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C5J ii ii Tfte Oldest College Daily In The South VOLUME L Bwiacaa: t8S7; Cireolatbm: S88 CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942 Editorial: 4356; News: 4351; Night: 6908 NUMBER 160 Smith Speaks Here Tonight In Opening Weil Lecture By Larry Dale Dr. T. V. Smith, professor of philosophy in the University of Chicago and former congress-man-at-large from Illinois, will speak on "Science: the Discipline of Truth" tonight at 8:30 in Gerrard hall. Tonight's address is the first of three under the general head ing of "Discipline for Democra cy" to be given by Dr. Smith this week in Gerrard hall. The lectures are this year's presentation of the annual series of Weil Lectures on American Citizenship. The Weil Lecture Fund, established in 1915 by the families of Sol and Henry Weil of Goldsboro, has brought such distin guished speakers as Herbert Agar, Henry Wallace, and Dorothy Thomp son to the campus in the past. Dr. Smith previously appeared on the campus as one of the speakers on the program of the Institute of Hu man Relations in 1939. He is a regu lar member of the University of Chi cago Round Table and has appeared frequently on America's Town Meet ing of The Air. He was chosen in 1939 by the lead ers of the Democratic party to de fend the Democratic Administration in a series of radio debates with Sen ator Robert A. Taft. The 13-week series was broadcast from coast-to-coast and it is generally believed that Dr. Smith's arguments contributed to the preparation for the victory of the party in the 1940 elections. Born in Blanket, Texas, he went to the University of Texas before he entered the University of Chicago where he received his degree of Dr. of Philosophy. Union Sponsored Treasure Hunt To Begin May 19 The Treasure Hunt, which was de layed until the Student Legislature acted upon the combination of the two campus magazines, has been sched uled to run from May 19, 20, 21, and 22 and the Pirates' Ball will be held the night of the 22. Both events are being jointly-sponsored by the new magazine of next year, as yet unnamed, ' and Graham Memorial. Bill Cochrane is in charge of the program, being assisted by members of the staffs of both former magazines: Anne Montgomery, Char lie Colby, and Tom Biebigheiser from Tar an' Feathers; Harley Moore, Hen ry Moll, Walter Klein, and Dick Adler from the New Carolina Mag. These persons are all engaged in thinking of new, streamlined sample clues, which will be published in the Daily Tar Heel within several days, before the actual hunt. Moll said that the "purpose of the program is to tie up the publications closer with campus activities." Coch rane added "the Treasure Hunt and Ball are planned to give the campus a stimulant create a bit of friendly rivalry, and give the students a lot of fun." The Pirates' Ball will be held the night of the. last day of the hunt. The winner of the hunt will be announced and the new magazine will be baptiz ed. Prizes will be awarded for the best boy's and girl's costumes. German Fraternity To Meet Tonight The Delta Phi. Alpha honorary Ger man fraternity will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Grail room of Graham Memorial, secretary Marjorie Burrus announced yesterday. Elections for next year's officers will be held. Levy to Deliver Art Talk Tomorrow George Levy will deliver a gallery talk in Person hall tomorrow at 2 'clock on the current exhibit. In ad dition he will discuss three 19th and 20th century paintings taken from his own collection. ' v,'.y. ..'..v.v.-.v.v.v.v . I I. I "A S - I l DR. T. V. SMITH who will deliver the opening lecture of the annual Weil lecture series tonight in Ger rard hall at 8:30. Awards List Announced For Pageant Names of Winners To Remain Secret The final list of awards that will be presented at the "Carolina Meets the Challenge" pageant Friday night at 8:30 in Kenan stadium includes 14 of the standard University awards, as re leased in a list from Assistant Dean Roland B. Parker's office yesterday. The awards will be presented in the spirit of "what the students can do for the future, not what they have done in the past," Louis Harris, co-director of the new May celebration, said yester day. The policy this year will be to re lease the names of the winners only at the night of presentation, said Parker yesterday. The names will not appear on the program as they have in the past. - Topping 'the list of awards is the publications award, a prize of $50 to be given to that student that has done the most for student publications during the year. "The element of suspense that will be provided by the secrecy in connec tion with the winners will keep all the interested persons on edge," Harris prophesied yesterday. Those awards that have been elimi nated from the