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SE2IAI12 DEPT. ' CUAPEL HILL, II. C. EDITORIALS Lei's Conlinut The Good Record Merry -Go-Round Lc tiers To The Editor WEATHER fa!r and mild. i V VOLUME LVIII Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 43 V J) 1 ' i Beat Dook 43 Groups A Joyce Reynolds, Hollywood movie actress who rose ' to U fame in Manic" and other movies, will award the trophies i- to the organizations winning Friday's "Beat Dook" float 1 parade at the pep rally that night. . Miss Reynolds, is a student at .' Duke this year, majoring in el-j I prmentary education. She is a j native of Houston, Texas, but moved to L.os Angeles when she I whs IB. Although s!(; plans to j return to California after her graduation from Duke, the ac tress says she does not intend to ac t again. She will award permanent trophies to the winners in four eludes: fraternities, sororities, men's dormitories and women's dormitories. The float parade will begin at 2 o'clock Friday after noon from Woollen Gymnasium and will move towards Franklin Street and over a nine tenths oi a mile route before returning to the gym. Candidates for queen of the parade were judged last night by live judges at the PiKA house. The idenity of the girl selected! will not be announced until time for the parade, Charlie Smith, chairman of the parade arrange ments, said last night. The queen will ride on a float, built by the PiKAs, which will carry a pla card with her name and the name ui her sponsoring organization. Any organizations, especially those without previous float .building experience, who need any information may call Smith at the PiKA hause, it was an nounced yesterday. Approximately 43 organizations Hie expected to hav. Ntries in the parade. Last year's ties were won by Smith and Ay cock tlormitories, Chi Omega sorority and Phi Gam fraternity, Jones, Hans !' Will Speak I T-1 . t, i i t . i inc; nev. vnuiiL'b m. juries aim 'admitted Communist Hans Frei- stadt will give their views on the "Christian and the Marxian Approach to Social Action" at 8 L(-ciiit:i uii-uaiuii in uciiaiu nan next Tuesday at 7:30. The discussion between the Presbyterian Church minister oi Chapel Hill atid the Karl Marx Study Society chairman will be lHd under the auspices of the Study Society. Each speaker will make a short Jntroductory statement, after which the floor will be open for general discussion of the subject V " !! Y Book Clubbers To Hear Hclcman if Hu n y no ) the Y Hugh Huleman will address the. Book Club in the library of Holeman 13 a native of South 'Cdrohna and was for several , i years dean at Presbyterian Col ' lege. He has been editor of a 1 regional : jV'iblicatioi r South Cat regional publishing house, state :ns director for the irolina Council for Na tional Defense, and, during the war was a physics instructor in the Army Air Forte. He began writing at the age "! ievpn and 13 still at it, having 'vnitrn and directed over 200 "i!itirk'd! radio plays in ac ,J I to hio mystery novels. He C 'is now teaching and sti I IHere. jddition Holeman studying . J Th". topic for Wednesday will f 'p0 "The Mystery Novel.".. The I .I' feting will be an informal one 1 h open to all who are interested. Pledge Lists AH fretrniliea whith weuli like their lists of pledge pub. hshed in The Daily Ter HI wusi submit those Ul to lh DTH es soon as possible. The Interfralernily Council did not keep a master list of pledges when il dislribuied Ih4 bids last id f ,,'3f mlhcd by which The Daily Ttt Heel can obtain the lists is the , Floats; Entered GW Editorial Aids Negro Admissions WASHINGTON", Nov. 15 W An editorial appearing today in The Hatchet, student publica tion at George Washington Uni versity, calls for a review of a policy against admission of Negro students. ''The time has come, we feel, for the university to reconsider its present admission policy and remove the barrier it has main tained against Negro students," the-paper said.. : It added that George Washing ton University is "the only high ly rated college; in the city still barring qualified American citi zens on the grounds of race alone." The editorial said that Catholic University and American Univer sity "have accepted Negroes for years. Howard University here is a Negro institution." "Equal treatment, and equal rights and privileges are princi ples of American democracy that are as deep as any we