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Vol. XLI
72
Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 3, 1949
Night Thone RL 5472
No. 39
They're Ready to Roll
Two Hello Banquets Scheduled tor Today
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THE ZANY members of the "Firehouse Five (plus 2)" are giving a practice blow, strum, and beat. The dixieland group: Ward Kimball, trombone and leader; Danny Al-guire, comet; Clarke Mallery, Clarinet; Harper Goff, banjo; Frank Thomas, piano; Ed Penner, bass; and Monte Mount-joy, drums. They'll play for the dance Saturday.
iFire House Five Helps Beat Drums
The Fire House Five, madcap Dixieland playing musicians, arrived yesterday in tlieir 1914 American La France fire engine, tooting their horns and beating their drums for the Saturday night homecoming dance.
The rambunctious aggregation will entertain during in----—--termissions. relieving Russ Morgan
:aculty Launches Ihest Campaign
With a goal of $6000 the SC Faculty community chest drive has ?en started by Arlien Johnson, Sean of the School ot Social Work.
iventy-three hundred letters of tolicitation have been sent to faculty and staff members.
This year, for the first time, the Jhest has set up a “Colleges and Jniversities” division in the campaign organization, and a goal of k20.C00 has been suggested for the fen colleges and universities in the Angeles area.
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Notice
Schedule For Candidates for Master's Degree:
Tuesday, Nov. 15, is the final I day to present preliminary draft of thesis to committee.
Tuesday, Dec. 6. is the final [day to present tireliminary thesis approval, signed by each committee member, to the dean of graduate school.
Tuesday, Jan. 10. is tht final I day to pre»ent final draft of the-Isis to commitie together with blank approval sheets for com-|mittee’s signatures.
Tuesday, Jan. 24. is the final I day to present final draf4 of the-i«is to the graduate school with signature sheets signed by each committee member and a signature card.
Wednesday, Jan. 25. is the *i-leal day to present final draft to I the bindery in Doh?ny library (north wing, ground floor) for jftcceptance by the library. When I thesis is accepted, the bindery |librarian will sign 4x6 thesis ap-»val card which candidate returns tu the dean's office as fi-clearance of thesis. This also the day to pay library thesis binding fee (S10) at business of-ice in Owens hall.
Klank forms for thesis approvals ire available in the graduate chool office, *138 Administration building.
and his orchestra who will play from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. for the Casino Garden revelers.
Bid sales zoomed upward yesterday of 950 were purchased at the teepee sales booth. The teepee, on the Island between the student union and Doheny, is manned by several Indian maidens mournfully and sadly chanting “Alums Get Big Kello, Wrhile Injuns Get Put Below.”
The dance is semi-formal. Counselor of Women Helen Hall Moreland .has approved d 3 a.m. lockout for wemen.
60 CENTS CHEAPER
The $3 bids are a reduction from the $3.60 charged last year. Only 1800 bias will be offered for sale this year. Last year more than 2100 adm.ssicns were purchased and the dance floor was as crowded as Venice on a hot day.
Fraternity and soronty people must return unsold tickets at noon tomorrow, s a id Bill WTarfiela, chairman of Homecoming dance committee.
Morgan, who will carry the brunt of the evening's baton wielding, has promised to sing his version of • Dolores,-’ which was famous several years ago.
Widely known for his assistance to young songwriters, Morgan recently said “1 am always willing to iee new manuscripts. All hit tunes are not written in Tin Pan Alley.”
Morgan has had an engagement each year at the Palladium since it first opened. His “Music in the Morgan manner'’ records are waxed by Decca.
FAVORS SWEET MUSIC
Long an exponent of sweet music. Morgan also organized and con-' ducted the greatest swing band of all time, the famous Jean Gold-I hette orchestra. Back in the 1920s j in Detroit members were Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Bix Bieder-beck, Joe Venuli, Eddie Lang. Chummey Morehouse, and Steve Brown.
