Vol. 11. No. 84.
MRS. GOTTEN IS
NJLA. DIRECTOR
IN TffISDISTRICT
Chapel Hill Already Has Com
pliance Board Which Makes
Inquiry into Complaints
CHAIRMAN IS E. C. SMITH
At the meeting of the State
Recovery Board Tuesday in
Greensboro Mrs. Lyman Cotten
of Chapel Hill was assigned to
the district composed of Orange,
Durham, Person, and Chatham
counties. Her task will be to
maintain contacts with county
and town N.R.A. committees al
ready organized and to aid in
organizing new committees
where they are needed.
“Mr. Shuping, the chairman
of the State Board, has request
ed from Washington more spe
cific authority for dealing w'th
violations of N.R.A. codes,” said
Mrs. Cotten yesterday, “and he
has also asked that N.R.A.
headquarters assign to North
Carolina an accredited repre
sentative to work with the
state organization.
“The duties of the district
members of the State Board
have not yet been thoroughly
defined. We are to get detailed
instructions later. Meanwhile
we are to cooperate with the
local boards.”
Chapel Hill is one of the com
munities where a Compliance
Board has been organized and
is functioning actively. The
members are E. C. Smith
(chairman), Clyde Eubanks,
Marvin Utley, G. M. Hill, James
Foister, and P. S. Randolph.
“Our Compliance Board,” said
Mr. Smith yesterday, “receives
a complaint from anybody who
wants to enter one, either in
writing or orally. Every case is
investigated by a committee of
citizens whose names are not
known.
“Os course what we want to
do is to settle every disagree
ment peaceably, without taking
any formal action against an
employer, and thus far we have
been able to do that. Our local
board has no authority to take
away anybody’s Blue Eagle. If
there were a violation which
we could not put an end to, we
would have to refer the case to
Mr. Shuping, chairman of the
State Recovery Board, and he
would have to get an order from
Washington before the posses
sor of a Blue Eagle could be
forced to give it up.
“Our local board has been
getting its instructions as to the
procedure it must follow, from
Mr. Shuping. The idea back of
the whole scheme is to seek to
attain the objectives of the
N.R.A. by persuasion and co
operation, not by compulsion.”
Auxiliary to Meet Tuesday
The American Legion Auxili
ary will meet at 3:30 Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
A. S. Lawrence, 501 Rosemary
lane. All veterans’ wives’,
mothers and sisters who are not
members of the Auxiliary are
cordially invited. This is to be
an informal open meeting to
welcome new members.
Engineering Experimentation
Graduate students in sanitary
engineering have designed and
assembled just back of the Uni*
versity filter plant an experi
mental water purification. The
same group of students has also
completed designs of a plant for
sewage treatment.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVEB
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
Since coming here to live sev
en years ago I have been struck
with the hard-to-explain circum
stance that I see less of some of
my oldest University friends
than when I lived in Raleigh. At
the state capital I once induced
Prof. M. C. S. Noble to take a
meal with me—l remember it
was lunch and there was noth
ing except worked over corn
cakes and sorghum—and Frank
Graham now and then sat down
while he talked, as did Howard
Odum, Bob Madry, and whoever
happened to be alumni secre
tary.
Now I see Billy Noble only
when I call on him and he hasn’t
eaten in my home since I’ve been
here. Frank I glimpse only in
passing or at a faculty meeting
which calls for a committee re
port from some other member
of my golf foursome, while How
ard Odum, whose office is on the
floor below me, is too busy for
anything save “Howdye”.
I thought when John Umstead
moved here I’d see something of
him and Sally; but Sally confines
her missionary efforts to the
foreign fields affected by the
Methodist church, and John uses
his week-ends at home primarily
for catching up on sleep he has
lost while telling the world at
large what a fine thing it has in
its University.
