SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILYBTROJAN
I. XXXIII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Cal., Wednesday, May 13, 1942
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No. 141
artet Nazis Renew Drive rforms 'n Kerch Peninsula
Bovard
tolidge Foundation tonsors Recital String Group
lpositions of Johannes is, Paul Hindemith, and von Dohnanyi will high-tonight’s recital of the on string quartet at 8:30 Dvard auditorium, ird in a series of five ;rts sponsored by the beth Sprague Coolidge iation, the program is op-
both faculty and student body ers.
[MS QUARTET PLAYED
rtet in B flat major, Op. 67, to
yed tonight, was Brahms' last
quartet, and it is considered eatest. One commentator spoke as the quartet of humor, and ns described its third move-as ‘the tenderest, most ro-most impassioned movement have ever written.” There ir movements to this opus, emith's quartet in F minor. No. 1, his first quartet and his earliest works, will also bred this evening. Critics have his style the most finished contemporary composers. His •onsists of three movements.
I QUARTET
nanyj's quartet in D flat ma-p. 15, will be the last number Ited. There are four move-| in the selection.
basis of his style can be to Beethoven and Brahms, he interprets magnificently,” ced Pauline Alderman, asso-jrofessor of music. “Yet his ldmduality is so strong that lot be mistaken in any of his
ided in England before the ak of the war. the quartet met nstantaneous success in both ca and Europe. Its members William Primrose, viola; John ngton. first violin; Thomfes second violin; and Lauri Ken-violincello.
JP DISBANDED ’ conditions forced the group band in 1939. It was reorg-I earlier this year and has re-1 its former place in music cir-#
dates for the two remaining s have been set for Sunday, 7. and Wednesday. May 20, at .rn. The ushers will be mem-of Mu Phi Epsilon, musical iry.
Reds Report 102 German Planes Downed in Furious Action on Southern Front
MOSCOW, May 12—(U.P.)—Powerful Russian air forces, including Stormovik battlewagons of the air, have swarmed to the support of the Red army defenders of the Kerch peninsula who are stubbornly resisting the first assault of Germany’s spring offensive, the high command announced tonight. A late night communique | --
said that on the southern front, end of the front the Russians had where blood battles raged along an advanced two miles in fierce fight-18-mile line barricading the Kerch ing below Leningrad.) gateway to the Caucasus, a squad- The soviet command said 102 Ger-ron of Stormovik assault craft sue- man planes were destroyed in fu-cessfully raided a German airdrome, rious air actions Sunday and Mon-leaving 19 ground planes aflame and day, indicating an upsurge in opera-damagmg 22 more.	tions which apparently were concen-
By air and by land the Russians trated on the southern front where were reported battling effectively the land battle was in progress, against the axis onslaught in the Only small-scale action was re-eastern Crimea, the first German of- ported elsewhere on the Russian fensive on the Russian front in six front. In one sector of the Kalinin months aimed toward the rich oil front the Germans tried to capture fields of the Caucasus.	a soviet position but were beaten
(The Berlin radio reported that back with heavy losses. A second more than 2000 German dive bomb- assault after reinforcements moved
DR. I. EUGENE HARLEY—apeak, at iinal Wednesday s lies.
ers were in action on the Kerch front. Reporting that the attack on
up also was repulsed and nearly all of the enemy troops were annihi-
the Kerch isthmus began last Fri-	lated.
day, the Germans made no specific	The Russian air force was reclaims whatever to an advance and	vealed to have gone into action on a couched their descriptions of the	destructive scale, its operations evi-combat in terms of what was yet	dently focused on suporting the to come.	Kerch defenders and lashing back (A Moscow broadcast heard in	at the strong aerial backing of their London said that at the opposite	adversaries.
House Votes Raise in Soldiers' Pay
WASHINGTON, May 12—(U.P.)—The house today tentatively agreed to boost the base pay of army privates and navy apprentice seamen from $30 to $50 a month.
The chamber went on record in favor of the increase when it adopted by a vote of 102 to 40—subject to later ratification —an amendment by Rep. John E. I ---
Participates Church Council
icipatmg in current religious sions, the Graduate School of sn and the School of Music
I'd at the second conference e con tempo ran- church held day at the University church, conference emphasized the
t>layed by the church in the t crisis. Assisting the SC 5 in sponsoring the religious were the Church Federation >s Angeles and the Federal :il of the Churches of Christ nerica.
n Charles W. Gilkev of the feller Memorial chapel at the rsity of Chicago spoke to the Ibly.
