VOLUME XXXVIII
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the collection of materials on Skin
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NUMBER 12
The
Passing Show
Parker* Indicted
King Winter
Keller's Teacher
Echoes in Madrid
By DARREL ELLIS
Kidnap Conspiracy
Indictments charging Ellis H.
Parker, Burlington county detec
tive chief, and his son, Ellis, Jr.,
with conspiracy in the kidnaping
of Paul H. Wendel were delivered
up by a New Jersey grand jury
yesterday. . .
Wendel, whose confession of the
abduction of the Lindbergh babv
delayed Bruno Hauptmann's elec
trocution three days, charges he
was kidnaped and taken to New
Jersey, where torture was used to
force the confession.
Brr—rr
Moving westward, the first chill
blasts of winter with attendant
sleet and snow hit the western
planes states yesterday. Snow fell
in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming,
Nebraska, and Kansas.
Temperatures were falling rap
idly. O'Neill, Nebraska recorded a
low of 31 degrees. Four inches of
snow blanketed southwestern Min
nesota and parts of South Dakota.
Bereaved
Anne Sullivan Macy, 70, known
to the world as the teacher and
dearest friend of a girL deprived of
three of her senses, Helen Keller,
died yesterday. One week hence,
teacher and protege were to have
been awarded the Theodore Roose
velt medals for “a cooperative
achievement of heroic character
and far-reaching significance.”
Miss Keller, who was at the bed
side of her devoted instructor until
the last, said, “My teacher has
gone from me for a little while, but
I shall feel her presence anew
when my eyes are blessed with
light, my ears saved unto harmony,
any my imprisoned light set free.”
Noise, But Quietly
Portland's anti-noise campaign
is neither so serious nor so all-in
clusive as it first seemed. Official
and civic leaders yesterday decided
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Sopli Honorary
To Give Feature
At Grid Recess
Skull and Dagger, sophomore
service honorary, will present an
entertainment feature on Hayward
field during the half of the home
coming game, it was announced
yesterday by Bob Bechtell, presi
dent of the local organization.
Plans for the affair, which will
be made known soon, are being
completed by Bob Gridley and his
committee of Skull and Dagger
members. Gridley promises a live
ly program to hold the interest of
the fans during the intermission.
Members of the honorary will
take part in the presentation of va
rious other events of Homecoming
weekend, aiding in the float parade
and helping to sponsor the dance
at McArthur court Saturday night.
Colorful Parade
Slated for Next
Friday Evening
Oregon Band Will Lead
Big Procession; Two
Cups to Be Awarded
For Best Floats
Lead by the Oregon band and
escorted by the police of Eugene,
University of Oregon's 1936 home
coming parade will begin moving
at 7 o’clock Friday night, says
Dale Mallicoat, Leland Terry and
Sam Fort, chairmen.
Line will form on Kincaid be
tween 13th and 15th beginning at
6:30. The line of march will take
the parade up town, ending near
the McDonald theatre.
Floats Under Construction
According to representatives in
the individual living organizations,
floats are all ready in the making,
each following the homecoming
theme bit taking varying angles.
People having cars are asked to
drive behind the floats, but no
hanging on the outside will be al
lowed, committees state.
Cups to be Awarded
The two cups to be awarded will
be presented to the winners at the
rally in the theatre scheduled to
begin at 8:30. Judges for the best
floats will be Dean Virgil D. Earl,
Dean James H. Gilbert, Dean
Hazel P. Schwering, and Dean B.
Zane.
“Because the alumni will prob
ably be the most interested in the
parade of floats,” says Terry, “it is
our hope that they will be even
better than last year."
A student body ticket belonging
to Charles Miller has been found.
If he will call 1393 after 5 o’clock
he may have the book.
Dance A ds A re
Novel, but Give
Incorrect Date
Zolly Volchok, publicity direc
tor for homecoming, Myra Hul
ser, his assistant, Dave Lowry,
and Vic Rosenfeld, dance chair
men are running around the
campus with red faces as a re
sult of an embarrassing situa
tion that occurred Tuesday.