• • •
Paul Green, who is now in
Hollywood helping the folks who
bought the movie rights of his
“House of Connelly” get in focus
on the screen version of his play
and at the same time polishing
up the script of his adaption of
“David Harum” featuring Will
Rogers, went down to see an
other Will Rogers play of his
(Paul’s) contriving at Raleigh
recently. “Dr. Bull” was such
a hit at Raleigh that it played
a day or so over its engagement
at one theatre and stayed on for
a couple of days at another. But
Paul was not overcome by the
work of his hands; he walked
out of the show before it was fin
ished, and asked himself in the
presence of friends and relatives
how he could have written some
of the “drivel” to which he had
been listening.
When he got to Hollywood he
learned that “Dr. Bull” was
playing to packed houses all
over the country, and was the
best money-maker Will Rogers
has ever played in. He probably
feels the same way about the
lines he regrets having written;
but we doubt if he has deemed
it worth calling to the attention
of Fox Corporation, his employ
ers.
• • *
Mrs. R. P. McClamroch of
Senlac road was the lady bounti
ful of her own section of the
village last week and, indeed,
overflowed it. To an accom
paniment of broiling steaks, she
cheerfully told and retold how
she survived the serious busi
ness of snagging and landing six
cero three of which were over
thirty pounds in weight.
The cero is a resplendent,
glittering mackerel which is the
big bad wolf of smaller fish who
prey on shrimp and such. Un
like the general-run of the mack
erel, the cero refuses to stop
growing and when he is fully
matured he is a delight to eyes
and hearts of them that go
down to the sea with rod and
reel.
A steak cut an inch to two
inches thick from a 30-pound
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933
The Freshman Game
First-Year Eleven Meets State College
At Greensboro Tonight
The University freshman elev
en tonight meets the State
College team in the Greensboro
memorial stadium in the first
electrically-lighted football con
test which Carolina has helped
to stage.
Botji teams opened their
seasons last Friday with two
touchdown victories, the Uni
versity freshmen defeating
Louisburg College 12 to 0 and
the State College yearlings over
coming the Davidson first-year
team 14 to 0.
Local interest in the game is
heightened by the presence in
the University line-up of Dick
Dashiell, a first-string halfback
who made one of the touch
downs against Louisburg.
Lilac Blooms in Fall
Warrens’ Hush Has an October Yield
of White Flowers
The J. A. Warrens’ yard on
Hillsboro street is adorned with
a white lilac in full bloom.
This is not in conformity with
the usual course of nature. The
time for lilacs to bloom is in the
spring.
"Mine has flowers in both
spring and fall,” Mr. Warren
said yesterday, his chest bulg
ing with pride. “The same thing
happened in October of last
year.
Mr. Warren is the University
treasurer. He sits all day
among auditors and book-keep
ers, and in this circle, no doubt,
the lilac’s performance is des
cribed as the declaration of an
extra dividend.
One of Mr. Warren’s neigh
bors in the South building is
Miss Josie Pritchard. In Octo
ber a year ago, when she was
president of the Garden Club.
Mr. Warren walked into her of
fice and told her he had a white
lilac in bloom.
“It’s not so,” she said, to con
vince him that she was not to be
spoofed.
"I didn’t want to give her the
lie,” says Mr. Warren, “so I
just gathered some of the flow
ers and brought them to her.”
$50,000 for Government Study
Prof. Albert Coates of the law
school this week announced that
the institute of government of
which he is director has been
guaranteed $50,000 with which
to carry forward for three
years its study of the workings
of popular government in divers
North Carolina units. Accep
tance of the subsidy has been
voted by the institute’s board
of advisors. By request the
names of the donors are with
held.
A board of trustees will be se
lected to administer the fund,
which is conditioned, says Pro
fessor Coates, only on the con
tribution by those who have
joined the institute of any
amount from one dollar up as
an expression of their continu
ing belief in the movement.
Relief Administration
Dr. Roy M. Brown of the
school of public administration
is to help with the holding of a
series of district, conferences on
constructive social work. The
first conference was held at
Waynesville Tuesday.
Dr. Brown, who will speak at
each of the conferences, is just
now devoting his principal at
tention to the administration of
social relief.
Dr. J. M. Bell 111
Dean of Applied Science School Suf
fering from Severe Heart Attack
Dr. J. M. Bell, dean of the
school of applied science, who
suffered a heart attack Saturday
of last week, is still critically
ill. His condition has improved
greatly within the past few
days, however, and there is
hope that a period of rest and
quiet will restore him to health.
