Modification of
Board Pledging
Decree Sought
Interfraternity Council,
Pan-Hellenic Unite
Elimination of Delayed Pin
Planting Rule Wanted
r By Two Groups
Modification or elimination of
the state board of higher educa
tion’s plan for introduction of de
ferred pledging for fraternities
and sororities is being sought by
the interfraternity council and
Pan-Hellenic, working in conjunc
tion with the Portland alumni as
sociation.
This was made known yester
day at a meeting of all heads of
campus living organizations, called
by Paul Bale, chairman of a joint
committee on deferred pledging.
Scheme Considered
The introduction of the defer
red pledging scheme as one of the
features of the reorganization of
higher education effective next
fall term was recommended to the
state board at its meeting March
14 by the committee on living con
ditions.
The fraternities and sororities
are seeking to have this plan en
tirely abolished or to obtain a
postponement of its introduction
for at least a year to permit the
organizations to make necessary
adjustments.
Hearing Asked
Letters have been written to
Mrs. Cornelia Marvin Pierce,
chairman of the committee on liv
ing conditions, requesting that
the campus committee be granted
a hearing before the board meets
on April 18.
The Portland alumni association
also has a committee working in
the interests of the organizations,
which has prepared questionnaires
to be filled out by the living
groups, setting forth certain data
as to finances, number living in
house, number of each class. These
will be combined into a master
data sheet’ which will give infor
mation on: investment in houses;
indebtedness; number of each class
living in houses; _ financing of
houses; annual fixed charges;
number in dormitories; capacity of
dormitories, and other matters.
Working with Bale on the joint
^ committee are: Sam Rotenberg,
Preston Gunther, Hal Short, Bar
bara Conly, and Frances Jordan.
Art Potwin has been named as
spokesman for the committee.
Two Violinists To Give
Portland Recital Tonight
Frances Brockman and Howard
Halbert, students of violin at the
University music school, will go
to Portland today with their in
structor, Rex Underwood, to ap
pear in recital tonight.
Their appearance is being spon
sored by the Oregon Federation of
Music clubs.
Balloting To Start
Tuesday for Prom
Queen Favorites
pROM queen nominations will
l>e made Tuesday on ballots
to be printed in Tuesday morn
ing's Emerald, it is revealed by
Ned Kinney, Junior Week-end
chairman. Any junior woman
is eligible for nomination; the
10 highest scorers will In* listed
on the final ballot and voted
on at the final all-rampus elec
tion of the queen and her four
princesses.
The name of the chairman in
charge of queen's reign also will
be released in the Emerald
Tuesday.
Program Listed
For Music Recital
Of Senior Women
Presentation Is Composed
Of Selections From
Classics, Moderns
George Hopkins, instructor of
piano, yesterday announced the
program to be played by Gladys
Foster in her senior recital at the
school of music auditorium next
Tuesday evening.
Old masters and modern com
posers are intermingled on the
well-arranged program. Miss Fos
ter, who has held a Juilliard foun
dation music scholarship for the
last three years ,has acquired a
reputation as one of the best stu
dent pianists in the University.
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1000 Vets Parade
In Bonus Appeal
WASHINGTON, April 8—(AP)
—To the martial tunes of military
bands, over one thousand veterans
marched on the capital today and
left on the congressional doorstep
a truck load of petitions demand
ing cash payment of the soldiers’
bonus.
Their personal appeal was re
ceived by Senate and House lead
ers and they departed with assur
ances that consideration will be
given the issue, beginning with
hearings Monday before the pow
erful House ways and means com
mittee.
Just before the parade, spon
sored by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, a truck drew up to the steps
and deposited 20 packing cases
of petitions bearing 2,240,030 sig
natures from every state and
many foreign nations.
REPEAL OF LAW SOUGHT
PORTLAND, Ore., April 8—
(AP)—A committee organized to
sponsor repeal of the Oregon
criminal syndicalism law will meet
in the central library building
here Saturday night. Howard Y.
Williams, of New York City, will
be the principal speaker and will
discuss “The Right of Free
Speech, Press and Assemblage.’’
