State College Woman Charged With Murder, Abandonment of Child A 27-year-old State College woman is being charged with murder and concealment of the death of an illegitimate child in the case of an infant found dead behind the Nittany Lion Inn. Elizabeth Ann been committed to AFL-CIO Tosses Out Teamsters ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Dec. 6 (JPi —The AFL-CIO today expelled the International Teamsters Un ion by a 5-1 margin on charges it is dominated by corruptive influ ences, principally President-elect James R. Hoffa. Vote on ousting the federation’s largest affiliate was 10,458,598 for and 2,266,497 against. A roll call came after more than three hours of debate and a last minute impassioned appeal from the Teamsters Union itself for a year’s grace period. Contacted during a recess in his federal court trial on wiretap charges in New York, Hoffa said the ouster wouldn’t weaken the union. .- “I’m still head of the Team-; sters,” he told newsmen. “Our plans were never made on the basis of the AFL-CIO . . . They didn’t build us and they won’t weaken us.” Hoffa said he believed the Teamsters would still be able to operate successfully. Just before the vote, AFL-CIO President George Meany said that; Teamster Hoffa had made over-j tures for compromise during the past several weeks. Meany also said there were in dications Hoffa wanted to resign and get out of the way. But he said he and Hoffa never got to gether because Hoffa never showed up. “I cooperated,” Meany said. “I stood on my head, did everything possible under the sun.” Hoffa said in New York, how ever, that he had no intention of resigning as president-elect. “Why should I quit?” he said. The overtures for compromise fell through, Meany said, when he became convinced that Hoffa did not plan to do anything. Final Exam Schedule The final examination sched ule will be published in Tues day's edition of The Daily Col legian. Coffee Hour to Open Sharp Fund Drive A coffee hour to kick off the campaign for “A Christmas 1 Present for Larry” will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in dining rooms A and B of the Hetzel Union Building. Sorority and fraternity presidents, men’s dormitory presi dents and Leonides unit representatives will attend the kick- off coffee hour to receive infor mation on the plans of the cam paign, to be held from Monday through Dec. 20. The purpose of the campaign is to collect a Christmas present of funds for George “Larry” Sharp, freshman who broke his neck and was paralyzed in a fall srWMKieKiMUiesnezre. - . SHOP IN £ STATE COLLEGE £ Kerstetter, 27, of 121 Vi Logan Ave., has Centre County jail, Beliefonte, after police. said she confessed to abandoning! the child in the shallow grave ] where it was found. j Justice of the Peace Guy B. ■ Mills said he will conduct a hear- j ing on the case next Thursday. If sufficient evidence is available, [Mills said, Miss Kerstetter will [be returned to jail to await action jby Centre County Court. Stale police took the woman into custody Thursday at the Inn where she was working as a salad girl* in the kitchen. Po lice said Miss Kerstetter con fessed to giving birth to the child and placing it in the shal low grave during the daylight hours of Oct. 2. Police said the child was born at the Inn. I The body was found last Sat urday by Walter Stine of Port IMatiida, a dishwasher at the Inn. iThe body was found lying about 15 feet from the grave. Stine noticed a pile of rags, in cluding a bathmat, linen towels and a kitchen apron, in which the baby had been wrapped, still in the shallow grave. Police said the body apparently was dragged jfrom the hole by a small animal. - John Lee, manager of the Inn. said Miss KersteUer had been working in the kitchen for more than four years. She gave no indication of anything be ing wrong, Lee said, and worked as usual after the child's birth. An autopsy was performed on the infant by Dr. Anacleto Her mogenes, Williamsport patholo gist. However, Dr. Charles Cul len, Centre County coroner, said the report turned up only meager information. Elections Planned For Campus Party Campus party will elect new officers at 7 p.m. tomorrow. in 121 Sparks. Offices to be filled are All- University clique chairman, vice chairman, treasurer, executive secretary and recording secretary. While any student may nomi nate or be nominated for the clique offices, only card-carrying i party members will be permitted to vote under Elections Commit tee regulations. , All persons will be admitted to the meeting, but a special seating section will be set aside for non members. from a trampoline Oct. 11. . ... The funds will be used to I By DAVE FINEMAN ifor what he represents. man. Commander Queeg. cover part of Sharp's hospital Collegian Drama Critic { Gerald Denbofs portrayal of Mark Wallace as the prosecutor, expenses. He had been in the “The Caine Mutinv Court- ? reemvald , 15 masterful. Demsof .Lt. Commander Challee, is most Geisinger Memorial Hospital in 1 Ane ualne x lul;my t-ourt possessed with a sense of tun- convincing m his final plea for Danville until several weeks Martial” is a great vehicle and jjg and a feeling for the part of. the conviction of Mary if. but one ago when he was transferred to L difficult challenge but rC h.”i Va ro l? a mos * important cor.tribu the New York University Medi- P QllllcUil cnauen g e Dm , centra! position to tie together tions is a constant awareness that cal Center. {Players, directed by George 3 web of character he is on-stage and in the scene ed^t^ Ca ./U?4Jniversitv^nresident!