p^S^has killed more than 15,000 nazi troops, recaptured ilach, and rolled up soviet advances of 40 to 50 miles, the
lent of a tremendous offensive against both flanks of the [grad, the Sunday midnight communique said the Russians
h and northwest of the city, heaping success on resounding
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S AFRICA, Nov. 17— (Delay-je is sweeping eastward so |ere this Is written, together lies well behind the zone of
orkers Finish laskan Tunnel
A special communique last night said the Red army, smashing through the German lines, had slain
14.000	enemy troops and captured
13.000	prisoners in the opening phase of the greatest offensive it has started since last winer. CAPTURE KALACH
The capture of Kalach, on the j
east bank of the Don 40 miles west ; of Stalingrad, and with it the rail- | road towns of Krovdmuzginskaya (Sovietsk), on the line 10 miles southeastward, and Abganerovo, 32 miles southwest of Stalingrad on the main Caucausus railway, had cut Nazi rail communications with their forces east of the Don bend.
ALUMNI RETURN FOR ANNUAL RE
The midnight communique, listing more Russian victories on both German flanks, said another 1000 Nazis were killed northwest of Stalingrad and 5000 more captured south of the city.
[EADQUARTERS, ALASKA DE-|NSE COMMAND, Nov. 22—(l'.P)
Vorkmen rushed today to com-the Portage-Whittier railroad inel through the glacier-capped [ugach mountain range, one of
lee vital additions to Alaska’s offensive, a gargantuan nut-cracker [idly expanding transportation | clamped on the tottering German
positions in and behind Stalingrad, blasted a 20-mile breach in. the Nazi lines northwest of the city and a 13-mile gap in those on the southern flank, the high command revealed:
Movie Heroes Will Attend Men s Dinner
Kay Kyser to Direct Program for Banquet Friday in Gymnasium
Classes to Close
or Weekend Thanksgiving.
f
Lem that drew attention over the fkend.
Laj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, fmanding officer of the Alaska ^nse command, touched off the Its that completed holing ^ugh of* the 13-000-foot tunnel— [th longest on any American foad—in a ceremony Friday that timed to coincide with the op-of the new Alcan interna-il highway.
he tunnel and 12-mile cutoff will ce by 52 miles the haul from jGulf of Alaska to Anchorage eliminate a 64-mile mountain through heavy snow country.
in. Buckner declared the cut-‘will make safe from the en-|the single most valuable transition route in the territory of ra."
Otto F. Ohlson, manager of Jaska railroad, said the cut-I'ill permit a 30 per cent reduc-lin freight rates to Anchorage ja seven to eight per cent re-Hi to the Fairbanks ar°a.
With Kay Kyser, noted band leader, acting as master of ceremonies, a host of Hollywood stars will entertain Trojan alumni including former and present football heroes m the annual men’s homecoming foot-
.... . . * , xu o • J ball banquet Friday. Sponsored by The initial impoct of the Soviet1 ,,	u • *■
the ASSC, the affair will begin at
6 p.m. and will be held in the men’s gym.
Kyser will present his entire band and vocalists as well as Carmen Miranda and her five-piece band, comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, singers Betty Hutton, and Dinah Shore, movie stars Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, and Charles Laughton.
Former SC coach Sam Barry wrote that he would be unable to come because his team was playing Santa Clara the next day. Coach Babe Hollingbery of Washington State also sent his regrets for his team will meet Washington university the next day. Several other coaches who have previously attended this banquet will be unable to appear because of the ar-(Continued on Page Four)
AXIS DIVISIONS ROUTED
Six axis infantry divisions and one tank division were “completely routed,” and heavy losses were inflicted on seven infantry, two tank and two motorized divisions, the first announcement said.
“On Sunday our troops waged successful battles northwest and south of Stalingrad and occupied Kalach on the east bank of the Don, Kro-vobuzginskaya (Sovietsk) and the Abganerovo station,” the late bulletin began.
In Stalingrad itself the Russians repulsed attacks by German infantry and tanks, killing “several hundred” assault troops. In one sector the Russians swung over to the attack and after breaking German resistance, occupied a height dominating a broad sweep of the city.
Out-of-town Trojans who live on the campus will observe two homecomings instead of one this year.
Besides the week-long festivities honoring homecoming .graduates, large numbers of students will return to their homes Thursday for their annual Turkey day feast before attending the SC-Irish football classic in the coliseum which takes place Saturday.
