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SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Press
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Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, January 26, 1938
Number 75
Benefit Drive Wage
Cuts Fought
Ends Today
Chairman Urges Intensive Effort By Members of Sales Committee To Fulfill University's $500 Quota
Warning that U.S.C* will finish far behind other southern California colleges unless button sales increase, Al Gordon, chairman of the university “Fight Paralysis” commmittee, asked that members of the committee make an intensive effort to have every Trojan wearing a red, white, and blue but-
before the drive ends tonight.
Roosevelt Advocates Reduction in Prices Rather Than Wages
Sales are not restricted to the campus, and Gordon urged that committeemen sell buttons where-cver possible so that fulfillment of the $500 quota may become a reality.
Funds raised by means of button Rales and president's birthday balls will be forwarded to the National
All salesmen for the “Fifht Paralysis" campaign are asked to turn in their buttons and money to Virginia Holbrook or Al Gordon in the ASUSC office today.
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to aid in carrying out the four-poinl program inaugurated four years ago.
In providing money for scientific research, the foundation will spur on. intensify, and coordinate the work of investigators who are striving to stem poliomyelitis at its source by finding a preventive, an immunization, a serum, or an inoculation as they did with typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria, or to destroy the virus as they did with yellow fever.
AID IN EPIDEMICS Should infantile paralysis reach epidemic proporations in any locality. the foundation would bring immediate aid of any preventives, immunizations. inoculations, or serums made available by research to local health officials.
Special orthopedic supplies and equipment, such as the iron lung, and hospital equipment, as well as the latest knowledge on diagnosis and care during the acute stage would be rushed to local hospitals and medical officials.
Third point of the program is a concentrated effort to provide pro-1 per care after infantile paralysis has passed Bone deformities are I frequently the result of neglect or incomplete medication, and centers
MC KELLAR PROTESTS T.V.A. PLAN
A.F.L. PLANS REVISION OF STATE CROUP
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 —0T.E)—
A new administration power policy j tee for Industrial Organization, had
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — (IT.P>—
President Roosevelt today opposed wage cuts by industry during the business recession as “suicidal” and warned that if salaries are slashed this winter and spring the government will be forced to consider "other means" of creating purchasing power.
His views were embraced in a formal statement read at a press i peared to wane, conference a few hours after John L, Lewis, chairman of the Commit-
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 25 —CU-E)— The American Federation of Labor tonight carried its warfare with the Committee for Industrial Organization into a new field as final hope f6r peace with the CIO ap-
President William Green, after
meeting with his increasingly milit-
, .. . , .	,. * I ant executive council, announced
pointed toward wide expansion of announced that labor would fight West Virginla 8tate federation
state and municipal purchases of *° the bKter end agains. a reduc-......	. ... . . . .. i tion in wages and prices to offset
public utilities .as initiated by thel,^ of ,h<, lr>de s,ump
Tennessee Valley Authority today j Mr R00Mvdt coupled hi5 warnine and brought prompt and vigorous; with a suggestion that mass proprotests to President Roosevelt from duction industries cut their prices Senator Kenneth McKellar, D., to meet reduced purchasing power.
PUMP primiVg hinted He brushed aside inquiries as to I what the government would do if House after the three-man TVA Varies are pared further, but it directorate had authorized David E. j was believed he referred to possible Lilienthal. one of its group, to nego- resumption of federal “pump prim-
Tenn.
McKellar hurried to the White
tiate with private utilities for the possible sale of their properties to
ing.’
The chief executive said his statement was prompted by statistics municipalities, mutual associations, j showing that some business men in
rural associations, other agencies and the TVA.
Listening Hour Today
Chamber Music Survey Covers Work of Brahms, Mozart, Dohnanyi
public a few sections of the country already had reduced wages and that similar action is reportedly contemplated by others.
He made it clear that wage reductions thus far are not widespread.
CONFERENCE PLANNED
Mr. Roosevelt said that a group of industrial and labor leaders headed by Lewis, Thomas Lamont, New York banker, and Owen D. Young, head of General Electric Co., assured him at their recent White House conference that there would be no wage reductions during the slump. He added that he
Chamber music is a form of composition first designed for Intimate
his assistant,
Daniel Roper and Ernest Draper.
REPLY TO QUESTION The President’s wage statement
Compositions by Mozart, Brahms, and Dohnanyi will be played at the hoped to confer on Monday With Listening Hour concert this after- 10 or 12 representatives of “little noon at 3 o’clock in Bovard audi- i business” and obtain their advice
torium. As the last of the weekly ™ how “* P"emment can aid
them.
programs for the semester, the con- He ^ he expected this dele-cert will be made up of outstand- gation to be selected from 500 small ing examples of chamber music business operators who will meet .such as those at Warm Springs are written during the 18th, 19th, and ^ar-ier Secretary j3f Commerce used to study and combat the after- j 20th centuries.	~ ~
effects of the disease.
