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Show COLLEGE RIOT INQUIRIES BEGIN Three Hundred or More Students Stu-dents Are Facing Punishment , LOS ANGELES, net. 11. Three hundred or more student.s of tho University Uni-versity of Sputhera California and rr the University of California, southern branch, lod- faced suspension and possible expulsion as a result of an inter-universlt y riot the rampus of the southern branch Friday. More than 200 police and firemen responded to riot calls, a score of stuoents were Injured and Roger Vargas, is. .i indent oi the southern branch, was in a hospital after an examination disclosed he had suffered a dislocated vertebra F.xplana'tnn ft tho riot differ A great pile of wood had been collected col-lected on the campus ot the southern branch with which to celebrate with a bonfire a possible victory over Oc- -.cental collage at football here to-day, to-day, OOXFIilOTTN'G CH K.r B r'n" Btorj was that southern branch students sent a note to tho students Of the University of Southern California Cali-fornia defying the Trojans to act the wood pile aflr On the other hand, Dr. gj. t' Moore. M-ector of BOUthi rn branch, declared in an address ro the students of that st i utlon that the University of Southern California had violated a gentleman's egret me:if that neither school .shi.uld imade the other's t am puf . Professor John R. Montgornen' of the University of Southern CallfornTs annonnced an Investigation was under way to place blame for the not and that the faculty v.ould be asked to decide upon expulsion or suspension of the ring Isadora, i Officials rf southern branch also i fondii'l.nj? an inquiry. A third probe Is in progress under police direction, iod an announcement from that quarter was that arr-stn would follow Identification of students lartklpattng 'n the riot As far .is the investigations pro-ce pro-ce ded Friday, they were said to In-d In-d cate the rnul was in retaliation of one last year by freshmen of southern branch on the Trojan's campus. "The ntlre affair was. I believe, oi, lv r.ne of those ntudem affairs i which so often go too far." said Pro-1 Pro-1 fefsor Uontgomery a -; PIPE POUXD Arthur Beeknum. executive score-J tary of southern branch, deelared tho aif iir "on outrage" He displayed two' pieces of gas pipe and three "sap' sticks." which ho said the Invaders had used and left behind them. "Southern branch students merely defended university property." he : added. Police reports stated that the ri00 Trojans descended 'ipon flu Cub, who numbered only 200. broke through a gate, destroyed a fire hose, and used gas bombs and clubs In their j assault and succeeded in setting the I j wood pile afire only after un hour's1 battle |