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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1943)
oi) jiNHuiiimiiiniimiinHiiHmiimiimiHnnimii iHiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiniHiwntmninfflHnNiiHNifliiimiimtiiiiinimnHU MARJORIE MAJOR EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor ARLISS BOONE Advertising Manager Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Anne Craven, Assistant Managing Editc Pvt. Bob Stephensen, Warren Miller, Army Co-editors Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens, r Co-Women’s Editor’s Bill Lindley, Staff Photographer Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon._____ Jletk Qa ta the Qcum . . . Today is the day of the big Army-Navy game. Oregon’s ASTU squad and the Willamette Navycats will meet this afternoon on Hayward field for the first game of the season. We didn’t think there would be any football games this year. We thought football was on the “out-for-the-duration” list of war-scarce items. So we packed away the football pennants and rooters’ lids and rally pom-poms. But King Football did not die, as today’s match will prove. The Navycats have a strong, experienced squad. We have a green, untried eleven. The Navy had five weeks of scrimmage. We have had two. The Cats have already played one game. (We have played none.) Incidentally, the Willamette Cats won their game, against the Whitman Pioneers, by a score of 20 to 0. The odds don’t look too good from that record, but they’re evened a bit by the heavy Oregon line, which averages some 200 pounds. It sounds like a tough, scrappy game, a hard fight. When Army meets Navy, you can always count on a good fight. It promises to be an exciting, memorable game. —When Navy plays Army, you can always expect some thrilling moments. So bring out the rooters’ lids, dig out the pompoms you crushed into a bottom drawer somewhere, flash an Oregon mum and a big rally smile, and let’s go to the game. —J.N. • • • Memo on RuMm, There was a moonlight night in midsummer. The plains about the city were peaceful but there was no peace in the hearts of those who stood upon them. In the middle of the plains stood a city, but it was a dark, ugly sore in that summer night. This is not a romantic story. If it begins softly, with moon light, let it be mentioned that outside the city was a mass grave. Five thousand Russian prisoners lay in that grave, shot in the neck or dead of starvation. Yes, that ought to be mentioned. A mass grave by moonlight. The facts would indicate that those who left the city named Orel left hurriedly, with brief radio mention of “shortening German lines.” But before they left there was the matter of five thousand human beings, incon veniently hard to move. The action taken probably was logical. They say German troops are not overfed, that there are not cpiite as many trucks as before. But even so, for those people, those soldiers rolling by moon light into the city of Orel, there was no peace. Correspondents on that front report no great battle songs booming from the campfires that night. The soldiers were re-burying Russian dead. * * * * As speculation grows over the coming tri-partite conference between the United Nations leaders it is fortunate indeed that University students had the chance to hold their forum last night. It is even more fortunate that the topic was Russia. As the Soviet army newspaper Red Star continues its de mand for an invasion across the channel it is well tljat even the smallest groups of people speak of the silent partner “Uncle Joe” and of the world to come after the peace, when Russia will be able to lay down on the peace table a potent list of those dead since the German invasion of her soil. Russia can point to the percentages. She can prove that her armies have battled, and pushed back two-thirds of the German army alone. She can prove that one-third of the German air force fought, and then melted on her front. Even the huge quantities of materials sent in from the United States and Great Britain can not make the shunting aside of this communistic state possible. What will Stalin and Russia want from this war? The Red armies have crossed the Dnieper river; the Red steamroller of fensive will not be stopped even by autumn rains. The old Polish border is corning within grasp. What of Russia’s ambitions in Poland? What if she enters Germany first—or will she enter —M.M. \jHette/iA, \ ta the CrdUtosi Wednesday, Oct. 13 Lbs Angeles, Calif. Dear Editor, As representative of the many ex-Oregon men here I direct this criticism of the mighty “Emer-( aid’s” omission—the omission of several thousand boys, and mind you, Oregon boys, who have donned the blue and white uni form of the navy and are, as have been, residing on the campus at UCLA. The number of men may be a slight exaggeration, but the principle of the thing warrants same. I could enumerate the names of the men you omitted from the list of missing men, but I think it’s your duty to see that they do get published. Really, we aren’t as angry as this little note may sound, but when the Oregon boys saw the “Emerald” they actually drooled over the most minute pica. You should have seen their faces drop when their names weren’t men tioned. To get a little sentimental, an “Emerald” means a hell of a lot to the boys in the service. Elven a little advertisement like “May flower opens Monday,” or “Wel come back, Ducks,” raises a little lump in the throat and one wish es like hell that this war would end so we could do a little bit of inebriated serenading, have a glass of beer at “Taylor’s,” or get refused same at the “Side” and settle for a “coke.” I’m off on a tangent, and the whole letter was an excuse to get this bit of sentiment off my chest. It was just your bad luck to be on the receiving