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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.