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UP Nominates Gambill t
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Junior President
Accepts UP Bid
For Sec.-Treas.
By Billy Webb
University Party committeemen
tossed the hat of Sam Gambill, presi
dent of the junior class, into the po
litical ring today for the post of secretary-treasurer
of the student body.
Long active in campus activities,
Gambill is considered by leaders as
the ideal running mate of previously
nominated UP candidates, Bert Ben
nett, president and Steve Peck, vice
president of the UP "qualified Candi
date" program.
From Elkin, Gambill has lived in
Everett dormitory for three years. A
member of the University dance com
mittee since his freshman year, he
now serves as secretary. He is also a
member of the Order 'of the Grail and
the University club. ;
Two-year member of, the Interfra
ternity Council, Gambill has worked
as floor counsellor and vice-president
of his dormitory. He was on last fall's
Freshman Orientation Committee and
served last year on the sophomore ex
ecutive group.
Duties of the secretary-treasurer of
the student body require in addition
to serving as a regular member of the
Student Council full minutes of all
Council meetings, collection of evi
dence for honor code violations and
correspondence with student govern
ment leaders of other universities.
Mexican Ambassador Speaks
OnlRC Victory Series Tuesday
Castillo to Explain Mexico's Stand as Ally
Of United States in Full Wartime Program
Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najero, Ambassador from United States' most
powerful Iberoamerican ally, is expected to make a definite statement con-
:erning Mexico's war status in his first address since the Rio parley when
le appears at an IRC program here Tuesday.
Dr. Castillo is scheduled as third representative of the major Allied powers
speaking on IRC's Victory Series of speeches. Advance publicity posters and
" circulars went to press yesterday stat-
w j I ing the address topic as "Where Mex-
reparations
For Air Unit
Begun by Navy
Off icials Survey
Campus; Statement
On Housing Near
Preparations for the Naval aviation
program at Carolina, which calls for
an enrollment of 1,875 cadets, were of
ficially launched yesterday when a
vanguard of three officers from Wash
ington were here to begin work on the
project.
First job of the representatives was
an extensive tour of the physical edu
cation set-up on which will hinge the
foundation of the preparedness pro-
Yesterday's selection of Gambill ftff... w, , -
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follows on the heels of the UP nomir
nations Tuesday of Steve Karres,
Charlotte senior and treasurer of the
'University elutf, for- senior -student
council representative, and Jack Mark
ham, junior treasurer, for the posi
tion of senior class president.
Both these announcements came af
ter more than a week's silence from
UP headquarters.
Mann Elected
To Presidency
Of Di Senate
In a special meeting last night mem
bers of the Di Senate elected five of
ficers to fill the posts of the new
"awakening program" planned as a
reorganization feature.
Headed by Roger Mann, newly elect
ed president, the Senate slate included
Wesley Bagby for president pro-tem,
Marcellus Buchanan as critic, Jennie
Clark French as clerk and Currie Mc-
Leod as sergeant of arms.
Standing committee reports includ
ed the awarding of a gavel to Carring
ton Gretter, retiring president and
. also to reduce the dues of new mem
bers for the duration of the year to
$2.00.
Mann was asked to continue acting
as treasurer for the remainder of the
year as a special measure to eliminate
the time lost in initiating a new offi
cer for the position.
Controller W. D. Carmichael and
Business Manager L. B. Rogerson with
members of the Naval RQTC staff
welcomed the officers and conducted
them on the tour.
Rogerson announced that tentative
plans were discussed relative to the
rooming situation in an afternoon
meeting but (that "final announce
ment would come next week" follow
ing a Washington conference with ad
ministrative heads.
The dormitory question is foremost
in the minds of all students now and
although there is some dormitory
space available many students will
have to be moved.
The Navy representatives who are
leaving today for Washington are
Commander J. C. Webb, Captain O. O.
Kessing and Captain T. J. Hamilton.
Road Trip Rehearsal
Planned for S&F Cast
Randy Mebane, Sound and Fury
president, announced yesterday that
all members of the "Bagdad Daddy"
cast are requested to report to the
Memorial hall rehearsal tonight at
6:30 for the Woman's college trip to
morrow.
ico Stands in the War," and announc
ing the speech for 8:15 Tuesday- eve
ning in Memorial hall.
Josephus Daniels, ex-Ambassador to
Mexico and editor of the Raleigh News
and Observer, yesterday notified Rog
er Mann, IRC president, that he will
introduce His Excellency's Victory
Series address.
Dr. Castillo and Mexican Foreign
Minister Ezequiel Padilla journeyed
to Brazil January 15 for the historic
anti-Axis Pan American conference.
The two emissaries filed with the
conference secretariat two of the five
resolutions and projects heralded as
most important by the American
press? a Mexican proposal for joint
adherence to the Atlantic Charter, and
a Mexican proposal for extension of
the status of non-belligerency to all
nations fighting the Axis.
