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Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, November 10, 1937
Number 38
Homecoming Brinton
Heads Chosen tPj
Today
Committee Chairmen Pick Assistants To Handle Events of Big Week Preceding U.S.C.-U.C.L.A. Game, December 4
With the selection of a slogan yesterday, committees were provided with a theme upon which to base their publicity and vork for the 14th annual U.S.C. Homecoming.
First action of committee chairmen was to announce names of persons who will comprise the committee handling the campus side of the Homecom- * ing celebration, which begins November 29.
• James Lytle, chairman of the committee in charge of promotional work, announced that Bob Wood,
Bill Baker, Jack Snow, Laurella Lancaster, and Audrey Van Sant have been appointed to help him.
The cups and awards committee, headed by Jack Slattery, includes Woodrow Irwin, Jack Naye, George Wilson, Frank Gresham, and James Cosgrove.
Jay Brower will be aided by Bill Flood, Neil Desay, Michael McBan.
Jack Carlow, Art Kramer, Willaid Huyck, Al Gifford, and Don MacCallister in preparing for the men’s football banquet.
ORGANIZATION CONTACTS
Fraternity contacts are being made by Gordon DeMond. chairman. Bill Shulte, Paul Blederman,
Gordon Marshall, Bill Cavaney, and Bill Baker.
Sorority contacts will be made by Carolyn Nath, chairman, Amy Farmer, Virginia HuU, Donna Lewis,
Ruth Kerr, and Mary Mills.
Henry Flynn is in charge of the freshman-sophomore brawl, and will be helped by the Knights, Fred May, sophomore class president;
Bill Wilson, freshmen class president; Ran Hall, Jim Kelley, and Dick Keif.
DECORATION COMMITTEE
Decorations will be arranged by Bob Crawford, chairman, Kenneth Miller, Ed Jones, and Frank Johns.
Plans for the women’s football dinner are being formulated by C?rolyn Everington, chairman, Peggy Fitzgerrell, Jo Gannon, Helen Thompson, and Mary Lou Braun.
Richard Huddleston will head a committee, composed of Alton Gage,
Walter Siler, and Lionel Stagg ,to sponsor the interfratemity sing.
HI-JINKS COMMITTEE
Kay Alfs, as chairman of the Hi-Jinks committee, will receive help from Muriel Faeder, assistant chairman, Zuma Palmer. Hazel Hartzog. Jean Hoodwin, Betty Jane Bartholomew, Henrietta Pelta. Mary Ellen Dudley, Pat Culver, Mary Lou ire Braun. Pat Barham, Joyce Koch, Jean Laury, and Barbara Coy.
Plans for the Homecoming dance will be made by Chainnan Burt Lewis. Bob Van Buskirk, Bill Broomfield, Lester Evans, and John Anderson.
DAVEY DENOUNCES CIO LEADERS
NEW YORK, Nov. 9—(U.E)—Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio, reviewing last summer's strike against “little steel,” denounced Committee tor Industrial Organization leaders as Communists tonight and expressed suspicion that one strike riot “was staged deliberately by the CIO leaders in the hope that some of their people might be injured or killed.”
In an address prepared for delivery before the Ohio Society of New York he denied that he “broke” tha steel strike.
• John L. Lewis lost that strike,” he said, “because most of the employes were not with him and because when he could no longer make use of violence, intimidation, and bloodshed, his only weapons for victory were gone.”
German Geneticist To Lecture
G. H. M. Gollchewski Will Address Luncheon Group on 'Evolution'
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Dr. G. H. M. Gottschewski, visiting professor from Germany at the California Institute of Technology, will speak on ‘‘The Problem of Evolution in Nature” at an all-university luncheon meeting of the German club Friday in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall. A noted geneticist. Dr. Gottschewski is the most prominent man in his field ever to appear on the U.S.C. campus, according to Klaus Mampell, German club president.
Mampell stressed the fact that the meeting was open to all students in the university and tickets T>ill be available up to Friday morning at 10 a.m. in the German office, 106 Bridge. The luncheon will begin promptly at 12:20 p.m., he said.
