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No Bribe Made
Say Wade, Fink
Lewis Wade, State party nominee for All-University president,
and John Fink, State party clique chairman denied yesterday that
they were offered any money in connection with the recent All-
University elections.
The denials stemmed from a rumor which had circulated before
Open House
Will Feature
Film Exhibits
Visitors to the Open House of
the University Library, from 7 to
9 p.m. Saturday, may examine the
library's reading machines, Li
brarian Ralph W. McComb has
announced.
A microfilm reading machine is
used to view printed material on
35mm film. The film records books,
newspapers, magazines, typed the
ses and manuscripts. The film is
projected on a ground glass plate
in the reader and appears in ap
proximately the same size as the
original.
The library has two microfilm
readers, a smaller one for emer
gency use, and a portable machine.
A special room in the wing of the
library has been provided to ac
commodate the use of the film
process.
McComb claims the chief ad
vantage of the microfilming is the
saving of storage space. A com
plete 112-year file of the New
York Herald-Tribune on micro
film occupies as much space as
two years' bound newsprint vol
umes. Also the film does not be
come yellow and brittle as a news
paper does. .
4 Hat Societies
Set Deadlines
Deadlines have been set for
applications for two senior and
two junior men's hat societies.
Sixth and seventh semester men
having a 1 All-University average
may submit applications to Parmi
Nous and Skull and Bones, senior
men's hat societies, until 5 p.m.
April 29.
Fourth and fifth semester men
having a 1 All-University average
may submit applications to An
drocles and Blue Key, junior
-men's hat societies, until Tuesday.
Applications, which may be
submitted at the Student Union
desk in Old Main, should be in
letter form and addressed to the
president of the society. Letters
must contain the student's curri
culum, University address, All-
University a - v erage, and activities.
Men may submit applications to
both junior . men's societies or to
both senior -nen's societies, ac
cording to semester standing.
Debate--
(Continued from page one)
voted among the "top 20" debaters
out of
_more than 200 tournament
participants.
In addition to winning the four
forensic titles, Penn State debat
ers were finalists in six of 13 for
ensic events. Miss Troutman was
a finalist in the address reading,
situation oratory, and poetry read
ing contests. Miss Johnson was a
finalist in the declamation con
test, Miss Hummel in the inform
ative speaking, and Miss Ross a
finalist in the encomium contest.
Princeton University won the
grand national debate champion=
ship and the University of Mary
land Law School team was men's
grand national champions. Okla
homa Central State College took
the women's title.
Ninety-two teams representing
more than 40 colleges and univer
sities from all sections of the coun
try took part in the four-day tour
nament. The forensic events be
gan Wednesday and continued
through Saturday. There were
nine rounds of debate Thursday
and Friday on the national inter
collegiate debate topic for the
year, "Resolved: The United
States should adopt a policy of
free trade.
Easter vacation. According to the
rumor, Wade was offered $2OO in
return for his resignation from
the State party nomination.
Wade emphatically denied the
charge. He said he knew nothing
about it, but added he had heard
"by a hand-me-down method"
that Fink had been offered a sum
of money. He said he had not
heard of the conditions under
which Fink was offered the
money.
Fink said yesterday that he
definitely was not offered money
or any other sort of bribe in con
nection with the election. When
contacted yesterday, Fink said
that it was the first he had heard
about the rumor. He added he
was "quite shocked" to hear about
it.
In a statement made before
campaigning began, Wade said
"hints" were made that he•would
receive a political position next
year if he would resign the nom
ination. Yesterday, he said he had
no further comment to make on
the matter.
Wade resigned from the cam
paign at one time, saying that he
had decided to withdraw from
the election in favor of Robert
Smoot, defeated candidate for the
Lion party nomination. He said
the decision came after consider
able pressure from factions in
both- the State and Lion parties.
Later the same day, Wade re
versed his position and said that
under no circumstances would he
resign from the State party slate.
Rifle Team Places
Third in . Contest
The Society of American Mili
tary Engineers rifle team took
third place in a nation-wide com
petition, the Adjutant General,
Washington, D.C., has announced.
Postal matches" were shot on
campus in December and the re
sults sent into Washington where
they were tabulated with scores
from colleges an d universities
having chapters of the society.
The University of Colorado and
the Colorado School of Mines
placed first and second with 1890
points each. The University came
in third with 1873 points.
Members of thes team are
Charles Hayes, John Thalimer,
John Scheerer, John Ifft, and
James Byrne.
