CIRCULATION
Yearly Among
15,000
STUDENTS
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
DAILYI^ TROJAN
All S. C. students are Invited to hear Judge Robert M. Clarke speak at 10
o'clock today at the Law school.
SEMI CENTENNIAL YEAR
VOL. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, January 21, 1930.
No. 72
OWNERS START T. A. T. CRASH INVESTIGATION
Wreck Of Crack Airliner Kills Sixteen; Victims Await Identification.
By TOD BATES
(International News Service Special
Correspondent.)
Oceanside, Cal., Jan. 20—A gashed and mudy trench 150 feet long, strewn with bits of flame blackened metal, late today was all that remained in the "death field” to show where a palatial air liner had hurtled to earth bearing 16 persons to their deaths.
In the oceanside funeral parlors were the charred and mangled bodies of eight women and eight men, victims ot the greatest air tragedy in the history of commercial flying.
The officials who had come to Oceanside to investigate the smashing of the T. A. T.-Maddux plane, Agua Caliente, Mexico to Los Angeles bound early Sunday evening, had dispersed along with the throng of curious sensation seekers.
Pending the convening of a coroner's jury Thursday morning the center of the three sided official in-quiry had shifted to Los Angeles, while workmen cut up and removed the splintered debris.
At Los Angeles a board of expert pilots, headed by Lieutenant D. W. Tomlinson, and comprising among others, Col Charles A. Lindberg, was to meet tomorrow morning to hear eyewitnesses stories of the behavior ot Pilot Basil Bussell's capacity-load “pleasure skyliner,” curing the brief moments beforo it fell and burst into flames. Lindbergh and Tomlinson are officials of tlie air line.
All but two of the 1G bodies had been positively identified. Coroner Schuyler Kelly awaited the word of J. C. Hilty, Los Angeles, Uncle of Miss Elizabeth Squibb, to identify positively the two bodies known to be those of Miss Squibb and Miss Frances Jamison.
The coroner's jury was ordered by Kelly to view the bodies tomorrow morning so that relatives could be permitted to order funeral arrangements. The taking of inquest testimony was tentatively scheduled for Thursday morning here.
Ibsen’s Play To Be Given If Friday Night j
$ To The Editor
William Miller Will Take Leading Role In National Collegiate Production.
The lead in the National Collegiate Players’ annual production, "Ghosts,” by Henrik Ibsen, which is to be presented in Uovard .auditorium Friday, is to be played by William Miller.
Miller, who is manager of university play productions, played the second lead in last year’s junior class play, “The Youngest.” He was the comedian in the underclass play, “Pygmalion and Galatea,” and was also in the School of Speech play, “Dear Brutus,” presented last June.
Before becoming play productions manager, Miller served as stage manager for all productions last year. He is treasurer of National Collegiate Players. Tho role he plays in “Ghosts” is that of Oswald Alving, the young artist, who finds that his life is wrecked by the sins his father committed.
Marjorie Temple, vice-president, of National Collegiate Players, is to play the leading feminine role of Mrs. Alving, Oswald’s mother. Miss Temple is a graduate student in the School of Speech and recently directed the underclass play, “We’ve Got to Have Money.” She played in the senior play last year, “The Show-off,” and in the School of Speech play of two years ago, “Much Ado About Nothing.” She is a member of Zeta Phi Eta, national honorary dramatic sorority.
Other parts in the play are’ being taken by George Lawrence as Pastor Mandcrs, Paul Kiepe as Jacob Eng-strand, and Betty Fennemore as Regina.
Office of the Registrar, Jan.
20: (To the Editor of the Daily Trojan): Preparations for this semester’s scholastic climax are going on with zesto in the ofil-
*	cial crying room of the campus.
J Stenographers with half-mast ex-£ pressions on their faces will
*	soon be pounding out personal greetings to those students who
J receive grades a Mack truck J couldn’t pull up. These typed
*	tidings read as cheerful as a ★ J hangman’s diary.	*
*	Those who do not like the J ¥■ burnt fudge flavor of their sur- J ^ prise fan mail can visit the reg- ★ J istrar personally. Behind closed * <- doors, a scholastic steeplechase J J takes place, where some get over ★ J and others don’t. Here for the *
*	flrst time the registrar explains J
*	that by final examinations is J J meant that the student is Anally ★ J allowed to leave school—by re- J ¥■ quest.	J $ Yours for smaller and ★ J thinner blue books, *
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*	★ FRESHMEN WOMEN
PLAN ORIENTATION PROGRAM OF TERM
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i Membership Notices *
FORMAL DANCE J Must Be Returned J
I GROUP TO HOLD
Notices concerning fraternity ★
* Installation Of Sophomore 5 and sorority photographs have Squires To Be Held At i been sent to the various houses Dinner Dance.	* ’or ",n nurDOSfi nf «™pt*inin«
Bringing to a close one of the most active semesters in which they have ever participated, the Trojan Squires will hold their semi-annual formal banquet and dance at the Montmarte cafe on February 4.
