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CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940 Editorial: 43S New,. 4351, ni,Iu: 69C
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News Briefs
By United Press
LONDON, Feb. 14 Admiralty an
nounces sinking of two German sub
mranise responsible for loss of three
marines responsible for loss of three
opens her doors legally to send volun
teers to Finland; Turkish authorities
say Russia is constructing fortifica
tions along the Soviet-Turkish fron
tier. HELSINKI Finns admit Russian
assaults have dented Summa sector
of the Jlannerheim line and loss of ad
vanced gun position.
WESTERN FRONT United
States' anger over Great Britain at-
tontioned on American vessels at
blockade control port is leveled with
equal furry against Germany and the
latter announces that "theoretically"
at least the ships in question might be
considered fair prey for Nazi U-boats.
RALEIGH Strong winds whip
sleet and snow across northeast and
east plunging those sections of the
nation back to mid-winter conditions;
one frozen to death in Philadelphia;
wind in North Carolina with gusts up
to 70 miles per hour averaged more
than 30 miles per hour-over 15 hours;
gale blows nine feet of water out of
Neuse river at New Bern leaving a
two-foot channel; northeast blizzard
strikes New England.
STOCKTON, Md. Fifty - three
heavily armed state troopers maintain
order after a fierce battle with angry
mob which dragged common-law wife
and 14-year-old daughter of fugitive
Negro killer and raper from nearby
jail.
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN
EN ROUTE TO PENSACOLA
President Roosevelt is heading toward
southern waters for a 10-day fishing
cruise, planned with so much secrecy
that his official retinue did not know
his destination when they left the
capital
WASHINGTON Senate foreign
relations committee deferred action on
potentially explosive Japanese em
bargo measures amidst new indica
tions; group badly split on issue.
WASHINGTON Vanguard of the
Republican national committee which
meets here Friday to select time and
ty for nominating convention, jubi-
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Parker To Discuss Positions
In Journalism Field Tonight
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Party Delegates
Convene Tonight
In Gerrard Hall
By CHARLES BARRETT
Herb Harder and Ott Burton will
wage a warm contest at the Student
party convention tonight for the senior
class presidential nomination, it was
learned authoritatively yesterday.
Over 100 delegates representing all
portions of the student body are ex
pected to gather for the assembly, be
ginning in Gerrard hall at 9 o'clock.
A possibility remains that a few
more nominations will be made in ad
dition to the senior class presidency.
HERB HARDY
Hardy is president of Mangum
dormitory, vice-president of the in
terdormitory council, an active mem
ber of the student legislature and the
I Young Democrats club. He was chair
man of the dormitory committee for
last week's Student-Faculty day.
Burton is president of K dormitory,
a vice-president of the Young Demo
crats club, chairman of the junior
class dance committee, a member of
the University club and interdormi
tory council. '
A few party leaders yesterday indi-
cated there was some possibility of a
deadlock over the two candidates, in
view of what they termed the "splendid
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YRC, YDC CLUBS
TO DEBATE DEBT
Program Scheduled
Tonight At 7;30
The Young Republicans and the
Young Democrats clubs here on the
campus will hold a debate tonight at
7:30 in Gerrard hall on the subject:
"Roseloved, That the Unived States
Shall Exceed the $45,000,000,000
Debt Limit."
The Youner Reoubiicans will take
the negative viewpoint while the YDC
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will defend the proposition.
Republican debaters are to be Jeter
Pritchard and Walt Kleeman. The
Democratic team will be Ernest King
and Joe Dawson.
Town Boys To Meet
Lewis Williams announced that
there will be a meeting tonight at 10
o'clock in Gerrard hall of all town
boys to form an organization of town
students.
Graham Memorial
Sponsors Second
Vocational Talk
"Journalism as a Career" will be
the subject of a talk to be given by
Charles Parker, city editor of the Ra
leigh News and Observer, tonight at
7:30 in the main lounge of Graham
Memorial, in the second of a series
of student union programs entitled
"Vocations for Today." ,
The Raleigh newspaper man will
outline the opportunities facing po
tential journalists, and will point out
new phases of the field which abound
in jobs for college graduates. All
students who have any tendency for
journalism have been requested to at
tend tonight's program, since the
speaker will attempt to aid students
in making a decision on what they
will do in f ututre life.
ONE OF SERIES
"Vocations' for Today" is a series
of programs designed to aid Uni
versity undergraduates in determining
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CAA Training At Chapel
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Carolina students are going in for flying in a big way. In the top picture
Ris Lyon, University junior, is shown seated behind Johnny Doster, youthful
CAA instructor at the local airport. In the lower photo two coeds Virginia
Cates and Babs Goodrich are seen getting the feel of things. Flight training
begins at the local airport today. Young Lyon is expected to be the first local
student to receive flight instruction in the air.
CAA Flight Training Program
Begins For Carolina Students
Two Coeds Among
Those Receiving
Air Instruction
By BEN ROEBUCK
Flight training for 20 Carolina stu
dents under the Civil Aeronautics au
thority program begins today at the
Chapel Hill airport, weather permit
ting. Virginia Cates of Raleigh and Babs
Goodrich of Wilmington, Del., both ju
niors and roommates in Woman's dorm
number one, will be among the group
to receive flight training.
Working with Manager Clarence M.
Pickel of the local airport, Johnny
Doster, former assistant manager of
the Charlotte Municipal airport, will
give the first flying instructions un
der the Carolina CAA program. Dos
ter, 23, is a native of Monroe and
began his flying career in 1934; he
has been in the village since January
15.
