SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DA I LY 9TROJAN
Vol. XXXIII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, Apr. 30, 1942
rnones. ttiim n an
No. 132
[Japs Imperil Burma Road
Key City of Lashio Totters Before Enemy Advance as Chinese Rally Desperately
CHUNGKING. Apr. 29—(U.P.)—Japanese troops have smashed into the south suburbs of Lashio and Chinese defenders are battling them from behind hastily erected barricades in a last stand to save the Burma road, the lifeline between Burma and China, it was reported unofficially to-—------ ' night.
Official quarters had no confir-|\ _ 1 |t. A^ I ilAf All mation shortly before midnight I aimSl ^nOSCri Wednesday that the Japanese had
entered Lashio, although they said a ■	||	I j the latest reports from the city, re-
C lu fi Vi/ M pijn j ceived yesterday morning, reported 1™V I VUM ‘ the enemy is within a couple miles m _	I of the town.”
/%■ A IT13 7 Anc	A Chinese communique broad-
U I M 111 U Z.UI I J	cast by the Chungking radio and
heard in London substantiated this ' report and said that the Japanese Anderson to Assume had also reached Hsipaw, west of
Vice-Presidency	I Lashi0> cutting the rail spur from
_	the Burma road terminus to Man-
of Service Group j da lay.
ADVANCE REPORTED Rut! Palmer was elected president Another Japanese column wu re-of the Trojan Amazons, women s Ported storming the approaches of service group, last night at their the railway town of Hspaw, 40 miles annual election meeting.	west of Lashio. and the whole Bur-
* m-mber ot thf organisation for'ma campaign appeared to rest with the past year. M.ss Palmer has also 8 Chlnese 'or“ r“inB	from
been secretary of the judicial court and hfcs recently been elected president of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She has been vice-president of the College ol Architecture and Pine Arts for the past year, and is a member of Spooks and Spokes.
Miss Palmer is a junior in the college of architecture. She has maintained better than a 2.0 schol-
LONDON, Thursday, Apr. 30— (U.R)—Radio Vichy today broadcast an "unconfirmed Chungking report’’ that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has ordered all Chinese troops withdrawn from Burma.
the central front in a desperate attempt to sever the communications I arship average since she has been of the invader spearhead.
•t ®C.	With the enemy virtually in
Elected to serve the group as Lashio and Hsipaw, allied sources I vice-president was Marjorie An- held little hope that this gamble Iderson. She has also been an ac- i would succeed. Its failure would [tive member of the group for the mean loss of the Burma road ter-Ipast year, serving on several spe- ‘ minus at Lashio, isolation of Man-Icial committees and as recreation- dalay and the Burma armies, and
Is! council representative. She has worked actively in Alpha Delta Pi
sorority.
HRECTS ACTIVITIES
As president. Miss Palmer will I become a member of the student •nate and of the Associated Wo-^en Students cabinet. She will l*ect all activities of the organi-|ion and represent it at all func-!*.
her capacity as vice-president. Anderson will take complete fe of all social events. She rain the pledges to be elected e spring, and take the place k president at any time that
leave as the united nations’ only access to China the tortuous mountain trail running across northern India and Burma through Bhamo, ern California Law Review and for-
Ration Boards Ask Student
Assistance
Sugar rationing boards are asking student assistance for the issuing of ration cards next week.
Limited personnel at the elementary schools has made it neccssary for principals to seek outside volunteer workers. For the district surrounding SC, the schools at 37th street and Raymond avenue and at 9th street and Hoover boulevard have been designated as central rationing points.
Students who are free Monday through Thursday any hour from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. are urged by Miss Helen Hall Moreland, counselor of women, to sign under the poster on the Victory hut. This request comes for both men and women.
Further information regarding this rationing registration may be secured from the counselor of women's office in the Administration building.
Service Club to Initiate New Members
Garbed in the traditional attire of Skull and Dagger pledges, newly elected members of the all-university men’s honorary organization will ride down University avenue this morning at 9:45 in the latest style in horse and carriage.
The skull and dagger will be displayed on the steps of the Administration building today. A plaque, bearing names of the members of the society, will also be shown.
