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neared
Confident that Troy’s Red Cross contributions would ex-Iceed the $700 quota, Mrs. Ruth Grant, YWCA secretary in Icharge of collections, today reported that another $100 given resterday has upped the total to $600.
With two days remaining in the Red Cross drive, many
>rority and all but one fraternity louse have yet to turn in their contributions, which Mrs. Grant be-ieves should help the donations to easily surpass the $700 mark.
A table in front of the Student Union will catch late givers if there's no cloudburst, she said.
In connection with the money [drive, students have been urged to donate blood to the blood bank at |the Red Cross on Western ave-
“Do your bloody best!” “Give a
Fifteen per cent of the total num r of 8C engineering students have onated in the first week of their ree-week drive. Mrs. W. H. Shal-nberger of the booking depart -ent at the Red Cross, says there as been a slight influx of student lood donors since the opening of tie campus drive.
' The Bed Cross blood bank has been meeting its quota, set by the prmy and navy, of 600 pints of lood a day, because of the gen-ral Red Cross drive now in pro-Mrs. Shallenberger says the atest number of blood givers mes from the middle-age group ho have sons, brothers, or hus-ands in the servioe.
Appointments for SC students in next three days run from 15 to i day, and of the organised
Engineers rush to give blood to Red Cross
>ups Alpha Gamma ‘‘the best turn-out,” iberger said.
Delta has Mrs. Shal-
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ipt. Gordon Warner, SC grad-of 1936, and now commanding I'icer of the marine corps sea tool at San Diego is teaching leathernecks the art of sword iting and jiu jitsu for use at ladalcanal and in other combat
Japtain Warner is said to be the jy white man to hold an official ree in the art of Kedo, which le learned in Japan when invited the Japanese government to ich water polo. He became so pro-ient in the 2000-year-old tradi-that he has defeated five eked champions of the imperial panese navy during a tournament Hawaii.
Former captain of the SC water lo team, Capt Warner held the all-American breast-stroke record in the 500-yard and 500-meter events, as well as the 440 SPAAU record. He was a member of the Trojan relay team that set a world’s record in the 400-meter distance.
His wife, the former Velma Ann hroeder, is* also a graduate of SC the 1939 class, and was a mem-r of Zeta Tau Alph* sorority. Earning his rank from private to captain through various officers’ schools, Captain Warner became an Instructor in the fleet and marine corps training center. Other training which the marines I are learning through Captain Warner’s efforts is the use of pier-like weapons.
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Some potential Maurice Evans n campus is eagerly sought for a lale role in Prof. William DeMille’s reduction of “Tovarich.” Those in-sted should see Prof. DeMille 3 p.m. today in the School of office.
little blood oil the home front! With these, and other posters, the College of Engineering is urging it« student body to rally around and help the Red Cross blood drive. In the nature of a contest the goal is 409 pints of blood; each engineering society competing against the other. The electrical engineers are ahead by several points so far.
“Freshmen and sophomore engineers will be contacted and urged to come and fill out the Red Cross date lists or to make an individual appointment with the Red Cross,” declared Hugo Francis, chairman, in a statement made yesterday.
"Tn helping in this drive, freshmen and sophomores will be given a chance to feel that they are part of the student body of the College of Engineering Leading the engineers in blood donations is Ed Stoner, who has given his blood four times. Others are Marshall Brekner, Robert Gates and Louis Chess, who have each given twice.
Many students from the world of slide rules have visited the Red Cross over the weekend, and a heavy schedule will be ^naintained this week, particularly Wednesday and Friday.
RAF continues non-stop raids
LONDON, Mar. 29—(U.P)—American-built Ventura bombers of the RAF, carrying the new allied nonstop aerial offensive into its fourth day, made their second straight daylight 'raid on Rotterdam today while huge fires still burned at the St. Nazaire U-boat base which British bombers battered Sunday night
The German DNB news agency long wave radio station left the air at 10:11 p.m. (5:11 p.m. EWT) Monday for “technical reasons,” its abrupt signing off suggesting that allied bombers were over the continent again tonight.
The medium, Vega-built bombers crossed the channel with fighter escort, striking at industrial objectives in Holland and the strategic railway yards at Abbeville, France, as well as blasting enemy vessels at Rotterdam, a shipbuilding center. No planes were lost.
