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, SERIA&S DEPT, CHAPEL HILW !i. C, 8431-49 ANALYZE The Stockholm Peace Peti tion, advises a reader in Vir ginia. His suggestion is treated in the lead editorial on page 2. WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and cointinued varrn. VOLUME LIX Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1D50 United Press NUMBER 25 -1 Z5!; rv - s - Jf-V, r ft - RISE STEVENS Met Star Will Give Concert Rise Stevens, mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will give a guest performance in Memorial Hall, Thursday, spon sored by the Student Entertain ment Committee. Admission to the concert will be free, and, as an SEC spokes man said, "will be an entertain ment opportunity that seldom is available to the student body." Miss Stevens will bring a voice and personality which have won" her acclaim as one of the most vital and brilliant performers be fore the public today. Since her debut in 1936, Miss Stevens has marked her ascent to fame as an opera star with equal success on the concert stage, ra dio, motion pictures, and record ings. ' This is the ftrstjrif anumber of guest appearances by prominent stars of radio and theatre, who will be sponsored throughout the year by the SEC. Red Tanks Knocked Out By Chemicals BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 20 (UP) Ma"j. Gen. Anthony C. Mc Aulifee, the Army's Chief Chem ical Officer, said tonight that 25,000 tons of chemical materials were shipped to Korea by Oct. 1, including incendiary bombs that "knocked out" Russian-made T-34 tanks. He quoted a Defense Depart ment observer who recently re turned from Korea as saying that Marine Corps pilots agree incen diary bombs ''are the best anti tank weapons they've used tanks can be knocked out by a direct hit with these bombs anywhere within 50 yards." McCaulifee, who gained World War II fame with his "Nuts" reply to German surrender de mands at Bastogne, addressed the Louisiana Chapter of the Armed Forces Chemical Association. He is honorary president of the group. He said the chemical materials included flam-throwers, napalm, portable . and mechanical smoke generators, and incendiary bombs, lie said the flamethrowers were used extensively at the front, es pecially by the Marines at the Inchon landing. AN The Way... WASHINGTON, Saiurda y, Oct. 21 Records of "All the Way Choo Choo" will be put on sale here today to football music hungry fans who will see Carolina's Old 22 In fJiion tomorrow. Charlie, who only this week signed a contract with the Washington Redskins profes sional football team for a re ported three-year stipend of more than $50,000 will be play ing for the 'Skins in. Griffith Stadium tomorrow afternoon. The Redskins' front office is handling the' sale. Freedom Campps Signers BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Oct. 20 (P) The World Free dom Bell penetrated the Iron j Curtain tonight under the tightest I security blackout since the days of the Russian blockade of Berlin. , The huge symbol of liberty was on the last leg of its journey to West Berlin, where it will ring out its anti-Communist message to millions over a vast radio network in dedication ceremonies Tuesday United Nations Day. The 10-ton bronze bell, donated to Allied West Berlin by the Crusade for Freedom movement in the United States, already has aroused the Soviet East Berlin Communist press, which sees its propaganda value in the East West cold war. The Red-controlled newspapers have been raging against it a week in advance. Press reports said Russian Zone railway au Plan To Skirt Negro Entry Presented UT Special to The Daily Tar Heel KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 20 A plan to block the entry of Ne groes into the- University of Ten nessee by elevating the state Ne gro college to university level was presented at a special trustee meeting today. Late tonight, results still were unknown en the- plan, which is sponsored by Gov. Gordon Browning. He is also Chairman of the UT Board of Trustees. Browning came out with the plan after State Atty. Gen. Roy H. Beeler ruled that the univer sity must admit three Negroes to its professionals schools because , i i U fnnili4in itrara T"w t conurntolu provided.. However, the Governor main tained that the "main purpose" of expansion at the Negro college in Nashville was not to circumvent this ruling. "The main purpose is to pro vide equal Negro facilities in our state," he said. "Our colored peo ple want it. They want their own university." "Meanwhile, presidents of Negro land grant colleges of the South asked that their schools be equip ped and staffed for training of vhite students as well as those of other races. Meeting in Washington, the conf erence , f or college presidents adopted a resolution calling for "adequate physical equipment and personnel with which to train any and all men and women." James M. Nabrit, Jr., secretary of Howard University, located at the capital, predicted segregation in the South's educational system will end within five years at the university graduate and profes sional level, within 10 to 20 years at the college level, and within 25 years in elementary and second ary .schools. Reds Reply To Stassen PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20 (UP) Harold