SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILY mTROJAN
I. XXXII
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Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, November 19, 1940
No. 46
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inistrative Problems to Pressure Groups” the title of Mayor r Bowron's address to-en he meets with fa-embers and graduate at the Associated te Students’ luncheon abeth von KieinSmid 12 M.
Bowron will also invite n with students and fac-bers on civic administra-blems
a matter of interest and tion to the university to iayor Bowron attend our said Rockwell Dennis the Graduate School, yes-hen discussing the lunch-is one of the great ■1 universities in the coun-since we have chosen not a campus outside of the are in such close contact city, the mayor has the call on the university for jstance that the students uty members can render. l,or has expressed this in
:eeting in series
jnt is at present a member mittee mediating a drug loves’ strike in the down-a.
mplete sell-out for the has been assured. Miss nett, secretary to Dr. id yesterday. “Maximum ce is 150 and there are Tew tickets left. They will at the door."
F. Oxnam. vice-president (AGS, is in charge of ar-nts; Paula George, as of a committee of hos-’il be assisted by Margaret Eleanor Kuehmsted, and ire council.
ADUATES WELCOME ticular invitation to those .s who are new on the has been issued by the AGS
luncheons are social as academic affairs,” remarked uly, president of the gradients. ‘ Here students find .rtunity to meet the faculty informal manner.”
)se of the close interest that versity has * in city govem-jie meeting is open to upper students as well as grad-dents.
tickets to the affair will liable at the door. Admis-45 cents.
n Appointed Consultant
mery E. Olson, dean of the of Government and presi-the Los Angeles civil serv-lission. left Friday for g*on. D. C„ to serve for a of several weeks as a re-ansultant in public senice ling in the United States f education.
Olson's appointment was by Dr. J. W. Studebaker. sioner of the United States education.
executive is president of service commission of the States and Canada, repre-agencies of federal, state, 1 governments.
, Stanford
Gestapo Ex-operative Admits Espionage to Investigators at Secret Hearing
CHICAGO, Nov. 18—(U.P.)—A 23-year-old alien, until re-I cently an agent of the German gestapo, appeared before a secret hearing of the house committee on un-American activities tonight with photographs of United States’ industrial plants and admitted he had engaged in both plant and military espionage in this country, Rep. Martin Dies, D., Tex.,
announced.	-
Dies, committee chairman, said the witness. Heinrich Peter Fass-bender, alias Harry Smith, had admitted receiving checks from the German government in amounts from $100 to $200.
“He had photographs of industrial plants, and the names of people he was conected with.” Dies said. “He admitted having .taken part in both plant and military espionage.”
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
Dies made the announcement at | conclusion of the first session of a two-dav he?ring at which he is questioning officers of ten Chicago
organizations of persons of German Thirty-five sororities fratemi-and Italian ancestry. During to- ties> and othw	s declared
day s session, committee mvestiga-
tors made surprise raids with the their intentl°n yesterday afteraid of Chicago policemen on the no°n to place entires in the Home-offices of the societies and confis- ccming float parade, cated correspondence. financial This was the figure released by statements and membership lists. Jack Naye, chairman of the pa-Dies said raids on similar or- rade, following a meeting of the
Homecoming Float Parade Plans Begin
Residence Halls, Clubs Participate for First Time
ganizations were made in every principal city in the United States today and that in one raid here his investigators had fcund "something that, is completely incriminating.”
AGENT ARRESTED HERE
Fassbender. who recently quit but still carries identification as an
agent of the Gestapo, was sub- .......
poenaed at Los Angles and brought i entn“ * *5* “““““to* ,;«**
chairmen of all participating organizations held in 305 Administration at 2:30 p.m.
Naye said that much enthusiasm is being fostered by the float idea, and that there is no dissatisfaction over the banishment of house decorations.
CLUBS ENTER CONTEST
Among the organizations to place
here today by plane by a com- j mittee investigator.
Dies said the committee had ob- i tained a record of the checks Fass-	,	. ....
bender received from the German dentations to™ £toed in on the
Homecoming festivities with dec-
are Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall, the Trojan Ski club, and the School of Pharmacy. This is the first time in several years that these
government. He did not identify the plants of which he said Fassbender had photographs.
He said Fassbender would be held under subpoena in the hotel where the committee is meeting pending further questioning.
