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Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, January 6, 1938
Number 61
Justice Intends To Quit
Sutherland Retirement Will Shift Court Balance to Liberals
LEAVES POST
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5—0?)—As- I eociate justice George Sutherland informed president Roosevelt today that he will retire from the supreme court in 13 days, thus definitely shifting the balance of power on the high bench to the libera^ who ha\e| Qeorge Sutherland, associate endorsed most new deal reform leg- justice of the supreme court, lslation.	revealed to President Roose-
High administration officials im- V(?^ +hat he p>ans to retire mediately began a campaign to have w*hIn the next fwo weeks-solicitor general Stanley Reed nam-ed as successor to the 76-year-old British-born jurist, Reed is 63.
VOTES AGAINST NEW DEAL
Sutherland, slight, Gray-bearded master of rhetoric, has been associated with the court's conservative j faction since he was named to the ! bench in 1922. He has voted consistently against new deal legisla- i tion.
For the past six years the jurist j has suffered from recurrent stom- J ach trouble and. it was reported.1
NAVY
PROGRAM
SEEN
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 —(U.P'—
Music Series Prepared
Prominent Supporter To Sponsor Recitals At University
warfare in most of North China after the loss of Taiyuan-Fu. capital of Shansi province, and were reported recently to have captured parts of southern Shansi and other sections.
The Pro-Arte string quartet will' Domei (Japanese) news agency
. . . . „	0__ give a series of five recitals on the asserted in a dispatch from Hang-
considered resigning 15 months ago. ^	th , t.	j chow. 100 miles southwest of here,
Then president Roosevelt opened his U.S.C. campus through the sponsor i	divisions commanded bv
r-imnftien to exoand the member- ship of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague	* ai™10ns c°™manaea -
campaign to expand uie meiuuei r	, ® Liu Chien-Hsu and Chang Fa-Kuei.
ship of the court with a view of Coolidge. who is noted for her gen-	Chinese -ironsides’1
obtaining more favorable rulings on erositv in support of young Amen-	d had ^ tranced alone that the navy supply bUI would **
his controversial program. j can musicians, and activities in the	^ sQuth bank of the chientang j read>' for early congressional action.
ABANDONS PLANS fle’d * mUS,C-	river oelow Hangchow. I Although the conferees declined to
c i r, • mmpHioWv «hnnrion : Mrs Coolidge has sponsored a	u u i- v 'dlscuss details of the white house
SutherUnd	abandon-	^	A new military highway linking meetlnBi „ was underst00d that no
r a	refusal to outt un- >n the United States during the last	the province of Yunnan and Brit- i decision was reached on the number
fire in swlfl succrss]on the i quarter-century. It is through the	ish-controlled Burma was reported or type of new construction which
Summer’* bill ebaling jurists past musical interest of Mrs. Coolidge	completed by travelers arriving the president will ask. The pro-
the age of 7*'to retire on full pay that many unknown musicians have	from Yunnan.Pu at Hong Kong. ! Posed progi-am will supplement that
Chinese Appoint
Cenersl
Former Communist To Lead Detachments In Guerilla Fighting
SHANGHAI, Thursday, Jan. 5— d'.P)—Gen. Kung Ho-Cheng, former commander of the 16th communist i army, was appointed head of all president Roosevelt soon will send mobile Chinese detachments in w COngress a special message urg-North China today to carry on jng expansion of the administra-guerilla warfare against the Japan- tion's “Second-to-none” navy build-ese-	ing program, sharply increasing the
Gen. Kung apparently will colla- 1939 record peace-time national de- : borate with Gen. Chu Teh. “Red tense budget to meet "world con- I Napoleon of China.” who is now ditions over which this nation has commander of the Chinese 8th no control.”
route army, former communist j He outlined his plans today at a troops. They are expected to inten- white house conference attended by ; sify the guerilla tactics of the com- high-ranking naval officials and | munists, which other Chinese arm- house leaders who will guide the j ies have adopted with success be- . program through congress. At the cause of the lengthening Japanese meeting were Charles Edison, as-communication lines.	sistant secretary of the navy, Ad-
The Chinese turned to guerilla ! miral William Leahy, chief of na- ;
val operations, Chairman Edward T. | Taylor, Democrat, Colorado, of the ! house appropriations committee, and j Chairman Carl Vinson, Democrat, Georgia, and William B. Umstead, Democrat, North Carolina, of the | house naval appropriations full and sub-committees, respectively.
