DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, February 20, 1944""
Editors
Pfc. Bill Chisolm
News
Pfc.Bill Calkins
Army To Transfer 110,000
In Sudden AST Elimination
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goals. The high command asked
that 7,700,000 be in uniform by
the end of 1943. This shortage
raised the possibility of the draft
boards reclassifying deferred men
and SDeedinc up the drafting of
pre-war fathers. Removal of 110
thousand special training troops
from colleges will leave 35 thou
sand students including the pre-
induction students.
The "mounting casualties" and
Increased tempo of offensive oper
ations were also taken into con
sideration in making the removal
step, the army said. In this group
there are enough trained men now
to qualify for non-commissioned
and technical assignments, partic
ularly in the infantry, the an
nouncement went on to say.
New Program in Future
Colonel Murphy said that there
is a possibility that new program?
will be organized after the arm;:
has met its immediate demand fos
men.
All colleges affected by the cur
tailment will be reimbursed foi
unexpired portions, of contracts.
None of the contracts with thi.s
Musical
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choir from St. Paul Methodist
church, under the direction of Mr.
Donald Glattly. will represent the
protestant churches of the city.
Cantor Aaion Edgar from the
Bethel Synagogue in Omaha will
present selections from the Jewish
religious holiday services. The St.
Mary's Cathedral choir, directed
by Father Sherman, will give
representative Catholic music.
This is the first service of its
kind to be attempted on the cam
pus and it has been requested that
all organized houses delay their
regular Monday night meetings in
order to attend.
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The Army Air Forces Training
Detachment and the STAR unit
are already being reduced by the
process of non-replacement of men
who complete their work.
The university program at its
height handled more than 2,500
trainees, but the number has been
reduced considerably in recent
weeks.
Bats in Our Belfrey .
BY BILL SHORE.
In memoriam: And in conclu
sion we can only say if news re
ports are correct that AST died in
true army style. Just last week
men were interviewed for appoint
ment to a now non-existent pre
medical and dental program, and
last week, too, AST's received a
C DUcire
Advice to students having
trouble with their Ausprache, a la
Shumate Try reading the Kat
zenjammer Kids. Their German
is shr wuerdig und auch m rk
wuerdig. Platoon Sgt.: Stand fast after this
formation. Now, who'll lend me a
dime?
Overheard: I wonder if Hitler
uses "unreal conditions in the
past."
new bag to carry now unnecessary
books.
Stan Morton found the only
certain way of avoiding a bed
making gig from the 1st Sgt. He
had the 1st Sgt. make his bed!!
Coming upon Stan as the trainee
was faultily making his bed one
morn, Sgt. Hoffman began show
ing him the errors, finally found
so many that he had the bed all
made before the lesson was fin
ished. Men who didn't look at the bul
letin board this week missed
something besides their names on
the gig list. Top billing on the
board the past few days was a
card from recently shipped Su
chan, who is just as entertaining
on paper as he was when he stole
the show from "Jack the Ripper"
on the Stuart stage two weeks
ago.
Perhaps anti-soldier-vote Re
publicans have sat in on B-2 Eng
lish classes. Talks on who should
be our next president supported
Roosevelt almost unanimously.
United opinion may make a good
election, but what boring English
classes!
New Problem: Once we worried
about whether we'd be in the Field
House on week ends. Now we won
der if we'll be in the field by the
week end.
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