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USC Graduate In T Relates Experiences Ensign Sapp's Story Told In Letter Home Ensign Claud N. Sapp, Jr., '43L, son of U. S. District Attorney and former Association president Claud N. Sapp, '11L, is fighting the Japs in the South Pacific. Claud, Jr., is an exceptional dove and quail shot, according to alumni friends, and on one occasion killed a running buck with a .22 caliber pistol, but some of his best shoot ing occurred last month 'during landing operations against a Jap anese-held island. In a letter received recently by his father he told of some of his experiences and also enclosed some Japansese money for his brother Joe. His letter follows: August 27, 1942 "Dear Dad and Joe: "First I hope this letter reaches you before the report or rumor, I don't know which, got out that we had been sunk, We were not. A ship, which I cannot, of course, name, with us got it and for un named reasons we were three days late in getting back to our base. "The last eight days have been something I'll- never forget. Of course you know by now that I am in the first major American offense of the war. "I will also tell you now that very seldom do the news broadcasts or the papers give you the straight dope on our victories or our losses. I can, however, tell you that in the campaign which you have been reading about and I have been in we have ginned plenty of hide off of Mr. Jap. I have at a certain place seen them piled up three deep on beaches and many a bloated one in the water. "We are laying too repairing ship at present. It is pretty bunged up, Students Are Warne Have Photos Mode B There Is Still Time To Order Garnet And Black "Deadline for student class photo graphs will be October 15," said Garnet and Black Editor Art Rob erts today. "We urge all students to get their pictures taken at Toal's studio on Main street as soon as possible to assure inclusion in the yearbook. Lack of essential metals for making photographic plates may cut out those who wait until too late to have their pictures made," Roberts said. Those who have not as yet paid for the 1943 Annual may still order one any afternoon, Monday through Friday from 2 to 4, at the staff of fice, at the rear of the Alumni build ing. For convenience, Toal's Studio will also accept payment for the annual at the samne time they take your picture, -Salvage (CONTINUED PROM PAGE 1) their various departments for metal arid will turn over unnecessary items to the drive. Last spring the government madle its first call on the University for scrap metal. The response was 14,318 pounds. Every bit of scrap that was found was turned over to the drive then and this secondl campaign prob ably will find only that which has collected over the summer. *RECOR I Columbia's Most Compi DIXIE RADI( U-NO-WE 1712 Main Street CUT RATE [ 1530 Mai C iick Of Fighting Battling Japs is are my boats, one of them hav ng 16 holes in the side of it. I wisi I could give you more -detail bu For obvious reasons I can't. All I :an say is that I don't think th< Japs are so damn smart as they are cracked up to be. They ar< cunning and treacherous, but no ;inart. They are as the papers say suicidal as hell. If you hit a plant he'll try to dive into the ship. "Now I have quite a persona story to tell you. I have had a Jap in the worst fix of any individua anc so far in the war. I caugh ne tied up so his arms were frc to handle his gun, in the top of a palm tree trying to reload his rifle [ was about 75 feet from the foo Af said palm tree with a Thompson 45 cal. sub-machine gun with 5( slugs in it. I cut down on him with a good long drag and down came Jap, cocoanuts, rifle and paIn thatch. He had two holes in his head and seven in his body. Wher I got back to the ship and starte to reload my chopper the drun still had 39 shells in it. In other words, I put nine out of 11 in said Jap. That's real liquidating. "On the other hand, I have als< seen the more serious side of th< picture. Boys you talk to one nigh all shot to hell the next or theil ship reported sunk. "The Marines are really making them pay off for Wake Island Very few prisoners are turned in "Well, call Mrs. Wyman up for me and tell her I have a Jap uni form, gun, knife, cigarettes, identi fication tags, pipe and enough Jap money to buy Tokyo when we ge there. "I remain, as ever "Plug (Claud N. Sapp, Jr. "P.S.