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The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 5

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The Herald-Suni
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Durham, North Carolina
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ry State THE DURHAM HERALD-SUN SUNDAY AFRHS Iff IMS State SEC PAGE 5 yy NC Art Gallery Curator Enthusiastic Over Projects Survivor Of 1 March Of Death Returns Home Near Oxford CpI John Vaughan Hero Of Bataan Tells Of Three Years In Japanese Prison Cpmp introduced and that 275 fell by the wayside be said that too many of foe more important bills were not Introduced early enough in foe session to get proper attention He said that the organization known as Citizens Inc which pub lishes "We foe wee responsible in large measure for foe emasculated form in which foe State Hospital and Medical Care Bill was passed The university and other State agencies interested In foe welfare of foe people mug carry their fight to every "nook and corner of foe State if they hope tc get better treatment next time" He said the Attorney General's office drew about 90 percent of all bills Introduced and that tha private end local bills take up too much of the time of foe Attorney General's office Dial F-115 For Newspaper Service 6000 Af Carolina AHend Memorial Service For Graham Speaks At Impressive Rites In Kenan Stadium Chapel Hill April More than 6000 people including students faculty Navy trainees from all unite and townspeople gathered in Kenan Stadium at the University of North Carolina here today to pay" tribute to President Roosevelt In an impressive memorial service President Frank Graham paid a beautiful tribute to the indomitable courage of the Ad Valorem Tax I Coming Back Says Judge 0 Bowman Praises Work Of 1945 Assembly In Talk At Chapel Hill Chapel Hill April point to a small state ad valorem tax if the schools are given much more by the next session of foe Legislature than they are getting now Judge Frederick Bowman of Chapel Hill told foe Chapel Hill Rotary in an address this week Judge Bowman has been a member of foe "Third of foe Legislature for foe last 25 years as a representative of foe Druggists Bottlers and State Pharmaceutical Association and regarded as a keen observer of Legislative trends Should foe ad valorem tax not be adopted the only alternative as he sees it is for the counties and towns to assume any additional burden Judge Bowman gave high praise to the 1945 session "In hard work and sincerity of purpose it ranked as high as any Legislature in the last 25 he "That was doubtless due in part to foe fact foe Representatives were older men than Pointing out that 754 bills were Oxford April 14-CpL John Vaughan 31 Army a hero of Bataan a survivor of the of Death" and a prisoner of war of the Japanese -for three years has arrived home for a brief visit en route to Moore General Hospital Swananoah The big redhaired good-natured farm boy who put down plow shares four years ago to take up arms as a volunteer in the Army Air Force has regained much of the flO pounds he lost while serv ing with the "Lost Battalion" on Bataan and in the three years he endured the starvation diet and hardships of Japanese prison camps in the Philippines MISSED THE BOAT Today in relating some of his experiences Corporal Vaughan told how he the boat" on ae count of sickness and escaped with his life After Allied bombers began appearing with increasing regularity over Luzon last October the Japanese began rushing their prisoners to the mainland Corporal Vaughan had been detailed to leave in late October but he became ill and was left behind in the Bilibid camp where he was liberated Feb 3 The ship on which he had expected to be transferred to the mainland never reached port Corporal Vaughan has every right to be thankful for his liberation He is one of two men known to have survived from his outfit the 45th Ordnance Detached Air Corps and the other survivor lost the sight of one eye as a result of malnutrition During the three of his imprisonment as death claimed an average of five Allied prisoners weekly in his camp Corporal greatest and most constant fear was that he too would starve to death His muscles tinued to wither away from the daily diet of rice and a spoonful of ground salt "mostly he served about three times weekly The daily calory content of the food was estimated by physicians as 000 or about one-sixth the need Radiantly happy and immaculate ly clean in his new GI uniform after months In rags and the filth of enemy camps Corporal memory of events following the fall of Bataan still is crystal clear and he has a remarkably accurate memory of events and dates "MARCH OF One of the xxfost gruelling experiences of the soldier during his imprisonment was the 130-mile forced seven-day march from Bataan to Camp O'Donnell It was along this arduous march that Corporal Vaughan was fed one time by the enemy and' saw scores of his countrymen die of sheer exhaustion or at the hands of the Japanese as they sought food or drink "Filipinos frequently attempted to run into our lines bringing up he said they did so at the risk of their lives Many children were shot or bayoneted as they sought to bring us food and some of our men were shot as they crazed by hunger and thirst sought to get water from