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U.1I.C. Library Serial3 Dept , Cbapel Rill. C ........ . . A - EDITORIALS Do Posieri Conyince? About Light Vole Worthwhile Step WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer. VOLUME LVIII Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 53 Christmas Activities For Village To Begin With Parade! onight By Bill Johnson Beginning this evening at 7 o'clock wiih a float parade and the appearance of the traditional Santa Claus, the local Mer chants Association will open its month-long program to "build a community Christmas spirit and make Chapel Hill the prettiest place in the State during the holiday season," Wilbur Kutz, president of the Association said yesterday. In outlining his organizations plans, Klutz explained that em- A 1 f Aavisor sees Settlement In New Move ii - aji Hits phasis this year will be 1 placed on non-commercial decorations. $2.";0 in savings bonds will be prrsontcd to families and organi zations devising the mot im pressive displays. A first prize of a $100 bond will go to the family unit with the best decoration, and a $50 bond will be given to the second prize winner in the same category. An additional $100 Ixmd will be given by the Mer chants to the non-commercial organization outside the family group which best captures the Christmas spirit. , Kutz explained that sororities, fraternities, dormitories, and other campus, civic, or church organizations will be eligible for the award. He also requested that families and organizations display their names along with their de corations. Judging of the displays will be handled by the president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of various Chapel Hill and Carrboro clubs that took part In the Band Promotion Program and .the Christmas plans. The judges will decide on their own method of judging and will in spect the displays any night be tween December , 15 and 22. ' The parade, which will form this evening in front of the Twin Village Laundry at 6:30, will move up W. Franklin St. and turn right down Cameron to the Carolina Inn. Turning left, the ' procession will move through i the campus to the Arboretum, where it will turn back to Frank lin St. After passing through the business district, the parade will conclude at the Chapel Hill High School. Along the route the pro cession will stop several times to sing carols, At the high school the band and glee club wil present a pro gram and Santa Clause, aided by Miss Merry Christmas, will pass out apples to prc-schooi-age children on the lawn. The Cone House In. front of Ihe school .will be the scene of other Christmas decorations including a tree, do nated and erected by the local Jaycces, igloos, and other appro priatc seasonal figures. Kutz said that many people from all over North Carolina will be coming to Chapel Hill during the Christmas season for the pur ; pose of seeing the "Star of Beth lehem" presentation at the More head Planetarium. Plans arc be ing considered to print a small map or program that will direct visitors to the various family and organizational decoration? throughout the town. Oi' -v.. .i. ,. JOHN L. LEWIS KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 1 (P) President Truman's top labor consultant voiced hope tonight of a possible settlement of" the coal labor controversy as the aftermath of John L. Lewis' call ing off of the nation-wide strike. An optimistic John R. Steelman expressed confidence there would be no resumption of the strike and that harmony in the coal in dustry may usher in a "long period of industrial peace." Steelman said Lewis' announce ment of the resumption Monday of a three-day1 work week was "no surprise" to Mr. Truman. The assistant to the President said he saw grounds for belief Lewis and the coal operators eventually will reach an agreement. "My understanding is that they are closer together than they were few days ago," he added. He said he was "optimistic I am al ways optimistic." He wouldn't go beyond saying that at least some of the coa! operators wanted to settle with Lewis. Lewis' announcement gave lo cal unions authority to negotiate with individual operators. With the coal miners digging again, even if on a three-day basis, and peace in' the steel in dustry, Steelman said the great est obstacles to industrial peace apparently have . been removed. Lewis Relents, Miners Return To Coal Pits NEW YORK, Dec. l-(P)-Jhn L. Lewis today ended a full-scale national soft coal strike -by putting 400,000 bituminous miners on a three-day work week. A - The three-day work week or dered applied also to 80,000 hard coal miners who have been work ing five days weekly. The move, which President Truman ' was reported to have known about in advance, wiped