r Pay Fees 46 , 4, .4W ; Toti4, Weather: Rain This Morning Today B aum rgtan and Cooler "TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOLUME 49-NUMBER 15 Late AP News Courtesy Station WMAJ 15 Churchmen Go on Trial, Bulgaria Issues Pleas SOFlA—Bulgaria's Deputy Minister of Justice made public what he said was a mass plea of guilt by 15 Protestant churchmen who go on trial for treason today. The documents contained 2,266 pages of statements and depositions. One file produced by the Bulgarian official - contained responses like these: "I admit my guilt .... I repent .... I beg clemency I want to be given a new chance to work fo r the motherland." The Communist-run govern-. ment charges that the churchmen spied for the United States and Britain and plotted against their own government. Both western powers have denounced the charges against the churchmen. Arabs, Jews Make Pleas RHODES—In a gaudy hotel salon on the Island of Rhodes yes terday, Israeli and Egyptian del egates signed thei r names 24 times on copies of a general ar mistice agreement. The agreement sets the stage for peace negotiations between the new Jewish state and the other Arab nations which have Continued on page eight Cabinet Votes Loan to WSSF All-College Cabinet passed mesaures to lend the World Stu dent Service Fund campaign committee $2OO, to give twelve Blue Band members $135 for the Intercollegiate Music Festival at Indiana, Pa., and to set up a com mittee to investigate appropria tions to school student councils in a 48-minute meeting last night. Both of the financial motions, discussed last week, were passed last night with little opposition. Milton Stone, president of the Engineering Student Council, asked Cabinet for more working funds in the student councils. "We only receive $6O a year," said Stone, "and that's just about enough to cover a small mixer and mimeograph work." A committee, headed by Stone, was appointed by William Law less, chairman of the Cabinet, to investigate the financial situation of the student councils. Cabinet also sanctioned the "Mother Was a Freshman Con test" which will be sponsored by the Daily Collegian, and heard nine proposed revisions to the All-College Cabinet. Independent Mixer Presents Glass, Talent Show Winners Hank Glass, campus comedian deluxe, will be master of cere monies at the "February Thaw," a mixer sponsored by all inde pendent students on campus. The mixer, to be held at the TUB at 2 p.m. Sunday, has been ndependent students on campus planned to better acquaint the with each other. TS Winners John Hrivnak, first place win ner of the recent All-College Tal ent Show, will be the feature at traction of the "February Thaw." Along with the popular accordion ist, Larry Sloan and Ted Mann, two comedians, will also appear on, the program. Second place winner of the tal ent show, Charles Sachse, will im• personate Spike w , ,,40.- Jones and their' well known Ci Slickers. Ler Hinkle, a be. tone singer, w' also appear the program. Collegians Pla; Music for tl mixer will 1 furnished by Bi Rogers' Collet ens, a nine-piece orchestra. All new students at the College are invited to attend. There is no ad- Mission charge. COMII . IIIOB niessibass for the at STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1949 Penn State Club Sponsors Party The Penn State Club will spon sor a bowling party at the Dux alleys at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow and will pay one-half of the price for members. Guests will be required to pay full price. Those wishing to take part may sign up at the Student Union before tomorrow, it was decided at a meeting Tuesday. The club decided to hold fu ture meetings in 405 Old Main at 7 p.m. Mondays. The new lounge for the club probably will be located in 411 Old Main. Mag azines, newspapers, radio and phonograph facilities will be available there. • Future activities will include a semi-formal initiation dance and a skating party. New mem bership will be accepted at the March 7 meeting and initiation will be held late next month. Council Honors Retiring Dean William S. Hoffman, dean of admissions and registrar, and Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, assistant dean of admissions and college exam iner, Ivho will retire on February 28, were honored last week by the Council on Administration an d also by the staff and personnel of the Admissions Office. Last week, the Council of Ad ministration held a luncheon at the Nittany Lion Inn at which James Mulholland, acting presi dent of the College, cited the work done by Dean Hoffman and Dean Marquardt. Dr. Marquardt, however, was unable to