SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILY mTROJAN
XXXII
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Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, April 1, 1941
No. 113
Helsel resses um
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fellowship, “the love or man and of man will form the subject aul R. Helsel’s phil-rum lecture today at in Bowne hall. ebrew-Christian Search Fellowship” ls the title lsel’s lecture, in wh'ch pher will approach his three angles: the back-fellowship, the Hebrew t of it, and the Christian of the Hebraic con-
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1 defines fellowship as I ie of love, human and | Huding particularly ;he [ les of fatherliness and !
the origin of this social j a primitive, communal al organization, using as the ancient Hebrews, eople, desert nomads, by their environment to | istically, sharing labor aits. So they developed 1 ly a life of feUwsbip, j istic one of blood and |
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tian contribution was to terial istic fellowship to lowship. Jesus did this ing a paternalistic phil-religion. As customary ^ to regard the Christ -a sort of benign, all-ther, such an idea was in the time of Jesus, of God placed religion My basis. All human brothers and sisters In sense, owing their ulti-nce to a Divine Father,” says.
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anner, the idea of fel-umed its spiritual garb, ing ties of blood, ip has not had a con-,nd even development, Dr. Ts. Great civilizations nave the philosophy of it for is, adopting in its stead and dictatorship. Dr. aintains, however, that cannot be stifled, that it ually recur, ship will not evacuate.”
Health. Service Offers Advice on Measles
Students contracting cases of German measles are urged by the health service to exercise extreme caution in the handling of the disease.
Symptoms of the disease appear in the form of sore throats, headaches, rashes, and swelling glands on the neck. Should any of these symptoms appear, students are requested to isolate themselves as soon as possible. Isolation and rest are prescribed for combating mild forms of this disease.
June Schumacher, president of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, was added to the list of stricken students. Miss Schumacher became ill the night of the ASSC election.
Some students contract the disease and are unaware of the fact that they contaminate others with whom they come in contact. Students desiring advice or treatment from the health service may report there between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. daily.
Evans Calls All-U Play Cast
‘American Way’ Actors Meet in Touchstone
te to Approve Officers
al of successful candidates cent elections will high-business of the student ..en it meets today in 418 Union at 7 p.m.
dents who were victors in ay’s election must be ap-y the senate before they red officially elected. Many presidential offices carry seats on the senate.
ia Described KRKD Today
shth program in the series Americanos*’ will de-Latin-American republic on the radio division’s relations show over om 1:30 to 1:45 pjn. today. Druitt, former moderator ,ld affairs round table, ls ar commentator on the Betsy Neff is collabora-acripts. '
More than 70 members of the cast for the all-University production of “The American Way” will gather in Touchstone theater at 8 p.m. today for the first pre-re-hearsal meeting of the show.
Student directors will meet at 7 p.m.. Edmund Evans, drama coach, announced yesterday.
He requests that all members of costume, stage crew, and other committees be present at the meeting. There are still 20 parts available in the production for students wishing to play extra roles.
FOUR REHEARSAL STAGES
Rehearsals for “The American Way” wrill be in four different places: Bovard auditorium. Touchstone, the Zeta, and Phi Beta studios.
Members of the stagecraft class are now constructing scenery for the show, although most of the backgrounds will be projections. The largest pieces of scenery will have caster mountings to facilitate movement.
GRADE REQUIREMENT
Evans still needs 10 sign painters for the signs used in the production.
All students working as members of the cast and on the committees must have at least a 1.0 scholarship average.
The following are members of the cast who are to report today:
Martin Black, Martin Gunther; Genevieve Duran, Irma Gunther; John Howard Craig. Samuel Brockton: Janet Cunningham, Mrs. Kennedy; Lynn Norby, Mrs. White;
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Axis Files
Seizure
Protest
Roosevelt Expected to Reject Complaint of Merchant Raids
WASHINGTON, March 31— (U.P.) — Germany and Italy formally protested against United States’ seizure of 30 German and Italian merchant ships in the face of clear indications from President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the .protests would be firmly rejected.
The protests were filed at the state department almost simultaneously by Dr. Hans Thomsen, German charge d’affaires, and Italian Ambassador Prince Colonna.
