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87 jean of dedicated aerriee to a better University, a better state and a better nation by one of America's great college papers, whoe motto states, "freedom of expression is the backbone of an academic community." WEATHER Fair and cold today, with highs ranging from 20s to near SO. VOLUME LXVIII, NO. 100 Complete I Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEB. 20, 1960 Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE rr ft Governor Led Him SACRAMKNTO. Calif.. "It was the hand of Cod," said Gov. Edmund Brown Friday, that delivered to his attention a U. S. State Department telegram which helped persuade him to extend a tJO-duy reprieve to Caryl Chess man. Brown told a news conference the telegram expressed grave concern over this country's in ternational relations on Presi dent Eisenhower's Latin Ameri can trip. It noted especially a strong advocacy in South A merica of the condemned con vict's plea for clemency. It wa among thousands of ti'legrams in his office. "It was in the hand of God," he said, "that this one would be picked out after I left the office." It arrived at ft. lf p.m. Thursday. was opened and was sent to the K'vernor ut once. The governor said an eleventh hour letter sent to him by Chessman had nothing to do with his decision to grant a reprieve. "I regarded it as a last des perate effort on his part to save himself from execution," Brown said. "I put no credence in it. I'm still convinced he is guilty." Brown did not disclose what Chessman wrote. Brown said he is unable to explain the world wide excite ment over the Chessman case. "The impressive thing to me as governor is the high concern so many people have shown over th dignity of human life, even that of a man who has commit ted the crimes that Chessman has." But such a long time has elaps ed, he added, between Chessman's original conviction and the final disposition in the courts, "It has! caused a lot of people to wonder! Rules Slated For Germans Concert Today The following rules and regula tions for this afternoon's Count Basic Hermans Concert have been announced by Angus Duff, chairman of the University Dance Committee. Only the main doors to Memorial Hall will be used. Bida will be collected at the door and will not be returned. Once in the building, exit (during the intermission or any other time) will forfeit readmission. No bottles, cups, or cans will be allowed inside the auditorium. Smoking will be allowed in the lobby only during intermission, but not in the main auditorium or bal cony at any time. All Dance Committee rules and regulations will be in effect as usual and violators of such will be asked to leave the concert, and will be subject to trial. j js j ; i rr 1 UNC FACULTY CLUB OFFICERS Officers and directors of tho Faculty Clob at the University of North Carolina to take office In two weeks are, left to right, above, Prof. J. P. Harland, president; Prof. Walter Spearman, vice president; Dean James L. Says1 God's Hand' To Make Reprieve if something wasn'i wrong with ' for clemency, lie said. .Chessman's conviction in the first ' instance." : He said he received thousands ' of letters and telegrams from all over the world, some from emo tionally unstable persons, "but many from people whose views I respect.' Ninety per cent were Last Minute Execution Stay Leaves Chessman Incredulous j SAN QUENTIN, Calif., itfi Caryl Chessman was incredulous when he learned he had been re prieved 9 hours and 55 minutes before his scheduled execution Friday. Details of the dramatic inci dent in aan uuentin prison s waiting room, only 13 steps from the gas chamber, where 1 reported by Associate Warden : Walter D. Achuff. i "Warden Fred Dickson was visiting Chessman in the death j cell when the Governor telephon ed the reprieve," Achuff told newsmen. "Dickson took the call on a telephone just outside the gas chamber. "Then he went in and told Chessman. Chessman was ob viously under a very heavy e motional strain. "Apparently he was incredulous. But the warden assured him it was true and Chessman had an emotional letdown. "He didn't cry but he was aw fully shaky. "Then in about 15 minutes Chessman was taken back up Prince Is Born World Can Draw Deep Breath Again LONDON, (.T A baby prince was born Friday to Queen Elizabeth II. Bells, guns and bonfies signaled the nation's rejoicing at the safe delivery of the child, the first in fant born to a reigning British mon arch in 103 years. Both mother and son, Eliza beth's third child, were doing well. The little newcomer becomes sec ond only to his 11-year-old brother. Prince Charles, in the line of suc cession to the throne which Eliza beth assumed in 1952 Princess Anne, 9, drops back to third place. "It's a boy!" exclaimed Prince Philip, grinning happily. The proud father's words were repeated around the land. Church bells pealed at this an nouncement from Buckingham Pa lace that ended anxiety over a somewhat