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SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Pres*
World Wide News Service Z-42
Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Monday, March 28, 1938
Number 107
Rebels Enter atalonia
Morgenthau Announces United States Will Stop Buying Mexican Silver
WASHINGTON. March 27—(U.P.)—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., announced tonight that the Unit-*	ed States has abrogated its Mexican silver purchase agree-
Fraga, Gale lo Barcelona, ment. effective April 1, but declined to confirm or deny re-Surrenders lo Franco's P°rts the action resulted from Mexico’s expropriation of Am-
Sleamroiler Tactics
erican oil properties Morgenthau. who is vactlotting at Sea Island, Ga.. issued a 38-word WITH THE NATIONALISTS. IN statement through the treasury, ATALONIA. Spain. Monday. March confirming earlier United Press dis-— Generalissimo Francisco patches that the agreement between franco’s Moroccan vanguard the two countries had been termin-shing its way into Catalonia ated or deferred (trough the Loyalists' ‘Lenin line”! said: steel and concrete, today entered )e stronghold of Fraga.
neighbor” policy.
He now is represented as feeling that “good neighborliness” has been dealt a serious blow and that Mexico acted too hastily.
It also was reported tonight that The statement the southern republic’s confiscation of the oil properties had caused a “In view of the decision of the suspension of negotiations affecting government of the United States to border lands along the Rio Grande
ORLD’S BIGGEST AIR RAID I re-examine certain of its financial ! Under the silver purchase ar
\a fleet of 160 Insurgent planes_ an<* commercial relationships with rangement which was negotiated last
bablv the greatest air armada Mexico, the treasury will defer con- December by Mexican Finance Miner to raid a city in the history of tinuation of the monthly silver pur- ister Eduardo Suarez, the United
rial warfare_bombed Fraga at 2 chase arrangements with Mexico States treasury makes monthly pur
m. with enormous damage, the until further notice.”	chases of Mexico's newly-mined sil-
valist war office in Barcelona an- Other treasury officials declined ver at the New York price of ap junced Four Insurgent planes to discuss the action, but were und-; proximately 444 cents an ounce ere said to have completely de- erstood to feel that inasmuch as Mexico is paid for the silver in roved the villagr of Rosell near Mexico's expropriation move was American dollars which are used in arrafona	accompanied by monetary steps to making commodity purchases in the
devalue the peso, Mexico has com- United States.
Fraga. a town of 7.500 population mjtted a moral violation of the sil- Although the agreement did not i the east bank of the Cinca river ver agreement. It has been in effect specify the amount of the monthly
since January 1 and has been a ma- ; purchases, the treasury has follow-jor factor in maintaining the sta- j ed the practice of taking 5,000,000 bility of Mexico’s currency system. | ounces each month.
Officials pointed out that the sil- i Since the first of the year, 15,-ver understanding was entered in 000.000 ounces have been purchased, to by the United States strictly on j When the understanding was a "favor basis.” and that Secretary reached Secretary of the Treasury AGA CAPTURED	of State Cordell Hull believed it was Henry Morgenthau Jr., agreed to
Nationalist radio stations an- one of the largest single contribU- make an immediate purchase of unced the capture of Fraga at tions by this government to further- 35.000,000 ounces which had accu-
here the Loyalist armies made a sperate effort to throw back nco's forces and prevent them iom setting foot on Catalonian soil V the first time smce the civil ir broke out. is at the gateway to e Loyalist capital of Barcelona.
idnight after its evacuation by vemment forces under the bom-rdment of 160 Nationalist bomb-planes operating in the greatest attack reportedly in the his-of aerial warfare.
stward from Fraga. 16 miles the broad highway leading Franco's Saragossa base to elona. lies Lerida. the general ■dquarters of the Loyalist com-nder-in-chief. Gen. Sebastian *.
NCO ADVANCES
ance of the administration’s “good | mulated in the Mexican treasury.
International Night Banquet Is Thursday; Henley Will Speak
W. Ballentine Henley will act as guest speaker at the fifth annual International Night banquet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. a's fall to Franco, gave him Tbe dinner will be served at the University Methodist church
miles advance along the high-ln nine days, after the “Lenin ” of fortifications four miles in th crumbled under the weight the Nationalists' tremendous on-gnt by land and air.
