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U.N. C. Library Serials. Dept. Chape! Hill, N. C. 8-31-49 EDITORIALS REE WEATH ER Cloudy and mild; possible rain. Welcome Seniors Need Mora Males Play Is Solid Hit VOLUME LVII United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1949 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 156 HJ1 n dk n I III I I I I I I I II II VII i 1 II II II' I I III Villi llcy rd's' The, egc the ?ox, the Xoy ion at ink tar- U (sl(oy FU i 2 i Uly AKrinoon At ECeoon Dual Track Meet With State in Morning; Wake Forest Ball Game Follows Football By Buddy Vaden The Fourth Annual Blue-White Football came, sponsored by the University's Monogram Kenan btadium this afternoon features of "North Carolina gram will include a presentation by the sponsors to the outstanding coaches of the year. It will be freshmen against up-"" perclassmen in today's gridiron battle that culminates five weeks of spring football drills. Crowell Little, who piloted the frosh team through an unbeaten season last fall, will mastermind the fresh men "White" squad. Russ Murphy, veteran varsity backfield coach, will coach the upperclassmen "Blue" team. Although the Blues are rated a three-touchdown favorite, the freshman contingent will present an attack based on Fullback Dick Wiess, Skeeter Hesmer, 170-pound tailback, and flashy Ends " Bill O'Brien and Joe Mclntyre. The Blues will offer as their main dish All-American Charlie Justice, with running mates Eddie Knox, Johnny Clements, and Billy Hayes spotted in the backfield. In addition, they will have flankers Art Weiner - and"' Kenny Powell, as well as top flight defensive Center Irv Holdash. The frosh line that played so well last fall will have nothing but trouble for any running at tack the Blues might offer. With a pair of tackles who tote a total of 420 pounds stuck in the mid dle, the White line might well show the Blues that crossing the line is dangerous business. Sup porting tackles Julian King and guards in Die Bill Kuhn is a pair of hefty guards in Dick Bestwick and Joe Du deck. But with Justice, Fullback Hayes, and Wingback Clements doing the ball-toting for the Blues, the White line is going to have its hands full. In addi- (See BLUE-WHITE, page 4) Hirsch's Comedy To Be Held Over For One Showing Sam Hirsch's "Rcpple Depple" will be held over for an extra performance this evening at the Haymakers Theatre- at 7: 30, an- j nounccd Samuel Scldcn, director! of the Playmakers. The overflow audiences at this farce-comedy of life in a replacement depot overseas were responsible for the decision to extend the run of the show, originally scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights only. Mr. Sclden said. Admission is free. A unique feature of the origi nal experimental scries by the Haymakers is the discussion ses sion after the performance. The audience is invited to talk back to the author and give him criti cism, suggestions, and objections to aid him in his re-write of the play. Since these performances are the first opportunity the play wright has to see his play on a inar it. is an ideal time to see where his nlav succeeds and fails before an audience. In addition to comments to the author, the audience also has the privilege of initinf down additional rc marks on cards distributed with the programs. "Rcpple Depple" is the third original play of the new series of student-written full-length nb.vc started bv Mr. Seldcn this year. This is part of a plan iu encourage beginning playwrights to write in the longer form. raff Clash sum Club will get under way at at 2 o'clock. One of the High School Day," the pro Grade Children Exhibit Is Set In Person Hall New Display Includes Painting, Sculpture The North Carolina - Schoo: Art Exhibition opens here a Person Hall Art Gallery Sunday and will feature some 300 works in painting and sculpture done by elementary school children (first through sixth grades) from 32 towns throughout the state. Gallery hours will be from to 5 Sundays and 9 to 5 week days. .,.. ..... There were approximately 3, 000 entries sent here for the cx hibition. Mervin Jules selected those which will be displayed in Person Hall until May 19. The exhibition will then be available for circulation as a traveling ex hibition to the schools of North Carolina for the year of 1949 50. There were no prizes given, but each pupil whose work was selected for the exhibition