Weather— Cooler with Rain VOL. 54, No. 29 Councils Elect Frosh Today . Election of freshman representatives to seven school councils will continue today. All councils with the exception of the School of Agriculture and the Business are holding elections. In the Mineral Industries school, Theodore Flint, first semester geophysics and minerology major, and Alfred Williams, first semes ter. geophysics and geochemistry major, were elected freshman representatives to the student council Saturday. Elections for one sophomore, junior, and senior position on the council will close at 5 p.m. today. The ballot box is inside the main. entrance of 'the Mineral Industries Building. Home Ec Candidates Students Fined For Disturbance In Bellefonte Two _students spent Saturday morning in the County Jail in Bellefonte after instigating a free for-all. by throwing tomatoes at a Passing car Friday night. The students, Donald Dewey, fifth semester forestry major, and Gerald France, third semester business administration major, pleaded guilty to disorderly con duct charges and paid fines and costs. The melee took place at St. John's cemetery in Bellefonte af ter the Burnham-Derry-Bellefonte football game. Ray Lucas, Belle fonte, and Earl Summers, Win gate, were riding past the ceme tery when their car was suddenly pelted with tomatoes. The two stopped, found the students and entered the free-for all. All fOur were arrested by Herbert Auman and Robert Mc- Mullin of the Bellefonte police department. All pleaded guilty at a hearing. Fines and cost totaled $1650 each. Radio Station Aids 2dAttily The College Amateur Radio Station participated from noon Saturday to noon Sunday in the weekend military maneuver of the Second Army known as To bacco Leaf 111. The station, a member of the Military _ Affiliate Radio System, is under the direction of- Gilbert L. Crossley, assistant professor of electrical engineering. -It served as an interceptor station as well as a net control station. Edward D. Crossley, seventh semester industrial arts major, did most of the actual operation. Others participating were Calvin E. Levis, instructor in engineer ing mechanics; Arthur F. Hogrefe, fifth semester electrical engineer ing major; Robert L. Kay, first semester administration major; William E. Russell, first semester physics major; and Patricia M. Webb, first semester electrical en gineering major. Prom Queen Deadline Set Any campus organization or group of individuals may submit entries for the Junior Prom Queen contest until noon Thursday, Pa tricia Ellis, coronation chairman, has announced. Pictures 5 by 7 or 8 by 10 inch es may be turned in at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main with the name and address of each contestant and the sponsor's name on the back. Contestants will be interviewed by a selections committee of 15 outstanding juniors starting .6:45 p.m. Thursday in the Temporary Union Building. The committee will - select five finalists. Voting by members of the junior class will be held Nov. 2 to 5 at the Student Union desk. MI Students to Meet For Group Photograph ' Mineral Industries students will meet at '12:50 p.m. today in front of the MI Building for a group picture for the • Mineral Industries paper, edited monthly by the MI Extension Services. , t -'; 1 ' ' ' \ 1 4 : 6 1 1 .' 4 • i l . :-. - 0;' . 1 I : i Survival Chest at Stake— ' See Page 4 :11 PENN STATE Today is the last day for fresh men in the Home Economics school to vote for four council representatives. Voting will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the lobby: -of the Home Economics Building. Candidates are .Helen Hoover, Sue Hill, Suzanne Scholl, Betty Wiefon, Dorothy Glading, Emily Frank, Lee Ann. Leaphart, 'Bar bara Shepman, Betty Brown, Rheda Berger and Don .Genhart. Elections will close today for four freshman representatives to the Liberal Arts Student Coun cil. Voting will take place be tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the Mall outside _Carnegie Hall. Two Seats on Ed Council Candidates for council seats are Dorothy." DeMay, Cynthia Bell, Arnold Hoffman, Robert Wein berg, Nancy Swartz, Maurine Leondard, Joan Wilent, Susan Conklin, Stanford Glick and Ju dith Gropper. Education Student Council vill fill two freshman seats today. Voting will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of Burrowes. Evelyn _Benson, Friederike Witt; Joyce - Koch, -Ira • Wasser man, Christian • Bottinger, Bob Weil, Patricia Peirce, Shirley Quann, Natalie Moskowitz, Anne Beebe, JoAnne Fulton, Doris Paschall, Carolyn Jane Davis, Mary Louise Moore, Barbara Bohl, Shirley Ann Martens, Don na Springer, Doris Epstein and Judith Hance are candidates. Chem-Phys Candidates Voting will continue today to fill two freshman seats on the Chem-Phys' Student Council: Freshmen may cast ballots from 8 a.m. until noon and from 1 p.m. Ito 5 p.m. in the lobby of Osmond Laboratory. 