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VOLUME XLIX
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941
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Britain Strengthens Alliance
By Seizing Strategic Italian
Poll Indicates
Students Believe
U.S. Near War
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 26. There
s a growing sentiment among Ameri
can college youth that the United
States will not be able to stay out of
war. ,
This significant trend in current
campus thought ha3 been made, pos
sible through the recurring samplings
of Student Opinion Surveys of Amer
ica, of which the Daily Tak Heel is
a cooperating member, along with 150
other college newspapers.
Repeated checks of national studentRhodes stronghold only 80 miles to
opinion point out that since the. war
tagan nearly three out of every ten
students have changed their minds
about the ability of this country to
avoid the conflict. Even at the end
of 1340 there was still a substantial
majority convinced we could stay out.
But recent events, including the ex
pansion of hostilities to the Mediter
ranean area, the approach of spring
and with it the threatened invasion
f England, and the success of the
Roosevelt administration with the
lease-lend bill, have apparently made
the war seem closer. A majority now
Sieves the U. S. will be involved.
This U the three-survey record kept
by Student Opinion Surveys over a
ix-'riod of fourteen months: .
Believing we C2n stay out of war:
December 1939 . G8ca
December 1940 - 63tf.
February 1941 - 499
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Move May Lead to
Quick Aid to Turkey
By United Press
LONDON, Feb. 26. British forces
have captured and occupied the forti
fied Italian island and seaplane base
of. Castel Oritzo off Turkey's south
ern coast, it was announced officially
tonight, as . British moved quickly to
reinforce her alliance with Turkey.
The seizure of the tiny island, east
ernmost point of Italy's bases in the
Mediterranean, roused speculation
that Britain, with Turkish consent,
might be preparing to seize all of the
Italian Dodecanesa Islands, gateway
to the strategic Dardanelles.
The occupation of the Italian is-
land base a. stepping-stone 10 xiaiy a
the west was regarded as a prelimi
narv move to quick British aid to Tur
key if the latter enters the war against
the Axis.
The taking of Coastal Oritzo, which
lies less than 10 miles off the Turkish
coast south of Elmanli and is midway
between Rhodes and the British base
of Cyprus, occurred yesterday, a joint
communique of the Admiralty and
War Office said. ,
Senate Managers of Aid Bill
Approve Opposition Amendment
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Senate
managers of the British-aid bill to
night offered to accept an opposition
amendment which would require Presi
dent Roosevelt to have Congressional
approval fur transfer to a foreign
power of United States war equip
ment valued in excess of $1,300,000.
The proposal, sponsored by Senator
See NEWS BRIEFS, page 4.
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SOUND AND FURY beauties are
getting all slicked up for tonight's
presentation the second of
"Standing Room Only," which begins
at 8:30 in Memorial hall.
Above, four of Director Carroll
McGaugheyV luscious chorines- put
on 'a little make-up just before go
ing on. In the proverbial order, bare
legged Pick Rancke, Mary Bowen,
Jean Sherwood and Sara Summerlin
use the mirrors to good effect, look
ing not-at-all nervous.
. At the left, Randy Mebane applies
a final dab of powder to Mary Cald
well's nose, while Jean Hahn un
concernedly gives her hair-do the
last once-over.
The hard work of boys and girls
like these made last night's show a
howling success and tonight's pre
sentation promises to be no less suc
cessful. With Turkey
Seaplane Base
Latins To Hear
UNC Symphony
At Commencement
The University symphony orchestra,
under the direction of Dr. Benjamin
Swalin, will provide music for the
commencement exercises of the South
American "summer school," which will
be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
in Hill hall.
Friday night's program, which will
replace the usual winter quarter home
concert by the orchestra, will include
"The Story, of the Kalendar Prince"
from the suite Scheherezade by Rim-sky-Korsakov
and the Carmen Suite
No. 1 by Bizet.
The summer school commencement
will be patterned after regular Uni
versity closing exercises, with award
ing of the traditional sheep-skins, a
baccalaureate sermon, "and several
short talks by members of the s6hool.
Governor Broughton, or his repre
sentative, will present the diplomas
to the graduating Latins, and the com
mencement address will be delivered
by Professor S. E. Leavitt, director
of the school. '
Dean R. B. House will preside, the
chairman of each of the seven South
American delegations will speak, and
Father Francis J. Morrissey will de
liver the invocation,
ASU Meets Tonight
The Carolina chapter of the ASU
will meet tonight at 7:30 in room 212.
