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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1940
NUMBER 119
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‘Fraternity Row’
To Be Scene Of Street Carnival
Trojans will desert the wo-en’s gymnasium tonight in avor of “fraternity row” for ie Knights’ street carnival. Gathering on 28th street tween Severence and Uni-rsity avenue, men and ween students will dance to the usic of Burt Smith and his chestra from 7:30 to 9:30 im.
The street wil! be completely esred of cars, being blocked off the entrance a full half-hour here the start of the affair.
TBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM The orchestra will be stationed on e lawn of either the SAE or Tri-lt houses. A public address sys-is to be installed, ith the political situation a ing of the past. Trojans will be (le to relax and enjoy themselves the first time in more than two eks.
he orchestra, which has played the school dances before, has just pleted engagements at the San emente casino and the Beverly-ilshire hotel. Burt Smith contends t they have been working hard past weeks on new arrangements d now have 25 or 30 new arrange-:nts prepared.
DY SUPERVISES ie "post-election” dig is a sec-d semester event sponsored by the lights under the chairmanship of m Eddy. “If everyone cooperates € really turns out. this dance will the best one yet.’ said Eddy, his all-university function will supervised by Arnold Eddy, genii manager for the associated stunts. and Clee W. Foster, office nager of operations and maln-iance department.
There is no admission charge.
quire Interviews cheduled his Afternoon
.ifhty-three candidates for mem-ship in Squires, sophomore men’s ice organization, will be inter-wed this afternoon at 1:30 o-~k in 206 Administration by the cutive board of the Trojan ights.
hirty of the candidates will be-e Squires. Bill Flood, president the Knights, announces. The rview will include questions on information contained in the klet “Know Your University.” he applicants will be graded by board and gradings will be pre- I ed before the Trojan Knights an election. The results will be sed in several weeks, titions for Knight membership be due Monday, April 15, Flood The applications may be tum-n at the cashier’s window in the dent Union. Interviews will be ducted Thursday, April 18. at j p.m. in the social hall of the dent Union.
GENERATION DAY FETE HAILED AT SC TODAY
More Than 300 Will Attend Celebration
Honoring SC Alumni and Sons, Daugthers
Almost certain success today for SC’s first Generation day has been assured as more than 300 reservations have rolled in during the last week, Harry Silke, director of special foundations, stated last Friday.
The program will start with an informal tour of the cam-
-— pus by alumni and their sons and
daughters who are now attending the university. The Generation day program is sponsored .by the greater university committee, which includes
Gale Hits Louisiana Five Die
Property Losses Estimated at $500,000 As Third Wind Arrives
NEW ORLEANS, April 7 — Loyd Wright Jr., chairman; William (U.P.)— Death-dealing winds
Beaudine. Katherine Byram, Barbara Douglas, Neill Lehr. Margaret Rauen, Harry Call, Dwight Hart. Betty Lou Stone. Rosemary Watkins, and Myron Minnick.
RECEPTION SCHEDULED After the campus tour, a reception will be given in the Foyer of | Town and Gown from 4:30 to 6 p.m. to acquaint “generation” students and their parents with other Trojans of the past and present. At
ripped through Louisiana for the third time within a month last night and today, killing at least five persons and causing more than $500,000 property damage.
Amite, a strawberry center 60 miles north of here, was directly in the paht of the tornado, which tore through the center of j town.
Three were dead at Amite—C.C.
6:30 o’clock, the day’s program will , . x	,
be climaxed by a banquet with Pittman, parish school supermtend-
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Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid
. . . speaks at celebration
Transportation Conclave Set For Thursday
Rail Commissioner For California To Address Group
Modern transportation and its problems will be discussed by leaders m the field at the western transportation conference scheduled for Thursday on the campus.
Ray C. Wakefield. California railroad commissioner, will speak on the “Problems and Trends in State Regulation of Transportation” at the luncheon opening the convention. Hilbert W. Peterson, district manager of Pan-American airways, will discuss the “Future of Aviation Transportation.”
