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Los Angeles, Cal., Monday, Sept. 30, 1946
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:ulty Members, Civic Leaders to Debate |ed for College-Trained Housing Personnel
what points in the housing enterprise is there a need llege-trained persons? This question and others relat-the subject will be discussed by the conference com-on education and training in housing at its opening Ig Wednesday noon at the Los Angeles Chamber of h*. i-
rirpose of the committee is ■ and define the responsi-[f the university for educa-jthe field of housing and tc |a program suggesting the
|R. B. VON KLEINSMID
, greets leaders
lation of general and pro-si education in this field. LNOWLEDGE NEEDED Is long been recognized that (el in nil phases of housing [be familiar not Only With jecialired field, but with
ids to Drive Red Cross
Deviate the great demand for (corps drivers, the SC Amer-j«d Cross unit is forming a Is motor corps with Dorsey	—
newly elected member of hd Cross staff, as motor corps
[tine today, applications of all interested are being accept-226 SU. stateed Miss Payne, lant.s must he between 18 and Irs of age. and have a stand-
every branch of activity in the entire housing function.” stated Emory E. Olson, dean of the School of Public Administration.
Members of the conference group will consider such queries as "Can housing be considered as a focal i point for the organization of courses on a departmental basis? ; What is the present development of housing education in the United States? Should a degree in housing be given?"
Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid will greet the committee at its Wednesday meeting. Also on the agenda is th introduction of members and comments on the discussion by Dean Olson and Harleigh 1 B. Trecker, chairman of the conference committee and associate prole?sor or social wont. COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The committee is composed of community people conectcd with i the housing sphere and selected | members of the SC faculty. They are Burton E. Edwards, secretary and manager of the Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc.; Miss Virginia Hedges, acting president. Las Angeles chapter, National Association of Housing officials; Howard Holtzendorf executive director, Los Angeles housing authority; Reginald D. Johnson, ar-I chitect.
COMMUNITY LEADERS
Clifford Rawson, secret ary-man-ager, Home Builders institute; George E. Duggar, regional econ-mocist, national housing agency; Robert Burns, executive director, Los Angeles county housing authority; Douglas Burroughs, vice-president and chief appraiser, Security-First National bank of Los Angeles;
E. B. Mansur, assistant to the direc-reconstrucbion a.m reemployment commission; Joe Nel-lon secretary, planning congress of Los Angeles.
Walter Leimert. realtor; Charles B?nnett, director of planning Los Angeles city planning commission;
Pharmacists Set 'Howdy Week1 Dance Friday
“Howdy, pal, what’s the latest dope?’’ might very easily become the password of the College of Pharmacy Howdy week beginning today in conjunction with SC's Hello and Smile Week.
Tommy O'Connor, the moving force behind the get-acquainted week, revealed in a general assembly last week that identification tags will be handed out in first period lectures today.
"If you don't get one of the tag;s in class.*’ O’Connor added, “be sure lo grab one from the box on the glass case ouside 101 Science. Scribble your John Henry on it. don your widest grin, and go out and make as many friends as you can this week.”
The College of Pharmacy is scheduling an evening dance on Friday as a climax to the week of salutations.
Patrol Bomber Aims at Record Distance Flight
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29. <lT.P> — The “Truculent Turtle," a navy twin engine patrol bomber carrying a baby kangaroo as mascot, winged eastward frcm Australia to-wawrd the United States tonight on a non-stop flight that may set r, new world record.
Intramural Hello, Smile Week Opens;
Sportfests Scheduled
Beauty Finalists to Parade
Chancellor
At 5:30 p.m., E5T, exactly 12 hours after it roared away from Ferth. the giant craft was unre- bp formed later. On Tuesday and
Campus Groups Meet Tomorrow to Make Tentative Programs
Sorority, fraternity, and other organizational representatives will meet with members of the intramural organization and WAA at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow in 210 P. E. building to develop a tentative season’s plan for men’s and women's sports activities.
A temporary chairman will be appointed to head a preliminary intramural council. Although schedules of corecreational events are not ready for publication, organized activities will ocgin Thursday.
Every Tuesday, beginning tomorrow. physical education department facilities will be available to all students desiring to participate in men's intramural sports and ciub activities.
Swimming, diving, waterpolo, badminton, basketball, social dancing, fencing, gymnastics,, weight lifting, and ping pong will be offered.
Sports Will be sponsored by the Women's Athletic association for all women of the university who desire to become members of the organization or who wish to earn activity points. WTAA will offer tennis, archery, bowling, and modern dance in the afternoon.
Teams to join men's activities will
To Launch
Cuts Tape Festivities
FHIL BURTON heads Smile contest
PAULINE TEVIS
. . . aids voters
Seamen Agree Cafe to Close To Delay Strike Tuesday Noon
ported.
