Happy New Year
SOUTHERN A \ CALIFORNIA
DAI LY
ROJAN
Merry Christmas
VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939
NUMBER 63
usic School To Give ule Program Today
Choral Groups Will Participate in Program; Audience, Directed by Max Krone, To Sing
The School of Music will assume the role of Santa Claus is morning at 9:40 o’clock when it presents to Trojan stu-ents a specially arranged program of Christmas music.
The combined musical organizations of the school, the niversity choral union, and the university symphony orches-
will join in giving a program.--*--
Fraternity Status Changed By Faculty
Rho Pi Phi Will Be Reinstated; Charter For Sorority Delayed
Rose Bowl Tickets Go Fast
Sales Reach 65,000; Student Applications Due Tomorrow
They’re coming in from as far as Chicago, the ticket office reported yesterday.
That means someone spent $10 for a phone call to Los Angeles from the Windy City to make an application for a pair of Rose Bowl tickets.
With 65.000 tickets sold already, only 30.000 more will be
available, according to figures from the ticket office. Arnold Eddy, general manager, says that student and alumni preference applications must
tM_ TQcmnn r»i nariv	■ , A	be made by tomorrow. These tickets
table in tne iasmon 01 eany	The faculty commjttee on student	, rpserveri for £4 40 each and
lizabethan choral groups and sing	ization announced yesterday	y reserved Ior 54.40 eacn ana
,thorn accompaniment. They will	Zoningofaction on anap-	will be mailed to applicants Decem-
“Pat-a-Pan. a Burgundian	pijca^on jor a charter by a social
music representative of the uletide season.
HORAL GROUPS PERFORM
The choral group, under the diction of Max T. Krone, will pre-nt the A Cappella choir, the madrigal singers, and the men’s ee club. The symphony group, nder the baton of Lucien Cailliet. riij play selected Christmas num-;rs and will accompany the community singing.
The Madrigal singers, a group of ^ght mixed voices, will appear at day’s assembly lor the first time lis year. The singers sit around table in the fashion of early
[ng “Pat-a-Fan." a
rrangement by Shaw.	! sororjty, the reinstatement of a pro-
RCHESTRA TO PLAY	fessional pharmacy fraternity, and
The selections to be played by the changing of the status of two jie symphony orchestra include other professional fraternities. Limsky-Korsakov’s ‘ Russian Christ- ..Mu phi Epsilon> professional as Eve,” ‘The Holly and the music fraternity, will be a scholarship fraternity in the future,” announced Louis Wann, chairman of the faculty committee on student organization.
The committee
•y,” by Boughton. “How Far Is to Bethlehem,” and “A Christas Song.”
The A Cappella choir group will heard in “Let All Mortal Flesh eep Silence,” by Holst, with Cle-ent DeSilva singing solo. An jglish carol, “A Merry Christmas.” anged by Arthur Warrell, will the concluding selection of the oir.
JDIENCE TO SING
The audience will be led by Mr. wie in singing “The First Noel.” lilent Night,” and they will join e orchestra at the close of “A nristmas Fantasia,” a special ar-ngement by Mr. Cailliet.
^1 Saw Three Ships,” an English angement, will be sung by the oral union group, with the or-estration done by Rodney Kittel the orchestration class. The en’s glee club and men of the oir will join the orchestra in ging “A Christmas Song.” This mber was also orchestrated by e orchestration class with the rst arrangement done by Stanley reen.
To allow for this assembly, all orning classes will be shortened that the program may be given m 9:40 to 10:20 a.m.
Kenny Setting, head yell king, announces:
1.	Men students must wear white shirts and women must wear white blouses.
2.	Men students are required to have rooters’ caps and women must have pom poms.
3.	All students are urged to bring their own megaphones. They will not be collected after the game.
4.	Men and women will have separate sections.
5.	There will be about 14 oard stunts.
ames Will Give hristmas Party or Children
Christmas carols, poems, and ickey Mouse and Popeye films >111 supply the entertainment for children's party given by the ojgn Dames this afternoon from '5 pm. in Elisabeth von Klein-id hall.
"airy Gilbert will read “The ht Before Christmas.” and Mrs. N. Kramer will play appropriate igs on the accordion. Punch d cookies will be served, omorrow. the Dames will stage eir own Christmas party in the inge of the Student Union at 0 pm. Suggestions for last-min-e shopping and Christmas home icoration will be discussed by the
terday, also changed the status of the Honorary Music club from a scholastic to a professional basis.
The new name selected for the club will be one acceptable to the faculty committee.
