Successor'• to the Free Lance, Established 1887 Prowling Robber Leaves No Clues Intellar Escape _Police yesterday found no clues as to the whereabouts of the...hus ky male 'who invaded the forbid den domain of the Van Tries dor mitory for transfer coeds on Wednesday evening and was rout ed in the act of searching one of the girls' rooms. The attempted robbery occurred immediately after the Syracuse basketball game when all the dor mitory residents were returning to their roms. Little Jane Der ick,' a graduate student,' opened the door to her room when she spotted a large young man, dress ed in a gray suit, rifling her bureau dresser after he had ap parently searched the other draw ers thoroughly. What Jane thought would pass for a loud shout for help and evidently failed to rouse anyone's attention except the in truder's who darted past Miss Derick and ran to . the cellar after he latched the kitchen door after him. ' Believing they had the robber locked in the cellar, the coeds; now in full force, called .the strong-arm men of Chief Juba but by the time the law enforcers ar rived on the scene of the •atternpt ed crime, the culprit had taken a run-out powder. Strangely enough nothing was. found missing al though valuable jewelry and wrist watches were lying on the desks. Evidently, the robber was looking for cash or love, letters written in haste and now regretted. Mr. Van Tries was.the only one whO suffered from the evening's escapade. He kept watch in the cellar all, night Cabin Site Okayed By Committee A tentative site for the moun tain lodge for use of recreation groups has been approved by a committee composed of Russell E. Clark, chairman, Ray M. Conger, Max Dercum, and three members of the grounds and buildings de= partment, it was announced last night: - Official approval of the site will be placed in the hands of the Board of Trustees when it meets this month. Plans for the cabin and the purchase of 40 acres of surrounding land will be submit ted. Funds totaling approximately $7300 are available for the erec tion of the cabin and the purchase of the recommended site. All- College Cabinet contributed $2OOO to the amount from the now de funct interclass athletic fund. Arrangements were made by College authorities for the trans fer of camp equipment from the abandoned Beaver Meadows na ture camp to the mountain lodge when it is completed. Twenty-Three Students Present Readings Tonight Twenty-three ? students, mem bers of the oral interpretations class of, the speech department, are scheduled to present readings frpm literature in Room 121, Lib eral'Arts, at 7:30 p. m. tonight. Representing a variety of fa mous authors, such as Galsworthy, - Keller, Benchley, Untermeyer, White, and Lardner, the readings will be given in- connection with the course in speech. -- . . _ ,7c T" ': -.. . Weather 4 , 4 ab. vi . rgiatt l . . Warmer, No Precipitation sass ~.Y ' South America Will Fight German Domination, Says LA Lecturer Although they may want to profit from commercial _rivalry between Germany and the demo cracies, Latin Americans will do "all in their power" . to prevent po litical domination by the Ger mans, astudent-faculty audience was assured last night. "Nationalism and patriotism are as strong among our neighbors to the south as they are in the United States," said the speaker, Dr. Wil liam H. Gray, instructor in Latin American history. He was the third speaker in the Liberal Arts Lecture series. "For every German in Latin America,"_he.said, "there are per haps ten in our country. Individ ualism' was one of the outstanding characteristics of the Andalusians who settled the New World for Waring's 'Hills . -OF Old Penn State' Banned From Radio By ASCAP Imillimituummunimmimmimmiimmumumimil Federal Court Refuses Evidence On Penn Stale Special to the Collegian PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16.—The Federal Court here - has refused to admit evidence on the Gen eral State Authority building program' at the Pennsylvania State College in. a bid-rigging suit being pressed against the Associated Electrical Contrac tors. Charles J. Margiotti, former state attorney-general, is press ing the suit on behalf of a pri vate, individual, — Morris L: Mar cus, to recover damages done by the state by collusive bidding with, he charges, the electrical contractors. The suit now includes 80 PWA-aided projects. An at tempt made by Mr. Margiotti to include Penn State has been re fused because it was not men tioned in his original complaint. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Doctor To Discuss Maternal Health In the third of five medical talks sponsored by 16 campus and town organiiations in conjunction with the State Department of Health, Dr. Howard Power of Pittsburgh, prominent obstetrician, 'will discuss maternal health in Room 121, Liberal Arts, at 8 p. m. Monday: Sponsoring this meeting are WSGA, Mortar Board, WSGA Junior Service Board, and State College Women's Club. During National Social Hygiene Week in February, venereal dis ease will be discussed by Dr. Al fred F. Doyle of the State Depart ment of Health and "With These Weapons," a movie, will be shown. Winding up the year's program will be "Opportunities for Worn en in Medicine in Allied Fields" given by Dr. Margaret H. Sutley, Philadelphia women's surgeon, in March. Lectures on pneumonia and tuberculosis were given earli er in the College year. Cooperating College groups are the College Health Service, the School of Physical Education; All- College • Cabinet, pre-medical group, lota Sigma Pi, WSGA, WSGA Junior Service Board, and Mortar Board; town- groups are County Medical Society, AAUW, PTA, Penn State Alumnae, Amer ican Legion, Auxiliary, Kiwanis, and State College Women's Club. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE: COLLEGE Z 0 4 U“ h. k 4 4 .1 ~ 4 • .4 Spain and it continues in the blood of their descendents. Most ob servers agree that Latin Ameri can leaders are not going to sur render the sovereignty of their countries and willingly become a pawn of the Axis powers." In addition, he said, many of the 20 Latin America republics have taken sterner measures against subversive activities of the Axis than has the United States itself. Among these measures are laws requiring that Portugese be used in all Brazilian schools and Span ish in the schools of the Spanish speaking countries. The threat of German propa ganda in these countries is not as new as most people think, said Dr. • Gray, since it has been present there in one form or another for 125 years. Probably Only State Song To Be Barred As the ASCAP-Radio music war moves through its third week, it has become apparent that the only Penn State song among the hun dreds of college tunes barred from the air is Fred Waring's "Hills of Old Penn State" written last fall. ASCAP made no reply when asked to check its catalogues for Penn State tunes, but Waring re ported yesterday that his songs for Penn State and 59 other colleges are all banned. "Victory" and "The Nittany Lions," both written by Jimmy Leyden 'l4. are in the hands of private copyright owners and not barred by the feud his son, Jimmy Leyden '4l, has reported. No word has been received on other Penn State songs but mem bers of the music faculty have, ex pressed the opinion that, none of these are in ASCAP's catalogues. The "good old tunes" which the music war has returned to the air have not produced the violent re action ASCAP probably hoped for but there is reaction. Jitterbug ging to the tune of "When You and T Were Young Maggie" is not exactly Joe College's idea of a good time. How To Get 'Threes' In Finals-- 16 Tips For Worried Students With the prospect of exams only - 6—Wear comfortable clothing. three days away, it might be a 7—Study in a comfortable chair good idea to pick up a few pointers or at a desk which is convenien on how to study for those all-im- for writing. portant finals. There are probably some stu dents who know all the material in their courses "cold." This ar ticle is intended for the other seven thousand of you, who will be going through the same old routine— chewing pencils, muttering in your sleep (if any), skipping through books that were assigned reading in October, and dashing down to the diner for a fresh batch of sleep-denying coffee. It's really amazingly easy to hit all of your finals for "threes." Just try the following few, simple study rules-16 in all. I—Don't sit indoors and study for hours on end. Get a little fresh air and exercise between your study periods. 2—Don't sacrifice sleep for cramming. You'll really learn a lot more if you give your brain its normal amount of rest. 3—Pick a quiet place to study. 4—Make sure that the lighting is satisfactory. s—Keep the room at a comfort able temperature -between6s and 68 degrees, to be exact. Powers Asks Amendment For Absentee Voting Bill 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Semester Registration Slated February 3 r 4 College registration for the second semester will be held ac cording to alphabetical division in Recreation Hall Monday and Tuesday, February 3 and 4, William S. Hoffman, College registrar, announced yesterday. Any student will be allowed to register before his alphabetical order, but a $1 fine will be at tached if anyone registers later than his allotted time. Late registrants, who will be assessed $5, may enroll at Rec Hall until 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 4, after which students must apply at the registrar's of fice in Old Main. The registration order: Tuesday 1-5 p.m A-Bor Bos—Co Monday 10-12 a.m Cr—E Tuesday 8-12 a.m Monday 1-5 