nannuuuuuouutunnuonuununuununnuumnui► Late News Flashes . . . 11111101111111911111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 WASHINGTON—The U. S. has broken off diplomatic relations with Finland because, according to U. S. officials, Finland has not been abiding by the 1934 consular relations. • CAIRO --- Marshal Rommel's forces were giving ground in . the central west front of El Alamein yesterday. The battle for the Hill of Jesus is still on with the two forces deadlocked. MOSCOW—The Red ArMy has broken through the First and Sec ond German Army lines around the Bryansk sector. • The Russians claim their losses have been only 339,000 against the Gerthans 900,- 000. WASHINGTON Naval au thorities admit the sinking •of three more . merchant ships, one in the Atlantic and two in the Gulf of Mexico. WASHINGTON—Charges have been preferred against ten of the 14 men accused of aiding the Nazi saboteurs. Their sentences • will be one-half of those of the pi • • saboteurs, or in the case of a rnysics Has Its. Curves ----A somewhat death penalty, a sentence of ten State student learns about physics at first hand as Dr. H. K. Schilling, years. _lecturer in the new Mechanics Autoldb, demonstrates why the steel DETROIT—A sit-down strike balls all...require the same length of time to fall from the disk at the held up production in the Willow top to the circumference of the circle. The toy cannon, the pool balls, Run defense factory. Although it and the big hoop in the picture are all in the lecture. was a CIO strike, union officials claim that the strike was unau thorized.Asof-Hitler Takes, Beating In Lateit INgTON--Secretary War Simpson stated in a press nference that eventually it • woulduld be necessary to draft those Lecture Tour Of Physics. Aufolab in the 18 and 19 age groups. The Secretary also pointed out that no war in the country's history has been won without calling on the younger men. Phyt-.Ed.ithool' ltildsjittliiiit A compulsory vision clinic, to make potential draftees . 3inore "eye-minded," has been -estab lished for freshinen hygiene class es- under a - new program origi nated by the. School of Physical Education and Athletics, for the week July 20-25. Jones, chairman of the Pittibiti•gh `diVision, Illuminating Eogineering Society of America, will'icOnduct the clinic. Uncle. Sam's future soldiers will be instructed in three phases. Students will be taught by lec ture and demonstration concern ing the proper care of eyes. Pre liminary examinations will 'be made by the Student Health Ser vice and College • reading clinic, and students will be guided to the right type of eye specialists for 'correction. "If the army and navy want men who : can see clearly, students must be taught' to prevent in stead, of waiting to cure eye con ditions," Dr. Arthur P. Davis, as sociate professor of physical ed ucation in charge of the program, Where financial assistance is needed, they will be directed to available - loan funds, according to Dr. Davis. Stfrveys of lighting conditions in dormitory and fraternity rooms, as well as in .laboratories where concentrated work is done, will be made. Bishop Appoinls Student Pastor 'For Stale College • Rev. Dr. Male . °im V. Mussina, former pastor of Watsontown Methodist Church, was appointed student pastor of the' Wesley Foundation at State College re cently by Bishop Ada W. Leonard, of the Washington Area of the Methodist Church. Dr. iMussina succeeds Rev. G. Gail Norris, who is now at Llys men Church at Altoona. ill • , .'' . , j ~ ' ~ 4 t • i k ,. . 1‘, : ,. 721 4 IT. VOL 39—No. 37 Hitler takes a, beating in the latest of Penn State's Autolabs now touring the educational centers of the country with a show on physics. A doll, representing Der Fooey, is suspended from a high pole, by an electromagnet so that when the current is turned off, he will fall about four feet until a special electric 'cannon knocks the stuffing out of him. • This contribution to national defense is not the only unusual -fea- on the part of upperclassmen. -- ture in the show. The present war has curtailed the use of expen- Violators appearing before the hat - - ''" --7 sive - and,intricate equipnient used:odg' ~,, r d .., society representatives have been nal - One46111"11111y - feiVer this -semester than during • 'arcs in • two lectures, one - on on chemistry • any other semester, partially be- Committee Prep -Tryouts Sunday Night ; and one on electricity, and has 'cause of the frosh enrollment de- Pamphlet For Frosh.. made . construction of special An •original- one-act play writ- crease. • , equipment necessary. To make ten by Frank S. Neusbaum, assist- During the first week membersfresh up for the lack of factory-manu- ant professor of dramatics, and " 'Social Etiquette in College' is factured equipment, of • Kathryn M. Popp '43, assistant wo- men wore - customs, students corn the theme of a pamphlet writenmented on "how easy the frosh by the PSCA Mass Meetings corn- the physics shop have produced an men's editor of The Daily Colle- have it compared to times when entirely different type of show. gian, will be cast in 405 Old Main, mittee to 'replace the usual gath- we wore customs." At the same Proceeding on the • assumption 7:30 p.- m.- Sunday. Tryouts are ering held. to instruct freshmentime, more violations are occur that physics on .:entertain, • they open to - the public. -No experience ring, unnoticed by upperclass- in social manners on campus," m. built a show from odd household is required, stressed Phyllis .R. Watkins '44, M. Pf men. Tribunal's problem is to :goods, children's toys, and red, Neusbaum. chairman,, announced last night. get upperclassmen to cooperate white, and blue' paint that would With a cast consisting of eight Co-workers with Miss Watkins by turning in violators for the in preparing shame a circus. However out of men and two women, the working the pamphlet are W. place thepool cue, the bicycle titleof the play so far is "Eph- good of Penn State spirit, - rather Richard Schwab '44 and Philip : . than for the good of the-upper wheel, and the rubber ball may rata." A drama of the religious J. Allen '45. `The pamphlet will classman's grudge. seem, they make an otherwise sect of the Ephrata Cloisters about be the third of a series of five to dull textbook display colorful and the year 1740, the play will be -be distributed to freshmen. fascinating. given the Sunday night of Victory Lumber Burns • - Two pool balls roll in a curved Weekend, August 2. ' trough for instance. Place them - A stubborn fire in an aban • PRA Groupludds . anywhere in the trough and they " 9 46 Independents doned pile of lumber west of Outdoor Chapel meet in the middle. A kitchen Harold Ferguson has been nam- S uth Allen str e e t call chair on a revolving platform de- ed chairman of the '4B Independ- ed out the Alpha Fire Company Two outdoor chapels, one in monstrates centrifugal force. 