. , 4. A., TODAY'S :WEATHER : - ‘. 4 „...... , , ;. . . 4, A FOR A BETTED PARTLY CLOUDY • AV zti pr .41,:-.-.:AA 1 ft rgtzt u PENN STATE AND COLDER , - - • \- , VOL. 51— No. 97 Death Verdict Goes To 'Truman Attacker WASHINGTON, March 7 .(4?).-. A federal jury decreed death to day for Oscar Collazo Who storm ed President Truman's home Nov. 1 in the 'name of Puerto Rican independence. Actual fixing of sentence in a ,federal court is in the hands of the judge but the jury , found the little 37-year-old revolutionary guilty on two counts of first de gree murder. The law makes, death in the electric chair man datory - on each such count. Both the charges were based on the death of Pvt. Leslie Coffelt Of the White House guard, shot to death in the furious gunplay outside Blair house on... Pennsy lvania avenue: The government it self , conceded that the actual death bullet was fired by Col lazo's accomplice, Caiselio Tor , , resole, also slain in the gunfight, but the jury agreed with the prosecution contention that par ticipation in the crime made Col lazo equally guilty. • By its finding- on the second count the jury rejected Collazo's •lea that he : and Torresola did not intend to kill anybody. Col lazo's story was that they only wanted to make a demonstration in favor of Puerto Rican inde:- pendence. The second count was based on the, contention that Coffelt met dea'th in defending the President against assassins who meant to kill Truman or anybody who stood in the way. On that issue the court had given the jury only the choice between first de= gree murder and acquital.' Nide Choir To Appear In Concert The de Paur Infantry chorus conducted by Leonard de Paur will present the fifth and fina program of the Community Con cert ....series tomorrow night s a 8:30.in Schwab auditorium. Admission to the program is limited to members of. the Com munity Concert association. The de Paur chorus, a group of 35 veterans who sang for Ameri can troops from Iwo Jima to Ber lin, was organized at Fort Dix, N. J. in 1942. At that time, a group of soldiers of the 372nd Infantry regiment formed a sing ing group. Capt. Leonard de Paur joined the group after their unit moved to Arizona. Previously, Captain de Paur had organized the chorus of 60 voices for the Air Force show, "Winged Victory." Before enlist ing in the Army, Captain de - :`aur served as director of the Negro theatre, a position he obtained in ,1936. The chorus was shipped from Arizona to the South Pacific with the 372nd regiment, but later (continued on page eight) Painters To Finish Library Decorating Interior painting being done in the Library will be completed in about six more weeks, C. A. Lamm, supervisor of building mainten ance and operation, sai(l yester day. ' The entire interior will be re painted with colors selected by the librarian and his staff. Lamm said. He also said that except for some rooms ,on the fogrth floor, the entke interior of Old Main has been repainted. • French Club To Meet The Ex.ench club will hold its second meeting of the semester tonight at 7 o'clock in the recrea tion room of McElwain - hall. The meeting will feature slides on Raris and Verzaillw. Conference With DP's CAPT. GREGORY Gagarin. (right). member of the College fa culty, is shoivn interpreting to the audience the answers of Russian DKp at a conference in Sparks Tuesday night. Shown with him are .N. Irgizov (left), former electrical engineer, and A. Sergeev (center), former teacher in Kiev. Dorm Men, Officials Will Discuss Meals Nittany-Pollock dorm presidents, and the area food committees will hold a dinper-meeting every Tuesday afternoon in the West dom dining hall with Dietician Mildred E. Baker and Den of Men H. K. Wilson, Leonard , .Tomazin, Pollock council president, an nounced Tuesday at a council meeting. The - object of the dinner-meet ings will be to solve th e food problem in the Nittany-Pollock area, Tomazin said. The food committee has drawn up a tentative list of requests to place before Miss Baker and Wil son. The councils will request, among other things, having both meat and fish on Fridays, and more second helpings. The Pollock council dissolved its social committee and passed an amendment giving Barons, newly organized social organiza tion in the Nittany-Pollock dorm area; full control over social func tions. Barons had previously been recognized by the Nittany coun cil. A committee to investigate ser vice by candy machines in the in dividual dorms was formed by Tomazin. The problem of obtain ing a greater variety of candy for the machines will be brought be fore Russell E. clerk, director of housing, he indicated. Robert Stottlemeyer wa s ap pointed council parliamentarian. NSA Finishes Petition Drive The National Student associa tion has completed its drive to get signatures on a petition to the Pennsylvania legislature urg ing the legalization of absentee voting. • Over 4600. persons signed the petition, David Fitzcharles, NSA committee ''chairman, reported yesterday. The committee has not yet decided how it will send the petition to the legislature at Harrisburg ? he said. To Install Newcomers The Future Business Leaders of America will hold a meeting to day at 7 p.m. in 217 Willard for the installation of new members, it was announced by John Beiter, :president. of the _club. STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1951 8 Students To Compete In Debate Tournament Musicale To Be Held In Simmons Tonight The Simmons musicale will be held . tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Simmons lounge. Recordings of Brahm's "Aca •demic Festival Overture," Bee thoven's "Piano Concerto No. 4," and Mahler's "Symphony No. 4" will be played. Students and faculty are in vited to attend. Israel Farms Form Basis For Economy Farm systems in