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Signs Up J ommittee oono y .Scat D avis for Military Ba i v I- "A 4 Z. Courtexy Lincoln Journal. JOHNNY 'SCAT DAVIS. Nebraska students will dance to a big-name band once again for the first time this year at the Military Ball Dec. 4, it was revealed late last night as announcement of the sign ing of Johnny "Scat" Davis for the dance wras made by Music Chairman Jack Stewart. Davis, whose music is beard regularly on national hookups, presents music in his "scatter-brained" fashion, slightly on the warmish side. The well known maestro himself plays the trumpet, and before getting his own band he bugled for Fred Waring's orchestra, the mainstay trumpeter of that outfit. Tn Hollywood for several years. Johnny "Scat" has ap peared in several movies, including Brother Rat and Garden of the Moon. He got his appropriate name, "Scat," from the novelties be used to do with Drummer Foley McClintock. Prices Announced. N Sale of tickets was announced at the same time the band name was revealed. Price of admission is 55 cents for spec tators, including tax; $1.10 for IiOTC students in uniform; and $1.65 for everyone else, both students and townspeople. Tickets will be checked out to basics thru company com manders beginning Wednesday. Seniors may get their tickets from George Schappaugh, colonel of infantry regiment, who is chairman of the ticket committee. I.t. Col. Larry Huwaldt is in charge of all tickets for field artillery, Lt. Col. Stanley McCandless for infantry, and I.t. Col. Miles Ilildebrand for engineering. Wear Uniforms. All ROTC cadets, basics as well as advanced officers, are urged to wear uniforms for the parly. Sponsors for the regiments, companies and batallions must be selected and turned in to the headquarters office, it was announced. Kequirements for sponsors stale that the coed must have at least 27 hours in the university and carrying 12 hours during the present semerl cry with no downs. IF PM (n(Q) Vol. 42, No. 40 Lincoln Nebraska. Sunday, November 15,-1942 Menu ffiriraimnIlaTle IP H sums IFaDir ConunnnnsiDtiallaD (Capunirse Fust meeting for organization ; of the new men's physical educa tion training class, preparatory to entering the service, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in the trophy room of the Coliseum. The new course, entailing physi cal training similar to that in army commando training, is de signed primarily for those who will enter the service, altho any man may enroll. It will be given for one hour of academic credit, or may be taken for no credit without paying the fee, and will be offered at 5 or 6 p. m. thru Monday three of five days a weJc The meeting tomorrow after noon has been called merely to ar range definitely for the hour at which the work will be given, the number of times a week and other necessary detail. Previous Training Helpful. Reports have indicated," said the report to the students, "that draftees and volunteers who go into service without previous phys ical fitnest training find the re quired physical training program decidedly strenuous and fatigu- UN Symphony Gives Concert This Afternoon The university symphony orches tra will present a Sunday after noon concert today at 3 o'clock at the Union. Samuel Gorbach of the niuMc faculty will be the conduc tor. Gorbach has rer.ice'i Emanue. Wish now for the duration and is teacher of violin and director of th orchestra and the stringed en- (See SYMPHONY, Page 3.) ing." In charge of organization ; tennis and handball. Only require- of the new course is Dr. R. G. Clapp, chairman of the physical education division of the university-Obstacle Course. Including obstacle course train ing, wrestling and jiu-jitsu, boxing, swimming, tumbling, vigorous cal isthenics, and vaulting exercises, the course may also include squash ment for participation will some kind of tennis shoes. be This course is in no way con netted with that offered by the military department and will not be supervised by military instruc tors. The meeting tomorrow night is to determine if there is suffi cient interest among the students to offer the course for the re mainder of the semester. Presnell Eleven Outplays Panthers BY NORRIS ANDERSON. Sports Editor. Compiled from I'irm IHilctw. PITTSBURGH, Penn., Nov. 