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i, - r 7 f JVeu?s Briefs eds Drive Near Orel On Two Fronts House Farm Bloc Appeal To FDR LONDON, Feb. 28 (Sunday) -(UP)- Russian forces drove closer to Orel and the Dnieper river yesterday capturing a number of towns on both fronts and thwarted an attempt by mass German tanks to break through to a big Donets basin town, probably Krafnoarmeis koye. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UP) A powerful House farm bloc today enthusiastically en dorsed a proposal under which a special committee of Congress men would call on President Roosevelt at the White House and appeal personally to him to take immediate action on the critical manpower and machin ery shortages problem facing the nation's farmers. ' Newsprint Price Ceiling Boosted In US, Canada WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UP) An increase of $4 a ton in the maximum price which United States and Canadian pro ducers may charge for standard newsprint was announced to night by the Office of Price Ad ministration and the Canadian wartime prices and trade board. WMC To Penalize Firms Violating Work Week Law WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UP) The War Manpower Commission tonight issued regu lations for putting the 48-hour-work-week in effect this spring and warned affected employers that non-compliance will bring indirect but severe penalties. The regulations apply not only to the 32 labor shortage areas previously listed by the WMC but also on a nationwide basis to the non-ferrous metal mining and lumber industries, Seesaw Tunisian Battle Sees Yanks Still Gaming ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Feb. 27 (UP) German tanks were reported to have made slight headway in new thrusts against the British lines before Tunis tonight, but Anglo - American forces still were rolling back to chastize the enemy in the Kasserine area. Tempo Of Allied Bombing Rises As Brest Blasted LONDON, Feb. 27 (UP) -American Flying Fortresses and Liberators striking for the sec ond straight day at Adolph Hit ler's European citadel bombed Brest today in a non-stop Allied air offensive that was mounting swiftly towards grand scale pro portions. Ursula Parrott Declared Innocent In Soldier Case MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 27 (UP) A Federal jury of 12 middle-aged, married men today write a finish to the trial of nov elist Ursula Parrott which rivals the best of the authoress' story book endings they took only ten minutes to declare her inno cent of charges that she aided a soldier to desert the Army. The novelist who last week filed suit for divorce from hus band number four said she is writing a new book called "Sun lit" whose plot is based on her recent troubles. She started it on New Year's day. Mine Disaster May Claim Lives of 100 Montanans BEAR CREEK, Mont. Feb. 27 (UP) -Fellow workers and rescue squads were ready to abandon hope of finding 80 to See NEWS BRIEFS, page U VOLUME LI Business and Circulation : 8641 Robert Frost, Noted Poet, To Speak Here Tomorrow English Department, CWC Sponsor Speech Robert Frost, world famous American poet, will speak to the student body under the auspices of the Carolina Workshop Coun cil and the English department tomorrow night at 8 :30 in Hill hall. Dr. Raymond Adams of the English department said of Frost's scheduled appearance here, "This is the first visit to to the campus by an important American poet in many years. I am glad that he is coming as he is the most popular of the Amer ican poets." The return of Frost to Chapel Hill, where he lectured 20 years ago, marks the revival of the old custom of bringing an important poet to the campus each year. Among those brought to the campus at that time were Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay. Frost was originally scheduled to come to Chapel Hill a month ago wljen he lectured at Duke University, but a trip to Florida altered his plans. Frost, known unofficially as America's Poet Laureate is a na ture poet. He recently wrote Paul Green that he was particu larly interested in coming to Chapel Hill because he wanted to see the neighboring country side. Frost arrived in Chapel Hill early this morning. He will be entertained during the day by several professors of the English department and members of the Carolina Workshop council. To- night, he will meet informally with a group of writers to dis cuss their work with them. There will be an informal re ception at Graham Memorial following his Monday night lec ture. All students interested in meeting him are invited to at tend. Davie Portraits To Be Exhibited In Bye Work Show Three portraits of General Wil liam R. Davie, "father of the uni versity" will form a portion of the Person hall exhibit of recon ditioned university portraits opening today at 12 p. m. The first representation is a chalk drawing, thought to have been done about 1800 by a French artist named Cretien and pic tures the general facing left. The second portrait is an engraving of the original which must have been taken shortly after the painting was completed. Using the engraving and other canvases of Davie which he had in his stu dio, a northern artist, Peele, painted a third portrait which will hang alongside the original and the engraving in today's-ex-hibit. . To add interest, portraits of Elisha Mitchell, the Reverend Francis Hawks, and President James E. Polk, which are also on exhibit will be supplemented by copies of letters and other his torical documents discovered among Di and Phi records by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coates in re search for material for a book they are writing on student govr ernment. Dr. R. D. W. Connor has also aided in this work. CHAPEL HILL, N. rr ' ' Iff - s SOON-TO-BE alumni, Nancy Jeff eris and Barry Colby, who will be graduated in March look at the Alumni association display de picting the movements of Richard? "Fish" Worley, former direc tor of Graham Memorial, as recorded by the Alumni office in rec ords and publications. s Red Cross Begins Drive Jones Directs Student Fund Carolina's first opportunity di rectly to help American soldiers and to help assure aid to its own boys now on campus who will be at war afield will come Wednes day and Thursday through the students' joining the annual Roll Call of the Red Cross of Amer ica. With Curry Jones as director, and with Dean Roland B. Par ker as faculty adviser, a general staff has been selected, com prised of volunteer students. Members of the staff and the re spective fields in which they will work with the student body are : Celeste Hamrick, women's dor mitories; Jeanie