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Dean Asks Housing Lists from Faculty
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Los Angeles Calif. Thursday, April 17, 1947
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l-U Ball Stresses ormality of Dress
tty Malneck Orchestra to Appear Crystal Ball's ‘Look Into Future’
omen students whose clothing allowance has may cock last month’s “beanie ’ over one ear and rest d that they are properly dressed this Saturday, he fast-breaking Crystal Ball which is being pitched e College of Architecture at the Riviera Country club ot call for formal dress.
ancing — from the opening waltz to “Home, Sweet j ’ at midnight — under the magic spell of Matty Mai- i moody music is to be done in plain and simple togs i er than those who love to dance may do so. tty Malneck, according to Walt Wending, president student council of the College of-Architecture, is not 1 nother band leader. He is a master music-maker, | for his weekly radio appearance on the Duffy Tav-
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Student Firemen S OIO n S Start Rescue Chevy
run
Battling “smoke and fire” during the mid-day heat yesterday, 25 Trojans succeeded in averting major destruction of cars on the faculty parking lot in back of Bridge hall.
Victim of the heat was a convertible Chevrolet, registered in the name of Irving Rehman. The fire started through defective wire connections. The car was locked when smoke was discovered pouring out A garden hose was brought into action and the ear sprayed up' and down. Someone succeeded In opening the doors and the smoke was released.
The owner of the car. Dr. Irving Rehman of the School of Medicine, was notified of the fire by a Daily Trojan reporter, who “got wind” of it.
band has played record ents at the Biltmore hotel, 'axie’s. and the Trocadero rea. In the east he has he Radio City Rainbow d Paramount theater in k. In Chicago he played engagement at the Am-hotel.
CATIONS with Paul Whiteman
GI Comic Leads Preen for Opening
Revisions
Troy to View Havoc of War in Combat Film
Co-stars in the comedy roles of “GI Bill,” Betty Yonick and Tommy Batten, have participated in several pro-ars. Matty is not only a ; fessional stage, screen, and radio productions, ician, but is also a song After studying ballet under Theodore Kosoloff and Mme. tairway to the stars” Nijinkski when 5 years old, Miss Yonick, at the age of 10, with Love, and 111 worked with the Ballet Russe de‘ the Same” considered : Monte Carlo in "Les Sylphides." She his finest compositions j began radio work on KXLA as a laved on request at the songstress. After she joined the
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,e on sale for $3. with no asked, at the ticket office wo booths. One booth is front of Bovard, and may ied by the grotesque, mul-pylon suspended above it; lr booth is located in the Harris hall. Last-minute be purchased at the dance, iy buyers will be favored ile from pretty Tro-eds at ard booth.
tice architects, working as ce carpenters, are now tap-the last of the decorations all.
ALLOONS
r is the blowing-up of hun-balloons which will be usee other touch of color to thi Ball, the fantastic spherioc ith ‘curves,” no matter how ed.
tive motif for the ball will on the winning design subin the “Crystal Ball Design by Bill Blurock and Chuck y, fifth-year students. Class Fred Briggs. Bob Gaudi ights and William Ecki will ve some of their ideas in-ted.
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gh dancers may wear any they choose, the ballroom 1 viera Country club is going a new gown made of lacc tice work. White grills will e entrance to the hall and the bandstand. A mural 16 ght and 30 feet wide will be i by a series of surrealistic I s. Overhead, balloon nets with hundreds of balloons,: f them 5 feet in diameter, fer temptation to dancing
bosses over the crystal; rork for this gala affair are j lelman, Clara Morgan, Ken n. Tom Goule. Rex Hamil-d Bruce Sellerv. Saturday representatives and their workmen will report to the |
American Federation of Radio Artists, she worked for NBC and CIBS, and appeared in radio productions1^ f FT \ 1 of “Junior Miss.”
During the summer of 1946. Miss Yonick understudied the lead of the |
Hollywood Bowl presentation of “Up in Central Park.” She also ap- | peared in “Carmen” and participated in a concert presented by Xavier Cugat.
According to Miss Yonick, this is the first time she has ever had a chance to sing popular songs on the stage	|||
“I am very enthusiastic about the show and I think it will be a huge
problems as living on $65 a month. Bud Stefan and Bob Snetsinger, coauthors, worked more than 500 hours on the story, and they con-
BETTY YONICK ... ballerina
In conjunction with the World Student Service Fund drive, the academy award documentary film “Seeds of Destiny,’’ will be presented this afternoon at 2:15 in 214 Bridge under Council of Religion sponsorship.
