today's Weothmn Warm with Shower* VOL. 56 No. 15 Two Sigma Chi's Turn 'Kidnappers' Here’s the answer to the collegiate $64,000 question “Who stole the Navy goat?” Two University students from Sigma Chi took Billy XIV from his cage under Thompson Stadium at Annapolis Sunday afternoon. They brought the Navy mascot to a farm about 40 miles from campus near Clearfield, with the intention of keeping it there until the Penn State- Navy game Oet. 15. They had planned, with their fraternity brothers, to bring the goat to Beaver* Field in grand fashion, possibly with a float, and then return it to the Middies. , However, their plans were in terrupted and Billy XIV has been returned to Aonapoiis. Navy of ficials have not brought charges and “probably” will not. Interstate Alarm Ends President Signs Six Documents DENVER, Oct. 4 ident Dwight D. Eisenhower continued to make satisfactory progress toward recovery throughout today and signed half a dozen more official doc uments, the most since his heart attack. One of the papers on which President Eisenhower put his name in a 10-minute business conference with his top assistant, Sherman Adams, releases $500,- 000 of disaster relief funds which the Agriculture Department will use for conservation measures in the . hurricane - flood damaged states of Connecticut, Massachu setts and North Carolina. Signs 3 Commissions Three of' the signatures were on commissions for federal positions and one was on a letter accepting the resignation of Jack K. McFall as ambassador to Finland. Like the President, McFall has a heart condition and that was the reason for turning in his res ignation. The commissions, giving, recess appointments requiring Senate confirmation later, were these: Herbert V. Prochnow, 58, of Evanston, HI., to' be deputy wider secretary of state for economic affairs. Prochnow is a Chicago banker and a Republican. He suc ceeds Samuel E. Waugh, resigned to become "president of the Ex port-Import Bank. Sprgue to be Counsel Mansfield D. Sprague, 44, of New Canaan, Conn., to be gen eral counsel of the Department of Defense, replacing Wilber M. Brucker, now secretary of the Army. Sprague also is a Republi can and practices law at Bridge port, Conn. He is a former speak er of the Connecticut House of Representatives. John D. Hickerson, 57, of Wash ington, D.C., to replace McFall as ambassador to Finland. Hick erson is a career diplomat who formerly was assistant secretary of state for international organi zation affairs and later assistant secretary for United Nations af fairs. Warm Weather to Stay; Showers Are Expected - Yesterday’s - warm weather is expected to continue today with a high temperature near 80 de grees, the department of meteor ology reported yesterday. However, increasing cloudiness and possible, showers are expect ed this afternoon. Tomorrow morning’s low should be in the middle 50’s. Yesterday’s high temperature was 75 degrees. Council to Plan Elections Final plans for freshman elec tions and for elections to fill two sophomore council positions will be madfe by the Chem-phys stu dent council at then meeting at 7 tonight in 214 Hetzel Union. The council will also start plans for the chem-phys student-faculty mixer and for their faculty ban quet (Eull By RON LBllt The solution, of the mystery ended an interstate alarm for the mascot. After the theft was dis covered Sunday, officials at 1 the Academy asked state police to join in the search, and a frat ernity house at the University of Pittsburgh was invaded by the Marines when a goat was seen there. The Pittsburgh goat, however, turned out to be a nanny, and the plot was revealed as a hoax, ac cording to the Associated Press. Students Tell Story The two students told their story to The Daily ollegian yes terday with the stipulation that their names be withheld. As proof of their deed, they supplied pictures of the goat. It all started, they said, last Saturday evening ' when they made their first attempt to take the goat from its cage under the stands. • The area was too well guarded then, and they merely “cased the job” for a later try. Downfall Explained. However, they suspected that a guard wrote down the license number of the car they used, which might have been part of their downfall. The next and best opportunity they got was about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The cage was protected by three locks and chains. They worked their way through the links and broke the chains. Goat Given Ether They gave tbo goat several whiffs of ether and got him grog gy so they could control him. Next, they tied his legs and car ried the animal to the back seat of the car. As they were tying