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SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Press World Wide News Service
Volume XXVII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, March 12, 1936
Number 97
[War Readiness gi R0je0 Head Is Shown Along calls for
ri i n i Panel Money
French Border
>recautions Taken Against Air Raids as Planes Fly Over Rhine
[Big Guns Moved to Front
[Pursuit Squadrons Chase Nazi Pilots Across German Boundary
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STRASBOURG, March 11.—<T.P>— I Conditions of actual warfare, minus lor.ly the shooting, prevailed or. France's fortified eastern frontier today.
Troops, heavy artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, and even dugouts were ready for eventualities in the towns on the French ring of steel and concrete.
Headquarter* Set lTp
“Organizations which have not completed payments for their panels in the El Rodeo must pay for the space before Friday or the money already paid will be forfeited.” Kenneth Stonier, manager of student publications, emphatically declared yesterday.
Stonier said that the following organizations are holding up publication of the El Rodeo, and must complete the balance of their payments before Friday:
Aeneas hall. Alpha Kappa Psi. Delta Sigma Delta, Delta Sigma phi. Los Caballeros, Phi Delta Chi, Psi Omega. Quill club, and Sigma Alpha Iota.
Many Notables Are To Attend Matrix Dinner
Italian Bombs Kill 58 in Air Attack
At Nancy, staff headquarters and Non-Combatant Ethiopians
a telephone center were established ln the basement of the municipal theater.
Precautions against air raids were taken after German airplanes flew over the French frontier six times on Monday and Tuesday. French mti-nircraft guns refrained from firing, but in each instance French pursuit, squadrons ascended and phased the Nazi ships back to Ger-ip.ny.
Troops Go To Frontier
Military movements set in motion by Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s Jestruction of the Locarno treaty »n.1 ;he last repressive clauses of thr Versailles treaty included:
Metz: This was one of the first “nters to swing into action. Heavy tUlery and anti-aircraft units left br the froruei.
Forbach: Troops moved from this bncentration point for Bitche. Saint pold. and Saveme in the famous laglnot. line of forts.
Defense Reinforced Strasbourg: The guard duty at [rhi bridge across the Rhine was Jpken over by the 17th infantry Irom Colmar and detachments of fourth artillery. The 152nd pantassins and the fourth Chas-eurs were moved to Neufbrisach. l Bn io he valley: AU defenses were jinforced from Saint Die and Bel-Iru
live Balkan Nations upport France
I GENEVA. March 11.—(U.Pi—Five puntries. members of the little en-ite and the Balkan entente, today (>ld the League of Nations and trance that negotiations with Germany are impossible until German aps are withdrawn from the (Jiinelnnd.
Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Greece, “urkey, and Jugoslavia announced ley will battle for heir contention fhen the league council meets Sat-|rday in London. Soviet Russia has iken the same position.
id Clubs Will Hear Hugh Fellows Talk
Speaking to members of Alpha )elta Sigma, Gamma Alpha Chi, land the University Advertising club Ion the subject "How Salesmanship [Applies to Advertising.” Hugh Fel-Jlpws, sales manager for Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, will be Iciest speaker at a dinner this eev ling at 6:30 at the Metropole, 1828 juth Vermont avenue.
The dinner is the monthly meet png of the University Advertising Iclub. which will have Alpha Delta I Sigma and Ga mma Alpha Chi. na-[tionai professional honorary adver Itising fraternity and sorority, as its | guests this evening.
Members of these organizations [are urged by George Creamer, president of University Advertising club, to attend the dinner, as plans for the Delta Sigma agency-alumni banquet on April 1 will be completed.
Are Victims of Raid Near Lake Region
ADDIS ABABA, March 11.—(Ui) —At least 58 Ethiopian non-combatants, including women and children, were killed and more than 100 wounded late yesterday when Italian bombing squadrons destroyed Debra Markos and Yergaalem.
Dispatches from Debra Markos said 50 persons perished and 85 were wounded when 12 Fascist bombers rained a steady hail of explosives -on the unprotected city and raked it with machine gun fire, the dead included 30 women.
