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LIEIiCT (Periodical Dept.) University of ;;0rth Carolin: UidPei tuu, N. C. 1-31-49 EDITORIALS WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and not much change in temperature Constitutional Confusion Greatest Freedom Last of Series United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C.,' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 53 X 1 I E I I V jrm S t I I I I II I I 1 Sfe 'M It X. 1 m f II II I II II II II " - "" ,r r TTTT I 1 ' H v if Lovett Warns Force Cannot Push U.S- Out Acting Secretary Gives Reds Answer WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (UP) Acting Secretary of State Rob ert A. Lovett warned the Rus sians today that "they are mis taken" if they think the United States can be chased out of Ber lin by force. He told a news conference that this country is not going to be in timidated by the Soviets' latest maneuver in setting up a sep arate Communist city govern ment in their sector of Berlin. To make his point emphatical ly clear, he authorized direct quotation of this statement: "If the Soviets 'I eel that this action on their part alters our determination not to be driven out of Berlin by force, they are mistaken." His warning reaffirmed the policy laid down last July w7hen 'Secretary of State George C. Marshall asserted the United States "will not be coerced or in timidated in any way" out of its rights in Germany. Lovett refused to go into the implications of the new Soviet move in Berlin. But other State department sources made it plain that they think the maneuver makes a so lution of the Berlin problem more difficult, if not impossible. The Soviet-sponsored Berlin government is illegal and does not represent the will of the Ger man people, they said. Fitzgerald Keeps Councif Position By Clean Sweep Earl Fitzgerald was unanim ously re-elected president, of the Debate courjcil at a meeting of the group Tuesday night. Other officers chosen were Pete Gems, vice-president (Phi representative); Don Shropshire, publicity director (Di representa tive); and Blanton Miller, execu tive secretary. . A debate with the University of Pittsburgh wilt be held in Chapel Hill sometime in Febru ary. The topic will be "Federal Aid to Education." Dave Pittman and Herb Yates are to argue the affirmative, and Herb Mitchell and Paul Roth will take the nega tive. Raleigh Group Will Have Dance The Raleigh-Carolina club met Monday night in Gerrard hall to make final plans for its annual Christmas dance. The affair will be held Wednesday night, Dec. 22. in the Virginia Dare hall-room of the Sir Walter hotel. Johnny Satterfield and his or c!i'stra will play for the dance. Laddie Terrell and Charlie Bryan, co-chainnen of the ticket sales committee, announced that tick its arc now available through nres-ntatives in all dormitories, 1 fraternity and sorority houses. Each member is entitled to one guest bid with the purchase f his own dance ticket. The last day these tickets may be obtained is Dec. 13. The small dance floor of the Sir Walter limits the sup ply of tickets. Veterans Leaving Must Check South Ail veterans leaving school at me end of this quarter are cau tion.d by c. F. Shepherd, vet- raiis adviser, to check by the vfterans office in South build ing before leaving. Also, all veterans now taking y reduced study load who will ke a full load during the win t(,r quarter are advised by Shep herd tu notify the veterans office; Eailure to notify the office of a change in veteran training may "-suit in fraud charges, Shepherd German Police Battle Communist In Berlin BERLIN, Dec. 1. (UP) Club swinging German police battled tonight with Communists who tried to break; up a political rally of the Socialist party in the Uni ted States sector of Berlin. Police headquarters said that several Communists were arrest ed. No mention was made of cas ualties. The Russian - iicensed ADN news agency said that one worker" was badly beaten. The police said that "Organized interference groups" of the Com munist (SED) party invaded the Socialist meeting near the Her mann platz in the U.S. sector, and These hecklers were thrown tried to shout down speakers, out by the Socialists in the meet ing. About an hour later they re- turned with reinforcements and Western Allies Remind Russia Of Berlin Stand PARIS, Dec. 1. (UP) The United States, Great Britain and France reminded Russia today that they reserve full right to take such measures as may be necessary to protect their posi tion in Berlin. They said also that they must see ana study any report by United Nations Security council experts on the Berlin currency situation before they approve it. The Western Allies said that in " recent weeks especially Rus sia has "consistently and con tinuously resorted to further measures directed against the (Berlin) city administration which have brought