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FEB I? "X Ff DITORIAIS: fTTEATHER: t I Cloudy; no change in If fejnperafirr Overgrown Tough MM Z 525 VOLUME XLVm World Philosopher Visits Campus; Talks To Dr. Frank News Briefs By United Press HELSINKI, Feb. 1 Russians launch attack against central link of Finland's Mannerheim line supported bj 130 bombing planes, tanks and wave on wave of. troops; President Kallie says Finland is ready to "negotiate an honorable peace but anticipates Ras sia's rejection and appeals for foreign aid; Russia's 54th division 'fights to escape entrapment. WESTERN FRONT French patrol raids German . outpost taking prison ers; some artillery action and recon naissance flights by both sides. LONDON Purchase of United States warplanes may enable Great Britain to release "substantial quan tity of war materials to Finland; air ministry warns "desperate assault" by German bomber on British Isles; four more neutral vessels sunk with possible loss of 48 lives. BERLIN Germany strengthens economic front by requisitions of all mineral oils in German-occupied Po land negotiations underway with Italy for credit. Rome and Berlin report free. BELGRADE Possible dissolution of four nations; Balkan Entente fore seen as German and Italian. WASHINGTON Chief Justice Hughes, speaking during ceremonies commemorating 150th anniversary of supreme court, says supreme court must respond to will of people in in terpreting the constitution because the people created the constitution. WASHINGTON NLRB chairman MJL Warren -Madden accused-William . M. Leisdrson, newest board member, of making "suspicious attack on NLRB Secretary Wipp. WASHINGTON House action on $634,374,256 farm bill bogs down in sharp fight between economy and farm aid bloc featured by charges of Secre tary of Agriculture Wallace in inter fering and threatening political re prisals against congressional leaders speaking to cut the measure. WASHINGTON United States re lation with Finland and Russia spot lighted by several developments in cluding conference between Secretary of State Hull and the Russian ambas sador, and further conflict over ques tion of government loans for private financial assistance for Finland. ASHEVILLE Man identified as Franklin Gray, 30, of Chapel Hill, found dead in wrecked automobile at overpass near here; W. C Mitchem, Jr, Hendersonville chamber of com merce secretary, believed to have been Grays companion, found wandering, dazed on railroad track five miles away. Roosevelt Gaining Popularity For Third Term, Survey Says $- President Is More Popular Now For Third Term Than At Any Other Time With political winds already blowing in this election year of 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt finds himself with an ever increasing number of followers ho would like to see him run for a r-hird term. But this group, among the rank and file of voters as well as among college students, is still in the minority. The Student Opinion Surveys of America sent its staff of interviewers n campuses of all descriptions every where in the United States to ask a scientific cross section of collegians, "Would you like to see Roosevelt run for a third term?" The results, gathered and tabulated at the University of Texs for all the cooperating newspaper members of the organi2ation show that the presi dent has picked up more than ten per centage points on his third term popu larity during the last year. Compari sons of thi3 type are possible for the first time now that the Surveys has (Continued on page 4, column 4) Buine: 98S? Circulation: 9886 King" Cole ImnresLuri T?v The Campus, Buildings, And Friendly Spirit Here By WILLIAM L. BEERMAN Sara H. "King" Cole, 49-year-old world traveler, philosopher, artist, journalist, soldier of fortune and gen eral man-about-the-universe, tugged "Queen" and a bagful of scrapbooks into Chapel Hill yesterday and cooled his heels for a bit in Frank Graham's office. Later, after a Hong session of bull-slinging in South building, he trudged to a dormitory and chewed the rag with boys who were amazed at the gentleman's worldly knowledge. "Queen" is Cole's recently acquired wife. He bumped into her in Cincin nati, apologized, and then married her. That was last July, and since then both have toured Canada, Mexico, Central America, Panama, and in the past month, Florida. ". . . FINEST UNIVERSITY" Known from Hoboken to Hong Kong as the "king of newsboys," Cole was much impressed by the campus, build ings, and friendly spirit of all he met. "This is about the finest University I've ever seen," he said seriously. "If I could ever settle down, this would be the kind of place I'd come to." But the King, who started on his vaga bond career as a newsboy in 1897, has never stayed in one place over four months at a time. Registrar Ben Husbands entertain ed Mr. and Mrs. Cole at South yester day after President Graham auto graphed one of the many scrapbooks in King's possession. Cole liked Gra ham on sight. "That fellow is really a democratic leader in education," he said after meeting Graham. "He's one of us just as plain as the snow and slush out there." ACQUAINTANCES Cole spoke familiarly of Franklin Roosevelt, CordellJHull, King , George VI, Mahatma Ghandi, Will Rogers, and hundreds of others. Jle backed up his ( Continued on page 2, column 5) Four Campus Frats To Hold Neophyte Ball In Durham The second annual Neophyte ball, sponsored by four campus social fra ternities will be given at the Washing ton Duke hotel in Durham tomorrow evening with Charlie Wood and his orchestra furnishing the music. ' Prior to the dance, class parties wil be held as follows; freshmen at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house, sophomores at the Zeta Psi f raternitiy, and juniors