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May Queen Pageant 5)P See Page Three UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SIX PAGE EDITION TODAY CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY Volme XLI, No. 40 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA APRIL 29 104'7 { who was chosen last week by the I May Queen. Penny will reign over the complete story on the May Day lease turn to page three. iations Set For .y, Bradley Says ations for seniors will be given 2-3, Dr. F. W. Bradley, dean en annually by the Carnegie rposes. The different ratings he country are considered. Co-Eds May Place Room Reservations Till End Of Term Currently enrolled co-eds at the university have no preference over new students in the selection of dormitory rooms now that last Saturday's room priority deadline has passed, Mrs. Arney Childs, dean of women, announced this week. However, Dean Childs points out, room reservations for girls may be placed until the end of the current semester. Mrs. Childs reports that ad vance reservations from incoming co-eds are running ahead of those made this date last year, when approximately 200 girls had to be turned away. Graduate students and those now residing in Columbia, who wish to live in the dormitories next fall, must place their names on a waiting list in the office of the dean of women, Mrs. Childs states. No fee will be charged and no advance reservation need be made. Assignments to these students will be made when vacancies occur from the beginning of the schol astic year. Statewide Spelling Bee to be Held May 5 For S. C. High Schools The university wlU be host to contestants in a statewide spell-4 ing bee sponsored by Wilton E. Hall, publisher of the Anderson, Independent and the Anderson Daily Mail, to be held May 3. Dr. Orin Crow, dean of Edu-] cation, has been named as a com mitteeman In an advisory capacity to work on the plans for the pro gram. The contest is open to high school students who will be under 16 by the date of the bee. The county winners are to receive a large standard dictionary and prizes to be donated by merchants and organizations in the counties. The winner of the state-wide con test will receive a trip to Wash ington, D. C., with all expenses paid and $40, to compete In the I National Spelling Contest to be I held there on May 29. handling the radios. A 90 days I guarantee is given with each ra- 1 dio repaired.4 enior xami on~~~~ FrdyadSaudy"a Pictured above is Penny Jennings, Carolina student body as their 194 the May Court on Thursday. ForI Pageant and the coronation ball, p Senior Examii Friday-Saturda The Comprehensive Examin on Friday and Saturday, Ma of the faculty, has announce These examinations are gi Institute for comparative pu for schools in all sections of t On Friday morning, May 2, from 8 a. m. to 1 p. in., the first ex aminations will be held. It is to cover all the fields of general edu cation, with a rest period to be given in the middle of the session. The examination given Friday afternoon from 3 p. m. to 5 p. in. will cover the second half of the tests on general education, with the examinations of Saturday morning covering. each senior's chosen field. All seniors will receive notice through campus mail by tomor row, giving the place and seat assignment for the examinations. Any persons who are prevented from taking the examinations on the specified day, will receive no tice on Monday telling them where and when to report for their tests. . Seniors having previous engage ments of an important nature, are requested to eport to the Univer sity Personnel Bureau, ground floor of McKissick Library. The Bureau will assign such students a definite time and place for the examinations during the following week. Class absences igcurred while taking the tests will .be excused. In the examination room, each senior will be given an approved excuse card to enable convenient and prompt completion and filing of the record of excused absences. Notice Ottis Kelly, university mar shal, reports that there will be a sufficient number of rooms on the campus during the summer months to accommodate all male students who intend to return and who are currently enrolled on the regis trar's books. Room reservations must be made no later than May 10. USC Canteen Installs Radio Service For Students' Convenience The Universny Canteen, with its ever-expanding services to the students, has added another de partment to take care of the grow ing needs of the student body. A pick-up and delivery service for radio and phonograph repairs has been arranged through the co operation of Whitey Rawl and Harvey Anderson, a Carolina alumnus. The service, begun this week, is now available with no charge for pick-up and delivery to all stu dents. Radios left at the canteen dill be picked up twice daily, with 48-hour service assured. Through the courtesy of the canteen, there will be no charge for the addi tional work of its persnnel in Saltonstall To Address I.R.C. Meeting Here Leverett Saltonstall, United