Late AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ WASHINGTON The govern ment completed its case against the bushy-browed leader of the United Mine Workers, . John L. Lewis. But Judge T. Alan Golds borough surprised legal observers when he stated that he will in troduce as evidence today a pre trial statement by a Lewis lawyer. Goldsborough says. a. statement by Welly Hopkins tends to show that Lewis and the miners did not obey a' restraining order. The judge contends that this state ment would tend to leave Lewis in the technical position’ of a con tempt of court. WASHINGTON A federal judge has declared the Lea Act unconstitutional. The ruling was won by James Petrillo, president of the A(EL American Federation of 'Musicians—at whom the leg islation was allegedly aimed. Judge Walter La Buy said the legislation which was passed by Congress violated three amend ments of the federal constitution. The 'Lea Act prohibited attempts to force broadcasting stations to hire'' more employes than needed to .perform actual services. Coun sel for the government stated that he will appeal the judge’s decis ion. ' NEW YORK—General Franco may be asked by the United Na tions to surrender his powers to a provisional government ill Spain. Senator Tom Connally in troduced this proposal before the UN political committee. In addi tion, Connally asked that the Franco regime be barred from all organizations stented by the Unit ed Nations. He reserved his speech cn the resolution until a later .meeting of the Committee. A spokesman for the United States says this nation favors peaceful means in the Franco case. WASHINGTON— An Army Col onel charged with participating 'in the.theft of Hessian royal fam ily jewels inay 'be brought back to the United 'States from Ger many to stand trial . within ten days. He is Colonel Jack Durant of Chicago. His wife, Kathleen Nash Durant of Burlingame, Cal ifornia, has. been , con victed’" hr J the''case; Mi's’:" 'Durant was a ‘WAC Captain before her conviction. Colonel Durant is ac- (Continued on page two) News Briefs Business Women Party The Campus Business Women’s Club invites all campus secretar ies, members or non-members, to a Christmas Dinner Party in the Nittany Lion Inn at 6 :'3O p.m. De cember T 7. All replies should be sent to Gertrude Karhan, Presi dent’s Office, Old Main, not later than Thursday, with s2' attached to the acceptance to cover the price of the dinner. 'Struggle for Speed' - The next lecture in Engineer- senior lecture course, will be held on December 12 instead cf Thursday, December 5, as pre viously announced, Dean ' Harry P. Hammond said today. The lec ture-will be delivered' by L. K. Sill-cox, vice-president of the New York Air. Brake Company, and member of'ASME, on the subject “Struggle for Speed.” War Department Films The third in the monthly series of War .Department films will be presented by' the military depart ment in 'lll9 New Physics at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Films to be shown are “San Pietro,” ‘Death Mills,” “A Defeated -People;” and “Tar get for Today.” All students and faculty are invited. Concert Band Organizes, Try-outs Open for AH Hummel Fishiburn announced today that Blue Band is ready to reorganize ■ into 'the' annual con cent hand. Appointments for indi vidual, try-cui— for those, not in the marching hand can be made •by signing' up at 21G • Carnegie •ffiall. Try-outs are open to all stu dents, -including women. • Blue ‘Band is "reorganized each year after the football season, and plays in a series of concerts. Watch Collegian for announce ment of these concerts. All stu dents who play any sort of band instrument ar e urged to try out. iatlg 0 (Mlwjt VOL. 44—(No. 33 Coal Pile Ample Till Mid-January Ebert Urges Conserving Heat, Electricity, Power If heat, electricity, and hot water are used conservatively, the College's present coal pile will last until the middle of January, unless there is a prolonged cold spell, according to George W. Ebert, superintendent of Ground's and Buildings. A ruling of the Solid Fuels Ad ministration will prevent obtain ing coal as long as a ten-day sup ply is on hand. Mr. Ebert’s only concern is that the strike may last so long that no coal will be avail able when the College is eligible for delivery. It would be inadvisable to close the College entirely; some func tions mbs! be continued. Mr. Ebert continued that it would .be better to lower the over-all tem perature to 50 or 60 degrees than to secure the heating system com pletely. He explained that if the heating foams become cold, it would be impossible to shoot steam into them immediately; a week would be required to bring the system up to the normal temperature. “We have come through two floods and four coal strikes,” con cluded , Mr. Ebert, “and haven’t struck our colors yet.” Navy to Examine Men Interested In Officer School ' l= -- who- pfon'to be' enrolled here for four more years may qualify for the Navy’s nation wide competitive examinations for its Officer Training Program, Capt, William T ; McGarry, pro lessor of naval science, explained today. The examination will be given on January 18. Application forms, which may be obtained from the department cf naval science, must be sent in before" December 