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orps Arrives North Africa
jLIED HEADQUARTERS. North |ica, Jan. 16— (Delayed)— (T.P)— primarily a man’s war, but the lSs have jumped into the thick |t with courage and hardihood, ive captains in the women’s aux-army corps have arrived in th Africa with a harrowing tale torpedoing and ship fire in :h one of them tock over as lander of a lifeboat when a officer fell violently ill of sea-pess. Two others bravely refiled themselves to going down the ship before they finally rescued.
ie five, first WAACs to arrive lis theater, include Capt. Louise ?rson, Denver, Colo, feir ship was torpedoed and set ie in the Mediterranean less 100 miles from their destina-las it plowed through the wind-|t darkness.
le passengers included 30 Amer-jarmy nurses whose orders caller them to take places in life-instantly so they could care ithe wounded and share the fg-
Dr. Harley Calls War Institute
Two-Day Meeting of Interest Group Convenes Today
A two-day institute in which discussion of the war and plans for peace will be keynoted, opens today at First Unitarian church, 2936 West Eighth street.
The leadership training institute for postwar reconstruction, southern California regional division, will sponsor the meeting, directed by Dr. J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science.
HINDMAN SPEAKS
Dr. Wilbert Hindman, also in the political science department, will speak at a roundtable discussion on “Techniques of Popular Education.” Dr. Walter G. Muelder, professor in the school of religion, will represent the university in the church division.
Other prominent speakers include Miss Kathleen Courtney, vice-president of the British league of nations union; John B. Hughes, news commentator for the MuturJ broadcasting company; Dr. Emily Hickman, chairman of- the education committee and a commission to study the organization of peace; and Chester Rowell, chairman of the northern California regional division and prominent San Francisco newspaper editor.
REGISTER AT CHURCH Registration for this program will take place in the main lobby of First Unitarian church. A fee of one dollar will be charged but students will be admitted free. The program will begin immediately after registration.
Reservations must be made for the final dinner meeting which will be held in the dining room of en Capts. Anderson and Alene 1 the church Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. al, St. Paul, Minn., reached Reservations may be made with ail, all the boats appeared to Mrs. Irene Wyant by calling EX-led.	position 1356.
Kaiser Ship Breaks in Two After Trial Run
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 17—<U.R) — Federal agents and maritime commission authorities pressed an investigation tonight into circumstances surrounding the strange fate cf a 16,500-ton tanker which buckled and cracked in two at the Kaiser company’s Swan Island shipyard outfitting dock here late last night.
A crew of 30 men was aboard the tanker, the Schenectady, preparatory to sailing when the vessel suddenly buckled just aft of the bridge with a loud cracking noise. There were no serious injuries.
A few hours earlier, the Schenectady had returned from a trial run completed without incident.
Both ends of the big tanker sai\k in shallow water, the center portions knifing grotesquely above the surface of the river.
Heightening the mystery was the discovery the ship’s steel plates were not torn at the seams but instead had cracked through the middle of the two-inch plates all the way from deck to keel.
Drama Closes in Touchstone
“These Three Tonite,” Drama Workshop’s final production, will make its last appearance at 8:30 p.m. in Touchstone Little theater. Tickets are on sale in the Student Union bookstore and in the Speech office of Old College. The ducats are 35 cents or 25 cents with a student book.
Axis Army Shattered in Libya
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Fires Visible for 100 Mile^ Left Raging in Nazi Capital After Large Force Strik
LONDON, Monday, Jan. 18—(U.P.)—Fires visible for 100 miles we Saturday night when a large force of four-motored RAF bombers unl< er-block-busters” and tens of thousands of fire bombs in what undoi est of the 54 British raids on the German capital.
It was the first raid on Berlin since Nov. 1, 1941 and because of mans apparently were caught off guard, for only one of the giant rai< described the anti-aircraft fire which met them as “surprisingly light. For about an hour the mightiest planes in the RAF’s arsenal—1
and Stirlings, the latter carrying
Triumphant British Roll Toward Tripoli in Smashing Drive
LONDON, Jan. 17—(U.E)— Brit-ain’s eighth army rolled triumphantly toward Tripoli and a merger of the African fronts tonight while the axis-held Sicilian narrows area rocked under widespread new allied air blows featuring 24 hours of uninterrupted raids by planes based on Malta.
