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m (Periodical Dept.) w sxy of Jjorth" fft-i 1-31-43 ma EDITORIAL : On Witch-Hnnters I'd Rather Be Right Worthy of Support VI .AM NE WS : Class Elections Pay Hike Campaign Congressional Investigates THE ONLY COLLEUt: DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME LV United Pt. CHAPKI H ILL. N C. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1947 NUMBER 138 NEWS BRIEFS US to Release All Draftees Truman Asks Draft To Be Taken Off Washington, March 3. (UP) The War Department says it is going t i discharge all draftees by July .1. The number of draftees now in serv ice total about 100,000. The official order for the discharge of all men outside the regular army was announced on the heels of a re quest by President Truman to con gress that the draft law be permitted tc die on March 31. Voluntary Enlistments Mr. Truman told Congress that the Army and Navy hope to maintain their authorized strength for the next fiscal year with voluntary enlistments. He reserved the right, however, to ask for a new draft law later if an insufficient number of men volunteer. The army has already notified all commands to g"et discharge plans under way. All draftees have already been discharged from the Navy and Marines with a few scattered exceptions. ay- Hike Campaign BegunByAVC9UA Local Veterans Organizations Push Measure to Boost GI Subsistence By Earl Heffner Cognizant of the financial difficulties facing many veterans be- I cause of the increasing costs of living, the Chapel Hill chapter of , the American Veterans committee and the University Veterans association this morning are opening a campaign in support of H. R. 870," a bill now-; with the Vet-- erans Affairs committee of the House I -j- . investigation Galled Rumor By Committee Freshmen, Sophomores Meet inations Today For Class Nom of Representatives calling for in creased subsistence for veterans study ing under P.L. 346, the "GI Bill of Rights." . First step in the joint, drive is an I intensive survey of living costs for j veterans at the University. Presidents Roy Moose and Ben Rouzie of the UVA and AVC, respectively, issued a statement explaining the survey. Survey Statement "Unless veterans can secure an in crease in their present subsistence allowances to meet the increased cost 'Communism' Probe Denied in Capitol Jews Say Violence Is 'Only Beginning Jerusalem, Palestine, March 3. (UP) The Irgun, Jewish under ground organization, defying thou sands of searching British troops, broadcast over its secret radio tonight that its campaign of violence is only beginning. 'Outrageous Tactics Charged to McKelJar , Washington March ,3.--. (UP) Senate President Arthur Vandenberg feas accused Tennessee Senator Ken neth McKellar of using "outrageous tactics" in his effort to block the David Lilienthal nomination. Van denberg spoke out after McKellar read the Senate Atomic Energy com mittee a lengthy attack on Lilienthal's service as a Wisconsin official 16 years ago. Washington, March 3. (UP) Members of the House un-American Affairs committee in Washington deny that they plan to investigate of living, many of them will have to charges 0f Communism , at the Uni drop out of school. We believe that versity of North Carolina, every veteran should have his oppor-j The rumor got started again in tunity to get the education provided J Washington last ' week. But the corn by the GI bill to fit him for his future j mittee "investigator says he knows work. "For this reason, the UVA and the AVC on the campus are making a survey to determine the average liv ing costs for veterans. We plan to send the results of this survey to our congressmen to illustrate the inade quacies of present allowances." Survey questionnaires are to be nothing about it. And although he says investigation of Communism in colleges is part of the committee's program, there are no specific schools in mind. No Comment At Chapel Hill, Dr. Frank Graham, president of the University, says he has no specific comment. However, Graham says he'll welcome any in- any -iiwmyu.iNk.i"-' jj"'L"" 1 " ' yMiMi ..,1.1.1. mim.u u mm r - :' j -x - I rp V I i i ill ; mm li l u 1 f 1," - fell r ' Ssr Dr.. Samuel Selden, who will speak on "Art and the Actor" at the Humanities lecture this evening is caught above looking at a model of the proposed Koch Memorial theatre. available in the "Y" from 9 this morn mg until 6 o'clock tms aiternoon ana i vestteation of any subject at v 111 Xl at .Lenoir .dining nan at noon xoaay time. and tomorrow. Must Be in Friday All questionnaires are to be filled in and returned by Friday. They may be returned today and tomorrow to Supreme Court Set To Review Lea Act Washington, March 3. (UP) The supreme court has agreed to re view the constitutionality of the Lea act, sometimes called the Anti-Pe-trillo law because it curtails the powers of Musicians Union Head James Petrillo. A lower federal court has declared the act unconstitutional. Representative Bonner of North Carolina, a member of the commit tee, has told the United Press he Samuel Selden Will Deliver Humanities Lecture Tonight Head of Dramatic Art Department to Talk On 'Art of the Actor' in Gerrard Hall knows of no plans to investigate -the University. And he says he does not Dr. Selden was selected to deliver one the distribution booths. After tomor- j pian to request any such inquiry. cf the three lectures sponsored each Professor Samuel Selden, head of the dramatic art department and director of the Carolina Playmakers, will speak on "The Art of the Actor" as this quarter's Humanities lecture at 8 : 