COMPLETE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXXIII_ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932 ~~_NUMBER 120
Unveiling Tops
List of Events
For Saturday
Painting of O To Open
Day’s Calendar •
Banquet, Water Carnival,
Lid Burning, Fete on
Schedule
SATURDAY’S EVENTS FOR
JUNIOR WEEK-END
8:00—Painting of the O on
Skinner’s butte.
9:00 Burning of frosh lids,
Kincaid field.
9:30—Frosh-soph tug of war
at railroad bridge below
Anchorage.
10:15—Water carnival, in Ca
noe Fete bleachers.
4-4 :15-Unveiling of “Pioneer
Mother” statue.
5:30-8—Banquet for mothers,
pioneers, students, Mc
Arthur court.
5:30-6—Gymnastic exhibition at
men’s gym for dads.
8:30—Canoe Fete.
With the unveiling by Barbara
Barker of the Pioneer Mother
statue, gift of Burt Brown Barker,
at 4 o’clock as the day's highlight
Junior Week-end will today enter
the second day of its round of
events.
The day’s program will start at 8
this morning with the painting of
the “O” on Skinner’s Eutte, com
ing to a glorious halt tonight at
the conclusion of the “Fete Vene
tian” on the mill race.
“From the ridiculous to the sub
lime” could well describe the day’s
program. Burly athletes will early
in the morning herd the Univer
sity's most promising frosh to the
top of Skinner’s butte and there
give the big concrete “O” a fresh
coat of paint by forcing the year
lings to slide down on breeches’
seat.
After a brief bit of ceremony
when frosh lids will be formally
and permanently discarded in the
bonfire on Kincaid field at 9
o'clock, sophomores and freshmen
both will repair to the railroad
bridge over the mill-race and re
sume hostilities in the annual tug
of-war, with a chill bath in store
for the losers. All these events are
under the direction of Ralph Wal
strom.
Spectators will gather at 10:15
cn the bleachers at the mill-race,
ready for Bob Needham's own
show, the water carnival. Thrills
and perhaps a few duckings are in
order during canoe races, when
frail crafts bearing the best canoe
ists of each campus living organi
zation will try to paddle their way
to victory, with silver cups as the
rewards. Swimming races, fancy
and comedy diving, water polo
and canoe tilting will bring the
show to a close at noon.
The afternoon will be largely de
voted to entertaining visiting moth
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Last Golf Match To
Be Played Sunday
The intramural golf champion
ship match between the Sigma Phi
Epsilon and the Sigma Chi squads
will be played tomorrow after
noon at the Eugene Country club
course, with the probable starting
time 2 p. m.
The struggle, which was orig
inally slated to be fought yester
day afternoon, was postponed be
cause of Junior Week-end activi
ties.
The Sigma Chi lineup will like
ly be composed of Ross Smith, Ken
Swan, Harry Weimer, and Bill
Gcodwin, while the SPE represen
tatives will be A1 Schmidt, Duane
Frisbie, Bob Anderson, and Fred
Davis.
Trial of Baker, Mann
To Begin Monday Night
PORTLAND, Ore., May 6—(AP)
-—Night court sessions will begin
here Monday in order to expedite
trial of the malfeasance and negli
gence case against Major George
L. Baker and four co-defendants.
Mayor Baker and City Commis
sioners John M. Mann and Earl Ri
ley are accused of agreeing to a
$200,000 overpayment for a munici
pal market site and Olaf Laur
gaard, city engineer, and C. Lee
Wilson were indicted as accessor
ies. Wilson was president of the
company which owned the market
site.
Junior Week-End Queen
—Kennell-Ellis Photo
Queen Dorothy II, who was crowned last night at the Junior
Prom as the ruler of Junior Week-end. With her four princesses she
reigned last night at the prom, and the royal family will again rule
at the Canoe Fete this evening. In real life the queens’ name is
Dorothy Hall.
