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Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1948 No. 18
McGurty Announces Frosh Voting Details
IXICO'S BEST watermelons. 6000 pounds of them, are ig shipped to the Chi Phi house for the big rally and that will prelude Saturday's SC-Rice football game.
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0	Fire Rally
combined rally and watermelon dig Friday night is ned to whoop up SC for the Rice game Saturday.
[e rally will start at 8 in front of the Chi Phi house with
1	McKee leading the yells. The new Trojan fight song, jry On,” will be introduced.
in the past, it is hoped stu-*—--------
Taft Labels Truman Program Totalitarian
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—(UP)—Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., ! tonight charged that President Truman’s domestic program would set the nation on the road to totalitarianism.
In a sharply worded speech prepared for a Republican rally here, the GOP senate leader accused the president of seeking to impose “police state con- *-trols over every transaction which
will get in the spirit of thej^^ Plyj
by following the SC band in iditional pre-rally trek from [usic building, up University le, to the Chi Phi house. Mediately after the rally, music [•eddy Vincent's 15-piece band jntertain street dancers un-^dnight. Although the band is SC students, it has played kch well-known spots as the Bena and Glendale civic audi-Ins.
pough the watermelon season lost over. 6000 pounds of good lelon shipped in from Mexico lally for the occasion is ex-, said George Cathcart, Chi ublicity chairman, idea of having a watermelon i-as started in 1943 especially ie entertainment and orientals navy trainees into school ince then the dig has been inual affair.
Jes governing rooters at games strictly euforced from now id Morey Thomas, president ights. White shirts or blouses, ell as rooters’ caps, are need-those who wish to sit in footers' section. Either cap will jiceptable this year. Next year, ver, the old caps cannot be
I to Show lovie Short
bring the atomic problem and Snsequences home to the public.
juncil on Atomic Implications I have a special showing today lie movie short, "Does it Matter |t You Think?'1 ie picture, 18 minutes in th, will be shown continuously noon to 1 p.m. in 309 Bridge, the movie a discussion led )r. Robert B. Pettengill, direc-of the teaching institute ol tiomics. will be held on what individual can do to help pre-an atomic war. till Stevens, CAI executive see-|ry. urges all students to attend meeting, especially those not anted with the aims of the iciL
w Radio Show loks for Talent
ie Dreams of Youth.” a new program under the direction raduate student Larry White, oking for talent.
eats are urged to collect •ddts, poems, songs, and short «; and arrange an audition vi hiil-hour show which makes f-?, jt next Wednesday evening
r.r object is to give young a a. rriance to have their origi-> v« produced,” White said.
v rf V-d can contact him r.w: r.4:.g before 9 or any time "■'m The phone number is
*■ pr'jtcrajn ».ll be broadcast 1 ■ KKLA a 5800-watt FM
Operas to Use Trojan Supers'
SC opera lovers and frustrated actors will have a chance to earn admission to the San Francisco Opera’s cuirent season plus $1.
Men and women students are needed to appear as “supers” in The operas featured in the series. Appearing on the stage to hold a spear or to toss a tomato at Carmen will be their only chore. More men are needed than women.
To apply for this work a student is asked only to submit a postcard giving his ntone, address, telephone number, height, weight, age, and the opera prelered. The card should be forwarded to Arthur Milner. 4632 jFickford street, Los Angeles. 6.
Students accepted will receive postcard notices of admission.
The operas in which SC students will have a chance to participate are Carmen, Saturday, Oct. 23; Boris Godncunoff, Monday, Oct. 25: and La Gioconda. Tuesday. Oct. 26. Those accepted for these performances should report to the Shrine auditorium, Jefferson at Shrine place, at 6:15 p.m. the night of the opeia. For the matinee performance of Die Meistersinger. Sunday, October 24, “supers” accepted leport at 12:15.
Telephone applications will not be considered.
Dance Scheduled By Wesley Club
With autumn leaves as a decorative scheme, the Wesley club will hold its first dance of the season Friday night in the social hall of the University Methodist church.