17. Students selected by these com. petitive examinations will be of fered entrance in either the Naval Reserve .Officers Training Corps or the Naval. Aviation College Program. • • Those who join the NROTC program will be sent to one of the 52 colleges having NROTC. units, and will receive their tuition, books, normal fees, and $5O a month for the four-year period from the government. Upon grad uation, they will be commissioned in the Regular Navy and required to serve two years oh active duty. -They may, then remain- in the reg ular service or transfer to the' re serve and return, to civilian 'life. "Applicants taking this examina tion, must. b’ e at least 17 and .not more than 21 years of age op. July 1. ■ Those passing the NCAIF exami. nation may go to any accredited college for two years receiving the same government benefits. They then will enter a two-year flight training program, and -on completion will be commissioned and serve .a year of flight duty. At the end of this duty they may 're rnain in the regular Navy and're ceive two more years of profes sional education, or receive a re serve commission ■ and complete their college education. Health Ed Talk Dr.'" Florence Leist, . physio therapist of 'the Cqlltge (Health Service,, will speak in 5 Library at 7:30 tomorrow ■on “Physio therapy-and Its Possibilities.” The talk is sponsored' toy the Penn St/ato Health' Education Society c.f‘the School of Physical Educa tion, and is the first in a series of health talks. Sound films will be shown, and 'the public is in vited. . TUESDAYJMORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1946—STATE COLLEGE, PENNA Galloway Trial The case against John E. Gal loway, former College student who is charged with the mur der of his wife, Katherine D. Galloway, is first on fhe list of five criminal cases to be fried in Centre County next week. The case will be presented by District Attorney Edward L. Willard. Galloway will be rep resented by Furst and Furst, and Musser W. Gettig, Belle fonte attorneys. Thetas Sponsor Charily Bazaar Kappa Alpha Theta will hold a charity bazaar for the benefit of the Institute of Logopedics at the Theta house from two to five on Saturday. .Feature of the bazaar will be the “White Elcphqnt” booth. A drawing for a hand-knit black sweater will be held .at 4 o’clock. The person holding the winning ticket need. not be present. Chances on the sweater have been •sold on campus and in town for the past-several weeks. During the afternoon there will be a sales pf variety 0 f hand-made items. Among these will be socks, mittens, baby clothes, stationery, Christmas cards and ecorations, place cards, and gifts. Tea will be served during the sale. Committee chairmen for the bazaar are Joan Oanby, Carol Dieckmann, Marjorie Griffiths, Nan Janies. Joyce Parker, Eleanor Roberts, Jo Sauerwein, and Jane Sipicher. Plaid Shirts, Dungarees Take Spotlight „ .^JdJkiL Plaid shirts and dungarees will' -be the order of tlhe day at the Harvest Ball Saturday night ac cording to Carroll Hess and John Holbert, co-chairmen <ft the affair. Some features of. the evening are the selection of the queen and the appearance of Pat Patterson and his orchestra with Molly Geise, vocalist. Others aiding the ' co-chairmen are Carolyn Graham, in Charge of refreshments, Bob Drick, decora tions, .-Robert Crist, program, F. Rudolph Brannaka, tickets, and Peter Horan, publicity. Pickwick Papers Dr. Robert E. Dengler, head of the department of classical lang uages, will give the second in the 'llsth series of Wednesday readings in 402 Library at 4.<20 o’clock tomorrow. The readings will ibe from Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, and all students, faculty, and townspeople are in vited. Elevator service will be available beginning 4 o’clock. All-College Scholastic Averages Compilation of fraternity and group averages for the .College’s 1946 spring semester has been completed by the Office of the Registrar. Group averages are as follows: All College 1.42 AH College Men 1.37 All College Women 1.49 All Fraternity All Fraternity Men .' 1.38 All Fraternity Women 1.7i1i Non Fraternity Non Fraternity Men ■■Non Fraternity Women ' 1.3 G •Individual fraternity break downs with the exceptions of Al pha Zeta, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, and Theta Kappa Phi, which were not activated during the 1946 Spring Semester, are: Delta Theta Sigma 2.03 Alpha Sigma Phi Alpha Gamma Rho 1.83 Tail Phi Delta Theta Xi .... Triangle Acacia Lambda Chi Alpha 1.64 Sigma Phi Alpha 1-63 Alpha Chi Rho ....