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Victory Bell Returned to Bruins
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Jrojan
Vol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1942
Night Phone: RI. 5471
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Mavy Sin!<s
23 Jap Ships
n Solomons
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—(U.P.)—The United States navy fght ar d won the mightiest seabattle since Jutland last jkend—a smashing triumph that wiped out 23 Jap ships, |luding a battleship and five cruisers, and frustrated the st ambitious enemy attempt so far to recapture lost posies in the Solomons islands. | ---
ipanese casualties were estimat-unofficially at between 25.000 30,000 men. ie historic victory was reported |ght by the navy department :h said another Jap battleship six destroyers also were dam-in a three-day slugfest that the United States two light
Isers. six destroyers sunk and an eterminxl number of men. he mar of the hour in the iderous triumph was Vice-Ad-il Willis m F. Halsey. Jr.. hard-Lng American commander whose liant direction of the battle may < him among the nation’s great-naval heroes.
AP SHIPS LOST 1 told. -1 Jap men-o-war (one leship, five cruisers and five royers) ind 13 auxiliaries (eight p tran? ports and four cargo sports) were wiped out. nis damige was done in action Yiday, Nov. 13, and tonight's nunique said that details of ier naval fighting in the great :gle for Guadalcanal island in Solomons on the night of Nov.
► have not yet been received.
INS FRIDAY
e fierce fighting began Friday ting, shortly after midnight sday. and by Sunday morning iurvivin? ships of the Japanese da wer* reported retreating to baser to the north, i mention was made ln the nunique of use of aircraft car-by either side. Both the U.S.
Japanese navies have lost heav-t this category in other battles, wever, an aide to Admiral ter W. Nimitj. commander-in-of the Pacific fleet, said after tz issued a communique and a pi ess conference at fleet quarters in Pearl Harbor .that J. S. made good use of carriers their planes. The enemy, he d. must have been unwilling to his carriers, did not think he ed then, or did not have them [se.
Management
.
Group Meets
Cquncil to Study Problems of War
Organized to discuss current problems of war-time production, a conference sponsored by the Southern California Management council will be given on this campus next Saturday.
SC is represented on the council by the College of Commerce and Business Administration and the SC student chapter. American Management association.
Among the distinguished and well-informed men who will participate in the program, is President Rufus B. von KleinSmid. He will speak Saturday morning at the general session in Bovard auditorium.
At the luncheon and dinner in the Foyer of Town and Gown, leaders in industrial production of national repute will be the speakers. Main speaker at dinner will be Roger D. Lapham, chairman of the board of American Hawaiian Steamship company and member of the war labor board. His topic is “The War Labor Eoard in Theory and Practice.”
Members of the conference committee in charge of the affair are Reid L. McClung, dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, general— chairman; Thurston H. Ross, director of the School of Merchandising, program chairman; and Lawrence D. Pritchard, director of the office of coordination. arrangements chairman.
Trojans Trek to Pick Crops on Saturday
Four-Star Coeds Don Overalls to Gather Autumn Harvest
If there isn’t much work done Saturday in San Fernando, the workers will at least have a good excuse. They will have spent the entire day gazing ogle-eyed at the beauty of two four-star coeas— Patti Powell and Virginia Welch.
Yes, the two of them will don overalls and straw hats, along with 248 other Trojans, and travel to San Fernando valley to help the war effort in their small way. The workers will pick the crop that is ready for the market, be it oranges, walnuts, lemons, or tomatoes. SUPPORT PLEDGED Many of ,the fraternities and sororities have pledged 100 j)er cent support to the project.
Students wishing to go crop harvesting should sign the list posted in ASSC President Bob McKay’s office on the second floor of the Student Union.
The party will leave 28th street at 7 a.m. Saturday. Student* should pack lunches for the trip. Dinner will be at 4 p.m. in Reseda park and will be furnished.
'Washington Actors Offered Screen Tests
Playing before the largest audiences in more than two years, “George Washington Slept Here,” SC drama workshop production, concluded its run of three successful performances in Bovard auditorium last night.
Yesterday Joan Miles, director of the three-act comedy which had played continuously on the New York stage for two years, announced that two members of the cast, Ed Kelley and Barry Jones, were offered screen tests by “Rudy Vallee Presents,” a talent scout organization.
“We’re not surprised in the least,” she said. “This is the big chance they have been waiting for, and we’re all proud of them.” Kelley played the role of Raymond. a mischievous imp called by other characters a “dead end kid.” Jones was cast in the romantic lead opposite Carroll Brinkerhoff.
lio D rectors Meet
^mbers >f the board of directors le radio staff selected Monday, | meet today at 4 p.m. in the Jo office of the Cinema build-ly Cushman, talent division; JConigsberg, continuity; lam Inirall, sound; Lynn Ran-|production; Marvin Meyer, en-sring; and Katherine Stowell, icity, are requested to attend kect a cnairman of the board.
