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Chapel m ii EDITORIALS To a Car Owner No Comparison The Coffee Cup WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer. VOLUME LVII Marshall Quits; Acheson Made New Secretary Webb Takes Over Lovett's Position WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (UP) President Truman today ac cepted the resignation of . ailing Secretary of State George C. Marshall, named Dean Acheson to succeed him, and firmly squelched any idea the change in dicates a softer policy toward Russia. The 55-year-old Acheson, one of the architects of the "cold war" against the Soviet Union, imme diately promised to do his best to "carry out the President's poli cies" and to meet his "crushing re sponsibilities." The new secretary declined to discuss specific foreign issues at this time. But he stands four square behind the President's frequently-announced aim of work ing through the United Nations for eventual world peace. The far-reaching shift, enforced by Marshall's failing health, also brought the resignation of Under secretary of State Robert A. Lov ett who will be succeeded by Budget Director James E. Webb. Lovett has guided foreign policy during Marshall's frequent ab sences. Webb, who probably is closer to Mr. Truman than almost any other government official, also is a close friend of Atfheson. He will be succeeded by Frank Pace, Jr., now Assistant Chief of the Budget Bureau and a government career man. The resignations of the 68 year old Marshall and Lovett were timed for Jan. 20, the day Presi dent Truman is inaugurated -for his first elective term. Marshall, war-time Chief of Staff, has wanted to shed his heavy responsibilities for some (See ACHESON, Page 4) Maceyko Is Named Head of Sigma Chi Bill Maceyko was elected presi dent of the Sigma Chi fraternity at the last meeting spokesmen for the fraternity announced yesterday. Other officers elected were George Clark, vice - president; John Langley, secretary; Lee Keiger, treasurer; and Dixie Ward, pledge master. The new officers will serve until June. Outgoing president and vice president of the fraternity arc Lcn Butts and Jack Thompson, respectively. Officers for the pledge class are Ken Wright, president; Eddie Knox, secretary; and Alan John son, treasurer. Too Mony Bumps . . . Crescent Cops Clamp Down On Bourbon Street Strippers NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7. (UP) Superintendent of Police A. A. W;j Ucts summoned 50 French Quarter nightclub operators to a closed meeting today and warn ed them that Boubon street strip teasers are putting more into their bumps and grinds than the law allows. Wattcrs said they could either '"Strain the girls or the police vould. He said that not all night club operators are running "lewd Jnd lascivious" shows, but some fie to "frantically compete for diminishing dollars." He also prohibited: (1) Side i'ik barkers; (2) Signs "showing nude, semi-nude or suggestive Pictures, (3) Pennants across the fitreft "giving the impression of a ship in distress," and (4) Pander In taxicab drivers. "We don't want to make the Huarter a Boston Common, nor do U(' believe it is good community '"Ivcrtising to permit this area to d'-yeneiate into the atmosphere oi ''i cheap, noisy bawdy house," .said. "alters had hardly dismissed thc nightclub operators' meeting ben the State Alcohol Beverage Control board announced it had United Press , ' -f . iv la ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT TRUMAN made a special Irip to ihe home of Dr. Albert Miller, top camera artist, for ihe express purpose of having an inaugural portrait made, ihe Inauguration com mittee rejected ihe Miller phoio despite ihe President's "complete satisfaction" with it. Pictured at left is ihe Miller portrait originally selected as the inauguration photograph. Ai right is ihe U. S. Army Signal Corps phoio which ihe Committee has selected as the "official" picture. Dr. Miller has termed ihe affair "politics." Playmakers On Tour With 'Scandal' Show By Sam Hirsch Backing away from their scene shop in a big, shiny bus Thursday afternoon, the Carolina Playmakers began the first leg of their 40th tour with a production of Richard Sheridan's "The School For Scandal," which they opened in High Point that evening. Twpnfv vnntict artnrc frnm tVif Plans Are Made For Paper Drive By High School .Students of the Chapel Hill high, school will conduct a paper drive Sunday afternoon to ob tain money for the local recrea tion center, Roy B. Barham, adult chairman of the drive, said yesterday. Barham and Bill Bland, stu dent chairman, requested that all residents of Chapel Hill place any scrap paper in front 6f their homes-by 1:30 Sunday afternoon. Students using trucks furnished b'y the local merchants will pick up the paper. The paper drive Sunday will be the third collection of scrap paper that the students have made this year to obtain money" for the local recreation center which is maintained for high school students. All residents were urged to cooperate in the drive. served summonses against two Bourbon street establishments. Two policemen complained that a place called "Sloppy