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t Whi . rf DITORIALS: Humanity in Crisis i rtTEATHER: vj Partly cloudy; con y tinued ioam ra7 OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME XLIX i: tSS7; Gradattoa: tS3 CHAPEL HILL, N. O, SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1941 Editorial: 35i; N: 4SS1; KXsfet: NUMBER 137 ' " W ' 1 1 ' : - Melfei 0 MgM , w ins' Hitler Unleashes Nazi War Mm Greece, Yugoslavia Knox Promises Balkans 'All Help We Can Give' By United Press LONDON April & (Sunday) Germany's mighty military ma chine struck at Greece, Yugoslavia "and that arch-enemy, Eng land" on a great new warf ront in the Balkans today after the Nazis charged that the Yugoslavian government had "called on Britain and the United States for aid in the coming war against Germany." The charge of an appeal to the U. S. was one of several reasons given by Adolf Hitler, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Propaganda Min ister Joseph Goebbels in explaining the war against Yugoslavia and Greece. Nazis have been on the march since dawn, a statement broadcast by the German radio said "as a friend of the Greek and Yugoslavian people and to irive out the British The announcement, which Goebbels was believed to have made personally, inie only a few hours after Russia had indicated again her displeasure over possibility of a German move in the Balkans by signing a friendship and non usression treaty with Yugoslavia. Goebbels said German troops which had been concentrated in Hungary Rumania, and Bulgaria, along the borders of Greece and Yugoslavia, had been marching since early morning on ordera from Adolf Hitler. - .Mitu uucc nao uctuucm lis nic freek government this morning, Goebbels said, stating that the pres ence of British troops in Greece had forced Germany to send her armies ljainsi Greece. German troops were marching into Yugoslavia, Goebbels aid, in order to establish peace and rier there with all the means at their iisposal. NEW YORK, April 6 (Sunday) A Colxmbia Broadcasting company re port early today said that Secretary if the Navy Frank Knox had promised chat the United States would give "all the aid -we can" to the Balkan coun tries in their fight against the Nazi WASHINGTON, April 6 (UP) Const&stin Fotitch, Yugoslav . minis ter to the United States, pledged to il y that his people would fight "with i.ibroken faith to the final victory" sarainst German aggression. ZURICH, Switzerland, April 6 The Berlin radio today announced that Germany was "forced to take ap See NEWS BRIEFS, page I. Tryouts Tonight For Three Campus Debates Tryouts for campus debates with Haverford, George Washington, a de bate with Virginia' in Charlottesville, md a panel discussion with Princeton ind Carnegie Tech will be held to night at 7 o'clock in the Grail rom : Graham Memorial, Ed Maner, ex Titire secretary of the Debate coun cil, announced yesterday. These three debates and the panel uscussion Tuesday will mark the vight of the debating season here. Most of the northern universities are ow on their spring trips. Opea to Anyone The tryouts to be held tonight are ipen to anyone on campus interest ed in debating. The speeches should '? fiv-j minutes in. length, and the se ction of speakers will be made by the -acuity members of the council, Dr. rge McKie, Professor W. A. 01 r., Md Dr. E. J. Woodhouse. The tryouts for. the panel discus 'on with Princeton and Carnegie Tech will be on either side of the 'liestioa. "Resolved, that the English gating nations of the world should now form a permanent union, both military and economic." The discus on will be held Tuesday. Baptist Students To Install Officers The Baptist Student union will in stall rt3 officers for next year at a banquet tonight at 6:30 in the Baptist -burch. Tickets for the banquet will be available this morning at Sunday school or tonight at the door for 30 :ents per plate. Officers to be installed are W. J. -Smith, president; Bill Stanback, en Hstment vice-president; Dot Daven port, devotional vice-president; Fred Sroad, social vice-nresident; Gaylal "hite, music director; Hilah Ruth ayer, secretary; Tom Rogers, forum airman. Broughton To Speak Here Thursday Will Address School Board "Association Governor J. M. Broughton will be the principal speaker at the fifth an nual meeting of the North Carolina school board association in Chape! Hill next Thursday, it was announced yesterday by H. E. Isenhour, of Salis bury, .president of the association. Sessions will be held in the Hil Music hall, opening at 10:30 in the morning and closing at 4:30. The Governor, Isenhour said, will speak at the morning session. Lieutenant Gov ernor R. L. Harris, H. E. Stacy of Lumberton, chairman of the education committee in the 1941 senate, who served as president of the association for two years, and Arch T. Allen of Raleigh, chairman of the education committee in the house, have also ac cepted invitations to speak. President Isenhour will preside over both sessions and deliver his presiden tial address. He served as legislative chairman for the association during the recent General Assembly. Professor