COUNCILS ORGANIZED District councils to be organized mill receive funas to earn- out a specific program within the community which it serves. A program to enable local hospital to expand facilities for proper care and to make possible transportation of j
those in areas without orthopedic the “golden age” of chamber music.,	, ,, .
hospital to institutions where such It was during that time that Moz- wa?.es	e*rip oyf *rs cu '
care is available.	art composed his Quintet in G 'Tm afraid it wont help for me
. . , .	J	. ... ._	to answer that question again, the
Thirty-four Americans prominent	* l“ ^dea^ President said. “I have said so fre-
government, and sci-	fr, rLmher quentlv-and I do not know how to
ig Marsha!! Field, Ed- | of Beethoven, interest in chamber J . , , .	i bl
rarell Harriman music waned until Brahms revived more clearly and nequivocao y -area narriman	Wi<:;than I have already said—that I
will direct the 1 Jt a8a*n m the century. His	waee reductions
Symphony No. 4 was composed in am oppased «> *age reductions
I “I am opposed to wage reductions
the last years of that century. I ^	.__
I because the markets of American Last week’s Listening Hour con-(	Continued on Pa^e Four
cert, featured the music of modern
performance in the home. Usually	was in reply to a question as to
instrumental in character, it is	whether he agreed With a recent
written for only a small number of	declaration by Benjamin V, Fair-
instruments, and is often interpret-	less, president of U. S. Steel Corp.,
ed by a string quartet.	that labor is an essential feature
The 16th century has been called st“> ^ “at the,se pr‘c“
1 cannot be readuced unless the
in business ence, including
are trustees who foundation in it* fight against the dread disease.
composers and offered several of the Hungarian Emesto Dohnanvi’s works. On today's program his Variations on a Nursery Theme will be given.
RACAN TO GIVE TAX ADDRESS
Faculty Club Will Hear Talk on Income Reports Stanford editor named
1 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan.
Professor Rex Ragan will speak 25—(l\P)—Lloyd Lapham. a senior at the faculty luncheon today on from Sacramento, today was nam-the topic of income tax reports. | ed editor of the Stanford Daily, un-The luncheon will be in Elisabeth dergraduate newspaper. He succeeds
von KleinSmid hall at 12:20 p.m.. announces Dr. D. Walty Lefever, chairman of the luncheon committee.
Difficult questions on the filing of income tax returns may be sent to Professor Ragan before the meeting. Questions may also be brought to the luncheon.
Reservations may be made by calling station 386 before noon today.
Gordon Frost of San Diego, will take office Jan. 31.
and
Gymnasium Equipment Due by Tomorrow
Students who have gym equipment charged out must return it before tomorrow noon, J. J. Furlong. physical education equipment clerk, announced today. Any student not checking in before the deadline will be charged a 25-cent tardiness penalty plus the cost of the supplies charged to him.
KUTCHER, NOTED AMERICAN ARTIST,
TO LECTURE HERE
Ben Kutcher, noted throughout America for his artistic accomplishments, will lecture at 4 o’clock this afternoon in the lecture hall of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, announces Arthur C. Weatherhead, dean of the college.
Kutcher’s art now on display in the fine arts gallery has
--------^attracted great attention in the
past few days, and yesterday Dean Weatherhead completed arrangements for this noted artist’s visit to the university. All faculty members as well as students are invited to attend the lecture and view this fine display.
Included in the Kutcher exhibit are his originals in illustrations for many outstanding books of the age, bookprints made for famous Americans throughout the country, murals, and reproductions of his work for the stage of our modem theatre. There will also be numerous sketches in tempra, and newspaper reproductions of his advertising work used by leading department stores in New York and Los Angeles.
BORN IN RUSSIA
Kutcher, bom in Russia, settled in America with his folks in 1902. A graduate from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he studied in Europe in 1914-15 and upon his return to America supplied the New York Tribune with sketches and decorative drawings.
It is inevitable that Kutcher’s work be compared to Aubrey Beardsley, yet in place of Beardsley’s decadence and macabre qualities, Kutcher, with the essential sunlight of the Russian soul, has added color to black and White by his skill in presenting texture and brilliance. It is also his Russian heritage which delights in the imagery of folk tales, music ballet and the magic world of the theatre.