It was Dr. Castillo who signed with
Under-secretary of State Sumner
Welles the US-Mexican agreement
April 25, 1941, which facilitated ; the
reciprocal transit of military aircraft
throughout the. two countries. - J
And it was Dr. Castillo who has
been the prime power behind efforts
to bring to final settlement the long
standing US-Mexican oil confiscation
dispute. The talks reached a stale
mate November 7 and as yet have not
been resumed,
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Frosh, Sophs Meet
AdvisersTomorrow
For Registration
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Sam Gambill
DestroyerSunk
Off Cape May
Java Defenders
Halt Jap Drives
CAPE MAY, N. J., March 3 (UP)
The 12,000 ton World War destroyer
Jacob Jones was torpedoed off Cape
May just before dawn Saturday, the
Navy revealed today, and, from 11
men who alone of all her crew es
caped came stories tonight revealing
another saga of cool courage in an over
whelming disaster.
More than 100 men, including all
the officers, were killed when the two
torpedoes launched by an enemy sub
marine within 20 seconds of each other,
blasted the vessels bow and stern leav
ing her' a floating hulk which an hour
later plunged below the waves with an
other tremendous explosion.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Java
(UP) Java's defenders drove with
savage fury against three invading
Japanese armies after having thrown
one of them back seven and one-half
miles, stopped the other two in their
tracks, sunk two more Japanese trans
ports and a tanker, and destroyed 13
Japanese airplanes in 24 hours of com
bat. r ,
WASHINGTON, March 3, (UP)
President Roosevelt ended his ninth
year in the White House tonight, not
,as the man who steered the nation
through a grave economic crisis, but
as the pivotal figure in the world strug
gle against totalitarian enslavement.
Friendship Council
All members of the Freshman
Friendship Council are urged to at
tend the meeting tonight in the small
cafeteria at 6:15 it was announced
yesterday.
General college students will ad
vance toward registration for the
snrimr Quarter tomorow: when all WASHINGTON, March 3, (UP)
freshmen and sophomores meet with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor
their advisers to arrange for regis- genthau today placed before Congress
tration conferences. he stiff est tax bill in history a
Delaved bv schedule red-tane. reg- $7,160,000,000 measure doubling lower
istration procedure for juniors and and middle bracket income taxes, hik
seniors will be released in the next ing corporation levies, and raising im
few days, I. C. Griffin, central records ports on items such as whiskey, cigar-
head announced vesterdav. ettes, and gasoline.
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ine aavisers win meet wun uie LONDON, March 3 (UP) Ger-
members oi tneir individual groups at Seg NEWS BRIEFS, page h
the following places tomorrow: Air
Edmister, Venable 304; Mr. Hill, Me
morial hall; Mr. Huddle, Gerrard hall;
Mr. Johnson, Venable 206; Mr. Har
dre, Murphey 111; Mr. Kattsoff, New
West 101; Mr. Klaiss, Bingham 103;
Mr. Perry. Peabody 202; and Mr.
Spruill, Memorial hall.
America Free
Of Repression,
Speaker Says
Danger Foreseen
In Investigations
Of Dies Committee
By Paul Komisaruk
Roger Baldwin forcefully declared
last night that seven "danger spots"
threatened American civil liberties,
simultaneously pointing out that the3
United States after a few months of
war is "remarkably free of repression
. . . in sharp contrast to the early
months of World War I."
The 58-year-old head of the American
Civil Liberties Union, - addressing a
Memorial Hall audience from a Caro
lina Political Union platform, main
tained that "we can conduct the war
and maintain democracy at the same
time, and furthermore it is highly de
sirable that we do so."
Military Secrets -
America's greatest danger, Baldwin
declared, is the "control of military
information construed as likely to be
of use to the enemy, which deprives the
public of those facts on which fair crit
icism of government policy rests." Gov
ernment criticism is necesary, he said,
if "we are to check on the government,
and exert pressure so that war aims
may be properly determined."
Baldwin listed the Espionage Act,
"now again in full force" as the second
danger to civil liberties. This oppor
tunity to institute prosecutions for ut
terances and publications must must
be carefully watched, he stated, and
"only ceaseless vigilance will check the
pressures on the government to resort j
to repression."
He cited the Post Office department
with its "unchecked power to bar from
the mails any publication regarded as
seditious, that is, opposed to the war,"
as the third danger.
Fourth danger, Baldwin declared, "is
the treatment of enemy aliens." Such
treatment, he asserted, has been "fair
enough up to now," but danger may
develop "unreasonably in, face of Fifth
Column scares over Japanese, German
and Italian spies."