have," said the editorial. No Loyalty Oath' Be Di Subject To . A resolution urging that ever, be required of University students, faculty or staff mem bers will be discussed by the Dialectic Senate at 9 o'clock tonight. The topic has recently received wide publicity through the opposition of Paul Green, University faculty member, to a questionnaire being used by the University administration. nieeung in ine ui nan on the third floor of New West building, Senate members and visitors will discuss and vote upon the reso lution as a parliamentary body. The resolution as drafted by the pi Ways and Means Committee reads: "Whereas, the University of North Carolina is 'a center of realistic liberal thought and edu cation; its members should al ways strive to maintain this tra dition of freedom of ideas, the present international situation has jeopardized the constitution ally guaranteed rights of Amer ican citizens, and it is the duty of every American citizen to pro tect the Ccnstitution of the Unit ed States 6oth in spirit and in tetter; . "Therefore, be it resolved by the Senate of the Dialectic Lit- , u..,, of North Carolina should require no statement of political belief or views from members of its faculty, staff, or student body, and that any such requirements now in force should be abolished at once.' Lirfle Innocent Fun? Scalped Colgate Bandsmen March For Syracuse University Captors SYRACUSE, N. Y., Noy. 5 (43iMore than 3,000 Syracuse! University students cheered wild ly today as 19 "scalped" Colgate University bandsmen were pa raded before them. The scene was the aftermath of a free-for-all yesterday at the New York Central Railroad Sta tion, where Syracuse fraternity men had attempted to "kidnap" the 60J member Colgate band. Syracuse students had learned Colgate's band was due to arrive at the station enroute home from the Colgate-Northwestern foot ball game at Evanston, 111. As the train pulled" in, 60 Syra cuse men, carrying empty instru xasal oaifes, baardei two tUses Radio Group Will Present Star' Show Marshall Slated To Be Narrator Christmas Day A 30-minute radio program presenting the story of the Star of Bethlehem with emphasis on the scient'ic and astronomical aspects hks just been . completed and recorded by the Communi cation Center Radio Department, Arthur V. Briskin, director and producer of the shaw, said yes terday. Dr. Roy K. Marshall, director of the Morehead Planetarium, is the narrator for the show, which will be released for presentation on Christmas Day. Professor Er rol Wynn, Radio Department head, will handle the Scripture readings which are included in the scripC. Others taking part in the pro duction are John Clayton and Frank Groseclose. The latter is playing the part of Johann Kep ler, a famous German astrono mer of the 17th century who first made an attempt to scienticifally explain the traditional story of the Star of Bethlehem. Clayton portrays Rudolph, an assistant to Kepler. Briskin said that the transcrip tions of the show will be carried by at least two 50,000 watt sta tions in North Carolina and it is possible that the production will be made available to a national at tr? ionrc tVirr.l MV t'nn nof ttr. r-b- I medium. 1 no statemnt of oolitical belief History Book Disapproved TOPEKA. Kas., Nov. 15 VP) An American history described by it3 critics as "partisan, biased and prejudiced" was removed from the approved text book list by the Kansas Board of Educa tion today. The book is "The American Way of Life" by Harold Under wood Faulkner, Tyler Kepner and Hall Bartlett (Harper and Bros., Publisher). It has been in use in Kansas high schools under a five-year contract which ends next summer. The board said its decision to drop the book from the approved list was the result of a poll of all American history teachers in the state. The text had drawn bitter crit icism earlier from Lloyd Ferrell, banker and member of the Board of Education at Wichita, Kas. 1 waiting to Jake the Colgate band to the Hamilton, JM. Y., campus. Meanwhile, the Colgate bands men were directed to two buses hired Ly Syracuse students. A bus driver tipped off the un suspscting Colgate bandsmen, however. As they sought to back out of the buses, a reserve force of Syracuse students rushed from the station. The ensuing melee brought po lice radio cars, motorcycle offi cers and a patrol wagon. x Two policement and an uniden tified Colgate student were in jured slightly. In the confusion, the Syracuse students kidnapped 19 Colsate 'A-iSf !'