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The Passing Show New Stylo Sitdown ‘Softening' Reform Crooner Pugilist (Amice at Spain By PAUL DEUTSCHMANN hi Governor's Office Sitdown strikes were delt an otlier legal blow yesterday when 75 relief-seekers, who had parked in the office of Governor Davey of Ohio for twp days, were ejected by deputy sheriffs after a hectic fight. The sitdowners, members of the Ohio Workers Alliance, sought a $50,000,000 poor relief allotment from the state government. Four were jailed. ISo ‘Yes' Judges Attempts to “soften” the presi dent's court reform bill by a con stitutional amendment were met yesterday with promises of fight by opponents of tampering with the judicial body. The senate com mittee heaid three more witnesses who all gave testimony against re form. President of Yale University, James R. Angell, joined the group of college presidents condemning the measure when he wrote a let ter to the committee stating that “no judiciary made up of political «'yes’ men could maintain public confidence and respect.” W ho is Rudy Vnllee? Brought before a Boston judge on an assault charge, Rudy Vallee, crooner-pugilist, was unknown to the court who asked, “Who is he?” A Boston Daily Record photo grapher claimed Rudy took a sock at him when he snapped the singer and a companion last Tuesday. Vallee denied that he punched the camera man. The picture was published in the newspaper. ISeiv Victory, Defeat Conflicting dispatches from the northen Spanish front yesterday told of both rebel gains and losses in the campaign on Bilboa, Basque capital. According to insurgent sources, Durango, key city only 16 miles from the capital, was en tered. In France, information was received telling of large rebel loss es of Moors and foreign troops fighting for Franco. On the Madrid front government forces continued a two-dav battle and reported that insurgent troops in the University city had been cut off. The loyalists claimed sizeable gains along the entire Madrid line. GMC Re-Opens in Canada Determined that labor should not obstruct Canadian law and order, Premier Hepburn of Ontario dis patched sufficient guards to allow the GMC plant to resume partial operations. The premier was ready, he said, “to raise an army" if nee (Pleafe turn to page four) Women Tend to Outnumber Men In Art Schools By BERNADINE BOWMAN Will women outnumber men among- the American artists of the near future? Present enroll ments in the art school of America would seem to indicate that the answer is “yes.” According to a survey now being completed by the Grand Central School of Art, New York, there are twice as many wo men as men in the art schools of this country this year. ‘Cup the Beetle’ Game A drove of multi-colored beetles will be one of the attractions at the sophomore carnival being held at Stanford tonight. Green, white, and red beetles will cr&wl around a table trying to avoid being trapped by a swooping paper cup, which will descend upon them from above. The cup will be manipulated by means of levers which will be worked from the edge of the circular table. Everyone is hoping the beetles will be on good behavior, and not journey to other parts of the car nival. Coed Will Rent Diary An enterprising coed at the Uni versity of Kansas is planning on increasing her income by making her diary available for the public and have it become known as a “best renter.” The coed was re cently engaged and tells in her diary about every college date up to the time of the engagement—it gives a personality sketch of the date along with different techni ques. The personal history will be made public right after the girl is married. .. >■■■ - , Dorsey Don re Tojis W eekend Pprogram; Will He nrontlcost _i NUMBER 93 VOLUME XXXVIII Peace Week Forums On World Problems Will Start Monday •/ < '.ommiinism, Fascism, International Friction And Youth Movements On Topic List To Last Three Days V. Morris, Warren Smith, K. On thunk., S. S. Smith Lead Discussions Peace week forums, to be held in alumni hall. Monday in the men's lounge at Gerlinger, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, will take up the study of international re lations and their connection with war. Four sessions are scheduled for each day, falling in two divisions. From 2 to 3:30, the forum will be led by Dean Victor P. Morris, and Dean Karl W. Onthank; from 3:30 to 5, Warren D. Smith and S. (Please turn to page two) Triple Mock Trial Will Begin Today Law Students Attorneys In ‘Do" Poisoning' Case At Conrllionsr At 1:10 this afternoon Douglas Spencer, son of Carlton E. Spencer of the law school faculty, will be tried at the Lane county court house on a charge of having pois oned a clog. One trial, moreover, j will not be enough for Douglas ! Spencer, student at the Roosevelt Junior Ijigh school. He is to be tried three times. Douglas is expected to plead ‘‘not guilty” to the charge of dog poisoning, but it really doesn’t j matter. It will only be a mock trial, staged by third-year law stu- i (Please turn to page jour) Col. Leader Aroused Fear Of Hun Invasion 20 Years Ago; 'Pro-Germans’ Ousted Ey GORDON CONNELLY As