SC Battles Huskies in Conference
by Lee Schulman
With just a little more than 4 hours to game time, the SC avalcade rolls into Seattle at oon today to set up training iuarters for the initial convener clash of the ’42 season. All in all there will be 33 ghting Trojans who will ^r-Ive at Washington’s stadium is afternoon to hold a light .actice session before retir-g to the Olympic hotel for night.
When the team arrived in n Francisco yesterday, they orked out in Kezar stadium 10 in the morning.
As the gun goes off tomor-
row afternoon, the men of Troy will be facing their first conference opponents, and potentially one of their most important rivals. If SC can come through with a win over the Huskies the chances of a Rose Bowl invitation once again becomes a reality.
With this in mind, and with last week’s defeat by Tulane’s Green Wave still ringing in their ears, the Trojan varsity will dig in at 2:30 tomorrow in an effort to rejoin the ranks of the grid iron’s top rated elevens. Although they are the underdogs in the tilt,
every man on the team and coaching staff* is ready to prove the experts wrong again by coming back into their own on the strength of wide open, razzle-dazzle football.
Washington’s team is ready for this proihised barrage, however, as was indicated last weekend when the Husky players trounced the College of the Pacific 27-0. There may be many reasons for Washington’s seemingly mighty strength, but the fact that they have had only one •serious loss, that being all-American guard Ray Frankowski, is an important
factor.
Besides that, the Husky team has retained many potential threats to their foes’ goal lines; especially with men like Walt Harrison, who is considered the best center on the coast, returning is the line up, and also Bob Errick-son, lightning back, who threw the first touchdown pass against the SC varsity last fall.
The Trojan band has suffered to a great extent by the loss of various SC gridders. Among them was Bobby Robertson, chief back field threat and leading ground gainer of (Continued on Page Three)
Opener Teacher-Student Duo
Geared for Combat as French Joins Eaker
Flying General Calls Former Instructor, to England; Fourth Floor Wit Becomes Major in Bomber Command
Agitation for a second front subsided with a relieved sigh yesterday when it was announced that Prof. Roy L. French, director of the SC School of Journalism will leave for London Sunday with a major’s commission in the army air forces and a probable assignment to the staff of Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker,-commander of the eighth bomber command
in England.
GENERAL EAKER . Now he's instructor
Military Expert
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
AILY
TROJAN
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Oct. 2, 1942
No. 11
resident Roosevelt ecretly Tours Coast
rst All-U Dig t (or Monday
Dance Theme Based on War Economy
7ASHINGTON, Oct. 1.— (UP)—President Roosevelt reed from an 8754-mile transcontinental war inspection trip y, convinced after visiting 24 states that congress and government in Washington are trailing far behind the
1 people in war spirit.
The two - week, coast-to-coast | I journey also convinced Roosevelt j that the war production piogram is going, on the whole, extremely well, allowing for what he described as a normal percentage of lag in a program purposely made a bit higher than human ingenuity could carry out.
WAR PLANTS VISITED
His trip was made under conditions of extreme wartime secrecy with no public announcement per-j mitted until his return to the white | house. Leaving Washington the night of Sept. 17. he visited nine of the nation's biggest war plants. 529 shipyards. 7 naval stations, 8 army camps and two marine training centers.
The trip took him first to Detroit, -then out to the northwest, down the Pacific coast and into the southwest, and back to Washington through the deep south. He talked to factory workers and production experts, admirals and wounded marines, farmers and industrialists,
though war priorities have jd out decorations, the first all-’ersity dig will swing out in full nevt Monday evening in the cal Education building. Enter-ent will be carried out along general theme of war economy. 5 Is a grand chance for ev-e to get acquainted, especially Teshmen. as well as to have a of lun.” declared Charlotte n, ASSC vice-president.
fith the prospect of gas ration-ear at hand we should learn we can have just as much fun ampus as driving off some-e. These digs can do a lot to students interested in campus s a.*; well as give upperclas-an opportunity to meet fresh -and lowerclassmen,” she said.
