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ft vf Ecfitcriafo Not Threap Enforcement RuEed Tempers News Mass Meefcmg Spy Ksszor Loan Fond If r H XT UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA- Tefepfcoae 4351 2K Graham Marial VOLUME L A Subscription rates CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1942 NUMBER 10 J.50 sstaoa -75 Win -The - War 9 Meeting At alei OBI R gJk ghc Loan Fund Set At $5,000,000 ByGovernment Grant Available To UNC Students Congress has appropriated a $5,000, 000 student loan fund, part of which will be available to students at the University, to augment the recently reduced NYA funds. To be eligible for a government loan a student must be majoring in the field of physics, chemistry, medicine, phar macy, or dentistry and must .be par ticipating in the University speed-up program. The latter qualification 'means that the student must attend the second summer session. The money will be loaned at low in terest rates and the debt must be re paid within one year after graduation. If the student is drafted before grad uation or is killed or permanently in jured in the war, the debt does not have to be repaid. Each student will be limited to $500 per year, the amount this University receives being determined by the num ber who apply for scholarships. Stu dents interested should contact James Williams, administrator of the student loan fund, in South building. 'The University's application for scholarship funds must be in by Au gust 15 which means that students should apply for loans before that date. It is expected that students now in summer school will inform other stu dents about the fund so that those in terested may attend the second sum mer session in order to be eligible. Announcement concerning the new NYA allocation for the University is expected to be made in the near fu ture. During the past winter quarter, the NYA "funds for the " University were drastically slashed and a stu dent campaign was started to replen ish the fund. High School Day Canceled by UNC Tor Duration' North Carolina High School Day, which for the last four years has at tracted 20,000 North Carolina high school students annually to the Univer sity, will not be held this year, it was announced yesterday by R. B. House, Dean of Administration. "Cancelling of the annual High School Day was done with regret," Dean House stated, "and will be effec tive for the duration." Roy Armstrong, director of admis sions, started High School Day in 1938 for the purpose of acquainting the high school students of the state with the University. The day featured in formal get-to-gethers with words of welcome by Dean House and by Presi dent Frank Graham, tours of the cam pus, and a football game in the after noon. Last year high school students from over 90 of the 100 counties at tended. Parades by most of 'the high school bands in the State were given at the football game. Concluding Dean House said, "High school students are welcome to visit the University at all times, and that every effort would be made to show them the complete physical plant of Carolina." Hatch Orchestra to Play At Informal Dance Friday An informal dance Friday night with Hurst Hatch and his orchestra and the second world performance of "A Tree on the Plains" Saturday night will lead events in the final student activities office slate of the first sum mer term. North Carolina's leading high school actors will present two bills of experi mental productions this week. Wed nesday night seniors will climax their six-week Chapel Hill school session with three one-act plays at the Play makers theatre at 7:30. Juniors will follow through with their three one act plays Friday night at 8 o'clock. All plays were written by students of the special summer session. Members of the all-state high school band will present a concert Sun day afternoon at 5 o'clock around Worker's Dismissal Starts Spy Scare McLean, Wife Deny Accusations Of Attempted Sabotage in Carrboro By Walter Klein Wagging tongues of Chapel Hill and Carrboro citizens are brand ing Roderick J. McLean, 48, an enemy secret agent in a city-wide spy scare. Rumors that bombs had been found in his Carrboro factory locker and that FBI agents were investigating attempted sabo- 3tage spread soon after McLean was Tfc . j itegisiration For Next Term Begins Friday Period Ends July 22; Classes Open July 23 Students now enrolled in summer school planning to attend the second session will be required to register be tween Friday and Tuesday, July 21, I. C. Griffin, director of Central Rec ords, announced yesterday. First ses sion students may register only on those dates. New students will