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NEWS EDITORIAL: Decided Improvement What About North Carolina "Wrong Facts A Letter Bilbo Fight Postponed Carolina Whips Maryland Graham Memorial Dance -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME LV NUMBER 89 United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1947 NEWS BRIEFS Cancer Operation for Bilbo Ends Senatorial Filibuster New Senate Members Sworn In; House Hears Knutson Argue for Income Tax Reduction From UP Wire Reports Washington, Jan. 4 An impending jaw operation restored or der to the United States Senate today as Senator Bilbo left for a Mississippi hospital and the senators voted unanimously to side track the issue his war-contract deal-S- ings and white-supremacy views have precipitated. Without a dissenting vote, the Sen ate accepted Alben Barkley's proposal that the Senate pass over the Bilbo case and get on with its business swearing in 35 other newly elected senators and organizing the Senate. Two Months' Treatment Bilbo, said Barkley, is a sick man. He is leaving tonight or tomorrow for New Orleans for a second operation for cancer of the mouth. His physi cians say treatment will require at least two months. Barkley's announcement ended the bitter fight and Southern filibuster that had stalemated tEe Senate for two days. The to seat or not to. seat problem has prevented the Republi cans from taking the control that they won in November's election. Bilbo's only comment so far has been to promise that he will return to Washington as soon as possible. He told newsmen that when he does come back, he'll be wearing his "fight- ing clothes." After passage of the motion, the swearing in of the new senators began. See HOUSE, page 2 Cable Ship Survivors Land at Finnish Port Helsinki, Finland, Jan. 4 (UP) Twenty-eight survivors of the Dan ish cable repairship Karla, which struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Finland within five minutes, have been brought to Helsinki by a Russian warship today. Fifteen other mem bers of the crew are missing and be lieved dead. The body of Captain Au gust Vilhelm, Master of the Karla, was aboard the Russian ship. UN Secretary General To Visit Mexico City Mexico City, Jan. 4 (UP) The Mexican foreign minister has an nounced that United Nations Secre tary General Trygve Lie will arrive in Mexico City next Friday on a five day visit, opening his extended Latin American tour. With Lie will arrive Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secre tory General in charge of Information, and William H. Stoneman, personal adviser. DC-4's Will Transport Treasure to Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 4 (UP) The Central Bank has an nounced that forty DC-4 airplane flights will.be made beginning late this month to bring 180 tons of Ar gentine gold, worth approximately $200,000,000 to Buenos Aires from the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The fourth steamer shipment of Ar gentine gold in a fortnight arrived today on the "Moremac Star," amount ing to nearly $12,000,000 and bring ing the total brought by ship thus far to more than $40,000,000. Argentine Expedition Sails for South Pole Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 4 (UP) Argentina s Antartic expedi tion sailed today on the naval trans port "Patagonia," under Captain Luis Grcia, with the avowed purpose of establishinp a weather -station of establishing a weather station "somewhere" on the Antarctic contin ent. , The naval transport "Chaco" and a whaling boaa will sail shortly to join the "Patagonia" in the far Soutn At lantic. The "Chaco" will also carry a new crew for the weather station on Laurie Island, in the South Orkney? to relieve the men who already have spent one year there. WEATHER TODAY Partly cloudy and colder. UNC Will Play Host To Outstanding Group Of Entertainers Soon Several outstanding entertainments are scheduled at the University dur- mg the next few weeks, it was an nounced here today at the opening of the new winter quarter. Among them will ne the appearance of Dorothy Maynor, celebrated Negro singer, who will give a concert Sun day, January 19, under the auspices of the Council for Religion in Life, for the benefit of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. Other events are a concert by the internationally known Don Cossack Chorus tomorrow night, at 8:30 o'clock; the performance of Shakes peare's "Much Ado About Nothing," to be presented by the well known Barter Theatre of Virginia in Me morial Hall this Wednesday evening, at 8:30 o'clock, and a piano recital by Herbert Livingston, a member of the University music faculty member, in Hill Music Hall next Friday night, at 8:30 o'clock. Tickets for the Dorothy Maynor concert, which is scheduled for Me morial hall at 8 o'clock Sunday night, January 19, may be secured at