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Vol. XXXIX
72 Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, May 6, 1948 No. 134
SIX of 21 campus delectables nominated by sororities and dormitories for the Dream Kiri of Theta Chi are pictured above. Today's sextet includes, left to right, Marion Mc-Jlinn, Kappa Delta; Pat Cameron, Pi Beta Phi; Pat McCormack, Alpha Omicron Pi; Bar-ira Wisner, Harris plaza; Virginia Eiden, Kappa Kappa Gamma; and Betty Stoll, Gamma ii Beta. Candidates have been guests at informal luncheons at the Theta Chi house.
pringtime Queening nvelops Theta Chi
[Joining in the spring fashion that sees most fraternities selecting a queen, the critical of Theta Chi men will scan 21 Troy beauties Saturday for the last time before the ?rnity members vote Monday to decide who will wear the jeweled fraternity pin.
A luncheon and swimming party at the Town House Saturday will honor the candies named by sororities and dormitories. To avoid possible discrimination, each con-
jumni to Host lldtime Grads
s General Alumni association j play host to 16 graduates of classes of ’87 to ’08 Saturday 12:30 luncheon in the Foyer ['own and Gown marking the point of AKimrri day. sided over by Los Angeles At-\y Charles E. Millikan. general hnan of the day. the luncheon jng will feature presentation rie Elisabeth von KleinSmid [lets to Mrs. Philena Tufts, rd, 82. oldest living SC alum-|Mrs. Bovard, sister-in-law of larion M. Bovard. first presi-the university, is celebrat-ie 61st anniversary of her Hating class.
•ILEBBATE ANNIVERSARY
^ong other honored guests at iffair will be five graduates of ;lass of ’98 who are celebrating
♦testant will be outfitted with ap propriate dress for the affair by downtown department stores.
The winner, who will be announced at the annual Dream Girl Ball at the Bel Air hotel, Saturday, May 15, is to be awarded a Theta Chi jeweled sweetheart pin, a loving cup, and an 11 by 14 inch portrait, to be presented by a Hollywood photographer. The Dream Girl will appear as Peter Potter’s guest on his ABC radio program.
GET BRACELETS Her two attendants, to be chosen at the same time, will also receive Theta Chi loving cups, and the fraternity will give each candidate a bracelet engraved with a small fra-
YMCA Collects 20,000 Books
A deluge of closing-day contributions to the YMCA book drive for the Trojan War Memorial library in the Philippines put the total collected well over the 20.000 mark, Dave Evans, drive chairman, announced yesterday.
The count stood at 12,360 yesterday noon when the first of three truckloads of Sigma Phi Epsilon contributions arrived. Later, as volunteers loaded books through all available windows and doors, Evans announced that there would be a
ternity crest. All of the nominees j delay in awarding the trophy to the will appear a& guests of another organization supplj ing the most southland disc jockey, Al Jarvis, on his late evening radio show.
The Dream Girl and her attendants will journey to Chino, where they will present a check to Casa Colina Convalescent home for crip-
golden anniversary of their: pled children on behalf of the fra-
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They are Mr. Clyde Crist, Roy Crist, Mr. Herbert John-Dr. Clarence Pierce, and Miss Rose, all of Los Angeles. Charles M. Cooke, comman-of the Seventh fleet, is sched-| as guest speaker at the lunch-The wartime chief-of-staff to pi. Ernest J. King will discuss lina and the Par East."
SENIORS WELCOME tmor students and members of r faculty are welcome to attend of the varied activities of linni day, according to Arnold director of the alumni asso-
Lginninp with an address to re-|iing graduates by President Fred fg Jr. at 10 a.m. in Hancock rium. the day s program in-10 educational symposiums he various colleges, schools, and ^rtments ol the university. The iums commence at IL cets for the luncheon are ob->le in 215 Student Union for each.
ternity. Casa Colina is the fraternity’s special philanthropic pro-
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CANDIDATES NAMED
Theta Chi yesterday released the names of this year's contestants. They are Marilyn Baird. Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall; Helen Broad-well, Alpha Phi; Pat Cameron, Pi Beta Phi; Barbara Crane, Phi Mu; Virginia Eiden, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Lois Erickson, Willard hall; Natalie Frajiacomo. Chi Omega, Mourine Geiss, Phi Sigma Sigma; Pat McCormick, Alpha Omicron Pi; Marion McGlinn, Kappa Delta.