begin registration Wednesday, July 22, with the deadline for enrolling for the second session be ing the following Monday. Classes will begin Thursday, July 23. Throughout the registration period students may enroll with their deans or advisers from 8:30 to 4:30 with the exception of Saturday when offices will closieat' 1 o'clock; "There will be no registration on Sunday. Students not enrolled in the General College or in the Department of Edu cation will consult their departmental advisers prior to final registration with their dean. General College students, which includes all freshmen and sopho mores, will go directly to their advisers. Graduates and undergraduates in Edu cation will report to 127 Peabody hall. An increase in enrollment over for mer years is anticipated for the second session which ends August 28. New students are expected to enroll in the graduate school, particularly in the Education division. j Lipscomb Drama Aired Saturday "To the Sound of Guns," an original radio script by Francis Lipscomb, Jr., member of the high school radio class at the University this summer, will be presented over WDNC, Durham, Sat urday afternoon at 1:45. The author, a native of Tusculum, Tenn., is a high school senior at Ashe ville Boys' School where he is, a mem ber of the dramatic society. This script represents his first attempt at radio drama. The story is woven around the ef forts of a young man to find his place in the war system today. In his search ings, the young man encounters a vete ran of the first World War from whose experiences he is able to solve his own problem. Davie Poplar. Other events of the week include a watermelon slice staged for the extension division office, force at Fetzer field, Saturday night at 7:30, "Music Under the Stars" concert in Kenan stadium Sunday and the reg ular organ recital at the Episcopal church Sunday night at 8:30. Coed dormitory social chairmen will be hostesses at Friday night's informal dance, scheduled from 9 until 12 o'clock at the YMCA court. Tickets for Saturday night's folk opera are now on sale at the summer activities office in the YMCA building and at Ledbetter-Pickard's. The opera, first presented at the Spartanburg festival in May, has been acclaimed as a musically superb example of the combined recent trends in operatic composition. fired July 4 for possessing a tear gas gun. Conflicting testimonies by factory workers, guards and ..administrators, by relatives of McLean and by Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents made a mystery of the McLean case and a hotbed for rumor mongers. Incendiary Bombs Workers, whispering against signed statements of secrecy, are spreading the word today, 10 days after the epi sode, that a spy has been seized with in the factory's machine shop where guards had broken into McLean's lock er to find three thermite (incendiary) bombs, .one time bomb and a pistol. They told the Carrboro-Chapel Hill grapevine that McLean didn't change his clothes regularly with the rest of the workers, and spoke with a for eign accent. Rumor spreaders concluded their tales with the claim that Federal Bu reau of Investigation agents moved in, after receiving word from head quarters that McLean's fingerprints revealed a previous criminal record, and had taken him to Washington. Others said" that McLean disap peared shortly after his dismissal and is hiding out. Neither his wife nor friends actually know where McLean has gone. The missing' worker was located Sunday night by telephone at the sol dier's home for World War Veterans in Washington. j Edward Scheidt, FBI official at the Charlotte office, said yesterday that all cases of defense factory dismis sals were investigated by agents. He did not say whether the FBI was still interested in McLean, but as serted "when a case is in the investi gative stage the subject can neither be given a clean bill of health nor a suspicious accusation." FBI investigators in Charlotte and Durham said Saturday that they knew nothing of the dismissal. Had Heard Rumors "I heard those rumors being spread just before I left Carrboro," McLean said in Washington Sunday, without See SPY SCARE, page U Activities Schedule Tonight, July 14 Blanket party Graham Memorial north lawn 8:30-10:30. Tomorrow, July 15 Three high school experimental plays Playmakers theatre 7:30. Thursday, July 16 Sunset symphony Graham Memorial north lawn 8:30-10:30. Friday, July 17 Three high school experimental plays Playmakers theatre 8:00. Informal dance, Hurst Hatch band Y court 9:00-12:00. Saturday, July 18 Extension division office force party Fetzer field 7:30. "A Tree on the Plains" Memorial hall 8:30. Graham