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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILY
TROJAN
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Nisht I’hnn*: RI. 5471
Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, Oct. 8, 1942
No. 15
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Shows Decrease as Services Call
.S. Airmen Pound iska Installations
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—(U.P.) — Japanese ces appear to have withdrawn from two he Aleutian Islands, the navy reported to-ht in a communique which said American rs continue to blast away at Kiska—third the three islands originally occupied by enemy last June. he latest attack on Kiska, the y sf id, occurred on y IjbeTator bombers, escorted fighters, shot down six
seaplanes. Demolition and diary bombs were dropped on enemy camp area and hits were e cn a seaplane hangar. The seid the American planes en-;ter*?d only light anti-aircraft sition and that all our planes ?ned to their base safely.
ENTLY DESERTED
e communique said aerial re-issance had failed to show any of “continued enemy occupan-activity” for the last several on Attu and Agattu—west-_st of the Aleutian archipel-Army bombers attacked Attu the latter part of Septem-^stroying “most of the build-aft the islands,” the communi-isaid, adding that a study of graphs made during the raid ed no trace of Japs on Attu e time.
similar situation has been ob-nt Agattu,’’ it said.
VE RAIDS MADE
laid on Kiska. made from new American base In the earof Islands — scarcely an Is Hying time away—was the made on that area in 11 days, re was no explanation of the ent, Jap withdrawal from the two islands. Presumably,
■er. they found the cost of oc-icy too great and possibly their‘troops to Kiska to re-;e their harassed garrison.
Guadalcanal operations were sned by President Roosevelt Mific War Council members, also discussed the situation ?t Moresby and in the Aleu-and reported later that it to be stationary, but en-
'ng.
Terrain Impedes New Guinea Push
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Thursday, Oct. 8—(U.P.)—Rugged mountain terrain has slowed down the allied advance over the Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea, which has been made with ‘practically no losses” of Australian troops.
■■	| For the first time in many
weeks, the daily communique issued by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters did not report any allied aerial attacks. It was devoted to a brief discussion of the Owen Stanley situation and otherwise reported only aerial reconnaissance activity in the area northwest of Australia.
A Features im Program
t»r-class marathon, a carnl-competitive meet between the snd a possibility for a swim t as well as a special pro-'or non-swimmers are slated WAA swimming calendar as
t quatics get under way fco-
at 7:30 in the SC pool.
:ed by Virginia Lemon, swim-will be open to men and orgs and non-orgs.
;ial program of games, wat-th-ns, and elementary stunts eet planned for beginners; :n though you are a novice, or out tonight and get in Tiin of things." announced -rnon.
dilating their playing sche-4th that of the swimming WAA badminton will meet t n the women's gym at 7
e switch from Tuesday night ecessary to cut down on oper-'Xf>ense. but if a large enough turns out, the meetings will back on regular schedule," ned June Fontaine, head of inton.
Recover your composure; your debonair attitude. There shall be less mayhem at the turnstile, fewer Trojans underfoot, less chair robberies and only 2.5 people behind each counter stool in the union. In fact, about 14 per cent less students are enrolled at SC this year, which means a diminished rush to the food centers or to any other place on campus, according to Miss Heleu M. Haller, statistical secretary in the comptroller’s office.
Many of the former 14 per cent are heeding a sergeant's blasts, embracing a rail, or pulling on a pilot’s helmet. Some are lost to in aircraft factories. The others lire gone, just plain gone. A few, perhaps .05 per cent, have donned the blue and gold; they fit under the “plain gone” category.
Medicine and engineering courses are gaining students; liberal arts remain the same. Well,— there are more green “F” buttons on parade, especially on Trojans wearing skirts. So hearken ye Beo-wolves, SC’s losses are mostly men.
FDR Proposes Trial (or Axis
‘Just Punishment’ Promised Oppressors
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 —(U.P>— President Roosevelt today demanded that “axis criminals’’ responsible for the barbaric mass murder of innocent civilians in occupied countries be turned over to the United Nations after the war for “just and sure punishment.’’
In a special statement in which he said the United Nations were prepared to cooperate with Great Britain and other governments in setting up a United nations commission for investigation of war crimes, he declared the commission would establish “responsibility of the guilty individuals through the collection and assessment of all available evidence.”
“It is not the intention of this government or the governments associated with us to resort to mass reprisals.” he said. “It is our intention that just and sure punishment shall be meted out to the ringleaders responsible for the organized murder of thousands of innocent persons and the commission of atrocities which have violated every tenet of the Christian faith.”