“The message will speak for itself,” Taylor said on leaving the white house. He added that it would be sent to the capitol soon and
F.D.R. Asks House Appropriations Cut
President Reduces Own Allotment
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—(LLP) —It will cost $449,910 to maintain the White House and grounds in the 1939 fiscal year,-according to President Roosevelt’s budget.
The funds include the president’s $75,000 salary and $25,000 for traveling expenses, and Vice President John N. Garner’s $15,-000 salary.
The total request is $61,000 below the sum asked for 1937-38. Almost that amount was spent in refurnishing the White House and grounds.
was passed by congress and the j 118611 t0 renown, senate killed the court plan.	j In the group to be offered at U.
Feeling that the court issue is j 5 C’ ^ recttal has on its pro-now ‘ dead.” the jurist today arranged to step off the bench at the end of the January term of court.
He called newspaper reporters together today and handed them a copy of the letter which he had sent to the president. It was brief and direct, saying:
MESSAGE SAYS	,
• Having reached the age of more j11 than 75 years and having held my | commission as associate justice of the supreme court of the United States and served in that court for
gram at least one work of a Californian and also another dedicated to or written especially for Mrs. Coolidge.
The program to be offered on our cam- j pus follows:
I. Sunday. February 27. 4 p.m.
Arthur Honeserer. Third Quartet Randall Thompson, U. of Calif. Howard Hanson
W. A. Mosart. Quartet in B Flat, K I 458
Thursday. March 3. 8 p.m.
Paul Hindemith. Third Quartet T.ouis Grunberg
W. A. Mozart. Quartet in G.. K Sunday. March 6. 4 p.m.
Ill
Arnold Schoenberg. Third Quartet Walter Piston. Second Quartet ... , ,	...	i W. A. Mozart. Quartet in D, K 575 !
16 years, and thus being eligible foi | jy Thursday. March IO. 8 p.m.
Parius Milhaud. Ninth Quartet Roy Harris^ Second Quartet W. A. Mozart. Quartet in A, K 464 Sunday. March 13. 4 p.m.
Bela Bart ok. Fifth Quartet Brescia. Second Quartet
retirement under the Summers Act of March 1. 1937. entitled an act to i provide retirement of justices of the supreme court.’ I desire to avail myself of the rights, privi-1 leges and judicial service specified, in that act; and to that end I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective on and after Tuesday, the 18th day of January. 1938.”
,	anticipated in the 1939 budget sub-
They said the road pared three m^e(j t0 the legislators today which days from the Hong-Kong-Hankow e5t,jmated expenditures needed to (Contmued on Page Four) ; maintain the army> navy and mar_
--iHe corps during the 12 months beginning July 1. at $1,011,435,517, an increase of $75,000,000 over 1938 and $123,000,000 over 1937.
Taylor and other congressional leaders assured the president that the program would be given sympathetic support when Mr. Roosevelt warned 10 days ago that additional ships might be necessary because of world unrest.
The temper of congress wTas shown today, when the house passed a senate bill tightening restrictions on the photographing, mapping, or sketching of military and naval defenses.
Fickle Market Rises, Slumps
Considerable Caution Is Expected In Today's Dealings
Lancers Make Revisions
The solution to the problem of governing the largest organization on the campus received added impetus yesterday, wfhen the Trojan Lancer constitutional committee, after weeks of addition and revision, submitted an approved constitution I for the approval of the non-org ad-| mistrative board.
