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No Peace of Blind
Half-Way Mark
For the War
Carolina Wins
Aekla&d Case Nears
New Draftees Will Wait
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1942
Editorial: 4356; News: 4351; Kiffht: 6?06
NUMBER 103
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Churchill Meets Strong Opposition
From Public; Demand New Officers
For UNC Stand in Will Case
Ackland Bequest
Contest Reaches
Courts Shortly
Counsels for the University
and the State of North Carolina,
former Governor Oliver Max
Gardner and law partner Fred
Morrison, are making last min
ute preparations in the Washing
ton, D. C, District Court for
their intervention in the $1,395,-
400 Ackland will case, scheduled
for a hearing within 15 days.
Complete text of Carolina's inter
vention in the suit has been received
The University will endeavor to se
cure the estate for the establishment
of an art school and building at Chap
el Hill.
Collection Public
Carolina's attorneys will make the
first point that art treasures collected
bv the late William Hayes Ackland
are entirely suitable for exhibition in
a public memorial. Relatives of Ack
land, who brought the original suit,
have already maintained that the col
lection is private property that would
not benefit the general public.
Charity in Mind
Secondly, it will be maintained, Ack
land had only charitable and educa
tional purposes in mind when he made
hi two wills. The first will gave Duke
University first preference to the mon
ey, Carolina second, and Rollins col
lege third. The second will voided the
first and named Duke the only recipi
ent of the money. But then Duke was
forced to refuse the fortune because
trustees of the Duke Endowment
might threaten to freeze Duke's 40
See ACKLAND CASE, page U
Draft AgeUNC Students
To Register Tomorrow
. At Memorial Hall Desks
Carolina students who are 20 years
or older will register for selective ser
vice tomorrow.
Memorial hall, designated place of
registration, will be open from 7 AM
to 9 PM. Several desks will be kept
open at all times, and students will be
registered alphabetically. Mr. S. W.
J. Welch guarantees no waiting.
For the convenience of students
whose home residence is outside Orange
county arrangements have been made
whereby they may register here and
their blanks will be set to their home
draft boards.
Students Excused
Four hundred and fifty of Carolina's
men will register tomorrow. The Ad
ministration has provided 20 clerks
and advisers to facilitate the speedy
registry of all these men, and it is
See REGISTRATION, page k
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By United Press
WASHINGTON War department selective service officials decided today
that the 9,000,000men registering this week end will be called up for induction
into the armed services only after their local boards have exhausted existing
lists.
LONDON Prime Minister Winston Churchill tonight headed into the worst
storm of his government career. The
press and public platform resounded
with the mind that he wields the axe
on deadwood and that he should put
"ruthless men" devoted only to total
effort toward victory into high posts.
LIVINGSTON B. ROGERSON, business manager of the University, is
head-of the joint town-gown defense set-up which has been worked out
between the village and the campus. Rogerson recently rounded out 20
years of service to the University.
Rogerson Heads Local Unit
Of Civilian Defense Office
Livingston B. Rogerson. who has served the University of North Carolina
in many varied and important capacities in his 20 years here, finds himself
tn a new and unique role these days.
The business manager of the Chapel Hill unit is also Coordinator of the
Office of Civilian Defense here. "
The local set-up is said to be unique in several ways. One is the tie-up be
tween town and campus. Another is;
the obligation of protecting the state's
students and property as well as local
citizens. And another is that the Uni
versity serves as a center and model
in many respects for the rest of the
state.
In addition to the customary air, po
lice and fire protection divisions, the
joint University-Chapel Hill office has
launched ambitious programs of con
servation and of training in first aid,
nursing, nutrition, and other important
fields.
The University also operates a cen
ter of information and training for
Civilian Morale for the whole state,
and its program of research and train
ing for defense is said -to be one of
the broadest among universities.
