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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940
NUMBER 139
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Dr. Ralph E. Davis Will Address Seniors At Baccalaureate
r. Ralph E. Davis, pastor of Mark's Methodist church, ooklyn, N. Y., has notified diversity officials of lais ac-tance to speak at the year-baccalaureate service in the liseum, Sunday, June 2.
)r. Davfs. a graduate of SC 1915, will also participate the annual class reunion is summer. He was active in cam-activities. serving in Skull and gger. and as a member of Kappa ha social fratemity.
AINED AT PRINCETON
Davis received his religious ining at the Princeton Theologi-seminary, and has served at St. rk’s for the past 10 years. He
1	announce the topic of his ad-iss upon his arrival in Los Ange-May 30. Arrangements for the vices this year are being han-by Harry B. Silke. director of *:ial foundations. More than
000	persons are expected to at-d the services this year, accord-
to Silke.
ighlighting the graduation week eial calendar will be the annual ior women's breakfast and the Jor ball. The breakfast, the 17th the SC campus, will be handled the members of Delta Delta Del-social sorority.
'ore than 500 women are anti-ated at this year's event, to be en on the morning of graduation, e 8. A special feature of the af-r is an eight-foot pansy ring ich serves to announce the en-ement of the graduating seniors. :iOR BALL PLANNED ollowing graduation services, iors will frolic at the yearly ball. 11 Gaspar, class president, will ounce a place and time of the ;nt in the near future, .rrangements for the Ivy day emonies. traditional rites of the ir classes, are being handled by 11 Flood. The event is scheduled June 6. Presidents of the four sses and high ranking seniors
1	be honored at the affair.
WOMEN'S GROUP DINES IN FOYER TOMORROW
Pfiffner, Rodee Scheduled To Address Annual Institute of Government Committee
Fifty women, headed by Mrs. Joseph Lowry, committee chairman, are completing plans for the women’s government committee banquet which will be given at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
The banquet, which is open to the public, is a preliminary phase of the annual Institute of ,--
Father of Coed Slain in Shooting
Of School heads Officers
Tomorrow
Benjamin Vega
Presides over initiation
Thirty Granted Science Club Membership
Mayor Bowron Joins As Honorary Member Of Pi Sigma Alpha
Government which meets on c>:n-pus in June. Speakers at the banquet will tell of the aims and purposes of the institute.
The institute is an educational project designed to increase the proficiency and morale of government employees. Many of the speakers and much of the program, however, will have a wide appeal to the general public. Membership is not confined to public employees, and members may attend those speeches and forums in which they are interested.
Reservations are being made in the School of Government office. 252 Administration, for the pre-institute banquet tomorrow night. Un-
der the theme “Leadership in Government.” Dr. John M. Pfiffner, professor of government, and Dr. Carlton C. Rodee of the political science department will speak. Dr. Pfiffners topic will be “Administrative Leadership,” and Dr. Ro-dee's “Political Leadership.”
Among the committee members are Mrs. Mary Briggs, postmaster of Los Angeles; Mesdames Fletcher Bowron, George Hjelte, Miner Phillips, Clifford Amsden, Walter Henry, Paul Ashby. Carlton Rodee, Emery Olson, John Pfiffner, George Mangold, John McDairmid. John Quinn. F. W. Woodbridge. and Rex Thompson.
John E. Alman. principal of South Pasadena high school and father of Margie Alman, member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, was shot and killed yesterday by Verlin Spencer, principal of South Pasadena junior high school.
Three other South Pasadena board of education officials were killed and two seriously wounded by Spencer before he turned a gun on himself in what police termed “maniacal fury.” Spencer, shot through the neck, is expected to die.
Alman’s address was listed as 1421 Rollin avenue, South Pasadena.
Trojan Club Jamboree Honors Grid Stars Tonight
dvertising Club tes Fraternity t Lunch Today
.lpha Delta Sigma, national pro-;ional advertising fratemity, will honored today by members of Los Angeles Advertising club at luncheon at the Biltmore hotel noon.
r. Thurston H. Ross, director of bureau of business research, will ress the group with the topic, nsumers Are People.’’ In his talk. Ross will tell what is back of umer movement propaganda, will explain the reasons for it answer questions on whether an organized attack on ad-ising.
rleton Sieck will represent the chapter of the professional p while Carl Johnson will rep-t SC. They will speak briefly the group. Chairman of the r will be Ed Keeler, president he fraternity’s Los Angeles ini association.
