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Los Angeles, California, Friday, January 13, 1933.
No. 71
iay Contest Dn Incunabula Is Announced
jizes of $500 Will Be lAwarded to Students Of L. A. County bllbehr Book Collection At Doheny Library To Be Subject
ji e^say contest involving $500 prizes has been opened to high ool, junior college, and col-«tc dents of Lob Angeles coun-n connection with tbe Vollbehr ection of incunabula now on ibit at the Doheny Memorial uy.
nnouncement of the contest e last night from the library’ mlfee of ihe university, of ih Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer •hai man. The subject is the resflon of the student of the t exhibit.
Exhibit To Continue lecause of the competition, the Ibition of valuable manuscripts, |mal-ula, and Americana will tinu- in the art gallery of the kry for another week, and will open all day tomorrow, r. Otto Vollbehr will speak at kday morning's Btudent assem-, it was announced last night Muivey White, faculty assem-chairman. He will speak on Iftet' ith Century Books.”
Prizes Number 18 (he prizes will number 18. as [ows: first. $200; second. $100; rd, $50; and 15 prizes of $10
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Cssa .g must be typewritten, and jiiairi a minimum of 1,000 words a maximum of 2,000. The lpetltion will close at midnight L 2s, eight days after the dis-ly concluded.
(elec tion of judges has been |3tpo:H-d to a later date, accord-to Dr. Raubenheimer.
Rules To Be Announced Lules regarding manuscripts and adlressing of essays have not It b* en announced, but will be jblis) ed as soon as available and fpies placed for distribution at |e entrance to the exhibit.
|Dr. Otto Vollbehr's collection of Icunabula has been on display lr s* . eral days in the library ad aitracted numcnii visitors, ie exhibit is open to the pub-from 1 to 6 p.m. every college iy ar d from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on iturdays.
Professionals Must Get Photo Dates
Members of honorary and professional fraternities are urged by Walt Roberta, editor-in-chief of the annual, to make their picture appointments for El Rodeo this week and Monday and Tuesday of next week in order that their page will not be eliminated from the book. Appointments may be made in the El Rodeo office, Student Union 221. Pictures are to be taken in formal attire, the editor announced.
House Passes Farm Relief Allotment Act
Bill To Give Farmers $1,000,000,000 From Processors’ Tax
L.A. Ad Club To Hear President
Alpha Delta Sigma Will Present S. C. Head At Biltmore
[oover To Shun War Debt Crises
Representing The University of Southern California, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid will be the featured speaker at a meeting of the Los A**— r Advertising club on Tusd’ van. 17, when he will discu „ “The College Man Prepares for Business.”
The program is being sponsored by the S.C. chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising fraternity, and will be held in conjunction with the regular noon meeting of the advertising club which is held every Tuesday in the Blue room of the Lo6 Angeles Biltmore hotel and broadcast over radio station KFWB.
Following Dr. von KleinSmid’s address, Orv Mohler p-*ill explain in a short talk the 'tfork of Alpha Delta Sigma on 'ffe campus and discuss the extra-curricular activities of members of the fraternity.
Many prominent Trojans will be present, including Dr. W. D. Mor-iarity, director of the School of Merchandising; and Dr. Florence May Morse .acting director; Christy Welch, vice-president of the associated students; and Prof. Frank A. Nagley of the School of Merchandising.
Through the efforts of Francis Cislini, who is in charge of the affair, the Department of Musical Organizations has been secured to provide entertainment. Gene Duckwall is chairman of th day and president of Alpha Delta Sigma.
Two of the associate members of Alpha Delta Sigma—Dan Scott, publicity director of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric corporation, and Carl Bundy, who heads the Bundy Quill and Press, are former presidents of the Los Angeles Advertising club.
Measure Faces Test in Senate; Passes House By 203-150 Vote
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—
The House today passed the domestic allotment farm relief plan, hailed by its backers as the dawn of a new economic day for agriculture.
The vote was 203 to 150.
One of the primary planks in President-elect Roosevelt’s economic program, the measure was driven through the house under the whip of Democratic leadership. The bill now goes to the senate where its fate is doubtful.
Hard Battle Fought
The vote came at dusk after a tense day in which rebellion broke out on both the Democratic and Republican sides of the chamber.
Proponents of the measure contend it will pour $1,000,000,000 into the pockets of American farmers being ground into bankruptcy by low commodity prices and high taxes.
