1. XXXVII
72
Los Angeles, Monday, Jan. 28, 1946
RI. 5472 Night Phon«
No. 58
ire takes White Tower' review	Blue Key
2 amid jpianned by Greever	lays plans
WWSVP Professor to interpret J. R. Ullman’s famed	/j^ Ilf
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e numbs firemen’s ands as blazes take ives in five cities
by L’nited Press
least 23 persons lost their today in fires in five ma-Jties as a cold wave swept »ss the nation, buried part he east in snow, and sent jpera tures diving to 21 de-is below zero in upstate I York.
i t h icy temperatures ibing firemen’s fingers and ang hose streams, an epidemic ; •arlv Sunday fires hit Kansas : „ St. Louis, Charleston, W. Va., | York City, and Chicago.
.argest loss of life was at Kan-City, where 10 persons, includ-five children were burned to th when a blaze began in a hes closet and raced through a -shackle, three-story building ng used as a rooming house, .entv persons were injured and other 50 made homeless, fire which wrecked the three- j y, 50-room Alpine hotel in an old ion of downtown St, Louis caus- j 'our deaths. One of the victims 1 a fireman who died from a attack, while battling the blaze lear-zero weather. Damage was iated at $45,000. n the poor lower eastside dis-ct of New York City, two mid--aged women and a man died en a fire broke out on the see-d-floor rear hall of an “old-law” iinent house and quickly spread three other tenements. Some other persons, who had been ing late breakfasts or reading Sunday comic sections a few utes earlier scrambled to roofs window-s where they escaped fireladders.
;ost spectacular blaze was in ^rleston, W. Va.. where 11 build-were destroyed and an esti->d $1,000,000 worth of damage* by a quickly-spreading fire in downtown district.
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anifold and diverse are the ■is of collection in the lost and hd department In the office of rmation. but today Dr. Carle-Mann. head of information ser-asked the cooperation of the jan in locating the owner of a ection of about 150 snapshots.
pparently some veteran, to m these pictures are invaluable, lost them.’’ Dr. Mann said.
[Tie pictures Indicate that the Dographer has been in India "ma. and perhaps China. Snakes, h their charmers, are pictured, sacred cows of India, and num* us Indian natives. An excellent ;imen of a German shepherd doing tricks was snapped, and ined bears witn their masters, iive women working in the fields India show primitive methods or iculture being used in harvesting jat.
[Tie envelope in which the pic-are encased bears a South adrna photographer’s name, but rts of the past two weeks have to locate the owner of the its. Veterans and other students asked to cooperate.
Professor to interpret J. R. Ullman’s famed book Wednesday in Religious council series
Dr. Garland Greever, professor of English, sixth speaker on the Council of Religion-sponsored book interpretations, will discuss James Ramsey Ullman’s “The White Tower” Wednesday afternoon at 3:15 in the art and lecture room of the
University library.
According to Mr. J. Randolph Sasnett, executive secretary of religious activities, this novel has attracted wide attention and is expected to be one of the most outstanding books of the year.
“It is the soul-stirring story of five men and one woman who face the terrible challenge of an unconquered mountain, each in the hope of finding at its summit the answer to his own desperate need.” says Orville Prescott of the New York Times.
The setting is in Switzerland, where Martin Ordway’s plane comes down into a little valley in the Alps which he ha^ known years before | the war.. Overshadowing the valley I is the Weissturm, a high peak never i climbed from that side.
PH query calls top witnesses
Congressional board to probe ex-justice and navy captain
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—(U.P.) —The congressional Pearl Harbor inquiry committee will hear two more major witnesses tomorrow, former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, and navy Capt. Ellis M. Zacharias who claims he predicted While his is waiting for the the Japanese attack on Pearl Har-
opportunity to get back home, J Martin succumbs to a long-felt 1 desire to try to climb and with five others makes the attempt. The story combines an account of the adventure of climbing- with the meditations and reminiscences of the various members of the group. Savs James Hilton of the work, ! “You can lead many a good novelist to a mountain, but you cannot make 1 him climb. It is easier, perhaps, to i lead a good mountaineer to a typewriter, especially if he has ideas, ideals, inventiveness, enthusiasm, and is already a practiced author. The result, in James Ramsay Ull-man’s novel ‘The White Tower,’ will very likely be one of the successes of the season, and it deserves to be.” Following Dr. Greevers interpretation of the book a general discussion will be led by the speaker.
