SC ATTENDS WAR ASSEMBLIES TODAY
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILY
TROJAN
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Night Phone: RI. 5471
Los Angeles, Cal., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1942
No. 13
New Major Battle f^lce°rF^n
Brews in Solomons Support Test
Marines Maintain Stand Against Jap Landings on Key American-Held Island of Guadalcanal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5— (U.P.)—The Japanese, in a new urst of activity in the Solomons, have landed “small” rein-rcements on the key American-held island of Guadalcanal, t U.S marines are maintaining their hard-won positiors, e navy reported tonight in a communique which hinted
that another major battle was in the making.
It also reported that U.S. army, navy, and marine fliers had driven home new blows against outlying; Japanese “invasion" islands and had damaged one of four enemy des-troyers which covered night-time troop landings at Guadalcanal. PLA\ES DESTROYED American forces also have destroyed 10 more Jap planes.
This raised to at least 29 the number of Japanese ships sunk or damaged and to 219 the number of !
ar Heroes Visit Troy n U.S. Tour
harlotte Quinn; vice-presi-t of the Associated Stu-enis has been made one of e chairmen in charge of ar-ngements for a series of five ay conferences attended by ur united nations heroes be-Jnning Oct. 9.
Sponsored by the Interna-Onal Student Service and the ational Student Federation of merica. the meetings are designed promote international friendship jd to set up goals for post-war acuities among college students. Now leave from active war service to ur leading institutions of this untrv t.re participants. Senior Lt. udmila Pavichenko. recently dec-ated by the Russian government her participation as a sniper d; Lieutenant Johannes Wolt.jer, rmer Netherlands naval engineer o escaped to Australia after the panese attack on the Indies. Also ing part in the conference will Wing Commander Scott Malden \o took part in the recent Eng-Lieppe raid, and Sub-Liedten-Richard Miles, member of the ?yal Navy Volunteer Reserve, 'ssions will open on the Cali-ia Institute of Technology cam-on Oct. 9 to be followed by tings at the University of South-California and the Los Ange’es pus of the University of Cali-ia on Oct. 12. and Occidental Claremont colleges on Oct. 13. :al chairmen in charge of ar-gements from other schools are arles Strickland. California In-ute of Technology; John DiUey, :ona college, and Robert Hine Virginia Hogerman represent-UCLA.
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esident and Mrs. Rufus B. von inSmid will be hos.t and hostess members of the Town and Gown nlzation, whose initial meeting the year will be held at a brunch lay at 11 a.m. in the foyer. This eting will serve as a prologue for group's events of the coming ar.
Following the informal event, mbers of the executive board will t to discuss plans for the com-g season and to hear reports m the chairmen.
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD-. QUARTER’S, AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Oct. 6 — (U.P> — Australian troops pursuing; the Japanese across eastern New Guinea have recaptured Kagi, last village south of the jap In the Owen Stanley mountains, and allied bombers have smashed at airdromes and an enemy convoy In the heaviest attacks In recent weeks, it was announced today.
It’s up to the students now.’ advised Lael Lee, director of the car sharing plan, who revealed that the program would receive its first test of student support today.
He called on all interested students who live in Alhambra, Glendale, Pa^idena, South Pasadena and San Marino to report in the ASSC president’s office, Student Union 235, after 1 p.m. today, to learn the names and addresses of those living in their neighborhoods who would like to share expenses in transportation to and from the university. Information was compiled from cards filled out by more than 750 students during registration.
Lee pointed out that those desiring; to participate in the plan need not have filled out cards previously to be eligible. The program is open to the entire student body with the purpose of conserving gasoline and tires.
Students from other districts will be invited to solve their transportation difficulties later on this week, he indicated, as soon as those who report today hare been assisted.
Yanks Blast Kiska in Offensive Bid
Army Bombers Based in Andreanof Islands
Keep Japs Under Steady Fire with Daily Raids
WASHINGTON. Oct. 5— (U.P.)— Big army bombers, in a determined bid to drive the Japanese out of the western Aleutian islands, are subjecting the enemy to “qontinual fire” in almost daily raids on Kiska. the navy disclosed today.
Operating from their new base in the Andreanof islands scarcely an hour’s flying time from
enemy planes destroyed since the marines opened their offensive against the Solomons Aug. 7.
