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TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
Hi«b< i*..., kl M7i Los Angeles. Monday, December 27, 1943
JCommandos attack coast, Nazis claim
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UP)—A German high command com-knunique reported today that a combined British and French commando force had been wiped out in a landing attempt on phe channel coast Christmas Eve, the day on which upwards pf 3000 Allied planes made an attack of unprecedented force
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Authorities here declined to dis-tuss the German report but it was cnown that such raids are made frequently and it was believed the rommandos, with the aid of Frenchmen familiar with the coastal area, night have been seeking information on the rocket gun emplacements which thte Germans are re-rted installing.
“On Dec. 24 a commando troop, onsisting of Britons and Frenchmen, tried to approach our barbed ire entanglements on the channel st,” the German communique aid as broadcast by Berlin. “It was iped out.”
i Neither Britain nor Germany hers normally to report the fre-ent commando raids on the French ast, which Deputy Prime Minister lement Attlee recently explained to e House of Commons are the uivalent of the trench raids of the t war. Those raids involved any-here from a handful to hundreds men.
Minnesota U. itrike threatens
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 26—0J.B— the Navy prepared tonight to take iver operation of University of Uinnesota buildings tomorrow in [he face of a threatened strike by maintenance men.
Lt. Comdr. Roger G. White, oom-
tanding officer of the naval train-g program at the university, said lat navy personnel will operate ie buildings at the school which necessary to its program.
I The 500 members of the service lployes’ union will meet tomorrow vote on the strike action. They seeking collective bargaining jhts in a dispute with the regents the university which has lasted ice October, 1942.
|White tonight issued the follow-statement:
|“The Navy has no interest in the »rits of the dispute. It cannot placed in the position either of ling or breaking a strike. The ivy, however, must continue to the facilities of the university ite training program. Accord-fly, in the event of a strike, the ivy will supply personnel to op-ite the buildings which are iry to ite program.”	*
Administration appropriates El Rodeo funds
“The administration has appropriated money for the El Rodeo,’ Tyler MacDonald, business manager announced yesterday, “and over 2200 books have already been sold.” After an administration meeting Thursday it was decided that the annual was no longer a possibility, but a sure proposition, said MacDonald, and the contracts will be made this week. Paper of pre-war quality has already been purchased according to the business manager.
The sales surpassed all expectations, so 100 additional books will be printed for late purchasers. People who could not buy their annuals are asked to do so immediately through the El Rodeo office, 228 Student Union. The only sales next term will be to people entering school after February.
Production has already begun on the annual, said LaMar Stewart, editor. Stewart and Ed Diener, military editor, announced that the military section, which will occupy over 60 pages in the book, has been laid out with a separate page for each platoon. The military editor also announced that he needs assistants from Henderson, Newkirk, and Williams halls. Trainees who can devote time to the El Rodeo are asked to see Diener in his office, 426 Student Union this afternoon.
Steady secretarial workers are also needed in the El Rodeo office. Women having free periods in the mornings are especially asked to report for work. MacDonald stressed that activity points will be given for regular work. Women who have applied, or can work, are asked to meet MacDonald today at 1 p.m. in the El Rodeo office for classification. All members of the El Rodeo staff are asked to see Stewart in the office today. Joe Kraus, art editor, will meet all members of the art staff at 3:15 p.m.
T icket sales for Rose Bowl game continue
Rose Bowl tickets for Trojan rooters will continue to be on sale at the cashier’s window in the Student Union Bookstore today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, according to Arnold Eddy, ASSC general manager and business manager of athletics.
Students may obtain their tickets by presenting their activity books, coupon No. 7, and $1.65. This will admit them to the student rooting section on the 50 yard line, at the Pasadena stadium Saturday. A total of 3000 seats are available to Trojans, and sales will continue until tickets for these seats have been sold.
Reserved ducats at $4.40 and $3.30 are being sold also to the general public in the Bookstore.
Russians tear Nazi Kiev lines
LONDON, Monday, Dec. 27—(U.E) —Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin’s first Ukraine army, in a mighty resumption of its offensive west of Kiev, has torn a gap 50 miles long and 25 miles deep in the German lines, slain more than 15,000 Nazi troops and recaptured 150 towns and villages including the important highway center of Radomisl, Moscow announced last night.
Vatutin’s reinforced army, hurting back the hordes of tanks and infantry with which German Field Marshal Fritz Erich Von Mannstein temporarily halted the Soviet offensive six weeks ago, sized the initiative along a 50-mile front extending southward from Radomisl, 55 miles west of Kiev.
