SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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TROJAN
I. XXXII
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Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, December 5, 1940
No. 56
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>ha Gamma Deltas e $10 in Cash, larettes in Theft
fr a brief period of quie-SC’s mystery-robber Ight went foraging again jng into the annex of 1 p h a Gamma Delta fy house. The robbery between 6 and 6:45 rtth $10 in cash and sev-^ckages of cigarettes the loss.
evidences supporting thc that he or she is a person [know" lie in the facts that er struck while the women dinner, at a time when all lurses were piled together, }t he had a definite goal in only cash and cigarettes ^len.
IOUSE LOCKED
rie Galbraith, a house j said that her sorority sis- | ped the door of the annex ley left for dinner. Less minutes later, they dis-their purses strewn about void of what small change j jht have contained at the |
ay night one of the women prowler outside in the ; She asked who was ' fut the person hurried off naswering.
ibber had to climb through ►w to get in, and how he low the correct window to it room isn’t Just coinci-| Miss Galbraith observed. tIES PROMPT ACTION the beginning of this se-one robbery after another smpted house mothers and jity officials to advise stu-lock their doors and win-to earn' their possessions lem.
[prowler. If it is the ss_me itch time, has exceptional and will not hesitate to Ivantage of an opportunity.
lomar Chosen Y Conference
and YMCA represent* -I-om southern California, for group discussions and ^s. will hold their eighth an-lference at Asilomar from |>er 26 to January 2.
| are expecting SC to take a part,’’ said Dr. Mary Sin-tawford. counselor of wom-our YWCA compares most ) ly with organizations in alleges and smaller groups us for leadership." lar conferences are held Ito consider topics of interest bportance to young people, pason there mill be round-liscussions of personal devel-| the use of leisure, pressure and public opinion
APPROVE PROGRAM—Dorothy Hepp, Hi-jinks chairman, John Gripman, student chairman of Homeconrvng activities, and Judge Clement D. Nye, general chairman, give their enthusiastic approval to the completed program of Homecoming events.
SC Leads Nation in Class A Schools
U. S. Education Commissioner, J. W. Studebaker, Ranks Troy With Nine Accredited Colleges
As announced by Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid at the dedication of the new College of Engineering wing yesterday, SC has more accredited Class A schools and colleges than any other educational institutiqn in the United States.
Compiled from the report by J. i---
Hancock Group Offers Program
W. Studebaker. commissioner ot the U. S. office of education, Washington. D. C., this announcement included all institutions ot higher education and gave SC nine accredited schools. The closest. with eight each, were the Universities of Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The Trojan Class A schools, accredited by their tional bodies, are
IBM Art Exhibit Changes Told by Poingdestre
Owing to the smallness of the respective na- Elizabeth Holmes Fisher art gallery the School of j and the largeness of the Interna-Law, School of Medicine. College of tional Busines; Machines corporation Pharmacy. College of Engineering, art exhibit, the current display will School of Music, College of Com- be divided into two parts. The first merce and Business Administration half will be shown from December 'M.ar&uerite at the Spinning Wheel," Harris College of Architecture and g to December 15.	I by Zabe1, a harp sol° Catherine
Presenting one of its occasional morning concerts, the Hancock ensemble will play its 10th program of a series at 9 a.m. today in Hancock auditorium.
Numbers requested by students will be included on the program, and requests for future selections j may be addressed to the ensemble, j i in care of the Allan Hancock foun- j I dation. The musicale is open to the I public.
Two novelty numbers by Schubert and Liadow will be interpreted by the group, said Musical Director Loren Powell.
Paralleling last week’s number by Vivaldi, the prog*- .m will open with Concerto Grosso in D minor, by Sa-martini, which includes the andante, allegro assai, andante, and allegro; and prelude to “Suite Ber-gamasque,” by Debussy.