Concern was felt for three American and four British missionan-ies stationed at Debra Markos. but unofficial advices said they escaped uninjured.
Aid Planned
Red Cross headquarters planned to dispatch an airplane to Debra Markos tomorrow with medical supplies. Plans also were made to bring the missionaries to Addis Ababa.
An official communique said 5 women and 3 children were killed and 21 women and 12 children wounded in the bombardment of Yergaalem. in the southern province of Sidamo.
Officials believe Italy's continued aerial bombardments on the southern front are preparatory to a new offensive by Gen. Rodolfo Grazi-ani to gain the southern lakes region, from which Addis Ababa is easily accessible.
British Controlled Area.
Debra Markos is 110 miles noth-west of Addis Ababa in Gojjam province, south of Lake Tana in the British sphere of influence. Fire was said to have followed the bombardment, destroying many houses.
Emperor Haile Selassie telegraphed a protest to the League of Nations today against the third bombardment of a British Red Cross unit near Korem on March 5.
A government statement said that since the beginning of the war. Italy has bombarded Red Cross units 15 times. Troops have used poison gas on seven occasions, it said, and airplanes have dropped 12,000 gas bombs in addition to explosives.
Music Students To Give Recital
[Tryouts To Be Held for Plays
•Tryouts for seven original one ■et plays will be held today and tomorrow at 3:3C p. m. in Touchstone theater at the Drama Workshop meeting.” Isabelle Hanawalt. president of the workshop, said yesterday.
' Three of the plays will be presented in April, while four of them will make their appearance on the Apolliad program «n May.
Miss Hanawalt also said that everyone interested in play work may come to the theater and tryout for a part in the plays. Activity point are given for play work.
German Ciub To Hike
Announcing a series of outdoor activities, the German club will leave from Bridge hall Saturday morning at 8 a. m. for Switzers near Mt. Wilson, where the members of the group wil! hiko Dugh the surrounding mount-
A regular recital by the pupils of the School of Music is scheduled for today at 12:45 p. m. in recital hall. School of Music.
The program will include three vocal solos by Betty Payne and three piano numbers: Chopin’s ‘‘Fantasty in F minor,” by Josephine Madrid; Liszt’s “La Campan-ella,” by Chitosey Nagao; and Men-delsshon’s “Concerto in G minor, by Alice Sisson, with orchestral accompaniment on the second piano by Alice Aoki.
All students in the School of Music are expected to attend unless excused by Prof. Max van Lewen Swarthout, director of the School of Music.
Magazine, Newspaper, and Advertising Fields Will
Be Represented
Famous Writers To Speak
Two Hundred Are Invited To Annual Journalism Fraternity Banquet
Magavine. newspaper, and advertising fields will be represented in a gi laxy of literary persons when Theta Sigma Phi national professional journalism fraternity for woiren, sponsors its annual Matrix Table banquet tomorrow night at the Victor Hugo. Dixie Willson, of shor ston,’ ame, and Brian Bell, chief of tlie bureau for the Pacific Coast Associated Press, will be the main speakers.
Gene Coughlin, sports editor of the Los Angeles Evening News; George Shaffer, West coast correspondent for the Chicago Tribune syndicate, Rosalind Shaffer, Hollywood correspondent for the Chicago Tribune; Judge Harlan G. Palmer, Hollywood publisher; Kismet Sirri. Turkish newspaper feature and news writer; Virginia Fry, advertising head of Robinson’s; and Roy L. French, director of the School of Journalism of S. C.. vill sptak briefly to the professions'! and student assembly.
Fiction WiU E° There Reading a group of her published vcne, Miss Willson wil! bring the field of fiction to the assembly. The speaker is a member of the regular staff of the Delineator, and contributes verse and short stories to magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan. Children’s stories are included in her re-portoire, and at present she is writing the script for a radio feature. “Goose Creek Parson.”
