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VOLUME XLIX
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1941
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NUMBER 16S
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Seniors Shed Dignity Today,
Softball Game
This Afternoon
Opens Activities
By Bob Hoke
"With nothing more to do than -wait
for the results of comprehensives to
xe announced -and for Governor
Broughton to flip a sheepskin into
their beer-drenched hands, the Class
of 1941 sheds its dignity today to
jtart five days of senior -week revels.
Off to a quick start, the mighty se
nior aggregation of softballers, in
vades the coed field this afternoon at
2:30 to engage their arch-rivals, the
juniors, in the Softball clash that will
be witnessed in all its bloody glory by
i crowd predicted to be larger than
the one that daily bombards the Book
Ex soda fountain. "Workmen -were
laboring overtime last nignt prepar
ing extra bleachers.
Saddle Shoe Stomp
The inimitable "Saddle Shoe Stomp"
in true collegiate style -will be held to
night from 8:30 until 11:30 on the
tennis courts. Julian Burroughs and
his famous Student union orchestra
direct from night club room of Gra
ham Memorial will provide the music
for the carefree seniors as they at
tempt to mask their saddening mem
ories with drunken laughter,
The softball battle this afternoon,
which sees two of the finest teams in
the country meet on the green dia
mond of the intramural fields, has
"been termed by senior prexy Hardy,
'merely a warm-up meet for our game
with the Duke seniors Thursday."
-yesterday returned to the campus aft
er a brief vacation and backed up the
-'Toof" with ..which"' Mac McLendon
answered the senior challenge during
iis absence.
"This should be a very good warm
See SENIOR WEEK, page U '
Aerial Units
Accept 46
Carolina Men
Already leading other
.schools in preparation for
southern
national
defense, Carolina gained a wide mar
gin yesterday when 46 students were
tentatively accepted for positions in
the Flying Cadet and Marine corps.
Accepting a greater percentage of
.applicants from Carolina than most
Universities, the Army notified 29 of
-41 students that they would be eligi
ble to take further examinations in
the Flying Cadet corps. Marine offi
cials named two men for principals
in the candidates' class, and six others
for the platoon leaders' class. Eight
Alternates were also selected.
On the bst of qualified students
for the Flying Cadets are Jack
Mitchell, John Crawford, George
Means, Melville Mercer, Walter
Fields, Jr., James Pullen, Glenn
brooks, Jr., James Darden, Jr., Bruce
Jrice, James Hambright, Jr., Theo
dore Dichter, Pearlman Perry, Robert
Lovill, Jr., Edward Woodman. Wil
liam Somerrell, Risden Lyon, Stanley
.Siegel, Thomas Bell, Ralph Burkley,
See AIR CORPS, page 4
Deputy Fuehrer Rudolph Hess Flees Germany By Plane,
Fractures Ankle in Parachute Jump Over Scotland
Berlin Charges
Mental Derangement
By United Press
LONDON, May 13 (Tuesday)
Deputy Fuehrer Rudolph Hess, Ger
many's number three Nazi, parachuted
from a Messerschmitt 110 fighter with
unloaded guns over Scotland Saturday
flight, an official announcement said
today, and there were rumors that he
had fled Germany after a quarrel with
Adolph Hitler.
Hess floated down from his twin
engined plane onto the estate of the
Duke of Hamilton, first peer of Scot
land, fracturing his ankle in the fall,
and later was taken to a Glasgow hos
pital for treatment.
With him he carried photographs,
through which he established his iden
tity, and medicines for 'treatment of
jieart and gall bladder ailments from
'which he was said to be suffering.
Lawmakers
arris Ways and Means
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JOE WELLBORN has been elected
to head the Order of the Grail for next
year with the official title of Delegata.
Grail Elects
Joe Wellborn
Taylor, Coxhead,
Gambill Honored
The Order of the Grail announced
yesterday that Joe Wellborn of High
Point was named delegata in the hon
orary group's recent election. Other
officers announced were Ferebee Tay-
lor, scribe; George Coxhead, exchequ -
er; and Sam Gambill, assistant ex-
chequer.
