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APR 4 -1939 Walt sKQlianidDir DITORIALS: W EATHER: Prelude to Political In trigue Clear, cold as vhiz Self-imposed Differentials THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 Volume xlvh oitouax. phoks 4ist CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1939 BUSINESS PHONE. 4I NUMBER 137 Os n on "';9 7FD' 1 Frestaiee To Dance To Music Of Repine Here April. 14, -I Richmond Band Signed To Swing For Coming Hop Larry Lerner, chairman . of the freshman dance committee, announced yesterday that Bert Repine and his twelve-piece Domino orchestra have been signed to play at the freshman dances which will be held April 14 and 15 in the Tin Can. The dances vill be informal. Featuring Mary Kaye as vocalist, the orchestra plays four times week ly over station WRVA in Richmond on the Domino cigarette, program. Repine and his orchestra are current ly playing in the Marshall Room at the Hotel John Marshall where they have been most favorably received. TWO BIDS TO EACH The dance committee announced that two bids will be available to each freshman and that they will be 25 cents apiece. One bid will admit a single student as stag or with his date. The first dance will be held Friday- night, April 14, in the Tin Can from nine until one and will be followed by a tea dance the next afternoon from 2 until 5. A Grail dance will be held that night as has been the cus tom for the past several years. The figure will be composed of the class officers and the dance com mittee. War Alliance-Bill Slated By Senators The Dialectic senate will hold its weekly meeting tonight in Di hall at 7:15. Only one bill will be discussed so that members will have an op portunity to attend, the Human Rela tions institute. The bill to be discussed tonight is Eesolved: That the United States should make an open war alliance with Great Britain and France. All members are requested to be present so that an important business matter can be passed. Hear Ye! Call For Staff Nominations Members of the Daily Tar Heel staff will meet in room 213 of Gra ham memorial promptly at 1:30 this afternoon to officially make staff nominations for a man to run for editor of the campus newspaper for the year 1939-40. Only those students whose names appear on the editorial units of the staff are eligible to vote and only those persons will be admitted to the nominating session. Something To Boast About Aftpr Idd Yenrs Chanel Hill Receives New After Beiner Shifted Around For Years, The Chapel Hil Government Is Now Together By BILL RHODES WEAVER After 144 years living in lodgings "fter and yon the town of Chapel Hill going to have its own premises. veral departments are even now oc JjPying the town hall on the corner of olumbia and Rosemary streets, and Judge L. J. Phipps held court there Tuesday morning. t the occupation- of a structure 1 specifically for municipal use lies struggie of over half a century!' The srsity villain hoe Tievor been al, and since a large part of the j. ae is state-owned, the tax burden aS een SnmomVinf ,i;ffi.,il ond lias v (Tllttb V11111VU1V Rented the accumulation of enough fund s to construct a town office build- ig. ast August, however, villagers votr (Continued on last page) COURT MENTOR GIVES NO REASON FOR HIS ACTION Shepard Or Lange Seem To Be Next Probable Coach BY ROY POPKIN .The resignation of Walter D. Skid more as Carolina basketball coach effective July 1 was announced yes terday by athletic director Bob Fetzer. c, . . , , , . , Skidmore telegraphed his exit from the Tar Heel court scene from his home in Harlan, Ky., where he is visit ing relatives. No reason for the re signation was announced. Fetzer revealed that a tentative re signation was in the hands of the Athteltic Association on January 1, be fore the regular season began. Ru mors that he would be replaced as Car olina court pilot spread around when the White Phantoms got off to a poor start 'm Southern conference race, but died down somewhat when Caro Una backed into the conference tourna ment. Skidmore's successor has not yet been named, but Fetzer said that the new basketball coach would probably (Continued on last page) WOMAN'S GROUP TO SPONSOR DAY Girls Win Be Here April 15 On Saturday April 15 the Woman's Athletic association will sponsor a play day for the women students of several North Carolina colleges. WCUNC, Guilford, St. Mary's, Peace and Mere dith have already accepted invitations to send representatives and Salem and Duke students are expected to attend. Contests will be held in badminton, volley ball, tennis, archery, and swim ming with the purpose as stated by Kathryn Fleming, president of the Woman's athletic council, of promot ing athletics not only on this campus but throughout the state. Faculty and students of the Uni versity are invited to attend and ob servers form the different athletic departments of the represented schools will be present. In case of rain indoor sports will be held.