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Serials Dept. A EDITORIALS Happy News Year Praise for Lenoir Wi Quit WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and con tinued warm with scattered showers. 1 1 KCR' sx ' - v V lif . t 1 I I I I Jf . I J I t I II VOLUME LVIII Associated Press- CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1950 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 66 Congress Convenes With Economy Cry WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (AP)-The 81st Congress re turned to Capitol Hill for its second session today and im mediately a clamor arose for curbs on red-ink spending A number of Republicans and Democrats alike joined in the cry lor a tighter rem on federal expenditures House Republican leader Mar- tin of Massachusetts announced the creation of a special GOP "price tag committee" to keep a public watch on President Tru man's Fair Deal spending. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee told news men: "The people are clamoring for economy in government and tax relief." In general terms, President Truman is expected to touch on both those issues in his annual "State of The Union" address be fore a joint Senate-House session at 1 P.M., E.S.T., tomorrow. Mr. Truman will deliver his message personally in the newly decorated, blue-walled House chamber with batteries of tele vision cameras and radio micro phones set up to broadcast the scene to millions of Americans. Administration lieutenants in dicated today that the President will speak with high optimism of prospects for expanding prosper ity. In this vein, House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) told newsmen after a preview of the President's message during a White House conference this forenoon: "It looks like the country is in pretty good shape I never saw it in better shape." t Rayburn said he and other Democratic leaders discussed tax es with Mr. Truman in a 65 minute session and suggested a "single package" tax bill, cutting levies "where they pinch" and finding revenue in other places to make up any loss. Many officials expect Mr. Tru man's message tomorrow to re commend some tax increases possibly on corporations as a move toward balancing the fed eral budget. The government's spending deficit is now headed toward a total of around $5,500 000,000 for the current fiscal year ending next June 30. t Playmakers Open Tryouts Open tryouts for the Carolina Playmakers annual Memorial Hall presentation, their third ma jor production, will be held this afternoon at .4 o'clock and 7:30 in Memorial Hall. The1 play is Paul Green's powerful "Tread the Green Grass." Foster Fitz-Simons, who will direct the production, cordially invites all townspeople, students, and faculty members who are in terested, to tryout for some of the 45 roles. There are eight major roles and parts for three or four children. ."The Playmakers is a commun ity theater, as well as laboratory unit," Fitz-Simons explained, "and tryouts are open. Previous dance training or training in mu sic is not required, although both will be featured in the produc tion." Copies of "Tread the Green Grass" are available in the re serve room of the library for those who would like to study the script before tryout time. "Tread the Green Grass" will be presented in Memorial Hall on January 28 and 29. Faces Charges . Thomas Williams, University student who lives in Battle Dorm, was charged with drunk eneti and disorderly conduct Monday night after he had stuck his hands through a closed window and threatened to at tack Acting Dean of Students Bill Friday, who was called to the scene by the dorm manager. Williams' cut hand was treat ed by an iniirmary doctor be fore the police arrived and took him away. Registration Statistics Unavailable No immediate figures on regis tration- for the winter quarter are available as yet, it was re ported from Venable X and the Office of Central Records yester day. "We are a little uncertain as to the number of people who will be registered for the winter quarter at this time. We cannot give any definite figure until al the boys have arrived back from the Cotton Bowl. We have had a number of cancellations, as us ual, and will have no official fig ure until next week," was the of ficial statement from R. E. Strong, Assistant Registrar. Drop-adds began yesterday morning, meanwhile, but traffic was slow and easy, and there were none of the usual long lines stretching across campus. "In fact," Strong said, "there haven' been any lines at all." Everything must wait until the approximately 500 