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Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, November 24, 1937
Number 47
Hi-Jinks
Finalists
Disclosed
Fourteen Contestants Named to Compete For Grand Prize
Deadline Set for U.C.L.A. Tickets
Notice that ASUSC book-holders must exchange booK-slips for regular rooters’ tickets for the U.C.L.A. game was given by the general manager’s office yesterday. Admission to the game will not be granted without these tickets.
Because officials require an estimate of the number of tickets needed, students must make the exchange at the book store not later than November 30.
OFF TO THE IRISH WARS
U.S.C. Dean Offers Aids To Business
Financial Program Outlined by McClung as Basis for Recovery
Dr. Reid Lage McClung, dean of
Dean Pearle Aikin-Smith last1 night disclosed the contestants who w'ill present their performances for the women’s annual Hi-Jinks next Tuesday night in Bovard auditor-1 ium. The judges came to their decision after the second and final | tryout of organization skits and in- | dividual numbers held last night.
Those to compete for the grand prizes in the program, an event of Homecoming week, are as follows:
Delta Delta Delta. Phi Beta, Delta Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega. Kappa Alpha Theta. Dorothy Flintham,
Helen Bjorstad. Jeanne Henrich,
Wanda Elvin, Vivian Kroll. Lynn the College of Commerce and Moody, Lucille Ostrow, Joan Broyles Business Administration, was one of and Beatrice Granis	a group of the nation’s leading
j economists who last week offered congress a solution for ending the Mildred Tebbets as Helen of Troy, current; slump in business activity, will preside over the program which has as its theme “Great Daughters of History.” Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of Mills college. will deliver the prologue address of the evening. Dr. Reinhardt •w. ill be introduced by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
The prologue will include a welcome by Miss Tebbetts, who will be attended by Trojan Amazons. Ellen Holt, Caroline Everington, Virginia Holbrook, Cecile Hallingby, and Dorothy McCune, and members of Mortar Board. Jane Rudrauff, Mary
“HELEN” TO PRESIDE
“Do something to encourage business” was the gist of the economists’ proposals, although the form of encouragement was subject for debate. In the main, the suggestions were, as follows:
1.	Abolish the tax on undistributed profits.
2.	Revise or abolish the tax on capital gains.
3.	End government competition with business.
4.	Bolster public confidence by definitely indicating an intention to balance the budget.
Moore, Eugenia Rowland, Betty Evernard, and Josephine Swiggett. j PROGRAM OFFERED Mary Chun Lee will be the repre- A five-point program sentative of world-friendship.
ALL-U PROGRAM
Prizes for the winning skits and individual numbers will be awarded I at Hi-Jinks, which is open to all friends of the university. Dean Aikin-Smith especially stressed that men students, parents, and alumni are invited to the program.
The Hi-Jinks is an all-university production of Homecoming week
for congress and a three-point program for 1 business were offered by Dr. McClung. For congress he advised:
“1. Removal of tax exemptions from all securities and from incomes of all government employees. Too large a proportion of those able to pay taxes to the government have their capital funds invested in various types of government securities which are nearly or entirely exempt from any taxation. Em-
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and every sorority woman .every j ployees of states and local sub-fraternity man, and every non-org | divisions of government pay no fed-is welcome," Dean Aikin-Smith con- eral income tax. while federal em-tinued.	ployees pay no state taxes on their
Members of the Freshman club income.
will sell candy at the performance.. prosperity AND SPENDING There is no admission charge but a collection will be taken during the
intermission.
“2. Give definite assurance that expenses will be cut and taxes held down. There is still too much of
Haiti Mass Murder Rumor Given Credence
Trojan students are shown gathering to see the U.S.C. football team depart for South Bend, Ind., where they wil! meet Notre Dame Saturday. Coach Howard Jones is here explaining what his team intends to do to the "Fighting Irish."	—Courtesy L.A, Times
YELL KING REPORTS EASTERN TREK
By Bob Myer
Daily Trojan Staff Representative CARLSBAD, N. M., Nov. 23—(Exclusive)—Here we are in the wilds of southeastern New Mexico, a land of sage brush, rattlesnakes, adobe huts, and a few scattered human beings. We arrived at our present stopover about 8 o’clock this eve-
Assembly To Hear Knopf
Thanksgiving Selecled As Theme of All-U Religion Meeting
Thanksgiving will
be the theme ninS after a j°ltinS 175-mile bus trip from El Paso, Tex.