about an increas ing split in the city." "The three Western Powers can not agree that they should be bound to submit to all Soviet measures which add to and in tensify the Soviet blockade or which interfere with the city administration, while the Soviet Union remains wholly uncom mitted to any restraint," they said. First Lady of China Arrives In Capital to Request Aid WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (UP) Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek arrived here today to ask a skeptical American government to save heH husband's Nationalist China from Communism. Still fresh and smiling after her 11,000-mile, three-day flight from Shanghai, she landed at Na tional airport at 10 o'clock this morning and drove away silently with Mrs. George C. Marshall, wife of the secretary of state, to her temporary guest quarters in the Marshall's Leesburg, Va., home. Marshall was in Walter Beed Army hospital for a physi cal checkup. A welcoming crowd of several Kappa Alphas Robbed of $70 The theft of $70 early yester day morning from residents of the Kappa Alpha house was re ported to local police who began a complete investigation. Victims of the robbery, which occurred sometime between 1:30 and 6:30, were all occupants of the second floor. One KA, Hand sel Butts of Natchez, Miss., re membered that he was awakened during the night by the sound oi a door being closed. Butts sat up and saw the door quietly close. Thinking it was a fraternity brother wandering harmlessly through the building; he looked at the time, 5 o'clock, and went back to sleep. Four of the 11 rooms on the second floor were entered. Loss- oro ns loiiows; - co a f , , tin. Jones, Daytona tfeacn, x., Dick Ferguson, Roanoke, Va., $20; Lester Martin, Mockvi e, $8; Tom- Urquhart, MocksviUe, U; andiBuddyGen Va., $9. Gentry uiu were thrown out again when they started to disrupt the meeting. The Communists then massed in front of the meeting hall and started to sing the Red anthem Internationale. " Police moved in with their nightclubs swinging and broke up the gathering. The Commu nists regrouped at a nearby sub way station and started singing again, and the police broke them up with another nightclub charge. ADN reported, but police did not confirm, that there was an other fight between police and Communists when about 100 Reds gathered in the American sector, formed a column and started marching through the streets singing the Internationale. Enough Evidence Is Not Available To Make Arrests ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 1. (UP) Gov. Herman Talmadge said today his Georgia Bureau of In vestigation does not have enough the murder of Negro Robert Mallard. When and if it obtains such information, and the local pro secutor at Lyons, Ga., feels that he has a strong enough case to take to court, "The GBI stands ready to make all such arrests as may be indicated," the gov ernor said. The investigation of the ambush-killing of the 37-year-old Negro, mortuary supplies sales man appeared to have bogged down. Sheriff R. E. Gray at Lyons, seat of Toombs county where Mallard was killed, said he was prepared to ask a grand jury for indictments against a number of white who may have been in volved. hundred Chinese and a sprink ling of American officials were on hand to greet her. But the welcome was shadowed by an almost tangible air of of ficial reserve . that contrasted sharply with the tumultuous re ception accorded China's first lady almost six years ago when she captured the nation with a dramalicc plea for help against the Japanese invaders of her homeland. This time, she is expected to ask for another billion dollars of American arms and economic supplies; for an all-out declara tion of support for Generalissimo Chiang, and for a top-rank Amer ican soldier to take command of the Chinese Communists. (The American Foreign Ser vice journal said today the Unit ed States has supplied $3,498,- 200,000 in aid to China since the start of World War II). Only Bull Is Content Finances Outpunch Touring Texans NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 1. (UP) The 26 cowboys and cowgirls who tried to bring Texas to Europe today sadly admitted that finances had out-punched them. Their bags and saddles were in hock, their animals were slaughterhouse-bound, and officials of three nations were picking over the remains. The Netherlands had joined the United States and Italy in trying to untangle the monetary knots which hogtieds Capt. Larry Sunbrock's touring Texas toupe. Tonight: Promoter Sunbrock was talk ing about financial matters at . . . Three, Kick! Three well-known students will provide an exhibition of "Tap Dancing f or Boy and Men" tomorrow afternoon . as an hors d'oeurre to a con ference sponsored by the North ' Carolina association for Health, Physical Education and Rec reation to be held here