MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
Southern
California
1»1' Cartoon By Dorothy March Henley
Artists Raise $2500 Money Asked
r ,, • r j For Rea Cross
For Hungarian rund Relief Drive
“Art for the Hungarian student’s sakes.”	|
A tangible expression of sympathy and tribute for the	acu > an s
beleagured Hungarian people was demonstrated by a total asked yesterday to send dona-sales of S2500 at a Harris Hall art auction yesterday. 1 tions to “Red Cross Hungarian Art work was donated for open sale with the proceeds! Relief Fund.” at 1200 S. Ver-
being forwarded office of the V Service ior dist escaped Hur
rians in their time of need, said Francis de Erdely, professor of fine arts.
Art Contribution
His art contributions brought sales of $400. which was especially gratifying to him since
the Vienna rid University bution among n students.
60 Pieces Sold Sponsoring this second SC student body fund-raisinp campaign for Hungarian reiiet were
the fine arts students and Kap he is Hungarian born, na Pi. honorary art f raternity. | Chancellor Rufus B. von Klein
Approximately 60 pieces were Smid purchased two Paul Lan-| American sold at the auction • with 2(X) j daker woodcuts, according to
students and private collector? ; Prof. de Erdely.
Acting as auctioneers were Kenneth Ross, L.A. Commissioner of Fine Arts: Albert Ho-xey, UCLA professor of art and history; and Jarvis Barlow, assistant director of the County Art Institute.
in attendance. Highest sale wa„ an oil painting dv Professor Edgar Ewing which brought $150.
“I am grateful for the wonderful response we had ana aiso this opportunity to aid Hunga-
mont Ave., Los Angeles 6.
Santa Claus is going to skip part of Los Angeles this holiday season and head straight for Red Cross-operated refugee camps in Hungary. Austria and West Germany, according to Red Cross officials.
Money is being spent by the Red Cross and 39 other International Red Cross Societies in operating relief camps in nearby Austria and j West Germany complete with I mobile kitchens, needed supplies and field hospital facilities.
In addition, the Red Cross here is working at Camp Kilmer ! reception center in New Jersey,
TRAVEL PLANS MADE
Faculty
During
To Rove Vacation
greeting, feeding and sheltering refugees seeking a new life in the United States.
Several Los Angeles business firms this week informed the Red Cross here of the voluntary cancellation of traditional employe Christmas parties.
The precedent-setting move prompted Los Angeles Red Cross fund campaign leaders to appeal to more than 7000 Los Angeles films "to follow suit” if possible, and assist the local chapter in
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. XLVII!
72
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1956
NO. 61
Many Theories, Few Facts Keynote UCLA Investigation
By MARILEE MILROY	•
“I’m going to Nome, Alaska to visit my Aunt Thelma! reaching its $170,000 quota Tundra in her new third-floor igloo apartment.” Fred C.
Coonradt. professor of journalism, said yesterday as he ran out of his office to buy a dog sled and team.
This answer, given in a campus poll taken to find,
out what faculty members were J
doing during the holidays, may I city, Los Angeles mth her |
be contrasted with that of Miss j daughter and son-in-law. Dr. and j Welcome A. Tilroe. professor of j Mrs. Lovell.
classical languages, who said: j Dr. Jonh D. Gerletti. professor “We re doing nothing in par- ■ of public administration, is ! ticular . . . just having dinner at planning to spend the vacation J home with the little, old ladies administering to his house, who always come for Christmas. ’ “painting the inside of my house Death Valley	* during the time I have.”
Students May Register Now To Avoid Rush
Materials Ready At Owens Annex For Spring Term
Though Christmas vacation is upon the land, students are taking advantage of the mail pre-registration now available for the second time in spring semester scheduling.
“Materials for the many papers necessary in registration will be mailed to Owens Annex by continuing students and thereby relieve an endless line of registrants,” said Howard Patmore, registrar.
1500 Pre-register
"This mail pre-registration is the only form of pre-registration at SC.” noted Patmore. "At Monday’s count, 1500 students have taken advantage of this device in avoiding the last minute rush, indicative of pre vious experiences in personal pre-registration which have not been successful.” Recalling the initiation of last year’s mail pre-registration, Patmore estimated that 5000 participated.
Final acceptance date is Jan. 19 for completed forms received at Owens Annex. Registration materials which have been issued include complete papers necessary for processing. They have been available since Dec. 17, at door B of Owens Annex.
