VoL 10. No. 10.
COUNTY OFFICERS’
v PAY CUT GOES IN
EFFECT JULY IST
Commissioners Fall in with
Economy Program of State
and Private Industry
REPORT ON TAX PAYMENTS
At their meeting Monday in
Hillsboro the Orange county
cum m i s s i o n e r s—John H.
Hanner, \V. P. Berry, and Jeter
O. Lloyd—voted unanimously to
put into effect July Ist a reduc
tion of 10 per cent in the. sal
aries of all county officers.
The lower salaries will appear
in the annual budget which is
to lie prepared next month by
the county accountant, Gilbert
W. Ray. Under the law the
budget has to be kept on dis
play'for public inspection, at tin*
county government headquart
ers in the court house, for a stat
ed period before it is finally en
acted into law.
The decision to reduce salaries
was made by the commissioners
in response to the general opin
ion that the county should fall
in with the economy program of
the state government, public in
stitutions, and private industry.
The commissioners believe that,
because of the decline in com
modity prices, the income of
(ounty officers will be as high,
in purchasing power, as it was
when the present rates of pay
Were fixed.
( ounty Accountant Kay sub
mitted to the commissioners at
Monday’s meeting a statement
upon the collection of taxes to
Mu\ Ist. The total levy, in
cluding penalties to that date,
( nine to $ 182, !<)(!.58. The amount
collected May Ist was $138,922.-
7b, and the amount remaining
unpaid was sl3, 18:5.8:!, About
$!),00q has been collected since
May Ist, reducing the unpaid
balance to $31,483.83.
* A petition for the opening of
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The Year’s Last I Mays
Studio Productionx I tii- Week; ( om
ed\ May 1!», 20, and 21
The Carolina I'lay makers, end
ing their year this month, will
present two series of plays.
'The students in Samuel Sel
dep’s course will give their
spring studio productions next.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
evenings (May 12, Id, and 14).
There will be a new bill on each
of the three nights, consisting of
three or four one-act plays.
Some of these w'ere written this
year by the students.
George Kaufman's “The But
ter and Egg Man,” a modern
American comedy, will be the
season's final entertainment. It
will be performed three times
week after next —Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday, May 19, 20,
and 21.
Both the studio productions
and the Kaufman comedy are
covered by season tickets, and
the holders of these tickets may'
g*t their reservations by apply
ing at the Alfred Williams store
two days in advance.
Mosher May Resign Here
It became known this week
that E. R. Mosher was consid
ering resigning from the facul
ty of the University to accept a
professorship, at a higher sal
ary than he is now' receiving, in
New York University. Mr.
Mosher came here in 1923; he is
director of practice teaching in
the school of education. i
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
Virginia and Carolina will
meet on the baseball diamond at
Emerson field this (Friday) af
ternoon. Maybe there will be a
fair-sized crowd—l hope so, for
the sake of the athletic associa
tion’s depleted purse—but there
lis not noticeable any great ex
citement over the event.
Alumni whose memories go
back-as far as 2o or JO years
foften comment upon the con
trast between the present low
estate of baseball and the emi
nence which it used to hold in
the realm of intercollegiate
sport. In the 90’s and. the early
! 1900’s the University and the
village were all a-tingle as the
day of the Virginia game drew
near. The entire student body
assembled every afternoon to see
the team practice; and when the
great day arrived the campus
I was gay w ith decorations of
blue-and-white bunting, and
men, women, and children deck
ed themselves out with blue
and-white ribbons. In that pre
automobile age the visiting
throng came in special trains to
the terminus which we now
know as Carrboro and thence
proceeded to the field in hacks
and on foot.
Now, while a Carolina-Vir
ginia game is in progress hun
dreds of people are strolling
j along the streets and tin* cam
pus walks, quite indifferent to
the contest. Many of them do
not even know it is going on. i
remember that a year or so ago
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Joint War on Signs
Women of ( hct |>«*I Hill and -Durham
to ( o-o|»eraI<• in Iteantil; im_* KoaiU
Some of t he women of I hirham
have given the word that they
want to co-operate with the wo
men of Chapel 11 ill in the efTor
to riil the highways <d bill
boards, and committees from
; t lie two towns are expected to
have a conference oji the subject
within the next few days.