Politics Determine Stand
On Philippine Independence
Three major facts over which,
clash of opinion occurs, namely,
y America’s promise to grant the
Philippines their independence to
gether with the degree of prepared
ness of the Filipinos for that goal,
the economic dependence of the
islands on free trade with the
United States, and the effect of
withdrawal from the archipelago
on American influence in the Far
East, were discussed by Dr. Harold
J. Noble of the history department,
in commenting on the recent pas
sage of the Hare bill in the lower
house of congress.
One’s opinion as to the desira
bility of freeing the Philippines is
in large measure determined by
one’s political and economic phil
osophy, and the final appeal in
forming a stand on the subject is
to personal conviction rather than
to scientific appraisal of the facts,
Professor Noble explained.
Professor Noble explained that
the Hare bill provides that the
United States government shall
give approval to the constitution
of the Philippines before the is
lands are given self-government.
This provision, according to him,
coupled with the naval and mili
tary reservations, shows that in
fitead of providing for Philippine
independence in about 10 years,
the bill merely provides for home
rule something after the order of
that enjoyed by New Zealand with
in the British Empire.
The acceptance of the bill by the
Filipino leaders, he continued,
shows that they wish to rule them
selves without American interfer
ence far more than they want com
plete independence. "In reality,
under the Hare bill the United
States would have “the advantage
of the use of the Philippines with
out the n^ajor disadvantage of
ownership; however, complete in
dependence, as provided in the
Jones act of 1916, would be yet to
come,” Dr. Noble said.
Discussing the first fact in
which there is a great deal of dif
ferences in opinion, he said. “One
must remember that by the Jones
act of 1916 the United States spe
cifically committed itself to grant
independence to the Philippines as
soon as the people of the islands
were ready for self-government.
No definite date was mentioned in
the bill, but in the previous debate
the idea repeatedly was expressed
that the time would be soon, per
haps within five years.
"That we are obliged to end our
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Kinney Names
Marrs Junior
Week-EndAide
Directorate Grows With
New Appointments
Bolds, Sersanous, Green
And Reymers To Handle
Important Jobs
Appointments of the directorate
for Junior Week-end neared com
pletion yesterday when Ned Kin
ney, general
chairman, an
nounced five ad- |
ditional third
ypar executives
who will aid him
in organizing the
three - day festi
val that marks
the high point in
the year’s cam
pus activities.
Ned Kinney
Leading the
list is John
Marrs, major in
business administration, selected
as assistant chairman. Ed Bolds
will act as finance manager, Ellen
Sersanous as secretary, Sterling
Green as chairman of publicity,
and Mahr Reymers, advertising
manager.
Four Still to be Named
Leaders for five events on the
week-end holiday still remain to
be named, Kinney said. They are
the chairmen for the queen’s
reign, campus day, campus lunch
eon, and the water carnival. These
will be announced next week.
John Marrs, tall track star, won
the post as second-in-command of
Junior Week-end on the strength
of a campus career of unusual ac
tivity in executive positions, in
cluding the presidency of Skull and
Daggers, sophomore service hon
orary, and membership in the N.
S. F. A. committee.
Bolds Experienced
Ed Bolds, who will handle the
dispensation of funds, has acted in
a similar capacity for Junior Shine
day and the junior-senior dance,
and is also a member of the N. S.
P. A. committee. He is treasurer
of the class.
Ellen Sersanous, fine arts major,
is secretary of the campus Asso
ciated Women Students and the
organization, and holds the same
position on the N. S. F. A. com
mittee.
Sterling Green, publicity chair
man, is day editor and telegraph
editor on the Emerald and presi
dent of Sigma Delta Chi, journalis
tic professional fraternity. Mahr
Reymers is a member of Alpha
Delta Sigma, advertising honorary,
and is active on the advertising
staff of the Emerald.
Omit New Tariffs,
Tydings Suggests
WASHINGTON, April 8.—(AP)
—Elimination of all new tariff du
ties from the tax bill was proposed
in the senate today by Senator
Tydings (D., Md.), who offered to
direct the finance committee to
strike the import levies from the
measure.
