SOUTHERN^ CALIFORNIA
DAILY9TROJAN
ol. XXXIII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Cal., Friday, May 15, 1942
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No. 143
hip Sinking tirs Mexico
joreign Minister Demands Explanation pi Stiff Ultimatum to Aggressor Nation
KICO CITY, May 14—(U.P.)—Foreign Minister Ezequiel ilia issued a virtual ultimatum to the aggressor nation— eved to be Germany—demanding a full explanation of the :ing of a Mexican tanker by May 21 or face the conserves “demanded by Mexico’s national honor.’
fAA Invites articipation
All-U Swim
beginners, Experts Vie in Afternoon ^st in Gymnasium
jruggling beginners and smooth
kers will get together at the
im lor Victory” funfest next
sday afternoon in pool in the
sical Education building. Both i and women atudents, beginners experts, are invited to attend meet which ia sponsored by the nnunp club of the WAA.
vents have been scheduled for se people who can navigate a by means of walking and its have also been planned for experts. A red team, captained Betty Winstead; a white team, ded by Marilyn Keller; and a ! team, led by Manon Conner; vie for top place.
ke awimfest will open with a pest for retrieving objects from bottom of the pool ... a clean ep exhibition. A 25 yd. free e race will follow. Candles will the feature of the first comedy y which will precede the 25 yd. aststroke race.
ational champions Miss Win-id and Harry Parry will do ex-pion diving* for spectators during intermission. Ivan Duke, who I returned from the national pt, will give a backstroke demonition.
lecond comedy relay will feature Itestants in nightshirts. A med-I including a 25 yd. free style race, P5 yd. breaststroke competition, a 25 yd. backcrawl contest will ow.
'irginia Lemon, manager of the mming club, stated that pariici-Its must sign up by 5 p.m. Mon-r in the gymnasium.
Tonalities Group ives Tea Today
("he Won«en's International Asso-tion of Aeronautics, which will d its annual meeting today at ■ home of Mrs. John K. North->, advised those planning to at-id to • bring your own sugar.”
beginning at 10:30 a.m. the inter-jional association, in a joint ses-p with the Los Angeles chapter, I hear an address by Col. Laur-a Schimoler on ••Chemical War-e Irritants.” The group is plan-ig to prepare supplies for the ial nurses corps.
ioming pigeons, which will fly to aviators’ shrine at the Mission l. Riverside, will be released at
0	p.m.
"©under-president of the WIAA. s. Ulysses Grant McQueen, will sak to the group at 3 p.m. and
1	be guest of honor at the 13th lual birthday tea to be held at i.m.
>r. Mary Sinclair Crawford, pro-sor of old French, is the interzonal president, and Dr. Cather-Beers. professor of zoology, is fmational secretary.
bm the'
resident's Office
| On Tuesday, May IS, at noon, Bov&id auditorium, an impor-nt assembly for all women stu-•nt* of the university will be ski. At ihat time, problems con-xrted with the war effort which (C* the women of the university HI be considered.
R. B. von KieinSmid. J.	President.
The ultimatum referred to the j torpedoing of the Mexican tanker “Portrero de Llano’’ off the Florida coast Wednesday night with the j probable loss of 13 lives despite the ] fact, according to government sourc-1 es, that the vessel was clearly identified. The ship was the first Mexican loss on the high seas in this war.
SURVIVORS LAND
Simultaneous w’ith Padilla’s an-I nouncement, the Cozmel correspondent of the capital newspaper, El Universal, reported that a lifeboat carrying three survivors had been landed on the Mujeres islands off the coast of the Mexican territory of Quintano Roo, indicating an intensification of axis undersea warfare in the Gulf of Mexico.
The lifeboat bore the name "Montana” on its sides, but other details were lacking.
The stiffness of the foreign office note over the loss of the Mexican ship was taken to indicate Mexico was preparing to declare war, but there was no mention of that specific eventuality in official quarters.
