Headlines f!5ft Editorials Hell Raising Coatiaoes Daisie Mae, We Lore Ton! Freedom Is Made Thirteen Students Face Batt To Discuss Russia . Allen To Announce Winner THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME L Bom 9837; Circulation: fSSC CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1941 Editori: OS: 4U1; Nixht: C5i8 NUMBER 36 Thirteen udeints Who Eviction Present Case to ; City's Board of Aldermen i : ' FINEST TALENT Carolina's three finalists in the Fred Allen talent hunt. From left to right, Bob Richards, Alonzo Squires, and Tom Avera who played, talked, and sang their way o the top of a group of interest ing and unusual Carolina performers. Final winner will be announced Wednesday night over Fred Allen's program. IJTH Photo by Morton. Allen Will Announce Talent Victor Wednesday Richards, Squires, Avera in Finals "" Climaxing a furious weekend of auditions, judges' decisions and broadcasts, final elections for choosing Carolina's oft pub licized "most talented under graduate" wera. held, yesterday; Announcement of the winner :ii r: a. "u V 'E'wrl Allan wm xixt UC uiouo ujr x connoisseur oi wit, on nis nation-1 nae Droaacast vveuiieauay xiigiii,. Semi-finalists from which the winner was elected in balloting yes terday afternoon were Alonzo Squires, ultra-realistic impersonator, Bob Rich ards, harmonica virtuoso, and Tom Avera, boogie-woogie pianist and vo calist. Broadcast Students listened to the talent of the three semi-finalists in a local broadcast made from WBIG, Greens See ALLEN, page h NC Art Exhibit To Open Today In Person Hall The fifth Annual Exhibit of North Carolina Artists opens this afternoon in Person hall at 2 o'clock. The ex hibit will close on November 23. Over 75 North Carolina artists en tered sculptures, wood-carvings, oils, water-colors, pastels and pencil draw ings. There were 14 artists from Cha pel Hill alone, among whom the f ollow- i X.A t.;tnc aivantpH- Wftutfil I Selden, wife of Samuel Selden; Mrs.1 W. X. Sonntag; Mary de Graves; Gene Irwin; Mrs. Fussier; Kenneth Ness; and Walter Carroll. Bill Fields, former University stu dent, now assistant director of the WP A Art Project at Raleigh, also had works in the exhibit. WCUNC's art department was represented by Mary Stewart. Emil Holzhauer, well-known water-colorist, had several pictures in the exhibit. An internationally-known experimentalist, Josef Albers, entered an experiment in projections of planes. Town Associations Sponsor Joint Meeting Tonight The Town Girls association will nn;Vi4- nriti ttia Rnxrc association icc i.uui6u. J at 8:00 in Gerrard Hall, Ditzi Buice, president, announced yesterday. The purpose of the meeting is to elect representatives to the Student Legis .lature. All students living in off-cam? pus houses are requested to attend. PrtPPHiT.o- this TTiPPtintr will be a Town Council meeting in the WGA , Coed Senate Meets Today Bradshaw Addresses - Special OpenSession . Dean Bradshaw will speak to the coed Senate this afternoon at o,clock .m CaldweU at a spedaj meeting Jean Hahn, speaker 0f the Senate announced yesterday. - Bradshaw will discuss dnnkine m fraternity houses and will attempt to find a solution for the present prob lem, Miss Hahn stated, and all coeds and men students are invited to the meeting to take part in the discus sion. .Also on the slate for action tomor row by the Senate is a change in the regular meetiner hour. Miss Hahn stated. Proposed changes in closing hours for coed dormitories are also to come before the Senate',' Mary Caldwell, President of the Woman's Association, announced. Popular demand has given rise to consideration of a plan by wTiirb women students may be out See COED SENATE, page U New Ambassador Had Stormy Career As French Senator When initiated into his political ca reer in 1928; Gaston Henry-Haye was a tmo larlr bftrSP. unknown to Political parties and social circles in Versailles and Paris. He had the inclination to run as Deputy from Versailles (he was from Wissoux, on Versailles outskirts) , !he ran, and he won. That in spite of the facts that he had no financial or po litical party backing, no political ex perience, and he ran against Camille Aynard, prominent French journalist. Attacks Custom " . v At one poiat in his campaign Henry Haye was quoted as saying he would attack parliamentary customs, morals, and routine of bureaucracy, "which is the bane of my country." Then, in 1933, France's future Am bassador created the Republican Re formist party. Henry-Haye was the first French parliamentarian to de mand reform of the Constitution. He was never backed by his colleagues in his attacks, and after massacres of . . .. . -rto. v- "Diooay reoruary sixui in xo xic preached vainly his belief that the hour of mass social revolution had struck. Socialite Mayor After election to the Senate (1935) this increasingly powerful politician be- came an integral figure in the French Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, See IRC SPEAKER, page h US Demands Nazis German Minister Will Not Forward Roosevelt Speech By United Press WASHINGTON The United States has demanded $2,967,092 from Germany for damages in connection with sinking; of the freighter Robin Moor one of Hi fir$iAmrian I WPSf?Un kJ t J?L j State Department disclosed to - day. v :! i The Robin Moor was torpedoed off me