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VMume XXIX
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
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Los Angeles, California, Thursday, January 20, 1938
Number 71
Rebel Bombs Kill Hundreds
Barcelona, Valencia Attacked by Planes;
Deaths in Two Cities Estimated at 1000 In 'Worst Extermination of Non-Combatants
BARCELONA. Spain, Jan. 19 —(U.P.)— Rebel bombing Iplanes today attacked Barcelona and Valencia, the most crowded cities of Loyalist Spain, and within an hour and a half piled streets with dead and debris for a total of hundreds
Of lives.	*--
Hurried estimates of the noon- ^	.
Contest Announced For Students
STUDENTS TO BE SEEN IN SENATORIAL SATIRE
time raids by six black bombers that swept off the Balearic Islands put the number of dead at some-v nere between 700 and 1.000. including hundreds of women and children.
The six planes cxacted a toll of civilian lives that exceeded the soldier dead of most battles in the front lines.
It was the worst extermination of non-combatants in this 18-month-old "little world war.’’
ESTIMATE 1000 DEAD
The estimate of only a sweeping on of Spain's two big cities along the Mediterranean Coast were piled with debris and the bodies of men. women and children.
The Loyalist defense ministry ?isted 520 dead and countless hundreds wounded in Barcelona alone after 95 seconds of explosive horror in which 11 huge bombs scored direct hits—and from an altitude of 10.000 feet that mocked anti-aircraft lire.
The slaughter and destruction in Valencia, down the Levant Coast
Religious Conference Offers Cash Prizes For Essays
Announcement of a $50 prize es-1000 lives was say contest open to all undergradu-for the streets ate students on the University of Southern California, U. C. L. A., and L. A. J. C. campuses was made yesterday by the US.C. division of the University Religious conference, sponsors of the event.
With a first prize of $36 and a second price of $15 to be awarded to the two best essays written on the subject ‘ How Shall We Safeguard Religious Freedom in America?” the URC board is working on a plan whereby the winning entries j might be used in connection with the annual Brotherhood day which is scheduled for the latter part of
was officially described as even ^greater and several towns along theI'next month iockv coast felt the terror of the i bombardment.	CONFERENCE KEEPS PAPERS
This emergency capital of Loyal-	Regardless of whether a submit-
fct Spam saw thp bombers in the	ted essay wins a prize, the Univer-
tnshine »t 12:15 p. m.. a* hund-	sity Religious conference will re-is of old men. women and child- j serve the right to use all manu-
»n took advantage of the clear	scripts in any way it may deem
leather for promenades.	fit. Therefore none *ff be return-
>MBERS STRIKE SUDDENLY	ed. since one of the purposes of the
| A minute and a half later large	contest is to obtain the students’
U.S.C. To Join Paralysis Fight
Troy To Aid Nation-wide Infantile Malady Drive, Buttons Will Be Distributed,
Tour Dime May Help a Child To Walk'
U.S.C. joins the nation-wide campaign against infantile paralysis next week when 5000 “Fight Paralysis” buttons will be offered for sale on campus by a specially appointed committee headed by Al Gordon.
Selling for 10 cents apiece, the buttons will be distributed
-*next Monday, Tuesday, and Wed-
•	k a	nesday by a group of 30 sorority
Business Men Pledge Aid To President
of the city were in shambles, apartment buildings lay in their burning interiors the lbs of hundreds.
torn bodies of civilians were
viewpoint of the subject given so that a plan might be formulated j and put into practice throughout j the United States.
Included in the set of rules gov-
A tense situation seems to have developed here between Bob Hall and Henry Kehler (both standing), in a scene from the satire, "Both Your Houses,” which will be acted before a Touchstone theater audience tomorrow and Saturday evenings. The coming drama, said to be the most elaborate production yet attempted in U.S.C.'s little theater, is an anticipated sellout. At the side of the table nearest the reader are seen Irving Moss, Don Bar-
telli, and Ben Marshall (with cigar). On the opposite side of the table are Hall, Paul Mueller, Jane Bellows (standing), Sam Gos-ney, Kehler (standing), Bob Soderberg, Elinor Brown, and William Poulson. The play was written by Maxwell Anderson, author of "Winterset," and other outstanding legitimate productions, and is being supervised on the Trojan campus by Florence Hubbard, director of U.S.C. play productions.
pwn about the streets. Blood erning entries is the limit in length
ittered walls where the warning Continued »n Page Four
EWIS RAPS ROPACANDA
Novelisl Flays Reporler In Fiery Oration
I 'nited Press
Sinclair Lewis, who is conducting J one-man crusade agains. propa-fnda. lost his temper to a question -interriewer upon his arrival h-e today for a lecture.
