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Professional Inter-fraternity council basketball games will be played in Vermont Square church, at Budlong and Vernon, in* stead of Magnolia church.
SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR
if OL. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, December 3, 1929.
NUMBER 51
STUDENT dance to END EVENTS OF HOMECOMING
Council Acts To Prevent All Scalping
Dance To Be Held In Student Union After Carnegie Tech Game.
Christmas decorations will lend atmosphere to the annual Homecoming: dance to be held in the Student Union social hall on December 14 after the Carnegie Tecb game and will serve as the final erent (or the Homecoming week of this year. Music will start at 8:30. jlds which are to sell (or *2, may be purchased at the Student Store and. for the convenience of alumni, at B.
H. Dyas’, at the corner of Seventh jnd Olive streets in the city.
Entertainment for the evening will be furnished by Dick Wilson who will tins popular numbers at intervals during the evening. He will be accompanied by the orchestra playing tor the affair, Hal Grayson’s Music Box orchestra.
Decorations are to be entirely repre-tentative of the holiday spirit and are to give a holiday atmosphere to the affair. Outside the door of the hall is to be a large welcoming Christmas wreath along with festoons of greenery. The lights of the hall are to consist of the holiday colors and none of the large center lights will be on. This will give the two huge illuminated bells which will hang from the ceiling, a chance to be the center of attraction. From these bells festoons wlll be hung to the corners of the hall.
Instead of lamps, man-sized red candles equipped with electric lights will be placed on the floor. A Christmas tree beside the mantle, from which will hang stockings filled with toys, will be arranged on the north side of the hall. From the grating at either end of the hall, Santa Claus faces will be placed.
' Tickets are to be distributed among the social organizations on the campus so that members and alumni may purchase bids through their own group. Erma Willis will handle bids for the Panhellenic distribution, while Don McLarnan will be in charge of the bids sold through the Interfrater-nity council. This will not infringe on the bids being sold at the Student Store and at Dyas’.
There are only 200 bids being printed, accodrlng to Dorothie Smith, and it Ib therefore urged that those who wish to be sure of them purchase them before they are all sold. It has keen decided that no more than the 200 couples will be admitted on the Joor.
Ticket Sell€rs May Be Expelled; Carnegie Rooters Ducats On Sale.
“Any Southern California student1 caught or reported selling tickets beyond the purchase price will be reported to the men’s counsel, and may be dishonorably discharged from the university,” was the statement made yesterday by Arnold Eddy, assistant general manager of the Associated Students.
According to Eddy, 200 rooters’ tickets to the California game were found in the hands of outsiders.
To obviate this state of affairs, the department is keeping a record of all tickets sold lor the Carnegie Tech game, and if any outsider, not a student at Southern California, is found with a rooter’s ticket, the ticket will be confiscated, and an effort made to trace its sale.
Because of the demand for rooting-section tickets for the Carnegie Tech game, the authorities have allowed students tickets, the sale of which was to have been closed December 1. These tickets will be on sale until all are sold.
From all reports of the advance general sale for the game December 14, about forty thousand have been sold. Tickets for the general public are still available at $4.00 apiece and at $2.00 apiece, and should be applied for before all the choice seats are taken, for if the Carnegie Tech game is not a complete sellout, it will be close to it, said Eddy.
DAILY TROJAN MANAGER ASKS FOR MORE MEN
"As a result ot the enlargement of the Trojan to six pages, new tryouts will be held for the business staff of the Trojan,” Lewis Gough, business manager, announced today.
The six page paper will require more work and several new offices will be created to meet the increased demand, he stated.
Anyone interested, and especially freshmen with cars and time to spare, should see' Lewis Gough in room 215, Student Union, any afternoon from 1 to 3. No experience is required.
THREE PROMINENT CO-EDS ARE INVITED TO SQUIRE MEET
Dorothie Smith, Janet McCoy, and Bobbie Loftus To Speak Tomorrow.
Initiation Set For Tomorrow
Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honorary, To Meet at Mary Louise.
Formal initiation of pledges of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity, will take place on Wednesday, December 4, at 5 o’clock in President, von KleinSmid's suite of offices. A dinner will be held at the Mary Louise tea room immediately following the initiation.