The Venturas raided the continent only a few hours after British and Canadian bombers climaxed the greatest weekend bombardment of the war with a heavy attack on St. Nazaire, leaving fires that still were burning when a British reconnaissance plane flew over the U-boat nest this morning.
St. Nazaire, site of great concrete stalls where German submarines put in for repairs and refueling, was battered by British and Canadian bombers, two of which failed to return.
Great columns of smoke, some as high as 15,000 feet, stiU were bil-owing up from St. Nazaire this morning, the air ministry news service said.
Chinese leader's aide talks
“The opportunity to hear someone that has been so close to the Chinese Generalissimo is one that comes rarely. Although I have personally never heard him, I have listened to glowing reports of him as a wonderful and fluent speaker.”
Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate school, was. speaking of Col. M. Thomas Tchou, former private secretary to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who is to speak before an audience of SC students and faculty in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall tomorrow noon. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas ~>f Utah proclaimed him as “The most thrilling speaker I have ever heard.”
Colonel Tchou, founder of the World Citizenship movement and a direct descendant of Chi Hsi, noted scholar and philosopher of the Sung dynasty, will speak on the topic, “The International Situation.” Dr. J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, will preside at the luncheon.
Although it is being sponsored bj» the Faculty club, the International Relations club, and the Associated Graduate Students, the luncheon is open to aU students. Reservations should be made as early as possible as tljere are only eight places left. Those interested should contact the Graduate School office no later than this noon.
So they've cut down the old . pine trees
Out with the old, in with the new! The old adage of progress holds true on 36th street. Gone or going are the old trees, soon to come are new ones. Forced to replace the old trees because they had grown too heavy, and consequently might become a dangerous element, the university yesterday called in treemov-ers to cut the old trees down, preparatory to the putting in new ones.
trojan coeds granted loans by local clubs
Two Southern Californian worn en’s cluhs are offering college loans to women students for the 1943-44 school year.
The Beverly Hills Women’s club has a revolving loan fund for senior women in southern California colleges which is available under the new three - semester - a-year plan. Those interested should write for details, to the executive secretary, Mrs. Alice L. Butler, at 17 Chevy Chase drive, Beverly Hills, in care of the women’s club.
Credentials for the Los Angeles Women’s University club loan should be submitted a week before the scholarship committee interviews he applicants at the clubhouse, 943 Hoover street, Apr. 17 at 1:30 p.m.
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Madame Chiang arrives tomorrow
Mar. 29—Plans were completed tonight for the city’s welcome to Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek when she arrives here Wednesday morning for her last public appearance in this country before returning to China.
Chinese-American children, who will sing during the Sunday program at Hollywood bowl where Madame Chiang will make an address, held last-minute rehearsals today.
Italian officials lost
Twenty-one high officers in the Italian army, navy and air force have been lost in North Africa, Ethiopia, and Russia, the German Transocean news agency reported Monday, quoting an official announcement in Rome.
Fourteen generals were reported killed and two missing. Two admirals were reported killed in action in the Mediterranean.
OPA orders meat for civilians
Mar. 29—Prospects for alleviation of southern California’s meat shortage were bright tonight following an OPA order to slaughterers to divert their entire output to civilian needs until Apr. 10.
Butchers were confident the order would permit restock-ng, and would have a permanent effect under the rationing program. Quotas have provided for army, navy and lend-ease allotments up to 80 per cent of some meat grades.
Nazi troop chief killed
The Moscow radio, heard in New York by the FCC, reported Monday that Hans Volker, chief of German Nazi SS troop detachments on the Russian front, had been killed.
Allies close
in for kill in Tunisia
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Mar. 29— (U.P.) —Field Marshal Erwin Rommel fled into the Gabes bottleneck tonight assailed by land, air, and sea, leaving his blasted Mareth line, 6000 prisoners and vast booty in the hands of British forces who, with their American and French allies,
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Tunisia.
Scoring the greatest victory of the Tunisian war, the British eighth army had captured the fortress towns of Tojane, Mareth and Mat-mata—th^ last named only 22 miles below Gabes—and all the other strong^oints of the Mareth line.
