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Neb "Read the Nebraskan" AILY RASKAN Tap Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska vol. xxxiv no. in. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1935. PRICE 5 CENTS. A JCXJC STUDENTS MUST T WEEK, MAY 6-1 1 Catalogues, Credit Sheets Obtainable in Office Of Registrar. FEES DUE SEPTEMBER 5 Those Not Making Schedules Before Friday Will Be Assessed $3. Spring registration require- nients, that nll students en rolled for work in the univer sity during the present semes ter and expecting to take work next fall must arrange their schedules during the current week of May 6 to 11, must be complied with on pain of paying a three dol lar late fee according to informa tion from the registrar's office. Registrar Florence McGahey stated yesterday, "We urge every student to register now whether or not he ts certain of returning next fall, because students enrolled at present will be required to pay the late fine if they return and do not have their registration taken care of." Miss McGahey also urged that students fulfill this routine during the first part of the week in order to avoid conges tion just before the deadline date. Conferences with advisors may be arranged at the designated hours from now until noon on May 11, Credit books, catalogues, and curriculum Rheets may be gotten at the registrar's office. Completed schedules must be approved by the respective advisors and presented to the various deans of the col leges. Miss McGahey stated that no fees are assessed at this early registration. Fee si ins will be mailed to students before August 14, .and the assessment must be brought in person or mailed to the finance secretary before Septem ber 5. Students are expected to give their summer addresses and to keep the university informed of any change of residence during the vacation period. Graduate students and Lincoln city " teachers are not required to pay their fees until Oct. 5. Stu dents who do not receive their fee notices from the finance secretary will not be excused from the fine unless they inquire as to the rea son of the omission. RIFLES CHAPTER WINS THIRD PLACEAT MEET Minnesota Drill Team Cops Honors in Regimental Competition. Competing in the drill meet of the second regiment of Pershing rifles at Iowa City, Saturday of last week, Nebraska placed third in the field of five companies. Min nesota was judged first with a rat ing of 87 percent, University of Iowa second with 86 9-10 percent and Nebraska third with 86 3-10 percent. The meet was held at the Uni versity of Iowa. Three companies were present in entirety while two of the companies were able to send only representatives. The morning competition of the meet was climaxed by a review of all companies by Regimental Com mander Col. Carlyle Clise. In the afternoon all officers of the vari ous companies were present in an assembly where plans for the com ing year were discussed. Consti tutional changes were also consid ered at the assembly and a Uni versity of Iowa lieutenant was elected as regimental commander of the second regiment of Pershing rifles for the coming year. E T Carolers to Present Songs on Temple Program. FoIk Included in the final program of the season presented by Lillian Helms Polley and her university Carolers Sunday, May 12, at 7:30 o'clock at the Temple theater will be the most popular numbers from the weekly radio hour, "Around the Calendar," which has been a regular offering of the Carolers for the past two years. Juvenile, Junior and senior caro lers will each sing a group of songs. The program will be closed by a group of numbers presented by the Carolers tn the manner and costumes of folk singers. Singing in this group will be Jane Edwards, Henrietta Dlerks, Jane Holland, Maxine Peterson, Edna Mitchell, Bernice Rundin, Grace Schneider, Margaret Chase, Ruth Johnson, William Gant. Irv ing Roaewell. James Hammond. Lloyd Cleveland, William Fergu son, John Stone and Lewi Bot tom. The Carolers will resume their activities next October. REGIS ER DURING ROSE STEINRERG GIVES SENIOR MUSIC RECITAL Herbert Schmidt Student To Present Program Wednesday, As the twenty-seventh musical convocation of the season, Rose Steinberg, pianist, will present her armor recital m the Temple thea ier Wednesday afternoon at 4 o ciock. she is a student with Her bert Schmidt. The program will Include "Pre luae and Fugue, a minor," by dkcii, - fconaia, a Major, Op. 120.. by Schubert, Including tlw follow Ing movements: "Allegro moder ato," "Andante," and "Allegro," raniasy rieces, op. 12" by Schu mann, with the following move ments:: "Des Abends," "Fable," and "In der Nacht," Marche, Op. 12, No. 3" "by Prokofieff, "The Lark" 'by Glinka-Balakirew. and "Capriccio, b minor'" by Dohnanyi. FILE BY MAY Five Undergraduate Awards Will Be Granted Most Worthy Students. One freshman and one junior will be rewarded for triumphing over great odds to attend the unt versity and three upperclassmen will be given scholarships when the administration chooses, soon after May 11. the winners of awards donated to the