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Chapel Hill, N. C.
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VOLUME LV
CHAPEI HILL N C SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1947
NUMBER 136
NEWS BRIEFS.
Ralph Capone
Believed Head
Of Sugar Ring
Officials Watching
Gangster's Brother
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) The
older brother of the late Al Capone
is believed by authorities to be the
top man in the nationwide sugar black
ndoor Game
"For Woollen Today
University Faces Communism Inquiry
House Un-American Activities Group) PmKnlHiiin f nnstrnrHnn
lo Hold Probe, States Durham Paper , , , n r
wora starts tsesiae Liiorary
By Ed Joyner
The House Un-American Activities committee has drawn a
market. A federal source says that )ead on tne University as the target for an investigation of Com-
agents have been trailing Ralph Ca- niunistic activities, according to a news article printed in the Dur
pone and his henchmen for several ham Herald yesterday.
weeks m an effort to get conclusive
evidence against him.
Under Investigation
The ring's activities, which have
been the subject of an undercover in
vestigation for nearly a month, may ,
involve as much as 100,000 pounds of
sugar. The federal source says the
black market ring operates in coun
terfeit and stolen sugar, stamps.
Representatives Pass
Anti Portal Pay Bill
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) The
House has passed legislation outlaw
ing back portal to portal pay suits way.
totalling nearly six billion dollars. The
final House vote was 345 to 56. The
bill now goes to the Senate.
Red Cross Fund
To Start Drive
Solicitors to Ask
Campus Donations
Today marks the opening of the
Senate Votes to Use
Budget Cut for Debt .
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) The
Senate has voted to use $2,600,000,000
of a proposed budget cut for reducing
the national debt. Republican leaders
say that this does not prevent a 20
per cent cut in inome taxes.
Meanwhile the Senate Appropria
tions committee has voted eight to
five to allow the OPA approximately
$17,000,000 to operate until June 30
' and then close down.
Written by Roulhac Hamilton of
the Herald Washington bureau, the
report said the information was
"learned reliably in Washington
Thursday afternoon."
Begin in Several Weeks
Hamilton reported that the com
mittee "is planning to investigate al
legations of Communistic activity at
the. University but that there was no
indication when the investigation annual fund-raising campaign of the
would begin or how broad its scope American Red Cross,
might be. It was believed, that it wuuld The drive on the campus will be
probably be several weeks at least' under the direction of Johnnie Clam
before, the probe would get under- pitt and Nonnie Morris. Clampitt
I stated that chairmen for each dormi-
, T , . , tory and fraternity have been appoint-
No comment concerning the report ed and fa addition a solidtor has been
was immediately available from of- named for each dormit floor "
ficials of the University yesterday as , . , ,
President Frank Cfraham had been Simultaneously with the campus
called to Charlotte to serve as a pall-' canvass town residents will have an
bearer in the funeral of the late opportunity to give to the fund Mer,
Durban Tillett. well known WW of chants of ChaPel HlU have already
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Construction of the first of the
temporary frame mildings to be
erected on the campus got -under
way yesterday as workmen laid down
the floor for the Teading room ad
dition to the library on the west
side of the main library building.
Five truck loads of the dismantled
army structures had made the two
day trip from Camp Forrest in
Tullahoma, Tenn., yesterday after
noon. The first load arrived Wed
nesday with two more coming in
Thursday and another two today.
Parts of Others Included
Parts of two other units besides
the library adjunct were included
in the first loads. ' These sections
were parts of the second library
building and of the Naval Science
building to be set up near the
NROTC armory.
C. J. Anderson, construction fore
man for the J. A. Jones construc
tion company, said that the first
building might be completed by the
end of next week. Wall sections of
the library unit which could have
been erected yesterday were left off
for fear winds over the week-end
would blow them down, Anderson
said. 1
Twenty-two men are now at work
on the project and more are expected
to report for work next week. 4The
entire project will be completed in
six months.
