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Xi-ii (rerioiical Lept) University of "orth Carolina Chapel Hill, K. 1-31-48 WEATHER Cloudy and cool; occasional light rain. VOLUME LVI ITS HOLDS BULGING with 8.000.000 pounds of food, the U.S. Line freighter. American Leader, sails past the Statue of Liberty, carrying to France the first cargo of supplies gathered over the nation by the Friendship Train. Special ceremonies were held on the pier before the ship sailed for Mar seille. (International) Playmakers Hold 'Fashion' Tryout On Stage Today Open -tryouts for "Fashion", a ulay by Anna Cora Mowatt and J J. Ihe second production of the La boratory theater of the Carolina Playmakers, will be held at 4 o'clock today in the Playmaker theater. . "Fashion", first produc ed in 1845, was the first American satire' on the affected manners of the American social world. W.P. Covington, III, Winston Salem, director of the production, f issued a call for all students who- are interested in any phase of s theatrical work, and invited them to be present at the tryouts. The I play has a large cast, calling for eight men and five women, in f. the feature roles, and several dancers and singers. The produc I tion will require a (large techhi I cal staff, according to Covington. The production is to be given I during the winter quarter, Feb- ruary 6 and 7, in the main lounge at Graham memorial. No rehears- jals wilL be Jield until after 4 I Christmas holidays. " Director Covington appeared i recently as "Aslaksen" in the Ca rolina Playmaker presentation of "An Enemy of the People". Be fore the war, he was a director in theWinston-Salem Little the-;Q0bje yjf AddreSS atre, and appeared in such Play-I . . f, maker shows as "Down to the Legal CjTOUp Mere Sea" -and "Peer Gynt". Since the j Judge "Armistead M. Dobie of war he has appeared m thetthd Fourth Circuit Court of Ap. Playmaker productions of "In-1 . rhnifvinp Va Wmor nocehce", "Hear the Hammers Ringing", and the Lab show, "Pierre Pathelin". theatre . t Heroine vs.' Villain In High School Play f f The heroine will once again foiljschooi faculty will entertain him the. villan when the Junior class jat a dinner at the Carolina Inn at of Chapel Hill high school pre- -g 0ciock, : fsents "East Side, West Side," E Thursday and Friday, December f 16 and 17 at 8 o'clock in the Play- maker theater. The play was. written by' Sumner Nichols. Ad s mission will be sevenTy-f ive cents for adults and fifty cents for children.. : ' The leading role of Patsy, a I girl from the "wrong side of the ; tracks" is played by Gloria Wherry. The cast includes Bill I Wolf, who-plays a shy psycholo gist; Mary Kellam, who plays jMiamj today, a society girl; Stanley Johnson,! Wnjie pedestrians a playboy; John Jernigan, an atn lete; Barbara. Garrett, Kimsey King, Betty Heath, Collier Hill, Dan Olsen, Sally Jente, and Betty Jane Ivey. Calcutta Police Fire On Protesting Mob Calcutta (UP) Police have op ened fire on some 5,000 demon strators massed outside the West Bengal legislature in India to pro test the government's new securi ty bill. First reports say there were an undetermined number of casualties. Yack Pictures 7 mi i. lacs pictures wm ue wrcu the following groups tomorrow, m every year, so mai -the main lobbv of Graham Memo- sent out again under the coveted rial: ' House Privileges, Board -o'clock." Senior class officers 4:15. Junior class officers 4:30. Freshman class officers 4:30. 4 1 it is lmDortant uiai au iuemuci present at the appointed time. Co- C. United Press Contingent of For First Time A contingent of student members of the Air ROTC unit here were ff i icr fliefht inctniftinn fni tho firct timo lnct .atiipHav' at t.hp TVIari- i . . - . . 4l . ptta air hast in Atlanta lia The contingent left the Air ROTC building at 1 o'clock last Friday Medical Plan Turned Down Raleigh. Dec. 10. (UP) The plan for a medical school and leaching hospital jointly operat ed by the University of North Carolina and the Cone founda tion of Greensboro has been turned down. The Executive committee of the University Board of Trus tees says the plan is unwork able. The 1947 Legislature author ized a four-year medical school and 400-bed hospital at Chapel hill. The Moses H. Cone founda tion offered to contribute to its upkeep if the medical center were established at Greensboro 1.L ,,-The University Trustees met this afternoon with representa tives of the Cone foundation and decided that the plan could not be carried out. . ;n ' f th TTniversjtv 0 vir- j ginia Lgw schoolj wiu address the i