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Oregon VOL. 20. Emerald EUGENE, OREGON. SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 2. 1018. NO. 13. Contents of Sealed Documents Unknown; Colonel Lead er Reviews Men. LEADERS IN ATHLETICS DECIDED BY CONTESTS Company A Wins Tug-of-War; D Best at Bombing, and E With Bayonet. Tho third Oregon State Officers’ Training Camp ended this noon when the members got their sealed certificates, the contents of which were not to be disclosed until the men reach their own place of residence. The certificates were given out im mediately after the parade and drill, which took place this morning out on the drill grounds. The parade preceded the review, which started at 9:45. Ma jor James A. McKinnon had charge of the review. Colonel John Leader, com mandant of the camp, and President P. L. Campbell talked to the men for a short time. Machine Gunners Exhibit. The Machine Gun Exhibit yesterday should be called a success inasmuch ns 1,250 shells were shot. Headquarters ordered them to leave a few shells for the next camp, and 2,000 were left, in tact for the fourth camp. Captain II. T. Haas had charge of the exhibit, which was held out on the old rifle range, three miles south of the city. The tug-of-war pulled off yesterday afternoon between Company A and Ma chine Gun Company was one of the most exciting stunts yet. Company A again got the best of their old rivals when they pulled the Machine Gun Company. Bombing Competition Held. Other events of the afternoon were the bombing competition, drilling, bay onet. guard mounting competitions. Com pany D won the bombing competition and Company E the bayonet competition. The judges decided that Louis Mills was the best bayonet, fighter in any of tlic three camps. Elliott Corbett of tho first camp ranks as second best bayonet fighter of the three camps. Commanders Receive Gifts. Several of the companies have pre sented their company commanders with beautiful gifts. Company P. presented Lt. Jacob Kamm with a watch, Compa ny C gave Lt. II. G. Chickering a re volver, Captain C. T. Haas received a silver cigarette case from the Machine Gun company, and Company D gave Lt. Edward Graham ail automatic revolver. The men had no company rules last night and most, of them spent the tinis in some hilarious form of freedom. Ser enades were the prevailing mode of en * tertainment. JOE TOMINAGA IN FRANCE Former Student of Architecture Writes To A. N. Lawrence. •T. K. Tominago, Japanese student who was graduated in architecture in Ifllfi, is in Franc-, with Company L. 50th Pio neer’s Infantry. A. E. F. Tominnga had difficulty in getting into the service on account of being a Japanese subject, but was 'ater taken in the draft. He writes to A. II. Lawrence, dean of the School of Architecture, from his station about fifty miles from the front, saying be is very deeply impressed with the spirit of the French people. He was with McKim, Mead and White, architect*, of Xo.v York, before enter ing the cerviee. His work has been unex celled in the school, says Miss Camilla Loach, librarian of the School of Archi tecture. JENKINS SOON TO GO OVER Oran Jenkins. ex-’lO. will leave for France soon, was the word received by Lean A. H. Lawrence, of the School of Arehictecture, in a letter from Jenkins, who is now stationed at Camp Trevis. San Artonio. ± ras. Jenkins is now a first lieutenant in the 52nd machine pun battery lie was majoring in Architec ture before going to Camp Lewis last spring. He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. H. G. Chickering, Lieutenant of Company A, Is Courtmartiaied Commander Sentenced to Discharge With Ignominy, Life Im prisonment and to Be Shot at Sunrise; Then Pre sented With Colt Revolver for Service. Late last evening in the down town x. M. C. A. barracks, the place where Company A airs their woolen blankets, I t. II. G. Cliickering, in command of Company A, was court martialed and kept under heavy guard. Later the pris oner was sentenced to discharge with ignominy, imprisonment for life and to b*. shot at sunrise. The order for arrest was given out from the Oregon State Officers’ Train ing Camp headquarters to the members of Company A Lt. Chiekering was given the general charge of ’‘conduct unbecom ing an officer and a gentleman” and was immediately placed in confinement under armed guard. Many Charges Laid. The specific charges against Lt. Chiek ering were: 1. Pvt. Iluddleson charges that de fendant has nem derelict in his duty in asmuch as he has failed to make a sol dier of Pvt. tlnddleson. 