APS BREAK THROUGH
S 0 UTHERN
iarines Stop uadalcanal econd Thrust
PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 29—(U.P.)—A full-scale Japa-ese o fensive on Guadalcanal by upwards of 20.000 highlv-ained jungle troops was believed tonight to be imminent, nfot already under way.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—(U.P.)—Japanese forces broke rough American lines on Guadalcanal for the second time two days Tuesday, but counter-attacking marines and ar-trocps drove them back and also repulsed two subsequent my thrusts, the navy announced today.
As the Japs continued their relentless drive to capture nderson air field, key to the American defenders, U.S. nes look off from the precious little strip of jungle clear-and pounded Jap gun positions to the westward of Henson field and also winged their way to Rekata bay— rly 200 miles to the north—where they hammered shore talla^ions and destroyed four seaplanes on the water.
The communique added that “no report of any recent ac-at sea or landing of enemy troop reinforcements (on adalranal) has been received.”
This did not necessarily mean a lull had developed in the battle which raged furiously in the Guadalcanal area day and then shifted 400 miles to the eastward in the eral direction of American supply lines to the Solomons Australia.
atest developments in the savage battle for control of dalcanal were received a few hours after the army high mand here shouldered a share of the responsibility for dec.sion which launched the American offensive in the moris Aug. 7.
Setting the record straight, Secretary of War Henry L. ison said the decision was made by the joint army and y chiefs of staff in accordance with an agreed upon plan id was not purely a naval decision.”
The statement—in response to a press conference query ther the campaign was purely a navy venture—appeared gned to silence rumors there is friction or controversy command in the battle area. Stimson said last week e is closest cooperation between the army and navy, ie Japs succeeded in piercing the American lines Tues-afternoon. But the defenders, though weary from con-t fighting, counter-attacked, hurled the enemy back and ined their original positions.
ie Japs didn’t give up. They tried twice more but each the American lines held firmly.
he breakthrough was the second since Sunday night n the enemy pierced the southern flank and was thrown The communique did not reveal the location of the t breach but it presumably was on the southern side of airfield. Last week the Japs launched seven separate icks against the western side but found a stone wall, he Japanese have attempted at least 12 ground attacks e Oct. 18. Only two succeeded in piercing the American
PB Shortens List f School
Suppl
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’m sorry, but we won’t have any more of those.” That is in| a familiar sentence to students who go hopefully e University bookstore for supplies only to learn that the has beaten them there.
pplies of all kinds have been affected by the stern
of the rationing board. Stu- i--
Freighter
Named
Bovard'
Elizabeth Hill,
Who Died Tuesday, Assisted Project
Notice came to the Daily Trojan yesterday that a liberty ship has been named after Marion McKinley Bovard, first president of the university, as the result of efforts made by the late Elizabeth Hill.
Terry Hill, secretary to John A. McCone, vice-president of California Shipbuilding corporation collaborated with Miss Hill on the project and made the annqunce-ment of its successful fruition. Miss Hill died suddenly Tuesday evening from a heart attack.
LAUNCHED IN NOVEMBER
The ship has been completed and will be launched during November at the California Shipbuilding corporation yards. Miss Hill made final arrangements for the naming of the ship with Lee “about a week ago,” according to Lee.
Lee as a University College student came to know Miss Hill. He was president last year of Kappa Alpha Chi, honorary service fraternity, and worked with Miss Hill, who acted in an advisory capacity for the fraternity. He told her one day of the possibility that a liberty ship could be named after an SC great and asked her advice.
SHE SUGGESTED BOVARD
She suggested Bovard, president of the university from 1880 to 1891. He accepted her suggestion, and together they made the plans.
Miss Hill was secretary to Dean j Tiegs for 13 years. Complaining of illness Tuesday afternoon, she left her office to go to a local clinic for examination. She died at 8 p.m. that night in the Queen of the Angels hospital.
The ship named after Bovard is a 10.000-ton vessel that will carry freight to and from allied ports.