p.m Tuesday 1-5 p.m Monday 10-12 a.m L—Mar Tuesday 8-12 a.m Mas—O Monday 1-5 p.m Tuesday 1-5 p.m S—Sp Monday 10-12 a.m St—V Tuesday 8-12 a.m Monday 1-5 p.m 111111111M111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Local Artists Honored Hartley Fletcher and Lucy Led erer, artists of State College, re ceived word recently of the ac ceptance of their paintings for dis play in the annual New Year Show in view at The Butler Art Institute in Youngstown, Ohio. The pictures will be on display until January 26. Calls Shakespeare 'Fraud' Arthur W. Sanborn, of Bos ton, claims to have evidence that William Shakespeare did not write some of the plays bearing his name. He has offered this evi dence to the members of the Sen ate and House committees on Ed ucation for $50,000, claiming that an adequate valuation would be one million dollars. B—Concentrate. 9—Try not to worry how many more pages or lines there are. Think of the lesson in terms of the meaning. 10—Read over your notes to get the general picture before studying intensively. 11—Spend most of your time on what you know are your weak ll points. ` 12—Don't try to study for too long a period. A few minutes of relaxation will help a lot. 13—Don't learn material and then neglect it. Go over what you have learned an hour or so later. 14—Memorize only such things as dates, formulas, technical defin itions, and outlines. Your outlines should instantly recall the .mean ing of a whole section of informa tion. 15—In memorizing, read aloud and rapidly. 16—Make good use of mnemonic devices in memorizing. For exam ple, remember CAT as containing the first letters of three words to to be remembered—Chlorophyll, Anthocyanin, and Taxonomy. PRICE THREE CENTS Several Legislators Have Pledged Support See Editorial on Page 2 Special to The Collegian HARRISBURG, Jan. 16—A re quest for an amendment on absen tee voting has been presented to the Legislative Reference Bureau by Rep. John L. Powers (D., Alle gheny). The amendment will be presented to this session of the Legislature which now has recess ed until February 27. If Powers' amendment is passed by this Legislature, it will have to be re-passed in 1943 and then sub mitted to the electorate in Novem ber, 1943, for final approval. A similar amendment presented by Senator Frank W. Ruth (D., Berks) passed the Legislature in 1937 but was defeated in 1939 when it tried for second passage. The amendment has already been pledged the support of a number of legislators who answer ed postcards sent out in a campaign conduCted by Pennsylvania State College students just before the last November election. Among these is Rep. Kenneth G. Haines (R., Centre), a former Penn State student, who urged absentee vot ing several times during his cam paign. A simple legislative bill is not considered ample to get absentee voting because a Supreme Court decision in 1923 ruled against it, except for soldiers who are provid ed for in the state constitution. "The Supreme Court's ruling on the 1923 absentee voting act is considered by lawyers as insur mountable unless there is a con stitutional amendment adopted by the people," Charles G. Miller, veteran political writer for the Evening News here, pointed out. The statute passed by the 1923 Legislature and signed by Gover nor Pinchot was assailed in the courts and a decision was handed down after a heated controversy in Lancaster. At that time it was ruled by a county court that the Legislature can confer the right to vote only upon those designated by the fun damental law of the common wealth. This was upheld by the state's highest court. /111111H11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News Bulletins 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M1111111111111111111E Washington Discussion of the Lease-Loan bill continued in Con gress yesterday as Senator Hamil ton Fish of the Foreign Relations Committee questioned Secretary of War Stimson. Stimson answered, among other things, that "The war situation is more critical than in 1917. There is great danger of invasion from the air if England falls into the Nazi's hands," and "I arri in favor of aiding Britain except to the point of actual en tering into warfare." Congressman Bloom, chairman of the Foreign Relations Commit tee, questioned the power used by Senator Fish when he invite sev eral noted men to be present in Congress to give their opinions on. the "aid to Britain" subject. London—London announced last night the complete results of the battle in the Mediterranean last week between a British fleet and Nazi war planes. They admitted that the ship "South Hampton" sank soon after the battle. A raging fire had broken out and the crew I was forced to abandon ship after attempts to extinguish the blaze had failed.
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