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Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, Sept. 18, 1947
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niversity Members onor United Nations
riited Nations week was celebrated during an interna-l1 luncheon yesterday at the Biltmore hotel with Francis Russell, director of the office of public affairs of the state irtment, as guest speaker. SC was represented by both (lty members and a student committee from the campus
chapter of the American Association for the Uni tea Nations.
Alonzo Baker, professor of political science, served as committee chairman for the luncheon which was part of the week long obser-11 p TO KPAfP vance sponsored by the Los Angeles IUW	■ WWW chapter of tlie American association
for the United Nations.
“Europe’s chief problem is production,” said Mr. Russell, “most
rshall Plan to Peace bys Hindman
ERNIE WILSON . . head knight
European countries are living be- Start Anew
fte course of action taken by the , yond their present income. The
Ld States within the United Marshall plan though still a pro-
U will depend a great	ca^be earned on outside the
framework of the United Nations
the speed with which the fchall plan is put into effect. I
without causing interference.
Mr. Baker remarked during his Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, as- J short talk that our foreign policy ,te professor of political science,
m interview yesterday.
our approach to the needs of |em Europe is hesitant and Innate, Russia can hope to profit by the chaos which will If Russia should become
First all-U assembly of the year wfll celebrate United Nations week at a noon assembly tomorrow in Movajrd auditorium. Main speaker wfll be Alonzo Baker, professor of political science. '
Knight Pledges Must Reapply
The Trojan Knight's Constitution was amended yesterday, to the effect that the fraternity house quota system will be abolished, leaving no limit to the number of men acceptable to that organization.
Ernie Wilson, President of the Knights, after a meeting at the Sig Ep house, proclaimed that “we did it because we feel that we are mot only a service organization, but honorary as well. In order to uphold the honorary end we must make the possibility of membership available to all qualified petitioners.”
FOUR POINTS In order to become a member of the Knights, four main points must
SC faculty members, honored mI* kept «“•	the stufnt
guests at the head table, were Pres- ' must pelitio^i. Next, a letter must pe
ident Fred D. Fagg Jr., Chancellor
enate
Winn, Davis, Curry Galentine Win Posts
An attempt to set a tentative date for elections of freshmen officers and nine senators-at-large failed in last night’s ASSC senate meeting after heated debate between Joe Flynn and Al Kotler resulted in the calling of a special session of the senate next week to present plans for the election.
Flynn, junior class prexy, vigorously opposed Kotler when the latter said that if a date were set now for the election, and President Fred D. Fagg disapproved the new constitution, the elections would not be held and the ASSC would be “out” the money paid for ballots.
Flynn acted on the supposition that if the date for the election were set now, the constitution would either have been approved or disapproved by Dr. Fagg before the order for the ballots could have been placed.
Flynn’s motion to set the date
must be neither Republican nor Democrat but American.
During the luncheon a news release was read concerning the recent recommendation by Secretary of State George C. Marshall in which he recommended that some of the powers of the U.N. security j council be given to the general assembly where each nation has one vote. This would lessen the effect of the veto power, he said.
Rufus B. von KleinSmid, J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science. and Mr. Baker.
Student representatives from SC were Jea Morf, vice-president of the i student body, Bill Oliver. Bill Randle, and Jim Royer representing the
)R. WILBERT HINDMAN . . . divided world
mant over most or all of the |tinent,” warned Dr. Hindman probably will be even less oo-• ive within the United Nations SPEED REQUIRED Much depends upon the rapidity which elements of the Mar-11 plan are worked out and put effective operation. Also wheth-not we engage in pre-Mar-plan operations before and Jing the coming winter will have irect effect upon the events at present session of the United ions.
[We may really find ourselves Iced to decide whether we wish
SC branch of the United Nations association of Los Angeles.
written expressing the person’s reasons for wanting to be come a member. Thirdly, a test will be given each petitioner covering the history, traditions, and policies of | the university. Lastly the applicant will be interviewed by the Knight Body.
‘•Men who were accepted last year, but did not complete their initiation,” said Wilson, “must petition again this year if they wish to become members.”
PETITIONS AVAILABLE Petitions will be available this ] morning in the Knight office, 232 S.U. and will be accepted until noon | Monday. No petitions can be sub-Acceptance of membership peti-1 mitted after this date. Under the tions for the sophomore council has ! new constitution, as amended, all been announced by Bill Colt, class qualified fraternity members, men-
Soph Council Petitions Due
president, with applications being received in the Trojan Knights’ office, 232 Student Union. Interviews will be held Wednesday.
A grade average of 1.2 and completion of 30 college units are necessary for eligibility, according to Colt.
at-large, and non-orgs will be considered for membership.
