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;aroiuia Chapel Hill, 11 C. 1-31-49 VOLUME LVII United Press CHAPEL HILL, N.,C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1949 WEATHER: Partly cloudy and colder. NUMBER 88 TD To P For Mid The German club announced yesterday that Tommy Dorsey, orchestra leader turned disc jockey turned orchestra leader, will return to the campus on Feb. 11 and 12 to play for two dances and a concert during the Winter Germans. , ii i ii . ii f ) V - ' -T,,-wmm ' ... TOMMY DORSEY. lhe senti smenial genlleman himself, is returning io lhe campus lo play for the Midwinter Ger mans. German club officials say that Tommy promises to be a good boy this time. Military Ball Will Be Held In GM Tonight The first annual formal military ball to be staged by the Air ROTC unit will be held tonight in the main lounge of Graham Memorial from 8:30 until 12 o'clock, Cadet Lt. C. B. Menden hall, special services officer for the unit-announced -yesterday. A feature of the dance will be the selection of "Miss Honor ary Cadet Colonel" from among the wives and dates of the at tending cadets. The winner of the contest will be awarded an orchid and be a special guest of honor at a formal review of the unit later in the year, Menden hall said. A full program of entertain ment is being planned for the cadets and their wives and dates during the day. Included in the program will be the showing of a film, "Combat America," at 3:30 this afternoon in Roland Parker lounges 2 and 3. The film is in color and is the story of the flying fortress crews of the 351st Bombardment group. The picture opens with the group's training at a field in Colorado and follows them from there to actual combat over Germany. The picture was filmed by Maj. Clark Gable for the Air Force. The dance will begin im mediately following the recep tion which will be held from 8:30 until 9 o'clock. NORTH STATE ROUNDUP Dimes Stolen DURHAM, Jan. 28 (UP) Two thefts involving March of Dimes funds were reported to day by Johnny Forlines Jr., general chairman of Durham's 1949 campaign, and a third theft was reported by police. School Sham THOMASVILLE, Jan. 28 (UP) City School Superinten dent Charles F. Carroll of High Point said today that North Caro lina's highly-rated rural school transportation system was a sham. Creech Executed RALEIGH, Jan. 23 (UP) His last-day pleas for Clemency ignored, James R. Creech, 37, son of a wealthy tobacco grower, went to his death today in the Central prison gas chamber. Body Identified ELIZABETHTOWN, Jan. 28 (UP) Police today identified the body found in the House river Wednesday as. that of David James Andres, 35, of Near Ivan-hoe. lay He re inters I Bob MacMillan, German club president, said the Friday night dance will be from 9 until 1 o'clock and the Saturday night affair will be from 8 o'clock until midnight. Both dances are formal, he said. The concert will he held Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Memorial hall. The two-hour program will feature vocalists Lucy Ann Polk, Denny Dennis and the "Sentimentalists." Presently, Tommy Dorsey has one of the top dance bands in the country. He has gained high honors in annual polls conducted by "Metronome," "Downbeat" and in "Billboard," magazines. This will be Dorsey's second appearance in Chapel Hill. In November of 1946 his orchestra played for the Duke weekend Grail dance. The well-known bandmaster was sued by the Grail for $20,000 for breach of contract on grounds that he did not bring his full orchestra to the campus. The Grail said at the time that relations with Dorsey dur ing the weekend were "not too good." German club officials said yesterday, however, that Dorsey was being very, cooperative and sincerely wished for a fair second chance at the University. Commies Charge 'Leaflet Bombing' . NANKING, Jan. 28 (UP) The Communists today accused the government of using leaflet raids to mask "shameless and continuous" bombing of Commun ist territory. A Communist radio broadcast renewed the onslought on "re actionary" Nationalist peace of fers, charging that government planes mixed bombs with peace pamphlets in recent raids over Red-held cities and towns. The broadcaster listed Tsinan, Suchow and Lanfeng, points south of Peiping, and unnamed towns in northern Ankhel pso vincc as scenes of "peace bomb ings." "On one hand, the . . . reac tionary government calls for peace," the broadcast said. "On the other hand, they are shame lessly and continuously bomb ing liberated areas. This act has aroused the wrath of the people of the liberated areas." Meanwhile, the government pressed for truce talks and Red armies advanced farther south ward toward this capital. It ap peared that the future of China, peace or continued war, might be decided in a matter of days. Training Officer Will Be Absent Wilson Honcycutt, public law 16 veterans training officer, will not be in his office in Peabody hall Monday. However, he will resume his regular office hours Wednesday. Playwright Says 'Pinafore' By Sam Hirsch "I saw my first Gilbert and Sullivan opera in Boston when I was eight years old," said Wal ter Pritchard Eaton, distinguished author, critic and playwnght currently teaching playwriting with the Carolina Playmakers. "It was with my sister," he went on, "who