students who went to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl return. These students wil pick up their class cards without penalty, but will lose out on drop-adds. Ed Committee Meets Today I " H -1 -S v v is j- - - Morehead Has Record Crowd THE HARMONEERS. all student quartet pictured above, will present a concert in Graham Memorial Sunday night at 8:30. The group won the Horace Heidi talent show staged in Raleigh last month. Curb Is Foreseen On Coal For Trains WASHINGTON,Jan. 3 (AP) An emergency reduction of "at least 25 per cent" in the nation's coal burning passenger train service was authoritatively forecast tonight. : Chairman J. Monroe Johnson of the Interstate Commerce Com- For Dec. Show 'Calendar Story' To Be Presented As Jan. Movie Conduct Praised Tar Heels Welcome In Dallas 'Anytime' By Chuck Hauser DALLAS, , Jan. 3 House detectives, room clerks, police men and ordinary citizens of Dallas joined with their coun terparts in other Carolina-invaded localities today to shout praises of the Tar Heel visitors. . Like the New. Yorkers, Wash- The Education Committee will meet at 3:30 today in the Grail Room of Graham Memorial, Jake Wicker, temporary chairman, said yesterday. Permanent officers will be elected and a program of study will be outlined. The committee, established by student body president Bill Mac kie, is designed to make a com prehensive study and evaluation of the education which students receive. The group will also sug gest changes in the curriculum and administration which appear necessary, i Students interested in working with the committee should con tact Mackie. Nine New Coeds Are Registered There will nine new additions to the feminine element of the campus during .Winter Quarter, it was announced yesterday by the office of the Dean of Women. Mclver Dormitory is getting by faf the greatest portion of the new coeds, receiving 6 within its ranks: Carr, Alderman, and Smith will be the new homes of the other three. The new women students, as listed by name and home town by Dean Katherine Carmichael's office are Mary Jane Angel, Haines City, Florida; Betty Jeanne Blair, Cincinnati, Ohio; Jean Rosebud Carmichael, Gas tonia; Betty Lou Nettles, Ashe- ville; Margaret ,N. Kuhn, , New York City; . Betty Ann. Craft, Neon. Kentucky; Florence L. Dawson, Cramerton; Ann Mob ley, Greenwich, Conn.; and Cor nelia Vann, Mars Hill. Admiral Bogan Asks Navy For Retirement SAN DIEGO, Calif.,' Jan. 3 (P)Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bo gan one of the Navy admirals involved in the row over armed services unification, today applied for retirement rather than ac cept a lesser command. The commander of the U. S. First Task Fleet said he had learn ed through the press that orders were being issued transferring him to he fleet air command at Jacksonville, Fla. Local Clubs Will Conduct Book Drive The YWCA and IZVA, Jewish youth organization, are sponsor ing a campaign to collect books for - a Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Any kind of textbook or dic tionary is needed, .and' students wishing to contribute books may put them in Graham Memorial, the Book Exchange, in Steele or in the lobby of the Y. Rebate tickets from the Steele Book Exchange may be .. put in a special box and they will be used for buying new books. The YWCA Book Club is spon soring the drive with IZFA. ! Chairmen for it are Mel Stein berg, Francis Sowers and Marie Nussbaum. The drive is part of a nation wide drive which is collecting books to replace those lost when Jerusalem libraries were de stroyed during the war. Theses and report papers are also needed, and they too may be deposited in any of the boxes set out for the drive. The drive will continue for the rest of this week and all of next week. Raleigh Bans Masks In Blow at Ku Klux ' RALEIGH, Jan. 3 (Ra leigh's City Council today adopted an anti-mask ordinance aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. The council unanimously adopt ed the ordinance which prohibits the public appearance of men who are masked or hooded and unidentifiable." v mission told newsmen that such an order designed to offset the growing coal shortage may be issued at 4 P.M., E.S.T., tomor row. He said it would probably be come effective next Sunday. Coal stocks have been dwind ling because of the three-day week ordered by John L. Lewis. Although emphasizing that he said the ICC will take up the problem the first thing tomorrow morning. The commission has already discussed it, he said. v" Johnson's disclosure came as an estimated 16,000 members of Lewis' united mine