VOLUME XXXIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932
NUMBER 124
Forum Opposes
Hall-Kerr Boom
For Chancellor
Parliament Objects to
U. O.-O. S. C. Merger
Students Pass Resolutions,
And Urge Aetive Work
During Summer
By JULIAN PRESCOTT
Opposition to the appointment of
either Dr. A. B. Hall or Dr. W. J.
Kerr as chancellor of the institu
tion to be formed by the state
board of higher education and to
consolidation of the University and
college at Corvallis was expressed
by the student parliament in its
first meeting in Guild hall last
night.
The student representatives ob
jected to the appointment of the
University or college head on the
grounds that both men have taken
part in in inter-school rivalry and
that the naming of either would
be an injustice to the school of the
other. The resolution was unani
mously adopted.
In its resolution directed to the
board, the parliament asks that
representatives of the undergrad
uates be heard on matters affect
ing student life. A clause con
demning the action of Oregon
State alumni in supporting Dr.
Kerr was stricken from the reso
lution.
Students Oppose Measures
Initiative measures to be placed
on the November ballot to consoli
date the college and the Univer
sity at Corvallis will be actively
opposed by the students, in accord
ance with another resolution adopt
ed. It was urged that students
work in their home communities
this summer to defeat the measure
in the election.
The parliament determined to
work toward the end of securing
constitutional legislative power
within the next school year. A re
quest was addressed to the execu
tive council asking that 'materials
for conducting its business be sup
plied by the A. S. U. O.
Bob Hall, student body president,
expressed the belief that working
to the end of legislative power is a
good move, adding that “we can’t
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several Scholarships
For Pianists Announced
Several scholarships for pianists
are to be awarded allowing them
the privilege of attending the Sum
mer Colony for Pianists at the
University of Oregon in Seattle,
August 9 to 27, it was announced
yesterday.
The scholarships are sponsored
by the Stojowski Students’ asso
ciation, national music organiza
tion. Scholarships will be awarded
by tryouts to be held at Meany
hall in Seattle on August 9.
The requirements for the compe
tition are that the applicant must
be under 30 years, must be a pian
ist of advanced standing, and must
show need for financial assistance.
'Laivd’ Proves To Be Kindly
Gentleman, Reporter Finds
By JACK BELLINGER
“Good afternoon, Lawd.”
Backstage with “de Lawd,”
Richard B. Harrison, who takes
the part of God in “The Green Pas
tures,” now playing in Portland, I
found myself in the presence of the
kindest, most gracious gentleman
that I had ever seen.
I had expected him to be hurried
and extremely busy, with no time
for a young reporter. I started to
bid him good-bye a few minutes af
ter I met him, but he bade me
stay longer. I stayed and we
talked of many things—of common
events, of heavenly mysteries.
College groups are the favorite
audiences of this actor, the son of
refugee slaves who fled to Can
ada.
“I get more fun out of reading
‘The Green Pastures' and negro
poetry to college audiences than
they possibly can get out of lis
tening to me,” he said modestly.
“I love to put over humor to col
lege students because they always
appreciate it better than any other
people. Of course, ‘The Green Pas
tures' has never been given before
an exclusive college audience, but
I have read excerpts and interpret
ed the play before students at
Northwestern, Chicago, and many
other universities and colleges.”
Do you still receive an emotion
al experience from playing the part
of God?” I asked.
“Each performance is the first
performance for me. The play still
holds its same emotional appeal,
although I have played the part
930 times.”
“Is ‘The Green Pastures’ charac
teristic of the negro people and
their religion?”
“Yes, it is genuine. The spirit
uals help, of course. They are com
pletely our songs. The play seems
to reach down to the emotional
depths of the negro’s life.”
“How do you like Oregon’s cli
mate ?”
“It’s glorious. Almost a step
ping-stone to Heaven.”
