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CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939
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Elected Queen Of
May Day
Donald Bishop, editor of the Fresh
man Handbook, yesterday asked all
members of the staff to come by the
Daily Tar Heel office before 4:30
this afternoon. Bishop is the Univer
sity party's candidate for junior rep
resentative to the Publications Union
board.
STUDENT-FACULTY
PRIMARY TODAY
FOR RING, QUEEN
Final Election
For RoyalGoupltf"
Set For Tomorrow
All students will participate today
in the primary election of one faculty
member and one co-ed to reign as king
and queen of Student-Faculty day on
April 25.
In this primary students will vote
for a single faculty member and co-ed
from the whole campus. The three
highest men and the ten highest co-eds
will be chosen for the final elections to
morrow and the king and queen will
be selected from these by another all
campus vote. It is rumored that "Skip
per" Coffin already has the lead in the
race for king. The coronation cere
mony will take place at 10 o'clock the
morning of Student-Faculty day. Miss
Edna Hines Bynum and Professor Har
old D. Meyer are chairmen of the Cor
nation committee and the Playmakers
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Croom Says He
Move For Class
Rising Sophomore
Candidate Gives
Plans For Class
Bill Croom, candidate for presi
dency of the rising sophomore class,
last night at a meeting of represen
tatives from the quadrangle dormi
tories pledged himself to support a
Program of more representative class
government.
Croom stated to the members of
the group that he would do all in his!
Power to strengthen the unity of the
class of '42. His main point was the
fleed of a group of students from the
class to form a class legislature
similar to the student legislature.
He stated that if the class could get
together and forget party affiliations
and minor frictions among the class
Members long enough . to select ten
conscientious, level headed boys who
vould represent the best interests of
thr dormitories and the class, this
group would be the class legislature.
0 REPETITION
He cited the incident that hap
pened concerning the dance and
smoker this year and explained that
with the proposed legislature there
could never be a repetition of such
a problem because all such . events
n!d have to be sanctioned by this
up before they would become
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Festival
Campus Vote Names
Mollie Albritton
As Maid-Of -Honor
Miss Olive Cruikshank will reign as
queen of the University's fourth May
day festival and Miss Mollie Albritton
will attend her as maid-of -honor.
Members of the court elected yes
terday in an all campus vote are :
Misses Roberta Winton, Melville Cor
bett, Jane Hunter, Bernice Brantley,
Helen Jacobs, Janet Lawrence and
Miriam Durrett. Miss Ethel Laidlaw.
Miss Lib Gammon and Miss Betty Red-1
fern, candidates for queen and maid-of-honor,
also become members of the
court.
COURT MEETS TODAY
There will be a compulsory meeting
of the entire court with Miss Betsy
Jean Johnson today at 1:30 in the
small lounge of Graham Memorial.
The.queen and her court will be pre
sented in a unique coronation cere
mony on May 15, Miss Kathryn Flem
ing, president of Alpha Kappa Gam
ma, the honorary woman's fraternity
which sponsors the annual pageant, an
nounced yesterday.
DATE NAMED
The event will be held before the
last tea dance of the JuniorSeniors,
and the court will be presented at
either the tea dance or the dance that
night.
Elaborate plans to make this May
day attractive and unusual are being
made about the plan of the pageant,
"The , Old South." Headed by Miss
Kathryn Fleming and Miss Melville
Corbett, members of the May day com
mittee are Misses Barbara Burroughs,
Mary Wood, Edna Hines Bynum, Mary
Lewis, Helen Jacobs, Barbara Lips
comb, Sarah McLean, Betsy Jean John
sons-Mary Jane Yeatmany Ruth Par
sons, Adele Austin and Martha Kelly.
PROFESSOR TALKS
AT PEARSON RALLY
Over 800 Students
Pack Swain Hall
Over 800 students filled Swain hall
last night at a pep rally for Bill Pear
sont independent candidate for presi
dent of the student body, smoking cig
arettes, drinking punch, and swinging
to the rhythms of Jeep Bennett and his
orchestra. The students heard E. J.
Woodhouse, main speaker of the eve
ning, urge them "to run your own
business. I, am not telling you how to
run your affairs," he continued, "but
I am telling you to run your own af
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Will Support
Legislature
For Class Legislature
Bill Croom, Student party candi
date for president of the sophomore
class, yesterday announced before a
meeting of quadrangle-ites his plans
if elected. Croom favored a class legis
lature, more class unity, an investi-
tmtion into student fees. He is op
posed for the office by Bill Alexander,
UP.
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Jack Fairley, University party
nominee for vice-president of the stu
dent body, yesterday said he favored
better explanation of the honor sys
tem to freshmen during Orientation
week if elected to the office Thursday.
Fairley is now serving on the Stu
dent council and in the Student legis
lature.
