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JAN 3 0 V341 5 DITORIALS: Silent Professors TTEATHER: Permanent Institution Fair; continued cool -72727 ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME XLIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1941 Kdi torj2: Kewt: 4351: Kiht: C90 Til mm W NUMBER R7 L ZTt"" r3c? British Claim Mrlcam Yicfories: , - . ... j i J nance Ends A m a in tt -m iri -n r r : . -2H r v ' Da All Axis Forces May Be,: Fused. -. -- -y 't ..-.------..--.--.---.--...----.;..-.- ------ . . - -. ... ,v i. -.-.:. s-.-.-. .-:: s : .- . .-.-.-'X-r--. - 2 1 '.-: A ; -v' f: V -it1 " ' x i 4 ' r j - lvv v-'r. t s ; . -r, f ' , , oft , I, v - 1 ?v ITS 60 A. M. as student nurses Martha Clampitt and Betty Moore begin their rounds at the infirmary.- They are two of 60-odd students who have served as nurses and orderlies during the recent influenza. epidemic, taking temperatures, swabbing throats, and wearing nice white uniforms and masks. (Photo by Staff Photographer Jack Mitchell.) - Student Work In Infirmary Commended The quality of romance visions of being a Florence ' Nightingale or of meeting a winsome coed is not enough to account for the wholehearted effort put forth by about 60 Carolina stu dents who served as special infirmary assistants during the recent influenza ?rave. . In the opinion of Fred Weaver, as sistant dean of students, -in charge of the volunteers, the spirit and enthus iasm of the student helpers demon strates that "given something to do Tvith visible meaning, students are willing to work until absolutely" fa tijrued." "Stndents who volunteered for work as orderlies showed unlimited en thusiasm in duties which were tiring and monotonous," he explained. wonder how many would spend as much time listening to a lecture on an abstract theory. K Students Prefer Infirmary to Classes "The fact that several students cut Sec STUDENT WORK, pae 2. Earl Wynn Reads Comedy Tonight For the first Sunday Evening Play reading of the winter quarter, Pro fessor Earl Wynn, of the department 3f dramatic art, will present "The Male Animal," the. hit comedy of last ?ason, by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, tonight at 8:30 -in the Play 2ier3 theater. The play, which tells the story of a siild-inannered English , prof essor who runs into difficulties with the school trustees, and rebels, ran for over a year on Broadway and is now touring the country. Elliott Nugent, the co author, plays the leading role in the production. The reading is open to' all who wish o attend. UP Appoints Dorm Groups New Committees Will Advise Party Avisory committees from each dorm itory in the upper quadrangles are now being appointed to provide in creased representation in the Univers ity party, chairman Jick Garland an nounced yesterday. As soon as dormitory representa tives to the party's steering commit tee have completed their selections, these committees will be consulted prior to the UP's nomination for any campus office. . This announcement makes good Garland's" promise of last week that this year's party would include a greater number . of representatives than in former years. The chairman of the campus old est political party yesterday comment ed briefly on the advisory commitees, which were first setup last year by the UP. More Dormitory Representation "Despite the fact that the party's central committee still consists of 14 dormitory to 13 fraternity members, we think it necessary to get an even greater representation of dormitory men if we are to nominate the candi dates most wanted by the campus." According to Garland, decisions con cerning nominations which1 are reach ed by the advisory committees will be followed by the steering committee ex cept when those candidates indicat ed are not available. Since.one student will be appoint ed from each floor, the total number on the committees will amount to be tween 30 and 35. . The groups will meet separately with the dormitory members of the central committee. DTH Feature Board Meets Tomorrow Afternoon The feature board of the Daily Tar Heel will meet tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the editor's office. Plans Almost Completed For Celebration; Election Of King:, Qneen Tuesday Ship Wreck Island, exactly . as you've dreamed about it, will be. the theme for the Student-Faculty dance February 5. ''" Commodore Jick Garland, dance committee chairman, said yesterday that the "ship wreck shuffle" will wind up the" seventh annual Student Faculty day, and invited everyone to climb aboard, "before they trade the trip to Britain." Ship Wreck Island, as he described it, is the harbor of lost ships, a de serted paradise in the middle of no where, "where you can stay for seven years and a day with your best gal." The Commodore, first mate Eunice Patton, and the ship, with all hands aboard, will leave at 9 o'clock and glide through the blue waters until 1 o'clock. , . i Explicit plans have been made to a cartoon in isquire for their cos turned as Robinson Crusoe and the female representatives "might copy a cartoon' in Epquire for