- Miss Fleming emphasized that two co-eds will be chosen to represent the University in each sport from the stu dents who participate in sports for the two weeks before play day and that none will be put in an event for which (Continued on last page) Town Building Questions Oh Europe Needed From "America's Town Meeting of the Air," comes the information that anyone having any questions to ask on present conditions in Europe is requested to send them to the above group at 123 West 43rd street, New York city. As many such questions as possible will be presented to a group of ex perts by George V. Denny, modera tor, and they will be answered by a panel of experts composed ' of John Gunther, Raymond Clapper, Profes sor Frederick Lewis Schuman, Wood row Wilson, Raymond Gram Swing, and S. K. Ratcliffe. The program will be broadcast over the coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting companyi Thursday night from 9:33 until 10:30. To Lead Frosh Miss Mae Duckworth of Charlotte, above, will lead the figure at the freshman dances which are to be held April 14, 15. Her escort will be Bill x. u oiiure, picsiuciib ui 1.11c imuiuau class. tillett ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ALUMNI GROUP Senator Sutton Made First Vice-President In Recent Election Charles W. Tillett, Charlotte attor ney, was announced yesterday as the new president of the University Alumni association. Tillett succeds former Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus of Raleigh. - The election was announced by J. Maryon Saunders, Alumni Secretary, following a tabulation of mail ballots cast during the present month by mem bers of the Association. Other officers elected were State Senator Fred I. Sutton of Kinston, first vice-president, and W. A. Blount, of New York, second vice-president. I Directors of the Association elect ed to represent the general member ship were George Stephens, of Ashevil le, and Dr. Ed Hudgins, of Greensboro. ! Dr. Foy Roberson, of Durham, was reelected as an alumni member of the Athletic Council. HELD FEBRUARY 23 Nominations for the 1939-40 officers were made at the annual Alumni as sembly held here February 23. Tillett defeated T. Holt Raywood, of Winston-Salem, and Senator Sut ton was high man in a race with Nor man A. Boren, of Greensboro, and Wil liam H; Ruffin, of Durham. Blount won his office over Fred W. Morrison, of Washington, D. C, while the new (Continued on page two) Attention All Coeds- How About Exercising? Coeds please take note: Golf for women students will be tonight and Friday at 3 o'clock. Dr. Lawson will instruct. Coed bowling tonight at 8 o'clock in Graham Memorial. HRI Public Meetings For Today (In Memorial Hall) 10 A JVL Lawrence Dennis, economist; former member of consular service. Subject: "American National Interests and Foreign Policy." 4 PJVI. Panel Discussion. . Speakers: Lawrence Dennis and W. H. Auden, British poet, social ist and writer. 8 P.M. W. H. Auden. Subject: "Integration and Freedom." 8 A.M. Ralph Davis Auditorium in Murphy hall 8 AJI. Dr. Galloway Bingham 208 9 A.M. Lawrence Dennis Bingham 202 9 A.M. W. H. Auden Saunders 213 12 noon Lawrence Dennis Saunders 301 12 noon W. H. Auden Murphy 202 12 noon John A. Rice Saunders 201 HRI Classroom Seminars For Today (All those interested in attending the classroom seminars are welcome t fill the vacant seats). ; (Any professors wishing to engage speakers for their classes please con tact Henry Nigrelli in the YMCA). 1TK A juvenilis, Auueir 10 jye&ct series today Toward National Realms; ection On South Is Finished. Six Leaders Give Solutions For Southern Problems With the aid of six speakers, an au dience of some 3500 during three Hu man Relations Institute sessions yes terday conducted an investigation into the peculiar problems and listened to a number of plans as to the future of this section in national history. Yesterday's programs wound up the sectional aspect, "The South, Today and Tomorrow" of the HRI and ob viously left the "audience much im pressed after the multi-barreled bar rage of terms, proposals, and open forum sessions. RAPER Arthur Raper, sociology Ph. D. f rom the University, got the ball rolling yesterday at 10 o'clock with an address on "The South A Challenge to De mocracy." He pointed out that while the South is a section of pallegra, li mited natural resources, erosions, high birth rate, lack of education, that it constitutes the "Nation's Number One Economic Opportunity." Raper also pointed out that - even while the South has a birth rate far out of proportion to its ability to care for a large population, that other sect ions of the country have -declining birth rates ; thus, the South in the future will furnish an increasing amount of the young people to national life. ODUM "Grand old man" of University so ciology, Howard W. Odum, head of the department here, was the second speaker, leading the 4 o'clock afternoon panel meeting of the South. Dr. Odum speaking on the subject of "Is Regional (Continued on last page) BULLETINS! No Artie Shaw! Illness will prevent the appear ance of Artie Shaw and his orches tra for a dance scheduled tonight in Raleigh, a radio announcement from station WPTF said last night. Many Carolina students were planning to attend the affair. John Parker Leaves John J. Parker, Jr., former presi dent of the University student body, has been released from a Durham hospital where he has been recuperat ing from a fractured neck since last October. . He will remain at his home