Patterson to address
WAO, vets
“The Returning Veteran and the Postwar United States” will be the subject under discussion when Ellis E. Patterson, representative from the 16th California Congressional district speaks to a joint meeting of the Trovets and the We Are One society Wednesday at 12 noon in 206
Administration.
Recently returned from an extensive tour of the South Pacific battle areas. Representative Patterson spoke with many G.I.s about their hopes and expectations concerning their future in the United States. As lieutenant governor of California during the Olson administration, Patterson was able to see the workings of government first hand and has also had wide experience in law.
“He was an assemblyman and was almost reelected lieutenant governor which is remarkable In view of the landslide for Governor Warren,” stated Maurice Gould, WAO president.
Representative Patterson has come up the hard way, he continued. He put himself through school by working: in & cannery.
“With his experience in Washington and Sacramento, combined with his recent trip to the South Pacific, Represents tire Patterson is qualified to speak well and I am sure informatively on this ▼err vital subject," averred Frank Soares, Trovet president.
All students and faculty members are Invited to attend this discussion.
This discussion is one of a series Of public discussions sponsored by Trovets, campus veterans organisation, which under President Soares alms to help the veteran become a part of campus life through answering his questions and acting on his problems m a body.
The We Art On® society Is a group deroted to the ideals of race equality and religious freedom. Under President Gould, the organisation holds discussions and lectures on Friday at 12 noon at the YWCA house.
Surrenderors reach Manila
MANILA. Aug. 18. — (T.E) — The Japanese surrender mission headed by L»L Gen. Torashiro Kawabe landed at Nichols airfield at 5:54 p.m. (1:54 a.m. PWT) today and
the squat and rotund general kept a curious crowd of 5000 G.Ls waiting a full five minutes before he decided thst everything was on the up and up and that he could disembark.
Kawabe. vice chief of the imperial staff, apparently became suspicious when Ool. Leo J. Dawson, commanding officer of the 5th airforce service area at Nichols field, instructed him to disembark first. Dawson had boarded the plane to instruct its occupants in prococol that ranking officers oould proceed first to the waiting motor caravan.
Through an interpreter, Kawabe pointed out that he occupied the front seat of the plane and therefore ordinarily would be the last to leave. Dawson explained this satisfactorily and Kawabe then wanted to know (1) how many people were meeting him at the field and (2) where the mission was going first
Kawabe, apparently convinced that no trickery was involved, stepped haltingly through the door of the plane and down the gangplank where he stopped and looked inquiringly at Dawson. Dawson directed him to Col. S. F. Mashbir, coordinator for the Allied translator -interrogation section, who was standing stiffly at attention several paces ahead of the American reception party.
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Vol. XXXVI
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No. 181
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DINNERMAN’ OPENS THURSDAY
Campus cast readies opening curtain
“The Man Who Came to Dinner,” is going into the final stages of preparation for presentation on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. The cast is filled with many experienced thespians, including many who have had professional experience in stock companies, little theaters, or sung in light opera.
LEE MALAMUTH
. . plays journalist.
JOHN ARCHER
the man who came.
Scholarship society offers theme award
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman men’s scholastic honorary fraternity, has initiated an essay contest for university students, Dick Gilson, president of the organization, announced recently.
The student submitting the best 1000 to 1500 word essay the topic “How Youth in the
Newman club
. . . executive committee members of the Newman club will meet today at 12:30 p.m. in the Newman hall.
on tne topic University of Today Can Prepare for the Practice of Democracy Tomorrow,” will win a $25 war bond.
"All men and women undergraduates registered in the full summer term at SC, except members of Phi Eta Sigma, are eligible to enter,” Gilson stated, adding that It is the aim of the contest to stimulate original, creative thought toward the responsibility of youth in the postwar world and how the fulfillment of that responsibility may be realised by consideration of the values of college experiences.
Other rules governing the contest are as follows:
Essays are to be typed or written neatly in ink on one side only of standard-sized, unlined paper.
Manuscripts must be mailed or delivered to the dean of men’s office. 225 Student Union, by Sept. 14, 1945.
Manuscripts must bear fictitious names, the contestant’s name being included in a sealed envelope with the entry.
Essays will be judged by a board of four faculty members, including one from the English department. Judging will be based on originality, value of content, and manner of presentation.
Phi Eta Sigma will reserve the right to print the winning essay, with due credit to the author, in order that its content may be presented to the student body.
