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LIBRARY Periodical Dept.) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Nj C. A WE AT HE R Parlly cloudy and colder with probable rain. , : EDITORIALS Whal Mag? Lee On Frats Queer Complex VOLUME LVI United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1943 Phone F-3371 F-3361 No. 100 I , ji? f , y ' "fA I f Ys A V f 4 ' - , JLrP I1 ' 'ifliji ill K lMMrf'AH' s f -M1 ill ' WHILE FLAMES ROAR THROUGH a furniture and carpel plant in Trenlon, New Jersey, firemen shoot a stream of water onto an adjoining building in an effort to check the spread of the fire. Flames gutted four nearby buildings. Damage is estimated at about $1,000,000.- - . (International) Melting Snow, Rain Cause Flood Damage; Thousands Are Homeless in Three States By United Press Old man weather was using a new combination of winter weap ons yesterday as he struck with floods in three southeastern states and along the Ohio river. Floods caused by melting snow, breaking ice jams, and, fresh rams were lorcmg thousands to evacuate their homes in Missis sippi, Tennessee and West Vir ginia. ; Fied Cross Bury -V ;-, In Mississippi, the Ytoneariv-' cr has flooded ruz-al - Quitman county causing the Red Cross, to send boats, tents, cots, and 500 blankets to the homeless. No es lituale of their numbers was p '.lll.lillc. '; -. I iowevr-r, Rrd Cross figure? ; howed. that a similar, though itorr r-t'vvw, condition in Tenr.es- i : i had made .'500 homeless at nigh (Tall last night. Waters of the rampaging Duck river, which is causing the devastation, were nearing the 1902 record flood level of 48 feet at that time. The two hardest hit Tennessee towns were Shelby ville and Col umbia. In Shelbyville, a town of Novelist Turns Farmer James Street Puts Earthworms In By Donald MacDonald ;.:ii ly bu ds and Novelist Jam-:S Street have something in -common-, worms. . On his 122-acre farm off the Pittslioro highway, Street is ex perimenting in land fertilization I'.v using a compost rapidly de- -snposed by earthworms. The best-selling author of "The Gaun tlet.'" "Top Roots," "The Bis cuit Eater" and other stories is attempting to prove that lum bricus terristris the earthworm i.; the greatest little farmer of all. Known throughout this area as an organic farmer as well as an impractical one, Street bought the poo'est farm in this section two yenrs go expressly to prove "worthless" soil can be made rich. Important Worm "There's no such thing as poor land." the writer remarked, "but I here are a lot of poor fools who own Ihe land. The earthworm is ihe most important agent in lan'l-huiJding. God Almighty made it ihat way: and after all, God Almighty never made any mistakes, except when He made man." Summarizing a few aspects of organic farming, the 43-ycar-old novelist told of a German scien tist's discovery of the NKP the orythat plants use nitrogen, .; a i 15,000, the water supply was pa- radoxically cut off by the flood, and emergency squads worked to evacuate persons from endang ered dwellings as water lapped at the windowsills. ' - Flood Close's Schools Lowland homes were also be ing evacuated in Southern West Virginia as swollen Tug creek rose from its banks to flood the business, district of the mining town of Williamson. At least two Mingo county high schools had 16 be closed as officials feared that further rise in the creek Waters would block roads and maroon : pupils in the school houses, - ' ;Tiigh water in the Cim-ir.ipit.i area , ' was welcomcr I 1 ast n i a ht , however, as residents noted a gradual break in the ice of the Ohio was easing it downstream. The river city has feared for the past few days that a sudden break would permit the ice to pound harbor facilities and ship ping in the area to ruins. The break in the cokl wave was bringing some relief to in dustrial fuel users. phosphate and potash to grow. "Soon afterwards, the American people, who arc so profit-minded, decided to chance the theory. "What the scientist overlooked," :;aid Street, "is known in soil as trace elements. It is true that ni trogent, phosphate and potash arc found in virgin earth, but dozens of other materials among them cobalt and manganese arc put in by processes of decompo sition and building up. There must be some agent to pull all these in together. Fertilizer Right . "We organic farmers, called by others a 'fellowship of crack- pots', contend that the eartn is that agent. Artificially worm 'pitting NKP into the soil kills j carthworms. But it is impossible "t -pt tnp government, which of course must continue to pro Plane Safe In Air; Raleigh, Feb. 13 (UP)- If anyone has any doubts that lb fog -hanging over North Carolina is about as thick as it can get, this story from the Raleigh Durham airport should be the convincer. A military C-47 transport plane landed in the soupy wea- ther today entireiy on monu Tornado Strikes Farms Seven Persons Killed e Meridian, Mississippi, February 13 (UP) a toronado struck a farming area about two miles from Newton, Mis sissippi, at approximately 1 o'clock this afternoon. At least seven persons are known to be dead and at least 15 seriously injured. : Strickland Gets 10 Year Sentence For Extortion Wilson, Feb. 13 (UP) The trial in Wilson of Robert