Sunshine Today...
• . is the forecaat from the U. B.
weather bureau. Foggy in again
forecast for tonight. High tem
perature today will be 55 degrees,
‘ wilh a low of 34 degrees tonight.
VOL. LV
Bone Benders ...
• . . face Washington State
lege in a wrestling contest this af
ternoon at 4:00 p. m. in McArthur
court. See Sport page 3 for line
ups.
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Ticket Sales Open
For Senior Ball
rickets for the Senior ball will
t>'° on »ale Friday morning at the
f fitudent Union main desk and in
imn’s living organizations, ac
cording to Bob Berry and Jack
McClenahan, co-chairmen for tic
ket sales.
Living organizations representa
tives are Bryce Keimer, Alpha Tau
Omega; Mike Jeffries, Beta Theta
?1; Bill Veatch, Campbell Club;
John Prag, Chi Psi, Milan Foster,
Oelta Upsilon.
1 Jack Murray, Kappa Sigma;
J)i(k Wyss, Lambda Chi Alpha;
*>ob Kubcck, Phi Gamma Delta;
.fv Stiles, Phi Kappa Psi; Gordon
Nobriga, Phi Kappa Sigma; Bob
Enright. Phi Sigma Kappa.
. Hon Mount, Pi Kappa Alpha;
Bill Battcrton, Pi Kappa Phi; Don
.Bonime, Sigma Alpha Mu; Joe
Anstett, Sigma Alpha Epsilon;
•-ohn Tonack, Sigma Chi; Ward
Cook, Sigma Nu.
Forest Easton, Tau Kappa Ep
,Bil°n; Leo Naapi, Theta Chi; Carl
P- res. Detla Tau Delta; A1 Oppli
.ger, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Jerry
Froebe, Phi Delta Theta; Gary
Moll to Lecture
On Writings In SU
K. G. Moll, professor of English
• nn'l pwt laureate of Australia,
. #'H speak at the browsing room
lecture Thursday from 7:30 to
9.30 p. m. on one of his poems,
•"Jonah at Ninevah.”
. This poem is from Moll's book,
. “Tbe Lifted Spear,” which was
published in 1903 by Angus and
Robertson of Australia. Moll will
• read and discuss his poem, giving
his reasons for writing it and its
biblical relationships. The poem is
' based on the book of Jonah in
the Bible.
Following the lecture will be a
discussion session led by Hoyt
’Trowbridge, professor of English.
• This week's browsing room lec
.ture is scheduled for Thursday in
stead of the usual Wednesday
-date because of the conflicting
Wednesday evening basketball
game.
West, French hall, Gary Stanton,
Sherry Ross, and Jack Harmon,
Susan Campbell.
Men living in Gamma hall should
contact Ted Goh for their tickets
and Leo Nutman is in charge of
sales in Hale Kane. Merrick and
Nestor halls should contact Jack
McClenahan, or buy their tickets
at the SU main desk.
A contest for ticket-selling
among the representatives will be
held, according to Berry and Mc
Clenahan. All those selling 20 or
more tickets will receive a free
ticket, they said.
Tickets will cost $2, and will
continue on sale all next week.
Schedule Set
For SU Board
The Student Union board will
meet at 4 p. m. today in the SU
board room, according to Chair
man Andy Berwick. On the agen
da will be:
• Introduction of new board
member;
• Perpetuation plan changes;
• Interview with SU director
ate committee chairman;
• Announcement of dances dur
ing the state high school basket
I ball tournament;
• Special events report, and
0 Announcement of board peti
tioning.
Congress May Attempt
Coffee Price Requlation
By Associated Press
Congress may try to clamp the
lid on perking coffee prices by
government regulation.
The head of the Senate agricul
ture committe, George Aiken of
Vermont, predicts his group will
approve the necessary legislation
and quickly start it on its way
through Congress.
Joseph Mehl, head of the Fed
eral Commodity Exchange Auth
ority, told Senate investigators un
warrented boosts in coffee prices
could be stopped by government
supervision.
Lobo Not Sure
But the head of the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchange isn't
so sure. Gustavo Lobo told the
Senators Federal control of cof
fee trading might bring lower sup
plies and still higher prices in
the American market.
