Briefs From UP
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Truman Lists
Three Needs
For US Power
- Secret Service
Seize Three Men
Chicago, April 6. President
Truman issued a solemn warn
ing" today that war can happen
again. And he made use of the
backdrop of Army Day to plead
once again for measures to make
America militarily strong in or
der to defend the peace in the
atomic age. Speaking at Chi
cago's Soldier's Field this after
noon, Mr. Truman told the huge
crowd "Next time, if there
must be a next time, we are
likely to be the first target." He
then listed three so-called "es
sentials" for a powerful Ameri
ca. One prompt unification of
the armed forces, two exten
sion of the draft for another
year; and three adoption of
universal training to prepare
America for war.
In urging the necessity of uni
versal training, Mr. Truman de
parted from his text to warn
"Now, even in an election year
like this, no one should play
politics with the national safety."
This apparently, was a refer
ence to congressional opposition
to Mr. Truman's universal train
ing plan.
Shortly after his speech the
President held a press confer
ence for 100 high school news
reporters, during which time he
told the boys and girls that he
believes the vote should be given
.to 18-year olds.
Other Army Day speakers
have echoed the President's
words. In Chicago, General
.Eisenhower and Secretary of
War Patterson both have asked
for a strong army for a strong
peace. And tonight in New York
General Omar Bradley urges
, Americans to shun what he calls
"the primrose path" of military
unpreparedness, and to recog
nize that for the time being at
least national security rests with
a strong system of national de
fense. Truman Threatened
Secret Service agents and
police assigned to guard the
President seized three men as
Mr. Truman moved about Chi
cago today. One man is identi
fied as Curt Apel. Chicago police
say he sent "bothering and
threatening" letters to the President.
Shooting Star Flys
In New Record Time
Los Angeles, April 6. A
silver-colored Shooting Star
plane swooped down through the
mist and drizzle late this after
noon to set a new Seattle to Los
Angeles flight record. Two hours
and 14 minutes was the elapsed
time for the 960-mile flight.
Piloted by Captain Mack Mit
chell, veteran of more than 150
combat missions, the jet-propelled
Army plane averaged
more than 450 miles an hour as
it and another P-80 roared
through poor flying weather
down the West coast. The new
record clips 39 minutes from the
previous best time set by a B-29
Superfort in 1945.
Hard-to-Get Goods
Said To Flow Soon
St. Louis, April 6. Reconver
sion Director John Snyder says
that the nation is, to quote him,
"On the threshold of a tremen
dous spurt in output of all the
things we can't get now." Sny
der, who has returned to his
home town of St.' Louis to ad
dress an Army Day dinner, says
that shortages' of consumer dur-
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VOLUME LIV
Seniors Set
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Week to Pay
Class Fees
Senior Week Expense
Money To Alleviate
Members of the executive
committee of the senior class will
begin this week to contact all
seniors to collect the class fees
voted on themselves by class
members at a meeting last Tues
day. Each senior is expected to pay
$2.25 to alleviate expenses of Se
nior Week activities slated for
April 20-25 and for other class
needs for the- remainder of the
year. .
An additional $1.00 payable to
the Alumni Association as dues
for the coming year will be col
lected at the same time, but the
class voted this should be op
tional since many veterans are
at present members of the asso
ciation. Canvass Plans
Plans for the canvass were
made at a class executive meet
ing Friday, when collectors were
named for every dormitory and
sorority and fraternity house.
Town girls will be contacted
through the Town Girls Asso
ciation, it was decided. Men liv
ing in town will pay their fees at
a Y booth to be set up at a later
date. ;
Urged Cooperation
Class President Jim Booth
jtirged members of the class to
cooperate fully by paying their
fees as soon as possible. Collec
tion of money in the manner
voted by the class will eliminate
the necessity of charging indivi-
See SENIORS, page U
Classes To Be Held
Next Friday As Usual
According to an announcement
from the administration classes
will be held as scheduled next
Friday, contrary to a rumor pre
vailing over the campus this
week.
Previously some programs re
lated to Sesquicentennial activi
ties have caused classes to be
called off, but this will not be the
case next Friday.
Basketball Team to Get Party
Monday Night at Student Union
By Jo Farris
Champions all, the Univer
sity of North Carolina's White
Phantoms, will be the guests at
a banquet Monday night given
by Graham Memorial at 7 p. m.
