Alumni Turnout To Break All-Time Record Dinner, Football Game, Dance Mark Homecoming Festivities Thousands of Alumni will continue to pour into State College today for the annual Homecoming Weekend, fulfilling, expectations of the largest Alumni turnout in the history of the College. Festivities, which began yes terday at noon, were hampered by an unexpected ,downpour of rain in the afternoon and eve ning. This forced postponement of the Alumni Golf Tournament and cancellation of the pep rally. Highlights of today’s activities Include the Alumni luncheon at Rec Hall honoring the founders of the Cadet Band, the football game' with Nebraska at New Beaver Field, and the Alumni Dance in Recreation Hall, . .A- complete schedule of the day’s events released by Ridge jßiley and Ross Lehman, of the Alumni Association, is as follows: SATURDAY , Morning Alumni registration " continues at Alumni head quarters in 'Recreation Hall. Alumni Golf Tournament at' the College golf course. Hori Show open all day to visitors. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Home Econ omics Alumni coffee_ hour in Home Economics -Building. 11:00 a.m.—1:30 p.m. Alumni luncheon at -Recreation Hall honoring founders, of the Bugle Corps. Cadet Band, and Blue Band;' 2:00 p.m.—Football' game with Nebraska at'Hew Beaver Field. 2:15 p.m. Cross-country meet with New York University ", starting ai New Beaver Field. .8:00 p.m.—Players present "Glass ..Menagerie" at Center Stage. ... Tickets are available at Stu . dent Union Desk from 8:00 a.m. until noon. • Thespians present All-Alumni • showing of "Welcome' Willy." Tickets are available at Rec . Creation Hall from,8:00 a.m. un til 1:30 p.m. and for one hour after the ■ game. They, will also » be on sale at the Student Union ' Desk from' 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. ' Cider party for Alumni at Rec reation Hall; ' 9:00 p.mi— Alumni Dance at Rec reation, featuring- Gene MagilTs orchestra. .. ... . Shortage of housing facilities has been a serious problem to the Alumni; Association in. handling the record-breaking crowds, Fra ternity houses are utilizing every inch of space to take cate of Alumni guests and indications are that all houses will be bulg ing. . , The problem was somewhat-al leviated by the spontaneous re sponse of townspeople to an ap peal by the Alumni Association for rooms in private homes. Alumni Honors Blue Band ,■ In celebration of the 50th anni versary of the ■ Blue Band, four members of the, original Bugle- Corps and Cadet Band will : be guests of the Alumni Association at the Alumni luncheon in Rec (Continued on page six) Today .... The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Niltany cross-country and track coach. Chick Werner. _ Werner unveils his 1949 edi tion of the Lion cross-country team at New Beaver Field this afternoon. If past records are any indication of the Reason be ginning today, this year's squad will again be one .of the best in the nation. The towering track mentor is noted for developing outstand-' ; ing.; distance runners like Curt : Slone, Jerry Karver, and Horace Ashenfelter, and lop teams like - the cross-country squad which :captured lhe NCAA, title two years ago.' Many more years of •n ... , • - , • Voting Plan Changes Rain Delays Lawn Display Appraisals Judges To Rate Efforts Of Greeks this Morning Old Man Weather, determined again this year that the judging of .fraternity lawn dislays would not be done under starry skies, sent forth torrents of the univer sal solvent last evening to drench the tediously conceived - handi work of nearly all the campus fraternities. The judging as -a re sult-' was postponed' until 10:00 o’clock this morning. Hundreds of raincoated pledg es and brothers, toiling with run ning sign paint and shorted elec trical connections strove valiant ly to preserve their interpreta tions of this year’s theme: “Beat Nebraska—Welcome Alumni.” Meanwhile, the judges, Prof. Cuthbert F. 'Salmon of the archi ture department, PrOf. John ’Y. Roy of the art department, and Ross Lehman of the Alumni Asso ciation, are preparing to readjust their critical talents for what is hoped will be a sunny review of the'traditional displays. ~ - -' - ' Results At Game The fraternities will learn how their efforts rated on.-originality, appropriateness to theme/ and general attention-getting appeal during half-time at this - after noon’s game. ' If the corn strewn about the many lawns bearing displays is any indication; a bumper crop can be expected this year. Tractors, corn pickers, costumed farmers, and- many, variations of; our : own Nittany Lion-bid welcome to the record, number of alumni return ing and are arranged in patterns probably ,caiising a new high in consternation among visiting Nebraska fans. Competition for the Alumni trophy, awarded each year for the best display and now in the hapds of Alpha’ Tau Ome ga, .is keen. Trustee Grpup Holds Session - Members of the executive com mittee ;of. the .Board of, Trustees of the College met late last night, at the College. It was their regu lar Fall, meeting. ' , .