; VOLUME XXXVIII
'ampus ‘Kamos? in
Rejuvenated ASVO
Assembly Thursday
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937
NUMBER 45
The
Passing Show
Manhunt Broadens
Transport Crashes
Ballot Preference
Lewis Battle Cry
By DARREL ELLIS
Until He Is Caught
From border to border, state
and federal police joined forces
yesterday in the most intensive
manhunt since the Lindbergh kid
napping, tracking down every
clue which might possibly
throw light on either the identity
or whereabouts of the kidnapper
murderer of 10-year-old Charles
JVIattson. President Roosevelt had
virtually taken over control of the
case which he promised would
never be given up “until the mur
derer is caught.”
In the vicinity of Everett,
Washington, where the body was
found, nearly 100 federal agents,
state police, and other officers
were conducting an inch-by-inch
search of the woods, trails, and
roads, and were questioning resi
dents within a three-mile radius,
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At San Bernadino, California, a
report that a man resembling the
Mattson kidnapper was heading
south—possibly for the Mexican
border—was met with orders
from local officers and state
police to blockade all roads lead
ing into the Imperial valley.
The body of a man who pur
portedly left Kelso, Washington,
on a Greyhound bus January 7,
and who leaped to his death from
the moving vehicle discovered yes
terday by Missouri police on a
frozen creek near Kingdom City—
was being investigated and was
thought possibly to be linked with
the Mattson case.
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Canadian Mounted Police at
Grand Forks, British Columbia,
yesterday arrested two men for
illegal entry into Canada from the
state of Washington. The men,
who gave names of Leonard Dahl,
31, and William Bailey, 44, had in
their truck and automobile four
loaded guns, and one unloaded.
The men were beipg held until
investigations of their earlier
activities could be made.
Plane Crash Kills One
One passenger was killed and
several injured yesterday when a
transport plane on its way to
Burbank, California, from Salt
Lake City “pancaked” on a hill
side 29 miles from Los Angeles.
Included in the list of injured are
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, big
game hunters. Each suffered a
broken leg. Stormy weather was
blamed for the crash.
The “A’s” Have It
AAlvik is his name—Christian
AAlvik of Stevenson, Washington;
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Cornell To Have
Grievance Court9
Election Forums
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
Students at Cornell university
v^ill be able to air their pet griev
ances in a “good will court” which
is to be established at that univer
sity. Another purpose of the court
will be to bring out ideas for the
extension of self-government.
To crystalize student opinion the
student council has adopted the
plan of holding open forums at
which all candidates for class
offices are invited to appear foi
questioning as to their platforms
By this means it is hoped that the
general tone cf class elections will
be much improved.
Beaux Arts Ball
Grasshoppers can really take' it
according to an experiment con
ducted by John Wehmeyer, USC
pharmacy student. Wehmeyer ha;
a hobby of experimenting with in
sects, and has made many’ remark
able discoveries.
Recently, he conceived the ide£
of placing his pet grasshopper
Jolo, in an ice tray, where he re
mained for over three hours. Whei
he was frozen solid in the ice
Wehmeyer removed him, thawe<
him out with hot water, an:
placed him in the sunshine.
For a few minutes the insec
seemed stunned, but he was sooi
hopping about, apparently non
the worse for his harrowing ex
perience.
Heads Selected
The newest racket for colleg
girls is the one practiced a
Augustana college. South Dakota
The co-eds, in order to know wha
they are in for, sell mimeographei
"reputations” of fellows as the;
are revealed at their (the girls'
bull sessions.
Campus Play
To Deal With
Family Trio
Eleanor Pitts, Patricia
Neal, G. T. Smith, Are
Complex ‘Triangle’ of
‘The Shining Hour’
A modern play of human emo
tions dealing with a complete
family “triangle” is the theme of
“The Shining Hour,” the winter
season opener of the University
theatre, which starts a three-day
run Friday evening at 8:30 with a
formal “dress” performance.
The setting, designed by Horace
W. Robinson, will picture a com
fortable country home in rural
England which is torn asunder by
the intensely dramatic scenes
which follow a brother's return
home with his bride.
Trio Takes Leads
The leading roles of the trio,
around which the play revolves
are taken by Gerald T. Smith,
Eleanor Pitts, and Patricia Neal.
