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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.