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VOLUME LVIII
Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL,. N.C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1950
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NUMBER 83
Egg Situation
All Scrambled;
Solons Worry
Farmers Getting
Too Little Money;
Prices Studied
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (IP)
Senators are worried about the
rgg situation, which is scrambled.
Nobody seems happy, except
maybe the hens.
The government isn't happy.
With its price support program,
it already has bought 72,000,000
pounds of dried eggs. Since it
takes three dozen eggs to make
a pound of dried one, that's more
than two and a half billion eggs.
The farmers aren't happy
They say they re not getting
enough for eggs now to make
ends meet.
Senator Gillette (D-Iowa)
thinks the consumers aren't hap
py, or shouldn't be. lie says they
have to pay too much for eggs
in proportion to what the farm
er get for them.
Only the hen, laying steadily
away, seems cheerful.
"It's been good egg-laying
weather," Roy W. Lennartson of
the Agriculture Department told
a Senate Agriculture subcom
mittee today. "Tremendous pro
duction."
Chairman Gillette explained
that the subcommittee mainly is
interested in why eggs sell for
25 cents in, say, Iowa, but cost
55 to 60 cents in Washington.
Senator Frear (D-Del) brought
in a chart to show what's going
on in his chicken-raising area.
"Very interesting," said Sen
ator Aiken (R-Vt), studying the
chart.
Coed Leader
In Orienfation
To Be Picked
The chairman of coed orienta
tion for next year will be elected
at the meeting of Coed Senate
tonight at 7 o'clock in Graham
Memorial.
All coeds in the class .of 1951
who wish to be nominated for
the position should attend the
Senate meeting. Speaker Pat
Stanford said yesterday.
In addition to being a junior
a nominee must show a willing
ness to accept responsibility, a
speaking ability, and organiza
tional ability and an ability to
work with others and delegate
responsibility.
Faculty Club
To See Films
Members of the Men's Faculty
Club will see movies of the Carolina-Rice
football game in the
Cotton Bowl today at 1 o'clock at
the luncheon meeting held in the
ballroom of the Carolina Inn.
Walter Spearman, president of
the club, also announced that
four new members of the club's
Board of Governors will be elect
ed at today's meeting.
These will be chosen from the
following eicht members who
were nominated at the last meet
ing: Clyde Carter, Glen Haydon,
Herman G. Baity, Fred McCall,
William D. Perry, Dudley Cow
den, Lt.Ed French and Joel Car
ter.
Immediately after the meeting,
the Board of Governors will meet
and elect new officers to serve
during the coming year.
Monogram Meeting
An important meeting of the
Monogram Club will be held to
night at 7:30 for election of Club
officers. President Dean Cassel
aid yesterday. He asked that
members who hare collected do
nations for the polio drive bring
Ihem to the meeting.
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RAYMOND D. HAIR (left), 24, pre-medical student at Wake Forest College, is brought
back to Raleigh from Los. Angeles to face the charge of murdering a college chum. He
pauses a moment with Sheriff R. J. Pleasants (right) after a session of questioning this
week. Hair, a resident of Feyeiieville, was arrested in Los Angeles 28 days after another
student, Roy W. Coble, was shot lo death on the Wake Forest campus. His preliminary hear
ing is scheduled soon.
Miss Chest'
Set For Feb.
Publicity Chairman McDaniel Is Asking
"100 Per Cent or Bust" in Beauty Contest
It will be "100 per cent or bust" during the week of Feb-
5-10 as donations roll in for
Chest," Mike McDaniel, publicity chairman of the Campus
Chest Board of Directors, said
In an effort to increase stu-
dent-body response to "this, their
only drive," the Miss Campus
Chest beauty contest will en
compass all organizations on
campus, McDaniel said.
Nominations for the contest
must include a picture of each
candidate not less than 8 by 10
inches, and "show a trifle' more
than the face." The pictures
should be turned in at the
YMCA office with the name of
the girl and her sponsoring or
ganization written on the back.
Each fraternity, sorority,
dormitory, and all other organi
zations are being asked to sub
mit nominations not later than
Thursday, Feb. 2. There will be
no entry fee.
The pictures received will be
placed on exhibit in the outer
lobby of the Y during the week
of the drive, Feb. 5-10, so that
all students, faculty members,
members of the administration
and University employees may
have a chance to pick their
choice for "Miss Campus Chest."
Each contributor to the drive
will be given a small button to
be worn during the drive, and
on Thursday night, Feb. 9, these
buttons will be used for admis
sion to the Student-Faculty Va
riety Show, to be , presented in
Memorial Hall. In the Hall lob
by, there will be ballot boxes
for voting on "Miss Campus
Chest."
"These buttons must be used
for ballots," McDaniel said.
