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UP BRIEFS
Truman Orders
Gov't Seizure
Of Coal Mines
Order Takes Effect
Shortly After Noon
The White House, May 21
President Truman this after
noon seized the soft coal mines,
effective tomorrow. But White
House Secretary Charles Ross
indicates that the A. F. of L.
United Mine Workers have yet
to give a promise that they will
keep the miners in the pit after
the strike truce expires on Sat
urday. Interior Department Sec
retary J. A. Krug has been
named federal manager of the
mines.
Vice-Admiral Ben Morrell,
the war-time head of the Sea
bees, has been named by In
terior Secretary Krug as his
deputy to take over the coal
mines tomorrow. .The govern
ment will officially take title to
the mines just after noon tomor
row. Krug has called John L.
Lewis to his office to appeal to
him to keep the miners on the
job.
Harold Stassen Asks
Administration Change
Chicago, May 21 One of the
leading contenders for the .Re
publican nomination for Presi
dent, former Minnesota Gover
nor Harold Stassen, has called
for the removal of three key
figures in the present adminis
tration. Stassen told the Inland
Daily Press Association that
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach,
Commerce Secretary Wallace,
and Economic Stabilizer Bowles
should be removed.
Snyder Asks Aid
Of Nation's Bankers
St. Louis, May 21 Reconver
sion Director John Snyder has
pleaded for the help of the na
tion's bankers in the govern
ment's fight against inflation.
Speaking before the annual con
vention of the Missouri State
Bankers Association, Snyder de
scribed inflation as "the most
dangerous aftermath of war.'
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House Committee
Votes Navy Subsidy
Washington, May 21 The
House Appropriations Commit
tee has voted to give the Navy
more than four and one-half
billion dollars for its first full
postwar year. The committee
has lopped off about 25 per cent
of what the Navy asked for,
saying that until more is known
about the atomic bomb, the na
tion's future cannot be deter
mined. Russian Evacuation
Of Iran Completed
Tehran, May 21 The Iran
ian government announced to
night that the Red Army evacu
ation of Azerbaijan was com
pleted by May 6. This is the first
official confirmation that the Red
Army had pulled out of Azer
baijan by the scheduled deadline.
Ban on Perishable
Shipments Predicted
Chicago, May 21 A spokes
man for the Association of
American Railroads predicts
that an embargo on perishable
freight shipments will be or
dered in Washington tomorrow.
The rail spokesman says the em
bargo will ban all perishable
shipments that cannot be deliv
ered by noon Thursday four
hours before the new rail strike
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Golden Fleece Taps
Two Faculty
Members Get
High Honor
Eihack Is Revealed
As Jason of Fleece
In impressive tapping rituals
in darkened Memorial Hall, the
Golden Fleece, highest men's
honor society on the campus,
Sunday night brought thirteen
new students and two distin
guished faculty members in their
fold, a record of initiates for
recent years. In their only pub
lic affair of the year, Jason of
the group was revealed to be
white robed Edward Emack,
senior from Haverford, Pa.
The ceremonies, which imme
diately followed the yearly cam
pus wide singing tournament
sponsored by the Valkyries,
highest women's honor organiza
tion on the campus, were intro
duced with the reading of the
traditional legend of Jason and
the Argonauts, and Jason's
search for the Golden Fleece.
. Added Suspense ;
As the house lights were cut,
two spotlights from the stage
followed a pair of black robed
and hooded figures as they
coursed slowly through the aisles
and rows of , the auditorium. A
tremendous clap on the shoulders
and the pinning with the Fleece
colors, marked the admittance
of the new members in to the
Order.
Initiates and their order in
(tapping were: Westy Fenhagen,
Delta Psi, and Daily Tar Heel
managing editor ; Bob Paxton,
ROTC and well known varsity
basketball player; Fred Flagler,
Kappa Alpha, Yackety Yack
editor; L. P. MacLendon, Jr.;
Harry Russell, Delta Psi and
popular professor of English;
Dewey Dorsett, ATO, past presi
dent of the UVA; Charles Ful
ton, speaker of the legislature ;
Bob Stockton, student body secretary-treasurer.
