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LIBRARY (Periodical Dept.) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C. 1-31-49 EDITORIALS The People Win Why Truman Did Folly's Cholly WEATHER Cool and probabl rain. Srff '-:iSS Off S"9 pf yf y' I? i i wMTMP T.VTT , '. tudent Observes n n R eep By Jonaihan Marshall (Special to the Daily Tar Heel) REPUBLICAN HEADQUAR TERS, NEW YORK, Nov. 3. At 4:15 this morning there was still a largo crowd in the great ball room of the Hotel Roosevelt, Thomas E. Dewey's campaign headquarters. Everybody was tired but most of them were still waiting to hear what would happen in the most exciting election in many years. Early in the evening campaign workers and guests sat quietly watching television sets or the giant results board in the ball room. They were confident, ex pecting the rural areas to sweep the Republicans into office, The workers said it had been an easy campaign because they had known they would win. This confidence waned slowly as the evening wore on. The first doubts came when it became obvious about 10 o'clock that Chester Bowles would win in Connecticut and then when Eradford conceded Massachusetts they realized that it would be close. Nobody could understand why the rural districts weren't electing GOP congressmen. They listened to returns quietly. At 11 o'clock I went down to the great ballroom where there was a wait of ten minutes be fore I could push in. Firemen were watching the crowd care fully, keeping it below 500. But despite the multitude it was or derly. On one side of the room a band played popular and light classical music. Television cameras were grinding and numbers were be ing posted on a large board cov ering one wall of the room. Dur ing one lull the television men asked the crowd to cheer so that they could film it for release later on. The next stop was the sixth floor headquarters where the staff was still at work. In one room three teletype machines were working and the news was torn off and sent back to various of fices. When it was bad it was often held back from the crowd in the ballroom. By that time they knew the Senate was lost but still were confident of the House and presidency. There was only one noisy party still in progress with dancing and drinking in one room and returns in another. Later this broke up as the news grew more sobering. Back in the second floor suite where leaders gathered to hear returns, talk, and have a drink, they were worried. "William Chadbourne, LaGuardia's cam paign manager, said it was hard to tell what was happening be cause the radio wasn't saying which districts were coming in in each state. At 1:30 columnist George So kolski told me Wallace's failure was responsible for the large Truman vote. He said, "We're not saying anything on the radio anymore. We don't dare." Suddenly, at 2:45 the phone rang and we were told to go down to the ballroom because Kansas Wet By United Press Kansas is going wet. South Carolina ditched its anti-divorce law, and Massachusetts voters refused to authorize doc tors to give birth control in formation io married women. These were among the first results io emerge from the tab ulation of returns on more than 175 special issues put to voters in more than half of the 48 stales in Tuesday's elections. Proposed state bonuses for World War II veterans were given a mixed reception. Iowa South Dakota, and Indiana voted "yes" in a big way. In Washington, a bonus pro posal was leading on the basis of incomplete returns. But Wisconsin and Nebraska turn ed thumbs down on bonuses, and Missouri was following at the half-way mark in the vole count. United Press epuhli Dewey was going to speak. When we got there the crowd was pour ing back in and the cameramen were getting ready to shoot pic tures. The leaders couldn't figure out what Dewey could say at that time. Soon the rumor came down Dewey Says After Three NEW YORK, Nov. 3. (UP) Thomas E. Dewey, who tried office in the United States and he would never try again. Glass Menagerie Will Come H ere In Southern Tour 'The Glass Menagerie," a play by Tennessee Williams, will be presented by a professional tour ing company "at the Playmaker theater on November 11, under the sponsorship of the Carolina Playmakers. The company is headed by Gilbert Leigh, Broad way actor and member of the American National theater and academy (ANTA). Against a Southern back ground, the play unfolds a tender story of the hopes, fears, and dreams of a mother, son, and daughter, and the daughter's "gentleman caller." Like life it self, it is deeply touching, very funny, hauntingly s?d, and in a quiet unpretentious way it speaks some profound truths. "The Glass Menagerie" has re ceived more awards than any other play including that of the Drama Critics: and it has been directly responsible for the me toric rise of Tennessee Williams, its author, to the top ranks of American playwrights. Miss Helen Hayes, America's first lady of the stage is now playing the leading role in London, where the play has been enthusiastically re ceived. Knowing that "The Glass Menagerie" would be especially interesting to Southern audi ences, the Southern states tour has been organized with a dis tinguished New York cast, all of whom incidentally are from the South. It is being presented by Mr. Leigh, who will play the "gentleman caller." Mr. Leigh is from Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Lew Sisk, well known actor of stage and radio, will play the part of the son and narrator; Mr. Sisk is from Covington, Ky. The November 11th production will be the only appearance in this area of the professional tour ing company. Reserved seats are now on . sale at