A special business meeting last Wednesday, the Squires voted upon the location and date of the affair. At the same meeting, it was decided that installation of officers of the sophomore group would be held at the banquet.
Following the dinner final semester business will be cared for.
Three upper class students will be guests of honor at the banquet and dance, Bud Medbery, president of the organization stated. “We are not prepared to give the names of the proposed guests,” Medbery said yesterday, “although we have a certain
or the purpose of ascertaining how many members have had photos made. All houses who had more than 90 per cent of the members photographed would receive an album containing the prints.
In order that no house will be overlooked, the letters have been sent to each social that has turned in a membership list to the editors, Ituth Browne and Juanita Ouedermeulen. The letters must be returned corrected before Thursday. That is the absolute deadline.
Several houses have failed to turn in their membership lists. No rosters of Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Tau, Theta Psi, Delta Delta Delta, and Delta Zeta have been recorded. They must be in the oflice of the yearbook before Thursday.
New Women On Campus To Be Given Junior Sponsor And Freshman Assistant.
Plans are being formulated by the Freshman club of the Y. W. C. A. for the orientation of the freshmen women entering the university in February. Each member of the club will be given the name of an entering girl at The production is being di- j the time of registration whom she will
rected by W. Ray MacDonald, university play director.
Tickets are now on sale at the Students Store, and students may use their activity books for admission.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OFFERS 110 COURSES
pie inquiry late todaw when Ted Reed, a director for Douglas Fairbanks, and Robert Fairbanks, brother of the famous star and his general manager issued statements declaring the three motors of the fated airliner were not in harmony as tho ship flew over Del Mar, some 20 miles south of the point of the accident.
sponsor. Every new girl will also have a junior girl as sponsor who will aid her in finding her place on the campus and in women’s activities.
“We feel that it is harder for the freshman women entering in February to become oriented to the campus than for those entering with the masses in September," stated Doris Tennant, freshman counsellor and advisor of the club, “and so we are placing special emphasis upon their orien-Ground Instruction In The Con- j tation throughout the first weeks of struction And Operation Of the new semester."
The exact number of new women students entering is not known, but it is expected that a large number will enter to join in the activities at Southern California. The Freshman club is made up of freshmen women of the university; it elects its own ofll-cers, and carries on its own business with the advice of the counsellor, Doris Tennant.
Airplanes Available.
Ground school instruction in the construction, operation, and mainte-A new theory of the cause of the j nance of airplanes and the manage-tragedy was placed before the trip-1 Inent of the air industry are available
Faculty Club To Hold Meet
International Relations To Be Discussed At Meeting On Tuesday Evening.
Professor J. E. Harley and Professor 0. W. E. Cook will be the speakers of the evening at the monthly meeting of the Men's Faculty Club, Tuesday evening, January 21, at 8:00 o’clock in the Club room on the fourth floor of the Student lTnion building.
The general subject for discussion "ill be International Relations, und Professor Harley will take in a broad Held by talking on “The United States and International Co-opera->lon." Ife will make special reference ,0 the League of Nations, the World Court, and the limitation of armaments. Professor Cook will offer for consideration “Problems of the Inited States in the Orient and Latin America."
Following the presentations by Dr. Harley and Dr. Cook, an informal discussion of the points touched by !he speakers will be held by the members of the club.
Dr. Osman R. Hull, chairman of ’ e program committee, promises I 1 >he meeting will be an especial-> interesting one, und urges all Members to attend. He also added * at refreshments have ben planned J Professor Raymond Johnson, c oilman of the reception committee, ®ad that friendly sociableness will 6 keynote of the meeting.
in the winter quarter at University college, University of Southern California, Transportation building, 7th and Los Angeles streets.
