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flll.'JST 7ft DITORIALS: IppATHER: y 1 Cloudy and warmer A Dear Mr. Dean: Lf Gas At RaUiah -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XLVm Business: 9SS6j OvraiUdoa: 9881 CHAPEL HILL, N. C FKIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1939 Editorial: 4355 News: 4351 1 Sight: 6905 NUMBER 37 TTT .fLUtt TP 51 OEtlhl y muKgoi mm 1 1 i i El i 1 And. .EL& Plaii DAWSON APPOINTS YDC COMMITTEES FOR REST OF YEAR Club Numbers 98 With Membership From 50 Counties Committee appointments for the re mainder of the year in the Young Democrats' club were announced yes terday by J oe Dawson, president. The club has taken in 98 members representing 50 counties. They were selected in proportion to the number of Democratic votes in each county in the last election. Following are the committee appoint ments : membership committee Ott Burton and Tom Long, co-chairman; Jimmie Pittman, Fletcher Mann, Pres Hardy, Mitchell Britt, and Bernard Nordan. Publicity committee Bert Premon, chairman, and Bob Sloan. Arrangements committee Buddy Nordan, chairman; Joe Zaytoun, Win fred Norman and Bert Premo. Constitutional committee Martin Harmon, chairman; Ralph Isley, Bill McKinnon, Paul Alford, Ed Rankin, and Miss Mickey Warren. Speakers and Program committee Ernest King, chairman; Brick Wall, and Martin Harmon. Coed Organization committee Misses Elizabeth Orton, Marion Igo, Tillie Edwards, Melville Corbett, Doris Goerch, Sis Chivard, and Judy Duke. Professor Koch To Enact Hamlet Role On Sunday Dr. Frederick H. Koch, director ol the Carolina Plavmakers. will enact scenes from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Sunday night at 8 o'clock in the Caro lina Playmakers' theatre. His performance, which will be open to the public without charge, will initiate a series of Sunday evening play readings for this year, TTnrh will present several of the ff' most important scenes in the in giving "Hamlet" is similar to that used by America s most famous mon ologuists, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Ruth Draper. However, he began us- ing the medium as a sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan university many years before the form had become a definite oart of the American stage. Dr. Koch not. only does "Hamlet" as a one-man show but has acted the title role in a full production of the ulav. His performance as Hamlet in the Carolina Playmakers' Forest the- fltrA nroduction of 1935 was one of the notable events of that season. . JLaW AjlDrarianS Will TTnld Third -r j. t T V. lYieet 111 XVUlCigii na lin T,aw Librarians, a busi- ness association of the law libraries of v t T i totc i nf North Carolina, TT;,-t WVp Forest Col- i TT,w,-t.ir of South Caro- 6 - i. Ktnto sutireme court, is :,7:rV" in Raleigh at the Supreme court library today ' The business affairs will be disposed of in the first portion ol tne meeting beginning at 2 o'clock ana the scheduled program is to start at The topic of the program will be "Establishing Local Bar Libraries such as those in Asheville, Charlotte, and other cities. These local iiDranes are sending representatives or let- sential that they have this list and ters to the meeting to aid the discus- they urgently request that whoever re sion which is somewhat an extension movej jt by mistake return it immedi- of the work begun last year. The North Carolina State Bar as sociation and the North Carolina Bar association have appointed a joint committee of 10 memDers enuueu Committees on Law Libraries and Le- gal Publication sto coooperate and as sist the library group in its woric. Pharmacy Elections First year pharmacy students will elect their class officers at the chapel Deriod Wpdnesdav morning. The elec tion will take place in the Howell Hall Appoints Committees X i , L . Jim Davis, president of the student mm m m Dody, who yesterday announced ap point m en t of several student commit' tees to function for the remainder o the year. DAVIS ANNOUNCES FOUR COMMITTEES President Makes Final Selections The following standing committees for 1939-40 have been announced by James Davis, president of the studen body. " ( Student Audit board: Jack Vincent, Walter "Brick" Wall, Dave Morrison. Student Advisory committee : Georg Riddle, chairman, Donald Bishop and William Dees. . . Student Entertainment committee Perril Quarles and Bill Broadfoot. Student Welfare board: Melville Corbett, Louise Jordan, Studie Fick len, Jack Vincent, Dick Worley, Town send Moore, and Martin Harmon. Earl Wynn Named Program Director