Successor To The; Free Lance, Established 1887 VOL. 38—No. 90 3 Debate Teams In 2nd Place Tie Al Shippensburg Penn - State's three teams enter ed in the: Shippensburg Debate Tournament were part of a five- way second place tie at the con clusion of the forensic activity at Shippensburg, Saturday. The three groups, each consist ing of four• members, two affirma- Live and tiro negative, had identi- cal records of four victories and two losses. , • Roughton College of New York and Seton Hill of GreerisbUrg were the other teams finishing in the tie. West Virginia University's team, with, a record of five wins and only one setback, copped the tour- nament 'title which ' last year Was won by Penn State, The rankings were made on the basis of a team's combined record. The affirmative groups of Penn StEgte's 'Team A and the women's team both had' records of thrte wins and two losses but these were offset by the respective negative groups' scores of orie, win and two defeats. A busy week is in store for de bate squad with two of the group, Bernard M. Weinberg '43 and Gerald F. Doherty '42 leaving to- Terrain Appreciation. This day on a tour which will carry three-hour pre-induction course is them to 'the campuses of six uni- designed to familiarize the stu versities and colleges in Pennsyl- dent with the interpretation of vania, New Jersey and New York. military maps in terms of combat. Their first . engagement will be Knowledge of map reading is a at the University of Pennsylvania prerequisite. in Philadelphia at 8 p..m; tonight Choke of . Consumers' Gpods. beftoW'a Itutlent 'group . when they Taught" on hour a week for 10 will discuss, "What Is Youth's Part in the War?" weeks, this course will help the This is the topic originated by average consumer more effective- Coach Joseph F. O'Brien, asso- ly to buy under the extraordinary conditions created by the war. date' professor of public speaking, and Thomas J. Burke '42, former debate - manager. This subject has proved popular with debate audiences all this seaison and its use was expressly requested by the Penn debaters. Coach O'Brien will accompany Weinberg and Do herty on the trip. . Tomorrow night 'the locals will play' hos+. to St. Francis College of Loretta and on Thursday, Dick inson College of Carlisle will be the opponent, here. Late News Fla.sh.es... SINGAPORE -- Japanese terms provision of essential factors for for the surrender of Singapore effective blackouts, that is, those were signed by the British com- which provide the greatest civil thanding 'officers. American, Brit- ian safety during an air raid. Fre ish and Australian soldiers were requisite, freshman physics. disarmed and put into prison camps . Prime Minister . Churchill• in - a -speech-- to- Great Britain last night announced 'the loss of Singapore, but declared that even with 'this victory 'Japan is marching to its dooms. TOKIO = It was announced last night that Japan's forces are mov ing into -Sumatra and are taking oil fields and air dromes. The Dutch are fighting hard but over whelming Jap forces are causing great losses. MOSCOW German counter attacks 'were smashed all along the central front last night. HAGUE A supply depot own ed by the Germans was blown up by sabotage yesterday. The Ger mans gave the Dutch one week to catch those who are guilty, and are holding 30 hostages. ~• • r 'ANI Roland Elliott Talk Scheduled Tomorrow "A ten cent American ham burger has as much bread as the French get in a day, more meat than they get in a week, and more butter titan they get in a • year." This is a statement in an article, "Food, Fight, and the Future," by Roland Elliott, national executive secretary of. student Christian Associations who returned from Europe two weeks ago. He will speak in 121 Sparks Building at 7 p.im. tomorrow night. In Europe, Mr. Elliott visited student centers as well as camps for prisoners, internes and refu gees.• Course Bulletins Ready Next Week Descriptions of six more courses to be offered late this month un der the Student Training for Ci vilian Defense program were re leased yesterday. Bulletins giv ing complete information about the 47 courses Will be available by next week. Partial course descriptions fol low: Auxiliary Police Training.. This course will, provide training which will qualify the student as an auxiliary policeman for immediate usb in case of air raids or other emergencies. Capt. William V. Dennis of Campus Patrol will teach it in three-hour periods once a week for 10 weeks. Explosives and Demolitions. Completed in 15 hours, this course will prepare men for duty with the armed forces, and will give civilians an understanding of the us,e of explosives in demolition projects following .air raids. Blackout . Precautions. This course, taught two - hours a 'week . for .