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Hews Brief Tripoli Woni; ' Eighth Army Nears Border ?0eTake Armavir, 12,000 More Nazis - CAIRO, Jan. 23 (UP) The victorious Imperial Eighth Army swept through . Tripoli tonight completing the destruction of Benito Mussolini's dream of em pire, and on toward the Tunisian frontier and the expected final battle against the Axis in Africa. MOSCOW, Jan. 24 (Sunday) Kur) soviet forces tonight re ported tne capture of Armavir, key junction point of the central Caucasus rail network and a mas sive rout of Nazi forces on the Voronesh front in which 17 di visions (about 255,000 men at lull war strength) were driven into full retreat and 12,000 pri soners swept into Russian hands. (V'T fo) a-7 X bc Tl v VC:' ft A ' vr INSIDE twent,wh . ; r"sv - On Pag Two VOLUMF TT : " - - bc CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, JANUARY 24. 194, -. I i . I "" " ' ' ' - F"141 Newis F-lu-i47 NUMBER 83 Army Mopping Up Remnants Of Jap Guadalcanal Forces WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP) The Navy reported to day tnat US troops are continu ing the grim business of mopping up the estimated 4,000 Jap sol diers still on Guadalcanal. Experts Predict Brightening In North African Campaign , WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP) An adjustment of North Aincan political affairs is in progress and a brighter picture of the Allied position in that crit ical war area is expected soon, in- iormed sources said tonight. Peru Plane" Crash Makes It Three Down in Three Days LIMA, Peru, Jan. 23 (UP) A Pan-American Grace air ways transport plane carrying six Americans among its 15 pas sengers and crew crashed near Ocona, Peru, Fridav. it was re ported without confirmation to day. EDWARD Flynn Investigation Continues on Floor of Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP) The Senate Foreign Re- lations committee today con tinued hearings on the qualifica tions ot .bdward J. Flynn to be minister to Australia after Flynn had assured it that he would not have permitted President Roose velt to appoint him if there had been anything dishonest in his past. Death Strikes in Lower-13 Of South-Bound Pullman Car EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 23 (UP) The lifeless body of See NEWS BRIEFS, page 4 I Dr. Shapley May Consider Revolutionary New Discovery Earned Astronomer arrives Tomorrow Dr. Harlow Shirio u - yH-Jj UilU- iamea astronomer and well known lonfn in ...... ivvmici. win srrn7ck ' MJLl Chapel Hill tomorrow to deliver me nrst of his three MpKiV w wiuu xures, tomorrow night at 8:30 m mil hall. Shapley, head of the TTarvvi observatory and recinient ,vf honors from almost evprv na tion in the world, will be intro duced at his first address en titled "Stars," by President rranicr. Graham New Discoveries Although he has given oflFiVialc no aavance notice of his tomV since he does not use a script, it is believed that his first - w UX win deal with the revolutionary new uiscovenes m the heavens, r"""" i tm i. j, . .I , , t i S j ' $ - - ' ' f ' I-' -- ' - ' i x . Tin-n ilia -fl. jT ;i Name MomMaMon' Gee J f -H 1 j to For liLl PU .Board Senior Post Schedule DR. HARLOW SHAPI.KV who will deliver the first of his three McNair series lec tures Monday night at 8:30 in Hill hall. Honor Roll Lists 318 Husbands Releases Fall Quarter Pick viiwo iAA uie neavens, uuicu axiu eignteen ana win be illustrated hv a shnrf students earned trrarfps Insf rta- - - VI ' UUl" "luvciuciua. i - uiw mem Ull me Uni- j vuiuci emu. xi . vv. uex. ujv Awuii, reieasea yes- MacNider, representing the Mc- terday by Ben Husbands, Uni Nair lecture series committee: versity Registrar. Dr. G. A. Harrer. Dr. ArvhihalH Of this ' v cj. c XI Ui 111 Henderson, Dean F. F. Brad- Carolina residents, while 132 shaw, Dr. George C. Taylor and were out-of-state students. Di ?. W. Waner, will meet the as- vided among the men and worn- ironomerat the Durham station. places go to coeds and 21 Q Smoker Planned to men, the total reach 10.8 per vu"ivi maitiug an ar- cmumnenu ior tne rangements for the series, at thp FaI1 Quarter. request of ailing Chairman Har- With students listed from 51 rer, also "announced that there Tar Heel State counties and 2fi "uu'u cn upeu sraoKer at tnej viic wuuwuon snows tnat vtii xiul uneciiy aiter to- """-fa xxtcs aim ociences mnrrnwr nln-Vi, jlleadS thf lief nrJVi 1KO ..J j.