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VOL. XXXIV NO. 127.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1935
1 2 MORE CAMPUS
T
Committee Plans Campaign
To Gain Approval of
Faculty.
HONOR ROLL INCREASES
Hope for Means to Exchange
Texts With Other
Universities.
TaviIvc additional organiza
tions have signified their in
tention of supporting the pro
posed student book exchange
to be established here at the
university and have been placed
on the honor roster, making an al
most unanimous backing of cam
pus groups.
In order to take care of the
enormous amount of work which
must be accomplished in such a
short time available, Don Shurleff,
Irwin Ryan, and Bonnie Span
gaard have been named as mem
bers on the student council com
mittee which is sponsoring the
idea.
Campaigning to secure the
faculty support of the book ex
change, members of the council
committee plan to visit all deans,
directors of schools, and chairmen
of departments in an effort to ob?
tain their approval and backing.
"The results of the first day's
work was very gratifying." as
serted Virginia Selleck. a member
of the committee, "and all profes
sors contacted pave assurance
that they would stand whole
heartedly behind the planned
bookstore."
Keeping in contact with other
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I
STATEHIGH SCHOOLS
Ag Campus Will Entertain
Agriculture Students
April 25, 26.
Eastern Nebraska high school
students will assemble on the Ag
campus Thursday and Friday,
April 25 and 26, foi the twenty
first annual high school agricul
tural contest, held under the aus
pices of the vocational education
department of the university.
Special awards will be made to
winners of various divisions at a
banquet in the Activities building
following the competition. Cham
pions in the dairy and livestock
judging divisions will represent
Nebraska at the Kansas City
Roval livestock show.
The winner of the public speak
ing contest will compete at a re
gional contest at Waterloo, la., for
a trip to Kansas City.
Dormitory facilities will be pro
vided in the Activities building
for outstate entrants. A similar
contest for western Nebraska
schools will be held at North
Platte April 11 and 12. and win
ners may compete at Lincoln for
the state championship.
STORY BY ANDERSON
Second Fiction Work
Year Appears in April
Issue.
of
With the short story, "Beware
of the Nones of May," by Donald
Anderson, as a feature the issue oi
the Nebraska alumnus will sent
to university alumni on April 15th,
Violet Cross, publication editor has
announced. The story, second to be
used this year, tells of a fight be
tween engineers and lawyers.
Also appearing in the issue, is
an article, "How Near is the
Wolf," which is concerned with
university appropriations and the
present financial situation. Dr. K.
D. Scott of the English department
will be the subject of a second ar
ticle. Among the usual umversitj
news will be the librarian's page,
campus news, accounts of mar
riages and births, and class notes.
Also appearing is an article in
memoriam to several of the late
faculty members stories on senior
class organization. Phi Beta Kap
pa and Sigma Xi. and an account
of charter dav activities not re
ported in last month's issue.
The Kosmet Klub show with a
full page of pictures will addition
ally be presented in the issue.
ENGINEERS PLAN FOR
ANNUAL CELEBRATION
Initial plane for its engineers
week activities this spring rrc
formulated by the American inMi-
tute of Engineers at f the.. "S"1"
monthly meeting last evening.
GROUPS SUPPOR
BOOK STORE IDEA
VOCATIONA
HOLDS
CONTEST
ALUMNUS
EATURES
NEWEST
NUMBER
Radio Fails to Work
When Smuggled Into
Anthropology Cl&ss
Night class students of Dr. Earl
H. Bell may be primarily inter
ested in anthropology, but some of
them have a fondness for music.
At one of Dr. Bell's recent eve
ning meetings they discovered,
however, that music and anthro
pology don't mix, and music took
the count. Maybe they just can't
get used to night classes.
Because Dr. Bell plans to leave
May 15 for Alaska he's been hold
ing night classes so he can finish
the work in his courses ahead of
regular schedule. That meant giv
ing up favorite evening broad-
thought they could go to class, and
nave meir racno programs too, so
they smuggled a small receiver
into the classroom.
During the lecture, the radio at
tached to a wall socket and dtill
to deliver the broadcasts as sched
uled. Instead onlv odd noises and
unintelligible mutterings came
from the smuggled article. May
be they didn't actually care about
the programs anvwav.
