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National Swim Meet Attracted Only 8 Westerners Anderson Enjoys Recent Trip East; Officials Large in Number t By RICHARD n. STRING Sports Editor A bronze medal, emblematic of a fourth place in the 150-yard back stroke event at the National Inter collegiate swim ming meet held recently in Fhila delpliia, now adorns the chest of fTolinny Ander son, Oregon ’ s speed ace. The Webfoot’s blond haired swimmer hopped off the train at Eugene last Saturday night not the least bit t r a v e 1-worn nor did the hard eastern water John Anderson seem to nav% naci any damaging ei foct on his fair-colored coiffure. It was a great trip for Anderson in more 'ways than one. In the first place, Anderson won national recognition at the meet. His ranking will be made known next fall when Frank Sullivan, edi tor of Spaulding’s Swimming Guide and former Princeton coach, makes the annual selections. Anderson will probably receive favorable mention in the 50-yard free-style as well as the back-stroke event. Besides the swimming success of the' trip, Johnny was able to visit his parents at Bridgeport, Connecti cut, whom he hadn’t seen for a year and a half. Bridgeport is An derson’s “old home town.” It was from here that lie went daily to New Haven, where he worked out in the Carnegie pool of Yale Uni versity. To Anderson, the most exciting part of the whole trip, the itinerary of which included Chicago and Now York, was the moment when he went into the water for the 150 J-ard back-stroke event. “There were five other fellows in the race besides myself. The swimmers that placed in the first three places were all former champions, and in any race in which they compete it is a toss up who will win. I was about four seconds behind the third placer,” said Anderson. While swimming coaches in the west are content to have five or six officials to carry on a meet, east erners have ja new judge for each event. The large pool in Hutchin son’s gymnasium at the University of Pennsylvania had 35 officials. Anderson told about watching the fast Yale University relay team break the world’s record in the 200, 300 and 100-yard events, in their own tank at New Haven. Dur ing this practice, at which the stu dent body was admitted, 11 judges were on hand to record the time. Besides swimming in the national meet, Anderson had the opportunity to watch a dual meet at Evanston, Illinois, between Northwestern and Michigan, and another dual meet at New Haven, Connecticut, in which Michigan, undefeated for twro years, met the Yale University natators who held the same enviable record. Yale won the meet by winning the relay, but only after a most exciting affair, according to Anderson. Anderson was the only Oregon swimmer at the meet, and with seven aquatic performers from Stan ford comprised the contingent from the Pacific coast. He was not a total stranger, however. Lennox and A1 Swartz, both of Northwest ern, are old friends of Anderson. Lennox was a former student at Mercursburg Academy, where he and Anderson were members of the world’s champion national inter scholastic relay team. The first person to greet him when he crawled out of the tank after the gruelling 150 yards of back stroke was Lawson Bobertson, head track coach at Pennsylvania and high potentate of American Olympic cinder mentors this summer. Rob ertson is an old friend of Bill Hay Ward and wanted to be remembered to Bill. Anderson will end this year’s swimming season next Saturday night when he enters the Oregon state championship meet in the Multnomah club pool. Johnny will enter in the 50-vard free style and 150-yard back-stroke. Anderson has an offer, with all expenses paid, to swim for the Hollywood Athletic club in the Pacifie coast A. A. U. meet, June 5 and 6, but this will Interfere with final examiaaUons. Moot Court Interests Students; Law Men Wage Legal Battle Orlando Joseph Hollis, charged with the embezzlement of a dia mond ring, was declared not gu;' by a jury at the county court last night. It was the occasion of the “moot court” tr; J0 on by the law students c jury, attorneys ar played their part matter were serioi r. Judge, , itnesses all if the whole Eugene V. Slattery was the act ing district attorney and Harry T)e fruncq was defense attorney. Both are third year law students. • Those on the stand testified in var ious capacities. Among them were “diamond experts,” “reputable char acters/’ and one sweetheart. John S. Medley, acting judge, threatened to clear the courtroom several times when outbursts of mirth arose in the audience, which was composed mostly of students. Junior Women Meet Thursday Mortar Board Selections 'To Be