*arded Moroccans and speedy orized units, followed by infan-divisions. crossed the Cinca river 'er murderous fire late Sunday
and Gardiner Pollich, student body president, will act as
-* toastmaster.
“Henry Flynn, president-elect of ASUSC and other campus notables | are expected to be present,” says Bob Matzke. president of the campus YMCA.
"The purpose of the International
The intricacies in the technique	banquet is practice inter-
national relations rather than
Aviation Club Will Have Booth In Air Show
first seized the Catalonain tovn of flying an .lrplan. rtU be ex-	^ them wlthout rMtlcal
assalcorreig four miles south of plained by members of the U.S.C. n ti .. h exDlained -L hone
i Aviation club at the third annual aPPllcatlon- explained^ We hope ..	„ . . . . ... to weave a closer friendship with ___________________ Aircraft and Boat show which is be- , ,	,	, . .
roR r,R,-T T,ME mg held at the Pan-Paciflc auditor- °” ,0™*n b,mh'rs. and s,stCT on ot since the war broke out ln ,um [rom A ,, 2.10 mduslve	and off the campus.
, 1936, had Franco's troops pene- j	Entertainment will consist of for-
A special booth has been assigned eign S0ngS and dances presented by to the club to be run in conjunction j VjS C studente. natives of the coun-
continued on page four
AA Makes ominations
with representatives of the Nation- trles they represent.
al Aeronautical association. Besides demonstrating various points in the operation of airplanes, the men supervising the booth will explain the purposes and activities of the two organizations.
Members of the School of International Relations will be welcomed by Matzke who hopes all fraternities and sororities will be represented.
:ik> Hallingby, active president j pians for the
are under the	Gerrran Flying Boat
he v AA. announces that there direction of Gladys O'Donnell, N.A.	. _
be a nomination tea tomorrow ^ representative. Earl Hill, and	Starts Atlantic Hop
the Student Union social hall Marshall Benedict, faculty advisor	j _ __ _ -
i:30 p.m. All Trojan coeds are and secretary of the U.S.C. Aviation	DARTMOUTH. England. March
ted to attend by Miss Hallingby. i club respectively	27—<r.E>—The German flying boat
lma Dunn, member of Delta *__
Delta
LA TERTl LIAS’S TO DINE
social sorority, and ia Psi Kappa, physical education essional society, has been nom- Members of La Tertulia, Spanish ed as president of the Women's language club, will meet for lunch-etic association.
DO-18, launched four miles from Dartmouth harbor, was understood to be attempting to fly non-stop to Buenos Aires within 48 hours. Weather was most favorable for the
eon at Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall	start.
today at 12:15 p.m. announces Prof.	After launching the DO-18, the
Katherine Stillwell, instructor in the	German battleship Westfalen sailed
Spanish department.	for Rio De Janiero.
Iher cabinet nominees are: y Bradish. vice-president; Kay -well, secretary; Frances Pad-
treasurer; and Man- Borevitz. ——--—.-—---
vity recorder. During the tea . . . f	.	_	41*
r nominations will be accepted Amheim S JUniOT PrOfTI MUSIC the floor.
is Bernice Finger. WAA ad- To Be Broadcast From Foyer
suggests that all aspiring 'idates check on qualifications Troy will go on the air Friday night when music from the office, which include: active Junior Prom is broadcast from the local station of a national ibeiship in waa and a scho- broadcasting company, announces Bob McKnight, junior class c average of 1. Nominees for president, ident should have an average 3.
Nippon
Advance
Blocked
Chinese Detachments Recross Yellow River To Hall Japanese
SHANGHAI, Monday, March 28— (l'.P)—Japanese admitted today that Chinese detachments had re-crossed the Yellow river in North Central China and that 10.000 Chinese were blocking the Japanese advance.
“Rivers of blood are washing the borders of Shansi and Shantung provinces.” a Japanese report said.
