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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
AXE SWINGS,
 HEAD DROPS, . IN BAVARIA
Oldtime Execution Per- formed on Man Known
 as Torch Murderer

REGENSBURG, Bavaria, May 2. The executioner's axe is still resorted to in some parts of Ger many and was used today in full filling the death sentence on Erich Tetzner, torch murderer.
 Tetzner burned a stranger in his automobile in an effort to defraud a life insurance company.
 The axe execution was the six tieth for Hans Reichardt, 80-year- old executioner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May "A petition describing him as doing the church untold harm" form the grounds for complaint made by Methodist laymen to the semi-an- nual meeting of the College of Bishops in demanding the resigna- tion of Bishop Cannon from the Bishopric. The laymen oppose his possible elevation to the Presidency of the College under the rule of rotation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
DAVE ALDER
 GOING SOUTH

SEWARD, May 2.-Dave Adler, of Fairbanks, left on the steamer last night enroute to Indianapolis, Indiana, where on May 12 he will represent the Alaska Legionnaire as a member Of the American Legion Executive Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
FIRST CIVILIAN PILOT

LISBON-Portugal's first civil ian air pilot obtained his flying certificate. He is Joaquin Fernan- des who received his training at the Granjo do Marques Aviation School and has had 16o flying hours,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
Killed by
 Stroke of
 Lightning
Severe Storm Hits Wash. ington Section Late
 Yesterday Afternoon

WALLA WALLA, Wash, May D. A cloudburst, lightning and general wind storm took one life, flooded highways and did considerable dam age late yesterday afternoon.
 Lewis Gilkerson, aged Al years, a farmer living three miles east of here, was killed by lightning which struck a barn as he entered the door
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
SLOT MACHINES
 MAKING MONEY

NEW YORK, May 2.-Nickel-in- th-slot machines do $20,000,000 a year business in this city The ma- chimes are operated in 4,000 stores and restaurants and the owners maintain a staff of lawyers and bondsmen who appear immediately when any arrests are made and the storekeepers call for help.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
MICHAEL IS
 BETTER NOW

BUCHAREST, May 2. = Little Michael is out of danger but his mother, Princess Helen is stricken with a slight attack of the fever She lowered at Michael's bedside and scoffed at her indispositon, re- fusing to leave her son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
MAKING TRIP AROUND WORLD
 IN TINY BOAT

TENERIFE, Canary Islands, May 2.-Enrique Blanco, formerly Lam guage Professor of the University of Iowa, has arrived here in a ST. foot sailboat in which he and his wife and 7-year-old daughter are travelling around the world It is estimated the trip will take five years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
JOHN CLARK IS
 SERIOUSLY ILL

SEATTLE, May 2.-John Clark, of Fairbanks, one of Alaska's lead- ing lawyers is in serious condi- ton at the Virginia Mason Hos- pital where he has been patient for three weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
FUNERAL FOR BABY
 TO BE HELD SUNDAY

Funeral services for the infant son of MT. and Mrs. John Olson will be held tomorrow afternoon in the chapel of the Charles w. Car ter Mortuary. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
 The child passed away yesterday at St. Ann's Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02

Experiments at Michigan State College show that pigeons and pheasants are susceptible as car- riers of Bangs disease,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
WILL REJOIN
 HIS FAMILY

LONDON, A-a, 2.-Exiled King Alfonso left for France this morn ing to rejoin his family at Fon- tainbleau H
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
DEMAND THAT
 CANNON QUIT HIS OFFICE
Petition Filed by Methodist Laymen with College
 of Bishops

NASHVILLE, May 2.-Bishop Cannon made no claim to the Presidency of the College of Bishops of the M ct h o dist Church of the South by order of rotation this afternoon, and Bishop s. R. Hay, of San An tcnio, Texas, was elevated to the Presidency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02
UNT|EDT GOES
 HOME SUNDAY

WASHINGTON, D. C., May a. Bryan Untiedt, the Colorado boy blizzard hero, who has been a guest at the White House for sev- eral days, refused to be interviewed by the White House correspondents because he promised to give his impressions of his visit to the Dem yer Post"
 Bryan will leave for home to- night or tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02

Direct representation in parlia- ment is sought by 330,0O0 women of Austria who are members of CO., operative societies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02

New census figures show Mexico has 272,0O0 more women than men,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-02

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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
u. B. Phillips to Speak Here

Ulrich B. Phillips of Yale Uni
versity will speak at $3.50 Mon
day evening in Gerard hall. His
subject will be Tribal Negroes
of Central Africa" Last year
Mr.. Phillips was the holder Of a
fellowship under the Albert
Kahn Foundation for the For
eign Travel of American Teach
ers, and he made extensive re-
searches in Central Africa. He
was the recipient Of the award
by Little, Brown and Company
for the best unpublished his
torical manuscript, Life and
Labor in tile Otd South. Little,
Brown published it in 1929.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Measles Wrecks Party
Those Who Do Attend Have an Extra
Large Supply of Ice Cream

Carolina House was six years
old Tuesday, and her mother ar
ranged a party for her. Boys
and girls to the number of more
than a dozen were invited.
But only two turned up
Phyllis Bradshaw and Dorothy
Dashiell. The others either had
the measles or were kept at
home because their parents were
afraid they would catch the
measles. This left an unex-
pectedly large supply of ice
cream for Carolina, Phyllis, and
Dorothy, and they stuffed them
selves until their stomachs
bulged out as if each had swal-
lowed a football.
Mrs. House sent Easter eggs
and candy around to the invited
guests who had not come.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
DIR. Richards Coming
Celebrated Pharmacologist Will De-
liver the Sigma Xi Lectures

