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:l The- Da Nebraskan ny Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska a 1 ; r VOL. XXXH NO. 44. LINCOLN, NKKKASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1932. PRICE 5 CENTS. FRAIIE T RUMBAUER AND 15 PIECE WILL PLAY FOR BALL Eddie Jungbluth Comments Favorably on Signed Orchestra. Frankle Trumbauer and his fif teen piece band will furnish the music for the Military ball on Fri day evening, Dec. 2, according to Cadet Major James McGeachin, chairman of the orchestra com mittee. The orchestra comes here from Dallas, Tex., where they have . been playing under a contract that expires Nov. 28. Earlier in the fall this dance band played at the Muehlbach hotel in Kansas City, receiving much popular acclaim during its engagement there and every place it has appeared. "Frankie Trumbauer has played in Paul Whiteman's band for sev eral years and is pronounced by all musicians the best saxophone player in the world, barring none," stated Eddie Jungbluth. "He also brings with him some other men who have also played in Paul Whiteman's band including one of the best trumpet players in the country." According to McGeach in; this band has received much favorable comment from every one who has heard it. Plans for the ball have been going thru rapidly. The final ar rangements will be completed and announced in the next few days, it was learned from the chairman of the committee. COUNCnSTRESENT PINS AT CONVOCATION Three Girls Earning Highest Averages Will Be Recognized. Recognition of the highest scho lastic averages made by girls in the freshmen, sophomore and jun ior classes will be given by the Panhellenic council Wednesday af ternoon at 4 o'clock, when pins are presented to the winners at the seventeenth annual scholastic con vocation in the Temple theater. . The awards will be made by Elizabeth Barber, president of the Panhellenic council, at the conclu sion of the regular weekly recital of the school of music. The pins go to the holders of the highest scholastic averages re gardless of whether or not they are sorority girls, Miss Barber pointed out, and added that the convocation is one which should be attended by all girls on the campus. Last year's awards went to Miss Ida Sommers of the freshman class who had an average of 95.47, Miss Margaret Upson, of the soph omore class, who had an average of 90.83; and Mrs. Harriet Zink, of the Junior class who had an av erage of 92.92. .The averages are based on grades made during the preceding year. . . . ELECTION RULES 1. Solicitation of votes in the building-in which the election is held is forbidden. Candidates or supporters shall ' spend no money on a campaign. Any lit erature on behalf of candidates is forbidden. 2. All male students are eli gible to vote for Nebraska Sweetheart. 3. Receipt numbers must be written in ink on the validation of the students identification card. No students will be per mitted to use another student's identification card. Cards of violators will be confiscated. 4. identification cards of vot ers will be checked with files from the registrar's office. A written statement from the registrar's office must be se cured to vote if a voter is chal lenged at the polls. 5. Violation of any rule by any candidate or supporter au tomatically results in the ineli gibility of the candidate. BAD VEPPRQ TO Mm SFRVIP.FS Gertrude Clarke Will Speak On Membership Meaning Tuesday Afternoon. Certrude Clark will be the speaker at the annual recognition services for the new members of the Vespers, which will be held at 5 o'clock Tuesday in Ellen Smith hall. She will speak on "What Y. W. C. A. Membership Means." The service, which will be a candlellghting ceremony, will be conducted by Lucille Hendricks, assisted by Jane Robertson. Evelyn Hasse will preside, and the choir will sing. CURRENT SCHOONER CONTAINS WORK OF WESTERN WRITERS Former Students Submit Short Stories for Publication. The November issue of the Prai rie Schooner, which went on sale this week, is made up mainly of the work of midwestern writers. The short story writers are Ne braskans, among them Rudolph Umland, whose first published story, "Sand Hill Interlude," ap pears in this issue. A former stu dent of the university, Mr. Um land has spent three years touring the United States, and is at pres ent raising swine on a Nebraska farm. Among other contributions from Nebraskans are "Old Trails," a ghost story written by Mrs. Dora Bower of York, Nebraska, "Broth er," a farm story by Lyman Ross, and "League of Nations," the con tribution of Michael Ginsburg, an assistant professor at the univer sity. Out of state writers are wel comed by the Schooner, but .Ne braskan writers are given first call providing their work equals the standard of contributions re ceived from distant parts of the country, according to Editor Wim berly. "Kindred," a sketch, marks the first appearance of R. C. Pit zer, of Irvington, New Jersey. Pauline Hirst, a young poet liv ing in Riverside, Calif., and the niece of Dr. Robert F. Gilder, at one time connected with the uni versity, is represented for the first time in the Schooner. Seventeen year old Jeanne Gregory, born in a sod house in the sandhills, writes from Stanton, Nebraska, Harold Vinal of New York City, who