PAGE SIX
'Be Sportsmanlike'
Hig Cautions
Lion Fans
Coach Bob Higgins. mentor of
the mighty Nittany Lion eleven
which tomorrow battles the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania at Phila
delphia, yesterday made a plea
to members of the student body
attending the game to give the
team their full support and "dem
onstrate that they can win or lose
'raciously."
Obviously referring to the con
duct of Penn State fans after last
year's Pitt game, Higgins said
that the playing of the game
should he left to the players on
'he field.
"Penn State students can de
pend on our team to do its best,"
,added the Hig. "We know it will
be one of our tougher games,
maybe the toughest we've been
- died upon to play in the last
two years. However, we're in
pretty good condition physically,
and I think we'll make a good
-nme of it.
"It would be a tribute not only
the team but also to the insti
tution we represent if our crowd
proved itself to be composed only
of sportsmen at Philadelphia."
Drawing Exhibit
On at College
Drawings by students in archi
tecture at the College compose an
xhibit on the 3rd floor of the
rain Engineering Building.
The designs are for a rectory
ror a church, a small library, and
an exhibition and information
uilding for a city.
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Continued from Page Four
tany center who is certainly cap
tain of Doc Griess' team by seni
ority and has seen players come
and go—from the varsity to the
sick list and back again—while
he nurses a troublesome limb.
Vulcan Center
Back at California State Teach
ers College as a freshman, "Pel
oos" was a good center and an im
pressive defenseman for the un
defeated Vulcans.
With bright football hopes, he
came to Penn State, but Fate
stepped in and foiled Al's bid fol.
a Lion berth. He had to sit out
the entire 1947 season with a
broken wrist and is currently do
ing a repeat job in '4B nursing
his leg which developed a blood
clot three weeks ago, and forced
him to hobble on crutches.
Peluso underwent an operation
to remove the clot, has since dis
pensed with the crutches and—
for the third time—is eagerly
awaiting spring practice.
Next year he hopes to play
football for a change.
Ex-Mates
Two ex•high school teammates
will find themselves on opposing
football elevens when Penn and
Penn State face off tomorrow.
Nittany End Jack Storer and
Quaker Tackle Don TeTorre play
ed two seasons together for Wil
kinstourg high school in '44 and
'45. DeTorre was originally a
tackle, switched to fullback and
has been returned to the line post
since joining the Pennmen, while
Storer's story is similar: from end
to fullback to Qrd.
Making the Team
Joe Colone, ace Lion punter,
tells young fans how to train for
college football in an article titled
"Making the Team" which appears
in Pioneer for Boys, a weekly pub
lication. The piece is written by
Ed Breining, journalism student
on campus.
From the Morg(ue)
In 1942 Joe Colone ranked as
one of the nation's ten top punt
ers ... Penn State Coach Bob Hig
gins has personally figured in 11
Penn-Nittany Lion football games
. . . Higgins and George Munger,
Penn mentor, are long-time coach
ing friends.
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afternoon two of her uncles, Jesse
and Cicero Davenport, told her
that Henry was back in Hamilton
jail, that they had talked to him
through his cell window.
Friday morning, "happier than
I could tell you, Mr. Crawford,"
at the news that her husbans was
alive and well, she bustled
through breakfast and got ready
to go to Hamilton to see the hus
band she had feared was dead.
She was all dressed and was
waitin gfor a neighbor to drive
her into town when another
neighbor, Willie B. Andrews,
came in.
A white man, Mr. Louis Booker,
had given Willie word to carry to
Mrs. Gilbert. Her husbans was
dead. She'd find his body in a
'-i amilton undertaker's rooms.
Thursday night County Police
man Willie H. Buchanan had gone
into Henry Gilbert's cell. "To get
a confesion," he said afterwards.
"The nigger drew a chair on
me and I had to kill him," he ex
plained.
Here is what the undertaker
found when he fixes Henry Gil
bert's body up for burial:
His skull was crushed to a pulp
both in front and the rear. One
leg and one arm were broken. All
the ribs on one side were smashed
into splinters. He was riddled by
five bullets fires at close range.
That is what Georgia justice offi
cially describe as "justifiable
homicide in self-defense." And
Willie Buchanan, wanton killer, is
"man of the year" in Harris and
Troup Counties.
The white folks gave Carolyn
Gilbert less than a month to
mourn her murdered husband in
peace. Then comes Sheriff Hilyer
again with another "aiding-abet
ting-escape" warrant and Carolyn
goes to the same jail where her
husband was murdered. She's
only there twenty-four hours,
however, before Attorney Dan
Duke, the man who smashed the
Columbians, has her out on $l,OOO
bail.
"I just don't understand those
white people," says Mrs. Gilbert.
"If Henry had an enemy in the
world it was Gus Davidson. He
was a bad man. He came into our
church with a gun and threatened
one of our deacons. Henryhad
him jailed for that. And right
then Gus Davidson told Henry
he'd get even. So did his father,
Lovett Davidson, and so did
Lovett Davidson's white man,
Luke Sturdevant."
At Mrs. Gilbert's preliminary
hearing when she was held for
court Davidson testified he had
seen his fugitive son eating break
fast in the Gilbert home.
