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Volume XXVII
J-os Angeles, California, Wednesday, November 20, 1935
Number 41
talian Troops Surrounded by Black Fighters
ar s Bloodiest Battle Is Expected as Makale Outpost Imperiled
as Siyoum Leads 30,000
uerilla Tactics Employed With Force by Armed Native Warriors
For Panhel
WITH THE ITALIAN NORTH-Ji ARMIES. Via Asmara, Nov. (9—(TP>—The Italian advanced potion around Makale was virtually ided tonight by large and Ethiopian detachments and he bloodiest battle of the Italo-hiopian war appeared imminent. As native Askaris sent from akale and Mount Gundi eneaged utposts of Ras Siyoum’s 30.000 hock troops camped in the mountains of eastern Tambien. north-est of Makale. native informers ame panting into Masale with information that another strong hiopian force is marching north attack.
■Mop-l'p’ Resisted Small, mobile bands of night-lding pillagers are resisting fforts to “mop up” the Gheralta istrict behind Makale.
According to the informers, a ell-armed force is moving toward rlicot. about 10 miles south of kale, preparatory to an attempt drive a wedge into the Italian nes east of Makale toward Dolo. The Ethiopians evidently are del-mined to recapture Makale by rusting at the flanks from east nd west and at the same time arassing communications with all guerilla bands at the Italian ar.
Defenders Entrenched
South of Makale the defending orces are believed strongly en-enched near Amba Alagi and Lake shanghi. despite terrific bom bard-ent yesterday in which thousands f Ethiopians were reported killed, sere was no official estimate of hiopian losses, but rumors based n observations of corpses from the mbing planes and native spies in cate nearly 6,000 wers killed or jded.
Carol Lofner, who has been signed by the Panhellenic council to lead his band for the annual Panhel formal at the Deauville beach club next Wednesday night.
elassie Takes Plan© or War Front
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 19—(UP)— .peror Haile Selassie, his destl-tion and route closely guarded, his capital hurriedly by air-lanc today, believed on his way to e personal command at the t
Which front was problematical, as was unofficially reported both at he left for Dessye, Ethiopian base in the north, and for rar, Ethiopia’s second city and dquarters for operations on the them front.
Lofner To Play . For Panhellenic
Marie Niemeyer Revealed As Committee Leader For Dinner-Dance
mailman’s Choir To Sing in Bovard
Initial appearance of the A Ca-
11a choir, under the direction of . John Smallman. will be held Bovard auditorium Saturday on e occasion of the 25th. anniver-ry of the Graduate school of the iversity. The choir has been resing since the beginning of the ester and has made rapid des in the advancement of their rk. the director affirmed last :ht.
ie A Capella choir will be pre
Members of all S. C. sororilies and their guests will be entertained by the music of Carol Lofner’s 12-piece band next Wednesday evening. when the Panhellenic formal dinner-dance will be held at the Deauville beach club, according to Dorothy Brown, vice-president of the group.
Proceeds from this affair are given each year to the student loan fund in order to assist needy Trojan women.
Limited to 325 couples, with bids priced at $4. the council of combined sorority representatives declares that the tickets may be obtained from Marie Poetker at the cashier’s window in Student Union tomorrow.
Lofner Is Popular
Lofner, who rose to fame in partnership with Phil Harris, has been consistently popular in collegiate circles for several years. According to polls taken in the past on Trojan and Bruin campuses, Lofner was chosen as the favorite band leader.
Playing at the Junior Prom last year, Lofner was acclaimed an outstanding success.
Planned as one of the most colorful events on the S. C. social calendar, Kathleen Murphy, Panhellenic president, reports that advance ticket reservations have been surprisingly heavy.
Committee Announced
Marie Niemeyer. Alpha Delta Theta. will direct the Panhellenic activities; Dorothy Russell. Delta Gamma, is in charge of the orchestra committee; Dorothy Grant, Delta Zeta, is poster chairman; and Margaret Norris, Kappa Alpha Theta, is supervising sale of the bids. Genevieve Truth, Phi Mu planned for all transportation facilities, while Lucy Ann McLean. Pi Beta Phi, wiU buy and arrange the flowers.
Troy Graduate School Reunion To Begin Today
Faculty Club To Hear Talk By Dr. Hunt, Chairman Of Arrangements
Justice Curtis Will Speak
Senator Thomas of Utah Will Address General Assembly Friday
The quarter-centennial celebration of the founding of a Graduate School at Southern California will get under way today when the Faculty club assembles to hear an address by Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate School and chairman of the committee on arrangements, on “Some Headlines and Footnotes of Twenty-five Years."