Gambill and Taylor were among the
thirteen new members initiated into
the order last week. Gambill is presi
dent of the rising junior class and
Taylor, Jackson scholarship holder.
was a contender for the presidency of
the student body this spring and was
president of the University club.
Exchequer Automatically
This year's exchequer of the Grail,
Wellborn succeeds Bill Dees as dele
gata. Coxhead rises automatically to
gata. Coxhead rises automatcilly to
the position of exchequer from his post
as assistant exchequer this year.
One of the two highest undergrad
uate honors on the Carolina campus,
election to the Grail is based on lead
ership and service to the school. The
Grail is the only organization besides
the German club which is authorized
to give script dances, and proceeds
from the dances are used in sponsor
ing scholarships, and awarding out
standing athletes.
Band Rehearsal
Members of the University band
will rehearse at 6:15 today at Hill hall
before playing at the pep rally.
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"The identity of the man who landed
from a Messerschmitt in Scotland as
Rudolph Hess has now .been estab
lished beyond all possible doubt," a
Ministry of Information communique
said early today.
It was understood that Ivone Kirk
patrick, former First Secretary of the
British Embassy in Berlin,, and now
a Foreign Office official, was interview
ing Hess in Glasgow. Kirkpatrick at
tended the Godesberg and Munich con
ferences between Hitler and the late
Neville Chamberlain, former British
Prime Minister, as the tetter's inter
preter. He is intimately acquainted
with Nazi leaders, including Hess.
(In Berlin it was announced that
Hess had disappeared under mysteri
ous circumstances after leaving Augs
burg about 6 p. m. Saturday by air
plane. The announcement from Nazi
party headquarters said a "letter left
behind showed in its confusion unfor
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FEREBEE TAYLOR will carry
through his work on the fees bill as
chairman .of the legislature's regular
finance committee.
Whitaker
To Head GPU
Harris Named
Vice Chairman
Ridley Whitaker was elected to the
chairmanship of the Carolina Political
union yesterday to succeed Bill Joslin,
present chairman. Whitaker defeated
Mac McLendon and Louis Harris for
jthe post, and becomes the sixth union
chairman to serve.
Harris received the vice-chairmanship
after dropping the chairman's
post to Whitaker.
Whitaker will take over the union's
reigns officially Thursday night, before
Phil LaFollette's CPU speech in Me
morial hall at 8 o'clock. Joslin will in
troduce the new chairman and step
down from the position he has held
since last spring.
From Goldsboro, Whitaker, a rising
senior, has been in the union since last
spring. He has served on the sopho
more dance committee, the University
club, as Junior representative and
reading clerk in the Student Legisla
ture. He was also elected to the senior
honor council in last month's campus
elections.
Draft-Age Students
Meet This Morning
A meeting of all students subject to
the draft will be held this morning
at chapel period in Memorial hall.
Dean F. F. Bradshaw will explain
the government's latest policy toward
draft-age college students, and the ef
fects it will have on the . continuance
of their education.
tunate traces of mental derangement
which permit fears that party member
Hess is a victim of mental illusions.")
WASHINGTON, May 12 Diplo
matic circles tonight believed the
flight of Rulodph Hess, number three
Nazi, from Germany to Scotland may
mean a cleavage within the National
Socialist Party. All developments
were scanned closely for indication of
German-internal strife.
WASHINGTON, May 12 President
Roosevelt will make a fire-side chat to
the nation on May 27, and experts to
night believed it would be a momen
tous statement of national policy.
The address will be a substitute for
the one the President was to have made
on Wednesday night before the Pan
American union. It will be broadcast
by the three major networks from 9:30
p.in. to 10:00 pan., and translated for
See NEWS BRIEFS, page i.
Begin AmrmM
Chairman
Webster Is Rules
Chairman; Harward
Keeps Elections Job
Ferebee Taylor, head of the tern
porary committee that has worked
out details of the Fees bill, was elect
ed chairman of the finance committee
last night at the Student legislature's
meeting for the election of new offi
cers. Louis Harris was chosen chairman
of ways and means, Bucky Harward
was reelected head of the elections
committee, and Terrell Webster won
the chairmanship of the rules com
mittee. Taylor, Harris and Harward
were elected unopposed, and Webster
won over Lem Gibbons by 19-10.
