Successor To
The Free Lance,
Established 1887
VOL: a—No. 17
2,000 Students,
Alumni Attend
Grid Pep Rally
With their enthusiasm only
slightly dampened by typical
"Big Weekend" weather, over
2,000 students and alumni massed
in Rec Hall last night to cheer
Penn State's football fortunes into
condition for the home' opener
with Bucknell's Thundering Herd.
"We'll be on the spot tomorrow
afternoon," Coach Bob Higgins
said, 'because Bucknell is tough
er than last year. BUt, whatever
happens,' I'll still say that -fin
Krouse is the best captain I've
ever had."
Speaking in behalf of the foot
ball souad, whiCh could not be
present because oC previous train
ing plans, Captain Len Krouse
said, "One thing-is certain—We'll
give back to you tomorrow every
thing that you have given us to
night."
Another highlight of the rally
was the appearance of Coach Bill
Hollenbach and 15 members of
his 1012 Lion grid team, which is
now recognized as one of the best
outfits in Penn State football his
tory. Other speakerS included:
William.F. Finn '42, football man
ager; Earl E. Hewitt, president of
the Alumni Association; and
Lloyd, A. Dixon '42, newly-elected
IM president, who awarded last
year's intramural trophy to Alpha
Chi Sigma.
Gerald -. F. Doherty '42, All-Col
lege president, was.master of cere
monies. The rally was sponsored
by the Alumni Association, the
'Athletic Assaiation, and "student
government group..;.
Davis Cites Opportunities
for Journalism Students'
.Four'out of five of the graduates
of the journalism department find
permanent careers' in news, edi
torial,, advertising, and allied fields.
• Speaking yesterday ,beTore the
journalism section of the 'Western
Pennsylvania Education Confer
ence at Pittsburgh, Donald W.
Davis, associate professor of jour
nalism, pointed out this fact based
on information contained in the
new journalism alumni directory.
He also explained that the ma
jority of this group are in news and
editorial work on newspapers, with,
advertising second as a field of em
ployment.
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FOOTBALL SCORES
Mississippi 7, Georgia 0, First Per-
iod. '
Temple 17, Georgetown 7, Fourth
Period.
Moravian 32, Hartwick 0. Final.
WASHINGTON The House
Foreign Committee voted yesterday
for quick passage of the President's
bill to arm merchant ships. Despite
opposition from isolationists, it was
almost a certainty that the measure
would become law in the next few
days.
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE -
Nazi troop concentrations were re
ported last night in the vicinity of
the Brenner Pass. The report
prompted authorities to suspect
that a new front may soon open uP.
Rumors that Germany may soon
take over Italy were numerous,
and they were substantiated by re
ports of strong anti-Nazi feeling in
Italy.
BERLIN The Germans claim-
ed further gains in Russia yester
,. day • as . : the new ,offensive moved
• • on.. The High command said that
"the gates to Crimea" are now open
as the result of their new advance.
ori lv B at tu,. " Toll
Millbrook• Boy Killed - •
In Auto Accident Lions Favored Over Bucknell;
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!Richard Hoy, 17, of Millbrook •
was hit and instantly killed at 7:lsun. RBi
ea d y F • D .
o'clock last night by an automobile Al m or g ay
driven by Miss 'Joyce Bloom, of ~
Bellefonte R. D. 1, while he was r•• :►r — . .
walking along Benner a half mile brads F ace Full
..oup Bison Back Missing
east of State College, to go roller .
skating at the Coliseum Rink. ' Activity Schedule mop , From Today ' s Line-up
The borough ambulance was immi:i•
called and Dr. H. Thompson Dale, With between 200 and 300 alum- I;iie'• by-808 SCHOOLEX
a State College physician, pro- ni already in town and many more 'oii:. Flurries of claws and hoofs will
flounced the •boy dead. William expected to arrive before evening, 1::,:-i•i• mingle with the odor of seared hide
White, 17, also of Millbrook, who,when the Nittany Lion elevens, fav
was walking with the 'boy when Homecbming Weekend swings into fig tired over its opponents, stalks and
the accident occurred, was tin-
its second claywith a full slate of i tangleS with 'the Bucknell Bisons
harmed. events scheduled for s the returning before an expected alumni home-
Miss 'Bloom told State Patrolman "grads." coming crowd of 16,000 on New
C. E. Smith, of the Pleasant Gap Featured activities today are theßeaver Field at 2p. in. today.
Barracks, that she was blinded by Alumni Council fall meeting in 121 In this, the 31st encounter of old
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the lights of an oncoming car and Sparks at 9:30 this morning, the rivals, Penn State will be seeking
was forced to swerve to the.side of second session of the Council in the victory No. 21. The Lions have
l 10 scraps to the Thundering
the road where Hoy was walking. same room at 11 o'clock in honor lost
of "Daddy" Groff, the Bucknell
Herd. Since 1887 When the rival
football game on Beaver Field at ry first started, there has never
2 o'clock this afternoon, Players' been a tied game between the two
production of "The Male Animal" BISON BUCKERBucknell's brill- elevens.