IT I
TO ROOSTER
Name Chaperons for Spring
Dinner Dance at
Meeting.
Kight pledges of Corn Cobs,
men's pep organization, were ini
tiated at special ceremonies heH
Wednesday night at the Phi Delta
Thcta house, under the direction of
President Irving Hill.
New initiates are Frank Griffey,
Duke Reid, Allen Wolf, Mike Wis
en, Lowell Newmeyer, Gifford
Swenson, James Wahl, and Dick
Rider. Dick Decker and Harold
Jacobsen were in charge of the in
duction rites.
Final plans for the spring din
ner dance, which will be held at
the Cornhusker hotel Saturday
night, were discussed at a business
meeting that followed. Professor
and Mrs. Karl A. Arndt and Pro
fessor and Mrs. O. Stepanek were
revealed as chaperons for the
party.
Every fraternity on the campus
now has an active member in the
organization, according to Secre
tary Jim Man-in, making the first
complete roster that the group has
had in years. Com Cobs is a
branch of the Greek letter frater
nity Pi Epsilon Pi, which is a na
tionally organized society.
HEAR FIRST REPORTS
ON BEST AD CONTEST
Honorary Sorority Pledges
Women at Meeting
Thursday.
Pledging of four new women
and first reports on the ad selec
tion contest which they are spon
soring will comprise the main ac
tivity of the members of Gamma
Alpha Chi. national honorary ad
vertising sorority, when they meet
Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in
Ellen Smith hall.
The pledging ceremony which
will be held first, according to Vir
ginia Selleck, president of the
group, will make pledges of Elea
nor Ntle, Helen Eppler.
At the meeting following the
service, the ad contest reports will
be submitted, and discussion of
additional possibilities for judges
will take place. Miss Seileck
stated. Thus far. only F. C. Blood,
university professor of advertising
and sponsor of Camma Alpha Chi,
and Prof. Gayle G. Walker, di
rprtnr of the lournalism school,
have been named as iudees. The
Viovi hwn named as luaeea. uic
;7,h mmA. to add at least one
or two prominent Lincoln adver-
-w I
leLction of adi, in the contest
wifl be limited to papers published
in communities or over i.vw wim
the exception of Lincoln ana
Omaha.
EIGH
NITIATED
INTO CORN COBS
GAMMA ALPHA CHI TO
Fosdick Denounces Military
Pageantry in Record Speech
Wh.it of the church in regard 1o past and potential wars
The words of Harry Emerson Fosdick several years ago, in re
gard to this subject were considered by Hon. James P. Pope,
v,;..-.t r.f.n,.li vital interest to the people of this coun-
trv" that he reeeived permission to have the entire sermon
printed in the Kecora.
"I renounce war," said Rev. Mr.
Fosdick," and never again, direct
ly or indirectly, will I sanction or
support another.
"Yesterday in Rome, Paris, Lon
don. Washington, and how many
capitals besides, th most stirring
military pageantry, decked with
flags and exultant with music,
centered about the bodies of un
known soldiers. That is strange.
So this is the outcome of western
civilization, which for nearly 2 000
years has hs Christ, and in which
democracy and science have had
c ; - - acclama
their widest opportunity, mai uic
J-" . colorful pageantry
I " parotic oratory
icemcra,
VOTERS TO MAKE
FIRST SELECTION
NEXT INNOCENTS
List of All ' Junior
To Be Posted in
Temple.
Men
FACULTY DIRECTS VOTING
Ballot Will Include Five
Names; Twenty-Five
To Be Chosen.
Preliminary selection of .jun
ior men from whom next year's
Innocents society will be cho
sen Mill be made Tuesday,
April 16. when junior and sen
ior men cast their ballots to name
twenty-five candidates for the sen
ior honarv. Voting will be held in
the Temple theater lobby from
nine in the morning to 5 o clock
that afternoon,
A list of nil iunlor men. secured
from the records of the university
registrar, win De posieo. at ine
twiIIq fnr oonvpnienee of VOtinET
students. Accuracy of the list can
not be definitely checked, it was
pointed out, because the large num
ber of names makes it impossible
for the registrar's staff to investi
gate eacn one.
