SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAI LYtBTROJAN
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Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, Apr. 23, 1942
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No. 127
mights Select New Ban WMembers to Curb
iwenty-Three Initiates Receive Telegrams ’elling of Election to SC Service Group
elegrams were sent last night to 23 junior and senior ji notifying them of their election to the Trojan Knights, orary men’s service organization. The new Knights will me their regular duties following formal initiation to be (d later in the semester, and at that time they will don the
ial insignia of the service Lp, red sweaters with gold emb-
Tving as hosts of the university tudent body and athletic events, Knights help direct the SC ac-y program throughout the ol year. Dwight Hart, president ie organization, announced the tion of the new members fol-ig a meeting of the group last t. Activities on campus, schol-ip, and personal appearance i some of the factors considered he selection of the nominees ication petitions were fUed by ! than 6(1 Trojan men, and i were all individually inter-this week by the Knights.
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III KnigM initiates will meet poon today in 206 Administra-Dwight Hart announced last Attendance is imperative.
AWS Cabinet Sells Stamps in Hut Today
Amazons Take in $75 as Structure Moved to Sunny Location
The coffers of the United States treasury were increased by $75 after yesterday's war stamp sale from Tommy Trojan's Victory Hut.
We didn t take in so much | pCOpie jn a fireside chat.
Inflation
FDR to Freeze Cost of Foods,
Tax Excess Profits
WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 — (U.P.)—The general price control plan which President Roosevelt is expected to initiate as part of his drastic anti-inflation program will freeze the cost of 70 per cent of the nation’s foodstuffs, it was disclosed tonight.
Fresh fruits and vegetables are among the products expected to be exempt.
A general order fixing maximum retail and wholesale prices will be issued by the office of price administration Tuesday after Roosevelt informs congress by special message of his economic program. On Monday night, or later, he is expected to lay the program before
Phi Kappa Phi Jap Base Nominates 32at Rabaul
Bombed
Dr. Von KieinSmid to Address Honor Group at Initiation Services Thursday, May 21
Phi Kappa Phi, national all-university scholastic society, ' announced the election of 32 undergraduates yesterday to the SC chapter. Open to all students in all branches of study, the society was installed at SC in 1924 and is considered to be one of the highest scholastic ranks a student may
achieve.
nine Knights who are jun-Ithis year complete the mem-lip or 32 men who will serve Lg the academic year of 1942-43. le newly elected Knight? are: >ha Rho Ch:: Al Luthi. ta Siema Delta: Melvin Miano. ta Sigma Phi: Lawrence Wilts Tau Delta: James Brown. t>pa Alpha: Walt Eichenhofer. >pa Sigma : Ted Olew ne.
PSIS NAMED
Kappa Psi: Lael Lee. Albert send.
Kappa Tau: Elmer Hinkley. rd Palmer.
Sigma Kappa : Howard Thore-
lRappa Alpha: Bob Neilson. Williams.
ta Alpha Epsilon: Bob Fisk, a Chi: Al Bonzcr.
|na Nu: Thomas Baker, ia Phi Drlta: Jimmy Tweedt. tia Phi Epsilon: Mickey Hee-
Epsilon Phi: Bob Greenberg.
Xi: George Ellis Jr.
Beta Tau: Don Brown, jrg: Sam Roeca. Phil W’eaver.
•oughnut Sale vides Money Benefit Fund
iy after chapel hour yes-| the cupboards were bare of it stack of chocolate-glazed |uts that the Y Social Ser-ib had provided for their inual doughnut sale.
Lhese delicious sinkers Tro-changed 180 nickles which !CK will, in turn, put into ►nefit fund. This fund aids tudenis ard provides scholar->r foreign-bom Trojans, -apidity with which sales-dispensed with this choco-try and tre enthusiasm that displayed for the dough-result in larger orders for |sales. according to Suzella :ial Service club presi-
lents Office
Is are responsible for degree requirements as in the bulletin of the college in which they their degrees. In order Jmore careful advice than le in the haste of regis-Lays, students are advised [It with Iheir faculty ad-uring the period of mid-mseling, Apr. 20 to May 4. H such matters as: (1) in this semester’s pro-2) program for next term >r the remaining terms raduation. (3) admission es and del erred course re-tnts. (4) possible ad van-
If accelerated program, and fessional objectives as re-he major.
B. B. van KieinSmid.
President.
money, but we sold a greater number of stamps, and that's what counts. Now we know that even more students are defense minded,"
; Dorothy LaFollette, chairman for Victory Week, said yesterday.
The Victory Hut. moved out onto the walk into the sunshine, was manned yesterday by Trojan Ama-; zons under the supervision of ♦Marjorie Anderson.
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SCHEDULE LISTED
The Victory Hut is to be open every Tuesday, Wednesday, ana Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and stamps are sold under the direction of a different campus organization each day.
