Successor to the Free Lance, Established 1887 VOL. 37-No. 122 Pepper Petrella Crosses The Line Again, But Not For A Football Contract "Pepper" Petrella, diminutive Nittany. Lion football star, signs on the dotted line - - without a professional football man in sight! Instead, it's for his fraternity, Alpha Phi Delta, to use the new ballroom of the Hotel State College with a banquet and dance tonight. Left to right are James Rizzo '42, Alpha Phi Delta consul; Joseph Gelfo, alumni ad viser; Petrella, who is social chairman; Joseph Fortuno '4l, ex-coun sul; and M. C. Mateer, manager of the hotel. Rec Hall To Become Amusement Palace For Ag Frolic Tonight WPA Supervisors Here For Recreation Confab Approximp.tely 150 district su pervisors attending the Pennsyl vania WPA Recreation and Train ing Ccinference will end the first week •of a two-week conference here today. ~.State supervisors of recreation and training are in charge of a 40-hour a Week schedule of classes which the 'district instructors at tend. The conference and training period ends Saturday, April 26. Lt. Colonel Philip Mathews, State Administrator, will address the conference on Tuesday. College Speech Contest Planned The Annual All-College Ex temporaneous Speaking Contest, open to all undergraduates, will be held in Room 121 Sparks building at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Chair man Harriet D. Nesbitt, instructor in Public Speaking, announced yesterday. The Pennsylvania State College prize of $5O and the Forensic Council prize of $25 will be of fered for first and second places respectively. A 'preliminary meeting, at which participants will select topics of current interest, will be held in Room 121 Sparks building at 7 p. m. Monday. The topics must be approved by the committee. ~At the elimination round, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the entrants will speak for five minutes on their chosen topics. They will be .grouped' into six sections, and one person from each section will speak in the finals. Final speeches will be no longer than 10 minutes and delivered without notes. Debaters and all previous contestants except prize winners are eligible for the con test. • •,(4.!.V • -\ 4 , ! 1 :1 rg tan , _• Leyden's Orchestra Opens Dance At 9 P.M. Rec Hall will be converted into an amusement hall as Jimmy Ley den and his orchestra and varied game booths provide entertain ment at the annual informal Ag Frolic from 9 p.m. to midnight to night. Each spring, the "Agsters" break loose and present an eve ning of dancing and fun. This year, they are repeating last year's theme representing an amusement palace, with Leyden's orchestra featuring Jackie Reese '43; vocalist, and the Three Beats and a Pick-up, swing quartet. According to Harry W. Korb, Jr. '42, chairman, approximately 14 booths, run by campus organ izations, will be stationed about the dance floor. They will pro vide all sorts of entertainment and gambling devices, such as throw ing darts, pitching baseballs, and spinning wheels, •Raid for by "fake" money, given at the door. Refreshments, served at a milk bar, will be provided by the Dairy Club. Admission charge for the Frolic is $l, including checking. Tickets can be purchased at the door tonight. College Will Repeal Diesel Defense Course Beginning May 1, the College sponsored defense course in Diesel engineering will be repeated to ac commodate 25 Naval . Reserve offi cers, who will come here to pre pare for positions on Diesel op erated vessels, Harry P. Hammond, dean of the Engineering School, announced yesterday. A phy'sical fitness course for prospective selectees is also under way in Rec Hall under the direc tion of Glenn N. Thiel, physical education instructor, with 80 then registered OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA Kaskas Closes Artists' Course Series Monday Anna Kaskas, blonde young con tralto of the Metropolitan Opera, will appear in Schwab Auditorium at 8 o'clock Monday evening in the final number of the 1940-41 Ar tists' Course series. Miss Kaskas is currently appear ing with Madam Kirsten Flagstad in "Die Walkuere." She was orig inally scheduled to sing here last night but due to conflict engage ments the local concert was post poned to Monday. Singing in the 1936 Metropolitan Opera Contest, Miss Kaskas was awarded first place over 700 con testants and appeared in the Met ropolitan's spring season. The title role in a revial of Gluck's ."Orph eus and Euridice" was given to her for her debut performance. Aevteran Metropolitan Opera member at 31, Anna Kaskas has an extraordinary con t r alto voice ranging from low F sharp to a B flat top. "Her voice is fresh and freely employed and she possesses an attractive personality," the New York Herald Tribune critic has said. Miss Kaskas' program will con sist of the following numbers: If Thou Art Near (Bach), Clorinda (0. Morgan), Amor Commanda (Handel, Aria: 0 Don Fatale from Don Carlos (Verdi), Chere Nuit Elden T. Shaut '42, Pioneer Club, (Bachelet), Les Papillons (Chaus- will succeed W. Rae Herrmann son), Zaide (Berlioz), Hymne au '4l, Fairmount Hall, •as president Soleil (Georges), Aria: Divinities du Styx from "Alceste" (Gluck). of the Independent Men's Associ- Autumn (Arensky) S 1 u be r ation, it was announced following Song of the Madonna (Head), We'll elections at the Central Council to the Woods (Griffes), At the meeting Wednesday night. Well (Hageman), Think On Me Other new officers are Robert F. (Alicia Scott), Memory (Fairchild) Jones '42, Mac Hall student help, The Journey (Glinka), Hopak vice-president; Richard S. Kurtz, (Moussorgsky). Miller Club, secretary; and John Stuart Ross, accompanist, will F. Zalinski, Jr. '43, Irvin Hall, play several solo selections, Vari- treasurer. A social chairman and ations on a Theme of Corelli an athletic chairman will be ap (Ross); Etude in A flat, Opus 21, pointed later. No. 1 (Chopin); Malaguena (Le- The new officers