Rankin, D., Miss., to the senate-approved service pay bill.
Rankin’s proposal also would raise the pav of privates first class and seamen second class from $36 to $54 a month. The original senate version would have raised privates and apprentice seamen to S42. and privates first class and seamen second class to $48.
MORE INCREASES
The bill also authorizes these day and evening increases: corporals and seamen first class, from $54 to $66 a month; sergeants and petty officers and petty officers second class. $72 to $96; first sergeants and petty officers first class. $84 to $114; acting chief petty officers (navy and coast guard only) from $99 to $126; master sergeants and chief petty officers from $126 to $138; and second lieutenants and ensigns from $1500 to $1800 annually.
Corresponding ranks in the
Pharmacy Grads Meet
The third annual pharmacy alumni conference will be held on this campus tomorrow. It will start at 9 a.m. and will last throughout the
William H. Myers, class of ’31, will preside over the morning session which will begin with registration and be climaxed by a speech on ‘ Professional Responsibilities of the Pharmacist’’ by Dr. Alvah G. Hall, dean of the College of Pharmacy.
A motion picture entitled, “Pharmacy Techniques,” will be shown during luncheon.
The afternoon session will center around the place of pharmacy in
Women s Army Auxiliary Bill Sent to FDR
Legislation Creates Corps of 150,000 for World-Wide Duty
WASHINGTON, May 12—(U.P)— Congress today passed and sent to the white house a bill creating a women's auxiliary army corps of 150,000 members to serve in non-combatants posts with the American army anywhere in the world.
The women soldiers would be subject to the same disciplinary measures and penalties applying in the army.
Last obstacle in the path of the controversial house-approved measure was removed when the senate adopted it by a vote of 38 to 27 after defeating an amendment to restrict activities of the feminine army the sanctity of the home.
Sen. Francis T. Maloney, D., Conn., sponsor of the amendment, declared the bill “casts a shadow on the sanctity of the home.”
“Those patriotic women who wish to serve their country can render excellent service—as they did in the last war—in civil service positions,” he said. “No one has stated very clearly—at least to me—just what-duties they would perform.
“They are clearly not being called up to serve as cooks, but instead they will be furnished with male cooks from the regular army. They are clearly not being called upon to do housework.”
His amendment was defeated 37 to 26, with Sen. Hattie Caraway, D., Ark., the only woman senator, voting a resounding ‘no” with the majority.
Political Science Professor Concludes Wednesday Series
Problems facing a united nations movement in plans for postwar reconstruction will be discussed by Dr. J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, in his Wednesday lecture.
"Planning for Postwar Peace and Reconstruction” is his topic for this, the last of the weekly lecture series which has been offered during the spring semester. He will deliver his address in the Doheny art and lecture room at 4:30.
Dr. Harley recommended an adequate system of international law and cooperation among nations in his proposal for a W’orking plan of action.
POINTS GIVEN
The matter in which world political organization is related to increased economic operation and how world political grouping serves social and humanitarian needs of the world, will be points of his discussion.
He will outline the problems facing a united nations movement and will review the weaknesses, successes, and failure of such groups as the League of Nations. He will stress the need for the continuation of an international labor organization and international justice and plans to suggest a revival and strengthening of the league.
Problems of maintaining an international police force, economic boycotts, and other measures will come under his consideration. Under these points he will mention the organization of such a force as a permanent personnel or a national quota basis chosen for each emergency.
PROPOSES GROUP
The extent to which national sovereignty must be limited in order to accomodate itself to the requirements of effective international law was his summing up of the question.
Professor Harley proposed a commonwealth of nations for the care of international relations and problems. He suggested that such a group might be either global or regional. The latter w'ould need to be linked up in a world-wide grouping embracing all regions, he stated.