14. Seven minutes after Referee Harry Dayhoff had piped a shrill solo on his whistle to open the mmmmammmmmmmm I BOY IONS Court;)' Lincoln Journal. Pitt-Nebraska game here today, Pitt had six points and those were the only markers either eleven could gather in the remain ing 53 minutes of playing time. A crowd of 8,000 saw brilliant Bill Dutton, top Panther menace Reporter Finds Nebraska's Nationally-known Schooner By Bill Palmer Urowsing in the Union Hook Nook looking: for ;j n Inquire cartoon I wanted to Meal, I noticed a magazine called The Prairie Schoon er. dancing at the atraclive cover 1 read, "Published hy the University of Nebraska." Well, 1 didn't know that!! Through the use of the Pinkerton detective bureau and three over-size bloodhounds I learned that the magazine is edited by Prof. L K. Wimbcrly of the university Knglish de partment. I further discovered that the maga zine, although it has national circulation and is ranked as one of the ten best literary mag azines in the nation, is pra-tically unknown to the student body. Third Degree Grilling: Under questioning, Kurt Porjes, business manager of the quarterly, revealed that the Schooner has at times been rated over such widely recognized magazine as Harper', Mercury and Atlantic Monthly. He confessed that regular contributors to Ksquirc, the American and Saturday Evening Post, kucIi as Jesse Stuart, Sarah Utsey and Charles An goff, send stories to the Schooner that they otherwise could sell elsewhere because tl.L pre fer the greater opportunity for literary recog nition and reprinting which the magazine of fers to a cash return. letters from I'M, New York daily paper, and from various literary agents and publish ers have been sent to Wimberly this fall con gratulating the quarterly on its past success and asking for advanee information on this year's contributors. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Ilespite this prominence, Porjes says that the Schooner, since it carries no advertising, will ( off the campus and cease publication unless subscriptions increase substantially. In a drive to bring the magazine to the at tention of Nebraska students and increase circulation at the university, Tassels and the Cornhusker staff will begin Killing subscrip tions to the Schooner Tuesday and will con tinue the drive throughout the week. Ycirly subscriptions sell for one dollar. of the day, flip 41 yards to End Sotack for the lone touchdown. Marv Athey leaped high in the end zone to deflect Dutton's aerial but he only tipped it into Sotack's eager hands. Two Husker Threats. Nebraska marshalled its defen sive punch in the third period to j threaten the Panther goal. One occasion saw tne rresneil lads drive from the Panther 46 to the 6-yard stripe only to lose the ball on downs. A Roy Long-Hank Reichel pass provided the big push in the sec ond serious drive. With Eisen hart and Long alternating at blasting the line, The Huskers marched to the six-yard stripe where the Panthers swarmed in to recover Eisenhart's fumble. Only other serious Husker of fensive gesture occurred in the closing minutes when Long flipped to Reichel on the Pitt 19. Offi cials,' however, ruled that Reichel had interferred with the defending Pitt backs. Pitt Outplayed. Once again did the Huskers outdo a triumphant foe statistical ly. Outplaying the enemy in every department except final score, the Scarlet raked up 15 first downs to Pitt's 5. Outstand ing in the Husker offensive were HanK Reichel and Roy Long, both (See PITT, Page 3.) Wilkins Speaks On Pacific Air Control Today Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, for 25 years explorer of the Arctic, Antartic and the Tropics and com mmder of seven expeditions to the polar regions, will give an ad dress, Air Supremacy and Control of the Pacific, in the Union ball room tonight at 8 o'clock. Sir Hubert Wilkins was one of the pioneers of Alaskan aerial transport. He was the first to un dertake delivery of heavy loads of freight over the northern end of the Rocky Mountains from Fairbanks to Point Barrow. He was the first to demonstrate the feasibility of making airplane landings on the frozen Arctic Ocean far from shore. Before Pearl Harbor. Six weeks before Pearl Harbor (See WILKINS, Page 4.) WW'S Ym? Puaiorf SdiuBDir