their cos tume." Prizes also," he said or the best and most original costumes by bpys, girls, and faculty members.1 Music for the moonlight sail has not yet been arranged, but the skip per said that in a few days the band would be selected. With plans completed for the dance, all arrangements for the holiday will have been made, except departmental exhibits. The exhibits, a major fea ture of the program, will be announc ed Tuesday. - Nomination for the campus king and queen will be held on Tuesday in the YMCA from 9 to 4, and the re suits will be announced in Wednes day morning's Daily Tar Heel. Fi nal elections will be held Friday, but the winners - will not be announced until the morning of Student-Faculty day. The five leading coeds and three leading faculty members in the prelim inary elections will meet in the finals. The coed with the most votes will Wbe queen, the two with the next high est vote will be her attendants. Page Dies From Pneumonia Curator To Talk On N. C. Homes A gallery talk on "Photographs of Old North Carolina Homes" will be given at 4 o'clock today in Person Hall art gallery by Mrs. Lyman Cot ten, curator of manuscripts of the Southern Historical collection of the library. Mrs. Cotten will discuss the un usual collection of photographs of his torical state homes which is now show ing in the small gallery of Person Hall. The photographs, taken by Francis Benjamin Johnson, are part of the Southern Historical collection. Following Mrs. Cotten's talk, a dis cussion of the current exhibit "The j Wooden House in America,',' will be given by Robert Koch, fellow in art. Loaned to the gallery by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the exhibit features wooden construe Hon in the United States. v Nazi Troops Restore Order In Bucharest By United Press British forces smash d 130 miles west of Libyan Tobruk to Dema to day, claimed the capture of Keru deep in Italian Eritrea, and reported that revolting natives had taken a heavy toll of Benito Mussolini's troops in Ethiopia, . But as Great Brita? t delivered lightning blows in her ittempt to drive the Italians out ol frica, the Axis claimed important nr successes at sea and permitted circulation of re ports that all Italo-German land, sea, and air forces would be fused in one supreme high command. The Germans said their dive-bombers scored direct hits with heavy bombSf against two British battleships and a heavy cruiser in the Mediter ranean west of Crete and the Italians said their submarines sank a loaded British troop ship and a Greek mer chantman in the Atlantic. In addition, the Nazis claimed that a long-range German bomber sank a British merchantman in the Atlantic west of North Ireland and that the Luftwaffe shot down a British plane in a Mediterranean battle. German U-boats, it was said in Ber lin, made successful reconaissance forays into the English Channel, con tacted the enemy repeatedly, and re turned unharmed. In Blood-S pottered Bucharest , Meanwhile, General Ion Antonescu was attempting to restore order in blood-spattered Bucharest. H o r i a Sima, vice-premier and Iron Guard leader, was arrested and probably will face a firing squad as leader of insur gents who for three days spread ter- -ror throughout Rumania in an upris ing which caused 1,000 casualties ac cording to official estimates and 6,000 according to frontier reports. John Hinton Page, 19-year-old sophomore from Alexandria, Va., died in ithe German army units in Rumania sup- University infirmary yesterday morning after three days of illness with ported Antonescu arid generally were v , f v - I v." I Funeral Services For Weil-Known Student Will Be Held In Aberdeen Today at 3 staphylococcus pneumonia. Funeral services for" the youth, victim of a rare type of disease from which few recover, will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in Aberdeen, N. C. Mem bers of Kappa Alpha fraternity will be active pallbearers and Page's co-workers in Sound and Fury will be honorary pallbearers. The Rev. Ernest Barber of Bethesda Presbyterian church will conduct the services in the Page Memorial church. Burial will be at Bethesda, the Page family home, a few miles from Aberdeen. Page was born in Raleigh, lived for some time in Aberdeen and then moved to Washington, D. C, where he attended the Western High School from 1935 to 1939. Well-Known Student On the campus he has been a member of Sound and Fury, winning an ASCAP prize for his songs in last year's musical comedy; of Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity; and Kappa Alpha. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Shaw Page of Alexandria, Va. Mr. Page is assistant to R. D. W. Connor, national archivist and former history professor here. S: : Active pallbearers at today's serv- Graham Memorial Presents 16- Year Old Mauney Twins From King's Mountain in Duo-Piano Recital Today Classical Program Is One Of Series of Concerts By North Carolina Musicians Err.est and Miles Mauney, sixteen Var old identical twins of Kings fountain, wil appear in recital this afvmx.n at 5 o'clock in Hill music hall. Th program by the duo pianist is sponsored by the Graham Me morial student union, and is one in a nts of Sunday afternoon concerts ?' Prominent North Carolina music- ians. The program will include three of 4 ast PPular duo-piano , numbers tr J each twin will also appear in solo ettioas. 