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S O C I ET Y r For latest pinnings . see page four. WEATHER Cloudy and cooler possible rain TiiiiiiariiH o J.. VOLUME LIX Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. G. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1950 United Press NUMBER 12 rsoip; '4 4 ""V v 1. 3P : v'- ' - fep.... .yy rtVMiMft-y -tfliinaftTiiiWilfiiW lir I nil feODES OF WOMEN and children are piled in a street in Seoul. South Korea, and AP Pho tographer said he was iold they were killed by North Korean Red troops in retreat. Noel said he' pras informed that 18 helpless victims were shot down by the Communists. (AP Wirephoio via radio tttna. Tokyo.) . - i Force TOKYO, Wednesday, Oct. VP) American warplanes Tues day knocked . out 85 camouflaged trucks and other vehicles moving in convoys south along the North Korean main supply route from Communist Manchuria. "Aground, South Korean forces advanced about 50 miles inside Communist territory. Another sizeable Red convoy was jobserved headed west toward a. concentration area 15 miles north of the 38th parallel. A third motorized Communist con VoyJon the east coast was lost " sight of after being driven to cover by rocket and jellied gaso ' Erie attacks from the air. " The widely separated - supply movements-by-; the Reds .were in '"progress more than two days after-General Douglas MacArthur 'called on the North Korean re gim'e to surrender or face destruc 1i6n. . No response has come from the Soviet-sponsored Red regime at Pyongyang, North Korean capi tal. ' . 'iricreased traffic on the high 'way leading from Antung, on the ' west bank ofr.the Yalu river in rRed; Manchuria, to Pyongyang was first noted about dusk on "Monday, a fifth airforce spokes man said. B-26 1 light intruder bombers -kept watch over the column dur ing the night. Pilots reported the vehicles were "not bumper to bumper, but fairly heavy" in number. Tuesday morning fighter bomb--ers roared over the highway in force. They found camouflaged trucks In hiding off the road. The airforce reported 56 trucks destroyed and 12 damaged while .five other vehicles were destroyed and 12 more damaged. About 35 of the destroyed trucks were bagged in the vicin ity of Pyongyang. Truck kills were reported in four highway towns from Yong yu, 20 miles northeast of Pyong yang, to Anju and Sinanju, both about " 50 miles northeast of the Communist capital. The fourth town where Red trucks were attacked was Kwak san, about 46 miles east of the Chinese Communist border city of Antung. . The fifth airforce spokesman did . not speculate on where the convoys originated. It is gen erally HpliPved. however, that the Phi Meeting The Philantrophic debating society will meet tonight at 7:30 on the fourth floor of New :East to discuss abolishing the honor .system at UNC. Also on the . agenda for the meeting is a special election to elect the speaker pro tempore to replace Ham Horton who was unable to return this year. George Rod man is president of the society. All -new students are invited t0 attend. ' . 4 . , . s South : .. jot.: .,.. Bags 85 Vehicles : Koreans Advance North Koreans have no reserves or supplies in that area. To avoid border incidents with the Chinese Reds, American planes are observing a 30-mile bomb free zone along the Man churian border. The closest American ground forces were 115 air miles south east of Pyongyang at the time the supply movements were de- YW Has Big Enrollment To Begin Year's Work By Judy Sanford The YWCA is beginning activi ties for the. new school year this week with "-the - largest-" member ship enrollment and contribution pledge' since its founding on the Carolina campus. A total of 30 committees are starting service work in their various fields, following initial membership meetings this week. Included in the. expanded pro gram are several new committees, each designed to fill a particular student need. Coed Discussions, an outgrowth of last year's Mar riage and Family lecture series, will be handled by Helen Boraar and Ann Brewer. A committee led by Boots Taylor and Tish Coley will help to bring cheer to infirmary patients. . Y MEMBERSHIP CARDS A desk will be set up in the YMCA today until 2 P. M. to enable students who have not made contributions to do so if they wish. Membership cards have been sent to those who have already contributed. Errors will be cor rected at that time. ICA The Independent Coed Asso ciation will meet in Roland Par ker Lounge in Graham Memorial tonight at 7: 15. - Initiation of new members will take place. -: READING COURSE The University Testing Service is offering a course for those who wish to improve their reading and study skills. Students interested may con tact the Reading Program office in the basement of the Smith Building, or at "the Testing Ser vice Office,- 102 Peabody. VICTORY VILLAGE CHECKS Everyone to whom checks are due because of the closing of the Village may pick them up at the office of Frank Kottke, 210 Bing ham Hall, within the next few days. rrn.nwSHIP DINNER A fellowship dinner for fresh Campus Briefs I i 41 " i tected and blasted - from