U.P* reports
[Mexico refuses cooperation on labor
The Mexican government has withdrawn permission for msportation of farm workers to the United States to alleviate the farm labor shortage, it was disclosed yesterday.
The announcement was made by William A. Anglim, act-f regional director of the Farm Security Administration, rho said that the Mexican government has not permitted the transportation of workers out of the country for the last Tew weeks.
“No reason for the shutdown has been given,” he added.
(Postwar plans simmer in capital
The United States will ask representatives of all the united nations to meet in this country soon and seek a basis for igreement on post-war cooperative action, in economic and >ther fields, acting secretary of state Sumner Wells revealed Yesterday.
lap armada reported seen
Fourteen Japanese ships, including warships—one of the Lrgest convoys ever sent by the enemy—were reported moving steadily toward the north coast of New Guinea today >ehind a weather front that grounded allied planes and presented them from attacking.
iolons act on strikes, work-stoppages
Congressional drive to outlaw work stoppages in war ilants was set in motion yesterday with introduction of five ^nti-strike bills, some carrying treason and work-fight |lauses, but all providing for government seizure of plants rhere production is interrupted by strikes or other causes.
lane dispute stalled by board
The war labor board failed to reach agreement last night ii the west coast aircraft wage dispute after a three-hour |ight session.
Chairman William H. Davis told reporters the delibera-|ons will be resumed at 10 a.m. EWT, today.
randhi to eat tomorrow
Mohandas K. Gandhi, weak but maintaining his remaining length today (Tuesday) despite a heat wave, prepared to teak his three-week fast Wednesday morning after a thanks-[ving prayer service.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. XXXIV NAS—Z-43
Los Angeles, Mar. 2, 1943
Second reserve unit to leave March 24
reatest air raids aintained by RAF
LONDON, Mar. 1—(U.P.)—RAF bombers “turned night inday” along a French coastal area of more than 30 miles last night’s smashing raid on the U-boat base at St. [azaire, the air ministry announced, and there were indica-[ons that they were maintaining history’s greatest sustained
aerial offensive with new raids
abbi Harrison lalks at Y house
(Beginning a series of discussions )nsored by the YWCA Religious [ub, Rabbi Bernard Harrison, di-:tor of Jewish student groups at UCLA, and LACC, will ex-Lin Jewish theological concepts at >n today ln the Y house.
A leader of the Jewish people in Angeles, Rabbi Harrison has jpeared on the radio program iats on Your Mind?” where he jresented the university religious bnference. In his talk today, Rab-H Harrison will compare Jewish |nd Christian beliefs.
The lecture series has the furth-rance of religious tolerance as its lm. Mary Lou Worsham, president f the religious club, made clear, tudents of all faiths will be wel-jme at the meetings.
Being planned for the near fu-lre are discussions on Protestant-an, Catholicism, atheism, Unitar-mism, and evolution, Miss Wor-lam explained. Student discus-on leaders will be Ruth Holley, onnie Smith, Jean Holwerda, Eth-lyn Miller, Shirley Inlow, and Miss Horsham.
Jerry Cohalt is chairman of the lewish groups and Joy Martin is in harge of the Christian organiza-Kon.
More ERC
men called to service
Thirty additional ERC students, status unassigned, have been ordered to active duty Mar. 24, it was announced late yesterday afternoon by Dean Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, armed services representative on the campus.
This makes a total of 280 ERC men called thus far from SC. The first contingent of 250 men will leave Mar. 5 from the front of Old College at 10 a.m.
Men whose names are listed below	,*	1/1
are requested to report at the Pa- j Di LALI Lb Ll L l\i L\J.l\L cific Electric station, Sixth and
ERCs 'manuva': leave tube, bring tuba
Attention ERCs who are leaving Friday for Ft. MacArthur: Bring along your tuba, your harp, or your Steinway, but you can leave your toothbrush at home.
This was the essence of a communique released by officials yesterday when they announced that SC inductees, who will be bon voyaged by the student body Friday as they leave campus en masse in army trucks, will be permitted to bring along musical instruments and other personal articles if they wish*.
But the army will supply the collegians with all necessities.
’resident's >ffice notice
In order to provide for a student body “Send-off Rally” for ERC men on Friday, Mar. 5, the following schedule will govern planes meeting during the morn-flng:
8:00— 8:45
1:55—10:00 “Send-off Rally” in front of Old College.
10:05—10:50 10:55—11:35 11:40—12:20
R. B. von KleinSmid
against bomb-battered Europe tonight.
The well-protected German submarine nest and surrounding territory became a raging inferno as Britain’s big bombers dropped “well over 1000 tons” of high explosives and incendiaries. For 40 minutes the RAF showered bombs on St. Nazaire in the war’s heaviest raid on that port.
