Lata AP News Courtesy WMAJ Postponement Ends UMW Peace Hopes Policy Committee Meeting Called Off NEW YORK—The last hope for an extension of peace in the na tion’s soft coal mines was lost yesterday when a meeting of the United Mine Workers policy com mittee was called off. .This was the third postponement in as many days. The policy group was scheduled to meet at 10 o’clock this morn p ing. But the coal truce deadline was midnight last night. The UMW chief for the Pitts burgh area, Dennis Marshall, said yesterday that local leaders were definitely planning to quit work. Thomas Changes Plea WASHINGTON —New Jersey Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, on trial for conspiracy to defraud the government, changed . his plea yesterday to nolo contend er—meaning he would no longer contend the charges. Thomas could get up to 32 years imprison ment and $40,000 in fines. Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff . set Dec. 9 for sentencing. Former Governor Dies SULLIVAN, Wis. —Julius P. Heil, former Republican governor of Wisconsin died yesterday shortly after suffering a heart attack while returning from a hunting trip. He was 73 years old. Football Team Strikes SAN FRANCISCO—PIayers of the San Francisco 49’ers, profes sional football team,' have gone on strike. They are seeking a bonus for Sunday’s game with the New York Yankees. Reds Take Chungking CHUNGKING —The Chinese Nationalist stronghold of Chung king has fallen before a powerful onsweep of Chinese Communist armies. The provisional National ist government has been trans ferred to Chengtu, NSACommittee Meets Tonight A regional convention of Na tional Student Association com mittees in Pennsylvania colleges will be discussed at a meeting of the NSA committee of the College in 20 Sparks, at 7 o’clock this eve ning. Nine delegates of the local NSA will take part in the convention to be held at Albright College in Reading beginning Dec. 15. Results of the .recent student poll to determine the advisability College will be reported at the meeting by the Campus Chest Fund committee. Ballots tabu lated so far have been 75 percent in favor of such a drive. Other committee reports and possible new projects will also be discussed, according to NSA Chairman Lyn Lapp. All students interested are invited to attend. Today . .. The Nittany Lion FOR all those who have been instrumental in bringing to gether the speakers making up the Community Forum series whose first speaker will be Dr Harold Urey. The efforts of these people have enabled students and faculty at the College to hear a wide and worthwhile variety of well-known lecturers. To them the Lion gives a hearten ing bellow. mt iailij 0 Collegian I "FOR A BETTER PEtyk STATE" VOL. 50 NO. 46 More Frosh May Be Oh Campus Liberal Arts To Hold Mixer Students and Faculty To Entertain, Tonight Student and faculty entertain ment will highlight. the Liberal Arts School mixer in the Tem porary Union' from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight. Joel Fleming will M.C. the en tertainment, which features Sid ney Manes and Harry Kondoura jian in their original song' and danpe act, and a mimic of that act by Merrill Sporkiri jand Bur ton Rothstein. A faculty act to be announced will be an added treat.' 1 J ' ; "■' ' v ' ' r ' Music for dancing will be pro vided by Don Yenko and. his band, and'refreshments will be served. All students and faculty members in the LA School are invited to attend. The mixer, sponsored by the Liberal Arts student council, is intended to allow students of the school to get' better acquainted with the faculty and with each other. Earl Schaeffer is president of the council. A large turnout of LA students is looked for by David Schmuck ler, chairman of the committee for the mixer. Other committee members are Rona Lachman, Pa tricia. Bender, Edward Shanken and Moylan Mills. Pa. Accountants To Speak Today “Opportunities in Public Ac counting” will be the topic of discussion when two of Pennsyl vania’s foremost accounting au thorities, Edwin Chinlund and Herbert Lorentz, appear at the State College Hotel this noon in the first of a bi-monthly lecture series. The series of lectures is co sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi, na tional commerce fraternity, and the Department of Economics and Commerce at the College. Mr. Chinlund, a graduate of Dartmouth College, is a partner in Price, Waterhouse and Co. and also a certified public accountant in Pennsylvania and New York. Mr. Lorentz, a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania, is also a certified public accountant. All students interested in the accounting field are urged to at tend this dinner and lecture. Tic kets, at $l.OO will be sold at the door of thq banquet room of the State College Hotel this noon. oars STATE COLtEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1949 Tickets for Lecture Series Now On Sale Tickets for the series of five lectures of the State College Com munity Forum program are now on sale according to Jo Hays, chair man of the ticket committee. The tickets are priced at $3 for the series and those bought now will be exchanged for reserved seats on Dec. 5. Tickets may be obtained at the Student Union office in Old First ROTC Queen To Be Chosen At Ball Portraits of candidates for Queen of the Military Ball should be submitted before Friday at 5 p.m. For the first time a queen will'be chosen for the Penn State Military Ball, which will be held December 9. Any cadet or midshipman may enter a portrait at least 5” by 7” with the name, address, and a short description of the girl he ■Will escort to the