University of North Carolina Law School association in Gerrard hall tonight at 7:30. ms subject win be "A Judge Judges Judges " i Preceding his talk, the Law Judge Dobie received his B.A., M.A., and LL.B degrees from the University of Virginia, and his S. J..TJL from the Harvard Law school in 1922. He also attended the Columbia university Graduate school of Jurisprudence. What a Bird Miami, Fla., (UP) A pigeon, too young to fly, fluttered from its nest into a downtown street in looked on amazed the bird waddled into an office building, passed several doors and entered one marked "National Audubon Society." Santa Glaus Postpones Fighting, Feuding Until Yule Holidays End By the United Press They have patched things up for the holiday season in Santa Claus, Ind. But just as soon as the Yuletide season is over they promise to go back to fussin' and feudin' some more. Christmas has become a land office business in the tiny village of Santa Claus, with its stable population of 60. Cards by the ;n;onc mil into me vmagc i""" " t .. , n Visitors pour in too. An Santa Claus, for years just a cluster of houses arouna a wooden , general store, now boasts modern and prosperous toy firms. Prosperity Starts Feud it ;a thr nrosnerity that got . , . ?., riam ; Pf ? , slore, but AROTC Flies in Program fand were flown in an Army C-47 ifrom Pope Field to the Marietta I base. The training took place Sat- urday morning with each student being given two or three hours of dual flying instruction. They were flown back to Pope Field and ar rived at Chapel Hill at 10 o'clock Saturday evening. Col .Bryon R. Switzer, com manding officer of the local unit, accompanied the Air ROTC mem bers on their first flight to Mari etta. The flying program for the unit at the present time provides for a similar trip to the Marietta base every other Saturday. All flight instruction will take place at the Marietta base since it is the closest active reserve flying base in this area. The last meeting of the local unit before the Christmas . holi- vidaiillbe. helcLat the-AirJROTJC building behind the Naval armory at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. GOP Deals Blow To Truman Plan For Price Fight Washington, D. C (UP) Re publican Congressional leaders have dealt a serious blow to President Truman's more drastic anti-inflation proposals. The GOP chieftains threw a side Mr. Truman's requests and came up with their own plan for beating high prices, a plan which they hope to push through Con gress before Christmas. Republican Sena;e and House leaders have decided on a four point piece of legislature. It calls for the continued curbs on ex ports and transportation, some new controls on bank credits and voluntary allocation of scarce industrial materials.' The first three of these were in cluded in Mr. Truman's program, but the president's demand for stand-by powers to slap on ra tioning and price controls were set aside by the Republicans, at least for the emergency session of Congress. A former chief of the OPA, Prentiss Brown, says some type of government control is neces sary to curb the "grab market" in scarce material. came so large the . government asked for bids for modern stream lined quarters. A man who owned a success-, ful toy store about a mile down ( the road from the tiny village rmt. in t.hp bid the Government liked best, and he got the Post Office. That riled the old timers in Santa Claus. They insist that, now, the Santa Claus Post Office is not in Santa Claus at all, but a mile out of town. The successful Post Office bid der came back with some legis lative arguments of his own. The argument has been going all year long, but they have buried the hatchet for the holi days. As soon as the holidays are over, however, they promise to take up the argument again. even to the point of sending CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Oxford AVC Hears Talk by Ross , The need for a stronger organ ized labor movement in North Carolina and the South was the principal theme of an informal talk made by Michael Ross, or ganizer for the United Furniture Workers, CIO, at the Tuesday night meeting of the local chapter of the American Veterans com mittee. Ross pointed out that North Carolina was now the most im portant industrial state in the South, but living standards for its working people had not risen proportionately. The concentra tion of great wealth and power in the hands of a few, "plantation wages" and excessive profits were responsible. - ' Ross cited current profits in the state's textile industry which