Novel advertisements were
placed at lunch tables yesterday
advertising the Russian Rendez
vous this weekend. But instead
of having the correct day on
the little envelopes, "Friday”
was printed in.
"The little toothpicks, clips
and bluing carried the right im
pression to the students,” said
Volchok, "but we hope too many
of them didn’t take the date se
riously. The dance is Saturday
and there will be no change.”
“Bury the Dead”
Seats Go on Sale
Ducats Will Be Sold at Box
Office in Johnson Hall
Tomorrow
Box office sale for “Bury the
Dead,” the University theatre’s
opening play, will start tomorrow
at 10 o’clock. The box office lo
cated in the administration build
ing will be open from 10 a. m. un
til 4:30 p. m., both Thursday and
Friday.
On Saturday, the opening day of
the play, it will be open from 9:30
a. m. until curtain time (8 p. m.)
and on each of the following days
of the play, October 26, 27, and 28.
Admission prices will be 35 and
50 cents. Reservations may be se
cured by calling 3300, local 216.
Russian Decorations Will
Be Theme of Homecoming
Dance Saturday at Igloo
Gus Meyers to Furnish Music;
Corsages Give Way to Mums
Dinner Dresses Are in Order
Six and a half miles of paper, enough to go across the Golden
Gate six times, is being used as decoration for the Russian Rendezvous
homecoming dance Saturday evening in McArthur court.
Stewart Mockford, decoration head, announces that Hallie John
son, of the art school, is painting Russian subject matter and designs
on blue plaster board that will cover the walls of the court. Designs
are being done in bright colors, carrying out the true Russian influence.
Figures will be done in silhouette.
Rats Being Tested for
Brain Power By Prof
Do rats think as humans do? Does their behavior follow some sort
of a generalization, or do they act blindly?
These are the questions which E. H. Porter of the pyschological de
partment at the University is trying to solve by an experiment at the
"rat shack”. In order to discover the answer to the question, some
sort of problem has to be set up which w'ill allow the rats to think,
and, if they do it, the question will be solved to some extent.
The problem Mr. Porter has
formed for them is that of mul
tiple discrimination. A device has
been prepared which will allow
the rats to choose a door to enter
from a group of doors. The animal
goes through several of these doors
and finally reaches a feed box
Each door is hung with either a
black or a white curtain. Thus
there are numerous choices which
the rat can make. As the rats
are run through the doors, record
is kept of their choices in ordei
to reach a true conclusion. Mr
Porter is now working sixteer
rats. He expects his experiment tc
be completed the first part of No
vember. After that, he will trj
to train the animals to distinguish
between shapes.
The theory that rats can hy
pothesize has been previously ex
pounded, but the animals hav<
been tried in only simple situa
tions, whereas Mr. Porter is put
ting the rats in a more complicatet
one, the results of which will b<
more definite.
“If it can be shown that rat:
can hypothesize," stated Mr. Por
ter, “experiments may be made ii
relation to human life as to thi
hypothesis in the level of human
behavior. Such experiments would
be of vast importance and benefit
to psychology.
Dean Morris to Talk
At Chicago Convention
Victor P. Morris, acting dean of
the school of business administra
tion, and J. C. Rettie of the state
planning board will speak on the
“Present and Future Problems of
Oregon’s Economic Life” at the
Portland Public Forum, October
22 and 29.
The Forum, in conjunction with
the United States office of educa
tion and the Portland board of
education, has recently started a
series of discussion lectures deal
ing with a broad range of things
that Oregonians should know con
cerning the expansion of the state.
Dr. Morris and Mr. Rettie will
give their lectures once each day
for the two weeks at 7:45 p.m.
The first Thursday at Centenary
Wilbur, 474 East Ash street, and
the following week at the Library
hall on S.VV. 10th street in Port
land.
special anenuon is oeing given
the dance programs. Les Forden,
program chairman, in explaining
their design pointed out some in
teresting details. Programs are to
be of two colors with the cover of
velour, designing done by Hallie
Johnson. Attached pencils will be
held with silk cord.
Meyer Will Play
Gus Meyer and his 14-piece band
are to furnish the music for the
affair. Entertainment under the
direction of Don Chapman will be
given during the course of the eve
ning and intermission.