-Next landing I'll try t< bust a Jap officer and get a Jap automatic pistol for you." Ensign Sapp's wife is the former Miss Irene Mars, A'41. d By Roberts To efore October 15 Students Asked To Buy, Sell Tickets To Music Festival The Columbia Music Festival has isked the co-operation of University students to help maintain the high quality of its concerts by buyine student season tickets which wil go on sale (luring the week begin. ning October 12. Any student in. terested in receiving a free seasor ticket may (10 so by selling tin season tickets of any price listed at follows: stone steps, $5.00; balcon) or dress circle, $10.00; andl arena $12.00. Included in the list of concerts and artists on this year's menu are the following: November 9, Gran< Opera, La Boheme; December 8 Artur Rubinstein pianist: Januar3 29, Rise Stevens contralto, -Campaign (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Also, Alva Lumpkin, Bill Timmons Mike Patrone, Wilton McKinney, Li onel Boyleston, Julian IUng, Calvi, McLaughlin, Luther McCutchmeon Tom Perrin, Bill Jones, liugh Hfan na, J. B. Hleatherly, Bill Blake, Jin Harmon, Fred Snoddy, Bob McNair Louis Sossamon, Bill Tennant, Bil Ellis, Ewart Shuler, Gordan Hill1 Buddy Black, Jay Hammett, Illowar< Lindsay, Rut Osborne, Red Balleni tine, Ed Boswell, Mart Smith, an< ~s. ete Record Department ) COMPANY NO - RADIO Phone 22103-04 RUG STORE n Street n Jhe Fights Japs ENSIGN CLAUD N. SAPP, JR. Former Athletes Now In Service Commando Squad Could Be Made Of Graduates Former University athletes now in the armed services would make up a good commando unit if they could get together. 1;ven front last autumn's squad you might line up this aggregation: ENDS: Steve Nowak, '43Ed. who is at the Army Air Force Replace ment training center at St. Peters burg, Fla., and Gus Hempley, '42Ed, who is now across one of the big ponds and poised for action. TACKLES: Bobo Carter, '44A, who is in a ground school of the air corps in Texas, and Robert George, '43E, who is in the army. (Carter sustained a severe injury not long ago while tuning up a plane, but is all right and back on the job now.) GUARDS: Bil Applegate, '42C, who is in the post finance offices at Fort Jackson under a limited service classification, and Joe Kriv onak, '42Ed, who was inducted at Fort Jackson in September. CENTER: Bob White, '42A, a bombardier lieutenant now in Eng land. BACKS: Stan Stasica, '4C, at Camp Grant, Ill.; Harvey Blouin, '42C, who is attending the Naval pre-flight school in Athens, Ga.; DeWitt Arrowsmith, '42A, some-. wvhere in the army; Buford Clary, '42C, who is at the U. S. Maritime Station, Sheepshead Bay, N. Y.; Tommy Attaway, '42A, an officer in the Navy; and Truman Hoxit, '43C, a Marine officer. Charles Sloani. The list of girls who helped in the campaign were: Sororities: Tri-Delt: Betty Crews and Flossie Anderson; Clhi Omega : Betty Berry and Nancy Von Kolnitz; c ZTA : Gloria Newlin; KD1: Mildred i Salmon and Isobel McCants ; Pi c Beta Phi: Anne Boykin and Jo t Thompson; ADPi: Shirley Brown and I lazel H-owvell ; Delta Zeta : Anne H-udson and Doris Murray; Sigma I Delta: Marie Fox andl Melba Ger- I gle. Sims, first floor : L.ouise Anderson I and Ann Dana ; second floor : Kate: Bull, Jo Lane, Sybil Ingramn and Do ris Sloan; third floor: Kate Smoot andl Clara Mae Richardson. Wade H amnpton: first floor: Kit H arris; second floor : Kathryn Win Iders and Mimi Wallace. Town girls: Jaudon Harley, Edith1 Sheridan, Louise Pendlergast, Ada Lee Duckett, Ethel Mae Harwell, I Nell Irhy, Mary Boykin, Mary Lou ise Gioudelock, Virginia Bracey, Theo dlosia Brown, Sarah Davies, Libby Lifchez, Mildred Brown, Barbara Ballentine, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Odell, faculty advisor. BEVERAGE COMPANY .* ROYAL CROWN COLA1 1211 ASSEMBL.Y STREET " A Good P1I THE GOOD Open All Night Wittowsky Dies At F Post Of Duty As Air Raid Warden Former Student Was In Greenwich Village When Death Occurred George H. Wittkowsky, '24A, 15L, '26G, member of the faculty >f City College in New York City, lied while on duty as an air raid varden in Greenwich Village Sep ember 30. While a student at the University e was outstanding in forensic ac ivities, and had a brilliant career in the campus. After graduation he aught at the University, received leave of absence to take graduate vork at Columbia university, and ater returned to Carolina as an in tructor. Before going to New York Mr. A Vittkowsky practised law with ,arolina Alumnus J. B. (Pat) Sc durphy, '13L, in Columbia. For a hort while after arriving at the .,otham city he was associated with nother University alumnus, John tuart Dudley, '14A, '15G, well :nown attorney in New York. I He began teaching in the City stat ollege of New York in 1937 and the vhile there was awarded the degree She of doctor of philosophy. Aik After a visit to Columbia last Co: rear he wrote to Alumni secretary A Zalph Lewis, "I was delighted at met he appearance of the University. Alp am tremendously proul of our hon >ld school." pre: Mr. Wittkowsky, born and reared L n Camden, is survived by his frot vadow, the former Miss Augusta Me Zembert of Columbia; his