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mbers hit Berlin
Enormous fleets of fighter-escort-American heavy bombers, con-tly battling great swarms of azi interceptors and the full ight of Germany’s most ctesper-te aerial defense, spread ruin and e.struction over northwest Ger-any yesterday—possibly also hit-Berlin—in what probably was tory’s greatest air battle.
liies drive two miles
•mashing through the center of German defense belt, Ameri-troops drove two miles along Rome road to within three iles of Cassino from the south ‘ay and simultaneously bore wn on the city in a powerful winging arc through the hills to northeast.
eds push into Poland
Soviet troops, reaching 39 miles into pre-war Poland, yesterday the tottering German armies f the Ukraine from those in Thite Russia by capturing rail-d towns north and south of Sar-T, and opened a new push to the utheast which carried within 15 iiles of the five-way rail junction Shepetovka.
s cut anticipated
ss gasoline for “A” book hold-and tighter occupational driv-restrictions were predicted for west coast today by Leo Gent-, regional office of price admin-ation director. Gentner anticited a cut from three to two gal-s in the value of “A” coupons d said mileage rationing officials d meet within two days to der the revision.
oops invade Burma
Allied troops, crossing into north-estem Burma in possible prepara-on for a major offensive, have ptured Maungdaw, 55 miles above e Burmese port of Akyab and e driving on down the Mayu insula in the face of heavy panese opposition, Admiral Lord uis Mountbatten’s headquarters nounced tonight.
uss to head acific OWI
Dr. Claude A. Buss, former pro->r of International Relations at 5, has been appointed to succeed wen Lattimore as director of the nfic bureau of the office of war ormation.
In 1931 he was vice-counsul in ing. returning to the United tes in 1934 to take his position SC.
r. Buss, who left SC in 1941 to e as executive assistant to Fran-B. Sayre, high commissioner of e Philippines, volunteered to take je of Manila when Sayre was ade a prisoner of the Japanese. Dr. Buss returned from Manila on v. 30, 1043, aboard the exchange er Gripsholm.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
Ni*ht phone: RL 647* Los Angeles, Wednesday, January 12, 1944
No. 71
ar Board
. Chairman Patty Wiese requests at the following people meet in e War Board office, 230 Student Ion, at 12:30 today:
Helen Taylor, Mickey Heeger, Bob er, Carroll Brinkerhoff, Prank ahon, Margaret Ann Haus-n, and Mary Kirschner.
hi Kappa Tau
fraternity will hold its first ing of the term tomorrow at 7 at 724 West 30th street.
All members of other chapters are ially invited to attend.
resident's ffice notice
The following schedule will gov-emall classes from Monday, Jan. 7 through Friday, Jan. 21, 1944: 8:00-8:50 8:55-9:45
9:50-10:30 Assembly.
0:35-11:25 1:30-12:20.
R. B. von KleinSmid, President.
Roosevelt asks national service act
Amazons call today final for petitions
Prospective Amazons may still turn in their petitions today, according to Lynn Norby, president. The deadline was formerly set for Monday, but because the flu and tests may have delayed some women in filing petitions, they will still be accepted today. Petitions should be signed and placed in the AWS office, 201 Student Union.
Several requirements were stressed by Miss Norby. Students applying for membership must be high sophomores, juniors or seniors. They must have completed at least three terms of academic work in the school, and must have maintained a 1.3 grade average foi> three terms. Activity points in three major activities are necessary for membership.
“Pledges will be judged,” said Miss Norby, ”on personality, scholarship, activities, and service to the university. Ambition, leadership, and suggestions for plans for the university in the future will also influence the selection.”
Women who have been elected to replace the graduating Amazons will know of their selection Feb. 9, when they will be introduced at the womens’ recognition assembly.
ADPi s reach Hut record
ADPi’s last week sold $22,019.80 worth of war bonds and stamps in the Victory Hut, surpassing all records for this term’s weekly receipts. Total term sales jumped to ’$47,-956.30, Carroll Brinkerhoff, bond chairman, announced yesterday.
With five weeks remaining in the term, over three-fourths of the $60,-000 goal has been achieved.
Sorority sales for the 'winter term are as follows:
Kappa Delta, $8415.45; Theta, $49; Phi Mu, $4362.75; Pi Phi, $2409.65; ZTA, $10,607.40; AChiO, $892.25; and ADPi, $22,019.80.
The present term quota is twice that of the $30,000 summer goal. The spring goal may be correspondingly higher if sales continue at their present rate, according to Miss Brinkerhoff.
ADPi’s are in charge of sales at the Victory Hut this week.
Shafer to appear in Hancock group
Appearing with the Hancock ensemble Friday night at 8:30 in Hancock auditorium will be Pohn Shafer, baritone. Shafer’s first appearance at SC was in the Christmas oratorio when he sang the Messiah and Elijah.
