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i -1 f . : TUESDAY, JANUARY 24v 1950; PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL oT() e Daily 1 9fat 34 eel Ttie official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Cun-Hna, Ctiupel XI ill. where it t iksum1 daily during the regular sessions of the University by the Colonial Press. Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the Hummer terms. Entered as second-class mater at the post ollice of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub scription price: $8.00 per year. $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated Frews. The, Associated Press and AP feature are exclusively entitled to the UHg for republication of ll news features publisheq herein. Editor ... fr ii linn Manager ... .. DICK JENRETTE B. MENDENHALL Managing Editor CHUCK HAUSER Spore Editor - TAYLOR VADEN Adv .. Roy Parker, Jr. Zane Bobbins .Caroline Bruner Jim Mills Manager ...Oliver Watkins Bus. Office Mar Ed Williams 1 Adv. Mgr. Naf -.June Crockett Hewn Editor l)ek Editor Society Editor..... Photographer ... Tditoruil Staff. Jack Brown, Bill Kellam. Mike McOaniel, Tom Wharton. Charlie Gibson. Joe Seykora, Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner, Dave harpy, John Stump. News Staff: Rolfe Neill. Don Maynard. Glenn Harden. Bill Johnson. Wuff Newell. Sam McKecl. Mark Sumner. Art Xanthos. Graham Jones, Charlie Glnnv Jones, M. K. Jones. Brewer, ie Stall: Neal Cadieu, Don blaniora. tvooisy iayior, mil J8 rain, rrann Daniels, Ruth Dennis. Evalyn Harrison, Peggy Sheridan. Marie Withers, Howard Tickle. Randy Shives, Charles Ashworth, Mary Tomlin, Dick MacGiu. Branwin Hobbs, Jim l.lndley. ' ' ' Lew S(ortf Staff: Larry Fox. Frank Allston. Jr., rindy Taylor, Art Greenbaum. Biff Roberts, Ken Barton. Joe Cherry, Ronald Tilley. Chapman. Billy Peacock. Society Staff: Peggy Wood. Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell, Judy baniord. Margery Storey. Vhcrc's Old School Spirit? Last Friday night, the eve of the State-Carolina basket ball game, students of this University gave about as sorry an exhibition of school spirit as has ever been displayed at Carolina before. A big pep rally in Memorial Hall had been planned by the University Club for that night in an effort to encourage the team before its game with the highly-favored State Wolfpack. Imagine how the Carolina team felt when only 28, yes 28, students turned out for the rally in Memorial Hall, which seats almost 2,000 people. The team had even quit practice a little early in order to be present for the rally. But the students didn't have enough interest to take 45 min utes out of their Friday evening to attend the rally. The movies were packed that night, however, along with local beer emporiums. The rally had been well-publicized- For three days pre ceding it the DTH ran front page stories announcing plans for it. An editorial in Friday's paper commended the Univer sity Club for planning the the rally. On top of this University Club representatives informed fraternity men of the rally in chapter meetings over the campus Wednesday night- And the bellion top South Building clanged vainly 15 minutes be, fore the pep rally in an effort to remind the students of their obligation to the team. None of these moves did any good. And so the Carolina basketball team is prob ably a pretty bitter bunch today when - the question of school spirit is mentioned. Stories in all major state newspapers the next day announced , to everyone that only 28 Carolina students had seen fit to attend a pep rally before playing State, a school which had beaten Carolina eight straight times before this weekend; The Uni versity Club previously had attempted to get radio time in order to have the rally broadcast. Fortunately, previous commitments by the radio stations foiled these plans, and' Carolina was spared having the further humiliation of a pep rally of 28 students being broadcast to the state. Possibly, however, all this helped the Tar Heels against State. The team was determined to show the students just how wrong they were about' this team and that they were deserving of support. They did just that. Coach Tom Scott's basketball team, which played the State team off its feet for 35 minulcs of the game, proved it is a worthy Carolina team. With little more luck, they would have beaten State. At any rate they put up a whale