Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 7, 1943
Night Phone: RI. 5471,
No. 67
The Rumor s Wrong Again
Rumors to the effect that severai supposedly “underattended” schools and colleges of this university are about to be stricken from the regular curriculum are entirely unfounded, the office of Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer revealed yesterday. No official statements have been released that I might give rise to these rumors, and it is the wish of the administration that students and faculty members attempt |to quell such wild assertions.
Recent military additions to the regular university program are auxiliary, and in no way affect the various schools land colleges. Until official notices indicate prospective alterations here, students should pursue normal courses, ignoring fictitious stories about their particular school or college.
rama Workshop Ians for Spring
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Drama Workshop will plarfits spring semester activities >day at 3:15 when Joan Miles, president, calls a special Leeting of the group to order in Touchstone theater.
“We don’t know how the war will affect the plans we will 'opose,” said Miss Miles. She pointed out that the spring |ays will all be produced in an -
Second Chance Given Poets
fort to aid the sale of war bonds.
[“That is the only justification |r the existence of our organiza-m during these times,” she add-
^t her desk in the speech office Old College, Miss Miles told iterday how the recent develop-snts in the enlisted reserve pro-bms could effect Drama Work-pp if men students were called the colors or otherwise were un-le to act parts in the spring
[ys.
'We would then have to find |men to play male roles,” she “If such were the case we ild face the same problem that fing Berlin solved in his service-jn’s show, ‘This Is the Army’.” In Is production soldiers played both lie and female parts.
members of Drama Workshop [I discuss the awarding of keys those of the group who have hated the greatest number of [irs in acting in its productions [working behind stage.
r. Ruddock ade Captain
ford came yesterday of the ap-htment of Dr. John C. Ruddock, |stant clinical professor of medi-at SC since 1931, as a captain the Naval and Marine Reserve lory in Los Angeles.
ppt. Ruddock served as a medi-)fficer aboard the U.S.S. North-Pacific in the first world war. | crossed the Atlantic ocean 26 ^s with expeditionary forces. In the vessel went aground off the Intic coast and by coincidence [ivife. Dr. Agnes Scholl Ruddock, served with * the medical di-Jn of the U. S. ar.r.y, was sent ie scene of the accident.
addition to serving as presi-of the Los Angeles board of th commission, the Southern tornia medical association, and Los Angeles county medical as-Ltion. Capt. Ruddoci: was a fella f the American coMcge of Phy-|ns and won the D S C. award in for original work in the de-)ment of peritoneoscopy. He has conducting private practice 1920 in addition to serving as rulty member at SC since 1931.
Trojans who are regretting that
I they did not enter a manuscript in time to vie for honors in the annual war poetry contest sponsored by the morale committee of ,the war board and the Daily Trojan will be ; encouraged by the announcement from Dr. Frank C. Baxter, head of the English department, that the closing date for the competition has been changed to Jan. 11.
Fifteen dollars in war stamps will be awarded the winner of the prize-| winning poem, which must center around a serious aspect of the war. Judges explained that there are no other specifications except that work must be handed in to Dr. Baxter on standard typing paper, marked with a code word or phrase, and be at-I tached to a card with the author’s name and address.
Second and third place winners will receive $5 each. Judging will be conducted by Drs. Mildred Stru-ble, Garland Greever, and Louis Wann. Dr. Baxter said that students who wish to place their entries in the competition must do so by next Monday.
Allied Planes Bomb Nip Base in New Guinea
Airdromes, Supplies Hit by Yank Flyers on Enemy-Held Lae
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 7—(U.P.)—Allied planes, . continuing almost daily attacks on Japanese positions in New Guinea, bombed and strafed the airdrome at Lae again yesterday as no change was reported in the ground positions around Sanananda, last Jap^held stronghold in Papuan territory, the allied command announced toc^ay.
The attacks on Lae, 160 miles up the coast from newly-won Buna, were made by medium bombers and attack planes which hit both the airdrome and supply installations. One twin-engined Japanese bomber was caught on the ground and set afire, said the mid-day communique from Gen. MacArthur’s main headquarters here.
Four anti-aircraft positions were destroyed by direct hits from the allied planes.
The only other aerial activity reported by the war bulletin was a raid against the airdrome at Gas-mata, on the south coast of New Britain island, by an allied heavy unit. Results were not disclosed.
Of the group fighting at Sanananda, 2V2 miles above Buna and upon which allied forces are closing in, the communique said:
“No change in ground positions. Our medium bombers and fighters attacked enemy positions.”
