eds open olensk fensive
NDON, Wednesday, Sept. U.P.)—Opening a direct e on Smolensk, greatest man base on the entire *rn front, the Red army captured the Yelnya and gobuzh defense bastions iles east and southeast of city, Russia announced to-
a second big break-through, e Sevsk front north of Khar-the Russians captured the s of Glukhov, Rylsk and Cher-oye, cutting the Bryansk-Su-railroad, and driving into the ern Ukraine for the first time war.
thousand Germans were yesterday alone in the e on Smolensk, 230 miles thwest of Moscow, and more n 3000 were killed on the front.
the drive on Smolensk the sians were making a double st, southwestward along the ‘ow-Smolensk railroad, and hwestward along the Smolensk-ya-Sukhinichi railroad.
ssia’g communique indicated t the Red army command had lullest confidence that it d take Smolensk, most im-nt of all bases and the most ongiy defended on the east-front.
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oratio Cogswell’s University Col-opera class, which presents a lie performance of an opera season, will begin practice for t’s “Carmen” on Sept. 15, at .m. in room 8 Music building is rendition in concert form s all students who enjoy op-singing or who desire to be-e opera singers an opportunity btain experience and to learn entire role in a famous opera, ofessor Cogswell* has started y singers on their way to fame, ame Conner, who is now with Metropolitan Opera company who is also heard on the Ray-d Paige program, “Salute to th” every Tuesday evening at m. over KFI, was a pupil of fessor Cogswell for four years at
term begins gistration
gistration for schedule E urses, those available from Sept. to Oct. 15 will begin Friday orning, it was announced today the registrar’s office.
Hours few registering are Fri-y, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, :30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and Mon-ay, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Students registering for E urses who have been in sched-le B or C classes and new stu-ents are required to fill out the gistration book, omitting cards , VII, X. and XI. These books ust be verified in the registrar’s ffice before fees may be paid to :e comptroller, and those working or a degrte must consult advisers. Students continuing in schedule courses but registering for schedule E courses are to fill out a change of program card but need not verify their programs.
Roosevelt scores columnist Pearson
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—(U.P)— President Roosevelt today branded as a lie from beginning to end recent charges by Drew Pearson that Becretary of State Cordell Hull and other state department officials are anti-Russian, and accused the newspaper columnist-radio commentator of bad faith toward his country because of such utterances.
Vol. XXXV
Mrht phone: ri. 5472 Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1943
No. 26
Movie to show Sulfa therapy
Pharmacy students will hold an assembly today at 12:30 p.m. in Mudd hall. Under the direction of Ken Dawson, the sophomores will present a motion picture on sulpha therapy produced by the Lederle laboratories.
All pnarmacy students are asked to be present, according to Bob Fatterson, president. Anyone else interested may attend.
U.S. must aid
reconstruction, says Neumeyer
On the “passage back” to Europe at the end of the present war. the United States can “just about write the kind of ticket it desires.”
This was the statement of Dr. Martin H. Neumeyer, professor of sociology, yesterday afternoon, when he interpreted “Two Way Passage” by Louis Adamic.
“America is experienced,” said Dr. Neumeyer, “and we must share this experience with Europe in postwar reconstruction.” “We must do something big, unique.” according to Adamic, “something that will set off our own imagination and Europe’s.” The author’s theory is that the United States should not seek to impose its democracy, but “to cut loose the vicious tenacles of hate, narrow nationalism, oppression, and frustration that keep the inherent democracy that exists within the hearts of European peoples from coming to full flower.”
Adamic thinks that the bottling up of people in Europe during recent decades was one of the causes of the war and that the United States has therefore a responsibility, inasmuch as this country put European nations on a quota basis, thus confining the discontented people who might otherwise have come here.”
The author recognizes the problem of assimilation in America, said Dr. Neumeyer. He maintains, however, that the United States has achieved “unity within diversity,” and that this is one of the reasons for the dynamic nature of the American people.
“Europe is in America,” he says. “We are just one or two generations removed from the Old World.” Adamic believes that after the war the United States snouid send not only material goods to Europe but also its best men and women of foreign extraction and the children of immigrants.
ASSC prepares
activity book drive
With the 1943 Trojan football team beginning to take shape and the first game less than three weeks away, the ASSC took out insurance for a well-unified rooting section by driving for increased sales of activity books this week.
