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DITORIALS: . Fireside Fraternizing H ITTTEATHER: f CUmdy cnk colder Temporary Reduction, THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME XLIX SS87; CixcsUtioa: tgg CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, MABCH 5, 1941 Editorial: UU; News; 41S1; Nt: ON NUMBER 119 MM Boubch: Playmakera Present 'M&randers9 ToMsr fat World Premiere Of Houston Play Opens at 8:30 The Marauders," Noel Houston's new play of the Oklahoma rich, will make its first bow across the foot lights tonight at 8:30 in the Carolina playmakers theater. Performances will also, be given to morrow, Friday and Saturday nights at the Bame hour. Presenting "The marauders' as their fourth major production of the season, the Playmakers are giving their pa trons first chance at a play that may Jut Broadway this spring.- The au thor, who began his career as a dra matist here several years ago and last year saw two of his one-act plays attain success on the professional stage, has just returned from a New York production conference. . j Destined to stand in the circle of the vicious great beside Tallulah I Bankhead's "little fox" is malicious jtfardella, the central charcater of the play. , Mardella is a lady without scruple ur satisfaction. She snatches her gen tle sister's intended husband - and makes off with the booty. To create the role of Mardella, the Playmakers have chosen Elizabeth Carr, who last year played the "blonde bombshell" in the hit show "Kiss the Boys Goodbye." With her tresses darkened, Miss Carr bids fair to look her loveliest and set . the . fireworks ablaze when the curtain . goes , up on -The Marauders." The male "marauder" in the case will be played by Robert Bowers, who is well-known to Playmaker audiences by virtue of a long succession of vital characterizations. Bowers, who grad uated from . the University several years agor2ndis now back-on a Rocke feller fellowship, has appeared on the professional stage in the interim. For four summers he has had leading roles in "The Lost Colony" production at Manteo. Last year he wts seen here in 'The Field God." Betty Lou Bolce and Jean McKen zie will appear in the roles of Mar ietta's sisters, Eleanor - and Susan. Both actresses have displayed their See 'THE MARAUDERS', page 4. Worley Announces Glee Club Concert Here Next Sunday The Greensboro, college glee club. wilder the direction of Walter Vassar, will give a concert here Sunday after noon at 3:30 in the main lounge of Graham Memorial, Richard Worley, director of the student union, an nounced yesterday. The p-Ipa club, eomnosed of 47 women students at the Greensboro College for Women, has been on a tour which has included concerts in Wash ington, D. C; Charlotte; Burlington; Greenville; Hampton, Virginia; Thorn -asville; and Elizabeth City. Vassar, director of the glee club, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, and taught for two years in the School of Music at DePauwuni versity. . Vassar was also connected with the Philadelphia Grand Opera company for two years, and the Chautauqua association for a summer,v and has ap peared with the Philadelphia orches tra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. In the last five years, the Greens fcoro college glee club has given over 170 concerts in North Carolina and Virginia. They have also frequently une on broadcasts from Charlotte, Richmond, Washington, and Greens boro. Beethoven's Symphony Features Concert If you can resist the arboretum to night, the fireside concert in the main lounge of Graham Memorial at 7:30 ill do just as well, in fact, better, since thereH be music too. The program of recorded classical ttie to be played tonight includes "Brigg Fair" and "An English Rhap sody" Delius; "AJceste Overture," Glu; "Symphony NoC 5," Bee thoven; and the second movement of : Prokofieff concerto. I. V; T PLAYWRIGHT Noel Houston re turned to Chapel Hill and the Caro lina Playmakers, where he got hi3 start, for the premiere of his new est play, 'The Marauders," tonight. TEP Is Highest Campus Frat In Scholarship Sororities Take ' Next Three Places In Close Race Tan Epsilon Phi led all other cam pus fraternities and sororities in scholarship for the past fall quarter with an average of 2.43, records re vealed yesterday. , Bunched together in the second, third, -and fourth,--, positions, ' Alpha Delta Pi had 2.60, Pi Beta Phi, . 