RELATIONS BREAK
Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with the axis nations soon of-
ter the United States was drawn into the war. Padilla has been a staunch supporter of hemispheric cooperation and was one of the leaders at the Rio de Janeiro conference on antiaxis solidarity.
“I am sure this unfortunate de-j velopment will make the Mexican people realize the sinking of our ships, and the sacrifice of our crews, and the outrage to the Mexican flag demand an attitude in accordance with our traditions of honor and defense of our national sovereignty,” he said tonight.
Hut Sales Hit $150 Record
Topping sorority sales records at the Victory hut to date, Delta Delta Delta yesterday sold $150 worth of war stamps, Chairman Dorothy LaFollette announced last night.
This places the Tri-Delts in the lead for the floor lamp prize donated by Barker Brothers to the group selling the greatest number of stamps on their day of sponsoring the hut. Kappa Alpha Theta is second, with a sales record of $110.
Success of the hut has been so pronounced. Miss LaFollette said, that the hut will remain open during the summer acceleration program. So many organizations have called to request a day to sponsor the stamp sales that it has been necessary to increase the number of days that it is open, she said.
Formerly open oaly Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, the hut will now be open on Mondays as well. Organizations wishing to sponsor sales during the summer 8re asked to turn in their requests by next week.
As Miss LaFollette is a graduating senior, applications for general chairmanship of the drive for the summer program will also be accepted next week.
Allied Planes Blast Massing Nipponese Off Australia Base
MELBOURNE, Friday, May 15—(U.P.)—American and allied long-range bombers blasted a transport, sank a big seaplane and kindled huge fires in raids yesterday on bases northeast of Australia where the Japanese are massing their forces for a new thrust southward, Gen. Douglas MacArthur revealed in a communique today.
The Japanese also stepped up the tempo of their offensive against Port Moresby, allied stronghold on the southeastern shore of New Guinea, sending a total of 48 bombers and fighters against the base in two raids yesterday.
“No damage was reported from either raid and we shot down two enemy fighters,” the communique said, however.
The allied raids were on Rabaul in northern New Britain, believed Japan's main invasion base in the northeastern sector, and on De-boyne island, big seaplane base in the Louisiade archipelago off the eastern tip of New Guinea.
Aussie Aviators Strike Amboina
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Friday. May 15—(U.P)—The Japanese were “caught with their pants down” when Australian fliers made the first major raid of the war ; Wednesday night on the former Dutch naval base of Amboina, sinking one merchant ship and damaging two others, airmen who made the 1200-mile round trip attack said today.
"We saw terrified Japs running in all* directions on their ships,” said a veteran young Melbourne flier who led the attack.
“They never had a chance to man . their guns until we dropped our bombs and the raid was over.”
(In a communique issued Thursday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters announced that in the raid a 3000-ton merchant ship was sunk and two others, of 3000 and 2000 tons, were damaged.)
Amboina, 600 miles northwest of Port Darwin, was second only to Soerbaja, Java, as a major Netherlands East Indies naval base and it was believed that the Japanese have concentrated large naval forces there in anticipation of a southward drive.
At present, it is the nearest major base for naval attacks on the Australian mainland. During the first two months of the Pacific war it was used by RAAF fliers as an advanced base for operations against the Japanese then swarming down from the north.
Thespians Present Christopher Bean'
Final Drama Offering of Year to Start Tomorrow Night at 8:30 on Bovard Stage
The final dramatic offering for this year, “The Late Christopher Bean,” by Sidney Howard, will be presented tomorrow night and Monday at 8:30 in Bovard auditorium, by the National Collegiate players.
“The cast has been going through an extensive rehearsal
schedule for the past 10 days and
they are very enthusiastic over the production,” said George Goldberg, president of National Collegiate players.
