VOLUME XL
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939
NUMBER 72
Called
Neither stern nor faeetious, Pius
XI wore the robes of his stately
office with the poise of natural
leadership.
POPE PIUS
PASSES IN
VATICAN
Heart Attacks
Follow Influenza;
Weekend Plans
Had Been Made
Pope Pius XI is dead. That sim
ple statement became top news ev
erywhere last night when it was
learned that the Holy Father’s fin
al illness culminated with his death
at 5:31 a.m., Vatican time.
Two days ago the pontiff suf
fered an attack of influenza which
was followed yesterday by two se
vere heart attacks.
Concern over the pope's health
was especially great because of
weekend ceremonies planned to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of
the accord between the church and
the Italian state. It was under
stood that his speech may be read
by Cardinal Pacelli.
The pontiff’s death at this time
arouses special speculation over
what the future relations will be
between the Vatican and Europe’s
Fascist states where the popula
tion is largely Catholic.
Pius XI became head of the
Catholic church 16 years ago, and
he celebrated his eighty-first birth,
day last May 31.
The Holy Father's last words,
according to an unrevealed Vati
can source were: “We still have
so many things to do.” Several
times within the last two years,
however, he had expressed willing
ness to go if he should be called.
The death was being mourned
last night in both Catholic and
Protestant nations. The news
reached this country shortly before
9 o’clock, Pacific standard time.
Radio programs were immediately
interrupted, and special services
were offered over some stations
shortly afterwards.
Spanish Defense
Held Questionable
Latest reports on the Spanish
situation last night indicated that
Premier Juan Negrin of the loyal
ist government had fled to Tou
louse, France, and had appointed
Jose Miaja as head of all loyalist
forces until he returns to Spain.
Negrin crossed the border into
France only an hour ahead of in
surgent forces which were on his
trail.
Negrin’s destination was un
known, but it was expected that
he would leave in the morning for
either Valencia or Paris.
The London Daily Mail reported
that General Miaja has decided to
give up his defense plans for
Spain. The Mail said that a for
egin warship had been placed at
Miaja's disposal to facilitate es
cape from Franco’s agents. Mia
ja has both British and French
visas.
Post Proposed
For 'ABC' Services
A bill to consolidate all federal
lelief activities into a public works
department with a position in the
cabinet wras introduced into the
senate yesterday by James F.
Byrnes, democrat from South
Carolina.
Under the proposed bill the new
cabinet post would administer all
activities of the PWA, WPA, Bu
reau of Public Roads, CCC, and
NYA.
Dean Gilbert
In Shape: Lifts
Car for Boys
James H. Gilbert, dean of the
social science school, is in condi
tion again after his illness of
about two weeks ago.
That was illustrated Thursday
when the dean helped two col
lege students to fix a flat tire.
The students, basketeer Bobby
Anet and Gib Wiley, were at
tempting to put a new tire on a
wheel, but did not have a suit
able jack. They were using a
block of wood and a pry instead.
Anet was doing the prying
when Dean Gilbert offered his
services. In a few minutes the
work was completed.
Dean Gilbert had been laborer
for a day.
Seattle Builseyes
Attract Coed Riflers
UO Trigger-Pullers
Leave for Match
In North
The University of Oregon girls’
rifle team will be Seattle bound
today when they leave Eugene to
compete with the University of
Washington women’s rifle team
which Sergeant Blythe, coach of
the various rifle teams at Oregon,
styied as the “one of the best if
not the best women’s rifle team
in the nation.”
The University team, organized
three years ago, has set an ex
cellent record so far this year, com
peting with five schools and win
ning every match. The results of
last week’s firings, recently re
ceived by Sergeant Blythe, added
two more scalps to those already
possessed by the women’s team.
The Oregon team shot a score of
981, while Kansas State college
went down by only one point, scor
ing 980. The University of Wich
ita was the other victim. They
scored 975 points.
Competition to Be Strong
The Oregon team will be com
peting with such rifle marksmen
as Helen Burgess when they in
vade the University of Washing
ton campus over the weekend. Miss
Burgess is last year’s national in
dividual indoor women’s rifle shot.
