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r n IK BEAT DUKE BEAT DUKE BEAT DUKE BEAT DUKE BEAT DUKE BEAT DUKE NUMBER 45 VOLUME LI Editorial: F-3141. News: F-3146. F-8147 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942 Business and Circulation: 8641 TTlY l o lb if Kmlj . (OnigJk id I if7 557 fl A& Si ft ' 4 hi 4 J. -5 I s,0 St M "THE SONGBIRD of the South," Kate Smith returns to the Carolina cam pus tonight for a festive weekend. Her last visit here in 1936, was planned and conducted by Gordon Pete Ivey, former director of the Student Union at that time. She is pictured above with Ivey during the half-time of the 1936 Duke-Carolina game. Nationwide Broadcast Tonight Of Midnight Kate Smith Show Kate Smith, accompanied by her radio cast, will attend the Carolina-Duke game tomorrow afternoon, and broadcast her regular coast-to-coast program from the stage of Memorial hall at midnight tonight before a student audience. - Brought to Chapel Hill by the Navy Pre-flight school, Miss Smith and Ted Collins will stage the first broadcast performance of the evening from 8:00 until 9:00 o'clock before 1875 cadets. Students will be admitted to the second broadcast, a regular rebroad cast for west coast listeners, which will begin at midnight and last until 1:00 a. m. Students wishing to attend the broadcast may get tickets which will be given out at the YMCA at 2:30 this afternoon. Only one ticket will be given each student in line. The audience must be seated by 11:45 p. m. as the doors to the auditorium are locked ten minutes before the show goes on the air. George Murphy and Jane Wyatt, . movie and radio stars, will appear as guest performers on the program. "The Songbird of the South" will witness her second Carolina-Duke game with Collins, Murphy, and Miss Wyatt in Kenan stadium tomorrow afternoon. She saw Carolina play Duke for the first time on November ! 14, 1936. A reception was given her in Graham Memorial after the game and winners of a student amateur contest performed for her. Campus hopefuls and forecasters are confident that Miss Smith will see the situation reversed from that of 1936 when she saw Duke beat Carolina 27-7. No announcement of her program has been released as yet but it is generally expected that she will sing "God Bless America" and the orches tra will play a Carolina victory song. At the '36 game, Miss Smith was a sponsor of the home team and was escorted by Ivey.Her entire cast were guests. Toms, Sunday Began Musical By Rosalie Branch John E. Toms, guest soloist at the second of a series of concerts in Hill hall Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1911. He made his first public appearance at the age of four and from that time on he sang as an ameteur with various organizations including the city band, at county fairs and Sunday afternoon band concerts. Upon graduation from the Saginaw high school he attended Oberlin Con servatory of Music, receiving his A.' B. degree in 1932. In the fall of the same year he began teaching at the William Penn college and Central college in Iowa. In 1935 he accepted a position as head of the voice department at the Mary Hardin-Baylor college in Texas. While teaching in Iowa and Texas he sang at numerous oratorial engage ments and recitals. r During the summers of 1934, '35, and '36 Toms worked on his music mas ters degree at the University of Mich igan. Granted a degree in 1936, he 1 J 4- -.5- n 2 .'of' wjoc " !j j '.'.'.W.V.WA'.V,1. .V.W.Vl . . i , . . . . v.-.-.sv..-.::,.-.w.-.-.-.-l V UNC Singers Vie for Cups Valkyrites Offer Songsters Prizes The Valkyrites are sponsoring two singing contests as special features of the Sunday Night Sessions on Novem ber 22 and November 29 and will award silver cups to the winners of the con tests between sororities and fraterni ties and woman's dormitories againSt men's dorms and town houses. The contest is to be an annual event, and winner of the cup three consecu tive times will possess it permanently. Houses wishing to compete are to be registered with the following: Fra ternity houses with Ben Snyder at Phi Gamma Delta; sororities with Ma ry Lib Massengill, Chi Omega; wo- man s dorms witn juiia jiieoaue at Mclver; Moyer Hendrix, Old East, is in charge of applications from men's dorms, and Barry Colby, at Mrs. Fun derburk's, Battle Lane, will receive those from town houses. Applications must be in by Tuesday, November 17. Preliminaries for fraternities and sororities will be November 18. Two winners will be