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LIBRARY University. of north Carolina Chapel Hill, SI. C. 1-28-47 FICl Join the OHKONmiZ mYf orjRONTi&B dimes ts THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SO UTHEAST- VOLUME LV United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1947 NUMBER 102 fIBj5rti. n I I i 11 If f 1 It NEWS BRIEFS Governorship Fight Unsolved By Georgians Talmadge, Thompson Both Claiming Post Atlanta, Jan. 20 (UP) The two contestants for the governorship of Georgia, M. E. Thompson and Her man Talmadge, traded sharp blows today, as Thompson appeared before the state senate and was given the oath of office by a Superior Court judge. When the Talmadge-dominated Senate discovered what was going on, they raised a ' howl, and pushed through a resolution calling for a joint session of the Legislature at noon tomorrow to hear a speech by Talmadge. And the resolution used the words, "His Excellency, Governor Herman Talmadge." Thompson forces op posed the resolution, but it went through. Consider Excluding Negroes The Georgia . House of Represen tatives is considering a bill to ex clude Negroes from voting in the state's Democratic primary. The bill, approved by both Governor Thompson and Governor' Talmadge, received committee approval in short order. Student Party Selects Jack Booraem To Succeed Chuck Heath as Chairman Group Chooses Head Following Deadlock s- Many Rivers Rising Over North Carolina Raleigh, Jan. 20 (UP) Weeks of rain and a constant downpour dur ing the past twenty-four hours have brought the Pigeon River and small er streams in Haywood county to the flood stage in mountainous western North Carolina. Although there appears to be no immediate danger from uncontrolled fldod .- waters, farmlands . and rural roads have been submerged after the week-long drenching. The Weather Bureau here says the Cape Fear and Roanoke Rivers in eastern North Carolina are expected to rise above flood level. Flood stage is expected on the Cape Fear at Moncure, North Caro lina, tonight and at Fayetteville Tues day night. However, little damage is expected. The Roanoke River is ex pected to reach flood stage at Weldon Thursday. Light Brazilian Vote Seen by Newspapers Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 20 (UP) Rio newspapers estimated today that a third of Brazil's seven and a half million registered voters stayed away from the polls in yesterday's state elections despite the appeals by the Catholic church and Democratic lead ers for a large turnout to counter the Communist vote. Communists, who claimed a total of one million votes throughout Brazil, turned out en masse to vote for 20 state governors and legislatures, a 50-man Rio de Janeiro town council and fill 25 vacancies in the national senate and 18 in the chamber of deputies. Ballot boxes were opened and "token" tabulating begun in the dif ferent states, but no indication of a trend was expected until tomorrow. Reds Defeated Twice In iUN Group Meeting Lake Success, N. Y., Jan. 20 (UP) Soviet Russia, was defeated on two counts in the .United Nations Secur ity council this evening. The council over-rode Russian objections against consideration of the dispute between Britain and Albania and voted, to ac cept the American-proposal to post pone talks on disarmament for two weeks. ' ' ' By Sam Whitehall After an hour or heated bal loting", marked by several com promises and deadlocks, the Stu dent Party Sunday afternoon elevated Jack Booraem to their chairmanship replacing Chuck Heath, who has served In that capacity since re-forming of the party last March. Though he was the first nominated candidate for the position, Booraem, party wheel horse since its rejuvena tion, withdrew his candidacy. How ever, after three deadlock votes be tween Johnny Jones and Johnny Clampitt, he accepted the position, upon a successful motion that he be elected by acclamation to serve as temporary chairman for one month, until another election will be held. Heath Declines Nomination Chuck Heath early in the balloting was put up for reelection, however, he declined, stating, "I have served three times. I believe that it is time for new leadership within the Stu dent Party." .Immediately a motion was made from the floor, which carried unani mously, that an office of advisory chairman be created, Heath to ' serve in that capacity. As advisory chair man he will serve ex-officio on the party steering committee, and will render a report on pertinent business at each mass caucus. Bill Mackie, recently elected legis lator from the town district, was chosen as vice-chairman, and Bettie Washburn was reelected to her posi tion as party secretary. Within the week Chairman Boor aem will choose a steering committee of nine members, all party officers to be installed in the group. - Five Fellowships Open to Students Opportunities for five American students to study in English univer sities during the year -1947-1948 are iPreference. Newspapers gxJ Formerly the Student party vice-chairman, Jack Booraem, left, was Sunday afternoon