average 67 'cents for each hour (worked by each employee. Labor 'organizations in North Carolina have lagged behind those in other Southern states, he said, and the inequalities in living standards between employers and employ ees remained to be corrected. When asked to tell some1 of his own experiences as an orr ganizer, Ross mentioned an en counter with the Ku Klux Klan. "They threatened to kill me", he said, "but they never got around to it." The local AVC chapter voted to change-its name-tc the -Chapel Hill and University of North Carolina Chapter. A resolution was passed to send a letter of support to R.L. Fritz, president of the NCEA, and now under in dictment for misappropriation of state funds. Plans were made for the local chapter to be host to an informal meeting of North Carolina AVC chapter officers in January. Date of Evacuation Of Holy Land Aired London, (UP) Well-in- formed sources said today that British troops probably will start to leave Palestine some time in the month of April, a month or so before the British formally give up their old League of Na tions mandate over the Holy Land. Even before the troops' with drawal begins, Whitehall sources said, British troops may pull out of Predominately Jewish and Arab districts and sparsely-populated sections to begin concen trating around Haifa to await evacuation ships. Not long before this announce ment, Palestine officials announc ed that Arab tribesmen had am bushed and killed six Jews, in cluding one woman, in a raid last night on a settlement in the south. Seven Women Pledged To Sigma Alpha lota Seven women were pledged to Sigma Alpha Iota, professional honorary sorority for musicians last Friday evening. They entered . Iota Tau chapter which had its inception on the Carolina campus in April of 1945. i mi i . i , iiie unapier nas, since lis iouna ing, attempted to further the cause of music and musicians on the campus. Its officers are Mary Elizabeth Burrus, Doris Newburn, Anne Brown, Lillian Messicks, and Nina Thomas. Those selected for membership include two voice instructors, Vir- ginia Johnson of Hamlet and Mary Helen Zum Brunnen of Sal- isbury; four juniors, Martha Adair of Washington, Feme Hughes bf Rainelle, W. Va., Gwen Howard of Sanford, and Sybil Drake pf Mendes, La.; and one freshman. , mi; vo THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, XW0 Scheduled To Debate Is Set For January 6 On UNC Campus By Don MacDonald Twenty-two years old and a member of Parliament is the record of the Honorable Anthony . Neil Wedgwood Benn who, with Sir Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baronet, and Mr. David Kenneth Harris, will come to Carolina from Ox ford university on January 6. The trio will participate in a debating tournament as guests of the Uni versity debating team. . Benn, who was educated at Westminster school and New Col lege, Oxford, was selected as Par liamentary candidate of the Brit ish Labour party this year and won the election. He has a bache lor of arts degree in politics, phil osophy and economics and will be awarded an additional degree in June of next year. -With Boyle and Harris, Benn will oppose a University debating team selected by Earl Fitzgerald, president of the Debate council. Sir Edward Boyle, Bt., is 25 years old, was educated at Eton college where he , was captain of Oppidans and editor of the Eton Chronicle. He served in, , the. Exits ish Foreign office during the war. At Oxford he is secretary of the Union society, is treasurer of the University Conservative associa tion. " Educated at" Tunbridge"' high school, Mr. Harris is 29 years of age. He was a history scholar at Wadham college, Oxford, in 1938. While there he acted and wrote in the University, theater. " Harris was an RAF liason and staff offi cer, was attached to a medical corps on psychiatrical research and social therapy in 1945. Randall McLeod, member of the 'Debate council, has urged all in terested persons who care to try out for positions on the debating team to contact him or any mem ber of the team or the council. Philadelphia Outfit Has Early Christmas Philadelphia, Dec. 9. (UP) Christmas came early today for 19 employes of the Haas Miller company, a chemical firm. The boss, Harry L. Miller, cele brated his 49th birthday by hand ing out $14,000 in Christmas bo nuses to his workers. The plant supervisor got the largest gift more than $2,000. The smallest, $400, went to an employe with less than a year's service. To top it off, Miller added an other $10,000 to the workers' pen sion fund. Everything from