The buttons will be counted
during the first half of the show,
and at intermission time, the
winning Miss Campus Chest's
identity will be revealed to the
voters. Appropriate prizes to be
announced will be awarded to
the winning entry and her spon
soring organization.
Dorm Talks Set
To Begin Tonight
A series of dormitory discus
sions similar to the ones held
successfully in fraternities the
past several years begins tonight
in A dormitory at 9 o'clock, un
der the leadership of Mrs. Arn
old Nash.
It was due to the success of
the fraternity discussions that
the YMCA set up a special com
mittee to conduct similar dis
cussions in the individual dorm
itories.
The discussions will be held in
the basement of the dorms when
possible. Each discussion will be
led by an authority on the sub
ject to be discussed and will be
followed by a question and ans
wer period. Mrs. Nash's topic
tonight will be "Courtship and
Marriage."
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Drive
5-10
the selection of "Miss Campus
yesterday.
India Reds
Are Stymied
Says Dr. Raju
uommunism is making no
headway in India because the
people are mainly spiritual and
have never identified themselves
with capitalism in any form,"
Dr. P. T. Raju, philosophy scho
lar from India, said in a public
lecture last night here.
Dr. Raju, who holds degrees
from Calcutta and Bernares.
taught last month at the Asia
Institute in New York. Next
month he will go to the Universi
ty of California at Los Angeles
to teach during the spring quar
ter. His visit here was arranged
by the University Department of
Philosophy with the cooperation
of the Duke University Depart
ment of Philosophy.
"Religion will never associate
itself with communism, ' and the
communal differences in India
would also make it impossible
for this particular political phi-
osophy to become a major issue
there," Dr. Raju said.
Another Green Play
New Playmaker Show
Reminiscent
By Mark Sumner
The forthcoming production of
Paul Green's "Tread the Green
Grass," which is being elabor
ately prepared . by the Carolina
Playmakers for presentation in
Memorial Hall Saturday and Sun
day evenings, will be the first
time the play has been staged in
the South.
It brings to mind another Paul
Green play, and ' another Play
maker first. In this case it was
the world premiere of Green's
"The Enchanted Maze," and it
caused Dean of Administration R.
B. House to tell a chapel gather
ing that the play was was "a
poorly executed piece of work . . .
that it had a pessimistic attitude
toward, the search for truth."
The reason was that "The En
chanted Maze" was based on a
young student's search for truth
amid the "maze" of modern uni
versity life in the year 1936, the
year of the play's production
here.
The play seems . to have dis
turbed others besides House. The
Raleigh News and Observer head
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Southerners
Block FEPC
Legislation
Statehood For
Alaska, Hawaii
Given Priority
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 ()
Speaker Rayburn of Texas, aided
by Southern-led filibuster tactics,
blocked consideration of anti-job
discrimination legislation in a
stormy House session today.
Rayburn, the .Administration's
own leader in the House, twice
barred the calling up of the con
troversial FEPC Bill by giving
priority to measures aimed at
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.
Then, over hot protests by
Civil Rights advocates, majority
leader McCormack (D-Mass)
called for adjournment even be
fore the House could get down
to debate on the Alaska-Hawaii
bills.
The adjournment motion car
ried by a vote of 167 to 109
Members were not recorded by
name, although Rep. Marcantonio
(Al-NY) tried to put them on
record by a roll-call vote.
The effect of the day's hectic
jockeying was to delay perhaps
indefinitely the calling up of
FEPC. '
Rayburn could have cleared
the way for debate on the civil
rights measure by recognizing a
committee chairman to call it up.
Five time-consuming rollcalls,
engineered by FEPC foes, helped
stall off even preliminary action
on the civil rights bill.
Of Big Row
line said, "Argument rages on
Green Play.' The Gastonia Daily
Gazette wrote an editorial which
quoted Charlotte Reporter Walter
Spearmans favorable review, and
went on to agree with House, tak
ing time to slam the Playmakers
for' their production of J. O.
and - Loretta Bailey's , "Strike
Song," later done in New York
because the play had been based
(See SHOW, page 4)
Y Seeks
"A lot of people have register
ed for the Montreat retreat since
registration began last Wednes-r
day, but there is room for plenty
more," Conference Co-Chairman
Charlie Bartlett said yesterday.
Thus far more coeds than men
students have registered, he ad
ded, saying, "It looks as if the
male-female ratio on the UNC
campus ' might be reversed at
Montreat."
Bartlett said only 17. days re
Phi To Debate
Bill Seeking
Negroes Here
Epps Will Speak
At Meet Tonght
Slated for 7:30
"A. resolution calling for the
admission of a limited number
of Negro students to the Uni
versity graduate. school will be!
debated in an open meeting of
the Phi assembly in Phi Hall at
7:30 tonight.
Harold Epps, Negro student of
North Carolina College whose ap
plication for admission to the
University's Law School touched
off legal proceedings, has ac
cepted an invitation to speak at
tonight's meeting.
