Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 8

              cops raid dorm fears allayed goodman band will play for senior dance search for stolen flags yields no results the boys of taylor hall are not 428 students faculty sign in conscription epitome limits business staff to all juniors cancellation of contract at washington and lee causes concern for houseparty appearance at lehigh agent's word wipes out spreading rumor juniors take 3 main parts in fall show so patriotic as bethlehem police thought and as a result four of the system of commissions replaces honoraria for business men gruber is first student to register ; foreign students enlisted 4 boy meets girl ist play cast by drama club to be on dec 14 student petition denied staff of 19 is required berg kluger get leads worthy cops were compelled to slink from the hall empty-handed after a spectacular raid staged tuesday night it began when 25 flags were found to be missing from standards on fourth street with characteris tic perspicacity city officials level ed the finger of suspicion at tay lor hall two police squad cars dashed up the hill and armed with a search-warrant and night-sticks four officers burst into taylor they searched the rooms but found nothing nary a flag at least not a stolen one and the officers retired crestfallen again the bethlehem cops failed to get their man capt c r w knight english officer to talk tonite rotc society ousts politics captain knight to replace jim thorpe at first lecture in series scabbard and blade lists 40 juniors eligible under new system benny goodman will absolute ly and positively come to lehigh for the senior ball friday night and he will bring with him an ag gregation of instrumentalists plucked from some of the best bands in the country that was the word the brown and white received this morning in a long distance conversation with harry moss of the music corporation of america good man's contracting agents last night fear was expressed that houseparty would be without a band when it was discovered that goodman had cancelled his con tract for a dance to be held tomor row night at washington and lee university the w and l ring turn phi student newspaper sta ted that goodman was cancelling all contracts due to illness which naturally caused consternation here members of the lehigh senior ball committee when contacted last night said that they had got ten no word of any cancellation and that as far as they knew ev erything was fine the call to moss this morning served as a double check and settled the matter for once and all the washington and lee cancel lation gives lehigh the distinction of featuring the opening night of the new benny goodman band it will play here on the 25th in new york at a private party on the 26th and in the new haven arena on the 27th moss stated that the reason for the cancellation was that members of the new band could not break their contracts with their old em ployers without first giving two weeks notice according to union rules therefore the band was not ready to appear however they have been in rehearsal the past two weeks and will be a well knit or ganization by the time houseparty date rolls around the most expensive unit benny goodman ever had a greater goodman is what moss promises for next friday teddy wilson stellar piano player will be back again and for the rest of his band goodman has combed every big band in new york and points west as well as the old b g crowd other members of the unit will probably be charles christian negro guitar player art bernstein bass player and dave tough drummer helen forrest of course will supply the vocals according to down beat and metronome the new band will be an entirely new experiment in music according to moss good man is definitely on his way to the top according to the senior ball committee lehigh is going to have one swell dance to lay cornerstone at grace hall tuesday council admits allentown men commuters granted seat in town group will hold dance nov 23 conscription affected about one sixth of lehigh university when 428 students faculty members and members of the staff including men from five different countries registered at drown hall wednes day from 7 a m to 9 p m under the direction of wray h cong don dean of undergraduates the first student wm d gru ber bus 41 appeared at 6:55 a.m and robert d watt arts 43 the last man finished at 9:15 p m the influx reached a maximum be tween 11 a m and 3 p m and required the assistance of charles a seidle assistant director of ad missions prof francis j trem bley assistant professor of biology and prof kenneth w lamson as sociate professor of mathematics in addition to the regular shift for that period sixteen men working in five hour shifts had been con sidered sufficient said dean cong don the provision for registration facilities in drown hall was made for all men who are connected with the university and are elig ible for draft however some of these men registered in town and those who had advance drill cre dit were not required to register among those who registered were men from hamburg ger many lauzanne switzerland ankara turkey venezuela and chile distribution of the registration cards will be made by the county commission all cards are guarded by an extensive checking system which requires that every card be accounted for even cards that are orn or soiled must be counted md sent to the committee houseparty lists due tuesday noon only members of the junior class will be allowed to compete for po sitions on business staff of the epitome under rules laid down by the board of publications yester day the board also abolished honor aria for members of business staff and replaced them with a system of commissions devoting the entire two hours and wenty minutes of the meeting to business problems the board ruled that following this year no student or group of students may publish any blotter or book cover for which advertising is solicited a petition of four students to publish a calendar and university directory was denied engraving contract signed the 1941 epitome was given per mission to sign a contract for en graving with the horan engraving company of new york and a con tract for printing with the country life press