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VOL. 37—No. 128
College Appropriation
Of $5,509,046 Delayed
'College, Soil Board
Unrelated,'—McDowell
Special to the Collegian
HARRISBURG, April 28—The
House moved ahead in its inves
tigation of the Pennsylvania
State College today and the Sen
ate seemed ready to sidetrack the
College's 1941-43 maintenance
appropriation bill of $5,509,046
until nearer the end of the ses
sion.
The House committee which is
holding up appropriations to the
College until its soil investigation
is complete, heard today that
there is no legal connection be
tween Penn State and the Soil
Erosion Board, which are being
investigated jointly for non-co
operation with federal soil ero
sion plans.
In answer to a question why
Dean S. W. Fletcher is on the
State Oil Conservation Board, the
director of agricultural exten
sion, M. S. McDowell, said "Dr.
Fletcher is not there to represent
the College. He is there as a
representative of the Soil Con
servation Board." At another
point, Mr. McDowell testified,
"There. is no legal connection be
tween the Board and the College
to the best of my knowledge and
belief."
With the Republicans sending
out adjournment feelers but the
end apparently still far away,
the Senate will follow traditional
policy if it holds up the Penn
State appropriation until within
_ciays:,of_the end of the session.
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(college May Do
Research In Flax
Hitler's conquest of Europe
and, incidentally, America's chief
sources of flax may give the Col
lege a $200,000 job finding out
how to develop the industry in
Pennsylvania.
Already paSsed in the State
Senate where it was sponsored
by Sen. Joseph Ziesenheim (R.,
Erie), a bill providing the money
has now been placed before the
house by Rep. Ellwood Turner
(R., Delaware).
It provides that $200,000 shall
be given to the College during
the two years beginning June 1
to conduct research and develop
new by-products in flax.
The principal American
sources now are California, Ida
ho, Kansas, lowa, Oregon and
Minnesota. Before the war, how
ever, most flax came from Po
land, Belgium, Holland, Russia.
Within the last six years the
College has grown flax experi
mentally with yields of from 400
to 4,000 pounds an acre. The na
tional average is about 4,000. C.
0. Cromer, professor of farm
crops, who conducted the exper
iments, believes that further re
search might produce improved
results.
French Prints Subject
Of. Final Gallery Talk
French prints will provide the
subject matter for the final gal
lery talk of the winter group
sponsored by the division of fine
arts in Room 303 Main Engineer 7
ing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Francis E. Hyslop Jr., instruc
tor in fine arts who teaches the
College's course on History and
Appreciation of Prints, will be d
the speaker.
Post Office Windows
Conform To 'Fast Time'
Contrary to rumor, the Post
Office windows and financial
departments are operating on
Daylight Saving. Time in coop
eration with the Borough of
State College, Robert J. Miller,
postmaster, announced yesterday.
Regular hours of the usual
schedule will continue under
"fast time" to fill students needs,
it was pointed out.. Banks also
are keeping Daylight Saving
hours in accordance with \ other
establishments.
The Old Main clock caused lit
tle difficulty in the change from
"slow" to "fast" time Saturday
night. It required 20 minutes to
move the face hands and adjust
the master clock in the control
room to Daylight Saving Time.
Alumni Drive
Enters 2nd Day
As the first, day of the Alumni
student membership drive drew
to a close last night, incomplete
returns from solicitors prevented
the issuance of a report on its re
sults by the Alumni Office.
Although less than one-fifth of
the solicitors were able to can
vass yesterday because of the
many meetings being held by
fraternities, sororities, and inde
pendent groups. William B.
Bartholomew '4l, general chair
man of men's soliciting, announc
ed that response from students
actually contacted was very grat
ifying. The percentage of the
number approached who joined
was very high, he said.
"I am confident that the drive
will pick up momentum as the
week progresses and by the end
of the campaign Friday night set
a mark for other drives to shoot
at," Bartholomew stated.
He added that an encouraging
number of the students approach
ed in last night's scattered can
vassing pledged their intention
to join the association before the
drive is over.
Section leaders under Chair
man Bartholomew are Thomas
C. Backenstose '4l, Robert D.
Baird '42, Gerald F. Doherty '42,
H. Leonard Krouse '42, and H.
Edward Wagner '4l. Women's
sectional leaders under Elinor L.
Weaver '4l are Jean C. Craig
head '4l, Alice A. Griest '4l,
and Harriet Singer '4l.
IFC Co-Op Surveys Due
Questionnaires on the IFC
Survey on Fraternity Coopera
tives should be turned in at the
Phi Kappa Psi House by tomor
row night, H. Edward Wagner
'4l has announced.
