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inDITQIixALS: Irl Future Not So Dark EATHER: II. Fair and Warmer Temperature Yesterday Max. 86, Min. 53, Pre. 0 Politicians Can Be Sincere -THF OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME XLIX Boainess: S887; Circulation : tSSS CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941 Editorial: 43; Kews: 4S51; Nis&i: 30 NUMBER 174 Deliver Commencement Addhre i TTTf T W 1 i n i Arrangements Announced f Dotson Palmer Palmer Acts On Soph Pictures Class Must Vote To Decide Issue Taking immediate action on the sophomore Yackety Yack picture prob lem, Dotson Palmer, rising sophomore president, announced that the class will vote tomorrow to decide whether -they want individual pictures in next year's Yackety Yack. Carrying out his first campaign promise, Palmer has worked out a jplan with Charlie Tillett, newly-elect-ed editor of the yearbook, to include the pictures. The class has to vote on the question each year because the .administration will not sanction a vote to decide the issue permanently since they do not want to raise any more .fees than absolutely necessary. Voting will be held in the Y lobby from 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 5:00, and in the UDH lobby from 12:00 to 2:00 and from 5:30 to 7:00. For the past two years the sopho more classes have voted to include their pictures and Palmer and Tillett hope that this year's das of about "750 will cast the necessary number of votes for the simple majority needed to decide the measure. The cost to each member of the class will be $2 which will be collected in three installments 'Seniors Gotta Get Measured Finkel Now is the time, said Coleman Fin kel, for all seniors who want to grad uate to be measured for their caps and gowns. The last day of measur ing is today, right now, ahora mismo, toot sweet, at' the Y between 10:30 ar.d 11 o'clock this morning and 2 and 5 o'clock this afternoon. First Official Act Bill McKinnon Names Members Of Senior Class Committees Bill McKinnon, president of the rising senior class yesterday released the names of the chairman and mem bers of the committees for the class of '42. Fletcher Mann was named chair man of the executive committee which is composed of the following mem bers: Bill Croom, Tom Adams, Jim Barclay, Ridley Whitaker, Maurice Kanter, Dick Roberts, Jack Jones, Russell Edens, Bill Swink, Johnny Jordan, Bill Schwartz, Jeter Pritch ard, Charlie Tucker, Harry Martin, Jane Dickinson, Ed Hyman, Pan Pey ton, Pinky Elliot, G. I. Kimball, Mary Byers, Betty Woodhouse, Footsy Mc Combs, Jesse Estroff, Keith Edmister, Grace Brown, Lib Wilson, Jack Whar ton, Kay Gould, George Hayes, Ralph Levy, Gerald Whitley, Robert Bobbitt, Shore, Thel Holt, Erwin Bowie, Tommy Sparrow, Charlie Daniels, and trappy Gay. fiance Committee Named to head the senior dance committee, 'Sam Means will be sup ported by a committee of 17. Mem- John Simms Wins Jackson Scholarship Raleigh Senior Selected Over 24 Candidates John Meredith Simms, 18-year-old senior in the Hugh Morson high school of Raleigh, who ranks high in studies and extra-curricular activities, was announced yesterday as the winner of the second Herbert Worth Jack son scholarship. The scholarship is valued at $2,000 and covers a four-year tenure at the University. Simms will enter with next year's freshman class. He was selected from 24' candidates from all sections of the State who came to the University yesterday for personal interviews by the committee charged with the responsibility of naming the winner. A total of 125 high and prepara tory schools had nominated candi dates for the award this year, and of these 24 were asked to come to Chapel Hill for interviews. The Jackson Scholarship awarded this year was made available through the gift of endowment funds by Her bert W. Jackson, Jr., of Richmond, Va., in whose father's memory the first Jackson Scholarship was estab lished and awarded in the spring of 1938 to Ferebee Taylor of Oxford. The committee on final selection was composed of Dean Dudley D. Carroll, commerce school, chairman of the University Scholarship com mittee; Dr. Clyde Erwin, State Su perintendent, and Samuel S. Jackson and Herbert W. Jackson, Jr., of Rich mond, Va., sons of Mrs. Annie Philips Jackson of Richmond, who endowed the first Jackson scholarship in 1938 as a memorial to her husband, a Uni versity graduate of 1886 Railey, Taylor Elected To CPU Offices Richard Railey, rising junior from Murf reesboro, was elected secretary of the CPU and Ike Taylor, rising junior from Morganton, was elected treasurer yesterday afternoon. The two new officers complete the slate for next year. Ridley Whitaker was elected chairman and Louis Har ris, vice-chairman of the CPU last week. A house party at Crescent Beach, S. C, next weekend for CPU members will conclude the activities of the union for this year, Ridley Whitaker announced. bers are Jack Connelly, Jim Shaw, Pete- Owens, Henry Moll, Vincent Ary, Charlie Nice, Boston Lacky, Brax ' Ingram, Haywood Bland. Ben jie Parker, Roger Matthews, Ernest Leggett, Dave Silver, Dick Schurg, Goodman Jones, Wes Gooding, and Dean Williams was appointed chair man of the. vocational committee which is composed of Bill