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Political Union
Will Celebrate
Its Anniversary
Brewster - Maverick Debate in
Memorial Hall Will Be Pre
ceded by Banquet at Inn
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THOMAS DIXON A SPEAKER
Thomas Dixon, famous orator
and novelist; Robert W. Win
ston, jurist and author; Miss
Beatrice Cobb, member of the
Democratic national committee;
Mrs. J. B. Spilman, former vice
chairman of the Democratic
state committee; and D. L. Ward,
secretary of the Democratic
party in North Carolina and
member of the legislature will
be after-dinner speakers at the
Carolina Political Union’s ban
quet at the Carolina Inn Tues
day evening.
This banquet, which will pre
cede the Brewster-Maverick de
bate in Memorial Hall, will be a
part of the celebration of the
Union’s first anniversary.
In the debate ex-Governor
Brewster of Maine, now con
gressman from that state, will
oppose President Roosevelt’s
plan for'the reorganization of
the Supreme Court, and Maury
Maverick, congressman from
Texas, will uphold it
Since its founding by Frank
McGlinn last spring, the union
has brought many prominent
men to speak here. Among
them were Frank Knox, Repub
lican candidate for vice-presi
dent; Postmaster General Far
ley; ex-Goveimor Talmadge of
Georgia; and Senator Rush Holt
of West Virginia.
The Carolina Political Union
won a cup offered" to the student
organization which had perform
ed the greatest service in the
University during the last year.
Frank McGlinn, president of the
Union, was named by the Daily
Tar Heel as “man of the year”
on the University campus. The
paper said of him: “He devel
oped the Carolina Political Union
into the greatest service organi
zation at Carolina. McGlinn has
dramatized unexcelled student
leadership on this campus.”
The Pre-School Clinic
Children Who Are to Enter in Fall
Will Be Examined Next Week
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Physical examination of the
children who are to enter the
Chapel Hill school next fall for
the first time will be held Tues
day and Wednesday by Dr. W.
P. Richardson, district health
officer. He will be assisted by
Miss Baity, supervising nurse,
and by members of the Parent-
Teacher Association who will
serve as record-keepers.
The parents of children out
in the country' are asked to
bring them to the elementary
school between 9 and 12 o’clock
Tuesday morning. Children in
town should be there between 9
and 12 Wednesday morning.
The Students’ Art Exhibit
An exhibit of pictures made
by University students oils,
water colors, charcoals, pencils,
and photographs—will open at
2 o’clock day after tomorrow
(Sunday) in the Person Hall Art
Gallery and will remain there
through Commencement.
About 35 students are repre
sented by the 75 pictures. En
tries have not been limited to
members of the art classes in
the University; all the material
submitted has been judged, and
the best work has been accepted
for the exhibit.
In the smaller of the two
display rooms in the building
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Carrying Pistol, Insane Man Visits
Power Plant to Regain His Old Job
As Officers John Blake and
Hubert Yeargan sat in a car
parked before the Carolina the
atre, at 2:15 Monday morning,
they saw a shambling figure in
overalls moving toward them
along the street.
He was recognized by Blake
as a man who liyed about a mile
beyond Carrboro and who had
worked as an engineer in the
University power plant 14 years
ago. A pistol was holstered at
his hip.
When Mr. Blake asked where
he was going he replied that he
was on his way to jvork a * the
plant. The officer expressed sur
prise at this.
“Yes,” the man said, “I’ve got
my old job back again.”
“What are you carrying that
pistol for?” asked Blake.
“A lot of people are jealous
of me for working down at the
plant, and I carry it to protect
myself with. You see, I’ve got
it in plain sight. I can't be ar
rested for that.”
“No,” said Blake; “there’s no
law against that.”
The man walked away in the
direction of the University cam
pus. Officer Blake, suspicious,
soon had Glen Snipes, night en
University Trustee Muffs Ball
What are the obligations of a
University trustee?
Ih general, they are well un
derstood: to attend meetings, to
hear reports from the President,
to approve faculty appointments
and honorary degrees, to fidget
as the midday meal hour draws
ifearv and occasionally to cast a
vote in some world-rocking con
troversy such as one about foot
ball eligibility rules.
