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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXXI NO. 112.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SKAN
OF
GOETHE WILL BE
COMMEI
German Department to Give
Program in Honor of
Famous Poet.
CONVOCATION TUESDAY
Observance of Centennary to
Be Held at 8 O'clock in
The Temple.
The hundredth anniversary of
the death of the German poet
Goethe will be commemorated In a
program at Temple theater Tues
day evening:, March 22, at 8 o'clock
by members of the faculty and
student body of the German de
partment. The convocation la open
to the student body and the public
"The department of Germanic
languages has made preparations
to observe the centenary of
Goethe's death Tuesday night,
March 22. It is eminently fitting
and desirable that the university
as a whole take part in this cele
bration by attending the exercises
as far as possible. . Every institu
tion of higher learning in the
civilized world is taking advantage
of the one hundredth anniversary
of Goethe's death to pay tribute to
the great genius whose labors have
so signally enriched the spiritual
possessions of mankind," said
Prof. Laurence Fossler, chairman
of the Germanic languages de
partment of the University of Ne
braska, in reference to the Goethe
feir. The evening program will be
opened by the university orchestra
playing Beethoven's Overture to
Kgmont, under the direction of
Prof. Carl Steckelberg. Introduc
tory remarks by Dr. Margaiet
Hochdoerfer will follow the open
ing musical selection.
Fossler to Speak.
Miss Margaret Cannell, student
in the German department, will
present a group of four Goethe
lyrics, and an address by Prot.
Laurence Fossler, will explain
"Goethe, the Man and His Work."
Closing numbers on the pro
gram will be a talk, "Goethe the
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IS
Block and Bridle Club To
Sponsor Ag College
Show Saturday. y
The annua! College of Agricul
ture student livestock judging con
test will be held in Animal Hus
bandry hall Saturday, according to
an announcement made today by
Prof. M. A. Alexander of the ani
mal husbandry department. Over
forty men students are expected to
enter the contest.
The contest is being sponsored
by the Block and Bridle club. Stu
dents entered in the contest will
judge ten classes including three
of beef cattle, three of swine, two
of sheep and two of horses. Rea
sons will be given on some of the
classes. Prof. F. W. Bell of the
Kansas State Agricultural College
will judge the show.
Pi Mu Epsilon Postpones
Meeting Till March 27
It has been announced by Hubert
Arnold, president of Pi Mu Epsilon
honorary mathematical fraternity,
that a meeting scheduled today of
that organization has been post
poned until Tuesday, March 27.
ANNIVERSARY
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Spring Arrives Monday with Blizzard
Going Full Blast; Not Unusual Says
Weather Man; Collegians Are Gloomy
BY THE SPRITE.
March came in like a lion, tamed down a little, and then
started its growls again. "It isn't unusual," says T. A. Blair,
weather man, "you can expect this sort of thing of March."
Collegians say ixnay, "delays the picnics."
Woe-begone expressions erased the cheerful facial contor
tions, galoushes were retrived from their lair of moth balls,
me oia aipaca pues ana mangycr
coons kins replaced polo and Eng
lish tweed top coats. It was cold
without, without heat, as spring
officially arrived Monday.
March the lion, is up to its
chronic tricks. Average inches of
snow for the month is 5.3 inches.
This March has already dropped
6.7 Inches of the "white mantle"
upon the desolate wastes of the
University of Nebraska campus.
The Russian flats, steppes, will not
be squirmed on by R. O. T. C.
cadets for a while. Pen woods,
with its stygian darkness, will not
be illuminated by the camp fires
of the picnickers.
Snowbound in 1912.
The university, back In 1912,
was practically snowbound, even
the most conscientious missed
their 8 o'clock's. The record for
that March was 21.3 inches of
snow. Snow use trying to go to
school in times like that. Last
March had 8.5 Inches and 1923 saw
16.4 inches.
The weather forecast for today,
according to the oracle of Delphi
1s fair and warmer in the after
noon. Cheer up, April showers are
PLAN FOR SPECIAL VESPERS
Service Tuesday Afternoon
Is Part of Daily Holy
Week Meetings.
The fegular Vespers service will
be held at the University Episco
pal church Tuesday at 6 o'clock.
