United Press World Wide New* Service
SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Phone Ri 41 -
Editor, Sta. 15 Bus. Mgr. Sta. 9
Vol. XXIV
Los Angeles, California, Monday, October 3, 1932.
No. 17
traw Ballot In President Race Planned
Poll of Daily Trojan Will Determine S. C/s Choice For U. S. Leader Students Also To State Preference in California Senatorial Contest
To encourage student interest ),n national affairs and to deter-in* sertiment on the Southern ^aiifornif. campus on the coming ^residential election, the Daily >ojan will conduct a straw vote n Friday of this week. In addi-;ion a pr»ll will be taken on the senatorial race in California.
Three presidential candidates— lerbert Hoover, Republican; Gov. ranklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; ;nd Norman Thomas. Socialist—
iill	be listed on the test ballot a bf> printed in Friday morn-ik's ed : on of the Daily Trojan, he nanes of Tallant Tubbs, Re-ublican; William G. McAdoo. Democrat; and Rev. Robert Shuler, irohibit onist., will he listed on the late senatorial ballot.
REVIEW RECORDS During the week the Daily Tro-n will review the platforms and ords of the presidential can-jdatef, in addition to printing ilv news of the campaigns, hose articles will be written by indents and taken from the Unit-Press wire service. Roger P. linah^n, political columnist of the iHy Trajan, will also write about rrnts alone the national political
The straw rote has been plan-•i to gjve an expression to the rowin2 interest of Southern Cali-rnia n national political and eco Jniir questions. Since the results ill urdoubtedly he taken as the |r 1 e pression of the opinion of student body at this univer-iy. ii is ureed that Trojans give iviouf consideration to th* issues rfnre markinc their ballots.
ACCURATE VOTE Details of the plan for marking d casting the test ballots wlli announced in th«» •Daily Tro In on Wednesday morning. Spe-jal care will be taken to ensure complete and accurate vote on :th he presidential and senator-1 caadidates.
Counting’ of the ballots will be |andl»d by a special committee nder the supervision of Francis rislini, elections commissioner of jhe Associated Students.
James Walker Speeding To New York
MADRID. Oct. 2.—(UP)— .Tames J. Walker sped north ward toward Paris by train tonight to catch the fleet liner Europa for New York, where he will launch his fight for “vindication."
The dapper ex-mayor, who resigned his job as head of the largest municipal government in the world during his trial on charges of misfeasance, seemed in a cheerful mood.
Walker abandoned the new Italian liner Rex, temporarily crippled at Gibraltar, to hurry northward in time to catch the Europa. He hopes to reach New York next Saturday or Sunday—too late for the city-wide convention in which the Democratic party will choose its candidate for mayor, but in time, at least, to confer with Tammany leaders if they decide upon him as their candidate.
irector Chosen For ‘Jade God’
Trophy Room Will Be Open
Squires To Be Present All Week To Explain Many Awards
Starting today the trophy room on the third floor of the Student Union will be open to students and the general public. The room will be open daily from 8 to 12 and from 1 tq 2. Bob McNeil, president of the Trojan Squires, states that Squires will be in the room at all times to explain the trophies to visitors.
Among the many trophies to be 1 found in the room are tbe Erskine award for the national football championship which was presented to S.C. last spring after the Notre l>ame game, the L .A. Nares trophy of the West Coast relays, and the Fred W. Kelly trophy which was won at the Olympic games in 1911.
The Pacific coast football championship award and the 1915-1932 championship trophy won by The University of Southern California for track and field events are also on display. Numerous other famous awards are to be found ln tho room.
Bob McNeil says that every Trojan should be come acquainted with the many trophies that we have in our possession. If there is a sufficiently large attendance I the room will be kept open for an j additional week.
First Wampus Will Be Sold On Wednesday
Music and Dance Chosen As Theme by Editor ‘Chiseler’ Magee Campus Humor Magazine To Include Cartoons, Stories, Gossip
Featuring music and dance orchestras of the country, the first issue of the Wampus, S. C. humor magazine, will be presented to the campus Wednesday.
