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JOHN L. LEWIS
WASHINGTON Tension
mounted! as the 'midnight deadline
ior a 'full-scale soft coal strike
drew nearer.' John L. Lewis lrad 1
given no sign on what —If any
thing—We intends to do about a
court order restraining the walk
crujti. "Meanwhile, Attorney Gen
eral Clark coniferren with Interior
Secretary Krug, and a Washing
ton newspaper, The Evening
Star, says lit has learned one of
Lewis’ principal demand's in the
deadlock' is a one-hundred per
cent increase in the coal royalty
■levied to finance the miners’ wel L
cfiare fund; ' '
GREENVILLE. S. C.—The la
test work oh ihe Greenville laun
dry, explosion is that six persons
died and more than one-hundred
arid fifty people were injured, six
of iljjpm. critically. A gas |§pg ex
ploded and destroyed the laundry
Building and damaged dwellings
: over an area of two blocks. Al
though ho .official estimate has
been made orf the overall properly
loss, some guesses place ■ it close
''to" ohe-miilidh 'dollars,:' .' ” r: ' / ~
'“C’t BOSTON; Mass.— Senator Owen
Brewster has called for the hold
ing up of loans to Britain as a
means of ' insisting that —‘The
British redeem then - trust in
Palestine.” The Maine Republican
pointed out the middle east as be
ing the place where another war
is likely to start.
WASHINGTON—Secrecy veils
the first session today of a Sen
ate sub-commitiee inquiring into
relations between Mississippi Sen
ator Theodore Bilbo and a group
of contractors: wiho built Army
air fields in Bilbo’s- home state:
ROMANIA— Meager returns on
yesterday’s Romanian parliament
ary election''give a wide lead ‘to
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News Briefs
WRA Clubs Cancelled .
'!MI .W'RIA Clulbs scheduled 1 to
meet tonight have been, cancelled
• because of the president’s recep
tied which will 'be held in White
V BeM, tAr ii. Balin’," WIRA-. Bresi
derit, said-today.
, Fireside Hour
fireside Hour, , a .continuation, of
. Bible stu-dy led 'by Mrs. Malcolm
Brown, will be held iri the' Hugh
. Beaver Room of Old Main • from
4.t0 '5 o’clock.
Flying ClubiCall
'All students interested in jodn
ang the Plying Club are asked' to
. contact Jaimes Eaton and Henry.
Myers at Pi Kappa Alpha, Wyh
Entis at 'Dormitory 7, Pollock Cir
. -cle, or Joan. Heath, McAllister
Hell.
Harvest Ball Quartet
During intermission of the Har
vest Ball', sponsored December 7
by the Ag Student Council, a
quartet including Dewey 'Brum
baugh, Robert Crist, Lee Dymond',
an r ) Fred Hughes will perform,
according to Robert' Crist, chair
' man of the 'program 'committee.
American Legion
Application blanks for member
ehip in the American Legion have
‘: been placed at Student Union for
the' convenience of students in
terested in joining, Paul IHeiber
ling, publicity -chairman of the
■ origrlnij/ition, said today. DTonms
may be obtained from George
j Donovan, Student -Union -manager;
' he said;
Prexy Entertains
RALPH D. HETZEL
[President and Mrs. Ralph D.
iHetzel will hold their annual
reception for the faculty and
staff of the College in White
lHall from 8:30 to 11:30 to
night.
No Pomp, No Ceremony
There’s no pomp and ceremony
in (front of Old Main each morning
and afternoon, as th e flag is daised.
Yet every day it’s up there, rain or
shine.
At 7:30 each morning, Kay
Loner, janitor at Old Main, hoists
lithe flag briskly up the pole. If it's
a clear d'ay, the “good” 13 foot iby
.19 foot flag is used. On rainy days
Mr. Loner raises the “small” flag
which measures five feet by eight
anld one-half feet.
Both flags are replaced about
orjtee- a -year.. As..-the 4 .“sqpd’,i. flgg
beComds tattered at fhe - edges, it’s'
hemmed,, and. put back into serv
ice.
Former Secretary of Commerce
To Lecture in Schwab Monday
Henry Agard Wallace, former Roosevelt. He lias sponsored many
Secretary of Agriculture, Secre
tary of Commerce, and Vice-
President of the United States,
will speak in State College for the
firsU time in Schwab Auditorium
at 8 p.m. Monday night.