Hardly anybody would say
that skill in handling a baseball
should be required of a trustee,
yet there comes a time . . .
Strangely (in view of the de
cline of college baseball in recent
years) a big crowd was present
at the Virginia-Carolina game on
Emerson field last Saturday. As
the seventh inning began the
teams were locked in a tie. The
spectators were tense.
A Virginia batsman lifted a
foul to short right field. The
fielder and the first baseman
saw it was surely out of reach
and stopped running for it. The
ball came down toward a tall
thin man leaning on the fence
alongside the playing field. It
was Carl Durham, whom the
legislature a few weeks ago ap
pointed a trustee.
A moment before, supported
by the fence, he had been utter
ly relaxed. Now he straightened
up, looked eagerly at the ap
proaching ball, and put his hands
in a receptive position.
In the grandstand a few feet
away from him sat a group of
old-timers, among them Dr. Foy
a loaned collection of
matic paintings by contemporary
American artists will be hung.
These are sponsored by M.
Grumbacher of New York City.
The Gallery will be open from
10 to 1 and 2 to 5 o’clock on
weekdays and from 2 to 5 on
Sundays.
The McNair Lectures
The McNair lectures will be
delivered by George Thomas of
Dartmouth May 17, 18, 19. Mr.
Thomas, a young American
philosopher, is an alumnus of
Harvard and Yale, and was a
Rhodes scholar at Oxford.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937
gineer at the power plant, on the
telephone. Snipes said the man
had not been re-hired.
“Well, you’d better get ready,”
said Blake, “because he’s on his
way down there with a pistol.
I’ll be right down.”
By the time Blake and Year
gan reached the plant, the man
Kad tried the locked front door
and was on his way around to
the back. The officers overtook
him just as he was about to en
ter the building.
When Blake asked him who
had hired him, he went into a
long story.
“God hired me,” he said. “I
taught these fellows down here
all they know about these en
gines and dynamos and boilers,
and now God has told me to
come back and run this place
just like I used to. I brought
this pistol along to take care of
anybody who tries to stop me.
I’ll handle those fellows in there
if they get in my way.”
Blake expressed an interest in
the caliber and make of the pis
tol and asked if he could ex
amine it. The man refused em
phatically, byt the policeman’s
remarks about the gun caused
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Roberson, Dr. Robert B. Law
son, Mayor William F. Carr of
Durham, and myself. We were
all well acquainted with him. So
were scores of the younger peo
ple in the crowd, but probably
they were less concerned than
we were about, his performance
in this crisis. Here was a mem
ber of the board of trustees about
to be put to the test. He stood
before the throng, with all eyes
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Miss Booker Is Honored
Elected to Alpha Kappa Gamma,
Women's Honorary Order
Miss Nell Booker of Chapel
Hill was one of the seven co-eds
recently elected to Alpha Kappa
Gamma, women’s honorary or
der in the University, which an
nually takes in women students
who have been prominent in
scholarship and campus activi
ties.
Miss Booker has done art
work for the Daily Tar Heel,
the Carolina Magazine, and the
Buccaneer. She is town repre
sentative on the Women’s Coun
cil and has been an active work
er in the Y. W. C. A. Her great
grandfather was Kemp Plummer
Battle, President of the Univer
sity from 1876 to 1891, and her
father is John M. Booker, pro
fessor of English literature in
the University.
Other women students taken
into the order this spring are
Polly Pollock, Nancy Schallert,
Evelyn Barker, Mary Kapp,
Mamie Rose McGinnis, and
Nancy Nesbit.
Alpha Kappa Gamma was or
ganized here in 1935. Among its
members are Misses Eliza Rose,
Jane Ross, Anita DeMonseigle,
Ellen Deppe, Gretchen Gores,
Ida Winstead, Louise Davis, and
Ruth Crowell.
Swalins to Give Recital
Benjamin Swalin, violinist,
and Maxine Swalin, pianist, will
evening in the Graham Memo
rial. Everybody is invited. The
program will consist of compo
sitions from Bach, Debussy,
Scriabine, Ravel, Szynumowski,
and Wieniawski.