The Japanese army threatened to bomb the American Presbyterian mission at I-Chow, which is in Shantung province, unless Chinese troops leave its vicinity, the United Press correspondent at Peiping reported.
DOZEN TOWNS RECAPTURED
Chinese claimed the recapture of a dozen towns as the greatest Chinese counter-offensive smashed at the Japanese at five points in the north central area.
More than 80 Japanese planes bombed the Hankow and Wuchang airdromes up the Yangtse river Sunday in Central China’s biggest air raid.
A spokesman for Lieut. Gen. Count Juichi Terauchi, Japanese commander in North China, announced that the U. S. embassy had been informed that Chinese troops were massing near the mission and that unless they left the vicinity the Japanese air forces may bomb them regardless of possible damage to the mission.
AMERICANS THREATENED
The embassy understood that Miss Margaret Winslett. Miss Katharine Hand. Dr. Benjamin Harding, and Kenneth Wilson, all Americans, were in the mission, which is flying American flags on all its buildings.
The Japanese repeatedly have charged that Chinese forces in the Lung-Hai area are seeking protection by massing around foreign properties since they have learned that the Japanese will not bomb premises flying foreign flags. Jack Bel-den. United Press correspondent with the Chinese, has confirmed these reports.
A German mission in the area already has been bombed and sev-coiillnued on page four
Henry Flynn To Lead ASUSC; Holme, Bartholomew Chosen
New Student Body Officials
Henry Flynn, Betty Jane Bartholomew, and Nancy Holme, who Friday were elected to the offices of ASUSC president, vice-president, and secretary, respectively. Voting was said by Bob Rothschild, commissioner of elections, to be the heaviest in the history of the university.
Ventriloquist s Dummy Steals Show' During ASUSC Vote-Counting
Charlie McCarthy, wooden-topped little ventriloquist’s dummy, almost “stole the show” during Friday’s vote-count-ing of the hottest U.S.C. election in years.
Charlie—along with a Russian dictator, a law school professor, a couple of cartoon characters, and a child movie star
—just couldn't stay out of the lime-* light, and so persisted in offering opposition to Ron Cooley, ostensibly the only candidate in the running for U.S.C. yell king.
Although Cooley easily earned the title he sought, with a total of 1347 votes, McCarthy tagged along with a surprising number of 398 write-in choices, and managed to make things most perplexing for Bob Rothschild, commissioner of elections, and his numerous deputy commissioners.
Such complicated doings weren’t expected by those tallying the votes, and they were doing quite well until one of the poll counters yelled:
“Hey! Here’s one for Charlie McCarthy!”
The sober-minded commissioners, numbers one to thirteen, gathered ’round. At length, one commissioner triumphantly pointed out that the ballot was written-in in pencil, and hence the ballot must be thrown out. This was objected to by other commissioners, who insisted that the whole thing was only a “gag,” and must not be allowed to interfere with regular elections procedure.
Finally Gardiner Pollich, ASUSC president, ruled that the votes be counted.
By the time the last vote had been read, not only Charlie, but Josef Stalin, Donald Duck, Popeye, Shirley Temple, and Prof. Orville Cock-erill of the School of Law had had their share of the tallies.
Civic Croup To Meet Here
Annual Conference Will Be Sponsored By Government School
HugeNumber Of Votes Are Polled
Henry Flynn—1390 votes.
Bob McKnight—782 votes.
Thus did a record number cf Trojan voters express their political preference Friday by electing Henry Flynn ASUSC president by a majority of 608 votes.
Betty Jane Bartholomew, whose candidacy was unopposed, polled 2010 votes to win the ASUSC vicepresidency.
HOLME VICTORIOUS
Nancy Holme received 361 votes more than Kay Young, her opponent, and won the office of ASUSC secretary by a ballot of 1251 to 911.
Ron Cooley, sole contender for the right to lead the Trojan rooting sections during the following year, received 1347 votes confirming his election. Cooley met surprise opposition, however, from a flock of ficticious write-in candidates, for whom voters had cast their ballots ‘as a joke.”
