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Serials Eei. Cispsl 111' B C- EDITORIALS No Tribute Basketball Cheering The God That Failed WEATHER Continued cloudy and cool. VOLUME LVIII Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1950 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 75 (Ci m .sin Solons' Action May Be Block To Fair Deal Rules Committee Votes for Return Of Former Power WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 A surprise move which could wr ik much of the Truman fair dr;il program in this session of Concuss was started today in the House Rules Committee and in formed coiij'ressmen believed to in-ht it had a good chance to i.'uvrrd. Southern Democrats and Re-pulilu-ans teamed up to force thi"iiyh a motion 9 to 2 asking the H"u:;; to restore the commit tee's old power to bottle up bills Working together, such a coali tinii thus would have life and death power over, large portions of President Truman's legislative program. There was reported to be a f;n,it. deal of sentiment in the J louse favoring a return of the committee';; power which was shorn away last January. The existing rule, permitting chair men of other committees to by pass the rules group and bring r. t r 1 rn.is. . .: r -J. m, .7'. . H ,iiirr-fcam&'.' CLIF CLARY, A TEXAS COWBOY, rounds up wild goats on uninhabited Parramore Island on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Clary and his assistants penned several hundred of the goats for ship ment to Texas ranches. Sunken Sub Death Toll Reaches 65 SBI For Begins Hairs Step Return CHATHAM, Eng., Jan. 13 (JPJ The British Royal Navy said tonight 65 men perished in the sinkine of the submarine Trucu- lefjifclation to the House floor, re-Men portedly was adopted for the very Hope was abandoned for 55 purpose of keeping the Truman missing men believed entombed program irom Deing DiocKaaea. in thp hlllk nn thp mufidv bed of Hou.,e Speaker Rayburn of the Thames Estuary. Divers Texas, administration leader, ap- frmcrht timp and tide in vain to- peared glum over today's sudden day for a sign of life in the turn of events but declined com- wreck. nicnt. irie committee's chairman, Ten bodies had been given up Sabath (D-Ill) said he assumed Dy the sea. 11 I 1 1 J 1 1 cl I me c-nange wouia go tnrougn "u nnlv 15 nf thp o0 aboard the me c-oaiuion or nepuDiicans ana 1090-ton .Pacific war veteran es boutnern democrats prevails. ranwl fter her collision with the The rules - committee . action 643-ton Swedish tanker Divine at came after a wrangle over the ad- 7 o'clock last night. - niinisirauons iair employment T DjJ!.;n tn tho fi W at practices legislation. The motion fi men Derished today in was made by Rep. Cox (D-Ga.),LK u Q ,. nbn that loe cit the measure wnicn is oe- t Dicked up divers for lore ine rules group. th Truf.uient ... ooeration. The There were two factors leading piane, a Lancaster, crashed at to the 9 to 2 vote: its takeoff from a Royal Air 1. Opposition by some of the Force station in Scotland. 12 committee members to the The Admiralty daced an ar civil rights program and to the rest order on the tanker. She is to fair deal program of social legis- De held until her owners post bail la t ion. tn rover the loss of the Trucu- 2. A feeling that the commit- lent. tee ousht to have more say-so statement by the Admiralty, about funnelling legislation to jSSUed about 24 hours after the the House floor for action. ' Miisic Course Is Offered A non-credit course in "Listen in to Music" will be offered to adult,; beginning Wednesday through the University's cxtcn sioii di vision in cooperation with the Music Department. To be held in the choral room or Hilt Music Hall, the class will be under Hie supervision of Glen H.ivdoii, head of the Music De p,u tiK iut. David Serrens, a Jnidmte student in music, will teach the course. accident, said "'no hope can now be entertained" for any further survivors. The Admiralty first be lieved 76 persons were aboard. Alpha Phi Omega To Post Bulletins Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will add a new service to the campus when it begins bulletin board posting. William S. Roth, president of the Scouting fraternity, said yes terday that persons having no tices should bring them to Room 202 of the Y with instructions as to time and place for posting. He said his organization will nut 110 the announcements on RALEIGH, Jan. 13 Steps to return Raymond D. Hair to North Carolina and trial on a murder charge were taken today. - SBI Agent James W. Powell took a plane vf or Los Ange les, Calif., where the 28-day search for the 24-year-old Wake Forest pre-medical student ended yesterday. With him Powell carried a cer- tified copy of the warrant charg ing Hair with the murder of 20- year-old Roy W. Coble, a former Wake Forest student who was found dying in Hair's car on a college parking lot the night of December 15. . Although Hair readily admitted his identity when two Los An geles detectives burst into his hotel . room and - said he would waive extradition formalities, extradition, papers were being prepared for forwarding