AWS to Nominate Officers
Vol. XUII
Los Angeles, Calif.' Monda, Mar. 24, 1952
No. 102
British Attache Professors to Meet Will Discuss With Oil Gatherers
African Policy
ICKING OFF the Spurs' crackerjack sale, Ann Willson, ^resident of Spurs, is shown selling a box of crackerjacks a student Lisbeth Luke. Price of the cartons is 10 cents with le proceeds going to the Trojan Chest drive. Three of the oxes will contain surprises and prizes.
oil Unravels Maze )f D.A.'s Activities
District Attorney S. Ernest Roll explained some of the unctions and Problems of the District Attorney’s Office” [ the School of Law assembly Friday.
Speaking in a quiet voice, Roll used statistics and un-lplicated language to unravel some of the “complex of activities which the 75
Iyers he bosses must handle, ppearing neatly clad in a light m suit which effectively oon-?ted with his short gray hair I rrftistaohe, the well-built “Mr.
described the role which fvers play in preliminary hear-and grand jury operations, le discussed requirements, pay |les. and job advantages of law-in the district attorney's of-He said he was in favor of |ing young lawyers and train -them before they have been of school too long.
[Anyone who can pass the stiff examinations used these days
1st know his law,” he aid. “High des in school don’t mean too ich.”
In bar exams. I think more em-asis should be placed on moral er and moral classification of ididates,” he said loll, who has himself tried more m 1000 cases, during his 20 irs in the district attorney's of-e. said that trial work is the amorous” part of legal work. Most good trial lawyers are experts by nature.” he said, hey're like super-salesmen.
Roil, a class of '27 law srhool aduate. remarked that he was visiting his alma mater to licit more business” for his
'L>a»st year, we handled more n 8400 charges and grand jury ictments,” said Roll, who be-e district attorney last March, ploying 215, his office is the est district attorney's office in country.
“The complexity of Los Angeles unty keeps us swamped with ork.; Roll said. His office handles elonv charges originating in the nty's 44 incorporated areas, and h felonies and misdemeanors rom the numerous unmcorporat-areas. To speed up the wheels f Justice, branch offices are maintained at Santa Monica, Long and Pasadena; and area of-ices are being established at Hunt-n Park. El Monte, and Van uvs.
In analyzing local crime. Roll d that issuing bad checks and Argery were the most common
S. ERNEST ROLL . . . "Mr. D.A."
crimes handled by his office with more than 1300 cases last year.
“There are more repeaters among these so called “paperhangers” than any other -type felonies.” Roll stated. Burglary cases totaled 1207 and charges of violations of state narcotic and drug acts numbered 438.
“Many really good lawyers .-•re ineffective in courtroom action. They become tongue-tied. In general. lawyers who sit behind desks last longer than trial lawyers because of the strain of trial work.
“Courtesy pays big dividends in the courtroom," Roll said. He cited Jerry Giesler—who spoke at law assembly two weeks ago—as an outstanding example of courtroom courtesy. Roll and Giesler have clashed in many an epic courtroom drama and both are readying themselves for the approaching Walter Wanger case.
Roll, who was president of the law school student body during his last year at SC., is a member of Phi Delta Phi. the legal fraternity which sponsored his talk. Chuck Baxter of Phi Delta Phi introduced the speaker, and Paul E. Overton, senior law class president made the welcoming and closing talks.
British policy in Africa will be discussed by J. Kenneth Thompson, British polonial attache, tomorrow night before a dinner given in his honor by the SC chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.
The dinner is scheduled for 6:15 in Commons dining room and is open to all SC students.
Thompson, who has traveled in Africa as well as in Europe and the West Indies for the British colonial office, will discuss proposals for fed eration of Central Africa and racial problems in East Afrrica.
Afican Nationhood
Other guests for the evening will be Mrs. Thompson and the information officer of the British Consulate in Los Angeles. Frank Mitchell.
Dominic Luizzi, dinner publicity and arrangements chairman invited students interested in current affairs or British policy—particularly students majoring in international relations, political science, and public administration to come to the dinner.
Served As Censor
ASPA. student organization under the School of Public Administration, has as part of its program the attempt to promote closer cooperation among students in these departments, he said.