Tydings warned that a protract
ed tariff debate would cost the
government $90,000,000 a month
in collection of new excise taxes
provided by the revenue measure.
He will ask a vote early next
week and is confident of a major
ity but a coalition is rapidly form
ing in opposition to his measure.
The house put import duties on oil
and coal in the tax measure. Pro
posals to include half a dozen more
articles, including copper, lumber,
wood pulp, manganese and jute
are pending in the senate.
Huey Long Organizes
Senate ‘Potlikker Bloc’
WASHINGTON, April 8.—(AP) 1
—“potlikker bloc" was formed
in the senate today by Huey Long
of Louisiana who introduced his
favorite dish to a dozen hungry
colleagues.
His guests, including northern
Republicans and southern Demo
crats, seemed to enjoy the “pot
likker” but there was a warm dis
pute between partisans of “dunk
ing” and “crumbling” the corn
pone which accompanied it.
Long advised his guests that
“dunking” was best, but a minor
ity led by Senator Black (D., Ala.)
bolted and insisted upon “crum
! bling.”
Polyphonic Choir
To Give Program
Monday Evening
Portland People To Hear;
Specially Arranged
Concert Group
- _ i
Forty members of the University !
first division Polyphonic choir will |
leave for Portland at 11:40 Mon
day morning to give a concert at!
the Shrine auditorium at 8:45 that I
evening. Monday's concert is the
first to be given off the campus and
is a specially prepared program.
Portland alumni, sorority mothers.
University Dads, University exten
sion and the Portland Parent
Teacher organizations are sponsor
ing the concert.
The choir has been rehearsing
daily for the past few weeks and
the program is rounding into shape
nicely, according to Arthur Board
man, director.
The program will include both
sacred and secular numbers.
"While the music is of the classi
cal type and consists of many of
the old classics,” Mr. Boardman
said, “it is also melodic and beau- !
tiful. The program is so arranged
that everyone, whether he has a
technical knowledge of music or
not, will thoroughly enjoy the mu
sic.”
Following the concert the mem
bers of the choir will be guests at
an informal reception on the stage
where friends may meet students
in the choir. Afterwards the stu
dents will be entertained at their
quarters in the Heathman hotel
with a supper and dancing.
The group will return to Eugene
Tuesday in time for afternoon
classes. Dean Sehwering will ac
company the choir as faculty rep
resentative.
A1 Smith’s Hat in Ring*
For Presidency, He Says
NEW YORK, April 8— (AP) —
Alfred E. Smith stated vigorously
today he will accept the Demo
cratic presidential nomination if it
is tendered to him.
In equally emphatic terms he de
nied what he called a “whispering
campaign” that he is being used
as a “stalking horse” to help or
hinder some other candidate.
“That is a role I never played
and never will,” he said.
Journalism Graduate
Has Book Published
G. P. Putnam’s Sons have an
nounced the publication of “Martha
Berry, the Sunday Lady of Pos
sum Trot,” written by Tracy By
ers, school of journalism graduate,
T9.
The book is the first biography
of the founder of the Berry schools,
whom President Roosevelt called,
"The greatest woman in America.”
Martha Berry founded and is direc
tor of the Martha Berry college
and Christian Industrial schools
for country children.
Charley Becomes
Ballyhoo-er for
Two Ring Circus
On with the show!
The defenders of the pee-pul
are girding their loins and
clearing their throats.
Franklin D. slips over a fast
one for the opening shot, de
nouncing Herbert as personal
ambassador of John D. and J.
Pierpont to the White House.
Between strains of “Happy
Days” and “Luckies are kind,
etc.” Roosevelt radios a condem
nation of “temporary relief
from the top down.”
The old theory that give the
big boy plenty and the gravy
will drip down to the little fel
low, isn’t going over big.
Roosevelt plays a trump card
with the three point proposal:
1—Help the farmer (which
ain’t quite original); 2—Help
the small bank and home
owner (which sounds nice); and
3—Reconstruct the tariff (a
little change from 1928).