Graham Memorial.
WPA- Crew
Work
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Nation's Largest
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By Paul Eomisarok
: Carolina's aerial expansion program
4-designed to make the University's
airpbrt the largest college field in the
nation will be undertaken on a 607
acre site and will cost $210,000, Uni-
versity Engineer, ; A. R. Hollett, an
nounced yesteraay. , .
h Work on the new project has al
ready begun, Hollett said, and will be
completed around September 1:
iThe new field, arising out of the
ruins of last January's disastrous fire,
has befT listed by the Civil Aeronau
tics authority as a Class four field,
capable of handling "anything that
flies."
WPA Crew Moves In
A 120-man WPA crew moved in
late last week and started moving the
450,000 yards of dirt, clearing the
250 . acres of land, and preparing the
145 acres of seeded areas that will
comprise the three runways among
the largest anywhere.
.. Two will be 4,000 feet long, and
the third 4,500 feet. They will have
a width of 500 feet, and are so ar
ranged that at their points of inter
section, there is a 1,500 foot clear area
of runway which will allow planes to
come in from any direction. They are
to be so consructed that a thousand
feet can be added to each one if neces
sary, but even at their present' dist-
ances, anvthiner from a Dursuit Diane
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ways that, exceed 3,500 feet, Hollett
said. Within three to four weeks two
of the runways will be ready for use.
Runways of Grass
These runways, Hollett remarked,
will be sown with fine graded grass.
He said that the secret of the turf
runways is an adequate draining sys
tem, and that the University field will
have 12,000 feet of drainage pipes to
handle the problem.
Plans have been made forthe new
field to have five hangars, "when and!
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if necessary." At present one hangar,
60 by 90 feet, similar to the one de
stroyed in the fire, is being construct
ed. When complete, and ready for
use which should be by April 1, Hol
lett said it will hold about 12 planes.
Cost of the hangar will be about four
or five thousand dollars. Hollett said
that it would have a cement floor,
parking strip, ana iaxi sinp io me
runways in order to. eliminate any
difficulty that might arise during
rainy weather.
No Lights at Present
Nothing in the present project calls
for lighting the field, Hollett said, but
See AIRPORT, page 4
Peace Organization
To Hold Open Forum
The American Peace Mobilization
will hold an open forum Sunday night
at 7:30 in room 211, Graham Memor
ial, expressing its views on the lend
lease bill. - ,
Forum speakers will include How-
ard Ennis, Phil Schinhan, Ruth Lea-
to a flying fortress will be able, to ' cil considers high stakes. would be sub
land with ease and safety. . Most ject to suspension from dormitory resi
large airports today do not have run-! dencel ' ." ' ". " 1
fer and Moe Malkin. Questions and has been in school four years and lost
discussion from the floor will follow j an NYA job because he couldn't make
the speakers. 'good enough scholastic grades."
Rdmeses Is Proud Poppa of Twin Daughters,
But Still Bewails Lack of Son and Heir
Rameses IV,, the University's offi
cial mascot, has become the father of
twin daughters, born Saturday at his
home at the Lake Hogan Dairy farm.
Presented to the University by Dr.
Lewis Webb, an alumnus from Texas,
shortly after the death of Rameses
III, Carolina's Ram was once adjudg
ed the best of his kind in a contest
in the Lone Star state, after having
won numerous ribbons at county fairs.
E. G. Hogan, owner of the Hogan
farms, and the four Hogan boys -Glenn,
Jack, Henry and Hubert
are keepers of Rameses IV, who in
000, Cover 607 Acres
Carolina is
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GEORGE GLAMACK, All-Ameri-
can last winter and an almost sure
repeater, leads the White Phantoms
into the conference basketball tour
nament tonight against Duke. With
306 points in 15 league games, he is
far ahead of other conference scor
ers. '
Hits Gambling
Offenders Will Lose
Residence Privilege
The Jnter-Dormitory council, served
notice last night that dormitory refin
i dents who gamble for, what the "coun-
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Putting "teeth" in the notice, the
council of presidents Tuesday, night
expelled two students, a freshman and
a junior, from residence in any dormi
tory after this quarter. .The two boys
were brought before the council fol
lowing numerous reports regarding
their gambling for high stakes and of
disturbing conduct.