Adviser's Approval
Though class schedules will not be forthcoming until Jar-2, a list of classes on the registration cards can be approved by advisers. Days, hours and class numbers of the various subjects can be filled in at a later date.
Prior to returning registration materials to the Registrar's Of-(Continued on Page 2)
Saber Pilot Plans Speech
George Smith, the man who j bailed out of a F-100 Super Saber when it was traveling faster than sound, will speak to the SC Air Force Associated Flight in its first February meeting.
The group, which sponsored MIG bandit Jarecki’s speech last week, is also planning an evening smoker for the first week in January. An hour film on the air war over Europe during World War II will be shown.
The Associated Flight was organized to stimulate interest in military and commercial aviation. Any male student who is a citizen of the U.S. is eligible to join. Membership fee is $5, and for this a member gets a one year subscription to the Air Force magazine, a lapel pin, membership card and decal.
★ The Lost Spirit
Just about the greatest symbol of mass hypnosis in our time is the atmosphere encouraged by and for the public caPed the “Christmas Spirit.” This “spirit” comes equipped with certain ready-made characteristics such as the exchange of gifts, thoughts about peace on earth and vacation time for students.
Indeed, the latter part of December has been granted a special reservation in the minds of men. But worthy deeds in other months count just as much as the December deeds and probably would be of more value.
Commercialism is a part of the “Christmas Spirit.” With its red and green decorative stimulus to “hurry up and finish your Christmas shopping,” commercialism has emerged the victor over the fundamental nhilosophv of Christmas. To most people, Christmas Means: What will I get? What should I give?
Especially indicative of the so-called “Christmas Spirit” are recent newspaper accounts about people who won’t live to see this Christmas. Through their contraction of such diseases as cancer and leukemia, these individuals will die as these words go to press. These tragic events happen all year. But to receive publicity only at Christmas is to pay homage to the “Christmas Spirit.” It’s nice to live all year and not only at Christmas.
Then again war and man’s inhumanity to man have not been abated by Christmas. The battles raged on at Valley Forge, Bastogne and the Chosin Reservoir. There have been many bloody Christmases just as there have been many bloody campaigns.
Too often Christmas is linked with a mercenary outlook such as gift buying. All too often people assume a humanitarian halo just because it’s Christmas.. All too often man has violated the concepts of peace as embodied in Christmas.
Let’s not save up all the good of the year just for Christmas. Let’s live every day of the year with the thoughts of peace and good wilt. So it’s down with the “Christmas Spirit” and up with the spirit of “Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men”—365 days a year.—Joe Nevens
Visiting Fliers Hit Apathy to Service
Col. Robert F. Hardy, in his annual visit to SC’s AFROTC Det. 60, said today that the “product looks good” but he wishes there were more of the cadets.
“Why do you here at SC have such a small number of male students interested in the AFROTC?” Colonel Hardy chided. Hardy is Chief Liaison Officer in charg? of Air Force Liaison Area “J.” This area includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Hawaii. Assisting him in his visit is Lt. Col. Robert G. Goforth.
Average Participation
SC’s participation in the AFROTC falls below average, the Colonel remarked as he sized up his district. The atmosphere at SC, as it appears to the Colonel, is one of ignorance and apathy concerning the college student’s military duty.
“Most college students will be called to military service.” Hardy warned. A commission as an officer is the Colonel’s idea of a college man doing tne most good for himself and his country.
Industrv will advance the of-
ficer with a degree faster than those lacking the experience of military command. As an officer it is possible to work with and handle people, a prerequisite to advancement in the business world, he said.
“The Air Force doesn’t force officers finishing their first tour of duty to sign up again.” Hardy emphasized. He said that the Air Force wants men with the “will to serve,” not jelly fish whose spines must be supported with orders to serve.
Approximately 50 per cent of the resei /e officers do sign for another tour of duty.
Observed Establishment
Today is the second and last day of Hardy’s and Goforth's visit to Det. 60. The mission of the two Air Force liaison officers is to observe the AFROTC establishment here. They are to point out weaknesses and strong points of the ROTC.
Hardy and Goforth attend air science classes, review ROTC cadets at drill and observe the unit’s personnel at work. They have already visited UCLA and Loyola University.
