Hied Bayonets Cut azi Desert Wedge
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
AIRO, Nov. 1 —(l'.P)—The Brill eighth army, charging with 7onets after an artillery barrage ttened enemy defenses, has sliced part of a salient pointed like a jer into :ts lines near the Med-raean const and trapped the axis nders in a pocket, front dishes said tonight.
desert dispatch from United ss staff correspondent Richard McMillar said the attack was at night Friday and was preceded a terrific artillery barrage in ch a shell was hurled every sec-at axis barbed wire and mine-s.
he dispatch did not locate the ific arex of fighting and Bri-communiques since the new e bega i have not mentioned cular bsittle areas. It appeared, ever, to be in the Tel El-Eisa of Jesus) area, about three ln from the coast and around
which some of the bloodest battles of the summer campaign were fought.)
After battling through the night against strong German resistance, the British made a clean breakthrough from the south. Some troops McMillan reported, continued advancing northward toward the sand dunes alongthe sun-bathed Mediterranean while others swung east and trapped the enemy in a pocket.
It was in that area, the dispatch said, that the axis had built up particularly strong defenses during the past, three months because of fears the British would attempt a direct dash through the lines.’ Slicing out the salient now straightens out the right flank of the British line and ends the menace of a turning move by the axis against positions won by the crack German 90th light division, which had been out of the lines for some time, was nowr
back in action.
Prisoners have been taken, he reported, and other advices received here said the total taken thus far in the new offensive is about 3,000.
During early Saturday morning, McMillan reported, a bitter fight was in process for a nazi strong point which must be cleared out before the British can take full command of the sector.
The attack was the second “battering ram blow we've given German filed Marshall Erwin Rommel in this sector in the past 36 hours,” McMillan reported. The first attack was partially successful but the axis put up new barbed wire, dug in and checked the advance at daylight as the British began consolidating their few newly-won positions.
(The exchange telegraph agency reported in a Cairo dispatch that a (Continued on Page Four)
Jrojan
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42 Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Nov. 2, 1942
Night Phone: RI. 5471
No. 31
reshman Broadcasts to Nation
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El Rodeo Offers Prizes for Photos
“Don’t be frightened if you hear strange clicking noises behind youton campus today, or see people running around with cameras. They won’t be enemy aliens escaped from an internment camp,'but SC students who have entered the El Rodeo Candid Camera contest,” said Johnny Lowe, editor of
the 1943 yearbook.
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Radio
dio listeners throughout nation will hear music posed by Leonard Pen-io, 18-year-old Trojan hman pianist in the School Music, who will broadcast original composition over at 1:3b this afternoon, lebrating the completion! ts first year of weekly
cal programs on a nation-wide il hookup, "Theme and Varies the Viame of the half-hour dcast. will also include num-played by Roderic Krohn, stu-violini.'t who was soloist last with the Los Angeles Phil-zonic orchestra. He will br ac-nied on the piano by Georgel-1L
KEN IVORIES
ario’s composition, entitled March of the Lunatics,” is al in that each hand plays different key on the piano, Dr. Mix Krone, professor of The work received its name se it was composed on a brok-10.
y a lunatic could march to elody,” he added.
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er numbers to be played by io include Debussy's Fire-Chopin’s Prelude in D minor is Nocturn in D flat. Krohn lay Fritz Kreisler’s Prelude llegro. and some gypsy dances-Krone pointed out that Pen- | is scheduled to play in con-with the Denver, Chicago, and apolis symphony orchestras the f.chool year.
Trojan Haylofters Swing Out Friday
Six weeks of student anxiety and expectation were brought to a happy conclusion last night when Hugh McKellar, president of the College of Commerce, announced that the long-awaited commerce barn dance will make its 13th appearance on the SC social calendar Friday night.
--1 Barn doors will swing open to
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following students are among rst who have made photo ap-ents at the university pho-her's for the 1943 El Rodeo: instein. Cree. Beunke, Thore-obias, Lyons. Condon. Bub-hompsDn. Penarski. Langford, el, Alvarez. Montgomery, Benson, Hanson. Gregg, lesey, Thompson, Hill, Cook.
:Kell;ir, Arena, Zenker, and ,fer.
mbers of sororities and fra-ies are being urged to make Intments immediately if they full representation in their s this .year by Johnny Lowe, eo ed tor. Film is being ra-to th'? studio, and they are ermittei vO hold any material into the following month's y if they do not use the t allotted them.