Football lettermen and numeral winners will desert the
Field Sketches By Architects Will Be Judged
Prizes Offered At Hollywood Dinner For Students’ Work
Arrangements for the initiation of 30 students into Pi Sigma Alpha,
tomorrow 'night-3were”mad^yester- gridiron for the dance floor this evening at 8 o’clock for the be awarded for the best water color
dav bv Benjamin Vega, president of annual football jamboree dinner-dance	sponsored by the *nd blac* an(* white sket*hes d^e
„ , , . t-,. ^	during the afternoon of the archi-
the group. Troian club at the Florentine gardens.	. * -. ,. . „ ..
6 K i J »	; tecture field day Friday, it was an-
j nounced yesterday by Prof. Clayton
Two $5 merchandise prizes will
Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who will The athletes will be joined by members of the Trojaneers be welcomed into the organization and the Trojan club for an evening i
as an honorary member together with Prof. Charles E. Carpenter, professor of law, will speak to the group on city management problems.
of dancing and entertainment. Two complete floor shows will add to the merriment.
Honorary members who expect to attend are Clifford Amdsan; Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz; Dr. Everett Gray, Los Angeles County hospital; Judge Albert Lee Stevens: Sheldon Elliott, professor of law; and W. W. Mather, Chaffey junior college.
Music will be provided by Billy MacDonald and his Royal Highlanders and N.T.G., famous New York cabaret impressario. wUl be master of ceremonies. Members of the Rose bowl championship football team will be introduced by Coach Howard Jones and Ed Demp-Dr. Eugene Harley, faculty advis- sey who will give short talks.
er, Leon T. David, and Professor j	. ,	, ,, ,, .
Co-chairmen of the affair, Alan
Clark of the Trojaneers and Dr. William Harrison of the Trojan club, announce that most of the reservations have been taken and a large crowd is expected. The following list of players are requested by the Alumni office to submit their reservation this afternoon if they wish to attend:
Carl Benson. Bob de Lauer, Bill Fisk. Al Krueger, Joe Shell, John Stonebraker, William Davis, Bud Kennedy. Mickey Anderson, Tom Chantiles, Joe Davis, Don Doyle. Phil Duboski. Horace Griffen, Hal Johnston. Sal Mena, Bill Musick.
ther’s Helpers Wanted
ther's helper positions for the iier in Balboa and at Lake Ar-ead are being offered through Wiversity employment bureau, is a small salarv.
ity Council stablishes reek Row
der recent action of the Los -les city council. West 28th t will be officially established C fratemity row. i* action followed a recent mmendation made by the Planning commission and Council's Planning commit-
Attorney Chesebro has been ted by the council to draft *nces approving applications it fraternities and sorori-for chapter houses on West street at numbers 630, 631, 642, 729, 814, and 917.
Charles Carpenter wrill also speak at the initiation. The formal ceremonies will be conducted by officers, faculty advisers, and alumni.
Film Honorary Initiates Five
Four students and a member of j the faculty were initiated into Del- j ta Kappa Alpha, national honorary I and professional cinematography j fratemity, Sunday evening.
Jack McClelland, national president of the organization, officiated John Prane. Hugh Sargent. Fred at the ceremony. A banquet, honor- Liebi. Max Webb, Jim Hagar, Al ing the new members was held in Lind, and Jack Stephan.
a downtown restaurant immediately---
following the initiation at which col-
Graduate Group Plans Banquet Tuesday Night
Graduate students will culminate their year's activities with the thirteenth annual banquet Tuesday, May 14. in the Foyer of Town and Gown under the direction of Val Lehnberg. president of the Associated Graduate Students.
Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, will greet the assembly, while Rupert Hughes, author of many novels, songs, and plays, will preside at the semi-for-mal affair. Principle speaker for the evening will be Lloyd C. Douglas. author.
Other graduate officers who are assisting Lehnberg with arrangements are Samuel Owen Lane, vice-president; Dorothy Otis, secretary; and Joseph Sparks, treasurer.
M. Baldwin. The prizes will be given by the Student Union art pantry.
The subjects of the sketches will be trees, hills, shacks, houses, etc. The awards will be presented at the banquet Friday night at the Hollywood bowl dining room.
Included in the plan for the modernization of Hollywood s business area which will be shown at the banquet, is a “drive-while-you-win-dow-shop lane.” With aR parking of Acceptance of H officials from cars prohibited on Hollywood boule-
Institute Draws U.S. Officials
Government Conclave Starts June 10
ored sound films were shown.
The new actives are Leigh Kelley. Jack Brewer, Robert Jenks, and Berkeley Powell. Warren Scott, lecturer in cinematography and general studies, was made an associate member of the fratemity.
