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P. U. BOARD MEETING 2:00 O'CLOCK GRAHAM MEMORIAL ((! ;: - t n r 1 1 u A VOLUME XLIH SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934 t " DI AND HI SOCIETIES 7:15 O'CLOCK NEW WEST AND NEW EAST MAPER FIGHTS AS JERSEY TRIES FOR EXTRADITION Trapped into Admissions; Wife Attempts to Establish Alibi ; Testimony Is Vague. CONFESSES LYING TWICE kew York, Oct 15. (UP) Hichard Bruno Hauptmann, trapped time and time again in o damaging admissions, fought -with all the tenacity at his com mand against the efforts of New Jersey authorities to extradite Jiim during a three hour ques tioning today before a packed court room. The German immigrant, want ed by Jersey, officials for trial on a. charge of murder, was forced to admit that he had lied at least twice previously in his state ments to police. ! Hauptmann confessed that he liad not told the true source of the money hidden in his garage and that he had placed its sum -at an incorrect figured "Not Ladder Builder" However, he stoutly denied that he had built the ladder used in the kidnaping, insisting that on the night of March 1, 1932, when the Lindbergh baby was . stolen he had dined with his wife in the Bronx and then.gone home with her. He explained that the gold cer tificates were hidden in the gar .age because he feared arrest on 2. charge of hoarding, but neg lected to give a satisfactory ex planation of how they, came into liis hands. The pistol was also secreted, lie said, because he had no license to possess it. Mrs. Hauptmann and another "witness sought to . corroborate Hauptmann's alibi but their testimonies were vague and es tablished no defense. Tomorrow New Jersey will "begin to prepare witnesses who -will show that Hauptmann was in the vicinity of the Lindbergh liome on the night of the kidnapr ing. tr - f- , -b- m OnC Un '3ma - I OVin Knnor Href - . . -. m . , UP Official Advises Journalists Phi Assembly e m i i J . t The Phi assembly will meet tonight at 7:15 o'clock in New East. The following bills will be dis cussed: Resolved, that freshmen be allowed to attend all dances ; Kesolved, that students should be allowed to . sell their athletic passbooks; Resolved, that fresh men not be required to take gym ; Resolved, that all fresh men be required to room in dor mitories. ENTERTAMBENTS GIVEN FOR YEAR Zimbalist, Russian Violinist, Sec ond on Series ; Program Set For December 6. 1V1LLINGHAM SETS SPECIAL MEETING "Will Discuss Plans for Home coming and Broadcasts. The University club will con vene in special session tonigh y -at 7:00 o'clock in 209 Graham .Memorial, it was announced by Prank Willingham, .; president, .yesterday. This meeting is called to dis cuss and complete plans for JIomecoming'Day and the two - v.nAl - , . , auiu piugrams wnicn- tne or ganization is sponsoring this week. The group will discuss the pro- ject of the pep rally scheduled for Friday night, and the use of 3. card system in the cheering sction which it plans to have completed for the Kentucky game. There will be a broadcast over station WBT in Charlotte from 8:30 to 9:00 o'clock under the direction of Jack Clare, chair man of the radio committee of the organization, and one over station VYJrTi? m Kaieign con ducted by Agnew Bahnson, president of the club last year. The Charlotte program will include speeches by prominent Charlotte alumni and music by Jimmy Fuller and his orchestra. Entertainment of the visiting team will also be discussed. The remainder of the attrac tions secured by the Student En tertainment committee for 1934 35 has been announced by J. P. Harland, chairman of that com mittee. December 6, completing the entertainment for the fall quar ter, Efrem Zimbalist, famous Russian violinist, will give a con cert at Memorial hall. "The Mikado" The first presentation sched uled for the winter quarter is the Gilbert and Sullivan oper etta, "The Mikado," to be given by the DeWoIf comic opera com pany, on January 16. Nini Theilade, Danish dancer who was selected by Max Rein- hardt for the Ballet at Berlin and who is said to be a second Pavlova, will appear here on r eDruary iz. one will De . ac companied by the Whitney String Quartet. The two selections for the spring quarter are an appear ance here of the Russian Sym phonic choir on April 16, and a personal appearance of Richard Granville, famous English actor. The date for Granville's appear ance has not been settled. The initial offering of the en tertainment committee was the presentation of "The Green Pas tures" which was given here October 8. Thomas R. Curran Says United Press Often Has Trouble Find ing Right Man for Job. By Nelson Lansdale The best experience in the world for a would-be newspaper man," says Thomas R. Curran, general manager of the southern division of the United Press, "is to work on a small-town paper where you have to do practically everything but run the linotype machine. You write obituaries and news stories and editorials and advertising copy day in and day out, and you can't help learn ing a lot- about the newspaper game." Curran's visit to Chapel Hill bears no relation to the fact that the Daily Tar Heel has recent- TOWN WILL HELP FORHMCOMING Committee Schedules Celebrities to Speak on Radio Broadcast Saturday Morning. The town of Chapel Hill is joining enthusiastically with the University in making October 20, the day of the Carolina-Kentucky football game, a gala and colorful Homecoming occasion. Governor