2.62, and Chi Omega, 2.64. The three so rorities had a group average of 2.62, far higher than the all-fraternity average of 3.16. Percentage grades are as follows: 1.00 is A 2.00 is B, 3.00 is C, 4.00 is D, 5.00 is E, and 6.00 is P. Zeta Psi Is Fifth Following Chi Omega was Zeta Psi in fifth place with 2.68, with Zeta Beta Tau earning 2.74 and sixth place. Sigma Alpha Hipsilon was seventh 'with 2.75, Delta Kappa Epsil on, sponsor of the fraternity scholar ship cup given for the highest yearly average, was eighth with 2.92. Ninth olace went to Delta Psi which had an average of 3.02. Two ties for tenth place and elev enth place put Phi Delta Theta and Phi Gamma Delta together with an average of 3:04, Phi Kappa Sigma and Sigma Nu neck and neck with 3.05. Freshman Chapel Stops for Quarter Freshman chapel will not be held any more this quarter, Fred Weaver, assistant dean of students, announced yesterday. Chapel will -convene for the first time in the spring quarter Monday, March 24. Di Elects Link Ward Will Head Assembly Officer Promises Vital Program "We intend to begin a drive which will make the student body conscious nf the vital issues of the day," said Arthur Link last night, following his i election as president of the Di senate for the spring quarter. Link, a senior from , Mt. Pleasant, was chosen by the Di from a field of bur candidates running for the office of president. He replaces Billy Wood son, of Salisbury, who served in that capacity throughout the winter. Other officers who were eiectea ior he spring session are Manfred Rogers, president pro iem, nesue -v Bagby, critic, Kandau jicL.eoa, cier, and Albert Josselson, sergeant-at-arms. Rogers, McLeod, and Josselson were elected unanimously. Officers who served m the winter auarter andi were replaced last night See'DI juLiEtkji a, page 4. FDR Declares Present Crisis Toughest Yet : Hitler Sends . k Personal Message To Turk Leader . . : : :.. . , . ' . By United Press . WASHINGTON, March 4 Presi dent Roosevelt today said the world crisis-presents a. greater threat to the future of the United States than; the economic collapse current when : he took office eight years ago. He did not attempt to minimize the scope of the economic debacle of 1933 when he moved into the White House with a promise that he - would act promptly to combat.it, -but" he ex plained in a press conference that the situation has changed drastically dur ing his eight years in office. - , -'.i; The present crisis is world-wide find as such carries a more severe threat to the future of this government, 'he said. ' Turk Transmits Thanks For Der Fuehrer's Interest ANKARA, March 4 An urgent personal message from Adolf Hitler, reported to contain assurances of Ger man respect for Turkish territory, was delivered to President General Ismet Inonu today as Nazi troops I- massed near Turkey's fortified Thrac ian frontier with Bulgaria. The message, brought here bydiplo matic courier in a special plane from Berlin, was delivered to Inonu by Ger man Ambassador uaron Jranz von Papen, after which the Turkish cabi net was summoned into emergency session. v ' The Turkish president, after receiv ing the Reichf uehrer's note at noon, asked von Papen to "transmit his thanks to the chief of the German state for his interest" in Turkish affairs, an official announcement said. ..- , ' Mexico, VJS. Consider Defense Coordination WASHINGTON, March 4 Mexico and the United States are discussing means of coordinating their defenses and plans for mutual assistance "in See NEWS BRIEFS, page 8. i Group Discusses Proposed Course On UNC History A course in the history of the Uni versity took a step in the direction of reality yesterday when a group of around 20 students met in Gerrard hall to discuss proposals for a non credit "trial balloon" course for next quarter. Professor Albert Coates, who with Mrs. Coates is preparing a history of student government here, has agreed to teach the experimental course if interest justifies the undertaking. The score or more students who met yesterday will gather in Gerrard hall again tomorrow morning at 10:30 to hear Professor Coates explain the type of course he would offer. It would probably consist of a number of lectures dealing with student gov ernment, the background and tradi- See COATES OFFERS, page 2. President; Phi Elects Coeds For Spring Quarter In the election of spring quarter officers last night the Phi assembly elected Bill F. Ward its speaker. He succeeds Jimmy Pittman at the post. As speaker pro-tem Kathleen Line back was chosen to succeed Jean Lit tell while Richard Reilley follows Horace Ives as sergeant-at-arms. Gladys Barnes was elected by ac