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Al Hix’ True Identity Deep Mystery
Vol. XXXVII
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, May 28, 1946
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ious other decorations by mixed committees under the direction of Sylvia Lovell, who can be reached at the Chi Omega house by any person wishing to help with the decorations.
“Non-orgs should make up 75 per cent of all the associated students
olors Manifested or Street Dance
Purple, Chartreuse Color Scheme Will Splash All-U Frolic Scene
Splashed with purple and chartreuse light, the Carousel reet dance set for Friday night, May 31, at 28th street and Fniversity avenue will be open to non-orgs as well as or-inized students of Troy.
The purple and chartreuse theme is to be supplied
through colored arc lights and var-
officials Name lew Members •f Fraternity
Commerce Students Elected to Honorary,
Beta Gamma Sigma
Fifteen College of Commerce up-erclassmen have been elected to lembership in the California Beta hapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, na-konal business honor fraternity, jllege officials announced yester-
l*y.
Senior students to be honored B. L. Rogers, Frank J. Dinoto, rilyn Carlson, Richard Van fleeve, Spencer Fine, C. E. Ryker,
W. Batliner, and Charles J.
.mer. Juniors were Chris Mus-l, George P. Young, Arthur Sis-, Roy L. Johnson, John E. Stev-jn, Dorothy Redd, and Gordon jnklin.
flTIATION TUESDAY	*
| The new members will be initiated (ceremonies in the Student Union ite chambers next Tuesday. Fol-the initiation, a chapter dinner will be held at the Mayfair ho-with Federal Judge J. F. T. O’ jnnor as guest speaker.
“High scholastic attainments and >mise of future achievement” are ie primary qualifications for elec-jn to the honorary group. Beta [amma Sigma was founded nation-ly in 1923.
*OSE GIVEN [Purposes of the organization are jie encouragement of scholarship id accomplishment by students id graduates in commerce and isiness administration in Ameri-Ln colleges and* universities; the f-omotion of education in the fence of business; and the foster-of a more favorable attitude by inessmen toward commerce luates.
■ier oustanding College of Com-t students of all four classes ll be guests at the initiation din-frr.
DT. Circulation SC Enters
Falls Off Half; c Strikes Dood It' lOrCITSIC
Tourney
Preliminary Contest Will Choose Debaters To Represent Troy
IMU Negotiators tgree on Wages
*EW YORK. May 27.—(U.E)—An lent for a 10 per cent wage pase was reached tonight among otiators for the National Marine union (CIO) and representa-for 39 Atlantic and Gulf coast lip operators, le agreement must be submitted ratification to the union mem-tiip and to the committee on ritime unity, made up of repre-kt&tives of the maritime unions tided at a recent San Francisco Ivention to take coordinated Jke action June 1 if all five un-had not signed new contracts ! that date. The NMU was the union to reach an agreement, fegotiators were hopeful the ement would provide a pattern other seamen and longshoremen ^tracts involved in the national kout called by NMU President |eph Curran, le agreement reached tonight [rided a $12.50 monthly wage in-for crews on about 1500 dry ships operated by the At-and Gulf Lines, all general Its for the war shipping admin-ition.
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attending the Carousel,” Jackie Boice, vice-president of ASSC, stated yesterday.
ASKS FULL SUPPORT “The ASSC social committee hopes that SC students will give their full support to the Carousel,” said Miss Boice. “It was planned for the purpose of being close to SC and is offered at a reasonable price.”
Miss Boice, with a group from the ASSC social committee, has been contacting those non-orgs who reside on campus, in regard to attendance at the dance. Last night the group visited numerous houses (Continued on Page Four)
Mine Workers Shutdown Pits
(raduate an Notice
to the change in the date icement, all theses by idates for masters degrees >to be submitted to tht C-rad-School by June 5 instead of 16 as originally announced. —Emory S. Bogardus.
PITTSBURGH. May 27.—(U.E)— John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers struck the nation’s government-seized soft coal mines with withering force today.
The shutdown virtually was complete. Less than 30,000 miners, mostly non-union and progressive workers, entered the pits as an ill-enforced two-week truce in the UMW walkout ended. Production was but a dribble.