1 1 Candidates are John Anderson; Richard Carson, Stanley Collins, James Drexler, Joseph Eberly, Donald Evans, Glenn Fiskus, Pat rick Gallagher, Kenneth Gehr, Charles Hamer, William Kay, Augustus Mercurio; Adolph Sei densticker, R o b e r t Sherioon, Charles Sterrett and Gerald Wen nerstrom. Physical Education freshmen will be elected to two seats on the Phys Ed Student Council in Phys Ed 55 cla - sses today. Candi dates for election include Ann Farrell, Lynn Leinbach, Barbara Fredrick, Ralph Cryder, Tom Egolf and Richard Boggs. Engineering Student Council will elect one freshman represen (Continued on page eight) Reds Forced Confes'sions----U.S. UNITED NATIONS; N.Y., Oct. 26 (FP) ---- The United States de clared today that Russians di rected a Communist torture cen ter where fa l s e confessions of germ warfare, were wrung from U.S) fliers in Korea—even after the armistice. The Russians en tered a denial. Dr. Charles W. Mayo, U.S. dele gate, presented the charge before the UN Political Committee. Dr. Mayo _said an interrogation cen ter known as "Pak's Palace" near Pyongyang, North Korea, was staffed by Chinese and North Ko reans but directed by Soviet per sonnel.; • Treated Worse Than Animals "Many of our fliers were in- Lerfogated there by Soviet person nel," the Minnesota surgeon said. He told. of a • Kansas - flier who FOR A BETTE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 27, 1953 State, Lion Parties Elect. Clique Heads The Association of Independent Men is leading in the race of contributions to the ,CampuS Chest for the trophy to be awarded to either AIM, Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council; or Leon ides. Approximately 200 solicitors will continue campaigning today, the second day of the drive which will end tomorrow, in an effort to secure the HO per cent partici pation which is the goal of this year's campaign. Contributions totaling about $250 were collected by 9:30 p.m. yesterday, according to Myron Enelow, solicitations chairman. One group within each of the above mentioned organizations will also receive a trophy. In cases where two or more groups have equal participation, the award will •be made to the group with the highest average contribution per person, Phi Sigs, Thetas in Lead McElwain Hall is leading the women's dormitories in contribu tions while Hamilton Hall has contributed the most out of the men's dormitories. The fraternity and . sorority leading those groups in contribu tions are Phi Sigma Kappa and Kappa Alpha Theta, respectively. The drive. is an effort to com bine all fund-raising campaigns into,•one- Eleven groups, both-10-- cal and national, will receive ben efits from the drive. Undesignated Funds Student contributors may des ignate which of the organizations included in the drive that they wish to support. Undesignated 'funds will be distributed to groups on the fol lowing percentage basis: Penn State Christian Association; 35; World University Service, 20; Penn State Student Scholarship fund, 10;_ Women's Student Gov ernment Association s Christmas fund, 4. The State College Welfare fund, 1; American Heart Association, Cerebral Palsy of Pennsylvania, Salvation Army, and- the Ameri can Red Cross, 5; and the Ameri can Cancer Society, and Dathon Runyon Cancer Fund, 2.5. Dance at TUB The man and woman soliciting the highest participation• percen tage will receive tickets to the Junior Prom and corsages. Awards to winners will be made at a dance to be held from. 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday in the TUB. The trophies will be on display in the window of the Athletic Store starting today. Contributors ,to the drive will receive tickets to the dance at which Lynn Chris ty's orchestra will play. (Continued on page eight) refused td write a confession de spite 1800 hours of questioning di rected by Russians. • • Dr. Mayo said U.S. fliers were reduced to a level lower than that of animals, and that the tortures were designed to be more terrible than medieval methods. "They are calculated to disinte grate, the mind of an intelligent victim," he asserted, in order to make him destroy his own integ rity and produce an elaborate fic tion. "If anything is surprising to me," he observed, "it is that so. many of our soldiers—bothAhose who confessed and those Wkib did. not, although for- months they were treated like animals or Worse—somehow continued to act throughout like men."' Dr. Mayo said the CommUniStS . accused 107 captured fliers of gaging in bacteriological warfare. AIM Leads For 'Chest' Contest Trophy Vandals Burn 3 Fraternity Lawn Displays Vandals set fire to three fra ternity lawn displays over the weekend causing considerable property damage. . A display at Lambda Chi Alpha was set afire early Saturday morning. The fire was discovered about 5 a.m. by a milkman on his morning rounds. The display, which featured a tall Grecian column supported by an