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i PIDITORIALS: Reminder . Guests EATHER: Music THE OAZ.7 COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME XLVIII Business: 9887t Circulation: 9885 CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940 Editorial: 4356 Newt: 4351 j Nljbt: 6906 NUMBER 84 Reynolds onigM Ait 8 O9Q0)k in News Briefs By United Press ROME, Jan. 17 (UP) Italy ams that Fascism may "at any mo pent" take up arms in European var; Allies effort to win Italy's friendship is assailed. WASHINGTON Vice-President Garner is vigorously opposed to mili tary loans to Finland and has lined up support sufficiently potent to defeat 2I!y such proposals, it was learnei. GIBBSTOWN, N. J. Six thousand pounds of nitroglycerine explodes at DnPont plant killing two men, shat tering windows within 50-mile area. G-men have been ordered to investi gate. STOCKHOLM Swedish Riksdag is urged to send Swedish troops to Fin land's Aland Islands. HELSINKI Finnish troops drive Russian forces back on Salla front where wounded are freezing to death in temperature as low as 54 degrees below zero. WASHINGTON Economy drive in Congress survives first major test when House noisily shouts down Democratic attempt to write $22, 000,000 "pork" item into the $1,100, 000,000 Independent . Offices Appro priation bilL WESTERN FRONT Intense cold immobilizes activity. BRUSSELS Rumors re-appear of impending German surprise; Belgian and Dutch maintain military precau tions. LONDON House of Commons is told that Germany is suffering severe ly from Allied blockade. . - - (Students are uged to torite in their opinions of the new United Press ser vice now being offered by the Daily Tar Heel. Continuance of this spe eial feature depends upon these opin ions.) 50 "Men of Mangum" Add Their Cheers For U.P. Service Fifty "men of Mangum" wrote in as a body yesterday congratulating the Daily Tar Heel on its new United Press news briefs and asking for its continuation. Signed by its officers and 44 other residents of Mangum dormitory, the letter said: "We, men of Mangum, want to go on record as being heartily in favor of the newly inaugurated United Press service which gives your paper a column of brief, to the point summaries of world news events of major im portance and which gives us, as mem bers of the student body, a time sav ing guide to the news of the day. Please keep it up." Typical of the individual letters and Postcards which flooded the Tab Heel office were the following: "Congratulations on a really grand idea! Your UP news briefs are as complete and succinct a summary of the daily news as I have seen, and they certainly add vigor to the front Page. Should make the DTH more poular than ever" Allen Green, edi-j tor, the Carolina Magazine. "Bringing back the summary of world news is a step in the right di ction. ... I should like to see a column of discussion based on these brlef! "Charles Giduz. It's about time your paper showed (Continued on page 4, column U) Sandmel To Teach' Kew Bible Course A new lecture course in Bible study, entitled "A Critical Approach to the 0ld Testament," has been announced b' the HiHel foundation. The class is to be taught by Rabbi Samuel Sand 's61, dirt-ctor of the foundation, and although no credit is given for the urse by the University, it is open to 1 st-udtnts and townspeople. T class will be held in 111 -aunders on Tuesday and Thursday of each W-ek at 4 o'clock, the first class bt? conducted this aVternoon and 0s" interested are invited to come itl a copy of the Old Testament. Newspaper Institute Opens Here Toni Editors, Publishers To Meet; Attendance Expected To Hit 200 With editors and publishers and their co-workers expected from all sec tions of the State, and indications pointing to a new high attendance of 200 or more, everything was set today for the opening of the 16th annual Newspaper Institute here tonight at 8 o'clock. Registration will begin at 4 o'clock. ' Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, scheduled to speak at the first 'ses sion, was unable to leave Washing ton on account of an attack of influ enza, but she is sending her editor, Frank Waldrop, to pinch-hit for her and she vouches that Mr. Waldrop is an excellent speaker. DR. FRANK President Frank P. Graham will wel come the visitors for the University, and President W. E. Horner will re spond for the State Press association. The membership of the Association is up considerably from last year, and indications point to a record attend ance. Earl J. Johnson, general news man ager of the United Press association, will be the chief speaker at the lunch eon session here Friday, and DeWitt