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VOLUME LVII
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949
Phone F-3371 F-3361
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Stink Bombs
Are Thrown
At Sam Green
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 24
(UP) University of South Caro
lina students peppered a Ku
Klux Klan meeting at suburban
West Columbia with stench
bombs last night while Grand
Dragon Samuel Green was mak
ing a speech on white suprem
acy. Burly Klansmen, assisted by
police, dispersed the students but
they kept up their heckling from
COLUMBIA. S. C. Feb 24
(UP) Grand Dragon Samuel
Green of the Ku Klux Klan
said today he overlooked the.
group of hecklers who tossed
two stench bombs in the
circle of Klansmen to whom
he was speaking last night.
The hecklers, many of whom
were indentifed as University
of South Carolina students,
shouted remarks as Green's
speech began, until KKK mem
bers and police told them to
quiet down or leave.
"I was young once," Green
said. "I did some foolish things
then myself."
the edge of a vacant lot that the
Klan had rented for their meet
ing. At least two stench bombs
landed in the ring of Klansmen
around the stand on which
Green spoke. Black acrid smoke
rose around the sheeted figures
and generally smelled up the pro
ceedings. Green continued to speak, re
iterating his pledge to "shed our
last drop of blood" to preserve
white supremacy. His aides
jumped off the stand to deal
with the students.
A big Klansman wearing the
regalia of a grand cyclops took
charge. About 15 uniformed
members of the West Columbia
police force then told the stu
dents to move on.
One policeman explained that
the Klan had rented the lot and
was entitled to its use. The stu
dents reluctantly withdrew but
cpntinued to jeer and yell from
the fringe of the meeting, at
tended by about 500 Klansmen.
A small Klansman ran up to
the group of about 30 students
and challenged any one of them
to a fight but his fellows drag
ged him back and that was the
nearest approach to actual vio
lence. Green, who was introduced and
applauded in the South Carolina
legislature earlier in the day,
shouted that if "you let Presi
dent Truman ram this civil rights
bill down your throats it will be
legal for a Negro to come up on
your porch and ask for your
daughter's hand in marriage."
"She can always say no!" cho
rused Green's hecklers in the
student body.
Engstrom Speoks
On Thomas Wolfe
Dr. Mary C. Engstrom of the
University English department
spoke to two overflow audiences
Wednesday afternoon on "Thom
as Wolfe at Carolina." .
Dr. Engstrom reviewed inter
esting facts of Wolfe's life in
Chapel Hill and read selections
from "Look Homeward, Angel"
in reference to his stay here.
She has made an extensive
study of Wolfe's works and life.
Although Wolfe spent four
years here from 1916 to 1920, Dr.
Engstrom said, there has been
no recognition here of "Caro
lina's most famous alumnus" ex
cept a portrait in Roland Par
ker lounge of Graham Memorial.
Dr. Engstrom suggested to her
audience that a creative writing
scholarship, a drama scholar
ship or a Wolfe professorship of
English might be created in his
name. "Any memorial to Thomas
Wolfe," she said, "would have
to be done in this manner for
Wolfe is a living thing and can
not be seen through a stone build
ing or a memorial plaque."
Heckle Clansmen
olumbiq Meeting
Coed Affairs Forum
Opens On Campus
More than 35 delegates from nine colleges and universi
ties will arrive here today for the opening session this af
ternoon of a two-day Woman's Intercollegiate Government
forum, sponsored by the University Coed senate.
In addition to the University,
institutions to be represented in
clude ; Duke, Queens college,
Sweet Briar, Hollins, Woman's
college, St. Mary's Stratford col
lege, Salem and the University
Lof Florida.
Principal address will be giv
en by Dr. James Madison Wood,
president, Women's foundation,
New York, and president emeri
tus of Stephens college, who will
speak on the role of women in
college today at the opening ses
sion in Hill hall this afternoon
at 2:30.
Jess Dedmond, Cliffside, presi
dent of the student body, will
address the first business session
at 4 o'clock with Chairman Edie
Knight, New Orleans, presiding.
An informal supper and party
will be held that evening in the
American legion hut.
After a breakfast in the Method
ist church tomorrow, the dele
gates will meet in workshop groups
to discuss problems of student
government.
The workshop topics, adult
leaders and student leaders are:
faculty-student relationships, Mrs.
