North Carolina Newspapers

im 2 1&0 Tar inleJl 1(5 Mermeibi Into Today 9 Toemey Finns! nf iDITORIALS: li TmTEATHER: y y Fair and Warmer Little Stress TOT ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 523 VOLUME XLVni Bouocm: 5887 Grculatioa: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1940 eoriaI: 4356 1 Km: 4351 1 NIfit: 6904 NUMBER 122 WMtt M 11 - liiisaiiii-iLCLPiiiiii! (U ,'in1ii 4b3 M ID) I 1 1 1 i rvfisA 1 1 i JT y I li III! 1 J I If I J 1 I 43 News Briefs By United Press MOSCOW, March 1. Russian com murJcoe says Red army has reached outskirts of Viitnri; the city is on fire. HELSINKI- Russian drive on Vii tari goes on; Slany killed and wounded in bombing of Finnish rear. LONDON German air force raids shipping in British waters and North BERLIN Germany warns neutrals earns t acceptance of British contra band control; Sumner Welles gets Nazi views on war and will see Hitler Sat urday. NEW xuKK Mackay radio an nouaces report from British steamer, Southgate, that it has been attacked by submarines in vicinity of Puerto Rice. WESTERN FRONT German pa trol is dispersed by artillery and ma chire gun fire. PENSACOLA President Roosevelt leaves by train for Washington after ending a 4,000 mile cruise at the Naval station dock. BATON ROUGE, LA Rubber- stamp Louisiana legisaltors that bow to every whim of the political dynasty established by the late Huey P. Long ends when state senators and repre sentatives fail to answer Governor Earl K. Long's summons to convene for the second "lame duck special session WASHINGTON President William Creea of the American Federation of Labor leaves for Atlanta to open an or ganization drive for 500,000 new mem bers in the South's textile maritime lumber retail trade and other indus trie?. WASHINGTON A coalition of con serrative house democrats and repub licans prepare to ambush administra tion plans for a short harmonious ses sion of congress intended to safeguard vital new deal laws from drastic re vision. 4 1 WASHINGTON -The National La bor Relations board rules that the Baldwin locomotive works has violated the Wagner labor act by employing labor spies and aiding in the publica tion of a booklet entitled, "Join The CIO And Help Build A Soviet Amer KZ.' Over 4500 County Children Attend Music Festival More than 4,500 school children and visitors attended the second annual Or ange county music festival in Woollen gymnasium in morning; and afternoon Programs yesterday. State highway patrolmen and Chap el Hill police handled the youngsters without a single mishap. Most of the children took lunch at the University Tin Can adjacent to the gymnasium. One of the highlights of the after noon program was a square dance, fth approximately 400 children par ticipating, for which Dean R. B. House called the figures and the village school kind played. Prior to the dance, White Cross school presented a pageant, in cluding nearly 100 pupils, with a mili ary drill and flag salute. Costumed cnii represented Betsy Ross, Un cle Sam and Liberty. OTHER SCHOOLS Other schools gave short programs follows: Aycock, mixed group, blues ?r; Caldwell, blackface dramatiza on of "Hand Me Down My Walking ane;" Carrboro, sailors dancing and wnging; Efland Indian campfire on&s; Orange Grove, boys and girls, wstumed, cowboy songs; St. Mary's, an?rind butterflies, romantic music; Chapel Hill, mountain songs. anous University departments and ol groUps aided in the festival, one ii..Qr0f hich was broadcast over ra- noa WDNC with Phil E1Hs by n!n?' Motion Pictures were taken 'paries Milner, and recordings by -1 winn. DUKE, CLEMS0N LED YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE SCORING Pool Records Fall In 100 Free Style, 150 Backstroke , By LEONARD LOBRED Although Duke and Clemson now lead the league in scoring after head ing them off in the only final event of the day, Carolina's Blue Dolphin swimmers went about their business yesterday in such a quiet and inob scure manner that no one noticed un til the very end that the Tar Heels are sending more qualifiers into to day's finals than any other school and are conceded a better than even chance to win the tenth annual Southern Conference Swimming tournament. The program of eight final events be gins at 2 o'clock, and 50 cents