Upwards of 370.000 miners refused to work in defiance to the plea of Coal Administrator J. A. Krug for full production to help .the nation in “a time of crises.” They apparently awaited a signal from Lewis.
The nation's economy, still shaken by last weeks railroad strike, again plunged toward the “National disaster” the White House warned was at hand when the truce was declared two weeks ago after six weeks of strike.
The renewed walkout brought immediate possibility of drastic freight embargoes and furthA passenger curtailment on fuel-short railroads. Brownout orders were prepared for wide areas. Steel milles prepared to slash already low production schedules.
The strike picture:
Pennsylvania—Fewer thaSi 1,700 of .the state’s 100.000 miners reported for work. Today’s production was estimated at 35.000 tons against a normal output of 500.000 tons. Less than 70 mines, mostly surface operations. reopened.
West Virginia—Of the state’s 104.000 miners, about 2.500 worked. Production was limited to 45 mines.
Ohio—Only a handful of mines in the Pomeroy Bend area reopened. Approximately 20.000 UMW members were Idle.
Kentucky—More than 40.000 miners refused to work. Production was limited to 4.000 non-union and progressive miners and a score of UMW workers who joined with 60 non-union veterans to keep open a strip mine at Madisonville under protection of 150 soldiers.
Railroad stoppage s, timber strikes, and other assorted woes of the world have found their way to the door of the Daily Trojan. and as a resutt only half as many D. T.s are being circulated on campus this morning than as usual.
Reason for this lamentable shortage of copies of Troy’s reading habit is that the D. T.’s store of newspulp (the paper on which the sheet is printed) is at a record-breaking low, and carloads of paper to replenish the supply are sidetracked somewhere between Los Angeles and Canada.
In meeting the crisis it was a case of slashing the circuation of the paper or cutting it out altogether. Since it was felt tha a few papers was preferable to none at all, the circuation was curtailed.
And the moral of the story . . . remember that the issue of the Trojan you are reading today is a scarce item. Pass it around.
Music Majors Present Recital In Bowne Hall
Concert to Feature American Progress In Modern Trends
Student artists, composers and Lowe D. Bartruff, graduate student, share the musical spotlight on campus in a trio of concerts arranged by the School of Music.
Members of Dr. Ernest Kanitz’s class in composition will have their works presented next Wednesday afternoon at 3:15 in Bowne hail in a concert designed to show the development of the young American Style of musical composition. Dr. Kanitz is especially interested in the modern trends of music, and feels the future holds much promise for the young composer.
RETURNED VETERANS
The students, most of whom are returned veterans, whose works will be presented are Thomas Douglas, Edward Earle, David Farjeon, James Herley, Robert La Master, Hans Lampl, Corton Reece and Sherman Storr.
The program will be made up of piano and violin solos, suites for violin, oboes, and flute, and suites for string trios. The SC Madrigal singers under the direction of Dr. Max T. Krone will complete the program with three mixed choruses acappella.
ORGAN RECITAL
Last night, in Bovard auditorium a graduate organ recital was held by Bartruff. who will receive his M. A. in June. The recital, one of the requirements for the degree, featured the works of Bach and Franck.
Earlier in the day, a student concert was held in Bowne hall, highlighted by pianist Clyde Zulch’s rendition of Mozart's C Major Sonata. Other student artists who appeared were Marion Vree, playing three Chopin compositions, and vocalists Georgia Ann Lasted. Barbara Dupuy, Louis Haas, and Fleur Winter.
The Crombie Allen Debate contest preliminaries will be held this afternoon at 3:15, 406 Student Union, according to Dr. Alan Nichols, debate coach.
Eph Konigsberg, debate squad member, stated that this will be the first time SC has participated in this particular contest since 1942. Three different colleges are chosen each year to send participants.
The winner today will represent SC in the contest sponsored by the Rotary club. Prizes totaling $150 are being offered to the winers, including a first prize of $75.
The subject of the contest is “How businessmen, united in the ideal of service, can further the cause of world peace,” The representatives of SC, UCLA, and Pepperdine will vie for prizes at the Rotary club dinner in the Biltmore hotel, Friday.