Announcement of the winner will be made during the 14th week of the summer term. Presentation of the award is to be made at a special banquet planned for the end of that week, according to Gilson.
Trovets meet
W. L. Chaplin, veteran administrator on campus, will speak to all veterans today in 206 Administration at 12 noon. He will introduce new training officers Pat J. Brown and Thomas B. Durham and will discuss Public 16, veterans rehabilitation act.
All veterans who have disability compensation of 10 per’ cent or more are entitled to apply for vocational rehabilitation.
At the meeting, Trovets will also discuss future plans for a picnic, according to Frank Soares, president.
All Trovets are urged to attend.
Piano recital slated tonight
The Allan Hancock foundation and the School of Music will sponsor the first recital at SC of Miss Lillian Steuber, a renowned pianist and a member of the School of Music faculty, tonight at 8:30 in Hancock auditorium.
Numbers .to be featured on the program are Sonata in C Major, Mozart; Capriccio in C Major, Brahms; Intermezzo in E Flat Major, Brahms; Capriccio in G Minor, Brahms; Sonata in B Minor, Chopin; and “Pictures at an Exhibition,” Moussorgsky.
“The Sonata in B Minor, by Chopin, contains a great variety of mood,” said Miss Steuber, “and that is the main reason I am going to present it. As for the Brahms numbers, they .are quite short but they reveal a great deal of imagination.”
“Pictures at an Exhibition” will make up the last part of the program. It was originally written by Moussorgsky for piano but recently has been heard frequently as an orchestral arrangement. The pictures described in the music were painted by a friend of the composer.
“‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ contains 10 separate pieces beginning with a promenade theme, subsequent variations of which reappear throughout,” Miss Steuber added.
“One piece, ‘Bydio,’ refers to a Polish oxcart on very high lumbering wheels. ‘The Hut of Baba-Yaga’ is about a witch in Russian folklore who lived in a hut in the shape of a clock, built on hen’s claws.”
Trojan band
. . . members are requested to come to rehearsal Wednesday at 7 p.m., according to Ralph Chadwick, band manager.
“Please bring all parts of your band uniforms to rehearsals,” added Gloria Arthur, property manager of the band.
Four of the actors are graduate students, and are here working for their M.A. degrees. Three teachers are in the cast, they are Estelle Karchmer as Maggie Cutler, Sheridan Whiteside's secretary. She taught at UCLA for a year before coming here to work for her M.A. in speech. She started acting in Texas soon after she graduated from high school. Her first job was with a traveling stock company. Radio work, directing, producing, and work on production are among her accomplishments.
Roger Joseph is a speech teacher from Reno High school in Nevada. He has had experience in little theater work, radio, and stock companies. He received his B.A. degree at the University of Washington, and has worked with the Cornish Players, a little theater group that has played
. throughout the country-
Ruth Phelps is the third teacher of the group, she taught for some time before coming here for graduate work for her California teacher's credential. Miss Phelps has worked at the Pasadena Playhouse, and in other different professional acting groups.
She is playing Mrs. Stanley, the wife of the man in whose house the action takes place.
William C. DeMille, professor of drama, is in charge of the production, and Miss Frieda J. Meblin, instructor in speech, is directing the presentation.
John Archer has the leading role of Sheridan Whiteside, the man who came to dinner in the story, and according to Kae Jansen, production manager, he is proving a real threat to the bearded actor from Hollywood, Monty Wooley^ who played the role on the stage and in the Hollywood film production. He says Archer has acquired a nasty sneer and a gruff voice for the accurate portrayal of the part. Archer is president of the campus chapter of the National Collegiate Players, a national professional fraternity.
Playing the role of Bert Jefferson in the show is Lee Malamuth, a veteran and a speech major, whose
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RAY CARPENTER ... predicts Wamp.
Wampus editor seeks talent
“Soon,” according to Ray Carpenter, newly appointed editor of the Wampus, “the campus will be blest with an extremely hilarious edition. All those interested in working on the Wampus staff are requested to see me this afternoon in ,the El Rodeo office.”
“Anyone who can write short stories or poetry, or who can draw cartoons will be welcomed,” he stated.
Activity hours will be given for work done on the edition or in the office. The new office of the Wamp is located on the fourth floor of the Student Union overlooking the lounge.