30 tonight in Gerrard -hall. - As author -of many books on theatre techniques, follows : j Sophomores : r Re-Election Date Set Next Tuesday For Eight Officers By Chuck Hauser Wheels will start turning to day toward the long-awaited re peat performance of the fresh man and sophomore class elec tions at class meetings to be held this afternoon in Memorial hall, freshmen rreeting at 2:30 and sophomores at 3:15. Nominating committees will be elected at this time to present recom mendations for class officers. The last elections of the tw classes, held January 30, were da dared void by the Student Legisla ture on grounds of unconstitution ality. The claim wqs made that six days were not allowed to elapse be tween the time of nominations and the elections, as provided for by the constitution. Elections Tuesday Actual elections will tiike place next Tuesday, one week from today, an nounced Jabie Heyward, chairman of the Elections board, who will conduct both meetings today. A bill to hold the elections was passed by the Student Legislature February 20, as recommended to the body by the legislature elections com mittee, headed by Johnny Clampitt. From there it was referred to Jabie Heyward's student body elections board, which has just completed ar rangements for the balloting. Former Officers In the ill-fated elections of Janu ary 30, class officers were elected as row they may be returned in a ballot Eighteen Casualties Reported by British London, March 3. (UP) Colo nial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones has placed the total casualties in the Jewish attacks in Palestine at 18 killed and 25 injured. He told the House of Commons thU the govern ment will support measures to sup press the Jewish underground. - Many Dead as Result Of Furious Snowstorm Chicago, March 3. (UP) -At least 13 persons are dead in the United States and 10 in Canada as the re sult of a furious snowstorm which swept through northeastern states on a 70-mile-an-hour gale. The storm buried villages, crippled electric power in many towns, and brought near dis aster to shipping in the Atlantic President Attends Mexico City Banquet Mexico City, March 3. (UP)- President Truman is resting at the American embassy in Mexico City be fore leaving for a state - banquet at Mexico's international palace .tonight. Mr. Truman received an impressive welcome to the Mexican capital, and was awarded a special gold medal from the Mexican president. WEATHER TODAY Partly cloudy and warmer. box in the "Y" or may be mailed to I no charges of Communism at Chapel the UVA, Box 427, or AVC, Box 891. Results of the survey will be tabu lated during the weekend and will be released next Tuesday morning. The AVC and UVA plan to have results of the survey mimeographed. Copies will then be sent to Congress men, to other schools, and will be made available to veterans desiring to use the information in writing letters to their congressmen in support of the new bill. Send to other Schools Copies are to be sent to. veterans organizations at other schools in the hope that the information will be ben eficial to those organizations in con ducting a similar survey to support passage of the bill. The local drive in support of H. R. 870 is similar-to campaigns at a number of other schools. At present the American Veterans committee is - the only national vet erans organization supporting the in creased subsistence. Both the Ameri can Legion and the Veterans of For eign Wars have aligned themselves against the bill. Bonner says further he has heard of year by the Division of Humanities. I T -T CI-1J J i- .3 4. jjjjj j .rruj.es8ur oeiueu was euucaieu at Other members of the committee, 1 Yale and Columbia university, and such as Representatives Mundt of for five years, before coming to South Dakota and Rankin of Mis sissippi, also deny the reports. YWCA Will Select Officers Thursday The election of the YWCA officers for the coming year will be held on Thursday evening in Alderman dormi tory. The nominations have been an nounced as follows: President, Jo Fishel, Gray Simpson; secretary, Lola Mustard, Julia Ross; treasurer, Emily Lvon Borries, Marshall Spears; mem bership chairman, Sally Lee, Joyce Peterson. Only those YWCA members who registered at the membership meeting on February 24 will be eligible to vote in the elections and new Cabinet members will be selected by the in coming officers at the beginning of the spring- quarter. Installation serv ice for the new Cabinet will be held April 7 in the Presbyterian church. Chapel Hill in 1927 as technical di- Daumier Display Opens Tomorrow An exhibition of forty lithographic prints by Honore Daumier will open Curt Youngblood, president; Bob Lee, vice-president; Earl Summers, secretary-treasurer; Jerry Pence, social chairman. Freshmen: Steve Nimocks, presi dent; Ralph Lee, vice-president; Stuart Bondurant, secretary; Paul Baschon, treasurer. "Set an Example for Others".'