See what the boys
In the back room will have
And tell them
Well die for the same.
, Serving1 Civilian and Military Students at UNC
VOLUME LIISW
Business and Circulation: 8641
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1944
Editorial: F-3141. New: F-3H6, F-S147
NUMBER SW S3
C WiM Bring Latvian Ok P. Lejins Here Thursday Night
Pre-Fliglit
Parsons Headed
Popular Navy
Music Makers
New Negro Group
Reports for Duty
The Navy Band, which has been sta
tioned here with the Pre-Flight unit
since July 31, 1942, left Chapel Hill
yesterday for off shore -duty.
The Navy policy regarding bands is
to keep the whole outfit together for
the duration, so when one man goes
they all go.' With them will go their
director, James B. Parsons, who has
led the band since its organization in
April, 1942. Before coming into the
Navy, Parsons was director of instru
mental music for the Negro school sys
tem in Greensboro, N C. There he was
carrying on a successful job when the'
Navy sought him out to become director
of the first all-Negro Navy band to be
organized in this war. Parsons re
ceived his BA and BM degrees at
James Millikin University, Decatur,
111., where he later became freshman
dean and instructor of instrumental
music. His last job before going to
Greensboro was acting head of the mu
sic department for Lincoln university
in Jefferson City, Mo.
The man who is taking Parsons'
place is C. L. Frencois, who brings
with him another all-Negro band from
the mid-west. The new band has al
ready arrived and has begun its work.
They played for a dance on Saturday
night, for church Sunday and will be
playing for the regular drills and pro
grams of the Pre-Flight School.
The story behind the first all-Negro
Navy Band, which is now on its way
to their new job somewhere outside of
the United States, starts back in April,
1942, when the Navy Department sent
Chief Bandmaster C. E. Dudrow, USN
See PRE-FLIGHT, page 4
JOHNSON
Sophomore Dances
Planned Weekend
Of May 12 and 13
Freddy Johnson
Plays for Set
Carolina's first set of big spring
dances, sponsored by the original class
of '46, will be held in Woollen gym Fri
day and Saturday nights, May 12 and
13. Freddy Johnson and his orchestra
will play for the dances from 9 until
1 on Friday and from 9 until midnight
on Saturday.
Admission to members of the class
of '46 will be free, since they helped
to pay for expenses in their matricu
lation fees. For all other students the
bids will be priced at $1.25 for both
dances and 75 cents for one night. The
Friday night dance will be semi-formal
and the Saturday night dance will be
formal. '
The Friday and Saturday night
dances will climax a week of social ac
tivity for the sophomores. During
the week they have planned a picnic
and a field day.
Members of the sophomore class who
will be in the figure are Dan Davis,
president; Dick Ford, secretary-treasurer;
Ray Walters, chairman of the
dance committee; Madison Wright,
chairman of the executive committee;
Bruce Van Wagoner, chairman of the
finance committee and Tom Cranford,
chairman of sophomore week.
Also in the figure will be the mem
bers of the dance and executive corn
See SOPHOMORE, page 4
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THE BIG FOUR of the Navy Pre-Flight School band which left yesterday
are pictured above, standing left to right, Melvin L. Wall, Mus2c, co-leader of
the swing section, James B. Parsons,
William H. Cole, Mus2c, co-leader with Wall of the swing section. Seated in
the center is James D. Morgan, Jr., Mus2c, drum major and assistant to Parsons.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
Speaks Here Tuesday May 9
Flyer To Appear
At Fetzer Field
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, ace of
aviation in World War I and the man
who is often referred to as "the man
with nine lives," will speak in Fetzer
Field here at 3:45 Tuesday afternoon,
May 9, and the address will be open to
cadets, students and townspeople alike.
Making a two day whirlwind tour of
the central section of -the State, Cap
tain Rickenbacker is slated to ' speak
three times in this vicinity, in addition
to the Chapel Hilll address, but he is
coming to the State primarily to fea
ture the conference of the 189th Dis
trict Rotary at Pinehurst on May 7-8.
Rickenbacker is making the trip to
North Carolina upon the invitation of
R. W. Madry, District Governor of the
Rotary, and Playwright Paul Green,
who recently completed a biographical
movie script of the captain.
Coming from Durham
If current plans are followed, he will
arrive here from Durham about 3
o'clock on the ninth and will observe the
cadets in their classroom work and
sports program. At 3:45, he will go to
Fetzer Field for the scheduled address.
He will leave Chapel Hill at 5:30 for
Burlington, where he will speak be
fore a group arranged by the Burling
ton Chamber of Commerce, and he will
go from there to Greensboro to catch
a plane for his return trip to New York.
Captain Rickenbacker set a record
as a top fighter pilot during the first
World War that stood unchallenged
H
orace Williams' House
Footsteps In Dark
Mystify Inmates
By Georgia Helen Webb
Sitting under the Davie Poplar, did
Horace Williams, the "Gadfly of Chapel
Hill," ever dream of haunting his own
house ? The much-remembered man of
the high brow, white hair and mus
tache seems to be omnipresent these
days, at least in 611 Franklin street,
so say reliable reports.