Stanleigh Morrell, a young negro
of fine manners and excellent
dress, introduced me to “de Lawd”
and also to Alonzo Fenderson, who
plays Moses; Tutt Whitney, who
plays Noah, and other members of
the cast.
Harrison, who was 66 when he
made his stage debut in “The
Green Pastures” is a man who
knows life, having had ample op
portunity to study it at first hand
: when in his youth he earned his
j living in such occupations as were
open to the members of his race—
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Opera Queen!
Sally Addleman, soprano, who
has an important role in the “Beg
gar’s Opera’’ which opens tonight
at 8:15 at the music auditorium.
Grace Burnett and “Buck” Nash
play the leads.
Bush, Schweiker
Head Line-ups in
Junior Class Race
6 Running on Two Tickets
In Third Year
Politics
Two tickets appeared on the ho
rizon of class politics last night
when Neal Bush and Ed Schweiker
announced lineups for the contest
to decide who will lead next year’s
junior class. Aspirants in the
other classes are expected to ap
pear soon.
Candidates for the position of
vice-president of the juniors are
Evelyn Kennedy and Maxine Reed.
Virginia Hartje and Nancy Suo
mela are running for the secreta
rial job. Aspirants for treasurer
are Les Dunton and Julius Rehal.
While the Bush supporters were
meeting last night to complete
their campaign plans, the Schwei
ker group was showing no con
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Aeroplane Gives Thrills
To Air-Minded Students
Air-minded students got a new
thrill last night in the Aeroplane,
training ship for would-be airplane
pilots set up on the corner of 13th
and Alder by Russell Eyerly of the
Eyerly Aircraft corporation, Sa- j
lem.
The Aeroplane, invention of Lee
Eyerly, noted pilot, is a device able
to do everything the regulation
airplane can do but take off or i
land. It is a 10-foot fuselage,
mounted on a steel frame, and
equipped with regulation stick and
rudder controls. A 15-horsepower
electric motor drives the propellor
on the training ship, and the rush
of air back from the propellor acts
on aerilons and rudder to loop,
roll, spin, and twist the Aeroplane
1 in all directions.
Webfoots Take
Game at Last;
Triumph in 9th
Last Inning Outbreak
Decisive, 6 to 5
! Slianeman and Stevens Get
Homers; Vandals Doubt
Umpire’s Decision
SCOUTS PROGRAM FOR THE
WEEK-END
Football
Tonight—Marines vs. Dough
boys at Hayward field (8 p. m.).
Baseball
Tomorrow—Oregon Freshmen
vs. O. S. Rooks at Reinhart
field (10 a. m.).
Track
Tomorrow—Oregon vs. Wash
ington at Hayward field (2
p. m.).
By DICK NEUBERGER
The Oregon Webfoots saved
themselves the ignominy of tum
bling into the basement of the
Rich Fox
northern division
yesterday when
they pulled them
selves together in
the ninth inning
and defeated
those trouble
some Idaho Van
dals, 6 to 5. Af
ter trading runs
for eight cantos,
the Oregon youths
shoved across the
winning score af
ter only one was out. Mimnaugh !
opened the last inning by flying to
left field, but Londahl followed
him with a clean single over third.
Shaneman was up next and he,
too, socked a one-bagger into left.
Londahl rounded second on the
gallop and kept going for third.
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Oregon andOSC
Combine Talked
Of Back in 1909
A ray of sunlight broke through
the clouds of consolidation and
elimination of courses yesterday
when a member of the first board
of higher curricula visited the cam
pus.
Back in 1909 the taxpayers
raised a howl about the excessive
costs of supporting two institu
tions, according to this board mem
ber. The governor appointed a
board to study the situation and
to make plans for combining the
University of Oregon and the then
Oregon Agricultural college.
The visitor was A. W. Prescott
of Mobile, Ala., who was on his way
to his former home in Salem, Ore.
He left Oregon for Washington, D.
C., shortly after appointment.
"As I recall the first board did
not do much,” Mr. Prescott said.