The bill, its sponsors admit, would take the $1,000,000,000 out of the pocketbooks of one class of Americans and put it into another class—the farmers. It provides a bounty for all farmers who will voluntarily reduce their production on such commodities as wheat, cotton and tobacco. That bounty would bring the price on their products up to the average level for the years between 1909 and 1914.
industries Hit
The bill proposes to raise this $1,000,000,000 by taxing processors —millers, canners and packers. For that reason it was fought bitterly by representatives of such industries.
Opponents of the measure hammered away at the idea that the bill would throw an added burden on the ultimate consumer by raising the price of bread, meat and other foodstuffs.
| LONDON, Jan. 12—(U.E)—Ambas-idor Andrew W. Mellon intimated iy that the Hoover administra-an intended to do nothing fur-
Iier between now and March 4 ware solving the war debts cri-*•
The grey-haired ambassador in |ls fi "st press conference since turning from a holiday in the [nitec States told correspondents it Secretary of State Henry L.
trims'-n “is not in a position to lve rue any definite instructions” war debts.
“I have not received any more od ia view of the forthcoming lang; of administration hardly |xper any.” Mellon commented, le gs<.ve the impression that no-Jy wa£ really in a position to Jnow what may happen on this ital world problem, adding with alight smile:
“Reilly, it’s something the outline of which I should like to enow myself.” He professed to iave ao idea the course the debts lontrcversy between Great Britain nd tie United States would take .fter March 4.
The ambassador said if he were pproached by the British govern-nent for advice as to the be6t ray to reopen the debt problem rith the new administration he vould be obliged to seek instructions from Washington.
Coolidge Honored In Chapel Tribute
"We shall live our lives a Wt nobler, a bit wiser, and we shall derive courage and inspiration by his haring been our leader,” said Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, taking as his subject “A Tribute to Calvin Coolidge” in his inspirational talk yesterday morning at assembly hour.
‘‘That which a man is, is more important than what he says, or even what he does,” said Dr. Baxter. “Calvin Coolidge had character like the granite monument to George Washington, like the granite hills of Vermont which he loved. He was an austere man, but a good man, and a great man.’’
Dr. Baxter interspersed his talk with incidents from the life of Coolidge, each one showing his life as a part of the American people and each a tribute to the character of the man.
S.C. Professors To Address Conclave
Next Week at the Biltmore hotel the Western States Merchants association will hold its third semiannual convention. It will be conducted by the Domestic Trade department of the Los Angeles cham. ber of commerce.
The formal program will occur on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings. At 11 a.m. Monday, Mr. J. Harry Tregoe, former instructor in the College of Commerce at S.C. will speak on the subject of "Increasing and Control-ing Credit Sales.”
On Tuesday, the program will be by the S.C. School of Merchandising. Dr. Florence May Morse, acting director, will be the chairman of the day.
Students from S.C. are invited to attend these lectures, especially those from the College of Commerce. There will be no charge for either registration or admission.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—OLE)— The San Francisco Rangers defeated the Hollywood Millionaires,
4	to 3, in a California league hockey game tonight.
Grain Tax in Kind Is Plan For Russian Farm Relief
iTen Ugliest Words Listed by Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12.—<UI!>— Whll« savants disagree over the 10 m-jst beautiful words in the language. Hollywood came for-R'ard today with the ten "unmen-
Lionaales.”
Tb^y are: cohesion, distilling, Lium num. catastrophe, seething, felicitations, nemesis, procrastination, hippopotamus and rural.
Th*} reason they are unmentionable, sound engineers explained, [g because most actors cannot pronc-unce them distinctly. Re-rordiigs ot these words have proceed some startling effects.
MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—a'J?)—Another move to stimulate farmers and increase soviet Russia’s grain crops was seen today in Premier Viacheslas Molotov’s announcement that a grain tax in kind rather than grain requisitions would be enforced in the future.
The premier’s speech was believed the forerunner of legislation looking to this step, which will permit far more freedom among peasants than in recent years under the collective farms system.
Soviet leaders were believed ready to abandon entirely the present systm of grain requisitions and substitute the tax in kind. The move represents another effort to overcome peasant apathy which in the past two years has been largely responsible for the nation’s food shortage.
Heretofore, individual farmers in the collective farms were obliged by law to surrender their
grain to the govenrment at a fixed price. The more they produced, the more they were obliged to turn over, and the inducement to increase their plantings and harvests was at a minimum.
Under the projected new system, every peasant on a collective farm would be assessed in advance a definite tax payable in grain. Anything above this will be considered private property and the peasants may 6ell it in the open market for what they can get.
The idea back of this change ls to encourage larger plantings and greater care of the crops.
Realization of these goals, of course, depends on (A) the size of the tax assessments, and (B) the faith of the peasantry in the new order. They have repeatedly been disappointed ln the government b promises.