(in the course of an ir.	the
lithor of ‘Main Street-’ expressed Imself as satisfied with the world he found it. Nothing, he ex-
Iained. annoyed him.
“Does the poverty in the world inoy you. Mr. Lewis?" a reporter
Iquired.
Lewis, leaping to his feet advan-to the newsman threateningly.
|*‘Don't you try to make a d -
out of me. young man.” he I red. “God did that already, and k-j don’t need to try to help him.” |Of his campaign against propa-ida. he explained:
‘The whole world is filled with less agents. Everything is organ-ed through a series of propaganda r chines. The world is better equip-d to teach a whole people everv-i.ng it wants to believe than it :zv has before.
“And I object to it. I object to 'yone HMMBint things dewn
to not less than 1000 words, nor more than 1500. In addition, each contestant’s name, address, collegiate and religious affiliation must be typed on a piece of paper and placed in a sealed envelope which shall be securely attached to the essay.
JUDGING NOT INFLUENCED
As a result of the latter ruling. University Religious conference officials believe that judging of the! best essays can in no way be influenced by personalities.
Judges for the contest include Dr. Hugh Miller of U.C.L.A.. Dr. Glen Moore of the Presbyterian i church. Gilbert Harrison of the University Religious conference. Dr. Frank Baxter of the University of Southern California, and Father j William E. North.
Students interes : in the contest ma tional information in the University Religious confcrence office. 229 Student Union building.
Piay To Open i wo-Night Schedule
Scientists Announce Paralysis Cure
BOTH YOUR HOUSES' MAY BE SELLOUT
By Clifford Bronson
. Backed by the most elaborate stage sets used at U.S.C. in several years, and boasting a cast of experienced actors, play SAN francisgo. Jan. 19 — <U.P) ■ productions will begin a two-night run of “Both Your Houses” —Two eminent scientists of Stan- tomorrow evening.
Robert T. Hall, graduate student at U.S.C., plays the part of an upright young senator from*
ford university today said that nasal instillations of zinc sulphate may be the weapon which ultimately will control dreaded infantile par- ! Nevada who attempts to halt the alysis.	•	j passage of a huge approriations bill
The treatment already lias prov- of pork barrel taint, ed successful in experiments with j the doctors said. It re- j
.. . . ..	T. , The supporting role, secretary to
monkeys, the doctors said	It re-1 ^ senator played by Elinor
ted in competing	transferred tThuman	beines. Brown who ls known as "Bus in the £ent conductor of the orchestra
,ay receive addi-	“ IP** Miss Brown studied and ap- |	fw ^ play may * ob
vote the bill through.
Miss Florence Hubbard is supervising director of play productions.
Dr. William Ulrich will direct the university orchestra at both performances. Leo Robins is stu-
Wann Lauds California Poet In Lecture
SCIENTISTS EXPERIMENT
The scientists are Dr. E. W. Schultz, professor of bacteriology and experimental pathology, and i his associate. Dr. L. P. Gebhardt. They have been engaged in a long laboratory fight against poliomyelitis. and the record of the fight is one of discouragment and prolonged researches which proved futile.
Newspaper Strike Hits Portland
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 19 —(U-P) —Portland's 350,000 residents experienced their third newspaperless day today as a deadlock between typographers and publishers which closed three daily newspapers continued unbroken.
The strike began Saturday afternoon after bulldog editions of Sunday newspapers were printed.