The texts were not made public immediately. Meanwhile Hull, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox went into conference. OFFICIALS SILENT The ship action was discussed but the conferees refused to reveal details. Knox and Stimson referred all questions to Hull, who was inaccessible.
Asked whether this government would protest acts of sabotage aboard 20 of the 28 Italian vessels which led to their seizure, Hull said no one had questioned the legality of this country’s maneuver. He reiterated that the United States took protective control of the vessels to safeguard American harbors from sabotage.
NO DANISH REBUKE
The Danish legation said tonight it would not protest seizure of 39 Danish ships, which also were taken over for precautionary reasons.
Meanwhile, Povl Bang-Jansen, Danish legation attache, said that "Danish sailors in this country feel very hurt that they were associated in the mind of the public with sailors who had sabotaged their ships.” Bang-Jansen said only skeleton crews were aboard the Danish ships. He estimated the crews totaled 200 or 300 and said most of them had been allowed to remain aboard by coast guard officials.
Officials said there had been no destruction aboard the two Nazi ships or the 39 additional Danish vessels which also were seized for precautionary reasons.
Beers to Speak on Public Health
Zoology Professor Uses Colored Slides to Illustrate Wednesday Lecture in 159 Science
The results of observations made upon thousands of generations of flies and of detailed studies of human beings and their progeny will be unfolded tomorrow by Dr. Catherine V. Beers, assistant professor of zoology, when she delivers a lecture on “Genetics and the Public Health.”
Dr. Beers will talk in 159 Science
Dancers Present Recital Tomorrow
Rosalind Schaffer and Opal Sneed will appear in a dance recital tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. in 207 Physical Education building. The two SC women belong to a group under the direction of Miss Karen Burt, dance instructor.
The program consists of modern and humerous dances with Har-riette Anne Gray as guest soloist.
Special music has been written for the recital by prominent Eastern composers.
The program is open to the public. Price of admission is 25 cents.
Italians Admit Heavy Losses in Sea Battle
British Report Sinking of Heavy Cruisers Near Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, March 31 —(UJ?)—Italy's war fleet, shattered by the greatest naval battle since Jutland, lost an estimated 4000 officers and men, probably its most powerful battleship, four cruisers and three destroyers, British officers who fought the weird engagement said tonight.
BRITISH CLAIM LOSSES (An admiralty communique, issued in London Sunday, said that at least three Italian cruisers and two destroyers were sunk in the engagement and indicated that additional Italian ships may also have been sunk.)
British quarters estimated that 3000 Italian officers and men went to the bottom of the Ionian sea in addition to 900 to 1000 fished from the sea by the British before attacking German bombers reportedly stopped rescue work. DESTROYERS SUNK British pilots who repeatedly torpedoed and bombed the 35,000-ton battleship Vittorio Veneto—the Italian flagship—suggested tonight that it probably sank before reaching port. They believed it had been hit by at least three torpedoes and said that when last seen it was badly down by the stern.
Late reports also indicated that an Italian 6000-ton cruiser and another destroyer had been sunk, in addition to three 10,000-ton cruisers and two destroyers previously re ported lost.
British officers disclosed tonight that the 7215-ton British cruiser Orion first sighted the Italian fleet at a distance of 15 miles.
Spanish Student Discusses Poems
Amalia Mendez, member of the Spanish literary group, introduces a Latin custom to the campus today of discussing poems in the open air at 12 M. in Exposition park.
Miss Mendez will discuss the poems of Pancho Duenas. Any student who wishes to attend these weekly literary discussions is requested by Dr. Mendez Periera, head of the group, to bring a ’lunch and meet promptly at 12 M. in front of Bridge hall.
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U.S. Drafts All SC Students!
n, Steigerwald Movie Leads
Brennan and Jean Stei-Tere selected to play the les in the Cinema produc-*r. Deeds Goes to Town."
embers of the cast are swede and Jerry Maisell William George as nd Marian Smith as the
„t Hollywood motion tor ls expected to as-
Dispatches received from President Franklin Roosevelt in Washington late last night astounded SC administrative officials with the flat statement that every able-bodied Trojan will be called to the colors before dawn Thursday morning, April Fool releases announced today.
