Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ Court Cites Lewis In Contempt Suit Washington—A Federal Court Yesterday cited John L. Lewis for contempt and ordered him to a-- Pear in court Monday. Lewis was asked bo show cause why he should not be punished for ignor ing the injunction ordering his miners back to work. The Justice Department came in with the new Punch shortly after Lewis chal lenged the validity of the back to-work order and asked that it be thrown out. That issue will also get a hearing in court on Monday. Stcisien Tops Primary Madison—Harold Stassen came out as top man in the Wisconsin Primary with at least 19. of the state's 217 delegates pledged to him. General Douglas MacArthur is coining in a rather poor second, with eight delegates. As for Gov ernor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. there Is just a slight chance he may pick up one delegate on the basis of late returns. Another prospective candidate. Senator Robert Taft. will enter the Nebraska picture. He wound up a three-day campaign tour in that state yesterday. Dewey is due to arrive in Nebraska tonight to start his campaign. Communist Appeal Rome—ltaly's Communist end ers have sent a desperate appeal to Russia to offer a major con cession to their country on the eve of the April 18 general election. American observers say the %Dom munists are losing ground in the campaign.. Folk Lore Expert Speaks at Dinner Samuel P. Bayard, instructor of English composition at the col lege who has made extensive studies of folk lore and folk music during the last twenty years, will speak at the poetry festival ban quet in the Nittany Lion Inn, at 6 p. m., Saturday. Tickets to the dinner, which is open to all, cost $2 and may be obtained from members of the festival commit tee or from the speech depart ment office. Open to Public The festival, which goes into full swing in 121 Sparks at 8:15 p.m., Saturday, is admision free and open to public. Joseph A. Kelley, Jr., fifth semester pre legal student, will represent the college in the non-competitive af fair. Participants froln many Eastern colleges will also read in this nineteenth annual tourney. Chosen from 39 contestants, Kelley will read one four-minute poem selected in the preliminaries afternoon from "The Fear" by Robert Frost, "The Kalyope Yell" by Vachel Linsay, "Go Down, Death" by James Wendell John son and "This is Man" by Thomas Wolff. Prciaram Recorded The entire evening program will be recorded. Following will be a coffee hour for guests and participants in the living center of the Home Economics building. Jane Staus, aided by Mrs. Har riet D. Nesbitt and William W. Hamilton, assistant professors of speech, heads the student com mittee in charge. Committee members are Pepper Birchard, Sarajane Cherashore, Jo Fox, Raymond J. Ritz, and Anita M. Walther. Men's Music Honorary Initiates 14 Members Russell Nickerson. secretary. has announced the names of 24 new members initiated into Phi Mu Alpha. national men's music fraternity. March 20. They are David Briner, George Ceiga. Franklin Cree, Fred Dor ranee. Francis Felder, Eugene Golla, Henry Heckert. Maynard Hill. A. H. Imhif, David Ingra ham, William Lauahlin, Walt Letkiewicz. Paul Margolf, Dan Myers. Steve Raytek. Ray Robinson. Darrel Rishel. Homer Savi g e, Clyde Shive, Owen Spann. Ralph Spiker, John Sloan. Elmer Wareham. and John Zora. WEATHER Elatig Toittgiatt Showers followed by Cooler VOL. 47-NO. 38 VA Regional Representative Explains Veterans Insurance John D. Guest, VA regional insurance representative, will ex plain in full the rights and benefits a World War II veteran receives under the National Service Life Insurance program, in Schwab Aud itorium. tonight..ln order t o take care of the 5400 veterans on the campus, two meetings will be held. The times of the meetings are 7:15 o'clock and 8:115 o'clock. Sixteen million veterans were originally insured under this pro gram and over 6 million have retained their privileges. The 36 bil lion dollars invested in the NSLI represents the largest mutual life insurance organization in the world. The veteran pays no overhead cost, for all operating expenses are paid by the government. Many of the original parts of the law were found to be to the veteran's disadvantage, so the law was changed in August, 1946. The changes will be explained in de tails by Mr. Guest. Since there are 350,000 veter ans in the Wilkes-Barre area to be serviced, it will be impossible for Mr. Guest to return to the campus again this semester. It will be possible to see him in the VA office tomorrow if any indi vidual problems arise. "The cornerstone of your fi nancial future may be affected by your attendance at the meet ing," Mr. Guest explained. Every veteran is urged to at tend one of th e two meetings, be cause the NSLJ. is one of the most valuable assets a veteran can re tain. At a recent meeting held at Franklin and