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News Briefs Britisk Chase ommel AsHe Chases Yanks Germans Flee In First Russian Rout ALLIED HDQ., N. A., Feb. 17 (UP) The Nazi blitzkreig, powered by huge Mark VI tanks almost immune to frontal fire, hammered gallant but green American troops back close to the Algerian border tonight and it was feared that the Allies might have to abandon all central Tun isia. In the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the Tunisian war the Americans have f alien back 35 miles from Faid Pass on the out skirts of Sbeitla since the enemy onslaught began four days ago. v It was disclosed that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhour, supreme Allied commander in Africa, nar7 rowly escaped being caught in the fighting when he was driven in a jeep through Sidi Bou Zid south west of Faid Pass on an inspec tion tour just an hour and a half before German tanks crashed in to the town last Sunday. LONDON, Feb. 17 (UP) The Eighth Army told the Axis today .that it was driving straight toward Medenine, "Verdun of the Mareth line". By announcing that it advanced toward Medenine, the Eighth army served notice that it meant to crack the Mareth line at its strongest point, although the German radio expressed fears that the British coincidentally in tended to flank the line and swamp Axis positions. LONDON, Feb. 17 (UP) Red armies attacked a weakening Germaniine tonight on four great battlefronts from Orel to the Sea of Azov as they moved swiftly to develop- their greatest re-conquest of .the war the capture of Kharkov. Dispatches indicated that Orel, northern anchor of the German southern line and equidistant on the 400-mile railroad stretch be tween Kharkov and Moscow, was within striking distance. Allied Non-Stop Bomb Derby Pastes Lorient U-Boat Nest LONDON, Feb. 17 (UP) RAF bombers rounding out the fourth day of a non-stop Allied aerial offensive against Nazi Europe struck last night at the bomb-battered U-boat base of Lorient, France as fighter com mand planes hammered other tar gets in France, Belgium and northwestern Germany. Navy Reveals More Losses To Jap Pacific Supply Line WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP) American submarines in one of the severest, blows yet struck against the far flung Jap anese supply lines has sunk five more enemy supply ships in transport and probably sunk a cruiser, the Navy announced to-' night. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Welcomed by Roosevelts WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP) Madame Chiang Kai Shek, American-educated wife of the Chinese Generalissimo and the world's foremost stateswom an, paid her first war-time visit to Washington today and was welcomed personally at the rail road station by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. r . Nationalists in Poona Demonstrate for Gandhi POONA, India, Feb. 17 (UP) Nationalists demonstrated in a main street of Poona today in the first active protest against the continued interment of fast ing Mohandas K. Gandhi and po lice, anxious to forestall possible ' See NEWS BRIEFS, page U V I 1 A 11 INSIDE Disregard the dirt . . . Major plat forms . . . Candidates military status . . . Overcarsh gets credit. On Page Two. VOLUME LI Bu.in. and Circulation: 8641 " CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 ; Editorial: F-S141. Nw: F-14. VU1 NUMBER 104 Face War-Time Yote Today Annual Election Party Scheduled Tonight Precinct tabulations an d final election results will be speeded to students tonight in Graham Memorial via loud .. speaker system and tabula tion boards at the traditional elections party. Sponsored by the student union the party will be held in the main lounge of Graham Memorial and will last from 9 until 12 p. m. Blackboards will be placed in the lounge .to carry the la test voting totals of all candi dates and a group of posters will make changes in the to tals as tabulations are released by the Student Council. , ' Last minute returns and changes will be announced from the Daily Tar Heel of fice to students in the main lounge by Hayden Carruth .and Sylvan Meyer. Seats for over '300 will be set up in the lounge for the ' climax of the election season.; The student union will serve peanuts for refreshments and sandwiches may be bought in the student union office. This annual party is open to all students in an effort to make election results public as soon as they come in from the various precincts. Coeds will be allowed to stay out until 12 p. m. if they sign out of their dorms, Mrs. H. M. Stacy, dean of women, announced yesterday. This afternoon from 2. until 6 p. m. Graham Memorial is giving a tea dance in the main lounge for all those who vote in the main hall outside. Music for the dance