EDITORIAL:
Carolina Merry-Go-Round
Campus Milestone
Strictly Detrimental
NEWS:
UP in Lead
Bowl Tickets Tomorrow
Experimental Tonight
-THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST-
VOLUME LV
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. CJ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946
NUMBER 86
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NEWS BRIEFS
Rocket Flown
By Army Pilot
Small Ship Can Fly
1700 Miles Per Hour
Los Angeles, Dec. 10 (UP)
We're not in the 25th century yet,
but the Army has flown its first roc
ket plane. The tiny Bell XS-1 capa
ble of 1700 miles an hour at an alti
tude of 80,000 feet swept over the
sun-baked Muroc Army base for 19
minutes yesterday under close rein,
and it's pilot, 23-year-old Chalmers
Goodlin of Greenberg, Perm., says the
performance was perfect.
Dropped from Bomber
The tiny needle-nosed plane was
dropped from the belly cf a B-29
bomber on its first test. It glided si
lently away before Goodlin turned
on the first of its four rocket tubes.
Then, he says, it leaped just as if it
had been kicked, leaving behind a
thin trail of white smoke. It won't
be until next summer after at least
20 preliminary tests that the Army
will turn loose all four rocket tubes.
But when it does the little rocket
plane should be able to cover the dis
tance from Philadelphia to New York
in three minutes.
Damon Runyon Dies
In New York Hospital
"New 'York, Dec. 10 (UP) Dam
on Runyon one of America's best
knowH newspapermen and short story
writers, rdied tonight in New York.
Runyon was" 62V He had been In" poor
health for several years but continued
his daily syndicated column until he
entered the hospital recently, suffer
ing from a gall bladder ailment com
plicated by liver trouble.
He had been in a -coma since yes
terday. Iran Forces Advance
Within Azerbaijan
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Tehran, Dec. 10 (UP) The Iran
ian Chief of Staff claims that govern
ment troops have advanced more than
25 miles into Azerbaijan Province, in
flictlng many casualties on the rebel
forces. The government troops were
ordered into semi-autonomous Azer
baijan to supervise elections.
Troops May Be Galled
In Wisconsin Walkout
Milwaukee, Dec. 10 (UP) Gov
ernor Goodland of Wisconsin has been
asked to send National Guard troops.
to the strike-bound Allis-Chalmers
plant to quell demonstrations. Mayor
Klentz of West Allis says he and lo
cal police officials agree outside help
io needed to curb increased rioting.
Soft Coal Production
Is Now About Normal
Washington, Dec. 10 The Solid
Fuels Administration figures soft
coal production today was about 95
percent of normal. In Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Illinois
Steel Corporation ex
pects its production to bounce back
to CO percent of capacity by tomor
row, as a result of the coal strike end.
Normal ingot production is expected
by early next week.
Apartment Authority
Predicts Rent Rise
Los Angeles, Dec. 10-(UP)-The
Secretary-manager of the Apartment
Association Button Edwards ex
pects a 15-percent rise in rent ceil
ings to be announced in Washington
within the next 36 hours. He further
says that full rent decontrol proces
ses will start on the first of the year.
However, the White House says it
knows nothing about the rent increase
report. And the OPA and Reconvers
ion chief Steelman says the report is
news to them.
WEATHER TODAY
Probable showers.
Sugar Bowl Coupons
May Be Exchanged
In New Orleans
For Actual Tickets
After consultation with ath
letic officials, the Student Advis
ory committee announced last
night that coupons redeemable
for tickets to the Sugar Bowl game
will go on sale at Woollen Gymnasium
tomorrow morning from 9 to 1 o'clock
and 2 to 5.
Each coupon may be exchanged for
one ticket at a booth in the New Or
leans Roosevelt hotel on New Years'
morning between the hours of 8 and
12. When exchanging the coupons
each student must present his identi
fication card before he can receive a
ticket.
One Per Student
On the first day of sale tomorrow
each student may purchase one cou
pon upon presentation of his identifi
cation card until all tickets are sold.
