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News Briefs' Allies Lose Air Control Over Tunisia Jap Supplies Low In Solomons Area LONDON, Dec. 4, (UP) The German air force has won limited control of the air over the Tunisian front, not because the Allies lack planes in Africa but because they do not have enough suitable airdromes in the forward area, air authorities said tonight. . Allies Recapture Town From Germans in Tunisia LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 5 (UP Allied forces aided by Am-i erican paratroopers serving as, infantry have captured a town in southern Tunisia inflicting 200 casualties on the enemy and driving him from that point dis patches from Allied North Afri can headquarters said today. The name of the town was not revealed. Knox Says Yanks Have Won Round 3 of Pacific Fight WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UP American forces have won round number 3 in the battle of the Solomons, Navy Secretary Frank Knox said today, adding he was "positive" the enemy on Guadalcanal is running short of supplies. U. S. Troops in Pacific On Alert Against Attack WASHINGTON, Dec, 4 (UP American troops through out the Pacific aware of the Jap anese penchant for commemorat ing historic dates in some extra ordinary manner were presumed tonight to be maintaining an ex . tra-speeV watch , against a sur prise attack as the Pearl Har bor anniversary draws near. Red Army Continues Advance On Southern, Central Fronts MOSCOW, Saturday Dec. 5 (UP) The Red Army captured a dozen villages yesterday in the Stalingrad area and advanced 200 to 300 yards inside the city while various German strong points in every sector of the cen tral and southern battlefronts were added to the Soviet con quest a communique said today. Marshal Law Invoked v In Paraguay Capital BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 4 (UP) Paraguay's capital, Asun ' cion has been under marshal law since Sunday when the govern ment ordered the arrest of sev eral Army and Navy officers and leaders of the National republi can party who had opposed the extension of President Harginio Morenigo's presidency it was re ported reliably tonight. Boston Police on Lookout For Nightclub Fire Thieves BOSTON, Dec. 4 (UP) The Suffolk county district attorney's office announced tonight that it had referred to police for inves tigation charges of "wholesale theft" from the bodies of some of the 492 dead in the Coconut Grove holocaust. Kodak Representative Arrives This Morning The Eastman Kodak represen tative will interview students to day, Saturday, and not yesterday as incorrectly stated in the Daily Tar Heel. Interested students majoring in chemistry, physics, and en gineering and those trained in accounting, statistics, business administration and mathematics will be given interviews by the Eastman today from 9 a. m. until 5 p m in Dr. W. D. Perry s office, 206 South. Whs VOLUME LI Busine. and Circulation: W41 CHAPEL HILL, N. ONC Tucker To Talk Tonight Noted Columnist To Speak at 7:45 . Ray Tucker, noted columnist, promises to give his audience "a look inside the cup," tonight at 7 :45 p. m. in Memorial hall when he speaks under the auspices of the Carolina Political Union. Arriving in Raleigh this morn ing, Tucker will lunch with a group of Raleigh newspapermen and come to Chapel Hill with John Park, editor and publisher of the Raleigh Times, who will introduce him. Preceding the speech a closed session with Tucker and CPU members will be held in the Grail room of Gra ham Memorial at 4 p- m. Follow ing the speech there will be a re ception in Graham Memorial. j Pre-FIight Invited The speech "will be open to members of the Pre-flight school," said Richard Railey, CPU chairman. "We urge them to come." Having been active in the jour nalistic field for the past 20 years, Tucker has served as pub licity man for many American figures among whom is Al Smith, who defeated Theodore Roose velt for the governorship of New York iir-1924., Tucker and the man in thebrown derby have been close friends ever since. In 1935 at the request of secretary of the treasury, Henry L. Morgenthau, he organized the promotion of the publicity campaign for the Treasury's original issue of "Baby Bonds." His son, Corporal Donn Tucker quit his third year at the Univer sity of Virginia after Pearl Har bor, and is now serving overseas as radio operator on the same type plane that Jimmy Doolittle See TUCKER, page U Coeds Asked To Cooperate In Toy Drive The Social Service committee of the YWC A is making plans to distribute toys to the poor chil dren of Orange county for Christ mas. They ask the cooperation of every coed in school to make this project a success. A member of the committee in each girls' dorm will be responsible for seeing its residents and asking them to con tribute toys. The girls may either buy in expensive dolls and make dresses for them, or purchase other toys to give to the children. The final collection in each dormitory will be next Tuesday night. The committee members who will make the collections are: Ann Foster in Archer house ; Edleweisse Brower. in Alder man; Margaret To well in Spen cer ; Frances Bedell in Kenan and Betty Walters in Mclver. Mary Rankin McKethan is chairman of the entire set up and will collect the toys from these girls next week. Frazer Meets Class Dr. K. C. Frazer will meet his political science 86 class this morning at 10 :30, room 303, Library. Fof Army Meteorolo WWW 'Wiyyl MNlMjM RAY TUCKER, Washington columnist who concludes the current CPU season with an "off-the-record" speech in Memorial hall tonight at 7 :45. War Causes Art Demand Art Department Expands Program, With war increasing rather than lessening the need for the arts, the art department an nounces that several war art courses are being offered, a war art center has been established, and exhibitions relating to war time activities are planned. The " war art courses are de signed to train men for art work in the armed forces. Artists in the army are producing teach ing manuals, posters, and other visual aids. Also they are mak ing drawings, graphs, maps and charts. Girl artists are being trained to take the places in civilian war offices vacated by men joining the services. They are needed in advertising, drafting, in display for retail stores, and as anima tors for moving pictures. The graphic design course taught by Kenneth Ness, resident-artist, will train boys to recognize Army terminology. They will prepare charts suit able for reproduction in army text-books. Later in the course, Ness says, he hopes to make an imated mechanical drawings of See WAR, page 4 ..