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HERN C A’ L1 I F, O R N I A
Vol. XXXVII
Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, May 10, 1946
Nieht Phones HI. 5472
No. 125
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Miss Famine Contestants Weigh-in Today
riginal, Humorous Booths o Highlight Annual Carnival
fith 30 booths competing for lors at next Friday's Y carnival, variety of fun and food will be store for all comers, assures Lirman Virginia Harutunian. lix prizes will be awarded the Jths, with Betty Jo LeSieur the judging and prize com-Official judges for the irds will be Mr. Byron Davey of art department and Dr. Harry teed of the English department.
AWARDS.
Awards will be given for con-sions classified as the most orig-beautiful, and humorous. An-ler prizewinner will be the booth [ing in the most money. A door and an award to the indi-lal selling the most tickets com-jbhe prizes, which will be con-ted by downtown stores, an-mced Miss LeSieur.
[iss LeSieur's assistants in plan-and awarding the prizes are lette Oliver and Pat Holser. Post-heralding the big night were put (around campus yesterday under ervision of Nancy Lewis.
Various concessions will vie with another for the six awards, rateres will lure ticket-holders a hoop-throwing game—the
being to loop the leg of a smil-disciple of the “famous for sndliness” clan wi^th a hoop. BUNTED HOUSE
haunted house will scare the e souls who venture into the 3ky setting to be presented by ien of Harris plaza, refreshing pause is due at the booth, where cokes will be red and skeeball played. At the booth, the idea is to snuff a Indie. Of course, it’s not quite [at simple, as it takes a pistol to kit.
Tracy Clinic Offers Benefit Variety Show
Sponsored by the members of the John Tracy Clinic auxiliary, the variety show to be presented next Monday at 8 p.m. in Bovard auditorium will present Gwendolyn Stone, deaf professional dancer. There will also be professional magicians, singers, pianists, and a dance team which will feature both ballet and modern dances.
Robert Lee Johnson, radio commentator, will act as the master of ceremonies.
Tickets are on sale for 80 cents at the clinic, 924 West 37th street, and the Student Union ticket office. They may also be purchased at the door on the night of the performance.
BUILDING FUND
The proceeds of the show will be added to the John Tracy clinic building fund since the building now being used has been declared unfit for future use.
Navy Set For Atoll Atom Test
Shangri-La Home Base For Carrier Planes in July 1 Operation
Elections Will Reveal New Campus Women Leaders
ABOARD USS SHANGRI-LA OFF SAN DIEGO, May 9.—(U
The John Tracy clinic was originally founded in 1942 by Mrs. Spencer Tracy in honor of her son, John Tracy, who was bom deaf. The pur- P)—Robot fighter planes in pose of the clinic is to provide dress rehearsal for operation training for children in order to help crossroads today hurtled Off them overcome the handicap of deafness.
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emporanaous speakers will |ipete in the Bowen cup contest, >e held May 14 and 15. Three cups will go to the winners tf> traditional affair, according Allen Nichols, debate coach. ie contest is open to all underrate members of the student Y, except students who have won [placed in former years.
[aurfce Gould, debate captain that the general topic will i the foreign policy of the States. Gould is a former ler of the competition.
Specific topics will be given at time of the contest. An entry choose one of three topics given , and he will have one hour to his speech, istration deadline is May 13. inaries will be held May 14,
| finals, if necessary, May 15. ie cups are given through the »rosity of the late William M. i to those who show excep-ability as sincere and effective
cers.
idergraduates who have won in are Mildred Carmen and Mau-Gould.
|emocracy' Topic Odegard's Talk
■£T H. Odegard, president of college, will speak on “Demo-in America—1946” at Bever-11s High school next Tuesday at 8. Wilbert L. Hind-professor of political science, be the moderator.
President Odegard is one of the distinguished political scient-in the country today. He was >rofessor at Ohio State college Amherst college, and has writ-| many books on political parties public opinion.
ecu tire -an Notice
12 o’clock lecture section ■man and civilization la on I day, May 13, will be cancelled Bovard available for the ltions assembly.
