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Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Monday, November 22, 1937
Number 45
Kemp To Play Debt At Dance Defaul,s
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Homecoming HopTo Foil ow U.C.L.A.Came
Shrine Audilorium Selected as Location For 'Biggest' Affair
Hal Kemp and his nationally-known radio and dance orchestra have been engaged to play for the annual Homecoming dance, Burt Lewis, chairman of the dance committee, announced yeserday. The dance, which will climax the activities of the 14th annual U.S.C. Homecoming and which will follow the game with U.C.L.A. December 4. is scheduled to take place in the Shrine auditorium.
The U.S.C. and U.CL.A. football teams and coaches have been invited to attend the dance, and will be introduced during the evening, Lewis said.
LEWIS IS CHAIRMAN
Lewis is chairman in charge of general preparations for the dance. Subcommittee chairmen assisting him are Al Gordon and Bill Broomfield, orchestra and entertainment; Bob Van Bruskirk. tickets; Lester Evans, decorations; and Dick Keefe and Jack Chambers, publicity. Committee members will be chosen this week.
Meanwhile, chairmen and members of other Homecoming committees are beginning their last week of preparation for the observance of the return of U.S.C. graduates of the last 57 years. The stag rally directed by Blue Key, mens football banquet, women’s football dinner. and other activities are scheduled during the celebration, which begins next Monday and will be climaxed by the U.C-L.A. game
TAKES CHARGE
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Al Gordon, who will have the responsibility of securing entertainers for the Homecoming dance.
Homecoming dance December 4.
Homecoming commitees will meet tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Student Union grill w discuss final preparations for Homecoming activities and make reports of progress to date.
The Shrine auditorium, recently redecorated, was selected because of 1 its many advantages, committee members said. Chief advantage is in the location of the building, since | persons attending the dance will be able to visit the campus and also will have only a short distance to j ated were denied both by police and go to see the sorority and fraternity residents. Several small shops di-
Are Hit
Congress Attacks Nations Ignoring War Loan Payments
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—(IIP)— Congressional resentment over developments at the Brussels Nine-Power conference reached a new high tonight with attacks on war debt defaulters and joint demands for recall of the American delegates and enactment of more stringent neutrality legislation.
Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis, D.f 111., demanded that President Roosevelt recall roving Ambassador Norman H. Davis and other American delegates from the Brussels Chinese-Japanese conference to “avoid blame for its failure” and to keep the United States from being made the “goat” for other powers which are demanding aggressive action to halt Japan’s invasion of China, but are not willing themselves to take the lead.	,
CANCELLATION OPPOSED Sen. William E. Borah, R.( Ida., one of the little band of senate ir-reconciliables which fought U. S. entry into the league of nations, came out against cancellation of war debts with the declaration that American taxpayers “are entitled to have their government insist upon payment of these debts amounting to $12,000,000,000.”
Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., who bitterly fought what he called the “anemic” neutrality law signed by President Roosevelt last year, summoned the senate neutrality bloc to meet, probably Tuesday, to consider a resolution recognizing that a state of war exists between China and Japan, thus attempting to force Mr. Roosevelt to invoke the act. This would be preliminary to enactment of a mandatory neutrality law which would shear the president of his discretionary powers.
BRUSSELS PARLEY FLAYED hill, widened 5-8 of an inch in less Sen- charged that the Brus-than two hours today. Previous sek parley, which reconvenes tomorrow, is dissolving because other na-! tiens “are saying the same things I they said at the London economic and Washington naval conferences ! —things that would make the United States responsible for failure of the conference.”
“The best thing the president can | do,” Lewis said, “is to recall our; delegates so that they can not
Landslide Climax Near
Elysian Park Hill Increases Descent Rate As Geologists Ponder
By United Press Elysian Park's “sliding mountain" appeared tonight to be accelerating its rate of descent, promising an early answer af to whether it will settle gradually into a new1 natural position or become a 2.000,-000-ton avalanche of great destructive force.
HILLSIDE MAY CRUMBLE
A fissure, which extends in a jagged irregular course 500 feet and ! across and down the side of the
THERE'S A HITCH IN IT!
Caravan Will Escort Squad to Station
HARPER WILL ADDRESS CRADUATE LUNCHEON
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Martyn Agens lives up to his promise to "Tote a Trojan," as he pulls over to the curb in order to give Brooke von Falkenstein, women debater, a lift towards 28th street. This is a result of the current Blue Key drive.	■—Courtesy L.A. Times
tests disclosed the fault <vas widening less than an inch every 24 hours.
