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Los Angeles, M£r. 24, 1943
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>C will give 24 additional ;n to Uncle Sam today, len the second group called the ERC leaves for active |ty at 9 a.m. Scene of the jarture is the Pacific Elec-station at Sixth and Main [eets where the group will }et near the information pk, taking with them noth-but what they are wearing.
|f the original 30 men who were ;d, only 24 will report. The other ^n men are graduating seniors, like the men in the first consent, they were deferred until time as their colleges grant their diplomas. A^ril 17 has set by the university as the when full term credit can be ited.
5t to be outdone by the rest of university in giving their fold ^earty sendoff, the College of lacy will not hold classes until (a.m. in order that pharmacy Jents may give their friends a cheer demonstration at the Ion.
charge of thc departing iup is *W. Douglas Wolf.
men have been clearing up tir business for the past two is, which is the usual period time which elapses between MacArthur and notification by in Albert Sydnev Raubenhei-|r, armed services representa-on campus. As has been sug-by the army, the men will with them their college cripts of grades, lose men deferred in order to iuate are: les G. Bell, Samuel J. Beskin, Lm D. Creed, Ronald L. Maley, lard Iknoian, Charles F. Peter-| Ralph H. R. Schwartz, len who will answer the call the following:
>hn E. Ezhderian, Joseph A. if Alfred G. Hereford, Rus-Call, Louis R. Cavalieri, Cara-T. Chuljian, Burton Cosley, liam A. Eisenachcr, Ben F. inian, Jack Grossman, Albert Homer, Kasper J. Kinosian,
E. Kruger, Benjamin Mel-Norman H. Beisner, Charles Simmons, James E. Slosson, A. Stewart, Edgar Watts, rard E. West, Donald D. Wild-Jn, Herman Wiynov, Douglas Wolfe, and Allan Choy.
Editorial
♦P. reports
rRICA: British within 20 miles enveloping Mareth line; main ith army forces drive wedge into kifications’ frontal defenses while lericans drive on from captured cnassy.
tUSSIA: Red, army takes 60vil-;s in 24 hour%as drive on Smo-sk gathers momentum; Soviets sh four-day German offensive [•th of Bryansk, hold firm on lets line.
tUROPE: 300 Britteh bombers ished St. Nazaire with some tons of bombs; air offensive [in in full swing as Mosquitoes near Nantes ln daylight.
IHINA: Fluctuating fighting th of Yangtse inconclusive, Chi-command reports; enemy best-by diversionary offensive in ipeh province, north of river. KURMA: RAF makes destructive |ylight raid on Japanese camp at ae; pound widespread areas of la in series of attacks. >ACIFIC: No action reported in Jomons; Knox warns quiet may riull before the stoim.”
lSKA: Heavy and medium U. bombers attack Kiska under iter escort; fire started at Japa-base.
The Daily Trojan is not backing either Bill Caldwell or Jack Williams.
The Daily Trojan has no candidate, yet.	•
Certain persons have interpreted the observations made by the Keyholer as an advocacy by the Daily Trojan of one candidate and the disavowal of the other candidate. Should the Daily Trojan find cause to support either Williams or Caldwell, it will not resort to a bylined column, nor to innuendo, nor to what can be read between the lines. If it feels that any one candidate is sufficiently worthy, it will promote the interests of this candidate in an open and above board manner.
The Keyholer writes the political scene as he sees it. It is only natural that some candidates will suffer by his remarks while others might benefit. In both cases, the Key-holer’s objective is to give a sincere report, rather than favor or prejudice either side. The writer is not looking at this election through rose-colored glasses.
The only connection the Daily Trojan has with the Keyholer is that we print his column. We do so because we feel that the column is fair, accurate, and neutral. It is neutral despite the fact that some readers believe that one candidate is favored. If the truth favors one candidate, then that will be printed, and neutrality is still maintained.
The fact that Caldwell is business manager of the Daily Trojan does not make him a Trojan-sponsored candidate. The business office is only remotely associated with the . editorial side of the paper. The two offices are on different floors of the Union and the staffs of each operate independently of each other. Caldwell is not a Daily Trojan candidate, for the Trojan has no candidate.
Until the Daily Trojan makes a definite commitment, if ever, it will be impartial. Fair play will govern the writing, placement, and emphasis put on political stories.
—Stanlefy Hanson.