. Sweeping past Marshal Erwin Rommel’s shattered desert defenses, the eighth army drove to within 110 miles of Tripoli and its vanguard was little more than 300 miles airline from the advanced American, British and French positions in central Tunisia.
The final battles for north Africa appeared to be developing fast.
Military circles predicted the eighth army would soon take Tripoli and move on to the Tunisian frontier to launch an attack from the east timed with a big push from the west by allied forces gathering before Tunis and Bizerte. '
A third allied army, the phenomenal fighting French from the Chad under Brig. Gen. Jacques Le-. clerc, was reported in Madrid dispatches to be only 80 miles south , RAF raiders over the target dropped
eight tons of bombs in their great bays—spilled death and destruction in the heart of nazidom and Berlin admitted that on Sunday rescue crews still were digging through the debris for bodies.
The Germans, in an apparent effort to be able to announce to the home folks that the Berlin raid was avenged, attacked London last night but the nazi effort was weak by comparison to what happened in their first city only 24 hours before. Four German planes were shot down over Britain by the heaviest bursts of anti-aircraft fire seen here in a year and a half.
CAUGHT BY SURPRISE
All indications were that the men manning Berlin’s night fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns, which the nazis have boasted could not be pierced, were caught by surprise. The air ministry, in releasing a summary of the attack early today, quoted pilots as saying that “ack acfc” was unusually light over the target which the RAF refers to as “the big city.”
It was suggested that the Germans may have thought the city safe from attack because it had not been an RAF target for so many months and that they were not prepared’ for the raiders who flew through heavy clouds most of the way on the 1200-mile round trip
Berlin Com to Corner o
Conventioners Tab Walker as Chairman
CHICAGO, Jan. 17—«T.P)—Democratic national committeemen assembling tomorrow's meeting appeared in complete agreement tonight on the new wartime chairman who will guide the party in laying groundwork for its 1944 campaign.
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker is expected to be elected, probably without opposition, tomorrow to succeed Edward J. Flynn, who was nominated byx President Roosevelt last week to be ambassador to Australia.
Charles Michelson, retiring pub-and then found patches of clear licity director for the committee,
sky over Berlin.
LiT BY MOONLIGHT
The city was brilliantly illumin-
ventured a prediction that the election would require “no more than 15 minutes.” Although Walker is
ated by moonlight and the first n0^ a mem^er of the committee, he
of the eighth army vanguard and
“These Three Tonite" is a series advancing toward a junction eith-
flares to brighten the scene further. The air ministry said it was the
arrived in Chicago today.
The new chairman will deliver a 20-minute address, beginning at
rchitects Design mmunition Dump
uipped with subterranean access to a buried ammuni-lump, the Malibu sheriff sub-station model created by chitecture students is representative of buildings de-I for wartime use.
lis model was chosen as the better of two which were >y rival groups of five stu-
of three plays of one act each. The first- play, “A Wedding,” is a satirical, humorous story. Allan Williams and Peggy Weber play the leading roles.
“Lands End,” the second play, is an exceptionally strong drama. Norman Linn and Loralie Newkirk have the leads and are assisted by Glenn Holsinger and Ben Sheldon, who have played in previous Workshop hits.
A musical drama written by Chi Phi Ashmead Scott is the last presentation on the program. This is featured by the sparkling music which is sung and played in it. Nancie Sheldon and Bill Chapman portray the leading characters in the play. Miss Sheldon had the lead in the all-U show and Chapman took the singing part in “George Washington Slept Here.” Bob Dowd has the other main role.
er around Tripoli or near the Tunisian frontier.
An allied communique said there were no important changes in the Tunisian land front but field dispatches reported that French troops had seized several more key heights near Jebel Bou Dabous, 21 miles northwest of strategic Kairouan in the central sector.
heaviest RAF raid of the new year 5:05 (CWT), over the blue network —a grim reminder of what the i tomorrow night.
nazis may expect before the dawn of another year. It said only that a “great weight of bombs” was dropped and refused to estimate or permit any estimates of the size of the force.
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While the committee session probably will be routine, its members are expected to canvass prospects for 1944 informally and to review the 1942 campaign which was marked by Republican gains.
Flynn said at a press conference tonight that he doubted there would be a resolution submitted calling on President Roosevelt to run for a fourth term.