De Mille Casts New Show
Talent Abundance Delays Choices
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Casnng for the new pl&y “Passing of the Third Floor Back” will begin today when William C. De-Mille, professor of drama, will choose cast members from approximately 80 students who tried out for parts.	...
De Mille will not release the names of the six boys and six girls that he has selected to play the characters in this drama until some time today. According to the professors the choosing of these parts will be a difficult task because the school seems to be over-run with talent this year.
De Mille was astounded at the remarkable turnout, for of the 80 people who tried out only about 30 of them were students who have had experience at SC. “I am sorry that I could not use more of the talent that was represented," said De Mille.
Rehearsals will begin Tuesday or Wednesday and will be held in the Green room of Old College. Assisting De Mille will be Joan Miles and Phyllis Perry. Roy Pomeroy, former motion-picture cameraman, will be in charge of the technical end of the show.
accept the Trojan hayloft gang at the Cheviot Hills Country club at 9 p.m. and close behind the exiting merrymakers at 12:30.
The dancers will don their shoes to shuffle a variety of dance tempos, the provocative rhythms of the square dance, the compelling beats of the jump tune, and the langor-ous syncopation of sweet swing all being included on the program.
Don Ramon and his orchestra have contracted to produce the professional terpsichorean accompaniment for the “new-fangled” modern dances, and local talent will be represented by “Solid Ted” Olewine’s square dance tempos.
Unscathed by rising prices, the College of Commerce barn dance bids will be sold for $1.65. Both men and their lady friends will be admitted for the one price, which will be exchanged for tickets at the cashier’s window of the Student Union bookstore or through separate fraternity transactions.
Unauthoritative informants have suggested that Trojans ease the metal shortage by following last year’s precedent and shelving razor blades this week. It was emphasized that this is merely a suggestion, however, and no attempt will be made to coerce students.
JOHN LOWE calls out SC Brownies
Memorial Service Honors Miss
Luther Club Speaker Talks on Democracy
R. D. Lechleitner, minister of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, will answer the question, “Is religion necessary to democracy?” at the Luther club meeting next Tuesday at 312 Student Union.
Newly elected officers are Joan Stohr, president; Dan Halpin, vice-president; and Ralph Hovis, secretary; and advisor, Mrs. Amalia Conrey, director of Lutheran students’ work, of southern California, will outline plans for the year. The meeting will be held at noon and the cost of the luncheon will be 25 cents.
Eye Care
vine Prepares Talk Blindness Causes
rtanc< of good eyesight for ' among men than among women, ac-
war $fJort, as seen in tests by mei wishing to enter the forces and the prevalence lor blindness and so-called t blindness” among these men the main considerations in-in th<; lecture on “The Care Preservation of Eyesight” now planned by Dr. S. Rodman e of the School of Medicine. Irvine will speak on this topic rs of Phi Sigma, national biological society, Friday p.m. in 146 Hancock hall. His will te the fourth in a ser-_ presented by the group, blind new k more prevalent
cording to Dr. Irvine. Two to four per cent of all men are color blind, while only one hundredth of one per cent of the women of the world are afflicted.
Night blindness, an early symptom of a vitamin A deficiency in the system, afflicts many men now applying for entrance into the air corps. It may be remedied by including the necessary vitamin content in the diet, said Dr. Irvine. “After images,” the phenomena by which an image remains in the consciousness after the objective has ceased to act upon the reti will also be
A memorial service was held Sunday afternoon at 4:30 paying tribute to Miss Elisabeth Hill, who died on Tuesday last of a heart attack. Her sudden death terminated 13 years on the SC campus as assistant to Dr. Ernest W. Tiegs, dean of University College.
Arrangements were directed by Mrs. Elizabeth Sharkey, president of the Women’s Overseas Service league, and Mrs. Belle Hayes Cooley. Among those who paid homage to Miss Hill’s accomplishments and friendship were Dean Tiegs, Mrs. Enid Degener of the WOSL, and Judge LeRoy Dawson.
Mrs. Virginia Bassett sang a solo. and scriptures from the ritual prescribed by the national headquarters of the Women’s Overseas Service league were read by Mrs. Degener.
Miss Hill went overseas in 1918 and served the A.E.F. in France in canteen and recreational work. When she returned to California she was a charter member of the Women's Overseas Service league in 1921, and helped to organize and operate the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ club for ex-service men, with assistance and support of the late Frank Wiggins. She was president of the local unit of WOSL in 1922-1923 and national vice-president of the ninth corps area in 1926-1927.
