SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Jrojan
Smuts Wants Action
Violent Earthquake Shakes West Coast
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Nicht Phones RI. M71
Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 22, 1942
No. 25
Labor s Draft Ahead
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cNutt Asserts anpower Call Inevitable
ASH1NGTON, Oct. 21 — r Mar power Director Paul McNutt told congress today t drafting of men and imen for war work is “intable” and is only a “ques-1 of timirtg” which Presi-t Roosevelt must decide. estify:ng before the sen-military affairs committee our manpower bills, he said all “inadequate” to solve the crit-problem and that WMC will nit its own draft of legislation 'r. Roosevelt within two weeks. ^DIERS WORK
ndersec ~etary of War Robert P.
rson disclosed meanwhile that army already has granted fur-;hs to 4000 soldiers with mining :rience to relieve a labor short-in production of copper and pT vital metals. He implied that army v>as reluctant to authorize release. He said the “job of (soldiers is to fight, not to work -s. mills or factories.” but that exception was made because striking power of our army is ake.”
cNutt emphasized that any power legislation must embrace en because there are not gh men to meet the current oyment -armed service goal of .000 persons, 5.000.000 more are row in uniform or war jstries.
HORITY NEEDED claring that "someone has to t the allocation of manpower we are short,” he testified a broad grant of power to the ent ■would not be sufficient; three essential authorizations be included to:
Require employers in any area ire all workers through a cen-gency.
Control methods of labor util-n, pre\enting transfer of work-rom plant to plant “solely by desire to hoard workers.” Compel individuals to remain ieir joo or to transfer to one 'e imx>rtance. said each of the bills “fails to one or more of these basic re-ftents.’ He emphasized that Is essential, declaring: is is a total war and mobiliza-f our own production facil-ust lie planned now or we find ourselves ere long unsupply the armed forces and 'ease with the equipment they
Drought Hits Student Union
Having an afternoon class on a sweltering day is pretty sad, but walking to the Student Union afterward with visions of cokes filled with refreshing ice and finding that noble establishment closed, is catastrophic.
At noon sewer waters filled the cellers of the Union, and by 2 p.m.. the fountain was forced to close. Unfortunately,/this unusual dearth came on one of the hottest days this semester.
Thirsty members of the campus. rushing to the drinking fountains to Mater their dusty tonsils, found only a gush of unhealthy, murky H20 issuing therefrom.
The waler situation was duly taken care of, it was reported, and today students can resume "drinking as usual.*’
Trojans Asked to Sign for Co-op Plan
Mackie Pleads AI Luthi Draws for Student Aid New Nameplate
to Help Allies °" Da,ly Tr°ian
“Co-op housing will exist if a need for it can be established,” stated Dr. Francis M. 3acon, counselor of men.
Trojan men and women may sign the lists in Dean of Women Helen H. Moreland’s and Dr. Bacon’s offices.
“We haven’t had the re-‘ sponse hoped for,” said Dean
Moreland when she explained that j definite plans are being postponed j until a sufficient amount of students show their interest in backing the idea.
For several years students in eastern schools, Pomona college, and the University of California have practiced this plan successfully. Until war prices raised the costs, a room and two meals a day averaged from $10 to $15 a month.
The co-op system is based upon student cooperation ,to eliminate the prices of outside help in cleaning. managing, and cooking. Some
LONDON. Oct 21_A vio- hoUSK have	their budBCt5
lent upsurge In activity' over the to allow for the hiring of « cook.
Mediterranean zone. Including the	, ms 15	w ald s‘u‘ blasting of seven axis ships and »	dents «h°-Wntmute securing Inthwarted enemv attempt to bomb	"pensf” ,lmn« ““mmodations Gibraltar, suggested tonight that a	whc" the l,rE fnd ?asollne nUm"
African Battle Nears Climax
crucial struggle for aerial domination of that theater is developing rapidly.
American and British airmen stepped up the weight of their attacks in North Africa, axis broadcasts reported fierce air battles over the Egyptian front, and British submarines and torpedo-carrying planes sank or damaged seven enemy ships in broadside attacks.
The scope of the hostilities was signalized by the loss of 12 British
ing become acute.