E. Stassen said today that he does not accept an article in the Communist Party newspa per Pravda as an answer to his "peace" letter to Soviet Premier He implied that Pravda distort- ed the meaning of public state- . ments he had made and saia mai ,-OIr,rdless of what the editors of I Pravda may .write, the leaders and the people of Russia Know full well . . that I am sincerely devoted to the cause of a just world peace." Stassn said he will await a di rect answer from Premier Stalin to his letter offering to discuss world problems in an effort to achieve real peace. Bell Is Berlin Bound thorities complained it was too large to be accomodated on their freight cars. The United States Army im posed the blackout in apparent fear of Communist sabotage when More than 2,000 Carolina stu dents and University workers and administrators' signed lhe Crusade for Freedom Scrolls on campus here this week. Paul Bodenheimer, member of the Junior Chamber of Com merce, sponsors of the local drive, last night said $105 has been donated with some collec tions still to come in. the bell t arrived today in this West German port on the U. S. Navy Transport General Blatch ford. Spectators got only a brief glimpse of its unloading. Despite Communist claims the bell was Russia Endangers Five-Power Talks LAKE SUCCESS, " Oct. 20 () The United States, Britain and France provisionally agreed today to take part in five-power peace talks, but Russia's expected insistence on Chinese Communist participation could wreck the whole project. U. S. Delegate John Foster Dulles and British Minister of State Kenneth Younger warned against false hopes of easy or i early success even if the Big Five ultimately get together around a conference table. They told the UN Assembly's Political Com mittee the world's present ten sion stems from basic disagree ments rather than from a lack of big power meetings. The dispute on Chinese repre sentation strikes directly at the prospect for a Big Five confer ence. Russia repeatedly has sought to oust the Chinese Na tionalists from the United Nations and give their seats to the Chinese Reds. The United States has resisted the Soviet moves. The whole is sue of Chinese representation is pending in the General Assembly. While Russia has not yet par ticipated in the 60-nation Political Committee's current debate, So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky is expected to stick to his position on China when he makes his views known tomorrow Syria and Iraq have presented a resolution calling for consul tations by the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China "on all problems which are likely to threaten world peace." A number of suggested changes were discussed in committee, some of them of a. minor nature. Prof Suggests Lakeside Look At That Wisconsin Moon And Gals, Lovin Airii EvenjAI lowed MADISON, Wis., Oct. 20 (UP) The Dean of Women at the University of Wisconsin today rejected a proposal for supervised student necking on a faculty - sponsored, lover's lane along the wooded shores of Lake Mendota. The Dean of Men was in clined to agree with her. Mrs. Louise Troxell, Dean of Women, said the university didn't plan to follow the advice of Sociology Professor How ard B. Gill and set up benches for love-making under "reason able supervision." Theodore Zillman, Acting Dean of Men, agreed that the proposal probably would not be adopted.' Donate $105 too bulky to fit railway shipment specifications, it disappeared into a freight car and was soon off on the 120-mile trip from the borders of Allied West Germany through the Soviet Occupation Zone to Berlin. . " The Bell's car is believed " to have been hitched to the U. S. overnight military train from Bremerhaven. Newsmen were al erted at the Helmstedt-Marien-born control point to see if Com munist border guards would try to stop it. The Communist border guards tonight clamped a new slowdown on the road traffic between Ber lin and West Germany. West German police said that more than 400 trucks were lined up on both sides of the Helms tedt barrier and truck drivers were allowed to proceed only if they got special clearance from East Berlin authorities by phone. GOP Hopes To Recapture Congress WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UP) Republican and Democratic campaign chiefs reviewed the outlook for the Nov. 7 Congres sional election today and agreed on everything but the outcome. Republican National Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson claimed the GOP has a fighting chance to re capture control of Congress and cited in detail the Senate races he expects to win. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, Act ing Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, conceded a chance to lose Democratic Senate seats in California and Pennsyl vania but claimed he will defeat enough Republicans to show a net gain of two to four. ' The Senate now has 54 Dem ocrats and 42 Republicans. The GOP needs a net gain of seven to recapture bare control. Gabrielson, just back from a three-week swing to the West Coast, outlined to a press con ference his view of 20 races in which control may be lost or won. Benches "But I'd like to know just where the benches would be and what kind of ligthing they'd have before coming out for or against the plan," he said. Student Board President Karl Stighorst of Wauwatosa, Wis., insisted however, that Gill had the right idea when he suggested that boys and co eds be permitted to smooch under "standards of courtship" drawn up by university lead ers. . "Right now campus - police men go - sneaking around try ing to catch students in the act," he said. "We're more in terested in preventing students from going off the deep eid' llilllllii t A- X- s , v.