Carrying out this special feature is an article “They're College Men" telling the stories of famous orchestra leaders and the colleges which they attended.
“Interview” by Laura Crozier, is a short story of a reporter who had to get his story and how he got it.
SHORT STORY
Another short story in this issue is “The Kindly Cop” by Donald Glaze. The plot concerns a gangster who loses a fortune through the kindness of a traffic cop.
Among the feature articles in the book are: “We Choose to Tour,” an article dealing with the various western universities, by Ted Magee. “What Every Frosh Should Know” by A. Scrawny Squire, and the first of a series ot semi-serious histories of the fraternities and sororities on the campus, by Bob Johnson. Pi Kappa Alpha and Delta Gamma are offered in this issue.
Carrying out the policy of localizing material in the Wampus to campus gossip and personalities are found “Portraits” hy Frank Breese and ••Hiccups” by Satchel Belch. In these will he exposed the secrets and scandal of weH-known campus luminaries.
POETRY AND JOKES
A paee of poetry and many jokes and cartoons are contained in the issue.
The cover, in three colors, depicts a masquerade scene, and was executed by James Ashbaugh. as-socitae editor of the magazine. Additional art work was handled by H. A. Breese, Douglas Hale, and Harry Kelso.
The Wampus will again be sold by members of the Associated Women Students, with the proceeds to go to the relief fund of that organization.
That Dorothea Bell has been .hos«n as student director for The Jade God,” three-act mys-ery drama, was announced Thursday by W. Ray MacDonald who s charge of the production. Her bbillty has been evidenced in a num:>er of campus plays, and she assifted last semester with the Extravaganza. “Suppose." She will work under MacDonald and have much to do with the actual coachine and preparation of the play Dorothy Martin will act as her assistant and will understudy the female roles.
A'though work is now in progress on the drama, there will be a few changes in casting which will be announced within the next few days. This has been necessary because of scholarship requirements.
“The Jade God.” which is the annual underclass play, will be produced on the evening of Oct. 28, one night only, in Bovard auditor: um.
Representatives To Be Chosen by Graduate School
Officers of the Graduate school are to meet this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the social lounge of the Student Union to select members i for the council of the Associated Graduate students. Any graduate ! student interested in serving on this council should leave his name and qualifications with Miss Bohnett, secretary of the Graduate school, room 160, Administration building, before noon today.
At the regular weekly luncheon of the Graduate school, to be held tomorrow in 422 Student Union, at 12:15, the selections for council members will be announced.
Seat Prices for Drama Shop Play Revival To Vary
Retaining the “revival” atmosphere of "Streets of New York” as far as is financially advisable. Drama Shop will divide Touchstone theater into different priced section^ for the two performances of the 75-year-old melodrama. Val Jean McCoy, treasurer, announced last night. e Th “10-20-30” price range prevailed at the first showings 'of “Streets” back in the 1850’s, but the expensive settings and costumes required for Drama Shop’s production on Oct. 14 and 15 will involve a slightly higher rate. The first four rows, McCoy said, will be 40-cent seats, the next five sell at 30 cents, the last six at 20 cents.
Some 4,000 boy scouts are expected to witness the first grid tilt at the University of Indiana.
Discussion Group To Hold Meeting Wednesday Noon
‘ All women students, new and ole, are cordially invited to the first meeting of the discussion gr:>up of the Y.W.C.A., Wednes day. Oct 5, at 12:15 in the Y.W.
C.A. house,” according to a state m^nt made by Lydia Blithe Rich-roan, chairman of the group.
It is very important that those interested in a permanent place In the group be present at the first meeting whsn the program fcr the year will be submitted and provided.