A check of the minutes of the
first and second meetings, copies
of which are on file in the presi
dent’s office, showed that he was
correct. They follow:
“First meeting. April 5, 1909. No
action this year eliminating sub
jects or branches.
“Second meeting. April 14, 1909.
Adjourned meeting. Discussion
only.”
Nazi Turbulence
Closes Reichstag
BERLIN, May 12—(AP)—Ger
many’s political turbulence was
raised to new heights today by a
disorderly session of the Reich
stag, in which Adolf Hitler’s Na
tional Socialists came off second
best and by a successful Nazi as
sault on the Bruening cabinet.
The Reichstag was suddenly ad
journed by Speaker Paul Loebe
after a hurried investigation had
established that four Nazi mem
bers had mauled a Social Demo
crat newspaperman in a lobby.
The sudden ending of the ses
sion so astonished the Hitlerites
they didn’t know what to do. They
herded in corridors where there
were scenes of the utmost dis
order.
The Hitlerite success was the
ousting of General Wilhelm Groe
ner from the post of minister of
defense. He has been a marked
man, so far as the Nazis were con
cerned, ever since he dissolved I
Hitler’s storm troops.
Opera Season Opens Tonight
In Music Auditorium at 8:15
Grace Burnett, Buck Nash
Have Leading Roles in
Musical Play
There may not be any limousines
filled with gorgeously gowned wo
men drawing up before the music
auditorium tonight at 8:15, but the
University of Oregon opera season
will open with all the campus
splendor available when the cur
tain goes up for the "Beggar’s
Opera.”
Everything was quiet and ready
on the operatic front at a late hour
last night, according to Steve
Smith, production manager. After
a dress rehearsal Wednesday eve
ning, the large cast, both students
and faculty, sought the hay early
last night in preparation for the
strain of staging three shows Fri
day and Saturday.
Tickets are going fast for the
“first-night” crowd which will fill
the “dress circle” this evening. The
pasteboards will be on sale at the
Co-op all today and tomorrow, but
tickets will also be on sale at the
box office before each show. To
secure good seats, it would be wise
to purchase at the Co-op well in
advance of curtain time.
“The Beggar's Opera" is one of
the oldest extant, but age doesn’t
make it infirm. The cast, headed
by “Buck” Nash and Grace Bur
nett, have been framed by Smith
and Madame Rose McGrew to put
all the zest, gaiety, and rollicking
spirit into the work that John Gay
wrote into it more than 200 years
ago.
"Merrie England” will live again
tonight. It’s not grand opera, but
it is great opera, with lots of mu
sic in the action, and plenty of
action in the music.
University Band
To Give Outdoor
Concert Sunday
W. F. Gilstrap, Local Tuba
Player, To Appear as
Guest Soloist
The second of the University
band outdoor concerts will be
given on the mill-race this Sunday
evening, May 15 at 7 p. m. The
first of these annual spring pro
grams was given last Sunday.
These concerts are free to students
and the public.
The guest soloist appearing with
the band this Sunday is W. F. Gil
strap, first-chair tuba player of
the Eugene Municipal band, who
will be accompanied by the band
in several numbers. Phil Moll of
Siberling-Lucas Music company in
Portland appeared as the guest so
loist with the band last Sunday
and gave a number of .favorite se
lections on the Vibra-harp.
John Stehn, director of the band,
has arranged a varied program of
six numbers which includes the
overtures to “Orpheus in the Un
derworld,” and the well known
“William Tell” overture together
with compositions from Victor
Herbert, Allen Macbeth, Louis
Ganne, and Baseler. This marks
the third year the concerts have
been given.
Foster Showing
Course Locations |
Issued by Board
Data on Higher Education
Furnished for Benefit
Of High Schools
A poster for the information of
high school students was issued
yesterday by the state board of
higher education, definitely out
lining the future curricula for the
six units of Oregon’s system of
higher education. The outline sep
arated the units into three divis
ions—degree granting schools, low
er division training, and prepara
tion for teaching.