Thompson received his education at King's College ln London and at Lauranne university in Switzerland and holds a post-graduate diploma in education. During the second World War he was chief censor for Great Britain in the Caribbean area.
Represents Colonial Offices
He has represented the British colonial office in several international conferences and served on a special sub-committee of the United Nations which supplied information concerning non-self-governng territories all over the world.
Dinner reservations, at a cost of $1.25. may be jnade in the office of the School of Public Administration. 252 Administration.
Organization chairman for the dinner is John Palinkas.
Five SC professors will join with j More than 3000 scientists are many of the world's top experts expected to register for the meet-in finding oil at the annual meet- | ing.
ing of the American Association Visiting speakers * will include of Petroleum Geologists being held Kurt Teichert of the geology de-
p.t the Biltmore hotel today through Thursday.
The faculty members will present scientific research papers before the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, which will meet in convention with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
_ Report Topics Told Dr. Kenneth O. Emery, associate professor of geology and program chairman, will report on “Some Southern California Shelf Sediments.” He will join with Dr. Sidney C. Rittenberg, associate professor of bacteriology, to discuss “Transformations of Organic Matter in Recent Basin Sediments.” Dr. John F. Mann Jr., visiting assistant professor of geology, will speak 'on “Some Sedimentary Features of the Temecula Arkose.” Dr. Thomas Clements, head of the geology department, will talk on “Calcareous Dunes of Death Valley.”
A report on “The Frequency Distribution of Recent Foraminifera off California” will be given by Dr. Orville L. Bandy, associate professor of geology.
partment at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Philip H. Kuen-en of the Geological institute at Groningen, Holland: W. C. Crum-bein of the Northwestern university geology department; and Matinee Ewing of Columbia university.
Max Steineke and R. A. Bram-kamp will tell of the search for oil in Saudi Arabia.
Localites to Participate
Local oil exploration executives participating ki the convention include Frank A. Morgan, vice-president in charge of exploration, Richfield Oil corporation, and national president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; Leo Newfarmer, manager of exploration. Shell Oil company, and technical program chairman for the joint annual meeting.
Henry Salvatori, president. Western Geophysical company, and pioneer in the development and application of the reflection seismograph; Graham B. Moody, chief reserves engineer, Standard Oil company; and Wilber Rankin, consulting geologist and paleontologist.
Clements ★ ★
Warns Prospectors
Diamonds
Burbank Has Summer Jobs
Summer jobs are now being offered by the City of Burbank for college students and recent grtdu-ates.
Position in recreational activities are cpen to men and women. Pay ranges from SI22 to $1.94 an hour for summer work, depending upon education and experience.
Hold#rs of Red Cross senior, YMCA or YWCA life saving certificates, issued within the last five years, may apply for summer life guard positions.
Further information and applications may be obtained by writing to the Personnel department, Burbank City hall, 225 East Olive avenue. or by calling CHarleston 6-2141. Applications, which must be accompanied by a recent passport-type photograph, arfe due 5 p.m. Friday.
ibrary of Congress Bares antastic Russian Tunnel Plot
WASHINGTON. Mar. 23 <UP>— | They suggested to the czar that ties between the twTo nations, i e Library of Congress displayed they build the tunnel and a rail- [ Although the tunnel was to be report today which shows Russia ‘ J	'*
Diamonds are nothing new to California. In fact hundreds of them have been found in this state —some from as near here as San Bernardinb—since the time of the ’49ers, according* to a State Division of Mines bulletin.
But, Dr. Thomas Clements, geology professor, warned SC student prospectors that they would undoubtedly go broke before they could find one of the gems.
About 10 years ago. Dr. Clements, who spoke on diamonds on a recent “Halls of Science” showr, helped test a diamond found near San Bernardino, but never learned exactly where it was picked up.
Diamond Unclaimed
‘The stone was brought to a friend of mine by a man who never called for it again,’' Dr. Clements said. “It weighed about two or three carats and was of good quality and color. It would have been worth probably $200 when cut.
A woman who called the geologist recently said that' her grandfather also claimed to have found diamonds near San Bernardino. She said she knew where the stones
★ * * Are Scarce
came from and was going to prospect the spot again.
The first diamonds found in the state turned up in the gold washings in the Mother Lode area in the days of ’43, Dr. Clements said. Although never traced to their source, the stones were believed lo have come from so-called diamond “pipes” similar to those of South Africa and Arkansas.
