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Vol. 24, No. 21 Paintings May Come as a Gift From Baltimore Prospect that University Will Get Part of Collection to Be Distributed to Institutions Captain G. C. Westervelt, U. S. Navy, retired, and his wife and their two daughters came to live in Chapel Hill about a year ago, and already Mrs. Wes tervelt has seized an opportunity to do the community a valuable service. In consequence of her alertness the University may soon become the recipient of a gift of several paintings of high quality. *t|f) When she was in Baltimore not long ago a friend of hers, Miss Adeline Piper, told her about a collection of paintings that would probably be dis tributed among universities and colleges. These paintings had been assembled by the Friends of Art. Members of that organ ization, after it was merged with Baltimore’s Municipal Art So ciety, decided that it would be a good thing for the paintings to be on permanent display in worthy institutions throughout the country. Mrs. Westervelt told her friend about the University here and its Person Hall Art Gallery, and suggested that some of the paintings might be welcome "toi Chapel Hill. When she came home she talked to her friends, Mrs. Ly man Gotten and Miss Mary Henderson, about it. They talked to John V. Allcott, head of the art department; and he talked to Chancellor House. As a re sult of these colloquys Mr. All cott went to Baltimore and interviewed the persons charged with disposing of the collection. The final decision about the pro posed distribution has not yet been made, but there is a good prospect that some of the paint ings will be given to the Uni versity. The Outdoor Swimming Hours Are Announced The outdoor swimming pool will be open for recreation from now on, Monday through Fri day, from 2 to 6:30 and on Sun day from 2 to 5. It will be closed on registration day, June 12. Tickets for persons other than a University student can be bought at the cashier’s office in the South Building. Physician’s certificate must be dated after May 15. Mrs. Page Going to Greensboro Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page will leave tomorrow for Greensboro to compete next week in the Women’s Carolinas Golf Cham pionship. While in Greensboro she will be a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cone. Mrs. Prince in Toronto Mrs. William Meade Prince is now playing in "The Dark of the Moon” in Toronto. Mr. Prince went there to visit her for a week recently. Care to Take Voters To the Polls A committee of citizens has arranged to have care to take voters to the polls tomorrow (Saturday). Any* body who wants this serv ice (which la without re gard to whom a person is , •stag to veto for) should telephone #4Ol, The Chapel Hill Weekly Loots Graves Editor Violent Windstorm Strikes Village; Trees Are Uprooted and Snapped Off A violent windstorm, that had the characteristics of a cyclone even though it did not kill anybody or destroy buildings, struck Chapel Hill at about 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Trees were uprooted and snapped off. Rain, coming down in torrents, was blown into houses, drenching floors and furniture before there was time to close the windows that had been left open in the warm weather. The sun had been shining bright. All of a sudden the sky be came overcast. There were two or three flashes of lightning. A sullen murmur grew into a menacing roar. Then came the down pour of rain, and a moment later the wind out of the west. The real fury of the storm lasted hardly more than five minutes. In less than half an hour the sun was shining bright again and only a gentle breeze stirred the air. The areas where most damage was done were the Tenney Circle and the Davie Woods neighborhoods. The trunk of the deodar on the W. C. Coker lawn, was broken off about thirty feet up, and the top of the tree fell to the ground. Two of the Cokers’ pines and several of their apple trees were destroyed. The big red oak on the F. C. Erickson lot on Tenney circle was toppled over, and the mass of roots with red clay clinging to them stuck up in the air about fifteen feet. The tree fell over on A. C. Howell’s lot, barely missing the tool house and crushing part of the Howell garden. An oak in Mrs. Stacy’s yard was snapped off near the ground. A casualty off the main track of the storm was an oak on the edge of Battle Park opposite the Ed Lanier home. Mrs. Hugh Lefler saw four trees blown down in the little park near her home in Davie Woods. It was a frightening spectacle. “It was queer, the way the trees moved,” she said afterward. “For a minute or two they seemed to be going up instead of down.” Two of Mrs. Woosley’s fruit trees were blown down. Not only are people who lost trees distressed by the. loss; they are perplexed by the problem of disposing of the fallen trunks and limbs. It is difficult nowadays to find anybody to do this kind of work without waiting a long time. Thomas and Others Accused by Henry Are Completely Exonerated in 5.8.1. Report R. R. Thomas and others against whom sensational charges were brought by Tom Henry, former prosecuting at torney in the recorder’s court here, are completely exonerated in a report by the State Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Thomas resigned recently from the posi tion of State Highway Patrol man in Orange county and is a candidate for sheriff in tomor row’s primary. The S. B. I. agent who con ducted the investigation ordered by Governor Cherry says in the concluding paragraph of the re port: “The investigation did not disclose one iota of evidence to substantiate a single accusation Mr. Tom Henry had made.” The agent said