Geologists and engineers still Were not certain, however, that the Hillside would crumble, sending thousands and thousands of tons of dirt and rock upon Riverside drive and residential and industrial property below.
REPORTS DECRIED
Reports that many householders living below the drive have evacu-
TOTE A TROJAN’ SIGNS APPEAR
house decorations.
COUNCIL SPONSORS
The dance, promised by those in charge, to be the biggest event of the university social season, is sponsored by the interfratemity council.
In addition to the orchestra and | Introduction of the rival gild squads, I top entertainment is being arranged. The auditorium will be appropriately decorated for the affair.
Bids for the dance will go on sale I Wednesday. Lewis saidv and may be obtained through fraternities or at the university book store. Arrangements are also being made to sell bids at the cooperative bookstore |on the U.C.LA. campus.
rectly across the thoroughfare were operating although owners had received warnings from the park department to abandon the premises.
Metal “Tote a Trojan” signs lettered in blue and white will be placed at the “pick-up”zones this morning Bud Knob-blame us for the failure'and awaken I lauch. chairman of the Blue Key drive, announced, the enmity of other nations against The signs have the word “Tote a Trojan” upon them, and which we have no grievance.”	a Trojan head is placed at the top in blue. The signs will
serve as markers at the two zones.*-One zone is in front of Doheny library. and the other at the corner of 28th street and University avenue.
Knoklauch urged that all students
America and Tryanny' Is Speech Title
Associated graduate students will hear Dr. Earl E. Harper, noted lecturer from Simpson college at In-dianola, Iowa, who will speak at a graduate luncheon in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall at 12:20 p.m. to-j day.
Dr. Harper hat made public observations of the educational system in Russia, where he visited in alternate years. He is expected to discuss educational problems in his address, “America in a World Overshadowed by Tyranny.”
SCHOOL SYSTEMS The Iowa educator has said that Russia’s school system is “admirable as a whole, but, as a commissar in ! Moscow told me, the education is completely Communistic, is in the hands of the government, and is atheistic. It is anti-militaristic, too.” Despite some of these assumed disadvantages, Russia’s record for diminishing illiteracy is the best in the world, Dr. Harper declared.
The Iowan has done graduate work at Harvard and the University of Chicago, has been a concert singer and director, and was for-; ! merly president of Evansville college in Indiana.
SIMPSON COLLEGE Simpson is one of few colleges in I the nation which gives students and faculty members equal representation on governing boards. Next year studious juniors and seniors at Simpson college will be free from class attendance.
Tickets for the luncheon may be purchased at the Graduate School office, 160 Administration, at the assembly period today, Miss Ruth Bohnett, secretary to the dean of the Graduate School, announced Priday. Former Simpson students are invited to greet Dr. Harper in the lobby of the hall before the luncheon.
Contestant
British
Payment Seen
LONDON, Nov. 21—(U.P)— Great
the scene today but were kept back by police, who closed traffic for three blocks along Riverside drive and refused to let spectators approach.
RELIGION TO BE FORUM TOPIC
Thousands of curious flocked to Britain probably will renew “token ' follow the pledge printed on • the
payments” on her vast war debt to the United States when the American government sends outs its semiannual dun notices next month, the United Press learned from reliable sources tonight.
It was understood that the cabi- , net, under persistent pressure to find zones on University avenue at 28th means of readjusting the complicat- j anc* streets. I furthe* agiee
ed debt question —perennially a sore comW with the law in not over-
| crowding my car and in reducing
! the university traffic hazards by
Coach Escapes Death in Fire
ANNAPOLIS. Md., Nov. 21—(U.P) —Merle "Spike” Webb, famous boxing coach of the U. S. Naval Academy, narrowly escaped death and 61 guests, including many beautiful sub-debs, were driven from their rooms today by fire which partly destroyed the historic Carvell Hall hotel.
Webb, who coached four Olympic teams, was rescued by firemen after he had rushed into the blazing structure to recover valuable trophies. He saved a two-foot bronze gift from Gen. John J. Pershing but
back of the windshield stickers-.
