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iDITORIAIS: TEATHER: y Cloudy and cod Punches Your Job THE ONLY COLLEGE DA ILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 52 ,'OLUME XLVin Buiinen: 9887j Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1940 Editorial: 4356 1 Ncw: 4351 1 Vighu 6906 NUMBER 112 talk Accept- C TD U Imiviitattfloinii Entertainmemt Group Selects ; "SoihmI And Fttry" As Its Name News' Briefs 2?y United Press HELSINKI, Feb. 18 Finns claim annihilation of Russian division of I$,000; Russians heavily bomb towns ia northwest and northeast Finland. OSLO Suggestion made that Nor way propose that President Roosevelt head arbitration court of neutrality experts to decide right of "Altmark" prison ship case. Norway prepared to snbmit matter to League of Nations. PARIS Semi-official source says Allies will not acknowledge inviola bility of non-belligerent territorial waters unless neutrals demonstrate willingness to defend their sovereign ty with force against violation; 10,000 Italian legionnaires ready to go to Fin land. WESTERN FRONT French and German patrols clash on the western front with both suffering heavy losses. LONDON British destroyer "Dar ing" sunk by Nazi submarine with 157 officers and men. ANKARA, Turkey Turkish gov ernment invokes national defense law giving it virtual dictatorial powers; newspapers warn people that a3 non belligerent allies of Great Britain and France they must be prepared for a "supreme effort this spring. LONDON Prime minister will likely answer Norway , personally in Parliament today,, disputing Norway's contention that she was not obliged to ascertain whether British prisoners were aboard the "Altmark." WASHINGTON Senator Bic Dona hey bows out of Ohio Democratic presidential primary as favorite son candidate, making the state's 52 dele- i r ii gaies me ncn prize oi a utc-iui-on . ... ,r. r scramble in which Vice-president Gar- ., . LOS ANGELES Mrs. Betsey C. Roosevelt files brief cross complaint to divorce suit of her husband, James Roosevelt, accusing him of desertion and mental cruelty. WASHINGTON Federal loan ad ministrator tells house Banking and Currency committee that Finland's eligibility for further non-niilitary loans from the United States will be measured to a large extent by her suc cess against invading Russian troops. WASHINGTON Senator Gerald P. Nye, who succeeded Senator Borah as a member of the Senate Foreign Rela tions committee, warns that the Unit ed States is difting toward war with the administration doing .nothing to stop it. STOCKHOLM King Gustaf in forms people of Sweden by a royal proclamation that Sweden cannot in tervene militarily on behalf of Fin land. WASHINGTON House committee investigating the NLRB announces that Secretaries Ickes, Edison, and Perkins of Roosevelt's cabinet have been summoned to appear at hearing today to determine whether govern ment pressure was exerted against firms violating the Wagner act. Graham Memorial Displays Photos Of Other Unions Pictures of ballrooms, lounges, and "braries of college students unions all ?vr the country are now on display m the lobby of Graham Memorial, Bb Magill announced yesterday. The Photographs have been put on exhibit So that students might see what other unions in other parts of the nation look like. . ' Among those represented are: P,fce hall of Kenyon college in Colo rado: v;K,: c :i .,n;nn of e university of Wisconsin; Alabama at the Univirsity of Alabama; imoria! Union at Iowa State; Steph ns union at the University' of Cali IContmued on page 4, column 6) Carroll McGaughey -: :: :: - :.: ' .- - : v.. . . . i . f I A . . . new field . . . KENNETH ROYALL TO SPEAK HERE ON VOCATIONS Third In Program Series To Be Given Friday Evening Kenneth Royall, Raleigh attorney, will" speak' on "Law as- a .Profession in the third of the Graham Memorial "Vocations for Today" programs to be held in the main lounge of the stu dent union Friday evening at 7:30. The Raleigh lawyer will outline the possibilities for future insured success in the legal profession, and will give all students who are undecided about . . . , the choice of an occupation an oppor- , . . , Itumty to understand the workings of attorneys, A graduate of the Uni versity in 1914, Royall received his preparation as a. lawyer at the Har vard Law school, graduating in 1917. While in college, he was the associate editor of the Harvard Law Review. RECORD After he left college, the Raleigh attorney piled up an impressive record both in state politics and in the legal profession. He was elected president of the North Carolina State bar