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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1936)
Guild War Protest Play Will End Run At Curtain Tonight VOLUME xxxvm NUMBER 17 The Passing ° c Former Mrs. f Armament Insurgents Shipping By DARRE low “ son ~ nee 7 p s Free to Marry The “most talkeu UUv,UI. woman in the world” is today tentatively a free woman. The hearing in Jus tice Hawke's court yesterday- a mere formality of seventeen min utes’ testimony followed by a crisp “Oh, very well, a decree nisi" from the judge—gave Mrs. Wallis War field Simpson the right to marry again, if she wishes, at the end of a six-month probation period. The vivacious, Baltimore-bor.i friend of Britain’s, King Edward VIII was at no time looked upon by Justice Hawke, who was notice ably irked to find the now famous divorce case in his court. No cor respondent was named. Setting the Pace A $230,000,000 modernization program for France’s air forces to gether with a large increase in number of war planes was ap proved' by the French cabinet last night. In Belgium, a new military bill of unknown content awaits consideration of parliament at to day’s session. Coming on the heels of the re cent Italo - German accord, the French and Belgian moves were interpreted by observers as reac tionary measures. Belgium’s mili tary bill, at the same time, was a matter of conjecture—as to whe ther it includes fortifications of her French as well as her German borders. Poor Robinson Crusoe An 18-year-old youth who spent six shivering hours in the darkness on Crater lake’s Wizard island af ter swimming through icy waters from the lake shore was rescued last night by CCC boys who carried a boat down the steep embankment and rowed out to him. Clayton Ellingson, 18, cousin of Don Ellingson, who made the swim, started on the venture also but turned back when the frigid wa ters proved too much for him. When discovered by CCC rescuers, Don was wrapped in a piece of canvas he had found on the island and was nursing serious cuts on his feet, caused by walking on the sharp lava rocks which cover the island. While Madrid W aits With Insurgent advances yester day bringing them almost within shelling distance of the Spanish capital, the Fascist battle cry last night had become “Madrid by Sat. (Please turn to page tivo) Socialists Gather Tonight at Y Hut Eugene socialists and near-so cialists will meet tonight at the University Y hut to lay final plans for the last five days of the cur rent political campaign. Rev. Cecil F. Ristow of the Methodist church, and Prof. Charles Hulten of the journalism school will speak. Ristow will out line the platform of the Socialist party and the part it is playing in the present campaign. Hulten will discuss the possibilities of a na tional Farmer-Labor party during the next four years, and what part the Socialist party may play in its development. Party platforms, student litera ture, and other pamphlets and ma terial explaining the socialist po sition will be available. The meet ing, which will begin at 7:30 p. m., is open to all persons interested in the candidacy of Norman Thomas and the Socialist ticket. Patric, Former Student, Off for European Trip As special correspondent for the National Geographic society, John Patric, journalism student at the University in 1933, writes from on board the Conte di Savoia that he is off on his second European assignment in a single year. Equipped with a portable type writer, a new camera, and $1000 in expense money, he was sent by the society to Czechoslovakia and Hungary to look for interesting material. Patric has just finished two stor ies which will appear in future issues of the National Geographic magazine. One on Rome will be published shortly after the first of the year. The other, on Italy, will be divided into two or three separ ate stories. Third’s a Charm ? (Courtesy the Morning News) Shown in the bridal gown she wore at her first wedding, when she became the bride of Lieutenant Winfield Spencer Jr., USN, in 1916, is Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson whose first decree of divorce was granted in 17 minutes in an English court yesterday. Mrs. Simpson’s name has been linked romantically with that of King Edward VIII, whose formal coronation will come in a little more than six months, just a week before Mrs. Simpson is given her final decree. Wrought-Iron Gates on LibetoHonorLateDr.Hall The memory of Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president of the University from the fall of 