in Charlotte and probably return to law school here next fall. Parker was in jured in an automobile accident. . Cap'n Fred 111 Captain Fred C. ' Smith, retired conductor of the "Carrboro Spe cial" was in a very grave condition late last night. His physician, Dr. B. B. Lloyd reported that the octogenarian was slowly sinking. ' Tl fin TT Economist Lawrence Dennis, economist and former member of the consular serv ice, above, will be one of the leading speakers today. His topic is "Ameri can National Interests and Foreign Policy." SUNDAY SPEAKERS FIND COMMON BOND A RELIGIOUS NEED Hurwitz, Eddy, Douglas Agree On Single Necessity The finding of a common bond in the kingdom of God . for all. three major religious faiths was the theme of the Human Relations institute at the Religion Symposium held last Sunday evening in Memorial hall. The need and desire for closer har mony and union was stressed, by the! three speakers, Henry Hurwitz, repre senting the Jewish faith: Robert A. Douglas, representing the Catholic faith; and Sherwood Eddy who spoke on the part of the Protestant faith. After a short introduction by Presi dent Frank P. Graham who stated that the National Congress of Jews and Christians was the means by which the symposium was gathered and conducted, Henry Hurwitz, edi tor of The Menorah Journal, pointed out that above all, the upholding of moral right is most important , re gardless of faith. He spoke of the re sponsibility the people of Israel as (Continued on last page) Professor Asks To Come Home $ "YW" Officers Are Installed Nine newly-elected YWCA cabinet members were installed in an impres sive candle light service in the Chapel of the Cross last night. Miss Louise Jordan, president of the organization pledged herself to the carrying out of the activities and purposes of the YW CA. The nine new officers, Misses J or dan, Ruth Curtis Robeson, Sarah Mc Lean, Mary Jane Yeatman, Melville Corbet, Frances Sparks, Dorothy Coble, Roberta Winton, and Altajane Holden, pledged themselves to the three-fold purpose of the YWCA: fel lowship with others, themselves and with God. " The nine retiring members of the cabinet are Misses Olive Cruikshank, Eleanor Jackson, Virginia Bower, Connie Thigpen, Rachel McLean, Ka therine Fleming, Elizabeth Spencer, and Claire Whitmore. Y- ! X J il " ? i ' Tl Two Addresses, Panel Discussion, Are On Schedule Returning to the discussion of in ternational problems after a two-day sojourn with religious and southern needs, the fifth Institute of Human Relations features today in three Me morial hall programs two addresses and a panel discussion. Lawrence Dennis, economist and a former member of the consular serv ice, will speak on "American Na- The IRC will sponsor a banquet in the honor of Lawrence Dennis tonight at 6:30 in the banquet room of Graham MemoriaL All persons desiring to attend must make reservations in " the YMCA by 3 o'clock this afternoon. tional Interests and Foreign Policy.". At 8 o'clock W. H. Auden, British poet, socialist and writer, is to talk on the subject "Integration and Freedom." Both he and Dennis will be featured on the 4 o'clock panel discussion. Other visitors on the campus today," as guests and conductors of discus sion groups and classroom seminars, include Arthur Raper, yesterday morning's speaker and research sec retary of the Southern Interracial commission, Mark Etheridge, Univer sity day speaker last fall and vice president and general manager of the Louisville Courier-Jonnial, ''Charles S. Jackson, head of the Department of Sociology at Fisk university, W. ; D. Alexander, director of the - farm security administration -and co-con-!., ductor with Jonathan Daniels of lastr night's symposium on the South. -DR. SMITH The institute will close Friday morning with an address by Dr. T. V. Smith, United States Congressman from -Illinois and known as the "scholar of the . house," who will speak on the "Promise of American Politics." The 12-year-old institute, begun by the YMCA cabinets of 1927 as a . quadrennial campus ! feature, became a biennial program in 1937. Through donations of almost all leading cam (Continued on page two) SP Convention To Be Tonight The Student Party will hold a convention tonight at 8:15 in Phi hall to complete its slate for the coming elections, Chairman Mitchell Britt announced last night. All Student' Party candidates, delegates, and anyone else inter ested are urged to attend. Lost Students - No April Fool Johnson Says That Much Changing Of Classes Responsible Guy B. Johnson, professor of socio logy, last night asked the Daily Tar Heel Missing Persons Bureau to aid him in locating 10 of his students. Any information as to the whereabouts of the wandering scholars will be greatly appreciated by Mr. Johnson, who ex tends the following proposition to them: "Missing. .. ten students in Social Anthropology during the recent mi grations of this course. We first met in Library 311, then in Library 303, and are now meeting in the Auditorium of Murphey hall. Come back. No ques tions asked. No more moves (?) Guy B. Johnson." Needless to say, the Missing Per sons Bureau of the Daily Tar Heel will do its best to solve the mystery .j s r t
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