Successor To The Free Lance, Established 1337 PI ®tf? lailtj (EoUegtatt B '. 1 - !!-:> *•' v ? vol. 4i.—No^esr SO Students Enter College Speech Contest Last Night College Forensic Group To Award Cash Prizes Over fifty students entered the All-College Extemporaneous Speaking Contest in Sparks last night, as plans were formed for the preliminary talks, scheduled for next Tuesday night, and the finals, slated for April 17. Professor Clayton Schug, assis tant professor of public speaking, announced that' two prizes will again be offered to the first and second place winners this year. As has been the practice in past years, the College will award the initial prize of $5O, while the $25 award for second honors will be given by the Forensic Council. Tuesday . night’s preliminary talks will be five minutes long, Schug said, while the finals will be .from eight to ten minutes in duration. All of the speakers will! give their addresses in Sparks building. Members from both the men’s and- women’s debate .teams have entered the competition for top speaking., honors on the campus, but any students who are previous' winners, are ineligible to register as contestants. However, accord ing to Schug, .those students who were in,.last 'year’s contest,, but fail®S";tO'isiacerhr i eitlier the first or isecond spot, will again be elig ible for the,1943 event... in former yearsj. College lead ers have been selected, to judge . ■winners, of the finals; hut under ■present:plans, faculty members of the speech-department will-decide .the outstanding, talks ' in bothpre.- ~ liminary .and final -competition. • “All-College speaking contests . have been held at Penn-. State -for - over-fifty years,’’.members;of the - speech department said after .last . They/indicated • that this may be the largest group to .participate for, the duration. Helzel Announces Leaves, Hew Staff Appointments • New appointments to the. faculty staff- and leaves of absence for the armed forces were announced by President Ralph D, Hetzel at a re cent .executive committee meeting of the Board bf Trustees. ■■■}/ Military leaves were granted to T.’-G.‘ Anderson, assistant profes sor of bacteriology! H. A. Cor-re, assistant pi'ofessor and assistant supervisor of coal mining. exten sion; Edna A. Stephany, home eco nomics extension representative; A. R. Grove; instructor in botany; ,'and R. W. Kerns, .associate profes sor of l'ural sociology extension. r To assume directorship of a new conscientious objector training ;'l~'camp,.: J. H. Ferguson, associate . professor of political science, was ; also granted a leave. Appointment of Dr. Lawrence ■ - L.' Huber, Ohio State University, • J ds : professor of. agriculture was ' also announced by President Het . zel. ' Intramural Requirements ;; Entries for Spring Intramural All-College Tournaments in handball doubles, badminton jingles, and volleyball must. be made at the Intramural Office in Rec Hall no later than 5 p.m. today. The entry fees are: hand-, ball, 50 cents per man; badmin 'ton, 25 cents per man; and vol leyball, $1 per team. Thespian Show, L Last Big Weelcen Thespian Show Opens f In Schwab Tonight Anything goes tonight in Schwab Auditorium as the Thespians pre sent their wackiest revue in years, “Khaki Waac-y.” The curtain rises at 7 p.m. Everything from air raid sirens to peaceful'homicide happens in the screwy script written by Larry Chervenak, George Graham, and Jane Abramson. Revolving around the surprise arrival of a contingent of WAAC’s to State College, the plot goes off on wild tangents, even to one scene laid in a little French hat shoppe. Main characters of the WAAC’s are played by Adele Yablon, com mander of the female soldjiers, with Taffy Brine, Shirley Tetley, and Mim Zartman as the lead WAAC’s who make love to Plink, Plank, and Plunk played by the Three Stooges—Bud Mellot, Jack Hunter, and Bill Reutti. Three typical fraternity men, Charlie, Yo-Yo, and Zoot, are play ed by Bill Christophers, Jack Cal houn, and Jimmy McKechnie, while Pat Lamade, Hattie Leyden, and Helen Schmeltz play their three.coed girl friends. Bob Leibacher is the head of the Penn State ROTC department who enjoys, the company of the WAAC’s very much; until his wife, played by Sally Bank, steps in. ' '''Leddjr'Stfayplrde’anV bff poor little. Coeds, is the part Anna Sampson acts out with-the help Of some makeup. ‘ A Western Union telegraph girl who keeps (lashing in and. out is played by Jo' Ellen Loop, while , a poor freshman