of a battle. Every student of this University should be thoroughly ashamed, of the poor turnout for the pep rally. The students owe Coach Tom Scott and the basketball "team an apology. Team Has Cause To Be Bitter . - Lcgislatve Revew - Solon Baiting By Gifford Hay The grand old American custom of legislature baiting showed up last week in Billy's Car michael's three-day series of stories on the block fee system. Now, there is nothing wrong with legislature-bailing. Every good citizen know a couple of jokes about Progress vs.Congress; and persons of note from Harry Truman down to the local garbage collector take pleausre in berating Congress, the State Legislature, the Board of Aldermen and in this case, the Student Legislature. Ex-Publications Board Chairman Carmichael believes that if the Legislature has been stam peded before, to the detriment of Publications, it can be stampeded again, this time in the other direction. And he may be right. On the other hand, this Legislature, like others, may come to take roundhouse punches from -the press as a matter of course, with only mild . irritation and increased stubborness when ap propriation time comes around. Carmichael was wide of the mark in blaming the Legislature for all the fiscal ills of the Publications Board. Actually, the Budget orig inates with the President's Budget Committee, an arm of the Executive Department, which has been at fault in overestimating collections of fees. The completed Budget then goes to the Legislature's,- Finance Committee, which makes changes as it sees fit. The Budget is finally passed by the whole Legislature that has acted after the Budget has been passed, in order to cut appropriations to fit new collection figures.. Specifically, Carmichael calls for a three-point program for fees: Correct 'Em, Raise Em, and Guarantee 'em. Here is the Hay prognostication on what will probably happen: 1. Correct 'em, that is, raise yearly graduate school fees of $11.55 to approach the $15 un dergraduate fee. This can and should be done, but it will take some careful, tactful nego tiation with a raft of deans to get the in crease, through. 2. Raise 'em, the Publications Board suggests, a dollar per quarter, to $18 a year. Whether this increase would be passed on to the graduate students, the articles didn't say. A fee t increase will be hard to get V-'- 1 The present Student Administration is bound by the decisions of previous Chief, Executives; and a tax increase isn't a good plank to put in a Spring platform. " ; 3. Guaranteeing- Publications its appropri ated share of fee collections will be taken up later, if the ' Board decides to push the idea. It hasn't got a chance. - For. the next month, it falls on .Chairman Chuck Hauser : to carry but the Board's program. Whatever comes out of the Budget Committee will be a compromise, less than the Board asks for and more than it got: last year, which is right .and as it should be. Hauser's conference with "the Legislature's " Finance Committee on Friday points to a program of cooperation, in formation, patience and constructive action. Somebody Will Pay For Thorn ,. .v - I I'VE GOT TO 60 ) B Ml? K ' l SUPPORT THE r :JL 8tfbp 5ffct Washington MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson Distributed by King Feature Syndicate 7 trranremcnt with The Wufaineton Star Carolina Seen In The Pink Letters to the Editor i Program-Throwing Troubles The DTI I doesn't enjoy raking the student body over the coals editorially, especially over an athletic contest- But the actions of "tho$e students who threw hundreds of programs over the court Staurday night because of an unfavorable referee's decision was an. extreme example of "bad sports manship. The students, recovered from their lack of interest at Friday night's pep rally, let their emotions run away from them completely-when the action became close in the State game. . . . . - , The barrage of programs came when a Carolina field goal was called back at a crucial point in the game. Whether the decision of the referee was right or wrong, throwing pro grams over the court didn't help matters for the Carolina players. Thb referee quite properly could have called a tech nical foul on the Tar Heels because of the actions of the par tisan home crowd. ' It was gratifying to see the fine spirit the students dis played in supporting the team throughout the game, but throwing programs