News Briefs
Reds Massacre
27,500 Nazis
On Two Fronts
Tommies Capture
Tunisia Airfield
MOSCOWTuesday, Dec. 1
(UP) Russian forces stormed
deep into the heart of German
defense systems west of Moscow
and Stalingrad today capturing
many forts and villages, the Red
Army reported today in a com
munique revealing that 27,500
more Axis troops had been killed
on the two fronts.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HDQ.,
Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 1
(UP) Heavy fighting north
west of Buna, New Guinea, was
reported in today's communique.
Seven zero planes were downed
in an aerial dogfight at Buna
while the Allied forces lost 2
fighters.
Allied Fliers Down Zeros
In Heavy New Guinea Fight
ALLIED FIELD HDQ., North
Africa, Nov. 30 (UP) British
paratroops captured an airfield in
Tunisia Sunday considerably in
advance of the British First
Army's main drive, it was an
nounced tonight.
Victory Possible in '43
Says British Supply Head
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30
(UP) American and British
production schedules have been
integrated to the point where
they can deliver the "maximum
impact" to the Axis and possibly
produce a victory in 1943, Capt.
Oliver Lyttlerton, British supply
minister, declared tonight.
Nightclub Deaths
Reach 482 Total
BOSTON, Nov. 30 (UP) A
fire department inspection only 8
days before the Cocanut Grove
holocaust revealed, "no inflam
mable decorations" in the night
club, an inquest was told today
as the death toll reached 482, in
cluding Charles Buck Jones, cow
boy movie star.
State Highway Chairman
Joins Army Ordinance
RALEIGH, Nov. 30 (UP)-
Highway chairman, L. Ben
Prince, today said he was leaving
his $7,500-a-year job as head of
the State highway and public
works commission Wednesday to
accept a major's commission in
a U. S. Army ordinance unit at
See NEWS BRIEFS, page i,
Band Features
Senior Violinist
On Solo Number
Mrs. May Jo Perky, senior
violin student, will be the fea
tured soloist with the University
Symphony Orchestra tomorrow
in Hill hall. Mrs. Pejrky will play
the famous Wienawski Violin
Concerto No. 2 with orchestral
accompaniment.
Studying here since the fall of
1941 under the tutelage of Dr.
Benjamin Swalin, Mrs. Perky
has been studying music since
she was five. At this time she
was receiving instruction in
Piano, but a year later she be
gan studying violin.
In 1938, she spent the summer
in New Yorjc City studying un
ier Hans Letz of the Juillard
School of Music. During these
years, Mrs. Perky continued
with her piano work, and per
formed solo numbers on the piano
as well as the violin at the 1938
and 1939 Mozart Festivals in her
home town of Asheville.
Active in music circles, Mrs.
Perky is president of the Sym
phony Orchestra, president of the
Carolina Music Club, and vice
president of the Glee Club.
VOLUME LI
Business and Circulation: 8641
Carmichael
Hits Charge
Of Inaction
Airport Neglect
Strongly Denied
Reaction to the Datt,y Tap
Heel's report Sunday of inaction
and negligence on the part of the
University in managing the air
port was termed a. "gross mis
statement and poor reporting"
by W. D. Carmichael, University
controller.
Declaring that the present pol
icy in conducting the Civilian
Pilot Training course was "ex
actly opposite" Carmichael said
that efforts were being made
daily to improve the situation.
"The airport is my pet pig
eon," he stated, "and I am per
sonally working for its benefit.
All charges of apathy, inaction,
and neglect are false and a low
form of journalism."
Carmichael is credited with
being one of the main adminis
trative forces behind the con
struction and equipping of what
was termed the nation's number
one plant.
When asked what was being
done to correct the reported
"leaking hangars," he replied
that requisition slips were on his
desk for the steel needed to com
pletely renovate the field. Gov
ernment priority rulings are ex
pected to be waived in favor of
the modernization of the vital
war program. :
Rebuttal against the charge
that the airport lost its advanced
See CARMICHAEL, Page 1
Last Grail Dance
Of Quarter Set
For Friday Night
Bob Cleveland and his band
will play for the third and final
Grail dance of the Fall quarter
to be held next Friday night, De
cember 4, in Woollen gymnasium.
Cleveland's band has just com
pleted a 10-week engagement at
the Merry Gardens in Lynch
burg, Virginia, and has included
the University of Virginia, West
Virginia and V. P. I. on its sched
ule program.
The band is composed of 12
pieces and features two female
vocalists. It should satisfy ad
mirers of both sweet and swing
music, Sam Gambill said.
Tickets may be obtained from
See GRAIL, Page U
Army Officers
In Play makers
Lt. Ralph Roberts, a Playmak-
er here three years ago now sta
tioned at Camp Butner, is a civil
ian part of every day as he as
sumes his role of Ralph West in
Maxwell Anderson's "The Eve of
St. Mark" and Lt. Walter B.
Rathbun. also of Butner, is de
moted to a Buck Private every
night as he rehearses the part of
Private Thomas Mulveroy in the
Playmaker production to be
given here tomorrow through
Saturday.