Israel are not indicative of extreme leftist lean ings, Dr. William W. Edel, president of Dickinson college, said last night before about 150 persons in 121 Sparks. Israel recognizes that the basis of a thriving economy is ag riculture and the emphasis is therefore placed on farming, he said. Edel's lecture was sponsored by I the Penn State Christian associa tion, the Hillel foundation, and the International Relations club. Three Categories There are three categories of communal farming in- effect to day. Under the kibbutz plan membership is on an individual basis, with men, women, and chil dren living in separate dormitor ies, Edel said The moshav system is different from the kibbutz, being based on an association of families. The farm plots and living quarters in the moshav are the family's pos session. However, all heavy farm machinery is owned in common, Edel said. The family in the moshav shit ufim is a unit owning all the farthing implements. In the for mer systems any member or fam ily group may leave the commun ity, but no equipment can be taken away. In the moshav shit ufim the family can withdraw at will with its farming tools. In all systems the officers of (continued on page eight) Four men and four women from the College's debate teams Leave today to compete in the state debate and forensic tournament at Temple university this week-end. .-- .- Four men also leave today to take part in the Brooklyn College O'Connor To Deliver Chapel Talk Basil O'Connor, distinguished Catholic layman and president of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, will speak in chapel Sunday at 11 o'cloc,k. O'Connor is the senior member of the law firm of O'Connor and Farber and was at one time law partner of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His close association with President Roosevelt led to his interest in fighting infantile paralysis. Heads Organizations He is also president of the Georgia Warm Springs founda tion, the Franklin D. Roosevelt library, the Finlay Institute of the Americas, the Johnson O'- Connor Research formation, the Human Engineering laboratory, the American Museum of Health, and the International Congress on He is either chairman or di rector in more than a score of business, religious an d philan thropic organizations, including the National Conference of Chris tians and Jews. His interest in in ter-faith cooperation 1 e d Presi-. dent Truman, to appoint him to membership of the President's Committee on Religion and Wel fare in the Armed Forces. Receives Honors • During the last ten years 0- Connor's services to various coun tries of the world have been re warded with more than two doz en decorations and honors be stowed by foreign governments or Red Cross societies. By LEN KOLASINSKI DP Group To Elect Officers The Campus committee on Dis placed , Persons will meet -tonight at 7 o'clock in 304 Old Main to elect permanent officers and to hear a report by the subcom mittee on housing, Drew Mahla, Ichairman pro-tern, said yesterday. The State College Commerce club's committee on displaced persons has been working to ob tain job assurances for 25 dis placed persons of student classi:. fication, who will come to State College next fall. Plans call for the students to work for a year, and then to matriculate at the i College, according to Marjorie Allen, associate secretary of the (continued on•page eight) PRICE FIVE CENTS tourney. Both tournaments will be held today, tomorrow, and Sat urday. David Lewis will take part in the state oratorical contest at ,Temple. Clair George will com pete in the state extemporane(*l&• speaking contest. Women's Squad Peggy Fahringer will represewt the women's squad in the ora torial contest and Greta Weaver, in extemporaneous speakin g. Miss Fahringer won the position by taking second place the John H. Frizzel oratorial contest here last year. The same foursome which three weeks ago permanently won the Washington and Jeffer son cup for the College will be entered in the debate contest in the Temple tournament. Harry Kondourajian and Lewis will debate the affirmative, Mar lin Brenner and George will form .the negative team. The women's affirmative team will include Miss Fahringer and Miss Weaver, affirmative, and Sylvia Silver and Phyllis Kalson, negative. Gene Bouch, John Boddington, David Schmukler, and Donald Yenko will compete in the Brook lyn tourney. Teams from New York, New England, and Penn sylvania will take part in the tourney. Topic for both tournaments will be .the national intercollegiate debate question, "Resolved: That the non-Communist nations should form a new international organization." The women's team tied for sec ond place in the elimination rounds at the state tourney last year. Lewis took second place in the state oratorical contest last year. Both he and George were chosen to represent the College at the Temple tournament following inter-team competition, for the positions. Finalists in the oratorical con test were Frank Fasick, Bernard Freidman, Edwin Lefkowith, Gene Kolber, Gifford Phillips, and Lewis. Finalists in the ex temporaneous speaking contest were Robert Alderdice, Kondour ajian, Lewis, and George. Today . 44 v ^ Preee ^ 4 4f . "we The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Lou L ami e, who has scored more points in one sea son than any other basketball player in Penn State , history. Lou. by scoring 22 against West Virginia, has garnered 308 for this s e a s o n, breaking Marty Costa's old mark of 299. A fierce rumble from the Lion congratulates Lou on his stellar team-play and cage prowess, which has enabled him to amass 655 points thus far in his three-year career here in the Nittany Valley, also cre ating an all-lime Penn State record.
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