Although the offensive appeared for a time to lag today when there was no activity reported, stations in Germany and France left the air tonight. The DNB news agency’s Berlin transmitter left the air in the midst of a special Russian broadcast “for technical reasons”— the customary explanation when enemy planes are over Europe.
The RAF cascaded death and destruction on St. Nazaire at a rate of about one-half ton a second in last night’s “thunderbolt raid” and also struck at unidentified targets in western Germany. Five bombers were lost.
Of the fires that roaded along the 30-mile area, two were outstanding, the air ministry said.
“One was in the dock area and appeared to be an oil depot from which a gigantic pall of smoke rose to 16.000 feet,” it reported. “The second appeared to be burning fiercely in the marshaling yards.
Main streets, near the information desk at 8 a.m., Wednesday, * Mar. 24. From there they will leave for Ft. MacArthur at 9 a.m. by train. Transportation will be provided for the men by the army. Men will receive the necessary papers a station. *
Dean Raubenheimer advises men called to take an official transcript of their academic record with them. Transcripts will be ready at the office of the registrar on and after Mar. 15.
The following men are ordered to report:
John E. Azhderian, Joseph A. Bein, James G. Bell, Alfred G. Beresford, Sannuel J. Beskin, Russell Call, Louis R. Cavalieri, Car-abed T. Chuljian, Burton Cosloy, Lavem D. Creed, William A. Eis-enacher, Ben F. Gostanian, Jack Grossman, Albert M. Homer, Richard Iknoian, Kasper J. Kin-osian, Erwin E. Kruger, Ronald L. Maley, Benjamin Melnick, Norman H. Peisner, Charles F. Peterson, Charles R. Simmons, James E. Slosson, Jack A. Stewart, Ralph H. R. Swartz, Edgar Watts, Howard E. West, Donald D. Wild-man, Herman Witnov, and Douglas W. Wolfe.
Amid cheers of students and families, 250 ERCs from UCLA today boarded busses and were off to the aiimy. Beating SC reserves to the draw by five days, the boys will take their basic ling at Ft. MacArthur, after which they will be sent to various service organizations or specialized schools throughout the country.
The UCLA boys are the first to. be called into active duty from a western college reserve group. In addition to the SC group, the corps from St Mary’s will be called shortly.
Harley to address religious groups
Dr. j. Eugene Harley of the political science department will address a meeting of the Luther clubs, of SC, UCLA, and City College Friday evening.
Motion pictures of the Holy Land and Geneva, center of international cooperation, will be shown by Dr. Harley. An hour-long variety show, written, directed, and produced by Dan Halpin, vice-president of the SC group, will complement the meeting.
Halpin urges all Lutherans on he Trojan campus to attend.
Rodeo wants member lists
The following organizations must hand in their membership lists to the El Rodeo office, 202 Student Union, today If they wish to have their panels in the 1943 yearbook:
, AWS, Blue Key, Clionian, Knights, Phi Delta Chi, Phi Mu Sigma, Sigma Alpha Iota, Skull and Dagger, Spooks and Spokes, WAA cabinet, Zeta Phi Eta, Antidotes, Beta Psi, Kappa Phi Zeta, Theta Sigma Phi, Alpha Delta Sigma, Alpha Epsilon Delta, Alpha Omega, Amazons, Am. Pha. association.
Editor calls help'
Girls wishing to obtain activity points should apply at once to the El Rodeo office, 202 Student Union. Those desiring to help with filing and typing should also apply.
Basketball fans
. . . desiring to attend the SC-UCLA basketball games this Friday and Saturday must present their student body books at the cashier’s window in the Bookstore for validation.
Ephebians join citizen service
“Post-War Planning for Peace and Security” is the subject of Dr. Dean E. McHenry, UCLA political science professor, who will speak at the regular meeting of the Ephe-bian society Thursday, 770 Chamber of Commerce building, at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. McHenry’s appearance will launch active Ephebian participation in the Los Angeles Defense Council’s Citizens Service Corps. Members will be delegated to develop thought and action in their communities on post-war planning.
In opening the post-war planning phase of civilian war work to the Ephebians, Ted B. Geissler, assistant director of the Los Angeles Defense council, said:
“The battle of ideas being waged against democracy must be out-thought as well as out-fought; and a national necessity is the free expression of ideas for the building of new men and new nations.”
The meetng is open to the public and a forum discussion will be held.
Pair wins roles
The roles of Tashi and Wyland have been given to Barbara Jean Wong and Kenneth Roberts, respectively, in the Drama Workshop’s production of “Lost Horizon,” it was announced yesterday by Joan Miles.
