Successor To
The Free LanOp,
Established 1887
VOL. SO—No 10
Earl Gaines '43
Takes Own Life
At Altoona Home
Earl Wilfred Gaines, 21, a junior
and a member of Alpha Gamma
Rho fratbrnity, ended his life with
a shotgun at 8:40 a. m. yesterday
at his home in Altoona. •
Recently called in: the draft,
Gaines had been granted a six
month's deferment to permit him
to return to college in preparation
for the aviation service. His family
believes that depression induced
by thoughts of the war led him to
take his own life.
Gaines left State College to go
to Altobna on Tuesday afternoon.
He gave no reason for. going home
but told a fraternity brother that
he expected to return Wednesday
night.
:Fraternity brothers were inform
ed of Gaines' death by his father
who called them yesterday. Gaines
ended his life on the third floor of
his • home. •
Gaines was born in Altoona on
April 1, 1920. He attended the Al
toona high school and after grad
uation enrolled at the University
of Cincinnati for one year. in Sep
tember, 1940, he transfered to Penn
State to study dairy husbandry.
The young man was a member
of the Methodist Church and was
active in church and collegiate ac
tivities. He pledged Alpha Gamma
Rho fraternity last semester and
participated in intramural sports
in addition to gymnastics and rifle
marksmanship.
Surviving _ are his , parents,
Charles E. and Mary Good Gaines;
three sisters, Mrs. John Shull of
near Langhorn, Mrs. Melvin Espey
of Baltimore; Md., and Mrs. B en
jamin Shull of Newton; and one
brother, Fred of Canton, Ohio. •
!MA Afinounces
Ticket Sales
Tickets for the Independent
Freshman men's Banquet schedul
ed for October 12 at the Nittany
Lion Inn will go on sale next Mon
day, it was, decided at the IMA
Central Council meeting last night.
'The banquet, which is being
given under the joint sponsorship
of th DMA, Penn State Club, and
PSCA, will be addressed by Dr.
Fred Igler of the University of
Pennsylvania. Robert B. Davis '43,
and John F. Zalinski Jr., '43, Mem
bers of the IMA banquet commit
tee, will supervise the ticket sales:*
Additional business undertaken
at last night's meeting was the ap
pointment of Robert A. Wasser '42,
as athletic chairman, who will su
pervise an IMA athletic league in
football, basketball, and baseball.
Tentative proposals were made
for IMA social activities during
Soph Hop-Houseparty Weekend.
The plans were referred to a com
mittee composed of Thomas L.
Reissmann '42, Ralph W. Yerger
'44, and Stanley L. Williams '43.
Giant Leak Discovered
In Town Water System
An 89,000-gallon-per-day leak
in the State College water lines
was discovered early this week
by the Pitometer survey which is
being used to check for just such
waste, Borough Engineer Horace
Gulden reported yesterday.
Almost a tenth of the water
going into State College lines has
been spurting from this leak with
out ever reaching consumers for
probably the last six months. The
loss from this pipe, running from
Calder alley to E. College • ave.,
has been stopped by means of a
modern "split-sleeve" connection.
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EMIMZE=I=
SALUTES FROSH Ex-Penn
State man Fred Waring, who di
rects Chesterfield's quarter-hour
"Pleasuretime" radio . program
every night at 7 and 11 o'cloCk,
will honor the Class of '45 on to
night's show by dedicating "The
Hot Dog Man," written by stud
ent Jimmy - Leyden '42, to the
frosh on the Penn State campus.
The program can be heard over
the Columbia network.
31 Fresh Exempt
By English Test
Thirty-seven freshmen. have
made such high marks in their
English placement tests that the
department of English composition
has exempted them from the basic
course normally required of Xll
freshmen.
'Nearly 1600 freshmen took the
routine placement test which is de
signed to classify new students as
to ability -in English composition
and grammar.
Among those. exempt from Eng
lish Cotnposition I. was a totally
blind student, Charles Hall, a grad
-uate of the Overbrook School for
the Blind. Others were:
George W. Barclay, Karl H. Ber
gey, Lenys L. Blows, Donald R.
Bornman, Ruth L. Clyde, George
H. Cohen, Ethel L. Davis, Harold
Davis, Doris A: Dunkle, Nathan R.
Einhorn, Alice R. Fox.
James R. Krakes, Ruth S. Frei
tag, Elizabeth J. Galley, John Gil
lespie, Robert W. Hall, Anne R.
Hazard, Louis K. Keay, James M.
Lawther, Robert. E. Lowrie, Robert
A. Markel, 'Marilyn Marks, Rennee
Marks.
