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VOLUME XLI NUMBER 33
CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3L 1952
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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Last- Rites For Gray
Dr. Lawson's Servic
DR. ROBERT B. LAWSON
Politics Hot
As Mock Vote
Day Nearing
As election day loomed near,
Y court political activity gained
momentum yesterday as Demo
cratic and Republican workers
made last minute bids for sup
port of their candidates in the
Monday YWCA Straw Ballot.
The straw ballot, sponsored by
the Public and Campus Affairs
Committees of the YWCA, will
be held in the lobby of the Y
between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on
Monday.
... Mase Chapin, chairmen of the
voting said yesterday that ID
cards will be stamped to prevent
stuffing of the ballot boxes.
The Monday straw ballot is an
effort to -determine, the trend of
student opinion to the presiden
tial election. On Tuesday, the na
tion will give its choice of can
didates. Has Reached
Goal, Author
Tells Group
By Tom Parramore
"I think I have done what I set
out to do."
So said Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, the
noted author, before a group of
some 200 people yesterday in the
Bull's Head Bookshop. She spoke
in connection with the latest and
last in her series of seven novels
dealing with the history of North
Carolina.
Mrs. Fletcher's new book,
"Queen's Gift," is now on sale
and completes her story which
has its beginnings in North Caro
lina's earliest history and goes
through the signing of the North
Carolina constitution.
Tn discussing the making of
"Queen's Gift," Mrs. Fletcher
said, "In writing a book, one must
first know in which direction it
is going." She explained that she
begins a novel by reading all that
she can find on the particular pe
riod with which it is to deal. She
picks her characters directly from
historical records. As a result,
Mrs. Fletcher finds that she has
become somewhat of a geneolo
gist, being besieged by letters
from people who either are or
think they are relatives of her
characters.
In the beginning, Mrs. Fletcher
said that she planned to start her
characters off in North Carolina
and have them migrate west, but
"I've never ben able to. get my
characters out of North Caro
lina," she said.
Mrs. Fletcher went on to de
scribe some of the hardships of
turning out a novel. "The busi
ness of writing is work," she said.
In elaborating on this, she ex
(See AUTHOR, page 4)
Defense Meeting
A civil defense meeting will
be held al lhe Town Hall to
night at 8 o'clock. Purpose of
the meeting is to encourage
home defense volunteers. Colo
nel Thomas F. Taylor, civil de
fense director, said.
Funeral for Dr. Robert Baker j
Lawson, former Medical School
professor and long-time figure in
athletics here, was held yesterday
at the grave.
Burial was in Chanel Hill cem-
etary with Masonic rites conduct
ed by University Lodge No. 408,
A.F. and A.M.
Dr. Lawson, who was 77, died
Tuesday night in Watts Hospital
in Durham following a long ill
ness. Survivors include his daugh
ter, Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page,
famous golfer. His wife, the for
mer Estelle Adelaide Ward, Chap
el Hill civic leader, died in 1949.
In addition to his duties in
the Medical School and Depart
ment of Physical Education, Dr.
Lawson also served the Univer
sity as athletic director, baseball,
'football, track and gymnastics
coach and trainer for athletic
teams. He retired three years ago.
He taught his daughter most of
the golf she knew and coached
her to the national women's ama
teur golf championship. A native
of Lynchburg, Va., Dr. Lawson
was educated at the University
of North Carolina and University
of Maryland, where he took his
M.D. degree in 1902.
IN BRIEF
BERLIN The Russians re
fused yesterday to let the United
States Army ship tanks to Ber
lin on the Army train which runs
through Soviet-occupied terri
tory from West Germany. The
Russians passed six Patton tanks
on the . army train two weeks
ago, but last baturaay tney
started to interfere with Army
supplies by refusing to pass 18
Army buses on the train from
Berlin to the West. It was not
immediately clear whether the
Russians were merely making a
new move in their harassment
campaign or actually sought to
prevent the United States, Great
Britain and France from sending
new battle-ready equipment to
Berlin.
CHICAGO Seven masked and
armed bandits terrorized and
robbed 150 persons at a charity
card party yesterday and es
caped with jewelry, furs and cash
worth from $75,000 to $100,000.
The men, each nourishing a .45
caliber automatic pistol, forced
their way into the party, ripped
the blouse from one woman,
slugged an elderly man with a
pistol butt, stripped the guests
of their valuables and escaped in
to the darkness.
