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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1940
NUMBER 64
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SC PROFESSORS ATTEND NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
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Christmas for a score of deans and faculty members of SC was spent on pullman trains and in far corners of the country. To take part in numerous national conventions in their respective fields, 23 professors left the campus bound for conclaves from New Orleans and Washington, D.C., to Oregon
and San Francisco.
Scientific Society Honors University For Achievements
For outstanding research activities in the field of science, Southern California has been granted a {chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary society, announced national officers of the organization last Saturday.
Gathering in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. the 65 chapters of Sigma XI ln the leading universities of the country were unanimous in recognizing SC.
EFFORTS REWARDED
Dr. F. M. Baldwin, professor of loology at SC. and Dr. Harry J. Deuel, president of the university’s Faculty Science club, who attended the Columbus convention, were instrumental in obtaining the local chapter.
Organized at Cornell university in 1886, Sigma Xi honors outstanding achievements in research activities among faculty and graduate students in applied sciences. This or-
Chairman of an advisory committee on French literature. Dr. Lawrence M. Riddle, with Dr. John D. Cooke, left for New Orleans, to participate in the sessions of the Modem Language Association of America.
As the newly elected president of the Civil Service assembly of the United States and Canada, Dean Emery E. Olson of the SC School of Government conducted sessions in Chicago prior to visiting New York and Washington. D.C., on university business. Also to the nation's capital went Dr. John M. Pfiffner as chairman on research at the American Political association convention.
SPEECH TEACHERS MEET
Chicago was the headquarters for a number of meetings including the Association of American Law Schools, attended by Dean William G. Hale and Dr. Shelden D. Elliott of the law school. Taking part in the program of the convention of the National Association of Teachers of Speech were Dean Ray K. Immel, Dr. Lee E. Travis, and Dr. Alan Nichols. Dr. Sara Stinchfield Hawk delivered an address on speech correction. Ben Marshall was a delegate to the Chi-
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ISSUES PUBLICATION
Sigma Xi issues a quarterly pub-	ACADEMY GROIPS CONVENE
ication of activities of its mem-	j Dr. Grafton P. Tanquary served
bers and issues annual fellowships	as a delegate to the Columbus, Ohio,
esides encouraging scientific in-	session of Phi Kappa Phi scholastic
'estimation. The badge is a pen-	society. Dr. Carl S. Knopf traveled
ant monogram with Greek letters	to Portland to speak for the con-
nscribed on it. Colors are blue and	vention of the Oregon State Teach-
’hite.
ibrary Displays ewspaper f Civil War
er’s association. At Pullman, Wash., the Pacific Coast Economic association heard Prof. Hampton K. Snell and Prof. Rex Ragan. Dr. M. H. Neumeyer served as chairman of the Pacific Sociological society meeting in the same city. Dr. Floyd L. Ruch went to Seattle for the American Association of Applied Psychologists meeting.
Dean A. S. Raubenheimer with Prof. Hugh C. Willett attended the San Francisco Conference on Higher Education while Dr. Alta B. Hall took part in the Western Association of Teachers of Speech convention.
In conjunction with the Film and ook club of the Air’s recent review of the current motion picture ‘Gone With the Wind.” the Gradu-te School of Library Science is exhibiting a newspaper printed dur- ENGINEERS ASSEMBLE ng the seige of Atlanta in 1864. The Ag program chairman of the Reno xhibit is in Doheny Memorial li- convention of the Society for the rary-	Promotion of Engineering Education,
The old newspaper was recently Dean Philip S. Biegler was accom-ound by Mrs. Mary Duncan Carter. panied by faculty engineers William director of the library school, while <3. Angerman, Thomas E. Eyre, Rohe was looking over old papers in bert M. Fox, and Franklin O. Rose, ihe library. The paper is the Phil- j to that city, delphia Inquirer and is dated Sep-.mber 5, 1864.
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid
... receives honors
Von KleinSmid Will Head Phi Kappa Phi
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid was elected to the national presidency of Phi Kappa Phi, alluniversity scholarship society, according to word received last week.
Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, for its annual conference, the organization’s choice of the SC educator as its 1940 leader was unanimous. Dr. von KleinSmid succeeds Dr. Homer L. Shantz of the United States Forestry service of Washington, D.C., in directing the affairs of the 49 chapters of the society j over the country.
Founded at the University of Maine in 1898, Phi Kappa Phi is 1 considered the outstanding scholarship society which covers the entire field of university studies.