;re will be no lack of music, ack Manson and his 10-piece ;stra wil be on hand to play pular dance tunes. The Tro-raduate will do the vocals as as load the band.
Double Assembly Planned Tuesday
Experts to Clarify Officers to Tell Women s Duties Reserve Program
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT . . . makes secret tour
SDX Fetes New Students
Jacin? will be from 7:33 to 9:30 !
Th< evening will be informal j dents may come in couples or '
Admission price will be only a an rom nt fctivity book or a nominal
se.
“Roosevelt’s in southern California!”
To their friends, many SC students have insisted this was a fact during the past week. They had been told so by fathers, brothers, friends who had •'actually seen him."
Scoffing skepticism was the general response. “Just a rumor” was the verdict.
But the story broke, and at last the credulous can indulge in I-told-you-so’s.
en Amend and Juanita Sayer, ~rs of Miss Quinn's social itte;, are helping to plan the
Fagerburg to Speak eligion Luncheon
Prink B. Fagerburg. who is ster of the First Baptist church s Angeles, will be the guest ker at the School of Religion heon Monday.
luncheon will be held in bett*. von KleinSmid hall at . Reservations or cancellations be in by today noon.
■tion of new officers will take during the meeting.
esidenfs ce Notice
• use of the meeting of the jt Army-Navy- Marine Corps Guard College Procurement Jittee on the campus on 7, all classes In all divi-of the University between a.m. and 12:00 will be^dis-
1 men students, enlisted or ise, are required to at-the assembly in Bovard at h time the conditions that enlistment in the reserve will be presented by ntatlves of the armed ser-
women students are re-t© attend the assemblies women in the Law auditor-»i announced by the Dean
. Rufus B. von KleinSmid
this extensive cross-section of the people he got the deeply founded impression that they are far ahead of most of their leaders in war spirit.
RESULTS PLEASE
Roosevelt also returned believing firmly that the nation is ready and willing to make sacrifices greater than ever dreamed of in Washington.
So pleased was lie with the results of his own on-the-scene reporting of the war eftort that he hoped he would be able to make another inspection trip next spring, touring the central part of the country and seeing such things as operations of the Tennessee Valley authority,
OUTLINES IMPRESSIONS
The chief executive outlined his impressions to this correspondent and the two other press association reporters who accompanied him. He j talked with them informally aboard his train shortly before arriving here, and at a white house press conference, late today described his
Men students of journalism will be guests tonight of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity, at the group's annual “Welcome. Kids” dinner.
Marshall “Mike” Kizziah has announced the place as Scully's cafe, 4801 Crenshaw boulevard, and the time as 7 p m.
Irwin Bourders. Colombia Broadcasting System official, will tell the diners about journalistic work for the rfidio, and motion pictures of last year’s SC-Notre Dame game will be shown.
Kizziah emphasized the fact that the dinner is designed especially for beginning journalism students, but anyone interested may attend.
“Officers of our group will tell the beginning student the advantages flowing from membership in Sigma Delta Chi.”
Kizziah. who although but a senior nevertheless holds a position with CBS as a night news editor, will preside over the dinner and give a short account of his career, in radio.
Students may bring friends, those feminine excepted. Guests will be charged only $1.25 a plate. Those without cars may reach the restau- j rant on the 5—6 streetcars, which pass by it, on the Crenshaw bus, or on the 9 streetcar. Please attend.
With the theme “Woman’s ! Place in a World at War,” university women will meet in two compulsory war vocation i assemblies Tuesday in Porter hall of the Law building to hear speeches and enter into discussions concerning war- , time work for women.
From 10 to 11 a.m. upper division women will hear talks by i three faculty members. Mrs. Louise Denny, instructor in journalism in University college, will discuss opportunities in commercial fields, i Dean Robert E. Vivian of the College of Engineering will discuss work in the world of science; and Christine Larsen, director of the school of nursing, will cover war work in the social sciences.