A headquarters spokesman said the allied forces were regrouping their positions and sending out patrols for the coming battle.’
Noon Assembly Clarifies Mens Military Status
Another in the series of assemblies for the purpose of clarifying the programs of the military forces will be held today at 12:15 p.m. in Bovard auditorium.
Students with questions concerning their status or pertaining to the armed forces may present their queries ‘ to Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, liaison agent for the armed services, who will preside at the assembly.
Dr. Raubenheimer will try to explain and answer any question that arises concerning the new college training prognms.
SC Faculty to Meet
All members of the SC faculty will meet with President Rufus B. von KleinSmid this afteroon at 3:30 in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
Apolliad Asks Literary Clubs for Scripts
Members of Athena and Clionian Literary societies and Theta Sigma Phi, journalism sororitv, were urged today by the Apolliad laculty committee to .turn in original manuscripts to the School of Speech office by Feb. 24.
These campus literary groups, since the inauguration of the program 18 years ago, have contributed a large percentage of the entries, the committee said.
This year one-act plays, formal essays, short-shor.t stories, each of seven minutes duration, will be stressed in the program. Copy should be typed on 81- by 11-inch paper, placed in an envelope with on the envelope. The contributer’s on the enveloe. The contributer’s real name should be placed only on the envelope.
A limit of six poems and two stories, two essays, and two plays has been set. Contributions are acceptable from now until Feb. 24 at the office of the School of Speech. The committee suggested the midyear intermission as an appropriate time to finish scripts for the Apolliad.
Soviet Army's Rostov Drive
Gains 10 Miles
Russians Capture Eight Don Villages and Two Railways
.MOSCOW, Thursday, Jan. 7 — (U.P.) — Russian armies forming both the northern and southern arms of the Soviet* pincers aimed at Rostav hammered out new gains yesterday, capturing eight villages in the middle Don and 13 villages and two railway stations in the north Caucasus, the red army announced today.
The Soviets pushed another 10 miles up the main Caucasian railway from Prokhladnenski, captured only Tuesday, and seized the station at Soldatskaya, 310 miles southeast of Rostov, the midnight communique said.
The communique also leported .the capture of Baksan in the northern Caucasus.
(A Baksansk, eight, miles east of newly-won Nalchik and 23 miles southwest of Phokhladnenski appears on available maps).
In the middle Don, northeast of Rostov, the newly-occupied villages included Marinskaya and Kamy-shevkaya.
(Available maps list neither town by that spelling, but do include a Mariinskaya, on .the ncrth bank of the Don 25 miles west-southwest of Tsimlyanskaya and 95 miles northeast of Rostov, and a Kamisovos-kaya, also on the north bank of the Don and five miles east of Mariins-kayaj
Only a few hours earlier, a special Soviet communique reported that the Red army had slaughtered 20,-000 German .troops and captured 6500 in the last five days of fighting south and southwest of Stalingrad. Altogether, it said, the Russians have taken 144.150 prisoners on the whole Stalingrad front since the start of its winter offensive Nov. 19.
-An Open Letter to Trojans-
Phrateres Heads Convene Today
Officers of Phrateres will meet this afternoon at 4:15 in the AWS room to lay final plans for the first-semester initiation of pledges to be held next Sunday.
Approximately 100 women will be inducted into the organization, which came on campus last spring. President Jackie Orlander, assisted by members of the cabinet will officiate at the ceremony, which will be in candlelight.
This will be the first initiation to be held on campus since the charter members were inducted by the UCLA chapter last spring.
• I’ll never forget the first day up there. Everyone was talking at once. Papers were scattered all over. Typewriters were pounding with activity. The desk editor was giving out assignments. I don’t see how they kept from getting mixed up and having a couple of fellows write the same thing.
Cokes were lined up cm the window ledge and some girls were eating apples. The telephone rang every minute or two, and reporters dashed* in and out of the room. The sports editor was yelling about some football team that was coming here, and some other fellows were yelling about some game already played.
I told the fellow up at the desk I wanted to be a reporter so he gave me a story about the YMCA. When I got the dope I went back to write it but gosh, you sure have i
to learn how they want the stuff , written. I finally caught on and wi*ote it up for them.
They gave me a beat so I kept going to the dean’s office every day. One night I went to the night shop down on Jefferson street and learned how to write heads, and read copy and proof. All the fellows
As charter members of the Friends of the D.T. society we nominate Copyreaders Beth Chandler, Dwain Green, and Reporter Gene Respini. They came through and we love ’em.
and' girls are a swell bunch, they really treat you fine.