A dance exhibition by three couples will be given as a special attraction, announced Dick Cain, president of the club.
takes place in the United States.” Taft stoutly defended the record of the 80th Congress, called the ‘‘second worst” in history by Mr. Truman, in the first major speech of his southern campaign tour in behalf of the Dewey-Warren ticket.
He told the District of Columbia Dewey-Warren club:
-There is one great issue between the Republican party and the president:, and that is whether progress in this country shall be based hereafter, as in the past, on American principles of freedom and justice, or whether we shall adopt the road to totalitarian government by a va^t federal bureaucracy with unlimited power and unlimited money.”
Reviewing founding of the nation and adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to protect the freedom of individuals, Taft said that protection is more necessary today than ever before. He said that totalitarianism already controls many peoples throughout the world, “and has even made headway in the United States.”
“During recent years this issue has dominated every battle on domestic policy. It is the issue between President Truman and the 80lh Congress. The New Dealers attempted to solve every problem by creating a new federal beard, giving it unlimited power to find a remedy, and unlimited money to carry it out.
“In that effort, they have disregarded liberty and justice. They have tried to reduce or eliminate the power of court review. They welcomed the controls which were necessary in time of war and then tried to continue every war power unimpaired throughout the peace.”
He called for wider measures of social security, but said that the | help in those fields can be given i without sacrificing liberty.
Trovets Plan New Service
Additional and improved services for campus veterans were planned yesterday at a meeting of the Trovet board of directors.
The housing situation for veterans with families was discussed by George Stanley, chairman of the housing committee. He reported that 15 families of GI students have found homes this semester through the housing committee.
Plans for a cooperative tutoring service were discussed, and Gloria von Gemmingen was appointed to head the committee.
Bob Padgett, president, said that groups are being formed to entertain hospitalized students. The groups will make two trips this semester.
Next meeting for the board of directors will be in two weeks.
AL HIX
. . . representation
LAS President Names Council
A more extensive system of representation, plus new LAS council appointments, was announced by President Al Hix yesterday.
Thirty-three appointees will meet as a group for the first time at 1 p.m., Friday, in 401 Student Union. They will then invite all active clubs in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences to send one delegate to the council. With this new arrangement. organizations such as the CAI and the language clubs will be directly represented on the council.
The council will meet ’Dean ana Mrs. Tracy E. Strevey at an infer mal party Sunday evening.
New members of the council are: Susan Aven, Herb Berkus, John Bonquet, Betty Bowles, Gretchen Buck, Pat Corrigan, Irv Croshier, Betti .Frank.
Helen Harker, Bill Hickman, Marilyn Hinsch, Robert Hitchcock, Al Holloway, Rick Ingersoll, Clay Kaigler, Marilyn Kaplan, Fran Kovacs, Bill Lyon, Art Mince, Doug Morgan, Ted Paulson.
Alma Rosen, Herb Sauermann, Jim Sloan, Shirley Tanquary, Mary Taylor, Millye van Gessel, Art Williams. Paul Wilson, Dave Wolper, Harold Wolters, George Wollery.
Girdles to Snap In Bloomer Tilt
Snapping of girdles and tearing of hair will be the mode on Bovard field Friday when the gals of the Theta house and Pi Phi house meet in the football classic of the year—the Bloomer bowl.
Sponsored by Kappa Alpha and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the affair
is being staged in an effort to raise funds for International House, the campus dormitory for foreign students.
Twenty-five cents will entitle the spectator to all the color and pageantry of New Year’s day in Pasadena, Floats, bearing glamorous queens to be chosen before the game, will be present; rooting sections will be cheering; and the teams—each will be vying for a pair of impractical bronze bloomers.
Judge Decrees Death Chamber For Kawakita
by United Press
An unsmiling 26-year-old Nisei, Tomoya Kawakita, has been sentenced to die for wartime treason.