Following the upper division assembly, freshman and sophomore women will meet in Porter hall to hear Dr. Frank C. Baxter, head of the English department, discuss “The Necessity of a General Liberal Arts Education Even in Wartime.” Mildred Foreman, director of UCLA's vocational • guidance bureau, will talk on “War Jobs for Women.”
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Classes from 10 a.m. until noon on Tuesday have been cancelled in order that all Trojan women may attend these assemblies and the group conferences also scheduled i for Tuesday morning. From 10 to 11 a m., lower division women will report to vocational advisers in various rooms in the Law school and ln Bridge hall; from 11 to 12 a.m., junior and senior women will attend these informal conferences while lower division women are at their assembly.
Room locations of each vocational adviser will be announced as soon as arrangements have been completed by Vivian Clarke and Carol Brinkerhoff, student chairmen. Attendance at both speeches and conferences is compulsory.
Army, navy, and marine corps representatives will present their respective reserve programs at a compulsory men’s assembly called by Dr. Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, for 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Officefs from the army,
army air forces, navy, naval air corps, and marine corps will each be allotted 15 minutes for explanation of their branch's programs. A general discussion of 45 minutes will follow ,the explanations. The naval representative will also outline the coast guard program for reserve enlistments.
CLASSES DISMISSED
All classes from 9:50 a.m. until noon in every division of the university will be dismissed, and all men. whether already in a reserve program or not, must attend.
Officers will be available for special individual conferences Tuesday afternoon and all day Wednesday in the Student Union, rooms 320 to 326.
Enlistments will not be taken by the board but may be made at regular downtown recruiting offices. IMPORTANT ASSEMBLY
This group is a presentation board only and will not take enlis:-ments. Contrary to general opinion, the board will not return in December nor at any other time.
This assembly is extremely important as this semester will probably be the last opportunity for men to enlist under any reserve program.
At the same time a special assembly for women will be held in Porter Hall, third floor of the School of Law building.
COACH ROY L. FRENCH—"Don't judge the army by me.
Allied Heros Arrive for Conferences
The brisk “coach” of Trojan journalism assured his followers that worry about world-domination by | the nazis can now end, “For it was just 24 days after I reached the front lines in the last war that the Germans threw up their arms and I surrendered.”
•WINSTON I AM HERE’
Some officials have expressed the opinion that the end may come even sooner after Professor French's arrival this time, for the German nemesis who was limited by the duties of a green buck private in 1918 now will serve in the headquarters of the American bomber command's combat intelligence service.
His appointment was made by Adj. Gen. J. A. Ulio at the request of General Eaker, who was a student in Professor French's journalism department. General Eaker graduated in 1934 while holding a captain's rank.
NO SENTIMENTALIST. HE Founder of the SC School of Journalism in 1928, French would probably be tempted to seek release from his new duties and return to pounding on the heads of his reporting students if he read here that he was the “much-loved director” of the school. The lean, wiry, fourth-floor wit much prefers his present titles of “Coach" and “Papa French.” or that of two years ago, “The Great Gray Father.”
He left an active career of news-papering to take up pedagogy and become “the man nobody wants.” “Professors call me a newspaperman and newspapermen call me a professor.” he complains.
HE COVERS THE COURTS In addition to his self-imposed climb up four flights of Student Union stairs every day. “The Coach's” physical fitness program includes frequent zealous endeavors at tennis, a game over which he is rabid.
This form of “sun worship.** as he calls it, has led banquet toastmasters to introduce him as “a womout tennis bum from the eastern circuits who has found a soft spot in an SC director’* chair.”
Four United Nations’ heroes on leave from active service JPINS "heels to tour leading colleges and universities of this country will Prnf^/^Xhng ^ arrive in Los Angeles from Washington, D. C. for a series of conferences beginning Oct. 9.
