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DITORIALS: "EATHER: y Snotc, probably Ten Cents Patterns -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XLVHI Builne: 9887 Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940 Editorial: 4356 News: 4351 1 Nljfet: 6906 NUMBER 89 1 News Briefs By United Press . PARIS, Jan. 23 France says, like Great Britain, she will continue to exercise full belligerent rights in the war zone set up by the 21 American republics, unless all German warships are kept out of it. LONDON British steamer and Norwegian freighter sunk in North Sea; Great Britain explains United States' complaints over long delays to American shipping at Gibraltar -are "groundless"; British and French vol unteer troops may be sent to Finland before spring. WASHINGTON U. S. informs Japan that after Friday night, when 1911 Treaty of Commerce expires, trade between the two nations will be strictly on a day-to-day basis. BOSTON Thomas E. Dewey opened his GOP presidential campaign with assertion that the Roosevelt adminis tration used recovery and relief ex penditures as alibis for series of un balanced budgets. COLUMBUS, O. United Mine Workers of America denounce two Democratic presidential candidates, John Nance Garner and Paul V. Mc Nntt. HELSINKI Russian warplanes bombed Finnish towns,' killing women and children; Soviet offensive aimed at smashing Mannerheim line from rear stalled with heavy Red losses reported. STOCKHOLM Finnish planes re portedly bombed and damaged Soviet battleship and cruiser at Russia's Kronstadt naval base. CAPE HORN, South'Africa South African parliament hears plea for peace with Germany. TOKYO Military leaders indicate that Japan will take action if Great Britain refuses to release 21 German merchant sailors seized on Japanese liner last Sunday. HONOLULU British warship halts Japanese liner between California coast and Honolulu, apparently seeking five German "nationals" LONDON Destroyer Exmouth sunk by mine or torpedo. One hundred and forty-five believed dead. RJVERDALE, Calif. Four of six occupants of twin-motored army bom bardment plane killed in crash. BERLIN German army com-.! mander-in-chief savs the spirit of Frederick the Great assures Germany of victory. WASHINGTON British search of U. S. mails denounced in the Senate by Senator James E. Mead, Democrat of New York. WASHINGTON House of Repre sentatives revives for another year the Dies committee for investigation of un American activities. Annual Neophyte Ball Slated For Saturday, Feb. 3 The annual Neophyte ball sponsored by Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsi lon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Zeta Psi fraternities for their pledges will be held Saturday, February 3, the com mittee in charge of the ball announced yesterday. This is the second annual ball given by these fraternities, the first being "a at tfte Washington iuKe notei in Durham last year. Members of the committee for the dance are: Jick Garland for Beta Theta Pi; Ed Maner for Delta Kappa Epsilon; Sam Means for Sigma Alpha Epsilon; and Trente Ragland for Zeta Psi. Social Workers HearShuford Workers should not have, things done for them, but they should1 be helped to help themselves, Forrest H. Shufford, commissioner of labor of ttorth Carolina said Monday night in speaking before the Social Work" club n "Social Legislation." He emphasized the need for social lt-gislation because improvement of labor conditions in the future depends upon cooperation of all employers in improving the standards of hours, ages and conditions of work. Di Senate Will Aid In Drive To Bring Wolfe's Works Here Members To Conduct Personal Campaign To Raise $5,000 The Di Senate voted last night to sponsor a movement to help the Thomas Wolfe memorial fund commit tee raise funds to bring original manu scripts of the Carolina alumnus back to the University library. Members of the senate will conduct a concentrated campaign by personal contacts in dormitories, fraternity houses and town to help raise the ap proximately $5,000 needed to bring the collection on which the committee hold an option. A copy of the bill which passed the senate almost unanimously will be sent to the Phi assembly asking it to join in the campaign. LIMITED TIME The option held by the committee for purchase of the manuscripts is for a limited time only, it was brought out in the discussion last night. Mary L. Thornton, secretary of the committee, said, however, that this time limit may be extended if campus interest seems great enough to indicate that the money would be raised. ALL EXCEPT ONE The collection includes all of the 25 original manuscripts of Thomas Wolfe except one, "Look Homeward Angel," which was purchased recently for the Haravrd university library