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s Announce Vast ' Shakeup In Far East Command "" Editorials Headlines Civilian Defense Active CVTC Comes to life Carolina Faces Future As It Should Be . . . THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME L Basinesa: 9887; Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C.f THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941 Editorial: 43S: News: 4351; Xiht: C90 NUMBER 67 Wartime CamiMs Defense Program Otoees Here IT WarL eader f r ill CVTC Plans ' Army Science, Brill Classes After Christmas Military Corps Training Courses Open to Students A program of two hours infantry drill each week will be offered through out the winter quarter immediately upon the expiration of the Christmas holiday, it was announced from the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps headquarters yesterday. All students who find that schedule confiiction will preclude the possibili ties of campus military training may revise their class times within one week after 'January 5, administration informed sources revealed. The drill programs will fall between four and five o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday. Members of the drill corps are not required to take a military science course. The drill will be conducted by mem bers of CVTC who have an adequate military background. The battalion will be divided into three companies with R. K. Adams, W. M. Sigler, W. E. Gray, R. C. Jones, H. P. Crane, T. P. Harries, P. Calhoun, W. C. Calhoun, J. F. Dibrell, L. D. Watson, N. B. Waters, T. T. Hammond, R. S. Glenn, C. W. Jenkins, J. H. Wisebram, W. Hoblitzell, and W. Woodward acting as officers. A call was issued yesterday for more students and faculty men who will volunteer to serve as officers in the corps. At least one basic course and one ad vanced course in military science and tactics will be offered. Each course will meet three hours per week and will give three full credit hours towards University diplomas as electives. All students registered in these courses will be required to take drills. Registration for the drill courses See CVTC, page A. Alumnus Dies In Jap Attack On Pearl Harbor William Manley Thompson, Carolina graduate of June, 1941, was among those killed on the USS Oklahoma De cember 7, it was announced yesterday when the first University war casualty list arrived. Serving as Ensign on board the Oklahoma, Thompson's death followed the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. The giant battleship was severely dam aged following the bombing attacks, but was not sunk. A graduate of the commerce schoolt Thompson entered active duty in the Navy immediately upon graduation. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta social fraternity in which he served as house treasurer during his senior year. Elected treasurer of Sound and Fury, Thompson was a member of the varsity swimming team for three years and member of the Monogram club. Carolina Faces First Year of War With Widespread Plans for Future University Speeds-Up Preparations For All-Out Aid in New Emergency Enrollment figures Reach Normal Mark Registration figures Carolina's first indication of wartime enroll ment reached 2,953 yesterday, a normal mark, with the Medical, Law and Graduate schools still unre ported., . I. C Griffin, Central Records of fice chieftain, told the Daily Tar Heel that the figure compared "favorably" with . other years, and as yet has shown no effect by the draft. Undergraduate enrollment, which ended Tuesday afternoon, and graduate enrollment which contin-, ues through tomorrow, will begin again on January 3, and all students "who failed to register during the prescribed period must be here on that date. CYA Drive Nets $6008 Initial Campaign Ends Successfully Carolina's initial CYA student aid drive came to a successful conclusion yesterday as E. S. Lanier, University self-help director disclosed thct a total of $6,008.60 had been collected or pledged in the two week old effort. Student inspired, and directed, the drive which has received high praise from state officials and newspapers throughout the state began upon an nouncement that nation-wide NYA budget cuts would drop approximately 75 students from Carolina's NYA lists. Official figures released yesterday by Lanier disclosed student organizations contributed a bulk of the $6,008 total. Organizations donated $2,780, while 1,130 students pledged $2,653.50 to the fund, and individual and faculty dona tions reached $275. Additional contributions from the Chapel Hill Merchants Association, plus $155.10 from a special movie do nated by movie manager E. Carring ton Smith, brought the total slightly over the $6,000 mark. Heads of the student CYA commit tee CYA DRIVE, page U. No Changes Made In NROTC Status Can tain Haeeart. Commander of the NROTC, announced yesterday that a number of students had applied re cently for admission to the NROTC. However, as yet, "there are no plans for changes or accommodations for the admission of these students." Carolina faced its first year of war this week with extensive preparation for the Winter quarter, sweeping into action on three fronts as student, faculty and administrative leaders disclosed the "future book" for 1942. The faculty: Meeting in "extraordinary session," academic leaders appointed an emergency investigating committee empowered to "consider and act upon special petitions of students arising from the national situation, and the recent ruling abolishing comprehensive examinations." The group, already holding sessions in answer to under graduate requests, is headed by Dean D. D. Carroll, with Dean A. W. Hobbs, Dean F. F. Bradshaw, and Drs. A. R Newsome and D. MacMillan assisting. Petition Cases It was understood, from sources close to South building's intricate machinery, that the five-man council has dealt primarily with cases involv ing petitions for. graduation without comprehensive check. Originally