400-500 Gems Found A few years later some of the valuable gems were found at Cherokee, Butte county—a locality that was to become the source of many diamonds..	1
According to the Division of Mines, no record has been kept of the total number found in the state, but it is probably between 400 and 500., All of them were chance finds, so there is little doubt that many more have been overlooked, according to the bureau.
Diamonds have also been found in Amador, El Dorado, Fresno, Nevada, Plumas, Siskiyou and Trinity counties, the Di ision of Mines reported.
"Wamp Offers Tasty Garnish For El Rod'Crow'
Food for thought in the form of Hunt chili sauce was delivered to Al Crawford and Jim Lasry of the El Rodeo staff Friday by Allyn Hunt, associate editor of Wampus magazine.
According to Hunt, the El Rodeo members made weekly visits to the Wampus office, proclaiming that the magazine would never be issued. “It was just a little joke they had because they didn’t issue any magazines at aii after their appointment,” Hunt said, “only they were the only ones then laughing.”
The cards bore the inscription. To Mr, Lasry. salaried member of the EI Rodeo staff. They say this is very tasty with crow.’ Signed, Wampus.”
Tom Pflimlin, also associate editor of the magazine, said the magazine appreciated their interest. “Thank goodness they aren’t poor sports,” he said. “We’ve got more chili sauce for their latest prediction, though,” said Pflimlin. “There really will be more Wampi.’
Wampus sales were halted Thursday after a complete sellout. According to Associate Circulation Manager Jim Taul, the original printing of twice the usual quantity did not meet the demand, and 2000 more copies are due off the presses early Tuesday.
USAF Has Commissions To Offer to Air Cadets
nee considered a fantastic scheme link Siberia and Alaska by aans of a 46-mile tunnel built mder the Bering Sea.
The proposals—and perhaps the ussians who thought of it—pre-n.ably was liquidated when the luniste took over the country, ut the idea of joining the two art hem outposts may still be icking around ki the Soviet.
As late as 1946. a Radio M06--w broadcast said a leading Rus-railroad expert envisioned chains of automobiles'' crossing rom Alaska to Siberia.
The Bering sea tunnel project •as the brainchild of the Trans-Alaska-Siberian company, a firm made up mostly of Americans who were interested in looking lor gola in Siberia.
road running* through some 3.000 ! built from East Cape on the Siber-
mi’es of 'Siberia. In turn, they would be granted mineral rights to a strip of land eight miles wide along the railroad right of way.
Files of the old New York Tribune stored in the library indicate the Imperial Russian commission viewed the project withe favor. In a story’ from St. Petersburg, the czarist capital, dated Mar. 22. 1906. the paper reported:
“There is a distinct disposition among high government circles to cultivate the United States as Russia's ally in the Far East."
The story contains another statement which, if printed today, would be equally startling. It quotes a high Russian official as saying: “The investment of foreign capital (in Russia), especially American, can be welcomed as creating closer
ian side, proponents of the project did not settle on an Alaskan terminus. The shortest distance across the Bering sea, however, is from East Cape to the town of Wales on the Western most tip of the Seward peninsula. It is a span of 56 miles Historians at the library are not certain what happened to the pro-
SC students between the ages of 19 and 26 will find openings in the Aviation Cadet program offered by the March Air Force base.
The base is cooperating in an intensive recruiting drive for aviation cadets throughout the southern California area searching for young men who are interested in becoming pilots or aircraft observ-j ers.	<
Applicants must be unmarried l and have completed two or more years of college work leading to the AB degree. Good physical condition is required with special emphasis placed on eyes, ears, heart, and teeth.
Application blanks may be obtained from the Los Angeles Air Force recruiting office or at the Aviation Cadet Examining board
at any Air Force base. Birth certificate, evidence of citizenship, and verification of college work must be attached to the application.
•Graduates of the program receive a commission as second lieutenant in the Air Force reserves with an aeronautical rating as pilot or aircraft observer ,a uniform allowance, and a 30-day leave with
pay.
Unmarried second lieutenants on flying status living off base receive $415.75 a month, and if married, $450.75.
During training, cadets receive food, uniform, flight clothes, equipment housing medical care, a regular monthly allowance of $105, and a $10,000 government life insurance policy.