"We know it is impossible to abolish
'penny poker and so-called friendly'
games in the dormitories," said Ben
H ft president of the council, "but
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we are going to crack down on boys
playing for what the council considers
high stakes." ,
"We know, too," said Heath, "that
these two students are just two of the
many dormitory boys who have been
gambling for high stakes. The council
knows : the names of a dozen others.
tf gam
ble, the council will take definite action
against them." ;
At the Tuesday meeting members of
the council, not mentioning specific
names, reported tnat tney Knew oi
several loys on campus who were pay
ing their way through the University
by gambling. , Another member said
that a boy in his dormitory won $20 in J
one game only to have it stolen from
him the next day.
Heath pointed out that the two boys
suspended from dormitory residence
were not the "guinea" pigs in the coun
cil's anti-gamblitfg drive. "The boys
admitted playing stud and draw poker
for twenty-five and fifty cent limits
after being wTarned a number of times
not to continue playing. The junior
his three years as official side-liner
for Carolina football teams has seen
the Tar Heels win 24 games, lose five
and tie one.
Only disappointment about Ram
eses' newly-acquired fatherhood is that j
he didn't produce another 'ram who I
might someday replace him as Uni
versity mascot.
Reports yesterday were that his two'
daughters and spouse were "progress
ing nicely." Rameses himself had no
comment to make on his becoming a
proud poppa, except to ask for a cig-j
arette.
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Tar Heel 'Big Six'
Must Stop Devil
Attack Or Else
! By Leonard Lobred , ,
Long accustomed to close competi
tion in the first round but never be
fore faced with a threat as serious as
Duke's Blue Devils, the White Phan
toms open defense of their Southern
conference basketball title tonight at
9 :0 in the last of the first-round
games to be played in Memorial audi
torium in Raleigh.
For this rubber game in the Carolina-Duke
series, which has presented
itself for the second successive year,
Carolina will be favored because
many followers believe that in all their
fire and fury the Phantoms cannot be
J overtaken. Disregarding pre-season
j dope that picked Carolina to be great,
and disregarding the last Duke con
test, in wiich Carolina trailed almost
all the way, the Phantoms will be
favorites because they have George
Glamack and other performers who
have shown themselves clearly to be
the best court combine in the confer
ence. ' '
Feature of Opening Round ,
Carolina and Duke will play the fea
ture game of the tourney's opening
round, starting at 9:30 , after, the
South Carolina-Richmond game at 3
o'clock, Wake Forest-William and
Mary at '4 :30, and VMI-Washington
and Lee at 8 o'clock. Carolina .would
be the feature team anyway,regard
less of its opponent. The Blue Devils
only, put, the Phantoms more on the
spot. ' '' ' - : , "
Co-captains George Glamack and
Jimmy Howard, - Paul Severin, Hank
Pessar, Bob Rose and Bobby Gersten
only returning lettermen from last
winter's title team head the 10-man
squad named last night by Coach' Bill
Lange to carry Carolina's . chances
through the tournament, and Julian
Smith, Reid Suggs, Ed Shytle ; and
George Paine fill in the other , four
berths. Only Smitty, among those in
the lower group of four, was on the
tournament . team last winter, while
Suggs and Paine are sophomores and
See BASKETBALL, page 3
Snapshot Award
Won by Bell v
Lovely Kay Walsh taking- notes on
a Botany field trip is the subject of
the prize winning snapshot in : -the
Yackety Yack contest, it was announc
ed yesterday. 7,
This photo, judged the best candid
snapshot of campus life submitted to
the editors of the University annual,
was taken by Clyde Ritchie Bell. - .
This candid gentleman may receive
his reward of rich wampum by com
ing by the yearbook office between 2
and 2:05 this . afternoon and humbly
begging audience from business man
ager Norman Stockton. .
Incidently the prize amounts to ten
dollars, or as Carolina men recognize
it, 100 beers. ...
Latins To Perform
At Conga Party
A board of experts direct from the
"congaing" countries will do their
best to perfect the conga steps and
rhythm , at the conga party Friday
night from 10 to 1 in the Tin Can,;
. On,one of their last nights in Chapel
Hill. the South American students will
be guests of honor, at the dance be
ing sponsored by Graham Memorial.
Julian Burroughs and his Student
Union orchestra will provide the music
for the dance. The orchestra has
worked up several special conga num
bers, as well as regular swing songs.
Orchestra Rehearses -Tonight
In Hill Hall
The , University Orchestra will re
hearse at 7:15 in Hill hall. All mem
bers are requested to be present and
on time.