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SOUTHERN
DAI LY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Press
World Wide
News Service
Volume XXVII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, November 21, 1935
Number 42
'rendi, British Seek Finish of
Italian Conflict
eace Settlement Will Be Attempted Soon by Two Powers
Distinguished Celebrants Stray Greeks’
Dinner Dance To Be Tonight
’ierre Laval Suggests Truce
English Leaders Skeptical Of Negotiations ^ ith Benito Mussolini
LONDON. Nov. 20—d’.H)—A new scrch for a settlement of the Italo-
(Sthiopian war will be undertaken
*te this week by French and Brit-5h foreign office African experts, became known tonight.
Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ifrican division of the British foreign office, will leave for Paris to-lorrow to confer with Rene Saint-luentin, who holds a corresponding position at the Quai d’Orsay. Authorities Wary The attempt is being made at the ( kujjgestion of Premier Pierre Laval i pf France, it was understood, and iritish authorities are skeptical of progress.
British sources believe any form-ila proposed will fail for the same Eason as previous attempts—be-luse it gives Italy too much to be cceptable to the League of Nations kr too little to be agreeable to the : ftalian people.
ii Duce Wants Gains An impression is growing that I 'remier Benito Mussolini expects hold Italy’s military gains in any sace settlement which is debated. id British view thus far stead-|astly has opposed any such con-lon to Italian militarism. Eknperor Haile Selassie’s message the League of Nations today in-ited Ethiopia would continue to fight any attempt by Italy to re-lin Ethiopian territory, whether Messed by the League or not. Officials Convene The conference between Peterson id Saint-Quentin apparently is fhe outgrowth of recent conferences etween Laval and British Am bas-idor Sir George Clerk. They dis-the general Italo-Ethiopian ituation this afternoon and after-the British embassy spokes-ian in Paris, said: “Press reports renewed negotiations are entirely lature”
The British were said to feel Italy lould take the initiative in any ew peace efforts, either directly through the French.
Initial Social Function Will Set Precedent for Future Years
S.C. Graduate School To Celebrate Founding Today
Dance Wili Be Informal
Noted scientists and men of letters will participate in group discussions in the fields of social scences, phlos-ophy. history, psychology, religion, etc., during the three-day quarter centennial celebration. Four of them are Dr. Robert C. Millikan, director of the California Institute of Technology; Gecrge F. Zook, president of the American Council on Education; Elbert Duncan Thomas, U. S. senator from Utah; and Dr. Robert E. Seashore, dean of the Graduate college, University of Iowa.
Journalism Group To Hear Reporter
low can I market feature m-ies?”
[That is the question Mrs. ie Footet, special reporter on Pasadena Star-News, will en-^avor to answer at a professional sting of Theta Sigma Phi. na-snal honorary journalism society.
iThe meeting will be held at the
\me of Daily Trojan Society jitor Myra Haynes, 925 West street, in the form of a din-and pledging service, Martha rilliams, president of Theta Sig-Phi. announced today, s. Foote has been assigned to forthcoming flood and reforest-lion project stories for her paper, [ie covers the fires in the Arroyo district and is fast becoming authority on the Forest Depart-lt of the Arroyo Seco.
Mystery Play To Feature Intermissions of Artists’ Sports Frolic Tomorrow
A mystery play, presented in the spine-tickling style of the popular radio “Witche’s Tale,” will crowd with excitement ehe intermission moments of the architect's sport frolic scheduled for tomorrow evening at 9 o’clock. With Chuck Cascales’ band providing musical accompaniment, the dance
^ will take place in the life studio of the College of Architecture and Fine
Pew Faces Trial
*HOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 20—O)— |is E. Pew. former custodian of Maricopa county courthouse, lay faced trial in superior court |argod with padding a payroll, le was accused by A. C. Cooke, ler janitor, with presenting to supervisors a claim for $48 Ian for Cooke during a month Ven he was not employed.
Freshman Wins Candy Contest
Coed with the greatest sales appeal. and winner of the Campus Candy contsst held in conjunction with Mortar Boards’ annual benefit sale is Kay Alfs, freshman, and pledge of Alpha Delta Pi. Miss Alfs sold $20 worth of candy during the three-day sale.
Regina Levy, sophomore, placed second in the contest with sales totaling S17.85 to her credit. Both first and second place winners will be honored at a tea given by members of Bortar Board Monday afternoon. November 25. from 3 to 5 o’clock in the social hall of Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, Audrey Austin, president, announced. Prizes will be awarded at the tea.
