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Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 11, 1930.
No. 79
PLOT IS SEEN IN RETIREMENT
Y.W. Slipper
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Held Tonight $ tnLiher?1
,	_ ° ; l\ominates Officers
|| m x rirji Calvin Hendricks, Second J Result* or the nominations or OF W li 1 Af1 1 I ^laCe YVinner In Atwater- | J the sophomore class or tho Col-
Contest Will Sing.
Y. M. C. A. '•hut" tonight at 5:30. j $
A program with varied entertainment,* is to be tlie feature of the evening. *
These supper meetings are attended { by a large number of the women stu- ! J dents of tlie campus and it is expected * that at this flrst one of the semester i * there will be even more in attendance , J than usual.	! *
Calvin Hendricks, second place win- J ner in the Atwater-Kent radio audi- i * tion contest, will sing his prize song J and play his own accompaniment. In Washington, I>. C., he was hailed as IJ Wykoff.
one of the most promising musical •¥•	-*•
young men in the United States. In- ^ asmuch as he is a student of Souther
Pnle Blease (D) of South F'™t Y. \V. C. A. supper meeting of Loie Die V /	gpiing semester is being held in
Carolina Attacks Huges
Appointment.
Washington, t -b. in-(iNS)-Pend-lnc investigation of the phsycal condition ot former Chief Justiee William Howard Tad of the Supreme court action on the nomination ot Charles Evans Huges as his successor was held up in the Senate tonight by Senator t’ole Rlese (D) of South Carolina.
Blease announced lie expected to confer with Taft’s physicians in connection with the aged former Chief Justice’s condition, blocked action on the Huges nomination when it was brought into the Senate today, and announced he would continue to do so until he received a report on Taft's condition. The fiery South Carolinian attacked Hugos' appointment several days ago on the ground there was "something crooked" in the method by which Taft was retired and Huges almost immediately afterwards nominated by President Hoover.
Blease said he would ask physicians whether Taft was or would be able to resume his duties as Chief Justice. While Taft was reported to be improving, physicians will inform Blease he will not be able to take up the arduous duties as head of the Supreme legal body of the nation International news service learned tonight.
Huges nomination came to the ciary Senate after it was approved by a ten to two vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the chairman Senator Norris (R) of Nebraska, and Senator Blaine (It) of Wisconsin, another Insurgeant, opposing.
Norris announced he voted against favorably reporting the nomination in committee, and would oppose confirmation in the Senate, because he thought appointment of Huges would Continued on Page Tour
lege of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, missing in yesterday's nominations story, are as follows:
President. Otto Rroesamle; Gene Roberts.
Vice-president: Helen Johnson; Dorothy Kavanaugh; Ted Maess; Winnifred Wentz.
Secretary: Marjorie Ecllck; Kathryn Hackney; Mary Hunt; Janet Pelfhrey.
Executive Committee: Rosemary Beeman, Mary belle Robertson, David Hoffman, Hob Jensen, Juanita Oudermeulen, Hazel Redfield, Jeanette Tyner, Frank
I CHARGE MADE I FOR HAWAIIAN IL DEBATE FRIDAY
J Activity Books Plus 25 Cents * Will Buy Main Floor *! Seats For Students.
★	|	By DICK MILLER
★	"The Hawaiian-Southern California
★	; debate here next Friday night in Ho-j vard auditorium is a special debate on
★	the Trojan forensic schedule,” states
★	I Ran Ritchey, Trojan debate manager, J I	“and it will neces-
California, it is .in opportunity to be able to hear him sing the song that won him praise and honor all over the union. Other musical selections will
be given by Louise Miller, well known	_ . , .	,
for her harp solo work and her play Dr Fncdrich Schoenemann Will
10 SPEAK THURSDAY
ing in the Trojan women’s trio. Vilma Keener will give several pianologues.
Individual chicken pies are to be served with all of the rest of the meal that goes with it by the pledges of Alpha Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta for tlip regular price of 30 cents.
It is asked that all of the women cooperate in getting to the meeting on time so that the dinner may start I suite. At 4:30 he will address stu-when scheduled, for there is to be a dents and members of the faculty in
Discuss ‘^Americanization Europe.”
Dr. Freidrich Schoenemann of the University of Derlin will be the guest of honor at a reception tendered him by President It. B. von KlelnSmid and the Graduate School of the University of Southern California. Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in the president’s
LIBRARIAN CHOSEN FOR NEW MEDICAL BOOK COLLECTION
Library Of Late Dr. Tate Given To S. C.; Temporarily Located In Bridge Hall.