K()r StUCllO Here Dr. Ralph McDonald, associate di rector of the University Extension di vision, yesterday announced the ap- pointment of Earl Wynn as program director of the University studio. Dr. McDonald, m announcing the appointment, stated that Wynn Has had extensive experience m radio work in other universities throughout the country. One position was in con- nection with the studio at Northwest ern university. From this wide ex- perience it is felt by the extension di vision that he will be well qualified for the position. Official opening of the studio with scheduled programs will be, by the nrst oi tne year, dux; some programs be started around the first of De- cember. Already about eight stations have contracted the local studio for "s programs, aiiis wm mtii times the listening public as would be possible to obtain if it were a station Tlio -n-rncrrams Rpnf. ftVPT the wires On occasional Columbia, Mutual and Na tional hook-ups will be as varied as student and University life m Chapel nm, xx. jjj yoll Swipe It? The- library reported last night that a notebook containing a list of an par- anei reading books was taken from tne reserve room, it is aosoiuueiy es ately. gan(J Rehearsal T , a , n OVlock lOClay At & U ClOCK The University band will hold a rehearsal today at 5 o'clock on Fetp zer field before leaving for the Carolina - Pennsylvania game in Philadelphia at 7:30. ' All members were urged last night by Bob Simmons, president, to be on time ana oring mwr in struments. WELFARE flffiEMG WILL HOLD FINAL SESSIONS TODAY Jocher To Present Report Of Social Trends Committee . The Public Welfare Institute of North Carolina will hold the final ses sion of its twentieth annual meeting at the Chapel Hill Baptist church to day. This morning's session will include the regular courses in mental hygiene, social case work, supervision, and pub lic welfare and the community. Then at 11 o'clock there is to be a general meeting, with Mr. Nathan H. Yelton presiding, to give some of the discus sion forums the opportunity to pre sent their reports which ' have been drawn up during the week. At 1:30 Mr. R. Eugene Brown will preside over a general assembly of the institute at which the report of the committee on Social Trends and Prac tises will be given by Dr. Katherine Jocher, chairman. This statement will be gleaned from the several reports of the forums, and will be the conclu sion of this year's institute. Charlotte Observer Praises UNC Team For Game At Tulane V The following editorial was print ed yesterday, in the Charlotte Ob server: "The history of American football shows no more heroic and thrilling rally than those Tar Heels staged to score two touchdowns and kick two goals in five miniites of time tir tie "up the battle" with Tulane last Saturday afternoon, thinks Morgan Blake, writ ing in the Atlanta Journal. Mr. Blake is extremely flattering to the gridiron warriors from Chapel Hill as he continues to allow his ecs tacy to flow. "This column nominates the Tar Heels for performing the most as tounding and most gallant feat of the season up to date." The more interesting part of Mr. Blake's appreciated effusion relates to what may have been the inspiration propelling the boys to this remarkable demonstration of sheer grit and de termination. He refers to the telegram of cheer and confidence which the more than 3,000 students of the University sent the team after it arrived at New Or leans, a telegram given the despatcher at Chapel Hill Friday night but which required until Saturday morning for the receiver in New Orleans to trans- scribe, the message containing the names of the entire student body at the University and containing only a paragraph expressive of the spirit of faith and loyalty in the team. Mr. Blake is probably correct in his diagnosis that this was the occasion of the spark of inspiration which pos sessed the players as they faced over- (Continued on page 4, column 6). J Retired Reporter Opposed To Repeal Of By HAL TYSINGER "I am in favor of the MacAdoo resolution that advocates every Amer ican mother and father should have the right to decide if their sons be come cannon fodder," Edward T. Heyn, retired foreign correspondent in Ger many and Czechoslovakia for a num ber of the metropolitan newspapers in New York, Chicago, London and Paris, said in an: interview on the campus. 