Participating in the conferences will be Sr. Lt. Liudmila
Pavichenko, decorated by the Rus- J
cidental college. He is assisted by Charlotte Quinn, SC; Charles Strickland, California Institute of Technology; John Dilley, Pomona college; and Robert Hine and Virginia Hogerboom, UCLA.
soft spot has served as a national president of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, has founded the American Institute of Journalists, and has reaped “countless other honors too numerous to mention.* Also, with the help of a small inheritance. he has purchased a halfinterest in his “pension,” the Chal-fant Press, which publishes the (Continued on Page Two)
Freshman Club Meets
The Freshman club will hold a luncheon meeting Monday at the YWCA house.
An interesting and varied program has been prepared for this first meeting, according to Jackie Ford, Freshman club chairman.
French Club Reelects Bob Alcorn President
Members of Le Cercle Francais reelected Bob Alcorn president at a meeting yesterday.
Other officers elected were Elizabeth Sommers, vice-president, and Dacha Auerbach, secretary-treas-urer.
The group will hold a meeting on Oct. 8 at noon in the YWCA house. Students may bring their own lunches or buy sandwiches at the house. Milk and cokes will be on sale.
sian government for her exploits as president of the student body of Oc-a sniper; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer,;
Netherlands naval engineer who es- | caped to Australia from the East |
Indies after the Japanese attack;
Wing Commander Scott Malden of the RAF who took part in .the recent Dieppe raid; and Sub-Lieut.
Richard Miles, member of the royal navy volunteer reserve.
The conferences are sponsored by the International Student Service and the National Student Federation of America and are designed
for the promotion of international MOSCOW, Friday, Oct. 2—U.P.)—German assault forces friendship and the establishment of j iaunche(j six more attacks in the northwestern outskirts of goals for post-war activities or gtaiingrad and macie a slight advance in the final one, the college students.
American Tanks Bolster Stalingrad Citizen Army
soviet high command announced today as a citizens’ army,
o^ the" California'institute bolstered by American tanks, joined the crucial battle for
! the city.	[-—
The Russians recaptured another village south of Stalingrad, the midnight communique reported. J They killed 900 Germans and des- j .troyed 11 tanks in the northwestern sector, and 400 more Germans in the southern sector. They beat off the first five assaults in the north- j west without yielding any ground “and only in the sixth attack did j the Germans succeed in making a small advance,” the communique | said.
The Germans counter-attacked
The first session will be on the campus
of Technology on Oct. 9. Sessions at SC and UCLA will open on Oct. 12. and Occidental and Claremont colleges will commence their sessions on Oct. 13.
General chairman In charge of arrangements is James Greene,
Activity Points Given
Girls interested in working for activity hours should see Jean Hol-werda at the YWCA house from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on Fridays.
Parking Lot Men Report to Ted Gossard
Men who will work on the parking lot tomorrow must report to Ted Gosard behind Bridge hall Saturday at 11 a.m.
Pencil-Point Progress Probed by Pessimistic Reporter
by Ralph Hovis
trip for the W’ashington press corps.	Any of the 6000 students attend-
He said as a result of talking	ing classes at University park who
with many working people that he	victimize themselves in the middle
believed they were in wholehearted	of lecture courses or written exam-
accord with the program to stabilize	inations by breaking a lead pencil
1a ing costs, and furthermore, that	should retire immediately to Aeneas
they were jittery about the pros-	hall where one of the rare pencil
pects ol further increases in the	sharpeners on the campus is lo-
co.st of living. Thus he indicated	cated.
determination to see his stabiliza-; In a survey of four buildings:
tion program through.	Bovard administration building,
preparations on the west	Science hall. Old College building,
and elaborate precautions	and Bridge hall, which contain 81
against aaack that might come at	classrooms, besides accounting,
any moment deeply impressed the	chemistry, and biology laboratories,
presi ent. From Seattle to San	there were found traces of only two
Diego, he saw army camps and na-	pencil sharpeners. The handle • of
'? operating on a 24-hour	one sharpener rested on the top
alert. He saw canopies of barrage	shelf of a cupboard in a room in
Kq mr. protecting great citieo	the Administration building, and
War
coast
balloons
familiar landmarks camouflaged almost beyond recognition,t and he saw at first hand the nighily dim-out that reduces most of the big towns to cities of shadows.
