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News Briefs . British Hurl Germans Back After Battle Red Army Makes Important Gains ALLIED HDQ., North Af rica, March 24 ( UP ) The British eighth army was reported to night to have hurled back waves of German attacks in a fierce bat tle at the Mareth line with Mar shall Edward Rommel bending his strength recklessly in an ef fort to repair a dangerous breach in his main position. LONDON, March 25 (UP) - Both spearheads of a two prong drive on Smolensk scored import ant gains Wednesday while in Kuban a steadily advancing Red army captured the rail town of Abinskaya only 19 miles from Novoronsisk prospective Dun kirk of the German Caucasian army, the Moscow midnight com munique disclosed. Major General Eaker Reveals U.S. To Get Powerful Bombers LONDON, March 24 (UP) Major General Ira C. Eaker re vealed today that his eight US air force is going to get powerful new bombers carrying three to four times the loads of flying fortresses and by mid-summer the Allied day and night offen sive against Axis Europe will be so mighty, "We won't give a damn whether the Germans know we're coming or not." Ecker also announced that some American plane crews are wearing new type tin hats and armor jackets in an experiment to determine whether the num ber of shell fragment wounds is being reduced. He said the armor was proving effective. House Sends Salary Limit Committee Report To Senate WASHINGTON, March 24 (UP) The House tonight ap proved and sent to the Senate a conference report on a measure repealing President Roosevelt's $25,000 net salary limit order and forbidding him to reduce wages or salaries below the highest lev el reached between January 1 and September 15, 1942. AFL Chieftain Accuses CIO Of Endangering War Effort WASHINGTON, March 24 (UP) President William Green of the AFL today accused the CI O of endangering the war effort through membership raids in warplants under AFL jurisdic tion and said that the rival or ganization success could be attri buted to help from the National Labor Relations Board. Nipponese Night Attack Damages Henderson Field WASHINGTON, March 24 (UP) A night attack by a small force of Japanese bombers on Henderson field in Guadalcanal resulted in "some material dam age" but no personel casaulties, the Navy announced today. Japs Launch Pronged Drive Against Marauding Chinese CHUNGKING; March 24 (UP) The Japanese have laun ched a four pronged drive again st Chinese troops harrassing their positions in the Kingmen area of Central Hupeh province, it was announced tonight in a de termined attack to wipe out Chinese resistence in Anhwei pro vince has been smashed with hea vy Japanese losses. British Make Charges Leading To Indian Riots LONDON, March 24 (UP) A British government white paper today charged Mohandas K. Gandhi and the all India Son See NEWS BRIEFS, page f 1 4 hyy.yy. VOLUME LI Boaineu and Circulation: 8641 Truslow Gets Speakership BUICE Buice Leaves Top WGA Post Mary Lou Truslow was elect ed as new wartime speaker of the coed Senate over Kitty Flan nagan by a 2 vote majority yes terday afternoon in a meeting held in the Horace Williams lounge of Graham Memorial. Only newly elected senate mem bers voted in the election. The secretary, treasurer, and speak er pro-tem will be elected in a later meeting. Term for Ditzi Buice, former speaker of the coed senate, ex pired today, and Truslow will take up the burden of the office in wartime in the next meeting. Plans Plans were discussed as to the possibility of sending represen tatives from the coed senate to a national convention of student government to be held at State College April 2 and 3. Senators voted to appropriate forty dol lars to send new officers, presi dent, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer of the WGA, speaker of the senate and presi dent of the inter-dormitory council, and the old off icers Ditzi Buice, former speaker of the senate, and Marsha Hood, for mer WGA president, to the stu dent government jamboree. A member of the junior class will be elected as handbook edi tor for the coed senate by this body in the near future. Artis Kipp, editor of the handbook, last H t t t year win assist tne person See TRUSLOW, page U Independent Coeds To Elect Officers In Vote Tonight New officers for the Carolina Independent' Coeds association will be elected m an important meeting to be held tonight in the Horace Williams lounge of Gra ham Memorial at 7 o'clock, an nounced Betty Etz, president, yesterday. Slated first for the program is the election of an executive coun cil composed