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VOLUME LVII
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NUMBER 34
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Vote
County Votes
On 11 Names
For 3 Posts
By Herb Nachman
The official Orange county
ballot in today's election car
ries a total' of 11 names for
three offices. There is one po
sition open in the town of
Chapel Hill, that of constable.
L. W. Sparrow's name appears
on the Republican ticket for. the
office of constable of Chapel Hill.
Frank Maddry, also of Chapel
Hill, recently declared himself
candidate on the Democratic tic
ket for this office.
Although Maddry's name does
not appear on the township bal
lot, voters may write-in his
1 name under the Democratic box.
In the county as a whole, there
are three offices on the ballot
These being state senator for the
16th district, house of representa
tives and county commissioner.
Candidates for state senate
are James Webb, Democratic and
John F. Crawford, Republican.
Candidates on the county bal
lot for house of representatives
are: J. W. Umstead, Jr., Demo-
' cratic; Max C. Weaver, Republi
can; and Doris Friedland, Pro
gressive. For the position of county com
missioner for Orange county
three names appear on the Dem
ocratic ticket, they are: Collier
Cobb, Jr., Ben -F. Wilson and H.
G. Laws. -
The Republican ticket for
county commissioner includes D.
L. McBane, W. S. Hunt and Ruf
fin Pendergraft. The Progressive
party has no candidates for State
senate or county commissioner on
the ballot.
TENNESSEE BACK HAL LITTLEFORD is shown starting his 91-yard touchdown punt re
turn in Knoxville Saturday which was nullified by a clipping penally called on Tennessee's Chad
die Baker, who is seen clipping Hosea Rodgers. The play took place in the second period when
the Volunteers were -fighting to overcome a 14-0 lead the Tar Heels held at the time after tally
ing twice in the first quarter. Umpire Walt Hoffman called the penalty, while Art Weiner and
Photo by Harold Davis, courtesy Knoxville News-Sentinel
Len Szafaryn seem to have seen it. too. not to mention George Baliisaris of Tennessee. The 50.000
fans at Shield-Watkins stadium rose to its feet when Liltleford made his TD run. but it soon sat
back again, some relieved, as the run was called back. The Volunteers put over a real touchdown
in the third quarter, however, to make the final score Carolina 14, Tennessee 7.
Playmaker Original
Begins Run Toni
Fire Breaks Out
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Tonight at 7:30 the Carolina as
Playmakers will present an ex
perimental production of Robert
G. Armstrong, Jr.'s, full length
drama, "Egypt Lan'."
First full length play to be
presented under the new Play-
maker policy of emphasizing the
longer form in dramatic writing,
"Egypt Lan' " will be presented
again tomorrow night in the Play
maker theater. It is under the
direction of Professor Samuel
Selden.'
Leading roles in the production
will be handled by Andrew Grif
fith as Mose Rivers, Betty Lokey
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Three Spencerites weren't
around Sunday night at 8:30, but
they almost lost their room and
everything in it.
Fire broke out in room 302
Spencer from an unknown cause,
and before it could be brought
under control, it destroyed sever
al window panes, a window
shade, a floor lamp, a blanket, a
radio-phonograph set, and num
erous text books and notebooks
belonging to the occupants of the
room.
The fire drew a sizeable crowd
including the man next door, Dr.
Frank Graham. Bystanders said
that local police politely told Dr.
Graham they were very sorry
but he couldn't go into the dorm
itory to see how things were get
ting along.
Firemen said the occupants of
the room, Pegge Misenheimer,
Armecia Eure and Ann Lewallen
' bad not been in the room for
f.everal hours. One of the blaze
battlers remarked, "Imagine their
surprise on returning. We still
don't know what caused the
flames."
Election Party
The Young Republicans club
will hold an election returns
Party starting at 9 o'clock to
night in Roland Parker lounge
3 of Graham Memorial.
President Bill Hippie said
yesterday that he expected the
Party to turn into a victory
celebration by about midnight.
He said no time limit had been
sol on the party.
All campus Republicans and
other persons interested in the
Republican candidates were
invited to be present.
Returns Available
The Daily Tar Heel offices
will be closed to all visitors
tonight from 6:30 until all elec
tion tabulations are in.