of garden city l i the horan engraving company has done the work for the last three epitomes the changes in the method of competition for business staff of epitome came as a result of an in vestigation by pi delta epsilon honorary journalism fraternity at request of the board the change was made to increase the sale of 1941 epitomes in re cent years the sales of epitome fell off because of indifference of business staff competitors to sell five books any junior will be allowed to compete for the staff if he sells five books or more he will be giv en a commission the junior sell ing the most books will be named business manager in his senior year while the junior selling sec ond greatest number will be made financial manager certain changes which will have to be made in the constitution of epitome in order to make it con form with changes made in busi ness staff were referred to the ex ecutive committee of publications for action the cornerstone of eugene gifford grace hall 300,000 arena and recreation building now in process of construction will be laid at exercises at 3 p m next tuesday mr grace 99 donor of the building will lay the stone and president c c williams will preside the program will include mu sic by the band and the intro duction of a representative of the architectural firm a repre sentative of the building com pany and the presidents of ar cadia interfraternity council interdormitory council and the town council the cast of the fall mustard and cheese production ' ; boy meets girl was chosen last night in drown hall by albert a rights dramatic coach the show will be held in broughal high school au ditorium saturday evening dec 14 the three leading parts will be played by conrad e kluger arts 42 richard j berg arts 42 and robert n gusdorff bus 42 berg and kluger will portray the parts of the script-writing team of ben son and law patterned after the eccentricities of hecht and mac arthur gusdorff will play the part of c f friday a holly wood producer susie the leading feminine role will be played miss anna marie rohs kilboun gordon jr bus 42 will act the part of larry toms cowboy movie idol rosetti toms publicity agent will be tak en by sheldon s zalkind arts 43 rodney bevan leading love in terest and movie extra will be portrayed by edward l blossom eng 44 the song writing team of green and slade is to be played by abram samuels bus 42 and sandor a marks c e 42 miss crews secretary to producer fri day will be taken by jane de long satirizes movie making " boy meets girl is a fast mov ing comedy satirizing movie pro duction in hollywood stated mr rights the play was chosen by the mustard and cheese club because of its excellent male character parts because of the large number of students trying out for the play the dramatic workshop has decid ed to produce two plays this sea son instead of the usual one i killed a count will be held in drown hall friday dec 6 and two on an island will be given sometime in march many of the 78 students who tried out and did not receive parts in boy meets lrllt 1 wili-be-giyen an opportunity to play roles in the later productions pi delta epsilon initiates 7 men dr harold p thomas head of the department of education will be presented for election to the board of directors of the family welfare association at the annual meeting next week according to rev m m moore chairman of the executive committee this year for the first time a completely new system for choos ing members of scabbard and blade national honorary military society will be employed the plan has been instituted in an eff ort to do away with all politics announced william archer bus 41 secretary of the group the new method of selection has been approved by col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics and lieut samuel pierce instructor of military science and tactics forty men from the top 50 percent of the junior military course will be allowed to take a basic mater ial test which is to be made by lieutenant pierce the examina tion will be both written and prac tical the fifteen men who pass the test with the highest grades will be permitted to shoot at the rifle range where eight of the group will be selected for election to scabbard and blade the men who are eligible for the examination under the new plan are as folows ashley r e bartlett c d bown r brenker g a burchiu r c clark w l dudley j h farrand h c fos ter a w gorman w d lind say w h logechnik b w longley s b mayer f b olson h j osborn d c palmer r m reuwer h t rich a h saitta houseparty lists from all liv ing groups should be turned in by noon tuesday at room 305 christmas-saucon hall to in sure their publication by the brown and white the lists should have names of all guests and their home towns names of all chaperones and their home towns and the name of the house dance orchestra the list should be typed cra membership now totals 600 continued on page four frosh moves to new dorm attempt to get dewey as speaker at next rally journalism society holds banquet at sigma nu the 1940-41 series of the stu dent concerts-lectures programs will be inaugurated with the lec ture of captain c r w knight retired british army officer at 8 15 tonight in packard auditorium replacing jim thorpe who could not be re-scheduled captain knight will speak of his experien ces in the present european war these experiences include the campaign in france as well as the present bombing of the british isles he will also discuss the tor pedoing of the steamship volen dam on which he was returning to the united states and he will describe the evacuation of dun kirk he was also present at the bombing of arras which he will tell about to show pet eagle capt knight will have his pet eagle mr ramshaw with him at the lecture in studying eagles he has traveled thousands of miles and is today considered an inter national authority on birds of prey mr ramshaw helped amuse the british soldiers in france in march before the flanders fight before returning to the united states captain knight's home was in the path of the nazi bombers which were almost continually in the skies overhead mr ramshaw was almost lost in the torpedoing of the volendam the last man to leave the ship capt knight searched in vain for his eagle