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Fifty-first year of Publication Volume UII1 UNIVERSITY OK OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 1952 NUMBER 75 World Mourns George VI Sweetland Says Ike's Ballot Fate Is Statute Issue I By Bill Frye ^toterpretatlon of Oregon's elec ' fion statutes may become a chief •Issue in the political pot now brewing in preparation for the state presidential primaries in 'May. Democratic National Commit , teeman Monroe Sweetland said Wednesday night that he is insti gating court action in which he * hopes to show that Oregon's elec tion statutes have been misinterp reted by Attorney General George Neuner. Sweetland said that the state election statutes "make it perfect 'ly clear" that the name of a presi dential candidate cannot be enter . ed in the primaries on a party ticket unless he is a member of that party and the signers of his petition are also members of the same party. On this basis, he said, the sec retary of state has the right to re ject the name of Gen. Dwight D. ' Eisenhower as a candidate of the Democratic party. "Eisenhower," he said, "has made it unequivocally clear that he is a member of the Republican party." Neuner ruled Tuesday that the secretary of state could not re move the name of Eisenhower from the • Democratic presidential primary ballot unless it was with drawn by his sponsors or ordered removed by the court. Eisenhower's name was placed on the ballot through petitions (Please turn to foqe seven) Senate Agenda •'■^Agenda for the ASt'O senate meeting Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in room 334 of the Student I nion will include: 0 Mock Convention report 0 I’hone committee report 0 Duck Preview chairman se lection 0 Proposed primary election plan 0 Pacific Student Presidents association report Elizabeth and Philip TJIE NEW QUEEN*, Elizabeth If, pbses with her husband rhillp. H«*’I1 probably receive title* of Prince* Consort. Heart Hop Coronation Is Friday Coronation of the “King of Hearts" for the Heart Hop will take plate in McArthur court be tween the junior varsity and main pome with Idaho Friday night. Voting on the six candidates for the title will close at 5 p.m. Friday. The polling booth is in the Co-op. Only women holding tickets for the affair, a girl-ask-boy dance, are eligible to vote. Tickets cost 60 cents and are available in the Student Union as well as the Co op. Five women’s living organiza tions will be open during the evening following the basketball game for dancing. They are Car son hall, Alpha Chi Omega. Sigma j Kappa. Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Gamma. Theme for the dance is "Leap Year Lyrics" and was suggested by Sarah Turnbull, junior in for eign languages. Each house will be decorated with a different song as its particular theme. The traditional dunking of the “King" will take place in front of Carson hall following the game. This ceremony usually is part of the coronation, but as the corona tion will take place at Mac court, the water-treatment site was changed. Eugene merchants have donated a number of prizes for the “King" tile winner. The Radio Lab will give him a 45 RFM record album, the University Men's Shop a shav ing set, Fennel's a Parker Life time pen. J. C. Penney company a dress shirt, Williams department store a prize to be announced later, and the Cascade club a free ad mission. Claypool’s and the Univer sity Drug will each donate a prize to the runners up. Interviews with the second group of "King" candidates appear on page 6 of today's Emerald. Delegates from 8 States to Attend Northwest Drama Conference Here More than 500 delegates from eight Western states will gather on the Oregon campus beginning today for the annual Northwest drama conference. The theater people will attend discussion sessions on many phases of theater work and will hear talks by prominent drama teach ers and leaders during the three day conference. Sawyer Falk, head of the drama department at Syracuse univer sity, Syracuse, N. Y., will deliver the principal address Friday. Four Hays Scheduled Four plays will be presented during the weekend. They are “All the King's Men" and "Petticoat Fever," presented by the Univer Wy theater; "Snow Queen" and "Come Back Little Sheba,” pro duced by the Portland Civic thea ter. Student registration is $1. The. fee will permit entrance to all I four plays. Registration fee for i non-students is $2. Registration fee may be paid at the University theater box office. Originated by I'O "The Northwest Drama confer ence was originally called by the University of Oregon because those people connected with the theater here ft It that there was j a definite need for it and that it j was a very good idea," Horace W. | Robinson, director of the conven tion, suid in an interview Wednes day. This is the fifth year the con vention has been held, he con tinued. “The first one was a suc cess and we decided to continue theft*." Before the last war a Northwest Drama Convention was held at the University of Washington, but it was discontinued in 1941. "After the war it was indicated that there were no plans for resumption, so we decided to start one of our own," Robinson commented. Unusual Convention