The play, considered to be one of Howard’s best comedy efforts, is an adaptation of a French drama. The story concerns the unexpected discovery of valuable paintings owned by a typical New England family. These paintings are ■ the cause of many comical situations when unscrupulous art dealers attempt to gain possession of the highly valued artistry. The action takes place in a small town near Boston and revolves around the family of a not-too-successful doctor.
CAST LISTED
Members of the cast are Ruth Ann Hartman as Ada, Hal Bar-gelt as Dr. Haggett, George Goldberg as Davenport, June Wade as Mrs. Haggett, Jim George as Warren Creamer, Leroy Payant as Tallant, and Clair Laub, as Suzy.
Three members of the cast will be making their last performance on the boards of Bovard; Miss Hartman, Goldberg, and Bargelt.
Fifty soldiers from the regiment stationed in Exposition park will be the guests of the dramatic group at each performance.
PRICE SET
Admission will be free for students with student books which have been validated at the ticket office or the box office. The admission price for persons without books is 40 cents.
Last year’s production of tjie NCP was also a Howard play, “The Silver Cord.” Howard, before his untimely death, was one of the nation’s leading playwrights. He penned the screen play of “Gone With the Wind,” and the stage
play “They Knew What They Wanted.”
Pritchard Speaks Today
Lawrence D. Pritchard, director, office of coordination, will address ’the Los Angeles Rotary club at noon today at the Biltmore hotel on “Essentials of Victory.”
Art Students Plan Auction in Harris Hall
Oils, Watercolors Offered for Sale by Local Creators
Annual clothesline auction day will be held Monday afternoon in the patio of Harris hall by students in the College of Architecture and Fine Arts. Student work will go on the block at 1 p.m., and the auction will continue until everything is sold, Prof. Glen Lukens announced yesterday.
Watercolors, oil paintings, pottery, sculpture, and jewelry will be hung on clotheslines, from which the sale derives its name, at * a.m. Students and faculty memoers who will be unable to attend the auction may write their names and bids on cards and place them on the works of their choice. If no higher bid is made, these persons may make payment later and take the objects
.home.
Proceeds from the affair will be divided evenly between the contributing students and the scholarship fund which has been established for students in the College of Architecture and Fine Arts.
Professor Lukens stressed the fact that the material presented for auction has been selected as the best of each student’s work for the semester.
“No one has mauled over the collection and taken his choice beforehand,” he emphasized.
Artist-instructors Dan Lutz, Mer-rell Gage, Richard Snavely, and Lukens will donate some of their own works to aid this drive for the student scholarship fund.
Final Exam Schedule
Class Recitin?
Examination day Examination hour
Orchestra, Choir Give Radio Show
Broadcasting on a special inter-American hookup, the SC orchestra and choir, directed by Dr. Lucien Cailliet, and Dr. Max i Krone, will be heard over stations of the Columbia Broadcasting company Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in a program written and produced by H. Spencer Sussan, student in the drama department.
This broadcast is the second in a series of semidramatic musical presentations to appear under the title of “American Rhapsody.” It is being broadcast to celebrate the ojiening of 76 new Columbia stations in 20 South American republics.
Ray Cushman, drama student, will act as narrator.
Religion Officers Assume Positions
Newly elected officers of the student council of religion officially assumed their positions at a meeting yesterday afternoon in the student senate chamber. Howard Callanan, president-elect accepted the gavel from Jerry Conrad, president during the past school year.
Other officers taking office were Marion Smith and Edna Calvert,
| vice-presidents; Ethelyn Miller, secretary; and John Kimball, treasurer.
Conrad told the council members assembled that with the new plans that are in view for an intensified program next fall under Callanan’s new leadership, the council will continue to climb to greater heights on campus.
Callanan is a sprinter on the varsity track team and a memDer of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Hindman Addresses Club
Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, assistant professor of political science, will speak to the North Hollywood Womans club today at 10:45 a.m. ; on “America’s Four Freedoms.”