Assisting McClelland in the initiation were Don Duke, president of the SC chapter; Robert Minton vice-president; Mike Bell, pledge-master; and Larry Bessinger, associate member.
Cole To Address Accountant Group
The problem of how business can pay its bills is the subject of a talk by Richard R. Cole, prominent Los Angeles accountant and SC alumnus, at a special meeting. 6 p.m. tonight, of the National Association of Cost Accountants. Los Angeles chapter, at the Mona Lisa restaurant on Wilshire boulevard. A discussion forum will follow the address.
A masters thesis on the debt paying ability of business, written by Mr. Cole while a student at SC. will aid the speaker in presenting his subject.
Now a partner In a local accounting firm, and treasurer of the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cole was president ol Beta Alpha Psi. national honorary and professional accounting fraternity, and a member of Kappa Sigma while attending SC.
Two officers of the Los Angeles chapter of the accountants organization are Prof. Frederick W. Woodbridge, of the accounting department, who is director of the board, and Oscar Meyers. SC graduate stu-
Washington. D. C., to take part in the 12th annual Institute of Government to be held here from June 10 to 14, was annaunced yesterday 10 to 14, it was announced yesterday School of Government which is sponsoring the conclave.
Joining the 88 state officials and departmental heads from 56 California cities will be local government directors to discuss current problems of administration. Approximately 3000 employees are expected to attend the week’s schooling, according to Dean Olson.
Subjects of public health, traffic control, housing, welfare, and taxation are among the 31 separate sections in the daily schedules beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until 4 p.m. with general assemblies at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Among Washington participants will be Ewan Clague, chief, Bureau Research, Social Security Board; Dick Carlson, personnel director, Civil Aeronautics Authority; Henry B. Hazard, research director, Immigration and Naturalization Service; and John M. Carmody. administrator, F.W.A.
Freshmen Club Gives Fashion Luncheon
Virginia Hunter, president of the YWCA Freshman club, announced yesterday that the club will give its fashion show luncheon Monday at 12 M. in the recreation hall of Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall. Club members will model clothes from Los Angeles stores. Tickets for the .show will be 25 cents.
vard, it is proposed that a “shopping lane” next to the curb be reserved for motorists who wish to window-shop from their cars.
According to Professor Baldwin, traffic will not be slowed down since there will be four lanes beside these “shopping lanes.” The present streetcar line would be eliminated
Jordan, Lindsay Vie For Presidency Of Local Chapter
Franklin Jordan and John Lindsay will vie for the office of president of the Young Men’s Christian association for the coming year at an election of officers at the Delta Chi house tomorrow evening at 5:30 o’clock.
Other persons who were nominated for positions by the committee were Bob Wagner. Franklin Jordan, and John Lindsay, vice-president; Bob Wagner and Bill Anderson, treasurer; and Art Fischer and John Inderrieden, secretary.
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
Jordan has been a member of the executive board of the YMCA for the past two years, and chairman of the student-faculty forums for the same period. A junior, he is the secretary of the organization and a member of Alpha Phi Omega, service group. Jordan is also treasurer of the Wesley club cooperative.
Eindsay, a member of the sophomore class, is connected with the Wampus, and is a former treasurer of the Squires. He belongs to the Scarab, architecture honorary, and is chaplain and member of the executive board of the YMCA. He is also a member of Alpha Rho Chi, social fraternity.
NOMINATIONS EXPECTED
Further nominations may be made from the floor and all members will be eligible to vote, says Herb Klein, president of the group.
Following the election of new officers, Klein will read the annual president’s report and make recommendations for next year. The report will contain a list of activities which the group has engaged in during the past year.
MATZKE TO LEAD
Dr. Alan Nichols
. . . Judges Widney contest
Widney Cup Speech Contest Starts Today
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Seventeen Students To Enter First Round Of Yearly Competition
Seventeen persons will compete in the preliminary round this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock at Touchstone | theater in the Widney Cup oratory contest, sponsored by Tau Kappa Alpha.
Entrants are Virginia Markowitz, William Burrell, John Hanshue, Dudley Bray. Dorothy Hepp, John Inderrieden, Bill MacPhee. Ralph Dyer, Sam Roeca, Jerry Conrad, Alice Hamner. Stilleta Paiague. and Helen Lee Hecht, Hermina Levy, Angie Grebe. Lawrence I#ucks, and Floyd Cunningham.
MAY CHOOSE SUBJECT Students entering the contest are allowed to choose their own subject. Th« length of the speeches will be limited from 7 to TO minutes. Only undergraduates who have not won any intercollegiate honors in oratory are eligible.
