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mi EDIT In Memoriam Tru e Goal Bill of Rights 7 ft o College Presidents New Party Hilda Koch Til in In II Iff! f I -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME LIV CHAPEL HILL, N. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946 UNITED PRESS NUMBER 51 esoraceBtemeialCeleteatiomEEteFsFiBalFJhsise New Student Farty Makes Emtr am Campus Political Scene Chuck Heath Named to Head SP Activities Implies Discipline For Top Officers By Mary Hill Gaston Yesterday afternoon saw the emergence of a new party on the Carolina political scene when ap proximately 150 students gath ered in Gerrard Hall to form the Student Party and to hear Doug lass Hunt speak on the current state of campus affairs. Opening the ' meeting was Chuck Heath, ex-Marine V-12 now enrolled in Law School, who has been named party chairman. Betty Ann Green, party secre tary, read a summary of minutes of previous sessions of the steer ing committee. She brought out that the movement for a party to oppose the University Party, the only political faction in existence on the campus at that date, began on March 20. Aims Given This group agreed to adopt as its aim the following: "To con vert what has for several years been government by and for a minority fraternity block into government by and for every student at Carolina." Organization within the dorm itories will be started immediate ly, it was stated, and candidates for office in the coming election will be handled by method of hearings in the presence of the steering committee, this commit tee to be aided by a smaller group whose duty it will be to collect and assimilate information about candidates. Douglass Hunt, twice-elected Speaker of the Student Legisla ture and guiding hand behind the Campus Constitution now under consideration, decried the negli gence of campus leaders in the past few years in respect to the Student Audit Board, the Stu dent Entertainment Committee, the Student Council and the Wo man's Honor Council, the Stu dent Welfare Board, rising board costs for students and interest in the curricular setup. Failures Worked During the war years, Hunt said, student body presidents have neglected to appoint a Stu dent Audit Board, the purpose of which is to see that student's fees are spent in the interests of students. He said, concerning student entertainment, that there is money now for good enter tainment and that "we need not continue to be militantly medio cre." He stressed the jmpor tance of getting in office a Stu dent Council which will guaran tee students' rights in council trials, of revitalization of the long neglected Student Welfare Board and of the need for student-faculty cooperation in lowering student living costs and working out better curriculas. Chairman Heath closed with this statement: "As ypu can see from the facts, there is miiph in efficiency and mismanagement in our existing student govern See NEW PARTY Page h Claude Thornhill Booked For May Frolics Weekend Two Dances and Concert Scheduled Here for Second Week-end in May By Bill Rutledge The week-end of May 10 and 11 has been set for the annual May Frolics at Carolina with Claude Thornhill's orchestra signed to play for two dances and a concert, it was announced yesterday. Guy Andrews, president of the May Frolics Club, said that plans f have been completed for the first big May Frolics since the beginning of the war. Schedule Given The schedule for the week-end affair calls for. a closed dance Friday night, an open concert Saturday afternoon, and a closed dance Saturday night. Both dan ces will be formal. and will be held in Woollen gymnasium. : Each member of the seven fra ternities represented in the club will be given a guest bid to be distributed to non-members who wish to attend the Saturday night dance. - - f 7VI Dr. William S, Newman Newman Plays Tonight in Hill Dr. William S. Newman will make his first appearance as piano soloist in Chapel Hill to night with the University Sym phony Orchestra at 8 o'clock in Hill Hall. Dr. Newman joined the music faculty in January of this year. He will play the piano solo part of "The Rio Grande", by Cbnstant Lambert, of which he gave the first American per formance with the Cleveland Symphony and the Cleveland Philharmonic Chorus in Janu ary, 1931. He has played this selection with two other sym phony orchestras. Dr. Newman received his M.A. in musicology, M.A. in English