ron Fitts Wounded by Three Men at His Father's Home in Monrovia
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SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Pres* World Wide News Service
, XXVIII__
Affairs up To Hear ester Rowell
0f San Francisco : onicle Will Discuss Foreign Reporting
rioisain To Talk Also
,h-Oriental Relations Bt Speech Topic of Asiatic Authority
ter Rowell, editor of the •ancisco Chronicle, and Hossain. far eastern au-L Wui be the principal tn at tbe monthly meet-t»the World Affairs a->-j, w be held Saturday ,1 the Vista Del Arroyo n Pasadena.
j will lead in a discussion ,*is released by correspond-loreign countries, speaking i current news happenings \ onent. Hossian will speak I 'present status of affairs In | sh-Indian-Egyptian con-
Chronicle editor has been ac-loreign affairs for many nd one of the leaders dur-World Affairs Institute in list month. He was chair -Ihe California delegation jRjpublican national conven-Cleveland in 1936. and a of the committee since
wetinn ol the assembly will Ktond this year at which ^us B. von KleinSmid will officer. The din-Slng will be open to the
as an outgrowth of the i University of Interna -illations, the World Affairs has held many notable on the Trojan campus, guests for various meet-been such outstanding Hies as B. C. Forbes, noted , publisher, and syndicate Wiile attending the instilling last year, Forbes was
Plans Prom
Prom Tickets Selling Rapidly; Cost Is $2.50
Los Angeles, California, Monday, March 8, 1937
Wounded by Assassins
Number 93
Gardiner Pollich, president of the junior class, who is in charge oj arrangements jor the junior prom u hich u ill be held this Friday night.
Members of Junior Class Council Handling Bids I o Formal Event
All Classes May Attend
Merle Carlson's Orchestra Contracted To Provide Evening s Music
i With only a few days remaining in which bids for the j junior prom will be available, Gardiner Pollich. class president and co-chairman of the [ dance committee, said yesterday that bids are selling fast and 300 couples are expected. Scheduled for next Friday evening, the formal dance event of the year will be held at the Riviera Country club.
Bids are being sold by all junior j class council members and may also | be purchased at the ticket window ' of the student bookstore. Priced at j $2.50 they may be purchased by all students of the university, regardless of year. Heading the committee on bids for the Junior class Anticipating Womens Self-Gov- | council have been Caroline Evering- i ernment association elections which ' ton, Frank Gruys, and Al Passey. will take place on Wednesday, j Merle Carlson and his radio 1 March 17, women planning to run j broadcasting orchestra have been for WSGA offices will file petitions j signed to play for promenading stu-todav aJid tomorrow until noon in | dents. Pauline Byrns, former Uni ! the WSGA office. 234 Student Un- ! versity of Washington student, is 1
Past!'
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Petition Filing for WSGABeginsToday
Candidates May Procure Blanks, Information in 202 Student Union
District Attorney Buron Fills was wounded in his left forearm last night u hen three persons attempted to assassinate him as he uas entering the grounds of his father's home m Monrovia.
Fitts Wounded In Attempted Assassination
[District Attorney Shot at By Would-Be Killers in Ambush Near Home
Sheriff To Investigate Plot
Phone Warnings Received By County Prosecutor During Past Week
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District Attorney Buron Fitts was shot through the left forearm last night by would-be assassins who ambushed him as he drove up to his father’s home in suburban Monrovia, according to the sheriff’s office.
Three or more men in a small sedan started their car j toward Fitts as the district attorney, riding alone, approached the driveway of his father’s home.
Determiner
I
Candidates for Amazon tnmibei-shift may file iheir pet mans today and tomorrow uith Ellen Holt, ncc-president oj the U'SGA, uh» uill also determine the aspiram eligibility.
Amazon Petitions To Be Filed Today
Refugees Flee Madrid; People Without Food
•ranco Moving up troops For Desperate Drive 1 o Seize Capital
Committee Speeds Removal
Diplomats Negotiate With Officials Io 1 ransfcr Oilier Residents
MADRID, March 7.—(UP)— Hundreds oi refugees in foreign embassies and legations will be removed from Madrid because food supplies have dwindled until they are faced with starvation lt was reported tonight.
The diplomatic corps negotiated with government and military officials for immediate transfer of additional refugees to Valencia and other eastern constnl cities. Newspapers repoited that the problem of provisioning Madrid was being
Several shots were fired, one Aspirants to Organization ronMdered urgently, and that ra-
Amelia Earhart Prepares Great ‘Flying Laboratory’ For Jonrney Around Globe
piercing the windshield of Fitts’ car. The bullet struck his lelt forearm.