SEOUL Counter-attacking UN
infantrymen drove three Chinese
Communists off Pinpoint Hill
yesterday for the sixth time in
14 hours of fighting for Sniper
Ridge Peak. The allies failed in
three attempts to drive the Reds
from tunnels and bunkers at the
northwest ' edge of the central
front ridge.
WASHINGTON A Democratic
National Committee official has
been fired for allegedly helping
negotiate a $9,000,000 government
contract while working for the
committee." Col. Lawrence West
brook, who has served as liaison
man between the committee and
members of Congress, sard yes
terday that there was "nothing
wrone" with the contract or his
riPP-ntiations. The New York
Herald Tribune called it "the
bieeest 5 percenter deal ever ex
posed in Washington." It said
Westbrook and two. other men
stood to share a $450,000 com
mission.
NEW YORK Korea was pro
viding the fuel yesterday for the
last-lap spurt in the presidential
derbv. Gen. Dwight D. JLisen
hower, pledging in speech after
cneech to seek an end to tne
Korean conflict, just as consis
tently was being accused by Gov.
Adlai Stevenson and President
Tmman of playing politics with
peace to win votes.
Are S ated T
es Held Yesterday
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V'5
JAMES A. GRAY
Miami Trip
Made Easy
For Students
Students wishing to make train
reservations for the Carolina
Miami game should do so now.
Reservations for individuals and
groups may be made through the
Graham Memorial Travel Agency.
Efforts will be made to send
groups together according to re
quests received.
The all-expense price of $39.62
includes bus transportation
(Chapel Hill to Raleigh, arid re
turn), rail transportation (Ral
eigh to Miami and return) with
reserved seat both ways, break
fast on the streamliner Silver
Star going and dinner returning.
It will not be necessary for stu
dents to work up their own
groups, since requests are being
consolidated by the Travel
Agency. Transportation may be
purchased at the Travel Agency
beginning Nov. 10.
Here are the schedules:
Leave Chapel Hill (Graham
Mem.) Special bus 5:45 p.m. Nov.
26
Arrive Raleigh 6:30 p.m. Nov.
26.
Lv. Raleigh Silver Star 7 p.m.
Nov. 26.
Ar. Miami 11 a.m. Nov. 27.
Lv. Miami Silver Star 12:05
p.m. inov. zy.
Ar. Raleigh 3:43 a.m. Nov. 30.
Lv. Raleigh Special bus 3:45
a.m. Nov. 30.
Ar. Chapel Hill (Graham Mem.)
(See MIAMI, page 4)
Halloween Festival For Children
A Halloween festival for chil
dren will be staged at the parking
lot of Fowler's Food Store to
night at 7 o'clock.
Main feature of the Jaycee
ponsored event will be a cos
tume contest, with prizes being
donated by Jaycee merchants.
Refreshments will be given to
everyone and it is hoped that a
l's Time For A Change
New Bible Changes
Not Doctrine, Says
By Wall Dear
It's time for a change bibli
cally speaking.
A change of phraseology, not
doctrine, and a change encom
passing new truths in the lan
guage discovered in more an
cient documents than those used
for the King James Version of
the Holy Bible.
So declared Dean Luther Wei
gle in a talk here Wednesday
night at Gerrard Hall. Dean
Weigle is chairman of the com
mittee that compiled the Re
vised Standard Version of the
oaay;
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
j WINSTON-SALEM, Oct. 30
Funeral for James A. Gray,
chairman of the board of direc
tors of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co. and prominent University of
North Carolina '-, trustee for 40
years, will be held Friday at
Centernary Methodist Church.
Dr. Mark Depp will conduct the
service with burial in Salem
Cemetery.
Mr. Gray died Wednesday at
noon in the Baptist Hospital of a
heart attack. He was 63.
Mr. Gray, an uncle of Consoli
dated University President Gor
don Gray, was born in Wsinston.
He received his A.B. from the
University in 1908 and an honor
ary degree in 1941. He was known
for his philanthropies, and in 1947
established a $700,000 endow
ment fund, the income from
which goes to 11 N. C. colleges.
He is survived by three sons,
James A. Jr., Bahnson and How
ard and three daughters, Mrs.
Norwood Robinson and Miss'Au
relia Gray of Winston-Salem, and
Mrs. John Gallaher of Charlotte.
Internationals
May Be Feted
Thanksgiving
UNC's 96 international stu
dents will now have an oppor
tunity to spend Thanksgiving in
the comfort and plenty of
American home rather than in
an empty dorm, thanks to the
services o f the University
YWCA. .
