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VOL. 51— No. 78
Army Tells Strikers
To Return To Jobs
By the Associated Press
The army cracked down on
"sick" - switchmen Thursday and
droves of them promptly ended
their 10-day strike.
Acting on orders of President
Truman the army issued a "work
or be fired" ultimatum. The strik
ers were given until 4 p.m. (EST)
Saturday to comply.
But many of the strikers didn't
wait. They "Swamped" strike-be
set Chicago railroads with tele
phone calls a few minutes after
the army issued its edict. •
Many showed up on the late
afternoon shifts and hundreds of
cars of freight bogged down in
yards started moving again.
There were signs the waning
"sick call" strike was collapsing
completely.
The New York Central said
conditions were returning to nor
mal throughout its system, except
at Toledo. It said passenger ser
vice would be normal by Saturday
and that tied up freight would
start moving at once.
Vital Chicago belt lines, which
switch cars between the eastern
and western roads, said their
switchmen "suddenly got well."
The Chicago belt line said op
erations would be normal by Fri
dutday morning, with full crews .on
y.
The Indiana harbor belt line of
the New York Central Railroad
in Chicago said strikers called in
at the rate of• one a minute for a
period after the army isued its
order. The line, which serves 28
roads, began resuming operations
latein
_the day. - - -
Other big railroads in the Chi
cago area reported similar back
(Continued on page three)
No Sirens
Planned In
Raid Test
State College will probably
have no public alert during Penn
sylvania's first aircraft warning
tests tomorrow. and Sunday, Bur
gess E. K. Hibshman said yester
day.
The statewide tests, scheduled
to be held between 2 and 4 p.m.
on either or both of .the two days,
were. announced Jan. 28 by Col.
Alton C. Miller, director of the
State Civil Defense commission.
At that time, the Capitol News,
an official publication of the state
government said, "This is the first
time that every citizen in the
Commonwealth will hear the of
ficial, nation-wide uniform sig
nal of impending enemy attack—
the so-called 'Red alert.' "
No Public Signal
Under existing borough plans,
however, the alert will be used
to test the air raid defense or
ganization here, and no public
signal will be sounded. These
plans will be followed Hibshman
said, unless new orders are re
ceived from Harrisburg.
Hibshman gave as reasons for
the procedure the possible con
fusion with fire alarms and the
fact that the borough's role in a
raid would probably be that of
an evacuation center for large
cities rather than an object of
attack.
"The only alarm we could
sound" he said "would be on the
town ' fire siren, and that could
cause considerable confusion."
The town siren is used to alert
volunteer firemen when a fire
alarm comes in.
Facilities Readied
The borough, Hibshman said,
is concentrating on readying its
fire, police, and hospital facilities
in case they should be needed to
aid attacked cities.
"The public alarms are more
for the big cities, which are prob
able targets for atomic bombing,"
RHAvalon
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1951
Couckett Fired,
Accused Of Sale
Of Final Exam
•
Harry D. Duckett, the stipend
scholar accused of selling part of
a Spanish final examination to a
student, has been dismissed by
the College, the. office of • the
President announced yesterday.
The dismissal was effective Jan.
19, the announcement said.
The decision to dismiss Duck
ett was made on the recommen
dation of Ben Euwema, dean of
the School of Liberal Arts, and
Prof. Harold K. Schilling, dean
of the Graduate school.
Earlier this• week it was an
nounced that Alfonso J. Passeri,
the student who accused Duckett
of selling him the examination,
had been dismissed.
Passeri said that Duckett had
sold him part of the Spanish 2
final examination for $25. Ques
tioned by Dr. R. J. Clements, head
of the Romance Language de
(Continued on page three)
'Gentle People' To Besin
Six-Week Run ToniAt
Irwin:Shaw's Brooklyn fable
"The Gentle People" opens a six
-week run at Center stage tonight
at 8 o?clock.
Tickets, priced at 90 cents for
tonight's performance and .$1.25
for tomorrow night's may be pur
chased at the Student Union desk
until 5 p.rri. today, and tomorrow
from 8 a.m. until noon.
"The Gentle People," one of
the most technically difficult
productions ever attempted at the
downtown theater, will feature
three-dimensional sound effects
to maintain both ear and eye con
tact with the audience. ,
First Time
This "round sound" has never
been tried anywhere before in
arena staging. '
First produced at New York's
Belasco theater in 1939, the play
Frostbitten Students To Su
Chills Again, Weatherman
By PAUL BEIGHLEY
See Editorial Page
Last week it was colder than
Hell in Paradise according to an
Associated Press news story.
Both Paradise and Hell are towns
in a mid-western state.
Bu t yesterday it was colder
than th e mid-western town in
State College, and windier too—
according to anyone whose jaws
weren't too frozen to comment.
The College weather station
placed the temperature at 6 de
grees above zero yesterday morn
ing and 12 above yesterday after
noon. Then, adding injury to in
sult, they predicted a tempera
ture close to zero for this morn
ing.
But it wasn't the lack of heat
that made it so cold. It was the
humidity, in motion. Or, to put it
more bluntly, wind. The few stu
dents who climbed out of their
warm beds to go to their classes
were blasted by gusts of wind
ranging from 18 to 40 miles per
hour.
However, if some students were
crazy enough to walk around in
the wind, others were even craz
ier and stood in it. Members of
Froth's circulation staff braved
the cold to sell copies of the
(Continued on page two)
Religion Week
Due To Receive
Cabinet Money
All-College cabinet last night
moved toward donation of $2OO
to help finance the Religion-in-
Life week program and final ac
tion probably will be taken at
the next cabinet meeting.
Cabinet went through the mo
tions of approving the grant but
after the meeting it was learned
a further vote would be necessary
at the next meeting to make the
grant legal. It immediately was
placed on the agenda for the next
meeting.