1926 until he resigned in 1932, will be honored when wrought-iron gates are hung for the new library building. These gates are being designed by B. O. Dawson, a former student of the art school who is now in Portland. Other art work which is being included in the new structure is being done by students in the art department or who were formerly connected with it. Edna Dunberg, who died last summer, was work ing at the freize outside the build ing. Murals have been made on the two staircases, one depicting the growth of science and dedicated to the memory of Frederick George Young. Dr. Young, who died in 1929, was connected with the Uni versity for 33 years, both as dean of the school of sociology and dean of the graduate school, which posi tion he took in 1920. Mural Depicts Art Growth The second mural, depicting the growth of art, is given in memory of Lewella Clay Carson, the first Dean of Women on the campus. Miss Carson is living in a Califor nia sanitarium. These murals have been the work of Albert and Ar thur Runquist. Several of the sculptored heads of famous men which fill the niches on the outside of the build ing are the work of Mrs. Walter Pritchard, whose husband is work ing on the statues for the phys ical education building. All of these projects are under the supervision of the WPA. Rhodes Awards Aspirants Must Sign by Friday Friday will be the last day for those who wish to comppte for the Rhodes scholarship to sign with George Rebec, dean of graduate division and chairman of the local committee in charge of choosing eligible contestants. Books containing information about the Rhodes scholarship and Oxford university are kept on re serve for those who wysh to acquire further knowledge on the subject in room 30 of the library. Each year these books are put on re serve so that one person cannot take out all available material. Out of the fifteen contestants last year in the university, four were selected to attend the meet ing of the state committee in Port land. They are: Leland Thieleman, Stuart Portner, William Hall, and John Caswell. The competitors do not have to be students of the uni versity but are required to have at least two years of university work. The local committee which chooses the applicants includes: George Rebec, C. B. Beall, Andrew Fish, R. R. Huestis, A. R. Moore, and S. S. Smith. 75 Coeds Meet For First Taste Of Rifle Practice Coeds’ interest in the art of sharpshooting manifested itself Tuesday afternoon when about 75 women gathered at .the ROTC headquarters to be instructed in riflery. Sergeant Harvey Blythe, antici pating a small group, found it nec essary to increase the hours avail able for women to practice firing. A temporary schedule offers all day Tuesday and Thursday and possibly Thursday evening from 7:30 until 10:30, for practice and instruction. “These rifles wouldn’t kick a fly off a toothpick,” was Sergeant Blythe’s consoling answer to nu merous queries about rifles “back firing.” Soph Chairmen Starting Work On Class Dance Olympic Hotel Band May Play; Haener, Kemler Name Committee Men For Informal Expecting: the annual soph in formal to be one of the big dances of the term because of the large number of second-year students, Co-chairmen Harold Haener and Zane Kemler are making plans to secure a ‘‘big name" orchestra for the affair, scheduled for Saturday, November 14. George Cropp’s Olympic hotel musicians, who rate high in Se attle, according to the chairmen, are being considered. Other leading orchestras of Oregon and Califor nia will also be contacted before a final choice is made. Fine Dance, No Motif Althought the motif for the fall social highlight has not yet been decided upon some variation of ‘‘Bon Voyage” will probably be used as a theme. In the meantime, routine work was inaugurated yesterday with the appointment of ten special committees. Those announced were: orches (Please turn to page two) New System Used For Selling Mums Prizes Are Awarded io Girls Selling Most; Holden’s To Supply Flowers Introducing a novel system for contracting mum orders on detach able duplicate tickets, 30 salesgirls, directed by Felker Morris and June Brown, opened sales yesterday for the Oregon-Washington game Sat urday, according to Gladys Battle son, general AWS mum sales chair man. Prizes will be again awarded to the girls selling the most mums. Harriet Sarazin and Jacquiline Mc Cord sold the greatest number in fraternities last week, each girl selling 27. Katherine Kahn, selling in Susan Campbell hall, won for selling