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A City of Fear
Sfacrt of Force
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1917
Phone F-3371 F-3361
NUMBER 23
Power Failure
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Darkness
By Bill Sexton
developing series of equipment breakdowns threw
napei xmo a blackout during the supper hour yester
day evening as the University Service plant system suf
fered its first complete power breakdown since shortly after
tucr pcocnt pidiiL s compie-
tion in iyu.
Some sections of the city,
including Lenoir Dining hall
and the Hillsboro st.-North st.
residential area, were with
out electricity for more than
45 minutes. Other districts
suffered only momentarily,
though at least two separate'
complete breakdowns of sev
eral minutes' duration each
occurred throughout Chapel
Hill and Carrboro.
Service plant engineers re
ported last night that the
University's 2500 kilowatt
turbogenerator was out of
service as a result of the
breakdown and estimated
that two to three veeks
would be required for re
pairs. Grey CulbretH, utilities su
pervisor, blamed the power
failure on a breakdown in the
13-mile auxiliary supply line
which links Chapel Hill with
the Duke Power co. He said
University engineers were
using both local and outside
power during the peak con
sumption period late yester
day afternoon, and the Duke
line's breakdown threw a 100
pe? cent overload on the gen
erator -equipment here. The
University generator burned
out. -
The Duke Power co. line
returned to normal quickly,
but terminal connections
were not spf to operate the
See POWER, page four
Tinayre Guest Cards
Are Still Available
Guest cards for the recital
by Yves Tinayre in. Hill hall
this evening are still avail
able free of charge in the
Music department office, and
will be honored until 8:20
tonight, concert-time being
8:30.
Mr. Tinayre, a French bari
tone, made his American de
but at the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art in 1939. Abroad
he has appeared before va-
Henderson Donates
Library Display
Dr. Archibald Henderson,
official biographer of George
Bernard Shaw and head of
the Mathematics department
: of , the University, has do
nated material on European
productions and on the Amer
ican premiere of George Ber
nard Shaw's "Saint Joan"
for a special library display.
Olan V. Cook, of the li
brary staff, has arranged the
exhibit, which includes post
ers, playbills, and programs
from the London, Berlin, Ma
drid, and Paris productions,
in addition to photographs
and programs of the New
York premiere. A first edi
tion of the play, along with
other material, is on display
in the rotunda of the library.
Dr. Henderson, who is be
ing honored by the Playmak
ers on Wednesday night, the
opening of their production
of "Saint Joan," will be guest
of honor at a dinner in the
Carolina Inn just before cur
tain time.
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Former Iowan,
Wolfe, Is Head of
New Division
Dr. William G. Wolfe, former
ly of the University of Iowa
has been appointed head of a
new division of Special Educa
tion in the Department of Edu
cation of the University.
This division is interested in
the training of teachers for han
dicapped children, and is spon
sored by the North Carolina
league for crippled children.
Made possible by donations
received through the Easter sea
program, the department wil
conduct classes in Raleigh, Dur
ham, Greensboro, and Charlotte
An additional class will be held
in Charlotte, for Negro teachers
leacners talcing the course
will be acquainted with the
problems of crippled children,
and will be trained in new
methods for instructing these
children.
YVES TINAYRE
ried audiences ranging from
small groups of peasants to
royal audiences in European
capitals.
Assisting Tinayre in to
night's recital of ancient vo
cal music will be the Univer
sity String quartet, composed
of Willis Gates, first violin;
Dorothy Alden, second vio
lin; Edgar Alden, viola; Em
ily Porter, violoncello; and
Wilton Mason of the depart
ment's piano faculty.
Included on his program
will be numbers by com
posers of the period from the
thirteenth through the eight
eenth centuries, including
Trouveres of Picardy, Gun
lame De Machaut, Gilles Bin
chois, John Dewland, Giovan
ni-Paolo Colonna, Francesco
Durante,, and Mozart.
' . "MISS PAYOFF, 1947"
- Deadline for submitting can
didates for the title of Miss
Payoff of 1947 has been extend
ed until Thursday at noon, by
which time all names must be
in the Y information office. All
dormitories, sororities, fraterni-
Yackefy Yack Board
Announces Close Out
Organizational space for
this year's Yackety Yack has
been closed out as of last
night. This fact was made
known yesterday by Yackety
Yack board of editors Gene
Johnstone, Ruth Evans, and
Harold Bursley as they mail
ed the dummy for this year's
book to the engravers in
Charlotte.
In Charlotte, the Charlotte
engraving company's artist
will draw it to specifications
and return it here. In ac
cordance with their policy of
advanced deadlines, the edi
tors have asked that this be
done by Friday of this week.