will be charged. While all but the six classiest speed sters in each event were being elimi nated :by trials, pool records in two events were broken twice, bettering even the times racked up two weeks ago when the University, of Florida mermen established pool records in all but two events and made Carolina their forty-second victim in a row. Even though the conference's best were divided into different heats, all of the times were comparatively fast and indicated that several pool records will be shattered before Carolina, Clemson or Duke is declared the Southern conference swimming cham pion of .1940. The champ, will reign over Carolina, Clemson, Duke, Wil lim and Mary, Virginia Tech, Wash ington and Lee and N. C. State, the conference swimming teams. Favorites because they won last year (Continued on page S, column S) STRING ENSEMBLE TO GIVE CONCERT AT 5 TOMORROW Graham Memorial Sponsors Trio In Main Lounge Graham Memorial will present a concert of violin, harp, and piano in the main lounge of the student union tomorow afternoon at 5 o'clock. Emily niVtinrHsnn will be featured on the harp; Herbert Bird on the violin; ana Christie Maynard McLeod will play the accompaniment on the piano. Bird, who makes his residence in Raleigh, has been studying the violin since the age of eight. Among the men under whom he both played and studied are: Lamar Stringfield, Hans ECindler. Henry Hadley, Maganinni, George Enesco, and Nedra Boulanger. Recently he was a member of the North Carolina Symphony orchestra and director of a string ensemble Fes tival symphony orchestra in Ashe ville. Miss Richardson last summer ap- Deared with a symphony in the Sum mer Harp Colony of America in Cam ,0ti Maine, where she took lessons Carlos Salzedo. She has also (Continued on page 4, column A) Elmer Hall To Give Reading Of New Play In Theater Tomorrow As the sixth in the series of play readings being offered this season by the Playmakers, Elmer Hall will reaa a new and unproduced play tentatively fitT "The Audacious Mr. Booth by George Ford, tomorrow night at 8:30 in the Playmaker theater. A fifteen-minute program of music, including several Stephen Foster num bers; will be given before the reading by Robert Carroll at the console of the Hammond organ. The Ford play is unique m its treat- mpnt of John Wilkes Booth in that the scenes are supposed to take place in the mind of Lincoln's assasm alter (Continued on page Ut column 8) jEinior Council Conducts Drive For Honor Sy stem Re-Emphasis Here They Are, Folks . :::-:'::::-:-:-::-:-::;:: ; . . .:. .-..--.---- . S Turning on their campaign smiles; at each other above are Charlie Nelson and Jane Rumsey, nominated for co-cheerleaders by the Student party in an effort to rejuvenate cheering on the campus. A move for their nomination at j a recent party convention received the mous approval of the motion marked the first time co-cheerleaders have ever been named and the first time a coed has been nominated for the position. - ' ,. PAofo by Jack Mitchell) Thomas W. Allen Succumbs After Mastoiditis Operation Final Rites Will Be Held In Kannapolis Thomas Walton Allen, 19 of Kan napolis, a sophomore member of the ATO fraternity who dropped out of school at the end of the fall quarter intending to return next quarter, died Thursday night in a Salisbury hospital following an operation for mastoiditis: Before coming to the University last year, to take up pre-medical work, he attended the Episcopal high school in Alexandria, Va. for three years. At the end of the fall quarter this year, he dropped out of school and was treat ed for mastoiditis for some time at the McPherson hospital in Durham. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in Kannapolis. Pallbearers will be members of his fraternity. