University.- of 'North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N. C.
EDITORIAL :
'Happiest Day'
From The Administration
It Might Hurt
NEWS
Grail Files Suit
National Conference
Grid Contest Winner
-THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST-
VOLUME LV
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1946
NUMBER 73
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NEWS BRIEFS
Lewis Facing
More Trouble
New Charges Placed
Against UMW Chief
Richmond, Nov. 25 (UP) John
L. Lewis appears to be heading into
another legal battle tonight.
The Virginia Corporation Commis
sion has ordered Lewis to appear on
December 2 as defendant in a com
plaint charging the mine workers'
union with violating a state security
law by the so-called "sale" of union
memberships. In the complaint, the
Richmond Better Business Bureau
charges that union memberships are
securities.
Illegal Sale
If the Commission upholds the
charge, Lewis would be liable to prose
cution for the illegal sale of unregis
tered securities. The security law
covering such transactions provides a
fine of up to $5,000 for each viola
tionmaking possible a maximum fine
against the UMW totalling $60,000,
000 for the unions' 12,000 members in
Virginia.
Governor William Tuck, who en
dorsed the complaint, tonight said that
Virginia would support any civil or
criminal action designed to curtail the
powers of John L. Lewis.
New Vets Organization
Is Open to Whites Only
West Jefferson, Nov. 25 (UP)
A newly-organized Veterans Associa
tion the American Confederation of
Enlisted Men has been founded at
West Jefferson, North Carolina, and
announces that its ranks are open only
to white members. The organization
.announces as one of its objectives
and we quote to keep America white
and free unquote. It also opposes the
closed shop for organized labor and
says that all future military officers
should come, from the ranks, .Leaders
of the organization say Governor Cher
ry will present them with their char
ter at the Capitol in Raleigh on No
vember twenty-seventh.
Arnall Throws Charges
At Federal Government
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25 (UP) Gov
ernor Arnall of Georgia charges that
the Federal Government is "almost
guilty of fraud" in using its wartime
emergency powers in the coal dispute.
Arnall refuses to comply with a gov
ernment request that he appoint a
coal conservator for his state.
ICC Asked to Continue
Special Service Rates
Washington, Nov. 25 (UP) The
Army, Navy and Coast Guard have
asked the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to require railroads and bus
companies to continue special fur
lough rates for servicemen.
Pipelines May Be Used
To Help Fuel Shortage
Washington, Nov. 25 (UP) Rep
resentatives of three natural gas com
panies have told a special House com
mittee that they could start pumping
fuel into the eastern seaboard through
the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines
-within a few weeks.
Demand for Inventory
Of Troops Is Renewed
Lake Success, Nov. 25 (UP)
United States and Britain have re
newed proposals before the United
Nations that all nations disclosed the
trth of their armies at home and
abroad. Britain also has proposed an .
international inspection system to
check the accuracy of each nation's
report. " "
Cairo Students Stage
New Anti-British Riot
Cairo, Nov. 25 (UP) More than
500 students staged new anti-British
demonstrations in Cairo ;today. The
students hurled bottles of flaming fuel
and other missiles into the; National
Bank in the center of the city.
WEATHER TODAY
Considerable cloudiness and mild.
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Charming, Blond Leona Flood
Called Concert
Leona Flood, violinist, being pre
sented by Phi Mu Alpha music fra
ternity tomorrow night at 8:30 in Hill
Music hall has been called the "gla
mour girl of concert violinists."
Tall, blond, and possessed of a
vivid and charming- personality, Miss
Flood is one of the most beautiful ar
tists on the concert stage today.
Born on the West Coast, she first
played the violin at the age of five,
and made her debut in Oslo, Norway,
at sixteen.
Makes Sparks
Miss Flood considers her greatest
compliment one which came from a
little four-year-old boy who recently
SP Designates Jack Booraem
As Choice for Council Post j
Party Will Select Additional Candidates '
At Pinal Nominating Convention Thursday
The first nomination for the December student body elections
was made Sunday afternoon when the Student party chose Jack
Booraem as student council nominee. Candidates for other posts
Co-op Group
Elects Heads
At the first meeting of the board
of directors of the re-formed Chapel
Hill Mutual Distributors, Inc., Tom
McDade was elected president, Mrs.