of 10 coeds. From this council new officers will be chosen. The executive council is a policy determining and pro gram sounding board of the CI CA, and its work continues as an important part of the organiza tion after new officers are elected. It is particularily important that all members of the CICA at tend this meeting to choose offi cers for the coming year. This meeting will adjourn before 8 o' clock in order that members may attend the mass meeting of co eds to be held in Hill hall tonight. Officers chosen in the CICA meet ing will be required to attend the Hill hall meeting. IMWWWM1SWWWWWI ..LIU MB Kll IH1I I W l"IVWIliUUV'l)l ' HHlll)VWlWl!fl I - CHAPEL HILL, N. 7 o e ILd Free Bert Bennett Says Self-Rule May Continue Training School Opens March 29 Student body president Bert Bennett, in answer to Daily Tar Heel editorial questioning of the absence of a discussion of student government freezing in the March 29-30 Officers' Training School, yesterday stated that it would be a secondary topic of the training program. "It is too early to decide defi nitely whether freezing is even necessary," continued Bennett, "and so prime emphasis of the March 29 divisional meetings will be on methods to improve student government through the lessons learned during nearly a year of wartime operations." Operation Working under the assumption that Carolina's traditional form of government can operate as long as there are sufficient stu dents interested and enough re venues, Bennett said that it could function with 250 students as well as with 4,000. The president defined his con ception of student government as having three main catergories, the Student Council, Legislature and publications. Army, Navy , "Just what system the Army and Navy will work, in regard to discipline, is still a question, but they might decide to maintain See FREEZING, page 4 Victory Gardens To Get Underway In Local Schools . A Victory Garden campaign ist underway in all public schools in the Chapel Hill and Bingham townships to assist the rural families of this area in meeting the serious food shortages. A. W. Honeycutt, superinten dent of Chapel Hill schools, act ing for the Community Service Committee of the rationing board, and Guy B. Phillips, co ordinator of the local Office of Civilian Defense, inaugurated the plan and will encourage all public school children to help in the cultivation of a garden with courses in gardening and the use See GARDENS, page U Zing Bayroff Is Guest Expert At DTH News Analysis Speech Tonight Shows Psychology's War Job By Gloria Caplan Turning news commentator temporarily, Dr. A. G. Bayroff will divert his psychological stu dies to news channels when he ap pears as speaker on the Daily Tar Heel news analysis period tomorrow night at 7:30 p. m. in the Horace Williams lounge of i Graham Memorial. Professor on the University campus for nine years Bayroff is a specialist in the field of animal psychology and has done research on the subject on this campus and that of the' Univedsity of Cali fornia as a . National Research council fellow. He has recently been engaged in the organization Urn O, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1943 Sioeak At HE u nn $- Clark Speech Carolina D Be 1 iIL jHbt 'mmm&i BARRETT CLARn whose speech will climax the twentieth an nual Carolina Dramatic Festival, and Prof f Koch, founder and head of the Playmakers. Full Slate of Activities Planned For Twentieth Annual Conference The Carolina Dramatic association's twentieth annual festival starts today, highlighted by an address by Barrett H. Clark, exec utive secretary of the Dramatists' Play service, a full slate of ac tivities, and The Playmaker's twenty-fifth anniversary dinner. Clark will speak on "The Theater as a Wartime Job" at the an niversary dinner at the Caro- lina Inn tonight at 6 o'clock. Professor Frederick H. Koch, founder and director of the Play makers will speak at that time in response to salutations of Paul Green, Pulitzer Prize Play wright whose first dramatic ef forts were made under Playmak ertutalege. The anniversary address takes its title from the main theme of the festival which runs through Saturday night. Dean R. B. House will preside at the dinner at which greetings will be read from Playmaker alumni scattered through this and other countries. Speaker Weil-Known The speaker of the evening is a native of Toronto, Canada and has worked in Chicago, New York, Paris, and Berlin. He at tended the University of Chica go and the University of Paris and has been a staff lecturer with the Chautauqua Institu