Judges of the Allen contest are selected from prominent civic leaders, and professors of various local institutions. Their names have not been announced as yet.
“The speeches may or may not be memorized by the contestants,” said Konigsberg. “however, a contestant may be defeated by another contestant because of memory work.
As the contest is not confined to speech majors, all students on campus are invited to participate. The preliminaries were postponed one week to permit greater participation in the annual contest.
Students who have already indicated their intention of entering in the contest today are Milt Dobkin, Konigsberg, Marcus McBroom, and Gene Rubin.
Dr. Nichols will judge the contestants in this afternoon’s preliminaries.
Faculty Plans Music Program
Presented by the Allan Hancock foundation and the School of Music, Alice Ehlers, harpsichordist, and Anton Maaskoff, violinist, both members of the artist-faculty of the School of Music, will offer a Bach-Mozart Sonata recital. The program is a third of a series of public concerts and will be presented tomorrow evening at 8:30 in Hancock auditorium.
Miss Ehlers and Mr. Maaskoff will play tne Bach Sonatas No. 6 in G Major, and No. 2 in A Major and the Mozart Sonatas in B Flat and E Flat Major.
Seats will be reserved for ticket holders until 8:15. Reservations may be obtained by calling Richmond 4111, station 451. Non-ticket holders will be admitted after that hour. There is no admission charge.
Following the program the Mem orial rooms will be open.
Molotov Hits Byrnes Minister Conference
Musical Scores Of'Given Tech' To Be Returned
Original musical scores contributed to the Varsity show “Given Tech,” will be returned today to students who desire them, announced Lennie Adelson, former music staff head.
“The compositions will be returned in 323 Student Union from 3 to 5 p.m. today, or tomorrow,” Adelson said.
He also stated that if students do not pick up their sheets now, there will be no other chance to secure them.
Dinner Party Hears Alumnus Harold Slosson
Harold Slosson, SC alumnus of 1921, was the featured speaker at an initiation dinner of Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemical society, held at Eaton’s Ardmore last Friday night.
Slosson, an employee of the Research and Patents Filtrol corporation, spoke concerning adsorbants and catalysts of clay type.
The dinner was held to honor newly initiated members of the organization. These new members, from the departments of biochemistry, chemistry, chemical engeering, and pharmacy, are Chapman Burk, Nearl Conroy, Richard Coswell, Hoyt Crabaugh, Rhodes Dayton, Harold Epley, George Myers, James Spaulding, and Gordon Wright.
OTHER SPEAKERS
Other speakers of the evening besides Harold Slosson were Dr. Anton Burg, head of the department of chemistry; Dr. Robert Void, department of chemistry and editor of the society’s national publication, the Register; and Dr. Leroy Wea-therby, department of chemistry and counselor of the local Psi chapter of the society.
Officers of the SC chapter are Roy C. Enos, president; Milton Buck, vice-president; and Todd Doscher, secretary - treasurer. Dos-cher and Buck were in charge of the initiation arrangements.
Job s Uncle Harry To Open 5-Day Run Thursday at Bovard
Author Gives Motives for a Premeditated but Mistaken Murder,
Causes Controversial Torment Which Will Affect the Heart of Stone
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Occupying the limelight of the Bovard stage Thursday night at 8:30, Tony Pa^ma, in the title role of “Uncle Harry,” will be creating one of the most controversial characters in any modern play.
Because Thomas Job, Carnegie Tech professor and author of the melodrama, has endowed the character with such good, human traits, when he turns to the cold-blooded
CHARLES NEWMAN . . . warden
MARY ALDEN . . . Harry's girl
MOSCOW, May 27.—(UP)— Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov in an angry renew of the Paris foreign ministers conference accused Secretary of State James F. Byrnes today of using “pressure, threats and intimidation” against the Soviet Union.
Molotov accused the United States and Great Britain of forming a bloc against Russia to “impose their will" on her and of conducting an anti-Russian offensive in the guise of a peace offensive. No self-respecting state, he warned, would tolerate such maneuver.
ATTACKS CONGRESSMAN
In an aside, Molotov took a vigorous slap at American members of congress whom he accused of “blowing the trumpet of their expansionist plans and inciting to new aggressive war, overlooking light-heartedly the
inglorious catastrophe of imperialist Germany.”