Ruth Slinkard. vice-president, and
Frank Kottke was chosen secretary-'
The board members discussed the
future organization and activities of
the co-op and two committees were
set up to handle certain business as
pects of the group. A general buying
committee was established and a sur
plus government property committee
was aiso formed to contract for any
government excess property its mem
bers may be able to use.
Have Store Site
The matter of obtaining a profes
sional store manager was also brought
up at the meeting. The group already
has a rental contract for a store-site
and early next quarter some sort of
temporary store will be secured. Un
der the charter the co-op can engage
in any sort of business enterprise as
an incorporated organization.
Disarmament Is Topic
Of IRC Forum Tonight
The International Relations Club
will'present a faculty forum this eve
ning in the main lounge of Graham
Memorial at 8 o'clock, featuring Dr.
L. M. Brooks of the Sociology depart
ment, Dr. Keener Chapman Frazer,
Director of the Southern Council of
International Relations, and Dr. E. J.
Woodhouse as moderator. The two
students who will participate are
James Wallace and Dan McFarland.
"Disarmament Now?" will be the
topic.
Dr. Frazer, graduate of UNC, was
formerly, president of the Southern
Political Science Association and
served as a' Lieutenant Commander in
the U. S. Navy with .the European
fleet. As ari observer at the League of
Nations for the Carnegie Peace En
dowment from' 1931 to 1933, Frazer
studied the early efforts of the League
to achieve practical world ! disarma
ment and a system of International
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Students Listed ' iusf
Contact Dor sett Today
' All students who have been con
tacted by student .body president
Dewey Dorsett will "meet at 8
o'clock this evening in Di hall, third
floor; New West, i I j .
The following students must see
Dorsett this afternoon between the
hours of 3 1 and 5 in the Roland
Parker lounge of Graham Memorial:
Harry T. Saunders, Romulus S.
Watson, Robert A. Spence, Robert
S. Streetman, Bill J. Robinson.
'Glamor Girl'
attended one of her concerts. On being
asked if he liked the music, the little
boy replied, ''Yes, the violin makes
sparks." ' -
She will use in her concert, a
Stradivarius aptly called "The Lark."
! The great violin maker built this in-
strument in 1698 whdh he was 54 years
old, and it is one of her most highly
prized, possessions. She has always
considered it a posthumous gift of her
maternal grandfather, and it was on
"The Lark" that she played her first
public concert in Oslo, birthplace of
her grandfather. - . -' ?
" Tickets for the concert may now be
obtained at Ledbetter-Pickard's.
-will be selected at the final nomina
ting convention scheduled for 5 o'clock
Thursday afternoon in the Candlelight
room.
Booraem, a junior from St. Mich
ael's, Md., has been active in stu
dent government since his return' to
Carolina last January. Besides being
vice-chairman of the SP, Booraem has
served in the Student Legislature and
is currently student representative on
University schedule committee
tween different campus "events-. -
Party Chairman Chuck Heath" yes
terday said that nomination lists
would be kept open until the final con
vention Thursday. All students who
are not affiliated with any other cam
pus political party are invited.
Young Democrats Club
To Meet this Evening
An important meeting of the Young
Democrats club will be held at 7:30
o'clock in the Horace Williams lounge
of Graham Memorial tonight to com
plete final plans for Representative
Folger's address tomorrow evening. It
is essential that all members be present.
