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VOLUME LVII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949
Phone F-3371 F-3361
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Play Opens;
To Be Given
Again Tonight
Hirsch Army Play
Has Big Audience
The first student-written, full
length comedy to be produced by
the Carolina Playmakers in a
number of years was given its
first performance last night be
fore a large audience in the
Playmaker Theatre. A repeat
performance will be given tonight
at 7:30. Admission is free.
The play, "Repple Depple," by
Sam Hirsch, University graduate
student in dramatic art, is a farce
concerned with the red tape and
confusion in an Army Replace
ment Depot located somewhere in
France in the summer of 1944. The
leading role of Captain Spratt is'
played by David Samples, Pas
saic, N. J., and Joseph Borello,
Brooklyn, N. Y. The play is being
directed by W. P. Covington, III,
Winston-Salem.
Mr. Hirsch knows first-hand
about the things he has included
in '"Repple Depple," because he
was an enlisted man and an offi
cer for four years during World
War II and passed through a num
ber of such outfits in England
and France.
He has had four of his plays
produced by the Playmakers in
the last three years, including
comedy, drama and musical pro
ductions. Playwright Hirsch will
also play the role of Father Mar
tin during the summer run of
"The Lost Colony" at Manteo
Costumes for "Repple Depple"
were designed, by Marty Jacobs,
Winston-Salem; lighting by Mar
gie Cameron, Washington, D. C,
and settings by Pete Strader, Sa
rasota, Fla.
This is the 130th series of ex
perimental productions of new
plays to be given in the Univer
sity. Two other full-length shows
have been given, in addition to
bills 'of one-act plays. The final
major Playmaker production of
the year will be Shakespeare's
"Merchant of Venice," which will
be given in the outdoor Forest
Theatre May 20, 21, 22, directed
by Kai Jurgensen.
Dr. Nash to Give
Talks in Midwest
In Coming Week
Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the
University Department of Reli
gion, will give , addresses in six
states in the mid-west during
the coming week. ;
Beginning Sunday, be .will
epcak on "Religion in State Uni
versities" at a faculty confer
ence at the University of Mis
souri. Monday and Tuesday, May
2 and 3, he will attend student
conferences at the University of
Oklahoma and discuss the same
subject. On Thursday, May 5, he
will address a student convoca-
tion at the University of South
Dakota , on "Polytheism of Con
temporary Educations He will
also address a faculty conference
there.,
Friday Dr. Nash 'will appear
at a student conference and talk
with various campus groups at
the University of . Hamline . in
Minnesota. He will also address
the faculty on "Christian Thought
in the University World Today..
He will attend a student
luncheon at the University of
Michigan on Saturday, May 7,
;nd will preach th? regular morn
ing sermon at Western Academy
in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday,
May 8. '
TMA-TGA Picnic
Planned for May 6
The Town Girls Association and
iho Tnwn Men's Association pio
nie will be held on Friday, May
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V TROOPS OF THE DEFEATED Chinese- Nationalist armies
crowd into etery 'available .vehicle in an : attempt to get out,
.of '.Shanghai; before being captured by Red soldiers. Capture
of . Kashing. south of Shanghai, trapped 300,000 government
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NSA Publication Clinic
Will
Open
Two-Day Meet to Include Panel Talks;
Three-State Area Will Send Delegates
A two-day publications clinic, sponsored by the regional
National Students Association, will open here today at noon,
with some 45 . students from colleges in a three-state area
expected to attend.
. The clinic will , consist of . panels
covering all phases and types of
campus publications. . A visit to
the Colonial Press to watch the
publication of the Daily Tar Heel
Friday,' a social period Saturday
night, and a summary meeting
Sunday morning will round out
the meet.
Newspaper clinics on editorials,
newswriting, features, and sports
writing will be led by Ed Joyner,
Billy Carmichael III, and Dick
Jenrette. Magazine discussion
groups on layout,' feature writing
and humor will be conducted by
Emily Sewell, Roy Moose, Tom
Kerf and Tom Wharton. C. B.
Meridehhall will help with panels
on advertising, circulation, pro
motion,' and ad layout' Panels on
yearbook' layout and deadline
meeting will also be held.