DRAWINGS PURCHASED
The first four drawings he completed for the Wilde stories were purchased by Mr. Barstow for the Century magazine as an insert in the Christmas issue. He also received a commission to illuminate an article by Brian Hooker, and this was the beginning of the type of black and white Work for which he is noted today. With such a reception the logical thing to do was the stories in book form.
Several publishers were approached, but it was regarded as bad taste to bring the name of Wilde to the catalogues of book publishing at that time. Such was the attitude as late as the year 1917.
FAIRY TALES ILLUSTRATED However, this did not check Kutcher’s determination to help create a revival of Wilde’s works, and he bagan to illustrate the fairy tales. Finally, just as he Was enlisting for the World War, Moffat, Yard Company decided to publish the book to which H. L. Mencken wrote an introduction. Later when the Dodd. Meade company purchased the above firm a new edition was prepared with additional illustrations for the Evony Library, where it has been a best seller among gift books to the present day.
would be completely re-organized and purged of CIO sympathizers at a convention in Charleston, W. Va.,
early next month.
Reshaping of the state body will be supervised by Frank Dillon, one of Green's personal lieutenants. It follows refusal of the West Virginia affiliate to expell CIO members.
Green pointed out this step, which will result m ouster of a large fraction of the state federation’s membership, was in line with a general policy which has now been placed into effect in 45 other states, excluding only Colorado and Pennsylvania in addition to West Virginia.
Snow Party Invitation Extended to Engineers
OLD COLLEGE PLAQUE HONORS DR. BOVARD
As a tribute to the services and achievements of Marion McKinley Bovard, first president of the University of Southern California, a copper plaque has been placed at the entrance of Old College.
Professor Bovard was president of the university from
September 3. 1880 to 1891. The first*-—---
cornerstone at U.S.C. was laid Sept- streets, a considerable distance
ember 4. 1880. of the building now	from the university, and the only
All engineering students desiring uswi f0r the Sch -.1 of Music. The	transportation was a tiny horse-
to attend the snow outing at a enrollment consisted of 50 students,	drawn trolley which covered about
nee.rby resort between semesters Part 0f the salary of the first	three-fourths’the distance,
should cor.tact Charles Schweitzer, president was an apartment in the	in the first graduating class of
president of the College of Engi- of the School of Music build-	1884 was Professor Bovard’s young-
neering. or sign the list on the ing . The library consisted of 700	er brother. George Finley Bovard.
bulletin board outside the college volumes, as compared to the col-	This voung man later became the
office in Bridge hall, according to 1^^ today in the Doheny Mem-	fourth president of the university
Helen Herwig. secretary. orial library which numbers over	in April. 1903.
Engineers who have paid their 2,000.000 books. The number of	These men were the first of the
dues are invited to attend the snow periodicals was about half of the	Bovards who have been connected
party, the president explained. Al- present list.	with the university since its origin,
though a final selection has not The school was one small build-	Mrs. Lillian Bovard Armstrong,
been made for the place of the ing m the midst of mustard and	alumna of U.S.C. and daughter of short vacation, Big Pines may be wheat fields. The center of L06 An- j the first president, is at the present Ultimate choice. ! geles was then First and Spring; time active in university affairs.
Film Due Tomorrow
Inappropriate Apparel ... For All Occasions Included in Newsreel
A variety of campus events and happenings, from hockey games to an animated explanation of how a radio program program is produced, will be projected on the screen when the Trojan newsreel is shown in Bovard auditorium on Thursday at one o’clock.
This hour has been chosen as the time to present the newsreel since Archibald Sessions will hold his organ recital at assembly period that day.
INNOVATION PRESENTED
An innovation in fashion styles will be presented when the newsreel features inappropriate apparel for all occasions.
The inappropriate apparel section of the newsreel entitled, “How Not to Dress" will show students what not to wear at formal dances and for general campus wear. Cords and sweat shirts, once considered correct campus attire are now classified in the same fashion category as soft shirt and tuxedo combination. according to the “How Not to Dress’ section of the newsreel.
Don Bartelli. assistant producer, stated that other shots on the program will include views of the Lancers dancing, the Spooks and Spokes serving “cokes,” and the much discussed Listening Hour. Shots of the recent hockey and basketball games will also be shown. OTHER SIDELIGHTS
Interesting movie glimpses of the winning debaters who have just completed a successful eastern tour, and the recent play production, “Both Your Houses” will be other sidelights on the program.
A detailed account of the building of a radio program, showing all steps from the Inception of the idea for the program to the final broadcasting, will also be included in the newsreel.