It-will serve as one of the daily
services at that church during holy
week. The Vespers service will be
largely musical and is under the
direction of Dorothy Jensen, chair
man of the Vesper Choir staff.
. The Vespers choir will furnish
music every evening from 5 to 6
during holy week services. Book
lets containing meditations for
each day of the week will be dis
tributed during Tuesday's service.
These were composed by the Ves
pers staff in collaboration with
the Industrial,' Interracial and In
ternational staffs. The program
for Tuesday's service will be:
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rrornMonal Brnrath lh Crn of
jrsua Vrpr f'hnlr
Itmnn of tlm Iny Mlm nrrnlrr Miller
Antlirm O Love That Wilt N"t lt
M io Vrniwr f holr
Mcdltntlon. MlM BrrnlM- Mlllrr
The Reprnachft Vrnper hnlr
Oriron Holn IxirrHlne l-nycren
Anthem Abide With Me ) enner (Mr
Choral Benediction cr tholr
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Yenne's 'Dream Pirate' Last
Klub Show to Be Given
In Metropolis. "
EXPECT MORE BOOKINGS
Correspondence Carried On
With Nebraska Cities;
Hastings Signed.
Omaha followed close on the
heels of Hastings in the booking
of Kosmet Klub's "Jingle Belles,
according to an announcement
made by klub officials Monday.
The arrangement calls for the ap
pearance of the musical comedy at
the Brandeis theater on the eve
ning of April 16 at the metropoli
an city. The possibility of a
matinee was also signified by Joy
Sutphen, manager of the theater.
Correspondence is also being
carried on with Norfolk, Nebraska
City, Fremont and Sioux City, la.
Negotiations for the road trip will
be closed this week, according to
the business staff. There are
strong Nebraska alumni groups in
all of the cities that are still being
considered.
The last time that the Kosmet
Klub appeared in Omaha was in
1926 when "The Dream Pirate"
was staged at the Omaha Tech
nical high school auditorium. The
1926 show was likewise written
and directed by Herbert Yenne,
author, director and leading char
acter of this year's "Jingle Belles."
Hastings Booked Saturday.
Announcement of Hastings as
the first town to be booked tor the
Kiwmpt Kluh show itinerary was
made Saturday by Edwin Faulk
ner, business manager or -jingie
Belles."
The Hastings engagement will
be held under the local manage
ment of Frederick Daly, Nebraska
alumnus, and will consist-of an aft
ernoon and evening performance.
The musical comedy wll be played
in the Hastings auditorium.
The date for the Lincoln per
formance has not been announced
as yet as negotiations are being
carried on for the securing of a
theater and because the road trip
dates have not been set.
Omaha Represented.
Although there are no students
from Omaha in the cast for "Jin
gle Belles" there are a number of
students in the pony and male
choruses who come from Nebras
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not far away, and then there are
always May pansies
"Mush, mush, on to Nome with
the antitoxin," whispered the man
behind the sidewalk snow plow,
and the way was cleared for the
trudging students who lugubrously
lifted their boots or galoushes or
rubbers and thought "spring has
come."
"It Won't Be Long Now."
"It won't be long now until the
little flowers are tufting their
heads above the turf," a giggling
narcisis said, "The blades of grass
will be cutting their way into the
sun kissed world, the bulbs will be
be bulbing and the herbs will be
Herbie," a sigh, and then a moan,
these sentimentalists can't get
over.
When she had recovered the nar
cisis, the sentimentalist, said, "The
beautiful birches will clothe their
beautiful limbs In the beautiful
haberdashery of simply gorgeous
foilage, and who knows, If the
birches are lucky enough maybe a
cowbird will seek shelter there,
amongst the beautiful foilage,"
Yes, who knows.
KOSMET COMEDY
BOOKED IN OMAHA
OR APPE
ARANCE
ORGANIZATION TO
AGAIN OFFER TWO
STUDENT
PRIZES
University Faculty Women's
Club Announces Senior
Scholarships.
MUST MAKE APPLICATION
Girls Desiring Gifts Asked
To Fill Out and Return
Blanks, April 7.