Dies Committee
Baldwin attacked investigation of the
Dies Committee, FBI and "other inves
tigating agencies who conceive of-sub
version "in terms of Communism, and
See BALDWIN, page U
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Roger Baldwin
Jones Names
Book Store
Committeemen
Preparations Pushed
For Book Exchange
In Union Basement
Blackout Concerts
Continue Tonight
Lights will again be lowered for
the weekly "Blackout" concert to
night from 7 until 9 o'clock in the
main lounge of Graham Memorial.
4 The programs feature both popu
lar and classical recordings which
are chosen from requests left at the
director's office.
Curry Jones, chairman of the newly
formed Cooperative Book Store, which
will open in Graham Memorial base
ment, yesterday announced the mem
bers of the committee that will work
in completing the final arrangements
and putting the shop into operation.
John Walker, Jack Tulloss, L. E. Mo
Knight, Claude George, Maury Ker
shaw, Charlie Campbell, and Hayden
Carruth were named by Jones as mem
bers of the committee.
To Open 'Soon'
Stressing the fact that the co-op will
be located in the room formerly occu
pied by the bowling ally in the base
ment of Graham Memorial, Jones re
vealed that the store "of the students,
by the students, and for the students,"
will officially.open on the campus "very
soon."
Explaining the new system, Jones
said, "Students name the price they
want for their books when they bring
them in and the co-op returns that
price to them when the book is sold.
The whole system for used texts oper
ates on the exchange principle. New
texts will be obtained from cooperative,
wholesalers at reduced prices."
Books Asked
Jones issued the call yesterday for
students to bring in used texts that
they have not sold previously because
of the low rate for re-sale books pre
vailing in Chapel Hill. "Many stu
dents have collections of used books
that they have kept for this reason,"
Jones said. "Now is the time to sell
them."
- The idea for a student book co-op,
first voiced by president Truman Hobbs
in an Emergency committee meeting,
was rapidly taken up by Bill Coch
rane, Graham Memorial director. The
bowling ally was designated for the
location of the shop, and Jones immed
iately got plans under way with his
committee.
Playmakers to Raise Curtain Tonight
On Four-Day Run of 'Behold, the Brethren!'
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Consumers Research Organized
For Expanding OSCD Program
EYE-WITNESSING WAR From the scant protection cf a "fox hole," a small bomb crater, in the Libyan desert,
Virgil Pinkley, of the United Press European executive staff, watches a dog fight between British and Axis
planes; and later interviews the commander of a British tank which has seen action against General Rommel's
Afrika Korps.
Merely another phase in the widen
ing scope of OSCD, the consumers re
search department, headed by student
Ed Kaljn, comes in to the open today
with a column feature on page two of
the Daily Tar Heel.
Organized more than a month ago,
Kalin and his group of five students
have been studying market situations,
prices, rationing, and all other phases
of the study of consumers goods during
war time.
Information Bureau '
Dividing the study into two phases,
primary emphasis will be laid on the
work relating to North Carolina. State
industries that will be converted to war
production, state allocations under the
rationing system, state supplies of con
sumers goods, etc. will form the basis
for the work. Information will be com
piled and filled in the Chapel Hill OSCD
I office for reference. Information will
be published regularly in the Tar Heel,
and reports will be made to the state
at large through newspapers.
Second phase of the program includes
an academic study of the . consumers
problem during war 'throughout the
nation. Prices and marketing will be
the major concern of the group, each
individual working on a chosen prob
lem. -Sources
"The Office of Price Administration
in Washington and Consumers Union
will furnish two of the main sources
of information," Kalin said. The gath
ering of current and adequate informa
tion necessitates close contacts with
many national agencies, but compila
tion and analysis of the data is solely
the occupation of the student branch.
Much of the information compiled
by the consumers research department
will be on hand at the Information
Center in the University Library. Com-
See OSCD, page 4
Immigrant Family
Depicted in Drama
By Former Student
By Nancy Smith -"Behold,
The Brethren!" by Joseph
D. Feldman of New York City, a form
er student here, will open tonight at
8:30 in the Playmaker theater. Other
showings will be on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights.
The drama holds for its theme the
struggles of a Jewish immigrant moth
er and her four sons to realize their
opportunities in this country. Three
of the brothers rise through unscrupu
lous methods to material wealth. The
youngest, Joseph, goes out into the
country, riding the rails, bumming,
talking and working and living with ;
the American people. Thus he learns
of them and becomes a part of them.
At the end of the play he returns to
his family and becomes the instigator
in its regeneration.
Cast
Members of the cast include : Lillian
Farnol as Mrs. Rabinov; Arthur Golby
as Aaron; Frank Groseclose as Eli;
Robert Gutknecht as Morrie; Robert
Carroll as Joseph; Barry Farnol as
Cantor; Buddy Westover as Isaac;
See PL A YMAKERS, page 4