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CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1949
Phone F-3371-F-3361
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Will Not Break Communist Ties
At Risk of Losing AEC Fellowship
Hans Freistadt, admitted Communist and graduate stu
dent m the Physics Department, said yesterday that he would
take a loyalty oath but would not renounce his allegiance to
the Communist Party even if his atomic fellowship is withdrawn.
The part-time physics instruc-
tor falls under a new Atomic En
ergy Commission ruling ordering
non-Communist oaths for stu
dents holding AEC fellowships.
Freistadt, whose disclosure as
a Communist scheduled to receive
government funds for studv of
non-secret material caused a Sen
ate investigation, said he was
"willing to take a loyalty oath to
the United States government."
But he would not cut his party
ties, even at the cost of his fel
lowship which is supposed to be
come effective July 1.
The crew-cut, Austrian-born
student told a Senate committee
earlier he was a Communist but
a loyal American citizen. He said
he would fight for the United
States, of which he is a natural
ized citizen, if Russia attacked
this country. But he would not
fight, he said, if the U. S. attacked
Russia.
Freistadt repeated his stand
yesterday that he did not see how
the government could cancel his
fellowship.
'I signed a contract with the
government in accepting that fel
lowship, and I don't see how the
government can break its contract
Eince nothing was asked in the ap
plication about any political af
filiation," he said.
Quota Is Reached j
In Cancer Drive
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Orange County went well over
its quota of $1,710 for the cancer
drive held during the month of
April, George B. Cline, county
drive chairman, said yesterday.
The quota was reached even be
fore the drive was being com
pleted, he added.
Orange County's chapter of the
Cancer Society received favorable
state-wide publicity for being one
of the three counties to go over
the top first.
Col. Cline gave much of the
credit for the successful campaign
to Mrs. R. E. Studebaker, Mrs.
James Snipes, Mrs. Hubert Rob
inson, and Mrs. W. Carson Ryan.
Mrs. Studebaker organized the
drive in Carrboro, making the
rounds herself to the businesses
and through the school. She col
lected three times as much as had
ever j been done before. Mrs.
Snipes and Mrs. Robinson con
duct!; a roost successful, cam
paign in the Negro districts, as
theSfcave done in previous years.
Mrs. Ryan handled all public in
formation, distributing displays
and literature, and conducting tag
day, a project Varried out by the
Girl Scouts and Brownies.
Two of the many services sup
ported by the Cancer Society are
the surgical dressing unit, under
the direction of Mrs. A. T. Miller,
and the 'Cancer Detection Center
at Watts Hospital in Durham. The
Center offers free service to all
persons over 45 years of age. Any
one younger may be freely ad
mitted for diagnostic service if
he has a cancer symptom and a
note from his physician.
NSA Delegates
Will Meet Today
Members of the National Stu
dents Association delegation and
alternates to the NSA conven
tion in Urbana, 111., this summer
will meet at 5 o'clock this after
noon in the student goverment
officers to discuss plans for the
convention. ,
Al Lowenstein, chairman of
the group, said delegates Bill
Mackie, Herb Mitchell, Graham
Jones, Dortch ' Warriner, and
Bill Prince were expected to be
present.
The Illinois convention will be
held from Aug. 23 to Sept. 3.
AEC Leader
May Be Fired
By Congress
Group to Consider
Hickenlooper Bid
WASHINGTON, May 23 (UP)
Chairman Brien McMahon (D.
Conn.) announced today that the
Joint Congressional Atomic En
ergy Committee will consider a
Republican demand for the resig
nation of David E. Lilienthal,
head of the Atomic Energy Com
mission. McMahon's announcement fol
lowed a four-hour meeting during
which the committee dug into cir
cumstances surrounding the loss
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First Letter
CHARLOTTE. May 23 (UP)
A student whose letter to
Washington started the investi
gation of Communist Hans
Freistadt at the University of
North Carolina said today he
warned Atomic Energy Com
mission officials about the case
two weeks before he took it
to radio commentator Fulton
Lewis..
Theodore Newton, Jr., of
Charlotte, said his first letter
about Freistadt, a professed
Communist studying at the
University under an AEC scho
larship went to David Lilien
thal, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission. Lilienthal
never answered him, Newton
said.