1n2ram Is Classical . The first half of the program will J'-de the "Sonata In D Major For y?. anbs." Mozart;, "Ballade In ,thaior Chopin"; and 'Waldesrau . tn Liszt. Ernest Mauney will per- the last two numbers, ie 5fccond half feature Miles ' GRAHAM MEMORIAL, page S. 9 : ;..: - . .:. ' ices will be the following members of Kappa Alpha: Billy Middleton, Mack Bell, Kendal Minnick, John Church, Thomas Long and Ernest Leggett. Honorary pallbearers will be the re mainder of the Carolina Kappa Alpha chapter and the following members of Sound and Fury: Bud Samo, Phil Stamm, Carroll McGaughey, Sanford Stein, Fred Caligan, Ted RoyalL and Jim Byrd. Page came to th infirmary Wednes- credited . in Bucharest with having See NEWS BRIEFS, page U. Better Relations In Two Americas Is Radio Topic "How Can Better Relations be Pro moted between the American Repub lics" will be the subject discussed by Mark Orr, acting as moderator, Dr. S. E. Leavitt. and two members of the South American delegation here on a radio program from the campus studio to be carried by stations WRAL, WFTC, and WGTM from 7:30 to 8 o'clock Monday night. Four programs will be broadcast from the campus studio on Tuesday, 't-S " v .rf;.-H.: IDENTICAL TWINS Ernest and Miles Mauney (we don't know which which) will give a duo-piano recital this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Hill Music hall, sponsored by Graham Memorial. is New Radio Plays Produced Tonight Two new original radio plays will be given experimental production . to night in the radio studio, 208 Cald well, at 7 o'clock, Josephina Niggli, member of the staff announced yes terday. Everyone interested in radio production and writing is invited to attend. The plays, which have been recorded by electrical transcription, will be played from the records. They are "A Tree Grows in Indiana," by Betty Smith, and a play by Joseph D. Feld man, as yet unnamed. Playing in "A Tree, Grows in In diana" are Earl Kastner, as Tom Lin coln, Richard Lessler as Abe Lincoln as a boy, Jack Field as Lincoln as a man, Martin Schwab as Aaron Grigs by, Stanley Iieger as Squire Pate, Irving Goldhaber as ' Breckenridge, Stanley Lieber as Johnny Appleseed, Ann Guill as" Nancy Hanks, Kather See RADIO PLAYS, page 2. i ' ' : . ' day afternoon and his condition be came worse on Thursday. His parents but the University Music hour for- rushed here Thursday night by private merly .. broadcast each Tuesday eve airplane, accompanied by Mrs. Rose ning has again , been cancelled.:, . McMullen of Washington, D. C., who Dr. J. W. Williams of the chemis was to give blood for a transfusion. try department will speak on the Mrs. McMullen, who had recovered Through the Eyes of Science pro- f rom an attack of staphylococcus sep- gram on the subject of "Chemistry ticemia, did not have the same blood in National Defense." Station WBTF type as Page, however, and her blood will air this lecture from 2:30 to 2:45. was not used. Professor Sherman - E. Smith will Blood obtained from a student was present the Weekly News Round-up given by transfusion Friday morning, regularly prepared by Joe Morrison of the Journalism department, over the same station during the next fif teen minutes. . Professor Rex Winslow of the eco nomics department will talk on "De fense and, Your Pocket Book", on a program to be presented by stations WDNC, WBIG, and WSJS from 4 to 4:15. His talks is based on the Will Tim McCoy Ride Again ??? Tim McCoy, the hero of , that old- west thriller, "The Indians Are Com ing," will either live, or die in Chapter , , , I W "--' oi uie ttnai w B"w book "How to Pay for a War" written o:,5U m mu music nan xuiiowiiik by J. N. Keynes. Community Sing. . - i f l nn l " 1 i.L - napter i leit xim iymS w r n:4- C4-l4- street after beinsr thrown from a stage UpnL OlUUCiilS coach, and the, village beUe and hero- Will Meet Tonight ine of the piece had just screamed, "He's killed!" . r ; In addition to this epic thriller, Charlie Chaplin will appear in "The Count," arid Our Gang will perform in "Monkey Business." There will also be a bouncing ; ball dent union song, fVsweet. Adeline, lhe fi Beta After an . informal general discus Phi coeds will sing some of their so- sion refreshments will be served, rority songs. ; Everyone is invited and .students are As usual, Leon. Adams will lead the urged to bring dates. . singing, and Gibson Jackson will Next Sunday at the same hour. Dr. render piano accompaniment for both Frank Graham will talk . on "The See TIM McCOY, page 2. Church During and After the War." Tonight at 7 o'clock in the Baptist church, Hal Kohn, University junior, and Russell Dorn, graduate student of sociology, will discuss "Southern Agriculture and the Church," at the regular meeting of the Baptist Stu-
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