Listed A mooting has heon called by Mortar Board for all junior women, Thursday, at 5 o’clock, in room 107, Villard, at. which time a check will bo made of probable candidates lor Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary society. Mimeographed sheets listing the names of all junior women will be passed out to each one in attendance fer a vote of the fifteen, numbered in order of their preference, whom she believes to be most prominent in service, scholarship, and leader ship. All elected must bo at least second term juniors. The grade average ns it now stands is 2.9 for Mortar Board, and service on the campus is an impor tant requisite for election. Gladys Calef, president, will ex plain the selections at the Thursday meeting. Other present members are: Claudie Fletcher, Marie Rich ards, Nellie Johns, Pauline Stewart, Constance Roth, and Esther Hardy. The honorary was first founded at. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, February 16, 1918, and the Oregon chapter was established in 1923. There are now 38 activq chapters. The pin is a black enamelled mor tar board with the Greek letters for Pi Sigma Alpha in gold on the base of the cap. The opinions of the women to be asked Thursday will be used as an aid to the present Mortar Board members in ‘ selecting women who are best qualified. Elections will be made known at. the campus luncheon during the Junior Week end. Walter Coover Elected Sigma Delta Chi Head Walter Coover, associate editor of the Oregon Emerald, was elected president of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s international professional journal- , istic fraternity, at a regular business meeting of the organization held yesterday noon at the Aneliorage. ’ Coover succeeds Ray Nash, this ; year’s editor of the Emerald. Other officers elected by the fra ternity are: vice-president, William ; Haggerty; secretary, Carl Gregory; ! treasurer, • Donald Johnston; Quill' correspondent, Arthur Scliocni. ' These new officers succeed, in tho ; order of thair mention, Robert Gal- ; lowav, William Schulze and Rich ard Syring. Oregon Work BvCommitlee J Plan Success Several Entertainments Given High Schools All Over State Worker’s Plans Helped By Support Rendered By Newspapers By ARDEN X. PANGBORN Reports of eight of twelve mem bers of the Greater Oregon commit tee directorate, covering the amount of committee work completed so far this spring, were filed with Ronald Hubbs, general chairman of Great er Oregon work, at a special direc torate meeting yesterday. The re ports received showed that the ad vance in the spring campaign laid out by Hubbs at the end of last term was much greater than had been anticipated, and presaged an unusually successful year for the committee. Dozens of high schools throughout the state were entertained at as semblies in which musical features and speakers featured. A defirfito estimate of the exact number of prep schools in which direct con tact was made by Greater Oregon committee members with the stu dents was not ventured by Hubbs yesterday, ovcing to the fact that four districts have not yet been accounted for and because some of the reports made were not complete. Directorate Meeting Tuesday In addition to the personal inter views of Greater Oregon workers and speeches.,„in the high schools, the aims of the committee were furthered greatly by the favorable publicity received in the papers of the state. Even the many high school weeklies carried stories on the efforts of the committee. Prac tically all of the town newspapers were more than willing to cooper ate with the committee members. More than 150 workers under the supervision of the dozen directorate members carried publicity to every section of Oregon in the spring va cation period. Eight Reports Filed Members who filed reports were: Lawrence Ogle, district No. 1— Harney, Malheur and Lake counties. Ted Gurney, district No. 2— Baker, Grant, Union and Wallowa counties. Vawter Parker, district No. 3— Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties. Kenton Ilamaker, district No. 4 —Klamath and Jackson counties. Keith Hall, district No. 5—Coos, Curry and Douglas counties. George Stadelman, district No. 7 —Wasco, Hood River and Sherman counties. Charles Reed, district No. 8— Clackamas and Multnomah county, outside the city of Portland. Don Campbell, district No. 9— Lane, Linn and Benton counties. Eleven counties and the city of Portland are included in the four re ports which had not been compiled by the time of yesterday’s meeting. The Portland chairman is Ernest Jaclietta, who has himself a largo organization of workers representing the various schools of the city. The other three to be heard from are Wendell Gray of district No. 6, in | charge of Deschutes, Crook and | Josephine counties; Bob Moore of I district No. 10, in charge of Marion, | Polk, Yamhill and Lincoln counties; i and Walter Norblad of district No. j 12, in charge of Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and Washington counties. Ku Klux Klan Actions Portrayed by Texas Man in Federal Trial (By United Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa.. April 10.