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VOLUME XLIX
BosincM: 9887; Circulation : 88
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1941
Editorial: 4356; Newi: 4351; Nibt: C04
NUMBER 129
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Old Heads Jailed;
Boy King Replaces
Prince-Regent Paul
By United Press
BELGRADE, March 28
(Friday) German nationalists
began fleeing from Yugoslavia
early today as rejoicing throngs
celebrated with wild shouts of
"Down with Hitler!" a bloodless
army revolt which overthrew
the government responsible for
Yugoslavia's adherence to the
Axis alliance on Tuesday.
The new regime, headed by General
Richard Dusan-Simovitch of the arm
sped moDiiizanon measures 10 oring
1,500,000 men under arms in defense
of the nation's "dignity and sover
eignty" and against any German
.armed reprisals.
Axis Ministers Worried
The German and Italian ministers
rushed to the new government leaders
to ask whether they intended to up
hold the two-day-old Axis 'pact and
were told the new regime "wants to
maintain friendly relations with Ger
many and Italy."
(Berlin dispatches stated that a
German demand for "explanations,"
calling for an answer by noon today,
had been delivered in -Belgrade.) -
The celebrating throngs, over which
Yugoslav military planes had flown
throughout yesterday, began disap
pearing in weariness shortly before
midnight.
.Delirious Carnival
While the new regime debated
whether to repudiate the Axis pact
signed at Vienna Tuesday in the pres
ence of Adolf Hitler, Yugoslavia's
15,700,000 people staged a delirious
carnival of joy beneath a fluttering
of United States, British, and Greek
flags.
The people cheered wildly 17-year-old
King Peter II, who at 3 a. m.' yes
terday, an hour and a half after the
start of the bloodless coup d'etat, pro
claimed himself king with full power.
Almost every member of the old
government which capitulated to Hit
ler's demands by means of a "com
promise formula" sealed at Vienna
was seized and imprisoned, and Prince
Regent Paul, attempting to flee from
Belgrade, was intercepted and re
gained under guard.
Hold Secure
Late last night, however, the new
government's hold on the nation was
so solid that many of the leaders ar
rested early Thursday were released
from custody.
Prince Paul, ousted from his re
gency along with the government,
was permitted to leave by train for
Greece at 11 p. m. with his German
princess, Olga, "in accordance with
his own wishes." - . -
Ousted Premier Dragisha Cvetko
vitch and Foreign Minister Alexander
Cincar-Markovitch, who signed the
Axis pact at Vienna, were released
from imprisonment at army general
staff headquarters at 11:20 p. in. and
allowed to go to their homes. They
"were still under "house detention, it
See NEWS BRIEFS, page 2.
Is Chapel Hill
Just a Museum?
Strange stories originate from
South building. Here is the latest:
A woman in Bossier City, La-, ad
dressed a postcard to Chapel THill,
Charlotte, N. C. Her message read:
"Gentlemen: Is Chapel Hill still a
college or is it just a museum'
ould appreciate your letting
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now as soon as convenient."
oy Armstrong, director of Pre
cUege Guidance, framed this reply
for the Louisiana lady:
"Some of the buildings look like
niuseums and there are many of us
'ho feel like museum pieces, but we
are still running a college."
Permanent Voting Date Set;
SP Backs -
Committee Bill
Sets Fixed Date
For Elections
First steps toward establishing a
permanent elections date were taken
yesterday afternoon when the elections
committee of the student legislature
began drafting a bill setting the date
for the third Thursday of each April.
-The bill, if passed, would not go
into eiiect until next spring. It will
be brought to the floor next Monday
night along with another bill setting
this spring's elections day on April
24, the fourth Thursday of the month.
Official nominations, according to
the permanent proposal, would fall
two days before elections and
any
runoffs would be taken care of on the
fourth Thursday.
Date Limits
The earliest possible election date,
under the new bill, would be April
15. The latest possible date would
be April 21, which would still leave
time for runoffs and the installation
of the newly elected officers by the
beginning of May.
Principal advantages of netting a
permanent date, advocates say, would
be that political parties and candi
dates, working with a date in mind,
would conduct more orderly and time
ly campaigns.
Independent " " .'"
Elections day would be independent
of political party preparedness and
other University events. The latter
could then be set- to avoid elections
week.
The committee also decided to drop
the proposed amendment to the politi
cal expenditures bill, believing that
the present draft gives the Student
council sufficient rights to punish all
offenders.
This amendment also would have
prevented persons other than the nom
inees and their parties to spend money
on campaigns. This is now permitted
so long as the total" amount spent is
reported correctly to the elections com
mittee and does not exceed the maxi
mum expenditures allowed.
