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Castillo Reports - fDn Mexkae
Stated.
Forum Airs Views on Dance Cut Split
UNC Choice
As Navy Base
Explained
By Graham
By Bob Hoke
Pledging: to the students that this
institution will "remain a University,"
President Prank P. Graham yesterday
explained the reasons why the Navy
department selected Carolina as one
of four sites for Air Cadets pre-flight
training:.
The University head addressed the
student body yesterday in a special
convocation held in Memorial hall
his first talk to the students since the
memorable address at an emergency
convocation on Dec. 8, following the
outbreak of US-Japanese hostilities in
the Pacific
A new infirmary, an addition to
Woollen gymnasium, and the modern
ization of certain campus dormitories
were revealed by Dr. Graham as part
of the proposed extension of facilities
here by the Navy. The new additions
and facilities will be turned over to
the University when the Navy leaves,
he indicated.
Dance Expenditures
The freedom of the student was em
phasized as reference was made to the
current campus controversy on dance
expenditures, "you are free to vote on
the dances," he reminded the students
as he stated that no edict limiting ex
penses was or would be issued from
the Administration.
Graham pointed to the graduates of
See GRAHAM, page U
Journey Outlined
For Debate Squad
Mid-Western Tour
Four Carolina student winners of
tonight's Debate council tryouts will
leave next Tuesday on a 4,000-mile,
$400 debate tournament tour through
out the midwest.
A four-man, affirmative-negative
eam will stop first at Randolph-Macon
College at Lynchburg, Virginia.
Washington and Lee at Lexington will
be the debaters secpnd stop. ,
Carolina's team will then entrain to
Ohio University for a tournament at
All Angles Voiced Vehemently
On Six-Sided Panel Debate
By Hayden Carruih '
Last night the walls of Memorial hall, hallowed with the names
of the last war's dead, echoed again to the ringing opinions of cam
pus leaders and students as the question of cutting dance expen
ditures rose for its final hearing before the referendum Wednes
day. The six-man panel, including three representatives from pro and
con factions, opened the student session. John Diffendal, Footsy
McCombs, and Dudley Cocke voiced
the mind of the opposition, and George
Coxhead, Charles Tillet, and Truman
Hobbs represented the slash bill's ad
vocates. I
Maintain Freedom
"We must keep high our morale and
spirit and our rights of freedom as
granted in the constitution," stated
Cocke, in defense of the opposition.
"The legislature pays no money in or
out of the dance organizations. Why
should it control these organizations?"
he demanded.
"Everybody who can read or hear
knows we are at war. The dance or
ganizations know we are at war," said
Cocke.
Hobbs, student body president and
last panel speaker, stifled rumors that
West Point and Annapolis were en
gaging "name bands" for their mili
tary dances. Telegrams from officials
at both institutions dispelled this misinformation.
"If we are so stupid as to throw
away money on our selfish selves, God
help us!" said Hobbs, answering accu
sations that the expense cut would be
ineffective. "I do not believe Carolina
students are unimpressed by- tr.. na
tional need of economy." ;
"Are we as Carolina citizens to take
See MASS MEETING, page U
King Assumes
Highest Post
In Navy Rift
US Subs Win Major
Naval Engagement
In Pacific Waters
(Rewritten from wire release.)
In an effort to streamline the
United States forces in action,
President Roosevelt yesterday
named Admiral Ernest J. King,
commander-in-chief of the Unit
ed States fleet, Chief of Naval
Operations.
This drastic, high command shake-up
leaves Admiral King with the position
of dual responsibility as fleet com
mander and chief United States stra
tegist. King succeeds Admiral Harold R.
Stark, Chief of Naval Operations since
August 2, 1939, who now becomes chief
of United States forces in European
waters.
WASHINGTON, March .9 (UP)
John G. Winant, United States ambas
sador to Great Britain, said today fol
lowing a conference with President
Roosevelt that he did not believe that
the Churchill government will be un
seated as a result of reverses in the
Pacific.
WASHINGTON, March 9 (UP)
President Roosevelt warned industry,
labor, and agriculture today that a con
tinued price increase will precipitate
an inflation that will hurt the entire
nation, hamper the war effort, and
plunge everyone into a
flation.
"ruinous" de-
LONDON, March 9 (UP) The
Royal Air Force has unleashed a pow-
Athens. Following this, in the team's, j . offensive against the Ger-
two-week tour, will come debates at
Ohio State, Columbus; Ohio Wesleyan,
Delaware; Xavier, Cincinnati; Univer
sity of Cincinnati; De Pauw, Green
castle, Indiana ; University of Indiana,
Bloomington; University of Chicago,
;and Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois.