Ranked one of the best sports writers of the United States. Mr. Bell was inducted as an associate member of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, at Troy. Miss Sirri will discuss journalism for women in Turkey. She will be initiated as a member of Theta Sigrna Phi preceding the Matrix Table banquet.
Banquet Has Purpose Bringing prominent speakers, the banquet has its fundamental purpose the association of outstanding men and women in the profession of journalism and its allied fields with collegiate writers and leader. Students representing the collegiate field include members of Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi and their guests from S. C., and Alpha Chi Alpha members of U. C. L. A.
Approximately 200 persons will atteh i the affair, to which admittance is limited by invitation. Similar banquets are sponsored by chapters of Theta Sigma Phi throu ghout the United States.
Reception Will Be Sponsored By Graduates
Asst dated graduate students will sponst r a reception for graduate studei ts in all divisions of tiie uni-versit; Wednesday, March 18 from 2:30 t) 4:30 in the Hall of Nations.
Representatives from the various divisions of the university will describe the graduate work which is being carried out in their department and particularly the research of graduate students in order to acquaint students with all phases of g-aduate studies. A calendar of this semester’s various functions of associated graduate students wiU be p resented.
Tl;e graduate council will receive the guests and the officers of the associated graduated students who will be presents are: James Davis, pres dent; Donald Brosser, vice-pres dent; Dorothy Clark, secre-taiv; Marshall Crawshaw, treasurer.
Draper, Johnson, Krueger, and Preininger File for Presidency
Libby, Sinclair Sign Petitions For Secretary
Four Trojans Seek
High Student Office
Fov Draper, non-org. student, and captain of the varsity squad this year, yesterday announced that he will be a candidate for presidency of the student body in April election.
Norman Johnson, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, who has served on the men’s council for the past year will seek the highest elective student office next month.
Jim Krueger, member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, has served as head of the Flying Squadron fo rthree semester. He filed his petition of candidacy for the presidency yesterday.
Joe Preininger. non-org. student football player, and president of the Trojan varsity club officially became jne of the four entrants in the presidential race yesterday.
MacLean Is Unopposed for Office of Hostess for S.C. Student Body
Exam Is Today
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Candidates Must Pass Test To Run
Final meeting for all candidates for associated student body, school, college, and class offices for the purpose of taking the examination on the A. S. U. S. C. constitution will be held this morning at 9:55 o'clock in the legislative councU room, 418 Student Union.
“In order to be eligible for any office in the university it is necessary to pass this test,” stressed Art Groman, chairman of the constitutional committee last night. “Anyone who fails to attend this meeting and take this test will be ineligible to run for the office filed for.”
Groman will be assisted by Bob Feder and ' Fred Burrill. members of the constitutional committee.
Law School Begins Mock Murder Trial
Eric Larson, accused of the murder of Lief Olsen, was released on his own recognizance foUowing the preliminary hearing of the case of the People vs. Larson in the spring session of the Southern California School of Law practice court last night.
Larson, pastor of a Swedish congregation near Compton, CaUf., was seen striking Lief Olsen over the head with a spade on the evening of December 24. 1935, the autopsy report showing that death was caused by assault with a blunt instrument.
Ole Hansen, a neighbor of the defendant in his pseudo trial, testified to having found a body, which he identified as that of Lief Olsen, in a pit behind the Larson home. Hansen, nowever, indicated that the wounds were on the left side of the head, whUe the autopsy report stated that the wounds were on the right side.
WiUiam C. Shafer, local attorney, acted as Judge, with six law seniors, Emrys Ross, Thomas Webster, Robert Vandegrift, James Pike, Joseph BUls, and John Peckman— acting as attorneys.
Trial of this case is set for Wednesday night, March 18, at 6:30 in 301 Law building.
Y. W. Will Present Benefit Program
Dance Producer, Hollywood Director To Appear On Annual Show
Grandpa and Grandma Now May Come Back to School
Here’s one for the high-cost-of-education harpists!