west Aincan coast lasc may j. all on board were rescued after being adrift for periods ranging from sev eral days to three weeks. f The Department also revealed that Hans Thomsen, German Charge d'af f airs refused to transmit to his govern ment the text of President Roosevelt's message to Congress denouncing the sinking as "the act of an international outlaw." ' . , . .... . . j ",1 rTT r openly warning her to make pea with Russia r risk the dual loss of her in Gerrard hall on "Nationalism, Uni own security and American friendship. versali and Judaism Secretary of State Hull said that on Introducing the seri Dn Mo August 18 the State Department had stern described progress of relious conveyed to Finnish minuter Hjalmar th ht from preWstorical d tnru Procope a Soviet offer to negotiate a g of nationalistic or tribal be peace under which Finland would re- hef and the monotheistic of ceive territorial concessions. , Unlimited faith. German tanks crunched f orward ov-! The internationally known Bible er the newly frozen Tula battle field scholar his desire to state south of Moscow m a powerful new . . ... f . n- . A pavoQf,-nT, e-0 offensive Monday pushing back hard- fighting Soviet defenders.: But north AiiT.- -.-j3 -..airn: w-.... .. of the beseiged capital the Russians in strong counter attacks gained ground near Kalinin. The two sectors each are about 100 miles from Moscow. Fierce fighting raged in the Crimea, now largely m Axis hands, with the peninsula's two ports of Sevastopol in the South and Kerch in the East under terrific air attack and threatened with imminent assault by German and Rou manian armies. " Diplomatic quarters indicated that a British declaration of war against Finland, Hungary and Roumania asked by the Soviet was likely. OTTAWA, Canada Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King told Parliament today that "the mirage of isolation" is disappearing rapidly from the United States and that "appreciation of inter dependence of free peoples has grown in. the minds of all but a small minor- Three Win Grid Contest Frances Stryon, Mike Wise, and C. M. Murphy were, the winners of last week's football contest, Fish Worley announced yesterday, and they may pick up their meal tickets in his office at any time. Al Donahue Faced with Problem of Swaying La w Court Juries or Young Dancing Couples Famous Maestro Has Two Diplomas By Bob Hoke Two diplomas acquired almost si multaneously one would satisfy the average college student are proudly displayed, by the famous bandleader Al Donahue. One from the Boston Uni versity College of Law and the other from the New England Conservatory of Music comprise his sheepskin sec tion. Creator of "Low Down Rhythm in a Top Hat," Donahue brings his popu lar orchestra to the Carolina band stand for the Duke game week-end, November 14 and 15, for a series of four dances. Two Scholarships Ten years ago when the batoneer bowed low and received the law and music degrees from the New Eng land academic halls, he had reached an important crossroad; whether to sway juries or dancing couples. After careful deliberation he discarded the Batt Promises to Disclose Unknown Details of Red Trip OPM Deputy Director Informs CPU He Will Speak of Kremlin Visit Friday By Paul Komisamk Positive assurances that William L. Batt, OPM Deputy Director, ij i v. i j j.m i..-. t,..;- would reveal heretofore unreleased details of his recent Russian mission f or President Roosevelt were given yesterday by Ridley . , -6 nwi j CIlO tCl 11 Discusses Bible History Scholar Describes Early Stages Of Religion !. Dr. G. E. Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, TTJllf many had conception Bible Xr Hter scalar literanjrplclSaparrttierffiBle and loses his faith in the Bible's truth. "The people's conception of God is reflection of their own organization," Dr. Morgenstern said. He used a advancement. Tbings in Me just do not happen; there is a Divine Purpose." Last night's speaker explained that Christianity and Judaism were formed through a common covenant and re pudiation of false gods. The prophet Amos was cited as the first univer salist, in the Assyrian age. "In anci ent days God was a reality, not a phi losophical abstraction.". The address was first of a series of three lectures. Second and final talks will be held tonight and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Business Staff Meets Today All students on the Business Staff of the Daily Tar Heel are required to be in ; the business office at 1:45 tndnv fnr a snpcial mppt.inp, Tht mppf- rf r 0. f ? - t t i j 1 i t M ing win De snori, so mat sxuaents nav ing a two o'clock class may leave on 'time. Attendance is essential! y:4 v; - 9 i XT 4, f ' -A" Al Donahue way of the law books, but not until after he had been admitted to the Massachusetts bar in deference to the -" Pay for Robin Moor in his Friday night CPU speech, Whitaker, CPU chairman. Whitaker disclosed that Batt had informed him that he would discuss the Kremlin visit with Stalin, and its ef fect "over all American production." Few details of the American and British meetings with Joseph Stalin in Moscow have been revealed to date. England's mission, led by Lord Beaver brook, and America's delegation, led by Averill Harriman and Batt, have maintained a close-lipped silence since their return. Russia