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Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Dec. 6, 1946
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ker Will Discuss i. Foreign Policy
;titute of World Affairs Opens Riverside Mission Inn Sunday
Gen. Ira C. Eaker and Adm. William H. Standley ;sent military and naval aspects of United States | policy at a plenary session of the Institute of World | which convenes Sunday evening for its 23rd ses-Mission Inn, Riverside, be well represented dur-
Jour-dav conclave by Gen-|er. deputy commander of air forces, a graduate of [School of Journalism, class Land Dr. Claude A. Buss, professor of internation-now at Stanford uni-
Kheme of the institute ^"United States Foreign
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|on the' exfcut've rcmmit )r. Rutus^L®- 'on Klein-mncellor of\the *-os An" Jniversity ol Vlntema tional |s. as chancellor of the in-| and ICarc V- Goodnow, in journalist^, as execute tary.
j RAL SESSIONS
|e institute’s inaugural ses-p.m. Sunday, three out-California educators will It m a symposium ou "The Problem Today.’’	*
the theme of “United olicy in Europe." Monday's will begin with a morn-hary session at 9. during (time General Eaker will the military aspects of | States foreign policy, and Standley will follow with Lued from Page Two)
idents Get inar Bid
ents who are interested in fcng next semester's seminar by the Teaching Institute |nomics, are extended a spe-ntation to the institute's open
(tonight in 309 Bridge hall. Robert B. Pettengill, director institute, has just completed
foments for the expensive and rtable furnishings of the se-room. which is equipped with Ito-order work tables, sound visual equipment, a built-in [, soft leather chairs, and t,cent lighting. pOlf TRADE MOVIE povie on foreign trade will be ■n tonight, and refreshments served. Dr. Pettengill will the seminar topic with his house visitors.
lications for interview regard-Imission to the institute's ses-and a tentative schedule tor firing semester s work will be lable for interested persons, ie seminar, which will hold its Lings on Thursday evenings i Jan. through June, 1947. will limited to approximately 15 late students. 5 seniors, and 10 bers ol the community. Selec-will be based upon apparent y and leadership potentialities mt regard to departmental ma-r subject prerequisites.
ERNATIONAL C ARTELS Ie spring seminar group will [• “Cartels and Public Policy"
I particular emphasis upon in-
Iitional cartels and their impli-ns for business efficiency, bu-s cycles, freedom of competi-foreign trade, and government ics.
ds fall the groups studied the t of foreign loans on domestic omy and the problems of con-involved. The course next se-/er will be conducted in the us-way, utilizing carefully prepared jies on each sub-topic, and bi-rraphies. There will be group jssions, individual reports, and irers from New York. Washing-and other places. Speakers secured under the auspicies of Alfred P. Sloan foundations,
Ih sponsors the institute.
I students and friends of the ersity are invited to attend the house and inspect the new [ishings of the seminar room lh will be open to the public f T to 9 pjn.
RC Head Lifts Vet Yule Gift Drive Deadline
Deadline of the Red Cross Christmas gift drive for hospitalized veterans has been extended to tomorrow noon by Margaret Crawford, chairman or the SC collection.
Numerous packages containing smoking equipment have been received by the Christmas drive chairman. who said that she could not guess whether SC's 450-gift quota, which is larger than that of any other institution, had been met.
Miss Crawford, along with other southern California Red Cross representatives. will deliver the gifts to the domiciliary wards of the veterans hospital in West' Los Angeles. LOC AL VETS BENEFIT
Twelve thousand hospitalized veterans in this vicinity will benefit by the drive which many local colleges are taking part.
Miss Crawford reminded stu-aents that packages containing smoking equipment can be placed in the box at 226 Student Union until Saturday noon. Sorority drive chairmen should bring their group collections of gifts to the Tri Deit house.
LIST CONTENTS
The local Christmas drive chairman asked that all packages include a note listing the contents so that wrappings will not have to be broken. The campus Red Cross unit will place a Christmas greeting from SC on each gift before delivery to the veterans.
Foster Children To Get Y Toys As Drive Ends
A pink and white bunny anti a set of doll furniture are two of the gifts that perch atop a neat stack of donations collected by the YWCA in the toy drive that ends today.
These and other gifts will be given to youngsters who have been placed in foster-homes by the child placement bureau of the county welfare department.
Ruth Holley Trejo, class of ’46 and former president of the YWCA. is making the necessary arrangements for a Christmas party for the children. Other children in homes and institutions will receive gifts from the YWCA personally.
More than §25 has been given to the drive by students, with fraternity and sorority contributions still to be counted.
