The Weather Mostly cloudy skies today with showers expected this afternoon and evening. VOLUME XLIX_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21. 1948 NUMBER 117 ► - 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 •lauiqao mou siq uiojj s^siyat 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 (Please turn to page eight) 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 (Please turn to page three) _• 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.