BARBARA SYMMES — receives AWS presidency tonight.
coast guard and marine corps	the war, and will feature speeches
would receive similar increases. In	on blood banks and pharmacy in
addition, the bill carries raises for	civilian defense,
nurses serving with the armed	The annual alumni banquet will
forces and personnel of the coast	be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Foyer
and geodetic survey and the U. S.	of Town and Gown. Milton P. Duf-
public health service.	fy will address the group on “Food
RAISE ALLOWANCES	and Drug Control in the War Pro-
Commissioned officers of ranks	£ram” After dinner entertainment
higher than second lieutenants or	win 156 Provided by Jeanette Atta-
ensigns do not receive higher base	rian’ Leo Carrillo, and Andy Devine.
pay, but are granted higher living -
allowances.
Rankin’s amendment was adopted under parliamentary procedure which requires ratification or rejection when the house takes a	Dr. and Mrs. William H. Daven-final vote on the measure, proba-	port have announced the birth of blv tomorrow. If the change pre-	twin girls at the Good Samaritan vails, the measure must be re-	hospital Monday. The babies each turned to the senate for concur-	weighed a little more than rence.	| pounds.
Dr. Davenport Becomes Father
Players Give Comedy as Final Production
Actors Present ‘The Late Christopher Bean’;
Three Seniors Make Farewell Appearance
The comedy “The Late Christoph^* Bean” will be offered this Saturday and next Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard auditorium by the National Collegiate players. It will be their last dramatic presentation of the semester.
The cast, as released by George Goldberg, Play Productions manager, contains three seniors
five
ts all
tlie Bescos Recounts Experiences
soon as you walk through those gates, you’ve (d into a different world.” It was Lt. Julie , junior grade, talking. "To me it was the most ;ting experience in my life.” wm the fates of Annapolis to which Lieu-t Bescos was referring. He stepped through late last March in the company of Trojans Barry and Bob McNeish.
three were in the same battalion and for four >d weeks they drilled on the athletic fields, ied in the study halls, and took orders from ) years their juniors.
k at his alma mater yesterday fri the role of ation cadet recruiting officer, Lieutenant Bes-liled longingly as he reminisced over his ab-*d but thrilling experiences at the naval iy.
Eof the first things I noticed was the fine of the plebes. It was a startling contrast i slouching gait so Irpical of the average |e youth. I was also impressed by the willing-Lnth which the boys accepted the sternest L«e,” he stated, naval traditions and a love for the *ea firm-
ly entrenched in his mind. Lieutenant Bescos will leave the campus Saturday for St. Mary's college. There he will once more assist a man with whom he has been affiliated in Trojan athletics for almost 10 years—Lt. Cmdr. Sam Barr}’. •
It will be his task at Moraga to mold naval airmen into the physical fitness so necessary for the rigors of active combat. It is his contention that competitive sports—particularly basketball—develop the teamwork. coordination, and most important- of all, spontaneous reaction essential to formation flying and individual dogfights.
Lieutenant Bescos has long been a prominent figure in Trojan athletic circles. He was a four-sport letterman at SC and in 1933, his senior year, he won all-America mention for his play at end on the grid squad and was the forward post on the all-conference basketball squad.
He has coached numerous teams in his eight-year-tenure at SC. Last season he was end coach for the varsity eleven and mentored the basketball squad to a second place in the conference standings behind the national champions from Stanford.
Carl Huddleston Presents Concert
In the first of a series of song citals, Carl Huddleston Jr., tass-baritone, will be the soloist at the concert tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. in Bowne hall.
Assisted by Paul Silva, pianist and accompanist, Huddleston will open the program with “Where ’er You Walk,” Handel; “Hear Me! Ye Winds and Waves,” Handel; “For Music,” Franz; “Romance,” Franz; and “Farewell,” Franz.
Silva will play Chopin’s “Polonaise Militaire,” Nocturne in E minor, and Waltz in E minor.
Huddleston will continue the program with “The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington.” old English ballad; "Edward,” Loewe; “II Lacerato Spirito,” Verdi; and “Cortigiani vil Razza,” Verdi.
“M e d i t a t i o n,” TscLaikowskv; "Three Bagatelles,” Vivo; “Lento con Tristezza,” and “Presto,” Tcherepnin. will be played by Silva.
Huddleston will conclude the recital with “Myself When Young,” Lehmann; “Maid of Alcala,” Mes-sager; “Song,” Silva; and “Captain Strattono’s Fancy,” Taylor.
who will be making their last appearances on an SC stage. They are Ruth Ann Hartmann as Ada, Hal Bargelt as Dr. Haggett, and George Goldberg as Davenport.
