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VOLUME LI
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CHAPEL HILL, N. O, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1943
Editorial: T-Z1U. Nam: T-SIU. Ml 47
NUMBER 172
14 Die As Army Plaiie
Crashes At Newland
WASHINGTON, May 15
(UP) Early ousting of Japan
ese forces from. Attu, western
most part of the Aleutian Is
lands seemed assured tonight,
and U. S. military leaders al
ready were believed mapping the
next step in their campaign to
drive the enemy completely out
of the North Pacific.
NEWLAND, May 15 (UP)
A mum-motored, army air
plane crashed into the side of
Gingercake Mountain 14 miles
south of here and caught fire late
today killing all occupants.
Residents " of the area who
reached the scene after the
crash counted 14 bodies in and
about the wreckage of the plane
which was scattered over a 500
foot area on the wooded hillside.
US Flying Fortresses
Smash Northwest of Rome
ALLIED HDQS., North Afri
ca, May 15 (UP) Air Chief
Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder an
nounced today that U. S.1 Flying
Fortresses smashing 38 miles
northwest of Rome, struck one
of their deepest blows against the
under side of Europe.
Italy Mobilizes Forces
For Feared Allied Invasion
LONDON, May 15 (UP)
Premier Mussolini mobilized all
the forces of Fascism to with
stand an invasion as Italy's mili
tary and naval leaders bluntly
warned their jittery countrymen
that their defenses may not be
strong enough to prevent Allied
landing.
Pope's Peace Call Bolsters
Plans Of Allied Leaders
WASHINGTON, May 15
(UP) The Vatican's radio dis
closure that Pope Pius calls for
peace "but not peace at any
price," was looked on tonight as
strengthening the hand of Presi
dent Roosevelt and Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill against
possible Axis peace offensive.
Lewis Plays A Waiting Game
As New Strike Deadline Nears
NEW YORK, May 15 (UP)
With a new strike deadline in
the nation's soft coal fields
scarcely 48 hours away it ap
peared tonight that John L.
Lewis wants more, was playing
a waiting game and not until the
last minute- if at all would he
reply to a WLB demand for a re
sumption of wage negotiations.
Flying Fortresses "Sew"
Fire-Bombs On Nazi Targets
LONDON, May 15 (UP)
Flying fortresses smashing
American bombing records for
the third straight day, today
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Pre-flight Adds Military Note
With Open Door Policy To Seniors
This year's graduation will combine Carolina tradition with
"the condensation and simplicity necessary because of the war."
The regular three day commencement has been cut to two and
a half, and will start Sunday May 30.
Graduation begins with the baccalaureate sermon in Memorial
Hall Sunday at 11 a. m., conducted by Dr. Charles Maddry, for
eign missions secretary of thef"
Figures Jkiofcafe Carolin
Will Have 1,300 Meservisis
By Kat Hill
Preliminary tabulations of the trial registration of V-l, V-7 and Marine reservists and NROTC
students, plus approximately 700 Navy students expected to be sent in by the Navy, indicate that
some 1300 students probably will be included in the Naval Training Program beginning here July
1, according to a statement from Dean Bradshaw.
Results
Southern Baptist convention. Dr.
Maddry, a member of the class
of 1904, was born a few miles
outside Chapel Hill. For the Bap
tist convention he has travelled
all over the world. During the
bombing of Pearl Harbor he was
in Honolulu.
At 8:30 the Men's and Wom
en's glee clubs, the Chapel Hill
choral club and the pre-flight
school choir will join voices in
Joseph Haydn's "The Creation,"
directed by John Toms, starring
Brooks Dunbar and Miss Vir
ginia Blair.
Class and alumni day will be
Monday May 31. At 10 a. m. the
last class meeting, conducted by
Dean Francis Bradshaw will be
held. This meeting will be fol
lowed at 11:00 by a reception
for graduates and their guests
under Davie Poplar. The purpose
of the reception is to give par
ents and guests an opportunity
to meet the Carolina faculty. In
Swain Hall at 1:00 Dean R. B.
House will preside over the
Dutch luncheon for seniors,
guests and alumni.
The Playmakers will take over
graduation celebration Monday
See GRADUATION, page 4
Colleges May Now Contact
Alumni In Armed Services
Carnegie Foundation Offers
Program To American Universities
In order that alumni in the armed services who are stationed
in unfamiliar places might meet their .classmates and, fraternity
brothers, the Association of American Colleges is sponsoring a
program by which various colleges could keep in touch with their
alumni in the Army, Navy and Marines.