the feeling in the federal govern- f<jr the all_university re;igious as_ ment that we can spend our way	in Bovard auditorium Q 11 • l j I
into prosperity, and that prosperity Carl Sumner K f dean of KOMICM IO Leave
when attained can only be con tin-	^ Qn as chaplain.,
ued by ever-increasing expenditures..	k on the topic, "Why be For Northern
_Stop worrying about immedi- Thankfuir DLscussion wm be
made upon new and important ideas I related to the custom of celebrating j
ate balancing of the budget. The immediate balancing of the budget Continued on page four
NYA Conclave
Although a bit shaken up from the bumpy ride over New Mexico’s corduroy highways, Coach Jones and the boys seem to be in high spirits tonight and everybody is looking forward to tomorrow's visit to the famous Carlsbad caverns, which are only &> short distance from here.
The team really looked good in practice this afternoon at El Paso when the boys went through their paces before some 500 spectators on the Texas School of Mines field.
Dr. Thurber says that Amby Schindler, Phil Gaspar, and Miles Norton probably will not play this
-rhP new reDorts of the alleged ^ investigating an alleged cam- ; of the present custom in the mod-'	.	' . ,,, . i Saturday, but this gloomy prediction
m^acrescameTrom American Jnd ! Paign to bring about the deporta- ern United States will bo explained. 1
WASHINGTON. Nov. 23—(UP)—
The name of Gen. Rafael Trujillo, president of the Dominican republic.	^
tonight was brought prominently in- ANTI-BRIDGES
to accounts of the alleged mass
slaughter of ’thousands” of Haitian f>D |\/C DPORFH men. women and children on the ^ ^1 V L r Dominican-Haitian border early in 1 October.
i Thanksgiving.	* Gardiner Pollich, ASUSC presi-
In today's lecture, instead of read- ; dent, will leave Friday night for ing some brief excerpts taken from gan Francisco for a meeting of the well-known waiters, the chaplain will give in condensed form, the
state advisory NYA board Saturday. Pollich is the only student mem-
gist of his Thanksgiving message.
The history of the Thanksgiving ber of the board. The meeting was WASHINGTON. Nov. 23—'IIP)— celebration will be explained in brief called to discuss problems of stu-
The federal government is cautious- form, and the value and importance dent aid and representatives from
for
Dominican sources of unquestioned tion of two Committee for Indus-; Organist Archibald Sessions, at
i trial Organization officials on the the organ, and the A Cappela conclave. t	I grounds that they are aliens and
Two of the reports s a members of the Communist party,
Dominican president spent the ■ Jt wa&	tQnight
!night of Oct. 2 in the neighborhood Thp driye reportediy ^ t^ing di_ where the first wholesale killings
San Francisco for the
choir, will provide the music the assembly.
one-day iasm of Ambling Ambie who has been running all around With a candid camera and looks like one of In regard to the Trojan-U.C.L.A. the Boy Scouts, game, Pollich urged students to pro-1 Wl in we arrived in El Paso this
cure their tickets as soon as pos- morning. Gene Hibbs was met at the
! station by five Texas coeds much to the chagrin of Headman Jones, and on the presentation of a ASUSC Nick pappas ^ all excited because
BRIDGE COLLAPSES
PRINCETON. B. C., Nov. 23—<U.E> j sible. Tickets will be given out up- ! —A bridge collapsed nine miles
were carried out during successive sjj0remen iea{jer and Pacific coast
|nights early in the mont	J director of the qjq and Harold west of here late todav D’uneine a	.
These reports, from the Domini- Pritchetti president of the new In- locomotive and one car into the book at the cashier's window in thei	^
lean repubUc, confirmed statements ternational Woodworkers union. Tulameen river, killing two men. i Student Union, bv Americans in Haiti that about	_
Filipino Students To Meet
U.S.C. Club Entertains
University Delegates At Convention
The Philippine Trojan club will be host this week at a national convention of Filipino students now enrolled in American universities. The convention will last three days, from November 26 to 28.
The purpose of this convention, according to Alfonso Santos, president of the club, is to foster closer relations among Filipino students Who are attending various schools in the United States.
RELIGION DISCUSSED Religion, political policies, and methods of attaining better understanding between the people of the Philippines and American students, and the American people generally, will be discussed during the convention.
The first day of the conclave will be devoted to discussions of religion and other mutual interests. The delegates will meet at 306 Winston avenue for this session. RECEPTION GIVEN The second day will be featured by a reception and dance in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall. The delegates will conclude their activities on November 28 with a banquet at the First Christian church, at Which Dr. J. E. Harley, head of the political science department of U.S.C., will be the principal speaker.