-J 6- t i v "V J? ' - mm "- 3 4 CARLETON SPRAGUE SMITH Flute Recital And Lecture Here Tonight Carleton Sprague Smith will present the lecture-recital "The Flute, Gentlemen's Instrument," at 8:30 tonight in Hill Hall. The lecture, which lias been given previously at the Library of Congress, deals with the his tory of the flute and its literature as it was affected by famous "gen tlemen" who were amateur flu tists. It also will touch on the rela tions between Frederick the Great and Bach which were responsible for the composition of this piece. Smith has had a long and varied, career as a professional -musician, a lecturer of music and musicol ogy, a teacher, and an active and influential member of varied-musical organizations. As a professional musician, Smith has performed -on-the flute in , various orchestics ,..ih' both Norih and South America: He has appeared also with such fam ous groups , as the . Roth, Stradi -varius, and Kroll String Quartets. At present, he is the head of the Music Division of the New York Public Library and a member of the American Executive Commit tee of the J. S. Bach Commemora tive Festival. . Thomas Nichols and Earl Slo cum of the Music Department here will accompany Smith in his recital tonight. Rating Goes Up For AROTC Here The local Air ROTC unit now ranks 20th in size among ' the 34 colleges -and universities in the area supervised by the 14th Air Force, according to recent infor mation. In this area, which includes New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and all states to the east of them, there are' 16,477 students enrolled in the program. The Carolina unit,-, which was organized in 1947 with 32 crdets, has expanded with the recent flood of enlistments to 371 students. than in lying in wait for them." At Norman, Okla., mean while, a University of Okla homa marriage counselor said couples should . "perhaps find their own answers" to the prob lem. "It's hot a. good "idea to set aside one place and say to the students, 'this is for loving " said Mrs. Roberta Ortenberger. But she agreed with Gill that "couples will court no matter what" and should have a suit able spot for hand-holding. Otherwise, she paid, prolong ed "goodnight kissing" in front of girls' dormitories was like ly to result "in nervousness and tension and . . . hasty marri ages." v aratroopers Lead New Korean Drive 'Ko rean War Just About Ended' Mac; 28,000 Fleeing Reds Caught In Trap TOKYO, Saturday, Oct. 21 (UP) The history-making Korean war entered the mopping Aup stage today, with U. S. paratroopers, sealing a trap against some 28,000 fleeing Reds and the South Koreans rolling toward the Manchurian bor der with the blessings of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Pyongyang, North Korean Communist capital, was se curely in Allied hands. Hurricane Heads Info Gulf Coast TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 20 (JP) A 90-rnile an hour hurricane aimed its swirling fury at the luxury lined beaches in the St. Petersburg-Tampa area tonight as hurricane-scarred Florida still rocked under the punches of a big blow earlier this week. At 4:30 p.m. EST, the Gulf hur ricane was located 240 miles southwest of Tampa and moving east-northeast at about 12 to 15 miles an hour. The weather bu reau expected it to turn north eastward. The storm, which had slowed down, was expected to hit the middle west coast of Florida late tonight or tomorrow morning, the Miami Weather Bureau said. It had hurricane winds over a small area up to 90 miles per hour. Some 600,000 residents of the West Coast's most populous cen ter began evacuating the narrow but luxurious string of islands between Pass-A-Grille and Indian Rocks before dark. Disaster Re lief chairmen in both St. Peters burg and Tampa were ready to order a general evacuation. 170 Students On Strike n Girl-Paddling Mixup SHARONVILLE, O., Oct. 20 (UP) About 170 students con tinued a strike for the third day today in protest over the firing of a school superintendent charged with ordering girl pupils to paddle each other. The superintendent, W. C. Cow er, 51, was fired Wednesday on charges that he permitted girl students to paddle each . other Special Rate For 'Arsenic; Plays At WC Soecia to The Dailv Tar Heel GREENSBORO, Oct. 20 "Ar senic and Old Lace," Joseph Ilesselring's ever-popular come dy, will - be presented - by the Play-Likers of Woman's College in Aycock Auditorium here tomorrow (Saturday) night, the final showing of a two-day run. Special rates for the produc tion are offered to University of North Carolina students. They are asked to present their identi fication cards when they purchase tickets. The play, which tells the story of two old maids from a wealthy Brooklyn family who have decid ed the best of their many chari ties is relieving -lonely men of their lonesomeness by murder, is the