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SOUTHERN
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TROJAN
United Pres* World Wide News Service
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XXVIII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, March 4, 1937
iate Passes y Pittman’s eiitrality
datory, Discretionary actions Compromise On New Measure
Seas’ Demand Beaten
,se To Consider Action iving President Wide Power Next Week
ASHINGTON. March 3 — ,_The senate today over-demands that the United ts maintain a “freedom ihe seas” policy for war * and passed a permanent irality bill that would put imerce with fighting na-S on a "cash and carry”
senting a compromise be-, mandatory and discretionary ility fictions, the measure now to the house, where a bill the president wide discre-f powers is scheduled for ac-Jjnt week.
e senate passed the bill, spon-by Chairman Key Pittman, pcrat, Nevada, of the Foreign to committee. 62 to 6. after I down attempts to strike out restriction provisions and rrise limit presidential discre-
measure is designed to pre-i the United States from becom-involved in foreign wars and replace emergency neutrality >tk® which expires May 1. It
IA mandatory embargo on shlp-i of arms, munitions, and ac-; tapiements of war to belliger-
nations.
■ Authority for the president to Wdltlonal "articles or materials"
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Dives to Films
i Parks To Play or Lancer Dance
^ Parks and his orchestra will Eusic for Trojan non-orgs VUncerdance tomorrow night. f8 sand also provided the music the organizations last social af-itiiich was held in Aeneas hall P* Christmas vacation, indents attending the basket-,Mie Priday night aie invited “ne to our informal dance, ' he held in the social <* Elisabeth von KleinSmid afterwards," stated Phyllis ' '“airman of geheral prepa-“ to the event, yesterday.
*8 at 9 p. m„ the Lancers’ *°cial function of the spring will have an admission charge i C01ts for men, while women , * ‘taltted free. The dance ;Wiunue until midnight.
tinu***1*1 *la,s cal*etl a meeting ! . nts working on the dance h, u m today 111 ll« Student Shirley Rothschild, of decorations, has asked II of her committee to meet < lounge at 2:30 p. m. for ■™t business.
N Semester ASUSC 1 Are Now Available
Ruth Nurmi, uho graduated front U.S.C. lasI month, has decided to give up her diving career, in which she has won wide renown m aquatic circles, in favor of a screen career. She is now studying dramatics in preparation for motion picture work.
—Courtesy L.A. Times
Movies Lure Ruth Nurmi; Alumna To Give up Diving
• Training for the movies will replace training for diving competitions for Ruth Nurmi, February graduate and winner ot many diving championships, who announced Tuesday that she is giving up diving to enter motion pictures.
Not wishing to rush headlong into a career, Miss Nurmi is now spending her time preparing * — herself in every way possible for the screen. She is turning down all offers for screen tests and contracts, and is giving her attention to perfecting individual qualifications by taking make up tests, dramatic coaching, and in other ways fitting herself for a screen career.
A speech and dramatics major.
Miss Nurmi was active in Pi Beta Phi social sorority, serving as scholarship and pledge chairman. In addition to her diving and acting abilities, she is an accomplished pianist.
Miss Nurmi’s diving championships include winning the Southern Pacific championship meet in 1933, the southern California lowboard meet and the California State meet in 1934, and the Far Western championship in 1935 She specialized in the tower and 10-foot diving, and was coached by Fred Cady, U. S. C. swimming coach.
Miss Nurmi entered U S. C a.s a Fresno high school graduate, and her enrollment card indicated an intention of becommg a teachcr.
Contracts Signed For Concert Tour
Prom Tickets Will Be Placed On Sale Today
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i Merle Carlson's Orchestra Will Play for Annual Dance at Riviera
Bids Are Priced at $2.50
Committee Expects Large Attendance at Formal Junior Affair
i Bds for the 1937 Junior Prom, formal dance event ofj j the year, will go on sale this | morning at 10 o’clock whenj j junior council members meet! in the Student Union social hall to receive their quota of! invitations to be sold at $2.50 each, according to an an-i nouncement made last night by Gardiner Pollich, junior [ class president and co-chair-man of the dance committee.