POSITIONS UNCONTESTED
More than 1200 votes each were cast for Dick Bendheim and Kenneth Sieling to give them the two uncontested posts of assistant yell leaders. Complete returns were not available.
Frank Gruys became president of the senior class in a closely contested match with Don McCallister and Ronald Briggs. Leading his
Meeting for the eighth time on
the U.S.C. campus, the members of	nearest rival by 199 ballots. Dick
the Women’s Civic conference will	Barton gained the presidency of the
convene Thursday. i	junior class. John Gripman will
The group is sponsored by the	lead the sophomore class after out-
School of Government and directed	distancing his nearest opponent,
through the co-ordination office of	Cnar,es Johnstone by 33 votes,
the university.	SLATTERY, KEEFE WIN
Plans for this year include:	Jack Slattery and Dick Keefe be-
9:00 a.m. Registration, Adminis-	came Presidents of the College of
tration building.	Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and the
Ron Cooley
Brokerage Clerks Work on Accounts
Gus Arnheim's “Say It With Music” theme song will go
--—----•♦cut over the air waves to introduce
to the radio audience the Trojan j formal dance event of the year. Ar-1 rangsments for the half-hour broadcast are bemg made by Jack Slattery. with special connections being Four new instructors were added installed in the Town and Gown
Tangements for the nomination will be handled by Miss Dunn.
Miss Hallingby will be chair-of .the meeting. Members of physical education faculty will esent. including Misses Finger,
Jane Hungerford. Lenore to Uie University College staff at fover fcr the occasion. lh. and Marjorie Fish.
Downtown Staff Is Enlarged
kes May Be Called S.F. Newspapers
Eliot s Works To Be Read
Thomas Stearns Eliot, the poet who, says Dr. Frank Baxter, English professor, “composes from his mind and not from his heart,” will be the subject of the last poetry reading before Easter vacation,
Wednesday morning in Bovard auditorium.
The author, who is best known as T. S. Eliot, was born in St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1888. He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Merton college. Oxford . Since 1914 he has lived in England, where he is now editor of the Criterion and where he is very influential as a literary critic.
Eliot has published four volumes of critical prose, “The Sacred W’ood,” “Homage to John Dryden,”
For Lancelot Andrewes,” and “Dante.” He has also written many important articles and introductions to edited works.
His first book of poems was “Pru-frock." published in London in 1917.
“Poems” (1920) and “The Waste Land” (1922) received wide attention from the critics, mostly hostile. The $10,000 prize for her first novel would be spent upon the education of her four children.
The novel, “Young Doctor Galahad,” which was chosen
from more than 1000 entries in a
9:30 a.m. General assembly, Bovard auditorium.
12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Foyer of Town and Gown.
1:40 p.m. Panels and round table discussions.
3:00 p.m. General assembly, Bovard auditorium.
Members of the conference will have as speakers members of the U. S.C, faculty; included are: Dr. Carlton C. Rodee, assistant professor of public administration; Adamantios Th. Polyzoides. lecturer in international relations; Dr. Clayton Douglas Carus, professor of foreign trade; Dr. John M. Pfiffner, professor of public administration; Dr. Arthur S. Raubenheimer, dean of College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences; Dr. Joy L. Leonard, professor of economics.
Using as its theme “Fancies, Facts, and Freedom” in relation to government, the group will meet for a one day program.
NEW YORK, March 27 —<U.P>—
Brokerage clerks worked all day today scanning customers’ accounts after last week’s market decline which wiped out 12 per cent of previous market values and sent the list | w/	T<^ to the lowest levels since early 1S35. VY aFTlpU5 I O D6 Traders also were further confus- I ed by the treasury’s decision today to suspend purchases of Mexican silver.
Missouri Housewife Is Winner Of $10,000 Prize for Novel
MOBERLY, Mo.. March 27—(U.P.)—Elizabeth Seifert, who is Mrs. John Gasparotti in private life, said today that the
Sold Wednesday
Wampus Editor Jack Warner last night declared he was ready to swear out affadavits stating that the March edition of the humor magazine will appear Wednesday.
