Successor To The Free Lance. Established 1887 • 4 , . , 5•..1%." . 4, • ~,, 1°..6.1‘7 r flatly Tottrgtart .0-11 Weather VOL. 39—No. 77_ Wanted: 1000 Sky-Gazers To Estimate Color of Heavens For MI Professor Hans H. Neuberger, .professor the same day: one at 10 a. m. and of geophysics and head of the the other at 4 p. m. geophysics department, hath re- 3. To use the following scale quested the services of 1000 stu- in estimating the degree of color dents to help him in an experi- of sky blue: • ment in estimating the color of a. 'lf the colpr of the sky is a sky blue. very pale blue, • the estimation Purpose of the experiment is to number should be "I". find out if the color memory of b. If the color of the sky is a various persons 'with normal color medium blue, the estimation vision is in fairly high agree- number should be "4". meet so that it may be applied to meteorological work. Doctor Neuberger has found a number should be "7". great degree of agreement among d. If the color of the sky is, the various members of his class- for instance, less than medium es in estimating the color of sky blue but more than very pale blue, but would like to . know blue, the . estimation number whether the same results would should be "3". This principle be obtained if the experiment was should be applied up and down made" on a large scale. the scale. Staidents• with normal color 4. To make a notation of the vision. who wish to help Profes 7 estimation, containing 'the day it sor Neuberger in his experiment was made, the time of day it Was are- asked to do the following made, the estimation number and things independently: .the State in which the student 1. To make an estimation of the resides if he is a non-resident. of color 'of sky blue on the next Pennsylvania. .clear day that .has few or no 5. To submit the results of the clouds in the sky. estimation to Dr. Neuberger in 2. To - make two 'estimations on Room 313 MI Building. Activity Curfew Sotiiids 'Tomorrow. - First curfew., under the recent .All-College-Cabinet '8:30 p - ..rn; ban 'on activities will go into effect to morrow night when rooms in cam piis -will be locked to students .With•the exception of those designated by the special - Cabinet late permissions. Among those buildings not af fected by the rule are the various libraries, Recreation Hall, . White Hall, labiratories on campus, mu sic -listening rooms in Carnegie Hall, laboratories .on •campus, mu ing rooms in Main Engineering. • per,nard A. Plesser '43, head of the, permissions committee, stated last night that petitions concerning activities for the period of October , 4 to 9 will be due at Student Un ion desk by 3 p.- m. next Thurs day. The committee will meet that afternoon to consider these. Additional rulings on activities mgde. at last Thursday afternoon's • committee meeting stated that The • Daily Collegian will be allowed Un limited -permission. after - the cur . feW for, a skeleton staff of five, , ' (Continued on Page Four) 11 Home Economists To Address Confab Twelve leading home - econom ists from throughout the state will addrdss the executive committee Thespians Make Third of the Pennsylvania Home Ecb- nomics Association at a meeting , Trip To Army 'Camp in the Home Economics building from 10 a. m. Until, noon today. , Penns State Thespians made Miss Elizabeth Morales, direc- their . third trip to New Cumber tor of home economics at Mans- land Induction Center Wednes field State Teacher's . College, day and put 9ri an• hour show to will act as presiding officer. - _entertain the solf!'ers stationed Following the • meeting, repre_ there. . • sentatives will be entertained at The show featured dance num luncheon hi the Maple Room. bers by Bud Melott with the chor . us of Doris Disney, Betty Lyman. INeiners Ready. For Frosh Freshman coeds are reminded Jack Hunter, and Bud Melott, and y Pauline Crossman, • Mortar several songs by Stephanie Gar- Board president, that the senior bacz, Betty Platt, Jane Abram women's honor society will sell son, and Miriam Rheim. hetdogs and rolls for. 10 cents in The finale of the show spotlight, frosh dormitories at 9:30 tonight. "A Job To Do",, written especially Profits will go toward a scholar- for the Thespians by Vic Knight, ship fund, Miss Crossman added. Fred Allen's business manager. Tree Surgeon Saves . Air Raid Shelters, Trees At Main Gate M ust Be Known Marred By' 'lB Fire • Students ' passing up and down T o mi says . Ebert the main walks have often noticed the patch-work done on the trees .. Final Report Still in front of the Main Engineering Faculty Asked To Lead Building but few are aware -of Incomplete—Galbraith the real cause for the tree sur- students If Signal Sounds peon's marks. More than 40 Penn State stu- In a fire which destroyed the A plea has been issued by George W. Ebert, executive officer dents have enlisted in the Marine Engineering building in 1918, the and chairman of the Committee Corps Reserve Officers Candidate trees which stand on the mallon Protection, Council of Defense, Main gate were practi- Class, according to Prof. Robert near the , to all members of the faculty and cally destroyed. The outer bark E. Galbraith, Faculty Advisor on students to familiarize themselves was seared and the combium lay- • with the location of shelter areas War Service. . ers (growth tissue) was dehy- as well as the routes to them in Approximately 35 students have drated by the intense heat. the event of an air raid. reported their enlistment to. Gil- ' For a time it looked as though Since there are a great many braith's office in compliance with there was little alternative but to new students in the College at his recent request for such infor- have the trees removed, but after present, and since the majority of mation to complete the service re- some discussion it was decided the faculty are. teaching in differ .cords being compiled by the Of- that an attempt should be made • ent classrooms, they are as • yet f ice of Faculty Advisor on War to save the trees.