Late AP News Courtesy
Contract
Talks
Resume
WASHINGTON—CoaI contract
talks start again tomorrow morn
ing. Southern, Northern and West
ern soft coal miners agreed last
night to meet John L. Lewis and
United Mine Worker officials in •
Washington. •
Lewis had invited the operators
to resume contract bargaining in
accordance with the Taft-Hartley
inj unction.
U.S. Will Cooperate
WASHINGTON—Assistant Sec
retary of State John Hickerson
said that the United States would
cooperate in any atomic control
conference arranged by, the United
Nations. Hickerson emphasized
that Soviet Russia is the nation
blocking atomic •control agree
ment.
Former Under Secretary of
State Will Clayton told a Senate
group yesterday that an arms
agreement with Russia would be
unfortunate at this time. Clay
ton thinks an arms agreement
would lull the United States into
a false sense of security. •
Senator Lyndon' Johnson de
clared that the' United States is
two years behind Russia in de
veloping guided missiles. Senator
Johnson put it this way, "For a
.push-button war, we have neither
the push nor the button."
To Name AEC Chair Man
WASHINGTON Inform e d
sources in' Washington say that
President Truman will name
Gordon :Dean as acting chairman
of the Atomic Energy Commis
sion. The present chairman, Da
vid Lillienthal steps out Wednes
day. Dean has been a member
of the commission only a few
months.
School Standards Raided
WASHINGTON President
Truman has sent Congress a re
port on the 'GI training in which
he says there have been abuses
and waste of government funds.
The President is asking Con
gress to fix tighter standards for
the kind of school eligible to
train veterans under the GI Bill.
Given Emergency Control
WASHINGTON The United
States Joint Chiefs of Staff after
returning from a tour of the Am
erican Bases in the Pacific an
nounced that General Mac-,
Arthur will have operational
control of Western Pacific Naval
forces in case of emergency.
Players Schedule
'Romeo' Tryouts
Tryouts for the Pla ers' pro
duction, "Romeo and Juliet,"
which will be presente in May,
will be held in 121 Sparks, Wed
nesday at 7. p.m. Anyone who
Wishes to tryout for a speaking
part is asked to memorize one of
the following speeches:
Romeo—First speech in Act 11,
Scene 2 or Act V, Scene 3, lines
101-120..
Juliet in'tire potion speech,
Act . l.V, Scene 5, or Act 11, Scene
2, Lines 86-125.
Nurse—All nurse's speeches in
Act 'II, Scene 5.
Friar Laurence=--Act 11, Scene
3,- first speech.
Capulet—Act .111, Scene 5.
Mercutio—Act I, Scene 4, lines
55-89.
Players have scheduled Shakes
peare's romantic tragedy for
Mothers' Day weekend, in the
spring.
Evening Typing
Registration for evening typ
ing classes, open to anyone, will
be held from 7 to 9 o'clock to
night ifs 107 Sparks. Two ele
mentary coursese, Typing 1 and
2, will be sponsored by the Col
lege Extension Service.
Typing 1 will meet Mondays
and Wednesdays from. 6:30 to 8
p.m, beginning next Monday,
while Typing 2 will meet Tues_
days and Thursdays from 6:30
to. 8 p.m. beginning this Thurs
,day.
Registration will also open at
the first class meetings, in ad
dition to tonight.
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VOL. 50 - NO. 79 STATE COLLEGE, 1:1., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1950
'5O Ali-College
Bridge' Tourney
Starts Tonight
An all -College bridge tourna
ment will begin at 7 o'clock to=
night in the TUB to determine
Penn State's representatives in
1950 national intercolegiate bridge
competition. Prize" for winning
pairs of players will be an•ex
pense-paid trip to Chicago if they
survive Middle Atlantic competi
tion later this month.
.All Undergraduate bridge ad
dicts who wish to vie for the trip
to Chicago are urged to be in the
TUB by 6:45 tonight, to facilitate
organization before the 7-to-10
p.m. session begins. The College
tourney, to be run on two nights,
is open to both men and women
undergraduates. No fee will be
charged.
Prepared Hands •
Tonight's session will constitute
one-half of the tourney, 'the sec
ond half being 'slated for next
Tuesday. Chosen to play 18 pre
pared hands sent to the College
from national collegiate bridge
headquarters will be .the four
highest-scoring pairs in the cur
rent tournament.
