VOLUME XXXIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1932
NUMBER 112
7 Men in Race
For Positions
On Co-op Board
Three Will Be Eleeted
On May 5
Store Shows Slight Loss
4 During 1931, Says
Manager McClain
Seven men students were nom
inated for positions on next year’s
Co-op board at the annual meeting
of the University Co-op store as
sociation yesterday afternoon.
For the sophomore position the
names of Orval Thompson, Worth
Chaney, and Bill C. Davis will be
placed on the ballot at the forth
coming A. S. U. O. elections May
5. Nominees for the junior and
senior offices on the board were
George Hibbard, Don Caswell,
Brute Stauffer, and Orville Young.
One sophomore and one junior and
senior are to be elected.
The Co-op’s annual meeting, held
in 105 Commerce at 4 o’clock,
brought out only 30 students, al
though every Oregon student is
automatically a member of the
Co-op association.
Reporting on 1931 business, Mar
ion F. McClain, manager, said that
the Co-op had suffered a loss of
V 1.1 per cent due to depreciation in
inventory valuation. There was a
shrinkage of 11 per cent in net
sales. “The store, however,” said
Mr. McClain, “is in the best finan
cial condition in his history. All
texts are sold at publishers’ list
prices. There is an actual loss in
the handling of books, but it is
covered partially by buying up sec
ond-hand books at half price and
reselling them at three-fourths.
“The real fundamental purpose
of the Co-op is to solve the text
book problem for the University.”
Canoe Fete Seats
To Give Full View
Every entry in the Canoe Fete
will be visible from every seat in
the stand. This was the assur
ance given last night by Hal Short,
Canoe Fete chairman, upon the
completion of new numbering
plans and new seating arrange
y ments for the annual water festi
val on Saturday, May 7.
Four complete bleacher sections
seating 400 each, are being in
stalled, extending back at the
same angle as the permanent
bleacher section. Last year, Short
says, a large portion of the tem
porary bleachers were at such an
angle that only the top section of
the floats was visible. This diffi
culty has been obviated by careful
planning.
Declaring that the time is now
at hand for work on the floats to
begin, Short announced that let
ters of instruction for the building
of entries will be in the mails by
Thursday, giving the maximum
cost, specifications as to height
and width, and other important in
formation.
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Request Issued
For Workers on
Men’s Emerald
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A SPECIAL sheet has been
posted on the Emerald bul
letin board for the signatures of
all men desirous of working on
the men’s edition of the Emer
ald, George Sanford, editor of
the special issue, announced
last night.
Both present and former
members of the Emerald staff
are urgently requested to sign
up, it was announced.
Beat lists for the speeial edi
tion will he made and posted
Thursday afternoon for those
signing up.
The merit of the special edi
tion produced will be compared
with that of the paper put out
by the women’s staff last Sat
urday. The losing group is to
“throw a party” for the win
ners.
Music Honorary
Will Give Number
Of Social Affairs
Entertainments Will Honor
National Editor During
Campus Visit
Mu Phi Epsilon, women’s na
tional music honorary is entertain
ing at a number of affairs for
their national editor, Mrs. Helena
Redewill. Today the active chap
ter and alumnae club are giving a
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Payments to Veterans
Will Equal War Costs
WASHINGTON, April 26. —
(API—Expenditures on World war
veterans were described today by
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines as
equivalent to “financing another
war.”
The administrator of veterans’
affairs told the house ways and
means committee that if the pres
ent rate is continued until 1945,
“the government will have spent
$21,500,000,000, or the cost of the
war, on the war’s veterans.”
Hines was called before the com
mittee as an opposition witness to
cash payment of the soldiers’
bonus.
Hamlet Ticket Sale To
Open on Campus Today
Ticket sale for “Hamlet” begins
at 9:45 this morning, when seats
may be reserved by calling the
Guild theatre box office.
A special rate especially for col
lege students has been arranged
by Dorothy Clifford, business man
ager. Thirty-five cent seats bought
in groups of ten before noon
Thursday will sell for 25 cents.
