Weather * - Oregon: Unsettled with rair.s Thursday and Friday, snows over mountains: moderate temperature; fresh southwest wind off the coast. Fashion Show The latest thing tor the co-ed is on display this afternoon at 4 o'clock a* the A.W.S. mass meet ing and, fashion 3how at Gerlinger. VOLUME XXXIV UNIVRSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. THURSDAY. NOVEMEER 1, 1934 NUMBER 21 Resume of Today’s News By Associated Press - OCTOBER 30 -— PACIFIC FLIGHT SET HONOLULU, Oct. 31.— (API After a 30-minute test flight Sii Charles Kingsford - Smith an nounced late today he would take flight for Oakland, Cal., about mid day Thursday. Weather predictions for Honolulu and Oakland were favorable. He and Captain P. G. Taylor, his co-pilot and navigator, are await ing only good weather conditions before resuming their 7365-mile flight from Brisbane, Australia, to Oakland, after halts at Suva and Honolulu. ASK INQUIRY INTO THREATS LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31.— (AP) i—David Sokil, an attorney, today delivered a request to the district attorney’s office on stationery headed “Law Enforcement Com mittee of the County Central Com fittee of the Democratic Party’’ asking a grand jury investigation of alleged threats that studio em ployees “would be dismissed if they voted for Upton Sinclair.” TWO SMUGGLERS KILLED EL PASO, Oct. 31. — (AP) — Two men described as veteran smugglers and identified by offi cers as Manuel Patino, 32, and Tomas Popez, 34, were killed today by border patrolmen. An inquest found the men “died while resisting arrest” after they had safely crossed the Kio Grande with contraband liquor. MAYOR CANDIDATE DIES KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 31.— (AP)—Marion Hanks, 55, city councilman and candidate for mayor, died late this afternoon from a stroke suffered in a service station. With Hanks dead the mayoral ity race narrowed to three-mayors, Fred Willis E. Mahoney, Nelson Reed, and Fred Duke. NEW OIL FOUND CHEAPER PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.— (AP)—A new method of making motor oils by “washing” crude pe troleum, with predictions of sav ings to motorists, was announced today by the Socony-Vacuum Oil company. This is the first announcement of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of petroleum, which has been under way quietly more than a year in the laboratories of several of the foremost American oil companies. BRITISH ARM SPLAN PROBE LONDON, Oct. 31.—(AP)—The British government has decided to establish an inquiry into the pri vate manufacture and sale of war materials, it was stated in politi cal quarters tonight. Official con firmation, however, was lacking for the present. MAY BE TWO POLICE CHIEFS PORTLAND, Oct. 31.—(API — Will the Portland police depart ment be under a lame duck chief during November ? Effective tomorrow there will be an acting chief and the chief him self. Colonel B. K. Lawson, who will retire as chief of police December 1, tonight declared he would con tinue to give orders as he saw fit until he was ordered out. Tomorrow Police Captain Harry Niles will become acting chief at 9 a. m. under an order by Mayor Joseph Carson. However, there was no doubt as to how much au thority he would have. He will be come chief December 1. Thomas Must Receive Float Expense Budget By Six o'Clock Today JJUDGETS of expenditures in construction of Homecoming rally parade floats must be turned in to Don Thomas, chair man, today before 6 o’clock. The limit of the expenditure is S10 for each house and $20 for the team. Penalty for not turning in budgets today will be disqualification in the contest. Kerr Attacks Proposed Tax Limitation Bill Chancellor Points Out Evils of Measure j Schools to Suffer i - Convocation of Students, Faculty. Others Hear Talk at Corvallis CORVALLIS, Oct. 31.— (API — Chancellor W. J. Kerr today called attention to what he termed grave dangers to education and other governmental functions should the 20-mill tax limitation measure car ry next week. Following the lead of members of the state board of higher edu cation, Oregon’s chancellor of higher education sounded his warn ing at a convocation meeting of students, faculty members and townspeople on the Oregon State ’ college campus. l Dr. Kerr analyzed the measure I and declared it was entirely un suited to conditions in the state | and that while it may be laudable i in purpose it is bound to be de structive and unjust in effect. Reason Given Though advised by some to keep away from this controversial sub ject, he declared he would be dere lict in his duty to the people of the state if he did not speak out in defense of education which he said would be crippled from elementary grades to colleges. Economic conditions have made many taxpayers desperate, and it is the duty of every governmental function including education to adapt itself to such circumstances, he held. The proposed measure, however, goes beyond reason and gives evidence of having been drawn without adequate knowl edge of varying necessities of the state's tax levying units. Figures Cited Citing many figures throughout j his address, Dr. Kerr showed that the entire income allowed the state j from property taxes under the measure would