in Schwab Auditorium at 7:30 iant sophomore "find" of the cur- The impact of the Herd hits the
o'clock tonight. rent grid campaign is Jim 'Reich- Nittany Valley with loud thuds.
ert, 197-pound husky from Wyo- Bucknell is always keyed up for
"Big 'weekend" activities started
night with .the Varsity . Clb
last ming, who will be counted upon the Lion battle. To capture the
Dinner at the Centre Country Cl u b
This year for the first time the.to handle the line-plunging chores Lion hide means more to the Bi-
Penn State Players will contribute for the Bisons against Penn State sons than a successful season.
at 6:30 o'clock, followed by the
to the Alumni Day program. by , today. "Bucknell is always ready to do
.presenting their first production of student-alumni pep rally. , and the or die when they play us," Coach
both held
the season, "The Male Animal," in annual Collegian Dance, Bob Higgins said. . s "For that rea
in Rec Hall. • son, we'll have a tough fight on
* SChwab Auditorium at 7:30 o'clock etzel Will Speak
tonight. 'Two more items. have been add- H our hands."
Written by Elliott Nugent and ed to the list of "what to do." There Each year the Lions and Bisons
James Thurber of "New Yorker" will be open air bus tours of the fought it out On fairly even terms,
Al M ass fame, the play has been called by campus leaving every twenty min- Meeting neither team being slaughtered by
New York critics a broad comedy utes from the north side of Schwab onslaughts of the other. Last year
of college life, involving absent- Auditorium between 9:30 and noon President Ralph D. Hetzel will the Lions emerged from the roast
minded professors and All-Ameri-- this morning. The Class of 1917 address the third mass meeting of ing pot, ahead 9-0. The Herd last
can football players. Also involved will meet at the Nittany Lion Inn the freshman class in Schwab came up with a victory
s in 1938
Auditorium at 7 p. m. next Tues- when'it knifed the Lions 14-0. For
are professor? wives, coeds, trus_ et noon.
day, it was announced last night. 25 years there has not been a top
tees, and department heads. - Other events on the roster in-
~/
• Donald R.:Taylor •'42 and , Joanne- -elude a - golf tournament,-starting at Penn
Palmer '43 will play the leading
, 8 o'clock this morning on the Col- -"Penn State. freshmen for the: heavy score. In 1916 Penn State
past 12 years have"listened to a devoured the Bisons, 50-7.
roles of Professor Tommy Turner
sympathetic talk by the `prexy' . So far this year the Herd has re-'
and his wife Ellen. The part of the lege golf course, admittance to
as the opening event on the fresh- • pained undefeated. 'They /whetted
former football star, Joe Ferguson' which is gained by an alumni reg- man week program. This convo—their appetites with a 12-7 victory
will be taken by Stanley Danowskir istration badge; meeting of fores- cation, had to be cancelled this over Lebanon Valley and then sank
graduate student. • try alumni in the New Forestry year. To carry en the tradition their teeth into Muhlenburg, 12-0.
Other members of the cast in- building 'at 9:45 a. m.; freshman the• class of 1945 should turn out 'Coach Higgins' charges stubborn
elude Eleanor Friedman '44 as Cle-fbotball game with Bucknell on the 100 per cent next Tuesday night," ly challenged the power of Col
ota, the colbred maid; Elinor. F. 'Beaver Field practice gridiron at A. R. Warnock, dean of men, urg- gate's Red Raiders for •three guar-
Herrman '42, as Patricia Stanley, 10 a. in.; varsity cross-country meet ed last night. ters, but were subdued, 7-0. When
Ellen's sister; Harold Raab '42, will With Manhattan between halves of All- College President, Gerald F. the starting whistle blows this af
play Wally Meyers, the present the varsity football game; and a Doherty '42, raid "The meeting ternoon, the Nittanymen will be
football star; and Robert H. Herr- non-fraternity alumni dniner in the will be, by far, the most impor- seeking to remain undefeated on
man '44, who was moved up' from Old Main Sandwich Shop at 6:30 tant of the year for the freshman their home field for the third con
a bit part, will take the role of P• m• class. I hope all the freshmen secutive year.