• three: weeks; will - provide training in the use- of the black - light and fluorescence and the Miller F etiored Music . MI Cla s se s He got into hot water with his high school principal at the age of 14—for skipping classes to play on his first trombone. But Glenn Miller, who brings his nationally famous "Moonlight Ser enaders" here for Senior Ball Feb ruary 27, was undismayed by the failure of saicrprincipal to see eye to-eye with him on the matter of jazz versus classes. He continued his musical activ ities at the University of Colorado with .the college dance band and determined on a musical career when he left college. Famed as a "musician's musi cian," Miller got his background with' some of today's most famous swing names_ He worked for Ben Pollack on the coast, sitting beside a young clarinetist named Benja- OF THE PENNSYLV MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, STATE COLLEGE, PA 2,000 Will Register AOPi To Pledge 30 Alpha ChM Places Second As 27 Accept Setting a landslide record among campus sororities, Alpha Omicron Pi received 30 formal bid accept ances as rushing season ended yes terday. Alpha ,Chi Omega placed second, with 27 acceptances from a total of 173. Taking third place was Gamma Phi Beta with 18 acceptances. Oth er houses were Kappa Alpha The ta, 16; Chi Omega and Delta Gam ma, 14; Alpha Epsilon Phi, 11; Zeta Tau 'Alpha and. Kappa Kappa Gamma, 9; Phi Mu, 7; Kappa Delta, 6; Emanon, 5; and Krimcon, 3. . Of the 291 bids issued this year. to 225 women, 173 accepted as com pared with last year's quota of 215 bids sent to 189 women with 162 accepting. From the freshman class of 363 women, 241 were sent bids with 140 accepting. Of last year's freshman class of 333, bids were given to 149 with 124 accepting. Sophomores received 19 bids and accepted 14 bids, while last year 26 accepted of the 28 bid. Junior bids totaled 14 acceptances from 24 bids in contrast to last year's 10 acceptances for 11 bids. •Three seniors received and two accepted bids as three special students ac cepted bids from four bids issued. Refusals totaled 41 over last year's 24. Answers have not been received from 12 women who were out of town. Colors: red and-'green Freshmen Ann G. Brister, Es telle E. Brown, N. Kathryn Clous er, Rachel M. Dutcher, Shirley A. Fink, Esther A. Fisher, Mary E. Gilbert, M. Jane Gleichert, Mar garet L. Good, Gloria G. Greene, Kathryn M. Hibbard, Pauline A. Huber, Ruth Mae Kauffman, Clara A. Lamade, Mary G. Longenecker, Julia H. McFarland, Jean L. Miller, (Continued on Page Three) Dedication Of Sports Lodge Set For Saturday Winter Sports Lodge will be formally dedicated Saturday Feb rugry 21 at 2 p. In., just before the 'cross-ski race, which will start and finish at the cabin, Ray M. Conger, Instructor in charge of recreation, announced last night. . Campus . organizations which have any furniture that might be used to furnish the lodge are asked 'to call Mr. Conger's office to .ar range for transportation and re pairs, if needed. "Contributions for new furniture will be welcome," he added. min Goodman, Krupa, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. He branched into arranging later with Red Nicholas. A little over three years ago Glenn had an idea. Encouraged by the discovery of several key men whose technique he liked, the young trombonist-arranger decided to form his own band. With Hal Mclntire, supporting ,the sax section, Chummy McGre gor on the piano, Tex Beneke on the tenor sax, and Miller himself on the trombone, the nucleus was formed. The combination was spic ed with 18-year-old vocalist Ray Eberle and the blond songstress Marion Hutton. From then on it was a sky rocket trail to success. The new band started in at the State Ball rooth in Boston. From there it was A STATE COLLEGE Alpha. Chi Omega rgiatt For For INFORMS GREEKS Panhel lenic Rushing Chairman Frances E. Haley '43 reminds sorority women that open bidding may be resumed two weeks after formal bidding. Photograph Show To Open Gallery . Thirty-six of the best prints in the Salon edition contest of Colleg iate Digest last Spring