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rGY LEE zeroes in on Henry Hadiey» cmn plumage wnne rlarold Knopp steadies [sit leg. Peggy will kiss the lushiest beav3rboy tomorrow afternoon. Engineers climax k1 week of glory with a dance at the Lon j Beach Lakewood Country club tomorrow kt. Profits go into a scholarship fund.
Vol. XXXIX	Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, Mar. 18, 1948 No. 102
College Council
Wstery ContestantForUNSeeks
...	, . New Members
oins Whisker List
lew contestant, “The Mystery Beard.” has been added to the list of be-whiskered en-|rs who will pass in review before blond singer Peggy Lee in the final judging in front mcock hall at noon tomorrow.
[’he surprise entrant will join the race at the last minute before Miss Lee makes her I
decision on which Beaver has grown the most luxuriant crop of whiskers, according their stake m the nlted Nat ° ’
Program Offers Aid To Student Careers In Diplomatic Work
As part of its program to arouse students to an understanding of
to contest chairman Chick Holmes.
“The new man is expected to give present contestants some stiff competition,” Holmes said. “His identity will not be revealed until he joins the contest tomorrow.” One hint as to the identity of the mysterious entrant was given yesterday
The engineering council will meet today at 4:15 in 136 Engineering F. according to Jim Young, president of the College of Engineering.
Writer Confab Draws Scribes For Mews Day
SC's 23rd annual Newspaper day will draw 330 southland high school and junior college editors and their staffs here Saturday for a comprehensive study of journalism and tha newspaper.
Miss Agnes Underwood, city editor of the Los Angeles Herald-Express. will speak to the morning assembly in Bovard on “A Woman Mans the City Desk.”
“Journalism in the Field of Communication” is the topic to be discussed by William B. Payette, manager of the Los Angeles bureau of the United Press associations. President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will be on hand to welcome the visiting journalists.
The Ruth Apperson Eaker editorial award for the best editorial Union. Wiil Osborn will pro- jj-ish shamrocks and green trim- published in the Daily Trojan will I the music.	ming. will be handled by Marie be presented, and Prof. Roy L
lie Released Walking Pig stery Quiz
He lives not far from campus j is featured prominently in j his dreams."
is the first clue to the iden- j J>f the Walking Pig who will when Engineer President Jim Young Talij be crowned at the Inde- emphatically denied that he will lent Student council’s Peasant participate in the contest, al at the Riviera Country club.; Lucky winner of the contest will
get a kiss from Miss Lee, who will j reign as queen at the engineers tomorrow evening at the
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lOlher hints that will help name I	, jdance
le pig will appear regularly in the r	^	,. Lakewood Country club, Long
n to tin U®* lo.ians lel Beach. Bids for the dance, at $2 ne informal dance.	. per couple, are now on sale at the
rndance is open to both organ- College of Engineering, and non-organized students I If rain ccmes to the southland [for $2.75 will go on sale Mon-1 ^morrow, contestants will be judged
the ticket office in the Stu-
in Bovard auditorium.
Dance decorations, complete with
|is is the first Independent Tudor. Evonne -il dance to oe presented off )us. Council members hope that inaugurate a scries of yearly irs. Past informal digs held in student lounge have been well ided and Jack Shaffer, inde-lent students' senate represen-|e stated. "We think that we gained enough experience Ui xi a successful big dance." he council, formed last veai led recognition for its success Iraightening out the parking lot ition last semester.
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French will announce journalism scholarships. The Crombie Allen award for high school newspapers will also be announced.
The morning program over, a luncheon will be served the visitors in the patio between Bovard and the PE building. Afternoon clinics, paneis. and discussion groups start at 1.
the SC committee of the Collegiate Council for the UN will hold membership interviews in the ASSC president's office from 1-4 p.m. daily. Omar Kureishi, committee chairman, said yesterday. The committee was given ASSC approval at last weeks senate meeting.
OFFER COURSES
Organized in June, 1946, by students from colleges throughout the country, the council is now carrying cut a seven-point program. The program is aimed at interesting all colleges and high schools in offering courses on the UN and othei j international organizations.
Aiding students interested in car- J eers within the UN or the State de- ; partment through the formation of I United Nations Associates, an or-ganization to be affiliated with the i council, is also a part of the pro- j gram.
FORM COMMITTEE
Other phases include special pro-jects to interest college and high'campus socialites consider sorority womens most important
school students and the conducting	social affair—the SC Panhellenic council’s annual spring -	tTeHminate" r^tration
of university seminars.	dance to be held Saturday evening, Mar. 20 at the Riviera entirelv were defeated in the fall.