PI Sigma Alpha was first established at the University of Texas in 15. The local chapter was estab-ed at S. C. in 1927. The aims purposes of the fraternity are jo further interest and study in po-ucal science and international regions. Membership is limited to hose who are interested in political *c ence and who have acquired a general scholastic standing. Tbe ‘"cutnbent officers are: president, «arold Hurley; vice-president. J. S. T°’ ®ecretary, Edwin Jefferson.
* h°uorary pledges to be ini ed are Doctor von KleinSmid; n Justin Miller, of the School of conu'ii*!!? ?r' Henry c- Niese, vice-
BfifL10 be lnUla,ed are Prof. John Prof ’i'' ^U^lc administration, and 0* ' mery E- Olson, co-ordination Duhii director of citizenship and *«e administration.
Adarrf61!!8 *° Initiated are: Leo ierson' “,,eU Behrens, George Hen-Sam„|' ®tow,>11 Lincoln, George K. v; ' ^-'man Smith, Philip Stltt, ' audefsrift, and Charles
PI DELTA EPSILON DELAYS INITIATION
New Date For Initiation Set for Thursday Afternoon At Gamma Epsilon House.
With strict observance of their time honored traditions, the members of Pi Delta Epsilon fraternity at the last minute postponed the annual initiation of its pledges.
The new date for the initiation has been set for 3 p.m. Thursday after-noou at the Gamma Epsilon fraternity house. However, there is a rumor abroad to the effect that further postponement of the affair may be made necessary because of certain financial difficulties which the fraternity ls having with its pledges. Details are not forthcoming due to the desire to protect the names of certain pledges who are prominent in campus affairs.
The men to be initiated are Ray Zeman, Bud Fetterly, Sam Kline, Lewis Gough, Joe Clarke, Lauren Dahl, Stuart Josephs, Dick Miller, Les Marks, and Les Hatch.
Registrar To Select Best Office Forms
Endeavoring to get in closer contact with the associated students, Trojan Squires have invited three prominent campus women to attend their fourth regular luncheon meeting tomorrow noon. The three are: Dorothie Smith, vice-president of the associated students; Janet McCoy, secretary of the associated students; and Boffie Loftus, president of the Trojan Amazons.
All three have prepared short talks for the occasion. Miss McCoy will speak on the recent Squire dance, while Miss Loftus will discuss the Squires in relation to all-university rallies. Miss Smith has not as yet decided upon her topic.
Although the meeting tomorrow will mark the flrst time that women will have been in attendance, many students have spoken before the group. Those students who have attended some of the luncheons are: Leo Adams, president of the associated students; Louis Gough, business manager of the Daily Trojan; Sam Newman, president of the Trojan Knights; Fred Pierson, chairman of the organizations committee; and Herb Pratt, Trojan Knight.
DECORATION OF CAMPUS BEGUN
Streets and Buildings To Be Decorated For Homecoming Events This Week.
With the award of the contract for street decorations, definite plans concerning this phase of the fast-approaching 1929 Homecoming week have been outlined, according to Bob Beardsley, chairman of the Homecoming committee. "A unique fact about the decorations this year is that they will not only feature University avenue, and other streets of the campus, but will bring into prominent position the campus buildings,” states Beardsley. The decorations contract has been awarded The Flag Shop.
The main feature of the decorations will be an arch which is lo be erected over the sidewalk leading to the Administration building. The arch itself will be decorated with Trojan heads and crimson and gold flags, while stretching from all points of the Administration building to the sidewalk, with the arch as a center, will be a myriad of streamers, forming a veritable canopy of Trojan colors.
Flanking this, on either side, will be the other buildings of the campus: to the north, Old College, and to the south, the Student Union, Science hall, the Law school, and the recently completed Mudd Memorial hall. Each of these buildings will display crimson and gold decorations.
University avenue will also present a harmony of crimson and gold and other vari colored flags. These will be strung from overhead trolley wires, and from telephone poles bordering the avenue.
The decorations will make their appearance at some time toward the end of this week, under the direction of Leland Jacobsen, head of the street decorations committee.