Look Pictures Ruth Palmer
Friends of Ruth Palmer, Pi Phi, will be surprised and pleased to see her pictured in the new issue of Look magazine, scheduled to reach news stands tomorrow morning.
Miss Palmer, former president of her house, was interviewed by a west-coast representative of the publication concerning her opinions about possible drafting women for labor during the war.
As Troy’s spokesman in this matter, Miss Palmer okays the idea, saying she is all out for whatever cooperation women can possibly give the nation.
Whoever interviewed Miss Palmer selected a representative young lady. It might be added, too, that the picture of Ruth appearing above her opinion does justice to her new hairdo she adopted during the summer. Be sure to stop and look at Look this week.
Pettingill to Lecture
“Let's face the truth and Its consequences” will be the theme discussed by Dr. Robert Pettengill, associate professor of economics, on the third student-faculty public affairs discussion Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. at the Y house.
“We don’t face what confronts us because we don't want to realize the necessity of sacrifice now and after the war,” Dr. Pettingill declares. He will discuss the wartime sacrifices that individuals will face through the necessity of rationing goods, paying high taxes, and even rationing living space.
U-Boats Travel Far
BERLIN, Nov. 1—(L'.P)— (German broadcast recorded by U.P. in New York) — German submarines are operating in the Indian ocean, more than 6.000 mhes from their bases in Europe, the high command said today in a special communique reporting the sinking of eight allied ships “far to the east” of Cape Agulhas and off Capetown, South Africa.
“The number of pictures submitted is expected to reach the hundreds. If this works out, the contest —the first of its kind here—will be a success,” Lowe added.
Luana Jones, El Rodeo's assistant editor and supervisor of the contest, completed plans this morning in preparation for first-semester competition when she placed the “Candid Camera Contest” box next to the camera counter in the Student Union.
Into this box SC men and women will drop their attempts at first prize—their own picture on a separate page in the El Rodeo along with their winning photo. A victor will be chosen for both semesters of this school year. The two winners will then serve as co-editors of the candid camera section on the yearbook.
PICTURE CAMPUS LIFE
The first semester contest ends at 5 p.m. November 30. Five pictures, 5x7 or 8x10 glossy prints are the maximum to be submitted, and they must deal with campus life.
The contest is designed so all entrants are given an equal, chance for victory. The only item necessary for participation in this SC photographic contest is a camera—even an old box-type kodak—and some film.
All pictures submitted, which become the property of El Rodeo, will be given equal consideration in the judging by the executive staff of El Rodeo. SC students need not fear losing their amateur photographic status as the prize abides by amateur rules.
RULES
1.	Final date to submit entries in first semester is 5 p.m. Nov. 30. 1942. Final date to submit entries in second semester is 5 p.m., March 30, 1943.
2.	Pictures submitted must be glossy prints either 5x7 or 8x10, with a maximum of five prints entered each semester.
3.	All pictures must be candid shots of campus life at SC.
4.	All pictures become the property of El Rodeo.
5.	Submit pictures In the Candid Camera Contest box located by the camera counter, Student Union.
6.	Contest open only to stuaenis now enrolled at SC.
7.	First prize each semester will be student’s picture with winning candid camera shot on a seperate page in the 1943 edition of the El Rodeo. Each winner automatically becomes a co-editor of the El Rodeo candid camera section.
8.	Each picture submitted must include name and address of owner, plus information regarding photographed subject or subjects.
9.	Because of the nature of the prize, SC students will not lose amateur photographic status.
SC Cage Star Quenches Fire at Parking Lot
With his own life at stake and hundreds of parked cars in jeopardy of a rapidly blazing fire, Ted Gossard, captain of the SC varsity basketball team and in charge of the parking lots, extinguished a 50-foot flame which started in a parked car opposite Aeneas hall Saturday afternoon.
Endangered by the possibility of the gas tank exploding, Gossard discovered the fire immediately, grabbed extinguishers fr6m Fine Arts and adjacent buildings, and pumped chemicals for several minutes on a UCLA football rooter's convertible Chevrolet to reduce the blaze from a height above the trees near the site, to a smoldering glow.
Four fire engines arrived as Gossard extinguished the flames. A smoldering cigaret and defective wiring were given as possibilities for cause of the fire.