Third selection is the recently discovered “Menuet,” by Schubert;
Dance Climaxes Big Week
Six Hits and Miss, Skinnay Ennis Perform Saturday
At least one SC “grandstand quarterback” will get to carry the ball at the informal Homecoming dance Saturday evening after the Notre Dame game. A football, autographed by the coaching staff and the varsity squad, will be offered as a door prize.
Miss Pauline Burns of the Six Hits and a Miss will be asked to present the award to the ^holder of the winning door check. Miss Burns and her radio artist companions will sing with Skinnay Ennis and his band and will entertain during intermissions.
FIESTA ROOM DECORATED
Members of the dance committee revealed that the Fiesta room of the Ambassador hotel will be decorated with streamers and pennants of ^Jotre Dame's blue and gold and SC’s cardinal and gold. In addition flowers will be arranged around the bandstand. Dancing will continue from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.
Stating that only a few of the I 600 bids, priced at $1.75 per couple, remain to be sold, due to the heavy demand on those available at the cashier' window, Student Union, John Gripman asks that all fraternity salesmen report to him at 9:50 a.m. or after 1 p.m. in 235 Student Union. At that time they will turn (Continued on Page Four)
Rally Plans for Tomorrow Upset by Flu
In order to forestall the possibility of a wide-spread “flu” epidemic, the president’s office yesterday released orders to cancel the final pre-game football rally of the year, scheduled for tomorrow noon in Bovard auditorium.
Because of “flu,” a large number of students are unable to attend classes at the present time, and further evidences of a city-wide influenza epidemic have necessitated the cancellation
Chuck Foster and his orchestra, now playing at the Biltmore bowl, were slated to appear at the rally. They have been notified of the change in schedule as have other members of the program.
University officials feel that enthusiasm for the SC Notre Dame game Saturday will be lessened in no degree, although cancellation of the rally is a disappointment to all.
Deny Rumors of Dismissal
President Quells Rumors Regarding No Classes;
School Nurse Estimates One-Third of SC Absent
Rumors circulated on the campus to the effect that classes would be dismissed next week because of an influenza epidemic were dispelled late yesterday afternoon by Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid.	|-
Air Line Crash Kills Six;
Ten Injured
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Founding; Millikan Speaks
told Speaker ihinese Club
Julian Arnold, former com-attache of the United States |y in China, will be guest of it the Chinese students’ club, jw at 12:30 pjn. The meeting In the social hall of Elisa-KieinSmid dormitory. l“en acknowledged as an Itatlve observer of Far East-fairs. Dr. Arnold will speak it situation in China as on the general development in the Pacific area.
tsident's ice Notice
Hancock ensemble present a program to-it 9 a.m. in Hancock ium.
ibers of the music ap-ition 91 B1 class are to attend.
Idents who have a free ]at that time are wel-to attend and are in-| to do so.
R. B. von KieinSmid President
Fine Arts. Graduate School of So- i cial Work, and School of Journalism. The council on dental education of the American Dental association has been temporarily discontinued on Page Four)
The second half will be exhibited
Jackson and the ensemble; “Mem-
ories of Childhood,” by Pinto, in from December 17 to December 22. ^ree parts-Miss Winifred Poingdestre, director
Wampus Features Murder Expose
of the art gallery, suggests that everyone should come to the exhibit twice in order to see all the pictures.
Th art gallery will be open during the following hours: Tuesday through Friday, 12:30 to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m.; and Wednesday evenings, 7:30 to 10 p.m. The building is closed on Mondays.
In addition to the ten prize-winners judged by a committee, a pop-
Corre, Corre; Dorme, Nene; and Marcha, Soldadinho.
Violinist Ambrose Russo and the ensemble will play "Meditation,” by Glazounow; “The Music Box." by Liadow, an arrangement for the celesta, piccolo, and plucked strings; ••Nocturne,” by Grieg; and ‘‘Dance of the Comedians,” from ‘ The Bartered Bride,” by Smetana.
