.S. tanks dvance n France
ALLIED SUPREME HEAD-UARTERS, London, July 30— U.P.) — Roaring unchecked own the west side of France, merican tank columns to-ay captured the big towns of rehal, Gavray, and Percy nd swept to within five miles f the prize port of Granville n the sixth day of an of-sive that already has cost the emv perhaps 25.000 men killed, ptured. or trapped.
The British second army simul-neously opened a powerful coord-
ated offensive in the central sec-r and drove forward up to three iles on a seven-mile front behind wall of bombs laid down by RAF eavy bombers flying at only 100
The Germans raught in the aelstrom of the American ad-»ee were being hacked to bits, hree divisions were practically iped out north of Coutarices and tween two and three more were ut off southeast of that city. One uge pocket below Coutances liquidated entirely Sunday ing; with more than 2000 soners reported by early after -oon.
The second “Das Reich” division d the Lehr panzer division were escribed in field dispatches as practically destroyed.” American nk vanguards telephoned back to eadquarters for help in rounding p prisoners “because there are too ny for us.”
At their fuil strength of 15,000 the destruction of these di-sions would have been a tre-dous biow but only bits and of the once-proud German utftt* have been opposing the anks. some of them litUe more than a name. Yet, a total of about enemy troops had been [, as many more remained to be mopped up and. by conservative estimate, about 5000 had been killed.
Thousands of other Germans were eeing for Brittany under a drub-lg oy both planes and artillery the Yanks smashed beyond Bre-al on the Granville coastal highway after capturing Brehal in a six-le sweep from Montmart-Sur er.
The Germans were losing enor-ous amounts of armor, the air orces alone claiming to have de->yed or damaged upward of 500 nks or other pieces of armored uipment since the offensive be-n.
ervicemen s ouncil meets
Members of the servicemen's ooun-
il	will meet at 12:30 p.m. today cording to Dick and Pep Pearson, -chairmen. Members are Doyle onfer, Del Reeder, Don Paullin, orm Shultz. Jim McMahon, Hen-erson hall: Jack Schaffer, Jack Fil-nc, Howard McLair, Chuck Cur-and, Williams hall; Jack Boyer, wens hall: Jack Sorenson, Dave urnight, Bob Daigh, Fred Benson, Laughren, Newkirk hall; Bill low, Bill Camm. Bill Herron, b Tapp, Ernie Wilson, E. von leinSmid; Harry Lassen, Ted Smith, and Dick Shaffran, Reynolds hall.
SC drops plan for six-weeks summer course
Because of lack of interest indicated by students for courses in a six-weeks period from Sept. 4 to Oct. IS, it has been deckled no special courses will be offered by the university for that time, aa-Dr. Albert S. Rauben-, director of the educational program.
The survey was held last week when students listed their general field ef Interests and specific courses through department chair-
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
VoL XXXV
Los Angeles, Monday, July 31, 1944
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No. 144
Swimming party to mark third dig
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Safety institute opens week's course
A teacher training institute in driver education will be conducted on the SC campus this week. The classes will be taught in 119 Old College by representatives of several California state agencies and staff members of the center for safety education of New York university and the National - Conservation bureau. The institute
Spanish plans
series revealed
First in a series of Spanish lectures designed to give students a working use of the language and to hear it as it is spoken in everyday use will be given by Dr. Antonio Heras, professor of Spanish, at 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the art and lecture room of Doheny library. The subject will be “Una Ojeada al Fon-do de la Cultura Hispanica.”
“Corina Rodriguez. Politica Cen-troamerican” wall be the topic of the lecture on Aug. 10, to be discussed by Dr. Dwight Bolinger, assistant professor of Spanish.
Final lecture in the series wrill be given on Aug. 17 by Dr. Heras. He will speak on “La Espana de Unamuno.”
The public is invited to attend the lectures, although they are planned primarily for students of Spanish, according to Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
The series will be free of charge, as will a similar series in the French language to be presented by Dr. Rene Belle, associate professor of French, at a later date.
Sociologists smite dailies
Featuring the appointment of a committee to formulate a protest of the metropolitan press handling of news involving race disturbances, a joint meeting of the Pacific Sociological society and the SC chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta was held in the SC law building Saturday afternoon.
A motion was introduced to draw* up a constructive rebuke of the local daily newspapers for overemphasis and lurid treatment of “zoot suit” stories, which, it was claimed at the meeting, only served to aggrevate the disturbances.
This motion followed addresses by several professors from many southland colleges. The remarks dealt with the Negro and Mexican minority problems.
Summarizing the thoughts presented during the sessions was the concluding statement by Dr. Glen Carlson of the University of Redlands. ’’Let us remember that biologists and anthropologists have found no pure races.
“Psychologists say there are no permanent psychological racial traits. Whenever members of a particular race have equal opportunity of development over a period of years, sociologists say that progress and accomplishment will be comparable.
“If we believe this, then in the final analysis security for any minority group must be achieved through tolerance and through a sincere application of the fundamental principles of democracy.”