President Owen Johnson, of the
Innocents society, warned students
eligible to vote in Tuesday's elec
tion that they should exercise care
in rnstine- their ballots that the
names they write in are names of
junior men. Rules or tne eiecnon
require that each voter name five
students on his ballot. Failure to
comply with this rule throws that
'llot out, he warned.
Sponsored by the Innocents So
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ATTEND KANSAS CITY
EC(
Four Professors
On Program
Conference.
Appear
at
Seven members of the faculty of
the College of Business Adminis
tration will leave Thursday for
Kansas City where they will at
tend the Mid-West Economic con
ference to be held this week end.
Taking part in the program,
Prof. G. O. Virtue will be chairman
of the round table discussion on
"Current Problems of Federal Fi
nance and Implications," and Dean
J. E. LeRossignol will be the
chairman of the social security
program group. Prof. C. E. Mc
Neill is to be a leader in the in
land transportation program dis
cussions. Prof. J. E. Kirshman will ad
dress the conference on "Economic
Aims and Accomplishments of the
New Deal." Various phases of the
New Deal recovery program is
the general theme of the confer
ence, sponsored by the Mid-West
Economic association.
Dean J. E. LeRossignol is one of
the officers of the association, be
ing a member of the executive
committee.
Besides those on the program,
Professors E. S. Fullbrook. T. B.
Robb and Clifford M. Hicks will
also attend the meetings.
MATH SOCIETY HEARS
SPEECH BY JOHSO'
Pi Mu Epsilon Members
l ieu- Exhibition of
Rare Books.
A talk on "Egyptian Mathemat
ics and Rhind Papyrus," by Ellery
-inhnann will feature the meeting
.. .-
of Pi Mu Eps.lon. matnemaucs i so-
m thaaI i t rr O T 'i -Xll fl f If M K
AnVxhibition of rare math book,
will be shown the society mem-
irniina-intr the talk, officers for
the comnig year will be elected.
flniirishM around the unrecoeTiiz
able body of a soldier blown to bits
on the battlefield. That is strange.
The Unknown Soldier was
sound of mind and body. We made
sure of that. All primitive gods
who demanded bloody sacrifices on
their altars insisted that the ani
mals should be of the best without
mar or hurt The god of war still
maintains the old demand. Of all
Insane and suicidal procedures,
can you imagine anything madder
than this, that all the nations
should pick out their best, use
their scientific skill to make cer
tain that they are the best, and
then in one mighty holocaust of
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SEVEN
INSTRUCTORS
MIS
MEETING
A'cif Supporters of
Book Store Project
Barb Interclub Council.
Barb A. W. S. League.
Big Sister Board.
A.W. S. Board.
W. A. A.
Alpha Delta Theta.
Sigma Delta Tau.
Delta Upsilon.
Phi Sigma Kappa.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Theta XI.
Dr. Williams Addresses
District Wonions Group
Dr. Hattie Plum Williams of
the sociology department ad
dressed a district meeting of the
Women's Educational club, Satur
day. Her topic whs "Social Secur
ity Program of the Federal Ad
ministration." L
DATE OF FILINGS
Fl
Fischer Leads Discussion on
Union Building Drive
At Meeting.
Candidates for the traditional
nnst ot Ivv dav orator will file ap
plications on Thursday from 9
0 ClOCK 10 O O ClOCK oaiuiunj
afternoon in the student activities
nffire at the coliseum, according to
a ruling made by the student coun
cil at a meeting weanesaay n
ernoon. The time was changed from
Wednesday, which was previously
announced by a member of the Ivy
day committee before the council
had approved the date.
Discussion of the council drive
for a Nebraska student union
building was conducted by Presi
dent Fischer, who outlined plans
to members of the council to se
cure co-operation of the student
body in securing the structure.
"Whether the Board of Regents
honors our request for the build
in gor not depends upon the sup
port the proposal receives upon the
campus," Fisched declared.
Report of the student book ex
change committee was made by
ninir TTSafhpr who revealed that
national book agencies were being
contacted by tne committee to se
cure outlets for the Nebraska
store and that a concerted drive
was to be made among faculty
members this week to secure their
support of the plan.
