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7olume XXX
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, September 22, 1938
Number 4
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DESBERG, on the Rhine, Sept-p>—Relchsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, nt in the hour of his greatest less triumph, demanded to-that Chechoslovakia's dismem-Sudetenland be orought un-eomplete German domination in a week.
ler. who will reach this puaint .1 the heart of Germany's forti-Rhineland late tonight or ear-ursday, will receive the sur-;r of the Sudeten areas from rime minister of Great Britain. ELAV EXPECTED fibers of Der Fuehrer s en-ge, preceding him here, said a determined that there must diplomatic delays in turning the Sudeten districts, ursday afternoon, in the Hotel en. Hitler will tell Prime Min-Neville Chamberlain that the e government’s complete cap-ion must be followed up by -ation of the Sudeten belt by zech police and army troops I a week.
-bers of Der Fuehrer’s coterie that he would make it clear to berlain, who forced Prague’s lation as the only alternative _ in Europe, that he will not it any quibbling tactics to de--rmany’s actual aru.exation of derlands. er is insistent, his advisers that Czech crisis must be “set-and out of the way" before * er 1 at the latest.
CE TO BE SERVED was expected to ask Cham-to serve Franco-British noon the Czechs that the Sudeten must be given outright to any immediately if the danger tllities is to be completely dls-
eten German refugees, 106,000 om are said to have fled to an soil within the past two must be permitted to return eir homelands without hind-of any kind, it was said, aer also will ask, lt was un-that the Sudeten Oerman Corps,” a green-shirt army of Sudeten refugees already on the Oerman side of the ,r for either Invasion or occu-a, be given immediate police
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■1 leaders believed demands by and Poland for “libera-of their minorities in Czecho-‘ia would figure to deter re-ce to Oerman occupation be-of the danger of fighting on sides.
Jpilway Plan Collapses I At Conference
LsHINGTON, Sept ii (U.E)— prences among President Roose-hand-picked railway manage-and labor executives designed »ft a board legislative program the ailing industry, collaps-j>day after a dispute over the ‘•0 000 pay cut ordered by the rs.
i six officials, who were asked e president to prepare a com-rehabllitation program for to the next congress, nearly two hours and made rogress. After the meetings, [_R Gray, former president of Jnion Pacific railroad, issued statement on behalf of the kittees:
►ing to the pendency of the : proceedings and as the presl-|lias indicated that he will ap-fact-flnding oommission
Iweek."
Dick Barton, president of the junior class, yesterday named men and women to tne council, six of whom are non-orgs.
A meeting of this board is scheduled for the near future at which time all class business will be discussed.
Barton Names Junior Council
Class President Selects Forty-eight Members For Advisory Board
J Forty-eight students from the | class of 1940 were chosen by Dick j Barton, president of the junior class, as members of the junior council, governing body of the Junior class, for the coming year.
In announcing the list. Barton said that selections of members this semester are not made according to houses, pointing out that of the 48 members 6 are affiliated with no fraternities.
The newly-formed council will hold a meeting in the near future to discuss plans for this and next semester, Barton said. Subordinate officers of the council will be selected.
Cautioning that memberships in the council are not permanent, Barton stated that any member who shows lack of Interest ln the activities of the council will be removed from membership.
The new Junior council members include the following:
Molly Abbott, Bill Baker, Evelyn Bard, Ruth Bennison, Ralph Berko-i witz, Mary Lou Braun, Barbara 1 Canterbury, Bill Cavaney, Kather-• ine Cogswell, Virginia Conzelman, Floyd Cunningham, Eddie Davis, Neal Deasy, Gorton Demond, Florence Desmond, Mary Ellen Dudley, Velma Dunn, Les Evans, Margaret Finlay, Peggy Fitzgerall, Bill Flood.