The film has received nationwide | interest because of the shocking i realism that has prevented it from j being shown to the public.
Filmed by the Army-Navy screen magazine photographers in all parts of the world, the picture is a testimonial to the havoc caused by the war in European and Asiatic countries. It emphasizes the fact that the seeds of war are planted immediately after the signing of the peace treaties.
ARMY LEND LEASES The film was loaned to WSSF by the Sixth army command. This will be the only opportunity for SC students to see the movie as it has not been released outside the armed forces.
The WSSF hopes to stimulate interest in its fund raising drive which will begin next week for needy students in'the devastated countries of the world. It will bring the reality oMheir deprivation to people of this university.
FIGHT FOR LEARNING '
Dick Thomas, regional director of the WSSF, stated “The future of man rests in the educations of students. We believe 400.000 students will lose fight for an education without WSSF help.”
The Committee on Atomic Implications will sponsor the film during the week of the drive and it will also be shown Monday night following the Inter-Fraternity songfest in Bovard auditorium.
The Council of Religion has turn ed over its meeting to the showing of the picture. All students and
Battle Over Drastic Student. Government
P.R. Runs Into Strong Opposition in Controversy
by Jerry Maher and Russ Burton
As the Daily Trojan went to press last night, the ASSC senate was plunging into debate over the controversial article V of the new constitution with all indications pointing to a hot fight for ratification.
Leading off on the question of representation, which
has caused more friction on the --—
Blast Shatters Texas Town; Casualties Rise
POLED on his opinion in the current telephone strike this worker got up in the air. The controversey moved into its 11th day as both the striking National Federation of Telephone workers and the American Telephone and Telegraph company rejected the arbitration proposal of Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach.
Negotiations Stall In Phone Walkout
tend that they consumed gallons of faculty members have beeh urged coffee while writing the show. | ^ ^^nd
Tht\ Sh°*’ WiU be Produced In; The film has been loaned to SC Bovard auditorium May 7. 8, and 9. for the duration of the drive and
i is available for all organizations interested in showing it to their respective groups.
College of Commerce Completes New Staff
TOMMY BATTEN . . . colonel
success,’’ Miss Yonick said, “GI Bill is really very funny.”
Tommy Batten plays the part of a 22-year-old ex-colonel in the army air corps named Jordan who is impressed with his own intelligence.
Before the war Batten was under contract to MGM He has recently completed work in a picture for Columbia called "Sweet Genevieve," which as yet has not been released. He spent six years as a vocalist
'n strict secrecy.
Country club where they 1 third-dimensional. free- I Wlt* Rud-V Vall<*-	and
abstract forms and wall **** Tomhn- He has also Pupated m several coast-to-coast radio shows.
During the war, while in V-12 and stationed at SC, Batten produced varsity shows.
“GI Bill,” a musical comedy, is a satire on the plight of a veteran in college and capitalizes on such
Completing the staff of the Col-j . . . lege of Commerce, Mary Lou Harris AASMnOS was elected secretary, and Eleanor Enz, treasurer, at a meeting of the College of Commerce council this week.
Peter Potter, president, appointed several committee heads to handle some of the details of the College
. . . trainees who have filed applications for platoon leader's school at Quantico, Va., must report to 101 Physical Education building by 3 p.m. today for physical examinations.
WASHINGTON. Apr. 16 — (UP' ■Negotiations for settlement of the 10-day-old telephone strike slowed almost to a stop today, despite an urgent plea from Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach for both sides to reconsider their rejection of his arbitration proposal.
Strike leader Joseph A. Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (Ind.), said the next move was up to the American Telephone and Telegraph company and its strike-bound Bell system subsidiaries. He warned that only a definite wage offer would break the deadlock and that the 335,000 strikers would remain out “until we win.”
Beime announced he would take the strikers’ case to the public at 8:15 p.m., EST, in a broadcast over the ABC network. It was to be an answer to the two radio speeches made last night b y Schwellenbach. who rebuked both the union and the company for turning down his settlement formula and called upon the public to “demand” that they change their minds.
The company remained silent and there was no indication whether it too would go on the air to broad-
senate than any other single issue this year, President Jim Mitchell presented an amendment which would restore seats of the iiiterfra-ternity and panhellenic councils, independent students, and veterans, lost in the original draft drawn up by the constitutional committee.
Private speculation by the opposition to Mitchell’s proposal indicated the insertion of representatives for independent students and veterans was being considered as no more than a weak swap for retention of the interfratemity and panhellenic seats.
