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Unclad Coeds
Are Awakened
By Pranksters
WINNIPEG, Man., Nov. 4.
(UP) Male students invaded a
girl's dormitory at the University
of Manitoba on Hallowe'en,
dumped the girls, some sleeping
in the nude, onto the floor and
covered them with soap flakes,
mud and feathers, it was reveal
ed today.
Dr. A. H. Gillson, university
president, said today it was just
a "student prank" and there was
no truth to reports of a mass ex
pulsion of the boys involved.
"It may have gone a touch too
far in the matter of good taste,"
he said. "But it was a thing per
formed without malice or fore
thought." The Manitoban, university
newspaper, said the raiders dis
covered a number of co-eds
sleeping "sans everything."
The raid was described as an
annual hallowe'en stunt. About
80 young men, hiding their faces
in masks, participated.
A decoy lured the night watch
man from his post while the oth
er members of the raiding party
crept into the dormitory. They
took up strategic positions near
the beds of the sleeping girls and
then began dumping them when
one of the "raiders" whistled the
signal.
One coed confirmed that two
girls near her were sleeping
"raw."
"But it all happened so quick
ly I'm sure the boys didn't even
notice," she said.
Dr. Arnold Nash
Delivers Address
Before Assembly
Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the
department of religion of the
University, spoke to the fresh
man class during assembly yes
terday. President Jess Dedmond
announced that freshmen nom
inations will take place at the
Tuesday assembly.
Dr. Nash, using numerous il
lustrations during his address,
told the students, "If you wish
to grow in religion, associate
yourself with one or more of the
religious groups in Chapel Hill."
He said the purposes of the
department ( of religion are to
give students a study of Chris
tian religion with other phases
of life.
"We have to make a decision
as to what we are going to serve,"
he said, adding that there must
be an ultimate goal behind that
decision. A decision in religious
activities on campus must also be
made, he said.
Dean Fred Weaver introduced
Dr. Nash.
Monday Meeting
Of UVA to Name
Officer Slate
University Veterans association
elections will be held Monday
evening at 8 o'clock in the UVA
club house, UVA president Hugh
Wells announced ' today.
The elections will follow the
regular monthly business meeting
of the UVA officers, and a dis
cussion of the fall social pro
gram will also take place.
Present officers of the UVA
who will be subject to re-election
Monday evening are Hugh Wells,
president; Jim Chesnutt, ' vice
president; John Eason, treasurer;
and Joe Jones, secretary.
Intcrdorm Council
ix Arc Scheduled
Members of the Interdormitory
council who are now in graduate
school must have their yearbook
pictures taken today if they have
not already done so, according
to Pete Gerns, president of the
eouncil. These students are re
quested to leave their names with
the Yackety Yack at the time
their pictures are taken so that
the yearbook business manager
can be reimbursed one dollar per
student by the Interdormitory
council.
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ACCUSED OF ' wOiJaPIRING lo achieve force able overlTirow of Ihe U.S. government, len of
ihe leading members of ihe Communist parly in lhe United States are pictured outside Federal
court in New York. Because of the absence of William Z. Foster,, national party chairman, their
trial dale was postponed until November 15. Pictured (left to right) are Henry Winston, Eugene
Dennis. Benjamin J. Davis. Gus Hall, John Williamson, Carl Winter, Irving Potash, John Gates,
Robert G. Thompson and Jack SlacheL
Hot Time
STARKVILLE. Miss. Nov 4
(UP) Students at Missis
sippi State college today were
still joking about their donkey
barn burning and trying to
figure out if there was any
significance that it occurred
about the time it was announc
ed that President Truman had
surged ahead.
Fire broke out in the large
wooden frame campus mule
barn at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning. when tabulations
showed Truman forging ahead.
However, college officials said
there is no suspicion of arson.
Flames destroyed ihe barn
and stored equipment valued
at $60,000 before ihe fire de
partment Arrived.
Delta Sigma Pi
Pledges 37 Men
Tuesday Evening
Delta Sgma Pi, professional
commerce fraternity, pledged 37
new members at a formal cere
mony Tuesday evening. The
pledge period will run through
the rest of this quarter.
New pledges include Fred
Adais, Bill Austin, Dan Barker,
Oscar Boyette, Al Bernot, Love
A. Coman, Bob Callahan, Lunce
ford Creech, Carlyle Davis, Steve
Davis.
Joe Eldridge, Pete English,
Hugh Fortesque, John Green,
Larry Humes, Carl J. Hinson,
Asa Hollwell, X. Wallace Kirby,
Dick Lowe, Bill Luke, Carrol
Melton, Jess Moss, Frank New
ton. Carter Rhinehart, John Russell,
Bill Rutherford, Charlie Rogers,
Clyde Rosser, Jack Sapp, George
Simpson, Ned Towell, Claude J.