Regarding the importance assigned April Fool developments, students are requested to investigate “thoroughly" before packing their grips. Official comment concerning the quartering of all April Fool contingents inferred that “it’s all the bunk and only a prattle-snake could have issued the statement.”
More seriously, however, students are urged to be on the lookout today for Aphilius Foolonius. rumored to be lurking behind Bridge hall with a 12-inch blow gun for puncturing tires. To combat the subvert, O. and M. workers will be armed with Student Union straw -powered blow guns and , 8-foot
rakes.
This might be odd, but the majority of students fail to appreciate the importance that some persons attach to April Fool’s day. This day has a variety of listed origins, the one most credited having taken place in France during medieval
Pack Your Bags — SC students to leave for the front.
times. Peasants celebrated the first day of April each year because of the opening of the fish season and the markets!
The Grimm German brothers also attributed the founding of the festival to French citizens, severely
from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The educator wrill discuss the relationship between heredity and environment, telling how creatures are bom with certain determiners, or genes, that will develop in the proper environment.
USES COLORED SLIDES
Dr. Beers will illustrate her lecture with numerous slides.
Dr. Beers points out that most persons show signs of tuberculosis at some time in their lives but the majority of people are able to supply an environment to the bacilli that proves fatal for the germs.
“We do not inherit the disease,” she says. “What we take on is the response to bacteria—our immunity or susceptibility. The result is a bio-chemical response to one reaction or the other.
TEST WITH FLY
Dr. Beers’ class in genetics studies the results of heredity and environment by means of a small black yeast fly. She declares that, “the study of the fly is an excellent way of making observations because the creatures are so small that a half-pint bottle will hold 200 of them. Thirteen life cycles of the insect equal one life cycle of man.”
The same heredity laws apply to the fly that apply to human beings. An observation of the flies enables students to study the manner in which genes express themselves in different environments. GENETICS ADVANCE
The study of flies in the field of genetics has undergone great advancement since the theory of the gene was developed by Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, who won.the 1933 Nobel prize in medicine for his work in genetics. The study of why and how homophilia, the “bleeding disease,” is inherited is possible through the study of the offspring of a mutant white-eyed fly discovered by Dr. Morgan.
Senator Gerald P. Nye — addresses graduate students to
morrow.
SC Gallery Shows Color Paintings of Seven Schools
Oil and water color paintings by students from all southern California regular colleges and universities will be exhibited throughout April in the Elizabeth Holmes Fisher gallery of fine arts.
This display, including work from UCLA, Occidental, Scripps, Redlands, Pomona, Pepperdine, and SC, will inaugurate a series of annual exhibits of a similar nature.
Student paintings and a ceramic and silver exhibit by Dr. Glen Lukens and Prof. Hudson B. Roys-her of SC will feature the showing, which starts on Thursday with a tea honoring student participants. Works are not entered on a competitive basis, but as an exhibition.
A tour of the building and the SC fine arts department will follow the opening tea, scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m.
Town, Gown Honors Trojan Mothers at Tea
Rodger Noble, sculptor of the Tommy Trojan statue, will display his marble, bronze, and silver works at 2 p.m. today a\. the spring tea sponsored by the Town and Gown organization.
“Etchings, Shadow Boxes, Flowers, and Foliage,” is the topic to be discussed in the Foyer of the club by Bryant Brooks, SC art graduate.
PLAN DECORATIONS
The activities of the day will take place in a setting of peach blossoms, Easter lilies, and tulips. The purpose of the meeting is to honor the mothers of Trojans, past and present.
Dean Pearl Aiken-Smith and Mrs. Paul G. Stevens have made the arrangements for the gathering. The decorations will be made by the Los Angeles Garden club. MOTHERS PRESIDE
Students’ mothers who will preside over the various events are as follows:
Mesdames Ralph W. Beeks, William H. Bowen, Asa V. Call, J. B. T. Campbell, E. H. Churchill, Frank W. Davey, Frank E. Eckhart, Walter Harrison Fisher, Hector Geiger, Robert L. Gifford, Dwight Hart, Landon Horton, Warren P. McGrath, Watilda Murdock, Harry Philp, Robert Carman-Ryles, F. B. Skeele, Cyrus B. Sweet, A. L. D. Warner, Clifford Wright.
