al% .. I' .. 4, :V> _ 0 -"4......... ..... A,\\N . \ - t A OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Weather VOL. 39—No. 32 Jap-American Incites Petitio Student-Faculfy Group . Undertakes Campaign (SEE EDITORIAL) The voice of Penn State student opinion is rising to - the support of the young American citizens who have been refused admission to the College because of their Jap anese parentage. A petition campaign in behalf of the "ostracized Americans" rolled underway last night, organized by a group of volunteer students and faculty members. ' Hundreds of petitions have been mimeographed and will be distri buted throughout classrooms and living groups. Petitions are also on hand at Student Union desk and at The Daily Collegian office. Acting independently, mean while, members of the Nittany CooperatiVe Society,• in a special meeting yesterday, voted unani mously to support the "movement for democracy." • The present controversy is one of the "most fundamentally im portant" before the College in years, Jack M. Lishan, graduate instructor in economics, and one of the leaders in the petition cam paign, stated last night. "Sign up for democracy" is the watchword .of the student-faculty volunteer group, according to Lis han. A concise summary of its position is to be found on every petition. - . . Appearing on the•petitions is the following: - "Vier-the-undersigned- students, feel that diScrimination •against American . -born . citirini _of whEit ever race or . creed seems to divide our nation and helps win the war ---fOr thd•Axis.. "We therefore wish to - protest against the unfair exclusion of American studenti from the Penn sylvania State College because Of their Japanese parentage: "We consider thii an insult to the broadmindedness and fairplay (Continued on Page Three) Three Penn Staters Go•On Milk Wagon Set 1-Year Records Sally, Topsy, and Starlight are spreading Penn State's name and fame. • • The three stalwart Penn Staters have set records 'of endurance, quantity, and quality that can well rank with the College's oth er record-breaking achievements. Sally, first . of the all-star trio, has just completed' a one-year re cord of 22,266 pounds of milk, with 709 pounds of butterfat. This is nearly four time the produc tion of the average dairy -cow in America, and gives a national re- cord to Penn State Creator . Sally, .as the specially 'bred' Holstein cow is known officially, : • Topsy, whose full name is Pen state Inka Topsy Ormbsy, came through with a record 9;512 quarts of milk and 751 pounds of butter fat during last-year's test run. If all the nation's dairy cows 'were equal to Topsy there would be an overabundance of milk, butter and' cheese for the United States, Great Britain, and all the allied nations in exile. Starlight, surpassing everyone but her Penn State sisters, pro duced a total of 15,92.3 .pounds of Milk. with 559 pounds of butter fat for the past-year. The record performances of the '.(Continued on Page Two) ' Controversy n Campaign 'The Rivals' Opens Summer Season For Penn State Players Efforts of a month's rehearsals will culminate tonight when the Penn State Players present, their first Summer show, "The Rivals," in Schwab Auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's famous comedy of manners of the 18th century, "The Rivals" ranks as one of the three outstanding comedies of that period along with "She Stoops to Conquer" and Sheridan's "School For Scan dal." Starring Joanne Palmer '43 as Mrs. Malaprop, Robert H. Herr man '44 as Bob Acres, and James Payne '45 as Captain Absolute, the play is the humorous tale of sev eral involved love affairs - which eventually lead to a duel and oth er hilarious sequences. Lydia Lauguish, the little heroine over whom all the fuss is made, is. play ed by Dorothy Koush - '44, a new comer to the Penn State stage. As Captain Absolute's -fiery father, William Emmons '44 bids fair to repeat his success in the role of, Father Hogan in last se mester's "The Beautiful People." An economics instructor, Miss Lois Reisinger, - is playing. the part of Julia, who figureS in another love 'Sir Luc ious O'Trigger, the love-sick Irishman who thinks Mrs. Malaprop is Lydia, is enacted 'by HarOld - Chidndff • '457 - - M TO. Z Registration For Gasoline Set. For Today The horseless carriage of by gone days . , may become a gasless carriage if those whose last names begin with letters from im through Z don't sign tip 'for gas ration cards at State" College High School from . 1 to 9 P. M. 'today. The school will ,also be open Saturday for persons unable to ap ply at yesterday's and today's re gistration sessions. Motorists are asked to use the Fairmount avenue entrance into the high chool audi torium where A cards and extra use forms will ' be distributed. OWner_'s card and number of the applicant's Federal. Use Stamp must be presented. • Prof 's Findings Affect War Investigations of 20 years, con ducted by Dr. Joseph H. Simons, professor of physical chemistry, of a substance known as, hydrogen fluoride are making a direct con tribution to the war effort,in three fields. Ptioduction of synthetic. rubber, of 100-octance aviation gasoline, and of substances using aluminum chloride as a chemical reactor, have,all been affected.by Dr. Si mons', discoveries of neN;it uses for hydrogen fluoride. One million tons .of synthetic rubber, it has been .estimated, will be needed by, the allied nations in 1944 for war requirements Buna-S rubber, most economi cally promising and highest in qUality of the three types of syn thetic rubber generally considered as replacements . for the natural product, could not be considered as a solution to the rubber short- FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 10, STATE COLLEGE, PA Paper's Meteorology Expert Predicts Fair Weekend Weather Clear Soph Hop weather will prevail for the second year in a row tonight, and courageous coeds can safely leave their bathing caps at home, if the predictions .of J. Solvency Dinglebury, Collegian's official weather cat, approach the claims of the owner. Observers reported that J. Sol vency lay all day in the sun yes terday, studying old Sol with one eye and the high school band ma jorettes across the street with the other—a sure sign of fair weath er. Although not infallible, Dingle bury's prognostications have yet to miss their mark. At' IF Ball his prediction missed by a hair when a 30-inch snow fell a year ahead of schedule. 