Graduate students who are acquainted with the techniques of i speech will act as judges at the | preliminaries. Among those judging at the finale will be Dr. Ray Kessler Camp singing will be led by Bob Immel dean of the School of
and busses substituted under this Matzke and accompanied by Guy Speech ancj r* Alan Nichols men’s plan.	Halferty and Len Morse.	j debate coach.
Outgoing officers of the YMCA are Klein, president; Matzke. vice-president; George Moody, secretary; and Joe Shoben. treasurer.
Apolliad Poetry To Be Broadcast
Winning poetry entries in this year’s Apolliad will be broadcast this afternoon over KRKD from 1:30 to 1:45 o'clock.
Included in the program will be "To an Unknown Soldier” by Her- j bert Searles, “Women’s Logic” and “Reincarnation” by Virginia Putnam; “Life Span,” “After Parting,” , and “Goodbye” by Genevieve Duran; and “The American Public Views It’s National Parks” by Lloyd Stone.
Appropriate background music will accompany the reading of poetry.
Reservations for the affair must be made in the Student Council on Religion office in the Student lounge by 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Cailliet Leaves Today To Receive Honorary Degree
FINAL ROUND THURSDAY
The final round will take place next Thursday afternoon at; 3:15 o'clock, the exact place to be announced later.
Contestants will be judged on the quality of their presentations and the organization of the speech.
The contest takes place yearly under the direction of the School of Speech and is in honor of the late Josephy P. Widney, fourth president of the university
Vivian Clarke, contest chairman,
! urges that all contestants please report promptly at 3:15 o’clock in Touchstone theater for speaking positions and room assignments.
Acid, Base Theories Selected os Subject Of Wednesday Lecture
Dr. Anton B. Burg, assistant professor erf chemistry, will explain “Addition Compounds and the General Theory of Acids and Bases” at the Wednesday lecture at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in Science 159.
The classification of facts which dates back to medieval times will be related to modem chemistry problems in Dr. Burg's lecture. The more inclusive outlook of science today in this classification will be discussed. REACTION EXPLAINED
“The action produced from the union of an acid and a base was produced ki early times by other chemicals, but chemists then could not explain this reaction. Today, however we can see the relationship.” Dr. Burg explained in an interview yesterday.
He will show how the scientists arrived at their conclusion through the use of a particular field of facts. Their system of knowledge will be explained.
FORMERLY AT CHICAGO
Formerly associated with the University of Chicago. Dr. Burg joined the SC faculty last year. He teaches classes in inorganic chemistry and quantitive analysis.
The lecture is being presented ln conjunction with the Faculty Science d»b and Sigma Xi. national honorary science fratemity. It is open to all students, faculty members. and friends of the university. Next week the concluding lecture in the series wiii feature Hampton K. Snell, who wtH discuss “The American Transportation Problem.”
Engineers Hear Lecturers Today At Assembly
The College of Engineering will hold an assembly today at 11 a.m. on the roof of the engineering building. The program will include lecturers and demonstrations, according fo James Roth, president of the College of Engineering.
Immediately following at 11:45 a.tn. the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers will present their new officers for the coming year after which an engineer from Douglas Aircraft will speak.
Dr. Hunt Acts as Judge
, At the oratorical finals last night of the Native Sons of the Golden West contest. Dean Rockwell D. Hunt, of the Graduate School was scheduled to act as a judge.
Commerce Society Meets Thursday
Presbyterians’ annual intercollegiate banquet Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 p.m. in the Figueroa hotel. 939 South Figueroa.
Presbyterian students planning to attend may purchase their tickets in the office of the Student Council ! on Religion before Wednesday afternoon.
Price of the tickets for the semi-1 formal affair is 65 cents.
Prof. Lucien Cailliet. director of the university symphony orchestra, is leaving today for Philadelphia where he will receive an honorary' degree from the Philadelphia Musi- I j cale academy May 20.
On his way East, Mr. Cailliet will stop in Grand Junction. Colo., J “Scholarship and Business Lead-where he is scheduled to help judge ership” is to be discussed by How-the National Orchestra contest on ard q Mills, investment counselor, May 9. 10. and 11.	at the initiation of the Beta Gam-
Mr. Cailliet was formerly a mem- ma sigma. College of Commerce
honorary, at Scully's restaurant Thursday at 5 p.m. The history and significance of Beta Gamma Sigma will be considered by Dean Reid
Tickets Go on Sale For Church Banquet
Tickets are now on sale for the ber of the academy faculty, one of
the oldest institutions in the United States. He will receive the degree for extensive work that he has accomplished in the arranging of Lage McClung, of the College of music and work done with the Phil- j commerce.
adelphia symphony orchestra.	A1j College of Commerce students
The professor expects to be back having a cumulative or last semes -for the week of final examinations. t€r.g average of 2 0 will be honored He says the university symphony orchestra ought to be doubled in size the coming school year. There 1 are 60 members in it now.
