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NUMBER 143
Dancers en Route
Chinese Regain Burma Town
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Bradshaw
Calls Campus
To War Tasks
In direct contrast to Chapel Hill's
apathetical acceptance of the war,
Dean of Students F. F. Bradshaw re
ports that the US capitol city is under
"tremendous pressure of work and de
termination in the face of an immense
threat."
Dean Bradshaw just recently re
turned from a five-day stay in Wash
ington, D. C, meeting with war offi
cials on opportunities and prospects
for students and the conversion of ed
ucational institutions onto a wartime
footing.
"If we are not 'all-out' in 1942, we
may be 'all-in and the war 'all-over
before 1943," he stated in summariz
ing his report. There is an urgent
need for fuller committment on the
part of all citizens of the present tasks.
This can be accomplished through bet
ter workmanship, greater personal fit
ness and morale, the abolition of all
waste, the promotion of salvage and
raising and conserving food, and im
mediate steps to strengthen community
cooperation and power. The Dean of
Students stated that this could be ac
complished through better organiza
tion, nutrition, administration, and ed
ucation.
While in the United Nations GHQ,
Dean Bradshaw conferred with offi
cials of the American Council on Edu
cation regarding selective service reg
ulations concerning college faculties
and students. Opportunities for col
lege students were discussed with off i
cials of the Civil Service commission
and at the War Department the Dean
See BRADSHAW, page 4
Exchange Student
To Appear Today
On Radio Program
Antoinette Portes of Montivideo,
Uruguay an exchange student at the
Woman's College in Greensboro will
make a special trip to the campus today
to appear on the Our American Neigh
bors radio interview program with Dr.
J. C. Lyons, to be broadcast from the
campus studios over WRAL, WAIR,
and WBBB at 2:45.
Miss Portes holds a Bachelor's degree
from the University of Montevideo and i
the University of Poitiers in France.
She came to the United -States for the
first time last fall on an exchange scol
arship and enrolled for the scholastic
year at WC. She speaks French and
English fluently as well as Spanish,
her native tongue. At Woman's Col
lege she is doing special work in In
ternational Relations and General Eco
nomics. Reviving the special series of High
School programs, begun last year,
the campus studio will open this year's
series under the direction of Mrs. John
J. Wolfe this afternoon at 2:15 over
WBBB. 1
Professor Whitfield Cobb will talk
on "Religious Freedom" on the Foun
dations of Freedom program to be
broadcast over WRAL, WAIR, and
WBBB from 2:30 to 2:45.
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Miss Elizabeth Waters
Group Appears Here Tonight
Dancers en Route, nationally known dance troupe headquartered at
Chapel Hill, will highlight the Student Entertainment committee's
spring programs with a presentation tonight in Memorial hall at 8:30.
Elizabeth Waters, leader and director, has long been known in Chap
el Hill art circles for progressive dance methods and ahead-of-the-times
ideas. Based on the theory that the dance should portray the
comedy as well as the serious aspects of life, the Dances en Route
programs present a mixed assortment of dances, spiced with the
comedy of everyday situations and weighted down with the thoughts
of a world at work.
Linda Locke and Bill Myers are the sother two members of the
troupe that will dance tonight. Mary Campbell is pianist.
Miss Waters and her cast use all their own costumes, dances, and
music adaptations. Music from Ravel, Raymond . Scott, Calypso, and
darkest Africa will be noticed in tonight's score.
The spring has seen the Waters' ensemble in varied places, ranging
from Fort Bragg and the USO stage to New York, center of the na
tion's art activity. Dance critics of the Gotham journals sparked col
umns with rave notices on Dances en Route and augured biz pick-ups
for the group.
Miss Waters has conducted dance classes at the University through
out the winter, and was dance director for the Playmakers' produc- -tion
of "The Pirates of Penzance."
