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Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 1, 1938
Number 111
"luge J.S.Navy Planned
United States Enters Race To Build Most Formidable Armada
fVASHINGTON. March 31 —'T.P' The United States today swept |ae all proposals for naval dis-ament and notified Prance, it Britain and the British dom-ns of plans to invoke the Es-
Iator clause of the 1936 London ltations pact and build the most rerful armada afloat.
t was the American answer to fan’s refusal to reveal her own [al building plans and formally t*s this nation in the front rank the race to dominate the seas. |reat Britain and France are ex-1 to, follow suit.
Lns withheld
^pan, though withholding details her present careful! concealed fram which is believed to exceed |ty restrictions, already has said will not be left behind
letails of Secretary of State Cor-Hull’s note to the other powers i not disciosed. but he indicated ler that the notification signi-abandonment of the 35.000-ton tation on capital ships imposed ihe pact.
: IS CAST is believed the note regretted i this government is forced to &ue this course, due to Japan’s [sal to cooperate, but now that die is cast, the United States nds to build the most formld-navy in the world.
■xt of the note was approved president Roosevelt. Its net ef-was to flash a green light for l of the greatest naval arma-It race in world history.
[rings START MONDAY
eanwnile Chairman David I.
Ish, D., Mass., of the senate naval its committee, said, after comic'ting with the state depart-, that he intends to start hear-Monday on the $1,121,000.06)
I expansion program.
U measure, embodying Presi-Roosevelt's personal recom-[ da tions for a general 20 per i increase in the navy’s battle ngth and a 50 per cent more erful air force, is expected to luce the most vigorous debate foreign policy since defeat of the Willes treaty.
[itOVAL EXPECTED
linistration leaders are con-lit it will be approved by a sub-Itial majority, immediately after ui President Roosevelt will send becial message asking approp-
[ons to start construction of two -dreadnaughts this year.
>e bill provides for three capitol >5 in addition to two aircraft iers, nine cruisers, 23 destroy-(nine submarines, and 22 auxll-vessels.
Poll To Determine U.S.C. . Attitude Toward Peace Will Be Conducted
I Announcement of an all-University poll to determine the attitude of U.S.C. students towards peace was made yesterday by Maurice Atkinson, president of the University Peace j Union.
The poll is being conducted in cooperation with the Brown
Daily Herald, official student pub- *-----
lication of Brown university. That ant* distinct aspect of the problem, newspaper is conducting a national Thus students will have an oppor-survey of student opinion on peace. tunity 10 express their opinions on More than 900 universities and col- ^ar ®ast situation, peace, war, leges, representing a total registra- anc* naval P°licy. Answers should tion of 1,250,000 students, have been ** droPP^ in the Daily Trojan asked to participate in the poll. letter box near the candy counter
_	. , , J . in the Student Union.
The survey is being made in an
Survey of Student Opinion
Ballot
Question 1. FAR EAST
Yes No
Question 3. PEACE
Yes No
a | Boycott
| Withdrawal b I from China
c Neutrality
j Declaration of d Aggressor
e j Collective Action j |
| Oriental f Exclusions Act
An idea of the importance and vastness of the project can be gained by the fact that 19 organizations coordinated in the United Stu-
attempt to find out what the American student of today actually thinks, and is definitely non-propagandist. It has made a particularly wide appeal, and has been dent Peace committee have under-enthusiastically received and in- taken co-sponsorship of the poll dorsed by the American Institute Wjth the Brown Daily Herald. In-on Public Opinion, the New York !	„
Times, and the Carnegie Endow-(cud'lf uus	“* thf For-
ment for International Peace.	",e" Pol,cy association, the League
of Nations association, the National The ballot, which is being printed Intercollegiate Christian council, in today’s and Monday’s Daily Tro- the National Student federation, jan. is made up of four divisions, the American Student union, and each of which deals with a separate the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
jnior Lawyers > Give Pirate ince Tomorrow
•pping one of Troy’s most am-us social weekends, the junior of the School of Law will |w tonight's prom mith a pirate tomorrow evening at the Val-iPark country club.
nan Swam, president of the br legal students, is in charge |ie affair. Bud Parks’ orchestra provide the music.
jTying out the buccaneering ne. sabers, sashes, pistols, and ■ike will be used for decorations.
