Two Additional Steel Plants Settle Strikes U. S. Steel Spokesman Hints at Settlement Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ PITTSBURGH —The striking CIO steel workers union has reached an agreement with all but ,US Steel Corporation, among the industry’s four top producers. Even US Steel is believed to havq an offer under preparation. A company source here commented, “This looks like the handwriting on the wall.” The steel union has concluded a pension and welfare insurance arrangement with' Republic Steel on the heels of Monday night’s agreement with Jones and Laugh lin. ', ' Coal Situation CHICAGO —With the steel situation clearing up, even closer attention, now is being paid to the strike-bound coal industry In a surprise move, Chief Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching asked union chief John L. Lewis and soft coal operators to meet him tomorrow in an effort’ t.o reach an agreement. Lewis declined to say immediately whether he'will accept the Ching invitation. New York Vote NEW YORK—Nowhere is news of tHfe day’s voting awaited with more interest than this city: Dem ocratic . Mayor William O’Dwyer is involved in a three-way race with Republican-Liberal New bold Morris and American Labor Party candidate Vito Marcart tonio. • v , A heavy vote was rolled up early in the day,' particularly in the areas where Marcantonio was most active. Keller To Lead Temple Rally Robert Keller,- head of Tribunal,' will MC the pre-Temple game pep rally to be held tomorrow night. The steps of Old Main will •be the scene of the rally, which will start at the usual time, 7:30 p.m: . . Np parade is scheduled for to-, mqrrow night, but the. Blue,Band .wiil .be there to supply the musi cal 'side Of the program.' Aug menting the band will be the Harmopaires, a full force of Nit tany cheerleaders, and all football coaches that are available at the time. •' Carl P. Schott, dean of the School of Physical Education, will also , attend the rally., It is being held on Thursday night; since, the Blue Baijtd will be in Philadelphia Friday evening. At this time the band will play at a smoker being given at the Bellevue-Startford Hotel. v ■ Richard Clair 1 , head Lion cheer leader,'announced that plans-for the Pitt rally have already been completed, and ;the program promises to be the best one of the season. Today . . . The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Rusty Leib, king of the Mardi Gras carnival. ; Rusty is the year's * first crowned "beauty." forerunner of a rash of queens who will be elected later in the school year. To Ihq Pehn. State Adonis, the Lion flutters his feline eye lashes and coyly purrs a iribuie to . the male who • captured the hearts, and votes, of the coeds at Saturday night's, exlraya gawMk ' m ?? latly ® (Mlt'gian I'^S" 'TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" i VOL. 50 NO. 34 Old Main Lobby Gets New Fbce On Trustees 1 OK The lobby of Old Main is to be redecorated if and when the Col lege trustees approve plans which were made last month, announced George Ebert, head of the depart ment of physical plant.. Object of the program, he explained, is to add emphasis to the Land Grant Frescoes which line three walls of the lobby. Henry Vamum Poor, painter of the frescoes, and Roy F. Lar son, visiting architectural design critic ■ for the College, last month recommended a . color scheme which calls for a dark gray wains coating, lighter gray vaults, and red columns. Physical plant workmen have applied paints to test various color scheme pro posals. / The entire lobby lighting sys tem will probably be revamped. Concealed, directed lighting ? is planned, the fixtures being sunk into the vaults and the light directed by louvers. The center chandelier also may be re placed. The department of public in formation is preparing a brochure which will present the back ground. and an explanation of the Land Grant Frescoes project. It will be completed in the near fu ture. A similar publication, now out of print, was prepared in 1940 following the completion of the first fresco abov.e the lobby steps. Movies Tonight Motion pictures. of the Bos ton College and .West Virginia football, games will, be shown in Schwab at 7 o'clock'tonight. Albert .Michaels, assistant football coach, will give a running commentary- on_ the two films being sponsored by, the Pfenn State Camera Club. Givis' Debate Squad Selected Thirteen new members of the varsity debate squad and eleyen new’ ■ members of. the freshman squad •' were recently announced by Christine Altenburger, man ager of Women's Debate. The. debate question for both groups this year is “Resolved:. That the United States should nationalize 'its basic non-agricul tural industries.” Prof. Clayton Schug is. women’s debate coach for the varsity and freshman squads. New upper class members of the .varsity squad are: .'Esther Beck, Rosemary Delahanty, Ruth Finkelsteiri, Sarah Hanna, Jeaii Holland, Ann Jones, Lyn /Lapp, Martha Alnn McMillan, Marilyn Mahla, Carol Siswein, Gloria Warr, Sylvia Silver, Marie Judge. ' Nqw members of .the freshman squad are: Joyce Buchalnaln; Yv onne Carter, Joanne ' Church, Peggy Fahringer, Shirley .Gallag her, Patricia Hathaway, Phyllis Kalson, Rita Keeney, Phyllis Kessler, Ruth McSparran, Ken etta Peters. IM Footballer Suffers Injury The first major injury, suffered in IM football this season cropped up Monday night in the game be tween Lambda Chi Alpha and Theta Chi. ( Richard George, of ’ Lambda Chi, attempted to intercept a Theta Chi pass, and sometime during the ensuing scramble for the ball twisted his back. X-rays taken yesterday at the College -Infirmary, where the .Al- junior is [confined, showed that no fracture was sustained.. ' STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1949 Student Body To Meet Candidates at Mixer JOHN KULP (White shirt, foreground) acts as a decoy for teammate Jack Wiedenman (arms outstretched), who took an extra-point pass from Owen Wilkinson in the second half of last night's Sigma Nu-Alpha Chi. Sigma intramural touch football game won by Sigma Nu, 20-0. In the second game' of the evening, the Eagles Scored a_ 20-0 victory over Dorm / 25. Tonight Sigma Nu will meet , the winner of last night's battle between Delta Upsilon and Lambda. Chi Alpha, and the . Eagles will face the winner of the other in dependent. semi-final. Details on Page three, IFC Adopts 14 Points To Judge Lawn Displays .Lack of any regulations governing, the judging of lawn displays in the past has forced the Inter-Fraternity Council to adopt a 14- point code on which future winners will be chosen.' This change was announced this week by Johnßath, member of IFC’s, executive committee and director of.the recent homecoming display contest, The rules accepted are:- 1; A theme for the annual lawn display contest will be chosen by the Inter-Fraternity .'Council at least two ' before Home coming. At this meeting, a copy of these rules will be, presented to each IFC representative. 2. :The primary, criterion for judging will be appropriateness to the theme. Originality, eye catching appeal, and quality of work involved, will also be con sidered 3. Lawn displays- must be maintained iii-" their'. ' complete form until noon Sunday, unless damaged beyond repair by van dalism or inclement weather. 4. No fraternity shall spend more than $l5 on a lawn display. 5. No living creature shall be incorporated • in : a lawn display in any "manner This applies to both people and ani mals. Recordings of either, how ever, will not be cause for .dis qualification. 6. Judging of the latyn displays will begin 'at 7 o’clock the night before the Homecoming football game, and will be completed that same night. Regardless of weath er \ conditions, the judging will take place on schedule, and. under no circumstances will the time be changed. * ' Judges Selected 7. Three judges will be selected and submitted for the approval of the Inter-Fraternity Council at the . last meeting before Home coming. 8. A copy of these regulations will., be given to each judge at least two dayslbefore the judging, Menagerie Casts Play casts for “Glass Menage rie" for this week, as announced by Director Kelly Veaton, are as follows: Friday Tom, Charles Schulte; Jim, Timothy Hayes; Amanda, Diane Scuderi, and Laura, Sonya Tilles. Saturday- Torn, Dan Wargo; Jim, Charles Schultej.Amanda, Sonya Tilles, and vFrancuw Xaik , (Photo by Bilim an and Gutterman.) and they shall be read to the as sembled judges immediately pre ceding the judging. 