Dean Hunt will review various aspects of graduate work in the last quarter of a century, and wiU have suggestions for faculty cooperation in the celebration.
Curtis Will Broadcast
An address by Justice Jesse W. Curtis on “Research in the Law,’ will be broadcast from San Francisco during the program. Justice Curtis will speak from 12:45 to 1 p.m., over KHJ.
The opening gun of the general session will be fired Friday when Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah ad dresses a general assembly on the topic of “A World Wide Educational Objective.” Classes will be dismissed in time for the assembly at 10:30 and all members of the faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students are invited to attend, says Dean Hunt. The historical background of the Graduate School will be outlined when Dr. Hunt speaks on “Foundation Years In the University."
Group conferences will meet for the first sessions at 2:30 pjn. Friday. They are to be on a graduate level and will emphasize independent creative scholarship.
Seniors Invited
“Graduate students and seniors who are interested in the fields to be covered should plan to attend as many of the conferences as possible.' says Dean Hunt. “The opportunity of hearing the descuss-ions offered is too good a one to miss,” he emphasizes.
Conferences and panel discussions will cover social sciences, languages and literature, education, psychology, physical sciences, biological sciences, philosophy, religion, and international relations.
Professors from S. C. will lead these conferences and have appointed visitors from other colleges as chairmen of each of the meetings. More than 115 educators and specialists in the fields presented will attend.
Hi*Jinks Finals To Be Held in Bovard Today
A waiting Fourth Quarter
—Courtesy L. A. Times.
Headman Howard Harding Jones, who has piloted his Trojan gridders through two worrisome months of competition this season, last night led them on their way to South Bend, Indiana, where next Saturday they tangle with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.
Late President’s Wife Near Death
Northern China Is Expected To Be Autonomous
Chinese General Admits No Pressure Was Applied By Japanese Army
Nanking Action Is Unlikely
Self-Government May Be Announced at Noon; Relations Cordial
Goes North
Parade, Rally at Station Send Team on Way East
A skeleton group of 150 shivering students last night saw Southern California’s football team leave for South Bend and the intersectional grid titanic with Notre Dame next Saturday.
Coach Howard Jones and the 33 players included in the
-+traveling roster left the campus at
6:20 p.m. Many automobiles carry-
Dr. Smallman said that he the choir might have card-and gold robes by that time.
GLEN COVE. N. Y.. Nov. 19—(T£) —Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Sr., 74, probably the least publicized of Presidents’ wives, was near death tonight from effects of a broken hip. suffered when she fell at her Sagamore Hill home last Wednesday.
Her condition had been considered favorable until yesterday, when she suffered a relapse accompanied i by a heart attack. Several physici-1 ans were in attendance and her family was at her bedside . Pearle Aiken-Smith. The final au- The family remained at the hos-ditions will be held at 3 pjn. in : pital today after an all-night vigil,
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Soda Is Poisoned; Many Face Death
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 —OLE) —Countless purchasers of bulk baking soda from a local department store tonight were warned they face possible poison death if they use the compound.
Three deaths already have occurred among persons who bought the preparation and nine others have been treated. Dr. J. C. Geiger. city health officer, said the soda was found to contain arsenic.
Proprietors of the store were at a loss to explain how the soda, salvaged from damaged containers of a reputable brand came to be poisoned.
Six hundred pounds of the soda were sold last month, and two barrels of the material had been sold since October 23.
Dr. Geiger estimated that half a teaspoon of the mixture would prove deadly.
It was disclosed tonight that test samples taken from remaining barrels of the compound in the department store showed the presence of Fluoride as well as arsenic tri-oxide in the soda.
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Bovard auditorium today.
“The following acts, in costume, with accompanists, and script work learned, are expected to appear I promptly at this time," Dean Smith stated.
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preferring to stay at Mrs. Roosevelt’s bedside rather than return to the family home at Oyster Bay, seven miles away.
At noon, the aged woman’s condition was reported “somewhat improved.” although still critical because of her extreme age. The broken hip was in a plaster cast.
ing rooters and the band followed the team busses after an interval of nearly 15 minutes.
Fraternities, dismissing late, delayed formation of the rally parade on schedule.
Hal Roberts’ nationally famed Trojan band formed the parade’s vanguard.
At the Espee station, where the gridders boarded a special train, Coach Jones and Davie Davis, min-i a t u r e triple-threat quarterback who engineered Washington State’s defeat Saturday spoke briefly.