Mary Maultsby, Book Ex
Says Checking Fund Is Not Unlimited
Bad Checks Deducted
From Original Sum
By S. P. Lucas
At the source of one of the most con
stant and important of the numerous
lines around Chapel Hill is Mrs. Mary
Maultsby, head Cashier of the Book
Exchange. Mrs. Maultsby, who has
been exchanging cash for students
checks for over two years, is respon
sible for ' the service's accounts and
fending off student' gripes when the
cash runs out. Explaining what the
checking service is, and is not, she
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UNC Relegates
To Take Part
In Convention
! National Assembly
; Is Set Next Month
Representatives of seven student
organizations meeting in the YMCA
office yesterday afternoon; voted that
the University send delegates to the
American Conference of College Stu
dents at the University of Chicago,
December 28-30.
? Jimmy Wallace, representative of
the University to the Prague' Confer
ence and a member of the Chicago
conference preparatory committee ex
plained the background and purposes
of the Chicago conference to the
group, which met at the request of
UVA president Roy Moose, whose of
fice received the University's invita
tion to send delegates. " '
Called by a committee of represen
tatives of national student organiza
tions and universities which sent the
American delegation to the Prague
World Conference of students, the
Chicago conference is planned to dis
cuss the need for a national student
organization in the United States and
to establish, if so decided, a prepara
tory committee to make plans for such
an organization.
Lacking representatives of enough
campus groups to accurately repre
sent the student body, the meeting
yesterday called a second meeting of
all student organization leaders for 5
o'clock this afternoon in the YWCA
office to nominate delegates to the con
ference and make financial arrange
ments for the trip. :
hastened to say it is not an unlimited
fund comprising all the cash that the
Book-Ex can muster.
The checking service is maintained
as a separate department of the Book
Exchange. There is a fund of $6,000,
advanced and maintained by the Uni
versity as a separate account, to be
used for that purpose. The great prob
lem of the service now is the volume
of transactions taking place daily.
With the present tremendous amount
of business it is necessary that checks
cashed by the service in the morning
be taken to the Bank of Chapel Hill
at noon, recashed there in turn, and
the tender taken back to the Book-Ex
to be exchanged for more checks in the
afternoon. .
Bankers Hours Force Limit
Banking hour force the limitation
on the service. Since the bank opens
at 9 and closes at 1 o'clock, morning
checks must be recashed before closing
time,' and afternoon checks must wait
until the next morning before they,
too, can be cashed. The local bank will
not cash checks for other than those
who hold accounts with it, thus the
burden of cashing falls on the local
merchants and the checking service.
The checking service, by acting as
first indorser of all1 checks, assumes
responsibility for them, therefore all
losses are sustained by it. Mrs. Maults
by explained that all bad checks are
deducted from the original fund, and
thus limit that much more the work
ing amount of the fund.
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Orchestra Leader Will Face
Breach of Contract Charges
Fulton Claims Entire Band Did Not Appear;
Manning to Represent Campus Organization
By Sam Williams
The Order of the Grail threw a bombshell into the biggest Caro
lina "name band" dance week-end since 1942, late Saturday night,
suing bandleader Tommy Dorsey for $20,000 on a charge of breach
of contract. Handed the summons at 11:40 p.m., scant 20 minutes
before his band played their last num- 1
ber together as a group, the famed
maestro read portions of the writ to
the 4200 dancers assembled in Wool
len gymnasium, jovially saying, "I
hope I've got $20,000."
Dorsey is charged by the Grail with
failure to bring his full orchestra
here, as provided in an agreement be
tween Charlie Vance, acting for the
local group, and Dorsey's agent.
In addition the Grail will charge
that Dorsey played only one and one
half hours at the concert instead of
two as previously agreed by contract.
Manning Acts for Grail
The Grail, represented by J ohn Man
ning top-flight contract lawyer of
Durham, has until December 12 to file
its bill of complaint. Within one month
of that date the orchestra leader must
reply, ordered Superior Court Clerk
Edwin Lynch, in Hillsboro.
' Charlie Fulton, Delegata of the
Grail, explained - that Dorsey's agent
agreed to send he entire orchestra
of 36 musicians, 'for the Friday and
Saturday dances, and a concert Fri
day afternoon; however, only approxi-
I mately half of this number appeared.