the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill YMCA offices. Veterans! Several hundred veterans checks which were received during the Christmas holidays are now being held by the postmaster at the gen eral delivery window of the post office downtown. E. G. Bourne, local veterans training officer, said late last night, "No matter what your address is, or what your box number is, if you were expecting a check during the holiday period, check at the post office general delivery window to see if it is there." Chief Gunner's Mate Ate Navy Man, Survivor of Bataan, Corregidor Doesn't Deplore Shortage of By Raney Stanford In spite of Chapel Hill's pres ent resemblance to an over crowded sardine can, Chief Gun ner's Mate J. W. Norket of the NROTC unit likes it fine here. For Gunner Norket has Bataan and Corregidor among his per sonal recollections, along with three and a quarter years in Japanese prison -camps. No steaks may be discouraging at times, but try con templating rice. Rice, in small por tions, three times a day, for months on end. Norket, a veteran of six and one-half years in the Navy, and a native of Charlotte, was serving on a mine sweeper in the Phillipines at the time of Pearl Harbor; and the capitulation f "The Rock" on May 6, 1942, found him on the beach with that small group of never-to-be forgotten de fenders. Lashed-Up Affair "Here I was, in the Navy, attached to the Marines, and serving under the Army," he says. "You can see what kind of a lashed-up affair it was to wards the end. "We held high hopes up until April, but during that month we began to realize it was only a matter of time." The first he knew of the surren der, Norket continued, was the sight of the white flag over the American position. "They were shelling us continually, and at the end they had about 600 guns of various types on us at point See NAVY MAN, page U ii in i I i 1 ' 1 ip i m iiiii i i iin i i ii mi u i ip in mi t 'I i fimtotriim -:.fc , """" r f Student Body President Dewey Dorsett adds his name to the long list booth in the Roosevelt hotel in New Orleans attended by coeds Carrie Mae Hughes (right) of Tabor City. The Roosevelt booth served as headquarters last weekend. (Photo courtesy New Orleans State) Don Cossack Chorus to Appear Here in Entertainment Program Monday Evening Internationally Famed Russian Troupe To Sing in Memorial Hall at 8:30 o'clock "A Russian who does not sing is no Russian," says Serge Jaroff, director of the Don Cossack Chorus which makes its first appear ance here in Memorial Hall auditorium tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. Under the sponsorship of the Stu- ' dent Entertainment Series the 32 giant Cossack vocalists are coming here in the course of their seventeenth annual tour of the United States. Since the Chorus was formed in 1920 the Cossacks have become one of the most widely traveled choral groups in the world, having sung in almost every civilized country of the globe. Their travels have included twenty-five crossings of the Atlantic, eight of the Mediterranean and two of the Pacific, and sixteen trips across the North American Continent from coast to coast. Well-Known Songs The "Singing Horsemen of the Steppes," as the Don Cossacks are known, include in their repertoire Rice for Months. . . Vsx. v i v Chief Gunner's Mate J. W. Norket tries to teach University NROTC trainees some of his knoyledge of guns he has learned during his six and one-half years in the U. S. Navy. (Staff photo by Bob Reams.) such well known numbers as "The Volga Boatmen," "Evening Bells," and "How Glorious." They have sung "The Volga Boatmen" over five thou- sand times, and it was one of the four encores requested by General Eisen - hower during their USO tour of Eu- rope. Concert tickets are now on sale at Swain hall and at Ledbetter Pickard's for $1.25. Season tickets for the en tire Student Entertainment Series may be purchased for $4.75, tax in cluded. Attractions in the series in clude: Jan. 6, Don Cossack Chorus; Jan. 20, Jooss Ballet; Jan. 30-31 and Feb. 1, Operetta, "The Bartered Bride"; Feb. 18, National Symphony Orchestra. Steaks Here a -ham of Tar Heel rooters at the Carolina Wade (left) of Charlotte and Gwen for the Tar Heel Sugar Bowl fans Traffic Problems To Be Considered By Federal School Traffic problems, including the alarming rise in the number of acci dents throughout the country, will be discussed and analyzed at: a. two-week j school of traffic law enforcement, to be conducted by the Federal Bureau of 1 Investigation with the cooperation of the University's Institute of Govern- ment here beginning today and con tinuing through January 18. Traffic officers from counties and cities throughout the state will attend the school which is part of a program of state-wide safety education being sponsored by the Institute. The School will also serve as a model for locally sponsored traffic schools which are to be conducted in approximately 20 of the larger cities and towns of the state from February to June. Instruction will be conducted pri marily by the FBI which is sending several traffic specialists, including William H. Harper, special agent, to carry on the training program. John C. Bills of Charlotte is special agent in charge in the Carolinas. 