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EDITORIALS On Taxation in lhe U. S. Letters to lhe Editor Filching Horseshoe VOLUME LVIII , a p 4 .. . . jwfar . - - - ..nt ,. ,.tiJ.r -ntrm-rifigimiwnw irnrwii A WESTBOUND NORFOLK. & WESTERN freight Irain wrecked near Roanoke, Va.. and piled these boxcars around the railway station in the village of Vinton. Both tracks of the main line were blocked and traffic was tied up for 12 hoours. McGrawTo Present Concert Tomorrow Noted Pianist To Feature Modern, Classical Compositions in Hill Hall By Art Xanlhos Featuring both classical and modern compositions, Helen McGraw, famous American pianist, will give a concert in Hill Hall tomorrow evening at 8:30. She will present the same con- cert here that she plans to give in Washington, D. C, on Feb. 3, at the National Gallery. The con cert includes' "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (Bach-Hess), "Sonata In F Minor" (Brahms, "Toccata" (Chanlcr), "Maria Lucia" (Guar niei i ) , "Ironical March" - (Read ) , and "Sonatinc" (Ravel). Miss McGraw made her debut in Town Hall, New York City, in 1930, where she was given the Walter W. Naumberg music award in a nationwide contest. She studied under the eminent Russian pianist, Alexander Skla- revski, at the Peabody Conserva tory in Baltimore, where she was granted piano prizes and scholar ships and awarded its Artists Diploma. Thereafter, she continued her studies at the Ecolc Normalc in Paris, where she studied under Alfred Cortot, who is considered one of the great pianists, of the d;iy. Miss McGraw has appeared Loth in this country and abroad. In Europe she has played in both Paris and London, while here she lias performed in such large cities as New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. She has toured both the New England and Southern states and has performed as con ceit artist with the Birmingham Symphony and the North Caro lina Symphony. A native of Alexandria, Va., Miss McGraw comes here from Charlottesville, Va., and Tuesday evening she will perform at State Teachers College in Farmville, Va. Being well-known here, Miss McGraw will visit with Mrs. Fred B. MtCall while in Chapel Hill. 'Cooperation' NEW YORK, Jan. 28 P) Assistant U. S. Attorney Thomas T. Murray, successful prosecu tor of Alger Hiss, today prasied the "complete cooperation" of the Department of Justice in the prosecution of lhe perjury case. Describing himself at a news conference as "rather pleased by the flattering remarks made by a great many Congressnen con cerning my conduct of the trial." Murphy said: "But I would like to dispel any suspicions or rumors that I did not have the complete cooperation and assistance of the Department of Justice, includ ing former Attorney General Tom Clark, the present Attor ney General J. Howard McGrath and lht entire F. B. I." The prosecutor said there were no "mysterious aspects" to the trial. U II C LIB2ASY SEP. I Ala DEPT. CHAPEL HILL. N. 8-31-49 C. Associated Press HELEN MCGraw. famous American pianist, will give a concert in Hill Hall tomorrow night at 8:30. SP Meeting To Consider New Platform The Student Party will meet tomorrow night at 9 o'clock in Graham Memorial to adopt a platform and again consider a new "proposed set of principles." Also scheduled for the meeting is the end of the throvir.g-m of names to be considered by tne party for nominations ior xnis spring's elections. Chairman Bill Prince said the party "may go into nominations for the slate at the meeting Monday. . A new set of party principles, which were submitted at last week's meeting but sent back to committee for revision, is ex- pected to draw heated debate. The Principles Committee is headed by John Harris. Prince said he intended to ap- point a committee of legislators to draw up bills carrying out the party's platform of last fall, tie said he wanted to have the legis- lation prepared for the next meeting of the Legislature. Yugoslavian Trial For 8 Is Closing YUGOSLAVIA, Jan. 28 JP) The trial of eight men on charges of spying and committing sabo- tage for Bulgaria drew near a rlose in Skoplje today. The last of the group completed their con fessions. The court's decision may come tomorrow after prosecution and defense have made " their final arguments. Convict Set To Pen Song On Reb Hero Tenn. Life-Termer Gained Fame With Cantata Last Year NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 28- (JP) Convict-composer Frank Grandstaff said today he is writ ing a cantata to the Confederacy's boy-spy, Sam Davis. Grandstaff composed his way to national prominence and six days of freedom last year