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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1942)
intelligence Service Calls; ^Chester Fee Joins Up’ Soldier, poet, sportsman, Chester Fee, professor of English, for the second time in twenty years will leave the Oregon cam pus to serve his country. Mr. Fee holds a captain's commission in the reserve division of the Intelligence. During the last war he was among those who organized the intelligence service. On one occasion a discour aged German spy attempted to kill him by shoving him down an ele vator shaft. Mr. Fee survived with a broken ankle which somewhat tippled his counter - espionage work for several mouths. His book, “Chief Joseph—Biog raphy of a Great Indian,” has re ceived favorable notices in news Graduation GIFTS Select them at DeNeffe’s —and you'll have that satisfying assurance that comes from choosing just the 'right' thing. May we suggest: Sweaters $2.50 to $10.00 L Sport Shirts $1.00 to $5.00 Ties $1.00 to $1.50 Bill Folds $1.50 to $10.00 Y Kirsten Pipes $7.00 Kickok Jewelry $1.00 to $2.50 and many other items. Make your selection now at DeNeffe’s Your Downtown Campus Store b McDonald Theater Bldg. 1022 Willamette We Feature Cantner Swim Trunks r papers from New York to San Francisco. To gather material for this book and several other of his works he lived among the In dians of Oregon and Washington. His latest work to be published is “Marcus Whitman — Wilderness Patriot,” a drama which will be released soon. As a member of Oregon's class of 1916, he gained fame as an athlete. He held the PNA, Far Western, and World's Indoor rec ords for javelin, and the North west Collegiate record for pole vault. His paintings have been exhib ited in Portland by the Society of Oregon Arts, and in the Oregon Exhibit. He was one of the founders of Tabard Inn, literary honorary, and a member of Beta Theta Pi. Moth Balls Call ROTC Khaki R.O.T.C. students have been asked by Col. C. L. Sampson, head of the military department, to return uniforms to the ROTC storeroom in accordance with the following schedule: Companies A and B, Friday; Companies C and E, Saturday; Companies F and G, Monday; Companies I and K, Tuesday; Company L, Wednesday. Hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Uniforms must be returned in order to clear records and insure refund of student deposits. House managers have been asked to co operate in returning uniforms of students who have left school in the past. k 4 Thank You For your patronage dur ing the past year. We have particularly en joyed meeting and get ting acquainted with you students. See Us Next Fall And let’s renew our friendship. When you drive by our yellow and red station be sure and drop in and see us. DANNER'S Associated 10th & Olive Ph. 2614 OOK OF THE Week By CHUCK SULLIVAN Ethan Allen, by Stewart Hol brook, N. Y,, the Macmillan Co., 1940. In this brief resurrection of an early American, author Holbrook shakes the dust off a figure whose personal force, vitality, and im portance in American history seem to have been inadequately treated by historians. Ethan Allen was a huge, hard drinking, courageous frontiers man, always itching for a good fight and usually getting it, fight ing first against the British to win American independence, and then against the new nation to establish the independence of Ver mont. capturing liconderoga was only a picnic for this man who was later captured by the Brit ish and sentenced to be hanged. He secured a change of verdict by means of a clever bit of writing and was sent back to America to be held prisoner at New York un til exchanged. Given a brevet colo nel’s commission, he returned to his beloved Green Hills to lead the fight for Vermont statehood against New York, New Hamp shire, Masachusetts, and the new Congress of the United States. Always a rebel against every thing which was contrary to his personal ideas, Allen wrote doz ens of letters and pamphlets and one book, popularly known as the "Oracle” (published about 1735) in which he espoused a religion of nature and common sense and condemned the religious hoodoo ism of Calvinism. The adventures of Paul Bun yan hardly exceed the legends which are told of this hardy son of the Green Hills. He could bite nails in two, and it is said he drank so heavily that a rattle snake which happened to bite him one time while he slept staggered off dead drunk. Such tales are indicative of the style of the book, which is writ ten with unexpected levity. How ever Holbrook seems in posses sion of sufficient knowledge to make the work fairly instructive as well as enjoyable reading. His other works include "Iron Brew” and “Holy Old Mackinaw.” Theres a Limit — Even to Borrowing Harry Lipsit left a brand new raincoat on a chair in Oregon hall Tuesday afternoon. When he came back 15 minutes later the coat had been taken. He makes no special plea but a friend has requested that the per son who “borrowed" the coat re turn it to Harry or to the lost and found office at the Univer sity depot. Harry Lipsit is blind. 1 CONGRATULATIONS MISS GRADUATE We have enjoyed serving you through out the year and we hope to continue in the future. Let us help you on your big gest day, graduation. * CLARA'S BEAUTY SHOP Balcony Tiffany-Davis fie a Smasity, —in a perky little straw hat that perches jauntily f on the side of your head. fee Wi'itijul —in a fluffy little num ber that is veiled to give you that sweet and in nocent look. We have appreciated your patronage during the year and we’ll see all you coeds again next fall. THE feanwet No&h . . . 907 Willamette ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 13th and Pearl Sunday Services—S and 11 Student Canterbury Club—6:30 Third Floor, Gerlinger Wednesday—7 a.m., Communion, Gerlinger Hall Rev. E. S. Bartlam, Rector Phone 4606 or 4S08 Miss Caroline Hines, Student Advisor Ph. 4605-J or 4808 You Can Be a Vision of Loveliness in a j]o&n Mil ten. WcviUable, fynaok made of the prettiest of summer fab rics comprising tissue gingham, seer suckers and cool sheer fabrics, in stripes and checks. JACKET SUITS are very popular—you will like * every one of the styles we are / showing. So important for the ! summer days ahead. $3.95 to $5.95 JOAN MILLER WASHABLE SUMMER FROCKS are so pretty you will want half a dozen, we’re sure. Price $2.98 to $6.95 L BROADWAY** 20-30 Broadway