Hull Supports French Labor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21«lT.E»— Secretary of State Cordell Hull drove a new wedge between the planes in the Mediterranean zone French people and their pro-Ger-Monday night and Tuesday. The man masters today by encouraging Royal Air Force shot down 11 axis them to continue vigorous opposi-planes. U.S. army headquarters in tion to French Chief-of-Govem-the middle east, reporting a quick- ment Pierre Laval's Hitlerite poli-ened tempo in operations, destroyed cies.
at least six more enemy craft. | Recalling earlier United States Gibraltar s defenses guarding the condemnation of Laval's “pro-Hit-western entrance to the Mediter- ler acts.. and its ^f0rts to reawak-ranean beat off Italian planes which en ranchmen to the glory of their
caused a 75-minute alert Tuesday evening, rattling them so badly they jettisoned their bombs on Spanish soil, causing casualties and damage.
once
said:
“great free” republic, Hull
s Authors Article
f. Norris Class of the Gradu-,hool of Social Work is the r of an article entitled “Child .re Services and Community ization,” recently published in ‘niversity of Chicago journal, :ia] Service Review. The ar-is based on Class's extensive ience in the child welfare field, e coming to SC in 1941 Mr.
was state director of child re services in Oregon.
ale Bathing odel Needed
you’re six feet tall, a male nt. weighing 160 to 165 nds. are photogenic, and would to mate $15 a day, drop in he university employment bust your earliest convenience, o, you’re not dreaming. Mrs. Custer, director of the em-ent bureau, reported yester-that a national manufacturer men's swimming trunks will the model's expenses to Palm ngs on Monday if he can ful-the qualifications, ot only does the man selected the trip, but the publicity Iting from the advertisement y lead 1o better thngs—even 'ng for magazine covers,” Mrs. Custer, or the more rugged and less togenic men. Mrs. Custer an-need an employment oppor-for experienced truck driv-The rate of P*y is 78 cents boor and the job entails driv-e. downtown wholesale
Phi Eta Sigma Pledges Named
Theron Clarke, registrar, yesterday released a list of prospective pledges to Phi Eta Sigma, national freshmen honorary fraternity.
The list includes Robert J. Mautner, Forrest S. Allinder, Adolph Goldman, Bernard Rogers, Bernard H. Lewis, and Marvin A Lasher.
Phi Eta Sigma is open to freshmen men who maintain a 2.5 average or better during their first year in college.
Officers for the coming year are Bob Oliver, president; Harry Schmidt, vice-president; Potter Kerfoot, secretary; Jay DeDapper, historian, and Dr. Francis M. Bacon, counselor of men, faculty adviser. •
Phi Eta Sigma’s first meeting of the year will be held Oct. 29 with the time and place to be announced later.
"... It is gratifying to see signs cropping out increasingly through | France that the people are awaking to all those conditions which Laval is attempting to impose upon them and especially in their intense opposition of this proposed and forced service or enslavement of French labor in Germany.’’
Supplies for War Prisoners, Outcasts Asked by Lecturer
“There is a second front in which you and I can be active all the time ... if you put all you are able into the World Student Service fund and make the drive successful on your campus, you will be doing something really important for your country.”
With these words, Robert
Mackie, secretary of the World Student Service fund, introduced the basis of his speech at a special assembly for the student body yesterday noon in Bovard auditorium.
Mackie, a British subject who spent two months as a refugee in France when the German invasion of the low countries began in 1940, described many of his experiences gained on a recent world tour.
“You should have seen as I did how grateful a group of Chinese students in the interior of that country were when our organization built them a little, mud-brick assembly house, or the longing on the faces of war prisoners for a few books to read or a few medical supplies.
Three groups of students are assisted by the WSSF, said Mackie. There are those who are studying directly for victory in China and Russia and are encountering undue hardships and starvation to secure an education to build up the intellectual life of their countries, ac-
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Take a good look, students, at the brand new engraving, directly above this story, which will s-rve as the Daily Trojan nameplate for the duration. Al Luthi, senior student in architecture and Alpha Rho Chi fraternity brother, offered to render the original drawing for the Trojan staff, and last night the finished nameplate reached the desk.
Al did a lot of work on that masthead above. He drew, sketched, drew and redrew for two weeks before he finally achieved in black and white what he thought would serve as a No. 1 identification tag; for SC’s daily paper. The staff appreciates the work Al has done, and Trojan editors feel greater confidence in their chances of winning recognition for newspaper makeup next spring when national judging takes place.