Former 'Queen of the Movies'
To Crown Penn State Queen
By BEV DICKINSON
One time "Queen of the Movies"
Mary Pickford, who rose from a
"nobody" to the world famous
"A m e r i c a 's Sweetheart" will
crown Miss Penn State at the cor
onation ceremonies in Recreation
Hall on May 10.
Miss Pickford began her career
at the tender age of five, when
she was given the baby role in
"Bottle's Baby." Her widowed
mother, struggling to make ends
meet, played small parts in stock
companies, and until 1907 she,
Mary, and Mary's younger brother
and sister played bit roles in small
road companies.
But Mary became the chief
breadwinner of the family, and
after roles in "The Little Red
Schoolhouse," "The Fatal Wed
ding," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "East
Lynne," and "Edmund Burke,"
she was determined to become a
star on Broadway. When she
heard that the first rehearsal of
"The Warrens of Virginia" was
being held at the Belasco Theater,
she presented herself at the stage
door. Belasco sent a message say
ing that he had no time to inter
view an unknown, but refusing to
take "no" for an answer, Mary
rushed through the door to the
stage, confronted the famous pro
ducer, and got the part of Betty
~in the successful play.
After spending two seasons in
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNVIVAiItA
3 Freshmen
Suspended
By Senate
Three students were indefinitely
suspertled - and' two other's were
placed on probation in the Dean
of Men's office by the Senate com
mittee on student affairs sub
committee on discipline last
Thursday. , The reprimands came
as a -result of a disturbance in a
Nittany dorm two weeks ago.
The five students, all freshmen,
locked two other men in their
rooms, forcing them to break the
door to get out.
The three students suspended
were on office probation in the
Dean of Men's office for previous
offenses, two for violating the
dorm drinking rule, .the other for
disorderly conduct in the dorms.
The students may apply for re
admission after Sept. 7. AsSistant
Dean of Men Harold W. Perkins,
said yesterday the committee did
not suspend the students on the
strength -of the present, offense
alone. He said the committee
weighed the previous offenses be
fore taking action.
The office probation given to
the two other students will be -in
effect until February, 1954..
An office probation is a warn
ing from the dean of men stating
that in the case of another viola
tion, action will be taken consid
lering the previous offenses.-
ROTC Plans
Blood Drive
The Army, Navy and Air
Force ROTC will sponsor a blood
drive Monday through Wednesday
in cooperation with the Red Cross
which will have a Bloodmobile
in the borough.
ROTC students may secure do
nation cards from instructors. Ac
cording to the Red Cross, students
under 21 must receive parental
signature before donating.
Journalism Honorary
Initiates Six Women
Recently initiated into Theta
Sigma Phi, national women's pro
fessional journalism fraternity,
were= Patricia Beahan, Suzanne
Brosseau, Marion Hieftje, Mar
garet McClain, Janet Noll, and
Gail Smith.
Theses Due May 29
All theses and dissertations
by candidates for degrees at
commencement exercises on
June 7 will be due May 29. '
New York and on tour, she de
cided to try the movies, and was
taken on as an "extra" at the
Biograph Motion Picture Com
pany in New York. After playing
short, unimportant parts, she got
her first leading role in "The
Violin Maker of Cremona."
The rising young "Biograph
Girl with the Curls" then went
und: , .r contract to Adolph Zukor
who had founded the Famous
Players Film Company in 1912,
and in 1914 made her first real
hit in "Hearts Adrift." By 1916
she was earning an unprecedented
salary of $4OOO.
Miss Pickford became one of
the organizers of United Artist
Corporation in 1919, and through
them released many of her silent
films, of which the best known
were "Tess of the Storm Country,"
"Daddy Long Legs," "Poor Little
Rich Girl," and "Little Lord
Fauntleroy."
After obtaining a divorce from
her first husband in 1920, the
"Queen of the Movies" married
the "King," Douglas Fairbanks,
who was also at the height of
popularity.
Following .a European ho9ey
moon the two resumed their roles
as leaders in the motion picture
industry, and Mary cut off her
curls and made her first talking
picture "Coquette" in 1929. She
Bears Beware
Heat Wave Revives
Memories of Arctic
Come summer, college students can be found working at various
and sundry occupations, but not many have spent pait of their
vacation wearing a revolver on their belt for protection against
roaming polar bears.
Bruce Lieske has. Last summer, as a resupply and general con
struction crew member with the
U.S. Weather Bureau, he spent
a shivery month and a half work
ing in the Arctic. •
He and fourteen other college
students, after a month in Boston
loading supplies on the Wyan
dotte, made the Grand Tour by air
of Arctic points of 'interest with
stops at Thule, Greenland, and
Resolute Bay.
