SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAI LY®TROJAN
ol. XXXII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, November 15, 1940
No. 44
ass Meeting ailed Today
cent Disturbances to be Discussed in Bovard; hnston Stresses Importance of 10 a.m. Assembly
lied by Charles Johnston. ASSC president, a mass stu-assembly will be held at 10 o’clock today in Bovard au-um in an effort to curb recent untoward acts by SC
, s
yor Bowron II Address Students
aduate School ill Hear Leader Luncheon
students.
“This meeting is compulsory for all campus service organizations,” Johnston said, “including the Knights, Squires, Amazons, and Blue Key members.” All students are urged to attend.
Necessitated by many unfavorable deeds of the students which were culminated yesterday morning in an attack on a police car, the meeting was called by Johnston who stated that the affair will be brief and will begin promptly at 10 a.m.
OPEN FORUM
The meeting will be a forum with all persons being allowed to voice his or her opinion. It will be a student activity without administration participants.
Originating last Thursday morning with the burning of the SC bonfire by several UCLA men many rash acts have occurred on or near the campus. A second deed
r Fletcher Bowron. Los administrative head since all election of 1938. is to members of the SC Grad-hool at a luncheon next , at 12 :I. in Elisabeth von id hall. His topic will be istrative Problems Due to le Groups."
r Bowron is flving to Mex-
this weekend for a con- occurred on ***** evening on 28th but will return in time for street when many over-enthusias-| tic students built several bonfires
cheon.
TATE OF SC
2 years he has maintained on as an outstanding jurist supreme court bench, find-also to earn- on an active tion in civic affairs. Ma\or graduated from the Uni-of Califomia at Berkeley, tending SC where he grad-rom the School of Law. r Bowron recently appointed ell D. Hunt, dean of the te School, as a member of a tee of three to mediate the of the drug store employes Los An«reles area.
TY TO ATTEND Omam. of the SC public redepartment, is in charge of arrangements for the lunch-ong the members of the who have already indicated tention of attending are Dr. 11 D. Hunt, dean of the te School, who wili intro-e mayor: Dr. Frank Jonas, head of the political science ent; Harry Silke, director ial foundations; Dr. John r. professor of public ad-tion; and Dr. Joy L. Leon-ead of the department ol ies.
ts may be purchased for 45 In the office of the Graduate 106 Administration, and jail members of the student of the Graduate
in the streets. Fuel for the fires were obtained from the surrounding neighborhood. Three fire trucks and several squad cars were called to the scene by nearby residents. POLICE CAR DAMAGED
Yesterday morning a police car was badly damaged by students while the officer was giving one of the students a parking ticket. Police and administrative protests came to the student body officers.
“Fostering a movement for the right kind of school spirit will be one of the themes of the meeting this morning, and it will take a united effort on the part of the student body to acomplish this end,” Johnston concluded.
Student body officers, presidents j and all service clubs and other school organizations will attend today’s meeting to help Johnston.
Film-Book Club Discusses Life of Famed Actress
Sparks, a.^sociate professor political science department, harge of ticket sales.
mans Claim lotov Accord
A flaming tale of a lady with red hair!
The vivid story of Mrs. Leslie School. Carter is apearing currently on the screen, and books serving as background for the motion picture will provide the topic for discussion today at 1:30 p.m. on Film-Book club of the Air.
Wendell Coon and Rosalie Puckett, students in the Graduate School of Library Science, which sponsors the broadcast everv Friday over radio station KRKD. will review the motion picture and its sources on today’s program.
“The Lady with Red Hair” portrays the career of the brilliant
Debaters to Enter Contest
Forensic Teams Vie in Tourney at Pepperdine
Eighteen SC debate teams will enter the Western States speech tournament to be held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at Pepperdine college, in conjunction with the annual convention of the Western Association of Speech Teachers.
This tourney is the largest speech parley of the year for SC. The teams will include upperclass men, women, and freshmen.
GOOD RECORD
Last year the team won a majority of the forensic titles, winning firsts in upper class extempore, impromptu, and oratory: in the lower division, the SC team won firsts in all four of the forensic engagements in debate, impromptu, extempore, and oratory.
Thirty-seven debaters from SC are expected to enter this year’s tournament. John Pierson, the extra man, is to enter progressions Forty schools are expected to participate in the speech events. TOPIC ANNOUNCED
The question for the varsity debaters is “Resolved: that the nations of the western hemisphere should enter into a permanent union.” Oratory, impromptu, extempore. and after-dinner speaking events will also be entered by the SC speech artists.