Tomorrow members of the cabinet of the Associated Women Stu-i dents will be in the booth. This will be the first day that they have sponsored the drive.
Jackie Comerford, president of AWS. is directing personally tomorrow's drive. She reminded students that the loose stamps for tonight's Glenn Miller rally must be purchased at the Hut. The Hut will be open until after the rally starts.
SPONSORS NAMED
The Victory Hut has been opened through the efforts of Dorothy LaFollette and Loyd Wright and is under the sponsorship of AWS as a part of the Victory WTeek pro-[ gram.
The following women are asked to report to the Victory Hut at their scheduled time:
Lucille Remy, Mary Gower, 9-10 a.m.
Charlotte Quinn. Pat Grove. Betty Schaefer. 10-11 a.m.
Lynn Norby, Betty Kophel. 11-12 p.m.
Dorothy LaFollette. 12-1 p.m.
Mildred Eberhard. Betty Comar 1-2 p.m.
PREPARES MESSAGES
He will devote most of his time during the next four days to these messages which may be delivered Monday. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said he did not believe the program has “boiled down to a point which you might say is final determination,” but senate sources said it is virtually complete.
As outlined to senate advisers, it will call for a 99 per cent excess profits tax on corporate earnings in excess of 6 per cent of capitalization; a limitation of $25,000 or $50 000 on individual incomes; a general price ceiling; rationing of all consumers goods; endorsement of the treasury’s voluntary war bond sale campaign, and a directive to the war labor board to ban further wage increases for workers in the higher brackets.
MEASURES DISCUSSED
Legislation would be required only for the provisions curtailing profits and salaries. It is understood the president will not propose specific legislation but that the treasury may later.
The house ways and means committee then would consider it as part of the $7,600,000,000 tax bill which it began whipping into final form today.
Individual members of the group were startled by the sweep of Roosevelt’s reported plan.
Engineers Hear Noel B. Hinson
Noel B. Hinson, chief engineer of the Southern California Edison ; company, will speak today to SC engineers in 139 Science building. I at 11:10 a.m.
Using the topic “Power Resources and Development in Southern Cali- j fornia.” Hinson will attempt to . show how the demands of the var- I ious defense plants for added elec- ! trical energy can be met.
According to the speaker, the southern California area of defense j plants and war industries are well : afforded with resources for elec- j trical energy. Energy resources, such as the power behind the ' mountain streams and the Colorado river, and the petroleum and j gases found in the oil fields pre- j sent possibilities for untold power.
As a fellow in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Hinson formerly held the office of vice-president of that organization As chief engineer for the Edison company, which supplies electrical power to all the area surrounding Los Angeles, Hinson has charge of the design, construction, and operation of the great system underlying power plants, transmission lines, and distribution.
SC Play Opens Next Thursday
The campus production of “Stage Door," directed by William C. DeMille. director of play productions, will be presented in Bovard auditorium a week from today.
Produced for the first time in New York city in October, 1936. and starring Margaret Sullivan, “Stage Door" is the story of the conflict of idealism versus the desire for fame and money. In 1937 Katherine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers starred in the movie adaptation by RKO.
Bovard auditorium will be converted into a little theater, seating 588. Due to the limited seating accomodations, 'it will be necessary to have student activity books validated.
General admission tickets,* which will go on sale tomorrow, will be 40 cents.
Performances will be given Apr. 30 and May 1. 2, 4. and 5.
Student members of the cast total 32.
Prospective Daily Trojan Staff Officers Convene
All journalism majors who desire to try out for staff positions on next year’s Daily Trojan are requested to attend a meeting in 424 Student Union at 2:30 p.m. today.
Information concerning editorial board positions and special writing assignments as well as Daily Trojan desk editors and feature page editors will be given at the meeting.
Greek Houses Outline Final Blackout Plans
Auxiliary Police, Wardens Organized for Dual Control
Completing final plans for the organization of 28th street residents into smoothly working emergency units, the emergency committee under the chairmanship of student Bob Fisk, met at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house last night in collaboration with Dr. Francis M. Bapon, dean of men, John Simonet, coordinator of the 14th district auxiliary police, and John L. Furlong, air raid warden of zone 62.
CONTROL EXPLAINED
Control will be divided into two units working together, Fisk announced. Greek houses will be in complete charge of building wardens appointed by the houses or volunteers from the membership. Auxiliary policemen will patrol the outside.
These student policemen will have full powers of the police, and. Fisk warned, will be alert for offenders of the blackout rulings announced recently to the row.
Fire watchers, building wardens, auxiliary policemen will meet Tuesday night at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house to receive thorough instructions in their various duties. MEETING SCHEDULED
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. and senior advisers will be present to instruct members.
A second bulletin will be released to Greek houses today or tomorrow designating members who have been authorized to serve as police, fire watchers, or wardens.