At Thule, less. than. 1000 miles
from the North Pole, the crew
spent two weeks loading Weather
Bureau equipment that was- to
be moved to Resolute Bay on the
Wyandotte.
Thule,'Bruce remarks, has about
half the entire population of
Greenland: "There was one wom
an there, 'some officer's wife. I
didn't see any others until we got
to Resolute." he added.
Thule Sleeping was Hard
Sleeping at Thule was hard at
first for the `southerners'—the sun
shone. all night and their rooms
were equipped with black shades
to help create a nighttime at
mosphere.
Bruce relates stories of long
hikes the crews took around Thule
in their free time. "It gets pretty
cold up there, 20 and 30 below
sometimes," he said.
After leaving Thule the crew
worked about a month at Reso
lute Bay loading supplies on
planes to be flown to bases nearer
the Pole that couldn't be reached
by ships.
Boys Play Ping Pong
For recreation at Resolute, the
boys played ping pong ("We were
all experts by the time we left")
and watched Judy Canova movies.
"Still no girls, Bruce added,
"though we did talk to the Eski
mos in sign language a lot. I guess
some of them must have been
women."
The first blizzard came to Reso
lute on September 8, he remem
bered. Not a bad one, though—
the driftg only piled up 8 and 9
feet.
"About then we began to get
a little worried about getting back
to the States. Our plane was sup
posed to come about the seventh,
and when it snowed we were
sure we'd be there until the ice
cap melted. After a couple more
days we were really panicky, but
it finally did come. Talk about
relief!"
And what about the polar bears?
Oh. yes, they didn't actually see
any, but they had to . wear the
revolvers just in case.
Voting Continues
In Queen Contest
Students may still vote for the
final winner of the Pittsburgh
Press Campus Queen Contest by
in ballots printed in the
Pittsburgh Press.
Penn State's entry in the con
test is Alyce Cheney, second se=
mester education major, who was
selected by student vote in March.
Thirty colleges and universities
in the Tri- State area are entered
in the contest, sponsored by the
Press.
The final winner will be an
nounced in May when a full
color picture of the winner will
appear on the cover of the ROTO
section of the Press.•
FMA Releases
Meat Figures
Approximately $4400 worth of
meat was purchased during the
first two weeks of the Fraternity
Marketing Association's meat pur
chase program, Mrs. Marion Keis
ter, secretary, reported yesterday.
The total was "a little better"
than expected, Mrs. Keister said.
The program went into effect Ap
ril 1. A net total for meat pur
chases has not as yet been deter
mined, she said.
Pi Lambda Theta
Elects Buchanan
Betty Buchanan, sixth semes
ter education major, has been
elected president of Pi Lambda
Theta, women's education honor
ary.
Other .officers are Norma Reck,
Vice president; Sylvia Grube, cor
responding secretary; Phyllis
Heebner, recording secretary; Bar
bara Seifert, treasurer; and Doris
Scheck, member-at-large.
Installation service for the new
officers will be held Tuesday.
and Fairbanks then made their
first appearance together in- the
all-talking version of "The Tam
ing of the Shrew," an immediate
hit.
Miss Pickford's debut as a writ
er, came in 1934, when her book
"Why Not Try God" was puh
lished, followed by "My Rende
vous with Life" and a novel, "The
Demi-Widow" the next year.
Her interest in picture produc
tion increased with the years, and
in 1935 she became the first vice
president of United Artists, pro
ducing "One Rainy Afternoon"
and "Gay Desperado" in 1936. She
also appeared in a series of radio
sketches over CBS, and in 1937
formed the Mary Pickford Cos
metic Company.
After spending a good deal of
time as head of the Women's
Division of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis, Miss
Pickford • returned to' the motion
picture industry to produce "One
Touch of Venus" in 1946, "Sleep,
My Love" in 1948, and the next
year "Love Happy" starring the
Marx Brothers.
Now, playing the additional role
of mother to the two children. she
and her husband,. Buddy Rogers,
whom she married in 1937,
adopted, Miss Pickford is cur
rently working for United Ar
tists in New York.
THUR&DAY. APRIL 22. 1954
By MARCIE MacDONALD
Monitor Distributed
The Monitor, new Education
college newsletter, has been
mailed to students in the college.
Remaining newsletters for the
spring semester will be distributed
in the same way, Carol Strong,
editor, has announced.
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