Fee Administration
Faced with the task of administer
ing the Fees bill if it is approved by
the administration and Board of
Trustees, Taylor announced after his
election that the bill is now ready to
be brought to the floor, and Speaker
Terry Sanf ord, in establishing Thurs
day night as the next meeting, said
that the bill will be brought up at
that time. Taylor's committee has
held hearings continually in the past
two weeks to fill in the bill.
Although he had planned " to an
nounce members of these four stand
ing committees, Speaker Sanford said
that because he wishes to examine the
legislature roll again he will be unable
to name committeemen until Thurs
day. -;
Garland Speaker Pro-Tern
Jick Garland, chairman of the fi
nance committee this year, was elect
ed to the new office of Speaker Pro
tein; W. J. Smith, one of six holdover
members to next year's legislature,
was chosen Reading Clerk, replacing
Ridley Whitaker, who withdrew from
the race -because of his new duties as
CPU head; and Ike Taylor, new mem
ber, was elected Sergeant-at-arms.
All were elected without opposition.
Of the new committee chairmen,
only Harris is a newcomer to the leg
islature. N.C. Symphony Delights
Audience As Conductor
Presents Violin Solo
By Vivian Gillespie
No longer need Southerners trek to
the North to hear fine symphony mu
sic, for from the South from North
Carolina has come an orchestra which
competently and sympathetically in
terprets this music. Again last night,
for the ninth year, the North Carolina
symphony orchestra .proved its amaz
ing capabilities before the fortunate
few who ventured to Memorial hall.
Integrated by tall Conductor Benja
min Swalin, the orchestra, composed
of musicians from all over the state,
performed the movements of last
night's definitely grown-up program
with polish and finesse.
Stepping down from the podium,
Swalin joined Julia Mueller to solo, ac
companied by a selected part of the
orchestra, in . Mozart's "Symphome
Concertante" for Violin, Viola and Or
chestra." Full-toned and faintly mel
ancholy was Miss Mueller's viola, which
alternated and then combined with
Swalin's violin to carry the high spots
of the music. -
Calm as overtures go, Weber's "Ov
erture to Euryanthe was played
smoothly, particularly by. the strings.
Noticeable throughout the perform
ance was the superior finish of the
stringed instruments over the winds,
which showed roughness in the cres
cendo passages.
Marred only by one over-eager vio-
lin at the beginning of the third move- that Bill Vanden Dries and his Wake
ment, "Symphony No. 104 in D majorn Forest band would be unable to attend.
by Haydn was played with beautiful
precision by the symphony.
Changing in the nick of time to a
more emotionally satisfying mood, the
orchestra boomed out with the sombre,
mighty chords of Wagner's "Sieg
f ried's Rhine Journey," and the gay,
lilting "Rhapsody Espana" by Cha
brier. "
Peck Expects Crowd as Conference
Title Depends on Win over Devils
With the southern conference title hanging in the balance of
tomorrow's game, the baseball squad receives its first stimulant of
organized pep tonight in the first rally sponsored by the new Uni
versity club, and featuring the first appearance of new cheerleader
Curry Jones.
Curry Jones
WA Committee
Meets Tonight
To Begin Work
On Reorganization
The coed reorganization committee
will meet tonight at 6:45 in the Wo
man's association room of Graham
Memorial, Mary Caldwell, president
of the WA, announced yesterday.
Members of the committee, appoint
ed last week by Miss Caldwell, are:
Janp TVT7TVTssfT .Toon TTnhn "MtitipI
MaUison, Diddy Kelly, Sis Clinard,
Elsie Lyon, Randy Mebane, Marion
Lippmcott, Jane Dickinson, Lucy
Darvin, Jane Knight, Sara Umstead,
Ann Peyton, and Frances Bunke -
meyer.
The committee was appointed to
draw pp final plans for a complete re
organization of coed student govern
ment,-first advocated by Miss Cald
well and Miss McMaster at the New
Officers' Training conference.
The present plans, as approved by
a meeting last week of all coeds in
terested in student government, in
clude an honor council, interdormi
tory council, and executive board.
