Inflationary Spiral
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Hit by House Action D AIL^
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U.P.)—A rebellious house tonight passed a bill granting President Roosevelt anti-inflatidnary powers but invited a presidential veto by writing in an administration-opposed amendment that would add all farm labor costs to the price of agricultural commodities.
The legislation empowers the president to stabilize prices, wages, and salaries—but not other cost-of-living factors—at Aug. 15 levels. But the farm labor amendment, forced through by the powerful farm bloc, would nullify many of the president’s powers because it
opens the way for many prices to
TROJAN
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42 Los Angel#*, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 24, 1942
No. 5
“How Utterly Calm”
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rise beyond limits of the present price control law.
Administration spokesmen said the amendment would boost the present farm price parity base by 12 per cent—to a total of 112 per cent.
Roosevelt thus would be prevented from fixing price ceilings below that range.
VETO EXPECTED This action was completely contrary to his Sept. 7 you-do-it-or-I-will ultimatum, and administration leaders promptly served notice that the amendment would compel him to voto the bill—otherwise satisfactory to the administration — and act by executive order to stabilize farm prices and wages at their present levels.
Administration adherents charged that the farm bloc was election conscious — that it had made out a strong case with the farmers even though Roosevelt nullifies their efforts with a veto.
PRESIDENT WARNS The president had warned against altering the parity price base and declared that if congress did not enact “adequate” legislation by Oct. 1, he would assume full responsibility to the people and accomplish his objectives by executive orders. The house blow came after sen-
(MARY OLIVER—Charming young lady, recently from the orient and battlefronts therein, finds life just a bit quiet in the good old U. S. C.
—One Step Ahead-
BISHOP STEVENS . . . what will his answer be?
Can We Keep Faith? Asks Local Bishop
Officially commencing Religious Emphasis Week. Bishop W. Bertrand Stevens of the Los Angeles ate leaders, striving to avert a sim- Diocese of Protestant Episcopalians ilar defeat, succeeded in postpon* will elaborate on the religious theme ing a showdown until tomorrow. of < can We Keep the Faith” at
FARM BLOC WINS	Monday's assembly called by Presi-
House approval of the farm bloc
Spade-Calling Dean Deals Facts Today
Dr. Raubenheimer Tells Military Reserve Plans
What chance have men students to complete their educations before receiving their calls to the colors? What value are the enlisted reserve programs now offered by the university?	...
Dr. A. S. Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts,
and Sciences, who has also been -— —-
appointed liaison agent of the en
ary Oliver Flees rom Jap Invasions
Life as a sophomore on this campus must seem uneventful Mary Oliver when she pauses to think of her escape from ina to the Philippines during the onslaught of the Japa-se, and then again when she was forced to leave Manila [CTTttia*; city ordered civilian evacuation.
Bom in Billings. Mont., Mi.ss Oliver was taken to Shanghai as an infant. Her parents are still in that Japanese-held city, where her father, Jay C. Oliver, is affiliated with the YMCA. She attended Chinese kindergarten, and the Shanghai-American school.
She came to the United States from Manila two years ago. and attended Claremont High school from which she graduated.
amendment — sponsored by Rep. Paul Brown, D.. Ga.—was by a roll call vote of 202 to 172 after the chamber previously approved it by a standing vote of 163 to 105.
The farm bloc ran rough-shod over all compromise proposals and made its victory complete by approving an amendment providing that a ‘‘fair and reasonable margin-’ must be allowed for processing of farm products before ceilings are fixed.
iommandos all Attack
U.S. MARINE RAIDERS. )MON ISLANDS. Sept. 8—(De-D—<u.p> — a commando-style by American land, sea, and fighters drove Japanese forces .the lower tip of Guadalcanal |nd toda\. destroyed quantities »nemy supplies and temporarily
(led a land attack against allied .allations in the central part of island.
LS. marine landing forces sur-|ed the Jtps so completely that fled in disorder, abandoning Jified positions and artillery to ry to the jungle. At least 50 en-soldiers were believed killed, leriran casualties were two dead six wounded.