Britain Anticipates Spring Drive As 2,000,000 Called
MONTEVIDEO — The German
freighter Tacoma chooses internment for the duration of the war rather than risk capture or sinking by British warships reported to be lying beyond the horizon off Montevideo harbor.
LONDON — Great Britain orders 2,000,000 more men to be prepared for army service in an anticipated “real war” drive in the spring. German bombing planes attack British warships at Shetland islands, losing two planes, inflicting no damage. British tanker San Delfino and three neutral vessels sunk by mines and torpedoes over weekend.
HELSINKI — Violent battle starts on Karelin isthmus when Finn high command reports Red army thrown back before the advance positions of Mannerheim line. Battle preceded by intense shellings of Finn lines by Russian artillery. Swedish radio reports 50.000 crack Russian troops massed at Leningrad en route to Karelian front.
PARIS — New Year ushered in on the western front with blizzards and intense cold virtually stopping
Grennie Lansdell
. . batters Vol line
Record
Amby Schindler Leads Attack In 14-0 Win
Bob Robertson
. stars on defense
Amby Schindler
, . . steals limelight
Art Exhibit Prolonged
Rockefeller Display Extended Four Days
Popularity of the Percy A. Rock-
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all military operations. The French	brQUght from New York
admiralty announces the Germans have begun construction of a fleet of 150-ton “vest pocket” submarines to be used exclusively for extension of Adolf Hitler’s c. inter-blockade of Great Britain and France. The semi-official newspaper Petit Parisien reports from Italy that Hitler is preparing to step down as chancellor of Germany and eliminate more radical Nazis from his regime in order to “convince” the Allies to make peace.
Printed during General W. F. hermans seige and capture of Atlanta, the Inquirer shows detailed naps and diagrams of Sherman's trategies and plans. It also gives technical explanations and sketches f the seige.
Mrs. Carter recently concluded her Film and Book club of the Air series. On this program which was heard weekly at 1:15 p.m. over (KFAC. Mrs. Carter reviewed fam-us books that have been made into pictures. “Gone With the Wind" was the last book discussed.
“So Red the Rose” by Stark Young was included on the review. Tliis book is a sensitive presentation of the gracious civilization of the deep South and the way in which two aristocratic Mississippi families met the exigencies of the Civil war.
• “Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane concluded the list
Dr. Catherine V. Beers and Dr. Bruce M. Harrison gave papers at a scientists’ conclave at San Luis Obispo.
Dr. Metfessel To Read Paper
Krones To Head Music Sorority
Mr. and Mrs. Max T. Krone recently were selected sponsors of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority. Mr. Krone is assistant director of the School of Music and directs SC choral organizations. He came to Southern California this year from Northwestern university in Evanston, 111.
A member of Sigma Alpha Iota, Mrs. Krone has done experimental work with rhythms for children in the most modern elementary schools of Illinois. She has written a number of books on her work under the name of Beatrice Perham.
Music Professor Publishes Book
Containing an impartial digest of over 6000 graded compositions selected from the works of 250 publishers of this country, a “Compendium of Piano Material" by Adelaide Trowbridge Perry, of the SC School of Music, has just been published.
The compilation is written for the layman, student, and teacher of piano music as well as for motion picture and radio producers. In addition to listing music literature, compositions and composers by grade form, the works include cross-classification of history, biographies, theory, harmony, sight reading, and pieces of interest to beginners and advanced musicians. The publication is the result of continual study and revision since it* first edition in 1929.
for the first time to the western public, has prompted an extension of its display in the new Elizabeth Holmes Fisher gallery on the SC campus.
The exhibit is open to the public for four more days, on Saturdays and Sundays, January 6 and 7, as well as the 13th and Hth. The visiting hours are given as 2 to 4 p.m. by Miss Winifred Poingdestre, curator.
.Grid Scores From Nation s BqwI Games
Rose Bowl—SC 14; Tennessee
0.
Sugar Bowl—Texas A & M 14; Tulane 13.
Cotton Bowl—Clemson 6; Boston College 3.
Sun Bowl—Catholic U. 0; Arizona State 0.
Orange Bowl—Georgia Tech 21; Missouri 7.
East-West—West 28; East 11.
Tennessee’s record of not having been scored on once this season still stands as Southern California’* Trojans, led by Ambling Amby Schindler, crossed the Volunteer goal line not once but twice to bang-out a hard-earned 14-0 victory over the previously unbeaten Southerners yesterday in the Rose Bowl.
Coming out here with a consecutive victory string standing at 23, the Volunteers were outclassed most of the contest by the fighting Trojans who got stronger as the game progressed. Besides spoiling the Volunteer’s perfect record, the locals set a record of six victories in the Pasadena stadium against no defeats.
