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LTE3?.?7 (Parlo ileal ; Dept. ) Vmvarsiv.j o: .-oris. 'Jil" Chapel Hill, C. EDITORIALS 4 WEATHER Advice Still Applies Test Service Ready Playmaker Review Fair and not much change in temperature VOLUME LVII United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 61 If-' Mumford Says World War III To End Planet Architect Delivers Hill Hall Address "The destruction started by the World War II will be finish ed all over the planet by the third world war," Lewis Mum ford, internationally known arch itect and city planning critic, declared Friday night before an audience of about 200 in Hill hall. Mumford is serving as visiting lecturer at the North Carolina Slate college School of Design. Following his lecture on "Met ropolitism versus Regionalism," Mumford expanded his "predic tion" of another great world struggle, saying "There is not a possibility but rather a proba bility of a third world war if we do not exert heroic efforts to avoid war." He blamed this pos sibility on the world's present mode of living. Defining metropolitism as an "attitude of mind," a name for forces that have been dominant in political economic life since the 16th century, Mumford startl ed his audience with the view that "metropolitan civilization . . . as a result of war, of bombing, is already in a visible state of disintegration. For example look at the bombed cities of the world, Berlin, London, Paris and Munich, to mention a few." ' UVA Party Draws Capacity Crowd A capacity crowd waded through the mud and rain Friday night to attend the University VcicTtiua cscx-icilio.T ""Christmas party in the UVA club house. The party began at 8 o'clock and lasted until 12. Everything except cigarettes was on the house, and John Eason and Al lan Cannon did a land office busi ness at the refreshment stand. Santa Claus, alias Jim Ches nutt, conducted the drawing for the door prizes. Door prize win ners were Ruth Moore, Dick Moore, Nancy Montgomery, Stew art Pierce, Harry Pendergraft, Barbara Thomas, Helen Faucett, and Pat Jordan. Late News Bulletins Rocked by Quake LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. (UP) Southern California was rocked from Ventura to San Diego today by a stronger but far less damaging earthquake than the one which wrecked Long Beach in 1932. Volcano Feared MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1. (UP) --The commander of the ;irthquakc-shaken Pacific pe u;il colony "f Islas Marias cx. pr's.sed fear tonight that a vol r.'uio may be jtbuut to emerge lrni the ocean near the islands whirl) have registered 33 tnnblui-b in the past 24 hours. r 1 Commander Killed CAIHO. Dec. 4.--(UP; -Police Commander Zelim Zaki IVsIm was killed by a bomb when weeklong student dem onstrations erupted into bloody riots, it was ollicially announc ed tonight. Makes Charges WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. UI')-A congressional com mittee sta.T report charged to night that the Marshall plan iias failed to bring about-economic unification of western Europe. To Expose Thieves WASHINGTON, ' Dec. 4. UP) House Communist spy hunters said today they know ho stole a newly-found cache of top government secrets and vill expose the thief or' thieves ::. hcui-i:-i, utarti:i Tuesday. ;-::Wrx-x-ic.v t s i w L i riy.,,,,, j HAL SHADWELL (left) as "Joseph Surface" and Mac Shaw as "Charles Surface" -appear in the for Scandal." which will be presented for the last lime here in the Playmaker theater at 8:30 tonight. Last Performance Playmaker Show Scheduled Tonight The Carolina Playmakers' sec ond major production of the sea son and 40th touring play, "School for Scandal," will be presented in the Playmaker theater for the last time tonight at 8:30. "School for Scandal," directed by Harry Davis, has played to full houses on each of its original ly scheduled performance nights, but John W. Parker said yester day that tickets for tonight's ex tra performance would be avail able. .. The play .will be taken on tour' by the Playmakers during Janu ary. The troupe will give perform ances in eight North Carolina towns and in Spartanburg, S. C. It is the first play to be toured by the Playmakers since 1941. Costumes for the production are by Irene Smart, and the 18th century style settings were de signed by Lynn Gault. NSA Starts Drive To Educate DP's The National Student associa tion of the United States has be gun a drive to enable displaced persons to attend American col leges next fall, association officers announced yesterday. The NSA has been