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[ASHING SOVIET advances are depicted on the above rp of the Russian summer counter-offensive against in-[rgent Germans.
ussia's new assault kes huge Nazi toll
>NDON, Sept. 7—(U.P.)—Red army troops swept through :en German lines on a 400-mile front to capture more 300 towns and villages today, and the Russians asserted jht that the German army had lost 1,538,600 men in kill-/ounded, and prisoners since they started their ill-fated
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losses at more than 420.000 killed, at least 1,500.000 killed rounded, and 38,600 made pris-
iwas asserted that the Red ar-which, after breaking the. tan drive in one week, went to the offensive themselves 12, had destroyed up to fay 8400 German tanks, 5729 is, 5192 guns, more than motor vehicles.
[the same time the Russians red 1041 tanks. 2018 guns, some »m giant self-propelled Ferdi-i; 5382 machine guns and 7853 vehicles, the communique said ;orded from the Moscow radio. Russian high command com-jue reported the Red army |Baturn, 12 miles north of the Bakhmach railroad junction,
I cutting the Gomel railroad.
iwman plans eting, dance
itholic students on campus will jene tonight at the bi-monthly [ting of the Newman club in lounge of the Student Union, P:30 p.m.
reparations for a forthcoming ce are to be discussed. After meeting, refreshments and so-dancing will be offered to ibers and any students wishing ittend.
revious meetings were well at-led by trainees on campus,” ;d Tate Landry, president, “but would like more girls to parti-ite.”
lass hours \hange for day
|A11-University Assembly, Thurs-ly, Sept. 9.
Speaker: Dr. Thomas S. Kep-sr, Lawrence college, Appleton, fisc.
Class schedule:
8:00- 8:45 a.m.
8:50- 9:35 a.m.
9:40-10:25 a.m.
10:30-11:05 Assembly 11:15-12 Noon.
Dr, R. B. von KleinSmid, President.
V-12 servicemen who were either transferred to Troy or are entering freshmen will be honor guests at an ASSC picnic in Griffith Park next Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Trainees will have access to the zoo, badminton courts, shuffleboard games, the merry-go-round, and swimming pool, according to plans completed by Bob Stevens, arrangements chairman.
Lists* have been posted in the barracks so that navy and marine trainees desiring to go may sign up. Trojan coeds who would like to attend the picnic may sign up in the dean of women’s office, the student body office, or the Y house, according to Leta Galen, tine, ASSC vice-president in charge of the affair.
Every sorority on campus and the women’s dormitories will be asked to provide food for the picnic. Pat Ebey is chairman of the food committee.
All women who possess cars which could transport trainees and other coeds to the picnic are urged to notify the offices where sign ups are being taken, according to Miss Galentine.
Dental meet starts soon
Dr. Emory W. Morris, chairman of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation board, will arrive from Battle Creek, Mich., this week to direct a special session on dental health education at the war service conference of the Southern California State Dental association, meeting for three days, beginning Sept. 13, at the Ambassador hotel.
Dr. Morris will also be a guest speaker at the opening assembly to be followed by an Inter-American luncheon honoring 18 members of the local consulate corps. President Rufus B. von KleinSmid of SC will be the speaker.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
Nirht phone: ri. 5472 Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1943
No. 29
Plantation theme sets party tone
A plantation theme will herald the 10th in the weekly series of all-U digs for navy, marine, and army trainees as the Zeta Tau Alpha and Chi Omega sororities combine operations in this Friday % recreational.
Both houses on 28th street will be open for dancing and refreshments, according to Leta Galentine, ASSC vice-president.
“In accordance with the plantation theme, coeds will attend in gingham dresses and other appropriate costumes,” she added.
A special invitation has been extended to all professors, deans, head residents, and commanding officers for the recreational.