'A ent clique, according to an an- at 7:40 last 'night. .The_ firemen Hort woods and another near "sucker" is seated in it and the nouncement by Robert T. Kim- quickly brought the blaze under Ralph Watts. Lodge, are being chair spins slowly until the reel, head of the '44 Independent control but had trouble coin constructed under the supervision weights on the arms at the side clique which supervised the fresh- pletely extinguishing it. The re of the Religious Eniphasis Corn- (Continued- on Page Two) man organization. call was. sounded at 8:20 p. m. mission of the PSCA, Robert R. . Dickey '44, Commission chair- • - Ou• man, announced yesterday. •fiS w • 9 I "The chapel in Hort woods, lo M oilman - cated -on the 'northeast side, is almost completed for the use of " " students who would like a . quiet Swing is on the way, out. place to meditate and worship in Author of that opinion ls private," Dickey added. Benny Goodman,• the "King of For two weeks ,the Grounds Swing" himself, who will lead and Building department has the music-making for July 31's been clearing out the area. , They Victory :Weekend dancers have 'also taken it upon them- GOodrrian, the man who in,- selves'• to plant grass seed and waded Carnegie Hall's hallowed bring in log seats from other parts sanctum with the ' first formal of the woods Wooden markers are being pre- the word ."swing" is fast dy pared to direct studerits to the iug• secluded glen. A large wooden Like "jazz", Goodman says, it cross is also being constructed is being killed by people who for- for the chapel. get that modern music is made Members of the committee both good and bad by its rendi working on the project include tion, just as classical Music may Virginia Krauss '44; Dr. Henry _be excellent or poor, depending. Yeagley, -professor of physical on the performer. Real murder- science,• Reagan Houston '45, ers, Goodman believes, are the Howard W. Carlson '45 and R. Grade 4-F radio, bands who use Christine Yohe '45, the term to describe a jumble of OF THE PENNSYLVANIA S FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 17, STATE COLLEGE, PA bewildered Penn concert in swing, believes that ATE COLLEGE Debaters Present Peace Symposium With Lehigh Tonight "What •Shall be the Attitude of the Allied Powers to the Axis Countries When This War Is Ov er" will be the subject for dis cussion of a symposium to be held in 316 Sparks at 8 o'clock tonight. Upperclassmen who use Stu- Two debaters from Lehigh Uni- dent Tribunal as a means of versity will participate along with settling personal disputes against six members 'of the Penn State freshmen may find themselves varsity debate squad, two from summoned before the judicial the' women's team, and two fresh- body along with their dinked men. The discussion will be con- schoolmates. ducted on a basis of presenting This is the warning sounded by several plans, criticism of the Charles H. Ridenour '43, presi plans, and a final summary. • dent of Tribunal, when he learn . - Of the plans to be presented, eci upperclassmen are abusing two of the better known are those their seniority by reporting only for a revival of the League of Na tions and one for a Union of the frosh violators against whom they have a grudge, while ignoring Democracies such as Clarence • '46 students with whom ion Now." Streit proposed in his book, "Un- aunty they are friendly. Speaking for Penn State will Tribunal's weekly meeting be Morris Beck '43, Bernard M. Wednesday made these facts more Weinberg '43,' Frank E. Zabkar evident as violators turned in '44, Milton H. Bergstein '44, Wal- traced the cause to personal bat ter Q. Gerson '44, and Robert T. Iles. Boarding house residents Kimmel '44 from the men's squad. have been particularly, guilty of On . a panel that will conduct a the practice. question and answer period are One tribunal member said that two women, Harriet Block '44 and upperclassmen in these houses Sara lyr. Bailey '43, along with the often ask or command freshmen two freshman representatives. to do certain things, then when They are John S. Thorpe and Mar- the frost' fail to comply he re tin A. Kutler. ports the freshman's name to the The public is invited to attend, judicial group, mostly because no J. B. McCue, debate manager, said other disciplinary measures are last night. He referred to the available. words of former President Hoover who said in his new book, "that a Since the start of the Summer successful peace can come only semester Tribunal has complain from open and prolonged public ed because of lack of cooperation discusSion of the problem. Weather PRICE: THREE CENTS 'Grudge Sellers' May Be Called Before Tribunal See. Editorial `.`noise, claptrap, and hackneyed phrases." The real swing, •the kind that Goodman believes will live in definitely under some name, is too intangible to describe exact ly. Louis Armstrong, caught without a tailor-made definition, once replied, "Swing is the way I play a number." One of Good man's trumpeters describes it as "That thing without which music just isn't as good as." The King of Swing feels that it is more than mere hot-lipped blaring or fast-time. "Real swing", he says, "is a blending also of restrained softness, syn copation, and rippling variations —it is free speech in music." That's the kind Goodman promises for V-Weekend dancers.
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