If any ducats remain unsold after the
first day they will go on sale again
Friday, and students may purchase a
second coupon to be used by wives,
parents, or dates only. When these
coupons are exchanged at New Or
leans the person for whom they were
bought must be properly identified as
wife, parent, or date, before they will
be issued a ticket to the game.
The Athletic association is planning
to charter busses to carry students
from the Roosevelt hotel to the bowl
an the morning of the game! Prices
of the tickets are ?S.00 and $5.00-
If after buying a coupon a student
finds that he is unable to attend the
game, he may return the coupon to
See SUGAR Page U
Store on Wheels Was Wilmington City Bus. . .
"Transit Grocery " Provides
For Chapel Hill and Surrounding Territory
By Earl Heffner
Although the Mountain will not
come to monammea, me gruceiy
store will go to the customer here at
Chapel Hill.
As ticklish and intriguing as this
feat might sound, it seems quite sim
ple and normal to local housewives
who are becoming accustomed to hav
ing the Transit Grocery store roll
around to them thus saving long
jaunts into town for poor Mr. Hus
band who was wont to take his daily
constitutional during the Pre-Tra-veling
grocery store days of yore.
Was Formerly Bus
This First Wonder of Chapel Hill
formerly was a Wilmington city bus
which two local veterans, Ed Mont
joy and A. L. Farrell, purchased
from C. W. Daniels. Now it is a
gaudily painted rolling store which
furnishes the cuisine needs of many
families in and around Chapel Hill.
Properietors Montjoy and Farrell,
bcth natives of Chapel Hill, served
with the Army Air Transport Com
mand in North Africa during World
War II. Montjoy, who is married
his wife also helps in the grocery
whenever her household duties per
mit served for a year and a half
in the African theatre as a staff serg
eant. Ferrell, still an eligible bacche- '
lor, put in three years with the ATC
in the sands of Africa
When D for Discharge day rolled ,
nA th calendar, the Transit.
around on the calendar, the Transit
grocery hadn't yet been conceived.
Conceived from Chronic Complaints
Montjoy returned home and to his
old job with a local grocery where
he served as assistant manager, later
as general manager of the store. It
was here that the idea was conceived
when the veteran began to take note
of a chronic complaint of many custo
mers, that the trip to the grocery
certainly took up a long portion of
each day.
Since most of these complaints were
being' made by veterans and their
wives carrying heavy academic loads
at the University, Montjoy began to
dream of a way to relieve their over
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The new University Veterans association clubhouse, opened last Wed
nesday evening, will close tomorrow night for the examination period
and holidays, while . painters and interior decorators add finishing
touches to the building. Rebuilt by the University from the old Navy
pre-flight wrestling pavilion at the South end of Lenoir hall, the new
club contains a large dance floor, check room, band stand, refreshment
corner, and offices for the UVA. The building is open nightly, and
open houses and other entertainments, under UVA sponsorship, will be
held weekly beginning next quarter. Erection, of the clubhouse was
brought about last September when the Institute of Government took
over the old center, on the Raleigh road for the State Highway Patrol
training school.
Drama Students to Present
Experimental Productions
; Three original one-act plays will
be presented in the 113th Bill of Ex
perimental Productions at the Play
makers Theatre tonight at 7:30.
Samuel Selden, director of the Caro
lina Playmakers, will introduce the
playwrights to the audience, and in
vite general discussion on each pro
duction. . The first play. on. the program ih a
serious comedy, "Never Seek To
Tell," by Harold Suits and directed
by Arthur Early. The scene of the
play is by a soft drink stand on a high
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Co-proprietor Ed Montjoy happily watches a young housewife make a
selection from his stock at the Transit Grocery, once a Wilmington city
but. and now a store on wheels in Chapel Hill and vicinity. Montjoy, like
his partner, A. L. Farrell, is a veteran of the Army Iransport command
with service in North Africa. (Photo by R.,L. Brooks)
burdened time schedules and, quite
naturally, of a method of setting him-
self up in a going business. !
It wasn't long until Farrell and '
Montiov had their idea and were "
working on the task
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of turning a (
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dream Into reality.