“After being inactive for four years, the local chapter of Rho Pi Phi. national professional pharmacy organization, will be reinstated.
ACTION POSTPONED
The committee also decided to postpone action on the application of Sigma Phi Sigma, social sorority, for a charter until a later date.
Chairman Louis Wann. reported
that the following organizations -.-
were still deficient in their annual They will be sold to the public from report for the committee which is the ticket window at the Rose Bowl, due in May. If the reports are not whm ,h(, ng and VoIuntMrs
turned in soon, these eroups are ;	Arroyo Seco stadium,
liable to suspension, according to „ wm ^ (h< 26(h New Year.s
t e commn ee.	day game in pasadenat in 1902 the
Deficient scholarship societies are	fjrst game was played as an exper-
Beta Gamma Sigma, Blackstonian,	jment. The Tournament of Roses
Pi Sigma Alpha, Psi Chi, and Sig-	association established the contest
ma Delta Pi.	as an annual event in 1916. For
REPORTS LACKING	24 consecutive years the game has
Professional organizations that	been held with outstanding univer-
have no reports registered with the	sities and colleges of the nation
committee at present include the	competing except during two of the
Advertising club. Alpha Delta Sig-	World war years when service teams
ma. Alpha Eta Rho, Alpha Omega,	took the field.
Alpha Tau Epsilon, and the Am-	-:-—-
erican Management association. j	_ -	..
Others on the list are the Bank-	Professor Will Speak
ing Finance association, Gamma Beta Alpha, Delta Sigma Delta, Kappa Beta Pi, Lambda Gamma Phi, La Societa Dante, La Tertulia, and Phi Beta Pi.
The Odonto dub. Omicron Kap-
pa Upsilon, Phi Delta Chi, and ing today at 12 M. Sigma Beta Chi complete the list.
German Club Presents Play
A bit of the German yule spirit will find its way into the SC holiday season tonight when the German club entertains at the home mbers of the home section. The of jimmy Hayes, 218 South Nor-
Dr. Tieje, SC’s geology authority, will address members of the Pacific section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Lecture illustrations will consist of colored motion pictures of Indo-China, including the famous ruins
Von KleinSmid Extends Holiday Greetings
On the eve of the Christmas holidays, we wish to express our sincere hope that this season may be joyous and happy for the students and faculty of the university.
Christmas is a time when thoughtful attention is centered on others; when friends and family draw close together, and when a mantle of sentiment and kindliness is draped about us. May we all catch this spirit and may we look forward to the enjoyment of this holiday, grateful that we still may know its message of peace and good will.
R. B. von KleinSmid President
applicants
ber 26.
Sale of student rooters’ tickets, which started yesterday, will continue through tomorrow for $1.6?. Eddy urges that students exchange their activity book slips for rooters’ tickets this week.
Next Tuesday 15.000 tickets will be placed on public sale in accordance with Pacific Coast conference rules. The pasteboards include all of the $3.30 section back of the which met yes- gGaj posts and a few $4.40 tickets.
Debate Teams
ill Continue
i
ay
Contest Tod,
Ninety High School Squads Vie for Titles In Separate Divisions
The fourth annual southern California high school debate tournament will go into the second day at 3:30 this afternoon when those teams which have not been eliminated will continue the discussion of the question: “Resolved that the United States government should own and operate railroads.”
Representing high schools of all sections of southern California and as far north as San Francisco, 180 debaters, divided into two divisions, are participating in the forensic contest which covers oratory, oratorical declamation and dramatic declamation, extempore, and debate.
Edward C. Jones, varsity debater, director of the tournament states that it is one of the most sucess-ful ye held, as far as the number of entrants are concerned.
Each of the 90 teams will be allowed only one defeat before being eliminated from the-race. Division A entrants are being judged after five rounds of debate. Entrants in the B division will be ranked after five rounds of debate by respective teams of the division. The four teams having the highest rating will be permitted to continue for two more rounds of judged debates.
The team having the highest percentage of wins will be declared winner of the B division. The team with the highest percentage of wins in the A division will be declared champions of the tournament.
Students Hancock To Head
Win Music Awards
Iris Lewis of SC,
Aida Mulieri of UCLA Share Top Honors
Iris Lewis, SC music major, and Aida Mulieri, UCLA music
student, won the two $35 scholarships given by the alumnae chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, music honorary sorority, in the music contest they sponsored yesterday in Bovard auditorium.
. Miss Lewis is a transfer from Long Beach junior college and is a junior here. She was a soloist in the university orchestra, a soloist in “The Messiah,” which was presented last week. Born in Wales, she now lives in Long Beach where she also writes music reviews for the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and performs as soloist in the First Presbyterian church.