— Clarence IV. Ludlow, of Dallas, Tex., told Judge IV. H. S. Thomson in federal court here today that he saw eight men burned at the stake by Ku Klux Klan members. Ludlow was a surprise witness called by Van A. Barrickman, de fense attorney in the trial to ban ish the klan in Pennsylvania. Ludlow also testified that he had seen Hiram W. Evan, imperial wizard of the klan, direct the flog ging and tarring and feathering of a klan victim. Ludlow declared he had seen a white man burned at Terrill, Texas, after a “kangaroo” court had sen tenced him. “He was tied to a stake and some one poured kerosene oil over him,” the witness said. “They pushed brush up around him and the man burned there before three or four hundred klansmen who were dressed in their uniforms,” he said. Glee Club To Be On Vodvil Bill Men Singers Begin Show* At Heilig Tonight The Men’s Glee Club is present ing 40 .minutes of as clever and fast vaudeville as can be billed by any professionals. They are appearing cn Wednesday, Friday, and Satur day nights, and Saturday afternoon ol this week at. the Heilig theatre in conjunction with a Norma. Shear er comedy “The Latest from Paris.” Before the curtain parts, the Ore gon “Pledge Song” rings out. “In the Harbour of the Mountain” fol lows, rendered with graduations of true that re-create’ the old song. The club then provides a melodious background for a baritone jsolo “Her Rose” by Don Ostrander. A hearty, rousing “Archer’s Marching Song” comes immediately after. Perhaps '.he most unique number on the pro gram is a ‘ipiano fight,” executed without a break in the music, by George Barron and Ray Burt. This is the number that almost stopped the show in Portland. The quartet, composed of Scotty Kretzer, first tehor, Hal Socolofsky, second tenor, Don >Ostrander, bari tone, and Ed Fisher, bass, gives a skit next. And here is the announcement ex traordinary! John Stark Evans, be cause of his great renown as direc tor of the Men’s Glee Club of the University of Oregon, has a sur prise which he calls Madame Mariea Shazel Wolfgang von Spugvitz. Bill Shafer, Cecil Matson (substi tuted by Eugene Carr Friday night), and Jack Dennis are exhibiting their dramatic ability in a skit entitled “All On A Summer’s Day,” which is guaranteed to arouse the mirth of the most staid and blase colle gian. Mr. Evans has worked out a finale beginning with a solo by Don Os tiander which goes into a duet with Richard Adam aiid from there into a quartet. A saxaphone trio in cluding Jack Dennis, Ray Burt and George Barron precede a bass solo, “How Can I Leave Thee” by Ed Fisher in which the entire club, which has filtered in in the mean time, joins. Then Richard Adam Bings as a tenor solo-—"Songs of Araby” to a humming accompani ment from the club. Then “Halle lujah” en masse-jazzy a*d breath taking—and finally “The Drinking Song” as the ringing climax. Glee Vod-Vil This Week FRONT row, left to right: Bill Shafer, Don Ostrander, Harold Socolofsky, John Stark Evans, director; John Anderson, Ed. Fisher; second row, Scotty Kretzer, Cecil Matson, Vincent Hill, Roy Burke, George Barron, Kermit Wright, Rolf Bodding; hack row, Dick Adam, Ernest McKinney, Jack Dennis, Walter Durgan, Bill Signor, John Mohr, Oris Page, Track Team Prepares For ^ Relay Meets Battle Against Beavers, On April 27, Starts New Schedule Injuries Hinder Strength Of Team; U. of W. Meet on May 5 By JOE PIG NET The Webfoot. track team lias reached the stage in its development, where Bill Hayward, head coach, is able to organizo practice' in direct, prepaiation for the relay meet with Oregon State College, April 27, nnd the University of Washington Belay Carnival at Seattle, May 5. Cold wind and rain has held the team in check, and unless tliero are some warm days soon, training will be seriously handicapped. The men have not been able to work out. without warm-ups, and consequently the real ability of some of the can didates is not known. Injuries have already hampered the possibilities of the squad, and the training staff has been fully oc cupied ironing out kinks and stiff ►muscles. Clarence Hill, veteran jniler, and a regular from last, year, who is counted on to bring in many points, is indefinitely off