“Yes, I am certain that we will 1 senberg.
appearance in 1925 of “Poems; 1909-1925" caused opinion ot change, however, and he is nowr regarded as representative of a new generation and tradition.
Other works by Eliot are “An Essay of Poetic Drama,” 1928; “Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca." 1928; and “Ash Wednesday,” 1930.
Theta Sigma Phi Has Luncheon Today
“We Cover the War” by Lyons
the beg.nning of the spring seme?- j Bids for the prom may be bought ter last week. Dr. E. W. Tiegs. desn	from any junior council member, or Oi the college, announces.	at, the cashier’s office in the student Georgia P. Bulloei. judge of the	boo’^istore. They are selling for $2.50 and "Ladies of the Press” by Ish- j superior court at Los Angeles, vili	each. Eariv sale of the bids indi- bel Ross will be reviewed at today’s ! teach a course dealing with women’s	cales that this year's prcm will be bi-weekly luncheon meeting of wo- j le^al rights in Cai.fomia,	attended bv approximately 800 Tro- • men in journalism w'hich is spon- ! N FRANCISCO. March 27—C.P> Paul R. H-lesl. prcf^sor of phli-	jrns. se; r. Tom Dwiggins, invitation sored by Theta Sigma Phi, national j executive committee of tl\e osophy at Univa.^ii.y Pr.rk. will in-	ch-'—*v»»y honorary and profsssional journal- j thern California Newspaper struct in ‘ Person?ii m. P.u’ocep-:; ."	a “C;lonial Ec^ter” theme will be ism sorority. Cecile Hallingby. protonight was authorized by Dean Emon1 E'.iiis Cron. £c’:cel	c'r-l»d or. z‘ the dsnc\ with Bill g^am cheirmen of the organization, embership by a 247 to 16 vote of Government, will on'^r a cov.rc?	c-'-ir frrrv.' t!:e recora. ons. v.'ill present the d;al took review.
11 a strike against four Sen in politics and a'mii^strc >:i.	t r” Q-.il m are ratty Jcne The luncheon will be served in
’sco nevrs'japers and one in Robert W. S n. dir:r rr of pro-	B~r',>o!omev. Fai, Pcilly. Emma Ee- Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall at
nd in even’ negotiations rcach f.r.'rr.s ?r rrr o Bts Son ffl	v C Lrnnn Ri:?sell. 12:30 p.m. today. Chairman Icne
ins.ruct in a ccuise c.erlln'T —lh	Bo> I’rer. an-' Cl'r.r!cs Col den. Hooven announces that women who
the management and technique Oi	Frfuang to t:ll any details about jwish to attend should sign the bul-
raaio broadcart ng.	ilie f?.vorr. Mary Jc Davis and Kay letin board in the women's office of
It is not yet too late to enter into	Alfs. favors chairmen, say only that t the Daily Trojan by assembly period University College spring classes, j they will be “emblematic of Troy, today. The price of the luncheon Dr. Tiegs said Friday. i yet in keeping with the theme." , w-ill be 40 cents.
passe.
papers whose guild units vot-the Chronicle. Examiner, and Call-Bulletin in San cisco, and the Post - Enquirer in
Tomorrows Organ Program
Archibald Sessions, university organist, will play selections from the w'orks of Wagner and Dupre in the regular Tuesday morning organ recital in Bovard auditorium tomorrow during assembly period.
Good Friday Spell __________________ Wagner
Resurrection from
Passion Symphony .............. Dupre
(Sometimes called Parsifal)
Wagner’s “Good Friday Spell” is the story of the discovery of magic existing every year on Good Friday. The music tells how7 in tranquil ecstasy, Parsife.l gazes at the fcrest and the fields new glowing in the mcrn ng light. Over the lulling harmonies, the oboe gives out the equisite theme of nature redeemed.
The second part will be “Resurrection" from Dupre’s “Passion Symphony.” It is a triumphant finale from the woe and suffering of Calvary.
be prepared to circulate our surefire publication by Wednesday,” Warner said. “Ill readily swear out an affadavit to the same—if. however, I can include an ‘act of God’ clause, of course.”
