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VOLUME XLIX_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21. 1948 NUMBER 117
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Anti-Reds
Lead Italy
Elections
Premier Announces
Leftist Exclusion
From New Cabinet
ROME, Wednesday, April 21—
(UP)—Premier Alcide de Gasperi,
with nearly seven out of ten Ital
ians backing him in a historic par
liamentary election, announced to
day he would exclude all extreme
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With returns nearing completion,
Anti-Communist parties had 69.5
of the vote for the senate and 67.9
per cent of the vote for the national
assembly.
It meant that Italians had voted
for their country’s participation in
the Marshall plan for European re
covery and for alliance with the
western democracies against inter
national communism.
The left wing actually main
tained its voting strength in par
liament as the result of the elec
tion. The sensation was the
strength of de Gasperi’s Christian
Democrats who came near getting
an outright majority in parliament.
There was the additional fact that
the Communists, without between
35 and 45 per cent of seats, had no
chance of a voice in national af
fairs.
There was another angle about
Which Italians talked. The new and
frankly fascist Italian social move
ment is expected to get about two
senate and 11 assembly seats.
When Benito Musssolini entered
parliament in 1921, he had 21 mem
bers of the chamber of deputies. He
became premier in 1922.
Political experts expected no sig
nificant change from the figures
shown when the ministry of inte
rior stopped its counting of the na
tional vote for parliament yester
day.
Honorary Requests
Freshman Petitions
Kwama, sophomore women’s
honorary, will accept petitions
from freshmen women with a 2.25
accumulative GPA until May 3.
Petitions should include name,
accumulative GPA, last term’s
GPA, specific campus activities,
eligibility slip from Dean Wickham
and a picture.
All petitions should be turned ir
to Olanda Stoll at the Alpha Xi
Delta house or Sillijean Rieth
miller at the Alpha Chi Omega
house.
Students will elect one of these girls today to rule O ver the fifty-eighth annual Junior Weekend May 7,
8, and 9. Reading from right to left the candidates are: row 1, Jeanne Herndon, Mary Lou Hill, Mary
Handelin, Sally Schilling; row 2, Nancy Swem, Mary Lou Klepper, Jeanne Huffman, Donna Stageburg,
Mary Joy Hamm, and Patty Beaton.
Special Edition
Of Emerald Set
To give mothers a preview of
their weekend at the University,
May 7, 8, and 9, over 2,000 extra
copies of the Emerald will be print
ed tomorrow.
Address-stickers will be distrib
uted in all living organizations and
the Co-op today. After the stickers
are filled out and returned, the
Emeralds will be mailed free by
the publicity committee.
Registration plans for the week
end were released Tuesday by Mar
garet Wickenden, chairman of the
registration committee. Following
the recommendation of Mrs. Harold
Boyd, president of Oregon Mothers,
registration hours will be from 2
to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 to 2 p.m.
Saturday in Johnson hall; and 2
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Movie on A-Bomb
Scheduled Tonight -
Movies for tonight’s program in
| room 207, Chapman hall are “God
of the Atom’ ’and “Nuremburg
Trials.” The films are sponsored by
the educational activities board,
and they will be shown twice. First
showing begins at 7 p.m. and the
second at 9 p.m.
“God of the Atom,” a full-length
colored film, deals with the prob
lem of the atomic bomb. Produced
by Dr. Irwin A. Moon, the picture
shows the theories of atomic power
by scientific apparatus and dia
grams. Scenes of the Nagasaki and
Bikini blasts are also shown.
Dorm Council to Meet
i Interdorm council will meet to
night at 6:45 at Hendricks hall.
Representatvies are asked by Pres
ident Don Latham to be present,
j Election of officers for the coming
! year will be held.
Troubles Plague Nelson in Play
By PAX RING
A leading man with troubles in
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” to
be presented April 24 in McArthur
court, is Dick Nelson. His difficul
ty is a pain in. his big toe, not a
cold in the head like romantic lead
Don Smith is currently fighting.
‘‘As Demetrius I find myself in
the odd and novel situation of run
ning away from a girl,” Nelson
said with a noticeable lack of en
thusiasm. The girl is Hermia,
played by Nine Sue Fernimen. His
infected toe causes him consider
able trouble when he runs away
from her.
Registering another complaint,
Nelson said, ‘‘Supposedly my voice
changed five or six years ago, but
lately in some shouting scenes it’s
been breaking. It won’t be any
surprise if it cracks Saturday
night.”