The committee composed of Jean j Havgood. Frances Dunn. John Rose. a. Mozart. Quartet in c. k 4«5 Emil Sady. and Louis Tarleton suggested nearly 35 changes.
A motion proposed to allow the Cosmopolitan club to co-sponsor the next Lancer dance was unamious-ly passed by the board .The dance, scheduled for Friday, January 14, will be held in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall. Shirley Rothschild, MOSCOW. Oan. a — <l'.P> — The Lancer social chairman, and Eu-
w.
U.S. Involved In Mystery
left the high bench.
Sutherland made no other com-I ment. As reporters raced to telephones to flash the news the jurist mystery of "Mr. and Mrs. Donald gene Choy, president of the Cos-f=trolled calmlv to the bench to re- Louis Robinson.” who are in a So- mopolitan club, will act as chair-I sume routine'work. He will still be vtet prison, became a concern of the men.
eligible for duty on lower courts. United States government aga:n to- plans were also made for a non-| despite his retirement. Justice Willis night when the woman was identi- org assembly. Tuesday, January 11, Van Devanter. sat on the New York fi®d 85 Mrs. Arnold A. Rubens, an jn Administration 206.
District court today in the first case Amerizan citizen.	j__.
that has come before him since he Americans who talked with ‘‘Mrs.
Robinson’’ before she disappeared from Moscow’s National hotel on Dec. 7 definitely identified her from radioed photographs as the former Germantown. Pa., woman.
The U. S. embassy immediately communicated the identification to the state department in Washington and asked instructions.
Thf photographs were radioed The national labor relations board from the state department in Wash-today rejected a petition by the ington to London, thence to Mos-Ford Motor company to reopen its j cow.
Inquiry into labor reiauomin the	-Robinson”
company s plants and thus *«- j ^ ^	,thf samt
S2**1“ ,1 “■ however. He disappeared
Schools Head To Teach Here
Dr. Walter F. Dexter, California state superintendent of public education, will be a member of the Summer Session faculty at U. S. C., Dr. Lester Burton Rogers, dean of the School of Education, announced yesterday.
“Philosophy of Education" and “State and Federal School Reorganization and Administration” will be the two classes taught.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5—(LT.P)— Stocks traced an erratic pattern today with bullish implications of the budget message offset by retirement of Associate Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland and fresh anxiety regarding the nation’s railroads.
Those three factors largely dominated the day’s trading and disclosed that the market was somewhat more sensitive than had been generally believed. As a result, Wall street tonight wras rather uncertain regarding the immediate market trend and considerable caution in tomorrow's dealings was indicated,
STOCKS OPEN HIGH
Stocks opened higher on anticipations of an inflationary tinge in the 1939 fiscal year budget, recated on Sutherland's decision to retire, recovered slightly on disclosure of the actual budget figures and then slumped to close irregular when heaving selling hit rail issues, particularly Baltimore and Ohio.
The president’s budget message was somewhat less inflationary from an actual dollar viewpoint than many traders had anticipated. INFLATION EXPECTED
Nevertheless, the estimate for another sizeable deficit — one that might double because of world political as well as domestic economic conditions — strengthened belief in many quarters that the administration will have to resort to inflation eventually to solve its fiscal problems.
Professional thought the most important sections of the message were those which pointed to possibility that armament expenditures might have to be increased above the $1,000,000,000 budgeted, because of external developments.
BALANCED
BUDGET
UNLIKELY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—(U.P)— President Roosevelt today demanded that congress curtail “pork-barrel’’ spending, warning in his annual budget message that another billion dollars will be needed for relief in 1939 and that the sharp business slump has crushed immediate hopes of a balanced budget.
Patronage-hungry legislators who are facing primaries and elections this year and who have torpedoed previous economy moves by the president, heard his new demands today in silence. The savings tax is poised over such projects as federal aid to highways, reclamation, rivers and harbors and other local undertakings that provide jobs, contracts and other valuable patronage to constituents. The legislators are faced with curtailing this flow of largess and risking reprisal at the polls or continuing it and shouldering a large share of responsibility for an unbalanced budget.