They pointed out that al
though a few organizations
will not appear, it was abso
lutely necessary to get the
work on the dummy done
this week." Although some
groups were left out in this
move," Johnstone declared,
"we have been able to in
clude more groups than last
year's book had."
r According to the editors,
one pressing reason for hav
ing the dummy returned ear-
ties, and other organizations are I ly was the November 1 dead
eligible to submit entrants. line on the so-called "color"
Search by Sea, Air
Continues for Plane
Missing over Alaska
By the United Press
Juneau, Alaska, Oct. 27
A huge search on skv and
sea is underway tonight for ,
the big Pan-American clipper
which vanished over Alaska
yesterday with 18 persons
aboard. Army, Coast Guard
and civilian rescue planes are
flying low across the Alaskan
and Canadian coasts in the
hope of finding some trace of
the four-engined Skymaster.
The DC-4, carrying 13 pas
sengers, has been missing
since yesterday afternoon,
when Pilot A. N. Monson
gave up an attempt for a
landing at Annette Island be
cause of rough weather. Mon
son asked for permission to
continue his flight to Juneau,
Alaska, 230 miles North
which was granted. But he
failed to acknowledge the re
quest.
Military and airline au
thorities are making every
effort to find the plane, in
what Pan American officials
call the biggest search in
Alaskan history. Coast Guard
cutters and a fleet of fishing
boats are scouring the rugged
coastline on the chance the
plane might have been forced
down at sea,- but hopes are
slim that the plane could
have ridden out the storm.
On the other side of the
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At a press conference in Columbus, Ohio, Senator Robert
A. Taft (left) was snapped by photographers after tossing
his hat into the ring for the Republican presidential nomina
tion in 1948. In a letter to Fred II. Johnson (right), chairman
of the Republican State Committee, se said that the race for
the nomination was "wide open."
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Four-Week Basic Police Procedure Course
To Be Begun by Inslit jfeof Government
A four-weeks course in basic police procedure will begin
here Sunday under the sponsorship of Chapel Hill's Insti
tute of Government, Terry Sanford, assistant director of
the school, announced today.
Opening of the new police
school closely follows compie
world, another storm caused tion of a six-weeks course in
ponce science:
Subjects to be covered during
the first two and last weeks in
clude: firearms, patrol tech
niques, photography, scientific
aids to crime detection, first aid,
public relations, courtroom de
meanor, criminal law and pro
cedure, evidence, traffic direc
tion and control, police courtesy,
fingerprinting, arrest, search and
seizure. The third week will fea-
that " wreckage was "scatter course 'designed
the crash and explosion of a
Swedish airliner in the moun
tains near Athens, Greece.
When rescuers reached the
scene this morning, they
found that all of the 4-5 per
sons of the four-engined DC-4
were killed. The crash and
traffic law enforcement which
ended here with graduation of
120 highway patrolmen Satur
day.
Fifty applicants chosen from
city, county and state law en
forcement agencies will be eligi
ble for entrance on a first-en-
explosion were so violent ' roll, first-attend basis, Sanford
over the mountainside for aiaccePted for subsequent schools
distance of more than a thou- i he next being held in May of
sand feet.
In Utah, investigators still
are looking into .what may
have caused the United air-
iner fire that led to its crash
rriday with the loss of 52
ives. lneir attention is di
rected toward the possibility
of a defective fire warning
ystem in the DC-6. And they
want to know how the fire,
which is believed to have
tarted in a baggage compart
ment, gained such headway
hat it could not be put cut.
Chain Letter Racket Back with New Format;
Latest Manna by Mail Purports to Be Legal
By Runey Stanford
The rush to see the remits of
a Chapel Hill mailman's visit,
always a high spot of the day,
is bringing new zest to the lives
of many of the local , citizenry,
for the irrepressible chain let
ter is back again in new guise.
Rumors are rife and reports are
rampant; the "brother of a
friend of a buddy" is getting
hundreds of dollars daily.
The latest manna by mail
game endeavors to evade the
government postal ban by elim
inating the mailed instructions;
the participant sends money on
ly, in an otherwise empty let
ter, to the top name on the
chain. The letter itself is pass
ed from hand to hand, upon the
receipt of two dollars. The buy
er then mails $2 to the top name
of the ten on the list, and makes
two copies of the letter, leaving
' out the top name and inserting
his own on the bottom. To re-
coup the $4, the two copies must
I then be peddled to a pair of
acquaintances. And then one
leans back and waits for the
wealth to roll in.
And waits. To get from the
bottom of the letter to the money-making
top position, 2048 let
ters must be sold in each of
ten the original chains. And
while the letter says this is
"fool-proof, cheat-proof" plan
for getting $2,043, there is noth
ing to prevent any number of
impatient lads, hungering for a
Little ready, cash, from making
and selling many more than the
requested two copies. Thus the
number of letters that have to
be sold to move a name through
the ten places is increased man
ifold. The progression fans out
towards the point where every
one has a letter and no one is
left to buy one. This will never
be reached, but a point where no
one is left who cares to buy a
letter probably will, and the
elaborate device falls of its own
weight. The originators reap the
harvest, while those on the out
er edges just feed the kitty.