Clarifying the r move, Fulton last
night stated, "Suit proceedings against
Dorsey were originated last Wednes
day, after the Grail received a tele
phone call from Dave Jacobs, band
business manager, who said that he
was not bringing the string section
as promised. '
Co-defendants with Dorsey are his
agent, the Music Corporation of Amer
ica, and the State Amusement Cor
poration, operating company for the
group.
Jacobs Not Concerned
Showing little concern over the suit,
business manager Jacobs suggested,
Hanau Squeezes Out Lanier
In Weekly Grid Predictions
Carolina gentlemen bounded back from last week's defeat by
coed Ann Conrad to completely dominate winning predictions in
Graham Memorial's football contest. Winner R. A. Hanau, of 3
Oakwood Drive, nosed" out J. C. Lanier, Jr., of 216 Aycock, by
Cashier,
Local Banking Hours
Are Biggest Problem
There is an average of approxi
mately $200 from week to week in bad
checks alone, for which the service
is responsible. And at one time this
past summer these worthless checks
totaled over $500. These checks are
bad, the cashier explained, not in the
sense of willful forgeries, but rather
are the result of overdrawn accounts,
drawn on the wrong bank, lost in tran
sit, and so on. Usually, after a varying
period of time, the checking service
does collect on these and the loss is
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Borsey
"Tell the Grail to read their con
tract. These suits come up now and
then."
As he read the summons over the
public address system, Dorsey wryly
"thanked" the six students who were
suing him in the name of the Grail,
for their "hospitality." Immediately
at midnight he left for New York,
where he will confer with his attor
neys over future plans, before taking
a vacation in Rio De Janiero later
this week.
He stated definitely that the days
of the Tommy Dorsey orchestra were
finished, as was stated in a national
music magazine last week. Around
the first of the year he is expected
to make a tour of personal appear
ances. A new band vill be formed
shortly, around a nucleus of the old
group, to be led by trumpeter Zig
gy Ellman.
Relations 'Not Too Good'
Relations with Dorsey,' over the
entire week-end were "not too good,"
a Grail spokesman stated Saturday
night. An initial payment of $5,000
was made to the band upon signing
of the contract several months ago.
When it was learned that a lesser
number of players were to appear
than originally scheduled, a written
protest was filed and handed in with
the second . $5,000 payment at 10
o'clock Saturday evening.
Atr-Friday evening's dance Dorsey
publicly asserted, "Some jerk
is trying to tell me how to run my
band," -when a Grail member request
ed he play more slow numbers. How
ever, Grail head Fulton emphasized
that the suit was begun before the
proceedings of the weekend.
Q handing in his prediction sheet seven
hours- and 10 minutes earlier than
Lanier. Each student piled up a .900
average and missed the correct Duke
Carolina score by two points, calling
it 20-7. Each also failed to call the
Winners of the Davidson-Citadel and
Harvard-Yale games.
No entrant correctly predicted the
Duke-Carolina score.
Three other students emerged from
the -week of low averages with .900
entries. Tom Mullen of 6 Old Fra
ternity Row, Bill Flowers of 120 Mal
lette Street, and Meade F. Degges of
406 Manley guessed the Davidson
Citadel and Auburn-Clemson contests
stumpers.
Ann Conrad, last week's winner,
missed the Carolina-Duke by only one
point in averaging .800. Walt Pupa
fell one point short of calling his
team's correct score, and rated Duke
one touchdown.
Sororities to Attend
UVA's Dance Tonight
The University Veterans Asso
ciation will hold its last open house
of the quarter tonight from 8:30
until 11 o'clock in the NROTC ar
mnry with members of the Pi Phi,
ADPi and Alpha Gamma Delta sor
orities as guests. 4
Tny Thomas, recognized as one
of the leading singers on the cam
pus, will head the floor show enter
tainment which has the Gordon
twins returning by popular demand
with their specialty act.
YACK PHOTOGRAPHERS
There will be an important meet
ing of the Yackety Yack photography
staff at 4:30 this afternoon in the
staff office.