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-r-r3!ftr- f Periodical Bspt) Unlv-sity of North Carolina Chapel Hill, K. C. 1-31-48 EDITORIAL : Watch Your Vote The $64 Question Of Cabbages and Kings NEWS: Legislature 3IeeU UNC French House AVC Denies Charges THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME LV United Press CHAPEL KILL, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947 NUMBER 155 HEWS BRIEFS Lilienthal Wins First Victory In Test Vote Balloting Expected Early in Next Week Washington, April 3. (UP) David Lilienthal has won a major' victory on the floor of the Senate that Washington forecasters say virtually assures his confirmation as atomic energy chief. - Late this afternoon, the Senate voted 52 to 38 against a motion to shelve his appointment until the FBI looked over his past. The motion to send the Lilienthal nomination back to committee was considered the test of strength be tween his friends and foes. The most powerful foe, Ohio's Robert Taft, lost one of his most significant intra party battles. He lost after arguing in vain that Lilienthal is "soft' to ward Russia and should not be en trusted with this country's most vital secret. Take Recess Immediately after the vote, the Senate took an Easter weekend re cess. Indications are it will vote on the direct confirmation issue on Mon day or Tuesday of next week. And it looks very much as though the former Tennessee Valley chairman will win his long fight. - :1 t HUGO GIDUZ Western Union Workers File Notice of Strike New York, April 3. (UP) The Western Union division of the A. F. of L. Commercial Telegraphers union "announced that contract negotiations with the Western Union " Telegraph company "iave.-broken 'down and that it -has filed a 30-day strike notice against the company in accordance with the Smith-Co nnally act. French House Will Be Held This Summer Professor Hugo Giduz, founder and director of the French house, an nounces that he has finally succeeded in leasing the Alpha Delta house, 407 E. Rosemary; for the 1947 ses sion. The Extension division, sponsor of the French house, wa3 able to secure this lease through the coopera tion of the Alpha Delta Pi and the Delta Delta Delta sororities. The House will operate as last year, women students living in the House and men on the campus. The latter will take their meals at the House and will participate in the entire pro gram there. Students who are desirous of im proving their ability to use spoken French will find here an excellent opportunity for such practice. At all times, the language spoken in the House will be French. Graduate stu dents will be TserraittetLto take cours- jes in the romance language" depart I ment. sisting Professor Giduz will be Constitutional Changes Killed Folger Nominated by UP For Vice-President Post Legislature Shouldn't Be Debating Society, Says Aspiring Candidate for Speaker's Spot By Chuck Hanser A Student Legislature which "serves the student body instead of acting as a debating society for political parties" is the pro posed aim of Jack Folger, who, it was officially revealed yester day, has been nominated by the University party for the position of vice-president ' of the student ; body. - Krug Closes 500 Mines Regarded as Dangerous Washington, April 3. (UP) One-sixth of the nation's coal supply will be cut off indefinitely by the dras tic mine-closing orders issued today by Secretary of the Interior Krug. More than 500 mines, regarded as dangerous, must remain closed until union safety committees or federal inspectors decide their hazards have been corrected. John I Lewis has denounced Sec retary Krug for failing to close un safe coal mines before - 111 miners were killed at Centralia, Minois. Lewis told a House Labor subcom mittee today that Congress should enact a resolution demanding Krug's removal from ofiice, and he urged Congress to return the $700,000 fine levied on the mine workers to be used as a trust fund for the families of the Centralia disaster vktims. I Mrs. Charlotte V. Kuse and Jacques i Hardre both of whom were active in ' past sessions. Mrs. Huse will be hostess . and instructor in conversation, while j Hardre will conduct a class in con I versation and one in French civiliza tion. Professor Giduz will give a I course in French review grammar for ! advanced students and teachers, and I a course in the materials and methods of teaching French. Anyone interested in registering for the French house, which will oper ate during the first summer session (June 12-JuIy 22), may get informa