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STUDENT NOMINATIONS
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MEMORIAL HALL
VOLUME XL
CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1932
NUMBER 13G
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ACTUAL SHOOTING
OF PENN RELATED
BY EYE-WITNESS
police Believe They Have Im
portant Clues as to Bandits'
Identity and Whereabouts.
BULLETIN
Ashby Penn, victim of the
shooting on the Chapel Hill
Graham road Thursday, was
Teported as showing consider
able improvement by attaches
of the Duke hospital last
night.
Significant clues held by po
- lice which may lead to arrests
and the account of the shooting
"by an eye-witness were yester
day's developments in the local
lioldup which ended in the shoot
ing of Ashby Penn, University
junior, Thursday night after his
car had been commandeered to
chase men who attacked George
Coleman, proprietor of a local
drink stand.
Robert Stone, eye-witness to
the shooting, related yesterday
liow Penn, after receiving a bul
let in his chest, walked from the
"bandit's car to his own automo
bile and drove it several hun
dred yards. Stone, who accom
panied Penn, Patrolman U. M.
Rackley, and Anne Gordon Ed
munds in pursuit of the men, is
the only eye-witness to make a
statement to The Daily Tar
Heel.
Stone Is Eye-Witness
Stone, who was out of town
Friday, substantiated the ver
sion of the story current here
with the exception of telling how
Penn returned to his car. Stone,
standing by when Officer Rack
ley had commandeered Penn's
car after Coleman was slugged
Thursday night, jumped into the
car and went in pursuit.
According to Stone, the chase
proceeded out on the Graham
road where Penn's rear tire was
punctured, probably by some
"thing thrown out by the occu-
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Stout Sees Greatest
Of Aviation In
Airplane Has Tremendous Possibilities in Defensive Warfare and
In Creating Better International Understanding and
Relations, Believes Head of Laboratories.
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(EDITOR'S NOTE : This article on
"different aspects of aviation is a spe
cial contribution to The Daily Tab
Heel by William B. Stout, head of the
Stout Engineering Laboratories, a di
vision of the Ford Motor Company of
Dearborn, Michigan.)
By William B. Stout
I don't know whether my opin
ion on some of the points is of
special interest, but here they
are :
The future of the plane as an
express and passenger carrier.
The greatest development of
aviation will be along commer
cial lines in the express and pas
senger work rather" than in its
military, or even governmental
uses. Air express is just begin
ning and eventually will come to
very common, while passenger
work is already become a very
important unit of national
transportation. The field of pri-vate-owner
has not, as yet, been
touched, but will be a very im
portant division of aviation.
The airplane as an instrument
of warfare.
The airplane is a far more de
fensive than offensive weapon.
With tens of thousands of com
mercial planes flying in the
United States we would have a
tremendous defensive possibility
against any invading enemy ;
Shot By Bandits
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Ashby Penn, University jun
ior, who was seriously wounded
Thursday night by robbers af
ter 'his car had been com
mandeered to assist Chapel Hill
policeman U. M. Rackley to give
chase to men who attacked the
proprietor of a local weiner
stand.
HARRIS EXPELLED
WITHOUT HEARING
BYDEANHAWKES
Columbia Editor Is Dismissed
For Editorial Attacking Uni
versity Dining Service.
Reed Harris, editor of The
Columbia Spectator and stormy
petrel of college journalism, who
has successively attacked foot
ball as a big industry, compul
sory R. O. T. C, and the Colum
bia University officials, has been
dismissed from Columbia by
Dean Hawkes with the consent
of President Nicholas Murray
Butler, known throughout the
world for his liberal policies.
The immediate cause of dis
missal was a charge made by
Harris that the management of
he University dining service was
exploiting student waiters.
Hawkes refused Harris a hear-
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Development
Commercial Lines
whereas the plane as an offensive
weapon can be of little use un
less troops in volume of attack
can follow. The military aspect
of the airplane is, in my opinion,
the smallest percentage.
The effect of aviation on na
tional and international relation
ship. Our airplanes to South Amer
ica have already made a great
change between North and South
America, both commercially and
from a standpoint of under
standing and human relation
ship. The fact that we can take
a plane anywhere in the United
States and fly down the east or
west coast of South America to
Buenos Aires or Valparaiso has
an important .effect upon com
merce. This effect is going to
increase very rapidly, not only
for South America and the
United States but will also help
to bind.our relationship with
other countries. One of the few
international conferences in Eu
rope which meets on a real basis
of friendliness and peace con
structiveness is the board which
determines the inter-country air
line proceedings. Every country
running its own airplanes over
other countries and through
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Katharine Cornell Sees Bright
Future For Theatre In America
Leading New York Actress, Famed for Portrayal in "The Barretts
Of Wimpole Street," Believes That "Drama, If It Is
Good, Sound, and True, Always Will Succeed."
(Contributed especially for The
Daily Tar Heel.) .
