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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1938)
Listen to your Emerald News Reporter tonight, KORE, 10:30 p.m. VOLUME XXXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938 NUMBER 105 G-Man Lester Reveals FBI's Crime Means Bapid ■ Fire Talk of Speaker Portrays Dramatic Picture of Sleuths Flashing statistics in rapid fire succession, W. H. Drane Lester, inspector of the Federal Bureau of investigation, painted a dramatic picture of the activities of that or ganization in combating Ameri ca’s biggest business, the 15 bil lion dollar per year crime enter- j prise, before an assembly of Uni versity students, faculty, and Eu gene residents in Gerlinger hall yesterday. Inspector Lester described the personnel and training of the FBI, the workings of the scientific fin ger print department, and the oth er laboratory techniques of the na tional organization. Foreigners Not Responsible Records of the bureau in Wash ington, D. C., show that native born citizens rather than the for eign-born are arrested most fre quently and convicted for serious crimes, the inspector said, attack ing the idea that foreigners are responsible for the major portion of America’s crime problem. Mr. Lester branded the criminal as a “dirty, sniveling coward’’ and urged the voluntary finger print ing of all Americans who wish to assist the FBI in their fight against crime. The speaker was introduced by University President Donald M. Erb, who also presented J. D. Swenson, head of the FBI division in Portland, to the students. (Additional details, page 7.) ^ ■w r w *r t~t T'’r-T-1 Radio, Screen Stars Obtained Start at School By ALYCE ROGERS College musical comedy clubs are responsible for a significant change1 in trend in the recruiting of talent for the American entertainment world. Today, many of the enter tainment world’s brightest stars are men and women who received their training in campus theatri cals. Fredric March and Don Ameche starred in University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club and Player produc tions long before they were known to radio or filmdom. Maestro Hal Kemp gained his first experience as musical director of the Masque and Wig shows at North Carolina. Ed gar Bergen first started his slight of-lip tricks at Northwestern. Rudy Vallee and Lanny Ross sang in the Yale Glee club. Charlie Butter worth and Walter O’Keefe amused classmates at Notre Dame, and Virginia Verill made her vocal de but in a C.C.N.Y. varsity show. So if you want to be a radio star these days, you’ve got to take ad vantage of the extra-curricular ac tivities available on your campus. (Please turn to fage eight) . Left Holding the Flag Jeanne and Westine Nasser . . . hold a flag found in libe vaults at first believed to be from the old battleship Oregon. The real flag was found in University business office strong box. Dean Jewell Condemns College Diploma Mills “We don’t worship learning; we worship a degree,” said Dean J. R. Jewell of the education department, commeting upon the diploma mills now in operation throughout the country. “We make a degree stand for- time,” he continued, explaining that after so many hours of study, whether anything is learned or not so long as certain requirements are passed, a degree is given. “Naturally, ‘diploma mills’ do a good business for they confer a. degree for a Sutherland to Sing In Concert Tonight William Sutherland, well known on the campus and in Eugene for his rich baritone voice, will be pre sented in a public recital in the school of music auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock. Mr. Sutherland, student of Paul Petri, University professor of voice, will present a program including songs of present and modern com posers. He will open his concert with Scarlatti’s familiar “O cessate di piagarmi,” followed with selec tions by Handel, Mozart, Dupare, and Delibes. Mr. Sutherland will include mo dern numbers on his program, among which will be Keel's “To morrow” and the Huhn “Invictus.” Alice Holmback will be Mr. Sutherland’s accompanist. PE WORKED BACK John Boettcher, for 18 years with the University school of phy sical education, yesterday returned to his work in the basket room of the men’s gym, after an illness of two weeks. He has been in bed witSv [the’ flu. certain price m addition to a little home work. No institution can grant a degree without a state charter, as the supervision and con trol of schools is vested entirely in the states. It is usually not diffi cult to get a charter,” Dean Jewell added. Systems Analyzed Two advantages of European education were listed by Dean .Jewell. In England students may study where they wish and when they are capable of passing the examination, they receive their de gree. The University of Chicago is the only school in the United States where a degree is given as soon as the student passes com prehensive examinations. All edu cational