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VOLUME XLIX
Nazis, Allies
OnaCrucial Greek Line
Russia Denounces
Hungary's Attack
On Yugoslavia
By United Press
Nazi blitz columns and elite troops
.) Britain and Greece Saturday night
-yere locked in the opening phase of
he ereat battle upon which the fate
.)t Greece and possibly the whole war
in the Middle East may turn. -
The reports from the fighting front
Tvere skimpy, and ciouaed Dy censor
ship and propaganda.
But it was evident that at both
ends of the 50-mile northern defense
line in Greece from Phlorina to Gia
;tza battle had been joined.
At this moment in the crucial com
"bat Russia played another wild card.
She denounced Hungary's action m
ioinirg in the attack on Yugoslavia.
Sloscow reported that the German
ambassador was expected to leave to
morrow to report and consult with his
government, but there was still no
tangible sign that the Soviet proposed !
to use anything stronger than words
in tie Balkan crisis.
A government spokesman at Athens
reported that Greek troops had met
and repulsed a German armored col
umn which poured through the Mon
aster Gap and flowed up to the region
of Phlorina. British troops also were
reported to be fighting in this region.
According to some British sources
the Germans may have reached Phlor
ina, a key-road town which may put
the Nazis in a position to flank the 50
viile northern defense line from the
rear. Other reports indicated that
only a preliminary engagement was
in progress, but the Greek spokesman
said it was heavier than originally in
dicated. At the other end of the line British
reports indicated a battle .in progress
on the plains of Gianitza, SO miles
est of Salonika. A report cabled by
the Columbia Broadcasting System's
correspondent at Ankara claimed the
Germans had broken through the
eastern hinge of the front, plunging
iouth of Mount Olympus to occupy
Se NEWS BRIEFS, page U.
100,000 Copies
Of Book Ordered
From UNC Press
An order for 100,000 copies of R.
H. Markham's 52-page book, "The
Wave of the Past," has been given the
University Press, bringing a pleasant
ourrrise to W. T. Couch, director of
the press, who recently decided to re
main in Chapel Hill in the face, of al
luring offers from a. New York pub
lisher and Princeton university.
After studying advance copies of
Markham's book, nublished by the
University Press, the American News
company, which handles many of the
books, magazines, ' and newspapers
sold on newsstands and in railway and
subway stations throughout the coun
try, ordered 100,000 copies for sale in
".his manner.
Although the University Press has
plenty of cloth-bound copies on hand,
those ordered by the American News
company are to be paper-bound and
ill sell for 25 cents.
The volume is, in effect, the reply
of Markham, an American who served
as a foreign correspondent for the
Christian Science Monitor for many
years, to Anne Lindbergh's apology for
and championing of Hitler's doctrine
in her book, "The Wave of the Fu
ture."
Town Girls Lead
Community Sing
Town Girls will take over the com
munity sing tonight with Ditzi Buice,
their new president, in charge of the
Program.
A trio, Ruth Patterson, Hilda Weav
and AUiene Brawley, will harmo
nize "You Walked By," and "Sweet
and Low" as intermission numbers
while the audience rests its vocal
chords. Hilda Weaver will also sing a
solo, and a duet, not yet announced,
"ill also be on the program.
Leon Adams, as usual, will lead the
audience singing. The flicker thrill
r3 which will close the program to
n'ght are "The Lone Rider," a melo
drama with the exotic title, "Buzz
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Join Battle
Carroll McGaughey
Work Begun
On Nautical
Musicomedy
Tryouts Today 1
For Sound-Fury's
Heaven Help, etc.
The water on the brains of Carroll
McGaughey and Sanford Stein which
went into the production of "Stand
ing Room Only," Sound and Fury's
show last quarter, will be put to even
better use in launching the club's new
spring comedy, "Heaven Help a
Sailor," which Stein says (though the
remark is-not original) is "nautical
but nice."
"Heaven Help . . . etc," which is
scheduled for May 14 and 15, will be
the fifth show on which McGaughey
Tryouts for the 30 speaking parts
in Sound and Fury's new show will
be held thjs afternoon in Memorial
hall from 2 until 6 o'clock. Casting
.will be completed tonight and full
rehearsals start tomorrow.
Everyone with good sea-legs is
invited to try for either a speaking
part or a chorus part. Chorus try
outs will be held tomorrow after
noon in Memorial hall from 5:30 to
7:30.
and Stein have collaborated since they
came together a little over a year ago
on "Pass in Revue," the beginning of
Sound and Fury.
