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OUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. XXXIV NAS—Z-4S
Los. Angeles, Mar. 22, 1943
Night Phonei
RI. 5472
NO. 109
ed Cross, Old Glory fly today
roy, nation bserve Red ross week
A Red Cross flag will fly der the Stars and Stripes day and the rest of this ek on campus. That symbol mercy will announce that ojans have started Red oss week on campus.
11 campus contributions for national drive will be put the Red Cross bank at the CA house. A simple Red Cross ge will Indicate membership in organization. Membership is ned when students contribute $1 the Red Clross bank.
in Norby, chairman of the ve, urges all organization* to go per cent Points will be record -for the War Board House of the th contest on the percentage
ft house goes 100 per oent it receive 100 points, 50 per cent 50 points. This puts all large and small, on an equal s.
Politicos gab at assembly
In the democratic tradition, Troy’s citizens will combine forces voluntarily this noon in Bovard auditorium tg nominate candidates for 1943-44 ASSC offices.
This assembly, presided over by Student Body President Bob McKay, will introduce candidates who have already filed
—on the political front—
Candidates blow, blow, and blo-o-w
by the Keyholer
This is the big day for many Trojans who take their politics straight in a “life or death” jigger. It is a great occasion for the key j anglers, the “what’s-the-good-word” back-slappers, members of the Good-Clean-Kids club, the habitues of house dances and presents, the benign non-orgs, the TNE Boys, and the perennially insurgent
Women are needed to work at T house taking donations to e Bed Cross fund Tuesday ig, Wednesday afternoon, ursday morning, and Friday according to Mrs. nt, adviser of the Y.
Students who have free hours any of these times may sign the y house to work. Activity urs will be given.
itributions must be taken to Red Cross bank at the YWCA later than this Friday. Women ents who wish to do residential ting work on .the streets sur-nding the university may apply s. Grant at the Y house at p.m. tomorrow. Not only e cf the Month points will be n for this service but Red Cross it may be obtained.
• student War Board is spon-ng Red Cross week. Chairman k Williams maintains that this a chance for Trojans to do their t both for the war effort and great institution.
downtrodden.
To the average Trojan and Tro-jane, today’s proceedings will be a gala occasion replete with stirring speeches, lots of gags, and cute stunts.
To a few really wise seniors it will just a bombast of ballyhoo, just another bit of evidence that Bamum’s shrewd observation was correct.
To the TNE Machine it will be a gigantic comical puppet show with almost all the strings in their
hands, _______ _ . / .	. . „
For at noon today, the Bovard welkin will ring with dozens of nominations and acceptance speeches.
I should like to give you an inside preview of the coming performance. By the way, the Machine is becoming mor* and more perplexed every day over the identity of the Keyholer. They are not sure if he’s one of them, or as a matter of fact, even if ihe writer is of the masculine or feminine gender.
First of all, this noon most of the presidential canoidates will enunciate elaborate platforms and glowing promises. They’ll make great efforts to prove that their election is a wartime essential and that their administration will contribute to .the war effort. They’ll promise you more democracy, more social events, and smoother governmental operations.
They will solemnly swear that they’ll give you cheapcr prices in the Student Union fountain, adequate air raid protection, five-cent • cups of coffee, free movies, and 3.2 beer, “just like at Cal.” These promises can never be car-continued on Page Four)
Krysto asks Carnival plans
Complete plans for each concession for the annual YWCA-spon-sored carnival to be held Apr. 15, to raise money for the World Student Service fund, must be submitted at the YWCA house by 4 p.m. Mar. 30, chairman Mary Kay Krysto, vice-president, announced today.
Prizes will be awarded for the most original concession idea, for the most significant theme, to the organization with the most profi-t able booth, and to the individual selling the most tickets.
Knights, Squires, Amazons, Phrateres, all other service organizations, professionals, and honoraries, as well as sororities, fraternities, and boarding houses are invited to sponsor concessions in this carnival.
Crowds rush to favor vote for 'teen-agers
Feeling ran high on the SC campus Thursday and Friday as Trojans milled about their ballot boxes to vote 151 to 116 in favor of extending the franchise to U.S. citizens who have reached their 18th birthday.
It was suspected in some quarters that student politicians used the Daily Trojan poll to sharpen their political tricks for Friday’s student body election, for among the balloting malpractices uncovered were sloppy attempts to stuff the ballot boxes and a nearly successful try at burning up the bat-lot box located in the Victory hut.