Seven degree granting schools
are to be located on the Eugene
campus and six at Corvallis.
At Oregon State college will be
the schools of: agriculture, engin
eering and mechanical arts; for
estry, home economics, pharmacy,
and science.
The degree granting schools here
will be: business administration,
fine arts, journalism, law, litera
ture, languages and arts, physical
education, and social sciences.
The school of medicine will be
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Law School Association
To Elect New Officers
Members of the law school stu
dent body will hold an important
business meeting Saturday morn
ing at 9 o’clock, when they will
elect officers for the coming school
year. Nominees for the election
were made known last night by
Sam Van Vactor, president of the
law school association.
Preston Gunther, Robert Leedy,
and Francis Cheney are the three
men listed for the office of presi
dent, with Virginia Roulstone,
Otto Bowman, and Francis Hill
nominated for the position of sec
retary. Candidates for treasurer
are John Long and Karl Huston.
The nominating committee was
composed of Delmas Richmond,
Edward Riehl, Otto Frohnmayer,
and Thomas Hawthorne.
Hoover Opens Big
Drive for National
Relief Program
Robinson's Two Billion
Bond Issue Proposal
Basis for New Plan
(Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Tress)
WASHINGTON, May 12.—(AP)
—A titanic compromise federal
relief program was tentatively
agreed upon today by President
Hoover, congressional leaders of
both parties and government fi
nance experts.
It involved doubling the borrow
ing power of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, to a total of
$3,000,000,000 with the additional
$1,500,000,000 to be used for loans
to states for unemployment relief
and to promote public and private
construction.
The two billion dollar bond issue
advocated by Senator Robinson, of
Arkansas, the Democratic leader,
was used as the basis for the com
promise on the greatest peace
time emergency relief project in
the nation’s history.
The agreement came out of a
conference between President Hoo
ver and Senator Robinson, who
only yesterday advanced his bond
issue idea in the senate.
Developments were quick and
fast. Before calling in Robinson,
the president consulted with Sen
ator Watson of Indiana, the ma
jority chieftain, on the relief prob
lem which it was agreed must be
met by the government
After the Robinson parley, the
president summoned officers of
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration.
The program contemplates loans
to states up to a total of $300,
000,000, the money to be used ex
clusively for relief purposes. The
remainder of the new emergency
fund would be employed to make
secured loans to assist private and
public construction.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, with a capital of $500,
000,000, appropriated by congress,
has the power now to issue de
bentures up to $1,500,000,000. This
borrowing capacity would be dou
bled.
How Many Kids’ll
Follow Lindy’s?
Demands Charley
Shull We Let ’Em Die?
Lindbergh’s baby is dead.
But a million more American
babies may die if the senate
stands pat on an unnoticed com
mittee report made yesterday.
So I think the latest flash on
the World Court is bigger news
than the dead baby.
The “irreconci 1 a b 1 e s ” gave
war another boost by blocking
our entrance to the court. The
senators say it’s OK for us to
join if the rest of the world will
let us run—-or ruin—the court
to suit ourselves.
“We're a great bunch of join
ers; we’ll hook up with every
thing from the Anti-Spltoon
League to the Yodlers Amity
Society, but when it comes to i
joining 54 nations in the Perma
nent Court of International Jus
tice for peaceful settlement of j
disputes we let a bunch of poli- j
ticians blindfold and blackjack
us.‘
Disgustedly,
WEBFOOT CHARLEY.
Oregon State
Alumnus Flays
U of 0 Charges
Turmoil Over Roosting
Kerr for Chancellor
Responsibility for Chaotic
Conditions Charged to
University Alums
CORVALLIS, Ore., May 12.—
(AP)—In a letter to C. L. Starr,
chairman of the state board of
higher education, Edward C. All
worth, secretary of the Oregon
State Alumni association, today
replied to a letter written earlier
in the week to the board by Alex
ander G. Brown, secretary of the
University of Oregon Alumni as
sociation, in which he discussed
the support of State college alumni
of Dr. W. J. Kerr, president of the
college, for the position of chan
cellor of higher education.
