War is grim business
Los Angeles, Mar. 8, 1943
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>They came home Saturday and in uniform. Not all 225 of them, but enough to spot the campus here and there with khaki.
Troy’s ERCs got their first leave and they came around to sport their new suits and say a few more goodbyes before they are sent away for a longer trip.
Pvts. Doug Essick and Bob Musick were in town to represent the athletic contingent at the basketball game Saturday night. A pair of red eyes showed the result of army hypodermic injections. Tom Shanley also dropped around to see his pals once more. Freshman debater Peter Gold, writer Dave Lincoln, and ex-Daily Trojan man Bion Abbott, were back to praise army food and bemoan the early rising: hours.
The whole SC group is billeted in the same barracks at the fort. Some of them have undergone intelligence and signal corps tests and the remainder will be tested early this week before permanent assignments are made and the men leave for regular camps.
Aside from the razzing they got from fellow soldiers over SC’s defeat at the hands of UCLA, the biggest gripe came from one lone Trojan—“My shoes are too big.”
Mrs. Margaret Bondfield, known as the foremost woman of England, will address graduate students and members of the faculty on a topic in which she is expert—that of labor conditions in her native country and how they affect the present situation.
She will speak in the art and lecture room of Doheny library tomorrow afternoon at 3:30.
“Whatever Mrs. Bondfield has to say will be based on broad experience and a liberal point of view. She is far from being a reactionary, and those students, particularly women, who are in social science will find her extremely vital,” said Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt, dean of the Graduate School.
“Our Maggie,” as Britishers affectionately call her, shocked ultraconservative England at the turn of the century when she tock an active interest in England’s then very touchy labor problem. After this she achieved a position as secretary in Britain’s ministry of labor and membership in parliament.
By this time she was well on . the way in her public career but it was still a surprise when she became minister of labor and, incidentally, the only woman ever to enter the imperial cabinet.
For several weeks Mrs. Bondfield has been on a tour of the United States conferring with various administrative groups in the country. Wherever she has spoken during the tour she has been re-recognized as an interesting and stimulating speaker and personality.
HY SO SAD?—Troy's ERCs line up in formation as their names are called—and hard a smiling face among them,
—Courtesy L.A. Times
With the cheers of hundreds of Trojan students and friends ringing in their ears, 225 ERCs at SC left the campus shortly after 10 a.m. last Friday in six red and cream colored Santa Fe busses to begin a different kind of career—serving as buck privates in the U.S. army.
A rousing send-off featuring stirring Troy tunes and march music, yells lead by Russ' Lindersmith, and short talks by President Rufus B. yon KleinSmid, Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, armed forces representative at SC, and student body president Bob McKay preceded their departure.
“We will try to serve with you,” said President von KleinSmid. “We are proud of you beyond expression and remember, you are of us.”
Dean Raubenheimer pointed out that “this day will live in our memory as one of undying hope.”
A second group of ERCs will leave for active duty in the army Mar. 24. Thirty students will answer .this call. Graduating seniors, originally scheduled for induction Friday, were notified by the army last week that they would be permitted to remain in school until after the 10-week examinations to complete their degree requirements.
I didn't want to join the army anyway/ says AWOL Chaffey as he tears up ERC card
uss capture >wns en masse
LONDON, Monday, Mar. 8—(U.E) Capturing towns and villages at b rate of three an hour against Lbborn enemy resistance, Red ar-y shock troops are sweeping on ttard Vyazma, last bastion of the Bat German offensive line which I* 17 months had threatened Mos-Lr, Russia reported today, bne powerful army drove south-stward directly on Vyazma from ptured Gzatsk, 36 miles to the rtheast.
I Another was headed south west-jard frofn Rzhev, advancing on Le strong German defense lines inning southward from Nikitin-L through Dorogobuzh.
k Moscow radio broadcast said It Red army Stormovik dive Inber planes were attacking rcely in support of the ground bps. leaving a trail of wrecked [man trucks, while the storm lops took one* German fortified le point after another.
Sunday's midday Russian com-[nique reported the capture of 20 habited places in the drive from [hatsk on Vyazma and several sten others in the advance point-toward the railroad behind Vyaz-
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7—(IIP) — Selective service tonight issued a directive to 6500 local draft boards hinting strongly that the present maximum draft age of 37 may soon be raised to 44 to provide men for behind-the-lines service.
The directive orders:
1.	No more men 38 years of age or older are to be* classified 4-H, the class for registrants over the present military age limit.
2.	Prior to May 1, all 4-H registrants engaged in an agricultural occupation or endeavor must be classified 2-C or 3-C, depending on whether they are single or have dependents.
3.	All other 4-H registrants, beginning May 1, must be reclassified and placed in the classes to which they properly belong by reason of occupation, dependency, or other status.
Then, the directive says, all 4-H registrants who have no claim to deferment other than age are to be placed in 1A so they will be “the first men over 38 inducted if and when the armed forces determine they can be used in the military establishment.”
Use of the term “military establishment” was interpreted unofficially as marking men 37-45 for desk jobs so younger men could be relieved for active duty. Congress currently is campaigning to weed out thousands of young “desk chair” officers who obtained commissions soon after the war broke out.