6 More Complete Air Corps Exams Six more students have coln pleted their mental and physical qualifications for enlistment in the Army Air Force Enlisted Re serve since the Cadet Examining Board's visit here last Monday and Tuesday,, it was announced last night by Prof. Robert E. Gal braith, faculty Air Force advisor. These six, in addition to the nineteen who • previously com pleted their examinations Tues day,. will be formally sworn into the Air Corps ReserVe in 407 ;Old Main Tuesday, July 14. The ad ministration of oaths will begin at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, ac cording to word . rcceived , here 'from 'Lieut. - S.. Engart; rectU it ing officer for the 'Harrisburg Ex amining board. Twenty-three students have taken their preliminary mental examinations, but must pass their physical examinations this week in order to be sworn in with the twenty-five now qualified. "All qualified students must have their applications and forms properly filled out and notarized prior to the board's return next Tuesday in order to.be sworn in," Galbraith stated. rßequiPeci pap ers include application forms in • (Continued on Page Four) C and F Honorary Members of Delta Sigma Pi, Commerce and Finance honorary, will hold a student-faculty lunch eon in the Sandwich Shop on July ,An initiation banquet will be held sometime in the future. Hop Tops First Social Barnet toots the first note on his saxophone at tonight's Soph Hop he will be opening doings for the first big social weekend of the Summer semester. IF( To Hold Lawn Display Contest Still another touch of color was added . to. the Victory • Weekend Prograrn laSt night When WC de cided to sponsor an interfrater nity lawn display during Penn State's biggest social weekend. Patriotic displays will be in order, Interfraternity Council members decided. FirSt prize in the contest will be a United States War Bond. Because of the already crowd ed schedule during the July 31- August 1 weekend, the fraternity representatives agreed that indi vidual houses should not hold pri vate dances. ' Appointment of a special com munications committee was ap proved at last night's monthly 'WC meeting. Each of eleven mem bers, to be named by President M. Williams Lundelius '43, will be assigned four or five fraternities with whom he will communicate when matters of special import ance arise .between IFC meetings. age problem prior to Dr. Simons' findings, because it employed aluminum chloride as a catalyst. The demand for aluminum and chlorine in other phases of the war effort was more critical than it was for the production of syn- thetic rubber. However, now that hydrogen fluoride can be used in its place, the production of Buna- S rubber becomes more probable. Three oil refineries, employing hydrogen fluoride as a catalyst, are in process of construction. Al though other catalysts besides hy drogen fluoride may be used in making 100-octane gasolines, the new process employing hydrogen fluoride - produces greater yields from substances heretofore not useful 'as sources of aviation fuel. In the manufacturing of dyes, medicinals, and fuels, hydrogen fluoride can again be substituted for the scarce aluminum chloride in effecting chemical reactions. PRICE: THREE CENTS , Summer s Splurge Fraternities, Players Add Program Events By RICHARD D. SMYSER Charlie Barnet's band will fur nish music at tonight's semi-for mal Soph Hop in , Rec Hall, five of the class of '4s's "most beautiful coeds" will lead the grand march, the Penn State Players will offer their first production of the sea son, and fraternities will sponsor dances and picnics, to make this weekend the first big social one of the Summer semester. Tonight's dancing will continue from 10'p. m. until 2 a. m. with the "Saxophone King's" aggregation playing in a "Dude Ranch" at mosphere. Sidelights with "Cher okee Charlie's" outfit include Frances Wayne, swing songstress; Larry Taylor, tenor balladeer; Cliff Leeman, drum impressario; and the "Cherokees," Barnet's band within a band. Betty J. Lyman, sophomore queen, and her court of four classmates, Gunnel 0. Bjalme, Kathleen M. Osgood, Mary Edith Gilbert, and Kathryn M. Metzger, will be escorted in the grand march by the guests of honor, and will occupy a special booth at the dance. • First curtain for the Players' production of "The Rivals" is scheduled in Schwab Auditorium tonight at 7:30. A repeat per formance will be given tomorrow at the same time. Governor Arthur H. James, who was extended a formal invitation to attend . Soph Hop by the ticket and invitations committee, will be unable to attend, according to. John F. Byrom, chairman of this group. He also stated that dance tickets will be sold throughout to day at the Athletic Association windows in Old Main, as well as at the dance. Walter C. Price heads - the gen eral committee in charge of the class dance. Working under him are Byrom, Richard B. Berk, Joan E. Piolett John Sylvester, George C. Tilghman, M. Clifford St. Clair, Harold H. Benjamin, James W. Payne, Russell M. Smiley, and James A. McKechnie, class presi dent. Eleven fraternities will sponsor (Continued on Page Three) Late News Flashes ... MOSCOW—In an encounter in the Barents Sea yesterday, the Russian Navy destroyed 22,000 tons of Axis ships, according to official reports. LONDON—In yesterday's raid over . Germany, the British drop ped two-ton bombs, the largest used to date, according to London news broadcasts. • Four heavy bombers did not return to their base. CHUNGKING—A sharp Chin ese counter-attack has caused the trapping and killing of 2,900 Japs and the wounding of 30,0p0 more, according to United Nation's spokesmen. WASHINGTON FBI reported the capture of another the spy who tried to enter the country. $7,000 was found on his person. He admitted having been to a spy training school. WASHINGTON The Senate has approved $150,000,000 appro priation for Leon Henderson's OPA program. CAIRO--Marshal Rommell is bringing up artillery to strengthen the stalled Axis drive.
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