Keyholer exposes ballot frauds
by the Keyholer
The spotlight of the Keyholer focuses today upon a turning point of the whole coming elections—the conduct of the voting and* its tabulation. It should be- made clear at the outset that this writer has the utmost confidence in the ■present commissioner of elections. He displayed his flair for
fair play during the elections for freshman class president last semester. Mr. Levine was severely criticized by many factions at that time, simply because he was so strictly impartial.
But the Keyholer has just learned of certain coups which have been planned to “rig” the election. The Machine has been significantly silent in its campaigning for the last several days. This is to warn them that I know of the plans for the double voting, the lost ballot boxes from the, downtown colleges, and the switched boxes.
Levine last night at senate meeting disclosed the elaborate plans for the supervising and the counting of the ballots. These plans were very commendable. But the Machine, overly worried about Bill Caldwell’s strangely growing support, plans to use even more sub-rosa techniques. The sneak printing of identical ballots is not only possible but has been done twice before in the past. Ballot boxes bouncing off ,the backs of tru<!ks carrying them over to the Student Union when the polls closed is another accident that the TNE Boys have conveniently used on three separate occasions in the past. The University division of the (Continued on Page Four)
Lost Horizon cast shuffled
Tickets for “Lost Horizon,” drama workshop production, may be obtained in the Victory Hut and in the speech office in Old College today, tomorrow, and Friday, according to director Joan Miles. The price is 40 cents a person, 25 cents with a student body book, she said. Tickets will be sold after chapel hour. The play will run three nights, March 26, 27, and 29; blocks of seats may be reserved for Monday night by sororities and fraternities.
A last minute recasting of “Lost Horizon” became necessary when Barry Jonas, who played the role of Mallinson, contacted the measles this week. Ritchie Gregory, who was understudy for both Jonas and Bob Einer, is now taking the part.
Five hundred dollars worth of •teakwood furniture was acquired from Chinese families for authenticity, Miss Miles revealed. Two hundred dollars worth of costumes and Chinese tapestries were received from a Chinese actor.
Drama department goes European in spring presentation of Tovarich'
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Fourteen French and Russian ac-
cents pervaded the Green room of Old College as rehearsals began this week for the light French comedy, “Tovarich,” adapted from the original by Robert E. Sherwood. William C. DeMille, producer of the play, announced yestetday that five nightly performances wilL extend from April 29 to May 4 in Bovard auditorium.
“Tovarich,” by Jacques Duval, depicts the struggles of a Russian prince and a grand duchess who hire .themselves out of servants in the home of a French banker. The
play is a delicate light comedy, according to producer DeMille,
The cast of “Tovarich” includes Paul Bordman as Mikail. the Russian prince, and Phyllis Perry as Tatiana, his Grand Duchess wife. Others are: Alice Parichon as Olga; Ritchie Gregory, Brekenski; Bill Chapman, Dubieff; Claire Laub, Fernande; Ed Kelly, Charles; Florence Wagner, Louise; Frank Christi, George; Bebe Blake, Helene; Geraldine Carlson, Madame Van Hem-ert; Samme Dickson, Madame Chauffourier-Dubieff; and Jim George as Gorotchenko. The part of Martelleau has yet to be filled.
British
outflank
Rommel
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Mar. 23—(U.P.) —British flanking forces were reported tonight to have swept to within 20 miles of complete encirclement of the Mareth line while the main eighth army drove a deep wedge in the Mareth frontal defenses and American troops to the north moved on from captured Maknassy toward the sea.
Striking suddenly out of the desert, the light but powerful British force had driven nearly 100 miles from the Ksar Rhilane sector along a route 20 to 50 miles behind the Mareth fortifications.
The last few miles were won with difficulty through thick mine fields laid by the axis in anticipation of such a movement, official dispatches said. At last reports, the British were battling strong enemy forces 10 miles below El Hamma "airdrome at a point only 20 miles from the coast below Gabes.
The main eighth amy meanwhile had swelled the bag of allied prisoners to 3100 in three days and was enlarging a wedge a mile deep and three miles wide in the primary defenses of the Mareth line. With his whole southern army thus in danger of befng split in two and hammered to pieces, Marshal Erwin Rommel threw 50 tanks and other forces into a heavy counter-attack at dawn against the southern fork of the two-pronged American advance, on the coast road east of El Guette.
SC engineers to give blood
Gallons of rich red corpuscles to be given to the Red Cross for the aid of wounded American soldiers will be the goal of College of Engineering students who today launch their “all-engineering blood-bank drive.”
Troy’s slide-rule scholars will meet at 9 this morning at a
special assembly on the roof of -:------
Trojan radio I show preview to be given
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the Engineering building where Dean Robert E. Vivian and Hugo Francis will speak.