James Strickland ' for extortion and blackmail has ended. Judge Clawson Williams has sentenced the young concrete contractor to serve 10 years in prison. Both Strickland and his wife burst into clears when Judge Williams read the sentence. Strickland was charged with threatening Everett Blake with murder unless he placed 15 thousand dollars in a flower pot and put it in the cemetery. Blake reported to police and then placed a decoy pot in the grave yard. Strickland was arrested near the spot and the FRT iden tified his typewriter as the one which wrote the extortion note In a surprise move yesterday, Mrs. L. L. Reedy testified that Strickland also contacted her and offered to tell her the where- j abouts of her est d husbarid in return for $500. Her young and pretty daughter backed up the testimony. Blake told the court that the note included a clipping of a mur der at Smithfield and said ,that it would happen to him unless he produced the $15,000. In sentencing Strickland today, Judge Williams told him "The courts of this State do not tole rate mobsters, , racketeers, and such, the seeds you have planted here in Wison county will not be allowed to flourish, the clip ping which you enclosed along with the extortion letter is in reality a confession of first de gree murder. Therefore Robert James Strickland, I sentence you to 10 years in the State prison to wear felon's stripes." MEN'S GLEE CLUB The Men's Glee club will meet in Swain hall tomorrow night at 7:30 instead of Hill hall as had been previously announced. tect the fertilizer industry, to recognize the fact. So our ex periments have to be conducted only by individuals. The fertili zer people naturally hate the hell out of us." With his sons, Jack, 21, and Jimmy, Jr., 23, both war veter ans, Street began his experi ment. They secured the help of Eddie, whom Street calls "a typi cal North Carolina Negro farm er." But Eddie has proved him self more than typical better, outstanding through his effici ent management of the 40 acres in row cultivation and the 45 acres in cleared pasture land on the Street farm. In his neat little office behind his white frame house, Eddie studies scientific farming pamphlets and maps out his working program. Street calls Eddie, "the brain, the brawn. Lost On Ground ments. Officials in the control tower couldn't even sec the plane as it let clown gingerly on. the runway. t The punch line to the whole affair is that the plane got lost after it was on the ground. The fog was so thick the pilot could not find the parking ramp and had to taxi around Until he lo cated the right place. At least 15 houses were des troyed and a Gulf, Mobile and Ohio freight train was cut in two by falling trees. The full extent of damage to the train is not known as yet. The front part of the train went on to Laurel, Mis sissippi, and the engineer says no one was injured. Houses Blown Down Two of the injured have been taken to Rush infirmary in Me ridian. Mrs. Martha Bishop, of Decatur received serious face lacerations and a crushed hi o She said that she suddenly look ed out of her house to sec every thing turning black as the wind demolished the house. She states that she saw many persons in houses that had been blown down, and that she feels sure some of her relatives died unless they were removed from the debris of their homes. Joseph Just, 57, of near New ton, suffered severe injuries in the lower part of the body when his home was destroyed. He told nurses at Rush infirmary in Me ridian that he saw many injured being removed from ruined houses. The highway patrol in Meridi an reports that patrolmen have found it difficult -to get into the devastated area near Newton be cause of trees and debris across the roads leading into the sec tion. Governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi was in Newton at the time the tornado struck but was not injured. He arrived back in Jackson and said he did not know that the tornado was as serious as it turned out to be. Chapel of the Cross Will Hold Communion There will be a celebration of Holy Communion at the Chapel of thii Cross at 9:30 tomorrow morning especially for students. Other services during Lent will be Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 5:15 in the after noon; Wednesday at 4:30; Holy communion during the wees, Wednesday at 7:15 in the morn ing and Thursday at 10 o'clock in the morning. Uses Early-bird Tactics ess and the gasoline-user" of the out fit. For ' the earthworm experi ments the novelist and short story writer ordered spawn from a worm farm in Michigan. Five dollars bought him more eggs than he needed. Prolific. Like Rabbits In two boxes, about four feet long and two feet high, Street prepared his spawn beds. The eggs were laid in one half of the box, for in a month's time the prolific worms were to double themselves and fill the entire container. Three layers of soil, green matter or dead leaves and manure were kept moist by sprinkling and kept warm inside Eddie's office. Chicken feed and crumpled toast were laid atop the beds for feedings. There the worms took care of their propa gation and slithered into maturi ty. Eddie's ability in stone-masonry, itself a vanishing art in North Carolina, made possible the building