Afflick, sorori ties ; Billy Britt, town boys ; Mc Kibben Lane, fraternities; and Henry Moll, student adviser. Dormitory contributions tempo rarily will be handled by Jones. The short, two-day Roll Call on campus will, according to Dean Parker, depend primarily for its success on the men chosen by the general staff as aides to them in their respective fields. Each dormitory will have its representative, as will each sor ority, each fraternity, and each town district. No official quota has been as signed to the campus ; it has been left to the discretion of each See RED CROSS, page 3 University Band To Give Classical, Modern Concert Today V u i . rt : t CONCERTISTS The University band, familiar sight on the Kenan stadium turf, which will move into Hill hall this afternoon at 4 :30 p. m. to give a classical and. modern concert. C., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, mmm Alumni Publication Keeps Tab On Men In Armed Services Through the Alumni Associa tion and its magazine, the Alum ni Review, Carolina alumni can keep in touch with friends and happenings of the' University. Snecial membership for the first alumni year is offered to graduates for one dollar, the As sociation announced. After that time dues are $3 annually. At the Alumni office in the Carolina Inn information is kept concerning the recently departed Army Air Corps reserves and See ALUMNI, page 3 WAVES, WAAC Representatives Arrive This Week mmm Representatives from all fourDn E K Ericson, NROTC Cap branches of women's reserves in tain w s popham, and Dr. A. J 1 ! H 1 1 11 I the armed services will be at the University Wednesday to inter view women in the Chapel Hill area, W. D. Perry, director of the University's Vocational guidance bureau, revealed yes terday. Individual interviews will be granted to women interested in the WAVES, WAACS, SPARS, and Marine reserves. The inter views will take place in Graham Memorial lounge, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Arrangements may be made for conferences by signing with See WAVES, page 3 Hftii i i - i 4 -"S3? 1943 Editorial: F-8141. Newi: Public Health School. Here Is Desi As Traiitin Public Health School To Train Educators Needed in War Reconstruction Period The United States Public Health Service has just designated the School of Public Health of the University as a training center for health educators urgently needed during the war and post-war re construction period, it was announced by Dr. Harold W. Brown, dean of the school. Establishment of the center was made possible by a grant of $40,000 to the United States t IRC Slates Forum Panel On Japan Forum To Consider Post-War Nippon A panel of four faculty ex the perts will attempt to lift question mark from the subject Post-War Japan?" when the In ternational Relations club pre sents the second in its series of campus forums on international topics Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in the main lounge of Graham Me morial. Tackling the problem of post war Japan will be Dr. K. C. Fra zer, of the political science de partment, whose interest in in ternational, unity has been mani fested in his work as executive secretary of the Southern Coun cil on International Relations and as one-time member of the secretariat of the League of Na tions ; Dr. L. O. Kattsoff , of the philosophy department; Dr. D. H. Buchanan, of the economics department; and Dean of Ad ministration R. B. House. Dean Roland Parker will me diate the four-round bout and the question and answer period which will follow. Miss Ann West, chairman of the IRC for um committee, will preside. The position of post-war Rus sia and the U. S. was given thor ough airing in the first of the IRC forum series three weeks ago on whicn Miss Lily T'ang, R. Newsome appeared. Applications Called For Publications Applications for the busi ness managerships of the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Maga zine and the Yackety-Yack as well as applications for the po sition of managing editor of the Daily Tar Heel and literary editor of the Carolina Maga zine must be turned in to Ben Snyder at the Phi Gam house before tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. -I H Red Cross drive . . . Robert Frost . . . Outlook . . . Student Legisla ture Gaining Power . . . Voting for 18-year-olds. On Page Two F - 8145. F-3147 NUMBER 113 mated. Public Health Service by the W. K. Kellogg foundation, Dean Brown said. The grant will provide for 20 fellowships leading to a master's degree in public health with a major in health education. Designed to provide extension training to qualify health educa tors, it is the first such center to be established in the country, and the University was selected because it seems to offer "the most ideal facilities for such a program." Dr. Lucy Morgan, specialist in the public health service and public health education, has been loaned to the state and will be in charge of the health education in the school, Dean Brown said. Epplication blanks for the fel lowships may be secured from the Surgeon General, U. S. Pub lic Health Service, Washington, D. C, and final application forms must be postmarked not later than March 1, 1943, he said. The course will include nine months of school work and three months of supervised field expe rience. The grant also antici pates trainee employment f ollow See SCHOOL, page 3 Winter Training For CVTC Ends In Competitions The Carolina Volunteer Train ing corps will wind up its winter training program this week with a schedule of inspections, parades and competitions between all units of the entire, battalion. Competition will be divided into squad, platoon and company drills and between the basic, training and advanced sections of the corps. Judges will deter mine the winners who will be an nounced at and honored by the final parade. Lieut. Robert Robinson, USN, of the Pre-f light school, an expe rienced drill-master who has giv en drill training to the Pre-induc-tion group for two quarters, was announced yesterday as one of the judges. Lt. Robinson and Lt. Dale, also of the Pre-f light school will be in the "reviewing line at See CVTC, page 3 Program Planned In Hill Hall The University band will pre sent a concert of classical to modern music this afternoon at 4:30 in Hill hall. The first number to be played by the band will be "Golden Sonata" by Purcell who has been acclaimed" the greatest and most original of English com posers." This composition was written originally for two vio lins and bass viol accompanied by a keyboard instrument, and has only recently been arranged See BAND, page 3 INSIDE Site
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