will 'feature the'seeend-semester opening*of the College Art Gallery next week in 303 Main Eriginieering, J. Burn Heinle, in charge of the division of fine arts announced Saturday. Including in the exhibit is the first prize-Winning print, "Negro," besides novel still life composi tions, candid shots, portraits, and landscape studies, both rural and urban. • The Digest's contest will be the feature again this year of a special Salon edition. Any college or uni versity student or faculty member may enter the contest the dead line for which will be April 1. • Photos entered 'must be sent . to Salon Editor, Collegiate ijigest Section, 293 Fawkes Building, Minneapolis, Minn. Prizes awarded to winners of the contest are a $25 first prize and others in the• dif ferent divisions totaling $5O. Each entrant may submit as • many photoS as he wishes. All data about each photo sub mitted should be Sent with it, in cluding college year - or faCulty standing, and, if posSible some in formation about the subject of the photo. ' New York, at the .Paradise. Miller went to the Meadowbrook in New Jersey and broke all records at Frank Daily's place. The Moonlight Serenaders went to Glen Island Casino in West! chester and the popularity of the band wa sacclaimed nationally. Glenn Miller's visit here for Senior Ball will be the second one 'for . the maestro. Miller played Junior Prom in 1940, when over 1,200 couples turned out for the affair. The orchestra is concluding an engagement at the New York Para mount now, and will be taking to road shortly. All of which ought to prove that it sometimes pays to skip classes to toot a trombone. WEATHER Snow Flurries And Cooler PRICE: THREE CENTS Draft Today ; New Record Third 'R -Day' Held In Armory From 74 An estimated 2,000 students, fa culty and staff members will re gister for the Selective Service in the nation's third "R -Day" in the Armory from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. today under the supervision of a corps oc 90 special registratrs headed oy Edward K. Hibshman, chairman of the College registra tion committee. Required to sign up in today's registration will be all students (except those in advanced ROTC), faculty and staff members who Registration hours follow: A-Car = 11 a. m. to 12 noon Cas-Far 1 to 2 p. m. Fas-Hep 2 to 3 p. m. Heq-Lav 10 to 11 a. m. Law-M 3 to 4 p. m. N-Rus 9 to 10 a. M. Rut-Te 4 to 5 p. m. Th-Z 8 to 9 a. m. have not registered previously and who hale ' attained their 20th birthday on or prior to December 31, 1941 and who have not reach ed their 45th birthday prior to to day. The College draft committee has asked students and all Col lege employees to register accord ing to the alphabetically-arranged schedule. If duties interfere, one may register at the noon hour or some other convenient time. Students will be . excused from classes only at the hours they are scheduled to register. Those who are ill or who cannot report for other reasons should notify the registration committee at the Arm ory as sion as possible. As preliminary steps to regis (Continued on Page Two) Craighead Twins Spend 3 Months .With Indian Prince • Three months as a guest of an Indian prince! That was the experience of the Craighead twins, John and Frank, both of the class of '39. They contributed a 37-page story with 38 illustrations about falconry in India to the February issue of the National Geographic magazine. " It all started back in July 1937 when they were still undergradu ates here at State. After having an article on falconry published by this same magazine, they re ceived a letter from K. S. Dhar makumarsinhji (Bals for short), brother of the Maharaja of the In dian state of Bhavnagar. This northwestern province is known "as "falconer's paradise." "Bapa" had read the twins' ar ticle in the American journal and a long-distance friendship was immediately formed. Two years later the prince came to America for a visit. After the Craigheads graduated, they determined to return the vis it. Their chance came when the editor of the National Geographic offered to send them to India in return for a story and photographs of the age-old methods of hunting with trained falcons and the pomp of royal India. While undergraduates at Penn State, bath of the brothers were members of the wrestling team for four years. Frank was a 128- pound matman and John held down tlu.N. 135-pound spot.
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