The production is directed by
Otillie Turnbull Seybolt.
The box office will be open
daily from 10 to 12 and 1 to 5 ac
cording to Milton Pillette, business
manager for the production. On
days of performance the office will
be kept open until curtain time.
Advance reservations made pre
vious to the official opening of the
ticket sale indicate a full house
for the first night performance
with its attendant tuxedoes and
formal gowns.
Plans have been made to serve
coffee in the theatre lobby during
intermission. The lobby will be
converted into a comfortable
lounge for the purpose.
Reservations may be made by
calling at the theatre box office in
104 Johnson hall or telephoning
3300 and asking for the University
theatre boxoffice. Regular per
formances will be at 8 o’clock Sat
urday, January 16 and on the fol
lowing Tuesday, January 19.
Work of Oregon Alum
Is In Poetry Anthology
Chester A. Fee, University grad
uate with the class of 1916, is
among the contributors in the 1936
anthology of poetry, “American
Voices,” edited by Margaret Nel
son. As well as his poem, “Shad
ow,” there is a biographic sketch
1 of Fee.
The book was received this week
by M. H. Douglass, librarian, and
will be found on the University of
Oregon library shelf. Fee, the first
president of Ye Tabard Inn, has in
the past two years published two
| books, “Chief Joseph, Biography of
: a Great Indian,” and “Rimes O'
Round-up,” and is now working on
j two others.
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Betrayed Wife
Patricia Neal brings another of
her performances to Guild Theater
patrons as the wife in “The Shin
ing Hour,” to be presented on the
campus January 15, lti, and 19.
Her part in a tragic love triangle
is a new type for Miss Neal.
aws ejections
To Be This Term
Martha McCall Asks That
Members Conte m p 1 a t e
Selected Candidates
Martha McCall, AVVS president,
asked Thursday night that Univer
sity women begin contemplating
candidates for AWS offices for
which elections will be held the
end of winter term. Although a
nominating committee submits
possible names, nominations from
the floor may also be accepted.
The exact date and place of the
election to transpire this year, win
ter term, for the first time, in or
der to escape the hubbub of ASUO
and other spring elections, has not
been definitely set.
'"’student body cards will be need
ed to vote. Miss McCall urged
that house presidents stress the im
portance of coeds obtaining these
within the next two week.
Speech Honorary Will
Hold Meeting Thursday
Order of the Mace, University
speech honorary, will hold their
first meeting of the term Thurs
day at Room 13, Friendly, follow
ing the speech assembly, which is
scheduled to begin at 7:30, Kessler
Cannon, president of the society,
has announced.
W. A. Miller, instructor in
physics, will address members of
the speech assembly at a meeting
to be held Thursday at 7:30 in
Villard hall. Mr. Miller will lecture
and give demonstrations on sound.
All speech students are expected
to attend these regular monthly as.
semblies.
Reduced Prices Slated
At Whiskerino Dance
—
| Men of the campus need not fear for their wallets. Tickets for the
i Sophomore Whiskerino January 23 are eighty cents, and can be bought
j from representatives in all living organizations.
Departing entirely from the old high-schedule costs of campus
dances in the past year, the dance committee under Denton Burdick
I promises that even though the initial cost is low, the returns will be
Steppe Steps
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■ ers in Col. W. deBasil’s Ballet
Russe de Monte Carlo to appear
r here February 4 is Alexandra
j Danilova. Tiekets are selling rap
r: idly among students and towns
i I people for the first AS CO concert
feature of winter term.
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•The sophomore raising the best
beard by the evening of the
dance, January 23, will be pre
sented with a cup. Many other
valuable prizes are in store for the
iucky ones who make a showing.
Any trimming of beards except
immediately before the dance will
not be tolerated by chief vigi
lantes Jim Wells and Willie
Frager.
A new machine has been put in
use by the vigilante represent
atives to detect any trimming of
beards by an electric shaver.
Even though the mill race is
no\v frozen over to a depth of
i three inches, the sleuths are busy
at work making black-lists of
each sophomore who shaves. As
soon as possible these men will be
| called to the deck of the historic
bridge for a very chilly and blood
: curdling ritual.