Colleges from West Virginia,
Virginia and North Carolina will
send delegates to the clinic. The
clinic is part of the NSA's pro
gram . of better acquainting col
leges and universities with each
other's methods and problems.
Truman Threatens
House Democrats
WASHINGTON, April 23 (UP)
President Truman threatened
today to withhold federal patron
age from Democrats in the House
who do hot vote for Taft-Hartley
k- rCpeaj and other Democratic
platform planks
Administration 'lieutenants im
mediately sat back to await the
effect of the. rresiaems wiuvl.-,
particularly on Southern Demo
crats with whom they have been
seeking an acceptable compro
mise on new labor legislation.
Some Democratic leaders said
privately that the administration
cause may have suffered a severe
jolt because of the quick resent
ment of some Southerners who
appeared to be the chief target
of Mr. Truman s move.
Ilcps. F. Edward Hebcrt (D.,-
La.) and John E. Rankin (D.
Miss.) publicly denounced the
President's maneuver as an' ef
fort to buy votes with federal
jobs. Rankin said he would. not
be "bluffed' and will stand by
mv convictions." Both he ana
Hebert "are opposed to repeal of
Here Today
Square Dancers
Will Demonstrate
For GM Shindig
The Greenwood Square Dance
team will provide the profes
sional demonstrations for hill
billy dancers tonight in the Ren
dezvous Room. The festivities are
scheduled to get under way at
8:30.
Ed Norwood and his Carolina
Hillbillies will provide the music
for the shindig. The dance team
will demonstrate such Aggers as
the Shu Fly Swing, the Georgia
Rang Tang, Open and Close the
Garden Gates, Ocean Wave and
others. '
The Greenwood team, under
the management of Arnold Wil
son, will be featured at the Bur
lington Centennial Festival on
May 11, and the Carolina Folk
Festival on June 9-11. The team
is composed of eight couples, all
from western North Carolina.
Tying in with the hillbilly
theme, the weekly Rendezvous
Room broadcast over WDUK will
feature the sincing of Jeanne
Duke, wife of a University stu
dent Mrs. Duke, will sing au
thentic folk songs. She has been
a folk song singer since the age
of six.
Round dancing will be held be
twecn each set of square dancing,
with music by the Town Talk
Trio.
Emphasis Group
Will Be Named
Peter Burks, chairman of the
Religious Emphasis Week Steer
ing Committee, said yesterday
that this committee for next
-vn . 1
years ttengious mpnasis ween.
will be composed of two repre
sentatives from each religious or
ganization on the campus.
With emphasis being placed on
the interfaith nature of the week
there will be three principal
speakers, one each of the Cath
olic, Jewish, and Protestant re
ligions. Several outstanding men
in the field of religion are being
considered as these principal
speakers.
Burks said that the committee
wants this- week to be truly rep
resentativc of the campus. He
added that any ideas concerning
speakers or otherwise about Re
ligious Emphasis Week could be
sent to him at the University
YMCA. . .
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Emily Sewell Appeals to Legislature
Against Party-Line Voting, Coalitions
The Seventh Student Legislature elected University Party
floor leader Herb Mitchell as speaker pro tempore last night,
after the new legislators heard an appeal by Emily Sewell
against party-line voting and legislative coalitions.
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Symphony DtWoM
For FundsiU
Run to Monday?
The fund-raising competition
which is high-lighting the cam?
pus membership drive for thf
North Carolina Symphony Soci
ety, this week will continue until
the Symphony concert here Mon
day evening, it was announced
yesterday.
The particular fraternity, soror
ity, or dormitory which collects
the largest amount of money
through ticket sales and contri
butions will have the privilege
of naming one of the selections
to be presented on the local con
cert program. The winner of the
contest will be announced at the
concert in Memorial Hall Mon
day evening.
The student memberships will
be honored at the concerts to be
held on April 29 at Elon College,
on May 3 in Reidsville, on May 6
in Hickory and on May 18 in
Durham. The memberships, which
cost $1.20, are the same price as
the single-admission tickets for
the concert which - will be- sold
at the door.
The following people have
taken charge of the competition:
Lou Reilly (sororities), Gwenn
Howard (women's dormitories) .
Charlie Stevens (men's dormito
ries), and Dick Boden (frater
nities). Anyone wishing to purchase
tickets or get information on the
concert are requested to contact
these people.