“The dance is to be a sport af
fair but women are asked to wear
dinner dresses,” Lowry said Tues
day. “This is the final decision as
to what to wear. No corsages will
be allowed but coeds may wear a
mum if they wish.”
Last night ■ judges were still
verifying words turned in during
the contest run during the last
week. Many responded, Lowry, one
of the judges said, and the name
of the winner of the homecoming
dance ticket will be announced in
the Emerald as soon as tabulations
are complete.
Tickets on Sale
Under the direction of Freed
j Bales, tickets for the dance went
on sale Monday. They are avail
able at all men’s living organiza
, tions.
“Only 500 have been printed,”
Bales said Tuesday, "so those who
. intend to go had better get their
j admissions as soon as possible.”
Tickets may be obtained at Uni
versity Co-op or from house rep
resentatives.
Ticket sale will close in the hous
es Friday night, Bales announces.
Four-Day Donut
Sale to Start
At 8 A M Today
Annual YWCA Event to
Greet Today’s Early
Risers; Workers Will
Cover Campus
Under the chairmanship o f
Maude Edmonds, some 100 YWCA
workers began today the annual
four-day sale of “sinkers," for
years a campus event.
Members of the committee locat
ed and decorated the booths early
this morning in order to contact
students with 8 o’clock classes.
Posters were placed in the main
buildings Tuesday advertising the
affair.
Today Campus Day
Today is campus day and mem,
bers of the YWCA will be in booths
placed about the campus. Sales
start at 8 o'clock this morning and
will continue until 6 p. m.
Jean Ackerson, head of campus
sales, announced the following
committees:
Frederica Merrill, booths; Cath
erine Callaway, decorations, and
June Brown, Genevieve McNiece,
Virginia Regan, and Felker Morris.
Those working in their booths
include: old library, Bernice Vad
naid, Jean Wiley, Alice Coggins,
Carolyn Dudley, Darlene Berry,
Aurelia Wolcott, Jane Burkitt, Sal
ly McGrew, Arleen Thurmond,
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Mums to Reward
Top AWS Salesgirls
Dollar mums will be awarded
again this week to girls selling the
greatest number of mums in men’s
and women’s living organizations,
according to Gladys Battleson, gen
eral chairman for AWS mum sales.
Official AWS representatives will
visit men’s living organizations
this noon to take orders for the
homecoming game.
Dorothy Johnson, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, and Peggy Sanford, Al
pha Phi, were last week’s win
ners.
Mums will sell at fifty cents,
seventy-five cents, and one dollar.
Alums are urged by Miss Battle
son to buy their mums at the Uni
versity Florist Shop, 13th and Pat
terson streets, which has agreed
to turn all profits over to the
AWS.
Deliveries will be made.
Women Scribes Will
Have Luncheon Today
Members, pledges, and alumnae
of Theta Sigma Phi, women's jour
nalism fraternity, will meet at the
Anchorage today for a luncheon
meeting at which Nancy Wilson
Ross will be the guest of honor.
Mrs. Ross is a graduate of the
University school of journalism,
and was a member of Theta Sigma
Phi. She will speak informally to
the group. Plans for initiation of
pledges will be formulated.
Optional Military, Roosevelt
Victors in Emerald Balloting
308 X Marks the Spot
MOM
IMRME
Casting their ballots in the Emerald’s straw vote shortly before the bolls dosed Tuesday afternoon are
To Langford, marking her ballot against Gordon Connelly’s shoulder, Ed Elfving, who is about lo drop his
vote into the box, and Genevieve McNiece, who is apparently puzzling over the issues involved, Elfvinj!
has been active in the Liberty association, working for compulsory military while Connelly has been in
strumental in having the measure brought before Oregon voters. Mari Mcdiil and Boh Emerson, poll
clerks, are in the voting booths.
Political Assembly
Details Completed
Debates to Be Given by
Representatives From 3
Major Parties
Final details for the “political”
assembly to be held Thursday, at
11 o’clock in Gerlinger hall were
completed yesterday at a meeting
of Betty Brown, Charles Paddock,
and Dave Hoss, student leaders for
the three major parties. Dean Cas
teel, director of the speech depart
ment, will act as chairman of the
assembly.
