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The great grid battle of the ose Bowl is about to begin, nd Trojans will celebrate ith a huge bonfire Friday ehind Bridge hall. Just as in rewar days the blaze will be e scene of shouting and nging, destined to be heard
I	the way to Pasadena.
After the hour-long celebration,
Trojans are invited by Carl Geb-xt, sophomore class president, to e sophomore Rose Bowl Twirl, to held in the women’s gymnasium. The bonfire is scheduled to begin 7 p.m. sharp, according to Art Ison, rally committee chairman d president of Trojan Knights. ;e Trojan Knights are sponsoring affair, which has been made ssible through the courtesy of the s Angeles fire department and pal defense plants.
Nelson announced that permis-’on for the bonfire has been ranted both by the city and by e university. All fuel for the has been obtained, although ditional combustible material is sired. Anyone with access to iscarded lumber should contact Trojan Knight rally commit-in the Knight office, 218 Stunt Union.
r. Lucien Cailliet, director of the band, and Yell Leader Bob ompaon, with assistants TXm Cole d Terry Nelson, will be on hand guide Troy on to another Rose wl victory.
Following the bonfire, a block-ng serpentine will follow the rojan band from Bridge hall to « gym where Trojans will dance a well-known orchestra. Re-hments of cokes, cookies, and oughnuts have been ordered. Honored guests of the evening will members of the Tennessee foot-
II	team, varsity gridders from SC,
Vol. XXXVI
Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1944
Xipht Phone RI. 5472
No. 34
Nazi drive breaks loose on Meuse
Pasadena grid battle tickets still available
Do you want to be present at the slaughter? Do you want to witness another Trojan Rose Bowl win? Do you relish the thought of emersing yourself in the California sunshine on Jan. 1 to recuperate from New Year’s Eve?
Well, according to the SC ticket office, it still isn’t too late to lay your cash on the line for a rooter’s ticket to the 1915 classic in Pasadena.
Students who were conspicuous by their absence from campus the week before Christmas or who found themselves in financially-defunct previous to the visit of old St. Nick may dig up SI.80 to present at the cashier’s window in the University Bookstore for the ducats. Activity cards must also be shown.
Russians encircle Hungarian capital
Bioodbank caravan solicits 800 donors
Germans push Yank divisions back to river
PARIS, Wednesday, Dec. 27.—(U.P)
“We’ve hit the goal!” announced El Rodeo Editor Clarice Thurman last night. “The 1945 El Rodeo is an actuality now, not a hope.”
In announcing this unique Christmas gift to the Trojan student body, Miss Thurman stated that work on the annual would be continued and the progress would be ••booming’’ by the turn of the year.
Those Trojans who have not as yet purchased their annuals will have a last chance to do so this week at the cashier’s office in the Student Union Bookstore. For $5 a student will have a complete record of Troy’s fourth yea^ at war, including special sections on the Rose Bowl and other out-
“The donation of one pint of plasma is little enough to donate to our men in service and affords an excellent way in
which to begin the new year”, was the statement of Sallie ~German P°wer generated by two
Unmack, chairman	of	the	Trojan	bioodbank	registration.	and possibly three armies has brok-, standing events of the year.
With	so	little	time	left	to	sign	up	as	a	blood	donor,	Miss en loose in a new n-mile sur8e t0 I To ** included in the 1945 El	Ro-
_ i within four miles of the fortress of deo win *>e elaborate sections on
Dinjnt on the Meuse to open the!sororities and dormitories, frater-, ,, *	_	. _ ,	.	,	I	nities, a complete spread on	all
battle for that river barrier against I trainces, complete coverage on cam-
American doughboys who last night! pus activities.
were reported fighting with their Sports, a proud and traditional
backs to its banks.	P*1"1	of	Sc’s	history, will be given
. , „	,	,	,	i	a	sensational	section in the forth-
Advance German elements also! .	...
coming annual, according to Bob
Unmack asked veterans, trainees, and civilians who have not already registered to lose no time in doing so at the Victory Hut today.
This marks the fifth time that the mobile bioodbank unit has visited the SC campus, stated Miss Unmack, and since there are 800 pints of plasma to be donated this trip, registration should be made immediately.
The Victory Hut will students for registration from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. thiS" week.
Heading the nurses’ aides on the
campus is Ann Pearce, Pi Beta
Phi. These SC women will assist the doctors and Red Cross nurses in their work.
