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Library of mm. m wttl THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH Vw isOTiimueu r air, . Colour Today Z 525 VOLUME XLVI EDITORIAL PHONE 4JJ1 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1937 BUSINESS FHOJTE 4H4 NUMBER 46 World News By Nelson Large - COUNTER OFFENSIVE TO ISOLATE JAPANESE ' Shanghai, Nov. 6. Chinese reports received tonight de clared that a counter-offensive, to isolate about 25,000 Japanese soldiers from its landing on the .seacoast, liad been launched. ! Chinese declared they had re pulsed a surprise Japanese thrust in Chekiang province irom the Hangchow bay area to ward Shanghai. :. ' Advances were reported by the Japanese to the south of Soochow creek, on the western edge of Shanghai's international settlement. ' ' Chinese reinforcements rush ed to Sungkiang, a vital point in the Chinese , defenses . against -which one of three Japanese columns was striking from the south. According to Chinese army communiques, another Japanese column was on the far side of the Whangpoo river si' from ' Shanghai when Chinese defend ers forced a vanguard back across the stream at Minhang, 15 miles miles south: of Shang hai. Along the north side of the Whangpoo river, Chinese not only believed their positions - to be secure against the Japanese offense, but they also indicated that the attackers were in dan ger of being cut off from their shore base by a . Chinese flank ing operation. ... - ; .. - Contrary to a statement made by a Japanese spokesman that the defense forces were appar ently on the verge of collapse was the assertion of observers that they had seen no sign of Chinese withdrawals. Unofficial Chinese sources said that fighting had spread south of Lincoln road; but Chi nese artillery, had, destroyed two pontoon bridges . over Soochow creek, preventing Japanese, tanks and artillery from cross ing. SOVIETS CONDEMN ' SEVENTEEN ON HOLIDAY Moscow; Nov. 8. The Soviet union condemned 17 of its .sus pected enemies to death today while the larger portion of the Russian masses enjoyed a holi day for the 20th anniversary of the revolution. ' Seventeen death sentences were reported from the prov inces. Fourteen of the ' con demned victims were members of a Trotskyist band in the Tar tar republic and the other three "were employes of vegetable and grain distribution services in the Ukraine. ADDITIONAL GAINS MADE BY INSURGENTS Hendaye, F r a n c o - Spanish frontier, Nov. 8. -Reports from insurgents today said that Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco's forces had maneuvered into sev eral new positions in the Sabi nanigo sector of the Aragon front. Insurgent lines in the north ern area, southeast of Jaca, near the French border have been strengthened by the operation. Government sources said that a series of "minor" battles had compelled Catalan militiamen to withdraw but also added that "the insurgent advance was lim bed toV less than one mile. ,; According to the government dispatclies, the attack was,cen Continued on page two) ) -' CAMPUS CABINET PLANS MEETING THURSDAYNIGHT Fifty-Seven Executives Will Gather For " Dinner Fifty-seven executives of campus organizations, headed by President Bob ,McGill of the Student council, will gather in Grahani Memorial banquet hall Thursday i night for the first meeting of the Campus cabinet. The cabinet will be served a free dinner by Graham Memo rial, and then will discuss perti nent questions of campus-wide wide concern. Though no offi cial action is ever taken by the cabinet, ; the opinions arrived at by representative leaders on the campus bear much weight. Topics Fiye topics will come under consideration at the meeting. They are: 1. -A consideration of stu dent attitude and responsibility for the athletic policy of the University and its effects. 2. -A proposal for a Campus Student theater and Entertain ment center. r 3. A discussion of the ruling requiring budgets of the fee- (Continued on page two) Tentative Casts s Tour Announced Closed Tryouts Held Friday: Only Persons With Good Past v:n'''ecorvpuHticipate Tentative casts for the three plays which, are to make up the 1937 Playmaker tour bill, were released yesterday by Prof. Samuel Selden. Closed tryouts were held Fri day, and only persons who have shown up exceedingly well in past performances were invited to come out. Tentative . The following parts are ten tative and a final casting will be made the early part of, this week; Prof. Howard Bailey will di rect "Funeral Flowers , for the Bride," and the following will take the listed parts. Alonzo, Harry Davis ; Lillian, Janet Pen dleton; Eadie, Ellen Deppe or Eleanor Clough; R. C, Lynn Gault, Bedford Thurman, or Weider Sievers. . "Sunday Costs Five Pesos" is directed by Prof. Samuel Selden. The characters are : Fidel, Dan Nachtman; Berta, Ellen Deppe ; Tonia, Elizabeth Malone; Sa lom' eVirginia Kibler or Janet Pendleton; Celestina, Vivian Veach. -?