Jones lauded the spirit of the team, but said he could not guarantee victory. “We’ll be in there trying,” he said.
Said Davis, laconically, “I’m excited and a Uttle bit nervous.”
Bulletin
PEIPING, Wednesday, Nov. 20 —(U.R)—Formal announcement of an autonomous North China state, .which had been expected this afternoon, probably will b« postponed for two days, according to Maj. Gen. Kenji Doihara. chief poUttcal agent of the Japanese army.
PEIPING, Wednesday, Nov. 20— (HR) — Announcement of autonomy of north China was expected momentarily this afternoon.
Plans Were said to have been completed to make the vast provinces of Shantung, Shansi, Hopei, Shahar. and Suiyuan, with their population of about 95,000,000, virtually independent of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s Central Chinese government in Nanking.
Major - General Keiji Doihara, chief political agent of the Japanese army who is credited with promoting the separation said that a Chinese statement, probably from Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan, commander of the Peiping-Tientsin garrison, denying any Japanese pressure had been applied to force autonomy which was a spontaneous Chinese move, would be forthcoming late today.
Kiang-Shek Is Quiet
Dispatches from Nanking indicated that the central government headed by Chiang Kai-Shek wiU not offer armed opposition to the plan.
Maj Kenji Doihara, chief political agent of the Japanese army who is credited wi‘h the whole scheme, told newspapermen ^Jate last night that “Chinese plans for an autonomous North China council have been completed.”
Chinese leaders then reportedly told Japanese correspondents that they would wait until noon today “when we plan to act on our own responsibility if no definite plan is forthcoming from Nanking.” Rumors Rampant
All sorts of rumors were in the air. One Chinese official at midnight said: “I expect an announcement of the autonomous council either Wednesday evening or Thursday.”
Maj. Gen. Doihara caterogically denied rumors that he had issued an ultimatum to the Chinese.
“Let me emphasize that this is a Chinese problem,” he said. “Naturally the Japanese army is offering advice for we have very vital rights and interests in north China.
St. Mary’s Will Offer Opening Debate Match
Stanford Fray Called Off As Dates Are Found To Be Conflicting
Bell, Groman Form Team
Homer Bell, varsity debater, who. with Art Groman. will leave tonight for the San Francisco area, where the Trojans are to begin a series of intercoUegiate debates.
Campus To See Galapagos Film
Travel Pictures Will Open Anniversary of Troy Graduate School
KNX To Broadcast Trojan Game
“Y” Executive To Speak
Y,M.C.A. executive committeemen will convene in 326 Student Union at 12:15 pjn. today. Members are to attend the meeting, at which William Clark, recruiting secretary for the twelfth quadrennial convention of the Student Volunteer movement will speak.
A play by play broadcast of the S.C.-Notre Dame football game direct from the Notre Dame stadium in South Bend will be released locally Saturday morning by radio station KNX, it was announced by Gary Breckner last night in an exclusive statement to the Daily Trojan.
KNX is joining a chain of independent stations stretching all the way from the Pacific coast to the Middle West in order to bring local grid fans an ear picture of Saturday’s titanic grid battle. The game is scheduled to come on the air Saturday morning between 11 and 12 o'clock.
The Columbia and National sys
Kay Alfs Leads in Candy-Race Sale
With each competitor in fliortar Board’s campus candy contest striving to work into first place, the annual benefit sale will close this afternoon. Nosing into the lead to force yesterday’s leader, Regina Levy, into second place, Kay Alfs last night led in the contest to discover which S.C. coed has the most “sales appeal.” To date. Kay has sold $12.65 worth of candy, while Regina has $10.45 to *her credit. The team of Pat Raeilly and Helen Osterhage has brought in $8.70, thus placing third, while Jennie Dye is at present in fourth place with sales totaling $6.45.
“Entire, profits of the sale will go in the Mortar Board service fund^ annually placed at the disposal of Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, dean of women, to be used by her to assist campus women with small tems will both broadcast the j outright gifts to help them meet Princeton-Dartmouth game to be j some emergency expenditure,” explayed at Princeton.	i plained President Audrey Austin.
Debut of a three-day ovation to the Trojan Graduate school quarter-centennial will be observed in Bovard auditorium at 7:30 tonight with a free showing of Capt. G. Allen Hancock’s travelogue, “To Galapagos Aboard Velero 111,” and a recital by the Hancock ensemble.