In keeping with tradition any
freshman caught witnessing the
! sophomores' fun will follow very
closely in the dunked one’s wing
steps.
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Women Are Now Partners,
Not Slaves, in Marriage
Says Dr. Brodie in Forum
"Women have stepped from bondage to partnership in marriage.
Men have gained a partner and lost a slave,” Dr. Jessie L. Brodie,
practicing physician from Portland and an Oregon alumna, said Tues
day when she spoke to students in Villard hall opening the lecture
forums on marriage which is under the direction of the student com
mittee and the University personnel office.
Dr. Brodie said she believed that people are now learning to live
together for a better foundation of marriage. A committee has been
SLaneu m r'uriia.iiu, saiu, wmuu
is trying to train children for home
making in the schools beginning ill
the nursery schools and extending
the education program through the
high schools.
Stability Necessary
“Jtuman homes have to be
stable." Dr. Brodie said, "and mar
riage has the purpose of keeping
the home together. Most of the
mental and disciplinary problems
are dependent on a poor- home in
the background."
She said that she considered a
common interest and a common
education necessary between part
ners in marriage, and that a feel
ing of respect between the two
people is needed for the success of
marriage.
Speaking of the common bond of
marriage, she cited a story of a
woman whose husband had been,
killed in an automobile accident af
ter the two had been married for
about ten years. Dr. Brodie said
that the wife felt that she had not
lost a companion but had lost part
of herself.
Marriage a Partnership
‘‘Interests are so much in
common between married people
that they almost always think
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ASUO Cards Offer
Varied Program
Motile Carlo Ballet Russe,
Admiral Byrd to Appear
In Concert Series
Major features of the winter
term student body activities will
be the appearance of Admiral
Byrd and the Monte Carlo Ballet
Russe, Ralph Schomp, student
activities manager, said yesterday.
Admiral Byrd will come to the
Oregon campus January 27.
The Monte Carlo Ballet Russe
will appear February 4. The bal
let played 16 sell-out perform
ances in the Metropolitan opera
house in New York city before be
ginning its tour.
Next on the ASUO program
will be the Eugene Gleeman on
February 18.
Participation in all student gov- '
ernment and assemblies, admission
to band and orchestra concerts
and the six remaining conference
basketball games is also included
in student body membership.
The exchange card in the stu
dent body books is exchangeable
for special student body seats for
the Ballet Russe without extra i
charge.
Subscription to the Emerald is'
also included with the book.
New Intramural Dance
Hour in Gerlinger Hall
A new intramural dance hour
will be held in Gerlinger dance
room at 4 o’clock on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. This class will be open
to both men and women. Members
of Master dance will lead. TLe
class will be concerned with the
improvement of technique.
Girls attending meetings twice
a week will receive a WAA check
; which applies on a letter.
ASUO Members Only
Will Receive Emeralds;
Delivery Policy Altered
Starting Friday, Emeralds
will no longer be delivered to
living organizations, but will be
placed at Johnson hall and the
Co-op to be available only to
student body members.
Eater in the semester when
lists of student body members
in the various living organiza
tions are available, the papers
will be delivered to the organ
izations with . the ..students’
1 names printed on them.
Weekly Contest
Judges Named
Best Oregon Newspapers
To Reeeive Sigma Della
Chi, Hoss Cups
Howard Kessler, chairman of the
Oregon Best Weekly contest to be
held in conjunction with the Ore
gon Press conference, which will
take place January 21, 22, and 23,
today announced the judges for the
contest. They will be Charles D.
Byrne, secretary of the state board
of higher education, Ed Turnbull
of Shelton - Turnbull - Fuller com
pany, Eugene, and Herb Grey, ad
vertising manager of the Medford
Mail-Tribune.
The judges will select the best
Oregon weekly newspaper and the
editor of that paper will be award
ed the Sigma Delta Chi cup. For
the best paper in towns of under
1000 population the Hal E. Hoss
cup will be given. Certificates will
be given second-place winners in
both divisions of the contest.
The awards will be presented at
the press conference banquet to be
held Friday night, January 23.