difficult, 30-hour confine ment: "The queen was safely delivered of a son at 3:30 p.m. today. "Her majesty and the infant prince are both doing well." A crowd of more than 2,000 " ' I v He was impressed, too, he said, by the attitude of William Bennett, a former Deputy At torney General when Brown was Attorney General. Bennett was in charge of the Chessman Case. He recommended that the sentence be commuted. stairs to the death row. He got there at 12:25 a.m. "He managed to go to sleep without sedation." Achuff said the prison had not received any papers from Gov. Edmund Brown regarding the stay that Brown himself tele phoned the order. Chessman slept late this morning. Iowa State College Doctor To Address Med School Here Dr. John W. Gowen of Iowa State College will be guest lecturer at the School of Medicine today. Dr. Gowen will deliver the week ly Medical Science Lecture Series address. The lecture will be given at 11 a.m. in the Clinic Auditorium. All interested persons are invited to attend. This is next to the final lecture in the series that began in October. The theme of the lectures is "Gene tics and Medicine." The series is sponsored by the School of Medicine and Medical Education for Nation cheered wildly at the palace gates as u palace official pinned up the handwritten bulletin. A carnival air swept London. Con gratulations with President Eisen hower's among the first streamed in. A ceremonial flag- of red, blue and gold 24 feet by 12 replaced the royal standard over the palace to mark the birth of the first baby to a reigning British monarch since Princess Beatrice was born to Queen Victoria in 1857. A 21-gun salute boomed at Wind sor Castle, one of the oldest royal homes. The royal navy gave the traditional order "splice the main brace," which meant that every navy man got a free tot of mm. Inside the palace, Prince Philip joined the queen's physicians and other attendants in a champagne toast. The baby's weight and his name remained temporarily undisclosed. The expectation is that he will be named James at his christening, in about four weeks. A palace spokes UNC Faculty Club Names Officers; Professor Harland New President ' ft 'V -f . -A & Godfrey, secretary; Prof. Shepard Sitterson, a director. Not present Luxon, aUo a director. Miss Wommack Heads Fund-Raising Group By MARY STEWART BAKER A new phase in the Symposium program this year is a committee which has been labeled "Sally's Committee," for lack of time .to think of a proper name for it. "Sally's Committee," headed by Miss Sally Womack of Chap el Hill, will certainly grow In scope through the years. Right now it is doing a notable job in working to bring students out side of UNC here for participa tion in the Symposium program. These students, whose transpor tation will be furnished by Sym posium, will form a special sem inar of their own. This year the seminar will be led by Warren Ashby, professor of philosophy at k w.c. The main duty of Miss Womack and her committee is to raise the mfoney needed to transport the students. "Right now," she reports, "we're working on obtaining funds from a subsidiary of the al Defense, a federal agency. Dr. Gowen received his under graduate education at the University of Maine, took his master's degree there and his Ph. D. degree was awarded by Columbia University. His topic here will be "Genetics of Natural Resistance." The final speaker on the lecture series will be Dr. Howard Leve$.e of the Department of Mathematical Statistics of . Columbia University. Dr. Levene will speak on Saturday. Feb. 27. man said there would be no an ouncement concerning the weight until tomorrow. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Related To Washington LONDON, 0T) Britain's new prince, like his brother Char les and sister Anne, can claim a remote kinship to George Washington. A royal family tree shows that one of their great-great-great-great-grandfathers was the Very Rev. Robert Hodg son, who died in 1844. Several generations farther back, the Hodgson line and that of Wash ington had joined. The infant is a direct des cendant of England's Queen Victoria, kings of Denmark and Greece and Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Among other an cestors were Scots, Germans, French, Poles and Hungarians. Jones, treasurer; Dean Carlyle for the photo was Dean N. N. (UNC Photo by David Windley) f s i l s - SALLY WOMMACK Ford Foundation. If we aren't able to raise enough in funds this Symposium year, we will at least be afble to bring in students from this area. It's a good start." Long range plans fo the com mittee include hopes of bringing students in from colleges and un iversities in New England and the Mid-West. This will obviously in crease the national importance of the Carolina Symposium. Miss Womack, appointed chair man of the committee when it was formed in mid-Novem,ber, is junior majoring in comparative literature. She entered UNC after studying