x U The Oldest College Daily In The South VOLUME L Business: S887; Circulation: 9888 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1942 Editorial: 4356: Hews: 43S1; Niffht: 906 NUMBER 164 Administration Reshuffled; Bradshaw Off Active Duty; Parker, Stacy Get New Posts By Bob Hoke Administrative staff changes the raising in rank of several South building officials were an nounced yesterday by Dean of Administration Robert B. House. Released from active duty as Dean of Students, Francis F. Brad shaw has been placed in charge of arrangements for courses on war studies as a possible War Studies school, unique on the Caro- $400 Debate Scholarship Established Dean of Administration Robert House yesterday approved a Debate council proposal to set up a $400 de bate scholarship series. The George McFarland McKie schol arship, divided into four $100 gifts, will be given to the freshman, rising sophomore, rising junior and rising senior who have contributed most to debating during the year. First awards probably will be an nounced this month, according to Car rington Gretter, Debate council presi dent. Gretter reported that the funds for the annual gift will be taken from a. surplus accumulated for three years, after the discontinuance of the Ox ford debates. Faculty members of the council will nominate candidates for the scholar ship and the University's standing committee on scholarships will select the final winners. This procedure, sanctioned by the administration, will prevent a "vote-yourself-a-scholar-ship" movement within the council. Selection of winners will be made on the basis of good citizenship, good scholarship, good debating and need. The University scholarship commit tee's final decisions, Gretter said, will be based on candidates' need for the money. Under discussion in" the council for six months- the bill to begin the McKie scholarship was finally passed three weeks ago. Dean House's approval puts the fund into immediate effect. "Fifty-one cents is given by every student to the Debate council each year," Gretter stated. The McKie schol arship will now give every student an opportunity to profit by his contribu tion. "The money for the scholarship may come either from incoming money or from residual funds. At any rate, this enterprise will be of no extra cost to anyone." "The Debate council started this scholarship because of the-existing surplus, to secure better debating ma terial for Carolina and to fulfill the See SCHOLARSHIP, page U Late Flash; Chapel Hill-Airport Highway to Be Built; Contract Bids Askedy The State Highway Commis sion announced last night that a highway from Chapel Hill to the University airport will go into construction shortly. Highway Commission Chair man Prince declared that con struction bids will be received May 20 for grading and sur facing of the highway, 2.4 miles long, starting in Chapel Hill from North street. Con struction will also include a 38 foot culvert. W. Vance Baise, chief high way engineer, said that the new road will receive priorities under the Access Roads classi fication. IRC Plans Hayride Party Monday Night International Relations club mem bers will hold their second large social event of the year Monday night with a hayride picnic at Hogan's lake. Members will assemble at the Insti tute of Government building at 7:30 to prepare for the party. involving the change in title and -hna curriculum, was hinted. "As he advises us and it seems necessary, fur ther announcements will be made on war courses," House indicated. Bradshaw will retain his title as Dean of Students and as chairman of the student welfare committee. Two new offices were created : Dean of Men and Dean of Women, with the simultaneous appointment of .Roland B. Parker and Mrs. M. H. Stacy for the new positions. Parker formerly held the office of Assistant Dean of Students while Mrs. Stacy served as Adviser to Women. The new titles were created, House asserted, in view of the increasing num ber of coeds in thtf student body. Coed enrollment has tripled in the last three years and has been on a constant up grade since the first woman student was admitted in 1919. Roy P. Armstrong, former Director of Pre-College Guidance, has been ele vated to the title of Director of Ad missions, "having to do with the guid ance and admission of all new stu dents." Ben Husbands - has been made of ficial University Registrar, charged with the assessment of student creden ce ADMINISTRATION, page U Bloody Senior-Junior Softball Battles Coming By Billy Webb Unperturbed by