Opening the meeting, Dr.-Vivian will make several announcements to the gathering, and will then introduce Hugo Francis, who will explain the significance of the bloodbank drive and will describe how students may participate.
To mark the progress of the drive the engineers will use an old SC custom by erecting a giant thermometer chart which will be used to indicate the rise of the number of contributions. All, students may view the progress of the college by going to the foyer of the Engineering building where the chart will be displayed.
Students may contribute as many times as they desire, but they must meet the requirements of the Red Cross, which are as follows;
First, students under 21 years of age must have a release by a parent, spouse or husband. (Release cards may be obtained in the Student bookstore.
Second, donors must weigh 110 pounds, and must not have had malaria within the past 15 years, tuberculosis, diabetes, or jaundice.
Third, advice is to eat sparingly of fatty foods on day of donation as fatty foods affect the plasma.
The goal set by Francis is 409 pints of blood. As only cne pint at a time is taken from donors, this amounts to one donation for each registered engineering student.
Trojans assist Red Cross Drive
To whom do we give our Red Cross money?
.Where do we put our donations?
These were some of the demanding questions voiced by SC students last week. Mrs. Ruth Grant of the YWCA house and Lynn Norby in charge of the Red Cross on the ASSC
- War Board met Monday and decided that someone will be at the
TRANSFUSION —Above an American soldier receives a transfusion which may save his life. Thousands of patriotic men and women are donating their blood to the Red Cross whose plasma project is the world's largest medical undertaking.
“Y” house every day to take the donations. A table will be stationed outside the Student Union at which Amazon pledges will take the money, also Amazon pledges are contacting the office help and the faculty of the university in an effort to aid the Red Cross drive.
The War Council is trying to get the fraternities and sororities to cooperate in this hew drive which will last this week and which has no set quota.
“Anyone who would like to do Red Cross work in the form of house-to-house canvassing in territory around the university should come to the YWCA house,” stated Mrs. Grant yesterday after she received such a suggestion from Red Cross headquarters.
“Many students are cooperating very successfully in another drive sponsored by the Red Cross by giving their blood and it is hoped that this donation drive will meet with the same success,” said Mrs. Grant.
Sorority and fraternity houses and university employees are already on record as having pledged approximately $700 to the cause of the Red Cross. Practically every college in the university is carrying on a separate campaign for donations as well as forming a part of the central drive.
Posters describing the need of the organization in their world-wide work are placed at vantage points about the campus.
To obtain a concensus of opinion as to what success the weekly half-hour variety show, “This Week at Troy” will receive from a national audience and allied servicemen overseas, a special preview for SC
students will be held in Bovard auditorium Thursday night. Invitations were sent to all fraternities and sororities and five or six representatives are expected to attend the “dress rehearsal”
The show, sponsored by the War Board and the radio department, will be directed by Lynn Randle with Lee Millar, vice-president, and Robert Armstrong, general manager. As special guest Jack Williams, head of the War-Board will discuss the functions of the board after which the Trojan Victory theatre will present the first of a series of skits pertaining to the activities of the board. Included among the performers are Lee Millar. Ed Kelley, Bob Einer, Jim George, Beth partman, Frances Greenberg, and Peggy*Kite.
Besides the dramatic sequence the program will consist of hit songs by Joyce Hill and Bill Chapman, music by Hoyt Curtin and company, and humor supplied by Robert Armstrong known for his wit at PiKA parties.
“Support of this show by all students will make the series of broadcasts one of the biggest things that Troy has ever accomplished,” stated Miss Randle.
El Rodeo calls
The following will please report to the El Rodeo office, 202 Student Union, at 3:30 today: Carol Alworth, Jim Lawshe, Mel Morrison, and Charlotte Quinn.
Pritchard breaks army exam record
Lawrence D. Pritchard, director of coordination at SC since 1934 and former student body president, who left for army service last December, has been selected for high grades in numerous tests to attend the coveted adjutant general’s school at Amarillo, Tex., according to word received on the campus yesterday.
Following eigl^t weeks of intensive training at the air forces administrative school in Weatherford, Okla., Pritchard was graduated as number one with an average of 99.43 per- cent, the' highest record made to date. A special diploma of “honor and distinction,” signed by the commanding general was given him.
“It was even harder than a quest for a Ph.D. degree,” wrote Pritchard. “The study schedule was eight hours daily with addi* tional home work, followed by class drill and exercise. It has put me in tbe best physical condition that I have had for years.”