clamation to the position of reading clerk as successor of Kathleen Line back. And Bert Darden was chosen assistant secretary-treasurer. Also by acclamation, Jim Loeb was elected reporter to the Daily Tar Heel for the assembly. Members of the Ways and Means committee now are: Representatives Joe Ferguson, Skid. Waller, and Howard Cohn. Former, speaker Jim my Pittman was unanimously voted parliamentarian. P Names Morses ... ....... - .. The Student party convention three of them women. The nominations included a complete rising sophomore class slate of nomi nees, one debate council member, adoption of recommendations of SP women for secretary and Stu dent legislature representative of the senior class, and endorsement of the five candidates chosen by the Town Students association for its representatives to the Student legislature. Two Coeds Added To Senior Slate The recommendations from" two meetings of SP dormitory .and so rority women were approved in the convention last night as Jean McKen zie and Jane Dickinson officially be came nominees for two offices reserved for .coeds oh the party's slate. Warren Mengel, . Roy Stroud, Er nest Morris, John Potter and Alliene Brawl ey were virtually assured of the town student seats in the Student legislature when the SP joined the University party in endorsing the slate selected last Tuesday by the I Town Students association. Pete Burkheimer was unanimously chosen by the convention to run with Pinky Barnes for the Debate council: Bill Ward, who was nominated for the post at last week's convention, refused the nomination. The choice of Miss McKenzie for senior secretary was announced Fri day following a meeting of the women Thursday, and another meeting yes terday afternoon chose Miss Dickin son for the legislature post. At a convention two weeks ago, delegates voted to follow a party tradition by nominating a girl for the secretary ship and, in addition, to reserve the legislature nomination for a coed. Miss McKenzie . transferred here from the University, of Chattanooga. At Carolina she is a member of the Playmakers, being one of the cast of tonight's showing of "The Maraud ers." Last week she, appeared in Sound and Fury's "Standing Room Only." Miss Dickinson, who is from Wash ington, D. C, transferred here from Randolph-Macon where she was a member of the newspaper and year book staffs, rush captain and junior usher in the Kappa Delta sorority, and a member of Sack and Duskin, the campus dramatic club. i -. At Carolina she is a member of Sound and Fury, the business staff of the Yackety Yack, and the staff of Tar an' Feathers; In Sound and Fury's revue last week she sang two of her own compositions, "The Willow Tree Cried" and "So Good." At both schools she has maintained better than a 90 scholastic average. Last night's convention was the last of the quarter. Delegates, voted to set the time of the next meeting for the first Thursday after the opening of the Spring quarter when the campaign will get into full swing. - DTH Continues Poll on Faculty In an effort to reach more students with the "grade your professor" poll, the Daily Tar Heel yesterday pre pared 500 more grade sheets, to be distributed at the YMCA each morn ing from 10:30 until 11 o'clock for the remainder of the week. Thus far several hundred students have filled out the blanks, but others are being sought in order that the poll will be more accurate. Staff mem bers who have not yet turned in bal lots are requested to do so at once. Blanks will . be distributed in' the YMCA lobby by Marion Lippincott and Buck Timberlake. The ballots should be filled in and returned im mediately. "" " ' , i Elections Committee Drafts Bill Today Members of the Student Legisla ture elections committee 3Iary Parker, Charles Savarese, Roy Parker and Roy Stroud are asked to meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon in 212 . Graham Memorial to draft the political exjpafaditure bilL V The campus "Hatch bill" will be designed to curb excessive expendi tures in the forthcoming political campaign, if passed by the legisla ture. s Complete Town, Coed - y By Philip Carden last night flooded the political scene by nominating 16 candidates 7, 1 "JOE COLLEGE" Jack Milne was last night chosen by the Stu dent Party convention for the can didature of rising sophomore presi dent. . : v , '. Band Concert Here Tonight Slocum To Direct Local Appearance Earl Slocum will direct the Uni versity Band in a concert tonight at 8:30 in Hill Music hall. This will be the first concert presented by the