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CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1938
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NUMBER 68
Posse Searches Nearby Area
Of County Following Assault
On Local High School Girl
Action Off Council.
To Sing Tonight In Hill Music Hall
Criticized By ASU
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Search Continues
Into Early Morning
Hours Today
A Negro youth reported to have
criminally assaulted and robbed a
Chapel Hill school, girl early yester
day afternoon one mile north of the
village on Airport road was still
being searched for early this morn
ing. Orange County Sheriff S. T. Latta,
county and local officers and a posse
made up of at least 100 irate persons
and some 50 automobiles combed the
territory north of Chapel Hill and
patroled all roads in that section.
Most of the searchers were armed
with shotguns and rifles and were
led by bloodhounds obtained from
Greensboro earlier in the day.
Officers said the 15-year-old girl
was returning home from the village
about 1:30 yesterday when the Negro
approached her with a pistol. A local
physician was reported to have given
evidence that two assaults were com
mitted. ASSAILANT UNKNOWN
According to the girl's report, she
had never seen the Negro before and
did not know him, but would recog
nize the assailant if seen again.
Searchers said she described the Ne
gro as wearing a polo shirt, checked
trousers, overshoes and black hat and
being 17 or 18 years old, about five
feet, ten inches in height and having
dark skin and thick lips.
A local electrician was said to have
found the girl crying by the road
side, took her home and notified the
police. She was nervous and shocked
and was reported to have been taken
to an unnamed hospital.
An officer declared the Negro had
robbed the girl of some change.
Rumors persisted that the Negro
had been captured and Jaken to an
oat of town jail earlier in the even
ing, but this was denied by local
officers. f
Peeling ran high as the search
went on into the early morning hours
today and numerous Mtudents in
automobiles followed the searchers
along the roadsides. News spread
rapidly and newspaper photographers
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HOPKINS MAY BE
UNION SPEAKER
Czech Ambassador
Also Invited Here
Voit Gilmore, sending a special
telegram to the Daily Tar Heel last
nieht, announced that the Honorable
Harry L. Hopkins and the Ambassa-
dor from Czechoslovakia, M. Hurban,
have expressed their willingness to
speak here under the auspices of the
CPU. No definite dates, however,
"fcere made.
Concerning the speech here Mon
day, Voit said the State department
had arranged rebroadcasts in Europe
and South America. The general
opinion in the capitol, he continued,
is that the speech was "general."
Approximate date set for M. Hur
on's address was sometime during
the months of January or February,
Mr. Hopkins also tentatively
Agreed to an appearance next quar
ter. Phi Gam Bundle Day
Proves Successful;
To Be Annual Event
Last night at 8:30 the last of the
bundles gathered by Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity from Carolina students
collected, the drive bringing
Rothes from all over the campus to
be distributed to the Chapel Hill poor
time for Christmas.
Ir a statement to the Daily Tab
Heel, Gene Williams, in charge "of
ections, said, "We would like to
t- ank each individual who helped us
. EunHe day a success."
. TJis is the first time any drive of
Tn! has ever been attempted at
'e diversity, and with its success
s year it will be continued each
m the future. The purpose of
e drive was, in addition to helping
6 poor, to enable students to get rid
clothing they no longer want,
andle day also enabled studentsfor
'? irst tijtte, to express the Christ
a spirit while still in Chapel Hill.
SENIORS APPROVE
CLASS BUDGET BY
UNUSUALMTHOD
Personal Contacts
And Mails Used To
Pass Finance Plan
Varying from their usual method
of calling a class meeting in an at
tempt to secure enough votes to pass
the class budget, the senior class has
tried a new system of personal con
tacts and mailed copies of the pro
posed budget, resulting in class ap
proval of the finance plan.
Felix Markham, president of the
class, announced yesterday that of
the 393 votes received, 357 were in
favor of the budget as proposed and
that the 36 who voted against it stat
ed on their ballots that the reason for
their disapproval was due to the fact
that no appropriation had been set
aside for a memorial to Charles Spell,
a senior who was killed in an auto
mobile accident recently.
