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MEN’S EDITION MEN’S EDITION COMPLETE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XXXIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932 NUMBER 115 Board Puts Off Meeting Until This Morning Committee Discussion Necessitates Change Mrs. Pierce Again Absent From Deliberations of Education Body By DICK NEUBERGER PORTLAND, Or., April 29.— (Special)—What was expected to be one of the most important ses sions of the state board of higher education never materialized to day. For the first time since they burned their bridges behind them and voted to put their celebrated unification plan into effect four weeks ago, the members of the group assembled for a meeting, but did not go into executive ses sion. The conference, scheduled to start at 1:30 p. m., was to have been for the principal purpose of providing an operating budget for the coming 1932-1933 school year. Members Gather Early To show their good intentions, the board members gathered three and one-half hours early, at 10 a. m., and immediately went into closed session as a committee. They stayed that way all day, however, and made no announce ment until 5 p. m. At that time they formally said certain commit tee and group work would keep them occupied the early part of the night, thereby preventing the scheduled session from being be gun today. Scheduled for Today After considerable discussion the postponed session was re-sched uled for 9:30 o’clock tomorrow morning. No rain checks were is sued, but the newspaper boys will be permitted back at that time to receive the news they expected to write their pieces about today. Mrs. Walter M. Pierce was not present at the meeting place at the University club, although board attaches said every possible effort had been made to inform her of the session. Mrs. Pierce also was absent from the last scheduled meeting of the board. Her second consecutive failure to be at a meet ing was a topic for considerable conjecture and speculation among those there to attend the session. Sigma Delta Chi To Hold Initiation Formal initiation for men re cently pledged to Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic professional fraternity, will be held at 10 o’clock Sunday morning in Gerlin ger hall, it was announced last night by Sterling Green, president. The ceremonies will be followed by a meeting of the organization at which Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, will address old and new members on problems facing the school with regard to its status next year. The neophytes are: George San ford, Joe Saslavsky, Cecil Keesling, Bruce Hamby, Jim Evans, Embert Fossum, Cliff Gregor, Eugene Mul lins, Vincent Mutton, Howard Pet it, Bill Eberhart, and Dave Eyre. WALKER BEATS LEVINSKY CHICAGO, April 29. — (APl — Mickey Walker, floored in the first round, came back to win a ten round decision over King Levin sky in their battle fought before a crowd of 18,000 or more in the Chicago stadium tonight. I Depot Receives Articles In Pairs As Spring Comes Two by two They come marching thru The lost things on parade. With the advent of spring, the mating instinct seems to predominate in all things. Accordingly lost articles turned in at the University de pot include: 2 fountain pens 2 eversharps 2 raincoats 2 notebooks 2 purses. | Four Convicted of Manslaughter in Lynching Affair Mixed Jury Asks Leniency For Defendants in Massie Case _ I HONOLULU, April 29.—(AP) — The four defendants in the Joseph Kahahawai lynching case were convicted tonight of manslaughter by a racially mixed jury which asked leniency. A loud sob broke from Mrs. Thalia Massie, central character in the unusual chain of circumstances surrounding the case, when the first verdict was announced,—that convicting Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, her husband. The maximum penalty for man slaughter is ten years imprison ment. They were charged with second degree murder, which calls for a penalty of 20 years to life imprisonment. When the defendants had ar rived, the jury, composed of five Americans, three Chinese, a Dane, a German, a Portuguese and an Hawaiian, filed in, solemnly Judge” Davis asked: “Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?’’ “Yes, your honor,” said John Stone, American and foreman, ris ing. “We, the jury, find the defend ant, Thomas H. Massie, guilty of manslaughter. Leniency recom mended.” The next verdict, the same as for Massie, applied to Mrs. For tescue. In rapid order the clerk then read the verdicts applying to the two enlisted men. Neither Lord nor Jones showed emotion. FOUR IN INFIRMARY Good weather yesterday made the road to health quick for three University students, cutting the number confined in the infirmary from seven to four. Marvin Jane Hawkins, Curtis Jones, Warren Powell, and Dorothy Lou MacMil lan were still under the doctors’ care at the infirmary yesterday. Conklin To Deliver Last Love Lecture “Psychological Aspects of Love and Marriage,” the final number of the lecture series will be pre sented Monday night at 8:15 o’clock in the men’s gymnasium. ( Dr. Edmund S. Conklin of the psy chology department will give the talk. Approximately 600 students have ' attended each of the preceding lec tures of the series. The topics were “Sociological Aspects,” “Biological Aspects,” and “Pre-Marital Prob lems.” Speakers were Dr. Harold Leonard Bowman, Portland pastor; Dr. Lena Kenin and Dr. William Livingston, both of the University of Oregon medical school. Pioneer Mother Arrives on Campus, Inspects New Home By PARKS HITCHCOCK A lady we know in the upper circles of the University, tipped us off that the Pioneer Mother was arriving secretly on the campus. Alarmed, we investigated. The Pioneer Mother, you know, is the statue that Burt Brown Barker will dedicate on Mother’s day. It, and the panels on the side of the base were done by A. Phimister Proctor, of New York. Workmen, surrounded by the usual onlookers, were putting the statue on the pedestal when we arrived. It seems the entire statue is hollow. “There’s room in there for three ; men,” one of the workers com mented. When they were going to seal ! the statue to the pedestal, some one was inspired with a brilliant thought. It seemed a shame to waste all that space. A hurried j search was made for something : to stick into it. Something to pre- , I serve for wondering posterity. At l this point, L. H. Johnson, comp- ( troller emeritus, discovered a copy ( ] of yesterday’s Emerald in his pock- i et, and generously dedicated it for the filling of this vast cavity. : ] “It would have been nice if all s (Continued on Page Two) it Quiet Rules In Politics After Day’s Activity Campaigns Expected To Open Monday Plans Made by Houses To Hear Candidates at Group Meetings By JULIAN PRESCOTT Quiet prevailed in campus poli tics yesterday after several days j of strenuous activity lining up tickets and preparing nominating j speeches. Campaigns are expected to break out with restored vigor ear ly Monday after the week-end rest j during which political steam will ' be worked up. Managers of the ' two tickets will be getting in fuel j for the high pressure needed on ! election day, Thursday. Leaders of the Hall ticket were busy, however, lining up their fol lowers behind Bill Bowerman and Gordon Day, new candidates for vice-president and senior executive man. Bowerman and Day were named by the Hall party after Ned Kinney and Orville Bailey had been declared ineligible. The Wilson party confined its efforts to the publication of a pa per in which it is planned to pre sent ramifications of the party platform. The first edition, which appeared late Friday, contained ar ticles on ineligibility and the For I um and suggestion of a ball game (Continued on Page Three) \ Police Dog Found Suffering From Strange Malady A stray police dog was the cen tral figure of a dramatic “poison ing” episode on the campus yes terday morning. The dog was found writhing in convulsions in the art patio by Professor Ira Brown and Bob Van Nice, student. The twitching was evidently caused by strychnine poisoning. The good Samaritans carried the dog out to the lawn in front of McClure hall, laid him down tenderly and rushed for the dis pensary for an antidote. Dr. Fred N. Miller, who has re (Continued on Page Three) Mrs. Beck Returns From Trip East More than 5000 delegates attend ed the national music supervisors' conference at Cleveland, Ohio, ac cording to Anne Landsbury Beck, head of the public school music de partment of the University music school, who has just returned from the conference. One group came from as far away as South Africa, and many more came from other foreign countries. Mrs. Beck, as president of the northwest supervisors’ conference, ^ assisted the four other regional presidents in directing the national convention. For the past year Mrs. Beck has been a member of the editorial staff for the Supervisors’ Journal, the official organ for the national association. Lonely Ring Reposes In Dispensary Drawer Out of its hiding place in the cash drawer at the University dis pensary an old ring came yester day. Dispensary nurses said the ring had been in their possession for about six months, waiting for its owner to claim it. The ring has an old-fashioned gold sitting, in which are two gar nets and two small pearls. Nurses believe some woman student lost ft there long ago. School Employee Joins Husband at Redmond Mrs. Olive Adams Young, who graduated from the University in 1929 and since then has worked in the registrar’s office, has left the University and gone to Redmond, Oregon, where her husband is em ployed on The Spokesman, weekly newspaper published at that place. Mrs. Young is the daughter of Percy P. Adams, professor and as sistant dean of the school of archi tecture and allied