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TJ ?t C Library Ch-r3i mi: , :.. c, WEATHER Cloudy and continued cool today and tonight Showers expected in west cm portions of state. D E C ! 5 ! O V The editor says it's time for a decision. See p. 2. VOLUME LXII NUMBER 196 Complete JP Photo and Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1954 Offices in Graham Memorial four page: today I r? c M mm gmt wmm .... ...... rTv r n rr n n dig uii u Be Held T erby Will morrow The Sigma Chi Derby, postponed because of rain over the weekend, will be held in Kenan Stadium tomorrow at 2:30 with the "Battle of the Coeds" as the major attraction. Contests and races will feature nine girl teams from the six sorori ties, the Independent Coeds, Stray Creeks and nurses. The events range from the popular "Miss raociern venus competition to a "mystery race." A parade of contestants down Franklin Street at 2 p.m. will pre cede the derby. Coaches Bill Meade and George Barclay along with businessmen Vic Huggins, E. C. Smith and Crowell Little will judge the Miss Modern Venus contest. The win ner of this title is chosen on the basis of beauty of figure. She will receive a trophy, a dozen roses, and a steak supper for her and a date. Spencer Love Made Member Of BA Society J. Spencer Love, Greensboro, president and chairman of the Board of Directors of Burlington Mills, will be initiated as an hon orary member of Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary society for commerce and business admin istration, in ceremonies to be held here Monday afternoon. The initiation ceremony will be held at 5 o'clock in the Faculty Seminar Room in Carroll Hall. Love will be the principal speaker at a banquet session to be held in Lenoir Hall at 6:30. He will be introduced by Dean Thomas H Carroll of the School of Business Administration. Three faculty members' of the School of Business Administration will be initiated as honorary mem bers and 23 students will be in itiated as active members. The faculty members will be Arch Rich ard Dooley, lecturer in business administration; Andrew Warren Pierpont, lecturer in finance, and Arthur Murray Whitehall Jr , asso ciate professor in business admin istration. Student initiates are to be Charles Ernest Julian, Paul James McDermott Sr., and William C. rrhompson, Chapel Hill; Robert Me Donald Long and Zebulon Vance Smith Jr., Concord; Fred Gordon Battle Jr. and John Avcock Mc- Lendon, Greensboro; Kenneth Mar tin Venable and Pete Franklin Smitherman, Winston-Salem. Robert Davis Aldridge. Burling ton; Joseph Edmonds Bafford, Lex ington; Lynn Fage Chandler. Mor (See SPENCER, page 4) Door prizes donated by Chapel Hill merchants will be awarded to ticket holders in the audience. Along with the usual contest win ners there will also be a trophy given for the team which wears the best and most original costumes. Whole Press Should Warn About Danger (rr I - Put D : yV:?h lz: h; f 1 C ohoofs Kills ALLEN B. LONG . . .shoulder wound WILLIAM H. JOYNER . . .will recover Under Davie Poplar Second Band Concert -s Slated This Afternoon Two From Art Attend Meeting The Art Department was repre sented by Profs. Clemens Sommer and Geeorge Kachergis at the Southeastern College Art Confer ence, held recently at the Univer sity of Tennessee at Knoxville. Dr. Sommer, professor of art history and art historian, gave a lecture on "A New Understanding Toward the Painting of Piero della Francesca." Kachergis, professor of painting, appeared on a panel, "The Correlation of Studio Courses." The Southeastern Colleg" Art Conference, affiliated with the Col lege Art Association of America, is an organization comprised of rep resentatives from the art museums and institutions that teach art in the Southeastern states. It meets annually at some Southern univer "It is time for the whole press, and not only editorial writers those of us on the watchtowers with typewriters for trumpets to warn the people that certain fundamental American principles, hitherto unassailable, are in dan-er." This view was expressed here last night by Herbert Brucker editor, the Hartford, Conn. Cour- ant, oldest newspaper in the coun try in point of continuous service at the dinner session of the fifth annual North Carolina Editoria Writers Conference "being held at the University. Brucker, whose topic was "Si lent Censorship," said, "We are not doing the job we should in warning our readers, the Ameri can people. In our instinctive re action against the. threat of Com munism, external and internal, we have departed from what has been throughout our history the American idea. This is that withh the laws of