He will lecture on “Our Internal
Economic and Social Problems” in
the second of a series of Commun
ity Forum leotures. .Wallace, new
editor of “The New Republic,”
represents the -third ' generation
of his family to sponsor the cause
of the American Farmer
IHenry .Wallace, grandfather of
Henry -Agard . Wallace, . tvas. a
farmer and a Presbyterian minis
ter, founder of ,a newspaper, “Wal
lace's Parmer,” and a memlber. of
President Theodore Roosevelt’s
Country Life Commission in 1908;
(Henry Cantwell Wallace, father
of the former Secretary of Com
merce, (was editor, and publisher
of “Wallace's- Farmer” as well as
a scientific agriculturist, and Sec
retary of-Agriculture from 1921
to 1924 undeii. Presidents Harding
and Coolidge.
IHenry Agard Wallace is an ar
dent ' supporter of the New Deal
program of President Franklin D.
PSCA Plans Weekend
Of Fun af Waffs Lodge
An overnight outing consisting
of a hike to Watts Lodge, square
dancing, a songfest, end . cider
parity, is planned for this weekend
by PSCA. Ralph Cromleigh and
Barbara Keefer are co-chairmen
of the planning committee.
The group will leave the real 1
parking area of Old IVtsin at 2:30
p. m. Saturday and. return to. State
College by 9:30 . a.m.. (Sunday
morning. Any student desiring to
attend must sign up at 304 Old
Main iby Friday afternoon.
IWatts Lodge is located high up
on TusseyJUdge, about four miles
from Sti?te College. After the hike
to the- lodge, ■ students will relax
with a cider party;
Junior Class
Holds Meeting
The junior class will hold a
meeting in 10 Sparks at 7 o’clock
tonight said Eugene Fulmer, pres
ident.
An advisoi'y committee for the
class has been appointed, composed
of Adele Ernst, Peter Johnson,
Alfred Lentz, Henrietta Monroe,
Albert Rosenblatt, Ralph Rudy
and Elizabeth Watts. The com
mittee will meet in 10 Sparks at
6:30 tonight for a pre-meeting
session.
Hum Scours Pittsburgh; ■
Finds Rooms For Band
Hum Fishiburn has finally succeeded in finding rooms for his Blue
Band for this weekend. He said yesterday that they will be staying in
abouit 88 privat e homes in Pittsburgh. Fifty of the band members are
staying with friends and relatives in the Pittsburgh area, while the
remainder will b e taken care df by the Pitt band.
Fraternity members are still making arrangements to meet at cen
tral .points in the Slmloky City. Phi Kappa brothers will get together at
©ill Green’s at 9:10 pjm. Satur
day,
Sigma Phi Epsilon has invited
all 1 their members, friends, and
guests to a party Saturday night at
th e home of Chick and Beit Ag
. new, 209 Delafield Road, Aspin
wlall.
Sigma Alpha tfratefs will stay at
the Pitt chapter house, where a
dance will be held.
Any other groups who wish their
.meeting places tor Pitt, weekend
puiblishecCixi 'Coiilegiah-siiouid no
tify the Collegian office by 5
o’clock today.
New Deal agricultural policies,
including the Agricultural Adjust
ment Acts.
His first AA Act called for the
partial destruction of crops and
killing of livestock in 'order to in
crease the income of the farmer.
The program was severely criti
cized and finally invalidated by
the Supreme Count. It was follow
ed, by a second and more success
ful AiAiA which established the
Ever-Normal Granary; a reserve
supply .of certain major crops
against periods of great emer
gency. .
Dr. Mack Receives Honorary Degree ;
Gen. Eisenhower Present at Ceremony
Dr. Warren B. Mack, head of
the department'oi] horticulture at
the College, received the honorary
degree of doctor of science from
Lafayette College in Easton at
Founders’ Day exercises there.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
U. S. Army Chief of-Staff, deliv
ered the main Founders" Day ad
dress and received the honorary
degree of doctor of laws on the
same program.
Now on Tour
(Dr. Msck is currently on a lec
ture tour with his wife, Pauline
B. Mack, professor of textile
chemistry and director of the El
len H. Richards Institute at' the
College.
Dr. Mack was graduated from
Lafayette in 19H'5 'with the Phiß.
degree and from the College in
1921 with a B.S. in horticulture.
He received an. M.S. from the
Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege in 1924, and his Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins in 1929.
During World War I he' was a
second lieutenant in the field ar
tillery. He acted as executive sec-
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IEfiVTBER 21, 1946—'STATE- COLLEGE, PENiNA,
'Beat Pitt ' S endoff
Features Grid Squad
Not Miami
The committee to select the
"home" team for the Orange
Bowl on New Year's Day is said
to hav e eliminated the Univer
sity of Miami from considera
tion.
This follows the cancelling of
the Miami-Penn Slate football
game.