W. S. Hogan, local postmas
ter, could not comment on the
legality of the letter huckster
ing, but said a ruling from the
Post Office department should
be soon forthcoming. But even
if the federal postal regulations
have been hurdled, the state leg
al definition of a lottery can
include a lot of such get-rich-quick
ideas. State statutes ex
plain a lottery as any scheme for
the distribution of prizes by
which, on paying money, one ob
tains a token which entitles him
to receive a value, either more
or less, according to chance. And
acting as an agent for a lottery
can bring conviction for a mis
demeanor. By. selling the letters
by hand, the share-the-wealth
boys seem to be ducking val
iantly, but they still look pretty
vulnerable from here.
headings of the bock.
Cheered by the progress
marred only by the slowness
of individual picture taking
which has been made thus
far, the editors joined in
promising once again that
this year's book will be the
largest, most representative
ever to come out of the Uni
versity. YACK SCHEDULE
Bill Duncan, Yackety Yack
picture coordinator, announced
the following schedule for to
day's organizational photo
graphs:
2 o'clock Executive branch,
GM.
4 o'clock Campus party
steering committee, GM.
5 o'clock CCUN, GM.
8 o'clock Aquinas club, Y
building.
9 o'clock Phi assembly, Old
East.
1943 unless, the demand is so
great as to justify an earlier
course. Officers from South
Carolina, and other states may
enroll by paying a tuition fee
of $25.
Operating with the coopera
tion of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the state highway
patrol, and the State Bureau of
Investigation, the school will cf-
to familiarize the officers with
the examination and inspection
of motor vehicles.
Operating expenses of the
school, said .Sanford, including
the costs of . firearms and am
munition, are covered by the
Institute of Government as a
part of services rendered cities
and counties which are mem
bers of the Institute. The offi
cers will be housed in highway
Cooley Talks Tonigh t
OnEuropean Situation
With first-hand impressions of hungry Europe t ill fresh
in his mind, Congressman Harold D. Cooley from the fjuith
North Carolina district will reveal some of his purson-il ob
servations made on both sides i
of the iron curtain when he
speaks tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock from the Interna
tional Relations club plat
form in Gerrard hall.
"If our foreign policy is to
stop Communism," Cooley
stated on the floor of Con
gress last spring, "we had
better stop it at some place
far distant from our own
shores." He said further that
without our aid the people of
Europe "would be easy prey
to Communism."
Cooley's "Report from Eu
rope" will be the first public
statement from any member
of the Herter Investigation
committee. "Congressional
statesmanship at its highest"
was the way Time magazine
described the committee last
week when it returned from
Europe.
Congressional investiga
tions have twice taken Coo
ley to Europe and once to
Asia in the past two years.
Traveling as a delegate to
the Inter-Parliamentary Un
ion conference in Cairo last
April, the congressman vis
ited the key centers of the
ne?r east.
"I left Athens convinced
that King Paul and his gov
ernment represent the peo
ple of Greece," he stated dur
ing congressional debate on
the Truman doctrme of aid
to Greece and Turkey.
Considered by many tq be
Paul Green to Write Drama
For Washington Anniversary
Paul Green, prominent Chapel in an interview granted yestcr
Hill author-resident, has been day to the Daily Tar IIccl. that
asked to write a historical pag- the pageant will chiefly concern
eant for the 150th anniversary the development of the capital
of the nation's capital, according as a reflection of the spiritual
REP. II. d. coci.rv
the top congressional author
ity on agricultural nccdi; of
war-torn countries, Cooley is
expected to plav a major role
in debates on the Marshall
plan for European aid when
the special session of Con
gress convenes on Novem
ber 17.
Representative Cooley
made headlines throughout
the state last week whon he
proposed that the govern
ment halt sinking tobacco
prices by purchasing Ir.r-ro
amounts for use in Genre ny.
The withdrawal of British
buyers caused the critical
slump in the tobacco markets
normall selling about 30 p r
cent of the crop to Engk-nd.
fer a variety of courses in basic patrol barracks on Raleigh road.
Phi Assembly to Discuss
U. S. Socialized Medicine
A bill favoring socialized medicine in the United States
will be discussed tonight by the Philanthropic assembly at
S o'clock in the Phi hall.
To be introduced by Chester Zum Brunnen, the bill reads,
"Resolved: that the Phi go :
on record as recommending
that the United States gov
ernment provide a system of
complete medical care avail
able to all citizens at public
expense." The measure is ex
pected to promote heated dis
cussion with the opposing
side being led by John Giles,
See PHI, page four
to an announcement made by
Washington's Sesquitennial com
mittee. The playwright is now widely
known for his two similar
works, "The Lost Colony" and
"The Common Glory."
