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NUMBER 141
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CPU Inaugurates Free Stump
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April 30 Set
As Deadline
For Signing
By Bob Hoke
War measures and war techniques
were adopted by the University admin
istration to cope with the dorm hous
ing problem when Dean R. B. House
authorized the announcement yester
day that all campus darmitories not
utilized by the Navy would be declared
vacant at the end of this quarter.
The move, designed to give boys in
school an equal opportunity for rooms,
was drawn up by the Faculty Housing
committee headed by Roy Armstrong.
It cancels all room reservations made
by current students prior to the an
nouncement.
Deadline April 30
Under the arrangement, students
will be allowed until April 30 to make
new reservations for spaces and state
their choices of combinations in the
eight dormitories to be open to students
next fall. Immediately following the
deadline, the reservations will be pooled
in a "fish bowl" and a drawing will be
held to determine the order by which
student choices will be filled.
Students may place single reserva
See HOUSING, page U "i
Nominees Given
Three Minutes
To Present Views
Candidates for political office will
publicly deliver opinions on campus is
sues for the first' time in Carolina
election history tombrrow night.
The Carolina Political Union has
announced that all nominees for stu
dent body presidency, student body
vice-presidency, Carolina Magazine
editorship, Tar an' Feathers editor
ship, and speakership of the legisla
ture will make three-minute speeches
at a public assembly at 9 o'clock in
Graham Memorial.
Will Express Views
In the first action taken in the
Emergency Committee's clean-up pro
gram, candidates will stand to express
views of current University problems:
No candidate will be permitted to ar
gue p6ints of each other's stands. How
ever open discussion among the audi
ence and individual nominees will fol
low their platform speeches.
Ridley Whitaker, CPU's chairman,
will preside during the session. No ef
fort will be made to force candidates to
make definite statements on certain
issues or on the Emergency Commit
tee's 12-point "ideal" platform.
University and Student parties both
See CPU, page U
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LIB TROT M AN, AS ANNABELLE, is through with Buddy Westover's
pranks and intends to show him who is boss in the new Playmakers show
starting Wednesday.
Photo by Hugh Morton
Reviewers Burn Free Tickets
For GWSH Dress Rehearsal
Cast Promises Thousa rid and One Laughs;
Opens for Four-Night Run Wednesday
By Gene Smith with the sharp wit traditionally be-
Presidents of men's dormitories, f ra- longing to its authors,
ternities and staff members of the No demon eyer indulged in more tan
Daily Tar Heel and their dates will talizing evil than Buddy Westover as
be given a preview of the errant humor Raymond shown above dreading pun
prevalent in "George Washington Slept ishment to be inflicted by the long-suf-Here"
at the dress rehearsal Tuesday fering Lib Trotman as Annabelle Ful
night, director Earl Wynn announced, ler.
The four-night run of "George Wash- Westover, who appeared the first
ington" begins Wednesday night at time this year on the Playmaker stage,
8:30 in the Playmaker theater. Writ- will be remembered by his characten
ten by George Kaufman and Moss zations in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" and
Hart, the coming production is laden See PLAYMAKERS, page U
Hobbs Sets
Nominations
For Tuesday
Official nominations for student body
and class offices will be held Tuesday
morning at 10:30, Truman Hobos, stu
dent body president announced yester
day.
Hobbs' announcement stated that
nominations for student body offices
will be held in Gerrard hall, and nom
mations for class oftices will be in
Memorial hall.
Candidates
Candidates must be nominated at the
official convention if their names are to
appear on the ballot, the statement
said.
In the Race
Simultaneously Hobbs released a list
of candidates who have been nominated
for class honor councils. They are:
Senior class James Kelly, Moyer Hen-
drix, Lem Gibbons, Bucky Osborne,
Mac Warren, Felix Harvey, George
McCachren, Floyd Gahoon, Rich Van
Wagoner, Dan Marks, Dan Martin,
Billy Pearson, Graham Carlton, Bobby
Glenn.
Junior Class
Rising Junior Class Billy . Britt,
Wade Weatherford, Jack Smack, Jim
Pritchett, Stirling Gilliam, Henry
Wisfebraum, Hubert Philpott, Tom Jew-
ett, Paul Dulin, Ralph Godges, Fran
ces King, Paul Simmons, John Paty,
John Walker, John Robinson.
Rising Sophomore Class Mac Lane,
Ira Baity, John Simms, Grimsley
Hobbs, Josh Slaughter, Mark Pope,
Bob Sontag, Gus Johnson, Bill Ander
son, Bussy Woodburg, George Whiner,
Frank Reyner, Frank Wideman, Dean
Winn, Douglas Hunt, Pete Cochrane.