Florine Harris is in charge for
Kepler to stress wartime attitudes
That we must face contemporary problems with a realistic tone rather than utilize an escapist philosophy will be emphasized by Dr. Thomas S. Kepler when he addresses an all-U assembly in Bovard auditorium tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. on the topic “Living in a Time of Crisis.” Dr. Kepler, professor of
philosophy and religion at Law-
The ASSC social committee will meet toda^, .12:45 p.m., 233 Student Union. The following people are requested to be present: Betty Markowitz, Betty Jany, Jean Working, Margaret Ann Hausmann, Dorothy Smith, Pat Parke, Margaret Malcom, Pat Ebey, Bill Caldwell, Don Ferguson, Bill Stevens, Jack Armitage, Cal Straub, Dave Lavelle, and Stuart Skeele.
the Chi Omegas and Kay Hansen for the Zeta Tau Alphas.
Official ASSC hostesses will wear badges for the first time at the party, Miss Galentine said.
Board plans house opening
Members of the Red Cross executive committee will meet at 2:45 p.m. today at the YWCA house, Helen Taylor, chairman of the Red Cross unit, announced yesterday.
Committee chairmen include Betty May Rinehart, blood donor service; Rosemarie Trucano, fund raising; Pat Grover, production; and Kathleen Gelcher, public information.
Plans to organize the official opening of the Red Cross house will be discussed in addition to general ideas on next
Basil Mathews to address minister meet
Lecturing on the Christian church and the Soviet Union at 8:15 this evening, Dr. Basil Mathews of Boston university will conclude today’s program presented for Ministers’ week, which began yesterday and will continue through Friday.
Ministers’ week is being sponsored by the Graduate School of Religion at SC, the commission on the course of study, Methodist church, and the Church federation of Los Angeles. The series includes a group of forums, addresses, and classes which began yesterday at 8:30 a.m. and will be concluded with a forum at 3:30 p.m. Friday.
Chief speakers of the meet are Dr. F. Ernest Johnson of the Federal Council of Churches who will speak on “Christianity and Social Rebuilding”; Dr. Basil Mathews of Boston university who will discuss “A New World Strategy for the Christian Church”; Dr. Thomas S. Kepler of Lawrence college who will talk on “Contemporary Religious Thought”; and Dr. J. Hudson Ballard of the San Francisco Theological seminary who will discuss “Studies in Personality Problems.”
Spiritual values In wartime is the theme of the week, according to Dr. Robert J. Taylor, dean of the Graduate School of Religion, who is in charge of the conferences. “This idea dominates all talks that will be given,” Dr. Taylor said.
rence college, Wise., will speak as a representative of the third annual Ministers’ week now in progress on campus.
Outlining views to. be presented in his talk, Dr. Kepler said, “We must get a feel of history to see how other ages have faced their problems, thus profiting from their experience.
“We must absorb ourselVes in something bigger than ourselves, such as scientific truth, beauty, humanity, and God.
“We must have hope for the iuture, a compelling factor in creative living,” added famed religious educator Kepler. “Man does not live by despair.”
Dr. Kepler, who has spoken at universities throughout the United States and Europe, is noted for exceptional platform presence and forceful personality in addressing undergraduate audiences.
Graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Boston college, Dr. Kepler pursued further studies at Cornell, where he received
S.T.B. and Ph.D. degrees.
Dr. Kepler’s SC address will be one of several he has made while on a tour of the west coast. In addition to speaking to the student body, he will address clergymen at Ministers’ week conferences.
Canterbury club cancels dinner
The Canterbury club dinner for tonight has been cancelled due to difficulty of obtaining food, according to George Davidson, president of the club.
Student councils
. . . of the Colleges of Pharmacy and Dentistry will meet today, 1:15 p.m. in 304 Science hall.
Dr. Scott to describe Sicily before ivnasion
Sicily as it was before Allied invasion will be described by Dr. Florence R. Scott, associate professor of English, ln an illustrated talk to be given today at 2:30 p.m., room 101, Harris hall.
Titled “Sicily, the land of invasion,” the lecture will center on such historic spots as the plain
of Palermo where the Allied seventh and eighth armies recently fought for the bastian of Palermo.
Dr. Scott visited Sicily during the year she spent in England working on her doctorate. She plans to include various pictures of architectural structures and scenic views which she photographed during her stay on the Mediterranean island.
“The architectural beauties of Sicily as embodied in the .remains of the Greek, Roman, Carthaginian, Norman, and Saracen civilizations are indescribable,” Dr. Scott stated.