Albert Coates and Fran Angus,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; honor system,
Enraged Drunk
Wreaks Havoc
In Trailer Court
A myterious, enraged drunk
who turned the University trailer
court utility house into a scene
of chaos at 6 o'clock yesterday
morning disappeared as mysteri
uosly into the early morning
mists as he had appeared and
left trailer dwellers wondering
what had struck them.
Woody Reece, trailer resident,
was awakened by the sound of
shattering glass and upon investi
gation found that the man had
driven his fist through six dif
ferent window panes in the men's
room. Not satisfied with this, the
mysterious man also turned over
garbage cans, tore up a wicker
basket, distributed a generous
supply of toilet paper over the
premises and left a bloody trail
behind him when he moved into
the laundry room where he com
pleted his fun by smashing an
ironing board.
Policeman Bill Blake, who was
called to the scene by Recce,
searched the trailer court area
but could find no further trail
of the man with a grudge against
the world.
One resident reported that he
had seen an unidentified stranger
"wearing GI clothes, very drunk,
but minding his own business"
in the men's room some two hours
earlier. He said that no damage
was visible at this time.
A check of the infirmary and
local doctors revealed that the
drunk had not gone to any of
them for treatment of his battle
earned wounds.
Progressives
To Hear Austin
Louis Austin, editor of the Ca
rolina Times of Durham, will be
the principal speaker at the
Young Progressives meeting this
evening at 8 o'clock in Horace
Williams lounge of Graham Mem
orial. Austin will discuss the Shreve
Regan bill which has recently
been introduced in the state
legislature, making it a felony
to belong to the Communist party.
A representative of the Com
munist party of North Carolina
will be on hand to give his views
on the bill.
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DR. JAMES MADISON WOOD
Mrs. J. A. Warren and Lil Hotard,
New Smyrna, Fla.; social rules
and responsibility, Mrs. N. B.
Adams and Anne Carlton, At
lanta, Ga.; orientation and leader
ship, Mrs. Frank Hanft and Teenie
Roy all, Goldsboro; extra-curricular
activities, Miss Gay Curiie
and Sally Wocdhull, Bethelem,
Pa.; entertainment, Mrs. R. H.
Wettach.
University Party
Secondary Post
Given to Duncan
Bill Duncan of Narberth, Pa.,
was elected vice-chairman of the
University party at a party
meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Duncan succeeds Carlyle Morris
of Raleigh. Other party officers,
elected recently, are Joe Leary,
chairman, Faith Adams, secre
tary, and Jane Mills, treasurer.
Duncan is the present editor
of the Yackety Yack and is an
active member of the Phi assem
bly. He has served as president
pro-tem and as treasurer of the
Phi. The vice-chairmanship post
is the first position he has held
in the party.
Junior Debaters
Win Over Elon
The University junior varsity
debate team in its first debate
of the season Wednesday defeat
ed the Elon college teams on two
counts, the University quartet
winning both affirmative and
negative decisions.
The J.V. affirmatives, com
posed of Hurshcll Keener and
Charles Dixon, defeated the Elon
negatives, and the University
negatives, Emily Baker and June
Hurst, outspoke the Elon affirma
tive team.
The varsity, squad is journey
ing to Atlanta this weekend to
participate in the Agnes Scott
Southeastern forensic tourna
ment. The squad of Herbert
Mitchell, Dave Pittman, Paul
Roth and Herbert Yates will
meet eight other southeastern
schools.
Debate council chairman Earl
Fitzgerald yesterday voiced the
team's aim to win the tourna
ment. "We certainly have the
boys to win it with," he said.
The J.V.'s will travel to Hick
ory March 3 to March 5 to par
ticipate in the South Atlantic
tournament at Lenoir - Rhyne
college.
Help to Be Given
On Filing Taxes
C. F. Jones and M. B. Germain,
of the North Carolina Depart
ment of revenue, will be in the
Chapel Hill town hall Monday
to assist taxpayers in filing forms.
Student Gets
Inside Story
On Sororities
Is Now on 'Outs'
In Coed Castles
BERKELEY, Cal., Feb. 24
(UP) Mary Lou Ullrich was
one of the most dazzling, most
sought after coeds on the Uni
versity of California campus
during rush week.
