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SOUTHERN CALIFORN
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-43
Los Angeles, Thursday, Apr. 15, 1943
Night Phone: RI. 5472
No. 127
Seniors volunteer for midshipman class
Approximately 46 graduating seniors at SC answered the call to become members of the midshipmen class at Northwestern university beginning Apr. 29 when they volunteered at yesterday’s naval reserve meeting in Bovard auditorium. They will leave the campus for active duty Apr. 26.
Among the Trojans who will leave
«m Monday are Bob McKay, student [body president; Russ Lindersmith, SC yell king; Bill Seixas, gridiron sparkplug; Searles Talley and Dicft Homeyer, high jump stars; and Don Hoover, Wampus editor. The complete list will be released tomorrow.
Lieutenant Olson, of the bureau of naval personnel, announced that the local office was 100 men shy of the quota assigned them for midshipmen training;. Olson divulged that 53 men from UCLA had volunteered and he asked the SC seniors in V-7 to fill out the quota.
Arrangements have been made to {give those leaving, their diplomas at the time of their departure. Dean Albert S. Raubenheimer, armed [forces, representative, emphasized
Dean Albert S. Raubenheimer yesterday released details of the navy qualifying examination to be given Apr. 20. Only sophomores who will have completed 60 units of work by July 1 are eligible to take the test.
The morning session will begin at 9 a.m. and will last until 11 a.m. In the afternoon, reservists will report at 2 p.m. and will stay until 4:15 p.m.
Site of the examination will be 302 Law.
that all men must be in good standing scholastically and that emphasis Iwill be placed on the results of their llO-week examinations.
Lieutenant Olson emphasized that V-l students will be called to active duty as V-l students; that V-7 students will be called to active duty as V-7; and that men in the V-12 program will consist of those not already in a naval reserve at present.
Lieutenant Olson related that men 'selected for the navy college training program will be sent to colleges as near their homes as possible and (Continued on Page Four)
G raduate students vote ,
An article of the ASSC constitution was clarified last night at senate meeting which established the voting status of graduate students.
Because some graduate students take as little as two units, the issue was raised on whether they have a right to vote. Bob McKay read the franchise provisions which set forth the requirement of an SC student body card as the essential proof of voting eligibility; thus giving the privilege to graduate students.
resident's iffice notice
| EASTER' SERVICE ASSEMBLY The following schedule will gov-lem class meetings for the Eas-lier assembly on Tuesday, Apr, [20, 1943:
8:00- 8:50 8:55- 9:45
9:50-19:30 (Easter Assembly) 10:35-11:25 11:30-12:20
R. B. von KleinSmid, President
BOB McKAY • • . off to war he goes.
Tom Harmon lost in flight
ANN ARBOR, Mich.. Apr. 14—(U.E) —The war department today notified Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harmon that their son, Lt. Tom Harmon,
former University of Michigan football star, has been missing in a flight over Latin-American territory since Apr. 8.
The former all-American football star entered the air cc-rps Mar: 22, 1942, and received his flying wings only recently.
The telegram received by his parents in their Ann Arbor home read: “The secretary of war expresses deepest regrets that your son, Thomas E. Harmon, is reported missing in Latin-American territory since April 8. Additional information will be sent you when received.”
Harmon has one brother, William, who also is in the army air corps, and two other brothers who are employed in Akron, Oh:o, and Detroit.
Harmon’s parents said that they believed he had been in Africa, although he might have been returning to this country when his plane was lost in Lntin-America.
U.P. reports ♦ ♦♦
Shangri-La to be told
The biggest and best-kept secret of the war—the location of the Shangri-La from which Maj. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and 7S flying companions tock off for tne bombing of Japan last April 18—will be revealed by the army within the next few days.
War information director Elmer Davis said today the army’s report also would make public for the first time other secrets of the raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
It was President Roosevelt who originally labeled the tske-off point ‘‘Shangri-La.”
RAF fires naval base
LPNDON, Apr. 14.—(UP)—Four-motored British bombers, winging over the Alps to join allied North African fliers in the air offensive against Italy, left the dockyards at the important Spezia naval base
^furiously afire” last night, touching off a series of heavy R. A. F. operations against the continent.
Adopting new tactics, other R. A. F. bombers attacked unspecified tar-
gets in northwestern Germany at dawn today. A German communique broadcast by radio Berlin said targets in the Helgoland area were raided.