is editor of Voices, a leading poetry magazines, writes a series of son nets. Prof. Lowry C. Wimberly, edi tor of the Prairie Schooner, con tributes a book review, and Loren C. Eisley, editor of the 'Cross roads," section, Gilbert Doane, who conducts "Bibliana," are in cluded in the Fall number of the Schooner. Monetary Conference Delegates Will Consider Two Plans of Aiding Farmer Two plans for farm relief will be discussed at the conference on "Prices, Debts and the Farmer," which Will be held Thursday, Nov. 17 in the Social Science audi torium. It is being held primarily to discuss monetary and banking procedure that will be beneficial to the farmer. The two most common proce dures advanced for farm relief have been readjustment of prices of farmers' debts according to present price levels and a read justment of prices of farm prod ucts. Roughly speaking, the farm er today must repay debts con tracted some years ago in mort gages and other obligations with a dollar worth almost twice as much as it was in 1929. Therefore the problem confronted Is to raise either prices for produce or reduce the amount of the farmers' indebt edness. C. A. Phillips Speaks. Headlining the speakers' lit is C. A. Phillips, dean of the college of commerce of the University of Iowa, who will appear both in the morning and afternoon programs, speaking in the morning session on "Banking and Prices" and in the afternoon on "Teachings of the Turbulent Twenties." The banking profession will have a prominent part in the pro gram, with D. P. Hogan, president BUSINESS HONORARY tlMl fUC.3 1 ff 1 man Commercial Club Plans Ceremony Tuesday at Delt House. Two pledges to Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary business fraternity, were initiated Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. Clifford E. Spangler, professor of economics in the business administration col lege. Norman Prucka and Law rence Young are the new initiates. Another organization of the Bizad college, the men's commer cial club, will initiate twenty pledges at the Delta Tau Delta house Tuesday evening at 7:15 o'clock. After the initiation, Mr. Karl Arndt, professor of econom ics, will give a talk on -business finance. 'As Husbands Go,' Modern Comedy, Begins Run At Temple. "As Husbands Go." a three-act comedy by Rachel Crothers, was presented at the Temple theater, Monday night by the University Players, campus dramatic organ ization under the direction of Miss H. Alice Howell. The play will have a week's run. A chuckling and applauding audience attended this play, a wholesomely human . affair with interludes of light humor. Miss Crothers, "admitting that the American husband is traditionally a patient dry horse, fit only to carry the money bag and the fam ily worries" managed to present a leisurely, loose jointed, uneven story about him in a satisfying manner. The play itself starts with a (Continued on Page 3.) Cornhusker Salesmen To Turn in All Books Tassels, Corncob and Corn husker staff members who have sales books for the 1933 Cornhusker must turn them in by 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Cornhusker office. All books and money must be checked in by that time or Cornhusker Coed votes will not be valid. Any salesman in the organization contest will be ineligible for the prize at Magees if books are turned in later. of the Federal Land bank in Omaha, discussing "The Farm Mortgage Problem" in the after noon session. Another Omaha banker appearing on the program is L. S. Clarke, president of the Nebraska Mortgage Bankers' as sociation, whose topic is "The Way Out of the Depression." G. W. Woods, state banking commission er, will speak on "Commercial Bank Management and Price Level Changes." Members of the university fac ulty taking part in the program are Prof. H. C. Filley who will dis cuss influences affecting farm prices, and Prof. K. M. Arndt who will take up a discussion of the value of inflation to the farmer. Other faculty members taking part in the program are: J. E. Le Rosslgnol, dean of the college of business administration; Prof. G. O. Virtue, chairman of the de pal tment of economics; Prof. J. E. Kirshman, chairman cf the depart men of f inance., and Prof. T. Bruce Robb, chairman of the department of business research. M. Weil, president of the Na tional Bank of Commerce; F. D. Tomson, vice president of the Lin coln chamber of commerce, and Prof. J. E. Kirshman will give short talks during a noon luncheon at the Lincoln chamber of commerce. UNIVERSITY PLAYERS AMUSE AUDIENCE MONDAY EVE OPENING Barbs Petition Student Group to Close Dec. 10 The Barb council, which spon sors monthly all University par ties is petitioning the Student council to close the night of Dec. 10 to all other campus soci.il tunctions. The petition will be heard at a special meeting of the Student council on Wednesday at 5 o'clock in U hall, 106. Any organizations who have objec tions to closing this night are re quested by the president to have a representative present at the meeting. POLICEMEN CATCH CAME ATTENDANTS PILFERING AUTOS Regler Takes Ttvo Negroes To Police Station on Discovery. Two negroes who fave their names as George Farley and Wil liam Conrad, both of Lincoln, were discovered breaking into cars and pilfering them during the game