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MOSCOW The Russian High
Command announced last night
that heavy German forces had
foreed,the defendeis of Stalingrad
to withdraw from the northwest
sections of the city where Nazi SDX Celebrates 10th Anniversary,
: tank and infantry units have oc
cdpied a one mile front. Moscow
issued d: communique late last Inducts Large Profess issued onal Group
night that 45 German tanks had ...
been destroyed in yesterday's bat
tle.
:WASHINGTON The United
Staies Nayy pepartment stated
last night that Japanese naval
units have succeeded in landing
heavy 'reinfordernents • on • Gu,4,dal-;
'canal Island and that U. S. IVlirine
positions in the Solomon - islands
sector were receiving heavy 'Jap
anese shellings.
The local chapter of Sigma
Delta - Chi, professional journa
listic. fraternity,: will celebrate its
tenth. anniversary tomorrow at _
the Nittany Lion Inn With formal Four unexpected problems
ceremonies at which six promin-
arose last night complicating ar
ent men in the field of journalism rangements for • the combined,
will be initiated. . Senior Ball and Junior Prom
Only undergraduate initiate
scheduled for Friday, November
' 20. •
will be Donald L. Webb '44, mem- Committee chairmen Harry C.
ber of the junior board of The Coleman '44, Thomas Ridge '43,
Daily Collegian. and William C. Mazzocco '43 must
. This - is the largest - group •of make a band selection; choose a
professionals to be initiated into new name for the affair; decide
the fraternity since it was estab- use of programs and ,decorations;
lished in 1932, announced H. John and determine whether defense
Zukauskas '43; president, last stamps or corsages will be in
night.
of vogue.
Thirty - two.representative Joseph Shuman, city editor
newspaper men from the East the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for Four top bands are available to
are now professional members of the past 15 years, will be initiated play for the Pitt Weekend dance.
the local chapter. The six to be into the local chapter of Sigma Bob Crosby, Charlie Spivak, Russ
Delta Chi at ceremonies tomor- Morgan, and Alvino Rey are be
. .. . inducted tomorrow brings the
row. ing considered. The committee's
Thomas Ridge-. 44,- will be one number to 38.
decision will probably be an
.;. LONDON British military of-of the co-chai
~ - , neii;•'
of .the joint Initiates from the profession
ficei. stated. last` night that five' committee for 'the cOrfibined Sen- are: . Joseph Shuman, city editor Penn' State Graduate nounced some time next week.
Re,gular floral corsages may
Nail planes had been shot down for Ball-Junior Prom 'November of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
over, Malta yesterday..ln •the air he Wil
-21. Serving with him will, for the past 15 years; Erich Bran- make a reappearance because of
, '43, and Harry deis, Pilots Bomber In Raid • the difficulty of getting defense
attacks which started laSt Sunday, Liam C. Mazzocco promotion manager of King -
over 100 Axis planes liave been •
C. coleman '43. "" Features Syndicate; - Samuel S..
Over Nazi-Held-France stamp corsas. Therefore, stamp
booklets may ge be substituted.
shot' down over .the island base, • . . Schwab, Sunday editor. of the
• • All-College Cabinet's ruling
according to this Philadelphia Inquirer; Dean Hoff-
October IFC Stamp man, editor of the Hantisburg
When 115 huge bombers blasted against
-- - - - dance decorations provide
further
_difficulties. The possibil-
SYDNEY British naval au
thorities announced last night that
persons had lost their lives when
a Canadian: ferry boat plying be
tween I%rov'a 'Scotia and Newfound
land. had been torpedoed in the
Cabot Straits. British naval- ves
sels succeeded in rescuing 131 sur
vivors froter the ,ship before it sank:
LONDON -, British air officials
reported last night that the heav
iest air, attack since the raid •on
Cologne last May was effected yes
terday by British bombers on
Crerinan-held bases in northern
France,
-WASHINGTON. •-- Citing its . Patriot and Evening News: Col. Nazi-he d Lil e, France recent y,
. , ity of their being used is slight al-
Speed as the' answer-,of a dernoc- sal - - though committee members may
cY to; totalitarian -threats, the , •• 3 H.Zerbey, publisher of Zerbeya Penn State graduate sat at the
e - Ends-Monday .
