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VOL. XIX. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939. Num'berT^
Mystery Of
Theodosia Burr
Told in Chapel
Dr. Rondthaler Offers
Possible Solutions
l)r. RondtliiUer, v/ho is considered
an expert on the three liistorie mys
teries of Peter Stuart Ney, Virginia
Dare, and Theodosia Burr, offered
possible solutions to the Theodosia
Burr mystery in his expanded chapel
talk last Wednesday.
Theodosia Burr was the daughter
of the strange and unpredictable
Aaron Burr, who was at one time
Vice-President of the Un ted States.
Burr, a brilliant man lost much of
his popularity after a duel in which
he killed Alexander Hamilton. Later
lie was tried for treason and fled
to England and France, only to re
turn in disguise to America to
tice law.
Theodosia Burr was last seen when
she sailed from Georgetown, S. C. on
the sailing vessel ‘ ‘ The I'atriot. ’ ’
Several j^ears previous to that time
she had married Governor Austin of
South Carolina. They had one child,
.1 boy, who died when he was very
young. Tlieodosia, grief-stricken by
her loss, was on her way to visit her
father in New York when she dis
appeared. Aaron Burr, broken
hearted waited at the docks watch
ing, day after day, for the boat
bearing his daughter to arrive, but
the little ship “I’atriot” never
leached New York.
Several c.oiiilicting solutions to the
diH.appear;ir.cc of Tlieodosia Burr
have been (.ffered. \'eais after the
f.ci ui reiu'i* a ('''rtani J)r. Poole at-
t(.ndi’d an fid l;i!y at Xags Head
:^.,.i-ivi(l as p:iy a portrnii; wh.ch
sCiiiie 'ten years l.iter li;* found to
re.-.eiiihle a picture of Aaron Burr in
Harper's iSli'.gRzinc. Keturiiing to
Mrs. lUann, tlie old lady in question,
he e>:tracted from her the story of
the portrait which had been given to
iier by her sweetl’eart. She said
that in the early part of January
181.3 a ship had been driven ashore
near her home. Along with other
natives her sw'eetheart boarded the
ship only to find it deserted, evi
dently raided, for the breakfast was
still half eaten. The portrait was
one of the things her friend brought
her from the ship, said Mrs. Mann,
and was identified by desecendants
of Aaron Burr as that of Theodosia.
Another interesting and important
fact was Mrs. Mahn’s statement that
the name of the raided ship was
‘‘something patriotic.”
The death-bed confession of an old
ex-pirate, dying in a poor-house in
Michigan in 1869, throws further
light on the mystery.
One day in January 1813, he said,
the pirate ship on wh'ch he was,
overtook a small vessel and his cap
tain ordered the survivors to “walk
the plank.” The sailor told of a
beautiful lady w'ho had gone to her
cabin .and returned dressed in black,
to walk off the plank into the sea.
She is believed by many to be Theo
dosia Burr Austin.
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THIRD BROADCASTS
OF SERIES TO BE
PRESENTED
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 Johnsie
Moore and Kathryn Swain of the
School of Music of Salem will pre
sent the third of a series of broad
casts over station WAIR. Johnsie
Moore will play a group of short pi-,
ano j» i e c e s, f l om Schumann’s
“Scenes From Childhood,” and
Kathryn Swain will sing “Thou
of Love” from “Marriage of Fig
aro,” by Mozart, and “My Love
is Oelid” by Munroe.
Miss Whitehead
Participates In
College Day
The Day Is Celebrated In
State High Schools
Every year at some time during
the' second semester various hi;;h
schools throughout the state observe
Colege Day. J)n that day all of the
colleges and universities in North
Carolina — both boys’ and girls’
si'hooiw —^ 'send representatives to
till’ liigh schools to discuss the choice
iji a college witli the high school
seniors and their parents. L’^sually
there is a central spealver who makes
introductory remarks about the
values of college education witliout
reference to any particular school.
Then the college representatives are
given a chance for individual con
ferences with the students about
advantages of the scliool which they
represent. After the conference the
representatives are entertained at
lunch.
ifiss Josephine Whitehead, Sal
em’s field secretary, has already at
tended two of these College Days
this year. The one at Tarboro was
held last Tliursday, and the one at
Salisbury was held today. At the
Tarboro observance the senior class
es of fill the high schools in the
county were invited to participate.
