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FEB 2 9 fS40 pDITORIALS: U Let' Return j Playmaker8 TV Cloiidu: icssiblv -77E CWZ.Y COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XL VIII Bwuum: 9SS7 Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1940 rjtoriaJ: 4356, aw 4351, msitt 698 NUMBER 119 u. .ForAA Oil, ay mm X .AW I I till . ..T J I V t . V I V I i X Playieakers Present Clare Soothe Comedy This Evening At 8:30 Elizabeth Carr h u jo ' ; v . ,.; - -I? S I s V . Brooklyn bombshell . Kline Is Elected To Manage Campaign Of Carolina Party -s News Briefs By United Press ISTANBUL, Feb. 27 Turkey de cides to recall all her ships from abroad indicating that the Ankara government is determined to be ready for anything that may happen, in cluding a spread of the European war to the Near East. LONDON British planes shoot down two German bombers off the northeastern coast of England and Royal Air Force planes drop leaflets over Berlin. One German submarine sunk while British and neutrals lose 10 merchant ships at sea; Winston Churchill charges Germany with ex ceeding the "worst villanies" of the last war, and attacks the neutrals for altered submission to the "outrages"; Great Britain considers establishing contraband control of Pacific ocean in order to prevent Russian imports from reaching Germany. BERLIN Nazis shoot down Brit ish plane over Helgoland Bight and deny that Royal Air Force planes flew ovei Berlin. PARIS Government reportedly launches "greatest peace offensive in six months" timed with Undersecre tarj of State Sumner Welles visit; European conflict swings off ground and into air as bombs of Britain, France, and Germany criss-cross En rope's skies. WASHINGTON House defers pas saK of bill for non-military loans to Fmknd and China, but passage is ex Pld by tomorrow night. KELSINK I Russian drive on Vii Pri reaches such intensity that all t0n- bordering the Bay of Viipuri ar evacuated. ROME Undersecretary of State W.er Welles departs from Berlin (Continued on page 2, column 6) Adrian Spies, Misses Mallory, Carr Take Leads For the first time tonight at 8:30 in their theater the Playmakers will present Clare Boothe's amusing par ody, "Kiss The Boys Goodbye," with Catherine Mallory, Adrian Spies, and Elizabeth Carr in the leading roles. The play wil be presented for four nights beginning tonight and running through Saturday night. Tickets are on sale at Ledbetter Pickard's, at 316 South building,, and at the box office, Admission will be either by Playmaker season ticket of 50 cents. : PARODY Adrian Spies in . the . outstanding masculine role will :play Madison Breed, a parody on-the late Heywood Broun. Broun, a liberal columnisjt who prints what hethinks, is the only one in the play who is really kind to Cindy Lou, the southern girl portrayed by Catherine Mallory. ' Catherine Mallory as Cindy Lou as pires to. the role of Velvet O'Toole, the same role as that of Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. Elizabeth .Carr as Myra Stanhope also hopes to play the role and there is a clash be tweenthe-two personali ties at a weekend houseparty around which the play's action takes place. With a. Hollywood movie star, a stage-strticX.b.elle, and a sophisticated lady to dress, Irene Smart, assistant Playmaker costumer, has outdone her self on the feminine wardrobe. The settings are by Fred Walsh of the Playmaker technical staff, who has de signed smart modernistic settings in keeping with the tempo of the play. President Of AA Leads First Drive Of New Faction By BUCKY HARWARD Chuck Kline, senior from Carthage, has been elected general campaign manager of the new Carolina Party, announced Par'f Chairman Bob Mc Lemore yesterday. Kline, who has made an enviable record in athletics, scholarship and campus activities during his five years at the University, is now president of the Athletic association and a promi nent member of the student legisla ture. His eleption by the CP steering committee is the first officialaction taken by the party since McLemore's announcement last Saturday that the third party had been formed "to clean up campus politics." The objectives of the party were (Continued on page 4, column S) Chuck Kline MM ffWBffiWfl ,,n. immww IJ" JL " ' i i y . - ) N . 1 1 - ' - .' . . N . ' ' J ' ' : 1 i- 5:. L- ' , h ' ' . . . key man . . . COMPLETE JUNIOR SLATE HEADED i BY PINKY ELLIOT Hobbs, Diffendal, Rose, Coxhead Are Also Announced By LOUIS HARRIS . Making campus political activity whirl with the rapidity of a Monte Car lo roulette wheel, the University party last night named Paul Severin and Hal Jennings for the presidency and vice presidency of the Athletic association and a complete riaing junior slate headed by Pinky Elliot for president and Truman Hobbs for student council representative. The other rising junior posts were filled by the nomi nations of John Diffendal for vice president, Al Rose for secretary,: and George Coxhead for treasurer". All of the nominees on the rising junior slate have been active in cam pus life duringtheir two years at the University, while Severiri and Jen nings both rising seniors, have been prominent in varsity athletic compe tition. Yesterday's nominations, by the UP marked the second class slate nominations to be announced" by the party within a week, the rising sopho more candidates having been released last Fridayl Earlier, the