The play, an adaptation of a French drama, is considered to be one of the best of Sidney Howard’s efforts. It takes place in a small town near Boston and revolves around the discovery of valuable paintings and the efforts of art dealers to obtain these paintings, legally or otherwise.
Other members of the cast include Marilyn Walker as Susie, June Wade as Mrs. Haggett, Jim George as Warren Creamer, Leroy Payant as Tallant, and Paul Rapport as Rosen.
Writers Report for Field Trip
Journalism students scheduled to make the field trip to San Bernardino this weekend will report to 423 Student Union at 3 this afternoon.
No excuses will be accepted and no absences allowed, according to the editors in charge of the trip.
U.S. Sets Fund to Buy Old Tires, Tubes
Sales Scheduled on Voluntary Basis in RFC Program
WASHINGTON, May 12—(U.E)— The Reconstruction Finance corporation today created a $150,000,000 Aind to relieve the serious rubber shortage through purchase by the government of new and used tires and tubes from private owners.
All sales will be on a voluntary
basis and prices paid will be determined by local rationing boards set up under the office of price administration. No price will be permitted to exceed the OPA ceiling. Payment will be in cash or war bonds.
The program will be administered by the Defense Supplies corporation, an RFC subsidiary, which also is financing frozen stocks of new passenger automobile tires and tubes held by manufacturers, distributors, jobbers, and dealers.
Coincident with this move, Sen. George W. Norris, Ind., Neb., charged before a senate agriculture subcommittee that the nation’s synthetic rubber program is being delayed by “favoritism in awarding contracts to the big oil trusts.”
He said the war production board will not consider formulae and processes for production of synthetic rubber from alcohol because they are new and untried.
“When someone offers WPB a new process, they turn it down because it hasn't been tried,” he protested. Then they refuse to let the inventor prove its value by denying priorities for construction of plants to make the test.
“It is a ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t proposition.’ ”
He said WPB is neglecting production of “butadiene” (synthetic rubber) from grain and other alcohols made from farm commodities and is “catering to the big petroleum interests.”
AWS Dinner Fetes Seniors With Awards
Trojan women will culminate a year of activities tonight at 5:30 when they gather in the Foyer of Town and Gown for the annual Recognition banquet of the AWS. The affair will fete outstanding seniors and present new members of campus societies. Approximately 650 women are expected to attend.	| ---—
McKay Takes ASSC Office in Senate Meet
Building her talk around the theme, "Let Us March with Our Faces Toward the Dawn,” Jackie Comerford will hand the gavel of AWS presidency to her successor, Barbara Symmes. Miss Symmes’ acceptance will be based on “Awake. Arise, or Be Forever Fallen.”
Helen Hall Moreland, counselor of women, will be the third speaker of the evening.
SCROLLS PRESENTED Climax of the banquet will be the presentation of honor scrolls to senior women with high scholastic records who have rendered noteworthy service to the university and
A small number of tickets may be secured at the cashier’s window for this evening’s AWS banquet. Price of the reservations ls
$1.10.
The banquet will begin at 5:30
p.m.
Army Recruiters Leave Campus
Yesterday concluded the army’s official visit to this campus, as Major Roy L. Jones announced that the reserve enlistment of students under the program offered by the army air force will continue at the permanent headquarters at 611 South Ardmore boulevard.
“The student response to our program was indeed gratifying,” said Major Jones, chief of the examining board, speaking in behalf of
to the women students. Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford will make these
awards.
Honored guests at the affair will be Mrs. Henry W. Bruce, Mrs. Walter Harrison Fisher, Dr. Pearle Aikin-Smith, Dr. Crawford, Mrs. John W. Harris, and Dr. Catherine V. Beers.
DEBATER HONORED
Dr. Aikin-Smith will present the three coveted Town and Gown awards. The debate cup is awarded to the most outstanding woman in debate, the YWCA cup to the woman having the best record in Y work, and the senior award goes to the senior woman or women who have the best records in scholarship and activities for their entire university careers.
Theta Sigma Phi. national honorary and professional sorority for women in journalism, will rec- | ognize the outstanding senior woman in journalism. Mrs. Louise i Denny, former instructor at SC. | will make the journalism award.
New members of Phi Beta Kappa,> Phi Kappa Phi, and Beta Gamma j Sigma will be named by Prof. Julia ! N. McCorkle, Dr. Beers, and Wil’a Mae Boone.
