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w T7EATHER: ' THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH Fair and Warmer Today Z 525 VOLUME XLVI EDITORIAL PHOSE.41S1 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 tuxnns nan m NUMBER 121 Carolina Political Union To Present Browder At 8:30 Tonight In Memorial Hall Wo r Id i N e w s .;'0';' Edited by Jim McAden FEAR HUGE TRANSPORT LOST IN MOUNTAINS Fresno, Calif., March 2. Fear was felt today for the lives of nine passengers of a TWA air liner believed to have crash ed in the mountains west of here during a violent storm. The pilot of the plane, John Graves, reported late last night that he had been forced to fly blind and was going to attempt an emergency landing. Since that time nothing has been heard from the plane. Bound for Los Angeles from 'San Francisco, the craft was caught in a sudden rain and wind storm. Rain caused ice to form on the wings and static in terfered with the radio. Graves reported that he was going to attempt a landing from his posi tion of 10,000 feet After that nothing more was heard. Besides the six passengers, all of whom were bound eastward, the plane carried two pilots and a stewardess. BRITISH ADVISED OF MORE REARMING COSTS London, March 2. The Brit . ish goveramentadyise its tax payers today that the five-year . rearmament program would cost more than the originally-planned appropriation of $7,500,000,000 and to expect even larger bills for defense of the domain. This part of a program by the British government to strength en the defense of its widespread colonies and dominions. As indication of the huge sum to be spent, the air, ministry in dicated that it would spend $500,000,000 during the year be ginning April 1, more than twice the amount spent for the air force last year. PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO ASK FOR TRUST PROBE Washington, March 2. As a result of President Roosevelt's saying yesterday that he would submit an anti-trust measure soon, congressmen believe that a thorough investigation of mo nopolies would accompany the bill. Recent White House confer ences on revision of the anti trust laws led many legislators to the belief. The general opin ion is, however, that legislation would be held up on the matter until inquiries have been con ducted. Congressional leaders, hoping for an early adj ournment, said . that consideration of a specific bill would be deferred until next session. JAPANESE GAIN GROUND IN FIGHT FOR RAILROAD Shanghai, March 2. Jap anese troops were reported to day to be within striking dis tance of the vital. Lunghai rail road, which extends for 500 miles across the central portion of China. Eight ' invading columns were gaining ground in their fight to capture the vital "lifeline" ral way, now held by Chinese "troops. The east-west line separates North China and the Yangtze river valley, Japanese-conquered Open Foriim Discussion To Follow Regular Address Banquet Planned , -Tonight at 8:30 in Memorial hall the Carolina Political union will present its last winter quar ter speaker national communist leader Earl Browder. The nation's top-ranking com munist has accepted union chair man Alex Heard's invitation to conduct an open forum discus sion following his regular ad dress, which will be on the gen eral subject of "Concerted Ac tion Versus Isolation as the Road to Peace." Introduction Tonight's introduction will be given by Harry F. Comer, Ex ecutive Secretary of the Human Relations institute. The General Secretary of the Communist party in the United States, as Browder is officially tagged, will arrive in Raleigh by bus this morning at 9:45. It is not known, as yet, whether he will agree to speak to special classes during the day. Banquet Heard said yesterday that there will be an informal ban quet for the speaker in the Caro lina inn tonight at 6:30. Inter ested persons will be allowed to attend, but Heard has-asked that they leave their names at the inn before 1 o'clock this after noon. Browder, who was originally scheduled to speak in Chapel Hill last December, has recently returned from a trip to Russia. Incidentally, Browder holds the same position with his party here, as Stalin does in Russia. Post A native of Wichita, Kansas, he has held his present post since 1930. In 1935 he was elect- (Continued on last page) LOWERY ELECTED HANDBOOK EDITOR FOR COMING YEAR Only Sophomores Have Been Chosen In j Past Years Ray Lowery, University jun ior, was chosen yesterday to be editor of the freshman hand book for the Carolina class of 1942. The selection