Successor To The Free Lance, Established 1887 jpi Daily @ (Enllrgiatt H| VOL. 40—No. V Marine Reserves Open Enlistments To 17-Year»olds ■ Must Stay in School, : Maintain Averages Seventeen - year - olds are now eligible for , enlistment in the .Marine Corps Reserve, for future training in the Officers’ Candidate School if they meet certain 'requirements, Frank M. Page, .USMCR captain, announced last .night. . Marine Corps Reservists are re quired to stay in college and be in .good standing academically. Should they fail or withdraw from college they will be called into the Corps as a private. . Candidates must have had one year of algebra and one term of geometry in high school and must be able to pass the physical exam .ination of the Marine Corps. ■ Because of the difficulties in .transportation, it is suggested -by .Captain Page that men try to com plete. enlistments with one visit. -The- procurement office is located In the Keystone Hotel Building, Pittsburgh. ; Applicants must have a birth -certificate, passport photograph, and five letters of recommendation .(two from members of the faculty.) , Parental consent papers, which can be secured from Prof. Robert ,E. Galbraith, FAWS, must be sign ed before a notary.' . Complete plans for a new Navy •College Training Plan will shortly .be announced, Lt. Daniel E. Dean, jJSNR, said in a recent letter to Prof. Galbraith. > Under this plan, selected men j- / (Continued on page.four) Campus Owls To Participate In 'Battle Of Bands At Dance v..'-The Campus Owls,’’ under the . ■baton of George Washko, will be ;one of the two campus orchestras .[playing at the “Lincoln’s Birth (day Ball’ at Recreation Hall, Fri day evening, February 12. £[•:. The “Owls’.’ have been playing [around the Penh State Campus ior'years. In fact, it was back in '1925 when John Henszey, a local ;contractor, organized a small jazz -band and named it the “Campus Featured at present is a “band Owls.” The public liked the new within' a band called the “Owls type music that-Henszey and Octet” which features Betty Platt, his boys played and soon their vocalist. The “Octet” renders old lame spread beyond the Nittariy favorites, that bring back mem- _ ories, such' as “Where or When,” : During . summer vacations, the “Sunnv Side,” “All of Me,” and -"band was booked to play on ocean (Continued on-page four) George Washko and the Campus Owls Who Will Play at the Collegian Dance, 'Lincoln's Birthday Ball' PHILADELPHIA— OPA officials were preparing today to bring an . indictment against the “black mar- Piclured above are members of the Campus Owl band which be made at Student Union, the Collegian office, or trom Collegian staff e j.» organizations. At the same 1 will play at the Daily Collegian’s annual dance, “Lincoln’s Birthday members. „.. i , , time, it was announced that drastic ■ Ball,” scheduled to take place in Rec Hall, February 12. Members of the. Campus Owls pictured above are: Seated Betty action woulcl be taken against all i . Les Stine’s Aristocrats will also play at the affair, which will Platt, Robert Gardner, William L. Keefauver, Joseph G. Canon, Len and C gas-ration card-holders f feature a “Battle of Bands” between both musical organizations. Singer; Dave Robinson and George Wills. Standing—Jack Canon, ’ ’. . . . Dleaslire • driving in ' Tickets for the dance will be sold to Collegian subscribers at a Frank E. Neish, George P. Washko, Sammy Eyer and G. Dayton P - ehnrtlv Special price of 55 cents, and to all others for $l.lO. Purchases can Greenly. healings to be held shouiy. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1943, STATE COLLEGE, PA 14 Members Chosen For LA Student Council Liberal Arts Council, after two days deliberation, elected. 14 can didates to fill the Council’s quota, at a special session last night. Elected to the council were Mar tha Ellston, Arthur Miller, Mar garet Good, Jack Berlin, Betty Lou Hornick, Ardrita Summers, Renee Marks, Sue Clouser, Steph en Sinichak, J.anet Tower, William Thompson, Ruth Embury, John Burford and Robert Galley. “Selection of new members was made chiefly with,- emphasis on grades and activities,” Richard B. McNaul, Council President, said. They will serve until they grad uate or become inactive. Concert Artist To Make Appearance Sergei Rachmaninoff, wprld: famous Russian pianist, conductor, and composer will be the first con cert artist to appear on the cur rent Artists’ Course series which opens Wednesday, February 3. for whom more Artists’ Course subscribers voted last Spring than for any other top ranking artist, will arrive Wednes day afternoon in time to give a concert at' 8 p. m. that evening.. The pianist is, the latest of the long lineaf'musical prodigies who have graced the series in other years. Sergei , exhibited aptitude for the piano even before he was nine, the age at which he-began his first formal musical education at the St. Petersburg Conserva tory. (Continued on Page Two) liners going 'to Europe and South ■America, where it became one of the better known college orches tras in the country. The nucleus of the present “Campus Owls” has remained un changed for several semesters. The band has always kept up with the times by adopting the new musical trends as they came into style. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Soph Roye Coeds Sell War Stamps As Admission Charge With music furnished by Sonny Roye and his Collegians, and a war stamp admission in keeping with the “V-Male Special” theme, WSGX’s annual dance will attract coeds and their dates to Recreation Hall from 9 p. m. till midnight to night. Ruth M. Storer ’44, WSGA pres ident, last night invited all coeds to attend the function given for them by their student governing group. She stressed that by pur chasing the 25-cent war stamp as an admission charge they can ful fill the three-fold purpose of serv ing their national government, their student government, and en joying an evening of dancing. - .General Chairman Marjorie A. Margarel explained the reason for this year’s .admission charge. “In order to increase the sale of war stamps on campus, we are asking. each coed to buy one 25- cent war Stamp at the door. The sale of-these stamps will be con ducted by members of Mortar Board, national senior women’s honor society.’' •Committees who planned the af fair were: publicity, Helen D. Mc- Kee ’44, chairman; H. Joyce Strope ’44, Martha E. Elston ’45, and June R. White ’45; invitations, Marjorie A. Hazlett ’44, chairman; Gertrude M. Kortright ’43, arid Patricia A. Middleton ’44 . Chaperones will be Miss Char lotte E. Ray, Miss Nina M. Bentley, Miss Edith J. Melville, Mrs. Neva M. Morris, Miss Kathryn Pontzer, Mrs. Anne B. Searle, Miss Marie Haidt, Mrs. Gail B. Pope, Miss E. May Parker, Miss Mary Eastep, Mrs. Vera C. Furst, and Miss Lois J. Anderson. Women Like Poker; Men Are Big Shots Men like to be big shots and women like to play poker, accord ing to a personal audit test con ducted by Dr. Clifford R. Adams, assistant professor of psychology, among 520 college students from five universities. Men, he says, aren’t so much different from girls. They both like to act in movies, perform on the radio and play golf and bridge. Women get just as excited about political problems and horse races as men do. Hop Committee Ploys For WSGA Invites Coeds t V Ruth M. Storer ’44, WSGA presi dent, last night urged coeds to at tend “V-Male Special,” annual dance sponsored by the women’s governing body. Engineering Council Elects New Officers At the second meeting ot the Among the tunes heard often as semester, the Engineering School played by. Les Brown are “Jolting Council elected the following offi- Joe DiMaggio,” “My Reverie,” and cers: Daniel M. Kreider ’44, vice- “AH That Meat and No Potatoes.” president; Edward R. Hyde ’45, On the “Joe .DiMaggio” number secretary; and Robert R. Dickey the band stands up equipped with ’44, treasurer. President Boris M. baseball bats and hats to give it Osojnak ’44 appointed Kreider, a realistic effect. Melvin M. Myers and Charles S. Barbour ’44 to the publicity com- mittee. Barbour urged last night that wide hit tune “’Tis Autumn”; and students in the Engineering School he put out a version of “March should take more' advantage of Slav,” to which the composer their representatives on the Coun- would probably give credit. cil in order to obtain consideration Also announced by the Soph for grievances or suggestions con- Hop committee was a change in cerning engineering, students’ wel- decoration plans. Every fraternity Present at the meeting were its furniture an American flag John F. Melzer, Meyers, and Ray- which will be displayed near its mond Boedecker representing the booth. mechanical engineering depart- In each program, according to ment; Robert C. Updegraff and Kappel, will be a defense stamp Stephen N. Martin • from the civil booklet in which the .stamps engineering department; Lester A. bought this year instead of cor- Nelson, Hyde, Jack Williams, and sages may be placed. After the Paul A. Waterman from the archi- danpe, the booklet may be de tectural engineering department; tached, completed, and turned in Barbour, James M. Stavely, and for a Defense Bond. Robert Boedecker from the indus- >|llllllllllllllUlllllinmillllllllimilllllllllllllilll!lllltllilli trial engineering department. _ ___ ________ Representatives from Eta Kappa ¥ lITU Mllf C Nu, Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi Mil A U ■■ ■# were also present. PRICE; THREE CENTS Signs Les Brown; 'V-Male Special' Flags To Accompany Fraternity Furniture Les Brown has been chosen to play for Soph Hop. This announcement was made last night by Wallace J. Kappel, Soph Hop chairman. After a sur vey of the situation, including consideration of transportation difficulties and availability of the bands nominated by the clique, the committee sent a signed con tract to Brown. This was preceded by a long-distance conversation with the orchestra leader when his verbal agreement with the dance date was obtained. During the past three months, Les Brown’s aggregation has been hopping between New York and just about all points west. In New York the orchestra completed a one-week stand at the Para mount Theater where attendance records went up among the high est seen by New York music fans. Across the river at the Meadow brook, Les and the band played a month engagement. Then it was out to the West. Last week this Southern-styled swing team played a week at the Kansas City night club, The Tow ers. Brown helped Glenn Miller make “The Anvil Chorus” fa- mous ; he introduced the nation- should send up to Rec Hall with iiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii RIO DE JANIERO—B razil's President Vargas expressed opti mistic opinions concerning the Allies’ chances of victory after conferring the past two days at Natal with President Roosevelt and other high U. S. officials. The conference had been held with the intent of discussing Brazil’s part in the war. MOSCOW Russian radio re p:-rts that the German defense lines in central Russia have liter ally “been torn to ribbons.” Two hundred villages have been recap tured and 26,000 German troops slain by the Russian offensive.
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