- " a ctuuiess unci for question period. Tuesday and Wednesday tne Zdrd McNair lecturer are well-taken up with luncheons. meetings and the remaining two lectures. Blocks and Stones Dean House will deliver the in troductory remarks for the Tuesday night lecture, "Stones :" and Dr. MacNider will Derform that duty Wednesday night when the address will be "Stumbling Blocks." The astronomer has received numerous medals and awards, atest of which was the Pope Pius XJ prize for astronomy, valued at 50,000 lire. CATC Drill Leaders Call Girls More Cooperative The women are on the march. Four times a week 85 coeds drill in the women's gym under the direction of Miss Phyllis Kelly, of the physical education department, Walter Damtoft, specially detailed bv the CVTC. and Kat Hill, member of the ad vanced group. Rapidly becoming a rival of the CVTC and the NROTC the CATC, Coed Auxiliary Training Corps, was formed here last quarter under the auspices of Lieut-CoI. W. A. Raborg, USA, Ret. The physical education de partment decided to establish it for two reasons : to provide valu able training for girls who may later join the women's auxiliary forces and to help in the develop ment of good posture. The CATC is at present divid ed into two groups, advanced and beginners. Lacking enough mem bers for a regular company the advanced group "is formed into two skeleton platoons and is scheduled to begin road marches in simulated drill next week. These advanced CVTC's drill in Navy blue skirts and white blouses. Overseas caps have been ordered to complete the uni form. Beginners, now numbering 65. are nut through verv elementarv drills only. As yet they have not been organized into platoons but report for practice in regular sniiads . 1 According to the drill leaders.! . :i tne girls are "60 to u ner cent more cooDerative than boys in tne LV1C and they learn. quick er, ihe only difficulty is that they are often bothered bv cor- rections and are sometimes too hesitant to take full steDs for fear of ruining the formations." Officers of the CVTC have written the Field Training Head quarters of the WA ACS. in Des Momes, lowa, ior mtormation concerning military courtesy among WAACS. As soon as this information comes through CATC officers will be desismat- ed t by corresponding WAAC titles. leads the list with 158 students. wnne second rank goes to the General College's 122. The School of Commerce placed 27 men and women to win third place, and standing fourth is the School of Pharmacy with eight. Other divisions of the Univpr. sity do not come "under the rat ings, since onlv undercrmrinQo classes are marked by letter grades. The requirement fnr eligibility to the Honor Rnll i --'-' at least 15 quarter hours of aver age grade B. The following students made 11. T-W . tne nonor Roll: Roger Gant, Robert Cook, David Ward tiw Taylor, Charles Hacknev. T,n Taylor, Cecil Hill, Mary Beakley, xane branch, Gloria Caplan, Richard B. Ford, Albert S. Dil lon, Mark L. Naiman, Patty Schartle, Charte a rat ienritzy. R. A. McHb, Riii - ' j , W--Aw.T ' a oieunens. j. A Thnmnsnn n A Norwood, VV. H. RpII r t? - - W Lowell, W. H. Shnf nrH n w Blair, J. M. Ruth, W. R. Thomn- Hamrick, Sara A. Newton, Griffin Smith, Phyllis Yates, Edward Farrow, T. C. Fitzgerald, L. A. Harper, Sara vi, U1U Godwin, W. H. Jordan M T? McKethan, J. H. Sherman s tvt" Wright, H. J. Philnnff 't. n Early, J. s. Algranti, J. H. Er-i win, Charlotte Powers w w Taylor, J. D. Young, S. D. Ben nett, D. B. Powell. D. G.' Nichol son, J. A. Bitting, W. W. Forrest, -tsannson Gray, Howard Gray, J Hardwicke. T. H. Jewpff j ' - - Wy v M. Johnson, W. N. Martin w a Simmons, Bobby Stockton. Fd. wm Walker, I. M. Davis. H. TT Allen, A. W. Graham, Herman Uone, Joseph Earnhardt. Melvin Gray, W. D. Johnson, K. S. Kel- ener, Marvin Mitchell. A K" Moore, Robert Perry-, F. W. Rosa. J. C. Smith, Patricia Able. Mar. celle Clark, L. C. Hayworth, A. S. napian, K. W. Russell. Willinm Webster,. Fagg Nowlan, S. C. See HONOR ROLL, page 4 Full Starts Monday For Mexicans Visitors to Study Teaching Methods Ten Mexican good neighbors. teachers of English in their na tive country, will step off the train A 1 tms morning m Durham and start on a whirl of activity that 11 . - will get them settled and readv . .... " to Degm their course of studv at uarolma. 'They will be met by Dr. and Mrs. Leavitt. J. C. Sitfprnn tvt. and Mrs. Russell tlrummafi. anH Mayor Bob Madrv renrpsPTitin or w it i w.-.. inapei mil and the Universitv. viso on nana to greet the five men and five women will be Dur ham Mayor Will Carr. Tour Planned After lunch at the Carolina Inn, the "summer school" stu dents will make a tour of the cam pus, including- the librarv' Phi , . . hall and Graham Memorial. An intensive orientation pro gram will begin Mondav with meetings scheduled for the Mexi cans with their instructors for the session and with President Frank Graham. $ x Kat Hill y 4 Summer Term Set for June Program Awaits Assembly Action 'There will be a bummer school quarter this year," empha sized Guy B. Phillips, Summer session Director, in a letter tn University departmental heads. Delayed by the University's war activities, the program for the Session calls for the first term to last from June 10 to Julv 20 with the second term to be held W A niM uuiyxto AUgUStZ7. wiocii aim tne luexicanos m j in o XL. .Estimate Planned will get started on the public speaking courses when thev meet at 9 a. m. President uraham will deliver the official welcome for the Uni versity later in the morning. Special Classes At noon, Dr. Hume's class in phonetics for the visitors will meet. A. C. Ryan of the Educa tion department will take over at A - -t F i.j-o p. m. and make arrange ments for the Mexicans to ob serve English teaching methods in the state's