arts. Appear In Hamlet Ine* Simons, left, and Marian Camp played leading roles in the drama department's production of “Hamlet” in the Guild theatre last night. The play will he again produced tonight. Miss Simons*played the role of Gertrude, queen of Denmark, while Miss Camp took the part of Ophelia. Guild Hall Hamlet Production Wins Audience's High Praise Depictions by Love, Stipe Said To Be Unusually Well Done By BOB GUILD and S. STEPHENSON SMITH The Guild Hall company played Hamlet to a full house last night in Gerlinger hall, which had been transformed by George Andreini and his lighting assistants into a close approximation of an Eliza bethan theatre, with a larger fore stage, and a stylized palace inte rior for the inner stage. The di rector, Mrs. Seybolt, had worked; out a practicable and intelligible! acting version, and she had per formed something close to a mir acle with the help of a cast which we thought far better than the Stratford barnstormers: she had brought out the values of Shake speare’s verse, without slowing up the pace unduly or sacrificing the theatrical appeal. As usual, Will Himself was still the greatest aid to the cast, because he supplied in this play enough good stage business and “sure-fire" situations for a dozen plays. But Mrs. Sey bolt and her cast took full advan tage of the chances, and the Mousetrap Play, Ophelia's pathetic scenes, the duel, and the great soliloquies held the audience tense: no small feat in a three-hour pro duction. Coan's overhead lighting (Continued on 1’agc Two) Porter Accepts Crete, Nebraska, Ministerial Post YMCA Secretary To Leave Next Month To Take Pastorate Coincident with his return from Chicago, where he attended a con ference of young Methodist min isters, the Rev. R. B. Porter, ex ecutive secretary of the campus Y. M. C. A., announced that he had received and accepted a call to be the pastor of the Congrega tional church at Crete, Nebraska. The fact that this field offers him a chance to get back into his chosen profession, the ministry, and at the same time work with students in Doane college, which is supported by the Congrega tional church, swayed Mr. Porter to accept the position. Unsettled conditions of future “Y” work on the Oregon campus also brought pressure to bear. Doane college is a liberal arts school of limited enrollment and Mr. Porter believes .that within a (Continued on Page Three) ~~ Yin Kitsu Threw A Shrapnel Bomb Declares Charley Someone howled at last. Somebody got real sore at Ja pan. That somebody was Yin Kitsu. Yin Kitsu, Korean revo lutionist, and member of the left wing, threw a bomb. The bomb, shrapnel-laden, stocked with Chinese gunpow der, nearly slaughtered half the important Japanese in Shanghai. They are still picking shrap nel out of the Japanese minis ter. Fanatic as the would-be as sassin undoubtedly was, he stuck up for his country. It only made the Japs sorer at the Chinese. But he stuck up for his coun try. They found him and will probably kill him. But he stuck up for hie coun try. And threw a bomb. Aggressively, CLUBFOOT CHARLEY AWS Schedules All - Campus Tea Tuesday, May 3 Final Spring Social Affair To Be Scenes of Eating Of Foreign Student The final A. W. S. social func tion of the year will be held on Tuesday from 4 to 5:30 p. m. on the lawn in front of Gerlinger hall. It will be an all-campus tea hon oring Mrs. Hazel Prutsman Schwer ing, dean of women, and Nella Ros ter, A. W. S. foreign student. As a special feature of the after noon the Associated Women Stu dents officers for the coming year will be installed. Virginia Grone is in general i noon the Associated Women Stu dents officers for the coming year will be installed. charge of the affair, and will be I assisted by Harriette Saeltzer, re freshments; Gretchen Kegal, flow j ers; decorations, Jean Failing, j Margaret Hunt, and Mary Van Ness; initiation, Violet Walters, j The receiving line will consist of Mrs. Schwering, Mrs. Arnold B. | Hall, Louise Webber, Nella Ros ter, Mrs. Nelson Macduff. Several numbers from the physi cal education dance recitals, will be given under the direction of Marjorie B. Forchemer, of that de partment. Members of Mortar Board, sen j ior women's honorary will act as (Continued on Tuf/e Two) Hamlet Contest Won by McKennon Claire McKennon was awarded first prize for writing the most convincing essay submitted in the Hamlet contest last night after a conference of the three judges, Ernest G. Moll, Louis Myers, and S. Stephenson Smith. Winners of honorable mention in this contest dealing with Shake speare’s play "Hamlet,” were In gram Kjosnests and Charles Jones. McKennon will be given the. leather-bound volume of the com-1 plete works of William Shake- ■ speare. This prize was offered by S. Stephenson Smith for the best1 essay dealing with Hamlet as a! spectacular melodrama, a pro-1 found psychological study of an introvert, or a problem play about ' revenge. StudentForum Faces Definite Organization .Campus Representatives To Meet Monday Credential Blanks Allotted Living Groups To Insure Delegations Permanent and definite organi zation of the new student forum will share the spotlight with A. S. U. O. elections in student gov ernment affairs next week. Brian Mimnaugh, Associated Students' president, a n n ounced last night that the Forum would meet in Guild hall at 8 Monday evening to pass on the report of the organization committee which he appointed last week. Groups Get Representation Until the fornm accepts a per manent plan for representation, the organization committee is ask ing all living organizations to send two official delegates to the Mon day meeting. Credential blanks will be sent to all house and hall presidents and to heads of independent organiza tions Monday which will entitle the bearers to voting power at the meeting. "These credential blanks must be properly signed,” said Dave Wilson, chairman of the commit tee, "and will entitle the bearers (Continued on Page Three) Masculine Talent Turns to Editing Oregon Emerald The gentlemen of the press cursed unrestrainedly last night when copy was slow at the Emer ald desk. They exercised the man ly prerogative of swearing right out loud when Associated Press dis patches on the meeting of the state board of higher education were in complete. They uttered sulphur ous and extremely audible male dictions when a night editor was slow in showing up. And they did all this without a single furtive glance around to see if there were females in the offing. For the Emerald was decidedly not a co-educational enterprise—it was the men’s edition. With Managing Editor Thornton Shaw covering the women’s phys ical education beat and Editor Bill Duniway relegated to the infirm ary run, George Sanford and Parks Hitchcock, editor and managing editor for a day, organized a crew of masculine typewriter maulers and put out the daily without help or hindrance of a feminine nature. Other officials of this morning’s paper were as follows: day editor, Ralph Mason; news editor, Oscar Munger; society editor, Jack Bel linger; sports editor, Joe Saslav sky; literary editor, Roy Sheedy; reporters, Jay Seaborn, Hubert Totton, Maximo Pulido, Dave Eyre, Francis, Pallister, Don Fields, J. Almon Newton, Cliff Gregor, Ju lian Prescott, and Sterling Green. Phi Chi Theta Initiates Ten at Gerlinger Hall Initiation for ten Phi Chi Theta pledges was held yesterday after noon at 5 o’clock in Gerlinger hall. A banquet was held at the An chorage after the ceremonies. Those initiated were: Dorothy Drecher, Hazle Fields, Evelyn Kennedy, Velma Parker, Kathryn Felter, Lois Greenwood, Hilda Fries, Alice Wedemeyer, Adrath Hutchinson, and Mary Snider. Dispensary Will Help Indiscreet Sunbathers Sunburned? Then go to the University dis pensary. With Old Sol doing his best yesterday afternoon, Dr. Fred N. Miller, University physician, and his staff of doctors and nurses made ready with the latest salves, oils and ointments for the rush of sunburned students they expect to day and Monday. Backs, arms, and legs that re ceived too much of the sun’s rays will be dealt with gently, Dr. Mil ler promised. “If students would only learn to take sun baths in small doses at first, they would save themselves and us needless (.rouble,” the University physician commented. Schnabel Sells Schnozzle’s Suit; Sure Some Stuff JJARK skies of depression cleared dramatically yester day for Ed Meserve, freshman In pre-law. Without a cent in his pocket in the morning. Frosh Ed last night had one whole dollar. The heart-rending story in yesterday’s Emerald of Ale serve’s failure to sell an old worn-out suit to a secondhand store came to the attention of Dan Schnabel, another fresh man in pre-law. Schnabel bargained with Schnoz/.le (that being Meserve's best-known nickname). The re sult: Schnabel sold Schnozzle’s suit at an “ol’ close” shop for $1.25, deducted 20 per cent commission, and turned $1 over to Meserve. Times are not so bad after all, Meserve says now. YWCA Waffles To Be Order of Day From Noon to Two Six Living Organizations To Be Scenes of Eating And Dancing A waffleing the campus will go! This afternoon from 12 to 2 p. m. the campus will indulge in its first waffle party. It has had doughnut dunking parties and dime crawls but now the syrup will pour as the University populus dis play their best sports apparel at six different living organizations on the campus. This luncheon, newly inaugurat ed on the campus, is sponsored by the upperclass commission of the Y. W. C. A. for the purpose of establishing a fund for sending girls, who are financially unable, to the northwest Y. W. C. A. sum mer camp at Seabeck, Washington. All houses on the campus have been contacted by the Y. W. com mission and have tickets for their members. Other students wishing to attend may secure tickets at the door of