with his 70-page cantata on the saga of Big - Spring,. Texas. ' ., r That music by the life termer earned him a trip as guest of honor at the centennial of Big Spring. Shortly after he returned. Grandstaff applied for a pardon but was turned down. Gov. Gor don Browning cited his record of 20 felony convictions. The com poser was given life as a habitua criminal. For his new work, Grandstaff selected the poignant story of boy's high courage and willing ness to meet death rather than betray a friend. Davis, then 21, was captured inside the Federal lines with the plans of their fortifications and troop dispositions near Pulaski Nov. 9, 1863. Legion s 'Tide Of Toys' Will Go To WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (A) Millions of American toys are rcady for shipment to youngsters jn Europe, the American Legion sajd today -National Commander George n. Craig said the first shipment in the legion's "tide of toys" drive Wli ieave Philadelphia Feb. 7 f 0r Rotterdam, Holland. it win contain 900.000 toys to be distributed by representatives o CARE to children in the Neth- eriand, Austria and Western Ger many. Additional toys are flowing in- to Philadelphia at the rate of 90,000 a day, Craig said, for ship- ment to France, Italy, Britian, Greece, Norway, Poland and Yu- goslavia. Craig estimated that at , least 3,000,000 toys will be sent over seas by the end of February. The Economic Cooperation Adminis tration is paying the cost of ocean transportation. The railroads have been providing shipment to Philadelphia. The Legion asked all U. S. children to contribute one new toy each to a nation-wide collec- tion drive between Dec. 26 and Jan. 20. The children were also - 1 asked to attach notes to the toys. "We undertook the drive in the hope that it would be a means of starting new friendships that would lest through adulthood," Craig said. "By responding so CHAl'EL HILL, N. C. SUNDAY, -JANUARY 29, 1950 Hiss Comment Puts Acheson In Hot Water GOP Congressmen Demand Secretary Give Up Position WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 tenublican demands for the re signation or firing of Secretary of State Acheson boomed on in Con gress today. Acheson's expressed attitude toward Alger Hiss, convicted of perjury when he said, he had not given out government secrets for a prewar communist spy ring, was called "an affront to the na tion" by GOP lawmakers. The Secretary of State said this week: "I do not intend to tura my back on Alger Hiss." Acheson told the Senate For eign Relations Committee a year ago that Hiss was his friend. The Secretary was up for Senate con firmation at the time, and Hiss was under indictment When the question came up Acheson told the Senators that his friendship was not given easily nor was it easily withdrawn. Hiss, one-time State depart ment official, was sentenced to five years imprisonment on two counts of perjury for denying that he ever gave confidential state ! department papers to Whittaker Chambers, who asserted he used to be a member of a Communist underground. Two more republicans joined in the criticism of Acheson today. Representatives Arends' (R-IU-) and Woodruff (R-Mich.) insisted that Acheson should resign his cabinet post at once as a result of his attitude. -.;." If he doesn't they said, Presi dent Truman should fire him. Mr. Truman at his Friday news conference declined to comment on the Hiss case. Arends, assistant Republican floor leader ("Whip"), said in a statement that Acheson "is un fit for such a high position, and his statement on Alger Hiss proved it." "Acheson's assertion must be taken as an indication that the secretary believes that Hiss' con duct, while in the State Depart ment, was all right," Arends said. In his defense of Hiss, Arends continued, Acheson must be re garded as the official State De partment spokesman for the Unit ed States Government. Europe Soon willingly, American boys and girls have assured us of fulfill ment of that hope on a vast scale." Craig said dolls arc the most numerous among the toys. Child ren of Chester, Pa., alone donated 1,500 new dolls, he said. The largest toy shipment received in Philadelphia during the drive, he said, was a batch of 30,000 from Miami, Fla. A-Bomb Scientist Says Hold Own Fate With WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 () If the United States should un dertake to develop super "hydro gen" bombs, we could theoreti cally write our own ticket on how devastating to make them, a Washington scientist said today. Dr. Alan Shapley, member of the Federation of American Scientists, put it this way: Theoretically, at least, the