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VOLUME LVIII
Associated Press
CHAPEL HELL, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1949
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NUMBER 53
Phillips Russell
Given Annual
Literary Prize
Mayflower Award
Won by Author;
Feted at Raleigh
FALEIGH, Dec. 2 Auth
or Phillips Russell of Chapel Hill
tonight was named winner of
the 1949 Mayflower Award for
the bcA literary achievement by
a Tar IIccl during the year.
Russell, a professor in the
journalism Department at ihe
University of North Carolina, won
the award for his volume, "The
Woman Who Rang the Bell." The
book is the life story of Cornelia
Phillips Spencer of Chapel Hill,
who played a major part in the
re-opening of the University af
ter it had closed during the re
construction period. It was pub
lished by the University of No-th
Carolina" Press at Chapel Hill.
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Eyerly
of Winston-Salem, Governor of
the Society of Mayflower Des
cendants in North Carolina, an
nounced the winner here at the
uniiinl meeting of the State Liter1
pry rnd Historical Association.
The award is made annually by
the Mayflower Society to the
North Carolinian who, during the
ycHT ending Aug. 31, has pub
lished the volume adjudged best
by the board of award.
The competition was first held
in 1931. '
Russell, a native of Rocking
ham, previously has published
biographies of Benjamin Frank
lin, John Paul Jones, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and William the Con
queror, together with various
other works.
The Mayflower cup is kept in
the State Hall of History here and
the names of Ihe winners are
inscribed upon it. Each year a
replica is given to the successful
competitor.
Previous winners of the award I
have been M. C. S. Noble, Archi-S
bald Henderson, Rupert B. Vance,
Erich W. Zimmermann, James
Boyd, Mitchell B. Garrett," Rich
ard H. Shryock, Jonathan Daniels.
Bernicc Kelly Harris, David L.
Conn, Wilbur J. Cash, Elbert Rus
sell, J. Saunders Redding, Ade
laide L. Fries, Joscphus Daniels,
Josephina Niggli, R. E. Cokcr,
and Charles S. Sydnor.
Yule Season
Gets Started
The Christmas season was of
ficially opened here last night,
with a colorful float parade and
appearance of the traditional
Santa Claus, enthusiastically re
ceived by the large crowd ol
youngsters, University students
and townspeople who lined the
streets.
In keeping with the Chapel
Hill Merchants Association's plan
to "build a community Christmas
spirit and make Chapel Hill the
prettiest place in the State during
the holiday season," the parade
formed at 6:30 and moved
through the downtown district
shortly after 7 o'clock.
Wilbur Kutz, president of the
Chapel Hill Merchants Associa
tion explained that this year's
parade emphasized non-commer-fial
decorations rnd that prizes
were to be awarded the best en
tries. Ruled Void
ALBANY. Dec. 2 (P) A
New York Supreme Court jus
tice has declared unconstitu
tional the Feinberg law prohib
iting employment of Commun
ists in the state's public school
ytem.
Justice Harry E. Schirick,
terming the law's provisions
"wiich-hunting." held that ihe
1343 legislature had:
1 Presumed Communists in
this country guilty of advocat
ing the overthrow of govern
men. 2 Provided for punishing in
dividuals without judicial trial.
The state announced it would
"Ppeal the decision to the state's
n9hest tribunal, the Court of
Appeals.
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GLENN ABBOT HARDEN, one of the University's delegates to the annual Student Legis
lature in Raleigh, is shown registering for the lawmaking session in the capitol. Over 125 students
from most of the colleges and universities of thj state are represented at the meeting which ends
,at noon today. Emmett Nesbit (left), and John Car k (extreme right), both of JElon,. also sign up. ,.;
Blissful Smiles Mark Hitching
Of Sadie
By Don Maynard
Bobbie Sockwcll and Cary Guy
jniiicd in matrimonial bliss as
the first wedding gift of their
wedded lives was handed to them
by Dogpatch's Marryin' Sam.
"Ah takes great pleasure in
predentin' this hyar container of
smokes to ya!l fcr bem th furst
mole and female to be captured
by each an' tether," Sam said,
and the student audience ol sev
?r?l hundred gathered in Emer
son Stadium thundered their ap
plause. Things got off to a slow start
jt the "Hoom?n Race," a tradi
tional event held annually all
over the country o:i Sadie Haw
'cius Day io that unwed female
Dqgpatchers may have a chance
to 'get themselves a husband.