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Allen and a brother, G. T. Allen, Jr., '37, all of Kannapolis. His father is connected with the Cannon Mills there. I Carolina Of 1837 Very Liberal In Monetary Aid To Students S- Education Expense Through The Years Is Investigated By VIVIAN GILLESPIE The American Youth Congress, which recently convened in -Washington and was then accused of being "Left of Left, and Pinker than Pink," is conservative in its demands for aid to college students through the NYA, compared to the University of North Carolina in 1837. A paragraph in the catalogue for that year states: "The Faculty are authorized in all cases, when the applicant is a native of the state, sustains a fair moral character, and, upon examination, is believed to possess . the requisite mental endow ments, natural and acquired, and is unable to pay the Tuition Fees, to admit him into any Class, for which he may be prepared, without charge either for Tuition or Room Rent." This is merely a characteristic ex ample of the University's . policy of (Continued on page 4, column S) : & greatest ovation so far this year. Unani JORDAN NAMED CAMPAIGN HEAD OF R AMESES PARTY Stauber Announces Advisers; Meehan Elected Secretary In the face of mild criticism and gen eral campus disgust over the organiza tion of a fourth party, the Rameses party met somewhere during the past week and named as campaign manager for the party, Johny Jordan, a Lewis dormitory sophomore from Winton, and roommate of a Carolina party mem ber. Also named at the meeting were Cy Jones, University party affiliate, and Martin Harmon, Student party mem ber, who will serve as advisers to the party. Ellis "Red" Meehan, a sec (Continued on page 4, column 2) Dr. Smith Discusses Cellophane Products Before Rotary Club Ridiculed when it was first intro duced to the public 12 years ago, cel lophane now has many valuable uses, Dr. Sherman Smith of the University Chemistry department told Chapel Hill Rotarians in a talk at their meet ing this week. Some physicians view cellophane as a great aid in dressing wounds lor lseVeral reasons, he said. Being trans parent, physicians are able to note the progress of the wound without re moving the dressing. Too, they are thus better able to treat the wound with light. MOISTURE-PROOFING Cellophane is not naturally mois ture proof, but it can be made mois ture proof by treatment with a coat ing of lacquer, he said. Nobody saw any special merit to (Continued on page 4, column 5) Fraternity Files Abolished; Weaver Praises Campaign Chairman Dave Morrison of the junior class honor council, yesterday disclosed the completion of several new steps in a widespread drive to correct what a faculty committee has termed the greatest current deficiencies in Carolina's honor system irregulari ties outside of class in themes, lab re ports, book reports, etc. Fred Weaver, assistant dean of stu- dents and former vice president of the student body, commended Morrison and the council for their work and expressed approval that a class honor council was showing interest in and at tempting to preserve and improve the honor system. Morrison said the most significant single feature of the campaign so far has been the abolition of files of old themes, reports and other papers in fraternity houses, one of the practices especially mentioned by the faculty committee. The move for the abolition of files was made by the interfraternity coun cil upon suggestion of the class honor council. Morrison said pledgemasters of campus fraternities have agreed to make a short talk on the. honor sys tem to their pledges at the time of initiation, emphasizing-work done out side of class. At a recent meeting of the inter dormitory council, Morrison and Jack Vincent, president of the interdorm body, spoke to the councilors and ini tiated the dorm drive for improvement qf the honor system. Each councilor will speak to students on his floor on the new emphasis being put outside work and the honor system in general. Freshman advisers in the quadran gles have also agreed to further ac quaint first-year men with the sig nificance of the system especially in regard to outside work. The honor council will also ask pro fessors to speak to their classes con cerning the re-emphasis on outside work, and will make additions to stu dent government literature and orien tation week plans to bring out the (Continued on page U, column 6) Here They Come -- Davidson Flyers Will Land Today ' Two executive members of the Dav idson college Flying club will taxi in at the Chapel Hill airport this after noon at 3:30 as the initial guests of the UNC Flying club. President Robert Miller and Secre tary Ben Colkitt of the Davidson club will be in Chapel Hill until 