Awards Presented
For Theatre Arts
By Playmakers
Awards in the theater arts, present
ed last night from the stage of the
Playmaker Theater last night were as
follows:
Stage models: (College) Robert Kri-
vulka and Ted Weaver, Catawba Col
lege, Salisbury. For the teater model
and setting for "Everyman."
Costume design : (College) Frances
Kuntz, The Black Mountain Players,
Black Mountain. For costume designs
for "The Affected Young Ladies."
Make-Up : Frank Crayton, The Play-
crafters, Appalachian State Teachers
College, Boone. For the make-up of
Sgavarelle in "The Doctor In Spite of
Himself."
Costume : Frances Kuntz, The Black
Mountain College Players, Black Moun
tain. For the costume of Mascarille
in "The Affected Young Ladies."
The Carolina Playmaker Awards in
Playwriting go to Susie Smith Sinclair,
Hendersonville, for the full-length play
"Storm on the Mountain." The dual
award in one-act plays goes to Walter
Carroll, Chapel Hill for his play "Ju
das" and C. R. Sumner for his play
"Casualty South of Manila."
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DR. T. B. COWAN, head of the Nor
ris, Tenn., Fellowship Church and
popular religious lecturer, Dr. Dav
id Marx, prominent lecturer and au
thor of Atlanta, Ga., and Dr. Frank
Graham who are three of the princi
ple speakers scheduled to address a
three-day Religion-in-Life Confer
ence sponsored by the YMCA and
' YWCA which begins here today. Gra
ham's speech will be iris regular
convocation and the first time that
the president has ever discussed re
ligious topics. Experts in religious
fields will meet with dormitory, and
fraternity forums to discuss the
function of religion towards daily
life. Chapel Hill churches are plan
ning a series of services in connec
tion with the "Everyday Religion"
theme.
US Subs Sink Two Jap
Ships; Cebu Stormed
WASHINGTON, April 11. (UP) The sinking of two Japanese ships by
United States submarines was reported by the Navy late today while the
War department announced at the same time that Japanese troops were
storming the Island of CJebu.
KONIGSBURG, Prussia, April 11. (UP) The Germans were reported
rushing, thousands of troops, mostly from occupied France, into Russia in a
desperate attempt to halt the Red- i
Dorm, Frat
Discussions
Scheduled
By Leaders
By Burke Shipley
Dr. Frank Graham's spring convo
cation, "Everyman's Religion," to be
given tomorrow morning at 10:30 in
Memorial hall, will highlight the Religion-in-Life
conference starting to
day in Chapel Hill churches.
This quarter Dr. Graham consented
to give his convocation in conjunction
with the conference and for the first
time will discuss religious problems.
The speech will last until 11:30 ne
cessitating a shortening of the period.
Officially opening the conference, to
night at 8:30 in Memorial hall in a
union service will be Dr. David Marx
of Atlanta, Ga., speaking on "A Re
ligion that Works!" Dr. Graham will
give an introductory address and mem
bers of the Men's Glee Club will en
tertain the audience with two songs.
Main Speaker
Rev. T. B. "Scotty" Cowan, the main
speaker of the conference, will de
liver three speeches in Memorial hall
tomorrow and Tuesday nights at 7:30,
and Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in
the closing meeting of the conference.
The speeches are: "The Wine of As
tonishment," "Faith for Living," and
"The Moral and Spiritual Bugle Call."
Rev. Cowan, called "Scotty" by his
friends, was born in Scotland and pre
paring to enter Edinburgh University,
he enlisted in the British army when
the first World War broke out.
Prominent Lecturer
"Dr. Marx, an outstanding Southern
clergyman, was born in New Orleans
in 1872 and attended the University
of Cincinnatti and the Hebrew Union
college. Several years ago he received
an honorary degree from the Univer
sity of Georgia.
After serving as rabbi in Birming
ham, Alabama, he became rabbi in At
See CONFERENCE, page U
Army drive which had broken the siege
ine at Leningrad and was thrusting
'orward.
LONDON, April 11. (UP) A new
wave of Nazi terror tonight was re
ported spreading over occupied Europe
as Adolf Hitler's Gestapo and troops
were attempting to halt ever increas
ing revolutions extending from Nor
way to the mountains of Jugoslavia.
NEW DELHI, India, April 11.
Navy Announces
New V-l Ruling
Dean C. P. Spruill and W. D. Perry
will join representatives from all col
leges, universities and secondary
schools in North Carolina, South Car
olina and Virginia at a meeting to-
morow at ktate uoiiege when xsiavy
officials will explain the plan for the
Navy's vast Officer Procurement Pro
gram.
