ORMON TO SPEAK AT NOON CHAPEL SERVICE
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rades Place 600 on Probation
umm Discusses ristian Convictions Afternoon Talk
i M. Russon. president of s Angeles stake of the Church tter-Day Saints, will speak on “Brother, Can You Spare e?” at the noon chapel serv-229 Pounders hall, sored by Lambda Delta Sig-pus Mormon group. Russon 'scuss how people’s “success appiness are largely due to ntribution of others and the to which, in turn, we serve
addition to working in his Russon has been an inunderwriter for 16 years, a life member of the Mil-;llar Roundtable oif National Underwriters.
rvill replace Dr. M. M. Keller, previously was announced as chapel service speaker. Kel-:S unable to speax because of (obligations.
'ristian Convict-"'ns About ;Christ” will be the topic of Rev. John M. Krumm. nd rector of St. Paul’s Epis-iathedral. for his lecture this at 3:15 in 229 Pounders
ing English missionary Leith will discuss “The Fifth )m” at his 4:15 lecture today Founders hall, i houses were held last night Westminster and Lutheran houses, the Newman club, e Chaplain’s bungalow. Pur-the open houses was to rquainted with new SC stu-
s Religious Emphasis week rind up tomorrow with the chapel service and the two
Rev. John Elwyn G. Wil-pastor of the Highland Park yterian church, will speak on nside Job’’ at the noon serv-133 Pounders hall. He will nsored by the Westminster lation.
;cial chapel services will be 'cted for Roman Cathohcs to-:w at 7:30 a.m. and 12:55 p.m. e Newman club chapel, and at 7:45 at St. Vincent's
fh.
Very Rev. Mr. Krumm and tel will close their daily lec-senes tomorrow afternoon they speak on "Christian Lctions About the Church” and re Do We Go From Here?’’, ively. Their lectures are at nd 4 :15 in 229 and 226 Foun-halL
JOHN B. RUSSON . . . speaks today
French Crisis Looms as Cabinet Quits
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Vol. XLII
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Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Mar. 1, 1951
No. 82
High Scholastic Mortality Rate
More than 600 students are on probation because of poor grades and face possible disqualification next semester, Dr. Albert Zech, counselor of men, announced yesterday.
This is the highest mortality rate—scholastically speak-- ing—since the end of World War n, he said.
students
Barber Packs Bovard
Arabian Nights Tale Applauded By First-Night Theatergoers '
PARIS, Feb. 28— (UP•—Premier Rene Plevin’s middle-of-the-road government fell tonight, plunging France into an internal crisis that threatened to weaken seriously the defense front of the Western nations.
Plevin and his cabinet, which had served for seven months, submitted their resignations to President Vincent Auriol shortly after 7 pjn. (1 p.m. EST) after unsuccessful efforts to break a deadlock over proposed reforms in the French balloting system.
The issue itself was purely an internal political affair, but the resulting crisis was expected to delay major decisions in current conferences here to organize a European army and establish a Western European coal-steel pool. It also was expected to set back the chances of Big Four talks, as well as seriously affect France's own economy.
Auriol accepted the cabinet's resignation and immediately began the giant task of trying to pick a man with a remote chance of forming a new government.
He was scheduled to confer first with the presidents of the two houses of parliament, and afterward with the leaders of the Communist, Popular Republican, Socialist and Radical Socialist parties.
It was considered that there was no chance of his naming anyone before tomorrow night at the earliest. A lengthy political crisis that might drag on for weeks appeared to be in prospect.
As long as the crisis lasts there is no hope of achieving urgently-needed government policy decisions to halt the inflationary trend, marked by rapidly rising living costs.
Plevin’s government was France’s 15th since 1944. the year the country was liberated.
by Bob Wells
The Opera Workshop's English-language presentation of “The Barber of Bagdad” opened last night in Bovard auditorium to the applause of Los Angeles music-lovers.
Administration and faculty members turned out in evening clothes to add an extra touch of “first-nighter” atmosphere to the opening. The appreciative audience overflowed the main floor into the balconies.
Settings, staging, and performance by the all-student cast, orchestra, and chorus of the two-act comic opera by Peter Cornelius showed the usual professional excellence that director Carl Ebert and conductor Wolfgang Martin have made a trademark for Workshop music-dramas.
The opera tells the story of a
love-sick young noble seeking the hand of the daughter of the local cadi, or judge. The cadi is not happy about the young man wooing his daughter. The young noble is further hampered by a garrulous old barber who seeks to aid him. But in the end, through the aid of the barber, love triumphs over all.
