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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1934)
Gael vs. Web foot Plan now if you expect to at tend the St. Mary’s-Oregon game in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day. Low rates are offered. Guild Hall The University players offer their first production of the year Friday and Saturday nights at the Guild theater. VOLUME XXXIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMEER 21, 1934 NUMBER 34 Resume of Today’s News By Associated Press -NOVEMBER 20 COMMITTEE PROBES RUMOR NEW YORK—(AP)—With Ma jor General Smedley D. Butler as its chief witness, the hou$e com mittee on un-American activities delved today into reports the re tired ranking- officer of the marine coi’ps had been asked to lead a fascist movement in the United States, with a dictatorship as its aim. REBELLION IN MEXICO? MEXICO, D. F. —(AP) — Report ed rebel activity between Laredo and Monterrey this evening led the capital to recall recent reports that revolution would break out November 20, anniversary of the 1910 rebellion. A recent proclamation circulated in northern Mexico over the pur ported signature of General An tonio Villarreal, twive - defeated candidate for the president, called for rebels to rise today to oust the present government and reestab lish ‘^true revolutionary princi ples.” NAVAL “LEAKS” DISCLOSED (Copyright, 1934, by the Asso ciated Press). WASHINGTON—(AP) — The United States, seeking a better bar gaining position with foreign naval powers, was disclosed today to have clamped rigid secrecy restric tions on information concerning new naval developments. The navy department’s move was prompted by word that “leaks” had occurred. At least one world power was known to have refused to cooperate in an exchange of naval data, claiming that it could get all the necessary information through so-called unofficial chan nels. FEDERAL, SLEUTH ON TRAIL PHILADELPHIA—(AP) — Un derworld haunts were watched to day for a trace of William Weiss, night life character reported held for $100,000 ransom. At Washington the department of justice expressed the belief that his disappearance was an under world's case. It was announced that J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the division of investigation, is taking personal charge of the hunt. PANGBORN MAY FLA’ PACIFIC LOS ANGELES—(AP)—Clyde Pangborn, noted trans-Pacific flyer, may be the navigator on the proposed non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, Monty Mason, Los Angeles aviator who will pilot the plane on that hazardous, 6400 mile journey, said today. DISCUSSION CLASS TO MEET “Proselyting of College Athlet ics” will be discussed Thursday evening at the Phi Kappa Psi house by the class in the conduct of group discussion. N.Y. Students Burn College Head in Effigy Cilv College Is,Scene of Demonstration Fists Fly in Melee Mob Protests Expulsion of 21 Students in October NEW YORK, Nov. 20—(AP) • After engaging in fisticuffs with police, more than 500 striking City College students today burned the figure of President Frederick B. Robinson in effigy at the base of the campus flagpole. The cardboard effigy repre sented Dr. Robinson, who is ill in Mount Sinai hospital, with a sec ond head—that of Premier Musso lini. The strike broke out after smouldering resentment among certain campus liberal and radical groups in connection with the ex pulsion a month ago of 21 under graduates for staging an anti-fas cist demonstration during a visit of Italian students. Police Intervene Fists flew and several persons were knocked down when police attempted to break up the demon stration. It started when Charles Milgrim, an expelled student, be gan a speech calling for a general strike. The arrival of Professor George M. Brett, who took Milgrim's place on the improvised rostrum and told the students they could use the stadium ended the fighting. The strikers marching toward the stadium, chanting “oust Robinson” and “reinstate the 21 students.” Shouts of “cops of the campus” suddenly broke from the group. Again they began exchanging punches with the officers. The col lege authorities, to avert a serious disorder, allowed the students to return to the flagpole. Flag Hoisted The trouble started in the early morning when a black flag ap peared atop the flagpole. It was removed by a steeplejack and re placed with the American flag. Finally, the demonstration quietly ended. Three students had been ar rested in connection with hanging of the flag. Dean Morton Gottschall said the police had been summoned by the college authorities who told them they apposed any demonstration except in the stadium. Asked what steps, if any, would be taken to prevent a repetition of the demon stration, the dean said: "Tomorrow is another day, there has been no perceptible effect on attendance at classes.” Earth, Sun Way Behind Rest Of Universe Say Scientists By F. B. COLTON Associated Press Science Writer r'tLEVELAND, O., Nov. 20— v-4 (AP)—The earth, sun and milky way aren't keeping- up with the rest of the universe. They are lagging behind in a stagnant “back-water” of space while the rest of the