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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-*
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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.