will assume cuona) _ . _ . _ . High Schools Compete In One-Act Play Contest Fifteen high schools will com pete in the sixth - annual one-act play tournament, conducted by the division of dramatics, in the Little Theatre (Room 5 Old Main) be ginning at 10:30 o'clock this morn ing. The performance schedule for this morning is "Suppressed De sires,- Sharon; "Will-O'-The- Whisp," Hanover; and Georgie Porgie," Altoona Junior. This afternoon, beginning at 1:30 p. m., "Strange Road," Har ris; "Trees of His Father," Biglerville; "Antic Spring," Hunt ingdon; "Lily," Bedford; "End of The Dance," Altoona Senior; and "Pierrot, His Play," State College. This evening, beginning at 7 p. m., "Cleaned and Pressed," Coates ville; "Muley," Brownsville; "I Shall Be Waiting," Everett; "The Tarnished Witherspoons," Hazle ton; "Jacob Comes Home," Potts ville; and "Antic Spring." Perry Township. Library Lobby Displays Graphic Arts Exhibit Book composition, layout, illus tration, and binding are shown in the new Library lobby exhibit of The dairy cattle judging contest, books designed, set in type and a feature of the Penn State Dairy pritned by Helen Gentry, origina- Exposition, will be held in the tor of the'Holiday House Press. Stock Pavilion at 1 p. m. today. The exhibit is being sponsored The winners will not be announc by the American Institute of Gra- ed until May 10. the day of the ex phic Arts. position. Next All-College Prexy? Gerald P. Doherty '42, next All-College vice-president who will be inaugurated iri May, may present All-College Cabinet with a brain-twisting. problem. Doherty, who has a temporary deferment from the draft, is slated to succeed Robert D. Baird '42 in case the All-College President-elect cannot avoid his low draft number. If both are called, the Cabinet will be left without a leader and a constitu tional means of selecting one. Shaul '42 Named IMA President their duties following the installa tion banquet early in May. New • unit representatives were installed at the council's meeting, plans were pushed for an all-IMA picnic to be held next month, and IMA recognition pins were dis tributed: College May Get Research Bureau Penn State will get $20,000 for the establishment of a business xesearch bureau, if a bill, intro duced by Sen. James J. Davis (R., Pa.) is passed by Congress during this session. . Hearings will begin soon on the bill, which was first introduced four years ago, but is now being considered in a modified form. The appropriation would increase later providing the state matched the federal funds dollar for dollar. The bill provides 60 per cent to be distributed to land-grant schools and 40 oer cent to other institu tions, approved by the Department of Commerce. The purpose of the bill is to aid the small business man by studying his problems through these research bureaus. Cattle Judged Today Weather— Fair And Continued Warm. PRICE THREE CENTS Selsam To Head History Confab Al College Today "The Significance of the West ern Hemisphere in World Affairs" will be the theme of the fourth an nual state history conference that begins this morning at the College under the auspices of the history department. With J. Paul Selsani, associate professor of European history, presiding, the . morning session of the one-day confab will get under way at 10:30 o'clock in Room 121 Sparks building. Henry J. Bruman, instructor in geography, will talk on "The Geograpy of the Western World as Related to Present Day World Problems." "European Reaction to Western Hemisphere Solidarity" will be the topic presented by Alfred G. Pundt, assistant professor of his tory. He is the author of "Foreign Affairs Interpreter" and other works concerning Nazi Germany. Preceding the open forum dis cussion, the final address of the morning session will be given by William H. Gray, instructor in Latin and American history, who will speak concerning "The United States and Inter-American Soli darity." Doctor Gray, former dean of the Polytechnic Institute of San German, Porto Rico, has traveled extensively in Latin American and is author of "American Diplomacy in Venezuela." Earl W. Dickey of the social science department of Altoona High School will preside over the luncheon session which begins at 1 p.m. in the Sandwich Shop, Old Main. The final address will be made by Donald M. Marvin, associate professor of economics, who will speak in Room 121 Sparks at 1:45 p.m. Doctor Marvin, economist for the Royal Bank of Canada for 14 years and author of "Canada in the Twentieth Century," will ex plain "Canada's Position in the Western Hemisphere." The committee in charge of ar rangements for the conference is Doctor Selsam, chairman; Asa E. Martin, head of the department of history; and W. F. Dunaway, pro fessor of American History. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News Bulletins lillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll BERLIN Nazi communiques stated last night that 65,000 were killed and 2,000 were taken pri soner by the German forces yes terday along the Mount Olympus front area in Greece. CAIRO Official news sources revealed last night that German advances in North Africa have been halted by combined British air, water, and land forces. DETROIT Hank Greenberg, slugging outfielder of the Detroit Tigers, was notified last night that he would have to report immedi ately for service in the army. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL National New York 7, Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn 11, Boston 6 Chicago 6, St. Louis 4 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 1 • American Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Washington 7, New York 4 Detroit 4, Cleveland 2 Chicago 6, St. Louis 3 Lazar Gets Pugh Medal Paul Lazar '42, was omitted from the list of Evan Pugh schols who received silver medals for outstanding sehr,:arsl-lip.
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