Cornelius managed to compose some thoroughly delightful music around this slender theme from the Arabian Nights. It is, however,
not a well-known opera, having last been performed by the Metropolitan Opera in 1929.
With bass Kalem Kermoyan in the role of the barber, Abul Has-san Ali Ebn Bekar, Ebert rescues jthis work frcm obscurity. Kermoyan sinks his teeth into the juicy part and it is hard to determine whether he distinguishes himself more as an actor or as a singer. Suffice it to say, he is excellent on both counts.
i The audience gave Kermoyan ov-i ation after ovation and called him forth for repeated curtain calls. The bravos were well earned. His comic “Margiana” cadenza, a travesty on early Italian grand opera, particularly pleased his listeners
James Scnwabacher gives a convincing performance as the frustrated swain. Ewan Harbrecht as jthe heroine Margiana is both vocally and optically appealing.
The same number of are expected to suffer from grade trouble this semester, he said, unless they take advantage of the
SC counseling service.
qualified at the end of the semester.
All students having scholastic difficulties are asked to come to
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More emphasis is being placed the counselor of men's and worn-on scholastic counseling in the of- en's office for assistance, fices of the counselor of men and ^ office has increased its staff | women. Dr, Zech said, to counter- by j^ing 12 graduate students act “wartime apathy” and its ef- majoriilg in counseling and psy-I fects on students’ grade points. choiogy. one is a remedial reading The present military situation specialist (diagnoses weaknesses in tends to cause a higher scholastic students' reading and corrects these mortality rate because of apathy faults*.
toward studies and books. Dr. Zech Thcse le ^ donating their
reminds students that the mili- services to the 5tudents.
tary authorities require a student „ J	w
to be In the upper half o( his „ Cards ,'111 *n*. “ a” pr?"
eta to maintain a 2A classitica-	"
tion	come to the counselors of mens
and women's offices for help.
(2A is a draft deferment which * Dr Zech ^ that a follow.up allows students to finish the school of probatlonary students disclosed semester.) Dr. Zech feels that this tliat practically all those who ac-should be an incentive to students repted counseling service have been who wish to finish their schooling reinstated at SC. Seventy per cent before entering the armed forces. 0f probationary students who re-Those students who received less fused to accept this service were
WOLFGANG MARTIN . . . conductor
CARL EBERT . . . director
than a 0.5 average will be put on the probationary list. They must maintain a 1.0 average in 10 or more units for the next semester; stead of waiting or they will be automatically dis- five-week exams.
disqualified.
Dr. Zech warns students that now is the time to seek help in-until after the
ulles Protests eds' Island Crab
'Barber' Aired Tonight at 8:30 Over KUSC
“Barber of Bagdad,” currently being performed in Bovard auditorium by the Opera Workshop,
will be presented tonight at 8:30 I--
over Station KUSC-FM.	_ _	. . .
The special broadcast of the 200 Midshipmen
Arabian Nights tale will be a re- #
cording of last night’s initial per- ^|y0n PHySICSlS
Mary Alice Stebbins is excellent as the bouncing, kittenish go-between and Jerome Zidek as the cadi counterpoints Kermoyan’s comedy. $
Comments overheard during intermission indicated that a great many in the audience who might ordinarily have trouble, as does this reviewer, in distinguishing a C-note from a banknote found the whole thing highly delightful dramatic entertainment.
Sets by Marcus Fuller and costumes by Kate Drain Lawsbn deserve special mention as contributing to the Arabian Nights atmosphere.
The production will finish its run Friday and Saturday nights with 8:30 as curtain time. Tickets are still available for these performances at the university tickets office. Prices are $1.20, $1.80, and $2.40.
formance. The opera, under the direction of Dr. Carl Ebert, will be presented in English.
Dr. Ebert, head of the opera department, is renowned as the founder of the famous Glynde-bourne opera In Sussex in Southern England.
NROTC midshipmen are having their annual navy physicals in preparation for a summer training cruise.
About 200 midshipmen are taking the examinations, which began yesterday afternoon and will continue until 4:30 this afternoon.
NEW PLANET TALE PREMATURE'
Mysterious Space Traveler Watched
Insured Vets to Get NSLI April Dividend
University veterans with National Service Life Insurance can expect a’ second special dividend, according to Carl R. Gray Jr., administrator of Veterans Affairs. Distribution of $685 million in dividends to 8 million policyholders will begin in April.
The payments, averaging $85, will cover the years 1948-51, and will be made to those with a policy in effect at least three months during the three year period.