tion by contacting the Extension di vision in Swain hall (phone F-421), or Prof. Giduz in 305 Murphey or 107 Peabody. NAVY PHYSICALS All students who have not com pleted their physical examinations at the Naval Armory are requested to report to the Professor of Naval science today between 9 and 4 o'clock: Committee Approves Plan for Greek Aid Washington, April 3. (UP) Senate Foreign Relations committee has unanimously approved President Truman's $400,000,000 program to quarantine communism in Greece and Turkey. The bill contains an amend ment by Chairman Arthur Vanden berg giving the United Nations power to call a halt to the program if it de sires. The bill now goes to the Senate floor where debate is expected to begin Monday. - Asheville Electricians Begin Citywide Strike Asheville, April 3. (UP) A city wide strike of union electricians is in progress in Asheville without pick eting or violence. The union electricians are mem bers of the A. F. of L.'s International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Their contract with Asheville elec trical companies ran out April 1, and they are asking 25 cent3 an hour wage increases which the employers re fuse. - WEATHER TODAY Increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer. Light rains tonigfcf. . The office to which Folger, a junior from Dobson, aspires, also entails the duties of Speaker of the Student Legislature. Makes Statement Folgeis statement was released yes terday by Alex Davis, chairman of the University party: "If the student body elects me to the post of Speaker of the Student Legislature, I will see that every mem ber of the Legislature has a fair chance to express his views on every bill brought np." No Debating Society "I will do my best to see that the Legislature serves the student body instead of acting as a debating so ciety for political parties." Folger has been a member of the Legislature for two years, having previously served on both freshman and sophomore Honor Councils and Executive committees. Active in cam pus athletics, he has played junior varsity football, and was a mem ber of his freshman class basketball squad. SP Names Talley, Park for Council The Student party, at its meeting yesterday afternoon, nominated Viv ian Park and Walt Talley as rising junior; class members for the Men's council. Dewey Dorsett, who appeared dur ing the course of the meeting, asked the Party to submit names, which the group would approve, to fill the vacancies now existing one man and one coed representative in the legis lature and one coed in the Student council. Next meeting of the Party is set for Tuesday afternoon. Students May Pick Up Identification Photos Students who had identification photos made at the beginning of this quarter may pick them up to day in the basement of Swain hall. General Assembly A pproves 28 Trustees for University Raleigh, April 3 (UP) The General Assembly has approved 28 new trustees for the University in a short joint session of both Houses today. The iew trustees had been nominated last night in a meeting of the joint committee on Univer sity trustees. Twenty-four of them will serve eight-year terms, one six-years, and three for four-years. Those elected .by the committee include O. Max Gardner, Jr., the 24 year-old son of the former gov ernor and United States Senator. Young Gardner is a senior at State college. Here are the names of the 11 trustees who were re-elected: H. D. Bateman of Wilson county; I. T. Johnson of Ashe; Willie Lee Lump kin of Franklin; M. C. Lassiter of Greene; H. B. Marrow of Johns ton; W. D. Merrit of Person; I. P. McLendon of Guilford; Clarence Pee of Wake; C. A. Rudisill of Gas ton; John W. Umstead of Orange; and Lionel Weil of Wayne. New members named to full terms include the following: Wilbur H. Currie of Moore coun ty; B. E. Fountain of Edgecombe; P. B.; Ferrebee of Cherokee; O. Max Gardner, Jr. of Cleveland; L. S. Gibbs of Carteret; A. H. Har ris of Pamlico; V. G. James of Pas quotank; J. C. Kesler of Rowan; John Kerr, Jr. of Warren; J. S. .Love of Guilford; J. F. Millikin of Union; Rudolph I Mintz of Bruns wick; Mrs. R: B. Parker of Stanly, and E. L. Winslqw of Perquimans. The men named - to four year terms are W. W. Stevens of Duplin; F. I. Sutton of Lenoir, and G. M. Stephens of Buncombe. Budget Action Gets Postponed Until Next Week Although the campus budget was not discussed, the 'Student Legislature last night cleaned the table of proposed constitu tional . amendments, defeating the second half of the Student council change, and