Many leaders in the field of transportation will take part in the afternoon conference. Among the 1 speakers will be Roger D. Lapham, I chairman of the board of American- j Hawaiian steamship company; Robert S. Henry, assistant to the president of American railroads; C. G. Anthony, vice-president of the Pacific freight lines; and H. R. Brashear, manager of the transportation department of the chamber of commerce.
The conference will end with a dinner, with J. L. Van Norman, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce presiding. Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will give a welcome address and Hampton K. Snell
speeches being given by outstanding Trojans and alumni.
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid wiM be the principal speaker at the dinner with Michael MacBan, president of the ASSC, acting as toastmaster. Barbara Morton, ASSC vice-president, who is a second generation student herself, will welcome the guests. Miss Morton’s welcome will be answered by Charles E. Millikan, representing the parents.
The honor for the longest heritage goes, to Mary Ruth Stagg as a fourth-line daughter of Troy. Miss Stagg s great-grandmother graduated in the class of ’87, her grandfather in ’93, and both parents in ’23.
ANOTHER SC HERITAGE
Another student with notable Trojan heritage is Barbara Ruth Mal-com whose parents graduated in the class of ’12. Her grandfather, Dr. George Finlay Bovard, ’84, was the university’s fourth president.
One of the outstanding features ' of the program will be a showing of the latest issue of the Trojan news- i reel. The film was presented to SC students for the first time last week in Bovard auditorium.
The newsreel, which is available to other campus organizations, according to Duke, will be presented in its entirety at the Generation day banquet.
All-Fraternity Formal Slated
Greek Men Choose Bowl for Dance
ent, Mrs. Pittman, and Oliver Rudi son. a 64-year-old Negro.
More than 30 persons were injured. 16 of them so seriously they required hospitalization.
ELEVEN HOMES GO
Two persons were killed and 11 houses demolished by a tornado that swept through the little town of Barataria, 15 miles south of here, this morning. Across Lake Pont-chartrain from New Orleans, two houses and one store were blown down.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Guillies were drowned when their houseboat capsized in the wind at Bayou Barataria. The tornado cut a swath a half-mile wide and three miles long through the swamps, uprooting or breaking huge live oak trees and levelling houses.
Two houses were destroyed in the Lotto lake community, IS miles south of oJnesville on the Black river. No casualties were reported. RED CROSS ESTABLISHED
The Red Cross established Amite headquarters in the wind-torn courthouse. Only three large structures in the six-block business section withstood the storm. St. Helena’s Catholic church and a Methodist church were destroyed. Sixty-five houses were demolished and 75 others damaged, leaving 400 homeless.
Two CCC camps sent men to clear debris and search for dead and injured. State police were on hand to guide rescue work and the WPA announced 50 workers would arrive at Amite early tomorrow- to help m rehabilitation.
The Biltmore Bowl will be the j scene of the 1940 interfraternity formal, annual social climax for campus Greeks. Joe Wapner. president ' of the interfratemity council, an- j nounced Friday.
Committees for the annual event j have been selected and plans are associate professor of trans- underway for completing arrange- j portation at SC, will give a sum- ments and setting a date for the af-mary of the afternoon’s proceedings, fair, Wapner said. The formal this
-—- year will be a supper dance.
Early committee reports indicate that more than 450 couples will attend the annual dance. Tentative arrangements place the date of the event late in April. Les Evans, gen-
Class Starts Education Film
Production on an educational film
eral chairman, said.
Larry Kent, wrell-knowrn
West
Pharmacy Alumni Plan Memorial For Dr. Stabler
A memorial to Dr. Laird J. Stabler, late dean of the College of Pharmacy, will be planned at a meeting of the alumni board Tuesday, April 23. The meeting will take place at the home of Harold Miller, vice-president of the Pharmacy Alumni association.