slander,, libel, and ou:er necessary boundaries, you may think what you please and say or write what you please. "If we have trimmed on that. then we have let go something precious," Brucker declared, "For it is the very heart of that great gift of freedom that wras be queathed to us by those who came before us." The University Band will play its second lawn concert near the Davie Poplar this afternoon at 4:30. Conducting the band will be Professor Earl Slocum of the Music Department; Herbert Fred, assistant to Slocum,, and Hubert Henderson, musicoiogy student and former assistant in the Music Department. The 55-piece ensemble under Slocum's direction has given performances throughout the year, both as a marching and concert band. Officers of the 1953-54 sea son are President James Head lee, Asheville; Vice - President Kenneth Pruitt, Winston - Sa lem, and Secretary - treasurer Lewis Mack, Mooresville. Composers to be represented on today's concert are 'A. Carlos Gomez, Herbert Fred, Charpen ,tier, Ferde Grofe, Johann Straus, Morton Gould, and Le roy Anderson. The concert program will in clude "Colossus of Colombia," "II Guarany Overture," "Belle of the Ball," "Country Dance," "Gate City March," "Colorama," "Ballet of Pleasure," "On The Trail," "Perpetual Motion," "Amparito Roca," "Rusticatin' Ruf us" with a xylophone solo by Horace Golightly, "Cowboy Rhapsody," "March of the Steel Men," and the alma mater "Hark the Sound." In case of rain,, the concert will be held in nearby Hill Hall. This is important, he said, ever if this country "is still substan tially free as thank God it is! It is important because, in a coun try that is free its freedom once won by the blood and swreat sity to exchange and discuss newii tne brave and tiie strong ideas and to find improved teach- j freedom is for the timid and the ing methods. j weak. Dr. R. D. Adams, Harvard Prof, Will Deliver Bryson Lecture Alumni Member Drive Begins Monday With Committee Meet The final stage of the Alumni Association membership drive gets underway this week with a meet ing of the Senior Class Alumni neeting Monday afternron at 5 o'clock in the Alumni Office in the Carolina Inn. Letters went out to seniors this week from Alumni Secretary Maryon Saunders -and Alumni Committee Chairman Ken Pene- ;ar. Ihe letters give tne pro spective alumni one of their last apportunities this spring to join ihe Alumni Association at the special first year rate of one dol- ar.. Thursday' afternoon prospective graduates of this June will meet Old Soldier Talks Slated with Dean Clifford Lyons in Me morial Hall to go over graduation procedure, including caps and gowns. At the conclusion of this meeting there will be a booth in front of Memorial Hall to offer late-comers one more opportunity to join ' the association. To avoid the rush seniors are encouraged to take advantage of the sub scription blanks sent to them in the mail, Penegar said. Members of the Alumni Com mittee who will participate in this last phase of Jhe drive are B. j O. Anderson. Lib Moore, Sara Rose, Jim Adams, Burnie Bum stan, Phin Horton. Walt McFali. Wade Matthews, Jim Maynard, Tom Medlin Rodenbough, Russ Cowell, ,and avis hi Defs, elf After Party By ROLFE NEILL A student wounded two of his fraternity brothers and then put a fatal bullet into his own left temple yesterday morning about 7 o'clock after a quiet, all-night session of beer drinking at the Phi Delta Theta house. The dead student was Putnam Davis Jr., a 22-year-old senior from Greenwich, Conn, and Larchmont, N. Y. He wounded William H. Joyner, sophomore from Summit, N. J., and Allen B. Long, a sopho more from Chevy Chase, Md., both about 20 years old. Joj'ner caught a shot in the chest and was for a time listed as criti cal. However, Memorial Hospital authorities said yesterday afternoon he was out of shock and, barring complications, would recover. Long No motive was offered for the shooting. Police quoted Long as saying Davis started shooting "for no apparent reason" after Long re turned to the room trom a tnp to the bathroom. Long said when the shooting started he did not know whether the gun, a .22 short-barreled pistol, contained blanks or live ammunition, but he turned and ran from the rcom. He said he assumed Jovner followed him. Joyner was found in the hall in front of the room and Long was discovered in the bathroom, next door. They were found about 7:10 a.m. by Matthew Mason, Phi Delt houseboy, who heard calls of help from the third floor. At first, Mason related, he thought someone was playing a joke but he went up to investigate. Joyner, Mason said, was lying on the hall floor, saying, "Reet, (Ma son's