Miss Alfs came to tha S. C. campus from Marlborough School for Girls, where she was active in extra-curricular affairs. She served as president of the Girls’ League there last year. Miss Levy, whose heme is in McAllister, Okla., is a pledge of Alpha Epsilon Phi.
Arts.
Prof. Clayton M. Baldwin of the college will present the mystery piece, which has been adapted from the French play “Bells”.
Decorations of the studio will lend a Latin quarter atmosphere to the frolic. Art students and architects will be identified by their wearing the characteristic smocks of the “artiste”. An improvised refreshment room is to be situated in the cartooning studio, which will take on the air of an Apache cafe in the Paris underworld. Said Phil Daniels, chairman of the affair, "Everything has been done to make the setting seem genuine, and to provide an authentic art colony environment.’ ’
This dance marks the beginning of the social life cf the architectural student body this year, and Daniels, in speaking of the arrangements last night, promised an enjoyable evening for all who attend.
Bids are on sale at the bookstore ticket window, and may also be obtained from Boyde Georgi. president of thc College of Architecture and Fine Arts. They are priced at 70 cents per couple.
Chuck Cascales Orchestra Will Supply Music for Non-Date Affair
Transfer students will meet in Elizabeth von KleinSmid haU tonight at 5:30 p. m. for the first of a series of annual dinner dances. The affair, which is to be strictly informal and non-date, is sponsored by the Stray Greeks.
“This is the first entertainment of its kind to be held on the S. C. campus, and for that reason should appeal to the large number of transfer students who may otherwise lack the opportunity of becoming acquainted with each other,” Dean Francis Bacon stated yesterday.
Sets Precedent
Beginning next semester, the dinner dances will be held at the beginning of each term to introduce nsw students to campus life at this university. All transfer students, whether they entered S. C. this semester or any previous semester, are invited to attend.
Tom Bernard, Beta Theta Phi, president of the Stray Greeks, has appointed the foUowing committee to take charge of the affair: A. B. Culver, general chairman; Roy Michaels, Don Kemler, Marshall Crawshaw; Jeanette Mageson, chairman of all women junior transfer*; and Margaret Millikan, chairman of the women Stray Greeks’ committete.
Cascales To Play
Chuck Cascales’ campus orchestra, which has been playing for Digs, numerous other university affairs, and now engaged at the Oakdale country club, will furnish music for dancing. In compliance with university rules, the dancing wiU last until 8:30.
Tickets for the affair are 75 cents. Reservations may still be made at Dr. Bacon’s office, with Marie Poetker at the cashier’s office in the bookstore, or with Tom Barnard.
Clionian Entertains Pledges at Dinner
Clionian, women’s honorary literary society, announces the pledging of twelve coeds Tuesday night in the Y. W. C. A. clubhouse. Those who received the pledge ribbon of the society were: Janet Barrow, Grace Beane, Barbara Coy, Gertrude Elshire, Ruth Jones, Ruth Koontz, Louise Kriewitz, Janet Reese, Ruth Sinclair, Jeanne Sherwood. Wilma Spears, and Kathleen Wright.
FoUowing the ceremony conducted by Dale Eddy, president, the neophytes were entertained with the traditional pledge dinner at the Casa de Rosas studio. The program, featuring the reading of some modem American poetry by Mary Alice Foster and the entrance manuscripts of a number of the pledges, was arranged by Margaret Morris.
A special pledging ceremony for four women will be held in the “Y” house during chapel hour tomorrow. Ruth Frankel, pledge trainer, requests all actives and pledges to be present.
Educators Will Assemble for Study Meeting
Psychology Talk Will Be Given by Prominent Vienna Scholar
ational Educators Send Congratulations
* * * * * * * * * * * * aduate School Is Praised for Fine Accomplishments
B> Edwin Schmidt
universities, colleges, and nent men in all sections of the States, came to Rockwell D. ... dean of the Graduate school, following letters of praise and ^ wishes for the success of the frier-centennial celebration of " Graduate school:
obert Maynard Hutchins, presi-of the University of Chicago: University of Chicago wel-the opportunity to congratu-the University of Southern fomia upon this happy occasion to express the hope that the I versity of Southern California render a service of increasing ion in research on higher ation.”
rling Kersey, superintendent of instruction of the state of fomia: “Had it not been for the jguration of graduate work at [University of Southern Califor-for me and many of the out-leaders ln educational
Well-Wisher Hutchins , , praises S.C. school
activity in southern California, advancement in study would have been denied us ... I trust that the inspiration which comes from a review of the accomplishments of the past twenty-five years indicates a continuance of worthy activities for many quarter centuries to come.”