The distinguished scientist is connected with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute fuer Biologie in Berlin and has studied at the University of Koenigsberg, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. degree. He is especially well-informed on evolution, since genetics today is taken as a basis for evolution.
The problems raised by Mendel’s discoveries during the nineteenth century will be given special consideration by Dr. Gotschewski in his lecture. It was this early German scientist that made the first investigations into heredity as revealed by the science of genetics, working with garden peas, crrssing tall plants and short plants, white flowers and red flowers.
From the Office Of the President
In recognition of the responsibility which the University students and faculty owe to the community, we are setting aside the Friday assembly period for the presentation of the Community Chest appeal. The program will be in charge of the Student Community Chest committee. The following schedule will govern classes:
8:00- 8:45 • :50- 9:36
•:45-10:40 Asfiembly 10:4S-U*JO U«-13:X
* 8. TOW KLEINSMID, President.
Students Will Desert Classrooms
Classrooms will be as empty as the coliseum on Sunday morning tomorrow, as Trojan students and faculty members enjoy a one-day respite from classes to celebrate Armistice day.
Silence will reign over the campus and Tommy Trojan will be lert to contemplate the eastern horizon in peace, as text books collect dust for 24 hours.
No one will go to Doheny library to get the book that they didn’t come after, and alarm clocks will be happily ignored for the first time since the term opened.
On Friday, students will gleefullv return from their vacation “rested and eager” to resume scholastic activity.
Recent Developments In Chemical Science Is Topic oi Lecture
General theoretical considerations of the rare-earth elements and their fundamental relations to the foundation of chamical science will comprise the major portion of Dr. Paul H. M.-P. Brinton’s Wednesday lecture this afernoon on “Reccnt Developments in the Chemistry of Rare Elements.”
Dr. Brinton, head of ihe chemistry department, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in 159 Science under the sponsorship of Sigma Xi and the Faculty Science club. Students, :aculty members, and the general public are invited.
Findings of 20 years of personal research with the 16 rare-earth elements will be presented by Dr. Brinton. who, when not teaching or conducting his own experiments, is a scientific and industrial consultant.
CLASSIFICATION DIFFICULT
Because these elements are so similar in behavior and reactions, fundamental information helpful in classifying them nas been difficult to discover, Dr. Brintcn declared yesterday in commenting on his work.
Also to be covered in thr: lecture is a discussion of research with the element beryllium. Dr. Brinton will show samples of beryl, the best-known compound of beryllium, selected from his own collect! n, the largest in the world, at the lecture. DR. BRINTON IS PROMINENT
Dr. Brinton is a member of Sigma Xi, graduate science group; Phi Kappa Phi, general science and professional school honorary; and Phi Lambda Upsilon, professional chemistry fraternity. He is also a chancellor of the American Chemical society, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, and is included in “Who’s Who in America.”
More than 30 articles by Dr. Brinton have been printed in chemical magazines in the United States, England, and Germany. He was a contributor to “Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis,” a book written by Dr. W. W. Scott, who preceded Dr. Brinson as head of the U.S.C. chemistry department.
DEBATER
TROY DEBATE SQUAD LEAVER FOR MEET AT BAKERSFIELD
Approximately 25 Trojan debaters will leave by bus this afternoon for Bakersfield where the entrants from all divisions—extempore, oratory, and debate, will participate in a Pacific coast tournament. The 12 teams comprise one of the largest groups ever to represent U.S.C. in a tourney.
-----——♦ The Bakersfield tournament will
officially open the 1937-38 season on the coast. Fifty universities and junior colleges from California, Oregon, and Washington will take part in the meet which begins tomorrow and will continue for three days.
Entrants from U.S.C. will leave at 3 o’clock this afternoon. Four teams from the Women’s squad, six from the men’s, and two from the freshman squad compose one of the largest delegations ever to represent the university in such a tourney.
WOMEN NAMED
With Nancy Holme making the trip as debater-manager, Coach Trevor Hawkins has named the following women for the tourney: Marjorie Atkinson, Betty Eberhard, Nellie Cark, Josephine Crawford, Olga Schmaef, Ruth Marks, and Elaine Holbrook.
