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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940
NUMBER 146
Famous Coast Band Selected for Dance At Santa Monica
Billy Mozet and his “sweet ing” orchestra has been se-ted for SC seniors at their mal dance at the Miramar tel in Santa Monica June 8, the climax to a week of mencement activities.
lozet and his band accom-nied by Peggy Doreen, his tured vocalist, have played
several years on the Pacific St.
S ON SALE
ids for the dance are being sold members of the senior council, mbers of the senior council who ®e not yet got their quota of bids, jst get them before this Friday, 213, Student Union.
n graduation day, senior women .11 announce their engagements by pping through the Delta Delta sv ring.
etween the Baccalaureate seres on June 2. and the senior on June 8, there are sched- ! traditional senior festivities. ORMAL PARTY
Wednesday. June 5. members the senior council will have an ormai party, which is being plan-by Henry Lafler.
fl committees are being supervis-bv Phil Gaspar who is chairman commencement activities.
ollowing the annual levee for iduating members of all schools colleges and their parents, on t 8. the class of ’30 will meet it's 10th annual reunion in the r*r of Town and Gown.
'ARDS PRESENTED ter, the same day. seniors will eive awards for outstanding >vement. The presentation will followed by Ivy day ceremonies the lawn in front of Old College, which the seniors and juniors, omores and freshmen make a lective peace.
the afternoon of graduation the Troian band will present concert tn Alumni Memorial park, lomlng which all who are to par-pate in the commencement exer-;s will go to the coliseum.
le classes of '90 and 15 will meet the president's suite and the dent Union respectively for their uni reunion.
Don Duke
presents final film
Virginia Conzelman
... receives trophy
Barbara Morton
®. . . awarded cup
Torchbearers' Rehearsals End For Dramatists
Three-Act Satire Ready To Present Tomorrow in Bovard
‘Highlights of Year’
Pictured Tomorrow In Final Newsreel
“Highlights of the Year,” a cross section of the past semester’s events will be featured in the eighth and final edition of the Trojan Newsreel tomorrow in Bovard auditorium at 12 M.
New features of the newsreel will include slow-motion shots by Charles S. Peterson,
famous billiard champion, the Stan- I ford-SC dual track meet, and the Skull and Dagger initiation.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Included in the review will be the were awarded Town and Gown all-campus trophies, highest : three outstanding social events of honor given to women, last night at the Women’s Self-Gov-the„lUj10r	ernment association Recognition banquet in the Foyer of
Town and Gown.
All the color of a Greek festival
Nazis Storm Maginot; FDR Appeals to Duce
Italy Urged To Prevent Spread of War
CONZELMAN, MORTON WIN TOWN, GOWN TROPHIES
By ESTHER L’ECLUSE
Acclaimed as the two most outstanding senior women on
fraternity, and Pan - Hellenic dances. Homecoming, the Rose parade. shots of the freshman brawl, and the issuing of the Vulture will add to the pictorial “round up" of Moving from Touchstone theater the years activities, to Bovard auditorium for the scene
of their final play, the speech department will present “Torchbearers” tomorrow night, commencing at 8:30 o'clock.
Written by George Kelley, of "Torchbearers" is a three-act com-
A special section of the newsreel will be devoted to a sports review of the year's big games in all of the major sports. Included in this part will be the disputed plays the SC-Washington football
game and shots of the Rose Bowl edy satirizing a story of amateur game
theatricals and the little theater
movement spreading throughout	ROOTING SECTIONS
the United States several years ago.	The rooting section in action will
Playing the lead. Rowena Stuck-	be depicted by the newsreel with
en will portray the typical amateur	the showing of the card stunts
enthusiast and director of “abor-	from the Stanford football game,
tive” theatricals in the role of Mrs.	“Hell week" of fraternity
J. Buro Paminelli.	sorority row will be flashed on the
In accordance with tradition, the screen in addition to shots of tel-one-night performance of the Com- eyis*°n as demonstrated at radio
1940 El Rodeo To Make Debut
Staff Schedules Preview Banquet
was present in the banquet hall, with decorated walls, boxes of flowers, colorful costumes, and musical accompaniment during dinner. Although the room was crowded, award winners good-naturedly stepped over feet and threaded their ways to the speakers’ table.