Markham stated that he wished to
make it clear that a committee has
been appointed to look into the dif
ferent types of memorial available
and that an appropriation will be set
aside for this purpose. ' -
The new system of presenting the
budget to the class consists of hav
ing the executive committee make as
many personal contacts as possible
with the members of the class and
getting, their approval or mailing
post cards with a copy of the budget
to those who cannot be contacted di
rectly. Members of the committee ex
pressed satisfaction at the way , in
which this new plan Jias " worked both
as to speed and economy.
Dr. Hudson Finds
Odd Names For
Negro Children
University English Professor
Elected Vice-President Of
Folk Lore Group
Dr. A. P. Hudson, tUniversity Eng
lish professor, was elected vice presi
dent of the North Carolina Folk Lore
society in Raleigh last Friday. George
P. Wilson of Greensboro was re-elected
president.
Dr. Hudson, one of the principal
speakers on the program, convinced
the members of the society that there
really is something in a name through
his address, "The Science of Naming
Negro Babies."
His talk consisted mainly of a re
view of unusual names given to Negro
babies. He pointed out that the Ne
gro showed his yen for religion
through the following names that
were bestowed on the younger gen
eration of the Negro race: Image of
Christ Lord Jesus Brown, I Will
Arise and Go Unto My Father Smith,
and Seven Times Shall Thou Walk
Around Jericho, called "Thou" for
short.
Many of the babies were named for
newspapers, for example, Free Press
and Commercial Appeal; and others
named for money, from Dollar and
Two Bits to Nary A Red and Minus.
Twins have many unusual names
among the Negroes, he pointed out,
some being Max and Climax, Kate
and Duplicate, Nicknack and Boot
jack, and Gasoline and Kerosene.
Those names which couldn't be clas
c;kA tp: Hard Times, NRA, Mis
sissippi Flood, Dowager, Kale Seed,
Classy Oat Seed, Truly vvmte, ivory
Keys Filthy McNasty, Sal Hepatica,
Big Apple, and Dill Pickle.
Finch Waives Hearing
TIniversitv
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junior charged with, manslaughter,
waived preliminary hearing in Re-
for? a v mnm.
corders court neic j-
ing.
Finch, releases -
bond, will be tried in Orange county
r,ovt vpar. He was
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driver of an automobile which crashed
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into a. teiepnonc -over,
killing Charles C. Spell Univer
sity senior, here November 17.
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Shown above Wilburta Horn, left, of St. Mary's Junior college, and Wal
ter Vassar, right, of Greensboro college, who will take part in the Chapel
Hill Choral club program tonight.
Students Guilty Of Passing
200 Bad Checks This Year
Clerk Says Number
Exceeds That Of
Any Past Quarter
Although' the Student council has
taken no decisive action this year as
yet, it was learned last night that
over 200 bad checks had been passed
by University students this year.
Checks, ranging from $60 to fifty
cents, have : been returned with the
familiar "No Funds" stamp on them.
Claude Hobbs, bogus check clerk
for the Chapel Hill Merchants asso
ciation, working in conjunction with
the Student council, stated that this
year's total of "rubber bouncers" was
greater than that in other years, al
though previously more drastic, ac
tion had been taken. He gave no in
dication, however, that continued in
tentional passing of bad checks would
not be dealt with in severe fashion
by the student honor group.
AMPLE WARNING
It was also pointed out that a stu
dent is given ample warning concern
ing his passing of, bad .checks, before
drastic action is taken. Hobbs sends
a notice to the guilty person, asking
him or her to explain the issuing of
the check. If the "rubber bouncer"
passer fails to report for an explana
tion, it is the duty of Hobbs to make
a report to the proper authorities.