2. Sgt. Le? charges that defendant In ■ made an absolute failure of making a guide of said Sgt. Lee and has allowed him to be in the: wrong place at the wrong time ia every company movement and has also failed to see that he was in lied every night at taps. 3. Pvt. Barber charges that the de fendant has not prevented him from tainting when lie has a gun in his left hand. 4. Pvt. Vaughn charges that the de fendant has allowed Sgt. Lee to handle company funds without making an ac counting. 3. Pvt. Sampson charges that lie hus been allowed by defendant to change i his application to various training camps with the changes of the weather. 6. Pvt. Henry charges that the de fendant has discouraged him from apply ing for a commission inasmuch as he now has application in only the following branches of service: Heavy artillery, light artillery, infantry, machine gun. quartermaster, tanks and kitchen police. 7. Sgt. Richie charges that on Octo ber 20th, defendant allowed him to dis miss the company without spraying their throats. Visited Sick Men Often. S. All men who have been sick or in tlie hospital now present or absent, charge that he lias failed to visit them more than six times a day. !). The entire company charges that they have not been cussed as much as they deserve. 10. The entire company charge hint with having predueed the best drilled company in the camp and with tin* least number of ho irs of drill and with ma terial having the largest st unachs and ] the softest muscles of any in the eainn. Presented With Revolver. After the Iml was over and the sen tence of discharge with igno'i-.v, impris on incut for life and shooting at sunrise, the members of Company C pr >sonted I.t. Chiclcering wiili a beautiful Colts re volver in appi cci.'tion for the groat ser vice and courtesy he has shown them during the camp. OREGON SCORES 1H DIBIBJW HALF Foundation Team Behind With Small Yardage to Their Credit. FINAL SCORE: Oregon .,.41 Foundation .. 0 Playing a tearing, smashing game of football, the Oregon team met the Foun dation Ship Builders this afternoon on Kincaid field. During the early stage of the game Oregon tore its way through the Ship Builders’ defense for gains. In the first part of the first quarter they ran the ball up to the 20-yard line where they lost it on a fumble. They came back after this miss, and pushed Coach Dew ey’s team down the field with straight line bucks. Passes netted no gains early in the contest, Webster made yardage for the Foun dation crew late in the first period. This was the first time Foundation made yardage. The period ended with the ball in Foundation’s possession in the middle cf the field. Playing Watson, V. .Tacoliberger, Blake and himself, F. Jacobberger took his crew down the field and a nice pass, F. Jacobberger to Wilson for 20 yards and a 20-yard run by Wilson, put the ball ! over for the goal for the first score of | ihe game. V. Jacobberger kicked goal. Score: Oregon 7, Foundation 0. The two teams battled back and forth '..-iih most of the playing in the Foun dation territory. Both lines held well and idled up the efforts of both teams. Ore gon lost the ball on the Foundation’s 15-yard line and the play returned to the center of the field on a 35-vard punt by Horton. F. Jacobberger and Wilson pulled another 25-yard forward pass. Oregon continued to work the hall down the field and V. Jacobberger carried the pal over from the 1-yard line on a straight line buck. V. Jacobberger miss ed goal. Score: Oregon 13, Foundation 0. (Continued on page four) EXTENSION WORK IN MONTANA The Extension Division yesterday re ceived a request, from Miss Ethel Henry, of Crt ston. Montana, for suggestions and literature to aid her in starting com munity center work there. This is the first request that the extension division has received from Montana. VOLUNTEER BUY SET FOR WAR WORK FUND November 8 For Voluntary Pledges to Campaign; All Aid Asked. Friday, November S, is to be known as Volunteer Day in the United War Work campaign on the eainpus. On Ibis day ballot boxes will be placed iu Friendly ball, Hendricks ball, the Administration