chosen to compete in the fraternity-sorority finals Novem ber 22. Eliminations for men and wo man's dorms will be November 25, with the finals on the following Sunday. Winner in each of the two divisions will receive a cup. Each participating group is to be no smaller than twenty and no larger See CONTEST, page U Guest Soloist, Career Early came to the University of North Caro lina as assistant professor in the Mus ic department that fall. He taught here from 1936 to 1940, when he was granted a leave to sing with the Philadelphia opera company. After one successful year the leave was extended to a second year. He sang such roles , as Lenski in Eugene One gin, from which he will sing an aria in his recital Sunday afternoon; Vas hek, in "The Bartered Bride"; andLui gi in Puccini's "El Tabarro". Last year in Philadelphia he . sang with several professional "Gilbert and Sullivan" opera companies. A position as soloist at a number of Philadelphia churches and oratorial engagements with, the Mendelssohn club and the Philadelphia Bach festi val choir rounded out two busy years as a professional singer. Back at Carolina, Toms is director of the Chapel Hill choral club, the men's and women's glee clubs, the Na vy Pre-flight glee club and the Presby terian church choir, as well as teacher of voice. .-.v.v.v v.-.-.-.v-w.v.i i 1 ! T, Morgan Resigns From IRG Close Race Seen For Replacement Grady Morgan yesterday announced his resignation from presidency of the International Relations club. A speed-up NROTC schedule and self-help work were explained as rea- sons for Morgan's retirement from the Iship. The resignation will take effect after Monday night's club meeting. Election IRC members will abandon previous program plans to hold elections for a new president. Elton Edwards, Paul Kattenburg, Wesley Bagby, Dick Jones and Paul Rubenstein appeared yesterday to be most likely candidates for the post. , Other prominent members already have indicated their inability to run for office because of heavy schedules and impending induction into the armed forces. Bagby is president of the Dialectic senate, Edwards is speak er of the Philanthropic assembly, Kat tenburg heads the IRC institute pro gram committee, Jones is the club's acting treasurer and Rebenstein is IRC campus forum chairman. 'Navy First' "The club will have no trouble, con tinuing its successful activity," Mor gan said yesterday. "Members will con tinue to run the IRC, no matter who is president. I am losing the finest af filiation I've ever had on this campus with this resignation, but the Navy must come first." First public announcement of the identity of the new IRC president will come Tuesday night when the new executive will officiate at the address of Poland's Ambassador Jan Ciecha nowski. Woman's Senate Allots Funds To Chest Drive Woman's senate voted Wednesday to allot $50 to the Community Chest drive, it was announced by speaker Ditzi Buice. The donation was made possible after this year's budget un derwent a cut. December 1 was set as the date for election of two junior representatives to the coed honor council and two to the senate. Nominations will be held in open forum from the floor of the coed senate November 25. A WGA rep resentative to the student legislature will also be nominated at this time. A committee, headed by Marsha Hood, was delegated to prepare a booklet on woman's student govern ment for the benefit of those wishing to take an examination on student gov ernment which will be required of all coeds desiring to run for office. The booklet will be ready for distribution November 8. Date for the examina tion has not been set yet. Others on the committee include Betty Etz, Martha Guy, Julia Mebane, and Ditzi Buice. Investigation for clarification pur poses of the campus rule regarding woman student visitors in men's resi dences will be conducted by a commit tee headed by Julia Mebane. Also di recting the investigation will be Marsha Hood, Frances Allison, Mary Jane McCaskill, Grace Hix, and Anne Carpenter. , With this meeting a new procedure designed to facilitate action on bills Was inaugurated. Proposed bills will be discussed by a cabinet composed of all committee chairmen before presen tation on the senate floor. Miss Buice hopes in this way to avoid useless dis cussion and red tape. Late Permission Allowed Tonight A last minute announcement by Mrs. Stacy has saved the weekend for Carolina gentlemen and their dates. After some thought, the gen ial housemother has