of a compost pit. Young Jimmy explained that although they can be made smaller, di mensions of the Street compost are 60 feet long, five feet high and 12 feet wide. Fresh manure, green matter, dead leaves and soil are heaped together, Jimmy added. The ma tSee STREET, page 4) Floods Nearing Raleigh, Feb. 13 (UP) Tar Heels close lo rivers in Eastern North Carolina are growing anxious. The Cape Fear, Ncuse and upper Roanpke have risen to within a few feet of flood level. The weatherman says thai rain will fall again tomorrow but heavy rain is predicted for Sun day night or Monday. At Fayetteville. the Cape Fear river has risen to 31 feet, within four feet of flood level. The Neuse river at Neuse has reached 13 feet, only one foot below flood stage. At Smith field, the Neuse has reached 18 feet, two feet below flood level. The upper Roanoke river was reported nearly one foot above flood stage at Williams ion. UWF Discusses Atomic Control In Thursday Meet Leading a detailed discussion regarding atomic energy control and its posible effectiveness, Jake Wicker, president of the student chapter of United World Feder alist, presided over the chapter's regular Thursday discussion meeting. Wicker gave specific mention to the program advocated by Nor man Thomas, Carolina Political union guest speaker here recent ly. Thomas' program calls for (1) atomic control, (2) Universal dis armament through effective con trol, (3) defeat of the universal military training proposal anil plan.. Chapter members panicipaieu in Wicker's discussion as to hovi atomic control can be successful ly instituted, on the possibility of Russian cooperation, and on A merican security. Members were urged by Wick er to attend the speech by General Herbert C. Holdrirge, expected here shortly to speak under the sponsorship of the Anti-UMT committtee. Kappa Sigma Leads Debate Tournament; Teams Announced for Tuesday's Round At present leading the Intra mural debate tournament is the negative team of Kappa Sigma, composed of Hugh Griffin and Richard Borden. Following close ly is the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority team of Alice Middle -ton and: Emily Baker- The following teams will de bate in round two. Tuesday night at 6:45 and are requested to come to 103 Caldwell at that time; the affirmative teams are listed in order of their rank: Whitehead, Dortch Warriner and Marshall Pinnix; Stacy, John Bunch and Bill Payeff; KA Les ter Martin and John Stump; DKE, Sam Manning and Gus Graham; Chi Phi, Herb Mitchell and Tom r few BW0tt--'X. ''WWOTo, ... - 'VWAA SrVI fT x ' 'TITr-' I d & - , J&ift. 1 fff; - N. imu J '""""""""""wiinnm.ii iij !';u - y?i ijf -'&iA -,-r"-"H mtmmsmmtii-mm -ftjui-jRjiwwro ......v.r. w..,.,, THREE MEN DIED AND TWO WERE RESCUED when part of the Charles W. Cullen bridge (broken lines) at Rehoboth. Delaware, collopsed, plunging an automobile and a truck into ihe icy Indian River. Those who survived ihe ordeal were James Clark, Dover, Del., who swam io safety, and William Quesada. Cambridge, Md. Both were taken io a hospital. Conslani ice pressure had weakened ihe span supports. (International) Dr Graham Receives Truman's Thanks For Services Rendered United Nations From United Press Wire Reports Dr. Frank Graham was receiv ed at the White House in Wash ington yesterday and personally thanked for his services to the United Nations by President Tru man. "You and the committee have had a profound influence in putt ing into practice the ideal of world law and order," President Tru- man wrote the University's pre- Senate Committee Approves The Four Year Washington, Feb. 13, (UP) tions committee tentatively Flan tonight. Included in the agreement is a provision that American aid would be limited to five-billion, 300-million dollars for the first 2 months, starting April 1. The committee's unanimous de cision is still subject to review at a final meeting next Tuesday, but there appears little doubt that it will go to the Senate floor in its present form. The decision is a clear-cut vic tory for president Truman and Secretary of State Marshall. This is a relatively small reduction since the administration had ori ginally asked for six-billion, 800 million for the first 15 months. A committee member, Senator George of Georgia, says the measure makes clear that the aid program will be a continuing one, even though it has' fixed a spending limit for only the first 12. months. .. - . In France, the foreign office says a conference oi ihe i6 Mar shall Plan countries is now under discussion. The United States feels that such a meeting was un necessary about a month ago but that now the conference plan has been revived and a French For eign office spokesman says a meeting is likely within the next two months. Shelton; Lambda Chi Alpha, Randall Procter and Grey Adams; Mclver, Mintie Cantrcll and Betty Webb. The negative teams going into the semi-finals are: Kappa Sig ma, Hugh Griffin and Richard Borden; Alpha Gamma Delta, Alice Middleton and Emily Baker; Chi Phi, Wm. H. Stewart and Hamp Davis; Daily Tar Heel, James Spence and Gilbert Bur nett; Independent, Bob Ormand and Garland Scruggs; Wilborn Phillips and Herb Howell, and George Brizzard and Al Phillips. Judges for this round were Terry Sanford, Institute