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Vol. 85, No. 5
Sunday, September 26, 1943
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All soldiers on the campus will!
receive the Nebraskan the same
as students, it was announced late
yesterday by Marjorie Marlette,
editor of the paper.
Subscriptions have been pur
chased from the petty cash fund
of the army corps, and officers
under Col. J. P. Murphy, com
mander of the ASTP unit, have
made arrangements for distribu
tion. Under the new circulation sys
tem, the Daily Nebraskan was
first distributed to soldiers last
Thursday and will continue the
same today and from now on.
Without cost to the men it will
be delivered to the library, field
house, and foods and nutritions
building on ag campus.
With an army page included in
the paper at least once a week
and an Army Stew column every
day, the Nebraskan will be a
source of information to both
army and civilian students. It will
also help to make the army a part
of the university student body and
keep them m touch with activities
on the campus.
The paper is now receiving
about equal circulation between
soldiers and students, according
to business manager Charlotte
Hill.
Any soldier may write for the
paper during his free time and
contributions should be turned
in to the editor or to Pfc. Harry
Olesker at fxve library.
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Food and Nutrition building on
ag campus, under the direction of
Major Edmison.
Fifty copies will be delivered to
Regimental Headquarters in the
library, in charge of Colonel
Murphy.
Four hundred copies will be sent
to the Charge of Quarters Desk
in the library, for the Army Air
Corps. Captain W hitting is in
charge of these copies.
Nebraskans are
uted as follows:
to be distrib-
Six hundred copies will be de
livered to the Orderly Room on
third floor of the library, to be
distributed in the bunk rooms un
der the direction of Major Patti-son.
Two hundred copies delivered to
the Field House by arrangement
with Captain Crabill.
Three hundred and fifty copies
will go to the STAR Unit in the
Appear Sim p44 Yearbook
For the first time in history a
UN Cornhusker will contain indi
vidual class pictures of all stu
dents enrolled in the university,
freshmen and sophomores as well
as juniors and seniors.
Appointments for the taking of
War Council
Makes Plans
For Semester
, . Monday at 5
Student war council will hold
its first meeting of the semester
tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock
in room 315 of the Union. All
old and new members are asked
to be present, according to coun
cil president Pat Ch.amberlin.
The meeting will be of unusual
importance since plans for the
semester will be formulated and
discussed. Some of the topics
which wil be brought up will in
clude stamp sales, soldier enter
tainment, another campus regis
tration of women for war work
and Rag Tags.
Organized houses and campus
organizations who do not al
ready have war council members
are requested to appoint or elect
them so that they will be repre
sented in the council.
Uni Theater
Plans Work
For Season
University Theater will start
this year's activities with an open
meeting Thursday, September 30,
in the auditorium of the Temple.
Students interested in any phase
of theater work, technical or act
ing, arc urged to be present to
enable Berne Enslin, the new di
rector, to get acquainted with
them. This first meeting will be
especially important because the
program of plays for the season
will be decided on the basis of the
number of people interested in
participating.
Elect Board Members.
The new student theater advi
sory board will be elected at this
meeting. Members of this board
will work very closely with the di
rector and will be responsible for
keeping the technical and business
end of the theater running
smoothly.
Anyone carrying 12 hours, re
gardless of university standing,
may work in the theater this year
and there is an urgent call for
(See Theater, page 4.)
Houses Hold
Hour Dances
With Soldiers
. . . Frats
Hour dances will continue.
Dances may be held with fra
ternity men on Friday night3 and
with uniformed men on Saturday
nights from 7:30 to 8:30, accord
ing to Verna H. Boyles, dean of
women.
Men stationed at Love library
will be divided into units including
the enginering, pre-flight. foreign
languages and dental units.
Any group, whether it be so
rority or organized co-operative
house, desiring to have an hour
dance with soldiers must contact
Dean Boyles at Ellen Smith Hall,
giving the date, the number de
sired and the unit preferred. Mrs.
Boyles will then contact Col.
Murphy, who will in turn arrange
vith the men.
the pictures at the Miller & Paine
Cornhusker photo studio, recently
moved just south of the main
store, were made during registra
tion for each student according to
the alphabetical spelling of last
names. "
Picture Schedule.
The first group of pictures will
be taken from Monday thru Satur
day of those students whose last
names begin with A and B. The
following list is the weekly alpha
betical schedule of appointments.
A and B, Sept. 27-Oct. 2.
C, D and E, Oct. 4-Oct. 9.
F, G and H, Oct. 11 -Oct. 16.
I, J, K, and L, Oct. 18-Oct. 23.
M, Mc and N, Oct. 25-Oct. 30.
O, P, Q and R, Nov. 1-Nov. 6.
S, T and U, Nov. 8-Nov. 13.
V, W, X, Y and Z, Nov. 15
Nov. 20.
Students are to fill out the col
ored cards handed to them during
registration and hand them in
when their pictures are taken. If
a card is lost, a duplicate may be
obtained at the studio. Fraterni
ty and sorority cards will be filled
out at the studio also.
Same Pictures.
The same pictures will be usedx
for both the class and affiliated
sections of the year book. Class
photos alone will be $1.75; frater
nity or sorority pictures will be
$1.25; pictures in both sections will
be $2.75 together.
All sororities must have the
blouses which are to be used in
their pictures down at the studio
on Monday and they are to be left
until the last day of appointments,
Nov. 20.
Credit to Tassels.