for $1,700. Wolfe, who died in 1938 at the age of 37, graduated from the University in 1920. He was editor of the Daily Tar Heel and an original member of the Carolina Playmakers while here. A resolution to "petition the Publi cations Union board to consolidate the Carolina Buccaneer and the Carolina Magazine into a new and more repre sentative publication" was killed after a long discussion. CAMPAIGN BEGINS FOR DIMES DRIVE Friendship Council Appoints Collectors Committees to carry on the March of Dimes campaign in the student body were announced yesterday by Hobart McKeever, president of the Freshman Friendship Council. The group will have charge of the drive on the campus which begins tomorrow and lasts through next Tuesday. There are two general collection committees, one for the fraternities and the other for the dormitories. Standings of both groups will be pub lished in the Daily Tar Heel every day of the drive. COMMITTEES The fraternities committee is as follows: Graham Carlton, chairman, Bill Standback, Sylvan Meyer, , Bill Elmore, James ' Heyward and Ed Easter. Earl Yates is head of the dormi tories committee. The dormitories and the students who will collect from them are as follows: Everett, David Fiske; Graham, Wade Fox; "H," Peyton Townes and W. J. Smith; Aycbck, Fag Nolan, and Frank Over cast; Lewis, Bill Thomas j "K," Earl Yates; Ruff in, Sam Williams and Henry Newsome; Mangum, Mike Man gum and D. B. Powell; Grimes, Bill Stanback; Manly, Steve Peck and Ed Austin; Old East and uia west, no- bart McKeever; B. V. P. Orrin Magill; Carr, Hunt Hobbs; "L." Jimmy How ard; Steele, Larry Hutton; spencer and Woman's 1, 2, 3, Louise Jordan. Union Postpones Sociology Social The student-faculty social for the to sociology department which was have been given by the Graham Memo rial tonight at 8:30 has been postponed until next quarter. Frosh Executives Will Meet Tonight The executive commitjtee of the freshman class will meet tonight in Gerrard hall at 7:30 promptly. Tom my Crudup, president, urges all members of the committee to at tend this meeting. Classes As Usual Classes will be held as usual to day, administrative authorities stat ed last night. However, students with improper clothes for cold weather can be excused from classes, it was pointed out. PHI DETERMINES WINE LESS POTENT THAN FEMALE SEX Bill Ward, Art Clark Win Assembly Debate With Young, Hobbs Women have a greater effect on men than wine according to the results of the debate held by the Phi assembly last night. I Bill Ward and Arthur Clark, de fending the negative of the query, "Re solved, That wine has a greater effect upon menv than have women," were declared winners by a vote of 20 to 12 by the male-dominated audience. Zoe Young and Shirley Hobbs support ed the affirmative side of the ques tion. . In addition to the debate, the- as sembly heard a report from Bob Sloan, chairman of the Di-Phi debate committee, who announced that the subject of the debate a will be, ''Re solved, That President Roosevelt should run for a third term." Phi members who will participate, uphold ing the negative, will be Speaker Phil Ellis and Sloan. v ; The assembly also passed a motion to hold its election of officers for the spring quarter at its regular meeting two weeks hence. - , DOUGLAS STEERE WILL SPEAK HERE Philosophy Teacher To Talk On Religion Sponsored by the University Chris tian associations, ' Douglas Steere, teacher of philosophy at Haverford college, Haverford, Pennsylvania, will speak here Sunday night at 8 o'clock in Hill Music hall on the topic, "Gen- Steere, a native of Michigan, is a member of the Society of Friends and has been active in various projects which have been undertaken by the American Friends Service committee. He has written several pamphlets in connection with the work of the So ciety of Friends, a number of articles for religious and social journals, and is the author of the Hazen book, "Prayer and Worship." The speech Sunday night will be the second University, sermon to be given here this year. The series was begun last November with a sermon by Rabbi E. N. Calisch of Richmond, Virginia. Frank Holeman Has Own Idea - About Women; S- Tall, Lanky Senior Able To Look Down Upon World With Amused, Cynical Detachment Name: Frank Holeman. Address: 314 Mangum. Noted for: 6 feet 5 inches of pencil like lankiness and deep, booming voice, an adoration of Thomas Wolfe, "an as tute shrewdness, a medieval attitude toward women. Those of you who saw Deanna Dur bin's picture, "First Love," will re member an old-maid school mistress who says, "I'm a character a lovable, crotchety old character I hate being a character." We don't know what Frank Holeman's sentiment , in this matter is, but. that he is definitely a character, one of those "above the crowd" (practically in the skies, in fact). Up in his windswept brain, 6 feet 5 inches off the ground, Frank is able to look down upon the world with an amused and rather cynical detach-J (Continued on page 4, column 5) JUNIORS, SENIORS . TO VOTE ON BAND FOR CLASS DANCE Ballots To Appear In Daily Tar Heel For Four Choices Vance Hobbs, chairman of the se nior class dance committee, and Ott Burton, chairman of the junior class dance committee, yesterday announced that the members of the two classes will be given an opportunity to vote on the orchestra to play for Junior Seniors. This adtion came as a result of the many complaints in the past that stu dents who were paying for the or chestra were having no chance to voice their likes and dislikes about the Sand secured. Ballots will appear in the Daily Tar Heel with spaces for the first four choices of the voters. These ballots when filled out and signed by the voter as a bona fide member of the junior or senior class are to be sent to Hobbs in Carr dormitory by the seniors and to Burton in K dor mitory by the juniors. H.MS. Pinafore Planned For Stage On February 2,3 Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, "H. M. S. Pinafore," will be presented February 2 and 3 in Memorial hall combining the acting and talent of the Carolina Playmakers and the Uni versity Music department. The pro duction will appear on the Student Entertainment series. One of the favorite Gilbert and Sul livan pieces, "Pinafore" has lost none of the gaiety and verve which charm ed audiences when it was originally staged -a half century ago. Though its satire on, the "Queen's -Navee" no longer has the bite of former years, its tunes are still captivating, its char acters sitll lively and its wit still piquant. John E. Toms, of the University music department, is in charge of music for the production, and Sameul Selden, associate director of the Play makers is director. CAST NAMED Principals in the cast are : Sir Joseph Porter, Frederick Walsh; Captain Corcoran, Frank Haines; Ralph Rackstraw, Jack Toms; Dick Deadeye, Don Rosenberg; Boatswain, Sherman Smith; Boatswain's Mate, Grady Reagan; Josephine, Helen Cop enhaver; Hebe, Ruth Smith, Butter cup, Mrs. Alpha Wettach; and Tommy Tucker, Norman Levinson. Members of the chorus are: Dorothy Browning, Laura Reid, Frances Wal ton, Margaret Edwards, Paroda Ann Toms, Mrs. Lillian Prince, Frances Lee, Eleanor Jones, Mary Elizabeth Rhyne, Kay James, Genie Loring Clark, Elizabeth Blair, Mary Lee Wil son, Phyllis Creedy, Ruth Parsons, Marjorie Davis, Carolyn Lambeth, Howard Richardson, Lynn Bernhardt, Gordon Bennett. James Earle, E. M. Rollins, George Jordan, Charles Phil (Continued on page U, column -4) Loves Wolfe Frank Holeman 4. herr gott Student, Faculty Day Group Begins Drive For Questions No Staff Meeting: The Daily Tar Heel technical staff will not hold its weekly meet ing this afternoon ' because of the weather and a PU board meeting. "IDEA" CONTEST FOR SENIOR WEEK ENDS SATURDAY Class Will Give Prize Of 10 Dollars For Best Suggestion All entries in the senior week "idea contest must be in by Saturday, Ben ny Hunter, senior president said yes terday. Eleven prizes amounting to $20 will be given those students submitting the best ideas for use during senior week. First prize will be. $10 and ten sec ond prizes of one dollar each will be given to the next best suggestions. In announcing the contest last week, Hunter said, "The prizes will be awarded for the best and most origi nal suggestions for any type of en tertainment, such as a saddle shoe stomp, stunt night, smoker, etc. any thing new." Rules of the contest are : (1) The contest is open to any bona fide member of the University student body.. (2) At least three ideas must be submitted by each contestant. (3) The contest starts on Wednes day, January 17 and ends on Sat urday, January 27. (4) Ideas are to be original and not repetitions of things that have been done before. If no ideas are ac cepted, -no prizes wilL.be awarded. : "" (5f Ideas must "not be "too elaborate and yet must be full enough to pre sent their possibilities. (6) Judges will be a committee composed of Jim McCallum, chairman, Jack Burton, Sam McPherson, and Benny Hunter. (7) Ideas may be given to anyone on the committee or mailed to Jim McCallum at the Phi Kappa Sigma house post-marked not later than January 27. Guy B. Phillips Announces Plans To Place Students Professor- Guy B. Phillips, director of the Placement Bureau for teach ers, announced yesterday that plans are being developed at this time for placement of all graduates and grad uate students in the field of public school teaching for the fall of 1940 A 'meetins will be held on Friday in room 204 of Peabody at 10:30 for all those interested. ,A11 candidates 1940 are invited to .A. iww""1" - be present and make preliminary reg istration. Following the meeting individual conferences wil be, held with the ap plicants and a complete record pre pared for placement files. Calls will begin to come in to the Bureau around March 1 and it is desired that lull information be available before that time. . t - EMERGENCY CALL ' There have been aproximately 20 calls' for: teachers for emergency po sitions, within the last-30 days. The largest number of calls have come in thVfields of mathematics, science, ana physical education. There has been also a rather significant numoer ox calls for teachers of music, both vo- mi 1 J. cal and instrumental.