The pledge reads:
“I hereby agree to comply with the rules of the ‘Tote a Trojan’ campaign in transporting Trojan students between the designated
spot in Anglo-American diplomacy— already has considered a new policy j and is awaiting only the routine reopening of the question.
' It was reported—without even semi-official confirmation, however —that the British ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, has been instructed to inform .Weshington that token payments may be started again.
driving carefully and at a moderate rate of speed.”
The number of automobiles displaying the blue and white windshield stickers has grown noticeably since the first days of the campaign which began last Monday. There are still a few of the stickers at
the bookstore for those who want them, Knoblauch said.
Sororities are giving the most trouble in the drive to help students get to and from classes, because the girls Will not stop and give the fellows a left, the chairman stated. Meetings will be conducted in the sorority houses today in an effort to convince the feminine contingent of the student body that their cooperation is necessary to make the drive a success, he explained.
The administration has previously given its full approval to the drive not only because it will make the traffic problem less severe, but that it will also aid students without means of transportation to get to classes.
Blue Key sponsored a similar drive last year which failed to mature because of the lack of student support. Kncblauch appealed to all persons for cooperation that will make the drive a success.
“Organized Religion Building a IBetter World,” will be the general theme for discussion today at the lall-university religious forum. Ed-jward D. Gaylord, superintendent of Ithe southern California Congrega-
Itlonal conference will be the speak- lost a waliet his clothing and more |er for the day.	than trophies.
The forum will meet as usual m Firemen whQ found him strug_
Ithe B^ne room, Mudd hall, at 4 gUng through sm0ke and flames to b-m. The speaker will present his reach an px	him outside
ginterpretations of the general theme land give the program of the church | lln relation to the modem world.
Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, dean of Ithe School of Religion, w’ill introduce the speaker. He invites all [faculty members, students, and the Igeneral public to attend these I weekly lectures.
Job Creation' Subject Of Assembly
Don Thomas, managing director of the All-Year club of southern California who was scheduled to address students of the College of Commerce at a special assembly tomorrow, will speak to this group on Tuesday, November 30, instead.
At this date Mr. Thomas will address College of Commerce and Business Administration students at 10:25 a.m., in Touchstone theatre,
Mary Moore, who is one of the finalists in today's tryouts for the YWCA Hi-Jinks program.
Y Tryouts Scheduled
Finalists in Hi-Jinks Program Competition To Be Judged Tuesday
Judges of the preliminary tryouts for the annual women’s Hi-Jinks announced Priday the individuals and organizations that will present their performances Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in Bovard auditorium in the final eliminations of contestants.
Those who do not appear for this second trial will be automatically dropped from competition according to Dean Pearle Aikin-Smith, associate dean of women.
Dean Aikin-Smith also urged that the property managers be present in order to discuss lighting arrangements with the lighting director. Lighting plans must be completed at this trial performance.
The following schedule of tryouts will be observed:
Tuesday. November 23, 7 p.m., prologue: Mildred Tebbetts, Helen of Troy; Jane Rudrauff. Caroline Everington, Virginia Holbrook, Cecile Hallingby, Dorothy McCune, Amazons; Mary Moore, Josephine Swiggett, and Eugenia Rowland, Mortar Board; Mary Chun Lee. world friendship.
7:20 p.m.. Dorothy Flintham; 7:25 p.m.. Phi Beta; 7:35 p.m., Angela Goodnow and Henrietta Pelta; 7:40 p.m., Delta Gamma; 7:50 p.m., Alpha Chi Omega; 8 p.m., Alpha
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Team Leaves For Eastern Grid Contest
Motorcycle Escort To Lead the Way For Rallying Trojans
A volley of cheers and the strains of “Fight On” will echo in the ears of the Trojan football team as they leave the Southem Pacific station this afternoon for South Bend where they will play the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame next Saturday.
Led by the football and band buses, a Trojan motorcade will parade from the Southern California campus to the station where a brief rally Will be staged.
PARADE FORMS EARLY
The parade will commence forming at 2:45 p.m. and will have its head at University avenue and 34th street. Over one hundred cars are expected to line up on the east side of University avenue.
With the assistance of a motorcycle escort, the caravan will leave the campus at 3:20 p.m. and go north on University to Jefferson, east on Jefferson to Flower, north on Flower to Washington, east on Washington to Central avenue, and north on Central to the Southern Pacific station.