Max Van Lewen Swarthout, director of the School of Music, officiated as master of ceremonies at the concert. Christabell Kisner sang “Connais tu le Pays” from “Mignon” by Thomas, and “Life” by Pearl Curran.
Virginia Cox was the first entrant in the competition and played an organ selection. Honorable mention was given to Juanita Lemmons, pianist, who played Sonata XXI, first movement, by Mozart, and “Little White Donkey” by Ibert. Iris Lewis was third on the program with her presentation of “Habanera” from “Carmen” by Bizet and “Melesandre in the Wood” by Goetz. Claire Thomas was the last contestant from SC and played “Appasionata” by Beethoven and “The White Peacock” by Griffes on the piano.
SC Board of Trustees
On Oil in China
‘"Motoring Through Indo-China— with Some Guesses on Oil,” is Dr. Arthur J. Tieje’s topic for discussion at the University club meet-
Art Collection Removal Near
For only two more days the Percy A. Rockefeller collection of 37 American historical portraits will be shown in the Elizabeth Holmes Fisher art gallery.
After that time the famous Rockefeller group will return to New York. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Henry Clay are among subjects painted by such artists as Charles Willson, Peale, Robert Edge Pine, and John Wallaston.
Students, Alumni Will Attend Pre-Game Dance
Trojans again are invited to join with alumni at the SC - Tennessee New Year’s Eve Rose Bowl rally dance Sunday evening, December 31, at the Riverside Drive Breakfast club.
The rally-dance, given each year by the Breakfast club in honor of schools playing in the Rose Bowl, last year was attended by many SC supporters, who joined with their Duke rivals in celebrating the New Year.
Head Yell King Kenny Seiling will be present this year with his aides to lead Txojans in yells and songs between dances. Word has already been received from Jack Joyner, public relations head of Tennessee university, that the Volunteers will be out with their rebel yells to outshout the Trojans at the rally.
Bryant Washburn, with Sally Shaw as the featured vocalist, will play for dancing from 9 p.m. to 2 am. Special entertainment will also be provided during the evening. and favors will be distributed to dancers.
Music Group Will Attend Western Meet
Phi Mu Alpha Groups From 11 States To Meet at Westwood
“Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity, is looking forward with great anticipation to the coming western convention scheduled for December 27, 28, and 29, in view of the fact that a large number of Phi Mu Alphas will meet for the band and choral clinic as well as the convention,” commented Leo Robbins, president of the SC chapter of the organization.
Members from 11 states will be guests of UCLA on the Westwood campus for t)he third western province convention in California.
The affair had been planned
Capt. S. Allan Hancock
... to head SC trustees
Pre-Med Group Pledges Nine At Meeting Today
One woman will be pledged with jointly with SC, and the band and eight other men students at * a choral clinic, a professional music meeting of Alpha Epsilon Delta, ages as well as classrooms for vari
Life of Pioneer Parallels Growth of Troy
Capt. G. Allan Hancock, pioneer resident of Los Angeles yesterday became president of the SC board of trustees.
Dr. Hancock was made head of the governing board at a meeting on campus at 10 a.m. yesterday.
Paralleling the growth of SC from its earliest day, when it
pioneered collegiate education ir southern California, is the life of Dr. Hancock, who has been one of the university’s principal benefactor*.
VELERO EXPEDITIONS
The Velero III, now owned by the university, flies the Trojan pennant from her mast on the captain’s scientific expeditions to South Pacific waters. The Allan Hancock Foundation building is rapidly nearing completion. It will house many of tne rarest speci-ment collected on Velero III voy-
organization. Most of the mem- national honorary pre-medical fra-bers teach music in public schools temity at 12:30 p.m. today in the or do professional work.	Student Union lounge. Esther Pet-
ALUMNI BANQUET PLANNED erson will be the first woman to
The first day’s activities will be become a member of this group, highlighted by an alumni banquet according to Jim Roberts, presi-at' 7 p.m.	*	i dent.
While UCLA is in charge of the details of the convention in general, SC will sponsor the formal initiation of honorary members
who have made contributions of music in this area, and also will sponsor a broadcast.
Richard Huddleston, councilman for the SC chapter, is planning the
Others to be pledged with Miss Peerson are Bamy Coleman, Charles Fond, William Henry, Herbert Reece, Robert Maronde, John Bailey, Leon Wallace, and Fred Pri-bus. Formal initiation of the pledges will be in January, says Roberts.
ous sciences.