Members of the World Re
latedness Committee of the Y,
under the chairmanship" of Jane
Kottmeier, Orlando, Fla., have
written rectors of churches in
North Carolina, Virginia and
South Carolina inquiring about
accommodations in homes for
the students who represent 33
nations. Hosts are asked also to
assume transportation partly
or wholly, if at all possible, as
many of the students are on
very limited fines.
This project was tried on an
experimental basis last year by
the Y Koffee Klatsch Committee
which endeavors to help inter
national students and Ameri
can students to get better ac
quainted. Betty Anders, Hen
dersonville, chairman of the
Koffee Klatsch committee says
the students are very enthusias
tic over the idea.
International students are at
tending the University on a
variety of scholarships. Some
are here on government aid
either from their own country
or the U. S., while many others
are students under various
scholastic reciprocal agreement.
parade down Franklin St. to the
post office will be held after the
costume judging.
Parents will be asked to walk
across the stage with their chil
dren before the judges. The com
petition will be divided into two
classifications for children up to
five years of age, and from five
to nine. -
Bible which recently went on
sale.
The committee's job was to
revise the English translation
of it, Dean Weigle pointed out.
While the King James Version
is- aptly called the noblest mon
ument of English prose, it has
serious defections, he said. The
New Testament as translated
for the English in 1611 is based
on a few medieval manuscripts,
while the committee had 450
Greek manuscripts to consider,
of which 200 were drawn up in
the sixth century or before.
No Connections
Texas Gal
Corrupted
In Politics
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 30 On
the campus of the University of
Houston they take such matters
as special political funds serious
ly. In fact they take politics so
seriously down this way that ev
en candidates for beauty queen
are feeling the heat of the 1952
campaign.
Pretty Marion Stafford, a well
kjiown campus politico with quite
a platform, was ruled off the
ticket running for homecoming ;
queen because she spent more i
than the maximum allowed for
campus campaigning. Marian was
bounced for spending more than
the $15 that the Student Election
Council ruled "an average Joe
without connections" could spend
on a campaign. j
Marian is a shapely art major .
and a seasoned office holder on 1
the campus. She has served as
ROTC sweetheart, year book
beauty, junior class secretary and
vice-president of the sophomore
class.
When she ran for homecoming
queen, she felt about it the way
presidential candidates feel about
the White House. It was the one
contest she'd "rather win more
than any other in the world." She
was doing fine, too, until a couple
of days before election. Then the
roof fell in. The Election Council
totaled up accounts and said Mar
ian was out.
Pentagon Report Says
War Casualties Higher
JSpecial to Tkb Daily Tar Heel
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 The Pentagon reported today the high
est seven-day toll of American casualties in Korea in almost a year,
then added:
Americans may expect almost twice as large a number next week.
Today's summary, the last to be issued before the elections,
contained 1,278 U. S. casualties. This put the total for 28 months of
war at 123.395 men killed, wounded or missing. The war now has
has taken the lives of 21,471 U. S. servicemen. Of these, 19,267 were
killed in action, 19,997 died of wounds and 207 are among the 12,868
listed as missing.
The. grim compilation released today is the largest since Nov. 9,
1951, when 1,721 casualties were reported. It was 300 above last week's
announcement.
The Pentagon also flatly denied that it is purposely waiting until
after the election to make such a heavy toll public. They declared
they are sticking to the usual reporting methods politics or not.
A I
GEORGE B030T, Jr., seven-year-old
St. Clairsville, Ohio
boy who is stricken with a crit
ical kidney disease than is only
helped by eating watermelon,
smiles gleefully as a newspaper
appeal resulted in hundreds of.
offers of watermelons. NEA
Telephoto.
Language,
Dr. Weigle
"We were better prepared for
the translation, more so than
translators of any other ancient
text," Dean Weigle said. About
200 manuscripts are available
for Homer dating back to the
ninth century, he noted.
Copying errors have created
misinterpretations throughout
the Old and New Testaments as
well as Elizabethan phraseol
ogy. In Acts 17:3 where Peter
was "alleging" that Jesus was
the savior of mankind, "alleg
ing" meant "proving the case"
(See BIBLE, page 3)
Legislators Agree
Ken Penegar (SP) Introduces Resolution
To Support Bid For New Union Building
By Louis Kraar
The Legislature sounded off last night on the need for a
new Student Union Building. The request, legislators agreed,
ranff true with student opinion. . .
