North Carolina Newspapers

. S. VTITP.DAV,- JA TTUAEY i j, PAGE TWO THE DAILTJL3 IHTEL; is w r - - STf) e IDaity War Mtd The official newspaper t,( the Publication Bonrd of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where tl is issued daily during the regular sessions of the Umvermty by the Colonial I'rens. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and Vnration periods, and the suifimer term. Entered as necond-class mater at the pot office of Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub scription price: $8 Oo per year, $ 00 per rquarter. Member of The Associated Ires. 'Ihe Associated Prcx and AP features ore exclusively entitled to the ue for republication of all news feature published herein. dtiir '. !".' DICK J ENRETTK HiivineM M-innoer C. B. MENDENHALI. 'Managinq idttijT ,S ixrrt t k. d "r JVeu's f.ditor . . - Veik ' tifor Socxittv Editor .Srnr rholoQTOphtT VaaoTtul Stujf Jaclc hrown, l'.ili Kellarn. Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton, Charlie Cibson. Joe Stykora. Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson, Charlie Joyner, Dave 8harpe. John Stump. . Kiwi Staff: Rolf'e Neill, lion Maynard. Glenn ilarden. Bill Johnson, Wult Newell. Sarn McKccl, Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos, Craham Jones, Charlie Brewer, Ginny Jones,M. K. Jones, HuiiheKM Staff: Oliver ' Watkinsr "Ed Williams. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett. Don Stanford. Bootsv Taylor. Bill Brain. Frank Daniels. Ruth Dennis. Evalyn Harrison, Dan Hobion. Ruth Sanders. PeRi?y Sheridan, Rodney Taylor, Marie With ers, M argaret G i r rett Howard Tickle. Short StufJ: I.arry Fox. Frank Allston, Jr., Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman, Andy Taylor, Art Creer.baurn. Bift Roberts, Ronald Tilley, Billy Peacock. Ken Barton. - 'Society ' Staff: Peggy Wood. Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford, MarRcrv Storey. ' Basketball Cheering While Carolina athletic teams have not always been champions in all sports, ona thing which University students could always point to with pride is the fine display of spirit" which the student body has at the games, no matter who wins. But we must admit, after visits to the Duke and State College campuses this year for nthletie rivals have cot Carolina beat as far as cheering goes at basketball games. The Tar Heel basketball team, while possibly not as good as in some years, has already beaten Duke once over the holidays and merits all the cheers it receives. Nevertheless the cheering is completely unorganized, outside of hand clapping in timeout periods, and cheerleaders at the cage games, as well as the football games, seem to be in order. Both Duke and State cheerleaders are on hand for home games at their schools, and after watching them in action, we are convinced that the cheers they lead do have some effect on the outcome of the contest. For years now State has been virtually unbeatable at home with a partisan crowd yelling in unison for a Wolfpack victory. But in games away, State has frequently been unimpressive. A good example of this came the other week when Duke upset the State team in Duke Indoor Stadium. The crowd played a big role in encouraging the Duke team in its battle against heavy odds. , Carolina students naturally like to cheer at athletic con tests, and basketball is no exception. Norm Sper and his associate cheerleaders migh greatly help the Carolina basketball team by being present at the games. The students are willing to cheer and lack only leadership. As long as State and Duke are having cheerleaders at the basketball games, Carolina should follow suit. Regular Occurrence To the veteran student at Carolina and we speak of those who have been here in previous years, not of military service the coincidence of the Winter Germans and the Winter rains is no surprise. The only chance for fair weather today lies in the cog nizance, by the elements, bf this edit which was written yesterday. Then the weather might be clear just for spite. No Tribute By J. P. Barnum was right; there is other than Ringling Brothers, Barnum being part owner .of the greatest show on earth must . have been refering to those people who went to a circus othr than . Ringling , Brothers, Barnum and Bailey. By other circuses I mean lh fly-by-night ones which tour the country, flim-flam-ing the public and proving that Barnum was right. I speak from experience. I recently took in a circus billed as America's Newest Big Show. The only thing big about it was the admission price $1.20 per head, for general admission. I took tickets and fought my way through the crowd to