assigned the task of. finding housing, part time jobs for self-support, and scholarships or tuition-waivers for DP students by the president's commission for administration of public law 774. The NSA sub-commission at Harvard university is in charge of the program ana nas ocgun sending instructions to the 205 NSA member colleges and uni versities on how to arrange for the DP s at their msiuuuou.s. The NSA committee on cam pus, composed of Don Shropshire, clKtirman, Barbara L.owe, ovu .... -. -.. ' ...:n Jones, and Al Jbowensicin, wm meet in January to make plans to have some of the DP students admitted to the University. Group Announces New Fellowships The Henry Fellowships for 1949 50, grants of 000 pounds (about $2400) for five American stu dents to study in English uni versities, were announced yester day by the American committee of management for the Charles and Julia Henry fund. Open to both men and women, the fellowships provide for a year's study at either Oxford or Cambridge university. Recent college graduates and students graduating from American col leges this spring will receive pref erence in the selection. Applications must te submitted on or before February 15, 1949 to the office of the secretary of Yale university or the secretary to the corporation of Harvard university. Playmaker production of "School Oldest Graduate Sends Ball Team Congratulations Judge George McCorkle of Tuscaloosa, Ala., oldest living graduate of the University, took time out on the eve of his 91st j birthday to write the Alumni office. "I send my congratulations," he said, "to the University andquarter hours are pro-rated, her fine ball team and its cap-' These courses receive half the ture of the honor of being dis ignated to meet an honorable opponent at the great Sugar bowl event m New Orleans the first of January, next." Judge McCorkle was 91 Nov. 30, three days after on an - nouncement was made that North Carolina would meet the Uni versity of Oklahoma in the Sugar bowl classic. He is a native of Newton, but has made his home with a daughter in Ala bama for the past two years. He was graduated at Chapel Hill in 1887, 70 years ago, and for 25 years before his retire ment in 1944 was an attorney with the Federal Trade com mission in Washington. At commencement last June Judge McCorkle was given rous ing applause when presented at the annual alumni luncheon. Ervin Soys Red Name-Calling Is Libel in Moot Court Case By Sally Woodhull' Justice S. J. Ervin of the. .North Carolina Supreme court, sitting on the case of Hannah versus Chambers, yesterday handed down a decision to the effect that calling a man a Communist is libelous per se. Jack Chambers, sophomore I fronj Ashevillc, who had been charged with writing a letter naming William Hannah ' as. among other things, a Commun ist, was found guilty of libel and ordered to pay to Hannah $1500 compensatory damages by a jury of undergraduates and towns people. Staged by Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity before a crowd of nearly 200 in Manning hall, the trial was run as nearly like an actual as possible. Neither attorneys, witnesses, nor general public knew that the facts of the case had been pre-arranged until after the trial when J. W. Alex ander, justice of the fraternity, announced that each event lead ing to the charges had been planned. . A counter suit brought by Chambers against Hannah on charges of assault and battery re sulting from an alleged alterca tion following Hannah's receipt of the letter was postponed to the next session of "court" be cause of insufficient time. Jesse Sigmon and Norwood Robinson, attorneys for the plain tiff, submitted a letter to the edi tor of the Daily Tux Heel vrittea. Point System : Is Released By Dean Wells Formula for Use In Final Grades William Wells, dean of College of Arts and Sciences, yesterday released the formula for calcu lating averages as approved by the faculty at Friday's meeting. To be eligible for graduation, a student enrolled before Sep tember, 1947, must secure a grade of C or higher on at least half of his work. A student first en rolled in or after September, 1947, must secure an overall average of C or better in order to graduate. The formula for calculating averages is as follows: The grade of A on a full course, one of five or six ouarter-hours veilds 3 I grade points; B, 2 points, C, 1 point; D's F's E's I's, and absences yield no points. A student s average is com puted by dividing the total num ber of courses taken at the Uni versity for a specified degree into the