Newton himself is a student
at the University. He said he
first found out about Freistadt's
scholarship through campus re
ports, and confirmed it with
the chairman of the Univer
iiy Physics Department. Dr.
Paul E. Shearin. Then he
wrote Lilienthal, about April
23rd, the youth said.
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CREW AND PASSENGERS stand on Ine wings and landing stage of the Navy's mighty
"Marshal Mars" al the Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda. - Calif., after the plane had set a
weight-lifting record with a load, including fuel, of 145,000 pounds. The big ship, carrying a
crew of seven and 301 passengers, flew from Alameda to J3an Diego. Jato bottles were attached
to the plane, to aid in the takeoff.
Requiring Non-Red Oath Blasted
At Special Student Solon Session
of a small quantity of atomic ex
plosive Uranium-235 at the
Apgonne Laboratory.
Questioned during that closed
session was Dr. Walter H. Zinn,
head of the laboratory.
When reporters asked Mc
Mahon if he had any comment oh
the demand for Lilienthal's resig
nation made by Sen. Bourke B.
Hickenlooper as (R-Iowa), he said
the matter would be taken up
by the full committee as soon as
(See LILIENTHAL, page 4)
YM-YW Schedule
Region Meeting
At Berea College
"Renewing Life through Christ
ian Faith and Action" will be the
theme of the YMCA-YWCA
Southern Regional Division con
ference at Berea, Ky. June 10-17.
According to Sam McGill, pres
ident of the Southern Area Stu
dent Council of the YMCA, the
inter-denominational and inter
racial conference "gives students
a chance to sit down together for
a week, get to know each other
and to know how things are done
in other associations."
The conference will feature
speeches, workshops and round
table discussions. Platform speak
ers include the Rev. Herbert King
of Grace Congregational Church
in New York, Dr. Aubrey Wil
liams, editor of the Southern
Farmer; Dr. J. T. Caldwell, presi
dent of Alabama College; and
Dr. Forrest C. Weir, executive
secretary of the Southeastern of
fice of the Federal Council of
Churches.
Workshop and evening group
leaders will come from the dif
ferent colleges represented at the
conference. Claude Shotts will
represent the University. v
This is the third year the con
ference has met at Berea. Last
year over 200 students from 50
white and Negro colleges in the
South attended it.
"The most dynamic aspect of
the educational system" said
Shotts, "brings out the ideals that
are practical and offers students
a chance to face life! That to me
is an education."
9
Feme Hughes Crowned May Queen
In Colorful Ceremony On Sunday
By Caroline Bruner
Feme Hughes of Rainelle, W.
Va. was crowned Queen of the
May in an "Alice-in-Wonderland"
May Day program of pageantry,
day afternoon, on the lawn be
singing, and dancing, held Sun
side Mclver Dormitory.
Miss Hughes, who was crowned
by Chancellor R. B. House, had as
her maids-of-honor Claudia Lee
of Marshallville, Ga. and Eliza
beth Myatt of Goldsboro. Mem
bers of the queen's court were
Tnnn Lucas. Sarah Jane Farlowe,
Fran Angus, Becky Holton, Hen
tta Thorpe. Babs DeWitt, Dol-
1.- Ann T")nnnaw3V.
and Marty
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Winkle.
ThP festivities, which got un-
with the singing ot
"Lazy Bones" and "Down by the
ofafiAn" bv the Sigma a
.t rontinued with a pageant
presentation of the Alice-in-Won
derland story. Tne zairyianu
narrated by. John Clayton, was
performed in pantomine and mod
ern dancing.
Following the presentation and
crowning of the queen, she was
serenaded by the Sigma Chi sex
tet with "Tell Me Why" and "Tradition."
Characters in the pageant in
cluded: Alice, Barbara Mclntyre;
Mock Turtle, Effie Westervelt;
Red and White Queens,, Anne
Kessler and Eleanor DeGrange;
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee,
Sara Oliver and Eloise Jacobi;
Mad Hatter, Carter Taylor; March
Hare, Audrey Donnan; White
rabbit, Anita Gates; and Humpty
Dumpty, Edith Knight.