The library of the late Dr. C. Francis Steel Tate who died in December, 1929, has been given by Mrs. Tate to the School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, of which her husband is an alumnus.
Doctor Tate, a descendent of the Fee and Tate families of South Carolina, was born at Oakdale, Illinois, in 1873, where he received his early education. In 1882 he moved to California where he attended the high schools of Santa Ana and Los Angeles.
His medical training was received first at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with honor in 1895. His life was devoted to the practice of his profession along the lines of general medicine and surgery.
Marguerite E. Campbell lias been appointed librarian of this recently acquired library of the School of Medicine, and it is being temporarily housed in room 3 in the basement of Bridge Hall.
Miss Campbell received her training in the Boston Medical library and was tor several years in charge of the library of the Peking Union Medical college.
Newman Club To Plan Activities For Term
A definite date for the El Rodeo Picture of the Newman club will be 8^1 ihursday evening at 7:30 p.m., *hen the club meets in room 324 of 1 e Student Union. All members invested in being in this picture are **pected to attend.
Suggestions will also be in order
for	*
ijpe oi social functions iii«* Members desire for the coming se-ester. Several dances and hikes efe the features last term.
®rald Kelly, president, cordially v*e8 all Catholic students to come the meetings. “Better organiza-on of the Catholic students on the
surprise feature of the program which is not being revealed until the time of the meeting.
SQUIRE OFFICIALS WILL BE HONORED
Sophomore Honor Group To Hold First Dance Of Semester At Hollywood Cafe.
Honoring newly elected officers, the Trojan Squires will hold their flrst social function of the new semester, Friday, February 11, at the Montmartre cafe in Hollywood, according to an announcement by Bill Horton. The entile Trojan student body is invited to attend this dance to honor the new oflicials.
The new leaders who will be feted at the dance are Bill Horton, president; Irving Harris, vice-president; Clift Capps, treasurer; Forrest Hul, secretary. These men were elected at the semi-annual stag dinner of the Squires, which was held at the Montmartre, February 4.
At this dinner the the newly chosen ofllcers were installed in a ritual ceremony for the flrst time in tbe history of the organization. The unique initiation was introduced by Fred Pierson, Trojan Knight, who was a guest at tlie affair.
Tlie entire force of the Squires will be present at the Hollywood cafe, as well as many other prominent students on the campus.
A feature of the event will be collegiate dancing contest. A silver loving cup will be presented to the victorious couple by Horton.
DEAN ADDRESSES GRADUATE CLASS
“A Modern Midas," was the sub ject of an address given by Reid L McClung, Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, before the graduating class of the Santa Monica high school at their commencement exercises 'I hurs day, January 30. Dean McClung was the principal speaker of the occasion, and liis talk was heard by about seventy-five school students gradual ing at the end of the first semester of the 192‘J-30 school year.
the Graduate School on “The Americanization of Europe."
ON LECTURE TOUR
The distinguished German profes-I sor, who now occupies the chair of American literature and civilization at I Germany’s foremost university, is on I a lecture tour of the United States and is spending this week at the University of Southern California as guest of the Graduate School and the departments of German and political science.
Dr. Schoenemann’s visit to S. C. is made possible largely on account of a visit made recently by Prof. Eugene Hartley of the political science department to the University of Berlin. While at Southern California the German professor is being entertained by Dean Rockwell Hunt of the Graduate School, Dr. Roy Malcolm of the political science department and Professor E. T. Mohme of the German department. Dr. Malcolm heads the committee on arrangements.
sitate the charging of an admission price to all who attend the contest.” This is the statement which Ritchey made to tho Trojan yesterday following a conference with Gwynn Wilson, graduate manager of the Associated Students.
Prices to the public at large are 50 cents for the lower floor of Bovard auditorium and 25 cents for thc balcony. To all Trojan students holding student activity books, downstairs seats can be secured for 25 cents. No reduction will be made on the balcony seats to students. Tickets for the contest can be secured now at the cashier in the Student Store or may be bought at the door on the evening of the debate.