^e committee in charge of the p is sponsoring a contest to mine the best pun submitted ;ming the dance. Each entry contain legal phraseology. The ler will receive a ticket to the
Trojan A Cappella Choir To Make Northern Trip
Dr. Tully C. Knowles, president of the College of the Pacific and a graduate of U.S.C., will welcome the Trojan A Cappella choir at Stockton during its annual spring tour scheduled for April 24-29, it was announced yesterday by Walter — *Slike, choir manager.
Navy Seeks suw n"J,y van Trawyer “ Lost Plane
Question 2. NAVAL POLICY
Yes No
a Neutrality
| Economic b Sanctions
| Collective c Action
I I
d I Isolation
e Revised League
f | Favor Loyalists | |
g | Favor Rebels
a j Reduction
| Passage of b | Billion Dollar Bill
! Progressive c Disarmament
| Navy Down; d | Army Up
e : Stabilization
Question 4. FIGHT
Yes No
| In Case of a | Invasion
i In Any b | American War
c I Never
| Would Aid d | Loyalists
Missing Bomber Sought By Battle Fleet Following Maneuvers
HONOLULU, March 31 — OLP>—
sis tan t manager, are leaving Sunday evening for San Francisco to make final arrangements. The choir will make the northern trip by the coast route and return by the inland, making stops at various cities along the way.
At Stockton, the group will give
a performance over radio station
KGDM. Amos Alonzo Stagg, foot-
__ . _	, ,	ball coach at the College of the
Oeer far-fhmg tropica sea areas Paclflc b
about the Hawaiian	» quet ln honor of the choi wh
planes and 65 warships of the Um-	. .___ . _. ,
ted States battle fleet searched tn-:’"11 take place at S'0'*1™-
day for a missing V-18 navy bomb- Stops at the Fresno Methodist
er.	i church, Selma First Baptist church,
The giant aircraft, carrying a and at Reedley junior college have
crew of six men. has been missing been arranged. Other programs at
since yesterday, when it failed to intermediate points are to be plan-
retum from a defense scouting ned this coming week, according
maneuver, staged in connection with to Slike.
the current war games in the Pac- I ~	, ..
ific	The following selections are in
Aboard the lost plane were Lieu- ^	repertoire. Bride of
tenant C. E. Signer; aviation cadet	Chr^tian“n = “Chillun
F. J. Rarrobina; machinist’s mate 2*“*	,OIl . ^oble’: “^rd’s
P. B. Pancoast; machinist’s mate	Summer Please
J. A. Bingham; radioman G. T.'	1 11115 Harv ^ Pass Mon-
Wililamson; and radioman C. R. | Olundsen.
The war games in the Hawaiian , islands sector have concluded, but the battle force remains, hoping to , find the missing plane and its | fliers. If it is lost, it will be the j second serious tragedy which has i
tague; and “Glorification.'’ “Snow Mountain,’’ and “Exhaltation,” from a motet in four movements by Christiansen.
Graduate Group
marred the maneuvers, planned to	T* HAAr Hlin^l^c
demonstrate how the American for-	I I U y i 11? o
ces could protect the island outposts	Ax |
from an enemy invader.	LUnCnSOn
Early Wednesday morning an-
Tickets for the Graduate School
other navy bombing plane crashed	“
near Makua. 45 miles southwest of
1 wel.-known author, will speak Tues-
Loyalists Flee Into France
Several Thousand Deserl To Escape Insurgent Offensive
PERPIGAN, Franco - Spanish Frontier, March 31 —(U.P) —-Several thousand deserting Spanish Loyalist troops, near exhaustion from hunger and exposure in deep mountain snow, fled across the Pyrenees into France tonight to escape a crushing insurgent offensive..
The demoralized soldiers, some of whom were accompanied by Women and children who dared to struggle across the 6,000 - feet mountain peaks, said that “thousands” of others were making their way across the peaks after a complete government rout on the northeast Spanish front.