Results of the hotly-contested battle at the polls showed that Trojan students decisively, if not overwhelmingly, agreed with the bill which has been presented to the state legislature proposing the extension of U.S. voting privileges to 18, 19, and 20-year-old citizens.
After several hours spent counting the ballots cast the first day, the totals showed 79 students voting “Yes” and 24 voting “No” on the proposition. Approximately 50 ballots were discounted because of unmistakable Indications of ballot stuffing.
Voting reached a fever pitch on Friday, with 92 voting “No” and 72 “Yes.” This time at least 200 votes were thrown out because of shady practices, and about 10 were so charred that they were illegible.
Pedagogue portraits
L.P. reports ♦♦♦
utter, fats frozen
The Office of Price Administra-yesterday suspended retail les of butter, lartf, ^margarine, ortening, cooking and salad oils vered by the meat-fats rationing ogram for one week beginning at :01 a.m. today.
ss evacuate area
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Russian forces have evacuated Igorod, on the main Kharkov-oscow railroad north of Belgorod, ussia’s midnight communique said night. Germany has claimed town.
itler sees victory
Adolf Hitler in his first public jh in four and one half months d yesterday that Russian front had been overcome, that the jx>nt had been stabilized, that troop urloughs had been resumed, and at measures had been started
“which will guarantee for forthcoming months success to final victory.”
Churchill plans futurfe
Prime Minister Winston Churchill outlined last night a gigantic world organization plan to aiaintain disarmament, prevent future wars and punish axis war criminals. He announced dramatically that the allied armies in Tunisia were engaged in decisive battle, apparently the grand offensive to oust the axis from Africa and prepare the way for an invasion of Europe from the south.
U.S. gains in Pacific
A Consolidated Catalina flying boat crippled a large Japanese de-» stroyer with two direct bomb hits
in the Solomon sea north of New Guinea last evening and other allied planes attacked enemy shipping from the Kai islands to New Britain, raiding seven ship.? and two luggers, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced yesterday.
Harem auction seen
in Bowerman's past
by Dorothea Rawa
The scene was an auction sale, but instead of the usual assortment of “dishes guaranteed to have been used by Marie Antoinette’s pet poodle,” the commodity offered was of an entirely different variety. On the auctioneer’s block were—70 georgeous and exotic women.
Hausmann runs unopposed in AWS campaign
As late Friday afternoon rolled around, it still appeared that the presidency of the Associated Women Students would not be as highly contested as the same ASSC office. Only one person, Margaret Ann Hausmann, ADPi and Amazon pledge, expressed her declaration of candidacy for the office.
The other three of the women’s “big four” offices, however, have two petitioners each. Although Friday was the deadline for petitions, the nominations assembly tomorrow noon in Touchstone theater might give some latecomers a chance to be nominated from the floor. Elections will be held Friday, the same day as the fcssc polling.
For vice-president Barbara Cox and Mary Oliver have declared their intentions. Miss Cox and Miss Oliver are both sophomores and newly-elected members of Amazons. Miss Cox is a member of Alpha Chi Omega, and Miss Oliver ls vice-president of Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall.
Secretarial candidates will be Amazon pledges Ginny Miller and Pat Ulery. Miss Miller is a Zeta and Miss Ulery a Tri Delt. In the race for the treasurer’s post will be Peggy Gardner, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Norma Nilson, Phi Mu Miss Nilson and Miss Gardner are also Amazon pledges.
Witnessing this, interesting spectacle, while a professor at a college in Turkey, was Mr. xPaul Bow-erman, of the SC English department. According to him, anyone present was permitted to bid for the women, who comprised the entire harem of the Turk, Abdul Amed.	\
Esquire-like, the women were scantily clad in filmy gauze-like attire and were led up to the block. The assembled audience was permitted to mentally weigh each one as to her individual charms and decide just how much she jvould be worth in a monetary sense. Each one was sold for a very high price, the hfghest bids naturally going for' the most beautiful of the lot.
This is but one of the interesting and exciting events that Mr. Bowerman has experienced in his world-wide travels. While in Turkey he taught English to Russians, Turks, Egyptians, Bulgarians, and natives of many other countries. At the time of his professorship, Turkey was still practising its old customs, among them forcing women
to wear veils and men to wear beards.
