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No. 72
aders Look o Roosevelt For Guidance
[sident-Elect To Visit [Vashington Officials During Week
lancial Condition Will Form Major Topic Of Discussion
ASHINGTON, Jan. 15—<TP>— oeratic congressional leaders besiege President-elect Roose-rwhen he comes here thi* week [counsel in one of the most con-legislative situations in reyears.
»mocrat is pitted against Demo-; In the senate tx> produce a jam : |nd which important measures Roosevelt program are piled Lessly. Beer, repeal, farm re- j [and economy wait while Sen-Huey Long, the Louisiana j Irish’’ holds the senate at bay [.use of his opposition to the j riny bill sponsored by Senator [.er Glasvs, spirited Virginian. Expects Message
Texan Awarded Star Medal For War Deeds
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 15.—<UJ?> —Nearly 15 years after Laurence R. Melton wiped out a machine gun nest and made a spectacular capture of 56 German soldiers, he has been rewarded with a decoration for valor.
Melton, now advertising manager of the Dallas Dispatch, has just received from the war department a silver star medal in recognition of his exploits in France.
World Affairs Will Be Topic
Of Symposium
Dr. Albert Einstein, Other Authorities To Speak At Conference
Ad Club Will
Give Program
Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid Will Address Group; Mohler To Speak
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will discuss “The College Man Pre-le Democratic dilemma may be pareg for Business” at the regular ed more strikingly to the at- j iuncheon meeting of the Los An-jkm of the country on tie ew Lle> Advertising club, held In the [he Roosevelt visit here Thurs-. BJue Room Qf thg Blltmore hoteI mad Friday on his way south. ! tomorrow at 12;15 Q,clock> fciaent Hoover, it was reported, been contemplating for several ^he program, w hich is being southern
Free Tickets May Be Had In Student Union Starting Today
Five hundred complimentary tickets to the program on world problems which will be given by the combined colleges and universities of southern California on Jan. 23, will be distributed through the ticket office in the Student Union starting his morning, according to Orv Mohler, A.S.U.S.C. president.
Speeches by Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr. William B. Munro, and Mr. Henry M. Robinson will be the outstanding features of this conference which will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting company over at nation-wide hook-up. Although Dr. Einstein has always made his lectures in German he may make this speech in English.
World Affairs
This program is being sponsored by the student body presidents of the 11 colleges and universities of California. They say,
Yell Candidates To Try Out For Positions
All candidates for second assistant yell leader are asked to meet for yell leader's school which will convene both today and tomorrow in the Trojan Knight office. S.U. 325.
It is imperative that all candidates who have registered be present for both of these sessions, according to Weston Doty, assistant yell leader. Public tryouts will be held in an assembly in the near future.
Wampus Will Panic Campus On Wednesday
Co-eds Will Sell January Issue; New Writers Added to Staff
Article on Basketball by Coach Sam Barry To Be Main Feature
“The sole motive in presenting this program as well as the program of last year, has been to arouse an intelligent interest in world affairs with the hope that
rational public opinion.'
The session, which will be centered in the Civic auditorium at Pasadena will present the student’s view when H. Rawlins Overton, president of the associated students of the University of Redlands, speaks on “The American Student and His Relation to World Problems.” . .	.
Banker To Speak The German savant and father
s ii statement or message in sponsored bj the S.C. chapter of ing that the budget be bal- Alpha Delta Sigma, national ad-ed at this session.	i vertising fraternity, wiil be broad-
heie are other legislative mat- j cast over radio station KFWB.
» in which Democrats count Among the prominent Trojans to j ■n their leader for guidance, be present at the luncheon are such interest wlU crystallize into
, .	, .	, -	. , 1	I	tvnKIU nm'niAn ff
n though he indicated after the , Orv Mohler and Christy Welch, ent New ^ ork conference he ix»* , president and vice-president reded to keep hands off until he gpectively of tbe associated stu-lumes office.	dents. Taking as his subject “Al-
nflationary proposals of all {pha Delta Sigma Men in Extra-ts are pressing forward, one for j Curricular Activities,” Mohler will $3,000,000,000 currency issue j give a short talk to the group.
h large backing. Democratic 0iM . . __,__, .____...