Abrams Revealed As Troublemaker
By JIM BYLIN
New theories were as abundant as the number of new facts were lacking today in the death of UCLA leftwinger, Sheldon Joseph Abrams, as the Santa Monica Police Department moved its renewed Investigation into high gear.	r
Detective Captain Robert Gug- build-up large enough to cause genmos has been assigned to death over a long period of time.
the case by Chief Otto Faulkner and hinted to the DT yesterday that the police are still working on the assumption that the death wras accidental.
“That coroner’s report looks pretty good; it’s factual,” he said.
The captain was referring to a report released late last week by the medical examiners which disclosed for the first time since the Red hearings began that the original idea of accidental death by carbon monoxide poisoning was possibly correct.
The report stated that the natural gas flame in the Servel Refrigerator had been partially blocked by a oil cloth. Tests taken over the flame showed the possibility of a carbon monoxide
BIG HUDDLE
WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
Russians Flatly American Tank
Reject
Protest
Mrs. Mary L. McCammond. head resident at Harris Hall has changed her plans from going to Death Valley to “spending the vuletide season in that alive
Official
Notice
The Christmas iwess for all University students will be from Dec. 19-Ian. 1, inclusive.
AH luk^ih Offices will be clo«ed from Friday noon through Tuesday (Dec. 21-25 Incl.) and from Friday noon through Tuesday (Dec. 28-Jan.
1 incl).
E. C. Bolton R. D. Fisher A. S. Raubenheimer.
Another professor of public administration is planning to do, nothing hut “twiddle my thumbs.’’ This is Johnv P. Ken- j ney, who has returned recently i from a trip to Shepperd Air j Force Bise in Texas and “is c*xhausted.”
Well; Gobble, Gobble!
A member of the w orkers staff in the Information Office, Miss Bliss, said. “I haven’t the faintest idea in the world of what I’ll do . . . possibly have dinner with relatives, but there’s no time to go where I want to go.”
Christmas at a ranch—his own —where cows, milk and butter ; give “country flavor to Christmas’’ and where his own Christ-: mas turkey is raised will be spent by Dr. Paul Greeley, ; Health Center director and his wife. Dr. Greeley will, however, ''go back and forth every day from the ranch in Mint Canyon to the Health Center in L.A.”
From I'nited Press WASHINGTON — Russia yesterday flatly rejected an American protest against the stationing of Soviet tanks in front of the U.S. legation in Budapest to help quell recent demonstrations by desperate Hungarian women.
The action came amid indi-ations that this country may give equally short shrift to Soviet protests that three U.S. bombers violated Siberian territory on a reconnaissance flight last week. Air Force officials denied any knowledge of such a flight.
Russia’s response to the U.S. protest was delivered to the State Department by Soviet Charge D’Affairs Sergei R. Striganov. He called the Dec. 6 complaint "a nunjustified attempt to interfere in relations between the USSR and the
Hungarian Peoples Republic.” The United States had accused Russia of “interfering” with the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Hungary by stationing the tanks in front of the legation. It noted pointedly that the legation in Budapest’s "Freedom Square” is on Hungarian, not Russian, territory.
LONDON — A gasoline black market was reported flourishing in Britain yesterday on the first day of all-out gas rationing that limits ordinary British motorists j to 200 miles of driving a month.
The Laborite Daily Herald said gas ration coupons were selling from about 30 cents apiece “to whatever the racketeer thought you could pay.”
Rationing went into effect at midnight Sunday night and private British motorists got through the first day of restrictions with some grumbling but
no immediate discomfort. Most drivers had their tanks full to begin with.
But farmers, merchants and truckers protested in letters to lawmakers that the stringent rationing would hinder their operations and might bring about a nationwide transport breakdown. * * * SOUTHAMPTON, England Two thousand British troops returned here by sea from the Suez Canal zone yesterday for Christmas at home.
The soldiers came ashore from the troop ship Dilwara. They quickly boarded five special trains that sped them en route to holiday reunions with their families.
The troops formed the first big unit of Britain’s Suez invasion force to return by troop ship from Port Said.
BUDAPEST — The Communist government staged martial law trials throughout Hungary yesterday to stamp out the anti-Communist rebellion. At least tw7o men were sentenced to death on the gallows.
But despite the threat of summary court martials and immediate execution on conviction, rebels still proclaimed theif defiance. Posters appeared on walls in Budapest today demanding that the Russian forces in the country be replaced by Polish troops.