Accordingly, the Student council
takes whatever action it deems neces
sary. The most common case of bad check
passing is that in which the student
has overdrawn his account, usually
unknowingly. Often an undergradu
ate writes a check with the knowledge
that he has no more money in the
bank, intending to replenish the sup
ply just before leaving on his vaca
tion. In all his haste he forgets to
deposit the balance, and is hailed be
fore the bad check clerk.
Many times, however, a student has
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Works Of French
Cartoonist Shown
The exhibition of lithographs by
Honore Daumier, which opened Sun
day at the Person hall art gallery, is
proving very amusing to visitors be
cause of the satirical, yet comical
way in which human weaknesses and
follies have been portrayed.
Daumier, the greatest of 19th cen
tury French newspaper cartoonists
and one of the founders of modern
painting, was principally interested
in reform. His cartoons characterized
the evifs of his day and ridiculed the
corrupt practices of politicians, law
yers, and bankers. In each theme he
searched for the most telling and
characteristic action and portrayed it
in the most telling and characteristic
form.
The exhibition at Person hall in
cludes 29 of Daumier's caricatures,
lent by the Boston MuseumNof Fine
Art. Subject material varies from
a well-done portrait of Victor Hugo,
the French novelist, and one of the
mythological figure, Narcissus, to
pathetically pitiful beggars, rotund
butchers, and mothers and children
in rags. Several cartoons ridiculing
the courts are particularly good." In
all, Daumier did over 5,000 carica
tures. The exhibition will be on view
through January 3, 1939. '
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UNC, ALABAMA
TO DEBATE ON
PUBLIC SPEEDING
Hamlin And Klutz
Will Be Speakers
For University
Lewis Hamlin and Clarence Klutz,
University students, will debate to
night against University of Alabama
repfesentatives on the question: Re
solved That the United States should
ceas using public funds for the stim
ulation of business. The Alabama
speakers have not been announced.
Klutz, a University senior from
Salisbury, has worked for three years
with the debate squad. Hamlin, a
junior from Brevard, has had debat
ing experience in high school and
junior college.
Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala., presi
dent of the debate council, will pre
side at the non-decision debate which
will begin in Graham Memorial
lounge at 8:30. This will be the Uni
versity's first match with Alabama
and the council plans to include the
new opponents on the tour this
spring.
The debate tonight will be the third
and final one sponsored by the coun
cil this quarter, the other two being
the Anglo-Irish debate and the de
bate with Dartmouth speakers last
week. Debate activities will be re
sumed next quarter.
Graham WILL Speak
President Frank Graham will speak
today in freshmen assembly. His sub
ject has not yet been announced.
Reading Of Dickens' "Christmas Carol"
Begun 33 Years Ago By "Proff" Koch
Koch To Present His
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Dr. Frederick H. Koch, above, Playmaker director, will give his annual
reading of Dickens' "Christmas Carol in Memorial hall Sunday night.
CHORAL CLUB TO
PRESENT CONCERT
IN HILL HALL
Program Directed By
Toms; Edwards,
Vassar To Sing
Three outstanding North Carolina
singers will take solo parts in a pres
entation of the last two parts of "The
Seasons" by Haydn to be given by
the Chapel Hill Choral club, under
the direction of Professor John E.
Toms of the University music de
partment in Hill Music hall at 8:30
this evening.
The soloists who will sing with the
society are Miss Wilburta Horn, so
prano, teacher of voice at St. Mary's
Junior college in Raleigh; Thomas
Edwards, tenor, voice instructor at
Elon college; and Walter Vassar,
baritone, from Greensboro college.
Miss Horn, a graduate of the East
man School of Music and the Univer
sity of Rochester, has held a scholar
ship in opera for the past two years
at the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia. She has, studied exten
sively and has appeared with several
opera companies, symphonies, and in
concert. She has also made numerous
broadcasts.
Mr. Edwards was received favor
ably when he sang a solo at the Glee
club concert here on November 19.
He has appeared in light opera at
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music,
from which he is a graduate. Mr.