list are awards that cannot be picked on time for presen tation at the pageant. The awards to NROTC students will be omitted. Group awards, such as Phi Beta Kap pa keys, will not be announced at the pageant. The list of awards that will be pre sented is: Publications award, John J. Par ker, Jr. award, Mangum Medal in Or See AWARDS, page A News Briefs Jap Planes Bomb Corregidor Repeatedly Sink US Gunboat WASHINGTON, May 4 (UP) Japanese bombers have subjected battle scarred Corregidor island to 39 separate attacks during the past three days and have sunk the 560-ton river gunboat Mindanao, it was announced here today. The air attacks on the guardian fortress of Manila Bay have come in clusters each day, the war department said, in a communique saying that Corregidor was subjected to a five hour artillery and bombing attack. LONDON, May 4 (UP) RAF raiders have bagged seven enemy planes in dealing a smashing blow at Ie Havre on the French sea coast after a force of night bombers had left fires raging along the docks of Hamburg, Germany's largest seaport. MOSCOW, May 4 (UP) Russian troops have swung into a major offen sive against the Germans in several sectors of the waterlogged front and have scored numerous gains, a communique reported here tonight. NEW DELHI, May 4 (UP) Major General Brereton's United States army bombers striking ou to relieve allied forces in Burma forced back at some points within a few miles of the Chinese frontier blasted supply bases at Ran goon Sunday setting huge fires in the dock area. GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN MELBOURNE, May 4 (UP) The threat to Port Moresby, chief allied outpost, dwindled today with the report that the Japanese have fallen back on Lae after clashing with Australian fighters at the high tide of a 27-mile advance up the Markham Valley. LONDON, May 4 (UP) Admiral Stark, commander of the United States naval forces in European waters, said today that the U-boat menace in the At lantic is slowly but surely being dealt with by means of a new anti-submarine device and by the burst of US shipbuilding that has produced two new mer chantmen a month and will produce 100 new warships this year. LONDON, May 4 (UP) An army of Rumanian guerillas has arisen in the Balkans, wrecked a German troop train, set an oil train on fire, and raided German barracks, forcings Adolph Hitler to dispatch added troops to guard the rear of German troop trains to the Russian front. Hofobs Gets Kef erendiim Petition ; Today; Officers9 Training Conference Opens Here Conference To Discuss Campus Problems The annual Officer's Training con ference will begin today and last through tomorrow, Truman Hobbs, president of the student body, an nounced yesterday. The conference, designed to ac quaint new campus officers with the problems and tasks awaiting them, will consist of two luncheon meetings today and tomorrow at 1 o'clock in the small dining room of Lenoir din ing hall. After luncheon, a general discussion will be held, Hobbs stated. Over 100 invitations have already been issued by the student council which sponsors the affair annually. At today's session, the officers of the student body including Hobbs, W. T. Martin, and John McCormick will lead a discussion of the Carolina hon- or system. Tomorrow at the final meeting As sistant Dean of students Roland B. Parker will speak on the problems in student government for the coming year and following his address there will be a general discussion of student problems. All those who have not sent in their acceptance should do so by telephon ing the Graham Memorial office by 10:30 this morning, Hobbs emphasized. Coffey Continues Crime Detection Lectures Today E. P. Coffey, chief of the FBI Scien tific Crime Detection Laboratory con- tinues his lectures under the auspices of the Institute of Government in Gra ham Memorial lounge today at 5 o'clock. His series of lectures "Scientific Aids in Crime Detection as Developed by the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion" began yesterday afternoon and continue throughout the week. " Today's topic is, "Applying Physics to Crime Detection," and includes the identification of firearms evidence, cer tain principles of document examina tion involving the identification of typewriters, high-powered microscope analysis, spectrograph analyses, lab oratory researches in the field of radio and electricity as applied to crime de tection. Coffey is the founder and developer of this Crime Detection Laboratory and was previously special agent in charge of the Carolina branch of the FBI. Senior Week Opening Sunday Full of Fun And Frolics By Bob Hoke Seniors, preparing to enter the "cold, murderous world," will gambol begin ning Sunday in seven days of concen trated undergraduate -frolic Caro lina's traditional Senior