Other prices are $1, 75 cents,
and 50 cents for reserved seats,
while bleacher and balcony seats
will be 35 cents.
The office is to be kept open
during the noon hour and until
5:15 for the rest of the week.
Landsbury Composition Listed
In Thacher-Boardman Recital
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By DAVE WILSON
One seldom thinks of the dean
of a university music school as a
composer, but Oregon students
have learned to expect a great
many things from Dean John J.
Landsbury of our music school.
So it is not surprising to find
the name “Landsbury” along with
Chopin, Strauss and Paderewski
on the program for the joint re
cital to be given at the music audi
torium Thursday evening by Jane
Thacher and Arthur Boardman.
In his concluding group Board
man, tenor, head of the voice de
partment, will sing«Dean Lands
bury’s composition, “The Night
Has a Thousand Eyes.” Board
man will sing in his first group
on the program an aria from Mas
sanet’s opera “El Cid,” which is
based on the life of the great epic
hero of Spain.
Two selections from Resphighi,
and two by Strauss will form the
second group of Boardman’s part
of the program. Aubert, Faure
and Reddick compositions are in
cluded with the Landsbury num
ber in his concluding group.
By the request of many friends,
Jane Thacher will play the Chopin
Sonata in b-flat minor which was
an outstanding part of her recital
a year ago. This sonata is said;
to be a musical interpretation of j
the history of Chopin’s native Po-j
land and its subjection to the czars
of Russia.
Four Chopin Preludes and five
Chopin etudes will form Mrs.
Thacher’s opening group; then
comes the sonata, followed by a
concluding group which will con
sist of Paderewski’s “Theme and
Variations” and a Rubenstein
“Waltz.”
The Thacher-Boardman recital
is one of the series given at inter
vals during the school year by
members of the music faculty.
Students and the public are in
vited to attend. There will be no
admission charge. The program
will begin promptly at 8:15.
Japs Open New
Drive Against
Chinese Rebels
Armies Deploy in Try
To Engulf Revolters
Offensive Termed Largest
Manchurian Maneuver
Since Chincliow Push
HARBIN, Manchuria, April 21
—Wednesday).—(AP)—The Japa
nese army began today its largest
offensive since the capture ot
Chinchow ..last December wher
three brigades under Lieut. Gen
Hirose moved out against a forct
of Chinese rebels estimated tc
number 20,000.
The Japanese armies moved out
into northern and eastern Man
churia by rail and by river boats,
executing a huge “pincers” move
ment in the hope of crushing the
rebels.
The whole of the northern and
eastern portions of the province
were aflame with revolt and it was
especially violent along the Chi
nese Eastern railway lines and in
the Sungari area.
At the same time lesser Japa
nese forces were attempting to
crush other rebel groups in the
Tunghua district, 125 miles east of
Mukden. (This should not be con
fused with Tunhua, in eastern
Kirin province.)
Additional fighting was going
on in the Tungaliao area, north
west of Mukden, on the Mongo
lian border.
Phi Theta Upsilon
Selects Officers
For Coming Year
Chapman, McNutt, Dunlop,
Elsemore and Cox Form
Executive Group
Marian Chapman, junior, was
elected president of Phi Theta Up
silon, upperclass women’s service
honorary, at a meeting held last
night at the Westminster house.
Other newly elected officers are:
vice-president, Kathleen McNutt,
Eugene; secretary, Janet Cox.
Portland; treasurer, Gwen Els
inore, Burns; and editor historian,
Genevieve Dunlop, Eugene.
Helen Evans, the outgoing pres
ident, announced that the “Cour
tesy Handbook,” which the group
has been sponsoring, will be off
the press and ready for distribu
tion in about a week. The hand
book was written by Emmajane
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Statistics Class
Shows Increase
Of Dollar Value
The prospective consumer can
purchase three and a half times as
many pounds of beans with a dol
lar today as he could in 1929. This
is just one of the surprising re
sults attained by John M. Rae, as
sociate professor in business ad
ministration, and his class in busi
ness statistics, in a recently con
ducted survey of price values in
Eugene.
