,4 7 4f2r 0gi 5 - 40411:411 IT'S '4s—Five_ of the sophomore class' most beautiful coeds will pre side at Soph Hop, July 10. Miss Betty 'J. Lyman, center, will reign as "Sophomore Queen." Her court of four includes Kathryn K. Metz ger and Kathleen M. Osgood, standing, and Mary Edith Gilbert and Gunnel 0. Bjalme, sitting. Barnet, Queens, Stamp Corsages All To Highlighl-Semi-Formal Soph Hop Plans for semi-formal Soph Hop, scheduled for a week from tomorrow night, July 10, are fast reaching the final stages of de velopment, according to Walter C. Price, dance chairman. With Charley Barnet, "the Sax Sensation of the Nation," and•his orchestra the main attraction, the Hop will also feature the five sophomore coeds who will reign during the evening. Miss Betty. J. Lyman, "Sophomore Queen," with her court of four •classmates, will occupy •a special booth and will lead the grand march at 'the dance. . Defense. Stamp cors,ages,.. have been designated by • the getiii:at icommittee as official dance wear and will be on sale at Student Un ion desk the day of 'the dance. Something very new in feminine wear, these corsages provide an ample decoration and still sell De fense Savings Stamps. Dude ranch atmosphere will be the thethe of the decorations. Rec Hall will resemble a "Home On The Range," • according to reports from the decoration committee. The usual low ceiling •used for dances' will be eliminated in order to keep Rec Hall "as cool as poss ible," the Committee stated. • • First Aid fourse Starts fore Teachers' The "" Summer sessions. Red Cross First Aid Advanced course for teachers will start today at 10 a. m. with its last session end ing at 5 p. rp 4 Friday - . Prerequisite for the course is the standard first aid course.- 'First meeting of the class will be in the Grounds and , Buildings Room in Sparks. • frosh' Applicants Top '45 Figures Applications for admission to the freshman class for the Sep tember matriculation date now to tal LlO6, according to figures 're, leased yesterday by Registrar Wil liam S. Hoffman. .Of this ,number, 866 .have been offered admission, and 537 have paid the initial fee. The new applicants. added to those who applied for .the .June matriculation date, bring the total for. the freshman class to 1893—: 118 in excess of, the total number that applied for admission to the class of 1945. Admissions to Schools' are as follows; LA, 245; Engineering, 168: Chem• Phys, 135; Agriculture. 120; Education, 107; Phys Ed, 29; ,24. 7, g • Aviation Cadet Board Examines A pplica.nts Monday And Tuesday Lieut. H. S. Engart of the Third Corps —Area Aviation Examining Board will be in 407 Old Main from 9:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. in. next Monday and 'Tuesday to exam ine candidates for the Army Air Forces. Seventy students from the up per classes have enlisted in the Air- Forse Reserve to - • . date.- .This, visit or ,the.-Examin, ing Board has been scheduled to interview the newly matriculat ed freshmen who have entered college since the board's last visit. Players Promise Colorful 'Rivals' Unique in many ways, the Players' Soph Hop show, "The Rivals," is a "first" for several reasons. Scheduled for perform ance July - 10 ana 11, a brilliant and colorful scene will be un veiled for the public, according to. Stanley Danowski, . technical advisor. With: action. of the play taking plade in ten different scenes which , vary from' Lydia Lan-. gulih's bedroom to the dueling field, . Sheridan's 18th century comedy is Niue for some rapid scene shifting. In rehearsals to date, the technical crews have cut . the , changes to 45 seconds each. For Robert Herrman '44, . who plays the role of Bob Acres, one of the rivals, ' this will be the first broad comedy part he has ever attempted. The veteran Player's characterizations in for mer shows • have -rangea from the father in "The Taming of the Shrew," to Jonal?. Webster in •The Beautiful People." One of the two famous parts in "The Rivals," Bob- AcreS vies with the hilariovis Mrs. .Mala prop, played by Joanne Palmer '43, •for star honors. The' duel ing scene where Acres -is to meet Captain Absolute in a fight for Lydia's hand, has been describ ed as on of the most laugh'pro voking episodes of the play, es pecially when he finds out his best friend hai been his unknown rival _all the time. Directed by Frank S. Neus baum, the play will be given at 7:30 p. m. both scheduled eights. 04r OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE -COLLEGE VOL. 39—No. 27 THURSDAY. MORNING, JULY 2, STATE COLLEGE, PA. PRICE THREE CENTS No Dull Weekend; Carnival, Parade Top July 4th Celebration It won't be an uneventful weekend for those who aren't able to get a bus seat for home this weekend, for plans are now complete for State College's an nual three-day Fourth •of July celebration, according to Rai Byers, chairman. The event is sponsored by the Alpha Fire Company. Starting tonight, and extend ing through Friday and Satur day, the celebration will include everything from a "horse and buggy parade," scheduled for the evening• of the Ifourth, to a Pet Show, set for 2 p. m. Satur day. Service, civic, and fraternal clubs, as well as college frater nities and other student groups, will take part in the Saturday night parade. Three hundred dollars in prizes will be awarded on the basis of originality, ap pearance, expenditure, and the number of participants. Activities will get under waY tonight on the S. Allen street Midway. With the greater part of the Midway under canvas, the 'Fire Company is . prepared to operate the numerous attractions, rain or shine. Grand climax of the three-day event will be awarding of the $l,OOO maturity value War Sav ings Bond to the holder of the lucky ticket, at 11 p. m. Saturday. Color,ceremonies IrStaifliiifili .