The order of speaking was de
cided by drawing slips. It was de
cided that each speaker would be
allowed only ten minutes to pre
sent his case and an additional five
minutes for rebuttal.
The speakers in the order of
their appearance will be Monroe
Sweetland, Salem, representative
of the Socialist party; W. L. Gos
lin, private secretary to Governor
Martin, for the Democrats, and
David Eccles, Portland, state chair
man for the Young Republican di
i vision, for the Republicans. These
men are young people who have
had previous experience in debating
Following the speeches, there
will be time for announcements of
a political nature. Anyone wishing
to make an announcement is asked
to get in touch with Dave Hoss.
YWCA Program Aims
To Please All Coeds
To appeal to the interests of ev
.ery girl on the campus, whether
she likes singing, writing, knitting,
or just talking, is the aim of the
new YWCA program, according to
Elaine Cornish, president.
The various groups, under the
direction of a student leader, carry
out their individual programs, as
sisted by adults and faculty mem
bers interested in that subject. The
groups are open at all times to any
girl who is interested.
For those who like to discuss
personal and family relations, the
campus chat group offers an op-!
portunity to get together with oth
ers and talk over such things as
“Modern boy-girl relations,”
"Homesickness,” and “How to
break family ties.” Virginia Mc
Corkle is student chairman, and
discussions will be led by adults.
Meetings are every two weeks on
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock.
Singing for fun is the feature of
the group led by Mrs. Edith Sie
fert. Emphasis will first be placed
on college songs, later on Christ
mas carols, negro spirituals, or
whatever the students like. The
group is looking for a student who
can play the guitar or ukelele to
serve as accompanist. Meetings are
every other week on Thursday eve
nings at 8:00, alternating with the
campus chat group.
What to wear, what to do, and
what to say will be discussed dur
ing meetings of the social etiquette
group, under the direction of Har
riet Thompson. At the last meet
ing instruction in table setting
and decoration was given.
The scribbler’s group had its
first meeting yesterday. Gayle Bu
chanan is in charge, and her plans
at present include group criticism
of students’ writings, and possibly
talks from an adult leader.
The Frosh commission will carry
on its various projects as it has
done in the past, under the direc
tion of Betty Lou Swart, chair
man.
Grid Warriors
To Pit Strength
Against V iber 8
Man’s title to supremacy over
machinery will be put to an acid
test today at 12:40 o’clock when
11 picked men from the varsity
football team will square off
with the “Easy Viber 8”, prize
automobile of the ASUO card
sales drive, in a no-holds-barred
tug of war at 12:10 today on the
street in front of the College
Side.
Fred Hammond, student presi
dent, announced yesterday that
the crate would be awarded some
ASUO member at the half of
the Washington State - Oregon
game Saturday afternoon.
Although the members of the
football squad were confident of
the victory, Hammond, who will
pilot the “Viber”, yesterday ex
pressed that he still thought that
his worthy beauty would win in
a cinch.
The “Viber” has been brood
ing for several days over the
rough treatment she received at
the hands of the kidnapers when
she was stolen last week. Yes
terday she blew a piston out
through her exhaust for no good
reason. “Boy, but she is sure
set for this tug of war,” Ham
mond boasted.
Two Education Majors
To Take Master’s Exam
W. A. Oliver, major in education
will take the examination for his
master’s degree Saturday. The
title of his thesis is, "The Training
and Certification of the City Super
intendent of Schools.” At one time
Mr. Oliver was superintendent of
the Newberg schools.
Neva Dallas, a teacher at the
Oregon normal at Monmouth, will
also take her examination for a
master’s degree, this Wednesday.
The subject of her thesis is, “Ap
preciation of Poetry.”
Extra Drill Periods Are
Scheduled for Military
Three additional drill periods are
scheduled for basic military stu
dents prior to November 11. Local
ROTC authorities state that the
added exercise in the manual of
arms and marching routine, is
planned preparatory to the annuil
Eugene Armistice day parade.