Froth -reporter is the role falling ,to Larry Chamber lin. . Dick i Peifly is a student in name only. . . Captain Howiszer, a hard-boiled ROTC instructor, recently made a major, is Gordon • Fiske. Larry Ghervenak, meanwhile, wrote him self into the production in' the role of Brother Death, and haunts onto the stage as a full-fledged skele ton. " Credit for the direction of the revue goes to Kennedy and his assistants, Marty Skapik and Jane Abramson. Bud Mellot is in charge of the dance routines. Tickets are on sale at Student Union and the door at 75 cents for tonight’s show. Guadalcanal Jap-Killer' To Address Faculty, Townspeople On Adventures Of Marines By SEYMOUR ROSENBERG Sponsored by the United States Treasury Department and the State College War - Savings Staff Committee, a 19-year.old marine, Pvt. James Gorman, who has seen action on Guadalcanal, will speak to' townspeople' and faculty mem bers in Schwab Auditorium at 4:15 this afternoon. , Gorman, who is a native Phila delphian, enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 17. He was among the first of the American forces to land at Guadalcanal, and has a record of killing six Japs in one engagement. In the battles with the Japanese .forces on Guadalcanal, Gorman was wounded by a bullet which entered his wrist and came but of ,his elbow. Introduced by President Ralph D. Hetzel. who in turn will be in troduced by Claude G. Aikens, chairman of the State College com mittee, Gorman will speak of the Marines on Guadalcanal, of their OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1943, STATE COLLEGE, PA, 808 KICKS, co-chairman of Junior-Senior Ball with Carl P. Swope, expects a lull Rouse at the Jimmie Lunceford dance in Rec Hall tonight, since this is the last big weekend 1 at Penn State before the reserves are called to active duty. Travel 225 rttiles; Establish Record Six. balloons, flown* by the meteorology department of . the College, have been returned to the geophysical laboratories after trav eling- for 225 miles in a south southeast direction. The balloons had torn loose from their mooring strings on March 29 and descended across Chesapeake Bay at.Crisfield, Md. Discovered by Mr. Howard Ster ling, they were returned with their equipment'.and' instruments exact ly .in accordance with the direc tions. The distance traveled by these balloons is the longest ever re corded by the geophysical labora tories. The previous record was 80 miles. bravery, and of the terrific condi tions under which they fought, as well as of his trip home on a hos pital ship with the wounded, which landed at San Diego, Calif., where he underwent treatment at the Na val hospital there.. From California he was sent back to Philadelphia for a fur. lough and also to undergo further treatment of his arm at the Naval Hospital there. After six months of treatment his arm is practically all hdaled, and he is now attached do the Marine Barracks of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.' Although it is not known;, for sure whether he will bring it along with him for showing during his address here, one of the most in teresting features of Gorman’s ap pearance is the showing of a bayo net-torn Japanese flag, which was captured by the Marines at Gua dalcanal. Covered with the “chick en track” signatures of members of the dead Japs’ company, all of whom were killed, it is reputed to ford Dance Hea Campus For Du unce dOn Ball Co-Chairman War Stamp Ribbons Replace Corsages With special blue and white rib bons serving as official corsages, Penn State’s last big dance for the duration will be held in Rec Hall tonight from 9 o’clock until one The ribbons will be issued with each dollar’s worth of defense stamps purchased at Student Union today, J. Robert Hicks, co chairman of the event, announced last night. Space is provided in the programs for the insertion of stamps. One of the nation’s top jazz spe cialists, Jimmie Lunceford, will furnish the dance music for the ball-goers. This is Lunceford’s sec ond appearance in State College. Once before, several years ago, Lunceford was secretly signed to play for a formal houseparty dance at the Kappa Sigma fraternity. When the local Lunceford fans got wind that the colored ace and his orchestra were in State College they swarmed to the house to hear Lunceford music. Lunceford will arrive in Tyrone around noon and will be trans ported to State College by auto mobile. Immediately, after the dance, the maestro must