Mrs. W. S. Bernard, represent
ing the United Baughters of the
Confederacy, and Mrs. J. M.
Valentine, representing the
Chapel Hill Community Club, are
asking Chairman Jetfress of the
i state highway commission, to
have signs removed from the
right of way, and merchants and
land-owners are being asked to
j remove those on private proper
i
The state’s right of way is 00
feet wide 3O feet each way
from the center line of the road.
Many signs are erected illegally
within these limits.
At their meeting next week the
Chapel Hill aldermen will be ask
ed to give their aid in the move
ment to make the highways
more beautiful.
Shields’s Arm Broken
Charles W. Shields, one of the
proprietors of the M Store, fell
and broke his left arm the other
day while he was in the yard of
»his home on Vance street. He
was standing on a cam-chair to
look into a bird’s nest, to see if
the eggs had been hatched, and
the chair folded under him.
The fracture was at the elbow, j
and hence there is some fear that
the arm may be left stiff.
Mr. Shields cannot perform .j
his usual duties, but he is going
about. He finds that he can
drive his car with his one good
arm, and he sits in the rear
room at the store and does of- j
fice work while his partner, John
McCauley, attends to the cus-
I tomers.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C~ FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1932
Paul Rohertson Cautions Citizens
To Mukc^Sure They Are Registered
Registration for the primary
in June and the election in No
vember will continu’e for three
more weeks. Nobody is allowed
to vote whose name is not en
tered in Registrar Paul Robert
son’s book.
Whoever has registered for a
general election before in the
Chapel Hill precinct ‘does not
have to register again. Some
times a citizen fails to qualify
because he has registered for a
sprciaJ\election but not for a
generauelection such as the one
this year. All who are in doubt
as to.whether thev are qualified
J*
should inquire of .Mr. Robertson.
“Four years ago,” he says in
a proclamation issued yesterday,
“there wen* some people in
Chapel Hill who did not feel at
all pleased when they were not
allowed to vote. The had regis
tered in the town book, or for
some special election, but not for
tilt* general election.
“The different registrations
are apt to cause confusion. To
Here Are (he Candidates for the Senate, the
House of Representatives, and State Offices
'The books are closed lor the
entry of candidates for the
United States Senate, the House
I of Representatives, and state of
'(ices, and we have obtained the
! official list from the state board
of elect ions in Raleigh.
Two weeks still remain for tin
tiling of candidacies for county
(it!icrs > but in Orange all the as
pi rants who are thought to have
any chance of victory have made
their announcements.
i
'The I teniocrat ic candidates tor
Governor are J < . B. Fhring
ban.-;, Richard T Fountain, and
Alien J. Maxwell. 'The Rep.ib
liean candidate is < lifford Fra
zier.
i 'The Democratic candidates tor
United States Senator are ( am
eron Morrison, 'Tam (’. Bowie,
Frank D. Grist, Robert R. Reyn
olds, and Arthur Simmons. The
Republican candidates are
George Del’riest and J. F. New
j ell.
Among the contests for the
ilb nise of Representatives, the
one in the 6th district, which em
braces ( Impel Hill, seems likely
|to Ik; as lively as any in the
I state. There an* four counties
jin the 6th: Guilford, Alamance,
S Orange, and Durham. Tin*
j Democratic uandidates are
Charles L. Van Noppen, Norman
A. Borenc, and Charles T. Bevi
ness of Greensboro, William B.
Umstead and James N. Umstead
of Durham, Bruce 11. Carraway
of High Point, and J. Clyde Ray
of Hillsboro. The Republican
candidate is William I. Ward.
A. 11. Graham of Hillsboro is
one of the three Democratic can
didates for Lieutenant Governor,
and the other two are Denison
F. Giles and David P. Dellinger.
The Republican candidate is
Boone T. Tillett.
The Triumphant Tennis Team
The University of North
Carolina tennis team is having a
triumphant tour in the North.
It has met and vanquished
Georgetown, the Navy, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, New
York University, and the Army.