building, Y. W. Bungalow, and perhaps Villard or Deady. Everyone who knows by- that date how much he can give is urged by the committee in charge to write his pledge and drop it in one of these boxes. This will greatly facilitate the canvassing lat er. Each one who pledges will bo given a tag to render him immune from fur ther solicitation during the week of the drive. Every Student Listed. Every student is to be placed in a card catalogue, upon which the amount he promises to give, is written. This will make it possible to check up ac curately on the money. Each student and faculty member who does not pledge on Volunteer Day will be solicited individually sometime dur ing the following week. The work or organizing the students into groups, and assigning canvassers for each group is in charge of I)r. TV. F. Vance, Herald White and Paul Spangler for the men, and Miss Dorothy Collier, Miss Essie Maguire and Miss Helen Brenton for the Women. On Wednesday, November 13, Dr. Rhinehart, of Mills College, will address the student assembly, if the influenza ban is raised by then, in the interests of the War Work drive. S. A. T. C. Men to Help. The men of the S. A. T. C. and O. T. C. will be given opportunity to help in the campaign on the campus, according | to a telegram from San Francisco, which states that a representative of the cam paign will present to the personnel of the army the need of the work The tel egram also asks that every facility be afforded the United War Work commit tee for the prosecution of this cam paign. PROFESSOR PRESCOTT BETTER. Professor Robert I.. Prescott is re cuperating from influenza and will not be able to hold his classes for another week or two. FOR 5.1T. C. UNIT GET APPOINTMENTS Additional Names of Officers To Be Announced at a Later Date. Acting non-commissioned officers fop the two companies of the S. A. T. I', were announced this morning from head quarters. Other appointments will be made frequently. The appointments for Company 15 fol low: Acting first sergeant of Company, Forest Watson; acting first sergeant, second platoon, Henry Kickoff; first sergeant of third platoon, William 11. Dnughtrey. Jr.; first sergeant of fourth platoon, Wayne Laird. The officers of the second platoon are: Herald White, sergeant; corporal, first squad, F. 11. Jacohberger; second squad, Mearl M. Blake; third squad, Ralph Dresser; fifth squad. Warren Gilbert: sixth squad, Henry Knglish; seventh squad, F.lmo Madden. Officers for third platoon are: Ser geant, Herman Lind; corporals, first squad, Evon L. Anderson; second squad, Lee Rnrtholomew; third squad. .Toe Trowbridge; fourth squad, Erie llyusert fifth squad, Hal Nicolai; sixth squad. Sam Lehman; seventh squad, Stephen Williams. Officers for the fourth platoon arcs Sergeant, Howard Kelly; corporals, first squad, Spencer Collins; second squad, William Lyle; third squad. A. C. VnnUer vert; fourth squad, Karl Weigel; fifth squad, E. R. Rowland; seventh squad, Edwin Durno. The list for Company It follows: Act, ing first sergeant, Lyle McCroskey; sen ior sergeant, Henry Foster. The pla toon sergeants are: Harold Grey. Nish Chapman, Frank Fowler and William Grout; supply sergeant, Roy Anderson. Other company officers are: William Morrison. Stan Atkinson; corporals, Carlton Savage, V. W. Jones, I. C. Thomas, Leslie Carter, Willard Hollen beck, R. L. Knudson, George Ilorsefall, John Hollingsworth, Donald McDonald, T. G. Smith, S. W. Matthew, John thim ble, William Holmes, Claire Keeney, George Doust, Richard Martin, 1>. S. Dalgeish, l’aul Farrington, A. B. Adams, E. It. Twining, II. M. Langton, T. M. Tuvo and G. E. Meisinger. Sergeants of the platoons are: First platoon, Thomas Strachen; second. Jack Dnn dore; second, Charles Bluett; third. Rob ert McArthur; third, George Itlnck; fourth, Dan Patterson. MO RECORDS ARE SEMI Influenza Causes Musical Organizations to Cancel Programs. Owing to the influenza epidemic, the musical organizations of the state have Icon obliged to cancel tlnir programmes. For this reason, the < >r< gon Music Teachers’ Assoeiati >.i, which has be-n sending Victrola records through.me the state with the co-operation of the ex tension department of th<* T’niversity school of music have stopped sending the records. This was started last, year and small communities throughout the state appreciated