Courses offered are: air law, history and development of the legal regulation of aeronautics; the theory of flight, loans, resistance, stability, and performance as related to the needs of military, naval, and commercial planes; airplane power plants, study of types of engines, engine starters, generators, cooling systems, carburetors, ignition, and lubrication; meteorology and air navigation, characteris-| tics of the almosphere in theory and practice, map and chart reading, local forecasting, use of the radio, and the parachute as a safety device; commercial aviation, detailed study of the theory and operating details and characteristics of commercial aviation; commercial aviation problems, actual Continued on Page Four
GROUP OF ORANGE COUNTY STUDENTS VISIT S. C. CAMPUS
Their Honor.
CAMPUS WOMEN TO ASSIST CLUB
Four women of the University of Southern California have been asked to assist tlie Womens’ Aeronautical Association in organizing a Junior group of the organization in the vicinity of Los Angeles. This association is an incorporated body of California, and is affiliated with the national organization of that name. The S. C. representatives are Lorraine Young, Florence Bryan, Alma Griffin and Florence Diller. Their membership with the aviation group is due to their active work with Alpha Eta Rho, international aviation fraternity whose mother chapter is on this caiupuo.
Evelyn "Bobbie” Trout, well-known avatlix. Is president of tlie Junior factor of tlie Women's Aeronautical Association. Among its members are several high school girls now taking their pilot's courses in various flying schools near Los Angeles. Miss Trout has accepted a luncheon invitation from Alpha Eta ltlio in the near future.
JUDGE TO DISCUSS OIL DEVELOPMENT
Robert M. Clarke To Talk At Law School Assembly This Morning.
Providing the main feature of Ihe S. C. Law school program being held this morning in Porter hall, Law 302, former superior court judge Robert M. Clarke will speak on "The Legal Aspects of Oil Development in Southern California.”
Clarke, who is an expert ou Span-isli-California law, was admitted to the California bar in 1900. Later he be-Icame a judge in the United States Dis-j trict and Circuit courts of Southern | California.
He served as a member of the California assembly from 1901-1903, and was city attorney of Santa Paula from 1901 until 1906. In November, 1908, he was elected judge of the Superior court of Ventura county. It was in this county that he received his early education.
Having watched oil development in California from its first beginnings in the Carpenterla wells, which are considered the oldest in the state, to one of the foremost industries, Clarke is well qualified to speak on this subject.
It is through the courtesy of Manual Robert Ruiz, S. C. law student, I hat Clarke is appearing at today's as-
FACULTY MEMBER ENTERTAINS
Dr. Bessie A. McClenahan of the sociology faculty entertained members ot her class in social fleld work at her home, 1222 West 36th place, last Thursday night. The class consists of those students who have been connected with downtown agencies in their sociological work.
trio in mind.”
The banquet will mark the end of a series of new innovations which have been started by the present Squire group. Early this term, the group held for the first time, a formal danco which was not located either on the campus or at a fraternity house or private Squire residence. The formal was held at the Hollywood country club.
Monthly business luncheons were also scheduled for the first time by a Squire organization. At these meetings, various prominent students were invited as guests of honor.
"Ily inviting well known campus students to our meetings, the Squires endeavored to promote a spirit of cooperation among the students,’1 Medbery stated.
This semester was the first time that the men's, women’s, and Trojan club rooting sections at football games have all been cared for by the Squires.
“As president of the Trojan Squires, Bud Medbery has kept the group up to the standards set by previous Squire organizations," Lewis Gough, business manager of the Daily Trojan, and member of the Squire committee said at the last Squire meeting. As leader of the Squires, he lias set a fine example for future Squire presidents.
“The Squires, as a group, have functioned well at football games, and at their other duties. Their cooperation with the Knights has ben splendid. It is the hope of the Knights that tho Squires function as well in the next semester as they have this term.
“Medbery. as well as the other Squire ofllcers, are to be complimented on their fine work," Gough concluded.
Erection Of Gym Walls Commenced
★	Huge Tower Is Being Built
★	To Facilitate Pouring Of
★	j Concrete.
JI Work on Troy's new gymnasium, al-though not noticeable at this stage of the construction, is steadily progressing on the normal schedule laid out by the architects and the school’s building comittee. Foundations for the building have been completed, and work is beginning on the erection of the walls. Concrete is being poured into moulds, reinforced with steel, forming the columns which will act as wall supports, and a huge tower is in the process of erection in one corner of the construction lot, to facilitate the pouring of the concrete. Work is also progressing in laying the foundation of the huge 75-foot swimming pool.
