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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1947)
* • I p VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, NUMBER 20 Homecoming Chairman } Selects Talented Crew ’ WORLD HEADLINES By United Press i MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 11. A new tropical storm of close to hurricane force neared western Cuba tonight on a direct course for south Florida where weary Red Cross workers were still evacuating refugees from floods in the wake of the great September storm. * The weather bureau located the new storm in the Caribbean 240 miles . southwest of Havana and predicted it would reach Florida tomorrow. CARLTON, Ore., Oct. 10. Bandits functioning as smoothly as a Notre Dame backfield, staged their third successful rural bank job here today when they held up the Carlton State bank and escaped with , $11,500. Today’s robbery, following the first two in the same neat pattern, * brought rural bank losses within the past six months to exactly $100,000. DAYTON, O., Oct. 10. Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor of the airplane and the first man to successfully fly in a heavier-than-air craft, collap sed here today but his personal physician announced some hours later that his codition was “much improved.” (See additional World News, Page 6) e- ___________________ '■_ - Bearded Sophs „ Rally For Fete Shaving mugs and razors will be „ laid away Monday by men of sophomore Standing as prepara tions for the coming Sophomore ♦ Whiskerino begin to materialize. For the benefit of those sopho mores who may have trouble pro ducing the necessary bristles, the committee decided to set the start *■ ing date two weeks before the Whiskerino, a week earlier than in the past years. The results of the two-week razor famine will be judged at the all campus dance on October 25 by Chuck Elliot, cam pus barber. Posse Furnished According to Alex Murphy, co chairman of the whisker commit A tee, high sheriff for the event will be Jack Schnaid't, supported by a posse Qf Skull and Dagger men. ♦ The following rules have been foi* , mulated by the committee. 1. All sophomore men students will be required to grow the beards, or show evidence of an attempt to ** grow them, beginning October 13 , and continuing through October 25. No exceptions will he made for the (Please turn to page three) What Brand of Ink Do You Drink ? ? ? University students phoned late Thursday night were sur prised to hear the voice of a man, representing himself as an Emer ald reporter taking a survey, ask some rather unconventional and personal questions. According to information re ceived by the Emerald staff yesterday, the man phoned sev eral campus living organizations between 11 p.m. and midnight to conduct his unique survey. The Emerald staff regrets to inform those who confided their answers that the unidentified voice has no connection with the publication. -- ASA Elects Miller To Lead Activities John Miller, junior in business administration, was elected presi dent of the Affiliated Students as sociation when it met Thursday.; Joan Preble, senior in English, was j chosen secretary-treasurer of the j r.association. Events Include Frosh Bonfire, OSC-UO Clash Committee heads named to su pervise the 1947 Webfoot Home coming were announced yesterday by Mo Thomas, Homecoming chair man. “The football game with Oregon State should go a long way toward making this year's event one of the best in history and without a doubt the best since the v*ar,” Thomas said, "and those chosen as com mittee heads are capable in every way to make this a reality,” Thom as continued. The dance committee will be headed by Robin Arkley. Perry Holloman will head the building of the Frosh bonfire and Jim Hayden will conduct the Homecoming rally. As usual traditions will be en forced by the Order of O. Jackie Wachhorst will handle the selection of the Homecoming hostess and Margaret Harrison will head the reception committee. Bill Yates will take the director ship of publicity. Promotion has been turned over to Bill Andrews and A1 Pietschman has charge of special events. Two of the largest features of the weekend, the noise parade and sign contest, will be under the di rection of Ed Anderson and Wally Turnidge, respectively. Billyjean Riethmiller will head the housing department. The selection of a cleanup chair man and committee head for half time entertainment has not yet been named, according to Thomas. . The first meeting of the commit tee will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 pm. in the alumni office, Thomas said. Woman to Rummage Theta Sigma Phi, women’s na tional professional journalism fra ternity, is continuing its rum mage sale from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at the former location of Kennell-Ellis at 961 Willamette st., Maryann Thielen, president of the organization, announced yesterday. Tremendous Battle Looms 4 Gridiron Giants to Gash Sunday The most