at referees is going entirely too far. The jeferees called the game as they saw it, and deserve com mendation" for hot blowing up when the Carolina students showered hem with programs. Cheering at basketball games is great, but throwing ar ticles on the court in disgust merely jeopardizes the home team's chances of winning. Editor: In his recent, column, Dave Sharpe alias Gifford Hay inferred that Student Party legis lators had been guilty of "backscratching" be cause the S. P. members voted for some Uni versity Party candidates in the legislature races. Dave, who is U. P. whip in the Legislature as well as a supposedly objective-minded co lumnist, observed that "Nobody seems to know what this backscratching means, if anything." Since' the editorial pages of the DTH have had a U. P. smell to them for some time, we who represent the Student Party in the Legis lature believe it wise to point out to the student body that the S. P. record has always been one of supporting the' best' candidates, regardless of party affiliation. In the fall elections, for example, the Stu dent party nominated Don VanNoppen a member of the opposition for the Student Council. The S. P. appreciates the fact that machine-minded U. P. politicoes never has and probably never will , understand the logic of nominating the best students available. We! think Dave's column is well-written' de spite its obvious bias. Since no man can be completely fair, we would asked Mr. Editor, that names and not aliases be signed to columns in the DTH. :Jy . Sol Kimerling Ed Best y John Hazelhurst . . Graham Jones Don LaRue Otis ' McCullom John Sanders Gene Shaw ... Duffield Smith Letter of the Week Each week Chesterfield's campus representa tive will award a carton of Chesterfield cigarettes to the student on campus who has written the best "Letter to the Editor" during the week. The winners will be picked by the DTH editorial staff and announced each Tuesday morning. Letters must be typewritten, double-spaced, and on one side of the paper. The address of the writer should be included. t This week's winner, of the Chesterfield award is Mark A. Mobley, , who authored the letter "Service, Please." In his letter Mobley praised the installation of the new snack bar in the Pine Room of Lenoir HalL However, he com plained of the slow service to customers. Mobley may pick up his cigarettes by drop ping by the DTH editorial office in Graham Memorial each, afternoon before 4:00. Hollywood at long last shows welcome, well-overdue signs of advancing beyond its present moronic standards of entertain ments (?), if one may consider "Pinky" as the forerunner of a new trend in our celluloid cul ture center. "Pinky". 'is the rea listic treatment of C the troubles of a light-skinned Negro gal who crossed the ' color lahn up nawth and then found it mighty hard to come back tp her home and race - . ' ? : Although "Pinky" was most engrossing, the reaction of the audience was more interest ing. Male and female specta tor alike were aroused to great heights of righteous indigna tion and sympathy as our heroien's saga of misery and discrimination was splattered on the clean, white screen. . Irate gasps and snide remarks at the villany of the black guards who dogged "Pinky" at her every step were quite com mon throughout the picture. But, one still doubted that the converts would preach this newly-acquired gospel of equal op portunity and civil rights very -long after they left the con fines of the cinema. However, that's not surpris ing, for student evangelism rarely extends beyond the con fines of the campus these days. But the picture apparently did shock a few people, and if some frequenters of the local cinema were aroused from their blase lethargies, that's good. Not many things can do that in this so phisticated days of enameled plumbing and . 