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Hews Briefs Yankee Troops Drive Forward Against Nazis , Jap Plane Losses Delay Off ensive ALLIED HDQ., N. A., April 26 (UP) American forces were reported driving on Bizerte today with the Germans in re treat, -while the British First Army knocked-out 20 axis tanks in a continuing violent armored battle in the central sector. It was announced officially that the axis has lost 66,000 men in Tunisia this year. GENERAL MacARTHUR's Hdg., Australia, April 26 (UP) Military observers believed to day that heavy plane losses in recent "feeler" attacks on allied bases in New Guinea may have caused the Japanese to postpone or cancel plans for a southwest ern Pacific offensive. Steel Helmet Saves Life Of Lieut. General McNair ALLIED HDQ., N. A., April 26 (UP) A steel helmet un doubtedly saved the life of Lieut. General Leslie J. McNair, com mander of the US army ground forces, who was wounded severe ly, but not critically while watching American troops in action on the Northern Tunisian front, it was revealed today. Navy Denies Ranger Lost In Mid-Atlantic to Sub WASHINGTON, April 6. (UP) The Navy today claimed it a lie that German planes tor pedoed and sunk the $20,000,000 US aircraft carrier, Ranger, in the middle of the North Atlan tic. "Neither the Ranger nor any other US carrier has been sunk or damaged in any ocean" a Navy official said. Special Judiciary Committee -Moves To Broaden Inquiries WASHINGTON, April 26 (UP) The Senate judiciary committee today decided to broaden its inquiry into govern ment handling of war informa tion to include the regular press conferences of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox. The committee already has listened-in on a regular press con ference held by war information director Elmer Davis. Government Sets-Up Machinery To Settle Bituminous Dispute Undated (UP) The gov ernment moved quickly Monday in setting-up machinery to settle the bituminous coal mine wage dispute through War Labor See NEWS BRIEFS, page 1 Memorial Hall Received 98 Marble Tablets And Hard Benches From Its Predecessor Building Opened In Fall of 1931 By Kat Hill Memorial Hall, now shared jointly by the Pre-flight school and the University, received as a legacy from its predecessor a jinx, some hard uncomfortable benches and 98 marble tablets of dedication. The new hall was de dicated in the fall of 1931, exact ly 138 years after James Hilton trudged from the Cape Fear and presented himself as Exibit A, the first student to enroll in the University of North Carolina. Often criticised as a disgrace to the University, Memorial Hall was completed in the fall of 1931 after its builders had run thrfcugh a $180,000 budget almost 'as though it had never existed. Guiding geniuses behind the 157 VOLUME LI Bvslnva and Circulation : SMI Carolina, Tiye-Day Bond Drive Leaders Set $1,800 Goal For Campaign Division Chairmen To Organize Units The campus-wide bond drive, organized to sell at least $1800 in bonds and stamps, will begin Wednesday and last through Sunday, May 2. The goal of the drive is to buy a field ambulance priced at $1780 and as many Ga rand rifles as possible. War bonds and stamps can be bought throughout the drive from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the lobby of the YMCA. Turk Newsome, chairman of the war bond committee, an nounced last night members of a sub committee who will canvass dormitories, sororities, fraterni ties, and town students These See LEADERS, page U New Bombardiers Promise Japanazis Hell from Heaven Huge new classes of young Americans who have spent 12 weeks raining practice, bombs on replicas of enemy ships, dock installations, truck convoys, oil refineries and munitions facto ries today took the first step to ward the real thing as gradua tion exercises for bombardier "Hell from Heaven -Men" were held simultaneously at the three schools of the vast West Texas Bombardier Triangle. Wings Among those receiving silver bombardier wings and commis sions as second lieutenants in the Army Air Forces was sec ond lieutenant James A. Bryan, Carolina alumnus. In twelve weeks of intensive training, these bombardiers have learned, from the ground up, the art of blasting enemy objectives. They have studied the construc tion and fall characteristics of every known type of aerial mis sile. They have learned to load and fuse their own bombs. In addition to dropping hundreds See BOMBADIER, page I ffeet long, 104 feet wide construe-' tion were Atwood and Nash, ar chitect and engineer of the day. The outside of the hall was paint ed dull cream to harmonize with other anti-bellum buildings on campus Old East, Old West, Gerard Hall and South. A 59 foot portice