Miss Holme and Miss Atkinson took part in a non-decision debate against Doris Wighman and Virginia vScott from Southwestern State Teachers colleeg last night in the lecture room of Doheny.
Capt. Sterling Livingston heads the list of men debaters. Maurice Atkinson, Bob Crawford, Clifford Royston, James Merritt, William Huych, Dave Goldberg, Tom Dutcher, Arthur Guy, Fred Hall, Bill Barton, and Ed Jones make up the rest of the squad. Coach Alan Nichols and manager Harold Weeks will accompany them.
DEBATE SOUTHWESTERN DUO Royston and Crawford upheld the negative side of the question, “Resolved: That the National Labor Relations board should be empowered to enforce arbitration of all industrial labor disputes,” last night in Porter Hall in a debate against Roy Hamburger and Cecil Morris from Southwestern.
Two freshman teams are entered in the junior college division, Coach Homer Bell has selected Earl Bolton, John Enderrieden, Arnold Rose-man, and Jack Carlow.
Maurice Atkinson, star Trojan debater, will be one of U.S. C.’s representatives in the Pacific coast debate tournament, which opens tomorrow in Bakersfield.
Listening Hour Today
Selections From Popular Operas Included On Musical Program
LAW SCHOOL ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
“HEIL ROOSEVELT” OFFENDS
CLEVELAND. Nov. 9— <UJ?)—Paul Zarrs, a machine designer, returned today from a 4.000-mile automobile tour of Germany during which he said he answered all greetings of “heil Hitler” with “heil Roosevelt.”
"It seemed to give offense,” said Zarrs. “Nobody there could see the Joke.”
In the closest voting of the election, Joe Brandlin defeated Leroy Broun for the post of senior class president as law students visited the polls yesterday to choose officers for the year.
Other senior officials elected were L y t a Jorgensen, vice - president;
David Block, secretary-treasurer; and Sol Pnce, board of bar governors.
Berman Schwartz was chosen president of the junior class. His fellow officers are Gretchen Parr, vice-president; Richard Ryan, sec- derman f0r the retary-treasurer; and Elbert Berry, board member.
Bob Sanders defeated two opponents to become president of the freshmen class. Willimina Montague was chosen vice-president;
Eugene Goldstein, secretary-treasurer; and Del Hessick, board member.
The election was under the supervision of John Dalton, ‘law school elections commissioner.
JAPAN MAY RENOUNCE PACT
• TOKYO, Wednesday, Nov. 10— (U.P)—The powerful newspaper Nichi Nichi predicted today that Japan will renounce tjie nine power treaty
guaranteeing peace in China or will propose its revision.
“Lohengrin” and “Tristan and Isolde” by Wagner, “La Tosca” by Puccini, “Lakme” by Delibes, and Verdi’s “Aida” are the operas from which representative selections will be played at the Listening Hour program at 3 o’clock today in Bovard auditorium.
“The recordings to be heard at this concert have been planned to acquaint the students with the familiar arias from the operas which will be presented at the Shrine auditorium next week,” declared Prof. Pauline Alderman, director cf the weekly programs.
SELECTIONS FROM LOHENGRIN
Selections from Wagner’s opera of mythical romance, “Loh^grin.” include the Prelude to Act I, “Eflsa’s Dream,” and the Prelude to Act III. From “Tristan and Isolde,” one of the greatest music-dramas ever composed by Wagner, the Prelude, the Duet, and “Liebstod” will be heard.
Puccini composed the melodramatic “La Tosca” and “Vissi D’ Arte” is the aria sung by the heroine as she pleads for the life of her lover.
“Lakme’' was composed by the ballet-writer, Delibes, and is a colorful story of the love between an English officer and the daughter of a Tibetan priest. The “Bell Song” and the Duet from Act III have been chosen by Professor Al-Listening Hour concert today.
AIDA PLAYED
Verdi’s “Aida” was played in its entirety at the Wednesday program several weeks ago, but the popular '“Retourne Vincitore” and “O Patria Mia” will be offered again today.