. . . Ex-W AC Eileen Smith Cast For Lead In Play maker Show By Brooksie Popkins Eileen Smith is cast in the leading role of Pinkey, a light-skinned Negro girl, in the Carolina Playmakers pre miere production of Cid Ricketts Sum ner's new play, "Hear the Hammers Ringing," directed by Kai Jurgensen, which opens tomorrow evening at 8:30 in the Playmakers theatre for a four-day run. Eileen has a long career of drama tic art work behind her. After grad uating from Lee Edwards high school in Asheville, she entered Biltmore Junior college. There she was busi ness manager of the dramatic art club her first year and president the next. Her most outstanding perform ance at the college was that of Ma Fisher in George Kelly's "The Show Off." , Work With Playmakers After being graduated from Bilt more in 1940, Eileen came to Caro lina to study with the Playmakers. Here she did technical work for a liUmber of plays, had roles in experi mental productions and appeared in two Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. She says, "I had my first chance at playing a mulatto in Paul Green's 'The House of Connelly,' which the Playmakers took on tour." In October 1942 she joined the WAC, and as a first lieutenant did cryptography in air corps communica tions. Just before she was separated from the army at Fort Bragg, Eileen was made company officer which, she says, "was a dirty trick because then I had to set an example for the others." The last night of perform ance of "Hear the Hammers Ring ing", will be her first anniversary of getting out of the army. Eileen entered graduate school in See EX-WAC, page I. O'Neill's early plays. It was during these summer years that he worked in a number of stock companies, . in cluding the Cape Playhouse. Not Flexible Enough In looking back over some of his experiences Dr. Selden recalls with amusement a tour one season with a Chautauqua group and of spending some weeks in an old-time repertory company. Of this last experience he said: "I was then twenty-seven years old. One of the persons I had to act opposite on the stage was an old bur lesque queen, aged seventy. I was supposed to be her husband. Mr. Swaford, the manager, fired me be fore the summer was over, explain ing that I- wasn't 'flexible' enough." For the past six summers he has directed Paul Green's "The Lost Col ony" before audiences totalling 250, 000. Selden is also a member of the Na tional Theatre conference, the Ameri can National Theatre and Academy, the American Educational Theatre association and many other profes sional societies. He is one of the edi tors of the "International Review of the Theatre." Ellen Winston Talk Postponed until April Dr.- Ellen Winston, state commis- sioner of public welfare, who was to speak this afternoon at 4 :30 in Graham Memorial, has postponed her talk until next month due to v illness. WAR CREDIT GROUP Dean D. D. Carroll, chairman of the committee on Emergency War Credits, stated that the "committee is up to date with its work and all vet erans who have made applications for credit should call at 316 South building. A native of Marseilles, Daumier was, during his lifetime, famed as a caricaturist and lithographer, but since his deati, his status as a painter has been increasingly recognized. He was noted for the audacity of his sa tirical drawings illustrating the in competence of the French govern ment and the corruption and follies of the law courts of the nineteenth cen tury. He produced over 4000 such lith ographs during his lifetime. fc ' Daumier's influence is seen in the works of such prominent artists as Picasso, Rouault, and Toulouse-Lautrec. rector of the Playmakers, he worked , in Person hall art gallery tomorrow. in JNew xorK tneatres. ne aiso worKea , saneiy wib. vu.tue Mmuu win uc in the Provincetown playhouse at the I given by John V. Allcott at 4:15 next JtvCU VrOSS VailVaSS time it was presenting Eugene , Sunday afternoon. Will End Saturday Sparked by the leadership of co chairmen Johnnie Clampitt and No nie Morris, the annual campus Red Cross fund-raising campaign got un derway today, to last until Saturday. Clampitt and Morris have appoint- ed solicitors on each dormitory floor, and in fraternity and sorority houses. Organizations may give either as a group or through Individual contri butions of members. Campus contributions will be handl ed oniy through solicitors appointed by fund leaders. There will be no booths on University property. Said Clampitt, "No quota has been set, but we wish to make a good show ing for a good cause. For one dollar, anyone can become a member of the National Red Cross." He emphasized that the campaiga will close Saturday and all students "should get their donations in early." W. L. Wiley to Sneak To Philological Club . The Philological club will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Roland Parker lounge of Graham Memorial. Dr. W. L. Wiley will present a paper on tfce subject: "A Day in Renaissance France; Two Sides of the Picture." Cornwell, Schnable Visit XL'S. Navy Flattop Oliver K. Cornwell of the Univer sity's Physical Education department and Commander A. G. Schnable of the NROTC, were guests of the Navy last week aboard the new aircraft carrier Saipan. Commander Schnable headed a group of North Carolina educators, newspapermen and legislators, accom panied by Cornwell and the group spent two days aboard the new ship in the Gulf, observing naval aerial warfare training and tactics. Town Women, Two Sororities To Be Feted by UVA Tonight The University Veterans' asso ciation will hold its last open house of the winter quarter this eve ning at 8:30 when the coeds of Delta Delta Delta and Pi Beta Phi sororities and town women will be entertained. Feature of the evening's enter tainment will be a floor show en titled "Corn's a Poppin'" starring club members Pinky Barnes, A. B. Coleman, Ed Pendland, Charlie Cross, and Ben Douglas. A yet unnamed "Swami" will also appear in the show. Piano ac companiment for . the production will be provided by Art Soybel. The escort committee has been requested to be at the club at 8:15 this evening in order that they may call for the coeds by 8:30 o'clock. President Roy Moose has urged all veterans to attend the affair.
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