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U.!?.e. Library Serials Dpt, Box 870 Chapel Hill, N.C. 'Communist Liar9 See Edits, Page Two 11 Weather Fair and continued warm. High in low 8Q's. Offices in Graham Memorial WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1961 Complete UPI Wire Service Test Negative mil t A 1. if MJl lift F 1 II II If MisT KEh NEDY BE CPTtr In Boys9 Fooc Police Verify Last Nite Johnson Asked For Poison By LLOYD LITTLE and GARRY BLANCHARD Police last night confirmed that William Johnson Jr. made inquiries about a "fast acting poison" the day before he and his roommate were found dead in their dormitory room. Another development in tiie five day old mystery was the univer sity pathologist's report that no trace of cyanide has been detected in food found in the room. Monday police ruled out another lead when no evidence of cyanide was found in two milk-shake cups found in the students' room. Chapel Hill .Ponce Quel W. D. Blake did not mention an expected report on the vital organs taken from the bodies. However, pathologist lit. W. . ttuitines saia last nigut that he iraa turned such a report over to acting coroner G. A. Cannady but that Uie coroner was "probabiy preparing it." Blake said that the police were hoping the type of cyanide could be identified. A six-man coroner's jury ruled Saturday that cyanide caused the oeauis of James M. Barham and William K. Johnson cli. Meanwhile detectives continu ed checking reports that John son had made inquiries about a ."fast-acting poison" the day be fore the roommates were found dead in their room. Students Questioned Several students were said to have reported hearing him make the inquiries. Blake said most of the stu dents questioned during the in vestigation thus far lived in Cobb dorm, scene of the two deaths. The chief again said that there was no connection between the deaths and Ralph Sargent, a stu dent arrested Sunday with mer curic cyanide pills in his posses sion. Sargents trial was cintinu ed in Chapel Hill recorder's court yesterday. Sargent reportedly went to Me mprialr Hospital sometime. Sunday night, but 'the exact cause of the WORLD NEWS BRIEFS By Uniled Press International Chiang Wortt Block Mongolia TAIPEI Nationalist Chinese officials have told foreign diplomats China will not veto the application of Communist Outer Mongolia for United Nations membership, diplomatic sources said Tuesday. The Nationalists still oppose the admission of the Soviet-backed Asian state, but have decided after much pressure and persuasion that a veto could cost the Nationalists their own U.N. seat, the source said. The Outer Mongolia application is linked to that of the African nation of 'Mauritania. A Nationalist veto of Outer Mongolia would .cause a Soviet veto of Mauritania. The result could be African resent ment against China and the consequent support of the 12-nation Brazzaville group of African nations for Communist China. $8.5 -Million For Nothing? WATERVILLE, .Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, says- the -White House tried to get an $8.5 million contract for M-14 rifles fo ra West Virginia firm which had "no money ,no facilities, no equipment, no management, no personnel and no money." Reds Protest Attacks On Embitssy MOSCOW The official Soviet news agency Tass said Tuesday the Soviet Foreign Ministry has made "a very firm protest" to the Ar gentine government over attacks on the Soviet embassy at Buenos Aires Volcano Erupts On South Africa CAPE TOWN, South Africa The 266 residents of Tristan da Cunha escaped an erupting volcano Tuesday by fleeing the "loneliest island in the world," in boats, the British Navy reported. Black smoke hung over the island and lava flowed from the crater of the 6,700-foot vol cano as the island's two fishing boats embarked the entire population sailed to Nightingale Island, 20 miles distant. Coalition Government For Laos? VIENTIANE, Laos King Savang Vathana Tuesday agreed to re ceive Prince Souvanna Phouma to ask the Communist -backed "neutral ist" Laotian leader to form a coalition government for tins strife torn Southeast Asian kingdom. Gen. Phoumi Nosovan, deputy premier and "strongman of the pro Western government of Prince Boun Oum, went to the Royal capital of Luang Prabang to obtain the king's promise of an audience. Firecrackers Crack In Hong Kong HONG KONG Flags, firecrackers and a