5:30. Local flying club members plan to hold a joint meeting with the visiting col legiates to discuss the future of inter collegiate flying between North Caro lina flying clubs. Yesterday the Davidson cloud hop pers were guests of the State college Flying club. Secretary-Treasurer Babs Goodrich joins with President Johnny Doster, CAA instructor, and Vice-president D. T. Vaughan, Jr., in inviting local air enthusiasts to meet the Davidson air men. Membership in the UNC club is open to students who have flying experience i private pilot's license is not requir ed. Students joining the local club at the present time will become charter members of the local chapter of the National Intercollegiate Flying clubs; the NIFC charter will be secured with in the next few days. Carolina's club will join Duke and State as the only three NIFC clubs in the South. Two CAA students from State col lege stopped over at the local airport completing one leg of their cross country flight in order to secure private pilot's licenses. GLAMACK IS HOT AGAIN; SCORES 28 HEEL POINTS Carolina Survives Early Second Half Blow-Up To Win By SHELLEY ROLFE -MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, Ra leigh, March 1. Surviving an early second half blow-up that threatened to explode it out of the game, off the floor and into the next county, Caro lina paced by George Glamack, who made 28 of the points, moved into the finals of the Southern conference tournament tonight with a 43-35 win over Wake Forest Giving the greatest individual per formance of the tournament, Glamack hooked in ten field goals, picked up eight fouls and held the Phantoms to- Several hundred tickets are left for tonight's final game of the South ern conference tournament. They will be on sale at Lewis Sporting Goods store in Raleigh until 4 o'clock tonight and at the Memorial audi torium before the game. gether in the second period when at times it appeared as if Bill Lange's team was ready for the bus-ride back to Chapel Hill and a ringside seat for the finals. Wake Forest tried every possible means to stop George, but as is the case when he is hot, there was no way to halt him. Pete Davis and Johnny Po lanski both fouled out trying to sit on the Johnstown alp and still this man Glamack, by all odds a point-making machine take rank with the all-time greats of the conference, hooked the points in over either ear as cooly as ever Bob Rose, Paul Severin, Al Mathes anl Jimmy Howard did the passing and (Continued on page S, column ) MRS. T. J. WILSON DIES AT WATTS AFTERILLNESS Funeral Services To Be Conducted This Afternoon Mrs. Thomas James Wilson, Jr., 62, wife of the University of North Caro lina dean of admissions and registrar, died at Watts hospital in Durham yes terday morning at 3:50 following a serious illness of three weeks. Prominent in several social and be nevolent organizations of the village, including the Leonidas Polk chapter of the U. D. C, the King's Daugh ters and the Chapel Hill Community club, Mrs. Wilson was well-known over the state. Born at the family homeplace in Alamance county November 7, 1877, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter War ren Pickard, she was the former Miss Lorena Frank Pickard. Moving to the University village when she was eight years old, she was one of the oldest res idents. She attended the State Normal school, now the Woman's college branch of the University, in Greens boro, and was married, to Thomas J. Wilson, Jr., December 26, 1900. Surviving besides her h u s a n d are four sons, Thomas J. Wilson, III' vice president of Reynal and Hitchcock, publishers, New York; Marvin Wilson, Edenton lawyer; Peter P. Wilson of Reynolds Tobacco com pany,' Winston-Salem; and Walter Wilson of Graniteville company, Gran iteville, S. C; two sisters, Mrs. Fred Patterson of Chapel Hill and Mrs. E. Mial Dewey of Wilmington; two neices, Miss Edwina Dewey and Mrs. Roderick Houston, both of Wilmington ; a nephew, Dr. Fred Patterson of Chapel Hill; and eight grandchildren,. Sally and Thomas Wilson, of New York; Marvin, Margaret York and James Channing Wilson of Edenton; and Jane Pickens, Nancy and Wal ter W. Wilson, Jr., of Graniteville, S. C. - Active pallbearers will be: Dr. E. (Continued on page 4, column 5)