TOWN AND GOWN AWARD As Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid announced the dual Town and Gown award, ripples of congratulations ran through the gathering of 650 wom-
mencement play will honor graduating seniors. Under the direction of William C. Miller, instructor in
station KHJ by members of the SC student body.
The newsreel will be given only
dramatics, the speech department one showing for this final edition has produced two previous poys during the school year: “The Wind and the Rain." and "Much Ado About Nothing.” which were presented in Touchstone theater last November and February, respectively.
Included in the cast of nine student players are: Rowina Stucken.
Nina Jordan. Veda Gae McCrery,
Madelvn McCullen. Bill Shaw.
Leonard Peck. Harry Bennett; Bill
Baxter Explains Printing Press Of Early Period
WASHINGTON, May 13 — (UP) — President Roosevelt has sent a new peace plea to Premier Mussolini urging him to prevent spread of the European war, it was learned tonight.
White House Secretary Stephen ’ T. Early refused to discuss reports of the new the Trojan campus, Virginia Conzelman and Barbara Morton message to II Duce. He said,
however, that any developments which may have occurred during the last 24 hours represented merely a continuation of exchanges begun early in the war.
PEACE FORMULA SOUGHT
Mr. Roosevelt has sent several messages to the Italian premier looking toward establishment of a peace formula. U. S. ambassador to Italy William C. Phillips is understood to have delivered several oral j messages on behalf of the chief ex- j ecutive.
The new plea, it was understood, was in the form of a communica- j tion	Mussolini transmitted !
through Phillips.
The announcement was interpret-ed generally as an indication of the j department’s fears that Mussolini j soon would join his axis partner, Hitler, in the war.
CITIZENS CALLED HOIVIE
This belief was strengthened by another clause of the announcement j which said that Americans were being advised to return by way of Portugal. Spain, or Bordeaux. France. Heretofore, all Americans fleeing form war-torn areas have been advised to travel overland to Italy and board American ships at Italian ports.
Mr. Roosevelt admitted earlier this month that the United States has intervened actively to prevent the extension of war to Italy. He said that in connection with Italy, as in the entire situation, this country is doing all in its power to prevent extension of the conflict to new areas.
Europe Hurls Million Troops In New Battles
President Roosevelt
. . . mot es for peace
A previewing of the 1940 El Rodeo, which will be issued on campus next Wednesday, will highlight en students and guests. This is the the El Rodeo banquet' at La Golon- second time that the award has drina restaurant on Olvera street, been divided between two coeds, at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday evening. Barbara Morton, Delta Gamma At this time, Jimmy Roberts, edi- and ASSC vice-president, is a maj-and . tor of this year's annual, will offi- or in comparative literature, a mem-cially turn over his office to the ber of Amazons and Mortar Board, new editor, Jack Hutton.	and is the former president of
Hutton, an Alpha Rho Chi, has Spooks and Spokes. Virginia Con-been art editor of the El Rodeo zelman has held the positions of for the past two years.	chief justice of the WSGA judicial
GUESTS OF HONOR	court and president of her sorority,
Guests of honor will include: ■ Pi Beta Phi. this year. She is a John Morley, printer; Jack Conlon, member of Mortar Board. Amazons, engraver; Clarence Block, photog- Phi Kappa Phi, and Spooks and rapher; Ken Stonier, manager of Spokes, publications; Everett Vilander, su- HONOR SENIOR WOMEN pervisor of publications, and some Finale of the program and high-of the former El Rodeo editors. est honor for senior women was the Some of the past editors who are awarding of honor scrolls by Dean expected to attend the banquet are: j Mary Sinclair Crawford Those Neal Deasy, Clint Ternstrom, and awarded the scrolls include Mary Walt Roberts.	L011 Braun, Esther L’Ecluse. Ruth
Jean Meredith, banquet chair- Bennison. Mary Ellen Dudley, Lynn
Ruch Analyzes Public Opinion
Psychology Professor Surveys Polls Today ...
PARIS, May 1*5 — (UP) — Hastily reinforced French troops are battling desperately to clear the outer fortifications of the Maginot line of German forces who have broken the Allies’ Meuse river line of defense at “several points.” a war communique revealed tonight.