Totheran, Lee Van Winkle, J.
W. White, Kenneth Wyatt, Lowell
McColluck, and Reese Overcash.
New Braswell Scholarship Winners
Announced by Student Aid Officials
Winners of the 1948-49 Bras
well scholarships awarded an
nually by the University were
announced yesterday by Edwin
Lanier, director of student aid.
Awards this year go to Ruffin
Wilkerson Blaylock, Apex, Luke
Robinson Corbett, West End;
Edwin Harrison Dixon, Jr., Mon
roe; and William David Wood
ruff, Oxford. Alternates for
these scholarships are James Al
bert House, Jr., Hobgood, and
Thomas Herbert Mathews, Hen
derson. valued at $200 each, scholar
ships are awarded annually to
four entering freshmen on the
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Williams
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y Student Party
By Bill Buchan
yThe Student Party will prose
cute Thurman Williams, chairman
of the Student Legislature Rules
committee before the Student
council for negligence of duty in
his committee, Gran Childress,
party spokesman, said yesterday.
Williams replied to the charges
immediately, accusing the SP of
mudslinging and of lowering the
dignity of the councils. He also
accused Legislature clerk Jack
Worsham of negligence of duty.
In their regular party meeting
this week, SP members voted
unanimously to charge Williams
with negligence on two counts
after evidence had been present
ed by party members.
The two counts on which
Williams will be charged, Child
ress said, are (1) failure to con
duct regular Rules committee
meetings and failure to ascertain
if members who have been ab
sent from the legislature have
proper excuses for their absences,
and (2) failure to publish the
names of the absentees in the
Daily Tar Heel. Both of the
charges are required by the by
laws of the Student Legislature.
In a report obtained from
Legislature clerk Jack Worsham,
Childress said "Evidence was
shown that Williams had picked
up only one list of absences af
ter the four meetings held this
year.. This list," he added, "was
for the last meeting and was not
obtained until four days after
the legislature." The by-laws re
quire the list to be picked up
by the rules committe chairman
after each meeting.
When questioned about the
charges yesterday afternoon, Wil
liams stated, "I charge Worsham
with negligence in keeping the
records of the Student Legisla
ture. When as chairman of the
basis of scholastic ability, finan
cial need, and promise of future
success.
The scholarships are provided
by a fund of $21,000 set up in
1938 by an anonymous donor
as an endowment in memory of
Dr. Frank R. Braswell of Rocky
Mount, class of 1888. The in
come from the endowment is
designated for the four scholar
ships of $200 each annually.
Last year's winners were
Charles Winston Hall, Sanford;
Adrian Smith Lineberger, Jr.,
Chapel Hill; Claude Richard
Stamey, Canton, and Herbert
Seawell Yates, Rockingham.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY,
Indicfe
Rules committee, I requested
lists of members absent from
meetings this quarter. Worsham
replied that he. had misplaced
the official attendance records
and they were not available."
"I am guilty," he continued,
"of not submitting lists of ab
sentees to the Daily Tar Heel for
publication. This was purely an
oversight cn my part., There is
no provision in the by-laws of
the legislature for expelling a
member regardless of the number
of meetings missed. The Uni
versity party believes that there
should be such a measure and
in next Thursday's meeting, the
party plans to sponsor such a
bill."
"As for the taking this matter
before the Student council," he
added, "I feel that no honor
council should be called upon to
decide a matter which is purely
an effort on the part of the Stu
dent party to smear the name
of the University party. The Uni
versity party is not a name-calling
party and does not intend
that the dignity of the council
should be lowered by trying mat
ters which are simply political
maneuvers."
Requests will be made, Child
ress said for excuses of absentees
who have missed two or more
meetings of the legislature this
fall. If the legislators cannot
furnish satisfactory information,
they will be asked to resign from
(See POLITICS, page 4)
Late News Bulletins
Folsom Fights
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov.
-(UP) Gov. James E. Fol
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som said today that he still
intends to file suit in court to
order Alabama's Democratic
electors to cast their vote for
President Truman, despite re
ports to the contrary.
Defense Alliance
PARIS, Nov. 4. (UP) Lester
B. Pearson, Canadian minister
of external affairs and chief
of his country's delegation to
the United Nations General
assembly, said today that the
U.S., Canada and the Western
Union nations might get to
gether "any day now" to draft
an Atlantic-defense alliance.
U. of Miss. Prexy
OXFORD, Miss., Nov. 4.
(UP) Charles William Dean,
Shaw, Miss., today became
president of the University of
Mississippi student body upon
the resignation of George
Worthen, Union.