the squad with an injured leg. Four-Milers Crippled Hill sprained a ligament, and will be unable to practice for at least two weeks, according to Bill Hay ward. Pat Beal, a miler from last, year’s freshman team, ,.ds in the infirmary with a bad case of mumps. These losses will practically cripple the f|jur-milo relay fieant for the meet with the Aggies. Hay ward, however, hopes to get the men back into condition for the Wash ington relays. Beal was one of the outstanding runners on the yearling squad in 1927, and won every race he entered. Hill has displayed un usual improvement over his Tun ning form of last season. The problem which faces Ilayw-ard noav is to develop two milers to fill the vacancies and still keep up the strength of the team. The task is qfinost impossible, for the remain ing candidates arc nearly all inex perienced. Winters, Kuykendall, Pitch, and Barnes are the other milers working for varsity positions. None of these men have had varsity competition and are not expected to come to the front soon enough to place in con ference meets. The four-mile relay team, which was considered to have a degree of strength, will now bo entirely composed of runners who have little speed and not any ex perience. The inter-class relay meet oil April 14 and the inter-fraternity track meet on April 21 will give the athletes some much-needed prac tice under competition. This will also give Hayward an excellent op (Continued on page four) ‘Little Emerald’ Ready For Third Appearance The “Little Emerald,” house or gan for the members of the Oregon Emerald staff, will make its third appearance today or tomorrow. It is published monthly and has just reached an established basis as it is now being published by the Ore gon Daily Emerald. Heretofore, the “Little Emerald” has had a precarious existence, the first issue being financed by a num ber of staff members, aiftl the sec ond by the school of journalism. Clarence Craw, who conceived the idea, and Joe Bice are mainly responsible for its existence. The “Little Emerald” is a three column four-page affair, eight by eleven inches and contains gossip and short news items concerning University journalists. The third edition will be of special interest as it will contain an article on the “Value of a Camera to a Journal ist,” by George Godfrey. Election Announcement Sigma Delta Pi, national Span ish honorary fraternity announces ;ho election of: Ethel Helliwell, Iris Saunders, Lyle Veazie, Billie Martland, Martin E. Erickson, Helen Crane, Margaret Knapp, Irene Bowlsby. Spectacular Primary Sweeps Thompson From Chicago Race (By United Press! CHICAGO, Illinois, April 10.— In flip most expiring primary ever held in Illinois, the Emmerson Deneen-Swanson ticket emerged to night from the eenter of bullet and ballots with a victory that swept out. of office the Small-Thompson Crowe candidates throughout the state. Lewis L. Emerson had swamped Len Small under an ava lanche of votes late tonight when it was indicated lie would carry the state by between 100,000 and 200, 000 votes. The first killing in a series of shooting, sluggings, and intimida tions during the election in Chicago was reported late in the day. Oc tnvious Granndy, negro, a r>eneen candidate for committeeman in the 20th ward was shot and killed and Louis Taylor, a companion was seri ously wounded when they were fired upon in an automobile. R. U. R. To Show At Guild Tonight ‘Beyond the Horizon9 and ‘'She Swan’ Coming The futuristic piny of Repertoire week will be staged tonight when Guild theater players present “R. U. R.” (Rossurn’s Universal Robots), by Karel Capok. Tho writer of this unique play has set the clock ahead almost any number of years, and is portraying llfo as it will be when all labor is done by mechanical men whom ho calls robots. The drama, as it was given last term, produced excitement and thrills for the audience by the high tension released by the dra matic climax, which is followed by a beautiful epilogue. The play is supposed to take place on some distant island where tho mechanical men are manufac tured. A number of tho senior stu dents and advanced players will take tho Jeading roles tonight. Cecil Matson, Constanco Roth, Gordon Stearns, Glenn Potts, Law renco Shaw, Arthur Anderson and Gordon Pelley fori# the stronger part of the cast. Repertoire week for tho seniors of the drama depart ment means one big reunion where they meet all tho old roles they have taken during tho past year. “The Swan,” a romantic and beau tiful play, will be staged tomorrow night, and “Beyond the Horizon,” the biggest play of tho year, will bring Repertoire week to a close Friday night. A.S.U.O. Will Purchase Speech