Her charm, beauty and
ahem figure made her the
prey for virtually every soror
ty house on the campus. Dur
ing a week of receptions in
the best sorority houses, Mary
Lou consumed 14 cups of tea,
a dozen tiny sandwiches and
received return invitations
from seven sororities.
But tonight Mary Lou was
no longer welcome in the coed
casties that surround the
Berkeley campus. If she so
much as set foot on a sorority
house -front porch you could
get good odds that she'd have
her hair pulled out by the
handfulls.
For it was discovered today
that Mary Lou, so dainty, so
cute, was actually flying false
colors. Instead of French heels
and the new look, Mary should
have worn pants and smoked
a pipe.
It turned out that Mary Lou
actually was Walter Robert
Ullrich, 21-year--old chemistry
major now handing his Kappa
Alpha fraternity brothers the
inside dope about what goes
on in a sorority house.
Ullrich reported his recon
naisance was very successful
so much so that he collected
the i telephone numbers of 27
coeds and one house mother. .
There was only one narrow
escape, he said. That was on
the occasion when his false
front slipped.
"Some of these trappings
come loose easily. I looked lop
sided but everybody was too
polite to say anything," he
reported.
Solicitors Meet
For Instructions
Some 90 solicitors for the 1949
campus Red Cross campaign met
yesterday in Gerrard hall to re
ceive instructions and to hear
an address by Col. F. Carlyle
Shepard on the meaning of the
American Red Cross.
Col. Shepard, chairman of the
local ARC chapter, told the
group that a special effort should
be put forth this year to make
the campaign a success. He called
upon the solicitors to give whole
hearted and conscientious sup
port to "this worthwhile pro
gram" which runs March 1
through March 4.
In addition to Col. Shepard's
talk, a movie was shown giving
complete information about the
work of the ARC.
Bill Pritchard and Dick Gor
don are heading the drive this
year as co-chairmen. They have
initiated a "contact a contrib
utor only once" program.
Real Southerner
Drawl Is Asset For Lillian Prince
By Sam Hirsch
A heavy Southern drawl is
generally a handicap to an ac
tress, but to Lillian Prince, born
and bred in Birmingham, Ala.,
it has been a fortunate asset.
Right now it is coming in mighty
handy.
She is cast as Birdie, the
Southern aristocrat, in the Caro
lina Playmakers' production of
"The Little Foxes'," to be present
ed next Wednesday through Sun
day, in the Playmakers theater.
"I was married 16 years before
I got interested in the ' theater,"
Mrs. Prince said. "We were liv
ing in Westport, Conn., and one
day, the director called and asked
me to come to tryouts. I went,
just as a lark, and read for him.
Well, he liked -my reading. Only
he wanted to know if -I could
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Finance
araes
Me
Ch
By Bill Buchan
. A student government budget for the next fiscal year,
totaling $103,170 and a rehashing of the current coed investi
gation issue highlighted 'the business of the Student legisla
ture last night!
Page Dees, central figure "in
the Coed senate fight, went be
fore the assembly and itemized
part of her charges of careless
coed spending which she made
in the Daily Tar Heel yesterday
morning.
Bob Kirby, secretary-treasurer
of the student body and chairman
of the Budget committee, sub
mitted his budget to the legisla
ture after stating that the com
mittee had not considered any
increase in student fees in com
piling the budget. Dick Gordon,
chairman of the Student Audit
board, made the board's annual
financial report to the solons and
reported the financial status of
student government as "good."
Miss Dees was granted the
privilege of the assembly floor
after Edie Knight, chairman of
the investigating committee, re
quested that the committee be
extended more time in making
the report. Miss Knight stated
that the committee had had dif
ficulty in operating but that if
given, more time, a - fulL. report
would be forthcoming.
Miss Dees, who resigned chair
manship of the committee in pro
test of the lack of cooperation in
the group, told' the legislature
that the Town Girls' association
spends $37 each year for fall
and spring picnics and $5 for
a seat on the steering committee
of the University party; that the
Kappa Epsilon pharmacy sorority
spent $200 of coed funds last
year to stage a national conven
tion on campus (the local chapter
has only four or five active mem
bers); the Carolina Independent
Coed association, with 25 mem
bers, spends $239 on social en
tertainment, $100 for Yack space
and $30.50 for gifts to new mem
bers and out-going officers; and
that the Pan-Hellenic council is
allotted $100 for Yack space and
$77' for printing expences.