17 . , ,, _...	I Special entertainment,- which
tfers desire Roosevelts news on!	...... _
has been put in the hands of the s problem, which is likely to go i	'
er to the special session after I department of Musical Orgamza-.. ^	I tions, will take the form of an
pome t<e< a means of avoiding in- j	musical ’ selections bv a ' Dr- Robert A. Millikan. Nobel prize
ion in the Hguardia-McKeown	f*1r	! winner and pioneer in cosmic ray
.1 pending in the house judiciary	* Quartet consisting of Rob-,_______v
mittee which would permit re- ;ert Heinzman, Sylvain Goldman, justment of both private and cor- Walter Schumann, and James Ful-rate debts—or “debation"—by i ton; as well as a selection by a reenents subject to court ap- : trio composed of Mary Elizabeth oval.	j Waldorf, Josephine Rehor, and
Thi* measure will be reported j Marcelina Arroues. rly this week • and is to be
shec through the house.	pha Delta Sigma and chairman of
New Beer Bill	j tbe daj", explained that “it is the
Senate Democratic leaders also j custom for chapters of Alpha Del-
uld like to know w hat Roosevelt I ta Sipma throughout the nation j	M
inks of the form in which the to maintain a very close contact i PoUti^al aspects^of Jhe world
with the advertising clubs in their respective cities, and the S
Student Heads To Meet Today
Stimulation of Interest in Assembly Programs To Be Discussed
To help stimulate the lagging interest in S.C. assemblies, Orv Mohler, student body president, has called a meeting of the heads of the various campus service organizations for this afternoon at 2:15 in the legislative council room.
The presidents of the following groups are requested by Mohler to attend the meeting: Trojan Knights, Squires, Amazons, Blue Key, Sigma Sigma, Spooks and Spokes, Panhellenic, Interfraternity council, and Mortar Board.
At a meeting of the legislative council held last week a committee was appointed with Bill Baxter as chairman.
The members of Baxter’s committee are Alton Garrett, Myra Jane McClung, and Christy Welch. The purpose of the group is to get the members of the service clubs and their friends to attend at least two assembly programs each week.
It was recommended at the
accordion solo by Armand Girola; relativity will be introduced by first meeting of the committee on
>use passed the farm relief bill, is to be taken up by the senate
tjricultural committee tomorrow, hairman Charles L McNary, Re-lblicin, would like to broaden the 111 Xx include all commodities at
research,
Henry M. Robinson, who is to follow Dr. Einstein on the speaking program, is the well known banker, former member of the Supreme Ecoiiomic council and Dawes plan committee, and chair-Gene Duckwall, president of Al- (man of the American delegation
to the International conference in 1927.
The symposium ls to be concluded by the consideration of il aspects of tl j situation by Dr. William B. Mun-i ro, noted authority on history and
C. chapter appreciates this first j g ' r opportunity to appear before the I Los Angeles Advertising club,
e ojtion of the secretary of agri- ^kich *s probably the largest in
llture.
| A senate judiciary subcommittee diafted a beer bill, to be taken tomorrow by the committee, lich differs from that passed by le house. Because of likely vetoes r bee" and farm bills by President oovtr, if they reach him, these ieasures undoubtedly must come efore the special session and thus re ir Roosevelt’s province.
the United States with well over 500 members.”
Dr. Case To Talk Today on Radio
Art of Printing To Be Discussed
Four free lectures on "The Arts Related to Printing,” namely cutting wood and linoleum blocks and the printing therefrom, will be presented in the College of Ar-
Friday that all faculty members close their offices during the assembly period and not hold interviews with students.
It was also stated that unless the assemblies were better attended in the future the programs would be cancelled entirely and the morning classes . would run continuously.
Dr. Clarence Marsh Case, pro- Chitecture on the four Tuesday j fessor of sociology, will speak on afternoons in February by Frank
00,1	Morley Fletcher, according to
pr<^wn today o%er radio ^FAC p w nt r. B. von KleinSmid. i at 4:45. Hig subject will be “Tech- „ ~ . . . .. .