Rabin Addresses Hillel Council at Luncheon
Rabbi Henry Rabin, director of the Hillel foundation, will speak at the non-org luncheon this noon in the council office, 908 West 37th street,.
He returned recently from a trip through Europe and will relate his experiences and observations in the war-torn area.
Members of the Hillel council and their friends will bring sandwiches. Coffee and cookies will bt provided.
Other Trojans who have signed up already include Orr Omar and Jim Econn, frosh basketball prospects. Twenty-one students have signed to go so far. Two-hundred fifty must volunteer if any go at all.
This is the first venture of SC’s agricultural harvesting committee. Jean Yale, chairman of the committee. said that the farmers of the valley, who are suffering from a labor shortage, jumped at the chance to use student workers. SPONSORED BY YWCA
The harvesting program, sponsored by the YWCA. has been organized to raise a fund which will go toward furnishing Christmas baskets to needy children.
Individual prizes will be awarded by the four-star coeds to the boy and girl picking the most fruit.
After working their fingers to the bone all day Saturday, Trojans will have an opportunity to dance their feet to the nub at night. Preceded by a wiener roast and a few minutes of relaxation, the workers will trek to Edward Everett Horton’s farm in Encino to swing out, yokel style.
SC s Casualty Aides Rehearse
University casualty station U5 will take part in a city-wide air raid rehearsal at approximately 7:30 tonight.
Tonight’s rehearsal will be broader in scope than ever before. First aid squads, auxiliary police, air raid wardens, rescue squads, fire-fighting apparatus, crews for the repair of water and gas mains, and trucks and men for clearing debris will participate.
Critical areas will be segregated, and only authorized persons will be allowed access to them.
Personnel of the casualty station is requested by Dr. Howard deFor-est, station adjutant, to report to 205 Physical Education building at 6:45 p.m. and tx> use the 36th street entrance.
E>r. deForest requested the day
Forum to Hear Thompson Talk on Democracy
Philosophy Lecturer Describes Principles, Historical Relations
'•What is the historic justification of the use of our concept of democracy?”
“What definition has emerged from the historical background?” “What has been the historic relation between education and democracy?”
“Why has democratic education been so long delayed, and what are the principles and practices of democratic education today?”
These four major problems of democratic education will be discussed by Dr. M. M. Thompson in his lecture on “Educating for Democracy” today at the 4:15 meeting of the fifth,session of the Philosophy forum.
Dr. Thompson believes that it is now fairly recognized that for democracy to be effective there must be an intelligent citizenry, but up to the present time it has not been clearly perceived or understood just how to make the citizenry intelligent with reference to the social, political, and economic problems that makes the fabric of the world in which we live.
"At the present time educators are giving a great deal of thought to this problem, and the lecture will attempt to present some of their thinking along this line,” said the educator.
Cancelation of Came Narrowly Averted
Cancelation of the traditional SC-UCLA football game has been narrowly averted by the timely return of the Bruin victory bell which was stolen from the coliseum last year after the Washington State-UCLA game.
Through the combined efforts of the Daily Trojan and a group cf level-headed students, the bell, a gift of the Bruin Alumni association in 1939, was returned to home ground late last night.
Prompt return of the trophy in response to yesterday’s editorial shows the true attitude
of most Trojans, and the gesture
Ceremonies Honor
Heroes on Flag Day
Entire University to Show War Spirit
in First Demonstration of Its Kind
Evidence of Troy’s part in the war and the faith of the university in our fighting men will be shown Thursday at 11 a.m. when students and faculty unite in a patriotic demonstration that will include addresses by student body president Bob McKay and President Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
Aurel Gilbert, Blue Key president who is heading the flag day event, has asked for all of Troy to unite and participate in this demonstration, which is the first of its kind in the United States.
An impressive ceremony has been arranged by Gilbert. It will culminate at the Sig Ep house when all Greek houses raise American flags simultaneously with the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner” by the SC band. McKay will then conclude the day with his speech.
The* entire SC student body will march up to 28th street behind an NROTC color guard and the Trojan band. Police have consented to rope off the marching area in order to take care of the large throng expected..
Knights, Amazons, Squires, and Blue Key members have volunteered to direct the procession along the route.
Ellis Speaks
Dr. Leon H. Ellis, professor of international relations, spoke at the Burbank —evening forum last night on “Alaska and the Aleutian Area.” He was formerly legation secretary in China and he also was employed by" the Standard Oil company there.