Formation of the complete com-	Country club. Xavier Cugat and his orchestra will play swing	’ REDuce vote
mittee for the SC campus is now underway, according to Kureishi.
X/iVlEri CUGAT is the music man who will lead the band Saturday night at the Panhellenic dance at Riviera Country club in Westwood. It's the top sorority dance of the season with the girls handpicking their own dates.
Xavier Cugat to Play Rhythms for Formal
Beauties of the Row will don their best formals for what
and Latin rhythms for the formal + -affair. Cugat is staying over three
The standard size includes 20 mem j days ^ ^ Angeles area in bers, each cne having a specific
order to play for the occasion. Katie Connelly, president of the
function.
The functions are: press, radio, speakers bureau, faculty contacts, paniienenic council, says the even-legistration, student organization^,	have everything for “per-
student government, treasurer, so- s	J &
licitor. secretary, films, forums and! feet dancing for the expected 1100
panels forensics, bulletin board displays, library displays, rally chairman. assemblies, chapel and religion special projects, and seminar services.
the campus experimental theater. The plays, produced under the
^d yesterday.
-It is imperative that every veteran in training under PL 16 see pis training officer once every semester.’' Mr. Prokop said.
Today's Headlines
by United Press
All rehab vets in training under ihe provisions of public law 16 must report to their training officer at least once a semester. A.
F. Prokop, officer in charge of ! Walker, Betsy Marcus, Fay Mazel, he campus training officer warn- I and Patty Shelton.
Proceeds from the dance will go ' supervision of Professor James H. j toward the establishment of a Butler by student directors, actors, j scholarship fund for engineering , and technicians, will continue their students which is to be named in j j-un tomorrow and Saturday nights.
I honor of Dean Philip S. Biegler of j Asked how he. as an author, felt J the College of Engineering.	! a.t>out meeting an auditorium full
J of critics. Haigler, writer of “Uncertain Glory,” summed it up in one word: ••Scared.”
FAULTS MAGNIFIED Haigler. who went through all this before when his short drama ‘‘The Highway” was presented in Touchstone last year, explained. “Watching a play from the audience. one suddenly sees all the faults magnified many times. I SALEM. Ore.. Mar. 17—Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, direc- think. ‘Why the hell didn’t I do )r of selective service, said here today that he believes in- something about that line while i luction of men could begin within 45 to 60 days after passage had „the chan^e?	„,n,f
ff a draft law. Hershey said the larger the draft the mo?e ver5,\-eT—“S pTayJ |imp e its operation.	until he has an opportunity to see
some of his work on stage. What he thinks looks good on paper often just doesn’t hang together in production.”
BAKER DIRECTS
Baker, who directs his own script
Authors Get Willies As Preview Nears
by Rory Guy
Four SC student playwrights face the test tonight.
Jack Gariss, Jack Haigler, DeWitt Baker, and Leslie Lon-dos, members of the playwriting classes of Reginald Lawrence, professor of drama, will meet trial by audience tonight at 8:30 in Touchstone theater, when their one-act dramas get a preview performance staged bj ---—
Hershey Says 45 to 60 Days’
ffroops to Guard Against Coup
ROME. Mar. 17—Regular Italian army troops will be moved nto camps near four strategic Communist-controlled cities n north Italy before the Apr. 18 elections to guard against
my Communist attempt to seize power illegally, official I “A Trumpeter for Arry.” also con-lources said today.	fesses to qualms. A radio writer
who has had many of his scripts _ C * _	X-	T ■	aired by station WKZO in Kala-
-Nations Oign L^etense Treaty	mazoo. Baker describes the audi-
o	^	~ , . .. i ence test as “an awful sensation.”
BRL SSELS, Mar. 11 Great Britain, France, Belgium, the “When you watch your own work Netherlands, and Luxembourg today bound their 107,000.000 from the audience, the people oople to fight as a unit against any aggressor by signing a around you seem determined to dis-0-year mutual dafens* trea^.	, tort the meaning of the play. If
someone winks an eye, you hear it. The only sound which is never loud enough is the laughter, and then they seem to laugh in the wrong
places.”
Playwright Gariss wrote and directed comedy sketches for the entertainment of soldier personnel while with the army in New Caledonia; he anticipates no uneasiness tonight.
REHEARSALS WATCHED Gariss has watched recent rehearsals for his play “What I Might Have Been.” and claims. “It is a strange feeling in that it doesn’t seem to be your own work you’re seeing. I feel as if I were hearing some script I had memorized long ago.”
