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-Sir Stafford Cripps opened jress party leaders tonight in [ff failure of his mission to against Japan, and hopes be reached.
I Cripps invited to his residence pntiit Jawaharlal Nehru, most in-lential member of the party, and
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Abul Kalam Azad. its oslem president. Cripps had said at there would be no negotiations, i at India must accept Britain’s pn for dominion* status after the j or repect it as it stood, but i I was apparent now that he was iking a desperate effort to break deadlock arising from India’s biand to be able to name its own fense minister.
[JTCOME WITHHELD Du H ome of the conference was tret, but there were indications , it Cripps believed transfer to lian hands of at least some meas-: of responsibility for India’s de- | ,se during the war might turn i tide.
’he formula under discussion was lerstood to call for an Indian lister of defense coordination, would preside at meetings of j defense council, of which Gen. i Ihibaid Wavell, commander-in-1 of the British imperial forces [ndia, also would be a member, j Indian minister would have ! rge of civil defense, internal de- | air-raid precautions, and j |lar matters.
fipps was said to have accepted formula, but the attitude of j congress party toward it was |expected to become clear until ^rrow.
[DHI POSTPOXES RETURN
jough congress circles profes-iot to be optimistic, Mohandas fandhi, spiritual leader of the , postponed for another three his return to Wardha, indi-Ig that he expected the nego-jns to last at least that long. Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mu-
ll.	Jayakar, liberal leaders |acted as peacemakers in 1931 fen Ganflhi and Lord Halifax, jviceroy, were active behind the nment in smoothing the way settlement.
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or Enlistment in Navy V*7
First semester juniors will have their final opportunity to enist in class V-7, reserve midshipman program, on or before Apr. 15, 1942, Capt. Reed M. Fawell, NROTC commandant, announced yesterday.
To be eligible for enlistment in class V-7, a college junior must have attained a junior status on or before May 15, 1942. Students who become juniors after this date can only become apprentice seamen, class V-7, by transfer from class V-l, approved college program.
Captain Fawell added that further details on class V-l will be released, pending an executive order from Washington.
Bataan Rocks as Defenders Halt Attacks
Native Sulus Stab Deep in Zamboango; Casualties Suffered
at Invasion Bases
Third Military Class Called by Forde as Allied Powers Organize Defenses
GEN. •MACARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Melbourne, Thursday, Apr. 2—(U.P.)—Allied bombers slashing through tropical storms have destroyed or damaged at least 30 Japanese planes in a three-day attack on Jap invasion bases, it ^as revealed today as Australia brought her land forces to full war strength by calling up
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WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 — (U.R) — Bayonet-wielding defenders of Bataan peninsula halted another large-scale Japanese attack today while their comrades in the southern Philippines carried out two spectacular raids that destroyed 22 enemy warehouses and military installations.
The actions were reported in war department communiques which ' told of the heaviest fighting in two months. Activity burst forth from ■»one end of the Archipelago to the other on land, at sea, and in the | air.
BATTLE RAGES
Biggest battle occurred on the right center of Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright’s Bataan line where the Japs sought to break through, to be stopped with “heavy casualties” in savage and sanguinary hand-to-hand fighting. Loss of some advance positions was acknowledged %ut the “heavy” assault was stopped at bayonet point before it reached the main defense line.
Most spectacular action, however, was on the southernmost Philippine island of Mindanao.
There, native Sulu units fighting under the stars and stripes carried ! out the most daring of two forays. In an audacious thrust that caught , the enemy completely flat-footed,
I they stabbed into the heart of Japanese-occupied Zamboanga, inflicting heavy casualties and damage and withdrew without suffering a single loss.
[y petitions for membership Trojan Squires, sophomore [onorarv service organization. I *eady been issued, and the ! is expected to reach 100 j
tits applying for member->t obtain their' petitions by |oday from the cashier's of-he Student Union. Inter- I :r applicants will be held j |esday afternoon, and those !
selected will be notified ; fwing Thursday by Dwight , esident of the Trojan
emphasized yesteiday that jhip in the Squires will be j llrom the entire student not just on the basis of j membership. A total of | >e elected into the organi- |
er to petition for Squires |ve members must have a lip average of at least 1.0, [t have completed 30 units It is necessary that they bhomore standing next se-Jna they must maintain a rt 1.0 average to remain rganization.
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GUNS DESTROYED
They destroyed several machine gun nests and other military installations.
A second and perhaps more destructive raid was carried out by a small band of American-Filipino troops on a Jap supply base near Digos in the gulf of Davao.
In this thrust, 22 enemy warehouses—contaninig huge stocks of food, gasoline, amunition, and other military supplies—were burned to the ground.
