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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1932)
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Patrons and patronesses for the two dances were: Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mr. George An driene, and Louis Artau. * * * Hall Freshmen Give Tea Sunday Afternoon The freshman class at Susan Campbell hall honored their house mother, Miss Hilda Swenson, and Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, and Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed at an inform al tea given Sunday afternoon. Flowers decorated the rooms. Music was furnished by Edith Grim, Marie Neese, and Alice Holmbaek. Eleanor Wharton was in charge with Gladys Burns, Mar garet Veness, Valberg Anderson, and Catherine Angland assisting. * * * Kappa Alpha Theta Gives Informal Tea Honoring Mrs. Grace Russell, their chaperon, members of Kappa Alpha Theta entertained with an informal tea Friday afternoon at the chapter house. Hours were from 3:30 until 0 o’clock. Guests included faculty members of the campus, and chaperons of the other sororities. Mrs. Nelson Macduff poured. * * * Alpha Xi Delta Gives Alumnae Tea The Alpha Xi Delta alumnae are planning to give a tea next Friday, May 20, to honor the housemother of the active chapter, Mrs. Charles A. Gray. Campus sorority chaper ons and the Alpha Xi Delta moth ers are being invited. The tea will be given at the home of Mrs. Thomas S. Wells. * * * Zeta Tan Alpha Entertains Willi Formal Jieta Tau Alpha entertained with a formal dance at the Eugene ho tel last Friday evening. Tables were decorated with yellow rose buds; palms and yellow and rose flood lights decorated the room. Turquoise and silver programs car rying out the sorority colors were used, and Abbie Green’s orchestra furnished the nulsic. Patrons and patronesses were Mrs. JElizabeth Scaiefe, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Huntington, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Titus, and Mr. and Mrs. John Maxwell Adams. Elean or Jane Ballantyne was in charge of the dance. TODAY \ fiitolt Lombard ('HESTER MORRIS in “SINNERS IN THE SUN” A generation that flaunts Its love in the sunlight . . . where once youth made love in the dark. Fox News—Showing the Akron Tragedy! TODAY Return Engagement of “The Guardsman” with Lunt and Fontanne BgiUKi Exchange Dinners of This Week Kappa Kappa Gamma will enter tain Thursday with dessert and dancing for Alpha Tau Omega; Beta Theta Pi is being entertained this evening by Chi Omega; Alpha Gamma Delta will be entertained by Phi Kappa Psi Thursday with dinner and dancing, and Zeta Tau Alpha was entertained by Pi Kappa Alpha last Thursday evening. * * # Alpha Ganiniu Delta Tells Of Engagement Alpha Gamma Delta entertained for Sarah Jo Dammasch at Sun day dinner in the form of an an nouncement party. Miss Dammasch, a former major in art on this campus, announced her engagement to Max Carmen, Phi Sigma Kappa and a graduate in the school of business adminis tration, at dinner. Alpha Gamma Delta will enter tain tonight with dessert and danc ing for Phi Sigma Kappa. « * w Graduating Students To Be Honored The University Wesley founda tion will honor graduating stu dents with a senior banquet, to be given at 6:30 Friday evening in the First Methodist church. The affair is in charge of Jack Bellinger. The main address of the evening will be given by Charles G. How ard, professor of law at the Uni versity. Donald Saunders, presi dent of the Wesley club, will act as toastmaster. * * * * # * Ship Motif Is Used For Sport Dance Beta Phi Alpha entertained last Saturday night with a sport dance at the chapter house. The ship mo tif was used as decorations. The patrons included Mrs. Doane, the housemother, Mr. and Mrs. Warren D. Smith, Dean and Mrs. Wayne L. Morris, and Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Adams. * * * MisS Gilstrap Announces Engagement Tuesday The engagement of Miss Eliza beth Gilstrap to Eddie Walker wat announced at a special dinner last night at the Gamma Phi Beta house. Miss Gilstrap is a junior in tht University. Mr. Walker is a for mer student here and a membei of Phi Delta Theta. No definite date has been set for the wedding. * * * Kendricks Hall Gives All-Campus Tea Hendricks hall entertained Tues day afternoon with an informal all campus tea from 4 to 5:30. Fac ulty members of the military sci ence, physical education, householc science and the graduate schoo departments and their wives were special guests. Rose Himelstein was hostess, as sisted by Ivy Walkem. Mrs. Virgi Graduate Students Must File Blanks Before Saturday A IX graduate students