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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1942)
Oh, Woe! Oh, Woe! OSC Game Writeup— 7e Page 4 Riasanovsky Discusses Siberian Question— Setf Page 2 VOLUME XLIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 NUMBER 43 (Courtesy of the Register-Guard) LT. ROBERT S. CLEVER . . . . • . Ex-Webfoot who was killed when the plane on which he was navigator crashed near Versailles, Ohio, last Friday. . . . Clever was one of the Flying Yank heroes who bombed Tokyo with General Jim my Doolittle on his famous raid last spring. Routine Flight Ends Life OfUO Tokyo Raid Hero Robert S. Clever, University man who won fame all over the world last spring as a member of Jimmy Doolittle’s bomb dropping party over Japan, was killed last Friday in the crash of a medium bomber near Versailles, Ohio. Lt. Clever was with Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle when | ’ led his 79 men in the raid which marked the first attack Iff the current war on the capital of the Japanese empire. Routine Flight The bomber in which Lieuten ant Clever was flying as navi gator Friday was on a routine training flight when it crashed and burned, killing the entire crew. From 1938 to '41, Clever at tended the University as an ar chitecture and allied arts major. A member of Campbell club while he was here, he came from Port land where he had attended Franklin high school. His family is living there now. High Honors Clever was a member of Yeo men, and worked on the queen’s afloat for Junior Weekend 1940. ^ i was on the honor roll spring term 1940. The Distinguished Flying Cross and the Military Order of China were awarded to the lieutenant for his part in the Tokyo air (Please turn to page eight) New Year's Eve No. 4 I’ve heard that this early per mission Will stop the brawls and such, They say that with women in early The boys won’t get in Dutch. If they think that will keep the «boys quiet, ell, we won’t discuss their ilk, But they’d better not keep their roach powder So near their powdered milk. —J.W.S. Orides Lead Contest The Orides were first in the Red Cross hours contest this week with 14y2 hours, Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Kappa tied for second with 9, and Alpha Phi was third with 814. Total hours for the week was 78 hours. Piggers Face Date Dimout AsTermEnds Preparatory to the last social fling before digging in for hiber nation and finals, the office of the dean of women has released pigging deadlines for Thanksgiv ing and over the next two closed weekends. Lights will blink Wednesday night at 12:15, Thursday, 10:30; Friday, 10:30; Saturday, 12:15; Sunday, 10:30. Choice may be between two of the three nights over the weekend, as more than two nights will not be allowed. On the following weekend one date will be allowed ... on Sat urday night until 12:15. Faculty Bills Piano Recital The University of Oregon school of music presents tonight George Hopkins, pianist and pro fessor of music, in the second of the faculty series of recitals. The program will be held at 8:15 in the school of music auditorium. First on Mr. Hopkins’s pro gram will be a sonata by Azzo lino Ciaia, a composer of the 17th century. The sonata was origin ally composed for organ and cla vicembalo, and has been trans scribed for piano by Bella Bar tok. In contrast with this early music, Mr. Hopkins will play three preludes by Gershwin. Phenomenal Pianist “It is good for students to hear something which is strange to them and also something which is familiar so they can find stim ulation in the studies they have been following in the school of music,” stated Mr. Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins will also play a waltz by Levitsky, who before his death was a friend of Mr. Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins has described Levitsky as “a phenomenal pianist.” Probably the best known num ber of Mr. Hopkins’s program is Beethoven’s “Sonata Pathetique.” Other works include the "Magic Fire Scene” from Wagner’s Nor dic drama, “Die Walkure,” and “Spanish Caprice” by Moszkow ski. Jackets, Books, Shoes To Go On Block Today “If weather permits,” emphatically stated Florence Ham ilton, chairman of today’s AWS auction of lost and found articles, “haggling and feverish buying-up of rain, fair, and foul weather apparel, among other things, will be carried on in front of the Side today at 4.” Effervescent auctioneers of the annual fall-term affair will be Ted Loud, yell king, and G. Duncan Wimpress, Emerald man aging editor. Especially appropriate items to go over the block today are four umbrellas, three