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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1948)
31 High School Speakers Win Contest Awards Thirtyone high school students were a’.varded first, second, and third prizes in several types of oratory at the speech contest held here last weekend. Eugene high school turned out the winning debate team, with Beaverton second and Salem third. Joan DeLap, Marvin Webster, Rosemary Beatty, and Kenneth Mull won for Eugene; John Jacobs, Jack Jones, Bob Carteel, and Wil bur Miller for eBaverton; and Roger Middleton, Marvin Black, Vivian Barham, and Bob Seam ster for Salem. Awards in radio script reading were given to Ben Weaver, first, from Benson polytechnic in Port land; Marion Olin, second, from Jefferson; and Virginia Birdsong, third, from Crook County. Tn poetry reading, Joan DeLap, Eugene, was first, Marvin Black, Salem, second, and Evelyn Pappel, North Bend, third. Oratory prizes went to Jack Halstead, Medford, first, Dorothy Kern ber, Jefferson, second, ahd Don Durn Dallas, third. Joanne Sohiel, Oregon City, came out ahead in humorous read ing, with Phil Newman, Eugene, second, and Elaine Furby, PIillls boro, third. Chosen as winners in discussion were Nancy Ann yates, Eugene, first; Jim Cooke, Salem, second; and Rosemary Beatty, Eugene, third. Marvin Black, Salem, netted a first in extemporaneous speak ing. Bilden Owen, Salem, second, and Kenneth Mull, Eugene, third, followed. In after-dinner speaking, Jim Elliott, Salem, won first, Bob Gray, Jefferson, second, and Joan DeLap, Eugene, third. Newly elected president of the Oregon speech league, is DeVere Taylor, Medford, who is replacing E. G. Webb, Beaverton. K. E. Montgomery was selected as sec retary. Next year’s tournament director will be P. X. Knoll, from Oregon State college. Stag Lines (Continued from page four) mg to be run and the track had an inch of water on it Saturday morn ing'. He opened the drains but even that didn't do too much good. As Mike said, “T've never seen a spring like this in Eugene.” Interesting note on men's fash ions is the one men’s wear maga zine is blasting the “Bold Look” all over the place and another mag isn't saying a word. Some manu facturers are featuring the look in their style promotion, but the ma jority are not, yet retail stores in some parts of the country are try ing to push merchandise as part of the “Bold Look" which is not just extra junk hanging around. —(Pd. Adv.) John L Lewis and Union Fined For Criminal Contempt of Court W ASHING i vJJN , April ^u— (UP)—John L. Lewis was fined | $20,000 and his mine union $1,400, 000 for criminal contempt today and the court hinted there may be further punishment if soft coal miners are still on strike Friday. Federal Judge -T. Alan Golds borough slapped the penalties on the defendants with undisguised re gret that they were not heavier— even though they were double those imposed for a similar defiance of anti-strike orders in 1946. The judge said he would have sent Lewis to jail except that the government recommended against it. The government apparently feared imprisonment of the union leader would cause another com plete shutdown of the coal fields. Goldsborough withheld sentence until Friday morning on the civil contempt charge on which he also found the defendants guilty yes terday. Lewis can be jailed and fined on that charge and his United Mine Workers can be fined. He gave the plain implication that the court might invoke the rarely used civil penalties if the protest strikes now under way are still in process Friday. In his last brush with the federal law, Lewis was fined $10,000 and the union $3,500,000 by Goldsbor ough for calling a strike in the fall of 1946 in defiance of a court order. JOHN L. LEWIS The supreme court upheld the convictions and the full fine on Lewis, but reduced the union pen alty to $700,000. Goldsborough made it plain in pronouncing sentence that he re garded Lewis and the UMW as sec ond offenders whose punishment should be increased accordingly. He told them sternly that the mine strike had affected the wel fare, health and safety of the en tire nation “as well as our national prestige in foreign countries.” Deadline for Refunds On Oregana Orders Set Deadline for refunds on 1948 Oregana orders is Thursday, April 22, according to Olga Yevtich, bus iness manager of the yearbook. She emphasized that no refunds will be paid after Thursday. French Woman To Speak Here “The Role of Women in Politics in France During the Last 25 Years” will be discussed