Kawakita's claim that he was forced into committing acts of brutality against American prisoners of war in Japan was rejected by Federal Judge William C. Mathes.
Judge Mathes informed Kawakita to his face that had he been given the opportunity he would have blown up the US fleet or given away the atomic bomb.
Motion for a new trial on grounds the jury was forced to return a guilty verdict was rejected by Judge Mathes. Kawakita’s attorney then filed an appeal.
Because of the appeal, the judge did not set a date for Kawakita’s execution. The death sentence, if affirmed by higher courts, would be carried out by the State of California, federal attorneys said.
Top Posts to Be Decided, Election Official Reports
Procedure for registration and voting in the freshman election, Oct. 27 and Oct. 28, were released yesterday by Student Elections Commissioner Bill McGurty.
Two offices are vacant in the freshman class, and candidates may apply for these in the ASSC office in the Student
Union. Voters will select a presi- -*
dent and vice-president.
Any freshman entering the uni-! versity this fall for the first time ; is eligible to apply for these offices. Second semester freshmen ] must have earned at least a 1.5 grade average during their first se-> m ester to be eligible.
There will be but one three-day registration period, McGurty an-
Marshall Called Back For Truman Confab
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—(UP)—President Truman today canceled the rag-end of his eastern campaign swing and ordered Secretary of State George C. Marshall to fly home from Paris for an “important” conference on the United
Nations meeting.
The White House said Marshall will arrive Saturday to report on the deliberations in Paris, where Russia has been hailed before the UN Security Council on charges of menacing world peace.
Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Marshall’s recall had been prompted by “no particular crisis.”
Mr. Truman, he said, “just wishes an oral report from him on whatever has been going on.”
A State department spokesman said Marshall would be here for the weekend, and he indicated that the secretary would fly back to Paris early next week.
“He proposes to discuss matters of considerable importance with the president,” the spokesman said.
Koss said Mr. Truman was canceling the Saturday appearances which were to have wound up his cuirent stumping tour of the east.
Mr. Truman will return from his brief campaign swing at 8:35 a.m., EST, Saturday, but he will adhere to his plans to make a major political speech at Buffalo, N. Y., Friday night.
He canceled appearances on Saturday in Coming, Elmira and Binghamton, N. Y., and at Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and M a u c h Chunk, Pa.
LAS Starter
VA Requests
Faculty Cridderi lab Workers To Play Students
Student shoulders will grind into faculty midriffs in the LAS stu-dent-faculty football clash, scheduled for Oct. 15.
“Will the faculty make the grade?” will be the big question in this year’s noontime version of the campus classic, to be held on Bovard fiel
Grads to Discuss Moon. Discs
lent Social Workers Meet This Afternoon
lembr-r- of !.*.»• X .'U’.X orpani-lon of the Graduate School of lial Work will mc> -t today at 1 in 100 Annex, according to Dr. lien Johnson, dean.
fchauncey Alexander, president of Los Angeles chapter of the ican Associauon of Social is scheduled to speak.
The idea of a trip to the moon and the mystery of flying discs will be discussed and demonstrated in detail for the KLAC television audience tonight by R. DeWitt Miller. SC graduate of ’33 and author of the book, “Forgotten Mysteries.”
He will be interviewed by James McNamara on the “People in the News” show at 8:15.
The program, the first of its kind ever broadcast, will feature elaborate working models, which were especially built to illustrate Miller’s talk.
“It is very possible,” Miller said yesterday, “that some type of life exists on the moon. We know that the atmosphere there is not sufficient to sustain human life. However, some low type of plant life may well endure.”
“There is. of course, another hypothesis,” he said. “That is. that space travelers—■ such as we aspire to be—from other planets use the moon as an observation post from which to study our seemingly primitive civilization.”
Miller, who has often been on national broadcasts discussing mysterious occurrences, thinks that the discs are possibly space-ships from another planet.
