Late News LONDON His Royal High ness the Duke of Kent was killed in an airplane crash in Scotland yesterday, according to an Air Ministry communique. The Duke, a member of the RAF and young est brother of King George VI, was proceeding to Iceland with his 'squadron. He visited Canada and the United States in the Sum mer of 1941, at which time he was a guest of. President Roosevelt at the White House and Hyde Park. SOLOMONS Japanese forces have counter-attacked the recent invasion by United States Marines on these islands, a Navy dispatch released last night stated. A big air, land and sea battle is now raging in that war area. STALINGRAD A Russian communique from this point states that Russian forces are still holding' this city, keeping the Nazis at the same point they were yesterday, 40 miles from the city. However, Nazi planes have been bombing the city and machine gunning citizens in the strets. It is believed that the , Germans would start a greater offensive to day for it is known that a milion troops have been moved up to this front. LONDON Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with his cabinet today to outline the plahs that he made with Joseph Stalin in Moscow last week. It has de finitely been announced that Churchill visited the Cairo battle front on his return trip from the meeting, the British Broadcasting Company announced. Players Initiate Members Tonight Ten Students will be initiated into•the Penn State Players as ac tive members, while 15 will enter the • dramatic-organization - as—as. sociate members in ceremonies at the Little Theatre tonight. Follow ing the initiation, election of offi cers and an informal dinner will be held All active Players will have their pictures taken for La Vie at the . Photo Shop at 6:50 ,p, Those who will become full fledged Players are: Louise Acker '44, Janet Carbaugh '44, Robert Kidd '44, Miles Pugh '44, William Reimer '45, James Simon '43, Ber nice Turner '43, Ruth Wachs '44, Jane llartikowski '44 and Donald Reihard '44. Associate members who have accepted bids are: Elizabeth Aaron '44, Mary Lou Davis '45, Janet Dayton '45, William Em mOns• '44, Shirley Fletcher '45, William FQlwell '44, Betty Him melfarb '44, Dorothy Koush '44. Robert Liebacher '44, Michael Lucia '45, James Payne '45, •Ed mund Van Deusen '46, Ray Walch li'4s, Lucille Weinstein '44 and Barbara Whitbred '44. Worried About Bluebooks? Read Collegian's Helpful Study Hints Bluebooks and thoughts of One way your roommate and flunking out have brought many fellow ttudents will like is to students back to the books after stack up with plenty of ammuni letting the dust collect on them tion—a gallon of coffee, a boX of all Summer. As a result, Colle- sandwiches, crackers, and other gian offers some study hints. 'foodstuffs. They'll all come in to First of all rest your brain most visit you, and you can be certain of the evening and wait until the to settle the question of Penn last minute before starting to State women and what will hap study. Look around your room rwn in the war next. By 4 a. m. for Esquire or Life and have a the bull session may be over. If good time until your favorite 10 it isn't, take the matter in your o'clock radio program comes on. own hands. By this time you're hungry, so run to the diner and' get a ham burger. If you're sleepy when you come back, go to bed. Another method—start cram ming .at 5 p. m. and stay on the bait until 5 a. m. If the bugs don't come through the screen and eat you up, you'll be in good shape to forget everything by Morning. . . 4, ,:•.,!:','.,,..: ~. 4 •c. . ..; •--„ , 4, s'.7.',<:: :,' A I\ . 71. . Totirgtatt ......0 , ~.,.. , .7 ~..„, VOL. 39—No. 64 NYA Program To See Rebirth Next Semester Allocation Provides For Only 215 Workers Long-expected word that the NYA program would see a re birth on campus came yesterday, according to Stanley B. Maddox, the College's NYA supervisor. As has been predicted, the al lotment for the local program has taken a severe drop. Recently Washington allocated five million dollars to take care of "needy College and graduate students in American Colleges and Univer sities." This figure ' 15 exactly one-half that appropriated for the 1941-42 term. "Therefore," Maddox pointed out, "the College will be able to provide jobs for only about one half of the number employed last year." • It is expected that about 275 students will be affected by the local program. Last year 569 were enrolled in NYA work at the beginning of the term. Only 435 were still enrolled' at the end of the Spring semester. A supply of the application form, "Student Financial Aid Questionaire," is expetted from the printer . Thursday morning, and , will be available for distri bution at the NYA Office, 308 Old upon their arriyal. , Photographer Leaves Footprints On Sides Of Lion Shrine An undisclosed source yester day reported that someone, prob ably a student, had, while climb ing up on the as yet unfinished Lion Shrine, probably to take some' pictures,•left Some Very un becoming footmarks on the ani mal's back and sides. The marks, according to the source, a very well informed one, will be hard to remove and will remain an eyesore during the rest of the carving of the lion. He said cooperation from the students was very important be cause. the marks cannot be taken off any way except by cutting down the marked • part, thus necessitating cutting down large sections to keep proportion right. Another sure fire method is to forget it. There are some good movies- in town, and if you're so sure of, flunking, you might as well spare the agony of it. The way it's done on Collegian is to sit up until 3 a. m. batting out stuff like this. If the profs don't see to it that you leave Col lege, the subscribers will. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, STATE COLLEGE, PA McWilliams. Resigns. Post; Begins. Plans For Replacement Book Exchange, Now Under Cabinet,Opens In Armory Today Making a reappearance after having been dormant for over a year, the student book exchange will open at 9 o'clock this morn ing in the rear rooms of the Arm ory. Entrance to the rooms may be gained through the door open ing on the mall. Students wishing to sell books may bring them to the exchange where they will be sold at their own prices. Business hours run from 9 a. m. until noon and from 1 until 4 p. m. A charge •of five cents will be made to each seller and buyer of ,a book. Books not sold during the sale period lasting from today until Friday noon and the one after vacation lasting from September 10 at noon until September 19, will be redeemable at no charge by the person offering them for sale. The exchange, under the direc tion of All-College Cabinet for the first time, will be run as a (Continued on Page Three) Penn- Shate.,Graduate Killed_ .In Action; Was Serving With O'Hare In Pacific Ensign John S. McCurdy • '39, 'graduate in Agricultural Engin eering, and one bf the first Penn State graduates to see action with the Navy in the present war, was killed in action "somewhere in the Pacific" •August 14, it was learned here yesterday. McCurdy had enlisted in the Navy Air Corps shortly before the present war broke out and had only recently been transfer red to combat duty in the Far- Eastern Pacific. Because of strict military cen sorship, details of the fatal crash were not immediately forthcom- Weinberg Discloses Four Debaters Get Bids To Honorary Four •Penn State students were recently elected into Delta Sigma Rho, national Forensic Council honorary, Bernard M. Weinberg '43,. president of the local chap ter, disclosed last, night. Students indudted are C. Betty Friedman '44, Carroll_ P. Black wood '44, and Samuel G. Fred man '43. Milton Calig '43, also elected, is the only one not in college at the present time but is returning for the Fall, semes ter when he will be initiated. Blackwood was elected presi dent for the coming year, replac ing Weinberg. Miss Friedman was elected secretary. These debaters were selected not only for excellence in speak ing, but for all-rouVd debating qualities in Intercollegiate Foren sic activities, Weinberg stated. Time Tables Arrive Time tables for the Fall se mester arrived in • the registrar's office yesterday, according to Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer, and are on sale for ten cents. OF THE PE SYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE George C. McWilliams '44 offi cially resigned his position as president of the junior class last night. His resignation was forced by his induction into the armed forces through the selective serv ice. ing, but it was revealed that Mc- Curdy had recently been selected to fly with a crack squadron com manded by Lt. Edward O'Hare, hero of earlier battles with the Japs in the Pacific theatre. McCurdy was well-known among the student body while an undergraduate at Penn State, and took an active interest in extra curricular activities. Following his graduation he had been em ployed as a rural rehabilitation supervisor for the Farm Security Administration in the Pennsyl vania area until the time of his enlistment in the. Navy Air Corps. Sandwich Shop Closes Friday "After Friday night the Sand wich Shop does not exist," stated Miss Hazel G. Fall, manager of the student between classes ren dezvous, last night. With the opening of the Fall semester the shop will become a women's din ing room. Miss Fall stated that • she ex pects to feed 150 of the approxi mately 300 additional women who will occupy the former men's dor mitories. She explained that at present the prospects that stu dent help will be employed in the new dining room are not likely. The regular \workers will con tinue to handle the work, al though some may leave to find other jobs;" according to GVliss Fall. If too many of the regular workers leave she declared that some student help will be em ployed. The Shop manager said that she would make an announce ment concerning this matter after the Fall term begins should such a situation arise. Business will continue as usual at the Shop through Friday. Officially Out PRICE: THREE CENTS Cabinet Approves Scroll For Alston's Kin In view of the resignation of George C. McWilliams '44 from his post as junior class president last night, All-College Cabinet started action to cope with this and similar situations which may arise in the future. The action was in the form of proposal and accepted first read ing of an amendment to the All- College constitution providing for the class treasurer's serving as president pio tempore until elec tions are held to fill the president and vice-president vacancies. The first part of the amendment which will be added to Se6tion 2 Article IV states, "In the event of disqualification or resignation of both class" president and vice president, an All-College election shall be held as soon as possible after the vacancy at the discre tion of Cabinet." The second part to be added to Section 3 Article IV states, "In the absence of both class president and vice-president, the class treas urer will act as president pro tern.- pore pending the All-College elec tion to provide for the filling of such . vacancies President pro tempore will receive 'no compen sation and have no power - to make ,compensatory appointments." Two more .readings and accept ance by Cabinet are necessary be fore adoption of the amendment. Cabinet also appointed a corn (Continued on Page Two) Temperature Hits 40 For 3rd Night Although the wolves that per sue the moon and the sun caught up with the former last night and kept him in a state mastication for nearly 94' minutes (which was the Northmen's explanation of last night's lunar eclipse, according to the Centre Daily Times),. Penn State students continued to shiver under extra cover for the third straight night. For the third time since Sunday the mercury has-dipped to the 40 degree level to send State Col lege porch-sleepers indoors, and blanket Centre County with a light frost. When asked yesterday. if there was any possibility of more warm nights in prospect before Autumn, J. Solvency Dinglebury, Colle gian's weather cat, merely-donned earmuffs and spats and replied with a knowing grin—the equiv alent of "yes and no." Although the cold weather is unusual for this time of year, J. Solvency revealed that the Col lege has experienced similar "spells" both last year and the year before. Compulsory Meeting A compulsory meeting for all freshman Collegian candi dates and the sophomore busi ness and editorial boards will be held in the news room, Car negie Hall, at 4 p. m. today. Those unable to attend must inform the office by phone be fore the meeting. Weather
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