a bill which would have killed the Legislature's power to determine offenses. Bill Mackie, chairman of the Fi nance committee explained his group's failure to report out on any sections of the 1947-48 budget. Mackie said, "The publications board budget is the largest single item "at least $54 000 and has not yet been submitted. Without it, we feel, that we.ca.nnot sensibly report on any other sections and still properly control the entire budget." Freshman Elections The assembly also defeated a reso tion introduced by Basil Sherill to hold another run-off in the disputed freshman, sophomore elections. In defeating the two constitutional proposals, the Legislature kept the membership of the Student council at nine, instead of five as the bill con tained. Also the Legislature retained its power to determine offenses against the student body; Concurrent with this, the body is authorized by the constitution to set the maximum and minimum penalties for violations against the campus and honor codes. Constitution Finished With the constitution off their minds legislators can now turn to con sideration of the budget which .is scheduled to be reported out of the Finance committee by next week. IRC State Convention To Be in Chapel Hill The 1943 state convention of Inter national Relations clubs will meet in Chapel Hill, it was decided on Satur day at this year's annual IRC confer ence held at Meredith college in Ra leigh. John Brisfow, president of the IRC, led the Carolina delegation, which in cluded James Burwell and Kenneth Cruse. The convention elected Bur well secretary of the state organiza tion for the coming year. Student representatives from col leges all over the state took part in seminars dealing with all phases of international relations. Dr. James L. Godfrey, professor of history at the University, opened the conference with an address. IRC chairman Bristow spoke to the delegates on the Balkan crisis and on the situation in Italy. Yack Editors Taking Life Easy These Spring Days Charlotte Now Made Scene of Operations By Sigsbee Miller Up in the Yackety Yack office on the mezzanine floor of Graham Me morial, a lot of editors and assistant editors are taking life easy these days. The . scene of operations has shifted to a Charlotte printing house where eight miles of glossy surfaced paper is being turned into the 7,000 yearbooks that will be distributed to Tar Heels sometime in May, Suave, immodest Gene Johnstone, the editor in charge of all other edi tors, even found time to admit the press and give out some pertinent facts on. the most ambitious student publication effort ever undertaken in the University's' history. , Different-r-Surprise I think it's going td.be a surprise to everybody," said Johnstone. "It's different. Of course I can't tell you anything about the theme or dedi cation. That's to be the surprise." He rummaged among a stack of discarded proofs and brought forth a sheet 'of yellow paper from which he proceeded to read some statistics an enthusiastic staff had worked out. "We're printing 7,000 copies this 1 1 l GENE JOHNSTONE year at a cost of over $35,000," he said, "twice as many as in an ordi nary year. Each book will consist of 420 pages. If you put all the pages together they would stretch 35,280, 000 feet, or around eight miles. You could ride to Durham on them by air plane of course. ThereH be around 7,000 individual photographs, includ ing a lot of snapshots, about four or five times as many as last year. We've met all our deadlines and the books should be ready by the middle or lat ter part of May. "And," he added happily, ".This is the first time in many years that the printer's dead lines have been met." Success by Self Johnstone, who doesn't mind admit ting that his very successful year of editorship is due largely to hi3 own tact and diplomacy in dealing with people, is a political science major hailing from Haleyville, Ala. He was associate editor and later co-editor of the 1945 Yackety Yack. Getting out a yearbook, he said, is a year-round job. "I started work on the 1947 book right after I was elected editor-in-chief last spring," he said. "I work ed on it all summer and by the fall term I had worked out the theme. That's the hardest and the most im portant part of the job. Since last September we've worked from six to eight hours a day, aranging contracts for space, .having class photographs made, fitting in art work with our theme, dickering with , printers and engravers, and so on. It hasn't been dull a minute, though. There's always