Jr., was in Raleigh for the day.
Investigated Twice Before
Unofficial sources in South building
recalled that the University had twice
before been the scene of investigations
for alleged Communistic activities.
University Party Announces
Results of Primary Polling
Gerns, Taylor, Owen, McCurnin, Hamilton,
Sink Nominated for Student Legislature
By Chuck Hauser
Much spirit was shown In the election activities of several of
the dormitories participating in the University Party's primary
the campaign. '
No Contribution Booths
died onlv through Clammtfs solid-i for student legislature representative held last Thursday evening
tors. There will be no booths on Uni- in Manly, Mangum, Lewis, Steele, Old West, and Battle-Vance-Pet-
tigrew dormitories.
Mangum dormitory led the list with"
versity grounds.
Said Clampitt, "Once a Student has
Both investigations, conducted by the " T " 72 votes being-cast. Forty-six went
Dies committee in 1941 and 1942, ne can res, assurea xna, i, u jto Pete Gerns who took an easy
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Official Nazi Records
Reveal Foreign Agents
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) Of
ficial records of the Nazi party reveal
that at least 40,000 Nazi party mem
bers were operating outside Germany
during Hitler's regime. Of the Nazis
880 were stationed inside the United
States.
failed to turn Up any evidence in sup
port of the allegations.
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xor tiie veiieiiu ui S1,uuWaS Gerng .g ft junior from Can
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Rnnlhap. Hamilton, the newsman there will be cans in the Y and the
who uncovered the investigation plans two Scuttlebutts where small change
in Washington, is the son of J. G. may be deposited.
Hamilton, director of the Southern This year's campaign will begin to
Historical collection of the Univer- day and last until next Saturday,
sity. ' March 8.
Plan Now Being Considered
To Pick Up All Stray Dogs
By Bill Sexton
Taylor Wins in Lewis
Tar Heiel Team
Defends Crown
Over 500 Athletes
Entered in Classic
By Jim Pharr
Over 500 scholastic and col
lege athletes will toe the mark
in Woollen gym this afternoon
for the fifth annual running of
the Southern Invitation Indoor
games. The afternoon session
will get under way at 1:30 o'
clock, with the night meeting
scheduled for 6:45 o'clock.
Some 1800 spectators, . including
Governor R. Gregg Cherry, are ex
pected to be an hand to see Carolina's
defending champions attempt to pro
tect their title against some of the
greatest runners in the South.
Four individual champions from the
1946 games will be entered to defend
their laurels this year. Carolina's
Officials of the Indoor games will
hold a meeting at 10 o'clock this
morning for all coaches entered in
the meet. The scholastic division
will meet in room 301 A in Woollen
gym, with the college and freshman
division meeting in room 304.
About 750 tickets for the Indoor
games are available at tne ticket
office in Woollen gym. Students
wishing tickets should purchase
them this morning in order to ob
tain a good seat, Vernon Crook of
the Athletic association announced
yesterday.
Chunk Simmons will protect his hon
ors in the low hurdles event; Don
Hansen of Rollins the 60-yard dash;
Doug 'Ausbon of Duke, - the broad
jump, and Ed Matthews of Maryland
the 440-yard run.
Records May Fall
The Candlelight room of Graham Several records are expected to fall
Memorial will play host to all stu-' today with outstanding entries in the
Candlelight Room
Holds Open House
Out of 65 votes cast in Lewis, Bill , dents and visitors at an open house shot put, broad jump, high jump, 60-
Taylor, sophomore from Hookerton,
took 54 and a sweeping majority over
the opposition. Sixty-five votes were
tabulated in Old West, where Dick
Owen, freshman from Hamlet, edged
out Carroll O. Money in a close race.
