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u IJ c Litjfary Serials Dept. Chapel Hill, H. C. TODAY'S NEWS The PoMman Rings One. Pj J Pharmacy Dance. Page 3 Baseball, Pag 4 WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmar. VOLUME l.Vlll Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950 Phone, F3361 F3371 NUMBER 170 el e iJaulf ii at 3fed I! 1 k J r Forum Elects New Officers For Next Year Robert Evans Is Named Chairman Of Carolina Forum By Charles Joyncr Bob Evans, rising junior from Durham, was elected chairman of the Carolina Forum in a meeting held lte Wednesday afternoon, it v.'a.s announced yesterday. Othrr newly elected officers for the coming year are Allan T!, vice chdirmnn; Charlie Scales, publicity chairman; Ham llorton. secretary; and Walter Alien, treasurer. ' Evans, n member of Tau Epsi Ion Phi fraternity, is vice chair man of the Student Tarty, a mem ber of the student legislature, and was recently elected to the Student Council. A two year veteran or the var sity debate team, hr won . the Nationnl Oratorical Champion ship list year. Evan3 iso holds a sfat on the Honor Coincil Se lections Board. Vice Chairman Allan Tate, a rising junior from Gaffney, S. C, h a recent initiate of tlx- Order of the Grail. He is a member of the Student Legislature, tn-2 Uni versity Party, and Chi Phi soc ial fraternity. Charlie Scales, newly ejected Forum publicity chairman, also holds the position of chairman of the Carolina Political Union. The Carolina Forum is a group organized to bring noted speak (Scc DERATE, page 4) Campus Briefs ! I South America k- tho subject of the third in a :;orie. of Kodachromc movies to bo presented in the Medical School auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock. Presented by Dr. II. G. Baity, tonight's show will be on "Land of the Incas; Peru and Bolivia." -t Drum Majors will be tried out by the Uni vr: r'ity band in the near future. Those desiring to try out .should se Director Earl Slocum in room TC. of Hilt Hall. Those with high school or other drum majoring1 experience arc urged to apply. Band Members who arc not playing now, and who still have their uniforms should turn them in as soon as possible at the band room in Hill Hall. Registration, for Orange County voters ends tomorrow. All voters who have not yet registered arc urged to do m since unregistered voters can- nut cast ballots in either the May 27 primary or the November General election. Orientation counselors arc still needed by the Orientation Committee. Any student desiring to be a coun selor should leave his name at the Student Government office in Graham Memorial. The next meeting to consider applications is Monday, night. House Fire A fir parly yesterday morn In the home of Odessa Har jr?M, Negro, was quickly biouqht under control by the lire department aided by volun ter with much of the house beini saved. Police patrolmen W. E. Clark nd David B. Roberts discovered h lire shortly before 2 a. m. en Basntght Lane and notified firemrn by telephone. Th house is owned by C. C. Mendenhall Is Named Head Of PB; Staffs Get The Publications Board yes terday elected C. B. Mendenhall as its chairman for the coming year. Other elections were Frank Allston as secretary and Zanc Robbing as treasurer. Among the orders of business on the agenda yesterday was the approval of stafl appoint ments for the Daily Ta,r Heel and Tarnation. Tar Heel appointments which were approved were Roy Par ker, Managing Editor; Zane Robbins, Sports Editor; Ed Wil liams, Business . Manager, and Oli ver Watkins, Business Of fice Manager. John Moore was aprovod as Managing Editor of Tarnation and John Langston was chosen a? Business Manager. ' In com petitive bidding, Shasta Bryant was selected over John Langs- Y Conclave Will Be Held At Berea The Southern- Region Stu dent YMCA-YWCA-SCA Con ference will be held this year from June 8, until June 13, at Berea, Kentucky, and the group attending from UNC will be open to any ;udent wishing to go, the YMCA said yesterday. , The conference will get underway on Thursday, June 8, in the evening with a key note address. From there on the conference will be divided into three sessions daily. Topics to be discussed in the morning meeting include: "God's Design and Man's dis order," "Freedom and Res ponsibility," "Church Service," "The Kingdom that is God's," and "The Motivation for Soc ial, Action." The evening will be devoted to free discussions. The two main topics will be "Christi anity and Communism," and "Economic Well-Being in the South." Dually worship services will be held with both meditation and group worship. Another feature will be the workshop. There will be six of these, and they will give leaders of local groups a chance to plan and exchange each other's ideas. World, Nation, State News In Brief By ihe Associated Press WASHINGTON In , rapid-fire order yesterday .the Senate killed two of President Truman's government reorganization plans. One would have reshuffled authority in the National Labor Relations. The 'other called for reorganization of the Treasury Department. , ' k k WASHINGTON A proposal to confront Russia with revolu tionary new atomic defenses in Western Europe is being consider ed by U. S. military officials. The core of the idea is to place atomic weapons within easy reach of this country's European allies, subject to some sort of U. S. or All'ed control, before Russia gets a substantial stockpile of aiom bombs. ' WlNNIPEG-Thousands of the 200,000 women and children of ih's flood-stricken prarie city left for safer ground yesterday as the raging Red River continued Jo spread over an eighth of greater Winnipeg. ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN President Truman took on two weinhty adversaries yesierday-ihe Senate's filibustering Critics of his c'vH rights proposals and former President Herbert Hoover. Th- touring President turned from a dedication of Grand Coulee Dam to voice an appeal to Congress to pass a pending Fair Employment Practices Commission bill. - k k "fa . RALEIGH It's an old Tar Heel custom for political candidates to use the state Democratic convention as a scene for rallies. Yes terday was no exception as supporters of Senator Frank Graham and Willis Smith risd for attention. . ' Truck Use Rules Are Puti In Force By Control Body ton as circulation manager of the Daily Tar Heel and Tarna tion. The Eoard also approved p list of proposals concerning the use of the truck. The proposals included such rulings as power to delegate usage of the truck b2 limited to heads of depart ments .tho truck not be used for personal trips, a permanent record of trips made and the use of only one key. All other keys to the truck must be turned into the Pub lications Board , immediately. Violations of these directive? Phi Disapproves Act To Lower Voting Age The Philanthropic Assembly refused to pass a resolution favoring the lowering of the voting age to eighteen in North Carolin at its meting Tuesday night, the Phi announced yesterday. Another motion asking the Democratic Convention to consider the question also failed to carry the Assembly. Robert Pace, a strong support-? er of lower voting age, cited North Carolina leaders in Raleigh who favor permitting eighteen year-olds to vote in this state. He declared that the change in the age requirement would bring about 8 earlier" political maturity. Pace, who was ruled ineligible to run for the Lower House of the state legislature by the Dur ham Board of Elections earlier this week because he was too young, repeated his plea to the Democratic Convention meeting in Raleigh this week to consider the matter. Jeweldean Jones, an out-of- state student from Georgia, also defended Pace's arguments. She stated that she was very pleased with the low age requirement which is now in effect in Georgia. Violently opposed to a new law to lower the voting age were Douglas Carter and Elwood Clin ard. Herman Sicber, another op ponent of the resolution, called Robert Pace, Clyde Hoey, and others who ran for office before they were twentyvone "Excep tions to the rule who did not represent' the average North Carolinian at such an age. Approval are to be handled by the Pub lication Board with possible ac tion by the Student- Council or criminal court procedure for misuse of state-owned' property. A report of the committee to evaluate Carolina publications appointed by Student Govern ment President John Sanders was read to the Board. The re port was tabled for later con- sideration by the Board after Committee Chairman Dick Gor don was thanked for the re port's preparation and presenta tion. ' - j ' Contracts ior the printing and engraving of the 1931 Yackety Yack were approved. The Las siter Press of Charlotte received the printing contract while the engraving job will be handled by " the Charlotte Engraving Company. Idle Rails Put Squeeze On Nation CHICAGO, May 11 (ff) The nation's biggest rail strike in four years clamped a quick, squeeze on the nation's employ merit and industry today. Unemployment pyramided swiftly on the railroads and m the coad mines and many indus trial concerns reported they would Violence Flares KNOXVIILE, Tenn.. May 11 (P) An employee of ihe strikebound Southern Railway was shot in ihe arm and picket ing firemen reported Ihey were stoned in separate incidents at a switching yard near here to day. be' hit in a matter of days. There was violence but no peace moves. The dispute was deadlocked o completely that the National (railway) Mediation Board was simply standing by available for consultation if either side wants them. The Pennsylvania Railroad said it would lay off 80,000 of its 125, 000 employees by tomorrow morn ing. The New York Central tsaid 25,000 of its workers already are idle and that 15,000 more non- operating employees will be laid off by tomorrow or Monday. The Santa Fe ordered its shops closed, affecting several thousand workers. The exact figures were not given. The Southern Railway System said most of its 38,000 employes would be idle by tomorrow night. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen called a strike against, these lines yester day to support its demands for an extra fireman on certain diesel locomotives. About 18,000 firemen walked out. The strike has knocked out 12 per cent of western Pennsylvan ia's coal output so far. Fourteen big mines and several small mines with an estimated combined daily output of 35,000 tons shut down becausd there were no emp ty cars to carry away the mined coal. The number of idle Penn sylvania miners may rise to 55, 000 next week. Williamson Gives Address Before YDC Candidate Strikes At Rep.' Durham, Tells Platform Ernest Roosevelt Williamson, of Durham, brought his campaign for the 6th District seat in the U. S. Congress into the home of his opponent last night, when he appeared before the Young Demo cratic Club, meeting "in Gerrard Hall. Williamson, who is campaign ing against the incumbent, Con gressman Carl Durham of Chapel Hill, ennumerated a ten-plank platform that closely followed the 1948 platform of the Democratic Party. At the same time, he declareJ that his opponent is "a master of double-talk" who "hides behind a confusion of words somebody else's words." ' "If every voter in the Sixth District had a clear picture of my opponent's voting record, I don't believe he would have been in Congress half as long as he has been," Williamson said. Congressman Durham's failure to give the voters of the 6th Dis trict a platform was criticized by Williamson. He stated that Dur ham had voted with Republican leader, Joe Martin, in the 80th and 81st Congresses. Adding that he could not un derstand a North Carolina Con gressman, who voted for "the oil interests of Oklahoma and against the pepple of the 6th Dis trict of North Carolina" William son denounced the effort of North Carolina .. Congressmen to "enact legislation that would have re moved the natural gas companies from the jurisdiction of the Fed eral Power Commission. (Presi dent Harry Truman recently ve toed a bill containing such legis lation.) Army Center To Be Probed WASHINGTON, May 11 (JP) Investigation no. 6 into the vast Army finance center at St. Louis was ordered in Congress today on the heels of . charges of lax procedures and "Communist in filtration." Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Services Commit tee called for a public inquiry and set up a seven-man subcom mittee, He acted immediately after a House Civil Service subcommittee had related a" story of loyalty files tampering, inadequate re cords, erroneous , payments and failure of the army to get to the bottom of things at the big divi sion which has handled $19,000, 000,000. 1 j '. . .But I'll Never Forget' Ohio Pledge Gets Life Of Fraternity Brother COLUMBUS, O., May 11 (JP) ames D. Heer, whose drink ing spree at a college fraternity party led to the slaying of a fel low student, was Sentenced to life imprisonment tonight. . A jury 'convicted the former Ohio State University freshman of second degree murder. Jack T. McKeown, 21 -year-old managing editor of the Univer sity's student newspaper, was shot to death last Nov. 12 after a home coming party given by Delta Tau Delta fraternity. McKeown was trying to disarm Heer after he emerged from the fraternity's house waving a .45 caliber automatic pistol. Heer, al so 21, was a fraternity pledge; Solons Put Town Men, Girls On UC, Name Lamm To NSA By Roy Parpker, Jr. Managing Editor ' The Student Legislature let the Town- Men and Town Women have a representative on the Uni versity Club, approved a chair man of the Orientation Commit- tee, and started what looked likojened absence rules and greatly- f VI - tf 4 Hi ' - -'if fjc'v VI I FT ',T'IJ. :, vi'lii ALTHOUGH HIS ARRIVAL is a rainy one in Lincoln, Neb., President Truman doesn't seem to mind in the least as he .leaves his train accompanied by secret service men. The President ad dressed more than 10,000 people at Lincoln, declaring the struggle for peace in the cold war is on a par with victory in the late war. At State Conclave Democrats Can Special to The Daily Tar Heel RALEIGH," - May 11 North Carolina Democrats were unit ed in platform, speaker state- ' ments, and declared purpose today as they met for the. 1950 State Convention, but, rival candidates for the U. S. Sen ate 'nomination J provided enough color to make the con clave interesting. , The Democratic delegates, 2,500 strong, adopted a ( plat form reaffirming, ' in effect, their faith in the National Democratic Party. The docu ment, however, was devoid of all mention of controversial items, like FEPC, the Brannan farm plan4 and socialized med icine. ' - - -" Campaign workers for Sen iMcKeown was a member. Common pleas Judge John . R. King sentenced Heer hardly a;, hour after the jury returned its verdict. In a 15-minute lecture he urged the University's more than 22,000 I students take a lesson from Heer's