Vem O. Knudson dean at U. C. L. A.: “I wish to offer my congratulations to you and the university for the progress you have made in the graduate study and research during the past twenty-five years. I hope that the succeeding quarter century will be crowned with even greater achievements.”
Henry Noble MacCracken. president of Vassar College: “Vassar CoUege extends greetings on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of graduate studies at the University of Southern California. and wishes for the university continued growth and prosperity.”
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Educators and experts in various fields from all sections of the United States and many foreign nations wiU take part in the two sessions of group conferences beginning Friday in connection with the quarter-cen-tennial celebration of the founding of the S. S. Graduate school. Nine sections wiU meet concurrently from 2:30 to 4:30 tomorrow and from 9 to 10:30 Saturday morning.
The sessions will be on a graduate level and are to emphasize independent and creative scholarship. Graduate students of this and other universities are invited to attend as many of the conferences as possible, according to Dean Rockwell Hunt.
Fields To Be Discussed
Fields to be covered in the conferences and panel discussions to follow, include social science, history and international relations, psychology, philosophy, languages and literature, physical science and mathematics, education, and biological and medical science.
Dr. Egon Brunswick of Vienna, one of the youngest psychologists to have won international recognition in his field, will be guest speaker before the Saturday symposium on that science. He wiU read a paper on “Psychology in Terms of Objects”. The keynote of the conference will be sounded by Edward C. Tolman of the University of CaUfomia, when he opens the Friday session with his paper, on “Operational Behaviorism and' Current Trends in Psychology.” Dr. Carl E. Seashore, dean of the Graduate school of the University of Iowa and father of Robert H. Seashore of S. C- will act as chairman of both sessions, under the leadership of Milton Metfessel, head of the Trojan psychology department.
Dr. Millikan Will Preside
Dr. Robert A. MiUikan, president of the California Institute of Technology, has bee nappointed chairman of the Saturday conference in philosophy, by Dr. Ralph Tyler FlewelUng, director of the School of PhUosophy on campus and leader of that group.
Frank N. Spaulding, dean emeritus of the Yale university School of Education, will be chairman of the Saturday educational forum. George F. Zook, president of the American Council on Education, will be the prominent speaker at this meeting.
Complete Program
Thursday
Third Annual Dinner.
6:30 p.m.: School of Research (by invitation). The Foyer of Town and Gown. Rockwell Dennis Hunt, director, presiding.
8:15 p.m.
Annual Research Lecture: “Roma, Maria. Lucia — A Dante Study."’ Herbert D. Austin, professor of Italian, The University of Southern CaUfomia.
Friday
Registration.
9 to 10:30 ajn. Entrance to Bovard auditorium; campus excursions; inspection of exhibits.
General Session.
10:30 ajn. Bovard auditorium. President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, presiding. Invocation: Right Reverend William Bertrand Stevens; “SteUa Matutina,” by Dallier, Archibald Sessions, university organist; Paper: “Foundation Years in Southern California,' RockweU D. Hunt, dean, Graduate School, the University of Southern California; Address: “A World-wide Educational Objective,” Honorable Elbert Duncan Thomas, United States senator from Utah.
Opening Luncheon, 12:30 p.m. Elisabeth von KleinSmld hall, Vice-President Frank C. Touton, presiding; words of welcome; Responses; introductions.
Group Conferences.
2:30 - 4:30 pm.
1.	Social Sciences. 305 Administration. Clarence M. Case, professor
of sociology, S.C., leader. Ellis M. Studebaker, president, LaVeme college, chairman. Theme: “The Constitution and Social change.” Paper: “Some Truths about the Constitution aftd its Framers,” Frank N. Garver, professor of history, S.C. Discussion: Manchester Boddy, editor and publisher, Los Angeles.
Pan»l: Benjamin F. Bledsoe, jurist. Los Angeles: John Beardsley, deputy city attorney; Kenneth Duncan, professor of economics, Pomona college: Joy Luther Leonard, professor of economics, S.C.