will receive a certificate. The certifi cates were donated by the Nort Carolina Federation of Women'; Clubs. In addition to257 paintings, the exhibition includes sculpture work of ceramics, paper-mache wood, and chalk, and linoleum block prints on textiles. This is the 12th annual exhi bition of school art of the ele mentary schools of the state un der the sponsorship of the wo men's clubs and the American Association of University Women YM Installs Stfad At Carolina Inn Dinner The 90th. annual YMCA in stallation banquet in the Carolina Inn Thursday evening saw four officers and 16 cabinet members take office for the coming year. Warren Ashby of the Philos ophy department charged the new officers, Sam Magiu, prv&mcui., Charlie Gibson, vice-president, Charlie Bartlett, secretary, and A. C Mangum, treasurer, and the cabinet to their responsibility. Appointed by MagD! to the Cabinet, with tnc comnun they will head, are, Rod Glas gow, building and omce, iut Burks, church relations; Charlie Fox, conferences; v Davis Byrd, finance; Ben Jones, freshman camp; Gene Turner, house dis ,.:ionS for fraternities; George Miller," house discussions for the dormitories; Ed McLeod, memoer ship' Dick Messenger, publica-i-.n: John Eason, program; Sam publicity; Bob Williams, Rnh Messncr, social Min- Buddy Crone, vocational . , TV. Donnelly, world CUinain-t, xv.. relations; and Ted Sellers, wor ship. Sam Magill, making his in augural , address, talked on : Gonfesff Will Feoffor Chicago Says Red Charges Are All False Trustee Chairman Answers Reporter CHICAGO, April 29 (UP) The University of Chicago today denied 49 of 50 charges that some of its professors, including atomic scientist Harold C. Urey, were connected with "Communist- ront" groups. Laird Bell, chairman of the University Board of ' Trustees, said that the allegations either were "false or no longer applic able." Bell attacked the testimony of Howard Rushmore, New York Journal-American reporter, be fore the Blinois Seditious Activi ties Committee. Rushmore claim ed seven Chicago faculty mem bers held a total of 50 member- shins in organizations he said were "Communist fronts." The committee heard Rushmore last week in its investigation of alleeed subversive activities at Chicago and Roosevelt College, Chicago. Bell branded Rushmqre's charges as "irresponsible and said that only 11 of 35 organiza tions he listed were identified by .the U.-S. Attorney General as "suspected" Communist fronts. Sworn affidavits were submit ted by the faculty members either denying membership in the groups listed by Rushmore or saying that membership had been terminated The lone exception was Wayne McMillen, professor of social serv ice administration, who admitted membership in the National Coun cil of American-Soviet Friend ship, but " denied other connec tions 1 isted by Rushmore. Affidavits were prepared for all the faculty members named except Dr. Maude Slye, who re tired five years ago. Bell did not explain the absence of her rebuttal. Urey, who played a leading role in development of the atom bomb, denied membership in four groups with which Rushmore's testimony identified him. In four others he said his activity ended before or during World War II Officers "Christian Challenge." He said "the fact that the YMCA has pioneered in race relations, co educational work, the world church, economic and politica questions, and .many other fields has created one t the finest traditions that a student Christ ian organization " could possibly have. I feel that a tradition such as this presents a great chal lenge to the YMCA" of UNC a challenge to pioneer in creating on this campus, in this state, and in the nation a society which will be conscious of its heritage as. a Christian nation and which will want to fulfill its duties as a Christian society. "I call on each and every mem bcr of the YMCA and every Christian student to join in this pioneering move to make a true Christian society of the world in which we live," Magill said. Toastmaster at the banquet was Bill Brown. Other speakers be sides Ashby and Magill were Pete Burks; Reverend Henry Ruark, who gave "the Challenge to Christian Students;" Mr. J. C. Herrin; and Dean Fred Weaver, who gave a "Charge to Christian Responsibility." 