Non-Member Frolics Bids
Now Available to Campus
By Bob Hoke
Bids for the traditional May Frolics set of dances this weekend are avail
able to non-members of the group until Thursday, Chairman Sam Means
stated yesterday. '
Only a limited number have been placed on public sale for the closed set
of formal dances highlight of the spring social season. The ducats sell for
$4.00 and may be obtained from Means at the SAE house.
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Davis Cancels Address
Scheduled for Thursday
William H. Davis, president of
the War Labor Board, will not be
able to speak here Thursday night
as scheduled as a special case is
coming before the Board.
The CPU will try to have him
down next fall, Ridley Whitaker,
president, announced yesterday.
CWC's Monday Speaker
Doctor Adler Only Longhair
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Who Stands Up for Jazz
By Walter Klein
Lights blazed bright in the grand
ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York City.
Thousands of starch-clad dignitaries
points of that vulgar folk music born
illegitimately in the honky tonks of
New Orleans.
Next morning the New York City
newspapers played it up big. And the
classics versus swing battle blasted out
n?fi-i-po an A Trms? in.
, M . . . . ii1inkim,Dt again in a new hate blaze. Always the
dustnes last fall sat at a long banquet . .
table to herald the promotion of a new
jitterbugs point to Dr. Adler as the one
picture, "Birth of the Blues." Among who is wise to the peculiar!
them were the greatest
American music: Stokowski, Toscani
ni, Hoffman, Horowitz.
And sitting opposite these longhairs
were the kings of swingdom: Benny
Goodman, the Dorseys, Ellington. All
were resolved to defend their own types
of music.
This is what happened: the famous
swing bandleaders waxed intellectually
on the merits of jazz. And all the
symphony moguls poured acid on the
name of swing.
All except one.
He was Dr. Clarence Adler, Ameri
ca's most famous symphony pianist.
Adler made his own classical experts
jump when he stood to extoll the fine
Monday Dr. Adler will arrive
See ADLER, page U
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Dr. Clarence Adler
nities, the spring dances will be held
in the specially decorated Tin Can
Friday night from 9:30 to 1 o'clock
and Saturday night from 9 until 12
o'clock. Freddy Johnson and his fam
ous University of North Carolina or
chestra will play.
Under the newly enacted legislative
dance expenditures bill, the May Frol
ics is acting under a ?750 expense
ceiling f irst limitation of its kind in
the history of the University. In the
past, the May Frolics group has
brought to the Carolina bandstand
such notable "biff name" bands as
Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. The
bill was enacted by the Student legis
lature late in the winter Quarter as
part of the campaign to cut unnec
essary expenses to the bone.
The officers of the May Frolics
committee are Billy Peete, president,
Delta Kappa Epsilom; Henry Wade
Reynolds, vice-president, Kappa Sig
ma; Sam Means, chairman, Sigma Al
nha Epsilon: Bill Vail, assistant
chairman, Sigma Chi; James Thorpe,
committeeman, Zeta Psi; Dudley
Cocke, committeeman, Sigma Nu; and
Bill Felts, committeeman, Beta Theta
Pi.
Corregidor
Subjected
To Assault
By Japanese
Graham to Speak
Awards Night to Highlight
Annual May Day Festivities
By Harden Carruth
With the announcement of the incorporation of the May festivities and
the annual awards night program, directors yesterday foresaw "the biggest
University project of the spring quarter, a gala event for all students."
Highlight of the awards presentation will be the traditional address by
Dr. Frank Graham, dynamic University president and Washington labor
expert, who will give his annual message to the students.
Coordinating director Art Conescu
revealed yesterday that, taking up the
tempo of the whole celebration, the
awards will be presented "not so
much as recognition of past achieve
mens as an indication of expectation
for future good work."
