DR tells ed Cross und need
by Merrim&n Smith
T^nlted Pr«u Staff Cor respondent
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—(U.P) — sident Roosevelt today formally iched a Red Cross “mercy crule’’ for $125,000,000 and appealed the people to contribute gener-ly so the Red Cross can march le by side with our fighting men their war to preserve “all our icepts of mercy and human de-[ncy.”
(joining him in the appeal were to of the nation's top fighting ;n, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, lied commander in north Africa, id Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Jmmander-in-chi6T of the Pacific it.
Nimitz said the capture of tuadalcanal dealt the Japs their [first defeat of that kind ... in lodem history” but that the job ill grow harder “as we under-ike the task of driving the en-ly from prepared positions he jas been building in the con-;red areas.”
[‘It is our Job to destroy his ships |d planes and to neutralize his ind strongpoints as we drive to-^rd the positions from where we reach with our shells and ibs his industrial nerve cent-
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[ The president proclaimed March Red Cross month, during which ie annual Red Cross roll call ill be combined with the mercy id drive. Continuance of a rhi illness prevented him from ulivering the speech in person id it was read by Red Cross tairman Norman H. Davis.
11 the speeches were broadcast Itionally.
}‘The Red Cross is undertaking a sk unprecedented — because this ir is unprecedented.” Mr. Roose-It said. “We undertake this great-of all Red Cross crusades in name of mercy—now that we engaged in a war to decide lether all our concepts of mercy Id human decency are strong >ugh to survive.”
He said there was a way for »ry American to clasp the hand our overseas fighting men, by •ontributing to the war fund to inip an army of mercy to ren-sr aid on the battlefronts, in the itals and recreation centers, id to families of service me nat tome.
I Nimitz described the Red Cross the morale bulwark of the Pa-fic fighting forces who are “at *e crossroads of the Pacific cam-lign.
ierman prisoner Iks here today
‘Do you think the church should ganize politically for construct-7ti activity in Germany?”
This is one of the questions hich Dr. Hugo Gabriel, former risoner in a German concentra-on camp, will answer when he aks at the School of Religion ncheon today at 12:10 p.m. in iisabeth von KleinSmid hall.
Dr. Gabriel, who is now teach-military science at Cal Tech, rtll discuss other questions put o him by Dr. Walter Muelder, pro-essor of Christian theology and thics. The content of these will be the political organization of the ^hurch and state, j The guest speaker, who has been n this country since 1939, escaped from Germany through the influence of American friends. He is Returning for a second time to peak to the School of Religion, is first address centered around church in Germany today.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. XXXIV
Los Angeles, Mar. 1, 1943
Nijcht Phone: RI. 5412
NO. 94
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'resident’s [office notice
In order to provide for a *tu-[Aent body assembly today at 10:45 ajn., the following schedule will govern classes meeting during the morning:
8:00—8:50 8:55—9:45 9:50—10:40
10:45—11:30 Assembly 11:33—12:20
Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid, President
SC to hold
elections despite war
SC’s political organization, like the one in Washington, vrill not be altered radically by the war, student body leaders announced yesterday to dispel rumors that have long been floating about campus to the effect that there will be no elections for student body officers this year.
Although Stanford and several eastern universities have eliminated student organizations, mostly because of the dearth of men to fill the important offices, SC will carry on as long as a man remains, campus leaders pledged, and the nominations assembly for student body officers is slated for Monday, Mar. 22, at noon in Bovard auditorium.
However, to cut avwn txpenses and in order to devote more precious time to the war effort and study, which are synonymous at Troy, there will be no political assemblies or rallies during the intervening week after the nominations assembly.
At the March convention speeches made by the presidential candidates will be limited to five minutes, while all other nominees will be allowed three minutes.
British retake German Tunisian strongholds
by Virgil Pinkley
United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Feb. 28—(U.P.)— The British first army. has recaptured Ft. McGregor and “Tally-Ho Corner” in northern Tunisia, driving the axis garrisons into the hills,' and has repelled German thrusts elsewhere on the northern front with heavy losses, war reports
said tonight.
Both points were taken yesterday after they had been in axis possession less than 24 hours, and a threat that the southwest anchor of the British line at Bouarada would be isolated was removed, at least for the moment. Bouarada is 20 miles south of Medjez-el-bab.
In two fiays of sharp fighting, the Germans have suffered heavy losses including 15 to 20 tanks of
Trojan gets hot knee in Doheny
Studious Trojans were mystified last week in the reserve book reading room, when the ominous odor of smoke suddenly filled the hall, causing many an anxious frown.
