II Shopping Days Till Christmas VOL. 44—No. 39 Pistol Expert Claims Gun Faulty; Defense Says Shooting Accidental “It would 'be utterly impossible to pull back the pistol slide, re lease Jit a-ndi fire it acauinately,” said J. R. Mia'ttern, smiall arcnls expert for the defense, in his testimony during the Galloway trial yesterday. Final summaries will be presented by the prosecution and defens e this morning, with the case going to the jury for consideration soon thereafter. The pistol expert took .the rtland yesterday afternoon as Galloway’s counsel prepared their defense claiming accidental Shooting. The .32 oalitore plistol, said Mr. iMattem, is so defective through ®ge, wear and tear that “it might produce a mlalifunction at any at tempted shot.” Pistol Unsafe The defense witness, who dis assembled the weiaipan completely during tlhe time he was on the stand, explained the mlany possi bilities that could cause the' 1 gun to fire He also re -1 marked' that the pistol wias “en tirely unsafe and should never have been loaded.” Galloway resumed his chair on the witness stand, early yesterday morning and was decisive in his testimony that the fatal shot was fired from the center of the trailer instead of the far end as two sworn statements and a dictaphone rec ord indicate. Cross examination of the defen dant by District Attorney WiTl'ard w/as biased on attempts by the prosecution to show that Galloway made threats t'o Shoot “all hi® girl friends.” ' Just a Joke “Yes, I made the statement that I w'as going to shoot all my girl friend's,-'but it was all a joke,” said GalioWay in, answer to the acpusa (tion arid to the amusement of the ooui't r'ccm. Galloway accused the police of pushing lh e gun info his hand and taking pictures, the afternoon fol lowing the tragedy, and presenting —them in court as a-re-enactment of, the shooting. In answe r to has counsel’s ques tion about Police Chief Juiba -“.pushing” him into camera range - after leaving Square H!art’:s office that "same afternoon, the defen dant Said he apparently was “steered” by Juba for the action (Continued on page four) Lute AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ NEW YORK —United Nations delegations seem resigned to tlhe fact tlhiat the current U!N general assembly session will reach -no conclusion on world disarmament. Authoritative sources day that’ls the reisuliti of 1a Rutasdan statement issued: at a secret meeting of. a drafting committee o n . disarming. These sources. gay the Soviet. Union refused a compromise on .world trocp census and disarma ment offered earlier-by Assembly (President Baul-IHenri Sp'aak of Belgium. TEHRAN—In the Persian cap ital, Iranian army headquarters made an announcement yesterday about the semi-autonomous prov ince of Azerbaijan, The headquar ters says the provincial counsel has accepted the Persian govern ment's demand that security forces supervise coming) elections. 1 CARACAS—Bomfbs were burst ing in the Souith American repub lic of Venezuela yesterday. In surgents apparently tried to cap ture President Romulo Betancourt and his cabinet in a move to over throw the year-old Betancourt re gime. • One - bomlb aimed at the presi dential patac e fell wide of the •marie. Another.‘bomb missed a ho tel in Manacay, Where American women and children were staying, and where a group of Tt2 United States newismen and members of a United, States military mission wiere breakfasting. WASHINGTON An Army plane is du e here today with two Americans accused of having broadcast Nazi propaganda over Radio Berlin—Douglas Chandler and Robert Best. A justice depart ment official says they will be arraigned oii treason charges. Wife Saily (E nil THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER. 12, 1946—STATE COLLEGE, PENNA By Stephen Sinichak Dean's Office Announces Tea An All-College Christmas tea will be given by the Dean of Women’s office on the 'balcony of Old Main from 3:30 to 4:30 o’- clock tomorrow, said Jean Stiles, assistant to the dean 0 f women. Men and women students as well as -all faculty and administra tive employees are invited to stop in. The affair is strictly informal. iChristmas decorations and mu sic have been planned. Gwens will provide waitresses and hos tesses. Sillcox Speaks To Engineers D. K. Sillcox, vice president of the New York Air Brake Co. of Watertown, New York, and New York City, will speak before all .senior engineers this afternoon in loom 120 Electrical Engineering. His subject will be “The Struggle for. Speed.” iMr. Sillcox, a prominent me chanical engineer, is a professional lecturer at Purdue University, .and. alsn.ia.jnembec.pL.the board of. trustees at Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, New York. iHis subject deals with the ne cessity of maintaining rail trans portatoin .in sound financial and physical condition; and the neces sty for railroads themselves to compete .. for travel .patronage against airlines and buses .by pro viding superior service. This is one of a series of com pulsory lectures for all seniors in the School of - Engineering. Three more lectures are scheduled be fore ithe end of the semester. Blue Key Taps 29 Students (Blue Key, sophomore men’s honorary, will- initiate. 