63 years cf dedicated serv ice to a better University, a better state and a better nation by one of America's great college papers, whose motto states, "freedom oi expression is the baccocme of an academic community." Weather Considerable cloudiness and warmer today. Chances axe. . Complete (UPI) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1961 Volume LXIX, No. 97 Offices in Graham Memorial Four Pages This Issue uimiiintDa Murdered; Prayer Marchers 6CD Nesroe. (CD! J tor?- 4 I m ill s ' m 1 " " ioodbatli IF eared. ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo (UPI) The Katanga provincial government Mon day reported that deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba was slain by tribesmen and bur ied in a secret grave. It dared anyone to prove "assassination" and the stage was set for a new Congo bloodbath. Belgian officials warned there would be a "night of the long knives" and reprisal executions of prisoners held by pro-Lumumba factions in Oriental and Kivu Prov inces. An estimated 300 prisoners, i eluding at least eight whites, are believed held by pro-Lumumba forces in Stanleyville, capital of Oriental. The official announcement by Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo that Lumumba, 35, and two companions were killed Sunday ended a four-day mystery that began . with the Katanga an nouncement that the three men had escaped jail Thursday night. How they were slain was not revealed. But Munongo said a Free Flick Schedule Is Announced The Free Flick schedule for the remainder of the semester has been announced as follows: " Feb. 17 Camille 18 Solid Gold Cadillac 24 Operation Madball 25 Thirty-nine Steps (tentative) 26 Nights of Cabiria (Sun day Cinema) March 3 The Old Maid 4 Hondo 10 Blackboard Jungle 1 1 Happy Time 12 Brink of Life (Sunday Cinema)'" 17 Late. George Apley 18 No Time for Sergeants 24 Rebel Without a Cause 25 David Copper-field April .? Letter to Three " ' . Wives 8 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 9 Golden Age of Comedy (Sunday) 14 Kim 15So Ends Our Night 21 The . Informer . 22 Philadelphia Story 23 Umberto D (Sunday) 28 Foxes of Harrow 29 Sweet Smell of Success May 5 Born Yesterday 6 Grapes of Wrath 7 Dr. Schweitzer (Sunday) 12 King Solomon's Mines 13 Bad Day at Black Rock physician viewed the bodies. Katanga President M o i s e Tshombe and his aides denied charges that it staged the jail break as a cover-up to hide murder. To charges that the Katanga regime had killed Lumumba along with his former sports minister Maurice Mpole and deputy senate speaker Joseph Okito, the Katanga govern ment said: "Prove it." At the United Nations in New York, the Soviet Union blamed Belgium, the allies and U.N. Secretary-General Dag Ham- marskjold for the "murder" of the 35-year-old pro-Communist Lumumba. Pharmacists Tour Plants The Pharmacy School's grad uating class is making its an nual industrial trip this week. A 59-man group, headed by faculty chaperon Dr. K. L Bran non, left Chapel Hill Sunday to visit the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis, Ind. The class will be taken through the plants in small groups so they can observe the pharmaceutic industry. The pharmacy students will - get a chance to see the wide activity of these concerns, which can't be viewed within the confines of a university. The voyagers are traveling by bus and railroad and will stay at local hotels. Included in the group are ten of the students' wives and two graduate stu dents. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Ste venson urged "not revenge but reconciliation." Observers said this was unlikely. The announcement of Lu mumba's death sent a tremor of fear through the white commun ity of the Congo. "God help the Belgian people and other Europeans in Kivu and Oriental provinces," a sen ior Belgian diplomat said in Elisabethville. "Now is the time for the night of the long knives against them." Antonine Gizenga, Lumum ba's deputy premier and leader of the Lumumba stronghold in Stanleyville, has threatened an eye for an eye. The 500 Euro peans in Stanleyville have been terrorized for months. Bodies Immediately Buried Interior Minister Munongo said natives taking part in the manhunt for them killed the three men because they feared they were armed. "Their bodies have been bur ied immediately at a place we do not . wish to reveal," Mu nongo told newsmen. "We do not want eventual pilgrimages to the scene." t J , Ill E VV'cxrlcl INTevs :lr 1 : f C In Brief 'I L "l til By United