The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 145, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 12, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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Weather-
Increasing cloudiness
Monday unsettled pro-
bable showers
Poloists —
Make it a clean sweep
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"AP MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
NORMAN OKLAHOMA SUNDAY APRIL 12 1931
"MORE THAN A STUDENT NEWSPAPER
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VOL XV NO 145
Sooners Beat
Central 54 In
Opening Game
Edmond Falls on Hess for Two
Markers in First Haskell
Uses Four Hurlers
Bus Mills Hits Homer
Colonel Steals Show Drives Pair
Across Counts Winning Run
With'Sacrifice
By RAYMOND PARR
Ho hie diamond machine was still
nmewhat shaken by the Ineligible
earthquake which blasted four players
out of the starting lineup Coach
Lawrence "Jap Haskell managed to
assemble enough scholars Saturday af-
ternoon to nose out Central 5 to 4
in the opening game of the season
The Sooner coach paraded his en-
tire hurling staff including Capt Glen
Cannon who managed to pern Ms
correspondence course in time to per-
form in the ninth inning
Colonel "Buster" Mills starting his
last sports season under Sooner col-
ors practically stole the whole batting
show when he accounted for four runs
Be banked out a homerun drove two
men home with a single and then
scored the winning run on Ray Wat-
son's long sacrifice fly '
Bell It Winner
Joe Hess sophomore from Bartles-
ville allowed two runs the first Inning
but settled down to hold the Bronchos
scoreless for the next three Dick Bell
who tosses the ball with either hand
took a chance on hie right wing after
Hess wee withdrawn and received
credit for winning the ball game when
Oklahoma rallied in the next sterna
Riley the first man to face Bell
created an awkward pause In the
Sooner pitcher's procedure by lamming
out a homerun Central made its last
run in the sixth on a hit and an error
Paul Young blanked the Bronchoe
for the next two inning and Cannon
mowed them down the last frame
Central got away to a two-run lead
in the first inning on two hits an er-
ror and a Mt batter The Sooners did
not threaten until the second round
Butter Porks One
Then the mighty Buster strode to
the plqte for the first time He swung
three time and the last wave was i
farewell gesture to the bell for it nev
er stopp'd until it landed out near the
220-yrrd straight away cinder track
He trotted home before the ball ever
reached the infield
Oklahoma tied the score In the
fourth inning Johnny May socked out
a double down the left field foul line
Mills gave the ball another long ride
but the center fielder camped under
It May took third while Ray Wat-
son was being thrown out on a ground-
er Then with two outs Charles "Chalky"
B loaner came thru in the pinch and
lined one past second base to knot the
count
Central took a two-run lead on Ri-
ley's homerun in the fifth and Mor-
ris' single In the sixth
Chapell Startt RaUef
Don Chapell opened the winning
rally for the Sooners with a line single
In the last half of the sixth May got
s hit Into left field Th-n Mills smash-
ed one Into right field storing Cliapcll
end when the right fleldrr muffed the
ball May scored and Mills went to
third
Ray Watson then won the bell game
by crashing a kmg sacrifice fly to left
held
May with a double and a single
pushed Mills foe baiting Iwnors
Chapell was the only oilier Sooner to
blL The Bronchos could garner only
tour bimfes til Uie quartet of Okie
lionia huik-rs
Box Score oa Pope Three
Peoples and Calvert
Enter First in Next
Round of Tournament
Homer Peeplre and Allen Calvert in
dtprndenia are again the first to enter
he nest round in the Daily bridge
tournament
The pair had played their second
match this one with Haymnnd Kelly
end Paul Dufficld and had phoned
the result in to the Dally office be-
fore noon Saturday
Playing lor the second round must
b eon Meted and results In lo The
Dally oltlce by o'clock Tuesday
night pairings are posted im the bul
kdin board In the Daily office
Pbur matches are to be played In
the women's divl-lon Fifteen more
male ho remain Jn the independent
bt Retort while eight playoffs comprise
the Iralernlty lid
Dr Ralph D fllrd assistant pro
lose of roobigy end Mrs Bird went
to the Oklahoma salt plains near
Chemkre to make a col lection and
hirilier study of Insects rndsy after
boon
toJOMee tlEisi - SVrc u
- CMi nVeW-
The cream of the track and field talent of
the middle and southwest will gather in Lawrence
Kan Saturday for the ninth annual Kansas Re-'
lay events- ’j (
1 i 4 '
With £i'g Six and Big Ten schoolt dominat-
ing the field western track ttart wilt have a first -
Funeral Held
For Watson
Highway Patrolman Known To
Many Students Dies Friday
- From Cancer
Funeral services for T H Watson
39 highway patrolman who died Fri-
day evening at American Legion hos-
pital from cancer were held Satur-
day afternoon interment was made
hi I O a F ctmctery
Having patrolled highway 77 from
Norman to Oklahoma City for more
than six years Watson was known to
hundreds of college students When
year ago Watson used a blue Crys-
ler car he was known to many who
did not know Ms name si "the man
in the Blue racer'
Watson came to Oklahoma from his
native elate Tennessee His
Merive Craves Watson two daughters
Haael and Margaret and his father
W J Watson Waurlka survive Mm
Funeral services were conducted oy
Rev P M Warren pastor of the First
Presbyterian church Arrangement!