which was in another part of the ship after the ship was towed into port days later he fount the bird still alive although captain knight has lectured to the students of several universities in the united states in former years his appearance at lehigh will be his first since his retux-n from england democratic club to be organized fred gilmore appointed organization director seven initiates were received in to pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalism society at a banquet-initia tion meeting held last night at the sigma nu fraternity house the men were elected to the society at a meeting held monday night in christmas-saucon hall speaker at last night's banquet was edgar h riley associate professor of english new members are richard l vockel m e 41 james gordon bus 42 william j meikle arts 42 edwin h klein arts 42 howard m williams bus.'42 john m roach arts 42 and frank e smith ch e 42 in two weeks the college re publican association membership at lehigh has reached a total of 600 this figure is only 400 short of the desired enrollment in the group according to prospective plans tom dewey district attorney of new york city will be guest speak er at the next lehigh election rally anounced nelson r clark jr i e 42 president of the c r a c r a groups were organized yesterday at lafayette and cedar crest colleges the chairmen are charles f haring jr and helen chapin respectively president clement c williams is on the national committee for no third term day which will be wednesday oct 23 eight new members were ac cepted into the e w brown as tronomical society when it began its activities for the year wednes day evening in packard labora tory lehigh chem engineering course on accredited list a lehigh democratic club will be organized on the campus for all those students interested in the re election of president roosevelt miss mary mclnroy chairman of the young democratic clubs of pennsylvania has appointed fred erick r gilmore arts 41 as or ganization chairman of the group it will be called the roosevelt col lege club gilmore announced that the main purpose of the club is to remind all eligible student voters both democratic and republican to register for the coming national election the initial meeting will be held at 7:30 p m monday oct 21 in the drown hall lounge at which time the club's officers will be chosen lehigh is one of the six penn sylvania colleges whose chemical engineering course has been accre dited by the american chemical society and the american institute of chemical engineering president clement c williams announced yesterday the lists of accredited chemical engineering courses ap peared in the oct 11 issue of the american chemical society's news edition other colleges in pennsylvania with accredited chemical engineer ing courses are carnegie institute of technology drexel institute of technology pennsylvania state college the university of pennsyl vania and pittsburgh university in recognition of a petition sign ed by 55 allentown students the town council voted the lehigh allentown club a seat on the council tuesday evening at a spe cial meeting in the arcadia room of drown hall upon recognition by the reor ganization committee of the club a member of the group will be seat ed on the council as a representa tive of the t i liiijj illiuil in i hill the committee responsible for the petition is headed by donald c howe eng 43 other members of the governing body are john r romig i e 41 henry a seebald eng 42 charles a patten eng 42 chester a hoffman eng 42 john m adams eng 42 upon the acceptance the repre sentation of the town council will include approximately 610 stu dents unofficial estimates report that there are approximately 85 students in the lehigh-allentown club claims student unity according to a statement made by george a brenker bus 42 president of town council the ad dition of the allentown group will unify almost all students register ed as undergraduates at the uni versity that are not living in dor mitories or are members of fra ternities the first dance of the year spon sored by the council will be given saturday evening nov 23 after the lehigh - lafayette football game negotiations are under way between the executive committee of the town council and the inter dormitory council to hold a joint dance on this date robert c mc michael eng 42 chairman of the interdormitory dance committee and george a gabuzda arts 41 representing the town council are making arrangements providing a satisfactory site for the dance can be obtained brenker appointed several com mittees at a recent meeting of the council gabuzda was made chair man of the activities steering committee other members assist ing him will be kenneth r tem pleton bus 41 albert clark jr eng 42 and charles r kiefer jr arts 41 chairman of the membership and division committee is lowell k oliphant bus 42 he is being assisted by george l griffith jr e.m 41 and alton p dieffenbach e e 41 seven hundred and thirty-one cars on the campus now bear brown and white registration tags of which 174 belong to faculty members 35 to staff members and 522 to students things quite cozy hanging his clothes on a hickory limb on a limb anyhow and with radio blaring and lights blazing that leg protruding from the bed is said to belong to r omar quadowitz the location of his body is unknown all this happened wednesday night in keeping with an old taylor hall tradition freshman harvey hollenbach takes up housekeep ing in taylor quad after he was moved bag bag gage and furniture from his room following an in fraction of freshman duties hollenbach braved the elements for a few hours and then took his things back to his room while he was outside he made lehigh university brown and whitebrown and white bethlehem pa friday october 18 1940 knows the war vol xlviii no 8 price — five cents all the lehigh news first i coming up ..... | today 8:15 p m capt c.w.r knight england at war packard auditorium saturday 2:00 p.m — varsity football perm state home freshman football blair away sunday 10:00 a m — sportsman's club hike main gate monday 4:00 p m — faculty education club in faculty room tuesday 4:15 p m — alpha epsilon delta in 218 williams hall member intercollegiate newspaper association