spectacular and un usual exhibition of football prow ess on the Pacific coast will be offered local fans Sunday at 2:00 p.m. when the pledges from Fi a BULLETIN Coaches for both teams re H ported late last night that mem bers of their squads would be de nied late permission tonight to ■* insure them plenty of rest for $ tomorrow’s supreme test. A Beta Phi clash with their chal * lengers, Kappa Kappa Gamma’s > new pledges. The contest will be r staged on the University high school scrimmage field. The Pi Phi grid experts will be favored in the contest because of their superiority in numbers, but the coaches have warned their feminine charges that the Kappas will field a potent team. . Brain trust of the Kappa squad is Ken Morin, who was Imported from Coos Bay by Harriet Van uatta. Coaching the arrow ag gregation are Hal Schick, Tom Roberts, and Jim Boyd, from the white barn across the street. Ihere will also be officials. Again the Phi Delts have worked into the racket. Don McCollom has been signed to referee the contest. Pie denies any direct af filiation with Pi Beta Phi. Max V Maude has swindled a contract to umpire. Starters All Starting as ends for the Pi Phis will be Joan Simons and Peggy Utz, beautiful dawnfield block ers. A pair of 250-pounders, Cora Kneeland and Jean Steiner, have been selected to anchor the tac kle spots, and the starting guards will probably be Ann Case and Margery Hammond. Holding down the pivot position will be Ann Seabrook. The backfield packs plenty of punch with Jackie Newburn run ning the show from her quarter back position. Joan Carr is at (Please turn to page eight) f Salvatore Baccaloni To Sing at Mac Court Salvatore Baeealoni, Metropolitan Opera singer of comic roles, will open the greater Artists series tonight at McArthur court. Students may bo admitcd by presenting their regisratiou cards. First of 47-49 Concert Series to Feature One of Great Comedians in Grand Opera By JUNE FITZGIBBONS Salvatore Baccaloni, accompanied by Warner Bass at the piano, will present the first of the '47-’48 concert series tonight at McArthur court at 8:15. This brilliant singer, who is noted for having the Outstanding qualities of both a tenor and a bass, ha*, also formed a reputation of being among the greatest comedians in opera. ReligiousGroup Chooses Three Bjorg Ilansen, Helen Sherman, and Aic Johnson were elected to hold the three vacant student posi tions 0:1 the Ur.; ersity Religious council at their meeting Thursday at the YMCA. These students were selected for interest uuu experience in siuue.it I religious affairs on the campus.j Their election now brings the stu I dent membership, elected from the campus at large, back up to the maximum of ten. Plans for activities of the council for this year were discussed. An; appeal was made to the religious organizations on the campus not to plan any function for Sunday evening, October 28, that would conflict with the assembly to be held that night which will formally start “Religious Evaluation Week.'1 This is the first event of the year where all of the religious groups will meet together in one meeting. Complete cooperation was request ed by the council to make it a suc cess. Schleicher Plans Kiwanis Address Charles Schleicher, professor in the political science department, will talk on United States-Russian relations at the regular meeting of the Eugene Kiwanis club Monday at noon. Coming to the University this year from the University of Utah, Schleicher has spoken to a number of campus and town groups this fall. Toscanini Engages After hearing Baccaloni in 1926, Arturo Toscanini engaged him for La Scdla opera in Milan, one of the principal opera houses of Eur ope. From that time this basso buf fo has played 160 roles in five lan guages. Baccaloni is content playing the ridiculous parts and doing what he wants to do—that is to give to the public of the world the enjoyment and f olacc found in music. Think ing in terms of the future, he wish es to combine the knowledge of the theater and his training he had in architecture to glorify the stage presentations of operas. He re ceived a degree in architecture and worked in that field until his sing ing graduated from a hobby into a profession. The Eugene Oregon civic music association, which is responsible for bringing the annual concert se ries, is regarded as a national ex ample of the teamwork of “town and gown." G. E. Gaylord, director of the civic group, stated recently that we have the largest organized audience in the world. Students are admitted by show ing their student body cards. The doors open at 7:30 and Salvatore Baccaloni starts his program at S :15. (See program Page 3) Rally Set Sunday For Resuming Ducks A rally for the football team, flying home from their clash with the Uclans, will be held at 2:30 p.m Sunday at the airport, Yell King Johnny Backlund announced yes terday. He asked that all students turn out to meet the team and suggest ed that members of the living or ganization carry signs.