• unaware of the information on Service. ' Department workmen under the the air raid precaution cards Galbraith stated last night, how- supervision of the College sur- which are posted conspicuously in ever, that many names probably geon set out to remove the burnt all the buildings, Ebert said. remain to be turned in before a portions and fill the inner cavi- Going on to say that it would be final' report on enlistment totals ties with cement. Six inch cylin- difficult for the student to mem- Can be released. . drical layers were inserted which orize the precautions, different in Chief reason for the lack of of- Were interspersed with composi- the various rooms, the air raid ficial information available on tion paper to compensate for the head stressed that faculty mem- Marne Corps enlistments has been ,natural movement of the tree bers should take it upon them the halting - of recruiting on cam- during wind storms. selves to learn the instructions. A pus by the Jpint.Washington Board * The entire surface is covered letter from Ebert has been sent to recently, which has made it neces- With 'a sealing compound put on deans of all the schools inform sary for students to - apply for en - primarily to keep out fungi and ing them of the seriousness of the listment .at various .district of-; (Continued on page. four) situation. flees such' as" Philadelphia and , . • .. . Should an air raid signal sound Accntinued" , ori - TPage'Twoi - - - . . Cou r ' . . —and all future ones will be tin- Artists rse.Ticket .. heralded especially if they are test Sale To ;Start Tuesday ones, and surely if they are the real .thing—instructors are not to • dismiss their classes, -but are to .Sale to students who wish to lead them to the nearest shelter buy tickets for the Artists' Course by the route specified on the Pre- Freshman Coeds will nominate production of Puccini's opera "La -caution card in their immediate and elect- dormitory officers at Boheme" October 9 will be held locale. .. 6:30 p. m. Monday, 'September 28, • at the Athletic Association ticket Almost •every camptis building according to' Patricia Diener '45, windows Tuesday. • houses a raid shelter and evacu 'Sophomore Senator. Coeds will Tickets for this production, .the ation to them must be made in an meet for the elections in the places course's only one Of the seines- (Continued on Page Three) assigned them by their hostesses. ter, will be sold singly and with Former members of the Fresh- The keen memory of a Penn a maximum of six seats to each man Council will help Miss Diener State student led to the capture applicant. Ticket sale for faculty ate News conduct the elections. They are and confession yesterday of a 15- members and towns Persons will Juniors: Eugenia D. Bundick, yard-old . State College High be held Wednesday. Florence I. Jaffy, Dorothy L. ashes School student charged with the The opera to be .presented is a 2 a a Jones, Betty W. Story, and Jean robbery of $93 from Herbert Jung Charles L. Wagner production '44. . ne Ward. WASHINGTON—Saying he was with a cast of - over 30 people Sophomores D. Jane_ Cromis, from Metropolitan Opera casts shocked at the financial details of Jung, a Pi Kappa Phi, left a • the fight, Secretary of War Stim wallet containing $93 in his desk •(Continued on page four) and an orchestra of 30, son has called off the Louis-Conn drawer last Tuesday. He realized . bout. Stimson said his actions Thursday that it was missing; to- . . day all but ss' of the money has .'U. S. Trucks Carry Vital Supplies To Russia cast no reflection on either Conn been accounted for. • or Louis. MOSCOW—For the third day in c. If the color, of the sky is a very dark blue, the estimation Last Call For Sophs All first semester sophomore women who wish to try .out for The Daily Collegian editorial staff . must -report to the office . iri Carnegie.. Hall ~at .5. .p..„m. Monday, according to the jun ior women's editorial board. This is the last call for new candidates. Keen Memory Solves Robbing; High School Student Confesses Credit for recovery of the money goes to, Edgar Barnett '44, one of Jung's fraternity brothers. Com ing in late for dinner Wednesday, Barnett noticed a stranger in one of • the upstairs rooms when he went up to wash. Thursday evening, after Jung had discovered the loss; Barnett saw .the "stranger' at one of the ' (Continued on page four) Miriam - Zartman; . and Mildred Johnson, madcap antics by the three stooges, alias Ted Claus's, OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE SATURDAY 'MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, STATE COLLEGE, PA More Than Forty Students Enlist In U. S. Marines Freshman Coeds To Elect Dorm Officers Russian gentry stands guard over a long line of American-made trucks just arrives at Tabriz, Iran, city not far south of the em 'battled Caucasus. After assembly in southern Iran, trucks 'Were, driven north for transfer to Soviet authorities. Photo radioed foni Cairo, Egypt,. PRICE: THREE CENTS a row, Russian forces, reinforced With supplies from barges operat ing on the Volga, have hurled back several attempts by Nazi troops to break through. North- west . of the city, Red armies, still counter-attacking, have regained more ground and threaten the Ger man's left flank. Russian spokes men claim the Nazis have lost 25,000 men this week on the Stalin grad front. Around Leningrad and in the Caucasus, the Russians say they are • attacking and have made new gains. WASHINGTON Rubber czar Jeffers has asked the OPA for na tionwide gas ration on a coupon basis. No date has been set for the plan to go into effect, but Washington circles believed ra tioning would start sometime in November. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR TERS—The few remaining Japan ese positions on GuadacamC 'lave been bombed by American airmen. Hits were also scored on three Jap transports in the Solomons area. Several Jap planes were downed in the operations. PANAMA—Secretary of Navy Knox has declared after a person al inspection of the Canal Zone's fortifications that they are as per fect for air defense as any in the world.
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