Following the May Day pro
gram, which was sponsored by the
Pan Hellenic Council, the Coed
Senate, the Carolina Independent
Coed Association, and the Chi
Delta Phi Literary Sorority, an
open house was held by CICA in
the main lounge of Graham Memorial,
Solons Also Move :
To Set Up Plans
For Summer Board
The Student Legislature
last night unanimously, con
demned a reported move by
the Board of Trustees to re
quire all students and teach
ers of the Greater University
to take non-Communist oaths.
The representatives, meeting in
special session, passed a resolution
introduced by Legislator John
Sanders stating that the body is
"unalterably and irrevocably op
posed to the passage by the
Board of Trustees of any reso
lution or other expression of will
which would make requisite as
prior condition to employment
or enrollment the signing of any
statement declaring non-member
ship in any political, religious or
other group by any member of the
faculty or students."
Members of the Legislature at
tacked the reported move by the
Trustees as an attack on the ac
ademic freedom for which the
University is famed. Nat Will
iams said the move was just one
of the first of its type to be
brought out after the resignation
of Dr. Frank P. Graham as pres
ident. The Legislature also passed a
new resolution last night con
cerning summer school student
government, but Speaker Ted
Leonard had to call another spec
ial session to do it. .
Legislator Ben James moved
to reconsider a bill passed at the
ast session setting up a summer
governing board of 11 persons
to act as executive, legislators to
study the summer problem with
the executive.-
Then as James and Sol Kim-
erling retired to prepare an
amendment to the bill, the solons
voted to adjourn. Leonard im
mediately called another special
session, which met a few minutes
later to hear the Kimerling-James
amendment.
The new motion, which was
passed overwhelming, stiplated
that the legislative committee
should propose the following gov
ernmental set-up to the executive:
"There shall be a council, of 11
persons, five women and six men,
which shall constitute the execu
tive and legislative branches. The
women shall try all women's
Campus Code violations. Together
they shall try all Honor Code
violations.
"There shall also be a Student
Council of nine students who
shall hear all appeals and cases
of constitutionality."
A
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t Kenan
raham Will Speak
ommencement
Streamlined Graduation Procedure!l"Tr.r,nl hf:JJll
Will Eliminate Old Diploma Lines
By-Sally Woodhull
Senator Frank Porter Graham
will be the featured speaker at
streamlined commencement exer
cises Monday evening, June 6, in
Kenan Stadium.
The affair will mark the former
president's first public appear
ance at a student function since
becoming a senator. It is the 40th
anniversary of his class's gradua
tion from the University.
For the first time in the Uni
versity's history, the exercises
will feature mass presentation of
degrees. Dr. J. C. Lyons, facul-
Presidential Committee,
Trustees To Meet Today
NC Congressman
Will Speak Here
Thursday Night
Charles Bennett Deane, Con
gressman from the 8th district of
North Carolina who will speak
here Thursday at 8:30 in Gerrard
Hall, will discuss the general sub
ject of medical care and its rela
tion to housing.
Deane, who is co-sponsored by
the Carolina Forum and the Car
olina Political Union, is a strong
supporter of the new medical
school for the University.
The speaker is expected to dis
cuss the implications Of the Com
pulsory Insurance Legislation
pending in Congress Murray Gol
denthal, president of the Forum,
said yesterday. Deane is author of
the legislation to broaden the hos
pital construction program.
Goldenthall said Deane will
probably discuss a new bill which
he has been working upon since
the convening of the 81st Con
gress involving aid to the con
struction of medical schools, clin
ics, administrative personnel,
nurses, and fellowships and loans
to faculties and students involv
ing the general program of medi
cal care.
The speaker, who at present is
a member of the committees on
Banking and Currency and on
House Administration, was first
elected to Congress in 1946.
A reception will be held for the
peaker after his address in the
main lounge of Graham Memor
ial, at 10 o'clock, Goldenthall said.
CPU Accepts
Six Members
Six new members were induct
ed into the Carolina Political
Union in its last meeting of the
year Sunday night. They are:
Ed Williams, Wilmington, Jerry
Blum, Jackson Heights, N. Y.;
Bill Hutton, Greesboro; Bob Byer,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Bob Marks,
Reidsville, and Charlie Scales,
Hickory.
The Board of Trustees of the
Greater University and the spe
cial committee to choose a presi
dent will meet here today, with
the trustee meeting scheduled to
get under way at 11 this morn
ing and the special committee at
3 this afternoon. The trustees will
meet in the faculty lounge of the
planetarium, while the committee
will meet in South Building.