the help of the asso ciation in bringing music, to them to aid in their meetings. Dr. John Landsbury, dean of the school of music, hopes to get many new rec ords distributed throughout the state as soon as the ban on meetings is lifted. WILL STUDY CAMP SINGING Dr. Landsbury to Attond Conference on Conducting Song Fests. Dr. John J. Landsbury, dean of the school of music, will represent the 1 ni versity at the conference in Portland No vember 11 and 15, to discuss means of conducting group singing among the men of the Students’ Army Training Corps units throughout the state. The confer ence is being held at the suggestion of the committee on training camp activi ties, one of the divisions of the commit tee on education and special training. lt< pr> ..entatives will formulate plans for organizing the work and will demonstrate methods of conducting singing with large groups of men. The conference will bo held at Deed College. Following tjie reijffrst of the Coining camp activities committee, prac tical demonstrations by groups of stu dents at the college will be given. Men of Company B Have Fling; Find Out They’re in Army Now Company R is repenting at leisure. Every man in the company knows now, ii never before, that he is serving the army of the Cnited States and subject to military discipline. No passes beyond campus boundaries until Monday morning (which means no dates), and lights out at. nine o’clock for Company R until further orders, says the edict issued from S. A. T. C. headquarters yesterday as a consequence of a too hilarious party Thursday night on the third floor of Friendly hall. ! Moreover, the third floor residents are confined to barracks until Monday. No glimpse of the football game wilt be theirs, no chance to spend all Saturday evening until ten o'clock boning in the library. Of course, say the sophomores, the | freshmen were receiving Thursday night only what was coming to them. What matter if they tlid hit rather hard some times? Rut now. the sophs don’t think it is all quite s\ funny, for they are con fined. too. All might have been well if the revel ers could have controlled their enjoy ment, but ns the entertainment pro gressed. louder and louder grew their demands for luckless Frosh to "sing and dance," and lender and louder their condemnations of their victims’ efforts. All this, they soon dba-overed, is quite contrary to military discipline. Meanwhile, Company A gloats in its virtue. Never, they say. would they have been caught in such unseemly con duct. Now, probably, they never will. Eddie O’Connell’s 30 Huskies Out-Fox Opponents in Tug of War. The Officers’ Training camp held a military meet yesterday on Kincaid Held as one of the closing features of the present camp. The first event staged was a tug-of-war between the Machine Cun company and Company A, which was won by the thirty huskies of the latter. Eddie O’Connell, acting as coach for the winners, outfoxed ihe Machine Cun crew wren, after having bis men get the jump on their opponents and getting a few in ches of 'the rope, ho had them held it un til the other side had worn themselves out ntul then ho gave the order tor his proteges to pull, and they hauled the Machine Quit leant all over the place. Company D .Throws Best. In the hand grenade throwing for ac curacy, Company O took first place, with ti total of 111 points. Companies A and F were tied for second place with nine joints each. Company I> hacl several of tts members toss the bomb within tin* five-foot circle from a distance of 110 yards. In individual drill competition, C. T. Ilolling, of Portland, won first place. lit* was the only man left on the field out of ?0 after several minutes of fast orders in the manual of arms. Major James A. McKinnon was in charge of this drill as wf 11 as the bayonet drill. In the bayonet work, E. H. Mill and Dean II. Vincent, both of Portland, led the field of 20 entries and were given an extra five minutes of work, after which Mills was declared winner. This was the most hotlyx contested event of the day ;*no the men of the camp, who lined the field, shouted encouragement to their lnvorite regardless of the order issued by Major McKinnon that no remarks should be made by th<* spectators. Vincent Ate too Much—Alibi. Members of Dean II. Vincent’s com pany have prepared an alibi for the prominent Portland