were In charge of Myer and Myer fu-
neral mree lore
Kappa Gamma Epsilon
Will Initiate Monday
Kappa Oamma Epsilon honorary
modern language fraternity will hold
initiation for six pledgee at 9:39 Mon-
day after non In tho Faculty c'ub-
house Mbs Eugenia Kaufman a'Jlst-
ant prote-Mr In modern language and
vice-president of the fraternity an-
nounced Saturday
Tho Inlllalea will be Jane Lee a-a-S
Okmulgee Mary Helen Davis a-i-3
Oklahoma City Margaret Vessels a-s
3 Enid: Jano Burton s-s-3 Oklahoma
City Maurino Rhode graduate Mnr
rllton Ark and Orctclira Bwbhrr a-t-3
Qklalwm City
Adams Will Speak To
Credit Men Monday
Dr A B Adam dean of tlm ent'
fore of luslnre administration wilt
be the principal speaker at the monthly
meeting at llie Oklalwma Wholesale
Credit Men's association Monday In
Oklahoma City
The meeting will be held at 130 in
ths Oklahcm Club
15AV Putnam
iotuA State ‘jooo g Uovo
Atersee and r pack vauit-
rare opportunity to shatter records and emerge as
1932 Olympic possibilities
Glen Dawsort- Sooner distance star and hold-
er of the conference one-mile record will be a
strong contender for 3000 meter honors The
other men pictured above represent the outstanding
contenders in their events
Eighth Annual Gas Course
Students Due Here April 21
R E Miller Dallas secretary of the National OasoUne association of
America and R W Hendee Oklahoma city vice president of the Oklahoma
Natural Oas corporation will be the principal speakers at the eighth annual
Southwestern Measurement short course when it opens hers April 21
The delegates will be welcomed to the university by President Blxzell In
his address on the first morning of the three-day meeting Following Doc-
tor Blxrell on the program men connected with prominent gas and utility
companies in the southwest will give lectures
On the second day of the meeting
the following topics will be discussed
"Fundamental Oas Laws" "Funda-
mental Principles of Positive Meters"
and "Fundamental Principles of Regu-
lators" All lectures will be followed
by round -table discussions
The course Is sponsored by the fac-
ulty of the college of engineering and
gas companies of this section of the
country The meeting will be held in
the engineering auditorium The af-
ternoons will be taken up with class
work on special subjects conducted by
members of the engineering faculty
and gas company employes Classes
dealing with ths several types of equip-
ment conducted by representatives of
equipment companies will also be held
Prist papers for 1930 will be an-
nounced the last day of the ms -'jg
nd awards will be made
A bulletin "The Finding of the
CommlUee for Uw Study of Frectte!