No less awesome publications than
Louis Graves' Chapel HiH Weekly and
the ex-daily Tar Heel have dwelt at
some length on the spirit that pervades,
yea, even saturates the none-too-comforting
atmosphere of the old Horace
Williams house, located just a ghost's
glide from the women's dormitories.
Ghostly Questions
The whole ghostly subject seems to
us to hover around two elusive ques
tions, these being4. (1) What sort of a
haunt is haunting this haunted house ?
(2) What kind of a house is this par
ticular haunted (if so) house?
Professor Williams, head of the de
partment of philosophy at the Univer
sity for fifty years, has given us a few
clues concerning his own personality.
We know that, as is the ;way with most
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RICKENBACKER
for a quarter of a century. Only re
cently was it bettered by American fly
ers in the current war.
The "man with nine lives" almost
lost his last one a year and a half ago
when he, along with seven members of
a Flying Fortress crew, was lost in
the Pacific for 24 days. The nation
waited breathlessly for news of his
rescue. And when it came his anxious
wife said: "I felt all along that Eddie
was alive. He has always called him
self the 'darling of Lady Luck' and I
think he is."
Two years ago Captain Rickenbacker
See RICKENBACKER, page 4
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HERE IS THE OLD Horace Williams" house photographed from about the most wierd angle that it could be snapped.
The house is among the oldest in Chapel Hill and the earthly atmosphere that prevails is ghoulish within itself.
great figures, Mr. Williams left varied
impressions on different types of peo
ple. Mothers waked in the night, dread
ing the thought of subjecting their off
spring to such an unorthodox teacher;
students were knocked out of their
taken-for-granted mental ruts, and
master minds were astounded, agree
ably and otherwise, by the Williams
mind. An Hegelian and a Trinitarian,
the famed philosopher was born in
94 NC Alumni
Decorated
For Gallantry
Five Medals Given
To Major Wilkins
By Margaret Russell
Since Pearl Harbor, 94 alumni of the
University, have been decorated for
gallantry in action, according to J.
Maryon Saunders, Secretary of the
General Alumni Association. These 94
men have been awarded a total of 140
medals.
Included among the decorations giv
en University alumni is the Congres
sional Medal of Honor. Major Raymond
H. Wilkin, Class of 1938, of Columbia,
was awarded posthumously the nation's
highest decoration for. "conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in aerial ac
tion" against the enemy near Rabaul,
New Britain, November 2, 1943. In 22
months of overseas service as pilot,
Major Wilkins was awarded the Sil
ver Star, the Air Medal and the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross with two Oak
Leaf Clusters.
Carolina Athletes
Two former University athletes have
received the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Army's second highest med
al; Lt. Col. Ramsay D. Potts, Jr., '38,
of Memphis, Term., was given the
D.S.C. for work with a four-motored
bomber group based in England, and
Capt. George D. Watson, '39, of Col
lingswoods, N. J., received the D.S.C.
for his role in combat intelligence work
behind Japanese lines in Guadalcanal
in December, 1942. Potts played bas
ketball and tennis at the University,
while Watson was co-captain of the
1938 football eleven.
Five alumni have received the Navy
Cross, the Navy's second highest
award. Lt. William S. Woollen, '37, of
Chapel Hill.' won the Navy Cross in the
See ALUMNI, page 4
Carolina Debaters
Beat Georgia Tech
i
Saturday night Carolina defeated
Georgia Tech in the intercollegiate de
bate held in Graham Memorial lounge.
Bill Crisp and Rene Bernard repre
sented Carolina and Moses Cenker and
Dwain Bowen offered the opposition
from Tech. It had not yet been learned
how Kitty Kelly and Betsy Ross Howe
came out in Atlauta.
Tuesday night at the regular ses
sion of the Debate. Council, there will
be tryouts for an Eastern Debate
tour which is scheduled for May 5,
6, and 7. The University has sched
uled debates with University of
Richmond, Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, and George Washington Uni
versity in Washington, D. C. Any
one wishing may try out for this
trip.
The Debate Council meets in the
Grail Room of Graham Memorial ev
ery Tuesday night at 8:45.
Deemed Suitable As A Ghostly Haunt
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1858, graduated from the University,
attended the Yale and Harvard divin
ity schools, and returned to the South
he loved so deeply.
Quoting from Judge Robert Win
ston's book on Horace Williams, we
find that "Perhaps there were two
Horace Williamses, as Emerson said
of Bronson Alcott, and no one could
ever make the least guess as to which
one of the two would turn up on a
Unofficial Representative
To Discuss Russian Policy
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Bagby and West Go To Washington
And Engage Prominent Sociologist
The International Relations Club will present Dr. P. Lejins, as an unofficial
representative of the Latvian minister
on the controversial subject of Russian foreign policy, in Hill Hall at 8 o'clock
Thursday evening. '
The Latvian minister, when approached by the IRC in Washington, late last
month, felt that in his official capacity as a foreign diplomat, it would be
: ; dangerous for him to express his views
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Cast Members
Of Production
Douglas Hume
Plays Leontes
Professor Frederick H. Koch, Di
rector of The Carolina Playmakers,
has completed casting roles for
Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale,"
which will be presented in the Forest
Theatre on May 19, 20, and 21.