The white house would not say whether this was meant to include
Share-Car Plan Gets Rolling
Lael Lee Reports Student Response Now in High Gear
Lael Lee, director of the university car-sharing plan, yesterday announced that things were looking brighter and that student body re-
were
TERRAIN IMPEDES
“Some difficulties of terrain now sponse and enthusiasm are progressively slowing down the on the upgrade.
The difficulty, as Lee
i advance of our ground troops,” the communique said in reference to the Owen Stanley fighting. It was the first time since the offensive began on Sept. 25 that headquarters did not specify where the advancing Australians were.
Yesterday’s communique said they were advancing forward from Kagi, about five miles south of the gap which crosses the mountains, without encountering any enemy resistance.
Today’s communique said that “this incredibly difficult range of mountains presents almost insuperable complications in maintenance of supply lines for troop units of any size.”
SUPPLY MADE DIFFICULT
It is said, as anticipated, the Japanese discovered their supply problems had become aggravated by almost three weeks of incessant allied air attacks “and are impossible of immediate solution.”
“His (the enemy’s) dislodgement at his farthest point of advance and the pursuit of his exhausted forces have been accomplished with practically no loss to our troops up to the present time,” the communique added. “Some difficulties of terrain now are progressively slowing down the advance of our ground troops.”
The point of the farthest Japanese advance was Ioribaiwa ridge. 32 air miles from Port Moresby. Ioribaiwa fell to the Australians on Sept. 29.
Arlien Johnson Reports on Trip
Review of the work of the school and a report on a recent trip to Washington will be given by Dr.
Arlien Johnson, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, at an assembly and reception today at
3	p.m. in Bowne hall.
In charge of the meeting will be
Prof. Norris Class. Executives and supervisors of agencies where students of the School of Social Work are doing superivsed field work are invited.
Field work for the year will be discussed during the afternoon. At
4	p.m. students will join the group to meet the special guests informally at the reception.
While in the east, Dr. Johnson attended the executive meeting of the American Association of the Schools of Social Work in Pittsburgh. Pa., and served on an advisory committee on personnel and training of the social security board, asked to bring their lunches.
explained lt, had been the apathy displayed by the student body in failing to sign up for rides under his earlier system. Under the new plan the committee will post a complete list of drivers with names and addresses on the bulletin board in the Student Union building early next week, thus eliminating the two-flight climb to the director’s office.
UP TO STUDENTS The entire program now rests directly with the students. Those who wish to secure rides can do so by contacting the listed drivers, he said.
“So far students fail to realize that gas rationing is almost upon us.” he stated.
Tuesday’s .trial sign-up netted a total of 16 names of students from outlying districts and caused some consternation among ASSC officers, but Wednesday’s response brushed away any cloud of doubt that hovered over the success of the plan, Lee asserted,
PLOTTED ON MAP His committee has prepared a large-scale map of Los Angeles and suburbs and has divided it into six districts. Each district is, in turn, broken down into several groups according to streets and addresses. Students who have signed up can, in this manner, locate the driver nearest their homes.
Kay Armstrong, Renee Overell, Pat Ulery, and Carol Brinkerhoff have spent many unpaid hours assisting Lee with the sorting, alphabetizing and cataloging of the 750 names which have been registered.
A complete list of drivers from the Wilshire district follows and lists of the remaining four districts will appear tomorrow and Monday. MEI.ROSE-FAIRKAX-W ILSHIRE-LA CIENFXJA
Murray. Martha—352 No. Kinr« Rd— York OWtl: Reid. Robert—425 No. La Jolla Ave.—W.voraine 7338; Elkin. Jr., Kenneth—3fi2 No. Flores Ave—Whitney *7«3; PettU. William—128V4 No. Kin*« Rd.—York H9R8: Dyer, Gloria—108 So. I.a Jolla Are—Wyoming 8308; Brash. Marjorie—8328 West 4th St.—W.vominit 9947. SANTA MOMCA-MEI.ROSE-FAIRFAX Born. Harlan—905 No. Genesee—No phone; Joy, Paul—832 No. Hayworth—No phone; Jenkins, KirhHrd—732 No. Creseent
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Baptist Club Meets
Baptist preference students and their friends are invited to attend a meeting and election of officers of the Roger Williams club today at 12:05 p.m. in the council on religion office, 3rd floor Student Union.