These activity books, which may be obtained from the cashier in the bookstore from now until Sept. 20, sell for $5.50 each and will admit the holder to all athletic contests, including six home football games, plus free admission to drama presentations and student digs on campus.
The six home gridiron battles include UCLA, Sept. 25; St. Mary’s Preflight, Oct. 9; College of Pacific, Oct. 23; California, Oct. 30; March Field, Nov. 13; and UCLA, Nov. 27. In addition to these games, the reserved-ticket price to which totals $11.55, tickets to basketball games, track meets, tennis tourneys, and other events from now until June are included in the student books.
“Coach Jeff Cravath has the makings of a fine team,” Arnold Eddy, business manager of athletics, pointed out yesterday, “and we hope we can have the, same great rooting section of former years which have reflected so much credit to the university in past years.”
All navy, marine, and army trainees will be admitted to the student rooting section by these activity books, Eddy emphasized. The rooting section, as in previous years, will be on the 50-yard line. Plans for a large, marching band have already been formulated, and this season’s football season will be as great as any in Troy’s history, Eddy continued.
Bill Caldwell, ASSC president, reiterated Eddy’s viewpoint by stating that a rooting section is an essential ingredient for victory.
“Our team this year, as in every year past, will need the support of Trojan rooters,” he declared. “Although we may now belong to the army, navy, or marines, we are and always will be Trojans.”
Eleven Dane warships escape to
Rally committee
. . . will be in ,the Knight office. 218 Student Union at 12:30 p.m. today according to Bob Fisk, chair -man.
STOCKHOLM, Wednesday, Sept. 1—(U.P.)—Eleven Danish warships which fled from the Germans to seek sanctuary in Swedish ports have arrived in the east coast naval base of Karlskrona after a dash from Malmoa and Helsing-borg under protection of the Swedish fleet, it was announced officially today.
The warships’ transfer was carried out under Swedish naval command with the vessels’ Danish crews manning them, the announcement said.
The voyage began Monday night and the ships arrived at Karlskrona last night.
United Press correspondent Hubert Uxkull reported from Malmoa that Swedish authorities had reared the Germans, only 16 miles away across the Oresund strait, might attack Sweden in order to obtain the Danish warships that fled their home ports last week to escape capture. He said the departure of the vessels from Malmoa and Helsing-borg was made in utmost secrecy.
Meanwhile, King Christian and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, with a German military escort, drove through the suburbs of Copenhagen yesterday to the acclaim of thousands of Danes who defied a Naz; ban on the assemblage of more than five persons, the Danish News agency reported.
Red Cross offers jobs
Are you ready to don old clothes? Are you a worker willing to attempt painting and house cleaning?
Students who answer these questions affirmatively are eligible to help put the newly obtained Red Cross house, 848 West 37th street, in order for Red Cross work.
Workers will be needed every afternoon during the school week and Saturday mornings, according to Helen Taylor, general chairman of the SC Red Cross unit. Volunteers are asked to sign the list on the Y bulletin board.
Ginny Kaspar and Sallye James are chairmen of the supply committee that will gather equipment needed for cleaning.
Pomona starts postwar fund
CLAREMONT, Aug. 31—(U.R)— Pomona College today launched a scholarship program to provide funds to enable students who left college for the armed services to continue their studies when the war ends.
At the close of an alumni fund campaign, college officials announced that S5000 would be set aside as the first installment of the new fund. Alumni secretary, Allen F. Hawley said subsequent campaign funds would be placed in trust for the undergraduates in service.
All-U songfest to precede recreational
Topping previous week’s entertainments with a double barrelled attraction, plans are progressing on the all-U sing and recreational for this Friday night, according to Sally Unmack, chairman of the weekend affairs.
First portion of the program will be a community sing in Bovard auditorium; this will be followed by a recreational in the gym. The sing, the first program of its kind on the SC campus this term, will take place from 7 to 8 p.m.
The sing is under the sponsorship of the marine trainees and is headed by Warren Steinberg. Sev-eral'Tiew songs written by a marine, Raymond Page, will be presented for the first time.
A new method will be used to present the songs to the audience, according to Steinberg. They will be flashed on the screen by a projector. Other attractions of the sing include a skit, “The March of Slime,”, by Dumbo .Root and Marshall Romer and songs by Bob Signorelli.
Miss Unmack emphasized the fact that the recreational will follow the all-U sing. Dancing and recreational activities will include ping pong, volley ball, and badminton. Swimming will also be available for students who procure health permits in the university health office.