Langford, Charlie Pyle, Pat Witherington, Ern est Skillman, and Doug. West. Senior week will be organized and governed by co-chairmen Gladys Barnes and Mac McLendon and committeemen Bill Hyatt, Breezy Breazeale, H. B. Ives, Archie, Bur nette, Louis Schiepers, Jak Arm strong, and Fletcher Bailey. Hal Pope was named chairman of the athletic committee. Members ap pointed are: Ed Shytle, Jun Gugert, and Oskie Johnson. McKinnon named Footsy McCombs chairman, of the ring committee; Sam Sherman and Bob Lambert, co-chairman of the gift committee; and Tommy Sparrow, chairman of the senior re galia committee, n n -irrv i 1 U TAPPED into the' Golden Fleece Sunday night were the above outstand ing University students. They are, seated, Bill Cochrane, "Wimpy" Lewis, George Hayes, Ed Kantrowitz, Charlie Tillett, George Coxhead; standing, Terry Sanford, Joe Welborn, Truman Hobbs," Paul Severin, W. T. Martin, Byrd Merrill, and Ferebee Taylor. - '. Dean House Addresses Golden Fleece Neophytes Banquet Climaxes Tapping Ceremony Climaxing the impressive tapping ceremony of the Golden Fleece, Dean Robert B. House spoke at the banquet given at the Carolina Inn by active members of the order for the initiates. The men tapped in the darkened Memorial hall were: Wellington Lewis, senior of Fallston, captain of the cross country team: Bvrd Mer- dent body; Joe Welborn, senior - tf4rePOTted 3.ght, - without confirma the 1941 Yackety Yack; George Cox head, junior of St. Petersburg, Fla., chairman of the University dance committee; Bill Cochrane, law stu dent of Newton, ex-speaker of the Student legislature; Ferebee Taylor, junior of Oxford, newly-elected presi dent of Phi Beta Kappa; Paul Sev erin, senior of Tarentum, Pa.,- All American end; Truman Hobbs, junior of Selma, Ala., president of the stu dent body; Joe Welborn, senior of High Point, newly-elected delegata of the Grail;. Terry Sanford, Law stu dent dT Larinburg, speaker of the Student legislature; Charlie Tillett, junior of Charlotte, editor of the 1942 Yackety Yack; Ed Kantrowitz, senior of Asheville, co-chairman of the Hu man Relations Institute; Wm. T. Mar tin, junior of Raleigh, vice president of the student body; George Hayes, junior of Roanoke Rapids, president of Inter-dorm council. Active Members The active members of the Fleece who gave the banquet are: Bill Dees, senior of Goldsboro, Jason; Dave Mor rison, senior of Plainfield, N. J., ex president of the student body; Bill Joslin, senior of Raleigh, ex-president of the CPU; Gates Kimball, senior of Winston-Salem, ex-vice president of the student body; Bill Shuford, se nior of Asheville, ex-secretary-treasurer of the student body; and Car roll McGaughey, senior of Atlanta, Ga. . MISS MARGIE KEIGER will pre sent a piano recital in Hill hall to night at 8:30 featuring classical and semi-classical selections. aids Nifflit Program Or r z - - j k France-Spain Union Sought Nazi Push Collaboration By United Press : LONDON, May 19 Germany was tion, to be seeking the collaboration of both France and Spain - against any ultimate attempt by the US to land expeditionary forces in Dakar on the French west African coast. v A non-British diplomatic source claimed ' Hitler's personal envoy to Paris already has discussed the future of Dakar with French vice-premier, Admiral Jean Darlan. VICHY, May 19 French officials said today that "France will defend every inch of her territory," and warn ed that any US attempt to occupy Mar tinique or Dakar would be resisted by force of arms. Friends of the 142 Americans known to have been aboard th Egyptian liner Zamzam, "presumably lost by enemy action" in the South Atlantic Monday night, cling to a thin thread of hope that those lost were victims of a Ger man surface raider which might mere ly have captured the vessel. The last known German naval action in the area where the Zamzam was be lieved lost somewhere between Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil) and Capetown, South Africa was however that of a U boat which sank the British freighter Ena d'Larrinnaga on March 10 about 325 miles northeast of Recife. The Zamzam, with 323 passengers and crew aboard, was southeast of here when it See NEWS BRIEFS, page i. Levy Opens Exhibit of Modern French Art Display Shows Development By Vivian Gillespie Modern" French art was introduced to the campus yesterday by a suave and modern Freshman when George Levy, former banker and now a Uni versity "freshman," formally opened what is undoubtedly one of the su perior exhibits to show in Person hall art gallery this year. .The savoir faire and polish which characterizes friendly Monsieur Levy also marks the exhibit which he made possible. The developments in the "School of Paris" - painting," from 1840 until crushing 1940, are revealed in the wisely selected and smoothly ar ranged collection. "On the left are the dead painters, and on the right are the alive one3," Levy told the 500 people who came to the opening. The modernists and See ART EXHIBIT, page 4 Exhibit Opens In library Of Trophies Plans for a resurrected, streamlin ed, Awards Night, lead by Governor J. M. Broughton and President Frank Graham, neared completion yester day xas final arrangements were an nounced and preliminary , exhibits were opened as an