Sucasser• To 7 The Free Lance, Established 1887 VOL:-38—No. 92 HarinekiLike A Barn—Gerriaany, with six million prisoners, - , itasrMilie.than. the combined total'of the last .war. Half of ,them are 41ipsians; . of. which only one=sixtli. are kept in Gerrriany. Majority prisoners are orianized . into working cxews,•or turned loose. Re itgees-in camps elect their own leader to.orgatnize them-and possibly( : start Southern France has 26,000 , .refugees in such, camps. '‘littlel. - F00d., -, .N0: HP* In,. European ;;Pri:S6o, -I :Refugee' . .Cailips i . :Says. Elliott Capacity Audience Hears Traveler By, PAUL L WOODLAND "You" must realize that food is the - .'capital question with us.'! That is what Roland Elliott,. who recently returned from Eu rope, heard from refugees, in ternees. and war prisoners in camps in France, Holland and Germany. Mr. Elliott, who toured for the World Student Christian Federa tion; said the mortality rate in occupied countries has increased over 45 per cent. "People complain their cuts do not heal; their teeth come loose "and their eyes are slow to focus. Students can't concentrate because of lack of vitamins and heat in rooms," he explained. "I saw babies whose arms were ink-blue, their skin wrinkled like old men," the traveler pointed out. During his week's stay with a French family, Mr. Elliott said his soup consisted of water with only a slice of carrot.or a few cab bage leaves. For dinner he usu ally ate boiled carrots, cabbage and celery and four times he had meat. "Two of those times the meat was an extremely thin half-slice of baloneY, another time a small chunk of pork, and the fourth occa sion some bones attached to a tablespoon of goat meat. There was 'no meat at all in the shops, and we were able 'to buy a month's ration of cheese—approximately as much as an American cheese sandwich-:contains," he stated. The PSCA-sponsored speaker told of the evidence of positive (Continued on Page Two) LATE NEWS FLASHES WASHINGTON War com muniques from the Philippines yesterday declared that General IMacArthur's forces were undergo ing heavy bombardment by Japan ese artillery and dive bombers in preparation for a Japanese attempt to wipe out . the American forces on Bataan -Peinsula. MOSCOW Russian spokesmen declared last night that Russian forces had advanced 50 miles be yond Vyazma in the north and 80 miles from the southeast in a rap idly growing pincers movement on Smolensk. RANGOON British troops in Burma have withdrawn to new positions on the west banks of the Bilin River. These newly estab lished defense lines are 105 miles from Rangoon, gateway for ship ments to China over the Burma Road, . •._ .4. :. .....n.,...v.„.... 0 . r - Batty !..:,( - :....,,.....„..A . 44 , 1:::5‘: - Tait - .ANIA WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, STATE COLLEGE, PA. Debaters Rest In New York City Special to The Daily Collegian NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 17— Gerald F. Doherty '42, Bernard M. Weinberg '43, and Coach Joseph F. O'Brien, associate professor of pub lic speaking, Penn. State's debate group now on tour, are enjoying a day of rest today, "touring the big town," after a strenuous program yesterday: They will remain here until Saturday. Yesterday morning saw the trav eling debaters at Queens College, Flushing,, New York, while Rut- . gers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, played host to the con tingent, yesterday afternoon. At both places Doherty and Weinberg Spoke in symposium for ums on the topic, ."What Is Youth's Part In The War," a subject origi nated by Coach O'Brien and Thomas J. Burke '42, former de bate manager. -In a similar forum at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 'Monday night, Doherty told a stu dent group, "In New York I saw the keel of the Normandie—but eventually. our army will_ be eight million strong. We must live real democracy. Platitudes are not enough. Freedom and democracy is a pearl—Harbor." Resuming their activities tomor row, the debaters will engage New York University on ..the question, "Resolved that the federal govern ment should control by law all la bor unions in the United States, constitutionality conceded.7 . _ Doh erty and Weinberg will argue . the affirmative side. WASHINGTON—President Roosevelt in a press conference yesterday denied that the fleet had suffered more severe damage at Pearl Harbor than Navy Secretary Knox had revealed in his report 'on the attack. Terming Washing ton a "rumor factory," President Roosevelt denounced certain sena tors for spreading false claims ,and destroying national morale. RANGOON Units' of the In dian Air Froce are reported operat ing with British planes in the de fense of Burma, according to Brit ish spokesmen in Rangoon. LONDON The German High Command disclosed yesterday that British bombers have carried out heavy attacks on Helgoland Bight where the battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and cruiser, Prinz Eugen have taken refuge after the Dover Strait dash. OF THE PENNSYLV Recruits Wanted For Marine Corps • Soph =ores, juniors, and sen iors interested in applying for the Candidate's Class for Commission in .the Marine Corps Reserve will be interviewed in 311 Old Main tomorrow from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m., it was announced by Lieut. Rob ert M. Port, recruiting officer, who will do the interviewing. .The plan, as outlined by Lieu tenant Port, is similar to the Nav 'al Reserve program. Students Who enlist while still in College would probably not be called to• active duty until after graduation.• For those making application tomorrow, physical exams will-be kiyen by *a medical • officer WhO tvill come to'the campus sometime next month. Lieutenant Port, said• that the quota set for trainees from the College is 5 seniors; lg juniors, and 6 sophomores.: Grad uate students are also eligible. Men who complete the •training period will be commissioned as second lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve Applicants need not have completed any course, except that it must be one leading to a Batchelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, or an engineering de gree, it was emphasized. Trainees will be given instruc tion for six months at Quantico, Va. Starting May 1, a new class will be enrolled on the first of each month. The Marine Corps reserves the right to call enlisted undergraduates before they have been graduated, though in that case at least six months notice must be given. Applicants must be under 25 years or age at the time they re ceive their commissions. Second lieutenants in the Marine Reserve receive a base pay of $125 a month plus expenses for quarters and subsistence. 