first of four productions planned at WC this year. Kathryn England, who directed a successful production of the same play at the Brunsville Park way Playhouse during the sum mer of 1949, will direct the WC presentation. Four thousand American para troopers, with full equipment including artillery and quarter ton trucks, plummeted down on two targets 26 and 28 miles north SEOUL, Korea, Saturday. Oct. 21 (P) An American Ar my spokesman said today thai South Korean troops, marching 85 miles west from Wonsan in less than a week, joined newly5 landed American paratroopers Friday night at Sunchon, about 30 miles north of Pyongyang. of Pyongyang under the eyes of MacArthur who watched from a circling plane. ( "It looked perfect to me," Mac Arthur said. "It looked like it closed the trap. With the closing of that trap that should be the end of organized resistance. The war is very definitely coming to an end shortly." After watching the drop, Mac Arthur flew back to Pyongyang Airport where he told Eighth Army Commander Walton H. Walker to send his South Korean forces on to the Manchurian bor der as fast as they could go. The South Korean Capitol Di vision had been pushing up the North Korean east coast above Hungnam anyway against American orders to halt so the General's order simply gave a blessing to an established fact. instead of applying the tradition al board himself. "It's improper for young ladies to be subjected to such punish ment," School Board member Fred Foegler said. Some 400 students walked out of school immediately after Gow er's dismissal was announced, but by today only 170 still were on strike and they were threat ened with court action. Officials said teachers are com piling lists of absent students and that court action will be started Monday against the parents of students failing to return to class. Villagers expected another night of wild parading by the students and many of 4heir par ents who 'have joined the protest, For the past two nights huge crowds have milled about the homes of School Board members, ruining lawns and smashing win dows. Last night a cross was burned in Foegler's lawn. Foegler said the cross burned on his lawn last night was left there after the paraders had smashed windows and flower pots. Braucr To Speak At Dental Meef RALEIGH, Oct. 20 (F The Fourth District Dental Society, comprising 14 counties in central and eastern North. Carolina, will convene here next Monday and Tuesday. District President, Dr. C. E. Abmathy of Raleigh, will xr side. Dr. John C. Brauer, Dean of the North Carolina School of Dentistry, will address the meeting. Reds Protest Rearmament' Of Germany Molorov Attends New Conference In Red Prague LONDON, Oct. 20 (UP) Leaders of eight Communist Iron Curtain countries, including Rus sia's Vice Premier Viacheslav Mo- lotov, opened a full-dress con ference in Prague today on al leged Western Allied plans to rearm Germany, the Moscow ra dio announced tonight. The meeting followed immedi ately on a formal Russian protest against the alleged rearmament plans a protest which included the statement that the Soviet gov ernment "will not tolerate" the revival of "the German regular army in Western Germany." Moscow radio in a broadcast monitored here said that ministers representing eight countries op ened their conference in Prague today and continued: "The conference will discuss the question which has arisen in con nection vith the New York con ference of the three poyers (Unit ed States, Great Britain, and France) on Sept. 19 on the remili tarization of Western Germany." Moscow caid the meeting of the eight countries was called on Rus sia's initiative. Those attending in addition to Mjlotov -aie Czechoslovak Vice Premier Zdehek Fierhnger; East German Foreign Minister, George Dertinger; Hungarian Foieign Minister Gyula Kallai; Romanian Foreign Minister Ana Paukei ; Polish Foreign Minister Zygmund Modzeleqsk; Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mmticho Neichev; and Albanian Ambassador to Moscow Natanaili. Moscow said that Fierlinger, representing the host country, opened the conference and was elected chairman for the first day's session. , Sidevalk Job Nears Finish For This Year The postwar project of replac ing sand paths with bricks, one? of the University's many construc tion jobs, has ncared completion for this year. The finishing touches on walks from A, C, Alexander, and-Ay-cock doorwavs to street walks, now'are being accomplished. The Operations Office, which began the project last March, expects to resume work in April. The maior project done by the Office this summer was the brick ing of the area, and paths around Hill Hall lead'ng to Graham Me morial, and the sidewalk on Ra leigh Street from Cameron Ave nue to the Rakigh highway facing Woollen Gym. A job like the brickvalk on Ra leigh Dtret consumes 40,000 bricks and costs about 34,000, ihe Office estimated. Education? ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 21 ftjp) The wife of a Cornell Uni versity prof sor today wen! to jail raiher than pay a 31 over parking fine. Mrs. T. II. Drig's a j behind bars la dramatize r fight against parking meters as "double taxation." She had visitors, loo 30 Cor nell students who were inspect ing the jail.
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