Marshall Col lege, 875 of the 950 vets enrolled at the Lancaster school were present. Co-op Committee Shows Movies Two movies . depicting student co-ops at college campuses will be shown in 119 New Physics 7:30 tomorrow night. The films are sponsored by the All-College Cabinet campus cooperative com mittee. There will be no charge for the movies which are open to all stu dents, said Eugene Wheeler, a member of the committee. "The Co-op Way," a technicolor film produced by the students' of the University of Texas, and "Here Comes Tomorrow," which shows co-ops in operation at many campuses, are the two films. Wheeler pointed out that the films are part of the education program of the College coopera tive committee to explain what is being accomplished at other colleges in cooperative living Penn Stale (tub to Honor Leading Independent Man A preliminary committee com posed of William Butler. William Schiele. Ernest Sladics. and Fred Peruzzi has been appointed by the Penn State Club to select can didates for the club's annual award honoring the outstanding independent senior man on ^am- PUS. Sladics was elected secretary of the club at the last regular meeting. Members and their guests are invited to a bowling party. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. April 17. Those expecting to attend should sign up on the bulletin board in the club room. Peruzzi. publicity chairman. said. Main business of the next meet ing will be general election of officers and further discussion of a club picnic. Bridge Tourney Undergraduate bridge players may still compete for the all-Col lege championship by entering the last three duplicate sessions. first of which is scheduled for 206 Electrical Engineering building at 7:30 o'clock tonight. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1948-STATE COLLEGE. PENNA. AA Nominees George Sc h a u tz, wrestler. and Joe Colone, fOotball cap tain-elect. are the 1948 nomi nees for student president of the Penn State Athletic Asso ciation. The unsuccessful can didate automatically will be come vice-president. Secretarial candidates are Horace Ashenfelter, track, John Kulp. basketball, and John Benglian, boxing. The ncrni nees are chosen by coaches, captains and managers of all worts, Foods Building Work Commences Ground was broken for the new food service building early this week, said George W. Ebert, di rectdr of the department of the physical plant. The building will be completed some time around the first of the year, he said. The foods building will centralize all food storage and preparation on cam pus. Plans for the building call for a ground floor a second floor and half of a third floor. Dimensions of the building are about 130 feet wide and 90 feet deep, close to the outside dimensions of Car negie Hall. The food service building will be located on the golf course at the junction of the Bellefonte Central tracks and Atherton street. Delegation of 24 Visits Philadelphia Conference Ray Britton. a member of the debate team and president of Pi Lambda Sigma. pre-legal honor ary society, heads a delegation of 24 students of the College who will attend a meeting of the In tercollegiate Conference on Gov ernment in Philadelphia from April 8-11. This year's gathering is set as model National Political Conven tion. Students on over fifty col lege campuses are now slating their final meetings where they will invariably discuss nomina tions for the chairman of the Convention. United States Senator Francis Myers of Philadelphia will give the opening' address this morning. Representatives from the Repti)- lican and Democratic National Committees and a spokesman for the Wallace Third Party will out line their party platforms at the first session. Ad Contest Although over 300 entries have poured into the Collegian office, no one has correctly guessed the identity of the "thing" in the "It's in the Ads" contest. Added to the list of. prizes today are two eight by ten por traist plus a gold frame. from the Lion Studio. The other four prizes are: 1. Four Essley shirts-College Sportswear. 2. Electric iron—Hallman Elec tric Company. 3. $lO credit—Bill McMullen. 4. Pressure cooker Marshall Electric Company. 