A. 8. Raubenheimer, Executive dean.
Italian King Leaves Throne
ROME, May 9.—(Uf»)—King Victor Emmanuel gave up today the throne he had held for nearly 46 years when he signed abdication papers at his Naples villa and sailed for Port Said, Egypt, in an Italian cruiser.
The king's sudden decision and his abrupt departure plunged the country at once into a major political crisis, and the life of the coalition cabinet was threatened.
The crisis was intensified because Victor Emmanuel, in signing his abdication papers, nominated Crown Prince Humbert'as his successor, to rule as King Humbert II. Many believe that even if Italy sticks to a monarchy not Humbert but his 9-vear-old son the Prince of Naples will be chosen.
LEAVES NAPLES
The King left Naples with Queen Elena and 6 packing cases of luggage a few hours after the government had announced he had decided to abdicate and the Communists, who are part of the three-party cabinct coalition, objected violently in the belief that*it was all a royalist trick to save the tottering monarchy.
Victor Emmanuel handed his abdication papers to Crown Prince Humbert, Lieutenant General of the realm, who went to Naples after making arrangements with the government for his father's resignation.
DESTROYER ESCORT
Naples dispatches said that the King and Queen embarked in the 7,874 ton Cruiser Luigi Di Savoia and left under escort of the Destroyers Granatiere and Legionario.
Naples said that the ship in which the King left the country he had ruled for nearly 46 years docked just off the Villa Maria Pia where the little King had spent his time fishing in the sun since June, 1944.
ADULTS TAUGHT
Though the clinic teaches adults, the work is carried out on the principle that deaf children can best be helped before the age of 6. They are taught the art of lip-reading and the parents are encouraged to attend classes with the youngsters in order to carry on at home what is
taught in the clinic.
The services of the clinic is extended to all regardless of race, creed, or religion. Through correspondence courses, the John Tracy clinic has helped deaf children in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as in the United States.
Touchstone Plays Open Run Tonight
Headed by radio writer Norman Corwin’s “Untitled,” three one-act plays will be presented in Touchstone theater tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30.
“Untitlefi” is the story of a man’s whole life told by his friends in the “Our Town’’ manner. It was adapted from the radio play and features a cast that includes Rory Guy, Donald Robertson, Dale Step-nens, Roberta Hill, Barbar Comfort, Cloyce Bump, Glenn Gooder, Nancy Schrader, and Allan Stone. The director is Ted DeLay and sets are by Lillian Evans.
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The second play in the series, “Submerged,” is staged at the bottom of the ocean and depicts the actions of a coward in the submarine. Directed by Lowell Pierro and staged by Karl Westerman, the drama has an all-male cast—Jim Ulbreclit, Bill Adrian, Jim McAcree, Bob Downing, Robert Hillhouse, and Robert Richards.
Summer School Poll to Start On Wednesday
A sample poll inquiring into the future school plans of SC students will be conducted during 10 o'clock classes next Wednesday* May 15, according to an announcement from the office of Albert S. Raubenheimer, executive dean.
Students representing the dean’s office will visit all classes at that time to ascertain the number of people planing to attend the six weeks summer session, the four weeks post session, and those who will be back in school in September.
Additional information that will be sought by the poll is the number of students who are planning to attend day classes during the summer and also in September.
The reason for this inquiry is that increasing numbers of men and women are applying for admission to the university and it is necessary that administrators know how many-students now attending SC are planning to continue so that they will know how many new applicants they will be able to accept.
Advance notice of this poll is being given in order to allow students the opportunity to think the matter over before they are required to answer the questions next Wednesday.
Troeds
. . . will hold an important meeting today at 12:30 p.m. in Touchstone theater. announced Phyllis Hall, president. All members are asked to attend.
this huge carrier, miles at sea, and made pinpoint landings a few minutes later at a naval airfield near the Mexican border.
The demonstration for press and newsreel representatives was the last full-scale practice session scheduled before the Shangri-La and task group 1.6 leave & ay 21 for the Bikini atoll atomic bor.ib tests July 1.