Senate
Accepts
Reed
Upper House Confirms Appointment of New Supreme Court Justice
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — (Ui?) —
Sam
Sorority Captured
Alvie Hampton, 22-year-old Negro, Admits That He Burglarized Kappa Alpha Theta And Pi Beta Phi Houses,* Mystery Solved
“Sorority Sam” will steal no more purses from poor de-
__________________ ___ fenseless sorority girls. He sits in jail today under $2500 bail,
Stanley Forman Reed, who piled up after having confessed to the robbing of the Kappa Alpha an impressive number of new deal Theta and Pi Beta Phi houses during the past months.
legal triumphs as solicitor general, was approved by the senate today as the successor to Associate Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland, retired.
In contrast to scorching criticism and bitter outcries that greeted President Roosevelt’s first appointee to the high bench, Justice Hugo L. Black, not a voice was raised against Reed as the senate confirmed his nomination.
DISPUTE CAUSES DELAY
Dispute over interpretation of the Sumners act which authorizes supreme court justices beyong the age of 70 to retire on full pay—$20,000 —may cause a 24-hour delay in Reed’s assumption of his new responsibilities. The act specifies that retirement of a jurist becomes effective on the first day of the month.
Sutherland announced three Weeks ago that he would retire at the end of the January term of court on Jan. 17 and he has not participated in subsequent court work. Under the Sumners act as interpreted by some officials, Reed could not legally assume his now post until Feb. 1, the day after the opening of the February term.
TO ASSUME DUTIES MONDAY
Upon being told of his confirmation Reed said that he assumed he would sit with the court next Monday, but indicated he would discuss this question with Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. He said he Was pleased that the senate “so generously” approved his nomination and added:
"It is a source of deep satisfaction that I shall be privileged to continue my life’s work in a position of such responsibility.”
Attorney General Homer S. Cummings issued a statement saying that Reed had been a “ ower of Continued on Page Four
Tomorrow's Organ Program
Selections from the works of Dupre, Tertius Noble, and Gigout will be played by Archibald Sessions, university organist, at the regular Thursday morning organ program tomorrow during assembly period.
Souvenir ___________________________— Dupre
Dupre’s recent triumphal American concert tour^ has reawakened interest in A^ works. This little piece. writ^^Hi memory of Lynwood Farn^lmas most charming tone-color. '**
Elizabethan Idylle............Tertius Noble
Grand Choeur Dialogue—.......Gigout
The versatile Eugene Gigout, a popular organ master of 19th century France, contributed much to the culture of his time, as composer, teacher, and recitalist.
DANCE CROUP TO PERFORM
Trojan Coeds Assist Professional Artists
The mystery of what some Trojan coeds do during their free time will be explained when the Horton Dance group presents a studio performance Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7377 Beverly boulevard.
This modern dance group is composed of coeds from U.S.C. and L_A. J.C. as well as a number of professional dancers. The dancers have already performed at the Philharmonic auditorium where they were favorably received. The current recital will feature many of the dances that were performed there.
The U.S.C. women in the group have received much of their instruction and training from the women’s physical education department under the supervision of Miss Mary Jane Hungerford.
Loyalists Ready To Withdraw From Teruel
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Jan. 25 —(U.P)— Terrific fighting raged around the shattered city of Teruel tonight with defending Loyalists reported ready to withdraw before the insurgent drive.
The Loyalists, preparing to evacuate the Aragonese city which they seized Dec. 21 in the costliest fighting of the 18-months-old war, said, however, that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's eagerness to wipe out the stigma of Teruel’s loss had shattered his strategy. He will be unable to organize another major offensive on any front for at least five months, they insisted.
John De Gandt, United States
The 22-year-old Negro, who gave his name as Alvie Hamp-
ton, was arrested as a suspicious character along with a group ol other boys in an alley at the rear of the houses by Policemen David Towns and .C. W. Gaines. After being grilled tor several hours, Hampton broke down and confessed, taking all the blame for the robberies.
Marge Twomey. Kappa Alpha Theta, Who lost $28 in the last burglary on January 6, testified before Municipal Judge LeRoy Dawson in a preliminary hearing yesterday. She was accompanied by Nancy Thompson, a sister Theta, and several Pi Phis who also were victims of the burglaries, including Virginia Flippin. Anne Richards, and Virginia Borchard.
IDENTIFIES HOUSES
According to th* police, Hampton did not know the names of the houses that he robbed but readily identified them when they were pointed out to him. In court he admitted that he took the money from the purses of the girls While they were down to dinner. He was booked on two counts of burglary, although the Theta and Pi Phi house have been robbed upon three different occasions during the last three months.