(Louise Matheny, Julia L. Moore,
Mary D. Moyer, George M. Petzar,
Joan Piollet, Elizabeth J. Quiggle,
Leanore W. Robin, Arthur L. Sim
mers, 'Estell6 Simon, Shirley A.
Tappen, Robert E. Wallace, Claire
L. Weaver and John R. Wolf.
Graduating Classes
Commended On leaving
Enriching Art Gifts
"Classes of the Pennsylvania
State College are unusually in
telligent in remembering their al
ma mater in terms of enriching
gifts of durable, lasting art work."
This observation is included in
an article by the noted sculptor,
Heinz Warneke, and appears in
the September Art Digest. The
Magazine of Art foi• August and
September also refers to the pro
posed project of the Lion Shrine,
gift of the class of 1940.
Both magazines review the his
tory of Henry Varnum Poor and
the Land Grant Mural while out
lining the plans fcr the proposed
Lion Shrine.
Work on the sculpture has al
ready star ted with the figure be
ing "roughed out'-' by Warneke at
his Indiana studio. Final carving
of the figure, a crouching moun
tain. lion; will be done on campus.
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, STATE COLLEGE, FrA
Doherty A
Executive
With student government well
underway again following the first
cabinet meeting Tuesday, Gerald
F. Doherty '42, All-College presi
dent, has appointed four seniors
and one junior to serve as the Cab - -
inet executive committee for this
year.
Senior committee members in
clude: Jean Babcock, WSGA pres
ident; H. Leonard Krouse, senior
class president; Ross B. Lehman,
editor of The Daily Collegian, and
Doherty. The junior appointee is
Jerome H. Blakesless, junior class
president.
In recognition for work done by
Robert D. Baird ex-'42 during his
short term as All-College presi
dent, Cabinet has decided to - draw
up a resolution, which will be
placed 'on a shingle and awarded
to Baird, who is now serving with
the 'Naval Air Corps. To take
charge of this resolution, Doherty
has appointed a committee includ
ing Blakeslee, Thomas J. Burke
'42, and Lehman.
Following a suggestion by Wil
liam 0. Meyers '42, Cabinet has de
cided to take immediate action to
determine the possibility of ob
taining a vacant room in Old Main
which will be used as a student re
creational center.
Although both ping-pong and
pool tables are now owned by Stu-
Continued on page Four
Upperciass fees Payable
Today and Tomorrow_
Semester fees for all seniors,
juniors, and sophomores will. be
payable in the Armory today and
Omorrow from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
continuously, it has been announc
ed by Russell E. Clark, College
bursar.
Of the 15 windows that will be
set up in the Armory, 10 will be
alphabetically listed as follows:
A-Bit, Bla-Cry, Cub-Fre, Fri-Her,
Hes-'Kou, Kov-Mat, Mau.:Pin, Pip-
Sga, Sha-Tra, and Tre-Zur.
A.A. books will be distributed at
four other windows, and the final
booth should be used by those stu
dents who have already arranged
for fee deferment. The usual pen
alty of $5. for late payment will be
effective when the booths close to
morrow night.
Hey,
Students Threaten Hunger Strike
As Chickens Ask For Higher . Wages
If the well-known fried egg
fails to appear at the fiaternity
breakfast table some morning
don't complain to your waiter be
cause according to statistics con-•
piled by Dr. Carl W. Hasek,
head of the economics depart
ment, the little mass of albumen
and yolk is rapidly becoming
very valuable.
Hen-fruit isn't the only item
of food which costs State Col
lege cooks more money. An in
dex of local food prices shows
every . commodity in the fo,a3
budget has approached an un
r recedented increase. Between
mid = August and mid-Septelyi
tier the cost of fowl increased
''.2 per cent.
The economics depattnteitt re
s,nrch indicates that the bigne:t.
individual jump-up v."n 1!):11.
12.9 per cent for eggs. Of great
er Importance to stark - mu: is 1))e
price of meat which showed the
second largest increci, up 9.8
per cent.
Beverages, fats and' oils each
cost 9.5 per cent more in local
stores September 16 than they
ppoinis
Group
Yeggs ! -- No Eggs
rgiatt
tzel To Speak Tonight
Football Pep Rally
He
At
REAL BOOSTER Ralph D. Het
zel,'president of the College, will
add his enthusiasm to tonight's
football pep rally when he speaks
before an expected crowd of .5,000.