All of which is good politics
but dubious economics. None
of the boys have the guts to get
at the root of the cancer, but
they’ll give you salve aplenty.
So up goes the curtain the
i great tweedle-dee and the illus
trious tweedle-dum!
Impartially,
WEBFOOT CHARLEY.
I
Maxwell Adams
Decides To Take
Ohio Pastorship!
Resignation of \\ estminsterj
House Head Re^r«‘tle«l
By Officials Here
The Rev. John Maxwell Adams,
University pastor and director of
Westminster house, announced his
decision last night to accept the
pastorship proffered by the North
minster Presbyterian church of
Columbus, Ohio. He will not leave
to take over his new position un
til the end of the school term.
Mr. Adams, in issuing a joint
statement for Mrs. Adams and
himself, said: “Our work and
friendships here have been so
pleasurable that nothing but this
most unusual opportunity could
draw us away from Eugene and
the University of Oregon. We
feel that the Northminster church
does offer rare possibilities.
“Now that the decision has been
actually made our emotions are
only those of regret and disap
pointment at having to leave our
friends and Westminster house
after so short a stay.”
Mr. Adams came to the campus
four years ago in September of
1928. In his short stay here he
has been the close friend and con
fidant of hundreds of students.
Together with Mrs. Adams he is
credited with having built up a
large and valuable organization of
students around Westminster
house and its program.
Karl W. Onthank, dean of per
sonnel, said last night in discus
sing Mr. Adams’ decision to leave,
“We have found him an extreme
ly valuable, though unofficial,
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Japanese Aeeept
Withdrawal Plan
SHANGHAI, April 8.—(API —
Japan today accepted provisional
ly a general plan for withdrawal
of their troops as suggested yes
terday by Sir Miles Lapson, the
British ambassador and one of the
neutral negotiators for Sino-Jap
anese peace.
Although the Chinese objected
that the proposal did not set an
absolute time limit on Japanese
troops’ withdrawal in the Shang
hai area, and characterized the
plan as “hardly acceptable,’’ they
showed a definite willingness to
ward conciliation.
Sir Miles’ plan was-understood
to provide for a Japanese retreat
farther toward the international
settlement than they heretofore
had been willing to accept.
Economy Axe Hits
Dry Enforcement
WASHINGTON, April 8.—(AP)
—The sharpened congressional
economy axe swung hard on pro
hibition enforcement for the first
time today with a tentative slash
of more than a million dollars off
the bureau’s 1933 operating allot
ment.
An appropriations sub-commit
tee made the cut in carrying out
senate orders for a ten per cent
reduction of the $124,000,000 state,
justice, commerce and labor de
partmental supply bill.
It came as President Hoover and
the house economy committee
made plans for their meeting to
morrow at the White House on re
trenchment proposals aggregating
about $200,000,000 that will include
a proposition to reduce salaries of
government employes.
The reduction from more than
$11,000,000 to $10,000,000 in the
dry law enforcement fund will be
considered tomorrow by the full
senate sub-committee appropria
tions committee. Senator Jones
(R., Wash.), author of the Jones
five-year and $10,000 fine prohibi
tion law is chairman of both the
sub-group and the whole commit
tee.
Work on New Street
Soon To Be Completed
The new" street cut through
north of the architecture building
from University street to Elev
enth avenue will soon be ready for
use, reports George York, super
intendent of buildings and grounds.
Grading on the project is prac
tically completed and gravel will
be spread in the near future,
weather permitting.
As the driveway is narrow it
will be a one way street with traf
fic moving from Eleventh to Uni
versity street only.
Gilbert Finds
Outlook Bright
For University
Dean Says Courses Not
Affected by Changes
Assertion Made University
Benefits by Curriculum
Reorganization
Fears of students here that sci
ence had been lost, journalism
abolished, and a marked decrease
in enrollment next year would re
sult from the state board of high
er education's changes in Ore
gon’s schools, were set at rest yes
terday morning.