Four of the radio-controlled F6F Hellcat drone fighters, which will fly through the atomic-bomb cloud to gather valuable scientific data, were catapulatcd off the bow.
Officers on the flight deck guided the craft until they were a few hundred yards in the air, when pilot-bearing “mother” planes took over to shepherd them to the mainland.
PLANE PILOTLESS
One robot plane was pilotless. The little red Grumman fighter, with white wingtips and white tail, quivered on the flight deck in the 25-knot wind and her propeller roared.
A white light blinked behind the glass hood of the empty cockpit indicating the fuel system was functioning perfectly.
Lt. Com. Winfield G. Maurer (2505 North Bovir street) Philadelphia, sat behind a metal shield a few feet from the plane, twisting knobs and levers on a tiny box that doesn’t weigh more than two pounds.
GUIDED BY KNOB
He turned a knob and the roar of the motor increased. He nodded his head and a lad dressed in yellow helmet and sweater dropped a yellow flag.
There was a pause. Then the phantom fighter snapped along the catapault and shot into the air off the pitching flight deck at more than 100 miles an hour.
Before we realized it, the pilotless plan was tucking up her landing gear and sweeping to the left in a slow, banking turn. The man behind the shield was still controlling her.
Two piloted fighter planes swooped alongside the long flight deck in pursuit of the radio controlled drone.
Linn Appointed New Wesleyan Counselor
WILLIAM S. LINN . . . new adviser
ISA Will Clarify Election Problems
To clarify election issues and the position taken by the Independent Students Association, a meeting will be held today at 2:30, 305 Administration, according to the executive council of the organization.
Bob Peck and Maurice Gould will be featured speakers and the audience will be free to ask questions of the council, Sig Hesse, presiding member, stated.
D.T. Campaign Ads Required Next Tuesday
With campus political factions surging into high gear for the final assault on Trojan public opinion, Dick MittJer, Daily Trojan business manager, announced
next Tuesday, May 14, as the deadline for the turning in of all campaign advertising to appear
in the Daily Trojan.
All space reservations, photographs, engravings, copy, and layouts must be turned in to Mit-tler in the Daily Trojan business office, 234 Student Union, on or before next Tuesday in order to insure its placement on the pages of the paper.
The cost of the advertising will be 65 cents per column inch, with campaign expenditure limits set by the ASSC constitution. Top allowance is for the office of student body president who is allowed $30. Other offices are scaled down according to their importance in the campus political picture.
“Candidates may request that their advertising appear in daily doses until their allotment is used up or they may hold out for a single all out splurge,” stated Mit-tler.
' The Wesley club, Methodist student organization, has announced that William S. Linn has been appointed to assist Dr Wendell L. Miller in directing the activities of the organization. He was appointed by Bishop James Chamberlain Baker, area bishop of the Methodist church and member of the board of trustees at SC.
Linn, a former captain in the army, holds degrees from Chapman college and Yale university. Prior to entering the army he held the position of director of education in the east, and was boys work coun-celor for the YMCA. He was a minister of the Fortuna Methodist church in northern California for three years. Linn will enter the Graduate School of Religion at SC, working toward his doctorates.
Linn will help with the new program of the Wesley club which calls for increasing the student program both on and off campus. A new college class will be organized for Sunday morning as well as a luncheon and evening supper discussion and social group.
Linn's office will be in University church where he may be contacted for counseling.
Petitions for Positions Obtainable May 15
All coeds must present their ASSC, AWS and YWCA membership cards for inspection before they will be allowed tc vote in the elections for AWS and YW leaders Tuesday from 8:30 to 3:30 p.m., Connie Smith, AWS president, announced today.
Petitions for the appointive positions of the AWS and YW
may be taken out in 224 Student
U.C. Students Plan Festivities Saturday Night
Mohr’s Orchestra To Play for Dance At Breakfast Club
University College students will leave the halls of learning tomorrow night for ,the Los Angeles Breakfast club and the first all-University College dig since 1941.