Joe's" had permitted Evelyn West, an enter tainer, to perform a "suggestive dance with a dummy." Miss West has been advertised in New Or leans newspapers as the "girl with (See INDECENT, page 4) Rendezvous Room Being Renovated; Other Changes Taking Place in GM While a few wise students re novated themselves with a bit of sleep during the holidays, Graham Memorial also received a facelifting job, with the aid of scrub brush and elbow grease. The ceiling of the main lounge, the entrance hall, and the Rendez vous have been restored, to their original shade of off-white, and operations are still under-way for the complete redecoratton of the Rendezvous room. The most useful part of the job, said Arnold Wilson, is the extension of the stage. University, plus the director, Harry Davis; the business man ager, John W. Parker, and the scenic designer, Lynn Gault, who is also acting, shared the roomy bus with the driver, lug gage, overcoats, last-minute bun dles, school books, and odds-and-ends of equipment, make-up, and props needed for their 10 day barnstorming trip to eight North Carolina towns and one stop at Spartanburg, S. C. They followed a large truck loaded with scenery and lighting equip ment which had started early that morning. Old timers, seeing the luxur ious streamlined coach and hap py players off, recalled "the good old days," when they tour ed with the late "Proff" Koch on old, shabby busses, so loaded down with scenery, electrical equipment, props, luggage and actors that the fenders practical ly scraped, the ground, and the entire expedition r resembled a Hollywood version of Steinr beck's version of the "Okies!" : Opening in High Point on Jan. 6, the trouping college players will subsequently take "The School For Scandal," called the wittiest play of the Restoration, to Gastonia on Jan. 7, Ashevillc Jan. 3, 5tatesville, Jan. 10, Spar tanburg, Jan. 11, Buie's Creek, Jan. 12, Wilmington, Jan. 13, Rocky Mount, Jan. 14, and Gojdsboro Jan. 15, thus complet ing the first tour the Carolina Playmakers have made since the war. Upstairs changes in the office arrangement include the parti tioning of a new room to house the travel agency. With its en larged office capacity, the agency has also extended its hours. The new room has been set up next door to the DTH business office. As added protection against fire hazards, five fire extinguishers have been placed at various points about the building. Di rector Bob Watson recently urged students to be more careful a bout disposing of their cigarettes in the building to cut down on the possibility of possible fires. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949 M7ner Wins Top Position Of Kivanians Follows Hogan As President Charles F. Milner succeeded W. S. Hogan as president of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis club at its regular "weekly meeting" iif-the" Carolina Inn. Other officers installed were Lonas Williams, secretary; Ken neth Putman, treasurer; and the following members of the Jpoard of directors: J. T. Gobbel, R. M. Gruman, Dr. John Riggsbee, T. A. Rosemond, F. E. Stroud, and R. S. Winslow. Dr. W. P. Richardson of Chapel Hill, retiring lieutenant governor of the fifth district, and Dan Rader of Graham, the new lieu tenant governor, officiated at the installation ceremonies. Sooner Students Hit Racial Segregation OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 7. (UP) Negro. and white students who picketed the state capitol to protest segregation in state col leges and universities charged to day that "separate but equal edu cation is a myth." The students, including 40 from Langston university for Negroes and three from the University of Oklahoma, were joined by stu dents, from Oklahoma A & M and Phillips at a meeting of the Okla homa Joint Equal Education com mittee after picketing yesterday. Late News Bulletins Airlift Plane Palestine Armistice ' BURTONWOOD, England, Jan. 7 (UP) Six persons were believed to have been killed tonight in the crash of an American C-54 airlift plane at Stakehouse fell in Lancashire. Jet Crashes MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 7. (UP) An Air Force F-80 jet fight er plane crashed and ex ploded today while perform ing at the opening of the Mi ami All-American air maneu vers, carrying its pilot to a flaming death. Walling Arrested WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (UP) FBI agents today ar rested John Benjamin Wall ing of Washington on charges that he was the "contact man" who arranged a sale of stolen Government guns to the Costa Rican government. NSA to Hold Foreign Tours Next Summer Trips in Europe Planned for 500 Two low-cost student tri-na-tion tours of England, Holland and France scheduled to begin in July are now .being planned for the coming summer by the International Commission of the United States National Student association. The Harvard University- Rad cliffe college NSA sub-commis sion, in charge of the tours, has reported that the six-week tour will cost each student approxi mately $550. Operated by the NSA with the cooperation of the British, Dutch and French national unions of students, the tours will be