FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1949
Admiral Denfeld Loses Post
As Chief of Naval Operations
WASHINGTON —Admiral Louis Denfeld has been relieved of his job as the Navy’s
highest active officer. President Truman told his news conference that he fired Denfeld
“for the good of the country” on the advice of Navy Secretary Matthews. •
Mr. Truman declined to say whether Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman will replace Den
feld as Chief of Naval Operations, as has been rumored.
Earlier, Republican representa-i
tive Leslie Arends of Illinois said
that removal of Denfeld would be
an insult to Congress in view of
Denfeld’s recent testimony during
unification hearings.
At the same time, it was an
nounced that there would be a
cut of 58,200 in Navy and Ma
rine manpower as a part of the
over-all reduction of the armed
forces.
Stock Market Climbs
, . The New York Stock Exchange
'reached a new high for the year
today as a result of a powerful
buying drive.
Allied Chemical led . the rise
with a seven dollar jump at one
point and all the leading stocks
advanced a few cents' to more
than a dollar a share. Heavy trad
ing’ accompanied the rise.
Named Ambassador
Assistant Secretary of State
George V. Allen has been named
Ambassador to Yugoslavia to re
place Cavendish Cannon, who is
retiring because of ill health.
Allen has been directing the
State Department Public Affairs
Section which includes the “Voice
• of America” and various cultural
activities.
Vote of Confidence
.'LONDON—The British Labor
government has. won a vote of
* confidence by a margin of 337 to
five, following a defeat of a no
confidence motion by ' Winston
Churchill’s conservatives. If the
vote of no-confidence should, pre
vail, it .would mean the resigna
tion of the prime minister, prob
ably* followed by a general elec-
Debaters Vie
With Oxford
An international debate .will be
held one week from today in
Schwab Auditorium at 8 p.m.
with John Fedako end Richard
Schweiker, College debaters, pre
senting the •'negative "side and
Robin Day and Geoffrey Johnson
Smith, of Oxford University,
England, asserting the affirma
tive. • ;
The topic of debate is to be
“Resolved: .that the public own
ership of, basic industries and
essential services is in the best
interests of a ■ democratic so
ciety.”
Schweiker, manager of men’s
debate at the College, and Fe
dako participated'in most of the
meets last year. Next week’s de
.bate will be.the opener for the
’local squad which. recently add
ed 18 hew ' members to a return
ing varsity of 121
, Both Oxford debaters are 25
years of age and unmarried, and
both held the rank of captain m
the Royal Artillery during the
war years.
,v Day is ;at present an under
graduate studying law at St. Ed
mund Hall, Oxford. He is a lib
eral in politics,. and has recently
been' successively elected secre
tary and librarian of the Oxford
Union Society for the Hilary and
Trinity Terms, 1949.
' Smith is studying, the modern
greats (politics, philosophy and
He was educated at
;Charterhouse School and Lincoln
'■'College, Oxford. He is an ardent
supporter of the British Labor
Government. A member of the
Oxford University Dramatic So
ciety, he has done both stage
and film acting,.and some pro
duction. Recently he was elected
to the Oxford Union Society s
Committee,. He writes for the
University Magazine, “Isis,” and
wants to be a journalist.
Admission is free, and anyone
desiring to get an international
viewpoint, on a democratic sys
tem of business ownership,
should not miss this opportunity.
‘ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
(Late AP News, Courtesy WMAJ)
Lion, State Political Parties Name
Freshman Sophomore Nominees
Campus political lines will be drawn for the Nov. 15 fresh
man and sophomore elections, when the Lion and State parties
select their candidates Sunday evening.
Work on the campaigns then will begin in earnest, with the
campaigns scheduled to open about ten days before the election.
Each party will nominate six .candidates — for president, vice
president and secretary-treas
urer of the two classes. Last Sun
day the Lion party got an early
start by holding- preliminary
nominations,' while • the State
party was reorganizing its leader
ship for. the ballot battle.
Stale Party
'The State party will be aiming
for a political'Comeback in this
tjampaign, with ,the prospect of
seizing power in the two classes
an dalso taking two seats on All-
College Cabinet through the class
presidencies.
The executive coipmittee will
make preliminary recommenda
tions to the party,' and further
nominations then 'can be made
from' the floor before the vote
is taken at the 7 p.m. meeting
in 10 Sparks
Lion Party
Only sophomores and . fresh
men will be allowed to attend
the Lion party meeting and vote
Hazleton Center
Dedicates Site
The dedication of the former
Markle estate, ‘Highacres’ will
provide the College center at Ha>
zleton with i a typical small col
lege campus for its 325 students
and 26 facuty members...
J. Or vis Keller, assistant to the
president in charge-of extension,
and Edgar C. Weichel, trustee,
will, represent the College at the
dedication ceremony to be held
outdoors in the formal garden at
.‘Highacres’Monday.
The 14-year-old Hazleton cen
ter acquired the former Markle
estate early this year and re
cently moved there for the open
ing of the fall semester.
The Markle estate is located on
the brow of the-mountain over
looking Conyngham Valley at
the outskirts of Hazleton.
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for clique candidates, the party
decided last Sunday. Each class
will be seatqd in a special sec
tion of' 121 Sparks, where the
7 o’clock meeting is scheduled.
Additional nominations will be
made ,and .candidates already
named will be allowed to drop
out of the race.