total number of grade points earned by those courses. If the result of this division is 1.0, the average is C; if it is 2.0, the average is B. Transfer students on or after September, 1947 must make an overall average of "C" on the work taken here at the Univer sity. Grades secured before enter ing the University do not count toward the required C average. Half courses of less than five quality rating of a full course. Wells said the change in re- quirements for graduati0n were long overdue. He said it was necessary to bring the University' in line with other schools of ' , 1 3 ! - MUc" atuuuiiii; ctuu repuictuoil. RIL Week Planners To Meet With House University students working on plans for Religion-in-Life week will meet this afternoon at 3:30 in the home of Chancellor R. B. House. Reports will be given on the progress made by the various committees, and suggestions will be made for bettering the outline for the week. Religion-in-Life week will be held Jan. 24-27. by Chambers Oct. 25, which charged Hannah with being "a confirmen Communist ... a pro fessed atheist ... a subversive worm which burrows in our midst" and with having no "mor al code." Although Chambers admitted having written the letter, his at torneys. J. A. Jones, Herbert Small and Maurice Braswcll, at tempted to prove that the letter could not have damaged the plaintiff, since it was never pub lished in the Daily Tar Heel, and was read only by Jeeter Pritch (See MOOT, page 4) Red Armies Reported to Be Retreating In Battle Above Nanking, Shanghai NANKING, China, Sunday, Dec. 5. (UP) Communist ar mies were reported falling back under heavy attack all along the Huai river front above threaten ed Nanking and Shanghai today, but the Reds claimed to have en circled 104,000 Nationalist troops farther north. Nanking's new military com mander, meantime, took drastic steps to halt the flight of essen tial officials from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's imperilled capital. The cabinet supported him by ordering a 400 per cent increase in railway fares for un official refugees. A national defense ministry cma:r.uiiitiue bcud 10 Cyauavuust G lee Club Concert Scheduled Tonight Tonight's Christmas concert of the combined Men's and Women's Glee clubs was reported sold out yesterday, as students and townspeople continued to flock to the Hill hall box office for tickets to the Tuesday night performance. rJ l C if PL y. 4 fill A PAUL YOUNG Hill Hall Claims Christmas Tree Largest in Town By Jim Dickinson The gigantic Christmas tree which now enhances the lobby of Hill hall will soon hold on its branches some 450 ornaments bearing names of members of the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs for 1948-49. Approximately 300 of the names belong to students of this year's glee clubs who tonight and Tuesday will give their annual Christmas concert under the di rection of the music department. Some 150 names from last year's glee clubs were placed on the tree as starters, with names of this year's group being added daily. The huge cedar tree stands di rectly in the center of the Hill hall lobby and towers some 30 feet through the circualr space which leads to the sky-light of the second story. The tree has a diameter of about 15 feet at the base. Members of the music depart ment claim that theirs is the "largest Christmas tree in Chapel Hill," besides serving as a cradle for the ornamented signatures of a host of altos, tenors, sopranos, and basses. Credit for bringing the tree in to captivity goes to two tenors of the Men's Glee club, Bob Hurley and Lanier Davis, who went deep into the forest, ' cut down the mammoth cedar, and dragged it back to the campus. Then eight men from the University build ings department built a base for the tree and installed it in Hill hall. Glee club member's names have been inscribed on orna mented tricycles, deer, dolls, bells and other colorful figures. These hang from the tree's branches and supplement the lighting sys tem of 25 strings of bulbs. The department plans to have a yearly departmental Christmas tree, exhibiting the names of old members of the Men's and Wom en's Glee clubs. columns roughly 100,000 men were withdrawing northwestward from the rail hub of Pengpu, 100 miles north of Nanking, under heavy pressure from reinforced Nationalist forces. The communique also confirm ed that Nationalist forces "volun tarily abandoned the government base of Suchow, 200 miles north of Nanking Friday and are fight ing their way south, slashing into the rear of Red forces on the Huai