A’. Gifford, Jack Gillean, Jim Hastings, Bob Herton, Helen Herwig, Frank Johns, Larella Lancaster, Jim Lytle, Michael MacBan, Dave Marks, Bob McVann, Paul Miller, Bill Miilerburg; Dick Miller, Merle Morris, Esther Morrison, Barbara Morton, Art Pugh, Olga Schmaeff, Virginia Schrey, Bill Schulte, Harry Smith, Dick Steckel, Jim Talcott, Herman Taylor, Ted Tyler, Bob Wamsgams
Cities Hit By Storm
West Indian Hurricane Brings Destruction To Atlantic Seaboard
NEW-YORK. Sept. 21 (UR)— A West Indian hurricane roared over the North Atlantic seaboard tonight, bringing new devastation to flood-stricken areas of the New England states, New York and New Jersey. I Fire raged in New London, Conn., threatening destruction of the busi-I ness district.
| Twenty-five deaths were report-| ed in the stricken area, 22 of them I in New England, which was hardest I hit. Three were reported in the vicinity of New York City.
MILITIA SENT
j Adjutant General William F. Ladd of the Connecticut National Guard | said two companies of militia had been sent to New London ln fear of the conflagration. He said he | had been informed in a curtailed | telephone conversation that lt might be necessary to us dynamite to save the business district from several fires which were burning along the waterfront. Communications were disrupted-
No martial law has been declared anywhere in Connecticut as yet, he said, but National Guardsmen were called out in New Britain and ln West Haven all available police were called out to halt looting which followed the hurricane.
ESTIMATES HIGH
Damage in the northeastern storm area was incalculable, but estimates reached as high as $5,000,000.
Worst accident of th* flood-hur-ricane was reported from Weare, N. H., where five women were said to have been drowned in the Piscata-quog river in a bridge collapse.
Eight thousand residents of Rockville, Conn., waited fearfully tonight for a series of short blasts on the town’s fire signal which would mean that weakening Lake Snlpsic dam was about to burst and submerge the entire city. The lake is four miles long and two miles wide.
In upstate New York flood waters rolled over the lower Hudson river valley, marooning 500 persons in the town of Windham, which was under five feet of vater as state police rushed to the rescue of the population. The main New York-Albany highway was under several feet of water. Boston and Albany railroad tracks were washed out.
All-U Street Dance, Rally To Climax Blue Key Hello, Smile Week
Serving the double purpose of providing a fitting climax to “Hello and Smile” week and working up enthusiasm for the USC-Alabama football game to be played the following day, an all-U street dance and rally will be held tomorrow night on 28th street, between the hours of 8:30 and 11 o’clock
Sponsored by Blue Key. service*_
organization, with the cooperation
of the interfratemity council, panhellenic council, and other campus organizations, the combination dance and rally will be conducted
Sorority girls may talk to noti-affillated women at this place at this time. Rush rules of In’ormal rush week are to be in force. This Is done with the approval of the advisor, Pearle Aiken-Smlth, dean of women.
ln a roped-off area extending from .the Alpha Rho Chi house to the Slgnm Phi Epsilon house.
Music for the dancing ls to be furnished by the two comedians.
Candy and Cocoa, and their orchestra. Later In the evening Yell King Ron Cooley will lead the crowd in Trojan songs and yells. It ls also hoped that members of the teams and coaching staffs of the Alabama and USC varsities will attend and give short speeches. Al Corley, chairman of the rally committee, said yesterday.
Organizations sponsoring the dance expect a large attendance of new and non-org students, as one of the primary objectives of the affair ls to acquaint Incoming students with Trojan traditions and customs, as well as with their classmates.
Air Chief New Students
Dies in Crash
Shep Fields To Play For Assembly Tomorrow
Trojan battle cries will again resound from Bovard auditorium in the first football rally of the season during the assembly period at 9:55 tomorrow morning, led by the music of Shep Fields’ band.
“In preparation for the big game with Alabama Saturday,
--+ Ron Cooley, yell king, and Fields
with his swingsters will rouse USC students’ fighting spirit with the traditional yells and college songs of Southern California,’’ says Al Corley, rally chairman.