By Ray Henderson
"Out of the present transition
period of the American stage will
come a brilliant chapter in our
theatrical history" says Kathar
ine Cornell. "I do not think the
motion picture has injured the
speaking playhouse further than
that it has taken from us certain
playwrights, actors and produc
ers, who are important. That it
has attracted a large audience,
which once depended upon our
theatre for its entertainment,-is
evident, but this section of the
public broadly speaking now
finds the kind of amusement it
formerly patronized more ef
fectively produced on the screen.
This is a point of significance to
the future of our theatre. It
permits the stage to eliminate a
class of plays of little artistic
worth and to devote' its energy
and its talent to the furtherance
of finer and better dramas.
Please believe me when I say I
do not mean a 'high-brow' cul
ture. I am thinking of produc
tions that treat life seriously,
whether in comedy or in tragedy.
Nor have I the wish to be inter
preted as being 'snobbish' con
cerning the screen. Its great pos
sibilities as an. art. form are evi
dent to everyone and already
its achievements are sufficient to
warrant the film being regarded
as a factor of value in the arts.
Escape From Tradition
. "No one can prophesy the ex
act, nature of the drama of the
LOCAL PERSONS
RECEIVE OFFICES
IN DMA BODY
Dramatic Association Chooses
Paul Green. Honorary Presi
dent at Business Session.
The annual business meeting
of the Carolina Dramatic asso
ciation taking place yesterday at
10 :30 a. m., resulted in the elec
tion of the following officers for
the coming year: Paul Green,
honorary president; Frederick
Koch, president ex - officio ;
George Farririgton of Charlotte,
acting president; A. L. Brandon
of Rocky-Mount, vice-president;
and Mrs. Irene Fussier of the
University extension depart
ment, secretary and treasurer.
R. M. Grumman, director of
the University extension divi
sion; Samuel Selden, director of
the Playmakers, and Harry Da
vis, assistant' director of the
same organization, make up the
executive committee.
Directors of other dramatic
clubs who are included in this
committee, and their respective
divisions are: for the city high
schools, William Perry of Winston-Salem
and Rosalynd Nix of
Durham; for the county highs,
Mrs. W. R. Rand of Garner and
,Mrs. Margaret Fleming of
. Troutman ; for the colleges, A.
T. West, former president of the
'association, from Duke Univer
sity, and Wilbur K. Morgan of
jBiltmore junior college; for lit
tle theatre and community clubs,
Thomas Humble of Charlotte and
Herbert Harris of Seaboard.
Y. M. C. A. Meetings
f The regular meetings for the
Y. M. C. A. cabinets are set at
7:15 o'clock tomorrow night.
future. Before the appearance
of Ibsen no one would have ex
pected the direction toward
which he turned the stage. As
the trend today is toward a
greater freedom from conven
tion, an escape from the worst
features of tradition, this in
some way will be reflected in the
drama of tomorrow.
"By actual experience I am not
familiar enough with the accom
plishments of the folk theatre in
America to be justified in dis
cussing it. The few plays be
longing to this class which I
have seen confirm my belief,
however, that drama, whether it
is folk or otherwise, if it is good,
sound and true, always will suc
ceed. So long as folk plays do
not become ingrown, precious or
self-conscious they have their
place in any theatre. It does not
seem to me that it is essential
that they create their own special
playhouse, but rather that it is
buch better for them and for the
stage at large if they are a part
of the general scheme of drama
tic art. I have noted that in any
art specialization too often leads
to precosity.
Personality of Actor ,
"Always the personality of the
actor has played a dominant role.
Most of the great plays which
have survived in the English
speaking theatre have shown the
influence of - the outstanding
players of the period. I believe
playwrights never had such an
opportunity at least in this
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Y. M. C. A. BOOKS
NORMAN THOMAS
FOR TALK HERE
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson to Speak
Wednesday Under Sponsor
ship of Local Group.
Norman Thomas, socialist
candidate for presidency in 1928,
is listed among the four speak
ers booked by the local Y. M. C.
A. for this spring. This infor
mation was revealed yesterday
by H. F. Comer, executive secre
tary of the association.
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson of
Winston-Salem, who has had
wide travel experience through
Soviet Russia and other parts of
Europe and the Near East, will
deliver an address bn ( Russia
next Wednesday evening at 8 : 00
o'clock in Gerrard hall. The la
bor and occupational system, the
educational system, and religion
will be touched on by Mrs. Pat
terson, who after her lecture,
will open the meeting for infor
mal discussion.
Norman Thomas, who was one
of the prominent speakers op the
program of the Human Relations
Institute last year, will come
here April 12 for a day of ad
dresses and seminar work.
The third speaker sponsored
by the Y. M. C. A. will be George
A. Sloan, president of the Cot
ton Textile Institute, who is
booked for appearance April 28,
when he will conduct seminars
and make platform addresses.
Fletcher S. Brockman, execu
tive secretary of the Committee
on the Promotion of Friendship
between American and the Far
East, will deal with the Sino
Japanese situation and other
topics of interest in the Far
East May 8 and 9.