Officers of the club announce that anyone interested may attend the convention. Information concerning the gathering may be obtained from D. P. Kilat, secretary of the Philippine Trojan club.
Students Urged To Wire Team
Gardiner Pollich, in a statement issued last night, urged fraternities, sororities, and individual students to send telegrams of encouragement to the Trojan football team as it prepares for its intersectional game with Notre Dame Saturday.
The good luck telegrams should be sent both the team and individ uai players, Pollich stated. The squad Will arrive in Chicago Friday. Telegrams should be dispatched by Friday night and addressed to thfe University of Southern California football team in care of the Windemere hotel. The team will leave for South Bend Saturday morning.
Homecoming Committees Finish Plans
Alumni Registration Contest for Fraternities Announced by Gough
15,000 Haitians were slaughtered.
The Haitian government on Nov. 112 requested Cuba. Mexico and the United States to tender their good offices in the controversy caused by Ithe killings.
Engineers To Be Shown Insulation Film
Sound motion pictures will be khown today at the American So-Iciety of Mechanical Engineers meet-|ing. Mr. C. E. Weinland, represen-
WORKMEN WATCH AS PARK FISSURE OPENS
By Fred Folmer
Engineers Set Banquet Date
The engineering Homecoming banquet wiil take place next Tues-
in Chicago. The boys christened Jim Slatter when we left California because this is his first trip out of the state.
At practice today, Bill Radovich, Tony Tonelli, and Ray Wehba were the slowest dressers, and had to take two extra laps. Radovich, the team’s heaviest eater, devoured two huge steaks at dinner last night.
Braven Dyer and Headman Jones
Bach, Franck To Be Heard on Listening Hour
Symphony in D Minor by Cesar Franck and “Come, Sweet Death” by Bach will be played at the Listening Hour program today at 3 o’clock in Bovard auditorium.
Pfof. Pauline Alderman, director of the Weekly concert, announced that the shortened program will be over promptly at 4 o’clock this week as the auditorium is needed for rehearsals.
Bach and Franck are similar in that they both were organists who played religious music primarily. Much of their music was the result of that hour of improvisation before the beginning of the church services.
“Come. Sweet Death’’ has been interpreted by Leopold Stokowski, and brings to the listener the intimate and romantic quality of many of Bach’s lesser known compositions. Stokowski believes that Bach, had he lived today, would have been a great orchestra conductor instead of an organist, and he has popularized much of Bach’s work for his orchestra.
Approval of all fraternity and sorority Homecoming decoration plans which have been submitted was announced by Gorton De Mond, fraternity chairman, and Carolyn Nath, sorority chairman, at the final meeting of the general Homecoming committee in the Student Union grill last night. Deadline for erection of decorations has been set at noon Monday, with judging scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday.
With Lloyd Wright, alumni chairman, presiding, reports of progress to date on all Homecoming activities were presented at last night’s meeting, which included all alumni and student chairmen and committee members.
CONTEST ANNOUNCED
Lewis Gough, executive secretary of the general alumni association, thanked Jack Slattery, chairman of the student committee on cups and awards, for his work in obtaining prizes for house decorations, fraternity sing, and alumni registration. He also announced plans for an alumni registration contest among fraternities.
Plans call for each fraternity to have a register which visiting alumni can sign as they return to their houses at the times provided for fraternity open house. The house having the largest registration at the end of the' week will then be awarded a pennant provided by the Student Union bookstore.
HOWSON SPEAKS
Dr. Carl Howson, president ot the general alumni association, spoke briefly, thanking the committees for their work, and expressing the hope that this year’s celebration may be the most successful Homecoming week since the first celebration 14 years ago.
Jaye Brower, chairman of the men’s football dinner, explained that former U.S.C. all-Americans have
Profit
TaxToBe
Modified
Corporations Earning Less Than $25,000 Will Be Exempt
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—<tLE>— House ways and means committee tax doctors agreed tentatively today to exempt all corporations earning $25,000 or less annually from the undivided profits levies and to modify sharply provisions of the embattled law to give “big business" some of the relief it demands.
The proposed changes would free 176.000, or 88 per cent, of all American corporations from restrictions of the profits tax to which industrial and economic leaders have attributed part of the blame for the present business slump. The remaining 24.000 corporations, which earn in excess of $25,000 annually, would be under less pressure to distribute in dividends most of then-net income.