the' inside of the tent and located the general admission seats conveniently placed behind what seemed to be a small forest of rops and poles which support ed the tent. From this vantage point I could probably have seen the show if it had perform ed on the seat in front of me. I approached the ticket collector jWith my "can't see a thing" tale of woe and he escorted us to new seats for only 65 cents ;more per seat. The ringmaster announced that the show could not go n until the night's quota of popcorn was sold. I weakened and bought two boxes. The lights dimmed and the show started. The genuine Arab ian Dancing horses resembled tlue factory rejects and if they danced they must have done, to while I was scraping chew CHUCK HAUSER - TAYIX)R VA DEM ... Roy Parker, Jr. Zane Robbir.s Caroline tlruner James A. Mills basketball games, that these Brady ing gum from the seat of my pants. Ricardo the Lion Tamer was billed as terrific. He was going to stick his head in a lion's mouth. This he did after plead ing with the lion to open his mouth. If the lion had closed his mouth with Ricardo's , head in it, the only way the lion could have removed the head would have been to "gum" it off. I later found out that the lion had been purchased from Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey after he became too old to roar. Griselda the Trapeze Artist amazed the crowd with her agility on the trapeze and broke her arm in the fall. Her husband, Hornando, was also a trapeze artist. He was going to do an impossible stunt that of standing on his head on a swinging tarpeze. The stunt remained impossible and Griselda came close to being a widow.- And so, on and on it went. Each act trying to be lousier than the previous one. Disgust ed. I left. On the way to my car I passed the performers en trance to the big top and it was here that I received my biggest laugh of the evening. A circus hand leading a pig- my elephant by ihe ear step , ped into a ditch in the dark and the elephant fell in on top of him. My wife drove the car home while I lay in the back seat - having hysterics. DREW PEARSON . ON WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND WASrtlNGTON, In 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt advo cated the repeal of Prohibition, one big argument was that liq uor racketeers had become a law unto themselves, a group above the Government. That argument ' was valid. Eutv now the'oid liquor racketeers have moved . into the gambling racket where they still . remain! a law unto themselves. Last year a rash of stories bn Frank ie Costello were . publish ed by Time, Newsweek and Ed ward Folliard of the Washing ton Post, a great newspaper man. These stories told how Costello lunched in style at the ' Waldorf, wore custom - made clothes, owned an office build ing on Wall Street. Unwittingly, these articles tended to paint such a glorified picture of America's No. 1 gamb ler that an impressionable youngster might have been per suaded that this was the life for him. It was even pointed out that Costello still lived with the same wife; completely ignoring the files of the New York Police Department which are filled with recordings of obscene tele phone conversations between Costello and a score of mis tresses. The tragic fact is that Cos tello and the gang leaders he represents have succeeded to an amazing degree not only in mak ing crime pay, but in making it respectable. That it not a lesson that we want taught our youth. Furthermore, when any one group in our society sets itself up as more powerful than an other, democracy breaks down. Hitherto Costello's chief in fluence has been in the big cities New York, Miami and Los Angeles. But now he ap pears to be able to reach in side the Federal Government. The amazing fact is that Cos tello could be deported from the United States and sent back to Italy tomorrow if the Justice Department wanted to. For, when Costello swore out his American citizenship papers in 1925, he perjured himself re garding his criminal record. Countless other immigrants have , been deported for doing exactly the same thing, but they have lacked something which Costello has influence. At this very moment, another immigrant, Harry Bridges, is on trial in San Francisco on ex actly the same charge perjury in connection with his citizen-4 ship papers. This column holds no brief for Bridges. But everyone should be treated equally. And it's an ironic fact that "Jiggs" Donohue, a private attorney who has had contacts with the Maragon-Cos-tello crowd, is now retained by. the Justice Department to pros ecute Bridges. President Truman, I am con vinced, knows nothing about