Method" ha Just been released end
copies of it will be mailed to all who
era expected to attend tlie course
C H Day vice president of the
Consolidated Oas Utilities company
Blackwell will ad a chairman at each
session
More ‘Graft’ Charges Hurled
Congress Society’s Special Prober Says Club
Treasurer 'Crooked Immoral’
A SECOND Investigation of graft and Immorality nn the campus teamed
Saturday aa Congress literary society profr-rd chv of fraud and
embrxrlraicnt aaslust Finis Gillespie ? Hubert nub treasurer
The arcuMlMis wrre lunkJ by Kenneth Huruc a-a-2 Carnegie spec-
lal arc ret Investigator fur It presldm: of tlie sark-ty A O Julmaon fowl
Norman Hogue declare he can shows-
evidence of grass immorality and un-
questioned fraud In Olllrsple offlre
A committee named to probe the
rlmrges revealed tlwl liter Is an un-
explained deficit of 10 cents on the
treasurer's banks
"I demand a thorn and resrrhlnt In-
vestigation" Johnson sold "If there
Kappas Elect
Velma Jones
Former Stndcnt is Chosen Vice
President at Conclusion
Of Meeting
Velma Jones student st the uni-
versity until her graduation in Janu-
ary wa elected province vice presi-
dent of Kappa Kappa Gamma social
sorority at It annual district meeting
dosed here Saturday
Chapters from Texas university
Soutlwrn Methodist nrtverslty Uni-
versity of Arkansas and Oklahoma
err Included In Uie province
Mrs E N Sheppard Dallas was
elrcUd president of tho province
The two-day meeting which began
Friday terminated Saturday with an
alumni lunrheon at the MrFarlln Me-
morial church Eighty members at-
tended Is oomeihlng wrong hers we are going
lo uncover It"
An immediate Inquiry will be con-
dueled by Waklo Motrtsnmery f2
Sulphur and Roy Grantham law -I
Kaw Cue nor member of Uie probe
hoard They express the belle! that
Gillespie will be removrd from of
fire
Wentz Given
Clean Bill As
Houses Quit
Senate Ends Stormy Session By
Criticizing Democrat Road
Board Members
Hurray Not Notified
'or First Time in State History
Representatives Adjourn
Without Permission
mcrHnMA CITY Apr 11 — (AP)
—The thirteenth session of the Okla-
homa legislature adjourned sine die
Saturday
The senate ended it cession at 7
o'clock in the midst of a tumultous de-
bate during which it adopted a report
criticising democrat highway commis-
sioners The house adjourned quietly' at B
o'clock after voting a bill exonerating
the commission
Did Not Give Not're
Lew Wents chairman of the state
highway commission was the bene of
bitter contention Until the last min-
ute as the senate remained overtime
to exonerate Mm by a majority of two
votes of any misconduct despite the
fact that the house had adjourned and
their action was without force
Governin' Murray he - consistently
sought removal of Went whom he re-
cently opposed as chairman of the
board
The house did not follow the cus-
tomary policy of sending a message to
Governor Murray and to the other
house that it was ready for final ad-
journment : Senate Out of Order
it was the first time in history that
house has adjourned without con-
sent of the senate
The senate wrangled for nearly five
hour over the various reports that
were drafted after the highway com-
mission ' investixatloa
The battle resolved Itself into a fight
involving the question of removing
Lew Wentx
When the house committee notified
the senate that it had adjourned Sen-
ator Moon raised the point that the
senate could not legally transact busi-
ness His point of order wes sustained
Bender Shoots Best
In Duel Pistol Match
John Bender eng -8 shot a total of
248 to break into the lineup of the pis-
tol team for the first time this year in
a thirty-shot slow fire match with
the University of Missouri Saturday
morning The team shot a total of lr
246 for a team average of 415
The other four men placing shot
within eight points of each other and
averaged only one and one half points
difference Those placing in the
Missouri match-are Jack Louthan cap-
tain 251 41A William Vogt 354 432
Tom Moyrath 248 410 and Paul
Bucy 247 411
Results from Missouri will be avail-
able early next week Lieut Ivan D
Yea ton said
Cage Rule Governing
T: ae-outs Changed
NEW YORK Apr 11— AP'-Flve
changn in the playing code wen made
by the joint basketball rules committee
which concluded a three-day session
at the University of Pennsylvania club
Saturday
