has Briefs
Club Owner
Blamed For
ire
British Drive"
North in Africa
BOSTON, April 10(UP)
Barnet Welanski owner of the
Cocoanut Grove, was convicted
of manslaughter tonight in con
nection with the night-club fire
which caused 491 lives and two
co-defendants were acquitted.
Those exonerated were Welan
ski's brother, James, and Jacob
Goldfime, after an all-man su
perior court jury reported his
verdict to Judge Joseph L. Hur
ley shortly before 8 p. m. after
nearly seven hours' deliberation.
ALLIED HDQ., NORTH
AFRICA, April 10 (UP) The
British Eighth Army pressed
northward tonight after taking
back Sfax, while Rommel is ex
pected to make a stand at Souft'e.
American ground forces are ad
vancing toward Kairouan and
Souffe, while a record-breaking
force of Flying Fortresses bomb
ed the ten-thousand-ton Italian
cruisers Gorizia and Girante at
Lamadalena, Sardenia.
Lewis Announces Miners
To Insist on Pay Increases
NEW YORK, April 10 (UP)
John L. Lewis announced that
the United Mine Workers-would
insist on a pay increase despite
President Roosevelt's wage price
order called upon all workers
and farmers tonight to support
the miners in fighting what he
termed the administration policy
of "making the rich more afflu
ent and the poor more dispair
ing." Airways Head
Names New Airports
MIAMI, Fla., April i0 (UP)
Scores of airports hidden in
the jungle of the Carribean
Islands and encircled in South
America are nearing completion,
forming an aerial chain linking
the United States with the bulge
of Brazil, the jumping-pff place
for planes bound for Africa, the
Middle .East and the Far East.
The disclosure was made today
by L. P. O'Connor of Miami, gen
eral manager of the airf orce con
struction division of Pan-American.
Reports Say Italy Fears
Forthcoming Invasion
LONDON, April 10 (UP)
Reports from Europe said to
night that Adolph Hitler had re
viewed Premier Benito Musso
lini's pleas for more guns and
planes to defend invasion jitters
See NEWS BRIEFS, page i
oston
Ed Lanier and Self-Help Office Now Looking
For Students To Do Jobs Around University
Local Campaign
Aided Activity
By H. C. Cranford
If you had spent 13 years
working toward the' same goal
and then had suddenly found
yourself doing an about face,
might you not be a little super
stitious? '
Take the case of Edwin Sid
ney Lanier. Since 193Q Mr. La
nier has been in charge of the
Office of Student Aid here at
the University. ;i
His job here has been to find
self-help jobs for needy but
worthy students : attending the
University, and it was really a
tough job. During the average
year approximately 70 percent
of the students were earning
some part of their college ex
penses through self-help work,
and there were always far more
applications than jobs.
When NYA funds were dras-
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atikiib Analyzes .-fiidia Toiti
.Pykstra
IHR Speaker
Will Follow
Rise of US
Wisconsin President
Gives Weil Lectures
Dr. Clarence Dykstra, Univer
sity of Wisconsin president and
nationally - known government
executive, will trace the origins
of Democracy in the first of his
series of Weil, lectures tomorrow
night at 8 :30.
Institute
The day's Institute of Human
Relations speaker has chosen as
the first topic, "Dynamic Tradi
tion in America." In his Memo
rial hall address he will follow
America's free government from
its beginning in the days of the
colonies through Jacksonian de
mocracy, influence of the West,
Republican domination and fin
ally the days of the New Deal.
This survey of the beginnings
of the country is the "back
ground" section of the overall
Dykstra topic, "Dynamic Democ
racy." Culmination of the three
speeches will be the accurate fix
ing of the place of freedom in the
world j of .., the future and the
changes , that events and neces
sity will make in it for use in the
time of post-war. .
Addition
In addition to his teaching and
studies in political science, the
present Wisconsin head has had
a outstanding career in practical
government. Called in during the
era of reform in the 30's to clean
up Cincinnati, he managed to
"expand and improve the city's
services; to keep the city's tax
rate among the lowest in the na
tion." When the United States enter
ed on its first peace-time draft,
Roosevelt called on Dykstra to
direct its operation. A year after
his appointment, 1941, he re
signed the draft post to chairman
the newly-created National De
See DYKSTRA, page 2
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tically reduced last spring, the
students themselves put on a
campus campaign that netted
approximately. $5,000 to assist
boys needing help.
