Miami Hurricane, January 28, 1944

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Boxers Open AgainstNAS At V-12 Smoker Tonight
University boxers will have their first tryout tonight at the Navy V-12 smoker to be held in the Tennis stadium at 7 p.m. Civilian students are also invited, Lt. Eugene Raborn, executive officer of the unit, states.
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Rules Set forMondayVoting; 24 Candidates Qualify
No changes in the ballot for Monday’s Student association election resulted from two attempts (the Constitution exam and the questioning of Sebastian Sisti’s eligibility) to eliminate candidates this week. The candidacy of Arthur Drexel, independent, for justice, was announced by the U. party this week.
The election will be held Monday. Jan. 31, from 8:45 cun. to 4:45 pun. in front of the entrance to the Cardboard theatre.
Election rules issued by the chief justice of the Honor court are as follows: No lobbying within forty feet of the ballot box. All political posters must be removed from that vicinity before Monday morning. Each presidential candidate may have one checker present when the iTbtes are counted. The checker may be himself or his representative certified by a note signed by the candidate.
All but three student candidates who took the Constitution exam Tuesday passed the test. Louise Maroon, Bill Eisnor, and Arthur Drexel were given provisional passing marks and are being retested today. Ted Sakowitz, who missed the test because he was working, will be given an opportunity to take it before Monday.
The question of Sisti’s eligibility will be found elsewhere on this
page.
Candidates for election are as follows:
FOR PRESIDENT ’
Prince Brigham	Joe Heard
M Party	Unaffiliated
Ed Szymanski	Sebastian Sisti
. U Party	Unaffiliated
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Jane Mack
M Party
FOR SECRETARY
Louise Maroon
M Party
Hal Schuler M Party
FOR TREASURER
Bill O'Connor
U Party
Sari Jane Blinn
U Party
Syd Josepher
U Party
FOR CHIEF JUSTICE
Graham Miller Both Parties
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
“Snuffy” Smythe Both Parties
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICES
Senate Approves Prom Expense, Hurricane Staff.
Approval of Hurricane appointments and Junior Prom expenses and the allotment of fifty dollars to the sophomore class was the main business of the Senate yesterday.
The appointments of Barbara Browne as editor and Harry Russell as business manager of the Hurricane for the next two trimesters were approved by the solons on the recommendation of the board of publications.
A vote of approval on Junior Prom finances was passed following the reading of an itemized report by junior class president Edison Archer. Total expenditures for the Prom were |431: sale of tickets, $110.
A complaint that no receipts for expenditures were turned in to the Senate with the report resulted in the stipulation that receipted bills must be turned in by the sophomore class to account for the fifty dollars allocated to the class for its Barn dance Feb. 12.
Bud Thurman and Bill Gibson were directed to investigate the repair of the public address system. Arline Lipson was appointed to investigate the fixing up of the girls’ volleyball court.
Upon the request of the chief justice of the Honor court, the Senate voted to allow Ted Sakowitz to take the Constitution exam since he missed on Tuesday.
President Ashe Reviews V-12 Unit
The Navy V-12 battalion paraded Jan. 22 in honor of Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, president of the University of Miami, who, with Lt. Leon Henderson, commanding officer, and Lt. Eugene Raborn, executive officer, personally inspected the trainees and their quarters preceding the review.
' Ever think that the seaweed is helping to win the war? Well, Harold Humm, ’34 bachelor of science graduate, knows all about it.
Humm, who is visiting in Miami now, has been resident investigator at Duke university’s marine laboratory since June, 1942. He promoted the idea of producing agar, a critical war material, from Atlantic coast seaweed.
The idea is essentially not new. The Japanese have been producing agar for some time. But American agar production was discouraged by the low price set by the Japanese, Humm reports. California was the only place in the United States where agar was being produced before the war.
But the California supply was not enough. So Humm, who had made an extensive research of Atlantic seaweed while at the University, got to work and singled the types of Atlantic seaweed from which agar and agar-like Products could be produced.
Coach Bill Reagan has arranged seven matches against the Miami Naval Air station boxers. The feature bout will star V-12 Jim Leavitt, 180 ibs., against Charles Thomas of the NAS.'
In the other matches, Charles McDowell, 150 fbs., will meet Harold Locklair; A1 Jacobi, 158, vs. Weems Holland; Jorge Garcia, 146, vs. Dick Acton; Harold Levin, 135, vs. Texas Mercer; and Bill Eisnor, 148, vs. Bob Wright.
Entertainment for the smoker will be a variety show featuring Yvette, singing star, and Freddy Daw, his orchestra, and two vocalists from local night clubs. A1 Jolson and Walter Winchell, vacationing at Miami Beach, have been asked to appear, but at this writing it is not known whether they have accepted.
Matches scheduled for the U. of M. boxers following tonight’s opener include a return match against Opa Locka; home and home series with Miami Beach Army, Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, and Miami Subchaser school; and a match with Pensacola Naval Air station.
Graham Schedules Senior Pictures
Pictures of students who will graduate on or before Nov., 1944, will be taken at the Howe Sadler studio at the Douglas apartments, Ponce de Leon boulevard and the Trail, Betty Graham, editor of the yearbook, in which the photographs will appear, announces.
The pictures will be taken every weekday afternoon starting Monday, between 2 and 6:30 p.m., and all day Saturday.
Seniors graduating in February must have their pictures taken by Saturday, Feb. 5, Betty reports. There is no charge for the sitting.
Every senior must fill out the activity questionnaire provided at the studio. The information is needed for the graduates' section in the Ibis.
