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i i News Brief i Nazi Try-In onets-Basin British Penetrate Jap Burma Lines LONDON, Feb. 26 (Friday) (UP) Russian forces, aided by American-made iank units, have opened a big attack-on the south west Moscow front while in the Donets Basin, they are battling to retain the initiative against some of the most desperate Ger man counter-attacks of the win ter campaign, dispatches said to day. V NEW DELHI, Feb. 25 (UP) British troops in their deepest penetration in Burma since their evacuation last spring, have made a daring seaborne raid far be yond the enemy lines, it was an nounced today, and American fliers have destroyed at least six and probably 18 Japanese planes from a strong formation at tempting to attack a US base. Churchill's Condition Reported Improved LONDON, Feb. 25, (UP) Prime Minister Winston Church ill tonight appeared to be winning his fight with pneumonia which has confined him to his bed for more than a week. RAF Hits Wilhelmshaven In Fourth Major Assault LONDON, Feb. 25 (UP) RAF bombers, hitting Ger many for the second time in four nights without loss, last night made a twenty minute saturation attack on the Wilhelmshaven naval and U-boat base where, the Air ministry announced, subma rine production has been im paired seriously by four heavy raids in two weeks. Eisenhower and Alexander Led Victorious US Drive ALLIED HDQ., North Africa, Feb. 25 (UP) General Dwight Eisenhour and his4ep - my, uenerai sir narom k. ju. j. Alexander, were on the battle field personally during the vic torious allied counter attack which hurled back the Germans into Kasserine Gfap, it was dis closed tonight. j Artillery Duel Blazes Over Kasserine Pass WITH THE -AMERICAN FORCES OUTSIDE KASSER INE PASS, Feb. 24. (Delayed) (UP) A great artillery duel lit the Tunisian sky with jagged flashes long after dark tonight as heavy American guns hurled metal up Kasserine Pass and the Axis sent back salvo after salvo. Ursula Parrott's Efforts To Delay Soldier Revealed MIAMI, Feb. 25 (UP) An Army major today told a federal court jury that he saw novelist Ursula Parrott in the bck seat of a green : sedan, apparently making love to a soldier compan ion, Private Michael Neely Bry an, a few minutes before Bryan escaped from a military stockade December 28. "They appeared to be making love," said Major Walter S. Dan user, who was then in charge of the Miami Beach stockade from which Bryan escaped. Three Nipponese Females Found Dead on Guadalcanal WITH AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL, Feb. 19, (Delayed) (UP) American mop-out squads in the Cape Es- perance area found the bodies of three Japanese women today, and after all previous hair-raising yarns to the contrary it was the first real evidence that any of the Japanese weaker sex had set foot on Guadalcanal during the war. See NEWS BRIEFS, page 4 D VOLUME LI BtulcaM and Cirenlatton t tUl R rost Accepts Gall To Give Talk Monday Night Reknowned Poet Is Prize Winner Robert Frost, three-time-winner of the Pulitzer prize for poet ry, will speak under the sponsor ship of the Carolina Workshop council and the English depart ment in Hill hall on Monday night at 8:30. The unofficial Poet Laureate of America, known to every school boy as the author of "The Death of the Hired Man," and "The Mending Wall," notified Richard Adler, chairman of the Workshop council, yesterday of his accep tance of the invitation to speak to students here. . Award Winner In addition to his Pulitzer prize honors, the Harvard pro fessor has received the Loines Prize for Poetry, the Mark Twain Medal in 1937, the Gold Medal Award, has been made a member of the Academy of Arts and Let ters, the American Philosophi cal Society, and the International P.E.N., and has been made a Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow. Frost is also the founder of the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. The Carolina Workshop which completed arrangements for Frost's appearance here was formed last year under the lead ership of Richard Adler. : Pur pose of the organization is -to co ordinate and publicize the pro grams presented by the art de partments on the campus in or der to increase student interest m the creative artg Climax to the Council's pro gram last year was the spring festival, to be repeated this year. The opening night of the week's program featured a discussion of "The Artist in Wartime." Paul Green, Pulitzer Prize playwright, led the discussion in which novel ist James Boyd, England's wood cut artist, Claire Leighton, New York's theatre king, Lee Simon son, and concert pianist, Clarence Adler- participated. The re mainder of the festival featured plays, recitals, ; exhibits, discus sions, original dances, and spe cial classes, all demonstrative of the best student efforts during the year in these fields. obert Graham and Frazer Hold Key Positions in SCIR By Jane Cavenaugh I Organized to promote inter est in the relations of the South with neighboring countries, the Southern Council on Internation al Relations now numbers two of its prominent executives from the University of North Carolina as President Frank Graham of the University heads the Execu tive committee and Keener C. Frazer, professor of internation al relations, acts as executive sec retary and edits the Council mag azine, "The South and World Af fairs." The Council cooperates with organizations interested in civic