2.	History and International Relations. Art and Lecture room, Doheny Memorial Ubrary. J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, S.C., leader. W. O. Mendenhall, president, Whittier college, chairman. Paper: “The Changing Concepts in Relation to the doctrine of Limited Government,” Charles Groves Haines, professor of political science. University of California at Los Angeles.
Panel: Owen C. Coy. professor of history. S.C.: Willett H. Hardin, editor. World Affairs Interpreter; Adamantios Th. Polyzoides, managing editor. World Affairs Interpreter: W. W. Mather, Chaffey Junior college: Roy Malcom, professor of political science. S.C.: Ordean Rockey, assistant professor of political science. U.C.L..A.: Edward M. Salr, professor of political science. Pomona college: Senator Elbert D. Thomas.
3.	Psychology. International Relations Ubrary, 300 Administration.
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Water Fight Restarted
PHOENIX. Ariz., Nov. 20—(HE)— Controversy with Arizona over how much water from tlvc Colorado river the state might claim broke out tonight, as Fred T. Colter, president of the Colorado river reclamation association, issued a statement attacking the latest state river move.
AllU Assembly Is Called For Friday
Official Announcement Office of President
The first general assembly of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of graduate work at the university wiU be held Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock. All students are urged to be present.
In order to allow student and faculty attendance upon the round tables schelued for Friday afternoon, no regular classes will convene after 2:30 On Saturday morning the scheduled group conferences and the University Convocation will be substituted for aU class sessions.
The entire program of the celebration is a very rich one and aU graduate and undergraduate students are earnestly invited to participate.
K. B. Von KleinSmid, President
Alpha Kappa Psi To Hold Dinner Meeting Tonight
Walter B. Gibson, certified public accountant, and resident partner of a national accounting firm, will speak to Alpha Kappa Psi, national professional commerce fraternity, on the subject “Accounting; A Profession”, at their dinner meeting tonight in the legislative council room of the Student Union at 6 p. m.
As special guests of the meeting, the active chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi from U. C. L. A. and Reid L. McClung, dean of the College of Commerce of S. C, will attend.
Dean Campbell, also a C. P. A., World War ace, circus juggler, and professor of accounting here, will act as master of ceremonies. As a special point of interest in the meeting, he will introduce Prof. F. W. Woodbridge, head of the accounting department.
Ea Yale, president of the S. C. chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, urges all men in the CoUege of Commerce to attend this meeting. Prof. Woodbridge also invites the students of his classes to come.
Next week, the Wednesday luncheon meeting of the S. C chapter wiU be according to schedule, further announced President Yale.
Graduate School Quarter Centennial Is Opened by Showing of Hancock Film
More than 1200 persons were on hand in Bovard auditorium last night for the campus showing of Capt. G. Allan Hancock’s *part-color travelogue, “To Galapagos Aboard Velero III.” The film officially heralded the opening of S.C.’s Graduate School quarter centennial.
By and large, the audience of*-
faculty numbers and students was
Trojan Sauires To Meet At 12:15 Today—Wood
“All special assessments for the Squire formal dinner dance must be paid today at the special meeting to be held in 206 Administration at 12:15,” Bob Wood, treasurer of the organization, said last night.
Final plans for the affair will be announced and aU necessary arrangements will be made, was the comment made by Gardiner PoUich, chairman of the social committee.
unreserved in lauding the versatUe production as one of the best edited educational topics in many
years.
John Garth, “talking reporter” of
the travel movie, contributed the personal touch, Garth, a Trojan graduate student and assistant in zoology, has been entomologist of four Hancock expeditions.
Pictures of natural life and events rarely seen by man were shown the discriminative audience of culture seekers and the curious.
An entire sequence was devoted to the Galapagos colony of Garden of Eden nudists—who dressed for Hancock’s photographers.
Other never-before-filmed scenes in the Captain’s newest edition of the Galapagos travel series included shots of the birth of a %eal, a sensational under-water sequence of tropical sea life, and capture of a giant sea elephant.
Prior to showing the picture, the Hancock ensemble of seven musicians, played selections from the classic portfolios of Mendelssohn. Gluck, Debussy, Kreisler, and others.
Harrison Quiets Elysian District
In response to numerous phone calls and inquiries from residents of the Elysian Park district, who were alarmed by the appearance of ants with wings. Dr. Bruce Harrison of the zoology department, quieted the neighborhood with the assurance that they were being annoyed by just an ordinary variety of ants, in spite of the wings.
The ants are quite common here at this time of year. After sprouting wings and swarming in search of new nests, the wings drop off, he said, and the ants disappear into the ground.