at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Miss Womack started her work with Symposium this year. She has worked with the YWCA on the Finance Drive and is a mem- (ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma. spiritual head of the Church of England, summed up the feeling of many with these words: "We are full of relief and joyful happiness and of thanksgiving . . . for very good reason, the mystery of mother and child, the commonest thing in the world, is also a most lovely and sacred thing to us all. But in Buckingham Palace it is not only a mother and her child, but our queen and her infant prince." GUEST SPEAKER Dr. Herbert Ratner will be guest speaker at a School of Public Health Student-Faculty Seminar on Mon day. The seminar will be held in the Assembly Room of the Louis R. Wilson Library at 2:30 p.m. All in terested persons are invited to at tend. Dr. Ratner will speak on "Health Education, and the Family." He is the director -of the Oak Park (111.) Public Health Department. Prof. J. Penrose Harland, arch aelogist; succeeded Dr. Warner Wells, surgeon, as president of the Facility !lub at the University of North Carolina this week. New directors of the club include Dean Carlyle Sitterson, Prof. Shep ard Jones, Dean N. N. Luxon, and Dr. Hartandi Hold-over directors are Dean James L. Godfrey, Dean Arnold 'Perry and Prof. Walter Spearman. Other officers for 1900-61 are Prof. Spearman, vice president; Dean Godfrey, secretary, and Prof. Jones, treasurer. The Faculty Club is an informal luncheon organization which meets at the Carolina Inn every other Tuesday for programs usually of an academic nature, often speeches on technical specialities which are followed by question-and-answer pe riods. ; CORRECTION John Darden (SAE) is not pin ned to Nancy Brantley as reported yesterday in the Daily Tar Heel. D fed U mtm mm K0 k I Dr. Hollis Edens Quits As President Of Duke DURHAM OP) Dr. Hollis Edens announced Friday he was resigning as president of Duke University. The 59-year-old president, who made the announcement to a faculty meet ing, indicated no immediate plans. Dr. Edens was elected Duke pres ident in 1948 while serving with the Rockefeller Foundation. He took office in 1949. Earlier he had filled a number of positions with the State to Georgia university system. Dr. Edens indicated he was not contemplating leaving Duke to take another post. He said he would re main here until a successor is elected and takes office. Duke University last summer an nounced it would embark upon a 76 million dollar fund raising pro gram over 10 years "to make itself a better, not a vastly larger school." It was in consideration of this program that Dr. Edens prepared his resignation. He felt that a successor to the presidency should be a man of such age as to see the program completed. When the program was projected last June Edens described it as "the most challenging dream presented for the university since the dream which created it." Edens was the third person to serve a. president since Duke Uni versity was established in 1924 with the millions supplied by the late James B. Duke, internationally Universay Prayer Day Slated Here Sunday The Universal Day of Prayer for students will be observed here Sun day. The principal sepaker tomorrow night for the celebration service at 6:30 will be Dr. Luther Copeland, a faculty member at Southeastern Seminary at Wake Forest, N. C. He is speaking at the Presbyterian Stu dent Center, on "Why Intercessary Prayer?" Dr. Copeland recently returned from Japan where he taught in a Baptist Seminary. The service at the Student Center tomorrow is a part of thousands of such observances which will be held in the colleges and universities in many parts of the world. Walker Blanton Resigns Dual Positions On Daily Tar Heel, Publications Board By SUSAN LEWIS Walker Blanton resigned Thurs day as business manager of The Daily Tar Heel and chairman of the Publications Board. Blanton will be succeeded by Tim Burnett as business manager and by Harold O' Tuel as board chairman. Blanton gave his reasons for resigning as: (1) "I've been in the business department four years and it's time to go," (2) "The new man ager needs practical experience while the old manager is still around to answer questions," and (3) "I had too many things to do." The departing leader is retaining a few of his positions, however. He is still a member of Publications Board, president of Delta Kappa Epsilon for the second consecutive semester, treasurer of IFC, and member of Audit Board and Cam pus Chest committee. Obviously he has found time to study, for he is a Morehead Schol ar, Dean's List man and Phi Be ta Kappa initiate his junior year. He is a member of Phi Eta Sig ma, freshman scholastic honorary; r n r in 5lnIDBilSlSD2fiB WM i u rp o n nn7 n known tobacco tycoon. Today Duke has about 5,600 students. Dr. William Preston Few, presi dent of Trinity College, a Method ist institution upon which Duke University