Beverly Miller, Zeta Tau Alpha; Carol Mitchell, Alpha Delta Pi; Dona Nasby, Delta Gamma; Betty Propeck. Alpha Gamma Delta; Lor-
books.
ROOMS FILLED
“With tlie contributions of this fraternity alone filling an entire room, every other room jammed, and several other organizations not yet accounted for, we don’t know what to expect.” Evans explained.
Success of the drive in more than doubling the original goal of 10,-000 books has prompted the YMCA executive committee to adopt the spring book drive as an annual project, according to Evans.
Pelayo F. Llama, Philippine vice-consul who has been making daily checks on the progress of the drive, expressed great pleasure on the sudden increase of contributions this week, according to Fran Kovacs. drive secretary.
WORK JUST BEGINNING
Hardest work of the drive is just beginning, however, she said. Counting and sorting of the books will take a week, while packing and shipping may require ta month.
Volunteers were not lacking yes-
raine Silverglate, Alpha Epsilon | terday, as many fraternity mem-
Phl; Pat SommerfieId, Delta Delta Delta; Betty Stoll, Gamma Phi Beta; Meredith Suvikrup. Alpha Chi Omega; Gladys Topoliski, Delta Zeta; Barbara W7isner, Harris plaza; Maryjane Woodrow, Kappa Alpha Theta.
bers stayed to assist regular workers. More w*ill be needed to help in the sorting of the books in the future, however. Anyone interested in helping may report to drive headquarters at 36th place and Hoover street.
Ives' Concert Heads Program Friday Evening
The University Symphony orchestra in the fifth musical program of the current Festival of Contemporary Arts presents the first western performance of Charles Ives’ Pulitzer prize winning composition, Symphony No. 3, Friday evening at 8:30 in Bovard auditorium.
Prof. Ingolf Dahl, who will conduct the concert, has described Mr. Ives’ composition as a “fully rounded work of impressive beauty.” Symphony No. 3 was composed between 1901 and 1904, but gathered dust until Ives gained recognition for his musical abilities in the 1920s VENNARD TO SING William D. Vennard, professor of voice, will sing the baritone solo portion of the composition, Music for Orchestra and Baritone voice, by Ernst Toch, a former profess'-' of composition at SC.	•>
“This work is considered a masterpiece,” asserted Professor Dahl. Mr. Toch’s music has been played widely both here and in Europe.” The world premiere performance of a composition by Gilbert Grau, composer and arranger for RKO studios, opens the concert. “We are proud to have been selected to premiere the Symphonic Variations in Two Movements by Gilbert Grau,” said Professor Dahl, to whom the work was dedicated.
OBOE SOLO Frank Desby, the orchestra’s first oboist, will occupy the solo spot in Richard Donovan’s “Arietta and Rondo for Oboe and String.” Mr. Donovan will be a member of the music staff in composition during the Summer Session.
‘The Erie Canal,” a three-minute overture by Gail Kubik, closes the concert. Mr. Kubik’s work paraphrases the folk song by the same name. He composed this piece for the Santa Ana radio orchestra while he was stationed there in the air corps in 1944.
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Debate Team 'Defeat
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Debaters Milt Dobkin and Potter Kerfoot were eliminated from the second annual West Point invitational debate tournament at the military academy, a faculty member in the department of speech announced yesterday.
Previously the SC team, representing Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. ;iad defeated Holy Cross university in the first round of competition and Gonzaga university in the second round.
The debaters were chosen to represent the West Coast in the tourney on the basis of their outstanding performance in last month’s Pacific Coast meet held at Stockton.
ndrocles Billed for Bovard
Drama Offers Shaw P^ay
Tnquestionably the most ambi-thing the drama department attempted.” is director William rdeMille’s description of Bernard laws “Androcles and the Lion.” peduled for Bovard opening one kk from tonight, with a cast of 48 players, four porate stage settings, and au-Intic costumes of the Roman pe-|d. the Shaw satire mill be given production at SC. ll've had this play in mind for lie time.” Professor deMille stat-“I’ve waited until I felt I could mble a group of actors well ined to perform it, and until the jartment had developed to the nt whf the technical staff ild supply the unusual sound ef-fctg, scenery, and other difficult Ictors of technical performance
necessary to the production.”