Billiard Trick Artist To Appear at Stag
Charley Peterson, billed as the world's champion billiards trick shot artist, will appear in a free demonstration next Monday evening, May 13, at 8 p.m. The occasion will be a men’s stag on the Pi Kappa Alpha tennis courts. Peterson’s motto is ‘ You call any shot I can’t make.”
dent who is secretary of the group. I of the show
Band Will Aid Finn Relief Fund
SC's Trojan band will combine with other major musical organizations in Los Angeles, Friday night. May 17. to aid the Finnish relief fund. The band will participate in a gigantic spectacle to be staged in the coliseum.
With the attendance of movie stars, radio celebrities, and Los Angeles notables assured, committee members for the Finn relief campaign are planning a major event to aid the stricken nation. The band will form a part of the large marching unit which will be a part
Pulitzer Prize Awards for 1939 Announced
NEW YORK. May 6. <r.F>—The Pulitzer price in journalism for 1939 was awarded today to Otto D. Tolischus of the New York Times Berlin bureau for his “distinguished service as a war correspondent” and
dispatches from Warsaw, Bucharest and Ankara.
Outside the field of journalism. Pulitzer awards of $1000 went to John Steinbeck for his novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” and to William
S. Burton Heath of the New York	Saroyan for his play, “The Time of
World-Telegram won the distin-	Your Life,” which last week won
guished reporting award for his ‘ex-	the New York critics Circle award,
position of the frauds perpetrated	Other awards:
by Judge Martin T. Manton.”	The Waterbury (Conn.) Republi-
The citation accompanying the	can and American, a $500 gold
$500 award to Tolischus said pref-	medal, for its campaign “exposing
erence was given for “clearness and	municipal graft.”
terseness of style” and “fair, judi-	Honorable mention: The San
cious, well-balanced and well-in-	Francisco Chronicle for its part in formed interpretative writing.”
j at a dinner, immediately following ! the initiation, at 6:30 p.m.. says j Bill Flood, president of the SC chapter of the organization.
The members to be initiated, including five seniors and five juniors, are Mary Jane Bennett, Robert Denis. Doris Dow, Fred Rica McAfee, Nadine Nostrum. Harry the year’’—$500 to Bart Howard of peetris, Jack Phelps, Frank Swirles, the St. Louis Post Dispatch.	Clayton Tidyman. and Harold Val-
United States history—$1000 to antine.
Carl Sandburg for his “Abraham
Lincoln: THe War Years.”
American biography — $1000 to Ray Stannard Baker for his vol- j Will Meet Tonight umes VII and VIII of “Woodrow
Clionian Society
Honorable mention in the foreign field was won by Lloyd Lehr-bas of the Associated Press for his
settling the 1939 waterfront strike.
Distinguished editorial writing, with “due account taken of the
Wilson: Life and Letters.”
Poetry—$1000 to Mark Van Doren for his collected poems.
Cartoon—$500 to Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun for “The Outstretched Hand” published in that newspaper October 7, 1939.
The annual awards are made by the graduate school of journalism of Columbia university and are based on selections by the school’s
volume of the writer’s work during advisory boa^d
Members of Clionian literary society will be entertained at a buffet supper at the home of Miss Nina Streeter. 2601 Orchard street, this evening at 6:30. Miss Streeter, campus dietician, is an honorary member of Clionian.
The business meeting will be followed by social events which will include the reading of original works of some of the members of the group.
Jewish Council Conducts Election
Officers for the Council of Jewish Students will be elected at a luncheon meeting Thursday, May 9, at 12:15 p.m. in Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall.
Price of the tickets will be 40 cents.
Today's Organ Program
With an Allegro and Fugue by Mendelssohn heading the list of presentations. Archibald Sessions, university organist, will play a recital of organ music today at 12:10 p.m. in Bovard auditorium. The complete program follows:
Allegro and Fugue jrom the Third
Sonata ____________________ Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn composed s i x sonatas for the organ. The Allegro of the third opens in a most striking manner, with great power of rhythm, and leads to a fugata which is a masterpiece of counterpoint and architecture, animated with intense life.
El Amor Brujo ______________________de Falii
These two excerpts are taken from the Spanish composer’s famous ballet “Wedding by Witchcraft.”
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