I nocracy and Social Engineering.” ' Mr ^	,
I Dr. Case has been affiliated with *rector of the Edinbur« Colleee of the university since 1920, coming iArt In Scotland and is the author here from the University of Iowa iof “Wo°^ Cutting and Woodblock and Penn college. He received his Printing. Recently the general ^	# Ti	,	, A M from Brown, and his Ph.D. public have shown a marked in-
. -5^. ? ln? receilU7 organix. at the Univergity of Wisconsin, terest in the art as shown in the
| He is the author of several text number of Christmas cards made
! from "cuts.”
fent ineers Guests At Lunch, Meeting
S.C. Engineering Advisory com
itte*, of which Carl B. Wirsching, h ~ __ < ,
,	. . , . books on sociology.
Angeels commissioner of pub-'
ic works is chairman, were guests
t a luncheon meeting held last
©ek in the Student Union.
Dean Philip S. Biegier, of the
College of Engineering, presided
t th<- meeting and exhibited the
ewly installed measuring equip-
ent which consists of four rain-
all gauges.
Arthur L. Ferr of the A. Leitz
Electric Fish, Snake Fights To Be Explorers’ Subject
NEW YORK. Jan.
Electric fish that can shock croc®-jomprny described the new rain- 1 diles to death, graves 80 feet all recording equipment, while L. high, cowboys who specialize in Df ingfleld, director of the I ni- rounding up alligators and inter-;ed S-ates weather bureau in Los
15.—— has done Arctic exploring. Smith, a former diamond miner, served as the expedition’s camera man.
At Marajo, where he and Hol-dridge spent four months, Smith incited and filmed a death strug-
ngeles. spoke on local weather national snake fights in which the gle between a Florida king snake,
— K~*- 'oMi-	---* — brought from the United States,
and a tropical rattler, the most deadly species of the entire gen
urea l activities.	1 home boy fails to make good are
Dor aid M. Baker, chairman of amon? the Phenomena New York [he A.S.C.E.. national committee will be hearing about tomorrow n tieterological data, outlined when the Brooklyn museum's Bra->lans for his committee’s coop- zilian expedition lands at the foot »ration and guidance.	of Pineapple street.
The two members of the expe-
Shakespearean Contest Will Be Held by Women
Ten women are taking part in the women’s Shakespearean contest, sponsored by Mrs. Pearle Aikin-Smith, associate dean of women, and the women’s forensic group, to be held today at 11:15 a.m. in Bowne hallr Philosophy.
The participants are Mildred McDowell, Dorothy Davis, Winifred Dutton, Margaret Halff, Katherine Keeler, Katherine Lane, Guenieth McCannen, Nancy Ruff, Helen Stern, and Jessie Wilks. Dean Smith is offering an attractive and valuable prize for the winner.
The contest is to be judged by members of the speech and English faculties, and the members of Mrs. Smith’s Shakespearean class.
The five minute readings chosen from Shakespearean comedies will be judged on voice and diction, platform deportment, interpretation, and audience contact.
Annabelle Jenkins, debate captain, will act as chairman for the occasion. This contest is a newr line of activity for women’s »■-ensics. All students are invited to attend.
Plays for Apolliad May Be Submitted To Dramatic Class
Final exams, lurking on the trail of unsuspecting Trojans, will be pre-viewed Wednesday morning when a host of S.C. co-eds peddle the January issue of the Wampus, the latest creation of Editor Jimmy Ashbaugh and his staff.
A wealth of contributions by campus celebrities feature the magazine, headlined by an article on basketball by Varsity Coach Sam Barry, the lowdown on campus politics by Editor Quentin Reger, and the wrhy and wherefores of Technocracy by Wendell Sether. The monthly humor magazine will sell for the usual 25 cents, with proceeds going to the A.W.S. Scholarship fund.
Girls who wish activity points for selling the Wampus are asked to go to room 217 Student Union at 8 or 9 o’clock Wednesday, Jan. 18, according to Margaret Laton, sales manager. Ten magazines will be given out to the girla at that time to be sold during the day.
Girls Named
The following girls will sell at station 1 (Administration) or station 2 (Student Union): 8-9 Station 1, Mary Gene Hart, Helen Tucker, Grace Kelley, Eilleen Gannon; station 2, Nancy Monroe, Marguerite Blake, Wilma Gordon, Thora Gordon.
