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EDITORIALS
Springtime
Coed Portrait Hj
The People, Yes
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. O, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1948
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NO. 133
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Co-Editors Receive
Kerr Endorsement
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In a statement yesterday afternoon, Tom Kerr, losing
candidate for the editorship of Tarnation, bucked his party's
stand to endorse Bob Smith and Tom Wharton as co-editors
of the humor, mag.
Thanking those who worked
for and supported him, Kerr ask
ed his Voters to back the coT
editors against Charlie Gibson in
next Tuesday's runoff.
He said, "After several days
thought on this issue, I have de
dided to back Bob Smith and
Tom Wharton because they are
willing to openly face the voters
with the real issues. Charlie Gib
son, with whom I have discussed
this at length, is unwilling to
let the student body know where
he stands on the Tarnation mat
ter except to say he wants to be
editor. ,
"Messers. Smith and Wharton
are not experienced editors, but
they are bent on organizing an
efficient, well-run mag with all
the talent available. This attitude
of frankness on an election issue
to the present very clowdy, is
highly commendable and merits
the conscientious student's con
sideration and vote."
Kerr, present assistant editor
of Tarnation, fell in third spot
last Tuesday with 586 votes, to
be excluded from the runoff.
He was at the Orange print
shop Friday afternoon when the
Student party endorsed Charlie
Gibson, but he said later he felt
confident of Smith's and Whar
ton's election as "this is not a
party matter."
TOM KERR
Charles Me Johnson
Accused of Losing
I $1,000,000 Yearly
T i :n a :i 1 r Tm itt
Kerr Scott tonight accused one
of his rival candidates for gov
ernor, state Treasurer Charles M.
Johnson, of "losing a million
dollars a year for the taxpayers."
Scott said Johnson has lost the
money by holding state funds in
bank accounts instead of invest
ing them in securities.
The former agriculture com
missioner said a 1943 state law
gives the state treasurer power
to invest funds in interest-bearing
securities which are readily
cashable. Instead, said Scott,
Johnson has stored away millions
in surplus funds in bank accounts
which earn no interest.
Said Scott, "The people's
money, in sums up to $50,000,000
in a single bank, is in the hands
of bankers who are paying
nothing and lending it back to
some of the people at varying
rates of interest," and Scott said
he does not blame the banks.
"If I were the banker I sup
pose I would be grateful for those
interest-free millions ladled out
to me from Raleigh," Scott said.
"I might even be grateful enough
to support the state treasurer for
governor."
Johnson reported earlier this
week more than $171,000,000
salted away in 239 bank accounts.
Johnson's report showed some
135-million dollars was invested
in securities.
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In an effort to unify into a
more compact cooperative group
the coeds elected to office in last
week's elections, a mass coed in
stallation service is planned for
Wednesday night at 9 o'clock in
the Presbyterian church.
Taking part in the impressive
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will be coeds elected to offices in
the Women's Athletic association,
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YWCA, Legislature, and also
house presidents.
The YWCA Planning commit
tee, headed by Rachel Woodley,
has charge of the program, which
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ize their position as campus lead
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IT WAS THREE YEARS ago tomorrow lhat America's heroic war-time - president. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, died at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia. On April 12, 1945,
the courageous leader who brought the United States out of the depression, and all but victoriously
through World War II, passed away before the final victory. The whole nation will remember a great
man tomorrow, who died in the service of his country.
New Officers Picked
For Delta Sigma Pi
At a regular meeting of Delta
Sigma Pi, international commerce
fraternity, the following officers
were elected for the coming year:
head master, Hubert Aenchbach
er: senior warden. John McPhaul:
junior warden, Milton Hinnant; member of the University class
scribe, Melvin Finch; treasurer, of 1889.
Fred Pierce; historian, Hoke Tonight's banquet will climax
Steelman; master of ceremonies," six months' orientation of the
Monore Landreth; and master of new pledge class. Bill Lane, chap
festivities, Pete Dobbins. ' ter president, will preside at the
Delta Sigma Pi, only commerce program and Ralph Strayhorn,
fraternity on the campus, has out- preceptor, is in charge ot arrange
Associate Justice A. A. F. Sea
well of the state Supreme Court
will address members of Phi Del
ta Theta fraternity tonight at 7
o'clock when 14 new initiates will
be honored at a pledge banquet
in the Carolina Inn ballroom.
Justice Seawell resided in
Chapel Hill for several years be
fore his appointment to the Su-
nrpmfi Court bench. He was a
Local Political Thunder Is
Stolen by Senator Aspirants
By United Press
The pitch of North Carolina's voices was rising this week
but the silent- written words of the two " Democratic Sen
atorial candidates seemed to steal the political thunder.
