S O U T HERN CALIFORNIA
DAI LY»TROJAN
ol. XXXIII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, May 21, 1942
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No. 147
ll-U Show Set New Tax r Next Year on Incomes
|Proposed
dent-Written, Composed Production gins After Two Months of Planning
"o months of extensive planning have resulted in ar-ments for a student-written, student-composed all-U which will be ready for production next September, and ntatively scheduled to be staged during Homecoming
tive students who have the become a second Gershwin yen to write clever skits, iave an opportunity to ex-their talents in this musi-Ttravaganza. A meeting will eld for these writers and sers in the YWCA house to-at 1 p m. at which time for the production will be tomorrow and there stu-will be assigned their com-ns.
EELATION PROMISED
plete cooperation for the has been promised by the of Speech, the School of dancing classes. The YWCA ring the musical in place annual Hi-Jinks. An or-under the direction of Dr. Cailliet. a chorus directed . Max Krone, and a dance under Miss Lois Elfeldt, will art in the production. Prof. m B. DeMille has pledged support, expect this to be one of outstanding productions esented at SC. It will offer ice for Trojan writers, 'rs, actors, and singers "dden talent to come forth
0	their part in a real var-iiow,” stated Shirley Milli-’"WCA president.
PLAN
nt production aides who the plans during the r include Sam Roeca, 1942 of the Daily Trojan; Wil-Murphy, president of the of Music; Claire Laub, major; Mary Kay Krysto, resident of the YWCA; and Cohne, general coordinator =how. All managerial po-have not been filled &£ 'tudent contributors will not ed until the list is com-
past only the sororities cipated in Hi-Jinks but ear all SC students will be take part in the show, first type since 1939. Activity will be given to all women ntribute their time to the ion.
and production difficul-11 be eliminated during the Production heads have their intention of con-only those manuscripts
1	have possibilities for pro-h, so that they will keep [ the limits of the facilities pie.
OCD Receives Birthday Gift From President
Executive Order Asks Office to Develop Plan to Protect Facilities
WASHINGTON, May 20—(U.P)— The office of civilian defense got a birthday present from President Roosevelt today — a directive to formulate a facility recurity program that will provide protection for public and private facilities I against sabotage.
Under an executive order issued ' on OCD's first birthday, it will be up to the agency to see to it that protective measures are developed and carried out. Such measures—designed to protect ‘essential facilities” including communications systems, highways, railways, mines, public buildings and utilities will supplement existing protective programs and be correlated with them.
The army, however, will continue to perform the chief role, having the final say on any program developed by the OCD. Nor does the new OCD program affect the investigative duties of the federal bureau of investigation regarding sabotage and espionage.
In effect, it is given supervision of protective measures, subject to army approval. The White House explained that the protection of the essential facilities is primarily the responsibility of the owners and that the “purpose of the program is to assure that this responsibility is carried out.” It explained that the program is the outgrowth of many months of study by OCD and other federal officials to develop the most effective method of protecting vital faciliies.
OCD Director James M. Landis, commenting on the order, said “it should be clearly understood that we are undertaking a job of developing and supplementing existing protective programs and that the army will continue to have the principal role.”
House Bill to Increase Rate to 12 Per Cent on Earnings of $2000
WASHINGTON, May 20— (U.P.)— Increased individual income surtaxes ranging from 12 per cent on the first $2000 to 81 per cent on taxable earnings exceeding $200,000, were written into the pending $8,700,000,000 war revenue bill today by the house ways and means committee.
The rates were less drastic than those proposed by the treasury and they constituted indirect rejection by the committee of President Roosevelt’s request that it limit net incomes of individuals to $25,000 annually for the duration.
No estimate of the increased yield from the higher surtaxes was made
by committeemen.
RATES LISTED
The treasury called ‘for an additional $4,300,000,000 in individual income taxes and $3,060,000,000 for corpora tions. It proposed that the present $2000 surtax bracket income on which six per cent is levied be abandoned and that the new rates by 12 per cent on the first $500 of taxable income; 15 percent on between $500 and $1000; 18 per cent between $1000 and $1500; and 20 per cent between $1500 and $2000.