] rooms explored and no pencil sharpeners found. The banking and finance laboratories were void of sharpeners. This may typify mod-en accounting in that figures approach such large proportions that any change necessitated would not warrant pencil marking or erasure. Therefore there would be no need of pencil sharpeners.
During the investigation at Old I College, three instructors asked the surveyor who he was looking for. four individuals approached the surveyor and said, “Pardon me, but do you have a pencil I could bor-how?” and two rooms which loc/ced like they were lecture halls were found to be boiler rooms.
Bovard administration
ed the use of pen and ink at the several windows.
The comptroller's office indicated that they would more than gladly offer any mechanical device desired in which you may repair broken pencils and also offered use of red. green, blue, or black ink. pens, and blatters for students’ use.
Eight large lecture room in Bovard building had blackboards. ■ chalk, pencils, bulletin boards, and desk drawers filled with blank paper, but the most important article was missing—a pencil sharpener.
Science hall with its innumerable corridors merely offered siphons, mammalian embryo containers, materia medica jars and dishes, black-! board pointeds. and bryophyte and building j pteridophyte slides, but no pencil
Every man must wear a rooter’s cap and white shirt. Clean T-shirt* will be acceptable. Anyone failing to abide by these rules will be dismissed. The following men are ex-
several times south of the city butI Pected report, finallv had to withdraw after losing1 vv. Martin, j. seminoff, b. Dewitt. m.
. ,	• _»	Harris, 8. .Jacobson. K. I .arson, fc. .Stuck,
almost tWO companies of infantry. meyer, ft. iiitfley. E. McGill, D. Perkins.
Northwest of Stalingrad (presum- J-	k.	l. Fester,
ably along the Don river) the Ger-1	■
In Science hall 22 rooms were mans tried to land tommy gun-
searched, but not one sharpener was ; ners, the communique said. Soviet j
anti-tank guns killed 100 of them and in the general fighting in that. sector, where a Russian army has | been wedging the German flank, five more German tanks, two artillery and three mortar batteries were destroyed.
the shavings dropped from a presumable second sharpener cluttered the comer of a laboratory in Science hall.
The trek to Old College netted 41
offered little consolation in the quest for pencil sharpeners. The registrar's office gave the most encouragement in this phase of the exploration when the clerks suggest-
sharpeners. In several laboratory class sessions students were using fountain pens, which may explain the non-importance of such devices as pencil sharpeners.
found. The survey was delayed in this building because the reporter entered ten rooms twice, and on three other occasions followed dark halls that led to more laboratories.
In need of sharpening his pencil to continue surveying other buildings, the reporter returned to Aeneas hall to perform the task, and the survey continued.
Bridge hall, the last building of penetration, contained ten small rooms with all equipment for study and writing except pencil sharpeners.
Offices of instructors, deans and other department heads were not included in the study, but it is presumed
of these quiet offices are located some of the most precious and potent wartime devices yet invented br man—pencil sharpeners.
Dr. Baxter to Open Poetry Lecture Series
Dr. Frank Baxter will conduct his first poetry reading recital Monday at 12:05 in the Art and Lecture room of Doheny Memorial library, witrf the works of Thomas Hardy, a in me OUV.V.J	^,1C. These poetry recitals have been
that behind the closed doors presented for several semesters and
have been received heartily by the students. Each week Dr. Baxter reads a few of the writings of different poets.
Sigma Delta Chi to Induct Four
Because of demonstrated ability and intention to mak« journalism their profession, four men will be inducted into Sigma Delta Chi today at noon In the editor’s office on the fourth floor of the Student Union.
They are Stanley Hanson, Joe McClain, and Melvin Durslag, seniors in the School of Journalism, and Milton Piuma, who was graduated from the school in June.
They will be inducted by present members of the fraternity; Mike Kizziah. Sam Roeca, Bion Abbott, and Gordon Wilson.