asso ciation in 1929-30, and is at present a member of the American bar associa tion and the American Law institute. He was elected to the North Caro lina state Senate in 1927, where he authored the state Bank Liquidation act. During the course of his career as a lawyer, he has engaged in gen eral civil trial practice in Raleigh and Goldsboro, and is a member of the firm of Royall, Gosney, and Smith in the state's capital. Kindler's National Symphony Will Appear Here Tomorrow Entertainment Series Feature Begins At 8:30 When the National Symphony or- chestra returns to the campus tomor row ni irht at 8:30 in Memorial hall, Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor, will bring with him a record of signifi cance in the music world. i Before establishing the Washington orchestra in 1931, Dr. Kindler has gained world-wide fame as a cello vir tuoso. For more than 15 years he had given concerts throughout the world. At the age when most artists are struggling for their first hearing, he appeared as a soloist with such world renowned conductors as Stokowski, Mengelberg, Bodanzky, Stock, Reiner, and Monteux. Starting his musical studies in his native city of Rotterdam, Holland, Kindler, as a youth, drew attention to himself for the first time by taking (Continued on page S, column 4) Carroll McGaughey Is Elected To Head New Organization Approximately 80 students, repre senting various phases of campus life, met in Graham Memorial Sunday aft ernoon and organized a new student entertainment club, chose the name of "Sound and Fury" and elected Carroll McGaughey, University junior from Atlanta, as its president. The title of the club is derived from a quotation in Shakespeare's play "Macbeth": "Life is'a tale told" by an idiot full of sound and fury, signify ing nothing." "We felt that this quotation typi fied our attitude," President McGaug hey said. Other officers elected were: Gene Williams, treasurer, and Mary Louise Breazeale, secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE After the group had passed on a con stitution for the new organization, an executive committee composed of San ford Stein, Morris Rosenberg, Bill Stauber, and Bob DeGuzman was ap pointed. Administrative powers of the club lie with this committee. Following his election, McGaughey said, "We hope to establish the club as a regular campus institution, with the purpose of providing good origi nal entertainment 'of the students, by the students, and for the students!' We believe that we are opening a new field of campus life that has been over looked in the past, and now that we Continued on page 4, column 4) PHI TO DISCUSS AID TO FINLAND Buccaneer Bill Also Scheduled The Phi Assembly,. at its regular meeting tonight, will discuss two bills, "Should the United States extend ma terial aid to Finland?" and "Should All members of the Phi Assembly are asked to come to the meeting tonight with suggestions for a sub ject of state interest to be discussed on the Phi radio program which will be presented Tuesday, March 5, at 8:30. Any member interested in par ticipating in the program is urged to attend the meeting tonight. The program will be able to accommo date an unlimited number of partici pants. student fees be increased 20 cents per quarter in order that the Buccaneer may use pictures after the fashion of Life Magazine?" The meeting will be held in the Phi Hall, fourth floor New East, and will begin at 7 o'clock. Also up for discussion will be the (Continued on page 4, column 1) Coed Basketball The dates of two coed basketball games have been changed, it was an nounced today. The game between ADPi sorority and Dormitories 1 and 3 will be played tomorrow night at 8:30 in the Tin Can, and that be tween the Town Girls and Chi Omega will be played Thursday night at the same time and place. The results of yesterday's games were: Spehcer forfeited to Chi Ome ga; Pi Phi sorority forfeited to the Town Girls. YDC Notice Members of the Young Democrats club who have not paid for their plates for the Gordon Gray banquet Thursday night will meet Ernest King at the YMCA this morning at 10:30 o'clock to make arrangements. The price is 75 cents a plate. Francis Speight r.; i i . . . prize winner ... Speight To Judge Art Exhibit Here In Person Hall Francis Speight, noted painter and instructor in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, will return to his native North Carolina this month to act as a judge in the third annual North Carolina Artists' Exhibition, which will open in Person hall art gallery March 3. Mr. Speight has just been awarded first prize in the 