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Congratulations. Phi Belet
The Christmas Spirit
Credit To The South
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WEATHER
Cloudy and Threatening.
VOLUME LVIII
Associated Press
CHAPEL, HILL, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949
Phone F-3371 F-3351
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Tex Beneke Band Will Play
Here For Third Appearance
Holsten Says
Germans Set
For January
By Zane Robbins
Tex Bcnckc and his orchestra
will come here Jan. 13 and 14 to
play for the annual winter Ger
mans, German Club President
Roy Holsten said yesterday.
Bcnckc will bring a 22-piece
aggregation here to play three
gala engagements over the two
day stand. The weekend pro
gram will follow the conventional
pattern with a Friday night dance
scheduled from 9 o'clock until 1,
a Saturday night dance from 3
o'clock until 12, and a two-hour
Saturday afternoon concert be
ginning at 4 o'clock.
Holsten said the dance has been
scheduled for the middle of Jan
uary because the particular dates
selected represent the only time
during the quarter that Woollen
Gym will be available. "Basket
ball, wrestling, and indoor track
have the gym occupied every
weekend ,in the quarter except
that one," Holsten pointed out.
Beneke has made two previous
appearances here and has proved
extremely popular with local
dance fans. He was sponsored by
the German Club on both occa
sions. The Beneke band was recently
voted top college band in the na
tion in a poll conducted by Bill
board magazine. Schools from all
over the country voted in the poll
which saw the Beneke crew lead
the voting in nearly every section.
Beneke made two appearances
here, prior to last year when his
orchestra was noticeably absent
from the list of " "name" bands
that played local engagements.
'The tall Texan, number one
sax man and novelty vocalist
with the late Glenn Miller's or
chestra, picked up Miller's baton
after his discharge from the army
and immediately skyrocketed to
the top of the popular music field.
Critics call the Beneke brass
section one of the best, and his
smooth stylings and frequent no
vclty numbers help make his one
of the top all-around bands in
the nation.
In connection with his an
nouncements that Beneke wil
play the winter dance, Holsten
also stated that, according to pre
sent plans, "cither Vaughan Mon
roe, Tommy Dorscy, Ray An
thony, or Charlie Spivak will be
here for spring Germans."
YWCA Book Club
'Will Meet Today
Activities of the YWCA-spon-
sored Book Club, which wa;
organized to study and discuss
modern literary works, will turn
to' a Yulctidc theme at 5 o'clock
this afternoon when Mrs. Albert
Coates will honor members of the
club and other interested persons
with a Christmas tea in her home
at 403 Rosemary St.
Mrs. Coates will lead a dis
cussion of Christinas music and
art immediately precceding the
tea.
Anyone interested in attending
the discussion and tea should
meet at the Y building at 4:45
this afternoon to get a ride to
Mrs. Coates' home.
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TEX BENEKE will bring his
22-piece orchestra here in Jan
uary to play for the annual
winter Germans, it was
announced yesterday by Ger
man Club President' Roy Hol
sten. Beneke has been very
popular in two previous ap
pearances here.
Lewis, Miners
In Agreement
On Coal Plan
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Experimenials
Go On Boards
For Two Days
Three new one-act plays will
be presented admission free by
the Carloina Playmakers tomor
row and Friday evenings at 7:30
in the Playmaker Theater. It will
be the 134th series of student pro
ductions of experimental plays.
"A Crystal for Fathe" by Wil
iam S. Johnson, Jr., will be the
first play on the bill. Is is being
directed by Gerald L. Honaker,
and the action of the play takes
place in Tientsin, China. The cast
will include Bill Rodgers, Harry
Snook, Danny Hughes, Bruce
Do well, Joe Stockdale, Tom
Wood, Jerry Clark, and Carlyle
Posey. ' - -
"Family Heirloom" will be the
second play. It was written by
Charles Williamson, and is being
directed by Wf;s Egan. The cast
includes Patricia Peteler, Ruth
Groce, and Edsel Hughes.
The last play on the bill will
be "Five's a Crowd," written by
Edwin Nash, and directed by
Lawrence Weaver. It is set in a
veteran's apartment in a college
town, and includes Clyde Gore,
Virginia Shcarin, Lee Noll, Ed
ward Grady, and Frances Sowers
in the major roles.