If you’ve heard this before, or saw it, don’t stop me—it’s worth retelling.
Bob Chaffee has the last laugh on the army. He pleaded, he cajoled, he beseeched, he wept, but no, they would not take him. So he’s going to resign the army and join the marines.
It all started last Friday morning as the first ERC bus pulled away from the curb. With a crash of the brakes and screaming tires, a coupe stopped on 36th street and out of the door flew Chaffee, a woolen blanket, a suitcase, a beverage bottle, and red flannel underwear.
From the depths of his lungs like a fog horn there blew forth a blast: HALT, STOP, HEY, WAIT FOR ME. Chaffee was likened unto Paul Bunyan as he made the span from 36th street to the first bus in one hop. At this juncture he took time out to take a beautiful flop on the grass, which scatered his belongings and opened his suitcase.
Out rolled oranges, a deck of cards, and a lot of junk. This was all for the benefit of El Rodeo photographers who were spotted at this location since wee hours in the morning to catch this shot.
Up he got himself, and spread
his arms in front of the first bus, pleading with the driver to let him get in. He was rebuffed. So on to the next bus. Here he pounded on the door. Again turned down. The third bus whizzed by him. Chaffee was crying now. He banged on the side of the bus. He was sobbing in spasmodic jerks.
If he didn’t get on the bus, he would be AWOL without ever being officially in the army. When last seen he was chasing a bus down University avenue. It was reported that he ran all the way to Ft. MacArthur, but this is untrue. He just tore up his ERC card and will report at the marine induction center this morning.
Chaffee is a sophomore and affiliated with Kappa Alpha. His fraternity brothers had the big laugh until they recognized his apparel as their own, his union suit someone else’s, and his suitcase as not his own.
•	Chaffee is also known by Wampus fans as the gent who appeared on the cover several issues ago in a zoot suit.
His friends will gladly recall the time when their buddy dived off the end of the dock at Catalina when he was late for the steamer.
Welfare jobs draw women
Eight SC women have filled out applications to do volunteer war work in Los Angeles welfare agencies, according to the social welfare agencies committee of the student war board.
The eight women are Ruth Harris, Alpha Chi Omega; Doris Ho, student from Nanking, China; Shirley Inlow, Phrateres member; Pat Jellison, graduate student in sociology; Alice Lloyd, Alpha Gamma Delta; and Beth Stolp, Audrey Van-cott, and Viola Wiswell, students in sociology.
Some of the leading welfare agencies in the city are interested in obtaining welfare workers from the ranks of college women, among them being the Visiting Nurses association, Orthopedic hospital, Jewish Center association, All Nations foundation, the Children’s bureau, and the International institute.
Application blanks may be obtained at the YWCA this week, and one credit point for each hour of service will be given in the house of the month contest.
All kinds of talent are needed, according to the YWCA. Women workers may find placement in such work as story-telling, clinic work, and entertaining crippled children.
Westminster club to convene
“Beliefs That Matter” will be the topic of Dr. J. Murdock McLeod, of the Los Angeles Presbyterian head office, when he addresses the Westminster club luncheon today at the University Methodist church # at noon.
All Presbyterian students are invited to attend by Jaisohn Hyun, and an informal discussion will follow Dr. McLeod’s speech.
It was indicated that Marshals irigori.. Zhukov., and., artillery karshal N. N. Voronov were per-tonally directing the Vyazma rive under Premier Josef Stalin, ewly named marshal of the Sonet Union.
The Russians were using the me closely co-ordinated strategy ctics which had won them their ctories of Stalingrad and the Don rer under the same men.
Jap Bismarck defeat equals Papua losses
U.P. reports
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was grounded, probably because of bad weather.
Manpower worries FDR
President Roosevelt will soon intervene personally in an attempt to bring order out of the chaotic manpower situation, reliable sources disclosed yesterday.
He has asked a special committee of five men, headed by Economic Stablization Director James F. Byrnes, to explore fu’.ly all phases of the manpower problem and report to him at the earliest opportunity.
RAF grounded
American and British planes were estimated yesterday to have dropped upward of 10,000 tons of bombs on axis Europe during the 10-day allied air offensive—mightiest of all time—which ended temporarily last night when the RAF
Dutch airmen flying American-built Mitchell bombers jdined Australian flyers yesterday and blasted the batered Japanese base at To-eal, in the Kai islands, while an American Liberator bombed an 8000 ton enemy cargo vessel off New Guinea’s north coast, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. • •
Harper attends officers' school
Selected to.attend the administrative, officers’ candidate school at Miami Beach, Sgt. Ralph A. Harper, class of ’42, this week left his post at the. Carlsbad army air field. New Mexico, for his new Florida station.
Harper received his A.B. and L1.B. at SC. and, siiKe. his enlistment in March, 1942, he has been stationed in Colorado and New Mexico.
Payroll tax seen ,
Chairman Robert L. Doughton,
D., N.C., of the . house, ways and means committee, said yesterday his group will act as swiftly as possible on a subcommittee report recommending a 20 per cent pay-as-you-go withholding tax on all payroll incomes.