All trainees donating will be ex-
Russian relief drive extended
contribute.
“Students had a chance to look 60 miles
LONDON. Dec. 26—(r.P>—Power- cused from physical fitness for two ful Soviet tank and infantry forces, days following plasma donations, closing the escape corridor for Veteans’ donations are especially thousands of enemy troops in Bud- solicited, as well as civilian men and d the president of	the	southern	apest, today completed the encir-	women	on campus,
te's student body.	clement of the Hungarian capital	The	mobile unil	wj||	make	thc
Construction on the bonfire	will	an^ simultaneously fought one and
E. von KleinSmid	hall	its	head-
one-half miles through ,the streets of the city toward its heart.
Enemy troops in the encircled capital were believed preparing to
ot begin until Friday afternoon cause of the agreement with the e department that the blaze will kept under control and guarded all times.
quarters Jan. 4 and 5.
Miss Unmack called attention to
the fact that civilians between the
,	,	, ages of 18 to 21 must have the
make a street-by-street stand, but, | wriUen consent of thejr parents Qr
Members of the sophomore ooun-	smashing back their resistance, the	gUarfjlans	civilians	under	18	years
are working with Don Cole to	S0™’*-5 were advancing into Buaa,	of age	cannot	make	plasma	dona-
fect plans for the dance and	w05tern half 0( the dt* and roda5’, tions.
Ike it one of the most sensational	had captured several communities-------------------------------------------------
within its limits.
The shell-churned nine-mile escape corridor for the enemy was sealed when Marshal Feodor I.
Tolbukhin’s third Ukrainian army advanced six miles to reach the Danube 19 miles northwest of Budapest and captured Eszter-gom
ly attractions in Troy’s history,’ .lared Gebhart.
.C. asks mag ontributions
Religious council
around their homes for more donations during the holidays,” said
Russian War Relief committee will meet today at the YWCA at 12:30 p.m. It is necessary for all members to attend, stated Virginia Harutunian, co-chairman.
Mrs. Ruth H. Grant, executive secretary of the YWCA, in explaining the extension of the campaign.
A desperate need for clothing exists in Russia, for factories have discontinued manufacturing civilian garments and turned their whole effort to the production of military goods.
Clothing depots are situated at the Y house, the Alpha Chi Omega house, and various locations on
campus to receive all kinds of I warm, clean, and not-too-worn ap- ^ for the {hru5ts tQwar j Namur
Incomplete reports showed that more than 3600 Allied war planes bombed and strafed Nazi communication lines, troops, and tanks yesterday, bringing their toll of destruction for the past four days to at least 598 enemy planes and 4091 vehicles, including 571 tanks and armored cars.
Allied authorities last night said that as of Monday noon, 36 hours earlier, the Germans had not arrived at the Meuse itself “in any strength.”
(This phraseology would indicate that enemy reconnaissance elements may already have reached the river.)
Air observers reported that in a third westward extension of their front the Germans had reached the Smuid area in a five-mile advance from St. Hubert, which lies 11 miles southeast of Rochemont, jump-off
had penetrated within eight miles ■ Tapp business manager.
La.st opportunity to donate clothes of the French border and reached Both winter and summer gradua-
,to the Russian War Relief drive is within 14 miles of the Meuse strong- tions will be featured in El Rodeo.
now at hand. The drive ends to- hold 0f Namur after linking their As usual» there will be senior pic-
be open to morrow after having been extended two main spearheads across Belgium ; ^Ures’. W^ch must be ta^en some ue open i	*	6	time in the near future. Tapp urged
from last Thursday in order to al- as part of a	35_mlle break-: that seniors watch the Daily Trojan
low everyone an opportunity to through front. The maximum pene- for announcement of picture ap-
tration of Belgium was approaching pointments.
Unusual informal photographs will be particularly used throughout the book this year, Tapp stated. “We are going to try and capture the real spirit of Troy through our photography, not just the regular events, bat the Informal dances, personalities, and spontaneous events which color the regular school year.”