Winners in other dormitories:
Manly: Leo Patrick McCurnin,
sophomore from New Orleans, 30
votes out of 47; Battle-Vance-Petti-
City-wide elimination of stray dogs may be instituted in an iSmitnfieldf 33 votes 0'ut of 58. steele:
Fighter Breaks Record
In Transoceanic Flight
New York. Feb. 28 (UP) An
Army P-82, the "Betty Jo," has com- effort to prevent any possible spread of rabies, it was learned
pleted the longest flight ever made by vesterday evening. The elimination campaign, expected to be car
a fighter, plane. Piloted by Lieuten- ried t , the chapel Hill Police department, is being considered
a-n r'nlvnol WAhorf Thaplrpr nf H.I
Centro, Cal., the flight from Hawaii tow" mfala following the discov
to New York was clocked at 14 hours
and 33 minutes.
John L. Lewis Wants
To Open Negotiations
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) John
L. Lewis says he is willing to negoti
ate a new wage contract for the soft
ery that a dog owned by Prof. W. E.
Caldwell of 412 E. Rosemary had died
of hydrophobia.
Under a plan recommended by Dr.
S. A. Nathan, Chapel Hill veterinar
ian, any dog found roaming city
streets would be caught and quaran
tined for a period' of four days. If at
the end of the four-day wait no one
had claimed the dog as a pet, it would
for examination. There was no trace
of hydrophobia.
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xT. t o be destroyed. The plan has not yet
ment or the mine owners. In a letter , J
to Senator Homer Capehart of Indi
ana, the mine union chief said the
opening of negotiations depends on
the government or the owners.
Hoover Gives Report
On German Situation
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) For
mer President Herbert Hoover has
told the House Foreign Affairs com
mittee that congress should grant
President Truman's request for an ad
ditional $350,000,000 for European
relief. But Hoover says provisions
should be made for the return of any
unnecessary funds.
French, British Sign
Assistance Alliance
Paris, Feb. 28 (UP) French
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault an
nounces that France and Great Bri
tain have agreed on a 50-year mili
tary, political and economic alliance.
British Foreign Minister Ernest Bev
in says the pact will be signed next
Tuesday at Dunquerque.
WEATHER TODAY
Rains, no change in temperature
an
been approved.
Inoculation Clinic
A definite measure against rabies,
emergency inoculation clinic iur
pets, will be held in the high school
building next Saturday at 2 p.m. Cost
of anti-rabies immunization, $1.50,
will be shared by dog owners parti
cipating and the county health board.
Caldwell's dog died Thursday night
after five days' observation by Dr.
Nathan, and examination of the dog's
head yesterday afternoon by state
health authorities in Raleigh confirm
ed the infection.
It is not believed that any persons
had been bitten by the pet, but Cald
well's family is undergoing treatment
as a precautionary measure. A far
more serious threat, according to Dr.
Nathan, is the possibility that other
dogs had been infected. One animal
is definitely known to have been bit
ten by Caldwell's dog, and is now un
der quarantine.
The State Board of Health an-
STRALEY SPEAKS TOMORROW
Dr. Joseph W. Straley will lead a
forum discussion tomorrow morning
on the subject, "Is World Federalism
the Answer to One World or None?"
Sponsored by a group of students in
terested in "the Christian implications
of the Atomic Age," the panel will be
held in the Baptist church at 9:45.
Bill Sink, sophomore from Thomas
ville, 19 votes out of 35.
The winners in each of the six dor
mitories will be placed on the Univer
sity party ticket for representatives
to the Student Legislature to be voted
on in the student body elections to be
conducted in May, stated Alex Davis,
University party chairm,an.
VETERANS OPEN HOUSE
Members of the Pi Beta Phi and
Delta Delta Delta sororities and all
the town girls will be entertained by
the Veterans club Tuesday night in
j their last open house of the quarter.
this evening from 8:30 until 12. All
students are invited without restric
tions and a special invitation is ex
tended to the out-of-town spectators
tc the. Annual Southern Indoor games
in Woollen Gymnasium.