university by graduates. The five scholarship awards to tal $420. There are four $100 scholarships for upperclassmen and one $20 freshman prize. Any undergraduate above sophomore standing may file his application for the $100 awards in the finance office of the administration build ing my noon of May 11. Selections ot the winners will be made soon after that date. The awards include the Jeffer son H. Broady award, the Dr. George Borrowman scholarship, the Henry C. Bostwick scholar ships, and the junior prize. Dr. and Mrs. John D. Clark, graduates of the university, are the donors of the perpetual $100 a year scholarship in memory of the late Judge Jefferson H. Broady, former faculty member and prom inent Nebraska lawyer. Borrower Offers Award. Some worthy student in the de partment of chemistry or geology will be given the perpetual scholar ship endowed by Dr. George Bor rowman of Chicago, holder of two degrees from the university. Prof. R. P. Crawford, graduate of 1917, has again offered a prize of $100 to ba given to an unaffili ated junior man who is best tri umnhimr over heavy odds. Re quirements for the prize include that the student snouia nave Dem onstrated his energy and sacrifice in obtaining an education, and rea sonable piomlse of making a worthwhile contribution to the world. The freshman prize is endowed (Continued on Page 4.) T KEY TO HIGH SCHOLAR Officers for Next Term Will Be Elected Thursday. Election of officers for next se mester and presentation of the Nu Med freshman scholarship key will be made at the meeting of Nu Meds, honorary society for pre med students, which will be held Thursday at 5 o'clock in Bessey hall auditorium. Dr Otis Wade, pre-med advisor, Dr. B. C. Hendricks and Dr. W. H. Manter comprise the committee that will make the award for which any pre-med freshman In Nu Med is eligible. Dr. Wade stated that scholarship, character, and activities in Nu Med work are considered in making the selection. Roy Kennedy, president of the group, Indicated that a similar key will be presented annually. APPLICANTS SCHOLARSHIPS TO Little Gods Galley Richard Schmidt, Managing Managing is his dish and now he's going to manage the Innocents society. The refer ence is, of course, to Richard Schmidt, who may be found most any afternoon at his business manager's desk Id the Dally Ne braskan office. Other proofs ot his managerial oowers are found in the fact that he served as assistant business manager of the Student Directory in 1933 and as advertising man ager of the Advocate when he at tended Lincoln high school. In deed. Dick admits that he can scarcely remember when he first started managing things. He re calls when he was a carrier for the Lincoln Daily Star that he won 5 for the best sales letter. W hen he graduates, he hopes to enter some business field in which he will have an opportunity to work with people (Continued on Page 3.) COBS TO CHOOSE NEW COUNCIL AT MAY 8 ELECTION President, Vice - President, Treasurer, Secretary to Be Selected. KARL ARNDT IN CHARGE Only Members Initiated This Year May Vote for Candidates. Election of new officers for Corn Cobs, men's pep organiza tion, will be held 7 :'i0 Wednes day evening at the meeting rooms in the basement of "Uni versity hall, President Irving Hill announced Monday. Only those members who were Initiated this year will be allowed to vote for the candidates, Presi dent Hill commented, and all of these members are asked to be present. Members initiated last year will not be allowed to vote in the election. Karl M. Arndt, fac ulty sponsor for the organization will be in charge of the balloting. "Although I doubt such action will be followed," Hill stnted, hope the members will disregard all political affiliations in their vot ing and choose candidates on merit alone becaus? the position of the organization uder incompetent leadership will be precarious.'" Four officers will be chosen at the Wednesday night election. The officers include president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary, Officers for the past year have been Irving Hill, president; Car lisle Mysrs, vice president; Jim Marvin, treasurer, and Irwin Ryan, secretary. Records ' show that twenty-eight fraternities are eligi ble to vote in the election. MISS VEfTH NAMED HEAD PANHELLEN1C JOICOEXTYEAR Dorothy Larson to Serve As Secretary of Group. Virginia Veith, president, and Dorothy Larson, secretary, will serve as officers for the Panhel lenic Council during the coming year, it was announced by Dor othy Cathcrs, retiring president, at the meeting of the council, Mon day at 5 o'clock, in Ellen Smith The two girls will take office at the next special meeting which was called for Monday, May 27, at o o'clock. Faculty members of the advisory board were re-elected at the meet ing, and the two undergraduate members of the board were named Miss Kate Field, chairman; Dr. Elda Walker, and Miss Marguerite Klinker will again serve as the fac ulty members, and Virginia Veith and Cathleen Long, as the under graduates. A committee consisting of Loretta Murphy, Erma Baur, and Eleanor Neal were