Signs of renewed Japanese attempts to recapture Guadalcanal were noted in the communique which said that clashes with enemy patrols “have been frequent.” It added, however, that “there has been no major change in positions.” LOSE SUBMARINE
(The communiue was the third issued by the navy during the day. The first recounted the loss of ,the new U.S. submarine Grunion somewhere in ,the Pacific and the second told about American bombers, operating from their new base in the Andreanof islands of the Aleutians. were subjecting the Japs to almost “continual fire” in daily raids on Kiska.)
Principal Japanese objtttive in the Solomons is the airfieiu in Guadalcanal-largest and most vital of the six islands occupied by the Americans. So long as the airfield is held, the enemy faces a great risk if it attempts to move a sea-going invasion fleet against Guadalcanal.
POSITIONS RAIDED
The communique, describing activity in the Solomons during the last week, said heavy Japanese bombers twice raided Guadalcanal but each time were driven off before their bombs could do any damage. These two forays cost the enemy eight fighter planes.
h, Squires: Roll Call
meeting of the Squires will be d at noon today in 206 Admin-atlon building. Roll will be taken.
resident's ce Notice
Because of the meeting of the «*nt A-my-Navy-Marine Corps
oast Guard College Procurement ommittie on the campus to-ay, al classes in all divi-na of the University between :50 a.m and 12:00 will be dis-laaed.
All men students, enlisted or bth*r»iv, are required to attend. the assembly in Bovard at Ltiich time the conditions that rorern eilistment in the reserve Programs will be presented by he present itives of the armed aer-rioea.
i The women students are re* ;seated t» attend the assemblies or women in the Law auditor-Iwd. am announced by the Dean if Women.
Dr. Bate B. roe KleinSmid
Reverend to Tell of Chinese Youth
The Rev. Archie Crouch, a Presbyterian missionary who has recently returned from China, will speak to members of the Westminister club at today’s meetings.
“The Rev. Mr. Crouch will discuss the problems of Christian youth in wartime China, a subject which is particularly interesting in the light of present events." said Kenneth McLennan, club adviser.
The meeting will be held at 3:15 p.m. in 418 Student Union. All Presbyterian students and their friends are invited to attend.
World Issues
to be Studied
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Institute Plans War Discussion
The announcement that the Institute of World Affairs w'ould hold its 20th session at the Riverside Mission inn, from Dec. 13 to 16, was made yesterday by President Rufus B. von KleinSmid. chancellor of the Los Angeles University of International Relations.
The intensive study on International conditions will be condensed to four days, and this year’s event will feature the general theme of “The World Crisis and Reconstruction,” round tables, and panel discussions.
“More than 100 academic diplomatic, and public officials will participate," stated Marc N. Goodnow, lecturer in journalism and executive secretary of ,the program.
Among the subjects of discussion will be axis plans against the Americas, the influence of the United States in the war, post-war problems of the Japanese and European situations, and newer concepts of peace.
“In a war-torn world, the institute plans to make a vital contribution to public thinking,” said President von KleinSmid. “Light will be thrown on many perplexing questions current in the public mind by experts whose documented analysis gathered from vital sources will make this session one of outstanding importance.”
| Kiska, the huge planes pounded the enemy base again Oct. 1 and 2— this time damaging two more Jap ships and shooting down five sea-j planes.
They also scored “many demoli-i tion and incendiary bomb hits on the Japanese camp area and the seaplane hangar.
The thrusts were revealed a few hours after the navy announced the loss of one of its newest submarines —the 1526-ton Grunion—in the Pacific. The Grunion apparently was lost in action apart from that in the Aleutians where the Americans are depending largely upon air power to blast the enemy.
The navy merely said the Orun-ion has been overdue “for some time and must be presumed lost.”
The raids on Kiska were the 10th and 11th in the last nine days—emphasizing the raid - a - day pace which the Americans have adopted in what appears to be an offensive to sweep the Japanese from the Aleutians.
The navy said “weather conditions have favored these operations and the enemy Tias been under continual fire.”
Work of Drugs In War Told
How important It is that the United States should have a supply of vital drugs and herbs to aid in the war effort will be discussed by Dr. Alvah G. Hall, acting dean of the College of Pharmacy, on Friday evening at 8 o'clock in 145 Hancock. The title of the lecture is “Herbs and Pharmaceuticals.”