! 7 A 'I X 4 w. GENE KRUPA Preparations Are Finished For Dance ; Roy . Holsten, president of the German Club, said yesterday that final plans have been made for the afternoon concert ancf two formal dances to be presented this weekend, featuring Gene Krupa and his orchestra. , .' The quarterly German Club- sponsored weekend will begin Fri day afternoon with a concert in Memorial , Hall from 4 ; until 6 o'clock and will continue with formal dances in Woollen Gym nasium Friday night from 9, until 1 and Saturday night from 9 until 12 o'clock. - Holsten said that since Gene Krupa's band has been known for its jump pieces, a contract stat ing that Krupa would limit the number of fast pieces was signed by the orchestra leader. "Em phasis will be on dancing instead of listening," Holsten said. However, the German Club president said jump tunes made famous by the Krupa band, in cluding "Gene's Boogie" and "Body and Soul," will be featur ed at the afternoon concert. Features of the dance weekend will be the presentation of the German Club sponsors during the, intermision Friday night, and the presentation of the Yackety Yack- sponsored beauty queen and court at the Saturday night dance. "Down Beat," a-musical maga zine, said of the Gene Krupa band, which how emphasizes mu sic for ballroom dancing. "At playing sweet-swing-sway, it can outblow Vaughn Monroe. Krupa's band is the most commercially salable item (especially as far as territory ballrooms are concerned) this reviewer has caught in years. Gene's current forte, showman ship is paying off." Recital Slated This Afternoon The fourth in a series of Stu dent Recitals will be presented this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Hill Hall, open to the public. "Drinking Songs" from "Mar tha" (Flotow) will be sung by John von Canon, baritone; accom panied at the piano by Max Lind say. This will be followed by "Etudes Symphoniques" (Schu mann), a group of symphonic studies, to be played by Robin Scroggs at the "piano. The program will be concluded with "L'Horizon Chimeriques,' opus 118 (Faure), sung by Rich ard Cox, baritone, . accompanied by William Waters at the piano, bandsmen and took them to fra ternity houses, where their heads were shaved to leave a tufted "S" atop the scalp. Then the humiliated musicians were paraded before the hastily organized rally in front of the main library. Later, they were liberated and made their way back to the Colgate campus. The remaining members of the band, meanwhile, had left . the city in buses under state police escort. The kidnaping plot was staged as a highlight of the traditional Colgate Week festivities which precede the annual Colgate-Sy racuse game. Coed Senate Barnes Setup Of Election Girls Will Have 20 Jobs To Fill In Foil Voting All coed petitions for the com ing fall elections must be turned in to Mac Copenhaver, chairman of coed elections, in 212 Spencer, by 6 o'clock Monday night, Coed Senate Head Pat Stanford said yesterday. Petitions nominating girls for the S iate must contain the nom inee's name, list of qualifications, statement by her that she will run and the signatures of 15 coeds. Vacancies in the Senate include one each for Mclver and Smith, two each for Kenan and Carr and four for juniors at large. All coeds vote for the members at large, and coeds running for the other posts are voted on only by the girls in their own dorms Petitions for the one vacancy in Student Council and the four vacancies in Women's Council must be signed by 25 coeds. This is - in accord with campus elec tions law. To be eligible for Student Council a coed must have been here at least two quarters, Five . positions are open for women legislators. In Women's Dorm District I there are two one-year terms and one six months term open. This district is composed of Kenan, Alderman and Mclver. One one-year term is open in Women's Dorm District II which is composed of Spencer, Carr, Archer House and Smith. There is also a one-year term open in Town District, which in cludes .the. sorority houses and all girls living.: in town. Vacancies on the Women's Council are for one graduate and three juniors. All coeds running for Student Legislature, Women s Council and Student Council must be nominated by a petition signed by. 25 persons and