The Rev. Herbert Grant, assistant pastor of the First Baptist church of Los Angeles, will be the guest speaker.	%
All those planning to attend are
Nazis Driven Back by Russ
Reds Repel Every Attack on Stalingrad;
Relief Army, on the March, ‘Improve Positions’
MOSCOW, Thursday, Oct. 8—(U.P.)—The Russians killed
800 more Germans and destroyed 19 of their tanks while
beating off every attack on Stalingrad Wednesday, the high
command announced today, and unofficial reports said at
least 200,000 of Hitler’s best shock troops already have been
slain in the 45-day battle for the___
city.
The midnight communique accounted for approximately 3350 more axis troops slain on all fronts, from ,the lofty Caucasus mountains to the chilling plains northwest of Moscow. These included 150 Germans killed in the Don-Volga cor-
SEYMOUR VINOCUR . . accustomed as I am.
ridor by a Russian army driving down to relieve Stalingrad from the northwest; 100 at an unidentified sector; a company of 250 men in the Mozdok sector near the Grozny oil fields; two battalions (1000 men) of Rumanians near the Black sea coast; 800 nazis on the northwestern front and a company of 2580 wiped out by Russian planes.
CREDENCE LENT
Mine Union Leaves CIO at Hot Session
UMW Sever Relations After John L. Lewis Threatens to Resign Unless Members Act
CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 7—(U.P.)—The United Mine Workers of America, after a stormy two-hour battle in which John L. Lewis threatened to resign if the union did not break with the CIO, tonight severed all relations with the parent organ-
^ , ization and passed an overwhelming vote of confidence lor The communique lent credence to Lew^.	_____
unofficial estimates here that the The 37th biennial UMW conven- into adopting the recommendation
Germans are being slaughtered at	tion swung almost solidly behind the rate of 3000 a day on the 40-	its president in a turbulent overmile Stalingrad front alone.	time debate session in which it was German tank losses for the day	declared that attacks on Lewis on all fronts were listed officially	“stemmed even from the President at 45.	of the United States.”
The relief forces bearing down on The overwhelming vote of confi-
Stalingrad from the Don valley	dence followed an indication from
again "improved their positions”	Lewis that either the convention as the 2800 delegtes adjourned lor
of the union’s committee on officers’ report which urged the UMW to withdraw from the CIO and direct its subordinate units and all members to withdraw from CIO affairs.
The convention's action, taken bv a standing vote, was cheered loudly
Wednesday, the communique reported and a single detachment commanded by a lieutenant was credited with killing the 150 Germans there.
The only Russian setback reported was in the Caucasus, where Soviet troops fell back to new defense positions near Mozdok. This was offset, however, by the encir-
clement and annihilation of the | ing him in the face. I am not that two Rumanian battalions farther! kind of man.” west, below the fallen Novorossisk The withdrawal from the CIO naval base.	must remain in effect, the conven-
The area of fighting on the north- f tion voted, untl “such time as the western front—above Moscow—was : CIO sees fit to correct its errors
not located, but the communique said four enemy attacks were beaten back there in one day, at a cost to the nazis of 800 men and eight tanks.
Every dispatch from the Stalingrad front said the battle was steadily increasing in ferocity. German gains .there the past week can be measured only in yards.
One of the latest German moves, according to the newspaper Prav-da, was to rush five battalions <2500 men) of sappers and construction troops, experts in dynamite demolition and veterans of the storming of Sevastopol, out of Crimea by airplane and throw them into action in Stalingrad's northwestern suburbs.
Veteran Speaker Calls Men’s Rally Tonight at Phi Tau House
Seymour Vinocur. veteran j SC debater and the western i states’ top - ranking college j speaker, will captain Troy’s : forensic squad, announced Coach Alan Nichols, professor of speech, yesterday.
A pre-legal scholarship student, Vinocur teamed with Edward McDonnell last year to make a hard-to-beat combination that monopolized college tournaments. The new captain is expected to spark his squad to more victories despite war-caused slackening in debate activities.
FRATERNITY CHIEF Vinocur is past president of Phi Eta Sigma, national honorary men's group; is a member of Blackstonian, pre-legal socicty; and is affiliated w‘th Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honorary.
On his night-off from a swing shift defense job he will preside over the men’s annual debate smoker schedule for 7:30 p.m. today at the Phi Kappa Tau house, 904 West 28th street.
The smoker will serve as a get-together for debate alumni and present team members who will go into a huddle over this year's question which proposes the establishment of a permanent federal union of the united nations.
