Lions Nip Illinois, RON YOUNKER (12) geis set to grab J. C. Caroline, Illinois' star offensive player, during Saturday s memorable upset win at Champaign* Earl Shumaker (64) and Frank Reich (55) also begin to close in on the talented Big-Ten star. Penn State's Lenny Moore outdueled Caroline, gaining 7.3 yards per try to 6.4 yards lor the Illinois back. A crowd of more than 54,000 was on hand to witness one of the top upsets of the young gridiron season. It was the largest opening-game crowd in the history of the Illini. Satur- Weather— Cfoudy madf Warm VOL. 55, No. 9 1600 Die in Japan In Savage Typhoon HAKODATE, Japan,' Sept. 28 (JP)— Bodies and debris strewed the beaches here today after a savage typhoon sank a huge ferry and killed possibly 1600 persons, most of them in northern Japan. Seventeen Americans- —soldiers, their dependents and civilians were among the dead. Nearly 50 other Americans were listed as ■— missing by the U.S. Army and "" Japan National Railway. The Americans died in Japan’s worst maritime disaster Sunday when the typhoon, which had been heading out across the Sea of Japan, turned and struck northern Japan with winds of 100 miles per hour. Toy a Maru Sank The Toya Maru with an es timated 1200 persons aboard had anchored off Hakodate harbor when the rush of wind and water hit. It capsized and only 163 per sons were -known to have sur vived. Four other ferries from Hakodate were also caught and The tides still were washing in bodies. Rescue workers searched the beaches and debris in the hope of finding more alive. Deadj Lisled_ Alumni Fund Contributions Net $132,273 Contributions to the second Alumni Fund as of Sept. 1 total $132,273.90 with 7851 alumni con tributing, the Penn State Founda tion, which sponsors the drive, has announced. I - The- All-Faith Chapel fund has already received- $33,257 from the 1954 drive. The Hetzel Union Building' and , scholarship funds are the other two big benefactors of the drive. The current fund drive will continue until Dec. .31 although the active campaign ended June 30. A check for about $121,000 was presented to President Milton S. Eisenhower by. Ray S. Tannehill, general chairman, during the Alumni Institutes June 12 v Bernard P. Taylor, executive director of the fund, and his staff are in the process of. winding.up this year’s fund and getting ready for the ’55 drive, which, because of the centennial celebration, is expected to be the biggest. No financial goal was set for either fund. The goal this year is to'- increase the number of con tributors over the 1953 fund, to -which’ about 8000 pledged $187,- 000. Contributions may be designat ed by alumni for particular proj ects. Money not designated is ap portioned by the Board of Trus tees among projects which include the Chapel, HUB, scholarships, University Christian Association, and equipment for colleges. Ad Staff to Meet Members of ’ the advertising staff of the Daily Collegian will meet at6:3<M©aigbt iu 9 Carnegie. ©hr iailg STATE COLLEGE. PA„ TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 28. 1954 The Marine Safety Board said that throughout the storm area, 12 steamships, 25 motor schooners and 312 other vessels sank. It listed 1552 persons dead or miss ing from sea disasters alone. The board’s figures cover an area from Southern Japan, where the typhoon first struck, to North Japan. It said never beforejn his tory had a typhoon wrought such damage in the seas around Japan. , Two U.S. Navy ships and planes from four U.S. bases in Japan launched a survivor search but stiff winds and high waves kept rescue work at a minimum. The typhoon’s winds whipped up a great fire that within min utes destroyed 3000 to 43000 hous es at Iwariai, a city of 23,000 popu lation 90 miles north of Haka date. Police said 32 were dead there and 56 missing./ Police, and coast guard esti mated 600 bodies had washed ashore by Monday night. Cabinet Social Meeting All-University Cabinet will meet at 7:30 tonight at the President's mansion for a spe cial social meeting. This is the first time this year cabinet has met with Pres ident Milton S. Eisenhower. day's victory was Penn State's first over the Western Conference team since the 1912 squad defeated Ohio State. The Lions completed only three of 13 passes against Illinois, but the Nitiany splii-T option play was one of the finest maneuvers of the day. Nittany quarterback Don Bailey rambled for 50 yards on one of the option plays. That was the biggest gain of the day and set the stage for Penn State's second touch down. This weekend the Lions will travel to Syracuse to battle the Orange. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE State Party Plans New Clique Chairman Election By PHIL AUSTIN State Party was . told by the All-University elections committee Sunday to hold another meet ing of its student representative council to elect a clique chairman. The committee’s decision voids the election of Rae DelleDonne, seventh semester home eco nomics major, who was chosen clique chairman at a meeting of the council Wednesday night. The council will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 103 Willard to select the party’s clique chairman. The elections committee asked the party to give all council members 24 hour noctice of the meeting. Lyon Discontinues Third Party Move John Lyon, acting clique chair man of the State Party, said Sun day he does not intend to contin ue the movement for a third pol itical party. “I received the support