Whiteman Boasts Many
Paul Whiteman, who brings his
band here for Junior Prom this
Friday night, has one of the
leading orchestras in America
when it comes.to singers, dancers
and individual instrumentalists.
Heading the list is fiVlurray Mc-
Eachern who plays six instru
ments and plays them well. He's
equally at home with a saxo
phone, clarinet, trombone, bass
viol, piano or violin.
Marianne, Whiteman's featur
ed dancer, is oddly enough a doc-
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA
Discussion Group
In Semi-Finals
Irvin Hall was the winner of
a coin toss over Beta Sigma Rho
last night to decide which team
was to bye into the finals of the
annual Forensic council's tour
nament Earlier in the evening,
Irvin Hall and Beta Sigma Rho
reached the semi-finals by de
feating Phi Delta Theta and
Pioneer House respectively.
The Ingleside Club byed into
the semi-finals after their op
ponents forfeited and they will
meet Watts Hall tonight in Room
305 Old Main, with the winner of
this discussion meeting Beta
Sigma Rho to select the team
which will oppose Irvin Hall in
the finals.
Co-Chairmen Robert D. Baird
'42 and Gerald F. Doherty '42
said it was too early to get a
definite idea on the student senti
ment on the question "Resolved,
That Penn State should adopt a
system of unlimited cuts."
The finals will be held Wed
nesday night, with Prof. Joseph
F. O'Brien, men's debate coach
acting as judge. A trophy will
be awarded the winning team.
The original entrees were:
Irvin Hall, Phi Delta Theta, Watts
Hall, Pioneer House, Ingleside
House, Beta Sigma Rho, Theta
Xi, Phi Kappa Psi, Beta Theta
Pi, and Frazier House.
Training Balloon
Grounded Here
Because of .threatening storm
clouds, a Navy training balloon,
en route to Pittsburgh from Lake
hurst; N. J., :landed south of State
College at 11:23 a.m. Saturday
and its pilots, Lieut. D. J. Wein
traub and Aviation Cadets F. M.
Vilmar, G. W. Thompson, and
A. M. James, abandoned plans
for further flight.
About an hour before, the
balloon had landed farther south.
The second time, it was deflated
and its cab packed for shipment
back to Lakehurst. Carrier pig
eons bearing information about
the time and place of final land
ing, were released by Lieutenant
Weintraub, who expected them
to be in Lakehurst by 6 p.m.
The pilots had left Lakehurst
at 6 p.m. Friday and attained an
altitude of 3,200 feet during the
night. The balloon has a capacity
of 35,000 cubic feet and a lifting
power of 60 pounds per thousand
feet.
Mayers Show Tryouts
Tryouts for the Penn State
Players commencement show,
"Goodbye Again.'' to be held
June 6 and 7, will be held in
Room 410 Old Main at 7:30 p.m.
tonight and tomorrow night,
Lawrence E. Tucker, director of
the show, announced yesterday.
Candidates should sign up at Stu
dent Union today.
tor's daughter. Her father, a
Pittsburgh doctor, was one of
those rare parents who felt that
he had no right to interfere with
his daughter's talent.
Buddy Weed is the band's solo
pianist and the chief arranger.
He spent three years studying
under Otto Cesana and Herman
Wasserman who taught George
Gershwin. Weed specializes in
Latin American music.
Twenty - six - year - old Alvin
Weisfield.. the head of White-
Thy
By
rty-Two Men Tapped
Honorary Societies
Kreisler Seriously Hurl
After Being Run Down
"Improved but still serious"
was the condition yesterday of
Fritz Kreisler, noted violinist, as
he lay in New York's Roosevelt
Hospital after being struck by a
truck Saturday. Kreisler appear
ed on last year's Artists' Course
program.
Internal injuries and a frac
tured skull, which left him still
unconscious six hours after the
accident, were received by the
violinist when he was hit by a
delivery truck during a busy
hour in Manhattan.
Noted Sculptor
To Visit Campus
Heinz Warneke, widely known
New York sculptor, will visit the
campus today to submit sketches
and construction details for the
Lion Shrine, gift of the class of
1940, to the committee in charge.
The sculptor visited the cam
pus last month and favored the
proposed Shrine site in front of
the Water Tower. Though no
agreement or contract has been
signed by Warneke, he has indi
cated that he would like to do the
work.
