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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. , , *