Successor To The Free Lance , Established ISttt ' r ' luyracioinr f! §lje iatty % (EoUf’gtan Jg VOL. 40—No. p *3 ■ College Receives First Instructions For Army Program Beukema Releases Letter To College Officials Colonel Herman Beukema, di rector ot the Army Specialized Training Program, has released a letter to heads of all institutions of .higher education, male, and 'co educational, pertaining to the pro gfam and the manner in which it sho'uld be handled by the various colleges and universities. The let ter was received yesterday by President Hetzel. Outstanding parts of the 'letter state haw college officials can ren der valuable assistance to the pro gram. Included among these ob jectives are that each college stu dent should bring with him an of ficial transcript of his College rec ord ' when reporting for duty, and that the college should be able to supply information pertaining to the individual himself, such as ap titudes and character qualities. The following is the letter re ceived from Colonel Beukema: •TO: Heads of All Institutions of Higher Education, ■ Male and Co educational: “Manpower is more than num bers of men. It is the sum total of their abilities and energies. A wise manpower policy in time of war contemplates developing the skills of men in the light of Army needs and harnessing their, enthusiasms to their Army duties. This is espe cially important in a’ mechanical war such as this in which we are now. engaged “The Army proposes to ascer ' (Continued On Page. Two) Tribunal Issues Driving Rules "Students who are ailoyved to keep their cars on campus after the mid-term' vacation will be no tified of such- permission within the next, few days <by an official Tribunal postcard, according to an announcement last night by J. Robert Hicks, chairman of the Tribunal board. ; All' other students will be re quired to remove their tears from the campus by March 10, last day of the mid-term vacation, Hicks explained. • Any student who feels he has not received enough consideration of his application can report at 410 Old Main, 7 p.m. Monday evening. He will be given an opportunity at that time to explain any further reasons he thinks ; should entitle him-to. continue-keeping his car in State College after March 10. The applications handed in by the car owners last week were re viewed by OPA officials, and the advisability of the ban was re affirmed by them, Hicks stated. • Several students have had their ration books lifted in State Col lege and viteinity in recent weeks and are subject to federal court action, the Tribunal head added. It' is for this "reason only that Tribunal and the All-College Cab inet are making this new rule pro hibiting_students from keeping au tomobiles in State College". It is still not too late to file an application with Tribunal, for . those who feel that it is necessary for them to keep their car at the College.. Applications should be ad dressed in care of J. Robert Hicks and may be left at Student TJn’on desk in Old Main today ant to morrow. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1943, STATE COLLEGE, PA, Cagers Trim Temple Soph Hop, Varsity Brown to Play at Hop; t Houses Will Give Dances With the first note from the saxophone of Les Brown at Soph Hop this evening, Penn Stdte’s first big weekend of the semester will get under way. Following the Hop at Rec Hall on the weekend’s list of entertain ment comes the varsity swimming meet with a strong Rutgers squad at the Glennland pool, 2 p.m. to morrow. In the evening, the Blue gnd White grappifers close their dual meet schedule against a powerful Lehigh team which last week ended Penn’s 22-match unbeaten string. Several fraternities are giving dances for campus-stuck students who, for the first time in Soph Hop history, find themselves with out means of dining and dancing off College limits. Sigma Nu offers an open in formal dance with music by the York “Rhylhmaives," while Phi Sigma Delta- has hired the “Cam pus Owls” for their informal af fair. Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Gamma Rho will get together to present the “Aristocrats” at the former’s house. Beta Sigma Rho will dress up to listen to the notes of George Earnshaw’s “Nittany Lions.” Sonny Roye -will- entertain out at Phi Epsilon Pi, while Alpha Phi Delta, Delta Chi, Delta Theta Sigma, and Tau Phi Delta will gather around the record machine. Featured with Les Brown’s or chestra at .the Hop will be rhythm songstress Roberta Lee, baritone Hal Derwin, teomedy-novelty sing er “Butch” Stone, as well as. the “Town Criers.” The band that set attendance records at such well known spots, as the. Los Angeles Palladium and New York’s Para mount .Theatre wiil play from 9 to 1 p.m. . : . Tickets for. the dance are now on sale at Student Union for $3.85. Defense stamps, to replace cor sages,- are also available. All fra ternity booths are sold out and the booth plan is being drawn up, Wal lace J. Kappel, Hop chairman, an nounced yesterday. Red Cross Drive Delayed Until Vacation Ends; Individual Quotas Set Launching of the $5OOO Red Cross war ..drive has been post poned from the intended inaugu ration next week, until spring va cation is over, Robert M. Faloon, chairman , of the campaign, said last night.' '• Since enrollment has dropped considerably ' this semester, the quota to each student will be at lesat one dollar if Penn State can hope to meet its total, the cam paign added- Each campus group has been placed under various representa tives, who will contact all individ uals during the month of March, but students will be able to leave their contributions at Student Union if they are out of the drive’s territory. Faloon urged all students who expect to help the drive this year to make their donations through the Penn State drive, since it will be the present college men who will benefit from the funds when they are called to active duty in May. