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VOLUME XLVIH
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940
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Grail Makes Awards
Inauguration Night
Ceremonies Combine
On Monday Night
The Order of the Grail will combine
its annual Awards night with the in
auguration of newly elected campus
officers when that ceremony takes
place in Memorial hall Monday night
at 8 o'clock.
Jimmy Davis, president of the stu
dent body, and Melville Corbett, pres
ident of the Women's association, will
laake their farewell speeches. They
yi both then turn over their offices
to Dave Morrison and Jean McMas
ter, student leaders for the coming
year, who will make their inaugural
addresses.
Davis will conduct the formal inaug
uration of all the officers, who will
be inducted as a group.
The Grail awards will consist of
placques and cups given to athletes
in all sports who have received the
highest scholasiifiL averages. Intra
mural awards to the fraternities and
dormitories will also be made at this
time.
Winner of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
trophy will be presented by that fra
ternity to the outstanding social fra
ternity on the campus. Zeta Psi was
the recipient of this award last year.
The Patterson award to the best
student in athletics and scholarship
will not be presented Monday night.
News Briefs
Nazis Crumple Allied Lines in Belgium;
Gamelin Admits Situation 'Critical'
Senate Appropriations Sub
Committee Approves President's
Defense Program
(By United Press)
PARIS, May 17 Powerful German
mechanized divisions today crumpled
Allied defenses in Belgium and drove
deep into France toward Rheims 75
miles from Paris pushing through
desperately fighting defenders sup
ported by Generalissimo Maurice
Gamelin who told them "to accept
death rather than abandon terrain."
(Berlin said that victorious Ger
man armies have taken Brussels, Lou
vain, and Mechlin the latter less
than 15 miles from Antwerp and
that Allied forces all along the front
were en route.)
The situation of the Allies along the
entire eastern flank of a 200-mile
battle line where 2,000,000 men were
struggling in the greatest battle of
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McKeever Calls
Frosh To Dine
WCUNC Group
Hobart McKeever, president of the
Freshman Friendship council yester
day issued a last call for any first
year men who want to help dine and
dance the freshman YWCA delega
tion coming down from WCUNC to
day to visit the council and campus.
All interested students should reg
ister in the YMCA at the informa
tion desk this morning and then come
down to Graham Memorial this aft
ernoon at 3:30 to prepare to greet the
?rls who will arrive around 4 o'clock.
The afternoon program will be put
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Summer Self-Help
Applications Due
applications are now available in
.Student Aid office in 208 South
building for all students interested in
doi stlf-help work this summer in
th library, dining hall, Book Ex
change, Graham Memorial, laundry
apartment or other University divi
sion. applications must be on file by
Monday, and the job awards will be
-shortly after.
"-lf-htlp jobs for the summer ses
v'v artf liniited and there are no
'A funds available. Those students
holding self-help jobs who plan
j itt( fid summer school, who need
e work and whose grades have been
factory will be very carefully
idertd by the committee in deter-
"tong the number of awards, accord
s? to Ed Lanier, self-help director. ;
FROSH REGISTER
FOR FALL SOON
Advisers to Meet
Class Next Week
The present freshman class may
arrange their fall quarter registra
tion during the next two weeks so that
it will not be necessary next Septem
ber to see their advisers or stand in
line except to clear with the business
office at the very end of the checkout
line, Dean C. P. Spruill of the general
college announced yesterday.
Each student will see his adviser be
tween Monday and Friday of next
week to fill out the form to be used
for the fall quarter. Preferences re
garding class hours or teachers may
be indicated on the form.
In making out their programs for
next year, freshmen should remember
to include freshman subjects which
have not yet been taken. Beginning
with the present class, junior stand
ing and transfer to the commerce
school or the college of arts and
sciences will be limited to those who
have completed their freshman re
quirements. Each student will leave his com
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Band Presents
Concert Tomorrow
Campus jitterbugs suffering
from an overdone of swing are in
vited to recuperate and return to
sanity at the open air concert of
the University Band tomorrow
afternoon at 5 o'clock on the cam
pus near the Davie poplar. Con
ductor Earl Slocum is leading the
band in its traditional series of
bi-weekly programs, composed of
popular, classical and semi-popular
numbers.