appointed to select the faculty members of the board. Miss Cathers announced that each sorority should elect its two delegates on the council for the coming year before the special meeting, May 27, at which time the new council members were asked to be present It was also requested that each group hand in a written statement of its feeling toward the quota system, which has been suggested to equalize group membership on the campus. A summary of the new rules for summer rushing was read by the president and dseusaed by the council members. The rules limit summer rushing to the month of August, with the exception of let ter writing, which may be carried on from June 10 to Sept. 1. Com ments on the rules were made by Dr. Elda Walker, and Miss Mar guerite Klinker, members of the advisory board. Editor of the Daily Nebraskan. 1 Courtur Rlnhrt-Mirln. SIGMA ETA CIII HOLDS INITIATION SERVICES Three Girls Inducted Congregational Sorority, by Sigma Eta Chi initiated three new members at a service held Sunday morning at Vine Congre gational church. The new initiates are Betty Everett, Lincoln; Mar jorle Everett, Lincoln; Artlce Miles, Grafton. Following the ceremony, the ac tives were entertained at a May breakfast at the home of Viola Kriz and Enid Williams. Phi Tau Theta to Elect New Officers Tonight Phi Tau Theta, Methodist frater nity, will hold a business meeting Tuesday evening, May 14, at 7 o'clock at the Wesley Foundation, 1417 R. All members are urged to attend as new officers willl then be elected. The annual banquet of the organization will be held Fri day, May 17, with Dr. R. J. Pool as the speaker of the evening. P.B.K. TO INITIATE Scholastic Honorary Inducts 41 at University Club; Banquet Follows. Initiation ceremonies for 41 new members of Phi Beta Kappa, hon orary scholastic fraternity, will be held Tuesday at 5:45 o'clock at the University club. Following ini tiation services the annual ban quet of the organization will be held. Taking part in the program Prof. J. P. Guilford will give the welcome, Mrs. A. W. Williams the history of Phi Beta Kappa, Prof. J. R. Wadsworth greetings to new members, Prof. R. J. Pool will be stow the keys, and Prof. C. M. Hicks will administer the Phi Beta Kappa pledge. During the banquet Prof. George O. Virtue and Prof. Erwin H. Bar bour will be Introduced as hono rary members of Phi Beta Kappa. Prof. Guilford will welcome the new members and the response will be given by Harry Letton, jr. The address of the evening will be presented by Rev. Walter Aitken, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, on "me J-iure or Books." TO FURNISH MUSIC AT Y. W. C. A. Staff to Close Year's Party Series Saturday. Closing the scries of parties given by the Y. W. C. A. staff, that group will entertain at a dnce in the Armory from 8:30 until 11:30 o'clock Saturday, May 10, according to Evelyn Diamond, publicity chairman for the affair. Bob Minnick and his 13 piece or chestra has been obtained by Or chestra Chairman Eleanor Bell to provide music for the event. "We feel particularly fortunate in being able to close the season with a party at which such a popular band will play," stated Miss Dia mond. Featured in the evenings pro gram will be a grana marcn io take place at 9 o'clock and plan ned to add a general democratic atmosphere to the dance. Dorcas Crawford and Mary vvnite nave made arrangements for the march. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. The admission is ten cents to cover the cost of favors in the form of refreshments. Nora DcCory and Hazel Baier, senior members of the staff, are general chairmen In charge of ar rangements. Assisting mem are Lctte Jacques, chaperons; Ruth Longstrcct. favors; Lillian Seibolt and Alice Terrlll, arrangements; Iris Knox, decorations; and Dor othy Beers, posters. PERSHING RIFLES TO E Basic Drill Group Elects Heads at Meeting Today. Members of Pershing Rifles will elect new officers for the coming year at a meeting to be held this afternoon at 5:00 in Nebraska hall 208. The outcome of the election will be kept secret, according to Captain Ealon Standeven, until the annual dinner dance of the organi zation next Friday evening. Five officers including a cap tain, a first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, and a first sergeant will be elected at the session this afternoon. The present officers of the organization are Ealon Stand evtn, captain; Ray Elliott and James Harris, second lieutenants, ana John Brain, first sergeant. i NEW MEIERS IN CEREMONY TODAY BUILDING BACKERS BEGIN LAST WEEK ETITI E Union, Bookstore Groups Post Requests on Bulletins. GOAL IS 3,000 SIGNERS Final Effort to Contact Students Begins Monday. With 3,000 signatures their goal, backers of the campus drive for a student union build ing and exchange bookstore entered the final week of cam paigning before the requests will be formally presented to the Board of Regents. Over 1,600 students have signed their support to the drive, and final effort to contact the remainder was begun Monday, when petitions were posted on bul letin boards in the halls of every