[he raiden, under command of Merritt Edson, Cheter. Vt.,
[hed on at dawn to the enemy-jpied village of Tasimboko, from ch they drove the Japanese aft-brisk skirmish. After destroy-stores of lood. ammunition and Jipment, they withdrew at the of the day.
company of marines led by Maj. kd Nickerson, Spokane. Wash.. Countered tie first large Japa-party. With the aid of power-field glasses, officers saw a doz-Japanese cigging in along a ch. and a few minutes later the ericans wer? held up by point-nk artillery and sniper fire.
esideiit's ice Notice
Lt a fra tun of Religious Em-isis week, » special assembly |l be held on Monday at 9:50 On that day the following schedule will prevail:
* 00- *:50 «M- 1:45
- W:*0 Assembly ' 10:35 -11:25 111:30- 12:20
R- B. von KleinSmid President
13. 1S42.
gistrcir's ice Notice
ition will bf continued
the rest of the week on the floor of the south wing of Administration building to
those stadents who have jet completed their registra-procedure i« do so.
late registration fee of S3 raised to S5 on Monday.
State Awaiting Mexican Help
MEXICO CITY. Sept. 23.—<U.P)— The first Mexican workers to be sent to the United States to relieve a shortage of harvest hands, probably will be working in northern After i California sugar beet fields by Oct. attending summer session at SC a	Farm Security adminis-
she liked lt so much that she de- tration representative said tonight, cided to continue her education on	hundred workers are sched-
the Trojan campus.	uled leavc	Friday. Law-
Miss Oliver is majoring in Asiatic r*nce studies. She can speak Chinese
and is now learning to read and write that language.
Social activities are also of importance to her. as evidenced by her position as secretary of Phrateres, all-university social organization for women. She recently accepted the pin of Earl Corliss, presi-
Hewes, PSA director in charge of recruiting workers iiere. said they would prtfoably be at work in the beet fields of the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys by the first of next month. Two other groups, of 500 each, will follow at five-day intervals.
Whether more workers than the original bloc of 1.500 would be sent
dent Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
This convocation “is one of a series of assemblies in interest of morale building and helping new students orientate themselves to campus life of higher education,” stated J. Randolph Sasnett, secretary of SC religious activities.
Expected to be present on the
listed reserve programs, will answer these questions confronting more than 3000 Trojan men at a special assembly today, 12:15 p.m.. in Bovard auditorium. The meeting w '1 last one-half hour and is part of the university's effort to keep its men informed on the latest development* pertinent to their status with the armed services.
Facts concerning the present physical fitness courses and information on how students may join the army, navy, or marine corps and still remain in school will be highlights of the dean’s talk. Following the discussion, a short period will be set aside for questions from the audience.
Dean Raubenheimer stressed that attendance at the assembly was of utmost importance to all men regardless as to whether they had signed up in a reserve program or not. He explained that this might be their last opportunity to receive personal attention- inasmuch as his
wisest decisions possible.
Advancing the university policy of informing its students of war service opportunities. Dean Raubenheimer has directed the publication of a handbocU containing facts on reserve enlistments compiled from latest bulletins issued by the government.
The assembly will be held during lunch hour. No changes in class schedules have been announced.
JIMMY TWEEDT , has eye for beauty
-Open Sesame--—
Yell Leader Pleads for Megaphones
To purchase toothpaste one must return an empty tube, to buy ? bottled coke a metal cap is necessary, and to gain present duties as liaison officer will admission to Saturday’s Tulane game, each student should require most of his time.	have a megaphone, for megs come under the heading “vital
Pointing out that students 18 and j material.”
...	______ j 19 years of age will eventually face
stage besides Bishop Stevens and	“ ....
1 the alternative of joining a reserve
program or of being called to active
duty, the dean explained that they
should avail themselves of all the
latest Jhfbrtnatien concerning these
programs in order to make the
President von KleinSmid are Helen Moreland, dean of women. Francis Bacon, counselor of men, Albert S. Raubenheimer. dean of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences; Robert J. Taylor, dean of the Graduate School of Religion, and Sasnett.
Last year's religious emphasis week, held during the second semester, was marked by daily aseemb-lies at which the Rev. Harold C. Case of Scranton. Pa., delivered inspirational talks.
