ibilities off the football I dows” was strictly professional,
Comedy leads Joyce Hill and Tommy Walker put added y Trojan” are wort*hy oi sparkle into the show as Sandy and Jeff, the typical couple
ne being “Can This Be around campus. Miss Hill has a contagious quality in her Women’s Dorm.
and 16 campus lovelies in a beautifully-staged production number. In addition to familiar campus tradition were shown spots including the Student Union, the Victory Hut, and the
, the willing but bashful voice that makes you want to bounce in your seats, put over a number and Jim Humphries, disguised as Tommy Trojan, acted as we rice heaving deep sighs, always imagined the stalwart figure would if he ever came e should for his appear- down off his pedestal. Running around beneath T.T. was C March left more cam- comic George Dubordieu as Snooperman, freshman reporter.
Women’s Dorm scene boasts two outstanding numbers, nad to do was make an “Yes Sir, I Learned” and Junior Phi Bete. Marty Bennison ce and form the young as the Cynical Senior lamenting, “Yes Sir, I Learned” was
Lynn Cohne, producer; Bill Murphy, musical director; Bob Cashey, stage director; Pat Conrad, dialog director; and Louis Bruton, technical director, deserve all the praise that is being given them for their tireless and effective work in putting on “Neath Tommy Trojan.” Their efforts have given the campus a varsity show in the best tradition with lilting music, sharp dialogue, excellent production numbers which combine to make “Neath Tommy Trojan” a hit.
by Sherwin Gerver
‘‘Thumbs up” will be the battle cry o tioned SC students today as they seek do cards and four gallons of gasoline.
Ending the days of palatial limousi versity avenue from 28th street and th
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Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1942
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No. 50
//, StumphService to Troy . ailed as Proprietors Leave
midst vacant walls and empty tables, Jack Stumph and Stan-all, proprietors of the Hall-Stumph men’s store in University were making: ready yesterday to leave this campus to help the Axis by serving in the armed forces.
heir store, for six years the place where Trojan men bought college togs, was completely devoid of merchandise. Still on all, however, was the SC cardinal and gold blanket, an ear-of the pair’s loyalty to this university.
tumph has his application in Washington for a place in the corps of the U.S. army. He is an SC graduate of 1929, eam-degree in the College of Engineering. His partner was a liberal aduate of the University of Nebraska, but he stated that this is adopted alma mater. Hall expects to enlist in the army. f\er since 1937, when we arrived here, we’ve certainly had a lot ,” they said, “and we hope, someday, to come back—after this won.”
»I1 and Stumph expressed their appreciation for the kindness SC administrators, faculty, and student body, t’s been a pleasure to be associated with such a swell group of they added.
::ong the many'services given students, one that will be re-ered for a long time to come, will be the store’s annual custom Ing away apples.
ilegiate Croup eets on Campus
resentatives from 20 colleges and universities will e Dec. 19 at SC for the fall meeting of the Western association.
n John Wendell Dodds, head of the newly inaugurat-ool of Humanities at Stanford university, will open the
session with a discussion of
Four-Front Retreat Sets Axis Spinning
ities Now and After the cording to an official an-
ent received by Dr. Albert nheimer, dean c.f the Col-Letters, Arts, and Sciences
the afternoon meetings of nation, Dr. Raubenheimer, •nded the recent war-time :y conference of American und universities at Philadel-J1 be in charge of an in-;>n of the part colleges will he war. This topic will be under four separate head-the colleges and the regrams, (2) basic curricula emands of the war, (3) the And their future, and (4) of postwar problems.
oer,t Gordon Sproul, preside association, and a mem-he committee on the rela-of higher education ,to the overnment, appointed by rican council on education, esent in tne east securing iformation concerning the .the enlisted training corps, to the announcement.
Industry Periled, Says Lecturer
Unless draft boards aaopt a program which will keep essential workers on the job, the general efficiency of southern California war industries will drop 25 per cent, was the statement made by C. J. Roberts, lecturer on management, at a recent conference of 32 war production agencies.
Roberts further suggested that all draft boards give serious consideration to the need for skilled men in our war industries before calling
them into military service.
Mrs. Sara Southall of the war manpower commission, discussed the problems arising from the employment of women in the war effort. She declared .that in order to recruit women in a maximum force it will be necessary to study their respective characteristics.
Allied Offensive Cains Ground, Inflicts Losses
Allied offensives drove forward Monday on all war fronts—Tunisia, Russia, New Guinea, and Guadalcanal— with new ground gained and heavy losses inflicted on the enemy.
The military situation, by fronts:
New Russ Front Seen-
RUSSIA—The red army’s offensives, northwest of Moscow and west of Stalingrad, both progressed and each brought ever-increasing numbers of German troops into extremely precarious positions by threatening their rear. Axis sources, from which came first reports of these actions, indicated that the Russians launched or are about to launch a third big offensive in the Voronezh area about midway between Stalingrad and Moscow.
Japs Harried at Buna
NEW GUINEA— Gen. MacArth-ur’s troops drove through to the coast below Gona mission, separating Japanese defending this point from those holding Buna, heavily defended supply base. Heavy bombers and fast attack bombers supported allied ground forces by bombing and strafing Japanese defenses.
Zeros Become Zeros
GUADALCANAL — American ground and air forces destroyed a considerable amount of Jap guns and ammunition west of Henderson field and blasted a cargo ship apparently bound for Guadalcanal with supplies. Three Zero planes were shot down.