Lewis Receives University Orchestra to Play
Added Support .	.	.
in Coal Crisis Winter Concert in Bovard
Soaked Field Hoax Related
Faltering accusations that boisterous Trojans attempted to soak the Coliseum turf in order to slow down the bowl-bound UCLA football team in the biggest game were conclusively shattered yesterday.
In an unsigned editorial, the Los Angeles Daily News retracted and listed as a hoax the story it printed Nov. 23, which alleged a pitched battie took place the night before the game when Bruin guards halted an SC shower party in the stadium.
‘•Repeated phone calls prompted printing of the story,” the editorial said. "The whole thing was obviously a hoax. The Daily News wishes to apologize to the University of Southern California for printing a story which subsequent investigation has proved entirely false.”
Earlier investigation by university officials and student executives had shown no evidence supporting the story, and denials of the field-wetting action were published.
Sophomores to Dance To McCarthy's Music
The Bel Air Bay club invasion by the Sophomore class starts tomorrow night at 8:30 when claes members unite for the first time this year to dance to the music of Jack McCarthy and his band. “McCarthy’s band will establish the beachhead and j play soft music,” Bill Winn,
class president, said. McCarthy s all-Trojan group now composed of 11 pieces has had considerable experience playing smooth music, Winn said, and follows Claude Thornhill's style.
TRANSFER STUDENT
A foreign trade senior, McCarthy is a transfer student from Miami university which he attended for three years. During the war he served in the Navy as a lieutenant, j j.g.
Johnny Greer and his famous • quartet, which has appeared in! many campus functions, will furnish i additional entertainment, Winn | said.
The club, located on Roosevelt highway north of Santa Monica, is one of the southland's popular places, Bev Normanly, co-chairman of the dance, said. Sophomores will occupy the entire Bel Air Bay club which overlooks the Pacific ocean, she continued.
CLASS SINGING
Class singing will center around the fireplace during intermissions, she added, while a charcoal fire will
add warmth to the patio.
“Any bids which are unsold may be purchased at the door,” Bob Mc-Mullan, ticket chairman, stated. He warned that only 300 bids will be sold, and couples may be disappointed if they wait until tomorrow
CIO, AFL Presidents Back Miner Demands; Truman Plans Appeal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — (UP) Both the CIO and AFL organizations threw their support behind John L. Lew-jis in the 15 days old soft coal ' strike today as President Truman began drafting a ra-i dio appeal to the striking ■ miners to overthrow their | leader and go back to work.
In a series of announcements j that arrayed nearly all organized j labor against the administration in the coal crisis, presidents William j F. Green of the AFL and Philip | Murray of the CIO served notice I that they are standing squarely be-! hind the embattled mine boss. LIBERTY AT STAKE
“Liberty is indivisible ... A blow at the liberties of the miners is a blow at the liberty of all of us/’ Murray declared in a special statement directed to the CIO membership.
“American labor cannot and will not even accept court injunctions, punishment and penalties, force and involuntary servitude . . said Green.
Murray, an arch-foe of the United Mine Workers’ president in the intra-labor wars, took his stand in announcing that the CIO will join the UMW in appealing the fines imposed yesterday upon Lewis and his union for refusing to call off the strike.
GREEN FOR COMPROMISE
Green made his position clear in urging a compromise settlement under which the government would drop Its court fight against Lewis and negotiate an end to the strike.
But there was no sign of weakening in the white house, where it was announced that President Truman will take his battle against Lewis to the miners themselves, and the nation as a whole, in a radio broadcast at 9:30 p.m., EST Sunday.
TRUMAN VS. LEWIS
If the strike is still on then. Mr. Truman will call upon the strikers to repudiate Lewis’ leadership and return to work at once to avert a threatened national catastrophe.
“His “tough” stand was bolstered from an unexpected quarter late today when 40 union miners at Durango, Colo., defied Lewis and went back into the pits, reopening six mines.
“If it’s a case of John L. Lewis or the government, we are for the government,’’ the rebels declared.
While the returning miners represented only an infinitesimal proportion of ’ the UMW’s 400.000 soft coal workers, their defection was the first break in the solid froni Lewis has maintained throughout the strike.
Blue Key Meets
Blue Key members will convene for an important meeting today at 12:25 in 418 Student Union, according to Phil Burton, president. Burton urged that all members be present.
BILL WINN . . . soph president
night. Bids at $2.50 per couple will be on sale today at the Student Union ticket office.
NO CONFUSION Winn emphasized that the main purpose of the dance was to stimulate class spirit, and that other activities are being planned for the future to further this aim.
The confusion which usually reigns at the coat check room will not prevail tomorrow night. Bill Sargent, dance co-chairman promised. Arrangements have been made with the management which assure full cooperation, he added.