The Senate group is holding pub
lic hearings on coffee prices. The
committee may act today on a
bill by Democratic Senator Guy
Gillette of Iowa. The bill would
add coffee to the list of commod
; ities the government now tries to
keep out of price manipulations
and cornered markets.
Meanwhile a Brazilian coffee of
! ficial said coffee prices rnay hop
j even higher in the next 18 months.
He blamed the possible rise on a
short supply caused by a frost
last spring.
Sympathizes
The spokesman, Horacio Cintra
Leite, is the U. S. representative
of the Brazilian Coffee Institute.
He said he sympathized with
American coffee drinkers but saw
no hope of a price reduction until
late in 1955.
Leite said Brazil produced only
14 million bags of coffee last year,
3 million less than normal, be
cause of the 1953 frost.
He says his country is exporting
1,200,000 bags a month, which
means the supply will run out be
fore a new crop is harvested next
July. Brazil is not holding back
anything, he maintained, and the
investigations will show that high
prices have been caused by coffee
scarcity.
Two Confess
Dynamiting O
Two University students, one of
whom has already been charged
with attempted extortion in an
other case, have pleaded guilty
to charges of disorderly conduct in
connection with the blowing up of
the "O” on Skinner’s Butte in
June of 1952.
John D. Daily, senior in mathe
matics, and Richard A. Bray,
graduate student in geography
and geology, will be sentenced by
Municipal Judge John Barber at
8:30 Friday morning.
The pair were arrested Monday
evening and entered their pleas
at that time. They were released
on $50 bail. A third man, identi
fied by the police as a Rex Grif
fith, is also being sought on the
same charges, but he is reportedly
in the armed forces at the cur
rent time, and it is doubtful that
he will be arrested.
The police reported that the
three set off a blast on top of
Skinner's Butte early on the morn
ing of June 7, 1952. The explos
| ion ripped up the "O” and show
ered debris on surrounding homes.
'A few minutes later the city air
raid siren was set off at the Eu
gene Water and Electric Board
plant near the Ferry st. bridge.
70 Sticks Used
According to police reports,
Daily obtained some 70 sticks of
dynamite from a site on Goodpas
ture road north of Eugene and set
up the blast. The reports indica
ted that Bray actually set off the
explosion by wiring the dynamite
caps to the police transmitter on
top of the butte.
Police also believe the third man
set off the siren a few minutes
later.
At the time the blame for the
explosion was placed on Oregon
State students. A carload of OSC
students was halted and question
ed, but later released.
Daily was arrested last week by
Eugene detectives on an extor
tion charge, but was released on
mUSTRATIQH MAY END
What's Behind That Locked Door?
by Gordon Rice
Emerald Astiitant Newt Editor
* Remodeling work now being
* planned for the Art Museum may
* eventually open the locked doors
in that building which have been
'frustrating students for so long,
. but until that time students of
. Oriental art will have to guess at
fie contents of the various closets
* and locked rooms.
* Students wandering aimlessly in
* the museum first run into trouble
. when they try to open the door
*1'' ft '"om diagonally across the
ccn.idor from the museum cur
* ator’s office.
' The student's curiosity would
* probably be satisfied if he knew
, that behind that door was a small,
closet-like room which contained
* several rows of framed Japanese
‘ prints which were being stored af
, ter being taken off exhibit in the
_ main galleries.
On the second floor, across the
* main corridor from the large main
. gallery another locked door con
fronts the wandering student, but
. a look inside would probably re
veal less of interest than the lock
. ed door itself.
This small gallery was one of
the mistakes made by the last re
modelling crew. For some un
known reason, this room, unlike
its twin gallery on down the cor
ridor, was never refinished. Torn
burlap hangs from the ceiling, and
the bare walls are visible in other
places.
With the limited storage capa
cities of the museum now, how
ever, all this space is not being
wasted. Sitting on the floor or on
a low shelf are a number of pieces
of Chinese and Japanese works,
all in need of repair. Buddhas with
missing arms, swords with handles
that fall off, and other such ar
tifacts are all present.