something happening." Eight Miles of Paper Make 7,000 Yearbooks This was fervently corroborated by Business Manager Jean Huske, who sat on the sidelines lamenting her own star-crossed career. She wanted it recorded, she said, that .the busi ness end was the toughest thing of all about a yearbook. Johnstone smil ed tolerantly and turned back. Credit to Byrnes, Evans Johnstone accorded a large share of the credit for this year's year book to Associate Editor Elizabeth Barnes and Managing Editor Ruth Evans. In fact, he observed, the whole staff had been a veritable paragon of cooperation. He mentioned Bill Moff att and Peter Gems, assistant edi tors; Business Manager Huske; Sid Me Aden, assistant business manager; John Kerr, sports editor; Winkie Andrews, art' editor; Les Bodden, photography editor; Bettie Wash burn, senior editor; Hubert Philpott, junior editor, and their respective aides. Plans for circulation of the year books are incomplete but they will probably . be distributed after the fashion of giving out grades, John stone said. Red Charges Flatly Denied By Local AVC Group Hits Passage Of Hayes Amendment Flatly denying that the American Veterans committee is "communist dominated" or that Franklin Roose velt Jr. has disclaimed any connection with AVC as was stated before a com mittee of the North Carolina legis lature this week, Walter Spearman, regional vice-chairman of AVC, and Ben Rouzie, chairman of the Chapel Hill chapter, today wired members of the state legislature. They protested pasage of the "Hayes amendment" which would except the American Veterans committee from the provisions of a bill allowing in come tax deductions on contributions made to veterans organizations. "The American Veterans commit tee is not Communist dominated but represents 90,000 liberal veterans de dicated to American principles of democracy," stated the communica tion to legislators. "Franklin Roose velt Jr. has not disclaimed connec tion with the group as falsely stated by James M. Hayes but is actually enthusiastic and active member of National Planning Committee and in charge' of veterans housing. AVC i3 acredited by the Veterans adminis tration, has 10 chapters in North Car olina with some 500 members. Legis lature should not condemn unjustly without hearing." Wiring Legislature Roosevelt today telephoned Spear man that he was wiring Representa tive Kerr Craige Ramsey, chairman of the Finance committee of the N. C. House of Representatives, and Sena tor Gordon Gray, chairman of the Senate Finance committee, urging de- : feat of 'the Hayes amendment and ucuiaiiu tic vv eta cxLi titLive xiiemuct of AVC and knew it was not a Com munist dominated organization. It was pointed out by Spearman that the American Veterans commit tee has been particularly active in its efforts to secure veterans housing, in creased subsistence for veterans un der the G.I. Bill, and terminal leave' pay fer enlisted men. "Through its national chairman, Charles Bolte, AVC suggested the plan whereby war bonds paid vet erans for their terminal leave could be used to apply on GI insurance pre miums," said Spearman, "and the present Rogers Bill for increased sub sistence allowances for veterans in school was drawn up by leaders of AVC." With the slogan of 'Citizens First, Veterans Second,' the 90,000 members would improve the welfare and living conditions of all citizens a3 well a3 veterans." Coeds Will Elect Officers of WAA, Speaker Tuesday Coeds will go to the polls in a spe cial election Tuesday to choose the Speaker of the Coed Senate and of ficers of the Women's Athletic asso ciation. These elections are being held in order to facilitate the functioning of the Coed Leadership Training pro gram immediately. Voting will be by precinct, with three polls centrally located on cam pus. Polls will be open from 9 till 5. Coeds living in Alderman, Mc Iver, and Kenan will vote in Mclver, Spencer residents will vote in Spen cer. Gerrard hall will be the voting place for Smith, Carr, Archer, so rority houses, and town girls. Jerry Atkins, elections chairman of the Coed senate, has announced the nominees chosen at a mass meeting of the coeds Thursday, March 27. For Speaker of the Coed senate, Bar bara Cashion, Audrey Bryson, and Annie Ben Beale. For president of the WAA, Mar shall Spears. For other WAA officers: vice-president, K. D. Durham, Bill Lloyd; secretary, Mary Ellen Wel lens, Betsy Anne Bar bee; treasurer, Janet Crinkley, Nina Moseley; awards chairman, Mary Goodwin.
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