Past D.T, editor visits alma mater
bor months before it occurred.
Roberts, on orders of the late President Roosevelt, made the first formal investigation of the disaster as head of the Roberts commission. The committee wants to know whether it is true that some portions of the Roberts findings are missing from the files. It also would iike to discover what happened to the original copy of the Roberts report. Neither Roberts nor Miss Grace Tully, Roosevelt’s confidential secretary, can find it.
Zacnarias will testify before Roberts. He claims that he forecast the attack almost nine months in advance and fixed its time and consequences in a conversation with Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, Pearl Harbor naval commandant. The committee wound up the general phase of its inquiry last week with testimony from Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, the army commander in Haw'aii when the Japanese struck. Both placed the blame upon Washington. not themselves.
Returning to the United States Lack of both advance information for ,the first time in seven years. Dr. and equipment was the reason wThy Fred Aden, director of Ward col- they were caught flat-footed, they lege in Buenos Aires. Argentina, and said.
Bids for ‘Valentine Ball’ at Lakewood go on sale on campus
Bids for the “Valentine Ball,” an annual all-U dig, sponsored by Blue Key, men’s national honorary service fraternity, go on sale today for $3.60 in the ticket office of the Student Union building. Maurice Schmidt, president of Blue Key and chairman of the dance, announced, “A maximum of 350 bids will be sold, therefore I urge you to buy your bids early, and lessen your chances of being disappointed.”
A special invitation has been extended to all veterans by Milton Buck, who is in charge of the veterans bids.
Decorations on the theme of Valentines day and the music of Ray Davis’ larger band promise to be two of the main attractions of the dance, which will be held at the Lakewood Country club on Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Chuck Newton, publicity chairman of Blue Key stated, ‘ Since the dig will be informal, date dresses for women and suits for men will be the appropriate attire.”
Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., a dinner banquet will be held at the Chapman hotel, at which new members of Blue Key will be initiated and the election of new officers will be held. Tapping of new members will take place at the dance scheduled later in the evening.
Dr. Carl Hancey, dean of men, and his wife will be the guests and chaperons of the Blue Key dig Saturday evening.
All members of Blue Key are asked to attend a meeting at 12:15 today in 418 Student Union, according to Schmidt.
Vacant chairs at 'Sweetheart' dinner increase
Tonight’s the night, when the sweetheart of sweethearts is to be chosen by tlie brothers of Sigma Chi. As the end of a series of formal dinners, tonight decides the fate of the final aspirants for the heart of all Sig Chis. At each evening’s party last week, five girls were eliminated, leaving their places at the long candlelit table empty; and only three chairs remained filled.
Returning to their places are June Wright, Kappa Alpha Theta; Virginia Lee Steitz, Alpha Chi Omega, and Midge Hoerner, Delta Gamma.
After the honored women hare been escorted home, the men will cast secret ballots which are immediately locked in the fraternity safe, not to be counted until the dance, Saturday, Feb. 9. The Sweetheart ilance is to be held at the Brentvood Country club, where the traditional crowning will take place.
A diamond and sapphire sweetheart pin will be presented with the crown and scepter at that time. Each contender will receive a red leather compact adorned with the Sigma Chi crest to commemorate the exciting week.
Monetary, other gifts
told by university
Von KleinSmid announces past year’s contributions of $542,900, scholarships, medical research funds, rare books, art collections
Monetary gifts of $542,900, in addition to donations of valuable equipment for research activities in fields of engineering, medicine, and other departments were announced by President Rufus B. von KleinSmid for the university during the past year and acknowledged by the board of trustees at their last meeting.
Scholarship funds, rare books, and manuscripts, and noteworthy collections of art were
former editor of the Daily Trojan, visited friends on campus last Friday.
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The college president, who is a member of the executive committee of the Pan American Press association, was editor of the university paper in 1915. at which .time it was called the Daily Southern Californian. At that time Franklin Skeele. friend of Dr. Alden and director of the SC news bureau, was a reporter on the publication.
The committee now has before it a memorandum from Zacharias on his conversation with Kimmel in March, 1941. It has also a supporting affidavit from Curtis B. Munson, described as a “presidential agent,” who said that Zacharias made a similar prediction to him in the summer of 1941.