Allworth declared Brown’s state
ment that the University alumni
apparently were being forced into
open competition over selection of
a chancellor was incorrect. He
added that the State college alum
ni support of Dr. Kerr would
continue and that all the associa
tion wished to do was to call the
board’s attention to Dr. Kerr’s
qualifications.
The letter says:
"At this time we state that we
lay squarely upon the shoulders
of a small group of the University
alumni and a small group within
the faculty the responsibility for
the chaotic condition which has
existed in higher education in Ore
gon for some years past and which
continues to exist.
"The leaders among the organ
ized alumni of Oregon State col
lege are fully aware of the inten
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Failing-Beekman
Oratory Contest
Plans Announced
Only Senior Men, Women
Eligible for Event
On June 10
The Failing-Beekman contest for
senior orators will open soon, ac
cording to an announcement made
recently by the speech division. All
senior men and women are eligi
ble.
“Senior” is taken to mean per
sons who will be within nine hours
of graduation at the end of the
spring term, or have 177 hours
credit and have fulfilled all re
quirements to the point of being
able to graduate by the end of the
six weeks summer session.
Contestants must be signed up
at the speech division by Wednes
day, May 25. Orations must be
limited to 1500 words—a ruling
which will be strictly followed and
enforced.
Subjects are entirely up to the
speaker, must be original, and must
not contain more than 10 per cent
quoted material.
According to present plans, the
finals of the contest will be held
Friday evening, June 10, in the
music auditorium, and will be lim
ited to six contestants. If over six
enter, elimination contests will
take place on or before Monday,
June 6. Persons interested may re
ceive information at the speech
division in Friendly hall.
Hibernia Bank With New
Organization To Reopen
PORTLAND, Ore., May 12._
The Hibernia bank, a newly or
ganized institution, will open for
business here Monday. John F.
Daly, chairman of the board of
directors, said today.
The Hibernia bank is an out
growth of the Hibernia Commer
cial and Savings bank, which
closed here several months ago.
Upon application of the depositors
and officers of the old organiza
tion, Circuit Judge Jacob Kanzler
today signed an order authorizing
the transfer of 70 per cent of the
assets and deposits of the closed
institution to the new bank.
Daly said capitalization of the
new bank will be $500,000, which
was obtained as a loan from the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion, and deposits will amount to
approximately $4,000,000, repre
senting both commercial and sav
ings accounts.
Murdered
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.,
son of the famous flying colonel,
was murdered, it was proved late
yesterday when the child’s body
w'as found. The entire world is
shocked at the boy’s tragic fate.
Two poses of little Lindy are
shown above.
Bob Hall Receives
President’s Gavel
At UO Assembly
Student Body Debt Pared
$110,000, Ex-President
Reveals in Talk
Bob Hall yesterday received the
gavel of president of the Associ
ated Students of the University
of Oregon from Brian Mimnaugh
at an assembly in Gerlinger hall.
The oath of office was adminis
tered to all the newly elected of
ficers.
In his farewell talk, Mimnaugh
pointed out that in the past two
years the debt of the student body
has been reduced from $220,000 to
$110,000. He believes that if the
present rigid economy program of
the executive council is main
tained that the debt can be cut
$25,000 to $30,000 a year. The
last two years are the only ones
in the past seven that the Asso
ciated Students have shown a
profit on their activities, it was
pointed out.
Since practically all of the in
come of the Associated Students
is from public presentations and
since it is impossible to predict
how the people will support these
presentations, it is planned to keep
expenditures at a minimum, it was
pointed out by Hall in his accept
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Blows on Head
Cause of Death
To Lindy’s Son
Positive Identification Is
Made by Nursemaid
Characteristic Marks an
Body and Fragments of
Clothing Evidence
HIGHLIGHTS OF CASE
1. Autopsy shows baby's
death due to violence.