Rae endeavored to compare the
buying power of the dollar in the
year before the stock crash with
its capacity at present.
That one dollar today will buy
52.50 worth of 1929 furs, that lin
gerie cost over twice as much in
the former year, were other con
clusions reached by the survey.
Drugs showed the least drop in
value, with clothing and grocer
ies the greatest. Lumber costs
two-thirds as much today as in
1929.
Rae divided the basic retail
trades into eleven divisions, such
rs men’s wearing apparel, women’s
.vearing apparel, drugs, groceries,
lardware, etc., and then chose rep
resentative Eugene retailers for
each division. In all, 27 retail
firms were selected. Then mem
bers of the class queried each mer
chant on ce. tain stock or represen
tative articles—as to their 1929
value versus their present value.
Complete figures on the survey
vill be ready for release soon, Mr.
=tae stated.
Rollicking Roustabouts Out
Of Campus Political Field
Hotter • Skelter Gathering
Fulfills Sole Purpose of
Starting Opposition
By J. DOLPH MONTGOMERY
Those rollicking Oregon Rousta
bouts have collapsed as completely
as Mr. Holmes’ one-horse shay, but
they survived long enough to ac
complish their purpose. In the
brief time in which they were in
existence as a political party, the
helter-skelter insurgents aroused a
hitherto latent interest in the
forthcoming campus campaign and
finally stimulated another party
to come forth and dispute the clan
headed by Bob Hall.
The Roustabouts arose as an an
swer to an editor’s plea. Imme
diately following the publication of
an editorial in the Emerald in
which a dark-horse party was
sought, they announced their can
didacy. Headed by Johnny Lon
dahl, Red Wilson, and several oth
ers, they declared their intention
of conducting a campaign that
would combine the best and worst
features of Vic Meyers and Tom
my Hall.
The first move announced by
the Roustabouts was that of send
ing an expedition to Africa to ob
tain a specimen of the ovis poli,
the official party animal. This met
with failure, however, and culmin
ated in the fictitious announce
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Men Journalists
Choose Sanford
Editor of Issue
Three Years of Contesting
Rivalry at Stake on
Contest Outcome
With the election of George
Sanford, sophomore in journalism,
as editor and Parks Hitchcock,
freshman in journalism, as manag
ing editor, at a meeting of the
male journalistic addicts in the
shack yesterday afternoon plans
for the men’s edition of the Em
erald Saturday are formulating.
These contests between the
women’s and men’s editions are
based on the judgment of general
newspaper appearance, including
makeup, coverage, content, edito
rials, features, and general manr
agement. The women’s edition,
which opened the contest this year,
was published last Saturday, April
23.
Two years ago these rivalry con
tests between the men and women
in journalism were inaugurated.
The first year the men were vic
tors and received a dinner from
the women. Last year the women
set the traps and were accordingly
guests of the men.
Competition between the two
factions has been keen heretofore
and an undetermined result is pre
dicted this year. The two issues
are judged by members of the fac
ulty.
The party is usually held in the
“shack.”
Brokers Charged
With Bally hooing
WASHINGTON, April 26.—
(AP)— Payment of more than a
quarter of a million dollars to New
York financial writers for “bally
hooing” stocks in which brokers
were “rigging the market” was
charged today by Representative
La Guardia, a surprise witness ;n
the senate banking committee’s
investigation of the stock market.
The New York Republicans laid
before the committee a trunkload
of documents and newspaper clip
pings to support his charge that
$286,279 was paid by one publicity
agent to newspaper financial writ
ers, for boosting various stocks.
Roosevelt Is Defeated
By Smith Primaries
BOSTON, April 26.— (APj_
Candidates pledged to Alfred E.
Smith, seeking election in the
Massachusetts presidential pri
mary as delegates at large to the
Democratic national convention,
forged far ahead of a slate pledged
to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York in early returns to
night.