non profit with the aim of enabling students to carry on studies in their own fields and meet in ternational students with similar interests. The tour will be split into two groups, one a general interest group of about 45 'students, the other more specialized group con sisting of those interested in art, socio - economic problems and general interests. Because of the unexpected flood of applications for last year's tours, the capacity of this year's two tours will be approximately 500. Students interested in this year's tour should contact Don Shropshire, chairman of the NSA campus committee, who will sup ply them with additional infor mation and forward their appli cations to the Radcliffe college ' NSA office. By passing over the usual tourist accomodations in an ef fort to make the tour worth while, American students will come into direct contact with foreign students and their fami lies. Pan-Hel Council To Adopt Child The Pan-Hellenic council will adopt a foreign child through the Foster Parents for War Child ren, Ferne Hughes, president of the council, announced yester day. At the meeting held last Wed nesday, plans were discussed for raising the money to support the child for one year. Under this plan the five soror ities will be responsible for the financial support of the child chosen ' by the Foster Parents for War Children and will send their collected contributions to supply food, clothing, medical aid, and education at a special school for displaced children. The annual Pan-Hellenic dance, which will be held Sat urday, March 26, will be a bene fit dance to raise funds for the adoption. LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y:, Jan. 7 (UP) Palestine Med iator Ralph J. Bunche pro posed today that Israel and Egypt begin their armistice talks on the Island of Rhodes by Wednesday. Government Agrees WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP) The Government tcday agreed to finance a $7,590,000 dollar power line project to bring low-cost electricity to farmers in most of South Car olina. Negro Voting MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 7 (UP) Negroes received another boost toward equal voting rights in the South today when a three-judge Federal court held unconstitutional Alabama's "Boswell Amend ment" requiring voters to ex plain the State Constitution. Phone Courf Upholds Segregation In Chapel Hill Bus Incident Men Convicted For Breaking Seating Laws RALEIGH, Jan. 7. (UP) The North Carolina Supreme court to day upheld the' state's public car rier segregation law today in a case brought by two white men and two Negroes. The court upheld the conviction of Andrew S. Johnson and Bay ard Rustin, Negroes, and Igal Roodenko and Joseph A. Felmont. They had appealed from two low er courts where they were found guilty of sitting together on an intrastate bus. The four were brought into court in Chapel Hill in April, 1947, after they refused to obey a busdnver who ordered them off an express bus bound from Raleigh to Charlotte. The driver, Ned Leonard, testi fied that Johnson and Felmont had taken seats together in the front of the bus. When they re fused to move apart he went for a police officer, Leonard said. On returning he found that Rustin and Roodenko also were sitting together. Roodenko, only defense wit ness who appeared in the case, ar gued that they were en route from Danville, Va., and that the Interstate Commerce commission ruling against segregation applied to the case. Chief Justice W. P. Stacy point ed out that the driver told the men they were on the wrong bus and offered to change their tick ets, but they refused.. ' - - Roodenko's attorneys also con tended that the North Carolina law was written to apply only to public carriers operating within cities. That argument, said Tracy, was "without merit." Roodenko denied in the Su preme court hearing that they made the trip expressly to test the law, though Stacy said it ap pearejj to be a test case. He listed his home as New Jer sey, and said he was in the South as a representative of the "Fel lowship of Reconciliation" work ing "to promote better under standing between the Negro and white races." Western States To Get New Blow CHICAGO, Jan. ' 7. (UP) A new. storm headed for Montana and Wyoming today on the heels of a great western blizzard that left 18 persons known dead and killed countless numbers of live stock. Weather forecasters said, how ever, the new blow would be milder than the blizzard and bring lighter snow. It was moving down from Can ada to invade Montana and Wy oming late today. Colorado, a state hard hit in the blizzard, was expected to feel the new blow tomorrow night. Forecasters said the weather generally was fair over the coun try. In the Midwest and plains states a "heat wave" sent the mercury soaring to as high as 50 degrees. TMA, Plans New Membership Drive; Officers Are Elected at Last Meeting Publicity for the present mem bership drive, election of several club officers and the adoption of a new order of business for future meetings featured the meeting of the Town Men's association Wed nesday afternoon. Attendance was termed as "good" in response to the 