She fired 500 straight bulls-eyes
to take the championship.
However, in spite of the fact
that the Washington team is one
of the nation’s best, the Oregon
coeds were confident they would
be able to upset them. They in
tend, they said, to keep that slate
of victory clean.
Coach Blythe Moans
Sergeant Blythe sounded a pes
simistic note with his usual pre
diction that the Oregon team would
lose. He said that he thought that
the teams would have about an
equal chance if they were both
using the same type of rifles in
spite of the fact that Washington
is undoubtedly the toughest team
the Oregon girls have met this
year. He explained that many of
the Washington girls were the
daughters of wealthy sportsmen
and possessed excellent rifies cost
ing as high as $400. These guns, he
said, were built for precision tar
get shooting. The guns used by
the Oregon girls are United States
army gains, which, while good
enough gains, have not been de
signed for such hairline accuracy
as those used by the Washington
girls.
A $6,000,000 expansion program
has been announced by Cornell
university authorities.
I
I
Oregana Spring
Sports Pictures
Scheduled Today
Final sports pictures will be
shot today for the 1939 Ore
gana. The schedule is as fol
lows:
11 a.m—SAE 1938 water polo
team, men’s pool.
1 p.m. —1938 varsity tennis
team, in suits, men’s gym.
1:15 p.m.—1938 freshman ten
nis team, in suits, men’s gym.
2:30 p.m. — Sigma Chi 1938
swimming team, men’s pool.
3 p.m. — 1938 freshman golf
team, library terrace.
It Takes a Crew to Shear This Alfalfa...
Stan Norris looks none too happy about the whole thing, but he’ll show up at the Whiskerino with
the beard. . . . The mowing squad includes, left to right, back row—Joan Hoke, Jean Iineass, Art Hanni
fin, Genevieve Casey, Sue Cunningham; front—Bill Ehrman, and Stan Staiger, all sophs.
AWS Council Plans
Coming Assembly
Speaker Will Talk
On Responsibilities
Of College Girls
AWS council met yesterday af
ternoon under the direction of
President Elisabeth Stetson to dis
cuss plans for the nominating as
sembly for the AWS, fNAA. and
the YWCA to be held next Wed
nesday, February 15, in Gerlinger.
Mrs. Lamar Tooze, an Oregon
graduate now living in Portland,
will be guest speaker at the as
sembly. She will talk on "The Re
sponsibility of College Girls as Cit
izens.” Mrs. Tooze is from the
Oregon League of Women Voters.
The council passed the resolu
tion to ask the presidents of all
women’s honoraries to become
members of the council beginning
spring term. Although they will
not have voting privilege, they
will help to unite the women stu
dents on the campus, Miss Stetson
stated.
Other AWS activities in the near
future will be the election of offi
cers on February 22 and their in
stallation on March 22, the Coed
Capers on March 29, and the an
nual AWS Carnival on April 15.
Exactly 71 per cent of Univer
sity of Pittsburgh coeds partici
pate in some extra-curricular ac
Ex-Chisel Prof
Goes to Sea in
Ex-Sub Chaser
University of Oregon’s sea
going professor is at it again.
Oliver Barrett, professor of
sculpture who is on sabbatical
leave at present, recently pur
chased a 110-foot yacht. This is
quite an advancement over the
14-foot skiff that Professor Bar
rett was once content to cruise
in, but it will be put to a good
purpose.
The sculptor-professor hopes
to charter the boat, built orig
inally as a submarine chaser, to
parties of sportsmen and tour
ists.
Professor Barrett expects to
bring the “Pandora" to Portland
waters in a short time.
UO Law Graduates
Open Portland Office
Three graduates of the Univer
sity school of law, George E. Bir
nie, J. Richard Devers, and Henry
McCall Jr., announced recently
that they had opened law offices in
the American Bank building of
Portland.
Birnie and Devers both graduat
ed last year and McCall graduated
in 1937.
Bridge Addicts Need
More Cards, Tables
By DAVID COMPTON
“And, my dear, you should have seen the look on his face when
I took that last trick and set him.’’