senior class for the traditional senior week scf tball game Friday, May 15, Sam Gambill, president of the junior class, retaliated today with an immediate acceptance. Gambill, stuck out a determined and pugnacious doom for the mighty seniors: "We'll Simultaneously Breezy Breazeale, to the junior ladies for a softball game noon's athletics into a double-header. Time for the contest will be announced next week. Bloodshed will begin at 5 o'clock on coed ield No. 1, with Don Wilson and Ellis Freeman, neutral sophomores, as umpires for the men's contest. The challengers will wear white golf caps and green shirts, while the juniors wlil bear the long-visored railroad engineer-type caps and yellow shirts. "I only hope," Gambill sneered, "that the green is not a symbol of the brand of ball that the seniors will play, because at best they hardly have a 50-50 chance." A hot contest is expected when the senior coeds face the juniors. Fans, who will be seated in temporary bleach ers erected especially for the old soft- ball rivalry, are requested to keep their cat-calls, whistlers, and Bronx cheers at a minimum because of the extreme nervousness of some of the coed per formers. Coming near the end of senior week, the softball contest is only one of a myriad of entertainment features open ing with an 11 o'clock movie donated to seniors by E. Carrington Smith and closing with a formal dance played by Red Norvo and orchestra Saturday night. Air Enlistment Slated Monday Army Air Corps examining officers will enlist students Monday morning beginning at 8 o'clock in the lobby of Woollen gymnasium, Lt. Robert Lan do, advance agent of the recruiting service, stated yesterday. The entire cadet examining board will be set up to give both mental and physical examinations for enlistment as Aviation cadets. "Monday will be the only day," Lt. Lando stressed. . Town Girl Hayride Starts Out Tonight Town girls who are going on the hayride planned for today are asked to meet at the elementary school on Franklin street at 6 o'clock tonight. Girls who have not yet paid their $.25 are asked to see Ruth Patterson who will be at the "Y" at 10:30 this morning. ' Before 2,000 Students , Dr. Graham Delivers- Historic Address Hohbs, Caldwell, MaMeg Tak& Awards Colorful Pomp, Military Drill Combined in Show The war birds, squatting on Caro lina's window sill since December 7, stalked into the front door yesterday, full of pomp and circumstance, with a renovated May celebration, staged to bring under rigid focus the Univer sity's war efforts from intellectual panels on post-war planning to martial drills of the NROTC and CVTC units. The air of spriteful festivity reigned supreme yesterday afternoon, when the May Carnival took over affairs, sprout ing booths, games, contests, music, and the traditional barkers under the first blue skies in several days. The green sword of Kenan stadium overflowed with color, highlighted by the coed male vs. faculty sof tball game. Last night at 8:30 began the "Caro lina Meets the Challenge" pageant. Frank Brink, who took the part of nar rator, brought forth the comment from Naval ensign, in Chapel Hill for the first time: "I still don't believe he's not professional." The history of Carolina's march of freedom, from the founding of the Uni versity to the present day, was depict- See COLOR, page 2 furious at the challengers' attitude, jaw and spat out words that presage beat them monkeys," he said senior coed mentor, issued a challenge on the same day, turning the after Norman Cordon Doesn't Sing In the Bathtub The famous bass-baritone of the Metropolitan Opera association, Nor man Cordon, who has been honored with distinction of being the one lone male in the whole United States who doesn't sing in his bath, makes up for those long wasted hours when he ap pears at Memorial hall on Monday evening at 8:30 under the sponsorship of the Student Entertainment series. - He has attained unusual success in three roles of long tradition; Mephis- topheles in "Faust," King Henry in "Lohengrin," and Kezal, the shrewd and wily marriage broker in Smetana's Bohemian opera, "The Bartered Bride." Cordon's Program Cordon's program includes, "Gia il sole dal Gange" by Scarlatti, "May-Day Carol" an English folk song, "I'll Not Complain" by Schumann, Strauss' "Dream in the Twilight," Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre," four serious songs by Brahms and some Negro spirituals. Three arias he will sing are "Non piu andrai," from "Marriage of Figaro," "II lacerato spirito," from "Simon