Wallace Murchison, law stu
dent; Hugh T. Lefler, professor
of History; Jim Booth, Sigma
Nu, Senior Class president;
See GOLDEN FLEECE, page U
Whit Osgood Wins
Re-Election Vote
As IFC President
Whit Osgood was re-elected
president of the Interfraternity
Council at the meeting of fra
ternity representatives last night
in the Grail Room of Graham
Memorial. Marriotte Stewart,
Art Aronson, and Dick Badham
were chosen vice-president, sec
retary, and treasurer, respec
tively. Following the election of of
ficers, the council discussed fra
ternity support of the Prague
conference and postponed an ad
dress planned for this month by
Esquire's fashion editor.
The council agreed to accept
the old system of rushing for
next year and decided that no
changes in rushing rules would
be made.
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THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOVTHEAST-
CHAPEL HILL, N. C
Ed Emack, who was re
vealed as Jason of the Golden
Fleece when that high hon
orary society held its annual
spring tapping in Memorial
Hall Sunday night. Emack is
a senior from Haverford,
Pennsylvania and a Delta Psi.
UVARetention
Asked by Vets
Officer Elections
Scheduled Tomorrow
At the meeting of the UVA
Wednesday night, the member
ship present voted almost unani
mously to retain the association
on the campus. After reaching
this decision, it was voted to have
the May election tomorrow even
ing, at 7 :30 p. m., in the main
lounge of the Graham Memorial.
Committees were appointed to
carry out full-scale plans for
putting new life into the present
organization and to bring about
an even stronger and more effec
tive UVA for the coming school
year.
All veterans on the campus,
especially those who are present
ly members of the UVA, are
strongly urged to be present at
the meeting tomorrow night for
the election of new officers. Also,
there will be an open discussion
on plans for re-vamping the
veterans' club house and mak
ing it an attractive social gather
ing place for all vets and their
friends. "
All vets who are members are
asked to bring membership
cards Thursday night.
Coeds Urged to Keep
Swim Suits in Dorms
Women using the outdoor pool
and wearing their own bathing
suits must carry them back to
their living quarters as there is
no place in the Woman's Gym to
keep them. Bathing suits now
hung on the locker cage must be
removed.
Those swimmers not wishing
to wear their own bathing suits
may wear the regular suits pro
vided by the department.
Cancer Committeemen
Asked to Make Report
All students who solicited in
the dormitories for. the Cancer
Drive are requested to turn in
their money to Mrs. Kay Ferrel,
at the "Y" Building, at the
earliest opportunity.
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15 In Impressive Ceremonies
Four Named
To New Staff
Of Math Center
President Announces
Recent Additions
Four appointments to the
Chapel Hill staff of the newly
organized All-University Insti
tute of Statistics at State Col
lege and graduate department of
Mathematical Statistics here
were announced recently by
by President Frank P. Graham
and Chancellor Robert B. House,
following approval by the ex
ecutive committee of the Board
of Trustees.
The establishment of the two
centers is expected to enable the
consolidated University to be
come one of the two or three
great centers of mathematical
and experimental statistics in
the world if current plans are
effectuated.
The four men appointed to the
staff here were employed as the
result of a grant from the Roeke-
tfeller Foundation for the estab
lishment of the Department.
They are Dr. William G. Ma
dow, lecturer in statistics in the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Graduate School and recently
visiting professor of statistics at
the University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil; Dr. Pao-Lu Hsu, profes
sor of mathematics in the Uni
versity of Peking and former
lecturer in the University De
partment of London Depart
ment of Applied Statistics; Dr.
Herbert E. Bobbins, assistant
professor of mathematics in
New York University and for
mer staff member of the Post
graduate School of the U. S.
Naval Academy; and Edward
Paulson, a member of the Sta
tistical Research group of the
Division of War Research, Co
lumbia University.
Sigma Nu Officers
Newly elected officers of the
Sigma Nu fraternity are : Peter
Beaudry, president; Clyde Par
ker, vice-president; George By
rum, secretary; Leslie White,
treasurer; Joe Leary, chaplain.
Talented Playmaker Dancer
Opens Return Showing Friday
Anne Osterhout of Beaufort,
South Carolina, will be the fea
tured girl dancer in the Carolina
Playmakers outdoor production
of "The School For Husbands,"
a comedy "of song, ballet and
rhyme, which opens in the For
est Theatre, Friday, at 8:30, for
a three-day run.
Anne dances the part of the
Shepherdess in the ballet inter
lude in this show; which is the
Dream of Sganarelle, adapted
from the ballet of "Le Marriage
Force," originally danced by His
Majesty Louis XIV and his court
in 1664. She also has leading
roles in other dance scenes
throughout the play.
