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THDITORIALS: iT TEATHER: H Sixth Race 1 j Innovation mi V' m - $hcncers; vrarmer Z 525 -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH EAST- VOLUME XLVIII Buin: 98$7 Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940 MtorUi: 4356, n: 4351, Ni,ht: 6o NUMBER 101 I ift i ! II JK f 7 I 1 fl II Graham And House To Speak On Behalf Of NYA Students News Briefs By United Press HELSINKI, Feb. & Red army at tacks Finnish lines near Markajaervi after losing 10,030 men in 30-mile re treat on Salla front; Finns smash most powerful Soviet attack of the war; Russian planes bomb and sink Swe dish sf earner. ASHEVILLE Sheriff vLaurence Brown requests the federal bureau of investigation and Washington police to detain and return to North Carolina William Dudley Pelly when he has finished testifying before the Dies committee. COPENHAGEN Fate of Russian 18th division remains in doubt; Scan dinavia hears rumors that Germany is moving for peace. WESTERN of war.. FRONT Quietest day LONDON British volunteers re cruited to fight in Finland; Allies pre pare to send war material and planes; pork, mutton, lamb and beef to be ra tioned in England. BERLIN Germany again warns neutral shipping against use of cer tain routes along British coasts. VATICAN CITY Official organ appeals to foreign powers to give "real support instead of words of praise" to Finland. LONDON Full strength of Scot land Yard mobilizes to cope witlrlrish terrorism connected with scheduled execution this morning of two con victed bomb tossers of the Irish Re publican army. NEW YORK Earl Browder, com munist leader convicted of passport fraud, runs a poor third in bi-election f or representative oLtheJL4th congres sional district. WASHINGTON Democratic na tional committeemen and party work ers, here to open the 1940 White House campaign, shake hands with President Roosevelt but leave for home with no answer to the nation's most baffling nnlitiral nuestion: "Will he .seek a third term?" WASHINGTON Representative Frank Hook, Democrat of Michigan, apologizes to the house and withdraws from Congressional Record fake let ter purporting to show a conspiracy between Chairman Martin Dies and William Dndlev Pellv. leader of the silver shirts: Pelly makes dramatic appearance before committee. WASHINGTON Secretary 6f Ag riculture Wallace announces that goods manufactured from surplus cot ton will be made available to needy families under an arrangement simi lar to the widely acclaimed. food stamp plan. " Playmakers Have Tryouts Today For New Plays Tryouts will be held at 4:30 this afternoon in the Playmakers thea ter for three new one-act plays which have been selected for production on the third experimental bill of the cur rent season next Monday afternoon and evening. Casts will be selected for "Banked Fires," by Constance Smith, of Bronx ville, N. Y.; "Torch in the Wind," by Chase Webb, of Tulorosa, New Mex ico; and "The Penumbra," by Evelyn Matthews, of Asheville, N. C. A fourth Play, "Whipplesnout," by Mary Lou Boylston, of Crewe, Va., is already in rehearsal. Miss Boylston's play, a fan tasy for children, will be given at 4:30 Monday afternoon and the other three at 7:30 in the evening. The plays to be produced were writ ( Continued on page 2, column 6) Little Symphony Concert Postponed Because of the heavy schedule of dances and other entertainment next weekend, the Thor Johnson Little Symphony concert, scheduled for Friday has been, postponed indefinitely. Meeting At 7:10 In Gerrard Hall; Others To Speak By LOUIS HARRIS The' drive to petition Congress against the passage of the NYA ap propriations cut will be culminated to night at 7:10, when a mass meeting, featuring speeches by President Frank Porter Graham and Dean R. B. House, wil be held in Gerrard hall. . ' Besides the addresses by the Presi dent and Dean of Administration, sev eral short talks will be made by NYA boys and numerous campus leaders, who last Sunday endorsed the Ameri can Student union-sponsored drive. Signed telegram petitions will be wired directly to Congressmen from the meeting- . Over a thousand names have already been signed on the petitions being cir culated about the campus by NYA stu dents and ASU members. The Ameri can Student union has placed petitions supplemented by posters in every dor mitory and the YMCA. Action on the bill by the House committee on Finance is slated to come up within the next two weeks, although no definite date has as yet been determined. GRAHAM AND HOUSE Both President Graham and Dean House issued statements yesterday, ap pealing