Fewer Russian rtoops were observed here yesterday. Sources said “some troops” had been pulled out but only to be regrouped. They said the withdrawal was minor and temporary. It apparently had nothing to do with the demand tor their replacement by Poles.,
India s Nehru Meets With Ike on Farm
GETTYSBURG, Pa., — (UP) — President Eisenhower and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru huddled on the glassed-in porch of the president's farm yesterday for a frank man-to-man discussion of world problems.
While the talks were conducted in utmost privacy, some American and Indian officials believed one by-product might be an American decision to provide aid for India’s second five-year plan for bolstering its economy.
The idea would be to help India demonstrate to other Asian and African nations that Democracy is better equipped than Communism to improve their economic lot. Many neutral nations are keeping close watch on the relative progress of India and Communist China.
Foggy Washington
Mr. Eisenhower and Nehru drove 85 miles from foggy Washington to the cool but sun-splashed Pennsylvania farm for their talk. They conferred on the porch overlooking the Gettysburg battlefield before touring the area in a jeep and then moving indoors at nightfall.
The White House did not say what subjects were discussed. But in addition to possible U. S. aid, the heads of the world’s two biggest democracies nresumably touched on such things as the eastern European situation. Red China, disarmament and the Middle East dispute.
Not seeking Aid
Nehru did not come to this country seeking aid. But he has | found here an acute awareness I of the potential importance to the future of the world of the industrial race between India and Red China.
This awareness has prompted a number of the President’s advisors, including former ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, to urge that the United States provide India with help in carrying out her second five-year plan.
It was brought out last week by two expert toxicologists at the State Senate Committee on un-American Activities on Red infiltration at UCLA that natural gas does not produce CO unless incomplete combustion occurs.
Refused To Comment
Captain Guggenmos, concerning his personal opinion on the case, refused to comment. He also refused to give out any information on whether the police are working with Richard E. Combs, counsel for the state committee.
An official connected with the SMPD. however, said that the police have always been and are still satisfied with their original supposition that it was accidental.
Reports last week that Abrams’ death may have been caused by carbon monoxide shot through his wall while he slept, were put off as “nonsense” by the officials.
He could not, however, explain why hundreds of Communist and Socialist papers were strewn about the small Santa Monica bungalow'.
A Veteran Agitator
Abrams, 25 years-old at the time of his April 20 death, was already a veteran agitator of student disobedience.
Before coming to UCLA as a graduate student, correspondence found !n his shabby room (Continued on Page 2)
U.S.Post Office Loaded Down
NEW YORK— (UP) — Americans will exchange two billion Christmas cards this year according to manufacturers of the decorative pasteboards.
Depending on your individual taste and the size of your pocket-book, the “season's greetings’’ cards will set you back anywhere from two cents to two dollars per unit.
Significant Change
Look for a significant change in this year’s Christmas cards. You will note a definite shift to religious themes. In recent times, religious Christmas cards accounted for less than five per cent of the total sold. This year the proportion of religious Christmas cards will be well over 25 per cent, according to Milton K. Harrington, president of (Chapel Art Studios) the industry’s sole exclusive manufacturer of religious Christmas cards.
Rise in Thought
He attributes the change to the general rise in religious thought and church membership, and to the determination to “put Christ back into Christmas,” expressed from many pulpits in recent years.
The Holy Family will be dominant on this year’s Yule cards, according to Harrington.
Baxter Tape To Be Aired
KUSC-FM will present the i tape recorded program of Dr. I Frank Baxter of the English de-partment in the 17th annual Christmas Readings which were! presented in Bovard Auditorium i Dec. 12.
It will be broadcast on Christmas Eve at 6 p.m. on 91.5 megacycles on the FM dial. The show is produced by Bill Thompson and Larry Lichty.
Yuletide prose and poetry taken from various periods of literature will be presented, includ- ; ing a part of Dicken’s “A Christ- , mas Carol.”
Official
Notice
The following is the schedule of hours for the university dispensary: •
Dec. 17, 18 and 19. 10-1 and 2-4 p.m.
Dee. 20 and 21. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dec. 24 and 25, Closed Dec. 26, 27, 28, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, Closed Jan. 2, 1957, Resume regular hours 10 to 1 p.m. and 2-5:30 p.m.
May we suggest you save this schedule for easy reference during the holiday period.
Edgar Lee Hunt, Pharmacist Mgr. -1-