New uses for agar and other products made from seaweed are being discovered every day, Humm says. Its most vital use at present is in certain manufacturing processes whose nature must be kept secret during the war. It is also used in foods, as a soujf thickener, as an emulsifier, as an expanding agent, and in cosmetics, toothpaste, canned meats, dental plate impressions, paper, baked goods and many other products.
“It may be stfperior to gelatine as an emulsifier in photographical work,” Humm states. “Its most important use is in bacteriology—in serums, vaccines, and in the study of disease-producing organisms.”
Humm, who expects to return to Duke on Feb. 1, is down here to get raw materials to continue his research, which is to be sponsored by the War Production board in the near future. Accompanying him is the director of research of a Chicago firm which is interested in harvesting sea-
KKG - ChiO Powder Bowl Ends In Scoreless Tie
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Outcome of the annuel Powder Bowl football classic yea- ~ terday b-tween Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma was a scoreless tie for the second consecutive year.
The Chi 0*s played defensive ball for the most part, but threaten _*d once in tbe first quarter when Dorothy Jefferson completed a thirty-yard pass to Pat Mulloy, who was tagged f ->m behind.
Roberta Crim and Barbara Browne ¡starred for Chi O.
Steamroller football was played by Kappa, which concentrated op power runs and little passing. \
Dr.E;:kel Leaves For FCC Post
Dr. Paul E. Eckel, assistant professor of history, has been granted a leave of absence from tbe University as of Feb. 14 to accept the position of broadcast analyst f»r the Far East, offered to him by the Broadcast Intelligence service of the Federal Communications commission.
Working in Washington, D. C., Dr. Eckeij will analyze confidential material from China, Japan, and other occupied Asiatic territories. This material is not for publication, but is of a highly confidents nature to be passed on to rest onsible government and military officials.	(
After receiving his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Miami, hjs master’s and doctors degrees from the University of Southern ■ California, Dr. Eckel spent six years in Japan. There he was a professor at the University of Commerce, in Kobe, and as aji employee of the government was allowed to travel in the Far Eastern area for purposes of study.
Since returning to Miami, Dr. Eckel has been teaching courses in history and sociology. He has contributed articles to the Far Eastern Quarterly, the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, the Pacific historical Review, and Education magazine.
3 Graduates Added to List
The names of three of the forty-eight candidates for graduation on Feb. 25 were left out of last week’s Hurricane,.
The three are Roberta Crim, Dorothy Lee Garris, and Shirley Gold mn. '■
weed on the west coast of Florida.
Before going to work at Duke, Humm was a graduate student at the University and a teacher at Ponce de' Leon high school. In his undergraduate days he was editor of the Hurricane and an Ibis staff member.
Forecasting, Humm expressed his belief that the agar industry will continue “booming” after the war, protected from low-priced competition by tariffs.
The necessary seaweed which develops only in wintertime is harvested 1 by fishermen who dry it out and sell it for as much as ten to twenty cents a pound, dry weight, Bumm says.
California can produce enough agar to i supply bacteriologists, but her industry is dependent upon Lower California to a great extent, Humm states. The industry could be greatly endangered if Mexico, of which Lower California is a • part, refused to allow American! to get seaweed from her shore?, he says.
M Party
Audrey Goldwyn Ann Cassel Ted Sakowitz Frances Sansone Dick Farrior Margaret Lund
Student association election was questioned yesterday, but was okayed by Martin Von Zamft, chief justice of the Honor court, in an informal legal hearing held in the Law school.
The matter in question was that Sisti had turned in his petition for candidacy a day late to Margaret Lund, secretary of the Student association, and therefore should not be allowed to run.
All four candidates for the presidency were asked when they had turned their petitions in. Sisti admitted that his were turned in on Tuesday of this week; Joe Heard reported that his were in last Friday; Ed Szymanski and Prince Brigham Monday.
Von Zamft’s interpretation of the question (Student Constitution, Article IV, which requires petitions to be in a week prior to the elections) was that technically the petitions should have been in on Sunday, Jan. 23, since that was seven days before the election.
However, if that interpretation were followed. Von Zamft believes, all of the candidates except Heard would have to be eliminated.
Feeling that the elimination of Sisti would also require the elimination of Brigham and Szyman-slrii from the running. Von Zamft
U Party
Neeva Reardon Jane Brannen Arline Lipson Bill Eisnor
Student interest in politics was demonstrated at the hearing, which was moved from the Law library to the trial room to accommodate the spectators.
Sisti’s excuse for lateness was that his petitions were being circulated by a number of his friends and were not returned until late Monday afternoon. He did not place them in Margaret’s post office box because he felt that someone might object to his using his position as postmaster to political advantage.
When questioned by Von Zamft, Sisti declared that he had not intended the petition incident as a publicity stunt.
Special Ruling Made On Sakowitz Exam
Since the abtense of Ted Sakowits from the city prevents him frem taking tka Constitution exnm, n special ruling was handed down by Chief Justice Martin Von Zamft lata yesterday afternoon.
Sakowitz’s name will be retained on the election bedlot, hut in tho extent that he is elected to an associate justiceship, he will be required to pass an exam on the Constitution before taking office Von Zamft decided.
Humm Finds War dob foi* Atlantic Seaweed
Reva Wilcox Arthur Drexel
Chief Justice Okays Sisti's Candidacy In Informal Hearing On Petitions
Eligibility of Sebastian Sisti ruled that Sisti’s name will be as a presidential candidate in the retained on the election ballot.