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;IBRARY jniversity of Nortn Carolina ' Chapel' Hill. C. . ; 1-28-47 EDITORIAL: Safety Program Keep Your Feet Dry Carolina Merry-Go-Round NEWS: Enrollment Soars to 6,703 Dr. Graham Back In Actios New Clubhouse for UVA THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME LV United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1946 NUMBER 26 V"1 v fyf 4 " 5 - f 3 1 V erials For Constructing New UVA House Wrestling Pavilion Behind Lenoir Now Being Rebuilt for Association Building of a new clubhouse for the UVA edged into first place in the current campus construction contest when first materials for the vets' new lodge began arriving at Emerson Field yester day afternoon. Officers of the Veterans' Association have turned over their old clubhouse, former Navy Officers' Club on Raleigh : SRoad, to the University for use as a NEWS BRIEFS Plea for Peace In All Nations Urged by Hull Birthday Statement Made from Sick Bed WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UP) From his sick bed in Bethesda Naval Hospital, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull tonight made one last plea for world peace. Although critically, and perhaps mortally ill, Hull appealed to the statesmen of the world to settle their international differences and avert the "incalculable disaster of another war." In an anniversary statement for his 75th birthday tomorrow the Tennessee statesman made a forceful appeal for preservation of the inter national peace structure he fought to build and maintain in the 12 years he was state secretary. "Must Work Together" "Not since the darkest days of the war," Hull says, "has it been so nec essary as now for the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China and France to work together." . The anniversary statement was re leased as scheduled tonight, but its author was far too ill to take part in a quiet birthday celebration plan ned in his honor. Cordell Hull suf fered a slight stroke this morning. And doctors at the naval hospital say tonight that his condition has taken a turn for the worse. His physicians refuse to speculate on Hull's chances of recovery. But indicating the grav ity of his condition, they have prom mised to issue bulletins on his condi tion every four hours. Total Power Stoppage Seen for Pittsburgh WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UP) The long-suffering people of Pitts burgh are faced with new trouble to night. The struck Duquesne Power Company 'says the electricity load is still too heavy . . . and company of ficials say it may be necessary to cut off power for a short time in some Pittsburgh districts tonight. The Hollywood strike of studio workers resulted in a pitched battle today when club-swinging officers broke up a mass demonstration led by hundreds of uniformed veterans. In Chicago, the Western Union Tele graph Company and three A. F. of L unions finally have agreed on a wage increase for telegraphers of 16 and a half cents an hour and ten cents an hour for messengers. Traffic Light Nets 100 Grand for Bandit XOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UP) A Los Angeles bandit struck it rich tonight when he picked diamond mer chant Charles Bernstein as a vic tim. The bandit slipped into Bern stein's car while the jeweler was -waiting for the light to change at a busy intersection in . downtown Los Angeles. Sticking a gun in Bern stein's ribs, the bandit grabbed a -briefcase from the car floor and walked off with $100,000 in jewels. Police sayiWas -a carefully prepared job. Arrive part of the North Carolina Highway Patrol's Safety Training School due to open October 13. Site of the new building is the wrestling pavilion in Emerson Field's southwest corner, which is being re built into a modern club for the vet erans. Among the facilities included in plans are a dance floor twice the size of the old club's, a built-in band stand, sanwich bar, and an office for UVA's headquarters. Davis is Architect With first blueprints already off the drawing board of Architect Archie Royal Davis, construction will begin as soon as materials arrive in suffi cient quantity. The building contract has been let to Muirhead Construction Co., also of Durham. "It'll be a matter of from ten days to two weeks," reported UVA Presi dent Jim Chestnut "until the new clubhouse will be completed. Until it's finished the UVA will be without a home for its social activities." The association's officers would not have consented to vacating the old structure, Chesnut indicated, except that the University explained haste was imperative to prevent delay of the state's safety training program. Building Necessary for Training "Traffic injuries and fatalities are at an alarming increase," he con tinued. "We agree to do without a clubhouse while they rush the new one because of the utmost importance of the old building to plans for the Safety Training School." Temporary headquarters for the University Veterans Association have been established on