Until today, regular head print has served, but from now on a real work of art will do the trick. Thanks, Al, for the thought, the effort, and the courtesy you have shown in taking time off from your regular work to draw this title line for SC’s daily.
Bogardus Speaks at YWCA Forum
Plans for coming discussion groups will be outlined at a meeting of the public affairs committee today at 2:15 in the YWCA house.
Dr. Emory Bogardus. head of the department of sociology, will lead a discussion on “What Are the 30 Points This War Must Achieve to Make a Lasting Peace” at next week's round table, which will be open to both men and women students. Susie Cravens and Doreen Young will act as student chairmen.
Dr. Frank C. Baxter, head of the English department, led last week's faculty-student discussion on “Can College Furnish Us the Answer to Living in a World at War?”
Council Names Heads for Year
The student council on religion, working this year toward greater student aid and more interdenominational unity, will officially open its season this afternoon at 3 in the student senate chamber.
Officers for the coming year who will administer the new program are Howard Callanan, president; Edna Calvert and Marion Smith, vice-presidents; Ethelvn Miller, secretary; and John Kimball, treasurer.
Newly chosen representatives to the council are Betsy Myers and John Kimball, Wesley club; Howard Callanan and Clo Kastusio, Newman club; Dorothy Britts and Edna Calvert, Presbyterian: Mark Allen and Vivian Clarke, Campbell club; Lois Wellington and Robert Pit-tinger, Christian Science.
Norma Nilson and Ken Crawford, Canterbury club; James Jacobsen and Shari Wilcox, Latter Day Saints; Stanley Burne and Anita Walleck, Jewish council; Helen Jean Hahn and Ethelyn Miller, Baptist; and Mary Lou Worsham and Shirley Millikan, YWCA.
In addition, twelve students drawn from the campus at large, will be chosen for the council.
Epicenter Believed to be in Desolated Portions of Imperial Valley, Near Arizona
by United Press
Southern California rocked today under the impact of an earthquake as violent in intensity as the temblor in 1933 which caused widespread damage and loss of life, but this morning’s shock did practically no damage.
The epicenter of the shock apparently was located in uninhabited portions of Imperial valley, on the Californla-Ari-zona border. Groceries tumbled off shelves in nearby El Centro and terra cott,a was dislodged from buildings in San Diego.
Downtown office buildings in Los Angeles began swaying at 9:24 a.m. and rocked for about 30 seconds. The swaying motion was felt for nearly three minutes in El Centro and cities throughout southern California reported feeling the quake.
Seismologists at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said that today’s quake, unlike the 1933 movement, started very gradually and grew in intensity with a rolling motion. ^The 1933 quake started with a violent movement that shook hundreds of buildings to the ground and caused great property damage and loss of life.
Today’s shock was almost as strong as that which visited Imperial valley in May, 1940, and took the lives of at least eight persons.
State s Motorists to Get Extra Gas
Government Official Says California Drivers
Will Average Close to 6000 Miles a Year
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21—(U.P.)—Extra gasoline allotments for California motorists were promised tonight by John Richards, chief of the OPA’s gas rationing section.
Richards said that motorists in California probably would average 6000 miles a year after the start of gas rationing Nov. 22. compared with the 4000 ----
Premier Says Further Delay Would be Folly
mile average in the 17 eastern states tional purposes, where rationing already is in effect.
Richards told the state senate economic planning committee that the geographical and transportation peculiarities of this state probably would make it necessary for the government to issue a far greater ratio of “B” and “C” extra-mileage gas coupon books here than in the east.
The OPA official emphasized, however, that the same regulations in force in the east would apply here.
Richards was principal witness on the senate committee's investigation Into California's critical transportation problem, at a meeting conducted by Senator Robert W. Kenny.
Richards said local rationing boards would have the authority to adapt ration regulations to the needs of their own communities, and would consider th* *■•eds of each individual case before issuing ration books.
“The only purpose of rationing Is
The basic “A” ration card will be	to save rubber,” Richards added,
good for only 16 gallons of gas per	“and if anyone can work out a plan
month, he said, providing for 90	of moving people without using
miles of driving for “family pur-	rubber, they can have all the gaso-
poses” and 150 miles for occupa-	line they need.”
Topanga Fire Reported Checked
BT UNITED PRESS
Firefighters tonight believed that they were winning their battle to control the brush fire which during the past two days swept through several fashionable residential ar-
i eas and threatened other wealthy foothill homes in the Malibu and Topanga areas.