Shortly before Fassbender was escorted into the committee room by Special Investigator Robert A. Stripling, he told reporters:
“I started as an agent of the Nazi government in 1935. worked in Spain and Belgium and recently was sent to this country.”
Engineers Hold Business Meeting at Noon Today
A business meeting of the SC branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held at 12 M. today in 304 Engineering building, according to Robert Hoffman, student chairman of the group.
The principal business of the session will be the reading of the first of the series of papers to be given for student competition bv Norman Parrish, a senior student. Parrish, who has had a year of experience with the Eastman Oil Well Surveying comDany. will read his papers on "Oil Well Directional Drilling Surveying.”
Hoffman said that it will be explained at today's gathering how the papers of the SC students will be selected to represent this school at the regional convention of the AS ME to be held later this year at Cal Tech.
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ELEY, Nov. 18— —Another moss-cov-tradition bit the dust
as decided California ts will light Stan-pre-“big game” bon-nd Stanford students ~ht California’s, mutual agreement, it 11 be legal and prob-a lot* duller than in d days when bonfires lighted by night-rid-llegiate “arsonists.”
Dancers Supply Food for Needy
Approximately 300 SC students atended last night’s all-University dig in the women’s gymnasium and contributed several large boxes of staple and canned foods plus a small amount of money which will be distributed to 30 Russian. Mexican. and Armenian needy families in Los Angeles for their Thanksgiving day dinners.
Those attending the affair danced to the music of Dave Gregg and his 11-piece orchestra. Martha Nan Collins, a Trojan compose* played some of her own popular songs while Jane Eccles sang them
The food and money will be placed in cardinal and gold boxes for distribution to the needy families by the International Settlement house of Los Angeles.
oration entires, according to Naye.
The chairman said he was pleased with the float plans alreadv submitted to him, and praised several of them as showing "much ingenuity.” He told of how one group planned to have a walking float in lieu of the customary truck-powered entry.
The parade will be held on South Park avenue alongside the Coliseum on December 7. promptly at 1 p.m. Following the parade the floats will be brought into the Coliseum during the SC-Notre Dame game four at a time, Naye said.
AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED
Judges will make their choice of winners prior to the parade, but the awards for the best floats will be presented during half-time at the game.
Participating groups must have their entry-plans in by the end of this week, warned Naye, who said that all plans would be approved by Dr. Francis Bacon and himself.
Dr. Bacon cautioned the participant^ that changes made in floats from submitted plans would disqualify their floats in the bid for awards.
Duce Hints Long War; Boasts of Power of Axis Armed Forces
ROME, Nov. 18—(U.P.) — Premier Benito Mussolini, in a vigorous speech described as the most realistic he ever made, forecast still closer German-Italian cooperation today in the Axis task of destroying the British empire.
Observers saw in it the first Axis hint that the war will not be short. II Duce minimized the time element in the campaign against Greece, whose backbone he promised to break, indicating that Italy will concentrate on other fronts in collaboration with Germany.
“Once I have started, no one can stop me,” II Duce asserted, boasting that Italy had an additional 8.000,-000 men who could be mcbilized. NAVAL LOSSES ADMITTED Although Mussolini gave confident assurance that the axis "holds victory in its fist,” he admitted that the British scored at Taranto, but nothing like Prime Minister Winston Churchill claimed when he asserted that half the Italian battleship fleet was crippled.
Diplomatic circles noted that he did not mention during the 30-minute speech the United States, Russia or Spain, as some had expected.
Mussollrii. speaking through loudspeakers to a crowd in Venice square and by radio to the Italian nation, appeared on his famous balcony when the 30-minute speech was finished. He took 10 bows in four minutes, to the cheers of his followers and stepped back inside. GREEK HATRED CLAIMED “Greece is a tricky enemy,” U Duce said. “The Greeks hate Italy more than any other nation. Greece’s grotesque hatred has been the basis of Greece’s policy, which Britain supports. We will give proof of Greece's trickery against Italy. German officers in Franco found documents proving that Greece offered air and naval bases to Britain and France.
“We will break the backbone of Greece; whether it takes two weeks or two months is unimportant. The war has just started.”
He said Britain started the war by trying to encircle Germany. Of the war in general he said:
“There will be no general mobilization although we have 30 classes which still can be mobilized. We have 1,000.000 men under arms and can mobilize 8,000.000 additional. Italy and Germany form a bloc of 150.000.000 men. This block has victory in its fist.