The film, a record of Captain Hancock’s last scientific explorations in the Galapagos islands, has been widely acclaimed throughout southern California.
Hancock travel pictures are not new to S.C., having been shown here successively in 1933 and 1934. Done partly ln color, the current edition is hailed as the best of the series.
Seal’s Birth Shown •
The picture will show, among other things, the spectacular side-launching of the expedition’s ship, Velero in; color sequences of the birth of a seal; capture of a giant ray, devil fish of the South Seas; capture of a monster sea elephant; an all-color record of a bird’s egg hatching under the torrid tropical sun; and scenes from Galapagos’ much publicized colony of nudists.
The film is said to contain some of the finest under-water shots of rare and beautiful fish ever made. Scenes of shark and porpoise angling will also be shown.
Nudists Dress
Nudists of the equatorial Garden of Eden dressed for their parts in the picture. The sequence also shows the only movie ever made of the mysterious deaths in Galapagos’ arcadia that last year puzzled the whole world.
Lecturing with the film will be S.C.'s John S. Garth, graduate student, assistant in zoology, and member of four of the captain’s expeditions.
In addition to the picture Juid recital in Bovard. Entomo^pst Garth has assembled an exhibit of expedition discoveries in the zoology laboratory, Old College. The display will be open tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday.
Kirkwood Will Come Home Sunday After Making Bay Region Trip
Debaters at St. Mary’s college will provide the first opposition for Troy this season, when Art Groman and Homer Bell, number one team of the S. C. varsity forensic squad engage that school Friday evening. The opening match previously planned with Stanford, was postponed after a wire from the Indian institution announced a conflict of dates there.
Groman and Bell will depart this evening for the north to open the series of debates, which should bring out a wealth of material on national and international questions, and which they hope will bring continued victories for the school Although the debate tour continues until Monday, Manager Kirkwood will remain with the team only untU Sunday.
Resolution Prepared The question which ls attaining the attention of all college debaters this year, and the one which will be discussed by the Trojan pair on their trip ls the Pi Kappa Sigma subject, “Resolved: that Congress should have the power by a two-thirds majority vote to over-ride decisions of the supreme court which declare legislation unconstitutional."
Groman is captain of the squad, a two-year man who has participated in twenty debates for Troy, a Phi Beta Kappa, and a winner of both the Ames and Bowen trophies. Bell Is chairman of the open forum, president protem of the student body of the school of government, a Bowen cup winner, and has debated two years.
Schedule Is Full
On Saturday the S. C. team will be at Berkeley to meet the University of California squad, and on Monday the University of San Francisco match will finish the series Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Groman and Bell, with two other Trojan teams, will compete in the tournament sponsored by the Western Association of Coliege Speech Teachers, with other teams of the Pacific coast. Fred Burril a. id Robert Feder, Marian Lovelady and Walter Roedder have been selected al the other teams to represent S. C.
Ad Fraternity Offers Debate Entertainment
1 Homecoming Committees Are Named
rs at Boulder dam. ese generators, each of which uces 115.000 horsepower, will ly electric energy to Los An-when the transmission line mpleted. The new plant is ex-id to be put into service by July.
ence Library Adds Two 'ours for Late Students
groups of individuals not on time . will be taken off tha list, she declared.
Japanese Show Interest In Written Material of University’s Professors
A possible opportunity for S.C’s author-professors to get their works . .	fhp recognized in Japan was seen by the
li SSia' Ubrary schedule in J™ter rf a letter received recently • the large by Dr Gariand Greever
Prof. P. D. Perkins, former graduate student here, now English professor at Dai-San Koto-Kakko. Ky- I oto, and an employee of the Jap- i anese government, wrote to Dr. Greever stating that he has had many inquiries from the Japanese
at U:S0 Pin.'
it to accommodate iber of students m the Univer-college classes which meet in Science building during the late moon and evening.
Science Ubrary is now open 8 a m to 8 pjn., Monday to y Inclusive. On Saturdays, the i uutuv mquuiB
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Preliminary steps in preparation othy McCune; publicity, Elinor Pot-for the 12th annual S.C. alumni ter, assisted by Sarita Ebert; spe-homecoming neared completion yes- i cialty- numbers, Jane Ruddrauf. terday, as Sutdent Chairman Dick Helen James; tryouts, Mary Louise
Parker gave notice of the foUow ing committeemen to serve in the homecoming arrangements, with chairmen already announced!
Stag rally: Willis Stanley, chairman; Milton Bovee, Louis Tarleton, WUliam Eichlu.