river front. The Communist radio in north Shensi claimed Communist ar mies have trapped 104,000 Na tionalist troops under Gen. Huang Wei in a tightening ring south- cwt Of SCOtv'. The combined clubs, under the direction of Paul Young, are climaxing a full quarter's prac tice today in their fifth annual Christmas concert. To add to their traditional program the clubs will sing a group of ever popular carols chosen from the many requested in previous sea sons. The program, scheduled for 8:30 tonight, will lead off with the Women's Glee club singing the "Stabat Mater" of Pergolesi. The men's group will follow with a set of four short religious works appropriate to the Christ mas season. Palestrina's "Credo" from the "Pope Marcellus Mass," sung by the combined clubs, will round out the first half of the program. After the intermission, the clubs will sing eight popular carols. The program will con clude with a group of six carols of foreign lands, in which Bar bara Young, soprano, Carl Perry, tenor, and baritones John von Canon and Milton Bliss will be featured as soloists. Summer Program Being Expanded Between Nations British universities, in coopera tion with the Institute of Inter national Education, New York, and the British council, are ex panding their program of summer schools for overseas students in 1949. Nine universities are arranging schools for the next year, and as they have for the past two years the schools will all run from July 10 to Aug. 20. The courses will range over a wide field covering studies of English social life, Eng lish literature, democratic gov ernment in Britain, British indus trial development, town planning, modern European civilization and ancient Greece. Held in various parts of England and Scotland, the schools will afford opportuni ties for American students to see much of 'Britain. Courses are intended primarily for graduates and teachers who have made previous study in the subjects offered, but in some cases undergraduates in their junior or senior years, with good academic records; will be able to attend. Durham Club Plans Meeting Tomorrow The Durham-Carolina club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Gerrard hall to elect officers for the coming year. Plans for the Durham Christ mas dance will also be made. Club spokesmen said all students from the Durham area were urged to attend the meeting. YWCA Campus Affairs Group To Discuss Coed Government The Campus Affairs committee of the YWCA will discuss "Wom en's Government Association versus Integrated Student Gov ernment" tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Y, Anne Wells, chairman, announced yesterday. The committee will discuss the position of the coed in student government and how coeds can cooperate in student government. Twig Branch, Fran Angas, Hel en Boulding, Edie Knight, and Mrs. M. H. Stacy, former dean of women, will lead Monday's dis cussion. Julie Compton, in charge of compiling questionnaires on student government in other State universities, and Page Dees, in charge of programs, will be pre sented as co-chairman of the group for the winter quarter. Other meetings at the same time Monday afternoon include FOOTBALL ROUNDUP Scores Notre Dame 14. Southern Cat. 11. Alabama 55, Auburn Clemson 20, Citadel 0 Hampton 20. Wilberforcc 19 Allen 6, Shaw 3 Bishop 33. Wiley 13 N. C. college 6. A. & T. college 6 Evansville 13. Missouri Valley 7 (Re frigerator bowl) Toledo 27, Oklahoma City 14 (Glass bowl) N. C. All-Stars 7. S. C. All- Stars 7 (Shrine bowl) SC Trojans Mar Record of Irish With 14-14 Tie LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. VP) As their immortal predecessors of 1931 had done before them Southern California's Trojans turned Notre Dame's football supermen into mere mortals to day, putting on a last period two-touchdown rally to score a magnificent 14 to 14 tie, ending the longest winning streak in Irish history at 21 games. And though victory was not theirs it might have been but for the indomitable spirit of the Irish, who roared back to score a final tying touchdown in the last minute of the ball game after Southern California had gone ahead, 14 to 7 with just two minutes to go. Even though the Irish lost much pf their lustre by failing to cope with the 21 -point South ern California underdogs as they had all of the other opponents on their schedule for more than two seasons, they proved con clusively that the legendary spirit of Notre Dame is no small factor. For when they faced defeat in that last fateful moment, they had the wherewithal to