TOUCHDOWN SCORED
Schindler stole the limelight with his brilliant running and smart quarterbacking. The Southern California flash went over for the first touchdown with less than a minute to play in the second quarter, and crossed up the Volunteer defense in the last two minutes of the game Beginning a series of six weekly by passing to End Al Krueger for musical programs over KRKD. the second score.
Sinfonia quartet, a string ensemble, For the first few minutes it look-wili present its first selections of ec* as ^ the Vols were on their way classical and modern compositions w^en Leonard Coffman plowed at 1:30 p.m. today.	through the Trojan line for 12
Elis Ronbeck is the leader and yards and a first down' HigWy touU
ed George Cafego then added six
Quartet Hans Radio Series
Sinfonia Will Offer First Recital Today*
39; U. of Hawaii 6.
Said to be one of the finest examples of early American art, the
Officials To Head Evening Classes
___. _ ,	first violin of the Sinfonia quartet. , .
Pineapple Bo*l-Oregon State Ben Simkin second violin. Leo Rob. yards to the Vol cause, but when
bins, viola; and Calvine inman> , Coffman failed to gain, the South-
cello. are the other members of the ; erae*s Mcked to the Tro^n 15-yard group. All four are members of Phi mar^er where Grenny Lansdell wa*
Mu Alpha, professional music fra-	iririrc
(temity. Anthony Ricca will be the	kicks
! producer of the series while Wil- ! Failin* 10 make the yard needed j liam Gliechmann wTill be in charge for a first down’ Lansdell kicked of the musical arrangements.	to CafeS° who called for a fair
With a former Federal Bureau of hossaiv to taik	i catch on his own 44. After being
collection of 37 paintings includes Investigation agent and a number'	‘	smeared for a 10-yard loss trying
those of George Washington. Ben- of dty and countv officials joining At 1 ;30 P-m. tomorrow over KRKD , to pass, Robert Foxx punted to jamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, ;	fQr„itv th* wintpr nnarter y Hossain, lecturer in history, Lansdell who ran back to his 39.
and other Revolutionary and Civil Qf the Civic c;nter division of the ^ . rev?ew ‘„”igh“ghts of Wor*d	there the Trojans began to
war heroes. They were brought School of Government will begin A“airs m. 1939J Tomorrow night ! click, with Lansdell and Peoples al-from New York by Mrs. Walter Har- its 12_week iod of evening class_ rison Fisher whose own collection and the art gallery were gifts to the university.
es today.
Courses for city and county em- u be produced by Robert Ben-ployees in the fields of general son.
Augmenting her permanent ex- public administration, engineering, “The Success of Best Sellers in hibit are visiting works of members public finance, police science, ppb- 1939;* will be discussed by Betty of the California Art club and iic jaW) and welfare work will total Franklin of the Doheny Memorial those of the California Society of 54 sut>jects, according to Dean Em- library over KRKD at 1:30 p.m.
ery Evan^ Olson.	Thursday. Over the same station
R. E. Ahrens, a former federal and at the same hour on Friday, man, will instruct a class in police William Druitt, commentator on the administration while fingerprinting, radio television staff, wiU resume
Affairs in 1939.
at 8 0 clock ‘ SC on Parade,” a tele-	temating to carry the ball to the
vision program, will be presented	vol 22 where they lost it on downs
over the Don Lee television station.	with but one foot to go
New teams took the field at the
Miniature Painters, now on display.
British Await Action On Cruiser Ajax
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 1 —(U.E)—The Uruguayan government
start ot the second quarter. A quick kick that backfired gave the Trojans the ball on the Tennessee 34. Nave’s pass went wild, but on the next play he ran eight yards.
Continued on Page Three
forensic ballistics, and questioning
classes will be given by the following police and city officials:
Leon T. Davis, assistant city afr-has not yet acted on a request torney; George Hjelte, superintend-from the British legation that the ent of playgrounds and recreation;
British cruiser Ajax be allowed to Joseph W. Hawthorne, director of an(^ wiJI ^ re]ease(f over 30 sta. enter Montevideo harbor, the priss examinations of the Civil Service tjons 0f £jQn Lee pacific coast
his series of radio editions of ar-
ticles appearing in World Affairs I Interpreter.
TALES DRAMATIZED
Next Monday "Black Beauty” will 1 be presented at 1:15 p.m. over KHJ
Coed Flier Makes First SC Solo Hop
attache of the legation told the commission, and William J United Press today. Permission was chief engineer of the expected before noon tomorrow. i Planning commission.