Carolina's goal will be a forensic
tourney at the University of Wiscon
sin, in Madison. The team will also
stage a contest with Tau Kappa Alpha,
the honorary debating fraternity, at
See DEBATE SQUAD, page A
mans with a shattering attack Sunday
by 100 bombers on Essen, site of the
famous Krupp munitions works, and
on the surrounding Ruhr Valley dis
trict, the official news agency said today.
WASHINGTON, March 9 (UP)
A smashing naval victory was reported
today when the Navy department stat
ed that US submarines in far easten
waters had sunk two Japanese nava
See NEWS BRIEFS, page U
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RECENT NOMINEES for campus offices are Ben Snyder, left, Student
Party nominee for president of th e PU Board and Paul Komisaruk,
Student Party nominee for junior m ember of the PU Board.
UNC Classrooms
To Remain Open
In Spring Term
South building announced yesterday
that University classrooms will be
opened at night for the convenience of
students forced to triple up in dormi
tory rooms by the arrival of the Naval
Cadets next quarter. Z
This announcement followed that of
T. H. Evans, Cashier, who reported
that Upper Dormitory students are
swinging into step behind the Univer
sity's all-out program by registering
for new dormitory rooms.
Applications are rapidly being filed
with the office for dormitory space in
buildings unaffected by the March 23
evacuation ruling.
Unofficial reports show that Battle,
Vance and Pettigrew dormitories are
taking four to a room with three the
limit in the remainder of the buildings.
Students are urged to notify the
cashier's office before March 15 in
order that reservations may be com
pleted for transferring. All students
not registered by that date will be
assigned a room by the cashier, it was
stated.
Evans said that students favor the
rent reduction policy which distributes
total room rent now being charged by
the number of students in a room.
Baker to Interview
Marine Applicants
All freshmen, sophomores, juniors
and seniors who are interested in join
ing the Marine Corps are requested to
see Lieut. Don Baker who will be in
men's lounge in Woollen gymnasium
today and tomorrow to interview ap
plicants.--.
Spence Heads
SP Senior
Candidates
Party Picks Active
Legislature Member
For Presidency
By Paul Komisaruk
, The Student Party yesterday named
Bob Spence as its senior class presi
dential nominee, formally bringing
their winter quarter nominations to a
close, leaving a quarter of their com
plete slate still to be named.
The nomination
of the assistant
manager of BVP
came , by acclama
tion vote of the en
tire convention.
Spence is from La
lirange, and nas a
three year history
in Carolina student
organizations.
He is a self-help
Bob Spence student, and has
worked in Lenoir Dining hall, while
holding down the job of assistant dorm
manager.
Legislature Member
Spence served as a member of the
sophomore executive committee, and
as a member of the Freshman orien
tation committee. At present he is a
member of the legislature, active on
the ways and means committee.
Joining into the campus civilian de
fense program, he was named Vance's
air raid warden under the new OSCD
set-up.
His nomination was the first the
party has made in either of its two
upper clases, for a class office. Busy
during the closing weeks of the winter
quarter, party delegates kept close to
a tentative schedule, succeeded in nam
ing all but two or three student-body
office nominees, and rompleted the
slates for the rising sophomore and
junior classes.
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IRG to Present Ambassador
On Memorial Hall Platform
By Walter Klein
Mexico's Ambassador, Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera, will
make his first report to the nation since the historic Rio Confer
ence in an IRC address tonight at 8:15 in Memorial hall.
Complete explanation of Mexico's reasons for its present non
belligerent stand is expected in Dr. Castillo's Victory Series speech,
and in an open discussion forum sched
uled to follow the address!
Josephus Daniels, former US Am
bassador to Mexico and publisher of
the Raleigh News and Observer, will
introduce Mexico's official envoy.
New Agreement
His Excellency will arrive in Ral
eigh at 8 o'clock this morning after
continuing negotiations in Washington
yesterday for "an unprecedented
agreement between Mexico and the
United States."
News of diplomatic arrangements
for the granting of air bases on Mexi
can soil to US army and navy forces
broke Wednesday. Tonight's IRC
speaker is reported to be working
steadily with the State department to
conmlete a formal agreement.
I The air bases are to be off the Pen
insula of Yucatan, on the islands of
Cozumel and Mujeres. Their strategic
importance lies in the fact that Yuc
atan projects so far into the gulf that
it is only a three-hour flight from
New Orleans, and equally close to Mi
ami. -
The agreement conditions, as stated
by Dr. Castillo are as follows:
1. Mexico cedes no territory to the
United States.
2. Bases shall be available jointly
for both US and Mexican use.
3. After the war, the new facilities
shall become the property of Mexico.