Gunmen Flee The would-be assassins, without waiting to learn whether their shots had taken effect, fled in their car. f deputies reported,
Will Flave 1 hree Days To Fill in Blanks
Amazon petitions will be filled out and filed by aspirants to the Junior and senior women’s honorary service organization today, tomor-	,
t^l^HUl!hT\eO^\eLhinin7^.™‘!'r0W’ R"d Wrdnrsday durln'1 nMfm' ' arrived In the Jarama river valley staggered the few remaining steps bly	the WSGA o|Tlc<, 234	of ^ dly „ln rKerl
tionlng of more types of food will bo put Into effect soon.
Meanwhile, the evacuation committee spurred removal of additional civilians from the shell-torn caiptal upon military advices that 70 trucks, carrying '•hundreds of rebel reinforcements and supplies"
Ion.
Petitions may be obtained In 202 Student Union. Ruth Meilandt, chief justice of the women’s judi-
to his parent's home.
I The father, Buff Fitts, summoned!
5TVSS TZSZT* tLA-aaJ F.aihart, Purdue university’s flying professor-at- |an ambulance from Monrovia and)
I Student Union.
Activity cards filed during thc
swing tunes and blues melodies. By
ron cavaney has on his orchestra Air terminal hangar tonight, satisfied that it is all but ready cial court and elections commission- j committee — Larry Slinn and Pat i for the start of her projected trip to circumnavigate the er, will be in the WSGA office at Renny.
10 a.m. and at noon both today and J jr0rmal dross will be in order for l tomorrow to assist the political as- i tjlf> prom although corsages have pirants, and to answer any ques- | been banne(i by vote of the junior tions they may have regarding any J councn jn accordance with a theme phase of the annual elections, ac- . sj^ortiy to be revealed, decorations cording to Lucille Hoff, WSGA pres- j ^ave ^een designed by a committee ident.	including Jack Warner. Ellen Holt,
large, taxied her $80,000 "flying laboratory" into a Union the	^	H™""n ^mT’Mli-
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eligibility Requirements
To be eligible lor candidacy. WS GA office-seekers must have a 1.3 .	1 grade point average. The president
a degree of Doctor ; Qf WSGA must be a senior during
iture which was conferred i by Dr. von KleinSmid.
Debate Team ins Tournament
and Adele Shipkey.
globe.	a
Only final checks of delicate Instruments installed on the duo-motored plane have to be completed before the tousled-haired flyer transfers operations to Oakland where she will inaugurate her flight about March 15. She said she would proceed to Oakland either Tuesday
I dred Tebbetts, and then be trans-
serious.
her term of office, the vice-presi-dent may be a junior, and the secretary and treasurer may be a junior or a sophomore.
Following provisions of the association's constitution, the elections ■ will take place two weeks prior to ; the national convention of college women's self-government associations, which this year will be held ti third consecutive victory ' on the U.S.C. campus. Open nom-1 urnual Women's Forensic | inatlons are held one week before !
Favors chosen for feminine prom I °r ^ Wednesday, there to await goers are entirely new in motif" favorable flying conditions for the said Dorothy McCune. "They will e
carry out the decoration theme of Today, she took the 8-ton Lock-the dance and arc not only pretty, heed Electra aloft for a brief flight
but practical."
Explosion Shatters Paris Express Car
tournament was chalked up ' Hams of Bitty Eberhard t Rippe. and Marjorie At-Elaine Holbrook, when "the contest held at Pasa-college last Friday.
Mt this tournament was j building ’H* combinations, Betty Eb- i Any woman
CERBERE. Franco-Spanish Fron-elections, this year next Wednesday, , tier. March 7—tt’.Pi— One coach of in 206 Administration.	I the Paris express was shattered to-
To Supervise Voting	' day by a bomb as the train, bound
Carried out under the supervision j for Spain, halted here for customs of the Amazons, voting will take J examination.
place in front of the Administration Miraculously, none of the 15 pas- .... ..... ........
sengers ln the destroyed coach was j miles under favorable conditions, registering in the injured. During the excitement
and returned plainly pleased with the performance, both of ship and instruments. She said it was likely she would remain on the ground tomorrow and then leave "some time” Tuesday for Oakland.
