OUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. xxxrv
Los Angeles, Mar. 17, 1943
Night Phone: RI. 5472
NO. 106
D.T. polls teen-age vote issue ******** **** ase gives ‘Life’s Clues’ in Bovard
peaker tells esent need or discipline
Who's alert?
Profits, not prophets, have en guiding us for the past o decades, Dr. Harold C. s e, Religious Emphasis ek lecturer, pointed out sterday in the second in a ries of five talks given in bvard auditorium from 9:50 10:30 a.m.
Speaking on “Clues to Life’s
-aning,” Dr. Case stated that the ited States has been enjoying a year national slumber and that a national revolution has oome our assembly line.
’We have made three false as-^lptions,” he said. “One is that believe American democracy is ight by all people on earth, but record has not been good ugh to warrant this belief. ’‘Secondly, we condemn the xis for their anti-semitism and their racial unequality, and en we proceed to have oiir own Ivate prejudices in this coun-
jially, we believe that we may e religion even though we do take it seriously.” n discussing this last point, Dr.
emphasized that to attain re-n we must have a “self-disci-e of spirit.”
7e must develop a long view order to develop an open mind, rit, and skills in behalf of the life. We must meet every is creatively,” he concluded.
Case will speak this morning “A Religion for These Days,” third in the series, in Bovard torium at 9:50. Other religious activities for today include a luncheon at the Y house to Dr. and Mrs. Case; a group assion in the student lounge 3 to 4 p.m.; and personal in-ews with the Cases from 4 to m. in the Council of Religion ce.
by United Press Southern California was under an army-ordered “red alert” for 20 minutes yesterday, but nobody noticed it in Los Angeles except a few conscientious air raid wardens.
The alert was prompted by the presence of two unidentified planes in the Los Angeles area. The western defense command subsequently Identified them as friendly, and the all-clear was sounded.
Th low-pitched, undulating note of the air raid siren, quiet for months, surprised Trojans when it howled a warning yesterday at 1:50 p.m.
Just how Troy felt toward the possibility of a real raid was graphically demonstrated by various groups of students and campus emergency organizations who managed to be a little too casual during the 20 minute alert.
A small gathering of Trojans sat calmly in the Student Union wondering why a group of professors were gathered on the corner on University avenue and 36th sereet.
Streaming out of Old College in double file, several hundred students quietly took their places in the basement of Doheny library, following the instructions of Dr. Francis M. Bacon, dean of men.
Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English, assumed his civilian defense post on University avenue where he told the drivers of passing cars to pull over to the curb. Dr. Baxter drowned out the blare of a car radio when he shouted the news of the “red alert” to the occupants.
♦Thirty-three of the 250 NROTC members reported to the posts appointed them in case of an air raid alert.
Baseball fans, more placid than the rest, remained to watch the game between SC and the Crowley all-stars.
Dean Bacon persisted with the comment that defense plans were still in the preparatory stage.
A test next week will disclose where students are to go in ease of actual attack, he said.
ap Sigs hold pen house
ppa Sigs will entertain the lent body Saturday night when f open their doors to non-orgs, ity, and fraternity members 7:30 to midnight at 928 W. street.
special invitations will go out .ead the Kappa Sigs extend a ?ket invitation for all to attend Open House, and students are ome to drop in anytime, an oed Gene Bordeau, house pres it.
th social chairmen, John Crieg Edsel Curry, were overheard sting to their fraternity broth -that the refreshments were goto fool the ration board and they wouldn’t patronize the ck market.
esident's ce notice
ILY RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS EEK ASSEMBLIES The following schedule will vern morning class meetings ig this week:
8:00— 8:50 8:55— 9:45 9:50—10:30 Assembly 10:35—11:25 11:30—12:20
R. B. von KleinSmid
Nip ships flee allied planes
GEN, MACARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Wednescay, Mar. 17—(UJ?)— A Japanese troop convoy, attacked by allied planes in the Aroe islands southwest of New Guinea, apparently has fled, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today.
Reconnaissance carried out by allied planes in the Arafura sea, north of the Aroe islands yesterday, failed to locate any enemy shipping, the noon communique issued by the united nations command stated.
The small enemy convoy, comprising three troop-packed ships had been attacked by Dutch airmen flying American Billy Mitchell bombers and Australian flyers in RAAF Hudsons and Beaufight-ers Monday afternoon.