25c beer. "Pinky" had been publicized a bit, and deservedly highly praised by the critics, as a frank treatment of a phase of . the Southern race problem. But "Pinky" had received nothing, in the South, anyway, approxi mately the luried ballyhoo given such infantile epics as "Samson and Delilah," "Captain China,'' etc. . " Apparently the' worth of a Hollywood production is in versely proportional to the bull slung about it by' the publicity ' departments. Such huckstering is only common sense, on the part of the producer, though, for no fan will plunk down his dough to see drivel like "Sim- pleson and Delirious" unless he's browbeaten into it by ads pic turing scantily clad, or unclad, babes lolling invitingly on their plush posteriors, or couches. The picture was memorable in that it vividly captured the . hoplessness of - the oppressed (to use if I may without risk ing the stigma of communism, favorite Daily Worker word) Negro, and we must admit that .he .is .discriminated against. ; The sadistic small town cops; the backbreaking daily washing and ironing performed by the Negro mam- By Bill Kellam my; the young drunks' at tempted assault of the young colored girl (Pinkie); the squalidness of the native American ghettos; the sullen, vicious prejudices of a small town.' "Pinky" managed to de pict this without lapsing into ' the usual trite, maudlin phi losophizing which character izes most Hollywood didac ticism. There was noteworthly act-" ing accompanying Ella Kazan's skillful direction. Ethel Barry more proved why the Barry more's were Hollywood's first family with her portrayal of the indomitable old spinster who won't give in to anything, even death, until she's good and ready. Ethel Waters catches the pathos and cheerful resignation of wise old . colored mammy who's known nothing but hard work, but who has still managed to retain integrity and pride. Jeanne Crain does a fine job with a very difficult role. Per haps she's not quite up to the role at times, but her uneras ing is much more convincing in such a role. The find of the picture, though, is the big, fat, colored fellow who unfortunately re mains anonymous in the bill ing (and thus here). He de livers a performance which is Falstaffism in dramatic stat ure. Never before has this . columnist seen on the screen such . a good-natured but worthless scoundrel. He steals every scene with ease. Given a chance, he'll make a worthy contribution to the Hollywood picture. You may not agree with what "Pinky" has to say, but it's one of the worthiest pictures of the year. Don't miss it. 12 18 23 73 59 45 48 51 24 140 21 WA VA 'A 'A 34 7771 WA V77 So .49 52 25 VA 5 42 VA 2 22 St 3 38 'A 7A 8 A 20 2 27 28 26 XA 32 47 50 53 43 It 144 HORIZONTAL 1. thick cord 5: Scandinavian land division 8..saurel 12. Mohamme dan cleric -13. deface 14. narrative 15. grime 16. plant genus " 18. gazing fixedly 20. city in France 21. small tooth 23. spaces 25. nothing 26. pedal digit 29. moved swiftly . 31. medicine givers 33. goddess of harvest 34. thing, in law 36. virulent epidemics 37. American statesman 39. rock ': resembling slate 42. vessel-guiding devices. 45. midday 47. spoken 48. Ireland 49. ignited 50. mien 51. feeble 52. printer's measures 53. fodder . VERTICAL 1. frees 2. leave out 3. show-ollt' 4. supplicate 5. catkin . 6. brink 7. prefix: threa 8. cubic metric unit 9. masculine name 10. plant of lily family Answer to yesterday's puzzle. II lEivimsiuiPf ip i NnA DEN j A S I E t APSES Average time f solution: 26 -minutes. ' .Pittfibutcd by King rtsturn gjgitm il. lairs 17. acted speeauy ana carelessly 19. put in 22. early Christian champion 23. bustle 24. knock 26- small . squares," as of glass 27. worthless bit 28. S-ih'aped worm 30. river in Scotland 32. start 35. wrench muscle 37. steal along . furtively 38. pursues, as game 39. small merganser 40. this place V 41. operatic SolQ 43. speed j? - competition snow g - vehicle .4.6. Island IFr.l (Ed. note-Another of Drew Pearson's series ; of columns on national crime networks and Costelloism.) . T f WashingtonOne year ago two Justice , n9rtmont lawvers. Max Goldcshien and Drew O'Keefe, began studying a stack of crime reports three feet high gathered from various cities ol : the U. S. A. Thus, very slowly at first, began the -current probe of the nation's far-flung gambling networks. v Actually, the Federal Government cannot ' investigate gambling. It has the power to in vestigate narcotics, while slavery, immigration violations and income taxes, but although the public doesn't realize it. these are closely meshed with the great gambling syndicates, until the organized underworld of the nation is now integrated and divided in about the same way that a railroad changes crews and s engines at division points. ". Two powerful officials have tried to block this investigation. Ones was inside the U. S. Treas ury in Washington, the other high up in the State of California. Despite this, however, the probe began to