These recordings have been made by modern stars of the Metropolitan opera company. Lily Pons sings the part of the priest’s daughter in “Lakme” Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchoir portray the heroic roles in the Wagnerian operas.
Drive
Nears
Climax
All-U Assembly Friday Will Be High Point Oi Chesl Campaign
With the promise that a big name band will be on hand as well as a speaker from downtown Community Chest headquarters, Lloyd Fry, student chairman of the campus drive, last night released plans for the all-university assembly Friday. He stated that the gathering would be the high point of the one-week campaign to raise $750.
Honored guests at the assembly will be two children from the Orthopedic hospital, which Will receive a portion of the funds collected. The name of the principle speaker has not been released, but Fry stated that his topic would be on some phase of Community Chest work.
Regarding the dance orchestra which has been procured, the drive committee announced that it will not be able to release the name of the band until Friday because of difficulties encountered with the musician’s union.
SOCIETIES CONTRIBUTE Bolstered by the contributions of 12 fraternities and sororities which donated 100 per cent—that is 25 cents per member—the collections for the first two days of the drive
MacDonald
Succumbs
Former Prime Minister oi England Dies oi Heart Attack on Liner Carrying Him to Bermuda ior Heallh
LONDON, Nov. 9—(U.P.)—Former Prime Minister Jame» Ramsay MacDonald, a hard-bitten Scot who headed the government of Great Britain through six of the most eventfuj years in world history, died tonight aboard a liner carrying him to South America for his health.
■¥ The 71-year-old diplomat who crusaded a lifetime against the
It is important that all members of the Community Chest committee attend a meeting: in the Student Union lounge today at 1:30 p.m.
All-U Dance Sponsored By Lancers
The latest modem dance records will be featured tonight at 8:30 p.m. when Trojan Lancers and their guests meet in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall to dance to the music of Walt Carruthers’ recording machine.
Because of many requests by students attending the affair last month, the services of Carruthers were again obtained by Shirley Rothschild, Lancer social committee chairman.
According to Miss Rothschild, the dance will be an all-university affair open to everyone regardless of Lancer affiliation. Women will be admitted free while men will be charged 25 cents. Tickets are to be purchased at the door.
Under the direction of Herman Rudin, chairman of the Lancer Community Chest drive committee, an intensive tag sale was started this week in an attempt to obtain a 100 per cent donation from the non-org group.
Aiding Rudin in this work are committee members: Frances Dunn, Victor Selter, Tedrico A r t e t a, Frances Paddon, Ed Guerin, and Virginia Barjl. Members of the committee cooperate with with Lancer salesmen in maintaining the table in front of the Student Union and in making personal sales.
have reached $265. Although this is almost $500 short of the goal set for the end of this week, Fry pointed out that only 12 out of 40 social organizations have turned in their checks.
Fraternities which have sent in checks so far denoting 100 per cent contributions include Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Chi Phi, Kappa Alpha, and Tau Epsilon Phi. Sororities which have donated 100 per cent include Alpha Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Beta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha Theta.
REPORTS EXPECTED
“Besides the other 38 sororities and fraternities on compus which we expect to contribute 100 per cent each, there are the Lancers, Aeneas hall, and Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, which still have not sent in their returns,” Fry explained. He added that there are a number of girls taking contributions who are Working for activity points and who have not yet turned in their collections.
Since tomorrow is a holiday, the committee selling the “I Gave” cards at the intersection of University and 36th street will face a one-day handicap, therefore, students should make their contributions immediately, Fry stressed.
Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald who died of a heart attack last night en route to South America.
Wampus Goes on Sale
November Issue Of Humor Magazine Will Appear Today
DR. BOGARDUS -TO SPEAK AT DINNER.
Selection of Dr. Emory Stephen Bogardus, dean of the School of Social Work, to address students of the School of Research at their fifth annual dinner on December 8 was announced by Dr. John Cooke, chairman of the committee for the event, yesterday. *-
The lectureship is regarded among sociologv and social work, among U.S.C. professors as the most prominent on the campus, and is one particularly coveted, since a person is chosen who has made an outstanding contribution in his particular field.