The committee refused to divide the first bracket, but raised its controlling tax from 6 to 12 per cent. Under the revised rates the surtaxes would not reach 22 per cent until taxable earnings exceed $6000.
INCREASES GRADUATED
The 81 per cenjt maximum surtax would apply to taxable income of $5,000,000 as well as $200,000. The treasury’s graduated increases would have levied at the rate of 86 per cent on income in excess of $100,000.
imesters End Brings Rain Features to Daily Trojan
Jow appears a feature schedule for today’s edition. The [res were presented and edited by R. Kempter Reilly for Joyment of Trcjan readers, e No. 1
McClain speeds readers away'to a land of high ad-—the far reaches of Beverly | -
introduces them to the columns 4 and 5, page 1.
No. 2
reporter explains the jnbulistic state of journalism i»i “A Trojan a Day Keeps
Away," column 3. page 2. j ^ ^ Break[asti ttagK, by
of BMOCs is reviewed	worn-
fman Bob Brandson, column en who. engaged, married or
Annual Breakfast Scheduled June 5
Reserves Enlist
Men 18 to 40
Paralleling the navy’s V-l enlistment plan, the war department has designed and approved a plan for enlistment of university students between the ages of 18 and 45 in the enlisted reserve corps.
This plan will meet the wartime requirements of industry and vital civilian manpower needs as well as providing a future source of qualified officer candidates from among college men.
Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, university representative for the office • training program of the armed forces released the following statement regarding the new plan:
“Although I have not yet received complete details of the program, I have been advised by Washington of the essential features, which should be made available to the student body.”
It is the intention of the army to keep a substantial number of enlistees in college.
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No. 4
relda continues to complain censorship, and digresses in i, column 6, page 2.
Ne. 5
sob sister sheds her tears
announcing their engagements will be held on June 5 at 10 a. m. at their sorority house.
Women planning to attend the affair should contact Pat Smith as soon as possible.
The theme for the breakfast this
and all in “So You Want year is “War Brides.” Featured ?” For a real tear jeiLer speakers are Miss Helen Hall at column 8, page 2.	Moreland, counselor of women;
No. S	j Miss Pearle Aiken-Smith, associ-
-unit “pipes’ aren’t all they re ate counselor; Barbara Paulin,
up to be according to a and Dorothy LaFollette. Mr3. sitter. The author s Rufus Von KieinSmid will be pres--plume, Jimmy Britt, has I ent to {ave a word of greeting.
Originating on the SC campus in 1923, the Pansy breakfast has become an universal custom among Delta Delta Delta chapters. Pat Smith is general chairman for the affair. Assisting her are Marie Ohlasso, Beverly Royston, Virginia Hage, Mary Lou Horn, Barbara Symmes, Dorothy Hedrick, Peggy Jones, and Lucia Aherns.
on many Trojan stories, 7, page 2 for full in-
Council Meets
of the senior council «t *7:30 tonight at the house to discuss final graduation fwek.
Minnick Removes Helmet to Edit Last Daily Trojan
Yesterday afternoon desperate Trojan staff members cluttered around the musty files in the city room to recover ancient and abandoned features to fill space in this paper.
Lower-classmen did their last piece of work for this semester when they put today’s issue to bed last night.
Tomorrow’s paper will be in the hands of the senior journalists and Editor Myron K. Minnick, now lost in &id retrospect, wUl once again fall into the slot to edit the paper. Assisting him will be gloomy seniors whose copy will convey the effects of last-minute sorrow.
Yes, the seniors will do their bit this afternoon and tomorrow. Old friends are welcomed to visit Minnick in the city room where the clicking of typewriters will run somewhat slower than before.
Byline Genius Ends Career in Flourish
Bob Reilly, Verbal Wizard, Hits Copycats in Burly Criticism of All-Borrowed Humor
by Bob Reilly
It’s been a year of bylines.
Features on every phase of college life have filled the pages of the Daily Trojan. Today this is climaxed as everyone of importance on the Trojan, all the way from me down to the most obnoxious reporter, writes a feature. Naturally this one is the most important.
Now, before we get into this, let it be understood that this is a column of criticism. If anyone doesn’t like it he’ll have to fight it out with me, not with someone else. Roeca’s too skinny to put up a good scrap.