Film Classics To Screen EarlyWestern
The cinema department will present “Covered Wagon” tonight at 8 in Hancock auditorium as sixth in the Rim Classics series.
Directed by James Cruze and written by Emerson Hough, the “Wagon” will star J. Warren Ker rigan, Ernest Torrence, Allan.Hale. Tully Marshall, Guy Oliver, and Johnny Fox.
The film was produced in 1923 at a time when American studios seemed to cater to pseudo-cosmopolitan and pseudo-American drawing and dance hall follies.
It was the first outdoor epic of the screen showing the westward movement in the United States and stands ln history of cinema along with “The Birth of a Nation.”
The film is being shown today with its original musical score. The magnitude of the film, seldom, if ever, has been equaled in subsequent stories of cowboys. Indians, and hardships of the early pioneers.
This film has two elements of actuality: The natural location and shots taken at Snake Valley, Nev.
Admission for tonight’s movie will be by season ticket only which may be purchased at the ticket office or at the door.
20 Seek Positions In Assembly Today
Nominations for AWS officers for the 1952 fall semester will be made today at noon in an all-women assembly in 133 Founders hall.	•
“All women running for office must be present, or their names will be stricken from the ballot,” said Lois Stone,
co-chairman of the election. To allow time for the nomination assembly, sorority luncheons will be held late today.
Twenty women have so far entered their names and petitions as candidates, though their grades have not yet been checked. They will be notified of their eligibility at the assembly, Miss Stone said
Running for president is Janet Ewart, while Barbara Jean Barn house, Ruth Clement, Betty Dow-den, Lerae B. Moeller, Wilma Van Berg, and Joan Vasseur, are vying for the vice-presidential office.
Judith Cordes, Patricia Dailey, Margo Darcey, Diane Darling, Joyce Keppeler, Mary Ann Morey, Virginia Williams, and Ann Willson are secretarial candidates, and Barbara Goode, Donna Meadors, Marilou Moehlin, Shirley Jfelson. and Charlene Shagir are seeking the treasurer’s job.
Dressy Sport Proper Women nominated for offices were asked to wear dressy sport outfits to the assembly by Miss Stone.
Candidates and their nominators will be presented by Jeanne Eaton, AWS president. Candidates for president and their nominators will each be allowed to speak three minutes.
Speeches limited to one minute will be given by women nominating candidates for other offices. Candidates for these offices will merely accept their nominations.
“Nominations may also be made from the floor for women not already in the running,” Miss Stone said, “in which case petitions must be filled out immediately.”
Office Requirements Told
Requirements for the office of president are senior standing by September, a 1.5 grade-point average for this semester, and a 1.5 average for last semester. Women running for vice-president must have 60 units by September and a
JANET EWART . . . seeks presidency
1.3 average for both semesters.
Candidates for secretary and treasurer must have 30 units and a 1.3 average for each semester.
Co-chairman of the election with Miss Stone is Nancy Ridgway, Amazin president.
Elections will be held Wednesday and Thursday from 9 ajn. to 3 pjn. t
Beards ’Em
Tirebiter Pup Seeks Owner
A little Long Beach dog, possibly a reincarnation of George Tirebiter, was reported seeking a new home this week by his owner.
After ebtaining the stray pup from a friend who had found him wandering in the Long Beach oilfields, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gill, SC alumni, decided that they would be unable tq keep him due to a trip they have planned for the summer.
Amazed by the remarkable resemblance the canine bore to the late revered George of SC, Mrs. Gill thought perhaps the university or some fraternity on campus would like to have the pup.
Since the dog allegedly resembles the original Tirebiter much more than George II, Mrs. Gill suggested he might prove a popular successor to the moscot title.
“We have gone to great expense to give Georgie shots and to quarter him while we were away from home, but we are afraid we will have to part with him” said Mrs. Gill.
‘We are certain that some campus organization would like to have the pup for a mascot,” she said.
Mrs. GUI may be reached at 1271 Marshall place in Long Beach or at LB 404-197.
April Stevens Sends' Bovard Noon Rally ,
Sixteen beard-growing contestants lined up on the Bovard stage Friday to vie for the Engineering week Beaver trophy and a personal reward from April Stevens, radio, television, and recording stylist.