Winter Term
Social Events
Are Scheduled
Socialites to Swing Out
With Campus Dances,
House Formals Signed
For Coining Term
House dances in the form of
dinner affairs, formals and semi
formals have crowded the winter
social calendar to capacity, fill
ing each weekend until the begin
ning' of exams.
Campus affairs, dances and din
ners with popular speakers, bas
ketball games, social swims, and
events of the educational activi
ties series complete the calendar.
One of the latest additions to
the schedule is a campus dance
February 26 to raise money to turf
Hayward field. This was added
to the list Mondny morning.
Events scheduled and the order
in which they will take place are
as follows:
Jan. 14 Heads of. houses ban
quet.
Jan. 15 — University Theater
players.
OSC at Corvallis.
Social swim.
Jan. 16 University theater
players.
Jan. 20 Coed capers.
Newspaper Confab
Jan. 21-23 Newspaper confer
ence.
Jan. 22 Admiral Richard E.
Byrd.
Social swim'.
Delta Tau Delta formal dinner
dance.
Canard Coop dance.
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Senior Cops Will Guard
Coed Capers from Male
Intruders to Masquerade
Thirteen. Hours? Days? Years? No. SENIOR COPS. Where?
Coed Capers. When? January 20. Why? To keep out the male while
the feminine element of the University of Oregon romps in carnival
merriment at Gerlinger hall next Wednesday night from 7 until 9
o’clock.
Coed senior cops have long been a tradition at the annual AWS
fling to guard their fun from prying men.
Last year, garbed in masculine attire of sweaters, pants, and bat
lereci nais, uie ciaincy misses,
changed into fierce G-womcn, en
deavored with vicious-looking billy
clubs and tin whistles to warn each
other of intruders.
The thrill of the evening arrived
and sent terror into the hearts of
faculty judges as one bold miss
scampered out onto the rafters af
ter a successful marauder whom
she routed from the balcony pro
jection room. There the lad had
lain since early day awaiting his
chance to take secret moving pic
tures of the activity below.
Action; Suspense!
When discovered, his only hope
was the rafters. The cop followed.
There was action, suspense; but
his camera wares were confiscated.
This year those cops will appear
as little boys and girls. But under
neath their rompers and kiddie
clothes will lie that guarding in
stinct as fierce as ever. Beware to
the man who doubts that daunt!
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Science Confabs
Planned; Studies
Start This Week
A seminar series for science
students seeking information on
subjects not included in the Uni
versity science curriculum at the
present time is being considered by
the science department.
Dr. H. B. Yocom, head of the
zoology department, will speak
Thursday evening at 7:30 in Deady
hall on protoza in medicine. The
lecture, which will be of particular
interest to pre-medicine and
biology students, is open to anyone
interested.
If attendance is large enough to
indicate sufficient interest, a regu
lar series will follow, according to
Maxwell Doty, junior in science
and one of the instigators of the
plan.
liyrd Scans the Skies
Read-admiral Byrd and William Bowlin, navy pilot, talk it over
and decide flying conditions are safe before they take off on an Ant
,artic exploration trip. Byrd’s adventures on this trip and many other
will be told students at the ASUO-sponsored appearance on Januar'i
27 at McArthur court.
Varsity O Men to Meet
At Beta lltntse to Plan
For Letterrnan's Limp
John liFHh, president of the
Order of O, will moi'l with
memlters at the Bela Theta IT
house at noon, today, to discuss
plans for the Lettermen's I,imp,
February t».
Theta Sigs Hold
Luncheon Meet
Coniinitlcea Are Appointed
For Press Conferenee
January 21, 22, 23
Active and alumni members of
Theta Sigma Phi, women's na
tional journalism honorary, met
yesterday afternoon at the Anchor
age for their first luncheon meet
ing of the term. Plans for partici
pation in the Oregon Press con
ference to be held on the campus
January 21, 22, and 23 were dis
cussed.
Theta Sigma Ph i and Sigma
Delta Chi, national journalism
honorary for men, will present a
skit together at the press banquet
for the Oregon editors Friday
evening.
A tea for editor's wives and at
tending newspaperwomen will be
given from three to five Friday af
ternoon at the home of Gladys
Battleson by the members of Theta
Sigma Phi. Gladys Battleson and
Virginia Endicott were appointed
as an invitation committee for the
tea.