In his duties as assistant controller
and town defense coordinator, Roger
son is the key-man in both town and
campus set-ups. And among the three
programs University, defense and
morale he is about the busiest man
in the University village these days.
Rogerson came to the University in
See ROGERSON, page U
Girl of Many States
Montgomery, Coed Artist,
Pens S&F Poster Lovelies
By Billy Webb
Anne Montgomery, who pens the cur
vacious Oriental females beautifying
Sound and Fury "Bagdad Daddy" pub
licity, has attended school in New York,
Texas, California, Kansas, Ohio, and
North Carolina. She was born in Ok
lahoma. Her home is now in Wash
ington, D. C.
Talented and versatile in the "arts,"
she paints, cartoons, sculpts, and
writes, although she declares that the
only thing worthwhile she has written
was stolen from her and never9 pub
lished. ,
Possessing a mild reputation for
work as a sculptress, she has had seV
eral statues displayed in Ohio art ex
hibits. Her work was acclaimed and
pictures of the pieces were published
in a Columbus, Ohio daily.
Liking "horses better than people
because they are more beautiful," most
of her carving deals with equinine
themes. Her father, a Colonel in the
army dealing with soldier morale, is
responsible for her interest in horses,
teaching her to ride as soon as she
learned to walk.
Drawing is an inherent ability, she
believes, and no amount of classroom
education can create talent. Never
theless," she adds, "if the girls I draw
were real, they would be ugly and un
photographic." Having cartooned very little before
coming to Carolinaj she became in
terested in brush and India ink through
Tom Biebigheiser, Tar an' Feathers
cartoonist. A folio of her work was
recently published in the humor mag
azine. Ah art major, she plans to make
drawing a career in the field of com
mercial art, being particularly inter
ested in illustrating or advertising.
Ransacked Hill Homes
Yield 1,600 Volumes
For Victory Campaign
By Westy Fenhagen
Within the short time the Victory
book campaign has been in" existence.
soldiers in camps are already receiv
ing the benefits of over 1,600 books
contributed in the local Chapel Hil
drive.
Of the over 2,300 volumes received
up to this time, over 1,600 have been
sent to army headquarters in Fayette
ville: Fort Bragg, and USO represent
atives in Raleigh in six shipments.
Meanwhile word from the national
headquarters oi Victory book cam
paign in New York is being awaited
in order to dispose of over 650 volumes
still on hand. ,
Hemingway Leads
Soldiers in camps have expressed
great delight over receipt of the books,
Miss Nellie Roberson, local director
of the drive, stated. The first request
made by a soldier was for Heming
way's "For Whom the Bell Tolls,'
while John Gunther's "inside the con
tinents" books and James Hilton's pro
lific works have been much in de
mand.
Books contributed to the drive are
classified into five divisions by the
hard-working library staff. Fiction is
divided into current and "not-so-re
cent" groups while non-fiction is clas
sified in the same manner.' The other
class is made up of all technical works.
All Cooperate
Response to the campaign, reports
Miss Roberson, has been excellent
from the faculty, students and towns
people alike. Many professors have do
nated from their own private "treas
ures ana logaritnms wnue otners
See VICTORY DRIVE, page U
Sound and Fury
Rehearsal Today at 2
A full cast rehearsal of "Bagdad
Daddy" will be held today at 2 o'clock
in Memorial hall. Everyone in the cast
must attend, Bob Richards announc
ed. "And this means everyone even
Potter," he added.
BATAVIA Japanese parachute
troops invaded Sumatra from 100 big
aerial transports today in the opening
thrusts of nut-cracker drives on Java,
key base o f the Dutch Indies into which
the Allies are believed to be pushing
increased inforcements. '
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j LONDON The men of Singapore,
last stand defenders on this bastion of
the British empire, fought on tonight
against flame, smoke, bombs, and bul
lets that the Japanese invader had
brought to the island.
RANGOON Reinforced defense of
Burma smashed back as Japanese
spearheads pushed across the Salween
River tonight after British imperials
had checked the main force of the en
emy offensive on a front stretching
from Martaban to Than.