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CALIFORNIA
Jrojan
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42 Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, October 30, 1942
Ki*ht Phone: RI. 5471
No. 30
Chest Drive Ends Today With Rally
Allies Defeat Tank Attack in Desert War
Rommel Suffers Loss of Fuel, Equipment as British Hold Line
CAIRO, Oct. 29—(U.P.)— The allies have beaten back Marshal Erwin Rommel’s nazi tanks on the Egyptian front ■ for the second straight day, j shot down 10 more of his : planes and sunk another large _ tanker off Tobruk, where he is trying desperately to land fuel inside the allied air blockade zone, it was announced today.
No changes were reported in front line positions as the allies waged a war of attrition with bombs
Casualty Station Started on Campus
Witherbye Named Chief Medical Officer; r Faculty, Students Eligible to Enroll
As announced in yesterday’s Trojan, a university casualty station is being organized under the Office of Civilian Defense and the Emergency Medical Services of the Los Angeles Citizens Defense corps.
Chief medical officer and head of the station is Harold
R. Witherb/e, M. D., a graduate i
Forum to Hear War Problems
Searles to Speak on State Concept
The problems of sovereignty in shells, and torpedoes, trying to wear | the modern warring world and the
question
have seen the last steel filing or older. A shortage of typewriter ts. Trojan jackets, hand balls, ribbons is immenent. echanical drawing sets until ; Themes are going to have to be
the war.
written correctly the first time be-
ting scotch tape, cheap slide cause there is already a shortage and leather notebooks with- of many kinds of erasers and proba-
Shankman Heads Junior Council
Junior council members last night unamimously elected Les Shankman vice-president and voted Pat Grover and Andy Bexler into the secretary and treasurer positions. Shankman. a Zeta Beta Tau, will immediately begin formulating plans for the junior prom.
Miss Grover, a member of Gamma Phi Beta, won the secretary’s post over Patti Powell, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Bexler a Sig Ep, defeated Verniee Hayden in the trea-* surer’s election.	,
rtal rings are coming through ■lowly. Students will have to their papers together with * icks until some other substi-s offered for staples and paper which are no more as far ; wholesalers go. lletics are going to necessarily nfined to sports not needing balls and squash balls. Tennis :an still be obtained although ire repossessed. Golf balls are to impossible to obtain, typewriters are frozen for sale jnt unless they are 1935 models
bly will be more.
So far, the film service of the bookstore has not been affected too much. There is a limit of rolls of film to a person and no cameras with a 4-5 lens or better can be sold.
School of Music Presents Weekly
Students of the School of Music will present their weekly recital this afternoon in Bovard auditorium, at 1:15.
down the enemy’s armored strength, smash his gun emplacements and strangle his supply line, in preparation for a break-through.
Axis air losses in the African and Mediterranean area have mounted to 49 planes in three days. Five supply ships have been sunk off Tobruk in five days, three of them tankers, plainly indicating that Rommel is in urgent need of fuel. He formerly landed most supplies at Benghazi, 600 miles back of the front, and hauled them overland.
Torpedo planes sank the tanker last night. U.S. pilots won yesterday’s honors in the desert air war, shooting down four German Mes-serschmitt-109 fighters. South African fliers shot down three more. Axis air losses for tne day were nine fighters and one Junkers-88 bomber- The allies lost four planes.
(The Italian communique said a formation of four-motored Liberators (U.S. army B-24’s) raided the harbor of Navarino, in southwest Greece but was intercepted by Italian fighters and forced to dump its bombs at sea. It said one Liberator was shot down. The communique said “fierce” allied attacks on the El Alamein line were being repulsed and several hundred allied prisoners have been taken. The Italians reported five allied planes shot down yesterday. The Berlin radio said 37 more allied tanks were destroyed during the day.)
Front dispatches indicated that both sides were maneuvering cautiously on the El Alamein line and that nothing approaching an all-out slugging match has developed so far.
Included in the program will be vocal selections by Patricia Heil, The wrapping service which the Bonnie Jean Babcock, Ruth Tre-
stock room formerly offered has had to be discontinued for all per-sonel items. Students are urged not to take more book-covers than they need for their books because the present supply is the total supply.
varrow, and Eloise Smith. Piano solos will be presented by Marian Jersild, and Arlette Renauld.
