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STUDENT DRAMAS 4 AND 7:30 P.M. PLAYMAKERS THEATRE SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON 7:30 P.M. NEW EAST SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS VOLUME XLIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935 NUMBER 123. S.P ' iky- MURCHISON TALKS TOMORROW NIGHT IN GERRARD HALL University Commerce Professor to Discuss Present Restric tions to World Trade. TVILL SPEAK AT 8 O'CLOCK A Gerrard hall audience will learn about "Restrictions on "World Commerce" tomorrow night from one who knows, Claudius T. Murchison, Uni versity commerce professor on leave to carry out the duties of director of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The address is at 8 p. m. Dr. Murchison will describe in detail the tariffs, duties, and trade agreements which at present limit world commerce. He will also tell the story of the United States' fight against these restrictions. Lived Here - The federal commerce bureau head has many friends in Chapel Hill. He and his family moved from here to Washington at the end of last summer after his ap pointment in May to his govern ment position. Dr. Murchison had been a member of the University fac ulty since 1921. He was direc tor of research in the school of commerce when" he received his appointment. VARIETY KEYNOTE OF NEWDRAMAS Second Bill of Experimental Today Shows Wide Range of Subject Matter. Variety is the keynote of the Carolina Playmakers second bill of experimental dramas for the winter quarter. They will be presented this afternoon at 4 o'clock and again tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the theatre. Included on the bill of seven original plays written this quarter in the University's play writing courses are representa tives of various "local color" fields. Greet's Play Billy Greet, a North Caro linian, will have his "Tsalagi" presented; and the Playmakers, in presenting it, will show for the first time at Carolina a drama 'of the Cherokee Indians of western North Carolina. Also, Ellen Deppe's "And So They Grow" will be something relatively new in the Playmak ers line. The drama of "little ladies," as Miss Deppe has call ed it, will be one of the few completely juvenile plays ever presented by the Playmakers. Included in the cast for "And So They Grow" are little Misses Ruth Burch, Valeska Hayden, Elease Pittman, and Dorothy Dashiell. Today's bill of plays vvill be the "little ladies' " debut "with the Playmakers. Wilbur Dorsett's "Goldie" adds further variety to the 'bill with the tale of. a Negro Satur day night, a favorite -Dorsett theme. The Carolina tobacco country is represented by "Crazy-Patch Quilt" by Anne Hyman Moore. "I Sing Forever," by Mildred Mcore, tells of a tragedy of the Carolina mountains and Sarah Seawell's "The Settin'-Up," has en called "a country wake." The new bill of plays is com peted with Kenneth Bartlett's "Wait a While." Rooms Not Yet Found For All Trackmen University Club Presi dent Frank Willingham is still campaigning to find rooms for accommodating the visiting Southern Con ference trackmen who will be here tomorrow and Sat urday nights for the annual indoor track meet. Students wishing to play hosts are asked to get in touch with - Willingham at the S. A. E. house, -or "Bo" Shepard at the athletic of fice. The buildings depart ment will furnish extra beds for the visitors. Uorld News Bulletins U. S. Murns Holmes's Death Washington, March 6. (UP) -Close associates of Oliver Wendell Holmes joined those who knew him only through newspapers tonight in mourn ing his death. Roosevelt, friend and admirer, said that he would attend the funeral Friday in Arlington cemetery. Friday would have been the former justice of the United States Supreme Court's 94th birthday. After resting in a coma since Monday, he died at 2:15 a. m. Dollar Still Out of Line . Washington, March-6. (UP) The dollar hasn't yet reached a level sufficient to relieve- the country's debt burden, Roosevelt said today, but he denied con templation of further devalua tion. When asked at a press confer ence whether commodity prices had been stabilized, Roosevelt said that he felt the dollar was still out of line with the coun try's debt structure, although great progress had been made in readjustment. Hill Storms in Senate Raleigh, March 6. (UP)- Senator Hill told the Senate to day that "the best people of North Carolina are violating the Turlington act" as he urged en actment of his bill providing state controlled sale of whiskey. In an impassioned plea, the mild spoken Durham Senator stormed as he quoted statistics, reviewed his 30 years' , fight against liquor, and called on the Senate to quit "shutting their eyes to the facts in the case." Richberg to Be Questioned Washington, March 6. (UP) The first detailed picture of what the new NRA will look like is expected tomorrow when the Senate finance committee begins its investigation of the NRA by questioning Donald Richberg. He has been asked to explain the details of the administra tion's plans for the recovery agency, which is due to expire on June 16. FERA CHECKS All students on the FERA payroll may get their checks for the month of February by calling at the University business office sometime to day. Those students