Weather-- Clear, and Warmer VOL. 54, No. 121 rnelle Sworn In JESSE ARNELLE officially became- the All• University President with the swearing in ceremony by William Shifflett, chairman of Tribunal,. at the banquet for new and old Cabinet members last night at the- Allencrest Tea Room. Arnelle will install the other five new cabinet members at the group's next meeting. They won their seats through their election Wednesday and Thursday. Vacation May Begin With Clouds, Rain With cloudy weather and possible rain forecast for tomorrow, by the Meteorology department, students will begin the long trek home for the Easter vacation. Classes end at 11:50 a.m.-tomorrow and will resume at 1:10 p.m., April 21. University dormitories will close at 5 p.m. tomorrow and will reopen at noon April 20. The noon meal tomorrow will be the last one served in University dormi tories.. The first meal after vaca tion will be the noon meal April 21. Ralph W. McComb, University librarian, has announced th e schedule for the main library dur ing the recess: tomorrow, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p:m:• Thursday and Friday, a.m. -to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to noon; Sunday, closed; Monday and April 20, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and April 21, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Special Greyhound busses will leave from the parking lot south of. Recreation Hall at 1 p.m. to morrow. Twenty-five students have signed up for the busses, the Greyhound post house reported yesterday. Busses will run unless there are too few students to war rant a bus, the spokesman said. In this case, " students will be transferred to regularly scheduled busses. Students n - lay sign up un til 10 tonight to have a reserved seat on the busses. The Daily. Collegian will - not publish tomorrow. The next Daily Collegian will appear April 22. Station WDFM will end brOad casting at 10:30 tonight. PSCA Voting, To End Today; Installation Set Penn State Christian Associa' tion elections will end today: The elections have run since Friday. Installation of officers will be held at the annual PSCA dinner May 1. LaVerne Applegate, seventh se mester home economics major, and Phyllis Richards, sixth semes ter home economics major, are nominees for president. - Thomas Binford and Douglas Finnemore are nominees for vice president. Candidates fcir' secre tary .are Joan Lewis and Donna Springer; for treasurer, John Ber gey and Robert Harding. Candidates for committees are: membership c ommit t e e, Alice Boorman and. Audrey Killinger, publicity, Dorothy Benninger and Martha McDonald. Doris Humphrey is the only nominee for program committee. Linda Gerber and Audrey Neff are nominees for new student committee. Alexander Zerban and Paul Aucker are nominees for representative-at-large. Five candidates are running for members-at-large. Four will be elected. Nominees are Robert Cur ry, George Buckhout, Janet Hu ber, Kay Kerr,. and Margaret Sny der. Other committees needed dur ing the year will be chosen by the president. AFROTC Grads To Wear Uniforms Air• ROTC seniors will be graduated in uniform, regard less of whether they will re ceive commissions according to Capt. Lawrence C. Wheeling. The only exceptions will be , 16 students who did not attend summer camp. They will be graduated in caps and gowns. • . •••••'1A8774,..,, „ % . C . ~'"4 it. :-.•'!...:-;: 1 ' ~.: 5 Eq ' O y .1-,' . .tags,,-- ~.• Compromise Offered by Britain On Halting Reds in Indochina LONDON, April 12 (W)—Brit ain offered Secretary of Sta t e John Foster Dulles a compromise tonight in the Western Power's rift over how to• halt the Chinese Communists fr o m overrunning Indochina and Southeast Asia. British informants said For eign Secretary Anthony Eden proposed to support Dulles' plan for a' ring of anti-Communist na tions in the Pacific around Red China. Prime Minister Winston Church ill, pleading the need of Western unity at Geneva, stepped in at a dinner - meeting tonight to urge compromise and prevent an open I rift. The 'U.S. secretary of st at e Iplanned a final meeting with Ed en tomorrow morning. Then he will fly to Paris to pursue his FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1954 Pickford to Miss Penn Mary Pickford, star of screen and stage, will crown Miss Penn State at the coronation ceremonies scheduled to take place at 8:30 p.m. May 10 at Recreation Hall, according to Carole Avery and Marshall Donley, coronation co-chairmen. Miss Pickford, born in Toronto, Canada, has been called "America's Sweetheart" and "Queen of the Movies" as a result of her success and international fame. She first started out on the stage in "Bottle's Baby," but later entered the movies. 8 to Debate In National Tournament Eight members of the women's debate team will compete in the Grand National Debate and Fo rensics Tournament tomorrow through Saturday at. Mary Wash ington College of the University of Virginia, Fredricksburg, Va. The two affirmative teams are Ellen Ross and Agnes Porter; Van essa Johnson and Lois Hummel. Negative debaters are Margaret Troutman and Dorothy Osterhout; Barbara Menapace and Ann Leh. They will participate in nine rounds of debate on the national intercollegiate debate topic for the year, Resolved: That the Uni ted States should adopt a policy of free trade. Six debaters will participate in forensic contests. Miss -Troutman will take part in the following events: oratory, situation oratory, book review, poetry reading, dra matic reading, and address read ing. Miss Porter will take part in the poetry reading and dramatic reading contest and will partici pate in the response, after dinner reading 'and impromptu speaking events. Miss Johnson and Miss Ross will compete in the encomium contest and Miss Johnson will take par t in the declamation events. Miss Hummel will parti cipate in the informative speak ing contest and Miss Leh will take part in the extemporaneous speak ing contest. Last year the Penn State -wom en's team took first place in the tournament. Miriam Ungar Ba rash, graduate assistant in speech, and Lois Lehman, a-January grad uate, were named best debaters of the