Dale Diamond, civil engineering senior and a Kappa Sigma, was sent away with the trophy, “sent” by a big kiss from Miss Stevens, who then proceeded to captivate the audience with “I Get Ideas,” “Gimme a Little Kiss,” “I'm in Love Again,’ ’and “Don’t Do It’ in her own inimitable way.
Gets Corsage
Miss Stevens, who was accompanied by pianist Byron Long, graduate of SC, was presented a corsage and the title of Queen April, queen of Engineering week, by Herb Twiss, emcee in the absence of Johnny Grant, radio disc jockey.
The counterpart to the Beaver trophy for the “Most prolific growth of beard” went to Hugh McLaughlin, engirfeering N junior, who was judged as having the least growth of beard and was given Jia Little Shaver award by Twiss. Presents Trophy Another trophy was presented to James Crandell as the outstanding freshman civil engineering student last year by Jerry Wilson, president of the SC chapter of Chi Epsilon, national Civil engl-eering fraternity.
After the rally a luncheon was given at the Sigma Phi Delta house for Miss Stevens, who was elated over being made an honorary pledge in the ’52 spring class. The numbers Miss Stevens sang for the Bovard rally she had planned to do for the first time at Club Shamrock, Dallas, where she is scheduled to appear next.
O’Neill Drama Packs House
First Nighters' Enjoy Five Hours
Still 194 pints of blood short of the 900-pint goal the drive for iect. One theory is that it folded j signups will continue today and under the opposition of Russian tomorrow.
engineers, who believed strong Twenty-four signups for blood ocean tides and the shifting tundra donations Friday raised the total would rule out construction of the . ^ since the beginning of the tunnel.	| drive.
Officials in Washington queried Although SCs goal is 900, Darryl
Bloodmobile to Be On Campus Today
ins will be anyone who failed to sign a pledge card but who wants
on the proposed project said that while the Imperial Czarist government might have contemplated such a proposed scheme, it is unlikely the rulers in the Kremlin would attempt it.
Emerick, chairman of the drive, said she would- like to see the 1000 mark reached.
There will be a campaign for drop-ins when the bloodmobile arrives on campus Apr. 1 to 3. Drop-
to donate a pint cf blood.
Miss Emerick said anyone who wishes to put the name of any campus organization on his pledge card may do so. The organization having the highest percentage of pledges will receive a trophy. Other awards will be presented to the runners-up.
Faculty members also are asked to join the diive and assist in attaining the 900-pint goal.
by Alice Katem
An almost packed opening house let “Strange Interlude,” Crescent theater’s latest ambitious undertaking, grow on them while they wondered if they were going to turn into pumpkins.
They were delivered from that fairy-tale fate when the final lights dimmed at five minutes till witching hour, setting a record of five hours of theater that got more mellow as it grew old.
With its interest firmly invested, the audience took an interlude at 8 pjn. for dinner and seemed anxious to get back to see the sec* ond installment, much more rewarding than the first, due probably to the maturation ot actors along with the gratification of stomachs.
Once again, central staging won out with its natural atmosphere
of intimacy audience; it
between actors and I when she discovers that her weak was easy to suspend j husband's family is steeped in in-drama continuity while all the sanity she resorts to a doctor business of shifting stage props j friend who kids himself into thinking he is making a contribution to science and the welfare of a
took place in the half-light.
The evolving wealth of the Evans family—from Park avenue apartment, to yacht, to Long Island estate settings— was a transformation skillfully guided by prop director Betty Lu Fitch.
“Strange Interlude” is the story of a self-satiated woman and the three men who put up with her neuroticisms. The part, a tremendous load for an actress, was in the long range well accomplished by Beth Beatty who was far more at home as the older more venomous Nina than as the girl Nina.
This clinging, untiringly self-centered woman feels she must'have a baby to make up for the dead flyer-sweetheart she never married;
marriage.
The rest of the story concerns the development and the rusting of this neat little solution.
The third man in the picture is Charlie, an old stand-by boy friend who never gives up, never voices his feelings, and acts as an entertaining running commentator.
Eugene O'Neill in this play seems almost too obscessed with the thought processes of his various characters, though the thinking-out-loud device he employs throughout the play effectively affords much comical insight into situations.
His characters, except for the Continued on page 4