The varsity mens’ squad is coached by Alan Nichols, professor of speech, Trevor Hawkins, assistant in speech, supervises womens’ forensic activities, while Richard Richards, graduate student, coaches the freshman team.
Knifing Our Own Backs Lancerc
Stage Dance
New Organization Gives First Affair Tonight in Lounge
Sponsoring the first all-uni-
IN. Nov. 14—<r.P>—Nazi po-quarters tonight said that Premier V. M. Molotov's tnce here with Chancellor Hitler had “renewed and actress of the 90's, Mrs. Leslie Cared German-Russian friendly ter. The story is derived chiefly m."	from her autobiography which ap-
tov left for home today peared in Liberty magazine in 1927.
wo days of long talks with j---
and other high German of-leaving behind him the t diplomatic mystery of the
political quarters said that ,nv regards the policy com-with the non-aggression f last year as a firm and basis for collaboration which of advantage to both and must therefore be fur-ended”
men s Club s Tea Party
Coeds to Begin Hi-Jinks Tryouts
Tryouts for specialty acts in the annual women’s Hi-Jinks show to be given during Homecoming week. December 6, will be held in 206 Administration Monday afternoon, yesterday announced Dorothy Hepp. vice-president of YWCA.
Candidates for a part on the program should report on the following times during the afternoon with appropriate costumes for the audition:
2:15—Kathleen Robinson; 2:25— Lee Mary Elder; 2:35—Esther
Orchestra Plays Tuesday
The SC symphony Orchestra will have Dr. Louis W. Curtis as guest conductor when it* presents a concert Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in Bovard auditorium.
Dr Curtis' own composition, “The Road to El Dorado," and a specially arranged medley by Lucien Cailliet. regular conductor, of SC themes, including the Alma Mater and “Fight On" will be included in the program. The latter number, titled “The Spirit of USC.” will be dedicated to Dr. Rufus B. von KlemSmid. The program will last an hour and a half with a 15 minute intermission.
Dr. Curtis will conduct only his own number which was written as the theme for the “El Dorado” pageant that was given by the Musical Educators national conference last winter in Los Angeles. The number was originally written in choral form and has since been arranged for the SC orchestra by Cailliet.
Dr Curtis has been supervisor of music in the public schools for the past 10 years.
According to Jacques Collins, student director and manager of the orchestra. Cailliet worked from 1918 to 1938 for the Philadelphia Philharmonic orchestra as chief arranger. He has also arranged many numbers for the "Magic Key” broadcast.
“Police are getting tired of University of Southern California students’ special brand of humor.”
Thus did 250.000 subscribers of Los Angeles’ largest morning newspaper read of Troy’s latest escapade in the realm of destructive nonsense. And thus for the third time in six days was the community unfortunately able to point accusingly at this student body.
Last week it was a bonfire and next an impromptu rally with destructive results. Yesterda*y it was a rebellion against city authority.
There must be no tomorrow for our unwanted pranksters..
Ten minutes of malicious mischief yesterday cost, in the goodwill of the public, more than what hundreds of hours of research, study, instruction, and service can ever rebuild.
The everyday intellectual pursuits of 7500 university students never make the headlines usually delegated to the activities of half-a-dozen students who apparently are unwilling to as- versity non-org dance since sume a normal, constructive position in university life. the disbandment of the Lanc-From selfish motives, if for no other reason, students ers lW0 years aS°- the new should guard their university’s reputation jealously. Students Lancers will introduce their constitute this institution, and anything reflecting discredit organization to the campus at on the university directs discredit on its students. Repeated a dance in the student lounge actions of this sort can only make the statement, “I am a tonight from 8:30 until 1 a.m. Trojan,” the equivalent of stating, “I am a mischief-maker and a defier of constituted authority.”
The police officers yesterday were entirely within their rights and were acting in pursuance of duties delegated them by the university, its student body, and other taxpayers of the city. No student was empowered by any authority to pass or act upon the justification of the officers’ action.
Even the average collegiate intellect could realize that an officer’s execution of his duty does not warrant destroying the university’s reputation as an orderly institution, damaging tax-paid city property, defying constituted authority, and ignoring normal rules of sane conduct.