is supported by six huge granite columns, Gothic in style. Inside, the .smoothness of the white ceiling and walls is broken only by the circulator .. ventila tors. Capacity The hall seats 1850, 1200 in the main auditorium, 650 in the bal cony. Termites have given the place up for good, as the only wood to be found in. Memorial Hall is in the doors and casings. Those seats in the hall were not a part of the original plan. When the money.ran out they were tern- CHAPEL HILL, N. - .Minister Phillips To Take over Post Formerly Held by Armstrong Dean R. B. House Announces Appointment Of New University Director of Admissions Guy B. Phillips will assume the duties of director of admissions, recently vacated by Roy Armstrong, Dean of Administration R. B. House announced yesterday. Armstrong's duties add to an already extensive list of posts Phillips is now holding down. At the present time he is supervis ing final planning for the Summer Session and acting as its Di rector. He is also at work on thef College of War Training as the executive officer of the five month old Carolina unit. In this post Phillips is responsible , for coordinating the Navy's college training program, the War Col lege training program, the pro posed Civilian College program, the speed-up schedules at the University, the all-year high school program ,pre-induction schedules and the Women and War training program. In line with the policy of ad mitting special students not yet 18, Phillips will continue to sup ply secondary schools with bulle- Lino ci j. in. vixii. iiuuiiaauuii vsj.1 plan to provide a maximum of education" for the students in that age group. - These multiple duties probab- Committee Meets Tonight To Plan for Senior Week Plans for the traditional senior week for the class of 1943, to be held next week, will be formulated tonight in a meeting of the class's Senior week committee. The group, together with all offi cers of the class, are scheduled for a 7 o'clock meeting in Horace Williams lounge. President Bob Spence named the members of the group yester day, and urged his fellow-officers. to attend the meeting. Celeste Phi Meets Tonight To Debate Measure Debating a bill that would grant extra power to the president of the student body while at the same time curtailing to a degree the power of the student legisla ture, members of the Phi assem bly will meet in regular session tonight at 7:15 in the Phi hall on,the fourth floor of New East. Speaker Speaker Pro-Tern Frank Earn See PHI, page U Dearth Of Wood Defeats Termites porarily substituted for opera chairs. As the possibility of an appearance of a $15,000 lump sum sinks further away, the sub stitution has ' probably become permanent. The benches were salvaged from the first Memorial Hall, and therein lies another story. . First Hall The first Memorial Hall was a coffin-shaped old building des cribed by those definitely in the know as hoodooed. Near the com pletion of the building, the build er died of a sunstroke. Two as sistants committed suicide soon after its completion. But the jinx didn't stop here. There was the young man who climbed the flag See MEMORIAL, page 4 C, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1943 peaks' -Here I ntTYT t ttio i ly give to Phillips the most com- plex and varied job of any of the See PHILLIPS, page A Hamrick and Hurst Hatch head the committee which includes Joe Harper, Cecil Hill, Gene Stuart, Freddy Calligan, Mary Lib Mas sengill. At meeting time only feature of the week definitely set. was the Class supper to come Wednesday or Thursday. Spence stated that the festivities for the week would be limited only by "the appro priation set aside for this event." Last year, the Red Norvp band climaxed a Senior Week that in cluded Music Under the Stars, Saddle Shoe Stomp and the Junior-Senior softball doublehea der. The leap year principle of "girls dragging boys as well as boys dragging girls," was the keynote of the week and served to make it "highly informal." Carolina Alumni Get Army Wings RANDOLPH FIELD, Texas, April 26 The power and fury of the Army Air Forces was strengthened today as hundreds of Uncle Sam's new fighting pi lots, ready and eager to hit Hit ler and Hirohito where they can feel it, were graduated from the AAF Gulf Coast Training Cen ter's ten advanced flying schools. Numbered among the new pi lots are five from the Universi ty of North Carolina. They are Lieut. Walter J. Palawske, Lieut. Roeford G. Dixon, Lieut. Hardy L. Thompson, Lieut. Marshall T. McRae, and ! Lieut. Beverly P. Burrage. Representing every state in See CAROLINA, page U Editorial: F-8141. Nnnt r To Open Ambassador Will Address Campus from IMC Stage Going south for the first time in