Navy Attacks in Solomons
U. S. Forces Blast Jap Shore Positions in Bold Daylight Bombardment Friday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—(U.P.)—U.S. warships blasted Jap shore positions on Guadalcanal for more than two hours in a bold daylight bombardment Friday, the navy disclosed today, while other U.S. forces continued to deal damaging blows to the Japanese on land and in the air.
“Some artillery and several build-
Work in East Lures Johnson
Dean Will Observe Labor Shortages
Six weeks’ leave of absence beginning today has been granted Dr. Arlien Johnson, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, to enable her to investigate personnel shortages in social service agencies.
Her research, made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller foundation, will take her to San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburg, New York, and Washington, D.C.
“New wartime positions have drained off many of the workers formerly engaged in establishing public welfare services. The situation is critical in many sectors of the country, because employers are unable to obtain qualified social workers,” said Dr. Johnson. Findings of the inquiry will be made available to groups considering manpower needs.
ing and boats were destroyed in the bombardment,” the navy said.«
The navy still did not identify the U.S. aircraft carrier which it announced last night had been sunk after suffering “severe” damage in a battle a week ago today. It was the second carrier lost in the Solomons battle, the other being the Wasp
(A dispatch from Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia said that in the last nine days 33 enemy warships ana merchant vessels have been sunk or damaged by American flying fortresses under MacArthur’s command, but that heavy Jap naval concentrations—including battleships and aircraft carriers—continue in the Rabaul and Buin-Faisi areas northwest of the American positions in the Solomons.)
There have been no major ground clashes since Secretary of the Navy
Actors Plan Ducat Trade
Drama Workshop Sells War Stamps
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“War stamps will admit students into the drama workshop fall play entitled ‘George Washington Slept Here',” announced Joan Miles, director of the production, who pointed out that this semester all expenses in putting out the play will be absorbed by the student drama group.
“Members of drama workshop will begin selling defense stamps for tickets Wednesday,” she said. Fifty Frank Knox announced on Friday cents in stamps will purchase one
that the “first round” of the battle for the Solomons was over, that the Americans held all of their original ground positions and that a Jap fleet which had been operating in (Continued on Page Four)
U.S. Airmen Foil Jap Raid in India
NEW DELHI, India. Nov. 1—(U.P) —United States fliers destroyed at least two Japanese planes and damaged six others when a large formation of enemy bombers and fighter planes raided American air bases in Assam province, bordering
Burma, Oct. 28, it was announced In 1941 she prepared an article today.
on the same subject for the Social Work Yearbook, published by the Russell Sage foundation. She was asked to prepare the same article for the new yearbook to come out early in 1943.
Pledge Leaders Unite, Discuss Dig Plans
Pledge presidents and social chairmen of all the fraternity and sor-# orities on campus are asked to attend a meeting Tuesday at 4 o’clock in 418 of the Student Union to discuss plans for an all-pledge dig.
Paul Alpine, Sigma Phi Delta pledge president, and Lee Zoss, Sigma Phi Delta social chairman, ask that all houses be certain to have their representatives appear.
Quake Shakes B.C.
CRESTON, B.C., Nov. 1 —(HE)—A slight earthquake shook Creston and the surrounding area for half a minute at 11:50 a.m. PWT, today.
Residents reported the temblor shook houses and caused dishes to rattle for 30 seconds, but no damage was reported.
Officials said it was the first earthquake recorded in the Creston district for at least six or seven years.
Spitfires, Bombers Raid Coast
LONDON. Nov. 1. —(U.P)— British Spitfire fighters straffed canal barges in Holland and Boston light bombers raided an air filed and factory in North France-today and one plane of each type was lost, the air ministry announced tonight.
The Germans lost 402 planes over Europe, Britain and the middle east during October, the most active month of air fighting and daylight bombing since the battle of Britain, a recapitulation showed today.
Of 83 enemy planes destroyed over Europe, U.S. flying fortresses accounted for 70 and American pilots who formerly were in the Eagle
squadron shot dawn four.
Of 292 lost by the nazis in the middle east, Malta fighters claimed 138 and United States pilots in Egypt, six.
The allies lost 242 aircraft in October, seven of them flying fortresses .
German air raiders appeared over the English southeast coast this morning and a few persons were injured. There was considerable damage, including destruction of three public houses and a theater at which “Gone With the Wind” was showing.
YWCA Starts Scrap Drive
Today marks the inception of a week-long scrap drive, given for the benefit of the Red Cross under the sponsorship of the Social Service club of the YWCA, in which all students are urged to participate.