If the acts of students must warrant headlines, let those
Mob Disables Police Car
Irate Students Protest Tagging of Truck;
Von KieinSmid Plea Disperses Demonstrators
In protest to the police citation of a university truck driver for illegal parking on University avenue, more than a dozen students yesterday damaged a city police car as 500 Trojans looked on.	,-—•
“It is open to all non-org students, men and women alike, and we urge them all to attend,” said Bob Moody, general chairman of the organization.
Price of admission is 25 cents a person or 50 cents a couple, refreshments included.
CAKE AND PUNCH
Enough cake and punch to serve 180 persons will be furnished by members of the refreshment committee that includes Vivian Clarke Madeline Selizer, Mary Ruth Stagg
acts be unproductive of the scorn of the community. Let Dorothea Tilton. Catherine Colvin, those acts more realistically reflect this institution’s growth and progress which the students of this university are entitled to share.
Panhellenic Council Sponsors Ball Tonight
Panhellenic council will sponsor its annual ball tonight in the Fiesta room of the Ambassador hotel. Larry Kent and his orchestra will furnish the music for the dinner-dance, which will take place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Special guests at the affair will
Leonore Jacobson, and Marian Angarola.
Music will be provided by Charles Anderson, freshman student, who is a collector of popular recordings and a constructor of specialized electric sound-recorders. Recently he devised the smallest electrical rotating recorder in the United States.
POPULAR RECORDS
Bob Fulton, bass drummer in the SC band, has also offered the
Demonstrating against the tagging of Leon McCardle. driver of the university panel truck, the students deflated the tires of the patrol car and removed tube valves, twisted the radio aerial, broke windshield wipers, stole ignition keys, tampered with the engine, bent license plates, and pcured sugar into the gas tank.
TAUNT OFFICERS
For 40 minutes after the beginning of the incident at 11:15 a.m.. scores of students massed near the intersection of 36th street and University avenue, observing the action and yelling taunts at officers.
Under cover of a constant din of shouting and singing by bystanders, the unidentified pranksters were able to complete mischief that brought protests from administrative and student officials throughout the day.
A request given by Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid from the running board of the police car later dispersed the hundreds of onlookers. POLICE ACTION APPROVED
Crippling of the patrol car. however. failed to thwart officers in the third day of their crack-down on violators of parking regulations ir the university area.
The citation was issued McCardle by Officer R. A. Wood, who told
Rufus B von KieinSmid wil! at a tea for members Los Angeles Trojan Wo-
ub on November 26 in the	Fromm: 2:45—Rebecca Porter; 2:55
of her Chester place home.	—Sherry Ardell; 3:05—Jane Eccles;
by Miss Kathryn Kees-	3:15—Mildred Lifschin: 3:25—Edna
ization president, the af-	Doty; 3:35—Carolyn Wells; 3:45—
feature plans for the an- !	Jean Travis; 3:55—Genevieve Dur-
en’s football banquet to t	ron; 4:05—Bonnie Jean Murray:
in Town and Gown Foyer	4:15—Claudia Walton and Midge
ber 6. This banquet pre-	von der Ahe; and 4:25—Hildegard
e Women’s Hi-Jinks sched-	Olsen,
be presented in Bovard	Other candidates for specialty
on the same evening,	numbers are requested to come with
of football players will be	costumes to thc rehearsal hall
d twoot,	alicr 4:30 pjn. Monday Afternoon.
Bicycle Ride to Be Held
‘•Peddling under the stars” will be the theme of the Wesley club tonight when it sponsors a moonlight bicycle ride.
All students are welcome to. participate in the ride, announced President Earl Bolton. Bicyclists will meet in front of the University Methodist church at 7:15 p.m.
be Dr. and Mrs. Albert Raubenheimer. Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dr. Francis M. Bacon, and house mothers from the 15 social sororities.
Virginia Bogart. Kappa Alpha Theta and vice-president of the council, is chairman of the affair. Margaret Branscom, Panhellenic president and Phi Mu, is supervising the arrangements. She will be official hostess at the ball. Ruth Palmer, Pi Beta Phi, is in charge of posters.
Campus social sororities, as members of the Panhellenic council, have pledged 100 per cent attendance at the affair. Groups of tables will be reserved for each Greek organization at the ball. A special table for chaperones and house mothers will also be set aside.
Committees for the dance are as follows: location. Kappa Alpha Theta; menu, Beta Sigma Omicron and Alpha Delta Pi: bids. Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Epsilon Phi; invitations, Phi Mu and Alpha Gamma Delta; publicity, Alpha Chi Omega. Delta Gamma, Chi Omega, and Delta Zeta; decorations. Delta Delta Delta and Gamma Phi Beta; and transportation. Zeta Tau Alpha and Kappa Delta.