classroom building. "An impressive representation of the student body is necessary to insure success of the campaign," declared Jack Fischer, Student Council president, "and we urge every student to add his support to boost petitioners over the 3,000 mark by Friday." Petitions will be removed from bulletin boards Fri day in preparation for the Regents meeting. Whether or not a special meeting will be called by the Re gents to consider the two proposi tions will be revealed later in the week, Fischer stated. The formal petition will be pre pared at the regular meeting of the Student Council, which assembles tomorrow in University hall. The special executive committee (Continued on Page 3.V MR. HOFF SPEAKS AT OF PEACE ORGANIZATION Kansas Man Will Address Students Tonight At Picnic. Guest speaker at the peace pic nic to be held by members of the university peace organization this evening at Pioneer's park will be Paul Hoff, chairman of the Kan sas Peace Action committee at Friend's University, Wichita, Kas. Mr. Hoff will arrive early this morning and will have individual conferences during the morning with persons especially interested in the peace situation. He will be entertained at a luncheon this noon by members of the steering committee of the peace organization at the city Y. W. C. A. Any person interested in meeting Mr. Hoff at the noon hour is invited to do so. The pic nic in the evenine will be held from 5:30 till 8 o'clock, and group will meet in front of Temple theater at 5:30. Attends Peace Meetings. Mr. Hoff. who is working the the for Paul Harris of the National Coun cil for the Prevention of War in New York City, recently attended a peace meeting in Washington and one in Baldwin, Kas. He will speak to members of the univer sity peace group on the work that may be done by students during the summer and will stress the need for critical action. "Mr. Hoff's address," according to Elaine Fonteln, who is a mem ber of the steering committee, "should be of special interest to students because he is so young himself and has graduated only a short time ago from Friends uni versity. He has met with the out standing pacifists of the country and is well versed on national con ditions." Grace Lewis Is In charge of re freshments and reservations for the picnic. IN P ON IV Anna Sten Interviews Press In First Lincoln Appearance GEORGE PIPAL. Anna Sten, Russian luminary of screen heaven, Is not tempera mental, keeps scorpions for pets, and doesn't care to give her im pressions of America until she's seen it. Miss Sten arrived yes terday afternoon amidst Lincoln's first traffic jam in recent years for a personal appearance at a local theater. In a sub-stage dressing room, scarcely big enough for the enorm ous bouquets that lined the watls, six radio and newspaper reporters crowded In for an interview. With the thick haze of cigarette smoke the scene mieht have well been a fraternity "sweat session." Miss Stern met the delegation attired in chiffon, her floor length black skirt nipped in at the waist with a wide red leather belt, white polka dots scattered over a fully navy blue and red blouse, slipper trimmed In gold. She sat in a (Continued on Page 4.) Kidnappers Demand Ransom for Canine Mascot of Phi Mil's In a deep, somber, and disguised voice some unknown tried to ad vance a vicious scheme by the fol lowing message over the Daily Nebraskan telephone line: "We have swiped 'Scotty, the canine mascot of the Phi Mu house. We are holding said animal for a ran som which shall be paid in the following Manner: Members of the Phi Mu organization must pa rade from R street down to O and from there to Vine to R on 16th with their street pajamas rolled up to their kneps," ' The unknown bung up without designating the time for the ful fillment of the ransom require ments or perpetrating any threats on the kidnaped animal. Phi Mus were as yet uncertain whether they would fulfill the requirements when questioned. LAST AMMAN OF Staff Makes Farewell Bow To Campus in Acrobatic Cover Design. Using an especially satirical chaser as a topper for the year's quota of Awgwans, the staff of the campus humor medium placed the final issue of the magazine on sale Monday, May 6 ,in an attempt to sate once and for all the col legiate appetite for wit. The fare well bow of the staff is made on the cover design, drawn by Allan Parker, in the form of an acrobatic troupe doing their finale, Satirizing The Daily Nebraskan in a two page facsimile, the hu morists captioned the campus newspaper. "The Dully Nebras kan" and proceeded to vent their bile in the form of parodies on the Nebraskan's news sources and style of writing. The feature stories in the parody concern the versatility of Director Sumption of the University Players and the "Little God s Galley ' department running currently in the we braskan. Besides lamenting the fact that the present issue is the last, the "Editorial We" comments piquant- ly on the campus humor taste as follows: "Our one really worth while issue, the merit of which was recognized by a national humor magazine, sold fewer copies than any of the rest." Fiction pieces in the May num ber of the Awgwan are done by the old standbvs. Maurice John son, Weldon Kees, and Howard Dobson. Kees and Johnson collab orated in the article "Be Your Own James Joyce" and Dobson's story is entitled, "There's No Place Like Nebraska." The department, Faculty Minds at Work, written by an alias, devotes the greater por tion of its space to the subject "Botany Bon Mots" which is dealt with by Dr. Elda R. Walker. The Awewan cartoonist talent (Continued on Page 2.) PI MU EPSILON PLANS E Prof. Gaba to Demonstrate Tracing Machine Thursday. Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathe matics society, will hold competi tive examinations in Analytic Ge ometry and Calculus Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, according to Gordon Brubaker, president of the organization. Examinations in Analytics are open to those who have taken that course since last spring, and In Calculus to those who have had Integral Calculus within the past year. Winners of each examina tion will be awarded prizes of $10. Prof. Gaba will demonstrate and explain his Curve Tracing machine at the society's regular monthly meeting, Thursday. May 9, in M. A. 304. At this time plans will be made for the annual picnic of the society. I Si ,-: A J v ANNA STCN. SATIRE FEATURES CURRENT SEASON EL Y Katheryn Browne, Barbara Darlys Play Leads In Opera. WOLFE PORTRAYS PRIEST John Pane-Gasser, Teodor Lovich, Marcella Laux Play Parts. Opera in all its glamour vis ited the Nebraska campus Mon day evening when the Festival Grand Opera company gave a brilliant performance of Verdi 's celebrated "Alda" before an esti mated crowd of 5.000 in the coli seum. As the Ethiopian King, Rei nald Werrenwrath. famous Dan ish baritone of the Metropolitan Grand Opera company, received an ovation from the Lincoln au diences. Katheryn Browne of the Chicago Civic Grand Opera company sang a powerful and majestic "Amner is," Egyptian princess. As "Aida," Barbara Darlys of the Chicago Grand Opera company thrilled the audience with her beautiful dra matic soprano voice. Marcella Laux interpreted the role of the high priestess sympathetically. Parvin Witte was a messenger. Another Metropolitan star of long standing is James Wolfe, the high priest in "Aida." Teodor Lovich of the Chicago Grand Opera company sang a masterful "King of the Eg3'ptians." John Pane-Gasser, the tenor from the Chicago Grand Opera, made an impressive figure in his elaborately Deaaea roDes as tne Egyptian sol dier and hero, "Rhamadcs." Mias Browne's costumes were elaborately beaded and were in blue, pink and white. Both she and Mr. Pane-Gasser own their own costumes. Mr. Pane-Gasser's are valued at over a thousand dol lars, and are intricately braided, stitched and beaded. The costume used by all the others in the pro duction are those used and owned by the Chicago Civic Opera com pany. "Aiaa" was dressed in a red beaded gown and a tan SDan- gled costume, black wig and much jewelry. The elaborate scenery, drapes and properties were also the same as used in the Chicago Civic Opera presentation. ine hign priest wore a white (Continued on Page 2.) Tyner, Filley, Kohler to Begin Work in Shelter Belt Region. Dr. E. H. Tyner and three grad uate students, Vernon Filley, Ellis J. Kohler, and G. David Koch, all of the Conservation and Survey Division, have received federal ap pointments and leae for Oklahoma today to begin a detailed survey of various sections in the shelter belt region. In the coming fifteen months they will cover a territory extending from Canada to Texas. The survey will be conducted in three separate groups. In each group there will be a federal soil expert, a forestry expert, and a junior soil expert. Dr. E. H. Tyncr's work will be that of a federal sou expert while the three graduates will fill the respective positions of junior experts. Dr. Tyner, though a graduate ot Nebraska, received his doctor s de gree at the University of Wiscon sin. He has now been with the Nebraska Conservation and Sur vey Division for two years. His work has not only been that of an instructor Ht the Agricultural col lege but also he has been engaged In considerable survey and re- search work. Graduate of '33 Obtains Pulitzer Prire cf $1,500. Elwood "Jack" Thompson, grad uate of the university in 1933, was awarded a Pulitzer scnoiarsnip or $1,500, according to word receive! In Lincoln yesterduy. The award is one of three which ere gran oil graduates of the Pulitzer Sciioo! of journalism upon recommendati-'n by the school. Announcement of the winners of the prizes was made by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university. at the annual alumni dinner of the Pulitzer School of Jouinallsm. Thompson, after graduating from the university in 1933, at tended law college here last year. While In school here, he was ac tive in campus affairs, being presi dent of the Innocents oclety. president of Kosrnet Klub, member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of Vhl Kta Piiv AUDIENC D DANISH BARITONE AIDA MONDA THREE OBTAIN JOBS ON i; ... i