Officers of the student body wlll SHANGHAI, Sept. 22 (U.E)-Japa- j bp introduced to the entering stu-nese armies closing ln on Hankow Iflents durlng ttie flrst pBrt of to" will occupy the provisional Chinese™™* pr°R,rT' *h,en UlP ral1^ national capital within a week, an **ln *’lth «•». music and authoritative Japanese military ob-, Cooley’or,al ^robatics. Upperclass-server told the United Press today. {men "iU	VlT * T
Foreign military experts agreed ! up and en^rlng student* can learn
Nippons Near China Capital
I with this prediction "unless unexpected floods or unusual storms j block the Japanese advance.’’
| Chinese military dispatches admitted the Japanese were closing in
the yells during the half hour ses-sio.
•'White shirts and rooter’s caps are to be worn by all men ln the cheering section," reminds Corley. ’’Women students will wear white ion Chinese Generalissimo Chiang blouses „nd brtnK pompomi. They Kai-Shek s capital ”oon all fronts. , wlll glt Jn lower Hn(j upper r0Vifs 0f | Despite continued rains the Japa- i the cheering section, while men sit j nese had thrown new power into |n the middle, as they did last their offensives during the past 24 1 year,” he said, hours and were almost within can- After the card tricks have been
non range of Sinyang station 100 (jone and the game Is over, Cooley asks that all pasteboard cards be
First Meditation Service Friday
The first morning meditation, ln the Little Chapel of Silence, wlll be held Friday morning, September 23, at 7:30 o’clock.
I The service will last about 20 minutes and there will be no sermon. Dean Carl Sumner Knopf, acting as chaplain, is to discuss some of the interesting articles of I the leading writers of today with ! the group.
j The Little Chapel of Silence ls at the northwest comer of the Town j and Gown foyer, back of Elizabeth von KleinSmid Hall.
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From the Office Of the President
The first all-univer6ity assembly of the year will be at 10 a m. today.
The faculty meeting of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences will be at 2:30 pjn this afternoon The following schedule will govern classes this morning: g a m—8:50 am * 55 a.m —8 45 a m 0:55 am—10 45 am.; assembly. 10:50 am.—1135 am.
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Coach Calls For Debaters
An opportunity for all freshman orators to join‘the U8C freshman debate squad ls still being offered by Coach Homer Bell, former varsity debater. Applicants ma> sign up in the debate office, 2al Student Union, at any time, he said.
Individual conferences will be held today and tomorrow afternoons between 2 and 4 o'clock for the purpose of 6eltcting team members and also the position of freshman manager.
Bell wishes to remind freshmen that their chances for a position on the varsity debate squad next year will be greatly enhanced oy the training they will receive in the fundamentals of Intercollegiate competition, lntra-squad practice, and tournament speaking.
Applicants with previous speaking experience are urged to sign up, but Bell emphasized that past experience Is not vitally necessary.
In the event that no one is in the debate office, freshmen are asked to leave thtir names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Religion Course Announced
“It is an unfortunate and even tragic fact that while most people grow up' ln their concepts of everything else ln life, they remain 12-year-olds ln their religions concepts."
This is the opinion tolced by the Rev. M K P. Brannan, the rector of St Matthias Episcopal church, (in announcing an advanced course in religion and Christian doctrine for college and university students at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoons, beginning on September 25.
In the course of the instruction, Dr. Brannan seeks to take up at least an introduction to the mature thought of the greatest Christian teachers
Further information about ths course may be found In ths office oi ths School ot Religion.
' miles north of Hankow.
| They had captured Loshan, and started a tightening movement along the whole of their line from a point Just east of Sinyang through Kwangchow (Hwangchwan) and Shangcheng and thence southward to the Yangtse river.