end. Sincerely yours, Rolland Gabel, ’46 a/s USNR Bugs, Attention Please Note “Scymnus fenderi Malkin” and “Hyperaspis obscura Malkin,” two newly discovered species of coccinellidae, are described in an article by Borys Malkin in the July issue of “The Pan-Pacific Entomologist.” Malkin, an ento mologist specializing in coleop tera, prepared the paper while he was a student at the Univer sity of Oregon in 1942. The ar ticle features Miss Edith On thank’s drawing of “Hyperaspis obscura Malkin,” a species distin guished by “the vittae broad in front,” which "sinuate from the inside at the apical portion,” and “interstices very minutely aluta ceous.” “A Catalogue of Oregon Coc cinellidae,” another paper pre pared by Malkin while at the Uni versity, appeared in the Septem ber issue of the “Journal of the New York Entomological Socie ty.” Malkin cites and describes 93 forms to back up his thesis that Oregon compares favorably in coccinellidae with other coleop terologically well-explored states. Full credit is given to William Buell, who aided Malkin in his research by obtaining specimens of “Scymnus haermorrhous lau renticus Csy.,” “Psyllobora vi gintimaculata taedata Lee.”, and many other species. At Ohio State the housing sit uation is mixed up. An army ASTP unit moved into Mack and Canfield halls, two coed dormi tories, while the coeds took over some of the local fraternity hous es. Globally Speaking By BILL SINNOTT The arrival of Vice-Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten in New Delhi last week heralds the beginning of an Allied offen sive against the Japanese in southeastern Asia. The appointment of Lord Louis as commander-in-chief of the United Nations’ forces in the Asiatic theater seems to have aroused MacArthur’s ire. MacArthur probably feels that he. with his vast experience, has been passed over in favor of Mount batten because of high politics. It was necessary for the pres tige of the Empire in Asia that a Briton be at the head of the Allied forces there. The situation in India is difficult at best. The native princes are among the main supporters of the Brit ish Raj. Lord Louis, as Great grandson of Queen Victoria, pos sesses the authority that should insure the utmost cooperation from the princes. Britain suffered a great loss of face in the East by virtue of the Singapore debacle. It will be Mountbatten’s job to clear the Japs from the Asiatic mainland and thus regain that lost face. His Background Lord Louis has a colorful back ground. His great-grandfather married morganatically his val et’s daughter. Queen Victoria had a litter of marriageable daughters. The Queen wanted a son-in-law ready to hand; so the “Widow of Wind sor” was delighted when the young Battenberg prince (Louis’ father) married one of her brood. Mountbatten’s father was first sea lord in 1914. He, together with Lord Haldane, was forced to resign office because of a false charge of pro-Germanism that the Northcliffe press had hurled against him. In 1917 Prince Louis changed war’s week 9 Italy declares war on Ger many. 9 Gigantic air 'armada “breaks back” of key Japanese Ra baul base. Control of South west Pacific assured. 9 Allies cross Volturno river be fore Rome. 9 Portugal loans Azores bases to allies. 9 Crucial battle develops for Kiev; Germans in the Cri mea completely isolated. 9 Two United States destroy ers sunk in the Mediterran ean. The University of Illinois re cently found out that many of the navy and army men stationed on the campus didn’t know about the USO at Champaign-Urbana. A new hit tonight! "CLAUDIA" from the stage play of the same name with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young EUGENE HOTEL Presents ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA in the Persian Room 75c per person Dancing 9 ’til 12 I ^ Every Sat. Nite^ his name to Mountbatten and was created the Marquis of Mil ford Haven. Lord Louis married Edwina Ashley in 1933. She was the heir ess of the vast estates of her grandfather, Sir Ernest Ca|sel. Sir Ernest had come to London from Germany in his youth. He amassed a fortune in the city by his financial genius. Sir Ernest became a bosom friend of King Edward VII. He paid all the king’s debts after his coronation. Cassel figured in an affair that led to the Anglo French entente and the inevita bility of the first world war. The king, Sir Ernest and Wil liam Keppel went on a yachting trip with Sir Thomas Lipton dur ing Regatta week at Cower. Crash There was a collision and the royal party barely escaped with their lives. The kaiser, on heafkig of the collision, said, “What a S disgrace it would have been if the ] king of England had lost his life in company with his grocer, his mistress, and his Jewish banker.” This was repeated to the king who became violently anti-Ger man. Lord and Lady Louis, be_p-m. wars, were glittering membSJ*J>f that set irreverently called the “international white trash.” Lady Louis was chiefly known because she never traveled with less than 50 trunks. Pardon Our Relationships Mountbatten’s brother, Mel ford Haven, married the Cctan tess Nadedja Torby, the daugh ter of the Grand Duke George of Russia by his morganatic mar riage to Pushkin’s granddaughter. Sorry if we sound too much like Proust and /or the Almanack de Gotha. Lord Louis was in command of the destroyer “Kelly” in both the Norway and Crete camp?:"ns. Afterward, he was app *s-fed Commando chief. He planned the Dieppe and St. Nazaire raids. 11 — i Lupe Velez and Eddie Albert in "LADIES' DAY" "RED RIVER ROBIN HOOD" with Tim Holt ... r i < a "CRASH DIVE"* with Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter Also a new Blondie Picture "IT'S A GREAT LIFE" with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake Edward G. Robinson Glenn Ford Marguerite Chapman in 'Destroyer