NOVEMBER 5, 1948
Torch Rally
Set Tonight
At Y Court
"Let's all get lit!" is the clarion
cry of Head Cheerleader Norm
Sper and the University club
who will lead the campus on the
initial pre-game torchlight parade
of the pigskin season beginning
at 7 o'clock tonight.
The procession will assemble
in Y court where the fiery beacons
will be distributed to all march
ers on a first-come basis.
From that point the group will
begin its tour through the village
streets and dormitory areas. Sup
plementing the illumination of
the fire-sticks will be the usual
i array of horn-tooting, yelling,
cymbal-clanging and music-making.
The procession will end at the
portals of the Forest theater
where a knock-down, drag-out
pep rally will be held and also
the crowning of the "Mardi Gras"
queen.
Dan Stiegman, Tar Heel co
captain, will serve as master of
ceremonies for the program which
will present to the crowd Sound
and Fury's "Miss Mardi Gras,"
whose identity has not been re
leased. Also taking part in the
program will be other members
of the football squad.
Joe Ward, president of the Uni
versity club, and Jerry Weiss,
president of Sound and Fury, an
nounced yesterday that co- cap
tain Hosea Rodgers and Charlie
Justice will be on hand to do
the honors of crowning the
"Mardi Gras" queen.
Tookie Hodgson, vice president
of the University club, said yes
terday that students need have
no fear the pep rally will cause
them to miss any part of the
Elliot Lawrence dance which will
be touched off in Woollen gym
.tonight. It is expected that fes
tivities will be over in plenty
of time for all to change to
formal attire before dance time.
Dialectic Senate
Takes Fourteen
Fourteen new members of the
Dialectic Senate were accepted in
the campus society Wednesday
night at the regular meeting of
the group. The new members
who were accepted, as announced
by Jim Southerland, president of
the Senate, were: Robert M.
Brooks, Carrboro; William O.
Foster, Jr., St. Petersburg, Fla.;
Lee Gore, Zephyrills, Fla.; Harry
H. Horton, Jr., Asheville.
"William P. Kellam, Chapel
Hill; James L. Lamm, Mt. Airy;
Edgar Love, Lincolnton; Arthur
G. Murphy, Jr., Macon, Miss.;
Morley A. Schlesinger; Talbot R.
Shelby, Dudley; Frank Utley, Jr.,
Sanford; David Woodruff, Ox
ford; James T. Leeson, Rocky
Mount, and James S. Hix, Jr.,
Thomasville.
U. S. Insists
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.
(UP) The United States will
insist that Soviet authorities
take action against "the
murderers" in Austria of Irv
ing Ross, an American foreign
recovery official, a State De
partment spokesman said to
day. Planes Overdue
SEATTLE, Nov. 4. (UP)
A DC-3 Pacific Alaska air
lines plane with 11 passengers
aboard was overdue on a
flight from Sitka, Alaska to
Annette Island near Ketchikan,
the Seattle Coast Guard re
ported today.
Jap Army Blamed
TOKYO, Friday, Nov.
(UP) The International Mili
tary Tribunal of the Far East
today blamed the Japanese
army for starting the nation
on the road to aggressive war.
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Elliot Lawrence Slated
In Weekend Festivities
A weekend of football and musical fanfare begins today
with dances scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night inj
Woollen gymnasium with music
and his orchestra.
The two-day score will be'
touched off from 4 to 6 o'clock
this afternoon in Memorial hall
when Lawrence and his musical
group will present a concert.
The dances are being sponsored
by the German club and consti
tute the annual fall presentation
of dances by that group. A host of
attractive girls will serve as
sponsors for the dances.
Tonight's dance will be held
from 9 until 1 o'clock with coeds
attending having late permission
until 2 o'clock in the morning.
lomorrow nights dance goes
from 8 o'clock until midnight
with coed hours set at 1 o'clock.
Dances will be formal on both
nights.
Members of the University
Dance committee wish to remind
those attending the dances that
rules and regulations as set up
by the committee should be
closely observed.
Rules state that no intoxicating
drinks will be allowed and that
any girl leaving the dance with
the intention of returning must
be chaperoned during her entire
absence. Also no smoking will be
permitted on the dance floor.
Elliot Lawrence and his group
are commonly typed as a sweet
band but Elliot insists that they
feature all kinds of music on one
nighters and college dates. The
band has scored enough of a hit
in just one year to win the No. 1
spot in both the disc jockeys' and
college polls of new bands, as
conducted by Billboard magazine.
Red-Backed Progressives1 Showing
Is Poorest Since Turn of Century
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. (UP)
The election showing of Henry
A Wallace's Communist-supported
Progressive party was the
poorest of any highly organized
third party movement since the
turn of the century.