Assembly members applauded
Miss Dees' comments on the coed
spending program.
Patsv McNutt. a member of
the legislature, the senate and
the committee, presented the bill
requesting ' extended time.
Her bill died lor a Jack ot a
second at that time, but when
she presented it again later, after
agreeing that the committee
would appoint two additional
members who are members of
neither the senate nor the Inter
dorm council, the bill was passed.
Marty Davis, a coed member
(See LEGISLATURE, page 4)
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LILLIAN PRINCE
kill that Southern accent!"
She "trahd," and got the part.
After this tasteof the theater
she got the bug, and decided
to study diction, and some acting,
too. She studied with Harry Ir
vine in New York.-' And by
strange coincidence, he played
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Reports
Itemize
Tenney Says
Petition Out
About Tuition
Glee Club Gets
Money for Trip j
Student legislator Ed Tenney j
told the assembly last night a ;
petition was being circulated on :
this campus and at State college ;
and Woman's college stating that i
the signers would use their vote
and influence to defeat any can- j
didate for office who supported j
the proposed tuition increase for
the Greater University.
The petition, which Tenney had !
passed among the members of j
the legislature, read:
"We, the undersigned students!
of the Greater University of
North Carolina, do hereby de
clare that we shall use our vote
and influence to defeat any can
didate" ih future" elections, local
state and national, who advocates
a raise in tuition at any part of
the University of North Carolina."
Also at last night's legislature
meeting, the combined Men's and
Women's Glee clubs received a
$1,500 appropriation, effective
May 15, to aid them in sponsor
ing a concert in New York on
the Notre Dame football weekend
next fall.
Tom Kerr, who explained the
bill to the solons, said that 140
persons would be taken on the
trip 70 men and 70 coeds
He
said the concert would be held
in either Carnegie or Town hall.
The legislature then passed a
bill which will prevent all or
ganizations, with the exception
of the Publications board, which
receive funds from the Student
legislature, from lending or bor
rowing any. money without the
assembly's consent.
Another appropriation bill
which passed last night gave
$1160.60 to the Student Enter
tainment committee to pay a ;
debt owed to Graham Memorial, j
This debt was pointed out when '
an attempt was made to exempt ;
Graham Memorial, along with ;
the Publications board, from the,
requirements of the bill on lend- ;
ing and borrowing money. j
Dick Bowen proposed a com- '
mittee to study means of listing '
instructors with courses in regis
tration. I the historian in "The Lost Col
ony" last summer when Mrs.
Prince was playing her second
season as Queen Elizabeth in
the pageant.
The next time her accent re
ceived special attention was when
she tried out for the professional
touring company of "Dark of the
Moon", by former Playmaker
Howard Richardson. She read
with her heaviest drawl, since
this was a play about Southern t
ers. The director liked her very
much. He said, "I liked your read
ing, honey. But please go easy
on that Southern accent!"
She got the part and played
with the company for five months.
Mrs. Prince lives in Chapel
Kill with her husband, William
Meade Prince, the well known
magazine illustrator and artist.
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BULLETIN
GREENSBORO. Feb. 24
(UP) Woman's college stu
dents today joined others in
the North Carolina Greater
University system in protest
ing a proposed iuiiion boost
to SI 50 yearly.
The college's Student legis
lature adopted a resolution
Hiking the General Assembly
to hold the tuition rate at its
present $83 level.
Earlier, student government
units at bcih North Carclina
State college in Raleigh and
the University in Chapel Hill
took similar action. The ex
ecutive committee of the Uni
versity's Board of Trustees
approved the beesi at a meet
ing last week.
Faculty Talk
By MacMillan
To Be Tonight
Winter Lecture
Is in Gerrard
Dougald MacMillan, professor
of English, will deliver the fac
ulty lecture in the humanities
for the current winter quarter
in Gerrard hall this evening at
8:30.
This is one of a series of lec
tures begun several years ago as
a means of presenting various
members of the Humanities divi
sion faculty to the entire com
munity, students, townspeople,
University staff, and visitors. The
series has proved successful and
has included lectures represent-
ing all the foreign language de
partments, drama, art, music,
archaeology, and English and
American literature.