Now that was the situation
last spring. Today it's an entire
ly different story. And after go
ing one way for 13 years Self
Helper Lanier suddenly finds
himself going exactly in the op
posite direction.
New Worry
Today instead of being wor
ried with finding jobs for self
help students, he and Chairman
Harry F. Comer of the Self
Help Bureau are faced with the
task of finding boys to fill the
jobs that are available. And they
admit they're taking a much
worse licking than when their
business was to find jobs for the
applicants.
When he was elected Self-
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peaks Monday Hi
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DYKSTRA
Lee Pictures
Duty of Plane
In Modern War
" Speaker Points Out
American Air Power
Calling air power a "striking
force in its own right" in war
and the transportation in the fu
ture peace, Civil Aeronautics
board member Josh Lee last
night gave his IHR audience a
complete survey of the recent de
velopment of the aeroplane.
The former Senator from Okla
homa pointed out that the deci
sive factor in the easy Nazi vic
tories in the first years of the war
was the complete dominance of
the sky by the Luftwaffe.
"When the Nazi blitzkrieg was
rolling towards Paris, the French
Minister of War said, '5,000 air
planes would insure that the Ger
mans do not pass.' Here again the
plea was for planes."
To answer this call, said Lee,
the United States is now turning
out 6,000 planes each month and
all over the world the United Na
tions are stepping up the power
of their aerial blows against the
Axis.
On the vital front of supply
airpower is also helping to win
See LEE, page 4
Strange Turnabout
Evident in Demand
Help Secretary in 1930, and for
the next six or seven years, "we
had on file anywhere from six
to 10 times as many applications
for jobs, scholarships, and loans
as we could provide," Secretary
Lanier explains. "At present we
probably have from three to six
times as many available units of
help as there are applicants."
And the worst, he thinks, is
yet to come. He cited the fact
that he spent the whole of last
August and a goodly part of
September trying to muster 150
students to serve as waiters in
the dining hall at the Navy Pre
f light school.
Secretary Lanier has been
commended by officials of the
Pre-f light school on the good
work of student waiters. The of
ficials were somewhat skeptical
See LANIER, page 4
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Noted Expert
To Discuss
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Freedom Idea
Speaker Has Contact
With India Leaders
A proposal for the "liquida
tion of all colonial empires" will
form part of Thomas Yahkub's
answer to the "India Question"
when he speaks tonight in Me
morial hall.
Yahkub, today's Institute of
Human Relations expert, is a
native-born Indian and "out
standing authority in America
on the affairs of the Asiatic
subcontinent." In his discussion,
scheduled for 8:30 p. m., he will
deal with the present break
down in negotiations for India's
freedom, a breakdown that has
already lead to civil disobedi
ence and the Ghandi hunger
strike.
Conviction
- A firm conviction that perma
nent peace must await a com
plete settlement of the problem
is shown in Yahkub's recent
statement that it is "a moral is
sue which if left unsolved will
become the rallying point of the
revolution of the East against
the West."
Schooling at Middlebury and
Harvard, universities in the
1910's completed Yahkub's edu
cation, after he had graduated
from , Malabar and Madras
Christain colleges in India. He
then reutrned to India where
over a span of 20 years he held
top-ranking jobs in the govern
ment there, including service
with the government of Madr
See YAHKUB, page U
Carolina Student
Gains Recognition
In Teacher Magazine
By Daphne Athas
In the war crisis, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, English poet of the ro
mantic era, makes his way to the
forefront again in the current
struggle between the liberal arts
and practical sciences through
the pen of a University of North
Carolina student, John Clive, who
has gained national recognition
by the publication of his article r
"Shelley's Ode to the West
Wind: A Digression," in the
March issue of the "News Let
ter," monthly magazine of the
College English Association.
Fate
"The fate of the teaching of
literature in college as one of the
humanities will soon be decided.
Some believe that the complete
suspension of this function would
be only too much like surrender
ing a significant part of the cul
tural and intellectual freedom
that this country must defend
against the Nazis."
Clive goes on to say : "I am go
ing to be in the army before the
summer isn't this a waste of
time? Shouldn't I be learning
about the mechanism of a ma
chine gun instead of interpreting
the "Ode to the West Wind?"