Ledbetter Pickard's on Franklin street, and at the Playmaker . business office in Swain hall. Sadie Hawkins Scheduled for By Rube Dickinson Next Friday is Sadie Hawkins Day 'bout everywhere from Dog patch to Shmoosville, and con sequently campus folks here abouts are laying plans for a git together and funfest the likes o' which will have never been wit nessed in these parts. The woman-chase-man regalia will get started at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at Y court with a parade which is scheduled to sally through the village business district and by the dormitories, then onward to Fetzer field and the feature event of the day, the Hooman race. Everything's gotta be handled by somebody with a flair for showmanship, so sponsoring this year's day 'of festivity will be three organizations, the Carolina Election con 'Lamp that Herbert Brownell, not Dewey, would speak and we wait ed. More police and secret ser vice men came in and the tension increased. The television lights moved (See GOP HQ, page 4) Not Again Failures - Stunned but still smiling, three times for the highest failed each time, today said There were tears in the eyes of women and deep emotion on the faces of men as the defeated ' presidential candidate said he was proud of his campaign, that he was "as surprised as anybody else" and that he still believed above; all in American unity to establish world peace. Beaten by Wendell Willkie for the GOP nomination in 1940, by Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency in 1944 and now by Harry S. Truman in one of the most spectacular upsets in U.S. political history, Dewey wrote "finis" to his brilliant political career at the age of 46. He said he would never seek the presidency again nor would he run for re-election as gover nor of New York when his pres ent term expires two years hence. "I simply have no plans," he said. 'Mardi Gras' To Open Two-Day Run Tonight The first performance of "Mardi Gras" will be given to night in Memorial hall at 8 o'clock. The newest musical comedy written by Pete Strader and produced by Sound and Fury will run again tomorrow night and tickets will be on sale at the door for both performances. Gras," which was first given this summer, leatures an aimosi en tirely new cast and many new songs by Fred Young are added to some of the best by Tread Covington. The exotic dancing of Dusty Moore will again be high lighted. Bob Thomas plays the hero, young Beau St. Charles, who has been killed and is searching for a dime to pay Charon for the ferry boat ride across the Styx. Anita Gates is cast as the heroine, Meg. Abetting the romance of Meg and Beau are the fortune teller, Zanobia, played by Bunnie Dav is and the personification of Deus ex Machina played by George Grizzard. Faith Adams and Bill San ders retain their parts from the summer production as Nita, the pseudo-sophisticate, and Keith, t x the heel. Jerry Weiss again plays ( leaders. This campus had posses the landlord, and Charon, the j sion of the bell through the first ferry boatman, is played by Fred Young. Day Frolics Next Friday Independent Coed association, the Western North Carolina club and the Town Girls association. Marryin' Sam, the rotund gent who follows the unpopular trade of marryin' up willin wimmin wif unwillin' men, will be on hand to throw a hitch-knot around those couples which consist of one last woman ana one siow man. A square dance in Woollen gym will top off the day's proceedings and will feature the giving away of prizes to those, who had extra good costumes and floats at the parade. To this git-fiddle affair gals can start draggin' their "catches" any time from 8:30 on and can rest assured that no one will let their newly-weds out until the stroke of midnight. 3 1 CHAPEL HILL, N C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1948 , Latest Returns By United Press The presidential popular vote late last night was: Truman 21.994,652; Dewey 20,217292; Wallace 1,016,577; Thurmond 848,175. Truman was safely holding his lead in 28 stales having 304 electoral votes; Dewey in 16 states having 189; Thurmond in four slates with his same 38 electoral voles. Necessary lo elect: 266. The congressional situation was: Senate Elected: 24 Demo crats, 9 Republicans; holdover: 30 Democrats, 33 Republicans; new total for 81st congress: 54 Democrats, 42 Republicans; 80lh congress: 51 Republicans. 45 Democrats; necessary to con trol: 49. House of Representatives Elected: 255 Democrats, 161 Republicans, 1 American La bor; leading in their races: 10 Republicans, 8 Democrats; in dicated total for 81st congress: 263 Democrats, 171 Republi cans; 1 American Labor; 80ih congress: 243 Republicans, 184 Democrats; necessary lo con trol: 218. Campus Party Calls j Meetings Today The Campus Party has called a meeting tonight at 8:30 in 103 Bingham hall to organize for the fall general elections. The CP campaign committee will meet in the main lounge of Graham Memorial at 2 o'clock this afternoon, party spokesmen said" yesterday. Campus Leaders Meet for Talks About Vandalism By Sam McKeel Making an early attempt to stamp out vandalism in any form, student government leaders from Duke and the University met at Duke Tuesday night and discuss ed various ways to stop pre-game vandalism. Pointing to the fact that prac tically no damage has been done to either school in the past two years, those present at the meet ing commended students at both schools for their excellent con duct both at and before the games. Emphasis was brought on the fact that last week the new vic tory bell trophy, was carried to Duke by the University cheer half of the present season and then turned it over to Duke. The winner