TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Murder I rial Begins
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opened here yesterday.
Both Solicitor WillianTB. Mur
dock and Sheriff Latta have stat
ed that they want the case tried
this term and there have been no
indications ' that further continue
ance will be allowed or requested.-
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Murdock has said he will ask
, for a first degree murder verdict,
which carries the death penalty.
Judge Hunt Parker of Roanoke
Rapids will be on the bench of
the historic 106-year-old Orange
County courthouse for the trial.
Last week the courtroom was
"dressed up" for the anticipated
several hundred spectators. It re
ceived a fresh coat of paint and
new floor covering.
Sheriff Latta has quoted Lee as
raying he was so drunk on the
night of the murder that he did
not remember where he had been.
" Much of the State's case is ex
pected to rest on circumstantial
evidence.
At the time of the slaying Lee
was working on a road construc
tion project near Cary and drove
through Chapel Hill twice a day.
Witnesses claim they heard
screams for help from a green
Ford truck.
The area in which Miss Crook's
' body was found showed signs of
.struggle and possibly she scrat
ched her slayer. At the time of his
arrest Lee was reported to have
had several scratches on his body.
Lee has a criminal record of
previous attacks upon women. In
November, 1941, he was charged,
according to Alamance County
court records, with attempted
rape. He plead guilty to assault
-on a female and prayer for jurg
rnent was continued.
(The Crook murder was term
ed as a sex slaying at first, due
to a. roll of bills found on, the
corpse and . the position of the
clothes and body. Whether, the
.autopsy report, made by Dr. Mar
garet Swanton, University of
North Carolina pathologist, con
tained any information as to
-whether Miss Crook had i been
criminally assaulted has never
been "revealed. No-attempt to re
port was made at the preliminary
inquest.)
Lee was an employee of Nello
Teer Construction company of
Durham and company records
show . he was a steady .worker.
George Guthrie, his supervisor,
has stated that he detected noth
ing unusual in Lee's Work dur
ing the week between the mur
der and his arrest.
A native of Union Springs, Ala
bama, Miss Crook came, to Chapel
Hill in 1930 to enter the Univer
sity, where she worked for a Ph.D.
hi economics at various intervals
for 12 years. She had completed
all of the requirements for her
degree except the thesis when she
decided to operate a small flower,
fish, remnant and pecan shop,
known as "Crook's, Corner",
near the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
town limits. She received her pe
cans from a 820-acre "plantation"
in Alabama, on which her father,
Rev. Davy Crockett Crook, briga
dier general in the Army of -the
Confederate States of America-
had lived before his death.
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Sawyer and Robert M. Gantt have
given no indication of evidence
they will present as a defense.
Joker Ignites
Man gum Roof
The last day of exams prov
ed to be too much of a strain
for one frustrated Carolinian.
Firemen received a call from
someone with a name sounding
like "Jefferson" to put out a
fire ' on the roof of Mangum
dormitory at 7 o'clock Satur
day night. No Jefferson is list
ed in the student directory.
When the truck "arrived,
firemen saw that a practical
joker had placed a road flare
on the roof near the 'fourth
floor hall window opposite
Emerson Stadium.
After removing the small
kerosene lamp, . they asked
fourth floor residents what
had happened. Nobody seemed
to know who did it, why he
did it, and where he'was.
Also none of the Mangum,
residents ventured t o say
whether they had tried to take
the flare off the roof before
calling the department, fire
men indicated.
"Communists should not be '
permitted to teach because they
are unable .to teach objectively
and are therefore incompetent
teachers," Vr. Louis O. Kattsoff,
chairman of the philosophy de
partment here, said yesterday.
Dr. Kattsoff made this state
ment in-an . effort to clear up a
misunderstanding growing out of
an address he gave in Goldsboro
on February 29.
He said he was evidently "mis
understood" in answering a ques
tion during an - open forum that
followed his address. "I regret
that I did not make myself clear,"
he said.
"The University has the right
to discharge . or refuse to hire
Communists because of this in
competence," Dr. Jattsoff said
yesterday.
"No university wants teachers
who cannot live up to their duties
and obligations as teachers. I
have said repeatedly in. public
that I. would never recommend a
Communist to a position in my
department because he is a Com
munist and is unable to function
as a good and competent philoso
pher," he asserted.
"All people who have heard
me speak or have listened to my
radio talks, or have read my arti
cles in some of the newspapers
know how I stand. I have devoted
too much time and energy to
combating Communist ideas to al
low a misunderstanding to hin
der my work in this era of crisis.
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ed as having stated that no uni
versity should fire or turn down
the application of a teacher be
cause he is a Communist.
Phi Assembly
Meets To n if e
The Phi Assembly will meet in
executive session at 8:30 tonight
to discuss its plans for the spring
quarter.
Speaker David M. Kerley yes
terday urged all members to at
tend and expressed the hope that
"all inactive members will return
to active status.'
At 8 p.m. all committees which
have not previously met will
meet in the Phi Hall to prepare
budgets and plan their programs.
Members not knowing what
committee they are on may check
the list on the Phi bulletin board
on the third floor of New East
building, Kerley said.
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