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CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940
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NUMBER 102
Protest Of
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News Briefs
By United Press
HELSINKI, Feb. 7 -Finnish high
command announces slaughter of 1,
800 Russians in fighting north of Lake
Ladoga; send appeal to civilians to
round up Russian "Suicide Squad"
parachutists.
I
. WESTERN FRONT Quiet day
ffith minor artillery fire.
LONDON Government prepares
fpr new crisis in Anglo-Irish relations
liter execution of two Irish Republi
can armed terrorists.
DUBLIN Angry Irish demonstra
tors elevate to martyrdom two young
I rish Republicans executed by the
E British; possibility develops that de
Vfalera may be driven from premier-
THE HAGUE Special police guard
ssigned to delegates of 10 nations
Holding League of Nations Social
ise onomic conference here after Dutch
Mazi party accuses them of plotting
),o inflict economic, and political penal
ties on Germany.
TOKYO Grave strain on Japa-
fese-American relations emphasized
Lfi parliament when foreign minister
feys attitude of, government,, toward
Lggestion that Americans be with-
rawn from Japanese controlled areas
China is too delicate for comment.
MOSCOW Government protests
French government against police
id Monday on Soviet trade office in
. a . . . t j
iris ioiiowea Dy aeienuon 01 kus-
n officials and searches of their
mes.
WASHINGTON Senate foreign
relations committee clears decks for
financial aid to war-invaded Finland
and China while house defeats two
proposals aimed at breaking off diplo
matic "relations with Russia.
WASHINGTON Congressional
economy bloc, with Vice-President
Garner among its leaders, suffers mil
lion dollar set-back as senate brings
$1,139,693,528 independent offices bill
to brink of passage.
WASHINGTON William Dudley
Pelley, suave goateed leader of the
silver shirts, calmly informs Dies com
mittee that "three sets of G-men" in
vestigated him last year and "sort of
seemed to approve of my organiza
tion." NEW YORK Seventeen members
of Christian front plead not guilty'
after federal grand jury indicts them
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Weisiger To Speak On Careers
Tonight At Graham Memorial
Program Is First
In Vocational
Guidance Series
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"Vocations for Today," Graham
Memorial's series to provide students
with a study of a choice of jobs in
later life, will be inaugurated tonight
at 7:30 in the main lounge of the
student union, when Kendall Weisi
ger, vice president and director of
personnel of Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph company, will speak on
"How Should I Select a Career?"
Weisiger will make his address and
then answer any questions which the
audience might have concerning their
choice of a vocation. The speaker has
had considerable experience in person
nel directorship both within the
Southern Bell company and while in
the army. A graduate of VPI, he
supervised, as chairman of the com
mittee on classification of personnel
ii the army, the installation of per
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Graham Endorses
ASU Drive Against
Proposed Reductions
Keynoted by an inspirational en
dorsement of the ASU drive by Presi
dent Frank P. Graham, a mass meet
ing of 80 University students last night
in Gerrard hall sent a resolution to
Representative R. L. Doughton, chair
man of the house Ways and Means
committee, protesting the proposed re
duction of NYA appropriations in Con-
gress.
President Graham deplored the
plight of the 290 NYA students who
would be compelled to drop out of
school, should the entire project be
abolished. Pointing out-that 94 of the
self-help students would leave the
University upon the passage of the 29
per cent cut, Dr. Graham described
the specifications which NYA em
ployees had to meet. "All students re-
rp.virny nirl frtvm fha Mo inn o 1 Vmili
Administ.ratinn must mposnro m- tn
vigorous character and scholastic re
quirements. They must have a "C"
average, and be in the upper 50 per
cent of their high school graduating
class. Twelve out of the 29 who made
Phi Beta Kappa last year were NYA
students."
In the course of the meeting a tele
gram from a mass ASU meeting being
held at Women's College in Greens
boro.was received with approximately
1,000 signatures on the petition. The
telegram sent to congress from the
campus meeting was signed by every
one of the students present.
Dean R. B. House pointed out that
the University is dependent upon the
NYA for the valuable work they per
form. He stated, "The University is
not in position to reallocate this work
to other University employees, be
cause of a lack of funds. Therefore
any cut in appropriations would be
disastrous to both the University and
NYA boys."
Among the campus leaders who
spoke at the three hour mass meeting
were Lee Wiggins, chairman of the
national American Student union, and
Phil Ellis, member of the Debate coun
cil. Wiggins explained that the pro
posed NYA cuts had a close connec
tion to all slices on social agencies.