When the U. S. went to war with Japan, it was cut off from a supply of such important products as camphor and menthol, the Japs having a monoply on these two drugs.
As a result, a widespread cultivation of the therapeutic Belladona, or “deadly night shade,” has taken place with bumper crops now being harvested here in California.
Dr. Hall will explain also how other synthetic products are being cultivated to take the place of drug supplies lost because of the war.
The general public is cordially invited to attend the lecture, third of a series presented under the auspices of the SC chapter of Phi Sigma. national honorary biological society.
Nazi Infantry Forced Back at Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Tuesday, Oct. 6—(U.P) —Defenders of Stalingrad beat off attacks by three German infantry divisions (45,000) and 100 tanks in the northwestern industrial suburbs Monday, killing 1000 enemy troops and destroying 14 of their tanks, the soviet high command announced today.
Several German artillery batteries and 85 trucks loaded with troops were blown to pieces by Russian artillery and mortars in the day’s fighting around the city. POSITIONS IMPROVED
The Russian offensive in the Kletskaya sector, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad, continued to make headway, .the midnight communique reported, and another 200 Germans and seven tanks were destroyed there while soviet positions were “improved.”
Nowhere in the terrific fighting around Stalingrad were the Germans conceded any gains today. A slight German advance in the northwestern suburbs had been reported in the soviets’ Monday noon communique, but front dispatches said the city’s defenders, responding to a warning that the fate of all western Russia might be in their hands, were resisting more fiercely than ever. Twelve assaults by a Nazi siege army estimated at 500.000 men were beaten back in one day (presumably Sunday) re ports from the front revealed. NAZI LOSSES GREAT
The midnight communique reported four more German assaults beaten back in the Mozdok area of the Caucacus, where Nazi losses were 600 men and 12 tanks. It said 230 Germans were killed near Bryansk, 220 miles southwest of Moscow.
Russian planes destroyed 10 German tanks and 50 troop-laden trucks on all fronts Sunday, it said, and it told of one German flier who landed behind the flus-sian lines and surrendered.
Activity Points Given
Women Interested in earning Amazon points should contact Eth-elyn Miller about working in the religious council office. If the office is closed sign the schedule posted on the door.
What a Man
Army, Navy, Marine Programs Clarified
All classes will adjourn from 9:50 until 12 this morning as men students gather in Bovard auditorium to hear officers in every branch of the armed forces explain their reserve enlistment programs. Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, liaison officer for the reserve programs, organized the assembly, the second called for men students this semester.
Representatives from the army, navy, marine corps, and air forces will each speak for 15 minutes to inform students on how they may enroll in their particular branch of the service and at the same time remain in school.
Following the discussions a 45 minute period will be set aside for questions from the audience, puring the afternoon and all day tomorrow the officers will hold individual student conferences in rooms reserved -1---
Women Find Place in War Vocations
Daring Announcer Describes Broadcasts From Bomber
for them on the third floor of the Student Union.
INFORM STUDENTS
Enlistments will not be taken at either the assembly or the conferences. Dean Raubenheimer explained that the purpose of both was to inform students of their war service opportunities rather than to recruit them.
Visiting colleges and universities in California under the name of officer procurement board, the representatives from the armed forces will convey to students the latest information furnished by the government on enlisting as future officers in the nation’s field and technical divisions in the military services.
ATTENDANCE IMPORTANT
Attendance at today's assembly is of the highest importance to all men students whether they have already enrolled for future war duty or not, the dean indicated. This semester might be the last in which men may Join any reserve program.
Realizing the important part it ' has to fulfill in training its men to help win the war, the university has initiated various accelerated study plans, permitting students to complete their educations in less than the standard four years.
This semester the psysical education department began teaching the strenuous physical fitness classes required of all able-bodied men under 25.
DEVELOPS ENDURANCE
Included in these courses are instruction in boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics, exercises to develop endurance in swimming and running, as well as guidance in team play stressing individual initiative and group cooperation. Purpose of the classes is to prepare men physically for war duties.
Establishment of a large number of defense courses offering training to students planning to work in vital Industries has also been an important contribution of the university to ,the war effort.
The compulsory nature of today’s women’s vocational assemblies was stressed by Miss Helen Hall Moreland, counselor of women, when she stated that, “All women must attend both assemblies and conferences to take full advantage of the unusual opportunities which are offered to them in the newly ——- organized vocational guidance program.”