Capt. (now Vice Adm.) W W. Smith, who was Kimmel’s chief of staff, also will testify.
Noted churchman is dinner speaker
Dr. Adolph Keller, author and educator, will be the guest speaker at the School of Religion dinner social at 5 p.m. today in the basement of the University Methodist church.
According to Dr. Irl Whitchurch, dean of the Graduate School of Religion, Dr. Keller is perhaps the most distinguish-
ed leader in world-wide Protestant i —-	. ”	. ,
books, which include “Church and
movements, and one of the most gtate on the European Continent,”
trusted people on the continent. Dr.
Keller's opinion is sought after not
only by churchmen, but statesmen
as well.
val officer will count fortunes
apt. S. Y. Cutler, commanding er of the NROTC unit will ad-the Men's Faculty club at 0 p.m. Wednesday in the tea-n of the Student Union, telling his experiences in the South ific on ,lhe Cincinnati and Med-
e arrived in the United States V-E Day after 48 continuous
iths of sea service. Reservations the event may be obtained by mp Mr. Howard Patmore’s of-stafcion 240.
The theme of Dr. Keller’s speech will be “The Christian Church in the World of Today.” “We are indeed fortunate.” stated Dr. Whitchurch, “to have a person of Dr. Keller’s distinction speaking to us on this occasion.”
Dr. Keller is a professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Zurich. He was also a mem
“Religion and Revolution,” and • Five Minutes to Twelve.”
Following Dr. Keller’s address, Dr. Whitchurch will speak on matters of mutual interest to the public. Among the subjects he will discuss will be “Special Work Opportunities for Students,” “Problems of Registration,” and “Certain Common Ideals Held for the
i School of Religion.”
SC's School of Religion has been recognized by national crediting bodies, and its place of leadership is widely acknowledged throughout
Vets announce concert series
Sponsored by Trovets, the first in a series of concerts to be known as “Music in the Afternoon” will be presented in the Student Union lounge at 3:15 Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 12.
Guest artist at the initial concent will be John M. Mills, S 1/c, USN, tenor. Other soloists will be SC students Gloria Chappell, violinist; Frederick Donrelly, cellist: Matt H. Doran, flutist, and Collette Young, soprano.
Accompanists for the soloists will be Bette Reed, Mrs. E. W. Doran, and Will Renda.
Director of the concert series Is Renda, a music major and Trovet.
“We believe that the informal atmosphere of the lounge will add to the enjoyment of the concert «eries,” said Renda.
Guest artist John M. Mills is a Virginian now stationed at San Pedro.
“Trovet sponsorsiilp of the concert series is another phase of its four point program which includes orientation and academic guidance, social and recreational activities, citizenship and democracy, and housing program,” stated Milton Buck, Trovet president.
ber of a scientific expedition at Mt.	churches of the continent.
Sinai to prepare a new edition oj. the Greek text of the New Testament from which James Moffatt made his English version.
During World war II. Dr. Keller was in Austria on the morning of the anschluss. On another occasion Dr. Keller was granted an interview with the pope on a matter of international problems.
The School of Religion has planned this occasion in an effort to promote mutual acquaintances between the students and the faculty.
“If you are unable to attend the dinner, you are welcome to come and hear Dr. Keller at 6:30,” announced Bill Wiley, who is assisting Bill Terbeek in leading the songs
Dr. Keller has written several i and games.
Carver selected A Capella prexy
Newly elected officers of the A Capella choir are Bob Carver, president; Clarice Young, vice-president; Grace Burdick, secretary; Mary Ellen Medler, treasurer; Rose Marie Frisina, publicity manager, and Norene McCowan, business manager.
Harriet Reisa is chairman of the robes committee; Jeanne Marie Jorgensen, and Virginia Francis, librarians; Lloyd Stone, Joyce Gardner, Arlette Renauld. Sheldon Swickard, and Betty Jany, section leaders; Walter Daggett, stage manager, and June Simpson and Allen Shero, assistant stage managers.
Wage pattern growth brings hope for peace
Strike settlements at 18 cents anticipated by government heads
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.—(U.P.) —Government officials said tonight that they expect early settlements in other major labor disputes as a national wage pattern began to develop around pay increases close to 18 cents an hour.