Dress for the dance is informal with date dresses for women and suit* with ties for men.
Varsity Scripts Please Director
With the announcement that three complete scripts of music have been submitted for the varsity show. Bill Gould, director of the show, stated that he found the quality of material turned in excellent.
“Two of the three scripts have definite possibilities of being produced.” Gould said. "Final selection, however, will rest with the faculty committee.”
Gould also announced that if enough of the script writers and song writers for the show will let him know if they want to have the deadline date for turning in all work extended to Jan. 1. he will change the previous deadline of Dec. 15, to the later date. He hopes to have six or eight scripts submitted before the deadline.
All scripts should be handed in to Gould's office in the Cinema and Musical Activities building.
AWS Cabinet to Hold Christmas Celebration
Time out from AWS worries will be taken Sunday evening when the associate, cabinet fetes cabinet members at a Christmas party.
Barbara Potter's home in Eagle Rock has' been named as the Yule-tide setting. Festivities will start at
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FOUR FACULTY members who will take part in the winter concert of the university orchestra tonight at Bovard auditorium are pic tured, left to right. Ingolf DahL program conductor, Charles C. Hirt, choral director, and I ohn Crown and Lillian Steuber. piano soloists.
Kotler Calls Nominations Assembly; Preferential Ballot Use Explained
Solons Hear Dobkin Defend Majority Vote
by Jerry Maher
When ASSC senate members denied the use of the preferential ballot in the approaching veterans election, they turned down a proposal which has long been a bone of contention among campus politicos.
Led by Milt Dobkin, junior class president, who diagrammed on a blackboard the use of the ballot for senators, proponents of the measure vigorously discounted opposition claims that the ballot is too complicated to assure complete understanding on the part of the electorate.
NORCOP VOTES YES
The roll-call vote that followed defeated the measure, 11-7, but the customarily row-independent split that has characterized two out of three major issues facing the senate this year was strikingly absent. Anita Norcop, AWS president, and Merle Carrona, ASSC secretary, deserted row forces to vote in favor ef the measure, while Jack Smith, piesident of the College, formerly identified with independent strength, voted negatively.
Instructed to prepare an explanation of the ballot when it was proposed by Dick Gilson, independent representative, three week? ago. Dobkin led off the discussion with a practical working example drawn on a blackboard.
VOTE FOR PREFERENCE
Assuming the size of the electorate as 265, Dobkin drew a sample ballot containing the ficticious names Joe, Pete, Don, and Mike, and columns after each name numbered from one to four. At the top of the ballot was the legend “Vote in order of preference.”
At this point, Dobkin explained that other rules mighC also be printed at the top of the ballot if it was thought this would forstall confusion. He suggested that one instruction which might be advisable was that of informing voters that only their first “effective” choice would count.
In Dobkin's imaginary first count, Joe received 105 votes, Pete 70, Don 55. and Mike 35. Being low man, Mike was eliminated and his ballots redistributed to the men appearing on them as second choice. Here Dobkin, on the assumption that a certain percentage of voters would not indicate second, third, and fourth choices, invoked the ef-(ConUnued on Page Four)
Senate Backs Houk Motion
Though occupying most of its time with discussion of the use of the preferential ballot, office space in the Student Union, and the impending veteran's election, the ASSC senate Wednesday also approved a report from Jim Mitchell, student body president, on plans for a Bill of Rights week and a motion by John Houk, IR president, to send four delegates to a world students conference.
Sponsored by the Bill of Rights Commemoration committee which includes such prominent memoers as Fletcher Bowron, mayor of Los Angeles; Dr. Vierling Kersey, superintendent of Los Angeles schools; Dr. Robert G. Sproul, president of the University of California; and Dr. Rufus von KleinSmid, Chancellor of University of Southern California, the Bill of Rights week will feature a program to acquaint students with the significance and terms of that document. An essay contest will be held to further this effort.
Houk. recommended that four delegates be chosen by the senate to represent SC at a conference for the formation of a world student organization. The meeting will take place at the University of Chicago December 28-30. Senate members approve** the motion and will select representatives.
Mitchell, warned that council and committee meetings must take place only between 12 and 1:15 or after 4 on regular school days. Evening meetings are limited to 7-9 Mondays and 7-8 Tuesdays. Wednesdays. and Thursdays. Friday is not restricted.
Shoppers Warned To Lock Autos
“Keep your car locked and put packages out of sight, or run the risk of having them stolen.”
This was the warning given yesterday by university police to Christmas shoppers who may be carrying packages in their cars. The seasonal buying rush is resulting in numerous petty thefts from unlocked cars by prowlers working overtime to relieve careless persons of their gifts.