near riot between pro and anti-Communist workers at a textile factory marked the golden jubilee celebration of the Republic of China here Tuesday. Employment Rises In U.S. WASHINGTON The number of Americans on nonJarm payrolls climbed to an all-time high of 53.9 million last month, Labor Secretary Aithur J. Goldberg announced Tuesday. trip was not revealed. A hospital spoKtsman reported the youth was aamittea to t.ie lniirmary -tor an "observation period." "We are prcty certain that it was not mercuric cyanide,'' said Blake, "and we don t think any one's poisoning people." He add ed that he believea the possibili ty of finding the source of the poison was small. Cyanide available Toe chief said accidental poison ing has been ruled out, adding it was either murder-suicide, double murder or a suicide pact. "Cyanide is very accessible especially in film laboratories and machine shops," said Blake. "It looks almost impossible " to ar "It looks almost impossible to ar rive at any definite conclusions. I'm just hoping we'll be able to have enough evidence to prove what happened." , The chief said that Barham was apparently near death Thurs day night when he was found violently ill in . a . bathroom "and went into convulsions.' . Johnson was reported to have told other students that if Barham needed a doctor he would call - one. Through questioning students, JM-Iice. say that they can definite. ly vouch for Barham's character. A'! h- f - j i ': , ' 'SSS& Wii- ,( I I ll I I I Chiang" Kai-shek r ' - ii h " - , ! i"? tit' ' ' - i ring i Here With Both -Sicfes Debate .t.- ,'."!;- "Operation Abolition, the House Pn-American Activities Committee's controversial film version of the 1960 San Francisco student "riots," will be shown next Monday night at 8:30 in Memorial Hall. Mike Harrington, editor of the Socialist Party newspaper NEW AMERICA, will debate a yet un named conservative concerning HUAC and the film. State Dept. Official Talks At UNC Robert E. Ward from the De partment of State will meet Oc tober 18 at 2:00 in 211 Gardner Hill with any students interest in careers with the State De partment, according to Joyce Fuller, Assistant Director of the UNC Placement Service. Ward will discuss with stu dents the opportunities available in the Foreign Service and the Foreign Service Office Exam ination. Companies will also have rep resentatives at the University Placement Service in the near future to talk with interested students. On Oct. 17 Dean Alan Wallis of the School of Business Ad ministration, University of Chi cago, will talk to all students interested in graduate work at the University of Chicago at a group meeting at 11:00 on Octo ber 17 in 211 Gardner Hall. Grace Research Oct. 18 W. R. Grace and Co., a research center, and the North western Mutual Life Insurance Co. will have representatives here to discuss job possibilities with students. On Oct. 19, representatives from Wycth Laboratories and from Touche, Ross, BaiJy, and Smart, a firm of certified public accountants, will interview stu dents. Applications for the Profes sional . Qualification Test for careers with the National Se curity Agency may be picked up at the placement office in 204 Gardner. The test will be given at the University Testing Serv ice on December 2, and all ap plications must he sent in to the agency by November 25, ac cording to the placement center. Further information on any of these interviews may be ob tained from the placement serv ice. : . . . r-!L r ii ' :f II 1 l(WIV it i ' 3 I inmihimil.iuw.iiaja.. jmmimUr riimfl imiifininr nrlaiin, l vie !i 5i 1 i- , ' ' QperatitmfAbolition The Carolina Forum and the campus Young Republicans Club are co-sponsoring the debate and film showing. , Forum officers are presently attempting to engage a con servative spokesman to debate Harrington. Mentioned as possi bilities arc Fulton Lewis III, son of the famous newscaster Ful ton Lewis Jr. and former HUAC staff member M. Stanton Evans, editor of the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS; and Jessie Helms, owner of WRAL-TV. "Abolition" Narrator Lewis was narrator for "Opera tion Abolition," and has travelled around the country with the film, speaking to college, civic club, and "patroitic organization" audi ences.. Harrington h asdebated him on numerous occasions. . "Operation Abolition," which is being distributed by a private film company (with the