RALEIGH CHORUS
WILL SING TODAY
Student Entertainment Series Nomber
Will Be Giyen in Graham
Memorial Lounge.
The seventh number of the
Graham Memorial entertain
ment series will be given by the
Raleigh Male Chorus this after
noon at 4:15 o'clock in the
lounge of Graham Memorial.
The program will consist of a
varied concert of ballads, songs,
and chants. There will be no
admission charge, and the public
is invited.
The Raleigh Male Chorus is
an organization of twenty pro
fessional men, most of whom
have been singing together for
several years. The chorus is
now in its eleventh season and is
directed by Professor W. H.
Jones of the music department
of St. Mary's School. The group
is affiliated with the National
Association of Glee Clubs and
includes in its repertoire all the
prize-winning songs and ballads
of that organization.
OFFICIAL NAMING
OF CANDIDATES IS
SET FORMONDAY
Campus Nominations to Be Made
In Assembly; Class Nomina
tions Tomorrow Night.
Nominations for the new cam
pus officers will take place to
morrow in Memorial hall dur
ing assembly period There are
thirteen offices . for which nomi
nations 'miist be made: president
and vice-president of the stu
dent body, editors of the four
student publications The
Daily Tar Heel, the Buccaneer,
the Carolina Magazine, and the
Yackety Yack, president and
vicpresident of the athletic as
sociation, two positions on the
debate council, and three posi
tions on the Publications Union
board. The balloting is set for
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Aviation Offers Worthy Challenge
To Red-Blooded Youth, Says Jones
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Vice-President of Curtiss-Wright Corporation Cites Increase of
Business During Depression and Improvements in Ser
vice as Indications of Growth of Flying.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Formerly a
well-known pilot and now vice-president
of the Curtiss-Wright corpora
tion, Casey Jones has written this ar
ticle especially for The , Daily Tar
Heel.)
By C. S. Casey Jones
The progress made during a
period of business depression is
a better barometer by which to
read the future than that made
during a boom. Consequently
the consistent gain in the,, num
ber of passengers and the
amount of mail and express car
ried on our American airlines in
1931, admittedly a bad year, is
a noteworthy signpost. Records
for the year indicate an increase
in passengers carried of 6.5 per
cent, of airmail of 13.2 per cent,
and air express of 212 per cent.
This in itself would not be so
important but for the fact that
during this same period rail
roads, steamships, and even the
reliable old subways showed a
decided falling off in passenger
traffic There are three princi
pal reasons for this gain : the
efficient operation of the air
lines ; intelligent government
support ; and an increasing con
sciousness on the part of the
public as to the benefits of air
transportation.
Only those familiar with the
APPOINTMENTS TO
FELLOWSHIPS ARE
MADEBYPIERSON
Two Hundred Women .Sent in
Applications for Graduate
Teaching Scholarships.
Dean W. W. Pierson, Jr., of
the University graduate school
yesterday announced the ap
pointments to teaching fellow
ships for the year 1932-1933.
With reference to the fellow
ships, Dean Pierson said: "We
had an unprecedented number of
applications this year. These
fellowships are awarded only to
men. We had to return the re
quests of more than two hun
dred women.
"From men we received and
accepted this year 435 applica
tions an increase of more than
one hundred over last year. It
is hoped that a series of non
service fellowships for women
may soon be made available."
Carry Stipends
Teaching fellowships carry a
stipend of $500, with remission
of tuition charges. Each teach
ing fellow is expected to render
part time service to the depart
ment to which he is assigned.
Announcement of appointments
to the twenty University schol
arships, to the graduate assist
antships in the Institute for
Research in the social sciences,
to the Graham Kenan fellow
ships in philosophy, and to the
T.pnAiiY -Pol nwo Viir in Voiniofrv.
will be made later.
The following list of nomina
tions for fellowships in the
graduate school of the Univer
sity of North Carolina was sent
to the members of the Associ
ation of American Universities
by Dean Pierson:
Botany
Budd Elmon Smith, A.B., Uni
versity of North Carolina, 1931.
Alternate: Bruce Dayvault
Cloaninger, candidate for B.S.,
Clemson College, June, 1932.
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details are aware of the vast im
provements which' have mater
ialized in airline operations dur
ing the last few years. Ten
years ago the landing fields of
the United States were confined
to a few training centers devel
oped during the war, and in thi3
short space .over 2,000 listed
fields have been built and
equipped. As the' landing field
is, to an airplane what the har
bor is to the ship or a good
road to an automobile, the im
portance of this cannot be over
estimated. The adaption of the use of
radio to airplane operation has
done much toward providing
safer operation. The airways
are being equipped with the ra-
ing along them can tell by an
instrument on his dashboard
whether or not he is on his
course, even though he cannot
see the ground. Most of the
modem airlines are pmiinnpd
with two-way radio, and the
pilot is in constant communica
tion with the terminal stations
as well as with intermediate
fields along the route, and re-
rpivps in-frvrrnnHnn ac . fr fT-ia
changing conditions that might
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