Dr. Hancock is a native son of California whose father, Major Henry Hancock, surveyed mast of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and acquired the historic Rancho La Brea encompassing the area which is now Hollywood and the Wilshire district.
CITY SURVEYED
The Hancock family long nas been linked intimately fith the development of Los Angeles from a tiny, sleepy pueblo to the thriving city it is today.
Major Hancock, father oI the
The other officers of the group radio broadcast for 2 p.m Decem-' are Paul Travis, vice-president, and neW J^0jan ^ard president7 came ber 29. The broadcast will include Eugene MacDonald, secretary-contributions from each of the vis- treasurer. Requirements for en-iting chapters. SC will present Elie trance in the Alpha Epsilon Delta Rounbeck, Ben Simkin,	Rob- are high scholarship, personality,
bins, and Calvine Ii»men in a and ability to get along with oth-string quartet; Sumner Prindle, ers.
who is a pianist now doing a ser- j Faculty advisor of the society is ies of programs over KHJ; and j^r gnice Harrison. He is assisted
by Dr. Leroy Weatherby and Dr. J.
Frank Smith.
William Matchan, baritone, who sang with Otto Klemperer in the Hollywood bowl last summer. INTERFRATENRITY SING The Phi Mu quartet will present a number of songs, written especially for their chapter by William Gleichmann, at an interfratemity sing in the evening.
Under Bob Sedgewick, president, the Kappa Zeta merged with Alpha Epsilon Delta last1 April. Dr. Charles Poe of the University of Colorado and national president of the honorary group, officiated at
SC students who will be initiated ^e initiation of the SC chapter in during the convention are: Earl Los Angeles.
Hellmers, Perry Krohn, Howard--—-
Bergherm, Allan Hastings. Rodney Kittel, and William Murphy, university, the University of Nevada. University of Colorado, and the University of Utah.
isic section, directed by Mrs. G.
Kramer, will sing carols. Mrs. ,n Houghton has arranged for a monstration of gift wrapping, nd Mrs. Harry Gilbert will give ’hristmas readings.
Each member will bring a pre-,nt for a child between the ages 5 and 18 which will be given a party sponsored by the Am-ican Society for the Hard of earing.
President's Office Notice
Today at 9:40 a.m. the fae-ty and students of the uni-rsity wUl be privileged to hear Christmas concert by the com-ned choral groups and the or-estra. In order that everyone j enjoy this music, the follow-g class schedule will prevail: 8:00 to 8:45 8:50 to 9:35
9:40 to 10:20 — Assembly*
10:25 to 11:10 11:18 to 12 M.
R. B. Ton KleinSmid President
mandie avenue.
Highlight of the evening will be a play produced by the German class of Dr. Harold von Hofe. The dialogue will be in German. The play was written by members of the class.
German games and songs will be directed by Mrs Ruth Baker Day, associate professor in German.
Reservations may be made by club members and their friends at the German office, 106 Bridge.
Phi Beta Kappa To Initiate Pledges Tonight
NYA Report Deadline Set
Time reports for the third NYA payroll period, November 19 to December 18, inclusive, will be due in the information office next Monday, December 18. if they are to be included on the current payroll. Dates for the weekly time reports are: November 25, December 2, 9, 16. and 18.
The NYA paymaster requests that student workers do not turn in extra time, as it will not be included on their monthly checks, due to strict budgeting of funds.
Esther L'Ecluse
... to he initiated
Tw enty-two Phi Beta Kappa-1 elects will be formally initiated into the national honorary scholastic society tonight in the Fover of Town and Gown at 6 o'clock.
The annual dinner-initiation will be highlighted by the address ‘The Power and Peril of Propaganda” by Dr. Henry Kendall Booth, president of the southern California Phi Beta Kappa alumni association and former pastor of the First Congregational church of Long Beach.
Eleven students who achieved and maintained a 2.1 or better grade
Johns Harrington
. . . wins honor
average were elected to the society last week. Also on the initiation last week are Karma F. Dudleigh, Olga Shmaeff, Anne E. Bowden, Gerald Govorchin, Esther L’Ecluse. Johns H. Harrington, and Amelia M. Van Soest.
Juniors are Ruth DeEtte Simpson, Muriel L. Lindstrom. Norman A. Wiegman, and Lawrence Lee Rauch.
Olga Shmaeff, Alpha Epsilon Phi, is a member of Amazons and Seven seniors who were elected
/ \ /
Olga Shmaeff
e , . high grade average
list are the 11 elected last semester. Spooks and Spokes. Harrington is president of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity.