Can you imagine the general pubUc being gleefully welcomed to a regular accredited university class? Can you, for example, imagine several newsboys, two or three bearded grandfathers, a Uttle girl with a lollypop, and maybe a couple of
Philc«ophy mi;;ht say were he asked about it, for the phUosophy for um -s a course which is conducted exac:ly on tliis principle , of free publ c invitation. Ar d yet the phU-osopay forum is as much a regular accr dited course as chemistry, history. or any other course in the university, although it is unique in
Fanchon, of the team of Fanchon and Marco, dance producers, and W. S. Van Dyke, director of “Rose Marie,” “Naughty Marrietta.” and other Hollywood successes, have promised to appear on the Y. W. C. A. program, March 25, in Bovard auditorium.
The program, !‘A11 the World’s a Stage,” is an annual presentation by the women’s organization, of professional artists of stage, screen, press, radio, and concert stage.
Manages Production
Fanchon manages the production of the dances and ballets, which have made her and her brother Marco prominent in vaude-viUe circles. Last summer she staged all the ballets presented in the HoUywood bowl.
At present, Fanchon and Marco troups appear at a local theater, and traveling units are sent to leading coast cities.
The latest plans of the team include presentation of technicolor shorts showing dances.
Makes Hits
Director W. S. Van Dyke has af long list of box-office hits to his credit. He has filmed “Trader Horn,” “White Shadows in the South Seas.” “The Pagan" “The Thin Man.” and “I Live My Life.”
He began his career as an actor at the early age of seven months when he appeared in a stage production in San Francisco. In 1915, he became an assistant to D. W. Griffiths. His experience has not been limited to the stage and screen, for he has been a miner, a lumberman, and a newspaper reporter.
Petitions Late
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Legislative Council To Pass on Eligibility
Four A. S. U. S. C. office seekers turned in their petitions to Elections Commissioner Tex Kahn after the noon deadUne set for yesterday. According to President Eames Bishop, their candidacy wiU be a matter to be decided by the legislative council at its meeting tomorrow afternoon.
The quartet of tardy petitioners and the offices they seek includes Frances Dunlop, vice-president of the College of Commerce; Bob McKnight, sophomore class president; Dorothy Moore, secretary of International Relations; and Rose Mazersky, secretary of International Relations.
March Wampus To Appear Wednesday
‘Politix* Issue Will Reveal Records of Trojan Office Seekers
grandmothers strolling Into your beiiu the only one lif ting this pecu-h is tory class and blandly seating Uari::y.
themselves to enjoy a bit of the! Another unusual feature of this
higher education along with the regular students of the course?
Now stretch your imagination a bit further and picture the professor of, this class smiling hopitably at the ncwcamers.
“Prepo^lenousi” you say?
“Not kt all,” Dr. Rail Flewelling, dean of the School of
philosophy course is the changing of jrofessors with each meeting of the class. Occasionally a lecturer will remain for several meetings, but more often a new one is intro-
Publicity Staff Officers For Trojan Concert Band Revealed by Ona Conrad
The publicity staff for the Trojan concert band was appointed last Wednesday, at a weekly rehearsal by student manager, Ona Conrad of the Department of Music Organizations.
The newly appointed staff composed of Don Houghton, John Mac-Boyle, and Winston Burne is to have charge of aU pubUcity concerning the band’s appearances especiaUy the tour which is to be taken in AprU.
Another definite booking was closed last Saturday when the 20-30 club of Delano and Delano city schools signed the band for an appearance in their city on April 16. This practicaUy completes the tour arrangements.
Alpha Kappa Psi To Give Dinner
Bogardus To Tal't
Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, director of the School of Social Welfare, duced each time the class is held, will be the spea!«er at a meeting “They just do things that way in of tn: Orange Belt Trojan club to Dr. Ralph Tyler | tlie School oi Philosophy,” someone] be held at 6:30 March 12, at the was, Recorded as sayiig.	Casa Blanca hotel In Ontario.
Sponsored by Alpha Kappi Psi, national honorary commerce fraternity, a dinner honoring the Alpha Epsilon chapter of U. C. L. A. and the American Management association, national industrial management organization for commerce students, wUl be held this evening at 6:30 in 422 Student Union.
