-As the Pacific coast anticipated its first iizens up and down the western slope pre-I blackouts. After the firsfr blackout in San Gen. Jehn L. De Witt chastized Bay area
citizens for their failure to darken the city to satisfaction. Photos show workmen in a news syndicate hanging heavy paper over the window, and Miss Glenna Helton operating an elevator by candlelight.
IT'S SNOW FUNT—United States marines are shown ki action skiing down an undisclosed slope In Alaska as this country prepares its defenses of its rich northern territory.
light cruiser De Ruyter of the Royal Netherlands navy is shown in action |Japane$c in the Pacific. The Dutch have already sunk a number of Jap
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 —-(U.P.) — President Roosevelt tonight named a five-man board headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts to investigate and fix responsibility for failure of the army and navy to be on the alert when Japanese bombers and submarines attacked Hawaii.
The board will meet here tomorrow to organize and the white house said it would leave “at an early date” for Hawaii to begin an exhaustive inquiry.
PERSONNEL TOLD
Personnel of the board was announced after a two hour conference among the president, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations; Admiral Earnest J. King, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff.
Earlier, legislative leaders had agreed to keep hands off the situation until the board completes its investigation.
FIFTH COLUMNISTS HINTED
The white house did not define the scope of the inquiry but it is expected to include fifth column activities which Knox said played an effective part in the success of the Japanese onslaught.
The president said at his press conference that the government is taking every precaution to prevent a recurrence of such activities in other strategic United States areas. He revealed that the Hawaiian fifth columnists are under close investigation and he said this government knows more about their operations now than it did before “black Sunday.”
He made these statements after Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., of the house committee on un-American activities had accused the government of laxity in dealing with subversive elements.
Trojan Nisei Pledge Support
The Trojan Nisei, campus organization of Americans of Japanese descent, recently adopted unanimously a resolution pledging 100 per cent loyalty to the United States and stating that they will “fight for the United States against all enemies in every possible way.”
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid has received a copy of this resolution signed by Ken Uyesugi, president of the Troan Nisei.
The pledge follows:
We, the Americans of Japanese descent of the University of Southern California, are profoundly shocked at the unprovoked aggression by Japan against our country, the United States.
We unreservedly pledge our loyalty 100 per cent to our country and to our president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
We will fight for the United States against all enemies in every possible way.
Respectfully yours,
Ken Uyesugi,
President, Trojan Nisei.
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SC Prepares War Training Program
Travis Committee to Advise Students on Problems
In answer to student requests to aid in defense work, Dr. Lee Travis, chairman of the student counseling committee, yesterday announced that the university is making every effort to provide adequate training for both men and women students.
“The best of leadership is none too good in war time,” said Dr Travis. “The student under 21 ought to be guided by the dictates of his own conscience in serving his countiy.
Dr. Travis also stated that university officials are endeavoring to formulate a program which will enable men students to complete their courses, and, at the same time, obtain specific training for essential officer’s qualifications.
COURSES OUTLINED The opportunities to*be offered to students as outlined by Dr. Travis, are:
1.	In all schools and colleges where possible, specific concentrated technical courses will be offered to give defense training; for example, some 72 special government directed defense training courses are proposed for the second semester.
Special courses are being considered in trigonometry, air navigation, industrial management, trade and transportation, personnel management, and other similar specialties in the sciences and related fields, each of which is essential in applying for certain types of commissions.
2.	Special offerings in first aid and emergency treatment, practical nursing, and applied nutrition.
3.	Special intensive courses in athletic and social recreational leadership training for both men and women.
WAR ALTERS COURSES
4.	Extensive change/, in present physical education activity courses pointing more directly toward the development of student power and endurance for war time purposes, including special military fitness activities now in use in army, navy, and air corps duty.
5.	A Naval ROTC unit is already established on the campus. If an officers’ army training course is not established, and the demand justifies it, a special university military unit for training purposes may be considered. *
“The elaborate program outlined for defense under the leadership of President Rufus B. von KleinSmid and the coordinator committee, together with the above mentioned proposals, should give every student opportunity to serve defense needs while completing his educational program,” Dr. Travis concluded.
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Barbirolli Ends Concert Season
For the last pre-Christmas concerts of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra, John Barbirolli will make his final appearances of the present sea
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Perkins Tells War Attitudes'
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lights had to Ce extinguished there was nothing to do excel gossip or go to bed.
“At first the siren on the rc of the building behind our hoi would send little shivers up ai down my spine, but gradually it 1< its thrill and became only a nuii ance when it sounded at 3 or a.m.
“Our first reaction to the forced air raid practice was to pi test the authority of the stre< warden who scolded us for lighti cigarettes, and we refused to pi dead when hit by practice confet) bombs. This attitude change) and we learned to seek the neare shelter and to obey orders whe| the air alarms sounded.”
According to the reports, enemj attacks in Hawaii and the Phili] pines have been made on militai objectives only. Perkins sti this fact to emphasize his conten| tion that both the campus an< generally, residential areas mre little danger from bombing.
“You who are not in the fightinj front,” he said, “can help most b3 continuing and finishing the and studies in which you are n< engaged. The ability to reason intelligently and to act without fear are the results of your educa-1 tion and will be evident in youri conduct in this time of national! emergency.”
Air drill and practice alarms ini Japan took place after dark for the reason that possible enemy! raids would logically come under j cover of darkness, Perkins reminded students, and concluded that “at1 this time the campus is almost if not entirely deserted, and any necessary precautions are easily1 taken care of.”
Three Faculty Members to Read English Papers
.The Modern Language association in Indianapolis will hear papers read by three SC faculty members at meetings, Dec. 29, 30, and 31.
Dr. Francis Christensen, assistant professor of English, will present a paper on “Creative Sensibility Ui Wordsworth.” Dr. Lionel Stevenson, .associate professor of English, will present “The Dark Novels of Dickens, 1851-57.”
Dr. Louis Wann, professor of English language and literature, will read “Availability <*f Critical and Popular Editions of Authors of the Period,” for the discussion of 1851- |] 57.
SC Faculty Wives to Sponsor Party
Pupils of Prof. Lillian Backstrand Wilson, faculty member of the School of Music, will present a musical program at the Christmas party conducted by the Faculty Wives club today.
This affair will be held at the home of President and Mrs. Rufus B. von KleinSmid and will have as hostess-chairman Mrs. Henry W. Bruce, wife of the vice-president of the university. Members will bring presents for distribution by the Children’s Home society.
Student artists who will entertain include Eloise Smith, soprano; James Morrison, baritone; and Esther Blay, accompanist.
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