Music majors are expected to attend unless e^used by Max van Lewen Swarthout, director of the School of Music.
th Quartet ys Sunday
Trojans in Service Receive Commissions
sen ting contemporary chamber in the second of a series of hamber music programs, the |
strirg Quartet will be heard “Response to the request for more information about foray at 3:30 p.m. in Hancock mer Trojans now in the various branches of the service has
nu™-	,	. , j been quite favorable,-’ says Mrs. Mary Richardson, secretary
ui Crown, newly appointed Df director of special foundations.
st in the SC School of Music ghe reports that twQ fratemitieS> gigma cm and A*lpha
be guest artist of the quartet Rho Chi have aided her by turn_ a brings Ernest Toch’s Quartet1 for t’ie first Los Angeles per-ance.
included on the program will hnani’s Quintet in C minor Ravel's Quartet in F.
e Walter F. Skeele Memorial larshio fund for students in the 1 of Music will receive the ’s of the two musical pre-tions.
s Compares Faiths
Floyd H. Ross, assistant pro-r or religion, will speak on -tin? Aspects of Different it meeting of the Modern us problems club this noon YWCA houae.
Hillel Council to Give Dance
Ghosts and goblins will be the theme when the Hillel council holds its first annual dance and vaudeville show tomorrow. The affair will take place at the Brentwood country club at 8:30 p.m.
Competition will be keen among the six fraternity, sorority and nonorganized groups to win the vaudeville show cup. Each group will present a short skit with the winner receiving a cash award of $15 and the cup.
Music will be furnished by Chuck Howard’s orchestra with featured vocals by Gene Elliot and Betty Glenn.
of who shall hold ,the reigns of government in a democracy in the throes of war, will be discussed by Dr. Herbert L. Searles Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. in Bowne hall, in the third lecture of the 1942 Philosophy forum series.
Speaking of “The Seat of Authority in a Democracy,” Dr. Searles will examine the various concepts of sovereignty and discuss their importance and value in the present world order. He will trace various ideas of the past on governmental sovereignty and theiF connection with modern philosophies of government.
“Unless nations are willing to interpret sovereignty as it affects other states liberally and limit their sovereignty with reference to the larger welfare of nations, no really effective or lasting peace can be secured,” Dr. Searles said in reference to post-war plans for peace.
This year's autumn Philosophy Forum series marks the 25th semiannual forum and is being devoted to the discussion of ‘ The Spiritual Resources of Democracy.”
Desmond’s Offers Holiday Employment
Opportunities to work at Desmond’s during the Christmas holidays are open now to those wishing to sign up. announced Mrs. Iva Custer, assistant director of the Employment bureau.
Representatives from the store will be at the Employment office on Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. to interview all those interested.
of the medical school of Northwest- : ern university and a member of the staff of the SC School of Medicine. Among others of the SC school are D. R. Drury, M.D., and C. J. Berne, M. D., who worked on the preliminary planning of the station.
Anson P. Hoyt, M. D. assistant dean of the school, and Gordon H. Scott, Ph. D., conducted the standard first-aid course for the first and second-year medical students. | A great part of the work on the campus thus far has devolved upon Clinton H. Thienes, M. D., professor of pharmacology in the medical school.
ADJUTANTS NAMED
Recently, H. deForest, Ph. D., was appointed adjutant of the new station is still being done. It is hoped that the personnel will able to participate in the next city-wide rehearsal of air raid incidents next Tuesday evening, even though complete organization will not have been accomplished then.
Members of the faculty, people in administration, and students are asked to submit their names for enrollment. Since U5 must be a 24 hour station, people living within 20 minutes walk of the Physical Education building may join the night force, while those living at a greater distance can join the day force.
TUESDAY MEETINGS	•
For the present, meetings will be held on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. in th Physical Education building. Hoover and 35th street. In enrollment preference will be given to those having certificates of the American Red Cross for both the standard and the advanced first-aid course.
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Literary Prize for Creations Lures Writers
Are you a potential Steinbeck? Does your verse make Parker’s pale into insignificance? In other words, do you sling a mean pencil?
If so, you’ll want to be one of the first to offer your contribution to the Daily Trojan creative page.
Besides receiving the reward of seeing your brain child in print, the writer whose creations judged the most outstanding will be awarded a prize. D. L. MacNam-ara, manager of the University Bookstore has offered the winner of the contest his choice of any $3 popular book.