- 1.62 Pi Kappa Phi Snowflakes , Rumors Snow flurries, icy roads, and temperatures as low as 11 degrees greeted the student body as it. re turned to the last 'lap of classes in 1946, those 1® studying days before Christmas. Monday morning found 8 o’clockers diving into trunks and suitcases for fur mittens, scarfs, and ear muffs -as they prepared to face the first wintry blasts. Some had already faced the storm as buses ran as much as four hours behind schedule Sunday n ight. A report came down by dog sled from Pollock Circle that the men there were protesting the re moval to the Mineral Industries mu'seum of their one lump of coal, but this has not been verified. Likewise, the story that John L. Lewis had brought upon this cold spell to foster the sale of union suits was not confirmed. Oil Men Discuss Fuel Problems Birch, British Researchist, Visits Petroleum Lab Problems pertaining to new de velopments in fuels, -chemicals from -petroleum and lubricants were discussed recently by Dr. S'. F. Birch, assistant director of re search of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. of England, and Dr. M. R. Fenske, director of the Petroleum Refining Laboratory of the School of Chemistry and Physics at the College. ... ; .,Accprdlng, fo- - -fir, Bir-clu the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. operates the largest refinery in' the world at Abadan, Iran, and processes over 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day. At present the company is also enlarging and modernizing its re fineries in Palestine and England. In 1937 the petroleum refining laboratory at the College .carried out studies on straight run Iran ian gasoline to determine -how it could be more efficiently utilized in making aircraft fuels. As a re sult of these initial studies the largest superi'ractionation plant in the world was erected at Abadan. During the war this process pro duced about 40 per cent of the high octisne number aviation gas oline produced in the Abadan re finery. ASME Tour The student branch of ASME will leave from the mechanical engineering parking lot at 1-3:45 Tuesday and Wednesday on an inspection tour to Altoona. Pi Kappa Alpha Kappa Delta Rho Delta Chi’ ...... Zeta Beta Tau . Alpha Kappa Pi Phi Sigma Delta Beaver House Phi Gsmma Delta Phi Epsilon Pi ... Tau Kappa Epsilon 1.41 Beta Sigma Rho 1.39 Sigma Pi 1.39 Delta Upsilon Phi Kappa Psi Pi Lambda Phi 1.37 Theta Chi - 1.37 Kappa Sigma 1.35 Alpha Chi Sigma 1.30 Phi Delta Theta 1.30 Phi Kappa Sigma 1.29 Phi Kappa 1.25 Sigma PJii Epsilon 1.23 Della Sigma Phi 1.19 Delta Tau Delta lJl'B Phi Sigma Kappa 1.18 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1.15 Phi Kappa Tau 1.14 - 1.82 l.Bl '. 1.66 Alpha Phi Delta 1.13 Chi Phi 1.13 Stigma Phi Sigma -.. 1.06 Alpha Tau Omega 1.00 Sigma Chi 1.00 Fly as Winter Hits State , . . . Weather ft It Cold. Mostly Clear FIVE CENTS A COPY Campus to Have Free Showings Of Popular Films X-Gl's Slate 'Algiers' For Friday Night Show Free showings of popular mo tion pictures will be presented on the campus l'or all students at the College beginning Friday night, according to Ted Rozelsky, presi dent of the X-GI club. “Algiers”, starring Charles Boyer. Hedy Lamarr, and Peter Lorre (as Pepe Le Moko), will first be shown by the club in 10 and 1-21 Sparks Friday night. The film “Jack London” has been scheduled tentatively for Saturday night. “Algiers” will be shown i n both 10 and 121 Sparks- to accomodate a larger crowd. A 20-minute stag gering of time will be necessary to switch reels from one room to the other. “After viewing the deplorable movie situation in State College and noting the quality of the pic tures .snd the price of admission, the X-Gl club decided to do somehing about the matter. “The club will now present free movies on the campus to all stu dents for their inexpensive week end recreation. Older pictures may necessarily be shown, but these will be of higher quality and of popular student appeal,” said X-GI club president Rozelsky. Movie programs will include car toons and short subjects, and will be of approximately two -hours duration. The necessary funds for film rental and projection will be provided by the X-GI club from its $1 per school year membership fees.!-.-,, , • - . Student interest'and attendance is needed so that the program might be continued and extended, according to Rozelsky. Poor Visits Here, Plans New Murals Artist Inspects Campus For Fresco Subject Matter ■Henry Varnum Poor, creator ot the mural in the lobby of Old Main, visited the College recently to discuss completion of the fres co, according to Milton S. Osborne, head of the department of archi tecture and chairman of the mural committee. ‘ln addition to meeting with the committee, Poor visited different schools at the College .End the li brary, in search of subject matter to be portrayed in the mural. The east and west walls of Old Main’s loibby, above the balcony level, are to be covered with scenes depio'ting the important work of the College, both here and' throughout the state. No sketches ■hiave been as yet prepared, but material is being gathered for them. 1.53 1.50 1.47 The original Land Grant Fresco was started with a gift from the Class of ’32. Completion of the mural has been made possible by a fund of more than $11,250 pre sented by graduating classes and other student groups. In addition to Osborne, the committee, appointed by President Ralph Dorn Hetzel, consists of Dr. Harold E. Dickson, professor or fine arts; Dr. Warren B. Mack, head of the department of horti culture, and Michael Blatz. editor of the Daily Collegian. Deadline For Councils School councils that have not reorganized must do so by Decem ber 16, Jack Branigan, Elections Committee chairman, said today. Names of officers and council members must be turned in by that time it the School expects to Wave a seat, on A'l-College cab inet, Branigan added.
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