Scheduled for March 12, the prom is to be held at the Riviera Country club, with an expected attendance of 300 couples.
Bids Available Bids have been under the direction of Caroline Everington, Frank Gruys, and Al Passey, committeemen, and will be sold by all members of the junior class council in addition to being made available at the ticket window in the student bookstore.
Merle Carlson and his radio broadcasting orchestra will play for J the prom, which is open to all stu- j dents of the university, both upper ] andn lower division, without the necessity of associated student membership cards.
Formal Dress Dress for the prom will bt strlct-j ly formal, although corsages have been banned by decision of the committee. Decorations are being planned by a committee including I Jack Warner. Ellen Holt, and Adele j Shipkey, and will be in accordance | with the theme, which will be revealed shortly previous to the dance. Favors, which have been secured by Dorothy McCune and Jaye Brower, will also carry out the idea chosen for decorations.
Council members will meet today at 9:55 to distribute bids and make final decisions concerning the prom arrangements.
Fioor Gives Way
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Student Applies Force; O.C. Plattks Break
For years Trojans have been fearing thnt some unsuspecting student would fall through the floor of Old College, and yesterday Henry Stagnaro, commerce student, put an end to the fearful wait. The building lived up to its eccentric character, for it was not the second floor, or the third floor, w'hich failed. It was the basement.
Noticing that his 9 o'clock class was somewhat sleepier than usual Prof R. B. Pettengill, economics instructor, asked if someone would open a window to give the room a little fresh air. When Stagnaro volunteered and started walking toward the window, the floor sagged. but at. first did not give way.
It was only when Stagnaro pushed up on the window to get it open that the boards snapped. In the midst of the sound of splintering wood, he fell more than a foot through the planks.
Senate Near Split On Judiciary Issue
Slight Majority Approves Court Reorganization, Lineup Indicates
WASHINGTON. March 3—(l’.P)— The senate gave indication tonight that it will be about evenly divided
Labor To Begin Unionization of Textile Plants
John L. Lewis Announces
Projected Campaign To Organize Workers
Shoe Industry Drive Opens
Sixty-Hour Working Week ln Southern Factories Told at Flearing
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DETROIT, March 3 —<U.R> —A sit-down strike was called by the United Automobile Workers nf America tonight In the Mack avenue plant of the Briggs Manufacturing company where 14,500 workers are employed in produc-•tion of automobile bodies, chiefly for thc Ford Motor company.
The strike was called shortly j after 11 p. m, and a telegram was | sent to Briggs officials requesting a conference for discussion of | wage, hour. recognition, and j working condition demands.
Homer Martin, president of the IJAWA, charged thc company with failure to live up to an agreement reached with the union several weeks ago and with speeding up the production line.
WASHINGTON, March 3.— (UP)—The sprawling textile industry, scene of a bloody strike in the early days of the
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Prospects for a successful tour of the Trojan band this spring are much more promising than last year, stated Steb Griffith, student director of musical organizations, yesterday following his return from a state-wide booking touur.
Bob Kaneen, student band manager, accompanied Griffith on the 4-day trip which extended over 800 miles. Cities for which contracts were signed include Fresno, Santa Paula, Ventura, Taft, Bakersfield, Delano, and Visalia.
Eighty-five members of the band and singers from the mixed chorus will make the tour beginning early in May. The group will leave Wednesday morning. May 5, returning the following Sunday evening. Buses will be chartered for the excursion.
Rehearsals have already started for the coming concerts. Included
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Opportunlties for recreation lead- ate numbers to be played are nu-ers and physical education teachers merous ultra modern compositions.
will be discussed by Superintendent | ——-
George Hjelte of the Los Angeles j Playground and Recreation association at 9:55 a. m. in 200 Physical Education ln the first of two as-j scmblies scheduled today for phy-; sical education majors.