Tentative evaluation of the amount of dividend earned by each policy will depend on the number of months it was in force, the insurance plan, and the age of the policy-holder.
Veterans were urged by the VA not to write regarding the dividend, since correspondence will cause removal of the file from the production lines and delay payment.
Unlike the first dividend, no application will be required. In any case where there may be a question as to the address of the policyholder, a special two-part return card will be mailed for verification of the proper address before a check is sent.
Today s Headlines
by United Press
HINGTON. Feb. 28—(UP)—| if it is not near completion by -asador John Foster Dulies to- j mid-year.
rotested Russian seizure of I He	there is no intention,
abomai Island *roup just off however, of permitting Russia to *st of Japan and other keep the Habomais without chal-said the United States even- lenge. This, he said, would amount may challenge the Kremlin to giving the Kremlin the fruits t them up	of a peace treaty it refuses to sign.
les just back from the Far He said the Soviets stationed in where he discussed a Japan- the Habomais have kept Japanese ace treatv. told a news con- -^hinS vessels from sailing around the Soviets originally moved Hokkaido. Ships trying to make the islands on the pretext;the passage have necessarily had Tere part of the Kuriie islands to go near the Habomai group went to Russia under the ^es explained, and some of them ie Yalta agreement.	|have been seized
ambassador said the Habo- He also said that Japan has were not included, however, agreed in principle to Dermit U.S. hat the United States does air. sea and land forces to remain recognize the
Wholesale Food Prices Decline
NEW YORK, Feb. 28—Wholesale food prices this week declined for the first time in more than four months, Dun and Bradstreet reported today.
April Draft Quota of 4990
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 28—An April draft quota of 4,990 men for California will be filled from 14,935' Californians scheduled to take physical examinations in March, State Se lective Service headquarters said today.
Labor Out of Defense Program
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Organized labor withdrew from seizure. The in Japan after a treaty is signed— the defense mobilization program tonight and ordered its are east of Hokkaido, north-	Russia strongly opposes representatives to boycott agencies in which they are now
st island of Japan proper. ‘__serving
ssia also has occupied the
an Island group northeast of Fr|||^^|f |f||1 lai. While Dulles did not n the fact, other sources said nited States some day mayj 1 Rissia to give up both of islands, said flatly, however, that apanese peace treaty which *y worked out by the Pa-lies will not assign the Ha-to Russia. Nor will the ana South Sakhalin be as-to the Soviet unless they treaty, he added, ia has indicated that it may to sign a peace treatv with
Cen. Clay Ends Hearings With Europe Troops Plea
Notice
U. S. to Investigate Meat Prices
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Chief price enforcement officer Edward P. Morgan tonight ordered his entire staff to investigate complaints that meat packers and wholesalers have been charging over-ceiling prices.
Students who expect to complete the requirements for teaching or administration credentials . 1	« ■ ■ _	1 • • • with the university recommfnda- May V«d 11 IWO C^USTC! UIVISIOFIS
tion in ,nne shonld make appli- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28-Gen. J. Lawton Collins. Army
Chief of Staff, told Congress today it is “wholly possible that we may be forced to order two more National Guard through Saturday and 2-4:30 divisions to active service before the end of the year Monday through Friday. All ap-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(UP)— Gen. Lucius D. Clay rang down the public curtain on the troops-to-Europe hearings today with a dramatic plea for faith in the “little fellow” of western Europe who doesn’t want to lose his freedom again.
His voice quivering with emotion, Clay told the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees that America must give its Atlantic Pact allies “a chance to prove themselves” because that is “the only possible way to save I this free world.”
Hearings Adjourned
When the former U.S. command- | er in Germany completed his im-; promptu speech, the senators sat! in silence until a gavel rapped, ad- 1 jouming the historic hearings which began two weeks ago.
The two committees will begin a series of closed sessions tomorrow to consider two opposing resolutions. One, sponsored by Democratic leaders, endorses President Truman’s plan to commit six U.S. divisions to the Atlantic Pact defense force headed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. .
Wherry Sponsors Other The other, sponsored by Senate GOP Floor Leader Kenneth S. Wherry, (R. Neb.), calls for holding up the troop movement until Congress acts.^ It is supported by Sen. Robert A.' Taft, CR Ohio) and other Republicans who favor a
value freedom and allies on the basis of two divisions to one division, or $10 against $1,” he said. “In fighting terms it is going to be 50,000 of them to lose their lives the first month (of a warl and not 50,000 of ours, because they are going to have far more than we are on that spot.”
