• % n open letter from
n ASSC senator
tor, Daily Trojan t
Just like old man river, elections just keep rolling along, ith the long hours of supervising the polls over, with the dio'us work of counting ballots and tabulating results com-leted, and with everyone agreed that the election was ap-arently honestly conducted, at last we have a new leader f our student body for next year.
Although it has not as yet been officially released. I, as a nator, ought to be able to tell you that Bill Caldwell nosed out .Tack Williams by less than a dozen votes to win the hotly contested post of student body president. This is a reversal of the previous election which was declared null and void because of fraudulent practices. All other offices remained ‘n the same hands as before.
Now there are rumors that Caldwell’s election will be disputed. Apparently we senators are meeting tonight for the urpose of more than just reviewing this election. Why hasn’t nyone officially released the “secret” results that have been apidly leaking out since Friday night?
As a senator, I have been asked by many students what he results were and why weren’t they being released. I could ind no answer for them. All I could say was that students ould not know the results until the senate had certified or efused to certify the election.
But if an important controversy arises tonight over this lection, how am I to represent the wishes and interests of y constituents if they do not know what the score is?
I said before that there are rumors that Caldwell’s elec-ion will be disputed. Do you ask how this can be so after hi:* has apparently been an honest election? I will tell you.
It seems again that someone has bungled. It seems as hrugh there is a question as to whether or not the dental tudents were properly informed that voting would not be eld in their building as previously announced, but rather at he: administration poll. Again, it seems as though there is
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SOUTHERN CIA L I FORNIA
Vol. XXXIV
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Los Angeles, Tuesday, Apr. 20, 1943
Night Phone: RI. 5472
NO. 130
85 Axis
owned
planes off Africa
ypist, clerk obs open or women
Wage ceilings and job freezing u,y be a national law but there’s _c restriction on the conveniences hicb may be offered by the em-loyer as is demonstrated by the
(tuo gravy train positions which are yen in the SC employment office. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful and 30 or 40 people whose only qualification is that they can count are wanted for work.
A typist and filing clerk who fa definitely attractive, who can work from 4 t<*~9 p.m. for 60 cents mi hour will be received gladly jsy the employment office. She nil! be offered transportation from school to the job and back by two handsome SC men who lire also employed there. The work is not heavy but “She’s gotta be good lookin’ ” the employer emphasized.
The second position is with Unit-•4 Motors during their inventory Apr. 28, 29 and 30. Persons who nre interested, both men and women, should make arrangements to j:ee the company representative before Thursday. The job offers the -convenience of being open for woifc Itny time of the day or evening.
A company representative will be in the employment office between 3 and 4 p.m. Thursday to interview appUcants. Appointments should be made to see him beforehand in that office on the second floor of the Student Union.
The salary offered is 75 cents per hour. The work is a cinch for SC men and women the employment office reports.
President's office notice
CASTER SERVICE ASSEMBLY The following schedule will govern class meetings for the Easier assembly today.
8:09- 8:50 8:55- 9:45
9:50-10:30 (Eeeter Assembly) 10:35-11:25 11:30-12:20
R. B. von KleinSmid, President
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Apr. 19—(U.P.) Allied fliers shot down 85 axis planes Sunday in the most ezisive air victory of the African war and raised the toll to 6 today in renewed attacks on axis aerial transport convoys hich may be removing key nazi troops from Tunisia.
Sixty-eight of the axis planes were Junkers 52 transports destroyed in blazing battles over the Sicilian channel and reliable reports from Cairo said the transports “appeared to be carrying troops.”
Regardless of who or what was aboard, the allies dealt a major biow to axis air strength yesterday in shooting down 74 planes including 58 transports in one fierce engagement, one of the greatest ever fought. Ten more Jankers transports and one escort fighter were shot down over the channel today while the remainder of the 96 enemy planes were accounted for in other operations Sunday.
(The London Daily Mail said in a Cairo dispatch that it was believed at least 1000 key officers and men of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s desert army perished when a Sicily-bound Junkers convoy was smashed.)
It was officially announced that the axis lost 159 transports from Apr. 5 through 10 a.m. today.
The Sicilian narrows victory was the work of the western desert air force—P-40 Warhawk fighters flown by Americans, Britons, and South Africans and RAF-piloted Spitfires—which had been winging on constant patrols for just such an opportunity.
Sunday it came. A great aerial convoy of more than 100 Junkers 52 transports and fighter planes swept out of the Tunis area in a low, lumbering flight.