the World War wore on 20 years ago, fear of the “Hun” grew in the University and the rest of Oregon. As fa* back as the spring of ’17 President P. L. Campbell intended to secure some injured Allied officer to teach military training here. | In the winter of 1917-18 Lieutenant-Colonel John Leader, retired com- j mandering officer of the 16th Royal Irish Rifles, of General French’s famous Ulster division, personally commended by Lord Kitchener, Sir Douglas Haig, and General Lord French, came to the green campu3 beside the millrace. having been injured “over there.” Then on February 5, 1918, the Emerald flashed this headline: "HUNS COULD EASILY INVADE COAST, SAYS COLONEL LEAD ER (2-column head), GERMANS MIGHT CAPTURE AND OCCUPY NORTHWEST, MAKING THIS FLICT, TO KEEP U.S. TROOPS VICINITY CENTER OF CON HERE, LARGE BOCHE FORCE TO LAND FROM TRAMP VES SELS ON PACIFIC COAST. “Oregon, Washington, and the northwest country are in the grav est danger of being invaded by German troops this summer, if not before, according to the plans of Colonel Leader advanced in the military science class yesterday af ternoon. Eugene, said the Colonel, may soon be experiencing all the horrors which overtook Belgium. “The object of the commandant is to have every man in the battal ion endeavor to work out a system of defending this part of the coun try from the ravages of the Boche.’ Soon after a sham battle was held cn Judkins point as a practical method of devising such a defense, (Please turn to page two) Nominations Are Made for Offices In Pi Alpha Delta Nominations for new officers for the Williams chapter of Pi Alpha Delta, national legal honorary, were made at a meeting held in J Oregon Friday. Those nominated were: Sidney Milligan and Fred Hammond for justice; Dick Miller, vice-justice; Ed Reames, clerk; and Dave Sil ven, exchequer. Retiring officers include Keith Wilson, justice, and Hale Thomp son, vice-justice. Plans were made for the initia tion banquet which is to be one week from tonight, preceding the law school dance. Jason Bailey and Marven Hend'ricksen will be initia ted at that time. Election of of ficers will take place just before the banquet. Lamb Came From College and Set a Record ..• r inn^ii~<iiTrnr'nnin-nnnTT~—rrm..:k;. .S3 Reversing the process by which Mary’s little lamb went to school and won literary immortality, this lamb came from school and set a record. It was the entry of Don Bullington, California Polytechnic1 at San Luis Obispo in the Interstate Junior livestock show at San Francisco and was adjudged grand prize winner. Coeds’ Baskets GoonAWSBlock 1 I Nose-Tickling Products Of Fair (Ininpns (looks To Be Auctioned Blue ribbons, bright colored cel lonhnne and crepe paper all these will adorn baskets of food which go on the auction black next Sat urday night when 1-4 of the most dated women of the campus turn their baskets over to the auction ceV at the AWS carnival. Names of the campus cooks will be found only on the inside of the boxes, and as the cardboards con taining both food and sentiment will sell for their exterior beauty alone, it will behoove the bidder to use keen sense of detection to discriminate that of his love. Kach woman chosen, state mem bers of the directorate committee who are selecting the women, typi fies the beauty, poise, and style of the best of Oregon's coeds. Several of these walk the camp us green with a bit of fraternity jewelry other than their own, and the pin-planters, unless tipped oft by the girl friend, will need to put a bid in for each basket, with the hope of obtaining the desired one. Among the candidates is a tall Alpha Phi blonde possessing a Chi Psi pin, an AOPi with a well known hair dress, a blues-singer of the Tri Delt house, Alpha Chi's brunette traveller, and two coeds from the halls who have won dis tinction in activities. Long Drosses, Suits Conventional Attire For Tonight's Dance Following the eiistom of pre vious journalism dances spon sored by Sigma Delta Chi, coeds will wear long dresses and men light or dark suits when they dance to Jimmy Dorsey’s rhy thm tonight, the dean of wom en’s office and Isahelle Miller, campus social chairman, ruled yesterday. Men may or may not send corsages. I * Budding Lawyers Annual BA Strife, Parade April 17 Saturday, April 17, will bo a big day for members of the Ore gon law school, states Dick B. Miller, general chairman for the law school’s annual junior week end. There will be a student body meeting and election of new of ficers at 11 o'clock in room 105, Oregon. Immediately following the election, new officers will be "installed” into the mill race. At one o’clock the parade, fea turing some seventy most un musically inclined law students, Will start out from the law build ing, led by Dick Devers astride a white horse. After the parade the studious lawyers will “mix it" with the school of business administration in their annual baseball game on Howe field. There will be a banquet in the evening, followed by a dance at the Anchorage, for law students. Robert W. Thomas Ready for Active Marine Service Lieutenant Robert W. Thomas, '36, is now looking forward to ac tive