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Wht fi(Cc Y TnDITORIALS: J -Hob-Nob With Worley II. They Mean Business j ' J Praise Re-routed Incompetence TTEATHER: rf Partly cloud? ; poisihtj V shoicers 4 ft III Y 1 V-jfa I fOLUME XT.TX x tST7: ChrcoUtioa: ASS4 Christian Drama Opens In Theatre Tonight, Plays . Ihrough Saturday A . , Fifth Production -THE OLDEST COLLEGE , DAILY IN THE SOUTH- CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1941 REtori!: tUSi New: Kfeht: NUMBER 145 Of Playmakers Has Large Cast "Family Portrait," the famous Cof fee and Cowan play based on the life of Christ, will open the spring quar ter program of the Carolina Playmak ers tonight at 8:30 in the Playmaker theater. The new production, fifth major offering of the current season, vill be presented, again on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday evenings. Eobia Bolce, who has been promi nent in other Playmaker productions iis year including "The House xf CocneUy" and "The Marauders," will .be .seen in the role of Mary made fam ous recently on the Broadway stage by Judith Anderson. Others in the large ca3t include: Flo Wilson, Fred Xaufholz, Tom Avera, Richard Adler, Robert Carroll, Eleanor Jones, Cyn thia Jane Hemke, Louise Strumbert, Parian Maschin and Hilmer Sallee The play, written by two Holly wood script writers and produced in 'ew York in 1939, tells of the swift, tragic event3 in the life of Christ as seen by the members of his family at Nazareth. Critics have described it as a i drama, of "fresh and poignant significance" giving special praise to the playwrights' conception of the cen tral figure. Theme From Christ's Words The play's theme stems from the fa rmiHar words of Christ: "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country. The intimate family life of Christ has been treated sincerely and reverently but at the same time with r-ataralness and simplicity. The play shows the lack of under standing manifested by members of His family when Christ becomes a traveling preacher. All except His mother think He is a good carpenter svastirg His time. Costumes for the present production "have been created by Ora Mae Davis, who chose to use the simple peasant motif throughout with no attempt at period costume. The production has been designed by Lynn Gault. Sam uel Selden, associate director of the Playmakers, is directing. .Season ticket holders may procure their reserve seats any time today J from the office of John Parker at; Swain hall or from Ledbetter-Pickard. Regular ticket sale will begin tonight at 7:30 from the ' Playmaker theater box office. Germans Slice Fifty Mies Through Allies Threaten To Trap British Forces By Encirclement By United Press ATHENS, April 16 (Wednesday) year's freshman handbook will be re-1 German armored forces, smashing ceived at the YMCA all this week, a hole in the allied line, have swept rresiaem aya Alexander announced nearly 50 miles down across northern yesterday. Greece in a ereat arc aimed at entrao- A committee will select the editor nine the British and Greek armies?: it it- . - i iaier inis quarter. The handbook is was stated officially early today. .UMUuuvWij, vuiuine uepicung cam-1 me uerman panzer forces were pus life and organizations for the said by the official Greek spokesman first-year men. to be strikW at tfe tnwn nf TTnTani Gene Williams was editor of this and Siatista and to have driven into year's handbook. Handbook Editor Applications Due Applications for editor of next the vital Siatista Pass west of Kozani in the Vorunion Mountains. LONDON, April 16 (Wednesday) German panzer forces, driving down across northern Greece in a huge arc, have swept behind Mount Olympus and entrapped British forces holding the allied flank. between Mount Olym pus and the Aegean coast, an Ankara radio dispatch said early today. ' The Germans expect to capture these British troops which now are hemmed m between fabled Mount Kelly Wins WAA Election Mallison Chosen YWCA President Hortense "Diddy" Kelly, coed ath lete and Sound and Fury star, yester day defeated Katherine Goold f or nres- idency of the Woman's athletic asso- olymPuf and the sea " the Ankara re- ciation and Muriel Mallison defeated port sam Cornelia Clark for the YWCA presi dency in coed run-off elections. Miss Clark led the voting for the post in last week's election, but illegal ballots cast by coeds not members of the YWCA led to another vote yester day. Miss Kelly received 128 votes against 95 cast for Katherine Goold. The two candidates each received 88 votes in last week's elections. Miss Kelly, from. New Church, Va., transferred to Carolina from Ward Belmont. She is in the Playmakers, Sound an4 Fury, has been on the ath letic council for two quarters, made the all-Carolina hockey team, is . a menager'of basketball and badminton, manager