Physics Majors Hear Optics Talk
Dr. E. A. Hutchinson, director of the Los Angeles School of Optometry will speak to the physics department today at 11:10 a.m. in 163 Science on the subject of engineering illumination.
The discussion will regard the effect of the various systems of illumination on the human eye and the relation of eye tasks to levels of illumination. He will indicate how visual comfort may be attained and how one may aid in the conservation of his eyesight.
The lecture is open not only to members of the physics department. but also to any other student who may be interested.
Jewish Council Meets
The Jewish student council will hold its weekly luncheon meeting today at 12 M. in 322 Student Union. Rabbi Bernard Harrison wiU be the speaker.
SC Registration Forms Are Copied
The new type of registration book which Theron Clark, registrar, introduced to SC students and faculty last February may soon go into effect in many other colleges and universities throughout the nation.
Nine institutions in nine different states have sent requests to Clark for samples of the book. The book was brought into use on the SC campus in order to simplify the registering procedure.
Clark had an article published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars concerning the book. Soon after the publication he received the requests fo! samples of the new book.
The registration book replaced the old form which had been in use at University park, University college, civic center, and summer session for many years.
Dr. Ralph Tyler Fiewelling—addresses forum today.
Eddy Rushes Rally Plans for Monday
Assembly to Feature Name Band, Stunts Before UCLA Game
Promises of the best rally yet emanated from the student body office yesterday while Chairman Tom Eddy rushed plans through for a "name” band, entertainers, and stars to appear for the rally Monday night in Bovard auditorium from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock.
“We’re going to pep up this assembly with many surprise stunts gags, and tricks,” says Eddy.
The Trojan band, under the direction of Pete Conn, will supply the music from the school songs. DAVIS TO LEAD
Yell King Eddie Davis with his two assistants, Dwain Oakey and Bob McKay, are expected to excite the rooters to louder cheering by their antics, reports the rally committee.
This pre-game rally is staged to arouse enthusiasm for the UCLA football game in the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum where the rivals will clash for the sixth time. Of these six games, SC has been victor five times, having tied once.
The names of the entertainers will be announced later, and Eddy urges all students to plan to arrive at the auditorium early in order to get good seats.
LASTS TWO HOURS
This is the second night rally held this season and will last two hours.
The committee aiding Eddy in preparing the program includes Marsh Green, Bud Gaston, Jack Manson, Jack Naye, and Clark Udell.
The committee promises that the off-campus talent will all be well known entertainers.
Lutherans Will Meet
Lutheran club members will meet tomorrow at noon for their regular meeting at 323 Student Union. At that time they will hear the Rev. C. V. Holland speak on "Thy Kingdom Come.”
Vultee Ships Planes
MOFFET FIELD, Cal.. Nov. 18 —d’.P)—Seventeen new basic training planes, flown from the strikebound Vultee Aircraft plant at Downey, arrived at Moffet Field today.
The planes were piloted by U. S. army fliers who passed through OIO Auto Workers union pickets at the Vultee plant ta take delivery of the planet.
Fiewelling Cailliet Discusses
Leads
Change'
Meeting Today to Close 21st Philosophy Forum
“We have lately been witnessing what threatens to become the complete destruction of our civilization.”
Thus Dr. Ralph Tyler Fle-welling, director of the School 1 of Philosophy, previewed his ! lecture, “The Person in a Time of Change,” to be given at 4:15 p.m. today in the Bowne lecture room of Mudd Memorial hall.
“Disappearing one by one are the ancient land marks of historic progress toward the dream of liberty,” Dr. Fiewelling continued. RIGHTS SUBSERVIENT Inalienable rights of the person are made to appear subservient to military, social, or to industrial exigencies, Dr. Fiewelling believes. Now, for self-preservation, the free portions of the world are forced to regiment themselves.
“Machinery runs riot, not only in tank and airplane, but in our worship of mechanism and magnitude, and of the efficiency of regimentation.”
The powers of impersonalization are now in full cry, Dr. Fiewelling insists. Any age that neglects the person is leaning toward destruction.
