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Vol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1953
No. 50
ISC's PRETTIEST
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Entries for State Cotton Title Named
Three coeds were selected yesterday afternoon from a I field of 30 contestants to represent SC at the California State 1 lid of Cotton contest in Fresno Saturday night.
Lynn Scott, ADPi. Bonnie Cox, Alpha Chi, and Maureen Monteith, Tri-Delt will compete against representatives from
Eioliday Car ool Sign-ups nderway
Sign-ups for riders and rides in the Alpha Phi Omega holiday car pool go into their second day (today at the service fraternity’s booth in front of the Student JJnion.
Many requests have already keen received and the booth will Le open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon-|day through Friday until vacation begins, according to Shelly pones, chairman of the project.
Last year's travelers reported ! faster service than by train or j bus, with lower traveling costs ' lor both car owners and riders. 1 Return rides also may be arranged.
This year the service is being performed in conjunction with IUCLA and LACC so that more requests may be fulfilled. A few of the places to which rides are now being offered or requested are Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Phoenix. Seattle, Miami, and Savanna.
Jones said that some people are trying to advertise for rides and riders on the campus bulletin boards, but most of them are unsuccessful in their attempt.
He suggested that these people could get faster service by applying at the fraternity’s booth or by contacting Mrs. Bernice Tiegs in the Student Lounge.
all major California universities for the title of California Maid of Cotton and the opportunity to compete in the national Maid of Cotton finals. The state winner will be announced at the Cotton Cottilion Saturday night.
SC Judges
Judges of the SC contest were Dr. Tema Claire, assistant professor of botany and past judge of the national contest; Ken Shanks, lecturer in speech, and Dr. Char-.les M. Whitlo, professor of marketing.
The California Maid of Cotton will compete against representatives from the other 19 cotton growing states for the title of national Maid of Cotton.
Last Year’s Maid
ASSC vice-president Bobette Bentley was California Maid of Cotton last year and made an allexpense-paid tour of the western states, the trip to the national finals in Memphis and a trip to Mexico City. She received an all cotton wardrobe specially selected for her and was named second alternate to the Maid of Cotton. The Maiff of Cotton, Miss Alice Carr of Alabama, made a world tour including London,. Paris, Montreal, Buenos Aires and Rio i de Janeiro, received trunks full ! of gowns by world famous designers, and was given a new Ford convertible.
The National Cotton Council -pt America sponsors the annual contest and pays the expenses of and provides the tours for the Maid of Cotton, who acts as the ambas-j sador of the American cotton in-; dustry.
The SC contest was sponsored by Gamma Alpha Chi, national ■ professional advertising and mar-| keting sorority.
NROTC to Get Trophy for Fall Blood Donations
The American Red Cross Trophy, awarded to the campus ROTC group donating the highest percentage of blood in SC’s fall drive, will be presented to the NROTC in a noon ceremony tomorrow on Bovard field.
Sharon Swanton, field representative of the Red Cross; Mary Barrett, head of the SC unit; and Shirlee Blalock and Bill Houser, co-chairmen of the drive, will present the trophy to Batallion Commander Kent x>lc-Ferren.
The Naval group forged ahead of the AROTC to a collective high of 205 pints of blood, a 65 per cent representation.
Yesterday’s DT erroneously reported the latter group to be the winner, when it actually equaled only slightly over half of the NROTC contributions, donating 149 {lints, or a 38 per cent group representation.
Baxter Wins National Award for TV Series
TV Shakespeare' Tabbed as Best Education Show
DILEMMAS OF U. S. WILL BE AIRED
Leading Authority On Da Vinci Set For Faculty Talk
A leading authority on Leonor-do da Vinci, Dr. Elmer Belt, will speak today at the Faculty Club , luncheon on “Leonardo da Vinci —Anatomist.”
Dr. Belt, clinical professor of surgery at UCLA and founder of the Elmer Belt Library of Vin-1 ciana, is known in the United 1 States and in Europe for his life- 1 long study of Da Vinci. He has collected one of the world’s largest collections of Vinciana.
