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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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. •
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