lL XXXVII
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Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 27, 1945
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No. 37
EY’S ORCHESTRA, STARS TO SPARK ‘PAJAMARINO’ RALLY
Grid team, movie personalities join pep prep for Alabama tussle
omen rehearse harmonies r all-university Songfest
Seventeen sororities, four dorms to compete for rotating trophy in AWS-sponsored musicale in Bovard auditorium tomorrow at 7
Putting their best notes forward, sorority and dormitory women will vie for vocal honors iorrow night in the 18th annual AWS Songfest at 7 in Bovard auditorium.
Presenting a sorority or service song and a fraternity song, nine women, selected by &ch group represented for their vocal abilities, will strive to impress the judges, according €onnie Smith, AWS president.
Three judges have been selected from the faculty and will award first, second, and third rizes based on manner of presentation, diction, quality, and rrangement. The winning group will receive a cup which •ill remain in their possession until the next Songfest. The udges will remain anonymous. Each year the date and name * the triumphant group is engraved on the rotating trophy.
“This is one of the most popular all-university events of said Bernice Hage. chair- I
he year,
■an, "and we expect a large turn- : iut. It’s really an evening of j worthwhile entertainment,” she. dded.
Sections in the front of Bovard j ill be reserved for the songsters j bd large colorful signs with ar-mization names on them wiU be lasted beside each row.
During the intermission while "ges adjourn to confer on their tions for the three top spots, est pianist Ray Barnes, sailor om El Toro, will play “The Man Love*’ Gershwin: “Smoke Gets Your Eyes.” Chopin's Polonaise. “Malaguena." and ‘Til Love ou Always,” his own composi-
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forking under the direction ol Hage. Dorsey Payne designed posters and the program. Bar- . ra Thompson was in charge of oritv contacts. Phyllis Burke aded the trophy committee, and : ipila Connolly is directing the acuities of the 15 usherettes. Invi-;ions were sent by the freshman men s council.
•Songfest has long been a tra-ition at Troy.” stated Miss mith. “and we hope tha' every-will attend this all-U affair.
,s a wonderful chance to hear rority and fraternity songs that jany of us would not otherwise par.*
jngs >on the program will be nchors Away,” and “White nstmas.” Pinehurst dormitory; -gma Nu Sweetheart." and "Gam-Phi. Why Do I?,” Gamma Phi ta; “Dream Girl of PiKA." and •wny You Always,” Alpha Del'a Sweetheart of Sigma Chi," and Jrown and Shield.” Zeta Tau Alia: “The Iris Song." and “I’ve Got jittle Phi Mu Girl.” Phi Mu. “Wonderful Ep Girl.” and “Al-ha Chi.” Alpha Chi Omega: Sigma Phi Delta Girl,” and Eap-Delta Walt*,” Kappa Delta; Coast Guard Song." and “I'll Be "ome for Christmas." Moreland all; “Dream Girl of Theta Chi,” nd “Chi Omega. Just for You,” hi Omega: “Phi Tau Sweetheart ong,” and “Hannah,” Delta Lamma: “Kappa Alpha Rose,” “Pi Phi Missus.” Phi Beta |Phi; “Army Air Corps,” and “An Evening Prayer,” Sequoia Hall.
ADDING GLAMOUR to the Pajamerino rally tonight will be Gail Russel, one of several stars, both movie and football, to appear.
CONNIE SMITH . urges attendance
BERNICE HAGE . cheers warblers
Keysters queen
Big 3 to tell *°. ^ °Lv,er atomic decision assen,bly
The Hello and Smile queen will : be crowned at a star-studded all-U MOSCOW. Dec. 26—<r.E>—Secre- assembly Thursday evening, Jan. 11, tary of State James F. Byrnes, Brit- according to Phil Burton, Hello and
ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov held what was believed to be their climatic meeting today and prepared to issue a communique on their conference, including discussions of atomic energy control.