In keeping with usual holiday practice neither Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall or Aeneas hall, campus dormitories, will schedule special Thanksgiving dinners during the recess which begins Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. and ends the following Monday at 8 a.m.
ojan Flyers Win avy Commissions
lien Gocio and Eugene Sheridan, former Trojan students, ttly were awarded the coveted navy wings of gold and hissioned as ensigns in the United States Naval reserve |e naval air training center, Corpus Christi, according to
notification received Friday.
Gocio receiced his wings and the designation of a naval aviator from Rear Admiral A. E. Montgomery, USN, commandant of the training center, at class graduation exercises.
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;iGN ALLEN GOCIO . Trojan flyer.
tty
or L.A.
greatest city in the
beret, Don Pablo San-le this statement while was the representative
Ensign Gocio volunteered for flight training in January 1942, and received preliminary instruction at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Long Beach. Upon successful completion of this training he was transferred to Corpus Christi for intermediate and advanced training at this “university of the air,” the world’s largest naval training center.
In addition to flight instruction Gocio completed a thorough ground school course, including navigation, radio code, gunnery and bombing theory, communications, and other aeronautical subjects.
Sheridan, member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, received his navy wings of gt>ld in the same ceremonies.
Sheridan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Sheridan, Glendale. Gocio is the son of Mrs. Hazel E. Gocio, Southgate.
Three Student Croups Worship
Three Thanksgiving worship services will be conducted by student organizations this week in the Lit-
;scendent of the founder of tle Chapel of Silence.
U.S. Maintains Bases on Fijis
SUVA, Fiji Islands, Monday, Nov. 23—(U.P)—With the lifting of the censorship ban that forbade any mention of the -fact that United States forces were stationed here, it may now be revealed that the U.S. has been manning this vital link in the supply lines to Australia and New Zealand for six months.
When the United States took over the defense job here from the New Zealanders, the army, navy, . and air force began pouring men and equipment into the islands on a scale that left the easy-going fuzzy-headed natives almost speechless with their hurry and bustie.
Where it was necessary to requisition facilities the Americans took what they needed, politely but firmly. Currency was another problem. The natives were accustomed to pounds, shillings, and pence, but they soon learned the worth of dollars, quarters, and dimes.
Many of the troops here have been writing home regularly, and while they were allowed to tell relatives and friends that they were at an ocean outpost, they were not permitted to identify their headquarters until now.
Tommy Trojan Chorus, Cast Rehearse Today
Entire cast and chorus of Neath Tommy Trojan will report to the rehearsal checkboard in 235 Student Union between 12 and 1 this afternoon, according to Lynn Cohne, producer.
All dancers will meet in the dance studio of the Physical-Education building; singers will yell at 2 p.m. in Bovard auditorium.
Other members of the cast will take their places in Touchstone
Debaters Open Speech Meet at San Jose
Dr. Nichols Coaches Defending Champions in Forensic Debut
WidlJtheir titfif aFstjEke.^lO mini-bers of Troy’s forensic squad will pace behind the rostrums at San Jose State college this morning, opening the western states speech tournament.
Although the squad’s ranks have been decimatd by war calls, Coach Alan Nichols waxed enthusiastic over winning prospects.
,“If other schools have had their contenders scratched by the draft as much as SC has, then there is a chance that we might come down the home stretch and sneak in under the winning wire,” he hazarded.
The team hopes to repeat last year’s performance in the same tournament held at Odgen, Utah, where they monopolized the speech engagement.
“Maybe we’re arch-optimists,” said Seymour Vinocur, debate captain, “but we’re debating future peace plans.” The subject of discussion is a federal union of the united nations.	. .
, More than 30 universities have Jones, assistant yearbook editor an ; gen^. ^eir worcj wranglers to vie for contest supervisor, announced to
DR. ALAN NICHOLS . I've got my lingers crossed.
Click Contest Closes in Week
One week from today at 5 p.m. the first-semester El Rodeo candid camera contest wrill close, Luana
Author Tells of Island Life
of .the coming of the Ai evening, ger, danc<
PI KAPP4
First org uates was tional mu members to returnii noon at 4 copal chi street.
day.
While snaps of Trojan campus life have been pouring into the contest box. Miss Jones expressed the feeling that more pictures will be entered this week than since the start of the contest.