“However,” Molotov commented.* “The future is not on the side of these gentlemen.”
Molotov also accused the United States and Britain of dominating small and large countries by aiding them economically and transforming them into tools for fulfillment of capitalistic aims.
The foreign minister made his blistering statement in the form of an interview with correspondents of the Moscow newspapers Izvestia and Pravda.
BLAMES U. S., BRITAIN
Blaming the United States and i Britain for the failure of the Paris conference, Molotov took up point by point questions which arose there —peace treaties, a 25-year disarma-(Continued on Page 4)
U.S. Bakeries To Cut Size Of Bread Loaf
WASHINGTON, May 27.—(U.P)— The agriculture department tonight ordered U. S. bakers to cut the size of bread loaves and rolls 10 per cent by weight, effective June 1.
The order is designed to enable this country to continue its heavy wheat and flour exports to famine areas overseas and to stretch out short, domestic bread supplies.
The action was taken through an amendment to the war powers act.
The department did not say what effect it will have on bread prices, if any.
NO RISE IN PRICES
Prices presumably will remain the same, however, since OPA announced previously that bakers making such reductions voluntarily would not have to cut prices.
The new loaves must be 10 per cent smaller by weight than bread and rolls produced by the same baker on March 15, 1946.
Most bakers who did not reduce sizes when they recently were requested to do so voluntarily, said they were afraid of violating conflicting state laws requiring bread to be of certain weights. Officials believed the new federal order will supersede state law.
BAKERS MAY APPEAL
The department said bakers who do not believe they can carry out the order, may appeal to the production and marketing administration by June 10. If the administration believes the baker can comply, he must make the cut.
The order requires bakers to use wrappers or label “plainly indicating” the weight of the new loaves. If the baker has difficulty obtaining the wrappers, he may use his old wrappers temporarily providing he furnishes the retailer with a sign describing the new loaf.
Bakers not now required by law to specify the weight of loaves need only notify their customers of the reduction in -weight.
SC Sororities Greet Rushees
Open house along the row today and tomorrow will give women students who are interested in fall rushing the opportunity to meet sorority women and to become acquainted with the various houses, according to Jane Lutz, Panhellenic president. The time will be 2 to 5 p.m.
The row will be divided into two sections and prospective rushees whose names are A-L inclusive will visit the houses on the east end today, and the west end tomorrow. Those whose names are M-Z will tour the west end today, and houses on the east end tomorrow.
The east end of the row includes Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Gamma Fhi | Beta, and Chi Omega.
The west end includes Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Delta, and Phi Sigma Sigma.
Campus clothes and hose are the preferred attire for the informal affair with iow heels acceptable.
Vandals Visit Cal ZBTaus
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.—(U.E) —Police of two bay area cities tonight sought evidence to connect two separate acts of vandalism directed against Jewish instiutions, in one of which the letters “KKK” were scrawled on a synagogue facade in indelible ink.
The Rabbi of temple Beth Shalom in San Francisco reported to police today that sometime during the past night vandals had crept alongside his temple and left roughly designed initials of the Ku Klux Klan on .the granite front of the building.
On the University of California campus, unknown persons smashed the living room window of Zeta Beta Tau Jewish fraternity, last Friday night poked a garden hose through the broken glass and flooded the living room.
Damage was estimated at $2000, including total destruction of an oil painting, a divan and several chairs. The water was not discovered until Saturday morning when members of the house came downstairs for breakfast.
Police also reported that shoestring potatoes had been taken from the fraternity kitchen and mashed into the strings of the grand piano.
University officials discounted the theory that the sabotage was done by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
WAA to Fete Sportswomen
SC sportswomen who have excelled in their individual sport field will be honored at the first post-war annual WAA banquet to be held Thursday evening at 6.: 30 at Scully’s restaurant, according to Zella Flagg, ‘mistress of ceremones, who will be on hand to greet the sport honorees and friends.
Main atraction of the banquet will be the formal presentation of new WAA officers, with Lucile Wilde accepting the president's gavel from Miss Flagg. Also retiring from the cabinet are Ann Marquess, Gwen Carle, and Mary Emma Davis. Remaining incoming officers include Miss Davis, assuming the office of vice-president; Betty Nelson, secretary; and Barbara Fierke, treasurer.