: . . • Newspapers Inc., Pottsville; and controls of one of the airplanes still decide in favor of. their use.
House Milita, So i Taittee , laid . • • •' ,
I:stir-tilig7-tarriwritieNhTtr 4•6,...•:-...=-.',•-,,y•r-,-Pi',st:l-,'---;.7::''')-.,...,..:z;,,R013,er,..t ;•.44r , iliick , . Y.4. 3, --JD,u ' bli.Skir .arict'llelped , loose...the. rain , Of ,'des- •Tbe use. - ,of - ,pro.p..ams willikbe de
70ctober . sales: in - Iriterfraterndy Of' the - Shamokin' Neivs-Drs cideci at the same time and, alc
'.
day, a billy to • lower - the - draft. age traction on the .German. industrial
• ' • Council's ' defense ' stamp drive • Mr.. Schwab will remain on , cording to Coleman, will depend
i from 20 .to ,18 . years-arid to pre- • - . • • area. , , ~
Vent married men from being in- will end . Monday. ,A , salesman campus to speak to journalism
~ • upon the iiecOratron decision.
John Elkin Stewart '4O, who re- will be/at-the Student Union desk classes. Monday about feature Actual name of the affair arises
ducted - ahead -of •single men. - all Monday afternoon to sell.
stories and the human interest ceived part of his military train- from the combination of Junior
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angle. Dean Hoffman has made ing in basic and advanced ROTC Prom - and Senior Ball. Names
stamps 'to. those- house represen-
V/ear - oode ri Le
W • • g tatives who have not yet made
. 1 . s
purchases or their hou es. many trips to the 1 College ,to
speak before journalism clasSes. at . the College, told' the story of suggested" are Senior Ball7-Jun
ior Prom and Junior-Senior - Ball:
• '
• his narticination• in the raid over
Members of the local chapter Actual work on the plans will. be
f -P ' ho
.or layers .-S w, Less than half of the fraterni
will meet tomorrow at the Nit- the March of Time radio program gin next week after the' -grand
. ties have reported to the salesman Thursday night.
tany Lion Inn at 4 - p. m. for the choice has been announced. • • •
. . ~, . , — s for their' first month's stamps,
Freedrizah 1 44 Say initiation, which 'll' be followed Dropping his load of bombs,
• . ;
Robert H. Jordan '43, ,in charge
by a formal dinner at 6p. m. Stewart was immediately attack- Ma • a ' "
"x - ou .won't-bave A _leg to stand of the sale, said yesterday. He ed by German fighter • planes . Nary Honorary
1 % . n.' if you don i -t.„.see `The: Man WhO stated 'that .cooperation had been • which damaged his craft so badly
-L Catne To"-D1nner.' " -• ' very poor. -,'.- •- ' Open Nouse Cancelled that. "you could see daylight 1 " ..
..
:Printed - otu,-carcis ,-fastened to - ,In connection with the end of "Because of the energy demand- through the fuselage." Three of nil--
idles 18Men.
..5m.11,. -woodep...legs t .,eits quota- the first month's sale, lists and ed by the war effort from engin- the attackers were shotdown be- 11l
:tion.:_wi4 ,I?e..;the,rnode.:about cam- amounts of sales to each house eering students and faculty, there fore they were beaten off, but not
Scabbard and
pus,'lade,' nat
for iona for the next„week, suggesting w ill be published in Tuesday's will be no Engineering Schooluntil theyhad badlywounded
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•honorary mlitary B
society ' ad
l:
attendance •at the . players' first
Daily Collegian'along with quotas Open House this year," William S. Stewart s co-pilot.
vanced ROTC Students' conipleted
'Vali preduction,.. to ...Schwab Audi.- set for each houie. Quotas were Ivans '43, president of the Engin- A member of Delta Upsilon
.'toriurn - . at 8 P..„m...next Friday •
based on numbers of men in each eering Student Council, recently cial fraternity, Stewart is from initiation of 'lB pledges recently.
Culm' • ' ' Y.