-' This morning at 8:50 members of the band school band will con duct color ceremonies at the College flag pole. Start of . the ceremonies was planned for lat er in the school course, but rapid progress has made possible this early beginning. With an enrollment larger than in the other two years the school has been in existence, students are reported to be much more advanced by Dr. George S. How ard, director of the school. The school has set up its.... head quarters in the Alpha Gamma Rho house. Dr. Howard stated yesterday that a band of about 150 pieces would be ready for presentation within a few days. A symphony orchestra made up of 100 pieces is being organized under the direction of Pierre Henrotte. Dr. Howard said - the band would make its first campus ap pearance • Sunday, July 12. .He said a concert, would have been .given this Su'nday except for the fact that many students will not have returned from. Independ ence Day vacations. fraternities Lax In Sugar Sign Up With the registration deadline for July and August fraternity sugar rationing only four days away, less than half of Penn State's 66 fraternities and clubs have complied with the .govern ment regulations, according to Maurice Baum, chairman of Ra tioning Board 14-1 in State Col lege. It was emphasized that every fraternity- should be registered by July 5 in the offices of the Board at 124 E. College avenue. Any institution failing to do so will be forced. to go through an in s;olved legal procedure before their status is clarified, Successor To The Free Lance, Established 188? Dailya 7Tollrgiatt LIFTS CUSTOMS FOR 4TH Charles H. Ridenour '43, Tribunal head, announced last night that all frosh customs will be lifted begin ning Friday at 5 p. m. and extend ing to Monday. at 8 a. m. Fresh men remaining in town will not be required to observe regulations during that time. tanks Lectures In Schwab Tonight After a thirteen thousand mile automobile trip across Central and South America, Herbert C. Lanks, author, photographer, and globe trotter who will speak on the topic, "Our Neighbors Down the Road" in Schwab Auditor ium at 8:30 tonight, is worried about the six' gallons of gas he needs to_ get back home after the lecture. • ' Mr. Lanks, the first speaker on a new series of Latin-American programs to be given on the cam pus, is famous as the leading in terpreter of Latin-American life in the country. The spe4ke?s lecture will deal mainly - with his experiences dur ing his latest trip through Mex ico and South• America to gather material for his new book, "By Pan-American Highway Through South America!' On this trip he had travelled from the Caribbean Sea to the Straits of Magellan over high mountains and flat desert wastes that gradually pounded the metal on the car into a condition known as fatigue. The author started from Venezuela and gradually made his way through Caracas, Columbia, Cusso, Bolivia, and the mountain-top capital, La Paz. The globe-trotter, _ after grad uating from State in the class of '24, took up Spanish at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. LATE NEWS FLASHES MALTA—Amidst a heavy sea and air battle that raged here last night between Allied and Axis forces, the United States aircraft carrier Wasp delivered a great number of airplanes to this des perate fighting British naval base. ALEXANDRIA—It was report ed that Axis aircraft in Egypt had reached this British port and were !bombing it heavily-. However, British troops are believed to be putting up a stiff fight to ward off the invader and have not given up hope of being able to defend this strategic military objective from German hands. CRlMEA—German forces are believed to have taken the Rus sian town of Sevastopol in this area, an objective which they have been pushing on to for the past three weeks. according to the Ger man high command. An authori Tribunal Lifts Frosh Regulations For 4th Weekend Allowing freshmen a short re prieve from wearing customs, Charles H. Ridenour '43, Student Tribunal chairman, announced last night that all frosh customs will be lifted at 5 p. m. Friday afternoon. Regular customs will be re sumed Monday at 8 a. m. with the exception of name cards which may be discarded after tomorrow. All other freshman regulations are still in effect and will be enforced more rigidly than ever, Ridenour added. Five penalties were levied, one exemption . granted, and last week's violators freed as Tribun al heard over fourteen cases last night. "The majority of the penalties were inflicted on frosh who insist on coming out the side door of the Liberal Arts Build ing," Ridenour said, "and Tri bunal is not going to overlook these continual violations." The five violators who were penalized by Tribunal are Har old Earhart, George Grimm, David Brown, Frank Chaplin, and Jerry Waxman. All will wear signs on campus for a week. Members of Tribunal warned all freshmen that at no time are they to enter or leave Sparks by the side door. No allowance is going to be made for men in ROTC -uniforms, they - added. This warning also applies to freshmen who have been entering and leaving Old Main by other than the front door. An investigation is being' con ducted by the seven-man board in an effort to discover who is responsible for the post cards that have been sent to several freshmen requesting them to ap pear before Tribunal. The cards, completely unauthorized by- Tri bunal, read as follows: . "Mr. . . ~ Your actions on the campus have been reported to us and it gives us pleasure to know that there are still some `smart' frosh in circulation." All freshmen ' who receive these cards are requested to turn them in to a member of Tribun al. . Offices Close Early Administrative offices will close at 4 p. m. instead of 5 p. m. dur ing the months of July and Aug ust. • • tative statement has not come through yet to confirm this report. WASHINGTON—Navy Depart ment announced today that they had received official reports that stated that the 1,000 American and Australian men believed to be lost when the U. S. S. Houston was sunk were interned in a Jap anese prisoners' camp. WEI:SfI, W. Va.—State police in this area reported that They - had recovered the bodies of 21 men who were killed when a west-bound U. S. Army transport crashed near here. WASHINGTON President Roosevelt hinted yesterday that the German spies caught by the FBI last week would be tried be fore a military court. Mean while, 24 more Nazi spies were caught by the bureau in the New York City area.
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