-Xf-(Continued on last pagej Final ieswfs Seventy Ballots Still To Be . Counted For Men's Voting; Several Elections Assured Returns from men students in the Controversial . Topics Questionnaire proved slower to day, but with 70 ballots yet to be counted several elections semed assured. Most definite is that of Miss Barbara Harris for ; dumbest coed. She has received 72 votes out . of the 230 counted. Also practically certain is the election of Miss Virginia Lee for best date. Her lead of 37 votes can (Continued on last page) ForPlaymaker Purine Peeeg, Hyah Sou Peeg They say Pete Ivey, di rector of Graham Memo rial, was in collusion with a pig Sunday afternoon. "That is not so," Ivey said late last night, after thinking the matter over. "The pig just naturally fol lowed me from the post of fice to Graham Memorial." The pig weighed about 200 pounds and was white. You know, a white pig. It was later seen in Kenan stadium, ambling from the field house. ' -. '. " : If somebody has lost a pig, it's wandering around here some place. PHI TO DEBATE DUKE SPEAKERS Literary Society Will Visit Assembly The Phi assembly will play host to the Columbia Literary society of Duke university to night. The organizations will de bate the following question i re solved: That the Constitution is a nmdrance to tne progress oi the United States. Representa tives of the Phi will argue for the affirmative. Following the regular pro grams the Phi will hold its first social of this year in Graham Memorial. Secretary John Rankin ; ad vised all interested spectators who intend to hear the debateito arrive early, as there will prob ably be a shortage of seats. Junior-Senior "Y" Cabinet Will Make Duke Visit Tonight Entire Membership Will Repay Trip Made By Duke Cabinet Several Weeks Ago The entire membership of the Junior-Senior "Y" cabinet will travel to Duke university to night to repay a visit made by the Duke cabinet several weeks ago. President Scott Hunter of the Carolina organization will pre sent the activities of the group on this campus as a feature of the program to be sponsored by the local cabinet. Other speakers will be DeWitt Barnett, born in Shanghai, China, who will speak on the Sino-Japanese situation, 5 and Anne Perry, who will speak on "What Students Can Do To wards Peace." The journey to Duke takes place of the regular weekly meeting of the local, organiza tion. - iViear In Coed Voting; Returns In Men Di Football Team To Practice Today All Members Urged To Be Pre sent At Intramural Field There will be a practice of the Di Senate football team this aft ernoon on one of the intramural fields '.: which is available for practice. All members of the Di who signed up for the team and those who did not sign but want to play in the game with the Phi are asked to be present. v. Jim Brawley has been ap pointed captain of the team. PATTERSON WILL PETITIONCOUNCIL IN BIMET CASE Two Trys At Mustering Majority Of Votes Both Failures After failing in two attempts to get a majority of seniors to vote on the class budget, Presi dent Joe Patterson is expected to petition the Student council tonight for a change in the rul ingrequiring a majority. jl wo successive meetings m Memorial hall, one of which had Freddy Johnson's orchestra as an added attraction, failed to bring out the necessary number of seniors. It was then believed a change in the ruling, would be the only method of passing the budget. ; . , Constitution ... The ruling, in the council constitution, says : "All budgets of class , organizations must be - (Continued on last page) Mercer Talks To Frosh On Habits At Meeting Here Nationally Known Moral Speaker Meets With Freshman Friend ship Council Last Night Ted Mercer, nationally known moral speaker, pled with mem bers of the Freshman Friend ship council at the weekly meet ing of the club last night to think and think again about the habits they were forming. Telling of His "own experiences in college and their results, Mercer declared, "I never knew when I turned from the funda mental things in life the things of Christ that some day I would be facing the penitentiary (Continued on page two) Library Shown To Have Varied Book Collections "Y" Will Sponsor Comic Movie Here Tickets For "The Great Garric" On Sale Today Tickets will go on sale today for "The Great Garric," sensa tional comic movie picture to be shown at the Carolina theater a week from Thursday. AH tickets sold on the campus by the Yl W. C. A. will benefit that organiza tion. . The picture is being heralded as one of the great comedies of the year, and stars Olivia de Havilland. Tickets may be pur chased at dormitory stores, Spencer hall, or at the "Y" of fice. w ' Four-Fifths Of Coed Responses Now Tabulated ; Includes New Dorm, Pi Phi's ' Four-fifths of the coed re sponses to the Daily Tar Heel Controversial Topics Question naire have been tabulated, in cluding the precincts of the New Dorm and Pi Beta Phi sorority. Only a few scattered votes re main to make the results final. Featuring the coed tabula tions is the practical renomina tion of A. Guy. Ivey for sweetest boy. Ivey has a lead' of 12 votes over Hooie Hobbs in second (Continued on last page) Balloting Randy Rowland Passes Sunday Randolph