Taking factual historical drama as a ‘ of departure. Shaw’s comedy cor.'cms a group of early Christians in the time of the Roman empire, when admitting a belief ln the unorthodox was synony-fflO"' with putting a sprig of parsley in one's mouth and offering to serve as a full course meal for a lior
Androcles. the musclebound youth of the myth, becomes in the Shavian representation a mild, timid, wife-dominated little tailor, with a natural affection for every species of animal frr— the garter snake on up the evolutionary scale.
Attemr)t;ng to escape from Rome where his Cnristian faith is unpopular, the li‘. - le man «—-unters a wounded and, ln tv- ''lay
caused by <? effo. - to effcct a cure, is captured by the soldiers of the Roman Caecar,
Joe Flynn, Unity party candidate for the ASSC presidency, will play A: drocles, v.\ Lynne rrvope an hi: wife Magaera. Dancer Phlip Nasta. recently seen in the varsity show “No Love Atoll,” is cast as the lion.
The tailor’s fellow martyrs are Lavinia, described as a fearless freethinker who spurns all for her faith, played by Beth Beatty; Fer-rovius, a physical giant whose mental capacity is hardly compatible with his strength, Jim Sargent; and the illfated Spintho, who Shaw has designated a “blackguardly debauchee,” DeWitt Baker.
Wayne Hoover will appear as Caesar; Jack Robson as Lavinia’s love interest, the Roman captain;
Bob Padgett, Centurion; Bob Downing,. the editor; Jim McCloskey and Ai Gruener, the aristocrats Metel-lus and Lentulus; and Robert Homan and Paul Kennedy as gladiators Secutor and Retiarus.
Sam Siriani will play the beggar; Marv Kaplan, the slave-driver; Bruce Savan, the callboy; Pat Corrigan and Madalyn Trahey, the Roman ladies; and Rory Guy, the menagerie keeper.
The play has been the subject of controversy since its first staging in 1913. A favorite with repertory companies in America and on the continent, it w’as produced by the American Repertory Theater in the spring of 1947 with stage and screen actor Ernest Truex in the leading role.
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MxKee Enters Yell King Race
A race for yell king developed today when Jack McKee, Sigma Chi tossed his hat in the ring as Unity party candidate.
Manny Real, McKee’s campaign manager, said that the Unity candidate entered the race to afford the student body “a choice at the polls to prevent the election from becoming a foregone conclusion similar to that of last year.”
He added that McKee had been considered for the IFC slot, but was passed up when doubt arose regarding his eligibility. When his standing was established IFC had already announced a candidate, which explains why McKee today entered on the Unity slate.
Real promises a lively campaign with McKee in the race. The new Sigma Chi quarcette will stump the campus for McKee. Lew Bass and Jack Smith, quartette members, are writing a campaign song, and the quartette will use it to serenade so rorities and residence halls.
McKee was yell king at Univers ity high school, and both Roger Riddick and Warren Palmer, present and former UCLA yell department heads, were assistants under him there.
Real said yesterday, “The students backing McKee feel that on the basis of his past experience he is well qualified to handle the job capably. We are happy to leave it to the entire student body to select liim.”
Unity Party Calls Meeting
Vernon Blake, Unity party publicity chairman, today called a meeting of the party Steering committee for 1 p.m. in the senate chambers.
He emphasized that the meeting will be of paramount importance and asked all committee heads and Unity party candidates be present to discuss several urgent issues.
A primary item will be discussion of a broadening of the party’s platform, and we feel that all members of the party should be present to express their views,” said Blake.
Other business to be settled, Blake added, will include arrangements for taking candidates’ photographs and completing plans for an extensive election campaign.
AWS Office Has Amazon Petitions
Petitions for membership in Amazons, women’s service organization, may be obtained in the AWS office.