“We. have minimized our gains,
and exaggerated our losses," de
clared Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean
of the college of literature, science,
and the arts, addressing the first
student assembly of the term in
Gerlinger hall. For proof, Dean
Gilbeit stressed the following
points:
Much Science Here
There will be 273 hours of sci
ence work on the campus here
next year, enough to keep a spe
cial student, taking nothing but
15 hours of science each term, busy
for six years in this field alone.
At the end of this time he would
still be three hours short of the
total offered.
Pre-medics work will remain the
same as it is now. The necessary
foundation courses in chemistry,
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First Talk Billed
On Love, Marriage
The first of the lectures on
“Love and Marriage,” which the
A. S. U. O. is sponsoring, will be
given Monday night at 8:15 in the
music auditorium, Paul Bale,
chairman of the group arranging
the series, announced last night.
Dr. Harold L. Bowman, pastdr
of the First Presbyterian church of
Portland, will present the first of
the four lectures. His topic will
be: “The Sociological Aspects of
Love and Marriage.”
Because of the limitations of au
ditorium facilities, a limited num
ber of tickets—650—have been is
sued. Those students who are un
able to obtain tickets at living or
ganizations may get them free of
charge at the Co-op, Bale said.
Mellon Takes Charge
Of Embassy at London
LONDON, Aprilli.—(AP) — An
drew Mellon took charge of the
American embassy today, and lost
no time in quietly informing Eur
ope he did not come to solve the
war debt and reparations prob
lems.
It was all incidental until a re
porter for a large London daily
told the new envoy that Europe
regarded him as a special ambas
sador on war debts and repara
tions.
"Who did you say invented that
story?” asked Mr. Mellon in his
usual quiet tone. “I have no special
instructions to deal with financial
questions.”
Conclave on European
Trade Crisis Hits Snag
LONDON, April 8.—(AP)—The
"big four’’—Great Britain, France,
Italy and Germany ended their
conference on southeastern Eur
ope's commercial crisis today in
disagreement, but decided to con
tinue the effort through the
League of Nations council at Ge
neva next week.
The hitch developed over the re
fusal of Germany and Italy to
waive their rights to most-favored
nation treatment from the little
five Austria, Hungary, Jugo-Sla
via, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania.
France and Great Britain wanted
to let the little five make customs
and fiscal arrangements among
themselves.
Seattle Personal Note
Involved in Baby Hunt
SEATTLE, April" 8.—(AP)—A
mysterious message, appearing in
the personal column of a newspa
per here three days ago, was au
thorized by New Jersey police in
connection with the Lindbergh kid
naping case, an authoritative
source said today.
The message said:
“To May: King street ends at
96. Wire correction. Signed June.”
To Leave Post
John Maxwell Adams, Univer
sity pastor, who last night an
nounced that he will leave Eugene
this summer to take over a pastor
ship in an Ohio church.
Hopewell Official
Claims Vengeance
Kidnaping Motive
Assistant Police Chief Says
Brush Fire is Clue in
Liiulhergli Case
HOPEWELL, N. J., April 8—
(AP) A theory that vengeance
may have been the motive for the
kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh
Jr., advanced by the assistant
chief of police of Hopewell, was
squelched a few hours later to
night by state authorities in
charge of the case.
Charles Williamson, assistant
police chief and head of Hopewell’s
fire department, said he was sus
picious of the brush fire which
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Portland Men May Be
Freed of Indictments j
PORTLAND, Ore., April 8—
(AP)—Possibility that indictments
against Mayor George L. Baker
and other Portland city officials
and prominent citizens may be dis
missed was intimated in a signed
statement issued today by the dis
trict attorney’s office.
Declaring that some of the in
dictments returned by the Multno
mah county grand jury, following
its investigation of an alleged
bribery conspiracy in connection
with the city’s purchase of a muni
cipal market site, came as a “sur
prise” the statement issued today
said the district attorney’s office
was not “at all certain at this
moment of the sufficiency of evi
dence in support of some of the
indictments.” The statement was
signed by District Attorney Lotus
L. Langley and by George Mowry
and George A. Pipes, deputies.