the most to coeds. Holden’s florist shop at Broad way and Morrison streets in Port land, has contracted to furnish mums at 50 cents, 75 cents, and $1, deliveries to be made on 75-cent and $1 mums. The tickets to be used will be much easier to dispense to pur chasers than were the sales slips formerly used. Joe and Elmer, Cottage ‘Come-ons’, Kidnaped By LAWRENCE QUINLAN Kidnaping—one of America’s most vicious crimes—showed its ugly visage on the University campus last Friday night when two hard working boys were snatched from under the eyes of several hundred unsuspecting students. The two victims, Joe Barker and Elmer Gape, both brain childs of H. P. Slugg, campus cartoonist, are still missing. This statement was submitted to campus detectives last night by “Tommy,” waitress at the Cottage on 13th street where the two men were honestly employed at the time of their abduction. “The two men were at their post in front of the Cottage door, tend ing to their usual duties,” the at tractive, broken-hearted waitress tearfully explained, “when— “Oh, their duties? Why, Elmer sits on a stool and gazes at a colos sal milkshake in front of him, while Joe—good old Joe—stands behind Elmer with a white apron around his waist and a ‘come-on-in’ appeal in his eyes. They lure the fresh men and other ‘sophisticates’ into the cafe, you know.” With a catch in her throat “Tom my” went on: “Then, about 10 o'clock, we sud denly were aware that the two lads were gone. The kidnapers took Elmer’s stool and milkshake—even Joe’s apron.” “Oh, yes, we miss them terribly, and we know that Elmer’s and Joe’s friends are mourning their disappearance, too.” Topping the long list of broken (Please turn to page two) Charm School Meets Today at Alpha Phi House “How Can You Be So Chram ing?” may be just the title of a song to some coeds, but to others these words phrase a problem. Philomelete offers the answer. Charm school, one of the Philo melete groups of Phi Theta Upsi lon, junior women’s honorary, meets this afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Alpha Phi house. All girls on the campus are invited to at tend. Campus etiquette, tradition, fashions and topics of interest to every coed will be discussed at the meeting. Isabelle Miller, campus “Emily Post,'* Frances Schaupp, Jane Bogue, and Kathleen Duffy are in charge of the group. Other hobby groups directed by Philomelete are: recreation, art and music, prose and poetry, travel and drama. Mrs, Thacker’s^ Book of Songs Taken From Car To use the words of Shake speare, "Something's rotten in Denmark!” An autographed collection of the songs of the picture “Swing Time,” presented bv Jerome Kern to Mrs. Jane Thacher pro fessor of piano, has mysteriously disappeared. Mrs. Thacher had the collection only four hours. Mrs. Thacher planned to work out a two-piano arrangement on some of these songs with Robert Gould, professor of music. Mrs. Thacher loaned the vol ume to Professor Gould, who placed the songs in his car. When Professor Gould stopped at the old library, the collection of songs vanished. The collection is of consider able value. Friars Pirii Six Senior Pledges Lewis, Eschebeck, Finley, Thomas, Davis, Bjork Tapped at Dance Honors were bestowed upon six senior men at the annual homecom ing dance Saturday night, when the Friars tapped their men. New members of the senior men’s hon orary are: John R. Lewis, president of the Order of the d; John Thom as, varsity catcher; Walt Esche beck, chairman of the 1936 home coming; Alan Davis, one time soph omore class president; Craig Fin ley, former president of the Skull and Dagger; and Delbert Bjork. football tackle and captain. Six hundred couples danced in the Russian ballroom to Gus Mey er’s Campus Capers and were en tertained by features. Don Chap man was master of ceremonies for the student acts. Dave Lowry and Vic Rosenfeld were co-chairmen for the dance. Vets Challenge OCPC to Debate ROTC Question Members of the Oregon Commit tee for Peace and Freedom yester day accepted a challenge for de bate in the. Portland civic auditor ium issued Sunday by representa tives of Portland veterans’ organi zations. The challenge directed to Charles Paddock, peace committee head, said, “Believing that the public is not fully informed as to the mili tary training initiated measure, the undersigned challenge your organ ization to publicly debate the is sue.” The message was signed by Har vey Swan, district commander of the American legion, and head of the Multnomah county veterans’ allied national