North Carolina Newspapers

lie j V Fy'' Editorials Inter f rat Council University Day In Passing Weather Slow Drcp in Temperature, Possible Skewers -THE OLDEST COLLEGE .DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME L Eastern: 8887: dreolmtion: S8S CHAPEL HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1941 Editorial: US: New: : Xic&t: t$0 NUMBER 16 miyersity to Fete Mien .ere Exercises Today Commemorate 148th Anniversary o f UNC k "fc it I l i I I 39(Q)(D)0 1 Today "A" "A Rams Rated Among Best In Country Revised Backfield, Line to Start For Carolina By Harry Hollingsworth With a revised line and backfield Carolina engages in its first intersec tional competition of the season here today when Fordham university, re ported riding a one-way ticket to a bowl .bid, takes the field against the Tar Heels. Kickoff time is 2:30. Changes made in the Tar Heels' line up in practice session Thursday still hold good this starting assignment a long with Dick Sieck at the tackle po sitions and Bill Faircloth and Tank Marshall at guards. Turner. Hodges to Start I . Craven Turner j sophomore, and Ho- ward Hodges, who scored two of the Tar Heels' three touchdowns against Davidson, are set to start at the flanks. The call all week has been out for the man who was going tops at the position at that moment, irrespective of right or left. Carl Suntheimer, as usual, will be at center. The Tar Heels' backfield, already having undergone three revisions in the first three games, has been worked over all week, and judging fronvprac " tice drills Carolina is set to comd up with the best combination today. Hugh Cox, sophomore, is the man at the tail back post with Harry Dunkle, co-cap tain with Suntheimer, at blocking back, Joe Austin at wingback and Frank O'Hare, shifted from tailback two weeks ago, getting the starting nod at fullback. Johnny Pecora and Dave Barksdale, who have alternated with Cox and Dunkle all week, are sure to see plenty of action before the game is over. From all advance reports on the Fordham team, it's only expecting a light workout today against the Tar Heels who have, as yet, failed to look See FORDHAM, page 3 Grade Fields To Give Benefit In Durham Miss Gracie Fields, British actress and singer, will be presented at a ben efit performance at the Carolina The atre in Durham, October 17, by the British War Relief Society, Claude Currie, chairman, announced yester day. Since the war started, Miss Fields has been doing her one-woman show, which includes going from one song to another in rapid succession, and on occasion, kidding her own singing, turning cartwheels, whistling, mimic- ing, attempting arias from grand op era and doing a take-off of a concert artist. Maintains Orphanage She has been traveling through France- Eneland. Canada and the United States, and has refused offers for Broadway shows, ' radio commer cials and picture contracts, so that she might devote all her time to the cause. In addition to her concerts for British War Relief, she has appeared at our President's; Ball, contributes personally to many other charities, and personally maintains an orphan age in England in which there are more than 30 children. On June 22, 1941, Miss Fields re ceived a personal cable from the Brit ish Government summoning her back to England so that she might spread cheer in the factories and bombed areas of Britain. She departed on the Atlantic Clipper, July 5, after cere monies which included a world-wide broadcast over the NBC and British Broadcasting Company's network, in which Robert Sherwood, American playwright, participated. .Engag .eels - V ; I? JUDGE ROBERT W. WINSTON, who will deliver the memorial cita tion to Charles B. Aycock and Zebu Ion B. Vance this morning at the University day exercises. Cinema Group Begins Study Playmakers Sponsor Movies for Campus Beginning the series of motion pic tures sponsored each quarter by The Carolina Playmakers film study club, "The Love Parade" starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier will be presented tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in the Playmaker Theatre. Club Purpose 1 Purpose of the club is to show films which have significance in the history and development of motion pictures. A series of six films are given on Sun day afternoon. Following "The Love Parade," an example of the early use of the talking picture in presenting musical comedy, will be a program deal ing with the early Western. Included will be the first western film ever made, "The Great Train Robbery," "The Last Card," and "The Covered Wagon." The third week's showing will be James Cagney in "The Public Enemy", a ganster film of the early "talkie" era. Turning to the field of comedy, the club will present as its fourth program a group of early Mack Sennett movies. A week later the Marx Brothers in "Duck Soup" and W. C. Fields in "The Barber Shop" will be shown. Final Program The final program will consist of a full-length modern film to be selected by the membership from those films available. Club members are admitted to all meetings by showing membership cards, These cards may be obtained for $1.00 plus tax at the Playmakers business office in Swain hall, Professor Koch's office in 113 Murphey, or Mrs. Davis' office in the Playmaker Theatre. HMS Formidable Band To Give Concert British seamen from "HMS For midable," at present docked at Nor folk, will give a band concert this af ternoon at 5:30 on the steps of Gra ham Memorial, Fish Worley announc ed yesterday. This 45 minute concert by the For midable's band is part of the celebra tion of University Day. Philosophy Club Holding the first meeting of the year, the undergraduate fnnosopny club convenes in Room 211 of Graham Memorial Monday night at 8 o'clock to hear an address by J. Portnoy on "The Relation between Philosophy and