must have application cards for degrees filed in the graduate office by next Saturday, May 21, it was announced yesterday by Clara L. Fitch, secretary of the graduate school. Failure to do so will prevent awarding of degrees, Mrs. Fitch said. (guild Production To Show Modern Influence in Sets One Performance Friday, May 20, Scheduled For Student Play "Gay Ninety” manners and set tings have been redecorated with the sophistication of the modern era in “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” Guild theatre production of Oscar Wilde’s popular comedy to be given Friday, May 20. Retting for the play will be dif ferent from any presented so far to the campus, George Andrieni, di rector promises. The new expres sionistic trend in stage decor will be carried out by using as few properties as possible. Black drapes take the place of walls and room furnishings are suggested to the audience through outlines rath er than details. Don Confrey is in charge of stage construction. Costumes and script have been modernized, likewise. Although written in 1892, the English comedy of manners still holds a popular place in collegiate dramatic revivals. This same play was produced by student players at the University of Washington last month. Only the one performance is scheduled by the Oregon players, Dorothy Clifford, business mana ger, announces. Ticket sales will begin Thursday, when the box of fice at Guild hall opens at 9:45. It will remain open until 5:15 both Thursday and Friday. All seats are to sell for 35 cents. Oregon Yeomen Name (Candidates for Office The Oregon Yeomen, independ ent men’s social organization, will elect officers for the coming year at a meeting Monday evening. Ethan Newman and Roger Pfaff have been nominated for the presi dency; and Theodore Pursley and Brittain Ash will vie for the secre taryship. A three-way race for the treasury position will be run by Rex Faust, Myron Pinkstaff, and Howard Ohmart. Next year's leaders of the group will succeed Merlin Blais, presi dent; George Bennett, vice-presi dent; Lloyd Greene, secretary; Ethan Newman, treasurer. DOCTORS EXAM SCHEDULED Perry E. Woods, graduate stu dent in romance languages, will take a doctor’s examination in Spanish and French, Saturday, May 21, in room 4 Oregon building. All examinations of candidates for Ph.D. are open to the public. Earl poured. Crystal Stewart, El drld Wold and Gwen LaBarre served. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY bigma Delta Chi Brings You Mary Brian of the press — bristling with ex citing dialogue pulsating w i t h the thrilling ad ventures of the headline hunters. "News - Coined* Sljjnm Delta C'hi Offers—8:45 On the Stage This candy—surprises! MAX TRIO Harmony—and harmony! Ta-Chi Blue Boys Snappy songs you'll like. Other acts too. PLUS OWL MATINEE AT 10:45—For those* who couldn’t get in last night—"Caught Plastered”—Conic* ut 9—See* both shows! Mimnaugh Dose Not Get Key, Not Even Phi Bete Insignia j By NICK CARTER (A Defective Detective; Probably you think Brian Mim naugh was given a key at the stu dent body assembly Thursday morning. You do, do you? What : do you know about it ? Who told you? Well, I have an announce ment to make. There was NOT a : key in that box Mimnaugh re ceived. Not even a Phi Beta Kap pa, nor a door key, nor even a r mon-key. There was nothing in there ex cept Mimnaugh’s cuff-links. Now, does that make you mad ? Up to a late hour last night no blame for this hoax had been placed at police headquarters, but Detective Carter is still on the job and ex pects to make an arrest in the im mediate future. (Detective Carter is me.) Here’s the situation, as Mim naugh described it when put to the third degree: He had to be giv en something and the key was not in hand. They tried every door <ey on the campus and none of hem fitted. Something had to be lone, so Mimnaugh hurriedly valked home and procured his cuff inks and placed them in the box. rhus he was given his own cuff inks as a momento of his term as student body president. Now the matter is to be brought before the grand jury and a de aand is to be made that Mimnaugh loes not need a key, even should .he key arrive from Yale, where it ' vas taken out of a lock. The case 1 .vill be prosecuted by Heza Le jree, representing the state. Mim laugh will be defended by Omar i Palmer, the poison-oak kid. When interviewed by reporters in his cell last night, the hand cuffed Mimnaugh.said, “Well, they .vas good cuff links, anyhow.” Al lhough no definite announcement (vas made, the case probably will be brought, up along about Janu ary, 1937. Common Action of Churches Commended by U.O. Pastor Brought about by the united