These 18 hands, to be played
Feb. 23, 24 and 25, will also be
sent to 15 other colleges in the
Middle Atlantic zone. Two high
est-scoring pairs in each of eight
zones will then travel to Chicago
in April to compete for the na
tional title, as guests of the inter
collegiate bridge tournament com
mittee.
The College tourney is spon
sored by the Penn State Duplicate
Bridge Club. John Fedako is
president, while Dr. Henry G.
Barone is adviser.
Bridge players Who compete to
night at the TUB should choose
partners beforehand, if possible.
Players Drama
Starts Friday
The Penn State Players first
nroduction this semester, "Time
It a Dream," by H. R. Lenor
mand, will open on Friday for
a six-week's run at Center Stage.
The play, directed, 'by Robert
Kendall, assisted by Dorothy Jef
feris, is a tragedy in six scenes
concerning the theory of past,
present and future co-existence.
As in Several previous Center
Stage productions, this one will
be double-cast. each cast play
ing on alternating weekends.
Romee will be played by Rita
Lang. and Kathryn Scheetz;
Riemke, by Betty Lou Morgan
and Eleanor Miles; Mrs. Beunke,
by Martha Ann Koons and Har
riet Silverman; Nico, by Newell
Stark and Timothy and Saidyah.
`by Joseph Hunter and Richard
The crew heads for the pro
duction are: Sound, Mahlon
Knott, assisted by John Price:
costumes, Nancy Lou Mechling,
assisted by Ralph Clemens; ad
vertising co-managers, 1 Cur t
Wessner and Walter Sachs; props,
Anne Wahl; and make-up, Char
lotte White.
Tickets for the show went on
sale at Student Union Monday.
Admission is $.90 for Friday_
night performances and $1.25
for Saturday. Refreshments will
be served Saturday evenings.
Curtain time is 9 o'clock.
Blackout Disturbs
Collegian Process
The wheels of progress that
roll the Daily Collegian' into the
hands of its many readers five
days a week, were temporarily
halted last night when the power
failed throughout State College,
plunging the Centre Daily Times
print shop Into darkness.
The local sub-station of the
West Penn, Power Co. said that
the trouble was somewhere be
tween Ridgeway and State Col
lege. The West Penn- outfit
switched over to the Penn-Elec
circuits after the blackout and
the linotypes began their busy
labra once twain.
"FOR A Bpswen PENN STATE"
Nation's Best . . . .
JIM THORPE—the nation's outstanding athlete of the half-century,
as he spoke at the annual venison dinner of the Young Men's .Bible
Class of the local Lutheran Church Saturday night. Nearly 250 mem
bers of Sunday School classes heard Thorpe tell some of the high
lights of his athletic career.
W3YA Now Ready
To Radio President
An opportunity for student groups to send radio mes
sages 900 miles to Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, new College
president, .is now available through arrangements made by
W3YA, College amateur radio station, and the Daily
Collegian.
Councils, clubs, fraternities and other student groups
may send congratulatory
notes, greetings or other simi
lar messages to Dr. Eisen
hower at Kansas State Col
lege by shortwave radio. Mes-1
sages of 35 words or less:
should be taken to the Student
Union desk in Old Main as soon
as possible by group presidents
or other officers, after which they
will be shortwaved to station
WOQQQ, the Kansas State count
erpart of Penn State's student
operated W3YA.
Prof Gilbert L. Crossley, super-,
visor of the amateur station here,
reported yesteday that the 28-
student staff of W3YA has made
arangements' to contact WOQQQ
by means of shortwave tonight
at 9 o'clock. No messages from
student groups will be sent to
night, but a similar 9 p.m. short
wave schedule has been set up
for Thursday 'to send student
mesages that will be relayed, by
station WOQQQ to Dr. Eisen
hower, who is now Kansas State's
chief executive
Dr. Eisenhower, who will as
sume the Penn State presidency
next• summer, has' been called
"very popular- among the stu
dents at Kansas State College."
The brother of Gen. Dwight "Ike"
Eisenhower was recently pictured
taking time off from duties for a
milk shake with co-eds in the Stu
den Union there.
Vets: Register VA
Veterans who are enrolled
for this semester are reminded
that they must also be register
ed with the veterans' adminis
tration. Those who failed to :do
so as yet may register in 3 Wil
lard Hall during the remainder
of this Week.