just equal the ! the amount the state now collects j for elementary schools. Furthermore, he said, the entire : taxes possible to collect throughout i the state for public school purpos es would fall more than a million dollars short of the total used in 1933 for elementary schools alone. Thus if all high schools were closed there still would not be enough money left to operate elementary schools. Many Economies Made Referring to the situation in higher education, Chancellor Kerr declared the system has led the state in making economies during the depression, having in four years taken a cut aggiegating more than $3,500,000 from state sources alone. He pointed out that higher edu cation salaries had been slashed twice before the state cut went in to effect and that the salary law has been adhered to from top to bottom despite some reports to the ’contrary. The extent of further reductions which would be forced in higher education by adoption of the 20 mill tax ilmitation measure can only be conjectured, but at best would aggregate $750,000 yearly, he said. FINANCE DRIVE TO START Dr. N. H. Cornish and Dr. Victor P. Morris of the Y.M.C.A. advisory | board are planning o finance cam paign for the Y. Next week they will ask the University faculty and downtown business men for con tributions. The Y.M.C.A. advisory board consists of 20 faculty and business men, of whom Dr. Nelson Bossing is chairman. EVANS TO LEAVE John Stark Evans, professor of organ at the University school of | music, is leaving today for Coquille where he will conduct the Eugene Gleemen in the Golden Harvest ' celebration. The Gleemen, a local organization, is composed of 60 or 65 members. They will sing Fri day night, returning Saturday. Need Any Money? Today Final Call For Jeivetteers Want a chance at $25? $15? $5’ It's yours for the taking' if yot act now. Entries for the after dinner con test, first of this year’s W. F. Jew et oratorical contests, will not be accepted after today. All entrants will meet in room 13 of Friendly at 4:30 this after noon to discuss plans for the con test which will be held November 15. Sub-topics of the general topic, “The American Diet,” will be drawn at 3:00 o'colck of the day of the contest. The after dinner contest will be conducted as an after dinner speech occasion with the speeches ranging from six to eight minutes. Winners of this contest which is open to all undergraduates ex cept those who have won first place in the same contest some former year, will represent the University later in state league contests of the same type. Information regarding the after dinner oratorical contest may be secured at the speech division, room 10, Friendly. Law School Will Sponsor Formal Dance at Del Rev Governor Meier and Other Prominent Oregon Men Invited Plans for the first formal law school dance which will be held Friday, at 9 p. m. at the Del Rey cafe, and for which prominent Ore gon men have been issued invita tions, are being rapidly completed. Governor Julius L. Meier, Mayor J. K. Carson and Senator F\ E. Steiwer are being sent invitations to the dance according to George Hibbard, chairman. Members of the law school faculty and their wives will act as patrons and pat ronesses for the affair. In regard to the dance, Arthur Clark, president of the law school student body says: “This dance promises to be one of the greatest social events of the year. It is the first formal that the law school has ever sponsored and is meeting with marvelous cooperation among the students. Everyone is turning out and our date committee is functioning smoothly and satisfac torily. “Any girl wishing a date for the law school formal may call or write Kenneth Linklater at the College Side.’’ Music for the dance will be fur nished by Bill Aetzel’s orchestra Edward Schlesser and George Hib bard are co-chairmen with Ken neth Linklater, and Art Jones is in charge of music. Coeds Will Wear Mums Saturday Sales for Oregon’s yellow and green chrysanthemums began yes terday when freshman women ap proached both fraternities and sor oritie s to take orders for the “mums” to be worn at the Home coming game. Since the Montana game is the only conference game to be played j in Eugene, Oregon co-eds and alums will want to wear a “mum" to show their loyalty to their foot bal team. Prices for the “mums” are fifty and seventy-five cents, and are be ing purchased thi ough the Univer sity Florists. Dorothy Hagge is in charge of the sales. Committee chairmen working with her are: Reva Herns, salesmen; Louise Ruegnitz, all campus con teat; Margary Kiss ling, publicity. Houses Must Display Homecoming Banners Friday, Murpliy Says ^LL living organizations must have banners suspended in front of their houses by Friday, November 2, according to Jerry Murphy, chairman of accommo dations for Homecoming. The banners are to convey either the official slogan for Homecomnig or a similar idea welcoming dads and grads. Candidate for (Governorship Opposes 20-Mill Measure ify HENRIETTE HORAK ^BSOLUTE academic freedom in the institutions of learning, the 20 mill tax limitation—NO, power resources for the people and not the power trust, the Sales tax NO, a just share of the taxation by those who can afford to pay, ! and the adoption of the