Londos, who has written for the stage, screen, and national periodicals. also claims immunity to opening night jitters. A contest winner with a long record of successes, Londos last June won first place in the Sol Lesser screenwriting contest with his script “Top Man.” WINS ANOTHER He chalked up another first place back in 1935 with his entry in the | much-publicized “President’s Mystery” contest held by Liberty magazine that year. His story was printed by Liberty and later filmed by Columbia pictures and premiered in New York.
‘ No, I’m not worried about the audience,” Londos laughed. “I’m just keeping one eye open for the Trojan Critic.”
sorority women and their dates.
CUGAT TO PLAY
“Although the Cugat orchestra will play their famous rhumbas, Latin rhythms will not predominate,” Miss Connelly said. “There will be plenty of room for dancing. We hope that weather will permit dancing on the terrace of the Riviera club.’*
Sorority women from the 18 Greek-letter women’s organizations are cooperating with the Panhellenic council in completing the decorations for the dance. Decorations for the affair will be carried out in the Greek motif. Multicolored glass cloth will be hung from the ceiling and will have large “dia-mond-dust” Greek letters fastened to the cloth. Larger Greek letters will adorn the walls, and the background for the bandstand will be covered with “diamond-dust” cardboard with “Panhellenic” written across the center in large white script.
MONEY FORMS LOAN FUND
Proceeds for the dance will go into the Panhellenic loan fund to aid members, and will also be used ' for the Panhellenic annual relief to British families.
All sorority women are urged by Miss Connelly to get their bids in advance for the dance, but any remaining bids will be on sale at the dance, according to Panhellenic President Connelly. Bids are selling at $6 per couple.
Special guests for the occasion will include Dr. and Mrs. Albert Zech, Dr. and Mrs. William Cook. Mrs. Cook is Panhellenic adviser and coordinator of sorority alumnae. Other special guests include Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Eddy, and Mr. and Mrs. John Scruggs.
Libby Sets Date Vet Sales Stop
University Bookstore sales to veterans on GI bill will positively end tomorrow, Philip A. Libby, director of veterans’ affairs, stated today. Bookstore officials emphasized that any purchases made after Friday must be at the veteran’s own expense.
KUSC Program To Salute Hams
“KUSC Salutes the Hams,” the university FM station’s monthly program for acquainting listeners with the wcrk of amateur broadcasters will originate from three locations. one a plane flying over the campus tomorrow evening at 8:30.
From a naval reserve training plane, William F. Smith, local businessman, will adjust the Los Ala-i
The voting on the registration | question was complicated by the fact tnat five of the proxies offered at last night's meeting were ruled invalid. Their papers were not in ! proper order, ASSC President Paul Wildman decided. The original vote of 20-7 was reduced to 16-6 after the irregular votes were eliminated.
Other actions taken during the evening included approval of the Phenix club, a new social organization. acceptance of the senior class constitution, and the setting up of a committee on recognition of student organizations.
DOBKIN SUGGESTS The recognition committee was suggested by rules committee head
mitos field plane's transmitter for!Mm Dobkin, who reported that such use on the “ham- frequency for his a	wa5 needed to take
some of the burden of work from
interview.
During the recent Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America on the Pacific, Frank Kuavis, service engineer for North American aviation, heard the general call for aid over his “ham” set in Los Angeles sent by the party when radio contact with Peruvian stations had been lost.
Quavis notified the authorities and kept in touch with the group throughout the remainder of its voyage. Quavis will be interviewed on his experiences from the set in his home.
Program coordination is under the direction of Lyle Farrell, chief of the electronics division of the Richfield corporation and “ham” representing KUSC, and Carson Donaldson, KUSC chief engineer who will conduct the presentation from the portable transmitter.
the rules committee, which has previously handled the acceptance of such groups as the Chess and Phenix clubs.
Reports on the Trojan Chest drive and the financial status of the social committee were made by respective Chairmen Herb Hynson and Jea Morf. Hynson gave the total figures for the Chest drive, expressing the belief that, when all contributions have been tabulated. the figure will be pushed up to $7000.
Miss Morf reported profits on all the all-U dances, plus a contribution of half the profits of the Winter Carnival to the Chest, leaving a surplus of $1519.67. Some of this will be applied to subsidization of future dances, in order to reduce the cost to students, she added.
Atom Use In Politics Discussed
Jesse Unruh’s “red hot” proposal to recommend that honorary and professional groups having racial or religious bars take action to remove such restrictions through their national organizations cleared its first hurdle last night before the ASSC senate as the Daily Trojan went to press.