UNDER COVER DRIVE OS An under-cover drive was on tonight to bridge the crisis by making even wider slashes in appropriations than recommended by the president but making the severest cuts in money pointed for pet new1 deal projects, such at the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Few members would comment on the budget message. Chairman John J. O’Connor. Dem., N. Y., of the rules committee, objected to the president's statement that the cost of government in the future cannot be reduced below $7,000,000.-000 annually without eliminating essential services to the people. SHOULD BE CUTTING “There ought to be some cutting in some places and it shouldn’t be on relief,” he said.
Republicans were skeptical of the economy plans. Representative Hamilton Fish, Rep. N. Y„ asked “why should anyone believe in what the president says in his budget messages?” Representative Harold Knutson, Rep., Minn., said that if the president is making a drive toward economy “he deserves the full co-operation of congress.”
ACUA CALIENTE SIEGE' TO END IN COMPROMISE
AGDA CALIENTE. Baja Cal., Jan. 5—(UP)—Embattled workers with visions of becoming shopkeepers and bartenders with free rent for themselves and families were ready tonight to end the “siege of Caliente.”
Entrenched for three days on the grounds of the $6,000,000 American-owned Agua Caliente hotel and spa, the workers promised to withdraw if President Lazaro Cardenas accepts a compromise proposal to allow them to operate shops and bars on the grounds while converting the hotel into a government aviation school.
The proposal was reported “favorably received” by Gov. Col. Ru-dolfo Sanchez Taboada. who forwarded it to Mexico City for Cardenas’ inspection.
Johnson Flays Ludlow Bill
Measure Would Destroy Efficiency of American Diplomacy
Theta
House
Robbed
Third Time No Charm To Sorority Members As $27 Stolen
By Bod Cotefrow
Amazement replaced indignation over losses last night at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house, as 14 girls—and a housemother — puzzled over the incredible antics of the light-footed thief dubbed “Sorority Sam.”
“Sam” made it three in a row over the Thetas last evening, when he completed another successful invasion of their residence, and made off with approximately $27 m currency. True to his tradition, he left not so much as an unlocked window. an opened door, or a muddy footstep.
COMES DURING DINNER
He came some time between 6 and 7 p.m., according to the surprised sorority members, and made away with his loot while the girls were dining a floor below. The purses in all the upstairs rooms were rifled, and only money taken. Evidence of
By United Press
Assistant secretary of war. Louis refined upbringing in the burglar Johnson, tonight indicted the Lud- • was attributed to the fact that low1 bill requiring a referendum for the decaration of war as an instrument that would “destroy the efficacy” of American diplomacy in
New Downtown Courses Opened
Ford Motor Company s Coup Fails
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 —T.P>—
Ford cease and desist from alleged violations of the Wagner labor act.
The board, it was announced, will file a petition with a circuit court of appeal5;—probably in the sixth circuit—asking enforcement of its decision and accompanying order.
The NLRB has charged Ford with discriminating against the United Automobile Workers union, a Corn-
several days before his wife turned up missing.
Today s Organ Program
Archibald Sessions, university organist. will present his semi-weekly mittee for Industrial Organization organ recital at assembly period in n-!filiate, and orrieied the company govard auditorium. The program to reinstate 29 w orkers allegedly dis- pp completed in time for stu-charged for union activity.	dents to reach their 10:25 classes.
The company asked the board The program follows:
Monday to reopen the case.
TT MEETS TONIGHT
Motion pictures will be the key of the YMCA dinner meeting tonight in the Student Union fountain, • p. m., when Ted Lyman, graduate student at U. S. C„ will Siv m fEaitratad talk cm the annual itadent-faculty conference at wMeh he attended dor-after-Ohnstma* weak.