The Wallace-Taylor ticket poll
ed little more than 1,000,000 votes
a mere two per cent of the
combined Truman-Dewey total.
Wallace had predicted he would
get "millions."
But he had hoped and expect
ed to go into the election with
broad labor support. Instead,
among labor, he was backed only
by the left-wing minority of the
CIO. Most of the rest of organ
ized labor fought the Wallace
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PL16 Veterans
With No Checks
Must Contact VA
Public law 16 veterans who
have not received subsistence
checks yet, and who believe the
Veterans administration is at
fault, should contact the VA of
fice, 111 Peabody hall immediate
ly, veterans adviser Wilson Hon
eycutt announced yesterday.
Veterans who come to the VA
office in search of delinquent
checks are requested by Honey-
cutt to have a short letter ad
dressed to the VA regional of
fice explaining their case.
The . letters will be forwarded
to the VA treasurer from the
regional office, Honeycutt ex
plained, and the VA will put
a tracer on missing checks. The
VA will not issue duplicate sub
sistence checks if the original
check is stolen, Honeycutt said,
However, if the VA is responsible
for the loss of a check they will
replace the original with a du
plicate. Coeds Will Receive
Late Leave Tonight
Coeds attending the German
club dance tonight will receive
late permission until 2 o'clock,
Women's Interdorm council and
the office of the Dean of Women
announced yesterday.
party as a creature of the Com
munists. Wallace's own hopes for future
success assume that he can en
list labor support. He believes the
present labor split over the Com
munist issue must be healed but
he does not know how that will
be Idone.
He is depending on factional
differences to cause a crackup of
the Democratic party, with his
party inheriting its labor backing.
But he knows there is little
chance of getting that support
while labor is divided by the
Communist issue.
Wallace has said many times
that his party will keep going
whatever his vote this year.
Number 37
Cheered
Voters Turn Out
To Cheer Humble
Man They Backed
ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
i TRUMAN, Nov. 4. (UP) The
voters who kept Harry S. Tru
man in the White House turned
out by the thousands tonight to
cheer him on his triumphant re
turn to Washington.
But the President was humble
in his victory. He said he would
not "crow" over the election
sweep, and it was learned from
friends that he was not interest
ed in a third term.
At St. Louis, a big town in the
President's home state, a cheer
ing crowd of 10,000 jammed un
ion station in an impromptu vic
tory celebration.
Again at Vincennes, Ind., where
the President's train made a five
minute service stop, a crowd esti
mated at 10,000 was on hand.
Mr. Truman appeared on the
rear platform at Vincennes and
told the cheering throng that
"when I get back to work, I hope
you people won't be disappointed
with the results."
He was in high spirits and
beaming jovially, but earlier a3
his train moved eastward from
his home at Independence, Mo.,
he said he would not "crow" over
his sweeping election victory.
He had been scheduled to meet
only about 1,000 political leaders
and others at St. Louis, but when
he saw the big crowd gathered
at the station he ordered the gates
opened. The crowd crushed
around his train.
He told the crowd at Vincennes
that "I'm elated over the elec
tion results as I am overwhelmed
with responsibilities."
A Hoosier mail carrier, Dave
Reeves, stepped to the platform
which the President used to carry
his campaign fight across the
country and handed Mr. Truman
an old bank note on an Indepen
dence, Mo., bank.
"I have just received an old
fashioned bank note," the Presi
dent laughed, holding up the bill,
"and the man tells me if I ever
get broke to bring it to him and
he'll redeem it."
Friends aboard the train said
they thought it would be out of
, character for Mr. Truman to seek
a third term, although he would
be exempt from the anti-third
term Constitutional amendment.
All along his route the Presi
dent seemed filled with a deep
sense of humility and the tre
mendous responsibility of con
ducting the nation's affairs for
the next four years.
Freed to Give
Lecture Sunday
In Person Hall
A lecture by Ernest Freed,
well-known artist and instructor
at Fairmont State college, W. Va.,
will highlight the local celebra
tion of National Art week, Sun
day afternoon at Person hall.
In addition to Freed's address,
"Space, Contemporary versus
Renaissance," there will be a
showing of 23 of his etchings and
linoleum block prints.
New shows by North Carolin
ians Claude Howell and Philip
Moose will open today and con
tinue until the end of the month.
Howell, of Wilmington, is now
painting in New York on a Ros
enwald fellowship. His group in
cludes 17 oils, a gouache, and six
water-colors.
Artist Moose is a Pulitzer prize
winner from Newton. He will
show seven oils and 19 water
colors. Freed's etchings, two of them
very large, will remain on ex
hibit until Nov. 26. The 'Friends
of Person hall will give a recep
tion for Freed immediately fol
lowing Sunday's gallery talk. All
students and Chapel Hill resi
dents are invited to attend.
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