Affiliated people who bought
books at registration may give
credit to their respective Tassels
if the complete list of names from
each house is handed in to Bob
Henderson, business manager of
the Cornhusker, at the year book
office in the Student lnion.
StudentActivityTicket
SalesBeginTomorrow
UN Lincolnette
Coeds Register
Thruout Week
Girls wishing to become Lincoln
ettes, an organization composed to
help entertain soldiers, will regis
ter with Dean Boyles Monday
through Friday in the afternoon
from 1:30 to 5.
All those registering will make
up the university division of Lin
colnettes which includes only uni
versity girls. These girls will be
under the leadership of Verna H.
Boyles, colonel of this division of
tthe Lincolnettes.
Hostesses on Campus.
University Lincolnettes will be
used at city Lincolnette 'dances and
also as war council hostesses for
scheduled dances with army units
on campus. The schedule of dances
will be announced later.
Time given to Lincolnette activi
ties may be contributed to the
three hours of war work per week
which is recommended for every
university girl by the war council.
Student season activity tickets
will be put on sale tomorrow at
the student activity office in the
coliseum, according to Ad Lewan
dowski, head football coach.
These tickets, which sell for $5
plus 50 cents tax, will be usable
for all football, basketball and
track contests played on the home
fields. Students who purchase
tickets must present their identifi
cation cards at the time they buy
the tickets.
No Reserved Seats.
No reserved seats will be sold
this year, nor will sections be
drawn for organized groups. Mem-
Uni Singers
Need Mass
Male Voices
Dr. A. E. Westbrook, an
nounced today that there is an
urgent need now for male
voices in the university sing
ers. Many activities have been
curtailed by the man shortage,
but there are enough freshman
boys and other men on the
campus to balance the number
of men and women in the sing
ers. Dr. Westbrook said that
ten more basses and at least
fifteen more tenors, are. im
perative. Classes for singers meet
Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day at 11 a. m. on the first
floor of temple. If there are
men interested who can only
attend one practice, Dr. West
brook requested that they still
report to him.
Daily Reporters
Meet Wednesday
Reporters on the staff of the
Daily Nebraskan and those in
terested in working in that ca
pacity are asked to attend a
staff meeting in the Daily of
fice Wednesday night Exact
time for the meeting will be
announced in Wednesday's
morning Daily.
The meeting is important for
all reporters and Marjorie Mar
lette, editor, requests that all
reporter be present.
(KnufflaSaHcaBnaill Velcirsiiia EBsicIk
CDnn (CauminDTiis firr IFitIbaIlIl
By Larry Went
The war had been officially un
derway only sixteen days when
Jim Chadderdon, in a National
Guard unit, was called into active
duty. The National Guard was
mobilized December 23, 1940, and
Jim was sent to Camp Roberts,
Arkansas, for training. He was
then sent on to Fort Ord, Califor
nia, whicji was the debarkation
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Jim Chadderdon
From bullets to footballs.
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
AD LEWANDOWSKI
. . . season tickets on sale.
bers of sororities, fraternities, or
other goups who wish to sit to
gethe must purchase their tickets
in a body.
The first activity for which the
activity tickets will be usable will
be the five home football games
played as follows: Indiana, Oct. 9;
Kansas, Oct. 23; Pittsburgh, Nov.
13; Iowa, Nov. 20; and Oklahoma,
Nov. 27.
point. Thursday at 2:30 p. m.,
March 19, 1942, Jim sailed under
San Francisco's Golden Gate
bridge, and away to what turned
out to be Ausrtalia. (Jim thought
that the girls that he met in Aus
tralia were swell but they couldn't
compare with our Nebraska
fueens. He also thinks that the
university coeds are much nicer
than any skiits he saw in Cali
fornia.) Guadalcanal.
In the process of eliimnating
Japs, Jim landed on Guadalcanal
Oct. 13, 1942. Just as he was com
ing ashore, and while he was con
gratulating himself on not once
being seasick, he heard someone
yell, 'To jo Time!" Everyone be
gan working feverishly at digging
foxholes, so he did likewise. No
sooner said than done, and just in
time, too, because right over their
heads, 26 bombers appeared and
they tore h out of that part
of the island.
Jim was on Guadalcanal for 90
days and in that 00 days a lot of
men lived a lifetime. He was in
three major battles, one of which
was the "Second Battle of Tenaru"
in which 2,200 Japs were convert
ed into "good Japs." An interest
ing point is, that Ji mlanded be
fore, and left after, Barney Ross.
His regiment, the 3rd Battalion
of the National Guard, 164th In
fantry, fired the first offensive
(See Guadalcanal, page 4.)
RombergOpens
Concert Series
Here Oct. 8
Sigmund Romberg, the noted
pianist, his conoert orchestra and
soloists, will officially open the
Lincoln Symphony concert season
on October 8, 1943, presenting a
musical crazy-quilt of grand
opera, European operetta, Amer
ican musical comedy, classics
that are popular and popular
works that are becoming classics.
The last half-Njur of the concert
will be devoted to Mr. Romberg's
own works.
Notables to Appear.
Other notables in the music
world scheduled to appear this
season are: Angel Reyes, Cuba's
foremost violinist, Dec. 9; Brag
gfotti and Shaw, famed two-piano
team, Jan. 13; James Melton, Met
ropolitan Opera's leading tenor,
February 8; and Helen Traubel,
one of the tew American-born
prima donnas, on October 13,
1944. The winner of a student au
dition held in the spring will ap
pear with the Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra on April 18.
Season tickets are now on sale
at the school of music office. No
single admission tickets for stu
dents will be sold.