Auxiliary Police
Trojan armchair addicts of music and advocators of swing and classical rhythm should take ear and hearken to the song salvage drive under way this week if they wish to prevent a nation-wide epidemic of music depreciation.
Offering cash on the line for contributions of discarded or auxiliary police forces
. . . members will meet at 4 p.m.
Wednesday at 225 Student Union to discuss future practice incidents.
Present at the meeting will be both faculty and student members of the | which had
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?>ach, who pooled their ideas ir group. It will soon be on at a South Pasadena high tn an art and war exhibit. |ok two weeks for E. Baer Harris Sharp. Calvin Straub, >wanson, and Charles Ken-complete the model. When [hat could be done with the [s in peacetime, one of the :s of the rival model sar-
Lovable Lael Lee Laffs at Life
As voting for glamour kings and queens * goes into the stretch, sprightly Lael Lee trots into the front where the public can eye him. Lee. Trojan Knight, owes everything he has to a penetrating
y remarked that itT ‘‘might I laziness‘ ,a sort of slow-but-sure d into a roadhouse”*despite manner of ^awmg his way into
.ess of the sheriffs head- >’our heart‘ . ™ls, Phl Psl rub^r
czar reeks with glamorous possibil-
I ities.
mache’ formed the base of Hg came to sc> standing five and the surrounding moun- feet ten inches ^ a freshman, and
,r‘tr?6 ”10del C!!' literally grew by leaps and bounds, lew material used in sound- reaching the six.foot one inch
r Pth °rr f ,mC fUn°' mark by the middle of his sopho-
tlnV m°del °ther more year. There he stands today, two were constructed with1	, v, r
e types of materials	! tal1’ erect’ smlllngl and lovable‘ ^
.	*	proudly strolls the campus, cropped
inrv» a+v» ° one'sixteenth of hair, bespectacled, and eager to as divided Tnt/^T the i learn- As a pre-med student he the underground *5^ ^ g°0d ^ ^
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nel to a supposed ammuni re buried in the ns.
war material, he has been selected
by Uncle Sam to serve with the
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army air corps in the photographic realm. Lee can take pictures and interpret them, both of which are important in and out of wartime. Notable about picturesque Mr. Lee is his ability to adapt wearing ap-
broken discs, major record companies are sending out a plea for materials with which to continue record manufacture. Lacquer vital to production has been placed on the “unavailable for the duration” list, and must be obtained from old records.
Localizing the drive, a prize is being offered to the sorority, fraternity, individual student, and individual faculty member who turns in the greatest amount of records;
In addition to the money given in
parel to needs of the day. His
saddle shoes, cords, and Knight r,etuyn’,f ^-record album of the in-
sweater go with anything. Favorite hangout of the rubber czar is the Wooden Horse where he can be found any chapel hour of any day.
Lee is conscientious about physics experiments. No matter how late they may be, he always does them and does them right. He is the take-it-easy, likable type, at home in the Grove or in the O. and M. dump truck. People like him, and that’s the criterion for success, and as a matter of fact for a rating as Trojan Glamour King, 1943.
station Is composed of two ;s, one a combination bar- ! ‘creation room, and kitchen i lough to house 200 soldiers j
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dividual’s choosing will be awarded to each of the above mentioned winners. Contributions will be accepted until next Friday in the School of Music office, which has been named collecting center.
For all discarded 12-inch records, Victor, Bluebird, Decca, Edison, and Brunswick record companies will pay three cents per record, and for 10-inch discs they will pay two cents. Bremen records will draw three cents a pound.
Fifty thousand pounds of records must be collected in this area by Friday to assure further manufacturing, according to Max Krone, head of the School of Music.
Job Freezing E Takes Effect T
by United Press Stabilization of the jobs of a half-mil ^oes into effect today under a plan annou thp southern California area war manpowe The plan was evolved to prevent exce workers, pirating of employes by one firm undue migration, although still permitting workers under certain regulations to move from one job to another.
In designated essential industries hereafter a worker will have to show a certificate of availability from the war manpower commis-sion before he may be hired. These certificates may be furnished to workers by their last employer or an agent of the WMC, but may be issued only when a change of employment is in the best interests of the war effort.
PROVISIONS CITED
issue a certifici ed, the case is sentatlve of employe remt ruling is i CLASSIFICA’] Classification! include aircraft shipyards and nance, ammumj lumbering, met talic mining, si production of forgings; finisl