HISTORY REPEATED
“This is not the first time men have stood amid the fallen debris of a spent civilization. If we are to win the ‘race with catastrophe,’ our work must be suffused in conviction and in emotion by the presence of religion.”
This talk is the last of the 21st semi-annual philosophy forum on the general topic “Moral Problems in Modem Life.”
The School of Philosophy will resume the lectures in February with the 22nd forum devoted to the subject “Six Ways of Life.”
The lecture tomorrow is open to the public without admission charge.
SC Concert
Program of American and Classical Music Features ‘Road to El Dorado1 Tonight in Bovard
The SC symphony orchestra will present a concert of classical and American music tonight at 8 p.m. in Bovard auditorium.
Dr. Louis W. Curtis, supervisor of music in the Los Angeles public schools, will be guest director and will direct his own composition, “The Road to El Dorado.” The cello soloist
will be Calvine Inman, while the
Junior Odyssey Will Visit Costa Rica
The cacao manufacturing plants of Costa Rica, where cocoa and chocolate are made from the cacao bean, will be the locale of today’s “Junior Odyssey” trip, broadcast from the studio of the Allan Hancock Foundation at 1:15 p.m. over KHJ and the Don Lee network.
The program is for the Don Lee School of the Air, produced by the SC radio division on request of Van C. Newkirk. KHJ program director and originator of the School of the Air.
Edda Urrea, Al Seale, and Nancy Thompson will fill the roles of the travelers.
Dr. Clarence H. Cleminshaw, SC assistant professor of astronomy and assistant director of the Griffith observatory, will explain phases of astronomy puzzling to the layman in the “Laboratory Echoes” program, heard over KRKD at 1:30 this afternoon.
“Laboratory Echoes” is also produced by the SC radio division with | H. Spencer Sussan as director.
Bill Jones, new commentator, will interview Dr. Cleminshaw. and Jane Sullivan is today’s script writer.
Prepare Aqainst U.S. Warn Japanese
TOKYO. Nov. 19—(T.P>—Glaring red and black posters bearing the headline "prepare against America” appeared overnight throughout the city and were particularly numerous in the vicinity of the U. S. embassy.
Directions Given Participants in I.R. Club Sale
Foreign students who plan to have merchandise in the World Friendship club’s international sale November 28 and 29 are requested by Donna Hale, chairman of the committee in charge, to have a complete list of their articles at the YWCA office by Monday.
A complete inventory of all items must be made before the sale.
There is also the further necessity of tagging each article with a number corresponding to its listing in the inventory.
“Students are requested to give a brief description and the price of each article. Like articles may be listed together. The committee will give each a separate number,”
Donna said.
Wednesday morning. November	reinforced heavily with quan-
27, is the deadline for bringing titles of mortars and mountain merchandise to the “Y” office.
Students unable to have their lists in by Monday or their merchandise on hand by Wednesday should make special arrangements with Miss Leila Hostetter, YWCA secretary, in the YWCA office, Student Union lounge.
Greeks Launch Counter Blows at Invaders
Italians Reported Driven to Albania by Furious Greeks
ATHENS, Nov. 18—CE) — Greek forces reportedly launched successful raids deep into Albanian territory tonight as a furious battle raged between Grecian mountain troops and Italian Alpine fighters for Mount Ivan, strategic promontory guarding Koritza, Albania, on the northern front.
A war office communique said that Greek troops, striking north in an advance from the Albanian town of Leskovik, raided Erseka, 12 miles inside Albania and 20 miles southeast of Kortiza. where a few remaining Italians who had withdrawn into the hills were captured. MUNITIONS CAPTURED
The Greek forces reportedly have captured 33 anti-tank guns, 10 field guns and 16 mortars and have blown up munition dumps, destroying thousands of shells, cartridges and hand grenades.
The war ministry communique said that in the Epirus region on the southern front and east of Koritza heavy fighting continued daylong.
Greek troops successfully repulsed Italian counter-attacks along the fighting front, the communique said, and occupied strongly defended positions of Fascist troops who several days ago penetrated south of the Kalamas river but were pushed back north in Albania.
The communique said that during the furious fighting Italian warplanes heavily bombed Greek front line forces. It reported that seven Italian bombers and two pursuit ships were shot down. GREEKS RETALIATE
In retaliation, Greek planes roared into Albania, bombing the Argirocastron airfield and Italian columns on the march, the communique added.