Mr. Green, who has Just re
turned from a visit ta Washing
ten, told of the plans for the
celebration in a talk at the uni
versity faculty club meeting last
week. It is to be sponsored by
a committee consisting of three
senators, three representatives,
and three citizens of the dis
trict. The proposed pageant Js
development of a grc-.it people.
According to the playwright,
Washington is the capital of the
world's foremost democracy and
as such is representative of the
dignity of the individual as op
posed to the. totalitarian idea
that he exists fcr the ood of
the state.
Present plans for the pageant,
as for the celebration as a whole,
depend on the granting of ;.n
appropriation by Concreii. It is
expected that a sufficient
amount to cover the cv;t of
building a theatre anj ztdu'm
the pageant would br upwards
to illustrate the historical deve-i Of half a million dollar;. Tho
lopment of the city from a wide
place in the Potomac to its pres
ent position as one of the leading
cities of the world.
Green emphasized, however,
Grade Barrie, Who Made Singing Debut at Tender Age of 13,
Is Featured on German Club Dance Program This Weekend
INFLATED
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 27
(UP) Mrs. Clara Sand
quist looked long and
gravely at the used 1938
car she bought during the
weekend for $130.
Her new purchase had
cost $700 when it was
new, Mrs.' Sandquist told
her friends. Seven years
ago, she said, it . was sold
for $35 some $95 less than
what she spent on it Sat
urday. Mrs. Sandquist knew
very well what she was
talking about she was the
one who bought it in 1938
and sold it in 1910!
Brooklyn-born Gracie Bar
rie. is a girl who's been kick
ing around in show business
for a good many years now.
Due to hit the Carolina
campus tnis weekend witn
Randv Brooks, his Golden
Trumpet, and his orchestra
at the Fall Germans, Miss
Barrie has a varied career be
hind he of vaudeville, ra
dio, and top Broadway spots.
Advance literature on the
songstress claims that she
made her rebut at the tender j
age of 13 on one of New i
York's local radio programs.
By the time she reached
14, she was apparently well
established in her field, hav
ing breezed through a long
and wide-famed run at the
Beaux Arts in Atlantic city.
New Jersev, the so-called
"plavground of America's
millionaires." There poor lit
tle Gracie. as the story gnes.
hit the roueh break which
comes to evryon in hr
profession. She wasn't old
enough.
She was signed from the
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Beaux Arts into Broadway's
Palace, when the Gerry so
ciety, whose exact authority
hasn't been explained, said
that 14 was just too young
for a girl to be running
around working in the big
bad theatrical world of New I Saturday 'nights.
York. According to Gracie,
this wasn't so rough, how
ever, because it kept her cir
culating in the country on
vaudeville circuits and built
up quite a wide-spread repu
tation for the girl.
By the time our friend
Gracie reached a staid and
mature sweet-sixteen, she
was old enough to take
Broadway by storm. But the
Palace was now sharing its
stage bills with the new sen
sation of the age, talking
pictures!
But with her next contract,
Gracie had arrived. She was
signed to co-star with Jimmy
Durante, Hal LeRoy, and the
late Lupe Velez in the musi
cal "Strike Me Pink." The
applause, so they say, is still
ringing in her ears.
That, aside from a little
Hollvwood and orchestra
leading work, is Miss Gracie
Barrie in a nutshell. She will
be here to sing for evervbodv
at the German club dances
and concert this Friday and
granting of an appropriation of
suitable proportions i;; uncertain
at present, but the authorities
concerned with the plan fed
that it will go through.
If the pageant i ; presented, 't
should, Green feel.-;, b . u ;e:J dur
ing the celebration and tlu-n re
vived from year to ye-jr .is
"The Lost Colony" i.; at present.
A search for a sit-;- is now in
progress with Rock Creek Park
and the Anacotia River under
consideration.
Green believes that the site
finally selected should be one of
natural beauty augmented suit
ably by tiie theatre constructed
there. In view of the fact thai
the pageant should b-i one ap
proaching epic proportion?. hr,'.h
the site and the theme .'ihoui i
illustrate the grandeur of Amer
ica and the city vhicn i; ih cap
ital.
The author has considered ws-
ing the life of -George Waiihincj-
ton who was chiefly responsible
for the city's founding, or of
Lincoln who made possible its
continued existence as the capi
tal of a unified country extend
ing across the American contin
ent, as possible bases for de
pageant. If this is done, it will
continue the plan used at Wil
liamsburg where the life of
Thomas Jefferson was similarly
used.
Green also discussed plans and
projects for historical pageants
now in process of formation at
Charleston, S. C, and elsewhere.
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