Students cheer all-conquering squad in Bovard today
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With the mighty powerful
Cranford Indians invading the irine tonight to meet the niversity Park hoopsters in pe crucial game of the PCC rnthern division, Bovard au-[torium will be crammed full noon with SC men and >men yelling lustily at a >nstrous rally for the great Trojan basketball team.
[Headlined by the appearance of >ach Ernie Holbrook and his men, ie yell fest will be staged to pay [ibute to the cagers before their home game of the season this ling. Although there has been promise of a big name band or studded entertainment, the Jy is slated to be the best of the aooording to chairman Bruce and prexy Bob McKay.
I Festivities are scheduled to vrt 12:10 p.m. or sooner, de-ig- on how soon Bovard can filed after the don open at In all probability the rally bo over by 12:40, allowing >Jans sufficient time to eat fore afternoon classes resume, biggest SC band of the sea-wlll be present at the rally, with them, making their first will be the new femi-members of Dr. Cailliet’s mu-
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feel that we hare a natural ionship basketball team of |ich we are all mighty proud,” McKay said. •'It's tim^ to in-them to the student body.”
City college ERCs receive
call to duty
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Twenty-seven business administration and pre-law students at Los Angeles City college yesterday received the call from the war department to report for duty on Mar. 12, a City collegian spokesman revealed. LACC’s ERC numbers 150 men.
Those called were in all classes and included freshmen, sophomores, and the City college equivalents of ‘juniors and seniors. Students at that campus do not qualify for degrees, but receive certificates of work completed, and then go to other universities for further study.
No more calls to active duty were received by men at UCLA.
Up at Washington State, 80 ERC men were called. Men at Loyola university still have had no word from the army concerning their dates to report for duty.
Russian to address itudents Monday
J.P. reports
iruiting reopens
WASHINGTON—A new program litting army and navy recniit-services to earmark volunteers specialized branches of the arm-forces was announced by the ly and navy yesterday.
voluntary enlistments of of draft age were banned by sidential executive order the ices have had no choice but to ^ept or reject men assigned by il draft boards.
inks in hills
IORTH AFRICA — American >ps, swept out of mid-Tunisia crushing Nazi tank power, an-kored a new defense line in the ills of Algeria yesterday while the ritish eighth army lashed the en-ny's rear guard in the Mareth ne after a 50-mile dash in two ys.
resident's office Notice
_%n order to provide for a stu-■ent body assembly on Monday, February 22, the following sched-lule will govern class meetings 'during the morning:
8:00—8:50 8:55—9:45
•:50—10:30 assembly * 10:35—11:25 11:30—12:20
Dr R. B. von KleinSmid,
President.
; ‘Don’t mistrust Russia.”
George Rony, Russian-born lecturer who will speak to the student body at the Washington birthday assembly Monday, said: “Germany is trying to weaken our war effort by telling us that if Russia wins, the victorious Soviet armies will overrun Europe and spread Communism.”
He, said that stories and rumors spreading this fear in allied countries are inspired by Nazi propagandists because they are similar in wording to those appearing in German papers.	«
“There are three reasons why Russia has no ambitions outside of making herself secure within her own boundaries,” continued Rony. “First, the territory of Rusia is three times that of the United States. Before the Soviets would (Continued on Page Two)
V-1,V-5 exams
set for March
To determine the future status of college students in the V-l and V-5 programs, examinations will be given to those who are in the last half of their sophomore year sometime in March, the 12th naval district announced in an Associated Press dispatch yesterday. ■-
Capt. Reed Fawell, commandant ■ a • I of NROTC at SC, revealed that he; AAllCIf mCC
had received no confirmation of the story. The announcement related j -that those passing.the examination! TQ satisfactorily will qualify for the V-12 program and be put in uniform and kept in school. Those who are not attending a school chosen by the navy for the training Of its personnel would be transferred. Those already in such schools would remain there, according to the dispatch.
Those failing the examination would be taken into the navy on general enlistment status immediately.
Captain Fawell divulged that the policy of the navy department contemplates that universities selected will furnish necessary housing and subsistance for the V-12 students as well as the V-l, V-5, and V-7 men on their campuses. Men v ill be paid approximately $50 per month when they are placed in uniform.
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Selected students from the Manual Arts High school’s musical arts class will see and hear the School
of Music’s weekly “Theme and Variations” program which will be broadcast today from Hancock hall from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. over station KHJ and the Don Lee network.
This is one of a series of 14 programs making a historical sur vey of music for the harpsichord and piano from the 17th century to the present time. Since the stu dents are studying v 18th century music, today's program is appro priate to their class work. The re mainder of the students will listen to the broadcast in their schoo room and will later be given a re port by the students who attained the program .