Two responses from Big Six con
ference schools concerning an an
nual conference of student councils
were read by Fischer. Action on
the matter was postponed until
word is received from the other
colleges.
325 STUDENT R.O.T.C.
AT
Cadet Colonel Charles E.
Galloway Acts as
Toastmaster.
Chancellor E. A. Burnett ad
iroconH men in uniform and
their special guests, the regimental
sponsors, at tne n. u. i. v-. utui
quet held Wednesday evening in
the ballroom of the Lincoln hotel.
Guests found their pices at ta
bles arranged according to com
panies in line of battf-lions and
decorated with guideons. Cadet
Colonel Charles Calloway, head of
the arrangements committee, pre
sided and acted as toastmaster in
troducing T. J. Thompson, dean of
student affairs: State Senator
Rolla C. VanKirk of the Ne
braska legislature: Speaker J. P.
O'Gara of the Nebraska house,
and Col. C. J. Frankfortcr.
Others on the program were:
Dr. G. E. Condra. director of the
conservation and survey depart
ment; Claude S. Wilson, head of
the Alumni Board of Control: Rev.
H. H. Marsden; Rev. Victor West;
Dean W. W. Burr of the Ag col
lege; Violet Cross, this year's
honorary colonel; and Col. W. H.
Oury, head of the university R. O.
T. C.
Honored ruests besides the
regimental sponsors included John
K. Selleck. director of student ac
tivities: Coach D. X. Bible; Leiut
E. C. Richardson, president of the
Reserve Officers' association of
Lincoln; Edgar J. Boschult, head
of the local American Legion
post. Capt. J. H. Gist of the U. S.
army; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Faulk
ner; George Sauer and Anne
Bunting, last years honorary
colonel.
Cadet Major Henry Kosman was
chairman in charge of tickets for
the affair and Cadet Major Charles
Steadman arranged for the invita
tions. DEM Alt I ES HILLARD
WINS PSI CHI PRIZE
DeMaries Hilliard, senior in the
Arts and Science college, has been
given the annual Psi Chi award
granted by the honorary psychol
ogy fraternity. Prof. J. P. Guilford
announced Wednesday.
The Psi Chi award is given an
nually to the student in the uni
versity taking psychology who has
a high scholarship record and who
shows an exceptional Interest and
insight into the subject or psycnoi
ogy and its various problems.
Old
CHANGES
R ORAT
OR POST
20 HIGH SCHOOLS
ENTER DRAMATIC,
DEBATE TOURNEY
State Prep Contests Held
Here April 11, 12
And 13.
CUPS AWARDED WINNERS
Speech Faculty to Judge
Readings and One
Act Plays.
Twenty high schools have en
tered over a hundred contest
ants in the Nebraska high
school debate and dramatic
contests which will be held at
the university Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday of this week. Prizes
of loving cups will be offered for
first place in debate, interpretive
reading, and the one act play con
tests. Judges for the debate will be
prominent former debaters of the
city and dramatic judges will be
members of the Speech faculty
and of the senior class in Speech.
The Citizenship Committee of the
Nebraska Bar association is pro
viding the cup for the debate, ac
cording to a statement from the
speech department, and a local de
partment store has offered cups
for first places in the one act play,
the humorous reading, and the
dramatic reading contests. The
cup to be awarded in the oratori
cal contest will be provided by a
local jewelry store.
Debate Finals Saturday.
Debates will be held in Andrews
hall Thursday afternoon and eve
ning, and in the law building, Mor
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AG COLLEGE TO HOLD
ANNUAL PRE-EASTER
BREAKFAST APRIL 14
Rev. Williams Speaker at
7:00 Meal for Early
Risfng Students.
Early rising students on the Ag
campus will trek to the Student
Activities building at 7 o'clock
Sunday morning to attend the an
nual Ag college pre-Easter break
fast. Guest speaker will be Rev. A. K.
Williams, pastor of the student
Methodist church on the downtown
campus. Included on the tentative
program is a 'cello solo by June
Meek, selections by the Thomas
quartette, piano solo by Genevieve
Agnew, and group singing. The
complete program will be an
nounced later by Darrel Bauder
and Marietta Feather, co-chairmen
of the program committee.
