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1 a The Oldest College Daily In The South VOLUME L Busineu: 9887: CireoltJon : S884 CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1942 Editorial: 43; News: iZSl: Nfcht: C0 NUMBER 153 tar Panel OiDens C WC Festival Tomorrow five Ucttllif l t X ' ". , - - j ' " : .7 ; f " v 3, L'- ' - " ft' I - I ' , ' i ' 4. , I V ''.W' I 7 BUCKY HARWARD AND BOB HOKE are next year's Daily Tar Heel editors. Harward was unanimously elected editor, succeeding Orville Campbell; Hoke was recently appointed managing editor by the Publi cations Union board, succeeding Sylvan Meyer. Both will be inaugurated at the annual Tar Heel banquet tonight at 7 o'clock, although neither will take over their official capacities until next fall. American Troops Land On Free French Caledonia WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP) American troops have landed on the island of New Caledonia, strategic Free French possession 800 miles east of Australia, "War Department sources said tonight. VICHY, April 25. (UP) General Giraud, 63, Commander of the Allied armies of the north before the collapse of France, has escaped from a German Di, Professors Debate Petition To Free Browder Dialectic Senate officers will peti tion President Roosevelt to free Earl Browder if Di members pass a bill at Tuesday night's meeting. The Di has invited seven University professors and instructors to discuss the Free Browder petition, according to Roger Mann, president. Mann yesterday would not discuss the names of the faculty members be cause "we don't wish to force any un comfortable explanations from any one." He indicated, however, that four of the men specially invited are those who endorsed a petition two weeks ago. "The Di is inviting these men to take any stands they wish on the recent pe tition sent to President Roosevelt. We are trying to clear away the emotional hullabaloo bv eivmff the campus a chance to discuss the facts of the case calmly and rationally." The faculty members and Di sena tors will speak on the session's first bill: "Resolved that the Dialectic Sen ate petition the President of the United States to release Earl Browder." Students throughout the campus are being asked to attend the meeting, to be held in Di hall, third floor New West building, at 7:14 Tuesday. Clerical Exams Slated Next Month t An announcement from Dr. Frank T. de Vyver, NC Merit system super visor, has been received by the local health and welfare departments stating that a new series of examinations will be held during May for all types of clerical and stenographic personnel. All such personnel who are em ployed by these departments, as well as by the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, State Board of Health, Unemployment Compensation Commission and the State Commission for the Blind must be drawn from the Merit council register and it is hoped that all persons in the community who are eligible for the examination will take them, even though they already have a job. Applications should be filed with Dr. Frank T. de Vyver, Box 2328, Dur ham, not later than Monday. Appli cation blanks may be secured at the health department office. Simonson to Attend Playwriting Class Paul Green's class in the problems of playwriting will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Green room of the Play makers Theatre. Lee Simonson, Work shop speaker, will sit in on the class along with other visitors. !:-. -prison fortress to Switzerland and the Germans have posted a reward of 100,000 marks f or his capture. LONDON, April 25. (UP) Swarms of British bombers and fight ers spread destruction along a 200 mile stretch of the French invasion coast today in one of the heaviest daylight assaults of the RAF's second front offensive "that already has wrecked two of Germany's four major Baltic ports. WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP) Price Administrator Leon Henderson, apparently paving the way for the over-all price ceiling expected to be promulgated next week, tonight es tablished maximum prices for all commodities and products sold for ex port. WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP) The army will be forced by next fall to begin induction of men with wholly ents, brothers and sisters, according See NEWS BRIEFS, page U Men's, Woman's Glee Clubs ! ........ ...-.-.v..