They said that no immediate steps were planned toward ending the week-old steel ‘strike but other sources expected strong government efforts to break the deadlock after the office of price administration makes a report on higher steel prices to the White House next Friday.
The Feb. 10 deadline for a report by a fact-finding board in the dispute still stands and President Truman is reported to have Informed the panel that it can recommended some other figure than the 18^ cents-an-hour boost suggested by Mr. Truman.
Officials feel that this walkout must be ended quickly if the automobile, electrical manufacturing and other struck industries are to get into full production.
Government quarters said they believed that the 18 cents an hour boost granted by Ford. 18*4 cents by Chrysler, and the higher rate by Kaiser-Frazer Corp., to the United Automobile Workers (CIO) wTould exert pressure on General Motors corp., to settle the 69-day old strike by the UAW.
They said an end of the GMC-UAW struggle should bring agree-| ments in steel, where 750.000 workers are on strike, and in electrical manufacturing, where 200.000 have quit the plants of General Electric company, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, and General Motors corporation, electrical division.
also included in the long list of gifts to the university.
Among national organizations I giving amounts for research were the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, S32.500; W. K. Kellogg Foundation for Scholarships in Occupational Therapy S2000; Nutrition Foundation of New York for medical research S5.000; Parke Davis company for bacteriological research $5000: and from the Baruch fund $30,000 to physical medicine.
The National Foundation for In- ! fantile Paralysis made its grant so that the School of Medicine may continue research on poliomyelitis antibodies and virus growth in tissue cultures, it was said.
“Part of this fund will be used for the isolation and cultivation of the virus transmission and laboratory diagnosis of the disease,” stated Dr. John F. Kessel, professor of Bacteriology. “The balance of S15.000 will be used in constructing an ultra-centrifuge which will make easier the task of isolation and concentration of the virus particles.”
Last June the department of experimental medicine was granted $12,000, which is under the supervision of Dr. Frederick J. Moore, assistant professor of medicine.
“This fund is being used for studying the basis of natural resistance to polio, and the program is in full swing,” Dr. Moore said.
Truman budget deceptive' senator says
Bridges asserts new expense list will hike national public debt
Other doctors working in the re-
Ex-G.I.s jive at Friday's dig
Soft strains of music, rhumbas, and jazz furnished by Ted Collins and his seven-piece orchestra supplied the rhyt,hm beats for the Trovet dig held Friday night in the Student Lourge. The dancing was held down by vets, more vets, and coeds.
Red streamers, hanging from the chandeliers, decorated the middle of the room, while a large red poster with a gold-glittered discharge button in the m;ddle. hung at one end of the lounge. This display was made by Betty Jane Arian. At intervals around .the walls were small signs donated to the vets by various sororities.
First on the entertaining program was Miss Ruth Hawley, professional vocalist, who sang “Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe,” “What’s The Use of Wondering,” and “Someone To Watch Over Me.” Miss Hawley has just finished an assignment in the Corinthian room in the Adams hotel in Phoenix where she sang with Bob Sliimp and his orchestra. She did Red Cross canteen service and helped out at the Hollywood canteen Auring the war.
Bob Osgood, discharged naval officer and an ex-Woodbury man, mimicked to “Oh, Johnny” and “Sow feong.”
William Osten, pianist, added talent to the program with an original composition "Polka For The Music Box” and his own version of Ravel’s “Bolero.” Osten, born in Vienna, studied music there for 12 years and has composed 7 compositions. He Is a special student at SC but will continue his
dorf*conserv*11ory ^ ^	Under the direction of Charles Hirt, the combined Men
Milt Buck* president of Trovets, and Women’s Glee-clubs will present their annual assembly
and Jerry Kosseff. were chairman of the program and entertainment
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—(UP) —Sen. Styles Bridges. R.. N. H., tonight described President Truman’s budget as “a masterpiece of deception” that will increase the net public debt more than $15,000,000,-000 instead of lowering it.
Bridges is ranking Republican member of the senate appropriations committee. He issued a press statement in which he analyzed the president's budget requests and called them a "blueprint for continued waste of taxpayers’ and bond-buyers’ funds.”