2. Nursemaid definitely iden
tifies body.
3. Police announce group of
persons believed to be kidnapers
are under suspicion.
4. Colonel Lindbergh return
ing to Hopewell from Virginia.
BULLETIN
TRENTON, N. J., May 12.—
(AP)—Two tremendous blows
on the head ended the life of
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the
official autopsy by Dr. Charles
A. Mitchell, county physician,
disclosed tonight.
BULLETIN
TRENTON, N. J., May 12.—
(AP)—Betty Gow, nursemaid to
the kidnaped Charles Augustus
Lindbergh Jr., tonight identified
the body found in the woods not
far from Hopewell as that of the
famous child.
She made the identification by
“characteristic marks” on the
body and by fragments of cloth
ing.
Miss Gow’s identification con
firmed Dr. Charles H. Mitchell,
county physician, in his definite
conclusion the body was that of
the Lindbergh baby.
By FRANCIS A. JAMIESON
<Associated Press Staff Correspondent)
(Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press)
HOPEWELL, N. J„ May 12.—
(AP)—The kidnaped Lindbergh
baby, identified by fragments of
his garments, was found dead to
day.
A scant five miles from the
Sourland mountain estate of Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh and
within 75 feet of emergency tele
phone lines employed in an unpar
alleled search the body was dis
covered in a wooded area partly
concealed by leaves and dirt.
The discovery was made by the
occupants of a transfer truck on
a country crossroads just 72 days
after the world's most celebrated
infant was spirited away from his
home.
The skull bore a hole the size
of a 25-cent piece above the fore
head.
An attempt had been made to
bury the body. A coroner said
death was due to a compound frac
ture of the skull.
Three hours before (about 2:15
p. m.) a truck bearing four men
had stopped on a steep grade be
tween Hopewell and the hamlet of
Mount Rose. The vehicle halted
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Barnes Gives Amusing Talk
On Beggar's Opera’ Period
By DAVE WILSON |
"The speaker of the evening is
not a candidate for chancellor,”
said Steve Smith in introducing
Donald Barnes to a large audience
in Villard hall last night. "His
interest in political machinations
is purely historical.”
But Donald Barnes has the
happy knack of making a "purely I
historical interest” very interest-j
ing to others. His lecture on "Pol
itics, Politicians, and Statesmen at
the Time of the 'Beggar’s Opera’ ”
was alive, from start to finish. It
included a great deal of material
which is the product of Dr. Barnes’
own research, and presented the
better known features of the 1720
30 history of British government
in breezy and refreshing style.
The career of Horace Walpole,
and its relation to the passage of
power from king to parliament
was the serious theme which the
speaker played upon with amusing
digressions and variations.
The audience was kept in con
stant good humor by the lecturer's
witty digressions, most of which
consisted of references to the va
rious personalities of the time. A
catalogue of the outstanding char
acter sketches outlined by Barnes
follows:
George I: "He looked upon Eng
land as a milch cow. He had no
real desire to leave Hanover, where
the system of government, cli
mate, beer, food and women were,
in his opinion, all superior to those
of England."
Duke of Newcastle: "All that
the satirist does for other men,
Nature had done for him. He was
a living, moving, talking carica
ture.’’
Pelham: “He was nauseated by
Walpole’s week-end parties, of
which Lady Montagu said the
time was spent taking the nega
tives out of the Ten Command
ments and putting them in the
Apostle’s Creed.”
Lord Carteret: “One of the most
charming conversationalists and
heaviest drinkers of the era.”
Lord Chesterfield: “His fame to
day rests on his letters to his son,
his treatment of and by Dr. Jon
son, and the admittedly satisfying
cigarettes which bear his name.”
George II: "If his reputation as
a king had not demanded a harem,
he would have probably preferred
to do without one.”
Queen Caroline: "In the Queen,
Walpole found a rival for coarse
language and salacious stories.”
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