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Tlie DAILY NFHRASKAN Friday, .7, 1939 SOCIETY Coll-Agri-Fun makes ag center of social whirl COLL-AGRI-FUN will make the ag campus a center of social activity tomorrow night. Some of the dates for the party are: John Schick and Virginia Sack, Alpha Xi Delta; Keith Gil more and Betty Jo Smith, Leo Cooksley and Marybelle Haumont, Willis Skrdla and Betty Jane Spalding, Merrit Boone and Caro line Myers, and Rex Brown and Peggy Sherburn. "PLEASE, GIRLS wear anklets" say the ATO's to their dates for their health-week house party tomorrow night. Fel lows and girls will dress in sport clothes definitely for the party. Some of the dates are Wendell "Count" Basey and Theta Barbara Stuart, Dud Davies and Delta Gamma Gen Harmon, Bob John son and Pi Phi Maxine Fuller, Sid White and Alpha Phi Flossie Moll, and Bill Golding and Delta Gamma Beth Merrick. FLYING to Pittsburgh for Saturday's game is Phi Gam Billy Hines. He leaves today by plane from Omaha. Lucky boy! ACTIVITIES of the Delts this week include a dinner and an initiation. Tonight the active chapter will entertain alumni and their wives at an in formal dinner. Sunday they ini tiated Barney Buell and Max Whittaker. Betty Rathburn will be initiated by the Delta Gammas Sunday. Sigma Nu announces the pledging of Preston Hayes of Caspar, Wyo., and John Hill of Omaha,- Prince Loewenstein was a guest at dinner Wednesday evening at the Acacia house and last night at the Kappa house. NOT TO BE too repetitious, but Military ball dates are rolling in and need our Business index is sti on up and up Business conditions in October continued favorable following the war spurt in September, according to preliminary estimates of W. A. Spurr, university statistician. The general business index declined only one percent from the Septem ber peak, continuing at the high est level reached by Nebraska business in eight years. Daily av erage bank debits, department etore sales and building permits declined from 3 to 6 percent from the September high after allow ance for normal seasonal changes, while postal receipts advanced, be latedly following the September rise in other indicators. Complete reports now available for September show sharp rises over August (after seasonal ad justment) in building construction, bank debits and electric power production, with relatively slight changes in other business indexes. The following table shows the composite business index, together with the latest individual barome ters available. Each index has been adjusted to remove seasonal variation and calendar irregulari ties, and has been expressed in terms of the average level of 1935 to 1937 as 100 percent. NKHRA8KA BISINKSS BAKOME TKK8 1935-37100 Oct. Sept. Aiif. 1IKI8 1!K9 19M9 Combined Index ..111 .0 112.9 106.3 Hank IkeblU 101.4 108.0 9(1.4 Oclt. Mot KhIcI. . .3 9H.0 97. 1-oi.IbI KccciptN 10(1.0 10.1.3 103.3 Building (onit'tlon 147.1 1M.8 121.0 Hp. Tower Trod 128.8 116.9 New Car Kalea 76.3 74.1 I'ny Kolli 110 J) 111.0 Kmnloyment 10S.4 103.2 Life Inmir. Hales 82.3 94.4 Preliminary. VARIETY MATINEE Friday STUDENT UNION BALLROOM Marionettes Marmonica King Trumpet Trio 4:00 Sunday, Nov. 19 attention. You will see: Alpha Phi's Mary Bird and Shirley Heldt with ATO's Don Higley and Bob Slaughter, Delta Gamma Harriet Talbot with Sig Alph Joe Dye, Theta Marie Anderson with Don Fitz, Alpha Chi Marion Jorgensen with D. U. Max Wieland, Kappa Delta Marian Stone with Kappa Sig Don Siemenscn, and Alpha Chi Virginia Gompert with Don Brock. ENGINEER'S dates to their ball tomorrow night include Theta Xi's Herb Williams with Doris Kennedy, Phi Mu; Bob Bercuter with Marion Starlin; and Dale Anderson with Jean Lud wick, Tri Delt. The University of Nebraska Dames will convene at Ellen Smith tonight at 8 for initiation of 60 new members. Alpha Sigma Fhi Mothers club met at the chapter house Wednes day for a luncheon. Faculty group plans dinner Four chosen to talk on "Modern Dictators" First dinner meeting of the fac ulty scholarship lectures will be Tuesday at 6:15 p. m. "Modern Dictators" is the general subject for discussion for the evening by four faculty speakers. "Crisis and Dictatorships" is the subject on which Dr. J. O. Hertz ler will lecture. Dr. David Fell man will discuss the "Anatomy of Dictatorship," and Dean J. E. Le Rossignol's subject is to be "Some Economic Aspects of Dictator ship." "Dictatorship in Historical Perspective" will be the subject of Dr. It. A. Winnacker's speech. The lecturers will answer all questions that time will permit during a discussion period. Reservations must be made with Dean O. J. Ferguson before 5 o'clock Monday, either by cam pus mail to M. A. 204 or by tele phone 15. The charge is 65 cents. Engineering dean's office keeps track of 39 grads Men may come and men may go lege dean's office and the Blue but what happens to Nebraska's Print have just compiled a roster engineers? The engineering col- of the complete graduating class, lege says their grads travel to It lists each person, where he now every part of the world and are is, and what he is doing, engaged in almost every industry. The Eastman Kodak Co. of To inform anyone who may be Rochester, N Y. has hired George interested in where the '39 engin- Goodale. Ronald Grubb is the eer graduates have gone, the col- building supervisor on the men's dormitory at Peru teachers col lege. Raymond Bailey and William Barton Berg are with the Inger-soll-Rand company, and Richard Coleman is in Chicago with the International Harvester company. 