MYER TO LEAD Bob Myer, Ed Davis, and Ron Cooley, yell leaders, will have charge of the station rally which Will begin at approximately 3:45 p.m. and last until the train pulls out at 4 o’clock. Myer will lead the assembled Trojans in several yeKs and songs.
A special bus will take the Trojan band to the statical, and under the direction of Pete Conn, they will play “Fight On,” “March On,” “Alma Mater,” and several other collegiate songs.
Cars ln the parade will be decorated with cardinal and gold streamers which will be given away by the Student Union book store after 2:30 this afternoon, it was announced by Bob Wood, chairman of the motorcade.
U.C.L.A. TICKETS READY While preparing to leave with the team for South Bend, Myer stated that preparations had been made to have the rooting section in the U.CL.A. game extend from the bottom to the top of the coliseum. He warned the students, however,
| that they must present their ASU I SC activity books to the cashier in ' the Student Union in order to get I rooters’ tickets for the game and that these tickets must be procured within the next few days.
Wilkins Plane Forced Down
----- Alpha Chi Omega; 8 p.m., Aipna n Ca
speaking on the topic, “Creating a Gamma DeIta: 8:10 pm.. Kappa Al- DV MOriTl
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Touchstone Plays kx& Reviewed
Job for You.
Mr. Thomas is regarded nationally as an authority on tourist travel development and community advertising campaigns. He has spent more than 18 years on sales promotion and organization work in the various sections of the United S':ates.
According to Dr. Reid L. McClung, this assembly will be the third of a series of all-College of Commerce as- IX 11 I C	Q
semblies and serve as a Homecoming ixll-tw *
ha Theta; 8:20 p.m., Delta Delta Delta: 8:30 p.m„ Alpha Delta Pi.
8:40 p.m.. Jeanne Hemrich; 8:45 p.m., Wanda Elvin; 8:50 p.m., Gloria Curran; 8:55 p.m., Vivian Kroll; 9 p.m., Lynn Moody.
PLANE CRASH
Codos Makes Atlantic Hop
RIO DE JANEIRO. Nov. ?1—(l\E) —Paul Condo6, famous French aviator who is flying from Paris to Buenos Aires to make air-current tests, arrived at Natal. Brazil at 5:05 p.m. (3:05 p.m. E.S.T) tonight, an Air France representative announced.
Osdos took ott from Dakar, Senegal, Wait Africa, early today on the kf of his eight to Buenos gl left Park yesterday
Today s
Organ Program
Archibald Sessions, university organist, will present his regular assembly period recital tomorrow at 9:55 a.m., in Bovard auditorium. His program follows:
Tuesday, November 23, 1937.
Second Sonata......................Mendelssohn
Grave-Lento-Allegro
Tuo Invocations............................Dallier
Stella Matutina Electa ut Sol
Dallier succeeded Saint Saens as organist of the Madeleine in Paris.
FRESNO ACCIDENTS KILL TWO FRESNO, Calif, Nov. 21—<U.E)_ Traffic accidents In the Fresno area today claimed two Ihu «v1 In-jw*d nine pewons.
CRITIC COMMENTS ON DRAMA
By Clementine Casmire
Two evenings of original plays written, directed, acted, and staged by students were presented Friday and Saturday in Touchstone theatre. The plays were well received by an audience composed mostly of students. The theater was filled both nights.
The first play of the series, “The Black Mantilla,” written and directed by Jane Bellows, was an historical play of early California. Joyce Ailringer as Dona Concepcion overshadowed the rest of the cast with her vitality and vivaciousness. However, this caused the play to be poorly balanced. The side platforms were used to good advantage in keeping the play moving.
“The Gay Tragedy,” cleverly written by Lois Eby and ably directed hy Harriet Foley, was a breakfast table comedy. Beth Deins a« the wife waa well east but stepped oat of character bf smiling at
the lines of the play. Ted Lyman portraying the husband lacked flexibility of movement.
“Red Riot on the Campus,” adapted from a story in the Saturday
of a family. The scory moved slowly because of the wordiness of the lines. Tiie acting hcrtiors go to Hansel Warner for his protrayal of the eldest son. Mildred Sabotka
celebration. All Commerce classes will be dismissed so that students may attend his assembly. Dr. McClung state that all returning alumni of the College of Commerce have also been invited to attend.