The new show, for which Stein, as
usual, will write the script and lyrics,
will be a departure from its predeces
sors in that it does not take place on
the University campus but rather on
a ship bound for South America. Dur
ing the course of the trip murder is
committed not just one, but several.
In fact, it gets to be a habit.
Plenty Mystery
Just to add a bit of mystery to the
rehearsals, Stein and McGaughey
plan not to tell the cast who the killer
is until dress rehearsals, when it will
come as a complete surprise, probab
ly even to the murderer. As a matter
of fact, it is rumored that even author
Stein, last seen looking wistfully from
the window of his padded ivory tower
in Memorial hall, is a little confused
as to "who ddne it."
The two and one half hour show
will be divided into 13 scenes which,
besides the murders, will take up in
rapid succession "the assorted love and
hate affairs of a man-hating novelist
and a Broadway play-boy; his man
mad sister: a South American spy with
an eternal quadrangle problem; a juve
nile delegate to a Pan-American con
ference: three old maid sisters of a
seventeenth undersecretary of state;
night club singer with a wealthy
.... 1.
meal ticket; a retired vice-presiaeni,
of Murder, Inc.; a show girl witn a
rmst and several ex-husbands; plus the
affairs of numerous incidental coeds
and ship's officers.
Rtin Worries
- . . ...
"The whole thing depends on tne
zmiNn & FURY, page h-
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Rabbi Rypins Talks
Here This Morning:
Rabbi Rypins of Greensboro will
speak on "Jewish Contributions to
American Civilization" this morning
at 11 o'clock on the second floor of
Graham Memorial.
His speech will be followed by a
general discussion.-
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TH7 OLDEST COLLEGE
CHAPEL HILL, N. O, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1941
University
Club Chooses
New Members
New Officers
To Be Elected
Tomorrow Night x
Releasing the list of 41 newly-elected
members to the University club,
Ferebee Taylor, retiring president, yes
terday announced that the election of
officers for next" year would be held
tomorrow night.
Selected on the basis of best ser
vice to the campus, and representing
every dormitory, sorority, and fra
ternity on the campus, the following
students replaced the entire member
ship of the club at a meeting last
Monday night.
New Members
They are Gene Smith, Steele; Sam
Gambill, Everett; Curry Jones, Ay-
cock; Jimmy Sims, Graham; Frank
Dalton, Beta Theta Pi; Lenoir Shook,
Old East; Sylvan Meyer, TEP; Ed
Keator, Chi Psi; (Stanley Holland,
Sigma Chi; Ike Taylor, Kappa Sigma;
Leon Shaffer, Phi Alpha; Roger
King, Chi Phi; Dave ;Rumph, SAE;
George Peabody, Delta 'Psi;-B. C. Mor
row, Lewis; Hobart McKeever, Ruf
fin; Henry Hunter, Zeta Psi; Martin
Barrier, BVP; Jenny Welles New
some, Pi Beta Phi; Herst Hatch, Pi
KA; Tom Baden, Sigma Nu; James
Mitchenger, Lambda Chi Alpha; John
Feuchtenberger, Phi Delta Theta; Lem
Gibbons, DKE; Guy Byerly, Phi Kap
pa Sig; Sinclair Jacobs, ZBT; , Alston
Lewis, ATO; Sandy Goldberg, Pi
Lambda Phi; Steve Piller, KA; Fran
ces Bonkemeyer, Women's "No. 1; Ann
Payton, Chi Omega; Huldah Warren,
AD Pi; Jane Rehn, Women's No. 2;
Charles Spaugh, H dorm; Jack Wilk
inson, Phi Gam; Steve Karres,
Grimes; Jack Markham, Mangum;
and Randy Mebane, Spencer.
For the first time in the club's his
tory, the town students are represent
ed. . .-They t are Roy Stroud and Fran
ces Tilly.
Active Year
The meeting of the new members
Monday night officially brought to a
close an active year of club work-r-a
See UNIVERSITY CLUB, page 4.
Students Find
Warning Cries
No False Alarm
Like the people who heard the
shepherd boy shout "wolf" too often,
the University students rooming in
the Wettach building didn't believe
the shouted fire alarm Friday night
Only when smoke began to fill the up
stairs rooms did the boys get out of
bed and find escape down the one
stairway blocked.
The fire broke out at 2:30 and when
the fire truck arrived the second-story
occupants climbed down from the
smoke-filled building on ladders. J. S.
Boone of the Chapel Hill fire-department
said last night the fire was start
ed by hot ashes piled against a wooden
partition in the furnace room some
time Friday.