Week. Dreamed up by co-chairmen Bill Alexander and Mac McLendon, the week, presenting everything from a "Saddle Shoe Stomp" to an ultra-form al banquet, will be climaxed by the famous Junior-Senior set of dances with Red Norvo and his band, May 15-16. Blankets and semi-classical music will open the week's festivities Sunday night at the first "Music Under the, Di Senate Meets Tonight Parker to Discuss Student Government Roland Parker, assistant dean of students, will discuss the possibility of student government abolition at a Di alectic Senate meeting tonight and will defend self-government as "one of Car olina's greatest traditions." In a statement yesterday Parker as serted that he will "try to show stu dents how they can help prevent any curtailment of student government, which the war may force upon us." Parker pointed out that student gov ernment was stopped at Carolina dur ing the first World War and that abo lition may originate anywhere from the board of trustees, from the school administration or from the students themselves. "Student leaders may even realize that they will not be able to handle governmental affairs and may finally volunteer to turn the govern ment over to the administration." At tonight's Di meeting, to be held on third floor of New West, Parker will point out dangers threatening con tinuance of student government and will seek to determine methods stu dents can use to prevent such action. "However, the student body may not have anvthine to say about it. It de- See DI SENATE, page U Debate Tryouts To Be Held Today . Tryouts for the final debate of the year will be held at 7:15 tonight in the Grail room of Graham Memorial, Car rington Gretter, president of the De bate council, announced yesterday. Carolina has the affirmative of the query: Resolved that the federal gov ernment should own and operate all munitions plants. The debate will be held at 2 o'clock, May 8, in Charlottes ville, Virginia with the University of Virginia. "All members should be sure to be at the Grail room. Promptness will en able us to get out in time to hear Mr. T. V. Smith, the Weil lecturer," Gretter said. Phi Picnic Tonight To Replace Dance The Philanthropic Assembly, shed ding its customary dignity tonight, will leave Phi hall behind for its first social event of the year, a picnic. It is being substituted for the annual Phi dance, in accordance with economy befitting the war effort. The Assembly will be called to order in Phi hall, at 7:15. Regular business will be dispensed with at this special meeting, and spring quarter initiations will be held. The Speaker will then adjourn the meeting to Battle Park. "All Phi members and their dates, feel sure, will be at this meeting. Every member has been especially pro vided for," Speaker Ives stated. Coed Senate Meets In Caldwell Today Coed Senate 'meeting will be held today just for old members at 1:30 in Caldwell hall, Jean Hahn, former speaker, announced. j Stars" program presented this -year. "It's for Seniors, but others can crawl in and moon-bask," Alexander and Mc Lendon said in unison yesterday. Following close on the" heels of the air conditioned "Fireside concert," the upperclassmen will move their scene of frolic to the varsity tennis courts Tuesday night for the "Saddle Shoe Stomp." Hurst Hatch and his men of music Coach will provide the rhythm on Kenfield's battlefields. The dance will be open to senior boys and girls and their dates. Really getting down to business, the seniors shed their shoes for 24 hours See JUNIOR-SENIOR, page U Sugar Ration Continues 8,000 Expected To Register Complying with the regulations of the Office of Price Administration 8,000 persons in Chapel Hill and vicin ity, including University students, are expected to register today through Thursday for their first sugar ration books of the war. The registration, being held at the Chapel Hill elementary school, will in clude all persons over 18 years of age. Those under 18 will be registered by their parents. No alphabetical order will be used. The use of ration books by students was yesterday clarified by Mr. M. W. Durham, head of the Chapel Hill ra tion board. "While students will not have immediate use for their ration booklets it is advisable for each per son qualified to obtain one," he said. The booklets will mot be needed un less the student buys sugar at a retail store. While every eating establish ment in America has had their sugar supply cut in half the sugar they serve will be given out as before. "Mailing ration booklets home is out under penalty of a heavy fine and possible imprisonment," Moody de clared. "The books are absolutely not transferable." Only when the student goes home or desires to buy retail sugar will he have need of the book . . . while at home his parents may use his book to get sugar, but