salvage at least a tie. Clemson Cops Crown, Perfect Grid Season CHARLESTON, S. C, Dec. 4. (UP) Clemson's Gator-bowling Tigers wrapped up their first perfect season in 48 years today with a 20 to 0 rout of little Citadel and a skittering halfback named Ray Mathews engineered a personal coup. Mathews scored every touch down to run his season's total to 78 points, shading North Caro lina's Charlie Justice as Southern conference scoring champion. The victory gave Clemson the Southern conference title. Had the Tigers lost, North Carolina with only a tie marring the record would have claimed the crown. Shrine Bowl Stars Fight to Deadlock CHARLOTTE, Dec. 4. (UP) Bogged on the ground by a soggy Memorial stadium turf, high school all-stars from North and South Carolina battled to a 7 to 7 tie today in the 12th annual Shrine bowl game. meetings. Emily Baker, chairman of the public affairs committee, announces a talk by Sam McGill on China. Chairman Faith Adams of the careers committee will open discussion on the coed party. And the social service com mittee, headed by Lil Hotard, will make plans for two Christ mas parties, one for the Negro community center in Carrboro and the other for children in the ballet class. . The Human Relations commit tee will adjourn to Damacus school on Wednesday to teach handcraft to the school children. The committee is also planning a Christmas party for school chil dren in conjunction with Univer sity fraternities and sororities. Each fraternity or sorority mem ber will be asked to contribute toys, candy, clothes, or the equiv- Council Plans To Be Formed At Meet Today Group To Work For All Schools By Sam McKeel Student representatives from the three branches of the Great er University will meet here to day to discuss plans for the Greater University Student council. With two sessions behind them, the group is striving to make plans for meeting with state rep resentatives during the Christmas holidays. These meetings would be on an individual basis with all students contacting as many representatives as possible. The council under proposal would work for the benefit of all schools involved. Meeting three times a year, it would try to iron out mutual difficulties and discuss different phases of student gov ernment. Jess Dedmond, president of the student body, explained yester day that such a council might to some extent standardize student government proceedings and en hance the social life of the Uni versity, North Carolina State col lege, and Woman's college". The idea for the council arose from a meeting with State col lege representatives in an at tempt to stamp out pre-game vandalism. Comptroller W. D. Carmichacl will talk to the group on tlx; feasibility of such a plan. Present at the meeting will be the presidents of the three stu dent bodies, Dedmond, Martha Fowler of W.C., and Fred Ken dall of State. Mountain Gifts Slated for Sale Handwoven linens, hand made jewelry, pottery, and other ar ticles of native craft from th; Smoky Mountains will be on salo Tuesday at the annual Arrow craft sale at the Pi Beta Phi house, 109 Hillsboro street. Benefiting the Pi Beta Phi set tlement school at Gatlinburg, Tenn., the sale is held each year under the direction of the Alum nae club. Mrs. W. E. Caldwell is in charge of the sale for the alumnae, with the assistance of Molly Blackburn from the chap ter. The settlement school, first al truistic project undertaken by any national fraternity or soror ity, was founded in 1912, and in cludes a fully staffed school through high school in addition to craft workshops, stores, and an inn. The sale will be conducted at the local chapter house from 9:30 to 5:30, and is designed to pro vide an opportunity for Christ mas shopping. In addition to pur chases of the articles on display, orders will be taken for future de livery. Students Offered Travel Aid Abroad Faculty members and student:; planning to travel abroad to study in foreign countries can receive travel aid and informa tion from the newly-established Educational Travel division of the American Express company. The new travel division is headed by Dr. B. W. Van Riper, scholar and world-traveler, and is designed to aid people travel ing abroad each year for foreign study. Advice on scholastic re quirements, fees, academic cal enders, dormitory space, and other questions can be answered by the Travel division. The American Express com pany has prepared a booklet en titled "To Study Abroad," which may be obtained at any office
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