Some of the bedraggled Loyalists, arriving at Porte de Benasque, Hospice de France, Montjoie and other towns in the Haute Garonne, Ariege. and Haute Pyrenees frontier districts, had fought their way for three and four days through deep-piled snow and sub-zero temperatures to reach France.
More than 2,800 deserters were on French soil tonight and the ministry of interior in Paris struggled with the problem of their disposition—whether to send them back into Spain by Way of Barcelona where they might be shot as deserters, or whether to give them refuge.
The weapons and cartridge belts of the deserters were taken from them by gendarmes and mobile guards before they were piled into trucks and taken to detention camps at Luchon, Marienac and Saint Gaudens.
Most of the Loyalists Were members of the 31st Loyalist infantry routed by General Moscardo’s Nationalist army in the Barbastro sector east of the insurgent Huesca base in northern Spain.
Council Votes I. O Minimum
Fred Hall Resigns Presidency of Interfratemity Group
The Interfraternity council last night voted a minimum grade point average of 1.0 for candidates for initiation into campus social fraternities. A 12 unit program was set as a minimum.
On the basis of a 15 unit program, prospective initiates must earn at least 15 grade points in the future as contrasting with the 12 grade point minimum under the present system. This represents a 1.0 average as compared with an approximate 0.7 average.
PRESIDENTS ABSENT
Acumulative average of 1.0 to be maintained during and prior to their incumbency was also voted for fraternity presidents. Because five chapter presidents were absent from last night’s meeting at the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house, this measure will be submitted to the body at a future session.
The group further decided to reconsider an act which would prohibit the conducting of pre-initiation ceremonies during the week preceding and the week during four-week, ten-week, and final examinations.
HALL RESIGNS
Fred Hall, Interfraternity council president, last night announced his resignation from his office and his complete withdrawal from campus activities. His move was prompted by the advice of his physician, and because of his coming debating tour of the British Isles. He wlll leave on the latter journey April 22.
A ruling for an immediate compulsory physical examination for all employees of campus fraternities was also passed.
Viennese Collection Added To University's Philosophy Library
Representatives of the Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Foundation, the president of the university, and members of the university faculty will gather Tuesday night at a banquet formally recognizing the acquisition of a 3,200 volume collection recently purchased from Vienna.
The books were purchased With* —.....-	—-—-
funds made available by the Mudd Foundation and are chiefly first and second editions by leading philosophers of the period from 1700 to 1850 and commentaries on their works.
“This collection constitutes the most complete private philosophy library in Europe and the addition of these to the Hoose philosophy library places the University of Southern California School of Philosophy on par with most of the European universities,” Dr. Ralph T. Fleweiling, director of the school declared.
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Following the recognition banquet to be held Tuesday evening in the Bowne room of Mudd Memorial, Dr. Heinrich Gomperz, visiting professor from the University of Vienna, who is well acquainted with the library, will discuss the philosophy school’s acquisition.
Invited to attend the banquet are Mrs. Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, Dr. and Mrs. Seeley Greenleaf Mudd, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mudd, Dean A. S. Raubenheimer, Dean Rockwell Hunt, Dr. Rufus B. von
KleinSmid, and Ralph Tyler Fle-weiling.
Members of the faculty asked to attend include Dr. Edwin Diller Starbuck, Dr. Benjamin A. G. Fuller, Dr. Gomperz, Dr. Wilbur H. Long, Dr. Herbert L. Searles. Dr. Paul R. Helsel, Dr. Hartley Burr Alexander, Dr. George A, Wilson, and Miss Geraldine Carr.
Honorary fellows who will attend are Dr. John Boodin, Prof. Fletcher Dobyns, Prof. R. F. A. Hoemle, Dr. Edmund H. Hollands, Dr. Joseph A. Leighton, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Dr. Charles Henry Reiber, and Dr. William B. Stevens.
The attendance of many of the founders of the school is anticipated. Among these will be Dr. Dillon Bronson, Dr. Burdette B. Brown, Mr. Frank E. Eckhart. Mrs. Flora Howes Farwell, Mr. J. H. Graham, Mr. Louise J. Hopkins, and Mr. M. M. Welch.