Fisher Gallery Shows Paintings
Student paintings by artists of the eight major southern California universities and colleges will go on exhibition today in the Fisher Gallery of Fine Arts.
A tea will be held this afternoon in the patio of the gallery, with SC art students acting as hosts and hostesses.
On exhibition in the center gallery, the oils and water colors, three from each school, are selected as representative paintings from SC, UCLA, Pomoni
three more .military classes.
Calling up on the additional conscript classes was announced by war minister Francis M. Forde as Australia’s northern dewenses on a 24-hour alert against the tnreat of invasion.
KOEPANG ATTACKED
Heaviest of the aerial blows, in which both American and Australian planes participated, fell on Koepang, Japanese base on the Dutch half of the island of Timor where 24 planes, including big four-motored flying boats, were destroyed in raids Tuesday and Wednesday. Also raided successfully on Wednesday was Salamaua, New Guinea, where heavy bombs fell along airdrome runways.
Official reports accounted specifically for at least 30 enemy planes in actions spread clear across the 2000 mile northern invasion front, and one unofficial source set the toll as high as 33. Included were Jap losses in feeble sorties a.gainst the allied bases at Darwin and Port Moresby.
DAMAGE TOLD
In the first attack on Koepang on Tuesday, 12 planes were shattered and bombs also crashed near a ship in the harbor. Less than 24 hours later, in the early hours of Wednesday, the allied raiders were back again to double the score of planes destroyed or damaged and to set great fires which wreathed the harbor in smoke and flame.
As the allied air forces battered the Japanese bases, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his American and Australian colleagues pressed firmly ahead in their organization of the United Nations armies scheduled to wipe out the - menace to Australia and roll the Japanese back through the P&cific.
Army Minister F. M. Forde announced that all units of the Australian army were being brought up to full war strength immediately and that a new training program
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Polish Contingent Bolsters Russia
OTTAWA, Apr. 1 — (U.P) — Sixty thousand completely equipped and mechanized Polish troops today crossed the Russian border into Persia to meet any threat of a German flanking movement, Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish prime minister, announced.
Eikorski announced the movement of Polish forces which he described as “protective,” as he left here after a two-day consultation with Canada’s prime minister, MacKenzie King.
The Polish general said he was “completely satisfied” with Polish arrangements in the Soviet union although he admitted supplies for Polish troops there have moved slowly in the past few months.
Premier Josef Stalin, he said, had made available quantities of equipment in the last few days and had given satisfactory assurances about the future.
Interfraternity Conference Begins Monday
Meetings to Stress Wartime Problems of Student Groups
The annual tri-campus Interfraternity conference, sponsored by the interfraternity alumni association and the Los Angeles city panhellenic council, will begin Monday, Apr. 6, and will continue six days.
Problems occasioned by wartime conditions will be discussed by Greek letter and administrative leaders. “Religion and the Student” will be the theme of the opening session.
Presidents of sororities and fraternities at SC, Occidental, and UCLA will join leaders of inter-fraternity groups and panhellenic associations for a banquet, Wednesday, Apr. 8.
MCCOMB TO SPEAK
Guest speaker at this luncheon will be Judge Marshall P. McComb, who will discuss, “The Role of Youth in the Emergency.” Judge McComb, of the California appellate court, is a United States naval commander.
Wednesday afternoon an open campus forum will convene. "What’s Right and What's Wrong with Franternities” will be discussed by intercollegiate debaters and the campus public. Debaters Bob Oliver, George Grover, and Ed McDonnell will represent SC at this forum.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULED
A workshop on chapter management will meet Saturday morning frcm 9:30 to 11:30 at Kerchoff hall. A panel discussion of buying, menu planning, taxes, safety, accounting, and allied problems for housemanagers, housemothers, advisers, and interested undergraduates will be held at that time.
Honored guests at the conference will include: Governor Culbert L. Olson, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and presidents Rufus B. von KleinSmid and Remsen Bird of SC and Occidental, and Dr. Earle R. Hedrick, provost of the Los Angeles campus of the University of California.
ATTENDANTS LISTED
Administrative and student consultants from SC will include: Dr. Francis M. Bacon, Dean Helen Hall Moreland, Dr. L. E. Travis, fraternity coordinator; Martha Proudfoot, Kappa Alpha Theta; Phil Levine, Zeta Beta Tau; and Mildred Eberhard, Alpha Delta Pi.
UCLA will hold their annual formal panhellenic ball the following Saturday evening. Officers of the Occidental and SC interfraternity and panhellenic councils will be honored guests at this affair.
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mperials Withdraw in Burma
Nippons Assume Full Superiority in Control of Air
NEW DELHI, Apri. 1—(U.P.) —British troops have broken out of a Japanese encirclement and fallen back on Prome, gateway to the Burma oil fields, but the Japanese are massing only 10 miles to the south and have complete control of the air, an allied communique revealed tonight.