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Suite for Organ____________Honur Bartlett
Choral
Andante
Homer Bartlett is perhaps best remembered for his lovely7 song, “A Dream,” but left to the music world, when he died in 1920, mor* than two hundred and fifty compositions. including several outstanding works for organ.
FimtU it B flM_____C*sm Prmck
Arabs, Jews Flay Britain
JERUSALEM. Jan. 5—(U.P)—Fresh terrorism broke out in the Holy Land late today as warring Jews and Arab leaders turned their criticism upon the British government’s announcement that it intends to carry out its proposed partition of Palestine into sovereign Jewish and Arab states.
foreign affairs and national defense.
Johnson, former national commander of the American Legion, spoke before the army ordinance association at the University club, devoting his entire addres to a scathing denunciation of the proposed constitutional amendment. The measure, now pending before congress, would require congress to receive a mandate from the people before declaring war. except in the case of actual invasion and attack.
FLAYS AMENDMENT
“If such an amendment were to become a part of our constitution, the president would be reduced to a mere figurehead in international affairs,” Johnson asserted. “Our state department, which time and again has by diplomacy kept wars from invading our shores, would be shorn of its influence. Our navy, which guards us against the threats of invasion and protects our interest on the high seas, would be scuttled, our army, which has led us victory in every war, would be licked without firing a shot. So far as an industrial mobilization program is concerned it would be but a futile effort.”
! other contents were carefully returned to their keeping places.
When the robbery was discovered, and the losses counted, the girl with the largest amount of money missing—$8—was Marjorie Twomey. a pledge from Van Nuys. Betty Pier, lucky loser, came out with only 11 cents gone from her handbag.
The mystical “Sorority Sam" first made himself known when he entered the Theta house last November 19. His first effort met with slim gleanings, and he slipped away into the darkness with the small profit of 60 cents.
MAKES BIG HAUL
Apparently believing that dibbling with such small change was beneath his station. “Sam" made his second try at the Pi Beta Phi house, November 22. He made a clean-up at the Pi Phi residence at that time, cleaning up to the extent ot $20, and two weeks later returned to his first love — the Theta domicile—where he extracted a net profit of $21.
Theoretically giddy with suooess, the gentleman thief silently made his third assault on the ill-fated sorority mansion last night, and this time crowned all previous efforts. with the grand “take” of $2T. POLICE CALLED
Police were called in on the case an hour after the crime, but were baffled in the light of nonexistant
A	. i clues. Detective Lieutenant George
He said the president would be Ryan univereity poIice station. powerless under the necessity of a promised protection under the iaw referendum to speak with authority , henceforward> however. Lt. Ryan, in the event of a war crisis, a	SUggest preventive pro-
cedures for future incidents, recommended that household “sentries” be placed on the upper floors during the meal hour.
At the same time, Lt. Ryan apolo-
his “views would be nothing more than his own.”
•NOT REPRESENTATIVE’
“Neither he nor anyone else could
speak in the name of the American ... . . , ,___. . ,
people.” Johnson said. “Neither he !	for not ***** PUced his “en
- i	„ j at the scene of the crime lmmedi-
Ambush attacks on buses and nor anyone e	would ately a*ter the burglary was re-
railroad trains were reported.	vance how the referendum wo	but aceounted for his men.
British courts, functioning under	who. he said, were out somewhere
virtual martial law enforced by “Had there been provisions for checking up on a dead body.
such a referendum in our constitu- j__
tion in 1937,” he added. "The presi- ;
dent would have been hamstrung ^ ^«p >% ■ . ■ « ^ in his efforts to get a satisfactory, BAA ! fcK LAUDb settlement of the Panay incident.’
nearly 10.000 troops, continued to hand down death sentences in a stem effort to stamp out the disorders.
Mohammed Salem El Kantara, 20-year-old Bedouin from Trans-Jordania, was sentenced to detah for smuggling a sack of German and English ammunition into Palestine.
