*H* I latly 0 doUegtatt I == “FOB A BETTER PENH STATE" VOLUME 48—NUMBER 24 Late AP News Courtesy Station WMAJ Berlin Compromise Plan Fails As Soviet, Ukraine Dissent PARIS Russia has vetoed the compromise plan to settle the Berlin Blockade dispute. Both the Soviet and th e Ukraine voted against the plan when it came up before the UN Security Council yesterday. The dissent was ruled a veto and the plan was rejected. American representative Philip Jessup told the council that the responsibility for failing to settle the dispute fell squarely on Russia. Paraguay Revolt BUENOS AIRES A revolt is said to have broken out i Para guay. Unconfirmed reports here said that gunfire could still be heard in Asuncion. A Buenos Aires paper described the upris ing as a military revolt. Mew Draft Call WASHINGTON In its third peace-time draft call, the Army has asked for 20,000 men during January, Previous calls were 10,- 000 men for November and 15,000 for December. french Seize Mines PARlS —French miners yielded meekly yesterday when armor ed cars and heavy machine guns arrived with French troops tak ing over strike-bound mines. Artists' Tickets To Go on Sole Series tickets for the 1948-49 Artists’ Course program featur ing appearances by three out standing musical performers will go on sale Nov. 9 and 10, Dr. C. E. Marquardt, chairman of the committee in charge, announced yesterday. Featured performers for the season will be Christopher Lynch, tenor, Vladimir Horo witz, pianist, and Helen Traubel, Wagnerian soprano. Lynch’s ap pearance Dee. 9 will open the season. Dr. Marquardt explained thqt the dates for the ticket sales were selected “to give students, faculty and townspeople a chance to get choice seats for what is undoubtedly the most distin guished program*’ in the history of the course. Out-of-towners, from whom a large demand is expected, will be able to purchase tickets.after the sale. PSCA To Arrange Election Day Rides Only a few have signed up for the driver - passenger clearing house which was set up last week by the social responsibility com mission of PSCA to aid students who need transportation to get home mi election day. The commission will start con tacting those people who have registered as needing a ride. Stu dents may sign up on die lists either at the Student Union desk or at the PSCA office in Old Main, indicating whether you want a ride or you are willing to take passengers in' your car. Campus Political Groups Name Sophomore Clique Chairmen State Pa rtr The State party elected Jack Boddington sophomore clique chairman and approved its plat form for the coming sophomore elections, at a meeting Sunday n >ght. Boddington is a liberal arts major. Preliminary nominations of cuididates for sophomore class offices will* take place in 121 “Parks at 7 p.m. Sunday, a party spokesman said. Party regulations allow any one present at a meeting to make nominations. However, only “rep resentatives" can vote on the nominations. Two representatives *re allotted each fraternity, and Person represents 15 inde pendents. Anyone wishing to represent independents must get t 0 B '® n * P®**** oll to STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1948 Alumni Crowd Breaks Mark A record-breaking alumni gath ering returned home yesterday after participating in one of the most successful homecoming weekends in the College’s history. Ridge Riley, executive secre tary of th e Alumni Association, said today that it would b e im possible to know the actus 1 at tendance since a strict registra tion was not required. The activities brok e up official ly after the cider party and an 7 nual dance in Recreation Hall Saturday night and opened Fri day night at the student-ilumni bonfire and pep rally. A member of the class of 1917, W. S. Kintz, of Stroudsburg, Pa., was the first registrant Friday and the first State College alumnus to register was Thomas A. Prater, ’42, of 605 E. Fairmount avenue. ROTC Band To Make Debut A newly-organized volunteer band of the campus ROTC will make its first appearance next Tuesday afternoon when it per forms at a ceremonial parade in which the 500 Cadet Corps mem bers will march. The 50-piece band, which al ready has held two rehearsals, is under the direction of Homer Savige, (cq) a graduate music student at the College. A military student conductor will be named later. Weather permitting, the band is to perform for practice marches, drills and parades each Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m., said Col. Ben-H. Chastaine, professor of military science and tactics. Included in the band are some members of the Blue Basd . Ex perience of the members ranges from four to eight years, said Col. Chastaine. Lions Salvage Undefeated Streak Personnel and