the third floor of the Y.M.C.A. building. Until the veterans' new clubhouse near Emer son Stadium is completed all UVA business will be conducted in the pro tern office. Mrs. Helen Crisp is now full-time secretary of the Association. ": ' t- II Li i 'lit ' - z tt y i Salvador Dali will be a lucky man if he survives the judging of the Lena the Hyena contest and pulls through without getting his mustache curled. One of the three-man horror judges he will serve with Frank Sinatra and Boris Karloff. Lena Contest All entries for Lena the Hyena contest must be submitted to1 the Daily Tar Heel office before noon to day. Leading campus connoisseurs and editors of this publication will judge the sketches immediately and air mail their choice to New York to be entered in the nation-wide $500 prize contest. The most horrible sketch of the t , -VU'V i - JL M '7r4 I V 4 V J ''""' - N - I I I; Pictured in one of his favorite pastimes is Dr. Frank Graham who recently returned to the campus after spending a six week rest period in Duke hospital. President Back on Job After Rest in Hospital Dr. Frank Makes First Public Appearance Since Undergoing Medical Care in Durham Dr. Frank P. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, returned to the Carolina campus Monday for the first time since entering Duke hospital six weeks ago. Although still weak from his long stay in bed, he was able to make his first public appearance yesterday at a Board of Trustees meeting in South Building. As a result of a strenuous lecture tour this past summer he was for ced to enter Duke hospital six weeks ago to undergo treatment and rest under the care of medical doctors. His condition was , described as "not ser ious" but the doctors said he was in a general fatigued condition and emphasized that he needed a complete rest. Recuperation at Nags Head Upon his release from the hospital See GRAHAM, page U. Closes Today young lady from Lower Slobbovia will be published in Sunday's edition. Numerous sketches have already been received. Baron Mintz has sub mitted a life-size color photo of Al Capp's Lena. Ed Shewmake has sub mitted four sketches along with pic tures drawn by Leroy Bannerman, Bill Fuess, Billy Sparks and many other campus cartoonists and artists. trationi- ::-:vlw-ftw..-.v Editors Plan $40,000 Yack Plans were formulated today for an estimated $40,000 Yackety Yack as editor Gene Johnstone called the first staff meeting and announced tenta tive plans for beginning photography Monday Oct. 14. There still are several staff va cancies, Johnstone said, requesting anyone interested in yearbook work to attend the first complete staff meeting between 4 and 5 o'clock to morrow afternoon in the Yack office at Graham Memorial. While previous yearbook experience is desired, the editor emphasized that it is not re quired. "If any student has a real desire to work on the Yack," he said, "we'll find a place' for him some where." Budget Double This Year Due to the extreme inflation of op erational costs and the sharp' rise in University enrollment the budget for this year's annual will almost double the cost of previous Yacks, Business Manager Jean Huske revealed. She also stated that with the proposed plan for individual pictures of each of the 7,000 students, an additional , $9,000 to supplement the Publication Board allotment may have to be raised. Person Exhibit Shows Life Photos Life goes ' to Person Hall Art al lery to exhibit a photographic collec tion of FINE ARTS UNDER FIRE. The exhibit illustrates the work of Allied Armies in preserving 'and sal vaging the plunder made by Germany throughout the rest of Europe. Hith erto unpublished photographs of some 700 caches of German Art plunder concealing a part of the 100,000 loot ed and displaced works of art are now on display. The photographs include scenes of the devastation of modern warfare to those monuments which the enemy placed in the line of . fire and of the evacuation to safety under actual com bat of Michelangelo's "Madonna and Child," and other works of similar greatness. oar Record Enrollment Reached; Lines Will Close Tomorrow General College Has 3,243 Students; 1393 Sign for Arts, Sciences School By Roy C. Moose With still another day in which students may register, the en rollment at Carolina has soared to an unpredicted, all-time high of 6708. A breakdown of statistics reveals that the General College with 3243 enrollees is the most crowded division on the campus. Swelled Di to Install New Officers Visitors Are Invited To Opening Meeting Beginning its 152nd year of activity on the Carolina campus, the Senate of the Dialetic Society will hold an inaugural session tonight at 9 o'clock in the Di Chamber on the third floor of New West building. Visitors are invited to witness the ceremony as Robert Morrison, retiring president, will administer the oath of office to President-elect Donald Shropshire. The new presiding officer will add his inaugural address to the over 300 inaugurals dating back to 1795, and Morrison is scheduled to address