pro ceeds going to the House Com mittee), is a "documentary" purporting to show that the American Communist Party led the student demonstrations in San Francisco during HUAC hearings. The film's account of events has been upheld by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation, and the city officials of San Francisco, among others. Liberal groups, including the National Council of Churches, and several news papers NEW . YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, among others have condemned the film. No Responsibility ' The YRC. here takes , no re sponsibility for the views ex pressed in "Operation Aboli tion," said club president Earl Baker. "Since the film has not been shown on campus previously," said Baker, "much of the con troversy surrounding 'Operation Abolition is going on above the Infirmary Students in the Infrimary yes terday included Martha Hucka bee, Lillian S. Ennis, Melinda Westmoreland, Carol Krug, Bet ty Lumpkin, :jAnn Plummer, Wil liam Gerrard, Alvin Poindexter, David Prescott, Joe Camp, Allan Ostergren, Marcus McGraw, Phillip Jorgenson, George Dur ham, James Carroll, Andrew Winkelman, Robert Coker, Rob ert Pearson, Roland Newhouse, Robert Kepner, Bill. Kohn,- Mar garet Clayton, Tim Cole, Clay ton Smith, James Thomas, Max well Holder, William Monell,. Bill Cozart. and Glejin Wheleas. St - - V ! ' ' " 5 i s t. i tit P ; t 1 fx - , I ill 41 1 hs? 'itm -A . :T f. . 1 v .... . ft n i- ! -I ? . 1 ' II 1 j i t : IS j I I f - ; t t I ? I S )N If N i 1,4 i ' 1 knowledge of ' many UNC stu dents. To give them the oppor tunity to decide for themselves on the merits of the film's con tent and message is the purpose of the YRC for bringing the film to the University community." la. Scientist Urges Schools Get In Space NEW YORK (UPD Dr. James A. Van Allen, discoverer of the radiation belt surrounding the earth, Tuesday called on Ameri can universities to get into step with the nation's space race with Russia. In a speech accepting the American Rocket Society's first research award, the head of the State University of Iowa's phy sics department called on the federal government, the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Agency and private industry to provide universities with neces sary space education facilities, research support, fellowships and competitive atmosphere. "Graduate schools can make a great contribution to space science and technology, but the universities that are doing this can be counted on the fingers of both hands," he said. Van Allen said the nation's ; space program can "muddle along" with a level of over-all competence far short of our space ambitions, but gradually its efforts in the field will ' be come less and less imaginative. Fortunately, he said, the Rus sians "suffer from the same malady." "Universities, like no other segment of our culture, have shown the ability to translate the callow enthusiasm of our youth into broad-guage, long-term com petency," he said. "It is up to .the universities to put the cutting edge on the blunt tools we are using at this time," he added. CHATLIN FREED LOS ANGELES (UPI) Actor Charlie Chaplin Jr., 36, was free on $276 bail Tuesday pending his scheduled pleading Friday to a drunken driving charge. The actor was arrested Sunday night by two policemen who said they saw him driving erratically. "I had. Qve or six brandies with a friend," the officers quoted Chaplin. lorra ill k titetttt hstur, - -rimraii'ii m TTiitTi . .-..jv.-yy-y... j Tf It If :i ii It tt ii ; - . j 5 " ? It X Campus TODAY - . -ii - The NSA Committee will meet at 3:30 p.m. upstairs in GM. There will be a required meet ing at 2 p.m. of the feature writers for the DTH in the of fice. Interested students are urged to attend. Those who can not attend are asked to contact Linda Cravotta at 968-9160 or Nancy Barr, 968-9142. The International Student Board will meet at 5 p.m. at the Y. All persons holding Sopho more Class Bar-B-Q tickets are asked to come to the Library Assembly Room between" 7 "and 8 p.m. OTHERS The Wesley Foundation is sponsoring a ; fall retreat to Hanging Rock, N. C. this week- M atchmaker Starts 3LTCIIED IN "THE MATCHMAKER" Store clerk-turned-adventurer Cornelius Hatkl (Larry McMullen of Yanceyville) and the much-pursued widow, Sirs. Molloy (Violet Galvin of Albany, N. Y.) as they appear in "The Matchmaker," opening tonight at 8:30 in the Flaytnakers Theatre. The Carolina PIavmakersy, 1961 tour production will run. through Sunday night, with a special matinee performance Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the Playmakers Business Office, .211 Aberaelhy Hill (next to the Scuttlebutt), and at Ledbet-.ter-Pickard, both in Chapel Hill. AH seats are resrved at $1.50. ir if i . ' - i A it !! 