Leontes, the jealous King of Sicily,
will be played by Douglas Hume. Mr.
Hume is a faculty member of the Dra
matic Art Department and, with Jos
eph Salek, adapted the play for mod
ern production. He is remembered for
the versatile performance he gave as
the jester, Jack Point, in "The Yeomen
of the Guard."
Feminine Lead
Nell Hill has been assigned the role
)f Hermione, Leontes' misjudged queen.
Miss Hill played Helena in "A Mid
summer Night's Dream," the Forest
Theatre production of last year. Per
dita, the disowned daughter of Leontes,
will be portrayed . by Betty .Ma jette,
who was the leading lady in "The Boss
of Bar Z." Sherman Lazarus is the
old Bohemian shepherd, who adopts
Predita, and rears her, unaware of her
identity. Mr. Lazarus has appeared in
eight major productions in the last two
years.
Joan Kosberg has been cast as Paul
ma, Lady-in-Waiting to Hermione.
Miss Kosberg was last seen as Hermia
in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Paulina's husband, Antigonus, is Dean
Newman, who portrayed Karl in the
premiere production of "The Twilight
Zone?' Randall Brooks and Kathleen
Arnold have major roles as a Lord and
.See KOCH, page U
Di Senate Meeting
The Di Senate will meet Wednes
day evening to discuss campus polit
ical events leading up to the elections
last Tuesday. Everyone is invited to
attend and participate in the discus
sion. The Senate will convene at 9
o'clock in the Di Hall, 3rd floor of
New West Building.
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given occasion." So at least we know
we're dealing ,with a so-called "dual
personality," compounded, it seems, of
complex elements. When the famed
philosopher died he willed all his prop
erty to the University, and naturally
enough, it included the home place of
about six acres in the residential dis
trict which is now inhabited by Wesley
Bagby, Paul Rustin, and, on occasion,
Wayne Kernodle.
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to the United States, .who will speak
on the Soviet Union at a public meet- t
ing. He suggested Dr. Lejins, chair
man of the Sociology department of
the University of Maryland and closely
associated with the Latvian legation,
as being the person most able to pre
sent the Latvian diplomat's own opin
ions, but in a strictly unofficial capacity.
Recent Speech
In a recent speech, Dr. Lejin's views
on Soviet foreign policy were termed
"most unusual and highly controver
sial." Having been in Latvia at
time of the Soviet Union's annexation
of that nation, and having traveled
extensively throughout Europe, the
speaker was in a position to watch the
diplomatic situation first hand.
The last minute arrangements for
Dr. Lejin's trip to Chapel Hill were
made early this month, when Ann West,
president of the IRC, and Wes Bagby
made a trip to Washington and were
received at the Latvian legation.
The IRC will hold a special tea for
Dr. Lejins at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in
Graham Memorial, which will be open
to the public. At 6 p.m. the speaker
will be dined at the Carolina Inn by
the members of the club.
The Latvian sociologist has been at
the University of Maryland since 1941.
He was in the United States from 1934
to 1937, at which time he returned to .
Latvia to. takeover the Chair: of Crim
inal Law and Criminology at the Uni
versity of Latvia. He was in this
country on a Rockefeller fellowship and
he obtained his Ph.D. at the Univer
sity of Chicago.
Dr. Lejins revealed in a letter to
the IRC that he was born in Moscow
and spent the first eleven years of his
life In Russia with his father who was
a Latvian by birth and a professor at
the University of Moscow.
The speaker will be escorted from
Durham, where he plans to arrive by
See IRC, page U
Band Plays Outdoor
Concert Here Sunday
First in the University Band's an
nual series of Sunday afternoon out
door concerts will be played at five
o'clock Sunday, April 30, under Davie
Poplar. All university students, and
townspeople are cordially invited to
attend.
The 50-piece orchestra, composed of
both civilian and V-12 musicians, will
offer a varied program of concert,
popular and semi-popular music.
Bottles Break
Without Cause
If "Horace," as the occupants of the
house refer to him, has really returned
to, or never left, his old haunts, we
should become familiar with the land
marks of the house. Even at a casual
glance the passerby might think the
Williams house an ideal setting for a
shadowy movie mystery touched by
supernatural forces. It" is an off-white
frame house set far back off the road,
boasting a sturdy front porch that
gives the appearance of being "still
standing." m
The Haunted House
There is a tinny mail box fastened
to an old oak tree. Distant lights are
reflected through the surrounding trees
in the long dark windows of the house.
The large, glass-paneled front door
opens into a spacious, square-shaped
hall, spread around a stubborn-looking
round mahogany table. Staring you
right in your pale face, at this point,
is -an over-sized mantle with a mirror
for a backdrop. A painting of Mary
and Jesus and an apple picture adorn
the rather bare walls. . To your right
is a closet stacked high with columns
See HAUNTED, page U