Plans for the tribute, sponsored by students and alumni, will be discussed by Prof. Alva G. Hall, president of the association; Harold Miller, Roscoe Gandy, second vice-president; Kitty Kirchener, treasurer; Ray J. Barnum, editor; Edward
Johnston, Lewis, Maurer Win In Close ASSC Elections
Senate Calls For Recount In Two Races
Charles Johnston
. new ASSC president
Donna Lewis
wins by 31 totes
Deedy Maurer
too close for comfort
+ + Final Election Results + +
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
PRESIDENT	VICE-PRESIDENT	SECRETARY	ASST. YELL KINGS
Charles Johnston 1485 Donna Lewis ............1261 Deedy Maurer ........1240 Robert MacKay —1858
Gordon Wright ......1004 Peggy Price ..............1230 Mary Hensler ......._.1215 Dwain Oakley ..........1174
* Heizman ---------------- 18
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT Tom Ca4i ............................
480
ASSC CLASS OFFICERS
JUNIOR CLASS PRESIDENT
Paul Ignathis ..............................251
Bill Henry ....................................288
SOPHOMORE CLASS PRESIDENT
Wesley Naye ................................222
Frank Jacobs ...........................135
Claude B. Ogle .......................... 38
PRESIDENT Harry Harmon ......
123
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
VICE-PRESIDENT	SECRETARY
Mary Kane ..................74 * Jane Sanner ............>1
Dorothy Isbell .............44
TREASURER Gerald Bense ..............HW
COLLEGE OF COMMERCE
VICE-PRESIDENT	SECRETARY	TREASURER
Evelyn Curfman .......300 • Marjorie Schenck . 72 Harold Hoover ..........366
Mary Prince ..............224 * Virginia Dunn .........56	Kenneth V. Spivey .139
PRESIDENT Frank N. Swirles Jr. 535
PRESIDENT
Robert Franklin ........73
James A. Roth ............73
COLLEGE OF
VICE-PRESIDENT
Donald Everett ..........94
* George Friesel ........33
ENGINEERING
SECRETARY Kenneth Gunn ..........132
TREASURER Charles Eckert —
.128
* PRESIDENT
PhHip F. Jones .......435
James Hays ...............339
COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES
VICE-PRESIDENT	SECRETARY
Betty Johnson .........3W	(No candidate)
Vada Gae McCrery 258 Jean Studley ..............176
TREASURER (No candidate)
PRESIDENT
Walter Ruettgers ..........................66
, Bernard Kaplan .........................29
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY VICE-PRESIDENT Shig Masuoka ............................90
SECRETARY Francis J. Struempf .... Fred Farber .....................
............65
............29
PRESIDENT
* Wayne Reeves ............................10
James T. Morrison........................ 5
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
VICE-PRESIDENT
* Tony Ricca .........................-.......10
Iris Lewis........................................ 5
SECRETARY-TREASURER Roger Pease ...................................10
PRESIDENT William LaPlante Jr. .
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
VICE-PRESIDENT .11	(No candidate)
SECRETARY-TREASURER
(No candidate)
Call, Ignatius, Naye Capture Presidencies Of Respective Classes
Charles Johnston defeated Gordon Wright for the ASSC presidency by 481 votes Friday in one of the heaviest elections on record.
Johnston. Kappa Sigma, received 1485 votes while Wright, a non-organized student, received 1004.
In one of the closest contests of the elections. Donna Lewis. Pi Beta Phi. became vice-president of the student body, defeating Peg-«y Price, Kappa Alpha Theta. 1261 to 1230.
Deedy Maurer. Alpha Gamma Delta, was elected secretary over Mary Hensler, Delta Delta Delta, by 25 votes, receiving 1240 tallies to 1215 for Miss Hensler.
Because of the closeness of the vice-presidential and secretarial races, a recount was deemed necessary by senate members Friday evening.
COUNTING, CHECKING
While the outcome of the race for president was known earlier in the evening, senate members and office workers in the general manager's office spent several hours counting, checking, and recounting the ballots to lessen the possibility of errors in the final results of the other two offices.
After finishing the first counting about 7:30 p.m., the “counters” took an hour off for dinner, and returned later in the evening to complete the final tabulations.