If the present schedule is followed, the building will be completed by June 1, and will be dedicated, together with Mudd Memorial Hall, in conjunction with the university’s semicentennial celebration.
The $750,000 physical education palace, under the plans of Parkinson & Parkinson, architects, will stand two stories above the ground, while one complete floor will be underground. It will have a frontage of 200 feet on 36tli street, and 250 feet on Hoover.
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High School Students To Visit .	, , ,
a j t u t tlie accepted style of the campus, will Morning Classes And Lunch In |be foHm‘ed
Among the features of the
new*
building will be a warm water plunge; a roof garden designed for sun-baths; an underground tunnel joining the building with the athletic field across the street; five or six class rooms, two of which will be divided by a removable partition which will form an auditorium; individual shower rooms Continued on Page Four
Chapter 16 of the California Scholarship Federation, from Orange County Union high school, will be on the campus today, under the sponsorship of George R. Stoner. The students will leave Orange county in school busses, arriving here at 7:45. Sched-and school catalogs will be distributed, and the group will be conducted around the campus.
The students will attend the morning classes that particularly interest them. After a luncheon to be held in their honor, they plan to spend a few hours in the Los Angeles County Museum.
This expedition is a yearly event. T . . .	~	.
« , *i	,i Initiation Dinner To Be Given
Previously the chapter has visited Po-
Pledges Of Writers Organization.
QUILL CLUB TO HAVE
mona, Redlands, and Occidental, Out this year the students have voted in favor of coming to S. C.
HISTORY PROFESSOR MAPS LAND GRANTS
Dr. Owen C. Coy Constructs Map Showing Old Spanish and Mexican Grants in California.
COLLEGE OFFICER SELECTED MAYOR
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 20—(PIP)—Dorsey M. Hill, treasurer of Whitman college, has beeu selected as tho new mayor of Walla Walla by the city commissioners, succeeding the late Ben F. Hill.
For a good many years Mr. Hill has been connected with Whitman college, having been athletic coacli for three years, bursar for ten years, a member of the board of overseers since 1910, and treasurer since 1920. He is also completing his second year as president of the chamber of commerce, is president of the Walla Walla County Taxpayers’ association, and a member of the legislative committee of the State .Taxpayers’ association for the last six years. Hill graduated from Willamette university in 1898.
PLEDGES GIVE TREASURE HUNT
Alpha Chi Omega pledges entertained the active chapter last Saturday evening with a treasure hunt that ended at the Brentwood Country club where a supper-dance was held. Tbe prize was won by Miss Alyne Ley and Mr. Willoughby Wright. Miss Ley was former president of tlie chapter, ill. aiiu Mrs. Darrell Nordw»ll and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Heilman acted as hostesses.
Constructing a map of the State of California showing successive Spanish and Mexican land grants, Dr. Owen Cochran Coy, professor of California history, is attacking an old subject from a new angle.
While much consideration has been given through procedure in reference to early land concessions, hitherto sufficient attention has not been paid to the subject of their effect upon the development of California. This is what Doctor Coy is striving to determine by the map, which is the flrst of its kind ever to be made. He is interested in tlie reason why some parts of the state were taken up flrst, why certain selections were made, and how these selections affected later growth of the state.
Members of the class iu California history are assisting in this project The material upon which the map is based was discovered by Doctor Coy in documents found in county archives throughout the state. On the map the grants are represented by different colors, standing for the period in which they were betsowed. Those depleted are the early Mexican allotments, 1820-1836; land given under Alvarado, 1836-1842; Michael Torena, 1842-1845; and Pico, 1845-1846, all governors of early California.
Initiation of seven pledges will be I held Thursday evening by Quill club,
I national organization for professional | writers according to an announce-j ment made by the chancellor, Eleanor Titus.
Plans are being formulated for an initiation dinner to be held in the Student Union. Members ot the committee in charge are Miss Titus, Virginia Reum, secretary, and Dorothy Banker. All members must be present at the dinner, or they will not be initiated. A part ot the ceremony is the reading by each of the initiates of some piece of writing completed recently.
All active, honorary and alumni members of the organization are invited to attend the ceremony. Those intending to be present are requested to make reservations with any member of the committee or to sign a list which will be posted on the bulletin board of the English office. I
ADDED PAGES TO BE PLACED IN YEAR BOOK
Applications For Group Picture Space Will Be Accepted In El Rodeo Office.