Mail drops will be provided in the Student Union and Bridge hall for manuscripts. All contributions should be addressed to the creative page of the Daily Trojan.
War Discussion Groups Urged
Drummer Rich to Entertain With Solid Jive
Troy’s week-long Community Chest campaign ends today with a lavish "Take Care of Your Own—Aid the Chest” ill-U assembly in Bovard auditorium at noon.
With Buddy Rich, famous drummer formerly with Tommy Dorsey’s band, giving out with the latest in solid jive, and the expected appearance of Alexis Smith, lovely screen actress, highlighting the Trojan Chest program, men and women of Troy will
All sorority women who have been selling Community Chest pins should turn in money and pins to the Chest headquarters in the student lounge by 1 p.m. today, according to Bud Townsend, drive chairman.
Bogardus Writes of Democracy’s Need
have the pain of giving softened by royal entertainment.
During the assembly the Phelps-Terkel cup, which is annually awarded to the sorority collecting the greatest number of contributions from the student body, will be pre-t	* sented to one of the compet-
“Discussion groups are more urg- jng women’s organizations, ently vital to democracy in war- Late yesterday the girls from
timo thon in r\no nnti r-v> o tirrifop T~\r« , _	,
the Delta Gamma house were well out in front in the annual competition.
At the end of the fourth day of the drive Bud Townsend, student chairman of the campus campaign, expressed the
Parking Lot Men
. . . men will report to Ted Gossard tomorrow at 11 a.m. behind Bridge hall:
W. Martin. J. Seminoff, M. Harris, D. Bailey, E. McGill, D. Perkins, H. Eschen, E. Larsen. J. Malone, B. DeWitt, R. Maley, A. Omalev, G. Rock, L. Pestor, E. Stuck-meyer, S. Jacobson.
time than in peacetime,” writes Dr.
Emory S. Bogardus in a new pamphlet recently published by the American Council on Public Affairs,
Washington, D. C.
Dr. Bogardus, a member of the board for more than a year, believes that discussion groups in wartime substitute rational thinking for un- belief that this year’s goal Of easiness and hysteria.	$1000 would be reached by the
Several different types of dis- end of the drive today, cussion groups are suggested by the Already more than $450 in socioligist: forums, panel, round contributions have been col-table. and informal discussions in lected and the balance of the
the home.	money will come from pledged
"The discussion group is the bul- fraternity and sorority con-
wark of democracy, for without it people rarely appreciate the full significance of the underlying philosophy of democracy.”
The American Council on Public Affairs has published more than 50 documents on national interest in the last two years.
Men who compose the board are the outstanding educators and scholars of the country. All fields of learning are covered, including education, economics, social welfare, political science, labor, foreign affairs, Latin America, history, public opinion, and religion.
tributions.
Czech Brothers Tell of Trip From Nazi-Held City to SC
Rosalie Roth is chairman of the
ing in lists of all their brothers ensien	dance, assisted by Irwin Cohen,
in the service. It is hoped that other ’	Marvin Kranz, and Lee Landrum,
fraternities will also follow suit. . Haryy Tar>natt, Phi Tau, journa- Tickets or additional information The latest reports received con- '*sm'	now a navigator from may be obtained at the Hillel coun-
ex-SC San Francisco to Points west for Cil office, 908 West 37th. or by tele-Pan-American airways.	I phone, Prospect 5630, or from any
of
cerning the movements students are that:
Ben Sohn, SAE, is now a lieutenant in the marine corps, Quantico, Va.
Richard Douglass Rucker, Dentistry June ’42. is a first lieutenant
Milo Lawrence Crawford, Alpha Rho Chi, has been selected for training as a naval aviation cadet. He will report to the United States Navy Pre-Flight school, University
in the United States dental corps, i ofl Georgia, Athens, Ga., shortly.
Rucker was a member of Delta Chi fraternity while on campus.
Tom McGarvin, ’41. is now Lieutenant McGarvin of the army corps of engineers at Rice, Cal.
Otto Lensing, Pharmacy ’42. 1* now located at the naval training school at Treasure Island as an
member of the council.
Robert Ernest James, Medicine 41, is assistant vice-surgeon in the United States Marine hospital, Galveston, Tex.