Members of the Mudd family attending the banquet will represent the Mudd Foundation which was established by Col. Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, original founder of the School of Philosophy.
U.S.C. Organizations
day, are still on sale at the grad uate office, 160 Administration. The meeting, which will be at Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, is scheduled
[eridan Play outs Begin
(•outs for the June commence-play, “School for Scandal, tichard B. Sheridan are sched-for 2:30 pjn. today in 119 |College. Mix Florence Hub-director of U.S.C. play pro-ns. announced last night, upperclassmen and graduate its are eligible to participate.
I number of large parts are Miss Hubbard said yesterday, ig will begin immediately for production, which is a 1938 <tf the 18th century play.
Honolulu, with a crew of seven aboard.
Two men saved themselves by swiming ashore. The body of another was found floating in the sea.,
Two other bodies were recovered r ' P‘m' from the wreckage, and salvagers I Graduate students and faculty worked to recover the remaining members are invited to hear the two, believed in a cockpit of the ill- novelist, who will have as his topic, fated ship.	1 “History Repeats Itself.” His bi-
____ ography of George Washington is
one of his most important works, and he has written several novels and short stories.
Alpha Ela Rho
U.S.C. Band To Begin Concert Tour April 11
A tour which will take the U.S.C. band through the principal towns and cities of lower California and Arizona has been organized by Pete Conn. leader of the U.S.C. school band. Sixty-three band members will board the bus April 11 to begin the exhibition tour.
Conn’s musicians have planned concerts for San Diego. El Centro, Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona, and several small towns along the route.
Complete band concerts, which include several selections of college music, popular music, and standard symphonies written for band rendition, have been prepared by the Trojan band for the southern towns.
Phoenix, Arizona, has recently completed a large amphitheater and has asked Conn and his band to come to Phoenix and play for the dedication ceremonies April 13. This is to be the largest performance of the entire trip.
The tour is scheduled to end April 15.
A graduate of Western Reserve university, Hughes received his master of arts degree at Yale. He ; has written movie scenarios and has also directed moving picture I productions.
Information Table Planned
As a convenience for non-orgs, the Lancers will maintain a table in the corridor of the Student Union daily during assembly hour, beginning Monday, it was decided at a meeting of the Lancer board : this week.
Jean Hoodwin, member of the organization council, will be in charge. She and her assistants will take orders for club pins, applications for membership, and offer information to non-orgs.
Arrangements for a Lancer dance, discussed at the board meeting, will be directed by Frances Paddon and George Gracin. while Wendell Goad and Herman Rudin were placed in charge of the organization’s athletics.
All members of Alpha Eta Rho, national aviation fraternity, and fe U.S.C. Aviation club desiring exhibitors’ tickets to the third annual Aircraft and Boat show, *hich starts Sunday, are asked to see either Marshall Benedict, vice-president of Alpha Eta Rho. or Earl Hill, faculty director of the club, sometime today.
Drum Corps
Troy’s newly - organized drum corps under the direction of William Graham will meet ‘odav at 3:30 p.m. in the Musical Organizations hall.
Graham requests that any men who desire to try out for a permanent position in the corps be present at the meeting. Thirty - one men reported for the first meeting last week and Graham expressed hopes of obtaining at least ten more.
Junior-Senior Transfer
Junior and senior women transfers will gather for a noon meeting in the rose arbor in Exposition park, Monday April 4, said Margaret Heimann, president. Members will bring their own lunches.
Newman Club
The Newman club’s monthly communion will be at 9 o’clock mass on Sunday moming at St. Vincent’s church, Adams and Figueroa. Breakfast will be served following the service.
Phi Mu Alpha
Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity, will present a recital at 8:15 o’clock Monday night in the studio of Prof. Horatio Cogswell Professor Cogswell’s studio is located in the music building.
The recital is to be staged by members of the fraternity and outside performers and all men students interested in music are invited to attend, said Jock Collins, secretary.
Following the recital, refreshments will be served at the fraternity house, 1052 West 35th street.
