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CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Press World Wide News Service
[jiume XXVIII
Los Angeles, California, Saturday, March 20, 1937
Number 102A
roy Host to Publishers
ixly Newspaper Staff Members Represent buihern California Publications,- Greeting •jven by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid
tilrty newspapers from Los Angeles and surrounding com-jities are represented by approximately 60 publishers and 1 members on the campus today. Added to this number more than 300 high school and junior college journalism mtes and their advisors, who are attending sessions of 15th annual U.S.C. Newspaper day.
Unost among thc publishers
WELCOMER
[newspaper representatives at-U, are William S. Kellogg.
^fr of the Glendale News-l who presented the Crombie g plaque and responded to milii- r. von KlelnSmid's tog; Clark Waite, chief execu-tthe Copely Newspaper chain;
Ort White, of the Santa Mon-Ootiock; and Ed Ainsworth and iAttson Gilbert, of the Los An-iTimes staff
BK REPRESENTATIVES
Der newspapers represented by Ihrrs or staff writers included lell Post. Louis Thomann; Col-Jiil) Courier, Verna Gates Has-• Hollywood Citizen-News, Mr.
Hrs. Karl Schlichter; Wilmlng-Daily Press. Claudia A. Robber City Evening Star-News, km 8hea; Sun-Telegram, Irene (itl; Carpcnterta Chronicle,
Wayrfleto: Oxnard Advertiser-less, Lea A. Smith; Editor and hher, Ken Taylor; Westwood k Press. A. C. Waite, and B. C. lin; Azusa Herald, Neal Van
|0THILL REVIEW
Pasadena Foothill Review. DV AQQFAARI Y
!M. Rolens. Brea Progress, C	1
STREAMLINE IS NEW THEME OF DAILY TROJAN
Today's "High School Day edition marks the second issue of "streamline" in headlines of the Daily Trojan.
“Streamline” is the name applied to the modem trend toward typographical slmpilicity for want of a better term. It means that Tempo face heads have been substituted for the more elaborate Cheltenham and Goudy types.
It will also be noticed that headlines are made to stand even at the left side of the column, and that the length of each line is more loosely determined than heretofore. This allows greater freedom in selection of words and eliminates “padding,”
JFZ“ Crombie Allen Plaque Won ^™ayBy Fremont Pathfinder
Meel Wilh Publishers, Educators
Literally the “cream of the j crop” of southern Calilorilia j high school and junior coi-j lege journalists were assembled in Bovard auditorium j this morning, when more than 1400 students and publishers met for the 15th annual News-5 paper day convention spon-I sored by the U.S.C. School of Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, pres- : Journalism.
dent of the university, who de- j Activities for the day began this
CONDUCT NEWSPAPER DAY
livered a welcoming address to delegates to the 15th annual Newspaper day at the noon session in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
PENSION RAISE RECOMMENDED
|Sarchet; Monrovia Journal, Ed-,1 Muller: Redlands Dally Mr and Mrs. R D. Burris; News, S A. Meyet; San d Sun, Hal Kleinschmidt; Unit-Mr. and Mrs. John Dun-fl/s Angeles county fair pub-' Roy L. Driscoll.
Herald. C. DeBakesy: Herald, Arthur M. Antelope Valley Ledger-Ga-R B. Cameron; Corona Dally | Oeorge M. Blair; Journal, W. Shoop; and Tu-Record-Ledger, Olive Voder
*111. WILL SPEAK
Cheater Rowell, editor of the Piincisco Chronicle, and Syud ■w. U. 8. C. history professor, to address the second spring Affairs dinner meeting at itel Arroyo hotel this eve-
SACRAMENTO, March 19—<U.R)— Two proposals to increase state aid to aged persons were recommended for passage by the assembly social service and welfare committee today after discussion on more than 40 bills dealing with the subject.
A bill sponsored by Assemblyman John B. Pettetier, Los Angeles, Democrat, providing old age pensions of $50 a month and reducing the age limit from 65 to 60 years, was given "do pass" recommendation after lengthy argument.
The measure calls for removal of the requirement that lndlgents give liens on their real property in order to receive state aid and eliminated provisions making relatives responsible for their support.
It was estimated the bill would add $180,000,000 to the biennial cost of pensions.