Senator Nye Arrives Today
Lend-Lease Opposition Leader to Address Graduate Students in Assembly Tomorrow
Senator Gerald P. Nye, progressive Republican from North Dakota, who will address the Associated Graduate students in Porter hall tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., arrives in Los Angeles at 9 a.m. today by United Air lines.
He arrives in southern Califomia
condemning them for an act “later to entail international aspects.”
True were their words, too Julius Caesar had the gaul to in vade France on April 1 and turn them into a bunch of April fools, Napoleon tricked Nelson by not attacking on April Fool's day. It’s all very vicious and has been so for some time.
Someone at Lockheed aircraft last year stuck a rubber tube under the time clock, and every person that punched in got mud in his. eye. O. and M. workers in Bridge hall left wax on the stairs, and no one got to upper-story classes before 9 a.m.
The following advice may help: avoid accepting free cigarettes that might be stuffed with asafetida and beware of quizzes. Squires will be on duty inspecting all Hershey bars released in the Student Union, and spy waitresses will test the coffee for further adulteration.
National defense is fine, but don’t march in the parade of April Fools.
Sevrice Groups Will Hear Marine
Lieut. John W. Graves of United States marine corps reserve will speak to members of Blue Key and Alpha Phi Omega, Trojan service organizations, today at 12:10 p.m. in 210 Administration.
Knights and Squires are welcome to attend. Lieut. Graves will be in Dr. Francis M. Bacon’s office, 225 Student Union, today at 1:30 p.m. for additional interviews.
Lieut. Graves has given a series of talks at SC this semester as a recruiting officer for the marine corps.
Van Nuys Bridge Out
By United Prc a Lightning and a heavy downpour of rain last night washed out a bridge over the Lo6 Angeles river and disrupted electrical service in the city.
CIO Strikers Riot at Allis-Chalmers
MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 31— (U.E)—Police drove a six-ton armored transport car into a crowd of 3000 CIO strikers at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing company’s West Allis plant today and dispersed the pickets with tear bombs.
It was the first outbreak of violence in a 68-day old strike at the plant.
The company re-opened Friday in defiance of the CIO strike when the government appealed for resumption of work on $45,000,000 worth of key defense orders.
Striking union members lined the factory gates as the day shift left the plant at 4:20 p.m. A squad of 150 police patroled the area.
When strikers started to stop automobiles containing employes who had violated the strike edict, police intervened.
from San Francisco after completing a series of talks there. “How Shall We Prevent Further Involvement in Europe’s War?” will be Senator Nye's topic tomorrow. SPEAKS AT UCLA
The chairman of the senate munitions investigation committee will follow his campus talk with an address on the same subject at the Philharmonic auditorium tomorrow night. He speaks today at UCLA and tonight in the Pasadena Civic auditorium.
Senator Nye, who assumed his posit'on in 1925 following the death of Senator Edwin Ladd, is an ardent opponent of any measures that may lead to the United States becoming involved in a foreign war. He was recently active in opposition to the lend-lease bill.
The North Dakota legislator is currently traveling throughout the nation delivering his views on the role of the United States in the present conflict.
AGS SPONSORS TALK
The southern Califomia division of the America-First committee is sponsoring the senator’s tour of the southland.
He is appearing on the campus under the auspices of the Associated Graduate students. His lecture will be free of charge and all faculty members and undergraduate and graduate students may attend.
Paul Edward Pauly, president of the Graduate School is in charge of arrangements for Senator Nye's appearance at SC.
Professor Talks to Non-Orgs
“Is a new era of literature taking seed in the chaos of world affairs, and will the harvest a few years from now evidence acute changes in all phases of composition?”
These and other factors on literature will be discussed by Dr. William Davenport, associate professor of English language and literature, at an address given to the Trojan non-orgs at a lecture-luncheon in Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall 12 M., Thursday.
“Literature Coming Out of This War,” is the title of Dr. Davenport's speech at this, the last Lancer meeting before the Easter holidays.
