US Rejects Russian Proposal, Talks Must Come Through UN LATE AP NEWS—Courtesy WMAJ WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Marshall yesterday re jected any idea of a Russian-American conference. Any dealings, he said, will have to take place within the United Nations. Truman, Marshall Confer on Palestine WASHINGTON President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall conferred for more than an hour yesterday on the ending of the British Mandate in Palestine, which is less than 48 hours away. There is no information, however, on the nature of their discussion. LAKE SUCCESS—In the United Nations, any effort toward set ting up an emergency regime in Palestin e has collapseti. The Brit ish officially advised the UN yesterday that the Palestine mandate will end at midnight Friday, which is five p.m., eastern standard time.' Smith Names Handbook Staff, Dairy. Student Chosen Editor Fred Hazelwood 111, a sixth semester dairy husbandry major, has been chosen as editor for the 1948-49 student handbook, James Smith, PSCA executive secretary, said today. Jane Weigle and Jack Reen are associate editors; Winifred Imhof and Jean Cameron will manage the advertising and business staffs, respectively; and Stuart Frost will do the art work for the handbook. Editorial Staff The editorial staff consists of Jane Barton, Rosalyn Gulley, Sallie Denney, Dale Eberle, John English, Jo Fox, Wilma Grove, Fay Herzog, Marion Holmes, Eleanor Kelly, Jean Moore, Har riet Morgan, Pauline Moss, Lor raine Munz, Sylvia Ockner, Nancy Parent, Rosemary Squil *rite, Alyce Nemark and Richard Schlegel. Advertising Staff Members of the advertising staff include Barbara Atkins, Richard Curto, Robert Drucker, Barbara Hellman, Delores Herold, Claire Hillstrom, Betty Jane Hower, Brett Kranich, Selma Lampert, Peggy -McCully, Ellen Miller, Grace Miller, Jeanne Mowry, Ruth Mullen, Lois Ostwind, Caro lyn Rice, Frances Rice, Sally Schleyer, and Marguerite Wil liams. Ray Caton, John Catherine, Frances Eshleman, and James Waters compose the business staff. Eldridge, Lewis Head Critique David Eldridge and Ralph Lewis were recently selected to head Critique magazine as editor and managing editor respectively, said Jane Weigle, retiring editor. Other staff members recently moved up are David Malickson, literary editor; Witt Yeagley, make-up editor; Ray Husted, ad vertising manager; William Ben son, assistant advertising man ager; June Kircher, circulation manager; James Dunaway, pro motion manager; Stuart Frost, art editor; Ray Anderson, photo editor. Senior Boards The senior editorial board are Frances Keeney and Betty Lou Shelley. Members of the senior business staff are Mimi Pomer ene, Calvin Myers, Claire Lee and Bill Warrick. On the senior advertising staff are Pat Lloyd, Jack Eby and George Ohlman. Kay Courtney is in charge of promotion. Junior Boards The junior board consists of Betty Bodell on the editorial board and Irene King, Marilyn Hoke, Dorothy Richardson, Diane Scuderi, and Jane Swaggler on advertising. Dottie Werlinich, Pauline Buel lick, and Ruth McMillin make up the junior business staff. David Cameron, Lorraine Stotler and Lucille Philips are on the promo tion staff. Registration Deadline Pre - phase registration for the fall semester will be con cluded Saturday at noon, ac cording to Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer. He pointed out that students who fail courses this semester, or for some other reason make changes in their schedules, will be required to pass through the Board of Control in Sep tember. Architecture Students Design Ultramodern Business Block As part of a national contest, students of the department of archittecture have completed a project based on the redesign of the business block of State College bounded by Beaver, Allen, College, and McAllister streets. For the next week the drawings and models of the projected ultramodern block will be on display in the third floor hall of the Main Engineering Building. The public is invited to inspect the designs. Enter Competition After its display here, the three prbjects preparecl will be sent to New York for judging along with entries from 24 other architec tural schools in the United States and Canada. First prize for the best project will be $5OO. A second prize of $250, third prize of $lOO and two honorable mention awards - of $75 each will also be presented. Three Teams Three teams composed of ten students, all juniors, worked for five and a half weeks to complete the designs. Each team worked independently and prepared its own design of how the block should look. Students who prepared