Costello influence inside the Government and would not stand for it if he did. Never theless, Costello appears to have a powerful friend inside the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and this column has previously published the details on the fix ing of a federal tax-fraud case involving Los Angeles gamb lers. Last summer, Sen. Clyde R. Hoey's Investigating Committee also stumbled onto the fact that Maragon, now under indictment, had been employed by Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and that Bill Helis, the "Golden Greek," another partner of Cos tello's had been a contributor to the Truman campaign. Maragon was found to have a secret banking account in El Paso, Texas, which over a per iod of time contained as much as $135,000 a lot of money for a man who complained that his salary averaged around $4,000 annually. Furthermore, most of Maragon's transactions 1 were in casht he coin of the under world. Maragon and General Vaugh- an also had enough power inside the Truman administration to overrule a housing order against the remodeling of California's Tanforan race track after being introduced to the track's owners by Costello's partner, Helis. Though Costello probably makes most of his money in gambling, one source of revenue is his partnership with "Dandy Phil" Kastel, Bill Helis and Irving Haim, as sales agents for House of Lords and King's Ran- re lsw Vl -i V som Whiskies. When Republi can Senators stumbled into this connection last summer,, Helis immediately issued a vigorous" denial. He said that at no time had he ever been associated with Costello in connection with the Whiteley Company, owners of House of Lords and King's Ransom. However, here is part of the official, though confidential rec ord regarding the partnership of White House friend Bill Helis, Frankie Costello, and "Dandy Phil" Kastel. Nov. 8, 1937 A note for $225, 000 to Irving Haim at the Whit ney National Bank in New Or leans was endorsed by Phil KasteL William Helis and Frank Costello. In 1938 Kastel owed C. D. Jennings of Chicago $45,000 for slot machine. So a note for the debt was signed by Kastel and KODert neDerg wun Alliance Distributors stock certificates. put up as collatoral. Alliance Distributors is the name under Which Costello, Kastel and Helis operate. To meet the note Alii- , ance Distributors arranged to sell 2,000 cases of whisky and turn the proceeds over to C. D." Jennings. Aug. 23, 1938 Bill Helis paid Irving Haim's note for $225,000 at the Whitney National Bank with his personal check for that amount. Sept. 15, 1938 An agreement g was executed between Irving Haim and William Helis giving Helis an interest in J. G. Turney and Sons, Ltd., the holding com pany for King's Ransom and House of Lords whiskies. Sept. 16, 1933 A receipt was signed by Helis for 10,000 or dinary shares and 35,000 pre ferred shares of stock. Sept. - 1, 1939 Lloyd Cobb, Helis' man in New Orleans, : wrote ' A. G. Reynolds, Helis' man in London, enclosing a clipping from the Washington Merry-Go-Round, linking Helis to Frank Costello. Jan. 13, 1941 An interoffice memo from A. G. Reynolds in-'- dicated that Phil Kastel's $100, 000 note and Haim's $225,000 note hadn't been paid. The memo referred to a letter agreement between Helis and Haim where by both notes would be repaid by Haim. - July 27, 1943-Mleorge Uffner came to New York from New Orleans to see Costello. Cos tello, calling Uffner on the phone said: "You and Bill Helis meet me in the lobby tonight at seven o'clock, . If Alfange wants to' see me that will be all right." (Dean Alfange is Helis' lawyer, who also issued a de nial last summer that Helis was -ever connected with Costello). i . ' : f .-..' a Feb. 1947 Helis, when inter- viewed by the New". York. State Liquor authority, . stated v that Haim had paid all money owed- : jhim, and , that he andHaim now owned equal shares in J.' G. Turney and Son. ' ,u "r-""r"". "of the lirsi four years, denied to the Press that he had - - , . . , . ... , , Banks is no stranger to any- ever been associated with Frank, .- who has an interest in Costello m connection with the CaroUna activities. The Whiteley Company,. the wholly;. Frances are that if anyone be- subsidLary of J. G, Turney and Viongs to two or three, he knows Son. - .t,-and has come ' in contact with fast: -Campus .Personalities- Meet Holsten, Talley By Jack By some coincidence, both personalities this week claim adopted sections Roy Holsten, from Glen Rock, New Jersey, is . a reformed Yankee that . just loves the South; and Banks Talley, native of Bennettsville, South Carolina, swears .alleg iance to the "old North State." Proof postive that both of the above mentioned young men are getting an education from their four years of college life! Roy, who is chairman of the Men's Honor Council has alrea dy lined up a steady and im portant job for after gradua tion. He finishes up this March, and the day after, he is to marry Liddy Bet Myatt, a former coed here.