CHURCIt SERVICES
THIS MORNING
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CHURCH SERVICES
THIS MORNING
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'VOLUME XLHI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1935
NUMBEEi 72
IONGFISffS COURT
RULES CRESCENT
CnYISBAMRUPT
Conrt Appoints Receiver for
City and Draws Municipal
Purse Strings.
STANDARD OIL "PUNISHED"
New Orleans, Jan. 5. (UP)
Huey 'The Kingfish" Long
spread his fins tonight in a fare--well
gesture and, with the aid of
liis friendly state supreme court,
virtually threw the city of New
Orleans into receivership.
He defied the Standard Oil
dared that corporation to with-
STw E. a a
mass meeting oi angry rennery
employees who were faced with
the loss of their jobs, and pre
pared to leave for Washington
-where he hopes to become a
member of the new congress.
Supreme Court Acts
The state supreme court back
ed Long's decree by a vote of
four to three, and named Judge
A. L. Ponder of Amite as the
-would-be receiver for the city
which refused to bow to Long's
dictatorship and now is face to
face with the "tyrant's penalty.
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jroniDiis me city xrum paying
money to any person, firm, or
corporation, until the proceed
ings are given a hearing on
January 15.
"If the Standard Oil Company
Trill buy all its crude oil from
Louisiana," the Kingfish appar
ently reasoned, "We'll debate the
tax, or we'll rebate the tax on
y-linr
Louisiana oil fields.'
LINDY HOUSEHOLD
AH)ED KIDNAPING,
DEFENSE CLAIMS
Hauptmann's Lawyers .Work
Frantically to Combat Testi-
mony Given by Flyer.
WEEK'S PLANS OUTLINED
i'leimngton, N. J.. Jan. 5.
UP) With their backs to the
wall, Bruno Hauptmann's legal
defense staff declared today that
a gang of criminals, aided con
sciously or unwittingly by mem
bers of the Lindbergh house
hold, kidnaped . and murdered
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ure nymg colonel s young son.
... The, German carpenter's bat
tery of lawyers are working
frantically this week-end to find
means of combatting the start
ling testimony given the court
yesterday by Colonel Lindbergh
Ransom Extortioner
ihis testimony placed their
client definitely in the role of
ransom extortioner. The de
fense lawyers outlined" tothe
United Press an equally amaz
lng theory which will be offered
next week
They will attempt to show that
J. F. Condon was a visitor
to the scene of the crime before
it was committed. They will
crack down with vehemence on
the story to be offered by Betty
Gow.
With these two points empha
sized, the defense intends to at
tempt to establish' the theory
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at tne crime was plotted, m
Professional criminal circles,
ma mat some of the major
characters in the melodramatic
prosecution artnallv b e c a m e
tools of h tsJoHot
Person Hall Will.Open Soon
As Campus Fine Arts Center
ATHLETIC PASSBOOKS
All students who have not
received their athletic pass
books for the winter quarter
may obtain them tomorrow or
Tuesday, it was announced
yesterday.
No passbooks will be dis
tributed after Tuesday.
The tickets will be given
out from the cashier's window
in the University business of
fice, first floor of South build
ing. WILL DlhCUSS
CRIME PROBLEllIS
Tentative Program Schedule Will
Be Presented at First Meet
ing of This Quarter.
a xentative scneauie oi pro-
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grams for the Y. M. C. A. cab-
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inets was submitted to officers I
of the groups yesterday and will
be discussed at the regular cab-
inet meetings tomorrow night in
the Y. M: C. A. building.
''The subiect uoon which- the
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programs nave been organized!
is "Social Disorganization" and pressed the hope that m the fu
will embrace the various phases ture every community in North
of the crime problem.
Meeting Tomorrow
The meetings tomorrow night
will be given over to a discus- J
sion and Dlanniner of the auar-1
ter's work and to a re-organiza
tion of the internal procedure
of the several cabinets.
r Tentative programs, include
discussions on "What is
f!riTn?" "WTirt id Tip Prim
"Punishments for
Cnme," "Prisons,' Juvenile
Delinquency, "Pros and Cons
of Capital Punishment," and
"Modern Methods of Combat-1
ting Crime." Professor Harold I
D. Meyer assisted in the formu-
lation of the study.