streams along the WEARS HANT AWARDS Corporal Vaughan on the right chest wears the Presidential cita tion with two Oak Leaf Clusters On the left he wears the Efficiency Honor Award Philippines Defense ribbon with battle star the Philippines Liberation ribbon with battle star Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with battle star the Good Conduct Medal and the American Defense ribbon While imprisoned Corporal Vaughan was located first at then at Cabanatuan dark Field and finally at Bilibid in Manila where he was liberated by the First Cavalry Division Feb 3 Corporal Vaughan is a son of Mr and Mrs Frank Vaughan of Bullock and he has a brother Cpl James Vaughan serving with MacArthur on Luzon He was unaware of the presence of his brother on Luzon before leaving for home Another brother Roy Vaughan wounded by an artillery shell in a four-day battle on Anzio beachhead has been discharged and is now employed at the post office here IIELENE TIRANOFF Equal Pay Suit In 5 Will Be Tried Wednesday Columbia April 15 The Second "equal suit brought by a Negro teacher in South Carolina will be tried in Federal Court here Wednesday that of Albert Thompson teacher in a Columbia Negro school against the City Board of Education Hearing the case will be Judge Waites Waring who presided over the first such case ever brought in the State which a year ago resulted in foe equalization of white and Negro salaries in foe city of Charleston Shop At Our Conveniently Located Store Kiley Paint Co In Front of the Post Office Bicycle Repair Service LOCKS AND KEYS MADE TO ORDER ROCHELLE SERVICE 495 Mangum St "COLLEGE Far Far all Mndenta preparing ta enter college later COMMERCIAL SCHOOL By A Calambla University Graduate Mondays Thursday Phone N-4Z21 same Dairy ntvtr CAN Miss Tiranoff Tells Of New Features Broader Services By 8HIRLET GROSSER Chapel Hill April 14 is our hope to develop Person Hall Art Gallery as a place of service to foe community instead of a storage house for dead things" Young dark-haired Helene Tiran-off spoke very seriously about her plans as new curator of foe University Art Gallery as she sat in her cheerful sunlit office in Person HalL believe it necessary to teach the layman as well as foe Miss Tiranoff went on "so that the Art Gallery can work right along with the other branches of foe university why Fm so enthusiastic about the new art class given in Person Hall every Saturday morning It brings the Art Department and foe Gallery into touch with other educational programs of foe Miss Tiranoff went on to describe several new features that have been introduced into the program of Person Hall all of which follow the theory an art museum should be an educational center as well as a retreat for intellectuals An informal Wednesday night art gathering is a special new feature to which anyone can come No charge is made The students pose for each other to save expense "I was delighted with the Miss Tiranoff said "The class met for the first time several weeks ago and nine people attended despite very little publicity" A third step in relating the museum to the problems of public life is the Art Studio Workshop course for therapists teachers and public given him by the Art Department Monday Wednesday and Friday evenings until June 15 Certificates will be given to students who com' plete the course and credits will be given towards a degree to university students Miss Tiranoff prefered to talk about the museum rather tyan about herself but when asked about her art training she said: "I guess only natural that I should start drawing when I was four My father and mother painted so my two brothers and I just followed along We were living in Paris then but we came to foe United States when I was five years old and my father took a teaching position at foe Edgewood School in Greenwich Conn "My father Alexander Tiranoff has exhibited In Paris in several independent shows and in a one-man show at a small New York gallery My mother paints too but just for her own enjoyment She has sketches and drawings of all of us children when we were After studying at the Edgewood School during her high school years Miss Tiranoff entered the Art League in New York where George Grosz Yasuo Kunikoshi and many other famed artists teach a wonderful said Miss Tiranoff enthusiastically not run along academic lines You're mostly on your own allowed to develop after your own Individual fashion think almost every great American artist must have taught there at some time "Next came five years at foe Museum of Modern Art in New York where I worked at the information desk with the visitors to foe museum I also worked with the Circus That's a feature presented for a month every Christmas Children were allowed to come every hour and use the facilities of foe museum for painting In general the children were allowed a great deal of freedom though instruction was given as necessary tha sort of thing I hope to do in foe children's art class The five years at foe Museum of Modem Art said Miss Tiranoff constituted a period of training during which she attended the many New York exhibits made the acquaintance of artists and their works and familiarized herself with the art world and its modem tendencies Her intimate knowledge of the New York art scene will enable Miss Tiranoff to keep Person Hall in touch with foe latest