Japs threaten U.S. raid
Maj. Gen. Kenryo Sato, chief of the military affairs section of Japan’s military affairs bureau, asserted Wednesday >3*at Japanese planes now were in position to attack the American continent.
In a speech to Japanese inventors in Tokyo, quoted by the German ra<Jio, he urged the home front to cooperate closely with the armed forces to* complete preparations .for a blow against America.
Clash on China border
A Chinese communique tonight reported heavy fighting in the Hupeh-Hunan border area of central China, where Chinese troops drove the Japanese from a strategic center south of the Yangtze river but were forced to surrender a newly-recaptured village to the reinforced enemy.
Prom bids promise rapid sell-out
With only 25 bids for the junior and interfraternity prom left on sale in the cashier’s window, Micfcey Heeger, president of the junior class and co-chairman of the dance, urges those who wish t<? attend to buy their bid while the few remain.
The all-U formal, sponsored by the junior class and the interfraternity council, will be the setting for the announcements of the names of newly elected members of the Trojan Knights and of Sigma Sigma, men’s honorary.”
The dance is to be held in the Blue room of the Biltmore hotel from 9 to 1 Saturday. Alvino Rey and 20 of his rhythm men will furnish the music.
Heeger’s co-chairman, Bob Fiske, president of the interfraternity council, announced that the chaperones for the dance will be Francis M. Bacon, counselor of men, Dr. Thomas Clements, professor of geology, and Chief Bob Olsen, NROTC.
The committee has decided that there will be no corsages, despite the fact that the dance is to be a formal affair.
Bookstore personnel have indicated that the major portion of the 1000 tickets that were on sale priced at $3.30, are already well on their
way to being sold out. The fraternity houses have requested 300 bids for the dance and distribution of them through the various houses to the membership.
Tomorrow the major part of the dance preparations will be announced, and the plans for the special events made public.
The appearance of Alvino Rey and his orchestra is one of the features of this affair. Rey and his entire 20-man band, stopped accepting engagements. They all joined Vega aircraft on the production line. Playing only week-end engagements, the Rey aggregation is one of the nation’s leading orchestras, and his rise has been rapid during the last year.
War Board
. . . members will meet this afternoon at 4 in the debate room, 401 Student Union.
Clionian
. . . literary society pledges will meet today at 4 p.m. at Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall to make plans for pledge night, according to Mary Jane Allen, pledge captain.
List of ASSC
voters missing
by Stan Hanson
SC’s revote election may be held tomorrow. If it isn’t held tomorrow, it will be held Tuesday. If it isn’t held Tuesday, it will be held Wednesday. The student senate was decisive— on those three dates.
The long and short of it is that Troy’s much-abused election took a further beating last night when representatives voted to hold the revote tomorrow if a list of all enrolled students could be prepared by tonight.
This voters’ list is required by the terms of John Lowe’s amendment which was approved by the group. If the list isn’t completed by tonight, then the election will be held Tuesday, with Wednesday named as an alternate date should Tuesday prove inadvisable.
Why a list of eligible voters wasn’t prepared in advance, since the revote date was first set two weeks ago, is a sad tale. Its courier was Phil Levine, election commissioner, who explained that such a list had been com-
- piled following the last election
Stevens chosen new president of Blue
Key
Blue Key, men’s national service organization, has announced its officers for the coming year.
Bob Stevens, newly elected president of Blue Key also acts as junior class vice-president, Pi Kappa Alpha, NROTC platoon commander, and fraternity coordinator for the war board.
Bob Frawley, chosen vice-president, is a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and an NROTC squire.
Blue Key’s new secretary, Walter Hoffman, belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, takes pictures for El
BOB STEVENS . , . handed Blue Key gavel.
Rodeo, and majors in cinematography.
Members of Blue Key,will meet tonight at 7 in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.
Blue Key, founded in 1926, was a bachelor club until a few years ago when it became a national organization.
New Squires
. . . are asked to meet in 206 Administration at noon today.
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Y carnival opens booths tonight
Trojan men and women, flight preparatory men, and faculty mem- ' bers will attend the YWCA carnival, dedicated to, raise money for the World Student Service fund, in the Physical Education building from 7 to 9 o’clock tonight.
More than 15 concessions, sponsored by sororities and other women’s organizations, will offer a variety of entertainment to participants. Five cents will be the admission price, and an additional nickel will be charged at each concession.