No Playmaker Stranger
To veteran Playmakers, Anne
is no stranger. She was a grad
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Woestendiek, Jacobson
Leading in Publications
Totals at 11 P. M. Give Only Half of Vote;
Total Balloting Expected to Pass 2300
The greatest number of votes ever cast in a general student
election were made yesterday as approximately 2300 students
went to the polls to elect their campus leaders.
At 11 o'clock last night, with slightly over half the total number
of votes tabulated, Dewey Dorsett, independent candidate for stu
dent body president, held a substantial margin over Bill Crisp with
586 votes against420 for Crisp.
Other presidential candidates' votes included 329 for Pete Pully,
201 for Blount Stewart, 189 for "Hungry" Bill Smith, 171 for A.
eB. Smith, 34 for Sellers.
Seniors Mark
Barefoot Day
Ceremonies
Continuing their series of
events for the week, seniors will
observe Barefoot Day today,
which will be climaxed by a
senior-faculty softball game be
ginning at 4 p. m. on Alexander
Field.
Following the game, a swim
ming party for seniors and their
guests will be held at the out
door pool at 7:30.
Superlatives are being voted
on today iii the Y from 9 a. m.
until 1 p. m. Nominations for
superlatives were made Monday
night at a senior class meeting
which initiated Senior Week.
Tickets on Sale
Banquet tickets for Thursday
night's banquet at the Carolina
Inn may be purchased at the Y
today. Prices will be 50 cents
for seniors who present their
class tickets and $1.50 for those
who have not paid their fees.
Seniors may also sign up in the
Y today for the senior picnic.
The week will be climaxed by
a formal dance in Woollen Gym
nasium Saturday night at which
time Tommy Reynolds and his
orchestra will furnish the music.
The dance is open to dues-paying
juniors and seniors and their
dates.
All seniors are urged to co
operate with the spirit of Bare
foot Day today.
uate assistant in the Dramatic
Art department from 1943 to
1945, receiving her M.A. last
March. While she was here, she
had leading roles . in Playmakers
productions, did radio work, and
had three original one-act plays
produced.
For the past several months
Anne has been studying with the
Martha Graham dance studio in
New York. While there she was
also associated with the Neigh
borhood Playhouse and appear
ed' in ' the Blackfriars Guild
show, "Mary of Magdala."
Anne will go to Manteo this
summer to appear in the pro
duction of Paul Green's "The
Lost Colony." She is cast for
two dances, one as a milk maid,
the other as an Indian girl.
Campus Elections
Golden Fleece
Senior Barefoot Day
NUMBER 86
Toting
In the race for Daily Tar Heel
editorship, the Student Party
candidate Bill Woestendiek held
a margin of 245 votes over his
nearest competitor, Bob Morri
son. Woestendiek had 577 votes
against 332 for Morrison,
263 went for Gene Aenchbacher,
239 for Bill Johnson, and 215
for Carroll Poplin.
For vice-president of the stu
dent body, Charlie Warren led
with 685 votes to Charlie Don
nell's 517. In the secretary
treasurer race, Johnny Jones,
Student Party candidate, led
Janet Johnston, UP candidate,
by a total of 626 to 552.
Fred Jacobson, UP candidate
See ELECTION, page J
Graduate Student
Presents Recital
Tonight in Hill Hall
Mary B. Stringfield, graduate
student of the music department,
will present a piano recital in
Hill Hall at 8:30 p. m. tonight.
Miss Stringfield, pupil of Pro
fessor Jan P. Schinhan, will fea
ture works from the pens of W.
A. Mozart, Claude Debussy, and
Frederic Chopin.
Miss Stringfield, a native of
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 honorary
fraternity. She was the recipient
of the Kay Kyser Scholarship in
Music for 1945-46. Her recital
was previously scheduled for
last week, but was postponed be
cause of her illness.
Tickets Are On Sale
For Cordon Concert
Slated for Monday
Tickets are still on sale for
the Norman Cordon concert to
be presented here May 27 in Me
morial hall at 8:30 p. m. Phi
Mu Alpha members, who are
sponsoring the concert, and Led-better-Pickard's,
have tickets
for sale.
Cordon, bass baritone of the
Metropolitan Opera Association,
is an alumnus of Carolina. He
is not the only member of his
college class to make his mark
in the musical world. Classmates
include such now famous names
as "Skinny" Ennis, Kay Kyser,
John Scott Trotter, and the late
Hal Kemp.