Dwain Oakley and Robert MacKay were elected assistant yell kings. They were the only candidates running for two offices. IGNATIUS, NAYE WIN
Running unopposed. Tom Call took the senior class presidency, while Paul Ignatius beat Bill Henry for the top junior class position by a count of 251 to 228. Wesley Naye, with 222 ballots cast in his favor, walked off with the sophomore class presidency, defeating Frank Jacobs and Claude B. Ogle, who gained 135 and 38 votes respectively.
In the race lor president of the College of Letters, Arts, and sciences. Philip F. Jones gained the nod over James Hays. Jones gar-Continued on Page Four
Write-in candidates, tional Relations.
There were no candidates fo-r offioec in the Los Angeles University of interna-
Baxter To Read Millay Poem
mpbell Club eets Today
tion pictures will be shown by John G. Hill when the Camp-club of Christian students meets M0 p.m. today. Scenes of Pal-le will be flashed on the screen ing the travels Dr. Hill took g Easter of last year, urice Knott announces that the heon will cost 20 cents. The ■ersity Methodist church i6 al-g the club to use their special for t>he luncheon.
vertisers t Officers
non Leif was elected president pha Delta Sigma, professional ring fratemity, at a recent >n meeting.
Lindberg was elected vice-t. Bob Hemmings was nam-etary and Bill Ferris, treas-for the ensuing semester. Bob , incumbent president, and the adviser. Prof. William C. Blithe school of merchandising, de*-
Congress Doubles NYA Fund Student Incomes Assured
While the house of representatives considered a motion to was startedFriday byVhe^dasTin coast band leader- wil1 wield the Jacobson- Edson Coar. Paul Tarlton. I siash the NYA appropriation almost in half last week, aca-
baton at the dance. He is heard Edward McCarthy, stuart Hender, i demic futures for several hundred Trojans were precariously
hanging in the balance.
To 50 per cent of the 700 students on SC’s NYA list, it
meant .the possibility of frustration
the making of educational and documentary, under the direction of Fred Orth, lecturer in cinematography. at the Orth studio.
The class spent preparing a script the responsibilities for the production. Equipment supplied by Lecturer Orth and the university will be used in the filming of the picture. Orth has made more than 40 educational films which are currently being shown.
nationally on radio broadcasts and has made several tours of the United States with his "swreet-swing” or-several weeks Kanization. and assigning Committee members for the event are Les Evans, general chairman; Jack Naye and George Moody, bids and arrangements. The committee is under the supervision of Joe Wapner, president of the interfratemity council.
and Edward Henderson, members of the board.
Yon KleinSmid Receives Honor
in the quest for further knowiedge by the termination of their college careers.
But w’hen house Democrats pulled a reverse act and boosted the
program on this campus.
“Although SC receives approximately $65,000 for the program, there is a long reserve list of worthy applicants,” she explained. “Need is
Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of I English literature and language, wrill J read “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay at 12:10 p.m. today in Bovard auditorium.
An American author. Miss Millay was winner of the Pulitzer prize for i the best volume of verse in 1922. Film-Book Club	Among her most famous works are
Q j . T J	“Conversation at Midnight” and
Broadcasts loaay	“Flowers of Exil” from the French
“Ambition, imagination, and the of charles Baudelaire.
Edison s Life To Be Outlined
fund by more than $17,000,900, constantly arising, and in some
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid breathing came easier for thousands cases quite unexpectedly.
was awarded an honorary associate- of students throughout the United ship in the American Institute of States.
Architects Saturday together with “An increase in NYA funds means
For many young men and women between the ages of 16 and 24, NYA assistance is a synonym for educa-
Apolliad Art Event Begins
For the first time architecture I in the art gallery from April 27 to and fine arts students will be given May 3.
Dr. Remsen D. Bird, president of an increase in the number of stu- tion.
an opportunity to submit entries for an Apolliad art branch when the College of Architecture and Fine Arts initiates the event this month in conjunction with the University Apolliad. The deadline for entries has been set for April 22. -Among the divisions in which entries will be judged are water color, tempera, oil painting, architectural design and rendering, charcoal, ceramics. sculpture, jewelry, and pastel Ribbons will be awarded to first. Killingsworth second, and third-place winners, js^n The presentation of awards will be
Occidental college.