The oustanding graduate in the department of physical education will be presented with the WAA ring. A 1.75 cumulative grade point average, a sweater wearer, and outstanding service to the university and to WAA are the requirements for the ring award.
Wearing blue and yellow pledge ribbons, Dorotiiy Krueger, Dorotny Gameron, Gertrude Roberts, and Misses Caras, Carle, Fierke, and Nelson will be introduced as new pledges of Delta Psi Kappa, national physical education sorority.
Awarding of sweaters, jerseys, and plaques to the tournament-winning houses will conclude the evening’s activities.
Soprano to Give Recital Tonight
As a paritial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music Degree, Cecilia Anne Cipriano, student of Dr. George Hul-tgren, an instructor in flute will give her first recital tonight’at 8:15, Bowne hall.
Miss Cipriano who is soprano will divide the recital into four groups of songs, each will be sung in a different language. The first will be in Italian, the second group in German, the third in French, with the last numbers in English. Among her selections will be works of Handel, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Bach, Mozart, and many other masters.
Professional work has taken a great deal of Miss Cipriano's time outside of school. She has played flute and piccolo in the Cleveland Philharmonic orchestra. Now she plays in the Cosmopolitan ensemble, for social affairs.
She directed the junior choir of the First Methodist church in Los Angeles last year.
murder of his sister Hester (Lillian Evans) and lets suspicion fall on his other sister Lettie (Barbara Lynde). it is hard to decide whether he is still the hero or a “Mr. Hyde-villain.” Adding to the hero theory is the fact that neither sister is of much account anyway except as a trouble-monger and the fact that, although by murder he may be carrying things a little too far, at least he is on the right track.
An interesting sidelight to the problem which Job had in devising a proper ending for the play comes ! from Charles Newman, prison warden in this production, and not Uncle Harry himself only because director de Mille thought the part would have been a push-over for the veteran actor.
NEWMAN PLAYS JENKINS
Newman played the salesman Jenkins in the original tryout-company production on the east coast in 1942. The company was working with Job on the original drafts of the play which was to be auditioned in New York.
At that time, according to New-. man, Job had both a prologue and an epilogue incorporated in the ' play. By the time of the New York showing, however, the epilogue had been dropped. In his opinion the 1 play is not as satisfying without the ! epilogue, which had indicated more i clearly Harry's fate as a murderer. WORKING FOR M. A.
| A National Collegiate Player who ' received his B.A. in speech at SC in 11937. Newman is at present working for his M.A. in drama. He was English Professor Damon in last | term’s “Male Animal" and the scene - stealing, show - stealing De Witt in this term’s “High Tor.”
“For special note in this play,” says the director. Professor William C. de'Mille, “are the powerful qualities in Job’s minor characters. He has delineated the minor personalities so intelligently that their im-(Continued on Page 4)
Pedestrians! Trolley, Bus Strike Ends
by United Press
Striking Los Angeles streetcar and bus operators yesterday voted nearly six to one to accept a compromise wage offer ending a 25-day strike.
Preceding a mass meeting at which the back-to-work vote was taken, company and union officals completed arrangements to resume some bus service today and full streetcar and bus service by 3 a.m tomorrow.
MAJORITY VOTE
The vote was 1788 for accepting the settlement to 322 against. Sb ballots were blank.
Streetcar and bus operators on the Los Angeles transit lines walked out May 3. putting an estimated one million daily riders on their feet.
Negotiations had stalled over wages and hours demands, and settlement came after the company increased its wage offer to $1.23 an hour top scale for operators. Before the strike they received $1.03 and the union demanded $1.38. DAY-LONG SESSION
Negotiations broke off Friday, aud Mayor Fletcher Bowron got the parties toegther yesterday for a day-long session that ended in complete agreement. Union leaders then called today’s mass meeting at which they recommended the membership approve settlement.
Senate to Meet
Bill Armbruster, president of ASSC has called the senate for the final meeting of the term this evening at 7:15 in the Senate chambers.	Vi