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Sit THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH Partly Cloudy, V Warmer Today Z 525 VOLUME XLVI EDITORIAL PHONE 4351 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY "22, 1938 BCSDfZSS FHOJTX 4156 NUMBER 87 Religion In Life Conference To Be Opened Here Sunday By Five Prominent Speakers World News - o By Jinn McAden HOUSING BILL DEADLOCK BROKEN BY AGREEMENT Washington, Jan. 21 The padlock, wihch for three weeks has held up congressional action on recent "must" legislation, was broken today when a senate house committee reacnea an floreement on the administra- tion's housing bill. The committee compromised on the bill alter striking a sen ate amendment which would re quire a payment of prevailing wages for construction of homes financed under the progfram. Expected to act as a stimulus to the lagging construction in dustry,, the bill has the support of many powerful labor forces who also are in favor of the pre vailing wage requirement. Senator Large (R., Mass.) said that he will attempt to reinstate the amendment when the senate votes on the bill. A near-compTomise was re ported on the farm bill, the other major block to legislationThe conference on the bill is said to have settled most of its dis agreements. Conferees express ed hope of getting the legisla tion on the statute books by February 1. NIGHT SESSIONS CALLED .. TO BREAK FILIBUSTER Washington, Jan. 21 Al though no appreciable improve ment has been made in the sit uation revolving around the sen ate filibuster on the Anti-Lynch-ing bill, Democratic Leader Barkley today notified the sen ate that, beginning Monday, special night sessions will be called in an effort to break the filibuster that has prevented consideration of any new legis lation. The break was not ex pected for several days though, by senators familiar with the situation. Senator Bilbo (D., Miss.) will probably take up the fight for the opposition today as Senator Ellender (D.; La.) Quit yesterday after holding the floor for almost a week. ANDERS CONFESSES TO CRIME CAREER St. Paul, Jan. 21. -After lead ing J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investiga tion, through the northern Wis consin woods to the bodies of Charles S. Ross, abducted Chi cago manufacturer, and James Atwood Gray, Peter Anders, former lumberjack, , today de tailed numerous crimes in a sev eral thousand word confession to the F. B. I. Among other crimes, Anders confessed to the kidnaping of John Borcia, of Chicago, and his wife, and the robbery of four banks. Anders was arrested Friday at the Santa Anita race track with about $14,000 in ransom money in his possession. ARMY PLANE CRASHES; KILLS TWO FLYERS Fayetteville, N. C, Jan. 21. lieutenants Lewis Countway and Earle T. McArthur were kitted near Favetteville vester- v . v aay vhen their plane crashed and burned about four miles trom the flying field. , Religious Leaders Will Speak From Local Church Pulpits i I High Will Attend ! ive of the 12 prominent speakers to appear here f or tfce Religion in Life conference next week will usher in the program Sunday by filling local church pulpits, Harry Comer, execu tive secretary of the XMC A" an nounced yesterday. Arrangements made with the visiting religious leaders call for Dr. T. Z. Koo to speak at the Baptist church, Dr. Harry Holmes at the Presbyterian church, Mrs. Grace Sloan Over ton at the Methodist church, Professor Gertrude Rutherford at the United church, and Dr. Douglas Steere at the Episcopal church. Meeting The first joint meeting of the conference will be held Sunday night in Memorial hall, as Dr. r i tt otamey iign, popular opening speaker of last year's Institute of Human Relations, speaks at 8 o'cocpc on "The Kind of a Faith for This Kind of a World." An extensive program of small groups and private "bull sessions'' between the speakers and students will begin Sunday and continue throughout the week. Arrangements may be ptnade for private discussions with the visitors by calling the YMCA office. Each dormitory (Continued on last page) STUDENTS VOTE TO REESTABLISH DELTASIGMA PI Haddaway Leads Group Favoring Commerce Fraternity Forty two commerce students, most of whom are juniors, met last night in Bingham hall to discuss the reorganization of the professional commerce frater nitv Delta Sigma Pi. Called to gether by Warren Haddaway, who is sponsoring this project, the group acted very 'favorably to his proposals and, after con siderable discussion, 30 juniors and two sopohomores voted to establish this fraternity. Professors Taylor and Wool- sey, wno are memoers oi ueita Sigma Pi, were present at the meeting and gave some signifi cant statements concerning the plan. It is believed that there are five other faculty members on the campus who also belong to the honorary fraternity and they will be contacted in the near future to help the chapter after it has