Not Battery Set,
But Steele Has
Radio -Phonograf
The courageous men of Steele who
have studied in the dark, bulled in the
dark, and played bridge in the dark
over the past two' quarters were re
warded for their efforts yesterday
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when a new combination radio ana
record player was placed in the rec
reation room. It is not a battery set.
Costing $40.00 the combination out
fit will give residents of Steele many
hours of enjoyment. Over the past
t, minrtprs a total of $60.78- was
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saved, and the remaining ?u.7 in
the treasury will be used to secure
ash trays and pictures for the walls
nf Steele's commodious recreation
headquarters.
Yesterday several men of Steele
expressed disappointment because
with the coming of spring the days
will be longer,. and it will be diffi
cult to save as much. light in the fu
ture. "We are getting .used to no
lights, and - it will be hard to be
come accustomed to the long days,"
one of them said. -
Other than the radio and Record
player Steele residents have profited
from the light campaign in other
wavs. They have received publicity
in the Daily Tar Heel and through
out the state. Recently in the bridge
tournament sponsored by Graham Me
morial men of Steele won both first
and second places. Commenting on
their victory they remarked there was
nothing to it after practicing in the
dark for four months.
Coleman Finkel, former Steele dorm
president, originated tne "fcave tne
Light" campaign during the fall quarter.
MblL Names Juniors
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LITTLE FELLOWS like this will
receive the benefits from a special
motion picture tomorrow morning at
11 o'clock in the Pick theater. The
picture is "Forty Little Mothers,"
starring Eddies Cantor.
W. T. Couch
To Remain
At Carolina
Press Director
. . Gets Raise Here,
Turns Down Offers
W. T. Couch, director of the Uni
versity Press, has decided not to ac
cept one of the more lucrative posi
tions offered him by the Princeton
university press and a New York pub
lishing firm. The University has of
fered him a raise in salary which
makes it practical for him to remain
here.
The amount of the raise was not
disclosed yesterday. His salary before
the increase is thought to have been
"something less than $5,000." Prince
ton had offered him $7,500 for a simi
lar position there and the New York
firm is said to have told him "to write
his own ticket."
Couch wrote President Frank Gra
ham this week, saying, "I believe
there is no better opportunity in
scholarly publishing anywhere in this
country than here at the University
of North Carolina under your leader
ship. In my opinion the concentration
of publishing and other activities that
go along with it of an intellectual and
artistic nature in the Northeast is
extremely unhealthy.
I believe organizations like the
University press of Chapel Hill scat
tered in the various regions over the
country are having valuable influence
in decentralizing this concentration.
It seems obvious to me that if the
South is ever to develop the highest
type of civilized life of which it is
capable, this kind of activity must be
fostered."
The offers were given much pub
, See COUCH, page 2.
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COMPLETING THE SP RISING
party convention. Left to right they
and Dan Marks, for treasurer.
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Convention Names
PU Board Member,
Completes Juniors
By Ernest Frankel
Heading for the home stretch ' in
the campus political campaign, the
Student party, last night, in rapid
fire order, endorsed Henry Moll as
(Candidate for editorship of the Caro
lina Mag; completed the slate of ju
nior class officers; and nominated
Phil Carden as member-at-large to
the Publications union board.
The swiftly-moving convention fore
cast a week of political maneuvering
as plans were approved for joint ac
tion with the University party for a
political celebration, and special sub
committee meetings were called. .No
definite information was available on
the "celebration," but it was under
stood that "if present plans material
ize," it will be held on or about April
16.
Junior Slate
The convention, moving unanimous
ly to approve the names submitted by
the junior nominating committee,
chose Freddie "Tank" Marshall as
candidate for the vice-presidency of
the junior class; Dllard Bulluck, sec
retary; Dan Marks, treasurer; and
Buck Osborne, Lem Gibbons, and El
ton Edwards as representatives to the
Student legislature.- Msyer Hendrix
of Winston Salem and W. J. Smith
of Charlotte were nominated previous
ly for president and Student council
representative respectively.
Moll, boosted by a 10-to-3 staff
nomination, gained a unanimous en
dorsement by the convention. Disre
garding the usual procedure of okay
ing staff nominations, the party dis
cussed several candidates for the post
before giving the nod to Moll. Cit
ing his record, the group jumped the
See STUDENT PARTY, page 2.
New DTH Poll
Starts Today
Student opinion on two vital issues
class cuts and nomination of cheer
leaders will be sounded today and
tomorrow by a special Daily Tar Heel
poll.
The dispute over class cuts will not
be definitely settled until next week
when a student committee confers
with the faculty. Dave Morrison's
proposal to transfer the nomination
of head cheerleader from political
parties to the Athletic council wrll not
be finally acted on by the student leg
islature until Monday night.