institutions in Europe are state-owned and only the state can establish new ones. (Please turn to page seven) TICKETS ON SALE Tickets for the campus per formance of Peer Gynt are now on sale in the McArthur court ticket office for 75c $1.00 and $1.25, it was announced yester day. Students will be admitted to the spectacle, April 26, with stu dent body cards. A Flag But Not The Flag, New Search Shows Investigation revealed that the flag found in the vault of the library, which was thought to be the original flag of the Battle ship Oregon, belongs to the fam ily of a former University presi dent's wife. The authentic flag, is stored in a cabinet of the ad ministration builing, wrapped in a parcel labeled “flag of the Bat tleship Oregon.” M. H. Douglass, head librarian, plans to communicate with the Zeiber family to see if they might value the flag found in the library as a family keepsake. Editors for Special Emeralds Elected Emerald Picnic to Be May 15; Banquet To Be Held Soon Editors of the three special edi tions of the Emerald were chosen last night at a general staff meet ing. Those elected were Gordon Ridgeway, frosh editor; Bill Pen gra, men’s editor; and Bernadine Bowman, editor of the women’s edition. First special edition to be pub lished will be the men’s which will appear Saturday, May 7. Women [Will dominate*the activities of the I shac for the May 13 paper. Frosh will tae over the following Friday, May 20. , Plans for the annual Emerald , Picnic were also made. A com , mittee, headed by Bernadine Bow l man, was akppointed to make ar I rangements. Dorothy Burke, and Bill Rentz will aid her. Date for i the picnic was set as Sunday, May 15. j Announcement of the Emerald I banquet, another annual spring l term affair was made although a i date has not yet been selected. | John Biggs was appointed to select a location for the banquet. MRS. HULTEN BETTER Mrs. Charles M. Hulten’s condi tion is' reported “good,” She is in the Sacred Heart hospital recuper ating from an operation, Tuesday morning. Police Need Uniformity In Law Work I I Conference Closed; I'Few Program of Crime Legislation In Oregon Urged The final sessions of the Com-* monwealth conference were held i» the faculty room of Friendly hall last night, with crime detection an«i law enforcement as the topic of discussion. Inspector W. H. Drane Lester, inspector of the Federal Bureau or Investigation, led off at 9:30 will* a speech on training and person nel problems of peace officers. In spector Lester pointed out that services of the FBI are open to law enforcement officers every where; he also urged the adoption* of modern methods of statistic* and fingerprint filing as used by. his bureau. Judge Richard Hartshorne, Jersey, chairman of the Interstate* Commisson on Crime and judge o£ the court of common pleas bat Newark, spoke on uniform crimes legislation as an aid to law enforce ment. He urged that states m every part of the union should con tinue the policy of cooperation hv crime control, since crime is no longer a local or even a state prob lem. Discussion Follows A panel discussion, followed, tb.ft panel being composer of Fred M il ler, district attorney of Clackamas county; Earl Nott, district attor ney of Yamhill county; L. L. Ray, district attorney of Lane county;) and Charles P. Pray, superinten dent of the Oregon State police. Improvements in legislation as well as methods of crime detection and control were held needed byf the panel speakers, A repeal of the Oregon statute prohibiting ad mission of evidence from accom plices unless corroborated was urged by L. L. Ray, district attor ney for Lane county. The conference, which drew num erous nationally-known experts in' the field of crime problems as well as scores of Oregon citizens inter ested, ended with an informal lun-* (Please turn to page seven) Foreign Trade Grads . Get Jobs in Ship Offices A number of University graduates in the foreign trade division of the school of business administration have recently secured positions' in California steampship lines’ offices, according to A. L. Lomax, pro-* lessor of business administration. Most of the men have secured positoins in San Francisco. Among1' these are Kalman Keagy, member of the class of ’36, who is now working in the office of the General Steamship company. Keagvt. recently got his third mates’ li cense while working for the Union Oil company. Ralph King, graduate of '37, is with the Matson lines in the pas senger department. Rudy Monte, ’36, is working for the same firm in its freight department. Bob Creswell, '36, is working for the Standard Oil company in its San Francisco offices. John Zehntbauer, ’36, has a posi tion with the Jantzen Knitting miU at their Florida branch. Arthur Dudley, graduate of ’35, who spoke last spring term to tber student body about the bombing of his Shanghai dairy farm by the Japanese, is now with the Sam Francisco fair commissions in s% promotional capacity.