-Chairman of th e ■ executive committee is James. Milhplland, acting president of the College. Medina Sentences Communist Leaders Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ WASHINGTON—EIeven top leaders of the Communist party were found guilty yesterday of plotting to overthrow the govern ment by force. The men face maximum penalties of 10 years" in jail and $lO,OOO fines. Sentencing is scheduled for next Friday. Immediately after the jury announced its verdict, federal judge Harold Medina sentenced the five defense lawyers to jail for con tempt. Judge Medina also jailed Eugene Dennis, the top defend ant, who had argued his own case. Their terms vary from 30 days to six months. ■ Attorney ; General 'McG rath called the - outcome, “gratifying”, and' members of both major par ties here ' applauded the Com munist, conviction. Some called it a credit to' the American jury system; others hoped it would start a ‘ crusade against -all • so called subversive elements. * @lrr Satin l|| ©nil ... A VOL. 50 NO. 17 State Party to Permit Voters To Cast Ballots in Lion Fashion Aiming for a political comeback, representatives of the State party Wednesday night announced that the clique has abandoned its policy of representative voting. Robert Keller, last year’s candidate for Senior Class president, and Robert Gabriul, defeated All-College presidential hopeful last spring, announced the decision at a meeting before more than 250 freshmen women in Atherton lounge. “There is no longer an apparent need for representative clique voting,” Keller said. “After watching the Lion clique (which swept last spring’s All-College elections) in opera tion, the State party feels that the danger that one or several groups may ‘pack’ a meet ing is unfounded.” ' Keller added that present State party policy in regard to eligi bility of clique voters will, in the future, be similar to that of the opposing Lion clique. Current Lion policy is to per mit any student who has register ed and appeared at two succes sive meetings full voting privi leges. The only difference in the new State plan is that students of the- various classes will be per mitted to vote for clique officers of their class. Lion party mem bers are permitted to vote for any clique candidate placed be fore the floor, regardless of the class in which they, are register ed. Players Open 30th Season With Williams'/Menagerie' ” B7 ,T>^IL£ v< ''l>ETWEiti^iEi'’’ 1 " ’ Players opened their thirtieth season last night at Centre Stage witK'’.“Glass"’Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams’ Critics’ Circle award drama. play is a. family portrait with tjie setting in an alley tene the depression-dreary St. Louis of the 1930’5. The ment in The story is seen as the recollections of Tom Wingfield, whose .mother, Amanda, clings to the shreds of her happier days as a Southern belle. Tom acts as nar i&fo&for the play. .As’the story begins, Amanda, Tom-and Laura, Tom’s sister, are Lewis Gives Plan WEST VA— John L. Lewis in troduced a plan for a 250 million 1 dollar a week pool to help the CIO steel workers win their strike, Lewis, whose miners are striking, offered to contribute to such- a pool, and he asked the AFL ’to join in. However, there has been no comment from fed eration chief William Green or CIO . steel leader Philip Murray. (Continued, on page six) BETTER PENN STATE' STATE COLLEGE, FA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1949 living .in poverty. Tom has be come restless as a worker in a warehouse, his real ambition be ing to become a poet. He reacts to the situation in none to pleas ant ways, which his mother is constantly bickering about. Inferiority Complex Laura, although it can be plain ly.seen she does not wish to be, is the reason for the trouble. She is a crippled young woman who has. drawn herself away from the world due to an inferiority complex. Amanda believes Laura to be a beautiful young woman as she was in the old days in the South. And from there she sets out to make Laura a success. She first tries to send Laura to business school, but Laura becomes “sick on her stomach” the first day and gives up, with drawing herself even further into (Continued, on page’six) 1 Under the old plan of repre sentative voting, no student was admitted as a voting member of the State .party unless he had submitted a petition with 20 or more names of other students he intended to represent. Explain .-Workings Keller and Gabriel.. also ex plained the workings of the party tb the freshmen group. They ran through its history, internal or ganization, and its differences from the campus’s second polit ical group. Besides the minor difference in voting procedure, Keller also stressed the number of vacancies open in the organization to in terested students. “We are a party out of office,” he said. “Therefore there is a good possibility that ambitious beginners will climb rapidly in the organization.” Lions Address Group Rose Eifert, president' of Leonides; John Erickson, junior class vice-president; David Sch muckler; and Huge Stevens ad dressed the group as representa tives of the Lion party. They also gave a short outline of the principles and history of their group. Following the meeting, and ex pressing pleasure at the enthu siasm of their listeners, repre sentatives of both parties said, in effect, “signs indicate a record turn-out of freshmen at the November elections.” Section W Open to Girls Section “NF” in Beaver Field Stadium today will be open to freshmen and -sophomore girls as well as sophomore men, Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, pointed out yesterday. The section—in which flash cijirds are displayed to add to the color and spirit of the football game—had been planned as a no-girls-allowed section when the flash-card system was being ar ranged for this year. However, student leaders de cided after the first two games to eliminate the ban on girls in section “NF” when the distaff cheerers made what was termed “one of the best displays of Col lege spirit seen here in years.” I Ushers at today’s game will I (Continued on page six}
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