workers un ion in Illinois were reported idle in a mystery strike. The miners' state president ordered them back to work next Monday after the men refused, for unan nounced reasons, to dig coal to day. The walkout shut down 48 big mines and further complicated the coal supply picture. Chicago coal merchants called the situa tion serious. In other states, most of the na tion's 480,000 ' miners had re turned to work after the new year holiday, despite rumors that a new country-wide strike is im pending. On Capitol Hill, Senator Butler (R-Neb.) . telegraphed President Truman to take "a courageous stand" in the coal shortage "against this camouflaged strike called by John L. Lewis." Mr. Truman has said repeated ly he would not invoke emergen cy measures, such as a resort to the 80-day injunction of the Taft Hartley law, unless a genuine emergency arises. ; But Butler told Mr. Truman that the situation "now is "clearly a national emergency." joined hands to invite -the repre- Director Roy K. Marshall and employees of the Morehead Plan etarium aro oatpViinff tVinir breaths and digging in for tHs ingtonians and others, .DaUasites month's stellar presentation, "The Calendar Story," after an attendance-record-breaking month , in which 36,792 people witnessed the showing of "The Star of Bethlehem." This new show, which opened yesterday, will be devoted to a discussion of. the whys and wherefores of the ending of the first half of the 20th century on Dec. 31, 1950 and other interest ing aspects of "our longterm timekeeping device, the calen dar," Dr. Marshall said. Demon strations will be as usual: 8:30 every evening and a matinee at 3 o'clock on Saturdays and Sun days. '' . . "Something that is used so fre quently by so many people as the calendar is should be better un derstood," Dr. Marshall believes. "When we know its history, its failings and its real purpose, we can think intelligently in terms of future improvements. "Someday we will have a ca lendar that fits the needs of our modern, highly-geared, business world better than the one we have now. sentatives of the Old North State back any time. And the Tar Heels generally agreed that there was no place they would rather re turn than Dallas. I House Detective C. M. Yates of the Adolphus Hotel in the heart of downtown Dallas said he had received no reports . of destruc tion of property or vandalism of any kind. ' "They made a lot of noise," Graham Against Force To Make FE PC Work WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 ( AP) Senator Graham (D-NC) said today he opposes use "of compulsory powers to bring about fair employment practices. ' : Asked by reporters about his (reaction to FEPC proposals ex- nkto Trra pected to be brougnt up in tnis J wOCll wlwdlfl ; session of Congress, Graham said: Will Travel This Quarter The University Debate Team will travel to Boston and Miami next month for debate meets, Dave Pitmann. president of the Debate Council, said yesterday. Last quarter the team com posed of Hershall Keener, Bob Evans, Herb Mitchell' and Paul This new calendar i-Roth won six debates from three will have 12 months, this pre- Northern universities. Two decis serving the best of old tradition J ions each were taken from Ameri but it will be a modern calendar !can University, New York Uni- for a new world. Only sectional versity and Columbia Univer- Dride and unreasoning nrpiudirp ! throughout the world can stop ,sy. the adoption of the World Calen- The 'proposition for the de dar, trie real solution to a per-; bates was "Resolved: That the i : . li i, , , .1 . . . Piuuxem. ; ' United ' States should nationalize r ourieen nations, excepting the United States, have endorsed ac ceptance of the World Calendar, Dr. Marshall said. the basis non-agricultural indus tries." On the affirmative team for j the question were Keener and Evans. Mitchell and Kotn com- "This present calendar of ours has been kicked around so much, it no loneer serves its nurnnsp " he claims. "The calendar is a'posed the negative team. timekeeper, and we should be I Other members of the Debate permitted to adopt new models as Council are Bob Hutchinson, we are free to develop new clock 'secretary; Dr, G. A. Barrett and , ; . tNorman W. Mattis, faculty ad the calendar cannot serve man. "u ' and sprvp him pff iricntlv it i visers: Gus Graham and George not fulfilling its purpose. 