expecting checks are requested to call for them as soon as possible so that the business office may be cleared for the reg istration rush. Ex-Carolina Football Negro Transient Camp Near Here A CrT T?VTl?Trn TO TALK TONIGHT J. B. Taylor to Show Anti-Knock Tests in Venable HalL J. B. Taylor of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation will give a ecture-demonstration on the properties of gasoline tonight at 7:30 o'clock in 206 Venable hall. This lecture is under the au spices of the local student chap ter of the A. I. Ch. E. Taylor is bringing with him a special test engine with which actual anti-knock tests" will be perfor med. He will demonstrate that the addition of. certain types of compounds to gasoline cause a great increase in engine knock, whereas other substances reduce or eliminate the phenomenon. The test engine is equipped with instruments so the audience may observe directly the speed of the engine, its knock inten sity, its power output, and the temperature of the cylinder head. - In addition to the experiments with the test engine, the lecture will be illustrated with slides which report the results obtain ed in studies on several makes of passenger cars and busses. Window Display To Honor Games Here This Week Co-op Store Plans Exhibit of Trophies in Connection with Conference Track Meet An elaborate window display in honor of the Southern Confer ence indoor games this week-end will be presented by the Student Co-operative Association, the managers announced yesterday. Most of the display will be given to the forthcoming games, with the 1935 winner's trophy as the main attraction. The back ground will be U. N. C. blankets upon which will be pinned the individual medals. Last year's trophy, won by the Tar Heel runners, will also be on view. Two other large awards will be in the window. The first was won this past week by the Caro lina basketball team as a symbol of the Southern Conference title. It is accompanied by the annual placque which ,must be won three times for permanent possession. The other trophy is the mile championship cup won by Harry Williamson at the recent Jay- Cee meet in Charlotte. William son's junior national A. A. U. 1500-meter medal is also in the window. INSTITUTE COMMITTEE Chairman of the Human Re lations Institute Committee Charles Poe requests a full at tendance at the meeting, of the Institute committee tonight at 7 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. According to Poe, tonight's meeting will be the last for the winter quarter. ' L Fussier to Make Address Dr. Karl H. Fussier of the University physics department will speak tonight at the meet ing of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary geology fraternity, at 7:30 o'clock in the geology fra ternity's room in New East. Dr. Fussler's topic for discus sion will be the age of the earth Coach Runs Al Howard Is in Charge of Re claiming 250 Acres of Land In Chatham County. WILL DIRECT 400 WORKERS By Nick Read The United States government is going in for farming in a big way. Eleven miles from Chapel Hill, just over the Chatham county line, 250 acres of North Carolina soil owned by Uncle Sam is being reclaimed from the wilderness. The work is being done by Ne gro transients. A camp now capable of handling 39 men is being enlarged to take care of the 400 workers expected to be on the job by next summer. In charge of the camp is Al How ard, ex-Tar Heel football coach and one-time movie actor. Craps on the Sly Director Howard was asked how the. men behaved them selves and whether they craved a little crap game now and then. "It's -against camp regu lations to drink and gamble, Howard replied, "but," he went on, "you can't stop a little drink mg and crap shooting done on the sly. It's just an urge that they have to satisfy." Howard said that there had been few trouble-makers. "The disorderly men either leave af ter a short time of their own accord or we dismiss them," he explained. iThe director commented favorably upon the willingness of the men to work when ques tioned on this point. "I am not a native southerner," he said, "and before I came here I al ways had the impression that the Negro was lazy, put these boys don't have to be made to work." Wages Paid Howard explained that the men are employed 30 hours a week for wages varying from 50 cents to $2.00 per week. "There has been so much to do," he said, "some of the men have volun tarily worked overtime for exr tra pay." The transient bureaus in Dur ham and Raleigh, Howard stat ed, are co-operating with the Federal Rehabilitation Project, (Continued on last page) DANSEUSE THRILLS STUDENT AUDIENCE Nini Theilade Wins Hearts of Enthusiastic Gathering with Varied Dance Program. Beautiful 19-year-old Nini Theilade danced her way into the hearts of an enthusiastic Me morial hall audience last night. Mile. Theilade appeared here on the last program of this quar ter on the Student Entertain ment series. Received with Acclaim Received with equal acclaim was the Whitney chamber mu sic ensemble, which played be tween Mile. Theilade's appear ances and rendered the music which she so gracefully inter preted. The premiere danseuse pre sented a varied program, having held her audience spellbound as she danced to Debussy's Diana and Lotus, and sending