Under the new ruling 80,000 college
freshmen and sophomores will be re
cruited in Class V-l, enlisted as ap
prentice seamen in the U. S. Navl
Reserve, and placed in inactive duty
until the end of their second college
year.
And A Good Time
Was Had by All
Lang Thompson and his band furn
ished the music for the' foil owing'spon-
sors and their dates at last night's
Sophomore dance: Miss Betty Sue
Palmer of Clyde with Dotson Palmer,
President of the sophomore class ; Miss
Genie Bisset of Harrodsburg, Ky. with
Mike Carr, vice-president; Miss Neil
Lowe of Richmond, Va. with Frank Al
spaugh, Secretary; Miss Wynema Hon
eycutt of Kannapolis with Bob Mc
Clary, treasurer; Miss Anice Garmany
of Chattanooga, Tenn. with Joe Fergu
son, chairman of the Dance committee;
Miss Bettie London of Rockingham
with Hanson Hall, Chairman of the
Executive committee ; Miss Mary Alice
Kink of Winston-Salem with Earl Par
diu?, Co-chairman of the Finance com
mittee; Miss Marie Harris of Peters
burg, Va. with Ernie Frankel, Co-
chairman of the Finance committee;
Miss Margaret Byrd of Whiteville
with John Byers; Miss Mary Lou Tay
lor of Asheville with Art La vine; Miss
See SPONSORS, page 4
Emergency Meeting
Of Men's Glee Club
All members of the University
men's glee club are requested to re
port promptly at 8:10 tonight on the
stage in Memorial hall.
vanced on hard fighting Chinese
(UP) Attacking Japanese, heavily
reinforced by mechanized division, ad
troops in Mandalay while a northern
force stabbed at the gates of western
Burma oil fields less than 200 miles
from the Indian frontier.
NEW DELHI, India, April 11.
(UP) Sir Stafford Cripps, acting as
settler of the Indian dispute, abandon
ed plans for self government "with
critical and unconstructive" Indian
national leaders and withdrew to Great
Britain.
LONDON, April 11. (UP) The
"foundations have been begun for the
settlement of the Indian dispute" over
dominion status despite the failure of
See NEWS BRIEFS, page U
Gambill Picks
Shytle to Manage
Campaign Race
Ed Shytle, varsity basketball star,
has accepted the position as campaign
manager for Sam Gambill, University
party candidate for secretary-treasurer
of the student body.
Shytle, who has been outstanding
in varsity basketball for two years, i3
a seir-help student, being one of the
mainstays at the book-exchange. Ac
tive in intramural sports, he has fre-'
quently received awards in basketball,
softball, and tag football, having been
named as "all-campus" in these sports.
A leader in dormitory government,
he has served as floor councilor and
athletic manager of Everett dormitory
See SHYTLE, page U
More Fireworks
Henderson, USA Price Boss,
Ready and Willing to Argue
By Paul Komisaruk utes he proved he could be "louder and
Eight years ago the NRA was sunk lurider" than the bombastic NRA boss
so was Leon Henderson. Wednesday himself. In ten minutes he further
night the same Leon Henderson comes proved he could dent more tables with
to Chapel Hill possessor of the most his fist than Boss Johnson. Henderson
delicate economic job in America, pos- was taken into the NRA.
sibly in the world. When the NRA went out. Henderson
He brings with him to the Hill the drifted obscurely from one Washing-
loud-languaged arguments about price ton post to another. "He started grab-
freezing, that are furrowing Adminis- bing at rafts," William Hard observed,
tration jobs as no other domestic prob- until one "day in 1937 he sat down and
lem. America's Price-Boss comes to wrote a memorandum, "Boom or Bust,"
Chapel Hill, and he wants to "argue and suddenly leaped to national fame.
with someone." He told that to CPU He became a sort of national saga,
head Ridley Whitaker when the latter About him today center the most
signed him for his Wednesday speech violent arguments on the home fronts,
last quarter. Attacked recently by labor leaders.
America's Price-Boss can argue. Henderson, hard-boiled and adamant
During the boom days of the NRA he produced a set of sizzling statistics at
descended on Washington, the severest
critic of the President's NRA that
could be found. He got into an argu
ment with NRA chief, Hugh Johnson,
and the story goes that in ten min-
a meeting of the War Labor Board,
showing that failure to freeze tha
wages of labor would be disastrous.
His remarks brought down on his head
See HENDERSON, page 1