Such expressions are complace since students of the University
of Oregon have gone bridge mad. Never in the history of the school
has the student body gone so completely daffy over a card game as
they have this year. Bridge has always been a popular game with the
coeas or tne campus out wnen ne
men of the gridiron give up their
pinochle and poker in favor of a
rubber of bridge, then it proves
that either it is a fascinating pas
time or that the theory of mob
psychology isn’t such a bad theory
after all.
Drop into the College Side any
afternoon and try to get a booth
long enough for a coke and a
smoke before going home for a
5:30 dinner. It is next to impossi
ble what with every booth packed
four deep wnth future Culbertsons
and Lenzes. It is estimated that
Newt Smith, genial host at the
campus chop-house, has at least
a dozen decks of pasteboards on
hand for his card-playing clientele,
but even then it is hard to sign
out a deck after 3 o’clock. On one
rainy afternoon, 14 games were in
progress at one time. Unbelievable
but true.
Even the Sigma Nus have been
known to keep the lights burning
in their Eleventh street mansion
until the wee hours of the morn
playing bridge. But for real bridge
fiends, the silver loving cup should
go to the ATOs. Close behind them
come the Phi Delts, Sigma Chis,
and Chi Psis.
Bridge has its strong points. It
is a good way to while away those
rainy afternoons after you are
through studying (or usually be
fore you are through or even
started) and it is a scientific game
that requires clear thinking and a
certain degree of intelligence
(some say that any moron can
learn).
All in all, it helps to keep your
mind off your worries and is val
uable in that it helps me to make
new acquaintances and new ene
mies. Yes I said new enemies. Did
you ever bid four spades over your
partner's three hearts when she
had eight hearts to the ace, king
queen and you had a measly ace,
queen, and six other spades. Try
it some time and find out for your.
, self.
Remington Gives
Final Lecture at UO
Bishop Presents
More Than 20 Talks
During Visit
In his last lecture before leaving
for Salem, Bishop W. P. Reming
ton thanked the University of Ore
gon students for the “great time”
he had.
Speaking before Dr. Quirinu?
Breen’s social science class Thurs
day, he said he was a little fa
tigued' from giving more than
twenty talks on the campus this
week, but believed that the time
was well spent.
“I think it’s an awfully good
thing for both the University and
for the preacher to have confer
ences of this sort. In my brief
stay here I have literally touched
all sides of life on the campus,”
said Bishop Remington.
His final lecture was a discus
sion of the possibility of an edu
cated man to have religion. Bishop
Remington told the audience that
students began to lose their static
type of religion when they came
to college. Discussing the Bible, he
insisted:
“We apply the same tests to
judge the authenticity of the Bible
as we would to Shakespeare’s plays
or any like material. However, the
Bible, which is the compass and
anchor for humans, is taken away
from students at college.”
Bishop Remington then went on
to state the four great truths which
he believes the Bible to contain.
They are:
1. The nature of Gocl.
2. The nature of man.
3. The relation between man and
God.
4. The relation of man to man.
“Men’s ideas of God are much
too individualistic,” said the east
ern Oregon bishop.
Journalism Career
Of UO Graduate Ends
William Adelbert Dill, 57, a
graduate of the University of Ore
gon and former resident of Eu
gene, died late Wednesday at his
home in Lawrence, Kansas, after a
heart attack. He had been ill sinct
January 21.
Mr. Dill had served as associate
professor of journalism and direc
tor of publicity at Kansas univer
sity since 1921. He was graduatec
with a BA degree from Oregon ir
1908 and received his master o]
arts degree from Kansas univer
sity in 1928.
Professor Dill’s death ended c
long newspaper career. He was sue
! cessively news editor of the Eu
' gene Morning Register, editor o.
the Lane County News at Spring
' field, copyreader of the Portlanc
j Oregonian, journalism instructs
, at Kansas, and night manager ii
[ the Chicago AP office.