The awards presentation will be
made an integral part of the evening
pageant, "Carolina Meets the Chal
lenge." Portraying Carolina's tradi
toinal spirit of freedom in the past,
the present wartime streamlining of
University activities, and plans for fu
ture and post-war reorganization, the
pageant will encompass all former
angles of May Day. The May Queen
and Court will play the part of the
Court of Freedom, while NROTC and
CVTC units will take up the martial
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V-7 Recruiting Unit
Not to Appear Here
Official notice has been given to the
University that the V-7 recruiting
unit which was scheduled to be in
Chapel Hill before May 1st will not
spend any time here. The change of
plans has been necessitated by the fact
that the Raleigh recruiting office can
not secure the personnel necessary to
conduct separate physical examina
tions at. the University. All V-7 en-
istments must be completed before
May 1st at the Navy Recruiting Of-
ice in Raleigh.
UNC Selected
For Enlisting
Army Fliers
The University has been selected as
one of four focal points at which stu
dents may enlist in the Air Force En
listed Reserve composed of pilots and
ground crews in a plan sponsored by
the War Department to recruit men
in the colleges of the nation for future
requirements of the Army flying ser
vices.
The other three points selected in this
State are Wake Forest, Duke Univer
sity and State College in Raleigh. '
The plan calls for the procurement
of aviation cadets through preliminary
enlistment as privates in the AFER.
The program will provide opportuni
ties for enlistment on a deferred ser
vice basis so that the aviation cadet
candidates may continue their educa
tion until actually required for Army
raining.
Students enlisted in the Enlisted Re
serve, of course, are subject to call to
active duty at any time. The plan,
however, is to defer them, permitting
further scholastic training provided
they maintain a satisfactory scholas
tic standard.
Students whose courses of study give
them the special instruction necessary
for meteorology and communications
will be permitted to continue their
schooling to enable them to qualify as
officers.
Whether college students will con
tinue college training for these Special
posts will depend largely upon the re
sull of examinations to be given to
sophomore students enlisted in the Air
Force Reserve. These men will already
possess qualifications for aviation ca
det training, but the continuance of
their education will be of further bene
fit to the Army when eventually they
are called to active duty.
Students enlisted in the Air Force
Reserve who are graduated or who may
be called to duty before graduation,
will be ordered to active duty and ap
pointed aviation cadets, with an op
portunity to compete for commissions
See AIR CORPS, page 4 ;
air.
Awards that will be presented are:
Mangum medal in oratory, Eben Alex
ander prize in Greek, Bingham prize
in debate, Bryan prize in political sci
ence, Mildred Williams Buchan prize,
Patterson medal, Algernon Sydney
Sullivan trophy, DKE trophy, Grail
awards, Interfraternity council a-
wards. Delta Sigma Pi scholarship
key, Alpha Chi Sigma chemistry
award, Roland Holt cup in playwrit
ing, Tom Wolfe memorial award, Val
kyrie cup, Alpha Phi Umega cup:
American Legion ..medal, Josephus
Daniels medal, Phi Beta Kappa
awards, Beta Gamma Sigma awards,
Monogram Club awards, publication
kays, University band, Glee club, and
Playmaker masks.
MacNider to Address
College of Surgeons
Dr. W. deB. MacNider, Kenan Re
search professor of Pharmacology in
the University has gone to St. Paul,
Minn., where on next Wednesday night,
April 22, he is to deliver the convoca
tion address at the 29th annual meet
ing of the American College of Physic
ians. Between 1,800 and 2,000 prominent
physicians from all sections of the
country will attend the sessions.
The subject of Dr. MacNider's ad
dress will be "The Influence of Tissue
Changes on Life," a field in which he
has done a great deal of worthwhile
research.
CHUNGKING, April 20 (UP)
Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell
and Chinese troops have swept down
into the Burma oil fields and recap
tured the town of Yenang Yaung and
have liberated several thousand Brit
ish troops to score their first victory
of the Burma campaign.
Striking from the north to relieve
weary and outmanned British imperi
als who have been fighting without
rest for three months, they routed the
Japanese from the central oil district
to which the British put the torch, see
ing that they would not be able to hold
it.