the animal, two boys about eight years old approached them and. asked what they were doing." The students told them and gave the boys fifty cents each to act as lookouts. However, the two youths became scared and ran away. It was 'the only incident they (Continued on page eight) Dodgers Make Good on NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (JP)~ [Brooklyn finally won a World [Series on the eighth try to [day after long years of bitter frustration, tumbling the New [York Yankees in a tense sev enth game, 2-0, on Johnny Pod res’ gritty pitching. Scorned as 19-5 underdogs af ter dropping the'first two games at Yankee Stadium, the Dodgers slugged back to become the first team ever to win a best-of-seven series after losing the first two. Five times the Yanks threat ened to jar the 23-year-old left hander loose from the premises, as they had jolted five other Dodger series bids. But this blue eyed blond from Witherbee, N.Y., and Sandy Amoros, a speedy lit tle senior from Cuba wno started a sensational double play with a dazzling one-handed catch in the sixth, were equal to each chal lenge. When Fodres marched from the FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 5. 1955 Navy's Go at BILL XIV. the Navy mascot, grazes on a farm near Clear field. about 40 miles from the University. He was returned to the Academy Monday after two Sigma Chi men admitted they took the goat as a college prank. Prexy Hit by Cold- Unable to Attend Education Council Presdient Milton S. Eisenhower, who planned to leave today to take part in the 38th American Council on Education in Wash ington, D.C., will not attend the conference. A spokesman close to Dr. Eis enhower said yesterday the pres ident has been bothered with a “messy” cold the past several days but it is not serious. The spokesman said he did not know if this is what caused Dr. Eisen hower to cancel the trip. Dr. Eisenhower was to serve as chairman of one of the five sec tions of the council, Which will be held Thursday and Friday. The general theme of the meet ings will be “Goals and Progress in Planning for the Future of Higher Education.” Dr. Harold C. Hunt, newly appointed under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will be one of the speakers. Cabinet Agendas All-University Cabinet agendas are available at the Hetzel Union desk.-Cabinet will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the student govern ment room of the Hetzel Union Building. Collegian Candidates Students interested in work ing on the editorial staff of the Daily Collegian will meet at 7 tonight in 1 Carnegie. Candidates need not be journalism majors. dugout to take his turn at bat in the ninth, a roaring ovation from the 62,465 fans at Yankee Stad ium beat down upon his ears. It was Podres who lifted the Dodg ers off the fldOr in the third game and it was Podres who led the grand march into the promised land of World Series victory. It was the first Yankee series defeat since Billy Southworth’s St. Louis Cardinals upset them in 1942 and their fifth defeat in 21 series. They had won seven-in ai row since 1942. * | When other details of this series are covered with dust and all but forgotten, they still will remem ber the catch by Amoros that saved the-day for the Dodgers. The Yanks were making one of their sporadic raids on- Podres in the sixth. Billy Martin walked and Gil McDougald, who had three of the eight hits off the lefthander, had beaten-out a per fectly placed bunt for a single. Brooklyn’s 2-0 lead appeared shaky as Yogi Berra strode to the plate. The Dodger outfield was! egiatt Autopsy Shows Wilson's Death To Be Suicide The , death of John J. Wilson, sophomore in chemistry from Sharon, has been declared a suicide. The announcement was made yesterday by Thomas J. Fritchey, Dauphin County coroner, following an autopsy which was performed on the body Friday. Wilson was found dead at 9 p.m. Thursday in the bath- room of his room in the Penn Harris Hotel, Harrisburg,, less than 48 hours after he was re ported missing from his State College residence. Fritchey told the Daily Col legian last night that Wilson committed suicide by inhaling the fumes from a mixture of potas sium cyanide, hydrochloric acid, and water. The coroner reported he found a partially full one-pound box of potassium cyanide in- Wilson’s room. A pitcher containing a mix ture of the chemical and water was also found in the room. It is believed the student also mixed in some hylrochloric acid, Frit chey said. Wilson, a former student at Gannon College, Erie, had resided at 630 Franklin street at the time of his disappearance. When he didn’t come home, after Wednes day classes, his