With one in ten of the state’s
election precincts reported, all out
side the city of Boston, the Smith
candidates ran more than three to
one ahead of their Roosevelt ri
vals.
Noble To Talk on China
For International Club
“Further Developments in Man
churia” will be the subject of a
talk by Dr. Harold J. Noble of the
history department tomorrow night
at 8 o clock at the International
house at an open meeting of the
International Relations club.
Last fall Professor Noble gave a
brief history of Korea and a back
ground sketch of Far Eastern in
ternational relations in a talk be
fore the club.
Junior Week-End
Mothers’ Program
Released Today
YWCA Tea, Junior Prom,
Luncheon, Canoe Fete
In Events Listed
Every hour and minute of Jun
ior week-end will be crammed full
of entertainment and enjoyment
for Oregon mothers under the pro
gram of events, teas and banquets
as released by Marian Chapman,
Mother’s day chairman, last night.
Festivities will commence Fri
day noon when the campus lunch
eon will be held, with the attend
ant Mortar Board and Friar pledg
ing. The afternoon will be de
voted to Campus day events, with
a tea scheduled at the Y. W. C. A.
at 3:30 for the mothers. Friday
evening the Junior Prom and coro
nation of Queen Dorothy will be
held at McArthur court, with bal
cony seats for mothers who wish
to watch the dance.
Saturday morning at 10:15 a
water carnival will be held at the
Anchorage, with all kinds of
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Battle Promised
Oil Economy Bill
WASHINGTON, April 26.—
tAP)—A tense house prepared to
day for a great legislative battle
over the far-reaching omnibus
economy bill.
Party leaders whipped their
forces into line for a big drive to
clamp securely onto the house to
morrow strict procedure to force
the $217,000,000 retrenchment
measure through to passage.
The opposition, however, confi
dently asserted their bi-partisan
forces would override the leaders
and throw the controversial legis
lation open to defeat.
Three vital provisions—federal
wage cuts, army and navy con
solidation and reduction of veter
ans’ benefits—will be the point of
most bitter conflict.
Meet Henry Ford’s
New Brain Child,
Shouts Charley
Pseudo-Economist.
Every fish peddler thinks he’s
i doctor and every business man
thinks himself an economist.
Henry Ford breaks the ice
with the latest panacea for un
employment. Five hundred
bones a year is the stupendous
sum Henry guarantees to save
for every worker. Gather round
md learn how. It took him
three months to work out the
scheme so it must be good.
Make the factory hand raise
most of his food stuff. Give him
a slice of land and let him screw
nuts with his right hand and
pull weeds with his left. Fine,
Henry, but how about the farm
er? How, b’gosh, will he sell his
spinach to buy Fords so the
worker can keep punching gears
on the belt line ?
Looks as if all of us will have
to forget Fords and raise rad
ishes. If “back to the farm” is
Henry’s war cry, I'm all for it.
My hand’s sore from spinning
the crank of a 1923 Model T.
But why stop at the farm ?
Let’s get down the bow and ar
row and hunt rabbits. And I’d
just love to live in a cave.
Atavistically,
WEB FOOT CHARLEY.
Eugene Banks
Make Loans To
U.O. Students
Commerce Depositors to
Get Small Advances
Claims To Be Filed July 25,
Final Liquidation
Am omit Unknown
Loans of “a reasonable amount"
were being advanced yesterday by
the First National and United
States National banks to Univer
sity students and faculty members
whose certified claims against de
posits in the defunct Bank of Com
merce, Eugene, were presented to
them.
While no definite amounts of
money were being loaned on the
claims, it was thought that Bank
of Commerce depositors were re
ceiving 20 or 25 per cent on their
certified statements. Further pay
ments will not be made for 60 or
90 days until the liquidation of the
Bank of Commerce is completed by
the state superintendent of banks
and his officers.
Members of the Lane County
Bankers' association gathered last
night at the Eugene hotel for a
periodic business meeting. While
the transfer of certified Bank of
Commerce deposit claims was not
officially discussed, it was under
stood that Eugene's two remaining
financial institutions would carry
out their first pledge to loan small
amounts on claims.