The Faculty Women's Club an
nounces that it is sgain offering
two senior scholarships, a first
scholarship of $75, and a second
of $50. They are open to all girls
who are at present of junior rank
and who are wholly or partially
self-supporting.
These scholarships are not loans,
but gifts of money, and are grant
ed as awards of merit for efforts
in attaining an education as well
as . for scholastic attainment, ac
cording, to. the committee. .
Candidates may receive applica
tion blanks at the registrar's of
fice, Miss Fedde's office and Dean
Heppner's office in Ellen Smith
Hall. Each applicant is requested
to bring her application in person
to Ellen Smith Hall between the
hours of 1 and 3 p. m. on Thurs
day, April 7, where it will be re
ceived by the scholarship commit
tee. If any applicant is unable to
present her application at that time
she may arrange with the chair
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AG COLLEGE PAGEANT
Students Planning Details
For Presentation at
Farmers Fair.
DEPICTS STATE GROWTH
Plans for presenting the
pageant, "Progress of the Prairie,"
at the annual Farmer's Fair at the
agricultural college in May are go
ing forward, according to an an
nouncement made today by mem
bers of the pageantry class. The
pageant will depict the growth' of
the state from 1830 until the pres
ent day.
Members of the class are work
ing up the different episodes for
rh imp-pant under the direction of
Miss Besse Steele, head of the de
sign department in the home eco
nomics division. Prof. R. D. Scott
of the English department, has
outlined the entire event and is as
sisting in the production. Those in
the. nap-eantrv class include Evelvn
Kerr, Clarice Hads, Caryl Durfee,
Alice Zimmerman, Doris Magnus
on, Mary Smith, Vera Mae Bangs,
Frances Duhachek, George
Schmidt. Albert Ebers. Fred Mere
dith and Glenn LeDioyt. .
Miss Steele is meeting memoers
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Important Meeting of
Corncobs Wednesday
The Corncobs will meet Wed
nesday, March 24, at 5 o'clock
in the auditorium at Social Sci
ence. It Is Imperative that all
members be present.
Marvin Schmid, president.
THE CAMPUS OF THE
BY
"Many people have dreamed and
talked of having a beautiful city
campus at the University cf Ne
braska," declared Chancellor E. A.
Burnett Saturday, In telling of the
campus plans and the University
building program. "Some have be
lieved it would come to pass, while
others have been doubting Thom
ases or active critics of the larger
plan."
He explained that in 1925 after
long and careful study, with the
assistance of landscape' architects
the board of regents approved a
plan for a new and extended cam
pus that should be both useful and
attractive. The conception of this
plan was bold and compelling, he
said, explaining that it provided
for the enlargement of the present
campus until it should extend east
from Tenth street to Sixteenth
street and north from R street to
the railroad tracks. It was to have
a border of student dormitories
and of fraternity and sorority
houses to give a setting and finish
to the campus and to shut out the
business from Interfering with
"the spirit of learning" that he
feels should pervade a university.
The major buildings were to be
grouped around open spaces or
malls so that attractive vistas
might be developed, he said, termi
nated by dignified and artistic
balls of learning. Three open
spaces were to be developed. Me
morial hall was to be the center of
the group first developed, with the
stadium at the western terminal,
Bessey hall and Morrill ball on the
south, and the coliseum and two
, Chief Iig Sister
rourteny of The Jntirnnl and Star.
DELORIS DEADMAN.
Next year's president of the
Big Sister Board will be Deloris
Deadman, of Fairbury, who was
recently elected to the head of
fice of that organization. She is
a junior.
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FOR A.W.S. POSITIONS
Reveal Names Wednesday;
Polls Open Thursday
For Election.
ARE TO ELECT FOURTEEN
Two hundred and fiftv univer
sity women attended a mass meet
ing at Ellen Smith hall Monday at
5 o'clock and voted in the prelim
inary election which will determ
ine the names of six more candi
dates which will be placed on the
ballot for A. W. S. elections Thurs
day. Nominations were made from
the floor and ballots cast as the
girls left the building. An outcome
of the election will not be released
until Wednesday, however, as the
names have to be checked by the
registrar's office for eligibility.