Formal initiation of pledges has been announced for Saturday, May 9. when a formal dinner-dance and the ceremonies will take place at the Beverly Hills hotel. The affair is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Ed C. Jones, editor of the South-
Stage Door' Opens Tonight in Bovard
Student Dramatists Stage First Performance of Ferber-Kaufmann Theatrical Comedy
The trials and tribulations of 22 aspiring actresses who live, eat, and sleep theatre will be reproduced when the curtain rises tonight at 8:30 on the opening performance of “Stage Door,” spring drama production. A theatrical boarding hquse, the Footlights club in New York, is the setting for this three-act comedy by Edna Ferber
and George S. Kaufman.
“The play is all right, the cast is willing and able, and whether the two become a success, only the audience can decide,” remarked William C. DeMille, professor of the drama, who directs .this play. This is his second major production on campus.
FOUR ARE PHOTOGENIC
Four of the glamour women in the cast were selected as the most photogenic women on campus by Delta Kappa Alpha, honorary cinematography fraternity. George Goldberg, play productions manager, stated that he expected motion picture talent scouts and theatrical agents to be in the first night audience.
“There is every indication that the house will be filled every night. It is advisable for students to have their activity books validated im-
*been converted into a little theater with a seating capacity of 588.
PERRY PLAYS LEAD
The feminine lead, Terry Ran dall, will be portrayed by Phyllis Perry, junior transfer from Sacra mento Junior college. Although Miss Perry has had leads in off campus productions, this is her first part in an SC play. Romantic interest will be supplied by Harry Woodle, who plays the part of David Kingsley, middle-aged movie pro ducer who shares Terry’s love for the footlights. Bill Short, as Keith Burgess, a radical playwright who wants to write revolutionary scripts, is the third party of the love tri angle.
Tonight’s play will present many students who have had important parts in other campus productions. Claire Laub, who played tne inimi table Penny in “You Can’t Take
mediately in order to assure seats,” it With You,” will enact the part Goldberg emphasized. Bovard has'	(Continued on Page Two)
Miller's Band Returns for All-U, Junior Prom
National Hook-up to Broadcast Dance From Ambassador Fiesta Room Tomorrow
The combined interfraternity-junior prom toporrow night in the Ambassador hotel’s Fiesta room will mark the second Trojan dance for which Glenn Miller’s band has provided ! sweet swing.
Approximately 600 bids have been sold for the affair which
i will begin at 9 p.m. and last until
1 a.m. Few bids are available. All
rz
fficer cannot be present.
100 miles north of Lashio, and eventually to the Burma road.
AVG STRIKES BLOW
The official central news agency reported that the American volunteer group had struck a big blow last night for the relief of Burma, shooting down at least 22 and piOD-ably 24 Japanese planes whicn attempted to raid their base at Loi-Win on the Burma-Chinese frontier.
The battle occurred in bright moonlight at 11 p.m., with 24 Jap
Secretary, treasurer, recreational Planes attacKing. The AVG defi
nitely shot down 22 of them and the other two were believed damaged.
The German-controlled Paris
council member, and publicity chairman, the other elective offices. are to be announced at a ater date.
riLTOV INSTALLS
Installation of the new officers | caplured Ltshl0> enabling there to | ferty, Dwight Hart, Ed Holley, Lon
mer president of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, will head the group for next year.
Honorary members were elected to Skull and Dagger from prominent faculty members and civic leaders. John Dockweiler, Los Angeles county district attorney; Seeley G. Mudd, dean of the School of Medicine; Robert Kingsley, professor of law; and Stanley Howell, professor of law. were chosen. Arnold Eddy is permanent master of Skull and Dagger.
The following men have been elected to the organization: Richard Anderson, Calvin Barnes, Paul Barthel, Gene Chaney, Ivan Duke, Herbert Farmer, Edward French,
radio said that the Japanese ».aa j Ted Gossard, Max Green, Guy Hal-
rjll be conducted by Dorothea Til-,on. retiring president, at the time ;hai new members are initiated next Wednesday at the University R'omer.'s club.