Bob Peck and Milt Dobkin, presi dents of the senior and junior classes respectively led an assault on the inclusion of seats for class officers. Core of their arguments was that class presidents needed full time for class activities and work on the senate “drained their vitality.”
They were opposed by Mitchell on the ground that representation would strengthen class feeling. Bulk of his support came from Al Kotler Bill Winn, and Bob Patten.
Action taken by the senate last night leaves only article VIH, together with article V, as the sojp remaining points in the constitution still to be discussed. Article VIII,
Wallace Speech Held as
Leaders of the nation’s 325,000 striking telephone workers tonight accused company officials or trying to break the 10-day-old strike by threats and intimidation, but warned that the walkout will continue until union members win or are "starved into submission.”
In a nationwide radio addre^p (ABS), President Joseph A. Beime of the National Federation of Telephone Workers charged that officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph company were threatening strikers with loss of jobs, seniority, sick leave benefits, and pensions unless they returned to work.
But, he said, the strike will go on — “either until American Telephone and Telegraph gives in or until the workers are starved into submission.”
cation Notice
to the rules of the on Graduate Studies and dissertations for the are due in the Grad-office not later than 1947.
usually requires at least to have a dissertation typed, the final copy be approved by the can-Conunittee and to be the typist not later than
of the scarcity of oom-it is essential that for the doctors degree arrangements for typ-deiay.
*. S. Bogardus. Dean.
Campus Club to Hear Discussion of WSSF
Members of the Plymouth-Camp-! bell club will have an opportunity j to learn about WSSF from a foreign student tonight during the regular meeting of the group.
The club meets on alternate Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m. for dinner, business affairs and speakers, and a social hour. Membership is open to students having Congregational or Christian church preference.
Following the WSSF talk tonight a business meeting will be conducted for approval of the club constitution and future plans.
Drawing a parallel between the address of Winston Churchill in the United States on an alliance of Britain and America and the
Henry A. Wallace has the right of any private and leading citizen of the United Stages to air his views on the foreign policy of his country.
That was the opinion yesterday of Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, associate professor of political science, in dis-( cussing the current congressional furor over the former vice-president’s recent attacks in London of United States policy on loans to Greece and Turkey.
Asserting that he does not agree with the contents of Wallace's speech as far as his statements of “power politics and empirialistic aims" are concerned. Dr. Hindman pointed out that “it does not make any difference whether the speech was made in Chicago, London, or even Berlin.”
COMMON GROUNDS
He branded the whole affair as a “tempest in a teapot.” and declared that the incident provides a grand opportunity for both the Democratic and Republican parties to get together on common grounds.
“Wallace's speech served the purpose of providing opposition to the Wallace speech In London, Dr. Hind-proposed loans and requiring a man stated that “a private citizen clarification of our policy in much of the United States should cer-more specific terms than otherwise j tainly have the right to express his would have been the case," he said. | own point of view in a foreign
. . . criminal?
country. Of course, citizens of dictatorships like the USSR are given no such freedom.”
ONE-MAN UPSET “If our foreign policy is such that Henry Wallace can upset it in the way that he seems to have done. I think it is high time that we found out just how weak that policy really is,” he said.
Declaring that there are many ways that congress can repudiate Wallace in a democratic way for his utterances, he asserted that it will give our legislators the opportunity to think some more about the proposed loans and help clarify the j whole affair.
ADDS PUNCH “The position of Wallace Is going i to clear the air. and whatever policy I we arrive at is going to be a little more crisp and concrete than it has been before.” Dr. Hindman said.
Dr. Hindman partly agreed with Wallace that the United Nations should have a greater part in coping with world affairs, but also expressed belief that the UN is at present not strong enough to undertake all phases of world affairs, and that that body would find it difficult to handle crises of the present sort.
cast its side of the dispute.
The NFTW's 49-member policy committee, which rejected Schwellenbach's pian on the grounds that it made no provisions for an immediate wage boost or definite national arbitration, recessed until tomorrow morning.
About the only negotiating ln progress was a meeting between District of Columbia telephone workers and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone company. Federal conciliators sat in on the parley, but there was no sign that they were making progress.
Troeds to Keep Troy Trash-Free
First step to make the aims of Traditionally Courteous week a permanent part of Trojan traditions was taken yesterday when Troeds announced they would assume responsibility for a campaign to keep the campus free from trash.