(Washington and London reported that the Big Three had agreed to issue the communique simultaneously in Washington. London and Moscow at 6 p.m EST Wednesday. Later London said that the text had been delayed in Moscow and that the communique would not be issued before Thursday.)
A news blackout continued as regards any agreements reached on atomic energy, Iran and other problems discussed at the foreign ministers’ conference, which opened here Dec. 15.
Greatest interest attached to the atomic energy question. There was
“SAE Friends.” and "Candle- no indication that the United ^hting Time." Alpha Gamma Del- SLates and Britain were ready to • Phi Sig Moonlight Girl.” and j dePan from the agreement reached fellow Moon.” Kappa Alpha The-
"Chi Phi Swee'heart,” and “AO-Sweetheart Song,” Alpha Omi-on Pi; “Sky Anchors A weigh." and ood Indigo." Willard Hall: “Tau silon Phi Sweetheart Song,” and iris of Will and Fire,” Phi Sig-(Continued on Page 4)
egistrar's ff ice notice
For the present term, the last ate for withdrawal from a course thout possibility of receiving an mark ha« been changed from end of the seventh week to of the 10th week. Wed-y, Jan. 9, 1946, is therefore last day on which a student withdraw from a course in present term without a mark ’T” unltss he is doing pass-work at the date of official This action was tak-fcy the Student .Scholarship
ft. W. PATMORE, Registrar.
by President Truman. Canadian Prime Minister W L. MacKenzie King and British Prime Minister Maj. Clement R. Attlee.
(This agreement, announced in Washington Nov. 15. was that the three allies would keep their knowledge secret until a proposed United Nations commission found ways to prevent use of the atomic bomb and to insure that atomic energy could be used only for peaceful purposes.”
Byrnes and Bevin hope to leave by plane tomorrow for Washington and London, weather permitting. Byrnes may fly direct to the United States without a stopover, which he planned tentatively, in Paris.
Various committees worked all
Smile week chairman.
Midst motion picture and radio stars and a celebrated band, the Hello and Smile queen and her four attendants will be introduced to their blind dates for the activities over which they are to preside.
The queen and her attendants will reign over the remainder of the assembly, the Blue Key dig Friday, and the UCLA basketball game Saturday.
At the assemby, the five girls will enter through a special door and meet their blind dates. After the women have met their escorts, the queen will be crowned. Neither the women nor their dates will know until that moment who is to be queen.
The qusen will have been chosen the previous Monday and Tuesday in a special student election. During the two election days the pictures of the candidates will be published in the Daily Trojan, so voters can identify their favorites.
The name of the queen and her four attendants will be engraved on a large perpetual trophy, and the queen and her attendants will be presented with individual trophies.
The 16 finalists chosen by the Blue Key Hello and Smile week selection committee from 73 entrants were selected solely on the basis of beauty and friendliness, Burton pointed out.
The election to choose the final five will be held along the same general plan as the elections for student body officers. Activity tick-(Continued on Page 4)
JOHN WAYNE . Troy boy returns
Headlining an entertainment cast packed with top-ranking Hollywood stars, Alvino Rey brings his singing guitar and orchestra to the SC campus tonight as the No. 1 attraction for the all-U Pajamerino rally slated to start at 6:15 p.m. in Bovard auditorium. Rey will play “Fight On” on his guitar.
John Wayne, Diana Lynne, Gail Russell, and Dickie Love, sensational teen-age dancer of Universal Studios, have definitely announced that they will attend the rally, stated Joe Holt,
rally chairman.
Under the direction of the Trojan Knights, who have made all arrangements for the gigantic rally, the Pajamerino highlights a number of campus functions in preparation for SC’s third straight appearance in the Rose Bowl classic on
New Year’s day.
“Pajama tops are in order for the rally,” announced Holt, "and the Trojan band also attired in
DIANA LYNNE . . on Troy's side.
JOE HOLT . . . T.J.' boy
Veterans given choice of six courses at SC
Veterans wishing to take the special eight-week term beginning Wednesday being offered by University College may choose from courses in economics, education, chemistry, civil engineering, history, and general studies.