Cithpr -nrosrams will include
talks by prison wardens, crim-
inal investigators, ex-criminals,
and crime experts.
Student Fees
Students whose names begin
with F thmnah J ttiav nav their
n'HpritfAtthAhiprwin-kuet
dow tomorrow.
The schedule for other
stu-
dents is as follows:
Tuesday: Students with names
beginning with K through M.
Wednesday : Students with
names beginning with N through
P.
Thursday : Students with
names beginning with Q through
wW-
T?wo. Rf,i,W with names
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Saturday: Students witn
, ; . V TXT
uauw 3
through Z.
WOLF TO MAKE TALK
The January meeting of the
American Association of Univer
sity Women will be held luesaay
night at 8 o'clock at the home oi
Mrs. "A. S. Wheeler, 714 ,E.
Franklin street, iuiss
Love announced yesterday.
Professor H.D.Woll,wno win
i -n
address the club, has taken for
A. "T
his subject Unemployment xn -
surance.
Feature Board to Meet
The DAILY Tar Heel feature
board will convene tomorrow af-
ternoon at 3 o'clock in 209 Gra-
I ham Memorial.
Dr. Graham and Miss Leila Mel-
chin Tell Raleigh Audience of
Plans for Museum Here.
j After having been in a state
of reconstruction for almost a
year, and the worst eyesore on
the campus, Person hall will
soon be completely restored and
converted into an art museum.
Plans for the development of the
edifice as a center for the fine
arts were disclosed by President
F. P. Graham and Miss Tila
Melchin, an officer of the Amer
ican Federation of Arts, at the
meeting of the North Carolina
Art Society recently in Raleigh.
Begun in Savannah and
spread to Chapel Hill and Char
lottesville, the Southern Art
Projects, is , concerned with
establishing not only a depos
itory for art treasures here, but
a scnool oi creative art as -wen.
It has been pointed out that this
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scnool,
if established, would
match the departments of drama
and music in fostering the study
and appreciation of the fine arts.
Mrs. Katherine P. Arrington,
president of the state art society
an a generous contributor to-
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vvaru reuuuumg rvmvu. uau,
Carolina may have an art cen
tr
xamea alter rerson
Person hall, one of the oldest
buildings on the campus, was
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FRANTZ TO PLAY
HERE JANUARY 23
Noted American Pianist to Ad-
pear Under Sponsorship
Of Phi Mu Alpha.
Dalies Frantz, brilliant young
American pianist-with an amaz-
ing record of success to his cred
jit, will appear here in Memorial
lhall Wednesday evening, Jan-
uary 23, at 8:30 o'clock.
under the management of
He is
Evans
and Salter. He will appear here
under the auspices of the Phi
Mu Alpha, music fraternity.
So rapidly has Dalies Frantz
risen to national fame that he
has won for himself the soubri-
"Titan of the Keyboard.
Appearing witn tne toremost or
chestras of the country and in
recital he has displayed unugual
talent, a prodigious technique,
and keen intelligence.
Child Prodigy
His is the amazing story of a
child prodigy. Frantz was born
in Denver, Colo. His father was
a business man, his mother a
fine lieder singer. She regard-
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ea music as a paru ui rni
. -a Y i "l
education, aim uicic ao
IliUSiU 111 XlVJiAX,
Going to Boston with his mo
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"Mama, Who
Ed jqj. a married man!
He nQ longer bunks in the Y. M.
c A He nas apartment of
his own in Chanel Hill. A man
f nronerty.
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Ti d f om a days heavy
work m the self-help bureau, the
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1 man of property whisked across
Ithe campus toward his new
home. The thick, darkening air
penetrated his overcoat. Good
I to have a home !
