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LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Tuesday, December 3, 1946
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Law Freshmen Schedule
Practice Arguments Today
Law school freshmen will be
gin their practice round of argu
ments today in the Allen Moot
Court Competition being staged
this week.
In this practice, which is being
Judged by juniors and seniors,
there will be no elimination and
the first competition round for
freshmen will be held the second
semester.
First Round
The juniors' first round of com
petition began Monday and was
judged by practicing attorneys, in
structors, and senior law students.
The senior final round will be
held during the second semester.
Anyone may attend the cases in
which they are interested. Moot
Court cases will be heard in the
courtroom on the second floor of
the law building. Trials are sched
uled every afternoon, Monday
through Friday, at 1:30. 3.00 and
7:30 p. m. from December 2 to
December 20.
Case Schedules
Cases scheduled for today are:
Cummings A Knicely (PI.), vs.
Bocken & Hines (Def.) at 1:00;
R.G.Gustavson
Talks at Annual
Education Meet
Chancellor R. G. Custavson will
deliver the opening address at the
Iowa-Nebraska educational Im
provements Institute at a lunch
eon on Jan. 2, on the subject
"Gearing Education to Our Air
Age." The institute is to be held
at the University of Omaha Jan.
2, 3, and 4.
This fourth annual institute will
deal with audio-visual aids to
teaching an air-age education.
Teachers will be shown how to
keep ahead of their pupils in mat
ters of local and international af
fairs, new inventions, changing
geography and daily history mak
ing events thru the use of teach
ing methods, materials and de
vices. Representatives.
Representatives of the UiAi'er
sity of Iowa, the University of
Wisconsin, the University of Den
ver, the University of Wichita, and
the University of Nebraska; as
well as representatives of Canada,
England and three South Ameri
can countries will be on hand for
the three day program.
Other Nebraskans attending be
sides Custavson will be Dr. Frank
Sorenson, associate professor of
education at the University, Dean
F. E. Henzlik of the teachers col
lege, Dr. W. C. Meierhenry, Di
rector of the Nebraska Film Proj
ect, Dr. Royce Knapp, associate
professor of education. Dr. Har
old Wise, Wayne O. Reed, George
Rotter John Litherland, Dr. Leo
Black, Glenn Turner, and I. V.
Packard.
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Munsterman & Nelson (PI.) vs.
Burgin & Hastings (Def.) at 1:30;
Hendricks & Stuart (PI.) vs. An
derson & Rydman (Def.).
Those to be judged Wednesday:
Bestor &c Barlow (PI.) vs. Hilmes
& Schwartz (Def.) at 1:30; Van
Norman & Dalton (PI.) vs. Bro-
gan & Bukacek (Def.) at 3:00; 1
Higgins & Elson vs.
Finkle & Mc-
Nutt at 7:30.
The Allen competition was
started last spring following a be
quest by the late Thomas Stinson
Allen, a member of the first grad
uating class of the law college.
Elimination rounds of competition
for freshmen and junior law stu
dents lead to the final senior com
petition. Names of the winning team in
the final round of their senior
year are engraved on a bronze
plaque in the law building. An
individual award is given each of
the winning contestants. Winners
last spring were: F. Blaine Sloan,
now attending Columbia Univer
sity as a graduate student; and
Jack W. Stewart, now a practicing
attorney in Lincoln.
Directories
Sale Begins
This Week
Setting a new record for speed
in publication, the Student Foun
dation has announced the opening
sales of the 1946-47 Student Di
rectories today.
Directories will be sold in the
Union for one week, combined
with a house campaign scheduled
to reach every organized body in
the university.
The directory, priced at 50c per
copy, is a 252 page book contain
ing a complete list of faculty
members, students, organizations
residences with addresses and
telephone numbers.
With only 4,500 copies printed,
Joyce Ceddes, directory editor,
has pointed out the value of ob
taining a copy before the supply
is exhausted. Directories will be
sold in the union, the Co-op Book
store, the Nebraska book Store
and the Agricultural Administra
tion Building.
RonIof Addresses Alum
Council Meeting Monday
"What Colleges and Universities
Are Doing to Meet Educational
Needs of Oncoming GIs" was Dr.
G. W. Roscnlofs topic when he
addressed a district meeting of the
American Alumni council at the
Fontanelle hotel in Omaha Mon
day morning.
Miss Verneda Whitney, assistant
secretary of the university alumni
association, presided during Dr.
Rosenlofs speech.
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Military Dress $3.00
Civilian Dress $4.00
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Army Names
Colonel John
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Col. Howard J. John has been
assigned by the Army as the new
professor of military science and
tactics, in which position he will
head the university military de
partment. His predecessor. Lt. Col.
Merle Senn, will remain as ex
ecutive officer.
Colonel John comes here from
Camp Campbell. Ky., where he
has been artillery executive of
ficer of the Third division.
Record.
He was graduated in 1924 from
the U.S. Military Academy, where
he won a major letter in lacrosse
and was a member of the wrestl
ing squad for two years.
From there. Colonel-John went
See ARMY, page 4.