There had been no change In Japanese strategy
I Lieut. Oen. Prince Naruhiko ! Higashi Kunl, commanding the Jap-j anese forces on the north shore ! of the Kangtse river east of Hankow, still was thrusting forward with his right wing seeking to place lt astride the Peiping-Hankow railway at Siiyang. This operation ' would block China’s line of communications to the north and make impossible any major retreat ln that direction.
returned to the attendants In the past, students have been Injured when heavy cards have been thrown ln the air. He asks that this be a safe and sane game with no casualties among the spectators.
Friday's rally activities will be climaxed by an evening street dance on 28th street to which <01 students and Alabama visitors are invited.
General Westover Killed When Plane Wrecked Near Burbank
By United Press
An official army board of inquiry headed by Col. Harvey C. Burwell flew to Burbank yesterday from March field to take over the Investigation of the airplane tragedy which took the lives of Major General Oscar Westover, chief of the army air corps and his mechanic, Sam Hymes.
Westover's body was hurled 12 feet from thc plane when lt struck a lawn ln Burbank yesterday and bounded against the front porches of two houses The other body was still in the smoking wreckage when firemen arrived.
WESTOVER BELIEVED PILOT
Army officials believed Westover was at the controls.
Fhemen quickly put out the fire which threatened the two houses. An automobile, which also was sprayed by the flaming gasoline, was destroyed.
The crash occurred within three-quarters of a mile from the Lockheed Aircraft plant, where Westover was heading for an Inspection tour. The plant has a private landing field.
Witnesses said the plane — a Northrop attack ship—swooped Jown low over the field to get the proper wind direction and then circled about. A mile from the field, the two-seater monoplane began to bank for a turn. It was flying less than >> thousand feet up.
AIRPLANE SPINS
Suddenly the craft slipped away on its left wing. The pilot tried to gain control. The ship failed to lespoi.d and went Into a half spin It struck the ground nose-down and ! hurst into flames.
F:om the Lockheed plant where I he was waiting for his chief. Maj. j E L. Hurd, resident aircraft in- j spe-ctoi, hurried to the scene to ilnd the bodies still there. They were removed to a morgue whn-e idcnti- j flcfltlcn was established neatly tn ! iwur later.
Hiu a said Westover, as director of j ii ,Taft production of ths army, had been making an inspection tour of I southern California plant.; He had Just inspected the Vultee factory at Downey-
Hailed Today
Von KleinSmid To Give Official Welcome To Class oi 1942 and 73 Faculty Members At All-U Assembly; Emery Darcy Will Sing
Introduction of 73 new faculty members wlll be made at an all-university assembly today at 10 a. m. in Bovard auditorium. Dr. Rufus B von KleinSmid, president of thr university, will deliver an address of welcome to new students Emery Darcy, young American baritone who has starred
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Emery Darcy, baritone of the Lincoln (Gettysburg Opera company, will be the featured vocalist at the all-U assembly in Bovard at 10 o'clock this morning when new faculty members will be introduced to the student body.
Vesper Hour Plans Made
| PLAN IS STATE ISSUE
! By United Prut
j California's controversial $3 0-J every tiursday pension plan 1s a state issue and no concern of con-| gress Relief Administrator Harry L. ■ Hopkins remarked last night as he 1 gave administration blessing to the j Democratic candidacies of Sheridan I Downey and Culbert Olson.
Bartelli Announces First Meeting of Film Staff
All students Interested in working on the campus newsreel are asked by Don Bartelli, manager, to meet ln 5 Old College this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. The meeting will be the first this year and wlll be of Importance ln the organization of the newsreel staff for the semester.
LABOR SPURNS CANDIDATES
SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 21 — (IJ.El—The California Federation of Labor voted tonight by a 2 to 1 majority against endorsing any candidates ln the forthcoming state and national elections.
Colegrove Promises Campus Life in Wampus
“A magazine for the student, drawing a true picture of college life.’’