been organized. . Others " i Also present ? last night upon the invitation of the group were H. A. Rhinehart and B..W. Har ris, Jr., who are members of the alumni. They participated in the general discussion following the introduction to the problem and the plan for reorganization introduced by Haddaway. This .group of commerce stu (Continued on page two) A Daughter- A daughter, Deborah Train, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Rus sell T. Smith January '17. Mr. Smith is head of the art depart Dr. Sturgis Leavitt ; . Is Elected Member Of Hispanic Society Former President Of feoutfc Atlantic Modern Language Group Honored By Group; Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt, of the Umversitv department of ro- - a. mance languages, was recently elected a corresponding member of V the ' Hispanic Society ' of America. : : , r. Founded in 1904, the society has as its jpurpose the promotion of interest in' the Spanish and Portuguese languages, ! and., in the literature and art of , Span ish and Portugueses-speaking countries. 4 ' Dr. Leavitt is a former presi dent of the South Atlantic Mod em Language association and is at present the editor of the asso ciation's "Bulletin." In recogni tion of his work in Spanish j American literature, Dr. Leavitt has been elected to correspond ing membership in the Acade mia Hispano-Americano, of Ca diz, Spain ; and to membership in the Harvard Council on Hispanic-American Studies. He .was recently invited to participate in an International congress on the teaching! of Ibera-American literature, to be held in Mexico City in August. Final Session Of Institute Closes Today; Miles Vaughn Speaks On War In Orient W. S. Russ Will Preside At Last Meeting At 9:30 The final session- of the four teenth annual North Carolina Press institute will close this morning following a discussion of pictures in newspapers. W. Curtis Russ, president of the North Carolina Press asso ciation, will preside over the final meeting. "Air Pockets" Robert H. Scott, vice-president, Eastman Scott & Co., Ad vertising aerencv. Atlanta, will speak on Air Pockets Ahead for Newspapers" at 9 :30. He will be introduced by Santford Martin, of the Winston-Salem Journal. Following this, 'members of the association will have a round table discussion of pictures in newspapers, and J. L. Horne, Jr., Rocky Mount Telegram, will make introductions. Others Edward Stanley, executive as sistant of the Associated Press News Photo service, New York, (Continued on last page) Evolution Of University Band Shown Since 1903 Local Unit Begun With Six Musicians With Few Instru ments And No Uniforms . " By Gladys Best Tripp From a nucleus of six strong winded men . without uniforms and with few instruments in 1903 to a full-sized band of 84 with smart blue uniforms and shining horns at the beginning of 1938, the present University band has evolutionized. In 1903 the University saw the need of something to enliven the cheering of the games, and so a band was organized. Charles T. Woollen, present comptroller of the University, was selected as its head. Doubled The next year it doubled its Faculty Votes To Accept Present Conference Utiles On Athletics As Minimum Journalist Miles W. Vaughn, present night editor for the United Press in New York and UP manager in the Far East, who spoke at the luncheon meeting of the Carolina Press institute yesterday. United Press Manager Maintains Chinese "Supercilious" Asserting at he -wouldn't be surprised if the Sino-Japanese conflict stopped any minute or continued indefinitely, Miles W. Vaughn, for 10 years United Press manager in the Far East, spoke at the luncheon meeting yesterday of the Carolina Press institute on the background of the present war in the Orient. The present night editor of the United Press in New York pointed out that the pressure of population, as one 'of the princi pal causes of the war,- had been greatly exaggerated. Attitude He considers far more impor tant what' he termed as "a su percilious attitude on the part of the Chinese." "The Chinese still assume that the superiority they held over the Japanese until about 75 years ago, when Japan first be came a great industrial nation, is still a living fact," he said. "Another important factor is (Continued on last page) membership. The 13 men were shown in a full page picture in the Yackety-Yack. .They played at scHool "breakin's" near Chapel Hill, and at commence ment in 1911 "gave in f ine style the University hymn, the con gregation rising and singing!" In 1914 L. R. Sides, who be longed to the Southern confer ence championship basketball team the year he played for the University, and now has charge of music in the Central High school at Charlotte, took over the band. The baton again changed hands in 1925, and T. Smith McCorkle took charge. The band members got their first uniforms in . 