Recently he played for the opening cf Glenn McCarthy’s Shamrock hotel in Houston.
He has helped amateur songwriters oi “So Tired,” “Somebody Else L? Taking My Place.” and “Sweet Elc'i.«e” by introducing and recording the tunes.
Alter the Saturday night SC homecoming dance. Morgan starts
Engineers to Hold Open House, Dinner
Engineers will celebrate their 21st annual homecoming affair today with an open house and dinner.
Open house will be held in the Engineering building from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dinner
a strictly stag affair, will be given* r_____s
at Town and Gown foyer at 7 p.m.
Speaker at the dinner, will be Carleton B. Tibbetts president of the Los Angeles Steel Casting company. Tibbetts, former Chamber of Commerce president and San Marino mayor, was named last month by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce as the industrialist who .has contributed most to civic affairs m Los Angeles county since VJ day.
Dinner guests will be President Fred D. Fagg Jr.; Arnold Eddy, executive director of the general alumni association; Jeff Cravath, football ccach; and members of the administration. Board of Trustees, alumni officers, and athletic department.
Ticket* for the dinner may be purchased at the Dean of Engineering's office for $1.75. Tickets are $2.50 for engineering alumni.
GEORGE T. DAVIS Sports Dynamo.
Medic Reunion Features Tour
Tear Jerker' Reduced by 25 Per Cent
The substance in LA's atmosphere that brings floods of tears to the eyes may soon be correctly identified, according to Gordon P. Larson, director of the County Air Pollution Control district.
Larson, who spoke before the Men's Faculty club at a luncheon yesterday, stated that a 25 per cent improvement had recently been madi, by eliminating waste products that formerly went into the air.
“It is difficult to determine the exact contents of smog,” he said, “because the elements are present in only two-tenths of a part per million.”
He indicated that the temperature inversion that covers L.A. 270 days out of the year acts like a lid and holds the smog over the entire county.
18 MONTHS’ WORK
“The public feels that someone has been working on smog control for five years, spending millions of dollars, and that the problem should now be solved,” he went on, “but we have had a staff of engineers and chemists working only 18 months, and we’ve spent only a few thousand dollars.’’
•Larson made it plain that the L.A. smog situation had no similarity to the smoke problems of Pittsburgh. New York, and St. Louis.
A two-day open house will feature the Homecoming week activities of the faculty and alumni of the School of Medicine. The conclave will meet tomorrow and Saturday and present a program of lectures and demonstrations.
Opening day activities will be initiated with a tour of wards at the Los Angeles County hospital at 10:30 a.m. The afternoon program, to be held in the hospital auditorium, will feature lectures by members of the faculty on their most recent research wrork.
Dean Burrell O. Raulston of the School of Medicine, will give an address at fhe annual alumni-faculty banquet Saturday.
Demonstrations of laboratory research projects currently under way will be included in the followr-ing day’s activities.
Commerce Plans Biltmore Luncheon
Campus and business leaders will be honored at the second annual School of Commerce Homecoming luncheon today noon in the Biltmore Bowl.
Dr. Harold J. Stonier, president of the ♦American Banking association, will discuss “The Business World Today.’- George T. Davis, sports editor of the Herald-Express, will also speak.
Guests include Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid and Dr. Fred D. Fagg Jr., president of the university. Coach Jeff Cravath will head a delegation of • 27 football players from the School of Commerce.
Dr. Reid L. McClurtg, dean of the School of Commerce, announced that he would extend credit to all GI students who wished to attend but who were financially embarrassed owing to the delay of checks.
Those attending will be excused from classes from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“In view of the success of last year’s Homecoming luncheon, we expect an even greater turnout today,” said Bob Beaudry, president of the School of Commerce.
Tickets are being sold at the booth in front of Bovard for $2.75 each.
Forty Floats to Compete For Sweepstakes Award
by RUSSELL WARD
Homecoming activities will move to downtown Los Angeles tonight when an hour-long parade marches up Broadway past a cardinal and gold reviewing stand on the City
hall steps.