lease and. abide by the regulations. The regulations forbid liquor on the campus and in fraternity and sorority houses. Witnesses' had testified that several students drank cocktails at a uena lau L'eita aance in a private hall on homecoming night. ' Heer, an ex-marine from Euclid,-O., wepjl as he stood before the court for sentencing. So did Miss Joyce Craft on. 22. didates a long-drawn-out consideration of a new set of by-laws last night. At 10:30 the session was still considering the 18-page by-law : document, , a .rewrite of present solon regulations, but with tight- i, "8 I'. lift If SV iii In Harmony; Co ator Frank Graham, Raleigh Attorney Willis Smith and for mer , Senator Bob Reynolds made 'the conclave a colorful affair. . All three put on the dog. Both Smith and Graham open ed spacious first-floor ballroom "snack bars" in the Sir Walter Hotel headquarters for most of the delegates and deluged the visitors with buttons, plac ards, and free food. During the convention meet ing in Memorial Auditorium, Smith workers let loose scores of ballons with placards at tached, and paraded with more, while Graham cohorts held a pep rally in the middle of the (See DEMOCRATS, page 4) in Killing At Party of Cleveland, O., who .was Heer's date at the dance. Althougn a defense witness, she told the jury that Heer became intoxicated and made improper advances. . .The. court addressed his re marks both to Heer and' to ' the great student body." ,,7 "There is a challenge to each and every one," he said. "Rules and regulations are for the bene fit, health and protection of the student body." ! The ex-student, given an oppor- i tunity to speak before sentence j was pronounced, said: . j "I have only to say that in time I perhaps this thing will be for-1 gotten by most pecple, but for i me it will never be forgotten." 3 a V fv Make or increased wording of other sec tions. , The TMA and TGA, who useti to have under the old student Constitution, representation om both the University Club and the Dance Committee, got half of their power back at last night's session. Three bills had been in troduced two to put a town man and wqman on the University I Club, one to put representatives ion the Dance Committee. One of the University Club bills passed, the other vas defeated,- since it was superfluous. Under the , new Constitution, the Legislature has the power t fix the personnel of the Danea Committee and University Club. The bill on Dance Committee j representation was to be farther (Scrutinized by the Ways and Means Committee. Jim Lamm, .yetaran; Student . 1 Party Legislator and student gov ernmental worker, was approved las Chairman of the National Stu dents Association -" Committee, - .;.. r.mlUnn A C . . 1 ..1 j ma v.i-jiiiiiiii.c:s:- stun OUiUcij;vl, I Ben Jones, .Paul Roth, , Herman jSieber, Dub Graham and Fred i Thompson. . i Don VanNoppen and Ross Lane i were approved as members of th? j Student Audit Board'. John Ken nedy, Jim Mclntyre, Allen Tate and Rusty Simpkin were approved as members of the Budget Com mittee. The by-law consideration mov ed slowly as legislators seemed to chafe under the bit of the tightened sections on absence and unseating requirements, but the new Legislative law'was expected to be approved with little change. It .was largely prepared by form er' parliamentarian Dave Sharpe. A bill setting up a summer school personnel committee charged with finding out what students will, be available for summer school studtnt govcrn- (See SOLONS, page 4) Swain Case Is Postponed ASHEVILLE, May 1 1 VP) The North Carolina Board of Elections announced today that it probably would announce in about 15 days whether it would remove Sam E. Davis from the Swain County Board of Elections. The State Board at a hearing" yesterday; in Bryson City, seaf cf Swain County government and ' Davis' home town, heard affi davits read accusing the county board merhber of public drunken ness. Davis presented affidavits from 49 persons denying the charges., , T. F. Crisp of Bryson City sign ed a petition asking Davis' re-; moval. Burgin Pennell and Ken-, neth Lee, Asheville lawyers who conducted the investigation for the state board, presented eight affidavits, three from present or former policemen, asserting Da tvis had been arrested several I times on charges of public drunk : enness. An affidavit by Kate . Golden said she sold her vote ito Davis in the 1948 election. . I After a three and one-half i hour meeting here today, the state board said it probably would . reach a decision by the time of. its . next, meeting in Raleigh in about 15 davs. Voting Age " " Students yesterday were re minded ; of the age eligibility ruling regarding' voting" in he May 27 Democratic primary and the Nov. 7 general election. Prof. C. B. Robson, head of the Department of Political Science, .pointed out students not old enough to rote in the primary but who will be old enough by Nov. 7 should reg ister now. Tomorrow is the last day of registration.