containing the nominee's signature, qualifica tions- and statement of willing ness to run unless the candidate is endorsed by a political party. CP To Make Nominations The Campus Party will wind j up . nominations for its December election slate- at a meeting at i 7:30 tonight in Bingham Hall auditorium, party chairman Ves tal Taylor said yesterday. A total of 35 Student Legisla ture seats must be filled in the December election, and Taylor said that the party still "has nom inees to choose from nearly every election district." The CP has already named and announced freshman class officer candidates. Taylor emphasized the fact that the party will finish its nomina tions at the meeting, and urged all interested persons to come and take part. The deadline for nom inations to be in to the Elections Boards is next Monday. In an earlier statement on CP nominating policy, Taylor assert ed that the CP would, "do its best to choose the best-qualified men as ; candidates," and that if qualified persons could not be found, the Party would not put up a candidate for the post. BSU Plans Dinner Feting Foreigners The Baptist Student Union Thanksgiving Dinner in honor of foreign students wrill be held next Tuesday night at 6:30. The banquet will be held in the Chapel Hill Baptist Church and all foreign students will be invited guests. Any other students who wish to attend may do so by purchas ing a ticket for $1 at the Y. Tic ketSv will be on sale this week , only. res h i Visit Yale a - ;'r 1 " LOST AT SEA FOR five days, Archibald C. Yovr. Jr... 33, a UNC student from Henderson, is shown here with, the figure head he carved for his yact. The Elysia. Yow was rescued this week after spending five days in the Atlantic Ocean' aboard his homemade sailboat. ' , . - Student Is In WILMINGTON, Nov. 14 Fishermen have rescued a Uni versity of North Carolina student after he was lost for five days in the Atlantic Ocean aboard his homemade sailboat. . ' Archibald Yow, 33, Henderson, was dragged from tne uii after fighting adverse weather condi tions aboard the "Elysia" with out a watch, compass or a set of (charts to guide him, .-. ., 1 H Yow estimated he sailed over 350 miles . in the Gulf Stream, be fore finally catching sight of land. When he saw land he put out in his seven-foot skiff and cap sized as he reached the breaking surf. Buddy Benson, Johnny Vol lers, and A. C. Smith, all of Wil- Atlantic Wake Forest Studerit Will Conduct Vespers Richard Smith, ministerial stu dent at Wake Forest, will speak at the regular Campus Vespers service to night at 5:45 in Ger rard Hall, Ted Sellars, YMCA Worship Committee "president, said yesterday. The regular Campus Vespers service will begin as usual at 5:30, with approximately 15 min utes of soft music to give any one the opportunity to come in for personal devotions. The planned service is .the third- in the Y's plan of having a speaker once each week, varying the night for the speaker from week to week in order that more may at tend After the conclusion of Smith's talk, and for the remainder of the hour until 6:30, Gerrard Hall will remain open to all who may desire to come for silent worship. Gerrard Hall is converted in to a non-denominational chapel each afternoon at 5:30, Monday Rain' Ticket Response "'" j ' . . The response to yesterday's, ticket sale opening for the Caro lina Playmaker g'.-oduction of "Rain" was immediate and grat ifying, assistant business mana ger Nat White said yesterday. "We were surprised,", he said, "when reserved seat .requests poured in from Raleigh, Durham; Sanford, and from the campus, more than doubling the opening day sale for our first production." "Rain" is scheduled for produc tion on Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 1, 2, 3, and 4, in the Playmaker Theater. It was dramatized by John Colton and Clemence Ran dolph from a short story by W. Somerset Maughan, and Sam ! Harris produced the play orig I - , - -A mington, were fishing in the surf and aided Yow to! shore. ' Yow, who had water and can- ned food aboard the "Elysia," said he put out last Wednesday from Morehead City, about 80 miles north of here: . After sailing for a few hours, adverse winds car- ried him into the Galf Stream; and he was unable to reach the shore. Yow, said he drifted until yes- terday when he sighted land. With;arfiveHlay stiibble 'of a red'' beard, Yow,, did not "appear