21 UNCSfud To Go To NC Selection Committee to Meet Monday To Name Delegates to Mock Assembly Gran Childress, Interim Council Secretary-Treasurer for the State Student Legislature, said yesterday that a 10-man committee had been named to select University delegates to the 13th annual mock General Assembly. Childress pointed out that the University will send 18 repre-; sentatives and three senators to the session. He will attend as -a voting representative through his position as Secretary-Treasurer. The selection committee will meet Monday afternoon at 4 clock in Graham Memorial, All persons who wish to represent the University at the meeting oh May 13 and 14 have been asked to either be at the meeting Mon day or submit an application list ing their qualifications and rea sons for wanting to attend ses sions to any member of the com mittee. The 10 members of the selec tion committee are: Bill Duncan for the Philan thropic Assembly, Don Shrop shire for the Dialectic Senate, Dave Pittman for the Debate Council, Herb Alexander for the Carolina Political Union, Ted Leonard for the Student Legis ature, Dortch Warriner and Gran Childress for the State Student Legislature Interim Council, Al reporter on the Augusta Chron Lowenstein for the executive icle and a summer in the con- branch of student government, Patricia- Denning for the Coed Senate, and Ann Chandler for. the YWCA. Aquinas Breakfast Set for Tomorrow A communion breakfast spon- sored by the University Aquinas 1 . . I ....11 .H lUk I lina Inn immediately following the 8 o'clock Catholic mass in Gerrard Hall tomorrow morning, Aquinas Club vice president DaniedUor coordin'ator. ivicLiaugnun saia yesieraay. i Tickets for the communion' breakfast are available from all, members of the Club, and will; be sold for 85 cents each, he said. McLaughlin urged all mem bers to attend the breakfast. Truman Won't Get Paycheck on Time ' WASHINGTON, April 29 (UP) President Truman won't get his $12,500 April pay check on!Amerjca subregional conclave to schedule tomorrow, and it's all here this afternoon. The the fault of Congress The lawmakers raised Mr. Tru man's salary in January to $100,- 000 a year, qlus a $90,000 tax ree expense account. But thus far they have neglected to ap propriate the money. The April check ordinarily would be due at the White House no later than tomorrow, the last day of the month. However, there's only $4,167 in the presi dential payroll fund, with no chance for Congress to add more this month since it's not in ses sion tomorrow. Emperor's Birthday Ignored by Papers TOKYO, April 29 (UP) Tokyo's . biggest newspapers ig nored today the 48th birthday of Emperor Hirohito. One paper published a six-line story. Before the end of the wrar, all news papers used to publish four- column birthday pictures of the emperor on their first pages with descriptions of his health and his concern for the people's welfare. era It Tod enfrs Nachman Is New Tarnation Managing Ed. Carmichael Reelected To Board Presidency Herb Nachman, rising junior from Augusta, Ga., will serve as Tarnation's managing editor for the coming year, editor Tom Kerr announced yesterday. Nachman, who is a journalism major, has been a member of ihe Daily Tar Heel staff since he en tered the University in the fall of 1947. Before taking over as Tarna tion managing editor, he served as DTH reporter, night editor, newrs editor, town and city edi tors. His other experience in jour nalism include a summer as a tinuity department of an Augusta radio station. At present he is also the International News Ser- vice correspondent for Orange county. Nachman was approved for the Tarnation job by the Publications j Board at a meeting Thursday. At I the same meeting, Bill Carmich ael III, DTH sports editor, was ro-elrH-ttiH rrpciHfnt of thn bnflrd . ch Gibsont Tarnation staffer ' and DTH columnist, was elected vice-president; Dick Jenrette, editor of the DTH, treasurer; and Tom Wharton, former Tarnation Keynote Address To Mark Opening Of Zionist Meet Rabbi Samuel Perlman, Direct or of the University Hillel Found ation, and Rabbi Simon Glus trom of Durham will be the keynote speakers at the Inter collegiate Zionist Federation of conclave scheduled for 1:30 to day on the second floor of the Y. The assembly is part of a week end celebration of the first an niversary of the independence of Israel and will see students from five colleges participating. The University chapter of IZFA will play host to representatives from North Carolina State College, the Women's College, Duke Univer sity and the University of