“What do you mean, ‘act of God’ clause?” a cynical bystander asked, contest sponsored by Dodd, Mead “Well, if it rains, or there is ar. and company, publishers, and Red earthquake, or aqpther flood comes, Book magazine, took three years to 1 or the busines staff fails us, that’s
f	an act of God,” Warner glibly ex-
write in spare time from housework pjajned
“But don’t worry,” he assured reporters, “these kind of things seldom
and caring for her family, the 40-year-old housewife said:
College of Commerce, respectively.
Although a record number of ballots were cast in Friday’s elections. Bob Rothschild, commissioner of elections, stated that infractions of voting procedure were at a minimum.
Unofficial returns for all ASUSC. college, and class elections are as follows:
FLYNN CHOSEN
ASUSC president — Henry Flynn 1390; Bob McKnight. 782.
ASUSC vice-president — Betty Jane Bartholomew, 2010.
ASUSC secretary — Nancy Holme, 1251; Kay Young. 890.
Yell king — Ron Cooley, 1347; Charlie McCarthy, 398; Orville Cockerill. 61.
Assistant yell leader — Kenneth Sieling and Dick Bendheim. (Complete returns were not available.)
Senior class president — Frank Gruys. 191; Don McCallister, 159; Ronald Briggs. 121.
Junior class president — Dick Barton. 284; Fred May, 85; Edward Jones. 61.
Sophomore class president —John Gripmain, 150; Charles Johnstone, 117; Herb Brown, 67; Gordon Wright. 58.
j TERNSTROM ELECTED
College of Architecture and Fine Arts—President: Clint Ternstrom, 82; Freeland Simms. 42. Vice-president: Pat Culver, 66; Peggy Fitzgerrell, 57. Secretary: Julia Wes-119. Treasurer: Jimmy Talcott, 81: Harold Olson. 40.
College of Commerce—President: Richard Keefe, 300; Richard Hal-pem, 129; Tom Dwiggins. 72. Vice-president: Esther Morrison. 247; Barbara Summers, 237. Secretary: Mary Eckhoff, 273; Jean Frampton, 198. Treasurer: Wayne Reeves, 331; Byron Schwartz, 138.
College of Engineering—President: Richard Caldwell, 127. Vice-presi-continued on page four
“It was the first thing I ever had I happen. Of course, last week—but
tried to sell, but I have another ready,” she said.
Her husband is a refrigeration engineer. Her children, three boys and a girl, range in age from 12 to 17 years. She has lived in Moberly, a city of 13,000. for 13 years.
On Saturday Miss Seifert leaves
there’s no milk.”
use mulling over spilt
School for Scandal' Next Play Scheduled
“School for Scandal,” Richard
for New York to attend a dinner Brinsley Sheridan's drama of the celebrating Redbook's 35th anniver- 18th century, will be modernized and sary of publication.	adapted for this year s commence-
ment play, announces Miss Florence
B. Hubbard, supervising director for EPISCOPAL CLUB TO MEET	pJay producti0nS
Episcopal club members will meet Miss Hubbard said that casting Fraser"
Lance and Lute To Pledge Three
Lance and Lute, UJS.C. chaptei of the National Collegiate Players, wrill pledge three new members today at 4:30 p.m. in the gardens of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house.
To be pledged to the national honorary dramatic fraternity are Helen Cummings. ’38; William Nash, graduate student; and Samuel Gos-ney, *38.
Miss Cummings will play a leading part in the forthcoming benefit performance of “The First Mrs.
April 8 in the Wilshire
for luncheon in 322 Student Union tryouts will start this afternoon at at 12:15 p.m. today, according to 2:30 in 232 Old College. Positions Bud Colegrove, program chairman will be limited, however, to upper for the organization. Following the classmen and graduate students, lunch, a general discussion will be < The play will be a modem adapt-conducted to formulate plans for j ation of the 18th century version, the remainder of the school year. Miss Hubbard said.
Ebell theater.
A dinner is planned for the new members, and will take place some time after Easter vacation.
The local chapter, the only one in California, is composed of seven actives and four pledges.