MEET CALLED OF SALESMEN THIS MORNING
All salesmen of the “dance corporation” of the College of Commerce will meet this morning at 9:50 in room 117, Old College. Howard McElroy, sales manager, requests that the following men report: Sam Dalzell. Lloyd Porter, Bob Scofield, Ralph Collins, Dick Morby, Ed Ware, Kernlit TVilson, Blake Hanson, Chris Daniels, Steve Bryant, Tom Oudermuelen, Fred Smith, Chick Clay, John Dalzell, Fred Bice. Walter Benedict, and Alma Griffin.
APPOINTMENTS MAY STILL BE MADE FOR EL RODEO PICTURES
Only About One-Third Have Had Sittings; Professionals Given Dates.
Homecoming To Be Theme Of Magazine
Enlarged Edition of Pigskin Review Will Have Many Attractive Features.
Theron Clark, registrar at the University of Southern California, has been chosen by’ the National Association of Collegiate Registrars to select tbe best office forms of thirty colleges and universities in this vicinity. He will submit them to the sub committee of the association, who will collect the best office forms from the 800 schools comprising the association, and make them available at the annual meeting of the Registrars’ association. The purpose of this research is to have the best offlce forms accessible to the schools who may wish to make a change in any phase of their affice system.
Mr. Clark has just completed a splendid collection which contains the calendar for the year and the forty-nine forms which are used in the registrar's office for grade slips, registration, probation, etc. The forms in use at this university ran|t favorably with those employed at other schools, stated Mr. Clark.
PRESS CLUB
All members of the Press Club must meet in the Trojan offlce Thursday at 9:50, for a short business meeting. G!«“t>n Johnson will report his findings with regard to pins, and approval of designs by members will be called for.
TIMES RUNNERS ACCURATELY
Dr. Milton Metfessel, who came to the University of Southern California this fall, has devised a method of timing for athletic runners, and as a result of this study he found tbat most rminers are left-legged.
CONFERENCE DEBATE PUESTI0N_SELECTED
Women’s Debate Squad To Hold Weekly Meeting In Debate Office.
The women’s debate squad will hold it regular weekly meeting at 4 o'clock today in the debate office.
The Southern California forensic question, agreed upon by the colleges of the Pacific Coast, has been chosen as the question that thc women will debate. It is: "Resolved, That Social sororities and fraternities should be abolished.”
’’All girls interested in debating are invited to attend the meeting today,” says Helen Peterson, manager of the squad. Tryouts for the team will be held in the near future.
Group To Give ‘All V’ Dance
Engineers to Open Homecoming Week With Dance In Student Union.
As the first official social affair of Homecoming week, the College of Engineering is making plans for an all-university informal dance to be held in the Student Union social hall December 7 at 8:30 p.m.
Carrying out the engineering motif in all decorations, and with spotlights placed around the floor to produce a futuristic effect, it is expected that the floor of the social hall will be especially well arranged for the dance, states Les Marks, chairman of the dance and vice-president of the engin eers. Novel programs have also been designed for the affair.
All Southern California alumni and students are invited to the dance, Bids, being sold by members of the committees and by the cashier in the Students Store, are priced at $1.50, "As this ls the second dance ever given by the College of Engineering, we hope to make it especially successful,” states Marks.
Beginning today, the final period of photography for the El Rodeo will continue until the Christmas holidays. It is imperative that all members of the graduating class make appointments at the studio In the basement of the Student Union building before December 13, if they wish their pictures to appear in the 1929 year book. At present, only about one-third of the seniors have been photographed. As the senior section will go to press soon after Christmas, the graduating students must cooperate.
Social fraternities are allowed the remainder of this week to complete sittings, with the exception of Theta Psi, who, owing to omission from previous notices, will be allowed until Monday.
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Returned graduates and former studentB of Southern California will be honored when the 36-page Pigskin Review featuring Homecoming Day will make Its appearance at the Carnegie Tech-Trojan football game, December 14.
Within the gaily decorated cover on which wlll appear a futuristic football man there will be a story by Bob Gorton giving the history of other Homecoming Days up to the present one, which will be the sixth in the history of the university. To further carry out the theme, pictures of not only student and alumni members of the many committees for the day, but of floats and houses will be included.