About six months ago the building
caught on fire. Since then Saturday
night loafers on the post office corner
have frequently yelled "fire" just to
kid the students rooming in the Wet-
Uach building. Friday night, little at-1
tention was paid to the shouted alarm
until smoke began to fill the upstairs
rooms.
"Doc"
Pritchard, who has been in
both fires, is being called "Asbestos"
Pritchard after he climbed down from
See NO FALSE ALARM, page 2.
Listen, Buddy!
Keep Your Big
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Weaver Begins
'Save Sod' Drive
By Sylvan Meyer
Keep off that grass!!!
Inevitable as Spring blooms in the
arboretum, as turning fancies, is the
drive to keep your feet off the grass.
Only this time Assistant Dean of
Students Fred Weaver and his ingen
ious committee have more ways of re
minding you to do so than even seven
year undergrads can remember. At
every turn, on every tree; on every
bulletin board, under every stone you
will find a sometimes gentle, some
times harsh, and always effective re-
DAILY IN THE SOUTH-
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On Student Fees Ameitdmeimt
Rose Changes
To Senior Council Member
Withdraws From
Student Body Race
By Bucky Harward
The University party yesterday al
tered its lineup by moving Al Rose
from secretary-treasurer of the stu
dent body to senior student council
representative.
Party leaders said only that the
change had been made at Rose's own
request. ; '
Rose himself explained that he pre
ferred to run for senior representa
tive because most of his previous work
had been withinthe class. This year
he has been secretary of the junior
class, a member of the executive com
mittee and a member of the Univers
ity club, a junior organization.
This switch leaves the UP with
three more offices on which to take
immediate action secretary-treasurer
of the student body, editor of the
Yackety Yack and senior representa
tive to the Publications Union board.
University To Sponsor
29th High School Week
Debate Contests,
Tennis, Track
Meets Featured
The University's 29th annual High
School week will see approximately
1,000 delegates and visitors from
North Carolina high schools take over
the campus on Thursday and "Friday
to participate in debating contests, a
tennis tournament, a track -meet and
numerous other activities during their
stay.
The largest number of entries in 17
years, and 36 more than last year, a
total of 256 student debaters from 64
high schools will compete in the finals
of the 29th annual contest for the Ay
cock Memorial cup. The contest is
under the sponsorship of the North
Carolina High School Debating union
and the cup is provided by the inter
collegiate debaters of the University.
The subject for the debate is the
same that was discussed 22 years ago
in the contest of 1919, that of one year
of compulsory military training for
all able-bodied young men. The query,
"Resolved, That the United States
should adopt a policy of requiring one
year of military training of all able
bodied men before they reach the age
of 23," was recently chosen as the
national debate subject for next year.
The 64 schools represented won
both affirmative and negative vic
tories in the State-wide triangular
contest held on March 28, in which 240
high schools were entered.
29th Interscholastic Track Meet
Other featured events for the week
will be the 29th annual interscholastic
track- meet, to be held at 2 o'clock Fri
day afternoon under the supervision
of University Athletic Director Rob
ert A. Fetzer and associates, and the
26th annual interscholastic tennis
tournament on Thursday and Friday to
be under the direction of Coach John
F. Kenfield and his staff.
The program of the debating con
test will get under way at 2 o'clock
See HIGH SCHOOL, page 2.
This Ain't No
Feet Off That
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minder to "for goodness sakes, please
let the dirty ol' grass alone!"
Weaver has placed himself in the
position of a harmless little blade of
grass, struggling to eke out a bare
existence from a few minerals in the
cold ground. He imagines a giant,
crepe-soled shoe muffing out his green,
industrious life. Then, cut off in his
prime, rying so diligently to make
the campus green, he becomes only a
mean, brown, shriveled ghost of for
mer verdure. Oh sad, Oh lost.
Buffoonery aside, the spectacle of a
campus clad completely in the green
coat of spring has long been denied
Carolina because of the refusal of a
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UP Candidacy
Al Rose
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Town Donates
Tea Kitchen
Relief Chapter Buys
Gift For British
A mobile tea kitchen to carry food
and hot soup to British soldiers at
their posts, to citizens left homeless
by enemy bombs, and to fire fighters
in England, has been donated by the
town of Chapel Hill, through funds
raised by the Chapel Hill branch of
the British War Relief, and - by vol
untary donations.
The kitchen, costing $1,500, has
already been ordered, and when it is
delivered from the factory in Eng
land it will bear a plaque on each side
with the name "Chapel Hill" print
ed on it.