158, 753, 389, 889 To One Chance Pays Off Thirteen cards in one suit are a rarity in a bridge game, in fact according to competent card auth orities it only happens once every 158,753,389,899 hands. Charles Calhoun„ a member of Phi Kappa Psi, recently held that lucky 158,753,389,889 th hand but when his turn to bid came he calmly passed while Dave Plank, who was sitting to the left of Calhoun, opened with a two no trump bid while Calhoun's part ner as well as Plank's partner passed. It was now that Calhoun made his breath-taking decision-" Seven diamonds," he said. Doubled and redoubled, the hand proved his strategy sound. Circle Collects Opinion of Meals All dormitories of Pollo c k Circle will be contacted to deter mine the average opinion of the food situation in the Circle dining commons, said Edmund .Vala cavage. Pollock Circle Council president. He said that representatives of the Circle and the Nittany Dorms will meet with College officials as soon as possible to discuss the current conditions concerning the food. A committee was a,onointed by the Pollock Circle Council to in vestigate the possibilities of em ploying more students in the din ing commons. At present. there are positions available in the dining hall. At the meeting Monday night. it was decided that in the future, the Council would handle student c , m- PloYment in the dining commons, instead of the College. Walacavage said that plans for dinner exchanges are being made. The plan is to have teams of eight men of Pollock Circle eat in Ath erton Hall and teams of eight coeds to be the guests at the Cir cle dining hall at various time;. He added that permission has been granted to WSSF to canvass the dormitories and that an or ganization has been set up for the distribution of CORE tickets. Seals Still Remain For Olympic Tryouts Two-thirds of the reserved seat tickets for the United States hr.al Olympic gymnastic tryouts and National Amateur Athletic Union championships in Rec Hall May 1 have been sold. Walter R. Plaster man. Jr.. assistant graduate man ager of athletics, said yesterday. Still left are 900 reserved seat tickets. according to Hosterrnan. About 850 of the 2500 unreserved seat tickets are sold. Campus Center Club Plans will be made for the Cabin Party to be held April 23 at the Cameos Center Clulb meeting in 417 Old Main at 7:30 o'clock ia nioht. Ag Engineering Club G. A. Reitz of the General Electric Company. speaking . on "Opportunities for Agricultural Engineers," will address the Ag riculture Engineer Club at 204 Ag Eng at 7:30 o'clock tonig . ht. LA Council Liberal Arts Student Council will meet in 5 Sparks at 1:10 o'clock today. All members _Mould bring CORE tickets. stubs. and 11101keY. All-follege Group Gels Final Draft Of AIM Charter Independent Councils Also Review Proposals Final draft of the proposed As sociation of Independent Men constitution will be presented to All-College Cabinet tonight by Robert Troxell, chairman of the committee on revision of the AR- College constitution. It is planned to present the the constitution to Independent Student Council and Pollock Cir cle and Nitany Dorm Councils for suggestions and approval be fore final adoption. An ISC committee headed by Frank Tidona has been working with the Cabinet group. All independent men would be members of the organization, which is to supersede ISC and Independent Men's Association. The governing council would be on a geographical basis, with 36 representatives from men's dorm itories„ 25 elected by students living in town, and 7 voted by Windcrest residents. A similiar organization, As sociation of Independent Women, will be formed eventually with a constitution based on the one finally adopted for AIM. These groups will then take th 3 two Cabinet seats now held by ISC. A revision of the All-College constitution will be required to effect the changed set-up. Results of the meeting between student and trustee co-op com mittees last Friday will be re ported by Emory Brown. He will bring up the question of us ing a lounge in TUB for a co-op store, if final approval is obtain ed from the Board of Trustees. Festival Features Student Exhibit An exhibit of student work in architecture, orn a m e ntal and landscape horticulture. painting. sculpture. music. the dance. and dramatic scene design is to be a Part of the Combined Arts Festi val. May 2 to Its. according to a program released by the Combined Arts Griup, sponsors of the event. Also listed are the Gimbel Pennsylvania Art Collection, an exhibit and Lecture by George Biddle. Philadelphia artist, a dance recital. two organ recitals. a con cert by the College Symphony Orchestra, a dramatic reading. three Players' productions, and Museum of Modern Art motion pictures. The festival is designed to cut across departmental lines in bring ing the activities of various art. music, dance. and dram a groups collectively before the College community. said Mrs. Dorothy Scott, dramatics representative on the festival steering committee. News Briefs Organ Recital George Ceiga. assistant twoles sor of music, will give au organ recital in Schwab at 4:15 o'clocic today. The orograin will include Grand Choeur Dialogue—Gbzout: Pastorale— Franck: Clouds-- Ceiga Doric Toccatta—Bach. Critique Anyone interested in the pub licity board of Critique should at tend the meeting in the Critique Office. Carnegie. at 7 o'clock to night. Dairy Show All students desiring a cow to show in the Penn State Dairy Ex position should report to WC/ Dairy at 7 o'ciook tookitait. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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