This is the first time in the history of the organization that membership has had no specified numerical limit. President Wilson ex-< pressed his desire that this new i system will make for more mem
The sophomore class has started
ive up the'united Nations or’to ioff "tth a bang” advised the sopho- j bership interest, now that the or
more president, “with the sponsor- | ganization is open to all qualified ing of the frosh ‘Kick-Off* hop in ! men students.
cooperation with the freshman ori- In order to be eligible for mem-entation committee.”	I bership a student must be a Junior,
“Also on the agenda.” Colt con- and have at least a one point grade
tinue it as an agency represent-only part of the world.”
In the other hand, continued Dr. dman. if the United States takes :tive action to make the Mar-l pian work, the Russians arc ucal enough to continue within United Nations as long as they l. There is always the hope that improvement may take place in Russian attitude toward world Operation.
DILEMMA FACED If the veto were to be abolished would result in a Russian with-iwal from the United Nations.
result would be a divided world. We are faced with a dilemma at present session of the United ktions.” said Dr. Hindman, “and I pieve as long as the UN takes a hy-washy stand on vital issues will not gain strength. With the lesent division it is too weak to re a strong stand.” pompanng the present action jthin the United Nations to the uvering of a football team. Dr. dman remarked that our recent seems to be three plays fol-d by a punt. Wre run our plays punt and wait to see w hat will en.
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tinued, “is the traditional freshman-sophomore brawl and a freshman-sophomore dance.”
average. New Knights will be interviewed and selected sometime next week
Today at a Glance
By I nitfd Fir**
Little Flower'
NEW YORK, Sept, 18— (UP)—Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the stocky effervescent former mayor of New York who is credited with ‘‘taming Tammany," lay critically ill in a coma today after a sudden relapse last night.
LaGuardia’s condition was described by his physician as showing no indication of “immediate change either for better or worse.”
for Oct. 15 was defeated 18-3 as the senate voted along strict party lines. Norm Galentine, who was reappointed elections commissioner for the second year, was instructed to prepare plans for the coming election and present them at the special session of the senate called for next Wednesday night.
According to a provision in the new constitution, the forthcoming election must be held some time during October.
TELLS APPOINTEES Paul Wildman, ASSC president, announced three appointments to
“Seats on the 50.”
The rooters’ dream of decent football seats at home games in the Coliseum became a reality last night with the announcement by ASSC President Paul Wildman that th® SC section would extend this year from the 40-yard line on one side, through the 50 to the 30-yard line on the other *side.
Wildman. who made the 50-vard line promise a plank in his election platform, was careful to add that the action was the result of work by John Morley, ticket manager, and otters of Morley’s staff.
“Anyway,” he said, “you’ll all sit on the 50—if you get there by 9 a.m.”
standing committee chairmanships. Bill Winn was appointed to the homecoming committee, Johnnie Davis to the greater university committee, and Edsel Curry was named to head the student union committee.
ENGINEERS MIXUP
Engineering elections for president and vice-president, necessitated by the transfer of former President Paul Beale to Stanford, and by the ineligibility of Wayne Chiappe as vice-president, will be held at the time of the October elections.
Jim Mitchell, out-going ASSC president, made a resolution calling for a by-law to amend Article VII (the “Bill of Rights”) of the new constitution wrherebv that article shall be interpreted to exclude and have no application in regard to any member of the Communist party, any Communist “front” organization, or any doctrine or policy detrimental to the best interests of the United States. Another resolution introduced by Mitchell and aimed at the Daily Trojan editorship was tabled until the next regular session of the senate.
Committee Set To Aid Frosh
Get into the spirit of Troy—that’s the theme which freshman will be hearing next week when the orientation committee, under the chairmanship of John Davis, starts its all-out campaign to acquaint entering students with Trojan leaders, customs, and traditions.
The full week of activities, beginning with a sophomore-class-sponsored “Howdy” dance Tuesday, is set to crystalize SC spirit before the opening game of the POC football season with Washington State the following Saturday, according to Davis.
Bill Colt, sophomore prexy, ■ is completing plans for the afternoon get-acquainted dance, with the promise that there will be plenty of cider, doughnuts, and music—a la platter—on hand for new, Trojans.
FRESHMAN WOMEN
The following afternoon freshman women will take the fore with a tea, at which time AWS officers, the dean of women, and other women leaders of the campus will be presented, announces June Herd, chairman of the women’s orientation.
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will welcome students back to classes next Thursday when he addresses an all-U assembly in Bovard auditorium. Other university officials will also be presented, with Manny Real in charge of activities.
SMOKER SCHEDULED
New men on campus will get their chance one week from tonight when AMS President Wally Flanagan and his cabinet have scheduled a smoker, tentatively in the gym. Top members of the varsity football squad are to be introduced, and an outline of extra-curricular men’s organizations is slated by Flanagan and his staff.
Capping the week of activities, the first pre-game pigskin rally of the season is set for Friday evening, Sept. 19, in conjunction with the Chi Phi watermelon party.
