ln This issue PSCA Drive Page 2 Cagers Open ' Page 3 Men's Debate .... Page 4 VOL. 44—-No. 34 Late AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ WASHINGTON Those coal miners stayed off their jobs de spite the fact that a federal court has found John L. Lewis and the union that he heads guilty of con tempt of court. The sentence — which depends completely on the discretion of the court—will be passed today. However, both Lewis and the United Mine Work ers have the right to appeal the sentence to a higher court. RICHMOND. VA. The Com monwealth of Virginia has taken an important independent step in the coal dispute. Governor Tuck has created a state council of de fense. This agency was given ex traordinary powers—they include power to buy coal from any mines not in possession of the govern ment and, also, to least and op erate any such mines. WASHINGTON Parcel post, railroad freight, and passenger service all were made the subject of new and strict regulations. A nation-wide embargo has been clamped on all freight and express except vital needs. The parcel post service has been closed to all shipments weighing more than five pounds. And another 25 per cent reduction was ordered in the already restricted passenger serv ice on coal-burning lines. PITTSBURGH American in dustry— at least that important part that depends on coal—was described yesterday as operating merely on a day-to-day basis. Un employment forecasts remained gloomy. "Yesterday the total indirectly made-idle by the spft coal’ Stop page rose above one-hundrqdmnd sixty thousand, as 11-and-one-haLf thousand more workers saw their names added to the list of the un employed. And, of course, there were four -hundred-thousand idle workers ip the=soft coal mines. ' -JACKSON. MISS.—The - senate investigation of the Mississippi congressional primary was con tinued yesterday in Jackson. Ad- (Continued on page four) News Briefs La Vie Meets La Vie Junior and Senior staffs will meet in 4i1;2 Old Main at 4:3'0 o’clock, 'Seymour Rosenberg, edi tor, said today. •• ASCE Fetes Architect Clarence M. Bauchapies, archi tect and designer for the Metzger 'building,' will speak at the meet ing c'f the American Society of Civil Engineers in ML Engineering A at,' 7:3'0: o’clock tonight on the topics “Collaboration Between Ar chitect and l 'Engineer.” Engineer Award • The annual Penn State Engineer Award, discontinued during the war,; will 'toe re-established' this year, when $5O will be granted- the most deserving applicant for the award, as judged 'by the executive stalff of the Engineer. To toe eligi ble students must rank in the first ten per cent of the junior class amid must be enrolled in the School of Engineering, .Mineral Indus tries, or the curriculum of 'chemi cal engineering. Applications are available, at Student Union and' the Penn State Engineer office. SRC Russian Debate The International Relations Cluto, after its discussion of the veto power of the UNO Security Council Monday, will meet Wed nesday, December l'l, to debate “Is World Revolution a Part of Rus sia’s Policy?” All students, are urged', .to attend. ? Phi Sig Sig Party Phi Sigma Sigma sorority w.'ll hold: a bridge and gin rummy party in- the Southwest lounge of. Atherton -Hall for the benefit of rheumatic level - victims from 7 to 9 tonight, according to Lois Brcwn, publicity - chairman. Lit Club Movies Belle Lgttres Club, local Eng lish literature society, will show two David Ccipperfield movies in 'l'tll Sparks at 2 p.m. Sunday, cluto president Gloria Freedman said today. [®lji? latly (HoU Opportunity for Vets To See How It's Done Veterans of the North Afri can campaign of 1942-43 will chuckle knowingly Friday night when th e X-GI Club's "Algiers" is shown on the campus. "Cawm wiz me to zee Kas bah" was not so easily accom plished in Algerian cities with Military Police stationed at all gates. In the picture, sultry Charles Boyer extends this invitation to sultry Hedy LaMarr as surly Peter Lorre stands by. "Cous-cous" will undoubtedly be served at the X-Gl's free showing, but there will hardly be any smoking of "hasheesh." Players Name Show Crew Robert Reifsneider, director of the next Player’s, show, “Imagi nary Invalid,” recently released the following partial list of crew members. William Folwell was named stage manager. Heads of the property crew are Elizabeth Dunkel, manager, and Elizabeth Jean Whitney, assistant. Other members of the crew are Rea Crissman, Marion Lewis, Jo Peoples, Mary Kay Rice, Gloria Travioli, and Lillian 'VVeingarten. ' Co-managers .of the : costume crew are Frances Glass and Janet Taylor assisted by Arloa Betts, Nancy Cleveland, Velma Creitz, Ruth Eisler, Edna Gales, Jo-Marie Jackson, Carolyn Kaufman, Edith Jo Leib, Arlene Mack, Mary Lou Markley, Ann Pearson, Eleanor Romanyshyn,... Pauline - Schmitt, and Beatrice Silverstone. Manager and assistant of. the furniture crew are Duffield Sipes and Eleanor Miller who will be helped by Ernest Bentner, Velma Creitz, and Jo Peoples. Construction