and seniors at the Beta Theta Pi lodge. After the parties. members and guests will be taken to Durham by special buses. Suppers will be served at the lodge in Chapel Hill after the dance. Those on the arrangements committee are Jick Garland, Beta Theta Pi; Ed Mflner. Delta Kaona Eosilon; Sam ' , Afpntis. Sie-ma AlDha EDsilon: and Trent Ragland, Zeta Psi. Carolina Institute To Make Plans For Summer Meeting: Today The executive committee of the Car olina Institute of International Re lations will meet today, with two rep; resentatives of the American Friends Service committee of Philadeipnia, ro make plans for the 1940 Institute which will be held during the sum mer in Chapel Hill. The Carolina Institute of Interna tional Relations is a faculty organiza tion and is primarily for the people in the state who are interested in world affairs. It is one of the many similiar organizations in the country. E. Raymond Wilson and Ray New ton of Philadelphia will represent the AFSC at the meeting today which will be held in the Extension division of fice at 3 o'clock. The International Relations committee of Carolina holds the annual Institute in cooperation with the AFSC. The tentative dates hi vpar'a meeting are June 17-26. The executive committee of the Car olina Institute1 is composed oi uean (Continued on page 4', column S) THE ONLY COLLEGE DA CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1940 Susan Myrick A r-7. ' - awe"1 ' J . . . technical director . . . UNION-SPONSORED "GWTW" LECTURE PLANNED TONIGHT Technical Director Of Great Movie Will Speak At 7:30 Susan Myrick, technical director for the "Gone With the Wind" flicker, will give a Union-sponsored talk at 7:30 tonight in the main lounge of Gra ham Memorial. The former Macon newspaper wo man's GWTW duties included polish ing off a variety of accents, select ing a horse for Rhett Butler, decid ing- what "type of "boxes the O'Hara girls were to carry their dresses to the barbecuses . . . and even to picking out the plants that were to have grown (in Aunt Pittypat's house. SOUTHERN ACCENT Her talk will be sprinkled with lively anecdotes concerning the filming. Miss Myrick is now on tour of Georgia Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and Mis sissippi telling all about the difficul ties of getting a Southern accent tha' everyone would understand. The daughter of a Confederate and the granddaughter of General My rick, she lives on a plantation near Milledgeville, steeped in Southern tra dition. Shutter-Snappers, Enter Your Pictures And Win A Prize (By ACP) Photography for art's sake and human interest, too! Those are the chief requirements for the pictures that all Carolina stu dents are invited to submit for the third annual Collegiate Digest Salon Edition competition, rules for which were announced last week by the edi tors of the national college newspic ture section. This amateur photo contest is con ducted each year to select the prize- winning photos to be featured in the annual Salon Edition an edition that is a special "showing" of the best work done by collegiate photographers during the year. This special edition demonstrates the great progress made by student and faculty shutter-snappers, and re wards the winners with cash prizes, the publication of their photos, and participation in a traveling photo salon that is exhibited at leading college art centers in all sections of the U. S. This largest and most widely known of all college camera contests is open to both students and faculty mem bers. Although the experienced ama teur is aided by the use of special equipment, ordinary cameras very often take the prize-winning pictures, as previous Salon Edition contests have proven. It's the picture not the (Continued on page 4, column 4) Don't Read This The regular weekly meeting of the members of the Daily Tar Heel reportorial staff will not be held this afternoon. 1LY IN THE SOUTHEAST- 6 ELM O -Toriiffht M Memorial Hall Colorful Operetta To Be Presented To Large Audience "H. M. S. Pinafore," Gilbert and Sullivan's tuneful tale of the "Queen's Navee," will be presented for the first time tonight and again tomorrow night at 8:30 in Memorial hall by the Play makers and the University music de partment. The production will be the second Student Entertainment performance of the winter quarter. Reserved seats may be secured by presenting either Student Entertainment or Playmak er season tickets at 316 South building or at Ledbetter-Pickard's. A fresh, sparkling prouction, with extravagant nautical sets and bright, frivolous costumes, will greet Me morial hall audiences. Elmer Hall, technical director of the Playmakers, has designed a fanciful setting which captures the spirit of "Pinafore." Ora Mae Davis, Playmaker costumer, is re sponsible for the costumes which are as charming as the Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. John-E. Toms of the music depart ment is in charge of the music for the production and a special feature of the show will be the musical accom paniment by the Phi Mu Alpha or chestra under the direction of Earl Slocum. Toms, Fred Walsh, and Miss Helen Copenhaver play the leads in the pro duction with the always clever Don ald Rosenberg in the comic part of Dick Deadeye. Walsh, Rockefeller assistant m the dramatic art department, has played ! prominent parts in several Playmaker productions this year including "No More Peace" and "Room Service." Toms of the University music de partment has had experience" with this type of production before and has fre quently been heard in concerts here. Samuel Selden, associate director of the Playmakers is directing the pro duction "Pinafore." A ASU TO SPONSOR STATE-WIDE DRIVE AGALNST NYA CUT 41,000 Students Would Be Dropped From NYA Rolls Faced with