the Senate on matters, of current impor tance. Other New Officers Other officers to take seats will be Tom Eller, president protempore; Dan McFarland, critic; and Eddie Black, sergeant-at-arms. On the agenda for the very near future is a Di constitutional conven tion for the reconsideration of a num ber of constitutional amendments which were tentatively adopted by the Di during the spring session of this year. The Senate is expected to sit in convention for at least several days, although the time has not yet been decided. N Seniors Entering Graduate School Must Apply Now Students admitted to the Graduate School since Sept. 1 are required to take a graduate record examination to furnish supplementary evidence of their preparation for graduate study. Application should be in to the New York office by Oct. 14, officials say. The examination has sections cover ing the student's general education. In addition students select advance tests covering the field in which he plans to specialize on the graduate level. Seniors who are completing their undergraduate programs in December and expect to enter the graduate school in January should take this examination. Since many graduate schools now ask students to submit a report on the graduate record examination, it will be advisable for students who in tend to enter a graduate school else where to also take the test. The examination will be adminis tered in Chapel Hill by the Graduate School on Monday and Tuesday after noons, October 28 and 29 in the after noons beginning at 1 p. m. Each person who wishes to take the examination must make a sepa rate application and pay a fee of $5. This application and fee must be in the office of the Graduate Record Office in New York by October 14. The address is Graduate Record Of fice, 437 West 59th Street, New York, 19, New York. The Graduate School is not authorized to accept applica tions. Identification Cards Must Be Secured Today All identification photographs not already called for must be secured today on Memorial Hall stage from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 to 5:00. Students must turn in temporary identification cards to re ceive their photographs. 69708 0 3 with the heavy coed enrollment, tho Arts and Sciences rank next in nu merical order with 1393 students. The Commerce department comes in third with S03 which, although seeming small in relation to the top two di visions, is the greatest number ever to enroll in that department. Large Graduate School A 652 Graduate School enrollment gives evidence that Carolina will again confer the highest number of grad uate degrees of any university in the South in 1946. The professional school consisting of Law, Medicine, Library Science, and Public Health departments en rolled 607 students. No breakdown among the departments in the pro fessional school have been made as yet. Special students constitute the re maining ten. The previous high enrollment oc curred in 1941 when 4,108 students were registered for the fall term. This is in sharp contrast to the low of 1,681 civilians in 1944. Playmakers Meet Tonight Interested Persons Invited To Attend Tonight at 8 o'clock the Carolina Playmakers will hold their annual Orientation meeting in the Playmak ers Theatre on campus, inviting every one interested in any phase of dra matic art to come. Samuel Selden, director of the Carolina Playmakers and head of the department of dramatic art, stated, "If there is anything you want to know about the Carolina Playmakers, come and ask questions tonight. Our staff will be there to answer them." History of Playmakers Mr. Selden also urges all old and new students and townspeople inter ested in participating in Playmakers' activities this year to attend this meeting which will include a short review with slides of the history of tne Carolina Playmakers entitled "Adventures in Playmaking." "The Carolina Playmakers wish to make it clear to everyone that their organization is a community theatre, open to all students and residents of Chapel Hill for both on- and off-stage work. The Carolina Playmakers i3 not a closed group," further declared Selden. Bridge Tournaments To Resume Tomorrow; Building Overcrowded The Graham Memorial weekly bridge tournament popularized dur ing the summer will resume tomor row night at 7:30 in the Candlelight room with master points being given to winners. Director Martha Rice requests that presidents of all organizations desiring permanent reservations for Graham Memorial lounges report to her office today. Due to the acute overcrowded conditions it will be necessary, she said, to place time limits on all meet ings held in the Student Union build ing. Plans were revealed to begin a poster shop in Graham Memorial, and that anyone interested in poster mak ing should contact Miss Rice as soon as possible. After tryouts have been given several students will be select ed to operate the shop which will be available for any organization need ing posters. v
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