Allies Prepare Smash Against Axis Forces
ALLIED NORTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 16— 9:20 p.m.—(U.P.)—Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson’s British first army, now reinforced by American mobile units and a personnel of the school of Medi-1 number of French detachments which have joined the allies, cine to attend the rehearsal as the was ready tonight for its “grand smash” against German and night staff attended the last one. Italian forces holding parts of
lark Releases Names 270 A. B Winners
Latin Engineer to Tour Campus
J. Federico Mejia, engineer and director of the notional Commission of Electricity of El Salvador, will tour the SC campus today and tomorrow, according to Lawrence D. Pritchard, director of the office of coordination.
Mejia arrived in the United States Oct. 21 and has been on an extended trip throughout the country. His visit was arranged and sponsored by the U.S. government.
The Latin guest is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y., and is a fluent speaker of the English language. He will be in Los Angeles until Friday.
However, the night staff may attend.
Flight From Germany Described by Marcuse
Dangers and difficulties he encountered on a flight from nazi Germany and the problems of the refugee will be described this noon by Dr. Ludwig Marcuse when he addresses the German club —at a luncheon meeting in the basement of Baridge hall.
Reservations for the luncheon are 25 cents —and may be secured in
French Tunisia—key to control of the central Mediterranean sea.
When the grand smash will start naturally is a military secret but informants here said that “all” was ready and .that the “big show will start soon.”
BORDER CROSSED
Advanced allied columns which crossed the Tunisian border at a number of points for reconnaissance during the week end still were active, it was said, and had had scattered “sniping” contact with .the “enemy”. (It was not clear whether the enemy troops were dissident French units or axis groups.) Their
An Editorial
ie n?mes of 270 Trojans who topped the list in the aca-lic gane of grade garnering for the 1942 spring semester announced last week by Theron Clark, registrar.
renty-two undergraduates ended the semester with no NpwQtn^n VieWS Ie less than A, while 248 students received straight B’s or
China Problems
[omen of Troy led the men In
academic race, with 13 women
giving i o grade less than A st nir.e men with the same Boasting no grade less than
130 women and 118 men. iors—the class of ’43—lead the classes with a total of 99 top-le students. There were 82 iors, 43 sophomores, and 46 len with all B’s or better, “brain” of the lot, Fred who graduated in June, ’42, a dazzling college career
<*x>rd of
iven semesters
grees who completed 12 units or more with no grade below A were: Sara Aronberg 43. WUla M. Boone ’42, G. T. Chulpian '44, Florence A. Cleland *42. Mildred L. Eberhard ’42. Patricia Ann Geddes ’42. Geor-gellen Hill '44. Shirley J. Hitz '43, Alfred W. Kornbluth '45, Martha P. Livingstone ’43. Robert M. McKay '43, Fred Mayer ’42. Jean A. Morton 43. Carolyn E. Mueller ’42, Richard B. Newton '42.
Sam F. Roeca ‘43, Beatrice H.
Shragrer '44. Harold Snitkoff '42.
An American newspaper man’s views of the current situation in China and pictures taken while covering the war there will be shown tb the Asiatic studies group today by Porter Dilley, noted correspondent.
The purpose of the meeting, which will be a dinner held at Man Jen Low in new Chinatown, is to acquaint the group with its members ; and advisers and to give the Asiatic !
ari accurate conception of the
No Lack of Time
That the educational program of the university shall not suffer from “lack of time” on the part of students because of their excessive and undue participation in campus activities is a fact that must be understood by every enrollee here today. That there are indications of such tendencies is to be found in the number of five-week cinch notices by instructors this semester and also by the number of class absences turned in to date.'
The president and his educational directors are not only concerned with this decline in academic interest, they are about to take initiative themselves in forcibly remedying the situation. It is their demand that students’ participation in UNCALLED-FOR activities must cease immediately. Nonsense must be swept aside for real war effort.
Yesterday afternoon the AWS cabinet met with the counselor of women and passed upon a number of sweeping resolutions designed to curb these unnecessary activities. No longer will students be permitted to conduct week-night meetings, social gatherings, or “ponderous” panel discussions. Monday night “meeting freedom’' has been swept aside by official resolutions, and students will not be allowed to treat tbe evening as a weekend playday. •
It has been announced that deserts will not be served after dinner time. Useless gatherings have been eliminated, and it’s time enough. For further details concerning restric* tions on Trojan women, readers may consult today S W omen’s
activity was intended to test the coming battleground.
A members of the U.S. consulate in Tunis, who escaped and reached Algiers Saturday, said all indications were when he left the Tunisian capital that the axis forces ferred across from Italy intend to fight. He said reports the axis forces were being evacuated by air were incorrect, so far as he could learn.
The German forces, he added, were assuming defensive positions and would try ,to hold all important Tunisian ports, harbors and air-fileds.
NO “PUSH-OVER’*
The consul (whose name was not given In the dispatch) was confident the allies will take all Tunisia and believed that German forces fleeing from Egypt would be‘caught between the jaws of the allied nutcracker. He said that all indications were that the two allied forces driving on Tunisia from east and west had “overwhelming superiority.”