Press International ' , M On The Campus There will be a supper meet ing of the Foreign Student Com mittee of the Y tonight at 6 p.m., upstairs, Lenoir Hall. The YWCA Entertainment Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in the Y Cabinet Room. to Boon J. F. Knnd 'Shocked' At Slaying WASHINGTON (UPI) President Kennedy reacted with "great shock" Monday when informed of Patrice Lumumba's violent death. Officials feared it would lead to new violence in The Congo. The U. S. position was outlined in the United Nations by Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, who said that "we in the United. States regret this tragedy. We hope that men every where will not seek revenge but reconciliation." USSR Blames Belgium, Dag UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI) Russia Monday called the killing of Patrice Lumumba "murder" and laid the blame on Belgium, its allies, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold i and the United Nations command in The Congo. Soviet Ambassador Valerain A. Zerin spoke with stinging invective before the Security Council despite an appeal by U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson for a "sober resolve not to seek, revenge but to seek reconciliation." Sanford May Add To Budget -RALEIGH (UPI) Gov. Terry Sanford indicated today he would send or present several supplementary budget mes sages to the 1961 General Assembly. But he told newsmen at his weekly news conference he would "see how the committee hearings come along, before I make any recommendations. We should know better when the messages will come after this week when the General Assembly really gets down to work." . ' Venus Probe, A 'Space Gun'? , LONDON (UPI) British space experts speculated Mon day that Russia's Venus rocket probe could foreshadow the development of the first "space gun." Space scientists theorized the technique used to fire the Venus rocket from a satellite in orbit might have some future . military application. The Stray Greeks will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Woodhouse Room, GM. I ; - 1 Prayer Mar cla Mer Singing "Holy, Holy; Holy," 60 Negroes marched through downtown Chapel Hill Sunday afternoon,' protesting segregation in the town's second "prayer march" within a week. . ' The Negroes adults, students, and children concluded their half-hour march with a prayer service i,n front of the Town Hall on Rosemary Street. Last Wednesday night another group of 60 Negroes had marched the same route to the Town Hall, where two prayers were given. The marches were both supported by the local National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. Sunday was Brotherhood Sunday in most of the major churches in the country. This was the occasion for the I 60 Negroes bow their heads in a prayer for racial equality before the Chapel Hill town hall at the conclusion of a "Prayer March" Sunday. The Negroes, staging the march' at noon, were lead by Hilliard Caldwell, a NAACP workeri prayer march that .day. The demonstrations have been coordinated with the anti-se-ereeation picketing efforts of other Chapel Hill groups. The Citizens Committee for "Open" Movies continues to picket both the Carolina and Varsity theaters, from 6 ho 9:30 every evening. . .. 1 They began two-fold picket ing Monday a week ago, and have continued every night since. , -,. : f V Mary Mason, chairman of the Citizens Committee, is - also - a leader in the prayer marches. that they could better express themselves through prayer." Other leaders of the march included: Braxton Foushee, 19- year-old chairman of the group; Hilliard Caldwell, a local NAACP worker; picket leader Mary Mason of North Carolina College in Durham; and the Rev. J. M. Manly, minister of the First Baptist Church. Caldwell, who is credited with actually leading the Sunday march, said that it was done partially in support of the theater picketing. The Rev. Manly said that the The prayer marclv . Sunday marchers were not connected Playmakers 'Visit Opens Wednesdays All students interested in working, on the 19G1 Freshman Camp program have been asked to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Gerrard Hall. The Carolina Playmakers' production of "The Visit" is in its last day of rehearsals. The show will open tomorrow eve ning at 2:30 p.m. for a five-day rurr-tnthePlaymakers Theatre. John- W. Parker, Play maker business manager, states that standing room only is available (See related picture, page 3) for Friday, Saturday and Sun