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The Hig base of Gabes was also menaced from two other quarters, by British forces hammering at the edge of the bottleneck only 16 miles to the west, and by Americans who drove nine miles down the Gabes road from El Guettar to the northwest and captured the 1500-foot Djebel Mcheltat last night.
(The axis-controlled “Voice of the Arab world” said in an Arabic broadcast heard in London that “we have received news the English have occupied Gabes.”)
Rommel’s road of retreat actually narrowed to a point in the bottleneck farther north where the coast and the south Tunisian salt marshes rimmed the coastal road.
Allied air forces kept Gabes under violent attack and the British fleet loomed suddenly off'the Tunisian coast and began hurling shells into the post as the retreating enemy ■" columns piled in.
Front dispatches said the enemy had ploughed up the big Gabes air field in evident preparation to retreat beyond the port. But Rommel’s coastal road was in grave danger of being severed by strong American forces attacking and gain-ng ground in three sectors along (Continued on Page Three)
Thailand under siege
LONDON, Mar. 29—The German-controlled Paris radio reported today from Bangkok that a state of siege had been proclaimed in Japanese-dominated Thailand.
11
airmen
lost
EPHRATA, Wash., Mar. 29—Eleven army airmen were killed early today when a four-motored bomber crashed four miles north of the Ephrata army air base, it was announced onight by warrant officer Harry Verner, base public relations officer.
Allied bombers strafe Toeal
GEN. MACARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Mar. 30 — (U.E)—Allied medium bombers Monday attacked Toeal in the Kai islands 90 miles south of New Guinea, it was announced today.
The allied planes set fires visible for 15 miles.
Japanese planes appeared over alied-held Oro bay, New Guinea, for the third time in 72 hours, when six bombers staged a raid after dark, causing slight damage and no casualties.
Attacking from a low-level, the allied planes dropped bombs on enemy-occupied Toeal and then straffed Japanese positions, said the noon communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters.
Before returning to base, they also attacked the enemy-occupied villages of Langgoer, which was straffed by a medium bomber the day before, and Wabsek.
An allied heavy bomber raided the enemy airdrome at Gasmata, New Britain island, and a medium bomber attacked an airdrome at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, at night.
Madang, on the north coast of New Guinea 300 mlKeS northwest of Buna, was attacked* by a* heavy bomber which dropped explosives on targets in the harbor area.
Lae, one of the principal Japanese bases in New Guinea, was bombed and straffed M a night attack by allied medium bombers. Both the town and shore installations were attacked.
Acting on the suggestions of SC students who attended Thursday’s test performance of “This Week at Troy,” the Trojan radio productions staff has begun giving new color to the radio script, according to an announcement by Lynn Randle, director of the production.
New features of the show will include a short patter routine and a montage of the foreign aspects of campus life. According to Miss Randle, the staffr will also lengthen the dramatic sequence, and an augmented orchestration will be used.
“Several new names have been added to the cast,” revealed Miss Randle. “These names will be released later this week, as will the time of the show and the name of the network which will carry it,’' she said.
Thursday’s show was the only test performance that will be given, and rehearsals with the new script will begin tomorrow.
“This Week at Troy” will be presented in completed form over an international hookup.
German troops on Spanish border
LONDON, Mar. 29—(U.E)— Both the Axis and the Allies have assured Spain that they will respect its neutrality, reliable diplomatic informants said today, but Spaniards were reported still nervous because of the presence of German troops on their frontier.
It was said that monarchial sympathy was rising in Spain and Spanish sympathies were moving steadily toward the Allies especially because of American and British aid in the form of supplies and food.
The Germans were understood to have assured Gen. Count Francisco Gomes de Jordana, Spanish foreign minister, that their forces stationed in the French Pyrenees were intended to counter a possible allied move against Spain rather than to invade the country.
Private Firth takes finance
Pvt. John Firth, a member of SC’s class of ’43 before induction, is receiving basic training in finance at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Upon completing an intensive field program, he will study army pay methods.
Athletic chairmen
. , . of all fraternities will meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. at the Sigma Chi house. Drawings will be made for the volleyball and tennis tournaments. It is imperative that all houses be represented since those not present WM riot be permitted to participate in the sports events, Al Bonzer, interfraternity athletic chairman, explained.