Thursday evenings starting Thurs-
WASTIINGTON. Sept. 29. <l'.P> — Government conciliators reported tonight that prospects of a new maritime strike at 12:01 a.m. EST. Tuesday, had reached "a critical stage*’ but they have been assured i that union members will not leave j their ships prematurely.
Edgar L. Warren.' chief of the United States conciliation service, told reporters after two fruitless
needed at least 21 hours more — i about all that remained b?fore the
The University Cafeteria in the Town and Gown Foyer building will be closed during the lunch hour tomorrow.
This is necessary in order to serve luncheon to the members of the Town and Gown.
The cafteria will reopen to students at 5:30 tomorrow afternoon. 0
Strike Woes Ail Pittsburgh
The ship was so heavy at the clav Trojans may join in mixed ! conferences with union leaders and j takeoff — 85.000 pounds — due to volleyball, badminton, and swim- j ship operators, that the government
| an extra fuel load, that four jet ming.	____
tubes were required to propel it1 into the sky.
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The Pittsburgh power strike was He pleaded with the unions not hopelessly deadlocked today n its to "jump the gun'' on the dead- sixth day. and thousands of people line. He recalled that the recent lived in fear of a complete power
Mrs Alice M. manager. Park
resident
resident
Newberry,
rst aid certificate for mem | comrnunjty. Howard Gardner, assistant secretary, league of California cities; the Rt, Rev. Monsig-nor Thomas J. O'Dwwyer, president, citizens housing council; George F. Delaplane. executive director. National Home and Property Owners foundation.
J. R. McGonagle, vice-president and managing director, Baldwin Hills village; H. A. Akin, honorary trustee-at-large. California Real Estate association: Reid Lage McClung. dean of the Colletre of Commerce and Business Administion; Robert E. Vivian, dean of the College of Engineering.
!-hour course in mechanics (prerequisite to membership, )1U be offered on campus this (er. The first aid course will ■ given on campus for the of women who do not pos-le certificate hut wish to ob-|ne prior to enrolling in the Rnics course.
soon as the courses have completed, the women must I a driving test given at R^d headquarters.” stated Miss |e. "after which they will b® :>ers of the Red Cross motor and subject to call at any
The "Turtle” was scheduled to rrach the U. S. coast near Seattle, about 1:30 a.m.. EST.. Tuesday, Unofficial sources said that if it continued on to Washington it should arrive here about 10 a.m., EST,
An attempt at the transcontinental hop would add about 3000 miles to the flight, making a total of about 12.000 miles since the Aus-tralia-Seattle leg is 9000. The "Turtle” reportedly is capable of flying about 13.000 miles non-stop.
Sweaters will be standard Blue Key
Band, Glee Men Wanted	”°*" Pittsburgh sept, m-.uj?.- 18^1? »<» '•>'
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Bill Gould. Trojan band director, has issued a call for additional members of the band and glee club to bring the numerical strength of those organizations up to full capacity for the Ohio State game this Saturday.
Gould announced that there are uniforms waiting for 28 more band men and for 50 more glee ciub men. Those interested should apply in the band office Cinema, Music, and Arts building.
The finalists will pass out Hello and Smile cards at their presentation.
VOTE TOMORROW
16-day walkout by AFL and CIO breakdown.	, Balloting has been postponed un-
seamen wos precipitated when un- The usual jovial Mayor David L ?	and Wednesday m-
ion members "hit the beach" ahead Lawrence, spoke over the radio and s.ead o od as: o gir . ly
grimlv warned the 1.500 000 people nounced. Burton explained, in order
of this area to conserve power and that voters may become **tter ac* waj.er	i quainted with the contestants.
of schedule.
“This time we are asking for a fair chance to rork cut a peaceful settlement.” he sanl "Our-at-, pendeV^V'the" mayor ’ blasted Geo^e : by Pauli"e Tevis who says she has tempts . . . have reached a critical T	,<roci^n( „f f)l„	j	(Continued on Page Four)
stage.”
Speaking in shirtsleeves and sus-
Polling booths will be managed
Blue Key Sponsors Traditional SC Fete; •*f ^ Queen Contest Balloting Begins Tomorrow
Friendly greetings and amiable smiles will be especially prevalent throughout Troy as Hello and Smile Week gets officially underway at ceremonies this afternoon.
Sponsored by Blue Key, the festive week, dedicated to the spirit of friendliness, has become an SC tradition and
will be launched at 12:50 p.m. when Chancellor Rufus B. \*on KleinSmid cuts the taape across Hello and Smile walk in front of University library.
TO VIEW FINALISTS
The 16 finalists in the “Smile Queen’’ contest will be presented, in order to give all Trojans a chance to meet them before going
to the polls tomorrow and Wednesday.
