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VOLUME XLII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1941 NUMBER 95 Arab Theme Selected DOWN BEAT University Enrollment Goes Down Late Registrants Expected to Swell Total by Weekend A two per cent decrease in registration over the same time last year was recorder Monday when 3147 students were reported registered. This compares with 3203 enrolled at the same time last spring term. A total of 78 enrolled Monday which is only about two-thirds as many as the 124 for the same day last year. University authorities said thqt the bulk of late regis trants were expected this week. Students wishing to register should do so in Johnson hall. A late registration fee of $5 will be charged. With the deadline for registration or addition of new courses April 5 it is hoped that 200 or more registrations will be received. Registration material for grad uate students may be obtained at the registrar’s office in John son hall. Additional registration figures mav be found on page 2. Packouz, Edlefsen To Head Soph Hop Ray Packouz and Bill Edlefsen will direct plans for Oregon’s bearded Soph Whiskerino, Satur day night, April 19, Bud Vande nynde, president of the class of ’43, revealed last night as he an nounced a partial list of commit tee chairmen for the annual dance. Vandenynde declared that the highlight of the dance, the tradi tional whisker judging contest, will be under the direction of A1 Silvernail. Wednesday morning sophomore men will temporarily tuck away their shaving mugs and razors to start the 19-day whisker growth. Silvernail stated that violators will be exposed daily in the Em erald. Each day ..they will be judged and given their due pun ishment by a special staff of dep uties. Committee chairmen appointed were Jeff Kitchen and Howard Fishel, orchestra; Reid Ferrall, and Monroe Karterman, finance; Mary Word, and Jean Mihalcik, theme; and Bea Schum, and Don Shirley, decorations. IX TODAY’S EMERALD News Edits . Sports . 1, 2, 3, 8 4, 5 6, ^ Campus Calendar 5 INS WRITER ■ (Courtesy Eugene News) Jimmie Young, correspondent for the International News ser vice, who was “detained” in a Japanese jail last year, will speak at an all-University assembly in Gerlinger hall tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock. He will also be present at Sigma Delta- Chi's, national professional journalistic fraternity, spring term initiation. ORIENT NEWS... Jimmie Young To Speak Here On Recent East Reporter Brings Story of 60 Days In Tokyo Jail Jimmy Young, for 13 years in ternational news correspondent in Tokyo, will speak to the stu dent body assembly tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock in Gerlin ger. His long stay in Japan and his consequent familiarity with its people serve as a basis for series after series of side-splitting anec dotes about his peculiar exper iences with the Japanese people. Tokyo Clink Sixty days in a Japanese prison is one of the events which marked the latter days of Mr. Young's stay in Japan, his narration of which is highly interesting and entertaining. The trouble evolved over a manuscript which re counted in too faithful detail the war events taking place at the time. Police threw him into prison and denied that the statements he had sent out were true or that he had had any authority for publishing them. All this, when as a matter of fact, he had copied the statements almost word for word from the official Japanese army paper. Variety This and many other interest ing experiences will be related by Mr. Young in tomorrow's assem bly. Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity plans to honor Mr. Young at a banquet. LARGE BOOST Kgser Fills Igloo Floor Sigma Delta Chis Donate Over $750 To Student Union “Tuition” payments to Kay Kyser’s College of Musical Knowledge Friday evening prom ised to boost Sigma Delta Chi's contribution to Oregon's student union fund to more than $750. The largest “take" ever grossed on an affair of this kind at Ore gon—$3746—was counted on the concert and dance with the genial Kyser and troupe, the educational activities office announced. Kyser's share was just short of $2600, the largest amount ever reported paid an orchestra in Eu gene. Expenses of the dance were expected to approximate $250, and $120 was to go to Sigma Delta Chi as sponsors. Nearly 2500 persons trooped in to McArthur Court to hear Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Ish Ka bibble, and the rest of Kyser's principals at a preliminary hour's concert. The hall was cleared, and 2700 dancers found their way back in to dance till midnight to the “professor's” smooth rhythm. Officials if Sigma Delta Chi planned to meet today to discuss presentation of the funds to stu dent union chairmen. Free Movies And now about those movies That they will show today. I think they're like the modern show Except in just one way. The thing that's really different From the modern movies' plan, Well, they won’t have propaganda Against