Women’s football banquet: Draxy Trengove, Grace Libby, co-chairmen; decorations, Louis Krie-
Nate Halpern 1 f /Afiff dsnmtt for jw#a«
Michel; art designer, Roberta Board.
Sorority contacts: Lucy Ann McLean. chairman; Mary Moore. Jacqueline McGinn. Betty Keeler.
Entertainment: Jack Warner, Bud Rlfkin, co-chairmen; Arthur Lewis, Burton Lewis. Chuck Co-chard.
Interfratemity sing: Diok Hud-witz; tickets. Jean Snodgrass; hos- dleston, chairman; Jack Golay, as-tess, Caroline Everington; enter- sistant chairman: Alton Gage, Bill tainment, Jane Cassell.	.Wyman.
Street decorations: Bob Mono- Fraternity contacts: Jim Kruger, smith, chairman; Marjorie Eng- chairman; Norm Johnson, John lish, Ruth Coine, Cal Cannon, Olhasso.
Mary Jane Booth, Bill Ainley. Cups and awards: Henry Flynn Women’s Hi-Jinks: Alene Smith. Ian^ Leonard Finch, co-chairmen, chairman: candy, Louise Kreiwitz; I Publicity: Lionel Van Deerlin, tickets, Vicki Tuttle. Josephine | chairman; Bob Wood. Clark Jones. Kent; judge, EUen Holt; music, j Men’s football dinner; Nate Hal-LuciUe Hoff; prizes. Mary Walton, pern, chairman; BiU Berry, Frsd Mary Louise Hair; programs, Dor-	rontumad on r-n r««r>
Believing that alumni can be of valuable assistance to undergredu-ates, Tom Beckwith, president of Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fraternity, has extended an invitation to all old members to attend a dinner meeting tomorrow night at 6 pjn. in the WiUiam Penn hoteL Entertainment for the* evening wiU take the form of a debate on the proposition “Resolved: That Eye Appeal is Stronger Than Ear Appeal.” Guy Burroughs, head of Burroughs, Inc., nationally known direct mail advertisers, and an associate member of Alpha Delta Sigma, wUl deliver the affirmative arguments of the debate. Opposing Burroughs will be Bert PhiUips, sales manager of KHJ who is active in national radio circles.
Italy-Bound Cargo Delayed by Seamen
SAN PEDRO, Calif., Nov. 19— <U-P)—The crew of the freighter Oregon, purportedly loaded with war suppUes, including 36.000 barrels of gasoUne beUc*ved intended for Italian ports, late tonight suddenly decided not to take the boar out of the harbor.
EarUer today the seamen agreed to handle the vessel after the operators promised them “war bonuses” and insurance on personal effects.
Seamen’s union representatives received a telegram from Secretary of State CordeU HuU, informing them the United States government would not give afeem a guarantee oi safety if tnej^Bled on the vessel.
“If the gasoline mentioned is in fact destined to an Italian possession, no guarantee of safety of the crew can be given,” Hull’s message said.
Draxy Trengove plant women’t drnnn.
Meeting of High School Relations Committee Is Called by Eddie Stones
Members of the high school relations committee will meet in the Office of Walter Sykes, situated in the co-ordination department. Administration building, at 2:30 this afternoon to form final plans before the workers swing into action in their activities with prep school students of the southland.
Eddie Stones, chairman of the committee, asked the following people to attend the meeting: Audrey Austin, Dona Whitehom, Frances Dunlop, Margaret Snyder. Louis Tarleton, Maynard Hathaway, Ben Franklin, and Charles Archibald.
Gift Books Sent To Law Library
A photographic copy of his "Opinion to the Attorney General of New Jersey Respecting the Handwriting of Bruno Hauptmann and the Extortion Letters In the Lindbergh Kidnaping Case” wa» recently presented to the School ot Law by James Clark SeUers, examiner and photographer of suspectec and disputed documents.
Copies of the extortion notes anc illustrations of the compared handwriting are appended to this document. Mr. Sellers also gave to thf School of Law copies of Osborn* “Problems of Proof” and “Questior Documents,” two books which are by outstanding authorities in thi.-field of law.
Sigma Beta Chi Luncheon Meeting Called by Turner
AU members of Sigma Beta Chi. professional transportation fraternity, wiU convene this noon in Old CoUege for a business meeting caU-ed by the president. Bob Turner.
Sigma Beta Chi offers many advantages to its members, its purpose being to co-ordinate the students on the campus with the professional men In the field of transportation.