23 men at a semi-formal dance at the Nit tany Lion Inn from 9 to 12 p. m. Saturday. President ■ Richard (McAdams has invited all present and form er Blue Key memlbers to attend the dance. The 29 men to be initiated were tapped in a ceremony in front of Old Main at 7:45 yesterday morning. The men and the ac tivity for which they were picked are: Cross country—Alfred Good year, Arthur Heinman and Leon ard Sugarman; Football—i David Barron,. (Harold Saundres and and Robert Tomlinson; Wrestling ; —John Holmes and Robert Ly ons; .Cheerleaders—Stanley Eis man and Robert Frankhouse. Boxing—Raymond Brooks, Ro bert Meinken and Rufbin Mogul; Basketball Sidney Simon and Joseph Sudimack; Lacrosse Reginald Kimble; Soccer—Ken ’neth Emerson, Ernest Herwitz and Joseph Sumner; Ice Hockey— George Kowatch. (Baseball—Herbert Aibnsms and Harvey Silverston; (Fencing Howard Rogers and Joseph Shaf ran; Swimming—La'wrence Diet erich and Joseph Succop; Publi cations — Richard Sarge and’ J. Arthur Stober; General' Activities -r-Ralph Lewis. SU Desk Will Take Cap and Gown Orders Invitations and announcements for graduation must be ordered at the Student Union desk toanor orw. said James Sheehan, senior class president. 'Each graduating senior will re ceive three tickets to the gradua tion exercises when he picks up his cap and gown at the Athletic Store. Invitations which are pur chased will have nothing to do with admittance. Cap and gown orders will be taken, at the same time and place as the invitations. A $5 deposit, which will be returned when caps and gowns are taken back to the Athletic Store, will be made at that time. Receipts obtained when order ing caps, gowns, and invitations must be presented when calling for those items. X-Gl's Dance At Rec Hall “Watch Your Step” the X-GI club dance which is free to mem bers, . will be held in Recreation Hall from 8:.30 to 12 o'clock to morrow night. Admission is re stricted to club members. Pat Patterson and his campus band, featuring vocalist Mollie Geise, will furnish the music for dancing at the Friday the Thir teenth affair. Ralph Lewis, membership chairman, says that veterans might yet become members of the X-GI club at the Student Union desk in Old Main before the dance and enjoy this social priv ilege. The membership fee is $1 per school year. “Watch Your Step” is being fi nanced .through proceeds from last . ‘month’s ‘'“Sweater'' 'Hop”',' sponsored by the cluib. IFred S. Barrouk is general chairman for “Watch Your Step.” Robert Marsh is publicity chair man. Seven Students Receive Awards in Ag School Seven students in the School of Agriculture have been selected for Scholarships and awards for the 1846-47 year, according to Dr. M. L. Od'land, chairman of the School's committee on awards. Jonathan Ray (Bickel was named to receive the Alan Nutt memor ial award cif $25 given by the fam ily in honor of (Lieut. Alan Nutt, a student at the time he was killed in World War I. Miss Anne Buganich receives the Harriet 'Searle Watts me morial scholarship for a woman student in the School of (Agricul ture. Interest on a fund deter mines the amount, which this year is $30.74. Miss Buganich is a jun ior in agronomy. Maurice V. Green wins the $lOO of the Boys’ Working Reserve of Allegheny County Award, a prize restricted to students taking the two-year .course, in agriculture. Samuel W. 'Laub, a junior, gets the Arthur C. Bigelow memorial scholarship of $lOO awarded an nually to the student showing out standing ability in sheep hus bandry. Two enrolled 1 in the two-year course in agriculture . receive 850. of the Two - Year Agriculture Class awards. They are ©wight A. King and Carl 'F. McKee. 'Howard J. Saylor received the ‘W. Atlee Burpee award of sloo' for the*upper classman shewing the imost “promise in continued constructive, work” in vegetables or flowers. Saylor, a seventh se mester student in horticulture, becomes the second student ever to win this award at the College. The Borden award, going to Robert ’Louis Holtzinger, a senior in dairy husbandry, has pre viously been .announced. wjtatt Two Days Remain to Fill Christmas Drive Quota Still Hope A check with Student Union reveals that there are still ap proximately 200 tickets avail able for the Saturday night performance of "No Kick Coming." This is contrary to the rumor that the sellout was complete for both nights. How ever standing room will be sold Friday night, for both perform ances, according to Ted Le- Fevre, assistant business man ager. AAUW Fetes Senior Women At Coffee Hour Senior women who will grad uate in February will be guests of honor at the American Association of University Women at the tra ditional Christmas Coffee Hour in th e Home Economics foyer at 7 p.m. tonight. An informal program will in clude carol singing under the chairmanship of Mrs. Hummel Fishlburn, several numbers by the Ten Tones from the State College High School, and refreshments. The AAUiW wishes to acquaint prospective women graduates with the purposes and activities of the club since they will become elig ible for membership upon grad