Some of the most unusual works
of art are locked securely behind
the doors of two closets under the
stairs that go up to the third
floor. The contents of the closet
under the south stairs are of spe
cial interest.
This closet, which is not more
than five by nine feet in area,
contains a Chinese Buddha of ma
jor importance in Oriental art,
and a collection of Chinese pewter
which has not been shown since
its first exhibition many years
ago. The latter will be placed on
exhibition again soon.
Nude Statue Hidden
One article which has never
been displayed to the public is
also in this closet. It is a nude
human figure which was used as
a Chinese tomb statuette. The late
Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner, who
was in charge of the museum for
many years, would never display,
this figure for fear she would be
criticized.
The closet under the north
staircase contains a collection of
Chinese porcelain. Another door
leads out of the closet and into
a display gallery, where a large
vase and other works are hidden
behind some large screens which
are on exhibit.
Even when the wandering stu
dent ascends the stairs to the
third floor, he must turn around
and go back down. The doors at
the head of each stairs are locked,
too.
The gallery on the north end of
the third floor is being used as a
meeting room for a local organi
zation concerned with museum
work, but the room in the south
end contains objects of real value.
Hanging in large tents to keep
out light and moisture are clothes
worn by the Manehu emperors of
China, some of which were design
ed to be worn only by the emperor
after death.
Clothes Worn by Rulers
Also hanging up are garments
worn by the aristocracy of the
Ch’ing dynasty. Boots, ornate hair
dressings and a large amount of
jewelry are packed in large bar
rels which stand on the floor of
the room.
But only a small part of the ar
ticles which the museum has in
storage are found in these rooms.
In the basement of the building is
one large storage room, which in
cludes, among other things, a col
lection of Japanese and Chinese
slides, many of which have never
been catalogued.
Wallace S. Baldinger, curator of
the museum, plans to use this
room to house all the material in
storage after the addition of more
facilities there, but until that time,
students will remain frustrated by
the locked doors.
$2,500 bond. He was bound over
for Grand Jury action Saturday,
following a preliminary hearing in
a case involving the' attempted
extortion of a Eugene housewife.
New Events Develop
Meanwhile, events in that case
took a new turn when the ROTC
department here verified the fact
that Daily had been in his 2 p. m.
ROTC class on time on February
4, 8, and 11, the days when some
of the actions in the case were
supposed to have taken place.
However. Col. E. B Daily, head
of the department of military sci
ence, denied the rumor that the
department had filed a signed
statement with . the police saying
that Daily had been in class when
some of the events in the case
occurred.
At the same time, it was rum
ored that a business concern for
which Daily worked had also filed
an affidavit stating that he was
W’orking at the time other actions
were supposed to have occurred.
Officials of the company could
not be reached by the Emerald
Tuesday afternoon, and the Eu
gene police department would nei
ther confirm nor deny that such a
statement had been filed.
Eugene Police Chief Ted Brown
was not available for comment
on either case.
Oregon Accepts
WUS Invitation
The University of Oregon ac
cepted the invitation of World
University Service to particioate
m an "experiment for internation
al understanding.”
The experiment was explained
by Bill Kitchen, executive secre
tary of WUS, to a group of about
30 campus representatives Tues
day.
The purpose of the program jg
to arouse students to an aware
ness of international affairs and
needs, Kitchen said. The objec
tive of the experiment is to de
termine the significant factors in
fluencing student and faculty
thinking on world affairs. ‘
Three Projects
The program will have three
specific projects, Kitchen said.
A questionnaire will be circula
ted among students to find cut
what has most influenced their
thinking cn international prob
lems.
Discussion groups will be or
ganized to talk about relations
foreign students to the University.
The purpose of this is to find out
the thoughts of foreign students
on the United States.
The third step concerns dis
cussion groups revolving around
American students who have eith
er travelled or studied abroad. The
purpose of this group will be to
determine how much the individ*
ual gained from his experience
and how much he helps the under
standing of international affairs
after his return.
Separate Project
This WUS educational project
will be separate from the fund
raising drive which will be held
by the organization during spring
term. The WUS drive will replace
the World Student Service Fund
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