9-10 station 1, Velma Ferraris, Margaret and Dorothy Stephens, Doris Knorr; station 2, Thora Banker, Lucretia Bogdonovic, Nancy Monroe, Arna Finston. 10-11 station 1, June Bradford, Grace Kelley, Betty de Kruif, Harriet Mac Martin; station 2, Margaret Gray, Jean Dunham, Dorothy Brent, Nell Graften. 11:15-12, station 1, Mar-gurite Blake, Lucretia Bogdonovic, Draxy Trengove, Harriet Lembke; station 2, Florence Reichert, Ha-zelle Targo, Margaret Gannon, Jane Reynolds.
Afternoon Shifts
12-1:15, station 1, Kathleen Murphy, Betty de Kruif, Eilleen Gannon, Lois Browrn; station 2, Gretchen Marsden, Kleva Badham, Dorothy Landry, Winifred Jones. 1:15-2:15, station 1, Jean Shumate, Emily • Butler, Avis de Shazo, Gladys Harris; station 2, Helen Allis, Frances Townsend, Draxy Trengove, Mary Todd.
2:15-3:15, station 1, Sheila Hunt, Jean Shumate, Avis de Shazo, Joan McNeil; station 2, Margaret Viault, Frances Townsend, Annabelle Allen, Mary Beth Groom; 3:15-4, station 1, Sheila Hunt, Mary Todd, Mary Elizabeth Atlee, Margaret Viault; station 2, Phyllis Otto, Gwen Wood, and Vera Klopp.
Changes Made In Dates Of Bulletin
Faculty member* and students are requested to note the changes in registration dates for the second semester 1932-33 as printed in the university bulletin for the School of Speech for November 1932 and 3hown below:
Jan. 28, Saturday, 1-4 p.m.— Registration begins for all freshmen.
Jan. 30, Monday, 8 a.m.— Registration begins for Sophomores and Juniors.
Jan. 31, Tuesday, 8 a.m.— Registration begins for Seniors and Graduate students.
Feb. 1, Wednesday, 8 ajn.— Second semester begins.
Johel Border Still Unsettled
Dr. Otto Vollbehr Will Speak On ‘Fifteenth Century Books’ In Bovard Talk This Morning
Widely Known Curator of Famous Volumes, Showing Collection in Doheny Library, To Be Guest At Assembly Program Today
Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr will be guest speaker at the student assembly in Bovard auditorium this morning, it was announced last night by Mulvey Z. White, chairman of the university assembly committee.
Dr. Vollbehr, whose collection of incunabula, Americana,
and early manuscripts has been on ---——
exhibit in the Doheny Memorial __
library since Jan. 4, will address	FAfltPCt
Rules Changed
Vollbehr Competition Is Open to all Students In L. A. County ,
Anyone who has written a one-act plav may satisfactorily revise us. The Florida snake triumphed plaj through Miss Hubbard's
by killing and swallowing his antagonist.
At the same place the young
World Friendship Group Will Meet
An overnight party for foreign women students on Thursday, Jan. 26, is being sponsored by the World Friendship group of the Y.W.C.A. The party will be held at the Y.W.C.A. house.
Betty Sargent, Katherine Kinzy, and Vera Popovsky, club officers in charge of the party, state that in order to complete arrangements before examinations commence it is necessary that girls who wish to come sign the bulletin board at the Y.W.C.A. "house not later than Wednesday and leave information there as to whether they are able to furnish one or more folding cots for the night Each girl is to supply her own blankets. A charge of 35 cents will be made for dinner Thursday evening and breakfast Friday morning.
The program for Thursday evening will include an informal fireside discussion of international questions, games, songs, and stories. All members of the club and of other Y.W.C.A. groups are invited.
Guerilla Forces Harass Advance of Troops Towards Capital
PEIPING, Jan. 15— <ILE>—In a series of dashing raids, Chinese guerilla forces harassed the Japanese and Manchoukuo troops along the Jehol border over the weekend and checked their advance on Chengte-Fu, capital of the province.
The guerillas, mounted on husky little Mongolian ponies, kept the Japanese supply trains and field detachments engaged. Their tactics hampered the Japanese and kept them from pushing on toward their goal.