From 93 contestants who entered the contest. James Holmes, chairman of the week, and Phil Burton,
Blue Key president, report that 16 were selected by a secret committee on the basis of personality and beauty.
MEET AT LIBRARY
Finalists for the Hello and Smile Queen contest should be on the University library steps at 12:30 p.m. today. Jim Holmes, chairman, has asked that they wear either suits or sport dresses and heels.
They should pick up Hello and Smile cards for distribution at the Information office, Administration building.
Holmes also asks all Blue Key men to report to the library steps at 12:30 p.m. in sweaters and ties.
Mexico Combats Illiteracy
Julio Rueda, Gabriela Mistral, Educators Visit Campus Today
L. Mueller, president of the inde- | pendent union of 3-500 Duquesn^ light company power workers for failing to keep his word to arbitrate the strike.
Lawrence said. “The whole labor movement is blackened by an untrustworthy, irresponsible, public-be-damned leadership of this independent union.”
The mayor said, ‘The ndepen-dent union had poor and ill-advised
Institute Discusses Latin Investments
Investment opportunities in Latin American countries keynoted the discussion at the recent meeting of the SC teaching institute of eeo-
leadership. To that I must now add nomics.
ie of the goals of the SC mo-Jorps unit will be tours to the tas veterans hospitals, for purpose we will have our own 5." Miss Payne added, i-ups for the motor corps and laid courses, in which activity will be given, will continue tchout this week. Classes will sometime next week.
Tlie battle against illiteracy ln! Mexico, whose people are being taught to read and write at the rate of 1.000.000 per year, if con- j tinned at the same tempo, will end with victory over ignorance in 1951.
So believe Prof. Julio Jimenez Rueda of the National University of Mexico and Miss Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize-winning poetess and honorary ccnsul of Chile, outstanding educators who are appearing on campus today to stress the Qualified submariners at SC can importance of Mexican history and join the submarine battalion of the culture.
Submen Plan Reserve Unit
IA Candidates ice Deadline |n Wednesday
_ for masters degrees 194", are required to traduate record exami-on in either October or No-lher. the deadline for appli-ons Wednesday. Oct. 2. Ipplication forms for the ex-rnation ■••y be obtained at the luate School office, school of science,
or School of Edu-
for the examination have Oct U, 19, and Nov.
organized Naval Reserve, as announced this week by the 11th Naval District headquarters. The unit meets Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. at the Naval armory, 850 Lilac Terrace.
Los Aneeles is to have three divisions of two crews each. These groups meet once weekly during the winter and take a two-weeks 1 cruise with submarine pay each summer. Training will move to Terminal Island shortly, but is temporarily held at the armory on Lilac Terrace.
At Terminal Island. Long Bpach. the navy is furnishing one of the war submarines which will be tied up to the dock for the reserve units to use for drills.
Submariners at SC can get further information from Clark Wilson, J instructor of psychology in UC. by leaving questions at the phychology office; or from Walter Mazzone, ( president of the College of Phar macy student body.
LECTURES IN SPANISH
Professor Rueda. director of National Archives and former dean of the College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences at the University of Mexico. will lecture in Spanish on Mexican History” this morning at 11 o'clock in 101 Annez.
The lecture is open to the public. according to Professor Antonio Heras of the Spanish department After the lecture. Professor Rueda
and Miss Mistral will attend a nually to the United States by the luncheon planned in their honor by Mexican government to further in
i Nobel prize in 1945. Among her works are "Desolscion.” “Ternura," j "Sonetos de La Muerte,’ ’“Tala." and “La Vida de San Francisco de , Assisi.”
the word ‘dishonest.’ ”
Lawrence who only an hour before had finished conferring with powerful CIO and AFT, leaders in an effort to enlist their aid in get-tng Muller to come to terms, said. "Labor shares the responsibility of , dealng with this unnecessary strike She is internationally known as of a pooriy.ied union.” a lyric poet and educator, having jje said the company had been begun teaching in Chile at the age -too late and too little” with its of 14. When Mexico began its offer, but at least had kept its word development of rural schools, she to arbitrate.
was called to assist with the pro- "Remember,” the mayor said, “if gram. Today in Mexico City, as • the power goes, water goes next in ; well as in Chile. Venezuela. El Sa- most sections of the city. Begin lvador and Ecuador there are conserving it now. schools and libraries® which bear “Don’t sprinkle lawns. Don’t wash her name,	! down walks and driveways. Don’t j
PR AISES UNITED STATES	■ a tap run a second more than
An ardent feminist, Senorita Mis- is necessary. Save the water. ’
| tral believes women can save civ- ———————————
ilization if they have worldwide fran- ! chise. She praises the United States for having sponsored women's I | suffrage recommendations at the UN ,
With motion pictures accentuating important features, the experimental group, under the direction of Dr. R. B. Pettengill, participated in a general discussion of the best means of achieving foreign investment goals.