President R. B. von KleinSmid . . . gives flag day address.
Soph Council Picks Queen
Beauty will take the spotlight today at the sophomore council meeting where the sophomore queen will be chosen, according to Don Shaw, class president.
Shaw has requested all sororities to send their sophomore candidates for queen to 418 Student Union at 4 this afternoon.
Council members will vote secretly on the queen, and her name will not be revealed until the Notre Dame homecoming game, when both the freshman and sophomore beauty queens will be presented.
Preceding the game, Shaw’s contingent will participate in the frosh-sophomore brawl. The winner of the brawl will have its queen crowned homecoming queen.
Shaw has also announced an exchange dinner with the UCLA sophomore council Thursday at 6:15 p.m. at the Mona Lisa restaurant. Cost of the dinner wiU be SI for each council member.
Junior Council Meets Tonight
The coming Junior prom and an exchange dinner with the class council of UCLA will be the main business for discussion at tonight's meeting of the junior council at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house on 28th street.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. with dinner and the discussion will follow, according to Les Shankman, newly elected vice-president of the junior class.
may smooth over the results of recent rash behavior of several thoughtless students.
The exchange of destructive pranks between the two schools had reached such a climax that President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, in a conference yesterday morning, stated intentions to call off the game at any further provocation.
At a meeting late last night the presidents of the two student bodies
met and signed statements concerning the purpose of the return of the bell,
In order to avoid any occurrence that might endanger the friendly relations that have existed between our universities for so many years, and in order to maintain the fine sportsmanship that has been symbolic of our studentbod-ies, we do hereby resolve:
(a)	That there shall be no “invasions” by the students of either university of the campus of the other, and that students participating in such violations will b« subject to severe discipline.
(b)	That each student body will undertake to educate its members In the weeks preceding the “Big Game” to observe the spirit of the foregoing resolution, and to exercise every possible measure to prevent any incident arising that may lead to it* violation.
BILL FARRER President Associated Students of University of California at Los Angeles.
BOB McKAY President Associated Students of The University of Southern California.
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I, Bob McKay, president. ASSC, in the spirit of the above pact, do
hereby return to Bill Farrer, president, ASUCLA, the iatter’s “Victory Bell.”
Bob McKay, president ASSC.
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I, Bill Farrer, president of ASUCLA, do hereby declare that this same Victory Bell shall become a perpetual trophy to be awarded to the winner of the annual SC-UCLA football game.
Bill Farrer, president ASUCLA. Working through the Daily Trojan and the Daily Bruin, Sam Roe* ca and Earl Collings helped negotiate the return. This return marlsj the last exchange of mislocated articles, the Trojan sword, and th® banners of both schools being back in the hands of the rightful owners.
It is anticipated that the alumni athletic association of SC will make arrangements to pay for one half of the bell as a gesture of the sincerity of this school in the return of it as a standing trophy.
Contest Offers Poets Chance to Versify War
If you are the least poetically inclined or possess the ability to add rhyme to the expression of your feelings, be sure to enter the war poetry contest which is open to all sc students. It is being sponsored by the SC committee on morale
and the Daily Trojan*	|------
Three prizes will be awarded by upon the youth; the place o. e
strictions, nothing to
the judges. Professors John D. Cooke, Garland Greever, Mildred Struble, and Louis Wann. First prize will be $15 in war stamps, and the second and third prizes will be $5 in stamps.
No restrictions are placed upon the form, style, or length of the verses. The only rule is that the
poem must deal In some way with
student during the war; or any
other attitude toward or comment
on World war II.
All poems must be turned into Dr. Frank C. Baxter by Dec. 18. Each poem must be typed or. standard typing paper and marked with a code word or phrase. A sealed envelope marked with the same code word or phrase, con-
tive rva.me and
Alumni to Dance at Fiesta Room
The 28th annual Homecoming dance has been definitely scheduled and will be held in the Fiesta room of the Ambassador hotel the dance committee announced yesterday. John Scott Trotter’s band will furnish the music.
“This will be one of the greatest Homecoming dances yet staged, and we all hope the students will back it and make it a huge success.’’ stated Mickey Heegar, chairman of the dance.
The committee in charge of the affair includes Bob Greenberg, entertainment; Walt Eichenhoffer, bids; and Mickey Heegar, publicity.
All-U Producer Calls for Chorus
“It is essential that every ot men and women—who has sung
with the all-U chorus or who expect to sing; with it in the show
check with me today to verify his eligibility,” emphatically stated Lynn Cohne, producer of
’Neath Tommy Trojan.*’
“I will be in 235 Student Union
during chapel and lunch hour. Those who fail to see me will be automatically dropped,” Miss Cohne said.
The chorus will rehearse today
in 4 Music building and each
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