Marryin' Bob Cox reigned over
;,hc crowd, and invited, begged
3iiU promised men and' coeds to
'Come on down an' git in tub.
race." He received only half
hearted response until several of
the male racers trouped into the
itands and bodily carried "volun
teers" down to the field for the
race.
After tome delay, about 50 men
and coeds were ready to go. Sam
lined them up, raised his gun,
yelled "On yer mark," and fired.
Ae he did so, a small coupe
raced on the field, beat the racers
to the end of the stadium and
picked up nearly a dozen of -the
desperate rr.cn.
While disappointed coeds stood
by and gnashed their Dogpatch
ian teeth, the coupe safely de
posited the men outside the Sta
dium on Raleigh Street.
Track and freshman football
star Bill Albans was persuaded
to enter the contest "against my
better judgement." He got off
to a good start and paced the
pack to the west end of Emerson,
where he and another unidenti
fied male clambered up the goal
posts. The crowd, about average for
a cold Sadie Hawkins afternoon,
turned red with laughter as coed
Sue Whitaker climbed up after
Albans and hauled him down.
About half the men were ap
prehended by the unwed Dog-
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Hawkins Day Couple
patch females, and were married i Havkins Day dance held in the
on the spot by Sam. The cere- Tin Can last night. , Cary Lloyd
mony bound the two to accom-j and his hillbilly band played for
pany each other to the Sadie I the occasion.
Phogbound Scrubs Top
Varsity In Bitter Tilt
As the shadows of Lenoir deep
ened across the playing field of
Emerson Stadium, the second
string Varsity squad of Phog
bound University defeated the
first-string, 6-0, with a fast-moving
sleeper-behind-the-goal play.
But the score doesn't tell the
story of the bitter 11 minute fight
on the gridiron.
When neither Dogpatch nor
Skunk Hollow showed up for the
scheduled contest yesterday after
noon, Coach Ed "The Blond Fox"
Washington of the. PC team, an
nounced that his team would go
TG A Float
Wins Parade
The Town Girls' Association
won first prize in the CICA-spon-sorcd
annual Sadie Hawkins Day
float parade yesterday with their
float depicting Marryin . bam
uniting Daisy Mac and Li'l Abner
while Pappy Yokum stood by,
gun in hand.
Second place was won by Phi
Delta Theta fraternity.
TGA was awarded an empty
beer mug by Dean of Students
Bill Friday for being the most
outstanding float "in a close
judgement" of the 12 floats en
tered. -
The float parade began at 2
o'clock at Woollen Gym, wound
its way up Raleigh Street, along
Franklin, then to toe Y court by
way of Columbia Street and
Cameron Avenue.
Judges Dean Friday, Dean of
Women Katherine CarmichaeL
Lucille Rieley, Bobbie Lowe,
Allison Pell and Harry Aycock,
judged what Dean Friday called
"a great show, in which it was
difficult to pick the winner."
through with the classic, never
theless. "This hyar var-city will put
on a little scrimmage to show
y'all just whut feetball is like,"
he explained to the several hun
dred fans seated in the stands.
And the annual classic, held
each Sadie Hawkins Day just be
fore the "Hooman Race," got
underway.
The firststringers recovered
their own on-side kick in the
opening kickoff, and . staged 'a
march down the field that lost
them 50 yards during the next
few minutes.
On the first play Gus Skonk
inski took the ball around his
own end, reversed his field six
times, and lateraled . and dodged
back to his own 5 yard line. '
On the next play, the first team
lost posession of the ball for the
first time when they fumbled a
forward lateral into the flat.
Coach Washington said the play
failed for some reason, but he
knew not why, because "We cop
ied it directly, move, by move,
from that there Notre Dame
team."
The second string lost posses
sion of the ball on the first play,
which the officials, playing on
the first string team, ruled was
an incomplete pass.
It was first down and ten to go
somewhere between the first
team's goal and the 50-yard line.
On the first play, the first team
lost possession of the ball on a
freak quick-kick which lost them
30 yards. As the ball was passed
from center, the quarterback,
Slim Smellw'ell , fumbled, but
kicked in spite of the miscue. The
ball went sailing back over his
head to the first string 5.
After being fumbled five more
(See PHOGBOUND, page 4)
VA Checkihg
School Abuses
Of Veterans
- Misleading Ads
h Come Under Fire ,
Of Administrators
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 2iiP)
xnc veterans Administration is
making a nationwide " survey of
alleged abuses by colleges and
training institutions of - the vet
erans educational program.
'. The agency, which has been
ordered to report its findings to
- WASHINGTON. Dec. 2 UP)
The Veterans Administration
estimated today the GI Bill
has aided the education of
Some 480.000 World . War. II
veterans who had not finished
grade school.