- ?r n-'-yw . ' rgBSatV." ' "88888. '-wsafc ': :: -w"''"' .:: --"- ' ; ' "" . fife 0 0vWMS4fc ... i jo v Wy?T $ IT If vJ frif y y f Q V) Clyde Keutzer to Lead 'Command Performance9 In Popular Ballads, Classical Specialties By Ben Snyder Highlighting the University's extensive spring musical program, Carolina's Men's and Woman's glee clubs, under the direction of Clyde H. Keutzer, will sing tonight at 8:30 in Hill lusic hall. Always well attended, the joint concert has come to occupy a distinctive position in the welter of entertainment that perenially hits the campus with the dawning of the new season. This yfcir, particularly, will stand out above preceding years with the coming of Keutzer's groups to national promi- nance. Both clubs have sung over country wide radio hook-ups this quarter and each has attained a fine degree of rec ognition in its own right The men's broadcast occasioned a deluge of fav Air Officers To Explain Enlistment Members of the Army Air Force personnel will explain the new Air Force Enlistment Re serve program at a mass meeting of the student body Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock in Memorial hall. Dr. W. D. Perry, director of the bureau of military information stated yesterday that the University band will play during the program and the mar tial air will be further heightened by a special showing of the latest March of Time issue. The sound film deals with the operations and various ac tivities of the air corps. Major John S. Snyder and Lieuten ant Robert H. Bowling will arrive early Tuesday to hold conferences with Col onel Raborg of the CVTC, Dean of Administration R. B. House, and the deans of the various University col leges. Nearby colleges are sending official representatives to these meet ings which will proceed the student mass meeting in Memorial hall. The officers are from Craig field, Ala bama. The enlistment of college students on a deferred service basis is the new program being initiated by the Army Air Corps. It is essentially similar to the Navy's V-5 classification. It al lows students to complete their college courses and graduate before under taking active Aviation Cadet train-tng. Communications with the Craig field officials indicated that no enlistments would be made at the meeting Tues day. On May 11 the officers will re turn with an Aviation Cadet Examina tion board to interview and examine applicants. Dean of Students F. F. Bradshaw, C. P. Spruill, dean of the general col lege and Dr. Perry will go to Wash ington tomorrow to confer with the War Department on further plans for the enlistment of students on the de ferred service basis in other branches of the army. The new Air Force Enlistment Re serve program is designed so that it may "disrupt the nation's educational system as little as possible considering the fact of war, and will provide the Army Air Force with a great reserve of qualified officer material." orable comments from all corners of the nation, while the woman's concert, broadcast over Mutual yesterday, was judged a huge success. On the strength of last spring's showing, the men's group was contract See GLEE CLUBS, page U ' ftv lU . w v : .I I i ' 1 4' I In- Is ' V" , FIVE WELL KNOWN representatives in the various fields of creative art who will lead discussions featuring the Workshop's Spring Festival which opens here tomorrow and continues through May 1. They are: James Boyd, author; Lee Simonson, one of the leading stage designers in America; Clare Leighton, noted English wood cut artist; Dr. Clarence Adler, country's forenjost chamber music pianist; and Paul Green, the playwright. All five will take part in a panel discussion in Graham Memorial at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, when the topic will be "The Artist in War Time." Shotwell Leads Ten-State Conference A conference of members from 10 southeastern states will be held here May 15 and 16 by the Southern Coun cil on International Relations with Dr. James T. Shotwell of Columbia Uni versity as principal speaker. Plans were announced by Keener C. Frazer, professor of International Re lations at the University and executive secretary of the council. "The Inter national Interests of the South" will be the general subject of the confer ence, which will include several ad dresses and numerous round table dis cussions during the two days under the direction of leading educational, civic, churcn and business men oi the South. Three main questions for this fourth annual meeting will be "The Impact of the War on the South," "The South's Part in the Organization of Peace" and "The South's Interest in Inter-American Cooperation." " ' " . Dr. Shotwell, who will speak at the. Friday evening session, is an author ity on international relations, the Lea gue of Nations and efforts for world peace. A professor at Columbia Uni versity in New York since 1908, he is the author of a number of books and articles in his special field. The Southern Council on Interna tional Relations is made up of 500 mem bers and directors from 10 southeast ern states. It was organized to pro vide information on international af fairs for school, church and civic groups througout the South. Dr. Frank P. Graham of the University of North See SHOTWELL, page U Sing Tonight Hillel Cabinet Meets Tomorrow There will be an important Hillel cabinet meeting at the Hillel house at 7:30 tomorrow night. The session has been called to formulate final plans for the Institute of Judaism. Graham to Address Religious Forums Dr. Frank Graham will address the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist forums tonight. The meeting will take place at 7 o'clock in the Methodist church. Boyd, Adler, Simonson, Leighton, Green in Debate By Walter Klein James Boyd, Clarence Adler, Clare Leighton, Lee Simonso- and Paul Green will sound the opening of the Carolina Workshop