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VOLUME XLVm
Woman's Association Releases
Slate Of Coeds Chosen Tuesday
To Participate In May Court
By VIVIAN GILLESPIE
The Woman's association yesterday released the complete slate
of girls chosen for the May Court in a general coed election held
Tuesday, at which time Louise Hudson was elected May Queen.
Bobbie Winton will serve as Maid, of Honor, as a result of dou-
in the elections. Bobbie Bur-
roughs and Melville Corbett tied for
Mar Court attendants, and it was de
cided at an informal meeting of Al
pha Kappa Gamma, honorary wo
jsan's sorority sponsoring the festi
val, that both girls would serve.
Barbara Liscomb, Helen Ann Ja
c05: Ruth Curtis Robeson, Susie
Fountain, Janice Cobb, and Jeanne
Herman were chosen to be the senior
members of the court. Miss Cobb and
5Iis Herrmann had an equal num
ber of votes, and it was decided to put
both of them in the Court, adding one
jirl to the total number participating-
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Junior and Graduate Selection
Marjorie Johnston, Alice MuraocK,
Frances Bucklew, Elmore Mayer, Kose
Wmtr-er. and Jane Putnam were se
lected to form the junior and graduate
student section of the court.
In voting for the Queen, coeds
marked in order their preference for
the foar candidates,. Bobbie Bur
roughs, Melville Corbett, Louise. Hud
sonand Bobbie Winton. Twenty-one
other girls were nominated for the
May court. Of these, six seniors and
six juniors and graduates were chos
en to make the total of 12 members
of the court. Sixteen girls will take
part in the ceremony: the Queen, her
Maid of Honor, her two attendants,
and her court of 12 girls.
Other girls nominated for the court
were Peggy Leonard, Betty Kenni
son, B. J. Johnson, Pat Dickinson,
Elir.ore Mayer, Eleanor Jenkins, Jane
Gassaway, Susan Robertson and Rose
Winther.
News Briefs
Biggest Bombing Raids
On German Objectives
Since Start of War
(By United Press)
LONDON, April 24 Biggest
bombing raids on German objectives
since start of war reported; war of
fice communique makes no plans
progress in Norway; German air raid
on Scapa Flow causes no damages;
Italy warned inferentially in Parlia
ment not to use Spanish bases against
Allies.
STOCKHOLM Smashing German
victory reported from Trondheim
battle front; Canadian and French
troops seek to give knock-out blow to
2,000 Germans in Narvik, King Ackon
VII of Norway messages German ma
chine in OsloT'rejecting negotiations
ar.d demanding withdrawal of Ger
Ran?.
PARIS French communique re
ports reconnaissance flights into Ger
many extending as far as Trague;
spokesman says danger of Germany
invading Sweden has increased in last
24 hours.
WASHINGTON Another phase of
a purported communist "trojan horse"
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For P.U. Board
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LEONARD LOBRED RICHARD MORRIS
Bth members of the Daily Tab Heel sports staff, Lobred and Morns
tr only one voteapart in the first polling for senior membership ontfte
nations Union board.
Executive Secretary
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PATRICK HEALY, JR.
HEALY AND FESLER
TO BE PRESENTED
BY STUDENT UNION
Vocational Program
Scheduled Tonight
In Lounge at 7:30
"Occupational Opportunities in Pub
lic Administration" is the topic of Gra
ham Memorial's vocational program to"
be held tonight at 7:30 in the main
lounge. Speakers will be Patrick
Healy, Jr., executive secretary of the
North Carolina League of Municipal
ities, and Dr. James Fesler, professor
of political science.
Dr. Fesler will speak on the oc
cunational opportunities in Federal!
administration, and Mr. Healy on
prospects in state and local govern
ment. After the talks Dr. Fesler will ex
plain the opportunities for training
in public administration offered at
the University.
Full-Time Executive Secretary
Mr. Healy i3 the first full-time ex
ecutive secretary of the League of
Municipalities, having been employ
ed in that capacity since 1934. In
1938 he was secretary to the state
commission appointed by Governor
Hoey to study means of eliminating
private laws of the North Carolina
General Assembly. Mr. Healy is also
publisher of Southern Municipal
News.
DTH Business Staff
Will Meet Tonight
The business staff of the Daily
Tar Heel meets at 7:30 in the
business office. Anyone not pres
ent will be dropped from the staff.
No fooling.
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CHAPEL HILL,,N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940
GEORGIA COACH
SPEAKS TONIGHT
TO LETTER CLUB
New Officers
To Be Elected;
Plan Conference
Coach Bill Alexander, head grid
mentor at Georgia Tech, will speak
at a Monogram club banquet tonight
at 7 o'clock in the banquet room of
the new dining hall.
New officers for the club will be
elected, and winter awards presented.
Music will be furnished by Skipper
Bowles and his band.
Dave Morrison and Noel Wood
house are co-chairmen of the commit
tee making plans for the event.