Residents of Fernwood Park who had started to evacuate their homes which stood in the path of the blaz-
Trojans Engage Gaels in Debate Tonight
An SC debate team composed of Seymour Vinocur and John Baird will take the affirmative on the question, “The united nations should establish a permanent federal union,” tonight at 8 in 109 Bridge hall.
Taking the negative in the debate will be a two-man traveling squad from St. Mary's college. James Brook and Eymard Gallagher.
All students are invited to attend.
Leadership Will Win Battle, Nimitz Says
HONOLULU, T.H., Oct. 21—(U.P.)—Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific fleet, said in a speech today that success in the battle of the Solomon islands rests on “the quality of our leadership.”
He spoke at ceremonies inaugurating Prof. Gregg M. Sinclair as president of the University —--
of Hawaii.	Iar?e armed forces would be re-
“Victory thus may lie in the hands qujred after this war and urged
of young men trained in our civilian schools,” Nimitz said.
An increase in the effectiveness and complexity of military weapons has placed further emphasis on the necessity for special education in military matters, Nimitz said. However. he said he had found many candidates with naval reserve com-
colleges to remedy their mathemat ical study requirements to prevent students’ graduating with only “a few if any” courses in mathematics.
“As another ‘must’ in our curriculum I would require a close study of our country's history. But not the sugar-coated sectional ver-
Christian Sc ience
. . . organization meeting time	„ .. .	°
. , . . , _ * . , to require close attention to mathe has been changeo from 3:30 to 4
missions lacked the necessary math- sion we have all seen from time to ematical background. As a result, time.
he called for a revision of the elec- |--—--
tive system of the nation's colleges
p.m. Monday to make it possible for more students to attend.
Board members are requested to meet in the YWCA at noon tomorrow.
Council Acts on Dimout
SSstST sciences and Amer_ j
Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, ' —The city council today appropriat-Hawaiian commander, also spoke, ed $39,550 to dim out street lights Gov. Ingram Stainback presided. in accordance with the army’s Admiral Nimitz predicted that more stringent regulations.
ing brush were advised by fire wardens to return to their dwellings but to remain on the alert for a new outbreak of the flames.
The Fernwood residents were told they could do more good watching for sparks which might float down upon their homes than to leave their houses unattended at present.
Weather conditions aided the firefighters tonight in closing on the flames and unless there is a sudden change in the direction of the flames their prediction was that the fire would be under control by daylight.
One of the show places of the Malibu region, the Asbury ranch, was swept by the flames, destroying property valued at $100,000 which then raged across the $50,000 estate of film actor Richard Dix which is situated in the same region.
A large force of fire fighters was battling the blaze but their efforts were defied by the flames which swept across roads and natural fire breaks in the path of the fire.
Deputy sheriffs estimated that between 25 and 50 homes in Las Flores canyon were destroyed and that the damage probably would run as high as $500,000 or even more.
The fire originally started in the Malibu area, beach playground region of the movie stars, and moved back into the hills where film actors and others own large estates overlooking the ocean.
Russ Throw Nazis Back, Moscow Says
MOSCOW, Thursday, Oct. 22—(U.P.)—Reinforced Russian defenders of Stalingrad seized the initiative in a factory area yesterday and swarmed back through several buildings, a communique revealed today, and south of the city the Germans were reported to have been hurled back several miles. The Wednesday midnight com-
munique of the Red army command said German tanks and infantry launched repeated attacks against Soviet positions in the Stalingradd area, but all were beaten off.
The onslaught appeared to have dwindled to a shadow of its earlier weight, with 150 German troops killed in one sector and two tanks destroyed in another, in contrast with previous reports of thousands slain and scores of tanks wrecked.
The high command made no mention of the gathering Red army offensive south of Stalingrad, were semi-official front dispatches said the Russians had swept back the invasion forces several miles in a wide open battle of rapid movement.
The precipitate decline in the German siege army’s thwarted bid for final victory at Stalingrad evidently was explained by front reports of drenching rains, a heavy influx of Red army reinforcements, and a nazi food shortage verging on starvation.
“In the area of Stalingrad”Ger-man tanks and infantry repeatedly attacked our positions,” the late communique said. “All German attacks were beaten off with large losses for the enemy.
