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Student Constitution Faces Campus Vote Again Tomorrow UP BRIEFS Rail Embargo To Be Lifted By Tomorrow Rail Passenger Cut Will Remain In Effect Washington, May 11 Direc tor J. Monroe Johnson has sus pended the rail f reight embargo the most drastic peacetime restriction to be imposed on the nation as of midnight tomor row. The embargo which became effective yesterday, banned freight shipments except for es sential items such' as perishable foods, coal and coke on all coal burning railroads. Johnson also has suspended an order which would have further reduced rail passenger service starting Wed nesday. However, the 25 per cent cut in passenger service which went into effect May 10 will re main until further notice. An other cancelled order is the re striction on express shipments and Johnson has messaged the postoffice department that it can remove restrictions on parcel post. The removal of the embargo has led the General Motors Com pany and the Republic Steel Cor poration to cancel plans for a shutdown of their plants. Dimouts, Coal Cut Asked To Be Continued - Washington, Mai 11 The Civilian Production Administra ti6n has telegraphed State Gov ernors to continue the dimouts and other coal conservation measures ordered by the CP A. "Earlier, CPA Administrator Small warned that his orders probably Would hold until "the emergency is over." Strike Settlement Asked Before Truce Expires Washington, May 11 The government is pressing coal min ers and operators for a perman ent settlement of their dispute before their two-week truce pe riod is over. Mr. Truman and his agents have asked the coal negotiators to work morning, noon, and night until a settle ment is reached. Los Angeles Mediators In Hopeless Deadlock Los Angeles, May 11 A 20 hour meeting of negotiators who are trying to settle the eight day Los Angeles transit has ended and still no agreement has been reached. The union delegation reports that the negotations are Jiopelessly bogged down. Iran-Azerbajan Talks Reported Collapsed Tehran, May, 11 Negotia tions between Iran's Premier Ghavam and Azerbaijan leaders .are reported, to-" have collapsed. Tehran sources fear the dead lock may lead to civil war. Truman Calls Education Atomic Bomb Defense New York, May 11 President ' Truman is pinning his hopes on what he calls at least one de fense against the Atomic Bomb. That defense, he says, is educa tion. It lies in mastering the sci ence, of human relationships all over the world. It is the defense of tolerance and of understand ingof intelligence and thought fulness. And that, he adds, is the task which confronts education today.. The President delivered his message over four major radio See NEWS BRIEFS, vane tour 7 f! VOLUME LIV 'loiint Stewart Candidate for Charlie Bonnell Picked by SP Air Veteran Returns Here Rising Senior Starred on Campus As Track Standout By Roland Giduz By a unanimous vote, the Stu dent Party Friday night chose Charlie Donnell, rising senior from Palm Beach, Florida, as the party's vice-presidential nomi nee, opposing Charlie Warren, previously announced UP can didate for the post. Now nearly complete, the SP slate will be rounded out tomor row afternoon when candidates will be chosen for legislature posts in a nominating conven tion scheduled for 4:30 o'clock in Gerrard Hall, according to Chuck Heath, party chairman. Legislature Service Now in the School of Com merce, Charlie Donnell has serv ed in the student legislature for the past year on the elections committee and the finance com mittee. He is known on the cam pus for his work on the track team in the 440 and 220 yard dashes, and was recently elected president, of the Sigma Chi pledge class. , With three years service in the Air Corps behind him, he was pilot of a B-29 crew and was released from service last year with two thousand flying hours to his credit. At Junior College At Palm Beach Junior College he was both president and vice president of the student body, guard on the basketball team, and member of the Glee Club. In Palm Beach High School he was vice-president of the stu dent senate, outstanding mem ber of the track squad, presi dent of the debating society, and on the staff of several publica tions. Men's Glee Club To Give Concert At Women's College The Men's Glee Club under the direction of Paul Young will give a noon concert' in Greens boro on Tuesday at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina. -The 40-minute program will take the place of the regular chapel program. Among the numbers to be giv en will be the Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounov", "Gen eral William Booth Enters In to Heaven", "What Shall We Do With The Drunken -Sailor", "Come Again Sweet Love", "Turn Ye To Me," and "The Bat tle of Jericho". The Men's Glee Club will give 