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[will not be possible in the the many combinations of [ho will vote separately for id student body officers, it :e Noll, elections commis-
would simplify the en-procedure,*’ Noll said, ian 20 machines would nd the cost would be
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needed,' ar (hibitive.” lNY NEEDED separate machine would have >e used for each of the schools colleges, for each of the classes, the AWS election, and for C voting.
[embers of the debate squad, will be out of town engaging j peech tourney Friday., will >day at 1:30 p.m. in the llent body office, 235 Student pn.
)b McKay and Jerry Conrad | nominated yesterday for ASSC 1 Jident, Charlotte Quinn was the i nominee for vice-president, I Eleanor Britton and Beverly j >ton were placed on the ballot 1 [secretary.
pain Oakley remained the only ! [idate for yell king, and John i
[wight Hart, coordinator of [orrow evening’s hilly assembly jASSC presidential, vice-presi-lial, and secretarial candi-yesterday announced a
|ting of the managers of those lidates for 1 p.m. today in the |ent body office, 235 Student >n.
ill particulars concerning en-Linment plans must be pre-and presented at the meet-Hart said. Times allotted candidate at the rally are >llows:
mor Britton, 7-7:30 p.m.; frly Royston, 7:30-8 p.m.; rlotte Quinn, 8-8:30 p.m.; Conrad, 8:30-9 p.m.; and tcKay, 9-9:30 p.m.
and Jim Jordan are still hly eligible nominees for the ssistant yell leader positions. IlDATE REPORTED ineously reported a candi-1n the School of Government ns yesterday, William H. (y is instead the only nominee resident of the School of i and Janice Parker is the [esidential candidate for the fcchool.
nia Mitchell is the only fete for president of the of Government, students voting in Friday’s is must present their stu-ly cards, not student books; fnphasized yesterday. Class lIs, the school or college, [re, and validation must be lard.
ical Students red Positions aval Reserve
[U. S. navy yesterday an-i a change in regulations ;ng students in class “A” schools to receive appoint-\n the U. S. naval reserve, they meet physical and ?quire ments.
revision also includes prestudents who have been lor entrance to these
ie men may receive procommissions as ensigns, U. [l reserve, while in school, taduation they will be coined as lieutenants (junior [n the naval reserve medical id ordered to active duty their internship.
[ations may be filed with landant of the eleventh [strict, and may be obtained office or from the dean ledical school.
action by the navy de-[t on their application, stu-
Reported
Java Battle Takes Added Warships, Says Communique
WASHINGTON, Mar. 24 — (U.P.)—The old World war destroyers Pillsbury and Ed-sall and all their crews—approximately 290 men — were added by the navy tonight to the honor roll of ships and men lost in the gallant but losing battle to hold the Dutch East Indies.
Loss of the two ancient vessels brought to nine the U. S. destroyers lost since the beginning of the war—eight of them by enemy action—and to five the U. S. ships lost in the battle of Java.
In the battle of Java approximately 1100 American seamen were lost, going down, like their ships, without a trace.
TAKE ENEMY TOLL
The Pillsbury and Edsall were veterans of the three greatest naval battles reported in the struggle to hold the Indies—those of Macassar, Bali straits, and of the Java sea. They assisted in taking a heavy toll of the Japanese forces despite the enemy’s control of the air and his overwhelming superiority on the sea. They apparently were sent to the bottom while trying to make a friendly port after the furious engagement in the Java sea Feb. 27 and 28.
“The next of kin” of those aboard have been notified, the announcement said.
PILLSBURY LOST
“Tne Pillsbury is believed to have been lost in the vicinity of Bali strait subsequent to the naval engagement in the Java sea which was reported in communique No. 54.” the communique said.
“The last report from the Edsall placed her in waters south of Java.
“These destroyers were units of the original U. S. Asiatic fleet which has been used since the beginning of the war in an attempt to frustrate the Japanese invasion of the islands of the southwest Pacific.
YW Roundtable Features College'
The fifth in a series of roundtables on the general subject, “Relationship of Students in Today’s World,” will be held by the YWCA at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the YWCA house on the subject, “To College— Why Study Now?”
Questions for the roundtable include :
(1)	Wouldn’t it be more patriotic to leave college now and go into defense work? We could then finish college after the war is over.
(2)	How can one person who. has had education and wants to help make the world a better p>ce to live in do anything against a ’ the forces of evil?
(3)	May education be a dangerous thing?
<4) Why is education so important when one is constantly reading about people in high positions who have never gone to college?
(5) Why are certain required courses compulsory?