of the freshmen, but that was all,” Lyon said. Lyon took over as State Party clique chairman after John Fink resigned Sept. 20. Fink originally appointed John McMeekin, party treasurer, as chairman, but Mc- Meekin turned the post over to Lyon because the party constitu tion provides the vice-clique cl-airman automatically succeeds the chairman. Rae DelleDonne,’ whose elec tion as clique chairman Wednes day, was declared “null and void” by the elections committee, said Sunday she did not feel the elec tion was illegal but will go along with the decision of the elections committee. The elections committee decid ed the Wednesday clique election was illegal because clique mem bers were not notified of the meeting far enough in advance. McMeekin told the State Par ty meeting that as far as he was concerned, Wednesday’s meeting was legal. “The meeting was call ed hurriedly,” he said, “because of the time factor 'involved before cabinet acted on\ the proposed, election code Thursday night.” He added that the decision as to whether or not the elections should be held was left entirely up to the group. Miss DelleDonne also refuted the' claim by Rudolph Lutter, for- (•Continued on page eight) dollwjum 'Who's in News' Editors Named Philip Austin and Mary .Bolich, seventh semester journalism ma jors, have been named editor and assistant editor of “Who’s in the News at Penn State.” The magazine is published year ly by Sigma Delta Chi, men’s na tional profesional journalistic frat ernity, and Theta Sigma Phi, wo men’s national professional journ alism fraternity. The publication lists approxi mately 450 students active in stu dent affairs. The students listed are selected by’a committee com posed of the Daily Collegian edi tor, the student council presidents, the All-University president, and the Women’s Student Government Association president. Collegian Candidates Will Meet Tonight Students interested in join ing the editorial staff of the Daily Collegian may attend a meeting at 7 tonight in i Car negie Hall. • Candidates who attended last week’s meeting will also attend tonight. Students need not be jour nalism majors, and may be of any class standing to join the Collegian staff. Further ex planation, will be given at to night’s meeting. By dick mcdowell An upstart Penn State football team, under-dog from the outset, came from behind in the first quarter Saturday to cut down Illinois for a stun ning 14-12 victory that could become the biggest upset of the 1954 season. A record opening game crowd of 54,094 at Memorial Stadium saw the Illini score early in the period only to have the lead cut from beneath them by two Penn State touchdowns before the end of the half. The Illini recovered briefly in the second half and scored on a 77-yard drive, but it wasn’t enough. The Lions soon took charge again and held on to a two-point lead, manufactured through the extra point kicking of end Jim Gar rity. . • The Lions were clearly the superior team Satur day. Underdogs by as much as 17 points, Engle’s team completely outclassed the Big Ten defending co-champions on the line, and halfback Lenny Moore coupled with quarterback Don Bailey, pro vided a backfield attack that outrushed Illinois coach Ray Eliot’s much publicized trio—J. C. Caro line, Mickey. Bates and Abe Woodson. Moore rambled for 126 yards in 17 carries white Caroline, a unanimous All-America selection last year, fell behind the Reading Flash with 116 yards in 18 carries. Bailey didn’t start the game but came on in the first period and directed Rip Engle’s winged-T offense to 331 yards gained. He chewed up 50 of those himself to set-up Penn (Continued on page six) The committee met Sunday to discuss the charge of Rudolph Lutter, former state party com mittee coordinator, that Miss DelleDonne was able by her posi tion as clique secretary to with hold notification of council mem bers opposed to her election as clique chairman until 15 minutes before the council meeting. Lutter also charged that Miss DelleDonne’s election was void since he said less than half of the council’s 42 members were pre sent. In the committee’s decision, Er nest Famous, chairman, said the committee believed that the party had adhered to the letter of the law in calling last week’s meet ing, but had violated the “spirit” of the elections code by deciding on the meeting less than four hours before the meeting was to be held. The committee brushed aside Lutter’s charge that a meeting lacked a quorum when commit tee parliamentarian Ellsworth Smith ruled after a telephone conversation with Joseph F. O’- Brien, professor of speech and an authority on parliamentary pro cedure, that. the “enrolled mem bership” of the council was 28 in stead of 42. Although 42 students may have seats on the council, only 28 eli gible to vote are on the council at the present time. According to state party officials, three mem bers of the council received other seats on the council, three grad uted, eight seats never were filled, and the whereabouts of two other members was unknown. Eighteen voting members at tended Wednesday night’s meet ing. Miss DelleDonne was elected after all other candidates had de clined to have their names placed in nomination for the office. Tomorrow’s election will be held under last semester’s elec tion code. The committee origi nally tried to schedule 'an open (Continued on page eight) Politics Edit See Page 4 FIVE CENTS 42 Have Seats
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