Raise Funds by Bazaar
Funds raised for the gift were re
ceived from two and a half day
bazaar sponsored by the local organ!
zation. The bazaar accounted for
$1,160 of the total fund. One thous
and dollars was contributed by one
Chapel Hill couple, and purchase of
the gift was assured.
Since only $350 is needed now to
put with the balance to keep the ilea
kitchen equipped for one year, mem
bers of the war relief organization are
planning to make up this amount at
the earliest possible moment.
As far as it is known, Mrs. W. P.
Richardson, chairman of the local
group, announced that no other town
in North Carolina has donated a tea
kitchen to the British.
Kattsoff To Speak
To Methodist Group
Dr., Louis O. Kattsoff will lead a
forum discussion of- "Philosophy m
Life" tonight at 7 x o'clock for the
Methodist Student Forum.
Playground;
Green Grass!
Violators To Face
Vociferous Mike
great many students to take the
'long
way 'round."
Only reason for walking on the
grass is to get where you're goin
just a little bit faster. Accomplish
this by taking longer steps or walking
more rapidly, but save the verdant
lawns for appearance's sake.
Loudspeakers booming across the
field between South and the library
will serve to keep trespassers off the
grass there. Who will admonish the
grass-steppers-onners has not yet
See KEEP OFF GRASS, page 2.
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NUMBER 143
l omerr
Proposal Would
Completely
Revamp Finances
Considering a proposal potentially
the most significant in Carolina stu
dent government for the past several
years, the student legislature meets
tomorrow night to take action on the
student fees amendment.
With the proposal already drafted
by the ways and means committee and
apparently no serious opposition loom
ing, Speaker Bill Cochrane's only wor
ry yesterday was the possible failure
to get the necessary two-thirds quor
um. A sufficient number of legislators
showed up last Wednesday to approve
eight other less important constitu
tional amendments. Cochrane was
praying yesterday for a repeat per
formance.
Gives Legislature Power
Over Finances
Blocking all student fees into one
lump fund, the new proposal would
move the power of setting fees and
allocating money to campus organiza
tions from the University administra
tion and Board of Trustees to the stu
dent legislature.
Only student fee excepted from the
plan is - the athletic fee.
If the amendment is ratified by the
legislature Monday night, it will still
have to be passed by the student body,
administration and trustees. Legis
lative leaders had little fear yester
day that the proposal would be stym
ied in any quarter.
The plan originated in a nine-student
committee which worked for two
weeks before releasing its report last
Thursday. Those serving on the com
mittee were Chairman Bill Allen, Bill
Cochrane,Terry Sanford, Bill Alex
ander, Ben Tillett, Dave Morrison,
Don Bishop, Bill Bruner," and Jick
Garland.
Specific details for the wide-reaching
plan would be worked out only
See LEGISLATURE, page 4. ,
Press Institute
Organized Here
For May 2-3
More than 75 schools throughout
the state have just been mailed invi
tations to attend the Fifth Annual
North Carolina Scholastic Press, in
stitute to be held at the University
Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3,
under the auspices of the journalism
department, the Extension division,
and the State department of public
instruction.
Walter Spearman, journalism pro
fessor, is serving as director of the
Institute and has planned an attrac
tive two-day program, featuring talks,
open forum discussions, criticisms of
individual papers, and a contest in
editorial writing. Last year's Institute
was attended by 136 delegates from
more than 30 high schools in the State.
The tentative program calls for
registration at Graham Memorial be
tween 2 and 5 o'clock Friday afternoon
with a get-acquainted session imme
diately afterwards. A headline speaker
is scheduled for 8 o'clock, and special
entertainment is being planned for
the evening.
Criticism of Papers . '
On Saturday morning there will be
a tour of the journalism department,
the University Press, and the Univer
sity News Bureau, followed by a
criticism of the high school papers.
During the afternoon roundtable
discussions jon such subjects as "News
and News Features," "Headlines and
See PRESS INSTITUTE, page U.
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Sound and Fury
Wants Shipwrights
Since the government has tied up
all shipyards with battleships, Sound
and Fury is being forced to organize
its own shipwrights to build its ocean
liners, George Grotz, technical direc
tor, wailed yesterday.
He announced that all campus ship
wrights, stage men who would like to
be shipwrights, carpenters who can't
work at Newport News, and hard
working students who would like to be
apprentices at the trade-will meet with
the S and F technical staff today at 2
o'clock in Gerrard hall.