Tommy Wamp Salesgirls Are Needed
So that Tommy W’ampus may prowl again on Wednesday, Jan. 18, as many girls as possible are wanted to sell him. Girls who are desirous of activity points, whether they have sold the Wampus before or not will meet at the W’ampus office, 217 Student Union, at 8 or 9 o’clock Wednesday morning.
At that time they will receive 10 magazines, and during the day, at classes, and at lunch, they will sell them. Points will be awarded all those who selJ
Beer Bill Will Bovard Rally To Present
Be Ready (or Senate Soon
Jonson Drama Casting Begins
Directors Start Tryouts For Roles in Classic Elizabethan Play
Tentative casting of “Every Man In His Humour,” classical English drama by Ben Jonson that is scheduled for production on the campus next semester, was completed yesterday, but final announcement of the cast will be held up pending final tryouts.
Two days of preliminary readings have been required by Mary Elizabeth Hendricks and Dorothy Davis, assistant directors, to select in part the 14 men and three women who will participate in the production.
The English department and Drama Shop are cooperating ln the production of the Jonson play in an attempt to establish a series of annual presentations of literary masterpieces of the Elizabethan or pre-Elizabethan era.
Research necessary to production of the opus lh the historic style will be conducted by the English faculty, while details of rehearsing and staging will be in the hands of Drama Shop members. The fine arts faculty and students will be in charge of costuming the piece.
Gratification with the amount and quality of dramatic talent that turned out for the tryouts was expressed yesterday by the assistant directors. With the most ex-periencd campus actors occupied with the N.C.P. production, “He Who Gets Slapped,” the field was open for able students who have not had much opportunity as yet, Norman Wright, president of Drama Shop, stated.
The play contains five acts and numerous scenes, with abundant comedy and satire.
5. ;e Actress To Appear in Recital
As a special feature, the School of Speech will present this morning Helen Haber Wood, noted stage artist, who will offer a group of character sketches at the weekly speech recital held at 9 o’clock in Old College, 125.
Mrs. Wood has been considered by many people to be a second Ruth Draper. Her ability to form a point of personal contact with her audiences and her striking personality have lead to her success.
Coming with recommendations from General John Pershing and Major W. P. Jackson for her entertainments during the World war, Mrs. Wood has received favorable press comments in papers in numerous foreign countries.
Following the program there will be a reception which will be open to speech majors and all other students who are interested. Coffee and cakes will be served.
Band, Choruses To Present Program At Chaffey H. S.
Turning its attention to more serious matters than capering on the football field, the Trojan band begins a series of concerts when it journeys to Ontario tonight to perform at Chaffey Union high school. Accompanied by the Tro jan male chorus and Women’s glee club, the band will meet at the Student Union at 5 o’clock for dinner before the two-hour trip.
The program of an hour and 45 minutes will be shared by these organizations and the Symphonic orchestra under the direction of Alexander Stewart.
Measure Seeks To Avoid Illegality Ruling by Supreme Court Senator Dill Seeks To Include Light Wines, Cider in Bill
Basketball Team; S.C. Will Meet Stanford Tonight
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—(U.E>— A beer bill that will be different in many respects from the Collier measure which passed the house will be completed tomorrow by a painstaking group of lawyers constituting a senate judiciary subcommittee.
The measure probably will be reported to the full committee Monday. Democratic leaders are seeking prompt action, despite the threat of a veto by President Hoover and hope to get the bill before the senate soon.
May Cut Content The measure will carry a protective feature designed to avoid a decision by the supreme court that it is unconstitutional. This is the major difference from the house bill, but other changes relating to lowering of the 3.2 per cent alcoholic content of the Collier bill and to Inclusion of other beverages will be urged in the meeting tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the 18th amendment repeal matter was brought forward again today in a demand by Senator Sam G. Bratton, Democrat, N. M., that the resolution now pending in the senate be revised to permit ratification by state conventions, instead of legislatures, as pledged by both party platforms.
Hard Cider Urged Senator Clarence C. Dill, Dem., Wash., is seeking to broaden the beer bill to Include light wines and the so-called “champagne cider” desired by his statement. This, he explained is a very palatable drink containing about 2.5 per cent alcohol. Washington is an apple growing state.
Some members are inclined to reduce alcoholic content of 3.2 per cent to a flat three per cent to insure that the beverage will not be “intoxicating.”
Troy, Indians To Commence Crown Chase
Tom Cordry, Topping Are Stars of Stanford Basketball Team
Sociologists To Hold Meeting at Whittier College
The fourth annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological society will be held at Whittier college, tomorrow. The meeting is open to outsiders, and students interested in this work are urged to attend.
