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PETITIONS Students are urged to sign the petitions being circulated by the DAILY asking Fred Waring to compose an original song for the University of Ne braska, to fee played on his Chesterfield radio program. NOMINATE Make your nomination for the Campus Queen at onoe. Nomination blank appears on page 2. Turn all nomina tions into the DAILY office. Iebha Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Vol. 39, No. 103 Lincoln, Nebraska Friday, March 8, 1940 AILYW SIM r Transport conference to meet here ICCs Eastman, Sorrell of Chicago to speak at Nebraska April 15 Coordination of transportation agencies will be the subject of the Odn4 Annual Trunsnortation con ference to be held here April 15. Headlining a list of nationally known authorities on transporta- tion will be Commissioner J. D. Eastman, chairman of the Inter state Commerce Commission, Eastman has been a member of the IOC for 21 years, except for three years when he was federal co-ordinator of railways under the present administration, Roundtable scheduled For the first time the confer ence will be In the nature of a round table, opened by Dr. L C Correll from the University of Chicago. Sitting at the round table will be representatives of shippers, traffic managers, rail (See TRANSPORT, pe 8.) Rifles to take 30 new members Pershing Rifles begin their an nual spring drive for new men next Tuesday, In anticipation of the spring regimental competition. About 30 new men will be ac cepted from freshman and sopho more basic drill squads. Regimental competition will be held at Iowa university on April 27. Company A-2 will compete against similar companies from Minnesota. Wisconsin, and Iowa. Competition will be between drill platoons, crack squads, and rifle teams. All men interested must report at Nebraska hall at 5 Tuesday. White shirts and basic uniforms are to be worn. Inquiring reporter finds . Student presidential choices still hazy; Roosevelt leads By Bob Aldrich. Interest In the political cam paien being stimulated by the ap- oearance of Thomas E. Dewey, re- rvwn candidate for nomination. T i v. imttt u hnnt in Lincoln, the DAILY set about to gel a sample oi siuuem. uiiuuu on the question: "Whom do you favor for the next president of the U. S. and why?" The Inquiring reporter found most of the students questioned a little hazy as to a choice. Scarcely any had made up their minds for a definite candidate and some did not know who was running. At that, they are not much different from the average American citi zen. Roland Shirley, Bizad sophomore: "I would vote for Roosevelt be cause of his past record. I like especially the securiteis exchange commission, fedrcal deposit insur ance and the CCC camps. Roose velt has also done a fine job with foreign policy." Joseph Fitzgerald, arts and sciences junior: "I like very much the way Rooseve has done things the last eight years. I don't think the na tional debt makes as much dif- frr-pnre as manv neopie say. n is all right to have a big debt as long as people are put to work." Jane Marvin, arts and sciences sophomore: "I don't care who Is the next resident as long as Roosevelt isn't kept in office. Dewey might be a good choice but I'm not par- First semester grades available tomorrow Final grades for the first se mester will be available tomor row morning. Students on the city campus should call at the registrar's office, Administra tion 103, and students regis tered in the college of agricul ture at the office of Dean W. W. Burr. Grades will be re leased only upon presentation of the student's Identification card and his picture. Grade cards which are not called for will be held in these offices until May 1. Following that date the grades will be available In the credit books. ily starts song petition Students to ask Waring for program dedication Petitions asking Fred Waring to compose an original song for the University of Nebraska and to dedicate it on his Chesterfield broacast series are now being cir culated ,on the campus for stu dents' signatures. Richard de Brown, DAILY editor, urges that all students sign the petitions but that they do It as neatly as pos sible since the petitions are to be bound in book form for presenta tion to Waring. Copies are available in the DAILY offices in the basement of the Union. Anyone who wishes to obtain a copy and circulate it is urged to do so, as otherwise many students may not save an oppor tunity to sign. The drive Is being sponsored by the DAILY and was originated through letters to Mr. Waring by decrown. Weather ' Weather reports predict part cloudiness and not much change in temperature today for Lincoln and vicinity. . . ticular. There has just been too much Roosevelt. John Haacker, engineering sopho- "Roosevelt