prestige of the Penn State grid squad were slightly bruised in Saturday's tie with Michigan State, but the Lions ran through a norm al Monday afternoon practice yesterday in prepara tion for a re-awakened Colgate team. * Still undefeated in 14 games over a two-year span, the Nittany Lions dropped below Army in Eastern ratings since the Cadets routed a previously undefeated Cornell eleven 27-6 while the Blue and White fought to a stalemate. A one-touchdown win over Navy kept the University of Pennsylvania in the thick of the battle of the Atlantic area, while the only other team in the running, Cornell, dropped out of sight. Paul Kelly, outstanding line man in Saturday’s fray, received a bruised shin in the game, and another guard, John Simon, sprained his thumb. E 1 wo o d Petchel, Bob Hicks, Fran Rogel, Wally Triplett, Duck Murray and Chuck Beatty received minor wounds in the Michigan State battle, but according to Dr. Al fred Griess, everyone, including Negley Norton who missed the Spartan fray, will be ready to battle against Colgate this Sat urday. In last Saturday’s 14-14 Michi gan State deadlock, the Lions outshone the visitors in every department but the scoring col umn in the first half, but yielded to the tricky Spartan offense in the third and fourth frames. ROGEL Fran Rogel was the big gun in the Lion ground attack as he car ried the ball on 27 drives through the Spartan line, including the important one-yard, last down (Continued on pope three) Lion Party Election of Lewis Shallcross as sophomore clique chairman and discussion of issues pertinent to the approaching sophomore elec tions occupied members of the Lion party who attended a meet ing Sunday night. David Greenwald was named vice-chairman and Joan Sachs, secretary-treasurer. The party will meet again in 10 Sparks, 7 p.m. Sunday, to nominate candidates for sopho more class offices. To make nominations, a party member must have attended one previous meeting. Final nomina tions are scheduled for November 8. “Sophomores are to have full charge in planning the cam paign,” said a party official. Junior and senior members will act as advisors. Old Oaks To Return Wearing New Face For Homecoming Nature lovers saddened when stately oaks across from Rec hall “got the axe’’ to make room for the new men’s dormi tory may soon see the trees again —in a different form. The O.W. Houts Lumber Com pany, which contracted to cut the trees, sold the lumber to the Ty rone paper mill to be converted to paper pulp. The pulp will eventually be used in the manu facture of newsprint. The Daily Collegian you will read in a few months may be one of the old oaks back for its own special homecoming. llllllllllllllllllllilllflllllltiiilMllllimilllllliiillllfillllinii WSGA Meeting Sorority and women’s dormi tory units should be certain that their representatives to WSGA attend the House of Representa tives meeting in the Dean of Women’s Office, Old Main, at 6:30 p.m. tonight, iiimuiiiiiiiiitiiiitiiimiiiHiiitiiiiiiiiiiititiiitiiiiitumiiu 17 Students Are Candidates For Soph Engineering Posts Sophomore representatives to the Engineering Student Council will be elected Thursday in all-day balloting in the various -engi neering departments. Plans for the election will be laid at a meeting of the council in 106 Old Main at 6:30 p.m. today. Seventeen students are listed seats on the council, one from each department. No candidates from the aeronautical engineer ing department have been named. Architectural engineering can didates are: Joseph Kelvington, Arthur Lukens, Walter Roberts, arid Fred Sherida; civil engineer ing: James Etzel, Earnest Hart ski, and John Roach; electrical engineering: Harry Chrzanoski, Blair Fissel, Dean Kane, and David Lockard; industrial engi neering: Harold Bowditch, Don Fogelsanger, Howard Wilson, and Morris Deitch, and mechanical engineering: Michael Dzurenda and Howard Faust. Voting will continue from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., with all sophomores voting required to identify themselves at the ballot ing places in the engineering building by matriculation or other cards. Plans for the council’s course rating program also will be drawn up at tonight’s meeting, to which all interested faculty and engi neering students have been in vited. ATO Lawn Display Captures IFC Trophy Scoring 95 points out of a possible 100, Alpha Tau Omega’s lawn display captured first prize in the judging conducted under the auspices of the Interfraternity Council. The fraternity will receive a cup donated by the Athletic Association, symbolic of its victory' in the competition. Three houses, Pi Kappa Alpha, Beta Sigma Rho, and Delta-Tau Delta, were given special men tion by the judgine committee composed of George