John C. B. Ehring haus has already accepted the invitation of the Chapel Hill Homecoming committee to speak at a program at 11:00 o'clock, Saturday morning. A special grandstand will be constructed in front of the Methodist church on the main street of the village where the program will take place. Governor Ruby Laff oon, of Duke Professor Addresses tf UMBER 22 On Crisis Facing Liberalism & ; f -'i , Di Senate The Di senate will have its regular weekly meeting tonight at 7:15 o'clock in New West. The bills to be discussed are: Resolved, that a campus-wide movement be started to demand of the 1934-35 State legislature an appropriation for an adequ ate swimming pool for the Uni versity ; Resolved, that lotteries should be ' legalized in North Carolina; and Resolved, that the campaign waged by the Legion of Decency for the purpose of purifying the moving pictures of America was unjustified. Communism, Fascism Are Biggest Threats Dr. E. M. Carroll Discusses Rise And History of Movements; Metzenthin Argues. : AAAAUju aiuu J,vuub" I ' ' ly installed the UP service. His Kentucky, and President McVey i - I -C AT T T i TT 1 ' 1 Two Duke Leaders Will Speak Today . Bill Burke, president of the Duke University student body, and Don McNeal, senior class president, will speak today in as sembly on relations between the Duke and Carolina student bodies. These addresses are part of an exchange program, sponsored by the University Y. M. C.Ar, that is designed to promote better re lations between the two institu tions. Next week Virgil Weathers and Jack Pool will speak at the Duke assembly. Annual Men to Meet headquarters are in Atlanta! Georgia. He and Mrs. Curran spent the week-end here as the guests of Dr. W. Leon Wiley, of the romance language depart ment, and Mrs. Wiley. Young, sandy-haired, sparsely-built and pleasantly energetic looking, the United Press official evidenced great interest in publications at the University, largely, because, he explained, the majority of the men working with the UP have come up into the service from college papers. Journalism as Major It has often been asserted by newspaper men that they prefer to engage a man who has not majored in journalism in col lege, on the grounds that they have one system to unlearn and another to pick up. When asked about the UP's principle on this, Curran said: "I don't think it hurts. Whatever you have to unlearn after taking journalism i in college is more than compen-l sated for by the general idea you get of what makes the wheels go 'round on a newspaper." Speaking of unemployment, as acute in the newspaper world as in any prof essional field, he said: "You hear a lot about unemploy ment,- maybe, but it very often happens that the UP has trouble finding a man for a job. Not that there aren't lots of names in the files there are plenty. It's just a case of many appli cants and few men suited for the job." And Curran wasn't speaking of high-salaried executive posi tions m his organization. "You see," he said, "promotions in the UP are always made from the bottom up nobody is imported (Continued on page two) of the University of Kentucky, also have been invited to attend and speak on the program. Broadcast Program The whole program, begin ning at 10 :45 o'clock and con tinuing until President Roose velt's broadcast at 11 :30 o'clock, is to be broadcast over Raleigh radio station WPTF. Carl Goerch, editor of The State and a radio favorite, "has been se cured to be master of ceremonies at the exercises. Other featured speakers will include Lieutenant-Governor A. H. Graham, President F. P. Gra ham, and Major L. P. McLen- don, a former major of Chapel Hill. ; Music for the program will be furnished by the University (Continued on page two) The following members of the junior staff of the Yackety Yack are requested to report to the office, 207 Graham Memorial, at 3:00 O'clock tndav? ClanHp Brown, Alex Gover, Roy Crooks, Jack Jager, George Allen, and Bill Jordan. V Magazine Copy All copy for the first issue of the" Carolina Magazine i& due to day, according to an announce ment by Joe Sugarman, editor. TYPHOON CAUSES LOSS IN MANILA Telephone Service Disrupted: Water Several Feet Deep. Manila, Oct. 16. (UP) A roaring typhoon ripped through Manila today causing great pro perty damage and "a probable loss of life. ( Telephone services were dis rupted as the water flooding the city reached a depth of several feet many places. Hugh waves rolling before the disturbance also caused a sus pension of , transportation ser vices and the streets were filled with trees uprooted by the wind and carried along by flood wa ters. The typhoon started at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, the winds reaching a velocity of more than 60 miles per hour. LIBRARY RECEIVES NEW COLLECTIONS Dr. J.' G. de. Hamilton of His tory Department Gathers Southern Material. Hundreds of thousands of books, pamphlets, diaries, and letters, donated by individuals from all parts of the south, are pouring into the University library. .Most of these documents are acquired by the Dr. J. G. 'deRoul hac Hamilton of the department of history, who makes frequent trips m this and neighboring states in search of them. Dr. Hamilton is directing an unique and important undertaking in tended to throw a new light upon the history of the south and even to rewrite it in parts. This undertaking is the exten sive gathering together of ma terial pertaining to southern his tory. At the present time the task of classifying the mass of material is being pushed for ward by the University with the aid of-government relief funds H T T a i ivirs. Lyman A.