-Roy is interested in public Rations and personnel work, w. in all nrobabilitv -will live in North .Carolina, More important, for, the 4e being, are' the "activities in which Roy is and has been engaged during his stay at ' Carolina. Besides heading the .Men's Honor Council, he has een active in a great many .other fields. At the present time he is president of the DKE fraternity, and during his .4erm as president of the Ger .man Club, the tickets sold for ihe lowest price in (5) years. He has also served on the Student . Council, the Presi dent's Cabinet, the Daily Tar Heel, and the Interfraternity Council. Further questioning brought out the facts thai he had served as chairman of ihe Non-Pariisan Selection Board and ihe Summer School Stud ent Judiciary. Prhaps Roy's greatest con tribution to 'student activities has been his influencial part in effort to get down into printed form a history of the Men's Honor Council along with an ' effort to explain in simple lang uage the rights and privileges of the students, precedents and" penalties laid down by the Council, and the relationship etween " the Council and the Student:::5 Council. The booklet rnld' liP-Mistfibuted sometime Jduring this year -or the first of next year. V About the work the the Council is doing, Roy said that "this year has brought about the cloest inter-council relation ship that the judiciary has had that" is, .the Men's Honor Council, the Women's Honor , Council, and the Student Coun cil." ' ; He also commented on the fact that student interest in the work of the Council has been at an all time high this year, which was "a step in the right direc- tion." Roy ended by saying that it : was "gratifying to members of . the Covulcii'',.Jq;"f;ee that the Honor System , is taking root with -tn.g: Students." . ..- Banks Talley 'is like Roy in another way 'v besides ihe f adoption of North Carolina; . Banks is also graduating in March. However, it is no mar " riage 'but more school as a special student for Banks after, ihe ritual of io mark ihe end ' ' ' ' , ', t.t A $ , , i Brown Banks. At the present time he is president of the Chi Psi fraternity and is president-elect of the Di Senate. A sample of the other activities with which he has been connected are the Yackety Yack, the Daily Tar Heel, the Student Entertain ment Committee, -and the Cam pus Party, as chairman. In sum mer school, he was on the Stud ent Council and was secretary treasurer of the Student Body. Banks has worked on the important committee to revise the Student Constitution. "The full committee," he said, "at times has been slow in pre paring ihe revisions, but hav ing worked on John Sanders summer school subcommittee I must say that Sanders. Hol sten. and Sewell have given a great deal of their time; and I would like to praise them for having completed the sum mer school article and now having it ready for legislative approval." Perhaps one of the jobs that Banks enjoyed most was that of Speaker of the House at the State Student Legislative. About this experience he said: "The hottest spot I've been on was presiding as Speaker of the House at the State Student Leg islature. Several boys there gave me a real working over on Roberts Rules of Order. Only on one occasion did I feel like throwing a boy out- He hap pened to be Charleston, South Carolina, and Duke."" Over State This is a story about an agri cultural worker and a State highway patrolman which is going the rounds in Raleigh. Ii seems ihe agricultural worker had a small cotton gin which he used in various dem onstrations about the State. He carried ihe gin in ihe back of his car, along with other para phernalia which weighed ihe back end of ihe vehicle down considerably. An alert patrolman, who spot ted the car, thought to himself: "Oh-oh! Bootlegger!" Stopping the agricultural worker, he asked, "What you got back there?" "A little gin," replied the man. The patrolman, thinking he had something this time,, began digging into the articles in the seat. Net results of the search: a little gin for cotton! . Motorists whose last names begin with N, O, P and Q now are being examined for renewal of their licenses to drive, Jeff B. Wilson, director of the High f 'way Safety Division of the De partment of Motor Vehicles, re minded drivers in this category today. Although N, O, P