Requirements for the junior-senior honorary are a 1.3 cumulative grade average, a 1.3 grade point average for the preceding semester, outstanding leadership in one field of activity, and interest and participation in other fields of service. Petitions must be turned in by May 10.
Interest Lags As 304 Sign For Elections
A cloud of lethargy that had settled over registration booths yesterday morning lifted slightly later in the day with 304 students registering on opening day of the second period for the coming ASSC elections.
In the forenoon only 75 students had registered causing the closing of all registration booths except the main one in front of Bovard. At noon, however, ASSC presidential candidates at an all-U nominations assembly urged that the students get out and vote. Afterwards the registration rate quickened sharply.
ONE BOOTH OPENED Elections Commissioner Jerry Jones stated that student interest was not sufficient to warrant the reopening of other registration booths, other than the one in front of Bovard.
Jones felt “if anyone desiring to register is inconvenienced, we will add booths and assistants,” but that, “at present the turnout is very poor and there is no demand for any additions.”
‘Although as many as seven stations have been available for regis-
Row Race Loser Hints at Pressure
An incipient “draft-Winn-for-AMS-president” movement gave a surprise ending to the nomination assembly yesterday noon in Bovard auditorium.
The movement, begun with the nomination of Bill Winn by Francis Kovacs, was halted by Ray Bradford, veterans
representative, who immediately de-*--clined the nomination on Winn’s
Evening Political Rally Scheduled for May 12
A political nominations rally is scheduled for May 12, in the tennis courts in back of the cinema building, Elections Commissioner Jerry Jones announced yesterday.
Candidates for any office in the coming ASSC elections will be given a chance to speak at that time.
Bob Kennedy will be chairman of the rally which will last from 7 to 10 pjn.
behalf. Bradford’s move was later upheld by Winn, who saidc
“I appreciate the settlement of the students very much and would like to hold a senate seat next year, but I do not wish to accept this nomination or run for the office.
WANTS TO WORK
“Though defeated In the Row primary, I am still much interested in student body government and still want to work in student government on the principles on which I have stood the past three weeks.
“If I were in a position to speak for and represent only myself, I would not hesitate to run for ASSC
Dean Lierle, assistant manager of radio station KTRO, announced yesterday that any candidate not affiliated with the Unity or IFC parties, wishing to speak over the radio may do so by contacting him from 7 to 9, today and Friday.
tration this year, a total of only 3907 have registered; last year 4631 registered and only one station was provided,” he added.
EASY TO REGISTER “We have made it as easy as possible for students to register, but we cannot force them to do so,” Jones concluded.
Registration will continue until next Monday. So far, over 8000 eligible students have not registered. Students desiring to do so must present this semester’s yellow identification card which will be punched at the time of registration as a check against multiple voting.
The main registration booth in front of Bovard has been moved to the front of the Student Union for today.
president, but under existing circumstances I will not accept candidacy for either office.”
Miss Kovacs, YMCA Book Drive secretary, said that the movement had been started by a group of students who thought that Winn was “too capable a man to be left out of student government,” and that the present unopposed candidate, Grafton Tanquary, did not sufficiently represent the student body.
Dobkin, independent candidate, said in his recording that “student government must be changed. It cannot remain a place for students in office to hand out patronage to their friends.”
FLYNN WANTS JOB Unity Party Candidate Joe Flynn said, in accepting the nomination, that he felt “there is a job to be done, and I would like to do it.” Student government at SC in the past, he said, has been done “by a group of selfish, willful men. I am here to break this hold. But the statement that if I am elected, the Row must go, is not true. If the Row ever dies it will be something like TNE that kills it, not me.” Three vice-presidential and four secretarial candidates were nominated previous to the presidential nominations. June Robinson was nominated for ASSC vice-president by Art Ferry, Marie York by Wally Flanagan, and Barbara Potter by Frank DiMarco.
Candidates for secretary are Patti Peter, nominated by Herb Hynson; Ely nor Enz, nominated by Manny Real; and Jeanne Gard, nominated by Morey Thomas.
A second surprise came a few hours after the assembly when Pat Corrigan, candidate for ASSC secretary, announced her withdrawal from the race.