More than 40 floats will compete for trophies and the right to circle the Coliseum track during the half-time ceremonies at the SC-Stanford game Saturday.
* Float Chairman Tom Shea and*
Procession Chairman Bob Flower | have made arrangements for six marching bands to rock the city with SC songs. •
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, assisted by Charlie McCarthy, will
TOM SHEA Float Chairman.
Air Crash Kills Trojan Graduate
An SC graduate. Ted Magee, was listed among the victims of the air crash at Washington, DC, Monday.
Magee, 39, graduated from SC in 1933. He was a member of Sigma Nu. editor of the Wampus in 1932, and worked cn the El Rodeo staff. Working for two years on the DT. he wrote the "Chisler's Statuette” column.
After graduation Magee worked as a publicist for MGM studios, and at one time was employed by Unifed Press. He also worked for Hollywood Citizen News.
Cal Frats Fret Over Drinking Ban
BERKELEY, Calif.. Nov. 2—(L'.E) —Fraternity men paraded in black arm bands and flew flags at half mast today in impromptu but good-natured demonstrations inspired by a stern official warning against student drinking.
One of the signs read, “First loyalty oaths; now temperance; sex next.”
The office of UC President Robert Gordon Sproul sent each campus of the University of California a set of regulations covering “the. common standards of morality and good taste” which should govern conduct of the schools and the’ir recognized student activities.
The order specifically outlawed the serving of intoxicating beverages in fraternities and at student gatherings, and banned the installation or maintenance of bars. The latter rule supposedly would require removal oi any such bars now in existence.
It was understood fraternity spokesmen may ask a clarification of whether beer also will be prohibited under the restated regulations. (Serving of liquor in fraternity houses was banned under the previous rule, and by state law is illegal anywhere within a one-mile radius of the Berkeley campus.)
Sophs Named Vidors of Brawl
The frosh-soph brawl turned into a friendly near-riot yesterday on the women's athletic field. After it was over, the sophomores had won, 30-18. but no one seemed to care.
Sophomores won the first two events, the pushball and tire-pull scraps, then the fun began.
Bob Hopkins and Jim Gngsby combined their efforts to win the three-legged race for the sophomores.
The pie-eating contest turned into a pie-throwing spree after T 'rry Spector won the event for the fieshmen.
The outnumbered freshmen picked up support from the sidelines for the last event, tlu tug-of-war. They
Henry J. Deurll
Dean of Graduate School Ian engagement at the Trianon and _ radio shows on KFI and KHJ.
Float Chairmen
. . . for homecoming parade will meet at Kappa Alpha house, 700 West 28th street, 3 p.m. today.
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GALE PECK The Winner.
pulled the tiring sophomores steadily across the line to win. Tracy St. John, director of athletic events for the affair, hcP a hose at midpoint and flooded the losers as they slid before him.
A dozen unidentified brawlers picked up St. John and held him under the hose to the glee of observers.
Homecoming Queen Virginia Tongue presented the winners trophy to Gale Peck, sophomore president, after most of the class had left the field.
Entertainment in the student lounge got under way about 4:20. Don Stewtrt and Rene Abalarach collaborated to do a “Stanislowski” routine. Joyous MacKechnie, a low freshman, sang two Spanish songs.
Vocalists Dorothy Parker and Larry Stevens of Eddie's Oasis each sang two numbers before the brawlers adjourned.
Trovet Letters Hit Veteran Check Delay
Letters requesting aid in speeding up delivery of overdue veterans subsistence checks were sent today to Representative Helen Gahagen Douglas and Senator William F. Knowland.
Trovet President Hal Carter says he sent the letters because so many student veterans had come to Trovets for monetary aid which his organization could not give.
Carter said that the VA had given him four dates so far for delivery of the checks. The dates were Sept. 30. Oct. 31, Nov. 10, and, in a recent VA bulletin, Nov. 30.