the air. U. S.' Marines punched intoHhe outskirts of Uijongbu, 12 miles, northeast of Seoul, wiping out 250 read guard Reds and four tanks which put up fierce resistance. Uijongbu was the key point in the historic invasion route the North Koreans took last June 25 in their drive south of the 38th parallel. A Dorm Representatives com mittee will help dormitory resi dents to keep in touch with YWCA activities, under the' di rection of Carol Simpkin and Beth Ellen Edwards. University Sermons committee will bring well-known speakers to the cam pus, under the leadership of Rosa lie Varn and Mary Woo. The committee of Lu Overton a.nd Jane Faison will maintain the Y office and Dolores Boyer and her Ways and Means committee will wage fund-raising campaigns. Stores in the women's dormi tories will open soon. The dorm store committee will meet today at 4 o'clock to make arrange ments. The Book Club will meet at 4:30 and the Publicity commit tee YW, page 4) man YMCA members will be held Thursday at 6 P. M. at the Baptist Church. Price for the dinner is 50c. Tic kets are on sale today and to morrow at the "Y" office. IZFA AND HILLEL Freshman and transfers inter ested in Hillel and IZFA are in vited to meet Ruth Torogovnick, national IZFA field worker, to night at 2:30 P. M. in Hillel Lounge. MOREHEAD EXHIBITS Photos, cartoons, and diagrams, from Life magazine are now on display in the galleries flanking the Rotunda of the j Morehead Building. , The galleries are open from 2 P. M. until 10 P. M., Monday through Friday, 10 P. M., Satur day, and from I P. M. until 10 P. M., on Sunday. ' .- :-' " v.-; PUBLICATION KEYS , Publications keys for DTH, Tar nation, Yack-Yack, are now avail able. Contact Zane Robins or Frank Allston in DTH spores. COED SENATE The Coed Senate will meet to night at 7:30 in the Horace Wil liams Lounge of Graham Memorial. Reserve; Draft Ease Housing Situation Here i" ' Let-Up Is Observed In Acute Shortage ' As Many Are Called By Walt Dear Th& big headache caused by the increased .enrollment of students this year is gradually wearing away with the drafting of stu dents by the Armed Forces and the calls by Reserve units. The critical housing shortage, cause of the dilemma to housing authorities, is beginning to let up; Housing Director James E. Wads worth, said yesterday. Wadsworth estimates that sev eral hundred University students have been called back to service or have been drafted. With the enrollment declining, the housing picture has changed, he comment ed. The basement of C-Drom and part of Stacy Dorm's basement no longer house students, he said. Some of the recreation rooms have also been claread as head quarters for student living quar ters, Wadsworth pointed out. Dormitories are still crowded, though, he said. University dorm itories now hold 3.000 instead of 2,000 or the pre-war 2 to a room standing. Despite the letup in the demand for housing, few rooms are avail able around town, according to Wadsworth. The biggest help to lessen the critical situation has been the Glen Lennox project, a University sponsored housing pro (See HOUSING, page 4) Health Confab To Open Here This Morning An institute on r adiolocigal health for health officers and oth er medical public health personnel throughout the State will open at the University's School of Public Health here this morning at 9:30 and continue, through Thursday afternoon. The two-day course is being sponsored by the School of Pub lic Health with the cooperation of the Public Health Service, F.S.A., and the State Board of Health. Sessions will be held from 9:30 a.m .to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 to 4:30 p.m. both days. ' Tomorrow night there will be an informal dinner session at the Carolina Inn at 7 o'clock. Among subjects to be discussed are physics of radioactivity, in teraction of ionizing radiation with living systems, ionizing ra diations presently in use, rediolo gical health in atomic disaster, and the program of the radiologi cal health branch. : Instructors will include " Dr. Samuel Ingraham, II, and Dr. F. W. Kratz ' of the Public Health Service, F.S.A.; S. T. Marsh, State Board of Health; arid Dr. George Doak, University School of Pub lic Health. Di Senate To Hold 1st Meeting Tonight The Dialectic Senate holds its first discussion of the new year tonight at 9 o'clock in the Di Hall. The topic will be "The Waging of a Preventive War Against the Agressors of all Free Natons." The meeting will be open to the public and all interested students. AH Senate members are asked to meet at the Di Hall at 8 o'clock in an executive session to elect ate For Is Changed To October 12 The date of the special election to decide the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel and to fill empty Student Legislature, seats, has been upped to October 12 by the Elections Board. Board Chairman Julian Mason said yesterday that - the change was necessary because of the in augural ceremonies coming .off Monday and Tuesday of next week. The election had originally been planned for next Tuesday. At the same time ' Mason an nounced the seats that will be filled in