Culminating what is known as
, and,Saturday. -
, ~_ - • . - liaise and printed in Collegian announced. - Ambler,.Pa. • • • "the toughest initiation at Penn
:. ,• 'Eleanor M. Freedman '44,. pub- 'several weeks ago. - . . ,
, - . State," the selectees were formally
.. . a
;-, licity: chairman, ..,announced last U. S. 'Raiders' Hit Wall -
Jordan urged that all houses . admitted to the hOnorary, accord
., night• that ..the. lega,mould be dis- • - •
which • have not bought their S. ing to Joseph F. Garbacz . '43; cap
.tributed `in &ant ~of.;.:.the Corner•
• - While ' 'the sale' .
_ . ,
.. tain. - ' •
.;Itobrn.at;'2 O'ClocktornorroW. after
j• • , _ . , . continues Monday afternoon. .:-•,, With , compass .bearings- and only
~' poaci! . - • ' -
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Painted • blue.4with "black' shoes, , •- , '
4..the,:laPel tagi,,..will.' each- display; a . Campus . 45:Opens - . :...-- thickets with 50-pound packs on
:niriber'for-:which. a corresponding - - .' , • ..-
their backs. After following a
, ! ligure will•„appear in .a box for Campaign Plan - predetermined compass course •the
.. . - Idrawing. The;, ,box, will . appear ' pledges arrived at their destina
in a ,vacant store window on Allen First rumbles_ of next month's tion, Whipples Dam. Upon their
street :near,. the corner of Beaver. All-College elections were sound- arrival, they. were required to
, .
.:, With ',drawings scheduled . for ed last night, when Campus '45 pitch tents and prepare for inspec-
Ttiesday, Wednesday, and Thurs- Met to select party members for tion. Formal ceremonies conclud
.
.day, lucky numbers will be:posted key posltioris in the coining cam- ed the initiation.
-in
,;the ,w,indoW, Miss Freedman paign. Those initiated were Harold A.
, •
' announced. - Bryson, Willard H. Carrnean, Jean
, • - Campaign co-chairman chosen
: 'Persons whose "wooden legs" at last • night's meeting are Dud- Chovet, Robert R. Dickey, Edward
sb.dw - the , u nmbers, are instrueted iey D. Gallup and Rozanne M T. Glock, Charles E. Kohler, Jr., -
.
to go ~to the Dramatics office in Brooks.
Schwab At be in the hands of Russell M idltoritun where tickets McNaul, Carl E. Maier, Robert S.
. . •
, ~'for the production will, be award- , • - . ;Mellen, John F. Melzer, Harold L.
Smiley, while Richard B. Berl
. .-:00- - :.i - ' '', :.: ' \:- : . s, Pickel, Douglas W. Purdy,
wasWal
elected -advertising 1 . 1 l
-' '; Ticgets, wring' for - 75 cents ga . , •.. , . g chairman lace M.-Riley, Robert .F. Savard,
• "'on. sale. at Student-Union Monday. ' Platform
. committee - , for' Isic Harry- K: Search, Ralph W.. Yer
_ :Eriaes will ~ be the Same. for both, 'vernber's "big show" Will cotisli ger, Francis E. Zabkar.
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~ s hoWings,' Miss Freedman pointed of William P. Douglas. chairman
:out, Robert- E. Becker, acting, chilli Portfolio Goes On Sale
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~, Patterned as a satire on Alexan- man, James - ...Payne; t and I-1. :., Penn'. State '
students who complain.about the "wall". in the Physi- Portfolio, student literary publi
- .:-F,der , * Woolcott, • critic and radio •Arthur Martin, • according •• to -
cal Fitness obstacle course, please take note. Here U. S. "raiders" cation, is now on sale at Student
-, perfOrrier, :the play is' a comedy, Walter C. .Price, clique 'chairman,
'''iiri 'irliicli - RaykriOnd W.. Tyson, as- Other selections made 'at last come up over barricade, lay smoke screen, and are ready to attack Union and the' Corner Room, ac
streets,cordingc to an announcement made
; ,sigtartt, - professor •of speech, has 'night's meeting, according to leading to fortress in invasion drill.. Such training under
today . by Dorothy E. E Bosley '44,
.:410eadj-IPS , 4 O Ie: , - . (Continued .on Page Two grueling attle conditions requires top physical form, continued practice. editor of the magazine.
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OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, STATE COLLEGE PA
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'Name' Band Next Week
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