tournament. The team cap tured ten of 13 grand national championships in the forensic events. The teams will be accompanied by Clayton H. Schug, team coach and associate professor of speech, and Edward Gilkey, instructor in peech. Schug was elected vice president of the Eastern Foren sics Association at its convention last weekend. talks with the reluctant French. Official sources here stressed that no agreement on Indochina would be reached in London in advance of Dulles' talks with the French. But in Paris tonight, French and foreign observers re garded the British position as de ciding the fate of Dulles' plan. They felt that if Churchill and Eden stopped Dulles, there would be little for him to discuss with' French • leaders because. the French already agreed with Brit, ain on the issue. In his - talks with Eden during the day, Dulles was reportedly presented with this British posi tion: 1. If the Communists spurn ne gotiated settlements of Indochina, Korea and Southeast Asia prob lems at Geneva, then France and raglan Her first movie lead came in "The Violin Maker of Cremona," and her first real hit in "Hearts Adrift." Miss Pickford later began pro ducing pictures, several of which she starred in. In one of these, "The Taming of the Shrew," she acted opposite her second hus band, Douglas Fairbanks. Her first talking picture was "Coquette" which she produced in 1929. Miss Pickford also turned to writing. She is the author of "Why Not Try God," and "My Rendez vous with Life." She became first vice president of United Artists and later president. She was head of the women's division of the National Founda tion of Infantile Paralysis for sev eral. years. Miss Pickford, who will arrive at the University the day before the ceremony, will be one of sev eral celebrated judges to choose the queen from the five finalists. Miss Pickford is currently work ing for United Artists in New York City. The five finalists will be chosen by 15 townspeople in the prelimi nary judging which will take place May 3, Miss Avery said. Contestants will be judged on a point basis with a maximum of ten possible points. The points will be tallied and finalists se lected from the entrants having the greatest number, she ex plained. Each of the five finalists will be awarded 100 points for their sponsors toward the Spring Week trophy, although entrants will re ceive no points, George Richards, Spring Week chairman, has an nounced. A total of 150 points will be awarded to Miss Penn State, who will also receive numerous gifts from borough 'merchants, he said. Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower last year crowned Madeline Sharp Miss Penn State in the coronation Ceremony held at Rec Hall. Pre liminary judging of the five final ists was done by John Wayne, mo tion picture star. Cadet Selection Team To Interview Students Lt. John B. Loveland of the aviation cadet selection team 57 will be on campus May 5 and 6 at the Temporary Union Build ing and the West Dorm lounge for student interviews. Britain would be ready to help sponsor the hands-off warning to Peiping, and a new defense or ganization in the region. 2. But a declaration of common aims in the Far East cannot be rushed. The British are. wary of anything that looks like another Korea, and public opinion would have to be prepared for any unit ed front moves. 3. Nearness of the rainy season in Indochina would slow military operations and allow time to plan a careful program of action dur ing the summer. Hasty counter measures were not called for now. 4. India and Pakistan, Asian partners of Britain in the com monwealth, would oppose British involvement in what they regard as the Indochinese "c olonial war." Carnival Precautions See Page 4 Crown State Firkusny To Perform At Concert Rudolf Firkusny, concert pian ist, will present the final pro gram of the 1953-54 Community Concert series April 22 in Schwab Auditorium. Firkusny will complete his tour of the United States next week and then leave for South Amer ica. Firkusny's United States tour this year marks the sixth consec utive season that he has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic Symphony and the fourth successive season with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has given command per formances for Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and King Emanuel of Italy. Queen Elizabeth presented him with a watch and King Emanuel decorated him. The pianist travels to South America, Africa, and near East Asia for concerts. He began his current United States tour in Memphis in No vember. After his concert April 22, he will conclude his season April 24 in New York City. Firkusny is a native of Czech°. slovakia. He made his debut with the Prague Philharmonic at the age of ten and was well known through. Europe by the time he was 18. He made his American debut in New York in 1938. In 1953, Firkusny became an American citizen. He now makes his permanent home in New York. Senate to Air Discipline Case The case of five freshmen who locked two other students in their rooms in the Nittany dorm area last Sunday night, was referred to the Senate committee on student affairs subcommittee on discipline yesterday by Harold W. Perkins, assistant dean of men, and will be considered today. The five students locked the men in their rooms, forcing them to break the door to get out. Two were slightly injured while at tempting to break out. One stu dent cut his hand, the other scraped his heel. Three of the five students were on office probation by the Dean of Men's office, two for violating the dorm 'drinking rule, and the other for disorderly conduct in the dorms. Ugly Man Contest Candidates for the Ugly Man contest May 5,6, and 7, may regis ter at the Student Union desk in Old Main until- A•ril 24. Final Exam Schedule Will Be Released The spring semester fin al examination schedule will be released April 27, Ray V. Wat kins, scheduling officer, ha s announced. Spring semester classes will end at 11:50 a.m. May 29, and final exams will begin at 1:10 p.m. that day. The spring se mester will end 5 p.m. June 7. FIVE CENTS
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