“To secure the appearance of the University of Hawaii debaters on the Trojan platform,” continued Manager Ritchey, “it was necessary for us to assure the visitors of a cash guarantee to help defray the expenses of the trip to the United States. In view of this fact, the charge had to be made.” NO WORD FROM VISITORS
Late yesterday afternoon no word had been received from the Hawaiian debaters who are touring the Pacific Coast states and are debating some of the leading forensic teams of the coast. A definite word concerning their arrival and which two men of Continued on Page Four
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J Junior Play Tryouts 2 Will Continue
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J	afternoon this week until a
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J	MacDonald, university play dl-
*	rector. Any junior is eligible jf	to try out for this annual pro-
*	duction which, this year, will J	be “The Enchanted April,” by J	Kane Campbell.
*	The tryouts will be held in J	room 333 on the third floor of }	Old College at 3:30 p.m., and
*	will be conducted by Profes-J	sor MacDonald aud William J	Miller, manager of University ■¥■	Play Productions. There are i	ten characters in the cast, five
*	men and five women, and they
*	range from straight leads to
*	character and comedy roles.
t Tea To Honor
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? Frosh Women
Amazons Welcome 55 Freshmen At Affair Tomorrow.
WELL VERSED
The German educator is well versed in American customs and literature, having served for seven years on the faculty of Harvard university. He is a man of vivacious manner and alert thought, taking particular delight in the idioms of American slang.
Invitations have Deen sent to all members of the faculty and the Graduate School to attend the reception given Thursday afternoon in honor ot Dr. Schoenemann. Dean Hunt wishes to extend, through the Trojan, an invitation to all members of the Graduate School who, through any oversight, have not been invited.
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means better social fune
as well as work of a more serl-
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TO LECTURE
Karl Struss. Hollywood pictorialist, Is to lecture at the University of Southern California, Wednesday afternoon, February 12, ou “Cinematography,” before a spring college class ill Appreciation of the Motion Picture as an Art Form and as a Social Force.
Mr. Struss won the 1928 award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for photographic excellence.
He is connected with the United Artists studios, and made the sets for the "Taming of the Shrew.”
History Students Given Invitation To Theater
An invitation to attend "The Armored Train,” a play now running at the Community Playhouse of Pasa dena ,011 Wednesday evening, Febru ary 12, has been given by Charles Prickett, manager, to all graduate and undergraduate students of the university majoring or minoring in history. The play Is based upon the Russian Revolution.
Students desiring to attend the play are asked to sign up in the oflice of the history department, in room 253, Administration. Student identification cards will serve for admission to the theatre.
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FINGERPRINT EM WILL SPEAK TONIGHT
Emmet Daly, Department of Justice Agent, Will Address Academy Of Criminology.
“Fingerprinting as a Means of Identification” will be the subject of an address by Emmet Daly, special agent for the United States department of justice, to be given this evening before the Southern California Academy of Criminology. The meeting of the academy will take place at 6:30 in social hall of the Student Union building.
Daly’s long and active connection with the United States secret service promises to give a colorful background for an unusually Interesting discussion. On the technical side of Ills subject Daly had acquired a national reputation.
The same meeting will be featured by a short talk by Dr. G. S. Porter of the Los Angeles health department who will speak on “The Relation of Health to Crime.” Judge Georgia Bullock will preside.
The Southern California Academy of Criminology is composed of people prominent In the civic life of Los Angeles and was organized for the study of the problems connected with the elimination and control of crime. Regular meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month. After a dinner the speakers of the evening deliver short addresses. Although the banquet is closed to non-members, the student body and faculty of Southern California is invited to hear addresses which are scheduled to being immediately following the dinner.
Trojan Amazons will be hostesses to 55 freshman women at a tea to be held in their honor tomorrow, February 12, from 3 to 5 p. m., in the council room, 418, of the Student Union building. Refreshments and music will be features of the affair which has become characteristic of the efforts of the Amazons to aid new women on the campus to orient themselves at the beginning of the year, thus starting them in the individual lines of work to which they are best suited.
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith, and Mrs. Rufus B. von KlelnSmid have beeu invited to attend and be introduced to the freshmen. Bobbie Loftus, president of the Amazons, will speak to the guests, telliug them of what that organization represents in Troy, the ideals and traditions dominant at Southern California, and the place which the new co ed should take In campus life.
The spring motif will prevail in floral decorations. This and all other arrangements are in charge of Winifred Biegler, new vice-president. This is to be the flrst function in her charge and she is being assisted by Alma Griflin, secretary, and Florence Waechter, treasurer, of the Amazons.
“Although there is not a large number of new freshman women this semester, all Amazon rules and S. C. traditions are to be strictly enforced,” stated Miss Loftus yesterday.