Sophomore and freshman cadets
will have added classes in Ameri
can military policy after the holi
day period to compensate for time
lost in drilling.
Registration Tops
2800 as Week Ends
Sophomores Still in Lead:
BA Enrollment Show*
Highest Increase
University of Oregon registra
tion went slightly over the 2,SOI
mark at the close of the last week
according to figures in the regis
Liar’s office. This is more than r
) per cent increase over the 2,6G(
students enrolled at the same time
last year.
The sophomores still lead othei
classes with a t.Tal of 1,048
Registration in the freshmai
ranks totals 960 students, a 3 pel
cent increase. Of this group mort
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Students for Voluntary
ROTC by 27 Votes; FD
Leads Landon by 162;
1277 Voles Cast
Emerald Accused
Liberty Group Hits Paper
For Straw Vote Policy,
Calls Campus Meet
Optional military training and
Roosevelt were favored by the
University as nearly half the stu
dent body voted in the straw poll
conducted by the Emerald on Mon
day and Tuesday. Out of 1277 votes
cast, voluntary drill won by a mar
gin of 27 votes, 634 to 607. Roose
velt had a comfortable edge over
Landon polling 664 votes to the
Kansan’s 502
Percentages give Roosevelt 51.9
and Landon 39.3 of campus sup
port.
Norman Thomas, perennial So
cialist party candidate, was a poor
third with 70 votes, followed by
Communist Earl Browder with 25;
William Lemke, Union party can
didate, with 5; and Prohibitionist
Colvin with 1. Members of the
Emerald tabulating committee un
der Leonard Greenup discredited
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Liberty Group’s
Lost Continuity
Conies to Paper
Continuity for a series of brief
addresses delivered by the Oregon
i Liberty Association during the two
days of the Emerald poll was re
ported lost or stolen by Publicity
. Director Robert Prescott last night
i but was turned in at the Emerald
office at a late hour.
Although the statements con
, tained accusations against the Em
i erald, Editor, Fred Colvig declared
last night that they would not be
published without Prescott's con
sent because “of the manner in
which they accidentally drifted into
my hands and because I am not
certain that the charges contained
in the continuity were actually de
livered.”
Pin Planter’s Pamphlet
Prates of Pixilated Pairs
For eons and eons there has been a need to have, in addition to a
Pigger’s guide, a Pin Planter’s guide enumerating just who is going
with whom and why. At last we present a list, crude as it may be,
of the fair damsels to whom the "Hands-off” and “Stay way away”
doctrine may be applied.
Strolling down Nicotine Lane we saw the bright and shining faces
of Jeanne Sherrard and Mackie Cornwall. Reclinig beneath Jeanne’s
Kappa Key was a bright and shining Fiji pin.
The Kappa sophomores went to •
town on the pin accumulation re
cently with the Kapjrn Sigs the
victii.iS. To wit, Carol Hansel
wrested Bill Dalton’s Crescent and
Star, and La Verne Terpeson was
sucked under by the wiles of Bar
bara Thompson. . . . We wonder
when Mary Janet Higgins will dis
play her White Cross openly ?
Patsy Neal is still carrying the
torch for Bill Paddock, but when
the torch flickers, Johnny Maeder
seems to be around.
Tooting on down the street to
the Gamma Phi dugout we ran
right into a Phi Delt stronghold.
Wearers of the Sword and Shield
are Doris Drager, Mary Wright
and Frannie Johnston. The gentle
men in question: Jimmy Nicholsen,
Norm Bay, and Noel Benson re
spectively.
The Snooper for the "Guide” el
bowed his way through the ATO’s
to get in the Pi Phi dive and this
is what he learned: Cappy Cum
mings fs still the proud possessor
of Glenn "Kentucky” Kantock's in
signia, and Betty Pownall polishes
Jimmy Stanger",s Maltese Cross
twice a day. Ho, hum, Fran Wat
sek is tied down to Sigma Nu’s
heavyweight wrestler, Ed Elfving;
while Gnan Goodsel looks blissfully
at Ed “The Goon” Wheelock of the
Sig X Club.
Have faith in the Snooper and
we’ll have the rest of the list next
week!
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