defense committee. Paddock received the challenge yesterday, asking the OCPT to set a date for the meeting. According to Paddock, arrange ments will be made in Portland by Howard Ohmart, Portland repre sentative of the committee. Neither side has named speakers. Second Concert In Abas Series Played Monday A small but appreciative au dience greeted the Abas string quartet Monday evening when they presented the second performance of a series of concerts for students only. The third and final concert will be given November 9. The program included “Adagio Allegro" from the concerto for string quartet by Sanmartini, “An dantino Scherzo” from quartet in G minor by Debussy, two short pieces for string quartet by Stra vinsky, four Bagatelles for string quartet by McEwen, “Lament,” “March,” “The Dark Lake,” "Red Murdoch,” and “Andante Cant abile” from quartet in C minor by Mozart. After the concert, all music hon oraries gave a reception in the lounge In order to meet the quartet Hal Young Slates Opening Recital Now Voioo Instructor Will Appear November 10 at Music Ruildiii" Hal Young-, recent addition to the music faculty, will appear in his opening campus recital Tues day, November If), at 8 p.m. in the music auditorium. Mr. Young, tenor of wide musical comedy and light opera experience, was soloist with the Eugene Gleemen last year. Taking charge of the Gleemen in the absence of John Stark Evans, Young established himself in Eugene as an excellent perform er. At present he is acting as voice instructor in the school of music. Announcement of ticket sale and program for the concert will be made later this week. In addition to singing in light music productions, Mr. Young has appeared as soloist for the Boston, Cincinnati, Rochester, and Port land symphony ochestras. In 1926 he sang with the American Grand Opera company which toured the United States singing grand opera in English. OCPF to Climax Drive on Sunday Peace Committee to Make Final Appeal to Voters Throughout State On the air and on the debate platform, the Oregon Committee for Peace and Freedom will make its last appeal to voters of the state Sunday. The broadcast is scheduled for station KEX, Portland, at 9:45 p. m. Speakers will be Ben Os burne, executive secretary of the Oregon Federation of Labor; Ray Gill, state Grange mfester, Bishop Titus Lowe of the Methodist church, and Paul Kelty, managing editor of the Oregonian. The debate is also scheduled for Sunday evening in the library audi torium, Portland. Non-compulsory speakers will probably be Richard Neuberger, Monroe Sweetland and Charles Paddock. Speakers for the veterans’ groups which issued the debate challenge have not yet been announced. The committee is mailing its last issue of the “Initiative,” non-com pulsory bulletin, today, and is mail ing thousands of copies of its ar gument. The committee expects to circulate more than 50,000 copies of the folder. Seamen’s Strike May Delay Work On New Library A construction holdup on the new library is feared if the im pending seamen’s union strike ma terializes, Will V. Norris, in charge of campus construction, said yes terday. Scheduled for any time after Wednesday, over 35,000 sea and dock workers may walk out. Due to lower rates, construction materials to be used on the library have been shipped by sea. The re mainder of the materials to be used have been withheld awaiting the outcome of the federal mari time commission’s hearing of the dispute and the decision of the union men. Much painting in the library re mains to be done. Floor carving, tiling, and laying of linoleum await completion, while all lighting fix tures must yet be installed. When completed, the new library will represent an expenditure of approximately $500,000 of which about 45 per cent will be paid by the federal government through the PWA, the remainder to be ap propriated by the state of Oregon. NY A Pay Checks Are Ready for Students At Johnson Hall NVA checks are ready for distribution at window 2 on the second floor of the administra tion building Wednesday from 8 to 12 o’clock and from 1 until 3 o’clock. Didn’t Believe It (Courtesy the Register■(luard) As editor of u wire service from the front in the war which “starts tomorrow” in the University thea ter's “Bury the ead,” Dan E. Clark Jr. scoffs at his reporter when he brings in a story that dead men refuse to be buried. Capacity Crowd Sees Guild Play ‘Bury the Dead’ to Finish Four-Day Run Tonight; Attendance Good Bidding fair to set a record for attendance at a University play presented in recent years, "Bury the Dead" enters its fourth and final showing in the Guild hall to night after showing to a capacity audience Tuesday evening. Believing the increased atten is an indication of stirring interest in campus drama, the play’s pro ducers and actors were enthusias tic last night. Attendance to all performances has been good, Mrs. Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt reports, with the smallest "house" attend ing Monday night. The policy of not selling the seats in the first two rows has been maintained throughout the performances, as they are too close to the stage, especially in a play of this type which depends heavily on the lighting for it's effects. C. A. JONES HAS JOB Chester A. Jones; who formerly did graduate work in chemistry at the University of Oregon, is now working for the Champion Paper and Fiber company at Hamilton, Ohio. His position is in the chemical control of the manufacturing oper ations. OregontoHold PortlandRally Friday Night Serpentine, Street Rally, Danee, Show on Stage; Affair to Be 4No Date,’ Says Committee A “stupendous” pre-game rally for Friday night in Portland, pre ceding the “big game" Saturday has been announced by the Oregon rally committee, headed by Don Thomas. A serpentine dance, beginning at the depot will wind up Broadway street to the Broadway theatre. Students leaving Eugene on the 4:52 train Friday afternoon will arrive in Portland in time to par ticipate in the serpentine. Dance Will Be Informal Following a brief street rally in front of the theatre, the students will gather on the mezzanine fof an informal dance. Then the stage performance will be given. The entire affair will be “no date," the rally committee feeling this will insure freer participation and greater enjoyment for the stu dents. . The committee emphasizes the importance of cooperation on the part of students to make the rally a success, and urges all those plan ning to go to buy their train tic kets, rally tickets, and rooter lids before Friday, to avoid last-minute confusion. Theta Sigma Phi To Initiate Nine Mrs. Eric W. Allen to Tell Of Summer Vacation Spent in Germany All women enrolled in the jour nalism school are to be guests of Theta Sigma Phi, women’s nation al journalism fraternity, at an open meeting Thursday, November 5, at which Mrs. Eric W. Allen will speak on her experiences in Ger many the past summer. The affair will be in Alumni hall. Immediately preceding the meet ing, nine women, pledged by Theta Sigma Phi last spring at the Mat rix Table banquet, will be initiated by the society. Members and pledges will attend a banquet at the Anchorage before initiation which will be held in the AWS rooms in Gerlinger hall. Mildred Blackburne is in charge of initiation. Assisting her are (Please turn to pni/e two) College Reading Trends Shown by Lending Libes “Book consciousness” has resulted in 548 books being placed on the lending library shelves of 14 living organizations this fall. Women's organizations have topped the men in interest 9 .to 6. Alpha Phi, Tri-Delta, Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa, Susan Campbell hall, Women’s co-op, Alpha Gamma Delta and Alpha Xi Delta are the women’s groups who have taken advantage of the traveling libraries. Men s organizations tak ing out books are Theta Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, Omega hall, and Westminster house. College men read more non-fic tion than do women, Miss Bernice Rice, circulation librarian said. In fact non-fiction has lead fiction for the two-year period since the start ing of these lending libraries, 3,176 to 2,193, in the total of 5,269 books. Another surprising fact discov ered by Miss Rice is that contrary to speculation, books on art and music were demanded by men's or ganizations and the majority of the books from the Carnegie collection of art which was received last spring were taken out by them. Guesses have been made as to the most popular books among col lege students but Miss Rice’s fig ures show 17 books which stand above all others. They are “An thony Adverse,” “Skin Deep,” “North of the Orient,” “Mutiny on the Bounty,” “A Lantern in Her Hand,” “Men of Art,” “Arrange ment of Flowers,” “Twentieth Cen tury Music,” “Magnificent Obses sion,” “100,000,000 Guinea Pigs,” “Personal History,” "Omah Khay yam,” “Madame Bovary,” “Out of My Life and Thought,” "Modern (Please turn to page two) Joe Richards MEN’S STORE Into tin' door Hi* threw his hat; Out came another And that was that. LEE HATS $3.85