Edward Vandeleur. secretary of the State Federation of Labor, spoke in favor of the bill.
morning at 9; SO o'clock assembly program in the auditorium, at which three Informal talks were given on subjects pertinent to journalism. Following the opening of the session by Chairman Lionel Van Deerlin and introductions by Marc N. Goodnow, U.S.C. journalism fletd representative, Lona Alison Gilbert, food editor of the Los Angeles Times, spoke on “Woman's Job on the Newspaper.’’
Col. Carl White of the Santa Monica Outlook editorial department, following Miss Gilbert, chose for his subject "Adventures in Editing."
At the 12 o'clock luncheon which followed in the Foyer of Town and Gown, the principal address of the day was given by Dr. Adamantlot Th. Polyzoides, who spoke on “Newspapers and World Affaire.' Hi* address was preceded by words ! of welcome by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid. president of the university. Professor French presided at the luncheon which featured the I presentation of the Crombie Allen I trophy to the high school paper' showing the greatest improvement j and the Ruth Apperson Eaker pla- I
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Advisers Get Entry Blanks
Scholarship Contest Information Will Be Distributed Today
Applications for the two four-year scholarsips awarded annually by the U.S.C. School of Journalism to the most promising high school Journalists will be distributed to visiting instructors during the Newspaper day program today.
One boy and one girl will be selected from the applicants to receive the scholarships, amounting to $1080 apiece.
Requirements for selection include a 500-word essay telling why the applicant desires the scholarship. clippings of the work done ln the field of high school publications, three letters of recommendation from teachers and citzens of thc applicant's home Wwn. Prospective winners must also answer a questionnaire and appear in personal conference with the judges.
Established nine years ago, the prize is awarded annually, and includes several prominent alumni in its numbers. Among the graduates who have received their tuition through the award are Quentin Reger, of the Herald-Express;
Elaine Enyeart, Pasadena Star News; Jack Frankish, Philadelphia bureau of United Press; Ernest Foster, Reno bureau of United Press;
Betty Lee Bonner, Shanghai Times; and George Robert. HeraiP-Express.
Present members of the Daily Adamantios Th. Polyzoides Trojan staff who are on four-year I Wr of Dailv xvojan. ln 206 Admin-scholarshlps are Genevieve Jasaltas. I lstratlon building; junior college ed-senior from Fairfax high school In lto„ ftnd MaJfs wlth Bi„ Ross Hollywood, women's editor; Lionel I buslness manager, in 305 Admlnis-Van Deerlin, senior from Oceanside, tratioit building; high school and
que to the student who wrote t^ - Jacjt Oolay, Junior j best Daily Trojan editorial of the' journalism and a Daily T
year.
Round table conferences this afternoon will be held as follows: high school editors and staffs will meet
Lionel Van Deerlin, editor of the Marc N. Goodnow, field repre-
Daily Trojan, presented awards to the runner-up in the high school newspaper contest and to the winner of the junior college division at the luncheon today.
Jack Golay Is Prize Winner
Ruth Apperson Eaker -Award Given lo Trojan Desk Editor
student in journalism and a Daily Trojan desk editor, today was presented the Ruth Apperson Eaker award, given annually to the writer of the best
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editor; Betty Yungling, Junior from Polytechnic high school, member of the editorial board; Jack Oolay, Junior from Burbank, desk editor and editorial board member; and underclassmen lone Hooven, Santa Ana; Bud Colegrove, Van Nuys; Esther L'Ecluse. Pasadena; and Paul Miller. Huntington Park'
with Stan Roberts, managing edi- j editorial ot the year. The award winner is required to be a member of the editorial writing class.
Golay was presented with a $20 prize at luncheon today, and his name will be inscribed on a bronze plaque which is hung on the walls of the Daily Trojan editorial office.
Golay’s prize editorial, which wa* printed in the November 26, 1936. edition of the Daily Tropan, was titled “The Presidents Course in Three Weeks.” It dealt with the apparent policies which Mr. Roosevelt planned to follow after the landslide election had given him a second term as president.
The Ruth Apperson Eaker award was established by Capt. Ira Eaker of the United States army, in honor of his wife. Captain Eaker. who graduated from the University of Southern California in 1933,‘Intended his contribution to stimulate interest In editorial writing on the campus.
Those who Judged the entries
sentative for the School of Journalism, introduced the speakers at the general assembly in Bovard auditorium this morning. He also helped judge contest entries.
GOODNOW OFFERS COURSE IN TYPOGRAPHY
A course offered in the School of Journalism for the first time this year ls "Typography and Engraving Processes," administered by Marc N. Ooodnow.