4I am opposed to the repeal of the present neutrality bill" Heyn an swered when questioned about the bill, "for the same reason, as ex pressed in the United States Senate, that it might lead to another Black Tom explosion." Working as a reporter in Elizabeth, N. J., at that time, he interviewed a number of the refugees from the ex plosion as they poured into Elizabeth. The investigating committee later proved that the explosion of the muni tions plant was done by German spies. Edward Heyn was born in Milwau- Play For Graduate Coeds I I HT il. pilUIIIUI.IBI.UU I J, W- .Jl.-I.. 1JE gill II 111.11 l.lU-J '" PH J J- IWJ '.LI- JM1M I .1 WBIjllM ILJ 4 ; ; ;'" - - ::. - - - i y - f ft f , i 1 Ted Ross and his orchestra, who will play for tonight's informal graduate coeds dance in Graham Memorial from 9 :30 to 1 o'clock. Ted Ross And Band To Supply Music For Graduate Coed Ball Informal Affair Scheduled At 9:30 In Graham Memorial Ted Ross and his campus orchestra will furnish the music for this eve ning's informal graduate coed dance, to be held in the lounge of Graham Memorial from 9:30 to 1 o'clock. To night's affair is the second dance for coeds which the Graham Memorial stu dent union has sponsored this fall. The marahalls for thjs evening hop are Miss Mary Perry Garvin, Miss Martha Frazier, Miss Elizabeth Huntley, Miss Elizabeth Carr, Miss Nell Booker, Miss Alice Murdock, Miss Sara Crosby, Bob Magill, Charles Learde, Fred Weaver, Vernon An drews", Noel Woodhouse, Sam Teague? George Steele, and Trez Yeatman. Ross and his band play "music sweet with a dash of heat," featuring an electric steel guitar as background for the numbers. 19 UNC Students Plan To Attend Baptist Meeting Carolina will be well represented at the North Carolina convention of the Baptist Student union to be held this week-end at Campbell College, Buies Greek. A total of 19 students and 4 townspeople . will make the trip either today or tomorrow. Some four hundred delegates from the colleges of the state are expected to be in Buies Creek for the convention. The Union is a national organization for college students, and practically every college in North Carolina has a chapter. .''., Miss Mary Jean BVonson, senior from Durham and State Social chair man of the BSU, will be in charge of the opening banquet to be held tonight. A Halloween program will constitute the evening's entertainment. The Reverend O. T. Binkley, for Continued on page 4, column 1) Neutrality Bill kee, Wis., and received his education at the German-English academy and high school, the University of Wiscon sin, Berlin and Heidelberg. His parents were German and he learned to speak German before Eng lish. Heyn's first venture in journal ism was in his fifteenth year in col laboration with his three brothers. Later he and a friend bought a small daily paper in a western town during the Cleveland presidential campaign. The sheet lived for a year. From here he went into advertising, but quit -to go to work for the Chicago Record. From the year 1908 to 1911, Heyn held the position of American vice and deputy consul in . Reichenberg, Bo hemia, Austria-Hungary and in Ca tania, Sicily, Italy. He resigned from the American government service to represent the New York American in Berlin.. CORRESPONDENT FOR "WORLD" In the year 1913 he was a corres pondent for the New York World at (Continued on page 4, column 2 $- ROSS ADDRESSES MEETING OF ASU Speaker Discusses Democratic League The American Student union, at its meeting in Graham Memorial last night, heard Mike Ross, treasurer of the North Carolina League for Pro gressive Democracy, discuss organiza tion of the league, and also labor prob lems extant in the state today. Ross outlined the principles and aims of the league, stating that the or ganization was on the whole pro- Democraticr&IthoHgh not agreeing en tirely with some of the policies ' of Roosevelt and the New Deal. Harry Lasker, a member of the ASU, read a report on "Problems in the South," including illiteracy and the sales tax. Sidney. Rittenberg was appointed to investigate the possibili ties of the ASU's aiding the Univer sity extension division in its drive against illiteracy in the state. It was also decided at the meeting that no action should be taken on the case of Willie Richardson, who is scheduled to die in the gas chamber in Central Prison at Raleigh today. The union had previously contemplat ed circulating a petition on the cam pus asking for a reprieve or pardon for the young negro, who was sen tenced to death for stealing a pack of cigarettes and a small amount of change. New members taken into the union were Allen Green,' DeWitt Barnett, Richard Trickson, Glenn Hayes John son, Joe Knox, Vera Rony, Anthony Dell, Norma Slatoff, Jim Brantley, and Harry Lasker. General May