was made by Dean C. P. Spruill, Dr. E. L. Mackie, and J. Maryon Saun ders, faculty members of the YMCA board of directors. Applicants Lowery was one of five appli cants for the position. In the last several years sophomores have been chosen. He stated yesterday that he will organize his staff within the next few days, and during the spring quarter will accumu late copy for his publication, which is to appear next August. Honorary . The handbook is a publication of the campus YMCA. Lowery's position is honorary. Selection of the handbook's business manager probably will not be made until the spring quarter. : Lowery's predecessors as handbook editors during the past three years have been Don tvjvKpp. Mac Smith, and Voit Gilmore. AKGANN0UNC1 SELECTION OF MAY DAY BOARD Celebration To Be Held Saturday, May 14 In Arboretum r In preparation for the annual May Day celebration on the Carolina campus, Alpha Kappa Gamma "announces the selection of the May Day board which will have charge of the pageant and plans for the day, May Day will be held on Sat urday, May 14, in the arbore tum, and an alumnae luncheon preceding the celebration crown ing of the May queen will be held. A nominating committee composed of representatives - of the two sororities, the three dor, mitories and the town girls as sociation will submit a " list of candidates which will be voted on by the campus at large short ly after spring vacation. The following are the girls who will form the May Dav board : Margaret Lothian, mu sic ; Bowling Brown and Fran ces Roughton, pageant cos tumes;; Nell Mclntyre and Vir ginia Lee, court costumes ; Ruth Parsons and Adele Austin, dance committee; Janet Pendelton, scenery committee; Jean Walk er, property committee; Nancy Nesbit, alumnae luncheon; Ela nor Jackson, tea and reception; Polly Pollock, nomination com mittee; Lillian Hughes, publici ty ; Betty Norcross, finance ; Betty Redf ern, pageant commit tee., - - Nancy Schallert and Virginia Bower will serve as junior and senior co-chairmen of the board. All members of the May Day board are requested to attend the first meeting this afternoon at 5:00 p. m. in the Woman's association room at Graham Memorial. All girls who are un able to attend are requested to notify Nancy Schallert today. The committees serving under these committee heads will be announced shortly. Registration Registration for students in the General College will be continued today. Registration for upper classmen will begin tomorrow. Student-Faculty Voting Today : s King, Fuller Will Play For Interdorm Dances April 8, 9 Coaches Confined In Watts Hospital Dale Ranson, George Barclay Resting Fairly Well Dale Ranson, track coach, and George Barclay, assist ant football coach, entered "Vatts hospital in Durham early this week and were reported yesterday to be resting fairly well. Coach Ranson underwent treatment Monday for stomach trouble, but as yet the full extent of his illness , is unknown. .Barclay was operated on for appendici tis Tuesday morning and ' appears to be recuperating rapidly. Cam McRae Withdraws From Political- Race; P Communist Earl Browder, Communist leader, who will speak tonight in Memorial hall at 8:30 under the sponsorship of the Carolina Political union. COMBINED BANDS WILL PLAY FOR SOPHOMORE HOPS Jimmy Fuller, Freddie Johnson To Merge For Affairs In a meeting of the . Sopho more Dance committee last night m uranam Memorial tne com bined orchestras of Jimmy Ful ler and Freddie Johnson were chosen to furnish the music for the annual sophomore dances which will be held on March 25 at the Tin Can. Such a procedure by the dance committee will mark the first time that the two rival bands will have joined forces to pre sent music for dances. Members of the committee felt that in making such a choice they would be helping to boost local talent, and also would be offering music comparable to any they could procure off the campus. In an interview last night Freddie Johnson stated that the combined orchestra would con sist of 18 members including two featured vocalists, Kay Un ( Continued on page two) No Admission Charges For Boys With Dates. All Are Informal Jere King and Jimmy Fuller, the Interdormitory council an nounced yesterday, will play at the interdormitory dances at the Tin Can on April 8 and 9. Ful ler's band will be heard on Fri day night and at the Saturday afternoon tea dance, while King's band will play on Satur day night. The dances will be open to all the dormitories and will be in formal. Dormitory boys with dates will be admitted free, but stags will be charged a fee of 50 cents, which will cover the en (Continued on last page) Names Three More PU BOARD MAY , INVALIDATE VOTE ON RADIO STUDIO Student Council Meets Jointly With Board; No Action Yet ii discussion during tne re cent joint meeting of the student council and Publications Union board materializes, the recent vote on the campus radio studio will "be invalidated, it was learn ed yesterday. 