Into the apartment rushed
Lanier. . ,. . Straight for the
I mushy chair and tne Daily TAR
ALUMNI PREPARE
PLANS FOR YEAR
University Speakers Emphasize
Financial Condition of 'Uni
versity at Local Meetings.
With the convening of the
state assembly near at hand and
the General Alumni Association
business meeting scheduled for
January 25, local alumni asso
ciations throughout the state
are holding annual or semi-an
nual meetings to elect officers
and to plan activities for --the
coming year.
As this is a legislative year,
special emphasis is being laid
by speakers from the University
at these meetings on the finan
cial situation' of the University;
and alumni are making plans for
contacting legislators from their
counties ancl acquainting them
with the needs- of the state edu
cational institutions.
Work of Committees
Committees are also being ap
pointed at these meetings to deal
with prospective Carolina stu
dents from the state high schools
and prep schools and to make
plans for. the co-operation of
alumni groups .with the director
of the alumni loyalty fund.
During the .month of Decem
ber Wilkes county alumni were
addressed in North Wilkesboro
by Felix A. Grisette, director of
the alumni loyalty fund; Dean
of Students Francis Bradshaw
and Alumni Association Secre
tary Mayron Saunders spoke at
Rockingham in Richmond coun-
!ty ; and Dean E. L. Cloyd of
State College addressed alumni
of the three institutions now in
cluded in the consolidated Uni
versity gathered at Lenoir in
Caldwell county.
Other Sessions Held
Other meetings were held in
Lincolnton, Shelby, and Sylva.
Coach Carl Snavely and Sec
retary Saunders ' wilr speak
Thursday at a meeting in Green
ville, S. C, to alumni of -upper
South Carolina, including for
mer Carolina men from Spar
tanburg, Anderson, and Gaffney.
Coach Snavely will talk to Lee
county alumni in Sanford, Jan
uary 17; and he and Coach Rob
ert Fetzer will make addresses
in Concord before Cabarrus
county alumni February 1. .
Other meetings are expected
to be held soon in Wilmington,
Oxford, Charlotte," Mount Airy,
and in Johnston and Pitt coun
ties. SCOUTS WILL CONVENE
There will be an important
meeting of the Boy Scout com
mittees of the Cherokee Council
and others interested in scout
ing tomorrow afternoon at 5
o'clock in 215 Graham Memorial,
John F. Kenfield, chairman of
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro council,
announced yesterday. -
Is That Man?"
Heel. ... Cool smoke. . .
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Warm
hearth fire. . . .
"Mama, who is that
man'
The frightened baby girl on the
carpeted floor crawled toward
her mother who had just come
from the kitchen It was not
Sirs. Lanier!
The man of property let go
his smoke, crushed his paper.
and started up to face the wom
an. A thousand apologies.
He had entered the wrong apart
ment!
Greyhound Officials Present
Plan For Local Bus Schedule
EDITORIAL STAFF FIRED
Pending final authority
from the editor, who is ab
sent, Phil Hammer, chairman
of the editorial board, an
nounced yesterday that every
member of the editorial board
lias been dropped from the
staff.
Tryouts for the board will
be conducted beginning to
morrow every afternoon the
coming week from 2 until 4
o'clock.
FAMOUS CHEMIST
WILL TALK HERE
Dr. H. a Urey, Nobel Prize Win
ner, Will Be Guest of Local
Sigma Xi Society.
' Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel
Prize winner in chemistry for
1934, will address the North
Carolina Chapter of the Society
of Sigma Xi here next Saturday
night.
The Duke Chapter of Sigma
Xi will be the guest of the local
organization. i ne arrange
ments for the lecture are being
made by Dr. E. X. Plyler, presi
dent, and Dr. H D. Crockford,
secretary of the North Carolina
Chapter of the St ciety of Sigma
Xi.
Dr. Urey -is tlu third Amer
ican chemist in the history of
the Nobel Prize awards to re-
ceive tne cnemistry awara. rne
prize was made for Dr. Urey's
work on the discovery of deu
terium, the heavy isotope of hy
drogen.