1 Rodman, Don Cossacks To Stage Concert Next Tuesday The Original Don Cossacks than 2,000,000 miles to delight Chorus and Dancers, under the direction of Serge Jaroff, will present a concert next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in Memorial Hall under the auspices of the Student Entertainment Commit tee. Brought to the campus by the S.E.C. for the first time three years ago, the Cossacks will re turn here in this, their twentieth anniversary tour of the United States. Since . its organization in Constantinople . in 1920, the Slavic chorus has traveled more Always Finds A Way Former Coed's Red Taped Story Of Romance Is Nation-Wide News Nation-wide attention was fo cused on the love affair of a former University student this week when Newsweek magazine printed .a story about Kitty Kleiner, entitled "Hearts in Red Tape." . ' : The story, told how Kitty, a graduate student in sociology here last' year, fell in love with Dennis Chrastansky when they were both in Czechoslavakia and how after several years of sep aration and a good deal of red tape they finally were able to spend Christmas together. When Chrastansky returned to Prague after a period in a con centration camp just after the war, he and. Kitty fell in love. Then her family ran afoul of Czech ' Communists and ' Kitty moved with her father to Lon don, and later came to the Unit ed States, where she first studied at the University of Iowa and then here. Last April Dennis came to Hal ifax, N. S. under the displaced persons quota, but because Kitty was unable to cross into Canada and Dennis was forbidden to en ter the United States, the two were unable to see each other. Soon they hit upon the bright idea of meeting on the Rainbow Bridge under Niagara Falls. That was in June, just after Kitty left Chapel Hill. Then they did not see each other again until Octo ber. - This time they held their ren dezvous on the Maid of the Mist, a little excursion boat that runs between Canada and the United States at the foot of .Niagara Falls. For four days the two rode back and forth on the little boat. Then on Dec. 18 the New York Mirror carried a story on about the two lovers. Soon Dennis was granted a visitor's permit to come to the United States. He arrived on Dec. 22, and the couple spent Christmas together. , Now they are marking time waiting until they can get around some more red tape the lega' restrictions against their mar riage. audiences in approximately 100 cities each year with their cele brated leg-flinging dancing, Rus sian liturgies, soldier and folk songs. Seven years ago all 26 of the six-foot Muscovite singers and their "half-pint", five-foot-tall conductor became American citi zens en masse, memorizing the Constitution in both Russian and English before taking the oath of allegiance. The Cossacks will be the third attraction in the Student Enter tainment Committee series this year. While ballad singer Burl Ives and Franz J. Polgar, hypno tist, entertained capacity audi ences this fall, other S.E.C. pro grams this quarter will feature Iva Kitchell, dance satirist, and Arthur Loesser, classical pianist, on ? February 14 and March 3, respectively. For the Cossacks concert, as well as for Hazel Scott, Negro pianist, and Metropolitan Opera Star Jan Peerce in the spring quarter, standard S.E.C. . admis sion regulations wilfr be in effect University students will be ad mitted free -upon presentation of their l.D. cards on the "first come, first-serve" basis once the doors open at 7 o'clock, However, Memorial Hall has only 1800 seats. Since the Stu dent Legislature makes an an nual . appropriation from student block fees to support the S.E.C faculty ; members, student wives and townspeople can be sold one dollar tickets only after 7:40 on the evening of the Cossacks' per- , f ormance. "I am for the principle of fair employment through voluntary cooperation, but am opposed to the section of the FEPC bill which provides for the use of compulsory powers and sanctions of the federal government. I will vote against the FEPC bill with those provisions." Graham also said in a state ment that he favors congressional action to remove "inequities" in the cotton acreage program. Earlier today Rep: Cooley (D- NC), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, intro duced a bill to limit acreage cuts which an individual farmer must take under the new cotton acre age allotment act. Cooley said he expected quick action on his proposal. . uranam said that nc is . im pressed" with the Cooley propo sal but will await recommenda tions of farm organizations and reports of congressional commit tees "as to the best yardstick for readjustments." ' "In view of the inequities which have developed in the pre sent program, I favor some ad justments," he added. Graham said he favors aboli tion of oleomargarine taxes "on the basis of fair competition The Senate is scheduled to take up legislation . tomorrow which would repeal the taxes. The I House has voted to end them. Graham also said he leans to ward an amendment designed to protect little business in pend ing legislation dealing with bas ing point freight rate practices. He added: 'I am in favor of price compe tition in the interest of the con sumer. " On' the basis of fair com petition, I am m favor of devel opment of large business enter prises but am opposed to any special privileges which .make for monopoly." ;-t ..