Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 15

              by al yost the annual lehigh lafayette football classic wound up in a referee hunt and brawl late this afternoon incensed by the apparent injustices committed by the game officials a mob hundreds strong burst from the lehigh stands at the moment the game was over one unidentified lehigh fan caught one of the officials as he tried to escape pulled him around and landed a haymaker that cut the ref down in his tracks police instantly swarmed over the agressor beating him about the head and face with billy-sticks the police were mobbed by the rest of the angry crowd but succeded in holding their man while the referees were rushed from the field the officials incurred the wrath of the big brown follow ers when they called two suc cessive penalties against lehigh for interfering with pass re ceivers yardage gained by the maroon team this way set them up for a touchdown after the penalties had been called the lehigh stands jump ed to their feet shouting at and booing the officials keeping up the din until the close of the game lehigh took the lead in the clash only minutes after the game started gabriel scoring from the one-yard line in the same first quarter dick doyne raced downfield with a pack of lafayette players at his heels to score the second time only one conversion was good giv ing lehigh their 13 points only one other time during the remainder of the game did lehigh threaten to score scrap ping every inch of the way they smashed downfield from the one-yard line the brown attempted to push into pay-dirt in a rush through the center of the line lehigh fumbled tempers flared again when the lehigh team con tended that the touchdown had been made before the ball was fumbled the officials brough the fall out to the 20-yard line first and ten for lafayette and play was resumed final score lehigh 13 lafa yette 23 the maroon team scored three touchdowns two conversions and one field goal when the packers held the leopards from scoring another six-pointer in the final period the maroon kicked an easy field goal crushing the hopes of the big brown for a win or tie ball game f the battle after the game was officially over held the la fayette fans rooted in the stands as the red eyed gang of ref beaters charged across the field from the lehigh stands fight ing broke out in several places as the brown fans hammered away at officials police and lafayette rooters — at every the goalposts succumbed mo ments after lehigh men reach ed them a group of leopards resisted the efforts of the pack er fans to carry away the goal posts as trophies there fol lowed a see-saw tug-of-war over the fence surrounding the field that battle was won by lehigh the victors running across the lafayette campus with some 20 feet of timber we must make sure that a jewish state is established in palestine the rev wendell phillips told the international relations club last wednesday evening the first hour of the speech was broadcast over wgpa-fm the rev mr phillips explain ed that the jews have prior , rights to jerusalem and the sur rounding area he insisted that the british are standing in the way of a zionist state to pre serve vital bases and oil fields in the middle east the rev wendell phillips radio commentator for a new york station is the rector of christ's church rye n y he has served as assistant chap lain of columbia university and as pastor of trinity church new rochelle n y the middle east needs the progress that the jews bring rev phillips told what he term ed an audience of experts and building cities in a desert long since abandoned by the arabs he said the arabs don't want to live in the desert the jews are growing crops but they don't want the jews to live in it either he affirmed he pointed out that the jews have added much more to the literature and civilization of palestine than the arabs he explained that the arabs have allowed palestine and the sur rounding area to degenerate since the time of christ continued on page 3 col 2 snow queen to reign at yuletide shindig librarian dies here 25 years after 25 years of service as lehigh university librarian howard seavoy leach died at 2 a.m wednesday in st luke's hospital at the age of 61 anyone desiring to nominate a girl for snow queen honors - should submit her picture to the arcadia office before nov 29 include your own name and address her name and address and her agreement to pose for publicity pictures name of the snow queen will be announced dec 13 her picture will appear on posters and will be featured in a goblet article tickets for the informal snow ball will cost 1.20 coronation of a snow queen will highilght the first lehigh snow ball in grace hall after the villanova basketball game dec 18 the spirit of christmas will be the motif of the gala affair which brings santa claus the collegians and the glee club together for an evening of music and dancing sponsored by the class of 1951 a native of penobscot me leach was graduated from wes lyan university in 1913 in 1915 continued on page 2 col 5 many potential wallace votes beginning his third year as a member of the history de partment dr peck was grad uated from yale in 1937 he received his m.a from the university of chicago in 1940 and his ph.d in 1942 from the same institution a student of world govern | ment he was given a year's leave of absence from lehigh in 1946 to serve on the com mittee to frame a world con stitution dr peck was editor of common cause the com mittee's monthly organ progressives that i have talked to dr peck said are not particularly disturbed by the showing the party made in continued on page 2 col 3 wallace platform won vote for democrats says peck this is the second in a series of faculty interviews on the 1948 elections dr peck today interprets the role played by the wallace wing — ed convinced that the pro gressive party in large measure fulfilled its function in the am erican political scene dr george t peck assistant professor of history replied optimistically to puestions posed by a b&w staffman the election asserted dr peck was *% great victory for the pro ive party initial success of a third party is meas ured by its effect truman won on the progressive party plat orm this represents success for the progressives dr peck explained that the last stages of truman's cam paign were marked by vigorous campaigning on domestic pol icy singularly akin to the wal lace platform this pointed out the professor won for truman sadderday november 20 1948 vol xviii — no 15 i,e.cl>/iua lehigh was triple cannon volley to open pep session brow n an d whit e the lehigh university bethlehem pa extra rubbed befuddled bum fleeces brown by harry b ramsey three explosions of the lehigh cannon will set off tonight's pep rally to drum up enthusiasm for the game of the year president whitaker billy sheridan and coach leckonby are slated to speak to as many anxious students as grace hall can accommodate backing up coach william leckonby will be the entire 1948 gridiron squad determined to prove they hold the answer to the first victory over lafayette since 1936 cheering section cheerleaders and speakers are out to prove that they are be hind their team the ten best frosh skits will be presented for final judg ing james hildebrand owner of the brass cannon will offi cially present the traditional scoring symbol to arcadia win ner of the fraternity display contest will be awarded the 50 prize offered by the interfra ternity council as soon as the student bedy exhausts its lung power it will send the football team on its way to a good night's rest in continued on page 3 col 1 preserve palestine state urges episcopal minister arabs must abandon claims packer chapel victory bells tolled in 36 if the bells in packer me morial chapel ring out tomor row afternoon to announce le high's first victory over lafa yette since 1936 the spirits of james and fred myers will re joice for it was james a myers who first tolled the bells following a triumph over la fayette more than forty years ago when james myers who at one time performed almost all the work now handled by the superintendent's office died in 1913 his son fred assumed his duties and it was he who pealed the glad tidings in 1936 alumni will remember fred myers as custodian of attendance slips in the days when chapel attend ance was compulsory the memory of james myers is pertetuated by a plaque on the west wall inside the chapel the inscription reads this tablet commemo rates forty-six years of faithful service of james a myers jani tor of lehigh university 1869 1913 respected and esteemed by all who knew him he will ever be held in affectionate re membrance by the alumni of the university who valued his friendship and appreciated his loyalty to lehigh