Ken Penegar (SP) proposed a resolution supporting a move
CHARLES EDWARD Hopkins,
21, was arrested by FBI agents
as he left the Jacksonville, Fla.,
post office on charges of kid
napping, assaults and armed
robberies. The young desperado
was a member of a three-man
gang that terrorized the South
east, and is the second of the
trio to be caught. Hopkins is
shown leaving the Federal
Bldg., with an FBI agent. UP
Telephoto.
U.S. College
Straw Ballots
Indicate Ike
If the nation goes as most col
lege students go, Dwight D.
Eisenhower is a cinch for Presi
dent.
The ACP national poll of stu
dent opinion asked students from
all parts of the country: Which
candidate do you want to win the
presidential election? The results
show a large majority for Eisen
hower. Eisenhower: 57 percent;
Stevenson: 33 percent: Unde
cided: 9 percent; Other: 1 percent.
Despite Eisenhower's popula
rity, there are almost as many
Democrats as there are Republi
cans. Thirty-two percent of those
polled claim to be Democrats, 36
percent Republicans and 30 per
cent independents.
Only on some of the southern
campuses does Stevenson have a
majority. In Texas and Okla
homa, though, students call them
selves Democrats but favor Ike.
At the same time, it seems im
possible to tell which party leans
toward from the candidate he
favors. There is the gradute stu
dent at the University of Cali
fornia who says he will vote for
Stevenson but calls himself "a
Taft Republican." -
Seniors and graduate students,
while they still favor Ike, give
him a much smaller majority than
do other students.
Perhaps the dilemma of those
students still undecided is best
summed up by a sophomore at
Northeast Missouri StataJTeachers
college. He says, "Either candi
date will probably send my
friends and myself to the army."
tor the new building and it was
unanimously accepted. In effect,
the Legislature reaffirmed a re
quest to the Board of Trustees
made earlier by a small group of
students and faculty members.
The resolution seemed to ap
propriately underline the students
plea.
The present Student Union
building, Graham Memorial, was
constructed in 1932. The enroll
ment at that time was only 2,000.
"We've quite outgrown our old
building," said Penegar. He
pointed out that Graham Memo
rial is in a inconvenient location
since it is away from the heart of
campus.
A bill was passed which pro
vides for the Legislature to meet
at Phi Hall as of the next session.
Absent legislators were Al Bal
lard (SP), Dee Breslow (UP), Don
Carroll (UP), Blake Ingram (UP-
SP), Jane Kottmeier (SP), Tom
McDonald (UP), Jim Parker (UP),
David Spenser (UP), Ann Street
(UP), and Margaret Thompson
(SP).
UP Chooses
Legislature
Candidates
Legislature candidates from
men's dormitory districts were
nominated this week by the Uni
versity Party.
The nominees are Gaither Wal
ser, Bob Little, Dave Brown and
Al Savitz from Dormitory District
1; Jimmy Babb, Bev Webb, Don
Cheek and Dave Spencer from
district 2; Bill Sanders and Tom
Osborne from district 4, and Zack
Watsrs, Dick Granholm, Bruce
Pruitt and Bill Greer from dis
trict 5.
Mason Hawfield was nominated
to fill the Legislature seat va
cated by Joe Parker from ' dis
trict 1.
At the next meeting on Nov. 4
nominations for four Student
Council seats, freshman and jun
ior class officers, and The Daily
Tar Heel editorship will be made.
Candidates
To Be Named
The Bi-Partisan Selection Board
will meet Monday to select can
didates to run in the fall elections
for Men's and Women's Councils.
Candidates will be chosen for
the three junior seats on Wo
men's Council and two junior, on
sophomore, one freshman and one
graduate seat on Men's Council.
The board will meet at 7
o'clock Monday night in the
Men's Council room in Graham
Memorial. Other meetings will
be held Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. The time will be an
nounced later.
The Selection Board is made up
of two representatives from the
Men's Council, Women's Council,
Student Party and University
Party. It was formed by the two
parties in an effort to keep par
tisan politics out of the councils.
Deadline Thursday
Deadline for all nominations
for fall elections is next Thurs
day at 6 p.m.. Elections Board
Chairman JerryCook said yes
terday. All nominations and petiiions
from parties, independents and
the Bi-partisan Selection Board
may be turned in before then
to Cook at 26 Steele, the Sig
ma Chi house or the Student
Government office.
An Elections Board member
will be in the vice-president's
office in Graham Memorial be
tween 4 and 6 p.m. Thursday
to receive nominations.