Jan Savitt Tells
Maestro Played
Symphonies at 14
By Vivian Gillespie
Seven years with Stowkowski, then
to the top of the heap as a popular
band leader that's Jan Savitt's suc
cess story. '
Jan sat on the sidelines while his
band played and told his story how
his family came over from Poland
when he was a baby and settled in
Philadelphia, where the symphony or
chestra under Leopold Stowkowski
was playing, and how he refused a
scholarship to the University of Penn
sylvania in order to play with the
symphony at the age of fourteen.
The "Tophatters" developed from
an NBC studio orchestra which Jan
led at station KYW in Philadelphia,
after he left Stowkowski, and the
"shuffle rhythm" which he arranged
put the band among the top orches
tras. Still Uses "Shuffle Rhythm"
"I haven't abandoned the shuffle
rhythm as so many people think," Jan
declared. I am limiting it to the tunes
which fit it. The shuffle rhythm is used
only in pieces for which it is the true
tempo. Otherwise a band becomes
tedious just like eating six gallons of
vanilla ice cream." , x
"When art orchestra has as good a
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Simons Roof Calls
For Poster-Writers
Everyone interested in writing
texts for posters, banners, etc.,
for the "Keep Out of Europe's
War" movement, should meet with
Simons Roof at 10:30 this morn
ing in the outer publications of
fice on the second floor of Graham
Memorial.
Others interested in working for
the movement should report to the
Daily Tar Heel office between 2
and 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Playmakers
May Build ,
New Theater
By Martha LeFevre
"The Carolina Playmakers may be
able to work in a new $300,000 theater
next year if our plans continue to pro
gress as they are now," Professor
Frederick H. Koch, founder and di
rector of the dramatic art department,
said yesterday.
Three years ago the Rockefeller
foundation contributed $33,000 to the
department and pledged an endow
ment fund of $150,000 if that sum
was matched by the University. Plans
for the new theater and dramatic art
building were drawn up by the entire
Playmakers staff with the aid of Wal
dron Falkner, Washington architect.
Since then President Frank Graham
has appealed to the University alumni.
"Dr. Graham says we are going to get
it, and hopes to do so through the gen
erosity of interested alumni. If that
fails and there is no other way, we
will have to go to the state legisla
ture for the necessary funds," Dr.
Koch explained.
Present Building Old
The building now used, which is
one of the oldest on the University
campus, and the first state-supported
theater in America to be devoted to
the development of a native drama,
will be replaced by a dramatic arts
building containing class rooms, two
stages, rehearsal rooms, offices, and
a workshop. Provisions wiU be made
for the cinema and radio courses that
were inaugurated by the department
this year, and for one of the largest
dramatic museums in the South
which "Prof" Koch has gathered to
gether during the 21 years of the Car
olina Playmakers.
Need Larger Facilities
"Work has grown so that we are
no longer able to give our students
adequate facilities to carry on this
work," the Playmakers' director point
ed out. "The new theater wilr en
able us to stage large productions
such as "Johnny Johnson," and Gil
bert and Sullivan; it will relieve us
of the necessity of having rehearsals
in class rooms and the basement of
Caldwell Hall; and it will eliminate
the great loss we now suffer by not
having adequate storage space for
scenery and wardrobes," Dr. Koch
said.
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Tar Heels Face Vengeful "Dukes
In Attempt for Big Five Tie
The Third Baseman
Charlie Rich played a major part
in Carolina's win over Duke
Wednesday. He hit a single in the
first inning with the bases loaded
to send in the Tar Heels' first runs,
and added two more hits during the
afternoon. His line in the box score
showed three hits for five trips to
the plate.
Graham Memorial
To Revive Concerts
'Under The Stars'
Reviving the presentation of weekly
"Music Under the Stars" programs,
Graham Memorial student union will
present a recorded concert in Kenan
Stadium tomorrow night at 8:30.
Following the success of the pro
gram given during Senior week,
Bob Magill, director of Graham Me
morial, and Gibson Jackson, head of
the student union record department,
have decided to continue the concerts
as a regular Sunday night feature
for the rest of the year.
Jackson has arranged a varied pro
gram of musical selections suitable
for every musical taste. Concerts are
expected to include -classical, semi-
classical and popular compositions,!
given from the latest records.
Magill also promised good weather
for the remainder of the programs.
He even guaranteed stars, in order
to make the title of the series as
accurate as possible. "There will be
stars. I assure you of that fact," he
said. "There have always been stars
in Chapel Hill. Sometimes you can't
see them, but they're there."