States Senator from Massachu setta, will deliver the opening ad- " fress at the conference of the Southern Council on International Relations, which will be held at the university May 11, 12 and 13. rhe subject of his address will be, "Our Foreign Policy." Senator Saltonstall is a gradu ate of Harvard University, fin ishing in 1914 with an A.B., and in 1917 with an LLB. He received his LLD at Northwestern Uni versity in 1936. He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1928 to 1936, and was speaker of the house from 1929 to 1936. He served one term, 1939-44, as governor of his home state. He was a first lieutenant in the World War In 1917-18. The first meeting of the con ference will be held at the Trin ity Episcopal church at 8 p. m., i Sunday, May 11. Speakers for the remaining two days include Ellis Briggs, Mal- 1 colm W. Davis, Charles Nutter, William Stone, Lady Worsley- 1 Taylor and Clark M. Eichelberger, Dr. Guy Snavely, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and numerous other educators, representatives of official agencies of foreign coun tries, and a number of public of ficials. The conference will consider im portant contemporary problems of United States foreign relations dealing with political, commercial and cultural matters. Considera tion will be given to our relations with Russia, Latin America, our foreign trade program and the promotion of international under- I standing. These subjects will be t discussed in address, luncheon and dinner meetings and in the ses dions of the conference committees. The public is Invited to attend all of the general meetings of the conference and the committee ses sions. Alumni Of Sumter Organize Chapter At Recent Meeting Sumter County has formed a I Carolina alumni chapter, accord ing to an announcement by Ralph t Lewis, executive secretary of the t Alumni Association. r Hugh Stoddard was elected 1 president; Clint Brogdon, first i vice-president; Mrs. J. Rion Mc- c Kissick, second vice-president; and Miarshall Hildebrand, secretary and treasurer. The elections were held it the'annual meeting of the thirdt ludicial district.1 "My Health Is Bettei Invaluable Collectioi By JANE DOWE Have you a yen for the open ipaces when the first autumn frost t ippears? Do you start at the men ;Ion of quail or Bob White and yonder what's good for "chig rers?" Then probably you are a nember of Dr. Havilah Babcock's >rder of Misunderstood Husbands,r >f which he claims to be secretary ~ md treasurer, as well as chair nan and president, and the year ound woes he relates in his recent y published book, "My Health Is 3etter in November." h Doctor Babcock's book is an C mutobiography of experiences with e: ypical South Carolinians, as well s an amusing, true picture of his u mnting and fishing experiences. tl is he says, "South Carolinians r) Ion't pick a day to go fishing; n hey pick a day now and then to a tay home." g Hunting, he says goes further han the shooting, for, at his al Sumter street menage," he feelsy bligated to cook his catch. Un- a: ileasing results bring a cover of ec ravy-. t< After twenty years of hunting a: xperience, Doctor Babcock has a ~een knowledge of how to achieve ti eat results and of the oddities e liscovered. To find Bob Whit. 1I Campus Again TO john Temple 6 Will Address a John Temple Graves, II, widely read Southern newspaper com nentator, editor, and author of 'The Fighting South", among )ther books, will speak to the tudents of the university this 'oon at the Chapel. Graves is a member of the edi ;orial staff of the Birmingham Age-Herald, and writes a daily !olunin, This Morning, which is t syndicated feature in news papers throughout the South. He is described as "an economist >y nature, a lawyer by education, t historian by training and a writer and a speaker by profes iion." Graves was born at Rome, Ga., n 1892 and attended Princeton Jniversity, the University of the louth, and George Washington Jniversity Law School. During the first World War, ie served with the field artillery. University Play Tonight As Seco Winners Announced By Euphradians Of Declamation Contest George Stanley, sophomore, was 1 leclared winner of the annual Eu hradian Society Declamation con ests held at last week's meeting. is speech, rated by members and ritics, as the best gwen in Eu hradian Hall in maey years, was The World Crisis and Christ." Bill Goudelock, with an excerpt c rom one of the speeches by ormer Secretary of State Byrnes, vas runner-up. In the debating confest, Carlton )wen and Tom Stubbs gained t 'irst place with Bob Outlaw and E lob Cordes as runners-up. Judges for the contests were rof. H. C. Davis, Archie Lewis, t and Dr. John McConaughy. I 'atterson Award t Ramon Schwartz, president of s he society, has announced that i he Patterson Award, given to the cost outstanding senior member, F vill be revived this year. The I ward, which Iwas discontinued luring the war, will be presented r .t the graduation exercises Tonight's meeting will be a smoker" for all male students of he