that the passage of the reduc tion be blocked. Dr. Frank said: "The NYA has been very efficiently and very fairly administered." During the last several years it has enabled many boys to go to college who otherwise couldn't. To send these boys out into the ranks of the unemployed will cost society more than would giving them this little help. Just on the pure eco nomics of it, this aid should be con tinued. We hope very much that pro visions for NYA be restored and con tinued. Dean House stated: "I think the NYA- is iodispensible because it gives an educational opportunity to those who couldn't get it otherwise. It also adds certain valuable functions to the University." MUSIC TEACHERS TO GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT AT 8:30 Livingston, Slocum, Haydon" and Klenz ,At Hill Music Hall Glen Haydon, clarinetist, Earl Slo cum, flutist, William Klenz, cellist, and Herbert Livingston, pianist, will pre sent a concert of chamber music this evening at 8:30 in Hill music hall. They will be assisted by Mark Altvater on the oboe and William Moore on the French horn, both students in the Mu sic department, and Herbert Hazel man of Greensboro on the bassoon. The program will be as follows: "Trio in E Flat Major" for the flute, cello, and piano by. Haydn; "Quintet,' opus 17, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bas soon, and horn by Beethoven ; and "Trio in A Minor," opus 114, for clarinet, cel lo, and)iano by Brahms. Magill Presents Solution For Student Unemployment "Vocations For Today" Se ries Is Designed To Aid Nu merous Job Seeking'Students "What am I fitted for, and what should I do while I'm here in college to cet mvself a job when I graduate?" is a question asked by, seniors and freshmen alike at the University. In most cases a shrug of the shoul ders and a hopeless look is all that follows, and each year a large portion of alumni make the nation's unem ployment figures swell. The picture is drab and sorry, tfux it is true that college graduates come "dime a dozen." MAGILL AIDS Ud with a solution has come Bob, Marill. director of Graham Memorial, who recently announced a "Vocations for Today" series which is designed to aid the numerous potential unemploy ed wandering' about the sacred por tals of the University. The programs Henry Brandis, Jr. L . . . experience counts ... ' Henry Brandis, Jr., who has just become a member of the University faculty, brings to his new position' as assistant professor of law several years' experience in legal practice, re search and writing. He was formerly head of the research division of the state revenue department and first as sistant to Commissioner A. J. Max well. Prior to that he practiced law with one of the leading firms in New York and was for several years an as sociate director of the Institute of Government, specializing in taxation. A native of Salisbury, Brandis gradu ated from the University in 192S and received his LL.B. degree at Columbia university.-" CAROLINA INN ANNEX IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS New Rooms Include . Lounging Parlor For Faculty Club The recently completed addition to the Carolina Inn, which includes 40 new hotel rooms, 30 apartments, a new cafeteria, and other various rooms, is now open for business, it was announced yesterday by Leigh Skinner, manager of the Inn. There were 52 hotel rooms in the old set-up and the 40 additional ones bring a total of 92 rooms in all. The 30 apartments include 15 two-room and 15 three-room apartments. All of the apartments are furnished and will have direct phones, not connected with the desk in the lobby of the Inn. The new hotel rooms are not equipped with phones, but they will be in the near future. . One of the new rooms in the' Inn is a lounge room for the use of the faculty club. In addition to this room, the (Continued on page 4, column 6) Culver Graduates All faculty members who attend ed Culver Military academy are -urged to call Ben Husbands at his office today between 11 and 3 o'clock. J. C. Fleet of the Culver staff is on the campus today. s- Music Department Will Begin Series Of Radio Programs The University music department will broadcast from the studios in Cald well hall here a regular series of pro grams every Thursday night from 8:30 to 9 o'clock over radio "station WPTF in Raleigh, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, head of the radio department of the extension division. The program will be known as "The University House," and will be a per manent feature of the cooperation of the University with WPTF, which is an affiliate of the