8 a.m. Sat.........Saturday, May 23................8 a.m. to 10
10:10 a.m. Sat.......Saturday, May 23....... 10	a.m. to 12
2:15 p.m. T.Th. and
3:15 p.m. M.W.F. ..Saturday, May 23................8 a.m. to 11
2:15 p.m. M.W.F. and
3:15 p.m. T.Th. ...Saturday, May 23................1 p.m. to 4
10:10 a.m. M.W.F. ..Monday, May 25..................8 a.m. to 11
8	a.m. T.Th........Monday, May 25...........1 p.m. to 4
11:10 a.m. M.W.F. ...Tuesday, May 26 ................8 a.m. to 11
10:10 a.m. T.Th.....Tuesday, May 26 ................1 p.m. to 4
1:15 p.m. M.W.F. ...Wednesday, May 27............8 a.m. to 11
9	a.m. T.Th........Wednesday, May 27............1 p.m. to 4
8	a.m. M.W.F.......Thursday, May 28..............8 a.m. to 11
11:10 a.m. T.Th.....Thursday, May 28..............1 p.m. to 4
9	a.m. M.W.F.......Friday, May 29 ....................8 a.m. to 11
1:15 p.m. T.Th......Friday, May 29 ....................1 p.m. to 4
SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS
Department and Course Number
Accounting 50b (All sections)—
Saturday, May 23 ...........8 a.m. to 11
General studies 51 (All sections)—
' Saturday, May 30 ...........8 a.m. to 11
General studies 52 (All sections)—
Saturday, May 30 ...........1 p.m. to 4
Economics 53b (All sections)—
Monday, June 1 ............8 a.m. to 11
General studies lb (All sections)—
Monday, June 1 ............8 a.m. to 11
Phys. Ed. 49m (All sections)—
Monday, June 1 ......11:30 a.m. to 12:30
Phys. Ed. 14m, 18mw, 19mw, 31m, and 31w (All sections)—
Monday, June 1 ......12:35 p.m. to 1:35
Phys. Ed. 30mw, 17mw, 24mw, and 33mw (All sections)—
Monday, June 1........1:40 p.m. to 2:40
Phys. Ed. lOmw, llmw, 21m, and 21w (All sections)—
Monday, June 1 ............3 p.m. to 4
Phys. Ed. 23m and 49w (All sections)—
Monday, June 1........4:05 p.m. to 5:05
Phys. Ed. 27mw, 29mw, and 41mw (All sections)—
Monday, June 1...........5:10 p.m. to 6
English A (All sections)—
Tuesday, June 2 ..................8 a.m. to 11
English la (All sections).—
Tuesday, June 2 ..................8 a.m. to 11
English lb (All sections)—
Tuesday, June 2 ..................8 a.m. to 11
English 2 (All sections)
Tuesday, June 2 ..................8 a.m. to 11
Employed Wives to Lose Husbands by New Draft Edict
WASHINGTON, May 14 — (U.P.)—Draft Chief Lewis B. Hershey told congress today the selective service is “going slow” in calling up men with dependents but that men whose wives are working will be inducted “soon.”
He appeared before the
house military affairs committee which also heard war department representatives assert the army has no intention of “taking any more men with dependents than is necessary.”
They tcsiified in support of pending legislation that would provide monthly allowances for dependents of enlisted men in both branches of the service. The bill sets up two clarifications of dependents—“A” (wives and children) and “B’’ (parents, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren).
Under ‘‘A’ classification an enlisted man would be required to allot $20 a month of his pay to his wife. The government would match the $20 and add $10 a month for each child. Total allowances under “B” would not excced $50 a month.
Hearing on the measure came as the senate sent to conference legislation that would boost military pay. The senate-approved measure
would start new soldiers and sailors
at $42 a month; the house measure at $50.
Testifying in favor of the allowance bill, Hershey cautioned, however, against legislation which local draft boards might construe as meaning that men with dependents should not be given any more consideration than single men.