chosen as a compromise temporary chairman, after long and heated balloting. The group retained Chuck Heath, right, as advisory chairman. Heath, who declined to run for the chairmanship again, had served in that capacity for nine months. IRC to Conduct Campus Poll On American Foreign Policy Voting Will Be Held in YMCA AH Tomorrow; Students to Indicate Presidential Choice By Helen Highwater Students will vote tomorrow on questions of American foreign policy in a sweeping poll of opinion sponsored by the Interna tional Relations club. The polling place in the YMCA will be open throughout Wednesday and ballots will be counted in the evening. Final results will be released- : - Thursday. Mid-Winter Press Institute Will Convene Here Thursday Bascom Timmons, Washington Correspondent, Will Deliver Address at Opening Meeting Plans were completed here today for the opening Thursday of the two-day annual mid-winter North Carolina Press institute to be held here and at Duke university. Registration will begin at 4 o'clock at the Carolina Inn Thursday afternoon. The opening session is set for 8 p. m. in Gerrard hall with Herbert Peele, Elizabeth City, president of the North Caro lina Press association, presiding. Principal speaker will be Bascom Timmons, veteran Washington news paper correspondent. Chancellor Rob ert B. House will welcome the dele gates, and President Peele will re spond. Frank Daniels, News and Ob server, Raleigh, will introduce the speaker. Breakfast Meeting The executive committee of the as sociation will hold a breakfast meet ing at 8 o'clock Friday morning at the Inn, and at 10 there will be a meeting of the associated dailies and a weekly clinic. Several members of Chapel Hill's writers' colony, including Paul Green, Noel Houston, and James Street, will participate in a roundtable discus sion of "Communication for Today," along with Earl Wynn, director of the University's Communication center, and Professors Leon M. Pol lander and Stuart Sechriest of the journalism department, at a luncheon at the Carolina Inn Friday at 1 o'clock. Professor Walter Spearman will preside. k- - - - 4m -. ii 1 BASCOM TIMMONS Independent Coeds Will Hold Meeting Tomorrow Evening Father of Prohibition Passes Away at Home Granite Falls, Minn., Jan. 20 (UP) Andrew Volstead, the father of the Prohibition Act, died at his home tonight after an illness of about three months. He was 87. WEATHER TODAY Partly Cloudy and Colder being made available by the Ameri can ; Committee , of Management for the Charles and Julia Henry fund. The fund provides fellowships of 600 pounds (about $2,400) a year. The fellowships are open to both men and women. Preference in selecting the fellow ships will be given to students gradu ating from American colleges this spring and to those who have gradu ated since 1942. Those selected for fellowships will have a free choice of subjects to be studied, and may attend either Ox ford or Cambridge university in Eng land. The fund, established under the will of the late Lady Julia Henry, also provides fellowships enabling English students to study at Harvard and Yale. Applications must be submitted on or before February 28, to the Office of the Secretary of Yale university or to the Office of the Secretary of the Corporation of Harvard university. Arts, Craft Course To B eginTomorrow . Registration for the second ar1;s and crafts course is now open at Person hall art gallery and classes will be gin at 7 .o'clock tomorrow evening. The course will cover approximately 44 hours and will be held every Mon day and Wednesday (evening from v to 10 o'clock in the Caldwell 'f hall studio ! under the direction ; of Mrs. John M. Foushee, , , Instruction will be given in art metal trays, bowls, desk sets) ; wood carving and the finishing of various woods; simple jewelry (from metal, ceramic, shell, bead) ; leather . (tool ing, finishing, and the salvaging and restyling of old leather articles) ; simple plastics; fabric 'decoration (linoleum .blocking, .silk screening, and hand stenciling) ; weaving (square-knotting, card carving) ; woolly: toy animals; and book bind ing. . The fee will be $15.00 plus a mini mum charge for certain materials. A presidential straw-vote and ques tions involving General Marshall, So viet'Russia Peron's Argentina, Chfea and the atom bomb are to be featured in the IRC poll. The actual queries will be published in tomorrow's Daily Tar Heel. With oyer 2,000 students participat ing, Harold Stassen led Henry Wal lace and James Byrnes in last year's campus-wide poll of presidential throughout the state published the results and many commented on, what they called, the liberal trend at the University. "It is not only the results of the poll which the IRC is seeking," ex plained the club's president, Betty Anne Green, "we are interested in stimulating thought and discussion of international affairs on the campus. As they vote, we" hope that students will stop and think and discuss many of the controversial problems facing the world."