Squires
t
Trojan Squires will convene for their regular meeting at 12:20 p.m. today in 206 Administration.
Tau Kappa Alpha
Active members of Tau Kappa Alpha, national honorary forensic fraternity, are requested by Graham Sheldon, president, to attend a dinner and business meeting Sunday at 6 p.m. at 1201 -North Ben Lomond, Glendora. The meeting is an important one, Sheldon announced, and all active members are required to attend.
Zela Phi Eta
Bud Westmore, well-known stage and screen make-up artist, will be the guest speaker Wednesday evening when the Zeta Phi Etas sponsor the second of a series of lectures being conducted by the drama organizations on campus.
Unique Stage Technique To Be Used in Liliom'
By Fred Folmer
Necessity, often called the mother of invention, will oblige Ben Marshall, student production manager, to use a new idea in collegiate drama for the setting of “Liliom,” now in rehearsal in Touchstone theater.
Correct staging of “Liliom” requires seven sets and a prologue, while Bovard auditorium can*-
only accommodate three or four | ^	_ .
at the most. Rather than build OnrPmC complete sets that would be impos- ^^1 11 1 ^ r,aM sible to stage in the allotted time,
Marshall will use a few pieces of scenery and rely on special lighting to produce the desired effects.'
The prologue which depicts an amusement park on the outskirts of Budapest will be the most elaborate of the settings. Barker’s booths, colored posters, juggling acts, the entrance to a carousel, and a multitude of brightly colored flags will fill one side of the stage.
On the other side, the trees and shrubs of a park will be shown.
The play begins in the park, a short distance from the amusement center. Half-hidden by shrubbery and trees will be a painted wooden bench. By using direct lights on the bench and very dim lighting on the circus background in the side and back, Marshall believes the set will convey the impression of a park and still not lose the amusement background.
The second, third, and fifth scenes take place in a photographer’s studio. It will contain but a sofa, a camera, and a photog-continued on page two
Legal Action
Oil Companies To File Injunction Proceedings Againsl Expropriation
MEXICO CITY, March 31 —(UJ?)
—Seventeen American and other foreign oil companies whose $400,-000.000 properties were expropriated by President Lazardo Cardenas, tonight announced they would take legal steps to set aside the seizure decree.
The companies announced a twofold maneuver to recover their holdings only a few hours after a special session of congress had been called for April 11 to consider economic emergency legislation forced by confiscation of the oil industry and suspension of the United States silver purchasing agreement.
The legal action planned provides first for the filing of injunction proceedings seeking to declare unconstitutional the expropriation law under which the petroleum properties were seized. Another injunction would also be asked to force revocation of the executive decree of March 18 which expropriated the oil holdings.
Executives of the companies said they were ready to fight the expropriation to the supreme court if necessary. The seizure followed the companies’ refusal early this month to abide by a supreme court order
Faculty Men's Club To Hear Lloyd Douglas
In commemoration of its 10th anniversary, the U.S.C. Men’s Faculty club will sponsor a formal banquet at the Chapman Park hotel tomorrow evening. Dr. Lloyd C.
Douglas, author of “Magnificent Obession” and other books, will speak on “The Care and Training of Brain Children.”
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will greet the guests, and Dr. Louis Wann, chairman of the decennial committee, will give a history of the organization. Dr. Grafton P. Tan-quary. president of the Faculty |
Men’s club, will preside.
Although he was ordained as a j Lutheran minister, Dr. Douglas j served as pastor of First Congregational churches in Akron, Ohio; j
Ann Arbor, Mich.; and in Los An-| Latest records of the U S.C. loy-geles. At present time he is engaged aity fund show that the medical
Junior Prom Is Tonight
Colonial Easier To Be Theme oi Dance In Town and Gown
Modem glamour and colonial simplicity will be blended tonight when more than 600 Trojans gather in the Foyer of Town and Gown at 9 o’clock to dance to Gus Am-heim’s music at the 1938 Colonial Easter Junior Prom.