day, with tickets still available for opening night and Thursday. Technically this show is one of the most difficult presented by the Playmakers in several years. Supervising the compli cated backstage activities dur ing production is Edith Jacobs of New York. Eighteen Scenes Assisting her in the eighteen scene changes which are incor porated with the action of the play is the entire cast of twenty-three and two men on the fly-floor. Bob Thornburg, Seth Eckard and. Allan Scruggs make the necessary flying shifts. Assistant stage managers are Larry Steel and Frank The Aquaholics will meet Friday evening in Woollen Gym, instead of Wednesday, as origi nally scheduled. The Student Directory Sup plement is available free of charge at the YMCA Office. Anyone interested in solicit ing for the" Campus Chest in the mens dorm districts nas oeen asked to meet at 5 p.m. Wed nesday on the 2nd floor, YMCA. Junior women interested in editing the 1961 Women's Hand book must sign up for an inter view at the GM Information Desk before Feb. 22. Applicants must prepare a dummy copy of her plans for the handbook to be submitted during a personal interview before the Women's Residence Council. Old dum mies and handbook copies may be obtained in the Dean of Women's Office from 8:30-5:30 p.m. through Saturday. Tomorrow being Ash Wed nesday, the beginning of Lent, there will be Celebrations of the Eucharist at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Family at 7:30 and 10:30 a.m. Following the Celebrations will be the an cient and traditional service of the Imposition of Ashes. There will be a meeting of the Publicity Committee of the Campus Chest tonight at 7:30 in the Campus Chest office on the second floor of the YMCA. Beaver. - " . Master Electrician Suzan Whitney is assisted by Johnnie Sibold and Byron- Avery- with the lighting cuesl Lights are .de signed by 'Russel' Graves. !Lei lani Thornburg is in charge" of make-up, and Mary Kyser and Frank McDonald : are costume assistants. . f .-"- Costume Designers Costumes for-this show were executed by . M a r y . Lindsey Guy, and Lynn Gault; designed the scenery. , ' ; 1 Writers Group Picks Officers The Board of Directors of the School of Journalism Founda tion of North Carolina, Inc., re elected officers and six directors whose terms will run to Janu ary 1964 at their annual meet ing here. " . t - Officers are, Holt McPherson, High Point Enterprise, presi dent; Hal H. Tanner, Goldsboro News - Argus, vice - president; William C. Lassiter, Raleigh at torney, secretary, and Don'' J. Chipman, Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel, treasurer. began in front of the First Bap tist Church in Carrboro short ly before one o'clock.. Its members ranging in age from 7 years old to 60, the group marched up the sidewalk on the campus x side of E. Franklin Street, singing hymns such as "Holy, Holy Holy," and-"Sweet Hour of Prayer." . . Most of the marchers came from the Baptist Church, which had just finished its service. ' The . group marched uptown as far as Ihe post office, then crossed to the post office "side of "the street and marched back along" Franklin to Columbia Street, .where they stopped in front of the Town Hall. There were only a few people on the streets at the time and, except for hooting by one group of . four college students, there were no incidents. :. Police followed the marchers in a patrol car and directed traffic at the intersections. The police chief had been" notified at 10 a.m. that the march would take place. The prayer meeting at the Town Hall lasted no more than five minutes. The marchers prayed for the end of racial discrimination in theaters,' res taurants, and other public places. After the prayers were com pleted the crowd dispersed. H. . J. Edwards; head of the local NAACP which organized the prayer marches, explained the purpose of the marches: "People worked ort this proj ect who did not . have the op portunity to picket'. They felt with the pickets except . by overlapping membership. He commented that the Town Hall was chosen for the prayers because it had been the only public building open on Sun day, and is headquarters for the city government. The prayer march concerned general principles justice, equality, honesty said the Rev. Manly, whereas picketing is a specific function and only per tains (in this case) to theaters. Most, if not all, Chapel Hill ministers both white and black preached on racial equality Sunday morning, said the Rev. Charles Hubbard of the Univer sity