by Mile. Suzanne Bertillon in a lecture at 8:15 p.m. April 26 in room 207, Chapman hall. Mile. Bertillon, who is conduct ing a lecture tour throughout the United States, was active in the French underground and in the re sistance movement during the war. She is the niece of M. Bertillon, who invented the fingerprinting system. Monday afternoon a tea will be given in Gerlinger hall honoring the French speaker. Members of the French staff and French majors are invited to attend. Following her lecture tour, Mile. Bertillon will return to France. She is stopping in Eugene while en route to Seattle from San. Francis co. Her talk here is sponsored by the language department and the | American Association of Univer- j sity Women. Now_ •Shorty Coats •Skirts •New shipment cottons •Cotton petticoats and Camisoles at 'UJ&itaate SAanfie 1 hone 13th Mortar Board Ball Chairmen Named The committee chairmen for the Mortar Board ball, to be held in McArthur court next month, were announced yesterday by Helen Hicks, president of the senior wom en’s honorary. Kay Schneider has been chosen general chairman of the annual girl-date-boy dance. Other committee heads are: Hel en Sherman, publicity; Joan O’Neill and Renee Cowell, decorations; Margaret Harrison, patrons; Sally Mueller, tickets; Sally Waller, in termission entertainment; Jeannine Macaulay, clean-up. Date of the ball will be decided Thursday at a student affairs com mittee meeting. TAX CUT ABANDONED WASHINGTON, April 20— (UPI — House Republican tax chiefs today abandoned plans for a substantial cut in excise taxes this year. They decided to keep wartime rates on railroad tickets, cosmet ics, liquor, furs and other “luxury” items. ARRIVED! ! DELTAH PEARLS For the GRADUATION GIFT Teveelers Established 1S69 620 Willamette WORLD HEADLINES" By United Press , DETROIT, April 21—(UP) — Walter P. Reuther, 40, head of the CIO United Auto Workers union, was ambushed at his home last night. A shotgun blast shattered his right arm and tore a hole in his chest. Dr. William M. Tuttle, chest ex pert at New Grace hospital where Reuther was taken, said he was in serious condition although his gen eral. condition is good and some operating will be necessary. JERUSALEM, Palestine, April 20—(UP)—Haganah forces cap tured two key Arab strongholds and were battling for a third to night in what Jewish sources de scribed as a major offensive to clear the strategic Tel Aviv high way, lifeline to Jerusalem. Reliable Jewish sources said 15 Haganah members were killed in a fight still raging at Dier Aiyoub, one-half mile from Bab El Wad, “Death Point” for Jewish convoys from Tel Aviv to Jersalem. Bab El Wad is midway between the two cities. PORTLAND, Ore., April 20— The widely organized aerial and ground search for a missing A-26 bomber of the Oregon national guard was ordered suspended to night. Maj. Gordon Doolittle, operations officer, announced, however, that all training flights would be flown as search missions over assigned areas. The plane disappeared while on a training flight from McChord field, Wash., to Portland April 9, and an intensive search has been conduct ed since 'then, over southern Wash ington and northern Oregon. Aboard the plane were three crew men, all from Portland. WASHINGTON, April 21— (UP)—Representative Fred Craw ford, R., Mich., today challenged the house of representatives “to give him a legitimate reason why Alaska and Hawaii are not pre pared for statehood. He said 50 years for Hawaii and 80 for Alaska should certainly be a reasonable apprenticeship. SEOUL, KOREA, April 21— (UP)—Telephone lines between Seoul and its port city of Inchon were slashed today in a mounting wave of leftist violence and sabo tage that already has claimed at least 20 lives in the past 10 days* Several telephone poles betweei the key port and the capital of tlw American-occupied southern zonf of Korea were sawed off at thi ground as the inspired sabotagf was stepped up to coincide witlT i Korean political meeting called ® Pyongyang, the capital of the Rijs sian’s northern zone. t 1 HOLLYWOOD, April 20— (Uf* —Studio Executive Jack L. War ner said today unemployment Aii the motion picture industry lia< reached the danger point. ■* The Warner Bros, productio: chief urged the industry to tak steps to get workers back on th job by increasing the film outpiii He pointed out that on April 11 1946, the major studios had 44 pic tures in work. This year on th same date only 23 pictures were-4: production. 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