Recently returned from San Francisco where he completed a seven -week engagement with the Comic Opera theater singing the role of Dr. Falke in the “Rose Masque,” Shafer will sing Massanett’s Vision Fugitive from ‘“Herodiate.” Also to be presented is a group of melodies including the familiar “Song of the Open Road,” Mallot.
Dr. Lucien Cailliet, successor to Loren Powell as conductor of the Hancock ensemble, will direct the program. Several of Dr. Cailliet’s own orchestrations will be featured. Notable among them is his arrangement of Stephen Foster’s folk song “Oh Suzanna.”
Tickets for reserved seats may be obtained by students and faculty members at Hancock hall.
Win-War program asked in address
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. (UP)—President Roosevelt tonight asked the nation to support a sweeping win-the-war program which he laid before congress earlier today, including a national service law designed to prevent strikes and, with certain exceptions, draft every able-bodied adult for an all-out
home front effort.
Such a law is necessary now to carry the nation over the last hard miles to victory, he said in a fireside chat during which he referred to 1944 as “this very fateful year in our history.”
He went to the microphones to give a condensed version of his state of the union message which was read for him at noon to both
DETROIT, Jan. 11—(U.R>—President R. J. Thomas o fthe United Automobile Workers (CIO) said tonight that President Roosevelt’s proposed national service law “smacks of slave labor” and added that he did not see how winning the war would be advanced by conscription of labor.
houses of congress, but which he was unable to deliver personally because of recent illness.
“Like a great many of my fellow countrymen,” he explained tonight, “I have had the ‘flu,’ and, although I am practically recoevred, my doctor simply would not permit me to leave the white house and go up to the capitol.”
He said he was repeating to the radio audience the recommendations laid before congress nine hours earlier because only a few of the nation’s newspapers can print his message in full.
In his third wartime state of the union message and his first in this, an election year, he told the newly convened second session of the 78th congress that he has hesitated for three years to recommend a national service law but is now convinced it is necessary. He repeated this and other significant passages in the fireside chat.
Cupid connives with females in trapping men
Why, like greyhounds after a mechanical rabbit, will thousands of eager girls rush out and propose to the nearest and likeliest beau this year?
Exasperatingly, the “Encyclopedia Britannica” says, “Of the custom to woo during leap year no satisfactory explanation has ever been offered.'*
The - blame for the dangerous precedent of leap year proposals can be put on the astromoners of ulius Caesar's time who, in 46 B. C. sat down and settled the solar year at 365 days and six hours. These six extra hours accumulate and make an extra day every four years.
The custom became official in Scotland in 1288 when a law was enacted that if any girl should propose and be refused, the man must pay her a certain sum.
Today, no law covers the situation. The leap-year Sadie Hawkins has only herself to blame for her matrimonial estate. Never can she console herself with the thought, “Well, he certainly is terrible but after all, he swept me off my feet.”
Research school to hear Kessell
Continuing an academic tradition started in 1933, the School of Research will sponsor its 11th annual lecture, Jan. 20, 4:15 p.m. in Bowne Hall. The speaker this year will be Dr.John Kessel, professor of bacteriology, who will discuss the field of microbiology.
Each year, one professor who is outstanding in his field is selected by the executive committee to deliver the lecture.
“Because Dr. Kessel is recognized as one of the prominent leaders in the field of microbiology, we can look forward to an authoritative dissertation on that subject,"stated Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt, director of the School of Research.
The banquet that usually accompanies the discussion will not be held this year, making it possible for all interested students to attend, said Dr. John Cooke, chairman of the committee. The program will include selections by members of the School of Music.
Sororities take El Rodeo pictures
Organizations are being photographed for El Rodeo according to Tyler MacDonald, business manager, and women in sororities are asked to make appointments with the campus photographer as soon as possible. In answer to questions concerning womens clothing for pictures MacDonald said white blouses will be in order. Members of other organizations will be notified when to make appointments.
Stevens calls I.R. students meeting
Students in the School of International Relations will meet with Bill Stevens, president, today at 12:45, 305 administration building.
Plans for an all-university dance, sponsored by the School of International Relations and Government are to be discussed. The International Relations club also will be organized under the direction of Dr. Eugene Harley, professor of international relations.
Stevens announced Delta Phi Epsilon, honorary IR fraternity,may be reestablished on this compus. The fraternity became inactive because of loss of members to the military service.
Commerce king to earn crown at all-U dig
The special investigating committee hired by the College of Commerce has poured through the files with the help of registrar’s office helpers and has declared that the “King of Cinch” will be ready for publication in Friday’s Trojan.
Chosen ,to reign over the Cinch Notice dance at the Los Angeles Breakfast club Jan. 15, the monarch’s fame is sure to spread near and far, maybe to San Diego.