FAIRLEY FAVORS
CLARIFICATION
OF CAMPUS CODE
Candidate Declares
Belief In Principles
Of Legislation
Now serving on the Student council
and in the Student legislature, where
his duties would continue if he is
elected, as vice-president of the stu
dent body, Jack Fairley, University
party nominee, in a statement yester
day advocated better explanation of
the Honor system to freshmen during
Orientation week. At the same time
he approved the "fundamental prin
ciples" of the Student legislature.
"I have noticed," he said, "that
during the past year many of the
cases brought before the Student
council have involved freshman or
transfer students who have misin
terpreted or misunderstood the Honor
system and the Campus code.
"This, I believe, could be remedied
(Continued on page two)
SMITH FUNERAL
THIS AFTERNOON
Beloved Resident
Was Well-Known
Funeral services for Captain
Fred Coit Smith, 80, a familiar Uni
versity village character, known to
hundreds of University alumni as
the Skipper of the "Carrboro Spe
cial," will be conducted by Rev.
Frank I. Poole, pastor of the
Chapel Hill Baptist church, assist
ed by Dr. O.- T. Binkley of Wake
Forest, at the chapel of the Baptist
church this afternoon at 2:30.
Interment will follow in the vil
lage cemetery. Grave services will
be performed by members of the
North Carolina Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias and members of
the local lodge.
Up until a short time before his
death last Sunday Captain Smith
had been active in social and reli
gious affairs of the village, and his
daily walks to the postoffice, two
blocks from his cottage, were a se
ries of greetings until he took his
regular seat at the steps of the
building. ,
A keen observer of college life,
he was well-known to many gen
erations of University students, and
often recounted tales of the old days
in the village.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ida
Wescottt Smith; a daughter, Mrs.
J. Ralph Weaver of Chapel Hill;
two sons, Fred C. Smith, Jr., of
Wilmington and E. Wescott Smith
of Durham; two brothers, Loren L.
Smith of Detroit, Michigan, and
Charles G. Smith of Goldsboro; 12
grandchildren, Mrs. C. S. Bartlett,
Mrs. Carl E. Graetz, Miss Elizabeth
Weaver, University junior, Miss
Hilda Weaver, James R. Weaver,
Jr., William R. Weaver, University
senior, Max C. Weaver, and T.
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Tar Heel Plans Election Party;
Other Candidates Will Follow
Prosh With Nominations Today
Meetings To Be In
Memorial, Bingham
And Phi Halls
Names of office-seekers already an
nounced to the public through the
Daily Tar Heel will officially enter
the records this morning when student
body, and class officers are nominated
in Memorial hall, Phi assembly hall,
and Bingham hall.
The freshman class completed this
formality yesterday in regular assem
bly, rival slates being advanced by the
University and Student parties. Nom
inated were Bill Alexander (UP) and
Bill Croom (SP) for president, Charles
Reece (UP) and Pinky Elliot (SP)
for vice-president, Ridle Whitaker
(UP) and Bill McKinnon (SP) for
secretary, Truman Hobbs (UP) and
Alex Bonner (SP) for secretary, and
W. T. Martin (UP) and Warren Men
gel (SP) for Student council.
JOYNER TO PRESIDE
Student Body President Jim Joyner
will preside in Memorial hall at 10:30
a. m. today as the University and Stu
dent parties made their nominations
and independents are placed on the
ticket. Thus far only two indepen
dents have announced, Bill Pearson for
student body president, and Walt
Kleeman for Daily Tar Heel editor.
At the same time, sophomores will
meet in Phi assembly hall, New East,
to nominate rising junior officers.
President Hargrove Bowles will pre
side. With President Charlie Wood
presiding, the rising seniors will meet
in 103 Bingham to make nominations.
With the campaign thus officially
set in motion, some of the candidates
will have an oportunity to air thier
views from the platform of Memorial
hall tomorrow at assembly period. Sec-
( Continued on, page two)
KIMBALL HOPES
TO UNITE CLASS
Ex-Service Man
Would Lower Fees .
Student party nominee to the presi
dency of the rising junior class, Gates
Kimball yesterday issued the follow
ing statement to the Daily Tab Heel:
"If I am elected, I hope to unite the
class of '41 by more social activities,
and in the organization of class teams
for competition with other classes and
other schools. I am in favor of a re
duction of junior class fees. If I am
put i'nto office, I intend to put all my
energy toward furthering what I be
( Continued on page two)
Harmon Favors Edits For Average Student;
Kleeman Gives Five-Point Campaign Stand
Would Feature
Snapshot Section
For Sunday Issues
Walter Kleeman, independent can
didate for editorship of the Daily Tar
Heel, yesterday announced a program
featuring a snapshot picture section
in the paper once a week, good edito
rials, a co-ed associate editor, and two
columns devoted to co-ed sports and
co-ed activities .
