f f A J H V r r) rr, ; crz -n ----- . r r i ft Lihlr V EAT HER Slightly cooler partly cloudy"1-, to day with. 82 high. Yesterday's high DO; low 53. VOLUME LX NUMBER WASHINGTON CIO steel workers, responding to a re quest by their leader, called off their strike yesterday while the legal battle over government seizure of the mills shifted to the' Supreme Court. Union President Philip Murray ordered his 650, 000 men to go back to work "as soon as possible." DENVER The continuing strike of 22 AF of L, independ ent and CIO Oil workers unions yesterday threatened further shortages of gasoline for the na tion's motorists, truckers and air transport. Government officials said a prolonged strike would bring on a major shortage of gasoline if the 45-day supply on hand is cut in half. SALT LAKE CITY About 2, 000 persons packed their belong ings and fled a critical 50-block area of Salt Lake City as the worst flood in the history of Utah swept over thousands of acreas yesterday. MUNSAN Communist negoti ators yesterday refused to agree to a United Nations command package proposal for settling the Korean armistice deadlock. Chief problems blocking an armistice are how to exchange prisoners of war, Russian participation in truce supervision and rehabilita tion of military airfields during a truce. SEOUL Two American de stroyers were damaged slightly by Communist shore batteries in a gun duel that raged all Wed nesday afternoon in Wonsan Har bor, the Navy announced yester day. - WASHINGTON Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is ahead of Sen. Robert A. Taft in the race of Republican national convention delegates according to a United Press tabulation. Latest figures show Eisenhower leading Taft 286 to 273 in delegate votes. WINSTON-SALEM The strike at Western Electric, plants here, Burlington and Greensboro con tinued yesterday after negoti ators seeking a settlement failed to reach an agreement at a ses sion Thursday night. CAMP DESERT ROCK, Nev. More than 2,000 Marines took the roughest buffeting ever dished out to troops by an atomic bomb but the majority today seemed sold on the weapon -as a friend in the field. The blast occurred Thursday. i M I - Tea Postponed Due to the death of Brother Marx Deal the Alpha Kappa Psi pledge initiation end ; fac ulty; lea scheduled for Sunday afternoon will ba peris sntxlU 163 AH, THIS SMOOTH LEQ-WE offer io the guys who didn't make it to the beach this weekend. From Nags Head on down io Myrtle you'll find 'em out by the thousands, though perhaps not quite as stunning. Know the name of this coed? Will Elect" Officers Con so I id afedM Council eefs Here The . Consolidated University Student Council meets tomor row afternoon here to choose new officers. . The meeting, the final one of the school year, will be held in the Morehead Building. It will be the first at which the CUSC will convene under its new constitution, ratified by .the Legislature here early last month. Both the outgoing and in coming delegations will meet. However, Carolina actually has no "official" new delegation due to a legislative quirk. The Two Suspended For Math Cheating Two students were suspended from the University this week for cheating on a French 22 quiz, the Men's Honor Council said yesterday. In other action the council dis missed the case of two students alleged td have cheated, . on a take-home math quiz. -.TheUcase vrzs thrown out for lack of evi- M CHAPEL HILL, N. Q SATURDAY. v4 j v i 7 -; Tomorrow Legislature Thursday, put off approving some 40 appoint ments by President Ham Hor ton. Among them are the sel- ectees for the CUSC. The action postponing ap proval of Horton's appoint ments is customary. The Legis lature has one-of its commit tees investigate appointees and then generally goes on the rec commendation of N the commit tee. Deal Dies Marx Hugh Deal, senior from Rockingham, died yester day afternoon at Duke hospital. He was admitted there six weeks ago for treatment of a circulatory disorder. Mr. Deal was a -marketing major and a member of Alpha Kappa Psi commerce fraternity here. He was an officer of AKPsi, a member of Play makers G and on the debate squad. . : '.;'"' : 1 j , He is survived by hisj parents, Miv and Ilrs. IL L. Deal and a brother. Hobby Lee Desl, who ! j 4" I I 4P - 5 MAY 3, 1S52 by Joe Cherry Chi Omegas joined forces withChi Phi's Thursday night to "play house" and walk away with first place honors in the annual University Club Carnival on Navy Field. The Chi O's awarded winners of a horseshoe game with, party favors and kisses (on .the cheek, naturally) after emerg ing from a make-believe coed dormitory. ; More unfortunate souls who UNC Report Hits State Institutions Special to Thb Daily TahJIeei. : RALEIGH, May 2 Shortcom ings of North Carolina's institu tions for the mentally deficient are sharply outlined in a report made to Gov. Kerr Scott by a UNC agency. 