Naval Stations Alerted
SAN FANCISCO A phone
Dell overheard in California has
caused 'an alert at Naval Air
stations in the San Francisco
area. The phone call was be
tween two men who talked about
blowing up the naval air station:
rigiatt
Debate Tryouts
Open Tomorrow
Tryots for the College debat
ing team will be held in two
separate meetings tomorrow
and Feb. 22.
At the preliminary meeting,
which will be held tomorrow at
7 p.m. in 316 Sparks, the debate
candidates will be given instruc
tions for the • final tryout. They
will be asked to prepare a five
minute speech on either side of
the proposal. "Resolved: That the
United States should nationalize
the basic non-agricultural indus
tries."
Their speeches will be deliver
ed at the final meeting, which
will be held Feb. 22 at 7-p.m. in
316 Sparks.
Meet St. Francis
, The St. Francis College debat
ing team will meet the College
debaters in two separate debates
tomorrow night. The proposal for
the year, "Resolved; That the
United States should nationalize
the basic non-agricultural in
dustries" will be debated at both
programs.
' One debate will be held to
morrow at 7:30 p.m. in 304
Sparks. Nate Feinstein and Mar
vin Brenner of the College will
defend the affirmative side.
The other debate will be held
tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in 316
Sparks. David Lewis and Rich
ard Schweiker will defend the
negative side of the proposal for
the' College.
Meet Gettysburg
Friday night at 8 p.m. in 10
Sparks, with Prof. H. J. O'Brien,
of the College 'department of
speech, presiding. Clair George
and Peter Giesey of the College
will take the affirmative side of
the same proposal.
Also Friday night, John Fe
dako and Charles Petrie of the
College will travel to Gettysburg
College where they will defend
the negative side of the propos
al for this year
Today's Weather:
Rain and
colder
Tash
Reveals
Identity
Now it can betold! Give a vote
for TASH, and the vote will 'go
to the All-College TAlent SHow
to be presented by the Penn State
Club in Schwab Auditorium, 8
p.m. Friday night.
That goofy-looking guy whose
face has appeared on , posters
and handbills everywheree in
town and on campus is just a
teaser buildup for this year's
eleventh annual show, not a po
litical candidate. However, TASH
may put in a surprise flesh and
blood appearance.
on Friday night, according to the
show's directors.
Along with TASH, the show
will feature as M.C. for the fourth
straight year Henry "Hank" Glass,
well-known campus entertainer.
Three Winners
Eleven acts ' ranging fr o m
comedy routines and imitations to
popular crooning and instru
mental solos wil compete for three
top cash prizes. • Following the
presentation of all the acts, judges
will eliminate all but the top
five performances. Three winners
will be chosen from these five on
the basis of audience applause.
This year's competitors include
the Four Roses, a male quartet;
Lew Blight, trumpet soloist; Ray
RaChkowski, impersonator; John
Pagonis, baritone singer; Edward
Di Polvere, imitator; Irene Polan
sky, singer; Janice Berg, singer;
William Kuster and Nancy Trem-.
}fly, duo skit; Marie Sariero, ac
dordianist; and Harry Kondoura
jian and Sidney Manes, song and
dance team.
Last year's winner, John
nak, will be back with his accord
ian for a non-competing guest ap
pearance. Music for the show will
be provided by Bill Witsell and
the Sentimentalists.
Twelve freshmen women have
( been chosen for usherette duties.
They are Claire Knisely, Donna-.
Rae Estabrook, Jo Jarvis, Sue
Fnapp, Margaret Goodwin, Phyllis
Szolack, Sarah Johnson, Betty
Lou Lentz, Janet Tuft, Eleanor
Bobman, Agnes Barth, and Phyllis
Dahigren.
Tickets priced at $1 for the
more-than-two hour show will go
on sale at the Student Union desk
in Old Main Wednesday. All seats
reserved.
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The Niftany lion Roars
FOR swimmer Gene Kolber.
Kolber. a newcomer to Coach
Bill• Guiteron's tank squad.
turned in a Penn State record
breaking mark of 5:28 for the
440-yard freestyle event in
Saturday's swimming meet
with the University of Dela
ware.
The Lion's newest prodigy
is used to record-breaking
water churning, having been
a public school champion in
Philadelphia and owning every
pool record but the breast
stroke at Swarthmore Center.
For his newest sports • lumin
ary, a gleeful 'roar, today.
from the Nittany feline.