Radomisl marked the high point of advance in Mannstein’s determined counter-offensive aimed at regaining his Dnieper line positions and driving on to Kiev. Retaken by the Germans Dec. 14, it is 28 miles northeast of Zhitomir, 38 south of Korosten and 75 east of the pre-war Polish frontier.
ose Bowl Wampus issue out this week
A special Rose Bowl edition of the Wampus, SC’s magazine r college life and campus humor, will be issued this week, ^cording to editor Lynn Cohne. This issue will carry pic-lres of Trojan football players, and will contain complete >verage of all campus events, including Christmas.
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addock ship launching held
WILMINGTON, Cal., Dec. 26 — *)—The late Capt. Charles Pad-one-time “world's fastest hu-" killed last July in a plane near Sitka, Alaska, was honored with launching today of the 10.500-ton Liberty ship, S.S. Charles Idock, by California 6hipbuild-oorporation.
Mrs. Charles Prisk christened the ip while her daughter, Mrs. Neva Paddock, the track star’s low, stood by as matron of hon-Mrs. Paddock had christened km earlier Calship, and tradition prevented her repeating.
ged mothball will be provided by Roy Paul Nelson, star short story writer of the Wampus in his new brainchild “The Three-Legged Mothball.”
There will be a roundup of all Wampus snooping into various phases of campus life, with a special page devoted to romance on campus.
The Wampus suggestion of the month promises to be a good one this time, according to Miss Cohne, and the editor will really go to town in her column “On the Campus Front.”
This week's issue will also carry the names of new additions to the Wampus staff, stated Miss Cohne.
Hirohito sees future danger
by United Press
Emperor Hirohito, in an imperial rescript read at the formal opening of the 84th session of the Japanese diet Sunday, said “the war situation is most serious” and that “the offensive-defensive battles between us and our enemies are growing more acute” according to a Tokyo broadcast heard by government monitors.
At the same time the Tokyo radio repeated warnings that “the future of the war situation permits absolutely no optimism,” that the war had entered its “most important stage,” and that the outcome of the Allied offensive against Rabaul would decide “the victor and vanquished in the South Pacific bat-, tie.”
Bloodbank to visit SC January 5
The mobile bloodbank caravan will visit the SC campus Jan. 5, announced Betty Rinehart, bloodbank chairman, and all servicemen and civilians are urged to donate their plasma on that date. Due to lack of time, only a limited number of donors can be taken, so servicemen are being
given preference in appointments.
Miss Rinehart said that no civilians under 17 years of age may donate their plasma, and that no civilians under 21 will be permitted to give without their parents or guardian’s written consent. Since 14 weeks have lapsed since the last visit of the bloodbank canteen, while 10 weeks Is the usual interval, there will be no danger of too frequent donations.
Other requirements of plasma donors are (1) donors must weigh at least 110 pounds, (2) they must not have malaria within the last 15 years, (3) they must not have tuberculosis, past or present, (4) they must not have diabetes, (5) they must not have had jaundice within the past six months, (6) they must not have an acute cold or other infectious diseases, (7) organic heart disease, or (8) undulant fever.
Another ruling of the Red Cross is that no one having had vaccinations and injections will be permitted Jo give unless they come under the following circumstances: smallpox, two weeks after the final reactions or the scab has fallen off; there will be no delay after typhoid, paratyphoid, or tetanus; and eight weeks delay after yellow fever or typhus injections.
Scharnhorst sunk as Nazis lose sea fight
LONDON, Monday, Dec. 27. (UP)—Germany’s 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst was brought to bay yesterday off the northern coast of arctic Norway by units of the British home fleet and sunk in a blazing battle which reduced the German navy to two major units.
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Forces poise for invasion
LONDON, Dec. 26— (HE)— The world’s most highly specialized offensive force is assembling in Great Britain today for the invasion of Europe under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
How large the force Is and what its composition is the Germans will be left to wonder. But it has been estimated unofficially that the American, British and Canadian armies must throw 70 or more divisions into Europe — say 1,050,000 men—to start the final retreat of the German army. Eisenhower will have them if he needs them—British veterans, Canadians who have been training here since the early months of the war, and above all the Americans now in Britain and all ready to embark.
Eisenhower will have tank and artillery support which has already beaten Germany’s best in Tunisia and Sicily, and air forces which have only just begun to test their growing strength. It is likely he will have tanks and planes the Germans never have heard of.
Home fleet units protecting a convoy, on the northern route to Murmansk, forced the Scharnhorst to action off the bleak north cape in the afternoon, an admiralty communique announced, and the ship was sunk during the evening.
No details of the action were availAle immediately and it was not known how many, if any of the Scharnhorst’s crew escaped. Normally the ship carried 1451 officers and men but her wartime complement presumably would be considerably larger.
There was no indication whether planes took part in the action or whether it was one of the few purely naval engagements of the war.