The underlying principle of of-W'MMU Much a <xnu»«, Proiraoor Goodnow explains, is that writers and editors, whether or not they ever handle type themselves, should be aware of fhe demands they make on composing rooms. For any extensive advertising or commercial work, furthermore, authoritative knowledge regarding type and type faces is indis-pcnsible, according tx> Goodnow.
The course, number 116 in the School of Journalism, includes the history of relief printing, lithography, and rotogravure, and survey of production methods, equipment, and terminology.
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SIMPSON GETS FINAL DECREE
LONDON. March 19—tl'J?)—A 70-mlnute hearing in the divorce court today cleared the way for award of a final divorce decree to Mrs. Wallis 1 Warfield Simpson and her intended 1 marriage to the Duke of Windsor.
| Sir Donald Somervell, attorney general, appeared in behalf of the I King's proctor, and disclosed that | one "Mr. Stephenson" had intervened against the award of a final j decree.
Then Stephenson himself rose in the little court room and said that he was prepared to withdraw his intervention.
Norman Birkett. chief counsel for Mrs Simpson, moved that Stephenson's protest be struck from the court record.
As the result, no present obsta-| cle was left In the way of the award | of a final decree to Mis Simpson.
Passage of Judiciary Plan Asked in Talk
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 19
-d'.Ei—Charging the supreme court with "usurping powers in dictatorial fashion," Dean Thomas Konop of the Notre Dame university law school today urged that President Franklin D. Rousevelt'a court reorganisation bill be passed as "a safety valv*."
junior college business managers with Kevin Sweeney, assistant business manager in 114 Bridge hall.
High school and junior college annual editors and staff meet with Editor Jaye Brower and Matt Barr, business manager, of El Rodeo, ln 103 Bridge hall; junior college Journalism teachers' meeting ln legislative council room, 418 Student Union; California Newspaper Publishers’ association meeting in Faculty club room, Student Union.
Troy, N.Y.U. Debate on Air
More than 3000 miles separated two university debate teams today when they spoke into microphones on opposite sides of the country. The debaters representing U.S.C. broadcasted from Hollywood, while the team representing New York university broadcasted from New York studios.
Released over a nation-wide hookup of the National Broadcasting were Prof. Roy L. French, director I company, Capt. Robert Feder and of the School of Journalism; Prof. j Maurice Atkinson of Troy upheld Ivan Benson, instructor in the edi- j the negative on the question, "Re-torial writing class; and Lionel Van j solved; that congress should be em-Deerlln, editor of the Daily Trojan. | powered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry.'
Under the leadership of Prof. Roy
L. French, director of the School of Journalism, a new plan has been devised for determining winners in the annual high school and junior college newspaper contest.
Blast Inquiry Postponed
Known Dead in Texas Reaches 425/ Oil Workers Huni Bodies
MEW LONDON. Tex.. M.iucb 19—
| T’^'i - MinCary board of inquiry this afternoon postponed ita Investigation into the cause of the explosion that wrecked the world’s largest country school as volunteer rescue workers pushed the check of debris from which they removed 411 school children and 14 teachers.
Military leaders directing 1000 weary hard-bitten oil field workers In the search of the debris for additional victims, said that the death toll agreed with the United Press compilation of 425 dead. A check of hospitals and homes ln an era with a radius of 40 miles showed at least 125 Injured.
Officials who supervised the search of the wrecked building said the checkup should be oomplete within a few hours.
,Throughout the morning only five bodies were found and rescue workers did not expect to find many more. Those found under heavy debris were so mangled that Identification was impossible.
Most authorities believed that the explosion was caused by an accumulation of gas that was piped directly from the oil wells whose derricks dot the pine forest around the hilltop school to Individual heaters ln each of the school rooms.
The military board delayed Its Investigation until tt can hear the testimony of an expert on explosives.
EDITORIAL WINNER
both debate and oratory at the Rocky Mountain Speech conference which was held at Denver university last month. A transfer from Long Beach Junior college, Atkinson was awarded the southern California Junior college oratory championship last year. He Is a junior, majoring in sociology.