Banquet Precedes Club Conference
The banquet will precede the third
annual state Monogram club con
ference opening tomorrow morning
with registration in Woollen gym
nasium. In the afternoon the confer
ence members will hear short "talks
by Director of Athletics "Coach Bob".
Fetzer, and Richard Worley, student
athlete. The conference is sponsored
by the Monogram club, of which Dave
Morrison is president.
Head Football Coach Ray Wolf will
make a short talk to the assembled
delegates, after which he will lead a
short discussion and show moving
pictures of various Carolina athletic
events.
Officers Will Be Selected !
At a Saturday morning business
session, the members of the conference
will select officers to serve for "the
coming year. Present officers are
Bill Simmons of High Point, presi
dent; Ed Short, also of High Point,
vice-president; Wells Tillery, treasur
er; and Morrison, secretary.
The delegates will be guests of the
Carolina Athletic association at the
AAU track meet Friday and Satur
day, and the frosh baseball game with
Belmont Abbey on Friday.
George Ralston is" chairman of the
committee in charge of arrangements
for the event.
Playmakers Cast
Experimentals
This Afternoon
Tryouts will be held in the Carolina
Playmakers theater this afternoon at
4 o'clock for three new one-act plays
to be presented on an experimental
bill May 4.
Plays to be cast are "The Scarlet
Petticoat," a Negro comedy from the
Deep South by Kate Porter Lewis of
Tuscaloosa, Ala.; "Ray o' Sunshine,"
a play of old age and relief by William
I. Long of Seaboard; and "Taffy the
Tiger," a play for children by Mary
Louise Boylston of Blackville, S. C.
Also to be presented but already in
rehearsal is "The Woman from Merry
River," a folk fantasy by Chase Webb
f Tularosa, New Mexico.
The plays to be given were written in
Professor Frederick H. Koch's course
in playwriting and were selected from
a group of a dozen or more submitted
for consideration.
"The Scarlet Petticoat," Mrs. Lewis'
Negro play, presents the humorous
situation of a widow, who, while plan
ning the tombstone for her husband's
grave, encourages the attentions of a
former suitor.
Long's play "Ray o' Sunshine," is
his second to be presented by the
Playmakers this season. It tells the
story of an aged couple in Northamp
ton county, North Carolina, who have
too much pride to accept government
relief even though their little farm
doesn't give them even the necessities
of life.
"Taffy the Tiger" is the third chil
dren's play by Miss Boylston to ap
pear on the Playmakers stage this
season.
IRC Membership Drive
Ends on Campus Today
Today marks the last day of
the membership drive which has
been held by the International
Relations club for the past two
weeks. All applicants who wish
to be voted on for membership
this quarter must leave their
blanks by noon tomorrow at the
YMCA or with a student on the
membership committee composed
of Manfred Levey, Lyman Collins,
June Epstein, Mary Lewis, Wim
py Lewis and Vivian Gillespie.
ILY IN THE SOUTHEAST-
MoffisoMj Dees Make Final Bid.
"For Student Body Presidency
As Campiis Yotes Again Today
Tar Heel to Post
Election Returns
The Daily Tar Heel will not
be able to conduct an election
party tonight because of a pre
viously scheduled program in
Graham Memorial However, re
turns will be posted at 9:30.
Finish Encore Campaign
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DAVE MORRISON
Here we have Morrison and Dees, one of whom will be next year's
president of the student body, depending on the outcome of today's run-off.
Interdbrmitory Council Names
Five Presidential Candidates
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Burton, Farris,
Heath, Nisbet,
Shuf ord in Race
The interdormitory council last
night nominated five men, Ott Bur
ton, Bob Farris, Ben Heath, Pres
ton Nisbet, and Bill Shuford, for next
year's president. . . Election of the
president from one of these and nom
ination and election of vice-president,
secretary and treasurer will be held
next Tuesday night.
Individual dormitories will elect
presidents and vice-presidents between
now and Tuesday night and all offi
cers will, take office at that time.
Present leaders of the Interdormi
tory council will conduct a dormitory
officers training course for the newly
elected men next Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday.
Farris is now president of H dor
mitory; Burton, president of K;
Heath, vice-president of Steele; Shu
ford, vice-president of Grimes; and
Nisbet, athletic manager of Man
gum. Sound and Fury Cast
All coeds and boys who have
been asked to appear in the
Sound and Fury show, "One
More Spring," will come to an
important rehearsal tonight at 9
o'clock in Memorial hall. It is es
sential that everyone be present,
Director Carroll McGaughey said.
T. Dorsey Arrives Tomorrow For Weekend
Concert Features
Stafford, Sinatra
When Tommy Dorsey and his or
chestra arrive tomorrow afternoon to
open the May Frolics weekend with
a public concert in Memorial hall, he
will have put his 21-room farmhouse
and his thousand biddies out of his
mind.