Vets Organization
Will Elect Officers
Wednesday Night
Veterans Organization will elect
officers for the second semester
Wednesday at 7 p. m. in the
Union, according to publicity
chairman Dick Sinsel.
Candidates for office were an
nounced as: Carl Booton and
R. E. McNanney, president; Dun
can Fraizer, vice president; Bill
Brown and Harry Pike, treasurer;
Iona Sherman, secretary; Eleanor
Neweomb, social chairman; Har
vey Podoll, public relations; Joe
Pappas, George Schmidt and
Velma M. Bernholtz, ag represen
tatives; and Bob Johnson and Ray
Sodergren, athletic chairman.
The slate of candidates was
drawn up at the last meeting be
fore Thanksgiving vacation, and
new officers will be installed later
this semester, Sinsel said.
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Charlie Spivak, the man who plays the sweetest trumpet in the
world, has been booked for the Mortar Board Ball Friday, Dec. 13,
after breakup of Sonny Dunham's band forced cancellation of his
engagement.
Dunham disbanded his outfit as a direct result of the slump in
paid admissions which Downbeat magazine has termed general the
Ben Kuroki
Will Address
Convocation
One of the most decorated
heroes of' World war II, Ben Ku
roki," of Hershey. Neb., will ad
dress a University student con
vocation at 2 p. m., Thursday.
The former Army Air Forces
sergeant will speak on "The Un
finished Fight for Democracy at
Home." Kuroki's biography, "Boy
From Nebraska," written by Ralph
Martin, has been published by
Harper Brothers. It is the story of
how a Japanese-American returns
from the wars to find that he still
faces the battle against racial in
tolerance at home.
One World.
Since he was discharged in Oc
tober, 1945, Kuroki has devoted
his time to fighting for democracy
in America. He has given many
addresses stressing the need for
"Making one world work at
home," An address he gave at the
Herald Tribune Forum in New
York last November was reprinted
in January, 1946, issue of "Read
ers Digest," and was named by
the University of Pittsburgh as
one of five required declamations
for all Pennsylvania high schools.
Kuroki enlisted in the Air
Forces the day after Pearl Har
bor. In four years of service he
made 30 missions over Europe,
including a raid on the Ploesti oil
fields of Rumania, and 28 over
Japan as gunner on a B-29. dur
ing which his plane bombed his
mother's home town. He holds
three Distinguished Flying Cross
es, six Oak Leaf Clusters, a Presi
dential Unit Citation and ten
bronze battle stars.
Nu-Meds Hear
Talk by Stein
On Wednesday
Dr. Robert Stein, Lincoln psy
chiatrist, will be the speaker for
the Nu-Med meeting, December
4, according to Stanley Johnson,
president.
As stated in the November 24
issue of The Daily Nebraskan, a
new procedure for banquet at
tendance has ben invoked. Any
Nu-Med member planning to at
tend the banquet is to place his
name and 50 cents in an envel
ope in Dr. Otis Wade's office, 303
Bessey Hall, before Thanksgiving
vacation.
Party of the Year
FRIDAY, DEC. 6
past several months. Inability to
meet his high payrolls made con
tinuation of his western tour im
possible, the Chicago booking
agent who handled Dunham in
formed the Mortar Board committee.
Spivak's last Lincoln engage
ment was at the Coliseum on
July 13, 1945.
Spivak, for years termed one
of America's top trumpeters,
last week released a new Vic
tor record, "It's All Over . Now"
and "For Sentimental Reasons,"
which has become one of the
best-sellers with local swing
fans, according to one of Lin
coln's record stores. His last pre
vious waxing, out two or three
months ago, was "Flat Feet" and
"You Are Too Beautiful."
Network Broadcast
Long engaments at New Roch
elle's Glen Island Casino and
Frank Daly'a Meadowbrook,
with their nightly network
broadcasts, have made Spivak's
name and trumpet technique
widely known.
Tickets for the Ball, second af
fair of the winter formal season,
went on sale Monday night with
members of Tassels, pep organiza
tion, as sales agents. Prices have
been set at $2.40 plus 60 cents tax.
making the final price $3 per
couple.
Present Bachelors
Highlight of the evening will be
presentation of the Eligible Bach
See SPIVAK, page 4.
Engineers Elect
Fourteen Men
To Pledgeship
Elected by active members of
Sigma Tau, national honorary etv
gineering fraternity, fourteen jun
ior and senior students in the en
gineering college have been
pledged to the organization on a
basis of high scholarship.
The new pledges of Sigma Tau's
Alpha chapter are: Robert C.
Anderson, Chem. E.; Dale C
Blomstrom, Chem E.; Augustus G.
Douvas, Elec. E.; Earl D. El
wonger, Elec. E.; Donald L.
Hendrickson, Chem. E.; Everett E.
Kersey, Mech. E.; Homer N. Ley
maitcr, Mech. E.; Edgar A. Muel
ler, Arch. E.; Keith N. Newhou.se,
Mech. E.; Robert A. Olson, Mech.
E.; Paul E. Ruhter, Chem. E
Arthur A. Stutheit, Mech. E.; Ed
win Uhrich, Elec. E.; and Burt D.
Whedon, Mech. E.
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