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geies is .the onlv «t\ in the i doubleheader, so both schools will be tates that has two NROTC flushed with victory, unless all the Saturday marks the first dope sheets are to go for naught,”
Alumnus Reveals Navy Experiences
Lieutenant Elliot Steinman, of the class of ’37 and former Daily Trojan sports reporter a,nd El Rodeo staff member, visited the campus last week, to see the SC-Notre Dame game while on furlough from active duty in the Solomons.
Lt. Steinman was on duty at Pearl Harbor on December 7 and
Boston Grove Called Safe'
Before Disaster
BOSTON, Nov. 30— (TIP) — A fire department inspection only eight days before the Cocoanut Grove holocaust revealed “no inflammable decorations” in the night club, an inquest was told .today as the death toll reached 482, including Charles (Buck) Jones, cowboy movie star.
Lt. Frank J. Linney, a member of the Boston Fire department’s prevention division, testilied that he found “safety conditions in the swanky night spot “good” with a sufficient number” of exits and fire extinguishers.
Bartender John W. Biadley, who was on duty in the Melody lounge where the fire started, wept continually as he .testified in a tremulous voice. His face and ears were heavily bandaged. ,
LIGHT PULLED OUT
“I was behind the bar when suddenly somebody pulled out a light,” Bradley testified. “I told Stanley (Stanley T. Thomaszewski, the bus boy who admittedly started the fire accidentally) to go over to the corner and make the customer put on the light.”
While Bradley thought .the customer had merely switched off the light, actually one of the bulbs had been loosened. It was while Thomaszewski was trying to screw back the bulb that he lighted the match which ignited a palm and caused the disaster.
SOMEBODY SCREAMED
“I went back to my work,” Brad* ley continued. “All of a sudden, somebody screamed ‘fire!’ I jumped out from behind the tar. One of the palm trees was burning. Then a flash came. I tried to throw water on it. But the whole ceiling was ablaze. I hollered to everybody to take it easy.”
The busboy, Thomaszewski, told the board substantially the same story that he had related to police
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'Can. You Spare a Seegarette?'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—(U.R) —Curious Arabs eager to smoke American “seegarettes” watched the landing of allied troops on the beaches of north Africa in complete disregard of flying lead and shrapnel, according to some of the 115 officers and men who were wounded and now are undergoing treatment at Walter Reed hospital.
Their stories were made public by the war department which interviewed a few of the men less seriously wounded in the opening phase of the united nations’ second front offensive.
Without exception, those interviewed were impressed by the “kindness” of French troops who —as one of the men put it—“opened their hearts to American soldiers after fighting like tigers.”
ASSC Postwar Group Meets
Members of the postwar commit-.tee of the ASSC war council will peer into the future Wednesday evening when the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity opens its hcuse for a meeting in which the group will discuss “Our Part in Winning the Peace.” The session will begin at 7 p.m.
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Dr. Francis M. Bacon. Counselor of Men, and Helen Hall Moreland, Dean of Women, endorsed the session. Robert Rockwell, president of Pi Kappa Alpha, yesterday announced that his fraternity had consented to act as host to the group.
More than 30 students and members of the faculty have been invited to attend the evenixig discussion.
Among SC professors who will take part in ,the meeting are Dr. Thomas W. Wallbank. Dr. Wilbur L. Hindman, Dr. Eugene Harley, Dr. Alan Nichols, Dr. Bacon, and Dr. Leon Ellis.
Nation Moans Gasless Days as OPA Acts
Western States Better Off Than Eastern Seaboard
Gasoline rationing, already in effect in 17 eastern states, was extended to the entire nation at midnight last night in the most drastic step yet taken to conserve the country’s scant supply of rubber.
President Roosevelt last week ordered the nation-wide program carried out on schedule in the face of violent opposition by congressional and sectional groups who contended tires could be conserved without extending gasoline rationing.
Western and midwestem motorists will have an advantage over easterners in that they will receive more gasoline per coupon. WESTERNERS LUCKY In the newly rationed area motorists are permitted a basic “A” allowance of 16 gallons a month; in the 17 eastern states, the basic ration is 12 gallons. Otherwise, the regulations are identical for all parts of the* country.
Supplemental rations are issued in the form of ‘‘B” and “C” books to applicants who can show that the extra gasoline will be used for essential driving. “B” books contain a limited number of coupons for necessary occupational mileage and generally require an applicant to belong to a car pool.
The “C” book is for the preferred mileage group engaged in specified jobs important to the war effort, the books can be tailored to suit individual needs.
SMOOTH OPERATION Office of price administration officials expect little difficulty in establishing the rationing program on a nation-wide scale. Although rationing in the east was dictated by the fuel shortage, it also proved to be a “trial run” for the expanded plan, OPA pointed out.
Probably the most important lesson learned was the matter of enforcement, it was said. Loopholes have been plugged so effectively that a “black market” in gasoMne is now a “major criminal offense” instead of “a casual violation of
OPA rules.”
Rubber Director William M. Jeffers has assured all motorists of sufficient supplies of gasoline for their essential driving needs.
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Army Takes Over College
BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. 30-0)— Vice-president Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch of the University of California today announced the university’s colege of agriculture at Davis, Cal., had been taken over by the U. S. army signal corps for duration of the war.
Students will complete current classes at Davis after which the signal corps will take over the school as a training center. e search and experimental laboratories and fields will be maintained by the university during the arm., s tenure.
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Greek Houses Play Santa
“SC’s Greeks will hold their an- sued by Gates are as follows:
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has been aboard many ships, one of nuai Christmas party for underpriv- 1. Each sorority and fraternity house members can furnish or pro which, a mine sweeper, was sunk, iieged children on Dcc. 17, said shoudl notify the chairman imme- j cure.
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