Epp's case is being handled in
the courts by the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Tonight's resolution is the same
one debated by the Phi two
years ago. At that time the mem
bership split its votes evenly,
with opponents of the measure
stating that the time was not
ripe for such a step.
The resolution states:
Whereas, North. Carolina can
not achieve its full potential so
ong as certain practices con
tinue; and
Whereas. In the recent war
Negroes proved their ability to
assume full citizenship; and
Whereas, Whenever citizens of
all races, colors, and creeds work
together on a non-seggregated
basis, a democratic understand
ing is achieved for the better-
ment of the whole citizenry; be it
therefore resolved:
That a limited number of Negro
students be admitted to the, Uni
versity graduate school as an
experiment to test the feasibility
of a non-seggregated school sys
tern in North Carolina.
Instead, he gave the go-ahead
first to the Alaska Bill. Then,
when that had been approved for
debate and a second' opportunity
arose for FEPC,
YM-Sponsored Poteat
To Give Gerrard Talk
Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, pas
tor of the Pullen Memorial Bap
tist Church in Raleigh, will
speak on the "Challenges to the
Christian Movement Today," in
Gerard Hall tonight at 8 o'clock.
Dr. Poteat is third in a series
of monthly speakers sponsored
by the YMCA. Senator Frank
Graham was the first speaker in
the series inaugurated last fall.
President of the Colgate-Ro
chester Divinity School from
1944 to 1948, Dr. Poteat has spent
15 years as a missionary in
China. While there he taught
religion and ethics at the Uni
versity of Shanghai.
Returning to the United States
in 1929, he came to Raleigh to
become pastor of the Pullen Me
morial Church. He left there in
1937 to take the pastorate of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
in Cleveland, where he stayed
until 1944. In 1948 he returned
to his present pulpit.
The author of' some 15 books,
including two volumes of poetry,
he wrote the words and music
of the Ecumenical Hymn adopt
ed bv the World Council of
Churches. '
More Montreaters
main for registration for the re
ligious conference which is the
feature of the YW and YM's
yearly activities, and stressed the
desirability of registration as
soon as possible. The Y registra
tion booth is open from early
morning to late afternoon.
Dr. Paul S. Weaver, Dean of
Religious Life and Chairman of
the Division of Religion and
Philosophy . at -Stephens College
'Unusual'
Says Mos
Skipper
Still Mired,
Ship's Officers
Stay Tig htlipped
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 23
The , captain - of ' the battleship
Missouri said today she ran
aground "through a chain of un
usual and unfortunate circum
stances. .
"I cannot go into detail," Cap
tain William D. Brown told re
porters in his cabin aboard the
mired Missouri, "as to dp so
would be to unsurp the preroga
tive of the court of inquiry which
has been appointed."
The tall, . handsome skipper,
tanned of face and gray of hair,
spoke slowly and with apparent
effort, as he answered questions.
The Missouri is the first capi
tal ship the 47-year-old officer
has commanded. He became her
skipper last December 10. His
home is at Frostproof, Fla.
His statement concerning a
"chain of unusual and unfortun
ate circumstances" was the only
one he would make to questions
regarding, events immediately
preceding the grounding of the
nation's only active service bat
tleship. ,
Also declining to make state
ments were the ship's navigator
and the officer who was officer
of the deck at the time the
"Mighty Mo" drove hard aground
on a Chesapeak Bay shoal near
Old Point Comfort last Tuesday,
, The ' navigator is - Lieutenant
Commander Frank G. Morris, of
New York City, and the officer of
the deck at the time . was Lieu
tenant E. D. Arnold, of Long
Beach, Calif.
Earlier today, Admiral W. H.
P. Blandy confirmed previously
published reports that the Mis
souri was trying to traverse an
accoustic Y range paralleling the
main ship . channel when she
struck the sandy shoal.
DR. EDWIN McNEILL POTEAT
Halifax-N.C. Club
Meeting Tonight
The Halifax-Carolina Club will
meet tonight at 7:30 in Roland
Parker Lounge 3, President Russ
Dicken said yesterday.
in Missouri, will deliver the key
note addresses and will head a
distinguished list of leaders in
religion, education, world gov
ernment, and family problems.
The theme of the. Conference
will be "The Meaning and Role
of Christianity." and its three
main topics will be 'Christianity
and the Individual "Applied
Christianity," and 'The Christian
World's . Duty - to Civilization.
-s, - if
Wei come Mat Out
For Gordon Gray
As Prexy Nominee
University Officials Praise Committee t
On Nomination of Graham's Successor
Gordon Gray may not officially be president of the
Greater University of North Carolina his nomination is
subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees Feb. 6 here
but the plush carpet of welcome is being laid out by all
at the University.