Reds Break Nazi's Front
rkov
MOSCOW, Friday, May 15—(U.P.)—Russian troops, pouring through a breach in the first German defense line around Kharkov, are boring in toward the heart of the city, and on the Kerch peninsula are battling strongly against superior axis forces after a further withdrawal, the red army an-
------—- nounced today.
h|	a •	“Our troops continued to advance
Three Juniors Receive Men s Council Posts
Caldwell, Helsel,
Fisk Appointed to Judicial Offices
Three junior men were appointed yesterday to the Trojan men’s council, highest appointive office open for men students at SC. William Caldwell, Kappa Alpha; Wilson Helsel, nonorg; and Bob Fisk, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, were the men selected.
successfully in the Kharkov sector,” the late communique of the soviet high command said of the two-day offensive against the great industrial capital and key German base ; on the southern front.
ARMY WITHDRAWS
For the second night in succes-•sion the red army command acknowledged a withdrawal to new positions on the Kerch peninsula un-, der the pressure of an axis mechanized and aerial onslaught. But the Caucasian army of Gen. D. T. Koz-low still fought ferociously for every yard of ground yielded.
• The London News Chronicle reported that a German high command spokesman said the Russians were counter-attacking along the so-called “Tartar ditch,” an old line of fortifications about 13 miles west of Kerch, and claimed that all attacks failed and that German and
The council is composed alter- . _	,	_
nately of three juniors and (our Romanian trpops forced their way
across the ditch.)
seniors one year and four juniors ana three seniors the next. Sitting on the judicial body next year will be the three new appointees and Bill Beaudine. Kappa Alpha; Phil Levine, Zeta Beta Tau; Warren Lane.
McKay, newly body president.
Duties of the council are to investigate. adjudicate. and discipline cases of Improper conduct
FLIERS AID
A supplementary communique said that the Kharkov offensive is “on a far larger scale,” than the German operations on Kerch penin-nonorg; and Bob sula, with red fliers aiding soviet elected student troops by pounding axis airfields.
It also reported that German attempts to find weak spots in the Russian lines between Moscow and Leningrad on the Kalinin front
and infringements of the recog-> have failed and that the Russians nized rules and standards of the also retain the offensive in the Lake conduct upon the campus, or in Ilmen area below Leningrad.
String Quartet Plays Sunday
The London string quartet will present the fourth in a series of concerts offered on this campus Sunday afternoon at 4 in Bovard auditorium.
It is through the efforts of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge that this series of concerts of . the world’s great chamber music is presented on the campus. Says President Rufus B. von KleinSmid:
“The need for such music in a period of stress such as that in which we are living is greater even than in normal times . . . We p.re very grateful to Mrs. Coolidge and only regret that she cannot be here to enjoy the programs with
us.”
Opening number of Sunday’s concert will be the Quartet in D. Major (“The Lark”), Op. 64, No. 5, Franz Joseph Haydn. Haydn was the first composer to solve the problem of producing full harmony from a body of four strings without the aid of piano accompaniment.
The second selection, Quartet in D Minor, Randall Thompson, is a true American composition and will be dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, sponsor of the quartet. Quartet in E. flat Major (“The Harp"), Op. 74, Ludwig van Beethoven, will be the last piece played by the group.
Miss Thompson, who wrote the Quartet in D Minor, also wrote “The Wind in the Willows,” which was first dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge when the Pro Arte quartet presented it at SC in 1938.
connection with any athletic or social activity of the ASSC.
Head of the recently organized 28th street emergency committee, Fisk has aided in the coordination
An estimated 150 German tanks have been knocked out in the 48 hours since Gen. Semyon Timoshenko launched the offensive against Kharkov with waves of
of row units with wardens and po- tank-paced red army infantry lice on regular duty.	| hurled against the primary Cerman
Caldwell is former member of lines.
the sophomore council and is ad----
vertising manager of tlje Daily Trojan. Helsel is the son of Prof.