the election. Included in the list of posts to be filled are three seats on the Women's Coun Come On, Get Those Jim Mills, editor of the Yack - ety Yark, is getting to be a nuisance around The Daily Tar Heel Office. And students, it's all your fault. Since taking over the Yack ' this fall, Mills has wasted away from 5 feet 10 inches and 103 : pounds to a shuffling skeleton. His eyelids droop from lack of sleep. His hair is thinning. And his voice is a harsh rasp. The gist of all this is that stu- dents aren't having their Yack -pictures taken. This week it's the sophomores' turn. About two dozen or so have showed up for the five-minute shutter job. Mills made an , eloquent plea yesterday for the second year students to come up to the Yack office on the second floor of Graham Memorial to have their pictures taken. Boys should wear dark coats and ties and the girls should wear white blouses, the frail little annual editor whined. He pointed out that photographers are at GM each day from noon until 9 p.m., Monday through Friday. The last day for sopho mores is .Friday, he said. Mills said law students may have their pictures taken today at the same time set aside for sophomores. Began With Koch's Coming Playmakers Have Come Since Initiated Here In By Andy Adams When, in 1917, H. L. Mencken declared that North Carolina was a "Desert of the Beaux Arts," little did he dream that less than three decades later it would be come a veritable tropical jungle of creative talent. Only a year after Mencken made this stinging rebuke; Presi dent Graham invited Frederick Koch to come down and take over the drama department at North Carolina. Koch, who was teach ing playwriting at the University of North Dakota at that time, being a Southerner himself, glad ly acceptei the opporunity to re tun to the warm friendliness of the Southlands. And with that acceptance begins the fabulous and dramtic rise of the Carolina Playmakers. Emphasizing folklore drama, Koch directed one of the earliest playwriting programs in the na tion. Such outstanding person ages as Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Lay, who later became the wife of Paul Green, and George Den ny, present moderator of the "Town Hall" radio program, were Special Election cil two junior seats and a grad uate seat. Both would run until the December election. Thirteen Student Legislature seats must be filled. Inculded in the list are one each from Dorm Men's Districts 1 and 5, two from Dorm district 4, and three from Dorm Districts 2 and 3. One each are to be chosen from Town Men's Districts 1, 2 and 4. Coed districts electing one each are town and dorm 1. Five of the posts will rui until thg spring elections, the others until December. . Ten Coed Senate vacancies must be filled. They include one each from Mclver, and one at You Sophs, Pix Taken Mills recounted how he bought a bottle of champagne to give to the 30th sophomore who came by to have his picture taken. But he never came. Mills said between violetn hiccups. "I paid for the bottle out of my allow ance, not the Yack's budget, he cried redfaced. Russian Jets eReported HONG KONG, Oct. 3 (JP) A confidential but reliable report from Shanghai said today that fast, new Russian-made jet fight er planes are operating from Hungjao field, third Shanghai air port to be reactivated by the Chinese Communists. Hungjao was the home base of Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's Chinese Air Transport Command before the Communists seized Shanghai. The report indentified the Rus sian planes are miproved Yak single-seated fighters. Earlier information had termed them Yak-21S. These Yak jets, flying daily over Shanghai, were described as "considerably faster than the 400-mile-per-hour Soviet-built LA-9 fighter, also used in Shanghai." among the first Playmakers. Young Tom Wolfe not only wrote a play, "The Return of Buck Gavin," which was produced here, but he also played the lead in it. In 1920 Paul Green joined the staff, and seven years later a young man who was working in New York at the time accepted an invitation to join the staff for a year. He's still here. His name is' Samuel .Selden, chairman of the Department of Dramatic Art. :In the old days before the Play makers came on the scene, the dramatic group used Gerrard Hall as the theatre and the actors had to make their entrances and exits through the windows. When the Playmakers came into being, they had to use the Chapel Hill High School auditorium. The present Playmakers theatre as a library on the upstairs level, then, and both a chemistry lab and Univer sity rest room downstairs. Perhaps the most interesting story about the 100-year-old theatre (it was built in 1850) was the episode concerning Sherman's calvary who were passing through Chapel Hill at the time. large, two each from Kenan, Carr, Spencer, and town. Running for Daily Tar Heel are assistant Sports Editor Grank All ston and Roy Parker, Jr., who yesterday resigned from the act ing editorship. Both political parties . have jiamed several candidates for Legislatre posts, while coeds will call dorm meetings to select Coed