Students Offer Speech Pattern In Art Festival
Seizing a “speech pattern from the people,” students of Dr. Pearle Aikin-Smith, associate professor ot speech, tonight present “An Evening of Contemporary Interpretations” in Hancock auditorium at 8:30.
The three-part program, designed to interpret the poetry of the people and the times, is part of the current Festival of Contemporary Arts.
Poetry by Carl Sandburg is programmed in the portion centering around Abraham Lincoln. “The Man the Times Demand.” John Drinkwater’s “At the Front,” another Lincoln work, will feature the voices of Newton Metfessel, Conrad Charles. Harry Root, Sid Adair, and James Green.
Three guest artists, the private students of Dr. Aikin-Smith. will appear in readings. They are Misses Beatrice Crall, Veronica Oppen-heim, and Feme Rives.
Other interpretations for this evening are “The People, Yes,” Carl Sandburg, read by Merle Sandler; “I Hear America Singing,” Walt Whitman, interpreted by Violet Gale; and a selection from the book •Friday, Thank God!” read by Miss Rives.
Today s Headlines
by United Press
Dewey Proposes Air Might
EUGENE, Ore., May 5—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey tonight proposed construction of the world’s mightiest air force and development of a United States of Europe to help keep the peace. The New York governor, campaigning against Harold E. Stassen for the Oregon Republican presidential delegation to be selected May 21, outlined his foreign policy in a speech at MacArthur fieldhouse on the University of Oregon campus.
Marshall Upholds Veto Power
WASHINGTON, May 5—Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Warren R. Austin warned congress today that elimination of the big-power veto in the United Nations would destroy the world peace organization. They told the house foreign affairs committee that the widening breach between Russia and the United States cannot be closed by tampering with the UN charter, as proposed by some house members.
Arabs Defy British Truce
JERUSALEM, May 5—Arab forces bombarded Haganah militia positions in the Katamon suburb today in direct defiance of a British army truce order. The Arabs concentrated mortar fire against big St. Simeon’s monastery in the Katamon quarter, in southwestern Jerusalem, which the Jewish Haganah militia took over last weekend in a fight for control of the holy city.
Women Greeks Invite Trojanes
Campus sororities open their doors to all women students today and tomorrow as part of this week’s Panhellenic orientation program.
Planned by the Panhellenic council to familiarize SC women with the sorority system and to provide an opportunity for independent students to become acquainted with existing organizations, the open house affairs are compulsory for all women who intend to go through rushing in the fall.
SORORITIES TO HOLD TEAS
Nine of the 18 sororities on campus will open from 3 to 5 this afternoon for ice water teas.
Women whose last names begin with letters A through L will visit these houses today: Alpha Chi Omega, 813 West 28th street; Alpha Gamma Delta, 668 West 28th street: Chi Omega, 742 West 28th street; Delta Gamma. 639 West 28th street; Kappa Delta, 919 West 28th street; Phi Mu, 801 West 28th street; Phi Sigma Sigma, 106 West 36th street; Pi Beta Phi, 647 West 28th street; and Gamma Phi Beta, 737 West 28th street.
OTHER HOUSES LISTED
Women whose last names begin with letters M through Z will visit these houses today: Alpha Delta Pi. 814 West 28th street; Alpha Epsilon Phi, 729 West 28th street; Alpha Omicron Pi, 624 West 28th street; Alpha Phi, 643 West 28th street; Delta Delta Delta, 834 West 28th street; Delta Zeta, 725 West 28th street; Kappa Alpha Theta, 653 West 28th street; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 716 West 28th street; and Zeta Tau Alpha, 914 West 28th street.
Tomorrow this order will be reversed.
Libby Minimizes Cl Check Cripes
“No m; than the normal number of late checks have been reported by veterans for the month of April,” was the rep’y of Veterans Coordinator Dr. Philip A. Libby yesterday to a DT reporter’s query regarding veterans’ complaints about late subsistence checks.
“Five per cent would be a good estimate of the number of veterans who failed to receive April checks and the slowness of their checks can be attributed to the $10 boost in monthly allowance," Dr. Libby said.