campus oldest political faction named Bill Dees, two year student councilman, for the presidency of the student body, and Jimmy Howard star basketball player and treasurer of the Monogram club, for president of the senior class. PINKY . y Elliot, from-Charlotte, running for the presidency of the rising juniors, was last spring elected vice-president of his class, and was appointed to the sophomore class executive committee. Last -fal!,"he starred at end in several football games, and this spring is ex pected to make the arsity track team. Hobbs, who lives in Selma, Alabama, I and named for student council repre sentative, was also a sophomore class officer this year, holding down the post of treasurer. During the course of year, he has been prominent in the student legislature, holding member ship on the constitution committee which recently drew up the new set of laws for the campus assembly. Hobbs has also been outstanding in the Di senate for two years, serving as critic this past quarter. He has a scholastic average of 91. Rose, who is from Durham, has been (Continued on page 2, column 5) BONNER ELECTED NEXT PRESIDENT OF DI SENATE Mary Lewis Named President Pro-Tern For Spring Quarter John Bonner was elected president of the Dialetic -senate for the spring quarter at the executive meeting of the society last night. Bonner, a rising senior in the Uni versity, is president of the YMCA on the campus as well as holding other im portant executive offices during his 'nearly four years as a leader in the student body. Mary Lewis was reelected president pro-tern of the Di, having held this position during the last quarter. She is prominent in student activities, be ing among other things a member of the IRC, the Women's Association, and the AKG, an honorary girls society. Other officers elected last night were Elbert Hutton to the position of critic, Louis Poisson to the office of clerk, (Continued on page 2, column S) - Local PTA To Give "You Can't Take It With You" Tonight The Chapel Hill Parent-Teachers association will present Hart-Kaufman's "You Can't Take It With You" in the Chapel Hill high school audi torium at 8:30 tonight. The cast will be composed of Chapel Hill citizens and University faculty members. Tickets are on sale for 50 cents at Eubanks drug store. Proceeds will go to the PTA. Undergraduate Phi Approve Requirement Cham . . s Hoyle McBane, Thomas Lacock Appeal Sentences For Thefts Paul Severin impressive record CO-OP THEATER WILL GIVE TWO PLAYS MARCH 8 Paul Green Adviser Of Newly Formed Dramatic Company The Co-op theater, recently formed independent dramatic group, yester day announced the production of two experimental plays on March Z. The plays are "Air Raid," by Archibald MacLeish and "The Devil's Bread," by Edward Post. These plays are being planned in the new expressionistic style that the Co-op theater is interested in bring ing to this campus. They are now in rehearsal and are being arranged bv a general cooperative effort. Paul Green has become the official ad viser of the group. CHALLENGE "Aid Raid" offers a definite chal lenge in theatre technique. It is a verse play which was originally writ ten for the radio, and the Co-op's ren dition of it is a special adaptation. Those appearing in the cast are: Ted Dichter, Ralph Lutrin, David Hooks, Bob Carroll, Kay James, Eleanor Jones, Mary Wood, Louise Stiefel meyer, Gerty Gibsom, Lib Blair, Elaine Terris, Helen Copenhaver, and Hilda Sharkey. "The Devil's Bread" is a strongly satirical modern version of the old morality play. It is the story of John Doe, an old fiddler, who goes off on a symbolic pilgrimage. During this he meets with many symbolic repre sentatives of modern society. Bill Gould and Connie Smith are directing "Air Raid" while Eleanor Jones and Ed Post are directing "The Devil's Bread." P. C. Athas, Historian, To Lecture Tonight At 7:30 In Gerrard P. C. Athas, graduate specialist in medieval Byzantine history, announced yesterday that he will lecture on "The Rumanians and the Great Powers," tonight at 7:30 in Gerrard hall. He will answer any questions per taining to the origin and development of Rumania and its relations with other European powers during an open forum immediately following the lec ture. r U "' ...;:. -.?:":';::: Bonds For Local Youths Are Placed At 500 Each Two local youths, Hoyle McBane, former University student, and Thomas Lacock of Carrboro, appealed road sentences of six months each for stealing overcoats and other articles from University students and bonds were placed at $50ft each in Recorder's court here yesterday. Attorneys for the youths, H. A. Whitfield and Judge L. J. Phipps, won revisions of charges from felony, in volving theft of articles valued over $20, to misdemeanor, concerning stolen articles valued less than $20. Had f elonius charges been proven, the youths would have been tried in Orange county criminal court. SENTENCES Judge Andrew Mcintosh gave the pair six-month road sentences on two counts, stealing a 17-jewel watch and gold cameo ring, valued at $30, from Henry Bryan, University student, and a top coat, valued at $25, from Fred Norman, another student. Valuations were reduced when defense attorneys forced the court to accept "value in the marketable public" Prayer for judgment was continued for two years on payment of costs and redemption of stolen property in