Onetime chairman of the California State Board of health, Dr. Belt was awarded the Silver Star of Solidarity in 1952 by the Italian government for his research dealing with Da Vinci’s life and i works.
Dilemmas facing America after eight years of world leadership will be discussed at the 30th annual Institute of World Affairs, sponsored by SC, at Riverside’s Mission Inn Dec. 13-16.
Military, economic and political problems facing America in its objectives for peace and prosperity will be the subjects of sessions led by industrialists and educators throughout the western states and gbvernment authorities from Washington.
The institute was founded in 1926 by Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid and a group of other leading educators and citizens of the western states to promote the serious study of international problems.
International Participants
Over the years the Institute participants have included US senators, ministers of this country and foreign nations, peace conference delegates of their respective governments, and advisors to international affairs of state.
tol, Lowell G. Noonan, Donald W. Rowland, Colin R. Lovell, and Totton J. Anderson.
Prominent Figures In addition, SCs Dr. von KleinSmid is chancellor of the Institute, Paul E. Hadley, assistant professor of International Relations is executive secretary, and Norman R. Fertig, lecturer in international relations is treasurer.
Other prominent figures In world affairs who will attend the discussions are Arthur N. Young, former adviser to Mexico and Honduras; David H. Popper, deputy director of the Office of the United Nations Political and Security Affairs of the State Department; and Maxwell H. Hamilton, former minister to Finland.-Open to Public All evening sessions at 8 are open to the public without charge. Special all-day memberships are provided for students at $1 each for groups of five.
Membership in the Institute of World Affairs is open to the general public as well as to college faculties, teachers, and students
This year’s participate from j of world affairs. No special affili-SC include Albert S. Raubenheim- j ation is required, er, Monday chairman of the day; '	‘
Eugene J. Harley, Tuesday chairman of She day; Lawrence C.
Lockley, Tuesday morning speak- j er; Ro6s N. Berkes, Wednesday ; morning speaker; Norman R. j Fertig, Institute treasurer; Don- j aid C. Cutter, Wallace H. Best,
Theodore H. E. Chen, Paul F. j Langer, Vernon H. Hendershot, |
Robert W. Oliver, John W. Reith,
Henry C. Reining, Carl Q. Chris-
WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
McCarthy Accused of Hurting U. S. Policy
by L'nited Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, with President Eisenhower’s approval, today bitterly accused Sen. Joseph R, McCarthy of attacking "the very heart of U.S. foreign policy.
Dulles, his voice betraying emotion, said the Wisconsin Republican wants the United States to resort to “threats and intimidation" to force its Allies to “do our bidding.” He said he and Mr. Eisenhower “do not propose’’ to adopt such methods.
McCarthy flew into Washington from Wisconsin several hours alter Dulles’ news conference and told reporters he had not read the Secretary's statement and would not comment on it immediately.
A newsman handed him a copy. McCarthy started to read it, grinned and asked; “Do you think he could have been referring to me?”
kx-Red POW Uo Address [Asiatic Society
, Dr. Nathaniel Bercovitz, former iner of the Communists on itn Island in the Far East, p speak at the Asiatic Studies Sciety’s second fall meeting on Phe Communist Problem on Hai-Island and in Southeast Asia.” le meeting will be held in the ¡how Cafe in New Chinatown, ■y. 7 p.m.
Bercovitz spent 38 years in Far East, practicing medicine helping to cure lepers.
He was taken prisoner by the imunists in 1S50. and was held “house arrest” in t»:e Hoi-Prcsbyterian Hospital for 35 months. He and other prisoners worked out a plan with the natives of the village to get food. He still lost 3u pounds.
Reservations may be obtained In the LAS Advisement office, Administration 202, extension 405. or in the Asiatic Studies office, 405 FH, extension 347.
SAX FRANCISCO, Dee. 1—
A former Yale University instructor, listed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a one-time member of a Soviet spy ring, appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee here late today and promptly ducked for cover behind the fifth Amendment.
The witness was Donald N. Wheeler, 40. described as a former instructor of government at Yale and one-time employee of the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C.