-t, UJ4jv h-- ft k .r-' 1 fl " ,!' . " DIRECTOR JOHN Toms rehearsing one of the choral groups which will present a program of Christmas songs tomorrow afternoon at 4 .o'clock in Hill music hall. The concert will feature Bach's Magnificat sung by the entire Chapel Hill Choral club of 125 voices. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER New Armory For NROTC Nears Finish Outfit Will Be Complete Unit , Complete with classrooms and regulation rifle range, the new NROTC armory is nearing com pletion with the heating installa tion the only major part uncom pleted. The new two-story brick build ing will have over the main en trance the official seal of the Uni versity unit, designed by Rich ard Knight, a member of the first NROTC unit here. Below the seal triple doors will permit marching in and out of the build ing. Bridge Created The main drill floor, which is made of the highest grade maple measures 58 by 114 feet and will be lighted by a large number of spacious windows. On three sides will be the gun racks, while on the north side are the offices for the officers in charge of the unit. Above the offices a mezza nine will represent the bridge of a ship, with the main floor repre senting the deck. Commands will be given from the mezzanine when drills on ship handling are held. On the ground floor the en trances will be from above and from the rear, since the building is located on a slope. On the north end are two classrooms, both larger than the existing ones in Swain hall. On the south end is another classroom and an of See ARMORY, page U Wootten-Moulton Stops Photo Work Until After Xmas The Yackety-Yack announced yesterday that Wootten-Moulton has suspended all work on pic tures of freshman pledges and sophomores till after Christmas. The only pictures of the two lower classes which will be taken before the holidays are the fresh man group pictures, scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning on the steps of Manning hall. 5, 1942. Editorial: F-3141. Newt: Leaders to Discuss Reserves, War College , Dean of the War College, F. F. Bradshaw, and W. D. Per ry Director of the Bureau of Military Information have an nounced that there will be a meeting of student leaders and others interested today at 11 : 30 a. m. in Memorial hall to discuss topics relating to the reserves and the War College. The purpose of this meeting will be to have Bradshaw and Perry exchange important in formation on the latest Wash ington advises on the reserves and the plans of the War Training College with a repre sentative student group and to eliminate certain rumors which have brought confusion to many students. Bradshaw Issues Ruling Registration Given For War College In order to clarify the position of the War College during the current registration period, Dean F. F. Bradshaw last night issued the following statement : The first registration day for the University's new College for War Training is not today but January 27 when the pre-induc-tion program for students now in high school will open full blast. However, the War College will be conducting some registration to day and next week for two groups of students. The main group who should register with Mr. Guy B. Phil lips will be members of the Army Enlisted reserves who have not yet taken the Pre-induction quarter, and other students who expect to be in an armed service at the end of ninety days, stu dents in V-5 and those not de ferred or enlisted who- will have reached age 18 by February 15. Such students can hardly hope to stay much longer than the win ter quarter. While these students will re gister with Mr. Phillips of the War College their record remains in the school of their previous registration in which full credit See BRADSHAW, page U r f , z tNQIDF Telegrams from waiuLU Parker Tillett m m letters from Raborg, Popham . . . more letters from students . . . ex planation from Nathan. Page Two. F-8146. F-M47 NUMBER 64. o j 250 Enlistees To Be Trained ForAir Corps First Contingent Arrives March 1 By Bob Levin " The establishment of a B-type premeteorology school at the University with the first contin gent of 250 men due here March 1 is awaiting almost certain War department approval, announced Administrative Dean R. B. House yesterday. Guy B. Phillips, who has just returned from Chicago where he entered the University's bid for the unit under the College for War Training set-up, stated that enlistments for the six months course will begin im mediately. Students will be given first chance to fill the quota with all remaining vacan cies filled by Army Enlisted re servists, civilians and Army en listed men. This program does not apply to students enrolled in the V-l and V-7 reserve plans. ' Carolina will be one of 12 such schools in the United States and the only one in the Southeastern section. Under the nationwide plan the students while at Caro lina will be ranked as privates in the Air force with a pay of $50 a. month and a daily allowance. Following graduation they will be transferred to A-type ad vanced training schools for an eight months course and commis sioned 2nd Lieutenants. "These men will be housed in special built barracks provided See UNC, page U Political Science 'Offers Students New War Courses The political science depart ment has announced the addition of several new courses to its reg ular schedule directly adapted to the present war program or war aims. The courses released by Dr. C. B. Robson, department head, in clude : Political Science 105, Public Personnel Administration, for merly listed in the catalogue as Political Science 225. Designed primarily for students planning to enter civil service, it is now opened to juniors and seniors as well as to graduate students. M-F at 12 a. m. Ewing. Political Science 142, Interna tional Organization and Institu tions, will deal mainly with prob lems connected with the organi zation of peace in the post-war world. Taught by Frazer, it will be offered Monday through Fri day at 10 a. m. Political Science 155, The Con stitution of the United States, will consider particularly consti tutional problems arising in con nection with the nation's war ef forts. Monday through Friday at 11:00, with Jenkins instruct ing. Political Science 51x, The Gov ernment of the United States at War. Giving special attention to the problems of a government at war, this course is open to all stu dents without prerequisite. Stu dents who have completed Polit ical, Science 41 may elect this course instead of Political Science 42. Monday through Fri day at 10:00 or 12:00. u
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