Court summons are being issued this week to non-conformers who may expect severe penalties when brought before the Amazon body. Special emphasis is being placed this year on chapel attendance and freshman women are reminded that this is a compulsory duty.
PHI KAPPA PHI ELECTS THIRTY TO MEMBERSHIP
National Scholarship Society Announces S u c c e s s ful Candidates.
MEXICAN PROBLEMS WILL BE DISCUSSED
A. R. Carillo To Describe Conditions At Y. M. C. A. Dinner.
By GEORGE COVERDALE
Election of 30 Trojan candidates to Phi Kappa Phi, national all-university scholarship society, was announced today by Miss Julia N. McCorkle, secretary of the local chapter. Five colleges will be represented in the semiannual initiation to occur soon. Prospective new members from most of the main divisions of the university will enter in May.
CANDIDATES The successful candidates of the current election are: School of Commerce—James C. McCormick, and Warde B. Ogden; School of Education—Mrs. Lillian B. Turley, Mrs. Jenella B. Moore, and Miss Florence Waechter; College of Engineering— Robert Mangold; College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences—the Misses Marcella Jane Movious, Margaret Kraus, lone Sturn, Emma Patty Baird, Marian C. Farr, Evelyn Pascual Kowitt, Muriel E. Emerson, Margurlte E. Waters, Lois King, Inez Jeanne Ker-nan; and Messrs. Cecil L. Dunn, and E. Giles Lilleberg.
Graduate School—Misses Kate Louise Gridley ,Bertha Louise Goodrich, Henrietta Way, Theresa Rustmeyer, Marjorie Abernathy, Miriam M. Binder, Carol F. Hovious and Pearl Fisher; Mrs. Constance W. Hubbell; Messrs. Harry D. Earhart, Paul S. Delp and Stanley F. Howland.
OTHERS LATER Candidates from the schools and colleges* of law, dentistry, architecture, music, speech, religion and other colleges will be initiated in May, according to Miss McCorkle.
With the initiation of the 30 chosen students, the University of Southern California’s membership in the Continued on Page Four
Aristotelian Society Holds Installation Of Officers Tonight
The Aristotelian literary society will Inaugurate its newly elected officers for this semester at its first regular business meeting tonight at 7. The new officers for this semester are: Roy E. Maginnis, president; William Leech, vice-president; Wen-dall Moore, censor; Paul Bodenham-mer, secretary; Gilbert Morse, treasurer; Alfred Sheets, chaplain, Frederick Griffin, custodian; Otis Kelley, sergeant-at-arms.
The Aristotelian literary society is now preparing for the annual inter-literary society debate tournament, sponsored by Alpha Phi Epsilon, national honorary literary and forensic fraternity, which lt won last year. Plans are also being made for several social affairs with the sister societies.
Last year the Comitia literary society challenged the Aristotelians to a basketball game, which was won by the latter. This semester the Aristotelian society has challenged the Comitia society to a baseball game. The Aristotelian baseball team intends to defeat the Comitia team in tlie very near future, according to Tom Wilson, chairman of the board of athletic control.
Peacehaven, III., Feb. 10—(To the Editor of the Daily Trojan): Everything is hurdy-gurdy financially and morally In Chicago. The city treasury is so deserted that dollar bills die of loneliness in it. School teachers haven’t been paid for months. Unless money Is had quickly, there will be a real crisis when the irate school mar’ms start
locking up the kiddies as secur-	*
ity for tlieir back pay.	★
There are only two things that	+
the racketers haven’t asked pro-	J
■	tection money from—a small pox	★
' quarantine and the Secretary of	*
War. Naval disarmament would	*
greatly benefit Chicago—they	*
need all the steel they cau get.	★
In fact, Chicago's next civic im-	*
provement should be armored	*
street cars. If the racketeers	*
have their way the University	★
of Chicago will add to its curri-	*
’ culum the following courses:	J
; “Protection and Collection,"	J
■	"The Art of Speakesy,” and an	* ’ adventure seminar called "Going	J | for n Ride.”	^
The only way to save Chicago	*
■	is for Congress to pass a law	* I making it a protectorate of the	J l U. S. and send the army and	J 1 navy there with orders to sing	* l bass and shoot straight.	£
Yours for safety zones,	J
[ MORRIE CHAIN.	*
Frosh Debate Squad Will Discuss Work At Meeting Tomorrow
S. C.’s freshman debate squad will meet in the squad rooms tomorrow after 3:00 o’clock to formulate plans for the second semester. Glenn Jones, varsity debater, will manage the frosh teams. The program for tho semester will include contests with southern California junior colleges and the Ames Cup contest.