'Attempting to discover which organization has authority to set up requirements for establishing the proposed "fifth publication,1 the following agreements were tuscusseu ; (1) The publications fee is flexible underneath the last amount authorized by a student body vote. This amount is $6.90. (2) A favorable majority of approximately 1500 union mem bers must vote favorably before a new function of the PU board may be either established or dropped. - Amendment The latter point was discussed as an amendment to the PU board constitution. The amend ment would have to be voted upon in an election qualified by the PU board. No definite action on either of the discussed agreements was taken, and each organization will consider the proposals sep arately before arriving at a de cision. Monogram Pictures Alt members of the Mon ogram club are urged to meet this morning on the steps of Manning hall, the law building, at 10:30 o'clock for a group picture. The members are re quested to be on time at the meeting and to wear their sweaters which display the monogram. Primary Balloting For King, Queen Of Annual Fete Is Set For April 5 Candidates for the thrones of king and queen of the annual Student-Faculty day celebration in April will be chosen by the primary balloting today in the YMCA. Polls will be open from 8:30 to 5 o'clock and voters will indi cate their selection for a king from the faculty and first and second choices for the queen who is to come from the coeds. Bal lots will not be printed in the Daily Tar Heel as previously announced, but may be had only at the polls. Final Election The four faculty members who lead in today's primary and the 10 highest girls will go to the final election after the (Continued on page two) Hunter, Nesbit, Fairley To Run For Junior . Class Posts Race Getting Hot By Bob Perkins Because of the criticism brought on him due to his with drawal from his University, party nomination, Cameron Mc- Rae last night withdrew his ac ceptance of the Student party's nomination for president of the sophomore class. McRae stated that he accepted the Student party'snomination because he wanted to run for president, but did not realize the position he was placing himself in by withdrawing from the University party. -. McRae had been nominated M(mday on the University party ticket for secretary of the soph omore class. Tuesday night he had accepted the Student party's nomination for president of the class. : Completing their junior class slate with the exception of the vice-presidency, the . Student party yesterday announced Benny Hunter as candidate for treasurer ; Mac Nesbit, secretary of the class; and Jack Fairley, junior councilman on the stu dent council. Cy Jones' candidacy for the office of president of the junior class was announced Tuesday, night. Fairley, brother of former President of Student Body Fran cis Fairley, has a full record of activities since his freshman year when he was a member of the freshman friendship coun cil. He is a member " of the sophomore Y cabinet, the sopho more executive committee, read ing clerk of the Phi assembly, member of the debate squad and was initiated into the Univer sity club this week. Hunter was a member of the freshman friendship council, track team last year, and the (Continued on page two) Experimental To Be Given Tonight In Theater Here Plays, Written By Students Here, To Be Presented At 7:30 O'clock The Playmakers will present one in their series of experi mental bills tonight at 7:30 In the Playmakers' theater. The plays, which were written by members of Professor Koch's playwriting course and directed by students in Professor Sel den's Advanced Directing class, are as follows: . "Where the Wind Blows m Free," written and directed by; Emily Crow; "Hidden Hearts," written b Howard Richardson and direct ed by Cordelia Pass ; "Still StandV the House," written by Gwenn Pharis and directed by Lynn Gault; "Two Wings to Fly Away," written' and directed by Rietta Bailey. As is the usual custom with these productions, admission is free. Seats will be held for sea son ticket holders until 7:15, after which they will be thrown open to the general public. Portions of China.