Prizes will be awarded to the groups sponsoring the most original, most profitable, and most significant booths. Judges Arnold Eddy, Dr. Pearle Aiken-Smith, and Dr.
Eleanor Matheny will announce the winners.
All types of concessions from a kiss-selling booth to the vending of tacos and rice cakes will be available. The carnival proper will fill the women’s gym and overflow into the dancing studio where a series of dances will be sold for 5 cents.
A 20-minute floor show will begin at 8:30 p.m. On the program will be Hoyt Curtin and an instrumental group; Joyce Hill, vocalist; Selma Sterns, who will give a reading; Miss Sterns, Bill Chapman, Ed Kelley, Marty Bennison, Marie Allison, Marney Hutchinson, and Charlotte Buckheim, presenting a modem melodrama; and Dell Breece, a preflight cadet, offering
a series of magician’s tricks.
Tickets to tin affair have been on sale during this week and will be available at the door, Mary Kay Krysto, chairman of the carnival, announced.
Students who wish to obtain tickets before tonight may do so ' by contacting Xenia Nesterenko, Clarice Thurman, Mary Lou Worsham, Catherine Beisert, Betty Brown, Frances Ensign, Charlene Roberts, Margaret Knauf, and Anna May Pitts.
Women’s organizations sponsoring carnival booths are:
Delta Delta Delta, kiss-selling booth; World Friendship club, Allied Nations booths; Gamma Phi Beta, “Win a (Real) Baby Duck” booth; Alpha Delta Pi, ap-
ple-ducking booth; Phrateres, sideshow and circus; Alpha Gamma Delta, loop-throwing game; Alpha Chi Omega, “Strictly Instrumental” booth; Alpha Epsilon Phi, Olvera street booth.
Delta Gamma, Hawaiian booth; Delta Zeta, dunking game; Delta Phi Kappa, armed forces shooting ground booth; Phi Mu, tamales and tortillas booth; Chi Omega, ring-throwing booth; Zeta Tau Alpha, caricature drawing booth; Kappa Delta, hobby horse race; Kappa Alpha Theta, popcorn and suckers booth.
Zeta Phi Eta, puppet show; Phi Chi Theta, fishpond; and Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, coke-selling booth.
but it had been innocently burned since then, and it would take 50 hours of work to replace It.
The list was used by the factfinding committee to check the validity of names in the fraudulent election.
Levine explained that he first went to Arnold Eddy’s office, where the list was, on Monday. He said that he was put off until Tuesday, while the list was being hunted up, and then told to come back Wednesday. By then it developed that the list had been destroyed along with all of the othei old election material.
Trojan Amazons were appointed as an impartial body to prepare the eligibility roll, but only after a lot of bickering between Burdette Jordan and senators. Jordan’s point was that since he and his assistants had prepared the original list, he would compile another and could guarantee that It would be ready by tonight.
Barbara Symmes, speaking for the Amazons, could not make a like guarantee. Jordan insisted he would have it ready on time, but Bob McKay was riled by now and cut Jordan off with:
“There has been too much pilfering and fooling around already.” So the Amazons are impartial; so they will prepare the lists.
. Laugh of the night was at McKay’s expense. It seems that McKay had set tomorrow for the re vote in order that a two-week period would elapse between the time that Lowe’s amendment was presented and the time that it could be voted upon. That’s per the constitution, he said two weeks ago. -
He was mortified when, reading a section of the by-laws to the senate, he ran across these words: “. . . one week shall elapse between the time that an amendment (Continued, on Page Four)
WAA elects new officers
Jackie Ford, Verniee Hayden, Xinia “Pete” Lavel, and Marion Conner were elected to lead the Women’s Athletic association next year when members voted yesterday.
Miss Ford, who will succeed Edith Finch, this year’s president, is a Delta Gamma, an Amazon pledge, Freshman club adviser, and YWCA cabinet member. The new vice-president, Miss Haden, is hostess chairman for YWCA, president of Delta Zeta sorority, and an Amazon pledge.
“Pete’* Lavel, who was elected secretary, is a Chi Omega and an Amazon pledge. The new treasurer, Marion Conner, is ft member of Delta Psi Kappa, physical education honorary society, and a YWCA club leader.
New officers will be installed at the WAA banquet in May.
Amazons, pledges
. . . are requested to report to the registrar's office today during any free hours when thev will be able to work on preparing the certified check-list of students for the impending ASSC election.