out the prospect of a nationwids coal emergency requiring White House intervention. Lewis' 200-man policy commit tee, which had postponed meetings here all week while the United Mine workers' chief developed his, strategy, approved a resolu tion directing that the three-day- week become effective Monday, Dec. 5, in all union mines. A three-week truce had ex pired last night at midnightjand the miners stayed home. Lewis and his Scale Committee were authorized to make con tracts separately with - individual companies-Vtossing out imtnedi ate efforts to win a nationwide contract. Tbg;. resolution said that the short Veek with production only Monday.Tuesday and Wed-, nesday, and an "irreduciable min imum of maintenance work" on the other days--would be dropped as contracts are signed; alma Ga. Governor i Says State Is 'Test Ground' Sourh's Future Brightest Ever, Asserts Speaker By Rolfe Neill Georgia ' Governor Herman E. Talmadge denounced Commun ism and the Civil Rights pro-jEast- -gram while lashing out at "North- T The Plan formally approved af ern interference into Southern ! ter three days of secret meetings hts an NA Nations Approve Plan For Defense PARIS, Dec. 1 (JP) The North Atlantic treaty nations bid for peace tonight by writing a plan lor defense in war. The 12 members agreed to mold their armed forces into a single wall of steel to halt any aggres sion from the Soviet-controlled Automobiles To Stay, Safety Committee Says A report issued by Safety Com mittee Chairman Joe Bach yes terday emphasized the fact that student automobiles will not be restricted on campus. Bach, reporting after an im portant meeting of the Safety Committee, said that "no action has been taken one way or an other," and added that "the re striction of cars is certainly not the only solution to the problem. It is only one of many sugges- 'Innocent'-May, After Sentence PKESTONSBURG, Ky., Dec. l! T)L Former Rep. Andrew . J. May (D-Ky), ordered today to start serving an eight to 24-month sentence for wartime bribery and conspiracy, said in a state inrnt tonight: "The indelible truth as to a man's guilt or innocence is in his heart. This is how I know that I am innocent." I for reduction of j ..r ... - - . his sentence was rejected by Fed oral Judne Henry A. Scheinhaut in Washingon today. Concert Has Xrrias Tree As Sidelight Santa Wins CHRISTMAS. FLA.. Dec l-(P)-Letter from Chriitmas will hare the familiar Utile green lree stamped on them again this year. The Postoffice Department, which had ruled out the famil iar practice earlier this year, reversed itself. Soveral appeals by Postmistress Juanita S. Tuc ker and a plea from Sen. Spes sard L. Holland (D-Fla.). helped high officials change their minds. A sidelight to the combined Glee Clubs Christmas concert scheduled in -Hill Hall Sunday and Tuesday evening at 8:30 is the enormous Christmas tree that will be set up in the foyer of Hill Hall. Each Christmas season the tree, which is so large that it extends through the rotunda and , ap proaches the skylight of the building, attracts many visitors. Members of the. clubs purchase decorations for the tree, and these are, kept from year to year with the names of the donors on each individual decoration. Soloists for the concert are so pranos, Bstty Lou - Ball, Doris Fowler, Margaret .Gwaltney, Jean Hillman, Jocelyn Rhyne, Barbara Young; mezzo-sopranos, Elizabeth Muller, Patricia Winslow; con tralto, Mary Rellahan; tenors, Bradford Arrington, John Bridges, Jack Clinard, John Crabtree, La-n-ir Davis. David Orr, Carl Perry; baritones, Milton Bliss, Joseph Fields, William Sanders, Irving Silver, Herschell Snuggs; basses, Joseph Beasley, ohn Shearin, Dick j Smith, and John Von Cannon. tiens taksn imder consideration.' The committee, following an ex tensive study' of the ticklish park ing problem, set up a sub committee to make a more careful study of the situation, review all suggestions, and report back: to the committee at a later ' date'. "The sub-committee," Bach de clared, "will ba working under a policy drawn up by the' Safety Committee. The main point of j the policy is to keep 'student au tomobiles on campus. ' - : Bach said that the 'committee Was encouraged by the wide in terest in the problem shown by students. A number of suggested solutions vere received, including one very extensive report from a Mangum Dormitory committee headed by Pete Gerns, it was revealed. problems" in a speech last night befpre a small crowd of some; 800 in Memorial Hall. The youthful Georgia Chief Ex ecutive spoke for 40 minutes and conducted an open forum after ward. The talk was sponsored by the Carolina Political Union and the Carolina Forum. I i "Georgia might be called tlte Keystone of the South, for it is the testing