Elections will take place Thurs
day from 9 until 5 o'clock in Ellen
Smith hall and from 10 until 2
o'clock in the Home Economics
parlors at Ag campus. Senior
members of the board will preside
at the polls. All university women
are eligible to vote, but an identifi
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A
COMPLETE SELLOUT
Staff Well Satisfied With
Sales; Next Issue to
Be Larger.
Declaring a complete sellout of
the current Awgwan, Mervin Rob
inson, editor, said that he was well
satisfied with the results of the
sales.
The last issue of the Awgwan
contained four extra pages and 300
extra were printed. New features
were added to the publication, in
cluding a Campus Gore page, a
Winchellian revealing of the
student's innermost secrets, which
was well received by the student
body.
"At present we have not state
ment to make to press regarding
the next issue," stated Robinson.
"However we will say that it will
be larger and will contain more
new features."
CHANCELLOR E. A. BURNETT
AS TOLD TO
BOYD KREWSON
Tells of Campus
CHANCELLOR E. A. BURNETT.
Visions of a greater campus
for the University of Nebraska
are described by Dr. E. A. Bur
nett, chancellor, In the accom
panying article.
less important buildings on the
north.
"So much progress has already
CADET OFFICERS
DONATE $50 FOR
DROUTH AID FUND
Part of Military Ball Money
Used for Contribution;
Total Now $55.
SMITH PRAISES ACTION
State Relief Organization
Head Says Will Be Used
For Good Purpose.
The Cadet Officers association of
the University of Nebraska an
nounced Monday a contribution of
$50 tc the Daily Necraskan droutn
relief fund. Part of the receipts
of the Military ball were used for
this purpose. This swells the
Daily Nebraskan total to $55, Mrs.
E. E. Pullman, Alpha Omlcron Pi
mother have previously donated $5.
The Cadet Officers association is
mado up of all men taking ad
vanced military science. Mr. W.
H. Smith, head of the state relief
organization, in- commenting on
this action, said, "I think that it
was a very generous contribution.
It will be1 used to a good purpose
in the drouth area and we appre
ciate it very much."
These latest gifts raise the total
of the cash contributed in Lincoln
and the vicinity to more than $14,
450. Under the leadership of Prof.
O. R. Martin of the city, campus
and Prof. H. J. Gramlicn on the
agricultural college campus, the
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Engineering College Dean
Explains Swope Plan in
Blue Print.
MAGAZINE OUT MONDAY
Among other features, the Blue
Print which appeared on the cam
pus Monday, contains an outline of
the Swope plan for unemployment
insurance by O. J. Ferguson, dean
of the engineering college.
The outline is in the Deans Cor
ner, which is a regular department
of the publication and explains in
detail the plan which has been the
subject of much discussion. Gerard
Swope, the originator of the plan
is the president of General Electric
company.
Another feature in the current
issue is an article by Prof. H. J.
Gramlich of the Agriculture col
lege, entitled "Farmer's Problems."
He says that If the farmers expect
to make their industry profitable,
they will have to adapt themselves
to. changing conditions in market
ing their products. He asks the
engineers to help in the solution of
some of these problems.
H. G. Schlitt, civil engineering
'28, assistant bridge engineer in
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Meeting of Sigma
Delta Chi Called
Every member of Sigma Del
ta Chi must be present at an
important meeting to be held in
the Awgwan office at 4 o'clock
Wednesday.
FUTURE
been made with this group that the
finished picture may easily be vis
ualized," he said. "The plan fur
ther provides for the purchase of
additional land now covered with
small houses near the railroad
tracks and the development of this
tract for drill fields and for physi
cal education. While the drill field
has been moved to this area, the
land available for military maneu
vers is inadequate and must be
increased."
The second open space will ex
tend parallel with the Memorial
hall, but farther south, running
east and west from Twelfth street
to Sixteenth street.
"Around this area known as the
quadrangle will be grouped many
of the major buildings of the cam
pus," Chancellor Burnett ex
plained. "Fortunately this portion
of the plan may be developed in
two parts, the west areas extend
ing from Twelfth to Fourteenth
streets and the east portion ex
tending from Fourteenth street
east to Sixteenth street. So much
of the first portion has been com
pleted that one can easily compre
hend the plan. On the south Btand
Social Science and the Teachers
college with a site reserved for a
new administration building. On
the north Andrews ball, with space
for a building where tenuis courts
are now located.