All persons desiring elec
tion results and information
are urged not to call the Daily
Tar Heel. DTH phones must
be kept clear for incoming
election returns from voting
precincts in Orange county and
for election information from
staff members covering the
election in town and elsewhere.
Anyone desiring results or
other election news may call
the Graham Memorial office.
9881, where the Daily Tar Heel
will furnish office workers with
the latest tabulations as they
come from the wires of United
Press. In the Graham Me
morial lounge a blackboard
with late returns will be set
up.
Sarah,. Venitah Sanders as
Esther, Barbara Edwards as
Mamie Lou Johnson, Christine
White as Irene Smith, and Sam
Green as Isaiah Rivers.
Feature roles will be acted by
Helen Dortch Harrison as Olgar.
Easy Elkins as Jackson Latham,
Bill Collins as Coal Oil Wilson,
Sidney Shertzer as Mr. King,
George Levine as Amos Smith,
and Elizabeth Savage as Ruth
Smith.
Other roles are to be portrayed
by Reuben Marlowe, Bryan
Smiser, Mac Shaw, Ethel Perry,
Dot Underdown, Elizabeth Daw
son, Lewis Sikes, Gordon Argo,
Noll. Ruth Groce. W. P.
Covington, III, Charles Norton
and Lloyd M. Tyndall.
Scenery for the production is
by Lynn Gault, lighting is by
Mark Sumner, and costumes are
by Marty Jacobs. Make-up is be
ing supervised by Sue Davis, and
Don Draper is stage manager.
Fair Weather
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.
(UP) The weather bureau to
day predicted generally fair
weather through the nation
for tomorrow's election.
In a final revised forecast,
it said that rain previously
forecast for some areas will
end during the morning or
hold off until nightfall.
Rain is in prospect for the
Ohio valley and "the southern"
Great Lakes region. But rain
in the upper and middle Mis
sissippi valley should end dur
ing the morning.
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Voting Age Set
For Phi Debate
Gov.-Nominee Kerr Scott's
proposal to lower the voting age
of North Carolinians to 18 will
be discussed by the Philanthropic
assembly tonight at 7:30 in New
East building.
Phi officials said that the Phi
would furnish an election chart
with late returns all through the
evening in New East. They said
all students and other interested
persons were invited to hear the
debate on Scott's proposal and to
keep account of election returns
after the discussion.
Candidate Asserts
State Is 'Natural
For Atomic Age'
By Gordon Huffines
Climaxing an 11-week cam
paign tour, Kerr Scott, Demo
cratic candidate for the governor
of North Carolina in today's elec
tions, told students here last
night that, "North Carolina is a
natural for the atomic age."
Speaking in Gerrard hall, in
his last address before the elec
tion, Scott called for an "all-
weather rural road system. I
am certain that the lack of good
rural roads is -the biggest bottle
neck in North Carolina progress,"
he said.
"We are now in the middle of
an atomic age without realizing
it," the Democratic candidate
said. Maintaining that the present
national defense program called
Monogram Club
Will Sponsor
Sunday Air Show
An air circus, featuring nation
ally-known aerial artists, will be
sponsored by the University Mon
ogram club Sunday afternoon,
President Bill Pritchard, an
nounced yesterday.
The troupe will come to Chapel
Hill directlv from Washington,
jj. u. une university nas graniea for the decentralization of m
permission to the club to use the dustry, Scott asserted that North
institution's field for the show. Carolina was an ideal state for
With The Candidates
President Truman Thomas E. Dewey
Gates, Thomas Take Leads
In Remodeled 'Mardi Gras7
Anita Gates and Bob Thomas,
new-comers to the Carolina cam
pus hold the leading roles in
Sound and Fury's newest musi
cal comedy, "Mardi Gras," to , be
presented Thursday and Friday.
As the heroine and hero of
ua; nras." Anita plays the
part of Meg de Tourleville, a
pd . orti?! of New
Orleans, and Bob is cast as Beau
St. Charles, originally a young
Ohio farmer. ,
In the first act Beau is killed,
. ... u he lacks a lowly
arme w th which to pay Sharon
JTth. ferry boat ride across
the Styx, he is sent back
to the world of the living to ob
ain said dime. Oddly enough, he
finds himself in New Orleans at
the time of the fabulous Mardi
Gras Festival where he acciden
tally meets and falls in love with
Meg.