“When the United States Army dreams of a rocket to the moon in our time, and
hopeful pioneers claim that all the fundamental problems of space travel have been solved,” Miller said, “it seems not unlikely that other intelligent beings outside of this earth—if any—could be thinking of the same thing. Possibly they have beaten as to it!”
Prof John A. Russell, head of the SC department of astronomy, could not place much credence in the disc stories. “There has not been sufficient evidence to prove much at all about them,” he said.
“I do believe that a rocket will hit the moon in my lifetime,” Dr. Russell added, “but I doubt that any life will be found there.”
“The only planet in our solar system, besides earth, which could support something approximating human life is Mars,” he said. “If any civilization ever existed there, it is now extinct, and has been since long before man evolved on this earth.”
Mr. Miller, on the other hand, cites many cases in which strange things have been seen on the moon by reliable observers, several of them famous astronomers. Most of the cases concern a certain crater named Plato. Miller plans to present several of these, with illustrations, during the television lecture tonight.
Social workers and clinical laboratory workers are urgently needed to help in the care and rehabilitation of hospitalized veterans, it was announced by the Birmingham Veterans Adminitsration hospital.
Salary for social workers is $3727 a year. Applicants must be graduates of an approved school of social work and have fic-ld experience, preferably in a hospital.
Clinical laboratory workers will receive from $2724 to $2974 a year. Applicants must have had at least three years of clinical laboratory experience.
To be eligible, applicants must also be citizens of the United States.
Those qualified and interested may obtain further information at the Graduate School of Social Work, 306 Administration.
Veterans
Notice
”~AlT"veteran charges for the fall 1918 semester must be completed by Oct. 16, 1948.
All requests for refunds must be submitted to the credit office by Oct. 16, 1948, except where the veteran is paying his own way and submits his letter of eligibility at some later date or if he is submitting his thesis charges. These last named charges may be submitted at any time.
All veterans wishing to make payments on their accounts in case of excess charges must do so before Oct. 16, 1948.
P. A. LIBBY Director of Veterans Affairs
Professor Will Discuss Europe
Dr. Francis J. Bowman, professor of history, will present the first of the 1948-49 Letters, Arts, and Science lecture series today at 3:15 in the art and lecture room, University library.
A “Curious American Reports on Europe” will be the topic of his lecture in which he will describe his recent 15-month tour of central European countries.
The following lectures in the LAS series are scheduled for October:
Prof. Slavko Vorkapich, head of the department of cinema, will discuss “New Possibilities of the Cinema,” Oct. 13 in Hancock auditorium.
A lecture on “UNESCO Problems in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines” will be given by J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, Oct. 20.
SYMPOSIUM PRECEDES
A “Symposium on the National Elections” on Oct. 27 will precede the presidential election in Nov. Dr. Milton C. Dickens, associate professor of speech, will be the moderator, while Dr. Clayton D. Carus, professor of foreign trade. Dr. Floyd L. Ruch, professor of psychology, and Dr. Sidney W. Benson, associate professor of chemistry, will take active part in the symposium.
These Wednesday lectures, sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and directed by Dr. Stanley S. Townsend, acting head of the department of German, are open to all students, faculty members, and the general public.
BILL McGURTY ... details
nounced. Dates for registration will be released as soon as it is known when materials wiU be available.
FORMS EXPLAINED
Facilities for registering will be available in front of the Administration building, McGurty said. Registration forms will be in triplicate. The elections commissioner will retain the first copy, the student the second, and the third copy will remain in the registration block.
McGurty warned that irregularities in voting procedure and dis-crepencies in signatures would be referred to the student senate for
action.
Spurs and Amazons will check all signatures and other data with the records in the Registrar’s office.
Any student who has accumulated less than 30 semester units is eligible to vote in the elections. Officers selected as a result of this election will hold office for one year.
LARGE VOTE ANTICIPATED
“It is the right and privilege of each incoming student to participate in student government,” McGurty said. “A 100-per-cent vote from the freshmen would indicate to the rest of the student body that they wish to be represented in student affairs.”