un cil's Spring Festival in a panel discussion tomorrow night. Discussion of "The Artist in War Time" will bring togethe the Rationing Hits Town's Sugar Sales Sugar rationing hits Chapel Hill "isolationism" this week when stores, restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, fraternities and sororities apply for ration books Tuesday and Wednesday by order of the local rationing board. Tomorrow night at 12 o'clock the nationwide sugar .ban goes into effect, after which no individual or company can buy sugar without a sugar ration- ing book. The books will be given out to busi ness establishments and institutions "n the auditorium of the Chapel Hill high school between 9 and 5 o'clock on Tues day and Wednesday. Books for indi vidual consumers will be given out May 4, 5, 6, and 7 at the elementary school. Students over 18 years of age will have to register and obtain rationing books. Those under 18 will be regis tered for by their parents in their home towns. Local officials stressed that the sugar could not be trans ferred after it was bought with the books. Headed by M. W. Durham the local rationing board is in complete charge of the sugar rationing in Chapel Hill and environs. Douglas Fambrough and Winslow Williams school super- intendant Allison Honeycutt will be general supervisor of the distribution of the rationing books. First nationwide rationing by books of World War II, the move brings the first tangible touch of the war to Chapel Hill inhabitants as townspeople and students alike find sugar quanti ties limited. IRC Social Session To Be Held Tomorrow Members of the IRC will assemble tomorrow night for a regular social meeting. The meeting will take place in the Institute of Government build ing at 7:30. On the Raleigh Front: UNC Musicians For State Concert Tomorrow By Bob Levin When the curtain rises on the 62 members of the North Carolina State symphony orchestra in Raleigh's Me morial auditorium tomorrow night, five Carolina students will, by their music, have a legitimate excuse for cutting classes during the past two weeks. Deborah Rubin, May Jo De Nardo, Truet Bennett, Harris Mitchell and Alexander "' Harper, the University's contribution of near musical perfection to the symphony, will be compensated for their overtime practices, sleepless nights and long bus rides with the realization that the Raleigh Sesqui- centennial concert marks the tenth an niversary of the first state symphony in America and the awakening of the "Free Company" originator, the coun try's leading chamber music pianist, England's famous woodcut artist, the king of stage designers and a Pulitzer Prize playwright. The panel will be gin at 8 o'clock in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. Richard Adler, Workshop chairman and son of the pianist, is directing the CWC's five-day Festival, which will end Friday night with the awarding of keys to student artists and elec tion of next year's Workshop officers. Simonson and Adler left New York City today to attend the first three days of the Festival. Miss Leighton is living in Chapel Hill while she chronicles the South in a series of woodcuts. Boyd and Green are both North Carolina residents. " According to Adler, 'the site of the artist forum will be shifted at the last minute to Memorial hall if the 350-person capacity of Graham Me morial is reached. Tuesday night at 8 o'clock the Car olina Playmakers will take up the program in presenting three new See CWC FESTIVAL, page U JSL to Stage Charity Ball Annual Spring Charity ball will take place Saturday night at Lenoir din ing hall, with Jimmy Fuller and his campus orchestra officiating for the 9 to 12 o'clock dance. Junior Service League executives announced that the J price of each ticket is $1.00, couple or stag. Ducats may be purchased at the door the night of the dance for $2.00. They are now on sale at Eu banks drug store and at the Informa tion booth in South building. Officials stated that the entire pro ceeds from the sale of tickets will go to the support of the baby clinics and the pre-natal clinic meetings which are held regularly in Carrboro. Mrs. William G. Morgan is general chairman of the charity ball. Com mittee chairmen are Mrs. A. H. Shep ard, tickets; Mrs. Thomas Wilson, decoration; Mrs. George E. Shepard, entertainment; Mrs. H. D. Bruner, concessions and Mrs. Lawrence F. Lon don, publicity. SufferedLong state to its "people's orchestra." Recently 1,100 students and towns people jammed Memorial hall to hear this group play and demanded encore after encore. When an orchestra com posed of bridge engineers, salesmen, teachers, students, clerks, and house wives can travel from one end of the state to the other and give a concert as they did here that's coordination. Mis3 Rubin play3 violin in the or chestra and is one of few members of the group who has studied abroad. Harper, freshman, also plays violin having had quite some experience with state orchestras before coming to Car olina. Mitchell is a graduate student who has played French horn with the See MUSICIANS, page U
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