of the Duke-Carolina game will take the bell and have pos session until the next football game between the two institu tions. The bell will be at stake at each football game between the two schools. Dean Herring of Duke empha sized the fact that while all pos sible measures will be taken to stop vandalism before it starts, (preparations will also be made to apprehend and punish any individual caught in the act of doing any material damage to the school. Herring said he is "against any thing which endangers the good feeling between the two schools. These things," he said, "pop out of a very small element of the student-body. It is not represen tative of the student bodies." Her ring went on to say, "I think we should concentrate on two things. First, we should see that we are well protected. We should have adequate police protection on each campus." 0wy C County Goes Democratic; Sparrow In By Herb Nachman Returns from 15 out of 16 pre cincts in Orange county showed last night that the Democratic presidential ticket took oyer 60 percent of the 5,762 votes cast in this county. ' , : The vote was Truman 3,474, j Dewey 1,783, Thurmond 355, and Wallace 145. For the office of constable of Chapel Hill, Republican candi date L. W. Sparrow polled the county election officials reported last night that Democrat Frank Maddry might have won if the people who wrote his name in had X'ed the ballot. Maddry's name was not on the ballot. In the 6th Congressional district race, the tabulations showed a decisive victory in this county for Carl Durham, D., with 4,206 j ballots, Smith, R., had 1,067 and Ross, P., had 148. For the position of U. S. sen- j ator, Democrat Melville Brough ton polled 4,060 votes for short term and 4,060 votes for regular term over Republican candidate John Wilkinson's 1,226. In the race for county com missioner, the three Democratic candidates, Cobb, Wilson and Laws polled a total of 11,770 votes over Republican opponents McBane, Hunt and Pendergraft's 3,860. For the state House of Repre sentatives, John Umstead won by a one-sided tally of 4,056 over Republican opponent Weaver who took 1,260 votes. Doris Friedland, , took 119. Democratic candidates took Or ange county by overwhelming majorities for the state offices of governor, It. governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, atty general, supt. of instruction, comm. of agriculture, comm. of insurance, comm. of labor and as sociate justice state supreme court. A breakdown of the constitu tional amendment vote was not available last night. However, Hillsboro reported that only one amendment, that for raising leg islative salaries, got the nod in the county. One precinct in Orange, Pat terson, had not reported by the time election offices closed last night. Identification Urged for Dogs In Chape! Hill University dog-owners were urged yesterday to provide prop er identification for their pets if they wish to-keep them in Chapel Hill this winter. An announce ment from the local SPCA stated that all stray dogs on the campus will be placed in a private ken nel if arrangements can be made for them. If no arrangements can be made, the dogs will be taken to the Chapel Hill city pound. Dogs taken to the pound are kept for five days in order that their owner may claim them, if they are not claimed, they are destroyed. A flat fine of $2.50 is charged any owner who claims his pet after he has been placed in the pound by authorities. Proper identification for the dogs includes a collar, a city li cense and a tag indicating a rabies shot. These should be ac quired as soon as possible as ef forts will be made to collect any stray dogs before the arrival of cold weather. Phone 304 Electoral - - IP ::.y.:.:i.:.:;o:IS.:::::... :-v-:s.'-M-: :::::::::::.':::-:: )! i ALBEN BARKLEY, THE NEW vice-president of the United Slates, and President Harry Truman, the winner and still champ ion, are shown with facial expressions typical of Ihose they wore lhrough their campaigns. For lhe last several months, when Mr. Truman was not seen smiling, he has worn the look of bulldog tenacity (above) which some observers say helped win lhe elec tion for him. Dixiecrats Are Stuck With Their 38 Votes ATLANTA, Nov. 3. (UP) The States' Rights Democrats were thunderstruck tonight in the shock-waves of the Tru man upset. They had 38 electoral votes and they were stuck with them. t Thorn lxrQO n VQroW - icinrn oTOrt Senate Approves Nomination Bill By Close Ballot Spirited discussion of coed election procedures was settled this week when a new bill, to go into effect at the December vot ing, was passed by Coed Senate at a special session Monday night, with Speaker Fran Angas's vote breaking a 9 to 9 deadlock. Although the bill will not af fect party nominations, it sets up a procedure intended to provide a more democratic method of nominating for coed offices, and also provides that members of Coed Senate shall be elected di rectly by their constituents rath er than by the entire coed stu dent body. Nominations will be made at a compulsory coed mass meeting to be held two weeks before elections, which occur on the same date as other campus vot ing. Each nomination presented at the mass meeting must be ac companied by a petition signed by 15 women students, with no majority coming from any one social organization. One week before the mass meeting, coeds will attend house meetings at which regulations, qualifications and formalities of elections will be explained. Among Elections Listeners It Was Truman Ten to One By, Bill Buchan Approximately 10 avid Truman men took their seats in Graham Memorial's main lounge early Tuesday night and when Dewey conceded the election at 11:15 