NICHOLS BACK
Dr. Nichols, who hrs been absent on government work, will outline the coming events on the forensic calendar. Four big tournaments and plenty of minor engagements are projected for the coming year.
Vinnocur expects a team as large as any in the past and explained that George Grover. John Baird, and Potter Kerfoot will continue to be the mainstays of the squad. A host of freshman speakers and junior college transfers will add their force to make the Trojans a threatening contender in speech circles, he predicted.
An invitation has been extended to all men interested in debat# activities to attend this evening a rally, even though they may not have signed up for the team.
First speech meeting is slated for Glendale high school on October
Not enough metal to put together an army bomber, not 24- when two sc orators will preenough to supply the body of a jeep is the conclusion reached sent a, m°d,el d'Lbate- 1116 1Jlstltut* by caretakers on the campus when they look at the official
SC scrap heap piled modestly on the east side of Bovard field. Several faculty members are ex-The way things stand now, said Neil Gregg, director of pected to participate with analytical
the ordinance and maintenance
withdraw officially from the CIO or accept his resignation.
"If you do not adopt this report, then you do not want a man like me to be your president,” he declared, “then you want a man with more ’rabbit’ in him than I have got. You want a man who will lay j your confidence
I’ve
the day. The few who voted against the break were booed loudly.
Enumerating his contributions to the labor movement and his efforts in helping organize the CIO. Lewis told the group that he “only asked
down on his back while someone is kicking him in the ribs and stamp-
and desist from its policy of denunciation and its antagonistic attitude toward the United Mine Workers.”
In his second address within two days, Lewis swayed the convention
* had it through the years, and I think I've got it now," he added. He was interrupted by cheers of “you've got it”
Lewis pointed out that the CIO apparently was trying to destroy “your entire organization by criticising UMW officers.
"Beware of the man who comes to you with a smile on his face and tells you he admires you but that your mother was a woman of ill repute. Beware of him and answer him with a blow,” Lewis said.
Troy s Scrap Heap Won t Make a Jeep
Serious Outbreaks Reported in Oslo
ordinance department, "we haven't enough old pipes and rails on hand to make it worth while for a metal dealer to send over a truck to cart them away.”
Evidence that the campus with its iron statues, railings, plaques, and fixtures was kept in a high
discussions.
Pritchard Heads Magazine Drive
LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 8—(U.P.)—Serious disturbances were reported to have occurred in Oslo last night, and the state of repair revealed itself Germans were expected to proclaim a state of emergency at any hour in the Norwegian capital.
The outbreaks, reported in a United Press Stockholm dis-
al meeting has been called Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
But acting secretary of state Sumner Welles, who said the commission would be created in the near future, told reporters he would leave it to their judgment whether Hitler and his ilk come under the war criminal definition.
Dick Snavely Becomes Ensign
Ensign Dick Snavely, USNR, former instructor in art at SC, was one of hundreds of naval reserve officers to complete an intensive eight-week sea-duty training course at Tower hall, Chicago, this week, navy officials announced.
Ensign Snavely, a graduate of SC, was active on campus as editor, photographer, and writer on campus publications and was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Delta Phi Delta. He is expected to go to sea soon for active duty with the fleet
A Killer Stalks This Campus!
11 students interested in ice g. Set for this noon in the room. p.E. building, the con-ill oe to work out transporta-problems. Lorraine Servttins
skating will meet every oth-k for two hours of fun. We as yet decided where to ui meetings, so I'll see you oon—we’ll decide then.”
sident's ce Notice
Monday, Oct. 12. & special bly will be held at 10:45
1 hat day the following schedule will prevail;
00 8:50 55 9:45 50-10:40
45-11:25 Assembly 30-12:20
R. B. von KleinSmid
President
A baffling murder has startled the campus and SC is again in the public eye. The murder occurs in Jane de Lange Lewis’ new mystery novel which has its locale on the
click and whirr.’’
“The lights were on in the library of the Law building, bright yellow squares in a black wall. Ahead were the dark trees of the park, and
Trojan campus. Miss Lewis is an f beyond them the great bulk of the alumna of '39.