ground for ideologies which aim to tear down repre sentative government," he said. "An active, fighting interest in the affairs of our government on all levels is the bulwark against Communism." "Never before in history has the future of the South been brighter," declared the University of Georgia graduate, citing ihe downward trend in" migration from the , South by graduating students. "The outlook and spirit of confidence' our people possess today is catching on throughout the country." Attacking the proposed Civil Rights program as "unconstitu tional," Gov. Talmadge warned that "Negroes are being made scapegoats not only in the Soutit7 but also in the North. The FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission) would introduce a police state and require an army for enforcement.. They're trying to put a sguare peg in a round hole." - He reprimanded Congress for scheduling the bill pn its agenda for the next session saying that "federal aid to education, agri cultural needs and other import ant matters should be acted upon." "The relationship between races in the South is at its best in over a half a century, and we in the South can best solve our own problems without interfer ence from our Northern breth- by generals, admirals and cabinet ministers of the pact nations, opens the way for a $1,000,000,000 flood of United States military assistance to war-improverished European governments. U. S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the chairman, said the gathering was harmonious. He took off by plane for Washington, to put the plan on President Truman's desk tomorrow. Ap proval by the President will, re lease the American funds. A communique issued by the North Atlantic Defense Commit tee, made up -of the top military planners of the western world, said the objective of the plan is "adequate military , strength accompanied by economy of re sources and manpower." Cooperation hi the plan, it said, will foster the "primary, purpose of the United Nations the main tenances of international peace and security." Soviet Russia, which has at tacked the treaty : organization for months as aimed against her, was not mentioned by name. "The meetings of both the mili tary and. defense committees con cluded the official tasks of or ganization and formulation of agreed objectives necessary to carry out the defense rovisions of the North Atlantic Treaty," the communique said. Men, Get Moving It's Sadie s Day By Caroline Bruner Chapel Hill will turn into a replica of Al Capp's mythical town of Dogpatch today when students turn out for a float parade, a mock football game, the "hooman race," 'and a costume dance in celebration of Sadie Hawkins Day. tume football game "given by the Monogram Club on Emerson Field at 3 o'clock, will high light the day's activities there. Marry in' Sam, who will be Master of Ceremonies Bob Cox, will read a proclamation once read by Mayor Hawkins of Dogpatch, which says that "Yo just gotta run" in the race. Cox will then fire the gun, starting a "howlin' mess of unwed gals to go ascrcechin' and aclawin' " after the unwed males. A wedding present will be awarded to the first gal to catch her man. renany ior oeing caugnt m tne race is that the male must escort his catcher to a costume Sadie Hawkins Day dane to be held in the Tin Can tonight at 8 o'clock The Sadie Hawkins Day festivities will begin at 2 o'clock when a parade of 14 floats, led by a truck bearing 12 members of the University Band, will leave Wool len Gynasium. The parade will travel past the quadrangle of wo men's dormitories to Franklin Street and will circle back and go past Y court, where a stand for six judges will be set up. Organizations entering floats in the parade are Pi Beta Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, and Chi Omega sororities; Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Alpha, and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities. Others are Old East and Spencer Dormitories, the Stray Greeks, and the Town Girls' Association. Prizes will be awarded by the Merchants Association of Chapel Hill and Carrboro to the two organizations entering the best floats and to the people wearing tne most original costumes at the dance in the 'iin Can. Cary Lloyd and his hillbilly band will play for the dance, which will feature both square dancing, round dancing, and bobbing for apples. Arnold Wilson will call the square dancing numbers. "Kick-a-poo joy juice" and donuts will be sold at the dance. ern. Concluding, the war-time Navy officer called on the youth of the South "to stay here in a sec tion that yields to no other . . . and unite , for a land of plenty and happiness, and for perpetual liberty, and freedom." , Those attending the speech hoping for