It was admitted that Italian planes had bombed the Greek port of Preveza but the war communique said the raid was “unsuccessful.”
Massed Italian planes joined the contest for the promontory outside Koritza with bombers wheeling slowly around Mount Ivan and ringing the lower slopes with a barrage of high explosives.
The Italian airmen were said to be dropping flares to direct the gunfire of the troops, who had
Former Rumanian Premier Arrested
BUCHAREST. Nov. 18 — (U.E) — Gen. George Argeseanu, twice premier and a former minister of war, has been arrested, it was confirmed tonight.
He will be sentenced after the “commission for crime’’ reaches a decision.
Argeseanu was premier when Cornelius Codreanu, iron guaru leader, and 12 of his followers were shot while “trying to escape.”
With the fall of King Carol’s regime and the rise of Gen. Ion Antonescu as chief of the Rumanian state, the iron guardists are in power and propose to “see Justice done."
guns.
Deadline Set in Photo Salon
The deadline for the entering of prints for the photographic salon conducted by Delta Kappa Alpha has been set at December 13, the day before Christmas recess, according to George Kawamoto, in charge of the contest.
There are no restrictions as to subject matter, Kawamoto said. Entries may be either black and white or color prints. Color transparencies and montages will not be accepted.
All prints must be submitted on mounts, not smaller than 14 inches by 18 inches or larger than 16 inches by 20 inches, Kawamoto said. None smaller than 8 inches by 10 inches will be considered.
All prints should have the owner’s name arrd address on the reverse side of the mount, according to Kawamoto. Photographs will be returned at the conclusion of the contest.
tenor soloist for the orchestra will be Alan Hastings. According to Dr. Lucien Cailliet, conductor of the orchestra, the program will be devoted to the classical compositions, most of which have been arranged by Dr. Cailliet.
SELECTIONS PRESENTED
The selections to be given are:
“Prelude and Fugue in G Minor" and "Prelude in E Major” by Bach; "Canape” by Debussy; and “Die Fledermaus Overture” by Strauss.
As his first number in the second part, which will be devoted to American music, Dr. Curtis will conduct his selection, “The Road to El Dorado.” Dr. Cailliet will then conduct “Three Poems” by McDonald; “Bugle Call” by Ducas-se; “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer; and then Stephen Foster's "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair.” which is paraphrased by* Dr. Cailliet. TROJAN SONGS FEATURED
Another feature of the program will be “The Spirit of USC,” a medley of Trojan songs arranged by Dr. Cailliet, which will be played in honor of Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid.
Admission to this concert is free.
“Quality of musicians in the orchestra is high.” Dr. Cailliet stated. “But there are no more members this year than last, and I believe there has been some misunderstanding among the musicians of the student body. Many believe that to be in the orchestra, you must be a member of the School of Music. This is not so. We will welcome anyone who has any talent whatsoever."
NROTC Tailor Trouble Ends as Men Fitted
The Naval ROTC’s “tailor trouble** has finally been ironed out after a two-week tie-up, and measuring of enrollees for uniforms will be resumed this morning.
This was the statement issued by Capt. Reed Fawell yesterday as he requested that all members of the unit not yet fitted for uniforms report to room 300 Physical Education at 10:30 this morning or as soon thereafter as their classes will permit.
Captain Fawell said that a military tailor was sent from San Francisco to complete the fitting today. He predicted that uniforms would begin to arrive within the next three of four weeks for those students already measured.
Seventy-four members of the unit made a Friday afternoon field trip to Griffith observatory in place of the unit’s regular Friday drill, according to Lieut.-Comm. DeWitt Watson.
The trip was made at the invitation of Dr. Clarence Cleminshaw, assistant professor of astronomy at SC. Dr. Cleminshaw is also an assistant director of Griffith observatory. He gave a special lecture on nautical astronomy to the group.
Athanasian Club Meets Tomorrow
The Athanasian club, organization for Greek Orthodox students, will meet tomorrow at 12 M. in the student council on religion office.
Dr. Robert Taylor, acting dean of the School of Religion, will be introduced by Pete Peterson, president of the club. All students are invited to attend the meeting.
Registrar's Office Notice
All part-semester reports for students whose work is unsatisfactory for the first ten weeks of the semester will be due at the office of the registrar on Monday, November 25.
Theron Clark, Registrar.