through the weekend. The three terpsichorean per formers are varsity- football players Sid Varney. Bob Mitten and "Twinkle.loes" Bel? Cox. Truman Receives Honorary Title From D. C. Board WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (UP) President Truman , got a new title today because he waits for a green light before crossing the street his way to work. It was "Honorary Pedestrian-of-the-week." The title was be stowed by the District of Colum bia Traffic Advisory board, which is conducting a pedestrian traffic safety drive. , "Your firm decision to wait faithfully for a green light before crossing Pennsylvania avenue demonstrates your . genuine in terest in the promotion of traffic safety," the board said in a letter to Mr. Truman. , ' The president is living at Blair house, across the avenue from the White House, until the ex ecutive mansion is repaired. Special traffic lights to stop all traffic when he crosses the street were installed at first, but after two days Mr. Truman ordered them discontinued. Now he waits for a green light like everybody else. Fog Bank-Moves Out of Britain; Goes to Germany LONDON, Dec. 1. (UP) The massive Europe-wide fog bank moved slowly, eastward late today, bringing Britain into the sunlight and burying Germany and Czechoslovakia under gloom 1,000 feet thick. British ports and airports buz zed with activity but the Berlin airlift was fogged out at 2 o'clock after 54 planes had landed 540 tons of supplies in the blockaded city. The center of the fog ap parently had moved to Praque, which was experiencing its mist iest night in history. Scattered areas of Britain at midnight passed their 117th con secutive foggy hour but a strong wind from the south was rapidly cleaning London.' Movies played to full houses for the first time in a week. Thousands of liners, launches, ferries and fishing smacks, fever ishly crisscrossed British harbors and airliners took to the air in swarms in an attempt to catch up on a huge passenger and freight backlog. Paris, Stockholm and Copenhagen prepared to re turn normal tomorrow. At Southhampton, the sun shone through the grey, choking mist that has hovered over most of Europe for more than four days, and the liners Quosu Eliza beth, Queen Mary and Aquitaniu sailed for North American ports. A Milanese financier named Giordano Sacchi was counting himself out the 700,000 lire (about $1,215) with which he said he financed the troupe's departure by request from Switzerland and its subsequent trip to Italy. Swiss police at the time said there had been a fracas in a local arena, and ordered the troupe out of the country. The Napoli hotel was holding the troupe's equipment and de manding 500,000 lire ($860) for room and restaurant bills. Nea politan publicity men were pres sing hard and master of ', cere ... ' . . - i- - UN Committee Adopts Plan For Palestine ' Group to Settle Boundary Lines PARIS, Dec. 1. (UP) The United Nations political commit tee tonight adopted the first parts of the American-supported Brit ish plan which would set up a commission to help Arabs and Jews negotiate their own boun daries in Palestine. Moving slowly toward a solu tion after three weeks of debate, the committee approved the first four out of 30 paragraphs of the British resolution creating a' con ciliation commission to promote final peace in the Holy Land. The committee however re fused to reaffirm last year's par tition boundaries, voting down an Australian proposal to make the original plan the "starting point"' of any UN effort to bring arabs and Jews to a settlement. The vote was 24 Jo 13 with 12 absten tions. Earlier, the United States, speaking out in support of Brit ain's new proposals, told Israel in effect that if it wants to keep conquered Western Galilee it might have to give up at least part of the Negev. The committee .adjourned at 11:30 tonight with the most im portant paragraphs still to be voted upon, but the trend appear ed to be toward approval of the British plan. Committee approval would virtually assure the plan a two-thirds majority in the gen eral assembly sometime during the remaining 10 days of this ses sion. " The' four" minor paragraphs adopted were in the preamble which recalled the UN has ap proved partition, noted the truce in the Holy Land and the medi ator's proposals for reviewing the original partition program. The original program awarded the Negev desert to the Jews. Dorm Check Lists Must Be Signed Men now living in University housing must indicate whether they wish to retain their rooms next quarter before Monday, the housing office warned yesterday. Managers of the dormitories have a list that must be signed by the individual students, or the room will be given to some one now on the waiting list, J. E. Wadsworth, housing officer said. The deadline for signing is next Monday. Mather Says Human Relations Will Meet