a flareup along Civil Rights lines in the question and answer period that followed, were discouraged. For Gov. Talmadge drew applause and an occasional smile with his quick replies. The Governor cancelled a re ception scheduled for Graham Memorial alter his speech and took a plane back to Atlanta because "of pressing business." ReligionWeek Sets Seminars Faculty seminars, , conducted each afternoon -in the Faculty Lounge of the Morehead Build ing, will be an important part of Religious Emphasis Week, spokesmen said yesterday. The seminars, which will be gin at 4:30, will be conducted by the guest speakers who are here for the tweek-long program. Prof. Albert C. butler will con duct the seminar Sunday after noon. His topic will be "College Faculties and Religion." "What Does Labor Want?" will be the topic of the Monday semi nar Which will be conducted by Prof. Kermit Eby. Tuesday a f t e r n o o n Rabbi Joseph Rauch will be in charge of the seminar. His topic has not yet been announced. , Dr. Joseph Moody will conduct the Wednesday seminar, and Samuel Levering will conduct the final one Thursday. President Mackie Picks Students Committee Dialectic Launches New Drive; Will Assist Carolina Quarterly The Dialectic Senate launched the first phase of its campaign to ' assure the financial success of the Carolina Quarterly Wed nesday night, Di President" Artie Mirpheyv announced ,ye.ter;day. Acting ' on a" proposal ' that the Di and-the.. Philanthropist Assem bly, the Drs sister debating so ciety, work out . plans for joint support of the Carolina Quarter ly, both societies began debating i the question earlier this quarter. The Phi has refused to join in the project but the Di has con tinued on its own. The present plan of the Di is to gain subscribers and contributions for the Carolina Quarterly in order to enable it to survive the financial -.trial's of its first few years. The Di's. action Wednesday night consisted of ratifying a con tract vith the , Quarterly which makes the entire membership of the Di over 50 students sub scribers to the literary magazine. .. President Murphey stated, "The Di is one of the few really stable student organizations on campus. It is its duty and privilege to lend a helping hand to worthy projects during their temporary difficiulties. The Carolina Quar tery i a very necessary channel of student expression in the field of creative writing. The Di is determined that it shall not faillyjjjg ya i i ii a. t .ii i ' and welcomes ine support oi an students and organizations inter ested in making it the best stu dent literary magazine in the south and the nation." Ten students have been selected by President Bill Mackie to make up the new Curriculum ' Study Committee which will do the final drafting of the summer com mittee report released by Mackie Tuseday, the student government office said yesterday. Mackie selected the committee from those attending an open meeting in . Graham Memorial Wednesday. Pete' Burks, a mem ber of the summer committee and graduate ' student in political science, was selected by members of the committee to act as tem porary chairman. .A permanent chairman will be appointed some time in the near future, Mackie said. ' At the meeting the committee decided to have the origional summer report published, at their own expense, and distributed to all the various departments in the University and others who will be concerned" with the .work in Clair Cotton. The undergraduates selected include Pete Burks, Bob Kauff man, John Sullivan, Fred Sher- merhorn, Henry, and Bob Hennes- see. j On releasing the names Mackie commented that the committee is not yet filled. "There are several departments of the University," Mackie said, "which are not yet represented on the committee. The entire committee will be chosen in the near future. The next meeting of the group will be Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Grail Room of Graham Memeroial, temporary chairman Wicker said. Sieber Picked Phi Speaker Solons Elect Two UNCers To Top Posts Murphy Chosen Interim Prexy, Talley Speaker By Glenn Harden RALEIGH, Dec. 1 Two Uni versity students took top posts in the North Carolina State Student Legislature here to night as the body opened its 13th annual session in the cap itol building. Dick Murphy, junior from Bal timore, Md., was named head of the Interim Council, and Banks Talley, senior from Bennettsville, S. C, was elected Speaker 'of the house of Representatives. Murphey took the Council post from Alex Vann of State College, lie will be in charge of planning for the 14th session. Talley, who served as secretary treasurer of the Interim Council last year, beat Arthur Mizelle of Elon by a 45-36 vote for the top job in the upper house. Jim Soulherland