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Pettengill to Give Tour Review
Fight Prices
DETROIT, Sept. 17—(UP)—The CIO United Auto Workers union tonight launched an all-out fight against soaring prices with the announcement of plans to open warehouses in Detroit to handle carlot purchases of food and other commodities to sell to members at cost.
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Lynching Trial
council applicants may still ob-i jjetttions at the Blue Key office, ■ta floor, Student Union, f’etitioners are required to be fibers of the College of Letters, and Sciences and must have inimum grade point average of Interviews will start Monday; vitt tot Mated in the Dally
WARRENTON. N. C., Sept. 17—(UP)—The state of North Carolina failed for the second time today to indict white men for a thwarted Negro-lynching at Jackson, N.~ C., and state officials said they would not try again without new evidence.
A Warren county grand jury dismissed charges against Joe Cunningham, self-confessed leader of the white mob who was cleared earlier by a grand jury in his home county of Northampton, and County Jailer A. W. Edwards of Jack-
The Council on Atomic Implications will sponsor a general assembly in Bovard next Wednesday afternoon when Dr. Robert B. Pettengill, faculty adviser, will present his “Reflections on a Summer in Europe.”
Dr. Pettengill recently returned from a 5.000-mile automobile trip throughout western Europe after which he predicted that this winter will see hunger and death run rampant throughout the continent.
The director of the teaching institute of economics is preparing several articles on his tour which will be published throughout the United States later this year.
TURN TO RUSSIA
In one of the articles, he predicts that unless the United States acts quickly to support moderate governments in Europe, the entire continent will turn to the Soviet Union for help.
His 5,000-mile trip throughout Belgium, Italy, France, Switzerland, and other countries convinced him that Americans have a distorted conception of what life is really like in the war-devastated countries.
Dr. Pettengill said that the primary purpose of his visit abroad was to attend the ohree-week peace conference at Lechambon sur Lig-non. An interesting highlight of the conference was to find a former member of the French Maquis working side by side with a confessed German collaborator i n complete harmony.
During his automobile trip. Dr. Pettengill visited 37 of the 45 families to whom he has been sending food and other necessities of life. It was during these visits, he disclosed. that he found out the true nature of conditions in Europe. He is very bitter about the impressions other Americans have brought back from Europe.
DRAMATIC SCEJ- £S oi havoc, as above, were widespread today as Floridan^ recovered from hurricane velocity winds and rain which vijas released onto the Guli region. With such extreme material damage heaped upon the countryside, officials hat-1 deemed it remarkable that no loss of life was recorded!
Hurricbne Scars
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WEST PALM BEAHI, Fla., Sept. 17—(UP)—A great hurricane smashed dowif on Florida’s winter playground today with winds of 125 niles an hour, scattering before it everything not securely f attened down but apparently leaving only superficial scar * on the Miami-Palm Beach “Gold Coast.” No loss of life had beeijj confirmed
east coast's glamor In tatters and there was at least one costly item-12 i n t e r-American commercial planes which were picked up in the hurricane and dashed to bits at the Miami airport.
Five boats left in Biscayne bay by storm-skeptical owners were stripped of everything above deck. BEACHES LITTERED Miami and Miami Beach were littered with shrubs, branches, coca-nuts and loose planks and none at the glitter remained. Many streets were under water from the heavy rains accompanying the wind and 12-foot waves which cascaded repeatedly over the beachwalls.
Wires were down everywhere. Detective Sgt. H. L. Conyers said the storm knocked out two thirds of the store windows because they had not been boarded up securely enough.
Atlantic avenue in Miami Beach lay flooded by four feet of water and waves reportedly curled half a mile inland to Los Olas Blvd.
Although the hurricane extended almost 200 miles up the coast and brought gales and high tides as far as Daytona Beach on the northern coast, it concentrated its fury on the 60 miles between Miami and West Palm Beach. Between them it hammered about 25 towns with its fiercest winds. Among the best known were Lake Worth, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Ft-. Lauderdale, Hallandale, and Opa Lock a. Hialeah. famed for its race course, was another.
RELIEF UNDERWAY i Details of their fate were not yet known as airborne and rescue relief teams were organized to go into the central storm area and deal with the worst emergencies. Ten naval planes were recalled from dispersal points to deliver supplies. A navy radio truck was set up in Ft. Pierce, just north of the heaviest hit area, and already was messaging for urgently needed items.
As the storm center passed inland, the Miami weather bureau noted a 15-minute lull as the "eye” or storm center passed, when the winds sank to 40-mile gales.
Then they resumed to hurricane strength with gusts clocked unofficially at 125 miles an hour.
As it crossed the southern peninsula the hurricane began veering from weoterly to southwesterly and
early tonight. But ixilef teams barely had started chec'jng the havoc and confusion left i.* the wake of the buffeting blow lt beaded across the lower half of 5he Florida peninsula toward the i\i! er Gulf coast.