Memorial open house 8:30. Sunday, July 19 All-state high school band concert Davie Poplar 5:00. "Music Under the Stars" Kenan sta dium 8:30. Organ recital Episcopal church 8:30. Frat Council Holds Last Session Tonight The Interf raternity council will hold its last meeting of the session tonight at 7:30 in the Grail room of Graham Memorial, Bucky Osborne, president, announced yesterday. iJWarr.. -&r, . . . nrfc MUtiUHai Dean F. F. Bradshaw Bradshaw Serves With NationalGroup Fuller Utilization Of Colleges Planned Francis F. Bradshaw, Dean of Stu dents, has been working with a four man committee in Washington to de vise plans for the full utilization of the nation's universities in war time. Bradshaw has been working in col laboration with President Cowley of Hamilton College, Comptroller Middle brook of the University of Minnesota and President, Morrill of the Univer sity of Wyoming. The committee has been in operation f 6r four weeks. Institutions Studied - First organized to prepare methods of administering the $5,000,000 stu dent loan fund established by Con gress, the committee was subsequently diverted to making plans for relieving the confusion and inadequacies of the nation's universities as a result of the war. in addition the committee was to devise means of gearing the curricula, faculties and other facilities of Ameri can colleges to the war effort. This committee will present its plans to a meeting of 70 college presidents to be held in Baltimore. The purpose of the meeting is to prepare a resolu tion containing a comprehensive out line for full war utilization of univer sities. The resolution will be sent to President Roosevelt for action. Civil Service Posts Opened Applicants for positions of personnel officers, nurses, and operators of cal culating machines and tabulating equipment may obtain full information regarding requirements and applica tion forms from J. R. Webb, secretary of the Board of US Civil Service Ex aminers at the Chapel Hill post of fice, or from the Secretary of the Board of US Civil Service Examiners at any first- or second-class post office, the United States Civil Service Com mission announced recently. Because of the present need for these officials, requirements for eligibility have been amended. There is now no maximum age limit and no written test requirement. Applications will be ac cepted until the needs of the service have been met. They must be filed with the Civil Service Commission, Wash ington, D. C. Second Performance of 'Tree on the Plains', Nationally Hailed Opera, Scheduled Saturday Chapel Hill will watch the second world performance of "A Tree on the Plains," Ernst Bacon's and Paul Hor gan's nationally lauded folk-opera of the old west, in Memorial hall Satur day night at 8:30. Cow Hand, Beauty Parlor Set in a pineboard house, the Ameri can opera displays a cowhand for a hero, a girl who dreams of beauty par lors and city lights for a heroine, a jazzing, hitchhiking kid for the vil lain, and a Model T atmosphere. The music has no arias, but the simple lives of plain people are touched off by a Mass Convocation Unites So Coast-To-Coast Broadcast Stars Brink, Keutzer "Song of America," radio show to be given in Raleigh tonight with the All-South rally, will be broadcast over WPTF at 8 o'clock and later over WRAL and the coast-to-coast Mutual Broadcasting System. Frank Brink, University radio di rector and actor, and Clyde Keutzer, music instructor, assumed direction of the show after it was found that Melvyn Douglas, Hollywood actor, would be unable to come to Raleigh. Douglas had been in Washington for several days, consulting with OCD officials, and planned to direct the show for which he had been narrator in its premiere performance. Con tract requirements forced him to re turn to Hollywood yesterday. Brink to Narrate Brink, who will be narrator as well as director, describes the program as "similar to the University's May Day celebration, but on a much greater scale." His narration for that show won much favorable comment from local students. Other speaking parts have been as signed to Arthur Golby, star of the Playmakers' spring production, "George Washington Slept Here," and to Dr. Urban T. Holmes, who will play the part of the "Western American." Minor roles will be filled by members of the choral group, also a part of the program .