4ts spring concert on Thursday May 16 at 8:30 in Hill Hall. There are 3,070 counties in the United States. The United States has 199 cities of 50,000 population or more. , Muni n ill ill mi m wn m i a -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1946 Vote Continues Tuesday Under New Poll System Simple Majority Is Needed for Approval .With 25 of Students Required to Vote For the second and final time, the proposed student constitution comes before the campus vote tomorrow and Tuesday. Under a provision passed at last Thursday's meeting of the student legis lature, a simple majority will be all that is needed to pass the docu ment while at least 25 of the student body must vote. Thp re-vote was necessitated Band Will Play This Afternoon Slocum to Conduct In Forest Theater 1 1 The University Concert Band will present the second of the series of outdoor concerts this afternoon. Conducting the band this week will be Earl Slocum, professor of music in the Music jDepartment and regular con ductor of the University Sym phony Orchestra and Concert Band. The program will be;hejd in the Forest Tneatre and begin promptly at 4:30 p.m. The band will play a program of widely varied selections. Morton Gould, who was guest conductor with the Long Island Arts Festival in Heampstead, N. Y., last week end, is the composer of Ameri can Symphonette No. 2, the first movement of which the band will perform at this concert. The second movement of Ernest Williams' Symphony in C Min or, the third movement from the "Water Music" suite of G. F. Handel, and Maurice Arnold's "American Plantation Dances" will complete the more serious side of the program. Lighter Numbers The lighter selections will in clude the South American flavor of "Argentina," the modern ar rangement of the Russian folk song "Dark Eyes" and, as a cli max to the program, a special arrangement of Hoagy Carmich ael's ever popular "Star Dust" featuring a saxaphone quint. The military flavor of the band will be preserved with "The See BAND, Page U YMCA Officers To Be Inaugurated The YMCA will hold its an nual installment service at the Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening at 7:30 p.m. A symbolic program has been arranged for the installment of the newly elected officers and the YMCA Board. Those officers to be installed are Don Broad president, Bill McClammy, vice-president, Walt Stuart,treasurer, and Larry Ber ry, secretary. The YMCA Board consists of three year members, Dr. E. L. Mackie, Chairman, Fred Weaver, and Helmut Kuhn ; Two year members, J. C. Her rin Nelle Morton, and Paul Brown; and one year members; Charles M. Jones and Albert Coates. . when the legislature reversed itself Thursday night and de cided that the 118 Marine' and ROTC votes thrown out for lack of a checkoff list warranted another vote. Their decision was prompted by Dean of Students Ernest Mackie who told them that it was "unlikely that the ad ministration and trustees would look favorably upon a document passed under such a cloud." New Polls Provided A more adequate polling sys tem will be employed in this elec tion with polls being set up in the women's dorms, upper and lower quads, and at the Y. Polls in the women's dorms will be open from 9 until 12 o'clock to morrow and from 12 noon until 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Polls in the upper and lower quadrangles will be open from 12 until 2 p. m. to morrow and from 5 until 7 p. m. Tuesday. The poll at the Y will be open from 9 until 5 o'clock both days. Strict Supervision A strict monitor system pro vided by the student council will supervise the voting and no elec tioneering will be allowed with in 50 feet of the polls, elections committee chairman Fred Bau der said yesterday. The color of the ballots has been changed and names will be checked off in the student directory. In case the constitution is passed, the general campus elec tions to be held a week from Tuesday will be held under its provisions even though the docu ment will need approval from administration and trustees be fore it becomes official. Durham Chorus Scheduled To Sing In Union Tonight Many well known Southern spirituals and folk songs will be heard this evening in a concert by the Durham Chamber of Com merce Male Chorus, slated for 9 :00 o'clock this evening in the Graham Memorial main lounge. Completing their activities for the year tonight, the group of eighteen singers contains several well known Durham business men and musicians including their director, Allan H. Bone, conductor of the Duke Univers ity Concert Band, and Robert Hull, first tenor, and also di rector of the Duke Symphony Orchestra and Duke Madrigal Singers. Accompanist for the chorus isMiss Cleo Faucette. Promin See CHORUS, Page U irl UNITED PRESS Student for Vice-Presidency Patty Harry Is Revealed May Queen Bright