- It said a sample survey last
June indicated that eight per- .
cent of the 6,000,000 veterans
who have taken GI Bill train
ing to date did not have an
eighth grade education when
, they, started the GI courses.
Thousands of , veterans are
still in grade school under the
GI Bill "as a stepping stone to
further education and train
ing," V A said.
It added that the beneifts
are available to eligible veter
ans "even to those who never
have been to school one day
: in their lives."
Congress, is looking particularly
into:
1. Misleading advertising by
schools, and advertising empha
sizing "subsistence benefits or
equipment furnished free to vet
erans, rather than the training
offered. -
2. Dummy business firms set
up primarily to furnish supplies
at retail price for veteran trainees
or to lease iaciiities and equip
ment "with the end purpose to
increase profits to the institution
or interested parties."
The American Council on Edu
cation, meanwhile, is strongly
protesting what it describes as
the negative character of the sur
vey.
The Council is composed of
more than 900 universities, col
leges ' and school systems, along
with .more than 125 educational
associations and allied prganiza
tions. Its chairman is President
James B. Conant of Harvard Uni
versity, and its president is for
mer Commissioner of Education
George F. Zook.
Ur. rrancis J. Brown, execu
tive secretary, said the council
this week will distribute 10,000
copies of the Veterans Admin
istration order asking all regional
offices and VA centers to provide
information on GI educational
abuses.
Brown told a reporter the
Council also will advise institu
tions "to prepare data which will
indicate the positive factors of
GI education, since it appears the
VA is primarily concerned in as
sembling data that are negative."
Deputy Veterans Administrator
O. W. Clark signed the order for
the survey and told VA officers
to give it "highest priority."
Religious Stress Week
Will Feature Vespers
"One of the finest features of ,
Religious Emphasis Week will be
the student-led Vesper Services,"
Helen Strawn, co-chairman of
the Religious Emphasis Week
Worship Committee, said yester
day. Vespers will be held for all
faiths and denominations each
evening from 5:15 to 5:45 Mon
day through Thursday in Ger
rard Hall.
Immediately following these
services, Christmas music will be
played in the hall and Y Court
until 6:30, under the leadership
of the regular Campus Vespers
committee. Gerrard Hall will be
open as usual tc ail who wish to
come in for prayer, rest, and
meditation.
, The special Vespers Services
from 5:15 to 5:45 will feature
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Carolina's 13th annual State Student Legislature were the above
group of officers. In the back is Speaker Banks Tellev. University
of North Carolina student from Bennetsville, S. C. J. D. Winters
(left). Wilmington representative from Wilmington College, read
ing clerk 'and John Clark (right), Guilford College student from
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F r e i sf a 8 1 E d i t i n g
Gommunist Sheet
A mimeographed . publication
entitled "The Communist Student
Bulletin" was circulated yester
day in North and South Carolina
by the "student section of the
Carolina District of the Com
munist Party" with Hans Frei
stadt as editor. . .
Freistadt, graduate student in
Physics' emphasized when ques
tioned that the newsletter : was
not an "organ of red students at
the University alone, but a "dis
trict" project.
The Communist editor stated
that the publication was mailed
to about 500 people, including
both Communist Party members
and people interested in the
party's work."
He said the publication vas
designed to keep interested per
sons informed on the work of
the party in the Carolinas, but
plans had not been discussed by
workers publishing the bulletin
to expand into a newspaper. jfor and support, we in turn
TVoictor1f coir Vio "hnnpH" ho! pledge ourselves to attempt to
bulletin would appear each
month. It is not chartered, andiand without equivocation
according to Freistadt, no plans
are being made to charter or
copyright it.
student speakers and leaders each
night. On Monday night, Paul
Ritch will speak on "Faith and
Practices," with Gene Dinbo as
leader, and Mori Glasser assisting
with the program.
Tuesday night, Michael Quin
livan will be the speaker, with
Michael McDaniel as leader, and
Lenoir "Williams as assistant. The
topic will be "God and Caesar:
A Discussion of the Relations Be
tween Church and State."
Wednesday night's speaker will
be Sandy McEachern, who will
speak on "The Stamp of one De
fect." - The leader will be Terry
Hilmes, assisted by Ted. Sellars.
For the final service, the speaker
will be Paul Roth, (topic, to be
announced) with Mary Lorimer
as leader, and W. E. Graham assisting.