Martin Trieb, assistant superin-tendent of physical education in Los Angeles city schools, will demonstrate modern German expressive gymnastics at the second assembly, in 200 Physical Education at 1:30 I p. m This is Trieb’s second lec-i ture on campus this week. He will continue his demonstration of thc I older system begun last Tuesday.
L.A. Playground Head To Speak
Deadline Reset For Filling out Activity Blanks
Extension of the deadline for filling out application cards as a means of a student’s being included tn ASUSC activities next year was announced yesterday by Norm Johnson, student body president. The move came as the result of many requests received in the ASUSC office, he explained.
Almost 200 applicants had filled the blanks by yesterday, which puts them in line for committee work next year. It lias been made obligatory that anyone desiring work of this nature In the future must fill out one of the cards which lists the applicant s name, interests, experience, and affiliations.
Johnson added that letters have been sent to all of the fraternities and sororities explaining details of the new plan and asking them to cooperate.
when it begins formal consideration 1 New Deal, has been selected of President Roosevelt's Judiciary j by John L. Lewis and his aides as the next target of the CIO drive to unionize mass production workers, it was learned tonight.
The textile campaign will be opened as soon as CIO leaders complete current negotiations in steel, automobile, and coal, the United Press was informed. Lewis meantime struck in still another quarter today by initiating a drive in the shoe industry.
Few Unionized More than 1,000,000 workers toll in the textile industry. The United Textile workers, which left the American Federation of Labor to associate with the CIO, has succeeded in unionizing fewer than 100,000 ol them.
Representative Henry Ellenbogcn, D., Pennsylvania, author of the proposed national textile act, said hearings on the measure brought testimony that some workers in tlie South toiled as long a« 60 hours a week while hours in tlie northern factories ranged from 44 to 52 hours weekly. He estimated the average work week for the entire Industry was between 48 and 50 hours.
Urge 40-Hour Week Establishment of a 40-hour week in textiles and success by the un-
reorganization plan and that pub lie opinion may actually decide the issue.
The senate judiciary committee begins pubilc hearings March 10, with Attorney General Homer S Cummings, Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson, and Henry Ward Beer, president of the New York Federal Bar association as the opening administration witnesses.
The factional lineup tonight stood: 31 pledged and 18 inclined to the president's plan, a total of 49, a bare majority; 33 pledged and nine Inclined against lt, a total of 42; five still uncommitted.
The plan is to give proponents of the president's bill three days for testimony and to begin calling opposition witnesses March 15.
Developments ol the day in eluded:
1.	A caucus vote of Pennsylvania's 27 house Democrats to support the president’s program as a unit. Similar action by Pennsylvania in support of Rep, Sam Rayburn. Democrat, Texas, during the contest for majority leader started a bandwagon movement that resulted in Rayburn’s selection.
2.	A radio speech by Rep Arthur P. Lamneck. Democrat, Ohio, attacking the plan.
Maurice Atkinson, one of the m.im-
'lays ol TroyJs forensic learn, uill toin uith h.mini,itc Sterling l.itmg-'ion to debate Stanford representatives in Hoiard auditorium tonight.
Judge Gavin Craig Offers Resignation
j Legislators Hope To Evade Hearing as Prisoner Yields Position
I SACRAMENTO, March 3— j Announcement today of the resignation of Judge Gavin W, Craig led California legislators to hope for evasion of a long impeachment hearing before a Joint meeting of both houses.
The lawmakers had planned starting the hearing Monday on a Joint resolution calling for Craig’s removal from office. The justice is serving a year’s sentence on a federal charge of conspiring to obstruct Justice in the Italo Petroleum fraud case.
Plans for the hearing will not be abandoned until Craig’s resolution has been accepted by Gov. Frank F. Merriam. It was believed that if the resignation was conditional, Merriam would not accept lt.
Judge Craig, ln the Sacramento county Jail, said his resignation was "absolutely unconditional,” tendered because he did not have the opportunity or funds to prepare an adequate defense to present to the legislature.
He insisted he was innocent of the conspiracy charge, and said he felt certain he would be vindicated, linally. He did not desire, however, to face a legislative hearing without the proper amount of preparation.