band on the campus this yean The band recently returned from a tour of the eastern part of the state where they played 11 concerts in three days. Tonight's performance will fea ture several solos. David Maser will play a trombone solo, "The Little Chief" by Pryor. Harry Shipman of Greensboro will I nlay the piano part in Gould's "The Child Prodigy" for piano and band; An arrangement of Cole Porter's "Stormy Weather' will be played by the band. The band arrangement was done by Koehler and Arlen. Other numbers on the program will be: "Second Symphony" first move ment by. Borodin; "Minuet" (from Bernice) by Handel; "Pavanne" by Gould; "Invocation of Alberich" by Wagner; "Tone Poem" by Stoughton; "The Student Prince" by Romberg; "The Crusaders Overture" by Buch tel; and "The Battle' of ;the Band" by Colombo. A--- . - K i-' i - I 'X ' Vl v 4 "- - , i; X-'&v. v.-.-.v .-K".-.y ..v.',-, v,1,' . '.v,-.'. w. v. ."..v. v.,' u .-i 1 V4 v A . 'Viv . Registration Begins Today; Line Forms on Students whose names begin with A through G will receive their per mits to register today from 2 until 5 o'clock in Memorial hall as the first step of the spring quarter registration procedure. The system follows: , 1. ALL STUDENTS receive permits in Memorial hall. Names beginning H through O, tomorrow. Names beginning P- through Z, Friday. 2. GENERAL COLLEGE STUDENTS r' - - A. Sign up with adviser Friday for conference. (After obtaining permit). ; ' ' B.-Report to adviser promptly and present-permit. 3. ARTS AND SCIENCES , . . ... - . , 1 - , A. Obtain permit on schedule, then obtain schedule card in Memo rial hall Monday. Office there opens at 9 o'clock. ' B. Obtain written approval of major adviser, then report to Dean Hobbs office, 203 South, and present permit, schedule card, and written approval of major adviser. 4. COMMERCE STUDENTS . A. KSame as Arts and Sciences students, except you are to report to Dean Carroll's office, 114 Bingham. . 5. GRADUATE STUDENTS . Al Obtain permits on above schedule; remainder of Graduate pro cedure will not begin until March 13. 6. PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS - A. Same as above with permits further notice on respective bul letin boards. Sopfa Slate? Nominees Milne To Head Soph Candidates The SP sophomore slate selected last night includes" Jack Milne -for president, Wade Weatherford for Stu dent council representative, Mike Carr for vice president, Ditzi Buice for secretary, Howard Starnes for treasurer, and E. K. Powe, Ellis Freedman, and George Rue for Student legislature representatives. These nominees were chosen from a list, of "good material" drawn up at a meeting of more than thirty freshmen last week and presented to the con vention last night by Mac Sherman and A. V. Trogden, co-chairmen of the party's rising sophomore campaign. . The list included more than one can didate for each office except the presidency, which went to Milne by acclamation. Jack Emack was rec ommended with Milne by the fresh men, but he decided "not to get into politics this year." Opposition Last Night Opposition- for the winners last eluded Arthur Williams for council representative, X. Ward and Bob Shuf ord for vice presi dent, George Kenyon for secretary, Dodson Palmer and Chuck Clark for treasurer, and A. V. Trogden, Pokey Alexander and .. Pete Stephens for Student legislature. Milne, who is from Toms River, N. J., is a member of the freshman honor - council, having gained the third high est number of votes for the position, and was a candidata-'fbr president in -the. frosh elections last fall, v He is captain of the. freshman cross coun try team in the fall and is a member of the track team, having bettered by four minutes freshman mile ' rec ord set by Jimmie Davis four years ago. Weatherford, who is from Florence, See SOPH SLATE, page. A. Coeds To Compete At Bridge Tonight In Student Union Coeds and faculty members will play at 8 o'clock tonight in the second night of play in the duplicate contract bridge tournament. The tournament, sponsored by the student union, is being held in the main lounge of Gra ham Memorial. The finals will be played Thursday night, Tournament Director Bob Lovill, announced yesterday. The men students played for the first time last night, and the winners will compete in the finals Thursday. Four trophy cups will be awarded J to the winners and runners-up in the tournament. Prizes are also being given to the high scorers on each eve ning's play. : . . the Right . . .
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