Tommy, down to earth from his
ethereal orchestrations, loves his farm,
located at Bernardsville, N. J., in
the middle of 22 acres. It is complete
with silo, barns,' horses, milch cows
and chickens.
The home also has a 65-foot tile
swimming pool, heating system, du
plex bathhouses, cement tennis court,
lighted for night playing, barbeque
pit and other intricate features. It
has a playground, bar, bunk room,
nautical decorations for the band to
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Lobred And Morris Enter Close Race
For Publications Union Board Head
By PHILIP CARDEN
Dave Morrison and Bill Dees, who have established top rank
ing records in curricular and extra curricular activities during
their three years at Carolina, engage today in the last round of
a prolonged battle to decide which shall cap his laurels with the
Today
BILL DEES
PHARMACY DANCES
BEGIN TOMORROW
Freddie Johnson
Slated for Music
The annual dance set of the Phar
macy school will be held this weekend
in the Tin Can, the music to be furn
ished by Freddie Johnson and his or
chestra. Before the dances get under way,
a banquet for 'thfe pharmaqists is
scheduled in the Carolina Inn at 7
o'clock tomorrow night. The dinner is
under the sponsorship of the Rho Chi
society, an honorary scholastic fra
ternity of the pharmacy school.
The first dance of the set will be
a formal tomorrow night from 9:30
until 1 o'clock. On . Saturday after
noon from 4:30 until 6:30 a tea dance
and the final affair of the set will be
another formal dance at 9 o'clock Sat
urday night. All dances are to be
held in the Tin Can.
The sponosrs for the dances with
their escorts are: Miss Nancy Click,
Elkin, with Henry Dillon, Elkin, pres
ident of the pharmacy school; Miss
Frances Kelly, Mount Holly, with
Wriston Smith, Kanapolis, vice-president
of the school; Miss Margaret
Banyas, Glenn Robbins, Ohio, with
Leo Lorch, Castle Hayne, secretary
treasurer of the school; Miss Janet
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tLeaves Biddies Behind
TOMMY DORSEY
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NUMBER 155
presidency of the student body. Re
sults in the first skirmish were Mor
rison, 1138 and Dees, 1020.
Next to the Morrison-Dees race,
interest in today's encore election cen
ters around the contest for president
of the Publications Union board. Both
candidates, Leonard Lobred and Rich
ard Morris, have been members of the
Daily Tar Heel sports staff for the
past three years and were separated
by only one vote last week. Morris
polled 792 votes as compared with
Lobred's 791.
With 12 pairs of jiominees enter
ing, today's ballot will be the long
est in the history of run-off elec
tions at the University. In spite of
long weeks of campaigning for last
week's preliminary, candidates found
the necessary energy yesterday and
far into last night to put in hours
of last minute vote-seeking.
As in last week's election students
will vote according to residence at
one of four precincts, either in the
lobby of H dormitory, the lobby of
the YMCA, the small lounge of Gra
ham Memorial or the lobby of Dorm
No. 1. Polls will be open from 9 this
morning until 6 o'clock this afternoon.
Jim Mallory, the only Carolina
party candidate to gain a place on
the. run-off ballot, will tangle with
Hal Jennings in a warm race for vice
president of the Athletic association.
Mallory led last week, 1044 to 848.
Senior class offices to be decided
today are vice-president and Student
council representative. For the first
office Don Baker, with 252 votes, led
Frosty Snow with 244, and for the
second Louis Gaylord, with 252, led
Joe Welborn, with 236.
Complete Junior Class 'Slate
AH junior class offices are subject
to the run-off. Bill McKinnpn, who
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International Glub
Will Be Organized
On Campus At 7:30
Ben F. Crowson, president of the
Pan-American Student Chain, is now
on the campus to organize a chapter
of this international student organi
zation. Students interested in joining
the campus chapter will meet at 7:30
tonight in the Woman's, association
room in Graham Memorial.
The Chain has the folowing activi
ties: the formation of yearly cara
vans to Latin-America; the promo
tion of Spanish and Portuguese in
the United States and English in
Latin-America; the sending of speak
ers to schools; the issuance of identi
fication cards to all members enabling
them to be recognized while travel
ling; the publication of -a quarterly
magazine in four languages; and the
publication of a semi-monthly News
Record of Latin-American news.
Roy all Says Bids
Are Still Available
Approximately 30 sets of invita
tions are available to students who
wish to attend the May Frolics dances,
Kenneth Royall, Jr., secretary - treas
urer of the organization said yes
terday. Application for the bids will be re
ceived by Royall today and tomorrow.
Names may be submitted to any mem
ber of the May Frolics committee.
The sets will be ten dollars.
Tickets on Sale at Dorm Stores '
Tickets to the public concert, which
will be held from 3 to 4 o'clock at
Memorial hall tomorrow afternoon,
are now on sale at dormitory stores
and at committeemen's fraternities.
Admission will be 35 cents.
. Those in charge of dance and con
cert tickets, other than dormitory
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