The first resolution, “recommend- *- '
ing” action, passed by a vote of 17-4. The additional bylaw and second resolution, calling for groups to take action by Jan. 1, 1950. or face withdrawal of ASSC recogni- ] tion, had not come up for votes I at presstime.
Earlier, a move by Elman Schwarz | to table the proposals was defeated, lacking a two-thirds vote. Dave Saunders, senator-at-large, then moved to amend the resolution to include “all existing social-professional living groups on campus.”
This measure, embracing such groups as Alpha Rho Chi and Sigma Phi Delta, was accepted as part of the motion by Senator-at-Large Unruh. Walt Brown, senator-at-large, amended to include service groups, and the amendment was accepted.
ACCEPT REPORT The other pivotal vote of the evening was on the question of acceptance of the report of a special committee on registration procedure for the forthcoming elections.
The report recommended two registration periods, one of five days to be held four weeks before the election, the other of four days to be held immediately before the election. A system of checking against the invalidated fee bill numbers of student registrants was called for.
Acceptance of the report by the senate puts the new plan into effect as the official registration procedure for this year’s voting. The committee was originally set up to investigate the possibilities of election registration reforms after proposals by Joe Flynn and Grafton
by Walt Oxstein
“The power of nuclear fission hM not been felt most in Japan, but in the United States where it has blasted the scientists loose from their laboratories and into politics.
So said Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, associate professor of political science, yesterday in his philosophy forum lecture in Bowne halL Speaking on the “Political Implications of Atomic Energy,” Dr. Hindman credited the scientists with preventing legislation which would have placed atomic energy in military hands, and thus with averting an “atomic autocracy.”
. INVOLVES POLITICS Four political issues involved in the utilization of nuclear fission were discussed by Dr. Hindman: central control vs. federal control public security vs. civil rights; mill, tary control vs. civilian control, and executive discretion vs. popular sovereignty. .
He explained that in time ot atomic war, decentralization at the expense of an increase of central power might be necessary, involving unusual compulsion and a huge amount of money.
PROBLEMS ARISE “If atomic warfare comes, out large cities must be prepared,’’ he continued. “An urban disaster project must be set up. Evacuation and hospitalization problems would require intensive and extensive effort under national organization and direction.”
Dr. Hindman deemed unworkable a plan to reduce communities to a maximum population of 10.000, stating that “our production would be hindered by this dispersal, and serious shipping problems would arise.* Regarding security vs. civil rights, he stated that “we prefer to err on the side of security rather than the side of rights.” He hit at “disloyalty by association,” but stated that control techniques will require Invasion into public rights and extended police activity.
GiftCampaign Closes Today
Deadline on donations of gifts for SC students in Brentwood hoe« pital was set for 1:15 this afternoon by Vernon Blake. Trovet promotion and publicity chairman.
Students wishing to join the car* avan and aid in distributing gifts are encouraged to do so, Blake said. Those interested should contact Leo Tartakoff, cochairman of the hospital committee, in the Trovet office as soon as possible.
Skepticism., Support
Truman Speech Stirs Troy
by M. R. Martin
Opinion among Trojans who heard P r e s i dent Truman’s “emergency measures” speech to congress yesterday varied from serious agreement to cynical disregard. Most of the students polled, however, felt that Mr. Truman was justified in the gravity of his requests to the legislature.
“I hope congress backs him up— the international situation is serious enough,” Roberta Morrison, German major, said.
“I agree wholeheartedly with him. What is the European recovery program without some show of force?” Harold Greer, finance, echoed.
Two students emerging from the
Student Union squatters were pessimistic. Harry Carr, French major, said, “It is too late to repair the damagt now.”
should be taken, even if it involves selective service,” he said.
Dr. Arthur R. Kooker, associate professor of history, said that he
D. H. Woodin. chemistry major, was forced to spend the entire hour
shook his head. “I envy the Eskimos.”
International relations majors reflected the most skepticism. H. E. Stone asserted that the speech was •‘more political than anything else.” “If the danger exists, the speech was not forceful enough; if the danger does not exist, then such a speech is dangerous” his companion, Bob Maclendon, agreed, Jack Hutchinson, social studies major, was wholly behind Mr. Truman. “He’s right. Positive action
in his 11 o’clock history class on the speech. “My students considered the speech seriously,” he said. “They were intensely Interested in everything Truman said, but they didn’t react very favorably to his request for selective service.”
The veterans administration office was at loss to advise the possible status of most students in the event of a new draft program being inaugurated. Dr. Philip A. Libby, director of veteran affairs, said, "Congress doesn’t know and neither