Death Toll Mounts To 13 As Flood Waters Recede
PETITIONS DUE Petitions for the nominations of freshmen class officers of the Col-l« ge of Dentistry are to be hand ed in to the office of Dean Lemis I;. Ford tomorrow. The election »111 be held Wednesday.
TEHACHAPI, Calif., Oct. 2— (UP)—Flood stricken dwellers in this desert and mountain region counted their known dead at 13 tonight. with possibly 30 more missing, as receding cloudburst waters left behind a trail of desolation and destruction.
Bodies of five victims have been recovered from the canyons and gulches where a 40-foot wall of water spread havoc Friday night. At least seven others are known to have been killed, while railroad and state highway officials said the number of missing may reach two score.
Most of the missing were itinerants riding a Southern Pacific freight train which stopped at a little siding in Woodford to allow a Santa Fe train to pass. Both trains were standing on a trestle when the water struck, ailing en-
Speaking Tour Of Hoover To Open in Iowa
Roosevelt Makes Plea For New Social Order In Detroit Speech Coolidge Asked To Help In 1932 Campaign by Republican Heads
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—(UP)— President Hoover leaves tomorrow on his widely heralded Western adventure which will open, in that dissatisfied territory, an intense nation-wide drive for re-election.
Called to the stump by reports that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was making headway in the West, the chief executive goes to Iowa to face farmers who are in peaceful revolt against the present order. Their votes may decide this election.
FARMERS TO ACT The president, who invades the agricultural belt for the first speech of his campaign Tuesday night at Des Moines, will have an opportunity to see — and possibly hear from — the disgruntled farmers, not only in the mammoth parade planned by Milo Reno, the leader of the farm holiday movement, at Des Moines, but in the various other stops which his train will make in the enlarged program announced yesterday.
The president is expected to appear briefly on the rear platform on his special train at West Liberty. Iowa City and Newton, and may also show himself on the return trip through Indiana and Ohio.
Legal Fireworks Started by ‘M a1 Ferguson
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 2—(UP) —Mrs. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson today filed an answer to Gov. Ross S. Sterling’s suit contesting her election as Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee by charging he had spent *500,000 in his campaign against her.
The state places a statutory limit of $10,000 for campaign expenditures by each candidate for governor. Mrs. Ferguson also charged that Sterling, who she defeated in both the primary and run-off primary elections, had received illegal votes.
Sterling, in his district court suit contesting Mrs. Ferguson’s victory, charged she had received more than 50,000 illegal votes. Her majority in the second primary was officially tabulated as less than 4,000.
ROOSEVELT FOR JOBS
DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 2—(UP)— Pleading for a new order of social justice. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt today declared “our long range objective ia not a dole, but a job.’ Th Democratic presidential nominee addressed 5,000 persons crowded into the Naval Militia armory here.
Roosevelt reviewed development of scientific social care and relief with emphasis on the means of eradication of poverty.
RETURNS HOME
Governor Roosevelt prepared to return to New York state tonight, convinced that Tammany hall will bow to his wishes and support Lieutenant-Governor Herbert H. Lehman for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Roosevelt, it was learned, has served notice on John F. Curry, Tammany chieftain and John J. McCooey, venerable Brooklyn leader, that “if they are looking for trouble they can have it.”
Clinic To Give Vocational Aid
COOLIDGE MAY SPEAK
CHICAGO, Oct. 2—(UP— The senatorial high council of the Republican party decided tonight that a series of addresses by Calvin Coolidge in the Midwest are imperative if the G. O. P. is to carry the tall corn country vote next month.
The ex-president will be asked tentatively to speak at Chicago, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, St. Louis and in the southwest, either at Topeka or Tulsa.
gines. tenders and box cars into the gulch as the bridge gave way with a deafening crash.
At this siding and its adjacent service station, the greatest loss of life occurred. The entire family of Peter Kaad. operator of the station, was wiped out. Two trainmen lost their lives and farther down the | canyon, at Caliente. Mrs. Nell Cooper, a telegraph operator, and
i	her little granddaughter were drowned.