universe expands like a soap buble at enormous speed. Theis “local" section of the uni verse was thus pictured as a “stick-in-the-mud" last night be fore the national academy of sci ences by Prof Karlow- Shapley, di rector of Harvard college observa tory and world-famous astronom er. At the same meeting the scient ists saw amazing movies, the first ever taken, of a gigantic “solar bomb” or mass of hydrogen gas, thrown out from a sunspot. It was 40.000 miles long and half as wide, an arear of 800 million square miles, and moved at a speed of 240 miles a second or 504,000 miles an hour. While the universe as a whole is believed to be expanding at a speed of 24.000 miles a second. Dr. Shapley said, there are some local sections of it that are collapsing instead of expanding and other sections, like the vicinity of the earth, that are just standing still. In the universe as a whole the many huge galaxies or star clouds, similar to the milky way, are rush ing away from the earth and each other, while in the regions that are collapsing the star clouds are com ing nearer together. The “back-water” in which the earth, sun and milky way are “stuck” is a region of space so large that it would take a light ray one million years to cross it at light’s speed of 186,000 miles a second. But this is a very small section of the universe. There are other “back-waters” even larger. Prof. Shapley estimated that about two billion galaxies, “island universes” like our own milky way, will be within range of the new 200-inch telescope that is to be set up on Mount Palomar in California by the California Institute of Tech nology. Beyond that there are pro bably many more, for no one knows how large the universe may be. (Please turn to page 4) Senior Popsters Continue Activity For Health Week Menu Contest Ends; Cup To Be Presented at Friday Tea The Senior Pep Pattoi continued to invade women's living organiza tions yesterday as the menu con test sponsored by the W. A. A. for Health Week came to a close. Competition in the sports partici pation contest begins today when a varied program of activities is offered to campus coeds at Ger linger hall. All menus competing for the Al den cup, which is awarded annu ally to the house submitting the best menu for a week were turned into Gladys Battleson, yesterday noon. The Alden cup will be pre sented to the winning sorority house at the campus tea on Fri day. A “splash party”, under the di rection of Amphibian, women's swimming honorary, will be given to the senior Pep Patrol at 4 p. m. this afternoon. An all-campus swim will be held Thursday at 4:30. A challenge ping pong tourna ment from 4 to 5:30 every evening will be held on the sun porch of Gerlinger hall. On Thursday an all campus swimming meet will begin at 4:30. Girls wishing to play are urged to sign up on the bulletin board. Of interest will be one challenge game between Doro thy Bergstrom, president of W. A. A. and Miss Florence Alden, pro fessor of physical education. Alpha Phi and Alpha Omicron Pi, Susan Campbell hall and Kappa Kappa Gamma will meet this af ternoon in a volleyball tournament. Basketball will be played following the volleyball game for those wish ing to participate. Forum Group Will Discuss Current Public Questions Debate Team Members to Broadcast Winter Term Series Over KOAC William Hall, forensic oratory manager and member of the Uni versity debate squad, will open the series of a student forum to be broadcast over KOAC next term with a discussion of the “Uni-Cam eral Legislative System.” Under this system there is only one house in the state legislature rather than two. Nebraska has adopted the uni-cameral legislative system. The speech division is sponsor ing a series of forums which will be broadcast over KOAC during the winter term each Thursday night at 8:40. Many public ques tions of current interest will be dealt with during the course of the series. Included in them are old-age insurance, reorganization of county government, public reg ulation of moving pictures, and others. Speakers from the University debating teams will present the problems of the various subjects. Participation is also open to other students. Those who are interest ed should call at the speech divi sion offices, room 10, Friendly hall, to get details. A manager of the forum will be appointed later. He will automati cally become a member of the staff of forensic managers. Hammond Offers Free Tap Dancing Lessons Jack Hammond, professional dancer who has appeared in fea ture numbers at various campus functions during the past two years, is offering free tap dancing lessons this week. Classes will be conducted for both men and wo men, and any one interested is in vited to attend the demonstrations. Last night women were instruct ed for one hour free of charge, and next Friday evening from 7 to 8 p. m. men will be given instruction in the art of tap dancing. Ham mond’s studio is located at 850 E. 14th street. MRS. PURDIN VISITS Mrs. Elsie Wilson Purdin, who was employed in the infirmary in 1927 and now lives in Portland, has been visiting here since Fri day, Nov. 16. Miss Collahan and Mrs. Purdin spent Tuesday at the