them in to delighted laughter when she rendered a caricature of an in experienced ballet dancer in dancing Debussy's Menuet, or "Ballett." MEDICAL MOVIE TONIGHT A seven-reel moving picture entitled "Milestones in Medical Research," sponsored by Eli illy and company, will be shown at 7 :30 tonight in the audito rium of the pharmacy building. The first three reels tell the story of the production and standardization of insulin, and he last four give a picture of a large Indianapolis hospital's diabetic clinic. The characters in the movie are all doctors, nurses, dieticians and actual patients. Sixty-five minutes are required for the showing. Five Students Seek Managing Editorship Of University Daily Five Daily Tar Heed staff members submitted applications to the Publi cations Union Board yester day for the position of managing editor of the cam pus daily. Applicants were Walter Hargett, Irving Suss, Don McKee, Reed Sarratt, and Bob Page. With the exception of Page, who is the present managing editor of the daily, all those applying for the position are city editors on the publication. The applicants were in terviewed at yesterday's meeting, but the final de cision will not be made un til at a special session Mon day. - The request of the edi tor of the Fin j an that the next issue of the funny magazine, the parody on Time, be printed in a small er and more expensive type was granted by the board. U.N.C. TO DEBATE STANFORD TODAY McMullan and Cross to Support New Deal Against Bright Bold California Team. Representatives of Stanford University will attack the New Deal in a debate with the Uni versity at high noon today in Gerrard hall. The contest will commence at 12 'o'clock and-will last approxi mately a half -hour. Carolina Team Harry McMullan, Jr., and Oliver Cross, University debat ers, will support the affirmative of the query which reads, Re solved, that this house favor the New Deal. The Stanford team is compos ed of Fred Charles Bold, Jr., and Andrew W. Bright. , According to Professor Wil liam Olsen of the University English department and faculty advisor of the debating group, the Californians will defend Herbert Hoover. He says that it will take a Bright-Bold team to do it. REGISTRATION Permit cards for registra tion for the spring quarter will be available in room 8 South building beginning to day. Spring quarter class schedules may be obtained in room 101. Registration begins Mon day for all students except freshmen and sophomores who failed to pass all their courses in the fall quarter. NATHANAELENGLE TO LECTURE HERE TUESDAYEVENING Housing Conditions in XT. S. to Be Subject of Third Ad dress of Series. ASSISTANT TO MURCHISON Dr. Nathanael H. Flhgle, as sistant director to Claudius T. Murchison of the Bureau of Foreign and . Domestic Com merce, has been secured to speak here Tuesday evening by the lec ture committee of the depart ment of economics and com cerce. Dr. Ferger is chairman of this group. Dr. Engle will deliver the third of a series "of lectures on current economic and business subjects. The meeting, which is Open to the general public, will be held in 202 Bingham hall at 7:30 p. m. Speaker's Subject Dr. Engle's subject is "Hous ing Conditions in the United States." He is particularly well qualified to discuss this timely topic as he .was in charge of a nation-wide survey of urban housing made by the department of commerce in 1934. This was the first large scale investiga tion into housing conditions ever conducted in this country. In the course-of this survey hous- ' ing conditions in 64 cities were studied in detail, among them being Asheville and Greensboro in this state. The assistant director receiv ed his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan. He has taught economics at the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and at Brown University. He was eco nomist at the, Brookings Insti tution of Washington, D. C, at the time that he accepted his present government position. Widely known for his writ ings on business subjects, Dr. Engle is a member of the Na tional Distribution Council of Washington, D. C. He is chair man of the editorial board of the National Marketing Review, the official quarterly publica tion of the National Association of Marketing Teachers. HAMPTON SINGERS TO APPEAR HERE University Y.M.C.A. to Sponsor Presentation of Negro Quar te.t Tuesday Night. Sponsored by the University Y. M. C. A., one of America's really old-time quartets, the Hampton Four from Hampton Institute in Virginia, will ap pear in Memorial hall Tuesday evening at 7:15 to present a short program of spirituals. The quartet is on tour again after making a notable record several seasons ago with their pure versions of Negro songs. To Show Paintings Traveling with the quartet will be Dr. Cooper of Charlotte, the Negro preacher and artist, who will have on display here several of his paintings. , According to an announce ment by Harry F. Comer, gen eral secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., all students and townspeople are invited to at tend the song program. Comer indicated that the singers would present oily a short program in order that students may be al lowed time to prepare for the Wednesday examinations.
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