Inspections of houses by the local fire department will be held next week, and first aid classes will also go in,to effect next week.
Simonet will meet with auxiliary policemen next Tuesday evening while fire watchers will meet with Furlong at the same time.
Australian Planes Leave New Britain Outpost in Flames
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD-
Newly elected members are:
QUARTERS, Melbourne, Apr.
Miller Music Keyed for SC s Victory Rally
Bovard Assembly Honors Trojan Servicemen; Jeff Cravath, Howard Mills Address Crowd
The nation’s best in the way of popular musical entertainment will appear on the Bovard auditorium stage this
College of Architecture and Fine 22 (U.P.) — The merged evening at 7:45 when Glenn Miller and his orchestra help Arts—Roland Russell.	American-Australian air force, 3C celebrate its first Victory ^ally.
college of commerce and Busi- stepping up its new offensive. Honoring Trojan servicemen, the assembly program will
left the Japanese base at Rabaul aflame after a blistering raid Tuesday, while an en-
Dr. Ross to Discuss Japanese Shinto
The Campbell club will meet for luncheon Monday noon at the University Methodist church. Dr. Floyd H. Ross. School of Religion, will discuss “What is Japanese Shinto?”
ness Administration—Stanley Barker, John Becker, Ivan Duke, and Robert Larsen.
School of Government—Harmon Bennett and Roger Murdock.
School of Education—Catherina Andruss, Marjorie Bear, Nina Peterson, tylrs. Jessie Ryan, Hattie Schimming, and Mildred Shell.
College of Engineering—Lowell Duell, Jim Green, and Norman Hallin.
LAS NOMINEES NAMED
College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences—Arthur Boyd, Gene Chaney, Jeane Dyer, Virginia Ellis, Herman Enos, Thomas Foose, Bernard Forman, Ilda Gerber, Archie King, Ralph Klages, Milton Lesses, Marjorie Montelius, Richard Newton, Dalys Oxnam, Raymond Pierson, and Ignacy Witczak.
President Rufus B. von KieinSmid was re-elected as national president of the organization this year. The society was founded at the University of Maine in 1898 and at the present time comprises 49 chapters and 15,200 members.
INITIATION DATE SET
Initiation into the Phi Kappa Phi will be held Thursday, May 21. President von KieinSmid will speak at the affair.
Undergraduates and graduate students, as well as faculty members, are eligible for election provided they stand high scholastically in their class. This. society differs from Phi Beta Kappa5 in that Phi Kappa Phi is open to all schools and colleges while Phi Beta Kappa is limited to liberal arts majors
emy attack on Port Moresby was beaten off and four planes
shot down, united nations headquarters announced today.
Many fires raged among the wharves and buildings at Rabaul in the wake of the allied bombers blasting for the second time in three days at the main Japanese post on New Britain island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced in his second communique.
HONORS EARNED
Defensive as well as offensive honors went to the allies. Eight Japanese bombers struck at the New Guinea base of Port Moresby and were routed with a loss of four of their escorting navy-zero fighters without a single casualty among the defense forces.
Even the reserved Lt. Gen. George H. Brett, allied air commander, was enthusiastic over the work of his “boys up north.” After inspecting the air forces in northern Australia, he said “everything is on the up and up now,” and added: j OFFICER QUOTED
“The boys up there are doing a hell of a fine job raiding Rabaul
DWIGHT HART — directs Victory
rally.
Fuel Rationing Looms in East
WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 — <UJ>> — Gasoline rationing for the Atlantic and Salamaua, and I am all the ' seaboard,- probabl}* allowing each
Allotment to Hit Sugar Chiselers
WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—(UR)— Wartime rationing of sugar will begin May 5 and Price Administrator Leon Henderson today promised that the government “will hit chiselers hard and fast.”
Violators of sugar regulations may be fined $10,000 or imprisoned for one year, or both.
“A few chiselers can do a great deal of harm both to the operation of rationing and to the morale of the country,” Henderson said. “The country is in no mood to let chiselers get away with it. Our policy will be to hit them hard and fast.” He was confident, however, that an overwhelming majority of traders as well as institutional users will abide by the regulations.
The regulations will affect all users of sugar.
more confident now that they are getting things done.”
The Sydney Morning Herald said editorially that ”it Ls plain the allied air forces have regained the initiative in the New Guinea area. ! and are using it to establish definite aerial superiority.. For the first time the enemy is getting the worst of the batterings.’’
It predicted that the Japanese soon "will be forced to dispatch many more aircraft to this distant region or decide whether their advanced positions are tenable under the constant raids.” ,
TEMPO INCREASED MacArthur’s communique revealing the renewed battering of Rabaul reflected the quickening tempo of the air war north of Australia after it had fallen off during the merger of the air forces and the shake-down of his supreme command.
