11 CELEBRITIES TO ILEADISOND PARADE
Smashing into Bovard auditorium like the Trojan team ing through Washington, 11 outstanding stars of stage, :reen and radio, including the famous King sisters, Jane wrence of “Oklahoma” fame, Judy Clark, the Cotton sis-rs, and the Camp Anza army air force band, will serenade roy tonight for Blue Key in the interest of War bonds and amps.
Filling a two hour program. Blue Key has arranged for C to see and hear a backfield in action formed by the King sters who recently opened a new series of broadcasts over BC. They will be aided by the dancing Cotton sisters and udy Clark who recently completed an appearance in “Meet e People.”
The line for the all-star production will consist of Patricia lynn, Universal pictures’ singing sensation and Mary Kay nes, who will interview Dick Loy, SC navy trainee who has en action in both the battles of Guadalcanal and Tulagi.
Reading the minds of students in the audience, a mystery agician act will appear on the program.
Admission to the show will be by the purchase of a 25 cent efense stamp at the Tommy Trojan Victory Hut, according Jack Collis, in charge of stamp sales for the organization, ickets will be given at the time of purchase. Other tickets rill be available tonight before the show at ticket windows and 4 in front of Bovard.
The Camp Anza army air force band under the direction f Chief Warrant Officer Edwin Fuller will play for the show, ncluded in the band are members of the pre-draft aggregations of Harry James, Skinnay Ennis, Kay Kyser, and Jimmy ^orsey.
Jack Geerlings will emcee the show for Blue Key. Geer-:ngs has been instrumental in securing the entertainment, ccording to Chuck MacKenzie. publicity chairman, and de-
THESE ARE the four glamorous King Sisters, formerly of Alvino Ray's band who will be presented tonight at the Blue Key bond rally.
serves much thanks from the student body.
The doors to Bovard will be opened at 7:30 p.m. according to Bob Daigh, Blue Key president and general chairman of the drive which is being conducted as part of the regular weekly bond sales promotion under the War Board.
Those on the committee planning the Blue Key function are Jack Risk, property chairman; MacKenzie, publicity; Daryl Arnold, SC yell leader, entertainment; and Collis, in charge of sales.
In the week’s drive which pledged a minimum of $5000 in bond and stamp sales, Blue Key has already gone well over its quota, according to Daigh. An announcement of complete sales will be made at tonight’s rally.
Much of the credit for the appearance of the King sisters is due, according to MacKenzie, to Bill Driggs, SC trainee, brother of the quartet. Other portions of the entertainment were secured with the cooperation of the treasury department, the Hollywood for Victory committee, and the various studios.
Bond sales today and for the future may still be credited to the SC bond drive, Joy Cameron, chairman of bonds and stamps, emphasized. Bonds may be purchased any day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Victory Hut or at any bank. Credit slips giving SC claim for the sale should be requested when buying bonds at locations other than the Victory Hut, she said. Parents and friends of the university who plan to buy bonds are asked to credit them to SC.
This is the only concentrated War Bond promotion this term, Miss Cameron said, and everyone is urged to support it. The next country-wide drive will occur in late November with the sixth War Loan drive, she said.
Hies push azis back nto Metz
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, jondon, Friday, Sept. 8 (U.P.) Allied armies, in a great rive for Germany all along a 70-mile front, swept Thurs-ay to within 15 miles of Liege ;t the gateway to the Rhine alley, captured Sedan and tormed beyond the Moselle rom four firm bridgeheads,
iirtuallv encircling Metz.
The Germans were reported in eadlong retreat to the main forts f the Siegfried line in the Sedan-•iege sector before Lt. Gen. Court -
The Road to Berlin
311 mile* from the eastern rout (measures from Poplany,
Poland'.
3!W miles from the western :»nt (measured from Breda, the !Netherlajids).
miles from the southern rench front (measured from Ab-ia).
55K miles from the Italian front (measured from point south of imini).
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y Hodges’ first army tanks which ad advanced between 30 and 40 liles in 36 hours. Resistance was tiff^r at many points along the loselle, including Metz itself.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. XXXV
Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 8, 1944
Night phone: RI. 5472
No. 161
Sophomores elect royalty next week
Bishop receives Queen petitions close
doctor s degree at noon, says Garrel
at SC assembly
rof describes oldrush days
“There were no jails in California 1849. Who wanted to keep a 'ail?” This was the attittude which xisted in California in that wild nd wooly era of the goldrush. ac-ing to Dr. Owen C. Coy, pro-■essor of history, in an address ,fore the Men’s Faculty club ednesday.
The strong men of the mining amps made the laws for the mining districts, but nobody wanted keep a jail.
Gold was discovered by an Amer-can carpenter named Marshall inine days before the treaty was jgned in Mexico ending the Ameri-n-Mexican war. At that time .re were approximately 13.000 arsons in California. 7000 of whom *re Spanish-speaking. By the
*	California became a state on pt. 9, 1850, there were more than *00,000.
The honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred cn Dr. Francis J. McConnell, senior bishop of the Methodist church, by President Rufus B. von KleinSmid. yesterday at the all-university assembly.
Dr. McConnell, well known throughout the United States, is a prominent figure in a number of national organizations and committees. He is chairman of the city affairs committee of New York city, a trustee of the Chatauqua institution, and president of the American Association for Social Securitjr. He is also a former president of the DePauw university and a onetime special lecturer at Yale and Harvard universities. The bishop was the former president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.
In his address to the students Dr. McConnell stated that understanding between the peoples of the various nations must be built. He stressed the fact that only through an understanding between the peoples of the different countries can a permanent peace be created.
