Vol. 2—No. 46
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Saturday, July 29, 1944
Varsity Football Schedule is Announced
Cloudbusters Will Play 9 Games;
Lt. Comdr. Killinger Head Coach
A nine game schedule, which includes the finest college and service
teams in the South, faces the Cloudbuster football eleven for the com
ing fall.
As announced by Lieut. Comdr. Burton Ingwersen, Athletic Direc
tor, the season will open on September 24th when the Cherry Point
Marines come to Chapel Hill, and will close against Camp Davis on
November 18th in Kenan Stadium.
Only four of the seven teams
played last year will oppose the
Cloudbusters this fall. They are
the U. S. Naval Academy, Duke,
Camp Davis, and the Georgia Pre-
Flight.
Wake Forest, Camp Lejeune
and N. C. State, all on last year’s
schedule, will not be met. New
comers include the University of
Virginia, Jacksonville Naval Air
Station, Bainbridge Training Sta
tion, and the aforementioned
Cherry Point Marines. Two
games are scheduled with the
Georgia Pre-Flight School, the
first being scheduled for Chapel
Hill on Oct. 21, and the second
there on Nov. 11th.
Head coach of the Cloudbuster
football team, succeeding Lieut.
Frank Kimbrough, will be Lieut.
Comdr. Glenn Killinger.
A football, baseball and basket
ball star while at Penn State in
1917-1921, Coach Killinger later
played professional football with
the New York Giants and Phila
delphia Quakers, and baseball with
the New York Yankees. He was
also head coach of the Cloudbuster
baseball team which won the Ra
tion League pennant in baseball.
About the only thing certain con
cerning the personnel of the team
is the quantity of the material.
Little is known, at this writing,
concerning the quality, and no in
formation will be available before
the latter part of August. The
opening practice session is sched
uled for August 8.
Last year the Cloudbusters won
French Cadets
To Hear Dr. Nouy
“Two Years in Paris Under the
Hitler Eule” will be the subject
which Dr. Lecomte du Nouy, an of
ficer in the French Army in
World War I, will discuss with
the French Cadets here next Tues
day afternoon at 1700.
Sponsored jointly by the USO-
YMCA, Dr. Nouy’s visit should be
of special interest. He is a well
known author of books and papers
on philosophy of sciences, and
served at one time as Director of
the Research Department of the
Faculty of Sciences at the Univer
sity of Paris. Also, he was con
nected for eight years with the
Rockefeller Institute of New York
City and for ten years with the
Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Cadets Invited to Dance
All members of the cadet regi
ment are invited to attend the
dance being sponsored by the Uni
versity’s Order of the Grail honor
society on Saturday, August 5, in
Woollen gymnasium. Tickets ad
mitting stag or couple, will be on
sale in the Welfare Office, Room
112 Alexander Hall, all next week
at 60c each. Admission at the door
will be 90c. The dance will start
at 2100.
two games, lost four and tied one.
Two years ago, with Lieut. Comdr.
See FOOTBALL, page 4
Opportunities Good
For Enlisted Men
To Become Officers
For many of those leaving pilot
training because of the curtailed
program, there are still good op
portunities for reaching the com
missioned rank, according to a re
port issued recently by the Navy
Department.
Opportunities for enlisted men
in the Navy to become officers have
been steadily increasing since the
beginning of World War II, and
are now more numerous than dur
ing any period in the history of
the service.
During the period from Dec. 7,
1941, to May 1 of this year, 45,402
men and 535 women had been ap
pointed to warrant and commis
sioned ranks from enlisted status.
Most significant is the trend
which shows that the Navy is now
relying more and more upon its
enlisted sources for able personnel
needed for appointment to posts
of leadership.
During 1942 enlisted men ap
pointed to warrant and commis
sioned ranks accounted for ap
proximately 16% (15,625) of all
officer appointments. The figure
increased to 21.6% (20,380) in
1943, and during the first four
months of 1944 those commis-
See OFFICERS, page U
Movie Schedule
Sat., July 29—Free movie at
Village Theatre, “The Lodger”
with Merle Oberon and Laird Cre-
gar. Feature starts at 1920 and
2054. Complete show one hour, 34
minutes.
Sun., July 30—Free movie at
Village Theatre, “The Sullivans”
with Ann Baxter and Thomas
Mitchell. Feature starts at 1310
and 1508. Complete show one hour,
59 minutes.
Cruising
Covey
By
David Y. Coverston, Ylc, USNR
“Scuttlebutt,” according to
Noah Webster, is defined: “For
merly, on shipboard, a cask or butt
used to keep the daily drinking
water; and later, the drinking
fountain on the ship.”
More commonly used, “Scuttle
butt” is the Naval relative of the
small town gossip, and the news
world rumor, meaning the un
founded word that is passed
around from person to person
aboard ship or other Naval ac
tivity.
This station, as all others, has
great epidemics of “Scuttlebutt”
and at times they are really funny.
Back in 1942, even before the sta
tion went into commission, scuttle
butt had it that 7,500' cadets were
to be trained here at one time, all
of them getting elementary flying
at the local airport.
Later, around the middle of
1943, scuttlebutt had it that
WAVES would take over the sta
tion en masse, and as you know,
we only have about a dozen today,
July of 1944.
It has always been one of the
customs of the Navy, I under
stand, to sit around between work
ing hours and “shoot the breeze,”
and from these gatherings comes
the choicest scuttlebutt. Someone,
no one in particular, comes in and
makes a statement. This can con
sist of anything from change of
duty to the locality to which the
ship is going. The originator al
ways says he has it from a strictly
confidential but absolutely reliable
See COVEY, page U