The announcement of Gray's
Men Ignore
Union Pleas;
Still Strike
Roving Pickets
Keeping Miners
From Their Pits
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22 (IF)
About 55,000 angry coal miners
today turned their backs on
union return-to-work pleas and
pushed their "no contract no
work" strike into its third week.
Nearly 35,000 other soft coal
diggers re-entered the pits. Rov
ing pickets, active in many areas,
kept the figure down.
Many locals of the United
Mine Workers voted over the
weekend to resume production
for a fuel-hungry nation but
were unable to work when pick
ets showed up in motor caval
cades.
District UMW officials strove
for a complete work return.
They .told locals .John L., Lewis
wanted all the men at work.
The hard core of resistance re
mained in thei two biggest coal
states Pennsylvania and West
Virginia.
Only half of Western Pensyl-
vamas au.uuu miners are at
work. In West Virginia, 12,000
are idle out of 110,000.
About 9,000 miners refused to
work in Ohio or were kept out
by pickets. All 20 major shaft
mines are closed.
Pickets are active in many
states. There was no violence.
Alabama counts 6,500 of its
18,000 UMW miners out on
strike. Most of them work for
steel company subsidiaries,
down still more operations.
Painter Paid
For Bombing
CHARLOTTE, Jan. 23 (IP)
Police Chief Frank N. Littlejohn
declared tonight that a Columbia,
C, painter said he was hired
to bomb the tower of radio sta
tion WBT.
Littlejohn quoted the suspect,
C. M. Lovely 38, as saying he
was given six sticks of dynamite
and $25 for expenses in Colum
bia and was promised $250 if the
blast succeeded.
Asked if Lovell said who hired
him, Littlejohns only reply was
"Not exactly."
Police had been tipped and
Lovell ran into their trap yes
terday after he allegedly tossed
the dynamite under the 435-foot
steel tower about seven miles
south of Charlotte.
WBT has been having labor
difficulties, but no connection
with the labor troubles and the
alleged bombing attempt has
been uncovered.
The dynamite could not have
exploded. Police had found the
cache and removed the caps as
they lay in wait.
Littlejohn also said Lovell told
him two earlier trips to Char
lotte were cut short. He quoted
Lovell as saying that on Thurs
day his pickup truck broke down
and on Friday he and an ac
complice drove near the tower
in an automobile. The Police
Chief declared that Lovell said
they left on Friday when dogs
started barking, at a house near
ky-
1 nomination, released through
Gov. Scott's office, met wth
smiles on the part of Acting
President W. D. Carmichael, Jr.,
Saturday, who stated it was a
WASHINGTON. Jan.. 23
(JP) Army Secretary Gray said
today il is inappropriate for him
io comment now on reports he
will be offered the presidency
of the University of North Caro
lina. great day for the University,
and yesterday brought renewed
approvals of the Nominating
Committee's action.
Chancellor Robert B. House
expressed his delight over the
nomination, and added, "He's
really a very fine man. He has
an integrity and independence
of mind.
"He'll be liked as well as re
spected by everyone," the Chan
cellor continued.
Asked about inaugural plans
upon which speculation has been
running rampant on campus, the
Chancellor said "One thing at a
time. We want to get him elect
ed first."
Guesses have been made on
Grays inauguration if he is
elected which range from this
June's, commencement Jo , the
celebration of the University's
birthday next fall.
Student Body President Bill
Mackie issued his formal ap
proval of the nomination yester
day saying: "Mr. Gray's record
as student and administrator
speaks highly for his ability to
tackle the leadership of this
great University.
"I hope that they indicate the
(See GRAY, page 4)
Commission
Of Denfield
Said Illegal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 UP)
Secretary of the Navy Matthews
said today that a White House
aide, without his knowledge, de-
ivered to Adm. Louis F. Denfeld
i commission for a second term
as Chief of Naval Operation last
Sept. 14.
He contended that this did not
constitute an official mssuance
of the commission to Denfeld, and
has no legal significance.
Matthews made this argument
in a letter to Chairman Tydings
(D-Md) of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, dated Jan.
23. Tydings placed the letter be
fore the Senate.
It marked another round in
the row that has been going on
over whether Denfeld was legal
ly ousted as Chief of Naval Op
eration last Nov. 1, and whether
Adm. Forrest P. Sherman was
legally appointed to succeed him.
McCarthy said the photograph
ic copy raised a question whether
Matthews was "incompetent" or
"untruthful."
Lanier To Speak
Mayor Edwin S. Lanier, will
address the Alpha Phi Omega
Fraierniiy tonight at an open
meeting in Room 202 of lh Y.
M. C. A. building.
"Mayor Lanier's address will
climax a week of accepting ap
plications for pledgeship' said.
Fraternity president BUI Rolh.
"All applications turned in at
tonight's meeting will be ac
cepted." said Roth.
Formal initiation cermoniai
will also be administered to the
fall pledge class at iomghff
meeting.