Expects Attack
The Japanese were reported concentrating at Insien, Slnlitun and Tungliao preparatory to resuming their next major offensive. Scouts reported the attack was expected to begin the latter part of the week, probably by Friday or Saturday.
The Chinese military intelligence made public reports said to come from Chingwangtao, seaport below Shanhaikwan, declaring victories of guerilla troops on the northeastern frontier of Jehol had caused the Japanese to hold up their advance for at least a week.
Big Push Planned
These reports said the Japanese also were hurrying large forces up to the sector from Sulchung, Chln-chow and Kowpangtze to protect these bases and their communications when the “big push” starts.
Peiping and Tientsin continued quiet and there were no reports of military activity of note inside the great wall.
the assembly on "Fifteenth Century Books.”
Some remarks concerning the recently announced |500 essay contest will be made by Dr. Vollbehr ln the course of his talk, it is expected. On account of this contest he is keeping his exhibit on display for a week more than he had originally planned.
Dr. Vollbehr is referred to by bibliophiles “the man who put ‘Incunabula’ Into everyday English.” He is universally acknowledged as a first-rank expert in early manuscripts, particularly those of the earliest days of printing, the latter half of the fifteenth century.
Liked Sea Travel
The German curator was originally possessed of a desire to take to the sea for his livelihood, according to biographical accounts, but his native country’s nary rejected him because of poor eyesight
His college education was received at universities in Kiel, Marburg, and Berlin, and he received his final degree as a chemist in 1897. Hig father, a prominent Kiel merchant, sent him on a three-year trip around the world.
The economic disruption following the World war found Dr. Vollbehr in a position to secure numerous bargains in incunabula, block books, maps, scrolls, tapestries, and manuscripts. In all, he came to the United States some years ago with a collection numbering 4,500 titles.
Congreea Aids Library
By passing unanimously the Collins bill, congress purchased for >1,600,00 two-thirds of this stock for the Library of Congress, where it is now on exhibition. The purchase included the famous Gutenberg bible.
Since its arrival on the S.C. campus, the Vollbehr collection has drawn hundreds of visitors to the art gallery of the library. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. dally until next Saturday.
Geneva Ruling Is Refused by Japan
TOKIO, Monday, Jan. 16—fllE)— Japan is unable to accept the new draft resolution of the committee of nineteen of the League of Nations on the Manchurian issue, it was learned today.
The cabinet will meet Tuesday to approve new instructions to Yosuke Matsuoka, representing the government at Geneva, outlining Japan’s reservations to the resolution.
Secretary General Drummond of the League told the Japanese delegation that the resolution was the last word in the matter, and since Japan can not accept the resolution, it may mean eventual adoption of the resolution without Chinese and Japanese assent
Letters Defend Hoover in Veto On Island Bill
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15— (UJR)— President Hoover, threatened with a signal defeat in congress, today carried to the public his fight, against the Philippines independence bilL
Only a two-thirds vote of the senate now is required to make the measure a law. The house overrode the president’s veto Friday.
The White House today made public letters from Secretaries Stimson, Hurley, Chapin, and Hyde, all critical of the pending bill, which apparently guided him in his veto.
Changes in the rules of the $500 Vollbehr exhibit prize essay contest to allow high school students a better chance of success were announced yesterday, together with publication of the full text of the rules.
The original amount will remain as flrst reported, but $170 of it will be devoted exclusively to winning high school students of Los Angeles county, the remainder being allotted to junior college and college students.
Essays are to be written about the Vollbehr collection of ineunar bula, Americana, and early manuscripts now on display in the Doheny Memorial library.
Board of Judges Because of the contest, -the exhibit will be open for longer periods of time daily beginning today. It will continue unUl next Saturday, and will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day.
The contest closes one week after the exhibit Jan. 28, at $ p.m. is thej deadline for manuscripts.
The depository for manuscripts will be the information desk of the Los Angeles public library, central branch.
Essay3 must be in triplicate, according to the rules, and must contain from 1000 to 2000 words. Contestants will sign their entries with a pseudonym, and attach a card containing their names and school addresses to the manuscript Inside an envelope.
Prize Money The prize money has been allotted as follows:
In Group A, which includes students regularly enrolled in all high schools in Los Angeles county: first prize, $75; second prize, $25; third prize, $20; and ten prizes of $5 each.