That ls how Bud Colegrove, Wampus editor, described what he hopes his monthly publication to be. Stopped ln the midst of making preparations for the first Issue of the campus life magazine, duj to make Its ap-* pearance next Wednesday, September 28, the editor n'terated the fact that the Wampus U, no longer to
be considered in th«J>U»or oU«,	,or the ^ photo_
but rather in that of the photo-	have ^ ud Bko one
graph and sidelight comment type whJch	doU(Lr photo-
the authors of the best short-story
and article of the month, has been
earned on by the Wampus club be considered in the humor class,	___
so popular currently
graphic merchandise order at the
^	81 udent Bookstore, to be presented
j another Life Co egrove sald^ but	MacN.ma * Two other one
feel safe that youH	dollar and a half photo prizes will
that s worth all of fifteen ceim	patented by the Wampus club.
He then went on to explain that	K
the qua.Hty of all the pictures and ; In reply to those who have been
written material In the first issue	applying for work on the staff of
had been Insured by editing until	the monthly publication, Colegrove
only one-eighth of the photographs	saio that Uie first Issue's deadline
, taken were Included ln the mags-	had been passed and there would
sine and by having several writers	be no work until next month He
i compete for the right to have their	advised those interested in becom
short stories and articles printed In this connection, a contest, with awards ot on* dollar and a half lo
ing members of the staff to watch tor aiuiounoementa ot meetings in tbe Daily Trojan.
Book Sale Continues
. Determined to break last year's ! record sale of student activity books, the 1938 committee, headed by Bob McVann, is making a concerted drive today and tomorrow to gain a large student rooting section for the USC-Alabama game Saturday by the sale of activity books.
Books will be sold ln front of Bovard auditorium today, and tomorrow following the rally. They may also be obtained at the cash-. ler’s window in the bookstore.
| Priced at 110, the books constl-| tute a definite saving for the stu-ident, according to McVann. and ' will admit students to the rooting j section at all home athletic events, as well as dramatic offsrlngs and ASUSC digs. At the end of the school year, activity book owners are given a copy of the 1939 El Rodeo-
Students comprising the committee Include Dick Steckel, Ruth Woiman, Gordon McDonough, Roland Andelson, Art Pugh, Dick Klein, Fred Soloman, Jim Hastings, Emma Be vis, Harry Campbell, John Orlp-man. and Jack Naye.
Mildred Eberland, Evelyn Bard, Winifred Clare, Bill Baker, Barbara Canterbury, Barbara Mortin, Kay Dodds. Cecilia Dickason, Ashley Orr, and Mary Ellen Dudley
Varsity Club To Hold Dance
Heralded by Its sponsors as the "a really big social event," a Varsity club dance will be held at ihe Biltmore Blue room, Saturday, October 1, with Sterling Young's band furnishing the music, Leroy Strine, president of the club, revealed yesterday.
The event will follow the Oregon State football game, as the fall dance sponsored by the club did last year.
Bids to the affair, which will be Informal, wUl cost two dollars, Strine said, and may be obtained from the cashier, at fratemity houses, or through members ot Uie Vanity oiub.
Two original musical compositions of Prof Benjamin Edwards, recently appointed director ot a Capella j ir-A choir, wlll be heard ln the vesper chemistry service at 4 p. m. Sunday ln Bovard auditorium.
Professor Edwards will also direct the choir in an old hymn, ‘'Beautiful Savior," whirh was sung by the Crusaders in the twelfth century.
Dean Carl Sumner Knopf will conduct lhe service in Jewish, Latin and English ln order to make the occasion a true example of the "Fellowship of Faith," which is the theme of the hour's meditation.
Part of the liturgy to be used has been taken from ancient manuscripts written before the time of Queen Elizabeth One manuscript was discovered by Phillip BryennlTs, a Greek Catholic priest, a few years ago.
“The hymn. ‘The Faith Of Our Fathers,’ which the congregation will sing, has a history worth noting," say Dr. Knopf. It was composed years ago ln Ireland and w:-s originally a Roman Catholic song. Next lt was adopted by the protestants and used tn their churches.