Rollins: Gold Mine
Soon the unique store became a fa-:
vorite with its veteran customers and
their wives. For the propritors' it be
came a rolling gold mine. Profits ex
ceeded their fondest dreams and with
them came the howls of citizens on the
other side of Franklin street which
Go On Sale Tomorrow Morning
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way in western North Carolina, and
the comedy tells the story of an ado
lescent boy who loses the girl he loves.
Mood Tragedy by Wills
"The Mask of the Black Bishop,"
a mood tragedy by John Wills and di
rected by Paul K. Jones, is the second
production on the bill. Laid in the
Victorian living room of a New Or
leans home, the play deals with a mur
derer who kills inen whose faces re
semble those carved on a valuable
chess set.
See EXPERIMENT A LS, page
Mobile
Market
the store is unable to serve because
of time limitations,
With their original plan a success
and the future quite rosy, Montjoy and
Farrell already have made a minor ex-
pansion. The bus is now augmented
by a pickup truck which also car
ries produce. But the dream doesn t
! end here for soon a second unit of the
Transit grocery will put in an appear-
ance to serve the other side of Frank
lin street.
To insure their future against fly-by-night
competition which may de
velop the veterans have applied for
a five-year franchise in Chapel Hill.
) Council Runoff
For Broughton, Lowenstein
Incomplete Counts at 10 Last Evening
Show Uncertain Results; Only 1500 Vote
V
Less than one-forth of the student body drifted to the polls yes
terday to give the University Party an apparent sweep in earlieot
returns.
An incomplete count assured a runoff between Bob Broughton
(UP) and Independent Al Lowenstein for member-at-large to
Candlelight Room
Features Dancers
On Tonight's Show
As the main attraction of its pro
gram tonight, the Candlelight Room
will feature Bill Townsend and Pal
Falconer, who will demonstrate the
various steps of the Rumba, Samba,
and Tango dances, and then invite the
audience to try their skill at these rhy
thms. Prizes will be awarded to the
best dancers, and the winners will be
adjudged from the amount of applause
received from the crowd present.
The opening of the show will feature
Buddy Robinson, star tap dancer, Bob
MacDonald, popular pianist who will
play his own arrangement of "Jingle
Bells," the Harmonica duo, Paul and
Irving Gordon, and .Phyllis Isenhour,
Tommy Thomas, and Rusty Collins as
vocalists. - !
The performances will begin
promptly at 9:30 o'clock, and the re
mainder of the program for the even
ing will feature the "'Stardusters Com
bo," playing dance selections.
Blonde Beauty Coaxes
Columbians to Confess
To Nazi-Modeled Plot
Atlanta, Dec. 10 (UP) Today,
the Attorney General of Georgia, Ea
gene Cook, called newsmen into his
office and showed them two signed con
fessions which sent the reporters scur
rying to the nearest telephones.
These confessions pictured the hate
organization, the Columbians, Incor
porated, as a Nazi-modeled scheme to
overthrow the government. The pic
ture was complete. All the Hitler
fashioned methods were on hand race
I purges, smuggled arms and all.
Now it is revealed just how these
confessions were obtained. The two
who gave out the statements are them
selves former Columbians 18-year-old
James Childers, who wears the
society's so-called badge of honor for
his alleged part in flogging a Negro,
and 21-year-old Lanier Waller
The two were coaxed into their con
fessions by a glamorous blonde beauty,
Renee Forrest, who went to Atlanta
from New York in the role of a Fascist
agent. Actually, she was working for
the Anti-Nazi League on special as
signment to pry out the secrets of the
Columbians. She got a job as secre
tary of the organization and began
working on Childers and Waller. She
finally won their confidence and per
suaded them to go to New York with
her and tell their story.
In their confessions, the two tell how
the Columbians, particularly the foun
der, former New York playboy Homer
Loomis, Jr., plotted to literally blast
Negroes out of Atlanta by dynamit
ing their homes. After Georgia had
been cleared of Negroes and Jews, the
group planned to move on o other
states and eventually to the White
House itself to take over the govern
ment. WILMINGTON STUDENTS
There will be a meeting of all stu
dents from Wilmington this afternoon
at 4 o'clock in the Monogram Club for
the purpose of discussing a Christmas
dance.