REILLY PRAISED
Reviewing the efforts of the feature writers during the past year, I find that only one has turned in outstanding work consistently. Me. The others have bungled their way through without humor even faintly seeping in. The most outstanding example of this has been Esmeralda. This column was written by Babs Best, who did her best to imitate my stuff. Unfortunately, she failed.
Her humor is based upon the supposition that all Trojans have her same underdeveloped sense of humor. Of course this isn’t so. If anyone asks you, tell them I said so. NIETFELD CONDEMNED
Another lousy feature writer on the Trojan was Bill Nietfeld. He used to give publicity to the same people every time his column appeared—me and Halferty. Nietfeld developed, through listening to other people, particularly me, a quasi-humorous quality which he plugged to death in “Kampus jtvaleidescope.”
Nietfeld was constantly scooping himself, and soon developed many outstanding sayings liv.e “brush off,” “big wheel spinner," and many others. Nietfeld and his column died as they had lived, compatibly.
Of course there have been other types of features. Some
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Little-Known Wild-Life Found in Doheny Stacks
Feature No. 1 (A year of library searching)
by Joe McClain
Behind the stone facade of Doheny, deep in the heart of the library’s darkest stacks, shelved on a nearly inaccessable shelf is a volume entitled, “America’s Little-Known Wildlife,” written by the eminent naturalist, Wilbert Throckmorton Cranston.
For 18 years the book stood undiscovered in the stacks. Then one day last February, while browsing along the book-laden shelves, I discovered this compendium of American wildlife. What strange animals and fish there are.
FISH ARE SLICK Cranston has a chapter on the rock-rolling trout. This member of the finny tribe is found only in streams in Arkansas. Natives of the state are the only persons that can catch the fish—people wearing shoes frighten them.
The wily scientist was able, after great hardships, to observe the fish in their native habitat and record his findings for posterity.
The rock-rolling trout looks like any other trout with this exception: on the ventral side there is a row of toothlike appendages, closely resembling bear . fangs.
The trout, Cranston reports, uses these vestigial appendages to roll stones and small boulders. The latter are used in a game that the
Japanese call Oo. See the last issue of Life to learn how the Nipponese have transformed a peaceable fish game into a tactical problem.
The volume also contains a study on the unoped. It is a strange animal. Some of Cranston’s jealous rivals deny its existence—a sour grapes attitude. The unoped is a small, furry animal found in the farthest reaches of Beverly Hills. POGO STICK USED
The naturalist tells of the odd way that the unoped walks. It really doesn’t walk because it has only one leg. The unoped just bounces along as if he were on a pogo stick. That the unoped moves rapidly is evidenced by Cranston’s report that the animal pogoed 100 yards in 6 seconds flat.
A year of research has not been in vain. I have learned many little-known facts from reading the tome. Unfortunately for other students, the book disappeared and there are no other volumes extant
BEVERLY ROYSTON — presents colors to NROTC company.
NROTC to Hold
Award Review on Bovard Field
Color Presentation by Beverly Royston Occurs Tomorrow
Chosen to present NROTC colors, Beverly Royston, ASSC secretary-elect, was selected by Dick Koontz, company commander, to award the honor to his company which won drill competition. The presentation will be made at the final review on Bovard field at 1:15 p. m. tomorrow.
Miss Royston, a four star coed, Tri-Delt, Amazon, and member of Mortar board, will review the parade with Capt. Reed M. Fawell, commandant of the unit; President Rufus B. von KieinSmid; and students.
COLORS AWARDED
The presentation of the colors will climax a day of awards outstanding individuals and organizations of the naval unit. Koontz will accept the colors from Miss Royston for the company in true navy style—by returning a kiss.
Koontz will also be awarded a navigation outfit including books and instruments. This will be presented by the Naval Reserve Officers association of Los Angeles and is given to the most outstanding student in the basic navigation course.
A watch officers’ guide will be given tc* Roelmer Turpen, battalion comma.ider, for being the most outstanding cadet officer in the basic course.