- Doctors to Honor Late Dr. Manning Approximately 700 North Carolina physicians, graduates of the Univer sity of North Carolina two-year Med ical school, have been invited to at tend a memorial luncheon here to morrow honoring the late Dr. I. H. Manning, it was announced today by Dr. George L. Carrington of Burling ton, president of the University med ical alumni association. "The theme of the meeting," wrote Dr. Carrington in letters of invitation mailed to medical alumni residing in the state, "will be Dr. Manning's con tribution to medical training and care in the state and the projection of his spirit into the solution of our present and future medical problem." Dr. Manning was a teacher in the University Medical school for 39 years serving as Dean from 1905 to 1933. Following the discussions, the Uni versity Glee club, under the direc tion of Professor Paul Young, will entertain. A business' session of the Press association is scheduled for 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Friday night the group will move over to Duke . university , where- the closing dinner session will be held, beginning at 6:45. Principal speaker will be Sidney S. Alderman, promi nent' Washington attorney and mem ber of the prosecution staff at the Nuremburg trials, who will be intro duced by Willis Smith, Raleigh. Cherry to Give Awards Governor R. Gregg Cherry will pre sent the annual press awards. Dean W. H. Wannamaker of Duke univer sity will preside, and President Peele will make a brief talk. A Duke uni versity quartet, under the direction of J. Foster Barnes will sing several selections. Preceding the formal opening of the Institute, the North Carolina Asso ciated Press club will hold a luncheon at the Carolina Inn at 1 o'clock Thurs day, with Brodie Griffith, Charlotte, president, presiding. jl s s " ' '' 3 Hundreds of children in North Carolina have won the battle against infantile paralysis and regained their health during the last several years as the result of treatment made possible by your dollars and dimes. Above are two typical cases 8-year-old Leona Truelove of West Asheville (left) and 6-year-old Janice Dillinger (re clining) of Hendersonville, who are being visited in the Asheville Orthopedic hospital where they are patients, by Philip S. Randolph, state representative of the National foundation for Infantile Paralysis; Dr. Kenneth S. Landauer, assistant medical director of the National foundation, New York, and Harry S. Gruver, chair man, Buncombe County chapter of the National foundation, Asheville, left to right. Contributions of your dollars and dimes during the current campaign, which ends January 31, will save the lives of many such young-' sters. The Carolina Independent .Coeds association will meet tomorrow eve ning at 7:30 in the Roland Parker lounge of Graham Memorial. Betty Anne Green, president of the International Relations club, will ad dress the organization on "The Poten tialities of CICA." President Betsy Ann Barbee urges all members of CICA to attend the meeting in order that definite plans may be -made for the fashion show to be sponsored by the organization in cooperation with Montaldo's. A tentative date of February 20 has been set for the fashion show, but it is necessary that the organization give its approval before further ar rangements may be made. Also on the agenda is the discus sion of crested bracelets for members of the organization, plans for May Day festivities, and the co-sponsorship with the Pan-Hellenic council of Miss Martha Lucas, president of Sweet Briar College, who will ad dress the coeds on February24. President Barbee also stated that the meeting of CICA is open to an independent coeds who might be in terested in attending or joining th organization. Dean Wettach Appoints Howell to Head Staff Of Law School Review Robert H. Wettach, dean of the Law school, announced yesterday the appointment of the student board of editors for the North Carolina Law Review. Logan D. Howell of Raleigh was named editor-in-chief with Cyrus D. Hogue, Jr., of Wilmington, and Wil liam B. Aycock, of Salem, as asso ciate editors. In its twenty fifth year of publica tion, the Review serves lawyers of North Carolina with professional treatment of significant developments in the law of the state and the nation. Editors are chosen on the basis of scholarship and ability, Other staff members appointed are: Toe H. Barrington, Jr., Walter E. Brock, Jr., William H. Burton, Jr., Thomas G. Dill, Henry L. Harkey, John R. Jordan, .Jr., Miles J. Mc Cormick, L. P. McLendon, Jr., J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., Louis J. Poisson, Jr., J. T. Rendleman, Claude F. Selia, and Noel R. S. Woodhouse. Welfare Board to Meet Thursday Afternoon The Student Welfare board will meet Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Grail room. On the agenda will be further discussion of automobile problems, the necessity for the estab lishment of a central scheduling agency for campus activities, and the advisability of smoking in classrooms and. .assemblies.
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