crew is headed by Gordon, Fiske and Wilber Eber sole. Other members are Barbara Cooper and Ruth Weinberger. Advertising will be headed by Karl Van D’Elden and Terry Klos tennan. Ann Dunaway and Mary Glick will manage the paint crew assist ed by Russella A'damitz, Wilm'a Brehm, Ruthye Cohen, Kay Courtney, Phyllis Harkin, Lois Hayd, Louis Gresch, Sue Law rence, Claire Lefko, Jean Nichols, and Peg Schultz. X-GI Club Holds Free Dance Pat Patterson and Ills orchestra with vocalist Mollie Geise will provide the music for dancing at “Watch Your Step”, the Friday, the thirteenth, free dance spon sored by the X-Gtt clulb for its membership,, according, to Fred S. Barrouck, chairman. “Watch Your Step” will toe- pre sented at Recreation Hall from 9:30 to 12:30, December. 13. Ad mission is restricted to members fo tha X-GI cluto and .will be by membership card. Expenses for the dance will be met through proceeds from “Sweater Hop,” which the X-Gl’s sponsored last month, and from the $1 per school year member ship fees of the cluto. Veterans may- join the -X-IGI cluto during the present member ship drive toy applying at the Stu dent Union desk in Old M'ain, ac cording to Ralph Lewis, member ship chairman. Sophs Cancel Mixer Because Recreation Hall is not available for mid-week stu dent activities, the Soph Mixer, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until the middle of January, according to Richard Sarge/ sophomore class presi dent. This will extend the period for submitting a sopho more class gong at SU until January 7. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4. 194 G—STATE 'COLLEGE, PENN A Coeds fo Compete For Harvest Queen Seventeen coeds have been se lected as candidates lor queen of Saturday night's Harvest. Ball. The photographs of the girls will be in the Corner Room window tomorrow through Saturday. Voting will be conducted at a designated booth at the dance. The deadline for casting ballots is 10 p.m., with the queen being elected by a plurality of votes. The candidates and the groups sponsoring them are Marion Mc- Elroy, Alpha Chi Omega and Kap pa Sigma; Chollie Halpern, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Anne Buganich, Al pha Gamma Rho; Joan McKeon, Alpha Omega Pi; Jean Brenner, Alpha Sigma Phi; Gladys Lou Miller, Alpha Zeta; Carol Pruess, Chi Omega; Mary Lou Waygood, Block and Bridle Club; Rosemary Halpin, Della Gamma ; Emily Jean Holmes, Delta Zeta; Georgia Mill er, Kappa Alpha Theta; Peggy Martin, Kappa Dells; Joan Fox, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Joyce, Parker. Phi Delta Theta; Freda Houts, Phi Mu; Jean Thurston, Penn’s Valley Ski Club; and Bar bara Jelen, Zeta Tau Alpha. Decorations for the dance will follow a harvest season theme, according to Bob Drick, chairman of this committee. The cider s’tand will be adorned with corn and pumpkins while a moon will shine forth from above the 'orchestra. Riding Drick are Raymond Schlosser, Burton Horne, George Cfiiok, mid Jack Bryer. The dance, sponsored by the Agriculture Student Council, will feature at Patterson and his or chestra. Informal, it will last from 9 p.m. to 12. The tickets are $2.00 -per. couple. Beede Lists Scholarships Students at the College in need of financial assistance may be eligible for the fourteen or more scholarships that are open to those in the upper fifth of their classes (having an average of 1.95) Applications for these awards are now available in Room 101 Forestry and must be filled be fore December 21, Victor Beede, chairman of the Seriate Commit tee on scholarships, said today. The John H. White scholarships, the Louise Carnegie scholarships, The Class of 1922 Memorial Schol arships, and Helen Wood Morris scholarships will all be available in this manner. ’ Further information may be Ob tained from Mr. Beede, chairman of the committee, or of any of the following members: Dr. C. O. Williams, School of Educ;/!ion; Charles Speidel, School of Physi cal Education and Athletics; Dr. Merit Scott, School of . Chemis try and Physics; Dr. C. E. Mar quardt, College Examiner; Dr. Maxwell Gens'amer, School of Mineral Industries; Dr. R. H. Dot terer, School of Liberal Arts; and J. S. Doolittle, School of Engi neering. Did You Get Your Check! tf Not, Mail Card to VA All veterans who did not re ceive their monthly subsistence checks by the last mail yesterday, December 3, are requested to ad dress a post card to the Veterans’ Administration, Campus Office, State College, Pa., with the fol lowing information on it: Name, address and phone num ber, C-numlber, Public Law (eith er FL 16 or PL 346), month or months for which subsistence is due. Mitt it Cloudy and Warme r IFC Adopts Dating Code Intcnfralernity Council has unanimously approved the newly drawn up dating cede and it will be presented to th c Studenl Welfare Committee I'cr-final approval at tlie e nd of the week. If tihe code is accepted it will go into effect, immediately. Fritz Lloyd, president of IFC. stated that copies of the following code