Donovan, director of student activities, Robert E. Galbraith, veteran fac ulty advisor, and Wilmer E. Ken worthy, executive secretary to acting President James Milhol land. AA Office Lists Ticket Schedule Penn football game tickets are available today for student appli cants with initials from H to O and tomorrow for those from P to Z. Matriculation cards must be shown to receive tickets at the Athletic Association windows in Old Main from 8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets not called for oh the assigped day may be obtained any day this week after tomor row. as candidates for five sophomore Service Group Reorganizes Undergraduate men who are interested in taking part in the re-activation on campus of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fra ternity, were urged yesterday to attend a pre-pledge meeting in 401 Old Main at 7:45 p.m. today. “Any undergraduate who has ever been a member of the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of rank, is elegible to join Alpha Phi Omega,” said Robert J. Hep burn, publicity chairman. The fraternity, Hepburn ex plained, was formed under the ideals and principles of Scouting. Its constitution sets forth the purpose of “assembling college men in the fellowship of the Scout Oath and Law, and de veloping friendship and promot ing service to humanity. IFC Bowling Representatives of the houses entered in the IFC bowling league will meet in the Theta Chi house at 7 p.m. tonight. College Symphony Rehearsal for the full College Symphony Orchestra will be held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and rehearsal for strings only will be held Thursdays at 4:10 p.m., an nounced J. W. Dunlop, director. The orchestra picture will be taken in Schwab Auditorium at 7 p.m., Tuesday, October 26. Holiday Petitions All dormitory and fraternity lepresentatives are requested to turn in their signed election day holiday petitions to the Student L T nion in Old Main not later than Thursday morning so that they can be presented to College au thorities for action. Winning Displays The winning display simulated college life past and present and present in two scenes. The first showed Penn State years ago by means of a hay wagon, a horse, pig, dog and flock of chikens, guarded by two students with rifles. A trailer in front of which sat an ex-GI and a baby carriage presented the modem conception of life at the College. Various ar ticles of clothing on a clothesline strung in front of the trailer spelled out “Welcome Alumni.” Alpha Chi Rho, Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Phi Sigma, Tau Ka|»- pa Epsilon, Kappa Delta Rho, Phi Kappa Tau, Pi Kappa Phi, Lamda Chi Alpha, Theta Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Triangle, Phi Delta Theta, and Phi Gamma Delta all received honorable mention for their displays. Excellence “The general excellence of this year’s displays were far above average,” the judges stated. “Many displays which might hare won a prize in previous years were thus disregarded Friday night.” The judging committee made its decision Saturday following a tour of the fraternity section Friday night. Beta Theta Pi, winner of last year’s competition, failed to gam an honorable mention. Mixers Entertain Phys Ed Students Physical education majors will be entertained in White Hall from 7:30 to 10_ p.m. tonight at the first of a series of mixers be ing planned to be held through out the year. The mixers are being sponsored bjr ' Phi Epsilon Kappa and Lakinodes, mens’ and womens’ physical education honoraries, and the Physical Education Stu dent Council. The entertainment tonight will be a Hallowe’en party. All stu dents attending are asked to wear old clothes. Horace Ashenfelter, president of the student council, is serving as general chairman of the mixer. Howard James, president of Phi Epsilon Kappa, is in charge of entertainment, and Jane Mac- Cormick is head of publicity. News Briefs Newman Club The Newman Club Bowling League will meet at Dux’s Alleys at 7 pun. tonight, John Novotny, president, announced. Prof. Andrew Case will offi ciate at the meeting of the New man Club Discussion Group in the rectory at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Honorary Smoker The National Society of Scab bard and Blade will hold a pledge smoker for the purpose t>f selecting new members at the KDR fraternity house at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The prospective members must be in the advanced course of the ROTC and must have a 1.5 all-College average. German Club An organizational meeting ot Der Deutsche Verein will be held ir. the Northwest lounge of Ath erton Hall at 7 pjn. tomorrow PRICE FIVE CENTS
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