Statue of 'Pioneer Mother’
To Be Unveiled at 4 Today
Barbara Barker, Daughter
Of Donor To Perform
Formal Ceremony
Oregon will pay tribute to the
pioneer mother today.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon, the
heroic bronze statue, the “Pio
neer Mother,” gift of Burt Brown
Barker, vice-president of the Uni
versity, will be unveiled. The
statue, a masterpiece by A. Phim
ister Proctor, who created the fig
ure of “The Pioneer” now on the
campus, has been placed in the
women’s quadrangle between Ger
linger, Hendricks, and Susan
Campbell halls.
Hundreds of Oregon mothers
--
visiting on the campus for Junior
Week-end, students, and pioneers
from all over the Northwest, are
expected to be present for the cere
mony.
Miss Barbara Barker, daughter
of the vice-president and grand
daughter of Oregon pioneers, will
unveil the statue. When she pulls
the cord of Oregon colors which
will fasten the covering about the
statue, four co-eds will be at each
corner of the monument to assist
in the unveiling. The women stu
dents, chosen by Miss Barker, are
Anne Kistner, Beth Ann Johnson;
Margaret Goodrich, who unveiled
“The Pioneer’’ statue here in 1919;
and Helen Templeton, great-grand
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Mez Wins Mention
In Ripley Contest
A freak of nature observed in
his travels in Europe won honor
able mention yesterday for Dr.
John R. Mez, associate professor
of economics, in the Ripley “Be
lieve It or Not” contest being con
ducted by the Eugene Morning
News.
“A certain year appears annu
ally on a mountainside,” Dr. Mez
labeled his entry. “This phenome
non is found on the side of the
mountain Hochgrat in the Bavar
ian Alps. It is near Oberstauferi
in Allgau, popular summer resort.
During March every year, when
the snow melts away, certain
patches of snow remain in the hol
lows of the mountainside, forming
the widely visible number, T927'.”
•Is It Confidence
Or 'Con* Game?
Asks Charley
Stabbed Again
In Paris they shot the presi
dent; in Washington they knifed
the public. Which is worse ?
Before a public meeting of I
the senate committee Secretary
Mills killed the tax bill, calling
j it an “atrocity and a disastrous J
j blow to public confidence.” In !
| an earlier secret meeting I'll j
! bet he used a different club,
j Over a hundred million peo
ple will now be squeezed to pro
tect the dead, the rich and the
| corporate. Every time you
write a check, fill the gas tank,
or see a 10-cent movie you’ll
pinch hit for a friend of the
administration. But the sancti
I ty of income and inheritance is
preserved.
The Associated Press calls it
a compromise; Webfoot Charley
calls it a sell-out. Take your
choice.
Obligingly,
WEBFOOT CHARLEY
Hoover Appeals
For Budget Action
WASHINGTON, May 6.—(AP)
—His words clipped sharply, Pres
ident Hoover appealed to the sov
ereign people this afternoon for
backing to get congress to balance
the budget “through immediate
passage of revenue measures and
reduction of government expendi
tures.”
“It is not a partisan issue,” he
declared, reading his statement to
correspondents clustered about his
desk.
Nor did he consider it a contro
versy between himself and con
gress. He saw it as an issue “of
the people against delays and de
structive legislation” which im
pairs the national credit; and fur
thermore as one between the peo
ple “and the locust swarm of lob
byists who haunt the halls of con
gress seeking selfish privilege.”
The brief statement is a fore
runner of others, for it became
certain today that he is determined
to carry to the people his insist
ence on quick budget balancing.
Junior Week-End
Will Close Quietly
A day of comparative rest wil!
mark the closing of Junior Week
end and the last day of the visiting
Mother’s day on the campus.
All Eugene churches are holding
special services tomorrow morn
ing for the campus visitors. Many
I living organizations have planned
1 to attend services in a group. The
I mothers will again be entertained
with specially prepared and ar
ranged dinner at all living organi
zations.
At 3 o’clock a concert will be
given by the University orchestra
and the Polyphonic choir at the
McArthur court. Although all pro
grams have heretofore designated
the concert to be held at the music
auditorium, it will be held at Mc
' Arthur court.