Writing under the pen name of Lange Lewis, she titles her novel, j "Murder Among Friends,” but to Trojans it will always be remem- gf YWLA hOUSe by da^ ™jored English dur bered as "The SC Campus Murder	ing her years at SC. She was a
Mystery.” With keen delight Tro- Discussions on living in a world '	,5.PS?°? ^,*1 ^°!!0rar>[
jans will note descriptions of locales : at war and problems caused by the
Baxter to Speak at YWCA House
stadium, and beyond that, a little to the left, a glaring sign of top of the theatre, just showing above the trees.”
The murder victim in the book, Garnet Dillon, is portrayed as the secretary of the dean of the School of Medicine.
patch to have been precipitated when Quisling and German police made several raids, followed the execution of 15 persons by firing squads at Trondheim. Their deaths raised to 25 the number of victims of a nazi terror in Norway that apparently is arousing all Scandinavia to a pitch unequalled since the nazis swept northward in 1940.
The dispatch said the raids appeared to have met resistance and that t' ° jftlice showered houses and streets with submachine gun bullets.
the condition oi the small pile of leaky buckets, cans without bottoms, poles, and turnstyles which had been cast aside since founding of the university.
the
“Keep ’em readin’,” were th* words given out to SC students yesterday by Lawrence D. Pritchard, director of the office of coordination, who is conducting a drive on campus for magazines for our fighting men.
Weighing slightly more than 200 Students are asked to contribute pounds, the entire heap is dwarfed ^ll their read-over magazines. Do-when compared with the amount of nations may’be deposited at three scrap metal which can be reclaim- places on campus: in the Student ed from a single model T Ford. Union, the- Administration build-Statistics and graphs charting, and in Doheny library. Spe-the rate of metal flow into the Cjai boxes have been set up for scrap pile indicate that if the purpose.
present situation continues, more A campus book drive has been than 500 years will pass before ^ progress since February. Ac-Trojan students can look skyward cQrding to Miss christian R. Dick, with pride at a sleek army bomber uniyersity ^rarian,
over 400 books
in the novel as being part of this campus.
Easily recognized as an all-too-familiar place is this passage in the book: “The Student Union was a long, high-ceilinged room; one side was windows that faced north, the I
global conflict will be planned today at 2:15 p.m. in the YWCA house by the public affairs commit-| tee, declares Emily Lehan, chairman.
The series of lectures which will
Miss Lewis, who writes by night uu"cw>- ^^e shooting was reported and works for the Bank of America SO intense at one time that it gave
the impression that street battles : were in progress, Stockholm re- | ported.
English society, the Quill club, and Stockholm said the state of the Athena literary society. She emergency—martial law already is graduated magna cum laude, was *n ef*ect along over a
built entirely with metal from the campus scrap heap.
Seventeen Thespians To Be Named Today
have been given by SC students. She stated that soldiers especially desire books containing engineering, mathematics, and technical information.
Names of the 17 thespians who 500-mile i will play in the student production
voted to Phi Beta Kappa, national striP of th* Central Norwegian honorary scholastic society, and re- coast—probably would be prociaim-ceived the Emma Josephine Brad- ed in Oslo as soon as Josef Ter-ley Bovard award for scholarship.
Miss Lewis's next book will be
begin Thursday Oct. 15 will be opened bv Dr. Frank C. Baxter, head
other a long lunch counter. Next to the counter was a free space, and then a forest of shiny brown j of the English department, and tables and chairs . . . She pushed Barbara Symmes, AWS president.
through the turnstile at the entrance. and remembered to snatch a- ticket from the boxlike machine just inside : there was the familiar
Topic question in the first lecture will be “Can College Training Give Us the Answer to How to Live in a World at War’”
i boven, Reich commissioner for , Norway, and Gen. Wilhelm Rediess, ' chief of the gestapo, returned from Trondheim.
Stockholm also reported that a j showdown in German-Danish rela-
another murder maze centering around the drama and psychology departments of a university in a setting suspiciously like Old College. Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, publisher of “Murder Among Friends,” her second novel tions, reportedly strained during is scheduled to appear this winter. | recent days, was expected «oon.
of “George Washington Slept Here" will be named at a meeting of the drama workshop today in Touchstone theater at 3:30 p.m., according to Joan Miles, student director.
A total of 35 students tried out for the parts Monday and Tuesday of this week, and casting was done yesterday. Those who are not chosen will be used as standins and in backstage work.
Registrar's Office Notice
All students des:r»r.g to take special examinations to complete courses in which they received * mark of “Ie” during: the last two semesters are requested to mak* application at the Registrar’s of-fice by October 16. Examinations will begin Saturday, October 31. C. R. Bergland, Associate Registrar
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