Dr. Bogardus, who received his AH. and A.M. from Northwestern university and PhD. from the Jni-versity of Chicago, is a sociological authority and the author of numerous texts. He li ft professor of
Adams Names Came Workers
Parking lot workers for the Loy-ola-Centenary footbaU game tomorrow were announced by Leo Adams, graduate manager, yesterday.
The following men report to Eddie Oram behind Mudd hall at 8 a.m.: D. Olson. K. Olson, K. Watson, W. Lindsay, F. Burke. G. Goodrich. C. Dolde. and J. Bogue.
The following men report at 11:30
Alpha Eta Rho Pilots Defeated by Stanford
By a score of 59-40, the members of the flying club of Stanford university defeated Alpha Eta Rho pilots of the University of Southem California in the joint air meet Saturday. Stanford was represented by 10 pilots, while U.S.C. had seven contestants*. Bob Devine and Bob Townsend, presidents of the competing organizations, tied at 17, the highest score attained.
Weather conditions being unfav-
The School of Research was organized within the Graduate School for the purposes of facilitating and stimulating original investigation. Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt is dean of the Graduate School and director of the School of Research.
Attendance at the dinner, in the foyer of the Town ird Gown, will be by invitation, limited to second-year graduate students and a few special guests, Dr. C,>oke said.
a m : J. Reynolds, M. Ruckenbrod, orable, the balloon-bursting event H. Remsen, C. Anderson, R. Dale, was canceled. Taut spot landings and and
JOURNALISTS TO SPONSOR REUNION
Informality will be the theme of this year’s Daily Trojan and School of Journalism reunion when aium-ni and present members gather for dinner in the Student Union Saturday at 6:30 p.m., following the U.S.C.-Oregon State game.
The purpose of the dinner, given annually under the sponsorship of the School of Journalism, is to acquaint alumni with the students who have succeeded them. Among the alumni who will return for the event are former editonal workers.
Staff members of the Daily Trojan and students in the School of Journalism will attend the dinner.
The November issue of Wampus, modestly acclaimed by the editors as “an achievement unparalleled in the history of international journalism,” will be circulated to an eager, clamoring campus populace today.
Despite- the fact that an extra number of copies have been printed, Everett Vilander, dynamic editor of the Wampus, sternly announced “that each customer will be limited to 50 copies.”
The 32-page literary masterpiece will include the final installment of “Theodore Pugh Goes Wild,” a poetry section, and “Murder in a Fish Grotto” by E. Phillips Dopen-heim.
The latest statistics on the Wampus sorority sales contest disclose ZTA in the lead and Kappa Delta in second place.
Copies of the Wampus may be obtained from any of the following sorority girls:
Delta Gamma—Janes Innes, Elsie Junior, Barbara Bartlett; Delta Zeta—Marguerite Owen; Kappa Alpha Theta—Margaret Rice, Travis Wilkinson, Nancy Newberry, Jean Sullivant; Kappa Delta—Maxine Olewine, Martha Fuller, Georgia Wells, Betty Campbell; Pi Beta Phi —Barbara Hawley, Barbara Breth-erton, Patricia Caddell, Kit Hamb-ley; Phi Mu—Cecilia Dickinson, Maxine Jones, Jean Henrich, Mar ian Wambsgams; ADPi — Elaine Wagner, Dobette Bibo, Frances Ogilvie, Esther Spilker.
Alpha Delta Theta—Ada Cooper, Virginia Hall, Ruth Wheaton, Amy Farmer; Alpha Epsilon Phi—Audrey Man dell, Ruth Marks; Alpha Gamma Delta—Margaret Herren, Editha Jessup, Anne Shivel, Mary ShaA; Alpha Chi Omega—Martha Del Kinsy, Kay Dodds, Hazel Bour-get; Delta Delta Delta—Madeline Halleck.
causes of war died of heart trouble at 8:45 p.m. aboard the liner Relna del Pacifico.
The body will be embalmed and removed from the liner at Bermuda, where the ship arrives next Monday.