Desperate Washington observers maintain that the American committee has reported that American aid must reach Russia by or before spring, and rumorshave " the British are prepared to send an expeditionary force to bols ter the weakening Soviet-defenses. No official comment has been made how ever. Batt's speech Friday night, will be the first time a member of the United States delegation has officially com mented on the trip. Prominent in Capital Known in Washington as an "anti friction apparatus" Batt has won him self a prominent place with his brief, ' vnw.MT.Jrt-visit l I Varsity Show' Lettermen Invited to Special Play maker Showing Tonight Duke Drama Group To See Production "The Male Animal," first major Playmaker production, will be shown at a special invited preview tonight at eight-thirty for the 'Monogram club and the members of the athletic coach ing staff. Others who received invitations for this presentation are members of the Duke players, who recently presented "The Male Animal", and critics from state papers and The Daily Tar Heel. The regular four night showing of this play will begin tomorrow night at 8 :30, and will be given at the same time through Saturday, November 8. Earl Wynn, director for the produc tion, expresses the belief that this will be the most outstanding performance wishes of his parents. Even after he had joined a law of fice. Donahue continued his orches tral activities and earned - himself the sobriquet, "The Boston Barrister Ba toneer." After ten years in the music busi ness, he has became one of the "big name" bandleaders in the country. Smooth Spokesman - ' Born in Dorchester, a suburb oi Boston on June 12, 1904, Donahue at tended the public schools of the city. There he distinguished himself as a smooth . spokesman for various stu dent political parties and as first violinist in the school orchestra. At college, the maestro was a busy man. He participated in extra-curricular activities both at Boston Uni versity and at the Music conservatory and managed to find time in which to accept booking for his dance or chestra, which helped finance his edu cation. Upon graduation, Donahue tried law See DONAHUE, page U ! ' Burch Continues To Press Charges Of Zoning Offense By Hayden Carruth Thirteen University students, who entered on a cooperative Ki mi sin rr out pmrtso nn TlTollotfo . . Mf. i Street, presented their case in formally last night to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen. The meeting reached no "definite conclusion." After a session of consid erable, length and complexity, the board referred the case to a Zoning committee, which will "attempt to interpret and redefine the case" for further discussion by the Board of Aldermen. 'Under Consideration' The board "took under considera tion" the possibility of a change in the zoning ordinance as it now stands. The trial, originally scheduled for opening today, has been postponed un til Tuesday, November 11. Mr. P. I Burch, member of the Board of Aldermen and Head of the Building Department of the Univer sity, originally pressed charges against the students for zoning ordi nance violation. Burch last night showed no indication of dropping the case. -Arraigned Miss Ada Lentz, owner of the Mal lette Street building, and Dan Mar tin, in whose name the lease was tak en, were arraigned last week. Martin, a senior at the University and a self help student in the Book Exchange, has Uyedin Chapel Hill f or. iwo.years See EVICTION, page U of recent years. Typical of modern day college life, the characters frolic through a series of troublesome situ ations. Varied personalities with their witty dialogue carry the audience's in terest throughout the entire three acts. Bob Bowers, star of "The Maraud ers" and many other Playmaker pro ductions is expected, along with the rest of the well chosen cast, to surpass his past achievements. Other members of the cast are: Kit ty Lee, Frank Brink, Josephine Andoe, Jeanie McKenzie, Doug Watson, Billy Robert Webb, Arthur Golby, Elaine Berg, Arthur Conescu, Elizabeth Trot man, Ervine Smith, and Ted Croner. With the exception of holders of sea son tickets, the admission will be 85c, tax included. However, it was ex plained, with the purchase of Playmak er season tickets, students may save a percentage of the usual amount. For the student's convenience tickets may be obtained at Ledbetter-Pickard's and the box office. New student talent will be seen for the first time this year since "The House of Connelly" presented earlier in the season by veteran Playmakers. Livingston, Gant Perform Tonight As its second program of the season, the Music Department presents a two- piano recital by Herbert Livingston and William Gant tonight at 8:30 in Hill Music Hall. Both men are graduate assistants and instructors in piano. Gant, who is making his first ap pearance on the campus, came p Cha pel Hill this fall to replace Wilton Ma son, now at Fort Bragg. He is a grad uate of Yale and a pupil of the well known pianist, Bruce Simonds. Liv ingston, a graduate of Syracuse, has been appearing as soloist and accom panist here for three years. The program includes Mozart's Fugue in C Minor and Sonata in D Major, Brahms' Sonata in F. Minor, and a Suite by Beryl Rubenstein. room.

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