String Quartet Offers Musical Program Today
WAA Party Date Will Be Set at Meeting Tonight
A definite date for the twice-postponed WAA weekend mountain party will be set at the meeting of the cabinet in the social hall of the Student Union, at 7:30 tonight, under the chairmanship of Dorothy McCune,
Nominations ol next terms officers will also be discussed by the group.
Mohme Pictures Germany’s State Unification Process
Tracing developments in national history, from the time of the German hero, Herman, to the present day, Dr. Erwin T. Mohme reconstructed the details pointing toward “The Unification of Germany'’ before a large audience at the Wednesday lecture, held yesterday in the art and lecture room of Doheny Memorial library. ♦man, who m 9 b. c. gathered to-The story of the conversion of gether the tribes and successfully 200 separate states into 18 during repelled the invading Romans He a period of 19 centuries was re- has since remained a symbol of lated by the German professor Oerman unity. With each new ■ There is still a certain tension wave of nationalism, his memory existing among the various com- has been celebrated. Finally ln ponent states. Concessions have to 1871, when Bismarck was organizing be made by the central power to the states in a drive against the satisfy each one.” he said	French, a monument was erected
A complete unification is in sight, to him however according to the educator, j The influence of the Holy Ro-Dissolution of provincial armies, re- man Empire is another powerful apportionment of representation in 1 force whose impact Is still being the -diet"—such trends a-s these . telt, declared Dr Mohme Tlie indicate a closer union in the fu- I Protestant reformation which fol-ture	| lowed, split the county into religious
First movement toward the 1 factions which prevented a complete drawp-out process was led by Her- I unity.
British Commence Naval Construction
LONDON March 3—(I'.Hl— Great Britain tonight drove the first spike In her seven and a half billion dollar program to rebuild her former prestige as "mistress of the seas"— a $500,000,000 naval bill for battleship and aircraft construction during 1937. which the admiralty laid before the house of commons.
Determined to regain beyond any question her one-time might as the world's strongest sea power, British naval experts Jacked up estimates to more than $118,000,000 above last year's naval building costs.
The estimates marked the first step in a vast $7,500,000,000 navel I armaments program upon which Britain has embarked over a five-j year period.
i Britain's current naval bill is only sightly smaller than that of the United States, which calls for $563,996,359 to be spent during the I current year on increasing and | maintaining the fleet.
string quartet will add variety ion in obtaining a general wage in- | to the weekly student recital of the crease would add millions to the , School of Music at 12:45 o’clock to-
industry’s weekly payroll, authorities said.
High government officials placed considerable Importance on the establishment of the 40-hour week and the award of higher wages of the steel industry and the announced willingness of the General Elec-
day in the recital hall of the School of Music building.
The quartet, conducted by Davol Sanders of the music faculty, will play the andante con moto and minuet allegretto movements of the Quartet XIV by Mozart.
Members of the quartet include trie company to discuss a national j Edna Levy, first violin; Carolyn collective bargaining agreement Helms, second violin; Frances Ghlse,
with the United Electrical and Radio Workers a CIO affiliate. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C.
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viola; und Harriett Seineke. violin cello. Mrs. Levy Is concert master of the U. S. C. orchestra and of the Glendale Symphony orchestra.
H^SGi4 Heads Ash Women Workers To File Reports
I Signed time slips of work done during the past week by girls working for activity points must be turned in to the WSGA office, 234 Student Union, tomorrow from 10 ! a m. until 12:15 p. m., according to ; Ellen Holt, vice-president of WSGA •'No slips for work done will be accepted at any other time than that specified for point reoording,’’ said Min jiolt yesterday.
Poet Tells Plan To Hasten Death With Chemical Bath
ROME, Thursday. March 4— (UP)— Gabrlelle d’Annunzio, famous poet-dramatlst and ardent disciple of Fascism, has determined to dissolve his body in a powerful chemical when he feels death approaching, an intimate friend of the war-rior-bard told the United Press today.