Police arrest school boys
Fears of hulking masked prowlers ransacking 2 8th street fraternity houses were ended yesterday morning with the capture of two frightened school boys who admitted robberies on the row totaling more than $100 during the past year, according to police.
The boys, aged 12 and 15, were caught by Gordon Craig and Earl Collings, students, on the roof of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house and were turned over to juvenile authorities at the Jefferson police station.
When questioned, they denied entering sorority houses and said that they had confined their activities entirely to stealing money from the fraternities. The boys were known by students living on the row as “Little Eddie” and “Junior.” They shined shoes.
Petitions will be filed by the police to bring the boys before the juvenile court.
Reservists notified by mail
(Daily Trojan Exclusive) Two hundred and fifty SC students in the army ERC, status unassigned, are now being notified through the mail that they are ordered to active duty, effective Mar. 5, 1943, it was announced late yesterday by Dean Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, armed services representative on the campus.
These reservists are to report in front of Old College, University avenue, Friday, Mar. 5, at 9 a.m. The men will leave for processing at Fort MacArthur at 10 a.m. in army trucks.
Dean Raubenheimer is instructing students called to take offi-cial transcripts of academic records with them. Transcripts will be ready for men called at the office of the registrar on and after Mar. 1.
Dean Raubenheimer was requested by the commanding officer of the ninth service command, Fort Douglas, Utah, to issue the orders.
Hill rites held
Funeral services for Herbert Wyn-ford Hill, late university editor, will be held today in Woodland, Calif. Hill died Tuesday night from the results of an anemic condition from whioh he was apparently recovering. He had held his position at the university since 1928.
Former Trojan reports on Nazi prison camp
Graduate escapes from doomed ship
While the USS Chicago was sinking in the recent naval battle off the Solomon islands, pilot Bill Baker, SC graduate, climbed into the cruiser’s observation plane and flew to safety. Franklyn Skeele, director of the university news bureau was notified this week of Baker’s escape.
He was graduated in 1940 with B.A. and B.S. degrees in commerce. While atending the university, he was a Trojan Knight, Squire, and member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Ralph “Bud” Gaston, former Trojan, took up the womanly art of cooking recently—but not by choice. Gaston was piloting a flying fortress last November when he was shot down during a raid over a German submarine base at St. Nazaire and taken to a German prison camp.
In a letter to his mother, Mrs. R. S. Gaston of 1453 North Mansfield avenue, he said that camp life was lazy with little to do but read.
“We all do our own cooking, using every scrap in recipes not included in any cookbook. The Americans are all housed together in one building and are known as “Kriegs,” meaning warriors.
“We had a miniature Christmas tree in our room, but some of the laughs were forced, because the boys were thinking of faces and
places far away. We’re all looking
forward to that good old home life
and the time when we can return
to contentment and peace.”
Gaston graduated with the class of ’40, and was president of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
—Courtesy L.A. Times.
'BUD" GASTON no cookbooks for us
Yanks/'
■Dirty politics
Sub-rosa foiled on
operators big deal
Faculty wives to discuss drama
The historical representation of the theater beginning with the days of Pompeii in 80 B.C. will be. the topic featured at the SC Faculty Wives luncheon Wednesday in the Town and Gown foyer.
Mrs. A. S. Raubenheimer, club president, will officiate, and the luncheon will begin at 12:15.
Speaker Hortense Williams will discuss the theater including the Drury Lane days of London, the following period of English drama in the Coventry theater, and the medevial mystery epoch. She will uses cale models borrowed from the speechc lasses to ilustrate her lecture.
by The Groundhog
Barbara Douglas, vice-president of the international relations student body, was appointed president yesterday by
Bob McKay, ASSC head. '
This timely action forestalled an illegal election scheduled for today to fill the post left vacant by the withdrawal from school of Maury Hellner. Hellner is. attending the navy language school at Boulder, Colo.
Immediately following his departure, several over-anxious operators hopefully eyed the unfilled positions. They thought by holding their own privately-con-ducted election they could powerhouse their way into a coveted voting seat in the ASSC senate.
So they staged an unauthorized nominations meeting last Friday.
Phil Levine, elections commissioner,
when told of this political coup, sputtered:
“What I.R. election? They can’t hold an election without my approval! It’s unconstitutional!” When McKay heard of the deal he pointed out that normally the vice-president succeeds to the office of presidency upon its va-vacancy. Therefore, his appointment of Miss Douglas is in order. He declared this abortive election attempt violated two articles of the ASSC constitution: Nos. V and VII.
Article V, section E, provides that the elections commissioner shall (Continued on Page Two)
Special exam requests due
AU students desiring to take special examinations to complete courses in which they received marks of “Ie” during the last two semesters are requested to make applications at the Office of the Registrar by Feb. 27. Ex-, animations wUl. begin Saturday, Mar. 13.
H. C. Willett,
Director of Admissions and Registration.
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