“In the area of one factory our troops wiped out 150 Hitlerites. In the area of one factory our troops
occupied several buildings. On one sector our men outflanked the enemy and destroyed two German tanks. Our artillery destroyed nine German tanks and annihilated up to two companies of enemy infantry.’
LONDON, Oct. 21—(U.P.)— Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, premier of South Africa, told the British parliament today that the time fora far-reaching allied offensive Is ripening and that “with the explosive limits of our endurance nearing ... it would be folly to delay or over-prepare and perhaps miss our opportunity.”
He said the German army is "bleeding to death” in Russia and that the defense phase of the war “is now ended. . . The stage is set for a last offensive phase.” He warned, however, that “a rough and terrible passage lies ahead" in which the “mortal struggle which is now on will become more cruel and desperate as the end draws near.”
The 72-year-old chief of South African forces which would play an important role in the African phase of an allied offensive, said the war might not end until 1944. It would thus be another “30 years war,” which began in 1914 and was interrupted by the “armistice of 1919 improperly called a peace,” he said.	.
PARLIAMENT MOVES
Smuts addressed a joint assembly of the house of commons and lords held at a secret site away from the parliament buildings. Smuts was barred by constitutional law from speaking in the parliament buildings because he is not a member. He ha* been in London a week conferring with Winston Churchill and other leaders of British and allied war strategy.
When he finished speaking, Churchill told parliament that Smuts had come to London at “a time when the war hangs heavily on us and in many ways is very tense.” Smuts’ views, the prime minister said, “arise from profound reflection, thorough knowledge and resolute and unflinching conviction and courage.”
THREE-WAR VETERAN
The bearded patriarch who has led his people in three wars—including th* Boer war against Britain—*aid “we ar* approaching the point when both on the war fronts and the home fronts in the enemy countries the situation i« ripening for far-reaching development*.”
The allies are not likely to miss their opportunity to strike while the iron is hot, he said, but “on this point it would be unwise for me to say more and thus set going unnecessary and perhaps harmful speculation.”
He said history may record Adolf Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union “as even more fatal than Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.”
“In spite of their losses in men, material, and territory, iie Russians show not the leait sign of giving in and their bitter defense will go on to the bitter end." Smuts said. ’This impression is confirmed by all the best inside information.”
Engineers Meet
Walter W. Hurlbut of the Los Angeles department of water and power will speak to a group of civil engineering students at a luncheon today.
Hitler Gives
Laval Respite
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ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER, Oct. 21—(l'.P*—Germany has given Pierre Laval another month—until Nov. 15—to raise 150.000 skilled workers for nazi war industry, but he will have to draft them because they have almost stopped volunteering and are resisting the campaign with increasing violence, it was learned tonight.
A further extension of the deadline to Nov. 30 was said to be likely if the Germans are convinced that Laval is doing his best and has a chance to fill the quota before the end of the month.
Laval, however, was reported to have held out little hope for enough volunteers to meet either deadline in his pessimistic weekend report to the council of ministers in Vichy. I
He told the ministers, the report i said, that if the Germans begin rounding up French workers against their will under the Sept. 22 edict., issued by the nazi labor overlord, Fritz Sauckel, they will take not only the 150.000 “but many thous- ! ands more—and transport them in locked boxcars with armed guards if necessary.”
Roth Quartet
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Begins Season
Inaugurating a season of chamber music, the Roth quartet will be heard next Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in Hancock auditorium.
The quartet is composed of Feri Roth, founder and first violinist; Rachmael Weinstock. second violinist; Julius Shaier, violist, and Oliver Nordoff. cellist. John R. Crown, associate professor of music in the School of Music will be the accompanying pianist.
The program will include String Quartet in C Major, Shostakovitch; Quartet in D Major, Tschaikowsky, and the Borodin Quartet in D Major.
Proceeds will go to the Walter F. Skeele memorial scholarship, sponsored By the SC School of Music.
Vetrose Talks; Stubborn Man
Dr. Vetrose hurled remarks at the club's second meeting yesterday afternoon, but a rapid expansion of opinions quickly put down what might have turned into a major riot.
Vetrose turned down offers to speak again next week, asserting nothing. He was perturbed at what seemed, at first sight, to be inexcusable during the meeting, but club members talked him into joining, and things may break for everybody at the third meeting next week, when Vetroee again speaks.
He will speak on “The Platform." going behind the rostrum to bare the facts.
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