trends The use of only the finest milK the extreme care with which it is handled and our up-to-the-minute production methods are just a few of the factors that insure your getting Dies In France Lt Seymour Eugene Teer 27 son of 'Mr and Mrs Teer 1 of Chapel Hill Route 1 was killed in action over Frence March 27 according to a message received by his parents from the War Department Lieutenant Teer a member of the Army Air Forces has been in service for three years He has been in the European theatre of operation since last July Prior to entering the service he was dairy-farming with his father and brothers near the Orange Grove section of Orange County lieutenant Teer is a graduate of Hillsboro High School He is survived by his parents four brothers and three sisters Chapel Hill Students Stage 'Career Day' Chapel Hill April 14 Under the auspices of a Kiwanis Club committee the Chapel Hill High School held a series of conferences this week which they called to discuss vocational aptitudes and opportunities A Mathews was chairman of the committee who planned the day and the discussion leaders were: Lt Staehling of the Navy Pre-Flight School (technological) Don Matheson county farm agent (agriculture) Perry (military) Floyd Shaver (civil ser vice) John Woosley (business) Dr Rosenau (science public heatlh) Mrs Maaske and Mr Ness (fine arts) Mrs Heer (social service) Carson Ryan (law teach' ing and Joumaism) Prior to the conferences the students had answered a questionnaire as to what port of work they wanted to do after graduation from school or college Their replies had been tabulated and each student attended two' group conferences according to the preferences he had expressed At an opening general assembly Perry of the university faculty specialist in vocational guidance gave a survey of the subject of the conference The terrier dog has a number of breeds differing so profoundly from each other that the extreme types have hardly a character in common Mother's Frit mf helps bring ease and comfort to expectant mothers FRIEND an exquisitely pre-park! emollient la useful in all conditions wbare a bland mild anodyne massage medium la skin lubrication Is desired One condition In which women for more than 70 years have used lt a an application tor massailng the body dur-Inz pregnancy It hdpe keep the ekla soft and pliable thus avoid Inc unnecessary discomfort duo to dtyucse end tlshtnew it refreshen and tease the sun An Ideal mssseie appUeatloik tar the numb or burning eenea-tlone of the skin 7 far tbs tired beck muscles or 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Friend -the skis lubricant Iky it tooighl Preceding the service appropri ate music was played on the More-head Patterson Bell Chimes after which ell the Navy units including the Pre-Flight School cadets the NROTC trainees and the V-12 Marines and seamen filed into the stadium and sat in a body Following the national anthem played by the Pre-Flight Band the color bearers passed from the top of the stadium down to the front of the platform The invocation was given by the Rev Henry Ruark of the Methodist Church and the Pre-Flight choir sang "Rock of Chaplain George Cummins who arranged the program read the scripture and the choir sang the Navy hymn and the "Choral Call to Following President tribute Father Edward Sullivan gave the' benediction Representatives of the three faiths were seated on the platform Selections on the chimes played by Charles Stevens university student from Mount Gilead closed the service Britton Named Head Of Dramatic Group Chapel Hill April 14-CUfton Britton dramatic director of the Goldsboro High School was elected president of foe Caroline Dramatic Association for foe coming year at a business session of the group at the Carolina Inn today The meeting was a part of the program of the State Drama Festival which came to a close at foe university here tonight Mr Britton succeeds Mrs Florence Busby of Salisbury Sumner of Biltmore College was elected vice president succeeding Paul Neal of Belmont The following were elected to foe executive committee: Dr A West Duke University A Ana-tonakos Appalachian State College Miss Jinny Martin Hamlet Mrs Helen Hodges Jones New Bern Miss Ophelia Hooke Whiteville and Mrs Junius Rose Greenville Members of the Carolina Play-maker staff serve each year as exofficial members of foe committee and Miss Lynette Warren business manager of the Playmakers will serve again as executive secretary Pfc Edison Beal Of Sanford Back In Sanford April 14 Pfc Edison Beal son of Mr and Mrs Beal of Sanford who returned recently from overseas after receiving wounds in action several weeks ago in Germany has been foe guest of his parents for a few days Private First Class Beal who was awarded foe Purle Heart Oak Leaf Cluster Combat Infantryman Badge Four Battle Stars and foe Good Conduct Medal He is now at Oliver General Hospital Augusta Ga Another son of Mr and Mrs Beal Cole who has finished training at Fort Sill Okla spent a 12-day furlough here with hie parents before reporting to Fort Meade Md a few days ago Extension Meet Ends Raleigh April 11 UP) Twenty six newly-elected Negro farm and home agents of the State College Extension Service completed a five-day study course at St College here today Buy War Bonds and Stamps Today! 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