only limitation on the destructive fury of the weapons would be the weight of explosive material that could be effectively handled and delivered against an enemy tar get. But Dr. Shapley said any hope Gray Is StsIS W On Choice To P Power Result Of Unification, Secretary Says National Security 'Not Just Military' Says Carolinian Special to The Daily Tar Heel RALEIGH, Jan. 28 "Uni fication of our national de fense system is resulting in the strengthening of civilian control of our military af fairs," Army Secretary Gor don Gray today told delegates to the Democratic Southern Conference here. - The Greater University of North Carolina presidential nom inee said unification will lead to . Speaial to The DaUy Tar Heel RALEIGH, Jan. 28 Running true to a pattern of all today's talks by national Democratic leaders. Vice President Alben W. Barkley made no mention of Civil Rights in an address before the Democratic Southern Conference here tonight. Instead, Barkley expressed the hope that "the organization of Democratic forces in the na tion will not fall apart merely becauuse a victory has been won in a single election." jT-' Several governors have ex pressed a desire for Civil Rights to be discussed. the intergregation of military policy with foreign pplicy and in more effective coordination of military effort. Gray's was the first speech on this morning's agenda which in cluded talks by high government and labor officials. National security is not de fined in terms of military strength alone ... it is the sum of all our strength," said the cabinet member. Webb Says Red China Big Concern Raleigh, Jan. 28 (Under secretary of State James E. Webb said today that the question of what to do about recognition of the Chinese Communist govern ment is giving the State Depart ment real concern. Unless the Communist govern ment shows some "real desire" to have normal relations wuh the United States," he said, "there is not much we can do to insist upon it." That, he explained during ques tioning at the regional Demo cratic Party conference today, is iust ' one of the factors under study. of perfecting H-bombs would in volve perhaps five years work and possibly $2,000,000,000. It would also involve a slackening in other atomic development, in cluding the eventual production of atomic energy for peacetime uses. Dr. Shapley's estimate of a two-billion-dollar cost for devel oping the H-bomb contrasted with another estimate this week by Dr. Harold C. Urey, atomic scientist. Dr. Urey told a New York au dience he thought the H-bomb could be developed for about $100,000,000. Other estimates have run as high as $4,000,000,000. Phone r v . ! V N i - it- Vy'-.i.-:;.;M.i3 L . mi i. t-ifr-Vt (fi-fT VY "VH-rr Vy?-' f--iVVi tfi&.jA&:&& MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, widow of the late president, hugs five-monlh-old Nicholas Delano Seagraves, her only great grandson, at Portland, Ore. She will speak here under the auspices of the Carolina Forum and the Weil Lecture Series Tuesday, Wed nesday, and Thursday. U. S., Russia UN's Future, Says Eleanor AMES, la., Jan. 28 (P) The eventual success or failure of the United Nations, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said today, will de pend on "two great nations and their understanding." j She did not name the two na tions, but she obviously was re ferring to the United States and Russia. She addressed a session of the Iowa States College Ann ual Women's Recognition Day. Though the United States is the strongest military force in the world today, "I am not quite sure we are the nation that is regarded as the world's spiritual and moral leader," Mrs. Roose velt said. Winnie Charges Labor With Wasting U.S. Cash LONDON, Jan. 28 (JF) Win ston Churchill accused the Labor Government tonight of squander ing American aid funds and of crippling Britian's enterprise, daring and initiative The wartime Prime Minister, accepting the nomination as Con servative candidate for Parlia ment in the Feb. 23 general elec tion for nearby Woodford, added: Americans H-Bomb Dr. Urey also urged that the United States produce the H bomb before the Russians do it first. Saying he could not vouch for the accuracy of the statement, Dr. Urey declared: "It has been reported that if such bombs were dropped off the Pacific coast, the prevailing winds would carry the radioac tivity over this country and would result in the extinction of all forms of life." Dr. Shapley is a physicist and colleague of men who- helped develop the A-bomb, but he em- phasized that he did not work j on the atomic project himself F - 3371 F-3361 oncomm r rexy