Townsend i old age pension, are some of the j issues of Senator Peter Zimmer, j man, independent candidate for ! the governorship of Oregon, j stressed in an interview with the Emerald. ^ Zimmerman, who is a staunch j advocate of education, declared 1 himself against the proposed 20 mill tax limitation act, and brand ed it as a vicious measure designed to smash those very ideals and op ! portunitjes of education which mark America as a leader, and pioneer in a field where education has been brought within the reach of practically every man. "I am opposed to the vested in terests that are working to muf fle higher education, an institu tion which should stand free from any entanglements of any such in terests,” declared Zimmerman. “We can never hope to attain the lights of civilization unless we maintain the highest possible free dom in our institutions of learn ing, as well as the freedom of thought, speech, and press in the scheme of our social order. Senator Zimmerman believes that higher appropriations should be made for educational purposes in the state of Oregon, and this he proposes to do by “raising rev enues from taxation from sources who are well able to pay, by a graduated tax on high incomes, in heritances, and a property tax—on property beginning with $50,000 or $100,000 net worth, placing the heavier proportions in the higher brackets of net worth. The senator declared “home own ership” as absolutely necessary in a democratic government, and be lieves that the state should do ev erything in its power to encourage, and aid such ownership. Zimmerman pointed out that he is the only candidate for the office of governor who is endorsing the grange power bill, and stands against the sales tax. “The Townsend plan,” declared *; Independent Peter Zimmerman candidate for governor of the state, who ad dressed a group of students on the campus last night. Zimmerman is the third gubernatorial aspirant to appear on the campus during the last two weeks. the senator, “is, in my opinion, the best plan that has yet been de vised to take care of our aged and needy people, and should I be elect ed governor of Oregon, I would feel it my duty to urge upon con gress the passage of a law in line with this plan. I believe that the people of our country who have reached the age of sixty • years should receive a pension suffi cient. to take them from the field of competitive labor, increase the buying power of our country, and adequately maintain and sustain them in comfort in their own homes, where they may enjoy some of the luxuries of life in their declining years. “This plan will open new fields of labor for our young people and will allow additional opportunity for others now' idle to find lucra tive and self-sustaining labor, and take them from the roll of charity and forced unemployment relief.’1 One question dominates the cam paign of Zimmerman, “Predatory wealth or Public Welfare?” and one slogan is ever-present, “Hu man rights above property rights!” Portland Models To Present Latest Fashions at Tea Lecture Will Accompany Showing; to Call Roll By Sororities Ungar's exclusive women’s ap parel shop of Portland will be featured at a fashion tea at the first A. W. S. mass meeting this year, which will be held in alumni hall in Gerlinger today at 4 o’clock. The very latest fashions will be modeled by mannequins from Un gar’s, and a stylist is also being sent to introduce each style. Chairman of the committees in charge of the tea are: serving, Frances Watzek; staging, Roberta Pickard; music, Madelyn Giustina. Members of Kwaraa, sophomore women’s service honorary, and prospective Thespians will .serve. The executive A. W. S. council from Oregon State has been ex tended an invitation to attend the fashion tea. They will be enter tained by the Oregon A. W. S. council at the Anchorage at six o’clock. Invitations have been made to townspeople, faculty members and all Oregon women. Roll call at the mass meeting will be made by houses, and every Oregon woman is urged to attend. NEW' BOOK ON SALE Attention architecture students' Mrs. Elsie Belknap, in charge of the co-op bonk store, announces the arrival of “Rame.se to Rocke feller’’ by Charles II. Whitlcer, president of the architectural as sociation. She declared yesterday that this book of an entirely new angle of the growth of building design is most unique in its beauty of pictures and bindings. “Ramose to Rockefeller" sells for $3.75. Campus Calendar Sigma Delta Chi will hold an im portant business meeting of all a( t ive and faculty members at 4 o’clock tjday in room 104 Journal ism building. Student Christian council meet ing at 4 o'clock today at the West minster house. Phi Chi Theta meeting today at 4:00 in 106 Commerce. Very im portant. Yeomen will meet at the Y hut at 7 p. m. tonight for a short busi ness meeting. All Yeomen with, cards must be there. Oregon Kudieal club meeting at Y hut tonight at o'clock. A11 members must be present. Freshman orientation class has been postponed from today at 4 o’clock, because of the A.W.S. mass meeting. Meeting of the after dinner con test entrants today in room 3 3, Friendly hall. Phi Mn Alpha meeting tonight at 7:15 in the Music building. Christian Science organization meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the YWCA bungalow. Westminster group studying the New Testament will meet at 9 to night. Beverly Caverhill will dis cuss the criticism and translations of the Gospels. Dean Hazel Sehvvering has called a meeting of the presidents of all houses at 9 o’clock tonight at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. All presidents and no substitutes must be there. Dad’s day registration commit tee will meet in the men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall at 7:30 tonight. Line of March Chairman Has Parade Details ! 