ap pointed to slit much of the red tape holding-up students seeking degrees immediately, the faculty men have run up against bottlenecks on the way. The committee has ruled consistently, it was reported, against making the new plan retroactive. It is possible, however, for students seeking such permission to present a written request to the University Board of Trustees. The faculty group acts to facilitate the action and speed up the process without trustee review. Student Activity The students: The Civilian morale- defense and Volunteer Training Corps movements are making "definite prog- Academic Front Administration to Consider New Changes in Curriculum In conjunction with the new turn inSwar, and will be open to all under national affairs, various departments of the University are proposing amendments to their curriculums to the administration. -x The Department of Philosophy is suggesting a course next quarter on "Man and the War." It will be given by a staff of faculty members and will cover "The Philosophies of War," "The Role of Students in War and Peace," and the relationships of economics, politics, society, and psychology with war. If approved by the administration, it will probably be given as a five-hour course in the Divisions of the Humani ties and the Social Sciences. This is not to be a "war issues" course, but rather a discussion of civilization at graduates. To meet the needs of students who may be going into the armed forces, the Mathematics department an nounces several changes in its Fresh man courses, so that undergraduates will be adequately grounded in alge bra, plane and spherical trigonometry. Mathematics 2 and 5 will begin with plane trigonometry and continue the work started in the fall quarter. The repeat sections, Mathematics 1 and 4, will start in with a regular college al gebra course. Economics 131, the five-hour course in economic theory, will be modified so as to study the operation of both the free economy and the planned war See NEW COURSES, page A. Initiation Bill Passed Pledges to Be Put Through in Winter John Thorp, president of the Inter- fraternity Council, announced that the resolution whereby all fraternities be allowed to initiate pledges in the win ter quarter was officially approved by the faculty committee on fraternities late yesterday. 'The final draft of the request gives fraternity heads permission to initiate only those freshmen who have averaged C or better in all their Fall quarter sub jects. Dr. J. C. Lyons, head of the committee, stressed the fact that this move was not to be.. considered per manent but was only to hold for the duration of present conditions. Members of the Interfraternity Council deemed this new arrangement necessary so that the pledge class might better acclimate themselves be fore their second year, in view of the fact that many of the older actives might leave this spring. Horace Williams Airport Placed Under Guard langible evidence of the war can now be seen at the University's Hor ace Williams Airport. Overnight it has become as hard to crack as Pope Field at Fort Bragg. No one now is allowed within its gates without a pass or evidence that they are on official business. W. R. Mann, Coordinator of the University's civilian pilots training course under the CAA and manager of the Airport, is on duty all day and some of the night. All day, of course, mechanics, in structors and WPA employees who are hurrying construction of the new field, are on hand. And at night five guards are sta tioned at the flying school office, at the hangar, and at the entrance of the field. A huge flood light illuminates the han gar and the three runways, two of them more than 4,uuu feet lone and one 5,000 feet long. Carolina's 30 student pilots and Duke's 10 are again roaming the skies over the country side in this vicinity and are trying to complete the fall training before the Christmas holidays. However, the grounding process forced them to lose some valuable time and it is expected that some may even have to remain in Chapel Hill through the holi days. Students and instructors who did not possess birth certificates were grounded early last week, but most of them have now been re-instated after having received official okays from CAA inspectors. The next course begins on January 15 and will continue until May 15. Extra Mag Copies' Selling Rapidly One hundred extra copies pf the mag, printed to meet demand, are on sale in the Book Exchange. Only 30 remain, editor Henry Moll, said yesterday. Moll advised that students who de sired extra copies to send out or save purchase them immediately. iress," as long-contemplated steps are being taken to insure "their success." An extension to statewide prominence of the morale effort is foreseen for 1942, with a panel arrangement, radio support, information center and cam pus activity on the slate. The administration: From the of fices of South building pressure is be- See FUTURE PLANS, page U. CPT Status Unchanged By Crisis Application has been made to the Civilian Aeronautics Authority for provision and appropriation to increase the ranks of Carolina's Civilian Pilot Training Program, W. R. Mann, direc tor, said last night. Forty student pilots may be accom modated under the present set-up with ten of those coming from Duke Uni versity. Horace Williams Airport, the largest college field in the country, pro vides room for the teaching of many more students than are enrolled at present. Registration for the course opening next quarter is continuing through the early part of January but Mann urged that students wishing to enroll signify that intention by contacting him at the airport immediately. Over 40 students attended a meet ing of aspiring pilots last Monday night in Bingham hall at which Mann outlined the program and briefed the process of registering, enrolling, and training. In place of the CAA physical exam ination given to past groups applying for CPT training, the applicants for