26 still in Lincoln. An agricultural extension agent of the Nebraska university is Robert Lacalli is Movies - - (Continued from Page 4.) Robert Stack play supporting roles in the production. Transition period. Paramount's "Rulers of the Sea," directed by Frank Lloyd, whose last production, "Wells Emanuel OLson rargo," iigured largely in tne wjth Swift & Co. in Omaha; Rob-western-historical trend of last ert Larson with General Foods season, tells the story of the last Corp. of Hoboken, N J., and Clee days of sail and the first days of d. Smiley is an experimental en steam. The first crossing of the gineer for the John Deere corn Atlantic by steam power, just 101 pany of Waterloo, la. years ago is the basis for the of the 107 persons, 26 are still story. The picture is Lloyd's first in Lincoln, and 35 more are located sea picture since "Bounty" and some place in Nebraska. Several stars Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Will are still attending the university. Fyffe, and Margaret Lockwood. Three of the men are employed The team of John Garfield and by the Iowa-Nebraska Light and Priscilla Lane, which is beginning Power company. Eight are in the to appear inseperable, returns to state department of roads and ir the Varsity this week in the War- rigation. ner isomers prouueuon, "uust lie. My Destiny." The story is based on the problems of the country s migratory workers who wander from state to state seeking em ployment. Garfield plays the va grant which "Four Daughters" typed him, and Miss Lane once more plays the part of the girl who sticks to him no matter what happens. Altho it is very similar to its predecessors, it is far su perior to some of them. Native life. "Dark Rapture," a story of na tive life released by Universal, is now showing at the Lincoln. It was directed by Armand Denis, who proihiced "Goon a Goona" and "Wild Cargo." It is the same type of picture. Second feature is "Stop, Look and Love" with Jean Rogers and William Frawley. Held over for its second week at the Liberty is "The Real Glory" starring Gary Cooper, David Niv en, and Andrea Leeds. Returning to the screen at the Kiva, today, are two of last season's better pic tures. They are "Dark Victory" with Bette Davis and "There Goes the Groom" with Ann Southern in the lead. Harrison speaks at 4 Convo speaker will lead Student Union forum Dr. Paul Harrison, medical mis sionary to Arubia will tell students more of his interesting experi ences and his work in the Near Fast when he addresses a Union convocation in parlors XYZ today at 4. The subject will be "What We Can Do to Help Arabia." Dr. Harrison, who has worked in Arabia for 29 years is an out standing authority on spinal an esthesia and hernia. Harrison, one of Nebraska's most prominent alums, is on a leave of absence until next September. After the di.scu5.sion students may ask ques tions about Arabia, which Dr. Harrison will attempt to answer. Radio - - (Continued from Page 4.) at 7:30 p. m. . . . Dr. Strath Gordon appeared on the program Thursday, Sept. 7, with the pre diction that world conditions would reach a turning point on Nov. 27 . . . But further calculation has revealed that, through an error in measurement of one-sixth of an inch, the date of the crisis has been set ahead . . . According to this we may expect this great "crisis" next Tuesday. Tomorrow night at 5:15, Hedda Hopper presents the third and Architects hear Broady NU administrator talks in Omaha tomorrow Architects and members of the building trades, assembled Omaha for the annual fall meet, ing of the Nebraska chapter of th American Institute of Architect! will hear Dr. K. O. Broady, 0f the department of school adminis, tion, speak on building stnndardg for small schools. Dr. Broady wm speak at tomorrow afternoon meeting to be held in the Joslyn. memorial. Trof. Linus Burr Smith, chair, man of the department of archl. tecture and president of the Ne braska chapter, will preside at the sessions of the fall meeting. Dr. Broady, who is nationally known for his researches on both the curricula and plant require. ments of the country school, hai written several books on the ad ministration of small schools. Hia latest book is entitled "Building Standards for Small Schools." Dt, Broady's address will be based on his researches. completing chapter of the drama tized biography of Myrna Loy . . , Also, at 7 p. m., the Pulitzer prize winning Group Theater returns to Kate Smith's Hour in its third appearance. A ATTEND THE ENGINEERS' BALL Saturday, Nov. 18 At The Student Union Ear! 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