the need for immediate action, the local ASU voted last night to sponsor a state-wide drive against reductions of the National Youth Ad ministration appropriations in the pro posed Federal budget. Passage of the budget as it now stands with a 29 per cent cut would mean that some 41,000 college students would be dropped from the NYA rolls. The Hriv will hetnn with the "mass circulation of petitions on campuses throughout the state. These petitions will be presented to North Carolina congressional representatives in Wash ington by students attending the Youth Citizenship Institute on the weekend of February 9. Petitions will be circulated through the dormitories and a booth will be set up in the YMCA for the benefit of the town students. In addition, the ASU is planning a mass meeting with the aid of NYA students for next Wednes day night. No Presidential Prospects In, GOP Ranks Fesler Says Professor James Fesler, of the poli tical science department, spoke to the Young Republican club at. its meet ing yesterday, informally discussing the role which the Republican party will play in the coming national elec tion. , Briefly commenting on the prospec tive Republican candidates for the presidency, Dr. Fesler expressed his opinion that there is little presiden tial timber to be found at present in the Republican ranks. . In talking of the probable Repub ican platform, he said that the party will have quite some difficulty in draw ing up a suitable platform, mainly be cause of the scarcity of workable is sues which might be advocated. Editorial: 4356t Newt: 4351 1 Sight: 6904 Pinafore9 Will Open 'Pinafore Pulchritude jWUlW.v.;n. .11 i,j .-I.!,' . ii i i r in ii ii. wi III 1 1 li n. i u-i.um.ii... I I 111.1.1 in... ..u.i.i.. Ts. .. ij yph V A f 1 11 v V 'HI -v i j I I ' ' $X - s A - Pictured here are two attractive members of the chorus of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "H.M.S. Pinafore," which is to be presented by the Carolina Playmakers with the cooperation of the University Music department in Memo rial hall tonight and Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock. Left to right are: Dorothy Browning, of Chapel Hill, and Elizabeth Blair, of Thomasville. It's Gigantic! Carroll McGaughey, Modest Director, Gives Lowdown To Barrett As To What To Expect By CHARLES BARRETT Director Carroll McGaughey yes terday announced plans for the first Student-Faculty day combined jam boree and coronation in the Univer sity's history a program modeled after "but vastly superior" to a Broad way revue, with emphasis on the Uni versity campus and its personalities. "We think it is going to be only a whiz and a howl," was McGaughey's modest comment. "We don't want to under-rate it, so at present we're only announcing it is nothing short of a gigantic, colossal, stupendous produc tion. GRAIL DANCE "Rehearsals are being held daily," he continued in a brief interview gained after considerable persuasion, "for a super artistic Grail dance bal let, a super melodramatic trial of the Carolina Buccaneer, a super socially significant folk drama, 'Groan With the Wind,' all featuring super novelty tunes and super romantic ballads, all originaL" (Ed.'s note Whew!) "A cast of over 50 brilliant enter (Continued on page 4, column 2) political porridge This Year off the rapevime Ain't it though ! Men, to reecho the warning of last week, the political hunting season is now open. There are no game war dens, and the only license charge is your party fee. ." Frankly, men, plenty of the lads are packing guns, and anyone caught try ing "to get gay" will get a load of buckshot in the neck. If present plans go through the Bill Pearson of the coming race will be Stan Leary, who says he's going to of fer himself for the junior class presi dency in spite of hell, high water, or lack of party backing. (Note to Leary : Better ask plenty of fellows -what chance an independent has before you slip out on the limb too far.) v - - Dave Morrison and Gates Kimball, first to get on the mark, are still liv NUMBER 97 It's Colossal! WOLFE FUND DRIVE BRINGS IN $400 FOR MANUSCRIPTS Collecting Agencies Are Established To Complete Campaign Under the direction of Mary Thorn ton as secretary, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial fund has increased to $400 to date. The drive to secure the de ceased UNC alumnus's manuscriptjs was aided by members of the Di Sen ate and Tempe Newsome at the YMCA office. Other collecting agencies are the main circulation desk at the li brary, the Bull's Head bookshop and Ledbetter-Pickard's store on Franklin street. Contributions are asked to be sent in by mail. The Memorial fund's secretary has received a number of Wolfe's letters from Contributor Benjamin Cone of the class of '20. A medical doctor in Asheville recently forwarded $10 to aid the fund instead of sending out Christmas cards. When the Tom Wolfe fund has been (Continued on page 4, column 3 ing comparatively quiet lives, , and February 1, the date' of last year's opening, passed with the University party still silent concerning candidates. Coach Bob Sumner was reported by several correspondents to be visiting various fraternity members of his highly- touted aggregation administering early season pep-talks. His theme at all meetings was "Vote Straight." ( Sumner passed his public speaking course last quarter with distinction.) - Leavening the effects of the Student party "blitzkrieg" of January 25, UP announced a far-flung organization, in cluding TO dormitory men who must approve the steering committee's se lections. Three cheers for democracy! ' ' Rumor of the week: Bob McLe more, UP bulwark, has returned from (Continued on page 4, column 4) Sfiiderit Faculty
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