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.