Lt. Rathbun confessed that he
gets a sort of nostalgic enjoyment
out of the play. "Having been a
Ruck Private for 13 months be
fore entering Officer Candidate
School, I find that each night s
performance brings back mem
ories of my own barracks' life,"
he said.
Lt. Rathbun, who spent a
CHAPEL HILL,
Maids to Start Work
In Old East, Old West
Starting today, maids will take
over many of the duties formerly
done by janitors in Old East and
Old West dormitories, it was an
nounced yesterday by the Uni
versity business office.
Cause for the substitution of
three maids in each of the two
dormitories was attributed to the
increasingly serious shortage of
manpower on the campus. One
janitor will remain in the build
ings to do the heavier jobs, but
all light work such as cleaning
rooms and making beds will be
taken care of by the women,
working from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Magician
Scheduled
Mulholland Appears
On Campus Thursday
John Mulholland, the man ac
claimed as "the world's foremost
magician," will appear at Memo
rial hall Thursday evening, un
der sponsorship of the Student
Entertainment committee. -
In a booklet written about Mul
holland by -Lowell Thomas, the
author writes, "His marvelous
hands are to magic what Pade-
rewski's are to the piano." The
former high school and college
teacher who ended up as a prac
titioner of the art of magic has
travelled widely throughout the
East to spend a large proportion
of his time with native magi
cians.
Before he ..ventured on his
many travels he learned the for
malities and the correct approach
to meet the sorcerers of the East.
On one of 'lis first journeys, Mul
holland discovered that the ori
ental magician demands that his
code be followed.
In Peking, there was one ma
gician who did not want to have
anything to do with Mulholland
because he addressed him incor
rectly. He merely announced to
the Chinese that he was a magi
cian from America, when he
should have shown his master's
certificate for proof that he too
was a master magician. Certif
icates were not given in America
and before the Chinese magician
believed he was a rank impos
ter, Mulholland left and stayed
away until he was able to follow
the formal way of introducing
himself. Then he went back to
see the Chinese magician and be
gan all over again. The certif
icate he had with him was writ
ten by himself but it satisfied the
See MAGICIAN, Page U
Demoted Daily
Production
year and a half at Yale in the
graduate school of the depart
ment of drama studying to be a
stage and screen director, said,
"I like the play. I think it's a
very straightforward dramatic
presentation of the average
American boy's actions and re
actions to military service."
Lt. Roberts, who transferred
here from Catawba College for
graduate work in dramatics
three years ago, admitted that he
thoroughly enjoyed being the on
ly soldier he knew of who was
permitted to wear civilian clothes
every night.
From Carolina Lt. Roberts
went to New York where he was
an artist's model for a time and
studied voice. He is now Person
nel officer of the 78th Lightning
Division, to which Rathbun also
belongs.
N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1,
.Dance Expenditure
Gets Necessary Endorsemen
Teen-Age Boys
To Enter Here
January 27
War Training Dean
Announces Program
Dean F. F. Bradshaw of the
College for War Training an
nounced yesterday that the spe
cial pre-induction program for
16, 17 and boys who have just
become 18 years old will begin
on January 27 and continue on a
quarter basis on March 19, June
10 and September 20.
Admission will, be based on
high school graduation or by
special examinations. Officials of
the college pointed out that age
would be no prerequisite as all
entrance qualifications would be
based on academic standing.
Special examinations will be
given here on January 4 and in
the applicant's high school on
January 5 with December 20 set
as the deadline for submitting
the application blanks. Blanks
may be secured from the College
for War Training office or the
University admissions office.
Bradshaw warned that due to
the large nuiiiber of high school
students expected to enroll for
the training, housing and in
struction facilities may- notbe
able to accommodate the com
plete influx.
To offset this situation Brad
shaw said that "admission will
be according to date of applica
tion." Further information will
be released to state high schools
in the form of a special bulletin
together with the regular Uni
versity publications.
CWC Photo Contest
To Close Tonight;
Deadline Set at 6
The Carolina Workshop Coun
cil photography contest will close
at 6 o'clock tonight and prizes
for the winning pictures will be
awarded at the coming Sunday
night session, Karl Bishropic,
Yackety-Yack picture editor and
contest judge announced yester
day. The contest dead line has been
extended six hours to give stud
ents a chance to make final en
tries iafter classes today. Pic
tures must be turned in at Fois-
ter's with the contestant's name,
address, and the type of camera
used printed on the back.
First prize -of $5.00, second
prize of $3.00, and the two third
prizes of $2.00 each will be
awarded to students entering
the four best shots in the con
test at the Sunday night's ses
sion on December 6.
Bishropic emphasized the fact
that all students are urged to
submit their best prints to the
contest regardless of the num
ber of prints previously submit
ted or whether the picture was
taken during the contest period
or not.
Judges will be Dr. Paul E.