A. W.S. Carnival
To Begin Mad
Whirl at 8:00
Depression To Influence
AH Prices
Cups To Be Awarded Best
Booths; 1,000 Other
Prizes for Patrons
To the blare of horns and the
cry of hawkers, the first A. W. S.
Carnival will begin this evening at
McArthur court.
The hours have!
been set from 8
until midnight.
Students, mem
bers of the fac
ulty, and towns
people will be
there en masse.
The standard
price for admis
s i o n , features,
and food has
been put at the
low (depression)
price of five Virginia
cents. Hancock
The concessions, which are spon
sored by those living organizations
not in the Canoe Fete lineup,
range from gambling dens to bas
ketball tossing tournaments. You
can “Pop a Prof” at the Alpha
Delta Pi booth—vengeance quick
and sure. You can visit a minia
ture Monte Carlo, gaze wistfully
at beautiful women, have your for
tune told, and prove your skill at
parlor tricks in a hundred or more
different ways.
Awards to be Made
Silver loving cups will be
awarded the organizations which
construct the most appropriate and
attractive booths. One thousand
prizes will be awarded from the
booths and 22 grand prizes will
be given away through the cour
tesy of local merchants.
Abbie Green's orchestra will play
for dancing throughout the eve
ning—five cents a dance. Features
have been arranged by Marian
Camp and Hal Hatton and by
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Government of Ecuador
Plans Move on Rebels
QUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, April 8
—(AP)—The rebellious Ecuador
ean navy clung to the harbor and
fort at Punta Piedra today while
the government took emergency
steps to deal with the revolution
ists.
An airplane squadron was pre
pared to blast 60 or more rebels
out of the fort, and the port at
Guayaquil was closed in order that
steamers bound for Punta Piedra
might be shunted elsewhere.
The government took the latter
step as a means of starving out
the sailors, who seized both ships
of the navy yesterday and forced
the master of the British Tanker
Buaro to help them start machin
ery on one of the war vessels. The
tanker later was released.
Present Oriental War Based
On Loyalty, Declares Bishop
By JACK BELLINGER
The present war in China, so far
as the Japanese people are con
cerned, is not founded upon enmity
against the Chinese, but has been
based upon loyalty to the Emperor,
is the belief of Dr. James C. Bak
er, bishop of the Methodist Epis
copal church in Japan, Manchu
ria and Korea and acting bishop of
the Shanghai territory, as ex
pressed in an interview yesterday.
"The appeal made all through
Japan is to be loyal to the Impe
rial house,” the bishop said. “Any
opposition to the war is an act
against the majesty of the emperor,
himself. The present war repre
sents the militarists rather than
the people, just as the World war
represented the Prussian war lords
rather than the German people.”
Bishop Baker recently completed
an eight-months tour of Malaya,
Sumatra, Java, the Philippine is
lands, Indo-China, and Siam and
this tour together with his work in
Japan, Korea, Manchuria and
Shanghai has given him a close in
sight into the affairs of the Ori
ent. Dr. Baker, founded the Wesley
foundation 20 years ago at the Uni
versity of Illinois and will be hon
ored by the Wesley foundation here
at a luncheon today.
"I don’t think the war is over,”
Bishop Baker said. “Japan will
make demands that China cannot
and ought not to accept. My be
lief is that Japan will hold troops
near Shanghai and instigate dis
turbances which will lead to fur
ther fighting.”
Bishop Baker believes that the
situation in Shanghai and Man
churia is another warning against
control of the affairs of a nation
by the military party. The trou
ble started when the militarists
saw their power slipping from
them, the bishop pointed out.
In Japan the army and navy
have never been brought under
the constitutional government, Dr.
Baker said. The army and navy
both have direct access to the em
peror. They are not under control
of the civil government. This ex
plains why the civil authorities
have made promises which they
could not carry out, as the war
party refused to abide by them.”
Bishop Baker found a good deal
of anti-war sentiment among the
students. One of the interesting
recent happenings which he point
ed out was an appeal for friend
ship from students in Foochow,
China, to students in Tokyo. The
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