Amplifying Set A special A. S. U. O. student coun cil meeting was held Friday, at which tho members authorized the purchase of a speo?li amplifying set which is to bo installed in the Wo man’s building in time for gradu ation. Tho set can also be used in Mc Arthur Court and will be here in time for tho Schumann-Heinlc con cert. League Elects EdithDodgeas New President Women of Campus Poll Close Votes; 594 Turn Out New anil Old Presidents To Attend Seattle Convention At, a close race in elections for Women’s Lengno officers for the coming year, 5!)4 ballots were cast. Edith Dodgo at the polls in front of the old library yesterday. Kditli Dodge was elected president and Jane Cochran as vice - president. Others were Bet ty Sehmeer, sec retary; It e 1 e n Peters, treasurer; Gracia Haggerty, sergeant - at-arms; Dorothy Kirk, re porter. x uu ii u 111 i ii ii- i tuna known last. Thursday at thp Women’s League annual mass meeting 1>y Ed na Ellon Boll, chairman of the nomi nating committee, and elections took place yesterday from 9 to 5. Installation in May The retiring officers are Esther Hardy, president; Frances Plimpton, vice-president; Katherine Knee laml, secretary; Marion Ston, treas urer; Beatrice Milligan, sergeant-at arms; Dorothy Baker, reporter. In stallation of now officers will take (place at a mass meeting sometime to Esther Hardy, in May, according Beatrice Milli gan was in charge of the elections, and was assisted in the counting of ballots by Mazio Richards, Frances Plimpton, Nellio Johns, Gladys Ca lef, Nancv Peter Esther Hardy son, Esther Hardy, Katherine Ul rich. Leave for Convention The retiring president, Esther Hardy, and the newly-elected presi dent, Edith Hodge, will leave next Monday for Seattle where they are to attend Ihe convention of Western Intercollegiate Association of Wo men Students, convening Wednes day, Thursday and Friday. They were elected to represent the Uni versity of Oregon Women’s League at a recent meeting of its executive council. J. K. Horner To Judge Aggie-Beloit Debate J. K. Horner, University of Oro gon debate coach, will go to Cor vallis Saturday, where he will act as critic judge of a debate between Oregon Stato College amt Beloit College, Wisconsin. Senior Three Day Leap to Take Place Soon; Names Still Secret With the exulting eroona of sen ior men, the laborious saving of shekels by senior women, and tho usual masculine protestations about, proposed names for the dances— Senior Leap Week is perilously near. “It used to bo a whole week,” com plain certain of the campus digni taries, remembering its institution four years ago, and the girls of to day, realizing the inroads about to be blazed into their pocketbooks, can only lift their gaze toward tho rainclouds and secretly sigh, “May Allah flourish!” For, the last three days of next week, April 19, 20, 21, the senior men of the campus go on a pecuniary vacation, and the Leap Week direc torate, composed of Iris Saunders, Oeorgie Davidson, Rosalie Parker* Ruth DeNeffe, Alice Douglas, Paul ine Stewart, Marion Barnes, Francis Cherry and Edith Bain, have crowd ed four mysterious and magnanimous | affairs into three small but signifi- j cant days. The names and details of those functions are going to be kept more or less a secret until later, with the exception of the traditional “Bar-room Bust” which came into being at Hendricks hall four years ago. Thursday evening, the most signi ficant night of the three-day week, will be devoted to “open house” at tlio Campa Shoppe. “Significant” is to bo taken literally here, for be it remembered that only the men who appear then are to be dated up for the rest of the week. The other point, perhaps, that is worthy of advertisement, is the fact that the women are asking for all the dances, and are taking the men homeward afterwards. Just how they will be taken is yet a matter of conjecture, but just now, the fel lows are said to lie suspecting the worst. Prophesied in the light of past experience, they shall exppct to be propelled in or on most any thing from roller skates and tandem bikes, to garbage carts with hair ribbons on the wheels. Friday afternoon a dance will bo given at. the Alpha Delta Pi house, at which suitable refreshments and refrains will not bo refused. But as yet, deep and dark is the mystery thereof—for more is yet to come. Friday night, the 21st, comes the hilarious and hallowed affair before mentioned, the Bar-room Bust, at Hendricks hall; and Saturday after noon, the long-haired Senior Pic nic. Nellie Johns has charge of the eats—which is recommendation enough; and the time and place of the gala event will be announced as soon as the seniors themselves know them.