“Since bids are selling rapidly, all those expecting to attend the informal dance are asked to obtain their tickets today at the cashier’s window in the Bookstore or from various hall representatives, said Mickey Heeger, president of the College of Commerce. Barracks’ representatives are Jack Balzer, Henderson; John Kimball. Owens; Norm Stow, Williams; Joe Holt, Reynolds; Ralph Grahl, Newkirk; and Don Shaw, E. von KleinSmid.
The Los Angeles Breakfast club at 3201 Los Feliz boulevard, is expected to provide an easily accessible place for most students. The dance will last from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
In addition to ruling over the evening’s festivities, the unnamed monarch will receive a befitting regal pift of Morocco-bound bluebooks.
S.S. Paddock honors star
Completed on schedule, the S. S. Charles Paddock, named in honor of Troy’s famed track star, slid down the ways of the Cal-ship yards late last month.
In the words of Mrs. Charles H. Prisk, christener, this launching turly “‘symbolizes the indomitable spirit of our country.”
Of interest to SC is the fact the liberty ship carries a pair of the late Paddock’s track shoes.
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Speaking for Paddock’s hundreds of friends from ail phases of life, L. A. Copeland, master of ceremonies, said:
“As this ship is born I know every one of us will be thinking ‘there goes one for a swell fellow and a great friend.’ ”
Political front.
Kappa Alpha history told by columnist
by the Groundhog
What is this KA organization that some controlling student powers say is a “machine” as much as the TNE?
The Kappa Alpha, a social fraternity, prefers to have the word “machine” detached from their name because of the implication the word has had with dirty politics.
As I stated in my Friday col-----
Religious emphasis to open
With “Today’s Citizens in Tomorrow’s World” as the theme of the annual Religious Emphasis week, opening activities will start Sunday at 4:30 p.m. when a vesper service is held in the University Methodist church. Following days of the week will feature lectures, meetings, discussions and assemblies on the SC campus.
During the school week, all-university assemblies will be held in Bovard auditorium from 9:50 to 10:30 in the morning. Classes will be scheduled so as to afford every student and faculty member a chance to attend the assemblies.
Dr. Harold C. Case, noted national minister and lecturer, will make his third annual visit next week as the speaker at the assemblies.
Talks to be delivered by Dr. Case are “Wanted: A Leader,” Monday; “The Common Denominator,” Tuesday; ‘Half Answers Are Not Enough,” Wednesday; “Do Students Pray?,” Thursday, and “Portents of a Better World,” Friday.
At the opening vesper service Pres. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will preside while the men’s and women’s glee clubs will sing. During this service Dr. Case will address the audience on the topic Generous Hunger.”
On Monday evening all organized houses and residence halls will have dinner guest speakers from local churches. Discussions of various religious topics will follow dinner.
Daily group discussions in the Student lounge between 2:15 and 3:15 p.m, is another feature of religious emphasis week. During this time related questions with the daily morning talk will be further interpreted, questioned* and discussed by Dr. Case.
Personal interviews with Dr. Case may be made daily from 11 a.m. to noon and from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. in the religious activities office adjoining the Student lounge.
The churches of the university district are cooperating Sunday, Jan. 21, in sponsoring a “Go to Church Sunday” movement.
umn, the KAs once had a string of ASSC officers through many years. Thus, the other fraternities were ready to Accept a subrosa machine as a way to stop the KA control. The TNE picked a man to oppose the KA candidate.
The machine candidate won and from then on until last year the clique was in control. Later some of the fraternities tried to break away and run their candidate against the machine’s choice of ttie “boy of the year.”
It was futile. The “boys” were In control.
Through illegal voting, ballot stuffing, lost ballot boxes, and manipulations in tallying the votes, the “right man” just couldn’t help winning.
The KA house has been independent from the TNE machine. This fact they have used to their advantage.
Though a TNE candidate might (Continued on Page Four)
Fisher reviews The Apostle'
An interpretation of Sholem Asch’s “The Apostle,” based on the life of St. Paul, will be given by Dr. Willis W. Fisher, professor of biblical literature and archeology, at 2:30 p.m., today in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
Currently the book is near the top in sales although in Dr. Fisher’s opinion it is not as great or revealing as Asch's first work, “The Naz-arene.”
“The most important feature of the book is the weaving of Paul’s 'letters to various peoples into the historical background. It is completely accurate,” Dr. Fisher said. According to Dr. Fisher .the book shows “the common heritage and ideals between Jews and Christians.” “The author is Jewish and is presenting Christianity as a sect of Judaism during the early years.”
“Asch offers no philosophy of life because he is not consistent,” says Dr. Fisher, “for sometimes he may be termed a naturalist and at other times a mystic.”
The interpretation which is one of the series being presented this term by the student council of religion marks the first time a religious book has been discussed this term.
Registrar’s office notice
Candidates for first degree in February, 1944 should report to this office by Jan. 17, if they do not find their names included in the list posted on the Regt-trar’s bulletin board.
Office of the Registrar