“Many veterans will be eating spam for Thanksgiving dinner, if they eat at all,” said Carter.
“The position of many veterans on the campus,” he stated in the letters, “particularly the married students, is desperate. Many married veterans may be forced to withdraw from the university unless funds are received in the near future.”
Carter told of two cases of veteran monetary difficulties. One married student with a three-year-old daughter, he said, could not pay his rent and is now living off his in-laws. The other ex-GI has three children and borrowed all the money he could to feed them. This second veteran. Carter stated, has not been able to pay his rent and is now trying to put off the landlord and extend the date that payments are due on his refrigerator.
Welfare Boss Refuses to Talk
SACRAMENTO. Nov. 2—(U.E)— Mrs. Myrtle Williams, state director of social welfare, told a State Senate committee investigating the California pension program today that it would have to go to court to get her to testify.
The committee immediately reserved her with a subpena requesting her to appear before the com mittee' at 10 a.m. tomorrow, and Sen. Fred Weybret, R„ Salinas, the chairman, said if she refused the committee immediately would consider citing her for contempt.
Jack J. Miller, the committee attorney, said he had asked the legislative counsel “what remedy the committee can pursue” if she fails to appear.
Mrs. Williams, in a written statement submitted to the committee, declared the hearing was the “calculated climax” to a campaign by “mercenaries of big business” to repeal the pension plan voted in last year. She said she did not have to answer “to any senatorial politicians.”
“Ever since I was elected to office I have been harassed by hired political goons, determined to repeal the benefits voted by the people to the aged and blind last November.
“I owe it to the thousands of aged and blind, who look to me tor guidance, and all the people of California to refuse to demean my office and jnyself.
“This is my testimony—and if the committee wishes to submit its motives to impartial court decision,
I can be reached at my office.”
be grand marshall of the parade. Close behind will come the cars of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Lt. Gov. Goodwin Knight.
QUEEN TO ATTEND Homecoming Queen Virginia Tongue and her- five attendants will be there. ASSC President Bob Padgett and many other student-ibody officers will also be present.
“There will be walking units of campus comedians and also nonfloat cars.” Shea said, “and two j notorious members of the Los Angeles underworld.”
The army will join the festivities by sending a 155-millimeter gun from Ft. MacArthur. Members of the campus Naval ROTC unit will march.
George Tirebiter is the only campus wheel who definitely won't be there, Shea said.
“George doesn't like parades, and we decided to leave him on campus to prevent any recurrence of his psychoneurosis.” Shea said.
After the parade, the city hall steps will be used as a stage for a Trojan rally. There will be yells, i music, and brief speeches, Shea said.
FORMS ON BROADWAY
The parade will form on Broadway between Pico and Venice boulevards at 6:30 p.m. First units will move out about 8 p.m.
Cardinal and gold spotlights will be added to a blaze of white which will cover City hall. The lights are to be provided by the Downtown Businessmen's association and Paramount studio, Shea said.
As the parade moves past the reviewing stand from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., it will be televised over KECA, channel No. 7.
Campus, city, and state dignitaries will sit in the -reviewing stand. The judges, whose names have not been released, will make their choices of nine pri*winners from this spot.
PLENTY OF PRIZES There will be a grand sweepstakes prize and an award to the organization whose float is most symbolic of the homecoming theme. Other prizes will be for floats judged the most humorous, the most original, and the most beautiful.	\
The best float from a fraternity, a dormitory, and a council or club will be picked. One prize will go to the best non-float entry. No float will be picked for more than one award.
Playing for the parade will be bands from Troy, the 40th Infantry division, Glendale high school, the Sheriff Deputy Boy's organization, Santa* Monica high school, and the Hollywood Sons of the Legion.
The Stanford band has been invited to join the march if it arrives in time. Shea said.
MAYOR BOWRON Guest of Honor.