Stressing the need for student inter
est in important problems, the ASU
head expressed the need for proper
methods and techniques for voicing
protests to the congressmen. Ellis,
Continued on page A, column 6)
Collections Staff
Will all members of the collections
staff of the Daily Tar Heel please
report to the business office today at
2 o'clock.
Kendall Weisiger
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MOVE MARKS STEP
TOWARD COMPLETE
SELFVERNMENT
Ficklen Explains
Provisions Of
Four-Point Plan
Marking a step toward complete
student self-government, the Interf ra
ternity council last night unanimous
ly agreed to support an administration
approved plan to throw the responsi
bility for social activities within the
Greek houses on the fraternity presi
dents. Passage of the plan ended a two
week period in which coeds were not
allowed to visit fraternity houses.
In a four-point document drawn up
by a special committee appointed to
study the fraternity problem, stipula
tions are made for entertaining women
students in the houses, for obtaining
permission from the council for all;
houseparties and dances, for maintain-)
ing a council list of approved chaper- L
ons, and for stressing the responsibility
the fraternity presidents are taking up
on themselves in accepting the pro
posals. VIOLATIONS
Studie Ficklen, president of the coun
cil, explained that violations of the
regulations would be treated, by the
presidents as a group, and that indi-i
vidual cases would be turned over to j
the Woman's council in the case of
coeds and the Student council regard
ing men. The Interfraternity council
will take all action regarding the Greek
house which violates the rules. Each;
president is on his honor to report cases -
which occur within his house.
Women students, under the new set
up, can be entertained only in the so
cial rooms, halls, porches, and dining
halls on the first floor of Greek houses.
No alcoholic beverages may be served
in the presence of coeds who are guests
in a fraternity. -
HOURS
Fraternity houses wil be open to
women students from 1 o'clock Monday
through Friday afternoons, and from
10 o'clock Saturday and Sunday morn
ings, until 15 minutes prior to the
time at which they are required by the
University to be in their rooms. Coeds
may visit fraternity houses after
dances only on the occasion of an or
ganized reception party approved by
the Interfraternity council that is ade
quately chaperoned. Application for
approval of after-dance parties must
be submitted to the chairman of the
council on the regular form provided
for that purpose three days in ad
vance of the party.
APPLICATIONS
An application and written report
must be handed in to the council be
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Town Cuts Garbage
Collecting Costs
With New Invention
New and improved trucking service
will reduce by one-fourth the cost of
garbage collection in Chapel Hill, J. L.
Caldwell, town manager, said yester
day.
A new dumper, designed by Mr.
Caldwell and J. S. Boone, members of
the1 village fire department, has re
duced the man power required to han
dle the truck and collection from eight
to six.
The new body, which the inventors
plan to patent, is arranged with pul
leys, which operate a small hopper at
the rear of the truck. The hopper can
be lowered near the ground and re
fuse may be dumped into the hopper
without causing the collectors unneces
sary strain.
After refuse is placed in the hopper,
pulleys draw the hopper over the en
closed body and dump the material into
an automatic opening into the steel
enclosed body. A steel sheet is planned
to push and pack the refuse
The new truck, because it can carry
a heavier load with less effort, saves
labor, motor fuel and time, the in
ventors claim. Exact amount of sav
ing cannot be determined yet since the
new service has been operating only a
few days, but experiments so far indi
cate a saving of at least 25 per cent.
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Queen Marjorie Johnston make merry
Below, the queen awards prizes for
ball. Reading left to right in the lower
as "Indian Thumber," John Henry
Hampton Caldwell as "The Martins
Waltz," and Ed Heghinian as "Tales
William Meade Prince as "Dixie" and
Miss Johnston.
STREETS DAMAGED
GREATLY BY SNOW
Town Loses $2,000
v In Recent Freeze
Damages amounting to over $2,000
to asphalt and tar streets during the
recent below zero weather were re
ported yesterday by John L. Caldwell,
town manager.
Asphalt streets, laid in 1937, were
cracked and crumbled. In many places,
the town manager found the prepara
tion had been ground to dust. Rose
mary and Church streets will have to
be replaced to a great extent. Pritch
ard and North streets and Tenney
Circle will be patched.
Streets surfaced in 1937 were given j
emulsified tar treatment, the tar be
ing mixed with about 35 per cent water
at high temperature. The town man
ager said that the streets were not
blocked after the first crushed stone
was placed and that motorists running
over the streets caused the heavier
stone to be thrown to the sides, leav
ing the stone layers thin.
