PAGE SIX
War News
Analyzed
By•
DR. STUART A. MAHURAN
'Associate Professor of Journalism.
Momentous events occurred be
tween last Wednesday' and to
'day. Rome fell to Allied forces
and scarcely had newsboys
posed of their extras' when the
Allies landed on the coast of
France, and the long-awaited in
vasion of the European continent
had , started.
Prior to these breath-taking
episode§ in history MacArthur's
men pushed ahead in the S'outh
Pacific, resuming their advance
on Biak Island, while the Kuriles,
Truk and Ponape were bombed.
In the .Burma,China campaign
Spearheads of Chinese and Am
ericari troops pushed toward
Myltkyina from two directions.
In„ the air over Burope 1200 U.
S, heavy 'bombers and fighter
bombers' attacked Europe from
British and Mediterrareari. bases.
• Shuttle bombing .betweer=M
iterranean ba,Ses and Russia
jaunted roads' of eastern Europe.
The Russians pushed the Ger
mans back north of lasi in Ru
mania, as Moscow reported 1100
Nazis were killed. Interesting
was the report from Rome that
135 German soldiers, who mutin
ied and shot two -officers, sur
rendered to an American infantry
company_ .
Rome, 95 percent intact despite
Allied bombing, strewed flowers
before advancing American sold
iers, as German snipers gave
them another sort of greeting,
and engineers •pushed on_ ahead to
destroy bridges across the his
te4c
. Tiber river. Hitler, Goering
anl
,Conipaoy. expressed . :confi-•
dence that the invasion would
end in disaster for the Allies,
while Mussolini spoke a brief
piece advising Italians to treat the
conquering army with contempt.
Importance of the Allied con
quest of. Rome is that it - has re
vealed American Fifth Army
generalship fully capable of out
nianeuvering Germany strategy.
It also represents a loss of face
for the Hitlerites, bound to re
sult in decreased prestige among
doubtful nations, neutrals and
satelites.
Establishment of Allied beach
heads on the. Normandy coast at
Caen and elsewhere showed that
the German seawall was vulner
able, that shore battery defenses
could be smashed, and that Al:-
Fed air supremacy was counting
when and where it was needed.
It gave heart to conquered peo
ples everywhere.
As this is written the invasion
is but in its first chapter, and
setback and perhaps severe
losses are to come, but the fact
remains Messrs. Churchill and
Roosevelt together with their Al
lied generals are not only going
to 'revenge Dieppe, and make
good their promise to Joseph
Stalin by starting a second front,
but Allied might is going to push
the Nazis back from all sides.
Once they have been thrust with
in the confines of their own orig
inal country, the weight of men
and machines will undoubtedly
result in what the democratic na
tions demand as the foremost es
sential—unconditional surrender.
D Day was an historic day, one
the world will long remember.
Its accomplishments mark the
culmination of an heroic episode
in history. The British, the Am
icans, the Canadians and their
allies—every man, woman and
child representing these nations—
have put their all into a unified
effort seldom, if ever•, equalled in
all time.
What tomorrow's world is going
to be like, no one can say. Most
certainly it is going to be chang
ed and different. What the nations
now on the march against Fas
cist brutality have put into the
,struggle will be the greatest fac
tor in that change and difference
—not what the authors of Fas
cist doctrine and Mein Kampf
ideology set in motion.
.if for nothing else,,
MI Art Gallery
Exhibits Works
Seventy - three students have
work displayed in the annual ex
hibition now in Mineral Industries
Art Gallery. The display is open
daily from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon,
1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday hours are
from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Projects for courses in elemen
tary And advanced design, costume
design, water color, and oil paint
ings are exhibited.
Student participants are Jean
Baily, Mary C. Bowman, Jean
'Breskin, - Jean Briner; Jean Britz,
Betty Chesmitt; Shirley Conner,
Catherine Dayton, Virginia Dorn
mermuth, Mary Lou Dadlinger,
Anne Decker, Jean Demuth, Mary
M. Dunlap. •
Frances Epstein, Jacquelin Fal
loon, Gloria Goldman, Emily Grey,
Clarice Hamilton, Ruth Hanstein,
Mary Lou Harman, Nancy Har
rington, Alin Henry, Martha Horn,
Marjorie Houck, A. M. Hoy, Jpan
Huber, Polly Huber, Jean Isaacs,
June Irvin.
Margaret Keefe, Virginia Keel
er, Sarah Kelm, Viola-Kjar, Nancy
Lenker, Lynette Lundquist, Lois
Lunn, Betty
.Luchtemeyer; Wel
lington J. Madenfort, Madeline
Mahuran, Sarah T. Masurovsky,
Patricia A. Manson, Joan, H. Mil
ler, Winifred Miller, Nancy Mus
ser, Donna McClintock.
Joan Nowak, Gundy Opper
mann, Eleanor Palzer, Joseph L.
Petrillock, Janet F. ROger, Lydia
Marie Ream, Louise Rice, Joan
Sauerwein, Margaret Saby, Mary
Sandstrom, Virginia Schrader, Vi
ola Schroeder, J. Carolyn Smith,
Esther Spence, Virginia Sykes,
Vera Slezak.
MarjOrie Ann Tyson, Gail
TWichell; .Pahna•Wakefield, Anita
M:Walther, Rebecca White, Jane
Whitby, Marion Whitmore, Mar
garet Wiley, Dorothy Wittman,
Lydianne A. Zepp, H. Louise Zim
mers, Jane Zimmerman.