Native of Indiana
Dr. Urey is a native of Walk
erton, Indiana, j He is a gradu
ate of the University of Mon
tana, took his Ph.D. degree from
the University pf California. He
was the American-Scandinavian
fellow in Denmark during 1923
24, studying under Niels Bohr
at Copenhagen. He has served
as an . associate in chemistry at
Johns v Hopkins and has been
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Water Resources Unit
Moved to Raleigh
Division Has Been Stationed
Here for Last Ten Years.
The Division of Water Re
sources and Engineering of the
State fDepartment of Conserva
tion and Development which has
been stationed at the University
for the last, ten years has been
moved to- Raleigh
The creation-of the division
was the result of the work of
Professor Thorndike Saville
when he was a member of the
University faculty. He began
his investigations into the water
resources of the state in 1919.
In 1925 when' the Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment located the division in
Chapel Hill, Professor Saville
was placed in charge.
"The transplanting of the di-
vision, comments tne napei
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Hill Weekly, "may hSve some re
lation to the argument, which
has been in progress for the last
two or three years, over the
question of moving the Univer
sity's Engineering School from
here to Raleigh. What puzzles
Chapel Hill," the Weekly con
tinues, "is why the move was
made without persons intimate
ly concerned having any oppor
tunity to express either approval
or disapproval.1
CAMPUS TO SIGN
WRITTEN PETITION
Proposed Route Would Connect
Greensboro, Raleigh, and
Chapel HilL
CHEAPER RATES EFFECTED
Officials of the Atlantic Grey
hound Lines met with a special
committee appointed by the ad
ministration yesterday morning
and presented a plan for the in
auguration of a bus line from
Greensboro to Raleigh via
Chapel Hill.
The Greyhound officials sub
mitted written petitions which
will be circulated on the campus
and presented to the North Car
olina Utilities Commission in an
effort to get a certificate for the
inauguration of the new line.
Students Endorse Plan
The student committee heart
ily endorsed the program v and
made arrangements to have the
petitions signed by University
students who wish the new ser
vice. Members of the group
were: Harold Bennett, Phil
Hammer, Haywood Weeks, J. D
Winslow, and Dewitt Carroll.
The bus line submitted a
schedule stipulating four buses
to Raleigh and Greensboro daily,
at rates measurably lower than
now obtainable and at a greatly
reduced travelling time.
Petitions to Be Signed
The hearing before the utili
ties commission-will be held Jan
uary 22. It is planned to have
petitions presented also from
Chapel Hill townspeople and
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YALE PROFESSOR
WILL MAKE TALK
TOMORROW NIGHT
DrT Meeks to Speak on "Prob
lems of Present Day Archi
tectue,, in Gerrard HalL
TALK TO BE ILLUSTRATED
Dr. Everett V. Meeks, dean of
the school of fine arts at Yale
University, will lecture tomor
row evening at 8 :30 o'clock in
Gerrard hall on "Problems of
Present Day Architecture."
The public lecture, under the
auspices of the Southern Art
Projects, will be illustrated by
means of slide pictures.
Professor at Yale
Dr. Meeks is professor of
architecture at Yale and direc
tor of. the Yale art galleries. He
is a fellow in the American In
stitute of Architects.
The Southern Art Projects is
an organization iormea tnis
year through a small Carnegie
Corporation grant. It includes ,
three institutions in the south,
this University, the University
of Virgina, and the Telfair
Academy , of Arts and Sciences
at Savannah, Ga. President F.
P. Graham is chairman of the
executive committee.
Part of the program "spon
sored by the Southern Art;Pis-
jects m co-operatjon wita the
University of North Carolina,
the University of Virginia, and
the Telfair Academy of Arts
and Sciences at Savannah, Ga.,
is an exhibition of'oil paintings
by contemporary American art
ists in Hill Music nail. The ex
hibit was opened yesterday and
will remain open through Jan-"
uary 15. These paintings are
borrowed from the Grand Cen
tral Galleries of New York City.
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