Great God Brown 4 , 4 WEATHER Tonight Tilt at Tottrgiatt Partly Cloudy. Much Colder. VOL. 47-NO. 25 Late AP News Couit Nay WMAJ Truman Clings To Peace Hope WASHINGTON Pr e sident Truman said yesterday he still is clinging to his belief that the world can eventually see peace, but his confidence, he declared, has been somewhat marred. One of the President's firm beliefs is that aid to European countries on help to bring about the peace we are looking for. He asked Congress yesterday for $55,4200,000 to tide Western Europe over the difficult days until the Marshall Plan can be put into effect, saying it was a matter of "extreme urgency" the Marshall plan be approved at the earliest possible moment. A State Department spokesman said the $55,000,000 would rep resent an advance installment on the eventival. allocation. At the present rate of spending it would last about four days. Vote of Confidence PRAGUE While the country mourned the death of Masaryk, the Czech parliament yesterday gave new " Communist Premier Klement Gottwald a vote of con fidence. The vote, in effect, was approval of the sweeping Coln munist program, but 67 mem bers were absent when the rate was taken. Gets The Brush-Off LAKE SUCCESS The chief United Nations delegate from Czechoslovakia, Dr. Jan Papanek, yesterday reopened his fight at Labe Success for a UN tnvesti gation of the Communist seizure of power. Yesterday Secretary- General Trygve Lie brushed aside his demands. Threatens Walk-Out LAKE SUCCESS Russia yes terday threatened to walk out of the four-power talks on Pales tine if The Jews and Arabs are invited to take part. Soviet Depu ty 'Foreig n Ministe r Andrei Gro myko declared that conciliation already has failed and that the partition plan should be carried out. Choir Presents 'Messiah' In Palm Sunday Service Chapel Choir, under the direc tion of Mrs. Willa W. Taylor, will present selections from Parts II and 111 of Handers "Messiah" in Schwab Auditor ium at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. March 21. Thirty members of the College Symphony will accompany the choir during the two perform ances. George Ceiga, chapel or ganist, will play three organ numbers. Soloists are Jacqueline Heck ert, soprano; Maynard Hill, tenor; and Thaddeus Komorow sky, baritone. AVC Brings St. John Tickets are still available at Student Union for the Robart St. John lecture. sponsored by the Centre County chapter of AVC !r, Schwab Auditorium March 19. Tickei, price is 84 cents includilm tax. A coffee hour will be given by the AVC auxiliary for Mr. St. John in Atherton Lounge follow ing the lecture. Ali those attend ing the lecture will be admittei upon presentation of ticket St. John, serving as a corr f.oondent on fighting fronts throughout Europe. followed his toric events through World War 11. He reported Pa the partitioa of FRIDAY MORNING Thespians Begin Show Tryouts For Great White Bear Tryouts for Thespian's spring show, "The Great White Bear," will be held tomorrow and Sun day. Robert Koser, Thespian president, announced. Singers will try out in 405 Old Main from 7 to 8:30 o'clock to morrow night, and dancers in that room from 8:30 to 10 o'clock. The same schedule will be in effect Sunday, with tryouts in Schwab Auditorium. Those try ing out for speaking parts should -eport to Schwab any time from 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Koser said. Anyone desiring to be in the -)roduction, which enters rehear sal next week, should come to tryouts regardless of previous -xperience, he emphasized. Production staff for the show includes production Manager, Ted LeFevre; assistants, Ray mond Fortunato, Robert Koser, Russell Teall; business manager James Cuzzolina; cast director. Pepper Birchard; music. George Washko: dance, Bea Stern. Publicity, Alan Pottasea; pro cram, James Dunaway; consti uc tion Alan Richter: stage manag er, Warren Hinks; properties, Ar lene Spencer; paint. Kath erine Bitner; light, Robert Shive design, George Kline and Duffield Sipes. Art Groups Offer Beaux Arts Ball Two architectural organizations and an art honorary are combin ing to sponsor the annual t3eaux Arts Ball. scheduled for the TUB from 9 to 12 p.m. on April 3. ac cording bo Robert Widder. general chairman. Scarab. architectural honorary; Fsquisse, architecture department club, and Pi Gamma Alpha, art honorary, are joint sponsors of the dance. The theme of the costume ball will be a carnival with clowns, caricaturists, and fortune tellers scattered throughout the crowd to offer entertainment. Music will be by Paul Grove's orchestra. Committee chairmen are Her bert Beckhard• general committee: Thomas Lannen and Eva Winter, publicity: Arthur Lilien, dacr.ra lions; Harry Mumma, finance; Al bert Sauer. c•r_tertainment. Bank Excavation Begins For Transformer Vault Excavation for a transformer vault, to be built in the Univer sity Club bank at the southwest corner of the Power Plant, began this week. The bank of three transformers which will be installed is part of the power expansion program which includes a new boiler now being constructed in the Power Plant and a generator still at the factory. Rumania, the abdication , X King Carol. the Rumanian earthquake the Iron Guard Revolutions the entrance of Nazi troops into Bucharest and Bulgaria, and the fall of Yugoslavia. Following the fall of G..