Directed by Co-chairman Bob McKnight and Nancy Holme, president and secretary, respectively, of the junior class, tonights dance will mark the carrying out of Troy’s oldest social tradition. The class of 1939 wil present U.S.C.’s eleventh Junior Prom.
COLONIAL EASTER THEME
Ivied pillars and easter baskets of spring flowers will furnish a “Colonial Easter” background for the modem costumes (rf the dancers. Decorations have been planned by Bill Quinn, assisted by Betty Jane Bartholomew, Mary Jo Davis, Emma Be vis, Corrinne Hight. Lyman Russell, Bob Meyer, Charles Colden, and Marvin Moffie.
Gus Arnheim’s “Say it With Music” theme song Will introduce the Prom to the entire Pacific coast when the orchestra goes on the air at 11 p.m. for a special half-hour broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting network, from the Foyer of Town and Gown. A description of the dance will be given the radio listeners in a skit arranged by Jack Slattery.
PATRONS SELECTED
Patrons and patronesses for the dance Will include Dr. and Mrs. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Eddy, and Dean Francis Bacon.
Bids for the dance still may be purchased today from junior council members or at the cashier’s office in the student bookstore, at $2.50 each. The invitation committee has been headed by Tom Dwiggins, assisted by Marvin Trager-man and Dick Halpem.
The *Prom will mark Arnheim’s initial appearance on the coast since his return from the east, where he played at the Edgewater Beach hotel in Chicago and the Hotel New Yorker in New York. His orchestra recently won a radio popularity contest.
Hoover Warns U.S. To ’Mind Own Business
NEW YORK, March 31 — (UB— Herbert Hoover, who returned this Week from a brief tour of 14 European nations, tonight suggested an American foreign policy of joining “in the collective moral forces to prevent war” while “minding out own business” about the Internal structure of foreign nations.
He told the council on foreign relations at a dinner in his honor that “in the larger issues of world relations” our watchwords should be absolute independence of political action and adequate preparedness.”
Mr. Hoover warned against joining a democratic front of Britain to make effective a $7,300,000 wage I ana France against Fascist dictator-increase to the industry’s 18,000 ships, workers.
The period for beginning injunction proceeding ends legally 15 days after the issuance of a decree. Thus, Saturday Will be the final day on which the campanies may file their request.
Medical Alumni Lead in Trojan Loyalty Drive
“We should have none of that,’ he said. “If the world is to keep the peace then we must keep peace with dictatorships as Well as with popular government. The forms of government which other peoples pass through in working out their destinies is not our business.
Mr. Hoover reiterated his belief that a general European was is not imminent, since War preparations are incomplete.
in writing and lecturing.
El Rodeo Photos To Be Taken
Dr. Buss Class Schedule Announced
Dr. A. S Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Science, announced yesterday that next week’s classes of Dr Claude A. Buss, associate professor of international relations, will be held at the following times:
International relations 203b — Monday, 4:30 p.m.
alumni are leading in the numberj of contributors, followed closely by Two usc groups, the Athletic the musicians #and lawyers, Harry council, and the board of publica-Silke, director of special founda- tions will have their pictures taken tions, reports.	j for the El Rodeo today at 10 o -
| clock in the lounge of the Student The alumni loyalty fund was ere- Union
ated in 1934 to provide an oppor- 1
tunity each year for alumni to make Members of the Athletic councii contributions to the university. are Bill Remson. Adrian Talley, Bit!
! Sloan, Jim Lynch, By Cavaney, Ken Donations have made posMoie	Willis Hunter, and Leo
such addition to the university as ^dams the Alumni Memorial campus,!
where the Edward L. Doheny li- The publications board consists brary is situated; the bronze statue of Roy L. French. Kenneth Stonier
Political science 210b — Tuesday, of Tommy” Trojan and the orn- Leo Adams. John Morley ( John Go-4:30 p.m.	amental fence which will ultim- lay. Jack Warner, Kevin Sweeney
History 105 —Tuesday and Thurs- ately surround the campus. The loy- Don Sweeney. Clint Ternstrom, anc day, 1:30 p.m.	1 alty fund appeal closes April 15. i Gardiner Por>*