LAST DTH TOMORROW
Tomorrow's Daily Tar Heel will
mark the last issue for the quarter
of this publication. The next paper
will come out on Saturday morn
ing, January 4, the first day of
classes.
to Be Held
the Student Council, and a close fight
loomed between Meredith Buel (UP)
and Bill Starnes (SP), for the Men's
Honor Council.
Ballot counters, who faced work
till after midnight at press time, re
ported a total of 1502 votes cast. Tabu
lation of coed returns had been com
pleted, but no count was available for
dormitory legislature candidates.
Though most town district ballots had
been counted, it was impossible to con
solidate returns.
Non-Dormitory Voting
From the first hundred non-dormitory
ballots the following incomplete
returns were given by election of
ficials :
Later partial tabulation not avail
able by deadline indicated that the in
complete returns printed below could
not be considered representative of
the entire vote. Particularly in the
town district, the legislature contest
each minute developed new leads.
Chairman of the two parties were
not available last night for post
election statements, though it was
emphasized that the voting waa un
fortunately light - -- ; .
For Student Council, Member at
Large (Vote for One) Bobby Brough
ton (UP), 51; Al Lowenstein (Ind.),
19; Ed York (SP), 21.
For Men's Honor Council (Vote for
One) Meredith 'Swifty" Buel (UP),
53; Bill Starnes (SP), 55.
For Student Council. Men. (Vote for
0ne) Jack Booraem (SP), 28; Laurie
Hooper (UP), 58.
For Student Legislature, Six Month
Term (Vote for Three) Elton Fore
hand (UP), 47; Roland Giduz (SP),
28; Ernest House (UP), 60; Benson
McCutcheon (UP), 47; Dan McFar
land (SP), 35; Jim Taylor (SP), 42.
For Student Legislature, One Year
Term (Vote for Eight) Don Broad (S
P), 28; Gran Childress (Ind.), 27;
Jack Folger (UP), 49; Earl Heffner
(SP), 23; Tookie Hodgson (SP), 42;
Mai Kenny (SP), 26; Bill Mackie (S
P),42; BillMoffit (UP), 38; Tag Mon
tague (UP) (SP), 63; Charlie Nor
ton (UP), 57; Bill Raker (UP), 36;
Milt Schottland (UP), 29; Bill Sexton
(SP), 34; Don Shropshire (SP), 36;
j Walt Talley (UP), 39; Earl Wood
ward (UP), 43.
Student Legislature, Six Month
term, Emily Alitonf 97; Dottie Cam
eron, 107; Jo Farris, 119; Jinx Helm,
92; Peg Rankin, 119.
Student Legislature, One year term,
Madge Barclay, 75; Audrey Bryson,
51; Sara Buchanan, 100; Joyce Car
raway, 70; Janet Crinkley, 68; Nancy
Horner, 52; Lucy Jordon, 63; Margo
Martin, 79; Nina Moseley, 87; Jean
Patterson, 87.
Women's Council, Katie Guion, 34;
Pat Lane, 36; Dabney Little, 42; Don
nie McDonald, 45; Carolyn Neel, 23;
Gray Simpson, 25; Marshall Spears,
45; Mary Swann, 40.
Coed Senate, Ben Beall, 43; Lib
Clinard, 47; Nina Duberry, 42; Ruth
Evans, 51; Jean Gardner, 43; Doris
Harrow, 15; Sally Lee, 56; Lola Mus
tard, 17; Eleanor Singletary, 52.
Complete ballots will be given to
morrow. Choral Club to Sing
In Christmas Program
The Chapel Hill Choral Club, under
the direction of Prof. Paul Young,
assisted by the University Sympho
ny Orchestra, will present the Christ
mas Oratorio by Bach, in Hill hall at
this evening at 8:30. Soloists for the
performance will be William Kirk
patrick, tenor; Gwen Hughes, con
tralto; Rufus Norris, baritone. The
public is cordially invited and no
admission will be charged.