500 letters sent during the past week to men living in town. . Plans were completed to have representatives of the TMA on hand at the Y during the hours 8:30 to 1 o'clock Monday through Wednesday of next week when new members will be signed up. In the election for treasurer F-3371 F-3361 Banks Talley Elected To CP Chairmanship Banks Talley, junior from Bennettsville, S. C, was unani mously elected chairman of the Campus party Wednesday night. Talley, 1 a history major and member of the Student legisla ture, succeeds Jack Worsham of Ruffin as head of the party. The post of vice-chairman went to Johnnie O'Neal, a junior from Middlesex and also a mem ber of the Student legislature. He succeeds Ellis Hall in that post. Davis Byrd, freshman from Goldsboro, was elected as secre tary. Byrd, who was a candidate for the presidency of the fresh man class in the November elec tions, succeeds Eloise Jacobi. . Re-elected to the pest of party treasurer was Anies Daye, a jun ior from Winston-Salem. Daye ran for the Student legislature and the position of secretary for the junior class in the recent elections. Harris Evans, freshman from Henderson, was re-elected as SDA Discusses Proposed Meet On Civil Rights Discussions for a Civil Rights conference to be conducted by Students for Democratic action were introduced to the group, meeting in Graham Memorial Thursday night. The proposed project would bring together various groups of students from other universities. The meeting place would prefer ably be at Chapel Hill, however, there will be further discussions on the matter. Subject matter and the nature of the conference will also be chief factors in plan ning the meeting. Nominations for 'the position of chairman of the group was postponed until the next meet ing. Bob Lindsay, named to suc ceed Charlie Sellers as chairman, announced his resignation at the meeting last night. Not the Custom . . . Strange Writing Holds Up Professor En Route Here By Mike McDaniel Holding in his hand u photo stat of what might have been copies of subversive literature in cipher, the customs officer at the docks in New York growled, "I can't read this!" A heavy English accent, belonging to Charles J. Sisson, distinguished pale ographer and Lord Northcliffe professor of Modern English at the University of London, an swered frankly, "Of course you can't!" Dr. Sisson obligingly translated. (By the way, a pale ographer is a man who can read Ralph Hebb was given the po sition, replacing Bud Freeman, who resigned. In a contest for University club representative from TMA, John Van Heck de feated two opponents for reelec tion to the post. The meeting adjourned after a resolution was adopted to co operate with the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Chapel Hill and Carrboro in a move to improve restaurant facilities of the two towns. A representative of the JC's will be present at the Thurs day' meeting of the association to discuss further plans for cooperation. NUMBER 70 i!" 'C BANKS TALLEY publicity chairman of the party. Talley is also president of the Chi Psi pledge class and secre tary of the Carolina forum. Baptists Secure Guest Speakers For Programs James Street, Norman Cordon, George Kelsey and Paul Green will be gxiest speakers for the Baptist supper forum's January programs the forum -said yester day. "Religion Speaks Through Many Voices" will be the theme for the month. Street, first of the speakers will discuss "Religion and Liter ature" Sunday night at 6 o'clock. Metropolitan Opera star Norman Cordon, now living in Chapel Hill, will speak Jan. 16 on "Re ligion and Music." On Jan. 23 George Kelsey, well-known Negro educator, will discuss the . "Negro's Contribu tion to the Arts." Paul Green, last of the speakers will speak Jan. 30 about drama in connec tion with religion. Don Shropshire and William Koehnline are co-chairmen of the program committee. ancient writings, inscriptions, and can figure out where they came from and when and by whom, sometimes, they were written.) After two hours with customs, Dr. Sisson succeeded in convinc ing them that the strange writ ings were copies of original man uscripts recently discovered, and were on their way with him (as a letter from Chancellor R. B. House indicated) to Chapel Hill, where they would form the prin cipal materials for a seminar this winter in Elizabethan Literature. Dr. Sisson and his wife, living now at the Carolina inn, have made several visits to the United States, but he says what with customs and the blizzard in New York, he never had such a hard time getting in. He was very eager to come to the University, as he is an old friend of Dr. Hardin Craig, at whose request he came here. Also, much of the material he has discovered pertains to colon ial America, particularly the South. Students taking English 310, will be given these photostats to decipher, and then they will write articles concerning them which Dr. Sisson hopes to in corporate into a book on these new discoveries. Among the manuscripts are some interesting new facts on dramatist George (See SISSON, page 4) ' ' " ' &mm mil t ,
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