Fagerburg
addresses
assembly
Holy week assembly which will climax the series of all university assemblies sponsored by the School of Religion will be held today at 9:50 a.m. in Bovard auditorium. Dr. Frank Fagerburg will speak on the significance of Holy week in relation to the present world crisis.
Dr. Fagerburg has appeared at Troy several times. He has served 13 years as minister of the First Baptist church and is regarded as one of the leaders in his denomination.
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will deliver a farewell address to the men who recently enlisted in the midshipmen class to train at Northwestern university. He will be introduced by President Bob McKay, one of the men in the midshipmen class.
Dr. Robert John Taylor, dean of the School of Religion, will deliver the invocation at the assembly.
Special reserved seats in the middle section will be occupied by men in NROTC and Naval Flight Preparatory school. On the platform with the featured speaker, President von KleinSmid, and Bob McKay, will be Dean Francis Bacon, Dean Helen Hall Moreland, and Hugh C. Willett.
Official vote results remain big question
Official lips were still closed yesterday regarding Friday’s election, and the certified results of yesterday’s re-count will not be made known until tonight when the student senate meets to decide whether or not to sanction the ASSC revote as it stands.
The senate will be faced with a number of problems that have as yet defied all attempted solutions and have made it seem advisable to withhold the election tabulations until there
has been opportunity for further
Presidentt speaks May 1
“Universities in the Postwar World” will be the subject of Dr Rufus B. von KleinSmid, president of the university, when he speaks at the spring meeting of the Western College association May 1 at UCLA.
Dr. Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, will lead the afternoon discussion at the meeting, which is being held in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the University of California.
The general theme of the conference will be “Institutions of Higher Learning in the Development of American Education — Retrospect and Prospect.” Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, will preside.
Reservists qualify with test today
Sophomore members of the V-l naval reserve program, freshmen and sophomore enlistees of the marine, class III, and premedical and predental students of the V-l program will take the scheduled qualifying examination for these programs today. The test will be held for these men at 9 a.m. in
302 Law building, announced Dean
French club
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. . . members will hear Dr. Rene Belle, associate professor of French at a meeting in the YWCA house Wednesday noon.
Sigma adds organization
Releasing the official list of new j Jack Bell; Sigma Chi. Emmett Sigma Sigma members, Ed Harper' Wimple; Alpha Rho Chi, Cal Straub.
DeMille preps Tovarich' cast
For the love of the theater “Tovarich” cast members are denouncing their Easter vacation to put the finishing touches on the play production to be presented Apr. 29 in Bovard auditorium.
Director William DeMille is polishing off a few actors for the dueling scene with “en garde,” thrusts, retreats, and general fencing techniques in the dramatic inner sanctum of Old College.
Talk of rehearsal advancement is forbidden material for a Daily Trojan reporter since Professor DeMille believes that pre-presentation criticism makes the actors self-conscious and restrained. However, the romantic humorous plot of “Tovarich" is rich material for such actors as Phyllis Perry, Paul Board-man, and Jim George who play the leads, and Bebe Blake and Frank Christi who enact the juvenile roles. Ed Kelly, Bill Chapman, Florence Wagner, Grace Dicksir, Geraldine Carlson, Claire Laub, and Ritchie Gregory play supporting parts.
“Tovarich,” a three-act, three-set play, will play to a limited audience for five nights beginning Apr. 29. Tickets may be purchased in the student body store beginning Monday, or student body cards may be used for admission.
Albert S. Raubenheimer.
Members of the V-l who have now completed or who will have completed 60 units by the end of the present semester are required to take the examination. Their names are posted outside of the Letters, Arts, and Science office, stated Dr. Raubenheimer.
The examination is also essential for all premedical and predental students unless they have made, arrangements with Dr. R. R. G. Watt’s office, 114 Old College. Unless these students make these arrangements they are required to take the examination.
The test will be given in two parts and will last four and one quarter hours. The first part will begin at 9 and last until 11 a.m., while the second part will start at 2 and last until 4:15 p.m.
reports
president of the men’s junior honorary, yesterday announced the names of 28 juniors and 6 seniors who have been admitted to the organization.
Junior members include Theta Xi. Ralph Grahl; Kappa Sigma, Bill Badbrow and Bill Evans; Delta Tau Delta, Bob Oliver and Bennett Priest; Pi Kappa Alpha, Jack Williams and Bob Stevens; Sigma Phi Epsilon, Mickey Heeger and Gordon Craig; Phi Kappa Psi, Bud Townsend and Lael Lee; Phi Sigma Kappa, Bill Weber and Bob Frowley; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Bob Fiske and
Others are Delta Sigma Delta, Joe Vorhees and Fred Duplaneck; non-org, Barry McCarthy; Phi Kappa Tau, Elmer pinkley; Delta Sigma Phi, Chuck Alysebury and Larry Wilsey; Sigma Nu, Mickey McCardle and George MacPherson; Zeta Beta Tau, Irving Cahn and Hal Sender; Xi Phi Phi, Lloyd Davis.