- w-it-i, Special music, arranged by Harold J. Rome, will serve as the framework for Vincent McHugh's poetry to be read by the narrator and actors. This musical arrangement, directed by Clyde Keutzer, uses a mixed cho rus, two trumpets, two trombones, drums, snare and cymbals, all sup plied by University students. James A. Domvrowski of Wash ington has been sent by the OCD to confer with officials of the two radio stations on technical arrangements for the broadcasts. The first will be a full-length pres entation of the program over WPTF, beginning at 8 o'clock from the stage of the auditorium. Hugo L. Black, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, will follow with an address. Immediately after which WRAL and the Mutual network will pick up a cut version of the same play to be transmitted over the coast-to-coast hook-up. Publication Halts; Recruits Sought Publication of The Tar Heel will cease with this issue and will resume with the issue scheduled for delivery Friday afternoon, July 24: The sus pension of publication is to allow staff members time for concentrated study for examinations. The staff and students interested in working on the staff next session will meet in the news offices, 206 Graham Memorial, Wednesday afternoon, July 22, to prepare the next edition. The editors announced that the sev eral vacancies on the staff will be filled immediately following tryouts. musical score praised by the nation's top critics. Tickets at 55 and 83 cents are now on sale both at Ledbetter-Pickard's sta tionery store and at the summer activi ties office in the YMCA building. The music-play is being produced by members of the Festival Opera school -established at Woman's college in Greensboro. Premiere of "A Tree on the Plains" at the famous Spartan burg festival May 2 brought unani mous acclaim from leading magazines, newspapers and music critics. The work was written as a commis sion from the American League of uth Area Graham, Daniels Organize Rally; Patterson Speaks Heralding a united South fully geared to utmost production and sacrifice for the war effort, the first South-wide "Win-the-War" Mass Meeting, instigated by Frank P. Graham, President of the University, and Josephus Daniels, former ambassador to Mexico and editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Ral eigh Auditorium. Judge Robert Patterson, Un dersecretary of War, will make the principal address to what will probably be the largest sec tional audience yet assembled in the interest of prosecuting the war effort. An address by Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, Hugo L. Black, will precede the speech of the Undersecretary. The purpose of the meeting is "to rally the South to closer unity, higher morale, and greater sacrifice in meet ing the nation's war effort" and to establish "People's Committees" to begin immediate and organized action towards these goals. As evidence of the purpose of the mass meeting to establish "complete" unity, members of both negro and whitff rcearelnvited to" the con-" ferences. ' . In addition to the addresses sched uled on the program, the University chorus under the direction of Clyde H. Keutzer will present a new chorus. "Song for American Union" which was written by Vincent McHugh and Harold Rome. In its premier perform ance the chorus was narrated by movie star Melvyn Douglas. Since it was impossible to obtain Douglas for the chorus, the narration will be voiced by Frank Brink of the University. Ten thousand . invitations to the South-wide war convocation, symbol- , See MASS MEETING, page 2 Construction Begins On Road To UNC Airport Actual construction of the highway between Chapel Hill and the Horace Williams Airport began this week. The highway begins at the corner of Columbia and North streets and will be 1.86 miles long. Over 100,000 cubic yards of dirt will be removed and 26, 000 square yards of bituminous sur face treatment on a crushed stone base. The letting of two contracts which add up to the sum of $101,230. The contracts were awarded to Lavender Brothers for $82,350, and to the Bow ers Construction Company for the concrete-arched culvert of Bolin's Creek at $18,880. Completion of the highway in 50 working days is called for in the con tract with 125 total days to finish the job. Thomas A. Burton, division en gineer stationed at Greensboro, is in. command for the State Highway Com mission. Composers, noted for having done most to nurture new American opera tic creation. A New York Times reviewer said that "musical history was made by the premiere of 'A Tree on the Plains' not so much on account of its production as because it contains elements of greatness. Greatness is rare, and ap preciation of the flashes of it which permeate the opera was evident in the tremendous ovation given the perform ance, an ovation in which the people of Spartanburg and guests from larger metropolitan centers shared with equal enthusiasm."
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