Due to careful precautions and careful charting of the sjbrm, casualties apparently had br^n held to a minimum. The Red,»Cross announced here that it hex* evacuated 23,065 persons from dan^r spots in the path of the storm. '£jhe agency also arranged for 188 st<£it shelters for refugees.	£
NO LIVES LOSS*1 From Miami, however £?ity Manager Richard Danner >I^t out a message by navy r^dio t at a preliminary survey had beer completed and “there is only min ? property damage and no loss of lif He added that the ma> r>r problem was cleaning up the wi Her ness of light debris cast by wind iuid water, and the opening of stre ts. Police in Miami Beach and Ft. .auderdale also reported only mir. r damage and no deaths, Danner 3.aid.
Looting of stores by te^i-agers in Miami and West Palm feach had been brought under conti \ although pursuit of the young var^als cost a policeman in the latter ci=| a broken arm.	5
PLANES WREr*| n But if the storm's daiage had not been severe it left |r,he lower
“The very great majority of these people are tourists, who Europe during the summer mo:;r.s when the fields are green. At - fciiis time there is no freezing wearer, and plenty of food is on the Mi arket shelves. How’ever, very fet of these people bother to stay d’|ing the winter months, when th.jpe is no fuel, and very little food. jt’he Europeans have no canned ’’food to speak of. and it is very difficult for Americans, who live in the swank hotels, eat black-market nod, and see only the higher class ji people, to get a true impression 5>f conditions as they are,’’ Dr. Pettengill said.
Tne atomic council, vjuch was i the prediction that it would emerge formed at the beginning of last j south of Ft. Myers indicated that semester, Ls now one of th*: few or- j the populous Tampa-St. Petersburg ganizations in the natioi * working toward the prevention of sse use of
atomic energy for war purposes.
area would escape its main force. Hurricane warnings remained up northward to Tampa, however.
“With the constant decline of grade point averages for women students on this campus. it became increasingly evident that some steps must be taken to remedy the situation,” announced Helen Hall Moreland, dean of women Thus it was that by a ruling of the faculty welfare committee, all sorority houses will be closed at 8 p. m. cm Monday night*, except for women having a 1.5 grade average.
“As the lowered averages pointed in direct contrast to the past argument of the panhellenic groups that affiliations with a sorority would aid in improving the *1 dividual woman's academic standing, the reduction ot hours was inevitable,’* she stated yesterday. Dean Moreland continued to explain that the reason Monday night was chosen was that other oolleges throughout the nation have either two or three evenings set aside for social events each week. In the past, SC has had four, with Monday night becoming a parr of weekend socializing. A cut had to be made somewhere in order to improve the academic standing: this night’s activities were the aily logical ones for restriction.
As proof of the lowered quotient? were the figures taken last spnng of the fall’s grade points In the 1946-47 period when the average for all the sorority houses was 1.284 A random sample taken from sever? 1 hundred undergraduate women carrying 13 units or more showed an average of 1.30. Both totals are decided drops from the previous semester’s records.
Nor are the dormitories free from guilt. Only one of these residences had an average last fall that ex-ceeded the fmeral grade point standing.
The present ruling, as stated in the booklet of residence standards put out by the AWS, is that all women students who have less than a 1.5 academic average for the previous semester or who have required sorority meetings must remain in their houses after 1p.m. There will be no callers after 8 p. m. In houses or on grounds. Non-resident women students will either leave houses at this time or immediately after sorority obligations are over.
Faith Unity-Council Aim
“Special emphasis oo denocninu. tionai clubs working toward a unified program will be the student council of religion policy this year * stated Bill Truitt, new president of the organization, yesterday.
“We will also continue with the panorama of religions, which met with great success last spring, and intend to conduct a lecture series on some of the lesser known religions.” continued Truitt.
Assisting Truitt is George Lorensi. vice-president of the counciL In Truitt's words. Lorenzi is the “spark plug” of the organization.
NEW ADVISER
The faculty on religious intere^' committee, headed by Dr. Sterling McMurrin, will recommend an advisor to the president within the next few weeks to replace Dr. Howard Parsons, former adviser to the group, who left for the University ot Illinois last spring.
Dr. Stanley Jacobsen, adviser to the Roger Williams club, the Baptist organization on campus, will speak at the council’s first meeting this semester at 2:15 today in the senate chambers. 418 Student Union.
RETREAT PLANNED
A retreat is expected to be held within a month, said Truitt, to plan a council program for the future.
Representatives of the 13 religious clubs on the campus are on the board in addition to the members-at-large. composed of anyone of any faith having an interest in the organization.
Assisting Truitt and Lorenzi a* executives are Lois Ebner, treasurer; Shirley Howard, recording secretary; and Pat Haggerty, correspond ing secretary.