To be sure that all women will cooperate with the vocational program. colored cards will be given to students at the close of their
10	o'clock sessions. These will be collected when they report to their
11	o’clock meetings. All classes have been cancelled for 10 and 11 tomorrow to facilitate the vocational guidance program.
Junior and senior women will meet in general assembly, at 10 in Porter hall. Their special conferences wilth their counselors will follow from 11 to 12. The vocational conferences will be held in the rooms mentioned above. Unless it is otherwise noted, the consultants will remain in specialized conferences from 10 to 12.
Scientific fields for women will be discussed in assembly by Dean Robert E. Vivian of the College of Engineering. Following the first speaker, Miss Christine A. Larsen, director
DEAN HELEN MORELAND . . . "do your part, girls."
Commerce Group Elects Officers
, Pi Omega Pi., national honorary commercial fraternity, elected Mrs. Velma Olson president at its first meeting cf the semester last Sunday. *
Other officers elected were Virginia Busher, vice-president; Mary Alice Wittenberg, secretary; Alma Appel, social secretary; Elsie Brown, treasurer; Esther Davis, historian; and Mrs. Olive Booth, publicity director.
The fraternity members presented their out-going president, Orien , Nichols, with the chapter’s guard j in the shape of a gold gavel.
In addition to the election annual reports of all out-going officers were given, and Bruce Blackstone presented colored pictures he had taken of this year’s pledges.
of the School of Nursing, will tell women students of the advantages to be gained in learning the work of a nurse. The many opportunities to be gained in the broad field of the social sciences will be explained ty Mrs. Elizabeth Payne, assistant professor of the graduate school of ^ccia! work. The fourth speaker is Mrs. Louise Denny who will discuss the vocational benefits of commerce for women.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ely is in charge of conference groups for upper division women, while Miss Helen Hall Moreland, counselor of women, has planned the sessions for lower cl ass women.
A special display of informative books to aid students in making decisions on their vocational problems will be on display tomorrow in the lobby of Doheny library, according to Miss Christian R. Dick, university librarian.
VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE ROOM8 These are all from 10 to 1) unless otherwise noted
SUBJECT	CONSULTANT
Art	Miss Natalie M. Bateson
Commerce	Dr. Earl G. Blackstone
Civil Servioe	Dr. John Priffner
Dentistry	Miss E. B. Woods
Education Dr. Fay Adams (10-11)
Dr. William Campbell (11-12) Engineering Dr. William Shallenberger Journalism Dr. Ivan Benson Languages Miss Edith Johnson (11-12) Law	Dr. Wendy Stewart (11-12)
Library Science Dr. Mary D. Carter
Religious Croup Elects Officers
At their first formal meeting of the season Sunday. Lamba Delta Sigma, religious fraternity for Latter-day Saint students on campus, elected new officers and made plans to divide the organization into two groups, one for men and the other for women.
The men who will govern their group this semester are James -B. Jacobson, president; Don Petty, vice-president; Hutch Eccles, secretary; and Mark Minor, treasurer. Shari Wilcox will head the women’s group.
Plans were also discussed concerning pledging and initiation.
“This is Jimmy Vandiveer speaking from the nose of a Boston bomber as we re about to go into
our dive.”
“This is Jimmy Vandiveer. broadcasting from inside a diving suit w-alking on the bottom of the ocean off Catalina.”
“This is Jimmy Vandiveer speaking to you from the back of an elephant.”
There's hardly a strange or novel broadcast that has been made that Jimmy Vandiveer. director of special events for radio stations KFI and KECA, hasn't taken part in.
The veteran radio announcer and commentator, a former student of SC. will describe his various adventures in making novel and unusual broadcasts tomorrow afternoon at 2 when he will lecture before the radio speech class and all other students who may wish to attend in 125 Old College.
Vandiveer returns to the campus every semester to speak to
the radio class.
“I think the most thrilling of my special-event broadcasts,” Vandiveer said yesterday, “was the time when we were describing the first flight of the famous B-19.
“The huge ship was coming in for a landing and the wheels hit the ground close to where we were broadcasting. Suddenly, the plane jumped 20 feet into the air after touching the ground, and I thought sure that the world’s largest bomber was about to crash before our eyes.”