LONDON Warning that Axis raid
ers may soon attempt to strike at Allied
communication lines in most of the
oeeans of the world were issued in
official and naval sources as a routine
' investigation began into the case of a
German battle fleet from France to
Germany through the Dover straits.
WASHINGTON Informed quarter
indicated today that American Thomas
C. Hart may have been relieved as
chief of the United Nations naval forc
es in the southwest Pacific because of
Dutch demands for representation on
the 'staff of the allied high command
in that war theatre.
LONDON The westward surge of
the army tonight drove a huge wedge
into Germany's winter line anchor at
Smolensk and ripped into the siege line
around Leningrad.
With General MacArthur's Army in
See NEWS BRIEFS, page U
Morgan Analyzes
Hu Shih's Speech
For Rotary Club
Grady Morgan, publicity director of
the International Relations club, gave
an address before the Rotary club of
Asheville Friday afternoon, analyzing
Tuesday night's address by Dr. Hu
Shih, Chinese Ambassador.
Morgan reiterated the five factors
that Dr. Hu pointed out as the essen
tial reasons for China's ability 'to con
tinue its war against Japan unity,
numbers, internal reconstruction, al
lied aid and space.
Asheville's Rotary club communicat
ed with Roger Mann, IRC's president,
last week in an effort to secure a first
hand account of Dr. Hu Shih's address
here. Morgan was sent at IRC expense
to Asheville early Friday.
Unity, Morgan explained, had been
an inherent quality of the Chinese for
20 centuries and hadn't been any re
cent miracle effected by the Japanese
attack. The 450 million Chinese could
never be defeated by' any Japanese
army, Morgan said, pointing out that
no Chinese army had ever been encir
cled and captured by the Japs.
Morgan asserted that Chinese peo
ple had literally moved millions of tons
of industrial equipment inland on their
bare backs in order to establish a
now thriving industrial effort.
Gallup Survey
Results Ready
By Tomorrow
Taps 200 Opinions
In Representative
University Queries
Results of IRC's second Gallup poll
will reach Chapel Hill late tomorrow.
In our war with Germany, do you
feel that our chief enemy is Hitler's
government, or the German people as
a whole? Would you favor immediate
ly drafting single women between ages
21 and 35 to train them for war time
jobs? Should young men wanting to
enter West Point or Annapolis be per
mitted to apply directly for entrance,
or should they first be required to get
an appointment from their Congress
men, as at present?
These are three questions which ap
peared on the poll blanks circulated
Tuesday by an IRC committee of teiu
The blanks went to 200 representative
Carolina students every sixteenth
student in the 1942 directory. Students
who answered these questions were not
the same as the 200 who filled out the
first Gallup poll ballots last year.
Compiled By Princeton
The poll staff, working under Elton
Edwards, collected the forms Wednes
day and after complete tabulation tele
graphed results to the Nassau Soverign,
Princeton University magazine which
is compiling results of the intercol
legiate poll for Dr. Frank Gallup.
More than 50 colleges and univer
sities are cooperating in this poll, and
results to be received tomorrow will
include not only the opinion of Carolina
students but views on the same ques
tions of the 50 other institutions' stu
dents. International Relations club signed
with Dr. Gallup in October to be the
University's representative of the new
intercollegiate Gallup poll. One poll
had been conducted before IRC's move.
Three more series of student question
ing are scheduled for winter and spring
quarters.
Dolphins Set
3 Pool Marks;
Babies Second
Freestyle, Medley
Teams and Hammond
Establish Records
By Harry Hollingsworth
. Setting new pool records in the med
ley and freestyle relays and the back
stroke, the University of North Caro
lina's varsity swimming team domi
nated the Carolinas AAU tank meet
held here yesterday afternoon with a
high score of 58 points. The Carolina
f rosh were second with 26 points, Duke
varsity third with 16, Virginia Tech
freshmen fourth with eight and the
Duke f rosh team fifth with two points.