Direct hits were scored on two of the transports and several near misses fell around all the ships. The stricken ships burst into flames, and the Japanese loss of life was believed heavy.
Mexico sends workers to L. A.
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 16—<U.P)— An additional 5000 agricultural workers will soon be sent to the Los Angeles, Calif., area to relieve an acute farm labor shortage there, it was reported today. Six hundred and fifty laborers were said to have signed their contracts yesterday.
marine reserves (candidates class, Hid), are required to fill out a questionnaire in Dean Rauben-s heimer’s office, Administration
200, before Monday, Mar. 22. The headquarters of the U. S. marine corps have requested the armed services representative to obtain certain data from each marine reservist and forward this information to Washington at the earliest possible date.
“Those students who have one term or less to complete before graduation will be called to active duty. The navy plan calls for them to continue their studies at certain selected colleges.
“Students in their ircshmen and sophomore years will be required to qualify for the additional college study through a general intelligence test and consideration of scholastic standing, probable aptitude, and recommendation of the college authorities.”
Listening hour features Brahms
Music to be played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic symphony this week will be heard on the School of Music's listening hour today at 12:30 in .Bovard auditorium, according to Pauline Alderman of the School of Music staff.
The first movement of Brahms’ Concerto No. 2 for Piano, with Schnabel at the piano, and the first twc movements of Symphony No. 6 by TschaikowsKy composes the program.
Interested students and faculty members may attend.
Bill to come
before state assembly
To determine student opinion on the question of ’teenage voting now pending in the California legislature, the Daily Trojan will conduct a poll tomorrow and Friday.
Slated to come out of committee early next week, the ’teen-age voting bill would amend the state constitution
to permit persons between the ages of 18 and 20 to vote in state elections. The bill is now in the elections and apportionment commit tee of the assembly.
SC politicos
file petitions for elections
Campus politicos will get their first opportunity to throw their hats in the ring for the big show, Mar. 27, when the declaration of*candidacy petitions are made available today from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the ASSC office, 235 Student Union.
Applications must be completely filled out and returned to the same office by Friday after- -•
Reds pound German lines near Smolensk
Ballots for the poll will be printed in the Daily Trojan tomorrow and Friday and may be deposited in the “What’s on Your Mind” boxes located on the steps of Administration and in the Student Union.
Marine reserves to provide data
All marine corps reserves, class Hid, should fill out a questionnaire in Dean Albert S. Raubenheimer’s office, Administration 200, before Mar. 22, according to a late announcement from Dr. Raubenheimer.
The full text of the announcement follows:
“All students enlisted in the
Editorials supporting this measure have appeared in the Daily Trojan from time to time this year. Support has also come from the UCLA Daily Bruin. The Daily Californian, however, has indicated that it would consider the measure (Continued on Page Four)
SC Owls open aero courses
University college will inaugurate a series of courses in navigation, meteorology, parachutes, aircraft recognition, and instruments, to be included in the curriculum for men, designed to aid those who are planning to enter either the army or navy air corps. The courses will begin Mar. 22.
For women, the scope of subjects covers elements of aeronautics such as aerodynamics, construction and rigging of aircraft, power plants, instruments, parachutes, and civil and military aviation programs. These will fulfill requirements for women planning to become airline hostesses. Another course offered to women is orientation, for airline employees and will stress airline problems such as schedules, duties, operations, tariffs, regulations, and communication.
noon, where they will be checkec and approved by Phil Levine, elections commissioner.
. Formal nominations will be made at the annual election assembly in Bovard auditorium, scheduled this year for Monday, Mar. 22, at noon. If spontaneous nominations are made from the floor at that time, those students thus nominated must fill out a petition and submit it at the ASSC office by 3 p^m. that day. Students may cast their votes at the all-university polls, which will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 27. Ballot boxes will be located at several strategic spots on the campus and the en tire election will be supervised by Trojan Amazons, Knights, and Squires, according to McKay.
Ballots will be taken from the polls in sealed boxes and counted by a joint committee of students and faculty members under the di rection of Levine.
Candidates for the office of ASSC president must follow the qualifi cations laid down by the constitution of the student body. These qualifications require candidates to be,male students in good standing in the university, who have completed 90 units of university work and who have spent two years al SC. They must have a 1.5 cumulative grade-point average, and have the same grade point from courses taken last semester.