Dormitory councils would also be set
up in each building to handle prob
lems arising in each dorm.
A box has been placed outside tne
WA room in Graham Memorial for ah
suggestions in regard to the reorgani
zation plans, Miss Caldwell stated
The complete plan will be presented tu
the coeds for final criticisms and sug
gestions before a final vote is taken,
probably next week.
In Hep Contest
Duke 's Vince Courtney Tops
'Amazing' Swing Talent
By Billy Webb
"The talent exhibited here this aft
ernoon is really amazing," John Ham
mond, Columbia Records executive,
said to be the best swing music critic in
the country, commented Sunday after
a three-hour battle of sweet and swing
by Vince Courtney of Duke against
Carolina's Johnny Satterfield and
Freddie Johnson. "But then, North
Carolina has an excellent reputation
for producing swing musicians," Ham
mond continued.
Competition for the crown was nar
rowed when, immediately preceding
the program, a telegram was received
Willie Hargraves' ad lib solos were
largely responsible for Hammond's
enthusiasm,' and Hargraves was ad
judged "by far the best soloist in the
contest."
Particularly impressed by Satter
field's band, which is built around
Hargraves' hot tenor, Hammond
praised the sincerity and feeling with
Grady Pritchard, line stalwart of
Carolina's 1919-1924 elevens, will
highlight the rally. Pritchard spoke
before a football rally three years ago,
and has been strongly behind all
Carolina squads since his graduation.
Although conference recognition was
not organized in those post-war days,
Pritchard received nationwide notice
for his effective use of his 190 pounds
The Cheerio club will meet at Emer
son stadium fifteen minutes before the
pep rally tonight, President Art Jan
sen said yesterday.
of guard play. Also outstanding citi
zen of the local community,' he has had
a street in Chapel Hill named after
him.
Coach Bunn Hearn will drawl his
message to the student body and the
team from the platform, aided and
abetted by two of his proteges, Ben
Browning and Charlie Rich, cocap-1
tains most successful diamond
c,?w Caro.-a has sent onto the field
in many a day. '
- Unable to whip a brand new squad
into shape in the past short week,
Jones will be assisted by carryovers
from last season's group using Jeannie
Connell, Jane Rumsey, Johnny Feuch
tenberger, and Frank Alspaugh.
Lethargy that accompanies the Hill
spring will vanish under the stirring
music of the University band, and to
v,0i uQr nnscfpo W -mn tn tho
See PEP RALLY, page 4
Di, Phi Debate
J Tdlight Oil ROTC
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i The Di-Phi debate on the question,
"Resolved: that a compulsory ROTC
unit should be established at the Uni-
versity" will be held in the Phi hall
tonight at 8:30, it was announced!
yesterday.
The Di, upholding the affirmative,
will be represented by Louis Poisson,
junior of Wilmington, and Wade
Weatherford, freshman, of Florence,
S. C. The Phi debators have not yet
been announced. After the no-decision
debate, there will be an informal dis
cussion of the question for debate.
Both societies will hold regular
meetings before the debate. The Phi
meeting starts at 7:30 and the , Di
meeting starts at 7:15. Though the
Phi will not have a regular discussion
meeting, the Di will discuss the ques
tion, "Resolved: that the United
States should adopt a more severe
policy with Japan, even to the extent
of war."
f which the boys played. "I like their
style and what they are trying to do,"
the Goodman Basie enthusiast said,
"because, I guess, blues are closer to
my heart. But their execution was
poor."
Hammond, however, chose Vincent
Courtney's Duke Ambassadors as the
"most polished band commercially"
and winner of the contest. Perform
ing after only one rehearsal the aft
ernoon preceding, the battle, Court
ney's band exhibited exceptional
smoothness and originality.. Versatile
and talented, the band ran the gamut
of popular musical selections, play
ing everything from Provost's "Inter
mezzo" to a rocking rendition of "Jiv
in' with Jarvis."
Courtney's present band is the re
sult of a merger of two Duke organi
zations. Enlarged after the combina
tion, the band features the songs of
Courtney, the tenor sax of Cecil Mc
Clese, and the drums of Sam Fletcher.
Climax of the Sunday swing session
See SWING CONTEST, page 2