Paul Helsel, campus philosophy professor.
The three new members were appointed by the university in conjunction with Bob McKay and the office of Dean Francis M. Ba-can, counselor of men.
Rebecca Porter Sings at Recital in Music Series
Debaters Honor Seniors Tonight
Celebrating their most successful season in many years, the varsity and freshman debate squads will hold their annual banquet at the Mona Lisa cafe at 6:30 tonight. Trevor Hawkins, varsity coach, will act as toastmaster.
Edward McDonnell, captain, will be awarded the senior cup which is traditionally presented at the banquet. McDonnell is the only man on the team who will be lost through graduation. The Arthur
Rebecca Porter, soprano, will present the second in the series of
recitals given by students gradu-	stroclc award few oratory will be
aang in music, tonight at 8:15 in	?iven to Lee Hodge, junior member
Bowne hall.	j °* tearn.
Selections chosen by Miss Por-	Fr^hman Coach Dick Reynolds
ter are “Disette,” arranged by	and ,Coach Hawklns will review the
Weckerlin; “Danza, Danza, Fan-	fears accomplishments and out-
ciula,” Durante; “Lasciatemi Moir-	*ne Plans ^or next seasons teams,
re,” Monteverde; “II Regardait Mon	CaPtains of former debate squads
Defense Group Meets for Panel Discussion
Discussing the theme “Education and Postwar Reconstruction,” the defense committee on planning for postwar reconstruction will meet today in the Student Union tearoom at noon.
Dr. Lester Burton Rogers, dean of the School of Education, will lead the panel discussion. Other speakers at the meeting will be Dr. Ernest W. Tiegs, dean of University College; Dr. Osman R. Hull, professor of education; Dr. Francis M. Bacon, counselor of men; Dr. Merritt Thompson, associate professor of education; Dr. Louis Thorpe, associate professor of education; and Dr. Irving R. Melbo, assistant professor of education.
Bouquet,” Monsigny; “Whither,” Schubert; “Der Ring,” Schumann.
“Der Schmeid,” Brahms; “Voi lo Sapete,” Mascagni; “My Johann,” Grieg; “Zueignung,” Richard Strauss; “Laughing Song,” Auber; “Jurame,” Grever; “Beau Soir,” Debussy; “Awake, Beloved,” Ed- | wards; “Compensation," Rand; and “Joy,” Cadman.
The soprano, a student of Horatio Cogswell, will be accompanied by Georgellen Hill at the piano.
Irene Maddocks Pattison will present the third recital in the series Monday night. Miss Pattison is graduating in voice.
will be present to compare the season just past with their own experiences, according to Hawkins.
Election of a captain for next year’s team will be the most important business transacted at this meeting. »
Religious Group Dines
Hunt Announces Dates for Ph. D. Examinations
Members of the School of Religion wUl hear Dr. Donald H. Tippett, pastor of the First Methodist church, as he addresses the final luncheon of the semester at 12:10 p.m. Monday in the Elisabeth von KieinSmid haU on “Preaching in ft Day Like This.”
Reservations are available ki the School of Religion office and must be made before noon today.
German reading tests for Ph.D. degree will be held Thursday, May 21, 3 to 5 p.m., 106 Bridge hall. Dr. Erwin T. Mohme, professor of German, will conduct the examination.
The French examination will be given Friday, May 22, 2:30 to 5 p.m., 206 Bridge hall. Dr. Lawrence M. Riddle, professor of French, will give the tests.
Permits to take examinations must be secured in the graduate of- ! fice not later than Tuesday, Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt, dean of the i Graduate School and director of the School of Research, announced.
Registrar's Office Notice
am work which has been reported with marks of “Ie” of “Iw” should be completed by the student and the final grade should be filed in the office ot the registrar by today if the credit is to be counted for graduation on June 6, 1942.
Theron Clark,
Registrar,
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