1928 blue (Continued on last page) :S:i&!S$:: ,-?:::i:JS::i$ft?:'ft-?::S?Siv. Xv'V'AWJS WELFARE BOARD PLANS INCREASE IN TUITION F EES Additions To University Budget May Cause rr ?New Raise At a meeting of the Student Welfare board yesterday, pros pects were" discussed for a sub stantial increase in matricula tion fees to meet additions to the University budget, which will De necessary lor the sup port of the new infirmary an nex and the new gymnasium. The plan for meeting the ex tra expenses was reported to the board by Assistant Control ler L. B. Rogerson and Dean of Students Francis F. Bradshaw. If, when submitted to the ad ministration, the plan is ap proved, it will be passed on for consideration to the Board of Trustees at its next meeting. Examination If the infirmary receives the necessary appropriation, it is hoped that an optional annual medical examination will be of fered, to all students. With the present system of entrance ex aminations, the student is exam ined physically only upon his entrance, and not in succeeding years. Under the proposed sys tem the required entrance exam- (Continued on last page) TOPIC GIVEN-FOR MONDAY NIGHT'S SPEECHBYHARD Commentator To Speak From Republican Viewpoint William Hard, assistant chair man of the Republican National committee, who speaks in Me morial hall at 7:15 Monday night, recently notified Alex Hgard, chairman of the Caro lina Political union, that his sub- ject for the speech will be "A Program-for Progress." Hard, who arrives in Chapel Hill from his Washington head quarters Monday morning, said that his subject would be pre sented from the Republican point of view. Forum 'The CPU speaker has been asked to conduct an open forum discussion in Graham Memorial lounge immediately after his speech, but as yet has not ac cepted. The time of the speech was changed from 8:30 to 7:15 and the place for the proposed discussion period was changed to Graham Memorial so as not to conflict with the Religion in Life conference which meets in Memorial hall later that night. In the north, especially, Hard is known as an excellent speak er, but it is for his political broadcasting and news com menting that he is probably bet (Continued on last page) Correction Bill Cole is a member of the lunior class and is not a senior as was incorrectly stated in Thursday's Daily Tar Heel in the announcement of his pledg ing Chi Psi fraternity. Will Consider Proposed Supplements At Next Meeting Many Are Opposed By Charles Barkett The University faculty at a two-hour session yesterday vot ed to accept the present South ern conference regulations on athletics as a minimum and to consider proposed supplemen tary regulations at the next fac ulty meeting. A long discussion was held before the meeting adjourned on the new recommendations which would place more requirements on student athletes at the Uni versity than those of the South ern conference rulings, without taking definite action oh the new proposals. It is understood that a num ber of faculty members are op posed to the stricter regulations, but whether or not there is any plan for organized objection is not known. Rule Eight Rule eight of the 10 clauses passed by the faculty committee on athletics, after conferring with representative student leaders, is the center of contro versy. It is as follows: "It is the policy of this Uni versity to condemn as a menace to sound education and whole some sportsmanship the subsi dizing of athletes, and it under takes to the limit of its power to prevent such subsidization and will disqualify any student for intercollegiate competition who, on responsible evidence, shall be judged to be subsidized primarily because of athletic ability. In line with this purpose we urge alumni and friends of the University to cooperate in carrying out this policy by sub mitting to responsible faculty committees for, approval under their regular standards any as sistance extended or proposed to be extended to athletes or prospective athletes." Opposition Opposition to this rule has been definitely expressed by a group of 16 representative alumni meeting with a faculty committee at Jhe Carolina inn. Instead of the proposed state ment on subsidization, they unanimously approved the fol lowing: We do not consider it a men-? (Continued on last page) R. T. Smith Honored By Directors Of , State Art Society Head Of University Art Depart ment Elected Member Of Executive Committee Professor Russell T. Smith, head of the art; department, was elected a member of the execu tive committee of the North Carolina State Art society at the annual meeting of the board of directors in the governor's of fice January 20. Mr. Smith was made a director December 3, 1937. Mrs. Corinne McNeir, also of the art department, was re elected secretary. Mrs. Katherine Pendleton Arrington, who donated most of the funds used in remqdeling Person hall, is president of the society.
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