P.E. Hikers Plan Five-Mile Trip
Coach Andy Anderson wil meet hikers for the annual Physical Education department hike Sunday morning in front of the Physical Education building at 8 o’clock. Minors and majors , in thia association and guests will make the trip.
The route of the hike is from the Angeles Crest highway five and one-half miles to the Red Box canyon camp. The committee has arranged for a 25-cent luncheon at the camp.
After lunch the hikers will play games and participate in other activities at the camp.
Lost...
Fire-fighting equipment valued at approximately $110 is still missing from the Jefferson and McClintock engine company following the 28th street bonfires last Friday.
Included among the missing items are one nozzle, valued at $75; one axe, valued at $9; one combination spanner wrench and one nozzle tip, valued at $25.
Holders of the missing articles are requested to return them today to the office of the Daily Trojan, 424 Student Union, so that they may be forwarded immediately to the fire station. Positively no questions will be asked.
Groups Urged to Enter Floats
Organizations Plan Homecoming Ideas
Lancers use of his popular collec- protesting students that he was tion of records.	“cnly doing his duty.” Wood’s ac-
Entertainment, other than danc- tion was condoned by Dr. von
KieinSmid. who stated that “Officer Wood was entirely correct in
1 ing. will include ping-pong, card's , games, and piano interpretation? I by members of the organization.
doing his duty and tagging the Moody has stressed the fact that i violators, even though the car in
] non-org students should not be re-! ticent about coming “stag.” The I dance will' be a strictly informal affair, because it is the initial step towards a series of non-org activities, and the Lancers desire to attract as large a group as possible.
Chaperones for the affair will bs Dr. and Mrs. Hamoton K. Snell and Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. McAllister. Dr. Snell and Mr. Mc-
lege of Commerce administration.
and Business
With 27 groups already having signified their intention of sponsoring floats in the Homecoming j Allister are professors in the Col-parade. Jack Naye, student chairman. yesterday urged all organizations on campus to enter.
Social sororities, fraternities, honoraries, dormitories, clubs, and other organized groups are eligible for the competition. The Trojan Knights and the College of Architecture are now designing their floats.
A notice of participation must be in the mail by midnight, November 16. Naye stated, and he requested group to plan their entries immediately.
Chairmen of all competing organizations will hold a committee meeting Monday to discuss plans for the parade of floats. It will convene at 2:30 p.m. in 305 Administration.
One grand prize for the best entrant in the parade will be given, with five other,!wards in special classifications. Prizes will be awarded to the winners in the college division, the fraternity division. Second and third prizes will be given in a combined frater-nity-sorority classification.
Jimmy Keefe, award chairman, has not yet released a description of the awards, but it is believed that trophies or loving cups will be the prizes.
The parade of floats, built around the theme “Pageantry of Football.” will start at 1 p.m. December 7 in the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum, as one of the climaxing features of Homecoming week.
A maximum of 50 dollars may be spent on the floats, and the use of gases, explosives, or smoke in the parade is forbidden.
Bullitt Resigns; May Be Shifted to London Post
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14— <lr.P)— Resignation of William C. Bullitt as ambassador to France today was believed to be the *irst move in a diplomatic double play that will shift him to London as successor to Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy who is reported on the verge of quitting.
Bullitt revealed that he submitted his resignation to President Roosevelt a week ago, but that it has not yet been accepted.
Kennedy’s resignation would leave the two key diplomatic posts in Europe open. Bullitt has been mentioned most prominently as his successor but others reportedly in the running include John A. Cudahy, ambassador to Belgium, and Joseph E. Davies, former ambassador to Russia and Belgium, now a special assistant to the secretary of state.
question was the property of the
university.”
STUDENTS REPRIMANDED
Dr. von KieinSmid also termed the action of students as “unjustifiable and something which should be condemned on the SC campus.”
Officer Wood defended his act contributions.
with the following statements: !-
“1. The SC truck was not ex- ' empt from receiving a parking j ticket because it did not have special privileges in a red zone which is not maintained solely for ! the university’s use.
PROPOSE LOADING ZONE “2. Vehicle code, section G. No. i 71, states that ‘red indicates no J stopping, standing, or parking, whether the vehicle is attended or unattended.’
“3. Clee W. Foster, head of the operation and maintenance department, had urged immediate police action against all red zone and driveway violators.”