the next course will undergo a more severe test differing little from the reg ular Army and Navy air corp exam inations. Innovation, also, is a plan whereby his one physical remains valid for en trance into the advance CPT program thecross-country program, and the in structor's refresher program, if al bur are taken within twelve months after completing the primary course. Winter quarter course will begin "sometime between" January 15 and February 1. Applicants must be be tween 19 and 26, have completed at east one year's college requirements, and pass the physical test. To be interpreted anyway you wish, Mann said, is the statement that "I pledge to enlist in the Army or Navy air corp when needed." This must be signed by all students accepted for training, and has been the cause of most questions posed by applicants. Civilian Unit To Give Study In All Phases Students to Train In Dorm, Fraternity Protection System American Military Chieftains Relieved of Posts on Islands Pending Inquiry of Disaster By United Press WASHINGTON Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel has been relieved of the command of the United States Fleet and replaced by Admiral Chester V. Nimitz, the Navy department announced tonight. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson also announced tonight that Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons of the Air corps has ar rived at Honolulu to take over the command of the Hawaiian de partment, relieving Lieutenant General Walter C. Short. Brigadier General C. L. Tinker, Air corps, is proceeding to Hawaii to take command of the air forces relieving Major Gen eral Frederick L. Martin. "These changes are made in view of the preliminary report of the Secretary of the Navy with whose views as to the unprepared ness of the situation on December 7, the Secretary of War con curs, and to expedite the reorganization of the air defenses in the islands," a war department announcement said. Roosevelt Gets Censorship Powers WASHINGTON The House completed Congressional action tonight on legislation giving President Roosevelt broader war powers than Woodrow Wilson wielded inr World War I as three cabinet members drafted a far- reaching censorship program authorized under the bill. WASHINGTON A War department communique said late today that American forces have the situation "well in hand" in the Philippines. WASHINGTON The House tonight approved legislation creating a poten tial draft army- of 6,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 44, inclusive, and j requiring all males from 18 to 65 to register for either military or non-com-battant service. State Department Announces Plan WASHINGTON The State department tonight - announced a reciprocal plan under which German, Japanese and Hungarian diplomats and some na- See NEWS BRIEFS, page U With the driving force of a full fledged wartime emergency program, the Civilian Defense unit of the Uni versity will inaugurate a program of immediate student training for war and post-war problems at the opening of the winter quarter, it was announced from campus defense headquarters yesterday. In cooperation with the local Office of Civilian Defense in Chapel Hill, headed by Mayor John Foushee and Dean F. F. Bradshaw, the campus unit will initiate a volunteer recruiting sys tem for training in the seven required functions. Included are: air raid war den, guard duty, first aid, etc. Each dormitory and fraternity will be converted into a defense unit, Louis Harris, student coordinator, an nounced. "Student protection of stu dent buildings will be the program," he said. Students will also receive complete training in every phase of civilian de fense applicable in any civilian center. . First:' recreational'-training. Stu dents will be offered the opportunity to employ war psychology in the produc tion of recreational programs and the organization of wartime community ac tivities. Second: nutrition. Studies of the diets available and the most efficient use of obtainable food products will be organized. Third: consumers' problems. Re search into the question of consump tion during war in all fields except food will be taken up in this division. The program will be aimed particularly toward coed interest. Fourth: first aid. Training in the care of civilian injured will be opened . for both coeds and men students. Other phases of the defense program at the University, as outlined by ex ecutive committee members yesterday, will include revisions and additions to the University curriculum. Courses on war issues, war psycnoiogy, ana post war reconstruction will be offered to students although definite arrange ments have not been completed. Stu dent machinery will . be organized to cooperate with the faculty in the recep tion of student suggestions and reac- See DEFENSE, page 4. UNC to Present Coast-to-Coast Radio Programs Coast-to-coast broadcasts from the campus studios in Caldwell hall over more than 180 Mutual stations will be gin in January and run through May, Dr. Ralph McDonald, Associate Di rector of the Extension division and director of the University's radio broadcasting, announced yesterday. The University network productions will feature the Carolina Playmakers of the Air, directed by Earl Wynn, and the University Music department of which Herbert Livingston is radio chairman. The programs will be heard on Saturday afternoons from 3:30 un til 4 o'clock. The 1942 Carolina Playmakers of the Air series will include dramas writ ten especially for the playmakers by Paul Green, Struthers Burt, James Boyd, Noel Houston, Josephina Niggli, and other Carolina playwrights. To initiate the Mutual broadcasts on anuary 10, Paul Green is writing a radio adaptation of The Lost Colony. Making its national radio debut the University Music department will pre sent a series of programs featuring he University Band, the Glee Clubs, the Orchestra, the Chapel Hill Choral club, and student 'and faculty ensembles.