The changes in literature since September 1939 is of a similar revolutionary nature as that which come from the war of 1914 to 1917, says Dr. Davenport.
Dr. Davenport was a student of modem literature at Universities Dartmouth, Tufts, and Yale, where he did research under William Lyon Phelps who is considered the dean of American literature critics.
Because of a 2:30 p.m. deadline on reservations tomorrow, students interested in attending must make arrangements at the office of the counselor of n n or the counselor of women.
Junior Prom Ticket Sale Nears Close
Only 13 Bids Remain in Union Book Store; Fraternities Hold 500
Only 13 bids to the Junior Prom are left in the Student Union bookstore, according to reports turned in late yesterday afternoon. Non-org students who wish to purchase these 1385-tickets are urged by dance committee chairmen to buy theirs this morning or make reservations in the cashier’s office.
A limited number of 800 bids were printed for the formal Junior Prom to be held in the Blue room of the Biltmore hotel from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday. Fraternity house* received 500 bids and most of them have already been spoken for.
Page Noll, who is in charge of ticket sales, urges all students to purchase their bids for the Junior Prom immediately. If escorts are low on funds they may reserve bids by making arrangements at the cashier’s office.
Glenn Miller, orchestra leader of nation-wide fame, will be the highlighted attraction of the evening.
In order to cut down on the total expense of the evening, the junior council has arranged to spare escorts the necessity of purchasing flowers. Corsages of all kinds have been banned for the dance.
Members of the Junior Prom committee include Smokey Martin, president of the junior class, Clark Liddell, and Dwight Hart. They are being assisted by members of the junior council.
Nazis Recall Jugoslav Minister as Rumanian Frontier Closes
BELGRADE, April 1—(U.P)—Germany’s minister to troubled Jugoslavia was on his wray to Berlin today and reliable reports circulated that the government had closed the frontier with Rumania.
Warlike signs and portents multiplied rapidly, and the new military regime said the army, navy, and air force were “ready to fulfill their duties.”
Amid a welter of rumors regarding Germany's intentions toward Jugoslavia, public concern mounted to a pitch of utmost gravity. Authorities sought to calm the people and at the same time steel them for any eventualities, urging that they stand by their homes and posts of duty regardless of what happens.
The departure of the German
minister, Viktor von Heeren, came as no surprise. It had been prospective for days, and he boarded a train for Berlin last night to re port to Nazi authorities.
Rumors also had circulated previously of the closing of Jugoslav frontiers. Late last night reliable sources said that the border with Rumania, a scant 50 miles from Belgrade, had been scaled. Any German thrust from Rumania presumably would come up the Danube valley straight west to the capital.
Germans were getting out of Jugoslavia as fast as possible, and many residents of Belgrade were leaving for the interior where they expected to be safer in case of an invasion.
Cinema Workshop Members to Hear John Cromwell
John Cromwell, director of the films, “So Ends Our Night” and “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” will speak in the seminar room of the cinema workshop Friday at 7 p.m.
Cromwell has made a specialty of “big” dramatic stories, according to Prof. Warren Scott, director of the cinema workshop. He will discuss the problem of handling actors before the camera, drawing material from his pictures “So Ends Our Night” with Frederic March and Margaret Sullivan and “Victory” also starring March.
An honorary member of Delta Kappa Alpha, professional cinematography fraternity, Cromwell will address members of that group and members of the graduate seminar in cinema directing. Scott revealed that one of Cromwell’s pictures will also be shown.
Wampus Couple' Dance Changed
The Wampus “lucky couple” win dine and dance at the Palladium to the music of Richard Himber on the night of April 5 instead of April 4 because of the Junior Prom scheduled for that night.
Coupons from the last issue of Wampus can be deposited in the Student Union box until 10 am, tomorrow. The drawing will be held in the office of Charles Johnston, ASSC president, at that time.
International Relations
War, as seen from a historian’s point of view, will be presented by Dr. Francis J. Bowman, associate professor of history, when he addresses a luncheon meeting of the International Relations club Thursday at 12:15 p.m. in Elisabeth voa KieinSmid dining hall