Hurried calls were sent out for the custodian, and Trojan noses fell to sniffing the smoky air with definite concern.
“Maybe the books are burning,” the joyful rumor spread. “Swell, no collateral!” students said with crafty smiles.
It was Bette Shakley) Kappa Delt, who came nearest to the truth. “Oh, it’s probably just some fellow’s slacks going up in smoke.” And with this sage remark she settled back to read her Trojan.
When the cause of the scare was later revealed, it was discovered that the whole thing was started by an absent-minded soul who accidently flipped his Cigarette neatly into his slacks’ cuff, j and casually strolled through the halls, smouldering up to the knee.
Virgil Pinckley, writer of this story, is an SC alumnus who graduated in 1928. While at Troy he was a major in journalism and editor of the Daily Trojan in his senior year.
He started “at the bottom” with United Press soon after his graduation from SC. At present he is European (manager for the news association and is now pinch hitting in North Africa on one of his regular correspondent tours.
the 50 with which they had started the operations and 850 men as prisoners, front dispatches reveal-ed.
The reports indicated the German thrusts had lost much of their punch and the only remaining one with menacing possibilities appeared to be a continued drive toward Beja from the Mateur area in the extreme north which the allies were opposing with heavy bombing and shelling.
VIRGIL PINCKLEY ■ . , Troy's African correspondent.
Newman club
* . . members will hold their first dance of the season next Saturday night at the Jonathan club. It will be an informal event. Tickets may be purchased from officers of the club.
U.P. reports
Nip Pacific threat seen
Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned in a communique yesterday that the Japanese are reinforcing their garrisons in all categories in the island perimeter enveloping the northern half of Australia from Timor to the Solomons.
“The enemy seems to be concentrating his main effort in preparation of this front,” the communique said. “Such an assemblage of a major force indicates he is taking up positions of readiness.”
OPA registers eateries
The 134 war.price and ration boards in the southern California district last night were ready to start the 10-day registration of commercial eating places and other institutional users of food now under rationing regulations.
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Gandhi appears safe
Mohandas K. Gandhi, nearing
the end of his 21-day protest fast,
last 'night amazed doctors and
friends by his spectacular physical and mental resilience, and the belief prevailed that he would come through the fast safely.
Vega awaits WLB order
After hearing their union president prophesy that a wage-stabili-zation directive from the war labor board in Washington would be forthcoming Monday or Tuesday, 3000 Lockheed-Vega members of International Association of Machinists Local 727 wound up a mass meeting here yesterday by deciding to launch another meeting Wednesday if the directive does not arrive.
Famous cellist visits at SC two months
Maurice Eisenberg, well-known American cellist, will be guest soloist and instructor on campus from Mar. 10 to May 10, it was announced Friday by the School of Music.
Eisenberg went to Europe as a young man studying and playing in concert for 17 years. In Paris he worked under Pablo Casals who later turned his normal school of music over to Eisenberg’s guidance. In this way, Eisenberg became, for seven years, the only American citizen to hold such an official position in France.
He has appeared with the major orchestras of Europe and in solo recitals of the continent and England. Eisenberg has made recordings with Yehudi and Hepzi-bah Menuhin. He played as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra last season and with the Hancock ensemble last fall.
Eisenberg will play .several engagements with the Hancock ensemble during his visit this spring, as well as appearing in solo and trio recitals with Anton Maaskoff, violinist, and John Crown, pianist. These concerts will be open to the public without charge.
Wit eulogizes Private Roeca on departure
(Pvt. Sam Roeca is among the first contingent of SC army air corps reserve men to leave the Trojan campus, heading for Lincoln, Neb., at 6:30 this evening. Since it is impossible to obtain a complete list of those leaving, their departure times, and destinations, the Daily Trojan must make Private Roeca and the following story represent the rest. Thoughts of favoritism will arise because of Roeca’s editorship of this paper. Naturally we of the D.T. feel especially close to Our Editor, but if we could get more stories like the following about men like Sam Roeca, they would fill every column of every page and go into extra pages if necessary. Naval Air Cadet Reilly is probably the most ideally equipped person in the world to put into words the feelings of those who knew “The Bone,” as he called him.—Ed.)
by A. C. Bob Reilly
USNWPFS, Moraga, Feb. 9—This is a long way from SC, both in action and in spirit, yet as this is written the familiar scenes about the campus come back in a flood. Oddly enough, most of these memories are colored with the memories of Sam Frank Roeca,
SAM ROECA • . . his is an ode to a bene.
who, I am told, is about to leave for the service of his country.