Physical education officials and
team managers will also be
present at this honor banquet.
No ordinary run-of-the-mill
banquet fare would do for these
outstanding boys, so barbecue
will be imported from Pully's in
Kinston, plus all the trimmings.
Another import, Eddie Woodell
from Raleigh, will provide en
tertainment in the form of
pantomimes, humorous stories,
imitations, and song and dance
routines after the banquet. The
Carolinians will entertain dur
ing the meal.
Martha Rice, GM director,
will welcome the boys, then de
part, for this banquet is to be a
strictly stag affair, with the GM
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KAPPA SIG PINUP Mar
guerite Murray of High Point
is the first attractive coed to
be picked by the Kappa Sigma
fraternity to act as the or
ganization's pinup of the
month. Miss Murray is a
member of the Chi Omega
sorority.
IFC Cautions
Fraternities 1
Rushing Is Out
Until September
Since a motion to withhold all
rushing until next fall term was
passed by the Inteffraternity
council, leaders of that organi
zation warned against possible
violations of rules during the
term.
,,The motion was that the rules
committee of the IFC shall for
mulate all rules with the plaif Of
rushing again this fall when the
September term begins.
A review of the rules was list
ed by president of the council,
Pete Pully. They are : no eligible
rushee can visit any fraternity
house; no eligible rushee can be
entertained at a meal either at a
fraternity house or any other
place; no eligible rushee can be
entertained at a fraternity spon
sored social ; no discussion of fra
ternities shall take place between
See FRATERNITIES, page 4
Experimentals Monday
Tryouts for the next bill of
experimental plays will be held
at the Playmakers' Theatre to
morrow at 4 p.m. All those in
terested in trying out are asked
to attend.
assistants carrying on from
there.
Students Invited
After the banquet, the honor
guests will be further entertain
ed by a variety program at 9
p. m. in the Main Lounge to
which the entire student body is
invited. Eddie Woodell will pre
sent a few more numbers, Julia
Kocktitzky will interpret Begin
the Beguine in ballet style, Dave
Owens and Moe Hooks will put
on exhibition jitterbugging, com
plete with zoot suit and short
skirt, and Lynn Leonard, in a
Gertrude Niesen style, will be ac
companied by Bill Sasser. Some
thing new and different is be
ing planned and students are
welcome to come to Graham Me
morial to assist in .giving the
White Phantoms appreciation
for the season's work.
Movies of the event will be
taken by Bob Coulter who is
planning a series of films on GM
activities.
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COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST-
Mayor Madry
Makes Appeal
For Housing
Urges Citizens
To List Rooms
With a record University en
rollment of 4430, the. village is
more crowded than ever, but
University and town authorities
are making special efforts to al
leviate the housing situation.
"All citizens .who can possibly
spare a room for rent for stu
dents are urged to do so," Mayor
R. W. Madry said in an appeal
today.
He praised the project being
conducted by the Community
Council which is making a sur
vey to determine how many ad
ditional rooms in Chapel Hill
may be made available to stu
dents. The council is composed of rep
resentatives of the Ministerial
Council, the American Legion
and Auxiliary, the Kiwanis and
Rotary Clubs, and the Lions Club
of Carrboro, Veterans Associa
tion, Merchants Association,
Kings Daughters, D. A. R., and
the Women's Business and Pro
fessional Club.
Clarence Oakley, president of
the Kiwanis Club, is chairman of
the group. Plans for the survey
were made at two meetings held
recently.
Students Go Home
"Some students, who didnt
have quite enough perseverance,
have returned to their homes be
cause they could not find a room,
and many others will be turned
away in the months to come un
less more rooms in town can be
made available," Mayor Madry
said.
"The trailer camp being set up
now, the prefabricated govern
ment houses expected soon, and
the five dormitories that are to
be constructed as soon as ma
terials and labor are available
will alleviate the situation but
they will not come anywhere
near solving the housing prob
lem unless in the meantime many
more homes are open to stu
dents," he said.
The Mayor said that citizens
who can get spare rooms 1 for
rent, without inconveniencing
themselves too much, will be
making a valuable civic and pa
triotic contribution.
He also stressed the view that
rental prices, regardless of the
demand, should be kept within
reasonable limits. "There have
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Constitution Study
Continues Monday
In Gerrard Hall
Legislature members will re
convene Monday night at 7:30
in Gerrard Hall to continue ex
amination of the proposed cam
pus constitution.
