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Chapel Hill, 1-31-43 EDITORIAL : Studying the SP Planks CPU Roundtable Accusations Answered NEWS University Sermon CICA Fashion Show Two Kansas Boys -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME LV United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1947 NUMBER 157 NEWS BRIEFS Lewis 'Demand To Close Mines Gets Rejected Return of Miners To Work Doubtful Washington, April 5. (UP) Coal Mines Administrator N. H. Col Jisson tonight rejected a demand by John L. Lewis that . all but two of the nation's soft coal mines be kept closed until they have been certified safe by federal inspectors. Most observers believed, however, that the United Mine Workers would stay out of the pits on Monday, when they were scheduled to end a six-day work stoppage called by Lewis as a memorial to the 111 men killed in the Centralia, 111., mine explosion. Require Two Months Lewis' request would force the gov ernment to send federal inspectors to re-examine the mines. Interior de partment officials say they have only 171 federal inspectors, and they esti mate that it would require at least two months to inspect all the mines, as asked by Lewis. In the meantime, almost no coal would be dug. The giant, strategically important steel industry would be among the first to be hit. Other dislocations would fol low. Lewis made his request in a letter to Interior Secretary Krug and Cap tain N. H. Collisson, coal administra tor, who went into immediate con ference over the proposal. CICA Spring Fashion Show To Be Presented April 15 Spring and summer clothes will be modeled by Carolina coeds in the annual spring fashion show to be presented by the Carolina Inde pendent Coed association Tuesday evening, April 15, at 8 o'clock in the Village theatre. Three coeds will be nominated by each dormitory and two girls from each sorority house tomorrow eve ning. Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, those nominated will ap pear before the CICA modeling committee and 20 models will be selected from the group. Coeds chosen will go to Bald win's in Durham Thursday, Friday or Saturday to select and have fit ted the garments they will model in the show. - - Committee chairmen for ' the fashion show are: music, Lucy Evans ; decorations, Jean - Thomp son; publicity, Margaret Cole; script, Helen Xanthos. Tickets -will be, on sale in all coed dormitories this week, or may . be purchased at the door. " ' W v a- $ - if i4 ' I . . V" 5 r4 if-si Labor Secretary Hopes To Avert AT&T Strike Washington, April 5. (UP) Secretary of Labor Lewis B. SchwTel lenbach said tonight he hoped to avert the nationwide telephone strike sched uled for 6 a. m. Monday. He appealed to telephone workers not to jump the gun by quitting work before the deadline. Schwellenbach said that some prog ress had been made at today's con ferences in Washington and through out the country on -local issues. He said "anything can happen between now and Monday morning." Four Persons Killed In Oklahoma Tornado Poteau, Okla., April 5. (UP) A tornado slashed through the hills of eastern Oklahoma today, killing four persons and injuring several others in a sparsely settled rural area near the Arkansas border. The twister de stroyed three homes near the farm community of Glendale. Red Cross disaster rnits report some 25 other houses seriously damaged. Marines Begin Attack On Chinese Communist Peiping, China, April 5 (UP) Marine headquarters announces that marine corps planes and ground for ces are pursuing an attacking Chinese communist raiders who killed five American marines and wounded 16 others before dawn today. The bat tle began when the communists at tacked an ammunition dump at Tang-lai. Rains Promote Floods In Midwestern Areas Chicago, April 5 (UP) Torren tial spring rains have flooded large sections of the midwest. Streets in suburban Chicago have been turned into virtual rivers. And rescue work ers paddling canoes have removed some 500 persons from flooded homes. Four Foreign Ministers Agree on Agency Plan Moscow, April 5 (UP) The Big Four foreign ministers have agreed in principle that Central administra tive agancies should be set up in Ger many as soon as possible. However the foreign ministers failed to iron out their differences on details of the proposed agencies and adjourned un til Monday. WEATHER TODAY Cloudy and light thunder showers. Thirty -One One Act Plays To Be Presented this Week Thirty-one one act plays, six of which are original, will be pre sented by North Carolina senior colleges, junior colleges and high schools in the 24th annual spring festival, of the Carolina Dramatic association to be held in the Playmakers theatre next Thursday, Friday, and Saturdav. $ - Featured speaker for the festival is Hans Rothe of Madrid, Spain, guest lecturer in the dramatic arts depart ment this spring. His illustrated lec ture on Max Reinhardt, to be given Friday morning at 10:30, will be his first public appearance in Chapel Hill. While Rothe is with the Carolina Playmakers he is guest lecturer in the dramatic art course, Shakespeare in the1 Theatre. . He is famous for his German translations of Shakespeare, his German books about the theatre and his work done as a director with Max Reinhardt's theatres in Berlin before World War II, when the Nazis forced him to leave Germany. Other . Features Other features of the CDA festival include an exhibit of dramatic art material in Person hall Friday after noon at 5 o'clock, , and costume, make up contests and a puppet show Satur day morning, in the Theatre. There will be eight sessions of one-act plays, beginning at 9:00 aim., 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on