attend. E. K. Hibshman, retired execu tive secretary of the Penn State Alumni Association, spoke at the banquet held I'v the Admissions Office staff. Dean Hoffman and Dean Marquardt were each pre sented with a radio as a gift from the personnel. Fifty-seven per sons, including the guests, attend ed. fair are Rose Eifert, Ann Allan and Ruth Phillips for Leonides, William Manus for AIM and Wil liam Hohns for the Pollock Circle Council. Nittany Dorm Council members on the committee are Martin Ber kowitz, Jack Diamond, George Wolff and William Zakor. Vocational Help Offered Veterans Vocational an d educational guidance is available to all vet erans at the vocational guidance center• in the Old Zoology Build ing. A veteran may learn those vocations for which he is best fit ted, his personality traits and his special aptitudes. This service is done by the Psy chological Clini.c of the College, and is paid for by the Veterans Administration. Veterans should apply as soon as possible so that they may have au ear* itePointmea. Let Desires Go For 'Week's' Mitty Day Don't be surprised if you see a knight in armor upon a white horse charging up the mall! And don't think that the rea son is only because it's April Fool's Day either! It will be April 1 when all sorts of queer things will begin to liappen here on ,the campus. For then you will have a chance to reveal your suppressed desire. Walter Mitties by the thousand will be running over the campus attempting to capture the prizes offered for the Penn Stater who has best exhibited his suppressed desire, Your "secret life" will no longer be secret. And if your Thurber whim is going to take some preparations—s uc h as a harem shipped from the East— you had better start organizing that suppressed desire now for April Fool's Day, or the Walter Mitty Day of Spring Week. Campus Red Cross Drive Set for March 7 to 12 March 7 to March 12 has been set as the date for the annual campus Red Cross Drive, according to William McLain, chairman of the campus unit of the Red Cross. Of the $5500 State College area total, $3500 will remain in this area. Fifteen hundred dollars of the sum to be kept within this area will be spent for home service, including personal problems solved by the Red Cross; financial reliefs and loans; helping to locate lost relatives; securing emergency leaves for soldiers; and provisions for veterans' wives. The remaining $2OOO will be .spent here for disaster relief. Un der this program is home nurs ing, and local disasters, such as individual accidents, fires, build ing disasters, and laboratory ex plosions. $2OOO to National Two thousand dollars will be sent to the national Red Cross. In conjunction with the domestic policy of the Red Cross this year, the money contributed will stay in the United States. Among other aids here at home. this money will help in the relief of floods and snowstorms throughout the West this year. However, the campus unit funds solicited will be placed in the State College area, including Continued on page eight Talent Scouts Look Over Frosh Everyone's going to get into the act to decide which of Penn State's freshmen will be ad judged the nation's most re markable frosh coed. (She has to be beautiful, intelligent, talented and active.) S e v e n...undergraduate centers and even itte•-aaaain campus will be represented in the final selec tion of "Miss Penn State Fresh man," who will reign over the premiere showing of the movie, "Mother Is a Freshman," at the Cathaum, March 10. Any freshman coed on campus, interested in competing for $lOO in cas h. probably merchandise awards. national publicity and a one-week vacation in Hollywood, will be considered. Beauty detectives of the Daily Collegian are looking over the limited bevy of campus freshmen for suitable candidates, who will be contacted individually. When the finalists have been chosen by the shtudent newspa pers at the participating centers, all students on campus will be el igible to cast votes for their fav orite, from pictures which will appear in Collegian. Results of the popular vote will be considered by a panel of judges which will be announced at a later date. Plans are being perfected for a gala, Hollywood-style ceremony the amourningigernime. Traubel To Conclude Artists' Course Series Helen Traubel, acclaimed by critics as the world's greatest dra matic soprano and leading dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Association, will appear at Schwab Auditorium Monday night, concluding this year's Artists' Course Series. Recently Miss Traubel was cited by four leading publications as one of the great singers of our time. Academic recognition, too, has been given her. She received an honorary doctorate of music from the University of Missouri at the 1948 commencement exer cises for her contribution to music in this country, and from the Uni versity of Southern California at the 1947 commencement exercis es. 4 w 44 4(....., t 7 , ' ~.,s ~;,=,, 4 ,:•;,' - 4 , • ‘, 4., , ~,,., ~ . ~,,,.