Vandiveer was recently awarded three first prizes and a special citation in the demonstration divi-
Skiers to See Cinema of Sun Valley Winters
“Winter at Sun Valley” is the title of a motion picture to be shown Trojan skiers at the Ski club meeting to be held today at 3:15 in 206 Physical Education building.
sion of the Institute of Education by Radio at Ohio State university in recognition of his broadcasts.
In giving a radio description of his flight in the nose of a Boston bomber, Vandiveer, a parachute strapped to his body, was gasping for air as the plane went into a nose dive while he was broadcasting.	«
As the ship swooped low over the ground, he transferred controls to a portable transmitter below so that the listeners could hear the roar of the motors of the same plane from which he had been speaking.
While Vandiveer was making a series of broadcasts from the Los Angeles county fair last year, he gave the listeners the opportunity to hear a group of pigs eating their dinner. The sound of the hungry animals going after the food was so loud that he had to move the microphone back to keep his voice from being drowned out
'Do Your Bit/
SC Women Urged
An opportunity for SC women to “do their bit” to help entertain service men and at the same time Improve their dancing is offered by the Trojan Wesley club. The group has included as a part of its regular program a dance class and social for servicemen and their friends.
The club will meet each Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the social hall of the University church. Besides a class in the fundamentals of dancing, advanced instruction in dancing, advanced instruction in the tango, rhumba, and other special dances will be given.
Medicine	Dr. Bruce Harrison (3-4:30)
Music	Dr. Max T. Krone
Nursing	Dr. Bessie McClenahan
Pharmacy Miss Margaret Airston Physical Ed. Dr. Metheny Retailing	Miss Lucille Van de Steeg
Religion	Dr. Walter Muelder
Social Work Dr. Bessie McClenahan WAVES	Lt. Frances Shoup
Freshman	and sophomore women will report to their vocation^ meetings at 10. Then they will go immediately to the general assembly
in Porter hall,	Law building.
ROOM B 109
Harris Hall And.
Adm. 252
Science A Technic bid*. 335 W. Exposition bird. Law 300
Engineering MT B 2«9 B 215 B 305 B 312 Sc. 371 Music f B 203 B 108 B 214
Harris Hal Au4L Adm. 352 B 207
B 207
Musical Flier
Social Service Club Meets at Y
Red cross Instruction, as well as other war work, will highlight the activities this term of the Social Service club, which will hold its first meeting at 2:15 p.m. today at | the YWCA house.
Punch and cookies will be served at the meeting, and club activities for the term will be discussed. Y cabinet members will be present to discuss YWCA projects with new girls.
Trojan Ensign Relates Naval Air Corps Life
In just a few days he’ll be on active duty with the United States fleet, piloting his plane into the thick of the enemy fire, but young Ensign Robert Immel, son of Dr. Ray Kesslar Immel, director of the School of Speech, admitted yesterday afternoon that he was “plenty anxious to get into the fight.”
Immel spoke before Mrs. Tacie -------*
Hanna Rew’s radio speech class 1 ^ectures between 9:30 and 11; and yesterday, describing some of his afLer Junch report to the flying adventures since joining the naval fie|d for air training, air corps last October.	Besides our actual flying, the
He received his wings at Corpus most interesting phase of our train-Christi only a short time ago and was the lecture class where is now home on a 15-day furlough fIiers °n short leave from active before reporting for active duty. dutv gave ^ hand accounts A music major, Immel had com- | of eT1emy in action. Beside the pleted three and one-half years of naval fliers, officers who had fought study at SC when he joined the	RAF. AVG, and even a
man who took part in Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo spoke to us,” the young ensign stated.
All of the men returning from
tcxmuic n lie luuiu quaiixj iui j |.t_ _ |	& 1
further training as a naval flier.	se^med to express real
After two months he was sent to . 1 ence the ability of the
American planes.
Pliotogs Called
Students interested in working as photographers on the El Rodeo should apply at 3:15 today In 202 Student Union, accoring to Johnny Lowe, editor of the annual.
naval air corps a year ago.
He was first sent to Long Beach for “elimination” training to determine if he could qualify for
Dallas, Texas, for an intensive ground school course.
“It was at Corpus Christi, where I have been for the last nine months, that we really began actual flying experience,” said Immel.
The prospective young aviators were siflnmed out of bed each morning at six; after breakfast they had to drill for an hour; attend