•Lion freshmen class nomina
tions thus far are: For president,
Jo Hutchon; vice-president, Gerri
Brown and Harriet Stern; sec
retary-treasurer, Carolyn Laugh
ner and Peggy Hepler. Soph
omore nominations - are: Presi
dent, Charles Wysocki and .Jo
seph Arteritano; vice-president,
Jack Haines; secretary-treasurer,
Polly Potter.
Only sophomores and freshmen
who have been 5 at one previous
meeting will be allowed to vote.
Poor Wins Post
At Rome Academy
Henry Varnum Poor, painter
of the frescoes in Old Main has
been' appointed a resident artist
in the American Academy in
Rome, it was learned today. Un
der the provisions of the Ful
bright Act, Mr. Poor was award
ed the senior research fellowship.
His daughter Anne, who assist
ed him with the fresco* will ac
company him to Europe, as will
his wife, Bessie Breur, a well
known writer. They plan to leave
next month.
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Chem Accident Fails To Ruin
Young Pitcher's Athletic Career
When a youngster who never dreamed of playing baseball for
pay is signed to a pitching contract by a major league team, there’s
a story to be told.
But when this same youngster has had his throwing hand
almost blown ofE by a chemistry set explosion, there’s an even bet
ter story to be told.
Such is the story of Sam Phil
lips, a 19-year old, third semester
sophomore in chemical engineer
ing.
Phillips himself -was the only
one more surprised than the doc
tors who told him he'd never be
able to play baseball again when
the Philadelphia A’s- offered him
a contract just before he left his
Drexel Hill home, just outside, of
Philadelphia, for State College.
And the young right-hander
who is rated as a promising pros
pect by Ira Thomas, chief scout
of the A’s organization, had every
right to be astounded at his suc
cess, for only three years ago an
explosion of red phosphorus po
tassium chlorate in his home had:
all but blown off his hand.
Even today, some three years
later, it does not seem within the
realm of the reasonable that the
scarred right hand of Sam’Phil
lips can throw a baspball hard
enough and true enough to strike
out a midget. They have been
more than midgets, however, who
have gone down swinging on
Sam’s smoker or broken their
backs fishing for one of his curves.
Had the tube in which Sam was
mixing his chemicals been somtfr
what ‘thicker,, his story would
have ended with the explosion. It
almost did, for even today, after
four. major operations on the
hand-there is still some glass re
maining, even today despite some,
miraculous surgery by Dr. George
Schwartz, chief . surgeon of the
Methodist Hospital in Philadel
phia, Sam has no sensation in the
ring finger of his right hand.
That was the story of Sam Phil
lips, a - kid who played baseball
on. the. sandlots for “kicks,” when,
“just to have some fun, he re-
Dorted to the A’s baseball school,
in BalarCynwyd last June,
r Sam was standing around with
the other youngsters who had re
ported to the school that morn
ing, when Thomas asked him to
throw a few pitches for the press
photographers who had been as-:
signed tp cover the school.
“I threw a few pitches and
Thomas wasn’t even -looking at
me,” Sam recalls. “Then_he turn
ed around as D was throwing my
fast one—that’s my best pitch—
and he said “Do • that again..
Again. Again. Again.” I stood
there,for 15 minutes just throw
ing and every time I. threw
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By MARV KRASNANSKT
Thomas would give me pointers
on what to do and what not to
do. In those 15 minutes I learn
ed more about pitching than I
had known all my life.”
Impressed by the loose-limbed,
easy-throwing youngster, Thomas
asked him to report back in the
afternoon to throw his curve.
“Throw a curve,” Sam laughs.
“I didn’t even know how to hold
a curve, but he showed me how,
and in an hour I had the ball
dipping like I had been born with
a curve.”
Sam went home that evening,
his arm a little tired, but happy,
and perhaps a bit wary, like a
man who has started something
he isn’t sure he will be able to
finish.
Three weeks later Sam was
asked to pitch batting practice for
the A’s at Shibe Park. Looking
back at that day, now, Sam ad
mits that “I was scared out of my
wits.” /
“Boy, was I wild,” the six foot
three inch, 175 pound sophomore
laughingly recalls, “But I threw
hard, and that’s what they were
looking for. They would have
been happy had I been able to
throw the ball clear through the
screen in back of home/’
Sam didn’t bring his chemistry
set. with him to State. He gave it
away soon after the 'explosion,
and since then has contented him
self with mixing colors in glasses
of water. But Sam has brought
his glove and a dozen or so base
balls, for even if there isn’t much
spare time for a chem-engineer
ing major to play baseball, he
can always look at his weapons
and his scarred hand and dream
ahead to the day this Spring when
he will report to the A’s collective
. farm system in Moultree, Geor
gia, a'strong-armed, hard-throw
ing youngster with an inspiring
story for all who love sport.
New Head Coach
Floyd (Ben) Schwartzwalder,
new head coach at Syracuse, is
the 23rd coach for the Orange. He
comes from Muhlenberg where
in three years he won 25 games
while losing only five.
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PAGE THREE
Here Are The Remaining
Outstanding Features of
Nittany Revival Week!
TODAY ■—
“MR. SMITH GOES
TO WASHINGTON”.
James Stewart - Jean Arthur
SATURDAY
“TEXAS”
Wm. Ilolden - Glenn Ford
BKaewMiwwi
MON. TUES.
An International Film Club
Presentation
, THE BEST ITALIAN
FIJL.M OF THE YEAR!
—Venice Film Carnival
VIOLENT AND
SMOULDERING PASSION
—N.Y. Times
'SUPERB’ WorM Tele.