Laura Lee Turner is retiring as rice-president in favor of Miss An-je’-son. During the past year she ias directed the annual Amazon Christmas party for out-of-town jiris, she has directed activities at :he football games, been head of •ne Ariazon reunion, and was in :harge of the recent Amazon formal. Besides all this she has been |rainer for the newly elected
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|er retiring officers are Willa Boone, secretary; Corine !, treasurer; and Beverly bon, publicity chairman.
turn the Chinese defenses. The	Hopwood, Bruce Konopka, Wilbert
Lashio-Mandalay railroad is also	Lenox, John Lowe, Bob McKay,
cut and the Chinese troops are com-	Page Noll, Ted Olewine, Harold
pletely isolated, the broadcast said.	Paddock, Bob Quenell, Sam Rapa-
Dispatches from Calcutta said	port, Jack Reeder, William Reedy,
that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang	Joseph Roome, John Richardson,
Kai-Shek had ordered thousands of	Robert Thompson, Leroy Weed. Har-
new Chinese troops into the Burma	rv West, Roy Woolsey, Haldane
battle.	1 Cummins, and Ed Liston.
fraternity men who wish to obtain tickets must contact Page Noll immediately.
Corsages have been banned by the junior class and the interfraternity council, joint sponsors of the event. They have excluded flowers to cooperate with the defense-economy program of the university.
It will be “Trojan Time” for SC Friday night, with Fred Waring publicizing the dance on his national radio program when he salutes Troy by playing • either “Fight On” or “Alma Mater” on his 8 p.m. broadcast, remarked John Price, student chairman. He added that those students unable to attend the prom may listen from their armchairs when the formal itself is broadcast on a national hook-up for a half-hour.
Miller orchestrations will be sung by vocalists Marion Hutton, Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke, and the Mod-ernaires. This troupe was selected the nation’s No. 1 band in both sweet and swing division in a re-(Continued on Page Two)
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Air Corps Training Outlined
the
Resident s Office
Indents are responsible for kins degree requirements as forth in the bulletin of the |m>I or college in which they J tailing their degrees. In order pecure more careful advice than possible in tne haste of regis-Ition days, students are advised comult with their faculty adjure daring the period of mid-jrm cr unseling. Apr. 20 to May 4.
irding such matters as: (1) access in this semester’s pro-ram, (2) program for next term nd f«»r the remaining terms ntil graduation. (3) admission bortages and deferred course re-uireimnts, (4) possible advances of accelerated program, and S) professional objectives as re-ards t-ie major.
R. B. von KieinSmid.
President.
The three musketeers of the air— bombardier, navigator, and pilot — underwent explanation at an assembly for men held in Bovard auditorium yesterday at 12:15 p.m.
Maj. Roy L. Jones, senior army representative, stressed the fact that the united nations will have definite air superiority by the time Trojans now in school are inducted into the air force. Major Jones clarified the duties and qualifications for ground officers as well as flying personnel in his discussion of the army’s new cadet recruitment program.
The army representative, who
JOHN PRICE—arranges prom.
Blue Key Elects New Off icers
Members of Blue Key, campus service group, unanimously elected Aurel Gilbert president at an election meeting held yesterday. Gilbert is a member of Zeta Beta Tau and a Squire.
Newly chosen members of the service group will be named at the all-university interfraternity formal on Friday evening. They will meet in the Student Union lounge at 10 a.m. Monday.
Blue Key elected Jim Wagner, Phi Kappa Psi, vice-president; Herbert Zoff, Xi Psi Phi, dental professional corresponding secretary; and Ralph Nickerson, non-org, alumni secretary.
Knights
Elect
Graham
Beaudine, Levine Fill Vice-President, Secretary Positions
Bruce Graham, Sigma Chi, was last night elected president of the Trojan Knights for the year 1942-43 when members of the organization met in special session at the SAE house.
Bill Beaudine, KA, will assume the vice-presidency; Phil Levine, ZBT, the secretaryship; and John Price, Sigma Nu, will act as treasurer.
Graham was president of the class of '43 during the year 1939-40, a member of Squires, and a member of several committees in charge of dances and other events.
Beaudine, Levine, and Price all have been active on campus committees.
Beaudine is past president of the Squires. Price is chairman of the committee for the interfraternity and junior prom.
Levine is president of the interfraternity council and of his fraternity and is president-elect of the senior class.
Members of Knights, outstanding men’s service group of the university, serve as guides and ushers for campus functions including assemblies in Bovard auditorium, registration, and football games.