will be broadcast from the student union office. ! Plans for V-l, V-7 Mscussed Toniffht. :i Navy Programs, War Events Explained At News Analysis Meeting in.Hill Hall Plans for the V-l and V-7 reservists and the implications of the recent selection by the Navy of the University for basic train ing will be analyzed tonight along with the week's news at the News Analysis meeting in Hill hall at 7 p. m. Reservists in the V-l or V-7 programs have been especially invited to attend to hear the dis cussion on their status and future plans. Dr. Keener C. Frazer, political science profes sor and specialist in international relations, will give the regular weekly analysis of the news sup ported by large maps and charts of the Hill hall stage and by special reports drawn up by United Press. - . V ' - .- v . - I . Administrative leaders will .take oyer following Erazer's talk and conduct the question and an-f swer period for the Naval reser vists. Dean F. F, Bradshaw, G. B. Phillips, and Dean R. B. Par ker will explain the latest news concerning the reserves. The meeting is the second in the series of weekly analyses de signed to provide the student body with an authorative inter pretation and summary of the news each week as seen through the e,yes of faculty specialists in various fields. Captain W. S. Popham, head of the local NROTC unit, conducted the first meeting last week. Regular lo cation of the meeting is the Ho race Williams Lounge of Graham Memorial, but it was shifted this week in order to accomodate the See PLANS, page 4 -$ j : , IS j V f r ; YMCA Lists Candidates Ellis, Adams Run For Presidency The nominations committee of the YMCA cabinet, composed of retiring officers and ex-off icio member Harry Comer,, yester day released the listing of can didates for top YMCA posts. Jack Ellis and Lee Adams are the nominees for the presidency, Bob Lakey and Charles Daniel for the vice-presidency, Weldon Jordan and Zan Harper for the secretary post and Dean Winn See YMCA, page 4- Satterfield 's Orchestra Leading Hectic Existance By Madison Wright Atfull schedule has kept John ny Satterfield's orchestra, front ed by Bud Montgomery, on the jump almost every weekend for the last five months. Montgome ry will lead his men for the Mid winter dance set this weekend. The dances, which will be held Friday and Satrday in Woollen gymnasium, are open to members of the German club who have paid their dues, and to others who are able to secure the limited number of bids available to the rest of the students. Bids for the mem bers are now available at the Sigma Chi house, Chairman Bill Vail announced yesterday, and should be claimed at once. Montgomery's 14-piece outfit has toured almost all the South ern states since school opened this fall, ranging north to Virgin ia and south to Alabama during the Christmas holidays. Woodber- ry Forest, Virginia, and the Ca rolina club at Charlotte were points on the expedition. ' Traveling in the familiar black truck marked "Johnny Satter field and His Orchestra" the band has had considerable trouble in the matter of transportation, but by careful planning and budget ing of gasoline, it " just managed to get there and back," Mont gomery says. Most of the men in the band live at Sigma Chi, and through out the day discordant sounds is sue from the various rooms where they are practicing. Montgomery combines these unpromising sounds at dances and emerges with such solid compositions as "Nightingale," which rates tops with students here, as attested by the requests for it at the last Sun day night session which the band played. Rather than allow the reputa tion of the band to decline, Mont gomery plans to dissolve the or chestra if he loses his key men. This, he believes, will ensure that the music of Satterf ield's group will cease entirely rather than just cease to be good. Candidates' Banners Are Destroyed Vandals Set Fire Expensive Posters t u iJctlHC, CAUCI1B1VC v a XI 11 C X O I erected Tuesday night over the YMCA court by two candidates for general campus offices were burned by unkonwn persons soon j after they were put up, it was disclosed today. Reports from residents of Old West dormitory indicate that the banners were burned around 12 p. m., a very short time after the banners were erected by campaign managers of Dotson Palmer,4 candidate for president of the studenr'bodyV and Mike Beam candidate for editor of the Carolina Magazine. When questioned as to the possibility of University em ployees having removed the ban ners, L. B. Rogerson, assistant controller of the University said, "the only posters or banners which I have instructed em ployees to remove are those , See CANDIDATES, page U Twentieth Annual Dramatic Festival To Be March 25-27 Transportation problems will not prevent the holding of