Methodist Church. He said that no white minis ters, to his knowledge, were in volved in the prayer marches. Campus Parties Set Conventions With Spring Elections only five weeks away the campus po litical parties are organizing party platforms and choosing candidates. Student Party will meet in the Graham Memorial TV room to elect new party officers and dis cuss new by-laws. Student Legislature seats will be filled in Dorm Women's I, Dorm Men's III and Town Men's IV. All interested students are asked to attend. The University Party will convene for the Spring Conven tion in Carroll Hall at 7 p.m. to nominate candidates for student body offices and legislature. Vice-Chairman Steve Lindell will hold a meeting of the dele gation chairmen from each campus housing unit in Carroll Hall auditorium at 6:45 p.m. to explain the ground rules of the convention. History Prof To Speak On Africa Today Dr. Guion G. Johnson, former UNC professor of history, will give an illustrated lecture en titled "Africa Today" before the Chapel Hill-Durham branches of the American Association of University Women, meeting Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in the Carolina Inn. Mrs. Johnson returned last fall from Africa where she and her husband, Dr. Guy B. John son, UNC. anthropology profes sor on a Kenan leave of ab sence, spent a year iri research. He was teaching and conducting sociological research on the African . peoples while she studied the history of the same peoples. Their work took them to such places as Nigeria, The Rhodesias, the Belgian Congo, Ghana, Yenya and Uganda. With this background Dr. Johnson will have varied and interesting experiences to con tribute to the central theme of the AAUW meeting, "Africa Below the Sahara." Dr. Johnson received her edu cation at Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton, Texas; the Uni versity of Missouri; and UNC. Since her arrival in Chapel Hill, Dr. Johnson has been an advisor of Epsilon Beta Chap ter of Chi Omega and received the Distinguished Service Award for Women in 1955. She has written two books concerning cultural history, the most familiar being "Ante-Bcl-lum North Carolina." Durham Judge Throws Out Heyman Assault C "I agree with you. Case dis . missed." With these words, Judge Al fred R. Wilson tossed out the assault case against Duke bas ketball star Art Heyman yester day in a packed Durham court room of over 150 people, pho tographers and newsmen. Heyman plead not guilty to the charge of assault which had been brought by Durham at- torney Blackwell Brogdcn, UNC alumnus. Brogdcn alleged the Heyman had struck Caro lina cheerleader Albert L. Roper II of Norfolk, Va., during the - halftime intermission at the re . cent Duke-UNC game. Roper, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, testified that he and the" UNC cheerleaders were congratulating the basketball i player's during halftime as they ' were going' to the dressing - rooms. " . . Roper Testifies He stated that he also patted the. Duke .players on the back . as . they went to the dressing rooms. Roper testified that after he tapped Heyman, he (Roper) turned around and it was then - - that someone hit him in the Witnesses Roper and McCoy talk over the back of the head, trial proceedings. "No; I did' not see who struck me" he said ' 7 - v Head Cheerleader Tim McCoy, fraternity brother of Roper, was lsd subpoenaed to testify as a witness in the case. McCoy con firmed Roper's testimony and idded that as Roper turned iround Heyman struck him in 'he back of the neck with a blow that, "sort of glanced off." Asks Dismissal Heyman's attorney asked the judge to dismiss the case on the grounds that evidence submit ted indicated that Roper first touched Heyman and the Duke star was merely attempting to "backhand or brush off Roper's hand." The attorney also pointed out that Roper and McCoy were un willing witnesses and would not have testified if not subpoenaed. "Therefore," the attorney con cluded, "I think that the case should be dismissed." The judge leaned back re flectively and smiled, "I agree with you." The entire trial took only eight minutes. The Heyman trial was prececded by over an hour of traffic cases and several civil cases. One Durham policeman was quoted as saying that this was the largest number of peo- Defendant Art Heyman and Issmn:: pie he had seen in court in the John Frye sit out the waiting minutes befc past ten years. the trial. (Photos by Ira Elauslein).

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