To commemorate the 164th anniversary of the founding of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, head of the California Institute of Technology, will present the Founders' day address for the national honor society over the National Broadcasting system (KECA) from 6 to 6:15 p.m. today.
Phi Beta Kappa, founded 164 years ago, is the oldest Greek-letter and college honor society in the country.
Dr. Millikan will address the members who are observing the founding of the society on December 5, 1776 at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va., and the 141 college chapters, and its 124 graduate associations.
Diener Named NROTC Editor
, Dalton, Harrod Chosen to Supplement Staff
Active preparations for publication of a Naval ROTC bulletin began yesterday with tentative selections of editors, according to Aurel Gilbert, feature editor of the proposed paper.
Gilbert said that the other staff members selected at that time included Edgar Diener, editor-in-chief; Clyde Dalton, sports editor; ! and ~,awrence Harrod. cartoonist.
The first issue of the paper will not be published until after Christmas vacation. Gilbert explained that j lack of time prohibited the preparations for the pre-Christmas edition ; planned originally.
The bulletin will be mimeographed on the naval unit’s new electric ma- | chine on paper 8x10^ inches. Pages will be divided into two columns and printing will appear on only one side of the pages. Lieut. Comdr. Hewitt Watson will supervise the editorial work.
Gilbert said that although no definite name for the paper had been agreed upon, the probable designation would be Southern Califomia Naval ROTC bulletin.
Present plans call for a permanent cover bearing a large half-tone engraving depicting various phases (Continued on Page Four)
“I don't suppose any news more startling than the expose of a second BMOC murder could be im- njar vote contest was held at the agined, but that’s what the Warn- New York World's Fair. In this con-pus is actually featuring in the test the visitors to each gallery Christmas issue.” Editor Dick Mul
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cahy announced yesterday.
Not only does the magazine intend to print all the details of the case, but it plans to name the ringleader of a murder-for-cash mob and, regardless of the outcome, “the Wampus staff will stick with this gruetome business until every last ones the culprits is cited." avowed Bot^keilly. assistant editor.
er feature, advisory in na-ti^^Bill instruct bashful women art of leap-year marriage With tne appearance of tmas issue. December 11. 1 remain but 20 days for complete marriage plans, revity of time makes the code’ invaluable to the Reilly advised.
chose the paintings which thought were the best.
The winners of the popular vote contest were: first prize of $200, Fernando Amorsclo. Philippine islands; second prize of $150, Shuho Ikegami. Japan; and third prize of $100, Oswaldo Teizeira, Brazil.
Modern Dance Lecture Offered
Luncheons, Banquets Planned as SC Homecoming Progresses
The following divisions of the university have planned activities for today and remainder of the week in the annual Homecoming program, which ends next Tuesday.
Miss Harriet Ann Gray, formerly of the Doris Hurr.phrey-Charles Weidman concert dance group, will present a lecture demonstration of the contemporary dance on Thursday, December 12, from 8 to 9:30 p.m.. in the dance studio of the Physical Education building.
Miss Gray will speak briefly about the modern dance, and give a demonstration of movement techniques. She will also present a group of finished dancers.
The purpose of the lecture and demonstration is to offer an oppor-“Freedom of Speech,” part I. the tumty for students to see one of
SC Radio Drama Over KRKD Today
the outstanding younger dance artists, and to encourage interest in one of the contemporary art forms of pxpression.
Admission will be 25 cents.
Done Addresses Lunch
Banquet Planned for Men’s Council
Alumni and present members of the Men’s Council will meet for a social dinner today at 6:30 p.m. in the tea room of the Student Union. More than 40 members are expected to attend.
Bob Behlow, ’28, president of the student body for that year, and permanent president of the men’s council alumni, will present a report on
the Owl Drug company, during the alumni luncheon today.
Harold Miller, president of the alumni association, will preside.
Sam Rifkind, student in the college, will present violin solos.