The breakfast is being planned
by Elsie Goth and Virginia Keim,
who urge that reservations be
made with ticket salesmen before
Friday evening. Sales and public
ity staff, headed by Irene Leech
and Leroy Hansen is composed of
Ogden Riddle, Ruth Henderson,
Ruth Carsten. Don Radenbaugh,
Dale Mecham, and Max McCam
ley. The annual custom, which is al
ways held on the Sunday preced
ing spring vacation, is intended to
offer students on the Holdrege
campus a "chance to get acquaint
ed." Price of the breakfast is fif
teen cents, and all faculty mem
bers and students are invited to
attend..
HOME EC GROUP TO
HOLD TEA THURSDAY
All home economics girls and
faculty members are to be guests
at the last tea of the season spon
sored by the Home Economics as
sociation, Thursday afternoon
from 3 until 5 at the home eco
nomics parlors on the agricultural
campus.
Viola Johnson and Ruth Hender
son will be hostesses at the affair.
P.B.K. lo Brown Dcrbv-That's
The Slorv of Harry P. Letton
Tuesday, April 2. Harry Tike Letton was the recipient of
the most coveted scholarship award lie has achieved in his col
lege career. Phi Beta Kappa and also the highest ranking
student in the group.
Today, first year law student Letton is the humiliated
wearer of 'the Brown Derbv. tradi-o ...
fIf TJZJZZ .vhoi "of the, Since Letton is the chairman of
dumbest remark made in class.
Although the "crack" was below
the par of wisdom usually dis
played by wearers of the Derby,
the freshman class was unanimous
in bestowing upon the new P. B.
K. Wednesday morning his second
great honor received almost with
in a week. It all happened in
Prof. Lester B. Orfield's crimes
class of Tuesday afternoon.
"Suppose D. being arrested by a
private citizen, shoots him. Would
that be murder, Mr. Letton?"
queried Professor Orficld.
"Yl but I think the man would
need to have been killed." Letton
j retorted auicklv.
ALHI TO
UNION
John H. Agro Pledges Full Support of Association
For New Student Union Building; to Call
Directors Meeting for Planning.
COUNCIL TO ORGANIZE COMMITTEE OF 100
Com art Committees Appointed Wednesday; Exhibit
Of Photographs to Be Displayed in Major
Buildings on Both Campuses.
Kull support of the Nebraska Alumni association has bout
pledged to the student council's campaign for a student union
building by J. IT. Agee, president, of the association, Jack
Fischer, president of the student council, revealed Wednesday.
In an interview with committee members Wednesday Agee said
, othat a meeting of the board of di
TICKET SALE FOR
Reports Indicate Maximum
Attendance at Friday 6
O'clock Dinner.
With early ticket sale reports
for the first All-Barb banquet in
dicating a maximum attendance,
final arrangements for the new
barb function to be held at 6
o'clock Friday evening, April 12,
in Ellen Smith hall were being
completed today. Ticket sale for
the affair, sponsored by the barb
A. W. S. and Interclub council, will
close at 5 o'clock today, according
to John Stover, Interclub council
president.
Tickets are on sale Thursday in
Ellen Smith hall only from 12:80
to 5 o'clock or from officers of the
two organizations, Stover pointed
out. Limited banquet space in
Ellen Smith ball has limited the
affair to 100 seats all of which are
expected to be sold.
Prof. E. W. Frantz, former
sponsor of barb activities, will be
principal speaker on the evening's
program and will relate of the
present status of barb work on the
university campus. Wilbur Erick
sen, chairman of the Interclub
council, will discuss the history
and past work of the barb organ
ization, and Evelyn Diamond, A.
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Dr. Beck Addresses Group
Thursday in Brace
Laboratory.
Dr. Guido Beck, visiting profes-
i TiMaips tt-ill address a group
of Nebraska physicists and students
Thursday aiternoon at ium u
in room 211, Brace laboratory. Dr.
Beck comes from the University
of Kansas. He will discuss "The
Theory of the Positive Electron.
Faculty members and advanced
students of other related depart
ments are especially invited to at
tend Dr. H. H. Marvin, chairman
of the department of physics an
nounced the first of the week.