"We are hoping for the erection
on this location of a building to re
place old U hall so that this por
tion of the quadrangle may be
landscaped." In a word, then, he
said, "the west part of this open
space will be developed first by
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JUNIOR RECITAL PLANNED
Lorraine Lovgren and Abe
Hill to Give Program
Wednesday.
A Junior recital will be given by
students of the School of Music
Wednesday afternoon, 4 o'clock, in
the Temple theater. Miss Lorraine,
Longren, pianist, student witn Her
bert Schmidt, and Abe Hill, vlolin
1st, student with August Molzer,
will present the program.
This will be the twentieth mu
sical convocation of the year. The
recital is open to the pvhlic, ac
cording to Mrs. Luia Schuler
Smith, director of the programs.
The program:
Bi!thnvn, Son!, A flat, op. 20; n
rinnte con variation!; arhrrzo; MIm Lov
gren.
Mrnotohn. Concerln. E mlnnr: ullrgro.
mnlto HppAMlnnatn; andnntr; Mr. HIM.
MendflHsohn, Rchrrzo. K minor: Oltnka
Rnlaklrew, The iJirk : rfhnsy. MlnMrelv
Chnpln. Wfilii, A flat, op. B4, o. a;
Mlffd lovprrn.
Rnich. ron-frto. O minor: allruro mm".
orxlo; Wlrnlawnkl, Bcherio-Tarrnlcllf ; Mr.
Hill.
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OF
Letters .Will Be Sent to All
Houses With Five or More
Non-Fraternity Men.
PART OF REALIGNMENT
Believe Clubs Will Become
Nuclei for Political,
Social Activity.
All houses where there are five
or more non-fraternity men in
residence will be sent letters next
week announcing plans for organ
ization into barb clubs, according
to the proposed plan of the faction
realignment committee which held
its second meeting Monday after
noon.
The committee is working to
ward establishing a better political
situation on the campus and de
cided at its first meeting that the
proper place to begin was with the
unorganized barbs who because of
their lack of organization have
been practically non-existant as far
as campus politics were concerned.
The decision of the committee
Monday afternoon was based on a
report brought in by a sub-commit
tee which lists all of the rooming
houses in the city at which unaffil
iated university students are stay
ing. The committee decided that
houses where there were five or
more students rooming would con
stitute the best available nuclei for
barb organization.
The letters which the committee
will send will announce the time
for a meeting of the students in
each house at which time members
of the committee will meet with
the croups and outline the plans
and purposes of barb organization.
Thursday evening, March 30 nas
been set as the date for these
meetings.
Organize Barb Clubs.
The plan contemplates the or
ganization of barb clubs which will
become units for political, social,
and intramural athletic activity.
Starting with the small groups of
barbs who already form something
of a unified group, the committee
expects these small groups to
gather together other barbs into
larger organizations capable of ex
ercising political influence.
It was suggested at the meeting
Monday, that the work of carrying
to completion the scheme upon
which the committee has decided
would probably require a consider
able length of time, so mat sen
ior members of the committee
would hardly be able to follow the
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INT D
PLAN
IN
BARB
GROUPS
Recent Missouri Kidnaping of Party
Queen Still Remains Deep Mystery;'
Question Law Students About Affair
7 ., ii.it ilio inrrmn.r find hiwvcrs at llie University
of Nebraska nre not the only ones that have their troubles. ,
At the University of Missouri last Saturday afternoon, Miss
Mary Louise Uuttcrfield, who was to have been crowned queen
of the annual college of engineering St. Patrick's Day ball, was
lridnnnned and held caDtive until late that night, too late for
the crowning, sne arrivea as nsy
cnissta nriri lpavinc and was in
troduced from the throne as the
queen.
Although the identities of the
kidnapers are as yet unknown it
is eenerally agreed that it was the
work of students, or former stu
dents in the school of law, continu
ing a long standing leua oetween
igineenng and law students.
Miss Rutterfield was seized bv
five men, thrust into a green sedan
with wire wheels and driven rap
idly away shortly before 3 o'clock
us slip descended the steDS at the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house.