The contest box is located next to the Student Union camera counter. Miss Jones stated that the pictures may be of any size as long as they are glossy prints.
Once the pictures are in the hands of the El Rodeo executive staff, judging will begin. The winner will have his picture and the number one snapshot printed on a separate page in the 1943 annual.
“Shutterbugs” were urged by Miss Jones to ‘snap into it” and turn in a prize-winning picture before next Monday.
Industrialists, Faculty Confer
War production industry representatives collaborated with faculty members from California universities in a war production conference held on the SC campus Saturday.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. in Bovard auditorium, the all-day conference included panel discussions on manpower, priorities, war financing, job training, safety in industry, the small shop and its problems, and the employment of women.
Among the seminar speakers were Conrad Fanton, war production board; Fred E. Wagner, manager of the labor - standards department; and Virgil Gaudette, assistant to the vice-president, Lockheed Aircraft corporation.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid was the featured speaker at the dinner session, his topic being “American Education and the War.” Roger D. Lapham, member of the war labor board, also appeared on the dinner program.
Dr. Hoffman Discusses Religion in War
The Christian and the Jew in the
TntprnatinrLal JUi
.the choice title of western states debate champion, which was won last year by Vinocur and Edward McDonaldl.
Varsity men’s squad is composed of Vinocur—John Baird, Potter Ker-foot—Bob ^leyer, and Tyler Macdonald—Ephraim Koenigsberg.
The women’s positions are helj by Vivian Clarke—Marydell Tollinger, and Halie Mae Shearer—Florence Ostrom. Stanley Hanson accompanied the team as manager.
Alumni and students of the College of Engineering will hear Jan H. Marsman, former imning engineer in the Philippine islands, speak on his experiences in the far east at their annual banquet tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Author of the Saturday Evening Post article, “Escape from Hongkong,” Marsman has recently returned from that city, v/here he was held captive by .the Japanese.
Other speakers of the evening will be President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Vice-president Henry Bruce,!
Coach Jeff Cravath, Robert E. Vi- j vian, and engineer alumni president Huber Emutz.
Reservations for the banquet can be made in 207 Engineering building -meet for a Tickets for the dinner are $1.50. evening ir Preceding the banquet, open house Ralph Gret will be held in the Engineering j logy* will
Today aj ligion will guest spes Elisabeth Esch is p Brethren the alumnil of Religioi
SOCIAL M]
Students uate Sch<
building from 5 to 7 p.m.
Librarians to View Social Research
All students of the Graduate Library school are invited to participate in a field trip to the Haynes foundation tomorrow at 3 p.m. The purpose of the trip will be to see social research available for library surveys, to view the exhibits, and to hear an informal discussion of interest to library students.
Last week all students of the
‘Social Woi
Tomorrow open house I of Engineei Following tl the Men’s Foyer of
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Creek to Me
school participated in Book week by attending the extensive program series presented at the Los Angeles public library.
Many noted authors were in attendance in the lecture program. Maude Beaton, author of “From Cairo to Khyber to Celebes,” and C. S. Forester, author of “Captain Horatio Hornblower” and "Poo-poo and the Dragons,” were two of the distinguished personages present.
Miss Helen E. Haines, lecturer in book selections, reviewed and discussed her latest book, “What’s in
Fraternity are asked Union todaj man of thi party, to event.
lie library in conjunction with its celebration of book week.
National Book week received emphasis last week at SC with the opening of the Treasure room in Sigma Chj Doheny library permitting students yule party f to browse through and to check out dren. This the collection of books found there.
The Treasure room is open to students Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Students are reminded that not only may they look at the books during their leisure time, but they nay check out
a Novel?” at the Los Angeles pub- - any book they wish.
Dec. 17. Th| ! a big dinn<
, gifts by the I es.
Each hous< tain number from 15 to 2 of the house.
-There's No Place Like Hoi
SC Beckons Former Stud to First Wartime Homeco
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These lines from an oft-sung ditty of Troy at the first annual reunion, make visitors might well become the theme song Initiating the event tnat same year,! usual 28th sti for the alumni who find themselves a pajamorino rally was he d at the Begun in 19: facing a gasless homecoming this old racetrack in Exposition park. ! conceived that 3? TnvitSfors were mailed to 28,- j Here the frosh carried torches and joy a collegi; 000 persons as compared with the | burned in effigy a huge frosh •‘dmrjsophbrawl.