of basketball and badminton, Omega house manager for next year. Miss Mallison received 84 votes, while Miss Clark received 75 ballots. Only YWCA members were allowed See COED ELECTIONS, page. A. SB UP Collaborate Ton! Prosk Political Rail. pit P Nominates Tillett For Y-Y, SP Convention Names Pugh For PU Board Slattern To Play For WA Dance Saturday Night Positions Open With Air Corps, Weather Bureau The Army Air corps and the U. S. Weather bureau will select 105 stu dents to study meteorology at Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology this summer, it was announced yester day. Students will be paid- $127.50 or S75 a month depending upon whether they are in the Air corps or the Weather bureau group. No tuition will be charged and upon completion of the course the Air corps group will become second lieu tenants in the Air corps reserves. The other group will work for the Weather bureau. . ' To be eligible for the Air corps ?roup, students must have received a iegree in 1939, 1940 or 1941. They rrust be between the ages of 20 and 27 and must be male citizens of the United States. During college they must have completed at least two full years of mathematics including differential and integral calculus and one full year of physics. For the Weather bureau group, ap plicants must hold a Civilian Pilot's Training certificate. Further details may be received from S. W. J. Welch in 206 South. ' - Phi Will Receive Membership Bids The Phi assembly announced yes terday that applications for member ship will be considered by the member ship committee this week. v Application blanks may be secured from Tempe Newsome at her office in -he YMCA. Jimmv Slattern and his orchestra from Danville, Va., will play for the annual Woman's association dance, most important coed dance of the year, Saturday night, Jo Andoe, chair man for the affair, announced yester day. , Old and new officers and house presi- dents will participate in the figure for the dance at which the housemothers and Mrs. M. H. Stacy will act as chap erones. The dance will be held in the gym from 9 to 12 o'clock Saturday night. Only codes may buy date bids, but stag bids may be bought by the men students Friday and Saturday. Coeds may now obtain both date and stag bids from members of the women's honor council, Interdorm council, and house presidents. Town girl3 may buy bids today and Thurs day at 10:30 in the "Y." No tickets may be bought at the door, Miss Andoe said yesterday. Members of the Grail are assisting the honor council in sponsoring the dance. The reported encirclement of the British forces holding the eastern wing of the allied line followed Greek radio announcements that the British- Greek forces had been "completely consolidated along a strong mountain line" after strategic withdrawals. The British and Greeks appeared to have fallen back 35 or "40 miles toward the interior of Greece after smashing German panzer assaults upon ' both flanks, of the allied line above Mount Olympus and down through Monastir Pass at the Yugoslav-Greek frontier. BERLIN, April 15 German mili tary spokesmen asserted tonight that the British army is in "precipitate flight" from Greece after a smashing Nazi assault that crumbled both flanks of the allied line and carried Adolf Hitler's armored forces 60 miles into the heart of the British Greek defenses. WASHINGTON, April 15 Presi dent Roosevelt said today that the United States is obligated by federal law to protect its merchant ships outside combat zones, but he 'left un answered the volatile convoy question. Refusing . to discuss whether the need for use of U. S. naval power to protect shipments of materials en route to the democracies is growing more acute, Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference that a lot of non sense has been printed on this subject by people who don't know a "hill of beans" about it. , WASHINGTON,' April 15 A long range program under which present See NEWS BRIEFS, page 2. Fireside Concert Moves Outdoors While the moon won't be up, Fish Worley carries on under Davie Pop lar tonight from 7:30 to 8:30 with music under the trees replacing the winter fireside series. Gene Davant, chairman, promises a full hour of classical music selected from the Graham Memorial record library. In case of rain. Fish will have the program in the main lounge of Gra ham Memorial as usual. By BiD Webb In a surprise meeting last" night; the Student party nominated Charlie Tillett fori editor of the Yackety Yack and named St. Clair Pugh to replace Philip Carden as candidate for mem ber-at-large to the Publications Union board. Carden, nominated two weeks ago, announced his voluntary withdrawal at the convention, which was called by Chairman Jack Towell in order to speed up preparations for election day next Tuesday. The convention wound up nominat