Vassar has taught for a number of
years at Greensboro college and iy
well known in the state as a baritone
soloist. . - , - .
; The concert, which is an" annual af
fair, will be accompanied by the Uni
versity Symphony orchestra. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.
REVIEWER LAUDS
CAROLINAMAG
Simmons Believes
South Interested
"Rarely have we, seen so fearlessly
outspoken material on this problem,"
columnist Fritz Raley Simmons
writes in the Greensboro News of the
recent issue of the Carolina Magazine
dealing with the South. "Some of the
articles will infuriate southern citi
zens, and make all of us a little un
comfortable," he continues, but as
literate people, southerners should be
interested in the issue because it
deals with their own poignant prob
lems. The Southerner who wrote the edi
torial on page two, he maintains, was
a "very bitter Southerner and seemed
to take an almost saddist delight in
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Group's President
Writes Joyner About
Derry Incident
In a letter addressed to Jim Joyner,
president of the student body, Wil
liam Borders, speaking on behalf of
the American Student union told the
council it is their "responsibility,, to
define what is discourteous and not
discourteous and charged the body
with leaving itself "dictatorial pow
ers on the form of what is in effect
a signed blank check."
Borders referred to the recent state
ment issued by the council repri
manding a group of students for pass
ing out leaflets at the Carolina Po
litical union address of Dr. George H.
Derry on November 3.
JOYNER ANSWERS
In response to the charges, Joyner
said that the council decided at it3
meeting last night that it would
strictly interpret the campus code as
it is stated in case of any future oc
casions that might arise. He further
said that there could be but one inter
pretation of the code, namely: "that
a Carolina student is to conduct him
self as a gentleman at all times."
Joyner also said that the council
did not consider that the boys men
tioned had conducted themselves in a
manner prescribed by the code.
The Student council statement was
issued on November 16 following the
action of a group of students oppos
ing the views of Derry in handing
out three-page pamphlets after the
speaker had ascended the platform.
Voit Gilmore, chairman of the CPU,
the same night protested to the Stu
dent council against the distribution
of the "derogatory" pamphlets.
Borders' letter, addressed to Jim
Joyner, reads as follows:. i;. ,
"Recently a group of students
were brought before the Student
council and reprimanded for pass
ing out leaflets at the CPU address
of Dr. Derry. In the statement is
sued to the Tar Heel, concerning
this case, the Student council said,
. . the council recognizes thje
right of every student to express
his opinions and thoughts in per
fect freedom . . .' The statement
goes on to describe the action of
these students as a gross breach of
courtesy and it concludes with the
statement, 'Any further impolite or v
discourteous acts must be severely
dealt with.' Members of the facuL
ty, the Tar Heel, and the student
body have all expressed their dis
satisfaction with this statement.
"COUNCIL FAILED"
"Speaking in behalf of the Ameri
can Student union I wish to regis
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Heel Businessmen
Important meeting of the Tar
Heel business staff at 2 p. m. to
day. Those not present will be
dropped from the staff.
Colorful Presentation To Be
Given By Playmaker Director
In Memorial Hall Sunday
It was one of those terrific bliz
zards found so often in regional
novels and old-fashioned melodramas.
Dr. Frederick H. Koch was scheduled
to give his annual reading of Dick
ens' "Christmas Carol" at the Univer
sity of North Dakota, but the branch
line of the railroad that was to con
vey him there was completely oblit
erated by snow. Finally a farmer of
fered to take "Proff" on a bobsled to
a town on the main line 30 miles from
the school on the chance that he
might catch a train there.
Upon arriving at the station, how
ever, "Proff" found that none of the
westward passenger trains were run
ning. A single freight was starting
to head back east. "Proff" told the
engineer of his plight that a thou
sand people were, waiting to hear his
reading. "Oh," said the engineer,
"are you the fellow that reads the
'Christmas Carol' every Christmas?
Well, I've heard you myself, and IH
get you there on time, you bet."
And the engineer kept his word. He
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