For the first time the communique referred to “our air force,” underscoring the fusion of the United States and Australian units into a single fighting machine and the elimination of rough spots in the supreme command.
While in late February and early March Port Moresby was raided almost daily, since Apr. 1 it,has had only three raids.
motorist between two and cne-half and five gallons a week, will be placed into effect on a temporary basis May 15, Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced tonight.
The American Automobile association estimated 10.000.000 motorists will be affected.
The exact amounts each person will be entitled to buy will defend upon the supply situation in the affected area. They will be announced shortly before the plan becomes effective.
The rationing, to be conducted on a registration and card basis, is an interim proposal which probably will operate only until July 1 when, officials said, a more elaborate and comprehensive -oupon system may be substituted.
The ration cards will be issued upon presentation of a car owner’s automobile registration cert/fi-cate. To prevent anyone from obtaining two cards, the car’s license number will be stamped on the card.
Officials said no decision has been made on measures to be taken to prevent motorists near the borderline of the curtailment area from crossing over into adjoining states and “filling up.” They said it is probable, however, that a “no sale” belt will be established for a specified distance into adjoining states.
MUSIC BY MILLER—Glenn Miller, who will bring his orchestra to the stage of Bovard auditorium tonight for SC's defense rally, is shown above with four Trojans after his regular Chesterfield broadcast. They are, left to right, Guy Halferty, John Lowe. Miller, Ed Holloy, and Bill Nietfeld.
Cabinet Petitions Due Tomorrow at YWCA House
Petitions for executive positions on the YWCA cabinet must be filed by 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Y house. Nominees will be presented at an assembly, May 1, in Touchstone theater, Old College.
Candidates for the presidential position must have a cumulative and also a previous semester grade-point average of 1.5. Other officers must have a 1.3. Another prerequisite for the offices is a year’s experience on the Y cabinet.
Elections are scheduled for May 6. Petitions for cabinet positions as club sponsors or committee chairmen will be due May 8.
Interviews for these applicants will be held May 11 and 12. Cabinet selections will be • announced at the AWS Recognition bf.nquet, May 13.	»
Explosion Shakes East
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Apr. 22 —(U.R)—A single explosion of terrific force shook homes on Absecon and Brigantine islands tonight.
include, in addition to Miller* music, the presentation of two service flags to the university and speeches by Jeff Cravath, SC grid mentor, and Howard Mills, southern California coordinator for the treasury department.
STAMPS REQUIRED
A 25-cent war stamp must b* presented at the door for admission, and the length of time required for the capacity crowd expected to file in will necessitate the opening of the auditorium doors at 7:30.
The Trojan Knights, who ar« sponsoring the rally, will use tha stamps turned in to establish an all-university scholarship fund for servicemen returning to SC after the war, it was announced by Dwight Hart, Knight president.
LIDDELL ASSISTS
Miller's band was obtained for the rally through the efforts of Clark Liddell, who yesterday guaranteed that there would be no “slip-ups” as far as Miller's appearance was concerned.
Music played by the orchestra this evening will feature vocalists Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle and Tex Beneke and the Modemaires giving their renditions of the famous Miller arrangements.
John Price, president of the Greater University committee, will present a large service flag donated to the university by his committee, and Blue Key will also give a flag to the university, their’s being a V-shaped victory flag.
McKAY PARTICIPATES
Bob McKay, ASSC presidentelect, as the representative of tha university will accept both flags, whose stars will betoken the approximately 900 Trojans now in various branches of the service.
The 17-piece Miller orchestra will be brought to Bovard auditorium a« quickly as possible following its national CBS broadcast at 7 p.m.
British Guns Fire Across Dover Straits
LONDON, Thursday, Apr. 23— (U.Pi—British heavy guns on tha coast of Dover straits blazed away for half an hour early today, lighting a wide stretch of the shore with ragged sheets of flame, after German planes had bombed a town in southwest England.
The two-gun salvoes of the bi* coastal rifles, fired at frequent intervals, appeared to have been directed across the narrow straits at targets on the continent, tfiough they might have been aimed at German shipping. No air activity was reported in that area at the time.
In the raid on southwest England, most of the explosives fell in open country, and there were no reports of casualties or damage.
The burst of night activity followed an afternoon sweep of the Cherbourg area and Normandy peninsula by Royal Air Tlorce fighters and hurricane fighter-bombers which attacked a German airdrome.
Japs Report Air Raid
TOKYO, Thursday, Apr. 23 — (Japanese broadcast recorded by UP. in San Francisco)—Devastating attacks on Chinese airdromes in east China by Japanese army flyers were claimed in a communique issued today by the command of the Japanese army in China.
Student Senate Convenes Today
Svdney Barton. ASSC president. has called a special meeting of senate members for 2:30 p.m. today in the student senate chambers.