Adding several pages to the proposed number for the 1930 El Rodeo. Les Hatch, business manager, today announced that applications for group picture space will be accepted at the El Rodeo ofllce ln the Student Union building. Organizations are urged to hurry these requests as the alloted space will soon be reserved.
deposit of twenty-five dollars must be paid at the manager's ofllce, 209 Student Union building. Many organizations have failed to make this deposit and, consequently their reservations will be cancelled unless they make payment immediately. Full payment is due February 1. After this date no more reservations or money will be accepted.
As one of the features of the book wlll be a large president's panel portraying thc executives of the various organizations of the university, or organization presidents, must have indl-Idual pictures taken.
Members of honorary and professional fraternities and sororities and of the various editorial staffs aro again reminded tliat they have but one day after today in which to be photographed for the year-book. Reservations for individual pictures can be made at the AuBtin studio ln the basement of thc Student Union building today for photographing today and tomorrow. This will bo the last time that pictures may be taken for any but members of organizations connected with the College of Dentistry.
Students who have not filled out cards when having their pictures taken, should do so at once in either the Austin studios or the El Rodeo ofllce. This Information must be ln the hands of the year-book staff before the end of the week.
All proofs must be in Friday. If proofs arc not in by this time an arbitrary choice will be made by the staff and the student will be required * to pay the studio for the incompleted work.
To date only about fifteen hundred students have been photographed. This total is far less than last year’B, and the staff is anxious to have a good showing in the semi-centennial historical number of the El Rodeo. There is still time to complete fraternity and sorority membership pictures although reservations are fast becoming filled.
Organizations planning to have group pictures in the book will receive notice of the time and place when they will be taken through the Trojan. Tills also applies to dental students whose appointments will be accepted In the near future.
Work on the Bports section, to be one of the largest contained in the book, is going ahead rapidly under tho direction of Norm Cowan, sports editor. According to Cowan there will be 36 pages of football alone, and many more pages of other major and minor sports.
HONORARY GROUP i T
SETS STANDARD ^lUD 1 O JoleCt
New Officers
ADVISOR AT HOME
On Saturday, Dr. Mabel M. Durbin, medical advisor to students, entertained at her home in Pasadena, ln| of Weston, Oregon, honor of Dean Pearle Aikin Smith and j been writing short stories since he Mrs. George R. Groae.	| was a Junior in college.
Whitman College Man Writes Oregon Novel
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 20—(PIP)—Nard Jones, a graduate of Whitman College in the class of ’26, has just completed a novel, "The Oregon Detour,” which will be on sale soon. Ills book deals with the wheat country in the vicinity Mr. Jones lias
W'itli the raising of the scholastic requirement for membership to a 1.7 average, Spooks and Spokes, junior womens’ honorary organization set for itself a standard above tliat of most of the similar organizations on the campus, according to Betty Ferris, president of the organization.
A high scholastic average is not the only requirement, but participation in all activities and service to the University is necessary.
Prominent sophomores and juniors who have met all requirements are elected early each spring.
State College Woman Specializes In Mining
| Washington State College, Pullman, Wash., Jan. 20—(PIP)—Elizabeth Carey, sophomore major in the school of mines at the State College of Washington, who has just completed a givernment course in mine rescue and first aid, is receiving nationwide attention for being one of the few women in the United States to specialize in mining. Miss Carey plans to enter some fleld of commercial mining after graduation.
Clionian Literary Society To Meet Tonight For Last Time This Semester.
Clionian Literary Society will hold its last meting of the semester this evening. At this time officers who were nominated last Tuesday will be elected. Installation of officers will be held at Manhattan Beach at a house party between semesters.
Discussion of the meeting will be carried on by Lois King and Sus-anne Lamport. The former will speak on Emil Ludwig’s “July '14,” while the latter will speak on Eugene O’Neil's play "Dynamo.”
The honorary members of Clionion are Mrs. R. B. von KlelnSmid,, Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith. Mrs. Glen E. Turner, Mrs. E. S. Bogardus, Mrs M. Price, Mrs. Bruce Baxter. Dr Mildred 13. Struble, Mrs. Karl T. Waugli, Mrs. Laura Belle Deitrich.
PARKING SPACE
Parking space for 50 to 75 cars has been opened today behind the new Mudd Memorial liall of philosophy.