Speaker for the evening will be E. L. Elliott, secretary of the Los Angeles stock exchange, who will lecture on “The Relations of the Stock Market to Present Day Business Conditions.”
Officiating as master of ceremonies wiU be Dr. Reid Lage McClung, dean of the CoUege of Commerce and Business Administration. In addition to active members, there wUl be a representative group from the Alpha Kappa Psi alumni chapter.
University Obtains More Parking Lots
Announcement that the university has purchased property from 833 to 884 west 37th street was made yesterday by Charles E. Sims, university engineer.
“Houses are being removed from the property to increase student parking facilities by three lots in the rear of the Science building.
A movement Is pending to establish a separate parking lot fenced in and oiled for members of the faculty. No definite location has yet been decided upon, Sims said.
A new public address system has been installed in Bovard auditorium. and in the banquet hall of Foyer of Town and Gown. Mr. Sims attributes the increasing demand for use of this building to improvements on the grounds around the building as well as to improvements in the interioi.
Campus politics, which began ln j earnest yesterday with the fiUng of I petitions. wUl come into its own Wednesday when the March issue i of the funny, funny magazine, the | Wampus, is released to a puzzled j Trojan student body.
OfficiaUy designated as the “Pol-I itix” number by Dick Nash, editor of the monthly magazine, the edition will unveil current ponditions,
! attempting to instruct S. C. under-| graduates in the rigamorale of contemporary “machine” campaigning.
Outstanding feature of the issue wUl be a series of pages, each given over to a candidate for president, vice-president, or secretary, in which the record of the poUticlan, with appropriate editorial comment, wiU be published.'
The magazine wiU not be whoUy political, however.
“Oh, no; the magazine wiU not be wholly poUtical,” commented the editor last night.
J. Claude Manderbaugh will have another Little Elinor tale, while an opposition campaign against “Better Dress Week” is to be inaugurated.
Plenty of jokes, and more of those humorous cartoons will be included—all for the same price of 15 cents, it was added.
Tickets for Basketball Game Placed on Sale
Conditions of European Science To Be Discussed
“Scientific Conditions in Germany and Russia” is the topic upon which Dr. Harry J. Deuel, professor of biochemistry, School of Medicine, wiU speak to the members of Phi Sigma, honorary biological society, tomorrow at 7 30 p. m. in the social hall of Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall.
Spring Dance Is Planned by Club
As the initial function of the spring social activities, the Stray Greeks wiU entertain with a formal dinner dance at Club Dei Mar tomorrow evening.
Under the leadership of Tom Bernard, president of the organization, 10 couples m formal attire wiU travel to the Santa Monica nightspot to enjoy the music of the club orchestra.
“Members of the organization who have not attended the weekly luncheon meetings are invited to attend, and reservations may be made by calUng me at Richmond 9604 before tomorrow,’* said Bernard yesterday.
Four men, Foy Draper, Norm Johnson, Jim Krueger, and Joe Preininger, ylstsrday filed petitions expressing their candidacy for the office of 1936-37 A. S. U. 3. C. president. For secretary of the student body, Grace Libby and Ruth Sinclair declared themselves in the race, while Lucy Ann MacLean was the only coed seeking the position of vice-president.
All student office seekers, as announced yesterday by Elections Commissioner Tex Kahn, must first have their eUgibility approve^ by the registrar’s office as well as have their candidacy passed upon by the legislative council at its special meeting tomorrow at 1:30 o'clock in 418 Student Union.
Candidates for the position of veil king, as filed yesterday, are Phil Daniel and Mike Priseler with Bob Myer the sole applicant as assistant.
Many Juniors Run
Other aU-university office seekers, running for class offices are; Leonard Finch, Mauri Kantro, Clarke Stephens, ?emor class president; C. W. Ainley, Fred Hall. Bertie Nichols (the lone coed seeking such an office), Gardiner Pollich, and EouU Tarleton. junior class president; Edwin Kelley, and Glen Stephens, sophomore class president.