was erected, remained as president under the vastly expand ed operation. He was succeeded by the late Dr. Robert L. Flowers. In his 11 years as head of Duke, the university expanded academ ically in many fields, a far cry from the humble beginnings of Trinity College that began in a little log cabin that housed a Quaker - Methodist community school in Randolph County. Delta Upsilon Group Elects New Officers Officers for the coming year were elected last Monday by Delta Up silon social fraternity. Eddie Taft is the new president and he is to be assisted by Donald F. Gottaschalk, vice - president; Ralph B. Tower, recording secre tary; William H. Dalton, corres ponding secretary, and Robert Eas ley, treasurer. The three delegates elected to attend the Provincial Conference in Gainesville, Fla., in March are Stan Black, Eddie Taft and Joe De Blasio. INFIRMARY Students in the infirmary yester day were: Alene Boyette, Catherine Pierce, James Williams, Betty Monk, Lydia Fish, Brenda Wilson, Mildred Carpenter, Jean Crewes, Margaret Thompson, Charlotte An drews, Mary Brock, Ann Totlon, Charles Green, Fred Meal, Ralph Scott, James Rosenblatt, Wily Hurt, Hubert Stoneman, Roy Raab, Floyd Kushner, Richard Sanders, Mebane Turner, Berbert Stone, Muriel Hogg, Patricia Crawford, Charles Mason, Lawrence Henry, David Williams, James Ryder, Donald Folgeman, Thomas Horner, Larry Johnson, Bryan Grimes, Farris Jones, Roy Spach, Albert Smith, Richard Pierce, Roy Kirschberg, James Ger ardi, Thomas Law and Stephen Smith. Phi Alpha Theta, honorary his- perch in the business office the tory society and Order of the' Old reign and demise of four DTH edi Well. j tors. Fred Powledge, Neil Bass, (It is said Blanton dropped a ' DouS Eisle, Curtis Gans and the course last year because he thought he was making a B on it.) The senior American history ma jor from Marion has seen from his ..5 'If I I; WALKER BLANTON I y V -: m - & 1 The international flavor of the Carolina campus will be emphas ized this week with exhibits, speeches, the United Nations Model Assembly, and a gala international dinner. Sponsored by the International Student Board, the first annual In ternational Emphasis Week will of ficially open Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Cosmopolitan Club meeting in Smith Dorm. At 8 p.m. Sunday, a special movie, "Eight Steps to Peace," will be shown in Carroll Hall. The film stars the late Tryone Power. One of the highlights for the week will be the address of former UNC President Dr. Frank P. Graham, scheduled for the opening session of the UN Mo-del Assembly at 8 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hall. The Model Assembly, which will continue through Saturday, is be ing coordinated by the YMCA U. N. Education Committee. Col lege students from 23 nations, who are studying at area institutions, will serve as delegates for the assembly. Four commissions for discussion will be set up by the delegates. They will cover the revision of the UN Charter, nuclear disarmament, and several other problems. In addition to the assembly ac tivities, several panel discussions will be held, including one on "Can We Coexist with Communism?," slated for the . Library . Assembly Room at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Dr.. Ira Reid, professor of so ciology at Haverford College, will lecture on "The World Speaks to the Universities," at 8 p.m. Wed nesday in Hill Hall. Dr. Reid's appearance here is being spon sored by the Carolina Forum. ' The final event of the week will be the International Dinner, sponsored by the Cosmopolitan Club, and scheduled for 5:45 p.m. in the Pres byterian Student Center. Approxi mately 200 people are expected to attend the affair, which will fea ture foreign students in native cos tumes, and a meal with in inter national flavor. Shows by each country represented have also been planned. Tickets are available for $1. In addition to the International Dinner, several international dishes will be served in Lenoir Hali dur ing the week. Exhibits dealing with internation al culture will be on view in the women's dorms, the library, Ack land Art Center, and the foreign language buildings. present Davis B. Young. Looking over the years, he says last year the paper had the larg est monetary surplus of any year on record. Planning to graduate this June, Blanton has no definite plans for the future. He Ls considering spend ing the summer in Wyoming, pos sibly working for a newspaper. Friday he cleaned out his desk in the business office, gathered up his things and left. Burnett, the new business man ager, is a sophomore from Greens boro. He is a Morehead Scholar and a member of IFC, DEKE, sophomore cabinet and the attor ney general staff. Burnett was for merly assistant business manager. O' Tuel, a senior from Goldsboro, is also a Morehead Scholar. In suc ceeding Blanton as Publications Board chairman, he is reclaiming he position he held in three previ ous years.