11 r r a. i 1 If f if i Briefs 2 end. Students planning to go .should .-.sign up today at the - Wesley House or call Charles Shearin at Old West. The IDC is sponsoring a bus to take . 40 men students to a dance at Stratford College, Dan ville, Va. this Friday. The bus will leave Y-Court at 6 p.m. The trip is open to all men stu dents. Cost is $2.25 for trans portation and reservations are to be made at the IDC office in Smith Basement. Phone: 968 3562. The Elections Board will meet Thursday at 5 p.m. in Roland Parker I, GM. The Publications Board will meet Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Grail Room. Yack pictures will be taken. There will be an Aquaholics meeting tonight at 7:30 in the basket room in Woollen Gym, "'If - , Receives Honorary Law Title By PETE IVEY President John F. Kennedy will receive an honory LL.D. degree at the University here Thursday in ceremonies beginning in Ken an Stadium at 11 a.m. It will be the first honorary de gree to be received by, President Kennedy since he became an oc cupant of the White House. The President will deliver an address on the occasion of the University's 168th birthday. The oldest state university in the na tion, the University at Chapel Hill first opened in 1795. John F. Kennedy is the fifth President of the United States to visit the University. The other four are James K. Polk, 1847; James Buchanan, 1859; Andrew Johnson, 1867; Franklin D. Roose velt, 1939. Two honorary degrees will be awarded on Thursday, the first to Governor Terry Sanford. He will be presented by Dean of the Fa culty J a m e S' L. Godfrey, and Chancellor William B. Aycock will award the degree. President Wil liam C. Friday will present Pres ident Kennedy, and the degree again will be awarded by Chan cellor Aycock. The public is invited to attend the ceremonies in Kenan Sta dium. People are advised to come early and be in seats by 10:30 a.m. School children in cities and counties in the central part of North Carolina have been es pecially invited through their su perintendents and principals. The program Thursday follows: 11 a.m. Academic Procession. Star Spangled Banner. Invocation : Rev. Sam Hill. Chancellor Aycock: Remarks. Music by UNC Band and Glee Club. President Kennedy's Speech. Award of degrees. University of North Carolina Anthem. Benediction: Rev. Sam Hill.- Yack Pliotogs "The only thing wrong with the Carolina Coeds is there is not enough of them," said Har rison Scott, one of the Yack photographers from Smith Stu dios in Raleigh. Scott and the other photog rapher, Stanly Cheek, have been taking the individual snapshots for the Yack for the last three weeks. Their only complaint is that students wait until Friday to come in, causing a panic. Cheek, who has been doing the Yack pictures for the last twelve years, feels that he's been here long enough for aa "honorary diploma." Some of the boys have been coming in wearing bermuda shorts or tennis shorts under their coats and ties. "They're very surprised when we tell them that the pictures will be full length this year all in fun of course," said Scott. "We have them cross their legs, or un cross them, or -dust off their shoes or something like that to worry them. "One fellow came in wearing very short shorts under a long sport coat. It looked like he wasn't wearing any pants," Scott continued. "After wc took his picture, we sent him across the hall to the proofs office and had him ask the secretaries if they had seen his pants." Yack Pictures Sophomore Yack pictures will be taken this week through Friday at 1-6 p.m. daily in the GM basement. Juniors who have not been photographed may pay a late fee of $1. Nurses' pictures will also be taken this week. Sen ior nurses are requested to wear their uniforms. Other nurses are asked to wear black sweaters. Sophomore men should wear coats and ties; women, black sweaters. Senior nurses who are un able to come this week may have their pictures taken at 10 a.m. Saturday with no late fee.
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