations should be In by May 10. They may be given to members of the Student-Faculty Council whose names will be posted on the bulletin board in the Home Ec building, j 9 U uiBdiftC Fe "awed Ym$e Tours of the Engineering campus buildings Thursday night will open the 16th annual Engineer week. Tours are open to the public. All buildings will hold open houses beginning at S p. m. However, officials have announced that persons touring the buildings should follow a route going first to Navy Hall, then to Brace Lab, Richards Lab, Electrical Engineer ing Lab, Nebraska Hall, Avery Lab, East Stadium, Mem orial Hall, and Bancroft Hall. At Navy Hall, the department of architecture will dis Experimental Casts Offer Plays Tonite Mary O'Donnell, arts and sci ence frashman, will present Eugene O'Neill' "Before Break fast" tonight as the first part of the Experimental Theatre's last Mary O'Donnell. one-act production of the year. Beginning at 7:15 p. m. in the stu dio theatre of the; Temple. "Be fore Breakfast" is a story of a slovenly woman who reveals by her whining and napping the bleak and ugly liie of both her and her husb.'ind, icsidcrils of a lower c;ist side New York ter.cmont. Emotional Moments. Lorma Bullor-k arid Dale Wisser play ti'e part of an actress and actor in "Fa.cwt'l to Love," a sophislirjilcrl corredy by Florence KycrM.n a;. (i C.W i Clements. The plot of ti.e p!.iy is concerned with the emotional up. .its and conten tious moments that a married couple must endure while pursuing their careers in the theatre. Union Birthday Party Planned For Saturday The ninth birthday party of the Union will be celebrated following the Ivy Day program Saturday nite from 8:30 p. m. until 11:30 p. m. in the Union, according to Mrs. Patricia Smith, director. Dave llaun and his orchestra will play for a dance to be held in the ballroom, Funch and brownies will be served in the main dining room and in the lounge from 8:30 p. m. until 10:30. Bonnie Compton will play the or gan during those hours in the lounge, Students will be admitted by showing their identification cards. Each student may bring one guest There will be no Sunday after noon show because of the May morning breakfast, but there will be a coffee hour at 5 p. m. In the lounge Sunday. ? j . ' ty-' y " J. r - f Tour play a model of a house with a selection of various types of build ing materials end equipment used in commercial buildings and resi dences and a class problem of a residential housing development showing location, plans and eleva tions of the buildings. Action Films Throughout the evening, a Navy action film will be shown" con tinuously in navy hall basement. Also displayed will be naval training equipment, all the small arms used by the navy and ma rines; navigational equipment used on board the ships of the U. S. navy, and ordnance equip ment cutaway models of some of the navy's ordnance projectals and bombs. Electrical engineering depart ment at Brace Lab will condi t a high voltage display jumping produced by several hundred thousand volts, and will show an educated train, colored ball sorter with is electronics at work, and an clectrosatitie du.-t precipator. In demonstrations scheduled to begin at 8, 8:30, 9 and 9:30 p. m., the mechanical engineers at Rich ards Lab, will show liquid air which rit ?l0 degrees below revi drives naila and shatters ruboer like glass. Edison Bipolar At the Electrical Enpinofi ir ? Lab, observers will see the Edison Bipolar, the oldest RoneratinK ur.,t on the campus. Also viewed, among many oilier demonstra tions, will be army radio equip ment, portable telephone, wire recorder, bucking bronco molor, and a shooting gallery. Military eneinoers will show a link trainer that acquaint fliers with all types of Mind flyinj. Also shown at Nebraska Hall will be a water purification set. eul away aircraft engine, air craft in strument groups, air compressors, radio sets and camouflrie equip ment. "(uriositick" "Chemical Curiosities" i t! ? topic lor main lecture r.oia demonstrations at 7:30, 8.30. y.'.li) in Avery Ib. A display ol Thermite heat mav ! neeri at and 9 p. m. made by the chemical engine is. Agi ic u'Uiral ci.gine'-is w ill em phasize the "new" in latin ma chiiifiy and farm motors at the E..it Madium. Two 15 nii iu' SjO.Mej? giving a resume of t' vhich -rv tractor mint vwv .fj.-r ; May re ; 1 in this -iH fhown every hour on ?ie L vr. Military ind Ki-.i.i c'e ':r1' will demonstrate heavy t . ment at Memorial Hall. Civil Engineers Methods and examples of arch itectural colored concrete, and testing and mixing of structural concrete for laboratory analysia will be shown by the Civil en gineers at Bancroft Hall. This group will exhibit the evolution of highway intersection and will Illustrate the types of bridges.