“One cathedral wall alone in Monraele is worked in solid natural gold. Though the work was done .centuries ago, it still glitters in unequalled richness.”
This talk is part of a series of summer term programs sponsored by the English department. Dr. Lionel Stevenson is in charge.
French legion honors Eaker
To his long list of honors, Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commander of the Eighth airforce and a former student of the SC School of Journalism, added recently the Legion of Honor, received for his services in England.
The hard-hitting army officer is the holder of a Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to him in 1927 after a goodwill tour of South America. The Oak Leaf Cluster was added to his awards for the part he played in the army endurance tests of the airplane, Question Mark.
His army career began in 1917. By 1932, as a captain, Eaker was told by the army to choose a journalism school in which to train for public relations work. He selected SC and took courses in newspaper reporting, publicity, newspaper administration, and advertising. He completed requirements for his A.B. degree in journalism in the summer of 1933. It was at that time that he established the Ruth Apperson Eaker editorial award in the name of his wife.
Leaving SC, Eaker headed a pursuit squadron at March field, was later made a major and sent to the Air Corps Tactical school, Ala. Before being sent to England, Eaker spent three years in the air corps office, Washington, D.C.
SICILY CATHEDRAL . . cultural remains.
Blue Key
. . . will meet at 1 p.m. today, 323 Student Union. All members are requested to be present.
Hut sells $100 bond
Purchasing the bond which put the term total over the $4000 mark, Phi Delta Chi pharmacy fraternity purchased a $100 war bond yesterday. Bob Patterson, president of the fraternity accompanied Carroll Brinkerhoff, bond chairman, and Patty Weise, war board chairman, to the bank where the purchase was made.
Patterson indicated that the fraternity intends to buy war bonds at regular intervals throughout the coming term.
The Victory Hut wil be under the Tri-Delts for the remainder of this week.
Lae Yanks overrun Jap forces
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Wednesday, Sept. 8—(U.P.) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s American and Australian forces are swiftly overrunning the outer defenses of the Japanese stronghold at Lae, New Guinea, and Allied flyers are bombing the enemy’s inner fortifications into flaming ruins, it was revealed today. *
One enemy formation of 20 medium bombers and 10 escorting fighters raided Allied shipping in the Huon gulf Monday afternoon, but Allied fighter planes swarmed over them and shot down seven and possibly 13 of the enemy craft. One Allied plane was lost in the battle.
The ground action appeared to be rushing swiftly toward a climax, and all indications were that the pulverizing Allied aerial attacks were giving tho Japanese defenders little opportunity to dig in for a protracted fight .
There was no immediate indication of the size of the American and Australian forces in the^ Markham valley west of Lae, but the communique reported that ground reinforcements were being rushed in by transport to the Nadzab strip, apparently in preparation for an attack on Lae-in coordination with the Australians on the east.
Twenty-one miles to the south, Allied ground troops maintained a tight patrol line along the southern and western approaches to salamaua, completing the cordon thrown about an estimated
20,000	Japanese in the Lae-Sala-maua stretch of New Guinea’s “gold coast.”
Faculty to hear tax discussion
H.	Dean Campbell, associate professor of accounting, will speak to the Men’s Faculty club today at 12:20 p.m. on the new income tax. Luncheon will be served in the Student Union grill.
As the senior member of the firm of Campbell, Rogan, and Burby, tax consultants, Professor Campbell ls well informed on details of the new income tax.
Professor Campbell is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and was a flyer in World war L
War Board asks coeds to work
Do you like to eat?
Every Trojan on campus an* swers this question in the affirmative. That’s why coeds are needed in the Student Union as waitresses from this Monday until the end of this term.
To meet the wartime shortage of waitresses on campus, the War Board is signing up this week Trojan women who can work two hours for two or three days a week in the Union. The rush hours, from 12 to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., will call for the largest number of women, but women also are needed to do fountain work in the afternoon.
Students interested should sign the list in the War Board office, 230 Student Union, or see Dorothy Smith, ASSC secretary, this week. Women will be paid 50 cents aa hour plus meals, and will dress in pinafore#, according to Miss Smith.