Military spokesmen, describing a gigantic battle involving 1.000.000 men and swarms of tanks and warplanes, said French counter attacks had driven the Germans back six miles through the Maginot forts in the Sedan sector, but the official communique refrained from such a claim.
BELGIUM UNDER FIRE
Th* Belgium cities of Brussels and Antwerp are under heavy siege. It was said officially, with the Germans “attacking violently” behind tanks against British-French-Bil-gium lines from Antwerp southward toward Namur on the Meuse.
South of Namur toward Charle-ville-Mezieres, 15 miles east of Ger-
The psychology of the current “pulse beat of America,” as evidenced by recent political sampling	man-held Sedan, the Germans suc-polls. will be discussed by Dr. Floyd	ceeded in storming across to the L. Ruch, associate professor of psy-	wes^ bank of the Meuse “at several chology, at the weekly meeting of	points,1' tonight’s communique ad-
the student-faculty forum m 1 Bridge hall. 3 p.m. today.
Dr. Ruch, who recently accepted the position of vice-president of the Opinion Research corporation in New York city, will explain the functions of this newly-formed service in relationship to the country as a whole. Ruch will fulfill the position of director of research while on his sabbatical leave next year.
Model of an early press such as was used by Gutenberg in the man announces that the place for Moody. Helen Herweg. Virginia Con
Jones. George Goldberg and Harold printing of his first Bible was ex-	thp banmiet Ia Golonririna is still	zelman. Barbara Morton. Catherine
Salsbury.	plained by Dr. Frank C. Baxter,	tentative but she requests that staff	Smith> Zuma Palmer. and Henrietta
->--j professor of English, at a meeting	memberK make their reservations	Pelta- Three coeds- Hazel Hartzog,
of the Faculty Men’s club yester- ; with her She will ^ in the E1	Laurella Lancaster, and Frances
ackman Wins Department esidency
r the fourth straight year. a a Chi fraternity member will the Physical Education asso-ion as president. Bob Blackman the office in a run-off elec-yesterday, from LeRoy Olson -org.
ck Anderson was chosen men s -president, and Louise Reordan the women's vice-president’s Formal installation will take next Tuesday in the Physi-Education building.
PE association was start?d 36 for physical Education ma-by Owen Hansen Hansen. Tanner, and Dick Witney, all presidents, are Sigma Chis. annual breakfast, given by members of the organization the graduating seniors. will place Saturday morning at clock at Scully’s restaurant, man is chairman of the com-In charge of the affair.
sbyterians nor Seniors
Drama Group To Induct Seven
day.
Rodeo office during Chapel this
Williams, received honorable men-
Dr. Baxter made the press from morning and again at 2 o'clock this | tl0"-
afternoon	For the flrst time in the history
of the Recognition banquet a soph-
Roosevelt Speaks For Defense Today
WASHINGTON. Mav 15— U'.R) —
Speaking of recent third term developments, Dr. Ruch said, “If President Roosevelt were to run again, and if the elections were held within a short time, indications at present would give him the election by a popular vote. But Dewey on the Republican ticket, would grab the electorate vote by a majority.” Predictions as a means of testing the vadility of the cross-section sampling method of public opinion are useless until the issue is defined, Dr. Ruch believes.
At today’s forum. Dr. Ruch will analyze the failure of the 1936 Lit-
mitted.
The German motorized columns striking down on Charleville-Me-zieres are trying to reach the French plains and force a ring around the Allied forces in battle south of Namur.
ASSAULTS HALTED . AU German assaults on the Ant-werp-Namur line have been repulsed, it was stated here.
(The British general headquarters issued a communique in London saying that, in Belgium, the Allies "after hard fighting have today successfully held a serious German attack.")
The French are fighting a rear guard action in atl sectors until their main fortified lines are reached. it was stated.
The communique told of 11 more German planes shot down.
Military spokesmen told of a titanic struggle, perhaps the beginning of one of the biggest battles in history, in which it is “man against man and tank against tank.”
pictures on old woodcuts. Other
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seven m.U.te, win be forma,,, |“ entire,y * hand, the tnod-	e“cTpLT the	2 ** —<	that Pres-	—
inducted into the National Collegiate players, honorary dramatics, fraternity, ■ at the Phi Beta studios at Pinehurst, Saturday.