Dy-Dee Dolls Are Among 16,000 Wishes in By Boh Rolnik Sixteen thousand wishes, every- ' thing from tuxedos to Dy Dee dolls, have gone into the Varsity shop's Wishing Well in its one month of operation and you can still make a wish every day till Christmas. Wilbur Kutz, Varsity shop pro prietor, smiled as he lifted an armful of entry blanks from the hundreds piled in the Wishing Well barrel in front of his store "The idea just popped into my head," Mr. Kutz explained. "It might be classed as just a mer chandising plan but there's noth ing tangible about good-will that we can credit in any ledger. We want the people in Chapel Hill to get acquainted with us. We've made more friends in these few weeks than we do ordinarily in months." He pored over the wishing blanks as if they were his per- sonal friends, reading them aloud, 1947 Phone F-3371 .n Chester Zum Brunnen Will Serve As Phi Speaker for Winter Term ' Meeting in closed session for the purpose of electing winter term oficers, the Phi Tuesday night chose Chester D. Zum Brunnen to fill the post of speak er Retiring speaker John Giles was selected as speaker pro-tem. Retaining most of the incumb ent officers, the assembly re-elected James McNider critic; Pete Gems, parliamentarian; Page Harris, sergeant-at-arms; and Charles Cowell, treasurer. Dave Sharp was selected as clerk of the assembly. Zum Brunnen, former speaker pro-tem, and his staff are said to have been elected on the basis of their accomplishments during the fall term. These include se curing Charles Johnson and Mel ville Broughton as speakers and 1 stePs toward the redecoration of Phi hall and the installation of additional office equipment. In filling other vacancies for the next term, the speaker-elect appointed Bob Coulter to servs as chaplain and the following to constitute the ways and means Town Girls, GM Plan Yule Dance As Feature of 'Christmas Week' Plans for "Christmas week," sponsored by the Town Girls asso ciation and Graham Memorial, rapidly near completion as the Christmas dance, to be featured during the weekend, is scheduled : ' for 9 o'clock on the evening of Manhattan Project Still Well Guarded OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (UP) Wartime hush-hush is relaxed somewhat here, but the United States' atomic bomb secrets still are guarded cautiously. If somebody got you a pass through one of the heavily guard ed gates, the first thing you'd want to see is the celebrated nu clear energy pile where the atom was split. Nothing doing. You might be taken within 200 yards of it outside a rugged steel fence. But all to be seen there, even with binoculars, which are now permitted, is a smallish m.'t al building. Inside that is the pile. Try again. Maybe a look-see will be permitted inside the big plant where an electromagnet 238 feet long extracts the element U 235 from uranium ore. The mag net is so powerful that nails in workers' shoes make walking difficult near it. It can snatch a heavy wrench from a worker's through winding mountain roads for a new try. This time the gas eous diffusion plant, nestling near the Clinch River. That is where U-235 is concentrated. It's 13 mi- les from the Oak Ridge townsite. lady that likes that printed blouse we nave in me window, or "Look at this fellow who only wants a 39 cent pasteboard over seas mailing box." New Wish Daily According to the rules, each person may write out a new wish every day. "Every Wednesday morning I go out on the street and choose three passers-by at random," Mr. Kutz explained. "One week we had a little girl and a little boy. They went head first into the Wishing Well and stirred up ail the entry blanks. Then the little girl made the drawings." So far there have been four drawings with three or four win ners each time. If the item wished for is $10 or less the winner re ceives it free. If the price is over $10 this amount is deducted from the item wished for. Some of the entry blanks are folded into tight, secretive vS' r F-3361 Debate ZUM BRUNNEN committee; John Giles (chair man). Bill Duncan, Frank Tca gue, Jack Lashly, George Rod man, Lester Sneed and James McNider. "December 22 in the ' Rendezvous room. I The scries of entertainments 'during the week are for stu dents, their wives, and towns people, and everyone here dur ing the holidays is invited to at tend all the functions with or without escorts. The activities include a Christ mas sing, December 21; dance, December 22; game night, De cember 23; caroling, December 24; open house, Christmas day; Bingo night, December 27. Plans for