The freshmen women's organization. under President Pat Haskell, will provide more trash cans for distribution around university grounds as one of their plans for campus beautification. They intend to make the drive to keep the campus clean a regular part of their service program.
The idea for a week devoted to improving campus courtesy originated with Amazons who acquired the assistance of the Knights irt sponsoring the wee-long period which began Monday.
method of election of officers, also considered controversial since it involves use of the Hare proportional ballot.
Unofficial ratification of the bulk of the document was completed when articles VIL X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV were approved unanimously last night. The entire constitution, however, is subject to further scrutiny when official ratification of the whole is pressed.
Mitchell’* objection to the inclusion of Article VII as it was written invoked considerable debate.
The article, prohibiting legislation which would bear any qualification as to race, religion, creed, or color, or which would prohibit freedom of assembly or censorship of ASSC publications, needed the insertion of a clause which would define the relationship between the ASSC and any other organization! on the campus.
"After Dobkin moved the article be adopted as written, MitcheU initiated the controversy by suggesting that ultimately the article would affect privileges of organizations which consider it their democratic right to form restrictive groups.
“No one would lose any privileges,” said Dobkin. “Social organizations are not governed by the ASSC, and any group could easily get vindication by sponsoring like amendments to their own individual constitutions.
“Such an attitude, I believe, is the desirable policy of anyone interested in democratic principles,” said Dobkin.
At this time Al Reid, president of (Continued on Page Four)
TEXAS CITY. Tex., Apr. 16 — (UP)—A chain of explosions blasted this industrial city today, killing and injuring hundreds of persons. setting chemical and oil fires which still blazed furiously tonight and causing property damage estimated as high as $75,000,000.
The *fire started this morning on a French Line freighter, the Grand Camp, which was loaded with nitrate. The ship blew sky high at 9:15 a.m. The great Monsanto Chemical company plant, adjoin-
HOUSTON. Tex., Apr. 16—(UPt —A Texas City telphone operator reported at 7:50 p.m. that another “big” explosion had occurred in the stricken city, a long distance operator reported here tonight.
iflg its dock and stocked with deadly explosives, caught fire and began to explode.
Blast after blast rocked the city, sending shudders along the gulf coast as far as 150 miles away. Two oil refineries and 50 oil tanks lining the waterfront caught fire. FIREMEN GIVE UP Tonight this booming port on Galveston bay was a shambles and the fires still were burning In the center of the explosion area firemen had given up any effort to fight them, the Red Cross said.
Ambulances and hearses poured in and out of tbs city. The wounded choked hospitals In Galveston, Houston, and other cities. The less Injured were treated hi long lines at the post office REMOVE 500 BODIES Five hundred bodies had bow removed from the burning. MmM city by 3:18 pjn.', Ihe Anm^em Red Cross reported, and 11 nM there stUl were many mow beneath shattered waterfront buildings.
Emergency crews of the Tmm state highway department said the death toll approximated 1300. Th* Texas bureau of public safety estimated 350 dead.
EVACUATION ORDERED Fire and explosions still Tipped and blazed along the watertron* tonight, more than nine hours after the initial blast, making Ik impossible to reach the sprawling anA fire-gutted $19,000,000 plant of the Monsanto Chemical company plant, h-re the death toll was greatest. The still-living among the city's 18,000 residents were ordered te leave at once as fumes from a flaming chlorine tank spread. A cloud of deadly nitrogen dioxide released by burning chemicals also covered part of the city.
Muriel Lester Tells Burdens Found in European Travels
“Roaming Around Ex-Occupied Countries" was the subject of a lecture given in Bovard yesterday noon by Muriel Lester, world citizen, author, and humanitarian.
‘I thank you not for the privilege of speaking here,” she began, but for the relief of unloading part of the burden I've picked up all over the world.”
Her burden was in part the conditions she encountered in her travels through postwar Europe. Miss Lester told of the spiritual degradation of the people of exoccupied countries, of their loss of faith and hope, and their deep disillusionment.
To meet that need Miss Lester called for those who escaped the ravages of war to provide a spiritual support for those less fortunate. As a means to this end, she urged concentration on prayer, meditation, and internal values.
Miss Lester told of the need fcr service relief workers who could help the afflicted peoples spiritually. More physical help will not aid in replacing their mental and moral stability.
In closing, Miss Lester recounteo the statement of a leading English nuclear physicist, who gave the world only 10 years of existence unless the spirit within man is re-
“Our business is to meet here the 1 leased. It is the vital duty of every deeper inner need of the European individual to release that spirit, ohe people,'* she said	I asserted.