-eece and Crete, and the new drive into the Middle East, St. John ekwriped Greece on the last evacuation ship. In England, he be‘i.une NBC's London commentator. wit nessing Nazi bombings of the city. Maintaining an exhaustiv t: schedule, St. John worked in a munitions factory. helped remove air raid victims from the ruins of Canterbury. and flew with the RAF over the North Atlantic. MARCH 12, 1948 STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA 1 Campus-scape Oki Main etched against the cheerless - gray skyline...o ma r, the tent-maker, must still be in business. "Gosh the skirts and coats on the coeds are long!".. Puddles freckling the concrete walks... "Think Ash and Karver will do it again this week?"... Mounds of snow growing wan from the spring-warmth...A bat tle jacket, arm once soggy with Rhine mud, entwined about the waist of a new-look, brick-red coat... "Why ya splashing through the mud?" "Saddles don't lows good till they're dirty"... Pandemonium! ...Only ten min utes to dash from Mineral frylus tries to Temporary...A young mother pushing her baby coach under the canopy of gaunt oak branches —"Gee, 30 pages! He must think that's my only course."... Collision! n student laughing over Froth, bumping into a mi.ple. .The library fringed by a web of branches . "D'ya hear the one about the coed who—?"..."Let's go to the TUB." "That's a good idea." Red Cross Results Two hundred eighty-eight dol lars and thirty-nine cents has been collected thus far in the Red Cross Fund Drive which is end Monday. This total represents in dividual contributions from fra• ternities and girls' dormitories. The returns are not complete. Delta Tau Delta $ 50 Grange Dormitory Ll.BO Jordan Hall 8.43 Pi Kappa Alpha 4 00 Sigma Phi Alpha e 01 Sigma Phi Epsilon 6.55 Tau Kappa Epsilon 16.70 Theta Kappa Phi 9.30 Previous returns 217 10 Total $288.39 News Briefs Old Mania Fraternities. sororities, and in dependents who have pinning z., engagements. and marriages to announce in Froth's Old Mania column should turn them in at Student Union by noon tomorrow. Foreign Students James E. Bristol of the Amer ican Friends Service Committee would like to meet all foreign students to discuss the Fr'er•ds slimmer projects in 304 Old Main, 7:30 o'clock tomorrow. Newman Club The Newman Club roller skat ing Party originally scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed un• til March 20. A mixer will be held at Woodman's Hall, 2 o'clock Sun day afternoon. Players Tickets Tickets for Players arena pro duction., "Hotel Universe," Center Stage. 8 o'clock tomorrow night. are still available at the SU desk. Reservations for subsequent ner formances may be made at the dramatics office. Scarab Exhibit Scarab Traveling Sketch Ex hibit. sponsored by Scarab. archi tectural engineering honorary. is on display on the third floo: of ME. The exhibit. being shown un til Saturday. consists of ske'2hes dcne by architectural st , tdenls from all schools which have a branch of Scarab. Students Win Magazines Free subscriptions to Time, Life, or Fortune are prizes won by Robert J. Klesius and Leon hart Jensen in a business corre spondence letter writing contest, said Prof. Henry B. Young of the English composition department. R. N. Tuttle and Kosti Bargas received honorable mention. Cabinet Unanimously Votes NSA Membership Agnew Names IFC News Staff Richard Curto, Alpha Phi Del ta fraternity president, has been named editor of the IFC News letter by Willard Agnew, IFC pr esident, succeeding Peter Warker whose resignation be comes effective tomorrow. Wark er resigned because of other duties. Joseph Succop, publicity direc tor of IFC, assumed the post of business manager, Edwin Buck ley was appointed circulation manager, and Wilbert Roth was moved up to managing editor, following the reorganization of the Newsletter staff. Curto has announced plans for five more issues during the pres ent semester. They will be dis tributed every two weeks to fra ternities by