Cougars Down
Oregon Team
By 8to3 Count
Washington State Squad
Leads North Division
Webfoots Appear Ragged
Before Onslaught of
Sturdy Invaders
___!
Northern Division Standings
V*’. L. Pet. I
Washington State 5 1 .875 j
Washington . 3 1 .750
Oregon . 1 2 .333
Oregon State . 1 3 .250
Idaho . 0 3 .000
By DICK NEUBERGER
Except for Johnny Anderson's
pitching appearance in the ninth
inning and their own one-run out- !
burst in the sec
ond, Oregon’s
Webfoots did lit
tle to inspire con
fidence in their
followers yester
day. TMey per
'ormed distress
ingly in the outer
gardens and were
none too steady
in the infield as
W ashington
Buck Bailey
siaie s cougars nt on is.en scales
like a long-lost relative and
pounded out an 8-to-3 victory. Al
though he decidedly was not him
self, Scales was far from incom
petent yesterday. Given encour
aging support in the infield, he
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Senior Committee
To Assisi in Lid
Burning Ritual
Wilson Names 42 Men on
Traditions Group To
Report at 9
A special senior traditions com
mittee to officiate at today's frosh
lid burning ceremony was named
yesterday by Hobart Wilson, class
president. These men are asked
to report with necessary equip
ment to Kincaid field at 9 o’clock
this morning. The list is as fol
lows:
Bob Allen, Orville Bailey, Wal
lace Baker, Bill Barendrick, Allen
Bean, Ira Brown, A1 Browne, War
ren Cress, Willis Duniway, Wayne
Emmott, Walter Evans, Charles
Foster, Ferd Fletcher.
Thornton Gale, Glen Godfrey,
Jack Gregg, Bob Holmes, Joe
Hughes, Larry Jackson, Charles
Jones, Ken Jette.
Ivan Kafoury, George Kotchik,
Bob Larson, Henry Levoff, Barney
Miller, Bob Miller, Bob O'Melveny,
John Painton, John Penland, Wil
bur Preble, George Pratt.
Harry Schenk, Thornton Shaw,
Kelsey Slocum, Rex Sorenson,
Kermit Stevens, Jack Stipe, Joe
Stoll, Charles Stocklen, Dean Tut
tle, Dave Wilson.
All Order of O men are also ex
pected to be on hand for the cere
monies.
Mother’s Group
Photograph To Be
Taken Today at IO
JJON'T bo shy, little mother!
That big hlnek tiling on
three sticks is not a machine
Sun, and the man hiding under
the hlack cloth did not steal the
Lindbergh baby.
It will only be the photog
rapher trying to get a group
picture of the visiting Oregon
mothers for the special moth
ers' edition of the Emerald,
It is reported that every year
fewer and fewer mothers are
turning out for their group pic
ture. This year tile directorate
hopes to see every mother pres
ent, standing in her particular
place, beaming at the camera.
The photograph is scheduled
to be taken immediately after
the mass meeting this morning,
at 10:30 a. m.
Oregon Mothers
To Be Entertained
By Varied Events
Statue Unveiling, Banquet,
Fete Are Highlights
Of Program
A day full of thrills has been
planned for visiting mothers,
starting with the water events and
continuing through the mass meet
ing, luncheons, teas, statue unveil
ing, banquet, and canoe fete. Mar
ian Chapman, general chairman of
the Mother’s day committee, has
arranged a full day for the visi
tors.
Water sports will be held at the
Anchorage at 10:15 a. m., and the
mass meeting will follow immedi
ately at 10:30 a. m. in Guild the
atre hall. Luncheon will be served
in living organizations. All stu
dent residences will hold open
house today to the visiting pio
neers and mothers. Anyone may
enter any house at any time to
rest as long as they desire.
The tea in the afternoon will be
held at Hendricks hall from 2:30
until 4 p. m. Helen Raitanen,
heading this committee, has ap
pointed Adele Hitchman and
Rhoen York to assist with the de
tails.
The banquet in the evening will
be served at McArthur court at
5:30, following the unveiling of
the Pioneer Mother. Betty Anne
Macduff has arranged places for
1200. Tickets are on sale at the
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Sprained Ankle First
Accident of Week-End
One minor accident of Junior
Week-end was reported by the Uni
versity dispensary yesterday after
noon. Ladd Sherman, sophomore
in pre-law, suffered a badly turned
ankle while running after George
Pepelnjak, freshman in physical
education.