Dr. Pauline Frederick, associate professor of physical education, will be the faculty leader. Students assisting will be Martha Livingston and Vivian Clark.
Issue to Appear
Editor Hints at Troy Dark Horse Candidate; Issue Features Sorority Pledge Pictures
Unaccustomed as it is to supporting candidates, Wampus .makes a radical departure from
established policy and comes out with its own dark horse in the March issue at 10 a.m. today. Associate Editor Don Hoover refuses to divulge the name of the mystery candidate, simply stating that “This horse is so dark we don’t dare let him out of the stable after 6 in the evening.”
The Wampus makes politics its theme in this edition, the “Dirty Politics” issue. The more election-minded readers should get quite a bang out of the center spread, “Tlie Frosh Primer.” This department was edited with special consideration for those who
aren’t quite up on the goings and comings of the various campus political moves, and who would like the ballot situation cleared up for them in words of one syllable.
“We realize that many of the students don’t know a campus machine from a pin-ball machine,” explained Editor Guy Halferty, “so were running this feature just for them.”
Pictures of the newest sorority pledges have a big place in the current issue, and the editors assure readers there is plenty of juicy gossip and humor, “if you like that sort of thing.”
Sorority salesgirls are asked to report to Johnny Lowe at 9:50 a.m. in 215 Student Union.
Lecturer Hits False Beliefs
Philippine Battle Zone Opens on Three Fronts
WASHINGTON, Mar. 24—(U.P.)—The Philippines campaign exploded into action on three fronts today, with the war department reporting a “successful” attack on a Japanese motor column near Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao, a heavy Japanese air raid on Corregidor and “sharp
skirmishes” on Bataan peninsula.
Military experts regarded the attack by a mighty armada of 54 “new type” Japanese bombers on Corregidor and the Bataan action as the beginning of the long-awaited, all-out Japanese offensive to crush American-Filipino defenders. But again it appeared Ameri-can-Philippine forces now commanded by Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, had struck where least expected.
“General Wainwright reports a successful attack by our forces in Mindanao on a Japanese motor column near Zamboanga,” war communique No. 159 reported. “Enemy losses were heavy while only one of our soldiers was killed.”
Mindanao is the second largest and most southerly island in the Philippine archapelago. Japanese troops landecl on the island early in the three-and-a-half-months-old campaign but never have progressed far inland where a handful of American-Filipino forces, assisted by fierce Moro tribesmen, have continued vicious guerilla warfare.
The communique, as of 4:30 p.m., EWT, reported that numerous floating mines have been found in Philippine waters, indicating a Japanese attempt to interfere with inter-island shipping, and expanded a previous report of an American and Australian air raid on the Japanese base at Lae, New Guinea, on Mar. 22.
Beta Sigma Chi Meets
Members of Beta Sigma Chi, national transportation fraternity, will meet today at noon to hear Kenneth Vere, former president, speak.
Plans for the organization’s annual stag affair will be made at that time. The meeting will be held in the Student Union.
“Society must vanquish the pernicious ideas which are weakening our social and political doctrines,” Dr. Ralph T. Flewelling, director of the School of Philosophy, sserted yesterday in the Philosophy forum’s fifth adflress in Bowne hall.
Speaking on the “Vanquishment of Ideas,” Dr. Flewelling said we must rid ourselves of contempt for philosophy. The prophecy of a former philosopher that “wars will be fought for philosophies as they were for religions,” has come true twice in a single generation, the speaker declared.
The idea that war is the greatest of all evils is a false one, for it is far worse to watch the killing of men, women, and children—to see them divested of their freedom and not protest with effectiveness — stated the philosopher.
“People can be conquered by things other than force,” said Dr. Flewelling. “Materialistic aspects of life have dulled our ideas,” he maintained. “The principle reason lies in smug moral indifference— a few men have enjoyed prosperity while others suffered,” he continued.
“Hate Is not necessary to defense,” he said, “for hate inhibits reason, and we must conduct this war with intelligence. With hate we are confined to immediate results, when what we need is foresight,” he stated.
Freedom without obligation is anarchy, Dr. Flewelling stated. Without rigid self control we become slaves and victims to base desires. In discussing another false belief, the speaker pointed out that success does not depend on “pull.”
r. lams Discusses Tariffs
Wednesday Lecture Stresses Foreign Trade Situation
Dr. Clayton Carus, professor of foreign trade, will speak on “Foreign Trade: Blood Stream of the Nations” this afternoon at 4:30 for the Wednesday lecture audience in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
“The world incomes decline when war comes along and drys up the economic blood stream,” Dr. Carus commented in defense of his argument that foreign trade is necessary to the nation for progress and efficiency.