CAA STUDENTS
Semi-weekly ground instruction
classes under Professor L. R. Park-
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Freshmen Pictures
To Be Made Today
All freshmen in the alphabetical
group beginning with A down
through Charles S. Landy will have
their Yackety Yack pictures made
this morning at 10:30 on the steps
of Manning hall, yearbook editor
Jack Lynch announced yesterday.
The class has been divided into
six approximately equal alphabetical
groups for their pictures this year.
The first three groups will be made
this morning. If the weather is too
bad, however, the group will meet
at the same time and place the first
morning weather conditions will
permit.
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P.U. BOARD SETS
REGULATIONS FOR
STAFF ELECTIONS
Qualifications For
Voting Eligibility
Are Designated
Designing this year's staff nomina
tions to held between March 27 and
April 4, the Publications Union board
yesterday set permanent regulations
on the staff elections of the Daily
Tar Heel, the Yackety Yack, the
Buccaneer and the Carolina maga-
zine. rne new set oi rules speciiy
a definite date for staff elections in
future years, and put forth the quali
fications for eligibility to vote.
Ruling that the four staff nomina
tions are to be held on different
dates, the new set-up also calls for
the selection of the Managing Edi
tor of the Daily Tar Heel after the
campus elects the editor. The date
for all future staff nominations will
be at least one week in advance of
general campus elections.
The new bill also specifies that a
member of the PU board must sit in
on each staff nomination, although
he may not be allowed to vote.
- Eligibility to vote in any of the
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Special Di Meeting
John Busby, president of the Di
senate, announced that the senate will
hold a special meeting tonight at
7:30 in Di hall to reconsider plans
for the Di-Phi dance.
"The Phi refused to cooperate on
the original plans for the dance, and
if we are to have a dance at all we
must settle it tonight," Busby stated.
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Jimmy Howard Chosen To Run
For Senior Class Presidency
Both Candidates
Have Outstanding
Records On Campus
By LOUIS HARRIS
Bringing campus politics into full
swing, the University Party last night
released its first candidates for the
Spring elections, nominating Bill
Dees, two years Student Councilman,
for the presidency of the student
body, and Jimmy Howard, varsity
basketball and baseball star and sec
retary of the monogram club, for pres
ident of the senior class. Howard's
nomination marks the first class nom
ination of the current political cam
paign. Bill Dees, a rising senior, hailing
from Goldsboro, has been oustanding
in student government during his
three years at the University. A
member of the Student Council for
the past, two years, he has made an
enviable record in campus govern
ment life. In the spring of his sopho
more year, he was elected Student
Council representative from the sec
ond year men, and last spring the
members of the council voted him as
a hold-over representative.
QUALIFICATIONS
Last fall Dees was elected- to the
presidency of the North Carolina
Federation of Students, an associa
tion of student body officers from all
the colleges in the state. He is also
a member of the Student Advisory
board and the Order of the Grail. In
his freshman year, Dees was elected
to the freshman honor council , and
held the office of treasurer of the
Freshman Friendship council. Be
sides, being elected, as thesophompre
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'SKIPPER' COFFIN
TO ADDRESS YDC
Club Will Elect
Vice-President
"Skipper" O. J. Coffin, head of the
University department of journalism,
will address the Young Democrats
club at its meeting tonight in Gerrard
hall at 7:15.
The group will elect a vice-president
to replace Tom Long who resigned
some time ago. The date will be set
for the annual YDC banquet when
Gordon Gray, past president of the
club, will be the principal speaker.
TAR HEEL EDITOR
Coffin began his career as a jour
nalist as editor of the then weekly
Tar Heel. Since then he has worked
in various capacities on many of the
papers of the state and was editor of
the Raleigh News and Observer at one
time.
During this time he acquired a repu
tation as a keen political observer. His
talk tonight to the Young Democrats
will probably consist of his observa
tions on some phase of state politics.
Bowling Alleys Closed
Graham Memorial has announced
that the bowling alleys in this build
ing will be closed indefinitely. ,
Glen Gray To
In Memorial Hall Tomorrow
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Casa Loma Lads Go To
Town With Effort In Concert
That Means Dividends
There is no place in Glen Gray's
band for three shooters - or lag
gards when the elongated maestro
gives the down beat at Memorial hall
tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 4
o'clock at the public concert, open
ing the Mid-Winter German club
dances series, all 16 lads go to town
for dear old Casa Loma with a unity
of effort that means dividends.
"Musicians are a strange and jeal
ous lot," Gray said. "If the saxo
phonist in a band gets more oppor
tunities to show off than does the
trumpeter . . . that's the beginning
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BUI Dees
appreciates nomination
Jimmy Howard
thanks for confidence
Riddle Presents
Scheme To Raise
Funds For Dorms
At a meeting of the Interdormitory
council last night, George Riddle,
chairman of the Student Advisory
committee, presented a plan by which
dormitories might raise funds for so
cial rooms.
The plan, approved by the adminis
tration, provided that dormitories
should receive money paid by con
vention delegates for use of resid
dent's rooms. Seventy-five per cent
of these funds would go to the dormi
tory and the remainder to the In
terdormitory council.
"It will be necessary, said Rid
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Open Series
Bronsori, Brawley
To Give Concert
Over WPTF tonight
Mary Jean Bronson, contralto, and
Robert Brawley, organist, will broad
cast by remote control over station
WPTF tonight at 8 :30.
Both participants on the program
will give four selections each. Braw
ley will play compositions from well
known composers that demonstrate
the development of " the choral pre
lude from the 17th century to the pres
ent. . . . ' :
The concert will be broadcast from
Hill music hall. Both Miss Bron
son and Brawley are students ni the
Univeristy.
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