Honorary members, who are seniors who have done outstanding work in the university since their junior years are John Lowe, Dick Homeyer, Mort Tannebaum, Lyman Lee, Ted Olewine, and Russ Lindersmith.
Relief confab held
Official spokesmen at the opening session of the Anglo-American refugee conference said yesterday that an adequate solution to the problem of providing relief for the racial, religious, and political victims of nazi prosecution will have to await a united nations victory in Europe.
Wainwright honored
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, from his Australian headquarters, yesterday joined Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin and the Connecticut legislature in honoring Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, now a Japanese prisoner, for his defense of Bataan and Corregidor.
Mrs. Adele H. Wainwright, on behalf of her husband, accepted a cablegram from Gen. MacArthur and an embossed resolution from the Connecticut legislature.
McNutt stabilizes
War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt said yesterday that provisions of his job-control program permitting workers in essential industries to switch to higher-paid jobs if the transfer furthers the war effort, will be extended soon to areas where employment stabilization plans are not in effect.
Dean Tiegs' new assistant named
Mrs. Florence Pollman has been appointed to the office of assistant to Dean Ernest W. Tiegs in University college, a position held formerly by Miss Nellie Parr, who recently resigned because of ill health.
Mrs. Pollman is especially qualified to assume this position, having been secretary to Dean Tiegs and is therefore familiar with the work of University college. •
Rawlings wins top Squire post
Black-sweatered Trojan Squires elected Rea Rawlings Squire president; Phil Kirst, vice-president; and Joe Holt, secretary-treasurer at their election meeting yesterday.
AU three newly-elected officers are non-orgs. Rawlings is from the College of Commerce, and Kirst and Holt are students at the University Junior college.
Members of the sophomore service organization are chosen for their outstanding service during their freshman year and must have a one-point cumulative grade average. As Squires they officiate during football games, assemblies, and other university activities.
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Asiatics hear Chinese consul
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S. C. Hsu, of the Chinese consular service, will be the speaker at the Asiatics Studies society meeting, Wednesday, Apr. 21, at 6:30 p.m., at the Man Jen Low cafe, New Chinatown.
Tickets will be available at the door or at the Medical library, Bridge hall.
investigation. *
“No questions have arisen in regard to the honesty of the election,” Elections Commissioner Phil Levine declared yesterday, “but Bob McKay, representing the student senate, has asked me not to release the vote tabulations until after they have been certified by the senate.’* McKay explained that several factors led to this action on his part. “The closeness of the election itself is important; we won’t be able to find out until tomorrow morning whether or not dental students received adequate notification that they had to vote at the Administration poll; and there is some question about the second-year medical students not being given an opportunity to vote,** he said yesterday.
Senate members who were contacted were not able to offer any suggestions that might rectify the medical and dental students' situations if it did prove that they had not had an adequate opportunity to cast their ballots.
It was pointed out that it would almost certainly have to be a choice between denying these students the right to vote or facing the problem of having a limited number of students undergo strong pressure from both sides before casting their ballots—neither alternative being a desirable one.
The question in the dental students’ case concerns whether or not a notice was posted in the dental building notifying them that they would have to vote at the central polling place in front of the Administration building instead of in their own building as had been the previous procedure.
The medical students’ problem centers around the assertion that the names of second-year students did not appear on the list of eligible voters and they therefore could not vote.
A second-year medical student contacted last night declared that he and another student had written a notice on the blackboard of the room in which all second-year men were to take an examination, and that notice announced that those who wished to could vote in Arnold Eddy’s office between 4 and 4:30 p.m. He asserted that he took advantage of this opportunity but did not know how many others had.
Faculty invites Apolliad judges
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/ Students, critics, and guests attending the two-hour Apolliad program in Touchstone theater May 8, are invited to a reception in the Green room of Old College during the program intermission, the faculty committee planning the affair announced yesterday.
Invitations were sent to literary and art critics in this area last week, and approximately 12 will attend the program to criticize Trojans’ creative endeavors.
The 1943 19th annual Apolliad, will be concerned with the student’s outlook on the world crisis. The program will consist of short stories, plays, essays, poems, musical compositions, and creative dances. Judges will view the presentations and send their criticisms by letter to the students participating in the program.
The judges’ names will be announced next week, Mrs. Tacie Hanna Rew, committee chairman, stated.
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