Bob Hall, president-elect of the
A. S. U. O., and Tom Ballantyne,
freshman, carried Sherman to the
dispensary, where an X-ray of the
injury showed that it was not se
rious.
'Fete Venetian’
Starts on Race
At8:30 Tonight
Ten Floats Entered in
Annual Canoe Fete
‘Venice Modern e’ To Bear
Queen and Princesses
To Royal Throne
Fete Venetian!
Tall campaniles with gilded
spires, an ornate corner of some
old doge's palace, weather-stained
mooring posts beside a picturesque
Venetian canal and then, through
curtains of cloth-of-gold, royal
barges, floating majestically down
stream . . .
That’s a picture of the 1932
Canoe Fete, as described by Hal
Short, whose committee will today
complete every detail of the fete
that they hope to make the most
beautiful in the history of the
event.
Ton floats will glide through the
curtains tonight into the view of
some 2500 spectators. First of all
will appear the float, ‘‘Venice
Moderne," a colorful barge blend
ing a modernistic treatment with
the mood of old Venice. It will
1 bear Queen Dorothy II, ruler of
the realm cf Junior Week-end, in
her robes of coronation.
Queen Dorothy will review the
procession from her throne high
above the bandstand, facing the
bleachers. Her four attendant
princesses will be grouped about
her.
The entries to date are un
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University Band
To Open Annual
Spring Concerts
First of Series Scheduled
Tomorrow at 8:00 P. M.,
Stehn Announces
The University concert band, un
der the direction of John Stehn
will open its annual spring term
outdoor concert series tomorrow
evening on the mill-race at 7 p. m.
These concerts are free to the pub
lic.
The first of these concerts
scheduled for last Sunday evening
was cancelled and will be given
this Sunday, accompanied by Phil
Moll, guest soloist from Portland.
Moll will play several numbers on
the vibra-harp.
The vibra-harp is rapidly find
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Mother’s Registration
List Has 250 Names
Only about 250 mothers had reg
istered at the booths last night
when they closed at 5 o’clock,
however they will be open from
9 o’clock this morning until 4 in
the afternoon so that mothers
coming late may register.
The cups, awarded to the men’s
and women’s houses having the
largest per cent of visiting moth
ers, will be given tonight just be
fore the canoe fete.
Oregon To Pay Tribute To Pioneer Mothers
The “Pioneer Mother,” gift to the University by Burt Brown Barker, vice-president, will be for
mally unveiled at 4 o’clock today. Barbara Barker, daughter of the donor, will perforin the ceremony.
The picture above shows the statue, which is the work of A. Phimister Proctor, noted sculptor.
In the inset is Elvira Brown Barker, the donor’s mother, to whom tlio statue is dedicated.
Awarded Cups
These two students were last
night named winners of the cups
awarded annually to the outstand
ing man and woman in the junior
class. Robert Hall (above), win
ner of the Koyl cup; and Iietty
Ann Macduff, winner of the Ger
linger cup.
Doumer Killed by
Russian Fanatic at
Paris Exhibition
President of France Lives
Twelve Honrs After
Shots Fired
By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY
(Associated Press Staff Correspondent)
PARIS, May 7. (Saturday) —
(AP)—-Paul Doumer, venerable
president of France, died at 4:40
a. m. today (7:40 p. m. Friday,
Pacific standard time) from two
bullet wounds inflicted by a
"White” Russian fanatic who shot
him down yesterday as he was at
tending a war veterans’ charity
exhibition. He was 75 years old.
The president lingered almost
exactly 12 hours. Seven physi
cians did their utmost to save him,
resorting to numerous blood trans
fusions and to the use of oxygen
to assist his failing heart.
When the end came the entire
French cabinet was assembled in
a room at Beaujon hospital ad
joining the one occupied by M.
Doumer. At the bedside were the
president’s wife, one of his daugh
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_
'Senate Produces
New Revenue Bill
WASHINGTON, May 6. (AP)
A brand new billion dollar reve
nue bill patterned to meet con
flicting views an' to balance the
budget today waa turned out of
| the senate finance committee's
whirligig.