Marxist Challenge Dr. Kirtley Fletcher Mather, delivering the second in his se ries of three John Calvin McNair lectures in Hill hall last night said that "to meet the challenge of Marxism is to demonstrate our loyalty to the democratic way of life by confidently trusting to its principles of human relations." Dr. Mather, noted authority on the relation of science and religion hadn't received a lire (about a fifth of a cent). Police said Sunbrock wanted to take his boys and girls to "Egypt or Spain" but the cows and horses had already been sold and then seized by police pending clarification of the matter. The purchasers, meantime, were de manding the animals or their money back. Not all the troupers were pure Texan. Three were from New Jersey and two of the cowgirls were Belgian. Only Sid, the unrideable Bulk was content. Big, tough and mean. Sid wag unsold, unwanted and Junior, Freshman hoose Washington, Ruffin By Herb Nachman Ed Washington from Kan- napolis took the presidency "of the junior class with 280 votes in Tuesday's general election. Washington was doubly en dorsed for the post by the Cam Draft Quota Reduction Is First Budget Slash WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (UP) Defense officials said today the draft cutback is only the first of several economy moves necessitated by President Truman's ceiling on military spending. They expressed belief that the : $15,000,000,000 budget set by the president is some $3,000,000,000 short of the amount needed to back up the nation's stop-Communism foreign policy. For lack of funds, the January draft call was cut in half to 10,000 men. The February call, pre viously expected to be 30,000, will be only 5,000. High-ranking officers point out that the new budget will actually amount to only $14,400,000,000. The remaining $600,000,000, they said, is earmarked for stockpiling strategic raw materials. These sources said this is what the $14,400,000,000 budget will buy: Air Force: 51 enlarged air groups instead of -the present 57 or the 70 the Air Force contends are necessary to provide the na tion with' air security. Army: Six divisions in battle readiness backed up by six Na tional Guard divisions',' instead of the 12 combat ready regulars and six National Guard units planned. ned. Navy: 770 naval craft includ ing only 12 fleet carriers, 278 combat ships and 480 other types. Only 8,000 combat planes instead of 14,500. One super-carrier. Defense officials feel they need at least a $17,600,000,000 budget. Even that, they said, would not give them everything they would like to have. Contrary to Mr. Truman, they don't believe such spending would put too great a strain on the civilian economy. Meanwhile, state Selective Ser vice directors met here to talk over draft problems with Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director. High on the list of topics for the three-day confer ence were expected to be the Army's curtailed draft calls and the question of deferments for men married just prior to induc tion. and professor of geology in Har vard university, declared, "The most effective answer to that challenge would be the thorough going, whole-hearted application of democracy in every aspect of American life." Dr. Mather will deliver his final lecture tonight at 8:30 in Hill hall, dealing with "Perspec tive for the Future," the third in the series of discussions on Religion in This Time of Crisis." Dr. Mather said that "to meet the challenge of Marxism intelli- I gently and therefore with real strength, it is necessary to per form the difficult task of distin guishing between the conflict of ideas concerning the organization of men into societies and the rivalry of the Soviet Union and flie United States as competitors for spheres of influence, for eco nomic -power and for military bases." . "The better reaction to the challenge of Marxism," he de Iared, "is a rediscovery of true Christianity, a deeper social consciousness that evokes a stronger sense of interdependence of men of all vocations and a humble desire to be of service t. " 1 T , .1 V - TJ pus and Student parties. He poll ed 50 votes more than his op ponent Charlie Smith, University party candidate. The other four UP candidates on the junior class slate went in with sizeable majorities. Dick Home Destroyed, Four Children Killed in Fire CHEROKEE, la., Dec. 1. (UP) Four children, ranging in age from eight months to four years, were burned to death today when fire destroyed their makeshift two-room on a farm near here. Cherokee firemen were, called but did not go to the fire be cause of a city ruling that they may not go beyond the city limits. They also said they did not real ize the seriousness of the fire. Today's victims were Michael, 4, Sharon, 3, Karen, 2, and Robert, eight months, children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Devall. Cause of