outstretched hand was com pletely destroyed. The display had won second prize in the lawn display judging Friday night. A display—at Phi. Kappa Tail, across the corner from Lambda Chi Alpha, was set afire about the same time. This display was a 30 foot figure of a college stu dent constructed of wood, chick en wire and napkins. The fir e endangered cars parked along Fairmount avenue but the danger was relieved when the figure fell away from the street and burned out. The State College fire -depart ment was called at 11:30 p.m. Saturday to extinguish a fire in the Alpha Tau Omega lawn dis play. This fire sent flames leap ing into the air and attracted hun dre d s of spectators from nearby homes and fraternities. The fire destroyed the display. A quantity of electrical wiring and several spotlights were also destroyed in the. blaze. Ex-convict Pleads Guilty To Car Thefts, Burglary NeVin Auman, 29-year-old ex convict who pleaded guilty last week to stealing Lacrosse Coach Nick Thiel's car, three other cars, and for burglarizing 'a Spring Mills cabin, was sentenced to five to ten years yesterday. •. Auman was ordered to pay costs by Judge Ivan Walker. He will spend his sentence in the Western State Penitentiary. Of these, 17 are listed as missing and 14 are known dead. He did not say how they died. He said 40 refused to sign anything, but 36 signed under duress. Jacob A. Malik, Soviet delegate sitting in place of Chief Delegate A.ndrei Y. Vishinsky, responded that the United States had forced airmen who confessed to germ warfare to repudiate their con fessions under threat of prosecu tion. He called Dr. Mayo's statement "a .lie and .a slander which we 'repudiate." He tossed in a resolution by Iwhich the Assembly would call on all countries which have not done so to ratify the 1925 Geneva Convention against chemical and germ warfare. The United States has: refused to ratify it, demand ing. More than paper promises to stop such practices. Candidate Nominations End Sunday Clique officers were elected, and nominations were made for sophomore and freshman class of ficer candidates by the State . and Lion Parties Sunday night. Final nominations and election of candidates will be made Sun day night. Sophomore and fresh man class elections will be held Nov. 12. Nominated for sophomore class president at the State Party meet ing was Theodore ,Klein, third semester, chemical engineering major. Others nominated are Richard Allison, third semester wood utilization major, vice presi dent; and Barbara Stock, third semester' home economics major, secretary-treasurer. Freshmen nominated for class president by the State Party are Philip Mullen, first semester poultry husbandry major; Richard Marshall, first semester arts and letters major; and Steven Jordan, first semester industrial engineer ing major. Gerson Alexander, first semester arts and letters ma jor, was nominated for freshman class vice president and Marilyn Seltzer, first semester, home eco nomics major,, for secretary-treas urer. Dean Belt, third semester ani mal husbandry major, was nomi nated at the Lion Party meeting for sophomore class president. Shirley Mix, third semester phy sical education major, was nomi nated for secretary-treasurer. No one was nominated for vice presi dent. Robert Howe, first semester me chanical engineering major; Larry Berk, and Robert Segal, first sem ester busines's administration ma jors, were nominated by Lion Party to run for freshman class president. Robert Bennett, first semester dairy husbandry major, was nominated for vice president. Virginia Hance, first semester ed ucation major, and Susan Cos kery, first semester arts and let ters major, were nominated for freshman secretary-treasurer. Thomas Umholtz, seventh sem ester arts and letters major, was elected senior class clique chair man of the Lion Party. Other senior class clique positions re main vacant. Charles Brader, fifth semester agriculture economics major, was elected Lion Party junior class clique chairman. Patricia Shelly, (Continued on page eight) Party Registration To Begin Today Freshmen an d sophomores will begin registration today to attend final political part y clique meetings Sunday to se lect candidates to run in class elections Nov. 12. Registration booths will be open from, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to day through Friday at. the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. Booths, al5 o attended by members of the elections com mittee, will be open tomorrow and Friday in the Temporary Union Building and the West Dorm lounge. Master lists will be made of the 'registrants and Will be •checked before a student may enter a meeting Sunday night, Edwin Kohn, chairman of the All-College elections commit tee, has announced. Students must present matriculation cards when they register, Kohn said. • FIVE CENTS
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