PLATOON LED
Winning two awards, Herb Johnson, platoon commander, tallied up a personal award as well as leading his platoon to winning the drill competition. President Rufus B. von KieinSmid will present his cup to Johnson’s platoon. Last year the cup was won by the platoon led by Roelmer Turpin.
Johnson will be presented with the American Legion Certificate of Merit and a medal. It is given by the American Legion Aqueduct post to the student having the highest average for the basic course.
John Bell, Bob Rowe, Did* Irwin, James Hrabein, and Bill Stevens are the five contestants left competing for three medals for knowledge of the manual of arms.
Dr. Silke Serves as OPA Official
Dr. Harry Silke is typical of the many members of the SC faculty and administration who have left the campus to assume defense positions.
As associate OPA administrator at Los Angeles in charge of investigating and inspecting, Dr. Silke has a staff of more than 60 at his disposal, including a battery of secretaries and telephones. He was called from his duties as Trojan director of special foundations on May 6 and immediately assumed his present
government job.
“One of the hardest changes for me to make from civilian to defense work was getting down to the office on South Broadway before 8 a. m., for I used to start my day on campus at 9. I would leave school at 5 p. m., but here we leave when the work is done which is long after the office closes its doors at 4:45,” Dr. Silke said.
Even with phones ringing, secretaries leaving files and reports, investigators coming and going, and a continuous stream of men and women seeking interviews for positions, Dr. Silke presented the calm, quietly efficient appear-
ance of a man who knows what has to be done and how to do it.
His busy day consumes about 16 hours, including the many evening addresses he makes and the conferences and meetings he must attend after the routine staff members have closed their files, covered their typewriters, and gone home. Yesterday was a slack day, Dr. Silke commented—but at 2:30 in the afternoon he had not yet found an opportunity to open the 8 a. m. mail.
“The peacefulness of the campus is a great contrast to a government office today,” he went on. “I heard some comment that government defense officials were loafing on their jobs but I haven't seen any relaxing around here. This is a beehive of activity from morning until night.”
In explaining some of the duties of his work, the OPA leader said that his office handles the complaints and questions of all the merchants and consumers in southern California. When a complaint is brought in inolving, for instance, a case of illegal high prices, he continued, a private investigation is conducted before an OPA employe ever goes near the
business place in question. This is to make sure that the claim is just, and he stated:
“This is no gestapo organization, and we are not trying to find violators. We are here to try to help the merchants — not to try to ‘pin’ something on them.”
Merchants are doing their best to cooperate, Dr. Silke stated encouragingly, and since the retail price fixing program went into effect Monday, comparatively few complaints have been filed.
When questioned upon the opportunities that college students have to enter government defense work, the official said that there is a definite need for economics, secretarial, and public administration majors. As an example of the flood of requests for positions, there were 1800 applicants in the first six days that the office was open.
That Dr. Silke enjoys his strenuous job is evident, for his concluding comment was:
“When you can come in and work with men who have given up prosperous businesses and high salaries to help the government, it is a great privUege.”
Nazi Reserves
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Hurled Back at Kharkov
MOSCOW, May 20—(U.P.)—Endless columns of German tanks and sky-darkening fleets of planes—the flower of Adoll Hitler’s “spring reserves”—have been smashed or hurled back on the Kharkov front by red army forces which are advancing everywhere, dispatches from the Ukraine said tonight.	-*
French Force British Planes Down in Africa
Russian tank crews “fighting like lions” aboard their 52-ton mounts and American-made Tomahawk fighter planes which “simply perform miracles” were reported leading the unbroken march of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s army.
The often unreliable Vichy radio said Germany had massed 100,000 parachute troops, 10,000 tanks, and 2,000,000 men behind the Kharkov front and “it was .the objective of destroying this vast concentration that Timoshenko attacked.” SUCCESSES CONTINUE
Marshal Fedor von Bock, the German commander, was said to have thrown into the battle for Kharkov the last of his available tanks and restt-ves in a desperate but futile effort to check the Russian advance, described here as piling one success on top of another since it began 13 days ago.
Great tank and air battles involving thousands of men and machines thunder ceaselessly on the broad arc around Kharkov, the Russian reports said, with the land forces grappling at such close quarters in some sectors that air support was out of the question.