Student productions of new
plays are under the general su
pervision of Kai Jurgcnson.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-(P)-A
small fragment of the soft coal
industry has signed a new agree
ment granting sweeping conces
sions to John L. Lewis, it was
announced tonight.
The contract, announced by
Lewis himself, covers a number
of unidentified mines, mostly .in
Kentucky, said to account for
some two and a half million of
the 450 million tons produced an
nually by mines , with which
Lewis has had contracts in the
past. - . , " -
There were reports that some
other "little fellows" among the
operators were ready to sign on
the dotted line, but ho indication
that the industry as a whole would
do so, at least immediately.
The contract calls for:
1. A wage increase of 95 cents
a day, bringing the basic
wage to $15 a day.
2. Avl5 cents a ton increase
in the royalty for miners'
pensions and other welfare
payments. This boosts the
royalty to 35 cents a ton.
' 3. Selection of Josephine
" Roche, long-time friend
and co-worker of Lewis,
as "neutral" trustee with
a deciding voice in ad
minstration of the welfare
fund.
4. A longer-than-usual con
tract,' extending from Jan
1, i 950 to Sept. 1, 1951
The expiration date was
significant, because the
- contract would run out in
the autumn, with - cold
Weather coming on. This
would tend to put Lewis
, in a good bargaining po
" sition. Previous contracts
have expired in the spring.
The mine operators represented
in the contract agreed upon today
represent only about one half of
one percent of the coal produced
by all U. M. W. mines, and are
therefore only a lump in a scut-
tleful.
There was no doubt that Lewis
hoped the contract would become
the pattern for the industry, but
bitter opposition remained among
many operators.
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Dedmond, Mackie
Eppes Chosen
From Carolina
AEC Asks Federal Aid
In Atomic City Walkout
Mismatched
CHICAGO. Dec. 6 P A
couple was divorced today after
40 years of marriage and 15
children.
Mrs. Jennie Belle Hughes was
granted a divorce from Noshion
Hughes, a truck driver. Alleging
cruelty, she claimed he beat her
three times in the last two years.
They were ' married July 7,
1909. in Glasgow. Ky.
Eleven of their 15 children
are living. Mrs. Hughes consent
ed to her husband's having cus
tody of the two youngest. 11 and
16 years old. She waived alimony.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Dec. 6
iV) The Atomic Energy Commis
sion put in a quick call for federal
help today to end a wildcat walk
out which has idled some 2,000
construction workers on AEC pro
jects in this atomic city.
The unexplained walkout start
ed quietly and unexpectedly yes
terfday when 250 workers on the
$66,000,000 gaseous diffusion plant
(K-29) left, their jobs. The num
ber of idle spiraled upwards like
a chain-reaction today.
The AEC appealed to the Na
tional Labor Relations Board and
the U. S. Conciliation Service to
help. It sought to put a quick
end to the trouble which is de
laying work on the high-priority
K-29 plant and other atomic in
stallations.
R. W. Cook, manager of Oak
Ridge operations of the AEC, said
two NLRB officials are en route
here by plane.
Gordon Molcsworth, assistant to
the AEC manager, said the walk
out involves around 2,000 con
struction' employe's but does not
include any workers producing
fissionable materials used in A-
borhbs or other atomic projects
He said all construction crafts
except carpenters and laborers are
involved and that the AEC has
received no official word of the
cause of the walkout.
Molesworth said he understood
that workers on AEC construe
tion projects walked out in pro
test against use of non-union labor
by the OmanConstruction Com
pany of Nashville, which is build
ing a gas pipeline to this atomic
installation. - '
All the workmen, Molesworth
added, are members of the Knox-
ville Trades and Labor Council
(AFL). Spokesmen for the Coun
cil had no comment today. The
group called an executive session
during the afternoon.
Numerous strikes have been
threatened at the atomic energy
installations here, but the cur
rent walkout is the first labor
trouble which has ever reached
that stage.
DR. H. SHELTON SMITH
Prof . Cutler
Will Speak
At 11 Today
Professor Albert Outler; will
present the "Christian Answer"
to the "Human Quandary" at Re
ligious Emphasis "Week convoca
tion this morning at 11 o'clock.
