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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1942)
1.1 brary u ■ OF ORE. FV,rm Labor Shortage Still Acute . .. Page 1 PC Lane County's Only Morning Newspaper VOLUME XLIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 NUMBER 5 (Courtesy of the Oregon Journal) THIS SORT OF THING . . . . . . has been eliminated in the sororities oil the e impus with the influx of student labor, but the dorms are still in need of workers . . . Alpha Chi O’s Margaret Reyburn, Ityttie Horn, Jean Pim entel, and Marilyn Campbell are shown making up for the recent lack of liouseboys. UO Help Shortage Bothers Director of Dormitories Despite drafts, jobs, and the many diversions war has fought, Oregon students came back to school this year in large numbers—if you don’t believe it just ask Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, director of dormitories. Just to start things off, more students came to Eugene for rush week than ever before and Mrs. Turnipseed had to look luumo uuloiuc Lilt: uunmiuntJs after all space was filled there to have enough beds for rushees. About 35 per cent vacancies were expected. Approximately 95 fewer boys and 38 fewer girls than last spring was the number she expected to check into the dorms this fall. But registration Ghanged the picture—the dorms are now all' filled and students had to be turned away. Finding students to work in the dorms presented Mrs. Tur nipseed with another problem. In the midst of the unexpected ^number of dorm residents she .d to send out an SOS to the campus employment office. Shipyard Money In the face of a labor short age Mrs. Turnipseed rolled up her sleeves and really went to work herself, planning meals, cooking, and serving—and not getting through until 10 or 11 at night. Heavy schedules filled with the courses needed for the reserve programs plus the jingle of extra money from summer work has greatly cut the number of stu dents wanting work, but as reg istration rolls on the problem >eeems to be working itself out. • Girls Volunteer Girls from the dorms have vol unteered to serve the tables not so much from a need of the pay, but as a convenience to the oth (Please turn to page three) Once Is Good Twice Better It was half time at the Oregon Navy game. Score 7 to 7. Feeling was running high. Oregon stu dents were crazed by the uncer tainty and suspense. A large group of men were marching out on the field. To Art Wiggin, Sigma Chi, it looked like an Oregon rally. Art, being a lcyal son of Oregon, felt that it was time for all good men to come to the aid of their school. He marched out with the group. Along with the rest he was in ducted into the U.S. navy. It had so happened that the rest of the men had marched out on the field for that purpose. The irony of it all is that Art has already been sworn into the Navy reserve in V-7. Courses Added The following course has been added to the schedule of classes since the last faculty bulletin: Scandinavian literature, life and culture; three to four hours; GL 451, 452, 453; time to be ar ranged 202 Friendly; Williams. Emerald Aspirants Hold Meeting Tonight Ail persons interested in working on either the Emer ald news or sports staff should be at the Emerald meeting to night in 105 journalism build ing. The meeting will begin at 7:30 and will feature short talks by Ray Schric.k, Emerald editor, G. Duncan Wimpress, managing editor, Ted Bush, as sociate editor, Jack Billings, news editor, and Professor George Turnbull of the jour nalism school. Emerald applications will be taken at the meeting and as signments given out on the ba sis of these reports. Associate Editor Called to Colors John J. Mathews, Emerald as sociate editor, received his induc tion papers Monday morning from his local board in San Francisco. He will fly south on Wednesday. Ray Schrick, Emerald editor, announced Monday the appoint ment cf Carol Greening, junior in journalism, to literary editor re placing Mrs. Lyle Nelson. Schrick also announced the editorial board appointments for the first time. They include Schrick, Mrs. Schrick, who is also business manager, G. Duncan Wimpress, managing editor, Jack Billings, news editor, Ted Bush, associate editor, Janet Wagstaff, assistant editor, Lee Flatberg, sports edi tor, J. Wesley Sullivan, Oregana editor, and Joanne Nichols, junior in journalism. Four Sophomore, Junior Rally Positions Vacated Buy Bonds! We see just scads of lovely ads. “Buy War Bonds’ they are cry ing. That