Opened August 1. the institute operates under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, an educational corporation devoted to the increase and diffusion of economic knowledge.
The group meets each Thursday evening in 309 Bridee Hall, and it seeks to develope competent economic leadership for the community, state, and nation.
Girls to Assist Queen Voters Called by Tevis
When Trojans cast ballots for Hello and Smile queen and her four attendants in the contest which starts tomorrow and continues through Wednesday they will be assisted by a corps of women under the supervision of Pauline Tevis, Alpha Delta Pi.
Students must present identification cards when voting, »s cards will be stamped as students cast their votes. Miss Tevis urges every-one to participate in the selection of the Hello and Smile week queen.
She asks the following girls ia charge of electons tomorrow to be present at the polling booths at the indicated time:
ASSISTANTS LISTED
Mildred Hyde, Phil Vallejo, Betty King, and Mary Louise Abdun-Nur, 9 to 10 a.m; Mary Sutliff. Kay Truesdale, Junie Robinson, Patty Cullen and Joanne Proppe. 11 to 12 noon; Patte McCormick, Patty Peter, Claudia Garbett and Ann Rose, 12 to 1 p.m.
Kav Bowman. June Alden. Helen Graffin and carol Jo Johnsen 1 to 2 p.m.; Ann Slater, Bee Canter-
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Debate Smoker Set For Male Debaters
GABRIELA MISTRAL . . . poetess visits SC
meeting in San Francisco.
She returned this year from Europe to stress the plight of the children.
“Children have no politics,” she says.
Positions Open In LAS Council
Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid. ter-American relationships. The SCORES MEDIE> ALISM
POPULAR AUTHOR	five-man commission, headed this j PoetP5s Mist.al who has been:
,	I visiting schools in Southern Cali-
.“'el!year by DrFranc,sco VUla*ran« ln-j fornia, says there is opposition to eludes Professors Aurelio Fuentes, i suffrage of women in Latin j
Daniel Huachuja. Xavier Mejia, and Amerca "mainly due. disgracefully, | Raimundo Sanchez.
eral popular books including "His toria de Literatura Mexicana,”
"Juan Ruiz de Alarcon,” and "Here-jias y Sup?rsticiones en la Nueva Espana,” conducted SC summer 1945 NOBEL WINNER session classes in Mezican literature j Senorita Mistral, former secretary and the theatre of Mexico in 1940., of the intercultural relations with I He is ‘part of a mission sent an* the League of Nations, won the
to our latent medievalism.”
Professor Rueda may also be heard at the UCLA extension today and tomorrow and at the Casa de Mexicanos.
Petitions for appointments to the Letters, Arts, and Sciences council are available today through Wednesday in Knights’ office, AWS office, and Doral Bennett’s office, announces Carl Gebhart, LAS president Any person enrolled in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences with a sophomore standing or more, and willing to give his time and energies is eligible to apply.
Petitions should be returned to to the same office from which they wer*» obtained.
After a four year lapse, the traditional men’s debate smoker will "flare up'’ tomorrow 7:30 p.m. at the SAE house, 833 W. 28th street, Eph Konigsberg, debate captain, announced.
"All men interested in forensic activities are urged to acquaint themselves with this year's debate program,” said Dr. Alan Nichols, professor of speech and debate coach. “Participation is open to all men regardless of their majors.”
Trojan varsity debaters will act as hosts and former debate cap-i tains will tell of former speech i coups.
"Cider (soft) and doughnuts • hard) and tobacco in assorted sizes and shapes will add to the festivities,” Kenny Gabriel, d?bate manager, concluded enticingly.
Town, Gown Club Meets Tomorrow
Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid will address members of Town and Gown at the first monthly luncheon meeting sinee 1941 tomorrow in Town and Gown foyer.
A music program, proceeded by an executive board meeting at 11 a. m. and luncheon at 1, will be presented at 2:30 p. m. by William Vennard, base baritone, and the Hancock trio.
Mr. Vennard. member of the School of Music faculty, will sing "Fischerweise,” "Die Liebe hat Ge-logen,” and “Der Zweig,” three selections by Franz Schubert.
Schubert’s “Trio in B Flat Major” will be played by the trio composed of John Crown, pianist, Anton Maaskoff, violin, and Stephen De'ak, cello.
Because Town and Gown luncheons, discontinued during the war while navy trainees used the foyer as a mess hall, have been resumed, the newly opened cafeteria will be closed the first Tuesday of every month until 5:30 p. m.
Faculty Parking Lot Completed
Arrangements have been completed for the opening of a new faculty parking lot the university business office announced today.
The lot is open to full tim* faculty members and is located between the College of Dentistry and Elizabeth von KleinSmid hall. Permits have been Issued to 296 applicants.