Chapel Hill Chaff
I have a notion that when I
get around to it I’ll go interview
Harold D. Meyer on the question
of whether or not crawling up
a storm sewer is a meritorious
use of leisure time. This is sug
gested by a News and Observer
editorial (which I take to have
been written by Jonathan Dan
iels) saying that “something
might be lost if the time off of
the folks were made the mater
ial for the busy hands and minds
of college professors and other
experts.”
Mr. Daniels doesn’t want to be
too hard on those who give ad
vice on leisure-time activities.
He concedes them something—
but he has his doubts. “Leisure,
of course, can degenerate into
loafing and loafing into crime
and other anti-social activities
. . . Certainly there is no doubt
that these recreationalists can
point to achievements. But a
man remembering a boyhood
which included crawling up
storm sewers, lit only by light
wood torches of the crawlers,
from about Shaw University to
the present site of the Sir Walter
hotel, doubts whether such an
expedition would have been ap
proved by a recreational ist or
whether a recreationalist could
have thought up anything that
was quite as much fun to take
its place.”
The probability is that the
play directors have a wider
range of approved sports than
the Raleigh editor supposes, I
shouldn’t be surprised to dis
cover, when I question Mr. Mey
er, that the Federal Recreation
Administration, or whatever
they call it, has a storm sewer
department, or something cor
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Sportsmen to Assemble
Will Talk of Hunting and Fiahing at
Meeting at 8 F. M. Monday
not golf
and tennis and handball players,
but hunters and fishermen—will
meet at 8 o’clock Monday eve
ning in the Pickwick theatre to
talk about the approaching fish
ing season at the University
lake and to discuss plans for the
protection of game.
This is to be a meeting not
only of the Izaak Walton League
of Chapel Hill; all persons in
terested in hunting and fishing
are invited.
English Bagby is the presi
dent of the League, and the rule*
committee, which regulates fish
ing at the lake, is made up of
Dr. Hedgpeth, Moody Durham,
and C. P. Hinshaw.
“Thus far our organization
has been concerned only with
fishing,” said Dr. Hedgpeth yes
terday. “Now we plan to have
one with a broader purpose. We
may affiliate with some national
body that is active in game
protection.”
Actors Will Speak French
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French-speaking actors will
perform in Moliere’s comedy,
“Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,” at
8:30 next Friday evening, May
14, in the Playmakers theatre.
Urban T. Holmes will have the
title role of the stupid country
nobleman. Others in the cast
will be Mrs. H. R. Huse, Mrs.
Leroy Smith, Mrs. Charles
Looney, J. C. Lyons, Leon Wiley,
Bob Coker, L. L. Barrett, F. C.
Hayes, George Adams, Laurence
Cheek, and Fred Allred.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoops’ Visit
Johannes Hoops, the distin
guished German scholar, and
Mrs. Hoops were in the village
this week. They were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Booker.
Robertson, HeUen, and Bowman
Chosen as Three New Aldermen;
L. J. Phipps Re-elected Judge
Lightning Strikes
In the midst of a violent thun
derstorm about two hours before
dawn yesterday a bolt of light
ning, struck the A. C. Howell
home on Tenney Circle and nar
rowly missed Mrs. W. 0. Holmes,
Mrs. Howell’s mother.
It smashed the plaster by the
edge of a dormer window, tore
loose several feet of the base
board, and made a scorched spot
on the floor just under Mrs.
Holmes's head. ll|pL : •
Unhurt and in a cheerful mood
when the editor called after
breakfast, she said:
“The feeling I had was as if
I had had a hard blow on the
side of the head, and the sound
was like a sledge-hammer strik
ing against the head-board.”
She reached up to turn on the
reading-light above her head,
but it hkd been put out of com
mission. She did not call any
body and in a little while went
back to sleep.
Strangely, the stroke made no
break in the roof or the outer
wall of the house.
To Review Valuations
Board of Assessors Will Hold Hearing
in Pickwick Theatre Tomorrow '
The Orange County Board of 1
Assessors, composed of D. D.
Carroll (chairman), E. L. Lock
hart, and B. F. Wilson will be in
the Pickwick theatre from 1:30
to 5 o’clock tomorrow (Satur
day) to hear complaints on tax
valuations of real estate in Chap,
el Hill.