Seares Guest Speaker at Philosophy Dinner
Adc’ -essing the annual Homecoming dinner of the SC School of Philosophy Tuesday, December 10,
“There is absolutely nothing to the rumor. The possibility of a widespread epidemic on the campus has been forestalled, and further steps of precaution will be taken by university officials when they deem it advisable,” he declared.
General alarm has arisen because of a city-wide influenza wave augmented by the fact that a number of SC students are unable to attend classes at the present time. The situation is less critical then alarming, it was asserted.
GREEK ROW HIT
Fraternity houses, however, have reported 35 case of illness and 25 residents of Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall have been stricken. Three assistants in the library and several employees of the Student Union have not reported to work for the past few days.
Two more varsity football players, Floyd Phillips and Chuck Mor-ril, raised the list of gridmen out with the flu to a total of 14.
CITY SCHOOLS STRICKEN
Large-scale outbreaks of the disease have appeared in elementary, junior, and senior high schools. Medical authorities are checking its spread by regular examinations and bv the early diagnosis of contractions. Students not evidencing symptoms are advised to attend classes because physicians consider the caution administered by officials more advantageous than preventative treatment at home.
Clara Belle Deaver, university nurse, estimated that possibly one-third of the student body has contracted the illness. These cases, however, include all phases ranging from mild symptoms to acute manifestations.
Moody Elected Lancer Chairman
Rather than restrict the administrative control of the Lancers to a single person, the organization elected Bob Moody as general chairman with an assistant staff of six co-chairmen at a meeting Tuesday.
Moody will represent the Lancers as a student body organization as far as dealing directly with the university is concerned. The co-chair-men will be vested with specific duties and responsibilities to be announced later and will cooperate with Moody in arranging Lancer functions.
The committeemen elected were: Sam Roeca. Vivienne Clark, Robert Irwin, Mary Ruth Stagg, Charles Peterson, and Leonora Jacobsen.
The present officers will be active until the beginning of next semester when a new group of committeemen will be called upon to officiate.
A tentative vote decided that the position of general chairman should be of a year’s duration, at least until the Lancers become more thoroughly established.
Transport Ship Set Ablaze While Landing
SC radio division's dramatized version of man's struggle for the right to express his opinions from the time of Socrates to early colonial d ys in the United States, will take
the airlanes today from 1:30 to 1:45 |--1
pjn. on station KRKD.
Herbert Sussan, producer, adapted the script which was sup- Dr. G. Byron Done will discuss plied by the U. S. Department of "Early History of the Mormon
SayS War Near I the Interior. Sussan will also pro- Church” at a luncheon meeting of : duce the concluding installment I Lambda Delta Sigma. SC Mormon JCISOO. Dec. 4—O!)— next week of “Freedom of Speech.” club, 12 M. today, at the University Hiram Johnson, vet- dealing with incidents from colon- Methodist church.
isolationist, said :ial times J the present.	j Members who attend will receive
States is being led I Thcse Participtaing as actors on pledge consideration cards for today's program are Bill Jones, pledging ceremonies which will take war and when the ■^*ayne Reeves, Clayton Garrison. • place at the Wilshire chapel, 1209 ‘the College of Pharmacy will hear |ous “those in com- Anthony Ricca, and F. Martin South Manhattan place, at 4 p.m. an address on “Prescription in Modus	| Schwartz.	i Sunday.	iem Pharmacy” by J. B. Wooten of
the Robert Love memorial that he	will be Jr. Frederick H. Seares. as-
prepared in committee with Bill	sistant director of the Mt. Wilson
Baxter and John Leach.	observatory.
It was under Behlow's adminis-	Dr. Seares has chosen the topic
tration of the student body that the	‘The Imaginative Element of Cre-
men’s council, a campus disciplin-	; ative Science. The dinner, sched-
ary group, was organized. Since his	uled for 6 p.m., will be held in the
time the student body president of	Mudd Hall of Philosophy. Those
each year has been an ex-officio	not wishing to attend the dinner
member of the council, and there-	may hear the speaker later in the
fore several former student bpdy	evening.
affairs will present, according to -
Dr. Francis M. Bacon, counselor of men.