the fire was not known, but Mrs. Devall "said she had been heating some water on a coal stove. She was having cof fee a short distance away at the home of her father-in-law, Fred Devall, when the fire started. , The children's bodies were found in the bedroom. Authori ties said the position of Michael indicated he had been trying to escape. Five other children were in school. Devall was at work on the farm. TMA Will Elect Group Officers Today at Meet The semi-annual election of officers for the Town Men's as sociation will be held this after noon at 4:30 in Roland Parker lounge of Graham Memorial, John Van Hecke, out-going pres ident of the group announced yesterday. Candidates running for offices are: For president, Nelson Taylor, Dave Sharpe and Skip Hoyle; for vice-president, Bob Padrick, Dan McGlaughlin, and George Rodman; for secretary, Dan Mc Glaughlin and John Taylor; for treasurer, Gran Childress, John Taylor and Bud Freeman. . Candidates running for the ex ecutive committee are Ralph Hebb, Skip Hoyle, J. C. Jordan, Harry Pendergraph and Jimmy James. Three members will be elected to the committee. Van Hecke pointed out that final plans will be made for the TMA party, to be held Friday night at the Terrace View sup per club. Costs of the party will be fifty cents and any TMA member is eligible to attend with or with out a date. Members who have cars and can furnish transportation to the 'party are requested to get in touch with Van Hecke at Gra ham Memorial. TMA representatives to join the University club and the Dance committee will also be elected at the meeting today. The positions were authorized in the campus election this week. The TMA won the seats with a 1,369 to 239 for the University club and 1,119 to 486 for the Dance committee Classes Boren was elected vice-president with 259 votes; Muriel Fisher, secretary, 264 votes; Bob Mont gomery, treasurer, 314 votes and Eleanor Young, social chairman, 298 votes. In the freshman class runoff, Dalton Ruffin from Fort Lauder dale, Fla. took the nod for the presidency over Davis Byrd, the CP candidate. Ruffin running as an independent, took 284 votes. Allen Tate (CP) took the secre tary's post with 225 votes; Joe Privott (CP) was elected treasur er with 226 vote's and Betsy Ross (UP) went in as social chairman with 192 votes. For the three positions open on the Women's Honor council, the following four coeds will battle it out in next Tuesday's runoff; Ann Chandler, with 157 votes; Sara Helen Epps, 98 votes; Barbara Lowe, 122 votes and Gussie Young, 103 votes. The Coed Senate runoff will see five candidates in the race for the four openings. They ate Julia Compton with 122 votes; Pat Denning, 93 votes; Muiel Fisher, 98 votes; Charleen Greer, 144 votes and Marie Nussbaum, 114 votes. Graham Believes Educational Aid Will Be Passed "I believe favorable action on federal aid to schools has a better chance of passing this Congress than ever before," sa;fV Preside n Graham ., yesterday after his re turn from Dallas,1 Texas, where he addressed a dinner session of the Texas State Teachers associa tion during the Thanksgiving holidays. Under the provisions of the federal aid bill, the money would be granted to the states and sub ject to local and state control. North Carolina's apportionment would be approximately $24,000, 000, wheh would go chiefly to ward increasing the salaries of teachers. Dr. Graham stated that the 5,000 to 6,000 teachers who met in Dallas are themselves actively supporting the bill. "I believe that the entire North Carolina congressional delegation will sup port the bill to provide for federal aid to education," said Dr. Gra ham. Virginia Urges Little More Tact RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 1. (UP) A little more tact, please, said the state Chamber of Com merce today to Virginia's traffic officers. Also some reasonableness and a little courtesy. In letters to every Virginia mayor, the chamber said, dom ing creates ill will faster or more permanently than unreasonable fines or bond requirements for minor traffic violations." Motorists have memories that could remind elephants, the chamber said, and they tome times brand communities and en tire states as speed traps. "If they feel they have been dealt with unjustly, they will never forget the incident and will give our state a black eye on all possible occasions," mourned the chamber. Durham Group Elects House to Position Chancellor Robert B. House was elected second vice-president of the Durham Executives club at a recent meeting in Dur ham. Other officers elected were C. C. Council, president; Eric L. Tilley, first vice-president; H. B. Belvin, secretary; and L. Stacy Weaver, treasurer. The club has been organized for only one year and has al ready exceeded its membership quota of 200 and has a -jv.g 4
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