Boc canegro," and the "Toreador Song" from "Carmen." ' He Will be assisted by Charles Kriz, pianist, who will play two solos: "Im promptu" by Schubert, and "Jardins sous la pluie" by Debussy. Julian Coleman Made Air Cadet Julian Barrus Coleman, son of Mrs. W. B. Coleman of Kinston, recently was appointed Naval Aviation catlet and was transferred to the Naval Air sta tion at Pensacola, Fla., for flight train ing, according to an announcement by the public relations office of that sta tion. Coleman, who attended Citadel col lege at Charleston, S. C, and the Uni versity for four years, was sent to the Naval Reserve Aviation base at Oak land, Cal., early in January. There he successfully passed the elimination training course late in February. S2r ; 1' Ill 7 v . - fffsr sh ' , li h I IS- - l$tJ Id v;v RICHARD RAILEY, winner of the coveted Bingham Medal for debat ing. Railey has long been active on the Debate council and " squad, as well as a member of the Carolina Political union. Railey was one of the winners of the annual presentation of awards at the University. K enancK peecn opens tate Press Institute ."You have got to give the reader what he wants to read, and in times like these even the high school newspaper must carry features and articles on the war," Fred C. Kendrick, director of the South Carolina Scholastic Press as-, sociation, declared last night in Gerrard hall at the opening of the sixth an nual North Carolina Scholastic Press Institute. ' Speaking on "Enlivening the high school paper" before an audience of "125 young journalists from 26 high schools & throughout the state, Kendrick said "the best way to enliven the paper is to make it goodlooking. "A person will pick up and read a paper if it has an attractive appear ance even if the writing may not be so good.", j The SCSPA director was introduced by Sylvan Meyer of Atlanta, Ga., man aging editor of the Daily Tar Heel, student paper, and Ray Strowd of Chanel Hill. Institute chairman of mimeographed newspapers, presided. Throughout the afternoon budding writers arrived at the University and registered for the two-day Institute program which will continue through tomorrow night. William Turner of Greenville, chair man of the Institute, presided at the opening session late yesterday after noon when welcomes were extended by Roy Armstrong, director of Pre-College Guidance; Orville Campbell, Hick ory, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, and Roy Parker, University journalism pro fessor. Professor Walter Spearman of the Journalism department, director of the Institute, outlined the program. Last night the high school journal ists were guests of the University at the May Day exercises and Awards Night program held in Kenan stadium and later were entertained at a dance in Graham Memorial. This morning the high school papers See KENDRICK, page U Looking Ahead Vocational Questionnaire To Be Circulated Next Week Questionnaires sent out from the the future employment of seniors or Bureau of Vocational and Military in- formation next week will seek a com- prehensive survey of occupational and eographed sheet is that asking prob service plans of Carolina students. able date of call for induction in Selec- To be distributed in all physical edu- cation classes Monday and Tuesday, the questionnaires will be collected by physical education instructors Wednes- day and Thursday. Wholehearted co- operation has been asked by Dr. W. D. Perry, director of the Bureau, in the filling out and return of the sheets. Statistical information garnered f rom the returns will give an estimate of the number of students to be taken by the armed services during the sum- mer, and indirectly enable administra- tive officials' to prepare for the fall en- rollment. The questionnaires ask the age, class, and major field of the students. In ad- dition it requestions information as to . . f i I - i TRUMAN HOBBS, president of the student body, who was awarded the newly-established and highly prized John J. Parker, Jr., award for most outstanding service to student gov ernment. 