Oregon jackets, four rain jackets, eight mittens, thirty-one scares, five raincoats, one green tweed sport jacket, one rain hat, and two men’s hats. Other Items Other items to be critically bargained for include: a plaid vest, zipper notebook, ten loose leaf notebooks, three pairs of tennis shoes, a green and red necktie, fountain pens and pen (Please I urn to page eight) Oregana Makeup Pix Deadline for individual shots for the Oregana has been set for Wednesday night, Novem ber 25. Pictures for those who missed having theirs taken at the regular time may have them taken at Kennel-Eliis stu dios at 962 Willamette street. Make-up pictures for sorori ties are scheduled for today, and independent make-ups for Wednesday. Any person who has not yet had his picture tak en for the Oregana may make this up at any time without appointment. Turkey-Day Dance Brightens Weekend Marking a wartime stay-on-the-campus Thanksgiving', plans have been made for a "Thanks-for-Giving” dance which will be held Wednesday night from 9 until 12 p.m. in Ger linger hall, according to Don Broderick and Norma Trevor row, publicity co-chairmen of the affair. Besides a probable charge of 25 cents per couple, ad mission will include giving certain USO or salvage articles. Literary Topics Feature Series Dr. Hcyt Trowbridge, profes sor of English, will present his lecture entitled "Pope and Recent Criticisms’’ at 7:30 p.m. in 207 Chapman hall in which he will discuss various aspects of poetry. Ho will speak on literary criti cisms in the last 15 years and stress the importance of literary taste as well'as poetic theory at the present time. C. Valentine Boyer, English department head, refers to Dr. Trowbridge as an authority on Pope and Dryden, seventeenth and eighteenth century poets. On these subjects Dr. Trowbridge has contributed articles to many literary magazines. According to Dr. Rudolph Ernst, in charge of the lecture series, everyone is invited, stu dents and faculty alike. Library Revises Hours Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the library has revised the closing-hour schedule for the latter part of the week. Wednesday the reserves will close at 5, the browsing room at 5:30, and the rest of the library at 6 p.m. Thursday the library will be open from 2 p.m. until 6. the amount of which will be an nounced later. t’SO Items Included, in the needed item:* for service men are new dance records, decks of cards, sets of dominoes, pounds of p a p e r, games and marbles for Chinese checkers, sewing kits, books, and new magazines. Salvage articles include tin cans, old dance records, paper, and silk stockings. According to the co-chairmen, it will be an orchestra danec, (Please turn to page si.vj Sunday to See Yule Vespers Christmas Vesper service on the campus will be held next Sunday at 4:30 in the music building. This will be the only campus-wide Christmas service this year. Frances Oram, president of tho Student Christian council, is in, charge of the program. It will consist of Christmas music and meditations, in poetry and prose. Hal Dallke will lead the medi tations. Qbnevieve Working will give the call to worship. A quar tet from the music school will sing several Christmas carols. Laurie Pratt is playing the organ background for the whole service. WSSF Campaign Will Feed Eugene $39,000War Chest The University’s contribution to the combined Community and War Chest will be made through the World Student Ser vice Fund, Oge Young, co-chairman of the campus campaign said Monday when he explained that what students give v^ili be counted towards the $39,000 goal set by the Chest for Eugene. Although the WSSF contribu tion will aid Eugene in reaching its goal, the money collected on the. campus will be kept separate from the Chest fund and will be used for a purpose decided on by the students. During the campaign scheduled for December 1, 2, and 3, students can contribute whatever amount they wish to the fund for Ameri can prisoners of war and Ameri can students who are in need of aid. Eugene citizens are being asked to contribute between $5 and $10 to the Chest drive, but students will not be directly so licited by the Chest, their con tributions to be all made to the WSSF. Tags reading “Ive helped a fellow student, how about you?” will be given to each contributor in the WSSF campaign. Faculty members are being solicited this week for contributions ar.d pledges. (Please turn to page three) fPhoto on run ncll-KUti-j) OGE YOUNG . . . . . . World Student Service Fund co-chairman, who asks all stu dents to give as much as possih?** to the fund and to “help a fellovt* student.”