Sen. Elmer Thomas, D.. Okia_ a Democratic member of the com* mittee, countered that the charges were based on “obvious political lines.” He asserted that Bridges had gone along on most of the spending to which he now objects. But Bridges asserted:
“Instead of declining, the net public debt actually will increase at
search program are Drs. Harold F. | billion 100 million dollars during the Pearson, assistant professor of bac- next 13 months. The basis for this teriology; Charles F. Pait. profes- ; conclusion is the budget itself. The
sor of bacteriology and parasitology: : Harry J. Deuel Jr., professor of biochemistry, and Richard Winzler, assistant professor of biochemistry, j The grant, financed through the March of Dimes campaign, supplements $97,990 given to the university for infantile paralysis research.
To the Von KleinSmid Library of j World Affairs were added several hundred valuable volumes and manuscripts by President and Mrs. Von KleinSmid as well as material from the office of war information, the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, and 10.000 maps from the War department. From the estate of Lillian Neale Bradway the university was given a collection of paintings, books, and objects of art.
president made every effort to have the taxpayers believe that the federal government will grow financially stronger during the next 18 months of his administration. It will in fact become dangerously weaker.”
Taking his data from the closing daily treasury statement and from the 535,800,000,000 budget submitted to congress. Bridges said that the cut in the national debt, “achieved at the cost of the treasury’s cash * balance,” would increase the net deb S.
Combined glee clubs plan annual assembly
committee.
UAW-GM holdout still on
DETROIT, Jan. 27—(U.P.)—CIO United Auto Workers tonight demanded a higher wage scale from General Motors corporation than those granted by Ford and Chrysler to •'compensate” 175.000 GM workers for losses incurred during their 68-day walkout.
Thursday in Bovard auditorium at 4 p.m.
The program to be heard at the assembly will be a preview of the music for the spring show “Melodic Holiday,”
- |w^hich will be presented in the near
future, according to Mr. Hirt.
Singing the solo passages in the numbers “If I Loved You” and “There Are Such Things” will be
Walter P Reuther, UAW vice' Clarice Young.
Fred Waring’s arrangement of “The Night Is Young” will be sung by the combined Glee clubs in addition to such well known numbers
president in charge of the General
Motors division, claimed that the 18-cents an hour pay hike won from Ford and the 18 Vi cents granted by Chrysler yesterday resulted from "the determined stand of General Motors strikers."
Dr. John Constock and l5^ Hilde-garde Howard of the Los Angeles museum will conduct .two separate tours for students of zoology 10L and \abL, tomorrow. Dr. Constock will show the students through the La Brea room, which contains fossils rescued from the tar pits in Hancock park, on Wilshire boule-
vard. "These fossils,” according to Dr. Catherine Beers, associate professor of- zoology, "are the finest collection of real bones. They have not turned to rock, but are preserved in oil.”
All 10L students are asked to meet at the museum at 10 a.m. tomorrow. A report is to be turned in by each at the close of the trip.
as "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” and "Strange Music.”
Patients and personnel at the Corona Naval hospital will hear the same show in the hospital’s
new auditorium Friday.
The Glee clubs will meet at Tommy Trojan at 3:30 p.m. Friday and go to Corona by bus. stated Virginia Harutunian, publicity chairman. “Phi B’ta, national professional music and dramatic art honorary, has offered to pay the cost of chartering the busses for the trip to Corona,” said Miss Harutunian.
All students axe invited to the assembly. Admission is free, and tickets may be obtained at the office of the School of Music.
"Any administration that wants to dissipate its cash balance can reduce the gross debt at any time.” he said. “It’s like drawing on one’s savings account to meet an overdraft on the checking account.” He said that “no budget manipulation can substitute for thrift and efficient management Real federal debt reduction can come only by government living within its means.”
Dean's
notice
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THESIS DATES FOR CANDIDATES FOR MASTERS’ DEGREES FEBRUARY, 1945 (Note: In all fields except Education.)
Jan. 31, Thursday: Final day for candidates to secure prelimin-ar> approval of theses by faculty committees—and present approval to the Dean of the Graduate School, signed by each member of the thesis committee.
Candidates for February, 1945, whose thesis approvals ar« not filed Jan. 31 are dropped from the February convocation list.
Feb. 9, Saturday: Final day for candidates to present theses—in final typed form—to committees.
Feb. 16, Saturday: Final day to present theses—fully approved and ready for binding—to the Dean of the Graduate School.
(Signed) E. S. Bogardus.
Dean.
Blank forms may be obtained in the Graduate office.
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