literature, and Ph.D. in musi cology, all from Western Re serve University. He held several scholarships and fellowships and spent two years in Europe on travel fellowships. Professor Newman has served as soloist with the Cleveland, NBC, and See tfEWMAN Page h Vets Entertain Coeds With Party Wednesday The University Veterans As sociation played host Wednesday night to the girls of Kenan Dor mitory at a party at the Vets clubhouse. Entertainment chores for the evening ware handled by Lyn Leonard, monologist, Rex Cos ton, baritone, and Moffett Sher ard, popular ballad singer. These three, stars of previous engage ments at Vets parties, received a warm reception from the Ken an coeds. Refreshments and jukebox- dancing topped off the even ing's fun. . Jtext Wednesday the Veterans Association will hold an open house for the Trj-Pelta and Pi Beta Phi girls. Climbing up the musical ladder with his first big orchestra in 1940, Thornhill ,was booked at Glen Island Casino where he was recognized for his good ar rangements and fast or slow swing selections. His orches tra made several recordings at Columbia records, and Thorn hill is a former N.B.C. staff ar ranger. "Snowfall" is his theme song. Present officers of the May Frolics Club and the fraternities represented are as follows : President: Guy Andrews, Be ta ; Vice Pres. : Carroll Tomlin son, Zeta Psi ; Sec. Treas. : Dick Chatham, S.A.E.; Asst. Sec. Treas.: Jesse Jernigan, Sigma Nu ; Dance Leader : Harry Burke, Sigma Chi; 1st. Asst. leader: Cecil Garrett, Kappa Sigma ; 2nd. Asst. leader: Paul Montague, D.K.E. or? V; mm 5- - pi V "I V - --, 1 " i " ' i t t. Hilda Koch GRIL Meeting Features Koch Co-Author of Book Speaks Tomorrow The Council for Religion in Life will sponsor Mrs. Hilda Koch, a German refugee, in an address at the weekly supper of the Baptist Student Union to morow night at 6 p.m. in the basement of the Baptist church. Mrs. Koch will speak on the need for aid in European countries and the necessity for establish ing a lasting peace. Mrs. Koch was co-author with her husband of the book, "Re fugee". She and her immediate family lived in Germany during the post war period of World War I. She married a veteran of World War I who spent four years in a concentration camp for advocating peace. Mrs. Koch escaped from Ger many with her son when she found out that he would become a ward of the state. Mr. Koch poined them a few months later. Tickets for the supper may be obtained at the Y.M.C.A. of fice or at the church tonight. Legislature Again Turns DTH Decision After discussing the method of electing future editors of the Daily Tar Heel for the past three nights, the legislature, last night, voted 16 to 11 to re verse its previous decision and to adopt what is essentially the method as proposed by the con stitution committee. Douglass Hunt, who made the motion to provide for the elec tion of the Daily Tar Heel edi tor at large on Tuesday night, made the motion to strike out that provision at Wednesday night's meeting and to substi tute the original proposal. Jim mie Wallace amended the motion at last nights session to provide for the selection of at least two candidates for the editorship by the three nominating committees. After a great deal of discussion the motion wes passed as amend ed. Towards the close of last nights meeting, Article IV, con taining the disputed provisions, was passed by the narrow mar gin of 15 to 13. The chairman had announced the vote as 14 to 13 and had cast his vote to de feat the motion but when a re count was called amidst a great deal of confusion, caused by the belief of many members of the See LEGISLATURE Page U President Truman Tells High Navy Officers That He Is Still Their Commander-in-Chief (By United Press) Washington, April 11 Presi dent Truman gave the Navy a stiff reminder tonight that he is commander-in-chief in more than name. Mr. Truman highlighted his weekly news conference with a stinging rebuke to the Navy's top "brass" for their continued opposition. And before he was through, the President had im plied that the flag officers may be in for disciplinary action if they continue to fight the armed forces merger. Many other points came up during the presidential confer ence. But it was on the subject of unification that the President was most outspoken. Mr. Tru man told reporters that Navy officers still are authorized to speak their honest opinions, but that his policy, has been laid