Calling for the co-operation of all colleges and universities con
cerned, this program will appoint a college alumnus in cities near
trainincr centers and camps to
BRADSHAW
camps
direct the College Registration
Service. This representative will
set up headquarters in a cen
trally located hotel and will keep
records of alumni stationed at
the service base. Visiting serv
icemen will register at this post
and in turn will find the names
and addresses of other alumni
of his university.
Plans for this program were
discussed in a meeting of alum
ni secretaries of several colleges
last January. This group launch
ed the orosrram. but it soon
found out that the plan was too
vast to be undertaken by such
a small band. In the trial attempt
fourteen universities established
registration centers throughout
the nation before asking all col
leges and universities to partici
pate.
When the College Registration
Service was recognized as a wor-
See COLLEGES, page 4
Degree Candidates
Degree candidates expect
ing to receive diplomas on
June 1 are asked by Dean
House and Faculty Marshal
Dr. W. M. Dey to meet Tues
day, 7:30 p.m. in Hill Music
hall for an "instruction ses
sion" how to form the acade
mic procession for the gradu
ation exercises at Commence
ment. The request of the senior
class that graduation exer
cises be transferred to Kenan
Stadium from Memorial hall,
voiced unanimously at the
senior banquet last Thursday
night, makes necessary a
change of arrangements which
will be discussed at the Tues
day night session. A full at
tendance is urged to eliminate
the necessity of later meetings
during exam week.
Fifty Boys Crowd Together In Dormitory Basement
Steele 'Breakfast Club' Has Dwindled
By Sara Yokley
Jiouse these student bus boys&fights, studying was all done next
The basement of Steele dormi
tory since last summer has been
the home of the "breakfast club" ;
it has housed the majority of
boys who work on the 5 to 8 a.m.
"sunrise shift" at Lenoir dining
hall.
In September fifty boys crowd
ed together in the basement, beds
were lined against the "walls,
clothes were stored everywhere,
hut the number has now dwindled
to a mere six.
Birth of Club
The club was born last summer
when boys came to work in Le
nir dining hall for their room
and board. Since the dormitories
wre full Mr. E. S. Lanier had to
where they could all be together,
all arise at the same early hour
in the morning. The answer to
their rooming problem was Steele
basement.
In September the club really
got under way. The boys elected
a house manager and made their
own
dormitory rules. Upstairs in
Steele there were few regulations,
but down below lights had to be
out at 10:00, radios had to be si
lent at 11. When the rest of the
dormitory was asleep at 5 a.m.
the breakfast club arose, and
went to Lenoir dining hall.
Life was different in the base
ment . . . no one sat up in all night
poker games, no one ever got into
door in Saunders hall.
Most of the boys were fresh
men who depended entirely on
Lenoir dining hall for their bread
and butter, yet they presented a
cross section of Carolina life.
Five of the boys played freshman
football, one was a member of the
freshman basketball varsity, sev
eral went out for track, one was
on the honor council, and a few
were interested in politics and
student government. They came
from all over the country
North Carolina, New York, Vir
ginia, the west and the deep
south.
But their differences made
See STEELE, page 4
Dr. Graham
To Dedicate
Open Theatre
The Forest Theatre will be
dedicated at the final showing of
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer
Night's Dream" tonight at 8 :45
as the 25th annual outdoor pro
duction by the Carolina Play
makers comes to a close.
Proff Koch, who today marks
the 25th anniversary of his di
recting Forest Theatre produc-.
tion3, will introduce President
Graham and after a few brief
words of dedication of the remod
eled theatre the final perform
ance of Shakespeare's comedy of
fairyland will go on.
Proff began his career as di
rector of the Playmakers forest
theatre productions in the sum
mer of 1919 with the presenta
tion of "The Taming of the
Shrew." Since that first produc
tion the theatre has grown con
stantly in size and elaborateness
and has gained for the Playmak
ers nationwide dramatic recog
nition.
Red Cross Trains
'Grey Ladies' Unit
Mrs. C. W. Hartshough, Jr.,
chairman of the Red Cross Hos
pital and Recreation Corps, has
under her direction in Chapel
Hill the training of a unit of
"Grey Ladies" for the naval
Pre-flight hospital.