Dr. McConnell spoke in an easy conversational manner which was well liked by the students. He is well known as an interesting speaker on subjects of universal interest.
Phi Sigma holds biophysics lecture
A lecture by Dr. Frederick J. Crescittelli of the SC School of Medicine, department of aviation medicine, will be presented tonight at 7:30 p.m. in 145 Hancock foundation by Phi Sigma, the national honorary biological society.
Dr. Crescittelli has chosen as his subject “Biophysics in Relation to Modern Biology.” Invitations are extended to all students and faculty on campus.
Today is the last chance for sophomore petitioners to present their nominations for queen, according to George Garrel, . class president, and selection of the royalty will take place • at the council meeting Tuesday. A contest with the freshman queen for the honor of holding scepter over the all-U dance Oct. 7 will follow.	■'■■■ ' ■■ -
Last minute petitions containing	i . i
the name, address, phone number. ’ Qxi ^ c /iOV// and qualifications of the contestant j	L J UtVtl
will be accepted until noon in the ; .
ASSC office, second floor, Student Union.
The sophomore council asks that the candidates for queen be present at the meeting Tusday at 12:30 p.m. in 318 Student Union, for the deliberation of the judges.
The girls are requested to wear typical summer campus clothes, cotton dresses, and heels. The results of the election will not be released until a later date.
The freshman queen, who will vie with the sophomore candidate for the honor of reigning at the all-U dance, will be selected tomorrow at the meeting of the freshman class council, according to Ed Barthold,
SAE and freshman class president.
Freshman applicants must be turned into Jean Working’s office by noon today.
reuses mercury to high of 103
That Satan and his motley crew with their horns, long tails, and long red underwear had made an invasion of Los Angeles was the impression received by many a perspiring and weary student on SC campus yesterday.
Satan may not have been in Los Angeles but if he wasn’t, it must have been his kid brother sitting under the mercury at the weather bureau impishly shoving it up higher and higher.
Oh, the weather? Why, it was 103 at 2 p.m. yesterday.
Haan tells postwar Pacific area plans
In an informal meeting at the Asiatic Center Wednesday Mr. Kilso Haan, Washington representative of the Sino-Korean Peoples’ league and personal representative of the Korean provincial government, spoke on the subject of ’‘Postwar Pacific.”
In discussing the superiority of j their efforts to establish a bettei
the Japanese race. Mr. Haan showed P°sition in world affairs’	up
the idea to such an extent that
how this idea was originally developed by an American missionary who was traveling through Japan many years ago. Haan told of ! the many things which Americans
had done to further this feeling of racial superiority. The Japanesl, seeing that this idea would further
they used this as one of their basic doctrines to lead their people.
Mr. Haan mentioned the great part which China and India should be allowed to play in the developing of the peace conferences. He (Continued on Page Four)
Yanks gain in drive to trap Nazis in France
ROME, Sept. 7 d’.R)—Gaining up to 25 miles in a day in their drive to trap all German forces left in southern and southwest France, Allied 7th army troops were less than 55 miles from a junction with the American 3rd army in north France today and cutting their way steadily into the Belfort gap of
Romania has declared war on Hungary, the American broadcasting station in England announced tonight in a broadcast recorded by the United Press in New York. Hungary previously had said hostilities were under way against Romania in order to defend Transylvania.
eastern France north of the Swiss
frontier.
At their present rate of advance, the Americans were only about 48 hours away from the German frontier where it reaches France and Switzerland southeast of Mulhouse. The Germans said one American spearhead was within 59 miles of the border at that point.
Crediting the Americans and French with a general advance of 20 to 25 miles since Wednesday’s communique, an ^ficial announcement here said the 7th army was advancing “without contact with the real guns of the harassed German 19th army.” The French were said to have advanced at least 75 miles since meeting their last resistance at Lyon.
Lieut. Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s Americans, meeting little resistance from the Germans and getting help from French forces of the interior in their drive toward the Belfort Gap, were slashing along parallel to the Swiss frontier. They already had sealed off more than half of the Franco - Swiss border, over which German troops might seek the safety of neutral territory.
SC activity
book sales set to open
When the Rose Bowl winning Trojan football team joes into action against UCLA Saturday, Sept. 23, every student on campus will have an opportunity to see the game from the SC rooting section, for the student activity book which goes on sale Monday not only admits students td this game but to the six other home games as well.
The student activity book, entitling Trojans to admittance to the games, will be available for $6 at the cashier’s booth in the Student Union beginning Monday.
Offering admission to all campus athletic activities in addition to football games, the book contains tickets for basketball, track, and baseball competition.
The combined total of tickets for the gridiron tussels, if bought separately, would amount to $20. according to Arnold Eddy, graduate manager of the Associate Student!.
Students who purchase the activity books are also eligible for a priority classification when buying additional tickets. Such a classification enables the student to secure preferred tickets for friends or parents.
Interfaith dig, hayride on tap
Weiners, a hayride. and a bam dance are the items which the Westminster club is planning to feature at their get-acquainted party Saturday, Sept. 16. for all students.
“Ever been on a hayride? Well, come all you Trojans and Trojanes, get some hayseed in your hair. You’ll have a lot of fun,” said Lois Henshaw, social chairman of the affair.
All those planning to attend must sign up at the cashier’# window In the Univers’ty Bookstore by Wednesday.
The hayride will start at the El Rancho Martos stables. 5781 Cen-tinella street, at 8 p.m. Everyone who is coming must be there by 7:30 p.m. The charge is one 1$ per person.
Students planning to attend are urged to get their dates now. Though the party is for all SC students. special emphasis is being placed on invitations to members of all tbe interfaith groups on campus.