three other cases, in which the two youths were charged. - Two overcoats - were taken belonging to Lee Jasper, Uni versity student; Allen Green editor of the campus literary publication, the "Carolina Magazine," lost an over coat; and Ike Taylor student, lost an initialed billfold and . overcoat. CASE HISTORY Officer J. D. Blake, who arrested the two February 9 when they were headed for Burlington to dispose of three coats taken from the University dining hall, said that the boys ad mitted stealing the articles. After other overcoats and jewelry were re covered from Durham loan shops, the boys confessed to having stolen three coats, the watch and ring. Coats belonging to Lee Jasper, Of ficer Blake testified, were taken (Continued on page 4, column 5) NISBET PLEASED WITH ATTENDANCE ATSP MEETINGS Large Assembly Expected Tonight i At 9 O'Clock By CHARLES BARRETT Preston Nisbet, chairman ' of the Student party, yesterday expressed satisfaction at the wide representa tion of the student body at previous conventions this year, and said he expected a similar large assembly at tonight's meeting in Phi hall at 9 o'clock. "We initiated the open convention method of nominations in a sincere effort to democratize selection of of ficials," he said, "and so far we have been pleased with the success of our efforts." , DELEGATES Two delegates from each dormitory floor on the campus have been elected to form the official list of Student party delegates, while the meetings axe open to the entire campus. All J nominations are made from the floor of the convention and voted upon by the entire body of delegates. Assembly crowds this year have numbered from slightly under 100 to over 150, largest in the party's his tory. ... Nisbet yesterday said he believed there was a strong possibility that a motion for important nominations would be made tonight, but that it was difficult to predict just exactly 1 what would happen due to the large j (Continued on page 2, column 5) Bete Mem ges Faculty Members May Have To Act For Final Approval Unanimous vote of the six under graduate members of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa present at last night's call meeting favored the repeal of provisions written into the fraternity's by-laws last year lim iting junior membership In other ways than purely scholastic. Those present were not sure whe ther they constituted the quorum nec essary to amend by-laws, since they did not know whether faculty members would be considered as active mem bers. The group decided to register its opinion pending a decision as to what constitutes a quorum of active members and pending the approval of faculty members if that is found neces sary. Jack Fairley expressed the opinion of the committee composed of him self, Watts Carr and Lynch Mur phy, who called the meeting and pro posed the change when he said, , "We felt that the honor should be awarded purely on a scholastic basis, not on a political or honorary basis.' Watts Carr, vice-president of the fraternity, said, "Frankly, I don't feel that it's fair for me to be a member of the fraternity when I know other boys who had a three or four point better grade than I did yet were not admitted." Dean R. B. House, faculty mem ber of the fraternity, in suporting the proposed change said, "I think there ought to be one objective honor which is achieveable on pure merit at the University. We need not" even fear the grade-hound, for if the faculty per mits course-shifting, that is some- - (Continued on page 4, column 4) GERTRUDE CLINTON IS MAL SPEAKER ON UNION SERB Employment Service Official To Discuss "Jobs For Women" Mrs. Gertrude Clinton, field super visor for the State Employment serv ice, will speak on "Occupations for Women" in the last of the Graham Me morial "Vocations for Today" pro grams to be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the main lounge of the student union. A graduate of Lenoir Rhyne college, Mrs. Clinton has been active for the past two years in placing both men and women in jobs in the industrial Piedmont section of the state. Her duties include supervision of both un employment compensation and em ployment service work. Recently1 she was instrumental in developing place ment services in' Charlotte, Gastonia, Lexington, Albemarle, and Concord. FORMER POSITIONS Before taking her position with the employment service in the fall of 1937, Mrs. Clinton was superintendent of Public Welfare for Gaston county and local representative for the North Carolina Department of Labor. From 1932 to 1935, she was administrator for the North . Carolina Emergency Relief administration in 13 counties. Tomorrow's program will conclude the winter quarter set of Graham Me morial's "Vocations for Today" se ries which were designed to present several occupations to students in an effort that a choice of life work might be .made before graduation. Should the committee in charge of the pro grams feel that the interest shown in this quarter's series was great, enough, "Vocations for Today" will be con tinued during the spring term. Headphones Missing ' A pair of Western-Electric head phones was yesterday reported miss ing from the control room of the cam pus radio studio in Caldwell hall. Of- ficials of the studio asked that they be returned immediately as they are needed every day.
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