J. B. Helme, art department
head, is in charge with Profes
sors Helen M. Savard, Eleanor Z.
Willis, Andrew W. Case, and John
Y. oRy assisting in hanging the
works. .•
Campus Owls to Play
For ASTP June Formal
A summer formal dance com
plete with dating bureaus for un
attached men is being planned by
the AST? for June 17 at 8:30 p.m.
The formal will be held in the
Armory, and music is to be pro
vided by the Campus Owls.
In charge of ASTP date bureaus
is Pfc. Hugh Moore Jr. of Bar
racks 17. Pvt. Douglas Keltz is
handling dating for the 17-year
old Enlisted Reserve Corps.
those who are being readied to
go out into that world should be
thankfUl. None should forget the
heroic sacrifices that will make
possible a better world in which
to . live and work and study.
Brides and sweet girl graduates
Hold the spotlight of the Day,
As we fill your P. T. D. Orders
In the very nicest
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Women J? Spore
On the winning side cif the soft
ball games are Phi Mu, Nittany
Co-Op, Ath East, and Watts Hall
with the ChiO's coming up fast on
the losing side.
Nittany Co-Op beat Ath West.
27 to 9, the DG's forfeited to Ath
East, and the KD's defaulted to
Watts in Tuesday's games. Ath
West lost to the AEPhi's, 4 to 8;
the ChiO's won over the AOPi's
14 to 8, and the DG's won by for
feit of the Thetas Wednesday.
Softball games will end next
Thursday. ,
On the average of two a class
freshman phys. ed. majors are
knocking each other out in Mrs.
Hohenberger's speedbaH- class.
The tennis tournament . may
have to award a doubles cham
pionship. Only two have signed up
to compete, Hecky Walker • and
Laura Craig.
List. chancy to get acquainted
with White Hall will be Saturday
night which is Fun Night. You can
practice up on making ; that 300
score with the pins, swimming,
badminton, tennis, and rifle. rooms '
are open. The executive board '
member - who is . in charge is Bar
bara Smith, staff member is Janet
Fleming, and. the Dance Club
president, Mahuran, will help su
pervise.
• The first Summer Board. was
appointed to take care' of WRA
plans for the summer session.
They were picked by the senior
members of the board, faculty ad
visors, and Miss Haidt. The acting
president will be Elizabeth McGee;
vice-president, Barbara Smith; In
tramural is headed by Mary Gun
del; club activities chairman is
Harriet Miller; and Julia Gilbert
will act as an advisor representing
the regular board.
In a joint meeting of the senior
board, the newly elected board,
and a Summer Board of WRA,
plans were made for the summer
and fall recreational activities
Wednesday. Betty Pike, Elizabeth
McGee, Rebecca .Walker, and
Doris Handwerk were installed
before the meeting.
CA Christian Movement
PSCA members attending the
Student Christian Movement con
ference at Camp Kanesatake,
Spruce Creek, this week are:
B. A. Condron, Penn State rep
resenfative; Ann Berkhimer,
Shirley Brewier, Marion Bronson,
Jean But; Patricia Enright, Jean
Farley, Ilajean Feldmiller, Betty
Funkhouser, Grace Gray, Ida
Latimer, Margaret Metzger, Jean
McCreary, Esther Miller, Gloria
Simpson, Barbara Stocker, and
Claire Weaver.
Faculty members attending are:
Henry S. Brunner, Dr. Harriet
M. Harry, Dr. Marsh White, and
Dr. C. 0. Williams.
Election of officers for the Girls
Service Organization will be held
Tuesday in 121 Sparks at 6:30
p.m. The meeting will be a short
one, and all members are urged
to be present.
(hemislry Instructor Isolates
Ergosterol, Penicil
Dr. Harry llavid Zook, instruc
tor in chemistry at the College,
has isolated ergosterol from a new I
source, Dean Frank, C. Whitmore,l
of the School of Chemistry And
Physics, announced today. Dr.
Zook's findings also were pub
lished May 26 in "Science."
Dr. Zook has isolated very pure
ergosterol, the precursor of vit,
amin D 2, from the gray mycel
ium of penicillium Tio4tum after
the penicillin has been extract
ed from it. This gray mold has
ordinarily been regarded pp an
entirely waste material and has
been burned.
•
Dr.- Zook who works on an Am
erican Petroleum Institute Project
o - .) the origin of petroleum has
been making a careful search of
plant' materials which rnpy have
been the original source of petrol
eum. Among others he 'has stud
ied various micro-organisms in
•eluding bacteria and molds. Hp
was surprised to find that the
mold- which makes - penicillin
yields no hydrocarbon but gives
about one percent - of its weight
of very pure ergosterol.'
Any possible commercial val
ues involved in Dr. Zook's dis
covery will be dedicated to the
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. When asked about the signifi;-
cance of this work, Dean Whit-
amore• said:
"While ergosterol:. cats be ob
tained from other sources .such as
Ergot of rye,. yeast and a great
_variety of fungi; the new source
Tound
.by Dr. Zook gives the
sterol in an unusually pure
o cenr
slition. -This -is not - true) of . the
other sources. This ,gi•eater ease'
;of purification may be important.
: industrially." .
The work was carried on with
Another member o f. the Cher&ol7
'and Physics staff, Professor T. S.
pakwood, a former • stuiient of
_authority on• sterols who is now
,active in commercial work in that
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