to the governor of California. Powell planned to bring his prisoner back to Raleigh by train Meanwhile, there was intense speculation here on how the SBI was able to obtain the informa tion it furnished the Los Angeles police which resulted in the ar rest. Powell was able to tell the officers to go to the Hotel Cecil and check on a man living there under the name of J. S. Royster. Of this, SBI Chief Walter An derson said: "A lot of people think some one called us up and told- us where he was. It was not a tip and it didn't happen that way. It was just another investigative lead that had to be investigated and it paid off.", There were indications that the arrest resulted from the fact that Hair received some money while in Los Angeles. Anderson said the SBI had established that Hair received $200 last weekend, and he admitted that this "possibly" was the way the youth : was traced. . . With 24 New Albums anv campus bullentin boards spe- litis io the second year the de-1 cified. p.irtinent has offered the course, which is designed to heighten en joyment of music through teach ing, by recordings and personal performances. 1 rxse wishing to enroll may register Tn 'advance at the exten sion divisions office in twain Hall. Enrollment fee is $10 for the course or $1 for each meet ing. Los Angeles Detective O. J Locklear quoted Hair as saying Coble was wounded in a scuffle that resulted from an argument over a gambling debt Hair owed Coble. GM Record Collection Now Totals Over 1,000 Party Barred WASHINGTON. Jan. 13-(r) Organizations sponsoring a ral ly here, next week for passage of President Truman's Ciril Rights program ' served( notice today that representatives of the Progressive Party would be barred from taking part. They said in a statement that Communist and Communist front organizations also will be excluded from the sessions, scheduled io open Sunday with and address by Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas (Illinois). Graham Memorial has just added 24 new albums to its re cord collection, which raises the total number of records in the collection to well over the 1,000 mark. Included in the new albums are Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Brigadoon, Ballads for Americans by Paul Robeson, and albums featuring the King Cole Trio, the Ink Spots, Frank Sinatra, and Duke Ellington. The record collection is kept in information office of Graham Memorial. They may be checked out and taken to the music rooms in the Roland Parker lounges. Several campus organizations such as the Y and the Student Entertainment Committee have used . the records this year, but individual . students wishing to hear the records must use them in the building. "Some of the albums we have can no longer be bought," Mary Jo McLean, entertainment direc tor of Graham Memorial said "sd we try to be especially care ful with them." The collection includes popular music, classics, jazz, music for r square dancing, and almost any other type of musjc a person might want to hear. UNC Alumnus Will Oppose Carl Durham GREENSBORO, Jan. 13 m Richard J. Randolph of Greensboro, who said he is a descendant of one of George Washington's cabinet members, entered the fifth Congressional district race against Represent ative Carl Durham of Chapel Hill today. The 40-year-old appliance salesman said he was' a liberal Democrat whose platform would include a national war veterans bonus, a federal tax cut, and repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. He is a University of North Carolina alumnus. WewWFHeac! May Be From Richmond U. Raleigh Paper Says Dr. Moldin Has Offer of Job RALEIGH, N. C, Jan. 13 (P) Dr. George Modlin, President of the University of Richmond, reportedly has in effect been offered the post of president of Wake Forest College by a trus tees committee, the Raleigh News and Observer reported tonight. The newspaper, quoting what it termed an official college source, said the committee seek ing a hew president has not taken an official vote on Dr. Modlin. Hovever, the source continued, "The group has in effect offered him the job and is awaiting word from him." Dr. Modlin "has the matter un der consideration now," the pa per quoted the source as saying. Contacted at Richmond, Dr. Modlin said no direct offer has been made to him and "I am not in a position to say what my answer might be if one is made'," the News and Observer said. Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin has resigned the Wake Forest presi dency effective at the end of the current school year. Like a similar committee se lecting a new president for the University of North Carolina, any action the Wake Forest Col lege Committee takes will be subject to final action by the full board of trustees. The paper said the source stat ed the 46-year-old Richmond Un i versity head has visited Wake Forest recently and also con ferred with the nominating com mittee at Winston-Salem. Although the committee has "put it up pretty strongly" to Dr. Modlm, he still is "far from making up his mind," the paper quoted the source. The Rich mond man . "wants something more definite about the plans for moving to Winston-Salem, including where all the money is coming from." Dr. Modlin, a native of Eliza beth City, attended Wake Forest and Princeton , University. He has been president of Richmond University since 1946. Boy Swipes Boat, Sails 200 Miles Out To Sea ABROATH, Scotland, Jan. 13 ny was determined to sail to (P) Schoolboy Johnny Guthrie, who swiped a 30-ton fishing boat Wednesday - and ' sailed away alone was nabbed today some 200 miles out in the stormy ISIorth Sea." ' - Crewmen of the British trawl er Reptonian found the 14 year old lad halfway to Denmark. Ships and planes had searched for him since the 54-foot yawl Girl Jean disappeared from her Arbroath moorings. Hungry and miserable, the boy with a passion for the sea lay sprawled in the yawl's fishhold clasping his stomach when the Reptonian found him. He said he hadn't eaten for two days. He perked up after a meal and de- - u - clared "I'm okay." , . , Johnny s stevedore father -m Arbroath was relieved when the ReDtonian radioed the news, but he added grimly: - ! "That lad's in for it." ., Guthrie senior told .reporters his blond son had always been "mad about the sea" . and hung around the harbor day after day A trailing- rope scuttled John ny's voyage. - It got tangled around the Girl Jean's propellor and left the boat wallowing in the heavy swell until the Rep tonian on her way to White Sea fishing' grounds chugged by. Seeing no sign of life, Repton oan crewmen board the Girl Jean and found disconsolate Johnny. Scared schoolboy pals in Ar broath told police soon after the Girl Jean disappeared that John- rance. Another report said Johnny has a Belgian sweetheart named Marie, whom he met in Arbroath last summer; and was trying to sail to Belgium to see her. Johnny had stowed away in the Girl Jean once before and knew the boat could be started and con trolled by one man from the wheelhouse, though she usually carried several crewmen. Glider Crash Brings Death To Ten Fliers . FORT BENNING, Ga., Jan. 13 (IF) Ten student para troopers' died in the crash of a glider training plane this after noon at nearby Lawson Air force Base. Seven other men were hos pitalized with serious injuries. Capt. A. C. Parker of the .Infantry Center public relations office said the 17 men aboard .were taking glider training in conjunction with their airborne training. Each, he added, was sched uled : to take his final para chute jump tomorrow before graduation from the training school. Oleo-Butter Vote Is Set For Tuesday WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (?) The Senate agreed today to start voting Tuesday in the oleomar garine-butter controversy which has been before it since Jan. 4. Under the agreement obtained by Democratic leader Jucas 01 Illinois, the voting will start at 1 P. M. (EST) on a proposed sub stitute for a House-approved bill to take the federal taxes off mar garine. The voting agreement also ap plies to any pertinent amend ments. The substitute bill is backed by a group of Senators from dairy states. It would repeal .the tax of 10 cents a pound on colored oleomargarine - and - y - cent a pound on uncolored, but would prohibit shipment of yellow mar garine across state lines. No agreement has been reached on a time to vote on the House approved bill, which contains no such restriction. . Senator Butler (R-Neb) already has been given permission by the sponsors of the substitute bill to incorporate in it amendments calling for the reduction of ex cise taxes on fur, jewelry, lug gage, telephone bills and other items. Senator Magnuson (D-WASH) has announced he will ' move to strike Butler's amendments from the substitute, thus giving an op portunity for a separate vote on the excise, tax issue. Senator - Langer (R-ND), who opposes the House bill, has pend ing some amendments to it which would add three of the contro versial Truman "civil rights" proposals. Lucas assured Southern Sen ators, who oppose those meas ures, that the civil rights amend ments would not be held perti nent if they were offered to the substitute measure. , In the course of today's debate, Senator Cain (R-Wash) asserted that "the eall for yellow marga rine comes almost entirely from the manufacturers." NSA Committee Hits Loyalty Oath Of UNC NROTC MADISON, Wise, Jan. 13 The loyalty oath of the Uni versity of North Carolina Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit was blasted in a condemnation resolution at the National Students' Association executive committee meeting here, president Robert A. Kelly said today. . , f - The oath, which requires ROTC V-' --tf ' 4 candidates to swear that they are ' v A -1 ' -"CS X. ' 'J 'i -'0VW' 1 & S "2 '4 DOLORES RUTH MEDLIN of Miami, 16 -year-old high school senior, has been chosen 1950 Florida Swim for Health Queen. She holds a trophy pre sented to her ai Miami Beach. Dolores is a brunette, weighs 121 pounds; her bust is 34, waist 24, and hips 36 inches. Concert Hop OnTap Today For Germans The campus' tri-yearly dance fest. commonly called the "Ger man's Weekend," reels into its second