ROTC Sandmen
Named By Guilo
Members of this year's ROTC in
fantry band, selected as a result
of last week's instrumental tryouts,
have been announced by Director
Frank Gullo, assistant professor of
music;
The 63 piece marching unit will
hold it first rehearsal in 401 Old
Main, Monday at 4 p. in., and will
meet regularly after that on Mon
day at 4 p. m. and on Wednesdays
at 7 p. m. The band will consist
of the following:
Trumpets—Robert Moser '45,
John K. Lord '44, John Magnus '45,
Frank Garfalo '45, Charles R. Am
merman '44, Daniel C. Gilespie '44,
George Washko '45, Samuel Haines
'45, Edward Gathany '45, Elmer
Strunk '45, Orin Stambaugh '45,
Donald Lohrman '45, Jack Hiller
'45, Harry C. Symon '44, and John
Hunt '45.
Clarinets—Leonard S. Singer '44,
Robert Williams '44, Walter R. REV.
zor '44, Joseph Cannon '45, Leland
(Continued on Page Two)
and August 12. Tile price of
dairy products rose 4.5 per cent.
creals and bakery products 3.4
per cent, fruits and vegetables
2.7 per cent, and sugars; and
sweets 2.2 per cent.
floWever, if the fraternity cook
xvere to buy the 64 principal ar
ticles in the U. S. Bureau of La
bor Statistics' food ly.iciget at lo
cal stores she would find an
sn azing store-to-st.we ria-iation
in food pri:if.t3.
At local store:; charging the
h:ghest prices she w , .;u 1 1 pay 23.6
per cent more for foods than
idicl ens+, her at !•tore.s charging
the lowest le-al prices IDr corn-
Th ltr.,d cob:-
her oue dollar F.t the IcAvest
pt ice store would Cas!_ one dollar
and twenty-four ce.its at :he
highest price store.
As a result the cook who buys
where price.; an_ highest would
have found her fool cost on Aug
ust'l2 to .have beet 7.0 per cent
aeo\ e the U. S. If she
i.ad bought at low:;.; price stores,
hP food budget wontd have been
?A; Iscr cent below the (J. S. aye-
WEATHER
Cloudy
and Cooler
PRICE THREE CENTS
Attendance Required
Of All Freshmen
Enthusiasm for tonight's foot
ball rally and bonfire received
added impetus early today with
the announcement that Ralph D.
Heizel, president of the College,
will speak at the pep meeting.
An estimated crowd of 5,000
students are expected to mass on
the Jordan Ferility Plots at 7:30
p. m. for the rally, which unof
ficially begins celebrations mark
ing the opening of Penn State's
55th year on the gridiron. The
Lion eleven leaves tomorrow
morning for Buffalo, where they
will play Colgate Saturday.
In addition to compulsory at
tendance at tonight's rally, all
freshmen must meet at "The Cor
ner" at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow to
participate in the team send-off,
according to Raymond F. Leffler
'42, chairman of Student Tribunal.
Highlights of the rally will be
the lighting of the ruge bonfire
by Captain Len Krouse '42, and
talks by President Hetzel, Coach
Bob Higgins, William F. Finn '42,
football manager, and Captain
Krouse. Gerald F. Doherty '42,
All-College prexy will be master
of ceremonies.
Preceeding the rally, the Blue
Band will parade from Old Main
beginning at 7:15 p. m., march
down the main mall to "The Cor
ner," turn east on College.- ave.
- tohortlidge Rddd; dicer - M:4*i on
, Shortlidge Road to the Fertility
Plots.
Due to slight alterations in
some of the suits, the Blue Band
will not be able ; to make its debut
in their new uniforms tonight.
Howsver, the suits will be ready
for the Colgate game.
• During the rally, members of
the football team will be intro
duced and
,cheerleaders will lead
the students in songs and cheers.
The pep meeting is sponsored by
the College hat societies, with
Charles F. Mattern '42, president
of Skull and Bones, acting as
general chairman.
'44 Independents Elect
Robert T. Kimmel was again
chosen chairman of the '44 In
dependent Party last night. Other
officers include Paul M. Heber
ling, vice-president; William H.
Bayer, treasurer; Helen E. Dodd,
secretary; and Larry T. Cher
venak, publicity manager.
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BERLlN—German radio reports
indicated that 256 more Czechs
have been arrested and nine dis
tricts placed under martial law. In
the Netherlands the Germans exe
cuted four Dutchmen giving a fifth
a life sentence, while executions
for treason continued to occur in
Serbia and Jugoslavia.
Because of constant night bomb
ings by the RAF, the Reich an
nounced curtailment of Winter ac
tivities, and said eight of the coun
try's largest radio stations now
close daily at 8:15 p. m.
MOSCOW Offsetting a Finn
ish report that the Finns almost
completely cut off Leningrad com
munication, the Russians claimed
100,000 Gellman fatalities during
the last 10 weeks in the Leningrad
sectors, and 160,000 Rumanian
losses for the same period near
Odessa.