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Either Benton or Cheshire to Pitch
Under Greensboro Lights Tonight
By Bill Beerman
Carolina's march toward its first Big Five championship since
1933 continues tonight in Greensboro when the Tar Heels meet
Duke in the second engagement of a three-game series. The final
battle, which will determine whether or not Carolina can claim
LIBRARY TO SHOW
SOUTHERN EXHIBIT
WPA Indexing
To Be Displayed
An exhibit showing the work that
the WPA has done here in organiz
ing and indexing southern manuscripts
will be on display in the ground floor
showcases of the library, Monday
through Saturday of next week.
The Works Progress administration
has had an average of five to six work
ers at the library for the last six
years doing this work. The manu
scripts are filed according to collec
tions in the library vaults. There are
more than a million and a quarter al
ready filed there.
In the near future an index of the
entire collection will be published.
This work, which is being directed by
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Playmakers To Portray Life in 1906
With O'Neill Comedy, 'Ah Wilderness'
It will be like the old family al
bum come to life next week when The
Carolina Playmakers draw the cur
tains on "Ah, Wilderness," Eupene
O'Neill's nostalgic comedy of Ameri
can life, in the Playmakers theater
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Director Elmer Hall and his associ
ates for the production are turning
every trick they know to conjure up
an authentic picture of small-town
family life in 1906. Actors, scene
designer and costumer are uniting
their talents to recreate the warm
hearted, wistful mood which O'Neill
evokes in his story of young love
in the days when motor cars raced
down the road at 10 miles an hour.
-f irst place in the state loop, is scheduled
for Emerson stadium Monday after
noon at 4 o'clock.
The unexpected, devasting 26-3
drubbing of the Dukes by Carolina
Wednesday so humiliated the inhabi
tants of the Methodist Flats that they
are likely to go to any extremes to re
gain lost prestige. Wake Forest, in
using Tommy Byrne to lick the Blue
Devils three times this year, shoved
Duke out of the conference and Big
Five elite for the first time in many
moons, and should the local nine make
a clean sweep of the remaining two
games, it will be the worst Duke sea
son and the finest Carolina season
since baseball originated in Coopers
town, N. Y.
' Coach Jack Coombs of the Durham
crew, who never dreamed he'd Kve to
see the day when his boys would take
such a terrific beating, managed to
save a couple of pitchers from the half
dozen he used Wednesday. Bill Mock,
the right-handed youngster who lasted
one-third of the first inning against
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Larry Wismer, assistant technical
director of the Playmakers, has de
signed sets for "Ah, Wilderness"
which are faithful in every detail to
the period. For the main action of
the play he has devised an interior
set which perfe'ly captures the spirit
of the gingerLiad style.
Costumes for the show have been
designed by Irene Smart, who was
responsible for the swank clothes of
"Kiss the Boys Goodbye." In assem
bling costumes for "Ah Wilderness,"
Miss Smart went to the original
sources the fashion magazines of the
period.
Heading the cast of "Ah, Wilder
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Senior Sponsors,
Escorts Featured
Jan Savitt and his orchestra, who,
captured the rhythm-loving boys and
girls of the campus yesterday after
noon and last night, will complete his
engagement tonight at the Senior ball.
During this evening, the Senior ball
will feature the grand march in which
the following will take part: Benny
Hunter, president, with Lucy Belle
Eckles, Hopkinsville, Ky.; Mickey
Warren, secretary, with Hamilton
Long, Morganton; Morris Rosenberg,
treasurer, with Evelyn ParadMes, At
lanta, Ga.; Mac Nesbit, student eoun-'
cil representative, with Emily Siler,
Waynes ville.
Dance leaders, Jack Fairley with
Mamie Grace Smith, Greensboro;
Billy Winstead with Betty Lamb,
Charlotte; Martin Harmon with
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Attention Mr. Clark:
Swastikas at Carolina
Is there a fifth column menace in
Chapel Hill?
Bill Stauber is the Daily Tar Heel's
fifth columnist, but he isn't considered
much of a menace.
StilL a lot of people are wondering.
For in the past three days two Nazi
flags have been found fluttering in the
breeze on the University campus. On
Wednesday morning a homemade Nazi
banner was hanging on the bell tower,
just beneath one of the clocks. Yes
terday morning another one was
found on the water tank.
Anyhow, the fifth column, a prank
ster, Stauber, or whoever it is, has
had his efforts counteracted by two
local women who informed University
authorities that there is a state law
that the American flag shall be fly
ing at all state institutions. South
building consulted its law books, read
the statute and complied.