“Let's give them credit. Let’s give them a chance to prove themselves. I think they will.’*
Any prediction about a planet hurtling into the earth is entirely premature, said Dr. John A. Russell, head of the astronomy department, yesterday.
This statement answered a press release that said a mysterious object was seen in the sky approaching the earth. The release stated that the!	*
object was probably a asteroid. It also said it could be a space ship \ from another planet.
The object was first seen Saturday night by U. S. Naval observatory personnel in Washington. It] was seen again Tuesday night, ahead of its previo.us position. Observatory personnel said that the object was to be watched for again last night.
The orbit of the new object is so irregular that it could bring the supposed asteroid as close to the earth as the moon, or even hurtle it into the earth, the report said.
‘‘If you discover an asteroid, you cannot determine the orbit through one observation. It takes at least three observations over a reasonable period of time,” Dr. Russell said.
The press report said that the object might be a hitherto unknown minor planet. It also said it could be a tail-less comet.
The alarming. thing about the object is that it is moving so rapidly and the rate of speed is much greater than that of an ordinary asteroid, the report said.
UCLA Awaits Bruin Editor
The Daily Bruin’s transient staff may end its wandering today and settle down to strike-free existence.
Last night the UCLA student government was pondering the appointment of the latest candidate for head of the now-you-see-it, now-ycu-don’t editorial crew. Currently in the running for the editor's post is Mark Brower.
If his appoitment is confirmed, the regular staff should be back on the job today.
Since the start of the current semester the council had rejected numerous editorship appointments, the latest of which resulted in the unofficial resignation Friday of the entire staff.
The resignation was unofficial in the sense that the staff refused to continue to publish the DB. A pickup staff has put out the last three issues.
Radio Station Goes Uncited
KMPC Mobile Unit Visits *
cation immediately.
Application is made in 35“ Administration, 9-11:30 Monday
Police Take Over La Prensa
with the Nipponese. But credtntuu P|s * ^ ^
But
'ited States is determined to a treaty and Dulles said ’d be “greatly disappointed”
Osman R, Hull, Dean School of Education
A radio station parked on Uni- complete with table, chairs, and
versity avenue for five hours yesterday without attracting a single ticket-wielding police officer.
While police were turning a mately 1000 Trojans—300 of them radio majors—inspected * KMPC’s
microphones. Two large windows on either side give an impression of added size to the 8-by 10-foot room.
Further back is the control Looth housing two tape recorders, two turn-tables, telephone, and transmitting paraphernalia. Motors and
ly cost approximately 165.000. Kinney said.
The campus visit was arranged by Dr. William H. Sener, director of radio stations KUSC, and KTRU; and John Biard, KMPC director of public affairs.
L. A. Children
modem mobile station.
Inside the “traveling mike” stu-miscellaneous gear occupy the rear dents were greeted by Keith Kin- '->mpartment.	*	L|*i.L C •	;
ney of KMPC, who answered ques* Described as the only such mo- Mil Dy tions on the structure and opera- ^ studlQ ^ ^ United gtates>
it is used by KMPC during the and Detroit's WJR during
tion of the country, Kinney S32d. | the summer.
tion of the mobile unit.
It is completely equipped to re-
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb. 28—Police took over the printing shops of La Prensa today, and plans to resume pub-j designed to create, lication of the newsDaoer tomorrow were abandoned.	| “I just don;t believe you can
by United Press
About 100,000 pupils a day are
absent from public echool classes
13 Ifle Asgeles because off the euy-
rect	cytbregjt, but tjg^se
Power is furnished by a 110-volt Kinney has been ^Signed to it ^ ^ aaed ^ r;^ ^
gasoline generator, in addition to ^ace it was placed in operation Bapd otf Ed'-US-tior offxials the motor which, arr'es the recon- four yearS ^ He tlje 5^410 today.
verted bus.	j--— - — . -	—^1 Hollywood and the East Side have
strict limitation on the troop con-1 'j	^	*" winter
tribution and a definite agreement!^	J^Tl,
on how many divisions Europe will raise.
System Galling Clay warned that any such ratio system would be “galling” to European allies and would “wipe out” the very spirit of mutual confidence that the Atlantic Pact was
The bus is divided into four sections. The first section contains the steering mechanism and seats for four passengers.
In the mid-section is the studio,
an absenteeism of abeut 40 per cent, but the over-all average is
was on the road four days a week1 covering athletic contests, paraies,
movie premiers, and other events. nearer ^ ^ cent> Assistant Su_ The traveling studio weights 10 perintendent Harry M. Howell retons, is 35-feet long, and original- ported.
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