For president of Letters. Arss, and Sciences, Fred Keenan and Robert Norton wiU contest the office while in the CoUege of Engineering WiUis Stanley is running for reelectlon to the presidency wtth Nelson Bogart as his opponent. No petitions were filed for the offices of vice-president or secretary, with Charles Schweitzer the sole candidate for treasurer.
Pharmacy Candidates
Jack Privett is the only petitioner for president of the College of Commerce; Josephine Swiggett for vice-president, and Jane Cassell and Virginia Rose are scheduled co oppose each other for secretary-treasurer.
In Pharmacy Francis Daney and Harold MiUer are seeking the post of president with the vice-presidency without candidates.
In the School of Music, Ruth Watanabe is the only one to seek the office of president; vice-president, secretary and executive committee received no petitions. Gustave Patzner entered his name for treasurer, an office not listed as existing in the records of the A. S. U. S. C.
Lone candidates for the School of Government offices are Fred Bur-riU, president; Warren White, vice-president; and Emil Sady, secretary.
Edgar Hesser and Harold Weeks fUed their candidacy for president of International Relations • with Jane Rudrauff seeking the vice-presidency and no one with petitions on record for the secretaryship.
Lee B. Kline is the sole presidential candidate in the CoUege of Architecture; Mary Evers the unopposed vice-presidential candidate and Wm. M. Mann, treasurer.
Graduate Students Publish Bi-Monthly Research News
Student activity books are not good for admission to the S. C-Redlands basketball game, scheduled for Friday night, March 13, in the Olympic auditorium, lt was announced yesterday by Mrs. Marie Poetker, cashier.
Tickets for the event may be purchased at the cashier's window in the University book store for 40 cents, whether the student has an activity book or not, Mrs. Poetker said.
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Research News, the review publish ed by associated graduate students, made its first appearance on the campus this week and is now being maUed to 2500 alumni and professors in other graduate schools and coUeges.
Published bi-monthly the review consists of four pages devoted to research by graduate students who formerly attended S. C. and also professors formerly associated with the university.
The March Issue is devoted to commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of graduate studies here. Edwin DUler Starbuck, director of the Institute of Character Research and professor of philosophy here, is praised for his contributions to character education. Those faculty members who were recently elected to the research school are mentioned.
Dr. Ralph Tyler Flewelling, director of the School of PhUosophy1 Weatherby.
and professor of phUosophy, Is credited with the writing of books on philosophy and the founding of the Personalist, a quarterly journal of phUosophy, Uterature, and theology. Recently he was selected to give the annual research lecture of the School of Research for the academic year 1936-37.
Reports are made of investigations m the realm of science and a page is devoted to personal mention of exploits of various graduates.
Dr. RockweU Hunt, director of the graduate school, is editor, of the publication with Welcome A Tilroe as his assistant. The advisory board is composed of professors and gradvates: Emory E. Bogardus. Har^y J. Deuel. Jr., Ralph T. Flewelling. Allison Ga^, Milton Metfessel. Lawrmce M. Riddle, Albert S. Raube:uie*mer, LeRoy S
Mills President To Deliver Talk
Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of MUls coUege, wiU de-Uver a lecture on “The Task of Government in 1936” at the sixth annual women’s civic conference which wUl be held on the S. C. campus, Thursday, March 26.
The conference ls presented through the cooperative efforts of women’s organizations throughout southern CaUfomia in connection with the School of Government. Its aim ls to educate the citizen in better methods of government and their appUcation. The conference endorses no candidate, ls non-partisan, and passes no resolutions.
All registrations are to be completed by March 20. AppUcants should indicate which panel and which round table he plans to attend.
Minister Wsn’t Pay
TILBURY, Ont., March 11.—<lTP> —Arrested on a traffic charge and fined $2.75, the Rev. Thomas Dobson, rector of St. Andrew's Anglican church, said: “Like Peter ard Paul, I’U go to Jail rather than
pay.”