Tonight's IRC speaker, third in the
club's Victory Series, also was the
key Mexican representative in sue-
cessful negotiations last year for use
of Mexico's airports by US army
planes.
Dr. Castillo attended January's Rio1
Conference with the Mexican foreign
minister. The Mexican emissaries filed
two of the parley's five most import
ant anti-Axis resolutions.
Castillo, also, is the figure respon-
siDie lor extensive negotiations tor
See IRC PRESENTS, page U
Dr. Castillo Najera
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Josephus Daniels
Three New One-Act Dramas
Top 81st Experimental Bill
Three new one-act plays written this quarter in Professor F. H. Koch's
playwriting class will be presented on the 81st bill of Experimental plays in
The Playmakers Theatre tonight at 7:30.
Playing in "A Motley Assembly," an early American play by Mrs. Mercy
Otis Warren, adapted by Marion Gleason, are Carrie Wherry, Arthur Conescu,
Phyllis Parker, Richard Katzin, Wil-1 ;
Spanish Instructor
Joins Signal Corps
John E. Carroll, Spanish instructor
in theyRomance department, left yes
terday for Fort Bragg where he will
become'a member of the United States
Army Signal Corps.
Carroll was a Reserve Officer before
he was.v called for duty.
liam Rawls, Virginia Archer, and
Closs Peace Harris. It is being direct
ed by Clayton Cheney.
"Got No Misery," a comedy of Ne
gro superstition, by Genie Loaring
Clark, will have in its cast Walter
Spearman, Lucile Culbert, and Kitty
Lee. The author is directing.
In "Pen in Hand," a farce of Ameri
can family life, by Ellen Mary Pills-
bury, are Professor Robert Wherry,
Marjorie Walter, Elizabeth Bell, Rae
Murden, Robert Wherry, Jr., Joseph
Rubenstone, and Mary Dick Cannon.
It is being directd by Marion Gleason.
Admission to the plays is free, but
tickets for seats must be presented at
the door. Tickets may be secured from
the Playmakers' business office in
Swain hall. Seats will be held lor
ticketholders until 7:20, when the the
atre will be open to the general pub
lic.
Winston-Salem Club
To Meet Tonight
It is imperative that all members of
the Winston-Salem club meet at Ger
rard hall tonight at 7:15. President
G. I. Kimball stressed the importance
of the meeting and urged that all be in
attendance.
Election Proposal
Faces Legislature
In Meeting Tonight
The Student legislature will meet
briefly tonight in Phi hall at 7:45
to consider a bill setting the gen
eral elections date at April 16.
Speaker Ferebee Taylor empha
sized that all representatives must
be present because the meeting
would be short and the setting of
an early elections date is of critical
importance. Such a date would allow
earlier installation of new officers
and more adequate preparation for
adjusting the campus to the instal
lation of the naval unit.
Philological Club
The Philological club will meet to
night in the Green room of the Caro
lina Inn at 7:30. Professor George
Taylor will speak on "Is Lear a Drama
of Protest?"
In The Clouds
Learn to Get Vodka
In New Night Classes
Carolina's first course in Russian
will begin next quarter, with classes
held during evening hours.
Dr. George Lane, who will teach the
course, stated yesterday that full five
hour credit will be awarded to stu
dents in Russian 76. Elementary as
pects of both spoken and written Rus
sian will be included.
Classes will take place , Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights from
7:30 to 9 o'clock in 114 Saunders.
Government Leaders Praise
CAA Flight Training Here
By Westy Fenhagen credit toward graduation for the corn-
Recent figures released by W. R. Potion of the course.
Mann, airport director and local coor- Of the more than 70,000 flyers who
dinator for the Civilian Pilot Training, nave completed their CAA training in
show conclusively that the CAA flight he Past three years only 17 have been
program in effect here and at air cen- fatally injured, a record that CAA
ters throughout the country has more heads are proud of.
than justified its' sponsors. Sucn a remarkable record has had
no small effect on the insurance agen-
In its three years of eperation, gov- cies which insure embryonic pilots
ernment leaders have praised the CAA the begining each student was re
program as one of the most import- quired to carry ?3)000 life insurance
ant steps in preparation for this war flnd afc leasfc ?50Q accident coverage.
and as one of the most potent forces f . . S2Q chaTSed for this tro-
in this nation's struggle for air su- tection fcut since six voluntary
penority. rpHiirtinns have been made until now
Proof of its popularity in the na- the same policy may be obtained for
tion s educational system is the fact only $4.bu.
that over 500 American colleges and Already in the army or naval air
universities have adopted the program force are 15,000 pilots trained under
j into their academic schedule and given - See CAA, page 4