J. B. Wooten Addresses Pharmacists Today
Ninety alumni and students of
Wilhelmina Prepares Exit
LISBON, Dec. 4—(UJ?)—It was reported today that Queen Wilhelmina of Holland would arrive tomorrow from London en route to New York.
The report said Wilhelmina would fly to the Uniter States aboard a transatlantic clipper.
Sessions Plays for Music Class
Archibald Sessions, professor of organ and university organist, will play a special program for students of music appreciation class 91-El today at 1:15 p.m.‘in Bovard auditorium.
Prof. Sessions has included two selections by Bach, toccata and fugue in C and D minor. The third selection, a well-known modem toccata, will be announced later.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4—<UJ»>—Six persons were killed and 10 injured, eight seriously, when a United Air lines transport plane—one of the company’s luxury mainHners — crashed and burst into flames only 1.000 feet from the municipal airport.
The crash occurred as the giant twin-motored ship, a Douglas DC-E with a 21-passenger capacity, was descending for a landing. It carried 13 passengers and a crew of three—pilot, co-pilot and stewardess.
The dead:
Capt. Phil Scott, 34, Chicago, the pilot.
First Officer George Young, 30 Oak Park, HI., the co-pilot.
Lee Hanelein, Chicago, divisional superintendent of reservations for United.
Wilbert J. Austin, 64, Cleveland, president of the Austin engineer-, ing company, with subsidiaries in Califomia and London. He is listed ln “Who’s Who.”
Miss Jane Selby. Chicago, employee of the Curtis Candy company.
F. W. Moore, Cleveland, a government employee.
Airport attaches said the pilot of the plane had to make a “forced landing” a short distanc^ from the airport runways.
As the plane crashed, all lights at the airport went out. Indicating that the ship had struck power lines. All available police can on Chicago's South Side were ordered to the field immediately.
The plane left New York at 10 a. m. EST. and was scheduled to arrive here at 3:40 p. m. CST, it was said. None of the passengers who left New York were bound for Chicago, it was reported. Passengers aboard the plane when it crashed were picked up at various stops on the way.
At New York City, United Airlines officials said there were 13 persons in the plane when It crashed and that all had been taken to hospitals.
The ship, which had made • (Continued on Page Four)
Ice-Skating Club Gathers Today
Ice-skating enthusiasts will have the opportunity to exhibit their skill at the first meeting of the Ice-Skating club today at 3:30 p.m.
Members will meet outside Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall and with transportation provided, will proceed to the Pan Pacific auditorium where they will be given special rates on skates and admission.
The club is under the sponsorship of the WAA and the co-managership of Hermina Levy and Elizabeth Somers.
Anyone interested in Joining the club and who can attend the meeting ls invited to sign up in the office of the women’s dormitory.
Sociological Society Sponsors Conference
Father Dignam Chooses ‘Modern Catholic* Topic
“The Catholic in the World Today” is the topic to be discussed by Father Patrick Dignam, guest Dr. Martin H. Neumeyer, profes- speaker at the Newman club meet-sor of sociology and president of jng onight at 7:30 p.m. in the Sig-the Pacific Sociological society, will ma Alpha Ep6ilon fraternity house, lead a discussion and summarize Plans for the proposed Newman the speeches made at a conference ball, permanent home f>t the or-on “Jobs ior Youth,” Saturday ganization, will be formulated at morning, in Holmes hall of Los An- ^e meeting, announced Dorothy geles city college.	LaFollette, chairman.
The meeting is open to all students and wi” last from 8:30 ajn. until 12:30 p.m.
The business meeting will be succeeded by refreshments and an Informal gathering.
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