of Gov ernment; Norman Mattis, Eng (See KAPPA, Page 4) sident, complimenting liim on his peacemaking mission in Indone sia. "The effectiveness of United Nations machinery as demon strated by your work has given new hope to those who have faith that by such democratic processes this ideal can be real ized." The other members of the three ' -man group which worked out the truce between the Dutch Marshall Plan The Senate Foreign Rela approved the four year Marshall Story Contest Is Offered To Coeds; $1000 In Prizes Mademoiselle Magazine has an nounced a short story contest featuring $1,000 in prizes, for wo men undergraduate students.. April 15 is the deadline for the stories, which must be from 3,000 to 5,000 words in length. The best two stories will be awarded $500 each and will be published in the August, 1943, issue of Madamoisclle, which re serves the right to buy all other acceptable stories at regular rates. Stories which have already appeared in undergraduate pub lications will be acceptable, but only if they have not been pub lished elsewhere. The stories must be submitted to College Fiction Contest, Ma demoiselle, 122 East 42 street, New York 17, N. Y. They must be typewritten double-spaced and writeen on one side of the paper only. All entries must be accom panied by the contestant's clear ly marked name, home address, college address and college year. Some Mademoiselle stories usually find their way to 'the an nual anthologies of best Ameri can short stories. Several of the stories which have been printed have been the author's first pub lished work. The magazine is mainly for women between the ages of 13 and 30 and attempts to reflect their interests and ideas. Past issues of Mademoiselle have included stories by under graduates of Wellesley, Vassar, Cornell, Bennington, UCLA, Sarah Lawrence and Bennington, as well as many other schools and universities. Mademoiselle will assume no responsibility for the manu scripts and will return only those accompanied by a stamped self addressed envelope. Ka.st Indians and their mother countries and accompaincd Dr. Graham on his visit to the Chief Executive were Dr. Paul Van Zeelan. former prime minister of Belgium and Justice Richard Kirby of Australia. Tenders Resignation Graham, who was the United States member of this United Nations Security Council Com mittee on good offices in Indone sia, also handed in his resigna tion yesterday and was immedi ately appointed a special adviser to the State department by Sec- ictary George Marshall. About this appointment, th; President wrote Graham that he was "happy to know that you will re main on call to make avail able your .services in the field of Indonesian affairs, in which this government has a continuing and friendly interest." Treaty Signed The Chapel Hill educator and his fellow commission members finished their lengthy and invo lved task on January 17, when they negotiated the signing in the harbor of Batavia, Javia, of a truce which Dr. Henry Brandi:;, member of the University Law department who accompaincd Dr. Graham on the delegation, called the "basis for final political a grcemcnt" and the paving of the way for the eventual indepen dence of the Indonesian people. Dr. Graham has been in the United States since February 1, completing the final details of his special assignment, with tho State department in Washington and the United Nations headquar ters in Lake Success, N. Y., but after yesterday's honors and his advisory appointment, he should be free to return to the Univer sity. Vets Must Choose Desired Program World War II veterans arc eli gible for training under the GI bill or the Vocational Rehabilita tion act (Public Law 10) while they arc taking training in cer tain courses financed by other federal appropriations, Veterans administration ruled recently. Accordingly, veterans must select the federal program under which they prefer to enter cer tain types of training. VA said that certain courses financed by federal appropria tions are available to veterans as well as to other persons. These are separate from the training programs established for eligible veterans under Public Law 16 and the GI Bill (Public Law 346). Among such courses arc: (1) U. S. Public Health train ing programs for persons recei ving fellowships or salaries from state and other grant-in-aid funds derived wholly or in part from federal appropriations. (2) U. S. Maritime commission training programs. (3) Resident training programs in hospitals, clinics, medical or dental laboratories owned or operated by the U. S. govern ment. (4) Residency training for physicians and dentists in the De partment of Medicine and Sur gery of the Veterans administra tion, j DeVyes to Address Local Administrators Dr. Frank T. de Vyves, direct or of the North Carolina Merit System council, will speak on "The Program and Problems of the Merit System council" at the first meeting of the campus chap ter of the American Society for Public Administration on Mon day. The meeting, at which the lo cal chapter will be launched and organized, will begin at 8 o'clork in Room 203. Caldwell hall. Alt members and prospective mem bers of the ASPA are invited to attend.
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