South Carolina. Rabbi Perlman's topic before the delegates will be "Israel as a Liberal Force in the Middle East." Rabbi Glustrom will speak on "What Does Zionism Mean to Us Now?" The IZFA conclave will con clude its program with the form ation of a sub-regional executive and election of officers. The weekend program began yesterday with evening religious services. An Independence dance will be held tonight in the Main Lounge, Graham Memorial. Re freshments are being furnished by the Jewish Sisterhood of Durham, and door prizes wrill be provided by Chapel Hill merchants. ay s Publications In Discussion At NSA Meet Students Register From 10 Colleges The regional National Students Association publications . clinic opened on campus yesterday with some 35 students attending from more than 10 colleges and uni versities in North Carolina, Vir ginia and West Virginia. Schools in South Carolina, also a member of the regional NSA, are holding their own collegiate press convention this weekend, and were not able to attend the meeting here. Schools represented, besides the University are Concord Col lege of Athens, W. Va., Virginia Union University of Richmond, Bennett College of Greensboro, Atlantic Christian College of Wil son, Johnson C. Smith of Char lotte, West Virginia State Col lege, North Carolina College of Durham, Duke University, Sweet Briar College of Lynchburg, and North Carolina State College. Bill Mackie, president of the student body, and Dick Jenrette, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, made short welcoming speeches to the delegates at their first meeting early- yesterday after noon. Pete Gems, who is chair man of the regional publications clinic, presided at the meeting. Gerns handled all preparations for the clinic. The students held two sets of panel discussions yesterday, ate dinner at the Presbyterian Church, and traveled out to Co lonial Press, Inc., to watch the Daily Tar Heel being put to press. This morning another set of panel discusions will be held, fol lowed by lunch at 1 o'clock. This evening a picnic will be held for the delegates at University Lake. The final session of the clinic will be held tomorrow morn ing in Graham Memorial to hear consolidated reports and discus sion of the weekend. Dean Fred Weaver will speak to the dele gates at a final dinner session at noon. Playhouse Offers Stage Scholarship Robroy Farquhar, Director of the Lake Summit Playhouse near Hendersonville, has offered a scholarship, valued at $350, for this summer season to an en thusiastic, skilled theater man. The scholarship includes the ten weeks course and maintenance at the Playhouse. "I would like fnr- hint in ha aWp all a VPn? I congenial fellow." Mr. Farquhar car, caps and gowns. At said, "someone with a well-round:'" oclock a faulty reception for ed interest in the theater arts as both actor and technician." . The Lake Summit Playhouse is opcrated by the Vagabond Play- ers, Inc., an Equity "A" Company, which formerly played at thejL. Stevens, Jr., Class of 1917, as Cherry Lane Theater in New toastmaster. Installation of new York. This is their fourth season in the Lake Summit Playhouse. Last summer they produced eleven plays and toured. Chase Will Lecture On Music Tomorrow Gilbert Chase we l-known crit - ic ana musicologist, wrill be in Chapel Hill Sunday and Monday to give lectures on "Latin-American Music" and "Latest Trends in Recording and Television." The lectures will be held in Hill hall Sunday evening at 8 o'clock and Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and the public is cordially invited. Sports S m 5,000 E To Invade' Mackie Extends Welcome to Visitors Who Will Attend Blue-White Game Some 5,000 high school seniors from all corners of North Carolina will invade the Carolina campus today to try to find out what makes a big University tick. Graduation Schedule Set By Saunders Dr. Repp to Speak For Baccalaureate Dr. Walter Mark Depp, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon in Memor ial Hall on Sunday, June 5, J. Maryon Saunders, alumni secre tary said yesterday. Degree candi dates dressed in caps and gowns, iwll assemble at the Old Well, and will go from there to Memorial Hall. The 155th Commencement pro gram will begin Saturday, May 4, ending with graduation exercises Monday night at 7 o'clock in Kenan Stadium. Saturday's program will fea ture a "dutch" luncheon for sen iors and their guests