the pro jects are Richard T. Friestak, H. B. Gates, Allan H. Grossman, and William R. Sippel, team one. Ellis G. Revness, Harris A. Sanders, and W. Bruce Sloan, team two. Herbert C. Anderson, Frank P. Graham, and Paul A. Waterman, team three. Prof. F. Cuthbert Salmon supervised the project. SDX Chooses New Officers Sigma Delta Chi, national pro fessional journalism fraternity, recently elected Malcom White as its new president. Other newly elected officers are Arni Gerton, vice - president; Elliot Shapiro, secretary; and Thomas Morgan, treasurer. Members of the fraternity will take charge of housing many of th e publishers attending the Pennsylvania Press Conference sponsored by the department of journalism and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Associa tion. The conference will start at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and continue through Saturday night. Fraternity members will conduct tours of the campus for their guests Saturday afternoon chiefly to point out the numerous changes which have taken place. New initiates to Sigma Delta Chi are Howard Back, Bennett Fairorth, David Malickso n, Thomas Morgan and William Pade. ' Nature Show Listed At Osmond Tonight "The God of Creation," a sound motion picture featuring the mysteries of nature, will be shown in 117 Osmond Lab at 7:30 o'clock tonight. In the opening section, solar photographs taken through the giant 100-inch telescope of Mt. Wilson laboratory will be shown. Lapse-time photography is util ized to demonstrate the beauties , of natural science. 'hie illusion of flower buds developing into full blown blossoms in 'a few seconds is created through this time-com pressing photo technique. The metamorphosis of a caterpillar through the various stages from worm to butterfly, and pollina tion of flowers are shown on the screen in full color. Believed to be the first of their kind are the natural-color pic tures of photosynthesis, the mys terious_ food-manufacturing proc ess resulting from the action of sunlight on leaves. At the conclu sion of the film, photomicrogra phy enables the audience to see the tiny organisms in a drop of water enlarged more than a mil lion, times. 0 - 11 r Batill CD Coltrogian VOL. 47—No. 83 Strange White Bear Stumps Students; Rumors Spread The Great White Bear is on the prowl! Persons passing through the main gate of the College at noon this week have been greeted by a vicious growl or a real bear's hug from the huge grayish-white creature, depending on their sex. Speculations as to the creature's origin vary. One rumor is that he escaped last week from an Al toona zoo and thus far has man aged to elude capture. Others say the Kremlin dropped him into the community by parachute. Then, too, there is a bare pos sibility that he is connected with the forthcoming Thespian pro duction, "The Great White Bear." Karver Wins Ad Contest Names Multi-Colored Argyles Exploding the theory that athletes are "dumb," Gerald Karver, the nation's top collegiate miler, won the "It's in the Ads" contest by simply using a dictionary and sending in the entry, "hand knitted, multi-colored, wool, argyle socks." Although other entries named the thing, argyle socks, only the complete answer stated above is correct. "Three of us actually worked on the contest," Karver said, "and when we got the right an swer, we sent three entries in and mailed them in different boxes." Karver's Idea Max Kipfer, Karver's fraternity brother, mailed his entry at the mail box outside Peßo's ice cream parlor and Karver mailed his in the box in front of the post office. The one mailed at Peßo's arrived earlier than the others, but since Karver hit on the idea of socks first, the triumverate decided to allot him the pick of the urines. When ask about the division of the $230.50 worth of prizes, Kipfer, whose entry arrived first said, "Jim Craig, the third man in on the winning entry, can have the five-pound box of candy from the Candy Cane since he's pinned. He's also a fisherman so I guess he gets the fishing rod from Kep ler's." Ground Breaking Begins This Week Excavation work for a three story office and classroom build ing will begin this week on ground between the Armory and the Mineral Industries building. Construction of contractor's offices is well under way, and power shovels will be brought in this week for actual excavation. Architectural design of the classroom building will be similar to that of the Mineral Industries building. Similar veritone brick will be used. Constructed in a U-shape, the building will face Pollock road with a frontage of 138 feet. In addition to classrooms, blueprint plans allot space for equipment storage in the basement and for offices of the registrar, bursar, scheduling officers, and veteran coordinating offices on the upper Som. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 11948-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA. Thespians' 'Bear Romps in Schwab Chorus Largest in Thespian History The curtain rises on the first showing of "The Great White Bear," original Thespian production, in Schwab at 7 o'clock tonight. Seats for tonight's show are unreserved and tickets cost 75 cents. Admission for the Friday and Saturday shows, which also begin at 7 o'clock, is $1 with all seats reserved. When the houselights dim, patrons will witness the biggest chorus group ever used in Thespian history. The present number exceeds any other line by six members. Chorus Largely New Beatrice Stern, senior, who trained the line-up, confesses that she was astounded by the large number who appeared for tryouts. The choice of those to appear was harder than it had ever been be fore, she said, partly because so many veteran Thespians have graduated. Exactly one-half of the chorus is making its initial ap pearance before the Thespian spotlight. Russian Dance The big finale, a Russian num ber, spotlights Murray Gubin and the chorus in an intricate Russian dance. "To Sing and Dance," the opening number, starring the en tire chorus is another spot to note, according to Bea. Jackie Coogan, Mackey Emmert, Herold Fergu son and Bea swing out to the accompaniment of "Just One of the Boys," written by Virgil Neilly. Bea does a solo specialty in the bedroom scene. Artists Group Signs Horowitz Aiming to make the 1948-49 series the best in its history, the College Artists Course Committee has already engaged the world's greatest pianist, Vladimir Horo 'witz, according to Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, chairman. Dr. Marquardt said that the signing of Morowitz, son-in-law of Toscanini, climaxed years of effort to attract the famed artist away from New York. "Annually," Dr. Marquardt said, "I was told that Horowitz's sched ule was• filled long in advance; and I learned, too, that his price was generally beyond our reach. This year, however, persistence and a bit of bargaining brought results." The committee chairman re vealed that he has made negotia tions with two other artists, the signing of whom will make the 1948-49 series one of the most distinguished to appear on cam pus. A Spring advance sale of tickets also will be scheduled within the next two weeks and will be an nounced soon, Dr. Marquardt said. Commencement Graduating seniors are asked to obtain commencement in structions from the heads of their respective departments as soon as possible. Instruc tions were mailed to each de partment head a week ago, Prof. Clarence E. Bullinger, College marshal, said yester day. Kipfer's Share "I'll take the credit from Keel er's and the sweater from the Young Men's Shop, and we'll give the album from the College Book {Continued as page pug) Cabinet Meets, Fetes Tonight Newly-elected m embers of All-College Cabinet will meet for the first time at 8 o'clock tonight, and both outgoing and incoming members of Cabinet will be feted at the Nittany Lion Inn at 6 o'clock. Included on the agenda for the meeting are the oath of office to officers of Cabinet not installed last week and 16 appointments. At the meeting suggestions will be made for Pennsylvania Na tional Student Association and Pennsylvania Regional Confer ence. Appointments will be named for the book exchange, calendar committee, committee on orienta tion, co-op, CORE, committee to organize the Association of Inde pendent Men, parliamentarian, safety committee, student agency, Sunday entertainment commit tee, and Tribunal. News Briefs Ag Bichem Open House The Ag Biochem open house, sponsored jointly by the Rod and Coccus Club and the Liebig Chemical Society, will begin at '1:30 o'clock tonight in Osmond Lab and continue at 8:30 o'clock in Frear Lab. Engineer Elections AIEE and the EE Society are holding elections today in the Lobby of the Electrical Engineer ing building from 8:30 to 12 o'clock this morning and from 1 to 4:30 o'clock• this afternoon. Any student registered in the electri cal engineering curricula is eli gible to vote. • Organ Recital The program for today's organ recital by Prof. George Ceiga in Schwab Auditorium at 4 o'clock featu r e s "Chorale A Minor," Franck; "Girl With the Flaxen Hair," Debussy-Ceiga; and "Prel ude and Fugue D Major," Bach. Weather Weather today is cloudy with showers.
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