His ailment is an affection of
the arteries known as coronary
thrombosis which seems to lie
in wait for men of middle age.
It came upon him suddenly, but
not wholly without warning’ as
he had recently found that nine
holes of golf were considerably
easier than 18 and that any
considerable exertion was apt
to result in shortness of breath
accompanied by pain.
Concert at Duke
North Uarolina Symphony Opens Sea
son Friday Evening, October 27
The North Carolina Sym
phony orchestra composed of
60 selected musicians, under the
direction of Lamar Stringfield
will play its first concert of the
season at Page Auditorium at
Duke University, Friday eve
ning, October 27, at 8:30. John
Powell, internationally famous
pianist composer will be guest
artist, playing the piano solo
part of his composition, “Rhap
sodie Negre.” This composition
has been played fifty-five times
in this country and abroad but
this is the first performance it
has received in North Carolina.
Other numbers on the program
are Marriage of Figaro, Mozart;
“New World Symphony,” Dvo
rak ; and “Marche Slave,”
Tschaikowsky.
Reserved seat tickets may be
obtained from Mrs. H. R. Totten
in Chapel Hill or Mrs. Victor S.
Bryant, Jr., 1012 Vickers Ave.,
Durham. This concert is spon
sored by the Charity League of
Durham.
Salute to Chapel Hill
Stringfield, Weatherford, McCall and
Foushee to Hroadcast Over WI'TF
A civic salute to Chapel Hill
will be broadcast by {Station
WPTF of Raleigh Saturday
evening from 6:30 to 7 o’clock.
After a five-minute talk by
Mayor John Foushee of this vil
lage, Lamar Stringfield, flutist,
Ralph Weatherford, cellist, and
Adeline McCall, pianist, will pre
sent a program of two concert
pieces by Rameau, “Nocturne”
by Cui and “Mountain Sketches”
by Stringfield.
Mr. Stringfield and Mrs. Mc-
Call, w'ere on the air from the
Carolina Pines, at Raleigh, a
couple of Sundays ago in a
flute concert which greatly
pleased those of their neigh
bors who had tuned in.
Next U. D. C. Convention Here
The North Carolina depart
ment of the United Daughters
of the 11 Confederacy will hold its
convention next year in Chapel
Hill.
Prof. E. G. Hoefer was called
last week to Freeport, 111., by the
death of his father, A. G. Hoefer,
retired manufacturer, who after
an extended period of ill health
succumbed to a heart attack. Mr.
Hoefer went by train to Wash
ington and from there made his
first air voyage. At Freeport
he found E. G., Jr., (George),
who is employed by Crum &
Foster, manufacturers of ma
chinery.
Murchison Lectures
Third in Series of Discussions Dealing
With Recovery Program
Dr. C. T. Murchison, director
of research in the school of com
merce, last night gave the third
of a series of lectures which the
commerce, law, and public ad
ministration schools are pre
senting on the National Recov
ery program? His subject was
“Monetary and Banking Reform
and Inflation,” his discussions
having to do with the resump
tion of the gold standard, reor
ganization of the banking sys
tem and international financial
problems.
The lectures will continue dur
ing the fall quarter each Thurs
day night. Next week’s will be
delivered by Prof. G. W. Forster
of State College. The others will
be by members of the University
faculty.
Walks Into Truck
Te.xanna Neville Killed in Unavoidable
Accident on Franklin Street
Texanna Neville, a Negro wo
man of about forty years of age,
was struck and almost instantly
killed Monday night at 7:15
when she walked into the trail
er of a truck which was passing
along in front of the colored
Baptist church on West Frank
lin street.
The truck was driven by Ed
Nixon, Smithfield Negro em
ployed by the Austin Ogburn
Cotton company of that town,
who promptly stopped and
awaited an investigation. Dr.
S. A. Nathan, coroner, quickly
held an inquest, at which a jury
composed of John Thompson, W.
M. Durham, T. E. Best and B.
R. Smith returned a verdict of
“unavoidable accident.”