With all territory behind them firmly in their hands, it appeared the Japanese were preparing another flanking movement, possibly forcing * the imperials to withdraw from Prome to prevent being cut off from their Chinese allies in central Burma.
JAPS ADVANCE
Prome is on the east bank of the Irrawaddy river and the Japs are striding up both the east and west banks, as well as up the Rangoon-Prome railway. In normal times, traffic from Rangoon moved 160 miles up the Prome by rail and was transferred there to river boats which operated some 300 miles to Mandalay.
The British, including units of the Gloucester, Yorkshire, and Cameronian highlander regiments and two Indian frontier battalions, had been encircled beneath Paun-gde, 30 miles south of Prome, and Shwedaunge, 10 miles south of Prome. They fought their way through the Jap road blocks at Shewdaunge and moved on north to Prome, leaving all the territory from Shwedaunge south firmly in Jap hands.
CHINESE MANEUVER CLEAR
In eastern Burma, meanwhile, in an almost parallel action, Chinese defenders of Tyngoo, on the Ran-goon-Mandalay road, had smashed out of a Japanese encirclement and rejoined units of U. S. Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s north Burma armies at Yedashe, 18 miles to the north. The situation there was obscure.
The situation in the British sector was this:
The Japanese had advanced up the Rangoon-Prome railway as far as Jaungde, which is 15 miles east of the Irrawaddy and 30 miles south of Prome.
DEFENDERS OUTFLANKED
They were swarming all over the west bank Oi the Irrawaddy, possibly as far north as Prome, and since the British road of withdrawal from Prome lay to the north and west, the defenders were being outflanked again.
Only 100 miles north of Prome, on the east bank of the river, are the Yenangyaung oil fields, one of the main Japanese objectives. And 160 miles west of the oil fields lies the frontier of India.
Chinese Resist Mandalay Drive
CHUNGKING, Apr. 1—(U.E)—Severe fighting is continuing northwest of Toungoo, Burma, between Chinese troops of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and Japanese forces trying to push northward from that captured city toward Mandalay, a war communique said tonight.
The communique, disclosing Chinese penetrations in Thailand, said that Japanese forces which tried to dislodge Chinese forces from the Thai village of Manghan, west of Chiengmai, were repulsed with heavy losses Mar. 24.
The communique said that the 33rd Japanese division, reinforced by forces totalling more than one division, landed from transports at Rangoon between Mar. 20 and Mar. 28, joined other Japanese units for the final assault on Toungoo.
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Francis Mason, Navy Hero, \ With New Victory as Three One Pacific, Two Atlantic U-]
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Crushing Blow to Nazis Told by Red Radio
Liberation Hour of Vitebsk Near, Moscow Declares
KYIBYSHEV. Apr. 1—<U.E>—Gen. Ivan S. Konevs Soviet army has recaptured 34 towns and villages in a two-day battle on the Kalinin front which cost the Germans 7000 killed and possibly cleared the way to Vitebsk, 75 miles east of the old Polish border, front reports said tonight.
The Moscow radio hinted broadly that recapture of Vitebsk, communications hub 75 miles northwest of Smolensk, was near, while military dispatches implied that Konev’s “crushing alow” in the same general area might mean he had broken through the German lines.
BROADCAST HEARD
“With the hour of liberation of Vitebsk not far off,” a broadcast said, “the inhabitants have intensified guerrilla activity and are harassing the Germans.”
An official Soviet spokesman, I. Yermashev, said great battles raging along the entire Russian front were “comparable in intensity to those fought before Moscow at the beginning of December.”
Soviet dispatches taking a long-range view of the war said that the Finns had lost 200,000 men since it began and {hat the Germans had lost 45.000 killed and wounded in vain efforts to capture Sevastopol.
(The British exchange telegraph news agency reported from Stockholm that formidable reinforcements had reached German lines in the Crimea, the Donets basin and on the central front. It said new and rigid restrictions on railway travel in Germany were due to the big-scale transport eastward of newly-trained soldiers in preparation for the spring offensive. GENERAL KILLED
(The London radio quoted the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter as reporting that another German general, Lt. Gen. Gerke, commander of an infantry division, had been killed on the Russian front).
The communist newspaper Prav-ada in special dispatches from the Kalinin front said that in scoring the new victory Konev s forces took large quantities of artillery, trench mortars, machine guns, trucks, and ammunition.
Screams Startle Sorority Row as ADPis Robbed
Screams rang out on 28th street late last night, arousing many collegians and attracting two police squad cars. When the tumult died, it was learned that a robbery had been per petrated at the Alpha Delta Pi
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