university student body at p. in., in the society hall. r In November" Is i Of Sports Stories he most missed bird in America, e advises fellow hunters to gos rhere the birds are, not where hey ought to be. Stay near home sr your hunting, so that domesticb rorries won't spoil your aim. Did you know that, according to a abcock, clothes pins make fine alt for the bass at Lake Mur-v sy and that, in training bird dogs, a lood will always tell? Everyone a ill enjoy reading about Muffins, b ie bird dog that was independent, nd about other dogs that he had I ast as much trouble training as a has with university students. '] un-shy dogs can be cured, too, he iplains. - Eye-catching chapters, such as Gun-shy" and "Crappie," form j3 iirty-five individual stories of t oector Babcock's experiences with n an and beast during his hunting* c nd fishing adventu,res in the Is outh. Isi His native Virginia and his dopted South Carolina play their S art in his narrations, too. With b n original and lively pen, he has f< >mbined humor and philosophy r< create a book that sportsmen ti ad city-lovers will enjoy. I Perhaps you will be desirous of ti te sympathy guaranteed to all ho feel and say, "My Health Is a etter in November." lass Elect Jay As S raves, Souther ssembly at 12 JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES ars To Present rnd Offering C "The Drunkard", described as i moral domestic drama in five icts, will have its second and third resentation locally tonight and omorrow night, respectively. The >remiere performance of this, the econd dramatic offering of the Jniversity Players this semester, vas held last night for the benefit f the faculty and invited guests. The two remaining perform nces are open to the general pub ic, Prof. M. G. Christophersen, lirector of the Players, has an ounced. Students will be admitted ree, and town people will be barged 50 cents admission. The university gymnasium has een converted into an 1890 bow ry music hall to afford an ap 'ropriate setting for this time ested drama. The play is being nacted on a platform on one end f the gym, with the acts being troduced by Irene LaBorde, mis ress of ceremonies, last seen ereabouts in the title role of "An igone." The audience is being eated at tables around this plat orm, while such prominent fac lty members as Prof. R. M. Ste han, Prof. John McConoughy and lean Francis W. Bradley are act ig as waiters serving refresh tents in keeping with the moral one of the play. Phillip BernMake is seen in the itle role of Edward Middleton nd Kay Whittaker appears as fary Wilson, the heroine. The art of Lawyer Cribbs, the villain, being portrayed by Roy Lind. Also taking a prominent part re: Allen Watson as William [iddleton, Sara Pinckney as Miss pindle, Winnie Lee as Mrs. Wil n and Marian Rodgers as Agnes. [ort Bernanke, Lacy Butler, Jean 'avis, Helene Stein, Griffin Camp ell, Irene Krugman and Richter [oore are making brief appear neces in minor roles. The Players are presenting a ariety of vaudeville numbers such Sa singing barbershop quartet sd tumbling teams to entertain ~tween acts. public Affairs Forum 'o Discuss Closed hop Acts Tonite at 8 Earl Britton,- labor leader, and ugh Agnew, state official, will ad the Public Affairs forum to ight at eight o'clock i n the hapel. The topic 1s- "Should auth Carolina outlaw i closed iop by legislation?" Britton is the president of the auth Carolina Federation of La r, an office which he has held >r the past four years. He is di ~ctor of the Amtrican Federa on of Labor in both Carolinas. ugh Agnew is the president of re South Carolina Farm Bureau. Members of the faculty as well i the student body and the pub e are Invited. ions To I tudent Cot n Columnist, Noon Today I At the conclusion of the war, he was a member of the American Peace Commission in Paris in 1919. He later served as editor of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Times and the Jacksonville Journal. Since 1929 he has been a member of the editorial staff of the Birmingham paper and is an associate editor of the Southern Agriculturist. Graves has been a leader in Southern fights against steel price discrimination and against the Democratic Party re-apportion ment in this section. He is con sidered an expert in his discus sions of things Southern and the problems of life and living in our section of the country. His book, "The Fighting South," traces the history of Southern characteristics through stories of its great statesmen to explain what these tendencies signify. 