uation. Any woman who will graduate in February and who has not re ceived an invitation should con tact- Mrs. Donald W- Davis, ac cording to Miss Edith Geuther, AAIUW publicity chairman. A Thanksgiving Festival was held last month by AAUW to en tertain guest students from for eign countries. A dinner and roundtable discussion of im pressions of the American school system wer e included in the pro gram. News Briefs La Vie Staff Meets La Vie Senior and .Junior Art staff members are asked l to meet in '223 Engineering F at 7 o’clock tonight and to bring all work with them, Seymour Rosenberg, La: Vie Editor, said today. Christian Science Lecture (Member of the Christian. Sci ence Organization at the College •are sponsoring a lecture' on “Christian Science: Its Revelation of the Kingdom Within” by Clay ton B. Craig, member of the Board of (Lectureship of the Mother Church in Boston, Mass. The lec ture will toe held in'l'2l Sparks at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, and is open to the public. Home Ec Tea IThe Home Economics Club will 1 hold its annual Christmas Tea for all home economics students and' faculty members in the Northeast lounge of Atherton Hall from 3 to 4:30 p, m. Saturday. Communion Breakfast The Newman Club is sponsor- 1 ing a communion breakfast at the AHenerest at 9:3i0 a. m. Sunday. Tickets priced at 85 cents are on sale at Student Union or may toe purchased from any club officer. Ad. Honorary initiates John C. Calhoun, John Corbett, Donald Shaner, Bavlen ‘H. Smith, and Harry 'L. Winand were initi ated into Alpha "Delta Sigma, na tional advertising honorary at a recent meeting. Harry Hawkins, national advertising manager of the Philadelphia Evening Bulle tin, and Robert Van Slambrouek, instructor in journalism at the College, were also initiated. Weather Cloudy, Cool, Light Rain FIVE CENTS A COPY iln order to reach the goal of §450 for the annual WSGA Christ mas Drive, $329.19 will have to be collected from the student body today and tomorrow. Several ol' the women’s living units have made 'final reports, Atherton, NW making an increase over last year’s collections. High est contributors so far are McAl lister, Atherton NW, Atherton NiE, and Watts. Since 1926 the women of Penn State have assisted several insti tutions and groups with their Christmas gifts. In a majority of the years, contributions have been divided among three institutions: the Mifflin County Children’s Aid Society, the American Women’s Hospital, and Mrs. Hetzel’s Emer gency Fund. East year a total of $550 was divided among these groups and the United China Be lief. For many adopted children in Mifflin County this Christmas might be a dreary one without the toys, clothing, and little spending money that will reach them because of gifts from coeds through the Children’s Aid Sb~ ciety. Letters from these children indicate the need for provision of more than just the bare neces sities of life. Gifts from coeds will also carry on the work of clinics of White and Negr 0 mothers and children in the southern highlands of this country, including the maternity shelter and child health programs installed in Greenville county, South Carolina. Ellen Steidle Dies in Hospital Mrs. Ellen May Girsham Steidle, wife of Dean Edward 'Steidle, of the School of Mineral Indus'ries at the College, die-d yesterday afternoon in the Gei singer Memorial ■ Hospital, Dan ville, following an illness of two months. Born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1'8'96, Mrs. Steidle was graduated from Allegheny College, Meau ville, in 1914 with a bachelor of arts degree. After teaching school for two years, she became a metallographer with the U. St Bureau of Mines during World War I. She did the first metallo graphic work'on aluminum. At the end of the' war, Mrs. Steidle equipped and started the metallographic laboratory of the at New' Kensington. She held a Aluminum Company of America Fellowship at the Mellon Insti tute. of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh until her marriage on July 20, 1920, to 'Dean Steidle, then professor of mining engineer ing at Carnegie Institute of Tech nology. They moved to State Col lege on July 1, >1928, Mrs. Steidle was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. in addition' to her husband 1 , Mrs. Steidle is survived by two sons. Captain Edward Steidle is serving with the Corps of Engi neers, United States Army, in Germany. Howard, who served 1 as a lieutenant during the war, is enrolled at the College as a sen ior in the curriculum of mining. iourn Honorary Plans Annual Christmas Smoker Sigma Delta Chi, national men’s journalism 'honorary, plans to have its annual Christmas smoker from 7:15 t 0 9 p.m. Monday at the TKE house. Chet Smith, sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press, will be guest speaker at the affair. Mr. Smith, who is one of the best in his field, will talk ancl answer ques tion on sports. Another highlight of the eve ning will be a showing of movies of the Penn State-Navy game. Invitations have been sent out to all male journalism students.
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