Harry Eddy, president of the1 organization, will preside at formalities. Included in the pledge group are Barbara Barnett, Harry Bennett. Ann Burnett. Paula Jean, Muriel Lindstrom, Bill Shaw, and Nancy Thompson.
Le Cercle Francais Postpones Election
Members of Le Cercle Francais. meeting at luncheon yesterday, decided to postpone election of officers until September.
Town and Gown debate ttophy for ident RooSevelt would address a American Institute of Public Opin-
labor flooded the world with print- obtain their El Rodeos the followed books and made the scholarly Renaissance possible.”
el has been dedicated by Dr. Bax- book at the banquet.	achievement and recent Ztai session’of confess Tomorrow ion ,the Gallup polls)
ter to the early printers “whose The rest of the student body may ,	!	session oi congress tomorrow -----
tp, n-j.—	victories in debate competition. This on SUbject of national defense.
ing dav from the general manag- j aWard W8S presented by Mrs John Early said Mr. Roosevelt had come
er's office on the second floor of	Continued on Page Four to the decision “at the advice and
the Student Union upon pre.senta- --—-----| recommendation of congressional
tion of student activity books.
‘Students not having activity
books can purchase the annual
from the cashier either in the man- i
Dr. Baxter explained that the press such as the one he has modeled has been used down to the beginning of the 19th century and ls still the basic model for many hand presses in use today. It has only recently been replaced by the rotary press.
Such printing pioneers as Nichol as Jenson of the golden type and Aldus Manutinus, who created thc perfect book, made their contributions with such a printing press. Dr. Baxter continued.
ager's office or in the Student Union for $5,
Foreign Students To Be Honored
Sneil Concludes Lectures With Transportation Theme
“Contrary to the belief of many people, railroads are not monopolies,” said Hampton K. Snell, associate professor of transportation, last night in his talk on "The Complexity of the American Transportation Problem” at the final Wednesday lecture.	-
Speaking in the art and lecture	petition from other s°urces' the
room of Doheny Memorial library	decline in tonnage of exports and
Professor Snell maintained that	imports- poor management of the
“When prices dropped in 1930 the	r°ads' and the Centralization of
Farmer Elected Film Group Head
Herb Farmer has been elected president of Delta Kappa Alpha, professional cinematography fraternity.
Other new officers include Dan Wiegand, vice - president; Bob Jenks. secretary; Leigh Kelley, treasurer; and Dave Johnson, sergeant-at-arms.
Installation ceremonies will take place Monday night. Outgoing officers include Don Duke, president; ; Bob Minton, vice-president; John Norwood, secretary; George Kawamoto, treasurer; Mike Bell, ser-gant-at-arms.
-ecl.l farewell to the seniors j railroads took toe^cmo«)lS5c at- industrial centers which Promotes I	PPX/IPW^
e Westminster club will be titude with a nZ*.. the need of water transportation.” LIUlaMdll IXCVICW*
Island Books
at a meeting of the club to-t 5:30 p.m. in the Church of edeemer, 36th street and Ver-avenue.
titude with a capitalistic effect.
He concentrat«i his discussion mainly on railroads because “65 per cent of all the traffic in the d G. Stewart, adviser to the United.iStates is transported by this J11 conduct a humorous cere- means-
for the graduating members. “The year 1938 was one of the additional part of the pro- worst in the history of the rail-will be an address. “A Psy- roads. Of the 250:000 miles of rails Approach to Religion," in the country, one-third of the David D. Eitsen, teaching miles are in bankruptcy and anoth-t in religion.	er third is fairly close to receiver-
wili also be made lor a ship.” continued the lecturer.
transportation, he said.
Professor Snoil believes that the solution to the problem lies in the building of new streamlined trains, the placing of all types of transportation under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce commir sion. and extensive freight advertisement.
“Freight is the railroad's biggest money maker and with the addition of new passenger trains and a change of the rate policy, the roads
leaders.”
The speech will be made at 1 o'clock eastern standard time, and will be broadcast “to the nation and probably to the world.” by the three major networks. Early said.