each of the three days. Colleges and high schools who will present plays in this festival are : Lee Edwards high school of Asheville, Needham Broughton high school of Raleigh, Greensboro Senior high school, Reynolds High of Winston Salem, Gardner's high school of Wil son, Appalachian high school of Boone, Jefferson high school, Goldsboro high school, Hendersonville high school, Lexington high school, Greenville high school, Henderson high school, Lenoir which the floor will be thrown open Rhyne college, Mars Hill college, Ca tawba college, The Cunningham School of Speech in Gastonia, Rocky Mount high school, Salem college, Flora Mac Donald college, Meredith college, Oak Ridge Military institute, Asheville Biltmore college, Charles L. Coon high school of Wilson. CPU Will Discuss Proposed Red Outlaw At Session Tonight The proposed ban of Cpmmunists in the government and the possible outlawing of the Communist party in the United States will come up for discussion at the Carolina Political union's regular weekly roundtable dis cussion in the Grail room at 8 this evening. - ... The meeting, as are all CPU meet ings, is open to the public, which is cordially invited to attend and take an active part in the discussion. Kenneth Cruse and Kennedy Gam mage will present opposing view points on the problems involved in short introductory remarks, after which, the floor will be thrown open for informal discussion of the prob lem. Jerry Da vidoff, CPU chairman, an nounced with regret the acceptance of the' resignation of Billy Britt by the Union last Sunday evening. Britt, a former treasurer and vice chairman of the Union, has been active since his return from service in the fall. DR. B. G. McGAVRAN Dr. McGavran MadeNewDean 5 Public Health Head Succeeds Dr. Rosenau Dr. Edward G. McGavran, profes sor of public health and preventive medicine and head of the depart ment of Public Health of the Univer sity of Kansas School of Medicine, has been appointed Dean of the Uni versity of School of Public Health to succeed the late Dr. Milton J. Rosenau and Acting Dean Herman G. Baity. " Dr. McGavran was elected af a recent meeting of the University trustees on the recommendation of President Frank P. Graham and Chan cellor Robert B. House. A native of Pachmaria, Central Provinces, India, Dr. McGavran came fto the United States in 1910 and was educated in this country, receiving his A.B. degree from Butler university in 1924, his M.D. from Harvard in 1928, and his M.P.H. from the Har vard School of Public Health in 1935. He served his medical internship at Rochester General hospital. From 1926 to 1928 Dr: McGavran was a teach ing fellow in the Department of Para sitology, Harvard Medical school, and for several months in 1927 he went to Egypt and India doing medical re search for the Rockefeller foundation. He practiced medicine in' Sidel, 111., from 1929 to 1934, and for the next five years served as director of health and county health officer. Dr. John Bennett to Present University Sermon Tonight 'Christianity and Our World' to Be Topic Of Address by Union Theological Teacher Dr. John C. Bennett, professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological seminary in New York, will deliver the sixth in a series of University sermons presented by the Council for Re ligion in Life, tonight in Hill hall at 8 o'clock. Appearing on a series organized around the titles of the Hazen Books on Religion, Dr. Bennett is the sole representative of the original authors of the Hazen series. He has selected, as the topic for his sermon, "Christianity and Our World," which is also the title of his book. Taught at Auburn Before accepting his position at the Union seminary he taught at Auburn Theological seminary. Dr. Bennett returned in December from a trip to Europe for research and writ ing. The CRIL was organized by students dur ing the summer and fall of 1944 to bring about greater cooperation among all the religious groups in the community. This year's sermons are part of the third annual series sponsored by the group and is organized around the Hazen Books on Re- DR. JOHN BENNETT ligion. The books were' designed as a system atic treatment of the great problems of religion, written by America's greatest theologians and philosophers. Other speakers who have appeared under the auspices of the CRIL have been: Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, Dr. Stanley Romaine Hopper, Dr. Clarence Tucker Craig, Dr. Elton Trueblood, and Dr. Arnold Nash. L 1 YWCA Will Install Officers In Service T omorrow Night Marking the shift from old to new officers, the YWCA will hold its annual installation service at 8:30 tomorrow night in the Presbyterian church. At this time, present officers and cabinet members will turn over the administration of this large coed who organization to rising seniors 0 will constitute the cabinet for next year. The candlelight ceremony will in clude messages from Resident Secre tary Betty Rose Dowden, " Retiring President Charlisle Cashion, Incom ing President Ruth Evans, Jo Law ler, Margaret Whitney, and Jerry At kins. Each new member of the cabi net will be given a charge by her predecessor, and will take the na tional pledge to YWCA office. All students and townspeople are in- Competed Against 'Ike' .... Capt. 