latter’s home on Fall Creek. Large Crowd Hears Norris Laud‘Energy’ Talk to Bo Given Again At 7:30 Tonight Queer Devices Used Sources of Power ami Light Are Outlined in Talk Speaking behind an experiment table loaded with everything from a toy railroad, which performed its tricks in perfect accord with an electric switch, to a ping pong ball bouncing above an air jet, Dr. Will V. Norris, associate professor of physics, told an illustrated story of energy—its source and natural manifestations -— last night in Deady hall to a large gathering of students and townspeople. Because there was not sufficient seating space the same lecture will be repeated tonight at 7:30 in Deady, room 103. Sun Described Dr. Norris described the sun as the great source of energy to the earth. The electro-magnetic rays radiate from this terrifically hot body, estimated 10.000 degrees fahrenheit, to the earth and make life possible by its energy-giving processes. The great celestial bod ies such as the constellatons, neb ulae, and especially the moon, which exercises a great gravita tional pull, effect us considerably. Timber, one of our most impor tant resources, is also a result of solar energy. illustrations uscu Like a magician, Dr. Morris manipulated the apparatus on the table to illustrate different theo ries of energy producing forces. He demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity, to magnetism and showed how magnetic power derived from heat was capable of holding about ten kilograms of weight. Other experiments includ ed the playing of light on photo electric cells, and electric energy turned into hea. Radio-electricity, potential and kinetic energy, was also demonstrated. The transfer ence of electrical energy through space was shown by means of a radio set. Dr. Norris quoted Dr. Howard Clayton Urey of Columbia univer sity who has recently received the Nobel prize in chemistry. “ ‘There is not enough energy (natural resources) in the country to keep us going another hundred years if we use it as fast as we did in the twenties. It might al most be better if we didn’t get out of the depression’.” Plows Work to Clear McKenzie Pass Hoad Despite sixteen inches of snow at the summit, the McKenzie pass is open for traffice, say reports from the highway engineer’s de partment. There is snow on the highway two miles above Lost Creek, and travelers are advised to use chains in crossing the pass. Week-end storms blanketed the regions near the summit, and snow plows were kept busy all day Monday clearing the highway for traffic. Military Group Pledges Twelve; Murphy Honored Formal Initiation Will lit Hold Next Term At Ball Scabbard and Blade, nations military honorary, yesterday an nounced the pledging- of twelve cadet officers. Formal pledging was conducted two weeks ago al a banquet at the Sigma Nu house but the names of the new pledge; were not divulged by Burke Ton gue, commanding officer of the organization, until yesterday. The twelve, who will be initiate!: sometime next term, were Bill Berg, Howard Clark, Jack Grang er, Boyce Stanard, Gilbert Welling ton, Robert Biddle, Jerry Murphy Howard Patterson, William Pat rick, Stanford Smith, Robert Thomas, and Al Wall. Col. E. V. D. Murphy, beginning his first year on the campus as commanding officer of the R. O T. C., was made an honorary mem ber. Formal initiation will take place next term at the annual military ball. Who’s Who by Howe Names 6 From U. of C, Six out of the 57 Oregon men named in the "America’s Young Men," an official Who’s Who among the young men of the na tion compiled by Durward Howes, are from the Oregon campus. C. D. Byrne, educator, O. J. Hol lis, professor, W. J. Morse, dean, Arne G. Rae, journalism, R. H. Seashore, educator, and M. T. Stoddard, educator, are the six named in this book, the first au thentic, up-to-date reference of its kind to be published. Paul W. Ager, '28, who now is a Tenhessee Valley authority in the Muscle Shoals project is also mentioned. This book, to be published an nually, is received through the co operation of various national fra ternities, alumnae secretaries, gov ernment officials, prominent citi zens, and leaders in all walks of life. Luncheon Groups Will Hold Joint Meet Today Dill Pickles and Question-marks will wrap themselves around hot coffee and Spanish rice this noon when the YMCA luncheon group will entertain the YWCA luncheon club at the Y-hut. Those boys who eat their lunches regularly at the Y-hut have banded together this year into an official organization entitled the Question Mark club. A similar organization called the Dill Pickle club has ex isted for some time at the YWCA bungalow. Plans for regular weekly ex change meals wil 1 be discussed. Fred Geiseke is in charge of ar rangements. Phi Bela Kappa to Give Report on Senior Six The Oregon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor ary, will hold its regular fall busi ness meeting in room 110 Johnson hall at 4:00 today. The member ship committee will make its re port on its findings for selection of the Senior Six, who are those six students who haev received the highest scholastic rating for thei; three years work. I