landlady notified borough police. Registers at Hotel Wilson registered at the Harris burg hotel at 3:30 p,m. Wednes day, according to the hotel man ager. How Wilson got to Harris burg is. unknown. His landlady reported he did not own a car. The hotel manager became con cerned when Wilson wasn’t seen around the hotel after he regis tered. All attempts to enter the student’s room, or to call him were unsuccessful. Door is Forced The manager ordered the door to Wilson’s room smashed. When Wilson was not found in the room, the door to the bathroom was forced. Wilson was found slumped on the edge of the bath tub. On the floor beside Wilson was an empty bottle with a hydro chloric acid label on it. Splashed in bathroom basin was a dark, blackish liquid. Wilson’s suitcase was still packed, Fritchey re ported. Graduated in 1952 Wilson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wilson, 449 N. Oakland avenue, Sharon. He was gradu ated from Sharon High School in 1952, and then spent two years in the service. He entered Gannon College in 1954 as a freshman, and trans ferred to the University during Orientation Week. Bth Try, 2-0 i pulled around to right, leaving a i big gap in left. Berra-slashed the • ball into a high arc toward the ; leftfield corner, and Amoros, who was playing in left center, raced ■ close to the stands with his : gloved right hand fuljy out stretched, catching up with the ball at the last possible second. One step less and the ball would have dropped for a probable dou ble, scoring both scooting base runners to tie the score with a mart on second and nobody out. Sandy had just been sent to left ona wise bit of strategy by Man ager Walter Alston, after second baseman Don Zimmer was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the Dodger sixth. Junior Gilliam was called in from left to play second. Amoros whirled and threw a perfect peg to Reese who relayed the throw to Hodges at first, just nipping McDougald for a double play. It was a ball game with $lOO,OOO riding on every pitch by Podres and his assorted opponents, start (Contmued on page seven) | I FMA Crisis Sea Pag* 4 Auto Victims Reported Improving University officials said yester day that one of the six students injured in an automobile accident last Saturday near Milford will resume her studies at the Univer sity by the end of this week. Four other students are expect ed to be released from the St Francis hospital, Port Jervis, N.Y., within the next two weeks. Margaret Forster, junior in home economics from Wilming ton, Del., the most seriously in jured of the six, is expected to be absent from school for-at least two months. Miss Forster frac tured her hip in the collision. Return This Week The dean of women’s office re ported that Judith Pendleton, sen ior in physical education from Bryn Athyn, is expected to be back in school by the end of this week. Miss Pendleton suffered only minor brush burns and shock in the collision. A more complete r e p o r t on the condition of the others is expected to be available when she returns. The father of Margaret and Ann Forster telephoned the dean of women’s office last Saturday night to report on his daughters’ condition. He expressed relief that the girls were not more seriously in jured. Broken Veriabrae The girls’ father said he ex pects Ann, who suffered a broken vertebrae, to be back in school within two weeks. The three other students in volved in the accident Ellen Donovan, freshman in arts and letters from Emporium; George Althouse, sophomore in the divi sion of intermediate registration from Gladwyne; and Harry Leo pold, the driver of the car, a sophomore in the division of intermediate registration from Limerick; are expected to be re leased from the New York hos pital within the next two weeks. The six were injured in a head on collision which occurred at 2 a.m. last Saturday outside of Milford as the students were en route to the Penn State-Army football game at West Point, N.Y. Decline in Cold Cases Reported A slight drop in the number of cold cases treated at the dispen sary was announced by dispen sary officials yesterday. Approximately 130 s t u d e n t s were treated at the dispensary be tween 8 a.m. and noon yesterday. However, only 40 of these com plained of colds and sore throats, a nurse said. Last week, an average of 60 students a day visited the dispen sary for cold treatment. The infirmary reports 18 pa tients with five confined due to colds. UCA to Meet Tonight The University Christian As sociation will hold an assembly at 7 tonight in 304 Old Main to discuss the Sermon on the Mount. FIVE CENTS
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