SC foreign students will be hon- The speech is expected to call on ored Monday at the sixth annual congress to provide nearly $1,000.-foreign student reception sponsored 000.000 more for preparedness. Re-by the Los Angeles chamber of ports indicated that special empha-commerce and Delta Phi Epsilon, sis will be laid on reducing the national foreign service fratemity. nation’s vulnerability to Blitzkrieg The reception will take place in air attacks. Of this, it was indicat-the California State Exposition ed that $732,000,000 will be ear-building in Exposition park, from marked for the army and $250,000,-1 p.m. to 6 pjn. The Latin Ameri- 000 for the navy, can club of SC and Delta Phi Defense authorities considered it Epsilon will sponsor an informal virtually certain that Mr. Roosevelt dance at Woodbury college in the would propose facilities for training evening.	of thousands of additional pilots,
We Can Stay Out of War If We Want To-Pettengill
“We can keep out of war if we want to keep out” was the reply of Dr. Robert Pettengill, professor of economics, in answer to the question “Will America enter the War?” yesterday afternoon when he led the final all-university student-faculty forum sponsored by the Trojan YMCA.
“In the final analysis, American
Scenes Depicting Assembly Life HighlightWampus
fa- te be held May 21 with, “The causes of this situation is mav be able to clear up their in-w est minster club. i due to the great increase m com- j debtedness,” he conclude*
The radio program “Books in Your Life” will be presented over KRKD. today at 1:30 p.m. Elizabeth Franklin of the library staff will discuss books concerning the Northern islands—Greenland and Iceland.
In accordance with the new ed-
opinion will decide whether we are are to enter the European conflict or not. Our enemy today is that of ideas and we must meet this enemy by spreading truths among our friends and associates. During an election year more than any other the opinion of the people carries considerable weight.”
ucational system in the public schools, .radios have been installed I<i preface to his answer of the in many classrooms and pupils lis- two questions. “If Germany Wins
Dr. Pettengill said, “that if Germany does win the war it will be after a long and not a short struggle.”
Continuing on with the assumption that Germany might be victorious within the next two months and as to their probability of coming over to attack the United States, Dr. Pettengill believes “that a lot must be done before they attack the western hemisphere in re-
ten to the various educational pro- The War Will She Attack America gard to the digesting of territories
grams.
and if so Would She be Successful?” I caotured.”
A pictorial description of the contrasting views of assembly per- | iod taken by Arturo Bardous. .Hungarian student, in collaboration with Reed Schlieve will highlight the final issue of the Wampus, which will be released Monday.
In addition there will be two pages of illustrations of the Sigma Phi Epsilon party at the Norcon-ian club, humerous poems contributed by students, asatire on war, j new stories by Lee Goodman, editor of the Wampus, and short stories by Clete Burke and Bill j Lingren.
Weatherhead Leaves for East
Dean Arthur C.- Weatherhead of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts left Tuesday for Louisville, Ky.. where he will attend a convention of the Association of Collegiate School Architecture.
Dean Weatherhead will also attend the convention of the Ameri- I can Institute of Architecture. He wil] return June L
Deseret Club To Elect Officers
Deseret club officers for the com- j ing period will be elected at a1 meeting of the club today at 12:10 p.m. in the University Methodist church. 817 West 34th street.
to the north along the Meuse Germany's swift mechanized forces closed in upon the Belgian capital of Brussels, laying waste the World war’s “martyr I city” of Louvain.
Disputing Nazi claims, the French command insisted tonight that the Germans had been unable to break through the main defenses of the Maginot line at any point and that French troops were “counter-attacking everywhere.”
In the Sedan pocket where the Germans are trying to blast a hole in the Maginot sunken forts and ramparts the Germans were driven back six miles in fierce fighting in which both sides used enormou* numbers of bombing and fighting planes, tanks, and armored cars.
When the “Battle of the Meuse" lifted the war out of its eight months of doldrums on t>he Western front with terrible fury the Germans drove 10 miles across the dan.
Today's Organ Program
Esquisses Byzantines............Henry Muht
Nef (*Nave).
Vitrail ^windows).
Noel.
Tu es Petrus (Thtm are the Rock).
Henri Mulet is a contemporary French composer, bom at Monot-Martre in 1878. These sketches are written in memory of the Basilica of Sacre Couer at Mont-Martre. which is purely Byzantine. It is a magnificent building, and the Catholic rite within its walls is essentially sacerdotal, almost esoteric. The crouching multitudes at prayer gaze wonderingly and fervently at the priestly ceremony enacted glit-teringly on the threshold of th* high altar.