To give some idea of the colleges and
universities that are usually repre
sented, here is a list ot the schools
which sent delegates to Tarboro;
Duke, St. Mary’s, Elon, Flora Mac
Donald, Peace, Meredith, Greensiioro
College, University of Nortli Caro
lina, Wonian’s College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Queens-
Chicora, State College, High Point
College, Piast Carolina Teachers’ Col
lege, Atlantic ('hristian College, and
Salem.
Community Chest
Day to he Observed
At Salem
On Tuesday, March 7, tlie 17th an
nua] Community Chest Camjiaign
will be held in Winston-Salem, and
Salem College will also participate.
Tlie workers will meet Sunday night
at the First Baptist Cliurch, when'
cards will be distributed to them
and the program will bo discussed.
i\riss Grace Lawrence is one of the
workers for Salem College.
‘•The New Yorker,” January 14,
jmblished an account of tlie
assassination of Hitler in Hamburg
in November or December, 193.j, as
related to a certain William A.
Krauss by a German resident of
Haiti.
“ ‘There are four Hitlers in Ger
many,’ the German of Haiti said.
‘Mimics and puppets. One of these
is .so much like the, real Hitler may
be even his own mother wouldn’t
know. He has the same voice, the
same face, the gestures. Bilt he has
not the brain. He says what he is
told to say. He is moved by
strings. ’ ”
“The New Yorker” printed -with
out comment the letter reporting this
astonishing story. Later, February
18, the “Talk-of-the-Town” editors
publi.shed several corroborative re
ports, including the statement of an
Englishman that “a great deal of
Chamberlain’s confusion at Munich
LECTURES AT SALEM
Mrs. Ahrens, above, is wearing a
i-ostume of an Indian of Cuzro, Peru.
She spoke Thursday evening on
South America and showed pictures
of her 17,000 miles of travel.
Mrs. Ahrens
Gives Illustrated
Travel Talk
Spanish Students Model
South American
Costumes
Students who are majoring in
Spanish modeled costumes worn bv
the South Americans, as a special
feature of the illustrated lecture
which was given Thursday evening
in the Old Chapel by Mrs. Arietta
-Ahrens.
Mrs. Ahrens spent tliree months
last year traveling in the South
American countries, and in her lec
ture she told of her trip and showed
colored pictures.
Mrs. Ahren decided what she
wanted to do when she was still a
high school student, wrote an essa>
about i(, and then set out to do it.
Her essay, incidentally, won in a
city contest.
When she was in college, Mrs.
Ahrens studied R]>anish and Portu-
gue.se as well as history, geograjihy
and other subjects that would deal
with the countries in which she was
interested.
was the result of his sudden, horri
fied realization that the man he
spoke to in that carefully darkened
room was not Hitler at alll ” “It is
our private conviction,” these edi
tors sfiy, “that Adolf Hitler lias
been as dead as vaudeville for more
than four years ”
r strongly suspect “The New
Yorker” of having fingers crossed
and tongue in cheek while- it jiulls
the public leg. For “The New
Yorker” will go to the metaphorical
limit to put over a point. The pur
pose in this case, I lielieve. is to ex
plode the prevailing belief that the
whole German program, the domestic
policj', and the diplomacy derive
from, the will of one impulsive and
unstable man.
The statement that an unnamed
power pulls the strings by which the
four puppets move suggests what
many students of current liistory
have averred since l!)33, that Adolf
Student Songs
Will be Played in
Chapel Thursday
Next Tuesday morning tlie chapel
program will consist of something
new and original from the mu>ic de
partment, and at that time the stu
dent body and faculty will hear a
few results of those silent prayers
uttered at the first of the year, by
the composition class.
T)ie five best songs, written .•.iid
judged by the members of the com
[losition class, will be perfonned by
tlie composers witli th.e heiji and i-o-
opi-ration of the students of tin-
voice department.
The luofid.v of the songs vary from
liunioi- to mystery, and perhap.-i even
to philosophy — wo'11 let you decide.
The composers of the soiigg i,re a ,
follows:
Gertiude Bagwell, Catherine I,ra:i-
don, Glenn Griffin, Ileleu Savage and
Elizabeth Tuten. Frances Watiin,:,
ton, liosalind Duncan and IvJith.yii
Swain will sing the lyrics.
Dr. Dashiell Will
Speak to
Psychology Club
The Psychology Club will have a
meeting on Thursday evening, March
9. The proposed speaker for that
time is Dr. Dashiell, professor of
psychology at the University of
North Carolina and formerly presi
dent of the American Psychological
Association. As one of the authorities
in the field of psychology, Dr. Dash
iell has written a text book, “Theor
ies of Learning” which has been
used in many universities and col
leges. If Dr. Dashiell comes at tliis
time, he will give an illustrated lec
ture. The club has atenipted to bring
speakers who are of importance in
their type of work and has had,
consequently, a great deal of diffi
culty in obtaining them. Since Dr.