I think he knows mere than any other man how to h- hu had more (See REPORTER, page 8.) Pony practice is all wet or maybe it's me! Chorus gyrations are no snap for the seni le By Paul Svoboda. Sweat drops dribble from my heated brow. I am all wet. Every body is all wet. The rumble of 36 pony chorus feet hitting the floor in room 201 of the Temple sounds like the Finns and Rus sians are getting pretty peeved with each other. "These setting up exercises should have limbered you up so now let's try this new dance rou tine." savs a drl in green, all pretty and fresh. "Now lane your ri&nt iooi, your nsni end, take your eyes off that chair and watch me!" Intelligent hoofers. I turn around to see who is eye ing the chair nobody is, the girl in green looks at me and con tinues, "How much is two and two?" Being an intelligent hoofer I say five. "Well if you can't add maybe you can at least under stand English," she says. I nod complacently, slowly, thoughtfully, and carefully. 'This is your rignt foot, see!" the fresh girl in green says. I nod complacently, slowly, thoughtfully and carefully Four night show means days of labor for Players By Hubert Ogden. Once a ain the calendar pages turn inexorably toward next Tues day night when the University Players will produce Sinclair Lewis' social satire, "Dodsworth." Audiences at the Temple see only the players who move against backgrounds and sets which add to the realism of the puppets on the stage. But although the sets and scenery are background to the theatre-goer, to those who mak them they mean work, time, and patience. "Dodsworth" is no exception. The production of this play re-; quires nine sets and about $250 worth of properties. The 14 scenes require 13 shifts of sets. "Portal units.- The scenery for this production is made up of what is called portal units." That is, three rec tangular arches are set up on the stage, one in the back with the two sides fastened to it This forms a three-sided inclosure of arches, which is left on the stage throughout the whole play.. For each scene, the proper scenery is fastened into place at the back and sides of this inclosure. Or in other words, there is one perma nent frame made of square arches on the stage, and this frames any Time to give ad reprints Daily readers may get current series copies The full page advertisement of Time magazine appearing in yes terday morning's Dally is the first of a series aimed at giving read ers of this paper a clearer picture of the world of news gathering, newswriting, and newsreading. Readers of the Dally students and faculty are eligible to receive a specially bound copy of the com' plete campaign after the conclU' sion of the serise. All persons in terested should leave their names immediately in the business office of the Daily in the basement of the Union, so that provision can be made for reprints of the series, Time magazine recognizes the Daily Nebraskan as one of the leading college newspapers in the country by selecting it as one of the few such media in which the campaign will run. In addition to these college papers, the series of advertisements is appearing only in a few preparatory school papers and In 12 metropolitan newspapers in four major cities. The music starts. It Russian music. Russians drink vodka. I don't like vodka. It gives me a headache. "One, two, three, go," says the green fresh girl. We all lift our legs in the air. (Not both at once of course.) Then we bring them down. Then we bring them up. Then we bring them down. Then... we stop. My note. I lift by aquiline nose into the heavens for a breath of air. What d j t? Well...BO. I gulp and swallow. Tasty stuff, isn't it? The music resumes in a Russia ing pace. This time we do the new Communist dance appro priately named "Zchyouligkosky." Like alphabet soup, ain't it? My legs are getting stiff. My arms are getting stiff. My back is stiff. My neck is stiff. "Gee," I say to myself, "I'm stiff. Be sides that my feet hurt." By this time I am beginning to wonder where the love gal, I mean the dove gal Roeita Royce is. 'After all why did I sign tip for this thing... anyway sort of scenery the property man wants it to. The fly backwalls for the seven interior scenes may be lowered into place by means of pulleys, and the side scenery can be slid into place. Nine sets for "Dodsworth." Among the nine sets are Dods- worth's office, his library, a bar room aboard ship, and a London and a Paris hotel suite. Also, there are a villa in Switzerland, the Adalone in Berlin, an Italian ex- (See PLAYERS, page 8.) Union brings mystery film Thirty-nine Steps' plays in ballroom tomorrow "The Thirty-nine Steps." a mys tery-adventure movie, will be shown in the Union ballroom Sat urday at 8 p. m. Madeline Car roll, whom the Columbia . boys voted to