On the list of Phi Beta Kappas last semester who will be initiated tonight are the following: Arline Dove Lambert, Clete J. Burke, Ar-illa E. King, Clifford Ed Royston, Carol L. Tiegs, W. Arthur Boggs, Edna Ong Davis, Jack Paschall, Theodore Hsi-En Chen, Vincent Yu-Chung Shih, and Erica H. Weary.
Engineers Will Convene In Nevada
Eight universities and six junior colleges af the Pacific Southwest will send professors of engineering to represent their institutions at Reno, Nevada in the annual convention of the National Society for
SC Student Designs Float
Mary Jean Lloyd, ’40 fine arts student, has been commissioned to design the Tournament of Roses float for Mission Oranges.
According to an announcement made by Gil Kuhn, '36, her sketch was selected from many submitted and its choice is a marked tribute to her artistic ability.
The orange company will publicize the Tournament of Roses float in national magazines and newspapers throughout the United States
, and in many foreign countries, tne Promotion of Engineering Edu-	, .. -ii _ j
„ntinn	8	Newspapers and radio will give ad-
ditional indirect publicity to the efforts of this aspiring Trojan.
cation.
F. H. Silby, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada who is chairman of his section, will preside. Plans for the convention of 1940 will be discussed by Baldwin M. Woods. According to officials at SC School of Engineering, the 1940 convention probably wTill be held in Berkeley, California.
Schools that will be represented are: University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, Stanford university. University of California, University of California at Los Angeles, Arizona
to Los Angeles in 1850, after several months in the gold fields along the south branch of the American river. He served as a state assemblyman for the 1851-52 session.
Agitation in Los Angeles for an additional survey to the original townsite led Major Hancock to return to a profession he had practiced previously, that of surveying. In the early 1850's he surveyed the then city limits which occupied an area of slightly more than 7000 acres.
OWNED RANCHO LA BREA
With the city’s intention of subdividing this land into sections, Major Hancock took over the work of surveying the plot which extended three miles southward from Pico street, between Main street and La Cienega.
One of Major Hancock’s favorite holdings was the Rancho La Brea, about 4.500 acres then used as grazing lands from the foothills to what is now Wilshire boulevard.
It contained a number of pools filled with a sticky black substance, a menace to straying livestock, but a source of water-proofing for the roofs of most of the adobe houses in the pueblo. The property was traced back by the Major as far as 1769 historically, to the advent of Caspar de Portola.
His interest in science, particularly through the sponsorship of numerous expeditions which have returned with previously unknown birds, animals, and other specimens, has contributed materially to the university’s advancement of the aims of scientific progress.
Wesley Club Lists Activities
TROJANS QUIT BOOKS, CO HOME
Vacationists Plan To Return for Rose Bowl Game
HOLIDAY SCATTERS STUDENTS
Proving that Santa Claus is present everywhere in the world, hundreds of SC students leave for all parts of the United States this weekend to celebrate Christmas with their families.
Scenes of joyful Trojan reunions will take place in Boston, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Kan-
sas City, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, and San Diego, to mention only a few.
Randy Brown, who heads for St. Louis, Mo., reminded, “I’ll be back in plenty of time for the Rose Bowl game.”
Kay Lee, who will desert the cam-
Year’s eve celebrations and the football game,” they assured.
Ilda Gerber planned originally to spend the holiday in Mexico City, until her folks decided to make a trip to Tuscon, Ariz. “I’ll meet
them there.” she said, “and most of my time will be spent horseback
Mountain playgrounds and desert resorts will also attract dozens of students from local homes for short
A trip to the Griffith park planetarium, a symphonic appreciation
hour and a Christmas play direct-,	,	„
ed by Lysa Howard. NBC director, j Pus toni8ht for Grand Junction, riding, will highlight activities of the Wes- ! Colo., promises to do a lot of ice lev club tonight and Sunday. ! skating in the next two weeks. “No,
The planetarium trip, open to jGrand Junction isn’t a one horse	.	_
club members and friends, will town-” she cautioned, “a population trips during the vacation^
start at 7:30 o’clock from the Uni- of 45.000 proves that.”	Spring^Lak%^^t nnnufJ
versity Methodist church, while the Dan Chapman and Don Hanson of	mite rate as
appreciation hour, including vari- Troy will travel as far as Chicago	The majority ol those making
ous Christmas selections, will take ’ to see their families. “But we'll	trips, plan to be back in time for
place Sunday at 5:30 pm. | return to Los Angeles for New	the SC-Tennessee Rose Bow l classic,
t