round today as Tex Beneke and his orchestra warm up for a concert this afternoon and a dance tonight. Last night Beneke and his boys provided the sound for. a formal dance in Woollen gym nasium.. The affair was the starting gun of the two-day social marathon. This afternoon, starting at 4 o'clock, Tex will rock Memo rial Hall with two hours of music in his popular style, and tonight will wind tip his chore for the weekend at an 8 o'clock midnight formal dance, again in Woollen gym. Last night's dance featured the presentation of the 13 Ger man Club representatives. not connected with any organiza tions listed by the Attorney-General's office as "subversive." is required of all candidates, but the resolution passed only referred to those required by the Uni versity unit, and the unit at Har vard University. Although NSA is on record as supporting loyalty oaths where they are necessary for U. S. se curity, the committee said the NROTC oath was "too sweeping" and "not testricted to the needs of national security," Kelly asserted. The Harvard oath also includes ... a clause that stipulates that NROTC students "inform" on other students who participate in the activities of groups on the Attorney General's list of sub versive organizations, besides not participating themselves. The executive committee also supported proposals for Federal scholarships in higher education made by the American Council on Education, and added .that ra cial and religious inquiries should not be made in the scholarship plan. The ACE proposal is ex pected to reach the 81st Congress through Truman. The recently-concluded meet ing was the "most successful in NSA history," Kelly said: "Ail business on the agenda was cleaned up during the five- day meeting, and attention was given to the regional and cam- ' pus work of NSA," he explained. The executive committee pass ed other resolutions on student rights, federal scholarships, hu man relations, heard a report on a discrimination case during the August NSA Congress, and laid plans for the 1950 Congress, which will be held at the Uni versity of Michigan. Phi To Hold Institute Holdout Gives In Something Settled On Truman; H e's Declared Jh irty-Th ird Presiden t WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 () A five-year dispute finally has reached a conclusion: Harry S.l Truman is the 33rd president of the' United States. After considerable soul-search-ing,; the' "Congressional Direc tory" editors have reversed their field and raised Mr. Truman from no. 32 to no. 33. The confusion is all on account of Grover Cleveland. He got himself elected presi dent in 1865, no. 22 in a dis tinguished line. At the end of Mr. Cleveland's term, Benjamin Harrison took over, no. 23. Then back came Cleveland and confusion. Did Cleveland get back his old presidential jersey, with no. 22 on the back? Or was : he entitled to a new outfit, with no. 24? ,: Obviously a weighty questioa, citizens, one worthy of the best minds. But the best minds have tended to differ. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had the job lorig enough to know, called himself the 32nd president, which meant he counted Cleve land twice. ,A legal eagle in the state de partment agreed. This unnamed authority handed down an opin ion in which he made these points: 1. There is no harm in count ing Cleveland twice. The Philanthropic Assembly will conduct a three-day Insti tute of Parliamentary Procedure on Feb. 8-10. Speaker Herman Sieber said yesterday. The In stitute will be open to all cam pus leaders and interested per sons, he added. The announcement was made following a Phi Executive Com mittee meeting. Peter Gerns, graduate in political science and well-known campus parliamen tarian, has been named the first director of the Institute. A Special committee to be headed by Sieber, to integrate the three-day program of the Institute includes the following: James Southerland, Phi Parlia mentarian George Rodman, Da vid . Sharpe, John Giles and Banks Talley. "The need for a Parliamentary Institute has been felt here at 2. Tf vnn rount ClfvolanH nnrp Carolina for a long lime. It is you wind up with the Cleveland hoped that the, student legisla- of 1893 as no. 22 whereas the tors and the heads of campus man just ahead of him, Harrison, organizations - will take advan- had been 23. To the State Depart- tage of the Institute, Sieber said. ment, this would be an intoler able situation. Most publicati6ns have follow ed the 33 line. As for Mr. Truman, authorities could quote him either way. bhortly alter ne became presi dent, he said he looked upon him self as no. 33. Later he said he had added the presidents them- had added the presidents him self, and had counted only 32. Officially the main 32 holdout has been the "Congressional Di rectory." - Graham Opposed WASHINGTON, N. C Jan. 13 (A) Olla Ray Boyd, Pine iown hog-raiser, say he's going to run against U. S. Senator Frank P. Graham this spring. He . has prepared his papers for fil ing with the State Board of Elections. Boyd was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1944 and 1948.