TUESDAY, MARCIA 28, 1950 Late AP News—Courtesy WMAJ FBI Chief Opposes Disclosure of Files WASHINGTON J. Edgar Hoover yesterday warned that the work of the FBI would be "crip pled" if its confidential files were opened to congressional investiga tion. Hoover says public airing of these files would disclose how the 'FBI works and would dry up its sources of information. The FBI chief testified before the senate subcommittee investigating Sena tor Joseph McCarthy's charges of communism in the State Depart ment. The • subcommittee has been given the summary of 'the files on Owen Lattimore, -the man Mc- Carthy calls the top Soviet spy in the country. It is reported unoffi cially that the summary did riot bear out the Wisconsin senator:s charges. Lattimore • calls the charges "pure moonshine" and is heading home from a United Nations mis sion in Afghanistan to answer them. In the meantime, his law yers 'are holding the threat of a libel suit over the Wisconsin republican. Lattimore is expect ed in this :country by April 1. The subcommittee has tentatively set April 4 as the date for him to make-a formal reply to McCarthy. Dennis Convidion The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of communist lead er Eugene Dennis for contempt of congress by a five to two vote. Dennis will now have to pay a thousand-dollar fine and serve a year in prison 'for refusing to appear before the House Un- American Activities Committee. Dennis is general secretary of the American Communist Party. Rate Protested The United States has protested to Russia that the new currency exchange rate of ' four rubles to the dollar is "completely, ,unjusti fled." A US note demands that the old eight-to-one rate be restored to the US embassy in Moscow. The new rate is effective July 1. Agency . Has Of Talent, • AIM Tons • You're social chairman of a party and one of your toughest jobs (so you think) is finding campus talent to entertain your guests. You're wrong! A couple of weeks ago you would have had cause to bemoan the difficulty of locating talented performers in a college this size, but AlM's new entertainment address agency has now taken all the sting out of it. The agency a free service to. anyone interested, is already oper ating smoothly in filling this need at State. Wally Miller, who heads the agency, is collecting names of petformers. His list is open to any group looking'for talent. You want a song • and dance team, for instance. Miller can tell you how to contact Harry Kcin dourajian and Sid• Manes, a couple Films To Show Armies In Action Veterans at the College will soon haye the opportunity to see their "old outfits" In action again. The Army ROTC unit will show the first in a series of a • group of sound movies in 10 , Sparks at '1 p.m., tonight. Through a choice selection of films compiled by the Office of War Information from official department of Army files, cap ' 'hired German and Japanese films, and OSS films, a graphic pnrtrayal of the spread of World War II through Europe and the Pacific will be presented. In thesefilms, many allied units' are sholi.in which are 'rep reBOPted by 'student veterans •at the , College. , .Ao Omission will be charged, • • • • THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Poultry Club Offers Award To Ag Students The Poultry Club is establish ing a new scholarship for agri culture students, Carl Anderson, president of the Club announced today. To be called the William and Edward Powers Poultry Club Award; the scholarship will be available each year to a junior or senior majoring in poultry husbandry. Financial support for the award will be furnished by the Club, the Powers family, and interested alumni: • ' The initial annual value of the award will be $25, - but it is ex pected that the amount may be increased considerably as alumni interest in the project grows. William Powers, of State Col lege, was a former•. student at the College In poultry husband ry and a member of the Poultry Club for two years. He and his brother were stricken • with a virus infection which claimed their lives within seven weeks of each other last spring, • Bill would. have been a senior this year. Ed was in junior high school. Both had been deprived of their hearing at an early age but -despite their handicaps, had always received good grades. in school and college. The. Poultry Club, which had completed a, very successful pro ject on furnishing Mexico with chickens, conceived •the idea - of establishing a scholarship to rec ognize superior achieVement of a student in poultry husbandry "The •object of the project is to inspire future poultry hus bandry 'students, and all students as a matter of fact," said Charles Zellner, treasurer of the Club; "to higher goals and to prove, as the• Powers boys did, that .no handicap is too great to over come." of trooper's with routines aplenty. Maybe you're .interested - in a male quartet—Miller can suggest the "Four Roses." Or an M.C.