Formal presentation will be made by the Southern California chapter of the institute at a Tuesday meeting in the Biltmore. The awards wrere presented for service to the
dents attending college,” says Mrs. Florence B. Watt, director of the
part
It enables them to receive time employment, without Continued on Page Four
Students Invited To .French Lecture
The entries* will be judged hy a . committee composed of faculty profession of architecture
members headed by Dean Arthur Weatherhead; Ed Killingsworth, president of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts student body; and Arthur Millier. art critic of the Los Angeles Times.
All entries are to be submitted first to the student council committee which is headed by Gerald Bense. His committee consists of Ted Simms, Dorothy Dick Snavely, Steve Zakian,
made Saturday, April 27, in the
and Mary Jean Lloyd. Assistant
Elizabeth Holmes Fisher art gallery, advertising chairman is Ralph Ha-Winning art works mil be exhibited I ver.
Trojan students are invited to hear Maj. Max Vivier address the Alliance Francaise de Los Angeles tonight, according to Prof. Lawrence M. Riddle who announces that special rates are being made allowing students to attend the French lecture. "France and the Balkans” is the topic of the speech, which will begin at' 8 o'clock in the Elks , ctab, 697 Bark View.
Tension Increases as U-Boat Sinks Norwegian Ship
LONDON, April 7—(U.P.)—Pressure against Sweden and Norway in the intensified war of blockade was aggravated today with announcement that a German U-boat had torpedoed and sunk the 2118-ton Norwegian ship Navarra in storm-lashed Scottish waters with a loss of 12 lives.
The Navarra, carrying a cargo of —-- - - —— -
____ f	' ___after nine hours in a lifeboat.
coal from Swansea up around the j	. ,
tip of Scotland to Oslo, went down ;	,4	»ere 1>nd'd **
at 2:30 am. Saturday about 30 1 Kirkwall In the_ Orkney islands by
miles from the coast of Scotland.
the Finnish ship Atlas.
We were attacked without any Fourteen survivors suffering from warning,” said Bjorna Pedersen, esposHre and injuries we*e peeeued * chief aeewrd ef the
will to work are necessary for success.” was the creed of Thomas Edison. Just how he found this to be true will be told in a review of his life by the Film-Book Club of the Air today, over KFAC, at 1:15 p.m.
In view of the coming motion j picture, “Young Tom Edison,” Mrs. Mary Duncan Carter of the Graduate School of Library Science, will lead the discussion on several books of Edison’s life work.
The first one is a biography of
father and son which shows the
struggle, yet afffection, of the two.
This is entitled. Thomas A. Edison, by F. T. Miller.
“Edison, his life, his work, and his genius” by W. A. Simonds is a journalistic narrative of the extraordinary personality, an interesting portrait of a genius at work.
Another book by Simonds, “A Boy with Edison” will be reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Nicholls and Ralph Thomson. This is an account of the four years which Francis Jehl, Edison’s youngest assistant, spent at Menlo Park during the experimental years that preceded the invention of the electric light and the phono-
Tomorrow's Organ Program
Four composers will be featured on the bi-weekly organ program to be presented by Archibald Sessions, university organist, in Bovard auditorium tomorrow noon.
Prelude in C sharp minor ............
____________________________________ Vodorinski
This work of Anton Vodorinski is transcribed for organ by Harvey Gaull.
Prige Song _________________________ Wagner
This well-known melody from “Die Meistersinger” is the song with which Walter, the young Franconian knight wins the hand of Eva, the daughter of the rich goldsmith of Nuremberg.
Cantilene .......................... McKinley
Carl McKinley is teacher of theory at the new England Conservatory of Music, and organist at the old historic South church in Boston.
Electa ut Sol ........................ Dallier
Dallier was one of the outstanding organists of the 19th century, and for many years at the Madeleine in Paris.