Ducks Face Idaho
In Crucial Series
Webfoots Ready to Crush Vandal Hoodoo;
Wins May Clinch Title; Losses Will Leave
Tie With Washington Huskies
Ily GEORGE l’ASERO
Oregon's full Dunks level their “seige guns” at Idaho’s Vandals at
McArthur court tonight in a five-barreled attempt to strengthen hold
on first place in the northern division hoop standings.
The two clubs meet again Saturday night. Game time is 8 o’clock
both nights.
Riding the crest of an eight-straight victory wave, the Ducks fly
high at present with nine wins and one defeat. They top the league
Coeds Prepare
Sales Campaign
For Heart Hop
Voting for 'King'
To Be Held Monday,
Dance on Tuesday
With 21 embarrassed masculine
candidates lined up and ready to
go on the block next Tuesday for
the King of Hearts crown, the
Heart Hop commission yesterday
marshaled its battalions of coeds
to put over the advance ticket
sales for the event.
Avowed object of the Hop com
mission is to put one of the red,
heart-shaped ducats in the hands
of every coed on the campus.
Boys Are Bait
A strong selling point being
used in the drive was the already
well-defined campaign to elect the
King of Hearts. Groups of skirt
wearers functioning behind some
of the candidate males, but the so
rorities were serried with under
cover manipulations on the part of
coeds who preferred a brunette
candidate, or vice versa.
The girls will buy their tickets,
get their dates with some campus
male, vote Monday, and cash in on
some plain and fancy afternoon
dancing Tuesday.
Wheel Open House
The four sororities which will
I thro wopen their doors for the
afternoon are Delta Gamma, Kap
pa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, and
Kappa Alpha Theta. Ticket buy
ers may go to any house they
prefer, it was stated yesterday.
The coronation of the “King” will
climax the event at 4:30. The two
runners-up in the voting will be
the king’s two “knaves.”
Voting will go on through Mon
day, and the tickets, which are
numbered, must be presented at
the polls. “Anyone can vote who
has a ticket, it it’s a girl,” Ma
jeane Glover, publicity operative
for the dance, explained yesterday.
This will be the first Heart Hop
in two years, the affair having
been omitted in 1938.
Difficulties in the shape of sign
collectors have descended upon
the committee in charge of the af
fair, it was reported yesterday.
Large, heart-shaped red signs
were vanishing practically 100 per
cent from where they have been
put up.
I m everything from games won to
i points scored. And they are the
1 favorites to win tonight.
May Mean Title
| No direct championship will
i hinge on the outcome of the Van
dal series, but, nevertheless, these
! two gamse may spell “title" for
■ Hobson's crew. Two wins for the
Ducks would give than a distinct
advantage with only four games
to play, but two defeats would
leave them in a tie with Washing
ton’s Huskies. Even one Webfoot
defeat would give the Huskies re
newed hope. To date the Huskies
have won five and lost three, and
are laying for the Webfoots when
they come to Seattle in the first
days of March.
Ducks Want Revenge
Realizing full well the signifi
cance of this series, the Ducks have
undergone a week of intensive
preparation. It’s win or bust for
the Duck regulars who still remem
ber two defeats by Idaho last year,
! and one the year before -a beating
j which cost them the northern divi
sion championship.
Then too, it will be the last time
: Laddie Gale, Slim Wintermute,
j Bobby Anet, and Wally Johansen
; will face Forrest Twogood’s Van
I dais. And it will be the last chance
i for the Ducks to retaliate for past
humiliations.
Although the Vandals have won
but one game in seven starts, the
Gem Staters have proven to be
one of the toughest defensive out
i fits in the circuit. No club has
“walked” on the Vandals yet, and
no club will if Coach Twogood has
anything to say about the matter.
Last year, the Vandals were the
' only team in the conference to
S break even with the champions.
! And this year, the Silver and Gold
had the Webfoots whipped for 39
minutes at Moscow in the final
game, only to have Reserve Ford
Mullen spark an Oregon rally that
pulled the game out of the fire.
The scores at Moscow were 38 to
(Please turn to pai/e two)
Married women
Will Meet to Form
Social Organization
A larger meeting of married wo
men on the campus to discuss the
formation of a social organization
was scheduled for Tuesday after
noon at 4 o’clock by women attend
ing the Thursday afternoon meet
ing at the YW bungalow.