^' ave Y> was U P t 0 the task ""d . The prime character in the webj This constant awareness by the Robert Steele will be assisted hv turned in an extremely successful is Queeg, and Floyd Santoro’s.por- i complete cast is admirable and Alpha Phi Omega men’s national ! and moving performance. trayal of him is complete inevery; noticeable throughout, thanks in sendee fraternitv and r ™ rhl ”, w 3 i Wa ,„>espect. Queeg’s emotional^build- part to the careful direction of service tratermtj, and Gamma; The story is the trial of Navy |UD is ,j one re markablv well bv Cav»v Further-credit is due r-T drama that Steele said letters*" will be sent j strain of a typhoon, forcibly took Hsrrv Jones turns in cin excel 33 Lt tlie rcfacilio 4 oteSe“lhr S c ?S!S ti 'S S SKIS Cuss' aim enXangered ;lent performance „ , h e psychiii ; selfociMidentV?v e lit and” ,”4 support. - ; lawyer who finds himself with;high spots in the show. His con-.slight loss of character m the -“ a ? arn . ll y al f ead y ;the unpleasant job of gettmgrfident position changes slowly epilogue; he, himself does not for "ala 1 M: Pk ac( i ul . tted - He can do subtly to one of discomfort seem to be convinced that Green for donation for . A Christmas only by causing the mental break-as he is skillfully forced to aid wald has placed him in an un i'xeseni lor Larry « dowa of Queec. a man he respects in the coming “murder” of the 1 comfortable, almost penitent state. atfp Daily VOL. 58, Nc. 59 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 7. 1957 FIVE CENTS Vanguard Explodes In Takeoff Fiasco Mechanical trouble, not basic design faults, caused America’s first satellite-bear ing rocket to explode two seconds after takeoff yesterday, said Vanguard chief Dr. John Hagen. The Associated Press reported last night that the rocket barely struggled off the ground, then fell back and exploded. But the curtain-raising flop is not likely to impair a planned L'.S. rate of putting other satellites into the air, Hagen said. ; Vanguard will go ahead with an ’other launching “just as soon as we possibly can.” He gave no hint of a likely date. , At the same time, Hagen ex pressed hope that second launch ing would not be attended by the same expectant publicity that hinged on every move toward ye-terday's attempt. Hagen's comment when the void of the 11:45 a.m. failure flashed from the Cape Canaveral, 'Florida, test site — “Nuts.” The fiames and smoke oil the bitter ending of Vanguard TV 3 nest vehicle number 3) startled and =addencd thousands of watch ers. None of the persons in the immediate area was hurt. The greater part of the 72- foot long vehicle was instantly destroyed. But. oddly enough, the S 4-inch aluminum sphere which was to have been America’s par tial answer to Russia's space challenge survived the crash.and kept sending out its radio signals ail the while. J. Paul Walsh, deputy director of the Vanguard project—the U.S. satellite launching program—said the 3'; pound ball was found in the area, still emitting its track ing voice despite the onsiderable damage from the shock. 1 President Eisenhower immedi ately asked the Defense Depart ment for a full report on what happened. Walsh, who was standing in a hangar in direct view of the launching stand—but a safe dis tance away—said the rocket ac tually rose two to four feet into the air. “We had counted down to zero, then said ‘fire’ and ’first igni tion’ ” Walsh recalled at a 90- minute news conference two hours after the failure. “Up tc then everything had worked perfectly. “The rocket started to leave the stand, and in two seconds of in the Nigeria Belgian Congo, j burning rose two to four feet. Kenya. Libya, Tunisia, Ethiopia jWe won’t know precisely how and Morocco. i far until the engineers study their It was the first jazz group to i film, play at the Stratford Shakespear-I “Then something happened ean festival in Stratford, Ontjwe don’t really know what, when it appeared there in July,! “We lost thrust, somehow. The 1956. (engine was not pushing the rock- The group has played at the let up. Palladium in London, the Moulin! “The rocket fell back down in- Rouge and Cafe Las Ambassa-ito the stand, and then fell over, deurs in Paris and has appeared (There was a terrific noise—a ser on the Ford 50th anniversary pro-|ies of rumbles—and then a very gram and the Jackie Gleasonrapid burning. A ball of flame show._ . Ishot up to 50 or 100 feet. —Daily Collegian Photo b> Bob Thomp«on ... OR HIGH WATER—Big weekend weather is always bad weath er, but Robert Shoup, junior in pre-veterinary from Homestead Park, and Barbara Kreider, junior in arts and letters from Man heim, solved the slush problem on their way to the Mil Ball last night. 1 3000 de Paris Jazz Tickets Remain for Sunday Concert Nearly 3000 tickets for the Wilbur de Paris jazz concert! | will be available to students today and tomorrow at the' jHetzel Union desk. The concert is scheduled for 8:30p.m.j [tomorrow in Recreation Hall. | The tickets will be available [to students without charge upon 'pres entation of matriculation 'cards from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. today and from 1 to [5 p.m. tomorrow. The group returned last June from a State Department-spon sored tour of Africa, which was made under President Eisenhow er’s special international program for cultural presentations. 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