The purpose of the short course is to benefit the many
veterans who arrived too late to
Prof to review Glendale charter
Prof. John M. Pfiffner will review day again today on final detans of the charter of the city of Glendale
the conference.
Knights
... and Squires will have a very important meeting at 12:30 p.m. i today in 418 Student Union for rally assignments, announced Buzz Forward, Knight president.
and will offer an appraisal of that document when he addresses a group there Friday, Jan. 11.
Professor Pfiffner, of the School of Public Administration, will speak at a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the charter. He has been invited to make suggestions for revisions. and to otherwise constructively criticize the charter.
Workers refuse strike discussion
DETROIT. Dec. 26 — (U.P) — The CIO Auto Workers union tonight turned its 30 per cent wage increase demand back to the President’s fact-finding board by refusing to discuss the pay question with the strikebound General Motors corporation.
Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice-president, said he had received no indication from the corporation whether it would cooperate with the fact-finding panel, scheduled to meet again Friday.
“As long as the corporation wouldn’t agree to cooperate with the fact-finding board, we cooldn’t bring up our demands. We believe In cooperation with board,” Reuther said.
There was no comment from the corporation.
Walter P. Reuther, NAW vice-president and chief strike strategist, announced at the close of the meeting that progress had been made on the secondary issues. But he said union efforts to learn whether Harry W. Anderson, GM vice-president, would appear in Washington Friday before the presi-tential panel produced no results.
register for the winter term that began Nov. 1.
Registration for the short term began on Dec. 17 and will end on Jan. 5. Registration is being conducted at University College, 253 Administration from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Included in courses being offered are accounting 40. chemistry laL, mathematics la and 3. traCe and transportation 45, civil engineering. economics 100. English la and lb, and history 77.
The term is open to veterans only, and they must present a certificate of eligibility from the veterans administration office at 1041 South Broadway.
Arrangements may be made with the comptroller by servicemen on terminal leave whereby they pay their own expenses until eligible for federal aid, after which the expense will be pro-rated.
Veterans may choose any course
NROTC annual will make new visit to campus
The Fighting Top. NROTC social organization, is sponsoring a military yearbook this year, the "Seahorse.” The “Seahorse” was published before but was discontinued
ALVINO REY . . . and guitar
NROTC trainees are urged to turn in all of their pictures of the NROTC “beauty queen,” pictures taken at the various digs and dances, sporting event pictures, and any other pictures they wished to be published in the Trojan “Seahorse” to Ray Suttles, co-editor, as soon as possible.
the latter part of 1943 for the duration of the war.”
NROTC trainees picked the name by popular vote several years ago. After a choice was made a special figure was designed by Walt Disney as an emblem for the "Seahorse.” This edition is to be dedicated to Capt. Reed M. Fawell, retired former commanding officer of the SC unit.
“We plan to have a bigger and better edition than ever before,” said Ray Suttles, co-editor. "We have plans for 64 pages this year, containing pictures of all the graduating NROTC trainees, the various commanding and executive officers, and activities of the members of the unit. There will be a special feature page on the Rose Bowl and trainees participating. Also, there will be special sections for the NROTC beauty queen, trainee “sweetheart," sport section, ring-dance, digs, and dances,” Suttles continued.
Scheduled to appear about Feb. 20, the “Seahorse” will be sold for SI a copy to trainees. There will be a limited number of copies available for the public.
This year's edition will be edited by John Moore and Suttles.
Amazons
. i . will meet today at 4 p.m. at the Kappa Delta house, 919 West 28th street, according to Patty Parke, president.
Group to meet
Ralph Wight requests that the following women meet with him tomorrow at noon in 218 Student Union to discuss decoration plans for the Blue Key dig: Dru Peterson. Pat Welch, Annette Webb, Sally Weaver, and Nancy Fritshel. that they want for the short term, but they cannot carry more than 8 units. The program will end on Feb. 26.