This could be a biography of Roeca, but it is written for a newspaper in which words are precious and not to be bandied and wasted; thus many of the little things that are the true Roeca must be passed over, ignored.
Roeca will be to SC what Shakespeare was to the Elizabethan era. Not a type, not a distinct breed, but a homogeneous creature combining the many talents all college students strive to attain. It was the writer’s privilege to watch Roeca grow and blossom into full manhood in his years at the institution. Our first recollection of him. is that of a skinny, blatant student of German who would wiggle his ears, then glance slyly over his shoulder to catch an occasional appreciative nod.
He still wiggles his ears, but.no longer is it a signal for tittering; instead ft is a sign that he has summoned his senses and is propounding some intellectual stumbling block.
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Even the king gets no steak in England
LONDON, Mar. 1—(U.R)— Anyone who’s inclined to grumble about wartime food restrictions
may be interested to learn that they’re probably eating better than Britain’s royal family, whicl% is lucky to have meat more than once a week.
For after three and one-half years of total war Britain's king and queen face the same food and clothing problems that confront their average subject.
Pheasants and other game from the royal estates at Norfolk help supplement the menu at Buckingham palace. But Queen Elizabeth has said publicly it is rare for the royal family to have meat more than once a week.
There is a dearth of wines and spirits at Buckingham palace these days. But the king has decline^ to clamp down complete prohibition as his father did in the last war. The last time champagne was served at the King’s dinner table* was during the visit of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Authority to discuss Russ war
What has the war done to Russia} What is behind the heroic resistance of her people to the German invasion?
Sir Bernard Pares, British authority on contemporary Russiaon affairs, will address a special assembly today at 10:45 in Bovard auditorium on the subject, “Russia Now.”
His appearance at SC is sponsored by the Institute of International Education. Dr. J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, will introduce him to the students.
This is the second assembly this semester devoted to a discussion of Russia. Last Monday George Roney, lecturer, gave the inside story of Soviet resistance.
Sir Bernard will give an outsider’s view of the nation and its struggle against aggression. Since 1939 he has devoted himself to war work in Europe which acquainted him with the Russian situation. Prior to 1939 he was engaged as a professor at London university.
Sir Bernard first became interested in Russia when he was attending Harrow and Trinity college in Cambridge. He made a four-year study of Russian background by touring France, Germany, and Austria. In 1898 he began a series of yearly visits to that Asiatic country. In his latest book, “Russia Admits a Critic,” he tells of these trips.
He has also written for the Spectator and Westminster Gazette. From 1914 to 1917 he was a correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph. His journalistic work also includes translations of Russian works into English.
Y club entertains pre-flight cadets
A platoon of 25 navy pre-flight cadets will be guests of the Sophomore-Junior club each Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 at the YWCA house, announced Lou Bowman, president, Friday.
Hostesses for the open houses will be selected from the members of the group, and informality ^ill be stressed at all the affairs. There will be dancing, cards, magazines, and radio music to entertain the cadets. Activity hours will be awarded to the women selected to participate.
“This is one of the many things that the Sophomore-Junior club is doing toward the campus war effort this semester,” Miss Bowman stated, “and I would like to urge all girls who are interested in acting as hostesses to sign up at the Y house. Our list will be chosen from those names turned in."
Resittings for yearbook announced
Appointments may be made today and Tuesday for resitting* for El Rodeo pictures to be taken on Wednesday, it has been announced. The following people must make appointments unless they want unsatisfactory pictures in the yearbook.
Patsy Bauer, Andy Beckstrom, Letitia Barnett, Eva Louise Caldwell, Mitchell Chuckeipian, Elizabeth Cleland, Ellen Crabtree, Vera Davidoff, Eileen Douglas, Jane Earl, Nancy Frye, Sam Fuhrman, Jack Gilbert, Beverly Griffiths.
Virginia Hage, Marilou Horn, Jean Lestoe, Bonnie Iverson, Rosemary L^nn, Marcia Miller, Betty M<*rt<m,. Nicolai, Billie Nestle, Betty Payne, Beity Ruth Oxnam, Adele Rasmussen, Arlee Rhodes.	•
Bernard Richardson, Bill Richardson, Kathleen Robinson, Donald Seaman,-BiH‘Seixas, Lorraine Servaftius,* Eleanor Swartz, Elizabeth Williams, and Mary Jane Westman.