9. The judges will select the five best lawn, displays in the order of their worth; and the first three shall be declared winners. The decision of the judges is final. Awards Revoked 10. Any infraction apparent during judging will be cause for revocation of any award or recog nition given to the lawn display involved. 11. Any later infractions will be 'cause for revocation of any award or recognition given to the lawn display involved. 12. Any fraternity a lawn display-disqualified shall be informed as soon as the disquali fication takes place. . . . 13. Any protests in regard to disqualification will be consider ed by a committee made up of the members of the IFC Execu tive Committee and' the three judges. 14. A suitable trophy will be presented to winning'fraternities at the annual' Inter-Fraternity IJanquet. Botany Club Mr. Kreitlow will speak on “Some Problems in. Breeding for Disease Resistance iri Forage Crops”. at a meeting of the Bot any Club in 208 Buckhout Lab at 7:30 tonight. Hiffel Foundation All are welcome to Rabbi Kahn’s lecture series on “Modern Philosophy of Jewish Life” in the Hillel Foundation at 7:30 to night. Russian Movies . Everyone is invited to attend Dramatics 61 movies in 119. Os mond at 7o’clock tonight. Four films, including “Potemkin," will &e shown. < Collegian Staff Sponsors Event Freshmen and sophomores to night will have, a chance to meet the 12 Lion and State party can didates from among whom offi cers of the freshman and sopho more classes will be elected Tues day. The candidates will meet the student body in a mixer to be held in the TUB starting at 7:30 tonight; it is being sponsored by The Daily Collegian in the inter ests of better student govern ment. Both parties have gone on record as endorsing the mixer. Roth To. MC Serving as master of cere monies for the mixer will be Wilbert Roth, managing- editor of Collegian, who will introduce the candidates to those attending. Music for the event will be pro vided by the Amy. Taylor sextet; Freshman candidates for the State party, are:, For president, Marian Whitely; vice-president, Joan Yerger; secretary-treasurer, Lucy Barr. ' The Lion freshman candidates are: For. president, Jo Hutchon; vice-president, Gerry Brown; sec retary-treasurer, Peggy Hepler. Soph Candidates, State sophomore candidates are: For president, Joseph Ar nold; vice-president, Sally .Shoe maker; secretary,-treasur?A Jack Baron., Lion' sophomore, nominees are; For president, Charles Wysocki; vice-president, Jack Haines; sec retary-treasurer, Lois- Pulver. Although this will be the only chance for students -to meet the candidates in a body, the politi cos will be putting themselves before the public in other ways. Visits will be made to fraternity houses and men’s dormitories,- posters are being placed about the town and on campus, party tickets are being worn by. partis ans, and the old-faithful word of-mbuth system has been put into effect. 5 O'clock Theater Inaugurates Season Five O’clock -Theatre’s- second year of experimental productions will begin next Tuesday . after noon at 5 o’clock in the Little Theater in Old Main. The first production, now in rehearsal, will be “Losers-Weep ers,” by Mike Kesdekian. The public is invited-to attend the original one-act plays each Tuesday afternoon. The plays, which are the work pf writers taking Prof. Warren Smith’s Playwriting 421 course, will be given script-in-hand. No permanent acting company has been established as yet. Rita Lang will direct, Frank Fatsie will act as general manager, and Dot Jeffers will be technician. News Briefs Swimming Tryouts Swimming tryouts will be held in Glennland Pool, at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow. Tonight will- be 60-yard free style and SO-yard breast stroke. Tomorrow wiUsbe "120 yard freestyle and 60-yard backstroke. NAACP Meeting There will be no meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People tonight. The regular meeting will be held next week. Mineral Industries Re-election of the senior mem ber of Mineral Industries Student Council will' be held tomorrow (Continued on page four) PRICE FIVE CENTS
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