Evening Post by Irving Moss who directed and Theodore Dierks was also directed it, was the best of the j the author.
seven plays. A cast of 11 prevents j “Reunion,” a radio play by Clem-all of the performers from being entine Casmire, George Voelger, and separately mentioned here, enough Joyce Ailringer was directed by Jack to say that they were applauded in- Herzberg. None of the actors were dividually by an enthusiastic audi- j sc;n r.3 thc play was broadcast from ence. Dorothy Alworth as the sec- j the back cf the stage with the cur-retary had the difficult part of be- tains drawn, and a microphone was ing on the stage the whole play | used. At times, the lines were not without saying a line and doing it clear. This play publicized as an well.	experiment indicates that radio
Saturday night "Heaven Rest | should have a permanent place in Him” was a good choice for the j Drama Workshop, opening play as it was a fast mov- | The last play of the evening. “He. ing comedy concerning a widow’s She, and a Park Bench,” written by efforts to capture a rich husband. Lawrence Smith and directed by Harry Bennett, the father; Helen Helen Stern, altnough difficult tc Summings, the widow; and Don j give was ably done. Henry Kehler
Russian Film To Open Series
Bartelli, the son gave good performances as the three sides of the triangle. Jane Alnes Was the author and Bernard Zerbe directed.
Of a more serious nature was “Full Beakers,” a play dealing with the sociological problem of women replacing men a6 the breadwinners
as “He” stole the show.
A word of praise should be given to those who labored behind the scenes. The time between plays was short, and the sets were complete and attractive. Miss Florence Hubbard was the supervising director.
RIVERSIDE. Nov. 21—(UJR)—Two men were killed this afternoon when j their airplane crashed on the South-| ern California Junior college ranch I southeast of Riverside. The victims j were Francis R. Sucka, 19, of Los J Angeles, and Aubrey Wyatt, 22, of Pasadena.
Wyat was a student at the junior college. The plane was owned by Sucka and A. N. Skinner of Los Angeles.
Inaugurating a series of Cinema Coroner Ben White has ordered Classics presented by the Cine-Cam- ! an inquest for 3 p.m. tomorrow. The era club, ‘‘3attleship Potemkin” will j two deaths brought to four the be shown today in cellar theater of number in Riverside this year be-Oid College. Directed oy S. M. 1 cause of alleged low stunt flying.
Eisenstein, one of the foremost di- i____
rectors in screen history, the picture wili be shown at 8, 11 a.m. and at 1 and 7:30 p.m.
A short discussion on the history of the picture, and on its effect on the motion picture industry, wili be given before its showing. The picture is open to all members of the student body and faculty who are interested in the films.
FORT RESOLUTION. N. W. T„
Nov. 21—(Ui?)—Forced down here by snow and a low ceiling, Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted explorer, said today he planned to establish a radio base at Aklavik, N. W. T„ or on Banks island, to aid him in the search for the six missing Soviet transpolar fliers.
Adverse weather prevented Sir Hubert from taking off for Aklavik today. He left Edmonton, Alta., about 600 miles from here, yesterday, bound for Aklavik.
Construction of the proposed radio base will prevent his resuming the search until Dec. 14, Sir Hubert said. Another base was being built at Point Barrow by Robert Cooke, Canadian radio technician and Saa-va Smirnov, Russian radio engineer.
A supply ship, piloted by Rudy Heuss, Canadian airman, also Was weather-bound.
BLAST INJURES MAN SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21—(U.E) —One man was injured critically today in a gas explosion which rocked aa apartment building and blfew out windows a btook away.
Ickes Makes Annual Report to Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—<l'.E>— Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes in his annual report to President Roosevelt tonight said the American people had adopted the theory that conservation of natural resources “can be made to produce a higher living standard.”
At the same time Ickes renewed his recommendation that federal conservation activities be concentrated in one executive department.
Forum To Hear Dr. Flewelling
‘The Narrowing World and the Cosmopolitan Mind,” will be the subject of the fourth request lecture by Dr. Ralph Tyler Flewelling, director of the school of philosophy, in the semi-annual Philosophy Forum at 4:15 tomorrow afternoon, Bcwne hall, Mudd Memorial hall of philosophy.
Dr. Flewelling has given three lectures in the series to date and wiU ■jive one more on November 30.
Students, faculty members, and .he public are invited, says Dr. Paul R. Helsel, director of the forum. A short discussion will be held attar the lecture.
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