DISCUSSES FIELDS
Fields not generally considered in the process of trade relations will be discussed, Dr. Carus, said. Products that are minor but nevertheless necessary to major industries will be cited, including the soy bean, jute, and lard.
Attributing possibly one fourth of the world’s entire income to foreign trade transaction, he will consider tariff rates and their effects on trade activities.
“Tariff rates are a net loss to everyone involved because they encourage domestic production under inefficient conditions,” Dr. Carus said. He plans to explain how tariffs encourage second-grade products and penalize the consumer with higher prices.
FACTORS STRESSED
As barriers to the fulfillment of world welfare, he intends to show how they deny a geographical factor the fact that nature has supplied some areas with bountiful resourses and has denied them to others.
In this, the fifth in the series of Wednesday lectures being per-sented on the spring semester program, Dr. Carus makes his first appearance as guest lecturer. The lectures are open to all students, faculty members, and the general public.
Hour Presents Russian Music
Russian music since Tschaikow-sky will be presented at the listening hour in Bovard auditorium to-
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MELBOURNE, Mar. 25— (Wednes bombers escorted by “Zero” fighter twice yesterday, but their stalled ge no signs of regaining its momentum a Curtin said the Japs already had see the wall.”
The future, h£ said, “holds increasing disappointment and retreat” for the enemy.
Allied sources announced, meanwhile, that United States submarines in the southwest Pacific have sunk, since the war began, about 30 Japanese transports and supply ships, five destroyers, and probably one aircraft carrier, as well as damaging another aircraft carrier and four or five cruisers.
ATTACKS WANE While Japanese air attacks on the northern Australia outposts waned, allied planes ranged increasingly over Japanese bases.
Army Orders Japs From Tacoma Area
SEATTLE, Mar. 24.—(U.E)—Early removal of all Japanese from the Puget sound area was foreseen today.
Registration of all Japanese on farms in the Tacoma area by tomorrow night—three days ahead of the original deadline—was ordered through S. S. Blackwell, assistant supervisor of the farm security administration in Tacoma. He said about 200 families would be affected.
The army prepared to start registration tomorrow of about 300 Japanese on Bainbridge island, which was ordered evacuated by next Monday.
Seattle’s Japanese colony considered plans to establish a model cooperative community at Moses lake, in eastern Washington, for about 10,000 members of their race who face eviction from defense areas.
Meanwhile, the federal bureau of investigation announced the arrest here of six Japanese aliens, including the first woman to be apprehended, for membership in proaxis organizations.
Creeks to Honor 60 RAF Cadets
Royal Air Force cadets now training at Lancaster will be guests at a house dance held by the Pi Kappa Alpha next Saturday, at the fraternity residence, 2421 South Figueroa.
Two waves of Japanese bombers and their fighter escorts raided Port Moresby, southeastern New Guinea base keying both offensive and defensive operations, directing their first attack on the airdrome, the second on targets near the town. Neither damage nor casualties had been reported, and one Japanese plane was damaged so badly by anti-aircraft fire that it did not appear able to return to its base.
Curtin, addressing the returned soldiers league at Canberra, said the speed with which the Japanese had moved southward no longer could be maintained and “the handwriting is on the wall for those men who thought they could rule the world by force.” PROMISE SUBSTANTIATED
He asserted that his promise of “increasing disappointment and retreat” for the Japanese was based on “highest authority.” Japan had been brought up to the realization that her lightning war tactics can not enable her to go on indefinitely swallowing countries one after another, he said, adding that resources now are preponderantly on the side of the allies.
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The authoritative report of the operations by United States submarines of the Asiatic fleet was the first summation of the toll they had taken on the Japanese fleet.
(The navy announced in Washington Monday night that a group of submarines operating in Japanese waters had sunk at least three and probably four ships and damaged two others. On the basis of navy communiques it was figured in Washington that submarines had sunk 39 enemy ships, including 24 transports and supply ships.)
RAF Planes Bomb Vital French Ports
LONDON, Mar. 24—(UJR)—British bombers attacked targets in northern France today, retaliating for German raids last night on the southern and southeastern coasts of England during which Dover received its worst pounding since last summer, it was revealed tonight.
The air ministry announced that British bombers with fighter escort attacked a power station at Comines and other objectives in northern France Tuesday afternoon. Two German fighters were destroyed and seven British fighters j were missing. They were reported over the south coast again tonight. First reports said they bombed the
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