"Why I wouldn't have let Gus
Davidson sit at my table. I
wouldn't have let him come into
my house at any time—let alone
when he was being hunted for
msrder," declared Carolyn. Sheriff
Hilyer himself pinned perjury on
both Davidson and Sturdevant,
but a justice of the peace held
Mrs. Gilbert for trial.
Now word from Harris County
is that the white folk want to
drop the case against Mrs. Gilbert
and just forget the whole thing.
It won't make much difference to
the dry-eyed, huddled woman in
the chair across from me. Her life
is finishes. And the life that Henry
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Lowther Eyes Prospects
As Cagers Hold Drills
Under the watchful eye of Coach John Lawther, 75 candidates
for the Penn State basketball squad are working out daily at Recre
ation Hall.
Gone from last year's starting live are Jack Biery and Irwin
Batnick, who represented most of the scoring punch of the Nittany
Lion quintet. Coach Lawther will have 12 veterans returning, how
ever, including Milt Simon, Carl Nordbloom, Terry Ruhlman and
John Kulp.
In addition, a number of soph
omores have shown promise of
plugging some of the gap left by
the loss of Biery and Batnick.
Coach Lawther will also be con
fronted with the task of cutting
the squad to 25 men, in prepara
tion for the Lions' opening en
counter with Pitt.
No doubt a bulk of the Nittany
Lions scoring attack will be pro
vided by Captain Milt Simon. He
played a major role in many of
last year's games and it is ex
pected that his experience should
prove a point in the Lions' favor.
Appearing somewhat optimistic,
Coach Lawther stated that this
year's team would be stronger
than last year's because it will
have more experience and a bet
ter quality of reserve material.
and Carolyn Gilbert had built out
of toil and struggle through the
years is finished, too.
Married for 22 Years
"Twenty-two years we were
married before the white folks
killed him," she says, and there is
not a sign of emotion in her voice.
"We share-cropped two years and
I worked with him in the fields
from the day we were married.
Then we saved enough to buy us
a little ols mule and we went to
rentin'. We worked 17 years on
our rented farm and saved our
money until we had $1,350. So we
bought us a farm a few miles out
of Chipley. It was 111 acres and
run down pretty bad. But we built
it up, Henry and me, working
from daylight to dark.
"Henry borrowed $l,OOO from
the man at the bank axis he let
Henry have it just on his note. We
had the whole farm wired in. We
had nine cows and four big hogs
and two mules. Henry worked one
of the mules and I worked the
other. But we 'didn't let the girls
work in the cotton. Henry wanted
learning for them. So they all
went to high school in LaGrange.
Two of them go to high school
here now and the other one grad
uated and works in Mr. Rich's
store.
"Henry paid back the thousans
dollars he borrowed and the bank
man lent him $6OO more. Henry
worked on the house, too. We had
five rooms—big roms and screens
on every window and he screened
in the whole back porch too."
All of this, the murder of her
husband, the simple story of her
life, without a tear, without a
tremor in her voice.
Suddenly she drops her head in
her hanss and sobs shake her.
"Every night I keep asking God
to help me. But I don't know what
he could do. Help me pray. Pray
for me."
Me, a white man—even though
she thinks I'm black—pray for
Carolyn Gilbert. Who would
listen?
Nexts What It Means to he a
Share Cropper.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1948
Milt Simon
AAUP Charts
Year's Work
A tentative program of six
meetings to discuss scheduling
problems, salaries, and graduate
programs was approved last night
by the Executive Committee of
the College chapter of the Amer
ican Associatoin of University
Professors.
After a discussion of schedu
ling and registration problems
with Scheduling Officer Ray V.
Watkins and assistant Registrar
Royal M. Gerhardt, the group al
so directed President Corliss Kin
ney to appoint a committee to
work with them to study sched
uling problems. The committee
will consist of one member from
each school.
The annual business meeting
with election of officers and
committee reports, will be held
about Dec. 2, the exact date to
be decided later. The program
for that date also includes the
report of the special committee
on scheduling and a general dis
cussion of that problem. A nom
inating committee consisting of
Robert Weber, chairman, Leland
S. Rhodes, former chapter presi
dent, and Harriet Nesbitt was
named last night.
Other meeting dates and ten
tative discussion subjects will be:
Jan. 20 Improvement of
Graduate Study Facilities; Feb.
17—Faculty Efficiency in Teach
ing and Research; March 17—
Federal Subsidies to Education;
April 20—Possible preparations
by the College in case of an ap
proaching new national emerg
ency, and May 19—open.
Council Plans
Ag Hill 'Week'
"Ag Hill Week" will be observ
ed from November 29 to Decem
ber 4 by all clubs and organiza
tions affiliated with the Ag Stu
dent Council, announced Harry
Schaffer, publications chairman
of the council.
Feature of the week will be a
mass convocation of agricultural
students in 121 Sparks, 7:30 p.m.,
November 30. All agricultural
clubs will meet at this time to
hear an address to be delivered
by Miles Horst, Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture, perti
nent to interests of the agricul
tural students. The meeting will
be open to any interested persons,
and an effort is being exerted to
have the entire agricultural fac
ulty present.
A publication similar to the ex
tinct "Ag Hill Breeze" will be
published during the week, ten
tative issue date being Nov. 30.
The final event of the week will
be the annual Harvest Ball to be
held Saturday, December 4.