his four years in America, Henrik de Kauff mann will arrive in Chapel Hill today to address the campus in Hill hall tonight at 8:30 p.m. under the sponsor ship of the International Relations club. The Danish minister in Washington is expected to give a vivid picture of 'his country's status at present and in the post-war " world. In view of his thirty-four 1 Jj TT -mm. V;IICU JLAUllUXcUJ Taps Members In Ceremony Valkyries Choose Eighteen Women Five senior and 13 junior co eds were tapped and initiated at dawn this morning in the Arbo retum by the Order of the Val kyries, highest honorary society for Carolina women. Seniors Senior initiates were Patsy Miller, Pat Henritzi, Aita Epps, Betty Etz and Sarah Justice. Juniors were Kay Roper, Pug Upchurch, Betty Seligman, Nan cy Smith, Cissie Chesnutt, Beth Chappell, Janet James, Mary Lou Truslow, Dot Schmull, Margaret Pickard, Lee Bronson, Sue Bru baker and Nancy Deshawn. Mrs. Martha Johnson was, an honorary initiate. The new members were tapped before sunrise in their rooms and led to the Arboretum for the ini tiation ceremonies. Breakfast in the Episcopal parish house fol See VALKYRIES, page D Medical Alumni To Hold Meeting Alumni of the University Med ical School will hold a meeting at 12 :30 May 11 during the con vention of the North Carolina Medical Society at Charlotte. Dr. Corbett E. Howard of Goldsboro, president of the Med alumni, will preside at this spe cial meeting. Dr. H. L. Johnson of Greensboro is vice president and Dr. E. McG. Hedgpeth of Chapel Hill serves as secretary. Dean W. S. Berryhill and others of the Med School faculty will attend, in adition to J. Maryon Saunders, executive alumni secretary. History Repeats Itself ... Several Playmakers Will Work Once Again On Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream Ten years ago the custom of spring Forest Theatre produc tions by the Playmakers was re vived with the presentation' of a Midsummer Night's Dream. Next month's, production, in a mod ernized, more fully-equipped Forest theatre, has as two of its leading characters two members of that cast ten years ago. In 1933 Marion Tatum played the part of Helena, the supposed lover of Demetrius, and Foster Fitz-Simons played the part of Lysander, who was supposed to be in love with Hermia. Of course by the time Puck got through with them everybody had been or was in love with everybody else, but the effect must have been lasting to a certani extent be LATE FLASH: Carolina's Tar Heels smashed an ineffective VMI squad, 20-5 in Lexington, Va. yesterday. F - S148. F-S14T NUMBER 155 n a it it Tomorrow ! years of service in seven foreign lands in his country's legation, "he may be counted on to have a wide store of inside information on world events." Diplomat Termed "the most envied dip lomat in Washington," he ranks with King Christian X as his country's most revered citizen. A graduate of the University of Copenhagen and Oxford Univer sity, he speaks fluent English. De Kauffmann served in the German legation, in Italy where he witnessed the rise of the Fa cist party, in China, Japan, Siam, and Norway before coming to this country in 1939. The minister is a vigorous Na zi opponent, and as such has been robbed of his property in Den mark and prosecuted for high treason by the coalition govern ment. Works With US Kauffmann engineered the fa mous April 9, 1941 agreement with the United States for the protection of Denmark's huge arctic island Greenland. In so do ing he acted without official leave, since he had been repudiated by his Foreign office. The agreement again brought an order to return home, but with the approval of Roosevelt and Hull, he remain ed in Washington as official spok esman for free Denmark. Through frequent radio mes sages to his people Kauffmann encourages them and "keeps alive the democratic ideal." Speed The Kauffmann speech will be the second from a representative See IRC, page -4 Invitations Thursday is the last day that Commencement invita tions may be ordered at the table in the YMCA. All invi tations must be purchased be fore then, and paid for upon ordering. cause Fitz-Simons and Miss Ta tum became Mr. and Mrs. "We have advanced a genera tion in half the time," says Fos ter. "Ten years ago we were young lovers and now we are in the more mature roles," he ex plains. Foster has taken on the addi tional role of set designer for the current production. He is now at work on the details of a fanci ful set design to fit the dream theme of the play. Selden Professor Samuel Selden of the Dramatic Art department was set designer for the. show of ten years ago. Professor U. T. Holmes, now See HISTORY, page 4
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