go back to Tyrone to catch a train in order to-mak^hisnext, engagement, Lunceford will feature several tunes from the Thespian revue, “Khaki Waac-y.” “So There” writ ten by Jane Abramson and “Wher ever You Are” by Bobby Kline are the original tunes that will have their “name band premiere” with the .Lunceford band. • Several houses, not already evacuated by the Army, will hold house, dances Saturday night, it was learned last night. The Thes pians will present two perform ances of their new. spring revue, “Khaki-Waac-y,” tonight and Sat urday at 7 o’clock to round up Penn State’s last student bo'dy. Last night it was learned that it would probably be possible for the Army Air Corps cadets on campus to attend the dance with 2 o’clock leaves. Serving on the two-class com mittee arranging affairs for the dance are J. Robert Hicks of the senior class and Carl P. Swope. make a “hit” with his audiences wherever it is shown. The 19-year-old Marine has ap peared from time to time at rallies concerning the sale of War Bonds, the speeding up of production on the home front, and the elimina tion of absenteeism. Dr. Carroll D. Champlin, pro fessor of education, will also speak at the meeting. Music will be sup plied by the State College High School Band. WSSF Sells Flowers Carnations will be sold at the door at Junior-Senior Ball to night, with the proceeds going to the World Student Service Fund Drive which will be held on campus during the month of April. Enabling men in prison camps to continue their education, the WSSF provides for text books, examinations, and outlined courses of study. PRICE: THREE GENTS; Galbraith Issues Orders fo Marines, Cadet Applicants ight tion Potential Air Corps Men To Discuss Sunday Exam Air Corps applicants and all men in the Marine Corps have been issued several orders which must be carried out this week, Professor Robert E. Galbraith, head of the campus war informa tion office, said last night. Students who have either been enlisted in the Marines for some time, or have just , been inducted within the past few day.s, must report to Galbraith’s office imme diately to receive supplementary question blanks. ERC men who were earmarked for the Marines, but were transferred this week, are included in the list of students who should contact the FAWS chief at once. Applicants for entrance in the Army Air Corps should meet in 243 Sparks between 4 and 5 o'clock today, if they have their enlist ment papers in process. At this* time, plan's will be made for- trans portation facilities available foe their trip to Harrisburg this week end. Those men who leave for Har risburg will take the mental -ex amination in the capital on Sun day afternoon. Candidates who score a satisfactory mark in this exam will stay in Harrisburg over night, and report to the Middle town, Air Base Monday morning for the standard Air Corps phys ical. Following the. physical,, success ful applicants will be sworn into service that afternoon; and be -re leased to return to school.- - ' Meanwhile, Galbraith announced that the U. S. Navy .examining board has left Penn State, after v swearing, over .100. men into the Navy from the ERC status. An additional 40 men are still pend ing further examination in .the Philadelphia headquarters. College Library Shows Water Color Paintings ! In Ml Building A group of twenty-six oil and water color paintings selected from among those used as illus trations in Kaj Klitgaard’s book, “Through the American Land scape,” is being exhibited by the College Library at the Mineral In dustries Art Gallery April 7-17. The exhibit is Circulated -by the American Federation of Arts. Professor J. Bum Helme of the fine arts department will give an informal talk on the exhibit in the Mineral Industries Art Gal lery at 7 p.m. Monday. Professor Helme’s analysis of the outstand ing works will contribute to the critical appreciation of the leading artists of America. Among the pictures featured in this exhibit are “The Butte,” by John Steuart Curry; "Mail Service in Tropics” (mural) and “Mail Service in Arctics” (sketches), by Rockwell Kent; “Horses Against the Sky,” by Thomas Benton, and “Autumn in Arroyo Seco,” by Ward Lockwood. Other artists in cluded are Standish Backus Jr., Virginia Berresford, Arnold Blanch, Charles T. Bowling, Jerry Bywaters, and Federico Castellon. These leading American artists have depicted American life in) oil pictures. , , *
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