All classes will be excused so that
students may ''attend the service.
This afternoon at 4:30 Dr. Jo
seph Moody, professor of Modern
History at Cathedral College,
New York City, and Notre Dame
College, Staten Island, will speak
at the faculty seminar in the
Faculty. Lounge of the Morehead
Building.
"Christian - Realism and the
Color-Bar" will be the subject of
the evening address by Professor
Shelton Smitfh ,at 8 o'clock' in Hill
Hall. '
j Dr. Smith is professor of Amer
ican Religious Thought and Di
rector of Graduate Studies in
Religion at Duke.' He is a natiye
of North Carolina and a graduate
of Yale.
A student seminar will be held
at 3 o'clock this afternoon in
Gerrard Hall., At this time Dr.
Outler will answer any questions
students may have in connection
with his convocation talk.
Pearl Harbor Day
To Pass Quietly
TOKYO, Wed., Dec. 7 (IP)
This eighth anniversary of the
Japanese atack on Pearl Harbor
will pass without ceremony
among Americans and unnoticed
among Japanese.
General MacArthur will work
as usual. And as usual he is ex
pected to observe his customary
silence on this occasion.
By Sam McKeel
Nine Greater University Stu
dent Council members yesterday
were appointed by Chairman
Dortch Warriner to sit with the
chancellors of the three branches
of the Greater University at their
regular meetings.
These students, three from each
school, will meet with the chan
cellors for the purpose of giving
the heads of the schools a closer
view of the desires and needs of
the student bodies. The first such
meeting, Warriner said, will prob
ably be around the first of the
year.
..Meeting with the chancellors)
R, B.- House, of the University at
Chapel Hill, W. C. Jackson of
the Woman's College, and J. W.
Harrellson of N. C. State, will
"be Helen Eppes, Jess Dedmond,
and Bill Mackie of the Univer
sity, Nell Jones, Nancy Porter,
and Sally Cheeny of WC, and
Hoyle Adams,' Charles' Musser,
and Hank Odom of State.
The expected report from the
committee chosen to meet with
the Selection Committee of the
Board of Trustees was not heard
because of the inability of the
Selection Committee to meet. The
committee from the Council was
to meet with the Selection Com
mittee and hear the names of
the remaining people on the Uni
versity presidential candidate list.
Meeting in the faculty room of
the Morehead Planetarium in
Chapel Hill, the Council voted to
forward a letter to the Daily Tar
Heel, University student paper,
"condemning" the use of a head-
lirierlh. "the Sunday;, Dec. 4 issue
of the paper. The headline read,
"NCS Delegates 'Nay' Work Of
State Alumnus Kerr Scott."
The State delegation on the
Council said that the headline was
"misleading in view of the fact
that other schools to the State
Student Legislature, where the
action took place, also voted no
on the bill, and that State College
voted no only because the dele
gation did not know enough about
the 'Go Forward' program of the
governor."
The Daily Tar Heel article,
however, explained those facts.
"Ignorance of the program of
governor, and nothing else, caused
our school to vote as it did," the
delegation admitted.
Tabled at the meeting was a
motion that the Council go on
record as opposing any further
consideration or action in consol
idating any more state-controlled
schools into the Greater Univer
sity.
The Imotion, as proposed by
Hoyle Adams, of State, said that
any more consolidation would
tend to disrupt the unity and
individuality of the schools "in,"
and any others consolidated. iThe
motion was , tabled for further
consideration by the Council.
A number of other controvers
ial isues blossomed forth dur
ing the course of the meetings,
but these are the most important
matters taken under considera
tion.
UP Takes Seven Solon Seats,
ig Majority In Fall Balloting;
AAcLeod Is Frosh President
By Roy Parker
. Tiie University Party dominated the vote in yesterday's fall election as it won seven of
12 Student Legislature seats on the ballot and assured itself of a 27-man majority in the
50-student body. ,
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McLeod won the presidency of
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. .WILLIAM KLENTZ, cellist, and Pianist William Gant. right,
will present a concert tonight at 8:30 in the Main Lounge of
Graham Memorial. Both men were formerly associated with the
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Concert
Is Set For Tonight
William Klentz, cellist, and now. teaching at that university.