He did find that tfs students he taught came from more liberal families, because the conservatives did not believe in education, especially for women. He notes that the college men and women mingled together, and the women were unveiled while on campus. However, once away from the collegiate influence, the women once more donned veils and became subservient to the men.
Mr. Bowerman believes that the policy of the United States in endowing various colleges in Turkey was a prime factor in establishing pro-American feeling, and he feels that it has a bearing today on Turkey’s reluctance to join the axis powers in war.
His quiet, unassuming manner leads his students to believe that his life has been comparatively uneventful and that he has spent it, for the most part, in the sanctum of the classroom. This is far from the case.
After the first World war, he was in Constantinople at the time the Russian refugees poured into (Continued on Page Four)
Y candidate petitions due
Petitions for all YWCA elective offices are due today at the YWCA house, announced Shirley Millikan, president. They must be turned in to Mrs. Ruth Grant, executive sec retary, by 3 p.m.
Women running for president must have junior standing and cumulative grade average of 1.5 and the same average for the preceding semester. Other offices are open to women who are sophomores or juniors with 1.3 grade averages. A minimum of one year of service on the YWCA cabinet is the requirement for all offices.
The nomination assembly will be held this Friday at noon in Touchstone theater. Voting will take place Apr. 2.
German language censors needed
The office of censorship has is sued an appeal for translators of German to serve as censors in international mail written in that
language.
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Beside contributing to the war effort, persons qualifying for this position will also find many opportunities for advancement. For example, one supervisory position exists for every 10 examiners, and hundreds of examiners are required immediately.
Time is of utmost importance, jmjl if well-qualified translators are not obtained quickly it will be necessary to employ persons of inferior ability who are available locally.
Those persons who are interested should see Dr. Harold von Hofe in the German office in Bridge hall immediately for further details.
petitions and will see new candidates nominated from the floor. Those students who have filed petitions for the various offices will have a place on the stage and will be introduced after their representatives have given nomination speeches.
Students who have already filed petitions include:
For president, Bob Fiske and Jack Williams.
Mickey Heeger and Bud Townsend withdrew their candidacy petitions.
For vice-president, Leta Galentine.
For secretary, Dorothy Smith, who is at this time running unopposed.
Chuck McKenzie has filed for „ position of assistant yell leader.
Nominators of vice-president, secretary, and yell leader candidates may deliver three-minute speeches, and those nominated for these offices may give accepta.ice speeches of ,the same length. Nominees for student body president, and their managers each may sp“«*k five minutes. Timekeeper will be Phil Levine, elections commissioner.
McKay stated that nominations will not be open for head yell king since no person enrolled in SC has the necessary qualifications. Nominations, however, will be open for assistant yell king. Qualifications for nominees for the three top ASSC offices as stated in the constitution are:
President—a male student in the university who has completed 90 units of university work, two years at SC, and who has a 1.15 cumulative grade-polnt average and has the same grade point from courses taken last semester. Vice-president and secretary—a female student who has completed 60 units of university work, been at SC for one full year, and who has a 1.5 cumulative grade-point average.
“It must be remembered,’* Levine pointed out, “that only petitions for president, vice-president, secretary, and yell leader nominations can be tuined in at 3 p.m. today. Petitions for other offices were due last Friday. Only those who have turned in petitions In accordance with these two deadlines will have their name on the ballot,” he said.
The nomination assembly today will be the only political meeting given during the election week. Election day. will be Friday, and students will vote from 8:30 to 3:30 p.m.
KDs tell guilt in kidnap case of visiting pair
captured,1* Case, ad-
“I believe I was smiled Dr. Harold C. justing his tie.
Members of the Kappa Delta sorority triumphantly explained Friday morning that they had lured Dr. and Mrs. Case into their best bedroom after their Thursday evening meeting and locked them in for the night.
Beth Hartman, president of the house, said that her sorority sisters had purchased bobby pins, cold cream, powder, rouge, hand lotion, razor blades, curlers, lipstick, and all other necessities ln preparation for the capture.
After looking into all the other bedrooms during a tour of the house, the minister and his wife stepped into the largest room on the second floor. Articles which they would need for a night’s stay were neatly arranged on tables and chairs.
The door closed, the lock clicked, and the couple were prisoners for the nigfcrt. Sorority members gathered downstairs to lull them to sleep with their house songs.