real estate denier and claim that the company commander is to blame for Vincent’s loss of the bay onet drill. Vincent has been on K. P. for three weeks and the company claims that be has been allowed to eat too much. This, they claim, is the reason that j Vincent was beaten by Mills and not that he was really outclassed. RELHilOUS WORKS IN LIBRARY Miss <'oral.i l Hii-u, reference librarian, has prepared a !'st of reference books for use by mission study classes in the churches of the city. A mimeograph list I of books on religion in the 1'nivcrsity i library has also been prepared for the use of ministers. Copies of these lists may be obtained by applying at the i library. HERALD WHITE NEW HEAD OF STUDENT BODHTOHEGON Spangler Called by Navy to Report at Once; Madden, Vice President. M'CROSKEY, YELL LEADER, RECOMMENDED BY ORPUT Council Upholds Health Com mittee Ban on Home Coming Day. Herald Whito was elected president of the Associated Students of the Univer sity to fill the imexpired term of Paul Spangler at n special meeting of the stu der council this morning. White’s election leaves vacant his seat in the student council which will he fill ed l>y appointment. lie will continue ns student manager of football. In the election of White, Oregon has her third student body president dur ir.f' the first month of the college year. When Dwight Wilson, elected president by Ihi1 student body lust sitring, found it impossible to return, Charles Comfort was elected to fill the vacancy. Under pressure of his duties as a captain in the Oregon Stnh' Officers’ Training Corps he resigned twelve days later. Spangler was then elected president by the student council serving until today. Spanglor Ordered Away. The compelling reason for Spangler’s resignation is that he has received or ders from naval authorities at Bremer* ion to report for study at the Univer sity school of medicine at Portland. He ( a peels to leave tonight to begiu his v.ork there Monday. Previous to his ac cepting Hie presidency he had received permission from the naval reserve au thorities to complete his work at the University for the A. 1>. degree but this was changed when the pre-medic train ins: was shortened to one year’s work. To fill a vacancy existing in the viee prosidency since the promotion of Spang ler from this position to that of presi dent, Elmo Madden, a junior and mem ber of the student council, was elected. In considering the action in regard to i he filling of this vncanacy, the sugges tion was made that precedent he broken iuh the place given to a competent wo man because of the fact that all eligible men of the student body were in the S. A. T. (’. and likely to he called away from the University within three months at the outside. This led to the nomina t mi of Helen McDonald by Ella Dews. IVIcCroskey Yell Leader. Lyle McCroskey was voted yell lead er following the report of .lack Dundore, chairman < l the committee appointed to conduct tryouts, that this was the rec-. < n.inendation of Don Orput. Orput, j fi rmer yell lender who was made a mem ber of the committee on tryouts by the council, recommended that “Nick" Cur ler lie made assistant as a result of the tryouts. Tile choice of his assistant will he left to McCroskey, however, by a vote of the council. The council went on record upholding the health hoard in not promoting the annual Homecoming Day which would he next Saturday on the occasion of the O’Tgon-O. A. <'. game were it not for the inflenzn epidemic. An under-class mix and other features for the campus will be arranged at the approval of the health board, the extent of these ar rangements depending upon the health conditions next week. EMERALD ENLARGES STAFF Five New Ronirters Appointed After ij, i Short Tryout. Five reporters appointed today are announced in this issue of The Emerald as> new members of the staff. They are Frances Cardwell, Dorothy Cox. Pierce Cummings, Lewis Niven and Velma Ru pert. Reporters are selected by the edi .ors after a probation period of at least one month. Nearly twenty students axe at present working on The Emerald us reporters, hut only eight of them so far have been chosen as members of the staff. Prompt* ! ness in turning in copy is considered in the appointment to the staff as well as faithfulness and the ability to handle as signments accurately.