The most Important chrnge cut a’J
time-out allowances from two minutes
to one with the Idea of meeting the
rattier general criUrlsm that basket-
ball was toning Its popularity because
of the frequent and lengthy Interrup-
tions In play
Other clwngrs were of a minor na
lure
Tax Head to Address
Murray Club Sunday
Melvin Cornish chairman of the
slate lax commission will be the prln
ripal speaker at the wrckly meeting
of tha Cleveland county Murray rlub
at 2 O’clock today in U district court
room according to John A Fox presi-
dent of tlw club
Cornish will explain present taxation
methods and discuss the measures ad-
vocated by Governor Murrey
Noire Dame Oklahoma
Grid Stars in Relay
DK8 MOINES la Apr II — CAPS—
Representative of 1PM Notre Dome
and Alabama ImMI teams the two
outstanding undefeated team of '
country will settle their rivalry to
some extent wVn they me ui Hie
440‘ysrd rhamphmonip font boll relay
at the Drake relay Iters April 24 and
to
Both have mined teams
Bring on Those
Little Red
Schoolhouses
1000 Fewer Students 300 More
Jobless Teachers After
Graduation
:en the graduating class of
1931 walks off the stage next
June there will be about ljOOQ few-
er students then there used to be
but at least 300 more school teach-
ers looking for jobs
Cards filled out by seniors Show
that approximately 32 per cent of
the 1000 seniors intend to enter the
teaching field at some place or other
About 350 of them admit that they
have nothing definite to do
The question was asked them "In
what ocupation will you be en-
gaged?" Such answers os “It all de-
pends" "Indefinite" "111 guess with
you” "None at all” were common on
the cards
Teaching was by far the mast
popular profession the results Show
Others plan to be engineers lawyers
pharmacist reporters Insurance
salesmen business men end but a
few expressed the desire to do gradu-
ate work
200 to Attend
Electric Meet
i
Measurement Short Course Will
Convene Here May 12 For
' Three-day Session
The fourth annual electrical meas-
urement short course will be held in
the engineering auditorium May 13 13
and 14 R EL Page professor of electri-
cal engineering announced Saturday
Approximately- 200 delegate! ore ex-
pected to attend the three-day course
According to Page the classes are
offered each year for benefit of men
employed In the meter department or
utility companies The meeting I spon-
sored by the faculty of the college of
engineering and public utility com-
panies of the southwest
Fiona are being made to cover tho
theories of electrical engineering and
the various types of electrical measur-
ing devices as thoroly as possible by in-
viting prominent utility engineers and
representatives of manufacturers of
electrical equipment to deliver lectures
Several engineers and representatives
of public utility companies have already
accepted the invitations and more are
expected to accept later
Rom 150 to 200 delegates have at-
tended the courses for the past two or
three years Not only has Oklahoma
been well represented at each meeting
but surrounding states as well
Rivalry Rages Among
Youthful Collectors
Of Postage Stamps
Refereeing fights between small boys
who collect stamps from Ms office has
become tlw unofficial fu'xUon of Dr
Roy T House head of the department
of modern languages
Apparently inspired by the comic
strip of Ossolins Alley In which Skcc-
zlx Is collecting unusual postmarks
dozens of boys from 6 to 12 years old
swarm into tlw modem language of-
fices and raid the maU
Other popular collection points on
Uw campus are tho offices of Emil H
Kraetlli secretary of tlw university
and George Wodsack registrar
Deceit and fraud among the children
is not unknown according to Wodsack
who tclis of one lad coming Into the
registry office end asking for Dm
dating stamp which Incidenlally
makes a murk similar to a postmark
Upon receiving it the boy took some
envelopes out of his pocket and began
to stamp them When asked tlw rea-
son lie replied "Put going to trade
Hum wilh tlw fellows tor some other
postmarks"
West to Hast Record
Seeker Forced Down
COLUMBUS O Apr 11— CAP)—
Purred down here by motor trouble
Csptnin Ira Esker army text pilot
who wo attempting lo set a new
transcontinental speed record from
wrst lo east aniiounted Naturday
lUghl he would abandon tlw attempt
at this time
Captain taker made Uw detUnn