Problems. These are used as education and furnishes litera ture On current international af fairs and Memoranda on World bases for radio programs, fo rums, lectures and sepcial study groups designed to show the in terdependence of community and the worlds Local groups are aid A CHAPEL HILL, N. Some ERC Seniors May Finish School Army ERC members who can graduate this spring and need more than a few hours, credit were told last night that there is a good possibility that ' they may be allowed to com plete their college careers next quarter. All others will be call ed to report two weeks after March 15. The announcement was made by Dr. W. D. Perry, direc tor of military service informa tion, at a special call meeting in which he revealed the latest news from Atlanta off icials of the Fourth Corps area. Theatre Plans Double Benefit Show Smith Schedules First Stage Show The Carolina theater will go cosmopolitan at 11 :30 tonight when manager E. C. Smith pre sents Chapel Hull's first "2-in-l" midnight show. Staged for the benefit of the Carolina Theater scolarship fund, the program includes "live" en tertainment under the direction of the Sunday Session combine of Hill, Huse, Calligan and Ellis ; and the feature film, "Power of the Press." : Variety Show Doors will open at 11:15 and 15 minutes later the review will go on. Hill and Huse have what ap pears to be a1 topnotch lineup -of Carolina talent, with the tap dancing feet of Freddy Calligan, the voices of Joan Kosberg and the University quartette, and the piano of Jack Ellis in the cast.5 Feature attraction of the night will be the chorus of Campus Queensincluding many of UNC's fairest women. The coeds made their debut in last month's Sun day night session and new cho reography and constant practice have improved their executions of the dance routines. Not to be forgotten, certainly not by those who attend, are the audience participation numbers. Designed for enjoyment of all ex cept the "victims," personalities and groups "will not be spared, vowed the four directors. Directly after the stage show, the film will be run off. Praised See BENEFIT SHOW, page 2 ed by outlined plans and personal assistance in their work and receive recommendations for speakers available for special meetings. Members and directors num bering over 500 come from south eastern states Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Caro 1 i n a , Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. These members are a coordinated agency working to stimulate public education in in ternational relations. An execu tive committee and board of di rectors authorize and direct the activities. State sections of the Southern Council are now being establish ed with a sub-organization in cluding an executive committee to plan and conduct state-wide programs of education in inter national affairs. The Council magazine edited See GRAHAM, page 2 I Tonight -( . . "t . : : T . - ? C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1943 War Golrees Offered Women Uitder College TiMiiM Over 60 Persons To Assist Red Cross War Red Cross War Fund week will be obseryed in Chapel Hill the week of March 1 to March 7 an nounced Mayor Robert W. Mad- ry, honorary chairman of the town organization. - Fulfillment of the town quota of $5,400 will require the whole hearted response of everyone, he averred. Headquarters for the War Fund Drive will be in the of fices , of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance company at 136 East Franklin street. The offices will be open from 9 :30 a.m. until 5 :30 p.m. and may be reached by telephone number 9461. Over sixty people of Chapel fJraham Is Experience Labor 'Trouble Shooter' Carolina's Dr. Frank P. Graham, in addition to being one of the nation's foremost educators, is an outstanding worker toward ami cable and just relations between labor and capital employer and employee a task which has assumed great proportions as Ameri ca seeks to outproduce the world. His talk in Gerrard hall Saturday el 5 p. m. will find him in this dual f ' - role. .... vhrKT.l- Dr. Graham's efforts in this direction were thrown into the limelight in 1941 when he was ap pointed by President Roosevelt to theJWarXaboriboardl but his background extends farther into the past than this. Wide Background Prior to 1941 he had long been known as an advocate of justice in labor relationships as a means of promoting national welfare and security and had ample op portunity to put his beliefs into practice as a member of various North Carolina and federal labor committees. Busy Commuter Now as one of the WLB's most valued members his time is never his own. The Chapel Hill-Washington route finds "Dr. Frank" in the role of commuter but the Washington end has claimed most of his wartime efforts re cently since labor relations have been in a critical stage. Saturday's speech comes as a result of invitational efforts on the part of the IRC, CPU, men's and women's student goTjern ment agencies, YMCA and the Daily Tar Heel's news analysis group. Draft-Age Youths May Register Here Dr. W. D. Perry said yester day that it would be unnecessary for students to go home or to the nearest local draft board at Hillsboro in order to register for the draft as they become 18 years old. A. C. Pickard of Ledbetter Pickard's store on Franklin street has been authorized to reg ister students who wish to be registered here in Chapel Hill. Registration cards will be sent to the