1 The Bureau of Educational Re search and Service of the Uni versity prepared the report and leveled criticism at Caswell Train ing School at Kinston. The report said the school must be enlarged, its staff and methods improved and its purpose rede fined. The bureau said that in stead of fulfilling its function as a training center for mentally de ficient children, the school has become a "detention home" which keeps inmates until they can be admitted to adult mental institu tions. ."It is humanely necessary and economically sound to provide specialized care, treatment and supervision for the mentally de ficient," the report said. It urged as an immediate step the separation of the mentally de ficient children from those who are mentally ill. " Women Feel Next Prexy Not At Talk Special to The Daily Tar Heel . CINCINNATI, May 2 The League of Women Voters looked over five candidates and a stand in last night, but there was a strange suspicion among its mem- 1 Xt J 1 A 1 oers xoaay inai xne next pres ident wasn't there. Two Republicans and three Democrats presented in an hour's radio' television program their views on the major issues of government corruption and for eign economic aid. They, answered some other questions. All of the queries and replies were prepared in advance, so nobody was surprised by what happened except where spontan- ious applause broke out from the ! audience of 2,500, mostly women. Thecandidates who sounded off on schedule were Gov. Earl War ren of California and former Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Re publicans, and Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee, Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, and W. Averell Harriman of New York Democrats. - . , The major missing candidates were Ohio's Sen.: Robert A Taft cni Gca. . Dwight XlLJ Eisenhower, TOB I N. Labor Secretary writes an open let ter to seniors. See page 2. . u. ainniiiv. managed to ring with their "horseshoes" only the sign mark ed "Blind Date, We'd love to, Boys" were surprised when a gap toothed matron, looking strange ly like a boy, came out to kiss them. - the profits said the, funds will probably be contributed to 'char ity. The display, called "Let's Play Flush-Flush," won because of originality and workmenship. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and Delta Delta Delta Sorority came in second in the carnival. WW II I nan narges Colleagues As Cowards Special to The Daily Tar Heel WASHINGTON, May 2 Rep. Edwin Arthur Hall (R-NY) charged today he had been sub jected by his House colleagues "to one of the most cowardly at tacks ... in history." Hall was sharply criticized on the House floor yesterday for what members termed his unfair attacks on Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY), his primary opponent. TTall aofMispfl his critics nf in terfering in an election "which the people, and the people only, have the right to decide." One House member after an other rose to denounce Hall and praise Cole. They said Hall, in his speeches in his district, had accused Cole by innuendo of "leaking" atomic secrets after at tending Washington cocktail parties. "Perhaps the questions I raised hit some guilty consciences and they yelled to high heaven," Hall shot back today in a reply -printed in the Congrgssional Re cord.. , - Hall and Cole are engaged in a battle for the right to represent a new congressional district in the Binghamton, N. Y., area into which . both their old districts have been merged. Advisers Needed Students interested in be coming orientation advisers next year should go by Graham Memorial for interviews Mon day, Tuesday, or Wednesday of next week. Orientation Chairman Bob Gorham yesterday said the fol lowing schedule will be in ef fect: Monday, 7 p. m.-3 p. m.i Tuesday, 7 p. m.-9 p. m., and Wednesday, 4 p. m.-6 p. m. The interviews will be Held ia ; one of the Roland Parker Lounges in the ' student r union-'" Gcxham said ; 1 " ' ; ' : -' . ' ' ; : '

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