VoL 20, No. 24 Munitions Plant In Carrboro Is Now Operating Community Delighted at Having an Industry Again; Majority of Employees Local People PAYROLL TO RISE WHEN THIRD SHIFT IS ADDED • _ The National Munitions Com pany has put its shell-loading plant in Carrboro into operation and is turning out shells for the Navy. V >■■■.... •■>*•> , r . . ■ « - tin, - ’ ''* • f~- '■» * • »* • • r • • - company, but it is . understood that the number of persons now employed is somewhere around 125. It is expected that the num ber will be increased soon by the • addition of a third shift.' The majority of the employees are women. Because the labor force has b(H*n built up day by day, the (jay rolls m these first two weeks ot operation do not reflect a normal operating schedule. Last week the amount paid o.ut to'wage earners was perhaps $2,000. It is thought that the payroll will mount to between $4,000 add $5,000 a week after the third shift is added and all three shifts are fully manned. The Carrboro community, which suffered severely from lhe closing of its textile mills sev eral years ago, is delighted at having an industry again. Most of the labor force has been re cruited in the town and the near by country,* so that it is the home folks who reap the full advantage of t he payroll. For months before the opera tion of the shell-loading plant tjegan, Carrboro benefited from the expenditures by the com pany on the reconstruction of the factory building bought from the “Durham Hosiery Mills, on the construction of new buildings, on the building of storage structures an,d fences, and on street and road i mprovenients sl7l for Relief Fund L. ( . Smith l{«-p if" t Tie n't a i'd' Mr ig-yPs terday. The band’s sleeping quarters are to be in the basement, which Chuck Erickson at Annapolis Chuck Erickson of the Univer sity’s coaching staff went to An napolis this week to begin a one month training course leading to •the commission of lieutenant in the Navy’s pre-flight training program. Erickson, who was graduated from the University in 1931, was a star halfback on the football team. He has been an assistant coach in both var sity and freshman foqtball for the last ten years, has been var sity backfield coach for the last three years, and has been head golf coach since 1934. Admiral Foote on Visit Here Admiral Percy W. Foote, who is now in command of the inspee-' tion of materials for the Navy in the Houston, Texas, district, was in the- village at the last week-end. He came and re turned by plane. His son. ah of ficer in the Army, is soon to he stationed at the camp at Black stone, Va., about a hundred miles from Chapel Hill. The Footes are keeping their home here. Faculty Club Luncheon • The Men’s Faculty Club will have a luncheon at 1 o’clock Tuesday at the Carolina Inn. All men in the Summer School fac ulty and all members of the staff of the Naval Pre-Flight School are invited. Whoever is to come should notify the Inn by tele phone, several hours in advance if possible. The fee is 55 cents. CHAPEL HILL, N. €„ FRIDAY. JUNE 19, 1942 4 naval pre-flight training school | and other parts of the war-work j program,-. One of the reports that spec ially interested the commission was that made by R. YV. Rost, ■ head of the chemistry depart ment. Chemistry has art inti mate connection with production for war, and Mr. Bust told of im portant investigations that were being made for the government in tin* laboratories here. A. E. Ruark made a report on the phy sics department, which is also concerned with investigations, bearing on the war; and other (department heads briefly re viewed their activities. | Toward the end of the meeting Dr. William de B. ’ M-ac.Yider. head of the department of phar macology in the medical school land former dean of the school, land now the senior member-of the faculty in active service, made an earnest appeal to the commis sion not to weaken the faculty '(Continued on page two) Ready for the Negro to Flay for Naval School is mostly above the ground level and so has plenty of light and air. The main floor is to l>e used for practice and also as a social room. The authorities of the Pre- Flight School have expressed the hope that it may he possible for Chapel Hill negroes to make j some use of the building, at the same time that it is used for the hand. After the school is dis banded-—when that will he de pends upon the duration of the i war—the building will be turned lover to the negro community J here^ . Women’s Motor rorps - Ml Wlut V\ i*h t<> Join t nil Should Notify Mrs. Hoy Homewood :Vtl-' U , Vl mTn-pvrt-pft - in t II' looming members of the Bed Cross j Motor ( orps to be organized here should get in touch with Mrs. Roy 'llomewood, whose telephone number is 9546. Mrs. Home wood is directing plans for the new corps. In issuing the call for women volunteers, she said: “Members of the Motor Corps will wear uniforms and will have officers. The organization will serve both the armed forces and the civil population. They will he called on in time of civil dis