Freshmen to convene in Bovard
Ruling over the freshman assembly Wednesday will be a king and queen chosen by the freshmen in a special election tomorrow. The royal pair-will also reign at the SC and UCLA frosh picnic, Sept. 15.
Nominations for the king and queen will be based on personality and Trojan spirit, and all nominations must be filed the Victory Hut from 12 a.m. tt 1 p.m. today. “No nominations will be accepted after 2 p.m.,” stated Earl Mason, chairman of the king •nd queen election committee. Elections will take place tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Victory Hut with freshmen only being allowed to vote. Identification cards will be required from all students before they will be permitted to vote.
Winners of the ballot will be an-ounced at the assembly in Touch-_tone theateV Wednesday by Terry elson, head yell king. The freshen football players will also be troduced at that time.
"The assembly will be open to All students, and special entertainment is being planned, so be on hand Wednesday in the Touchstone theater for the naming of the king and queen and something unique in the way of Trojan spirit and entertainment/' stated Edwards.
BUI Marvin, picnic committee urges all SC freshmen ho would like to play softball at h* SC-UOLA picnic, Sept. 15 to gn up as soon as possible. Sept. ▼ill be the last day for those ig to play to sign up.
The freshman council is aiding the distribution of Daily Trojans morning by assigning members deUrw the papers to Bridge hall, OoBepe, the Cellar, and the building. By delivering to the varicrtis buildings on thfi freshman council hopes prortdt papers for the sleepy who ailow themselves just ttm* to pet to their first
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. XXXVI
72
Los Angeles, Monday, Sept. 10, 1945
Night Phorvj RL *472
No. 196
aps devour alien men
XjONSXKC, Sept. 10.—(UP>—There tvttflgoe that Japanese soldiers ,ttae fl«6h from the bodies of and Australian dead and at of their own fallen troops, the fficial Australian report on Jan-
e6e atrocities -disclosed today. The Australian report, released in idon by Foreign Minister H. V. att and prepared by Sir William ebb. the Australian chief justice Queensland for the United Na-ons war crimes commission, said was apparent the Japanese forces ;ticed cannibalism in New uinea.
The evidence of cannibalism In w Guinea following the Buna-na fighting betweeft July 19, l, and Jan. 19, 1943. cannot be d to natives, the report said.
raduate can notice
Thesis dates for candidates for asters’ degrees, October, 1945, ve been announced br Dean R. Hunt, Graduate School.
Sept. 15, Saturday, is the final y for the candidate to secure eliminary approval of his thesis faculty committee and present roval to the dean of the Grad-te School—signed by each mem-r of the thesis committee.
Sept. 24, Monday, is the final y for the candidate to present is thesis (in final form) to the mmittee.
Oct. 12, Friday, is the final day present the thesis—fully ap-jved and ready for binding—to e dean of the Graduate School.
anks may be obtained in the raduate office, 160 Administra-on.
R, D. Hunt, Dean Graduate School.
ZAMPERINI FOUND ALIVE
Jap prison releases
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former SC athlete
(Editor’s note: This story is taken from the l’okohama dispatch of Sept. 6 by Robert Trumbull, New York Times correspondent.)
Lt. Louis Zamperini, speedy former Trojan miler and participant in the 1936 Olympics, has been rescued from a Japanese prison camp after undergoing incredible hardships for the past 28 months. Zamperini had been given up for dead when he failed to return from a search mission in an Army B-24 more than two years ago, but a Tokyo radio broadcast almost a year ago had raised hopes here for his safety.
Mardi Gras to fete Bruin-Trojan clash
The first big university dance of the term will be held at the Deauville beach club, Saturday night, Sept. 22. The dance will be par.t
of the big Mardi Gras celebration which will start Friday noon with a huge rally featuring the SC band, rooters, and Terry Nelson, yell king, with special guests promised by Bill Witmeyer, chairman of the rally.
Trojan Knights are to sponsor ,the weekend, and it will be highlighted by the grid struggle Friday night with UCLA in the coliseum. The rally committee and the ASSC are also on the committee planning the affair.
Under the direction of Jerry Hoytt, the dance will feature the music of the famous Will Osborne orchestra. The Mardi Gras theme wfll be carried out in the decorations, according to Hoytt.