National Broadcast ing Company. The first program of the series wil be heard tomorrow night. Dr. Glen Haydon, head of the music department, has had considerable ex perience in the field of radio broad casting, both in California and in this (Continued on page 2, column 6) 'Soitg-T Brings ! Sixth Bay Jamboree To Perfect Close CPU WIEL BRING ROBERT A. TAFT HERE ON FEB. 22 Secretary Of State Cordell Hull Unable To Appear Here The Republican national committee yesterday released definite word that Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, of the Ohio GOP clan, would definitely ap pear here "on the CPU platform on Washington's birthday, February 22. Chairman Harry Gatton of the union announced "yesterday that he had re ceived a letter from Secretary of State Cordell Hull, expressing his regrets on not being able to speak here. According to the build-up accorded the Ohio junior senator in last week's Time Magazine, political trends point to a probable Taft nomination at the Republican convention next summer. The weekly publication reviewed the senator's record in Congress and his back-ground in the White House when his father, William Howard Taft, was president. The article, which included Taft's picture on the cover of the is sue, told how the usual feeling among observers of the political scene have always looked leary-eyed at the Buck eye senator's chances jn every elec tion he has faced, but that he in variably won out in the final tabula tions. , . . HULL CONGRATULATES CPU In his letter to Gatton, Hull paid tribute to the CPU and expressed his sincere desire. of speaking before the union." He added, however, that pressing duties in the nation's capi tal would confine him there ' for at (Continued on page 2, column 3) James Eldridge, Research Worker, Educator, Dies James Eldridge, 56, educator and research worker, died of a heart at tack at his home on Oak avenue in Carrboro yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock. He had been in ill health six weeks. Mr. Eldridge was graduated .from the University in 1914. A Johnson county native, he taught in high schools over the state, having been principal of Snow Hill high school in 1921 and superintendent at Carrboro the follow ing year. He was head of the English department at Gordon institute, Barn esville, Ga,, a few years. While a student at the University, he was a member of the Phi assembly, sec retary to the education club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lately, Mr. Eldridge had been work ing with the research division of the Southern Historical collection at the University library. He retired from teaching several years ago because of ill health. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jose phine Cheek Eldridge; a daughter, Miss Josephine Eldridge, a University Pharmacy student; a son, Joe Eldridge; a sister, Mrs. Nora Lee of Dunn; and a brother, Dr. Ceba Eldridge of the University of Kansas. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Roy Morris of Sanford, for mer pastor, and Rev. William Poole, pastor, at Carrboro Baptist church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with burial in Carrboro cemetery. Freshmen To Have Pictures Made Today Yackety Yack. group pictures of all freshmen whose names begin with A through P. C. CHERRY will be taken tomorrow morning in front of Manning hall at 10:30, weather conditions permitting,. Editor Jack Lynch announced yesterday. All freshmen whose names are in cluded in the above group are urged to be present because this will be their only class picture in the an Me9 Damce In Tin Can Walton Ray Thompson . . . one in a million ... Walton Ray Thompson Represents 4-H Club On Town Hall Program By LIB NAPIER It is considered an honor to be in vited to speak to the nation from Town Hall, in New York, and for a 17-year-old boy it is doubly so. But one honor more or less would not seem to make any material difference in the crowded career of young Walton Ray Thompson, University freshman from Black Creek, N. C. He has just been selected to repre sent the 1,300,000 4-H' Club members of. America on the -'"Town Meeting of the Air" program in New York tomor row when he wil give a seven and a J half minute talk on "Is Youth Doing Its Share?" EXCUSED FROM CLASSES Young Thompson went to his adviser at the University today Professor Guy B. Phillips of the Education De partmentand asked him if it would be possible for him to be excused from classes two days next week. When Professor Phillips asked him what for, Thompson told him he had been invit ed to speak over a national radio net work