The paper is a work vindicat
See STUDENT, page 4
ght
ght
Editorial: F-Z1U. Newa:
A
rehitect Notifies
Adle
r of Acceptance
7 1 f By Kat Hill : '
The slate of the Carolina Workshop Festival was completed last
night with the acceptance of Josef Albers, famous architect, to
speak on the workshop panel. Albers will appear on the panel, The
Place of the Artist in the Post-War World, with James Boyd,
Howard Thomas and Struthers Burke.
The architect's acceptance was acknowledged in a wire to
Work Corps
To Outline
New Plans
Inaugration of the Volunteer
War Work Corps will be held at
7 :00 p.m. in the Horace Williams
Lounge of Graham Memorial
Tuesday night, when students in
terested in planting and cultivat
ing Victory gardens in Chapel
Hill will assemble to hear the plan
outlined.
Announcement
First public announcement of
the project was made yesterday
by Earl Par due and Frances Al
lison, leaders of the organizing
and operating of the corps.
Instigated by the interest
shown by students and faculty
members, the plan is designed to
alleviate the critical shortage of
garden assistance in town. Ef
forts of townspeople to grow
their own food have been blocked
in many cases by the absence of
workers. '
Stressing that the meeting will
last less than thirty . minutes,
Parker said . "attendance at the
meeting will cause no obligation
whatsoever, since this is a com
pletely voluntary affair."
Allison and Pardue
Allison and Pardue have made
See CORPS, page 2
University Party
Names Ed Tisdale
To Chairmanship
Ed Tisdale,rising senior (from
umter, South Carolina, was
chosen last week to succeed Floyd
Cohoon and Jack Markham as
chairman of next year's Univer
sity Party steering committee.
Kitty Flannagan was elected
secretary with John Stedman
treasurer.
Member of class executive
committees in both his freshman
and sophomore years, Tisdale has
since served on the University
See UP, page 2
Shirley Smith 's Orches tra
To Play at Pharmacy Dances
Banquet and Show
Will Open Weekend
A banquet and student show
will open the Pharmacy School's
biggest weekend of the year, fea
turing the music of Shirley
Smith's "band sensation of the
south" at the annual dance set
this Friday and Saturday nights.
The banaquet will start at 7
o'clock Friday evening in the
Carolina Inn.
Shirley Smith's band plays in
Chapel Hill this weekend for the
first time although the group has
been featured at leading south
ern college dances and many
well-known clubs. .
- Bids for the dances will be
given out on Friday afternoon
from one until two. Tickets for
LATE FLASH:
Navy's Netnien beat UNC yes
terday, taking four singles, cna
doubles match, to win, 5-to-4.
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NUMBER 142
Chairman Richard Adler after a
total of seven telegrams had
passed
between
Adler and Al-
bers.
Head of the art department at
Black Mountain College, North
Carolina, where he has been in
strumental in the introduction of
the Bauerhaus methods of teach
ing, Albers has been exhorted as
one of the foremost architect's in
the world. His works have been
widely exhibited and acclaimed in
Europe and in America. One of
his paintings was on 'exhibit in
Person Hall last year during the
exhibit of the works of North
Carolina artists.
, One of the members of the
original Bauerhaus in Weiner
Germany, Albers is equally adept
in the fields of painting, photog
raphy an pytography. He was
born in West Phalia, Germany,
in 1888, and attended the Royal
Art School in Berlin, the Arts
and Crafts School in Essen, and
the Art Academy in Munich
where he taught fundamental de
sign from 1923 to 1933 when he
and other members of the Bauer
haus were ostersized (from Ger
many by the Hitler regime.
Roy Armstrong
Goes To Navy
Admissions Director
Receives Commission
Roy Armstrong, the Uni
versity's Director of Admissions,
has been commissioned a lieuten
ant, junior grade, in the United
States Navy and leaves Tuesday
for New York City.
For thirteen years a familiar
figure on the campus, he is sched
uled to report Wednesday to the
Navy's Columbia school for
training in class D-V (S) of the
Reserve.
Receiving his commission Fri
day morning, Armstrong was
ordered to go to Raleigh imme
diately to taxe his physical ex
amination. "I'm glad to report
that I passed," he said.
He has made thousands of
freshmen feel at home on this
campus.
tun
SMITH
the banquet may be obtained
from the coeds of the Pharmacy
School during the week.