Main business before the trus
tees is expected to be the position
of Communists at the University.
Although no agenda for the meet
ing has been announced, the re
cent controversy over the Atomic
Energy Commission fellowship
award to avowed Communist
Hans Freistadt makes' it almost
certain that the subject will convj
before the board.
The president-choosing commit
tee will hear recommendations
from students and faculty. Any
student will be allowed to present
his views on the qualifications
or on specific men for the job!
The trustees will have a lunch
eon in the Governor Morehead
room of the planetarium after the
11 o'clock meeting. Some 60 to 70
members are expected to be pres
ent at the regular Spring meeting.
Senior Meeting
Candidates for degrees at
ihe coming Commencement
will meet with the Faculty
Commencement Marshal, Dr.
J. C. Lyons, tomorrow fct 4:15
in Memorial Hall. Dress, rou
tines and procedure relative to
Commencement will be discussed.
Orientation Committee Picks
75 Counselors for Next Fall
Training Program Will Start Tonight
At Meeting in Phillips Hall at 7:30
Orientation Committee Chairman Al Lowenstein yester
day released a list of 75 counselors and associate counselors
for the fall freshman orientation program.
The students named in that list,
as well as those persons previous
ly notified, must attend a meeting
at 7:30 this evening in 206 Phil
ips Hall. Dean of Students Fred
Weaver and Lowenstein will in
struct the group and lay plans
for the fall. This will be the only
meeting of counselors this quar
ter.
Lowenstein said yesterday that
the Orientation Committee was
grateful for the large turn-out of
applicants for counselors' posi
tions. He said he was sorry the
method of interviewing caused
some students to wait in line, but
throwing open the positions to
anyone on campus necessitated
some inconveniences.
The list released yesterday in
cluded the following names
Bob Litton, Chuck Northend,
Horace Stacy, Fred Thompson,
Winner Is Named
For Jackson Fund
John Livingston Hazelhurst,
III, of Wilmington, has been
awarded the Herbert Worth
Jackson Scholarship of $2,000,
D. D. Carroll, chairman of the
Faculty Scholarship Committee,
said yesterday.
This scholarship covers a per
iod of four years and is open to
any native North Carolinian who
is eligible to enter the Univer
sity, Dean Carroll of the Commerce
School said this year's appli
cants for the award formed the
ablest group who ever competed
for the scholarship. "This made
the selection of the winner par
ticularly difficult this year," he
added. Twenty-one- high school
seniors out of over 50 applicants
for the award were interviewed
by the Scholarship committee
here last Saturday.
Hazelhurst, 17 year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hazelhurst
of Wilmington, has made an un
usually fine scholastic record and
has also been active as a leader
in school activities, Carroll add
ed.
The scholarship will be award
ed again in 1951.
will be conferred by degree
groups rather than on individuals.
The change in procedure is one
which has been under discussion
for a long time, Dr. Lyons said.
The practice has been in effect
for some time in all the major
universities of the country. Sen
ior class leaders were consulted,
he said, before the decision to
change the procedure was reach
ed. Under the streamlined proced
ure, as each degree-group is pre
sented by its dean, it will rise in
the stands and the governor will
confer the degree. The group will
then sit down and the following
degree-group will be presented.
The only degree candidates who
will leave the stands and go up
on the platform individually will
be those receiving the Ph.D.
At the conclusion of the cere
mony, those receiving degrees
will report to a location to be
announced, where they will turn
in their caps and gowns and pick
up their diplomas.
Instructions will be given all
degree candidates at a meeting
tomorrow afternoon at 4:15 in
Memorial Hall.
Al Winn will serve as chief
student marshal, with the follow
ing marshals: Bootsie Lyons,
Anne Chandler, Muriel Fisher,
Eleanor De Grange, Dortch War
riner, Richard Boren, Andy Corn
ish and Dick Gordon.
In case of rain, graduation ex
ercises will be held in Woollen
Gymnasium.
UNC Orchestra
To Give Concert
The University Symphony Or
chestra, conducted by Earl Slo
cum, will present its third con
cert of the year tomorrow even
ing at 8:30 in Hill Music Hall.