Wheeler was accompanied to the hearing by San Francisco Attorney George Anderson whom he consulted for advice after each question by Committee Counsel Frank S. Tav-enner Jr.
Almost invariably, his reply was: “I refuse to answer on ground it might tend to incriminate me.”
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UKIAH, Calif., Dec. 1 — Don Mitchell, candidate for the State Board of Equalization ,said tonight “there is no liquor problem" in California.
Speaking to a Kiwanis Club meeting here, Mitchell said the 1 press had overplayed the serious-nes of any California liquor prob-j lems. “A deliberate attempt is being made to play on your emo-i lions," he said.
Mitchell, President of Cal-Cen-tral Truck Company, West Sacramento, is an announced candidate for the Board of Equalization seat now held by Paul R. Leake, Woodland Publisher. Leake is an outspoken critic oi the Board itself and liquor enforcement in California.
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PASADENA, Dec. 1—A 48-year-old woman shot and killed her mother in their Pasadena home, critically wounded her brother, killed their dos and then stabbed herself, police reported today.
The woman, Virginia Judd, and her brother, Albert Judd, 48, both were in “very critical condition” at Huntington Memorial Hospital with “less than an even chance to live.”
Officers said the woman, in a shooting rampage at her plush home last midnight, fired
three shots into the chest of her mother, Mrs. Lelia Judd, 65.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the United States will accept Russia’s bid for a Big Four meeting if close study reveals no hidden traps in the Soviet plan.
But he told a news conference, he sees little chance of success for the proposed foreign ministers conference unless Russia is willing to permit a breath of freedom behind the Iron Curtain.
Dulles said the Soviet Union’s Thanksgiving Day note proposing a Big-Four meeting in Berlin represents a diplomatic triumph for the West because the Kremlin reversed itself and dropped previously unacceptable conditions.
UNITED NATIONS. Dec. I — The United States challenged Rusia today to support an on-the-scene inquiry after the Soviet labelled a lie American charges that 38,000 persons, in-
Music Dean Is On Panel
Dean Raymond Kendall, Dean of the SC School of Music, has just returned from Chicago where he took part on a radio panel to be heard over KHJ Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
The program “Reviewing Stand” is sponsored by Northwestern University and the current subject will be “The Impact of Radio and Television on Music.” Moderator for the program is James McBurney, Dean of the Northwestern School of Speech.
On the panel with Dean Kendall will be Joseph Renstock, general director of the New York City Center Opera Co.: Harrison Keller, director of the New England Conservatory of Music and president of the National Association of Schools of Music; and Anthony Donat, professor of composition at Northwestern.
Dean Kendall also attended the National Association of Schools of Music convention and was made regional vice-president for California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico.
eluding 10,000 American troops, fell victim to Communist atrocities in Korea.
American U.N. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., issued the challenge when Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky rejected the atrocity charges as “Lies, fraud, slander and libel.” He said they were “concocted” by American “reactionary circles” to wreck the Korean peace talks, intensify the arms race, and “prepare a new world war.”
So venemous was Vishinsky’s 110-minute diatribe that Australian Ambassador Sir Percy Spender replied immediately in desperation:	“God	help the
cause of peace.’’ Spender called the Soviet attack “as irresponsible and evil as any speech ever made to this general assembly.” -K * -K
PANMUNJOM, Wed n e s d a y, Dec. 2—The Allies begin today their long delayed attempt to reconvert 351 war prisoners who stayed with the Communists when most of the captives were freed last summer.
Thirty South Koreans were scheduled to lead the parade through explanation tents in a muddy valley just north of the armistice line. The first interviews were set for 9 a.m. (7 p.m. EST).
The Allies announced plans for repatriation talks first with the 328 South Koreans at the rate of 30 a day, then the 22 Americans and one Briton in the group of balkv prisoners.
Hand-picked South Korean officers, resplendent in seldom used full dress uniforms, will sit down with the prisoners one at a time and tell them why they, should return to families and friends.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1—Negotiators seeking an end to the four-day-old photo-engravers strike that has closed seven major New York newspapers announced tonight that the 400 strikers themselves would be asked tomorrow to decide whether to continue the walkout or accept arbitration.