She had just called a taxicab to
take her downtown to a Deauiy
paror, preparing for the honors
that were to have been bestowed
upon her at the ball.
Hi... .
Miss Virginia Hinton, a bounty
sister of Miss Butterfield, who was
to accompany ber, bad stopped to
answer the telephone. She heard a
scream from the queen-to-be, and
saw a car drive rapidly away. Miss
Butterfield had apparently mis
taken the car driven by her abduc
tors for the taxicab she had or
dered. Miss Butterfield was held cap
DOCTOR KRAUS TO
GIVE LECTURE ON
GERMAN POLITICS
Eminent International Law
Expert Will Speak at
Convocation.
ADDRESS TUESDAY AT IT
Publicist Will Lecture in
Temple Theater; to Be
Guest of Faculty.
"The German Political Situa.
tion" will be the subject of the ad
dress of Prof. Herbert Kraus, em
inent international law expert
from Germany, at an all university
convocation this morning at 11
o'clock in the Temple theater.
Prof. Kraus teaches international
law and diplomacy at the Univer
sity of Gottingen, Germany.
Tuesday evening Dr. Krause will
be the guest and speaker at the
Faculty Men's Dinner club. He
will speak to them on "Educational
Trends in Germany."
Doctor Kraus is in .the united
States' at the present time, lectur
ing at Princeton university, and is
not unknown in . this country. He
studied international 1 a w with
Judge John Bassett Moore '.and
Prof. George C. Wilson before the
war. He has written a book on the
Monroe Doctrine. He has lectured
at Chicago university upon the in
vitation of the Harris Foundation.
He spoke at the Briarcliffe Manor
meeting; of the American Teachers
of International law in 1929, and
his wife is a native of the United
States.
According to Dr. J. O. Hertzler,
chairman of the committee on con
vocations and public exercises.
Prof. Kraus is highly regarded in
Germany as a publicist who is ac
tively in touch with the current po
litical movements. He has com
mand of the English language,
speaking it accurately and fluently.
He has lectured on international
ethics at the International Acad
emy of Law at the Hague; and has
recently written a book on "Kant
and the Problems of International
Order" which will soon be trans
lated and published in English.
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FOR ENGINEERS HBP
Annual Inspection Tour of
Juniors and Seniors
Set April 11.
Saint Louis is the city which the
junior and senior students of the
Engineering college will visit on.
their annual Inspection tour, ac
cording to W. F. Weiland, chair
man of the committee in charge of
the trip, which will commence on
April 11 and continue thru April
16th.
The trio is reauired of all engi
neers before they get their de
grees and may be taken in either
their junior or senior year.
Students making the excursion
will inspect numerous plants, in
cluding the Busch Sultzer diesel
engine works, Anhauser Busch Co.
Inc., Cahokie Power Plant, Gen
eral Electric Mazada Lamp Co.,
Wagner Electric, National Lead
Co., Laclede Christie Clay Works,
Saint Louis Municipal Water
Works, Lambert Air Port, Laclede
Steel Co., at Alton, 111., Fouke Fur
Co., and the International Shoe
company.
On the way back, tne engineers
will view the Bagneii aam project
at Jefferson City, Mo., and make
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tive about nine hours. Taken to
Moberly, Mo., by her captors,' she
was entertained at bridge by a
Moberly man and his wife at their
t Kir n nut to dinner, and
then brought back to Columbia,
arriving there about ii:ju ociock.
The identity of the young men
who perpetrated the kidnaping ap
pears likely to remain unsolved.
The victim said she knew none of
her abductors, and could recognize
none of the pictures of hundreds
of students shown her by the en
gineers. She was, however, confi
dent she could recognize them if
she saw them again.
Laws Deny Abduction.
Students in the school of law de
nied emphatically that they had
had anything to do with Miss But
terfi'ld's aNi'ctn. p-d r-
lac. i-t -honored
bv the engines.
identity of tta queen Is kept se
cret because the lawyers annu
ally hope to, and sometimes try.
to keep the queen from attending
the engineer's dance. This year,
however, the identity of the queen
leaked out here and there.
It was hinted that two law fri
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