The plane has been equipped with the last word ln modern appliances for long-distance flying. It is one of the few private planes ln the world equipped with both short wave and broadcast radio transmitters. Stripped of all unnecessary appointments, it has been outfitted with extra fuel tanks to hold 1,151 gallons of gasoline, or enough to keep the ship aloft more than 4,000
Frosh Debaters Will Encounter Riverside Team
tjo the winning school will 1 It0>"s Perpetual trophy. I "West ij the first won by j **Mn debaters this year,
** their first victory since Hawkins became debate »January.
*tt major forensic event is ^e'la tournament to |
«8tockto„ April 1, 2, and
r® Harris from both the ior college to debate the Tiger squad *od men’s squads will be tonight at 8 o’clock on the question, "Resolved: that congress should fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry.” The meet is a practice engagement and no decision will be given.
The Trojans will be represented by a newly formed team oi James Merritt and Willard Huyck. Merritt. a graduate of Raton highschool of New Mexico, gained recognition last November when he and Glen I Stevens went through the Pacific j Southwest debate tournament un-| defeated. Huyck is a graduate of i Fairfax high school.
Then will come more over-water flying—1,800 miles across the South Atlantic to Natal, Brazil, a route which twice has been crossed by women flyers. At Natal, Miss Ear-arrested ^‘in Pemignan •'few" miles accoml)m,>r Miss Earhart as naviga- hart plans to leave the equator and tor. at least for a portion of her strike north for home, to Panama, flight.	Mexico City, Los Angeles, and back
From Oakland, they will streak | to Oakland.
“id Brooke von Faulken- ! university automatically becomes a which followed the explosion one I Capt- Harry Mining former
“ Virginia Hudson Smith member of the Women's Self-Gov- passenger disappeared. He was later1 I Todd Pritchard. Since I ernment association, eligible to vote
the third consecutive and hold office in the association. I north of here.
•fiver loving cup presented |	--| The arrested man is Jean Salles, j
an engineer from Toulouse. Letters found on his person indicated that he was an anarchist. He insisted, however, that he had nothing to do I with the bombing.
Police had two theories: one that i the bomb was placed in the train
___I by anarchists ln protest against
The Trojan freshman forensic j closing of the Fianco-Spanish bor-team will travel to Riverside jun- ] der as a part of the international non-intervention plan; another, that the bombing was a nationalist attempt to cut the main line of communications between France and Loyalist Spain.
for Honolulu, a 2.381-mlle hop they estimate should take about 15 hours. Leaving Hawaii, they will j	Deputies Rush To Scene
point for a tiny island 1.900 miles A squad of sheriff's deputies was to the southwest—Howland island, rushed to the scene in an effort to which the United States colonized j pick up the trail of the assailants, only recently ln developing Its chain I Fitts, the Investigators reported, of mid-Pacific air bases.	j said he counted at least three men
Then comes the longest over- j‘n lhe car' water hop of the flight—a 2.550- I The district attorney only a few mile stretch of ocean to Lae. New days ago complained that he had Guinea. From Lae, Miss Earhart J received several threatening telewill steer a straight course for Port phone calls as the result of his ac-Darwin. Australia, where Manning tion in obtaining the indictment of
the Good Samaritan hospital in Los
AlTheP wound was described as not ' [frred *	P«*l-
1 tions. Eligibility will be determined, and petitions will be approved
is scheduled to quit the plane.
345 sit-down strikers ln the Douglas
"That is." explains Miss Earhart. | air"a,t Plantat f“-ita Monica^
1 He said at the time he would re-
"unless the going seems too tough.”
If so, he will stay aboard as navigator.
The Lockheed Electra then will follow the route of the British Imperial Airways — northwest along the coast of Borneo to Singapore, thence to Allahabad and Karachi, India, southeast over the Red sea to Africa, across the midsection of the dark continent to Dakar ln French West Africa.
a private
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bodyguard.
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by Lucille HofT. president of WS GA, or Ellen Holt, vice-president, before the aspirant leaves the office.
Tto qualify for membership in Amazons, women must be at least high sophomores, have maintained a 1.00 or better cumulative scholarship average, and have amassed a minimum of three activity points per semester ln at least two separate fields of activity.
Work other than appointive or elective offices is judged on an hourly basis, and activity points distributed accordingly. Twenty-five hours of time credit work, including clerical jobs in various student offices, committee and special
hours.”