Guy B. Phillips, of the University education department, who has served as executive secretary of the association since its organization five years ago, says the purpose of the association is "the organization of all school board and local school commit tee members of the state to study im portant issues in public education and to exercise leadership in the ac complishment of desirable educational progress." Approximately 4500 citizens of the .state serve as members of these va Koarda and committees, he said. Council Changes Coed Hour System A special meeting of the Woman's association to present and explain a new system of hour privileges will be held Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Gerrard hall, Jane McMaster, presi dent of the Woman's association, an nounced yesterday. The new plan has been drawn up by the Honor council in response to criticism following the recent aboli tion of Friday night late movie privi leges and contains an entire new sys tem of night hours and privileges for the coeds. The plan will be explained by mem hers of the Honor council to the coeds, who will be asked to criticize it and make additional suggestions. Coates' History Class Meets at 7 Adiourning in time for members to attend the opening program of the .. T 1. A i. 5 Human Relations msuiuie , o 'dock, the University history class of Professor Albert Coates will meet tonight at 7 p. m. in the Institute of Government building. , Men To Vote On May Queen This Year May Court, WA Officers To Be Elected Tuesday For the first time in the history of May Day, the Carolina gentlemen will De erven a vote m tne election oi a May Queen and her court, Sis Clin ard, president of the Valkyries, an nounced yesterday. All men students will be allowed to cast ballots for May Queen and her court on election day Tuesday. Polls for the men will be located in the Book Exchange and will be open from 9 to 5 Tuesday. To distinguish men's ballots from coeds', who will elect their Woman's association, YWCA, and Athletic as sociation officers, as well as vote for May Queen on the same day, the men will be given different colored paper. Here's the Catch Of course, there is a string attach ed. The men's votes will be scaled down to total only 300 ballots. For instance, if 1200 men vote, each ballot will count one-fourth. The coeds will vote at polls located in Spencer hall and Dorm No. 1. Their votes for May Queen and court will count fully. Then men and women students will select either Frances Dyckman, Mar jorie Johnston, or Bobbie Win ton as the May Queen. The other-two will be maids of honor in the court. In addition to the Queen and her maids of honor, there will be a court composed ""of four senior attendants, three junior attendants, and one grad uate attendant. r -.-.- Five-Day Session Presents 19 Speakers To Analyze XL S. in World Crisis V-.:v-I-;'X.'y'V v. ..',, , 'r All i ft v-'' --"V--- -" 1-. j FIRST UP for the Institute is Reinhold Neibhur (left) famous writer and religious authority who speaks tonight on "Social Progress." Dr. Clyde R. Miller speaks tomorrow morning, is director of propaganda in stitute, foremost analyst of this provocative medium. Worley Night Club To Open This Week Stu and fu- pro- Burroughs To Play In Rustic Rebuilt Union Basement s- HRI SCHEDULE (All Events in Memorial Hall) Today - 4:00 p.m. Book exhibit opens for week in lobby of Memorial Hall. 8:00 p. m. Reinhold Niebuhr speaks on "The Ethical and Political Ele ments in Social Justice." -Tomorrow , 10:00 a. m. Clyde Miller on "War Aims and War Propaganda." 4:00 p. m. Open Forum with Miller. 8:00 p. m. Countess of Listowel on ine .present European cene as See It." By Billy Webb ,;. Sitting- in booths constructed like the back of an old covered wagon or light-stepping to' the music of Julian Burroughs and his Student unioih orchestra, Carolina students this week will dine and dance at their first night club. ' Planned by "Fish" Worley, the Asheville aristocrat of campus social life, the club will open the latter part of this week upon completion of the Human Relations Institute. Way back in the summer Fish con ceived the idea for a night club to be built in the bowling alley at Graham Memorial. Because of the heavy cost and directors' disapproval, the bowl ing alley idea had to be abandoned, but not the idea of a night club. Cherished Dream Wracking his brain, Fish was soon inspired with a plan for remodeling the basement, with an enlarged grill See NIGHT CLUB, page . Coeds Hurt In Auto Wreck Car Overturns On Durham Road Connie Smith of Bronxville, N. Y., and Katherine McNamee of Blooms burg, Pa., were hurt last night when the car in which they were riding overturned near the Hill Villa tearoom about 10 o'clock. Miss McNamee was ' carried to Watts hospital, where attaches report ed that she suffered only a broken arm, and Miss Smith was taken to the University infirmary, where she was treated for minor lacerations of the head. The wreck occurred when the car, which was reported to have been bought only yesterday, struck a soft shoulder and turned over on its side. Miss McNamee is a junior at the