A letter has been sent to ev
ery property owner in the town
ship, giving notice of the hear
ing.
"It is the purpose of this
board,” says the letter, “to bring
about a fair adjustment of real
estate valuations as between dif
ferent sections of the county and
as between individual property
owners. If you feel that the
valuation of your property is out
of line with that of other taxpay
ers, the board will be glad to
hear your complaint. It reserves
the right to lower or raise the
valuation of any property,
whether or not the owner raises
a complaint, after considering all
the facts available.
“The board will appreciate the
cooperation of property owners
to the end that all real estate
may be assessed on a fair and
equitable basis.”
G. W. Ray, the county’s tax
supervisor, is acting as secretary
of the board.
John W. Umstead, Jr., has
been elected president of the
University German Club for the
coming year.
Haywood Duke Is Leaving
Haywood Duke, who has been
manager of the Carolina Inn
since the fall of 1935, has re
signed to become manager of the
King Cotton hotel in Greensboro.
The University and the village
don’t like it. Neither does Mr.
Duke, he says, but the offer
from Greensboro was so attrac
tive that he “just couldn’t turn
it down.” He will enter upon his
new duties Monday.
Discussing the departure in
melancholy tones yesterday, a
citizen of the village had a
thought that cheered him. “Well,
you remember Jim Fowler?” he
said. “Jim went to Greensboro
three or four years ago, also be
cause he had a fine opportunity
$1 AO a Year ts Advance. 5c a Copy
Only 551 Voters, Which Shows
People Are Not Modi Inter
ested in Town’s Affairs
FOUSHEE IS MAYOR AGAIN
Paul Robertson, with 284
votes; George Hellen, with 281;
and F. 0. Bowman, with 264,
were elected to the Chapel Hill
board of aldermen in the muni
cipal election Tuesday. Their
four-year term of office begins
June 1.
For judge of the recorder’s
court, L. J. Phipps, the present
incumbent, defeated Roy McGin
nis, 368 to 183.
Besides the three winners
there were four other candidates
for the board of aldermen. Clar
ence Pickard received 250 votes,
J. T. Dobbins 206, Matt Thomp
son 192, and Raymond Adams,
128.
John M. Foushee, unopposed,
was re-elected mayor with 468
votes.
The mayor and the judge
serve two years.
The terms of three aldermen,
J. T. Dobbins, Matt Thompson,
and Clyde Eubanks, expire this
year. Mr. Eubanks did not run
for re-election.
R. H. Wettach, p. L. Burch,
and R. J. M. Hobbs are mem
bers of the board who have two
more years to serve. The terms
of the aldermen overlap, so that
three are elected every two
years.
The total number of voters
Tuesday was 551. This reflects a
lack of interest on the part of
Chapel Hill people in their muni
cipal affairs. There are some
where between 1,200 and,1,500
persons in Chapel Hill who are
qualified to vote.
A Children’s Concert
Wilf Be Given Mxy 24 In Memorial
Hall; Mra. McCall in Command
The elementary school chil
dren of Orange county are to be
guests at a children’s concert
Monday afternoon, May 24, in
Memorial hall. The balcony will
be reserved for the children of
the Orqpge county training
school. To help meet expenses,
an admission fee of 25 cents will
be charged for adults. Mrs.
Fred B. McCall, as chairman of
the junior music division of the
Community Club, is directing
the enterprise.
Tea for the Dames
Mrs. W. P. Few will give a
tea for the Duke Dames and the
Carolina Dames at 4 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon, May 15, at her
home on the west campus of
Duke University. Anyone wish
ing to attend is asked to call
Mrs. H. W. Straley at 6131.
there. In a little while he was
so homesick he couldn’t stand
it, and he came back to Chapel
Hill. Maybe the same thing will
happen to Haywood Duke.”
Sparrow’s Pool Is Open
The Sparrow swimming pool,
out beyond Carrboro about two
miles from the middle of Chapel
Hill, opened yesterday. It has
been repaired and renovated,
and a shelter wilfl three tables
is being built for picnickers. The
pool will be open every day from
now through the summer and
into the fall. As in past years,
Mrs. Jo Sparrow will be in com
mand.