the twentieth annual State Drama tic festival and tournament here on March 25, 26, and 27, Proff Frederick H. Koch, honorary president said last night. Evidence of statewide inter est in the festival, which is spon sored by the. Carolina Dramatic association has been assured by the already recorded entrance of 16 original one-act plays, two full-length plays, two radio dra mas, and 15 poems in the contest. Entries still will be accepted if they are sent to Mrs. Darice Parker, executive secretary of the association. Highlights of the tournament will be the production of "victo ry scripts," concerning the Red Cross and public education, and a special playwrights' division for servicemen. Eligible for the service tourna ment are men at Fort Bragg, Camp Butner, Camp Davis, New River and Cherry Point Marine bases, Goldsboro air field, and Charlotte airfield. The soldiers may offer three types of drama: brief comedies for all-male casts, patter for min strel shows, and review skeleton scripts. Cash awards of $25, $15, and $10 will be awarded. Samuel Selden will direct the service playwright competition. DOUBLY ENDORSED in their respective candidacies are (top to bottom) Terrell Webster, legislature speaker nominee : Denny, Hammond for senior representative to stu dent council; and J. Tyler Nourse, candidate for junior. PU board member. House Announces Steele Not To Be Taken Over Before Commencement Settling rumors that Steele dormitory was to be taken over in the immediate future, Dean of "Administration, R. B. Housed when questioned about the possibility yesterday said, "there is no plan or indication that Steele will be taken over and the present plan of the administration is to reserve it indefinitely for civilians." Recent announcements that the Pre-meteorological school was to be located here and yes terday's announcement of a new Naval Basic College Training school to be sent here this summer had caused the unfounded rumors in Steele. A recent inspection of the dorm by Army and Navy of ficers had also contributed to the founding of the rumors, but those inspections were on - ly of University facilities in general, and in no way indi cated that any particular building would or would not be taken over. nQQmMJuukMJW - If'? .1 L iLS i J - W : hi Five Polls To Handle Electorate Students Urged To Cast Ballots By Dave C. Bailey Carolina's first really war torn political season hits its cli max and finale today when stu dents go to the polls to choose from 125 candidates for 63 cam pus offices in what may be the last regular general election for the duration. Leaders of various groups last night urged students to take ad vantage of their right to govern student policy and reminded them that all students registered at the University, new and old, graduate, undergraduate or pro fessional, are entitled to vote. All Day Vote Supervised and revised this year by the student council, the precinct polls will be open from 9 a. m. until 6 p. m. The precinct system has been overhauled by the council this year and includes five voting lo- Students will be required to bring their identification cards or other valid means of identification with them to polls today, it was announced. cations instead of four. Students will vote according to their ad dresses as listed in the student directory. New students and oth ers not listed in the directory will cast their ballots at the YMCA. The five precincts and poll ing places are : 1. Whitehead dormitory All male town residents "liv ing on or west of Columbia street, extended to the air port and as far along Pitts boro road as any student shall live" will vote here. 2. Graham Memorial Co eds living in the first precinct (above), including Archer house, will vote here. All town students "residing east, but not on, Columbia street ex tended to the airport and as far along Pittsboro road as any student shall live" and all fraternity residents not listed in the fourth precinct will vote here. 3. Mclver dormitory All coeds living in dormitories and sororities will vote here. 4. Carolina Inn All fra ternity residents except ATO, Phi Alpha and TEP will vote here. 5. YMCA All residents -of men's dormitories will vote here, and those students not listed in the directory includ ing War college and winter quarter freshmen. No political advertising will be allowed at the polling places to day. An "no-man's-land" has been set up within ten yards of the buildings in which the polls are located and no influencing of a voter will be allowed in this area. Every candidate, whether or not he has spent money on his campaign, must fill out and cer tify an expense blank and turn it in to the student council room by 6 p. m. today in order to be eligible for election.
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