University and Miss Smith is a senior. Enough Human Interest for a N. Y. Tabloid Could Be Written on Nineteen HRI Speakers i h 17 jh v. . jr V ! v j f - J - - zJLl iJ.L .. i l , yV i OUTSTANDING 'SPEAKERS for the Institute of Human Relations opening on the campus tonight include (left to right): Herbert Agar, Weil lecturer, editor, Pulitzer prize winner; former Senator E. W. Gib son of Vermont, national chairman of the CDAAA; Hayne Davis, alum nus of the University, authority on - international peace movements; (bottom row): William E. Sweet, business man's angle; Clarence Streit, author of sensational plan for world reorganization; and Harry E. Comer, secretary of the University YMCA, in charge of arrangements for the institute. -Q- By Sylvan Meyer From the 19 personalities assembled fer the HRI thi3 week, 19 discrepan cies in opinion are expected. From this array wells a mass of human in terest material sufficient to satiate a metropolitan tabloid. Nationally known figures, senators, governors, authors, intellects, dynam ics, will focus their ability on Chapel Hill with hot debates, conflicts, ex ploding from behind the rather as tute publicity blurb, "Six days of ex tensive review and study of the lead ing social, economic, and political problems in the world community under the leadership of a eroup of eminent guest speakers." New to local audiences is the Count ess of Listowel, Hungarian born for eign correspondent who covered Bal kan news from Budapest, is now serv ing European journals with American news, received title when she married an Irish count. Recognized analyst of today's news, she fills a vital spot on the Institute agenda. Propaganda Man . Propaganda man Clyde Miller is the foremost cleaver- of the ''provoca tive bull" in the nation today. Founder and director of the Institute for prop aganda analysis, he teaches at Colum bia university and his talk on "War Aims and War Propaganda" is ex pected to throw light on the present See HRI SPEAKERS, page g. Sixth Biennial Institute Opens .Tonight at Eight By Pan! Komisamk Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the world's greatest theologians, to night at 8 o'clock in Memorial hall opens Carolina's sixth bien nial Human Relations Institute, a five-day session of addresses and discussions from a score of internationally famous speakers. The famed clergyman will set the pace for a week's intense appraisal from every angle of the "The United States in the World Crisis." As Europe's war becomes more and more involved and the United States becomes closer and closer to it, widely-recognized specialists will analyze and interpret for the dent body its many problems phases propaganda, labor, the ture, intervention, isolation etc. Awakening Stimulus The Institute has planned a gram that will submit the campus to such a barrage of issues that the stu dent body will not "be able to remain unaffected by its awakening stimu lus." Dr. Niebuhr is a fiery speaker of international reknown, and tonight's address on "The Ethical and Politi cal Elements in Social Justice" is ex pected to set a fast pace for the In stitute's following programs. Changed Outlook Most interesting feature of the In stitute's program is the changed out look governing the selection of speak ers, as compared to 1939 when the program broadly encompassed prob lems of domestic and peaceful nature. Following up Niebuhr's speech, Clyde Miller, director of Columbia uni versity's institute for propaganda analysis, will jump into the problems at hand with a vital address on "War Aims and War Propaganda" tomor row morning at 10 o'clock. Miller See HRI PROGRAM, page 4. Shaw Explains Finger-Tip Art This Afternoon No brushes are needed just ten healthy fingers and a little paint, to create paintings in a new medium which will be discussed by its inven tor, Miss Ruth Faison Shaw, at 4 o'clock today in Person hall art gal lery. "Finger-painting," Miss Shaw's in vention, is being taught in grade school art classes throughout the United States. Adult artists also prac tice the new method.' Several paintings submitted to the fourth annual North Carolina school art exhibit now being shown here were finger-painted. Today is the last day that the work of artists in the first six primary grades will be shown in the Person hall galleries. From here this part of the exhibit will go to WCUNC. More advanced school art will be exhibited from April 10 through April 16, when the work of students in high schools and colleges of the state will come here from the Woman's College gallery. ' The Person hall gallery will be open from noon until 6 o'clock today. Methodist Choir To Sing Cantata The choir of the University Meth odist church will sing John Stainer's cantata, "The Crucifixion" at the service this morning, with Clyde Keutzer and Sherman Smith, Univers ity faculty members, as leading solo ists. The 50-voice choir will be under the direction of Earl Slocum, professor in the music department of the Univers ity. The singing of the cantata will constitute the entire Palm Sunday ser vice at the church.
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