of UNC was defeated for the House parliamen tarian job by James Bryan of A Sc T college of Greensboro. In morning, afternoon and night sessions today, the collegiate so lons will consider 12 bills, in cluding a civil rights omnibus bill and a resoultion concerning loyalty oaths in the Greater Uni versity introduced by UNC and one introduced by Shaw Univer sity providing for the consolida tion of A & T College and N. C. College into the Greater Univer sity. Martin Cromertie of Duke was elected president of the Senate and Cliff Harper of Wake Forest was selected as President ' pro tempore. Mizelle, beaten by 'Mur phey for the House speakership, was named pro tempore of that group by acclaimation. Joan Wrenn replaces Talley as secretary-treasurer of the Interim Council. State College provided a sur prise for the body by sending a delegation. The Raleigh .school had not sent representatives since 1D47 when Pi Kappa Delta, hono rary debating iraternity - tnere which started the mock assembly, dissolved both itself and the Legislature. Herman Sieber, pre-law junior from Hendersonvilk-, was elected the curriculum study. The print- speaker of the Phi Assembly by as "conditional" members of the Di and have completed the. re quired orientation program. The new members include four freshmen,, two sophomore, one junior and one senior. The fresh men are George W. Brain, com merce major from Tpmkins Cove, N. Y.; John L. Hazlehurst, pre med student ; from Henderson; John M. Schnorrenberg, English major from Asheville; and Thom as A. Sully, Jr., from Charlottes- The Di admitted eight new members at its Wednesday night .These members have session., The sophomores are Davis Byrd, -pre-med student from Goldsboro, and George K. Free man, pre-law student from Ra leigh. The junior is George H. Grover, III, radio major from Trenton, N. J. The senior is Donald G. Black, commerce ma- served a minimum o four weeks jor from Stocksville. ing of the 15 page report, which will be used only as a basis for the new committee to work on, is expected to be completed by the middle- of next week. Those appointed by Mackie to serve , on the new committee are graduate students Hugh Marshall, Jake Wicker, John Kennedy and C h i ha Re d s N ea r Total Victory 'HONG KONG, Dec. 1 P) The Red armies of .China, with their foes in flight from fallen Chungking,' were striking out to day in an attempt to crush the last Nationalist government re sistance on the mainland. Only in the south, on the front west of Canton, was there any hint of Nationalist resistance. A Chinese press dispatch said a big battle was in progress there. There was no confirmation else where. V acclamation Tuesday night. He will serve for the winter quarter. The new speaker, who replaces Graham Jones of Winston-Salf;m. is ' also' .president of De:lta Phi Alpha, German fraternity, and chairman of the NSA internation al commission, lie is on the Stu dent. Party iteering committee and a member of :he. North Car olina Student Legislature. Bob Brooks, Chapel Hill, was elected speaker pro tempore. He is a journalism senior and . has i been a Phi member since 1943. Hugh Griffin, Reidsville, is out going holder cf the office. Elected treaurcr was Jim Un derwood, Winston-Salem. Belore transferring to the University this year, he was president of the student body .at Brevard Col lege.. He is co-editor of The Speaker, Phi newspaper. He suc ceeds Walter Montgomery, Spart anburg, ,S. C. ' Al House, Scotland Neck, was elected clerk. He became a mem (See PICK, page 3) WC Featured InRendezvous , Carolina's better half the girls from WC will be the feature attraction in the Rendezvous Room tonight in. a floor show which the Carolina gentlemen are sure to enjoy, according to En tertainment Director Mary Jo McLean. It'll be trio time when singers Nancy Atkins, Barbara' .Harris Eleanor Eubanks take over the microphone. The WC girls will be accompanied by "The Darlin etles," a six-piece band composed" of Mary Elizabeth Sampson, Mary Norma Montague, Carolyn Smith, Frances Stevenson, Barbara Saun ders and Peggie Lambert. Also on the entertainment doc ket tonight will be the regular Friday night radio show over station WDUK. Mary Barker will act as emcee and quiz contest ants chosen at random from the audience. The winner of the con test will be awarded two tickets to the new Playmaker production "Rain." ,;- 'Adequate' WINSTON-SALEM. Dec. 1 ) An endowmeni of $200,000 would be adequate for a "chair of ! retailing" at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Rex Win low, Director Business Research at ihe University, said here to day. He sooke at ihe monihy meet ing of ihe Winston-Salem Retail Furniture Association. . .
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