from New York and that it would take him two days to go and come. Professor Phillips said: "You wire New York right now that you'certainly will be able to speak. IH take care of your excuses from classes." Thompson was a member of the 4-H Club of Wilson County for four years and completed 20 club projects, netting a profit of $1,362 during that time. ' He also won $50 on his projects (Continued on page 4, column 5) Buccaneer Staff Buccaneer business staff meeting in the office at 5 today. All final re ports for this issue are due. Coeds check with Dot Coble. i I At Donahue Has Contributed Much To American Music 4 Bandsman Who Plays For v Interdorm Set This Weekend Is No Mere "Front Man" Al Donahue, who brings Jiis "Low Down Rhythms" to the University campus for the Interdormitory and Grail dances Saturday af ternoon and night, does not belong' to the strictly "front" group of band leaders whose only function is to wave a baton in front of an orchestra. An excellent concert violinist, Don ahue has also made his mark as an arranger and composer. Heading the Hit Parade list for several weeks this past season was "Don't Cross Your Fingers, Cross Your Heart," one of Al's contributions to the field of popu lar music. He has also written many novelty tunes, among which are his latest, a swingy number titled "Do You Wanna Jump, Chillun" and his current hit, "Sweet Sorrow." His theme song, "Low Down Rhythm (Continued on page 2, column 6) tudent--Faculty. Stanback, Liscomb Responsible For Fine Student-Faculty Day By ORVILLE CAMPBELL A , gay, holiday spirit, the like of which has never .been seen here before at Student-Faculty day, pervaded on the campus yesterday as students and faculty members dropped routine duties to participate in round of festivities. The frolicking, or maybe we should say festivities again, reached a climax in the Tin Can late last night when students and professots donned origi nal costumes and proceeded to the t"Song-Title" Ball to dance before the newly-crowned sovereigns of the cam pus: King Sherman Smith of the Chemistry department and Queen Marjorie Johnston, a coed. The day's events got underway in the morning when seven outstanding professors were bombarded with ques tions from the student body in a "pop quiz" modeled after a popular radio program. , And considering the questions ,the profs batted out a good average get ting 37 out of 52 questions answered correctly. Phil Ellis was student mas ter of ceremonies and Joe Saylek was inquisitor. Professors James Godfrey of the His tory Department and E. E. Ericson of the English department starred, with Professor Benjamin F. Swalin of the Music department coming in third. COACH RAY WOLF Coach Ray Wolf brought a laugh when he answered the question : "What have $ie following four men in com mon? William Shakespeare, Huey Long, Robert Taylor and Woodrow (Continued on page 4, column 3 OVER $300 RAISED IN RECENT DRIVE FOR DONATIONS Infantile Paralysis Foundation Receives Large Contribution Townspeople and ' students of Chapel Hill gave $310 in the recent drive for contributions to the infan tile paralysis foundation, Dr. W. P. Richardson, local chairman, reported yesterday. A slightly larger dona tion is expected since all committee heads have not yet reported. DrT Richardson expresed apprecia tion to the students and townspeople and said that he was "gratified with the splendid results in view of the handicap of bad weather." Can vassers met with enthusiastic coop eration, Dr. Richardson said. Cortgratulations were extended the Freshman Friendship council of the University, Chapel Hill Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, Junior and Senior Hi-Y groups, Boy Scouts, Junior Red Cross, and. elementary schol groups. Campus Glee Club Will Broadcast This Afternoon Through the facilities of the local broadcasting studio, radio station WRAL will broadcast a program by the University glee club this after noon at 3 o'clock from Hill Music hall. Included on the program will be "Oh, What Delight," from "The Pris oners' Chorus" of "Fidelio" by Bee thoven; "Song of Farewell" by Bee thoven; "The Three Fairies" by Henry Purcell; "Call the Ewes," a Scotch folk song arranged by Gordan Nevin; "Down Among the Dead Men," an English folk song arranged by R. Vaughn-Williams; "Oh, Shining Sun" by Schumann, arranged by Sodero; "Dedication" by Schumann, arranged by Scherer; "The House That Jack Built" by Harvey Anders; and "The Prisoner in Caucasus," a Russian folk song arranged by Kirk Schindler. I" (Continued on page , column l)
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