“We hope to find our new location Is a real inspiration spot for uncovering the up and coming campus talent,” added Carpenter.
Members of the staff at present are Matt Maxwell, business manager; Bob Harbeson, photography editor; Kay Mancusi, exchange editor; and Harris Frank, military editor.
General
liberated from Japs
CHUNGKING, Aug. 19. — (U.P.) — Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, who led American and Filipino forces in the last tragic days of Bataan and Corregidor, has been found alive and in good shape in a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria and will
be flown here shortly, it was announced officially today.
(An ABC correspondent at Chungking reported that marine Lt. Col. James P. Devereaux, who led the heroic garrison on Wake island in 1941 and 1942, also had been found safe in a Japanese prison camp at Peiping, China.)
Wainwright was found by teams of U. S. doctors and signal corps men who—working closely with the Chinese underground—parachuted down Thursday within 300 yards of the camp at Hsian, 100 miles northwest of Mukden. The relief team landed without casualties and without molestation by the Japanese.
With Wainwright were seven other Americans, 16 British, and 10 Dutch officials, including Tjarda Van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, governor-general of the Dutch East Indies.
(Mrs. Wainwright in Skan-eateles, N. Y., said the news was “just wonderful.”)
The tall and lanky general who will be 62 years old on Thursday, surrendered his sick and weary army to the Japanese on May 6, 1942, after weeks of relentless bombing and Shelling by superior enemy forces.
Wainwright, promoted io lieutenant general on Mar. 19, 1942, took over when Gen. Douglas MacArthur was transferred to Australia in March of that year. Bataan fell Apr. 9 and for almost a month the men on “Wain-wright’s rock” — Corregidor — and the island fortresses of Frank, Hughes, and Drum — held out against desperate enemy attacks. Wainwright had one chance to escape, but he turned it down. “1
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SC bloodbank unit quits as war ends
All mobile units of the Red Cross bloodbank have ceased to operate. We thank those who signed up for the visit that was planned today but naturally this will now be cancelled, stated Arline Couse, chairman.
Five west coast blood centers wUl remain open for donations of type O blood. Any students who wish to donate are asked ,to sign up at bloodbank headquarters or at the Red Cross, 1200 Vermont avenue, according to local Red Cross officials.
“On behalf of those who have worked on the bloodbank throughout the war, I wish to thank all those who have helped Troy meet its quota at each visit of the Red Cross,” concluded Miss Couse.
SC Navy Captain tells life story
Shirley Y. Cutler, captain, USN, who replaced retiring Capt. Reed M. Fawell as commandant of SC’s naval training program brings to his new position a wide and varied experience accumulated in more than 20 years in the service.
Born, raised, and educated in Utah, Captain Cutler was appointed to Annapolis by Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah. He attended prep school at Marion institute, Marion, Ala., and entered the academy in 1920, graduating in June, 1924. Between 1924 and 1925 he served on the battleship USS New York, was under instructions at the torpedo school at Newport, R.I., and served on the USS Barker, and took part in .the Nicaraguan campaign. During his cruise on the Barker, he served a year in the European squadron.
After doing postgraduate work at Annapolis and Columbia uni-
versity, New York, Captain Cutler received a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Service on the Cincinnati and Medusa followed. Between 1934 and 1936 he served as assistant inspector of naval material at Hartford.
The year 1941 found the captain on duty at Pearl Harbor. On May 7 of that year he went to sea as engineering officer of the battleship Tennessee and was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. He later became executive officer of the Tennessee and served in the Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls campaigns. He left the Tennessee In 1944 and took command of the Dobbin and served in the New Guinea and Philippine campaigns. Landing in the United States on V-E day, he left behind 48 continuous months of sea service.
Captain Cutler served under Admiral Nimitz and Vice-Admiral
Kincaid, commander of amphibious forces in the South Pacific, and wears campaign ribbons for the second Nicaraguan campaign, American defense s e r v I e • w&th star, American area campaign, Asiatic-Pacific area campaign with three stars, and the Philippine campaign.
Captain Cutler declared that he is the one and only member of his family to go to sea. There is no long line of sailors in his family
tree.
Collecting guna and woodcutting are his hobbies. He also remarked that he had another hobby, that of raising a family. He has three children, the oldest of whom is 8.
“My biggest interest at the moment is the SC football team,* Captain Cu.tler said. “I certainly hope to see them in the’Rose Bowl in January.”