Class schedule for Monday is as follows:
8:00— 8:50 8:55— 9:45 9:50—10:30 Assembly 10:35—11:25 11:30—12:20
dent of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity 10 Califo™ia this year is up to the
War Manpower board in Washington to determine. Hewes said. He said, in any event, that Mexican workers would be sent only to areas where sugar beets and long staple cotton are grown—California and Arizona—this year.
The first contingent of workers will cross the border at Ciudad Juarez. Sept. 27.
Indian Mob Fights Police Near Burma
BOMBAY. Sept. 23.—<U.P>—A mob of 1,000. armed with spears and homemade bombs, battled police at Ne .vabganj, near the Burma border, today. One person was reported killed and several others wounded.
Meanwhile, a small bomb exploded in the compartment of a Bombay suburban train, : causing little damage. Police arrested a youthful suspect In whose home they found chemicals which could be used for the manufacture of crude explosives. The youth said he was employed in an arsenal.
Get The Strap Called U.S. Job
BY UNITED PRESS
Bloodshed on the many war fronts is paying for scrap metal that remains unused in garages, attics and back yards, Robert L.
Smith, chairman of the State Salvage committee, told repres*. itatives of more than 100 southern California newspapers at a salvage drive meeting yesterday. . .	MOSCOW, Sept. 24—(Thursday)—(U.P.) — Voiga river
The big job now is to ‘get out warsj1ips are helping to blast the Germans back from Stal-the scrap,” Smith said.	inerad whose defenders have withstood 12 more tank and
Results of the salvage drive thus * . ’ assaults and are driving into the flanks of the main
far have been more encouraging in	assault force, northwest of the city, the Soviet high
southern California than in north- German as&du	,	(	______
command announced todaj.
Volga Warships Shell Stymied Nazi Forces
ern California, Joseph F. Mac-Caughtry of the War Production board told the newspapermen.
More than 65.000 pounds of grease have, been contributed by Los Angeles housewives as compared with contributions of only
7.000	pounds in San Francisco, he said, and in collection of metals, Los Angeles had contributed a record 35.000 tons as compared with
12.000	tons collected in San Francisco.
Small towns have made larger per capita collections than the cities, he said.
captured several more streets.
Two thousand more Nazi troops, a total of 6000 in four days, have “Fierce street fighting continues,”
been killed in the one sector north-
the first Russian communique of the autumn of 1942 read. The end
west of Stalingrad, the midnight	0'f"a”ther summer found thegreat
communique reported. Front dis-	Volga city the first main RoaJ of
patches a few hours earlier said	Hitler’s newest offensive, still elud-the Russians recaptured an import- hjs g^asp. ant road and a height in that area. Northwei)t of Stalingrad “our for-
An additional 2000 Germans were	ces continued acUye operatjong and
slain in another Stalingrad sector	made some headway/. the commu_
and two battalions - about 1000	nique sajd Thg main German £. men - were exterminated by ships estimated flt 450(XX) ^
of the Volga naval flotUla which	brQke intQ Stalingrad from that di_
has been in the thick of the battle	rectjon and this counter-offensive
for several days, the communique	at ^ rear and nank was
Senate Votes Petrillo Quiz
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — <lT.K>
—Tht Senate Interstate Commerce committee today voted a full-dress congressional investigation of James C. Petrillo's ban on recorded and transcribed music.
"Preliminary investigation has made abundantly clear the necessity for a complete investigation of all of Petrillo's activities and the activities of his American Federation of Musicians (AFL).” Sen. D.
Worth Clark, D., Ida., author of the inquiry resolution, declared.
He said the administration-en- * raised letter T in white, dorsed measure would be reported to Spirit and noise should reach the senate floor tomorrow and will % new high this year if enough be voted upon “^ithin the next few megaphones and cooperation can be days.” He will ask the audit and supplied by the student body, Lin-control committee for $5000 to fi- dersmith asserted.
nance the probe.	--:---
The committee's action was based on hearings held by a subcommittee ^QpfgrburV CluD headed by Clark.	j *	'
Among the witnesses were War kAcktlf C at Y\A/C* A Information Director Elmer Davis,	. •
Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal Communications commission who accused the labor leader of “dictatorship rule,” and Thurman Arnold, head of the justice department's anti-trust division.