was all of two and a half years older than I. We were seeing the first Mikado company in this country, and I laughed and jumped in my seat , so much that she tried . to restrain me, proper Boston lady that she was. She was mortified, when an old dignified man, with a long, white W Federal Aid Is Discussed By UNC,Elon Plans Are Laid For Next' Debate The University varsity debate team and the Elon college squad met in non-decision debate Thurs day, discussing the subject, "Re solved: that the federal govern ment should equalize education in tax-supported schools by means of annual grants." Herb Mitchell and Paul Roth took the affirmative, opposing the Elon negative team of Bill Wilkins and Kenneth T. Jacobs. Mrs. Mary C. Engstrom, Debate council advisor, rendered a thorough criticism of both teams. Plans were made for a return decision debate to be held at Elon, February 17. At the same time, a non-decision freshman debate will be held with the Elon freshman squad. The freshman team is still in the embryo stage and members of the squad are in the process of being selected. Tryouts are scheduled to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3:35 in Graham memorial. The varsity debate team re cently finished a northern swing. During this tour, the team was described by experts as "out standing." The Debate council program began in October with the in tramural debate tournament. The tournament was won by Hurshell Keener and Charles Dixon, af firmative team, representing Old East dormitory. All debates this year have been on the topic of federal aid in tax-supported schools. The varsity squad opened its season with a . non-decision meet with the University of Virginia. At Georgetown university, the university negative team won in debate, with Paul Roth selected the best speaker of the eight present. Following the Georgetown meet, the squad moved to the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia university. Completing the successful northern swing, the University's affirmative team won over Boston university's negative, at the same time their affirmative defeating our nega tive. The debate teams operate under the auspices of the Debate coun cil with Mrs. Engstrom and Ger ald Barrett, actinng as advisors. Square Dance ' Slated Tonight The Presbyterian church will hold its weekly square dance and student get-together to night at 8 o'clock in the church rear, Rex Reckendorf, publicity agent, said yesterday. Dick Weaver, of the sociology department, will be the featured caller, bringing with him several new records. Participants will dance to the strains of mountain music, European folk tunes and conventional square set numbers. Refreshments will be served during the dance, and everyone is welcome to attend, Reckendorf said. Is Still 'Bright, Fresh' beard, leaned over and whispered, 'Let the child laugh! ' " "To this day," Eaton observed, "I can't resist anything they've composed. It's the most perfect thing of its kind written for the last hundred years. Chances are nothing like it will ever appear again. There's a lift to th music, a swing and a rhythm that's contagious. I was walking by Memorial hall last week and heard the opening song. I stopped and went in, and, you know, 'We sailed the ocean blue and our saucy ship's a beauty' is just as bright and fresh as when I first heard it years ago!" i s , js s sni ' ' -" x V - 1 I " - l - i 4' ' v - s, 4'- .s" S i, t V . , - i -I jr J v- ir- f: I I 4 f feats' lilt j -I I Vii 6 : i ? t " 4 x FW- i ' - J t 3 I , i s ss - . . SWiA A BALE OF HAY is dropped from a U.S. Air Force "Flying Boxcar" lo help feed starving caiile cut off from regular food in snowbound eastern Nevada. It is estimated that more than 200, 000 cattle and a million sheep are in danger of starvation in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota and sections of North Dakota and Montana. A U. S. Senate committee approved a $750,000 fund lo finance rescue work. Tulsa Editor Addresses Press Institute Session i Jenkins Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune was the principal speaker at yesterday morning's session of the North Carolina Press association's newspaper institute. Speaking on monopoly news- : papers, Jones said, "It is ironical that the press is being accused of bringing about a condition which it has actually fought a gainst." Admitting that monopoly news papers are here to stay, Jones continued, "The crowning irony of it all is that the left-wingers and self-styled liberals who are loudest in their opposition to newspaper monopoly, , are the ones who usually applaud the movement by unions to get more for less production." Miss Beatrice Cobb, editor of the Morganton News-Herald and longtime secretary of the press association, spoke on her recent round-the-world trip at a lunch eon' meet in the Carolina Inn. Miss Cobb described flying the Berlin airlift as her biggest thrill on the 20,000-mile journey. She said that in Prague they were unable to get tickets to a Russian sponsored movie, "The American Menace," because of a heavy de mand on tickets. The Associated Press present ed Miss Cobb with a plaque for distinguished reporting dur ing her trip Meetings of various regional; daily and weekly groups were held in the afternoon. A speech by Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen high lighted last night's banquet at Duke university. Governor Kerr Scott presented press awards af ter Allen's talk. A past president's breakfast and a short business meeting of NCPA will close the three-day institute this morning. Eaton has seen the D'Oyle Carte company the original pro ducing company of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas perform all the operas they have in their repertory. He remembers an amusing incident in connection with this world-renowned com pany. It was while he headed the Playwright department at Yale, and the company was playing two weeks in New Haven. "We had just produced 'Utopia Limited," the last the team wrote, and one the D'Oyle Carte did not have in its tour. Most of them had never seen it, and (See EATON, page 4) Minister Makes Concluding Talk Of Religion Veek "Man as a king overplayed his authority, and therefore the king dom of God is at hand," said Dr. John A. Redhead, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Greensboro, in his concluding ad dress of Religious Emphasis week Thursday night. Dr. Redhead said a modern myth in the inate goodness and ability of man led to a belief in groups of men, and finally to a belief in the organization of man into government. "When man got rid of God as a ruler," he continued "he set out to rule himself and open ed his arms to the coming of dictators." The religious leader said there are two phases of life, the spirit ual and the material. The spirit ual should be the center and the material, the circumference, he added. "Religion has been shifted from the center to the circumference," Dr. Redhead said, "and that's the reason why churches have become relatively irrelevant." He continued, "Tension has grown up between the scientific and the religious phases of our life. The duty is upon us to give uod tne right away. Religious Emphasis week, which featured afternoon seminars, classroom and dormitory visits, evening addresses and a convoca tion, began Monday morning and lasted through Thursday. The purpose of Religious Em phasis week is to stimulate clos er cooperation between the var ious denominations on campus through bringing top clergymen to the campus for one week dur ing each school year. Dr. Fey to Talk On Conference Dr. Harold E. Fey of Chicago, managing editor of Christian Century, will give a public ad dress on his impresions of the Amsterdam Conference of World Council of Churches Sunday evening at 3 o'clock in the Metho dist church. Dr. Fey is also speaking at the Institute on Religion now being held in Raleigh. mom's Consultation Will Be Held Before A. E.G. Matter Will Not Be Heard Publicly WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP) The joint congressional Atomic Energy committee is looking into the clearance of Dr. Frank P. Graham, presi dent of North Carolina uni versity, for limited access to classified atomic information, it was revealed today. The joint committee's newly- elected chairman, Sen. Brien Mc Mahon, D., Conn., refused to say who raised the question before the committee- or the trend of the discussion. Dr. Graham also heads the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Research and is closely identified with the Southern Conference of Human Welfare. McMahon said that the com mittee will discuss his clearance with the Atomic Energy com mission. The Committee has re fused to discuss reports that Graham was cleared by it over the protests of its own security office and its Loyalty Review board. McMahon said he had called an open hearing for next Wednes day for the purpose of question ing' the commission on its an nual report and its program. It will be the first time such mat ters have been heard publicly. "It is my hope to have open hearings on all matters properly the concern of the committee, subject to the necessity of securi ty of our country," he said. But he added that the Graham mat ter would not be discussed pub licly. Fantasy Tryouts Set for Tuesday Tryouts for "Apple Tree Farm," a Laboratory theater production, will be held Tuesday afternoon from 2 until 6 o'clock in the Rendezvous room. Parts are open for students and townspeople as actors, dancers, singers, and tech nicians. The new musical fantasy, an original play by Stanley and Ida Lupino of Hollywood, with music by Bob Macllwinnen of Fayette villc, graduate student in the University dramatic art depart ment, will be presented here on April 4 and 5. The play is for the benefit of the Koch Mem orial fund. This will be its first presentation anywhere. Marty Jacobs, who directed last year s sweep it Clean by ine Laboratory theater, will also di rect this year's work. To Plan Drive Solicitors' Supper' Planned By YMCA in Baptist Church Charlie Fox, chairman of the YMCA Finance committee, yes terday set Monday at 5 o'clock for the "Solicitors' Supper," to be given in the Baptist church for all solicitors in the YM drive beginning Tuesday. Guest speakers at the supper will be Chancellor R. B. House, Jess Dedmond, studennt body president, and Warren Ashby, chairman of the YM advisory board. Ed McLeod is in charge of arrangements. "The supper will open the YMCA $5,000 membership drive," Fox said, "and will need the support of all those students, who did not become