tress or disaster. "To be eligible for ttie Motor Corps a woman must have com pleted the 20-hour standard Red j Cross first aid course, the 10- fhour advanced first aid course, and the motor mechanics course. Several Chapel Hill women are I now taking the mechanics course, j Others wishing to do so should notify me as soon as possible.” Weil Gives University SI,OOO Lionel Weil of Goldsboro has given the University SI,OOO for the establishment of a collection of classical books and materials in memory of his wife, the late Mrs. Ruth Weil. Mrs. Weil was a devoted student of the Latin language and literature and was a champion of the classical studies in the schools and col leges. (’apt. Hamilton at Key West Captain Alfred Hamilton of the U. S. Army Medical Corps is stationed at Key West. Getting Along Archibald Henderson was 65 years old Wednesday. Chapel Hill Chaff j There.was something in this column ■ recently about coasting to save gasoline. Soon after the paper came out, several acquaint ances stopped me on t he street to tell me that coasting was illegal. I suppose I should have known this,, but I didn’t. One of my in formants . was Walter Cutter, I who is an official of the highway safety division of the state’s |motor ..vehicle bureau. He said that every state whose traffic laws ihe was familiar with forbade coasting and he felt sure the ;n .i, ; ii <' was iUrt’-;p in all states. My article told of the.case of a I Lhiiversity professor, living out | in the suburbs, who found that the lay of the land made it pos- I sible for him to coast a mile on the I trip from the campus to his home. I 1 raised the question of whether lor .not the re-starting of the en \ gme. when you get to the foot ot | the hill, used up enough gas to wipe out the saving on the down hill ride. Now I find this same question asked, and answered, in j the Baltimore' E verting Su nin an article headed: “Does Coasting Save Mileage?’’ j The writer in the Baltimore | paper says he asked J. C. Snuill ! wood, internal combustion engine expert in the Johns Hopkins Uni versity school of engineering, if coasting was worth while. 'The expert’s answer was: “1 do it.’’ The article continues: "He said that the practice of coasting in neutral/with the en gine turned off, involved a de gree of hazard when done by un skilled or careless drivers; for the momentum of an automobile coasting in neutral is not as quickly controlled as that of a car traveling with the drag of an engine in gear; the engine, in (Continued on lant /nige) Sewing Room to Reopen Red Cross Needs Volunteer Workers to Help Make Garments : ~ .. . • • VI t < Cr;i nt < > hum an nounced yesterday that the Red j Cross sewing room would he re opened next Tuesday, June 23, On the second floor of the Epis copal parish house and issued a call for volunteer workers to help with tin' sewing to U* done there this summer. She said that the room would be open from 9 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. every Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday. The work will !>e supervised by Mrs. Oscar Hamilton on Tuesday's; Mrs. I>. I>. .Carroll, Wednesdays; and Mrs. (J. A. Harrer, Thursdays. Mrs. Graham is general director. i • I The sewing room’s summer quota, to be finished by Septem ber 1, consists of 100 girl’s woollen skirts, 100. girl’s woollen dresses, 60 boy’s outing shirts, and 25 boy’s whipcord overalls. The sewing room’s quota for the year ending June 1, 1942, was exceeded by a wide margin. About 150 women helped with the work during the year. Movies Today and Tomorrow “Song of the Islands,” with Betty Grabie and Victor Mature, will be at the Carolina theatre to day (Friday), “Private Buck arou,” with the Andrews Sisters, will be there as a late show’ at 11:15 tonight and as the regular show tomorrow. Woollen at Navy Air Station Charles T. Woollen, Jr., lias re ceived a commission as lieuten ant, junior grade, in the United States Naval Reserve .and has reported for duty at the Navy Air Station at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Contract Let for New Road to I Airport, and Construction Is To Be under Way within Few Days The New,Judge Henry A, f Whitfield ? whom- the board* of' aldermen last week elected judge of the recorder’s I j court tp succeed Andrew Mcln tosh. began his judicial, career | Tuesday night. His first session was held at night instead of. at I the usual morning hour because' j the superior court was in ses sion in Hillsboro throughout the < «»i ' Mr. YY bitfield is tilling an un expired term that will end next May. He has not said whether or not he will -Ua.nd fori 'elect ion j 1 for tHe ensuing regular two year term, but it is generally supposed that he will. The new judge will be 51 years old in September. He was i admitted to the bar in 19-15 and left his practice in 1917 to go j into the Army. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Ith reg-* iment of the third division, he! ■served in France, in the Aisne) and Marne campaigns and at Chateau Thierry. Mr. Whitfield married Miss Mary Gattis in 1919, and they l 1 have one son and three daugh- i j ters. I Army Officer Explains Low Flying of Planes Major H. B. Harris came up! from Fort Bragg one day this w eek to quiet the Tears of Chapel Hiilians who have been alarmed j by the low-level flying of big military transport planes oven the village in the last few days. “We have received a number, of letters of complaint from I Chapel Hill about these low-flying j planes,” he said, “and we want! i the people here to know that the | planes are being piloted by train-; jed men who know what they are I idoing and not by foolhardy boys' |out showing off. _ “ flu- . l tvl- thr- ports at and around the Chapel Hill airport are part of a pro gram of condition problems be ing conducted in the Carolinas area by the Air-Borne Head quarters at Fort Bragg. The na ture of these operations often j makes it necessary for the planes j to approach an airport at low al-! I titudes “Since the operations over ( hapel Hill will In; continued and probably stepped up, we hope the people here will realize that the men flying the planes are receiv ing valuable war training and that the flights don’t constitute a serious danger to people on the ground.” ( hapel Hiilians in Army Albert Buskin and Paul Eu banks were among the Orange county draftees accepted Gy the Army last week at’ Fort Bragg: Mr. Eubanks returned home lor the ten-day furlough which is optional for newly-inducted men. John Parker and Arthur Woods, both of whom recently volun teered, have also been inducted Fort Bragg- They expect to take training leading to commis sions. ——————— —y. * Johnson Gets Another Degree Gerald YV. Johnson’s latest honorary degree—-a D.C.L., add ed to a Litt.D. and LL.D.’s re ceived in other years—was con ferred upon him by the Univer sity of the South at Sewanee, Term.,, at that institution’s re i cent commencement exercises. On the same occasion deliv ered the address to the grad uating class. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy Right of Way inside Corporate Limits to Be Provided by Town and University THE SURFACE TO BE OF TAR AND CRUSHED STONE The new road to the Horace YViljiams airport, kept in the blue print stage since it was first ! planned about two years ago be cause the national and state and town governments could not •:iutie :o an agreemnm on u, is now .‘Vssnred. The state highway commission let the contract Mon day, and construction of the ap proximately two miles of road is to begin within a few days. The aldermen removed the last bar to .the project at a spec ial meeting Tuesday morning by . 1 voting to pay half the cost of ob taining the section of the right lof way within the limits of. j Chapel Hill, The University will a ; pay the other half, j The road is of military value, 'and the national government | agreed, some time ago, to put up the money required for the con struction if the state would pro | vide the right of way. The state’s regular rule is that, when it builds a road, any part of the right of way lying inside an in corporated- town shall Ik* pro vided by the town, and that is why it’hapel Hill -was called upon to 1 be ar part of the cost. I I’wo houses a short distance north of North street stand with |in the right of way, and these | properties will either be bought 'jy the town and the University lor will have to be taken by con idemnation proceedings. | Sta rt ing all he co r ner of No rth iColumbia and North streets, the new road will veer off northward, oil a diagonal to North Columbia iStreet. It will follow a straight line for about a mile to Bolin’s, jereek, which it will cross on a. concrete-arch* *d culvert a Unit (Continued on pa ye two) War Aid for Russia Relief for the Soviets t<> Be Din- Monday in Hill Hall A rally on the subject of war I relief for Russia w ill be held at |B:3D Monday evening In the Hill | Music hall. The program will in clude brief talks on “Russia’s Place in the United Nations” ami two newsreels made in Russia, “Russian YVomen in the YVar” and “Russia’s Millions Mobilize.” Funds for medical aid to Russia will be solicited. This rally is part of a drive be ing launched here to raise funds to help the Russians in their vast - battle against the Germans. Some of the sponsors of this drive are Mayor John Foushee, Rev. Charles M. Jones, Rev. J. M. Gulbreth, Rev. Gaylord P. Al baugh, Rev. YV. J. McKee, Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, Frank P. Gra ham, R. B. House, Roland Par ker, Guy B. Phillips, N. B. Adams, John M. Booker, Mrs. Isabelle Carter, J. N. Couch, J. F. Dashiell, Louis Graves, Paul Green, Guy B. Johnson, Mr. and • Mrs. YV. M. Prince, Mrs. A. C. • Burnham, Phillips Russell, Mrs. R. H. YVettach, Mrs. L. C. Mac- Kinney, Andrew Bershak, and Thomas FT Andrews. . * An Outdoor Band Concert The All-State High School Band, composed of students tak ing the University Summer School’s high school music course, will give an outdoor con cert at 5 o’clock Sunday after-, noon under the Davie Poplar. I Earl Slocum will be the director.