The program will start at 9:30 a.m. with registration at Platner hall, Berkeley way. At 10 a.m. the morning session will get under way with talk by Dr. George M. Day of Occidental college, Prof. David E. Henley, Whittier college, and Dr. Christine Galitzi, Scripps college. A general discussion led by Prof. John E. Nord-skog of the S.C. faculty and two junior college professors will complete the morning session.
Dr. Clarence M. Case of the Trojan faculty is president of the Pacific Sociological society, and will preside at the luncheon on the Whittier campus. Dr. Bessie A McClenahan, also of the S.C. faculty, will give a talk on “Sociological Observations in Europe.”
The afternoon program will start at 2 o’clock and will feature several addresses, among which will be one on “Emergency Relief” by Dr. George B. Mangold of the department of sociology. Discussion will again follow these talks. The meeting will conclude with the presidential address at 3:30 p.m. on the subject of “Technocracy and Social Engineering.”
Committee Chairmen For Dance To Meet
Committee chairmen of the annua lfootball dance, which is to be sponsored by the Interfraternity council, the Faculty club, and the Associated Interfraternity Mothers’ club, are requested by Page Parker, president of the council, to be present at a meeting to be held In Dr. Francis Bacon’s office this afternoon-at 4.
By Ed Madrid
In the opening clash of the basketball season, Southern California’s rampaging hoopsters open the southern division of the Pacific coast conference tonight at the Olympic auditorium against Stanford’s up and coming barnstorming Indians. Playing a two game series, the teams go into action Saturday evening again.
Slowly improving game by game, both fives are expected to reach their peak in the court battle this evening and tomorrow, with the prospects of both games being high scoring affairs.
Barry Drills Charges
Barry’s charges have been drilled hard all week and have looked impressive in scrimmages and in their last game against Santa Clara.
Although the pre-season record of the Trojans is much more impressive than that of the Indians, the Red quintet is expected to furnish some tough competition inasmuch aj the team has been strengthened by the addition of a fine player going by the name of Topping, from Pasadena. He plays center and may do some tall topping (rotten pun) against Signor Lee Guttero, who jumps center for Troy.
Cordry It Threat
Southern California ls only too familiar with Stanford’s flash, “Tiny” Tom Cordry. Little Tommy is undoubtedly one of the finest shots on the coast, and outside of Emile “Frenchy” LaCombe last season, was the only one to both the peaceful and unruffled equanimity of Justin McCarthy Barry.
John Hancock, Jay Tod, Carrol Weaver, and Bill Schnetke are the regular guards.
Blessed with some of the finest material that he has coached since coming to S.C., Barry will probably open with a veteran lineup with the exception of his star center, Guttero.
STARTERS NAMED
Jerry “Nimble” Nemer and Saxon Elliot will open at forwards; Julie Bescos and Sonny Anderson, at guards; with the sophomore sensation, Guttero tipping them from center. Guttero was a Spartan last year and will be the only one who isn’t a letterman on the flrst string.
Playing his third and last season, Nemer will draw his share of attention from the fans. His game has become more polished, both in shooting and in his handling of the ball. Nemer’s value to the team lies not in the fact that he is likely to go into a scoring spree any minute, but in the fact that he ls passing more and
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Movies Violate Peace of 28th Street
There was little studying done on fraternity row last night. The mighty magic of the motion picture industry required the attention of all hands to witness the shooting of a cinema directly across the street from the Phi Tau house.
Phi Betes and other rare species of scholarly endeavor threw down their glasses, card players threw up their cards, and habitual sleepers threw off their blankets to turn out en masse to witness the spectacle. The picture was an R.K.O. pro-tlon entitled “The Great Jas-per,” starring Richard Dix.
Sino-Japanese Forces Clash
Fighting Continues in Jehol; Skirmishes Unimportant
PEIPING, Jan. 12.—(HE)—Fighting north of the great wall, along the Jehol border, between Chinese outposts and Japanese forces was reported ln dispatches from the front tonight.
Chinese regulars operating west of Lichiapao, north of the wall, encountered Manchuoquo troops and skirmishes ensued with casualties on both sides, dispatches related.
The Chinese reported 6000 Japanese and Manchoukuo troops had been rushed up to the active sector in the vicinity of Llngyuan, north of Chiomenkou, acene of fighting earlier in the week.
The reports said Japanese, reinforced by Manchoukuo forces, planned an early advance on Changte-Fu, capital of Jehol province which present “war” seeks to claim for Manchoukuo, under Japanese dominance.