Red Ban Motion
Opposed by All
Both conservatives and liberals
joined Wednesday night to over
whelmingly oppose outlawing the
Communist Party in the discus
sion of the question by the Dia
lectic Senate.
Bill Foster, Gus Graham, Char
lie Hodson, Cliff Horton, and . a
coed visitor joined in opposing
the bill to outlaw the Communist
Party. Sam Manning,' Toby Sclby,
and Arty Murphcy 'favored pas
sage of the bill. 5 inf
Foster and the coed "visitor declared-
that: suppression would ;
strengthen the Communists. Fos
ter insisted that passing a law
would not change the beliefs of
the "one million communists and
(fellow travelers who oppose our
form of government." He said
further, "American democracy is
not so degenerate that we have
to prop it up with totalitarian
devices."
Graham said, "Our people are
not fools enough not to see that
the American way of life is vast
ly superior to the Communist
way."
Hodson, insisted, "We would be
overturning 700 . years of Anglo
American legal tradition if we
go over to the Communist side
and use their tactics."
Friendly Elected
New Head of AN PA
NEW YORK, April 28. (UP)
Edwin S. Friendly, vice presi
dent and general manager of the
New York Sun, was elected pres
ident of the American News
paper Publishers Association to
day. Friendly, who had served as
ANPA vice president, succeeds
David W. Howe, general manager
of the Burlington (Vt.) Free-Press,
who was elected a director.
Chosen
solon John Sanders for the pro
tem post by a vote of 30 to. 14,
with ,thei University and Campus
Parties- voting almost as a solid
bloc. ,
-Miss' Sewell took the rostrum
before Hhe Legislature elections
began, and held it for more than
half an hour while Speaker -Ted
"Leonard listened unperturbed.
then nervously asked her to re
linquish the floor so that the
business of the evening could be
carried on. The coed legislator
spoke for some 10 minutes after
the request was made.
Referring to a column on a
possible UP-CP Legislature coali
tion in yesterday's Daily Tar Heel,
Miss Sewell told the body, "If
this session is starting with a
coalition, then there is no use
going on at all. If you are going
to vote for the coalition officers
whom you have been told to vote
for, then you don't deserve to
be here."
Miss Sewell continued, "If the
CP and the UP are going to vote
in coalition, why not combine
the two parties and have one
strong one?" Commenting on leg
islation passed by the body and
then repealed at a later meeting,
she charged that "this stuff is
childish and . simple, and it goes
on here every wek. Some of the
bills passed are childish and as
inine.". The speaker then read a lengthy
passage from Thomas Wolfe on
politics at the University. When
he was finished she received
Tiuch applause from the entire
assembly.
Legislator Nat Williams, in an
rwer to the previous speaker,
pointed out that members of the
Legislature cannot afford to say,
"What's the use?"
"Everybody else is saying that
now," Williams said. He also re
ceived applause for his remarks.
Other officers elected at last
night's session were Ed Best (CP)
as parliamentarian' with 19 votes
over Herb Yates (SP) with 17,
Jack Rock (CP) ' as clerk, by ac
clamation," Fletcher Harris (UP)
as sergeant-at-arms . with 26 over
Duffieid, Smith (SP) with 14,
Charles -Foley (UP) as Ways and
Means Committee chairman with
21 over .Yates (SP) with 14, Al
Winn (CP) for Elections Com
mittee by acclamation, Johnnie
O'Neal (SP) for Rules Commit
tee with 23 over Bob Smith (CP)
with 13, WUson Yarborough (UP)
for Finance Committee with 21
over Sol Kimerling (SP) with
14, Ann Green . (UP) for Coed
Affairs Committee by acclama-.
tion, and Ben James (UP) for
Legislature representative to the
Graham Memorial Board of Di
rectors, by acclamation.
Speaker Ted Leonard appointed
Bob Kirby (UP) as chairman of
the Appointments Committee, Bill
Prince (SP) as chairman of the
Faculty Evaluation Committee,
and John Sanders (SP) as Leg
islature representative to the Car
olina Forum.