His youngest daughter, Sheiia. was with the white-haired statesman when he died and immediately notified her sister Ishbel at Hampstead, Eng., and Dr. James Mackin-non, another member of the family. at Leeds.
BORN IN SCOTLAND Death came to MacDonald, who was bom in a two-room cottage in Lossiemouth, Scotland, and rose to the highest position within the grasp of a British commoner, less than six months after his retirement from public life.
MacDonald, long the leader of British Laborites, was prime minister in 1924 and from 1930 until 1936, when Stanley Baldwin came into power.
POOR HEALTH In poor health for several years and suffering from serious eye trouble which necessitated two or three delicate operations, he quit public life last May 28. Resigning as lord president of the council, he politely refused King George VI’s offer to elevate him to the peerage.
A L&borite to the last and a man of the people, he explained that he did not want to bequeath a title to his son. Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, because it might easily hamper the latters’ political career.
SON NOTIFIED
The younger MacDonald learned
of his father’s death while in Brussels, attending the Far Eastern peace conference. Another son. Alister, is an architect.
MacDonald died far away at sea while Chamberlain and the leaders of the government attended a brilliant banquet at Guild hall ln honor of London’s new lord mayor who was installed today.
The former prime minister, Well known in the United States because of two official visits there— in 1929 and 1933—was the father of five children. His wife, the former Margaret Gladstone, wealthy social worker, died ln 1911.
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LABOR CONCLAVE ADJOURNS WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — OLE) — Peace conferences between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization were adjourned for eight days late today after the warring factions deadlocked on the issue of which unions each should dominate.
bomb dropping contests took place as scheduled.
COAL CONTROVERSY RAGES WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—(U.E)— The national bituminous coal commission controversy, in which President Roosevelt intervened personally last week, flared anew tonight when the commission split evenly on the resolution of John C. Lewis, a member, to declare the office of chairman vacant A
SENIOR LAW STUDENTS WILL CONDUCT TRIALS
Suit for disability payment assertedly due as a result of an automobile accident at the corner of McClintock and Jefferson streets, and a contract action involving the construction of a private residence will provide cases for the practice court trials scheduled for tonight at 6:30 o’clock by School of Law students.	*-- ”
The trials are the third of a scries of practice non-jury cases conducted every Wednesday evening by senior law students.
Marvin Freedman and Pauline D‘
Auito are counsel for the plaintiff in the suit against an insurance company asking payment for disability as a result of the automobile accident, while Leroy Broun and Hugh Brierly represent the defendant. Judge Frank Swain, Los An-
geles superior court judge, will preside at the trial.
In the sfcond trial, Fred Conrad and Bab Hosick represent the plaintiff, and Harvey Rawlings and Marvin Chesebro are counsel for defense. William Schaper, Los Angeles attorney, will preside.
The trials will take place in roooms on the third floor of the law building. The court is open to the public
Philosophy Forum Hears Flewelling Speak on Peace
“We have not mastered the technique of peace in a world grown too small for the technique of war,” Dr. Ralph Tyler Flewelling, director of the School of Philosophy declared yesterday at the second meeting this semester of the philosophy forum.
His description of the present international situation put emphasis on the lack of creative imagination in civilization today. He stated that there is production as a result of imagination, but said that the difficulty is in the direction of activity and not Jn amount of production.
“It is not the world, but man’s reaction to the world which is important,’* declared Dr. Flewelling in his discussion of genius. He urged that people realise the conditions and requirements of genius and all creative Imagination. “Genius." he explained, “Is the flower and fruitage of a 5ong discipline.”
Homifton Leads Chapel Service
Bob Homiston, president of the School of Religion student body. Will conduct the meditation In the Little Chapel of Silence, Friday morning at 7:30, in the absence of the acting chaplain. Dr. Cart Sumner Knopf.
The twenty-minute religious devotional period is a weekly meeting for interested students. There is no sermon, but some item of interest and helpfulness from leading writers of today is shared with the group. The Little Chapel of Silence is in back of Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, at che northwest comer of the Town and Uowa Fojrea,
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