ing activities for both parties, presag ing six days of intense cigar-pushing as campus politicoes seek to stir en thusiasm for Tuesday's finale. After the swift nomination of both candidates by acclamation, the provi sions of the recently enacted bill which limits the expenditure of candidates for campaigning were outlined to party members by Bucky Harward, chairman of the legislature elections committee. Charlie Tillett, who received staff endorsement last Friday along with John Thorp, has been active in year book work for several years. Begin ning his publications career in prep school as associate editor of the Wood bury Forest annual, he continued his work here and became editor of the senior section his sophomore year. This year he is engraving editor. Careers From Charlotte, Tillett has also been active in athletics. He won his letter both this year and last year as a member of the varsity wrestling team. A member of the University See SP CONVENTION, page 2. Creech Is First Professor To Get Conscription Call Walter Devereaux Creech, French instructor at the University, became the first member of the faculty to be affected by the conscription bill when he was drafted into the United States army last week. Having passed his physical exam at Hillsboro in February, Creech re ported at Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville last Thursday for his year's service with the army. A graduate of the class of 1928, Creech took his M.A. at the Univers ity in 1930 and studied abroad in 1932 and 1933 at the Universities of Lyons and Bordeaux before returning here to take a position as instructor of French. As an undergraduate Creech was prominent in campus affairs being a member of the Grail, the YMCA cab inet, German club, Interfraternity council, the Coop, the Epsilon Phi Delta fraternity, and the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was a Playmaker and a member of the editorial staff of the Daily Tar Heel. As faculty advisor to the French club, he wrote, directed, and acted in many plays presented at the University. '-'.Si 7 Carmichael To Address Frosh Meet St Clair Pugh Dresskell Plays Here Tonight Concert Features Viola D'Amore Annearincr in a recital tonight in Hill Music hall, Miles Dresskell, American concert violinist, will play the viola d'amore, an unusual instru ment with seven strings. The concert is being sponsored by the Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, national music fraternity and will begin at 8:30. The viola d'amore is said to be one of the most romantic musical instru ments of all times, a viola with a mysterious and sonorous tone. Dresskell is professor of music edu cation at Teachers college, Columbia university. Before going to Columbia, he was head of the College of the Paci fic at San Jose, Calif., and was later director of the San Jose State college music department. At present he is one of the few American artists of the concert stage o use the viola d'amore. Professor Dresskell is interested in presenting the little known literature for the viola d'amore and the classical and contemporary music for violin. Phi To Sponsor 'Hello Week' The Phi Assembly last night unani mously decided to sponsor "Hello Week" again this year. Speaker Bill F. Ward introduced the bill, but a defi nite date for the annual affair de signed to promote campus friendships was not set. Jimmy Pittman was appointed chairman of a committee to make all arrangements for the event which was started last year by the Phi. In an address to the Assembly, Dr. E. E. Ericson urged that the United States weigh seriously the effects our' entry into this war would have upon our .civil liberties and upon the ad vances made by the New Deal in the past eight years. Taking an unprecedented coopera tive step the Student and University parties jointly will present a politi cal "party" for freshmen tonight at 7:30 in Graham Memorial, in order to "better acquaint first-year men with student body and class candidates." Controller W. D. Carmichael will head the list of speakers which will include the major student body and freshman class candidates on both slates. . Lemonade, peanuts and Worley style entertainment has been arrang ed for the rally, first of its kind in Carolina's political history, to en courage full attendance by the first- year men. The "cooperative atmosphere" will be obtained immediately upon the re ception's opening. The program will feature Carmi chael on Carolina political campaigns, and will include singing of popular Irish political songs, and showing of two Charlie Chaplan reels. Fish Wor ley will preside over the program as master of ceremonies. Worley will introduce both party heads, Jick Garland of the UP and Jack Towell of the SP. Garland and Towell each will present their par ty's presidential candidates, Ferebee