Fox,
network. This program is one of
Regional “L0ng Long Ago,” a series of fairy tales, and will be produced in co-
“Relationship of Heredity and Environment in Behavior” will be dis- j cussed by Dr. Milton Metfessel, pro- j fessor of psychology, at the annual j dinner of the School of Research at >
6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 11, in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Dr. Metfessel will be the guest speaker at the dinner at which Dr.
Rockwell Dennis Hunt, director of the School of Research, will preside.
Members of the faculty of the Graduate School and School of Research, |
candidates for doctor’s degrees, Ph. Particularly active were the re- | .	, 1D. alumni, and guests from nearby search workers in psychology and |
of books reviewed. It is a psycholog- [nstjtutions will attend the affair, medicine, while the professors and
Piano and piano accordian num- ! students of art and architecture! bers w'ill be played at the dinner by also were responsible for several j
UNIVERSITY'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN 1939 REVIEWED
Scientific and educational achievement in the laboratories and classrooms of the University of Southern California during 1939 ranked high among the progressive years of the institution, according to a survey of the various completed projects at SC in the past twelve months.
ical portrait revealing the state of mind of a soldier in action at ttie Battle of Chancellorsville.
Today's Organ Program
Repeating his Christmas program by request, Prof. Archibald Sessions will present the following selections at the first organ recital of the year in Bovard auditorium at 12 M. today.
Pastorale from the Organ SimphoH)
in D minor ....................Guilmant
Tuo Preludes on Mediaeval Themes, from "Chriitus Adi enit’ ..Edmunson In Dulci Jubilo Vom Himmel Hoch Here we have two very ancient Hymns, dressed up by a modem American, and very interestingly done too. The second of the two was used by Luther as a Hymn for his children on Christmas Eve, and variously harmonized by Bach in the “Christmas Oratorio.”
Henrietta Pelta.
Others who have appeared as speakers at previous meetings of the School of Research are: Dr. Emory S. Bogardus. head of the department of sociology; Dr. Ralph Tyler Flewelling, director of the School of Philosophy: Dr. Herbert D. Austin, professor of Italian; Edgar L. Hew-ett, honorary professor of anthropology and archaeology; Dr. Harry J.
Deuel, professor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine; and Dr.
George P. Hammond, dean of the Graduate School of the University 1 of Newr Mexico.
Price of the dinner is $1.10 per j person.
HAVOC IN TURKEY SPREADS
I ISTANBUL. Turkey, Tuesday.
Jan. 2—(U.P)—Floods spread across Turkey today from the Aegean to the Black sea. wiping out scores network of nerves responding only of towns and villages and adding external stimulation.
; to the enormous toll of life and ered among artists as the most in-I devastation caused by continuing tensive blue known, earthquakes.	1 students of architecture won
| outstanding contributions during! the year, it wras reported to Dr.! Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
During the Christmas recess 26 SC faculty members were selected , to take part in conventions throughout the country, presenting reports on the latest findings in the fields of education, law, speech, engineering, psychology, sociology, zoology, and commerce.
BRAIN WAVES RECORDED At the venT start of last year, I Dr. Lee E. "Yavis, psychology professor. announced the findings of five years research into brain waves. Recording electrical pulsations from the brain on a narrow strip of paper. Dr. Travis produced evidence that;
1. The brain has potential activ-in itself and is not a silent
praise during the year for their prize-winning models of streamlin-
2. Persons have individual thought waves that are characteristic and can be identified from recordings just as are fingerprints.
Dr. Travis also devised a series of training rules to aid "reading cripples.” Along the same lines, Dr. Eugene Hahn, also of the psychology. department, presented a set of rules as aid to stammerers. PARALYSIS ATTACKED
Working under grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and gifts from interested persons in Los Angeles, Dr. John F. Kessel and Dr. Fred D. Stirnpert conducted research activities for the School of Medicine and the Los Angeles county General hospital.
Infection with the comparatively mild California virus of poliomyelitis was found to tend to provide immunity to the much more severe strains of virus found in other parts of the country, according to Dr. Kessel. The SC scientists comprise one of thirteen organization groups in the United States studying different phases of the disease under grants from “March of Dimes” and President Roosevelt’s annual birthday ball drives. GARLIC AIDS MAN
Continued success was reported by Dr. Carl C. Lindegren, professor of bacteriology, in his use of onions and garlic as powerful new bacteria-killer to aid the treatment
of tuberculosis and peritonitis. ; tively clean bill of health by Dr.