registrant's home draft board or to Hillsboro as the registrant desires. This means that a stu dent may register here and have his registration papers sent to his home board which will from then on have charge of those af fairs. ' : ; v ' Editorial: F-3141. News: Fund Week Hill have -volunteered their time for the membership drive in an effort to attain a nationwide goal of $125,000,000. The local chap ter will retain $1,400 of the funds raised for their activities. Red Cross work, now more important than ever before, will need twice the amount of money raised in previous years, and members are urged to follow one of the cam paign slogans, "This year I'm giv ing double." Membership cards are issued for contributions of one dollar or more. This large fund is important this year for expansion of activi See RED CROSS, page 2 .w.aicn pam, Winslow Says DTH Analyst Reviews Week Definitely committing himself only in the prediction that "along about April the DTH will carry the headline 'Grasswalkers Com mitte Survey Arboretum With Calculating Eyes," Dr. R. S. Winslow, head of the economics department turned analyst in the third of the DTH weekly news commentary periods last night. Week's Analysis "But watch Finland on the Russian front and Spain on the Tunisian front !" the speaker ad monished. "If Finland is able to exact a just peace from Russia it will indicate that Stalin has no territorial ambitions. The Finns' actions will also be indicative of the opinion Russia's next-door neighbors have of her." Covering each of the battle fronts and the Washington scene, Winslow summarized the impli cations of the week's develop ments and led his audience be hind the headlines as he clarified the war theaters by the use of maps. Wary of the infiltration of sup plies from Spain into Spanish Morrocco to aid Rommel, Wins low warned of the dangers in volved in the event that Spain's aid to the Axis becomes active in flip North African sector, fore seeing the possibility of an allied pntrflnment between prongs of Spanish and German pincers. Pacific Front Turning to the Pacific front, the speaker said "Time is run ning against us. Japan is winning the war of atrition in the Solo- mans," and accounted for our in ability to ship supplies to China with the tying up of shipping in the direction of the Solomons. Expressing almost complete disgust for the fickleness of the American mind, he accused Con otpss with the statement "Rom mel is on the retreat, Congress is on the advance" -against the ad- See WINSLOW, page 2 Coed Senate Amendment ... Sports . . . Debate Winners . . . 'On the Hour . w . On Page Two F-Sltt, MU7 NUMBER 111 etunp Slate Includes Teaching, CAA, Nursing, Science , By-Madison Wright Six new courses for women have been made available for the Spring quarter through efforts of the College of War Training, newest link in the University's chain of war contributions, it was, learned yesterday. Planning courses which "will appeal to the interests of differ ent women on the campus with respect to war training activi ties," in the words of the pamph let announcing the new develop ment, the College is offering them not as technical studies but as useful bases for future work. CAA Training Aeronautics 31, including a study of meteorology, civil air rules, navigation, and other ground school instructional sub jects, will be taught five hours a week under a certified CAA in structor. Designed principally for senior women and any men students who may be interested, it is not open to any men in the regular CAA course. An acute shortage in instruc tors for high schools and ground schools, in the field, has led to the inclusion in the course of the regular CAA instruction exam ination. This optional examina tion qualifies students who pass it to instruct in the program. En rollment in the class will be lim ited to about 40, who will meet from 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. rsTursing Course American Red Cross Nursing instruction will be available as an introductory course with two in structors from the School of Pub lic Health. Three hours credit will be allowed on the course, which will be the standard con tents greatly supplemented to bring it up to the college level. Of interest to future candi dates for officers is the New Mili- See WAR COURSES, page 2 Councilmen Delay Definite Decision On Milk Situation The Chapel Hill board of al dermen decided to maintain their present stand on the milk situa tion in a meeting Wednesday night, it was learned yesterday. Under the present ordinance all milk sold in Chapel Hill must be correctly labeled as classified by the Department of Health. The milk sold here by the Dur ham Dairy Products company as grade A was shown to be below that rating by tests made some time ago, but pending a decision on the milk grading by the Dur ham board, action was delayed until last week. The board of aldermen is send ing a group to confer with the Durham health authorities, and has set the time for action on the situation as next Saturday. Un til that time the ordinance is not effective. In a statement made to the Daily Tar Heel, a representa tive of the Durham concern stat ed that the company will not re move its facilities from Chapel Hill if such a step can be avoided. Previously the company had in dicated that an unsatisfactory settlement of the situation would result in such a withdrawal. INSIDE
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