Detectives haa been patrolling the alley at the rear of the houses since the last burglary. Several days ago they came upon the boys talking in the garage. When questioned, the negroes stated that. they were just going to visit some of their colored friends who worked in some of the nearby houses. Hampton confessed at police headquarters when he * was informed that his friends would be freed if he told the truth about the burglaries. He took all of the responsibility. STATEMENTS REFUTED
Marge Twomey denied statements made in a downtown paper that she and the other girls that testified became amateur detective and tracked down the thief themselves in Sherlock Holmes fashion. Upon being interviewed by Daily Trojan reporters she displayed the greatest of modesty explaining, “we didn't do anything—just testified that our money was stolen on the dates mentioned.”
The Theta house-boys admitted that they feel much more at ease now that the culprit has been captured. “It got so bad that the Thetas shadowed us when we were drying cups, to see that we didn’t slip any in our pockets,” Joe Bone, one of them stated.
Marge Twomey, who testified in municipal court yesterday in a preliminary hearing of Alvie Hampton, alias "Sorority Sam," who admitted burglarizing the Theta and Pi Phi houses.
—Courtesy L.A. Herald-Express
Senate Attempts To End Filibuster
WASHINGTON, .fan. 25 —(UP)— Administration leaaers in the senate tonight filed a motion to invoke its most powerful weapon — cloture—in an attempt to end the 22-day-old southern filibuster
against the anti-lynching bill which correspondent with Franco’s armies has been obstructing the new dai in Aragon, reported that terrific 1 legislative program.
fighting was underway tonight as the Nationalists drew the clamps upon the city.
After intense artillery and aviation preparation the Nationalists infantry attacked in a half circle extending around the Teruel suburbs on the north, west, and south.
The motion was filed by chairman Matthew W. Neely, D., W. Va., of the senate rules committee a few minutes before the senate adjourned at 10:20 p.m. The petition bringing the motion to the floor bore 17 signatures, one more than was required.
FINAL ISSUE,
OF DAILY TROJAN OUT TOMORROW
All students and organizations wishing to make announcements in the Daily Trojan must submit them today if the notices are to be published, announced John Golay, editor.
Tomorrow’s edition of the campus publication will be the last of the semester, Golay stated, ao that staff members will have the opportunity to catch up with their studies before final examinations.
SECRETARY HULL SCORES SOVIETS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—(U.P.)—Bluntly accusing the Soviet government of breaching its recognition agreement with the United States, Secretary of State Cordell Hull today demanded that an American representative be allowed to visit Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens, “passport mystery” woman held in
Moscow’s Lubianka prison.
Hull instructed Roy Henderson,
American Charge d’Affaires in Moscow, to advise Soviet authorities that the department could not accept their excuses for refusing to permit him to interview Mrs. Rubens, an American suspected of espionage.
3oviet authorities denied Henderson permission to visit Mrs. Rubens,
Insisting that the Litvinoff-Roosevelt agreement of 1933 sanctions such interviews only after official Investigations have been completed.
Hull challenged this, contending the United States was guaranteed most favored nation treatment in respect to any erf its nationals arrested in Russia. He demanded the same privileges guaranteed by a German-Soviet treaty providing for immediate notification of and in-
terviews by German embassy and consular officials if German nationals arrested.
Hull told Henderson to advise the Soviet foreign office that:
“The government of the United States is unable to accept any interpretation of this paragraph which would operate to restrict in any way whatsoever the granting without delay of requests made by its representatives to visit American nationals under arrest, or to have such American national visited by representatives of American consular or diplomatic officers.” Henderson was instructed also to say that the United States “continues to expect” that a representative will be permitted “without delay” to interview Mrs. Rubens.
EXAMS TO BE KNOPF'S TOPIC
Dean To Discuss Relation Of Finals lo Religion
With final examinations coming into the foreground. Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, dean of the School of Religion, will use this theme in h» brief talk during the religion assembly today during assembly period.
The possibility of combining religion with every phase of student life and the practical value of taking religion to the examinations will be discussed by Dr. Knopf who will act as chaplain.
Special features will be offered by Teru Hirashiki at the piano and Allen Hastings as tenor soloist. Organist Archibald Sessions will provide music for the assembly.
This is the last religion assembly of the semester and Dr. Knopf invites all students who are interested to attend the lecture.
Panhellenic Truce To Start February 3
Caroline Nath, president of the Panhellenic council, announced as a reminder to all sorority members, active and alumnae, that truce shall be declared between the fall and spring semesters from 6 p.m. or. the last day of finals, February 3, until 8 a.m. on the first day of registration, February 7, according to the U.S.C. Panhellenie rules.
During this period of truce, there are to be no dates no talking off the campus—no rush affairs whatsoever.