the activities are be ing directed by Chuck Hilty, as sistant director of Graham Me morial, and Betsy Ann Barbce, president of the Town Girls as sociation. Chairmen of the com mittees are Caroline Warren, sing; Jeanne Basnight, dance; Esther Cheek, game night; Mary MacKeer, open house; Betty Va- shaw, bingo; Patsy Winslow, re- j freshments; Mary Elizabeth Pell and Jeanne Whitfield, publicity. TARNATION The Tarnation business staff will meet this afternoon at 3:30 in j'the Tarnation office, Tookie Hodgsen announced today. All! staff members are urged to be present. to Tuxedos Varsity Well wish for such things as "a gun and a holster," or "a deluxe race car with wind up," or "a magic skin doll." Veteran's Wife One veteran's wife versified her Christmas hopes like this: "Poor G.I. wives, alack, alas, Are forced into a low paid class, So I could think of nothing bet ter. Than winning hubby a free sweater." .... . . . . . une amDitious student wished for "$10 worth of three-hole note book paper." Another student j Police officials at the state capi tried to tempt the hand of fate to- jtol today are trying to locate an ward his wishing entry by writing i over-ambitious thief who tried politely "Please! I'd like to have a pair of pale, grey, flannel pants, size 31, length 31 1-2." "We've directed our sales em ployees to be as careful with a wisher as with a buyer," Mr. Kutz pointed out. "Nobody is expected to make any purchases. We like to have people browse around, look- EDITORIAL Petition ColdfUh Truman' Cabin! NUMBER 63 Tat Heels Venablc Annex Open Three Days From 9 Until 5 By Charlie Gibion While students who lack fore sight face all the headaches of registration only as far off as next year, those who responded to pleas from South building for preregistration back in Novem ber can get their class tickets next week, reaping their re wards of more carefree Christ mas holidays. On Monday. Tuesday, and Wed nesday, class tickets for the win ter quarter will be ready for all preregislcred students who re port between 9 and 5 o'clock to Registration hall, the barracks annex to Vcnable building. Unavoidable Lines According to an announcement from the special University regis tration committee, students who did not prcregistcr at the desig nated time must endure the sccm- jingly unavoidable long lines with all new students on Saturday, January 3, between 8:30 and 12:30 o'clock. That morning the usual clas selection and schedul ing procedure will be held, in Registration hall and not, a.i wai the case this past September, in Woollen gymnasium. Those among the preregistcred who do not pick up their class tickets before the Yuletide re cess may get these cards on January 3, also at Registration hall, between the hours of 8:30 and 12:30. Fine for Late Registration Classes for the next term will start on, Monday, January 5. There will be a $5 late registra tion fee charged to (1) students who register on or after January 5 and (2) students who have pre registcred but fail to call for their class tickets before Jet date Although the November pre registration covered both the winter and the spring quarters, class tickets will be given out at this time for only the forthcom ing term. Cards for the next session will not be issued until March. No alterations in schedules for the January quarter should be made haphazardly during th; examination period. A definite time will be allowed at the open ing of the next term for all stu dents with reasonable excuses to consult their advisors about making any changes. Grade reports for the present quarter will be distributed, too, i from Registration hall on Janu ary 5, if at all possible. A . i i . . , IUTOmODI ie OTICKCrS Must Be Picked Up A number of .students who reg istered automobiles with the Uni versity have not picked up the stickers required to be displayed on their cars, Dean Fred Weaver said yesterday. A penalty in excess of the 31 fine for parking violations will be imposed upon owners of all c?tj not displaying these stitkers b3 next Monday. Enough stickers are now avail able for all registered cars and may be picked up in Dean Weav er's office, 207 South building. j Over-Ambitl'OUS Thief iPnllc f- QfanI Rue VIIIJ IV Raleigh. Dec. 9 (UP) to steal a bus. Officers say that someone tried to make off with a Greyhound bus last night. But after ram ming into a corner and break ing five windows in the bus, the thief gave up. Tolice say the thief left the bus with its motor running everal blocks from ti; v..- e-i
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