Alleged Attacker
Kerr Scofl Attacks
Tidewater Company
Tarboro, April 10 (UP) Gu
bernatorial candidate W. Kerr
Scott renewed his attack today
on the Tidewater Power company
of Wilmington.
Scott, speaking at Tarboro to
representatives of 14 rural elec
trification co-operatives, said that
most power companies are sell
ing electricity at low rates to ru
ral users, but that an exception
to this is the Tidewater Company,
which serves 16 Southeastern
counties. Scott claimed that the
rates of the Tidewater Power
company . are strangling the de
velopment of those Southeastern
counties of North Carolina.
Outstanding Men
To Be Tapped In
Solemn Services
By Charlie Gibson
The Golden Fleece, highest
men's honorary organization on
campus, will conduct its forty
fifth annual tapping ceremonies
of new members Monday eve
ning, April 19, in Memorial hall
at 8 o'clock. In keeping with the
secret nature of the organization,
the number and names of the
men to be tapped will not be re- '
vealed until the ceremonies one
week from tomorrow.
A group spokesman stated that
because of the inipressiveness
and solemnity of the service the
doors will be locked directly at
8 o'clock, and all who wish to at
tend the ceremonies should be
in their seats by that time. The
usual Monday evening religion
classes which Frank W. Hanft,
pie alike, will again benefit the 'University law professor, is con-
Return Engagement of Polgar
Scheduled for Tomorrow Night
By Sally Woodhull
In his second campus appearance in a week's time, Dr.
Franz Polgar, internationally famous telepathist, memory-
expert, and hypnotist, will appear in Memorial hall tomor
row night at 8 o'clock under the sponsorship of the Student
Entertainment committee.
In his show last week, Polgar
successfully hypnotised a num
ber of students, persuading them
in turn that they were children,
peanut vendors, crusaders against
long skirts, or anything else that
might serve his purpose. Each of
the subjects behaved in- the man
ner Polgar suggested, and the
show proved highly entertaining
to the large audience.
For Mere 50c
Tomorrow night's performance,
open to students and townspeo-
Both incumbent William B.
Umstead and challenger J. Mel
ville Broughton outlined their
stand on North Carolina's liquor
question in answer to question
naires sent out by the Allied
Church league.
Both say they personally favor
a statewide referendum on the
liquor issue.
But while Broughton says he
definitely would not appear be
fore a committee of the . state
General Assembly to urge a re
ferendum, if he is elected sen
ator, Umstead has left that door
open. Umstead admits that he
doubts if it would be proper for
him to appear as a senator before
a General Assembly committee to
urge a statewide referendum, but
he has not said he would not do
so. He says he would like to talk
it over before deciding. .
Strong Stand
Broughton has taken a strong
stand on that point. He says that
in his knowledge no United
States senator has appeared be
fore a state General Assembly
committee in North Carolina to
support or oppose any purely
state measure, and he adds that
for him to do so would be "en
tirely inappropriate."
The Allied Church league also
asked the senatorial candidates to
express their views on national
advertising of liquor. The league
asked them whether they would
support the Capper bill not in
congress which would bar liquor
ads from interstate commerce.
Umstead says he will support
the Capper bill.
Broughton says he is not suffi
ciently acquainted with the Cap
per bill to say yes or no to that
question, but he says he believes
advertising of alcoholic bever
ages has gone beyond all proper
and reasonable limits and is a
serious menace to the welfare and
morals of the people generally.
Broughton has phrased his
Lr next Tuesday, Norm Sper and Beach, Fla.; Harold Floyd Rouse, stand I would favor every rea-
hfrlie Stancell The platforms Farmville; Jack Stokes, Norfolk, sonable proposal designed to
were not printed last week due Va.; Jim Phillips Thomas, Balti- bring about a decrease in the sale
to unforseen circumstances for more, Md.; and Andrew Williams, and use of oxicatmg beverages
which the DTH was not to blame. Jr., Hamlet. throughout the Umted States."
Ask Continuance
For Whiskey Case
Greensboro, April 10 (UP)
A third continuance has been or
dered in Greensboro in the case
of charging seven men with con
spiring illegally to handle $1,900,
000 worth ow whiskey.
Judge E. Earle Rives of muni
cipal county court has continued
the case until June 8 despite the
plea of defense attorneys that the
men be tried immediately or the
case be dropped.
Defense attorneys pointed out
that some of the defendants were
indicted last August, and said
they suffered from the repeated
continuances of the case.
Assistant Solicitor James E.
Coltrance asked for another con
tinuance because he said a new
move will be made Tuesday in
Baltimore affecting North Caro
lina's attempts to extradite one
of t'.e defendants. The state seeks
bring Baltimore liquor dealer
Sam Gildar to Greensboro for the
trial.
FEW PEOPLE HAVE
Provincetown, Mass (UP)
Ralph Snow says he's never read
nor heard of a bigger egg than
the five-yolk, 31-ounce one laid
by one of his Rhode Island Reds.