mother, was vfrs. L. A. Wittkowsky of Camden ab nd a brother, Dr. Cecil Wittkow- visi ky, '28A, who is a lieutenant in Va. he Navy. Art lic I NEXT ISSUE-OCT. 23 Colh "On The Alumni i-,-%nt" will " not be mailed to Alumni next week, for 'The Gamecock wil is not be issued on October 16. The Ari next issue will appear on Octo- Wi ber 21, Wednesday before the pre, Carolina-Clemson game, and wiU nty be sent by the Alumni Associa- and tion to regular alumni members and to Carolina men known to D( be in the armed forces whose addresses are "proved" in the B) Alumni Office. A4 roll Freshman Adds a b -leight By Exercise Wh the Hoselden Defenestration ,"T Planned By Roommate facd upr "Uhhhh l Uhhhhh I" groans Lloyd laselden, lanky six feet three inch ammerce senior as he goes through ui is daily series of stretching exer- U ises designed to add an extra inch a that diminished statue of his. pi And let it not be said that Hasel- Cla ten pursues his course haphassard- pri< y either for, on the contrary, he lon; ists on his bookshelf that wonder- ity vorking volume "Short Statues and jud leight Increase" which guarantees qua esults or the money back. dec Each morning as the sun arises ver Green street, occupants of ten- ma ment 27 abandon dream land as ful -laseldlen grunts over his dailies. aut Haselden .knows, for the book pri ell.s him, that early in the morning is he body is longer than it is in the api ifternoon. And as is his wont, he -- akes advantage of what exists, add- - ng to it, for only then can one ichieve ultimate success. thne An angry 27, boys disgruntled siz ver being disturbed at such an ex early hour would like very much to thr lefenestrate their amiable annoyer pa but dare not approach him for bra standing at the head of the stairs, bra ready for action, are A. B. Cole man, Monroe David, and Tom Per rin. And that steady front line of woI dlefense assumes its position each a f morning during the whole of Hasel- edit dlen's exercises. anc( our ali2 and ace To Eat" hen Y SHOPPE Phone 9166 On Foreign Soil ........ . . rmy Nurse Aiken rves In Ireland Jniversity Grad Given lost On Foreign Soil ,ieut. Martha Aiken, '33A, i! ioned in Northern Ireland witf United States nurses' corps. is the daughter of Mrs. Wyatl en of Columbia and the lat< igressman Aiken of Abbeville. t the University she was a nber of Pi Beta Phi sorority, o1 ha Kappa Gamma national orary leadership sorority and ;ident of the YWCA. ieutenant Aiken was graduated n the Presbyterian Hospital lical center in New York, and Richland county nurse for ut two years. Later she was ting city nurse in Richmond, When she volunteered for the iy Nurses' corps she was a pub icalth nurse with the District ol imbia Public Health departmenti Vashington, D. C. er brother, David Aiken, '40A, n traisiing at the Santa Ana iy air base, Santa Ana, Calif, en lie was at Carolina he was ident of Kappa Alpha frater vice president of Blue Key an officer in the German Club, ,Wn Whaley Lauds rnesAppointment Economic Chief Roosevelt couldn't have picked tter mani than Justice James F. nies," declared Prof. M. S aley, law school, University of th Carolina, in connection witl price stabilizationi program is statement is borne out by th< that there has been no fuss os oar in Washington over this ap. itmnen t. [For the first time, we have ied command on the home front to this time, there has been flict between Leon Henderson :e administrator, and Secretar3 ude Wickard in fixing farrr es. This controversy exists n< ger. Justice Byrnes has author to settle such disputes. Hi: icial background makes him wel lified to render these importan isions. justice Byrnes' new appointmen kes him one of the most power men in the nation, exercisinl hiority over wages, profits, an< :es of everything. His authorit: liniited only by the president' royal." Letters (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4) student activity fund provides tble amount to help defray you enses. You work your wa >ugh school by one method, news er and reporting, supposedl; ins, they by another, football an wn. sImost every, student on the campu aid feel lost without these boys ani sotball team and we feel that you orial toward thenm is uncalled fo l untimely and we wish to registe sincerest protest although we rec e this is a call into the wildernes this letter will probably never b rd of again. Yours, The boys of Tenement 1: T. E. Barton Lionel Boylston Bernard P. Ihillman Robert L. Jenkinis, Jr, Roger Kirk Jim Ratcliff' Palmer McArthtur Sam Allen Pont. Not Lt. William Scruggs Hope, '86A, '38L, of Charleston, is attending ha judge advocate general school at bo Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mid. Richard Orion Young, '49A, of Sumter, will graduate ,from U.S. N.R. midshipmen's school