he was “totally un able to discover any evidence even remotely pointing to the veracity of the charges.” Henry’s own record is recited in the report. After serving as prosecuting attorney here from May 1941 to May 1944 “he re signed under pressure from the board of aldermen because a con viction in court in Durham of careless and reckless driving.” . . . “He was arrested by the State Highway Patrol June 10, 1945, for driving drunk and for careless and reckless driving; the case is now pending in Orange county superior court.” The most serious of the The Kenfields Have Gone My. and Mrs. John F. Kenfield left last Friday for a few days at Valle Crucis, in the western part of the state, and they will go thence to Glencoe, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. They will re turn in September when Mr. Kenfield will resume his duties as University tennis coach. Kemp D. Battle Hurt in Fall Kemp D. Battle of Rocky Mount, a trustee of the Univer sity, suffered fractures of two transverse processes mUhe spine in a fall down the stairs in the boms of Frank Winslow at Nag’s Head last Friday night. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1946 charges brought by Henry was that University officials, the Chapel Hill police, and the State Highway Patrolman stationed here (Thomas) were in a con spiracy to violate the state liquor laws. The investigation was ordered by the Governor at the request of President Graham and Chan cellor House. The S. B. I. agent says in his report that he re ceived the most whole-hearted (Continued on jmge five) Dairy Cooperative Is Having “Open House” The Farmers Cooperative Dairy is inviting the people of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro com munity to an “open house” at the new plant on West Franklin street next week. (For details of the schedule see the formal announcement on page 5.) Colonel George B. Cline, the manager, says that, while cer tain pieces of machinery have not been delivered (though or dered long ago), the plant is near enough to completion to show visitors all the modern methods of handling and pro cessing. “Handling” may not be the exact word, since no hands touch the milk. Its only contact is with porcelain, glass, steel, and other germ-free materials. Members of the dairy’s staff will be present to escort the visitors through the plant. Music Next Week There will be no band concert this week .... Virginia Mason, soprano, and Elizabeth Worrall, organist, will give a recital at 8:30 Tuesday evening in the Hill Music hall .... Elizabeth Tay lor, pianist, will give a piano re cital Friday, May 31. * Moliere Play Tonight The Carolina Haymakers will appear in Moliere’s comedy, "School for Husbands,” in the Forest Theatre at 8:30 this (Fri day) evening. The performance will be repeated Saturday and Sunday evenings. Chapel Hill Chaff On a recent evening Mr. and Mrjs. Herman Weil of Goldsboro were guests of their co-ed daughter, Miss Betty Weil, at a cafeteria dinner at the Univer sity’s eating house, Lenoir hall. Just after they had passed the citrus fruit section of the counter Mrs. Weil, happening to glance in the direction of her daughter’s hands, was horrified to see that they were blood-red from finger-tips to wrists. Her exclamations brought from the daughter a reply in the nature of a pooh-pooh. In effect, the reply was: “Why get excited about such a trifle?” Miss Weil had come hurried ly, just before dinner, from the chemical laboratory. She thought, mistakenly, that she had done a thorough job of wash ing off her hands a substance called a dye indicator. An acid applied to this substance turns it red; an alkali turns it yellow. What produced the blood-red that shocked the mother was the accidental spilling of some grapefruit juice, by the girl be hind the counter, on the daugh ter’s hands. After explaining this briefly, thereby quieting the parental fears, Miss Weil said: “I’ll go wash it off.” As she walked back along the line of diners toward the lavatory they stared at her hands in amaze ment. What she expected to do was to restore the normal flesh-color. But she hadn’t counted upon the strength of the alkali base in the brand of soap that the Univer sity supplies for the customers at Lenoir hall. This base got rid of the red all right, but in doing so it turned the indicator dye to yellow. When she returned to her parents Miss Weil showed them how the red had vanished and said it was a good thing that yellow was so much less con (Continued on last page) “Music Day” Will Be Celebrated at School “Music Day” will be celebrat ed next Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 2:30, at the ele mentary school under the direc tion of Mrs. Fred McCall. All the people of Chapel Hill, specially parents of 'school children, are invited. The elementary school, the junior high school, and the high school will participate in the program. Rhythm bands from the first three grades of the ele mentary will play. The primary choir will sing. The fourth grade will be represented by a tonette group, and fifth and sixth grades ; by an instrumental group, the I junior high school by a chorus, and the high school by the girls’ glee club. The program will demonstrate some of the music activities with, singing and instrumental groups. Ward Peacock Leads His Class Ward Peacock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Erie Peacock, won first honor in this year's senior class at the Gordon Military College high school in Barnesville, Ga., and will act as valedictorian at the graduation exercises this coming Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Peacock are going from here to attend the exercises. Mrs. Valentine in