Saturday. Th9 men were seen from the stadium by an Omaha policemen, attending the game. Officer Reg ler caught Farley and handcuffed him to the door of a parked car but Conrad escaped after Regler had fired several shots at him. Conrad dropped a hat and coat a. he fled. Farley was taken to the police station and told where Conrad was living. Officers Regler, Miller anl McCurdy and Detective Myers picked up Conrad and took him n the station where he confessed Farley was arraigned in come Monday morning and entered a plea of not guilty. His tru "as set for Nov. 25. Conrad has not been arraigned yet Farley has served time in prison in Oklahoma and Conrad was n the penitentiary here for four years for breaking and entering. ANNUAL CORNHUSKER COSTUME PARTY SET FOR NIGHT OF DEC. 9 A. W. S. Board to Give Prizes for Three Best Dresses. Fridav evening-. Dec. 9. has been set as the date of the Cornhusker costume party, annual affair for all women on the campus spon sored bv the A. W. S. board, ac cording to Helen Baldwin, member of that group. The party will be held in the Armorv from 7 to 9. the Panhellenic council having voted to close the evening to hour dances. Prizes are awarded each year to the wearers of the costumes judged the cleverest, the prettiest, and the funniest. Last year Mar torv Dickinson, dressed to repre sent a dressing table, was declared the cleverest; Margaret i,eonara, carhed as a Snanish senorita. the prettiest; and Mildred Dole, posing as an African cannibal chief, the funnies. The following committee ap pointments have been made by Miss Baldwin; arrangements, Har riet Dunlap; stunts, Anne Bunting; favors, Alice Quigle; and music and judges, Ruth Cherney. An orchestra will play for danc ing following the presentation of a program of skits. The girls will then form in line for a grand march past the judges' stand, and the costume winners will be an nounced according to their deci sion. LIVESTOCK JUDGING TEAM PLACES FIFTH Ag College Senior Takes Second Honors at Kansas City: The university senior livestock judging team placed iifth in the intercollegiate judging contest at Kansas City Saturday in connec tion with the American Royal livestock exposition. Prof. M. A. Aie .ander of the animal husband ry department coached the team, torteen schools were represented in the competition. LaVern Gengrich, senior In the college of agriculture, was the high scoring individual on the Ne braska team and was the second high individual in the contest. I ELECTION STARTS AT NINE THIS MORNING Winner Will Be Presented In Kosmet Revue on November 24. Polls will open at 9 o'clock this morning in the Temple building and in Dean Burr's office in Ag hall for the election of the Ne braska Sweetheart. Voting will continue thru the day until 5 o'clock. All men students in the uni versity are eligible to vote. Voters will be required to present identi fication cards, and members of the student council election committee, headed by Jane Axtell, will super vise the election. The nine' candidates for Sweet heart, the winner of which to he presented at the Kosmet Klub Thanksgiving Morning Revue on Nov. 24 at the Stuart theater, are: Pat Miller, Delta Gamma; Leola Schill, Alpha Xi Delta; Rosalie Lamme, Delta Delta Delta; Betty Kelley, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Mildred Huff, Alpha Delta Theta; Alice Pedley, Kappa Alpha Theta; Jeanette Arensburg, Alpha Phi; Anne Bunting, Pi Beta Phi; and Jeanette Clarke, Alpha Chi Omega. Urges Large Vote. Jack Thompson, president of Kosmet Klub, urged that all men students turn out for the election. "We want the Sweetheart to be (Continued on Page 2.1 T SALE CLOSES TONIGHT Business Manager Urges All Students to Buy Annual Now. The initial Cornhusker discount sale definitely closes this sl'lo noon at 5 o'clock, Charles Ska.de, business manager, announced yes terday afternoon. A two day ex tension of the scheduled opening sales drive was made Friday when it was seen that the demand for books could not be taken oai i of because of the activities on that day. "The rally Friday morning, the parades in the afternoon and the general spirited activities goin on before the Pittsburgh game k-.'pt many students who intended to order their Cornhuskers ttom doing so on the last day of the sale, hence the extension of t'rne (Continued on Page 3.) TO E Sponsors Expect Over 200 Guests Will Attend Annual Dinner. Over two hundred are expected to attend the annual Big Sister and Little Sister dinner, which is being given at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening at the Armory. All Big Sisters are expected to attend with their proteges, and many sorority pledges are coming with their sponsors. Delores Deadman, head of the Big Sister board, will welcome the ruests and preside over a short program, which will include a skit by Editha Long and Betsy bene dict, and a reading by Florence Smeerin. Dorothy Charleston and Ma Hon Stnmn will Dlav through out the evening for those who wish to dance. The committee in charce of the dinner includes Margaret Reedy, who is .in charce of the treneral arrangements; Calista Cooper, publicity; Muriel juoiiett, me menu? Alice Guide, the Droeram. and Lucille Reilly, ticket sales. SCHOOL SWEETHEAR YEARBOOK Dl UN SISTERS PLAN NTERTAIN PROTEGES i. .V i