-uotten is m charge of this work. Pettigrew Collection So far, only thirteen groups of papers have been completely classified. Of these the Petti grew collection is the most valu able. Bednnincr with a , will dated 1685, one of the oldest North Carolina wills in existence, and containing" letters written as late as 1931, this collection comprises more than 10,000 doc uments. Several hundred letters writ- by members of the Petti- NO WORD HEARD IN STOLL KIDNAP arr tt t n -i ticiv xiuur jr asses: ramuv m Fear Woman Is Abandoned as No Message Is Received. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 15. (UP) The zero hour set by the kidnapers of Mrs. Berry VrStoll passed late today apparently without word from the victim or the kidnaper. The ransom note received by relatives threatened death to the victim "unless you get in touch with us in five days." The five days ended at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon. Relatives have repeatedly de nied that any word has been re ceived from .her abductor. A mysterious telephone conversa tion was reported Thursday be tween Berry V. Stoll and some anonymous person. After a few- words were exchanged, the con versation was abruptly termi nated. The family of the kidnaped woman has apparently taken every possible step to facilitate contact with the abductor. All telephone wires and roads to the estate have been kept cleared and all federal officers and other police have been withdrawn. When no word had been re ceived at the end of the time lim it today, the relatives' fears that Mrs. Stoll had been abandoned in some lonely spot received par tial confirmation. Speaking on the character and history of the crisis facing lib eralism todayTDr. E. M. Carroll of Duke University addressed a Joint meeting of the Y. M. C. A. cabinets last night in Gerrard hall. "The greatest threats to. lib eralism today are communism and fascism," Dr. Carroll stated, tracing the rise of these two rival political institutions. The common principle of com munism and fascism is the con centrating of social organiza tion for certain prescribed aims, he said. JNationaiism "The underlying motive of communism and fascism states is the strengthening of the au thority of power in the nation, rather than the improving of the s social conditions of the state." Dr. Carroll discussed the rise and history of communism and fascism, especially in Germany and Italy, and told of their vic tories over liberalism. "Th a world war precipitated forces against liberalism which were already in operation at the be ginning of , the conflict,7 he stated. "Liberalism has two distinct advantages over its two rivals. Our institutions based upon freedom have-the faeilitv of a peaceful transfer of power from one political group to another without a revolution; and lib eralism is founded upon the sov ereignity of the people." Clean House Freedom needs a houseclean- ing, according to the Duke pro fessor, who said that liberalism has to have the ability to adjust itself to the new problems of the future. "Freedom must profit by the past mistakes of its enemies," he (Continued on page two) Committee Favors Student-Faculty Day The Student Welfare board, in session yesterday afternoon, expressed itself in favor of the proposed student-faculty day as presented by Agnew Bahnson and J. D. Winslow. The board favored the gen eral idea of having a day set aside for the jamboree and ap pointed a committee, consisting of Bahnson, Winslow, and Albert Ellis, to draw up a written tenta tive program which is to be fur ther considered by the board. The group will meet in special session Thursday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock to consider the com mittee's program. The measure will be passed on to the faculty after Thursday's meeting with. or- without the board's approval. The faculty is to be the final authority- on the matter. FERA CHECKS HERE en grew family while students at the University show that college ife in the 1790Ts was hot far re- (Continued on page two) Edwin S. Lanier, self-help sec retary, announced yesterday that the FERA checks would be ready for distribution tomorrow after noon. . ' Students should call at the University business office in South building. COMMITTEE GIVES DECORATING PLAN FOR HOMECOMING Fraternities to Decorate Around 'Beat Kentucky" Theme. The Homecoming Day com mittee of the University club yesterday announced the ar rangement for the decoration of fraternities for Homecoming. The decorations are to be built about the ereneral theme of Beat Kentucky." This plan of a general theme was decided upon so that there might be a definite basis of comparison for the judges in making their se lection of the best decorations. The decorations, which are not to cost above $15, must be completed by 10 :00 o'clock Sat urday morning, and will be judged between 10:00 and 12:00 o'clock. The judges will base their de cision mainly on the originality displayed, but the artistic merit will also be considered. A silver loving cup is to be awarded the fraternity which, in the opinion of the judges, has the best decorations. This cup, on display in the window of Stet son "D?" will become the per manent possession of the frater nity which wins it three consecu tive times. It was won last year by Sigma Nu.