MacKenzie, foreign affairs expert for the Associated Press, will headline the progTam at Duke Friday ngiht. The sessions will continue through Saturday morning. NATIVE OF VERMONT A native of Vermont and a graduate of Syracuse University, Mr. MacKen zie tried his hand at various occupa tions from farming to music, but al ways the urge to write came back. With the AP since 1910, he. has be come famous as a war correspondent, (Continued on page U, column 4) Slate Of Speakers For Newspaper Institute Above are some of the principals who will participate m the program ot me annual ixonn Carolina newspaper in stitute which begins today and will continue through Saturday. Top row, left to right: Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, pub lisher of the Washington Times-Herald, who was to address the opening session Thursday night; DeWitt MacKenzie, special writer on foreign affairs for the Associated Press, who speaks at Duke Friday night; Earl J. Johnson, vice president and general news manager of the United Press, who addresses a luncheon session at Carolina Friday; Dr. II E. Spence of the Duke university School of Religion, who addresses the Duke dinner session Friday; W. E. Horner, of Sanford president of the North Carolina Press associa ion, who will preside over the session; Charles L. Allen, executive secretary. New Jersey Press association, who will address the Friday morning session; Dr. Julian Miller, of Charlotte, vice-president of the NCPA; Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton, secretary-treasurer NCPA; John W. Harden of Salisbury who will conduct a news-room clinic for weeklies and dailies Friday morning; W. K. Hoyt, Winston-Salem president Associated Dailies of NCPA, who will preside over a meeting for dailies Friday afternoon; W C Manning Jr., Williamston. who will preside over a group meeting for weeklies at the same time; and L. Parker Likely director of Newspaper Appraisal corporation. New York, who will address the final session Saturday morn ing. ght S. P. DELEGATES TO BE ELECTED TODAY, TOMORROW Representatives To Meet Next Week In First Convention By CHARLES BARRETT Representatives to Student party conventions two delegates from each floor of men's dormitories and three from each floor of women s dormitories will be chosen today and tomorrow in elections to be supervised by dormi tory presidents. These newly elected representatives will gather next week in the first con vention of the year, to elect a general campaign chairman, campaign chair man for each of the classes, a party treasurer and a publicity chairman. DEMOCRACY AGAIN This method of representation was inaugurated year before last in an ef fort to insure democratic nomination of the party's candidates. Each fra ternity affiliate of the party is grant ed one delegate, which usually gives the fraternities a one-sixth representa tion in the conventions, in exact rela tion to their numerical proportion of the student body. The election process will provide for a mass assembly -of well over a hun dred students "at" party conventions. The party this year has adopted a new policy of giving women students three representatives from each dormi tory floor. Chairman Preston Nis bet said this step was taken in recog nition of the increased number of coeds, and the fact that more students live (Continued on page 4, column 3) ... m . m C ' ' r Lji Sil crj 'J-f j . J ; " li V - . JLsz? Senator Robert Rice Reynolds V M I . ..to vindicate Pray And You Come "Sadie Chief Sloan, Student Collide; No One Hurt Although one car containing the driver and a passenger was flipped over on its top and badly damaged last night when a police car driven by Chief W. T. Sloan collided with that driven by Norman Bolick, student at the Uni versity, no one was injured in the ac (Continued on page 2, column 8) 1 T a 1 i "VT T V I'll the Vindicators . . . May Be Dated Hawkins Day9 Woman's Athletic Associa tion Takes Advantage of Males By Keeping Date Secret By JO JONES "Sadie Hawkins' Day" will be spon sored by the Woman's Athletic asso ciation at a date to be kept secret, i Miss Terrell Everett, president, an nounced yesterday at a meeting of the Woman's Athletic council. Sadie Hawkins was a mountain girl, who, unable to get a man by any other means, chased them till she caught a husband. On "Sadie Hawkins' Day" a coed may keep the man she catches for the day. She takes care of all ex penses and pays his way to a tea dance, which will be given in the afternoon. The idea has taken hold at many uni versities, where "Sadie Hawkins' Days" have been held. OTHER PLANS In addition to plans for "Sadie Hawkins' Day" the