According to the All-College
constitution, approval of any ex
penditure above $lOO must be
made at the second meeting at
(Continued on page eight)
Dormitory Room Fee
The Daily Collegian report
ed erroneously yesterday that
fees for single rooms in campus
dormitories had been increased
from $lO to $2O. Campus hous
ing authorities yes ter day
pointed out that no changes in
fees for housing have been
made this semester.
The error was due to a re
porter's misinterpretation of a
fee schedule released by the
bursar's office. The Collegian
regrets the error.
concerns_ "gentle people,"
"Jonah Goodman" and "Philip
Anagnos," their efforts to live
unmolested in a competitive, ag
gressive society, and finally their
method of retaliation when they
find it is impossible to live thus.
Fred DeWit will appear as
"Jonah" and Nick Morkides as
"Philip." Much of the action cen
tering around these two takes
place in a fishing boat at the foot
of a'pier in lower New York bay.
Tilles is "Florence"
Sonya Tilles as "Florence,"
"Jonah's" complaining, disillus
ioned wife, while Lorraine Spit
ler and Ruth Johnson will alter
nate as their adventure-seeking
daughter "Stella."
Charles Williams plays "Har
old Goff," a small-time gangster,
(continued on page eight)
TWO STUDENTS check a thermometer to confirm their esti
mates of yesterday's temoerature. The mercury is predicted to hit
a /ow of zero today. Humidity intensified. the cold.
Vaughan's Inkling ;; ' sport
Cites' athy, Cynicism'
Samuel Vaughan, editor of Inkling, proposed literary maga
zine-, cited the "apathy and cyniCism" of most persons he contacted
in search - of backing for the magazine in a report presented to All-
College cabinet last night.
Cabinet unanimously accepted his report but took no action.
Vaughan detailed the progress and problems of the magazine since
it was chartered by the College
senate last spring.
He said that, after vainly
searching for financial backing or
a guaranteed circulation, he will
have to seek outside funds in or
der to publish the magazine.
Edward Shanken, Liberal Arts
student council president, prom
ised at the meeting that his group
would try to get the English
Composition department either to
back the magazine financially or
to guarantee the circulation by
requiring all composition students
to subscribe to the Inkling.
Vaughan Dubious
Customs On
For 61 Of
80 Frosh
Sixty-one out of a possible 80
eligible freshmen men are now
undergoing customs according to
information obtained from the
Book Exchange yesterday on the
sale of dinks and bow ties.
Neil See, chairman of Tribunal,
said he thought the freshmen not
buying dinks are those who wish
exemptions from customs and
who missed the Tribunal meeting
held Monday for that purpose.
Of approximately 98 freshmen
new on campus this semester, 18
have been already granted im
munities, See added.
See will hear additional cases
this afternoon at Phi Gamma Del
ta fraternity. Investigation is also
being conducted on the possibility
that "about a dozen" new fresh
men may not be wearing their
customs, See said.
Freshmen questioned on cam
pus yesterday said that practically ,
no hatmen, and very few upper
classmen, were enforcing customs
this week. Robert Fast, head of
Hat SocietieS CounCil, said the
, reason for this was that the fresh
men are not required to know
school songs and cheers until
Monday. After Monday, Fast said,
hatmen will begin to enforce the
customs more strictly.
Women's customs are "going
well," Virginia Preuss, chairman
of the Freshmen Women's Cus
toms and Regulations Board, said
yesterday. Only one exemption
from customs has been granted
and the rest of the women are
wearing their customs, she said.
Second semester women do not
undergo customs, Miss Preuss
said, but they are still governed
by freshman women's hours.
Says
Collegian Photo by Esposito
By MOYLAN MILLS
Vaughan expressed the hope
that Shanken would be success
ful but said that he had already
contacted Ben Euwema, dean of
the Liberal Arts school; Wilmer
E. Kenworthy, director of student
affairs; and Theodore J. Gates,
head of the English Composition
department, concerning a subsi
dy. These three were reluctant to
provide funds because of the un
certain world situatic.►i and the
drop in College enrollment,
Vaughan reported.
He said he had asked the Eng
lish Composition dep artm en t
about guaranteeing circulation in
the department's •classes but was
told the department did not have
the authority to require subscrip
tions.
Vaughan cited "pessimism" of
the parties he talked with. He
explained that a literary maga
zine would be useful to the de
partment in classes.
A theoretical budget for the
magazine was dra w n up by
Thomas Karolcik, business man
ager, according to Vaughan. The
budget would cover the cost of
printing 1500 copies per issue but
provides no margin of err or.
Vaughan said he would not pub
lish Inkling unless he had a cush
ion of $l5O to $2OO to fall back
on or a guaranteed circulation.
(Continued on page eight)
Collegian Asks
Clubs' Support
Herbert Stein, city editor of
the Daily Collegian, yesterday
urged campus organizations to
cooperate with the Collegian in
coverage of campus news.
He asked all groups whose ac
tivities have not been reported in
the past, or have been reported
only sporadically, to get in touch
with him to have reporters as
signed to cover them.
"Because the Collegian former
ly was so small activities of many
organizations were not covered.
Now space is available to report
these activities, but our files are
not complete and the cooperation
of these groups is needed in es
tablishing contact," he said.
An organization wanting its
activities reported can call Stein
at the Collegian office, College
extension 543, or send a postcard.
The following information was
requested: Name of organization:
time and place of meeting: name,
address, and phone number of
president or secretary.
Collegian Tryouts
Students interested in trying
out for the news staff of the
Daily Collegian are asked to
attend a meeting in 1 Carnegie
hall Monday at 7 p.m. All un
dergraduates are eligible.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Cites Pessimism