The work of the "Grey Ladies"
is to visit the men in hospitals,
write letters for them, read and
supply books, and play games, or
otherwise entertain them. The
women chosen for this work are
picked especially for certain
qualifications, and then careful-
See LADIES, page 4
Although the compiled results are not complete, they form a
basis for curriculum planning for next year. The War College
now faces the problem of coordinating the University regular
quarterly run curriculum with the Navy trisemester curriculum.
Registration results show that students included in the Naval
program are asking for a varied and scattered number of courses,
. Civilian students will be admitted to the classes set up for the
Navy students. The Navy has asked the University faculty to
indicate courses which will be open in July for civilian students,
and the room in these courses over and above the needs of civilian
students.
Registration Breakdown
Of the total registrations, 65 are Marine reservists, 182 NROTC
students, 237 V-l and V-7 reservists. A hundred and thirty more
of these groups have either registered since tabulations were
made, or are expected to register before the Navy program goes
into effect.
Since the first announcement that the University had been
chosen for the site of a V-12 training program, speculation has
been focused on the exact number of men that would Jbe sent
here.
Early Figures
Early figures were low and lead to Bradshaw's statement in
March that the University "would not require the use of fra
ternity house space for service until November 1." Since then,
the number has risen until last month South building heads were
able to enter into negotiations with the fraternities for their total
living quarters.
Included in the V-12 program, which will form the bulk of the
1,300 will be the present V-l contingent, high school students who
qualified in. the recent Navy exam, and the NROTC.
No definite commitment has as yet been made by the Marine
Corps as to the establishment of a training base here.
SEC Offers Mozart Opera
Figaro" Singers Are All
Julliard School Graduates
By O. P. Charters
f Ail-American, born and bred,
The Juilliard Graduate School
was the meeting place of the
young singers whose new and ex
citing production of Mozart's
Marriage of Figaro" will be
heard here on Friday, May 21 in
Memorial Hall under the aus
pices of the Student Entertain
ment Committee. Their talents
had won them scholarships to
study at this school which had
produced such great Metropoli
tan singers as the tenor, Charles
Kullman and the mezzo-soprano,
Rise Stevens. Although young
the oldest member of the troupe
is now thirty they were even at
that time experienced troupers.
Summer Civilians
Will Meet Parker
All men undergraduates who
will be back at the University
as civilians, this summer are
asked to meet with Dean Park
er in the Horace Williams
Lounge of Graham Memorial
at 7:30 on Tuesday night. The
meeting will not last more
than thirty minutes.
they wanted to do something
about opera in America. Ger
mans hear their Verdi in Ger
man ; Italians hear their Wagner
in Italian. Americans are asked
to pay more money for opera
than any other people and to sit
through it like children at a
grown-ups' dinner who aren't
supposed to ask what the conver
sation is all about.
These young people were en
thusiasts for the Juilliard idea
that Americans couldn't be ex
pected to like opera unless they
could understand the words. But
there was another difiiculty ; most
See SEC, page 4
ehind It All
!
O By the tangential methodstween 600 and 800 spaces for stu-
of disclosing "registration fig- dents out in town. That should
ures," the administration indi-be ample room for the civilian
cates that 1300 reservists will
probably be here for the naval j
training program. The news, de
spite the circumlocutive release,
can be taken for the truth.
O It is not really news. Ac
quisition of fraternity houses
alone was adequate to forecast
definitely a much larger contin
gent than was originally prog
nosticated late in March by Dean
Bradshaw.
O For some time the adminis
tration has been working in or
der that this the second transi
tion the first was the absorp
tion of the Pre-Flight School
will not be so painful. Because
fraternity houses have been
leased, the housing problem, for
the Navy anyway, will probably
be taken care of. There are be-
men enrolled.
O The eating picture is not
nearly so clear or comforting. It
will take the full facilities of
Swain hall to feed the reservists.
Downtown prices continue high
and the labor problem becomes
increasingly acute. Fraternity
dining halls will no longer feed
500 or more mouths. Spencer
dining hall can be enlarged, but
only so far. '
O The only hope left is the
Graham Memorial grill. For
some weeks a special committee
has been empowered to act for
the Board of Directors in leasing
the Grill to Pre-Meteorology
School. Delay this long indi
cates that the committee will not
go through with the transaction,
that the Grill will be kept to feed
civilian students.