at Lenoir Hall at 1 o'clock. After the lunch eon Dr. Roy K. Marshall, director of the Morehead Planetarium, will give the first show at the Plan etarium. That night at 8:30 he will repeat the performance. Mar shall will give three shows Sun day and three graduation day. Saturday's program also in cludes Alumni Class Reunion Suppers at 7 o'clock and an open air reception and orchestra con cert that night at 9:30 at the Kessing Pool. Sunday afternoon at 4:30 the University band, under the di rection of Earl Slocum. will give a concert under the Davie Pop lar. Following the concert, Per son Hall Art Gallery has sched uled a gallery talk to be given in conjunction with the 14th An nual Exhibit of Student Art. Sunday night's program also includes Alumni Class Reunion Suppers and a program by the Chapel Hill Choral Club and the University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Paul Young. The last class meeting of the graduating students will be held in Gerrard Hall at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Seniors will jw S"w " iUavie roP ls Planned. i i An Alumni luncheon sched- uled for I o'clock Monday at j Lenoir Hall will feature Henry i Alumni officers, presentation of "Golden Anniversary Certificates" to the Class of '99, and the in duction of Alumni Class officers of the Class of 1949 will be in cluded on the program. The Carolina Playmakers The- jpeat again at 4 o'clock. A band concert, beginning at 6:30 will be given in Kenan Stadium just before Graduation exercises at 7. As yet, plans for the commencement speaker have not yet been released. In case of rain, exercises will be held in Woollen Gymnasium. xpecied 1 The high schoolers will tour the campus, watch a. track meet, and see a spring-time football game when the Tar Heel team puts on its annual Blue-White grid battle. The day's activities will be gin when the seniors arrive be tween 9 and 11 o'clock this morn ing. Their busses will unload at the Old Well, where members of the University Club will be on hand to welcome the boys and girls to the University. At 11 o'clock, the track meet between the Tar Heels and State College will take place on Fetzer Field, from where the high school students will go to eat lunch on campus and in town. The group will split up, some going to the Monogram Club, some to Lenoir Hall, some to the Caro lina Inn and some to restaurants downtown. By 1:30, most of the seniors will be in Kenan Stadium, watch ing the University band conduct marching maneuvers prior to the football game, which will begin at 2:30. Bill Mackie, president of the student body, yesterday said he extended "a sincere welcome" to the visiting high schoolers. "I hope that you will enjoy the game, be pleased with tho campus, and more important, be able to sense the informal friend liness . that is our way of life here," Mackie said. "Your impression of tho Uni versity is very important," the student body president continued, "for many of you will return soon to stay. So make yourselves at home and find out all you can about your University. En joy yourselves here today as I know you will next fall." Gardner Outlines YDC Mass Rally Plans for a Young Democrats mass rally to be held Tuesday, May 10, were outlined Thusday by O. Max Gardner, Jr., club president, at an open executive committee meeting held in Gra ham Memorial. Gardner stated that the meet ing will be held in the main lounge of Graham Memorial with H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, State YDC president as the feat ured sneaker. Stormy Weathers ana- his orchestra will provide music for the occasion and re freshments will be furnished by the Farmer's Dairy Co-op, Gard ner said. A resume of the activ ities of the State Legislature will be presented by a member o the Institute of Government, Gardner added. Gardner announced the names of four members who have been approved by the organizations' officers to be members of the executive council. Those selected are Hugh Wells, Ed Tennoy, Jess Dedmond and Bill Buchan. Square Dance Slated Tonight in Tin Can A square dance will be held tonight at 8:30 in the Tin Can, sponsored by the Montreat Social Committee. There will be no admission and everyone, stag or couples, is in vited to join in the fun. The Chatham Ramblers will furnish the music. or ach an up nd the hat of bc- 1CC re in of. !X- 0 ''. H. J;
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