Soloist for the occasion will be
Jeanne Fornoff Smith, pianist.
playing the "Concerto in C Min
or" for piano and orchestra, by
L. Von Beethoven. Miss Smith
is a graduate of the Julliard
School of Music and is at pres
ent an instructor in piano in the
Music Department of the Uni-ver-
sity.
Other compositions to be play
ed by the orchestra will be Bee
thoven's "Symphony No. 7 in A
Major"; "Prelude and Fugue in
D Minor," by Bach; Overture to
"Suzanne's Secret," by Wolf-Ferrari;
and a new "Ballet Suite,"
by John Satterfield, a senior
music student at the University.
Charlie Gibson, Jim Stallings, J There will be no admission
Ted Young, Charlie Smith, Buddy
Freed, Roy Holsten, Irwin Gold
man, Herb Nachman, Harold
Crowder, Chuck Hauser, John
Stump, Charlie Fox.
Bill Skinner, Charles Fulghum,
Harold Bursley, Don vanNoppen,
Larry Botto, Marshall Roberts,
Andy Bell, Buck Blankenship,
Edward Watson, Bill Mackie, Ted
Leonard, Jess Dedmond, Pete
Burks, Dan Bell, Bruce Sanborn,
Nat Williams, Gran Childress
Rufus Bynum, Albert Dickson,
Nemo Nearman, Bob Evans, Joe'
(See ORIENTATION, page 4)
charge.
Carolina Quarterly Will Appear
On Campus And Newstands Today
The new eighty page Spring
issue of the Carolina Quarterly,
campus literary magazine, makes
its appearance on the campus and
news stands today.
Increased in size by eight pages
over the previous issues, the
present edition of the Quarterly
contains articles, fiction, poetry,
and book reviews by students,
faculty, and outside contributors.
Five articles are presented in
the present issue including "To
wards Form in Writing" by Phil
lips RusselL eminent author and
teacher; "Tennessee Williams:
Portrayer of Frustration" by Rob
ert Walker, a special student and
personal friend of Tennessee
Williams; "Why a Liberal Educa
tion?" by Dr. Wallace E. Cald
well, teacher and historian;
"Southern Folk Music by Dr. I.
G. Greer and Norman Cordon;
and "The Relation between Psy
chology and Religion," by Dr. J.
B. Rhine.
Fiction selected for the current
issue includes "They Went for
Babylon" by John Foster. West,
prominent student writer; "Sweet
Amanda" by Robert Haynie,
former Carolina student from
Asheville; "Interview at the Ritz"
by Paul Ader, graduate student
who has already published two
novels; and. "Little Joe and the
Indian Blanket" by Heath Thorn
as from Salisbury who has pub
lished short stories in Story and
Esquire magazines.
Seven poems and ten pages of
book reviews constitute the re
mainder of the magazine.
Editor Roy C. Moose, comment
ing on the present edition, stated
that "from the standpoint of size
content, and make-up I believe
this to be our best effort so far
in the brief history of our young
publication. I hope that our read
ers will lend their support to the
continued publication of the
Quarterly so that new writers
may find an outlet for their ere
ative efforts," ,
Chest Leaders
Will Hold Meet
The Board of Directors of the
newly-established Campus Chest
will hold their first meeting at
3:30 tomorrow in the Grail Room,
Graham Memorial, said co-ordina-tor
Dick Murphy yesterday.
Members who are expected ,to
attend include: Pete Gerns, pres
ident of the Men's Inter-Dorm
Council; Barbara Lowe, Women's
Inter - Dorm President; Ralph
Hebb, President, TMA; Janet El
lington, President, TWA; Ted
Young, Inter-Fraternity Council
president; Lucille Reilly, presi
dent of Pan Hellenic Council;
Bill Roth, president of Alpha Phi
Omega, Boy Scout fraternity and
Dick Jenrette, Editor of the Daily
Tar Heel.
Sam Craver To Head
13 Club Next Year
Sam W. Craver, Jr., a member
of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity,
has been elected president of
the Thirteen Club for the com
ing year.
Other officers chosen are Bak
er M. Bass, Jr., Sigma Nu, vice
president; Bill Steele, Kappa Sig,
secretary-treasurer; and Lem
Whitsett, Phi Gam, social chair