The desk editor brought in the wire copy—yards and yards of news that we had to cut down, read, and write heads for. We didn’t get out until late, but if we had had more people to help us, we would have
gotten through about 10 or 11 o’clock.
About a month after all of us freshmen started up there, we took turns being night editor. It’s a big responsibility—you have to figure out how much space you want to give to the Stalingrad siege, or to the elections, and you have to tear up your whole dummy if something big comes in, like the new reserve program changes. But we have a lot of fun, the fellows and girls are a swell bunch, just like I said, and you have lots of responsibility. Makes you feel like yxm’re really doing something.
But I wish we could get more people up there. We want to keep our paper just as it is, not have to print a tabloid size copy or one that is just put out once or twice a week. We’ve got to have help, so come on up. It’s great!
Ex-SX House to Be Named for SC Hero
In simple ceremonies, tribute will be paid today to the memory of a noble Trojan, Lt. James Charles Owens* former football player who gave his life in the battle of Midway.
The tribute will be given in renaming the Sigma Chi fraternity house to that of Owens hall in honor of “Jimmy,” who as executive officer of the illustrious Squadron Eight was killed when his unit of the fleet made an attack on a superior force of Japanese surface craft.
The ceremony will be attended by Mrs. James C. Owens (Helen Ross ’34), widow of the naval hero, and Mr. and Mrj. James C. Owens, parents of the Trojan. Naval Flight Preparatory units are moving into Owens hall and the men’s dormitory, Aeneas hall, this week.
Lt. Owens entered naval aviation in 1935 after graduating with the engineering class of ’34. His flight training program began at the Long Beach naval aviation base, and was completed after his graduation at Pensacola in 1937. For the past two year* Owens had been attached to the naval aircraft unit.
Deadline Nears on Rodeo Pics
Word received Wednesday afternoon by Hal Lurie, business manager of the El Rodeo, from the university photographer stated all picture appointments by members of social organizations must be made by January 15.
Simultaneously, Lurie announced that membership lists of actives and pledges must be in his office, 202 Student Union, by the same deadline, January 15. These organizations contemplating panels in the yearbook who have not yet signed contracts, must do so and make the payment. Those with contracts already signed, must also have the payment made by the deadline.
The space-panel payments include social, honorary, and scholastic fraternities and sororities.
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If payments lor p?.nels in the yearbook aren’t made by the date specified, the panels will not appear.
These measures are taken to assure j An ali Trojans of a 1943 El Rodeo. The sponsore cooperation of all students will be appreciated.
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will not hold the meeting iuled for today, announced I Alcorn, president. The meet-|ias oeen postponed until Jan. said.
They Found Unrationed Treasure in Mexico
tfing Called by Dean
Mexico at war is a place where tires, new cars, and coffee go unrationed, where very few soldiers are to be seen, where American draft-dodgers are seeking escape from army duty.
This was revealed this week by Bob Lint, sophomore foreign trade major, who contrasted his recent voyage to the icy Aleutians with a trip south tff the border.
With Maurice Long, a senior in the College of Commerce, Lint
to Alaska and the Aleutian islands.
“After driving many hundreds of miles through Mexico, strange as it may seem, Maurice and I found very little evidence that a world war, in which Mexico is engaged, was going on.
“However, we didn’t visit the large seaports or Mexico City, but confined our trip to the interior of the country in order to see how the average Mexican, untouched
and American-made, 1942 model cars are also available.
“Nothing is rationed. In fact, we brought back 20 pounds of coffee with us,” Lint pointed out.
The two SC students spent a considerable amount of time in the Sonoran capital of Hermocillo where elections were being held. Even in this city there was very little evidence of the war effort, although the newspapers were following the
throughout Mexico, but we later found that many of them were draft evaders trying to escape from the demands of the selective service act,” he said.
Since travel across the Mexican border is virtually prohibited now, the two Trojans were armed with special papers and a letter from Dr. Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, which explained th<
Woodwind Group Broadcasts Friday
The woodwind quintet of the School of Music will play for the Theme and Variations broadcast over the Mutual network Friday from 10:45-to 11:15 a.m.
Making up the quintet are Jean Paul Stanley, flute; Frank H. Desby, oboe; Perry Krohn, clarinet; Edward F. Brade, horn; and George Vaina, bassoon. Ralph E. Rush, of the School of Music faculty, directs the quintet.
Students and faculty members are invited to attend the broadcast in the studios of the Hancock Foundation building.
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