5 onieconiing Comm if lf*e Plans Positions 6 oVJock DeadluM* Official Motto, Banners To W (‘Ironic Visitors To (]ani{His Complete details and organiza tion for the rally parade to be held Friday night were announced last night by Jack Granger, chairman of the line of march committee of Homecoming. All floats must be on the line of march in their designated positions by 5:30 Friday night. The paradte will move promptly at 6 o’clock Floats, requiring last minute con struction. should be finished on the line between 5:30 and 6 and must not be later than 5:30 in arriving in line. Cars to carry women should be on tIre line not later than 6 o’clock Floats will line up in designated places on Mill street between elev enth and nineteenth streets. Each float must have appearing on it somewhere the official motto of Homecoming: "Unite for Orc g-cm Dads and Grads,’’ and the same float must also be noise-pro ducing. Line Positions Given Positions in the line of march i for tlie various teams are as fol lows : On Mill street, between eleventh and twelfth, Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Gamma Delta; Alpha Phi and Theta Chi; twelfth andthirteenth, Alpha Delta Pi and Beta Theta Pi; Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Sigrnma; thirteenth and fourte enth, Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Sigma Kappa; Chi Omega and Sigma; Alpha Epsilon; fourteenth and fifteenth, Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Tau Omega; Delta Gamma and Phi Kappa Psi. Fifteenth and sixteenth, Delta Zeta and Phi Delta Theta; Gamma Phi Beta and Sigrnma Nu; six teenth and seventeenth, Hendricks hall and Sigma Chi; Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Upsilon; seven teenth and eighteenth, Kappa Kap pa Gamma and Sigma hall; PI* Mu and Alpha hall; Pi Beta Phi and Chi Psi; eighteenth and nine teenth, Sigma Kappa and Pi Kap pa Alpha; Zetn Tau Alpha and Delta Tau Delta; Susan Campbell hall and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Banners to Be Used A large number of banners ex tending aeros Willamette street and thirteenth street for several blocks have been provided through the cooperation of the Eugen city council and the associated stu dents. These banners, carrying the official Homecoming slogan will lie permanent Homecoming banners. The program for the concert of the University band to be held in the music auditorium Sunday at 8 o'clock was anounced last night by Peggy Chessman, chairman of receptions, as follows: Sons ol Australia, March Lithgou: Attila Overture Karoly Maritana Fant.asie Wallace Selection form “Louise” Fulton Morning, Noon and Night in Vi enna, Overture . Suppe A Warrior Bold, March .... Panella Director, John F. Gribble, ’35 Honorary President Halbert Violin Keeilal Howard Halbert, violinist, and student of Rex Underwod, will be presented in a concert Tuesday, November (5, by Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honorary. Halbert, who is now a student at the University school of music, has for the past year served as soloist for the Portland symphony orchestra, and is now concert mus ter at the University. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Rex Under wood, pianist. Proceeds from this recital will go to the Mu Phi Epsilon scholar ship fund, which encourages needy students in continuing their mus ical education. Staff of Emerald Gropes in Dark As Lights Go Out The wind came tip. the wires went down, and Oh, what a mess. Ye who arc reading this newspa per. blink your eyes, take a deep breath, and look again. The thing was made up by candle light. Last night during the blow-out of Eugene's lighting system, the Emerald news room resembled the lodge room of “The Sons and Daughters of 1 Will Arise” during the sacred ritual. The reporters peered through the flickering can dle-light and stabbed uncertainly at their typewriters. The tall fig ure of Parks Hitchcock stalked through the gloom, forming ghoulish figures on the shack walls. Let him with the imagination multiply the details of the situa tion ten-fold and a picture of the true romance of the newspaper will parade before his eyes. For a time, fear was held that tiie Emerald would not be printed due to lack of electricity for the operation of the linotype machines. This fear was dispelled, however, when word was received that the service would be resumed in lime for publication. Just at the Colonial atmosphere was beginnjg to permeat (lie mem bers of the stuff, the lights snap ped on and the newsroom was once more that of a twentieth century newspaper. The orders were given to "get goin' ” and the candles were put away. 20-Mi!! Limitation Bill Bombarded By