tion, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University. He began his theatrical career in 1912 when he became stage manager and actor with Mrs. Fiske. He is widely known as director and See CLARK, page 1 , of war courses in the psychology department. Opposes Force Opposing the use of, force in the attempt to establish a last ing peace, Bayroff cited the be lief that such display of superior ity on the part of the victors would result in national resent ment in the occupied country. The psychologist opposes such theo ries as racial extermination to achieve this end and advocates the education of Japan and Ger- 'many along democratic lines.Such re-education would have to be ad ministered by friendly means and care taken to exhort the friendship of the conquered peo Editorial: F-S141. News: efeondary OTS - Highlights Festival mm v.y.-.ya:- wmmm Program Schedule Morning 8 : 00-1 1100 Theatre : Voice Training, Playwriting, speare. 11 : 00-12 : 00 Theatre : directing, Voice Training. 11 :00-12 :00 204 Phillips : Radio Production. 12 :00-l :00 Theatre : Play di recting. Afternoon 2:00 Junior Colleges Play Contest. . 3 :00 Production by Women's Club of Fuquay Springs. 4 :00 High School Production. Evening 6:00 Twenty-fifth anniver sary dinner. - 8 : 45 Experimental plays. Coming Graduates Must Fill Out Applications Students in the College of Arts and sciences who plan to be gra duated this year and who have not filed application for a degree i are asked to do so immediately I at 203, South building. ples. Roll of Psychologists Bayroff is expected to describe the role of the psychologist in the war, some four or five hundred of whom are engaged in the armed forces for such specialized work as classifying, selecting and training men, and catching symp toms of maladjustment as well as corrective work with victims of shell shock. The speaker is the fifth to have appeared on the weekly news periods and will be aided in his analysis by United Press summa ries and maps. He will be intro duced by retiring managing edi tor Bob Hoke. Young growing blades hate ths feel Of any Tar Heel's leather heel. S. Whitehall F - 8146. F-UT NUMBER 127 NOT: nlbject CAA-Member Is Scheduled For April 10 CPU Head Railey Arranges Address Josh Lee, Oklahoma New Dea ler and present member of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, will map out the post-war aviation plans of the United States when he addresses an Institute of Hu man Relations audience on April 10. The noted Democrat was first contacted by the Carolina Polit ical Union, and his participa tion in the IHR is the Union's contribution to the nine-day '43 session. Comer and Railey In announcing the acceptance of Lee, Harry. Comer of the IHR and Dick Railey of the CPU said that additional aeronautical ex perts were tentatively scheduled to appear on a panel with the CAA member concerning the place of world-spanning airlines of the future in attaining "Glo bal Peace." The Alabama-born statesman served as Senator from Oklahoma for one term, 1937-1942. In Con gress he became known as an out standing liberal arid Presiden tial aide. Most publicized legis lation introduced by Lee was the important Cargo Plane bill. The provisions of the measure called for construction of large, non sinkable transports of the air to combat the submarine menace. Present work of shipbuilder Hen ry Kaiser and airman Howard ! Hughes is a realization of the provisions of the bill. After his defeat in the elec tee LEE, page U Newsome Calls Open Meeting Of Air Wardens Turk Newsome, chief student air-raid warden, has announced a meeting of all dormitory, soro rity and fraternity heads, or rep resentatives, for Monday night at eight o'clock in room 103 Bing ham. In preparation for the surprise blackout to be held between now and April 1, the meeting will be open and anyone interested is in vited to attend. A special invita tion is being extended to Deans R. H. Wettach and R. J. M. Hobbs, chief air raid warden of Chapel Hill. Congratulating the campus student wardens on the success of the last blackout, Newsome said that the next blackout would be used as a check on the new sig nals when unexpected. "In the event the blackout should occur before Monday night," warned Warden New some, "we will follow exactly the same routine so successfully car ried out last Thursday night." Glee Club Elects Officers Today The Women's Glee Club will meet in Hill hall to elect officers for next year at 5 :30 this after noon, according to an annuonce ment by Virginia Terry, president.
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