overture to the traditional ceremonies Thursday night at 7:15 at Emerson field. ' While Fred Weaver, chairman of aramgements, marshaled student and faculty support, appropriated medals, trophies, and awards from former winners, and prepared the program, special judging committees handed down decisions ' which decided prize winners for the past year. Graham To Speak President Graham, back in Chapel Hill after work with the mediation board in Washington, follows Gov ernor Broughton's address with a message concerning "college students and the draft." He will also preside as the 19 major awards "covering all phases of campus activity," are presented. Leaving duties in Raleigh for the annual event, Governor Broughton will inspect Carolina's NROTC and give the keynote speech of the eve ning. Dean of administration R. B. House will introduce President Gra ham, Governor Broughton and other officials who are to make presenta tions. Emerson field will be transformed by a special seating ararngement and spotlights will pick up an exhibit of the athletic awards, won by Univers ity teams in the past. Members of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma; the Monogram club, the University band and glee club will sit with win See AWARDS NIGHT, page 4 'I Can Make It' To Be Broadcast From Studio Today "I Can Make it," a dramatization on safety, the ninth program in the "Youth Wants ta Know" series be ing presented by the Audio-Visual de partment of the North Carolina Edu cation association and the " Chapel Hill high school, will be broadcast from the campus studio in Caldwell hall over station WPTF from 1:30 to 1:45 today. The play was written by Betsy Ann Barber, Mary Elizabeth Bell, Carley Williams, Eloise Poe, Norris Ray, and Billy Home members of the eighth grade English class taught by Miss Dorothy S windiman, who is also - di recting the play with the assistance of Miss Jesse Blackwell, student teacher. - The part of Ken will be played by Howard Ray, Dick by Eric Gooch, Florence by Betsy Ann Barbee, Ann by Shrayer Lange, Nurse Newton by Marion Stoudemire, Nurse King by Betty Vashaw, Mr. Jacobs by Exum Horton, and a policeman by Dick i acimciu. V"-llsl'luc Juruuuius win 1XJ the organ for the program. f . - ........ ;r..-.y'.o-.- - X-e-v- - -W.?-'V A-.viVcV, 8 s ' 1 .'J. rWtir'"W f '-i&i Mrfuv-'".w. .j&vv, . r- j :-.:.;:;...:- : .::: V;- w-- . iT'.xwA v.y.v w w-Miiv. MODERN FRENCH ART and is sponsor. Georges Levy views "Land scape" by Vlaminck, one of the paintings on exhibit in Person Hall this week. The paintings, a collection of the best in the country, were brought here mainly through the efforts of Levy. Author-Poet To Speak Here June 10 Pulitzer Prize Winner Noted For Lincoln Biography Carl Sandburg, famed author-poet, climaxes Carolina's 147th commence ment exercises June 10 when he de livers the graduation address before 700 seniors and an estimated 4000 visitors. The three-day ceremony, beginning June 8 with the baccalaureate sermon by Canon Chancellor Theodore Otto Wedel of Washington Cathedral, Washington, D. C, will be followed by Class day and Parents' day on June 9. Lincoln Biographer . Pulitzer prize winner, editor, for eign correspondent, editorialist, lec turer, Sandburg is best known lor his recent biography of Abraham Lincoln. A native of Illinois, he attended Lorn-. bard college. Since his graduation he has received honorary degrees from Knox college and Northwestern univer sity. After serving as secretary to the mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., the author became associate editor of System magazine in Chicago and served as Stockholm correspondent for the News paper Enterprise association. In 1918 Sandburg became editorial writer for the Chicago Daily News. . Levinson Prize Winner Awarded the Levinson prize by Poetry magazine and co-winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, Sand burg was also Phi Beta Kappa poet at Harvard and lecturer in the Uni versity of Hawaii. A veteran of the Spanish American war, the author saw active service in Puerto 'Rico in 1898 as a member of the sixth division of the Illinois volun teers. Sandburg is author of "Chicago Poems," "Corn Huskers," "The Chi cago Race Riots," "Smoke and Steel," "Slabs of the Sunburnt West," "Roota baga Stories," "Rootabaga Pigeons," Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years," , "The-: American Songbag,"- "Good Morning America," "Steichen the Photographer," "Potato Face," "Early M3n," ? "The People, Yes," and co author with Paul M. Angle of "Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow." Lefler Interviewed On Radio Today Continuing its policy of giving journalism majors experience in radio work and offering the public educa tional features, the journalism depart ment has scheduled an interview this afternoon between Herman D. Law son, junior in the ' department, and Dr. Hugh T. Lefler, member of the history department. - The interview will originate in the radio studio in Caldwell hall and will be aired over WDNC in Durham from 3:15 to 3:30. Dr. Lefler, one of the principals in the current state history textbook controversy, will discuss "Facts and Fiction in North Carolina History." i
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