In many places he found that water
had seeped under the sides and had
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Woman's Association
Will Meet Today
The Woman's association . will
hold an important meeting this
afternoon at 5 o'clock in Gerrard
hall.
The fraternity plan will be an
nounced and discussed.
Gray-headed Melville Corbett has
stated that the meeting will be compulsory.
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Highnesses King Sherman Smith and
at the annual Student-Faculty day.
the best costumes at the "Song Title
picture the winners are: Ralph Bowman
Lewis as "Trees," Ben Turner and May
and the Coys," Lola Offer as "Vienna
from Vienna Woods," and Mr. and Mrs.
"Long, Long Ago" respectively, and
Playmakers Select
Katherine Mallory
For New Production
The search for a girl to play the
lead in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye,"
which will be the fourth Playmaker
produfetion this year, almost equalled
the quest for an actress to play Scar
lett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind."
Miss Catherine Mallory of Savannah,
Ga., has finally been selected to play
the heroine in Clare Boothe's parody
on the casting of "Gone With the
Wind."
John 1 Parker will direct the show
which is to be presented On February
28 and 29 and March 1 and 2.
The cast is made up of 13 charac
ters in addition to Miss Mallory. JoeJ
Salek will play the part of Lloyd Lloy
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Becker Climbs
Among Nation
Band Engaged For Inter-
Dorms Has Been Broadcast
ing Over NBC Regularly
Bubbles Becker and his orchestra,
which will play for the Inter-Dorm
name for himself and aggregation way
back in 1938, and since then has come
a long way toward taking a place in
the front rank of the nation's popu
lar young bands.
In that far distant era he began
broadcasting regularly over the Na
tional Broadcasting system and soon
was filling engagements at many of
the leading resorts and night clubs
all over the country.
Bubbles has played for dances at
dance this Friday night, made quite a
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F1D)(D(UL
BILL SUBMITTED
TO INAUGURATE
CAMPUS PRIMARIES
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Student Legislature
To Discuss Measure
At Meeting Monday
Declaring that they feel a need for
a general clean-up- in campus politics,
Chuck Kline and Bob McLemore have
drawir up a new act to revise the sys
tem of campus; elections. The bill is
now in the hands of the ways and means
committee of the student legislature,
The ways and means- committee of
the student legislature- wiD meet
this afternoon at 2 o'clock in 207
Graham Memorial, Agenda for the
special session Monday night will
be considered
and will be introduced at a special meet
ing of the assembly Monday night when
it convenes to take up the new consti
tution bill.
"This plan, if adopted by the legis
lature, would do away with much of
the evil now existing, in the choice- of
candidates by small groups which are
decidedly non-democratic," Kline and
McLemore stated yesterday.
PRIMARY
"It calls for a primary at which
every member of the student body
will have an opportunity to nominate
his choice for any office that directly
concerns him. Our bill does not call for
the abolition of parties, but rather it
will do away with the mock democracy
of fixed conventions and steering com
mittee nominations. -We fell -that the
party is a necessary instrument of de
mocracy but not when the party is in
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H0RT0N TO PLAY
HERE IN COMEDY
TOMORROW NIGHT
Actor Deserts
Screen To Resume
Career On Stage
Although most of his followers have
forgotten that he was originally, and
for several years, an important stage
actor, Edward Everett Horton, who
will appear -in "Springtime For
Henry" at the University tomorrow
night, is returning , to the old stand
after deserting it for a successful
movie career.
During the entire current season he
will devote himself to a nation-wide
tour in Benn W. Levy's Broadway hit.
He will come to Chapel Hill under the
auspices of the Carolina Playmakers
to play in Memorial hall at 8:30.
Unlike most of the other stars, Mr.
Horton had his first experience in the
renovated barns last summer. The
well-known comedian said that his ex
perience resulted from a longing to
try a fall or two on a real stage once
again. "Hollywood was- swell," he
said. "It enabled me to buy three
omes in as many parts of the country
(Continued on page U, column 5)
Toward Top
's Dance Bands
University Band
To Present First
Broadcast Tonight
The University band wfll give its
initial radio broadcast tonight at 8:30
over station WPTF. -The program
will be transmitted through the facil
ities of the local studio.
The concert will be made up of the
following four numbers: "Miami
March" by Fillmore, "Overture Hon
groise" by Joseph Skornicka, "Scenes
from the Sierras" by David Bennett,
and the second movement of the "Nor
dic Symphony" by Howard Hansen, ar
ranged for concert band by Joseph
Maddy.