-. He also said he favors f the Hoover Commission's recommen dations for reorganization of the government. UVA Opens Membership Campaign Campus veterans and members of the naval and air ROTC units may obtain official membership cards to the University Veterans' Association - today and tomorrow at the Booketeria under Steele Dormitory, Vestal Taylor, yets Club manager, announced yester day. - - Membership; fees? uv the club are $L, and entitles, veterans and ROTC 'members "to "full UVA privileges, .including - the exclu sive use of the Vets' Club. Taylor also announced the opening of the club to members and guests tonight. An open house will allow all students the privilege of attending a special program at the club, and will be periodically throughout the quar ter, it was announced. A floor show is being planned for the affair, but full particulars were not available yesterday. Yates explained, "but aside from that they were very well behaved and we'd like to have them back anytime." Yates said the only footBall visitors who, usually give Daila3 a hard time are the University of Oklahoma students. "We dread to see them come to town to play Southern Methodist," he said. They really wreck the joint." Room Clerk W. E. Harton of the Baker Hotel across the street agreed with Yate's remarks both on the Carolinians and the Oklahomans. , They were a good bunch," Horton said without hesitation. "They made a good bit of noise, but we expected that. Arid com- i pared to the crew that comes ' down here from Oklahoma, they were a group of Sunday school picnicers." And as the sun sank over West Dallas, the Tar Heels could be heard giving their latest battle cry: "On to South Bend." Mercy Killing Called Murder In Indictment MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan. 3 UP) A young doctor who care fully noted in hospital records his actions in the mercy killing of a mortally ill cancer patient today was indicted on a first de gree murder charge. Dr. Hermann N. Sander, 40 year - old general practitioner, was accused by an all-male grand jury of injecting air into the veins -of 59-year-old Mrs. Abbie Borroto last Dec. 4. The Ilillsboro County grand, jury indicted the physician after a day-long hearing. The indict ment was one of .18 handed to Superior Court Judge Harold E. Wescott shortly after 5 p.m. EST. Dr. Sander was charged with injecting "10 cubic . centimeters of air four times in close succes sion . well knowing that the said air injection to be sufficient to cause death." The young doctor, whose case has stirred widespread debate, has been free under $25,000 bond since last Friday. County prose cutor William H. Craig said Dr. Sander will remain at large tinder the same bond until arraignment Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Hardly a dozen spectators were in the courtroom when the in dictment was returned. However, throughout the day, crowds had filled , the corridors of the court house, waiting, to learn the jury's decision in the now widely watch ed case. Jones Attends NSA Meet Ben Jones, chairman of the Virginia-Carolina region of the National Students Association, is attending a five-day meeting of the executive committee of the U. S. National Association held in Madison, Wis. The 27 students attending the meeting represent more than a million students who are NSA members. Cotton Bowl The official National Broad casting Company movies of the Cotton Bowl will be shown over WFMY-TV, tonight al 9:30. The Greensboro' Daily News lelerision station will also broad -, cast t1 commentary play-by-play action. Arrangements were being made late last 'nig hi for instal lation of a TV set in the main lounge of Graham Memorial to carry the broadcast. Jim Rath burn, director, said that it was not definite that a set would be installed, however. Those who have television sets or who will be lucky enough to see one in some other way, : may see the broadcast by turn ing to Channel No. 2. the Greens boro station's frequency.