Still missing, but beyond all doubt dead, state patrolmen said, were Mrs. Kaad and her daughter, the granddaughter of Mrs. Cooper, A. H. Ross, engineer of the Southern Pacific train, and Harry Moore, the brakeman .together with three patients of the Kern county tuberculosis sanitarium, names un-knowQ.
Religious Lecture Series To Begin
The first of a series of 10 lectures will be given this afternoon at 2:15 by Carl S. Knopf of the School of Religion in the Mudd Memorial hall of Philosophy. His subject will be “The Bible in Community Problems.”
Leaders of the church and school are to speak at these weekly study sessions which are going to be held every Monday afternoon. These lectures are planned especially to aid ministers, church school teachers, and students of religion, but they will be open to the public with no admission charge.
These meetings will take the form of informal discussions and recognized authorities will conduct the gatherings. Questions and topics for discussion are welcomed.
Students or Public May Take Advantage of Research Group
Describing the Vocational Guidance Clinic as an important aid to the happiness of its clients, Dr. G. Vernon Bennett, professor of education and director of the clinic, yesterday urged that students take advantage of its facilities.
The clinic, sponsored by the Society for Occupational Research, advises students and adults about the types of vocations for which they are fitted. Factors which enter into the consideration of each problem are occupational experience, previous education and training, native ability, personality, social , development, and economic circumstances.
No responsibility is assumed for placement, the object being rather to “keep a square peg out of a round hole.” A variety of tests, vocational, personality, and psychological, are given, and extreme care is used in advising each individual.
The demand for service during the first four months of the clinic’s existence has warranted its removal to larger quarters at 643 W. 34th street (across from University tennis courts), where appointments for conferences may be made. The phone number is PRospect 2632.
Commerce Pep Rally Will Be Held Tomorrow
Lambda Gamma Phi Key To Be Awarded by Dean McClung Economic Conditions To Be Subject of Talk By Don Thomas
Commenting upon “Current Economic Problems in Los Angeles,” Don Thomas, executive secretary of the All-Year club, will be the principal speaker at the College of Commerce rally to be held at o’clock tomorrow morning in Touchstone theater. All 9 o’clock Commerce classes will be dismissed for this, the first rally of the school year.
Mr. Thomas, who is a leader in the most active booster organization of California, appeared before commerce students last year, and consequently ia known as a very interesting speaker. Last year the commerce students received his speech so enthusiastically that at the conclusion of the year they voted his talk explaining his organization’s advertising of California throughout the country, the best of the year.
One of the highest commerce honor awards will be made by Dean Reid L. McClung during the rally. Dean McClung will present the key of Lambda Gamma Phi, national honorary commercial law fraternity, to the student who has shown the most outstanding scholarship and leadership ability during three years as an undergraduate. The name of the recipient of this key will not be known until the presentation is made during the rally.
This rally, in charge of Otis Blasingham, rally chairman, will also feature the first appearance a.s a leader, of Alton Garret, president of the College of Commerce student body.
Appointments For Senior Photos Open
Seniors are urged to make their appointments today for 1933 El Rodeo pictures in room 221, Student Union. No payment is needed when making the appointment. Arrangements for other pictures may be made at the same time. The customary price of $1.50 *111 be charged for each sitting.
The Gibbon-Alien studios will have charge of the photography. The pictures will be taken in room 222 of the Student Union, beginning Oct. 10.
Walt Roberts, editor of the yearbook, asks the cooperation of all seniors In having their pictures taken as soon as possible.
R. Stacy-Judd Will Lecture This Morning
Noted Explorer To Talk On Mayan Civilization Before Assembly Will Discuss Experiences In Yucatan Jungles And Mountains
Students Urge'1 To Travel North
Stating that the students’ special to the Stanford game has been designated as the official route by the Associated Students, Orv Mohler, president, urged all Trojans to make their reservations at the ticket office in the Students’ store as soon as possible.