'Swede' Hazlett Wanted Appointment To West Point, Had to Settle for Annapolis By Sigsbee Miller Chapel Hill Buying Cluh Meets Tomorrow Night Spring quarter activities of the Chapel Hill buying club will get under way tomorrow night at 7:45 o'clock in 103 Bingham, hall when the organi zation meets for its initial buying 6" . get enough money to go A - rA in cr tr f n irmn n Tom Me- . .... ... ZiVVUJiUlll V VM"W" " Dade main object of Monday's meeting will be to accept orders from co-op members for group purchases. ( Old members have been notified that they may order by mail but those persons who have not participated in a pre vious order will have to attend the meeting. Following consolidation of orders taken at Monday's meeting purchases will be made at wholesale prices and it is expected that delivery will be made through neighborhood chairmen on Saturday, April 12. "The organization's facilities are open to everyone, veteran and non veteran, student and townspeople, and we hope that a large number of new people will attend Monday's meeting. They will be helping us as welL as themselves," said McDade. STORES CLOSED TOMORROW The Chapel Hill stores with the ex ception of the drug stores and the eating places will be closed on Easter Monday, tomorrow, but will be open all day Wednesday. . On a rainy Tuesday afternoon an Army officer and a retired Naval of ficer sat in the latter 's Chapel Hill home talking over the days when they were "best friends? in a small mid western prairie town, cramming to gether for the U. S. Naval academy entrance exams. Back in Abilene, . Kansas, Swede Hazlett had announced at an early age his intention of becoming a West Point cadet. When the time came he was willing to settle for an Annapolis appointment. He persuaded his best friend, who was working nights to to Kansas university, to try for the other ap pointment. Through high school they had been inseparable buddies and the prospect of twin Navy careers was inviting. Competitive Tests Swede's friend placed first in com petitive tests at the state capital. It was a sort of stunning anti-climax when he got the letter telling him he was being given the West .Point berth, simply because the West Point exams were being given three months before the Navy exams. That was in 1911. The boys went j their respective ways at West Point and Annapolis,' corresponded regu larly and managed to see each other once in a while. Last week General . of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower stopped over in Chapel Hill to see Captain E. E. Hazlett,. U.S.N., retired. It was their first meeting in 12 years. Captain Hazlett came to Chapel Hill in 1944 to head the N.R.O.T.C. program at the University. Retired in 1939 because of a heart ailment he had returned to active service 10 ' 'gotta v , , ; - ' ' fm'V lire 'X'.iSMJ !rrnV? ' hi' ix - s'ffill ? -I'- &""iL For the first time in 12 years Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Capt. E. E. Hazlett got together to swap their boyhood yarns in Chapel Hill last week. Reading from left to right: Capt. E. E. Hazlett, U.S.N, (ret.); Lib Hazlett, Maj. Gene Aenchbacher, University student who piloted the general on a perilous trip from Algiers to Gibraltar during the war; Mrs. Eisenhower, and Gen. Eisenhower. (Photo courtesy Durham Sun.) months later to teach at Annapolis. With the end of the emergency he returned to retirement. He decided to remain in Chapel Hill and he now lives with his wife and two daugh ter's, one of whom is a student at the University,, at 109 North Boundary street. , Hazlett probably knows the U. S. Army Chief of Staff as does no one else. Grew Up Together "Ike and I grew up together, in Abilene," he said. "We were friends from childhood but we went to dif ferent grade schools and our intimate friendship didn't develop until we were in high school. Even then Ike had the qualities that have put him See HAZLETT, page 4. vited to attend this service, which is a highlight in the program of the year. Incoming cabinet members and their positions are: Ruth Evans, president; Gray Simpson, vice-president; Julia Ross, secretary; Marshall Spears, treasurer; Sally Lee, membership chairman; and the following commit tee chairmen: Doris Harrell, career; Lois Sunstrom, Social service; Ethel Perry, cabinet worship; Liz Hazlett, publicity; Merrily Brooks, librarian; Donnie McDonald, worship; Nina De Berry, Harriet Gurley, race relations; Jo Fischel, public affairs; Katherine McLean, dorm stores; Jo Benton, Hank Hopkins, Virginia Ellis, Rachel Woodley, "Y Teens"; Mary Murphy, music ; Margaret Jean Taylor, recreation;- Emily von Bories, freshman council; Helen Compton, Jeanne Bas night, bible study; Joyce Peterson, WSSF; and Hilda Frances Lawrence, member at large. EasterPlayTonight Will Be Presented By Wesley Players Wesley Players will present "In the Shadow of the Cross," an Easter play written by Mrs. Karl Fussier of Chapel Hill, at 7 o'clock tonight in the Metho dist auditorium. Directed by Madeline Cooley, the play was written by Mrs. Fussier for presentation hexe 10 years ago and concerns an interpretation of the crucifixion story as it happened in biblical days and then, in parallel scenes, tells a similar story in a mo dern setting. Henrietta Cooper and Martha Pcar sall are acting as assistant directors. The all student cast includes Jim my Maynard, Caroline Warren, Her man Baker, Darley Lochner, Meade Deggs, Robert Dulin, Edgar McLean, James Warren, Earl Fitzgerald, David Andrews, Julia Pancake, Leo Nance, Henrietta Cooper, Douglas Dixon, Francis Olds, Gene Wilkins and Mar tha Pearsall. "In the Shadow of the Cross" is the second project performed by Wes ley Players, a sub-organization to Wesley foundation. The group was organized only last fall and is now seeking affiliation with the national Wesley Players. FLORIDIANS CANCEL MEET The Florida club will not meet Monday night as has been previously announced. The time and date of the next meeting will be announced at a later date. , ,
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