Articles I and II were passed
at meetings last week after a
great deal of dissension and a
few changes.
Charlie Fulton, holdover mem
ber of the legislature, has been
presiding officer of the meet
ings., Monday's meeting will be
fifth in a series destined to study
the document!
All students interested in the
proposed constitution are urged
to be present at the meetings
next week in Gerrard Hall.-
Sesqui Celebration
Will
End
University To Award Largest Number
Of Honorary, Degrees on Saturday
The concluding and climactic event of Carolina's eight-year-long
Sesquicentennial celebration will take place Friday and Saturday
when more than 250 delegates from colleges and universities and
150 from learned societies from all sections of the country come
to Chapel Hill to join in the University's program.
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JOHN WALKER
Unique Concert
Planned Tonight
In GM Lounge
"The Song Shoppe" with Ed
Easter as proprietor will be pre
sented tonight at 9 p.m. in the
main lounge of Graham Me
morial. The program, sponsored
by the student union, will feature
music from various popular mas
ters and also some semi-classical
numbers.
The theme "old music for
new" will be used. Gwen Hughes,
Rex Coston, and Alice Tip Sum
mers will act as musical sales
men, rendering selections from
Jerome Kern, Cole Porter,
George Gershwin, and other pop
ular composers. Several num
bers taken from Rudolf Friml's
operettas and from Broadway
shows will be presented.
Sasser to Play
Bill Sasser of Sound and Fury
will be special guest artist on
the mock radio broadcast.. Sas
ser will present a new composi
tion in addition to some of his
older ones.
Martha Rice, union director,
cordially invites all students to
attend tonight's variety musical
show.
Deke Returnees
Eight members of DKE fra
ternity have returned to school
after being in the armed serv
ices. They are : Tommy Dill, Bob
Wiley, Bill Christenson, Soupy
Campbell, Booky Jabine, James
Brawley, Muir Lyon, and Reid
Thompson.
Sesqui Celebration
Seniors Collect Fees
Mayor Makes Appeal
NUMBER 47
Next Week
Forty-two- honorary degrees,
the largest number ever present
ed by the University on any one
occasion, will be awarded Satur
day morning in Memorial hall
following addresses by President
Edmund E. Day of Cornell Uni
versity and President Frank P.
Graham of the University of
North Carolina. Other widely
known speakers to address the
delegates include Governor R.
Gregg Cherry and John Walker,
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Governor Speaks
The two day program will get
under way with a dinner in Le
noir Hall at 6 o'clock Friday
night, at which Governor Cherry
will be the speaker. Attending
this event will be the delegates,
University Trustees, recipients
of honorary, degrees and. mem
bers of the Legislative, Alumni
and University Sesquicentennial
committees.
The dinner will be followed at
8 o'clock by a concert by the Uni
versity Symphony Orchestra and
Mr. Walker's address, both to be
held in Hill Hall. Concluding
event of the Friday program will
be a special exhibition of Ameri
can painting and a reception in
Person Hall. Mr. Walker will
talk on American painting.
Saturday's program will begin
with a colorful academic proces
sion at 10 o'clock, leading to Me
morial Hall. There President
Day will speak on "The Mobiliza
tion of Education' in a Free So
ciety" and President Graham on
"A Look Ahead.". Dr. William
M. Dey, the University's chief
marshal, will present each of the
delegates. The concluding event
will be a luncheon at Lenoir Hall
at one o'clock.
Conclusion
This weekend's celebration
will be the concluding event of
a number of ceremonies . held
since 1939 in commemoration of
the founding of the University.
The historic incidents around
which the ceremonies have large
ly centered were the granting of
the charter of the University by
the General Assembly at Fay
etteville on December 11, 1789;
the laying of the cornerstone of
Old East on October 12, 1793 ; the
See CELEBRATION, page U
Campus9 Best Looking
Man to Be Revealed
The name of Carolina's most
handsome man will be announced
in the Daily Tar Heel next week.
Every girl's organization has
completed voting for its choice
among the twenty-three candi
dates and the lucky man will be
revealed next week.
The winner will be featured
in the pinup section of the May
Mag and will receive free gifts
from local merchants. Included
in the gifts will be tennis balls
from the Carolina Sport Shop,
two meals from the Porthole,
three 8 by 10 portraits from
Wooten-Moulton and two tickets
to the Carolina Theatre.