Mass A sta nil Feared
It was believed rebel Gen, Francisco Franco was moving up troops for a final, mass assault on Madrid. staking everything on early success.
Government artillery bombardments heralded what Loyalists believed would be a terrific drive on all fronts, climaxing a four-month siege.	>
Artillary Pounds Rebels
Throughout the day and far into the night government artillery pounded rebel lines north, west, and south of the ctty where insurgent troops were reported moving Into position lor the big advance.
As the tremendous flow of men and munitions from other countries is being cut down to a mere trickle by the neutral non-intervention committee of 27 European nations. Franco has decided to bring
Surrealists Invade Troy
Anyone With Camera Can Be Master oj Cultish Art
0nian Society ltct‘ng Called
second open meet-« * 5ter !or students into ,.iI'U6ic 411(1 literature, k j_’ Wests of Clionian.
SOCiety' as-| iu A*Pha Oamma Delta Hu, ®l,28th street, tomor-
*t 1:15 o'clock.	1__
“ ln ch«rge' oi the p°P* Presides Over
‘■vtai 8he wll> discuss
Fascists Claim American Hero
read Irish Poetry. “ guest’
<*	w‘h be accom-
1 Piano by Mary Alice
*ai p;an‘ount
** J? !'ia MarV Alice ••tr, criT*'Vsome of their J d^*mons Aileen
club member and Ruth
I BOLOGNA Italy. March 7—ll'.P»
1 —Folks out in Scott county, Iowa,
I where “Buffalo Bill"—Col. William 1 of in terms of creating what seem-F. Cody—was born in 1846. will be | lngiy is not, and is as baffling to surprised to learn that Fascist news- mas, people as reading an article , papers have discovered he was not I lbe famed spinstei I born there at all and really was an j Stein.
I Italian named Giovanni Tambiani. I But yesterday Tnoy's two visitors bem in the town of Barbigarezzo
f irst Rite Since Illness about mo
By Warren Burns
A fierce controversy may soon disturb the world's surrealists who have brought fewer cheers than jeers from their
critics.
For yesterday a new school of thought was being demonstrated on Troy’s campus by two strange visitors dressed in costumcs that might have been dta-*dropped down on his back and bollcal creations of the surrealistic | "shot” the tower on the Admlnis Picasso.	tratlon building. Both pictures were
Surrealism—the cultish fad of art taken on the same plate. For in so beyond realism—1s usually thought doing, a synthesis of one's subconscious thoughts are photographically registered in somewhat of a
Labor Plans Fight For Court Change
WASHINGTON, March *7—M'.P)— Politically organ«ed labor leaders tonight planned a campaign ol pressure on congress for enactment of President Roosevelt's supreme court reorganization program.
Labor's non-partisan league, a j pro-administration organization led | by John L. Lewis, will convene a meeting here tomorrow ol labor delegates from all over the country just two hours before thc supreme | court holds Its regular weekly deci- | sion session with several important j administration cases pending.
Major Oeorge L. Berry, president J of the conference, said tonight that delegates will be active during the gathering in visiting their senators and representatives to urge support of the supreme court proposal.
Although the supreme court has met three times to hand down decisions since the president’s bill first went to congress, there was nothing to Indicate whether any pending controversial cases will be decided tomorrow.
I events work, is equivalent to one | up reinforcements from all other j activity point. No points are al- j I lowed for elective offices in a social I
sorority.
Wednesday is the deadline for 111-| ing of Amazon petitions, and hearings of petitions will tak» place this Thursday.
Recording of work done for activity points will continue to take place every Friday until the time of Amazon elections, according to Ellen Holt, vice-president of WSGA.
Dr. Knopf Tc Tell ‘How io Be Happy’
WAA Will Meet For Nomination Of Candidates
Class To Start
The second all-university religion assembly will be held Wednesday at 9:55 a.m. ln Bovard auditorium; with Dr, Carl S. Knopf, dean of the I School of Religion, answering the puzzling question, "How to be Happy in a Tough Old World.”