The Legislature heard Don
Shropshire, head oi the campus
NSA Committee, give a, report
See MITCHELL, page 4)
Russians Ordered
To Abandon Canal
BERLIN. April 28 (UP) Rus
sian troops withdrew from three
Canal locks in the British sector
of Berlin tonight after British
authorities announced they would
be thrown out if they remained
The Russians said they would
be back tomorrow morning.
Revised Exam
Is Announced
By Dean Wells
Saturday Classes
Included in Plans
The examination schedule as
printed in the catalogue for this
quarter has been changed, Wil
liam Wells, chairman of the
Schedule Committee, said yester
day. The schedule as printed in the
catalogue calls for final exami
nations as late as Saturday, June
4. Because of the difficulty of re
cording seniors' grades in time
for Commencement, June 6, the
examination schedule has been
changed from May 31 -June 4 to
Saturday, May 28, May 30-June 2.
Plans call for classes originally
scheduled for Monday, May 30,
to be met Saturday, May 14.
Wells , pointed out that these
changes will provide adequate
time for the recording of grades
for seniors and will permit all
students to complete the quar
ter's work two days earlier than
originally planned. Chancellor
Robert House approved the
changes, Wells added.
The final examination schedule
for the spring quarter is being
published in next Tuesday's Daily
Tar Heel.
New Appointees
For DTH Offices
Okayed By Board
vDaily -Tar Heel Editor Dick
Jenrette's appointments of C. B.
Mendenhall and Bill Buchan to
serve as Business Manager and
Managing Editor of the Tar Heel
were formally approved by the
Publications Board yesterday aft
ernoon. A
Mendenhall succeeds Tom Hol
den who served under former
Editor Ed Joyner. Holden grad
uates in June. Mendenhall has
served as assistant Business Man
ager for the past year.
Buchan replaces Sally Wood
hull who also graduates in June
and who is serving as New Office
Manager at the present time.
Buchan has been on the paper
staff since June, 1947, and has
served as Associate Editor and in
other capacities on the news and
editorial staffs.
Other appointments released by
Jenrette include Billy Carmichael,
III who is remaining as Sports
Editor. He will be assisted by
Buddy Vaden who was named As
sistant Sports Editor.
Frank Allston, Jr. and Jack
Brown have been appointed As
sociate Editors and Banks Tal-
ley, Ed Tenney, Dave Sharp, and
Severn Wailis were selected to
compose the editorial board of the
newspaper. Roy Parker was ap
pointed as chief Night Editor.
Caroline Bruncr will continue
as Society Editor, Jenrette said.
Schinhan Invited
To Be Music Judge
Dr. Jan Philip Schinhan, pro
fessor of music, has been invited
by the Fine Arts Festival Asso
ciation of Rockingham County to
be a judge for music composition
for the festival on. May 17. This is
the fifth annual Fine 'Arts con
test, directed by the Rockingham
County Library and sponsored by
Stoneville Book Club and Mayo-
dan Woman's Club at Mayodan.
Possible Phi Betes
Should See Mackie
Students who have not been
notified that they are eligible
for membership into Phi Beta
Kappa, and who think that they
are eligible, are asked to contact
Dean E. L. Mackie, third floor,
South Building. Mackie said that
the files had been checked, but
that he wants to make certain
that no student is overlooked.
WH lake
eginning
By Margaret Gaston
James W. Rathburn, a graduate student in the Department
of City and Pvegional Planning, will be the new director of
Graham Memorial beginning next fall, Fred Weaver, Dean
of Students, said yesterday. Rathburn will succeed" Bob
Watson, student from Winston-Salem who was made tem
porary director of Graham Memorial last summer.
N.C. Day Set
For Tomorrow;
Expect 5000
Guests To Attend
Games, Morehead
By Bill Johnson
The Sixth Annual North Caro
lina Day will bring more than
5,000 high school students, prin
cipals and chaperones to the Uni
versity campus tomorrow morn
ing for a day of entertainment
with the University Club as host.
. The Monogram Club and the
Athletic Association have invited
the visitors to be their guests at
the three sports events during the
day. At 11 o'clock the students
will attend a track meet between
the University and State College,
and that afternoon they will move
to Kenan Stadium for the Blue
White football game. Following
this they will go to Emerson Field
for the baseball game between
Carolina and Wake Forest. Dur
ing the half of the Blue-White
game the Aycock Memorial Cup
will be awarded to the high school
who wins the debate contest
which is being held this weekend.