It was later agreed by Dr. von KieinSmid. Dr. Francis Bacon, counselor of men. and Officer Wood that yellow loading zones painted at convenient locations would relieve the situation.
All-University Dig Scheduled for Monday
Can of Food or Dime Will be Admission Price at Dance
An all-university dig, sponsored by the YWCA, World Friendship, and Social Service clubs, will be held Monday evening from 7 to 9 o’clook in the women’s gymnasium.
Price of admission for the dance will be a can of food or 10 cent* plus one activity book. Persons who do not have a student book will be obliged to pay 25 cents. The cans of food will be packed into 30 boxes decorated in cardinal and gold.
Contributions received from the admission price will be used to help needy families whose names will be obtained through the International Settlement house of Los Angeles Workers will fill the decorated baskets with roasts or chicken, fruit, vegetables, milk, and butter. purchased by Miss Nina Streeter, head of Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall.
Members of the sponsor group* will take the baskets to the International house, where the food will be distributed. YWCA member* will pick up contributions from those students in sororities and fraternities that will be unable to attend the dig.
Committee members ask that students do not bring canned soups or pork and beans for their
Religion Group to Hold Dinner
Reception to be Given by Episcopal Club
Sponsoring its annual fall get-acquainted affair, the Episcopal club will Lold a reception Sunday at St. John’s Episcopal church, 512 West Adams boulevard, from 3 p.n. to 5 pm.
The reception will be under the supervision of Dr. and Mrs. George Davidson, and will be open to all Episcopal students on campus. Dr. Davidson is advisor of the Trojan -Episcopal club.
Nazi Diplomats Accused by Dies
CHICAGO. Nov. 14— d'.R)—Martin Dies charged tonight that members of the German diplomatic corps, whom he has invited to appear next Monday at a congressional committee investigation of their activities. have engaged in a “quiet campaign" to raise funds in the United States to help finance German rearmament.
“Actually millions erf dollars have been raised in this country,” he said, “to support the Fascist and Nazi regimes across the water.”
Dies made his charges in a discussion of what he called “The Rome-Berlin intelligence axis’’ in the United States before the convention of the American Petroleum institute.
Asilomar Group to Be Organized on SC Campus
Plans for the organization of an Asilomar group on campus were announced yesterday by Miss Leila Hostetter, YWCA secretary.
The Asilomar, a yearly conference sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA, conducts the annual conclave at the Asilomar Conference grounds near Monterey December 26 until January 2.
On these grounds located near the ocean are tennis courts, riding stables, picnic benches, barbecue pits, and croquet lawns.
The first SC committee meeting, held yesterday in the YWCA office, elected Beverley Kelly, Asilomar chairman. Margaret Brown, secretary of the group, will assist Dr. Done Will Discuss
“The Modern Church in Action" will serve as the topic for a panel discussion at the annual election banquet to be given in Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall Monday evening at 7 o’clock by the School of Religious Alumni association.
Specialists in religion will take part in the discussion which will present the educational aspect of the church’s task.
Dr. Robert John Taylor, acting dean of the Graduate School of Religion, will serve as chairman of the panel. Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, chaplain of the university, will apeak on the use of the Biblical materials.
Dr. David D. Eitzen, assistant professor of pastoral service, will discuss the field of counseling, and Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, lecturer in homiletics, wil speak on the place of the pr«*.ching ministry.
Two new facuity members of the School of Religion, Dr. Walter Muelder, professor of Christian theology and ethics, and Dr. Floyd H. Ross, assistant professor of religion and supervisor of religious activities, will speak, respectively, on ethics and philosophy and on the youth program.
The Rev. Wendell L. Miller, pastor of the University Methodist church, will preside at the banquet. Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid will explain the new program relative to the Graduate School of Religion.
Reservations for the dinner may be made at the School of Religion office.
Marjorie Anderson in handling the publicity.
Posters to illustrate the conference will appear Monday. Representatives of the Asilomar plan to attend the regular religious group meetings next week to explain the purpose of the organization to students.
The next meeting, open to all students, ls scheduled in the YWCA office, Tuesday, November 27, at 2 pm.
Mormon Church History
Dr. G. Byron Donr? faculty advisor of Lambda Delta Sigma, national religious fraternity, will speak to that group today at a luncheon in the University Meth<v dist church, 36th street and Uni* versity avenue. The luncheon 1* scheduled for 12 M.
Dr. Done’s subject will be “The Early History of the Mcrmoa Church.”