Skirmishes during the day were not regarded as important in a military sense, but the Chinese said they were significant because they supported their claims that the Japanese were using the Manchoukuo army commanded by Gen. Chang Hai-Peng, to bear the brunt of their advance Into Jehol.
Frosh Debaters To Meet Compton J.C.
Engaging ln their first division debate of the season, the freshman debate team, composed of Fred Conrad and Henry A Reese, will meet the Compton Junior college team tonight at 8 o’clock ln room 302, Porter hall, in the Law building.
Conrad and Reese, who have already represented the S.C. frosh In several non-division encounters during the past semester, will uphold the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, that the United States should agree to the cancellation of the inter-allied war debts.”
Coach Barry To Give Talk This Morning
Nemer. Veteran Forward, Will Speak; McCormac To Be at Organ
Basketbal assumes the sport* throne today when Southern California students assemble for th# first basketball rally of the year this morning in Bovard auditorium at 9:55.
The rally will officially cele-brate the opening of the Pacific coast conference season, which begins tonight with the S.C.-Stan-ford game in the Olympic auditor* ium. Coach Sam Barry and ail members of the team will be on the stage, and each player will be introduced individually.
Program On Air Joe Bushard, chairman of th* rally committee, will preside and introduce the speakers. He has been in charge of the arrangements. The meeting will be broadcast over KFAC.
The students will be addressed by Coach Barry, who will give a short pep talk, and Jerry Nemer, stellar forward on the team for the past two years.
Hal McCormac will open th* rally with pipe organ selections of college songs, including Southern California’s “Fight On.* Yell and cheers will be in charge of Bailey Edgerton, yell king, and his assistants, Winston and Weston Doty.
Troy Favored Beginning the conference season tonight, Troy’s basketball team is favored to defeat Stanford because of its better practice game record. The Trojans have won eight of the last 10 starts, being defeated only by the Pasadena Majors, strong contenders for the A.A.U. title, and the University of Santa Clara, with whom th* Trojans split a two-game series in the north. Southern California claims victories over Whittier, the Hancock Oilers, St Mary’s, San Francisco U., Utah Aggies, and a pair of triumphs over Santa Clara.
Bricks Float, Signs Croon As Inventors Demonstrate
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—(UJ?)—Imbued with the tenets of technocracy, more than 2,000 disciples of modern progress stormed the engineering auditorium tonight to see first-hand a demonstration of what science has been doing during the deprea&kuu
On the platroti*. of the auditorium, surrounded by floating bricks, metalized wood, photo-electric cells and a hundred or more other objects, was Dr. H. C. Parmelee, vice-president of the McGraw-Hill publishing company and the lecturer for the evening.
Dr. Parmelee demonstrated electric advertising signs which shout or croon to the public. He showed a new kind of stocking which couldn’t be made to run with a butcher knife. There was a c«i»
ton house, made from 600 yards of material, nice for week-ends In the country.
Dr. Parmelee pointed to the increase in patents issued during the depression as a barometer of industrial, scientific acceleration. In the last 10 or 12 years, he said, each year has shown an increase of from 1000 to 3000 patents. In 1931 the patent office issued 51,-000, which was 6000 more than the previous year. In 1932 there were 62,000.
The lecturer’s demonstrations Included speed photography, showing what happens to a drop of milk when It hits a plate. One of the machines he exhibited is a typewriter which casts type, making it possible for reporters to simply turn out their stories on lead slugs.
Roosevelt Denies Cabinet Job Bids
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—(Ti?)— The popular game of cabinet guessing suffered a set-back tonight when President-elect Roosevelt declared emphatically that not a single invitation had as yet been issued.
“And what’s more,* he added, “there is no telling when lt will be done.”
Roosevelt opened up on the cabinet discussion by taking cognizance of a Washington report* which said Miss Frances Perkins! was slated for the commerce portrj folio instead of the labor secretaryship.
“That is all wrong,” he laugh-1 ingly remarked.
The president-elect indicated h* might follow the precedent set by Woodrow Wilson, who waited until the day before his inaugural tion to formally announce the oflW cial family.
Elections Committee Will Meet Today
Deputy election commissioners! and members of the all-university committee are requested to be pre4 sent at a meeting today called byj Francis Cislini, elections commis^ sloner, at 1:15 p.m. in the committee chairman room, Student! Union building, room 234. The following will be expected to be pre« sent: Lester Tanner, Walter Halverson, Theron Ramey, Sherman Jensen, William Leedke, Chesterj Tienken, Paul Stanlee. Roy Anderson, Bernard Hirshfield, Harvey) Lewis, Chester Orton, and Emory West
Members are reminded that th> absent rule of the com mitt** will be enforced.