service with the United States Marine corps. He has finished an eight weeks militia training course at the Marine corps basic training school in Philadelphia. Thomas was given an appoint ment as a marine corps officer last July following his graduation from the University where he was prominent in scholastic and mili tary affairs, belonging to Scab bard and Blade, Friars, Skidl and Dagger, and on the track and golf teams. He was class treasurer in 1933, 1934, and ASUO treasurer in 1935, 1936. FAJARDO IN SEATTLE Alfredo T. Fajardo, ’36, is work in on the news bulletin published by the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers union in Seattle. Early Gifts to University Caused Donors Hardship; Deady Hall First Building (Editor’s note: This article is the third of a series which will tell the story behind interesting “landmarks” on the Oregon campus and which will appear in the Emerald from •time to time.) By LUCILLE FINCH "Old Oregon” has many memories of familiar places and scenes for both old grads and present students. These have been collected through the years by gifts and contributions, until now our Universitv is rich in tradition and landmarks. First to give to the University of Oregon were the pioneers. In the old Eugene district school build ing, by the light of a single flicker ing “tallow dip,” the first definite action was taken towards building the institution. An offer was made of the first ground gift, a “build ing, ground, and furnishings to cost not less than $50,000.” Thi3 was in 1872. On October 16, 1876, Deady hall, the gift of the people of Lane county and the first build ing of the University, opened its doors to students. Self-denial Caused Dean John Straub described, in an interview some years ago, what those first contributions often re presented in the way of self-denial and the sharing of meager posses sions for the cause of education. “He recalled one Saturday night when there would have been no funds to pay the workmen on a new building if a friend had not gone into the country and solicited donations. The man came home conducting a load of hay, a load of wood, and one meek cow. The donations were sold and the work men paid. "In those days, money came to the University from almost every source. One woman took in wash ing one day a week for six weeks and gave every cent she made to the University. Another woman sewed one day a week for six weeks for the same cause. Gifts of 10 and 15 cents were not unusual.” Karr Books Given Today people are still giving gifts to Oregon. Among these are numerous scholarships and prizes for the students, museum and art treasures, and rare books and man (Please turn to page four/ Mary McCornick $500 Fund Loan, Not Scholarship The Mary McCornick $500 fund which is to be used for the aid of students going into religious work is a loan fund, it was an nounced yesterday to clear up mis understanding. | The $500 fund is not to be used as a gift or scholarship, as was formerly announced. Miss McCor nick left the fund for John J. Landsbury, dean of the school of music. Under the plan drawn (up by Dean Landsbiny, the fund will be used as any other student loan fund with provision for repayment with interest, and signatures of co-signers. 18 IN INFIRMARY Infirmary patients today are: Jack Casey, Jean Parker, Sam Kroshel, Chandler Stevens, John Layton, Marvin Boyd, Sheldon Parks, Paul Rowe, William Tor rence, Arthur McNett, Harry Fall, Clayton Helgren, Betty Young, James Smith, Barbara Boyd, Anne Ernst, Virginia Enokson, and Ralph Cathey. CABINET MEETS There will be a short YWCA cabinet meeting Monday at 8 p. m. at the Y bungalow. All members (are asked to be present. YW TEA CHAIRMAN NAMED Helen Anderson has been named as chairman of the daily teas at the YW bungalow. Tea is served every afternoon from 3 to 4 :30. Dorsey, Tops* Band to Play For Sigma Delta Chi Dance, ASUO Bonus Concert in Igloo First Koy Down Yessir, when .1 i ..i in y Horsey pushes that first key down, strains which musicians declare to be as sweet as any in modern music float out of the hell of his clarinet. Dorsey will lead his hand here to night at an ASl'O concert and tb«' annual Sigma Delta Chi dance. Junior Weekend Queen Vote 14th Student B o d v Members Will Choose Five Front List of Candidates The queen and princesses of jun ior weekend will be chosen Wed nesday, by a vote of student body members. Ballots are to be cast at the booth between Commerce and Oregon buildings. The candidates are: Rlioda Arm strong, Betty Jane Casey, Peggy Vermillion, Frances Schaupp, Flo rence Smith, June Martin, Helen Mitchell, Cherie Brown, Frances Johnston, and Betty Pownall. Student body members are in structed to have their student body cords with them, and to vote for five candidates. The one re ceiving the most votes will be queen, and the next four will be princesses. Chancellor Leaves for Portland Alum Banquet Chancellor and Mrs. F. M. Hun ter left Friday for Portland, where the Chancellor will attend the alumni banquet to be held Satur day. They will return to Corvallis Monday and will go back to Port land Thursday when the Chancel lor is