Campus Calendar Sigma Delta C'hi will have a business meeting in room 101 journalism building at 4 o’clock to day. Junior-Senior Dance directorate will meet today at 5 at the College Side. Important. Senior Pep Patrol will have pic tures taken at 11:50 at Friendly hall. Freshman commission of the Y.M.C.A. will meet in the Y hut at 8 p. m. today. Temenids will meet at noon to day at College Side. Alpha Delta Sigma, including pledges, will lunch at College Side at 12 o’clock today. Spicer-Yates discussion group will meet today at 3 o’clock at the Y.W.C.A. World Fellowship group will meet at the Y.W.C.A. bungalow today at 4 o’clock. Phi Mu Alpha meeting today at 5 o’clock in the music building. Very important. Tau Delta Delta members will meet at the music building prompt ly at 7:15 tonight. Varied Roles Feature Guild Hall Attraction Many Stars in ‘Leave It To PsmitlT Play Is This Week Peterson, Campbell, and Schlotli Take Leads In Comedy An opportunity to play roles of an unusual type has been offered several students who are cast in the production “Leave it to Psmith," which is to be presented by the dramatic department this Friday and Saturday evening in the Guild theater. Althea Peterson, formerly the sweet, girlish heroine type, now de picts the shrewish, old spinster—• Aunt Ethelberta—who puts up a good fight to get the family heir loom, a diamond necklace, and who takes her loss with no very good grace. Lizzie Is Crook The part of Smooth Lizzie, the lady crook, who changes from a gutter snipe to a lovely and ro mantic pseudo poetess, is enacted by Helen Campbell. Heretofore she has played straight roles call ing for dignity and depth. Bill Schloth, who has always been cast before as the romantic lover, with or without lights as the case may be, has the role now of a sneaking crook—a regular tough, flashy Chicago variety. Testy, blustering Lord Middle wiek, gives Bill Dougherty an op portunity to display his talents in 'a different way than he did as the gentle student in “The Chief Thing” last year. Reservations for seats are be ing turned in rapidly. The small admission price of 35 cents for stu dents seems to appeal to a large number of people, according to the present results from the ticket sales. Representatives Named Reservation representatives ap pointed from each house are as follows: Alpha Chi Omega, Eliza beth Bendstrup; Alpha Delta Pi, Rosalind Grey; Alpha Gamma Del ta, Lenore Wood; Alpha Omicron Pi, Helen Campbell; Alpha Phi, Helen Bartrum; Alpha Xi Delta, Theda Spicer; Beta Phi Alpha, Margaret Corum; Chi Omega, Jo sephine Waffle; Delta Delta Delta, Jean Stevenson; Delta Gamma, Wanda Russel; Delta Zeta, Lois Margaret Hunt; Gamma Phi Beta, Miriam Henderson; Kappa Alpha Theta, Alice Ann Thomas; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Dagmar Haugen; Phi Mu, Lucy Anne Wendell; Pi Beta Phi, Marytine New; Sigma Kappa, Roberta Pickard; Zeta Tau Alpha, Ethel James; women’s dor mitories, Valborg Anderson. Reservations can be made through these representatives, who in turn, will phone them in to the box office. I Law Honorary to Give Banquet at Anchorage — Phi Delta Phi, law honorary, is sponsoring its fall term law school banquet for all law students Thurs day evening, December 6 at the Anchorage. This affair is held once each term, with members of the Lane county bar association and facul ty members of the law school as additional guests. The principal speaker for the evening, announced Kenneth Link later, chairman, will be James U. Campbell, associate justice of the supreme court of Oregon. SIGNS POINT TO EXPANSION WASHINGTON—-JAP) — Fresh from three directions came signs today of a new drive in congress for monetary expansion, despite still echoing administration assur ances there would be “no orgy of inflation.” Back for another session, Sena tor Wheeler (D,, Mont.), an nounced he would resume his fight for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of not more than 1 to 1 with gold. S. P. Offers Low Round Trip Fare To St. Mary’s Tilt Party of Fifteen or More May Seeure Reduced Rates Special round trip railroad fares will be available for all those wish ing to make the trip to San Fran cisco for the St. Mary’s game on Thanksgiving day. In event that a party of 15 or more can be or ganized, the Southern Pacific com pany quotes the following' rates: Round trip, 13.75, sleepr, $5. If a hundred. or more make the trip, the round trip ticket will cost $12.50, while the berth will be $4 additional. In order to take advantage of these party fares it would be nec essary for the required number to ! use the same train on the going trip, but could return on any train within seven days. The return trips could be made individually. The "Klamath,” leaving Eugene at 12:15 p. m., Wednesday, 24th, arrives in San Francisco at 10:12 a. m., Thanksgiving day, just be fore the game that afternoon. Re turn trains leave San Francisco at 6:20 p. m. any day, arriving in Eu gene at 12:15 the next, afternoon. All those intending to go to the St. Mary’s game by train should get in touch with Venita Broils at the Alpha Chi Omega house, or phone 1307. A party of at least fifteen persons must be made up in order to secure the reduced rates. Labor, NRA Head, Bankers All Unite To Aid Recovery Green Appeals to Working Men to Back Federal Housing Plan WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—(AP) —To the growing cooperative drive for economic recovery tonight was added a group of conservative critical bankers, the leadership of NKA and—finally labor. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, ap pealed to working men everywhere to get behind the administration’s housing plan, which had been en thusiastically endorsed by the busi- I nes men laeding the move for a harmonious working relationship with the administration. Coincidentally, the federal ad visory council — twelve bankers chosen to advise the federal re serve board but frequently at log gerheads with it—pledged their support to the board and its new governor, Marriner S. Eccles. Plii Mu Alpha Extends Invitation to Musicians All men on the campus inter ested in music are invited to attend an informal meeting at tne music building auditorium Thursday eve ning at 7:30 under the sponsorship of Phi Mu Alpha, men’s national music fraternity, according t o John F. Cribble, president of the group. Musical entertainment will feat ure numbers by members of the organization, and after the pro gram refreshments will be served in the lounge. The purpose of the gathering is to ‘get acquainted," Gribble announced. AWS Proposes 3 Amendments to Constitution Student Body Cards to Be Required at Polls Voting to Be Friday Issues Are Elections’ Date, Executive Council, Membership Three amendments to the A. W. S. constitution dealing with time of elections, members of executive council and membership in A.W.S., have been proposed by the execu tive council of the associated wom en students, and will be voted on Friday, November 23, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in front of the old li brary. The executive council of A.W.S. consists of the following members: president, vice-president, secre tary, treasurer, sergeant-at-arms, reporter, president of Y.W.C.A., president of W.A.A., president of Phi Theta Upsilon, president of heads of houses, chairmen of three standing' committees, and the dean of women of the University of Ore gon. Proposals Listed The amendments to be voted up on are: Article IV, Section 3, Clause 3: present statement, time of elec tions: elections shall be held the week following the nominating as sembly. Correction, time of elec tions: elections shall be held on the second day following the nominat ing assembly. Article V, Section 2: present statement, members of the execu tive council: the chairmen of the following three standing commit tees: Big Sister Foreign Scholar, and Peter's Lodge. Correction, members of the executive council: the chairmen of the following standing committees: Activities, Big Sister, Peter’s Lodge, Speak ers, Kwama and Thespian, and Orientation Courses. Addition to Section 2: All students must have made a “C” average the term be fore entering associated women students’ activities and maintain this average or resign. Article II, Section 1: present statement, membership: the as sociated women students includes all women students and the dean of women of the University of Ore gon. Correction, membership: the associated women students shad include all women students holding student body membership cards, and the dean of women of the Uni versity. Two-Thirds Vote Needed In order to vote, all women stu dents will take their students body tickets with them to the polls. All women holding tickets are urged to cast their votes in order that every member’s approval or disap proval can be heard. Two-thirds of all votes cast must be affirmative in order that the proposed amendments will pass. Elaine Cornish, sergeant-at-arms of A.W.S., is in charge of the vot ing. World Armaments Increase As Diplomats Study Problems By the Associated Press TTOW best to curb man’s power to deal out death preoccupied diplomats and disarmament ex perts of the world Tuesday. Simul taneously, there were moves to in crease armaments. Geneva—Hugh R. Wilson put President Roosevelt’s plan to con trol arms by licenses and publicity before the disarmament confer ences’s steering committee, as Austria asked arms equality denied her by peace treaties. London—American, British and Japanese naval negotiators, seek ing new ways to limit ships of war, were deadlocked over Japan's de man for naval equality. It was re ported Britain, in negotiations on the side, asked Japan to guarantee China's integrity. Paris—Told Germany is arming to the teeth, France increased her war budget 800,000,000 franee (ap proximately 853,000,000). Yokoshuka, Japan — The new 8,500-ton cruiser Suzuya was launched as the keel of the first of two projected 10,000-ton aircraft carriers were laid at Kure. La Paz, Bolivia—Bolivia, beaten in the Pilcomayo sector of the Chaco Boreal, claimed the capture of the Paraguayan fort Picuiba to the north as the two South Ameri can nations, heedless of efforts to end hostilities, continued their long bitter war. ASUNCIO N— Paraguay flatly refused the League’s proposal to halt the warfare.