yesterday morning, they were still there. During the evening they were joined by a large number of stu dents representing all sides of the political ledger, but if there were any there besides Demo crats after midnight, they kept the secret strictly to themselves. - The group who weathered the fight with Truman left the lounge only to eat breakfast. At least two of the loyal Democrats were on hand at all times to listen to the radio and keep the large blackboard up to date. During the very early morning hours there were more than 25 students listening to the steady F-3371 F-3361 sign that they might seek to re turn to the regular Democratic fold. States' Rights presidential entry J. Strom Thurmond re marked that the civil rights re bellion, after all, had been "a fight within our own family." Thurmond then felicitated Mr. Truman by telegram but he did not come right out and congratu late him on his victory. Loyal Democrats who had been caught in the middle in the civil rights fight were as jubilant as the holders of long-shot sweep stakes tickets. Gov. James E. Folsom of Ala bama, for instance, had been on the brink of political eclipse be fore the presidential outcome be came known. Tonight he rode high in authentic Democratic circles because he had waged an election-eve battle to deliver Ala bama's 11 votes to Mr. Truman even though the president wasn't on the state score-sheet. Other Southern Democratic leaders, such as incoming Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia, had cannily played it down the middle all the way and were in strategic position to ride along with the Truman tide. The same would have been the case for them had Thomas E. Dewey won and the States' Righters become a dominant Southern faction on the strength of their contribution of a Truman defeat. The States' Righters carried Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi (See DIXIECRATS. page 4) election news, but many of them took short naps on the couches. The highlight of the evening came just before midnight when Tru man went ahead of Dewey in New York for a few minutes. After the state went back to Dewey, it was a slow matter of adding up the electoral votes of the smaller states with an oc casional lead in a major state for Truman. One loyal Dewey man sported a blue necktie with his candi date's picture. This disappeared, however, around 4 o'clock. Dur ing the morning hours yesterday the lounge was filled with hope ful Democrats and hopeless Re publicans. Those watching the returns never were able to find out what happened to the Young Republican club which had slated a victory meeting on the second floor of Graham Memorial. NUMBER 38 Trymoini Democrats Win Control Of Congress By United Press Harry S. Truman won the presidency of the United States and a solidly Demo cratic Congress yesterday in one of the most astonishing political upsets in history. He won against impossible odds after the tightest presiden tial race in 32 years. Counted out long ago by the public opinion polls and deserted by his own party's left and right wings, the man from Missouri jumped into the lead on the first scattered returns Tuesday after noon and never was headed. The race ended at 11:14 yester day morning when New York's Republican Governor Thomas E. , Dewey threw up his hands and conceded defeat. The news was flashed to the far corners of the earth and into a Kansas city hotel room where Mr. Truman was waiting. He grinned a big Missouri grin and hugged his brother, J. Vivian Truman. "I just want to deserve the honor," he said. Thus the Democratic regime that Franklin D. Roosevelt swept into power in 1932 and passed to Mr. Truman on his death in 1941 was extended again and will cov er a span of at least 20 years. ' Millions of young Americans who cast their first presidential vote Tuesday cannot remember a Republican administration. Returns still were coming irt from outlying districts across the land. But the president was a million and a half votes ahead of the 46-year-old GOP chal lenger in popular votes and 28 states with 304 electoral college votes were in his grasp. That was 38 more than a win ning majority of the 531 electoral college votes. Mr. Truman and his vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Al ben W. Barkley of Kentucky, were in. And Dewey, a 15-to-l shot in election eve to reverse the defeat he suffered at the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, probably had come to the end of the "political trail. Twice-beaten at the polls, he said he would never seek the presidency again. Crushed with him in the stun ning Truman victory were the Southern States Rights rebels led by Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and the left-wing New Dealers who followed Henry A. Wallace's Progressive party banner. Aerial Thrills Planned Sunday For Air Circus Aerial thrills galore will be presented to students and resi dents of Chapel Hill Sunday af ternoon when the all-star air show takes over at the Chapel Hill airport, Monogram club president Bill Pritchard an nounced yesterday. The air-show is being sponsor ed by the Monogram club and will begin at 3 o'clock with a de layed parachute jump from 10,000 feet altitude. Twelve acts will feature the two hour pro gram. Stunt pilots will perform automobile-airplane pick-ups and wing-walking events, an airplane will be landed on the top of an automobile, and a pilot will fly an airplane while sitting on a wing strut outside the cockpit during the show. In order that spectators may see all the stunts closely, special arrangements have been made by Pritchard for cars to be parked on the airfield.
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