Previously, Warneke estimat
ed that a two- or three-times
lifesized Shrine would cost from
$6,000 to $B,OOO, depending on
the kind of lion figure used. The
Shrine committee has the original
class fund of $5,340 on hand.
Warneke is noted for his work
on commissions for the fine arts
section of the Treasury Depart
ment and has worked with a va
riety of mediums, including
bronze, brass, and marble.
Nensbaurn Announces
Players' Technical Cast
The technical cast for the com
ing Penn State Player's show,
"The Merchant of Yonkers," to
be presented on May 9 \ and 10
was„ announced by Prof. Frank
S. Neusbaum yesterday_
Stage manager is J. Robert
Snyder '42; property manager,
Daniel G. Pfoutz, Jr. '4l: design
er, Thomas G. Slutter '4l; ad
vertising manager, Jean C. Esh
'43; costume mistress, Marion E.
Sperling '42; chief electrician,
Robert R. Lyman, Jr. '43; and
paint manager, Hazel E. Gass
mann, '43.
President Sick
11l with a slight attack of
grippe, Pres. Arnold C. Laich '4l
will turn over his duties to Vice
president Robert Baker '4l at
All-College Cabinet meeting in
Room 305, Old Main at 9 o'clock
tonight.
Solo Artists
man's saxophone section, is hail
ed as one of the nation's better
young musicians. Weisfield gain
ed his start on NBC's "Children's
Hour."
Two Latin Americans—Miguel
Duchesne who plays the trumpet
and Willie Rodriguez, drummer
—are other featured instrument
alists. Duchesne is from Puerto
Rico and specializes in Cuban
trumpet rhythms. Rodriguez is
advertised as "Latin America's
hottest drummer."
Weather—
Fair And
Continued Warm.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Bill Jeffrey Is First
Coach In Parmi Nous
Thirty-two BMOC's, headed by
soccer coach Bill Jeffrey, special
student, were accepted by Skull
and Bones and Parmi Nous men's
honorary hat societies, in a for
mal tapping ceremony at Old
Main yesterday afternoon.
The tapping of Bill Jeffrey by
the Parmi Nous was the first
time the society had taken a var
sity coach into its organization,
but since the soccer coach is tak
ing courses at the College he was
eligible for tapping by the hon
orary.
Jack W. Brand '4l, president
of Skull and Bones, and Thomas
C. Backenstose '4l, head of Par
mi Nous, announced yesterday
that the following men had been
tapped:
SKULL AND BONES
R. Glen Alexander '42, wrest
ling captain; Theodore S. Cas
noff '43, soccer manager; Gerald
F. Doherty '43, All-College vice
president; Charles H. Hoffman
'42, boxing manager; Ross B.
Lehman '42, editor of The Daily
Collegian; Raymond F. Leffler
'43, Tribunal head; Raymond J.
McCrory '42, wrestling manager;
Charles F. Mattern '42, general
activities.
William 0. Meyers '43, boxing
manager; A. Pat Nagelberg '42.
sports editor of The Daily Col
legian; William T. Richards '43.
boxing and Sophomore class
treasurer; Charles H. Ridenour
'43, wrestling and president of
Druids; Elden T. Shaut '42, IMA
president; William B. Smaltz '42,
football; and William E. Thomas
'43, baseball..
PARMI NOUS
Joseph Bakura '42, track:
Charles F. Bowman '42, tennis:
Burnett C. Carlton '42, rifle team
manager; William Debler '42,
baseball; Howard H. Earl '42,
cross-country manager; William
F. Finn '42, football manager;
Anibal J. Galindo '42, soccer; H.
Walter Gamble '42, fencing man
ager; Claire Hess '42, wrestling;
William Jeffrey, special, soccer
coach.
John M. Kerns '43, football and
wrestling; Laurence Lightbody
'43, ice hockey; Paul C. Mall '42,
boxing; Morton Saylor' '42, la
crosse.
Charles C. Seebold '42, golf; Ed
ward C. Smith '42, gym manager;
and Elmer Webb '42, swimming.
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BERLlN—Germany is going to
carry on the Balkan attack until
she reaches Gibraltar, and is
about to sign an agreement with
Spain, it was reported last night.
LONDON—Germans are raid
ing the South coast of England
in what London believes to be a
prelude to invasion.
BUDAPEST Hungary and
Turkey signed a commercial pact,
it was announced today.
WASHINGTON President
Roosevelt may take action on the
coal strike in an attempt to end
it, if no agreement is reached in
the near future.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 7, Detroit 2
Chicago 2, St. Louis 1
National League
Brooklyn 3, Cincinnati 2
Other teams not scheduled