will be sent to all .fraternities dent regulations as scon as the cod To Sing Robeson Tickets Go on Safe at A.A. Tickets for -58 stage seats for the Paul Robeson, in •Schwab Au d i t a rlu m. -Monday night will go on sale at the Ath letic Association ticket window in Old Main at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. They are priced at $3, which includes tax. The gre'at Negro singer’s ap pearance at the College will come exactly six years to the minute after his concert here in Schwab on a Monday night, December 9, 1940. Rcbeson will be assisted by William S'chatzkamer and accom panied iby Lawrence Brown at the piano. His program will include old English and Italian songs, and will close with Negro folk songs. Robeson is widely known, both as a singer and as an actor. He made his acting debut in 19123 ait the Provincetown Playhouse in New York where he: took the title r ole in Eugene O’Neill’s play, “Emperor Jones.” His most fa mous role is that of Othello, which he first played in London-in 19311. In 1943 he played in the Theatre Guild production of “Othello” whiidh ran for two years in New York and on the road'. Since his singing debut in 1925, Robeson lfas sung in all the Capi tals of Europe, and on thousands of college campuses throughout the United Slfces. s4soGoolSet InWSGADrive The annual Christmas drive sponsored by WSGA wiLl open Friday and continue through the week ending Friday, December li3. The House of Representatives will manage the ot m|paign for which a goal of $450 has been set. Donations received will be di vided equally among the Ameri can Women’s Hospital Associa tion, the Mifflin County Chil dren’s Aid Society, and Mrs. Ralph D. Hetzel’s Emergency Loan Fund. Suzanne Romig, chairman of the drive, slated that if each girl would contribute a quarter the goal would be realized. Rresiden>; of the girls’ living units will act as solicitors for the campaign. Chimney boxes will be placed in the Corner Room and the Ath erton Hall Lpunge. FIVE CENTS A COPY along with copies oi women stu- :ie is accepted ’ 1. A social fraternity shall be considered throughout this resolu tion to consist of a group of fra ternity men of at least 10 mem bers, including pledges, living to gether in a house, the whole of which, not a unit such as an apartment, is owned or rented by the social fraternity and is oper ated by the fraternity’s members. 2. Women guests are not to b e allowed above the first floor or in the rooms cf men. excepting rela tives not under the jurisdiction of the College. Specific exceptions to this may be made by the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. 3. Dances and parties will be chaperoned under provisions of 94 C, Student Regulations 1946 and 1047,. which reads as follows: “Ail dances and houseparties shall be provided with- at lea'st Two chaperones. Tire dates of the dances and the names of the chaperones shall be filed with the Dean of Women at least one week before the event.” 4. Tlie Initerfraternity Council will cooperate in the observance of the dating hours as'set'.forth by the Women’s Student Govern ment Association. 5. Any known violation of this code shall be reported to the In tertfaternity Council Judicial Ccmlmittee, consisting of the In terfratefnity Council "faculty ad- (Continued on page two) Camera Club Reorganizes In an effort to crystallize the in terest of student photographers, the Nittany Camera Club extends an open invitation-to all students to join in the special program in 5 Forestry at 8 o’clock Tuesday night. For many years the Penn State Camera Club, a student organiza tion, was quite active on campus, but became a war casualty. Two years ago the Nittany Camera Club was formed of faculty, staff and townspeople. :In extending the invitation, Dr. Henry W. Thurston, club presi dent, explained, “The program will inolude a general exchange of photographic supplies, with chance to buy, sell, swap or auction any thing used in photography.” He said the list already includes cam eras of various sizes and models, tripods, trays, lamps, developing tanks, and all lends of accessories. E.. j. Seiferle and N. A. Norton are co-chairmen for the program and they urged any students with p'hoto equipment to sell, as well as those seeking any darkroom supplies or other needs of ama teur photographers to be on hand Tuesday. In addition to the bazaar -a brief meeting will be held for the benefit of those interested in re viving the student camera club, said Dr. Thurston. La Vie Appointments Resume in January Appointments fo r La Vie pic tures will be issued to graduating students after the Christmas va cation, and will include those who were un'able to keep their original appointments during November. Seniors graduating in February and those who will leave for prac tice teaching during the Spring, semester will be given first pref erence when appointments are resumed on January 10. No photos will be taken during December..
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