Of special interest will be the full page cartoon by Gluyas Williams, Internationally famous artist, who has consented to make a drawing for the football magazine. Arrangements have also been made for a second full page cartoon to accompany the one by Mr. Williams.
An added attraction to the enlarged edition of the Pigskin Review will be the articles on the history of Southern California Intersectional competition and the one in reference to the wearers of the Tartan Plaid.
Other sports besides football will receive recognition, as four pages have been assigned to the intramural department. A story of its_ activities will be written by Don Braverman.
Pictures of the coaches and members of the two teams will cover 16 pages. The usual rosters and lineups will complete the Homecoming edition.
LAW REVIEW EDITOR SELECTS CONTENTS
Publication To Appear In December Will Be Last Issue of Year.
That the leading articles for the December issue of the Southern California Law Review have been definitely decided upon, was the information given out today by the student editor-in-chief of the publication, Edwin Taylor.
"Sovereign Rights and Relations in Control and Use of American Waters” is to be the title of the article written by Ernest C. Carman of the Los Angeles Bar. George H. Bowen, of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Bar, will discuss "The Transmigration of Oil.” "Liability Under Trusts to Creditor of Trustor,’’ is to be explained by Frederick R. Behrends, vice-president and trust officer of the Los Angeles branch of the California Trust company. ’
The next number ot the magazine, to be issued December 10, will be the last issue of the 1929 volume. The review is issued five times during the academic year, being published during the months of October, December, February, April, and June.
I LATE NEWS A
Notre Dame was ranked as the outstanding football team in the nation by the United Press yesterday. Pittsburgh and Purdue were given a place in "first rating” with the Irish, but it was explained that Notre Dame deserved the mythical national championship honors because of nine wins against tougher opponents, all away from home.
Tulane, St. Mary’s, Tennessee, Texas Christian, and Western Maryland were placed in the "escond position.” The "experts” apparently almost forgot that the coast conference exists, placing Stanford, California, and southern Caiuuiuia. in the third bracket.
Three Trojans were placed on the all-Pacific Coast football team picked by United Press yesterday. Barragar, Tappaan, and Duffield were named on the first string. Saunders was given a halfback berth on the second team. Tappaan, Duflield, and
i Pmcken were named pa Ujt all-
coast squad chosen by Bill Spaulding, U. C. L. A. coach.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.—The supreme court today upheld the Los Angeles Railway corporation's fare increase from 5 cents to 7 cents, with four tokens for 25 cents. The company was not restricted to the 5-cent fare by contract, the court ruled, because there was no specific authority for Los Angeles to make such contracts.
The court was bound by previous decisions holding that before the contract ritcc could enforced it must be clear that there was authority to contract. Justice Butler explained. Under California laws, there is no power conferred in express words authorizing Los Angeles to contract away its rights to regulate rates. Hence, even if the city contracts with the railway company for the maintenance of a definite fare, the contract. Uie rannot be eutfliced.
The court decision involves the loss of millions of dollars yearly by Los Angeles street-car riders. City Attorney K. P. Werner plans to continue the fight, possibly by petitioning for a rehearing.
Mayor John Porter today stands unburdened by court proceedings, following Superior Judge Edwin F. Hahn's throwing out of court of the civil suit instituted to remove him from office. The judge sustained the motion of defense attorneys to dismiss tbe action which aimed to remove thc mayor on charges of falsification of campaign expenditure costs.
This marked the second time that forces battling the mayor were decisively blocked. Previously, City Prosecutor Lloyd S. Nix refused to issue a complaint against Porter, declaring that he was satisfied, after lengthy hearing of witnesses, that political motive* alone were behind ttxe affair.
RALLY PROGRAM WILL BE FILLED BY COMEDIANS
Comic Presentation of Popular Songs to be Given Friday Morning.
Featuring a purely entertainment rally for Friday at chapel, the rally committee through Sam Newman has secured the appearance of Benny Rubin, comcdian, and "Ukelele Ike,” nationally known for his comic presentations of popular songs.
Both comedians are at present with M. G. M. studio and it was through their manager, J. B. Newberry, that the services of both v ere obtained for the fifteen minute rally. Inasmuch a3 there is no game Saturday, the period Is to be devoted entirely for tha amusement of the S. C. students.