Candidates for Vet Seat Speak Monday
Opening salvo in the long-debated quest to seat a representative of Troy’s 9000 veterans on the ASSC senate is scheduled to be fired Monday noon in Bovard auditorium when the elections commission, headed by Al Kotler, throws open the lists for nominations from the floor.
Petitions for the post, which is a result of a bi-partisan agreement following the defeat of Trovets’ request to be granted the seat, are available all day today and Monday until noon in 235 Student Union. Petitions must be filed before 12 Monday.
“We cannot emphasize the importance of this point too much,” Kotler declared “Eligibility of candidates must be cleared through the Registrar’s office and the printer notified before 4 p.m. Monday.”
NO INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS
Kotler further urged candidates not to attempt to clear their own eligibility, since the Registrar's office is under instructions to deny individual requests.
Provisions have been made to allow candidates who are nominated (Conilnaed on Page Four)
Vet Essayists Will Compete
Seeking popular opinion on how a veteran's organization can be of greater aid to the GI student, Trovets has announced the beginning of an essay contest open to every veteran on the campus.
Criticisms, problems, and sentiments have a chance for an airing in an essay entitle-d, “What the 3C Veteran Expects of a Campus Veterans' Organization.”
Prizes will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners. These will be presented at an awards dance in mid January.
The tentative prize list includes flying lessons and merchandise awards for both men and women veterans. The winners will also receive free passes to the awards dance.
The contest, which is being run in conjunction with the current membership drive, will be judged by faculty members who saw service m the war, and student GIs.
Dahl Directs 250 Artists In Production
Instrumentalists and singers, 250 strong, are participating in the university orchestra winter concert beginning at 8:15 tonight in Bovard auditorium.
As in the case with all semester concerts by the orchestra, admission will be free and the public is invited.
A wide variety of compositions ara on the program, which Ingolf Dahl, director of the orchestra, hag described as “the most unusual ever presented in Los Angeles.” BEETHOVEN, BRUCKNER Two premier performances in this city, the Beethoven “Prometheus’* ballet, and the Bruckner Te Deum, will be highlighted as the first and last numbers to be played. Although the overture to the Beethoven ballet is a standard in the repertoires of symphony orchestras, the other movements of this work have been completely neglected.
The Bruckner work, scored for chorus and four soloists, orchestra, and organ, is being presented as the major chorus project of the semester in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Bruckner’s death. PROFESSORS TO SOLO Professors of music Lillian Steuber and John Crown will appear as soloists in a modern sonata for two pianos and percussion instruments, Charles C. Hurt, director of choral organizations, had originally scheduled the Te Deum for November 15, but other events such as the a cappella choir tour resulted in its postponement, and finally its combining with the orchestra's already varied program.
VARIED WORKS “Every effort has been made to prepare a program pleasing to any musical taste,” said Mr. Dahl yesterday. “Opportunity is provided lor solo work by several members ot the orchestra. Works both classical and modem are included, and In addition to the novelty of some ot the selections, the orchestra play* music ranging from the romanticism of Tschaikowsky to the fresh modernism of Aaron Copland.” Tonight’s program will begin wttH ‘The Creatures of Prometheus,* Beethoven. The six movement# ta be included will be “Overture and Thunderstorm Scene”; "Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus,* featuring a cello solo by Fred Donnelly; “Battle Scene”; “Pas d’ Action”; “Pas de Deux.” with oboe solo by Frank Desby and alto clarinet solo by Merritt Buxbaum; and Finale, “Praise of Prometheus by his People.”
EPISODES FROM RODEO
Next will be two episodes from “Rodeo,” a ballet composed by Aaron Copland in 1942. The episodes will be “Corral Nocturne” and “Hoe-Down.”
The concluding number on the first half of the program will be the “Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture,” Tschaikowsky.
GRAND FINALE Following the intermission. Professors Steuber and Crown will play the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Bartok. The percussion instruments will be played by Forrest Clark. Seymour Holtzman, and Regis Kramer.
Last on the program, the chorus will combine with the orchestra in the Te Deum. Bruckner. Soloists with the chorus are Margaret Christman, soprano; Florence Greene, contralto; Robert Vaughn, tenor; and Carl Yaeger, bass. Alice Jean Irvin will augment the orchestra at the pipe organ.
Knights Will Dance Tonight at Del Mar
Trojan Knights and their ladies will gather for a formal dinner-dance tonight at 8:30 at the Del Mar club, Santa Monica.
A ham entree, “suited to the likes of the most critical gourmet,” will be served, according to Wayne Crawford. Knight social chairman in charge of the semi-annual affair.
Bids will not be sold at the club, Crawford said.