Chief materials to be collected ai;e magazines, old clothes, and yam. They may be turned in at the Y house between now and Friday, according to Rosemary Mason, Red Cross chairman for the club. The Red Cross will advise the group on how to turn the material into essential products.
“We are hoping that this drive will mark the beginning of a Red Cross production center on campus, similar to that at UCLA,” according to Peggy Gardner, chairman of the Social Service club.
The Japanese caused only slight damage to ground installations, and no American plane was damaged in the air or on the ground, a communique from Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s headquarters said.
Lt. Kermit C. Hynds of Austin, Tex., shot down one enemy fighter plane and one bombers, and another bomber probably was destroyed by Lt. John L Yantis Jr. of Free-water, Ore., the communique said.
Lt. William R. Rodgers of Rolling Fork, Miss., was credited with damaging three bombers during a single-handed attack on an enemy formation. Another bomber was damaged by Lt. Virgil Burge of Mississippi.
admission to the production which will open Friday, Nov. 13.
With Claire Laub and Norman Linn playing the leading roles, “George Washington Slept Here” is a Broadway comedy riot about a family who attempted to take up farming on a Pennsylvania farm where Washington was presumed to have stayed for one night. Everything goes wrong for the leading characters.
Miss Laub has previously appeared in the campus produced versions of “The American Way,” “You Can’t Take It With You,” and “Stage Door.”
Linn, transfer from Whittier college, played principle roles in “Pygmalion,'’ and “The Importance of Being Earnest” while attending that school. Also cast in the production are Martin Black, Harry Woodle, and Phyllis Perry. Black has just returned from a job with a stock company in the east.
Presbyterians Lunch at Methodist Church
Students interested ln th« SO chapter of Westminster club are invited to the weekly luncheon-meeting to be held at noon today in the basement of the University Methodist church.
Rev. Glenn D. Puder, assistant pastor of Immanuel Presbyterian church, will speak on “America's First Line of Defense.” The cost of the luncheon will be 35 cents.
Shot-m-Arm
Phrateres Begins Pledge Period
Bids to participate in the prepledging period are now in the counselor of women’s office for those women who registered for membership last week. They should call for them today.
Louise Koch, pledge chairman, announced last evening that the prepledge period of instruction will begin this week and end the week before Christmas vacation. During this period pledges-to-be must go through a rigorous instruction course to be conducted by Miss Koch and her assistants.
Members of the Newman club for Catholic students, who took ticket books for the raffle of the $25 bond, should return all books and money to Pat Lindsay at Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall before tomorrow.
Solid Senders Speed Chest Contributions
The thundering herd of Trojans with jive proclivities filled the stately realms of Bovard auditorium Friday noon to hear solid stanzas by drummer Buddy Rich and four cohorts from the Club Trouville, bid for kisses of three Four Star coeds, and contribute to the campus community chest drive.
SC's Community Chest campaign is now expected to reach the $1000 goal after the shot-in-the-arm assembly but, until Friday, a total of only $450 had been collected. With the contributions from The assembly and fraternity and sorority donation pledges, the goal is "almost certain” to be attained, according to Bud Townsend, drive chairman.
A full house greeted Buddy Rich and the Morgan trio. The rhythm kings, who are now appearing at the Club Trouville, played hot jive while Russ Lindersmith, yell king, hot-footed it on the stage. special numbers, “Them There Eyes and ‘Bowtie Jim.” were offered along with the jive.
Bud Townsend, chairman o» the Community Chest committee, acting as master of ceremonies, opened the
awarded annually to the sorority turning in the largest contribution record. Charley Jones, Pi Kappa Alpha, through whose efforts the entertainment was obtained, was introduced.
An added attraction to the assembly was an auction at which members of the audience bid for a kiss from one of the Four Star coeds Verginia Welch, Patti Powell, and Connie Kivari. With Sam Roeca as auctioneer, the first bidder was Mickey McCardle, of grid fame, who bid one cent. Overcome with compunction. McCardle raised his donation to three cents, and implanted a kiss on Connie Kivari. Four Star beauty.
Buddy Rich and the Morgan trio played several numbers, and Trojans settled down to foot-beating and
program by presenting Elizabeth shoulder-shaking. Russ Lindersmith, Wells, president of Delta Gamma Trojan yell king entertained with sorority, with the Phelps-Terkel cup 1 some plain and fancy jitfcerbugging.