Spokesmen for the International Typographical Union, whose members struck against the Oregonian, Oregan Journal, and News-Tele-gram last Saturday, said their posi-
peared for a year in productions of.
i. ~ tamed free of	charge if students
the Pasadena Community playhouse. I1 cu c	, , , .,
exchange them	for student body
The dramas of Anderson are not i book tickets. According to the ticket ^on was same as when the strike new to Hall, since he played the office they are going fast, and stu- j was called, and publishers remain-lead in “Winterset” at another college. He comes from Rochester. New York, and is a Phi Betta Kappa.
Two other leading players are Ben Marshall and Jane Bellows. Marsh -
It was not until they discovered alJ p]ayS part of Solomon Fitz-
that nasal instillations of zinc sulphate will create resistence to paralysis in monkeys for a period of three months and they began to
‘‘The disillusionment of the early 20th century has found many voices, but none in this countrv so symptomatic and so significant as that of sec success ahead, the California poet. Robinson Jef- {GREAT STEPS FORWARD fers, now admittedly in the very	discovery, and its twin, the
front rank of living."	fact that the disease enters the
human body through nerves in the olfactory area, are considered the greatest steps forward in the fight,
.. . , ,	^ it- j	,	aeainst the most withering source Clean to prevent the passage of the
thin* that has to be challenged semester Wednesday lecture series.. * chUdh00d TOUth and Jrty ma. p„rk barrel legislation. He attempts
turity.	| to make the bill ridiculous by pad- (
Still unknown, however, is how; ding it so that it would be out of continue for at least
|eople’s throats—even if the things; This opinion was expressed by Dr. re true. So I have a counter-of- j Louis Wann. professor of English, -nsive: to bellyache about it. It’s who yesterday afternoon closed the
maurice, and Miss Bellows carries the role of Marjorie Grey. Marshall is also a graduate student, while Miss Bellow's has performed at the Hollywood Community theater, and with the Thespian players at the University of California at Berkeley.
The plot of the play is based around the efforts of Senator Mc-
dents are urged to obtain the ducats ef* equally adamant, as soon as possible.	LITTLE PROGRESS MADE
Conferees Declare Holding Company Purge Not Necessary
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 —<U.P>— Fifty of the nation’s business leaders tonight promised President Roosevelt their cooperation in combating the trade slump but speci fied that a limited wages-hours bill, a truce with public utilities, no general purge of holding companies and no further tinkering with the currency are necessary to aid in the struggle.
The conferees, all members of the department of commerce business advisory council, spent an hour and a half with the president. Afterward Averill W. Harriman, chairman of the group, issued a statement Which embraced the views of his colleagues and which was read to Mr. Roosevelt.
REEMPLOYMENT IS CRITICAL
The statement said reemployment is private industry is the critical problem now before the country and that uncertainties that exist in “the hearts of men” must be eradicated.
'•We wish to record with you our faith in the efficacy of the principles of democracy, and yet our grave concern over the possible far-reaching effects of our present situation.” the statement concluded. “Tolerance and understanding must be used by all sections and interests in the country."
CONFEREES MEET MORGAN
On leaving the White House some of the conferees went to the Mayflower hotel where they conferred with J. P. Morgan, international banker. Morgan said afterward that his presence had nothing to do with the Roosevelt meeting.
The advisory council touched on ,the mast important parts of the new deal’s many-sided reform and recovery program. It recognized President Roosevelt’s contention that there is a “new moral climate” in America and promised to join with the government in curing business and financial inequalities.
and non-org women under the direction of Virginia Holbrook. GORDAN PLEADS
In a message to the student body, committee head Gordon last night declared:
“Public institutions lack sufficient funds with which to cope with the great scourge of infantile paralysis. It is only through the generosity of feeling people that this inadequacy can be alleviated.
“U.S.C. students are expected to purchase their share of the “Fight Paralysis” buttons, the proceeds of which, divided nationally and regionally, will be used for treatment, purchase of equipment, and research.
“Your dime may help a child to walk.”