Attend Homecoming Here Letters have been sent out this year by the Alumni association of the Uni versity in order to find out how many alumni will attend homecoming this year. A reply to a letter was received from General Albert T. Cox of Wash ington, D. C. in which he inquired about the condition of the Chapel Hill airport. General Cox, who was a mem ber of the class of 1904 and of the football team, stated that he planned to fly to Chapel Hill for the home coming celebrations with his pilot. - Philosophy Club Monday night at 7:30 the Under graduate Philosophy club will meet in the Grail room of Graham Memorial in its initial meeting of the year. Dr. Helmet Kuhn, of the University's Philosophy department will speak on "Aesthetics in Contemporary Art." Membership in the club comprises all interested persons who attend the meetings, which will present from time to time speakers on various topics of current value. Frosh And Sophs All freshmen and sophomores are asked to go to their advisers this week to obtain their mid-quarter grades. OFFICIALS SAY 1,500 STUDENTS TO MAKE TREK Parade Scheduled In Quaker City Tomorrow At 11:30 By DICK YOUNG At least 1,500 Carolina students will invade Philadelphia Saturday for the Carolina-Penn game, and a gigantic pre-game rally and parade, according to reports received last night from the ticket office in Woollen gymnasium and from Reddy Grubbs, president of the University club, which is spon soring the rally and parade. The ticket office said last night that approximately 1300 pasteboards had been sold to date, and that they expected at least 200 more to be sold tomorrow. Headquarters for the gigantic cara van of nearly half the student body will be in the Warwick Hotel, which has thrown its accommodations open to students and reduced all rates. The parade, which will be led by the University band, will leave the hotel at 11:30, proceeding by way of Spruce and Broad streets to the City Hall, where the rally proper will be staged. Rameses, in all his glory, will be on hand, along with the corps of cheer leaders, led by Vance Hobbs. Custo dians of the pugnacious mascot are Chunk Jenkins and Jick Garland. Grubbs received a wire last night from Superintendent of Police Ed ward Hubbs, sanctioning the parade and offering a police escort. The greater part of the 1500 visitors are expected to take part. The special train will leave Chapel Hill tonight at 7:30 from Pittsboro street station, carrying students, the University band, Rameses, and Coach Ray Wolf's grid warriors. Approx imately 50 students'" of Woman's College will be picked up in Greens boro, and the train will arrive in Philadelphia early Saturday morning. The band will stay on the Penn campus, being put up for the day by the Penn Student Union, and the team will make its headquarters in the Ho tel Philadelphia. Grubbs said last night the Uni versity, club had extended an invita tion to Band Leader Kay Kyser to attend the pep rally and also the game that afternoon. All students who purchased tickets to the game here in Chapel Hill will be seated in a special Carolina sec tion where they will have the benefit of Hobbs and his assistants' cheer- leading. The hotel has arranged reduced rates of $2 per person or $4.50 for a single room for Carolina students. Documents Of Southern Historical Collection Displayed In Library The commission of Captain Louis de Rousset of the Regiment of Navarre, signed by Louis XIV in 1674, is one of the many documents of the Southern Historical collection now on exhibit in one of the cases on the ground floor of the library. The collection, the largest collec tion of manuscript material in the world, was begun in North Carolina by David L. Swain, former president of the University. For a time, it was allowed to lie idle, but since being taken over by Dr. J. G. DeRoulhac Hamilton, it has become well-known and has been made to include material from the entire south. Also in the exhibit is a slave trader's account book of 1856-1857, a hand writ ten newspaper of , Gaston county, 1872, an account of the Battle of King's Mountain by Colonel Isaac Shel by, who participated in the fight, the only known copy in existence of the broadside of a Virginia society for the preservation of liberty, 1874, and a University autograph album of 1861 1862. Frosh Inaugurations This morning in freshman chapel there will be held the inauguration of the newly elected freshman class of ficers at which time Tommy Crudup, class president, will make a short talk and the other officers will be intro duced. auditorium.