scheduled to speak before the Oregon congress of the Parent Teachers association. I - Donnie Edwards, Boy Songster, Heads Program; Concert to Open at 7:)>0; Informal ’Jam* at 9 o*Cloek By LLOYD TUPLING (Emerald News Editor) Accompanied by a group of headline entertainers, Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra will entertain students and towns people tonight in McArthur court at an ASUO concert from 7:30 to 8:30 and at the Sigma Delta Chi spring informal dance and concert from 9 to 12 o’clock. The famous orchestra leader, rated along with top-ranking American “name bands’’ comes to the University campus direct from a long engagement in Hollywood, where he has been per ‘Little Piggies’ Come to Grisly End in Zoo Lab ‘‘And this little piggie went to zoology lab!" Donny, Hopzibah, Romeo, Ho ration, and Oscar are the names of some of the young pigs being used for experiments in dissec tion In the zoology lab in IDeady hall this term. The pigs, which are about 18 inches in length are spread eagled on rectangular boards. Pickled pig’s feet extend grace fully to the four corners of the room, ns though in a ghastly, death-arrested toe dance. Some of them have whiskers reminiscent of “Whiskerino” days or perhaps the famous version of “the hair on his chin ny chin chin.” Future doctors and nurses and a few physical education majors weekly labor through the opera tions and it's surprising how the girls tear through the speci mens, excitedly> searching for bladders, spleens, kidneys, cir culatory systems, and what have you, regardless of suffocating whiffs of formaldehyde. Watson, my gas mask! terming in mgm. ciuds ana movies. Donnie Edwards, ll-year-old imitator of Cab Calloway and sing ing star on the NBC “Stars of Tomorrow" program, will head en tertainers on the night’s program. The young songster will appear along with Bob Eberle, crooner with the Dorsey band, and other featured entertainers in the orch estra. Will Play Requests Students desiring to have Dor sey play special numbers may leave their requests at the offices of Ralph S. Schomp, educational activities manager, Dorsey will play a number of old favorites as well as many of the latest hits. Ticket sales, which have been booming for the past week, will be closed at noon today in men’s living organizations so that re maining tickets will be available for purchasers at the educational activities office, the University Co-op, the College Side, and at the candy counter of McMorran and Washburne’s store downtown. Ticket Sales Good According to Stan Hobson, co chairman for the affair, only about a hundred tickets remain for sale at the door. Dorsey’s music will be broadcast tonight over an Oregon hook-up of radio stations, KORE, KSLM, and KGW, in what is believed to be the first broadcast of a “big name" band from the Oregon Campus. Guild Players9 Performance Of rEthan Frome9 Catches Mood of Wharton9s Novel By KENNETH KIRTLEY The cast of the Guild hall production of “Ethan Frome” has caught the mood of Edith Wharton’s deudly quiet and starkly tragic novel in a manner which brings to life with startling realism the characters of a lonely and desolate New England village. Walden Boyle, an actor of wide experience and great versatility, gives a fine performance as Ethan, a sensitive, intelligent young man Spreads Work to Orient Helen Keller, world famous despite the tael that she is blind and deaf, is shown above “listening” with her sensitive fingers to aa address l>y Mrs. Kimoko Higashi at a Japanese YWCA luncheon in San Francisco. Miss Keller sailed for the Orient recently to teach the sightless to use the talking book by which voice recordings open the literary and current events fields to the unfortunate. i tied to a poverty stricken farm and to a sickly, ever complaining wife. Ethan married Zeena because he was afraid that he might go mad if he lived on the farm alone through the lonely winter. Zeena had been his mother's nurse, and after his mother’s death he mar ried her to keep from being alone. Winter Caused Romance "Sometimes 1 think. . . I might never have done it. . . . if mother'd died in the spring. . . . instead of winter!" in this way Ethan sums up his romance wilh Zeena. Zeena, as presented by Margie Tucker, is the living embodiment of the whining organ recitalist type wife who is continually tak ing medicine. She is at once terri fying and disgusting with her in cessant complaining yammer. To do the housework and listen to her complaints Zeena brings Mattie Silver, her cousin, to work as a hired girl (without pay.) Pat ricia Neal, as Mattie, arouses the pity and love of the audience to the same extent that Zeena arouses disgust. Miss Neal is assured and convincing as the love-starved young girl who has never had a home or family. “Eternal Stew’ Life at the Frome place is typi fied by an incident occurring on Mattie's arrival. When she is try ing to determine whether or not the stew is done Ethan answers, "Well, it was all right last night.” When Ethan and Mattie are thrown together, two young people eager for life and romance, Zeena’s eyes are as sharp as her (Please turn to page lour)