Dr. Beck has published many
papers dealing with structure of
atoms, and other physical phe
nomena related to the subject of
his lecture today. He was former
ly one of a group of active young
physicists who worked at the Uni
versity of Leipzig under leadership
of Prof. Arnold Sommerfeld.
Relatively little mathematics
will be required in presentation of
his lecture this afternoon, it was
pointed out. Dr. Beck has selected
his subject because it is especially
timely and has special interest ap
peal to those who are concerned
with the structure of the atom.
Dr. Man-in urged that students
interested in physical science at
tend this afternoon's lecture.
the committee on class Derby
awards, the presentation speech at
the class meeting was delivered by
Charles Led with, member of the
Derby committee, who sits at the
same desk with Letton in the
crimes class., Ledwita orated as
follows:
-Friends. Greeks, and Class
mates, I am here in a dual role of
a Brutus and a Mark Anthony.
The Brutus part is a little matter
just between the Caesar.1 to whom
we are paying our respects, and
me.
' As Mark Anthony to a living
Caesar. I come to 'bird' him, not
i (Continued on Pace 4.)
BARB BANQUET TO
CLOSE THURSDAY
KANSAS
NSTRUCTOR
DISCUSSES
POSITIVE
ELECTRON T
HURSDAY
PUSH
PROPOSAL
rectors of the association wouia oe
held soon and a definite program
for participation of alumni in the
union drive mapped out at that
time.
With new impetus given their
efforts by assurance of alumni aid,
the union committee turned to its
task of enlisting every student or
ganization, social, professional and
honorary, in the fight for an ac
tivities center. Every organization
will be asked to pledge its support
to the campaign and will be asked
to designate a member to repre
sent it on a committee of from 75
to 100 which will be entrusted
with the task of keeping the stu
dent body in touch with all devel
opments of the drive.
Meet With Latenser.
Meanwhile members of the com
mittee expected to meet in Omaha
Thursday with John Latenser,
state PWA engineer, in regard to
filing application for the building.
With lepal difficulties apparently
successfully cleared, the committee
planned to act in various channels
this week to bring the matter be
fore the state planning board for
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M TAPPED THETA
INGOE
El
Webster, Swenson, Deweese,
Civin, Place Chosen
To Society.
Five undergraduates were
tapped Theta Nu, scholastic hon
orary composed of pre-med stu
dents, at ceremonies held during a
meeting of the Nu-Med society
Wednesday night at the Grand
hotel. Harold Civin, George Place.
Fred Webster, Sara Swenson, and
Wolfard Deweese were taken into
the order.
Dr. Charles H. Arnold, Lincoln
physician, was guest speaker at a
banquet preceding the meeting.
Dr. Arnold described the Vienna
medical college which he visited
on a recent trip, and recounted his
experiences during the war and as
a family physician.
"Two requisites for any man
taking tip medical work," Dr.
Arnold declared, "are that he
should not be a cynic, and must
have a good sense of humor. It
is essential that doctors enjoy
their work, and have self confi
dence in themselves to stand the
gaff."
A business meeting was held
after the ceremonies, when the
nominating committee named can
didates for next year's officers,
which will be voted upon at the
next regular meeting.
LYLE DE MOSS PLAYS
FOR LAST AG CAMPUS
SPRING PARTY FRIDAY
Ag Board Sponsors Date
Affair in Activities
Building.
Lyle De Moss and his orchestra
will play for the final ag mixer
of the yesr. which wiil be held
Friday evening. April 12. at the
Student Activities oallroom. The
spring party is being sponsored by
the ag executive board, which is
composed of junior and senior stu
dents. Palms and blue lighting effects
will be featured in novel decora
tions with a spring theme, and
punch will be served. Admission
is 75 cents, and only couples will
be admitted.
Miss Margaret Fedde, Miss
Louise Leaton. and Miss Eloise
S perry will be honored guests for
the partv. and Dean W. W. Burr.
Prof. L. K. Crowe, and Prof. E. D.
Keim have been chosen as chap
erons. Two hundred couples are
expected.
Engineers See Latent
Boulder Dam Pictures
Latest pictures of the Boulder
Dam proiect were shown to mem
bers of the American Society of
Civil Engineers at their monthly
meeting last evening.
Marion
I Bochla presented the pictures and
(explained them to t frmio.