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OPA Chieftain Resigns Post for Health
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — (U.E)— Price Chief Leon Henderson, father of the nation’s wartime rationing system, resigned tonight after a long siege of congressional criticism, L f L I	and President Roosevelt accepted
Q1^ \£||Q0|	but stipulated that Henderson re-
<3	main until his successor is chosen.
The successor may be Sen. Prentiss M. Brown, Michigan democrat, who has been in frequent conference with Roosevelt and stabilization director James F. Byrnes.
Henderson said his action was dictated “principally” by reasons of health—“a recurrent physical difficulty and a rather bad impairment of my eyesight”—and that his physicians had advised him to take a long rest.
It is no secret, however, that the rotund, cigar-smoking price chief is unpopular with many members of congress who openly resented his price and rationing policies.
There had been rumors for several days that he was on the way out although only six weeks ago he bluntly told a congressional committee that no special group, specifically the senate farm bloc or any other group would “gun me out of my job.”
Roosevelt’s letter of conditional acceptance made it plain that while ill be vying for honors,” he Henderson eventually will be
| brought back into government service it will not be as head of the office of price administration.
baters Meet
SC Today
Daniel Websters and Ste-Douglases from 13 southern [rnia high schools will compete mors on the SC campus to-Lnd Saturday in the seventh (.1 invitational high school de-toumament.
approximately 100 prep speakers attending the for-^neet in Mudd hall, a debate question, “Resolved, that a world government should iblished,” will be held.
On the War Fronts...
Libya
BY UNITED PRESS
Half of Rommel’s force, including most of his tanks and his best troops, yesterday was being hammered to pieces in a pocket northwest of El Agheila after being trapped by a British flanking force. Allied planes ruled the skies over this battlefield and over Rommel’s men who escaped the trap, bombing and strafing at will and inflicting terrible losses.
Russia
Soviet troops captured five more towns west of Rzhev on the central sector of the front and southwest of Stalingrad yesterday and prepared new blows after smashing the heaviest German attacks to date aimed at the rescue of nazis trapped between the Volga and the Don.
In the hard fight southwest of Stalingrad the Germans lost 3000 men and 50 tanks, the Russians said.
ims are coming from as far | as Bakersfield and from San in the south to enter this stated Stanley Hanson, di-of the tournament. “The of the crop of budding ora
[events in which the youthful *s will display their persua-jilities are debate, oratory, lation, and extempore.
|bers of the Trojan debate will act as judges at the rold trophies and medals will [rded to the winners of the vents.
College Association to Consider Reserve and Manpower Problems
Problems of student reserve and war manpower will receive foremost attention at the fall conference of representatives of the 20 member schools of the Western College association on the Trojan campus tomorrow.
Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of
California, will preside at the con-
ference in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
In order to facilitate the adjustment of college students to changing conditions, editors of campus papers, student body presidents, and selected students have been invited to attend the conference.
"Humanities Now and After the War,” will be the topic of a speech by Dean John Wendell Dodds, School of Humanities, Stanford uni-
versity, in tomorrow’s session.
The morning session of the conference will begin at 10 a.m. Miss Florence Norma Brady, Occidental college, and Mrs. Virginia Esterly will discuss the place of college women and the war.
Following the luncheon in the Foyer of Town and Gown at 2:15 p.m. the afternoon session will begin, Dr. Sproul will lead a discussion on war problems and the college reserve programs.
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rill be taken during Christ-ication by the university tpher without first making lents, John Lowe, editor |ed today. Those living in eles and vicinity can either ppointments or drop in for during the two-week per-we advised all those who had their pictures taken to >w, as this is the only spare photographer has.
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SC Linguists Called to Service
A hobby that developed into an elective study in college was found to pay big dividends for two Trojans—Maury Hellner and Roger Swearingen—when both were called by the navy and army respectively this week to report to special Japanese language training schools.
The two students began their study of the Japanese language before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They took courses in the subject from Key Chang, a Korean, instructor in Japanese at SC.
Hellner, a senior and PiKA member, is in the NROTC. He is president of the student body of the School of International Relations,
a member of both the student senate and senior council.
Swearingen, Theta Chi, is a soph-more international relations student. A Squire and member of the sophomore council, he graduated from Washington high school.
Hellner has been selected by the navy to transfer from the NROTC unit on campus to the naval language school at Boulder, Col. He has had two courses in the Japanese language under Mr. Chang and has also had considerable outside study.