The remaining matches are wish
Harvard, Yale, and Brown. Har
vard’s is regarded as the best
team the Tar Heels are schedul
ed to meet. Last year the Car
olina players were victorious
over all their opponents on the
Northern tour.
vote in the primary nn the first
Monday in June, or at the elec
tion in November, it is abso
lutely necessary that you be reg
istered. So. if you are in doubt
as to whether your name ap
pears in the book, let me sug
gest that you see me at the
school building on any of the
next three Saturdays (May 7,
14, and 21), or in my office over
the Carolina Theatre on any day
except Saturday.”
The law says that registration
books must remain open - until
sunset on four Saturdays, April
30 to May 21, inclusive, but Mr.
Robertson is accessible on week
days as well.
The registrar is required by
law to be at the polling place
(that is, in Chapel Hill, the
school building) from ‘J A. M.
to 3 P. M., and hold the registra
tion book open for public inspec
tion for the purpose of chal
lenges. Challenges are passed
upon by the judges of election in
each precinct.
The Democratic candidates
for Secretary"bf State are James
A. Hart ness and Stacey W.
Wade. The Republican candi
date is (’. K. Brady.
'The Democratic candidates for
State Ailditor are Baxter Dur
ham, Chester < >. Bell, and (leorge
11. Adams. 'The Republican can
didate is S. S. Jennings.
1 tennis (i. Brummitt and I’ey
ten MiSwain are seeking the
Democratic nomination for At
torm \ General, and 11. S. Wil
liams is the Republican candi
date.
There are .six Democrats seek
ing the oiliee of Commissioner of
Labor: Clarence E. Mitchell, A.
L. Fletcher, John D. Morton,
Henry \V. Davis, R. It. Law rence,
and l’>. Fritz Smith; and one Re
publican, A. I. Ft*free.
Two Democrats, Stanley Win
borne and E. ('. Macon, are run
ning for Corporation Commis
sioner; and one Republican,
Virge Mc(’lure.
Two Democrats, Dan (’.
Bonny and D. W. Morton, are
running for Insurance Commis
siimer; and one Republican, W.
H. Grogan, J r.
Unopposed in the Democratic
primary are John P. Stedman
(for Treasurer), A. T. Allen
(for Superintendent of Public
Instruction), William A. Graham
(for Commissioner of Agricul
ture), and H. Hoyle Sink (for
Judge of Superior Court). H.
L. Koontz and Gaston A. John
son are the Democrats running
for Solicitor in the 12th district.
Unopposed Republican can
didates are P. H. Gwynn (for
Treasurer), Charles 11. Cowles
(for Superintendent of Public
Instruction), John L. Phelps
(for Commissioner of Agricul
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Bring Back a Huge Crab
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mc-
Carthy, Miss Edith Averitt, and
John Gray Douglas went to Car
olina Beach for the week-end
and brought hack to the Univer
sity’s geology museum a horse
shoe crab two feet long.
Student Federation Meeting
The North Carolina Student
Federation will hold its third
annual congress today and to
morrow in Greensboro.
“Made in Carolina”
Campaiicn tH Promote Sales of Prod
ucts of Home Manufacture
The third annual “Made-in-
Carolina" campaign, to culmin
ate in displays of home-manu
factured products in the week of
May 1(5 to 21, is now in progress
under the direction of the state
department of conservation and
development.
“North Carolina manufactur
ers have been asked to place their
products in as many stores as
possible before May 16.” says
Director J. VV. Harrelson,” and
the public's part is to buy these
articles during the week. Many
merchants have assured us that
.they will make a special feature
■ of North Carolina-made goods.
“All sections of the state
share in the manufacture of the
things to be presented to the pub
lic, but North Carolinians are not
as well acquainted as they might
be with what we make. This is
natural enough, because few
■citizens have been able to visit a
I large number of plants or to see
the things, marked as to their
source, in the stores. Many fab
rics and other articles are bought
without the buyers’ knowing
; that they were made in this
i state.
| Products manufactured in
North Carolina, in the last year
covered by tin* census statistics
; ( 1929), had a value of $1,312,^
' 000,000, about three* times the
value of crops and livestock.
These products are grouped in
I 11 classes by the census bureau.
The’”.KoO manufacturing plants
give employment to210,0t)0 wage
earners. Manufactured tobacco
in 1029 had a v alue of more than
$500,000,000, and textile prod
ucts were valued at $153,000,000.