Rubin is famous for his character interpretations in moving pictures. He was formerly with Fanchon and Marco and has made numerous radio talks. He appeared in Marianne here he held a major part In support of Marion Davies. His "Yankea Doodle" laugh and his “leetle kiddles" stories are known internationally.
“Ukelele Ike" has appeared in comedy presentations of popular songs In many of the most popular M. G. M. pictures, such as “So This is College,” his latest, and "Marianne." He also was in the Hollywood Revue and has been on the Orpheum circuit for a long period.
The rally committee lias arranged this assembly for the express purpose of giving the students a novelty in tho ?orm of rallies which have been formerly demonstrations of school spirit. Seme yells will also be led by Gordon Pace in honor of our two famous guests and entertainers.
REUNION BANQUET SET FOR WEDNESDAY
Y. M. C. A. Plans To Hear Doctor Knowles On December
11.
Bringing together former members of the Southern California Y. M. C. A. a reunion banquet will be held in the Y Hut on Wednesday evening, December 11, at 6:30 p.m., as a part of the Homecoming celebration on this campus during the week.
More than 250 men are expected to tio present in addition to the members now on campus, and it is hoped that hie founders of the organization will be able to attend.
Dr. Tully Knowles, president of the College of the Pacific at Stockton, California, will be the speaker of the svening.» Doctor Knowles attended this university in 1895 and was a member of the Trojan football team at that time. The campus Y. M. C. A. organization was founded in 1892, and Doctor Knowles will probaby recall many interesting events in its early history.
Complete details of the program have not yet been disclosed, but It is known that toasts will be made from alumni representatives of classes dating back as many as ^5 years ago. Musical entertainment and other numbers are being planned, and students are urged to make their reservations early, as December 11 is only one week away, dent.
Club To Hold Dinner Meet
Rod Parker to Speak at International Relations Club Meeting.
The International Relations club has secured as Its speaker for Thursday evening, Rod S. Parker, a graduate of S. C. and representative in the Orient ot the Garlock Packing company. His subject for the evening be largely governed by the questions asked him during the dinner, which will be held at the Twin Cedars Inn at 5:45 p.m.
This meeting of the International Relations club was postponed one night to avoid a conflict with the Pi Sigma Alpha Initiation. The dinner will be held promptly at 5:45 that the meeting may be over in time to allow the International Relations students to hear Major General Victor A. Yak-honhoff, Assistant Secretary of War of the Russian government, who wlll speak ia the auditorium at 8 p.m.
Reservations for the dinner are being taken at the Political Science office in Bridge Hall, aud Philip Stitt, president of the group, urges that all reservations be made by Thursday morning. The dinner will be 75 cents.
Cosmopolitan Cabinet Meeting Is Scheduled
A cabinet meeting of the Cosmopolitan club is called this afternoon at 2:00 by Tlnlih Li, president of the organization. This meeting Is for the purpose of completing plans for the "Rumanian meeting" of the club tomorrow at 12:15 in the International house.
The Rumanian luncheon is in charge of Yohn Brazil Costin, a Rumanian student on the campus. The speaker for tbe occasion will oe Petru Comarnesco, a Roumanian graduate who is taking his Ph.D. degree here. The subject of his talk will be “The Actual Problems of The Roumanian Mind."
After the meeting, Mr. C. C. Ko will show specimens of Chinese band made embroidery to the members as Christmas suggestions.
BOOKS PURCHASED FOR MED. LIBRARY\
From the widow of the late Dr. Charles W. Bryson, the University of Southern California has purchased the library of the old medical school on East Washington street which was discontinued 10 years ago, according to Dean W. D. Cutter of the School of Medicine.
This collection consists of several thousand volumes. Including many of the standard journals, and it will serve as the nucleus of the library for the present School of Medicine. The books are being removed to the university campus.
Dr. Bryson founded the College of Physlclaus and Surgeons which became the medical department of the University of Southern California in 1909. It continued to tuncuon in this capacity until post-war conditions in 1920 compelled it to close.
Appleton, Wls.—Lawrence college has received a gift of J25.000, to be used as an addition to an endowment covering the cost of instruction, from George A. Whiting, paper manufacturer of Neenab.