Bank of Commerce depositors,
numbering some 150 University
students to whom claims were sent
last week-end, must file these at
the bank before July 25. Service
of a notary public has been pro
vided free of charge at the bank,
Doors of the bank will be open
from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. every
day to facilitate the filing of
claims.
Personal Meeting
Reported Between
Lindy, Kidnapers
$1500 of Ransom Bills Are
Saiil To Have Been
Recovered
HOPEWELL, N. J., April 26.—
(AP) A personal contact with
the kidnapers of his son is under
stood to have been made by Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh in Virginia
last, week, a high New Jersey of
ficial said tonight.
The meeting was reported to
have taken place while the famous
flier was away from his estate
last Monday and Tuesday.
Those with whom he conferred
were understood to be the same
group which received the $50,000
ransom that Dr. John F. Condon,
72-year-old educator, paid to a
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First Spring Term
ROTCParade Set
For Today at 4:30
This afternoon at 4:50 the first
of the annual spring term R. O.
T. C. parades will be staged on the
drill field, east of the Igloo.
This will be the first time this
year that the units have marched
with the band and the hour will
be spent in getting the battalion
iccustomed to drilling to the mu
sic.
Major F. A. Barker, R. O. T. C.
officer, announced that this first
battalion ceremony will be merely
For practice to get the recruits in
’orm for the parades that are
olanned for every Wednesday af
ernoon the rest of the term.
The first call will be at 4:40 p.
m, and assembly at 4:50 p. m.
j'or every roll call the battalion
vill form on the south end of the
ield facing north. Immediately
’ollowing assembly the battalion
vill^orm in four companies, con
listing of two platoons each.
The battalion will form for pa
ade in line facing west on the
:ast side of the field in order:
:ompanies A and E combined, B,
2, and D. Company B is desig
nated color company.
Joe Hughes will be battalion
:ommander, and Cliff Beckett, ad
utant.
Presides
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Betty Anne Macduff, president
of Theta Sigma l’hi, women’s jour
nalistic honorary, who will preside
ut the annual Matrix Table ban
quet at the Eugene hotel tonight.
Many Women To
Gather at Matrix
Table Banquet
Theta Sigma Phi Pledges
To Aet as Hostesses
At Annual Affair
Tonight at 6:30 approximately
100 women writers, musicians, and
those interested in literature will
gather at the Eugene hotel for the
annual Theta Sigma Phi Matrix
Table banquet.
Mrs. Cheryl Scholz, dean of wo
men at Heed college, will address
the guests at the formal dinner on
the subject, “Women in New Vien
na.” Mrs. Scholz spent two years
in Vienna and is well acquainted
with life in that European city.
Mrs. Sally Allen will introduce
the speaker, and Betty Anne Mac
duff, president, will give a short
talk.
Twelve New Pledges
Hostesses at the banquet will in
clude members of the journalism
honorary, alumnae, and the new
pledges of Theta Sigma Chi, elect
ed to the honorary yesterday af
ternoon.
The new pledges are Margaret
Bean, Mary Bohoskey, Caroline
Card, Eloise Dorner, Genevieve
Dunlop, Patsy Lee, Kathryn Peri
go, Lillian Rankin, Mary Schaefer,
Shirley Sylvester, Marjorie War
I ner, and Janet Young, all majors
in journalism.
Those in charge of the banquet
tonight are Betty Anne Macduff,
general chairman; Thelma Nelson,
invitations; Jessie Steele, decora
tions; Willetta Hartley, music;
Virginia Wentz, tickets; Lenore
Ely, publicity; and Eleanor Jane
Ballantyne, Esther Hayden, Zora
Beaman, and Henrietta Steinke,
hostesses.
Reservations for the dinner may
be made before noon today by call
ing either Thelma Nelson or the
Eugene hotel.
The musical program for the
dinner will include selections by a
string trio, and Mary Galey, piano.
Marie Saccomanno will sing sev
eral numbers.