Contrary to a prevalent rumor, no woman may run for the presidency under the specific regulations of the constitution.
Candidates for the offices of vice-president and secretary may be male or female students who have completed 60 units of university work and who have been at SC for one full year. They must possess the same scholastic average as that required for the presidential candidates.
A vacancy in the office of head yell king is seen by McKay at this time as the constitution requires that all candidates for that position must have served for one year in the capacity of assistant yell king. Ted Olewine and Dick Ho-meyer, present assistants to Russ Lindersmith, are the only two students now enrolled who possess these qualifications. Both men expect to leave SC before the close of the present semester.
Applications for Squires due soon
Men who wish to petition for membership in the Trojan Squires, honorlry service organization for sophomore and junior students, maj obtain applications today at the cashier’s window in the book store of the Student Union, according to Bob McKay, ASSC president.
LONDON, Wednesday, Mar. 17— (U.P)—Driving through the heart of a great German defense belt, Russian troops captured 32 towns and villages Tuesday in a steady advance on the Yartsevo and Doro-gobuzh bastions east of Smolensk, Rusia’s midnight communique reported today.
Two Russian columns were driving southward toward the Moscow-Smolensk railroad, 23 miles to the east. They were advancing down both sides of the spur line railroad from bypassed Nikitinka, whose fall seemed imminent.
In the south the Germans were attacking southeast of Kharkov, smashing against the Izyum area of the new Russian Donets river line.
United Press Moscow dispatches said that as the attack developed* it appeared the Germans were at-would permit them to bypass and attempting a break-through which would envelop Voroshilovgrad and the northeast comer cf the Donets basin.
These dispatches suggested that* the fall of Kharkov was due to the Rusian lack of railroad communication from the east and the thaw which flooded highways, holding back reinforcements.
Russia seemed undismayed by the fall of its fourth city. Ilya Ehren-bourg, war correspondent, wrote in -Tuesday’s Red Star, the army newspaper;
“After Stalingrad Hitler was obsessed by 6ne idea: how to restore his prestige. He massed immense forces on a narrow sector, hurled in divisions shifted from western Europe and scored a success. This was a Hitler success but lt was not a victory. Hitler did not avenge Stalingrad. He did not find 20 Russian divisions at Kharkov. He did not take our generals prisoner. What did the Germans find in Kharkov in addition to ruins? Only the corpses of their men.”
Engineers
. . . assembly has been postponed this week because of the special schedule for morning classes. The new time and place of the engineering assembly will be announced in next Monday’s Daily Trojan.
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On the political front
TNE seeks new tool
by the Keyholer
Big, black fat cigars, pats of butter, and sugar cubes are beginning to fly through the air as the campus politicos issue their bids for fame and gird themselves for the forthcoming student bcdy elections.
Recognizing a need for an impartial day-to-day picture of the political scene, and liking lots of cigars, the Keyholer hereby inaugurates a series of descriptive political articles. Any similarity between persons depicted in these articles and campus personalities is purely coincidental and non-malicious in intention.
With that saccharine blurb of good intentions off my chest, we can get down to the cruel, hard facts of the elections as they are beginning to shape up.
Focal point of interest is the race
of candidates for the ASSC prexy spot. For months now, the boys along .the Row have been talking in smoke-filled chapter rooms and dimly-lit taverns about prospects. Usually, three or four names were most prominent in these political jam sessions.
Several months ago, Lael Lee appeared to be the golden-haired boy of the machine. He was handed several political plums which normally would catapult . him into the office of president. Afiter letting the car-sharing committee and its plans* fizzle out miserably, he was given the post of Homecoming chairman — in which he partially redeemed himself.	•« 11 • But now Lee is nowhere to be* found, having faded from the scene completely. His chagrined backers
are searching frantically for another front-man to groom.
Bud Townsend early swung into position as the chairman of the Community Chest drive—which in former years provided an easy stepping stone for those ambitious to be student body president.
Almost simultaneously, PiKA’s white hope, tiny Jack Williams, was named by the senate to head-• up SC’s mysterious and ephem-, eral war. .board. . This post was considered so important by the powers-that-be that the tentative appointment 6f Hugh “Pudgie” McKeller was turned down by a rebellious senate, which proceeded to wrangle for several meetings untih Williams waa finally boosted
into the saddU.........
Since then, the Wampus desig-(Continued on Page Four)