Kleeman's platform is as follows:
1. A snapshot picture section in the
Tar Heel once a week, showing events
and people on the campus.
2. An IMPARTIAL Tar Heel in
the field of politics.
3. No editorials at all, unless they
are good ones, or in other words, no
more editorials just for the sake of
writing editorials.
4. A fighting Tar Heel that will
take a stand, a definite position where
such is needed to further the best in
terests of the campus as a, whole.
- 5. Inasmuch as the co-ed3 at Caro
lina have been growing in numbers as
well as stature in student activities,
and feeling that they deserve more rec
ognition in the Daily Tar Heel, I pro
pose the following: A" co-ed associate
editor in charge of all co-ed stories,
a co-ed activities column, and a co-ed
sports column.
Kleeman continued to say "I have
no political ties or connections, and
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Gates Kimball, Carolina athlete
and Student party nominee for presi
dent of the junior class, yesterday an
nounced his program if elected, favor
ing a reduction in class fees and
more class socials.
WILDER'S "OUR
TOWN" OPENS AT
THEATER TONIGHT
Harry Davis Has
Lead; John Parker
To Be Director :
Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" will
be produced for the first time by the
Playmakers tonight at 8:30 in the
Playmaker theater. Other perform
ances will be given Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday nights.
This will be the first time that a
non-professional group has "produced
the play, which is done without scen
ery and with the curtain always up.
John Parker, Playmaker business man
ager, is directing the play.
The leading role, the "stage man
ager," will be played by Harry Davis,
associate director of the Playmakers.
Earl Wynn, technical director, has one
of the leading roles in Dr. Gibbs, father
of the hero of the play, George Gibbs,
who will be portrayed by Don Muller
on Boonton, N. J.
Other leading roles will be Dr. Gibbs'
wife played by Miss Catherine Moran
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Independent
mm.
Walt Kleeman, rising senior, Sun
day announced his candidacy for edi
tor of the Daily Tar Heel, thus pre
cipitating the first three-cornered
race in the history of . the campus
Jaily. Kleeman will be opposed by
Martin Harmon, staff nominee en
dorsed by the Student party, and De
Witt Barnett, University party as
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Officials Believe
It'll Be All Over
By 8:30 O'clock
The Daily Tar Heel will bold its
second annual' "Election Party'
Thursday night in the main lounge of
Graham memorial while Student
council members are tallying the
votes of five automatic voting ma
chines. Sharply contrasting with the party
last year, which lasted long after
midnight, this year's affair should be
over by 8:30 p.m. Election officials are
expected to open the machines around
7 p.m., make necessary inspections,
and tabulate the results.
Five machines will be in operation.
Freshman, sophomore, and junior
classes will have one machine each.
They will vote for class and campus
offices on the same machine. The re
maining two automatic devices will
be used by the present seniors, gradu
ate students, law students, medical
students, pharmacy students, and
others, for voting on student body of
fices only.
Last year's election party offered
one of the most colorful features of
the elections. Large blackboards were
placed in Graham Memorial lounge,
which was crowded with anxious office
seekers and their friends.
About every 15 minutes, a runner
from the student council counting
room would bring in a few more re
sults, which would be posted on the
boards. Often during the night the
leads would switch.
This year's affair may lack some
thing of the drawn-out tenseness which
characterized the last party, as auto
matic voting machines will lessen the
time nervous candidates will have to
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DAVIS RECEIVES
ENDORSEMENTS
26 Campus Leaders
Sign Statement
Leaders of nearly every student or
ganization and class yesterday heartily
endorsed Jim Davis for president of
the student body. Davis, the nominee
of both political parties, is opposed by
Bill Pearson, independent.
The endorsers said in a statement:
"We, the undersigned, having- - been
closely affiliated with him for several
years, and recognizing his ability,. ex
perience, and qualifications, do heart
ily endorse Jim Davis for the respon
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Staff Nominee Will
Take Strong Stand
On Campus Issues
Martin Harmon, staff nominee for
the Daily Tar Heel editorship, yes
terday released a triangular program
which he intends to follow if he is
elected Thursday to head the campus
daily.
With the official endorsement of two
thirds of the present staff, Harmon
plans a strong editorial policy for .the
publication which he said would "serve
to jell campus opinion."
The three-point plan includes the
following divisions: ;
THREE POINTS
1. A definite stand in all editorials.
The Daily Tar Heel should serve to'
formulate as well as interpret campus
opinion, for only by united action can
the student, body attain its objectives.
This union cannot be achieved if, de
spite the convictions of the editorial
board, the campus is constantly pre
sented with a too carefully "balanced"
argument on every issue.
2. Editorials written for the aver
age student. Editorials should be sim
ple and direct, not literary efforts
clouded by philosophical ramblings..
3. Uncen sored columns and uncen
sored news.
EDIT EXPERIENCE
Harmon, a journalism major, has
served on the staff of the campus paper
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