Senate candidates. All nominations must be in to Mason at 306 Aycock by today at 6 o'clock. They must be accom panied by a certified copy of the candidate's grades. CPU Chooses J. A. Sullivan New Chairman John A. Sullivan, sophomore from Chapel Hill, was elected chairman of the Carolina Politi cal Union Sunday night by unan imous vote. Other officers named to serve with Sullivan for the next half year are Bob Kirkland, junior from Durham, vice-chairman, and Ed -Williams, senior from Wil mington, treasurer. , Williams ' also wis elected by unanimous vote. The three were chosen during the union's weekly meeting at 8 p.m. in the Grail Room of Gra ham Memorial. Election of a sec retary to succeed Georgia Fox, former union member who grad uated during the summer, was postponed. Sullivan succeeds Charles R. Scales as chairman. A prospec tive commerce major, he first en tered the university in 1944 and re-entered in 1949 after serving in the merchant marine during World War II and in the navy during 1946-49. As chairman, Sullivan will re present the union in the Carolina Forum. Kirkland succeeds Jack Hop kins. He first entered the Uni versity in 1940, served in the army during World War II, and (See CPU, page 4) Long Way 1920' s Due to a stable shortage (it's still with us), the calvary lodged its horses in the library. And it is said that when the horses were pastured in Michigan after the war, they became known for their great gentility, and the gentlemen of Chapel Hill became known for their great "horse sense." Many believe that one of the main reasons the Playmakers took over the library for their own purposes is that there were so few books kept there. Every- time the University planned a school dance, the librarian just pushed the books to one side and all the students came in and danced. Today, the reputation of the Carolina Playmakers is firmly established. If anyone doubts that, let them look to Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth and Paul Green, George Denny, or Sam Selden. Some of the more recent out standing Playmakers are Betty Smith, authoress of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"; Noel Huos- ton, author of "The Great Prom ise"; Foster Fitzsimmons, author of "Bright Leaf"; Daphne Athos, author of "Weather of the Heart." Acting Editor Says Position Unfair In Race Jenrette Served As'49-'50Ed; Hauscr DTH Vet By Rolfe NeiU Roy Parker, Jr., Acting Editor of The-Daily Tar Heel and Stu dent Party candidate to succeed himself in the Oct. 12 special elec tion, yesterday resigned the edi torship "because of the awkward and unfair position I would com mand by both running for and holding the job." tt the same time, the Publics tions Board selected Dick Jen- The campus' two political parties will meet this after noon in Graham Memorial. The University Party vi!l meet at 3:30 in Roland Parker Lounge. The Student Parly will meet at 4:30 in a place in GM yet io be named. Both parlies have invited all students to attend the meeting. rette and Chuck Hauser as co editors, until the election is held one week from tomorrow. Haus er is now serving as editorial page editor. Jenrette ended his term as edi tor last spring. . Previously, he had worked on the sports staff. Hauser, iri the middle of Caro lina publications for more than four years, has served in every news position on The Daily Tar Heel. He was managing editor for. two years, giving up that job last spring to Parker. Parker will oppose University Party nominee Frank Allston, Jr.. now assistant sports editor and an associate editor, in the spring quarter of 1949. In other business actions, the Board approved a proposal to hire a man to supervise its fi nances. Applicants will be screened at the next Board meet ing on Oct. 12. "The Board will pick a grad uate student for this paying posi tion," Zane Robbins, acting chairman, said after the meeting. Daily Tar Heel readers soon will begin getting a different cross word puzzle in the paper each day. The Board took advantage of a two dollar weekly reduction and switched from the King Fea tures puzzle to the Associated Press. Parker's full statement: "In order to be able to devota my full time to the campaign for The Daily Tar Heel editorship, and because of the awkward and unfair position I would command by both running for the editor ship and holding it, I have asked the Publications Board to accept my resignation as Acting Editor of the paper. "I am confident that the cam paign itself will be waged on a high plane, free from any of the unfortunate incidents of past elec tions. I am confident that th? record of my opponent, and I (See PARKER, page 4) Inauguration Tickets Students desiring to attend lha inauguration ceremonies for Gordon Gray, as president of the University, at. Woman's College in Greensboro on Sunday, and at Chapel Hill on Monday m?y register for tickets until 4 o'clock this afternoon in the office of the Dean of Students in South Building. There is a limit of two tickets per student. Those who register for tickets will be excused from classes tht conflict with the Monday cere monies, it was announced.