'The semi-formal affair, featuring the mellow music of Bob Mohr and his orchestra is being sponsored by
the student council of the Associated Students of University College, and admission to U.C. students is free.
Ed Porter, in charge of the dig,
Union, May 15,and must be returned by 2:30, May 20, according to Misi Smith. Interviews for the prospective officers will be held May 31 and 22 by the present officers.
New Schedule Set By Bursar Office
Becausefof the heavy load of book work necessary to conduct the Bursar’s office, it will not be open to student traffic until 9 a.m.
The schedule to be put into effect immediately will be from 9 to 12 a.m., and 1 to 5 p.m.
Quiet Pervades
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Election Scene
Calm has settled over the campus political scene, at least on the sur-! face, as candidates, voters, and the ejection commission settle down to await the meeting of the general nomination assembly Monday, May 13.
Early-bird candidates have already filed petitions for offices of freshman a.id Junior class presidents, and for yell king, but most office-seekers are expected to enter their names at Monday's nomination assembly.
Petitions for office may be secured today, tomorow morning, and Monday until noon in 235 Student Union from any member of the election commission. Monday noon, May 13 is also the deadline for turning in petitions, although candidates nominated from the floor in the general assembly will have until 5 that afternoon to file theirs.
The election, to be held Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17, has received only moderate attention from the student body, with less I ducte(j Downbeat, the music ma-
CONNIE SMITH ■ . . urges voters
With official voters approval has been working with .the council1 Tuesday, uncontested offices for
. . .__. „ el,„ AWS president and YWCA presi-
smce Christmas to make a sue- dent ^ be teken by	Nom>Pi
cess and he and his fellow planners are looking for the largest crowd ever to attend such an affair. A publicity campaign headed by Ted Millington is believed to have resulted in more than 1000 persons planning to attend.
REGULAR EVENTS
Before the war, .the night collegians held one semi-formal dance each term, and sponsors of tomorrow night's dig hope to restore the tradition, and to “benefit night collegians and their friends.”
Several door prizes, including two pairs of silk hose donated by Millington, will be distributed among the dancers at spot drawings during the evening’s activities.
POPULAR BAND
Porter points with pride to his purveyor of music for the evening. Mohr and his men have appeared at the Palladium, Meadowbrook, and have been heard over the radio on the Hollywood Bandwagon, the Coca Cola spotlight band program, and ether leading radio shows. Mohr, has also appeared in numerous motion pictures.
In the recent annual poll con-
chairman of freshman orientation, and Virginia Harutunian, vice president of the Y.
Other candidates nominated for elective positions are:
Lois Rau, Barbara Thompson, AWS vice-president; Lois “Trishy” Anderson, Eleanor Asmussen, Ada Marie Clarke, Sylvia Lovell, Jea Morf, AWS secretary; Beverly Bloom, Christian Deming, Pat Neale, Jayne Wightman, AWS secretary;
Julia Millikan, Phyllis Ruff com, YWCA vice-president; Joanne Boice. Fanny Kyriax. Pauline Tevis, YWCA secretary; and Penny Caras, Nancy Lloyd, YWCA treasurer.
SMITH URGES VOTES
“Be sure and vote," Miss Smith urged all SC cosds, ‘and I suggest that you vote for the candidates according to their services and accomplishments.”
“Careful preparations have been, made to assure a fair and efficient election,” Miss Peterson stated. ASSC cards will be checked, AWS cards will be punched, and signatures will be required of women whose names appear on an eligibil-itl list.
than 4000 of the 12,000 students enrolled registering.
Al Kotler, election commissioner, revealed that booths will be set up along the main walk from University avenue to Bovard auditorium to take care of ballot casting next week.
What Killed Keats?
Overflow Crowd Hears Story of Keats’ Death
One hundred and twenty-five | vestigated the causes beyond the
years ago a poet died believing that his name was “writ in water,” and yesterday an overflow audience lined the walls of the art and lecture room of the University library to listen to Dr. Harold E. Briggs, assistant professor of English, analyze the causes of his death in the lecture, “What Killed John Keats?"