when he Itsrtu-d the dutch of his
super-charger was stricken and that
II would be iwrnwiry to dlsmaniio the
entire momr to make repaint
When Iw reached Columbus he waa
about even with Uie reretd tf 13 hours
29 ntlnui-s and 23 seconds new Iwtd
by Uw famous prank llawks
Dr Paul B (tram head of the bot-
any drpariinrnl rnndiictrd a group of
MnniMs on a field trip to Csdilo can
rn 70 miles snulhwerd of Oklahoma
City Saturday
Solons Make
Few Changes
In University
Maternity Tax Sabbatical Leave "
Dormitory Bill ' Die
In House
Survey Still in Danger
Cut in Salary and Maintenence
Funds Will Force
Strict Economy
But few of tlw sweeping financial
and administrative departures from
the present system forecast for the
university last January have material
lzed as a result of the legislative ses-
sion which dosed Saturday a check-
up of legislation affecting the school
shows
Deep appropriation slashes abolish-
ment of the building program and
three senatorial investigation all re-
sulting In exoneration sum up the
legislative action affecting the univer-
sity Rigid Economy Forced
As a result of tlw appropriation and
building cuts the university will fol-
low for tlw next biennium a policy
of rigid economy along with other
state institutions It will of necessity
limit instead at expand present -ad -all
proposed educational programs
The Oklahoma geological survey
was tlw only oran of the university
that appeared to be in any danger
Altho both branches of the legislature
have already passed the appropriation
budget for the survey Saturday tho
bill was still on tlw desk of Governor
Murray unsigned'
No Dismissals
Other Mils concerning the school
had either been defeated or died un-
voted on No radical changes that
were whispered last January hod been
made no wholesale dismissal of facul-
ty members had materialized
The salary appropriations for tha
year 1931-32 and 1932-33 were clipped
even and one-half per cent and the
athletic budget was trimmed $9200
These were the only material effects
felt at the university
The fraternity tax measure a Mur-'
ray bill introduced by Senator Hardin
Ballard of this district passed 1 tlw 1
senate and was sent to the ' bouse
where It died without ever coming up '
for a vote
The measure aiming to do away with
sabbatical leaves ot absence was pats-
ed by the senate but was killed In the
house Friday by a 44 to 12 vote
Investigations Shorn No Trouble
Three investigations in connection
with the university failed to disclose
any serious trouble at the school
The probe of the setup of the Union
corporation terminated with a favor-
able report by Investigating solons
The Union was complimented as a me-
dlum of "democracy" and was praised
by the legislators for Its work
Tlw investigation of "Immorality"
and graft at the university closed with
a favorable report CViplei of the re-
port arg being sent all over the coun-
try to show that neither immorality
nor graft exist as was charged in Uw
report of Alva McDonald investigator
working under Governor Murray
Dorm BUI Rilled
The Investigation of the university
hospital was dropped after tlw hear-
ing No written report was ever pre-
pared by investigators when It was
shown that rumors were false
Tlie extension division and summer
school departments were allowed
slightly trimmed appropriations Both
will be able to continue on their bud-
gets Tlw dormitory bin for the university
died alter It had passed the senate
This measure was Included in a like
bill that provided a dormitory for the
Oklahoma A and M college It waa
never pushed by university officials
trlio felt that no dormitory was need-
ed Nicholas Lonirworth
Buried at Cincinatti
CINCINNATI a Apr 1L— (API—
Leaders of the nation paid silent trib-
ute to Nicholas L?n worth speaker ot
Uw house of representative- aa he wee
burled here Saturday beside his father
In Spring Grove cemetery
Tlw Right Reverend Henry llobson
bishop of the dlascse of Severn Ohio
read the service
President and Mrs Hoover Vice-
president Charles Curtis and mem-
bers of tlie congressional delegation
representing tlw government paid
their tribute by their presence
Infirmary
ADMITTED: T J Waliw
DISMISSED: Aemw Chandler John
McKlltrlrk Christine Fairchild Reeve
He me Kermllt Purrell Orville Muir
end Sylvia Futuranskjr
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