Membership in Knights is limited to 32; commonly many more than this number apply for entrance, the qualifications for which are determined by an examining board of five that makes its judgment on the basis of the applicant's record of activities, his personality, grades, and character.
Dwight Hart, this year’s president, announced the election results last night and said that Graham will assume the office immediately.
LAS Honorary Elects 16
NewMembers
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Eight seniors and two juniors were added to the list of Phi Beta Kappa initiates last Thursday when the honorary scholarship fraternity elected 16 new members to the organization. Six members of the alumni class of 1927 were chosen
also.
The Foyer of Town and Gown
will be the scene of the initiation dinner Wednesday evening. Initiation is scheduled ^for 5:30 p.m.. and the dinner-program will begin at 6:30.
SC Advisement Day Scheduled for Saturday
‘University Education in Wartime’ Sets Theme for Conference
Other officers will be installed at j the Knights initiation next Wednesday when nominees will be inducted.
French Honorary Holds Conference
Pi Delta Phi, French honorary society, will hold a regional conference meeting, Saturday and Sun-urged Trojan men to consider the day, May 2 and 3.
GETS HIS WINGS—Don Prator, first San Francisco collegian to enlist in Army corps in its drive for reserve cadets, receives his wings from Jack Benny. Maj. Malcolm J. Buchanan, of cadet examining board, looks on,
opportunities for service afforded them by the air arm. presented a three-point program for cadet enlistments.
1.	Under a new plan, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in college, aged 18 to 26 inclusive, may enlist in the Air Force Enlisted reserve and continue their schooling, provided they maintain satisfactory scholastic standings.
2.	All college students may enlist as privates in the Army Air forces and serve there until their
Saturday will see a general assembly and business meeting, a luncheon," an afternoon meeting, the joint initiation of new members from SC and UCLA, and a banquet to be held at the Hollywood-Roosevelt hotel starting at 7 p.m.
Delegates from SC will be Jeane Dyer and Ilda Gerber. The theme of the conference is “The Ways and
Greek Houses Buy Equipment
Geographical division of Greek houses on 28th street was made this week for the purpose of sharing expenses in the purchase of fire fighting units. Made on the basis of availability, convenience, and facility in use of water pumps the division groups together houses which will cooperate in fire fighting in case of incendiary fires during blackouts and air raids.
John Simonet, coordinator of the 14th district auxiliary police, assigned beats to the Greek row recruits while John Furlong, air raid warden, explained duties of building wardens and fire watchers to members of both sororities and fraternities at a joint meeting of the two groups last Tuesday evening.
Announcement that first aid classes will be scheduled for the remainder of the semester added emphasis to the emergency program which first took shape a few weeks ago. These classes will be made compulsory for at least two members of each sorority and fraternity and will be comprised of an intensified course especially ^e-pared by the Red Cross. CmsSes will continue throughout the summer for those students scheduled to attend summer sessions, and a thorough 20-weeks course will be given next fall.
Inspection of Greek houses by the local fire department are taking place this week. Houses will be inspected for fire fighting equipment
“In view of the conditions of the times, the number of reservations that already have been made for Advisement day is unusually large,” said Lawrence D. Pritchard, director of the office of coordina tion, yesterday as he discussed the program for the conference Saturday.
Advisement day, 14th annual conclave of its kind, is for preparatory and high school students who desire special information about col-! lege programs and problems. ASSEMBLY HELD
To set the theme of the conference, Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English language and literature, will speak on “University Education in Wartime.” This address will cover the difficulties that the incoming freshmen will encounter because of th world situation and the speeded program.
A special assembly to consider non-curricular problems will be held for both men and women. Each group will have a consulting panel of military, professional, university, and student authorities which will serve as reference sources.
Miss Helen Hall Moreland, counselor of women, and Dr. Francis M. Bacon, counselor of men, will direct the sessions.
TOURS PLANNED
“The Three-Year Program for University Graduation” will be discussed by Dr. John D. Cook, professor of English language and literature. Shortened programs toward obtaining a degree will be Dr. Cook’s concern as he explains the present arrangement of courses.
Later in the afternoon the high school students will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the campus in tours and visitations under the guidance of the student service organizations. Fraternities and sororities will hold open house at 3 p.m.