“All these witnesses agreed that something has to be done.” Clark, said. . ‘
Aluminum for mouthpieces and brass fasteners is no longer available; the shortage threatens to silence the Trojan rooting section for the season. A limited number of the cardinal and gold horns have been rounded up by Yell King Russ Lindersmith and his assistants, but when those are gone there will be no more. It’s either come early or bring your own.
Lindersmith s appeal to the student body for the return of the megs has met with little success, but with the great number of them that have been carried away after each game, it is entirely possible that the section can be equipped with the gadgets by Saturday.
Card stunts and h^lf-time tricks will go on sts usual, providing that the student body is completely cooperative in conserving the metallio cards 'no more of them, either), Lindersmith reported.
Card stunts for the 1942 season will begin with a checkerboard which quickly flips into a gigantic ‘Hello Tulane.” As an added welcome a great green wave will wash over the entire section except for
II Duce, Fuhrer Ponder Balkans
Methodists Give Dance
Against a background of football decorations, Bishop Bertrand Stevens will welcome new and old members of the Episcopalian Canterbury club at a meeting tonight from 7 to 9 At the YWCA house.
Members will also greet the Rev. John A. Luther, who is the new club adviser.
“This first meeting will be in the form of a football
LONDON, Sept. 23 — —Advices from the continent tonight said Adolf Hitler and Benito Bus-solini would meet soon to map a campaign against unrest in the Balkans.
Meanwhile reports from Holland said occupation authorities were strengthening costal defenses and fighting a rising tide of sabotage.
Reports reached London that Hitler had called a Vienna conference with the Italian premier and Balkan leaders in an attempt to combat discontent in southeast Europe and exact more war support from his satellites.
A Dutch government spokesman said increased fear of an Allied invasion had caused the Germans to evacuate several costal towns in Holland, including Ijmuiden. He added that the second front was uppermost in the minds of the people and had inspired big scale anti-Nazi activity.
A dispatch in the Swiss Basler National Zeitung by a correspondent “knowing the situation intimately” said relations between the Germans and Dutch were deteriorating rapidly as the invasion possibility caused the Nazi commanders to shift large groups of troops from east Holland to the coast.
The correspondent said German sign posts were being torn down, tires qf German army cars punctured, trains carrying war materials to Germany derailed and set on fire, a munitions train biown up near Rotterdam, telephone wires cut, and bombs hurled at German
Engineers to Select. Queen
Trojan Dancers to Be Scanned for Contestants
Students in the College o»f Engineering are engineering something new. As sponsors of the 7th annual Football dance, to be held at the Huntington hotel in Pasadena Saturday evening, they have decided to select 10 women at the dance to compete in a beauty contest, one of the women later to be elected queen by engineeerinf students.
According to Jimmy Tweedt, president of the college, and Al Roberts, producer of the dance, a secret committee will choose the 10 semi-finalists. The winner will be announced in several weeks and will be presented with a plaque. PHOTOGRAPH TROJANS
Wampus photographers will be on hand to photograph Trojan and Tulane rooters as they dance to the music of Paul Martin and his orchestra.
Honored guests of the evening wUl be the football players of both teams, who will tell Trojans just what they thought of the game, and just why they thought that, said Roberts.
So that stay-at-homes wiU be able to Join in the fun. they will be able to hear the opinions of the players broadcast over station KP-AS at 9:30 p.m.
PLENTY OF FUN
•■We want Trojans to let down their hair, and we will give them all the fun they want,” Roberts promised.
Russ Lindersmith, yell king, will be there and is expected to. lead dancers in some cheers and ctunts.
Students need not worry about transportation to the dance because the hotel is in close proximity to the city and can also be reached by taking the Oak Knoll street car.
The Huntington hotel will be given over to the affair, and the refreshment bars and recreation facilities of the hostelry will be available to dancers.
INFORMAL EVENT
The»dance is strictly sport, and informality will prevail. Trojans will become acquainted with rooters from Tulane, and also will meet freshmen and new students.
Paul Martin's orchestra is noted for its sweet swing arrangements and will play requests from the dancers.