AGREEMENT OUTLINED
The tentative agreement would:
1.	Raise normal income taxes on corporations earning $25,000 or less, which are to be exempt under the profits tax. to 12^ per cent on the first $5,000 and 14 per cent on the next $20,000. The present rates are 8 per cent and 10.6 per cent.
2.	Fix a maximum rate of 20 per c§nt on surplus earnings of a corporation in the $25,000 bracket and a minimum of 16 per cent. The rate would be determined by the amount of surplus undistributed to stockholders. The present schedules on withheld profits range from 7 per cent to 27 per cent.
MAY REMOVE CRITICISM Chairman Robert L. Doughton. D., N. C., of the ways and means committee, said the agreement should go far toward removing criticism that large corporations are paying excessive taxes. Rep. Fred Vinson. D., Ky., head of the tax sub-committee studying revenue law revisions, anticipated that the changes would be particularly helpful to corporations needing money for debt payments, plant expansion and to bolster their capital structure.
Vigorously denying that the administration was abondoning or preparing to desert the principles of the undivided surplus tax, Vinson said the proposed changes wwild result in losses of $60,000,000 annually from dividend levies but that this amount would be obtained through the higher rates on normal corporate income.
Hitler Makes New Spanish Neutrality Offer
LONDON. Nov. 23— (U.E)— Adolf Hitler of Germany has informed Great Britain he will return to a been invited to attend the dinner' role of “complete neutrality” in the
and that an all-time Trojan football team, approved by the coaching staff, will be announced at the
The Symphony in D Minor was banquet. Among those former Tro-one of the last compositions writ- : jan greats who have been invited ten by Franck, and was played for are Morley Drury, Francis Tappaan, the first time only a few months Erny Pinckert, Tay Brown, Johnny
before the composer’s death.
Slowly but surely the Elysian park landslide is widening	day at 6:30 pm- in Town and G°w". . ... . ^ f in
_ , . .m , • _ ©	Fover SrViwpitz6r Drcsidcnt h&d their h63.ds together todsy in
the Assure between the mountain and the break, while work-	of Se ^ sSneL. an- a conference that looked like big
men, powerles* to halt or hinder this feat of nature, stand	nounced yesterday. business. Braven says he wouldn’t
watching.	The speaker for' the banquet will Continued on page four
Long a secluded haven of rest in the heart of a busy me- be a. c. Galbraith of a California -.-----
tropolis, Elysian park is now in a*----0i’ company. Mr. Galbraith has |
turmoil of activity. Hundreds of
WORKERS FIGHT COLD
BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 23— (U.E)—Gov. Richard W. Leche tonight ordered the Louisiana national guard to transport an estimated 5.000 negro WPA workers into the sugar bowl district to save $6,000,000 worth of cane from cold weather.
Baker, Gaius Shaver. Ernie Smith, Irvine Warburton, and Aaron Rosenberg.
The Homecoming dance committee announced that they have obtained. in addition to Hal Kemp’s orchestra, which will furnish the dance music, several acts for the floor show, which will be presented in the late evening.
cars, filled with excited people eager
tative of a company that manufac- t0 view the sin^ng have Jam*
med the park.
tures insulation materials will present the film “Heat and Its Control.”
Engineers will meet in 159 Science tt 12:30 o’clock to see the pictures. Students in the physics department or any branch of engineering are [ invited, Elmer Salmonson, president, announced.
FIRE DESTROYS HANGAR
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 23— (l\E)—Fire broke out at Merrill Field her* today and destroyed an Anchorage Airways hangar, two air-| planes, two motors, and other equip-[ment below It was brought under ItontroL
Charged tension seems to have
See Colored Films
With Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, dean
mined this portion of the mountain, charge of industrial relations for I jO C}j	Trt
It is a perfectly natural occurence.! the company and will talk on “In- ■ • Fv*
explains Dr. Clement^, that has a ■ dustrial Relations Administration.”