Taylor and Truman Hobbs. Each candidate is expected to deliver a short speech outlining his program. Premium on Speeches During the course of the evening, both Garland and Towell will present the remainder of their parties' stu dent body slates, v Candidates for the freshman presi dency, Jack Milne and Dotson Palmer, will explain their programs. Party heads then will introduce the remain der of the freshman candidates. Declaring that there would be a premium on speeches," party leaders said that the only other addresses would be delivered by Ray Goodmon and Wade Weatherford, freshman candidates for student council. Party leaders have expressed their desire to have a full turn out, and have pointed out that fraternity, town and dormitory residents of the class have been urged to attend. Added attraction, they said, would be the 50 gallons of lemonade and 30 pounds of peanuts that Worley has promised, to "distribute." Taylor, Hobbs Give Platforms, Campaign Managers S ' ' : r Welborn, Belk Top Taylor Forces Ferebee Taylor, University party candidate for president of the student body, last night began his last week of intensive campaigning by releasing his platform in an open letter to the student body and announcing Harry Belk and Joe Welborn as campaign managers. Tavlor's letter, which embraces the major points in his platform, reads as follows: To the Carolina student body: With the threat of the present world crisis and the possibility of the United States' entrance into the war, Caro lina student government faces the same difficult problems with which all j other democratic societies ' are now confronted. To maintain and further the present high standards of student government at the University, it is essential that Whitaker, Kimball, Hardy To Aid Hobbs Truman . Hobbs, junior representa tive to the Student council and Stu- every candidate for a responsible po- dent party nominee for president of sition should definitely fix and an- the student body, yesterday released his nlatform and announced that ing year of crisis. I favor first a conscientious effort to bring about a definite understand ing of and responsibility toward the campus and honor codes as the funda mental principles of our student gov ernment. More Education Such a program would mean more feature stories on typical student council cases, the stimulation of both the council and student body to take See TAYLOR page 4- Gates Kimball, vice president of the student body, Herb Hardy, president of the senior class, and Ridley Whit aker, clerk of the student legislature, will serve as managers of his cam paign. "I have worked with Truman on the Student council all this year, and I believe he is the man most qualified for the job of president of the student body," Kimball said. Hardy and Whitaker pointed out that they had "known and worked with Truman for three years" and were "proud to work as his campaign manr agers," because they believe him to be "the most qualified man for the job." Hobbs released his four-point plat form which follows: "To the students: The following are not campaign promises they are the major things which I have promised . myself to strive for if I am elected president of the student body for next year: ' A more thorough program of edu cation not only for freshmen, but for upperclassmen as well, to acquaint students with their responsibilities under the honor system. ' This pro gram would include continuance and possible improvement of the present See HOBBS, page 4. Di Bill Proposes Opening Library On Sunday Nights A suggestion that the library be open on Sunday nights, plans for a debate between the Di senate and the varsity debate squad, and a challenge to the Phi assembly to compete in a regulation softball game occupied last night's session of the Di senate. Louis Poisson introduced the sug gestion concerning the library. He pointed out the fact that few students frequent the library on Saturday nights and since the library could not, because of financial limitations, remain open on both Saturday and Sunday nights, suggested it close on Saturday afternoon and open on Sun day night. The recommendation will be transmitted to the library com mittee for consideration. Carrington Gretter announced that he, as chairman of the debate commit tee of the Di, had made preliminary arrangements to have a debate be tween upperclassmen of the senate and upperclassmen of the debate squad on Tuesday, April 22. The hour has not been definitely decided upon. Order Deadline Set For Names on Annual Today is the last day orders will be taken by the Yackety Yack staff for the engraving of owner's names on the annuals. Orders will be taken in the Book Exchange this morning at 10:30. 'A fee of 30 cent3 is charged for the add ed attraction.
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