„:„,,, ,J, ~;,,,,.,„,,,,,,,,, . v „,.,,,,, , ~ • .v„..,, Helen Traubel Sophomore Wins Poetry Tryouts Herbert Detweiler, sophomore in Lower Division, will repre sent •the College in the Eastern Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Festival to be held at Adelphi College, Long Island, on April 9. Detweiler was one of 45 con testants who tried out Tuesday night. Ella Louise Williams, sophomore in Lower Division, will be alternate. Nine winners were selected by members of the speech depart ment from eight groups. They were, in addition to Detweiler and Miss William s, Edward Armsby, Anthony Bowman, Alice Erdman, Phyllis F einsilbe r, Grace Miller, Bernard Silver stein, and Arthur Walters. Each contestant read a poem for four minutes. Detweiler's se lection was "Go Down Death" by James W. Johnson. Miss Wil liams chose "Sally Dupre" by Stephen Vincent Benet. Men's Debate The Men's Debate Club will meet Pitt in 316 Sparks at 8 p.m. today. G. Russell Drumm and Tames. McDougall will defend the affirmative for Penn State. "Federal Aid to Education" will be the topic. Bible Fellowship Bishop Elam Stauffer, mission ary to Africa, will be the speaker at the Penn State Bible Fellow ship meeting in 417 Old Main at 7:30 p.m. today. United States Party A United States Party will be held by the students of the Wes ley Foundation at the Founda tion Gym at 8 p.m. today. Fellowship Movie The Interchurch Student Fel -1 owship will sponsor a movie, `The King of Kings," in the Lu heran Church at 8 p.m. today. English Lecture Mr. L. K. Sillcox of the New York Air Brake Company will deliver the senior English lecture in Schwab Auditorium at 4:10 p.m. todap. Miss Traubel made her first public appearance at the age of 12 when she substituted for her mo ther, Clara Stuhr Traubel, one Sunday in the choir of the local church in St. Louis. She had be gun taking voice lessons before this and continued taking them almost daily for 17 years. Miss Traubel's first musical ac tivities took place in and around her native city. In 1925 she went on a six weeks' tour with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the following . year she sang in New York at itie Lewisohn Sta dium. In 1934 Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct the annual German singing societies' Santer fest. He was so impressel with Miss Traubel's voice that he wrote a special soprano role into his opera "The Man Without a Country" for her. A recital at Town Hall in the fall of 1939 was followed by an engagement with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orches tra under the direction of John Barbirolli. In the spring of 1947, Miss Traubel, a Columbia Masterworks Artist, took part in the first oper atic performance ever to be re corded directly from the stage of the Metropolitan—the Love Duet frOm "Tristan and Isolde." Ball Fan In private life, Miss Traubel is Mrs. William Bass. Her business manager husband and she make their home at Laguna Beach. Cal ifornia. Her two earliest recalled interests were music and baseball. Miss Traubel is still a rabid base ball fan although she has to curb her baseball enthusiasm to save her voice. As a hobby she col lects autographed baseballs arid was presented recently with a ball signed by members of the New York Yankees by Tom Gal lery, general manager of the team. News Briefs Pick Up Matric New and old students who have not received their picture matriculation cards are requested to bring the old cards to 109 Old Main and get the new ones. Pi Lambda Sigma Pi Lambda Sigma, pre-legal honorary, recently elected the following officers: William Bet ter, president; Fred Brennan, secretary; and Betsey Prutzman, secretary-treasurer. Thespians Thespians call those people who have tried out for vocal parts to try out for singing parts in 405 Old Main from 2 to 5 p.m. today. Dairy Science Club Mr. Robert Olmstead, from Dairy Extension, will speak at the meeting of the Penn State Dairy Science Club in 117 Dairy Building at 7 p.m. today. The new presiding officers will be: Frank Ebert, president; Harry Dav i s, vice-president; James Fish, secretary; and Waller yam_ trelliNirega PRICE FIVE CENTS Appeared at 12 N. Y. Recital
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