Brown and Baldwin Improve
C. R. Brown and P. G. Bald
win, university painters who
were injured in a thirty-one
foot fall from the rear of Phil
lips hall last week are reported
as getting along nicely. Bald
win, who suffered a broken right
ankle and chest bruises in the
accident, was returned to his
home here Sunday. Brown,
more seriously hurt with both
arms and his right thigh and
skull fractured, will have to re
main in Watts hospital at Dur
ham for some time yet.
Liberty Bonds Called
For the information of Liber
ty Bond holders in Chapel Hill,
M. E. Hogan, cashier of the
bank, has sent in the following
notice:
“The Treasury Department
has called for payment April
15, 1934, bonds bearing the
numerals 9 or 1 or 0 in the last
digit and the distinguishing let
ters J or K or A, of the issue of
4 (4 % Liberty bonds due Oct.
15, 1938-33.
“Holders of ‘called’ bonds are
entitled to exchange for a new
issue dated October 15, 1933,
and <lue October 15, 1945-43,
bearing interest at the rate of
4 14% for the first year and
3 (4% thereafter. If this ex
change privilege is not exercis
ed within the time allotted,
bonds will automatically be re
tired April 15, 1934 at 100 and
interest.”
Battle Park Ass’n. Supper
There will be a picnic supper
meeting of the Battle Park As
sociation at 5 o'clock this (Fri
day) afternoon at the picnic
grounds in the parky
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
CHAPE HIE IS
TO HAVE NINE
MONTHS SCHOOL
Additional Tax Levy of 18.5
Cents Carries by a Sub
stantial Majority.
SMALL WAGE INCREASE
By a vote of 729 against a
registration of 1239 the Chapel
Hill special school district last
Thursday approved an addition
al tax levy of 18.5 cents on the
SIOO property valuation. As a
result the children get an extra
month beyond the state-sup
plied eight-months term and
the teachers a small supplement
to the salaries paid them under
the state schedule.
The issue was in doubt up to
the end, for there had been in
sistent opposition to the levy
from many quarters. Thorough
canvassing of their neighbors
by mothers of some of the chil
dren affected was perhaps the
deciding factor.
The result places Chapel Hill
among a small group of North
Carolina communities—Durham,
Rocky Mount, Roanoke Rapids,
and Southern Pines—which will
have nine months school for the
1933-34 term. Greensboro and
Charlotte voted down additional
levies; Raleigh authorities re
fused to put the matter to vote.
There is evident on all sides
a feeling of relief that the elec
tion is past and gone. Advo
cates of the proposal are quietly
content; there has been no pub
lic outcry from those who did
not feel that conditions justified
the increase in their budgets.
School Football Today
Chapel Hill and Apex Elevens Will
Meet on Emerson Field
The Chapel Hill high school
football team will play Apex at
3 o’clock this (Friday) after
noon on Emerson field.
It appears that the team here
has a good chance to win the
Class B championship.
The team lost to Durham, a
Class A team, in a non-confer
ence game last Friday by the
close score of 19-13. Durham,
Class A champion in 1931, is
considered one of the State’s
strongest teams and has given
up two touchdowns in one after
noon to only one team besides
Chapel Hill in the seasons of
1932 and 1933.
Another Class A team, Rocky
Mount, lost to Chapel Hill 14-0;
and Chapel Hill played to a
scoreless tie with Oxford, re
garded by Coach Auburn
Wright as its hardest Class B
opponent. The tie will be play
ed off to determine the district
winner in the event, which is
likely, that both teams win all
their other scheduled games.
Opposing teams encounter a
constant threat in Raymond
Andrews, blocking halfback and
pass receiver. Basil Taylor and
Benson Partin do- Chapel Hill’s
passing, while Bill Canada does
the punting. Canada and Her
man Lloyd are strong in the line.
During the last three years,
under the coaching of Mr.
Wright, Chapel Hill teams have
occupied a strong position in the
Class B conference, where the
state championship is decided
by elimination. Last year the
team was defeated by Elizabeth
City in the eastern division
semi-finals.