council discussed plans for basketball, badminton, bowl ing, and fencing tournaments to be held between dormitories, sororities, and town girls. From the teams com peting in the tournament, all-college (Continued on page U, column 6) . - Student-Faculty Day To Feature Quiz Program The committee on Student-Faculty day, headed by Tom Stanback and Barbara Liscomb, yesterday announced plans for the "Information Please" program which will be the first of the day's attractions to be held on Tues day, February 6. The board of experts on the program are members of the University faculty and have been chosen for their ver satility as well as for being authorities in their chosen fields. The seven ex perts will be: E. "E. Ericson, Archi bald Henderson, R. S. Winslow, B. F. Swalin, Dean R. B. Hbuse, Coach Ray Wolf and Howard W. Odum. Walter Kleeman and Lee Manning Wiggins are editors of the program. QUESTIONS Questions for the program which will be copied after the well known program sponsored on the National Broadcasting hook-up by Canada Dry will be submitted by the students on this campus. Each student may sub mit as many questions which are not of scientific nature as he wishes and may address his questions to any par ticular participant on the program he wishes. If his question stumps the experts, he will receive a free ticket to the Grail "Tramp Ball" to be given that night. Questions are to be sub mitted to Walter Kleeman at the (Continued on page 4, column 1) 3 SENATOR CH00S1 "AMERICANISM" AS HIS SUBJECT State-Wide Network Will Carry Address Of Carolina Solon By LOUIS HARRIS Senator Robert Rice Reynolds will open the Carolina Political union's winter quarter slate this evening at 8 o'clock in Memorial hall when he speaks on "Americanism." Chairman Harry Gatton yesterday urged that all members of the audience be seated be fore "Our Bob" begins, since the pro gram will be carried over a state-wide radio hock-up. North Carolina's junior senator will motor into Chapel Hill at 6 o'clock to night, and after being met by Gatton and E. J. Woodhouse, will proceed di rectly to the Beta Theta Pi house, of which he was a member during his undergraduate days at the University. The Betas will have dinner prepared for the Senator and his two guests, Private Secretary Wesley McDonald and Political Ally Pierce Rucker of Greensboro. EN MASSE The entourage will arrive at Memo rial hall at 7:45, and the evening's festivities are scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock. Seated on the platform with Reynolds will be Chairman Gatton, Townie Moore, Jim Gray, Bill Joslin, Professor Woodhouse, and Dean R. B. House. Radio broadcasting will com mence on the dot of 8 o'clock, neces sitating complete silence in Memorial hall. ' Senator Reynold's address is ex pected, to be about. ; 45 minutes, ... in length, leaving 15 minutes open forum (Continued on page U, column 3) GEORGE HEARN, DEPUTY, DIES Funeral Services This Afternoon George A. Hearn, 59, who had serv ed as deputy sheriff of Orange county for 20 years, died at his home in Chapel Hill yesterday morning at 7:30 follow ing a short illness. He had been active in his role as deputy sheriff until last December when he became ill. A complication of diseases was ascribed as the cause of death. Funeral services will be held from the Chapel Hill Methodist church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva Sparrow Hearn and the following brothers and sisters : Miss Clara Hearn of Roanoke Rapids, Mrs. Will An drews of Durham. Mrs. Kemp Hackney of Pittsboro, Ruote 1. Mrs. Lulu Smith of Bynum, Miss Martha Hearn of Bynum, Mrs. Roy Riggsbee of Carrbo ro, Mrs. Annie Perguson, of Burling ton and John Hearn of Lincoln, Ga. Urban Holmes, Jr., Is Co-Author Of New French Text "Source Book for the History of the French Language," a new text book by Dr. Urban T. Holmes, Jr., of the University romance languages de partment, and Dr. A. H. Schutz of Ohio State, was put on sale in the Book Exchange Monday. The book is being used here in French 126, History of the French Language, and in similar courses in schools throughout the country. The text traces the development of the -language 'from vulgar Latin to modern French. Specimens of the lan guage during the various phases of its history are supplied. Dean House To Speak To Cosmopolitan Club Dean R. B. House will speak at an informal dinner to be given by the Cosmopolitian club of the University tomorrow night at 6 o'clock at Dan ziger's Candy shop. Reservations must be made with Herman Boemanns, chairman, this morning. There will be a charge of 50 cents each.
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