ef forts of Roman Catholics, Jews and Protestants toward the solu tion of common problems, the next 25 years will see one of the most significant movements of the Christian era,” Max Adams, Uni versity pastor, stated yesterday. At a recent meeting on the U. C. L. A. campus which Rev. and Mrs. Adams attended, the leading members of each religious group and university administrators on the Pacific coast gathered to con sider their common problem of the function of religion in higher edu cation. The occasion of the gath ering was the dedication of the "University Religious Conference,” a building in which the activities of all Protestant denominations, Y. M. C. A., Roman Catholics and Jews on the campus center. Presiding at the dedication was Cecil B. DeMille, who produced "Ben Hur,” "King of Kings,” and “The Ten Commandments.” Point ing to the group of books which had been presented to the library by each of the groups represented as typical of their faith, Mr. De Mille commented that these books now lying side by side had in times past caused the bitterest of reli gious wars, and hailed the spirit which brought them together as the herald of a new day in the history of religion. "Of even greater significance, however, than a united approach to the problems of religion in higher education is the united ap proach which is now being made on outstanding social questions of the day,” Rev. Adams said. "The three religious bodies are increas ingly recognizing that their objec tive is one—the enrichment of hu man life in accordance with the divine will for men—and their common enemies are nationalism, war, economic injustice, profit mo tive, racial prejudice and the wholly materialistic philosophy of life. "However, it is not necessary that these three groups agree on the method of achieving this goal or dealing with the problems. Or ganic unity is impossible at the present time, even if desirable.” Startling Story Is Related by Curtis In Lindy Probe Newspapers, Film Company Named by Shipbuilder Iu Confession By FRANCIS A. JAMIESON (Associated Press Staff Writer) HOPEWELL, N. J., May 17.— j (AP)—A startling confession by John Hughes Curtis, the Norfolk, Va., "intermediary,” that he per petrated an "enormous deception” in the search for the slain son of j Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was made today to police. The 44-year-old boat builder sat down to a typewriter just before dawn and tapped out his own story of faking mysterious contacts with the supposed kidnapers of the child. The boats and all the people to whom Curtis has been referring were creations of his own mind, police were told by the manufac turer, who so captured the confi dence of Colonel Lindbergh that the latter was with him the night the child's body was found. "I honestly believe that for the last seven or eight months I have not been myself due to financial troubles,” Curtis said in his signed confession. "I was apparently brought back to my senses by my telephone con versation with my wife this after noon when she told me of the trou bles she was having and how the children missed me, also by my conversation with Inspector Harry Walsh." He declared representatives o: two newspapers, one of which hi named as the New York Herald Tribune and the other as the News and the Fox Film company ha< offered him money for his "knowl edge of the Lindbergh case or pie ture of the baby.” The New York Herald-Tribum denied it had made a definite offei j to Curtis. Officials of the Dailj News said an offer to buy Curtis story was made by Richard Lee o: | the newspaper staff. The offer they said, was made in the belie: ; Curtis' story was based on fact : The offer provided that Clirtii produce the child and allow new: photographers to take pictures a: j well as give the newspaper Curtis | own story of his negotiations. A federal official said tonight i would be possible to charge the Virginia shipbuilder with “defraud ing the government of its func tions.” Conviction would carry a maxi mum fine of $10,000 and a maxi mum prison sentence of two years. In Norfolk, Dean Dobson-Pea cock at first expressed surprise over the development, but later flatly denied Curtis’ statement that he (Dobson-Peacock) could Oregon Service Station llth and Hilyard THE STUDENTS’ STATION FOR GAS, OILS AND SERVICE Q [3 1! Always remember that we H are always glad to serve yon at anv time. llth and Hilyard 5aiaiaoisisjai3rsi3J3jaisj5U3iaj3iaiaiarai5!fi ^ i fiil Ir3 frO fr3 fr3 fnl fiO fHJ fS fi\] frO frO f?D frD frU [nj TO TO (73 fitJ frC fHJ fH! fa Tickets Go on Sale For Friday Night Guild Production rpiCKETS go on sale tomor row morning at 9:45 for “Lady ..Windermere’s ..Fan,” Guild theatre production to he presented Friday night, Doro they Clifford, business manager, announces. The box office in Guild hall will he open until 5:15 on Thurs day and Friday. All tickets will sell for 35 cents. ll lave prevented the deception of Colonel Lindbergh. But from a variety of other sources sprang statements indi cting the climax of the most bi :arre of the fantastic circum itances cloaking the whole case vas not unexpected. Governor A. Harry Moore had ‘felt all along that not much cre Jence should be placed in Curtis’ story”; the coast guard said the confession bore out conclusions Lhey reached because of discrep ancies in Curtis’ description of the boat used by the supposed kidnap ers and because a search by boat ind plane was futile; police in Norfolk said the confession coin cided with information uncovered there since the baby was found murdered. Police became suspicious, the governor related, because the notes Curtis used in telling his story were in manuscript rather than memorandum form. “It did not seem possible,” said Moore, “that a person making hasty notes, as would be expected, would be so careful in writing them. He would make quick notes. That made police suspicious.” The governor said he did not know under what charge Curtis could be held. In response to in quiries Colonel Schwarzkopf an nounced Curtis has not yet beer placed under arrest. As possible charges, the gover nor suggested seeking to obtair money under false pretenses oi “hampering the ends of justice.” FOR CONGRESS W. C. HAWLEY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Born and raised in Oregon, with “No Interests to Serve but the Public Interests.”—Hawley. Ranking Republican on Committee on Ways and Means, Chairmar Republican Caucus of House, etc Has obtained more than $50,000, 000 for Public Improvements ir District, and much Beneficial Leg islation for Farmers, Veterans anc others. HE IS CLEAN, CAPABLE, EX PERIENCED, FAITHFUL, SUC CESSFUL. Read his Record of Successfu Service in Voter's Pamphlet. (Paid Advertisement by Ronald C Glover) Bring your RADIO or ELECTRICAL Troubles to DOTSON’S RADIO SERVICE Phone 1824 — lltli and Oak GOLF TODAY AT OAKWAY Drive out and enjoy a round of *rolf on our beautiful nine hole course. gki;kx fairways and velvet greens I3J3ISI3JS®3I3JSJSI2ElBEi3J3I3ISi3ji? I ffD frQfrJffO ra f?D frO f rD f ► TALKIE TOPICS i -CHRONICLING-— WHAT’S HERE AND WHAT’S COMING i WHAT AND WHERE McDonald — “Sinners in the Sun,” Carole Lombard, Ches ter Morris. First nighter. Colonial — “The Front Page,” Pat O’Brien, Adolph Menjou, Mae Clark, Mary Brian. First nighter. Rex —“The Guardsman,” Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne. First nighter. Another Blonde Mrs. William Powell, whom you all know as Carole Lombard, plays the part of a young lady who mar j ries a wealthy man in order to get things the other wealthy girls have. Heard it before ? Chester Morris is the man, poor ! but honest, who gets left. But he comes across with a marriage i too. Which makes it quite mixed j up. Then they have to extricate ; themselves. That makes “Sinners in the Sun.” * * * See This! It’s “The Front Page” and is j being sponsored by Sigma Delta ; Chi, national journalism frater i nity. It was one of the crack | pictures of last year and was also very popular as a play. There is plenty of fast action, and some humor bordering on pro j priety, as usual in a Howard Hughes film. The story centers around a man aging editor who gets the news ; no matter what happens to the rest of the world. He even uses ! a questionable means to keep his star reporter, played energetically by Pat O’Brien. Excellent work by the whole Miriam Hopkins and William Collier Jr. in “Dancers in the Dark” at the McDonald Friday only. cast, including Mae Clark and George E. Stone. Guaranteed en tertainment. * * * Sophistication rears its head again in “The Guardsman’’ at the Hex. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon tanne, a pair of the most popular stage people on Broadway, make a screen debut in this one. They don’t seem to be making another picture, so grab your chance to see this one. Story about a husband who goes about making love to his wife in a dis guise, and he gets her, too. The reverse of Cecil B. DeMille’s “Madam Satan.” Smart stuff. V Breakfast these days means toasted Williams Bread and coffee. Do you know that 36 out of 38 houses on the campus serve Wil liams Milk Maid Bread? ’S’ fact! Reason why ? Cooks and house managers know that Williams Brestd makes keen toast. They know it has plenty of nutrition per square inch. 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