Greens Play Opens; 1,000 View Premiere Some 1,000 people witnessed the Playmakers production of Paul -Green's "Tread the Green Grass" which optoed a two-day stand last night in Memorial Hall. It will be repeated at 8:30 tonight, x The audience went away with varied opinions of the meaning of the play, but they were unani mously impressed with the strange beauty of the production. The setting by Lynn Gault and the lighting designed by Wesley Egan provided a perfect atmos phere for the unfolding of the powerful drama of Paul Green. Foster Fitz-Simoris, the director has molded his cast into an in tegral part of the setting and the mood of the play. "We now approach the crisis to which every spendthrift comes when he has used up everything he can lay his hands on, and ev erything he can beg or borrow and must face the hard reckoning of facts." Churchill said the Conserva tives supported the policy of Mar shall Plan aid "to keep us going until conditions of world trade were restored." But, he said, the Labor Govern ment put "advancement of the doctrines of socialism above all other considerations." "Owing to their follies and wrongful action, a great part of all the loans and gifts we have received from abroad has been spent not upon re-equipment of our industry, nor upon the import of basic foodstuffs," Churchill said. 'Instead, much of this previous aid was lavishly frittered away in American films and tobacco and in large quantities of foods and fruits which, however desir able as indulgences, were not indispensable to our recovery." Churchill said the Labor Gov ernment in four and a half years spent almost $17,000,000,000 ($47, 600,000,000 at present devalued rate). i WEATHER Cloudy and rather cold. NUMBER 87 s Demo Parley Hears Speech On Unification Army Secretary Tells Delegates 'Glad to Be Back' By Don Maynard RALEIGH, Jan. 23 Secre tary of the Army Gordon Gray clammed up again today . when questioned about his nomination to the presidency of the Greater University of North Carolina. The former state senator an swered with his usual "no com ment." Told the public is as suming it is only a matter of lin.e until he is selected for the top Special to The Daily Tar Heel RALEIGH, Jan. 28 Senator Frank P. Graham this afternoon told delegates of the Demo cratic Southern Conference "the United States has become IJie leader of the free peoples of the world." Speaking before the after noon session, the ex-University of North Carolina president re ceived a rousing applause when introduced by presiding officer . Governor Sid McMath of Ar kansas. post by the full Board of Trus tees, Gray replied: "Perhaps the public is making that assumption prematurely." In Raleigh with a host of other prominent government officials attending the day-long Demo cratic Southern Conference, Gray spoke this morning before the meeting being held in the House of Representatives. Looking distinquished and slightly younger than his forty years, the Winston-Salem pub lisher and philanthropist drew hearty applause after his intro duction by Alabama's kissing gov ernor, "Big Jim" Folsom. "It's good to be back" he told the nearly-filled assembly hall. He was referring to the three terms he served as state: senator representing Forsyth County fci the Legislatures of 1939, 1941, and 1947. The first speaker, Gray spoke on "Unification of our Na tional Defense System." Gray ended the audience s an ticipation of his referring to his nomination when he led off pay ing, "Some people think I'm go ing to make some startling an nouncements today, but I'm only going to say what you already know." However, Jonathan Dank;!.;, Chairman of the conference and editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, said to the delegates before Gray spoke: "It pleases me that one of our speakers this morning will soon leave his posi tion as Secretary of the Army to become president of the Greater (Sec GRAY, page 4) Girls Banned FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 3 VP) Girl cheerleaders at Catholic school athletic events today were banned by the Rev. James E. Cassidy, Bishop of Fall River Diocese. The 80-year-old prelate said girls cheerleaders, "clad mostly in the garb of circus tight-rope, trapeze performers, or bareback riders, have no place in Catholic .school activities." "If cheerers are necessary," Bishop Cassidy said, "let the boys do the cheering." The Fall River Diocese, com prising much of southeastern Massachusetts, has more than 50 parochial schools, including a dozen high schools. The Bishop's order was con tained in a letter to all pastors in the Diocese. itta! Post