high schools. Field trips to representative prepara tory scnools are being planned. A meeting with English head George Coffman will wind un the crowded Monday schedule. Coff man win be in charge of demon strating college teaching meth ods to the ten Mexicans. They will probably sit in on many zee MEXICANS, page 4 From a study of errouDs who will be on the campus this sum mer, Phillips expects to have a fairly accurate estimate of their numbers ready within a short time. He stated that indications are that there will be a fairly large group entering the Univer sity as freshmen on June 10. No definite budget allotment has been made for the session, so final expense arrangements must wait for action on the Universitv budget by the General Assembly. l can assure vnn " mi;ii,v.c said, "that there must be a Quar ter of work provided for the sum mer of 1943." Surveys Conducted Department heads are conduct ing surveys of their facilities available for courses this sum mer, and are determi A t tu minimum number of rrmrse See SUMMER, page 4 Bell Announces First Coed Pick For '43 Election By Walter Damtoft The Student party remained the only main political group on the campus which has released nominations for the 1943-44 elec tions when Deane Bell, -nartv chairman, announced yesterday mat .atnerme Hill had been picked as SP candidate for senior representative on the PnK. lications Union board. Miss Hill, who is a rising senior, from New Bern, N. C, has been active in publications at the University since she ntere'd as a transfer from Greensboro College. She has been a reporter on the Daily Tar Heel, and an active writer for the Carolina Magazine. A resident of Alderman hall. Miss Hill has also been active in the work of the woman's division of the CVTC and is now a cadet lieutenant in charge of instruct ing recruits. She has. worked with the stn dent Entertainment Commitfee and helped to produce as well as act in the skit which was pre sented last Sunday night. This nomination makes the second one that the Student party has announced, the first be ing for the editorship of the Yackety-Yack. Campus elections which will he held on February 18 renresenf s new departure from the regular time for general elections. For merly they were held in the early part of the spring Quarter hnf. action by the student legislature two weeks ago moved their date up to next month. Press Association Gives Two Awards To Carolina Men Sullivan Began 'Iolanthe ' On Day of His Bankruptcy One of Gilbert and Sullivan's mubc successful operettas, "Io lanthe' will be given as the Stu J i T- 1 ueiii, n.ntertamment series ditional G&S production, under tne direction fv, - lUUll, ue partment and the Playmakers, on February 5 and 6. In the sprfng of 1882, Sulli van s mother died and to tv this blow off his mind." the com poser started writing music to a new piece suggested to him hv Gilbert. The result wa "Tr lainne or The Peer and the Peri," which opened November Zo, 1882 in London's Ravnv Theatre under rather harrowine- m circumstances for Sullivan rn that afternoon, the composer re ceived notice that the broker age firm, to which he had en trusted all his savin crs. bankrupt. Even though he led the orchestra that night, not one person suspected that Sullivan was a ruined man. Of necessity, ine operetta nad to be a success it was, as it ran for 14 months viiiuciL, disu, is at nis nest in Tolanthe." Nowhere in anv nf the operettas are his lvrics more deft in rhyme or more cantivat- ing in metre. Deems Tavlor noted music critic, savs "nn " J bert's characters are never quite human, yet thev share nne attribute with all the Little Peo ple, who have.no souls: thev do not die. licKets tor reserved seats to the performance will be obtain able soon upon presentation of either a Student Entertainment ticket or a Playmaker season ticket. In case a person possess es both tickets, he will, unon nre- senting them both, be given a Participating in the North Carolina Press association ron test for 1942, former editor of the Daily Tar Heed Jake Wade, now sports editor of the Charlotte Observer, and former DTTT Mnn aging Editor Will G. Arev. now on the Cleveland Times received honorable mention for outstand ing feature writing done during the year. The awards, an annual feature of the Press Association, were announced bv W. K. Hnvt nreQi- dent, and Russell Grumman, di rector of the University Exten sion division who managed the contest. Formerly the awards were an nounced at the midwinter News- . paper Institute, held in Chapel Hill and Durham, but the Insti- tutewas cancelled this year due i tu gas rationing. Winners of the four ton nrizes in the contest were Colonel Sant- tord Martin of the Winston Salem Journal, John Marshall and Jesse Helms of the Raleigh Times, and O. O. Barrino-er. Jr of the Rocky Mount Telegram. Each award was for $100. Martin was cited for the hf editorial of the year. Helms for the best spot reporting. Marn for the best feature story, and Barringer for the best n 25 cent refund. photographs.
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