According to Jones, the same jun ior colleges that were met the first semester will again make up the first round of debates this semester.
These include: Long Beach, Santa Monica, Glendale, Pasadena, and Cit rus junior colleges. Los Angeles jun ior college will be added to this list of competitors for the frosh teams. After the series of junior college debates there will possibly be contests with the U.C.L.A., Cal-Tecli. and Red lands freshman squads. The Ames Cup is given to the best debater on the squad. This person is chosen from all members by various elimination speeches ending with a debate between the four highest.
All freshmen, first or second semester, who are interested in participating in debates are invited to attend this meeting. The squad rooms are on the second floor of the Student Union building.
“Mexico and her problems” is to be the Y. M. C. A.’s topic for consideration at the weekly council dinner Wednesday, February 12, at 5:30 in the “Y” Hut. A. II. Carrillo, associated with the Goodwill Industries, is to be the speaker of the evening and will present the varied phases of the difficulty facing Mexico at the present time.
Mr. Carrillo has made an intensive, first-hand study of problems in the ter ritory south of Tia Juana, and has advocated certain movements in education, religious training, sanitation, and other social fields. His lecture on Mexico has been popular with numerous civic groups of Los Angeles. Contact with the Goodwill Industries has given him opportunity to aid the advancement of Mexicans in the United States and to present their needs to leaders of the city.
As an additional feature, Leo Adams is to talk to the fellows on some item of local interest, as of yet unannounced. Community singing led by Myron Sunde will be included in the evening’s entertainment.
During the first month of the new semester, a special invitation is extended by Leland Jacobson, president of the Y. M., to every Trojan man on the campus to come out to these weekly council meetings. Dinner is served at 25 cents a plate and unusually fine programs follow'. Loading men from all parts of California are secured as speakers for the meetings, besides the splendid musical specialties which are procured for the dinners.
WAMPUS PRESENTS AWARD TO WINNER OF STORY CONTEST
WOMEN INVITED
Any campus woman who has attended Asilomar with either Y. W. C. A. or Girl Reserve groups is invited to meet with the “Y” committee that is being formed in regard to Asilomar on Thursday at 3 p. m. in the Y. W. C. A. rooms in the Student Union. Margaret Lytle, chairman of the group, urges those eligible to attend.
ALPHA ETA RHO MEETING TODAY
Alpha Eta Rho, aviation fraternity, will have its luncheon-meeting today at 12:15 in the Student Union. This change of date is due to the Beta Sigma Chi, College of Commerce transportation fraternity, harbor expedition on Wednesday. Hal Shields, general passenger agent of Western Air Expieaa, will be it Kueat ctl ilit* luncheon and will give an informal talk to the group.
Karl Tunberg Receives Pair Of Book-Ends At First Staff Meeting of Magazine.
Winner of the short story contest of the Wampu3, Karl Tunberg, was presented with a pair of book ends at the first staff meeting of the magazine for the semester yesterday. A number of new students are interested in the work and attended the meeting. These applicants will be given a trial and then placed in positions that they may fill best.
There are positions open for a secretary to the editor, copy readers aud for any persons presenting material which is consistently good enough to warrant a position on either the art or editorial staff.
Those students who are writing humor for the magazine are requested to turn in from 5 to 10 pages of manuscript each month, while those writing short stories may hand one in a month. All copy for the next issue should be turned In Immediately as the book goes to press inside of the next week.
The co-operation of the staff has been asked for jn the respect of working up to a grand finale in the last issue of the magazine which is to be the largest one of the year and is expected to be one of the best issues that has ver been printed at the university for there are to be at least two previous editors working on the magazine in conjunction with the present editor. The theme of the issue is to be the Semi-Centennial anniversary of the school. Jessica Heber, editor of last year Is to have charge of the humor section of this issue while Bryant Hale, editor of year before last iu to be in charge of the art work.
SPECIAL NOTICE Coach Cady announces that there wiH be Water Polo practice Tuesday, and Wednesday nights at 6 p. m., at the L. A. A. C. Everyone must be present.
Graduate Executives Will Meet Tomorrow
Members of the executive council of the Graduate Student’s association will meet at 2:15 p.m., tomorrow in the council rooms on the third floor of the Student Union, Van Tanner, president, announced today.
A schedual of social events for the coming semester will be drawn up at this time.