Zimmerman Iiulojx'mlenl ('and idate Talks* to Lar^ge Gathering One of the largest gatherings of the autummn political cammpaign convened at the Rax theatre last night to hear Senator Peter Zim merman, independent progressive candidate, flay the 20-mill tax lim itation bill and plead for academic freedom and liberty of thought and expression in the state system of higher education. More than 750 people were pres ent as Zimmerman flayed corpora tion domination, urged a redistri bution of weiilth through equitable taxation, and scored attacks on Oregon progressives by reaction ary interests. He strongly advo cated the Grange power bill and said Eugene with its public power plant was a shining example of successful public ownership. Zim merman also demanded that old age pensions be adopted, and ad vocated the Townsend plan and unemployment insurance. Others wtio spoke briefly on the program were Kenneth Nielsen, Eugene progressive; Charles L. Paine, advocate of the Town end plan; Ben T. Osborne, executive secretary of the Oregon state fed eration of labor; Richard L. Neu aerger, president of the University Timmerman - for - Gover nor club; fern H. Haybarker, vice-president jf the state federation of labor md Rev. Ernest Whitesmith, pro minent Eugene minister. Rev. Whitesmith said Zimmer nan was the lorre candidate quali fied to help the common people md the only one seeking to aid he greatest number. Yeomen Discuss Smoker, Dance Yeomen will gather in the Y hut it 7:30 tonight to discuss plans 'or the annual fall term smoker tnd make the preliminary arrange ments for a dance later in the orrn. Virgil Estet), president of the ndependent group, urges all mem jers who have cardts to be pres ent. An entertainment program has reen arranged to follow the short lusincss meeting. Robert Larsen lias recently been daeed in charge of all Yeomen musical and dramatic activities, md members interested in music m dramatics will have an oppor unity to n'eet with him tonight, rhose men particularly interested n participating in 'he above lamed activities should get iu ouch with Larsen after the meet ng. Council Selects Stearns to Fill Oregana Post Journalism Work Aiils Group in Choice Plans Under Way Renner Commends New Business Manager On Ability Newton Stearns, sophomore in journalism, was appointed yest terday afternoon as business man ager for the 1931 Oregana by the executive council of the associated students. Stearns was selected over three other candidates for the of fice, F r e d Fisher, advertising manager of the Kmerald, Ralph Schomp, and Sam Bickman. According to Joe Renner, presi dent of the student body, and chairman of the executive council, Stearns was chosen because of his superior knowledge of the techni cal side of the position. His out standing work with Douglas Poli vka in the publishing of the 1931 A.S.U.O. student handbook, was one of the foremost considerations in his appointment. Plans Made for Work “I am convinced,'' stated Stearns last evening, “that the 1934 Orc gana is to be one of the best ever published, not only because of its splendid contents, but because cf its original make-up and unusual features. Although we are a bit late in starting the sales cam paign,” he continued, “I do not think that this will make any ma terial difference in its success inas much as we will demonstrate to the students the very high quality of the book being published.” During his first year at Oregon, Stearns served as a reporter, and was advanced to the position of executive reporter and day editor, an unusual honor for a freshman student.. He also served as manag ing editor under Douglas Polivka at the beginning of this semester. To Meet Advertisers Stearns has gained particular recognition for the work of his printing shop, which he maintains near the campus. His work on the handbook being used by Univer sitp students this year has ac quainted him not only with local advertisers, but with many busi ness firms in Portland whom he will contact as busines manager of the Oregana. His general knowl edge of typography will also be an asset to his understanding of the needs of advertisers. Renner, chairman of the council, in commenting upon the position of busines manager, stated, “The job demands a man who is a hard worker, and who is particularly loath to lose his enthusiasm. Not only must he work hard during his first month in office, but during the entire year, and endless time and effort are required. We believe that Ktearu’s sincerity in his work will enable him to fulfill these lather rigid requirements.” Banquet, Game Tickets Must Be Purchased at Dean of Men's Offices MANQUET tickets, aiul tick ets for special seats for stu dents and their dads at the Sat urday football game, are now available at the office of the dean of men, according to an announcement made yesterday by the A.S.U.O. offices. Tom Stoddard, assistant al umni secretary, has also an nounced that through the coop eration of the Eugene Oregon Trail Pageant association and the Eugene city council, the city's new street decorations will be displayed for the home coming. Centerpieces which will be hung with the street decora tions all along Willamette to 13th street tip to the campus were bought by the Associated Students.