INFIRMARY HAS SEVEN
New patients in the infirmary
Tuesday were Dorothy Esch, War
ren Powell, and Marvin Jane Haw
kins. Connie Elliot, Dorothy Mac
Millan, Betty Bardwell, and Leon
Sessine were still confined.
Group Formed
To Oppose Hall
Lineup In Race
Wilson Enters Roberts,
Kraus, Conly, Reedy
Rumored Trade in Posts of
Kinney, Bailey Fails
To Take Place
By THORNTON SHAW
A definite race for student body
offices became certain last night
when Dave Wilson, announced yes
terday as a candidate for presi
dent, placed a team in the field in
opposition to that of Bob Hall.
Running with Wilson will be:
Rolla Reedy—vice-president.
Barbara Conly—secretary.
Cap Roberts—senior man.
Lucille Kraus—senior woman.
Wilson's announcement defin
itely consummated efforts which
have been made for the past week
to organize a ticket in serious op
position to that of Hall.
Rumors of a switch in the posi
tions of Ned Kinney and Orville
Bailey on the Hall ticket were def
initely set at rest last night when
it was decided to retain the ticket
as originally announced.
Kinney will run for the position
of vice-president, with Bailey in
the field for the post of senior man.
Hall's complete ticket, in addi
tion to those mentioned includes
Marguerite Tarbell, secretary; El
len Sersanous, senior woman; Otto
Vonderheit, senior man. Orval
Thompson, George Hibbard, and
Brute Stauffer are running for the
Co-op positions.
The deadline for filing of an
nouncement of intention to run
without petition was midnight last
night. Further filings may be
made until Saturday with a peti
tion containing 50 names, it was
announced last night by Brian
Mimnaugh, president of the stu
dent body, with whom all filings
must be made.
Student Falls on Wet
Sidewalk; Injures Leg
While walking on the south side
of Kincaid street between 13th and
14th, Monday afternoon, Thomas
Hartfel, sophomore in journalism,
whose home is in Roseburg, slipped
and fell, fracturing his left leg.
Rev. Frederick J. Jennings, pas
tor of the Episcopal church at Til
lamook, who is visiting in town,
happened to pass by in his car
when the accident happened. He
picked the injured boy up and took
him to the Pacific Christian hos
pital. The attending physician
said that Hartfel’s condition is
not serious but he will not be able
to walk for several months.
Research Report Given
By Education Student
G. Leslie Godard, graduate stu
dent in education, gave a report
on his research in education at the
supervisors’ meeting held in the
schoo’ of education building Tues
day afternoon. The research is on
the reliability of criteria of teach
ing success.
Godard jias been working on this
subject with Nelson L. Bossing,
professor of education for the last
two years, and has carried it into
his master’s research.
Spring Dance Recital Given
High Acclaim by Reviewer
By CAROL HURLBURT
The Spring Dance recital, pre
sented last night at Gerlinger hall
under the direction of Miss Mar
jorie Forchemer, represented an
artistic triumph such as is seldom
achieved by amateurs.
The most perfect of the compo
sitions was “L’Apres Midi d'un
Faune,” from Debussy as trans
lated by Elinor Fitch. Every
movement was exquisite as only
Miss Fitch can be exquisite. Every
line was significant.
The finale of the recital came
with Notturno from Respighi, rep
resenting Idealism, and was danced
by the members of Master Dance.
Marie Meyers, clad in white, rep
resented the ideal. Lucille Hill, in
deep rose satin, was the mortal, at
first spurning perfection, and then,
after finding the “world” a rather
bitter place, striving for perfection
but never attaining it. This num
ber was a masterpiece of line, emo
tion, and feeling. The lighting ef
fects were excellent.
The Devil dance, also by Master
Dance, was of exceptional interest.
Satan was statuesque and magnifi
cent. The imps grotesque. When
a poor little Puritan mortal was
thrust into their group, they gloat
ed. Off came her clothes! And she
stood there with them, a devil!
Salutation was danced by Marie
Meyers, a pagan priestess giving
devotional to the sun. The lines
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