Bids for the dance go on sale today and will be priced at $3.60 including the tax and will permit students to dance and enjoy themselves at ,the Deauville club which is to be exclusively for the use of Trojans and their dates for the evening.
Bids are limited to 400, and students are urged by Hoytt to get theirs before the ink is dry, because this is the first postwar, all-university prom. “It will be a gala affair,” states Hoytt, “and civilians and trainees will have to get theirs in a hurry in order to get bids.”
Members of the Trojan varsity football team will be the honored guests for the evening, and they will receive the (acclaim of the students attending. Official htpsts for the evening are the Trojan Knights, SC junior-senior service organization.
Bids will be sold in the cashier’s
window in the Student Union bookstore and through various fraternities and sorority representatives.
“This event is for all Trojans,” Bill Camm, president of the Knights said.
Unity to be topic of religious groups
Climaxing their summer series of combined meetings, the various Protestant clubs on campus will hear the Rev. Harland E. Hogue, assistant professor of religion at Scripps college, speak Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Y house.
Beginning with singing led by Reverend Hogue and concluding with the discussion on the theme of “Protestant Unity,” the affair will be one of the biggest meetings of the Protestant groups this summer, according to Mrs. Ruth Grant, executive secretary of the YWCA on campus.
Reverend Hogue, a graduate of the San Francisco theological seminary at San Anselmo, was pastor of the Pomona Presbyterian church before taking up his present work at Scripps.
Having just finished special work at Union theological seminary In New York this summer, he is wen-known for his youth work in camps, and he has been active on the Council of Religion at Pomona college. Rev. Hogue traveled extensively throughout * Europe, Russia, and Palestine before the war began in 1939.
LT. LOUIS ZAMPERINI—Shown here as he appeared on
Dean Cromwell's track team in 1934.
M Arthur gives Nips new plan
TOKYO. Sept. 9. — (U.P) — Gen, Douglas MacArthur, backed by nearly 80.000 troops already in Japan, today gave the Japanese a blueprint of allied occupation policy that will permit the conauered nation to govern itself under allied directives designed to smother forever any new threat to world peace.
The allied commander outlining three broad objectives of the United Nations, declared that occupation troops will resort to force ofipms only “if necessary” to obtainnhose ends.
He said the Japanese appeared to
be doing everything in their power to follow instructions and he warned his troops that “the occupation of Japan must take place withoftt unnecessary violence and without undue oppression.”
MacArthur now has between 70,-000 and 80.000 men in Japan to back up his demands, according to unofficial estimates, and two new divisions are landing in the American beachhead south of Tokyo. The American division is pouring ashore at Yokohama and the 27th division is landing by air at Atsugi.
The ex-trackster, who is one of Dean Cromwell's most famous athletes, was the only member of the plane’s crew of 10 besides his pilot to survive the crash landing at sea and 47 days aboard a life raft, during which time a third member died aboard the raft.
The two were finally picked up by a Japanese fisherman in the Marshalls who turned them over to the military after giving them each a piece of hard tack and a cup of water—their first food and drink in eight days.
On Wotje they were cared for by a kindly Japanese doctor for three days, but then they were transferred to Kwajalein. Here they received beastly treatment and Zamperini’s eyes gleamed when he was told of the shelling and invasion of the atoll later by American forces.
,rWe were thrown into a three-roOm shack—Phillips (the pilot) and I in separate rooms with an empty room between,” he said. Each room was 2 feet, 3 inches wide, 7 feet high and 6 feet long. There was one window opening only onto a darkened hallway.
For 43 days the flyers were kept in this hellhole with little light and the rations consisting of a gob of rice “about midway between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball” which the guards threw them three times a day for them to scramble like animals for on the filthy floor.
In addition they received four
tablespoons of soup with the rice, which was their sole sustenance after 47 days of starvation aboard the raft. Zamperini said the Japs tormented them with every kind of humiliation and pain their sadistic minds could devise.
They were next sent to Truk aboard a Jap transport. There, as they were being searched, a clipping was found on Zamperini with a cartoon showing him in running trunks
and flying garb. The legend contrasted his running in the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, while he was a bombardier in the historic raid on Wake island on Christmas eve, 1942. It happened that half the Jap ship’s crew had been on Wake the night of that raid.