TANKS BREAK THROUGH
A herd of Russian tanks broke through the German defenses in one strategic sector and was able to join infantry and mechanized units from another direction, cm-pletely undermining the enemy position in the whole area.
Lt. Col. Alexander Drelevsky reported in a special “front news bulletin" that the Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks—which in the Russian pronunciation become Tomagai^cs— “simply perform miracles in competent soviet hands.”
One red air force squadron flying Tomahawks over a period of some months engaged in 5000 combat flights and bagged 102 German planes, Drelevsky reported. Modified for peculiar Russian conditions and with extended fire power, the planes were said to have scored 100 per cent efficiency without one technical failure aground or in combat.
A solid wall of German tanks assaulted the Russian center and flanks in one sector of the Krah-kov front, the newspaper Red Star reported. The Russian vanguard took the initial shock and infantrymen swarmed in, pelting the enemy tames-with hand, grenades and bottles of combustibles while mechanized forces charged the German flanks.
Former Trojan Receives DSC
Lt. T. Robert White, former Trojan and navy flight surgeon, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in the bombing of Tokyo on April 18, his wife revealed yesterday.
Son-in-law of Thomas T. Eyre, professor of mechanical engineering, Lieutenant White attended SC in 1933, finishing his pre-medicine work in the same year that Mrs. White received her degree.
“I knew Bob was on an airci'aft carrier, the Hornet, but i ilfever associated him with the Tokyo incident,” Professor Eyre asserted. “I thought he was in Australia.”
According to Professor Eyre, a flight surgeon spends most of his time at a machine gun during a flight. White is now a first lieutenant on the captains, eligibility list.
He enlisted in the army air corps a year ago and was sent to Randolph field, Tex., for aviation medicine training. He was commissioned as a flight surgeon and assigned to a reconaissance unit.
He received his M.D. at Harvard and was awarded a fellowship to Johns Hopkins. Serving his internship at Union Memorial hospital in Baltimore, he served his residency at Queens hospital in Honolulu.
Mrs. Edith White was notified of the honor by the Associated Press news service, but as yet has heard
nothing directly from her husband.
Anti-Aircraft Fire Grounds RAF Ships Distributing Pamphlets
VICHY, May 20—(TJ?) — French gunners have forced down two British planes over West Africa, it was announced today, as Pierre Laval, chief of the government, conferred with cabinet members charged with colonial defense.
Apparently inspired by news of yesterday’s clash between French and British forces off Algeria, North Africa, officials here disclosed that on May 10, French anti-aircraft gunners forced down a British plane over Konakry, Senegal, and that on May 18 another British plane was forced down at Port Bouet, a minor seaport on the French ivory coast
NO DETAILS REVEALED
No details of either incident were revealed. Knoakry is on Tom bo island, 70 miles northwest of the British naval base of Freetown and 420 miles south of Dakar.
Relations with Britian were strained further by a 30-minute flight of RAF planes over Vichy last night. The planes dropped tracts containing a pledge by President Roosevelt that France’s occupied possessions would be restored after the war. The tracts were marked “printed by the United States government; distribution by RAF.”
Laval had just returned from Paris and the lights were still burning in his offices when French anti - aircraft gunners opened fire on the RAF visitors. Today he conferred not only with cabinet colonial experts, but with several generals including Henri Dentz, whose defense of Syria still stands as the most effective French resistance to aggression against the French empire.
BRITISH PLANES DOWNED
In the clash off Algeria, announced yesterday, two British planes and one French plane were destroyed. The communique said that a British seaplane, violating French territory, was forced down near the coast; that a British torpedo boat fired on two French non-military boats nearby, and that the British boat then sank the crippled seaplane, after the crew was picked up. One other British and one French plane were shot down in the encounter.
Journalists to Dine
Journalism students will hold their annual banquet tomorrow at Scully’s restaurant, 4801 Crenshaw boulevard, beginning at S p. m.
Those students planning to afc-tend must sign for reservation* in the city room of the Trojan today.
from the
President s Office
The Hancock ensemble will present a program today in the auditorium of the Allan Hancock hall. Attendance at this program is a regular class exercise for students in music 9I-B1. The campus community and their friends are invited to attend.
R. B. von KieinSmid, President.