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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1944)
A Clark, ’35, Promoted ToLt. Col. in Italian Sector Thirty-one-year-old Lt. Col. Arthur M. Clark, who received his L.L.B. degree from the University in 1935, has been pro moted to that rank from major, in line with his duties as staff officer of an army air force B-17 Flying Fortress wing head quarters in Italy. A graduate of the University of Oregon Law school, Clark was first called to duty as a re serve officer in the summer of 194C. He went to England as a captain in February, 1942, and lat er had a hand in planning the first American bombing on continental Europe on August 17, 1942. From England Col. Clark accom panied his Fortress group to its new base in North Africa, later transferring to a wing headquar ters where he helped to prepare the first bombing of Rome on July 19, 1943. As an air corps staff officer, the colonel’s duties included helping to plan raids on enemy strongpoints in Tunisia, Pantelleria, Sicily, Sar dinia, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. He also helped coordinate the use of aircraft with action forces at Kasserine, Salerno, and Anzio. A member of Scabbard and Blade, military honorary, and Phi Delta Phi, law honorary, Col. Clark was president of the law school anil editor of the Oregon Law Review while on the campus. He is married to the former Adele M. Hitchman, a 1933 gradu ate of the University. National Secretary Of Sorority Feted The local chapter of Garnma Phi Beta honored their national secre tary, Miss Evelyn Gooding, with a formal reception Monday evening from 8:00 to 10:00, to which the house mothers, house presidents, mothers of Eugene girls, alumnae, and faculty members were invited. In the reception line with Miss Gooding were Jean McPherson, house president; Mrs. Harth Wil son, house mother; and Marge Koppy, alumna. Mrs. Lila Stafford poured. Betty Butler, social chairman, was in charge of the reception. Oregon ^Emerald Night Staff: Betty Robertson, night editor Bob Stiles Wednesday Ad Staff: Annamae Winship, day manager Beverly Eckert Helen Maxim Aralee Waite EASTER GIFTS and CARDS See Them Today Ethern’s Gift Center 1026 Willamette Your Photograph BY PHOTOGRAPHERS . . I Kennell" Ellis V.. %1 Willamette* Phone 1696 CAMPUS CALENDAR Badminton club members will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Gerlinger gym. Westminster house will hold a I potluck dinner Wednesday night : at 5:15. Weekend Nets Few Infirmary Patients A comparatively restrained weekend must have been observed in Eugene from the number of people reported convalescing at the infirmary Tuesday. Rosemary Johnson, Dorthea Wilson and Mary Winn, along with Earl Truax and Edwin Poehlman of the army, made up the roll of inmates. Marie Rogndahl Voted Phi Theta Scholarship Marie Rogndahl, finalist in the na tional Hour of Charm contest, was voted a $50 scholarship by Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women's honorary, it was announced Tues day. Miss Rogndahl is now in the East and will sing Sunday, April 2, on the Hour of Charm contest. She will return to the campus after the audition. House Enters Sing An addition to the list of houses entering the All-campus sing con test is the Alpha Phi house, Arliss Boone, chairman of the sing, said Tuesday. The house was inadvert ently left off the list of houses to appear. Group to Back (Continued from Page one) president will be made. This prac tice was also followed by the Greek bloc. Alice Harter, member of symposium, and Edith Newton, Oregana business manager, will compete with Greek candidates, Marty Beard and Arliss Boone for the senior class presidential and vice-presidential positions. Junior class nominees will be Esther Griffiths, sophomore in mu sic for number one and Charlotte Calder, sophomore representative on the ASUO council, for number two spot. In the elections they will face Virginia Wright and Marilyn Holden. Alice Buckingham, freshman in liberal arts, and Elizabeth Haugen, freshman in journalism, will run for sophomore class positions. Bar bara Pearson and Betty Towe are the Greek candidates. Yocorn Granted Leave (Continued from paye one) search assistant at Scripps college to come to the University in 1924. That year he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California. He became a full pro fessor in 1930 and since 1931 has been curator of the vertebrate col lections in the campus museum of natural history. Speech Contest (Continued from paye one) an ex-professor of speech here, is now a local realtor. The W. G. Beattie cup for oratory is given i. ■ WEDNESDAY ONLY Sherlock Holmes "Rookies in Burma" "Spider Women" Foreign Correspondent Saw Norway Invasion First Hand By MARGUERITE WITTWER Mrs. Lise Lindbaek, who arrived on the campus to teach Norwegian to the AST students just before the program was dissolved, related many of her experiences in the European war theater yesterday at the house librarians’ meeting. The noted foreign correspondent had been interviewing members of the Norwegian merchant marine and her book “1000 Norwegian Ships,’1 translated into English, is to be published in the near future. After quoting various statistics and background information on Norway and her people, Mrs. Lind baek recounted the dramatic story of the invasion of her country. “Imagine waking up one morning and finding that the Germans had overrun the country. Norway was entirely unprepared; the people thought as Sinclair Lewis had said, ‘It can’t happen here,’ and yet they fought for three weeks longer than France did and killed 17,000 Germans during that time. It is astonishing that the story of the Norwegian invasion could be repeated later at Pearl Harbor.” by Mr. Beattie, who is treasurer of the league and acting director of the extension division. Five cups in the other five sections of the contest will be given by the de partment of speech of the Uni versity. a Mrs. Lindbaek was in Paris when the invasion of France oc curred: “France lost two million men in the last war; they were just the men who would have le<T"f' France now. The Maginot line was unconquerable so the Germans went around it and the French thought the Belgians would put up heavy resistance. Things went so quickly—the Germans came rolling down like a big steam roller.” Confusion "We in Paris did not know what to think. The weather was beau tiful, more beautiful than I had ever seen it but life had sort of ceased. There was terrible con fusion. We were not allowed to use the telephones, transportation was almost impossible. One could sit all day in the sidewalk cafes and watch the peasants from Northern* Fiance walk through the boule vards driving before them their cattle, carrying their bundles.” tbeito^ ordiog reV ,lPuc tape •. lU „ T?\cctnc- _. Wester11 J- -- , w\u* v,ke Japaw'““ \ .Abora "calX . „eaceU‘«c \ [0r^s . man' \H n..t an*eu tUC , w aiding °ur men^w0NV _^ i BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM i a TT'or calls keep Long Distance lines busy ... That's tchy your call may be delayed.