The high school groups will
arrive Saturday morning at 9
o'clock and will gather at the
Old Well where they will be wel
comed by Bill Mackie, president
of the student body. Chancellor
R. B. House and Charlie Justice
are also scheduled to speak to the
gathering.
Dr. Roy K. Marshall, director
of the Morehead Planetarium,
will take those interested on a
tour through the planetarium and
special interest will be taken in
the dome.
C. C. Bernard, assistant to Roy
Armstrong, who issued the in
vitations to all North Carolina
seniors, said, today that the re
sponse had been good and that
an average of 22 students were
expected from each of the cities
contacted. Over 100 students from
Chapel Hill high school are ex
pected to take part in the day's
activities and large cities like
Greensboro and Winston-Salem
that are located in this section of
the state arc expected to send
between 50 and 75 seniors.
The main purpose of High
School Day is to acquaint the
students of North Carolina with
their University and its facilities.
Defense Budget
Cannot Be Cut,
Says Johnson
WASHINGTON, April 23.
(UP) Defense Secretary Louis
Johnson asserted today that U. S.
defense spending "Can't be cut
any more," even to cover the
cost of arms shipments to Eu
rope to back up the North Atlan
tic Security Pact.
Testifying before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, he
urged Congress to assure strong
allies for the United States, in
peace or war, by ratifying the
pact and voting $1,130,000,000 for
military aid to its members.
Buthe said under questioning
that he would prefer to see the
arms-for-Europe program scrap
ped entirely rather than have
it paid for by cuts in the $15,
000,000,000 budget of the U. S.
armed forces, as some Congress
men have proposed.
Position
In Fall
Born in New Jersey, Rathburn
attended school in New York, and
got an AB degree in sociology at
the University at the end of last
year's summer session. During the
war he was in the Army Air
force as staff sergeant. He is now
a resident of Chapel Hill.
The new director said he would
bring a planning approach to his
new job. He added that he had a
broad concept of a Student Union.
"I think it should embrace all
those things which a union of
students might conceivably em
brace. "The problems of a Student
Union are very similar to those
of a city. There are certain serv
ices and functions to be pro
vided." Rathburn pointed out that
"these services need to be deter
mined, a plan drawn up for their
best provision, and then, most im
portant, the plan must be carried
out."
The new director said he hoped
to approach Graham Memorial
much as a city planner would en
ter on a planning program for a
city. "One of the first steps con
templated is a thorough survey
of student life at the University."
Rathburn was appointed by the
Graham Memorial Board of Di
rectors in a recent meeting,
Weaver said.
'Import' Star Will
Play 'Wet-Nurse'
In French Farce
The "strike" of one of the coed
members of the cast of the French
farce next week has been settled
by the consent of French actress
Huguettc Laxe to come to Chapel
H411 as guest artist to play the
controversial role of the wet
nurse, Walter Creech, the direc
tor announced last night.
Mademoiselle Laxe who is at
present on a visit to the U. S, has
been frequently seen in Paris at
both the Comedie Francaise and
the Folics Bergere. Since her di
vorce from Henri Laxe, she has
been required by law to appear
professionally as Huguctte Ex
Laxe and as such has "fait courir
tout Paris." During this season
she has appeared for a limited
time at the Morrocan Village in
New York and the Wonder Club
in New Orleans. Mr. Creech ex
pressed great satisfaction at hav
ing so versatile an "artiste" ap
pear in this year's production of
the campus Theatre Franca is
which is scheduled for the Play
maker Theatre May 6 and 8.
Science Academy
Will Meet Here
Scientists from North Caro
lina's colleges and universities
will gather on the University, of
North Carolina campus May 6'
for the opening of the annual
two-day meeting of the State
Academy of Sciences.
Papers to be presented cover
reports of research and experi
ments under way in schools. Prof.
O. C. Bradbury of Wake Forest,
president of the Academy, will
be chairman.
GOP Scores Win
In Budget Fight
WASHINGTON, April 28.
(UP) Economy-minded Senate
Republicans scored a victory to
day in their drive to trim Presi
dent Truman's fiscal 1950 budget
and eliminate the need for tax
increases.
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