Psychiatry." Graham Slated To Deliver Brief Address The University will observe its 148th University Day exercises today in commemoration of the laying of the cornerstone by General Richardson Davie on October 12, 1793 of Old East Dormitory, oldest state university building in the nation. Exercises will open with the forma tion of the academic procession at the Old Well at 10:40 o'clock. At 11 o'clock the faculty, arrayed in color f ul academic attire, will march into Memorial hall, accompanied by a pro cessional played by the University band. Rev. Charles M. Jones will give the Invocation which will be followed by the University hymn sung by the aud-i ience. Graham to Speak . President Frank P. Graham will de liver a brief address on the "Signifi-1 cance of University Day." Following the address, the Royal Marine band of the "HMS Formidable" will pre sent several selections under the di rection of Bandmaster E. Jackson. The memorial service will consist of a responsive reading led by Dean R. B. House and followed by the assem bly. One minute of silence will be ded icated to the memory of alumni who have died since last University Day. "Interger-Vitae" will, then be . sung by a male ensemble. Tablet Dedication Memorial tablets will be dedicated to Adlai Osborne, Revolutionary War leader and statesman, and to Zebulon B. Vance and Charles B. Aycock who will be honored jointly on one tab let. Dr. Archibald Henderson will speak briefly upon Adlai Osborne. Judge Robert W. Winston, fellow student and law partner of the late Charles B. Ay cock, will deliver the memorial cita tion to Aycock and Vance. Other University Day features will be a band concert at 1:30 on the steps of the library, the Carolina-Fordham football game at 2:30, and a concert by the "HMS Formidable" band at 5:30 in McCorkle Place. UNC Band to Give Pre-Game Concert The 114 piece University band will present a pre-game concert at i:dU today, in front of the Library, before going to the game. The band will play following the many requests received after the first concert, held two weeks before the North Carolina-South Caro lina game. At the game today, the band will display a. complete new battery of drums, including two white, deep-toned bass drums, four snares, and two sets of cymbals. During the past two years the band has added a new section of alto horns and several new sousa- phones. Ross Plays for Campus Maestro Returns After Series of Off -Campus Engagements By Hayden Carruth When the strains of sweet melody sweep across the weaving crowd on the floor of Woollen gym tonight at the season's second Grail dance, those Carolina dancers of "several year's vin tage will cock a pleased ear to the familiar style of Ted Ross, and their thoughts will flash reminiscingly to the days when he was a standard cam pus player. Return to Campus Tonight will be the first time in two years that Ross has appeared at a University dance. Although he has been here at Chapel Hill for several years, and last year averaged more dance engagements than any campus band except Freddie Johnson, he has Favored Fordha S- Fred Allen to UNC Student By William Webb iseueving inat tne colleges are cradling the professional stars of to morrow" Fred Allen, bucolic virtuoso of Town Hall Tonight and arch-enemy of Jack Benny, is to conduct a contest on the campus to determine Carolina's most talented student. A luxurious trip to New York with all expenses paid and appearance on Allen's renovated program, the Texaco Star Theater, will be the reward of the Carolina student who proves him self most talented to the entire stu dent body. In addition Carolina's chos en star will receive $200 for his per formance on the program to be pre sented November 12. Stairway to Stardom Virtually every major university in the nation will participate in the series Nazis Pierce ri Sursre Toward Moscow Britain Readies Invasion Force BERLIN, Oct. 10. (UP) The Ger man army, surging forward along the whole 2.Q00 mile eastern front, has knocked a ten mile wide hole in the central front through which troops and tanks are pouring towards Mos cow, German sources proclaimed to day. Reports circulated that the Russians have abandoned Cula about 110 miles south of Moscow on the railway to Crimea. It is about 100 miles north of Orel, last announced German position south of Moscow. Vast German reinforcements have been hurled into the battle for Mos cow and are slowly tightening the "rings of strangulation" about the remnants of Marshall Timoshenko's central army, west, northwest, and southwest of Moscow spokesman said. an authorized LONDON, (Saturday), Oct. 11. ( (UP) A British invasion force has been created to force landing on a hostile shore, presumably the Euro pean continent, and to fight for long periods of time, independent of any support or communications the War Office revealed today. These "amphibious shock troops" are skilled in everything from jiu jitsu to Indian fighting and are train ed to go long periods without food or water. They have been drilled in hos tile landings by night and day. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (UP) President Roosevelt said today that United States recognition of the new government in Panama was automatic because it replaced the reputedly pro Axis regime of President Arias in ac See NEWS BRIEFS, page 4 Second Grail Dance Tonight . ' consistently played off campus. Most of his engagements have led his troupe to South Carolina, Virginia and eastern North Carolina. Ross came to the University in 1936 and played guitar with Freddie John son during his first year. In the sum mer of 1938 he organized his own band to play for the summer school dances and has led his own outfit since then. He is studying for an AB, although his major is still unsettled. He plans to make music his career, and wants to reach top rank artistry through the medium of 4iis own band. "All-round" Ross maintained a consistently sweet style up to last summer, when a trend to swing was started. He does m Present on Networks which is to continue throughout the year. It is Allen's intention to pro vide students with this "stairway to stardom by presenting them under professional conditions, in a profes sional setting, and at a professional salary." Carolina's spot on the air will in clude University music, a brief state ment concerning the traditions and background of the University, a short conversation between the winner and Allen, and finally an actual perform ance by the student selected as the op timum of Carolina talent. Students' Choice The winner is to be the students' own choice as to the most talented in dividual. General auditions will be held Thursday, October 30, at a place See FRED ALLEN, page U Soviet Lines Rally Rouses Student Spirit 1,700 Students Jam Memorial Hall Finally arousing the "twelfth man' from his lethargic state of the past two weeks, the University club pep rally got under way last night with a bril liant, colorful torchlight parade through the heart of town. - Singing "ThereH be a Carolina vic tory . . . the crowd lustily made its weaving, swinging way downtown, brandishing torhes and sniffing joy fully the smell of burning hickory sharpening the first touch of Fall. I Crowd of 1,700 With a chant of "Our team is red hot beat Rams" the throng filed nois ily into Memorial hall, filling some 1,700 of its seats and jamming into the aisles and doorways. Yelling and shrieking "as they nev er have before" said Steve Peck, Uni versity club president, the students reached a height of excitement and spirit that resounded and reverberated into the night. Monogram club President Bobby Ger sten spoke and was followed by Chuck Klein, former Carolina end. "There's no reason, with the team feeling as they do and with the student body cheering as they have tonight, that we shouldn't make ham out of the ram," Klein said. Marching through town with smoke thick as fog from the torches, the hap py, . singing, carefree students , and townspeople followed Curry Jones and the band. not plan to make his group one-sided in either direction, but wants a band that will be qualified to play in any "spot." "In swing, I think the old Artie Shaw band was and still is tops," said Ross, when he was asked what band he preferred listening to for his own enjoyment. "And Hal Kemp's style of sweet music pleases me more than any other," he added. His favorite solosits are: Benny Goodman, George Auld, Charlie Barnett, Bunny Berri gan, Eddie Duchin, Teddie Wilson and Gene Itrupa. Ross musicians at present are: Tom Woodson, trombone; Jimmy Rhodes and Shorty McLeod, trumpets; Emsley See TED ROSS, page h Large-Scale Entertainment Arranged Housing Facilities Reported Scarce By Administration Three thousand of Uncle Sam's sol diers arrive from army camps and ma neuver areas today by truck, bus, thumb, train to take the leading role in Carolina's "national defense week- jend." if ageantry and parades, football and bands, hundreds of visitors, celebrities and dances that's the agenda, and late last night administration, faculty, and student leaders were rushing plans to accommodate the thousands. Housing Problem Perplexing problem is the soldier situation, for with "the man with the whiskers" sending truckloads of uni formed men, housing facilities are prac tically non-existent. Fraternity houses and dormitories counted on to bear the brunt of the khaki invasion re ported yesterday that few beds were available, as campus social events are keeping students here. Unconfirmed rumors persisted that, in case of emergency, the Tin Can will be thrown open for the use of the sol diers. Already, warned of the need, many service men have brought blan- ketsAlthough.Thomas Howard, chair man of arrangements, denied any knowledge of the use of the Tin Can, he said that the basement of Graham dormitory has been supplied with 75 beds to care for the overflow from other campus agencies. YMCA Secretary Harry F. Comer, heading the hos pitality group, predicted that thousands of soldiers will be here for the foot ball game, because of the Athletic as- See SOLDIERS, page U State Art Show Jury Assembled; Await Entries Entries for the 5th Annual exhibition of North Carolina Artists are now be ing accepted by the Art Department at Person Hall. Closing date for entries will be October 27. A jury consisting of David Cohn, cri tic, from Yanceyville, N. C, William Fields, Assistant State Director of the WPA Art Project at Raleigh, and Ken neth Ness, the resident artist at the University will judge the entries for the exhibition. All residents of North Carolina, in cluding University students, are eligi ble. The work must have been done since January, 1940 and oils, .water colors, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture .will be accepted. Four works may be submitted in any one or several media. Oils should be framed, and water, colors, graphic arts and drawings should be matted. Entry blanks can be secured at Person Hall Art Gallery and all material should be delivered on or before October 27 or mailed to, John Allcott, Director, 5th Annual Exhibition of N. C. Artists, Person Hall Art Gallery, Chapel HilL N. C. The exhibition will open Sunday, November 2, at 2 o'clock in the after noon and continue through November 23. : Coeds Prohibited Prom Frat Houses "Coeds will not be allowed to en ter fraternity houses today," John Thorp stated late last night in or der to clear up a general misunder standing existing on the campus. "The agreements between the fra ternities and the woman's associa tion will probably not be drawn np until Tuesday, and until then the coeds are barred from the Greek houses," Thorp stressed.