WASHINGTON, April 20 (UP)
Japan today threw every siege weapon
at their disposal in a battering assault
on embattled Corregidor Island, locked
in guardian of Manila Bay.
GENERAL MacARTHUR'SHEAD
QUARTERS IN MELBOURNE, April
20 (UP) General Douglas MacAr-
thur and Australian Prime Minister
John Curtin agreed unreservedly today
after, a three hour conference that con
centration rather than dispersal of the
United Nations striking power would
be the keystone of strategy for defeat
ing the Japs.
WASHINGTON, April 20 (UP)
President Roosevelt will lay before
congress this week a sweeping admin
istration policy of war wages, taxes
and profits, it was revealed here today
- See NEWS BRIEFS, page h
Connor Cites Value
Of Preserving Data
In National Archives
Five Whole Days
GrahamMemorial, Mag Staff
To Sponsor Treasure Hunt
Graham Memorial and the staff of the New Carolina Magazine will sponsor
a Treasure Hunt, to start next Tuesday and continue through Saturday night
when the winners will be announced at the Pirates'
Ball in Graham Memorial.
Directions , and rules of the Treasure Hunt are
being formulated by the staff of the combination
magazine and will be published the latter part of
this week. They have been working on the clues for
the past week. The clues will be in the form of ana
grams, puzzles, tricky verses and directions that
lead one to the other, until the final one, leading to
an actually "buried treasure." The one finding the
treasure will be announced at the Ball.
That Saturday night's Pirates' Ball will be a cos
tume dance and prizes will be awarded to the best
boy's and girl s costumes. At llo clock the combi
nation magazine will be officially christened. Lois Boyd, cover-model and
symbol of the first Baby Esquire issue, dressed in baby-clothes, will be bap
tized by Director Bill Cochrane and editors Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer7 and
Harley Moore. ,
The first issue of the New Carolina Magazine, co-sponsor of the Hunt and
Ball, was a trial combination of type of material from both Tar an' Feathers
and the Carolina Magazine to see if the campus desired such a combination.
The Student Legislature is waiting for campus opinion before they take any
action to combine the two present mags.
Moll said, "We realize that the Legislature has not yet made any move
to combine the present two magazines and that the first Baby Esquire may
have been the last unless they decide." However, he added, "The combination
magazine supporters on the campus urged us to go ahead with the Treasure
Sunt as announced in the first Baby Esquire.
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Instances in which the United Statea
government has been saved several mil
lion dollars because it has been able to
preserve its records in the National
Archives under one roof were cited
by R. D. W. Connor, Kenan professor
of history in the University and for
seven years National Archivist, who
addressed the Chapel Hill Rotary Club.
Dr. Connor referred to several
claims running into millions of dollars
made by foreign governments for ma
terials they claimed they had not been
paid during the first World War. It
was not until the records were traced
in the fields of the Food Administra
tion in the National Archives that this
government was able to show the
claims had been paid, he said.
Into the handsome new Archives
building has been gather the official
records of the Government that form
erly were scattered all over Washing
ton, he said. The records of the Food
Administration were found in the
White House garage.
Were they not collected under one
roof, classified, and preserved in this
manner, it would not be long before
many of these valuable records would
be lost or destroyed and lost to future
generations, he pointed out.
Dr. Connor told also of the historical
and cultural value of the Archives and
of their usefulness to citizens who need
to authenticate birth and citizenship.
More and more people from all sections
of the country are going to Washing
ton to use the Archives for research,
he said.
Phi to Discuss
Vichy Tonight
The Phi Assembly will meet in regu
lar session tonight at 7:15 in Phi hall
to discuss "Resolved: that the United
States formally break diplomatic re
lations with the Vichy French gov
ernment and recognize the Free French
forces as the real French government."
Speaker Pro-Tem Elton Edwards,
presiding while Speaker Ives is con
fined to the Infirmary announced that
initiations will be held. He stated that
all applications must be filled oat and
return to the "Y" office before noon
today in order to receive consideration.