A foreshadowing of the poet’s re-♦often expressed a determination not ported plan to remove all traces to die In bed of old age and ail-of his body was given Italians when ments like ordinary human beings he wrote his friend General Achlelle after living the life of a "super-Starace, secretary of the Fascist I man."
party:	j He has always expressed a desire
"1 am an old man and sick; so to die as a hero on battle. He I am going to hasten my end. ^ asked to be attached to a death Disdaining to agonize between bed squadron" composed of filers who sheets. I am testing my last In- j volunteered to die by crashing
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Varsity Debate Team To Meet Indians Tonight
Atkinson, Livingston Will Represent Troy in Forensic Battle
Groman Named Chairman
U.S.C. Men Io Make First
Campus Showing Sincr Denver Triumph
Making their first appearance since they won the debate championship of the Rocky Mountain Speech conference at the University of Denver two weeks ago. Maurice Atkinson and Sterling Livingston, U. S. C. forensics team, will meet Stanford debaters tonight in Bovard auditorium at 8 o'clock.
The Indians, who sre debating here for the first time this year, will be represented by Gerald Marcus and Edward Lindblom, Indicative of the forensic ability of the Stanford pair ts the debating record that these men have established this year.
Debater Plans Tour
Lindblom is manager of thc Palo Alto team and earlier in the winter was a member of the Stanford squad that carried on a transcontinental debate with Princeton university. Marcus ts expected to be one of the Indian debaters who will make a speaking trip through Central America this spring.
Arthur Groman, president of the Delta Sigma Rho forensic fraternity and last year's varsity debate captain. will be chairman for the evening. Groman is a freshman In law school.
The topic for discussion will be the PI Kappa Delta Issue, “Resolved: that congress should be empowered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry," s subject that Is pertinent to present national labor affairs.
Honors Won
In addition to winning the debate championship at the Denver convention, Atkinson and Llvlngstoo achieved Individual honors in extempore and oratorical contests. Atkinson took first ln oratory and second ln extempore while Livingston was fourth and third in these events.
Both men are junior college transfers. Atkinson is from Long Beach Junior college, while Livingston took his earlier college training al Glendale.
Frosh Debaters Meet Pasadena Ioday
Freshman debaters will meet Pasadena Junior college at 3:15 this afternoon ln the law auditorium tc debate the question "Resolved: that congress should fix minimum wages and maximum hours for Industry.'
Since this will be the first meet of the spring semester for the Trojan frosh, two teams have been chosen for the competition. Both teams will debate the same question with one taking the negative against the Bulldogs and the other taking the affirmative. Ed Jones and James Merritt compose the first team, while Bill Barton and Mort Brigadier will meet the second squad from Pasadena.
On Monday night Merritt and Jones will meet Riverside on the same question. Debates are now being arranged with many southern California junior colleges for the remainder of the semester.
vention.”
This invention, according to the poet's friend, is a chemical bath capable of causing instant death by destroying the tissues of the human body withm a few minutes. The formula for the compound was devised by the poet, who now is reportedly engaged in carrying out final tests.
It was recalled that D'Annunzio, who will be 74 years old. March 12,
bomb-laden airplanes into British warships in the Mediterranean at a time when there appeared a possibility the Italian-Britlsh controversy over Ethiopia would have resulted in war.
It was reported that D'Annunzio's request was accepted. Having missed this chance, lt Is understood that the poet resorted to the idea of dying by volatilizing his body by a chemical.
Rooters Tickets for Game Friday Night Now Selling In University Bookstore
Students desiring 25-cent rooters tickets for the last U. S. C.- U. C. L. A. basketball game of the season Friday evening, must purchase them by 4 p. m. tomorrow in the bookstore, Mrs Marie Poetker, cashier, announced yesterday.
Faculty members must also secure their tickets by this time, and tt will be necessary to show a student body card to purchase a rooter's ticket, it was said.
No student tickets will be sold at the Pan-Pacific auditorium tomorrow night, but reserved seats will be avaUable at 7$ cents and box seats at $119.