physically harmed by the 'trip. He said he built "Elysia'; last summer at Chapel Hill, "at r the University of North Carolina, and brought it by trailer t6; the Atlantic in August: UUUU5U X11U10UOJ, B11U UiAVJ.4 1 students and faculty members come in for a few moments of j ." a is placed on the altar at the back of the stage, and candles are used to light the hall. In the rear of the hall, a phon- ograph is used to play such mu- 44 A 4tfTT T J I Prayer," "Abide With Me," - and many ther hymns, religious-or- chestral music, and great ovgin . . music. During the past few weeks, attendance, at Campus Vespers has steadily ; increased," Sellars said, "and we iVcerely hope that Vespers will 'ecome an import- ant part, in the everyday life of many students." ' sponsored, and conducted by the YMCA Worship Committee and the YWCA Vespers Committee, Peggy Neal president. Rescued Ocean tifvinq' -White inally, with Jeanne Eagles in the starring role of "Sadie Thomp- son," a role later played by Sally Rand, Helen Mencken; and Tullu- lah Bankhead- Richly colored with the South Sea atmosphere and its', tropical downpour, "Rain' tells of the na tural conflict between easy-going Sadie and narrow-minded Rev. Davidson. The drama of its ex ploding sex repressions has made "Rain" a favorite show with au diences all over the country, in cluding more than 700 perform ances in New York. Tickets for the production are now available at l.edbetter-Pick- ard's and at the Playmaker busi ness office in Swain HalL ' mraittee ean MO Article Reports Vane Heading List Select List Cut To Exactly Dozen, Including Gray RALEIGH, Nov. 15 The Raleigh News and Observer said tonight the committee charged with picking a new president for the Greater University left for New York today. The entire nine-man committee. said the newspaper, went on the trip for a Wednesday interview O. Max Gardner, Jrv law- student here and a member el 'the Board oi Trustees special presidential selection committee said yesterday that the last offic- ; ial information to be given out by the committee was that only 12 names were left on the list. Gardner, who left last night to join the other members of the committee in New York, would make no direct comment on ine "alei9 wew erver "ory .xn" Ine corom' tee s urst cnoice was uean civde De Vane of Yale Univer -Uv with the Dean of Yale Colleee. n identified the possible siic- cesor to Senator Frank Graham's 0id job as-"Dr. William Clyde De Vane, native of Savannah, Ga., and professor of English and Dean at Yale Colleee. Yale Uni- yersity ince July, 1938." . Headed - by Chairman victor Bryant of Durham,' a committee of Greater University Trustees is seeeking a successor to Gra- ham, who left the Greater Uni- versity presidency last spring. He was appointed to the U. S. Senate by Governor Scott to take over the seat of the late J. Melville Broughton. The N&O account said: "The current choice No. I is reported to be" Dr. De Vane, 51. It con tinued: , , 4 , - - Mfy ""V -"F - P. .. . . v. irom me iaa mai ine enure cora- made the toew Yo? Conferences with other candi dates on the list of a dozen have been held by two or three com mittee members, who submit their rep0rt to the full group. Other ixames known, to be cn he te of da flude Secretary Goraon Gray a Winston-Salem man; Undcrsecre- . . . , r. 7 iaryr 01 aiaxe James jC. v cud, a native of Granville County: Dr. jj. W. Stope, President of Louisi- ana State University at Baton piouge, La. ' ' J:J. ! A"t ,t t1"1 iUi f t : v T Since then, it was cut to 33 by committee members, and then to even dozen at a meeting sev- eral weeks ago. Th facuitv council of the Great er University, composed of teachers at the three units Chapel HilL State , College . and the Woman's College reportedly have recommended that the com mittee's choice not come from the faculties of the three schools. The committee has heard the ideas of the faculty members several times since they started their search several months ago. The committee will hold its next meeting in late November. Solons Meet Delegates and alternates to the Stats Student Legislature in. Raleigh will meet at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to discuss legislation which will be intro duced by the delegation at the mock General Assembly Dec. 1, 2 and 3. Arrangements will also' be made at the meeting for housing and transportation to the legislature.