Dr. Charles B. Spaulding of Whittier college discussed living conditions and the gang problem among Mexicans.
He stated that segregation of Mexicans in the community differs from the restrictions placed on Negroes, in that the former discrimination involves quality of housing (Continued oo Page Four)
will meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Welcoming addresses to the school will be given Monday by Dr. Lester B. Rogers, dean of the School of Education; Gordon H. Garland, director of the state department of motor vehicles; Verne Landreth, state department of education; and E. B. Lefferts, Southern California Automobile club.
Garland. Landreth, and Lefferts will be on the faculty of the institute. They will be assisted by Dr. Amos M. Neyhart, Pennsylvania State college; Milton D. Kramer, New York university; and Harold R. Danford, National Conservation bureau. The army will be represented by Maj. A. J. Rawlings, public relations officer of the ninth service command. California agencies will send E. R. Cato, chief of the highway patrol; Paul Mason, chief of the drivers’ license bureau; and A. I. Rivett, department of public works.
The institute is one or a nationwide program: it is being conducted in 20 states this summer to provide secondary school teachers with the background for conducting classes in driver education. An institute was held at the University of California at Berkeley last week.
“The United States army quartermaster general has asked secondary schools to include In their curricula pre-induction training of high school students to give foundations on which the army will build its comprehensive training after induction. One of the points to be stressed is driver education,” said Lefferts, who is organizing the institute.
According to Lefferts, students in the summer school at' SC or those preparing to teach in high schools may attend the classes.
Petitions sought by Phi Eta Sigma
Applications of qualified freshmen who wish to join Phi Eta Sigma. the freshman men’s honorary society, are to be turned in by noon today in Dean Francis Bacon’s office.
Former members of the society are asked to attend an important meeting today at 12:30 p.m. in the senate chambers. Initiation of new members has tentatively been set for the evening of August 4.
Candidates for membership in the society must have a 2.5 grade average.
Alert wenches view plight, buy benches
Came spring, came spring fever and love. Came love, came weak knees. Came weak knees, came trainees who felt the urge to seat themselves upon the curbs and lawns of this fair campus. And then—came an order from Capt. Reed M. Fawell’s office to the effect that such a practice was to be discontinued.
But to the rescue came SC’s female populace. Within a few days the Panhellenic council voted to contribute benches for servicemen’s weary bones.
As must come to all, a delay in the order due to the war has held up delivery of the benches.
Another hero arrives on .the scene in the form of O. and M. Slyly pilfering the well known resting spots from the patio of the Administration building, custodians placed them conspicuously about the campus, tempting invitations for tired lads to seat themselves.
And now, any day upon glancing about us, we may see happy trainees, victims of spring fever, love, and weak knees, resting— officially.
WAA arranges all-U sports recreational
Co-educational swimming in the large pool of the Physical Education building .will be held for the of the Niemen river.
Reds drive
for first Nazi land
LONDON, Monday, July 31 —(U.P.)—Russian troops, in the first Allied invasion of German-annexed terri t o r y, yesterday swept seven miles into the Suwalki triangle incorporated into East Prussia in 1939, while other Soviet forces cut the last overland rail escape route for German armies in Latvia and Estonia.
The Red army Invasion of Adolf Hitler’s greater Germany was made in a powerful new drive toward East Prussia proper launched by troops of Gen. Ivan D. Chemiak-hovsky’s third White Russian army, advancing along a 68-mile front from bridgeheads on the west bank
Campbell leads book discussion
Climaxing the current series of book interpretations, “The University and the Modern World,” by Arnold S. Nash, will be reviewed Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. in the art and lecture room of Doheny library by Dr. William G. Campbell, assistant professor of education.
Possibility that the interpretations may be continued into a new series was announced by Dr. J. Randolph Sasnett, executive secretary of SC religious activities. Attendance at previous reviews has averaged more than 100.
At the discussion last Wednesday, the group voted to continue the lectures, and a ballot will again be conducted this week. If the results show a demand for the reviews, they will be continued.
Nash, in the book to be interpreted by Dr. Campbell, weaves together the various theories on education which have been the themes in previous Wednesday lectures. He applies the essential principles and reduces the differences between the ideas of the authors reviewed earlier in the series.
According to the advance review, this book “will interest all educated and educating minds. Mr. Nash versatilely puts together educational points of view in patterns that make a philosophical Joseph's coat.”
first time this term Friday from 7 to 9:30 p.m., when the WAA sponsors the third all-U dig for the summer. The dig will be a recreational featuring volleyball, badminton, ping pong, and dancing to popular records as well as swimming.
Both men and women’s gymnasiums will be used Friday evening, according to Margaret Hackney, WAA president, in order that all students may attend. Entertainment will be planned by members of the WAA cabinet, and students may participate in any of the sports.
Social dancing will take place in the dance studio of the Physical Education building. Many new records have been purchased, according to Betty Fiske, cabinet member, and there will be many dances in order that students may become acquainted easily.
“Last summer’s all-U recreational program featured several digs in the gym,” said Miss Hadkney, “and students have requested more. These are the only occasions upon which both men and women are allowed to use the pool.