Shearin, photography instructor
of the physics department, Bob
Weiss of Wooten-Moulton, Ted
Croner, free-lance art photo
grapher, Sam Wallace, campus
publication . . photographer, and
Karl Bishropic.
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1942.
Coed Representatives
To Be Elected Today
Coed representatives to the
woman's honor council, the co-...
ed senate, and the student leg-...
...islature will be chosen today
in voting to be held at the YM
CA between 10 a. m. and 5 p.
m.
Nominees for the student
legislature post are Sara Yok
ley, Alderman and Mary Lou
Truslow, Spencer.
Running for the two honor
council representative offices
are Ann Galbreath, Archer
Frances Ferrier, Spencer; Kay
Roper, Spencer; and Beth
Chappell, Spencer.
Candidates for the seats in
the senate are Janet James,
Spencer; Kitty Flanagan,
Spencer ; Margaret Moseley,
Mclver; and Elaine Mendes,
Spencer.
War Chest Sum
Reaches $1200
SAE, S&F Lead List
Of Contributors
"War Chest money has reach
ed the $1,200 mark."
Bernard Moser and Harry
Comer, Chest heads, in releasing
this figure, added that from now
on they would publish daily to
tals "to keep students informed
of the progress of Carolina's
$10,000 War Chest Drive."
Two large contributions yes
terday made it the biggest single
day of the drive. Fifty-seven
boys of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity pledged $165 and
Sound and Fury turned over a
check for $175 to Chest officials.
This Sound and Fury sum was
the net proceeds from . "War
Chest Follies."
According to Moser, the men's
dormitory committee, named last
week as the "weak point in the
chain of collections," has had a
resurgance of activity. John Ken-
drick, head of dormitory drive,
has scheduled a series of dormi
tory meetings, first of which
See CHEST, Page 4 I
Raleigh Times
To Introduce
Promising to give a glimpse
"inside the cup", author of. the
"National Whirligig", Ray Tuck
er will give an off-the-record
speech on the news behind the
news in Memorial hall Saturday
night at 7 :45 p. m.', as the final
CPU speaker of the year.
John A. Park, editor and pub
lisher of the Raleigh Times, will
introduce the speaker and will
meet Tucker in Raleigh along
with Carolina Political Union
officials.
A nationally known newspa
per man, magazine writer and,
columnist for the past 19 years,
Tucker in his journalistic serv
ice at the capital has covered
every major event since the
Teapot Dome affair. His column
is being distributed by the Mc
Clure newspaper syndicate to
more than 200 papers through
out the country.
His report of the famous 1933
investigation of the House of
Morgan by a senate committee
prompted TBIE magazine to
INSIDE Students' Dr- Gra
ham takes realistic
world-peace viewpoint . . . Wood
house defines true democracy . . .
Moll makes '42 columnist debut
On Page Two.
Petition
JL
Council Acts
Today to Set
Voting Date
By Walter Damtoft
The petition to raise dance ex
penditures to $2500 was signed
by the necessary 10 per cent of
the student body by 12 o'clock
Saturday night and will be pre
sented to the Student Council
today so that it may be put to a
vote by the student body.
Over 400 signatures have been
; affixed to the petition and to go
into effect, it must be voted on
by at least 25 per cent of the
student body, a simple majority
of that number being required
to pass it.
The University Dance com
mittee at a meeting last night
approved the proposed amend
ment as it stands and went on
record as favoring it.
The amendment which was
drawn up by Sim Nathan con
sists of five parts which provide
that there may be one set of
dances each quarter the cost of
which may not exceed $2500;
that the University Dance com
mittee will authorize the group
that may sponsor the dance but
that all responsibility for man
agement and finances will rest
in the hands of that group ; that
such dances will be open to all
students and that ; the cost of
tickets may not exceed $5.00 ;
that the expenditures for no
See PETITIONS, Page U
Fraternity Frosh
Must Report
For Y-Y Pictures
Fraternities who wish to in
clude their freshman in the panel
of individual pictures in the fra
ternity section are asked to have
their freshmen report to Woot-ten-Moulton
this week, Jim Loeb,
managing editor, stated yester
day. It will be impossible for the
annual to have individual pic
tures this year for the Freshman
Class.
Wootten-Moulton will charge
See FRATERNITY, Page J,
Publisher
Tucker Here
describe him as an "ace report
er. Several articles written dur
ing the early weeks of the Roose
velt administration such as "Per
haps a Leader has Come," and
"Seven Days that made His
tory," brought "hundreds of let
ters and cables of commenda
tion from prominent people in
the United States and abroad."
A regular contributor to lead
ing magazines including the Am
erican Mercury during the Menc
ken regime, Collier's, the Coun
try Home, the New Republic, the
old Review of Reviews, and The
Outlook, Tucker "trys to lead
the readers behind the scenes."
His column,, articles, and
lectures deal with national and
international affairs, politics and
personalities here and overseas.
- "Members of the Pre-Flight
school," said Richard Railey
CPU chairman, are invited to at
tend the speech. The purpose of
a Saturday night program is pri
marily that of getting the cad
ets to attend."