Rowland, a former student at the Uni versity, died in New York City Sunday morning, it was " learned yesterday. Rowland, a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, was a well-known campus fig ure, being president of the German Club dance organ ization last year. The fu neral will be held today at 3 p. m. at his home in Middleburg, North Carolina. DI WILL DEBATE NEUTRAUTYPLAN Senate To Hold Regular Meeting Tonight "Resolved: That it is in the best interest : of the United States to maintain strict practi cal neutrality to the Chinese- Japanese conflict," is the bill that will be debated upon by the Dialectic senate at its regular meeting tonight which will be held in the senate's chamber on the top floor of New West at 7:15 o'clock. Bill This bill has been debated upon by the Phi assembly, For eign Policy ' league, and the Radio forum, and tonight the Di does its part in settling the major problem before the coun try today. -Captain ; It is also expected that John Ramsay, president of the sen ate, will appoint a captain for the touch football team that will play a team from the Phi. Anyone interested in joining the Di is invited to attend the session tonight. jOver Half Of 350,000 Volumes In University Library Belong To Special Collections Having written on the history of our library in the first of this series of articles, it is only nat ural .now that mention be made of that part of the institution which can be called outstand ing. Over half of the 350,000 vol umes in the library belong to special collections, the most im portant and interesting ' of which are dealt with in the fol lowing paragraphs. '. :j History The history of. writing x; and printing is accurately traced by the many thousands of articles in the famous Hanes collection. It begins .with ancient written records and clay ' tablets that date back to before the middle ages Included are rare Egyp- tianwritings on papyrus, a kind of-paper made from the sliced and pressed pyth of the papyrus sedge which grows along the banks of the Nile. Old leather scrolls, and- Hamitic leafed books go further to make up the collection, which , comes down through medieval manuscripts to the beginning of printing. There are over 5,000 books which were printed during the first 50 years of printing. Each stasre in the development and - improvement of the art is repre sented with an example of the work. The completeness and ac curacy that is shown in the trac- (Continued on lost page) SPEAKER FROM JAPAN TO GIVE OFFICIAL VIEWS Yakichiro Suma Will Appear Tomorrow Night Here An opportunity for students and local persons to get an in side story on the Japanese side of the current Sino-Japanese conflict will be given tomorrow night when Yakichiro Suma talks on the official views of hi3 government. Mr. Suma, who is Consul of the Japanese Embassy in Wash ington, is scheduled to speak at 8:30 o'clock in Memorial hall. .Union The speaker is being brought here by , the Carolina Political Union in an effort to present first hand information on one of the major world wide hap penings of the time. Since Mr. Suma is coming here from Washington especially for the talk he has planned to arrive in ample time to visit points of rn terest on the campus and to speak to one or two classes. The Japanese stand, as it is (Continued on page two) Botany Exhibit Now On Display In Show Cases Classics Shown On First Floor Of Library; Books Date From Early 15tlj Century An exhibit on "The Classics of Botany" is- on 1 display in the four main show .cases on the first floor of the library. Thebooks, which are from the Botany library and the pri vate collection of Dr. W. C. Coker, date from the early fif teenth century. Among the outstanding books are , A uescription oi the Plants of America," by Plumier, which was the first important Ameri can work of its kind, and which included many excellent draw ings of ferns. The "History of Rare Plants," by Clusius, which was printed in 1601; was the best and most accurate herbal of the time. v A "Herbal" printed in Vienna in 1491, is probably the oldest book in the collection. The most famous of all the old English Herbals, which was written by Geralds, is also included in the group. . In one of the four cases, . (Continued on last page) POP QUIZ By : Bob Perkiti This one is old, but still good. During a big flood which ren dered many people homeless, in cluding a certain young blind man, relief agencies had rushed clothing and food supplies to the scene of the disaster. Now the blind boy entered the dispensing station early one morning just after the agents had spread out on a long table one dozen pair of socks. They were r not fastened together in pairs, but there were enough for a dozen pairs; six pairs of brown and six of black. All the socks were the same size and of the same texture and the brown ones and black ones were all in termixed. ' ; , -The blind boy didn't want to take any more socks than neces sary, and still he did want to (Continued on page two) i li.! : i ' ii.'. i1 n I;
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