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES
Dorothy Hepp, chief justice of the judicial court, will name her successor and the members of the I court for next semester. ASSC of-ficers will be announced by Mildred Eberhard, ASSC vice-president.
President Shirley Millikan will announce the new members of Spooks and Spokes, junior women’s honorary service organization, and Betty Johnson Shaeffer will name the new WAA cabinet.
Jackie Orlander will name the senior member of Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman women's scholarship honorary, who has maintained the highest scholastic record dur-(Continued on Page Two)
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New Board Plans Rushing Campaign to Enroll Students
Bob McKay officially assumed the presidential office of the ASSC last night when the gavel passed from Syd Barton, retiring head. All new ASSC officers replaced members serving the 1941-1942 term.
During the evening’s meeting a proposal was introduced that the ASSC should engage in an all-out rushing campaign of high school students so as to maintain a normal enrollment at the university despite war conditions.
One of the first official acts of the new body was the appointment of Eleanor Britton to the presidency of the women's freshmen advisory committee. In this post she will work with Helen Hall Moreland, counselor of women.
It was suggested during the meeting that students submit suggestions as to ways and means of conducting the campaign to rush high school students.
New officers of the ASSC governing board are McKay, president; Charlotte Quinn, vice-president, who was unopposed for the office during the recent campus elections; and Beverly Royston, secretary.
Alpha Eta Rho Elects Officers for Next Year
i
Alpha Eta Rho, national aviation fraternity, elected new officers at its noon meeting yesterday in the student tearoom. They are Bob Lewis, president; Rosemary Williams, vice-president; Blanche Hubler, secretary; Jim Marovish, treasurer, and Sicily Maloy, historian.
H. W. Peterson, traffic manager of the Los Angeles office of Pan American airways, spoke to the group at the luncheon meeting.
Illustrating the economic value of air freight transportation, he told how one Douglas DC-3 can do the work of 120 trucks in a single month on the Burma road trade route.
Activities which the war interrupted included a Pan American air-excursion from Shanghai to the capital of Tibet, a distance of several thousand miles.
All Trojan men who have been sworn into the army air force enlisted reserve corps following interviews with the examining board now on campus are asked to report at the front of the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial library at noon todav.
Japan Radio Reveals Safety of SC Alumnus
The best of all possible Mother’s day presents came this past weekend to Mrs. L. D. Hilton, 920 West 35th place.
Her son, Lt. Dale Hilton, a veteran navy pilot and a graduate of SC, had been missing in action for several months.
Last Saturday, it was learned yesterday, a short-wave
message from Tokyo, which was j---*
picked up in San Diego and in Ore- been doing dive-bombing and scout-
' ing work with the U. S. Pacifio
the army air force. “Our deepest thanks go to Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer and the rest of the administration of this university for their splendid cooperation.”
Major Jones emphasized that those men who have already taken advantage of the program should remember that they are now students in attendance at a military academy preparing to be officers in the army “Enlistment under this program has not closed at all,” Major Jones wished to remind SC men. “Students can still enlist at the permanent cadet aviation board headquarters for the Los Angeles area.”
gon, was addressed to Lieutenant Hilton's wife, the former Doris King, daughter of Lloyd King, Huntington Park automobile man.
The message quoted Lieutenant Hilton as saying that he was a prisoner of war “somewhere in Japan,” was well, war'oeing well-treated, and sent his regfc ds to his family and 1 friends.
The last news previously received of the lieutenant was in a letter from one of his fellow fliers who had seen him shot down and had stayed in the vicinity long enough to
fleet.
After a college career in which he was active both in athletics and on campus, Hilton went into naval aviation in July, 1936, at Long Beach, following his graduation from the College of Engineering the previous month.
In November of that year he was sent to Pensacola for further training. A ^ flier of more than five years experience, he was due for advancement to a full lieutenancy.
While at SC, Lieutenant Hilton
see him and his radio man get safely was editor of El Rodeo in 1934, cap
into their rubber boat.
A Honolulu newspaper carried the story that Lieutenant Hilton had radioed his ship that he had been shot down by anti-aircraft fire and
that his plane was on fire. He had ma.
tain of the golf team, member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, the board of publications, the student senate, Trojan Knights, Skull and Dagger, Blue Key, and Sigma Sig-