in New York on October 21. Charles Kenneth Grimeley, '29A, '31L, and Mrs. Grimsley of Flor ence, announce the arrival of Charles Kenneth, Jr. on September 21, 1942. William Marks Bray, '42EE, of Columbia, attended the California Institute of Technology for training in aeronautical engineering last W summer. He is now employed in (A the engineering department of the UP Douglas Aircraft Company's Santa W Monica plant. Ai Pvt. Wade Houston Atkinson, '41, of Columbia, is in the photo th school at Lowry field, Denver, Col- ha orado. His address is Bar. 666, tr3 T.S.S. 365, Lowry field. N an Charles Earl Simons, Jr., '37A, ta '39L, is practicing law in Aiken. He ev has a son, Charles Lee Simons, fr who was born August 20, 1942. Mrs. Marshall G. Ligon (Jean Campbell), '38Ed, is at home in o Florence for the duration, since her in husband is on active military duty W( in England. ol Cadet Edwin (Clem) Nowak, ofg '44A, can be reached at Langley H4 Barracks, R 221, Navy Pre-Flight w( School, Athens, Georgia. tio Lt. Sidney Duane Duncan, '38A, gl '40L, of Columbia, is statiuaned at P% Fort George G. Meade, Md., with in the 47th QM Co. He and Mrs. "p Duncan plan to be in Columbia for drf the Carolina-Clemson game. of Lt. Col. George Benet, '08A, formerly surgical consultant for the W University infirmary, has graduated wI from Carlisle Barracks, Penn. ne Capt. William Cuttino McNulty, Po '38A, of Columbia, is with the Ma- th rie corps at Guadalcanal Island. M Lt. David Lee Hamilton, '33A, "V '35L, of Chester, who was connect- rai ed with the judge etc advocate g e n- D eral's department at Fort Jackson C( for many months, hi has completed his Te course at the of necers' ordnance g school at Aber- ca deen, Md., and in has received his Un commission as shi second lieutenant. He is located cai iow in the Lfentagon building, Ar- H< lington, Va' Bi Ens. Landon Caldwell Jones, Jr., '34A, of Columbia, is assistant resi- '89 dent officer in charge of construc- ch tiona at New York Navy Yard, nii Brooklyn, N. Y. He says he hopes - to be in the "Sea-Bees" before long. M Lt. William 0. Farnam, Jr., '33A, .e is instructor of military law at of- riv nleer candidate school, Fort Bel- Mi voir, Va.M Major Harvey Daniel Lewis, '83G, who now operates from a famous old English Castle, the headquarters of an American gen eral, somewhere in England, ap pears in a group photograph in Life magazine of September 28.L Tb P PP7 es Lt. William H. C. White, '87A, s completed training as . a mbardier cadet and received his wings and second lieutenant's com mission in reserve at the Air Corps graduation cere monies on Sep tember 26 at the Air Force Ad vanced Flying school at Wil liams field, Chand ler, Ariz. k Ens. Fredgrick Francis (Dinky) illiams, '38, and Mrs. Williams largaret Rollins, '8) have turned in Alameda, Calif., where Ens. illiams is on duty at the Naval r Station. Ens. Williams writes: our missive of good will from ! world back on the east coast s been shuttled around the coun r-to Cambridge, then to the 6th tval district, then to Washington, d finally back here. It was cer nly good to hear from you; I en enjoy getting bills out here )m the east coast." Pvt. Clarence Wifson Henry, '41, Freeport, L. I., who is on duty the Pacific theatrec, writes that he iuld like to correspond with other imni, and requests a list of Car na men in the service. (Alumni ice note: Publication of Pvt. !nry's complete mailing address iuld violate censorship regula ns, but the Alumni office will -be td to forward mail addressed to t. Henry or other Carolina men uniform whose addresses are roved" in the records. Just ad -ss letters to be forwarded in care the Alumni Office.) Wade Edwin Eargle, '29, of 300 ashington Rd., Wilkinsburg, Pa., io heads up the- Industrial Engi ering department of the Trans rtation and Generator division of Westinghouse Electric and inufacturing company, writes: Ve build the large equipment for Iways, steel mills, mines, utilities, ., such as the P.R.R. and Boulder tm apparatus." Lt. William B. Farmer, '41, of olumbia, a new military pilot, won silver wings at Moore field, xas on September 6. rhe Rev. James Nelson Mont mery, 'lOG, who has been held stive by the Japanese somewhere occupied China, returned to the iited States recently on the Grip alim, and is expected to visit the rnpus within the next few weeks. is now at 4240 Clairmont Ave., rmingham, Ala. Lt. William King Richardson, A, of Columbia, is with a para ute training regiment, Fort Ben ig, Georgia. Mrs. Carl Anderson, Jr., (Florrie rie Burgess, '41A), was mar d on August 2, 1042 and is now ing at 1607 Poincianna Ave., iyfair, Huntsville, Ala. Eat SHACK'S* MADE IN COLUMBIA * FRESH DAILY Printing Binding Engraving Lithog raphing e State Co. rinting Dept.. PHONE 2-3393