The Weather Tf Grade Trouble? Ifnn ku See study suggesitons by Virgil Eugene and vicinity: cloudy llA 11 I S. Fogdall, assistant dean of men, today with scattered showers, no I lITI l|| I / ■ I ■ on an inside page of today’s Em- , change in temperature. JLI1 JLJLIJLB.X XXJ._ erald. VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1947 NUMB ICR 24 Students To Rally Tonight Ducks Plan Parade In Portland Street Beginning at 8:15 Portland will receive a lirst-hand view of Oregon spirit tonight at 8:15, when Oregon students gath er in front of the Benson hotel and march up Broadway to the Para mount theater for the UO-UW pre game football rally. Yell King Johnny Backlund urged all Webfoo'ts who are going to the game to be at the Benson by 8:15. The University band will lead the procession up Broadway, and provide music for the rally. 1 Backlund requseted that every living organization on the campus paint appropriate signs for the ral ly and Saturday's game, and that house presidents make sure every . student knows of the rally. Men are asked to wear rooter’s lids and women are to carry pom poms. The program will include fight songs and yells and will last approximately 20 minutes. We’ve got to have a large turn out Friday night to show the Hus . kies that we’re behind our team all the way,” Backlund said. “It’s a tradition that Oregon students take ' over Portland the weekend of the Washington game, and we don’t want this weekend to be an ex ‘ ception.” In order to avoid the confusion , that resulted at the Texas game, there will be no rally Saturday morning. Activities Board Rejects Request What the educational activates board did: 1. Refused to consider a request _ for $510 for the rally comipittee. 2. Voted to bring the San Carlo opera company here February 18. - 3. Rejected a request of the house librarians association for funds. 4. Authorized a $600 increase in the budget for forensic activities. 5. Approved appointment of Vir -gil Tucker as advertising manager of the Emerald. 6. Approved appointment of "“Laurence Davidson as associate ed itor of the Oregana in charge of ^schools. The board refused to grant funds to the rally committee and to the “house librarians on the grounds •4ha't neither activity came within the province of the educational ac . tivities board, and that each should -seek their funds from other sourc es. - The San Carlo opera company will produce “Barber of Seville” -^Tebruary 18, but the performance ’.will not be free to University stu dents. Students and townspeople will be charged admission. Date of the next meeting was moved from November 13 to No vember 18. Informality in Order Nila Dessinger, AWS social chairman, announced that campus plothes will be in order for the Washington-Oregon game in Port land' Saturday. Judges Select Five Finalists For Homecoming Hostess Vote -fi. neiu ui zi canuiuai.es ior uie 1947 Homecoming hostess was nar rowed to five last night in Gerlinger hall. After an hour of deliberation the judges selected Joan Larue, Carol Bartel, Sally Watson, Gladys Hale, and Zeta Sinclair. Joan Larue from Kappa Alpha Theta, is a junior in art. Gladys Hale, a junior in sociology, is from the Pi Phi house. Sally Watson of Hendricks hall, third junior can didate is majoring in liberal arts. A sophomore entry, Zeta Sin clair from Delta Gamma is a li beral arts student. Carol Bartel, an ai i. sLuuem. irum uenmgcr nan, is the only freshman finalist. Next Tuesday University stu dents will choose by ballot one of these candidates as this year’s hos tess. Polls for voting will be open all day at the Co-op. Student body cards should be shown when voting. Judges who selected the five finalists last night were Dawn Car son, last year’s hostess, Stan Wil liamson, Sue Ferniman, Peter Hill, Hal Brevig, and Les Anderson. Jackie Wachhorst, chairman of the Homecoming hostess contest, was in charge of last night’s judging. Twenty Left in Sweetheart Race After Sigma Chi Dinner Dance The number of "sweetheart of Sigma Chi" contestants was reduced from 50 to 20 girls at a dinner dance Wednesday night at the Sigma Chi house. Those remaining in the title race are: • Oonna Brotherton. Alpha Chi Omega; Katherine Kuluris, Alpha Delta Pi; Anna Johnson, and Carmen Jones, Alpha hall; Delores Stevenson, Alpha Omicron Pi; Mary Knox and Jerry Ann Meyers, Alpha Phi; Naomi Fulton, Chi Omega. Betty Berry, JJeita oamma, Boots Korn, Delta Zeta; Barbara King and Janet Paulson, Gamma Phi Beta; Dixie Haugen and Bar bara Mayer, Geriinger hall; Jo Ann Ogle, Hendricks hall; Nancy Chamberlain and Barbara Fagg, Kappa Alpha Theta; Jo Ann B'itz maurice, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Jackie Austin, Susan Campbell. These contestants will attend an informal fireside at the Sigma Chi house Friday, October 24, from 8 to 12 p.m. Campus