Professor MacMillan has chos
en for his topic, "Speculum Con
suetudinis: The English Comedy
of Manners." According to one
of Professor MacMillan's col
leagues, "no one who knows the
lecturer or who knows tnc
Cra
di
es
in
com-jof
cuy ot manners of the Rcstora
i tion period will worry about the
; Latin title."
A graduate .of the University
immediately after World., War I,
Professor MacMillan reecive'd his
master's and doctor's degrees
here and has been a member of
the faculty during his entire
teaching caieer.
He interrupted his teaching for
; two years while he was residence
fellow and then visiting scholar
! at the Huntington library in Cal
: ifornia in the mid-1930's.
He has recently been appointed
ja member of the advisory coun-
cil of the Folger Shakespeare
library in Washington, and he is
j at work as general editor in
charge of dramatic works for the
i William Andrews Clark edition
; of the "Works of John Dryden"
being sponsored by the Univcr
j sity of California, owner of the
Clark library with its rich Dry
den holdings.
Five Contests Set
For High Schools
The dates for five high school
academic contests to be held this
spring were announced here today
by Secretary E. R. Rankin, who
will conduct the contests for the
Extension division and several
departments of the University.
They are: physics contest, April
15; mathematics, April 22; Latin,
May 13; Spanish, May 19, and
French, May 20.
Participation will be open to
students in all accredited North
Carolina public high schools.
Dowmi
log
Harris Cites
Honor Code
Enforcement
Report Warns
Of Punishment
The Men's Honor council
yesterday heralded a crack
down on honor violations with
the announcement that "any
student found guilty of violat
ing the Honor code should be
suspended from the Universi-
j ty lor at least one quarter."
j A report released by Chairman
'Page Harris of the council con
tinued, "Anyone who cheats, lies,
steals or fails to report violations
that he sees must be dealt with
severely.
"Our self-imposed Honor sys
tem is the basis of the freedom
that we enjoy here, and without
its proper functioning we cannot
long retain these privileges."
Harris said reporting another
student for cheating is "perhaps
one of the most difficult things
for us to do while we are here
at the University." He said how
ever, when the logical reasons
behind the reporting are studied,
it becomes evident that- it is a
vital part of the Honor system.
The council report pointed out
that a cheater is not only yiolat--ing
the Honor pledge he signed
when he entered the University,
but is also cheating himself, his
fellow-students, his instructor
"and perhaps even his future busi
ness associates."
In the years the University has
been in existence, Harris said for
the council, many plans have
been tried for controlling cheat
ing, lying and stealing. ''By far
the best," the council chairman
said, "is our present Honor sys
tem. "Due to this Honor system
there is a feeling of mutual trust
and respect among us students
and between us and the faculty
and the administration. We must
all work not only to abide by
the Honor code ourselves, but
to see that our fellow-students
do their part, too."
Edwards Will Be.
Rendezvous Guest
Barbara Edwards, singing star
the "Beggar's Opera," will be
the guest vocalist on tonight's
Rendezvous radio show to be
broadcast over station WDUK at
9:15. This will be Barbara's first
appearance in the Rendezvous
room this year.
A native of Troy, she is a grad
uate of Converse college and a
former student in dramatic arts
at the University. She played a
leading role -in the irfal produc
tion of Gilbert and Sullivan's
"Mikado" last year.
.Appearing v i!h Barbara on the
program will te lievky liolton,
tap dancing star of last week's
competitive sorority floor show.
Becky danced in the Alpha Gam
ma Delta portion of the show.
Tommy Thomas and Dick John
son, song and dance team, will
also return for a repeat perform
ance. The Harmony Five quintet,
composed of Bob Hurley. Jack
Clinard, Lanier Davis. Dick
Smith, and Milton Bliss, will sing
several of Frank Matthews' origi
nal arrangements.' The comedian
for the show will be Herman
Ethelbert Emshiviller, alias Ralph
Mulford, who will interrupt the
program with comic telephone
calls.
Dr. Adkins Joins
Symposium in D. C.
Dr. Dorothy C. Adkins, of the
department of psychology, is par
ticipating in a symposium Feb.
25 and 26 in Washington.
The program, on "Criterion
Methodology in Personnel Re
search," is under the sponsorship
of the adjutant general's office.