The new president will be faced with the problem of drawing up a class constitution, a set of by-laws, and establishing the necessary committees.
Students wishing to register must present their identification cards and fee bill numbers.
Rice Came
. . . work cards should be picked up in 212 Student Union today between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. by students who worked at the Oregon State game. Failure to pick up these cards forfeits the student’s opportunity to work.
SC Chancellor To Lead Study Of World Strife
“The Conflict of Two Worlds” is the theme of the 25th session of the Institute of World Affairs to be held Dec. 5 to 8 at the Mission inn, Riverside.
Institute Chancellor Rufus B. von KieinSmid will lead the session in studying the causes of the conflict, the remedies that are being proposed or applied, and the agencies and measures by which the conflict may be resolved.
Addresses and roundtable discussions are planned by Dr. Graham H. Stuart, professor of political science at Stanford university, and director of the session.
The program follows:
Sunday evening, Dec. 5. Opening of the Institute with a symposium on “Christianity and the Crisis.”
Monday, “The US and the USSR.” Addresses on the struggle in Europe and Asia, and the Occupation of Germany and Japan.
Tuesday, “The United States and the Peace.” The recovery program, political parties, and foreign policy.
Wednesday, “The United Nations and Peace.” Three years of the charter, Western union, and regional points of danger.
Information concerning the session and the Institute may be obtained by writing Marc N. Goodnow, executive secretary, Institute of World Affairs, 3551 University avenue, Los Angeles 7.
Today s Headlines
By United Press
Miami Hit by Hurricane
MIAMI, Oct. 5—A hurricane with 130-mile-an-hour winds whipping tightly around its core, roared into the Florida playground today.
The storm killed seven persons in a predawn smash at Havana, Cuba, and then rolled across the Florida Keys and up the Everglades swamps toward Miami.
T ruman ‘Oangerous-Lewis
CINCINNATI, pet. 5—John L. Lewis today called President Truman “dangerous to the United States” and the United Mine Workers 40t.' convention shouted a loud “no” to his query whether the \^hite House incumbent “is to be a future president.”	>
The 2900 delegates .^ade it clear they will not go along with the bulk of AFL, cdio and other independent unions working for Mr. Truman^j election for a full term.
Johnson Assured Texas Seat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—The Supreme court today sided with Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson in his Texas senatorial election fight with former Gov. Coke R. Stevenson.
The ruling virtually assures Johnson of election, barring proof of Stevenson’s charge that Johnson won the primary by “fraud.”
Bogardus Plans Forum Lecture
Eighteen questions will be posed by Dr. Emory S. Bogardus. dean of the Graduate School, in his discussion of “What Makes a Leader?” Thursday afternoon, 3:15, in Bowne halL
Answers to these questions, and others to be presented by his audience, wiU be given by Dr. Bogardus as his contribution to the forum on student government and leadership being conducted by SC’s associated men and women students.
Among the subjects to be dealt with by Dr. Bogardus are leadership training, the executive potential-ties of every college student, and the necessity for a sense of humor and personal magnetism in those who aspire to direct others. Dr. Bogardus will also explain how the character and the emotional and social maturity of the individual effect his qualification for leadership.
Next week Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English, will continue the series with a talk on “The Psychology of Working With a Group.”
Co-op Adds New 35-Cent Supper
Evening meals are being served by the SC Co-op of the University Methodist church for as low as 35 cents.
On campus for 15 years, this organization is open to all Trojans. Until now, lunches have been the specialty of the Co-op. The evening meal is an innovation.
The 35-cent price is made possible by having the members help one hour a week in preparing and serving the meals.
Education
Notice
All applicants for teaching or administration credentials who expect to complete requirements for the university recommendation for the credential by Jan. 28, 1949, should make application at once. Instructions may be obtained from the credential secretary, 357 Administration. Deadline for filing applications is Oct. 15, 1948.
Dean, School of Education