Alpha Chi, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi, Hen dricks hall, and the men’s dorm where the waffles can be secured and dancing will take place. Evelyn Kennedy, chairman of the feed, last night announced a list of house allotments to these (Continued on Page Three) McKenzie Group To Hold Meeting Thirty-five students will attend the annual McKenzie conference of the Westminster association which will be held this week-end at the Cedarwood tavern at the McKenzie bridge. The purpose of the conference will be to choose future officers for the coming year and to review the work of the past and coming years. A new council will also be elected. The cars that are to take the party will leave Westminster house at 1 o’clock Saturday and will re turn late Sunday. Older members of the party will include Rev. and Mrs. Fred Mor- | row from the Corvallis Westmin ster house, Rev. Milton S. Webber, 1 Dean Onthank and daughter and i Mr. and Mrs. Max Adams. Cecil Espy and Leslie Dunton will be in charge of recreation, j There will be no services at West- . minster house on Sunday. Ducks Defeat Oregon State Ball Club 10-7 Bill Reinhart Receives Birthday Gift Ken Seales Is Hero of Fray; Second Game Today on Home Field Ey BOB RIDDLE CORVALLIS, April 29.—(Spec ial)—It was Admiral Bill Rein hart’s birthday here today so his Admiral Reinhart walloping wen* foots went out and earned the right to keep such a monicker by slaughtering the offerings of j two Oregon State pitchers to all corners of the lot for a 10 to 7 win. Bill was highly elated and re minded the play ers that he will have another Dirmciay tomorrow when the Ducks play a return encounter with the Beavers on Reinhart field. Much of the credit for the win goes to Ken Scales who hurled a nice eight-hit game and knocked in six of the ten runs scored by the Webfeet. He doubled in the sixth with the bases full, scoring three tallies, singled again in the seventh inning for another marker, and brought in still another on a hard hit ball to second base in the final inning. All in all Reinhart’s crew con nected for 17 safe bingles during the nine inning affair, to eight for the Orangemn. They looked rath er bad during the first five frames, both at bat and in {he field, but came to life in the sixth to count four runs on a like number of hits and a pair of State errors. Beavers Tally First It looked at the start as though the contest was going to be a tightly contested affair, for both Scales and Woodard. Beaver left hander, hurled superb ball for the first two innings. Clarke’s single on the first ball pitched was the only hit obtained by the Orange during this time. This did not last long, however, for the big Beaver bats got going in the third when, with two out, they gathered three runs on two hits and two errors. Clarke walked on four pitched balls, stole second, and scored on Johnny Mack’s Texas leaguer back of second. Johnson, the next man up, then tripled to tally Mack from first. Jensen, right fielder, then laid one down in front of home plate, which Shaneman scooped up and tossed to Chester, but the (Continued on Page Two) Grounds Crew Laying Foundation at Villard The maintenance crew of the grounds department are placing a new foundation under the east en trance of Villard hall due to the rotten condition of the original timbers. According to George York, su perintendent of grounds, the ones being removed are the same ones placed there in 1887 when the building was constructed and have served their day. Other construction by this de partment includes the building of a number of new bleachers to ac commodate an additional 420 spec tators at the Canoe Fete to be held junior week-end. 'Beggar's Opera ’Presenta tion Promised Campus May 13-14 With Ken Roduner playing the part of Robin of Bagshott and as sisting with the organization and detail of the chorus work, and an all-star cast of students and fac ulty, the campus and townspeople are to be treated to one of the finest exhibitions of dramatic pro duction when “The Beggar’s Op era’’ is presented at the Music auditorium, May 13 and 14. The men’s chorus has been in rehearsal for over a month and the organization and work is prac tically in shape. They portray a band of cuttroats, led by their dauntless henchman, MacHeath, played by Gifford Nash, and pre sent stirring action and scenes, well spiced with comedy. Songs to be sung by the chorus include "The Drinking Song,” “Take the Road,” and other old roaring, rollicking English ballads which are presented with gusto, ripe humor, and broad lines. Professors Andrew Fish and Steve Smith, playing the parts of Jeremy Twiteher and Filch, re spectively, are to be especially watched for their expert comic manipulation of lines. Others included in the cast are: Clifford Constance, Bill Anderson as Ben Fudge, R. D. Horn as Nat Drearyr Vinton Hall, George Har rington, John Spittle, and Vic Bryant.