dance. Submit Tp ROTC Units This information with the ca det’s own name and address can be taken to Army headquarters in 101 Hall, Navy head quarters in 200 Electrical Engi neering, or to Air Force offices in 8 Armory. Photographs of five finalists will be displayed in the Athletic Store next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Of these, five con testants who will be chosen by ROTC personnel at Lehigh Uni versity, one lucky girl will be. selected as Queen of the Ball by judges Col. Ben-Hur Chastaine USA, Capt. John L. Woodbury USN, and Lt. Col. John E. Ste wart USAF. Master of Ceremonies Capt. John H. Jacoby USAF will crown the queen, who, with her court, will walk to the platform through an arch formed by' a guard of honor. Debaters To Use Different Strategy Something new in intercollegi ate debating on campus will be introduced here tomorrow night when the local debaters face Mt. Mercy College. David Schmuckler and John Meszaros will unleash their new strategy at 7:30 tomorrow night in 121 Sparks. Main, the College Library, the office of the Supervising princi pal,State College Public Schools; the State College Commerce Club, and through Eugene M. Fulmer and Hugh G. Pyle, Central Ex tension Building. Students handling ticket sales are Glenn Hanney, Wesley Foun dation; Anna Keller, Student Government Association; Raymond Benfer Jr.,.Penn State Christian Association; and Con stance Croushore and Richard Schweiker, All-College Cabinet. The Forum program opens on December 7 with Hanson W. Balwin, military analyst, and continues with Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer on January 11; United States Senator Styles Bridges on February 23; and Dr. Ira D. Reid, sociologist on March 30. The speaker for April will be named later. News Briefs Dedrological Society “Champion Trees of North America,” a lecture with supple mentary slides, will be featured at a meeting of the Dendrologi cal Society in 105 Forestry at 7 o’colck tonight. Advertising Films “Pre-evaluation Pays,” a three part film dealing with methods of evaluating retail advertisements, will be presented by Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising fra ternity. Three showings will be given in 10' Sparks at 4:15 this afternoon, Tuesday, and next Thursday. All-College Cabinet All-College Cabinet meeting scheduled for tonight will not be held because there is not suffici ent immediate business to war rant it, All-College president Ted Allen announced. PRICE FIVE CENTS Others Would Go to Centers Dean Gerhardt States Proposed Policy Shift Approximately one-half of the freshman class may be on the ' College campus for the fall sem ester of next year, Royal M, Ger hardt, dean of admissions, an nounced yesterday. The remaining freshmen will be assigned to the centers and to the cooperating colleges afe has been done for the past four years. They will again have a choice as to which college they want to attend during their first year, Dean Gerhardt said. He also announced February admisions for freshmen provid ing they will agree to spend three, or preferably four semesters at the center to which they are assigned. There will also be February admissions for students with advanced standing. . The return of freshmen to the main campus will mark the first time in four years that the fresh men have been admitted, to the campus, with the exception of the five hundred women who are • here this semester. Applicants for admission to the freshman class for next fall sem ester can obtain applications from the Admissions Office by request ing them any time after the first of January. Urey To Open ForUm Series Introductory Lecture To Be Free of Charge Nobel prize winner, Dr. Harold C. Urey, who contributed: much to the research work leading to the construction of the atomic bomb will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Schwab -auditorium on “The Case for Atlantic Union.” The talk, which is the first of the 1949-50 Community Forum Series will be extremely timely, since the Federal government an nounced this week that a plan to breed atomic materials will be constructed soon and that fur ther tests of atomic weapons will be made in the Central Pacific. The department of physics at the College is co-operating with the Community Forum in pre senting Dr. Urey. There will be no admission charge. Dr. Urey will also address the Chemistry-Physics Colloquium in Room 119, Osmond Laboratory, on “Origin of the Earth” at 4:15 p.m. A native of India, Dr. Urey • is now with the Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chi cago. After receiving his bache lor of science degree at the Uni versity of .Montana, and his doc tor of philosophy degree at the University of California, he was named an American-Sqandinav ian Fellow to the University of Copenhagen. He holds doctor of Science degrees from the Uni versity of Montana, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, and the Uni versity of Newark. Dr. Urey was named associate professor of chemistry at Co lumbia University in 1929, where he remained until accepting his present position in 1945. In 1934, Dr. Urey won the Nobel prize in chemistry and the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chi cago > section of the American Chemical Society. The Royal So ciety of London, in 1940, present ed him with the Davy Medal, and in 1943, he received the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. Philosophy Cluh Philosophy Club will hold two informal meetings at 111 S. Allen street, apartment 54, and 355 K. Foster avenue at 8 o’clock to* night
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