Applications for admission to the regular spring term of the university should be filed now.
Frosh honorary seeks members
Russian book review told
Interpretation of three books concerning Russia and written by David J. Dallin will be made by Ad-amantios Th. Polyzoides. lecturer in international relations at SC. in the art and lecture room of the university library Wednesday at 3:10 p m. The interpretation is the third of a series sponsored by the Student Council of Religion and the University library.
The books which Mr. Polyzoides will discuss are "The Big Three,” "Russia and Postwar Europe,” and "The Real Soviet Russia.”
The author Is considered one of the foremost analysts of Russia’s real aims and their effects upon world trends. In his works he deals with behind-the-scenes forces that are now fraught with the possibility of swaying the life of the whole race, for good or for ill.
Dallin was born in Russia, and while a student at the University of St. Petersburg, he was arrested for participation in an underground organization. He was in prison for j two years, then escaped to Germany, where he lived from 1911 to 1917.
Ten days after the revolution in March, 1917, David Dallin returned to Russia. He was elected a member of the Moscow Soviet and served in it as an opposition deputy from 1918 to 1921, with an interlude of arrest by the Soviet authorities in 1920.
On the verge of arrest again in 1922, he escaped to Germany.
St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, Stockholm. London, Copenhagen, and New York have all been his home.
Dallin’s first two books were published in Berlin, and he lectured widely in Europe on political, economic, and Russian questions.
Since he has been In this country Dallin has written four books, which include those to be interpreted by Mr. Polyzoides.
Due to the shortage of pajama tops, students who don’t have them may attend tonight's rally, according to Joe Holt, chairman. However, Holt urged every student who could to wear the pajamas in order to get into the spirit of the affair. “For those students who have been wanting to meet the members of the football team, we will definitely introduce them,” said Holt. “Some Alabama students will also be present at the rally.”
pajama tops, will play our school fight songs,” he added.
Coach Jeff Cravath will introduce his assistants and present the 1945
All band members will meet tonight at r:30 in the C and MA building in preparation for their performance at the Rose Bowl rally. Uniforms will be pajama tops and regular band helmets.
victorious SC football squad as part of the program.
According to Buzz Forward, Knight prexy, “it is imperative that SC make a good showing at this time, as every eye in the nation is focused on our campus, and several national magazines will cover the game and preliminary arrangements.”
Doors for rally open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 6:15 p.m. No tickets are required and pajama tops are to be worn. Trainees have been granted late liberty and are not required to wear the pajamas. Open house at all sororities on the row will be held immediately after the rally.
Admission to the rally will be on a first come, first serve basis and (Continued on Page 4>
Freshman women who have made
a 2 5 er.de ^mt aTerage in the^ Scrjbes’ Schedule first term^nt SC and women with a 2.5 cumulative average for theif entire freshman year are urged to sign-up for Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman women’s honorary, in the dean of women’s office as soon as possible.
Initiation of last term’s pledges and the pledging of new members
will come very *oon,
on D. T. arranged
After having one whole day to recuperate from their holiday “spirits,” DT. scribes and scribblers are "asked’’ to report for duty in the city room either today, tomorrow, or Monday.
Students will get emergency loans
Special emergency loans are being granted for students attending the university on the G.L bill, according to Mrs. R. E. Vivian, president of the Interfratemity Mothers club, which is offering the loans.
"Since the government checks are late in arriving many students have found it necessary to seek aid,” stated Mrs. Vivian.
Veterans interested should contact Dr. Carl Hancey, dean of men, who is arranging the loans. The emergency loans are for short terms, payable in 30 to 60 days.
Phi Beta
. . . will hold its regular meeting at 4 p.m. today at the YWCA house. All actives and pledges are required to attend, according to Anita Norcop, president.
President's office notice
The foUowing has been announced by the President’s office as the official winter term holiday schedule.
1946
Jan. 1, Tuesday, New Year’s Day holiday.
AU administrative offices will be closed all day Monday, Dee.
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R. B. von KleinSmid, President.