A crowd of the Japs, enlivened by sake, rushed into the two flyers’ room and proceeded to beat them. When a guard had stopped the punishment, Zamperini’s nose (Continued on Page Three)
U.S. in Pacific discussed
“Our Stake in the Pacific” was the subject under discussion last night over KHJ at 8 when Dr. Ru-fus B. von KleinSmid, president of the university, was one of four experts participating in the forum sponsored by Northwestern university’s “Reviewing Stand.”
Moderator James H. McBumey, dean of Northwestern’s School of Speech, opened .the program by reciting three aims of the United-States in the Pacific.
1.	Military security.
2.	Trade and commerce.
3.	Right of the United States
for control.
Arthur Steiner, associate professor of political science at UCLA stated that the United States, as the most powerful western nation fronting on the Pacific, should use its political influence to create in the Pacific a community of interest and security.
Dr. Von KleinSmid replied to Steiner’s question by saying that America is fighting for a community of democracy in the Pacific to extend our way of life throughout the Pacific, to establish a good way of life as far as
possible.	•
Ch’en Shou-Yi. professor of Chinese culture at Pomona and Claremont colleges, told the radio audience that we should “Give the people ‘.their own* way of life. We should not try to Impose a government on them.
Acting president of Occidental college, Dr. Arthur Coons, interposed with the statement that “we should look forward to economic development also.” McBurney, as moderator, then £sked the forum participants how (Continued on Page Four)
Trovets to present discussion
by Norman Freeman
“Greater Participation in Student Activities.”
“A very vital subject and a very potent one.”
With these words, Frank Soares, president of the Trovets, announced the subject for discussion at the all-U forum to be presented by the Trovets at noon Wednesday in Bovard auditorium.
The speakers are ASSC senators Don Blank, president of the junior class, and Maurice Gould, captain of the debate squad. Both men advocate a greater participation of all students, the non-orgs and the organized members of the student body.
In the past there have been many movements in the student body to promote a greater participation bjf these students in campus activities. For some vague reason these movements have never really made any headway.
The sentiment of the students on campus seems to be in favor of the greater participation.
“This is it,” asserted Gouid, in relation to the forum. “This Is the opportunity for all students of the university to express their views concerning ways and means to increase student participation in campus social and political activities,” he said.
“Here is a chance to give impetus to a new and full spirit of that participation,” he continued. “That participation must find a greater form of expression. Minority control at the present and in the past must be replaced with majority rule.”
“For years the non-orgs have clamored for an opportunity to express themselves in student activities and government. Let us provide them with an answer to their clamoring*,” averred Gould.
Blank, the second member of the forum panel, has also come out in favor of greater student participation.
He said, “Now is the time to prepare our organizations for the reconversion to the peacetime way of life. Now is the time to ‘reconvert.’ n
“This is-a period of reconversion all over the world and it is high time that we here at SC did a little reconverting on our own campus. Greater student representation and participation means a greater democracy and that is for what this war was fought,” concluded Blank.
It was emphasized by both Soares and Milt Buck, entertainment chairman of the Trovets. that this was an all-U forum and that all students and faculty members are welcome to attend.
Faculty club to hear Libby
An opportunity to become better acquainted with the problems, ambitions and success of the veterans on the SC campus will be provided when Dr. Philip A. Libby, assistant professor of management and coordinator of veterans’ affairs, will speak to the Men’s Faculty club at that group's luncheon meeting scheduled for Wednesday at 12 noon in the third floor Student Union tearoom.
Dr. Libby is a veteran of both world wars. In world war II, he was lieutenant commander In naval aviation. After the government authorized the education of veterans under the direction of the Veterans administration, the university created an office to handle veterans’ affairs and Dr. Libby was appointed coordinator.
Those persons who intend to make reservations are requested to call the office of Howard W. Patmore, registrar, (Station 240) today. Those who prefer to do so may bring their own lunches or come In time to hear the speaker at 12:30 p.m*
Blue Key
. . . will meet at 12:30 p.m. today in 418 Student Union, according to Jerry Juergens, president.
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