Informality will be the keynote of the dig. Women are asked to wear sport clothes, and sororities and dorms especially are urged to support the various sports which will be featured.
The offensive signalled an all-out assault toward Germany’s eastermost province. Already, other forces advancing from Grodno are within 22 miles of the old border and 14 miles from Augus-tow\ Nazi bastion protecting East Prussia’s southeastern approaches, while other troops are shelling the Lithuanian city of Kaunas to the north.
More than 300 towns and settlements were seized in the first phases of the new drive.
German reports said that Soviet forces had also begun a powerful drive to seise Kaunas, Nasi bastion protecting the northern routes to East Prussia.
Along the 1000-mile eastern front, more than 1320 towns and settlements were captured as Soviet armies swept ahead on all sectors.
Driving to trap an estimated
300,000	troops in Estonia and Latvia, Red army Baltic forces smashed to within 27 miles of Riga by the capture of the rail station of Platone, five miles south of the rail hub of Jeigava. Capture of Jelgava would cut the last tortuous rail escape route and Berlin said today that Russian forces already had by-passed the town. While Gen. Ivan O. Bagramian’! 1st Baltic army swept toward Riga, Col. Gen. Maslennikov’s 3rd Baltic army, crossed into Estonia southeast of Pskov, and apparently
The following women are asked cleared the Germans from the last
to meet at 12:20 p.m. today: Margaret Hackney, Betty Fiske, Shirley Dishington, Virginia Owens, Jackie Ford, Pat Cook, Marilyn Davis, Betty Bianchetto, Henrietta McLean, Marion Stromwell, Betty Slater, Ruth Madsen, Jean Aehle, Arliss Gra,nt, and Anna Marquis.
enemy-held pre-war Russian territory. North of Pskov, 11 Soviet infantry divisions, supported by three tank corps, were said by the Germans to have renewed their offensive west of Narva to clear the 30-mile wide oorridor between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Peipus.
Failure of weasel's pop proves SC concert top
by Martin Payne
Highlighted by failure of the “pop” in Conductor Lucien Cailliet’s theme and variations on “Pop Goes the Weasel,” the SC orchestra, although woefully undermanned on some of the vital instruments, turned in a generally good performance in its summer concert Friday night in Bovard auditorium.
Chosen to climax the evening, Dr. Cailliefs piece, a spinning, whirling scherzo that elicited many ripples of mirth from the audience, worked its merry way to the expected pop—only to have the popping machine fail . . . and the incident proved the most humorous of all delightful sound effects in the music.
Beatrice Freidin, horn soloist in Saint-Saens* "Romance,” did a
SC learns plans for 1954 campus
What will SC be like in 1954, when Trojans celebrate their university’s diamond jubilee?
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid answered this question recently concerning the next 10 years’ planned progress in a story appearing on the editorial page of the Alumni Review.
In the past 20 years tbe walls of Troy have grown from 8 to 50 acres. “The goal is 100 acres, which will take in the entire area bounded by Figueroa and Mc-Clintock streets on the east and west and Jefferson street and Exposition boulevard on the north and south,” the alumni magazine stated. •
Expansion of the campus is one
of few items anticipated during the coming 10 years. “Ten new buildings must be added during the next 10 years, all to be of the same high character of quality and architecture as are typified by present structures,” Dr. von KleinSmid told Judge Clarence L. Kincaid, past editor of Alumni Review.
The diamond jubilee year will see an enlarged fraternity row, as well as many more dormitories, for campus residential facilities for students are to be multiplied 10 times in scope and number.
The SC president also expressed the seven following hopes for the future:
Addition of faculty leaders of world note in 10 selected fields; enrichment of facilities of at least 10 of the leading scientific departments; emanation of at least 10 outstanding and authoritative books from within the walls of Troy; establishment of 10 series of distinguished lectureships; advancement of at least 10 men and women who will prove to be leaders in
world thought and activity; addition of at least 10 great American paintings; development of the library to a size and quality wherein it may become the mecca and fountain of knowledge for much of the educational *nd scientific world, ed version.
professional job with that mournful but majestic instrument. Particularly effective was the continuation of the main theme by the oboe immediately following the horn.
During the evening the brass instruments, trumpets, and trombones outweighed the string section, and the latter was at somewhat a disadvantage.
Particularly needed by the orchestra are a few vloras and cellos to bring the bowing section to full resonance and power.
Despite this handicap, the musicians were a smooth working team on the two principal offerings, Dvorak's Fifth Symphony (finale), and Moussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.” The strings seemed to hold their own better, despite their scarcity.
Betty Robinson's conducting of Moussorgskv was able and polished and the orchestra responded in like manner.
Bach’s great Prelude and Fugue in F Minor saw the orchestra in some difficulties. The titanic and complex contrapuntal weaving of that masterpiece was not reproduced with clarity. Originally composed for the organ, it seemed to lose some of its magnificent color and tone in the orchestral setting, especially when compared to the organ playing of Schweitzer’s record-