Koch Is Prize Scholar
Sun of Pl;i\makers' Din-rlor Wei-,
Prt“>itlrii<‘> ol Phi Hein Kappa
By having achieved higher
| grades than any other student
in the junior class, an average
of 96.82, Frederick H. Koch, Jr.,
has become the president, of the
l diversity of North Carolina
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Thomas R. Taylor, Jr., ol Ashe
ville, whose grades averaged
9(5.51), is v ice-president.
Forty-one students were in
ducted into tin* society at - its
meeting last week, and Dr. Wil
liam del’., MacNider was elected
an honorary member.
The address was delivered by
Ernest R. Groves of the depart
ment of sociology. His topic
was social loyalty.
Baseball Today
The baseball teams of the uni
versities of Virginia and North
Carolina will meet at 4 o’clock
this (Friday) afternoon on Em
erson field. -This is the second
game in the annual series of
three. The third will he played
at 3 o’clock tomorrow in Greens
boro.
Virginia won the first game,
5 to 4, in Charlottesville last
month. As this score indicates,
the two teams are of just about
equal strength, and the pros
pect is for lively contests today
and tomorrow.
Virginia has won 47 games to
Carolina’s 43 since the institu
tions began their baseball rival
ry about 40 years ago. Caro
lina leads in series, 18 to 16, and
has won every series since 1927.
Honor for MacNider
I)r. William de B. MacNider
was elected president of the
American Pharmacological So
ciety last week in Philadelphia.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
UNIVERSITY WILL
LET PEOPLE FISH
IN ITS NEW LAKE
Not Till Next Year. Probably,
Since There Be Time
for Water to Back up
DAM IS NEAR COMPLETION
Fishing will be-permitted on
the lake that is to be created by
the University’s dam now un
der construction about two miles
west i f the village. Chapel
Hillians and visitors may cast
their lines from the bank or may
go out upon the water in boats.
It is expected that the dam
will be completed by July. Os
course it will be some time before
enough water backs up to bring
the lake' to its normal ’ future
area. How long that will be de
pends upon>he volume of rain
fall in the watershed. Probably
fishing will not begin until next
year.
The water area is estimated at
200 acres. The boundaries will
he very irregular, zigzagging
along throe valleys.
The use of the lake will be sub
ject to restrictions based upon
| the regulations of the state board
of health. Swimming will be
forbidden; anil there musn’t be
any picnicking on the banks, be
cause that would involve the
danger of contamination of the
water by rubbish and left-over
fix >d.
A watchman or perhaps they
will call him a warden -will be
on duty at the dam, and one of
his functions will he to see that
tb- restrictions are obeyed.
'There is one'question which
nobody can answer: Will there
be many fish in the lake? Per
sons who have roamed along the
three streams that will feed it
Morgan’s creek. Price’s creek,
and Neville’s creek are hope
ful. If the natural supply of fish
is not adequate, maybe the lake
will In* stocked, but as yet there
is no plan for stocking.
When 1 visited the dam dav
before yesterday under the es
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To (Jet Jack Thomas
County Officers Hope (o Have Han
<lil in Hillsboro Jail Soon
'The Orange county authori
ties expect to have Jack Thomas
iii tin* Hillsboro jail within the
next few days. 'Thomas, one of
| the four bandits who lied from
ChajM‘l Hill on the night of
March 31 after having assaulted
George Coleman, is supposed to
have been the man who fired the
bullet that is still resting in the
lung of Ashby Penn.
Two of the men, Johnson and
Armstrong, were captured
promptly. Robert G. Thompson
is still at large. The New York
City police arrested Thomas last
week and notified Sheriff Sloan
to come and get him.
Extradition papers have been
sent to New York from the Gov- •
ernor’s office in Raleigh, and as
soon as certain formalities have
been completed Sheriff Sloan and
one of his deputies will go north
and fetch Thomas back to North
Carolina.
Mrs. Woodman in Collision
Mrs. Grace Woodman of the
University music department,
while driving an automobile
near Lumberton last Friday,
came into collision with a rail
road train. The automobile was
about demolished, but Mrs.
Woodman escaped without se
rious injury.