Invitations will be sent to wives
of married students as well as to
other married women students,
Mrs. John Stark Evans, YW execu
tive secretary, said.
Art School Librarian
Keeps Scissors Busy
Buried alive, Mrs. Mable A. Houck, arts school secretary and li
brarian, clips her way through the Sunday editions of the New York
Times every week, rescuing articles and illustrations for student ref
erences.
World’s fair clippings, city plans, housing plans, and landscaping
are saved for the architects. Articles and pictures pertaining to art
| in all its phases are used for the art references.
Clipped and put in filing envelopes, the important articles are
placed with me pamphlet tiles. Ar
tides of general interest but of
little reference value are saved for
bulletin boards.
“/hen a prospective artist ap
peals to Miss Houck for a picture
of a dog to aid in setting the ears
straight on his original canine il
lustration, Miss Houck searches
clippings for the required object.
Illustrations ranging from wind
mills and wooden shoes to animals
and birds wait for the use of the
campus artists.
Among her collections are arti
cles on photography, a topic which
has wakened interest throughout
the country, also of interest to the
art students, she explained.
“Only a light type box with a
pin hole for the lena is needed to
take pictures,’’ explains an article
by Robert W. Brown. The home
made camera can be made with a
light proof card board box, a small
round hole at one end, over which
the pin hole may be fitted, and a
larger oblong opening at the real
where a film pack adapter, or cut
film holder may be held in place
by rubber bands.
Mrs. Houck not only collects
clippings for the art school but foi
her friends, one of whom is inter
ested in phonographic recordings,
another, master dance articles.
Another Duck
Bob Hardy . . . may see action
tonight.
Robinson Names
'Emperor Jones'
Supporting Cast
Smokey Whitfield
Has Leading Part;
Rehearsals Begin
Marking the beginning of inten
sive rehearsal of “Emperor Jones,”
Horace Robinson, instructor in the
University of Oregon drama divi
sion, yesterday announced the cast
for the famous Eugene O’Neill
play. It is to star Smokey Whit
field in the Johnson hall theater on
February 25, 28, and March 1.
Besides Whitfield, who will play
the resplendent Emperor of the
West Indian island, Brutus Jones;
the cast includes Ed Burtenshaw as
the cockney trader, Henry Smith
ers; and Adrian Martin as Lem,
native chieftain.
George Hall will be Jeff, as well
as one of the convicts, and one of
the negro slaves.
Lawrence Reid also plays dual
roles as the other convict and an
other of the slaves.
Jack Gendron plays the part of a
southern dandy and of a prison
guard. Frederick Waller and Jerry
Lakefish take the parts of two
planters.
Women in the play are Wanda
Milledge, Charlene Jackson, and
Marcia Steinhauser as southern
belles, and Virginia Enokson and
Miriam Hale as negro slaves.
Two parts have not yet been
cast . . . those of the witchdoctor,
which was to have been played by
Gene Edwards, and that of a na
tive woman.
Tribesmen will be portrayed by
Lawrence Reid, George Hall, Jerry
Lakefisn, and Frederick Waller.
DOWN
BUT NOT
OUT
AT THE INFIRMARY
Inmates of ward three at the
infirmary spent yesterday planning
a tea dance. Bernadine Bowman,
Emerald woman’s page editor, re
clined in one of the beds busily
talking to two visitors. Other
beds were occupied by Jane Grif
fin, Eleanor Pitts, anil Ellen Nel
i son, also entertaining company.
Bernadine remarked that visi
i tors came in droves but all left
at once, leaving the girls to their
own resources. Since we have two
radios, we see no reason why we
can’t have a tea dance, she added.
Other students taking Ifie easy
at the infirmary included: Charlene
Jackson, Virginia Enokson, Mary
! Graham, Isabell Witmer, Della
Root, Robert Lovell, William Rey
nolds, Dominic Giovanini, John
Newton, Richard Davidson, and
Don Morrison
The order of Military Merit, an
RQTC award, was given for the
j first time at a Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology review re
‘ cently.