Aboard the special will be the Trojan band, the Trojan Male chorus, the Spartans and probably the fourth string varsity as well as many prominent S.C. men and women. Special cars with the seats removed will be provided for dancing.
The special, which leaves Los Angeles the Friday preceding the game, will be held on a siding at Palo Alto during the game, so that students will not have to move their baggage.	•
At the conclusion of the contest the train will proceed at once to San Francisco, allowing those who desire so to change to evening clothes enroute. The special will leave Sunday for the South.
Debate Tryouts To Be Held Tomorrow
Eight men will be chosen by Alan Nichols, coach of varsity debate, for the political tilts with Stanford and California on the question “Hoover vs. Roosevelt,” when squad tryouts are held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hoose 206, it was announced last night.
Wandervogeln Will Lecture On Youth
i	German club will have unusual guests at their next luncheon when they will entertain a group of ten German “Wander-Vogel” or boy scouts tomorrow at 12:15. The boys will sing several German songs and tell of their experiences. All students interested in the youth movement in Germany are invited to attend and have luncheon. A 25 cent charge covers everything. Those attending please be at the German office at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow.
S. C. Dignitaries Will Talk Before U. S. Financiers
Dr. HarolQ J. Stonier, former vice-president of S.C. and now educational director of the National Institution of Bankers, and President Rufus B. von KleinSmid will take prominent parts in the 58th convention of the American Bankers association opening today in Los Angeles.
Besides the two S.C. dignitaries, the Trojan band, symphony orchestra, and male chorus will present programs during the conclave. The band and chorus will play tomorrow night for 30 minutes, part of the program which will be broadcast over KFWB. Tonight, the symphony orchestra will play for the women’s division of the bankers group.
More than 2,000 bankers from the United States will rttend the conference, regarded as one of the most important conventions of financial leaders in the last decade. The financiers will face such serious questions as the economic effects of emergency relief measures, the national campaign to expand credit, and the revision of banking laws which the coming congress will inherit.
International Party Planned
Foreign and American Students To Attend Event Wednesday
The international relations committee is sponsoring an international social evening Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m. at which time foreign born and American students will be the guests of the A.S.U.S.C. The party will take place in the Hall of Nations located next to the president’s suite in Hoose hall.
Invitations have been sent to all students who were born in some country other than the United States. The Knights, Amazons, Squires, Blue Key, and welfare groups, 1n conjunction with a number of representative students from foreign countries, will aid in extending a hearty welcome to our guests from abroad.
Orv Mohler. president of the student body, today expressed the hope that this affair will help to promote a finer spirit of friendship and good will between American students and students of other countries. The University of Southern California enjoys the distinction of being third in the United States in the number of students attending from other lands.
This affair will be similar to the international reception held yearly at Columbia university and is under the direction of the international relations committee of the associated students which is composed of Betty Sargent, Snowpine Liu, Elsa Von Sendenhorst Bau-wens, Erma Eldridge, Virginia Smith, Malcolm Alexander, Arvai Morris, Miss Florence Scott, Helen Ury, Prof. O. W. E. Cook, Prof. Ken Nakawara, George Navarro, Harold Roach, chairman, Larry White, executive chairman, and Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, and Dean Francis Bacon.
Third in the series of distinguished men to lecture at th® regular assembly periods, Mr. Robert Stacy-Judd, well-known throughout th© English-speaking world, will talk in Bovard this morning at 9:55 on “Mayan Civilization.”
Mr. Stacy-Judd was born In London, England. He was educated at St. Paul’s school, London, and continued his studies at several of England's finest technical schools. Following this he spent five years travelling and studying on the continent.
NOTED AUTHORITY
Architect, engineer, explorer, author, editor, producer, and publisher, Mr. Stacy-Judd has had world-wide experience in many fields. He is an authority on architecture in England, Canada, and the United States, operating architectural offices at present in California and the Midwest. His buildings have been taken as fine examples by many schools and received notice in several current magazines.