He was the sixth person to be sentenced to death since establishment of the military court on November 18. Of the five only two have been executed, however, the sentence of one having been com-mutd to life imprisonment while two others await execution.
The military tribunals also have sentenced 11 Arabs to long prison terms.
While the court was in session, Hussein Wafiy Hussein, an Arab supernumerary policeman. was
A TRIO OF STAR GAZERS...
G«n«vrevw Jawrtfi, Twnple, Profewor Clemmttaw
ASTRONOMY CLASS STARTS
by Bill Meeves
Inauguration of such attractive subjects as astronomy, navigation, and many others, featured the opening of the new session of University college, downtown division of U. S. C., as it opened its doors to some 5500 students last Monday.
Promising to become even more popular than they are on the University campus, the two courses in astronomy, under the direction of Clarence H. Cleminshaw, professor of astronomy and assistant lecturer at the Griffith observatory, created no small amount of interest and enthusiasm among the students.
Two astronomy courses, both non-mathematical, are being offered this semester, the stellar system and
the solar system. The former, the	. .	, ,
more advanced of the two, deals Are NOW Available particularly with the sun as a star, the nature of the stars, their motions, and their distribution in the universe. The solar system introduces the student to the fundamentals of astronomy, relating especially to the sun, planets, and satellites.
Both courses require occasional visits to the Griffith observatory and planetarium to .help the students identify the stars and constellations, and to understand the apparent motions of tha sun, moon, and planets.
MASTERS
“Edgar Lee Masters is the mar. of one great book,” said Dr. Frank Baxter, of the English department, when speaking of The Spoon River Anthology during the assembly period yesterday.
“Although the book is no longer
YMCA Forum To Discuss Labor Strife
The labor battie of the century will be discussed this afternoon in the Student Union social hall when as distributed as it once appears the YMCA presents a student-fac- to have been, it is still fascinating ulty forum to discuss the strife be- tQ read >» Baxter continued. “The
tween the two leading factions in	.
..	__, .	characters of Spoon River, hundreds
the United States—CIO and AFL.
__ — y T . ,	.	of them—their lives cross-linked
Dr. J. L. Leonard, professor of
economics, will lead the informal	and interwoven as the lives of real gathering in a comprehensive con- j people in a real town—are thrilling-
found slain at the J^itLh Royal ^ sideration of the current uprisings I iy evoked in a few lines of simple force camp at Ramler, where he of jQhn L_	and William	.
was stationed.
verse.
Program Work Sheets
I Green, respective leaders of the CIO i and AFL.	‘ Masters, bom in Kansas in 1869,
In previous student-faculty for-	did newspaper work as a bo> and
ums which the “Y” has sponsored,	studied law under his father.
the problems of a new war, and U.	___
S. neutrality in the Sino-Japanese
Students wishing to secure advice conflict were discussed under the Cl D /■>p .nrpmintr their nrocrams for the leadership of Dr. J. E. Harley ana * lxuucu
Contracts Due
concerning their programs for the ; leadership of Dr. J. E. Harley | next semester should see their ad- j Dr- Robert B. PettengiU, respec-visors before the rush and confu- ! tively.
sion of registration day announced -----, contracts for panels in the 1938
Theron Clark, registrar.	CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TALK H Rodeo for all fraternities, sorori-
Program work sheets are now j Judge Frederick C. Hill will lec- ties, and professional groups must available in the of the registrar and ture before the Christian Science be signed and returned to the El
bulletins concerning the next se- j organization of the University of
mesters work may be obtained in the post office, he further stated.
Credit summeries, Mr. Cark stated, will not be given out until the final registration days.
Southern California, Tuesday, January 11, at 3:30 p. m. The subject of Judge Hill’s address wiE be “Christian Science: The Law of Lite Abundant.”
Rodeo office by February 1, the staff announced yesterday.
Any professional or honorary group that has not yet received contracts may obtain them at tha U Rodeo otfloc