Sigma Sigma Elects Members Tonight
Sigma Sigma, junior men’s honorary fraternity, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Sigma Phi Delta fraternity house to approve the selection of new members chosen by the membership committee.
The selections are based on service to SC during the junior year, prospective senior leaders, and scholarship.
Members of the committee are Bob Bischoff, president of the organization; Page Noll, vice-president; Bob Jensen, secretary; and Morris Glesby, member at large.
LYON TO SPEAK
Highlight of the program wiH bd the address of Dr. E. Wilson Lyon* president of Pomona college, who will speak on “Modem Europe la Retrospect.” Reservations must be made by Monday; bids are $1.10 and may be obtained at the door. The organization has announced thafi members are welcome to bring guests.
Phi Beta Kappa, the world’s oldest Greek-letter organization, waa founded at W’illiam and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va.. in 1776. Tha SC chapter was established in 1928 as an outgrowth of the scholarship society of the CoUege of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Membership la open to any student in Letters. Arts, and Sciences, and is based on scholarship. Fraternity principles are "Fraternity, Morality, and Literature.”
J. Eugene Harley heads the Epsilon chapter on the SC campus while H. C. Willett, of the office of admissions, is secretary.
SENIORS CHOSEN
Students chosen from the senior class are Robert Andrews, Arthur Boyd, Jeane Dyer, Mildred Eberhard, Virginia Ellis, Herman Enos, Archie King and LeRoy Lyon.
Junior classmen elected are Set-suko Matsunaga and Jane Keith. The alumni class of 1927 is represented by Kathryn Pickus, Mildred Blum, Dixie Dunnigan, Donnetta Conley, Rita Gerry, and Laura Grainger.
Grand Jury Begins Los Angeles Quiz
WASHINGTON, Apr. 29—
An immediate federal grand jury investigation into alleged subversive activities of a number of individuals, organizations, and publications in the Los Angeles area was requested tonight by Attorney General Francis Biddle.
The inquiry, to be conducted bf U. S. Attorney William Fleet Palmer of the southern district of California, will begin Monday. fne grand jury will be asked to examina such activities with relation to the several federal statutes “designed to protect the United States in its successful prosecution of the war,” Biddle said.
Biddle said Palmer would seek to develop information “concerning the origin, membership, finances, sponsorship, and activities of certain organizations in the Los Angeles area, including the printing, circulation and methods of distributing publications issued by such organizations.”
The District of Columbia grand jury currently is investigating the background of “Social Justice,* weekly magazine founded by the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Biddle recently desenbed this publication as “clearly seditious.”
Streamlined Wampus Appears Cloaked in Complete Mystery
The mystery surrounding the “new” Wampus, which ap-
attics and r“iiare. Furlonpstr^se'd Pears tomorrow- was unfolded last night when staff mem-that two fire watchers should bers declared that the magazine had gone through a process
posted in nositions where roofs of ; of streamlining.
“The Wampus will have three times as much gossip as
previous issues,1’ th& staff stated,
and for danger hazards in cluttered
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Auditions for Announcer to be Held Tomorrow
Auditions for announcers for the “Theme and Variations” broadcast, released over the Mutual Don Lee network from 1:30 to 2 p.m.every
“and many candid campus pictures have been added.”
The titles, headings, and layouts have also been changed, so the semblance of the magazine also enters a new phase.
This change has been made upon
the theory that SC students would Means of Concretely Sustaining the Monday afternoon, will be held in like more pictures, and more gos-Study of French in American the projection room of the Cinema sip in their magazine. It is being
Schools, Colleges, and Universities; building tomorrow at 1 p.m.
j Of Promoting An Interest in French ; Students wishing to try out will (Continued on Page Two) * Culture Generally.”	1 bring their own material.
the W’ampus of next year to be published along these same trends.
“Besides the gossip column (what dirt that is), the Wampus will also include an article about our championship baseball team,” the staff member continued, “with pictures of the outstanding players; a personality of the month: a satire article; the famous heart chart; two
tried
as an experiment to judge pages of candid campus shots; and student reaction, and if the reaction as always, jokes and cartoona (which is favorable, theg 3C may •Jrpect have also been streamlined)."