decided that after tonight's dance, coeds may stay out to 2 o'clock and that after tomorrow night's dance final hour is 1 o'clock. Carolina Magazine Distributed Today ) The November issue of the Caro l lina Magazine, resplendent in a full ; color cover drawing of a football game done especially for the mag by Sam Whitehall, will be delivered' this afternoon. . T J T7!X X " 4. T 99 i icimea an riiieriaiiimeiii. issue, the new magazine has a ponder ance of humor, but is finely balanc ed with several short stories and nonfiction feature selections. Most copies of the mag should be deliver ed before the freshman game this I afternoon, but the entire issue will be completely distributed by noon ' tomorrow. . "If you fail to receive your mag azine," said editor Sylvan Meyer," j please come by the mag office Mon , day afternoon after 4 o'clock and we will be glad to give it to you. "Please do not take more than one magazine off the stack left at your house. We have extra copies available at our office for you to mail out." Zaytoun Gives PU Board Resignation School Work I Forces Move I Henry Zaytoun, circulation mana ger of the Daily Tar Heel and the Carolina Magazine, is the third pub lications man to hand in his resigna tion to the Publications Union Board, stating that his plans to enter dental school force him "to devote more time to school work." : The circulation manager gave his resignation to the '"PU "Board Tuesday and it becomes effective a week from Monday. The other two that have turned in their resignations to the Board this year are Hugh Morton, editor, and Bohnson Gray, business manager of the Yackety-Yack. Morton is in an army camp in Mississippi, where he is continuing his photographic work. Gray resigned because he is enrolled in the pre-induction course and must devote more time to his work. Ben Snyder, president of the Board, requested those who are interested in the job to file their applications with him at the Phi Gam house. They must be in before the next meeting on Mon day. Zaytoun will continue in his capacity as vice-president of the junior class, to which he was appointed last week to replace Lyman Higdon. The New bernian served on the freshman and sophomore executive committees and chairman of the junior class executive committee. Following in his brother's footsteps, Zaytoun served as acting circulation manager during part of last year and in the spring mas made circulation manager by the PU Board for this year. Following his resignation Zaytoun said, "It has been a real pleasure to work with each member of the staff of the Tar Heel and the Carolina Maga zine and I regret having to leave my job, however, due to the present cir cumstances it is best that a new suc cessor be selected now." Ross Concert Carolina Audience Hears Ross Band Again Carolina's young man with the band, Ted Ross, has returned to the scene of his first triumphs. It was here on this campus, four and a. half years ago that Ted made his debut as a band leader. ' Back in those days, the University put on regular weekly dances for sum mer school. All of the regular campus bands, Freddy Johnson, Jimmy Fuller, and Jere King, had jobs at beaches for the entire summer, so the school let it be known that they were looking for a band for the summer. Ted, who had been playing guitar with Freddy Johnson, got the contract. He then proceeded to organize a band. Ted's idea from the start has been not to play swing music and swing music alone. His plan has been to play "Music Sweet With A Dash of Heat." He believes that this type is more f ,, X f f" v-- ' I I " " " ''''' v '''' $8&?S ' ' ' Ilftr . .fcigi mf0 Wiiliifrl f ' I" J 1 I 'Stp ' jv I HEAD cheerleader Frank Alspaugh, above, will lead the Fetzer field merrymaking tonight and Denny Hammond, president of the Univer sity club, below, will be in charge of the monster parade. Duke to Hold Our 'Session' All-Blue Cast To Be Featured Climax to the colorful weekend will be the appearance of an all-Duke cast on the seventh Sunday Night Session to be held in Memorial hall at 8:30. Plans for the program are being com pleted by chairman Joe Harper. The hour's fun session will be head ed by Johnny Alexander who will sing several numbers. Alexander has been a steady feature of the Duke radio programs and is rated as one of the best performers on the Blue Devil campus. Carolina mirthquakers will be treat ed to a laugh session when Hill Moss and Harvey Bullock run through their comedy routine which has continually "brought down the house" at Duke. With the comedy team will be a quar tet who will sing in close harmony. Continuing the idea of a modernized community sing, Harper and his aides have picked out several old popular songs that are still being hummed. Among these are "Blue Skies", "Star dust", and "Sweet Sue". The only Carolina student to appear on the program will be Freddie Cali gan with his "flying feet", hit of pre vious programs. Sets Off danceable and more appealing to the public. The impressive list of night spots, supper clubs, college and prep school proms that he has played suc cessfully for should substantiate his belief. Summers with the band were spent at the many beaches and lake resorts that dot the southeastern Atlantic seaboard. White Lake, Atlantic Beach, Ocean View, Isle of Palms, and Ocean City, Md. are among the many spots which Ted has visited over the past four summers. At the conclusion of the past sum mer, Ted decided that another year at the Hill would not profit the band, so he hit the road. His opening engage ment was at the Starlight Roof at the Hotel Monticello in Norfolk. He was held over for several weeks there See ROSS, page U w Pikas Sponsor 'Beat Duke' Poster Feud Devil to Burn At Giant Bonfire By Larry Dale The best "Beat Duke" poster carried in the giant torchlight and shirttail parade and displayed at the year's biggest pep rally tonight on Fetzer field will receive the annual Pi Kappa Alpha award. All fraternities, dormitories, and sororities are eligible to compete for the cup with posters or banners which will be carried at the head of the parade and displayed on the field dur ing the rally. Entries will be judged at the pep rally by a faculty member and two Pikas. The award was won last year by Grimes dormitory. Over 200 torches will be given out by University club members to stu dents gathering at the Old Well at 6:45 p. m. to march with the band to Fetzer field where the rally will be held. Cheerleader Frank Alspaugh will give the signal to light the torches as the parade gets under way. Denny Hammond, University club president, said that shirttails worn on the out side will be featured as well as torches. Changing the usual course followed en route to pep rallies, the parade will march past fraternity court and through town where it will turn at BVP and head for South building, proceed past the library and Woollen gym to Fetzer field, The program will feature speeches by Comptroller W. D. Carmichael, Tom Young, who will be introduced by Coach Tatum, co-captains Joe Aus tin and Tank Marshall, and Morris Mason, Tar Heel water boy and good luck charm who has appeared at Duke pep rallies for a number of years. Four head cheerleaders for Caro lina will appear on the program dur ing the evening. Frank Alspaugh, present cheerleader, has arranged to bring Curry Jones, Charlie Nelson, and Vance Hobbs to Fetzer field and have each lead their favorite cheer during the rally. Immediately after the rally the crowd will follow cheerleaders to an undisclosed spot where a funeral pyre See RALLY, page U Pre-Flighters To Hold Drill At Duke Game A picked drill team from the Pre flight school, with 'the bands from Duke and Carolina, will perform be fore the expected crowd of more than 30,000 at tomorrow's game in Kenan stadium. The pre-flight squad, under the di rection of Lt. Robert D. Robinson, will go through the intricate preci sion marching maneuvers and forma tions that they put on so successfully at last week's Pre-flight-George Wash ington game. Army, Navy and Marine corps will be well-represented by such notables as Brigadier-General J. T. Kennedy, commandant of Fort Bragg; the Pre flight officers; and Marine Brigadier General A. H. Turnage. eekend Tore Place: Hill Hall; New Time: 3:30 Carolina's 1942 Fall Germans, the dances of "firsts," gets under way to day at 3:30 p. m. when Ted Ross and his. orchestra, the first "non-name" band to ever appear for the fall set, play for a concert in Hill hall. The concert has been moved to Hill hall in place of Memorial hall with the time changed from 4 p. m. to 3 : 30 p. m. "by necessity." Admission is twenty five cents. Members of the German club have one admission on their bids. Bill Vail, chairman of the German club, cautioned everyone who plans to attend the concert that the No Smok ing rule in Hill hall will be strictly enforced, and asked cooperation in this matter. The dance, which begins at 8 p. m. in Woollen gym, is another first; it is See CAROLINA, page U