Sccond of a series given each sec-I ond and fourth Wednesday of the month, this assembly will include in its program selections by the A Capella choir under the direction of John Smallman. The well-known An open meeting in the social cbant, ’’The Nunc Dimttls," will be hall of the Student Union at 3:30 sunK by the choir as a special fea-p.m. tomorrow will allow Trojan ture of the program. Archibald women to name thelr candidates Sessions, at the organ, will open „ „ and close the assembly, for next terms WAA officers. D010- ^ a rfSU|t of the greai demand
thy McCune will preside and accept for excerpts of Dr. Knopf's remarks
nominations from the floor.	from the previous religion assembly,
_ ... . ,, ..	____| sheets containing excerpts of the
Tea will follow the meeting. With j	Qn WednMday wl„ be pre_
Reon Kline and Jean Consaul in j pare(j allcj distributed at the close charge of refreshments. Outgoing I 0f the assembly.
officers who will receive the guests	-
are: Dorothy McCune, president;
Belle Ralnie. vice-president: Virginia Hogan, secretary; Evelyn Mur-
glllitl IlUglUl, ovv.vv«.j , -----------
ew 1 rocrams ray. treasurer; and Margaret Tomp
®	■ ir*,,. irtlvltv recorder.
hodgepodge—surrealism, get lt? Gertrude ’ The two stiangers saw great surrealistic possibilities in the clock
Starling this week a new series of radio programs to be known as “The Master Scientists'’ will be presented by the students in the
Lancers Drive For Members
VATICAN CITY, March 7—H’.Pi —Pope Pius XI today took part In the first ceremony since his illness when he presided at the blessing 01 the Golden Rose for the Queen of Italy Wearing special vestments Pope walked slowly into the salon ln the presence of 15 ecclesiastics. At the conclusion of the ceremony he gave a papal benediction to all present and was photographed for the first time since his illness.
The newspaper Resto Carlino published the discovery today.
It said that heirs of the greut United States army scout and Indian fighter now are living in Com-pano, n'ar Parma, and Intend t tllc j brine sui "to recover a large fortune which he left In the United States."
Resto Carhno made no mentio. of the fact that "Buffalo Bill" diei in Denver, J. y 10, 1917, :n comparative poverty.
maintained thal an artistic eye or temperament is not necessary to become a surrealist. A camera, me film, and a desire to walk is all that is necessary to become a devotee of this strange art.
It sounds fantastic, but it is ap-jarently very simple; for all that one has to do is to photograph haphazardly ones subconscious thoughts on photographic plates. For example, one man leaned over he flsh pond in front of Doheny .brar> and snapped “Youth Tri-,phant”—a truly paranoic Image. Then he rapidly classed the street,
tower of Mudd Memorial hall — (School of Speech every Wednesday
Judged the most beautiful college	at 3:45 o'clock This week's half-
building in the United 8tates. For	hour program will be devoted to the
it seemed to remind them of Sal-	life and work of Oalileo.
vador Dali's "The Persistence of	Members of Miss Tacie Hannah
Memory.” And so they commenced	Rew’s radio speech class will act as
to make double exposures in an irra-	principals of the cast. Bob Norton
tional subconscious manner.	will take the title role of Galileo.
Tlie two men became so enthus-	Thi» series of programs was prc-
ed with their work that lt was with	pared expressively for educational difficulty that the writer kept them ! <adlo purposes by WUllam J. Pearl-
lrom drowning tn the fountain	man, New York showman and pro-
whlch is in the patio of philosophy	ducer. U.S.C. is the first school to
hall. It seems that they wished to	have the privilege of presenting
record the photographic result of	tliese scientific skits. Mi Pearlman
"plunging deeply Into the human	lias assisted the cast ln p.iparatior.
mind.”	for the piogiams.
kins, activity recorder.
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Stanford, California Will ' for the Trojan Lancer membership-
_. , , pin drive today at 9:56 am. when Commemorate Birthdays , the committee meets in the social
lounge on the ihlrd floor of the SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 <I.P> student Union, according to John Stanford university and Univer-	membership committee chair-
slty of California will hold birthday I maJl
celebrations during the next two 1 students desiring to work at the weeks according to plans announc- j desk in the student Union during ed tonight.	the morning and early afternoon
Stanlord alumni will observe j are asked to attend the meeting. Founders- day and the fiftieth an- | There will be a Lancer at the desk niversary ol the laying of the cor- I each hour of the day to aid stu-
nerstone of thc Stanford quad at dinner here Tuesday night.
Calliurnia’s charter day celebration will be marked by six banquets. Bishop James E Freeman of Washington, D.C., will peak at ihe main celebiation here.
dents to make application for membership and order pins. Rose s.aied.
Non-org students, that Is, men and women who are not atltllated with a social fraternity or sorority, are eligible for membership in the Lancers.