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Naval V-7 Program Reopens For Junior-Senior Engineers Consumers' Conference To Begin March 15 PSCA is launching another in stitute program called “Consum ers’ Problems in Wartime,” sched uled for-- March 15 through March 19, bringing to campus noted peo ple in, this, field, announced Rich ard K. Titley. co-chairman. Dr. Benjamin R. Andrews, pro fessor of Household Economics, Columbia University; Dr. John H. Cornehlsen Jr., College and Uni versity Specialist of OPA Consum- Branch;,, Lorna Barber, Re gional Representative from Phila delphia; Dr. Duane Ramsey, for merly professor of Sociology at Penn State, now associated with the National Housing Authority; and Mrs. Conway Zirkle, chair man of Advisory Committee on Consumers Interests, are the fea tured speakers. Main purpose of the conference j is to give all men and women a better knowledge of the problems of economic living so that they may adapt themselves accordingly when faced with this problem in the future. Committee members for the conference are: Richard K. Titley and Louise A. Ritter, co-chairmen; Julia L. Moore, Ruth M. Miller, I. Dan Bolef. William A.. D.vmsza, Elizabeth F. Yeagley, Lowell Prei son, and Ruth L. Bonde, assistant professor of Home Economics. Choir to Rehearse Members of the Russian Choir will begin rehearsals in room 200 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. March 11, according to an announcement by Bov. C. Auroruff. Five In Sports Will Sing at Soph Hop The “Town Criers” (above), youngest vocal quartet to sing with a “name” band, will accompany Les Brown and the orchestra at Soph Hop tonight. Gordon, Lucy ann, Elva, and Vernon are all brother's and sisters with an aver age age of only 19. Getting a start in radio and pictures on the West Coast, the “Town Criers” are now rated one of the best popular har mony groups in the country. Les Brown (left), who leads his “Band of Renown” in their first appearance or. Penn State’s cam pus, came into his own the hard way. After leading the Duke “Blue Devils” in college, Les came to New York and did everything from writing music to sweeping publishtrs’ offices before organiz ing his ..present band. The orches tra,- with Les on the saxophone, was voted one of the country’s ten best in a recent poll. Applications are now being ac cepted for the Navy V-7 program from juniors and seniors in phys ics, chemicalj industrial, mechani cal metalurgical and architechu ral engineering, according to a telephone call received last night by Faculty Advisor on War Serv ice, Prof. Robert E. Galbraith from Lt. H. C. Batdorf of the Of fice of Naval Officer Procurement of the Fourth Naval District. Lieutenant Batdorf asked that interested students who are not already in a reserve corps report their names to FAWS immediate ly. Interviews will be held at the Procurement Office in the Wide ner Building, Philadelphia, be tween March 3 and 10. Successful candidates will be given a letter to their draft boards, through which they will proceed with voluntary induction and be returned to school until the Navy calls its enlistees in June or July to be put into uniform and con tinued in college after indoctrina tion. Applicants are expected to bring with them to the Philadelphia of fice, the official letter of good standing from the College, forms for which are obtainable at 243, Sparks. A transcript should also be submitted, accompanied by a birth certificate and three letters of recommendation on letter heads. All who plan to take advantage of the new plan should report their names to Professor Galbraith before tomorrow noon so that he can notify Lieutenant Batdorf of the number for which to look dur ing the interviewing week. Though this branch will be open until that time that the Naval Au (Continued On Page Three) Rough Game, 46-33; Highlight Week-End PRICE: THREE CENTS Egli, McLaughlin Share Scoring Honors, 12 Each Running its home game winning streak to 22 games and improving its record toward an NCAA invi tation, the Cion basketball team defeated the Temple Owls by a score of 46-33 in Rec Hall last night. s The win leaves the Lions with near-best, if not best, record for the season : n NCAA District 2, and should pla'ce them in position for the district bid if they can keep going the way they have dur ing the last few games. Taking the lead at the first, the Lions gave little ground during the whole battle, rougher than any on the Rec Hall floor this season, so that the score stood at 23-16 at the end of the first half. An attempt to get back in the game came in a Temple burst shortly after the start of the second period. It was stemmed bei'oi-e it was well start ed by the hard fighting Lions. The summaries Penn State Baltimore, g ... Egli, g Hornstein. c ... VonNieda, f .... Gent, f Lawther, c Biery, f .' Total Temple FG F McLaughlin, f 5 2 Getchall, c 0 4 Hullo, g 3 0 Bobb, g 2 1 Jarmoluk, f 0 0 Woodside. f 1 D Sebest, g 0 t Novak, g 1 C Totals Officials: Wallace, Levine. Co-captains Egli and'. Baltimore were the Lion standouts, redeem ing their positions which were cut down slightly by sports -writers earlier in the season. Egli, along (Continued On Page Four) iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimm LATE NEWS FLASHES! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi TUNISIA Rommel’s troops have been driven- -completely back through the Cascerine .Pass in one of the fiercest battles North Africa has yet seen. Air skill of American and . English planes played a large part in this ac complishment. Although, losses were not as heavy as were expect ed, much equipment was lost. MOSCOW—Russians are driving the Germans back southwest .of Moscow. Twenty units of-. Amer ican tanks, plus several ■'British tank units are active in the bat tle. Winter is letting up, and the Germans are beginning to become stronger, especially with aircraft, in the Caucasuses. WASHINGTON The Chinese foreign minister claims that less than 1,000 American planes will drive the Japanese out of China. Madame Chang Kai Shek asks immediate aid for the accomplish ment of that goal. Mac ATHUR'S HEADQUAR TERS American planes are bombing docks, ships, and build ings daily in Ribald of the New Britain Islands. Last night, an 8,- 000 ton Japanese cargo vessel was bombed and sunk. Four other ships were also damaged. (
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