skies, barking dogs, a bleating lamb, and riotous spring colors formed a harmon ious background for Carolina's first May Day Pageant since 1942, yesterday afternoon in the Forest Theatre, when beautiful Patty Harry, senior coed from Miami, Florida, ' was crowned Queen of May, by President Frank P. Graham, to reign over the beautiful and impressive ceremonies of the affair. Presented by the Pan Hellenic Council and the Carolina Inde pendent Coed Association, high light of the pageant was the pro cession of the queen, her two maids of honor, and 11 court at tendants to the throne from the back of the open air amphithe atre. Queen and Court Participants in the march, all of whose identities were kept secret until the procession began were : Queen Patty Harry, wear ing a white satin bride's dress ; Maids of Honor, Elaine Bates and Ann Geoghegan, dressed in white organdy gowns ; eleven at tendants dressed in light blue organdy with ruffles, including Jenny Freeman, Jane Isenhour, Bunny Flowers, Tish Andrews, Linda Williams, Carolyn Rich, Phyllis Gainey, Beezie Russell,! Betty Strickland, Ruth Han cock, and Ann Farr. Gardenias and multicolored spring flowers were carried by all. Glee Club Sings More than 55 voices of the Women's Glee Club opened the program with appropriate fes tival songs followed by the pag eant, written by members of the Chi Delta Phi literary society, which opened with a scene of Rip Van Winkle with his dog, in his Catskill village, and Rip's dream of chasing the Spirit of May. Through his dream, characters such as The Reluctant Dragon, Snow White and Prince Charm ing, the Three Dwarfs, Dopey, Doc, and Bashful, Little Bo Peep and one of her black-nosed lambs, Humpty-Dumpty, Bugs Bunny, See MAY QUEEN, Page U U.S.-Spanish Relations To Be Aired On Forum By THIPA Group Today Gay Morenus, Jerry Davidoff and George Stenhouse will be the participants on the THIPA Student Forum of the Air this afternoon over WBBB at 2 p.m. The topic for discussion will be American policy in regard to Spain. Miss Morenus is vice chair man of the International Rela tions Club; Davidoff is chairman of the Carolina Political Union and radio. director of THIPA; and Stenhouse is a senior mem ber of the CPU and treasurer of the junior class. Manny Mar golis will moderate the discussion. O Donnell and Stewart O Constitution Vote O May Queen Revealed NUMBER 77 Presidency UVA President 4th Nominee For Top Post Candidate Prominent In Campus Activities By Darley Lochner Blount Stewart, president of the University Veterans Associa tion, announced yesterday .that he would be a candidate for pres ident of the student body on an independent ticket. . Stewart is a past speaker pro tem to the Phi Assembly and for mer vice-president, chairman of the board of governors and sec retary of the University Veter an's Association. Last fall he was a candidate for secretary-treasurer of the student body. Stew art holds membership in the Episcopal Student Vestry, Phi Mu Alpha, Chi Phi fraternity and the Men's Glee Club. In announcing his candidacy Stewart stated, "I wish to make clear that this is no sudden, fly-by-night ' haphazard decision. I am a member of no party on the campus nor have I ever been. However, I believe that veterans should take an active and intel ligent part in their student gov ernment. With 2700 veterans on the campus I feel that there should be one, party or not par ty, who should offer his name as a candidate for such a high and responsible office. "After carefully studying the constitution recently offered the student body for ratification, I supported and voted for its ac ceptance. . When making other decisions which I deemed import ant, such as voting for Charlie Vance and Ed Emack last No vember to represent me in stu dent government, I have always tried to be fair and honest. As to my intention and platform, I am working on them and will issue a statement when it is ready." Scholarship Winner To Play Piano Recital At Hill Hall Tuesday Mary B. Stringfield, gradu ate student of the music depart ment, will present a piano reci tal in Hill Hall at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday May 14. Included in her program will be works by Mo zart, Debussy, and Chopin. Miss Stringfield, from "Mars Hill, has been a student of the University for three years, during which time she has been prominent in musical activities. She is a charter member of the local chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, national music fraternity, and has participated in the band, concert orchestra, and glee club. Pi Lambda Phi Initiates Newly-initiated brothers in Pi Lambda Phi fraternity are Leonard Kaplan, of High Point ; Charles Borton, of Richmond, Va.; Albert Litinsky, of New Haven, Conn. ; and Henry Gold ing, of New York.
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