Experiments with animals have Clinton H. Thienes, professo of been very favorable, according to pharmacology, after several years Dr. Lindegren, who reports, “It will
be at lea&t a year before we can be sure it will be safe to treat humans. While we are well pleased with the results, our work is still far from finished.”
Culminating in the completion of the new May Ormerod Harris hall for the school of architecture and fine arts, and the Elizabeth Holmes Fisher art gallery, the year has been a highly active and successful one for the artists of SC.
FINE ARTS EXPANDED Prof. Merrell Gage, using student Gene Jantzen as a model, completed a statue of a modem David for exhibition in the California State building* of the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition. Gage’s technique varied from the usual method in that he wrorked directly from the model instead of making preliminary sketches
experiments
“The use of nicotine does not interfere with the growth of bones. Monday nor does it cause degeneration of blood vessels, according to the findings of a group of graduate students trained in the study of types of chronic poisoning,” Dr. Thienes reported.
Sponsored by the Rockefeller foundation, a survey of 60.000 federal, state, county, and city employees was begun in August by the
“After landing, I was still up hi 1 the air!”
That’s the way Iris Cummings operation with the Don Lee School described her experience w hen mak-of the Air. Sevmour Andrews will in£ the first sc 5010 flight of be the producer.	CAA training program last Friday.
Over KFAC at the same time	After only three weeks of train-
Miss Mary Duncan Carter, director	ing- during which time Miss Cum-
of the Graduate School of Library	mings completed the minimum re-
Science, will continue her book re-	quirement of eight hours in the air
views on the “Film and Book Club	before solo could be attempted, In-
of the Air.” Dempster Dirks will	structor Jack Riley decided she wa*
also resume his foreign student in-	ready. That this was exceptional,
terviews over KRKD at 1:30 p.m.	wus pointed out by Riley who said
A radio dramatization	that frequently double that time of
written by the radio speech class	training is necessary before the stu-
of Miss Tacie Hanna Rew will be	dent can be considered ready to fly
produced by Forest Roberts at 4:15	alone. It was a short 5-minut«
flight around the Gardena valley
p.m. next Tuesday over KFAC.
Sabbatical Study Awaits Faculty
airport with a good take-off and a steady landing.
Just 24 hours later, Le Moine Case duplicated the feat and established himself as the second CAA trained Trojan to solo.
Miss Cummings and Case will re-
SC School of Government to determine the needs of an in-service	Seven professors have been grant-	ceive private flying licenses within training program. The two-year	ed sabbatical leaves for the spring	a year if they add 34 hours and 55 project is under the .direction of	semester of 1940 by the board of	minutes to the five minutes of solo Dean Emery E. Olson and is being	trustees. They are William G. An-	flying to their credit, thus meeting
germann, assistant professor of electrical engineering; Dr. Rene Belle, associate professor of French; Loren T. Clark, instructor in botany; John
conducted by William F. Howell, research associate.
TROJANS TURN FLIERS
Up in the air went students of SC as the Civil Aeronautics author- F. Griffiths, assistant professor of ity instituted its collegiate train- Spanish; William Ralph LaPorte, Utilizing a particular type of alka- ing. A new airport at Gardena was professor of physical education, Dr. li found only in Death valley and constructed for use by the Trojan Louis Wann, professor of English;
the 35-hour requirement of the CAA.
flen re-
the Panamint range, Prof.
Lukens climaxed six years search with the revival of a 4000-year-old Egyptian method of making imitation turquoise gems. The newly created turquoise is consid-ed automobiles, Napoleonic coaches, model airports, house models, and specially designed houses for the Santa Anita area.
NICOTINE RESEARCH TOLD Nicotine was given a compara-
students.	and Dr. Erie Fiske Young, profes-
During the year the university sor of social work, received several new buildings to Professors who will return to teach carry on its research. The archi- during the second semester are Dr. tecture and engineering buildings Owen Cochran Coy, professor of already are occupied by classes, history; Dr. Erwin Theodor Mohme, while the Hancock Foundation professor of German; Dr. Boris Vla-building is nearing completion. In- dimir Morkovin, professor of cine-cluded in the latter gift was the matography; John Eric Nordskog. Velero III, specially-equipped cruis- associate professor of sociology; and er used for scientific marine expe- i Eugene L. Roberts, associate profes-ditions.	sor of physical education.
Final Exam
Schedules
Lengthened
The final semester examinations will be three hours in length in accordance with the ruling of the scholarship committee at the first of the year, it was verified last week by university officials.
It was emphasized that the exams would be three hours long whether they were one. two. or three unit courses.
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