From the soil of tragedy, drunkenness, immorality, and disease in Keats’ family, Dr. Briggs traced the unfolding of the flower that-* was his poetry.
Officially John Keats died of tuberculosis, a disease that claimed his brother, after being treated by doctors who prescribed no meats, no soups, regular “bleeding,” and mountain climbing. Dr. Briggs, in carefullv documented theoriar in-
disease.
LONGED FOR DEATH
Keats died of bovine tuberculosis contracted from dairy products and had doubtlessly thrown off the same illness a number of times before, DfT B7t6bo*dsserted. The success pf the last attack was credited to Keats’ longing for death, demonstrated in the ineffable “Weltsch-mertz” which is woven like a strand through the tapestry of his song.
Why did Keats desire death?
Dr. Briggs cited Shelley and Byron as well as numerous Keatsian scholars in their belief that the bitter reviews of his early poems in Blackwoods and the Quarterly had killed the spirit of the * poet and thereby hastened his death.
Epithets such as “idiotic, tire-absurb. and insane” publicly
applied to “Endymion,” which contains the line, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever . . were anything but pleasing to the poet who confessed to his own “horrid morbidity cf temperament.”- Keats was discovered by his sister reading the reviews avidly in secret, and their effect on him was so marked that he had to be watched to prevent his suicide.
ABUSED HEALTH Though not minimizing the effects of criticism on Keats’ wellbeing, Dr. Briggs peered further into the cause of the poet's death-longing. He explained the irony which permitted him, a brilliant graduate of medical school and a healthy physical specimen, to so abuse his health that he finally succumbed to a disease he had previously conauered.
Keats’ failure ,to finish ‘Hyperion,” a poetic work he had hoped would equal “Paradise Lost,” his failure to find a producer for his play, “Otto the Great;” and the hopelessness of his marriage to Fanny Brawne, to whom he was un-suited, all contributed to his melancholy.
The crowning disappointment of his life and the one which most scholars overlook, according to Dr. Briggs, was Keats’ parting with his
gazine, Mohr drew more votes than Kay Kyser, Dave Rose, Del Courtney, Russ Morgan, Ray Badus, Eddie Miller, and other favorites.
JANIE JOHNS
He is marrifd to his vocalist, Janie Johns, who formerly sang with such top band:, as Ted Fio Rito, Phil Harris, and Dick Jurgeni She is now featured with the Mohr men, as well as in her solo specialties.
Admission to the dance, which begins at 8:30, will be free .to University collegians upon presentation of their library cards.
Ex-SC Accountant Harold Link Dies
Harold G. Link, chief accountant at SC for 23 years, died in Columbus. Ohio, May 3, of a cerebral hemmorrage. Mr. Link left his position at SC six months ago because of illness.
Surviving Mr. Link are his wife
brother Tom, who left for America	and two children, who reside in
with the remainder of the family	Arcadia. Mr. Link s niece and nep-
fortune, leaving Keats destitute and	hew, eBttv and Harold le Sieur, are
in agony over the loss of one whom	both SC students. Miss Le Sieur is
he loved more dearly than anyone	a sophomore, and Le Sieur is
else.
“John Keats still lives,” conclud-
and Le member of the NROTC.
Mr. Link was bom in Reading,
ed Dr. Briggs, “and no greater pa., but lived most of his life in proof is needed than that today we ; Los Angeles. Funeral services were discuss his death.”	held yesterday in Arcadia.
Education
Notice
Students who are pursuing course work toward a California teaching credential or a degree In the School of Education are required to complete the professional aptitude test
The test is a prerequisite to the following:
(1)	Enrollment in directed teaching.
(2)	Petitions to be excused from directed teaching.
(3)	Application for admission to candidacy for the masters degree in education and to the doctoral program in the School of Education.
The test will be piven from 10:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in 305 Administration. A fee of S3 should be paid at the business office not later than 10 a.m. May 11.
President's Office Notice
Commencement will be held on Saturday, June 15 at 2 p.m. in the Coliseum.
Rufus B. von KleinSmid, chancellor of the university.