Dean Damon. . will take advantage of this op-
Fred Fahringer, speedy Bison
The part .of Mike Barnes, youngportunity to meet their 'prexy'." (Continued on Page Three)
college editor, will be taken.by WPA
Training School . The Blue Band, under the .di -
William Reimer '45. Ed Keller, About 50 specialists in recreation rection of Frank Gullo, will be
member of board of trustees, and on the WPA state staff will attend Present in their new uniforms to
his wife Myrtle- will be played- by the WPA training school to be held participate in the program. Songs PSCA Sponsors •
John S. Keck '43, and 'Ruth Wachs in White Hall and the Zoology and cheers will also be included.
'44, Milton Dollinger '44, will take Building Monday and continuing F l On a On Brazil
a
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the role of bandleader "Nutsy" through . Friday, October 24, ac- Nine On Library Stan. .
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Miller, and Leon Flook '43, has the cording to Scheduling Officer Ray
part of a newspaper reporter. - V. Watkins. Julien Bryan, free-lance photo-
Attending Convention grapher and reporter, will show
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following nine members of motion pictures of Brazil 'and lee
av-i
num Rhem To Represent College the College Library staff are at- ture in 'Schwab Auditorium, at 8
'tending the annual convention of P• .next Thursday under the a s-
a • I
Li . the Pennsylvania Library Associa- P 'ces of the PSCA:
Over Radio At to Tomorrow Nig ht ton being held at .Bethlehem s
H' ethlehem to- ?
• documentary films are ex-
At 10 o'clock tomorrow night ' day: Gladys R. Crammer, Evelyn petted to give new meaning to the
,
Penn State will be on the air „ensel, Elsie Kresge, Katharine M. ' . headlines from 'South America. Mr.
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With a background of College Stokes, Crystal Bailey, 'Katherine 'Bryan, who photographed his
songs, Miriam L. Rhein '43, who C. Dwyre Elizabeth Ulrich, Vera journey this summer, will speak on
Moyer. and Lois Geywitz. • Brazil as a land of contrasts. •
began singing to buy oats for her
Miss Crammer will present a.re-
College'S representative on the He traveled high into the south
horse, will be introduced as the
port on the Summer Library School ern upland region to record life on
of 1941, and Miss Hensel will give a huge coffee and sugar fazenda,
Hour of Charm program,
a -
paper on the "Divided Card Cat- revealing the semi feudal condi-
Miss Rhein will sing "The
slog at The Pennsylvania State tions on the large estates forming
Things I Love" as she enters corn-
College Library" the typical unit in Brazil's agrari a n
.
petition with coeds from nine economy.
other colleges to vie for the semi- Modern industrial Brazil, as
final prize of $1 000 for a second Hort Show Included . represented by such cities as Rio
program appearance and final . De Janeiro, 'Santos, and Sao Paulo
award of a $4,000 scholarship for In Weekend Program was also filmed. Steel mills, refin
the winner's college. cries, and textile firttories which
Both Miss
. and her shap- i The 34th annual Penn State are often built by American money
eron, Mrs. Robert G. Bernreuter„Horticultural Show is now being will indicate the economic situa
left for New York yesterday to 'held in . the Stock Judging Pavilion lion.
start a weekend of entertainment and will continue through sp. in. "Mr.'
Bryan s informative pic
climaxed by the radio - appearance Sunday as a feature of Alumni tures answer the questions Amer
over the Red Netvfork of the NBC. Weekend. AdmissiOn will be free. ica is asking about Brazil
today,
For this trip, Miss Rhein has Sponsored by the departments of as its vital importance to hemb
all expenses paid and receives horticulture, landscape , architec- phere defense is stressed in Wash
sloo 'for her appearance and $25 tune, and• home economics, the ington's plans," Walter N. Sham
extra, show will have exhibits in fields bach '42, PtSCA chairman of pub-
The Sunday program is the ranging from highway planning to lie meetings committee, pointed out
(Continued on Page Three) special nutrition. last night.
Players' Show
Tonight Al 1:30
'MIRIAM .L..RHEIN '43
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