“As usual,’* Miss Unmack said, “Cokes will be sold. The proceeds from these cokes go to the postwar planning ooara. since
we must pay regular prices for the bottled drinks,” Miss Un-mack said, “we charge 10 cents for them.”
From now on, Miss Unmack stated, the recreationals will begin at 7 p.m. to allow more time for scheduled activities.
Blue Key
. . . will meet at 1 p.m. today ln the senate chambers, Student Union.
Troy’s Gen. Eaker heads Eighth Air force
by Bill Sunday
Working hand in hand, the United States Eighth Air force and the RAF are climaxing the battle of the Reich with smashing air attacks aimed at disabling Nazi production machinery and demoralizing the German people.
At the head of the Eighth Air force is Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, hard hitting commander who took classes in the SC School of Journalism in 1932-33, and who established the Ruth Apperson Eaker editorial writing award here in the name of his wife.
Known for his skill as a flier and a poker player, taciturn Eaker has convinced the skeptical British that daylight bombing as well as night air attacks can prove effective against the enemy.
Eaker’s army career began in 1917, when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. At this time he had completed three years at Southeastern Technical college in Oklahoma.
Promoted to captain, he was placed
GEN. EAKER fights in England.
in command on the 1927 goodwill tour of South America, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
When the army told Eaker to choose a journalism school in which to train for public relations work, he selected SC. As a captain he entered the School of Journalism in the summer of 1932. While here he took courses in newspaper reporting, publicity, newspaper administration, and advertising.
He completed requirements for his A.B. degree in journalism in the summer of 1933. It was at SC that Eaker became acquainted with Prof. Roy L. French, head of the School of Journalism now on leave, whom he later called to England for service with the Eighth Air force.
Eaker’s business-like attitude is typified by his first words to British reporters:
“We won’t do much talking until we’ve done more fighting. We hope that when we leave, you’ll be glad we came.”
Trainees get leave in October
V-12 trainees, both navy and marine corps men, will receive leave during the October vacation, according to an announcement today from the office of Capt. Reed M. Fawell, commandant of the SC Naval college training program.
Beginning after classes Friday, Oct. 15, trainees other than medical and dental will be free to travel or remain on campus until 2400 Oct. 27.
Trainees wishing to travel will be given leave papers entitling them to transportation by day-coach at one and one-quarter cents per mile. Ration points good for the period will also be issued to them.
Trainees must travel in uniform, and reservations should be made early according to Captain Fawell. Sunday routine will be observed for trainees who remain on campus, although they will not be required to return to the barracks by 2400.
Some leaves will be limited because of low grades or other spe% cial problems, and all trainees will begin registration on Oct. 28.
Baxter to talk on Arab hero
Lawrence of Arabia, ace guerilla fighter and the one romantic “hero” to emerge from World War 1, will be discussed as man of letters by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, head of SC’s department of English at the weeklf luncheon of the Men’s Faculty club today at 12:30 in the Student Union grill.
Lawrence perfected the art of guerilla warfare, according to Dr. Baxter, and with few losses of his own Arabian irregulars managed to hold in check the Turkish army with its German allies. The brilliance of Lawrence’s tactics cost the enemy almost 100,00 casualties.
After the war Lawrence suffered a letdown. By the nature a man who hated public adulation, he found himself confronted on all sides by the legend of his heroic achievements. His last 15 years wer« spent as far away from the world as he could get. Economic necessity finally drove the one-time national idol into the RAF as a private under an assumed name.
His famous book, Dr. Baxter says, is, of course, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.”
Raubenheimer attends session
Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, is announced as one of the participants in a featured session of the 46th annual conference of the Southern California State Dental association, to be held at the Ambassador hotel Sept. 13 to 16.
The session on public relations will include national, state, and local authorities in dental and health fields with Dr. Emory W. Morris, chairman of the board of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Mich., presiding.
Demonstrations and addresses on activities for public ‘and war service men will include army and navy representatives during the three-day event.
Chi Omega hits war stamp bell
Chi Omega sorority rang the bell in the Victory Hut with a one day sales record of $529 yesterday, according to Carroll Brinkerhoff, chairman of stamps and bonds on the SC campus. This brings to $3250.08 the total of Victory Hut sales in the five-week period in which the Hut has been open. Florence Harris is in charge of sale? for the Chi Omegas.