the book cannot be used at home if the student is not there to consume the sugar. If a student goes into the armed forces he will not need the ration books while in camp, but when he goes on a furlough he will be treated the same as any civilian. Therefore, if a student expects to become a soldier soon he See SUGAR RATION, page U V Busy Time Ahead New Student Into Difficult By Truman Hobbs A new Student Council begins the laborious and delicate task of admin- istrating the judicial aspect of the Honor System tonight. The new council will succeed what has beenthe busiest Student Council, from standpoint of cases tried, in the history of Carolina student govern ment. This year's record surpasses that of the 1936 council which suc cessfully fought the infamous cheat ing ring. There are two possible explanations for the increase in the council's work, The first, and most natural, is an in- crease in cheating. The second, and more problematical, is that of a stu dent body more aroused to its respon sibilities under the Honor System than in years before. From the number of cases reported by students in relation to previous years there is every reason to hope that it is the awakening of the stu- dent body to its duties under the Hon nights spent in 202 Graham Memor or System. Whether succeeding stu- ial if this works. These long sessions dent generations keep on improving in their desire to see an effective Hon- More Than 400 . Students Sign McKinnon Bill The petition signed by well over the required tenth of the student body seek ing a campus referendum on the legis lative action combining the Carolina Mag and Tar an' Feathers into one magazine will be presented to student body president Truman Hobbs today, Ben McKinnon, editor-elect of Tar an' Feathers and leader of the petition, an nounced last night. Contrary to the spreading rumor that the referendum idea had been scrapped, McKinnon stated that over 400 stu dents had signed the three sheets posted around the campus. The basis of the rumor was that the petition posted in Lenoir dining hall which had been already inscribed with over a hundred names was removed sometime yesterday. "This petition," said McKinnon last night, "has been found and is in my hands. If it had remained lost, I would not have at tempted to regain the lost names, but would probably have abandoned the referendum idea." The petition for a referendum will be given to Hobbs at a luncheon this after noon for the incoming student officers in the small dining room in Lenoir hall, McKinnon said. "As the situation stands," empha sized the energetic McKinnon last night, "I was almost on the verge of dropping the whole idea realizing that it would be practically impossible to get the necessary one-half of the stu dent body to vote on the issue. But so many students have told me that even if the petition did not go through, they really wanted to see how campus opin ion stands on this important issue, that I have determined to see it through." "I think that this referendum vote will ho f.Tifi first. tp1 tpst. fvF hnw well See REFERENDUM, page U ' Circulation Head Granted Salary By PU Board In answer to repeated charges of inefficiency, the Publications Union Board yesterday announced that the circulation managership of the student publications had been changed from a contract job to a salaried position. G. I. Kimball, Board president stated that applications for the position for the year 1942-43 must be submitted by Friday. The salary of the position will be set at a later date. The duties of circulation manager are to supervise the employment and work of the carriers, lay out the routes of the carriers, prepare mailing lists, maintain office hours each afternoon from 2 until 4 o'clock, prepare the checking: conies for the Post Office. See PU BOARD, page h Council Moves Job Tonight or System on the campus will depend entirely on how much enthusiasm this college generation can pass on to those of the future. This year's Student Council in no way feels that the Honor System is: working with complete effectiveness, but we do feel that we are out of the valley of student indifference and ignorance and starting up the hill of student responsibility and knowledge where the Honor System is concerned. The Student Council this year has tried more than 150 violations of the code and some of these were declared innocent. Of -those found guilty 16 were suspended. Of those found guilty but allowed to stay in school more than 200 hours credit have been de nied. This quarter alone, beginning March 25 and going through April 29, the council has tried 24 boys an aver age of almost one a night. Council members will not begrudge their long are evidence- that Carolina's Honor System is on the up grade.
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