clothes will be worn. A vote narrowing the group to five finalists will be taken after the fireside. These five will be invited to the fraternity Sunday, and again Tues day. Finalists will dress in short silks for both of these events The group will progress from the Sigma Chi dinner table Tuesday night to radio station KORE, where during the program ballots will be counted and the coeds will speak. The winner will be announced at this time. Directory Nears Publication Date Most of the Pigger’s Guide has been completed, Editor Howard Ra mey, has announced, but publica tion date depends on the contem plated campus telephone changes. Complete cooperation in shorten ing the temporary delay has been promised Ramey. He reminds students who have changed addresses or phone num bers since registration that today is thehir last chance to report such changes to the Guide. All informa tion, clearly indicating the old and new listing, should be submitted to the activities office in McArthur court. Ad solicitations were recently completed by Business Manager John Larner who commented on the fine work done by Joe Bennett, as sistant business manager. The cover of this year’s Piggers was sketched by Dan Mindolovich and is now being engraved, Ramey said. Chess Enthusiasts To See Exhibition Weaver W. Adams, well-known chess master and author of “White to Play and W’in,” will play two games of exhibition chess against the University chess club Monday night at 8 in 207 Commerce hall. Adams plans to demonstrate, through the exhibition games and the accompanying lecture, that “through scientifically correct play, Black cannot obtain an even game.” Adams was a member of the American/team which played an in ternational tournament in Russia in September, 1946. His lecture is being sponsored by the University, and all campus chess enthusiasts are invited to attend. Open Houses Planned Wesley and Westminster houses will hold open house from 8 to 12 this evening. All students are invit ed. Dance Class Postponed Tonight’s folk dancing class at the YMCA has been discontinued because of the game in Portland. Helen Traubel Concert To Begin at 8:15 Tonight HELEN TRAUBEL Edgar DeCou Funeral Rites At 2 Sunday Funeral services for Edgar E. DeCou, retired professor of mathe matics, will be held at 2 p.m. Sun day from the Congregational church in Eugene. Professor DeCou, who died at 4:55 a.m. Wednesday, retired as dean of the school of mathemat ics in 1944. He headed the depart ,ment from 1902 to 1939, when he was appointed professor emeritus. Born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1868, Professor DeCou graduated from Madison, S. D. normal school in 1899. After studying at Wiscon sin and Chicago universities, he took his graduate work at Yale university. Before coming to Oregon as pro fessor of mathematics in 1902, Pro fessor DeCou had been acting pres ident of Bethel college, Russellville, Ky. Previous to this he had in structed at the Madison normal school and had been principal of the Evanston, Wisconsin, high school. Professor DeCou was the author of “Socialized Mathematics for Freshmen” and was a member of the American Mathematical Soci ety, Mathematical Association of America, American Association of University Professors and Pi Mu Epsilon. Surviving are his widow and three children. Storms Stop Sloop i Oregon Student Unsuccessful In Circumnavigation of Continent An around-the-continent sailing cruise in a 30-foot sloop by Warren Lovell, University pre-med student, and Curtis Costello of Orlando, Florida, was abruptly halted only a few hundred miles from the As toria starting point as the pair limped into Port Orford last week after having been buffeted by high winds and heavy seas. Lovell, who arrived on the cam pus yesterday, said that they were driven before southeast and south west winds up to 50-mile velocity for eleven days. He reported that 30-foot seas were running and that at one time they were 100 miles off shore. At the peak of the storm the tiny sloop, the Sun Setter, was put over on her side. When the ship righted tne mast was oroKen. An auxiliary engine for emergency use was flooded when the ship went over and had to be dried out before it could be used for the laborious trip into Port Orford. Lovell’s foot was injured when the mast broke and he decided against making another attempt to put to sea. Costello, owner of the vessel, said he planned to ship the sloop to a gulf port and continue his journey from there. Even more% discouraging than losing the mast, Lovell said, was being without the services of a stove. He said that after the ac cident their diet consisted of cold canned beans. He added that with the exception of his shoes, pipes, and bcoks he did not lose much per sonal property. Helen Traubel, Wagnerian soprano, will present her pro gram at