Fly swatters were worked overtime in the Elysian district yesterday as timid wives became alarmed at the deluge of insects.
Delegates Will Gather Tonight To Open Fete
Senator Elbert D. Thomas Will Address Group On .Saturday
Twenty-five years of consecutive growth, from a small university division to a major school, wUl be celebrated by the Graduate school, beginning today, with a three-day program of conferences, dinners, and lectures that wiU be attended by scores of scholastic leaders from leading educational institutions of • the nation.
First event on the busy program wiU be the third annual Invitational dinner, sponsored by the School of Research, in the Foyer of Town and Gown, at 6:30 tonight. Presiding over the banquet will be Dean RockweU D. Hunt of the Graduate school, who is in charge of the silver anniversary observance.
Austin Will Talk
Fallowing the dinner. Dr, Herbert D. Austin, chairman of the Italian department, wiU lecture on “Roma, Maria, Lucia—A Dante Study.”
Principle activity wiU begin tomorrow morning, when visiting educational figures register at the entrance to Bovard auditorium. Opening ceremonies will take place at 10:30, ta Bovard, where a general assembly will be held, with Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, president of the university, presiding.
“Foundation Years in Southern California” is the title of a paper to be read by Dean Hunt, outlining the development of the Graduate school. The Honorable Elbert Oun-can Thomas, United States Senator from Utah, wUl deUver the main lecture of the session, speaking on “A World Wide Educational Objective.”
Classes Dismissed
Classes wiU be dismissed to enable Trojan students to attend thi* assembly, which will be one of the most enlightening given so far this year, according to Dr. von Kleinsmid.
Luncheon for the many participants in the celebration wUl be served in Elisabeth von KleinSmid haU, with Dr. Frank C. Touton, vice-president of the university, in charge.
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Leaves For San Francisco
SEATTLE. Nov. 20—(UJ?)—Prince Juan de Bourbon, heir pretender to the throne of Spain, and his bride. Princess Marie "de La Espranza de Bourbon, left Seattle tonight by train for San Francisco.
KNX To Broadcast Notre Dame Game
Students of the University of Southern CaUfomia and southland gridiron fans will have the opportunity of listening to Saturday’s S. C.-Notre Dame footbaU game as broadcast by radio station KNX. and presented direct from the stadium ta South Bend by Quinn Ryan, noted Chicago Tribune sports commentator, it was learned last night.
The game broadcast wiU be released locally at 11:30 o’clock Saturday morning, coming via a mutual chain of independent stations stretching from the middle west to the Pacific coast and originating in the studios of WGN in Chicago.
KNX wiU be the only localfstation to bring a direct broadcast of the game from South Bend, as both the National and Columbia hookups are scheduled to broadcast other prominent eastern srames.
S.C. Graduate School To Exhibit Projects
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Display Will Be Special Feature of Silver Anniversary
Trojan graduate students and their professors have prepared numerous exhibits of their work in the research field as a special featdre of the sUver anniversary celebration of graduate students at S. C.
In addition to displays of their efforts, graduate students have compiled a partial Ust of the research projects either under way or recently completed.
The exhibits include the following:
Architecture and Fine Arts, 35th street and Hoover; Studies of local and civic housing projects; sculpture and painting; and advanced craftsmanship in ceramics, jewelry and metals.
Bacteriology, 272 Science hall, demonstration of the technique of making pipettes 1-21,000 inch in diameter; and demonstration of various types of bacterial variation.
Botany, 269 Science hall: the life history of pelagophycus porra (Leman) Setchell, or sea kelp; a
—Courtesy L. A. Times. Dean Rockwell Hunt . . man of the hour
study of growth in the southerr. California chaparral in relation tc temperature and soil moisture; transpirational water loss of southern California shrubs and trees as affected by environmental conditions at different altitudes; the tree sand shrubs of certain Los An-i geles city oarks, with keys to their i indentification; and an investiga-i tion on the planting and maintenance of lawns in southern California.
Geology. 401 ad 408 Bridge hail:
etxhibits of minerals, rocks, and fcrsils, as well as rare specimens of geological material.
Chemistry, Science haU: radioactivity room 2; heavy water, room 20; preparation of levulose from Dahlia tubers, rooms 14 and 16; method of identification of hair in criminology, room 5; and direct measurement of the dissociation pressures of rare-earth carbonates, room 13.
Physics, Science haU: cosmic ray
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