members of the Y during fall registration. Stu dents contributing to the Y bud get will receive membership cards entitling them to full YMCA roup u UVA Polio Dance To Use Juke Box The University Veterans association March of Dimes dance will be held this evening with a juke box instead of a combo providing the music. The change in orchestral ar langements.for the affair was made yesterday after Dean of Students Fred Weaver refused to intervene to reverse Coach Marvin Allen's ruling that the dance could not be held. James E. Webb Is Given Oath In Ceremonies Broughton, Hoey Observe Occasion WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP) James E. Webb, 42-year-old former budget director, was sworn in today as the new Undersecre tary of State. While his predecessor, Robert A. Lovett, looked on, the oath of office was given to Webb by Raymond Muir, assistant Chief of State department protocol. More than 150 persons inclu ding cabinet members and con-J gressional leaders attended the ceremony in the office of Secre tary of State Dean Acheson. As Acheson handed Webb his commission, he said "I congratu late myself" on the appointment. Webb replied that he would carry out the duties of his new job with "fidelity, faith and courage." Thus a new top-level team takes over direction of the State department. Webb is a native of Oxford, N. C. Cabinet members attend ing were Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan; Interior Secre tary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark. Sens. J. Melville Broughton and Clyde R. Hoey, Democrats, headed the North Carolina con gressional delegation which at tended. Chairman Sol Bloom, D., N. Y., of the House Foreign af fairs committee, and Lewis W. Douglas, U. S. ambassador to Britain, also were there. Sound and Fury To Meet Tonight All members of Sound and Fury will meet this evening at 8:30 in Horace Williams lounge of Gra ham Memorial. The meeting will be open to all persons who are interested in the organization. Those S & F members who were presented at the reorganization meeting three weeks ago arc specially urged to attend. privileges." Fox went on to list the bene fits to which members are enti tled, "the membership card in dicates that the bearer endorses the purposes of the Y, identifies him as a bona fide student or faculty member of the Univer sity, entitles him to the court esies of any and every Y in the world and entitles him the privi leges of 'visiting member' in prac tically all city associations." Money obtained from this drive will be split three ways among sections of the campus, Fox con tinued. $1,500 is earmarked to go to fraternities, $1,500 to town men and $2,000 to dormitories. "Solcitations will be made by door-to-door canvassers, with the exception of men living in (See YMCA,. page 4) fydiyimi oraoc Allen told the UVA Thursday that the dance would have to be called off if any type of orchestra was to be used, since the veterans' "applied for per mission too late for this week end." Dance committee rules re quires the organization giving a dance to secure permission to hold it on Monday of the week the dance is to be held. Gene Newton, president of the UVA, said yesterday that even though the combo planned for the March of Dimes affair would not be allowed to play, a juke box dance would be held to benefit the infantile paralysis fund drive. Newton said he conferred with Dean Weaver yesterday about the ruling made by Allen and backed up the Dance committee prohibit ing the use of an orchestra. He said Weaver refused to inter vene in the situation. In lieu of the smaller amount expected to be collected at the dance, the UVA, Newton said, will contribute $25, the maximum contribution allowed by the group's constitution, to the March of Dimes. He said he would intro duce a bill to contribute an addi tional $25 to the cause next month. Concerning the ruling that the Dance committee had to be noti fied by a certain time if a dance was to be held with any type of orchestra, an employe of Gra ham Memorial commented yes terday that the Rendezvous room has continually used a three piece combo at its Friday night dance sessions. N American Legion To Sponsor Dance Chapel Hill American Legion post 6 will sponsor a square dance at the legion hut tonight to bene fit the March of Dimes fund drive. The dance will begin at 3 o'clock and continue until mid night. Chairman Paul H. Robert son said all students and towns people were invited to the dance. THE WORLD IN BRIEF Truman Intervenes . CHICAGO, Jan. 28 (UP) President Truman today inter vened in a dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers and the nation's rail roads, averting a scheduled strike on 15 western roads Jan. 31. Indonesian Plan LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Jan. 28 (UP) The United Nations Security council tonight appro ved a new Indonesian peace plan calling on the Netherlands to free the rich Dutch East Indies by July 1, 1950. Greek Truce ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 28 (UP) The government announ ced tonight that it would accept yesterday's guerrilla offer of an immediate cease fire in " the Greek civil war but set forth counter conditions calling for an immediate general election and a general amnesty from both sides.