18 Vehicles' Set (or Taxi Parade Friday
Eighteen organizations have en« tered vehicles in tomorrow's Taxt day parade.
From 9 a.m. until noon the taxis will roam from 28th street down University avenue to 36th street carrying passengers for a 5 cent fare.
Three faculty members will judge the taxis at noon. They will award trophies to the taxi best carrying out the theme “Alumni Get Big
Rally Tickets Ready
Tickets for the homecoming rally tomorrow night may b« picked up at 9 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. today and tomorrow at booths on the lawn north of the Administration building.
Fire hundred tickets will ba distributed at each time. ID cards are required.'
Orientation
Trolios
. . . dress rehearsals will be held in Bovard auditorium. 3 p.m. today.
Hello—Injun Get Put Below,” the most original taxi, and the taxi w,hose crew has collected the most tickets.
The entrants are Alpha Delta Pi, a rocket ship; Alpha Epsilon Phi, a stagecoach drawn by four gray horses; Alpha # Gamma Delta, a •Paddle Stanford” canoe; Alpha Omicron Pi, a “49er Twirl” truck; and Alpha Phi, a stagecoach with Indians riding horses.
Chi Omega, "The Injun Hotfoot” moccasin; Delta Delta Delta, an Indian camp scene; EVK, a hay-wagon pulled by a jeep; Delta Gamma, a flat wagon with a hatchet buried in a log; Gamma Phi Beta, a circus wagon pulled by a paper elephant; and Kappa Alpha Theta, the “Theta Junk Wagon.”
Kappa Kappa Gamma, a fire engine; Kappa Delta, a Trojan iron horse; Pi Beta Phi, an old fashioned bus drawn by two horses; Phi Mu, a tram; Phi Sigma Sigma, a trolley: Troeds. a hearse: and Zeta Tau Alpha, the “Injun Express.”
Engineers Open Labs For Exhibition Today
Open bouse in the Engineering building today from 4 to 6:30 will feature* laboratory demonstrations for persons who want spectacular 'disp’ays along with practical theory.
Among the displays is the demonstration of a device that retains your shadow on a screen, a generator that cooks hot dogs in several minutes but melts metal in a second, a pin-point light that shows materials in microscopic detail, a magnified pattern of a person’s voice on a screen, artifical reproduction of lightning, and sound transmitted by a light ray.
The retention of a shadow is accomplished by a two-inch coil called a “Stroblicht.” A person passing in front of the phosphorescent screen breaks the electric circuit and trips the switch. The resulting flash captures and retains a shadow on the screen for as long as ten seconds with a two-mlllionths of a second exposure. In industrial use, the device can actually “stop” a machine in motion to study its action.
Dielectric-heating will be demonstrated with a Westinghcuse gen-chairman petitions must be j eratcr that will cook hot dogs for turned in at the 'Student Body j spectators. The electricity is of such President's office no later than I high frequency that metals burn Monday at 5,	when they are brought in contact
with the plates, yet the food la gradually heated by the same action. A second function is the industrial annealing of metals to create a hard surface on tools.
Pin-point light, known technically as a “crater tube,” has a bulb about the size of a fountain-pen flashlight and gives out a ray of light so tiny that it is scarcely perceptible. A piece of cotton or paper held in front of the bulb can be thrown on a screen so that it appears in the most minute detail, each fiber carefully etched. The device, used in the war for mapping the air waves caused by firing projectiles, will be a part of the demonstration of sound being carried by a light beam to a remote receiver.
The most vivid display is “Jacobs Ladder,” 150,000 volts of electricity that climbs two rods and explodes with a loud crackle at the terminal. Similar set-ups are used in motion picture production.
The radar on the roof of Engineering will be open for inspection but will not be functioning because it has not yet been licensed by the FCC. Two units, the APS-1, an air-borne set. and the Mark-16, a ship-board installation, revolve (Continued on Page 4)
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