Judith Wodaege and Ellamae
Woodworth were appointed on the
decoration and refreshment com
mittee, Clare Igoe, Mildred Black
burne, Phyllis Adams, and Mary
Graham will serve refreshments
On the clean-up committee art
Margaret Ray and Jean Gulovson
Registration of the Oregon edi
tors from Friday morning unti
Saturday will be handled by Thets
Sigma Phi members.
Westminster to Start
Club for Frosh, Sophs
The “38-30 Club” of last year
sponsored by Westminster housf
for campus freshmen and sopho
mores, will be reorganized into the
"39-40 Club” tonight at a meet
ing scheduled for 8:30 at Westmin
ster house.
New officers will be elected, anc
members of last year are asket
to be present. All freshmen anc
sophomores are invited to partici
pate.
Mikulak Will
Meet Students
At Assembly
Amateur Hour Featuring
Major Bow-Wow's
New Starlets Offers
Varied Campus Talent
“Iron Mike" Mikulak. former
Oregon all-American fullback,
will be formally introduced at the
ASUO assembly Thursday at 11
a. m. in Gerlinger hall. Mikulak,
named Monday as Oregon back
field coach, will give a short talk
to the associated students.
Hal Young, professor of voice,
will sing and lead the students in.
a number of songs. Don Casciato,
recently discovered baritone, will
also entertain the students with
a selection.
Schultz Will Me Major
An amateur hour known as
“M a j o r Bow-wow's Amateur
Hour” with Gib Schultz, president
of the student body, acting as
master of ceremonies, will be fea
tured through the auspices of the
ASUO. The program as obtained
from Master of Ceremony Schultz
yesterday is as follows:
“Smoky” Whitfield as “The
Duke from the Delta."
Hal Jepsen as Fred Astaire's
“out of town."
Reart-render Slated
Lou Lubensky and Walt Esche
beck in the sad, sad story of
‘‘Casey at the Bat,” which, ac
cording to Schultz, will bring out
heart-rending sobs to the sorrow
ful strains of ‘‘Hearts and Flow
ers,” as only Walt can play it.
Next—Ed Wulzen as "Lord
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New Library Etchings
Placed on U of O Shelf
The construction of the new li
brary is commemorated in the book
of 30 etchings by George W. Gil
key ‘35, which was placed on the
U. of O. shelf in the library this
week. The etchings were taken
as the thesis for Gilkey’s master
of arts degree which he received
last June, and was done under a
WPA project.
Besides the bound book, which
contains introductive messages by
Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter,
President C. Valentine Boyer, Li
brarian M. H. Douglass, and Achi
tect Ellis F. Lawrence, and an
acknowledgement by Gilkey, there
will be available a second set of
etchings for use in the art schools.
Propellor Club ‘Port’
Organized on Campus
A “student port” of the Propellor club of the United States, business
and administration honorary in foreign trade, has been organized on
the Oregon campus and will take up active work with the installation
of the chapter on January 21.
Campus foreign traders, students with a professional interest in
foreign trade, make up the personnel of the organization. It will be
devoted to popularizing and explaining the part the American mer
chant Marine plays in foreign trade.
This club was conceived and!
started by Professor Warren Lo
max of the business administration
school. It has as its objectives: to,
promote, further and support an >
American merchant marine; to dis- '
cuss shipping problems; to promote ;
interest in foreign trade on the *
campus; to obtain prominent indi-r
viduals in this field to speak; and^
to organize those professing inter
est in foreign trade.
The officers are: president, Glenn
Kantock; vice - president, John
Economus; secretary - treasurer,
Bruce Rogers; honorary president
and adviser, Professor Lomax.
Installation of the new officers
and the 30 charter members is ten-'
tatively set at a dinner, January 21.
Attending will be prominent ship
ping mei^from many points on the
Pacific coast and a visiting dele-]
gation of the Propeller club of
Portland.
This i. p" international organi
zation which s 51 chapters. The
Propeller club provides the indi
vidual with a medium for working
in concert with his contemporaries
and associates toward improved
. conditions in the marine industry.!
- To the American marine industry,
* the Propeller club of the United
States offers a national organiza-1
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