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Friday, September 24, 1943 DAILY NEBRASKAN Hamil Spends Summer On UP in Washington Does Rewrite Work Press conferences with Presi dent Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox were high spots for Prof Harold Hamil, head of the school of journalism, this - Is -( s t f Courteiy Lincoln Journal. HAROLD HAMIL ... on U.P Desk in Washington. summer. He also met Gen. Henri Giraud in the course of his 13' week job with the United Press in Washington, D. C, during the hottest summer since the Civil war. Professor Hamil worked on the rewrite desk and his work con sisted of combining and rewriting material that was teletyped and telephoned from reporters sta tioned at the ' capitol and other centers for news in Washington. Most 'of his work was done over the telephone, for which reason he did not have opportunity to meet many celebrities. Conferences in Park. According to Mr. Hamil, the many stories told of Bernard Baruch's park bench conferences are true. Hamil passed thru the park on his way to work and saw Baruch in action on several occasions. "Rooms are easy to find, meals high priced," says Hamil. Hamil went on to say that families have trouble finding apartments, but single travelers and workers have no difficulty in finding accommo dations. Drug stores are the most crowded eating places and it is usually necessary to stand in line to get something to eat. He said: "Altho the city is very crowded, the inconveniences are not serious." Maxene Andrews, second of the Andrews Sisters, is so crazy about dogs that she's opened a kennel for the eventual purpose of train ing Seeing Eyes for sightless men returning from the war zones. Kennel probably will be called "The Three Sisters" for guess who 7 I Union Check Stand Needs Student Help Union officials are making a desperate plea for help in the check stand, according to Union director Pat Lahr. The pay is 30 cents an hour and working hours can be fitted into any schedule. The check stand is open from 8 in the morning until 10:30 at night Sunday thru Thursday and until 12:30 on Friday and Satur day nights. Those interested should apply in the Union office. Olivia de Havilland says her pet airedale Shadrach has his points, but unfortunately she can't use them. They won't substitute for the ration points Olivia needs to replace two pairs of shoes Shad rach chewed up in her dressing room on the set of RKO Radio's "Government Girl." Ordinarily, a movie director filming scenes involving medical or surgical techniques would have a doctor on the set as technical adviser. But when Walter Slezak, in the role of a nazi physician, used the needle on John Garfield in RKO Radio's "The Fallen Spar row," Director Richard Wallace expertized for himself. He used to be a surgeon. Nation Gives ColSege Scholarships Radio station WNAX,V Yankton, S. Dak., has given the university a scholarship to be awarded to one boy and one girl registered in the agricultural college each year for the next ten yeacs. Each winner will receive $300 which will be re leased in installments at the be ginning of each semester. When the scholarship was first announced it was to be granted to men students only but W. W. Burr, dean of the agricultural college said later that it had been de cided to award one to a woman student as well. A committee has been appointed to select the two "winners but as yet applications have not been asked for. To be eligible for the scholarship the student must be a sophomore or above and regis tered in ag college. Applicants must be in good standing, signify their intention to complete their education, be in need of financial aid to further their education, and have a high scholastic average. Station WNAX has given similar scholarships to the Univer sities of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Elyse Knox-John Payne ro mance is still very much on, at this writing. But they confine their dates to week ends, now that Paqne is in the service, stationed at Phoenix, Ariz. . . . Martha O'Driscoll did all her trousseau shopping by bus and street car, having run completely qut of gas coupons. Did you know that Loretta Young has a brother in the serv ice? He's Lt. Jack Young Lind ley of the navy and is somewhere overseas. . . . Mrs. Earl Warren, wife of California's governor, brought five of their six offspring to visit Leo Carrillo at Universal. James, eldest of the Warren brood, is in the army. Rosenlof . . . (Continued from page 1.) according to Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, registrar. The estimates on the Septem ber registration do not include the colleges of medicine and nursing in Omaha where enrollment is considerably heavier than that of last year. They do include the ag campus and the dental college. "Altho I have no official tabu lations ready for release, I feel it is safe to say that registration at the university this fall will equal all expectations. In fact I'm feel ing quite encouraged about tha matter," stated Dr. Rosenlof. Frof Pledge Pins Confuse The Curious No formal rush week, but con tinuous pledging thruout the year is the system fraternities are fol lowing as they add new members to their greatly depleted ranks. Sixteen fraternities are now hang ing their pledge pins on the sweaters and shirts of UN men, whether civilian or military. Frat pledge pins probably are as confusing to the freshmen as the brightly colored ribbons the new sorority pledges are flashing around the campus, so the Daily hereby gives a short description of the pins for the curious. Sig Ep-Sig Chi. The Sigma Phi Epsilon men are placing a red diamond with gold inscriptions on their newest of pledges, while the Sigma Chi brothers decorate their recruits with a shield shaped pin with blue background and a white cross. Alpha Tau Omega pledges sport a white disk with three stars and a half moon in blue, and the Beta Theta Pi boys wear a white pin with three gold stars in the shape of their a tive brothers' badges. Shine with Star. Phi Gamma Delta pledges shine with a white star, and the pledges of I'hi Theta flash a square blue background pin with white sUrs and a white band with Greek let ters. The r.(v boys along Sigma Alpha Epsilon way display a blue and gold triangle with a white wreath and letters Alpha and Phi Sigma Nu pledges pioudly dis play the only jeweled pledge pin on the -ari: pus. a gold toiled ser pent with a red jew4ed eye placed on a white background. The new est lecrmts of Delta Upsilon have h blue triangle with a gold V- sliaP' d i ! .I't ion iiinned on their BA'CateJ .. Greek Letters Added. A blue octagon With the Greek letter Sicii.a in white designates the Sigma Alpha Mil, while the Zeta Beta Tau boy is rccogniz'd by his diamor.il shaped pin in red with a Greek letter resembling the figuie 0 in white placed upon it. A biHectefJ triangle, white on the inside and red on the outside, de scribeH the Beta Sigma Psi pledge pin. Theta Xi's pin a shield on their pledges. It is blue with a white band placed diagonally across the pin. Kappa Sigma pledges decor ate their sweaters with a triangle with a black background and gold figure. 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