Tickets at $2 a couple will be available at the door Saturday night and can also be purchased at the cashier's cage in the Student Union bookstore, in the offic» of the dean of the College of Engineering. and from Roberts and Tweedt.
partv,” °fficers-
Sabotage.in production was said
to have assumed such proportions that the Germans were obliged to withdraw orders and close factories, in reprisal deporting thousands of Dutch workers to Germany for labor under close supervision.
Campbell Group Meets
said.
In the Stalingrad streets, where the defenders were reported to have
endangering its supply line.
cmr‘iuX'l‘7eiigLrorBanXb,o"	™nforcl!d ths!r SEndb"aR barricades	Commerce Group Dines
o7 Chrttt:at s~r'X 1U,li church	^o^hing'elM^h'at'cI^d'be renwved	Members of the Phi Chi Theta.
oi unrist at 3u will convene at . __.. ■ , . . .
W w	from the homes, the Germans lost	national commerce professional so-
Univemty Methodis.church across	42 tanks in 12 futile attacks the	rority. will attend the semi-annual
the street from O^d College, at noon	communique announced. It did not	preference dinner at the Bit of
today. unc eon is cents, stu-	concede the Germans any further	Sweden restaurant tonight at 6:30.
dents who brins their lunch are	gains. A communique 12 hours	Special guests will be rushees of
also urged to attend	eaj-lier had said thaJt the Germans	the soifority.
Jackie Ford, general chairman, an-
SC students who a'e members of	nounced yesterday,
the Methodist churca or are inter-	“A Trojan football player will be
ested in the activities yf the Wesley	on hand to give us the inside story
club are invited to attend.a semi-	of Saturday's game, and refresh-
formal dance at University Meth-	ments will be served,” she also
odist church, 817 West 34th street,	stated.
Friday evening.	Helen Hall Moreland, dean of
The dance is an* annual event	women, and Frances M. Bacon, House Manaaers Meet
and will begin at I p.m. * Women	counselor of men, will attend the *
are to wear formals. A flower will	meeting. Miss Ford announced that Fraternity house-managers will
be presented to every woman guest	an interesting program of meetings meet today at 4 p.m. in 418 Student
at the dance. There is to be no	has been planned, and that officers Union, announced Bob Fiske, presi-
admission fee, lt was announced.	will be elected in the near future. dent of the interfratemity counciL
French Warned to Leave Coast
LONDON, Sept. 23. - (I'P) _ The broadcast said.	by our navy in French territorial
British radio, in a broadcast .“These warnings all had the waters and attacks by the RAF on beamed to France, tonight urged same object, to prevent as far as military objectives in occupied inhabitants of coastal areas to evac- humanly possile useless shedding of France, uate, saying that “the offensive of the United Nations is being prepared.”
“During the last six months we have given a series of warnings and
French blood.
"In the course of our military operations lt was necessary, and today it is more necessary than ever, to envisage the possibility of recommendations to the French j landing* by British and Allied
people in the occupied zone,” the ! troops on French soil, of operations
“The offensive of the United Nations is being prepared. On the day which we can be assured of attaining our goal, which is fiothing less than total annihilation of Hitlerite Germany, this offensive will be launched.”
Railroad Goes on Scrap Heap for Salvage
NEW YORK, Sept. 23—<U.«V— An offer by Sam Rosoff, a subway contractor to tarn in a whole railroad—41 miles Ion* and containing 7000 tons of steel—to the national- salvage drive was topped today by plans of federal and municipal authorities in New York
to wrWk 5000 buildings and get
scrap.
. Both Rosoffs offer and the proposal of the New York authorities, spurred by Park Commissioner Robert Moses, grew out of the current country-wide scrap drive sponsored by the American Newspaper Publishers’ association.
Razing of the first buildinr In New York probably will start next week under the direction of W«r Materials, the new federal salvage corporation. Nine other buildings have been selected to go, including the 5,000>000 22-story Hudson Towers, long a Manhattan white elephant.
Rosoff, a Russian-bom immigrant who made a fortune building subways, will have to get permission of the ICC to scrap his railroad, the Delaware and Northern, which serves eight towns in Delaware county. New York, with two trains daily and one on Sunday.
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