Representatives of the AFL-Photo-Engravers Union and the New York Publishers’ Association issued the joint announce-ment after meeting throughout the afternoon.
No Definite Plans Seen for Ciosed Street
Country Girl' Tickets Go on Sale Today
Now that University Avenue is to be officially sealed off from vehicles, with completion expected by Monday, the question remains as to what will be done with the isolated street.
The answer for the present is noting. “The avenue, contrary to some opinion, is still the «property of the City of Los Anegeles,” said Elton D. Phillips, business manager.
Plans to plow up the street and lay out the avenue in a lawn are only projected ideas, he emphasized, and cannot be carried until it is owned by SC. Right now, this is something which could only happen in the distant future, he said.
Eight Entrances
Even with the barriers to be installed at eight entrances to SC's “main drag,” deliveries to any of the 11 buildings facing the avenue will not be affected.
“The University Bookstore is the only department to which deliveries were ever made via the street anyway,” Phillips said.
When the five-inch steel posts are finally sunk into the pavement, forming dead-ends for all cross streets, the red curbed “No Parking” zones wil have been extended to 40 feet to allow a circular turn for persons parking on those streets.
The red curb extension has already been partially completed.
Official OK
University Avenue was finally given an official OK to be barred from vehicular traffic last Friday night, after a lengthy battle since last July.
After approval from the Fire Depart ment Commission, the Tratfic Committe, the Police Commission, and other county organizations, the City Council passed the ordinance and Mayor Poulson signed it.
Tickets go on sale today for the drama department’s production of “The Country Girl,” a backstage drama by Clifford Odets. The play begins its five-day run in Bovard Auditorium on Dec. 10.
“The Country Girl” is the story of an alcoholic actor’s struggle to make a comeback with the aid of his wife and a young director.
Leigh O’Malley will be seen as the former Broadway star who allowed alcohol to ruin his career and who is given an unexpected chance to come back in the lead in a new production.
Director Remembers
A director, played by Louis Polla.y, remembers when the actor once showed superior talent, and sees in him the opportunity to score a surprise success.
Mary Alexander portrays the wife who attempts to protect her rum-riddled husband from his own weakness. Her efforts alienate the director who, in his youthful enthusiasm, has accepted the actor’s story that his	wife drove
him to drink.
A “Triangle” Drama
The play then becomes a tri-1 angle drama of the	theatre, in
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young director battle	for the soul	0©T TO I	I OniynT
of the weak and selfish but once-great actor.
Janet Curry, Paul Phillips, A1 Cruse, Giles Robinson, and Don Summers form the supporting cast of “The Country Girl,”
Orchestra tickets are available at the University Ticket Office for $1, balcony seats selling for 50 cents. Activity book holders will be admitted’without additional charge to the orchestra section.
FRANK C. BAXTER
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Senate Meeting
Journalism Honorary Initiates New Members
Park Commission • Gets Locomotive
A 33-year old locomotive was recently donated to the Los Angeles City Recreation and Park Commission by the Santa Maria Valley Railroad Company. Alllan Hancock is president of the company.
Hancock is also chairman of the SC Board of Trustees and Director of the Allan Hancock Foundation for Scientific Research.
The locomotive will be shown in the commission’s Travel Town Exhibit at 5200 Hollingsworth Drive.
Seven journalists were initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, honorary professional journalism fraternity, last night in the Senate Chambers.
Three initiates are undergraduates in the SC School of Journalism. They are Don Desfor, copyreader and assistant news editor on the DT; Cliff Gewecke, assistant sports editor and former news editor; and Roy Page, assistant news editor on the DT and reporter lor The Angeles Mesa News Advertiser, an Inglewood newspaper.
Professionals Initiated The other four initiates are professionals working in the Los Angeles area.
They are Harold Walsh, financial editor of the Los Angeles Times; Karl Hubenthal, staff artist for the Lcs Angeles Examiner and artist of the huge portrait of Howard Jones which hangs in the Student Lounge.