'The Drunkard' f Semester Forms Issued By VA To Vets Returning For Summer School The Veterans' Administration I Office at the university has issued to veterans now enrolled, forms to determine the number re turning to Summer School and Summer Term. This information is being com piled to facilitate the registering for the summer sessions and to prevent the interruption of sub sistence checks for those continu ing in school. Veterans who attend summer school from June 8, 1947 to Au gust 2, 1947 cannot receive unin terrupted subsistence as the thirty day accumulated leave would not be sufficient to cover the time that elapses between the end of summer school and the beginning of the fall term. Veterans who attend the sum mer term from June 5, 1947 to August 31, 1947 may request leave for the two-week interim provided they have adequate leave accumulated, thus avoiding an in terruption of training if they are returning for the fall semester., Annual leave accumulates at the1 rate of two and a half days per month while in training, about ten days per semester, but may not exceed thirty days.' Any leave taken reduces the period of en titlement for training by the num ber of days taken while not actu ally attending classes. LeaveI blanks are to be mailed to each veteran before the end of the sum mer term. Graduate Student Speaks On Spies At Rotary Meeting~ George Curry, London, England, Tan Hsi Wu, China, and Andreas Abadjis, Greece, graduate stu dents wvere guests of the- Colum bia Rotary Club at a recent meet ing. They were introduced by Dr. W. H. Calcott, dean of the gradu ate school. Curry was speaker at the meet ing, having as his subject, "The Spy in Fiction and in Fact." Curry related many incidents and ex periences of his service with the British Army Intelligence Serv ice. He stressed the fact that the life of an espionage agent is not as glamorous in real life as it is in fiction, and that it really amounts to hard work and luck. He told of the counter-spy work of the Germans and said that the Nazi intelligence service was often hampered by lack of training, but chiefly by the lack of equipment. Curry attained the rank of ma jor in the British Army and Is an exchange student, majoring In his tory. Founded 1908 le Runoff mcil Acts Class Leaders Compile List Of Violators By MIKE KARVELAS Class elections for the 1947-48 sophomore, junior and senior class :fficers will be held once again today at the Omicron Delta Kappa ircle. Polls will remain open from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m., and will be inder the supervision of the Stu lent Council. Runoffs, if neces ;ary, will be held tomorrow at he same time and place. With the results of last week's :lass elections nullified because f "illegal voting, stuffing of >oxes and confusion," necessary ?recautions have been taken by he Council to make this an effec ive election, Fred Brogdon, re :iring student body president, has nnounced. New voting lists have been com iled from the YMCA office files, isting sophomore, junior, and ,enior class members separately nstead of the entire student body n one list. This is intended to 3revent students from voting in nore than one class section as was .he case in many of the ballots ast in last week's elections, Brog Ion stated. Candidates who have been sit ing on pins and needles for the ast seven days awaiting their olitical fates, will find them elves in the running once more oday. Al Bahret, Don Grant, Ed vard McMillan and Gene Spears ire the candidates for presidency >f the senior class. Joy Conard, 3arbara Dukes and Laura Rob rts are running for senior class ice-president. -Betty Moore, Betty uth Stephen and Elinor Howell iave been nominated for senior ecretary-treasurer and Jean Wal ace for historian. In the junior class, candidates nclude Robert George, Don Smith md Tom Williamson for presi lent; Margaret Eleazer, Charlie raines and Gordon Able for vice iresident; Jean Lumpkin, Claire 'arler and Darian Robertson for ecretary-treasurer; and Lynn look for historian. Sophomore class candidates are: teginald Mattox, L'Artigue Riley, ,nd Ben McGuinn for president; 3etty Brody for vice-president; Lnn Mood for secretary-treasurer nd Maxine Todd for historian. lonor Council Lists Campus interest in today's elec ions has been diverted somewhat y the tabulation of last week's lection results by the freshman, ophomore and junior class presi ents in an effort to compile lists >f persons who voted illegally. Pete Hlyman, freshman presi lent, reports that the names of 45 reshmen have been placed on his ist for violating "election ethics" nd that they are now awaiting he registrar's approval. Ed Salee y, junior class president, has al eady received the registrar's yern ication of the 28 names appear og on the junior list. These two, long with John Roberts, sopho lore president, are expected to ubmit their lists to the Honor 'ouncil some time today with the (Continued on Page 6) Carolindar TUESDAY, APRIL 29 Student Assembly, 12 noon, Chapel Clarlosophic Literary Society, 7 p. mn., Clariosophic Hall Euphradian Society "Smoker", 7 p. in., Euphradian Hall WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 Sophomore Y Council, 1 p. mn., Flinn Hall Booster Club, 4:30 p. mn., Flinn Hall Kappa P1 Art Fraternity, 5 p. mn., 3rd floor, McKissick Li brary THUR SDAY, MAY1 Y Cabinet, 1 p. mn., Flinn Hall Swimming Pool Open 4-4 p, U. Greenville-Carolina (Ulub, S:3 p. mn., 101 Legare FRIDAY, MAY 2 Senior Y Council, 1 p. a., Flimn Hall Carolina Christian Service Club, 7 p. m. Flinn Hall