Accompanied by Deus ex Ma
china. (George Grizzard) useful
invention of the playwrights,)
Beau solicits the aid of Meg and
Zenobia (Bunnie Davis), a fortune
teller and one time vaudeville
queen, in nis searcu xui a u.nnc.
The hilarious situations brought
about by his quest and Meg's at
tempt to thwart his success form
the basic plot of "Mardi Gras,"
which draws from Greek my
thology for some of its most
amusing characters.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Nov.
I. (UP) President Truman
departed from the custom of
non-partisan e 1 e c t i o n eve
statements tonight and ap
pealed for a Democratic vic
tory in tomorrow's voting in
the interest of world peace
and domestic prosperity.
The president. made a blunt
ly partisan speech. The elec
tion eve statements by presi
dential candidates have by
custom been general appeals
to the people to vote.
"I believe that " the Demo
cratic party is the party of the
people," Mr. Truman said. "I
believe that through the Dem
ocratic party, all classes of our
citizens will receive fairer
treatment and more security."
Henry Wallace
NEW YORK, Nov. 1. -(UP)
Henry A. Wallace wound up
his third party campaign to
night, still stumping for votes
but with a virtual admission
he has no chance of election
to the presidency.
In an election eve statement,
Wallace said the two major
parties will have a real fight
ahead in 1950 and 1952.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1. (UP)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to
night made an election eve ap- .
ter the voting and work for a
and asked Republicans and
Democrats to. "close ranks" af
the voting and work for a
united America.
Speaking briefly during a
one-hour Republican broad
cast, the GOP presidential can
didate called on Americans to
show the world "beyond all
ppssible distortion of the truth
that human beings can be free
. in a nation that is united.
The foremost issue rising
clear and high above all others
is whether in this solemn hour,
the United States of America
is going to be a strong, united
nation a nation that can meet
the challenge of a dangerous
. world," he told a nationwide
audience.
W. KERR SCOTT, Democrat
ic gubernatorial candidate, said
in Gerrard hall last night that
North Carolina was a 'natural
for the atomic age.' Scott said
that the atomic age calls for
the decentralization of indus
try, and called for a better
system of rural roads in the
state to bring more industry
here.
the location of new industries.
"If new industries are to come
into the state," he said "they must
have the base from which they
can draw labor broadened." The
former agricultural commission
er asserted that better rural roads
would enable industry to draw
its labor supply from agricultural
areas. "The people can live on
farms and work in nearby fac
tories," Scott asserted.
Advocations a policy of ag
ricultural and industrial develop
ment, the Democratic candidate
(See SCOTT, page 4)
J. Strom Thurmond
COLUMBIA, S. C, Nov. 1.
(UP) Gov. J. Strom- Thur
mond, States Rights Demo
cratic presidential candidate,
wound up his campaign to
night with a statement that
he was sure Southerners
would not vote for either Tru
man or Dewey.
State Voters
Remember '28,
GOP Victory
(Special to Daily Tar Heel)
RALEIGH, Nov. 1. North Car
olinians remembered the Repub
lican victory in 1928 as they pre
pared to go to the polls tomor
row to vote in an election that
will give the answer to one of
the most extensive Democratic-
Republican state campaigns since
Hoover and his ticket won here
20 years ago.
The polls will open at 6:30 this
morning and close at 6:30 tonight
in the state's 1,959 precincts.
Democrats bolted away from Al
Smith in 1928 to give the elector
al vote to Herbert Hoover, but
State Democrats were sure that
the Republican would not be repeated.
Running on the state ballot are
for senator, Democratic nominee
J. Melville Broughton, Repub
lican John A. Wilkinson and
Progressive William T. Brown.
For governor: Kerr Scott for the
Democrats, George M. Pritchard
for the Republicans, and Mary
Price for the Progressives. In the
lieutenant-governor's race, H. P.