mail, and to inde pendent students at Student Un ion. Monday will mark the first ap pearance 'of the Newsletter in printed form. Windcrest Wives Plan May Festival Plans for a May festival, or bazaar. were instigated by Winci crest Wives at their bi-monthly meeting in Community Hall Wed nesday night. This event w , ll be open to the public and is to take place after Community Hall is renovated. said Mrs. John Middle ton. pulqicitv chairman. During the business meeting a committee was appointed to send cards to sick members anal to those with recently born babies. Plans were also formulated fox decorating and fixing Community Hall as a lounge. After the business session, the members sorted toys which are available to children visiting the Red Cross Well-Baby Clinic. The remaining toys will be c.l , 2ane - .1 and repaired, and members of Mrincicrest Wives are urged to do nate outgrown toys to replace the old ones, said Mrs. Middleton. MI Exhibit Features Microscopic Pictures An exhibit entitled "Electron Microscopy" is now on display in the rotunda of Mineral Industries. Photographs, taken with the electron microscope in the Col lege's high magnification labora tory, show magnification ranging from 10,000 to 43.000 diameters of clay particles, smoke. the sur face of etched steel, and the in ternal structure of the bacteria shell. NSA Travel Booklet Information is now available at the library on study, travel and work in forehm countries di iring the summer months. NS :'s international affairs re:i resentative at the Collect?, Hai . hi 11. Brown, has placed eight cJpies ill an NSA mformatiiin bookirt tll the periodical room of the library. The booklet is entitled "Sittiiy. Travel. Work,—Abroad." Information concerning - univer sity work in Central and Weston. Europe. Scandinavia, Latin Amer ica. and seminars in London and has been compiled. The test of tuition and living are i cive also. In France. for instance. S7O ;i:t month sulfiaxs tux tuition. rk;An. PRICE FIVE CENTS Names Fouracre Head 01 Permanent Group All College Cabinet last night unanimously voted to become a Member of the National Student Association. $375 was voted for NSA dues. Jane Fouracre was named chairman of the permanent NSA committee on Cabinet. An appropriation of $25 was voted for CORE, with no stipu lations as to its use. A report by the All-Colleg. elections committee suggested dates for preliminary and final nomination meetings. These were April 4 and 11 respectively. The All-College election would tenta be held in the week of April 19. The committee was instructed to look into the feasibility of holding the elections in either the TUB or White Hall as well as the Armory. Thomas J. Lannen. All-College president, named William Mc- Lain to the elections committee. Independent Constitution The committee to revise the All-College constitution report ed that the tentative independent association constitution made provision for a Governing Coun cil of 68-36 from the men's dormitories, 25 from the men Hy ing down-town, and seven from Windcrest. Book Exchange Report Janie Weigle reported ')n the Student Book Exchange. Books handled totaled 1070; $892 worth of business was done. About $l6O paid for books has not yet been picked up by people who gave books to the exchange to sell, Miss Weigle said. A motion that Cabinet meet ings be held in a large public place once or twice a semester was unanimously pased. Cabinet also voted to send a letter to Congress requesting passage of two bills that would aid student travel to Europe this summer. Lute Bulletin Charlottesville, Va. Johnny Deck, Jack Sheehe and Paul Smith are the only Penn Staters booked to engage in first round bouts at tonight's EIBA tourney. Lion Captain Jackie Tighe and Bob Keller will fight to night, however, in semi-final bouts. Deck will meet John Flynn of Coast Guard while Sheehe's opponent will be Clarence Tan nel also of Coast Guard. Smith will box John Sgariglo of West ern Maryland. Tighe will meet Joe Maragliotta of Virginia with Keller drawing George Caldwell of Army. board. and incidentals; however. gooct knowledge of Frencn is reuuired foi college study. In Great Britain courses will :.e offered at the Universities at Birmingham. Leeds, London. ford. Swithamplon. and St. An rows. Tuition ranges from $2.411 tu $264 for a six-week summer i'curse. Veterans may make us, of the GI-Bill. In Latin America studentai may iturfy in Mexico, Cuba. and Gaate. mala. Denmark's International Poo ple's College 6lTers courses in to'li langw:ges. including English. Swot:ids who wiint to trio,ol (Continued on pave two)
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