William Gant, pianist, v will pre
sent a joint conectr in the Main
Lounge of Graham Memorial to
night, at 8:30.
Both musicians have appeared
here previously in joint concerts,
and were formally associated
with the University Music De
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Music Recital
Is Set Today
The final student recital of the
season will be presented this af
ternoon at 4 o'clock in Hill Hall
by students of the Music Depart
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A feature of the program will
be three motets from the graduate
class in modal counterpoint. The
motet is a musical form of dif
ferent voices performed without
accompaniment. .
The motets, written by 'Jack
Pruitt, Roger McDuffie, and John
Satterfield, will.be performed by
a double quartet composed of
Doris Fowler, Betty Lou Ball,
Mae Marsh banks, Shirley Ham-
rick, Carl Perry, John Bridges,
Richard Cox, and Max Lindsey
He studied under Bruce Simonds
and Paul Hindcmith and did
graduate work at Yale after serv
ing with the Army in Europe dur
ing the war.
Klentz studied at the Curtis
Institute in Philadelphia and lat
er studied . at . Yale under Paul
Hindemith
':. During;, the war he was in . the
Army and while overseas he gave
concerts in London, Cambridge
and Paris. . He also was on several
radio i broadcasts over British
the freshman class by a 203-105
vote over UP candidate Lew
Brown. Campus Party nominee
Ham Horton won the vice presi
dency, 168-132, over Tom Sully
(SP).
The turnout in the election was
the lightest in the history of stu
dent government under the pre
sent" constitution. No major of-
Only four of 18 coeds running
for campus posts in yesterday's
fall election filed expense ac
counts before the regular dead
line, but the 14 delinquents
were given a day's grace by the
Elections Board last night.
Board head Jim Gwynn said
that the coeds will have until
tonight at 6 o'clock to turn in
their accounts to Mac Copen
haver. Until the accounts are filed,
the Board is holding up the re
sults in the elections in which
coeds participated, including
races for three Women's Honor
Council jobos, five Coed Sen
ate seals, the secretaryship and
social chairmanship of the
freshman class.
Gwynn said the Board grant
ed the extension since the coeds
had received insufficient notice
of the need to file an expense
account. He emphasized that ac
counts must be turned in
.whether expense was incurred
or not.
Coed candidates who do not
turn in accounts before today's
deadline face disqualilcation.
fices were being contested. The
total vote for legislators was 552.
The Campus Party came in se
cond csi in the solon voting.
I winning two seats. The SP took
Broadcasting System and Radio(one and one double-indorsed SP
Francais. ' CP candidate and one independ
ent were victorious.
For the last two summers he
has studied in Florence, Italy,
and has given concerts there.
Klentz is now on the music staff
at Duke.
The concert, which will be free,
will feature music by Beethoven
and Mozart.
Opening the concert will be the
music of Ludwig Van Beethoven.
This section will include the So
nata in G Major, Opus 5, Num
ber 2 and other favorite works of
the composer.
Seven variations on a theme
from Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
will comprise the second part of
the program.
The recital will close with So
nata in A Major, Opus 69 by Beethoven.
Christmas Light
Four Planets Conspire
For Sky-Conciousness
Ward, Staff Heading Home
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 0P)
Angus Ward and his American
consulate staff presumably ended
today their long isolation in Communist-held
Mukden, Manchuria.
After more than a year under
the guns of guards, Ward notified
the State Department that his
group of 20 persons was leaving
by special train at 3:45 A.'M. Wed
nesdayN(2:45 P.M. EST today) for
the north China port city of
Tientsin.
This information, relayed from
Peiping, was expected to be the
last until the party's arrival at
Tientsin two to four days hence.
Ward's only means of outside
communication has been by phone
to Consul General O. Edmund
Clubb at Peiping.
At Taku Bar, near Tientsin,
three American merchant ships
are expected to be available to
take the entire party to freedom
at Yokoohama,' Japan. Present
plans are to use only one vessel,
probably the Lakeland Victory,
due at Taku from Kobe, Japan
on Friday. ',
Sixteen of those leaving are
Americans and four are alien
Europeans, the State Department
was informed in the final message
forwarded by Clubb. All were
ordered "expelled" by the Muk
den municipal authorities within
48N hours beginning Monday, as
an aftermath of ,the jailing of
Ward and four members of his
;taff. .