Samaritan Saves
Delayed Drivers
A blond “Good Samaritan”
(male) prevented several oar
owners trom getting tickets for
overtime parking Saturday night
on College Avenue. Shortly after
8 o’clock, he noticed that a traffic
cop was having a field day with
a string of cars which had been
parked without putting any
money in the parking meters. Our
hero, went .'.from meter- to meter,
dropping pennies in them, just be
fore the policeman approached.
Dean of Women, Panhel
To Check Sorority Bids
'Sorority' bids are now going in
to the 'Dean of Women’s office andi
are being checked .there in ac
cordance with the rules specified
by Miss Jean Stiles of that office
at the last meeting of the Pan
helleni'c Council.
After receiving the Panhellenic
stamp of approval (bid's will be
mailed to Hie girls. 'There will toe
no preferential list for rushees as
there was during formal rushing.
Each girl receiving Ibids is re
quired to reply in 'writing to the
.group bidding her. A silent per
iod will Ibe in force from the time
the bids are placed until -the an
swers are received.
WARREN B. MACK
retary of the Advisory Victory
Garden Committee, Pennsylvania
Council of Defense from 1942 to
1945. ' „ -
Sunny- and Warm
Old Main's stops and front
campus will be the scene of a
“Beat Pitt” pep rally at 12:50 p.m.
tomorrow.
To more fully arouse the al
ready bestirred spirit and enthus
iasm of. the Penn State student
body, thp Beat Pitt rally is being
sponsored by student leaders,
Blue Band, and the Lion cheer
leading squad.
Coach Bob Higgins and his
football squad will be present at
the rally and the Lion coach will
comment on Saturday’s game
with Pittsburgh. The Lion squad
will go to Pitt by bus after the
campus of the football season
Blue Band and is the students’
last opportunity to give the Nit
tany Lion football team a send
off for their final game of the
1946 season with Pittsburgh.
The group in charge of arrang
ing the rally and send-off expects
a large student turnout and spir
ited backing for Coach Bob Hig
gin’s Lion squad.
“Beat Pitt” pep rally sponsor’s
are Robert Foote, All-College
president; James Sheehan, senior
class president; Eugene Fulmer,
junior class president; Richard
Sarge, sophomore class president;
Mary Lou Waygood, WSGA pres-
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KDR Tops Pledging,
124 Go Fraternity
Kappa Delta Rho leads the fall
semester fraternity pledging total
of 124 with 12 men and Alpha Phi
Delta runs a close second with 11.
Chi Phi’s led the recent pledging
with nine.- - -r V
- ..Other-.. ’pledging, .includes Alpha
Kappa Pi, Alpha Zeta, Chi Phi, •
Phi Kappa Sigma, Theta Xi and
Tau Phi Delta.
Chi Phi—R. ChaxTes Altemus,
Charles W. Bartseh, Jr., Frank E.
Cowley, Jr., Thomas J. Daley,
Charles D. Hoyt, Victor J. Mar
tini, Roy S. McClenaghan, Clinton
H. Quigley, Joseph E. Wentzler.
Phi Kappa Sigma Morton B.
Godshall, James C. Vuncannon,
Harry C. Dunham, Walter M.
Leuzinger, John W. Mitchell,
James E. Lafferty, K. Glen Shaw,
Richard L. James.
Theia Xi John W. Brenner,
John B. Caldwell, Jr., Joseph R.
DeLeo, Glen D. Guiser, John S.
Hiles, Roland H. Steele, N. Rich
ard Stewart, Stanley C. Wells.
Tau Phi Delta Paul Beattie,
Henry Bocella, Richard Cook, Lee
Enright, Lynn Kempton, Robert
Pearle.
Alpha Zeia Olin S. Simpson,
John M. Powes.
Alpha Kappa Pi William H.
Rombach.
Joins Faculty! -
After teaching at the Massachu
setts Agricultural College for sev
eral years, Dr. Mack joined the
faculty of the College in 1923 and
became head of the department
of horticulture in 1939, succeed
ing Prof. S. W. Fletcher.
/His avocation is wood engrav
ing. His work in this field has
been exhibited in such famous
art galleries! and museums as tlhe
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
New York World’s Fair, the Li
brary of Congress and the Car
negie Institute. It has also been
shown abroad, in London. Edin
burgh, Glasglmv, Stockholm and
Venice.
Dr. Mack is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Bhi, Sig
ma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta and
Alpha Zeta honoraries. He is pres
ident of the American Society for
Horticultural Science, a fellow of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, director
of the American Horticultural
Council and a member of many
other horticultural and scientific
groups.