New York Mrs. Charles Valentine went to New York last week to repre sent the Bull’s Head Bookshop at the convention of. the Ameri can Booksellers. Joe Jones Asnutant Editor Community's Chief Interest in Primary Tomorrow Centered in 3-Cornered Race for Congress The Voting Procedure .The polling places for the pri mary tomorrow: for the north precinct, the fire engine room in the Town Hall; for the south precinct, the elementary school. The hours: 6:30 A.M. to 6:30 P.M. Franklin street is the divid ing line between the north and jiouth precincts, except: the area south of Franklin street and east of Raleigh street, and to the left of the Raleigh road as you leave town, is in the north precinct. For example, you are in the north precinct and vote at the Town Hall if you live in any of these places: Battle lane, Park place, the Gimghoul col ony, a dormitory across Raleigh street from the Arboretum. The Country Club section is in the south precinct, the Raleigh road being the dividing line in that part of town. Persons who lack means of transportation will be called for and taken to the polls if they will telephone 9461. This serv ice is .given by a citizens’ com mittee regardless of whom any body is going to vote for. Norman Cordon Will GiVe Concert Monday Normon Cordon, native of Washington, N. C., and alumnus of the University, who has be come a famous opera star, will give a concert at 8:30 Monday evening in Memorial hall under the auspices of Phi Mu Alpha, the music fraternity. This will be his second visit in Chapel Hill this spring. He received an honorary degree at the University’s Sesquicenten nial celebration last month. Cordon made his debut as an opera singer in “Aida” in 1933. He is now with the Metropoli tan Opera Company in New York. Wins Bryn Mawr Scholarship Miss Ruth Young, a senior in the Chapel Hill high school, has won the Southern Regional scholarship at Bryn Mawr Col lege. A competitive prize, it was awarded to her on the basis of her performance in the college entrance examinations held re cently in Raleigh. Miss Young has been in the school here con tinuously since she entered the first grade under Miss Lettie Glass. Captain Cooper on Visit Here Captain Kenneth Cooper of the U. S. Army Engineer Corps who was recently in command of a construction battalion in Japan and is going back there soon, was in Chapel Hill this week. He was the classmate and roommate of Captain Ernest Graves, Jr., at West Point, and in the course of his visit here he called on Captain Graves’s relatives. Mrs. Edgar Jones Conies * Mrs. Grover Beard’s sister, Mrs. Edgar Jones, has come from Morehead City to live with her. Mrs. Beard and her three sisters are going to visit their old home at St. John, Newfound land, this summer, and Mrs. Beard has rented her house for the summer to Mr. and Mrs. Ho bart of High Point. Mr. Hobart is doing graduate work here. $2 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy People Here Overwhelmingly for Durham; Detached Observers Give Him Lead in District The chief interest of the peo ple of the Chapel. Hill community in the primary tomorrow is in the contest for the seat in Con gress now held by Carl Durham. He is running for reflection, and there are two other candi dates: E. Earle Rives and D. E. Scarborough of Greensboro. Rives, who became well known in the village when he was a student, has good friends here, but of course this community is overwhelmingly for Durham. The Durham campaign commit tee is not so much concerned about whom the people of Chapel Hill favor as it is about whether they will go to the polls. The committee’s only fear is that some citizens may fail to vote out of forgetfulness or over-con fidence. The judgment of political commentators in the news papers is that, while Durham’s prospects are excellent, his ad vocates should not be too confi dent. There is a good deal of un certainty about the labor union element; but Durham has many personal friends among union members in the textile mills, and his supporters here do not think they will be turned against him by the appeals on behalf of Scarborough, who is talked about in some quarters as "the labor candidate.” Detached observers believe that Durham will surely lead in the primary tomorrow, but they mention the possibility that he might have to go into a run-off primary because of not getting a majority of the total vote in the first primary. Artillery Commander Guest of Col. Shepard Major General and Mrs. Ar thur McK. Harper were guests of Col. and Mrs. Carlyle Shepard at the last week-end. General Harper has just re turned from the Pacific theatre where he was commanding the 98th Infantry Division. Prior to that assignment he was in com mand of the artillery in the op erations on Saipan, Tinian and Leyte. The 30th Division Artillery, while under command of Gen eral Harper, made the highest scores ever made in the ground forces field artillery firing tests. After a short leave, General and Mrs. Harper will be at Fort Meade, Md., where he will be as signed to the headquarters of the Second Army under Lieu tenant General Simpson, who formerly commanded the 80th Division. Girls Scouts' Court of Awards The Court of Awards for tha Girl Scouts will be held at the Forest Theatre, in connection with a Dutch picnic, at 6 o’clock next Friday, May 31. In case of rain the court will be held in the Monogram Club building across the road from the theatre, but there will be no picnic. Mrs. Jensen Heads Bird Club Mrs. O. F. Jensen waa elected president of the North Carolina Bird Club at the chib’s recant ■ annual meeting at Boone. • * —73 The Weekly for one year, ss.
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