'Legislature
GiVil Rights
ves
!ieign Times
Presiding over the House at North
The first issue of the bulletin
is dated "November, 1949" and in
it is "a statement of purpose"
by Freistadt in which he says:
"Through an intense propagan
da' campaign, the American peo
ple have been presented a pic
ture of our party in which what
ever we do, whether it be support
a strike, fight Jim Crow, or feed
a stray dog. is but a machina
tion from Moscow. .
; "Yet, we have a well-defined
philosophy , and political program,
which we plan to present to you
in this and future issues. We will,
of course, answer the slanders
against us; but we will not only
seek to show you that we should
not be shot at sunrise, but even
that ve are right and deserve
support.
"If you will try to put aside
some of the preconceived notions
you may have heard about us,
and judge us by what we stand
answer your questions faithfully
On May 12 of this year it was
revealed that Freistadt, an ad
mitted member ofe the Com
munist Party of the United
States who joined the party in
1946, was holding an Atomic En
ergy Commission fellowship for
the study of physics.
The fellowship was revoked,
and when Freistadt's appoint
ment as a graduate instructor ex
pired he was not not rehired.
A. P. Hudson Elected
Folklore Group Officer
RALEIGH, N. C, Dec. 2 VP)
Dr. George P. . Wilson of the
faculty of Woman's College in
Greensboro today was elected
president of the North Carolina
Folklore Society at, the group's
38th annual session here.
Dr. Wilson, who succeeds Dr.
Richard Jente of Chapel Hill, is
also secretary of the American
Dialect Society.
Other officers are: Cratis D.
Williams of Boone, re-elected
Vice-President; Bascom Lamar
Lunsford of South Turkey Creek,
elected second Vice-President;
and A. P. Hudson of Chapel Hill,
elected Secretary-Treasurer.
Bill Is Passed
By Delegates;
Being Ironed
Near-Filibuster
Staged in House;
Senate Is Sedate
By Roy Parker. Jr.
RALEIGH, Dec. 2 A Carolina-sponsored
omnibus Civil
Rights report covering the is
sue from A to Z passed the
State Student Legislature by
a comfortable margin here to
night, but not until heated
wrangling in the House of
Representatives left tempers
frayed.
The report, patterned after the
report of President Truman's
Civil Rights Commission, con
tained recommendations favoring
abolition of segregation, a North
Slapped
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
RALEIGH. Dec. 2 The Ra
leigh Times got slapped in the
face tonight by the State Stu
dent Legislature for scissoring'
a Negro delegate out of a pic-'
ture of House officers of the"
mock General Assembly.
The Times, conforming to a
staff policy of not printing "un
segregated" pictures, cut Negro
Delegate James Bryant of A
and T College out of the pic
ture (see at left) run in today's
edUion. He. was elected House
parliamentarian.
The Legislature passed a res
olution "rebuking" the Times,
and voted to send copies to the
Governor, the real General As
sembly, the journal in question
and The News and Observer. .
Carolina Fair Employment Prac
tices Commission, formation of a
state Civil Rights Commission,
tightened state ani-lynching laws
and a program of civil rights ed
ucation. On most of the other bills on
the 12-measure calendar, both
chambers of the mock assembly
were in agreement. Four were
passed, three defeated, one pass
ed and sent to a conference com
mittee to iron out minor differ
ences; and one sent to committee
unpassed with amendments.
Most of the heat generated in
the House over the. civil rights
report rose from the sections fav
oring the state FEPC.Both were
strengthened in the final House
measure, but not until near-filibuster
tactics by opponents turn
ed the mock General Assembly
into a parliamentary madhouse.
In the Senate, the report moved
through with hardly a murmur,
and without a single change. A
conference committee will report
the House's changes to the Sen
ate for action tomorrow. The up
per chamber was expeced to con
cur. A sobbing Bennett College stu
dent's cry of "How can you be
so prejudiced?" broke up debate
in the House over the segregation
section. She was Roberta Gwinn,
Negro student from Baltimore,
Md.
When the smoke cleared, the
section had been strengthened to
(See LEGISLATURE, page 4) .
Scholarship
. NEW YORK. Dec 2 W)
Multimillionaire horse fancier
John Hay (Jock) Whitney today
announced he is setting up a
scholarship , fund for persons
who lack opportunities because
of racial or other reasons.
Whitney announced the es
tablishment of the John Hay
Whitney Foundation of Oppor
tunity Fellowships, with $100,000
to be given out the first year.
Persons whose merit and spe
cial abilities have not been de
veloped because of racial or cul
tural background, or the region
in which they live, may com
pete for the fellowships.