Sit-Down Striker Wins In Candy Holdout
VERONA. N. J., March 19—'I'.PI— Dickey Henion, 4. probably the world’s youngest sit-down striker, won his first demand—a bag of candy. He sometimes carries bundles of newspapers from the sidewalk into Burcon’s store here. Yesterday the proprietor s wife was on duty and knew nothing about the ner, where his name wiH be put on th« bronie editorial plaque. | usual rewaid Ior such services
Debating for N.Y.U. were Charles j Swallows Reach
Friend, who ls also debate manager, and Lawrence Lustlg. Their argu-
ments emanated from radio city. | ^>3 pi ST lal IO The debate lasted for 30 minutes, I
with speeches divided into two 5- j	Crl-icsrli lies
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Captain Feder Is a major In pol- , 3un Juan Capistrano mission, which itical science and a member of Phi (01, 160 years have arrived every Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and | sprlnK on 8aint Joseph’s day, flew Pi Sigma Alpha honorary fraternl- from tj,e sea and popped into ties. Atkinson won first places in t|,eir nests under the old adobe
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It may not be polite to point but in this case Genevieve Jasaitis, woman's editor of Daily Trojan, and senior women's scholarship winner, can be excused if she deviates from correctness «6 she shows Jacl< Golay. Ruth Apperson Eaker editorial contest win-
eaves right on clock-work schedule this morning.
Squadrons of the birds began appearing from over the Pacific ocean soon after dawn, coming from a wintering place that Is a mystery. They wheeled over the mission, dived down, and began their annual battle to oust the swifts occupying their nests.
The famous llock has flown out irom the eaves of Mission San Juan Capistrano, October 23, San Juan's day, and returned the following March 19 for as far back as memories reach ln this ancient early California village.
So regular has been the schedule that again this year a broadcasting crew had its equipment set up in the Mission patio to tell the story of the swallows' arrival over a national network. ,
Excelsior Life Takes Second Place
Chaffey United Press Captures Top Honors In Jaysae Division
Adjudged the first winner under the new U.S.C. contest rating plan, the Fremont Pathfinder of Fremont high school was awarded the Crom-bie Allen plaque at the luncheon tn honor of student journalists today. The newspaper attained a 22-point standard of improvement.
Other journals to receive recognition were the Excelsior Life with 17 points and the Chaffey United Press with 13. As runner-up In the high school division, thc Life was awarded a Daily Trojan plaque, symbolic of second place. The United Press was given first place in the Junior college class, also winning a Daily Trojan prize.
PLAN IS EXPLAINED
Originated by contest officials of Ihe University of 8outhem California, the U, S. C. rating plan ls an innovation in rating systems. Under the scheme, the award is presented to the school paper which shows the greatest improvement over the previous year.
"By the new plan, school publi-' cations compete against themselves only; the product of one year is \ pitied against the previous year." explained Roy L. French, diteetor oi the U. S. C. School of Journalism. ‘"Thus any school, regardless of size and no matter what the circumstances under which lt publishes, may hope to win the award. BETTER PAPER IS GOAL
“Working under the same conditions as last year’s staff and producing a better paper is the desired goal. Under the old plan, sohool publications competed against each other without regard for the fact that almost no two of them are published under the same set-up. Often the good or bad results are not traceable to the ability of the staffs but are the result of circumstances over which the student staffs have no control."
Not only Is the new sot at regulations designed to further interest among small newspapers which lack facilities to compete successfully against larger and better-equipped institutions, but lt is hoped that all the entrants will stress Improvement each year and thus receiwe lasting benefit from the contest.
EARHART SET TO FLY ACAIN
HONOLULU, March 10 —*tr.»— Amelia Earhart Putnam, delayed here 24 hours by adverse weather, planned to take off late today ior Howland island, 1897 miles from here, on the second lap of her 27,-000-mile flight around the world.
Miss Earhart accepted the enforced delay philosophically. 8he suld that the day was not lost because the motors needed checking.
She departed from her regular tomato juice diet, insofar as liquids were concerned and drank pineapple Juice.
She was besieged by scores of stamp collectors, but was forced to tell them that she was unable to carry any additional cachets because ot her contract.
Mechanics, who overhauled her plane yesterday ‘ practically rebuilt it." They replaced the propellers which had been slightly pitted by rain and planned to make a test flight early today.
Detroit Strikers Blockade Dodge Plant
DETROIT, March 19—Sit-down strikers built a barricade out of big orange-colored trucks inside the gates of Chrysler corporation’s Dodge plant today and prepared to resist any attempt to evict them
The Wayne county circuit court issued a writ of "body attachment" ’oday, orderuig the arrest of Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers, and the 6000 sit-down strikers in nine Chrysler cor-I poratiou plants.