Production started Monday, Mar. 1, with rehearsalr* beginning at 3:15 pjn. every day. The production staff will be announced today.
SC plans
farewell
for ERC s
“Good luck and bring back Hirohito’s scalp with you.”
That’s the farewell wish that the entire Trojan student body will offer some 250 departing ERC members Friday morning when they leave the SC campus for active army duty.
.The Trojan band will play, the NROTC unit will stand at attention, President Rufus B. von KleinSmid and Bob McKay will speak,’and the men will be served coffee and doughnuts before climbing into the many army trucks that will take them to Ft. MacArthur.
Eight o’clock classes on Friday will be dismissed at £:45 a.m. to allow the student body to assemble before a speaker’s stand in front of Old College by 8:55.
President von KleinSmid will say a few words to the departing students, and ASSC President
Are you patriotic? Can you write? Do you have a few minutes to spare today?
If so, Dr. Francis M. Bacon, dean of men, requests you to report to his office in the Student Union, at any tvne today to address cards to Troy’s ERCs who are being told via the mails about their send-off from campus Friday.
McKay will tell the ERCs how much the Trojans remaining in school are going to miss them. The officer in charge of the truck convoy will speak.
The Trojan band is scheduled to play several military songs and finally “Alma Mater.” When the trucks actually pull out the band will play “Fight On.”
The army trucks will arrive at 8 a.m., and the army men and the ERC members will be served coffee and doughnuts in the patio of Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall.
Montaque speaks to Argonauts
Opportunity to hear Dr. William Pepperell Montague, professor of philosophy at Columbia university, will be afforded members of the Argonaut club for philosophy students, Thursday, Mar. 4, in Mudd Memorial building, it has been announced by George Myron Raun, president.
Dr. Montague has been profes-so of philosophy at Columbia for 40 years and has authored many books. Among them are ‘The New Realism.”
“Due to the curtailment of transportation, the Argonauts have not had regular monthly meetings, but because of Dr. Montague’s visit to our city, a special meeting has been planned to give every Argonaut opportunity to hear one of America’s few outstanding philosophers,” Raun stated.
Russians open new offensive
LONDON, Mar. 1—(U.P.)-Russia, opening a sweeping offensive 360 miles north of its winter battlefront, has defeated the German 16th army and freed 302 towns and villages southeast of Leningrad, a Red army special communique said today.
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, mystery man of the winter offensive, is leading the new drive in which the Red army is believed here to threaten a vast encirclement movement involving the entire Leningrad front.
Finland reported that as the Russians drove the Germans before them southeast of Leningrad, Russian shock troops also were attacking on the Karelian isthmus north of the old czarist capital.
Russia revealed the northern offensive in a special communique. The drive, it said, began eight days ago.
The news came as a great battle raged in the Donets basin and the Germans, claiming they had thrown the Russians back to the east bank of the Donets over a wide front, reported the capture of Barven-kova, 82 miles southeast of Kharkov on the main Kiev-Donets basin railroad.
As Russian military quarters had forecast, the Red army command had switched its offensive line to the north, where the ground is still frozen.
A terse Moscow dispatch weeks ago had reported that Timoshenko, removed from the southern front after the German gains of last summer, had been given an important assignment on the northwestern front.
Tonight it was disclosed that this assignment was a major offensive in which the special communique said that the Russians in eight days had freed 907 square miles of territory, including the German anchor town of Demyansk, 175 miles southeast of Leningrad.
Striking westward from the Bologne area on the Leningrad-Moscow railroad Feb. 21, Timoshenko had smashed the German defense line.
Bye.
Senate members
. . . are called to a meeting at 7 tonight to approve election proceedings. All members must be present.
SC air cadets go eastward
First mass flowing of Trojan tears occurred ✓ yesterday afternoon when an uncounted number of SC coeds journeyed to the Union station to kiss their men —army air corps reserves—goodbye as they entrained for Lincoln, Neb.
I Traveling with the pride of Trojan manhood, the first group to leave for the Nebraska pre-flight training base, are several hundred of the same from UCLA and Berkeley, who promise to make the trip interesting.
Although no official tabulation could be made, it should be recorded for those a little slow on the knovti; that the following Trojan men are definitely on their way to Lincoln:
Gears Marshall, Ralph Foster, Rocky Schumacher, Sa^m Roeca, Jim Malone, Ed Holley, Charles Anderson, Bill Neale, Bob Riehle, and Jim Campion.
This is not nearly a complete list, and the Daily Trojan will be glad to publish the names of any other departing Trojans that are turtied in.