Swearingen is to report to the military intelligence language school at Savage, Minn., but will be
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sent first to a special s Michigan for preparatory tion and training. He has courses in elementary Japanese offered by P. D. Perkins, former member of the51 SC faculty, and several courses in written and spoken Jap-
graduate work at the Pacific School of Religion.
In making the announcement of the acceptance of two of his students by the navy and army, Mr. Chang pointed out that prior to the United States' entry in the war, less than 100 Americans could speak Japanese fluently, and the armed forces are in dire need of students having only an elementary knowledge of the language.
The SC Japanese language department is making special plans to train students wishing' to take the course during the next semester, Mr. Chang announced.
Colleges to Shi
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In a move which will virtually end liberal education ii leges for the duration of the war, the army and navy yestej nounced plans to put enlisted college reserves on active 300 American colleges to give specialized training.
In general, the army plan stated that with the exceptil pre-medical, four year ROTC and junior engineering stude serves, all reserves will be called for active duty at the clo: semester. The excepted medical, pre-medical, ROTC and dents in army reserves will be called in June.
The navy plan explained that while the NROTC will conl students now in the naval reserve will be called to active dui V-5 reserves taking flight training, and V-7 reserves takingj eering training may continue present studies until a date t< when they will go on active duty.
Engineering students in navy reserves who will become July, and approved medical, dental and theological stud< plete their studies as apprentice seamen, under an acceleratj
No information with direct bearing on the marine cor| leased but it will ostensibly follow the navy plan.
All facts released may be found in the United Press dii
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17— (U.P.)—The army and navy jointly announced plans today to use 300 American colleges and universities to give young soldiers and sailors specialized training.
While Secretary cf War Henry L. Stimson conceded in answer to a question that the
plan is a step toward temporary destruction of liberal education in
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, president of the university, last night stated: “There is no cause for alarm in the proposed plan. U is an expedient to assist in the winning of the war, which comes before anything else. Should we be asked to assist in the specialized training, the university and its facilities will be found in readiness. Just as we have already adjusted our educational program to meet war needs, it can be done again. Work can be modified to suit the needs even if it may be relinquishing certain traditional subjects credited to liberalized education.”
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the country, he said the system of higher education will not be impaired permanently.
“Temporarily yes, so far as able-bodied men of colleges are concern-, ed, but in the long run emphatically no,” he said.
The program, announced by Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, is expected to train probably as many as 250,000 sol-dier-sailor students. The institutions have yet to be chosen.
WIN THE WAR “The immediate necessity is to win the war,” Stimson said, “and unless we do that there is no hope for liberal education in this country. To win this war and win it as quickly as possible we must have large numbers of young men in the army. We must now use every opportunity to train our soldiers for the immediate task ahead.”
The schools to be used will be chosen on the basis of suitability of facilities, in accord with rules laid down by Manpower Chief Paul &
Army Plan:
by United Press Assignment of soldiers will begin in Fel be established without regard to geographj cision has been made whether student pi ticular institutions will be taken into ac( Trainees must be enlisted men 18 to 22
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mental tests. No formal educa- completion o| tional requirements must be met. will be eligil Men seeking advanced technical leges under training may be excepted for age Enlisted re{ limits, while medical and senior called to actij ROTC students may not need basic ! semester will! training.	tinue medicj
Special provisions will apply to the new p| enlisted reserves.	students also
Medical and pre-medical stu- further insti dents, four-year ROTC students and dents alread] junior students of engineering will resign and r| continue in an inactive status un- listed reserve til the close of the next academic Four-year semester which begins after today, graduation oj (McNutt meanwhile announced next semestei temporary draft deferment for in- officer candic structors and certain college stu- eering studerj dents in medical, engineering, chem- 1 list after th< istry, physics and bacteriology be selected fc courses, thus assuring that under completion o:1 the new training system all quali- At terminal fied students in these fields will I specialized tn continue studies until the end of be selected the academic year in progress next school, recoml Mar. 1, and that teachers will re- ment as techij main at work at least until July ed officer, rei 1, 1943.)	detailed or
All other enlisted reserves will training or ii be called for active duty at the j to vital techn close of the current semester. On army.
Navy Plan.-
by United Press Eligible men are high school graduates) equivalent formal schooling, who are 17 t\ time of enlistment, and enlisted men 17 have satisfactory education and a recoi
their commanding officer. |-—
The navy will assign quotas to branches of th]
geographical areas in ratio to pop- ; ulation, and will give account to student preferences for institutions. onstrated abiJ| Candidates may also express their j mont