COMMITTEE MEETS Members of the “Fight Paralysis” committee who will meet at 14 o’clock this morning in 234 Student Union are: Floris Callender. Mildred Harmon. Ada Jacobs, Shirley Rothschild. Beth Noon, Joan McMas-ters, Frances Dunn, Eleanor Rossetti. Mary Alice Dadley. Jackie Binning, Pat Culver. Mary Mills, Beverly Williams, Travy Wilkinson, Gene Lou Sullivan. Nancy Newberry.
Virginia Crabtree, Dorothy Ditto. Peggy Price, Barbara Morton, La Verne Rutherford. Barbara Bartlett, Pat Caddell. Cecilia Dickason, Irma Caron. Marjory Herron, Helen Her-wig, Roth Kerr, Kit Morris, Henry Flynn, Bob McNight, Louis Tarleton. Bob Crawford. Dick Caldwell. Bad Colegrove, Neil Deasy, and Richard Fish.
SCHENCK AIDS Regional director of the drivs ic Joseph Schenck. president of Twentieth Century-Fox film corp. Wendell M. Bishop is in charge of exploitation and publicity, while James Woolley is assistant to Schenck.
HSUCHOW
ATTACKED
Far Easterners Seek Peace Efforts in Tokyo
—BULLETIN—
PEIPING, Thursday, Jan. 3#—* (UR)—Three foreigners, announced by a Japanese spokesman today as having been killed in northeastern Shansi province late in December, were believed to have been American missionaries un reported since Dec.
Other members of the cast are as follows:
Irving Moss. Paul Mueller, Sam Gosney, Henry Kehler, Bob Soderberg, William Paulson, Don Bartel-li, Ruby Hoff, Bill Nash, Harry Eddy. Joe Shoben, and Erik Ritzau.
Bartelli plays the part of a Republican senator from California.
bnstantly — by individuals. All I with a lecture on “Robinson Jeffers -ant is preservation of the good old , —Counterpart of Walt Whitman.”
American custom of kicking like speaking in the Art and Lecture
c--•"	room of Doheny library. Dr. Wann
--------! pointed out the contrast between
Whitman's and Jeffers poetry by reading aloud examples of their work, then examined the meaning and value of Jeffer's art and philosophy.
Dr Frank Baxter of the English Jeffer’s poems fall into main department presented the last poe- types, narative and lyric. Dr. Warn: ry reading of the semester yester- 1 declared. ‘The narratives are cor.-|ay. The work of Emily Dickinson cerned with tragedy of Man—his ias the subject of the reading. fatal introversion” and are written
. in ‘sledee - hammer allegory:” “the ‘ Emily Dickinson occupies her	____
U nicne in American literature j	t'J^extemal woS': Celebrai e Tonight
lhe stated.
GRAIN HITS HIGH
PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 19 —(U.E) —A flood of yellow grain from western wheatlands is giving Portland its heaviest agricultural export ! movement in recent years and will 60 days, the
Dickinson a Cystic-Baxter
the disease travels from one person to another, whether it is transferred freely in the air or by bodily-
contact.
Charles Armstrong and W. T . Harrison of the U. S. Public Health service were the first scientists to report that instillations of alum in- j to the nostrils of inoculated mon- i keys prevented infection for a few! days.
Social Work School
the question. Much to the surprise of the honest solon, both houses
Portland merchants nounced today.
exchange an-
Ernest P. Marsh, federal labor conciliator, said he was unable to report any progress in the wages and hours dispute that rendered 1728 full-time workers jobless, of whom 245 were strikers.
In a radio address, W. E. Kimsey, union spokesman, said the union offered to compromise with the publishers an hour before the strike was called. Difference between the groups centered over a half hour of the work day, publishers insisting upon a 7% hour day and the printers on 7 hours.
COMPROMISE REFUSED
Kimsey said the union offered to compromise on a 7U hour day but the proposal was turned down.
Merchants’ hard hit during the last five months of 1937 due to the closure of seven major sawmills be-cause^f a jurisdictional dispute between the AFL and the CIO, have been dealt another blow with the withdrawal of their main advertising medium.
ttthough she is not one of our jreatest poets,” Dr. Baxter said, er mystical mind knew suffer-g. beauty, fear, yet derived for it-plf a great fund of inner serenity.” *id Dr. Baxter.