Ward waited almost until the
deadline in order to wind up the
consulate affairs. He paid off his
Chinese staff on Monday. Since
the Communists agreed to pro
vide a special train and seemed
to have taken other measures to
asure Ward's departure on time,
officials assumed the departure
schedule would be followed.
Over the war-damaged Man
churian and north China" railway
lines, the trip of 700-odd miles to
Tientsin is expected to be ardu
ous for the group, which includes
six women and several children.
None of the estimates of the
time required for the trip was
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The four brightest planets seem
to be conspiring to make citizens
sky-conscious at this season when
the Star of Bethlehem plays its
part in Christmas observance.
According to Dr. Roy K. Mar
shall, Director of the Morehead
Planetarium, both early evening
and night performances in na
ture's sky are attracting atten
tion, with Venus and Jupiter in
the southwestern sky in the eve
ning twilight and Mars and Sa
turn in the late night havens.
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"Because the planets all travel
with different speeds," he said,
"they must appear to pass other,
as seen from the earth. Mars trav
els about 15 times as fast as
Saturn, and it passed Saturn on
Nov. 30.' At about 3 o'clock in the
morning these two planets still
stand- quite close together, ap
proximately halfway up in the
southeastern sky.
"For - the past several weeks,
Jupiter and Venus have been
shining- out splendidly in our
southwestern sky," the Carolina
astronomer explained.
On Dec. 21, a particularly beau
tiful sight should be presented
as the moon, as a slim crescent,
stands below Jupiter and Venus
On the following evening, the
moon will be above the planets.
"When Jupiter passed Saturn
three -times, within about six
months in the year 7 B. C, the
Wise Men of Persia must have
taken the occurrence as a sign
that some event of great import
ance was impending among man
kind." Dr. Marshall went on to give
his opinion th'at it is incorrect to
think of a triangular grouping.!
of Mars, "Jupiter and Saturn, in
late February, of the year 6 B. C,
as a possible explanation of the
Star of Bethlehem.
"The formation did occur but
it has been known for more than
three . centuries that it occurred
in bright evening twilight and
could not have been seen by the
Wise Men."
With elections in four men's
dormitory and one town district,
the UP counted four of its win
ners from the dorm areas and
three from the town.
The lineup of the legislature is
now UP 27, CP 9, SP 8, SP-UP 2.
CP-UP 2, SP-CP 1, and Inde
pendent 1.
The vote for three scats on the
Women's Honor Council and five
Coed Senate posts had not been
tabulated early this morning.
The by-district results:.
Men's dormitory district 1: Bob
Evans (SP-104), Frank Kilpat
rick (UP-92) and Guy Rawls
(UP-128) won one-year terms.
Julian Mason (SP-84) was elim
inated. : '- r
Men's dorm district 3: Bill
Bostic (UP-126), Arch Fort (CP-
117), H. B. Gloyer (CP-118) and
John Hazelhurst (CP-SP-117)
were elected for one-year tenures.
Howard Fogelman (UP-114) was
eliminated.
Men's dorm district 4: Bob
Goodwin (UP-30) defeated Har
vey Culpepper (SP-i4) and Bob
Lee (CP-23) for a six-months
term.
Men's dorm district 5: Hal Dar
den (Ind.-44) beat Tom Wharlon
(UP-32) for a year term.
Town district 4: Bill Aldndge
(UP-33), Ronnie Prince (UP-35),
and George Rodman (UP-35)
won one-year terms. Bill Wilson
(SP-CP-31) was eliminated.
Who's Uglfest?
Tarnation's contest for the
"Most Gruesome ID Card," which
got under way yesterday, has
already brought favorable re
sponse according to managing
Editor Herb Nachman who said
judging will begin today.
A table will be set up in the
Y Thursday to return the cards
to those who just aren't guc
some enough.
Managing Editor Nachman
hastened to remind the student
body that there is no risk in
volved, and all cards will be re
turned. He urged students to
participate in what ought to be
one contest "good for laughs."