The Carolina coed team, participat
ing in its first meet, was second in the
women s division to tne uoidsDoro
swimming association girl's team which
accounted for 23 points. The coeds had
six points and Jean Hogan, Chapel
Hill high's only entry in the meet,
gathered four points in two events to
place third. Massanutten military
academy was the top team in the
scholastic division with 19 points.
Goldsboro high school scored nine
points, Staunton military academy and
Durham high five and one-half points,
Eastern high school of Washington,
D. C, three and Gordon Junior high
school of Washington, D. C. two points
to follow the pace-setting Massanutten
team.
Score in Every Event
Scoring in every event, the Carolina
varsity team started off in the correct
direction by setting a new pool record
of 1:34.4 in the 150-meter medley
See COEDS, page 3
Clyde to Present
Far Eastern Stake
In Pacific Battle
"The Far East in This War" will be
the subject of a series of four lectures
by Dr. P. H. Clyde of Duke, beginning
tonight in the lecture room of the Pres
byterian Church.
Professor of Japanese history, Dr.
Clyde has spent much time in the Far
East, and has written a book on the
history of Japan. His opening subject
for tonight will be, "19th Century
European Imperialism in the Far
East."
Dr. Clyde's appearance is being spon
sored by the YMCA, YWCA and other
student organizations. Other topics
to be discussed are : February 22, "The
Emergence of the U. S. as a Colonial
Power in the Far East"; March 1,
"World War No 1 : J apanese Imperial
ism versus Chinese Nationalism"; and
March 8, "Conflicting Ideologies
1921-1941."
Immoral to Write
'Plenty to Say3 But No Time
To Say It, ' Says Dean House
Radio Meet Changed
All students who enrolled as radio
operators in the Student Civilian De-
ense Corps should meet at 1:30 in
GerrarcLhall Monday, afternoon.
By Ben McKinnon
"It's almost immoral for me to write
when I have so much else to do." Dean
Robert B. House of the University fac
ulty replied when asked about a possi
ble sequel to his book, Miss Sue and
the Sheriff. "I've got plenty more to
say if I can find a way to say it and
am not too lazy to do the work. In
other words, there is a possibility of
another book but not a probability."
Miss Sue and the Sheriff, his first
book, is made up of a series of sketches
which he wrote as a memorial to his
mother, Miss Sue, and his father, the
Sheriff. They were first published in
a state paper under the title "The Bio
graphy of a Southern Home" in the
Sunday edition from January 14 to
March 24, 1940. When family and
friends urged the author to enlarge
them, he did so and the finished manu
script was accepted for publication by
the University of North Carolina
Press.
Wide Sale
Proof of the widespread popularity
of this little book, which was of interest
chiefly to the members of Halifax
county, is the fact that an incomplete
inventory shows 814 copies already
sold and the author has received more
than 200 letters from readers. "It
seems to be a means by which other
people recall their own childhood."
Dean House says. "So many people
have written me of their childhood ex
periences." The author was delighted by the re
sponse given his first book by the
state presses and radio stations. In
addition to the reviews given this little
edition by the papers and radios of
the state, several metropolitan papers
granted space to reviews of it.
A New York Times Reviewer said
of the book, "It is their vivid individ
uality which makes these memoirs so
delightful." In the New York Herald
Tribune, the reviewer reports, "In
memories, like dissolving views, these
people come back, and life around
them. The mastiff who acted as the
children's nurse, Uncle Barney, the
official loafer and liar, Old Mary, the
cow they came back happily and with
out undue sweetness. They were
sweet enough naturally." The Phila
delphia Evening Bulletin says, "This
110 page book is based on the recollec
tions of the chores connected with
homelif e of the author's southern boy
hood. Told with light, earthy humor,
Se HOUSE, page 4