A member of Delta Tau Delta,
DICK NELSON
neison is a iresnman in Hngnsn. He
is mainly interested in playwriting,
but has done a good deal of acting
on the side. In the Portland Civic
theater he participated in several
plays, including Shakespeare’s
“Merchant of Venice” in which he
played Lorenzo.
“That part is quite similar in
character and age to Demetrius,”
Nelson commented.
His dramatic work on the cam
pus has been limited to small parts
in “The Adding Machine,” and
“Playboy of the Western World.”
“I like to act, but I’m mainly in
terested in writing,” he said.
“That's why I'd like to go around
the world on a tramp steamer when
I’m about half way through school,
If I wait till after I graduate I’ll
probably just get a job and settle
down right away.”
AWS Schedules
Gala Weekend
Oregon high school girls will
begin arriving on the campus late
Friday for the second annual Pre
view Weekend sponsored by the
AWS. The weekend is under the
direction of Barbara Johns, retir
ing AWS president.
Agenda for the weekend has
been planned through the court
esy of the women’s living organi
zations to give the high school
girls a glimpse of the various act
ivities offered on the campus, Miss
Johns said.
Main event Friday night will be
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Goethe Lecture
Billed Thursday
Dr. A. Closs, professor of Ger
man at the University of Bristol
in England, will present the second
lecture of the spring term lecture
series Thursday at 8 p.m. in room
207, Chapman hall. Dr. Gloss’s sub
ject will be “Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe.”
Austrian by birth, Dr. Closs
holds a Ph.D. degree from the Uni
versity of Berlin. A noted German
scholar who has written exten
sively, Dr. Closs has been a lec
turer at both the University of Vi
enna and the University of Lon
don.
“The Genius of the German
Lyric,” Dr. Closs’s most recent
book has been heralded by the Eng
lish critical journal “Spectator” as
a nincomparable chronicle of
knowledge and careful research.
Dr. Closs plans on publishing in
the near future a number of medie
val manuscrips which he has in his
possession. Thursday’s lecture is
open to all students and is spon
sored by the University lecture se
ries committee, Dr. Rudolf H.
Ernst, chairman.
Students
To Select
Fete Rulers
Co-op Balloting Today
To Determine Queen
Of 'Story Book Land'
The 1948 Junior Weekend Queen,
and her court will be selected in
an election today of all students
in the Co-op from 9 a. m. to 5
p. m. Student-body cards are nec
essary to vote, according to Marie
Lombard, chairman of balloting.
Ballots should be checked for
five candidates, and Beth Basler,
chairman of queen selection, em
phasized that ballots incorrectly
marked will not be counted. Tho
candidate receiving the most votes
will bo named queen, and the next
four will be princesses.
Finalists selected last Thursday
include Patty Beaton, Mary Joy
Hamm, Mary Handclin, Jean Hern
don, Mary Lou Hill, Jean Huffman,
Mary Lou Klepper, Sally Schilling,
Donna Stageburg, and Nancy
Swem.
Ballots are to be counted by
downtown businessmen, and while
the members of the court will be
revealed, the name of the queen
will be kept secret until the coron
ation at the all-campus sing, on.
Friday, May 7.
Meet to Focus
On Education
General education will be the
central point of the fifth annual
meeting of the Pacific Northwest
conference on the arts and sciences
to be held on the campus April 23
and 24.
Professor W. R. Hatch of the de
partment of botany, Washington
State college, will be the conference
chairman. Well known educators
from the Pacific Northwest and
California will be featured as guest
speakers.
President Harry K. Newburn will
officially open the conference with
the address of welcome at a lunch
eon to be held at the Faculty club
Friday, April 23, at noon.
Discussions on the Chicago plan,
the Michigan State plan, the Co
lumbia plan, and the Amherst plan
lor general education will be held
during the first and second sessions
on Friday. The third, fourth, and
fifth sessions on Saturday, April
24, will have discussions on the
biological, social, and physical sci
ences and on the humanities taught
in the Pacific Northwest. All meet
ings will be held in the lounge of
Gerlinger hall.
Positions Open
To Senior Girls
Positions on Berg’s College ‘I
board arc open to stuatents who will
be seniors next year, Barbara
Johns, AWS president, announced
this week. Girls who are interest
ed should contact her as soon as
possible.
Miss Johns said interviews will
be held between 12:30 and 2 p. rn.
tomorrow in GerlirTger alumni
1 hall.