Today lt is a universal hymn and known everywhere. Its popularity
pj»r through the courtesy of L. F Bahyiner, who Ls prominent tn Lo-Angeles musical circles-
Dr. von KleinSmid wlll prosen the heads of schools and college who will In turn Introduce their new staff instructors.
Darcy's career ln lending operatic roles began tn t\ie Boston English Grftnd Opera company, with which he sang the parts of Don Pasquale. Lescaut ln "Manon," and Escamlllo ln "Carmen."
NBC heard of this new baritone and engaged him for tht "Hous? By the Side of the Road" program, on which he sang for a year. Since this time he has sung on many coast-to-coast radio programs. SINGS IN BOWL
HollywoeKi Bowl appearances followed ln 1936. The next year Darcy was solost with the El Paso Symphony orchestra, the San Diego Symphony orchestra, and the Vancouver Symphoony orchestra.
Appearances with the LOs Angeles Philhar n mlc Symphony orchestra Include soloists In Bpethnven's Ninth Symphony.
Addltl >ns lo the tenchlnE stai.' who will oe present on Lhe Bovard I stage today are:
AstaMc Studies: Theodore Chen, lecturer.
Anthropology and Archaeology | Francis Watkins. Fellow.
Architecture and Fine Artr: Allan Gould, visiting lnstmctor in design; Sumner M. Sp.iuUli.ig, lec-tuier.
Bacteriology: Robert L. Sommer-villr. research asst.
Botany: Rudolph* E Miller. Fei-
Don Arms.rong, Fel-
lii, Kenton J. Legg, F- iow; Lawr-ei ce E. Wilkins, Fellow.
Cinematography: Aaron T. Nib* ley. lecturer; Robert t^r'iton, Fellow; Boris Morros, lecturer; Frjri-erick Orth, lecturer.
VISITING PROFESSORS
Commerce and Bustmas Administration: Dr. Earl O, Blackstone Assoc. Professor of Education tne Commerce; Mlss Lucille Van de Steeg, visiting asst proleoior of Fe-tall Merchandising; Mlss Abblr Mann, Laboratory Asst. In Accounting; Lewis A. Carman, lecturer U-Accounting; D. C. Watson, Teaching Assistant In Trade and Transportation; Mlss Pearl Kenning, Teaching Assistant ln Merchandising
Education: Dr. E. G. Blackstone Assoc. Professor of Education am Commerce; Willard B. Buckhair. Fellow; Theodore Cnen, Fellow; Donald E. Kltch. Fellow; Ralpi Mastellar, Fellow; Odus L. Morgan Fellow.
Economics: Phillips C. Albertson Fellow.
English: Elecnor Lecky, Asst. Pro 1 lessor; William H. Davenport. Professor; H. A. Lynn Sheller, Teach-
has been stimulated by the omls-	j p , Bowerman,' Teach.
sion of any mention of one partlcu- m‘ Asst ;	HaU PpUow; Mar.
lar re glon.	. , garet Laton. Fellow; Max S. May-
Helen BJortsad, a student at the ^ Fellow
Engineering: Qt-jige O. Bauweni, Assistant Professor, Oen. Eng
university, has been asked to play a few selections on the organ.
New students will be greeted by J(m)es Kneeland Numan Inj,tructo, Dr. Rufus B von KleinSmid, pres- ^ Eleetricml Englneerlng.
ident ot the university, who wlll conduct the program.
Amazoons are to help with the ushering.
Store Owners, Strikers End Conferences
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 21 IL'D— Department store owners and repre-senlatlves of their striking clerks ended a series of conferences late | touay still deadlocked on a seniority Issue.
There were no definite aiv.vige-ments for another meeting but !t j was indicated the conferences might be returned later ln the week after each side studies the other's proposals.
The San Francisco Labor Council j committee, representing more than 4,000 striking clerks, flatly rejected a compromise seniority clause which the employers had accepted. Ths union submitted a new proposal and Um raUilw* turned stuu down.
Geology: Henry Vaughn, Fellow.
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