Secretary Mills and the commit
tee got together and in the record
period of one hour rewrote the en
tire complete tax program, com
promising here and there to re
adjust a schedule of rates that had
been written and rewritten many
i times in two weeks of turbulent
I sessions.
Democratic and Republican lead
ers joined in supporting the meas
ure, which got informal approval
I also from the treasury head.
Income taxes were modified
from their high level of yesterday;
“punitive business taxes” wert
eliminated or changed; a dozer
"nuisance” taxes in the house bil
were killed; the July 1, 1934, limil
on the life of the new excise rates
I and postal increases was restored
Hall, Macduff
Awarded Koyl,
Gerlinger Cups
Two Juniors Receive
Merit Trophies
Sipma Hall- Kappa Alpha
Theta Receive Trophies
For Scholarship
Betty Anne Macduff.
Robert Hall.
The names of these two juniors
were inscribed last night on the
Gerlinger and Koyl cups, awarded
annually to the third-year students
judged the best all-around woman
and man in the class.
Presentation of the awards was
made during intermission at the
Junior Prom. Mrs. Hazel Pruts
man Schwering, dean of women,
awarded the Gerlinger cup, and
Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, pre
sented the Koyl trophy.
The Gerlinger cup, given by Mrs.
George T. Gerlinger of Portland,
a former regent of the University,
has been awarded each year since
918. The Koyl cup, gift of Charles
W. Koyl, graduate of the Univer
sity in the class of 1911, has been
presented annually since 1914.
Character, scholarship, service,
and interest in activities are the
bases for the awards to the out
standing junior man and woman.
The Burt Brown Barker scholar
ship trophies, given annually by
the vice-president of the Univer
sity to the men's and women's or
ganizations placing highest for the
year in scholarship, were presented
to Sigma hall and Kappa Alpha
Theta.
Weird Chinese gods of war
leered from each end of McArthur
court last night at the hundreds of
students who thronged the Igloo
for the Junior Prom, highlight of
the opening day of Junior Week
end. In a scene of Oriental beauty,
Queen Dorothy II (Dorothy Hall)
was crowned ruler of Junior Week
end by Bob Hall, junior class presi
dent. High above the dance floor,
Queen Dorothy sat enthroned, and
watched her subjects as they
danced to the music of Abbie
Green and his Midnite Sons. Mem
bers of her court, the Princesses
Frances, Maryellen, Freda and
Edith were with the queen.
Mothers visiting on the campus
were given special seats in a bal
cony section from which they could
see the dance floor.
Punch, 45 gallons of it, was
served from decorative pagodas at
each end of the court.
Sanford Platt was chairman for
the Prom: Howard Ragan, assist
ant; Charles Stryker, construction;
Marjorie Haas, patrons; Louise
Ansley, secretary; Phyllis Stokes,
programs; Jessie Steele, refresh
ments; Ed Wells, decorations; Ed
Smith, transportation; and Wally
Laurence, tickets.
Manchoukou Likened
To Early United States
CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, May
6. —(AP)—Henry Pu-Yi, erstwhile
boy emperor of China, in an ex
clusive interview today likened the
young state of Manchoukuo to the
United States in its infancy.
The last of the famous Man
chus, who so long bent China and
Manchuria »to their will, spent an
hour with the correspondent to
day detailing the hopes, aims, an
ticipations and accomplishments
of Manchoukuo.
The new state, he said, now
barely two months old, had met
all expectations to date, and in the
future would stress governmental,
monetary and educational reforms.
Ann Harding Files Suit
For Divorce in Reno
RENO, Nev., May 6.—(AP) —
Scarcely four hours after they had
greeted each other with an affec
tionate embrace, Ann Harding,
noted film star, filed suit here to
day to divorce Harry Bannister,
the husband she wants to free so
| he may pursue a career of his
, own.
Miss Harding’s complaint, which
was prepared after her arrival
. here this morning from Hollywood,
i charged cruelty. It gave no de
tails, except that she and Bannis
ter were married in New York
: City October 21, 1926.
The court was asked to approve
an agreement which arranges cus
| tody of the couple’s 4-year-old
j daughter Jane.