the German clan. —J.W.S. Tabloid Fever Hits Emerald In Spiingtime Along with such spring events as canoe dates, Junior Weekend, and politics the Emerald this morning makes its '41 debut in tabloid form. Becoming an Emerald tradition with the all-American paper in 1939 under Paul Deutschmann, the policy was carried out again last year by Editor Bud Jermain. Other collegiate tabloid papers figuring ACP list of all-Amer icans and pacemakers are the Minnesota Daily and the North western Daily. LONE STARRING.. Texas Beckons AWS Presidents Women's Leaders Leave Saturday For Southern State Texas sunbonnets and cowboy hats await Betty Buchanan and Elizabeth Steed, past and pres ent presidents of AWS, who left on the midnight train Saturday night for the AWS convention in Lubbock, Texas. '■We promised to bring back three cowboys and six cactusses to our friends,” bubbled Eliza beth Steed. "I haven't been on a train since I was five years old and I can hardly wait,” she continued. The girls will be gone two weeks and will be joined later in their trip by La Verne Whitehead and Carolyn Woolcott, ex-and present presidents of AWS at Oregon State. Said Elizabeth, "It'll be won derful traveling together 'cause we all know each other.” OPEN SEZZ ME... Prize winner Sally Plans Coke Spree "Why doesn't someone tell me these things!" gasped Sally Ray, olive eyes flashing from a face radiating pleasure and surprise. But within a few minutes she knew exactly where the prize money for her winning Junior Weekend theme, "Arabian Nights" was blowing—cokes for her Sigma Kappa sisters ana golf sticks. "Why ‘Arabian Nights'? Well, I saw the 'Thief of Bagdad,' re membered how well fairy ta’.e theme 'Alice in Wonderland’ went over two years ago. and vaguely recollected fragments of 'Arabian Nights’ from may back when." About a week before spring vacation the senior BA major started prowling through the tales, rustling up some music, and last week had moulded a de tailed plan for the University’s annual canoe fete. So when the floats boh clown the millrace May 10, they'll be dressed up to represent parts of "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad,’’ Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and "Alladin and His Wonderful Lamp," while the University sym phony melodizes Rimsky Korsa kov’s "Scheherezade Suite” and other pieces with an Oriental twang. "I wanted to keep the thing away from anything that would keep peoples minds gloomily focused on the tense international mess,” as two furrows crept in between Miss Ray's eyebrows, "and a fairy tale like the ‘Arabian Nights’ seemed the answer." Two dark eyes laughed and she was all smiles again. Sally Ray's Idea Chosen Genii to Populate Webfoot Campus During Weekend Arabian Nights, a theme of mysticism and Oriental legend, will form the background s<(ting for 1941's Junior Weekend, Bucfit Buchwaeh, promotion chairman^ revealed last night as ho an nounced first prize winners in th» annual theme contest. First prize award of $15 waff divided two ways with $10 going to Sally Ray and $5 being divef" cd between Jean Spearow aw> Ken Christianson. Both winnings entries were based on the Arabia!* Nights theme, but Miss Ray'; wn» judged more detailed anil more concrete, so received major shave of the prize. unemai The entire weekend, Eu. h ,/achi stated, will be based on the col orful Oriental legends, abound* ing with magic and genii of tho Far East. Music for the canoe fete program will consist largely, of Rimsky-Korsakov s Sc .tbera zade Suite. Canoe fete settings and 7/msio will form part of a general Ori ental atmosphere, which will in vade every phase of the weekend program. Dance decorations and campus costumes will also . urry out the theme. Runners-up in the contest were Wes Sullivan and Ray SchrickVf “Voyage of Lilliput”; Norm Fos ter's “Southern Plantation’, and "American Indian,’’ by Clarethel Roselund. Committee members ,vtc ' hoad the winning theme were Geno Brown, general chairman; Eueh wach; Jim Carney, canoe teto chairman; Jack Saltzman, dan> chairman; Bette Morfitt, lunch eon chairman; Bob Deverall, as sistant general chairman; Lou Torgeson, junior class president;)' Miss Beatrice A itch iron, instruc tor of economics; and Horace Robinson of the drama depart ment. Selection of a Junior Wet kend queen starts immediately, Bueh wach said. A ntw system of judging based on beauty and grace of the entrants will be Uiy closed later this week. Non-Resident Fees ‘ Due at Registrar's • Before April 10 Non-resident students must pa») a non-residence fee of $40 by S p.m., April 10. Students will bn suspended if the fee n<>t j aid by, that time, the business office has announced. There will be -i week given to be reinstated and a $2 reinstatement let w.il b« charged. The non-residence fee ahould be paid at windows 2 or .. a tho upper floor of Johnson hall. Th» business office i» open » a.m. to 12 noon and from - to 3 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 m. to 12 noon Saturdays.