135th annual exhibi tion of painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for a rural scene entitled "Straw for the City's Horses." All entries for the North Carolina exhibition must be in Chapel Hill by February 26. Born in Bertie County near Windsor at the turn of the century, Speight was the youngest of a large family. His father was Rev. Tom Speight, a Baptist minister, well known throughout east ern North Carolina. FIRST TRAINING Speight got his first training in art under the late Miss Ida Poteat at Mere dith College, Raleigh, where his older sister, Tulie, also a successful, artist, went to school. Though Meredith is a girls' school, the little boy was per mitted to join the Saturday morning art classes. Later Speight went to Wake Forest but stayed only two years while he was trying to decide whether to turn his talents to literature or painting. Painting won and he entered the schoo of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, later going to the Penn sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Soon afterwards the young artist was awarded the Cresson traveling scholarship which enabled him to study abroad. In 1925 he returned to the (Continued on page 2, column 6) First Summer School Described In Article Printed In May, 1894 Alvin Johnson of Greenville, South Carolina, has sent the-University an article published in a religious paper of Wilson, North Carolina, on May 1, 1894, as an announcement and descrip tion of the summer school session of Carolina at that time. The article was signed by George Tayloe Winston, then president of the University. The piece reads as follows: "A sum mer school for teachers and others who desire to study will be held from July 2 to July 28 in the University buildines at Chapel Hill. N. C. The tuition fee is five dollars which admits to all the instruction. The faculty in cludes 16 professors selected from the faculties of the University of North Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana, the State Normal and Industrial School for Women, and the graded schools of Charlotte, Wilmington, Raleigh, and Goldsboro. The following subjects will be taught: Latin, Greek, French, Ger man, English Language and Litera ture, Anglo-Saxon, Civics, History, Pedagogics, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Land Surveying, Road Construction, Political Geography, Physical Geography, Botany, and Po litical Economy. "Methods of teaching will be dis cussed theoretically and illustrated practically by means' of model classes. "Board and furnished room may be had for the month at the hotels for $15, more cheaply at private houses." Missouri Governor Prominent For Smashing Pendergast Ring -s PLAYMAKER BILL TONIGHT INCLUDES THREE NEW PLAYS Children's Fantasy To Be Produced This Afternoon The work of four student play wrights from as many different states will be presented to the public this afternoon and tonight on the Playmak ers third experimental bill of the cur rent season. The first play to be presented is "Whipplesnout," a frog fantasy for children by Miss Mary Louis Boylston, of Blackville, S. C, which will be given in the Playmaker theater at 4:30 this afternoon. Beginning at 7:30 tonight the following three one-act plays will be given: "Mist in the Hills," by Miss Evelyn Matthews, of Asheville; "Torch in the Wind," by Chase Webb, of Tul- arosa, New Mexico; and "Banked Fires," by Miss Constance Smith, of Bronxville, N. Y. FANTASY Miss Boylston3 play, which is a story of life among the Kachunks of Bullrush Lane, is being produced with elaborate costumes and sets especially designed for the play. The author her self has designed and executed cos tumes, and Elmer Hall, technical di rector of the Playmakers, has designed a lily pond set which is in keeping with the spirit of the play. "Mist in the Hills," Miss Matthews' second' play to be produced this sea son by the Playmakers, is an interest " (Continued on page 4, column j) Debating Squads Will Meet Emory, William And Mary As a result of tryouts held last night in Graham - Memorial, Walton Burk himer and Walter Kleeman will debate against Emory university's squad here tomorrow afternoon, ' and Ed Maner and John Busby will compete against the team from William and Mary's Women's College Friday night. The query of both debates will be: "Resolved, that the United States should pursue a policy of strict mili tary and economic isolation from all countries outside the western hemi sphere engaged in armed civil or inter national conflict." The University teams will argue the affirmative side, The question is now being