3 Groups To Aid Waste Collection In an effort to increase the col lection of salvageable goods, the State College Committee on Con servation of Defense Resources. representing both the College and borough committee sections, revis ed its plans for the gathering of reclaimed material. The : campaign to save for war production all waste paper, rags, metals, and old rubber, started over a month ago, has now been put' into the hands of three groups who have proved themselves suc cessful in similar collections, Har old W. Loman, College purchasing agent and vice-chairman of the committee announced. The Boy Scouts, the Salvation Army and the High School Ath letic Association will be in charge of all collections formerly taken care of by the 0. W. Houts Limber Company, affirmed R. J. Kennard, local businessman and chairman of the entire group. Phone numbers of the groups will be released at a later date. Town Council Passes Blackout Ordinance A blackout ordinance with "teeth" in it was passed:. by the State College Town Council at its regular meeting Monday night. The ordinance, which will affect fraternities as well as townspeo ple, gave Civilian Defense authori ties the right to carry out air raid protection and blackout mea sures. The nature and color of lights used in downtown stores must be approved, the ordinance states. STATE COLLEGE All-College Open. House In Old Main Friday Night CLUB LEADER The Penn State The other two attractions will Glee Club's competition in Fred be odd games in Old Main's first Waring's National Glee Club Con- floor lounge and the Hugh Bea test will be under the direction of ver Room, plus ping pong exhibi- Richard W. Grant, director of mu- ,tions and round robin games in sic. Penn State will compete with 'the recently equipped ping pong 150 colleges in the nation. room. Waring Assigns Glee Club Song Fred Waring's National Glee Club competition arrangements are now being made by the Penn State Glee Club. The selected contest song to be sung by 150 clUbs in the.• nation is "Steal Away," a Negro .spiritual. Two songs will be sung by each club in competition. One must be an individual college song and the other will be selected by the judgment of each group. Penn State's college song will probably be "Fight On Stabe," and the other one will be selected lat er with particulrr attention - to the voice qualities of the Nittany Lion Glee Club. Fifteen colleges have been placed in the Eastern division with Penn State. They are Al fred Bucknell, Canisius (Buffalo), Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Franklin and Marshall, Moravian, Niagara University, Pennsylvania, Univer sity of Rochester, St. Bonalventure, Union College, Washington and Jefferson, West Virginia, and West Virginia Wesleyan. Bulb. Snatchers Cause Loman More Headaches ; Materials Hard To Get Don't be a bulb snatcher! a- nice 75-watt bulb from some hall. It would look' swell in his study lamp, and then he wouldn't have to buy one. Mr. Loman, anxious to get stu dents to try not destroy these things which are so hard to get, showed long lists of priorities which came to him each day from the government making his job of supplying the College with its necessities harder. He said they have made him more of a student than most of the undergraduates because he had to learn each day the new ad ditions to the lists. "Sure," he said, "students want to pick up little knick-knacks, and they used to be easily re placed out of a fund set up for them, but now,fund or no fund, you can't get them. They really ought to leave them, at least till As for light bulbs, he under- after the war." "That's bad. It's• especially bad 'now when bulbs, like most of the other supplies needed. for repair ing and replacing areare so hard to get because they eon govern ment priority lists,' was the com ment of Harold W. Loman, Col lege Purchasing Agent. He reported that hundreds of kinds of supplies, ranging from hammers for fire alarm boxes to the tops for soap dispensers; were picked up by students from Col lege buildings each year. "Can you imagine anyone wanting the hammer from a fire alarm box?" he asked. "Why, they wouldn't even be good paper weights. Besides, each one of those ,things has to be bought from a plant which is busy mak ing some kind of a gun or bomb sight or something that's needed for defense." rgiatt * * * WEATHER Snow Flurries and Cooler PRICE: THREE CENTS Provide Recreation In New_Game Rooms Penn State's new All-College effort to provide unique wartime entertainment, the Old Main Open House, will be inaugurated Friday at 7:30 p. m. under the joint ef forts of eight campus organiza tions. Included on the program will be .five sepaiafe entertainment Sections with the IMA sponsoring dancing .in the ',Sandwich - Shqp, the School of Physical Educaltion holding barn dances in the newly opened game room in 405, and old time movies, sponsored ,by - the PSCA, in'the Little Theatre with Fred E. Kelly of the visual educi tion department in charge.' • "Offering an opportunity to stu dents and faculty to relieve their headaches for a few hours, the program will present a better chance than a dance to meet Penn State people," said a Ned Line gar, PSCA secretary, who is hand ling one portion of the entertain ment. Only two of the Open House sections will charge admission, the dancing in the Sandwich Shop and the old-time movies in the Little Theatre, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross and the World's Student Service Fund. The price alt both attractions will be ten cents. Titles of some of the ancient silent movies selected are as fol lows: "Daisy Does Her Dartie - dest," "Border Law," "Gay Nineties," and "Movieland Memories." Some of the greats of the movie past featured are Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin. Hostesses for the separate func tions will be .selected today by Patricia Mac Kinney, acting WRA. president. The Penn State Club room will provide lounging facilities plus hourly alternating classical and popular music. 'Three sets of barn dance instructors will be ap pointed by Miss Jessie Cameron and Ray Conger, Members of the physical education faculty. stood why a fellow would want
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