In the spring of 1930 he led an expedition into the depths of Yucatan, penetrating into territory before unknown to white men. The purpose of the expedition was to study the remains of former civilization believed to exist there, and to make motion and still camera records of th** natives, vegetation. ?nd topography, a3 well as of tho ruins there.
WRITES BOOK
The expedition was exceptionally successfully and Mr. Stary Judd recorded much valuable material in the book which he wrote, “Exploring Mysterious Yucatan.” This book is not only archaeologically valuable, but intensely interesting.
In his assembly lecture this morning he will discuss these discoveries and his experiences in the jungle.
John Garth, organist, will offer “Elevation," by Lange. and “Marche Solonelle,” by Borowski. as additional attractions on the program.
Services Recall Church Opening
Dean Bruce R. Baxter and Prof. Carl S. Knopf were principal speakers yesterday at the services which celebrated the firts anni versary of the University Methodist church’s occupation of its new building.
Professor Knopf delivered the morning sermon on the subject, “What Mean These Stones.” Dean Baxter presided at the evening service, which was conducted by university students.
Novel Program Announced For Annual Barn Dance
Argonauts Plan Dinner Meeting
“The Animal That Thinks It Thinks” will constitute the theme of an address by Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck, professor of philosophy before the opening dinner of the Argonauts Chapter of Pi Epsilon Theta, philosophy honorary society, on tomorrow evening at Argonaut hall.
The society meets at 6 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month for an informal dinner and all people interested are cordially invited to attend; those who wish to come for the speech only will meet at Argonaut hall at 7 p.m. All persons desiring to attend the banquet are requested to hotify the School of Philosophy by today, 3tated Dr. Ralph Flewelling, dean of the School of Philosophy. A charge of 75 cents will be made for the dinner.
Dr. Flewelling also announces the fact that as soon as possible he will organize and put on display in the philosophy library, copies of rare books.
With the engaging of Roy Johnson and his greater eight piece dance band, plans for the “Pitchfork Prom,’ ’annual barn dance of the College of Commerce, were nearing completion today.
Attired in novel costumes to suit the occassion, this syncopating group, with its large repertoire of popular dance tunes and clever novelty numbers, will create the spirit of hilarious informality so necessary for such an affair.
Stressing the liard-time clothes idea, Sherman Jensen and Charles Clay announced today that prizes will be offered for the cleverest costumes worn. Although the exact nature of these gifts is to be kept secret until the presentation is made, it v.as revealed that Phelps-Terkel will donate the prize fui men, while the Univeristy Book store offers the women's prize.
The committee on refreshments has decided on doughnuts and
cider to satisfy the outdoor appetites. Decorations are being planned in keeping with the hayseed motif, and will consist of corn stalks, scare-crows, and other pre-nomena suggestive of the farm. A huge bonfire will burn near the dance floor.
Situated in the foothills on the outskirts of Glendale, Whiting’s ranch, the site chosen for the dance, offers everything that is strictly in keeping with the affair: open air floors, stables, haystacks, and deeply wooded grounds, providing ample parking space for everyone.
Interesting novelty bids have been obtained, which combine the ticket, dance program, and directions for reaching the ranch. They may be purchased from committee members, at the Commerce office or at the cashiers’ window of the Student store ,Jor $1.00.
Flying Club Plans To Purchase Plane For Practical Use
In order to promote greater interest in the purposes of the organization, the Trojan Flying club has announced the intention of buying its own plane. Purchase of the plane is expected by the president to bring about greater activity. Lessons wil be given by those who now hold pilot instructor licenses from the department of commerce; these men will also as sist in training less experienced j men.
The club program included a ^ cross-country trip which calls for visits to the principal flying fields in southern California, as well as flying clubs and landing fields ef varous colleges and^mivenities.