bear real fruit when, last week, 16 members , of a California narcotics gang were indicted. Leader of the gang is Joe Sica, and his arrest -illustrates how closely organized crime is inte- r, grated from coast to coast. , Sica is a New Jersey boy and a part of the ., original Costello gang, having trained with Willie Moretti, the gambling king of New Jer sey. Moretti has been Frankie Costello's No. 1 man in that area. General Vaughn, the President's military aide, has admitted under oath that one of Costello's partners. Bill Helis, the Golden i Greek, contributed through him, Vaughn, to ! Truman campaigns; while John Maragon has admitted oath under that he worked for an other Costello Partner, Phil KasteL Coming to Califorina, with that state's war time growing pains, Joe Sica became Mickey Cohen's boydguard, then gradually climbed the ' ladder of crime until he is now Southern Cali fornia's No. 1 hoodlum. Like Mickey, he runs a habedashery shop on Sunset Boulevard (under the sovereigntly of good-natured Sheriff Gene Biscaluz, rather than the tougher Los Angeles Police) and also operates a health club as a blind for a bookie joint and a narcotics center.. And, as the gangster star of Mickey Cohen waned, Joe Sica, the boy from New Jersey, be came more potent and has more or less taken Mickey's place. Being ambitious, Joe was not satisfied with the sovereignty of Los Angeles alone. Up the rich Central . Valley of Califorina are some of the wealthiest farmlands in the world, and an old stamping ground for Sica. Once he served as bodyguard for Jos Cannon, the gambling king of Fresno, while one of his narcotics run ners, Alex Berry, was pilot of Cannon's private , airplane. So Joe Sica became narcotics king of the Central Valley. Pine Lake Lodge, just outside Fresno, for a lime became headquarters for the mob, with 11 teletype machines bringing in news of the racing world. (Pine Lake Lodge is now purged of the mob and under com pletely new management.) Diagonally across from the police station in: downtown Fresno, operated Joe Cannon's swank gambling joint, the Plantation Club. Not many of Fresno's overwhelming law-abiding citizens connected Cannon with any outside mob, and ex-Police Chief Ray T. Wallace, when asked why he didn't close the Plantation Club, naively replied that he couldn't get his undercover agents inside it even though an ex-policeman was the elevator operator, and even though newsmen had no difficulty gaining access. Furthermore, not many of Fresno's largely law-abiding citizens realized that the 32 houses of prostitution in the city paid an average of $175 per girl per month to the police with about $5,000 to the powers that be in order even' to get started. To take over an old lease on a house of ill fame cost as much as $35,000; so it was cheaper to start a new house for $5,000. Meanwhile, cheaper gambling establishments paid at the rate of about $150 a month for police protection. One gambling house, the Club Alabam, was even owned by Lieut. S. A. Meek of the Fresno Police Force. The Police Chief responsible for keeping order in Fresno at that lime was blue-eyed. heavy-set. likable Ray T. Wallace, who re- ceived a salary form the city of $450 a month. Not many people in Fresno probably took the trouble to investigate Chief Wallace's prop erly holdings. Ihough such investigation can be accomplished merely by looking up the County Tax Assesors records. This columnist did look up the records, and was surprised to find lhat the police chief or his wife owned 7 some 16 ranches or parcels of land totaling ' 1,742 acres. . . , This does not include three lots in the city of Fresno, two ranches recently sold, a hotel d,rStTnt n G street' and th "OK Rubber, ' Welders," a tire-recapping establishment. that is ! owned in partnership with Wallace's s6h.' a These were some of the facts confronting ' courageous Gordon Dunn, the Stanford Uni viresity athlete, after he found himself elected ; mayor of Fresno last April. These facts also may ' have been one reason why he promotv Police Chief Wallace and7 LieuKft , owner .of the Club Alabam, and rebuffed t : proposals of his campaign manager? Rw :. Franklin, to open up the city. ,XMDe? Mayor Dunn also clamped down on a W ' string of tawdry hotels and houses in ' red-light district. In addition cracked 1 on every gambling club in Fresno .
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