This convention is unlike most because it has no elected officers, but is presided over by Robinson, who serves as program director. Robinson provides facilities for meetings, arranges productions and supervises the organization of the whole program. He also ap points those people t.i take charge of the sections and suggests sub jects to be covered. Each year the convention has in creased in size. Lust year 500 dele gates attended and this year more are expected. A high school sec tion has always been included, but (Please turn to pose seven) Daughter Will Rule Kingdom As Elizabeth II By Phil Bettens (Compiled from Wires of Associated Tress) Britain's Princess Elizabeth—now Queen Elizabeth II—is tlvintj home from east Africa to become ruler of the British empire. Her father, Qeorgc VI. who became king in 1936, died m his sleep early Wednesday morning. I he 2.'-year-old mother of two children will be the first queen to rule Britain since the death of Victoria 51 years ago. Formally Proclaimed Queen hl.r was formally proclaimed Queen Elizabeth” in a procla mation drafted by the accession council. The proclamation will become official when read in pmblic Friday. 1 he new queen had set out onlv one week ago on a royal tour of the Briti-h Commonwealth. She was in Kenya when A full page of pictures of Britain's royal family appears on page 8. she received the news of her father's death. She hac left by plane for England, and should arrive about S:30 this morning. Elizabeth will be Brita.n's first woman ruler in 51 years. Also, this means that there will be three English ex-queens two of them named Elizabeth living in Bri tain: Queen Mary (grandmother of the new queen t; Queen Elizabeth, widow of George VI; and the new ruler of the British Empire, Queen Elizabeth. Truman Voices Sympathy President Truman extended the sympathies of the American peo ; pie to the people of Britain. 1 "He played his part nobly and with full understanding of the re sponsibility which was his. ' Tru man said in paying tribute to the monarch who guided his country through one of the most trying periods in its long history. The Duke of Windsor says he will sail from New York today to attend the funeral of his younger biother. Tne former Edward VIII, who renounced the English throne in order to marry "the woman I love,” Wallis Simpson, will go alone to his homeland. KING GEORGE VI ‘•The Wing is dead; lorg live the queen.” rung ijtorge naa Deen in since before last September, when one of his lungs was removed. No announcement was made then as to the reason for the operation, but court surgeons later confirmed that the lung was cancerous. It is believed that a blood clot coronary thrombosis was the imme diate cause of the king's death. He was found dead by his valet. John MacDonald, when he took a cup of tea to his room at 7:30 a.m. Wed nesday British time (12:30 a.m. PST I at Sandringham Castle. Kntire Commonwealth Goes Into .Mournnig The whole British Commonwealth has gone, into mourning. Flags all over the world—Including the Russian flags in Berlin—were flown at half-staff yesterday and today. Prime Minister Winston Churchill will broadcast to the Eritish peo ple tonight at 9 p.m. British time Churchill s speech will be carried in this country by the Mutual and Columbia radio networks at 1 p.m. PST today. National Broadcasting company will broadcast a tape recording of the speech at 1:45 p.m. and the American Broadcasting company will carry the speech by tape recording at 6:30 p.m. jvioniDers 01 tne House o! Com mons anci the House of Cords must swear allegiance to the new queen, a ceremony which had already be gun late Wednesday. Speaker of the House W. S. Morrison was the first to take the oath, and Church *11 was the second. Will I.ie in State The body of George VI will lie in state in Westminster hall ad joining the houses of parliament. And as far ns the British are con cerned, any proclamation of mourning will be only a formality. London's citizens dropped all busi ness and went to their homes yes terday. Many put out mourning wreaths. Restaurants banned danc ing, and amusement places closed. The British consular office in Portland closed Wednesday, and the t’nion Jack atop the two Brit ish ships in port flew at half-mast. Elizabeth's husb a n d, Prince Philip, will not become King of England. A similar situation arose when Queen Victoria, England's last woman ruler, married Albert. He was given the title of Prince Consort, a precedent which may be followed in Philip's case. George Vi's Death Brings Student, Faculty Comment Death of England's King George VI Wednesday morning brought varied reactions from British and Canadian students and a faculty member who is from Australia. E. G. Moll, professor of English, who has been in the United Statesi for 20 years, with occasional trips to his home country of Australia, said "King George did great work in helping to hold the British em pii e together." "News of his death is very shocking." Moll said. I feel a very real and sincere grief at his pass ing.” “I've been getting two Aus tralian newspapers regularly, and have noticed their concern for the King's health," Mol! said. "Each person in the commonwealth of (Please turn to (age six)