nickname) get me to the hospital, I've been shot." Long' then called from the bathroom, Mason said and when asked, said, "Brother Davis shor- me." Davis was found dead in the Long-Jovner room Kin? on the bottom of a double decker ntilr T U j u :n v.u n.. Tragedy In 750 Was Carolina's Last Shooting It was four years ago last month, on April 7, 1950, that Chapel Hill and Carolina suffer ed a shooting which ended in murder and suicide. Len Broughton Smithy, 30, of Chapel Hill and Arlington, Va. shot a fellow roomer George. L. Bennett, 22, a grad student from Wadesboro, five times with a .38 caliber pistol at their rooming house at 210 Hender son Street. A warrant was sworn out for Smithy. He was suspected be cause the owner of the house saw him leave immediately aft er the shooting and he was the object of a statewide police search for over 14 hours. At 8:50 the following morn ing Chapel Hill police found Smithy's body slumped against a trse in Battle Park near the (See '50 SHOOTING, page 4) death weapon. Robert Lee Wright and Donald L. Harley, both of whom live on the third floor, said they heard a noise about 7 o'clock but figured it was firecrackers. Sheriff Sam Latta said "between 40 and 50 beer cans" were in the room and he quoted other students as saying the three had been drink ing beer in the room through the night. According, to the sheriff, Davis had left his date about 1 a.m. Officers Coy Durham and Her man Stone said several Phi Delts told them that Davis and others had sat in on a poker game from about 1 to 3 a.m. and then Davis had drifted into the Long-Joyner room. Some said Davis was in a "peculiar state . . . glassy-eyed and very silent," at .the card game Davis was an art major and many of his cartoons appeared in Tarna tion, particularly last year's issues. He also drew the blue ram which was butting a red bulldog off The Daily Tar Heel front page in an air mail edition of the paper last fall sent to Athens, Ga. Davis recently moved from the fraternity house and lived alone in a cottage in town. He had visited the fraternity infrequently since moving, but this was not un usual, President Warren Heemann said. The coroner said his jury would reconvene for a verdict when it could talk to Long and Joyner. PUTNAM DAVIS JR. . . .takes own life Outdoor Play Canceled Until 8:30 Tonight (The Carolina Playmakers' out door theater production, "Dark of the Moon," scheduled to open last night, has been postponed again due to inclement weather. It will be given in the outdoor Forest Theater tonight at 8:30 o'clock, weather permitting. The North Carolina folk play, orgiinally scheduled to open Fri day night, will be given Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights, weather permitting. The play, which had a successful run on Broadway, is being directed by William Long of the Playmakers staff. The play is the work of former Playmaker and native North Caro linian Howard Richardson, in col laboration with William Bernev It features in its cast Daniel R"'' Raleigh, Tommy Rezzuto, AshevPle. and Les Casey, Chapel Hill. "Dark of the Moon" is a rol folk drama, combining broad com edy with the weird doings o' witches on a moonlit mountain tr and is based on an unusua' Mountain version of the old allj-' "Barbara Allen." The UNC Press Club meets. to morrow night in Bynum Hall to presen the Club's news writing awards to student writers. The club gave awards for each quarter last year but fomTO"" night's are the first for this school year. This is not exDected before Mon- Ken Myers, Charlie , fi,v or Tuesdav- Funeral arrangements are incom- Chainnan Ken Penegar. plete. The third Ross Herman Jen nings Bryson Memorial Lecture at the School of Medicine will be delivered Monday night by Dr. Raymond D. Adams, chief, Neu rology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate clinical professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. The lecture will be given in the Clinic Auditorium of North Carolina Memorial Hospital at 8:15. Dr. Adams' subject will be "Neurovascular Anatomy of the Brain and the Mechanism of Apo plexy. The first lecture in this series, Which was established in mem ory of Ross Herman Jennings Bryson, medical student here, was delivered here in 1952. The lectureship wras established by Bryson's parents shortly after his death in 195f. A native of Rock Hill, S. C, young Bryson graduated from the University in 1949 and en tered the School of Medicine the following year. His death oc curred after a short illness dur ing his second year in medicine. Before his death, Bryson had. begun a completely original and highly promising investigation of the secretion and absorption of cerebrospinal fluid. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock many of the Student Party lead ers will bid their last official fare well to campus activities and extra-curricular life here before they are graduated in June. Among those who will deliver their adieu are Ken Penegar, Lew Southern. Henry Lowett, Baxter Miller, and Gene Cook. This will be the last time there will be an opportunity to hear these students at a meeting of one of the organ izations to which they have devot ed their time while in the University. Some Of Country's Best Educators Coming Here N. Cs School Week Will Focus On Teaching With Special Emphasis On Practicesg Spirit Dean Guy B. Phillips of the Education. Syracuse University, j Miami University, Ohio, will also CPU Will Discuss Cpl. Dickinson At Year's Last Meeting Tonight The Carolina Political Union will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Grail Room of Graham Memorial, with the case of Cpl. Edward S. Dick inson as the topic under discussion. Dickinson was convicted and sentenced on May 4, 1954, to 10 years ' hard" labor on charges of inform ing on his comrades in a Korean prisoner of war camp and carrying favor with his Red Chinese captors. School of Education and director who served as president of the of the University Summer Session American Association of School announced yesterday that the j Administrators and was former third North Carolina School Week I superintendent of schools, Grand Professor Carter Gets Lennon Campaign Post RALEIGH (J) Prof. Clyde C. Carter, of the University of North Carolina Business Administration School,, was named Orange Coun ty campaign manager for Sen. Al ton Lennon yesterday. John C. Rodman, state campaign manager for Sen. Lennon, an nounced the appointment. Prof. Carter will be assisted by a com mittee cf 39 people. will be held in Chapel Hill June 21, 22. 23 during1 the first sum mer term. This annual event has come to be regarded as one of the signi- cant features "of the Summer Ses sions because it brings to the campus some outstanding nation al educational leaders who "in co operation with local and state per sonnel present a strong program." Chief purpose of the 1954 pro gram will be to focus attention of the public and professional people upon "teaching in the American democracy with specail emphasis on the underlying philosophy, practices, and spirit of great teach ing," Dean Phillips said. Dean Virgil Rogers, School cf Rapids, Mich., will be one of the featured leaders. Dr. Rogers has had wide experience with teach ing, administration and college work. He is a native of South Car olina and is well known in North Carolina. Dr. Robert W. Eaves,, secretary, National Association of Elementa ry School Principals, with his of fice in Washington, another speak er, has had a long period of lead ership at the national level. He is a native of Western Carolina and at one time was in the Rutherford County public school system. Dr. Norwood Marquis, who will be on the staff of the University Summer Session, and who heads the Department cf Education at participate in the conference. Dr. Kenneth Goodson, Superin tendent, Winston - Salem District of the Methodist and Episcopal Church, will' give the opening ad dress. Dr. Franklin H. McNutt, IhU year's winner of the O. Max Gard ner Award; Chancellor R. B. House of the University, and Dr. Amos Abrams, editor, North Car olina teachers' magazine, will pre sent a symposium on June 23 dealing with the significance of teaching. Thre will be a general session each afternoon at 3 o'clock and a general session each night at 8. In addition, on Tuesday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 o'clock and on Wednesday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 there will be discussion groups led by participants in the conference program. Cpl. Dickinson is one of several Americans who at first cast his fu ture with the Chinese Reds but later changed his mind and decid ed to be repatriated. His case will be used extensively for legal prece dent, according to lawyers. The CPU meeting will be its last this year, according to Tommy Bennett, new chairman who re cently succeeded Joel Fleishman. Students are invited to attend the meeting and voice their opin ions on the subject. Not Until Tuesday A digest of the article on fac ulty evaluation in the new Caro lina Quarterly, scheduled for The Daily Tar Heel today, will not be printed in this paper until Tuesday. A list of the University's top 10 professors, as voted by stu dents, will be named in the tr-tide:
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