striking parallel in the slippage of i Under this main topic he will con-
Point Fermin some years ago. sider the aspects of relations be-
swept the mountain, as if everyone ; There the crack opened to six feet tween industry and labor and re-	. . w . -ed_
were waiting for the inevitable, in the widest places, yet it never sponsibility of employers and em-	colored motion pic-
Pcople speak in whispers, and care- actually tumbled.	olovees	to snow coiorea motion pic
fully watch the slide, lest they miss Whether_the present landslide will ‘ Tickets for the banquet may be ^ns majors'*the uXSty wS
thNewee?S cameramen, reporters. \ alone will tell^says the geologist.™ dean,"lie Bridge^d^om Charles ^-ng^aV^Tm “fuU photographers, geologists, radio an- heavy rain or a sharp earthquake Schweitzer.	hnmp f Claude Buss 3951 Dub-
nouncers. and workmen mingle side could set it in motion. The pres-| price for the dinner will be $1., by side, each with a definite opin- ent movement is probably due to Student engineers with dues cards m aven e'
ion as to what caused the break, the heavy traffic on San Fernando be charged 75 cents. In announcing the program. Dr. Naturally enough, no two ideas are road, which causes slight temblors __________ Buss, associate professor in inter-
PEACE ATTITUDES TO BE INSTITUTE TOPIC
Peace and war attitudes of the United States, European nations, and nations of the Pacific area, and their possible consequences are the subjects for discussion at the Institute of World Affairs, to be held at the Beverly Hills hotel from December 12 to 17, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, chancellor, announced yesterday.	*-----
Featured on the beginning session	Zurich university, Switzerland; Dr.
Sunday, December 12, will be “The	Chih Meng, of New York, who is di-
Constitution—One Hundred Years	rector of the China institute in
After.” Daily sessions and round-	America; and Dr. Brooks Emeny,
table discussions will be followed by	director of the Foreign Affairs coun-
the same.
Dr, Thomas Clements, head of the U.S.C. geology department, attributes the landslide to the meandering of ths L06 Angeles river. The water washing oo the soft sandstone and shale, he says, has voder-
on the mountain.
A portable siren has been placed in the park to scream a warning When the slippage begins. Officers are on guard night and day to blockade the roads and keep visitors from the danger son*.
STAFF MEETING CALLED A meeting of all staff members of the Daily Trojan has been called for the editorial room at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday following the Thanksgiving recess.
national relations, declared that the film Dr. Bogradus will present offers a comprehensive background of the present situation in the Far East. Approximately 40 students comprise the group eligible to attend the meetings.
evening dinner meetings.
“European Problems” will oe the general theme on Monday, to be
cil at Cleveland.
A press and radio conference on world affairs, to be conducted by Mr. Adamantios Th. Polyzoides, will
followed by “Pan Americanism” on bg Qne q{ thg ial features of ^ Tuesday. “Changing Balances of Political Forces in the Pacific,” j “The Constitution and Foreign Affairs,” and “Problems of Universal |
Peace” have been chosen as subject	“meettag of’Th
themes for the balance of the week.
institute, which is sponsored by the Los Angeles University of International Relations.
In addition to the institute there
Association of Colleges and Uni versities of the Pacific Southwes' Joining with the 80 delegates from whose theme will be “The Colleg: 17 universities of the west, under and Its Attitude Toward War anf the directorship oi Dr. Charles E. Peace.” Dr. W. O. Mendenhall Martin of the University of Wash- president of Whittier college, wfll be ington, will be Dr. Adolf Keller, j general chairman.
Spanish civil war if Communist encroachment in Spain can be prevented, a usually well-informed source said tonight.
Hitler’s offer, conveyed to Viscount Halifax of the British cabinet when the latter visited him at Berchtesgaden last week, came upon the heels of reliable reports that Russia is w/lhdrawing material support from the Spanish Loyalists.
Official confirmation of Hitler’s proposal may be made on the floor of the house of commons to'morrow by Prime Minister Neville Chamber-lain who announced that he would appear in parliament to dispell the “mystery” of the Halifax-Hitler conversations.
Lord Halifax, lord president of the council in the cabinet, was received by King George VI at Buckingham palace today and reported to the monarch in detail the results of his German visit.
The report of Hitler’s “complete neutrality” offer could not be confirmed in official quarters because of the close secrecy that enshrouded the Halifax-Hitler subject pending Chamberlain’s speech in commons.
European Authors To Be Discussed at Tea
“Impressions of European Authors” will be the topic of Dr. Lionel Stevenson’s address to be given at the Homecoming tea sponsored by the English and comparative literature departments. The tea, for former students in the two depart-nents. will be Thursday. December ?, at 4 p.m., in the Foyer of Town ind Gown.
Following the tea there will be a 'omparative literature department inner in Elisabeth von KleinSmid lall at 6 p.m. Reservations may be made in the oomparatirs literature office.