Enough Trojans have subscribed to guarantee a 1945 El Rodeo, Miss Thurman stated, and more copies are still obtainable. Tickets should be purchased for S5 at the cashier's window in the Bookstore.
plea for magazines is being ; by the Red Cross, which will nsor a campaign for collecting m during the week from Jan. 8 12. acoording to Doral Bennett, assistant chairman, artoons will be clipped from the tributed periodicals and pasted scrapbooks for servicemen, naging this project are the staff istants, who will promote this for the rest of the term, tressing the need for magazines taining jokes and cartoons. Miss nett urged that only acceptable or be submitted. More maga-is are needed before work may continued, she added, ontributions may be brought to Red Cross at any time, and rities apd dormitories will be Jited for the magazines they ng.
We have postponed the drive il after the holidays,” said Miss mett, hoping that students corate by bringing magazines from i e when they return to campus.
ansell lists total Jap bombings
>. 21st BOMBER COMMAND, BASE. Saipan, Dec. 27—(U.P)—
')—Via Navy Radio—(I'.P)—An rage of more than 100,000 inds of bombs a day have been pped on urban and industrial ters in Japan—including aircraft tory areas—from Nov. 24 through 24, Brig. Gen. Heywood Han-Jr., announced today in a sober rt on B-29 raids against Japan. 1
day in the religious council office at 1:15 p.m. Especially asked to attend are Dick Thorpe, Virginia Harutunian. James Royer, Bill Tur-Esztergom was the enemy’s only back. Kay Emig, Ruth Kessel, and (Continued on Page Four) Don Gibbs.
. . . social committee will meet to- parel.
“The goal of one article of clothing per Trojan has almost been realized.” revealed Miss Miller, “and we are hoping that student cooperation will put us over the top
of our quota.”
Jap ships bum at Palau
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and Dinant.
Against the Wehrmacht’s all-or-nothing offensive, now believed to have been planned during Adolf Hitler’s recent seclusion, the Allies were exerting all possible pressure on the flanks and front reports said a novel defense was being applied in the fluid center.
This was said to envisage throwing up a powerful line before the masses of German infantry and supplies pouring across Belgium in the wake of the panzers, leaving the Americans’ own mobile columns to
Vollrath to speak to faculty club
“The Coming Age of Atomic Energy” will be the topic which Dr. Richard E. Vollrath, professor of physics, will discuss at the meeting of the Men’s Faculty club at' 12 noon today.
Dr. Vollrath’s discussion will be concerned with the extensive economic and sociological implications of the release of energy in the atom which seems to physicists to be in the offing.
It is Dr. Vollrath’s plan to discuss not only his own findings but the findings of other scientists on the subject.
The group will meet in the tearoom, third floor, Student Union.
deal with the advance spearheads. Dr. Vollrath will speak at 12:30 p.m.
U.S. Liberators bomb Clark field on Luzon
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Philippines, Wednesday, Dec. 27.— (U.P.)—Land-based American Liberator bombers and lightning fighters, continuing a mounting campaign to knock out Japanese air power on the main Philippine island of Luzon, destroyed or damaged 43 enemy planes in a Christmas day raid of Clark field, it was an-
JAP SHIPS bum at Palau Island during a three-day attack by an armada of U.S. Pacific fleet units. Forty-six Jap ships were sunk or damaged, and 214 enemy planes were destroyed in the greatest American naval victory since Midway. U.S. army radiophoto.
nounced today.
The latest victory, plus an upward revising total for Sunday’s raid on Clark field, raised to 214 the number of Japanese planes destroyed in four heavy assaults in five days on the Manila area.
Led by Maj. Thomas B. McGuire Jr., who bagged three Japanese planes, the lightning escorts shot down 39 and probably shot down 4 of a fleet of 50 Japanese planes which tried to intercept the big Liberators.
It was also revealed that McGuire shot down four more planes yesterday, although the locale of his victories was not given, running his total victory to 38 planes, just two behind Maj. Richard I. Bong. Poplar, Wis., top ace of the entire USAAF.
(The Tokyo radio, heard by the FCC, said that 20 Liberator bombers and Lightning fighters attempted to raid Clark field again on Tuesday but “fled” before dropping any bombs.)
The Liberators dropped 44 tons of bombs on Clark field's mabalacat runway, three miles northeast of the center of the big field which lies 47 miles northwest of Manila.
A total of 108 planes were destroyed or damaged at Clark field on Thursday and another 25 were bagged at Grace Park Friday.
Fighter patrols on Monday also strafed installations on Batangas airdrome in southern Luzon and a reconnaissance plane shot down an enemy transport plane off western Luzon.