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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Huskers Drill on Pass Defense, Miller a Threat
The Big Six conference teams settled down to intensive practice yesterday in preparation for their gridiron foes Saturday.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers underwent rigid pass defense practice yesterday to prepare for Ralph Miller's tosses in the K.U.-Nebraska tilt Saturday. Coach Biff Jones drilled his second and third teams on offensive work, while his assistants kept the first eleven busy running pass defense plays. The Huskers had little trouble in breaking up the Kansas aerial plays, but the coaches warned that "Miller won't be as slow in getting his passes away."
Likewise, the Missouri Tigers drilled on pass defense yesterday as they prepared for their home game with Kansas State. With both Capt. Darold Jenkins, varsity center, and Jeff Davis, second string center, working out with the squad yesterday, there is hope that both may get to play in Saturday's game. Jenkins has been absent from the lineup since the freshman game and Davis was injured in the Ohio State game. Coach Don Faurot also drilled the Tigers on fundamentals.
In an effort to strengthen the Wildcat line, Coach Hobbs Adams shifted Don Shaffer, sophomore guard, to center yesterday. With the freshmen composing the opposition, the Kansas State varsity worked on new plays, seeking an offense that will click better. Junior Erickson, injured halfback, is expected to be ready for action against the Tigers at Columbia, Saturday.
Coach Ray Donel's Iowa State squad worked lightly on new plays and a new formation yesterday. Coach Donel stressed passing which worked well against Nebraska last Saturday.
The Oklahoma Sooners worked long and hard yesterday in their final scrimmage, preparing for the Texas Longhorns. Jack Jacobs and Huel Hamm were kept busy tossing passes while the linemen worked overtime strengthening a defense that might stop Jack Crain and Pete Layden. Longhorn flashes, in the Dallas game Saturday.
The rarest exhibit in Spooner-Thayer museum is the distinction given to the collection of Prespepe figures from Italy representing some of the most famous modelers of the eighteenth century.
Spooner-Thayer Displays Italian Peasant Figures
Foremost in the collection is a group scene of an Italian crib, representing the Italian arrangement of the Nativity, which was formerly in the home of Prince Massimo in Rome.
These life-like figures stand from eight to ten inches high and are costumed in fur, silk, and leather. All of the dolls' clothing is hand made and elaborately decorated. The faces, limbs, and hands are made of wood, while the bodies are made of rag to make them pliable. Some of the later figures were made of terra cotta. The art of making these dolls has died out and there are only a few people in the world who are capale of repairing them.
Products of Great Modelers
The greatest and foremost of the eighteenth century modelers was Giuseppi Sammartuo. Well-known followers of his were Giuseppi Gori, Saverio and Nicola Vassallo, and Francesco Gallo. These men were famous for their models of animals. The museum has four of their products on exhibition as well as several of Sammartuo's figures.
Fine examples of the Pastori are faithfully reproduced by these modelers down to the most insignificant details of contemporary peasant costumes. The figures with all their colorful background have all but disappeared under the influence of modern means of communication and emigration.
Part of the museum's crib, which is considered one of the finest in America, was exhibited at the castle of St. Angelo in Italy.
Final Tryouts Will Be Held For Quack Club Memberships
Final tryouts for Quack Club will be held tonight at 8:00 in the swimming pool of Robinson gym. All the girls who were asked to return for the practice last Wednesday are requested to attend the tryouts tonight. Any girl who is interested in becoming a member of Quack Club is invited to tryout tonight.
Work is progressing rapidly on an $80,000 ROTC armory building at South Dakota State college.
Freshmen Managers To Be Selected Soon
Applications for the three freshmen managerships on the Intramural Board have been received by Dr. E. R. Elbel. The list of applicants are as follows: Jack Reynolds, Sanford White, Bob Dominick, Larry Hawkinson, and Harry Walton, all from Kansas City, Mo.; John Glover and Jud Townley of Topeka; John Shelton and Bob Gunn, Great Bend; Bill Shaw of Hutchinson; John Fpouts and Ural Horton, Lawrence; Carl Bomholt, Cheney; Tom Faulders, El Dorado; Bill Forsythe, Medicine Lodge; Bob Held, Ellinwood; and Larry Spencer, Wichita.
The three freshmen will be chosen by a committee composed of student managers Maurice Barringer and Bill Collinson, a representative of Men's Student Council, and Dr. E. R. Elbel.
Taggart Becomes Commerce Counsel
Joseph H. Taggart, last year professor of finance at the University, arrived in Kansas City to take over his new duties as regional business consultant for the Department of Commerce last week. The region he is to cover includes Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, and a part of New Mexico.
As business consultant, Taggart will provide the business executives of this Kansas City area with the information he has gained through weeks of intense study in Washington concerning the workings of national defense and other governmental agencies.
Coming to the University in 1928, Taggart taught classes in money and banking, corporation finance, and international economics.
A safety conference for farmers was recently conducted at the University of Minnesota.
Engineer Alum Becomes Technician in Britian
E. L. Foss, director of the Preview of Progress is shown demonstrating the talking flashlight, a novel means of communication. This stage exposition from the New York World's Fair will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday nights in Hoch auditorium.
C. L. Merriam, Jr., who was graduated from the School of Engineering in 1936, is now in England as a member of the Civilian Technical Corps.
After graduation Merriam was employed in the export department of the Seversky Air craft Corporation of New York Britain. In addition he will receive
Recently Merriam was accepted into the Civilian Technical Corps, a group of skilled American technicians who volunteered to help operate and keep in repair equipment needed by the British forces. Will Use "Radiolocator"
Part of the equipment Merriam will handle will be England's famous secret weapon, the "Radiolocator", which is used to locate Nazi bombers before they are able to drop their bombs. Merriam will engage in non-combat work only, and is to be paid a good salary by Great
Britain. In addition he will receive his food, lodging, clotting, and free medical and hospital care.
The membership of the Corps includes graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Case School of Applied Science, Mount Union College, University of Kansas, Loyola University, University of Redlands, University of Georgia, and many other colleges and technical schools.
Merriam may be reached in care of the Civilian Technical Corp, 1415 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, P. Q., Canada.
NO ADMISSION CHARGE
The 90-minute Stage Show that thrilled millions at the New York World's Fair. Featuring the Frig-O-Therm; Talking Flashlight; Television-Telephone and numerous other laboratory experiments which may be the commonplaces of tomorrow's existence.
UNIVERSITY
AUDITORIUM
(Hoch Auditorium)
THURSDAY, FRIDAY
Oct. 9, 10
8 p.m.