“Some of ner poetry shows a mvs-lc, love, or spiritual quality, and
Campaign To Block Traffic On University Avenue Started
^ start in the long-awaited campaign to erect a “wall of Troy,” and to block off traffic on University avenue, was announced yesterday by Harry Silke, U.S.C.’s director of special foundations. *	«
The newly constructed brick and^sieel wall on the Univer- £}-|jria af Services sity side of the music annex is bu.*
the first step in an extensive re- j will extend from the present park
Dr. Knopf To Discus:
COMPROMISE IS REACHED
Tomorrow at the meditation serv- j
A Speakerless Evsning of Fan construction program.	in the middle of the north entrance Ice, Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, dean
and Frivolity is the theme of the | According io Silke, the Los An- of University, over to the corner on of the School of Religion, will re-first School of Social Work dinner geles traffic committee has agreed which Old College is located.	veal many incidents from the dis-
| party of the semester tonight at WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 —Oi)—;6:30 o'clock in the social lounge of A compromise reached on the com: Elizabeth von KleinSmid hall, section of the crop control bill | Reservation for the informal din-leaves house and senate conferees ner, which is 50 cents, can be made are iust casual comments on with only one major controversial with the secretary in the School of **	issue to settle.	i Social Work offices.
to build an extention cf the “island”	Removal of the four-family flat turbed war zone of China which located at the north entrance to on 36th street and the house ad- have never appeared in American
36th street, on which the memorial	joining will be the next changes j newspapers pylon now stands. When the new made on the campus. These houses
“island” is completed, gates will be	are expected to be moved by Feb-either swung from the pylon to the. ruary 1, states Dean Fisk, purchas-
new wall, yet to be constructed, or	mg agent.
The meeting will be at 7:30 a. m. ln the Little Chapel of Silence located just back of Elizabeth von KleinSmid halL
Quill Club Offers Awards To Writers
The U.S.C. chapter of Quill club, national literary society, announced last night that the Ted Olson poetry-prize will be awarded for the best original poem or group of poems submitted by any college or university student in the United States.
A $50 award is donated every second year by the organization whose chapter on this campus is known as Os Rune chapter. Eligible poems must be not less than eight lines and no longer than one hundred lines in length, and must possess some organic unity.
The prize winning manuscript must be post-marked not later than midnight of March 15 and must be typewritten. A nom de plume is required, and the poem will be published in the organizations quarterly magazine, The Parchment.
Judges of the contest will be poets and critics of national repute. Hamlin Garland. Dean of American letters, was the finals judge in the Quills’ last contest. Additional information can be found on the bulletin beard outside the English office, 314 Bridge.
RATE INCREASE SEEN
PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 19 —d'.P) —Fruit growers testified at an interstate commerce commission hearing here today that a 15 per cent increase in railroad fre ght rates would be ruinous to the northwest fruit industry.
SHANGHAI. Thursday. Jan. 20 — <U.P>—Three heavily mechanized columns erf Japanese troops today attacked Hsuchow, key city to the Chinese defenses on their stout “Hindenburg line” in northern Ki-angsu and southern Shantung provinces.
The renewed military onslaught in the field was accompanied by what Japanese termed a “peace offensive” behind the battle line. Most political activities were secret.
In Tokyo, however, the Japanese prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, was expected to indicate the general lines of the peace efforts in his address to the conference of prefectural governors and in the draft of his formal address to parliament on Saturday or Sunday.
Chinese in Shanghai reported that Chen Chung-fu, former chairman of the foreign affairs bureau of the North China political affairs readjustments commission, had departed for Tokyo to consult the Japanese regarding formation of “a new national government” in Nanking.
L.A. Engineers To Hear Vivian
Dr. R. E. Vivian, head of the department of chemical engineering, will address the Los Angeles Engineers club today at a luncheon on “Recent Developments in Electro-Chemistry,” at the Biltmore hotel.
Dr. Vivian came to U. S. C. this fall after working for several years in the field of metal powders for an eastern concern. Many of these metal powders are used in modern industries including the automotive, paint, and electrical refrigeration.