'Guidebooks in North Carolina traffic control, and accident investigation, Many UNC Teachers Attend Learned Groups Meetings A number of University faculty members attended meetings of learned societies at different points in the East and mid-West during the holi days. Five members of the Law School, Professors Herbert R. Baer, Henry Brandis, Albert Coates, M. S. Breck enridge, and Fred B. McCall, attend ed a three-day meeting of the Asso ciation of American Law Schools in Chicago. Professor Coates is a member of the Association's committee on crim inal law procedure, and Dean R. H. Wettach, who was unable to attend, is a member of the nominating com mittee. Geology Meetings Four members of theGeology and Geography Department attended meetings. Professors J. W. Huddle and William A. White attended sessions of the Geographical Society of America in Chicago, and Professors Samuel T. Emory and Franklin C. Erickson attended joint meetings of the Asso ciation of American Geographers and the National Council of Geography Teachers in Columbus, Ohio. Miss Lil lian Worley, a graduate student, also attended the latter two meetings. Professor Huddle presented a paper Union to Give Open Dance Set Next Weekend To Formally Present 'Dream Serenaders' Graham Memorial will begin its social calendar for the new year with a set of open dances next Friday and Saturday nights with music by Ned Reap and his "Dream Serenaders," the newly-organized student union dance band. ! Friday night's dance, from 9 , until 12 in the main lounge of the student union, will be strictly formal, j This will be the first formal dance (spon sored by Graham Memorial in several years. ; Honor Football Team The Carolina Sugar Bowl football team will be honored at the semi-formal dance in Woollen gym on Satur day night, which will also last from 9 until midnight. The weekend dances will formally introduce the new student union dance band to the Carolina campus. The "Dream Serenaders" have played en gagements in Asheboro and Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory but have not yet appeared on campus. Assistant leader of the band is James Levan. Arranger is Jimmy Hall and Maylon Baker is librarian. The bandstands were designed by Betty Warren Jones, well-known Chapel Hill artist, constructed by El lington of Carrboro and lettered and painted by the Durham School of Art. Organized primarily for campus dances, the "Dream Serenaders" have 15 members plus leader Reap and three featured vocalists. Northerly Blast Faces Not-Sq-Sunny South By United Press When the. wintry blasts hit the north, those who can afford it pack their belongings and head for the sunny south. And once they unpack, they write those cute wish-you-were-here cards to those unfortunates who must remain behind. But this year things apparently are different. Jack Frost also is going south for the winter. And not even Florida and California will escape the cold wave which is moving southward and is expected to send thermometers tumbling in 46 states. The freeze is expected to hit parts of Northern Florida and some California valleys. Last night's sharp drop in tempera ture is predicted to continue on today through North Carolina, with cloudy skies shading the sun. prepared by the FBI and the Institute of Government, will be furnished the officers attending the School. in Chicago entitled "Devonian and Mississippian Rocks of Central Ari zona," and Professor White gave a paper oh "Blue Ridge and Fault Scrap." Four members of the Classics De partment, Dr. B. L. Ullman, head of the Department, and Professors J. P. Harland, Albert Suskin, and Walter Allen, Jr., attended meetings of the American Philological association and the Archaeological Institute of Amer ica in Rochester. Dr. Harland was re-elected recorder of the Archaeological Institute, and Dr. Ullman, former president of the American Philological Association, was elected that body's representative to the American Council of Learned Societies. Romance Language Meetings Members of the Romance Language department and the English and Ger man departments attended sessions of the Modern Languages association of America in Washington. From the department of Romance Languages were Professors U. T. Holmes, S. E. Leavitt, N. B. Adams, J. C. Lyons, R. W. Linker, and Hugo Giduz; instructor E. S. Moyer, and a teaching fellow, Miss Marion Green. Dr. Holmes and Dr. Adams read .See MANY, page K
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