The Room will feature the Stardust
ers, a combo of campus musicians who
will furnish music for dancing.
Room Reservations
Yesterday's announcement in the
Daily Tar Heel concerning room re
servations for the summer term was
applicable to women students only.
After today women student's rooms
cannot be guaranteed, but this does
not mean that no more room reser
vations can be made for the sum
mer term. If a woman student wants
preference as to dormitory space,
she must have made the reservation
before today.
Any woman students desiring fur
ther information concerning room
reservations should contact the
dean's office without delay.
Barter Theater to Appear Here Again
Virginia Group
Returns March 10
By Harry Snowden
The Barter Theatre of Virginia,
only professional stage organization
in the entire South, will make a re
turn engagement in Memorial hall on
March 10 under the sponsorship of
the Carolina Dames club. Under the
direction of Robert Porterfield the
group will present Deorge Bernard
Shaw's brilliant satire on war, "Arms
and The Man." Tickets for the pro
duction go on sale this morning in the
YWCA and Ledbetter-Pickard's.
Written more than half a cen
tury ago, "Arms and The Man" was
last seen of Broa3way in 1908 with
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fountanne in
nounced yesterday that a black and the leading roles. It is considered one
tan campus mongrel which had bitten of the classic comedies of the modern
at least five cycle-riding students was theatre. ,
not infected by rabies. After many Concerns Swiss Soldiers'
complaints, the dog was killed a week ! The story concerns a Swiss profes-
ago by police and sent to Raleigh sional soldier1, temporarily engaged
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ers is Chaucy Horsley, featured ac
tress in their coming production,
"Arms and the Man."
To Give Shaw Play,
'Arms and the Man'
Ly the Serbians in a war with Bul
garia. A fugitive, he seeks refuge in
the Petkoff home, falls in love with
Raina, affianced to a Bulgarian offi
cer, Serguis.
It is the story of the professional
soldier as compared to the temporary
or war-time soldier and its barbed lines
are more apropos today than when
written.
- Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw is
leputed to be the only playwright to
refuse a Virginia ham as royalty pay
ment from the Barter Theater in re
turn for permission to include the
satire in the Barter repertory sched
ule. Carolinians will remember the The
atre for its excellent production of
"Much Ado About Nothing" in Janu
ary. Chaucy Horsley, Herbert Nel
son, and Tom McDermott will star in
this new production.
yard dash, 440-yard run, and 880
yard run.
Included in the entries for the meet
are 20 scholastic teams and 17 col
leges. In the scholastic division seven
See '46 TITLES, page 3
Duke Sorority
To Be Guests of
Monogram Club
The Monogram club will entertain
the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority of
Duke university here tomorrow aft-
jernoon between 2:30 and 5 o'clock,
President Jim Camp announced yes
terday. Camp said the invitation was ex
tended to the Duke girls in an ef
fort to effect better relations between
the two schools.
An Impressive array of talent has
been lined up for the party, with John
"Hook" Dillon heading the bill as
a featured singer. Roger Scholbe will
entertain the crowd with piano sty
lings, and Mike Rubish will per
form several solo dances. Ed McGee
will sing a few numbers, in addition
to the vocal offerings of a trio made
up of Scholbe, Jim White, and Julian
Smitlj.
Several of the Duke co-eds will alio
perform, Camp added.
All monogram winners are invited
and urged to attend.
Education Professors
To Attend Convention
Six members of the department of
education here will attend various
meetings of the American Association
of School Administrators to be held
in Atlantic city today, through March
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Dr. W. Carson Ryan, head of the
department, leads the group which in
cludes Dr. Guy B. Phillips, Dr. A.
M. Jordan, Dr. Edgar W. Knight, Dr.
W. E. Rosenstengel, and Dr. J. Min
or Gwynn.
The educators will sit in on dif
ferent meetings at the convention cov
ering many phases of school adminis
tration. ,
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