The following students are asked
to report to the Daily Tar Heel of
fice this afternoon at 3 o'clock sharp:
June Love, Pick Rancke, W. J. Smith,
Irwin Henderson, Billy Webb, Stewart
Mclver, Randall McLeod, Steve Peck,
Dewey Dorsett, E. T. Rollins, Roy
Strowd, Ted Potter, John Feuchten
berger, Bill Mehaffey and Fred Love.
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are Freddie Marshall, for vice-president; Dillard Bulluck, for secretary;
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Dr. JohnxW. Lasley, Jr.
Math Experts
Of Southeast
Meeting Here
Lasley in Charge
Of Arrangements;
Eisenhart To Speak
More than 200 leading mathema
ticians from all sections of this state
and the Southeastern section of the
country will meet here today for the
19th annual session of the Southeast
ern Section of the Mathematical As
sociation of America.
Dr. John W. Lasley of the Univer
sity mathematics department, vice
chairman of the section and chairman
of the committee on arrangements,
said yesterday that this group is the
largest regional group in the country
and contains a number of the most
prominent mathematicians.
First Time Here
- The meeting will open Friday
afternoon and will continue through
Saturday morning. It will be the first
time this group has ever met at
Chapel Hill, and it has been some
years since the annual sessions have
been held in this section.
Principal guest speaker will be Dean
L. P. Eisenhart of the graduate school
of Princeton university, head of the
department of mathematics at Prince
ton and past president of the Ameri
can Mathematical society. Dean
Eisenhart will speak at the banquet
session this evening on "The Teaching
of Mathematics." Dr. Archibald Hend
erson, head of the University's de
partment of mathematics, will preside
over the banquet session.
Starts This Afternoon
The sessions will get under way this
afternoon with the presentation of
papers of the association, after which
will come the banquet session and
Dean Eihenhart's address.
Tomorrow morning will be devoted
to a business session, sectional meet
ings on geometry, algebra, and peda
gogy, and a general session.
At the opening meeting this after
noon Dr. Forrest Cumming of the
University of Georgia, chairman of
the Southeastern Section, will present
See MATHEMATICIANS, page 2.
.Ballot
Two Proposals
Would Change
Squad Setup
Ways-Means Group
To Consider
Plans Today
By Bocky Harward
Two drastic proposals to
change the present cheerleading
setup one advocating that the
election of head cheerleader be
taken from the student body
will be considered today by the
ways and means committee of
the student legislature, chairman
Terry Sanford disclosed last
night.
Seeking to settle once and for all
the perennial squabbles and criticism
of the current system, both plans are
attempts to stabilize the method of
selection and provide for cheerleader
monograms.
The more radical proposal would
transfer the selection of head cheer
leader from student body elections to
the Athletic council which would be
aided by the Monogram club and the
retiring head cheerleader.
The same plan would permit the
council with the help of the new cheer
leader to select the remainder of the
squad. This proposal was submitted
by certain members of the Monogram
club through committee member W. J.
Smith. ' ;
The second proposal, handed over
to the ways and means committee
just before spring holidays, would
leave the student body the right to
elect the head cheerleader-but would
transfer the nominations from the po
litical parties to the Athletic council.
The squad would be limited to four
sophomores and two juniors, selected
by the council with the help of the
head cheerleader. The two junior
members would automatically become
candidates for head cheerleader the
following year.
Morrison, although he praised this
year's squad as being the best in many
years, stated that the problem has
been raised so often in the past that
it should be permanently settled.
The bill finally drafted by the ways
and means committee will come to
the floor of the legislature Monday
night.
Discussion of changing the cheer
leader setup started early this year
when a tempest broke about coed
cheerleaders as a result of election
last spring of Jane Rumsey to share
the post with Charlie Nelson.
NROTC Rifle Squads
To Pit Skill by Wire
In National Tourney
Carolina's Naval ROTC rifle squad
will pit its skill by telegraph against
the best in the country today in the
national NROTC trophy rifle match,
Lieutenant Riker announced yester
day. Competing with teams with as
much as four years of experience, the
two squads of freshman sailors, picked
on the basis of scores in recent try
outs, will blast at targets in Carolina's
armory nearly all day today.
Teams all over the country tonight
will mail their riddled targets to
Washington where they will be tabu
lated at Navy GHQ. Results will be
telegraphed to all units "shortly."
The Carolina squad has held tele-
graphic matches with individual units,
but this is the first time that a Caro
lina team has entered a nation-wide
tournament. .
Coeds Vote Approval
Of Military Training
, ATHENS, Ga.-(ACP) University
of Georgia coeds think "there's some
thing about a soldier" and according
ly 60 per cent voted that male stu
dents be required to take four years of
compulsory military training.
The men, however, don't take to the
idea with the zest of the females. Only
40 per cent voted for the proposal.