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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