epithet will be the bet That sets the Axis flying. If all the guys that advertise Will also do the buying. -- J.W.S. Enrollment Hits 2400; Annuals Sell With late registration contin uing to increase the number sub stantially, enrollment reached the 2400 mark Monday, according to Clifford Constance, assistant reg istrar. This number still trails last year by 21 per cent, but late reg istration shows signs of improv ing the situation. "We have every reason to be lieve late registration Tuesday and Wednesday will bring the percentage drop to a much lower figure,” Constance said last night. Oreganas Selling Oregana sales were continuing at a high rate and business man ager Jeff Kitchen said the high est percentage ever sold had been signed for. Students still wishing to buy a year book may buy them at the registration desk on the second floor of Johnson hall. Kitchen stressed the importance of stu dents buying their books now as the budget determining the num ber of books to be printed will be made out early next week. Price Increase Seen "It will be to everyone’s ad vantage if all orders for the Ote (Plcnsc turn to page three) Four vacancies on the rally squad resulting from the failure of members to return to school will open spots on the squad for three freshmen and one junior. Petitions for the positions must be filed with the educational ac tivities office with Carolyn Holmes by 5 p.m. Friday, accord ing to Les Anderson, student, body president. Petitions for homecoming? • chairman must also be filed at. that time. Homecoming- will take place on the weekend of Novem ber 7, at the time of the UCLA: game. Former members of the rally squad who did not return thj year were Jane Williams, Judy Eccles, Barbara Hannum, all sophomores, and Neva Haight, .n junior. Records Won By Four Groups Four winners in the contest for the first organizations to be hun dred per cent purchasers of ASUO athletic cards have been an nounced by Og Young, chairman of the card sale. Sigma Alpha Mu, Chi Psi lodge. Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha. Theta are the winners of $H> worth of phonograph record-; each. One more fraternity, onr sorority, and three independent organizations can still win worth of records by going ICO per cent on the card sale. Winners Winners of the contest to sell the most cards at registration are Earle Russell and John But: terud. Each will receive $5 in trade at the College Side. Approximately 1900 cards hav -> 'already been sold. “This is tho highest percentage of cards sold during registration in the last five years,” Young reports. Oregon’s Jack Bellinger Safe After Jap Torture The feelings of a curious tour ist caught looking into the crater of a volcano at the moment of its eruption must have occurred to Jasper (Jack) N. Bellinger, ’34, on the infamous night of Decem ber 7, 1941. It was his lot to be two days out from Tokyo, on a Japanese ship, the Tatutu Maru, when Pearl Harbor exploded and echoed around the world. Back to Yokohama went Bel linger to be booked as an Amer ican spy and imprisoned by the Japanese prosecutor. After six months of solitary confinement, a barley and rice diet, and third degree methods, used by the Jap anese to obtain a confession, Bel linger returned to the United States late in August on the dip lomatic exchange ship, Grisholm, with U. S. Ambassador Grew and his party. Oregana, Emerald The circumstances leading up to his internment read like fic tion.' He was graduated from the University in 1934 with a B.A. in journalism. While on the cam pus he was associate editor cf the Oregana, news editor and a member of the editorial board oi’ the Emerald, and member of Sig ma Delta Chi, men’s professional journalism honorary. In 1932 ho applied for the editorship of tha Emerald but was nosed out by, Richard L. Neuberger, ’33. During the year he was on tho editorial board of the Emerald, Yosuke Matsuoka, graduate of the University law school, re visited the campus to give hi:* only speech while in the United States after representing Japan, at Geneva in 1932. Matsuoka’:* speech, explaining why Japan had withdrawn from the Leaguo of Nation's, was wired all over the world and was a big event for the University. Matsuoka Interviewed As fate would have it, it wan Jack Bellinger’s job to interview the sneaky gent from the Orient. At that time Matsuoka was not foreign minister, but a member of the Imperial Diet and a big1 enough figure to warrant a major splash in the newspapers. (Please turn to page six)