Wallace Wolfe. LAS ’41, has recently received his ensign commission. He will report at the San Diego naval base Nov. 3.
Art Students Sponsor Campus Dance Tonight
A dance, sponsored by the sophomore class of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, will be given tonight at the Fine Arts building for all members of the SC student body.
Admission tickets will be sold at the door by the sophomores for 75 cents.
The nazis were coming. Josef Julian Svoboda, a second lieutenant in the Czechoslovian army, was lying in the hospital with a battle injury. His younger brother, Alois Milan Svoboda was attending the University of Prague.
This was the prelude to an exodus covering some 14 months which started in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and ended, at least for the present on the campus of the University of Southern California.
Josef, 32, is a graduate student of commerce. He graduated from the University of Prague which, he remarked, had an enrollment of 135,000 students. As a student and an officer, Josef had made many trips all over Europe, Africa, and Asia, accompanied, on some of the later ones, by Alois.
Alois, 25. is a senior student in the college of commerce, a transfer from the University of Prague, where he had attended for two years. In describing the differences between European and American unnversities, Josef commented that the European institutions are much older than the American ones.
“The University of Prague was founded in 1346 and is one of the oldest in Europe. It was originally controlled by three votes, two of
which were in the hands of the | the university is located, but there Czechs, and the other held by the I are many branches that are closely Germans.” Josef said.	| connected with the actual
“The University as a place to or profession which is being studied, study is emphasized, and there are
no organized sports. The universities here have splendid equipment and offer excellent opportunities for the good student, but the professors are guides rather than the actual source of learning as they are in Europe.”
“Another very noticeable difference between the schools of Europe and this country is the lack of a campus. In the European universities the various departments are spread out. Most of them are in the city where the main office of
Tan Overcoat Stilly Lost from Owner
A light, tan overcoat is still without an owner. Lost, presumably by one of the 600 Trojan rooters in the excitement of the Stanford game, an honest Trojan brought it back, thinking it might be missed.
Anyone interested in further details, especially the owner, should see Clark Bates, senior football manager, or call Richmond 4013.
such as mining, agriculture, and industry.”
Josef revealed the fact that he and his brother had a very hard time getting out of Cechoslovakia when they decided to leave.
“It took about- five months to get the necessary papers and permission to leave the country. We had to go to about 75 different offices of the Czechoslovakian government and the nazi gestapo and military headquarters. During this time we were interviewed, questioned, investigated by approximately 5000 people. We were instructed at various offices that in order to obtain permission from them we would have to get permission from some other office.”
In order to get permission from that office we were instructed to get permission from some other office, and so on. Finally, when we got the necessary permission for the first, second, or third office, we would find that that office had been abolished or its officers purged, so that we would h^ve to go back and go through the whole matter again from the beginning.”
Pastor Speaks at Town, Gown
“This World in Which We Live1* is the topic Dr. Donald H. Tippett, pastor of the First Methodist church in Los Angeles, will discuss when the Town and Gown of SC opefts its academic season next Tuesday at a luncheon meeting ln the foyer at 1:30 p.m.
To be featured also will be an address by Mrs. Leland Atherton Irish, executive secretary and vice-president of the California Symphony association, entitled “We Must Have Music.” In keeping with this theme. Margaret Phelan, soprano, will be heard in selections from the aria "La Gioconda” by Ponch-ielli and “Ah, Love But a Day” by trade Mrs- H- H- A- Beach. Miss Phelan is the winner of the Hollywood bowl competition of 1942 and is presented through the courtesy of L. Samoiloff. Her accompanist is Winifred Dunning.
Hostesses for the event will be members of the Town and Gown courtesy committee, served by Mrs. Coy Burnett, Mrs. W. H. Koecker-man as co-chairman, Mrs. Paul g. Stevens and associate-Dean Pearl
Aikin-Smith.
A meeting of th« executive board will precede the event at 10:30 a.m.
Typists
. . , are still urgently needed to work this afternoon in the ASSC office, 235 Student Union, according to Virginia Welch, office secretary.
“Response was gratifying yesterday. We hope that girls will be equally cooperative today,” said Virginia Miller, co-secretary of the office.
Letters are being typed to go to the various high schools in preparation for the coming High School Day at SC.