and Q drivers have until June 30 io obtain their renewals, they will save time if ihey report for examination early in the period while driver's license examiners are not rushed, Wilson said. Long lines as the L and M period closed December 3 1 should indicate to N through sCcfoIina The God That Failed' By Bill Kellarn Idealistic Americans, "pinks," and drawing room economic ex perts who have recoiled in hor ror from the over-centralization of capital and the excesses of corporations and trusts in this country, and who consider Rus sian collectivism the answer to all economic ills, would do well to read The God That Failed. This volume is a particularly pertinent collection of essays on party life by six of the world's leading literary and intellectual lights who joined or were as sociated with the party since World War I. These men, disillusioned with capitalism after World War I. turnedlo the Party for solace and to communism as an economic panacea. Their disillusionment continued. Arthur Koestler, Richard Wright, Ignazio Silone, Andre (no less) Gide, Louis Fischer, and Stephen Spender voice, or rather, pen, their resulting disappointment with that idyllic totalitarian bureaucra cy. - These essays are not notable , for any startling revelations. They are frank, factual state ments of the attractions of com munism for these sensitive men and of the evils which caused the men to later flee the party and discard its beliefs. In none of the pieces, praise be, is there any of the gaudy Sunday-supplement sensational ism which has heretofore char acterized the rash of "confes sions" and self-revelations-of-soul by ex-communists which has recently polluted American magazines and bookstores. The authors are t well quali fied, through experience and literary stature, to purge their collective souls, Koestler, Wright, Silone, and Spender were active members of the party. Gide and Fischer never actually joined the party but were quite active sympahtisers. The wiiiy and urbane essay of philosopher-novelisi-criiic Koestler is the geni. Perhaps his case is also the most uni versally typical of the motives which cause an intelligent preson to communism. After an unsettled Hungarian childhood due to World War I and its economic upheavals, Q motorists the advisa- of get ting their licenses renewed at their earliest convenience. Driver's licenses examiners form a unit of the Highway Safety Division. Release JANUARY 14 CROSSWORD - - s 21 24 IS lo 31 2 4 55 V. 54 'A ?8 59 41 142 45 1115 yk E2 Vl 148 50 51 55 54 HORIZONTAL 1. cushions 5. varnish ingredient 8. in bed 12. entrance 13. note in Guido's scale 14. Gaelic 15. garden flower 16. worship 18. fall flowers 20. bartered 21. mimic 22. flesh food 23. estimate 26. Orient 30. curve 31. took faction part 33. shelter 34. musical pipe 36. edited 38. twilights 40. 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No longer would ho he lonely, for he now belone ,! completely to the party, to the state. - Koestler, the artist, soon dis covered that nothing is more in tolerable to the true artist than any form of curb on his indivi l ality and integrity. The party's demands for conformity awak,' him to reality. The stupid, unimaginative party jargon bored him; the intellectual naivete of the party hierarchy amused him: the hypocrisy of the Kremlin's foreign policy repelled him. At first he had relegated these doubts to the back of his mind for he felt he was aiding hu manity by fighting fascism and the exploitation of the masses. He was so bent on his mission thai he didn't even mind waiting four hungry months in a Spanish prison lo be shot. (Needless to say. he wasn't.) But Koestler gradually real ized that man doesn't have much but a bit of soul and a little self respect. ' And when that's relinquished to the om nipotent, omniscient state, he doesn't have anything. It took the Russo-German Pact of 1 D39 to make Koestler completely snap cut of his Intellectual coma. Koestler now considers him self a prophet who'll lead us non-coms out of the wilderness of Leninism. Koestler seeming ly delights in jumping from one extreme to the other, but at present he seems to Jae on the right ideologically and moral ly side of the fence. Richard Wright's contribution is an interesting, humanized ac count of the conduct of the dim wits who operate arid consti tute the American Communist Party. Yes sir, pinks, etc., read the book and discover that com munism in practice differs amazingly from drawing room Marxology. - By Eugene Sbeffer 10 27 28 29 35 57 44 45 1-14 10. Italian princely faml'y 11. actk.i 17. epoch ' 19. 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