take out on a desert Isle, and Robert Donat who won the 1939 "Oscar," will be the co-stars. Alfred Hitchcock, the director. is the Englishman who won the highest directing honors for 1938, He is called the best movie pro ducer in England and the greatest master of melodrama. He will be gin work August 1 on "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier. Writing out his continuities and working every situation to the last detail before studio operations, he rarely tells the plot to the cast and often they have to wait un til the preview for the entire pic ture. This clever mystery show de picts an amateur detective just one step ahead of the police while he is trailing a gang of clever spies. Intriguing and mystifying, it is one of the first pictures to make Director Hitchcock famous. Survey lists . . Convocation speaker among country's ten top women Listed in a national survey as lished book 'This Constitution of one of America's ten most distin- Ours," she says, "here in America guished women is Judge Florence we inherited an instrument apt for Allen who will speak here at the shaping freedom. Whether or not "annual Honors Day convocation we establish freedom rests with ADril 23. Her subiect is her fa- ourselves." vorite interest: "The Constitution, an Instrument of Freedom." In Miss Allen's recently pub- "Wake up," the dreamy girl says. I nod complacently, slowly, thoughtfully, and carefully. I am so tired now that I couldn't raise goose pimples without help. Sweat runs from my manly brow and chest to the floors. I am so dizzy I see two of them. "Come on boys, we'll try this thing once more and if you do it good we'll quit for tonight," says the girl, fresh and green. The music starts. We all lift what is left of our legs. Then we bring them down. Then we bring them up. Then we bring them down. The music goes faster and faster. Our legs go faster and faster. Then it ends in crash. . .we fall on the nice and friendly floor. "That's all for tonight" says our green girl. I stumble down the steps and go home. Chapter two. "Hello, hello, is this the Uni Drug? It is? Send about five bot tles of Groan's liniment to 2634 East 14th in a rush," I gasp. "And while you're going to all that trouble include six pork sand wiches, two hamburgers, and a malt two. Oh yes, one more thing, don't forget some aspirins. Counselors elect Bullock to head board Frances Keefer, Jean Powell vice president, secretary respectively Mary Bullock, Junior from Lin coln, was elected president of the Coed Counselors' Board for the coming year at the annual election of that organization yesterday. Miss Bullock, a member of Al pha Chi Omega, will be joined as senior board member by Ruth Clark of Tacoma, Washington, de feated candidate for the presidency and a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Both presidential candi dates are automatically board members. Priscilla Chain, Kappa Alpha Theta from Seward, is the other affiliated senior board member. The three unaffiliated senior board members are Jane De La tour, Lincoln; Ruth Ann Sheldon, Nehawka; Beth Howley, Omaha. An even number of unaffiliated and affiliated girls is required ift (See ELECTION, page 84 Lutherans plan annual banquet Lutheran students and alumni will gather Saturday night for their annual banquet in parlors XYZ of the Union. Speaker of the evening will be Judge Paul Beck of Seward. About 150 guests art expected to attend the annual affair at which the Reverend Schiep of Lincoln will be toastmaster. The program for the affair con sists of vocal and instrumental numbers and readings. After the dinner, plans will be made for organization of a permanent university students' Lu theran alumni association. Born in Utah. Judge Allen was born in Utah, and educated at Western Reserve university and the New York uni versity law school. Her ancestry may be traced back to the Ethan Allen of Revolutionary war fame, who distinguished himself at Crown Point and Ticonderoga. Three universities have honored Miss Allen with degrees of doctor of law. These were Western Re serve University, Smith and New York University. She was a critic and foreign correspondent for leading newspa pers in the East before she was appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1920. She was justice of the Supreme Court of (See CONVO, page 8.) Casady, Spraguc vie for WAA presidency Hortense Casady and Elnora Sprague will vie for presidency of the WAA in an election to be held in Grant Memorial Tuesday. The rest of the slate comprises Jean McAllister and Mary Allen Robison for secretary; Jeannette Mickey, treasurer; and Mary Ros borough, concessions manager. Votes will be cast by 1839-40 intramural representatives, and members of the Sports board and WAA council in Out WAA office from 9 to 5.