debated all over the nation as the Pi Kappa Alpha query and statement of the iso lation problem. Thad Moser will serve as alternate for both debates. No meeting of the Debate council will be held tomorrow night. Carolina-Duke Variety Show Tonight Features Jack Peyton Village's Negroes To Provide Amateur Talent For Program With the vibraphone and orchestra of Duke's Jack Peyton furnishing the musical background, Chapel Hill's Negro talent will take the spotlight tonight in the first Duke-Carolina va riety show to be held in Memorial hall at 8 o'clock. Impressario Vance Hobbs, who will act as master-of-ceremonies tonight, has lined up a program of tap dancers, Harlem sax players, guitarists, and other performers from the Negro community. Among the highlights of the evening's festivities will be a two- minute talk by George Washington, the University's oldest janitor, who rose to heights as an after-dinner speaker at the Duke game pep rally. Harlem's Willie Hargraves, waiter at the new Swain hall, and sax player of renown, will offer several of the "hot" numbers which he rendered while playing in New York's sepia sector. Among the other performers will be (Continued on page 2, column 6) Publisher May Get GOP Nomination For Presidency By LOUIS HARRIS Lloyd C. Stark, Missouri's crime smashing governor, and Frank Gan nett, publisher of a string of news papers throughout upper New York state, yesterday notified Chairman Harry Gatton of the Carolina Politi cal union that they would be willing to appear on the union's platform dur ing the spring quarter. The acceptance of the two men, who have been prominently named as presi dential timber in next summer's nomi nating conventions, swells the CPU's spring slate to four programs, with Paul V. McNutt and Burton K. Wheel er scheduled for April 2 and April 23, respectively. PREDICTIONS Although political dopesters have predicted that Stark is being saved for the nomination in 1944, he has been mentioned as a possible vice-presiden tial candidate on the Democratic ticket this year. He first gained prominence as Governor of Missouri, when he con victed the "Boss" Pendergast ring, which had been running Kansas City and state elections for over a decade. After the sensational trial had been concluded, reports came out of Wash ington to the effect that Stark was being considered by President Roose velt to fill the Secretary of the Navy cabinet vacancy, left by the death of Claude W. Swanson. Although he did not receive the appointment, the na tion has kept a watchful eye out for the next step the Missouri Governor will make. - In his letter to Gatton, Stark said that hecould "make" the trip here on April 23 or sometime in May. Since Montana's leading presidential hope will appear here on the twenty-third it is expected that the mid-west crime buster will speak on the union's plat form in May. Gannett, who announced his candi dacy for the GOP nomination two months ago, has undertaken a heavy' campaign tour, which will carry him over most of the states in the union. His personal life was recently flashed of screens all over the country when he released a short newsreel showing his home life with his wife and children. A Buffalo publisher who owns a string of newspapers throughout New York state, Gannett provides the perfect ex ample of the "newsboy-to-publisher" myth which all newsmen hear about. It is expected that he will also appear on the CPU platform sometime in May. Another Republican presidential pos sibilty, one who is reported to have the inner track with GOP convention lead ers, is Robert A. Taf t, who will appear here Thursday night at 8:30 in Me morial hall. The Buckeye state's ju nior senator wil speak on the "In dustrial Future of the South," in an address that may be carried over a nation-wide hook-up. Frosh Y-Y Pictures To Be Taken Today All freshmen whose names appear in alphabetical list between Charles S. Landy and the end of the alpha bet will have their pictures made this morning at 10:30 on the steps of Manning hall, Yackety Yack editor Jack Lynch said yesterday. "This will be the only chance for these freshmen to have their pictures made, so please be there and please ' wear coats and ties," he added. YRC Dinner For Taf t Opened To Public The Young "Republican's club has announced that it will open its din ner for Senator Robert A. Taf t to any student, faculty member, or any person from Orange county or Dur ham who wishes to attend. Tickets for the dinner may be purchased from Gordon Webster, 517 E. Rose mary St or at the YMCA office.
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