Just before last midnight, the admiralty issued the following communique, reporting the greatest victory over the German fleet since the giant Bismarck was sunk in the Atlantic May 27, 1941.
“This afternoon, Dec. 26, the German battleship Scharnhorst was brought to action by units of the home fleet, under the command of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, which were covering a north Russian con voy. The Scharnhorst was sunk this evening off the north cape.”
The north cape is just around the turn of the Norwegian coast, on the northern side, on a route which was once a graveyard for allied merchantmen working the Murmansk convoy route.
Throughout the war the British navy had sought the four chief German naval threats to the high seas. Now the Bismarck and Scharnhorst have been disposed of and there remain only the 41,000-ton— or larger—Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck, and the Gneisenau, sister ship of the Scharnhorst.
It was understood that the Tirpitz was in refuge along the Norwegian coast after having been heavily damaged by British midget submarines in a daring torpedo attack.
Last June the Gneisenau was reported at Gdynia, the port of Poland, with her gun turrents dismantled and her decks ripped by bomb hits. There had been reports recently, however, that the ship had been repaired and had slipped out to the Atlantic to shelter, like the the Tirpitz, in some Norwegian fjourd.
PITTSBURGH, Monday, Dec. 27 (UP)—The number of steel workers joining a walkout that threatens to paralyze one-third of the industry moved upward early today as midnight passed with no answer from internatinal officers of the United Steel Workers union to President Roosevelt’s appeal for continued work.
With from 52,000 to 55,000 already
reported on strike, another 3,600 wa* added to the number as midnight shifts failed to report at three plants in Newport, Ky., and Cincinnati, O.
The number of strikers rote swiftly to a total of more than 86,000 as reports rolled In of spreadof the walkout to an additional 30,500 workers in Ohio.
Almost 30,000 others have indicated that they will not show up for post-holiday work on Monday shifts because their contracts with the company have expired.
In all 350,000 men are affected by the contracts which expired last Friday midnight but full extent of the strike action will not be known until 7 a.m. today when the first shifts after the holiday week-end are due to report at most plants.
The wave of walkouts spreading through five states — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky — bore out the warning of the CIO steel workers union in its petition Dec. T to the War Labor board that a board decision on ite request most be made before contracts expired to avert possibility of work stoppages.
Mu Phi Epsilon holds music major contest
Trojan women, majoring in music and carrying a minimum of 12 units are eligible for participation in a contest sponsored by the Los Angeles alumnae chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music society, according to Miss Pearl Macloskey, secretary of the School of Music.
The contest will be held Jan. 20.
Students desiring to participate in the event are asked to register with Miss Macloskey by Jan. 10. A first prize of $25 will be awarded to
the contestant whose performance is judged most outstanding in the field of voice or instrument. The student who rates second place will be awarded $10. Judges for the 'com-
Fire rages near Union
Flames leaped as high as the third floor of the Student Union before a dozen or more navy and marine trainees on campus could collect enough fire extinguishers to slow down the fire in the supply house behind the Student Union Dec. 17.
Believed to have been caused by a lighted cigaret or match, the fire was discovered by two fountain boys of the Union grill. They ran to secure the key to open the smoking shed, but searched frantically and in vain. Roger Weiss, NROTC
man, happened to be passing by and noticed the now rapidly spreading flames. He turned in the fire alarm and gathered up a group of trainees. They ran through the Student Union halls and collected fire extinguishers.
This helped to stymie the flames until the citp fire department engines arrived. The firemen worked for about 12 minutes until all the sparks and smoke had disappeared.
The second SC fire in a fortnight, the Student Union blaze damaged the surrounding shrubs and the
lawn bordering the supply shed. Although the shed itself was not totally destroyed, the boxes, papers, and other articles contained in it were burned.
A large crowd of trainees, civilians, and faculty gathered around the fire as news of lt spread over the campus.
The other recent fire at Troy was a palm tree located at the parking lot behind the Law building. This blaze, however, did not destroy any surrounding property and was put out in a short time.
petition shall be selected by the alumnsue chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon in conjunction with the School of Music.
Each entrant shall be limited to the performance of three compositions, either vocal or instrumental, which shall not exceed 10 minutes performing time. All compositions must be performed from memory. Former first prize students are barred from entering the contest.
Religious week begins Jan. 16
Religious Emphasis week will be observed this year from Jan. 16 to 20, announced George Davidson, committee chairman. Assemblies will be held on those days in Bovard auditorium from 9:25 until 10:30 each morning.
Rev. Harold C. Case, of Scranton, Pa., will once again be the guest speaker. This year’s topic will be “Today’s Citiaen in Tomorrow’s World.”