Dasliiell is a noted psychologist, all
the members of the club should hear
him, and if he finds it impossible to
be here next Thursday, the mem
bers will, at some later date, con
venient for him, be given the oppor
tunity of hearing him.
Hitler rose to the office of chancellor
because he commanded a powerful
political organization and offered a
comprehensive program to satisfy
the economic and political, and per
haps the pyschological, needs of the
German nation. The power behind
Hitler is the German nation, or at
least a representative part of the
German nation. Like any other poli
tician in office he prol'iably has lost
in popularity since he became chan
cellor. He has offended some, per
haps many. The jiopularizing of a
new concept of state and statesman
has not been easy. It ha.‘* required
the suppression of powerful organi
zations and individuals within the
state. Yet to the extent that he ha-s
satisfied the desires of the major por
tion of the mtion without provoking
new and^ contrary desires, he has
done what every politician in office
attempts to do.
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Pierrettes and
Freshmen Enter
City Play Contest
Their Plays Will Be Entered
Against Each Other
The Pierrette Players anil The
Freshmen Dramatic Clubs will each
present a plaj' in the City-Wide Play
Contest which will be held the week
of March ”1. Friday, March 2-t, will
be the most interesting night in the
contest for Salem girls for on that
night the dramatic skill of the J’ier-
retta Players, with their production
■‘Far Far .\way” and the Freshman
Dramatic Club, with their pluy “ Vel-
low Squares will be pitted against
e.ach other. The Little Theatre is
entering ii.s “ Veng-eance at Leica”
on the same night. These plays are
being entered in the oxperieni;ed
group.
Characters in “Far Far Away”
are (in order of their appearance);
Mrs. Ladstone, the cook, Elizaiieth
Trotman; Queenie, the p;irlonnaid,
.li'.fkie l?ay; Plany, the scul'ery-
ma.d, l.ee Rice; ilrs. Considine,
Mary Turner Willis; Mrs. Grims-
wade, the old-maid sister, Sarah Har
rison; and Nancy Considine, the dau
ghter, Katherine King.
“ ^ (-How Sipiares” has as its cast;
•Aunt Molly, Marguerite McGuire;
.\frs. Sims, Rhea Gaynelle Sykes;
Mrs. Bush, Wyatt Wilkinson; Mrs.
•\ngler, Leila Johnston; Becky,
Reece Thomas.
The two clubs have begun rehears
ing and polishing those productions
under the direction of Mrs. Bruce
Williams, dramatic coach on the
campus.
Tickets for one niglit’s porforni-
.-iiice can be purchased from Eliza
beth Tuten for tweiity-fi!ve cents.
■Season tickets con ,be secured for
anyone desiring them upon request.
The plays will be produced at the
Reynolds high school auditorium.
Curtain time will be 8:00 P. M. each
night of the contest.
City Badminton
Finals Played in
Salem Gym
\\ ednesday night, March 1, Mr. Jim
Stephenson defeated Mr. H, S. RIc-
Ginty in the final game of the city-
wide badminton tournament. Mr.
Steplienson, the winner of last year’s
series, too, took three games of the
necessary three out of five 15-,'),
l.'-12, 15-9. His game was much
steadier and smoother than Mc-
Ginty’s who was decidedly “on the
run” throughout the match. How
ever, McGinty was suffering with a
cold which undoubtedly handicapped
him. Both men have, been playing
about three years and met last year
n the finals- of the first city-wide
b.Tdminton tournament. Badminton
ha^ been slow to gain a foothold
among the sportsmen of Winston-
Salem, but seventeen players entered
the singles tournament tliis year and
a doubles tournament is also under
way. As yet the women have not
entered the tournaments. Mr Steph
enson believes that badminton is
even more strenuous than tennis,
even though the strokes in both
games are similar. The great differ
ence is th.at the ball or rather shut
tlecock, never touches the floor as
does the tennis ball. The excellent
lighting and high clearance of the
Salem gym make it particularly
suitable for badminton matche.^.
Both the contestants complimented
the other on his game and McGinty
remarked, “My opponent was just
too good for me.” Leaving the
gym, Stephenson was heard to say,
“Come on Mac, let’s go fill up th,it
eup ,lnd celebrate.’' The cup T .saw
was as big as a Grecian urn at least!
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IS HITLER DEAD?