Taylor for the Democrats, Kyle
Hayes, Republican, and Kenneth
Harris, Progressive.
Thad Eure is running for re
election as secretary of state
against James S. Dockery on the
Republican ticket. Henry L.
Bridges, Democrat, opposes M. V.
Hickman, Republican, for State
Auditor and Brandon P. Hodges
is opposed by Ben L. Spence for
State Treasurer.
Candidates
Make Talks
On Last Day
By United Press
President Truman and Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey brought their
blazing campaign fight to a close
last night with llth-hour appeals
for a record turnout in the voting
that will decide the presidency of
the United States between sun
rise and midnight today.
The odds were long that the
confident young New Yorker
would unseat Mr. Truman and
give the nation its first Repub
lican administration since the
New Deal was born 16 years ago.
But there was no defeatism in
the Independence, Mo., home
where Mr. Truman and his family
sweated out the final hours of the
campaign. The president pre
pared a brief radio talk calling
for the Democrats to get to the
polls in record numbers. That
appeared to be his only hope of
victory.
Dewey drove from his home at
Pawling, N. Y., to GOP presi
dential headquarters at the Roose
velt hotel in New York city, and
went on the air to rally his own
followers.
Gov. Earl Warren, the Repub
lican vice-presidential candidate
chimed in from his native Cali
fornia, and Sen. Alben W. Bark
ley, Mr. Truman's running mate,
joined the presidential broadcast
from Paducah, Ky.
The Democrats' election day
strategy was keyed to the remote
possibility of a 60,000,000 popular
vote in which the labor strength
of the heavily-populated indus
trial Northeast would weigh heavily.
Three Yack Photographers
To Finish Pictures Friday
There will be three Yack photo
graphers working all day this
week, the last week for students
to have their pictures taken for
the 1949 Yack, Bill Duncan, Yack
editor announced yesterday.
"The lines are very short, and we
guarantee rapid service," he said.
With the three photographers
! working from 9 to 6 o'clock daily,
it is estimated that 1,500 students
will be accommodated this week.
The Chidnoff studios' photo
graphers will definitely leave
Saturday, closing out a two
month's stay here at the Univer
sity, posing approximately 5,000
students during that time
The Yack photo final deadline
for juniors, seniors and all Phar
macy students will be this Sat
urday, Duncan said. Hours on
Saturday will be from 9 to 12
o'clock noon. To ease congestion,
juniors are requested to come in
today and seniors, Thursday.
Pharmacy students may come in
any day this week.
Freshmen and sophomores who
have not had their pictures taken
may come in this week, and stu
dents who have their white
photographer's cards are urged to
come in for their sitting as soon
as possible, Bill Steele, Yack co
ordinator said.
But the political dopesters were
forecasting a turnout of 47,000,000
to 50,000,000. They looked for
Dewey to poll something like
24,000,000 votes and to run up
wards of 3,000,000 ahead of Mr.
Truman.
DTH Will Use
Special Staff
To Cover Voting
The Daily Tar Heel will have a
full election staff working to
night to give the campus and
town the most complete elections
report possible in tomorrow
morning's paper, Managing Edi
tor Chuck Hauser announced
yesterday.
Bill Buchan, who was man
aging editor during the summer,
will be in charge of the special
staff working tonight. Handling
tabulations of local' and county
elections will be Roy Parker,
Jr., while Night Editor Jack
Brown will be in charge at the
DTH night offices in Carrboro.
Handling the actual coverage
of returns in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro precincts will be Town
Editor Herb Nachman. Working
with Graham Memorial to post
the latest national and state re
turns from the wires of United
Press and county and local re
turns compiled by the DTH staff
will be Campus Editor Sally
Woodhull and Rita Adams.
Other staff members, including
Lincoln Kan, Jim Dickinson,
George Carter, Don Maynard, Ed
Brown and others, will be serv
ing in various capacities to aid
fast, accurate compilation of re
turns.
Pledges
The Daily Tar Heel was not
able to publish the list of fra
ternity pledges in today's paper
due to space limitations.
Tha seven fraternities who
did not turn their lists in last
night are asked to do so to
day, and the names will bo
run in tomorrow's DTH.