Perry Fowler, staff photographer for the Los Angeles Herald and Express and one of the team of newspaper men to be parachuted into Yugoslavia along with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s son to interview Tito during World War II; and Kenneth Amon, graduate of the University of North Dakota School of Journalism.
Army Got One Andy Gall, graduating from the SC School of Journalism in February, was pledged into the fraternity, but could not attend in-
Before a group of distinguished guests last night in the Ball Room of Hotel Pierre, New York City, Deems Taylor, composer and author, presented to Dr. Frank C. Baxter of SC the Sylvania Television Award for “the most outstanding local education program of the nation for 1953.” The distinctive honors were won for Dr. Baxter’s “Shakespeare on TV*,” which appears Saturdays over the CBS station KNXT, channel 2. The same program is due to receive another national recognition as a feature in the December 7 issue of Life Magazine.
Local TV editors have given their entire columns to the Baxter presentation in addition to John Crosby whose recent syndicated feature said of him, “listening to the SC sage is an experience that you would not easily forget ... He has two great gifts —an imposing command of his material and a great love of his subject. He also makes his students wake up and live a little.” Year in Planning Originated by John E. Fields, vice-president in charge of development, the program was more than a year in planning with CBS. The station produces the show in cooperation with the telecommunications department headed by William H. Sener.
Offered for the first time i i thi6 area as a college level coui\_* for credit, the program was given by University College under the direction of Dean Carl Hanc-ey.
Assisting in the development of the production were Dr. R. Harold Van Cleave, assistant dean, and Willis S. Duniway of Department of Development.
The program has been unique in its classroom proceedure for regular registered students scheduled with the SC academic semester. Its offering has been that of a cultural subject and not as a “how-to-do-it” educational process.
Weekly Series
The weekly series began September 26 and has more than 1200 registered students. More than 400 will take the examinations on campus for credit on January 23. More than 5000 letters have been received by CBS and the University commenting on the program.
The entire series is being kine-scoped for future release on the new Hancock Foundation TV sta-j tion KTHE, Channel 28.
The Sylvania citation read: to KNXT’s Shakes p e a r e on ; TV': Offering college level and more adult students of the Bard (Continued on Page 4)
The ASSC Senate will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the Senate
Chambers, 418 SU.
The issue of woman song leaders is again expected to cause heated discussion. A motion to rescind the song leader by law . will get a full airing tonight.
Most women senators have been ' fighting the entrance of female song leaders to the SC athletic scene.
itiation ceremonies because he has been inducted into the Army.
Chapter adviser for SDX is Frederic C. Coonradt, acting director of the SC School of Journalism.
Bob Krauch, DT columnist and news editor; is president; Ed Nei-lan, DT managing editor and columnist, vice-president; and Deke Houlgate, L.A. Times sports reporter and former DT news editor, secretary.
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PRESIDENT FAGG WARNS AGAINST SPECIALIZATION
by Gary Kreutz President Fred D. Fagg Jr. and Asa V. Call, president of the Board of Trustees, yesterday teamed up to deliver the first of a series of lectures to freshmen entitled “Know Your University.”
Introduced by Tracy E. Strevey, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the two men spoke in Bovard Auditorium between 9 and 10 a.m. before an audience that filled two-thirds of the main floor.
President Fagg warned against too much specialization in study. He said that one of the main reasons SC has 16 colleges is that parents want their children to prepare for a specific means of making their livelihood after graduatkm.
“I have come to realize that the specialist in one narrow field is one of the least valuable men in any firm,” he said.
“I urge you to remember, whether you are in architecture or commerce or engineering, that basically you are trying to make a better human being of John Jones, and trying to improve the world around you, rather than how you will make your first dollar when you lea*e college.”
Fagg also saio that the best way of getting education is by “swapping” ideas with the professors, rather than listening to how learned he is.
Call ,wbo spoke first, gave a historical report on SC. university, he told of the horse-drawn streetcars which Speaking of the tremendous strides made by the used to run out to the school.
“The sign on the rear of the car read. ‘Don’t shoot off the back of the cars as it disturbs the horses and the farmers’.” “It was sport in those days to shoot rabbits from streetcars,” Call said.
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