down and they'll have to accept it. As the President put it, there's a distinction between op position to the unification by the Navy Department and the ex pression of honest opinion by in dividuals. We're after the facts, said Mr. Truman, and the facts are not in propaganda and lob bying which the President says has been going on to a vast ex tent. Turning to other issues, the President told reporters that he favors anti-poll tax legislation. But Mr. Truman sidestepped questions inspired by his recent Chicago statement that anti-poll tax legislation is a matter for the various states to handle. Only today the American Civil Liberties Union called on the President to repudiate that state ment, and come out for congres sional action to remove the price on voting; FBI Has Arrested Other DC Murderer F.B.I. agents have arrested the second of two murderers who 62 College Presidents Will Arrive Here Today Governor Gregg Cherry Is Principal Speaker At Opening Session in Lenoir Hall Tonight Sixty-two college presidents from Vermont to California will arrive here today for the opening session of Carolina's final cli mactic Sesquicentennial celebration to begin at 6 o'clock tonight in Lenoir Hall. In addition will be 190 delegates from other col leges and universities an over the country and 150 from nationally-known learned societies and foundations. The Governor of North Caro lina, R. Gregg Cherry, will be principal speaker at tonight's dinner sesion, which will be fol lowed by a concert at 8 o'clock in Hill Hall, after which Chief Curator John Walker of the Na tional Gallery of Art will speak on American Painting. Day Will Speak Dr. Edmund E. Day, presi dent of Cornell University, and Dr. Frank P. Graham will ad dress the delegates, faculty mem bers and students in Memorial Hall Saturday morning in a pro grom beginning at 10:30 a.m. following a colorful academic procession of over 500 famed educators. Following the addres ses Dr. Graham will present 39 honorary degrees, the largest number ever awarded by the University on any one occasion. Significance of the event open ing today, April 12, is that it was on this date that the Provin cial Congress of North Carolina passed the resolution authoriz ing delegates in the Continental Congress to concur with dele gates from other states in declar ing independence from Britain. This is generally regarded as the first official Declaration of Independence by one of the new states. Dodds Here Included among the college presidents here for the two-day celebration, which is one of the most momentous occasions in the University's 151-year his tory, are Presidents H. W. Dodds of Princeton, Clarence A. Dyks tra of U.C.L.A., B. R. Van Leer of Georgia Tech, J. A. Hannah of Michigan State, J. S. Millis of Vermont University, R. H. Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh, G. B. Cutten (Emeritus) of Colgate, W. C. Jackson of W.C.U.N.C., J. W. Harrilson of N. C. State, Meta Glass of Sweet Briar, G. C. White of Emory, Hamilton Holt of Rollins, Spright Dowell of Mercer, R. F. Poole of Clemson, E. O. Lovett (Emeritus) of Rice, J. R. Cunningham of Davidson, and W. T. Sanger of the Medical College of Virginia, in addition to many others. Delegates from other colleges and universities come from Har vard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Wash ington and Lee, Dartmouth, West Point, Annapolis, Ohio, Tennessee, Rutgers, Columbia, Indiana, Amherst, N.Y.U., The Citadel, DePauw, Duke, Iowa State, Northwestern, Vassar, M.I.T., Maine, Purdue, Welles ley, Vanderbujlt, Johns Hop kins, Bryn Mawr, Louisiana State, Pen State, California, Il linois, Oregon, and Temple. cut their way out of a District of Columbia jail with a can-opener over a week ago. The G-man caught up with Earl McFarland 25-year old ex-marine as he was standing unarmed and pen niless at a Knoxyille, Tennessee, bus stop. Stills Are Ordered To Cut Down Brew Washington, April 11 If you're singing "How Dry I Am" now, you'll sing it more after next month. The agriculture de partment has just decreed that after April 15th, distillers must cut down on their use of grain for whiskey-making. The agriculture department tonight put new bans on whiskey-making. It decreed that after April 15th, distillers with more than seven and one-half days grain supply on hand may not use the surplus to manufacture beverage alcohol or distilled spirits.
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