Scott said nnlv thrpp rthr
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IeflVf? ran I rflfPQ1 states last year nad more new
j electrified farms than North Caro
. Williamston, April 10 (UP) jlina, and at the end of the year
The Martin county sheriff says only 129,000 farms were still
officers have found no trace of i without electric power in the
aLNegro who .reportedly tried t.o'state-He said that made a total
attack a 19-year-old bride near
Parmele.
Sheriff C. B. Roebuck says
Mrs. Cary Bryant reported a Ne
gro grabbed her in the kitchen
of her rural home. The sheriff
quotes Mrs. Bryant as saying the
attacker was in the house when
she returned from carrying water
to her husband in the field yes
terday. Roebuck reports no tracks were
found on the grass and the wind
wiped out .any footprints that
might have been made in the
sandy road nearby. He says Mrs.
Bryant was able to describe the
assailant only as about 22 years
old, wearing a cap and overalls.
The sheriff says bloodhounds
were unable to pick up any scent.
Mrs. Bryant says she fought
her attacker, overturning furni
ture. She says she fainted, but
the Negro fled.
TOWN GIRLS
At a Town Girls' supper meet
ing, held "on Monday night at the
Episcopal parrish house, officers
for the coming year were elected.
The new officers, who will take
over their duties after the Lead
ership Program, include: Carolyn
Guthrie, president; Lexsy Pier
son, vice-president; Betsy Emory,
secretary; Marie Sparrow, treas
urer; and Patty Winslow and
Mary Mac Kear as co-social chair
men.
of 160,000 farms served by more
than 40,000 miles of electric rural
lines.
Due Process
Winston-Salem, April 10 (UP)
Sometimes it takes months or
even years to complete the trial
of a man on criminal" charges,
but a Negro trusty in Winstoa
Salem is an example that some
times the law can be fast. Otto
Jackson was arrested on charges
of stealing the purse of a county
building employee, tried, convict
ed and sentenced to 12 months
on the roads all on the same
day and without leaving the sec
ond floor of the county building.
Stancell Lists Plans, Aims
lined as its prime aims to aid
in the development of better
commerce students and business
men. Several professional trips
to large industrial plants in
North Carolina and professional
banquets are planned in the near
future.
'
PLATFORMS TODAY
On the front page of today's
Daily Tar Heel will be found the
platforms of the two candidates
the runoff for neact cneeneaa-
ments
New members who will be re
ceived into the chapter today fol
lowing formal initiation are as
follows: William Parker An
drews, Flat Rock; Joseph Bach,
Upper Darby, Pa.; Harry Eugene
Buchanan, Hendersonville; Georg?
Carter Carr, Leland, Fla.; John
ny Lester Clements, Crew, Va.;
George Crowell, Lenoir; Edwin
Davenport, Rocky Mount; Garrett
Fitzgibbons, Jr., Cartersville, Ga.;
Bobby Johnson, Atlanta, Ga.;
Garland Jonas, Ponte Vedro
"1. Get back the Carolina spirit
of prewar days. That can be ac
complished through giving yells
at the proper time and not giv
ing "Hold That Line" when we
have the ball.
"2. Full cooperation and un
derstanding with the student
body.
"3. Organized pep rallies both
at home and away given on time
and at a stated place.
"4. Entertainment along with
pep rallies such as presentation
of interesting speakers and the
football team.
"5. Definite arrangements for
caravans for games played away
from home.
"6. An organized method of
transportation for those who de
sire it.
"7. Intention for better coop
eration between the cheering
squad and the band which has
in the past been noticeably light.
"8. Improvement of the public
address system.
"9. If elected, I feel that the
card stunts are a real necessity to
create the spirit at Carolina which
has not appeared on the East
coast to any extent. It will be a
definite asset to the University in
carrying out the true Carolina
spirit.
"If elected, I would like to an
nounce that I will turn the en
tire card system over to Norm
Sper. However, in view of these
facts I feel that the cheering
squad itself will need separate
attention.
"So let's join together this com
ing fall to create an All-America
cheering section to back an All
America team."
Handwriting Case
Greensboro, April 10 (UP)
Attorneys for a Guilford county
Negro say they will appeal to
the state Supreme Court to try
to prove that the last will and
testament of his sister was in her
own handwriting.
Whitsett is seeking to gain the
estate of his sister, Vergie Whit
sett, but other relatives claim the
handwriting of the will is not the
same as that of other samples of
the dead woman's writing.
Student Entertainment fund. The
committee will present a series
of concerts next year free of
charge to students, but in order
to pay the debt incurred while
student entertainment was on a
voluntary basis, funds must be
raised. Price of the show is 50
cents, and tickets may be obtain
ed at the door.