Marines Return to States After Six Years in Jungles
dition, Desmond Holdridge and explorers saw the electric fish in Emerson Smith, have been gad- i action, and witnessed one of the
assport of Insull
Orrlpred CanrollosJ din£ about in the jungles of the j creatures shocking a huge croco-Cl tea a munn country for 15 months, dile to death. They joined Bra-
’ in an
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15,-^p>_
■p Ftate department today struck	adventures, thej tell of pig-
gain at the security of Samuel	headed Indians.” hard-drinking tuwll. former Chicago utilities savages, rivers that don’t seem to
Amazon country
And in a preliminary report of zilian •‘cowboys” in an alligator
roundup, which netted 300 head. The explorers believe that they
late, when it announced it 4 instructed the American con-ul general in Athens to cancel j assport
function properly and mountains that "pop up in the wrong places.” Both men are 25. Holdridge was born in Greenwich village and
had obtained pertinent informa-Uon concerning the “white Indians” of South America, for whom numerous expeditions have searched without success.
advanced dramatic class before j turning it in for the Apolliad con-I test, according to Miss Rew who j is in charge of the contest.
| Stories should run from three Ito five minutes in length; and sssays should be from three to five minutes long. There will be roo mon the program for about three of these one-act plays, and their revision does not bar them Jan- 15.—(UJJ)—A new record for from competition.	flying upside down was claimed
Manuscripts are to be turned in today.by Capt. Raffaele Colacicchi, at the School of Speech, where al- ( the Italian air force, who flew so, rules for the contest may be ; in that manner 42 minutes, 37 obtained,	seconds.
New Record Set By Italian Flyer
CENTOCELLE AIRPORT, Ita!*,
QUANTICO, Va., Jan. 15.—<UJ?) —Back home today came 350 of America’s soldiers of the sea who for six years have carried the stars and stripes through the heat and death of the Nicaraguan Jungle.
As the bulky transport, Henderson its decks alive with the olive drab of the marines, bumped against the wharf, and end was written to one of the stormiest periods in American foreign relations.
Behind lay 125 marines, killed in the attempt of the United States to bring order to the troubled little nation. Behind, too, was that will-o-the-wisp, Augustino Sandino, an everlasting rebel whom marines had pursued from Kinotega to the Costa Rican border—only to leave him at the end, free and triumphant somewhere ln the hills above Managua.
oes. Bands blared "Home, Sweet Home”; “Hall, Hall the Gang’s All Here,” and the martial strains of the marines’ own marching song, "From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli.” Fifteen planes dipped their wings in salute.
On the dock a small group of women and children—wives and families of the homecoming band —whitened the air with waving handkerchiefs as the Henderson, caught by the tide, swung Into the w'harf.
First Sergeant Clyde Darrah leaned against his rifle and surveyed his homeland after four yea^s on alien soil.
"There’s not much to tell,” he said. "They sent us down there to do a job and we did the best we could. No, we didn't catch Sandino, but that’s a pretty hard Job. Sure, we’re all glad to be
Cuts in French Army Predicted
PARIS, Jan. 15.——Drastic reorganization of the French army, with sweeping reductions in personnel were presaged today by the cabinet’s approval of an economy program calling for a material reduction in appropriations for the coming year.
Finance Minister Herfry Cherou obtained the cabinet’s approval of his plan to cut the army, navy-, and air force appropriations by
650.000.000	francs (about $26,000,-000), as part of his budget balano ing plan.
The plan calls for a cut of 300,-000,000 francs in army pay alone, which it was believed would mean considerable reduction of the force.
Army reorganization and lowei* ed appropriations for defense forces were recommended by Cheron in an effort to appeas# Socialists, who threatened to block his budget unless he met their demands.
The finance minister estimated
400.000.000	francs could be raised from a gasoline tax. He will propose that this be turned over to the railroads to reduce their increasing deficit.
It was a homecoming of her- home. Who wouldn't be?”
Influenza Epidemic Spreading in Britain
LONDON. Jan. 15.—a'JR)—Deaths from the influenza epidemic in the British isles increased at an alarming rate in the past week, according to statistics made publi* today.