'Fifth Column OnltsWayOut' "We have definite information of sabotage, espionage, and subversive ac tivity on the part of the enemy in the United States and are taking swift steps to stamp it out," E. P. Coffey, chief of the FBI's scientific crime de tection bureau in Washington, told a large audience last night at the last of a series of six lectures on crime being held in the Graham Memorial Student union under the auspices of the Insti tute of Government. Questioned as to what role the av erage citizen should play in an effort to curb subversive activity, Coffey as serted that "the average citizen can best serve his country in the fight against fifth columnists by reporting with every speed and incident of sabo tage and espionage to the nearest of fice of the FBI. The nearest office for North Carolinians, he noted, would be Charlotte. ' The speaker warned against person al investigation on the part of a private citizen. "If you see something suspic ious, do not try to investigate your self or you may upset the apple cart. Chances are Washington is already on See COFFEY, page U occupational plans. Most pertinent question of the mim- tive Service. Also asked is the ques- tion of whether the student is enlisted in any branch of service. Returns on this will give the first indication of the number of students enlisted in any of 6ie college deferment plans offered by the army and navy. The dean of students office circu- lated a housing and curriculum ques- tionnaire late in the winter quarter which gave the startling estimate of more students to be enrolled in next fall quarter than in the fall quarter of 1941. Officials intimate that the service questionnaire to be distributed next week will change estimates resulting from the last questionnaire. 1 A 9 President States UNC Meets Crisis In Stadium Show By Hayden Carruth The full text of Dr. Frank Gra- ' ham's address is published on page four. "In this hour upon which turns the hopes for freedom, justice and peace in the world, Carolina meets the challenge!" Dr. Frank Graham, who on the night of this war's most historic sea battle, flew from Washington to deliver his annual address to the students last night at the "Carolina Meets the Challenge" pageant, concluded his speech with these words. "For this freedom we gather here tonight in a critical hour. As we look across the seas we see Americans and Allied ships going down in waters far and near. As we look down the cen turies and back to this, the world's darkest hour, we see centuries' old charters of human liberty torn and trampled under the ruthless heels of dictators. As we look around the earth today we see freedom and democracy, lately the goal of modern nations, now renounced or crushed in almost half the world. As we look inside the totali tarian nations we see subjected the most precious institutions of human freedom, the church, the parliament, the corporation, the press, the radio, the university, and the labor union high ' on the list in its once vital democratic meaning to the freedom and security of the millions who now in servile sub jection dp the work of the totalitarian states." Dr. Graham spoke immediately af ter the presentation of awards," a cere mony that feted outstanding students of the year, and "impressed upon them their future duty to the world and so ciety." y. Richard Railey was awarded the Bingham Medal for debating. Robert A. Moore, Jr., won the Eben Alexan der Prize in Greek. The Woman's sen ate scholarship was presented to Flor ence E. Bostick, and the Chi Omega prize in sociology went to Katherine E. Gaither, suddenly called out of town yesterday. .. Pi Beta Phi sorority won the coveted Pan Hellenic council trophy for that sorority with the highest scholastic average throughout the year, and the Pan Hellenic council scholarship was awarded to Miriam Elizabeth Buice. Louis C. Stephens, Jr., was present ed the Delta Sigma Pi commerce fra ternity medal for the senior who made See DR. GRAHAM, page 4 Band Concert Broadcast Today On MBS Hookup University band, under the direction of Earl Slocum, will present the third -of its programs for Music depart- ment's series of broadcasts over Mu tual's nationwide hookup this after noon at 3:30. The series is the first arranged by the Music department for Mutual. To day's program is the tenth of the series of 12 music broadcasts. The band will play "The Klaxon March" by Fill more, "Rhapsody in BJue" by Gersh win with Harry Shipman playing the piano solo, "Melody a la King," a pot pourri of famous King melodies ar ranged by Harry Alf ord, "E-Fers Hol liday" by Yoder a solo for E flat clarinet accompanied by band in which Trent Busby will play the clarinet solo, and "Echos of Freedom March" by Ostling. Yackety-Yack Wants Carnival Photos Any student photographer who took good May Day Carnival pictures yes- terday is requested to turn them in immediately at the Yackety-Yack of fice to Karl Bishopric or Hugh Morton.

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