— Hank Glass, and how to contact him. Other performers already `listed on Miller's books are Bill Kuster, "The Debonaires," various song and dance teams, a couple of magicians, comedy men, and musicians. More talent is signing up every day. All you have to do when you decide what kind of entertainment you want is call Wally Miller, Dorm 13, Room 13, and tell him what you're looking for. He'll give you' names, addresses, and other pertinent data, free of charge. This agency works for the bene fit of the performer as well. Just by filling out a forin at Student Union or cfilling Miller, a music ian, singer, magician, or dancer can make himself available for parties and shows under his own conditions. That is, lie, can state whether he is professional or ama teur, when he is available, and make other qualifications if he has any. Miller, himself, is enthused over the response to the new entertain ment address agency. "This bureau will be just what the' students make it," he Aayq, "and judging by the early' re sponse, I'd say it's going to be tops. All you social chairmen ReeP Us in Mind." Engineers Seek New Oil System For High Hying Better facilities for flying to new altitudes and traveling the ocean's depths are on the research agenda of engineers at the Col lege. A lubrication system for planes, which will enable them to fly more than 50,000 feet above sea level, is being perfected by the Engineering Experiment Station. Dr. Paul H. Schweitzer, profes sor of engineering research at the College,, and L. P. Sharples, Phila delphia manufacturer, developed an "S-S" lubrication system to alleviate difficulties encountered by scientists during World War 11. At that time it was found that aircraft oil systems could not maintain sufficient oil pressure, An epidemic of runaway pro pellers had resulted when bomb ers equipped with hydromatic propellers flew at high altitudes. Commenting on this new lubri- Cation system, F. E. Carroll, Jr., of the Air Materiel Command, said recently that due to the per for man c e characteristics and simplicity • of design it is, "the (Continued on page. six) Weather Station .. . Frank. A. Joy, associate professor of engineering research, is shown with one of the ,instruments used for recording tempera tures in an experimental house located on the roof of the engineer ing _experiment station. Crystal Insignia Presented To Sigma Gamma Epsilon Mr. Charles Toothacher, curator of .the Philadelphia Commercial . chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon isplay in the Mineral Industries Museum, has presented to the loca a clear quartz crystal now on • Building lobby. ' Engraved with the SGE insig nia, the crystal was processed at Tnrnave, Czechoslovakia, center for engraving semi-p recious stones. Mr. Toothacher took it there while in Europe. At a banquet at which Mr. Toothacher spoke, twenty-f ou r new members "were initiated into SGE. They are William Bates, Philip Brown, Marvin Burkhart, John Cox, William Dietz, Roman Geller,. James Goodwin, Richard Higg, Arthur Kantor, Norman Kapko, John Kraft. Everett Kaukonen, Robert Ku chinic, Fredrick Drug; Jesse Mil ler, 'Alfred Mills, Vance Moyer, David Ruher, William Sittig, Jain Thompson, Rob e r t Thomson, Francis Turk, Isaac Van der Hov en, Roger Watkins. Matric Cards Students who axe new on campus this semester should pick up their permanent ma triculation cards at the Re corder's Office, .4 Willard, be fore Friday of this week. A $1 tee.• must be paid to obtain the cards after that date. Census Here Set To Start Saturday The United States Census Bureau will start counting heads in the State College area on Saturday as part of the 17th decennial census. The project will take two weeks and will be completed on April 15. An 18-man crew, directed by Mrs. Myrtle Vierck, will canvass the area between Port Matilda and Pleasant Gap. Ten of the census takers will operate in State Col lege. ARC Campaign Short of Goal The American Red Cross Drive for 1950 is falling short of its goal, according to Robert Long necker, chairman of the campus drive. This years goal for the State College area was , set at $6,600, while only about $3OO, approximately three cents per student, has been collected on the campus thus far. The drive wlll be continued until March 31, and the contri bution boxes are still located at various points in town. Long necker added that any campus organizations wishing to con tribute may do so by sending a check to the American Red Cross, Student Union, Old Main, Cam pus. Of the 46,.600 hoped for, $4,100 would stay in this area for local welfare and service work, Current SGE officers are Rob ert Brumberg, president; Robert Gerhart, vice-president; Harr y Nelson, secretary; Clarence Whit low, treasurer; and Dr. Thomas F. Bates, faculty advisor. • YESWE HAVE NO BUNNIES • W E DRY CLEAN YOUR GARMENTS AT LOWEST PRICES . • HAVE YOUR WASHING DONE —9 lin. for 35c ® EASTER IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK ! LAUNDERETTE SUPER SERVICE 210 W. COLLEGE AVE. PHONE 4785 PICK-UP SERVICE PAGE THREE The enumeraters will count students in College housing facili ties and fraternities as well as townspeople. Students are asked, Mrs. Vierck said, to be sure that they are not re-counted while they are home for Easter vaca tion. Four Areas The campus has been divided into four areas: North of Pollock Road; Nittany and Pollock Circle Dorms, and Windcrest; women's dormitories south of Pollock Road, and College Heights. The six fraternities on copus will be covered in this Mtk, while all fraternities off campus will be questioned by enumera tors working in the town. About 20,000 people are expect ed to be found to be living in the State College area, Mrs. Vierck said. Routine Questions Aside from asking such routine questions as name, sex, age, race, marital status and. occupational status, the enumerators will also ask every fifth person, among other things, "How much did you earn last year?" One out of 30 women will also be asked how many children she has, while one out of every five persons will be asked where he was living last year,• and where his parents were born. NOW! At Your Warner Theatre Cadman 11!••••1111MMINEMIIMMI11,111.1• William Holders . Coleen Gray "FATHER IS A BACHELOR" ate Ida Lupine ' Howard Duff "WOMAN IN HIDING" nittany An International Film Club Presentation 'The Eternal Return' Jean Cocteau's modern ver sion of She Tristan-Isolde Legend
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