As a demonstration of his te-
lepathetic powers, Polgar last
week found his check, hidden
without his knowledge in the
shoe of a coed. This was nothing,
according to Pence James' writ
ing in the Saturday Evening
Post, compared to some of the
feats he had performed. In one
city they hid an object under
the upper plate in a man's
mouth. In Chicago he found a
war stamp hidden in an office on
the fourteenth floor of a sky
scraper.
In New York he found an ob
ject concealed miles away, pro-;the Christopher for the past year
ceeding to the spot and giving
the driver directions, although no
ducting in Memorial hall will be
finished by 7:50 before the Fleece
rituals.
Valkyrie' Sing
The annual Valkyrie Sing will
be held following the tapping.
This event will give fraternity,
sorority, and dormitory men and
women an opportunity to com
pete vocally for loving cup
awards given by the Valkyries,
similar honorary organization for
coeds.
The tapping of new members
into the men's honorary order
marks the Fleece's only public
meeting each year. It has been
a practice since the group's for
mation forty-five years ago to
conduct meetings and activities
in utmost secrecy. Since its offi
cers' names are withheld from the
public during the year but are
always announced at the tapping,
the Jason, the Grammateu9, and
one ever told Polgar orally where
to go.
HIDDEN TOOTH
Columbus, O., (UP) Mrs.
Lela Gasser believed 23 years
ago that her visits to the dentist
were a thing of the past.
That i was when she paid her
'final" visit to have her teeth
pulled and dental plates made.
Now she has just been back in
a dentist's chair having a tooth
pulled.
Mrs. Gasser, mother of two
children, was baffled by a lump
in the roof of her mouth. X-rays
revealed an impacted ., cuspid,
which a dentist removed.
will be recognized next Monday.
14 Last Year
Members of the Fleece are
chosen for their intellectual and
moral character, their relentless
fidelity to duties, ideals, scholar
ship, and dilligence. The order
does not set a specified number
for membership each year but
selects each member in propor
tion to the number of men on
campus who are deemed worthy
of membership. Last year 14 men
gained admission into the order.
At present the 18 students and
the 9 faculty members In the
Fleece do. not "as a group sponsor
any campus action. However, in
dividually They work towards a
common aim, all tasks being in
stigated without public credit.
NormJ Sper Releases Platform
Bus Victim
Mount Airy, April 10 (UP)
Funeral services will be held to
morrow for a truck driver of
Pilot Mountain, who was killed in
a collision with a Greyhound bus'.
The wreck killed 57-year-old
Elmer R. Slawter. The huge bus
overturned in a field but luckily
it was operating without passen
gers. It was driven by George F.
Bush of Winston-Salem, who re
ceived minor injuries.
STATE STUDENT LEG.
All students who have been
selected to represent the Univer
sity at the State Student Legis
lature in Raleigh this coming
weekend will meet at 3 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon in Roland
Parker 1 of GM to consider im
portant business, according to
Pete Gerns, who is in charge of
the delegation.
"1. More unity is needed at
Carolina. In the past Carolina
hasn't had the unity to give the
student body the benefit of co
operative cheering. In order to
have more unity I plan to have
a cheering section, or card section
as it will be called, that will
cover sections 17 and 18. Aisle 17
will be blocked off in order to
give a solid block. I have pro
posed card stunts that will be
used in this section. That alone
will bring the unity that we so
badly need.
"2. New cheers. I was a student
at UCLA where cheering and
half-time entertainment is para
mount. I propose to bring some
of their ideas to Carolina, which
will give us new blood in the
form of cheers.
"3. We need to know our songs.
To accomplish this purpose I pro
pose to have a recording made of
all our songs and have them play
ed in Lenoir hall on Friday af
ternoon and Saturday noon dur
ing football season. This should
also give added spirit for Sat
urday's game.
4. I propose to have a four-
foot platform erected at the base
of the football stadium that will
cover the length of the card
section. The cheerleaders
give their yells from the platform
which will have two eight-foot
amplifiers at each end. This will
make impossible for everyone to
hear what cheers, are called for
by the head cheerleader. ;
"5. If elected, I can assure the
student ' body that my job will
not end after football season, but
will carry on until after spring
track. I propose to lead cheers
during the basketball season,
using the loud speaker to an
nounce the various yells so that
everyone will be able to hear the
name of the cheer when it is
announced.
"Finally," Sper said, "Whether
elected or not, it is my desire to
cary out as much of my plans as
the head cheerleader will allow."
CORPORATE COMMUNION
Bishop Edwin A. Penick of the
Episcopal church will offer a Cor
porate Communion service at 8
o'clock this morning for all stu
dents and town people whom he
has confirmed in the past.
At 11 o'clock, Bishop Penick
will preach and administer con
firmation and at 6 o'clock to
night a supper will be held in the
Parrish house in honor of all
Episcopal students in the Uni-
will versity.