- me largest number of people not placed last year were in the fields of history and Eng lish. For the past three years there has been satisfactory placement of all graduates in education. AIL requests ask for subject-matter preparation with some capacity , to direct extra curricular activities in addition to reg ular classroom work. Y-Y Picture At 10:30 Beta Gamma Sigma members will meet on first floor of Bingham at 10:30 this morning for their Yackety Yack picture "regardless of weather," Gip Kimball of the yearbook staff said yesterday. Quiz Skit Modeled From Radio Program With the slogan "Stump these ex perts qr baffle these braintrusts," the drive for questions for the "Pop Quiz" program to be given on Student-Faculty day began yesterday. The "Pop Quiz" program to be given at 10:30 in Memorial hall as the first attraction of the day will be model ed after the well-known radio pro gram "Information Please." Seven University professors, chosen by their expert knowledge, in their fields and their versatility in impromptu witti cisms, will compose the board of ex perts compared to John Kieran, Oscar Levant, Franklin P. Adams, and Deems Taylor on the radio program. Joe Sayleck, a graduate student, will ad lib for the program taking the part played by Clifton Fadiman for Canada Dry. QUIZ QUESTIONS Questions for the quiz program are to be submitted at the YMCA where a marked ballot box has been placed, or handed to Tempe Newsome or Wal ter Kleeman, editor of the program. Questions may be on any subject ex cept science and should be designed to harrass the board of braintrusts. Included on each contribution should be the conrtibutor's name and address to be read when the question is pre sented on the program. Also each question must be accompained by its (Continued on page 4, column 3) GODFREY TO LEAD IRC DISCUSSION AT FIRST CLINIC Work In History, jCurrent Evetnts Qualifies Speaker First in its series of propaganda clinics will be presented tonight at 8:30 in the main lounge of the Gra ham Memorial by the International Relations club with James L. God frey of the University history depart ment leading the discussion. Godfrey was chosen to take charge of the first clinic because his work for the past few years in the field of history and current events quali fies him to speak with authority on the subject of propaganda, officers of the club said. Explaining the purpose of the series, Walter Kleeman, president of the IRC said, "In view of the huge amount of propaganda flooding the country to day, we feel "that it is part of our program this year to bring to the campus explanations, from time to time of propaganda, especially in regard to international relations." SALIENT FEATURES Tonight's clinic will introduce the salient features of the problem and will treat some of the propaganda reaching the United States from war ring nations in Europe and Asia Kleeman expressed the opinion that student interest in propaganda, and modern propaganda techniques war ranted the presentation of speakers oh the subject. The program tonight is part of the club's activity program for the year, which is designed to acquaint not only the members of the club but the whole campus with more facts about international, affairs and America's foreign policy. Court Pays Tribute To George A. Hearne At Opening Session : Members of the Chapel Hill bar, led by Judge Andrew Mcintosh, paid high tribute to the laie George A.' Hearne deputy sheriff of Orange county for 16 years, at the opening of - Recorder's court yesterday morning, f Judge Mcintosh described the death of Sheriff Hearne as a "great loss to the court and community, for he was a faithfur officer and, highly respectful citizen." Roy W. McGinnis, prosecut ingr attorney, said that Sheriff Hearne was "one of' the most efficient public officers" and commended the late sheriff for "loyalty to Jiis citizens and his church." Other remarks of praise were made by C. P. Hinshawi attorney for the town, and H. A. Whitfield, member of the local bar. ritk
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