DR.. Alfred N. Richards, head
of the department of pharma-
cology in the medical school of
the University of Pennsylvania,
will deliver the Sigma XII lee
lures here Monday and Tuesday,
April q and %. While in Chap
ell Hill he will be the guest of
DR.. William de B. MacNider.
The lectures will be on the
general subject of the physiol-
ogy Of the kidney, the specific
titles being "The Function of
the Glomerulus" and '"The Func-
tions of the Renal Tubule."
DR.. Richards was graduated
from Yale in 1897 and is a Ph.D.
of Columbia. His achievements
in pharmacology have won rec
ognition in Europe as we'll as
America. In 1917-1918 he was
a member of the British Medical
Research Committee, and as a
major in the Sanitary Corps,
u. S. A., he was attached to the
Chemical Warfare Service in the
A. E. F. His name appears on
the rolls of several scientific So
cieties. At present he is a Wis.,
iting professor at Harvard.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Chapel Hill Chaf

An ice-shaver was essential
equipment at a soda fountain
when Henry Winston, the law
professor, and | were boys in
Chapel Hill. f. S. Merritt, gen
orally known as Sampy Merritt.
who ran the drugstore, made
sherbet by shaving the ice into
a cup and then pouring in what
ever fruit flavor the customer
chose. | have besought Clyde
Eubanks to get an ice-shaver
and serve US the old-fashioned
pineapple and lemon sherbets,
but he laughs me to scorn.
'That's out-of date, old-fogey,'
he says. Nobody wants that
stuff now" But l am not con-
vinced. Tastes and fashions go
IN cycles. For example: long
skirts, short skirts, and then
back to long skirts again. May
be people would like the shaved
ice sherbet. They ought to. It's
the best hot-Weather refresh
ment a soda fountain ever pro-
duced.
Mr.. Merritt is the proprie-
tor of the drugstore out at
Carrboro now, and he still has
the old ice-shaver. The operator
drops Jumps of ice in at the top
and turns a crank, and the
shaved ice comes out at the bot
tom. Henry Winston went out
one day this week and tried to
buy the apparatus. Mr.. Mer-
Continued on page si1)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
High School Week
Youthful Debaters and Athletes Will
Be Here April Is and II

Around 600 visitors are ex-
pected in Chapel Hill next
Thursday and Friday for the
University's annual celebration
known as High School Week.
The events will be the final con-
test in the debates for the Ay-
cock cup, the interscholastic
track meet, and the interscholas-
tic tennis tournament.
Forty-six high schools-the
winners of the double victories
in the statewide contest of last
Friday-will be represented by
debaters. The query is: Re-
solved, that the United States
should grant immediate inde-
pendence to the Philippines"
Faculty members will serve as
judges of the debating prelim-
inaries and finals. The girls who
are coming to participate in the
debating contest will have ROOM
ing accommodations in Chapel
Hill homes. The boys will be
provided for in the dormitories.
The final debate for the Ay-
cock cup will be held at 8 P. M.
Friday, April II, in Memorial
hall. President Graham will
preside. The University orches-
ira, under the direction of T.
S. McCorkle, will give concert
from 1880 to 8 o'clock.
The interscholastic tennis
tournament will be held Thurs
day and Friday, with J. F. Ken
field in charge. Robert A. Fet-
ger and M. D. Ransom will have
charge of the interscholastic
track meet, during the morning
and afternoon Friday, April II.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Is Launched to Restore
Paths and Bridges in Battle Park

in view. Restoration" means
just what it says-the clearing
of the paths and the replacement
of the little bridges that were
cared for by Kemp P. Battle
while he was President Of the
University and for years. after
that until his death.
"A great charm of Battle
Park" said Colonel Pratt yester-
day, "has always been that it is
woodland in the natural state.
DR.. Battle always wanted it
to stay like that, but at the
same time he wanted it to be
easy of approach. He wanted
folks to come into the woods and
enjoy them. That is why he
laid out the paths and built the
bridges and took such tender
care of them all through his life.
you hear it said that these
days people don't like to walk in
the woods any more, that all the
time they have for recreation is
taken up with automobiling and
moving pictures and bridge and
listening to the radio. Of course
that's true of a great number,
but not of everybody. Go out
in the park any day and you'll
find you're not alone. In talk
ing around among my acquain-
tances | have found considerable
interest in the idea of restoring
DR.. Battles paths and bridges.
Maybe it's a minority who love
to walk in the woods, but it's a
sizeable minority; and | believe
that as time goes on the park
will be used more and more"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10

Whoever is interested in re-
storing Battle Park as a wood
land retreat is invited to come to
Colonel Pratt's home at 8
o'clock this (Friday) evening.
The plan is to form the Battle
Park Association.
The people who are launching
this movement propose to re-
open the old paths and build new
rustic bridges across the brook
to replace those that used to be
there. Trails for horseback rid
ers will also be. opened.
Until about the time of the
World War strolling in Battle
Park was a favorite pastime of
the students and other people in
Chapel Hill. In those days an
atmosphere of quiet and leisure
pervaded the village. When the
automobile came in, and the
whole pace of life quickened, the
woods lost much of their charm
for youth. Nowadays there are
more exciting things to do than
to Chamber up a hill, listen to the
gurgling of a brook, or cut your
initials on a beech tree. Never
theless, out of a student popula-
tion Of nearly 5000 and a per-
manent population about as
large, there are a good many
simple souls who like to go
a-walking in the woods. And it
is for these that the present
restoration movement is under
taken.
No sort of modernization, or
elaborate change of any sort, is
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Empire Chair Made
Mr.. Horner and Associate Produce
Piece of Furniture in 2 Hours

The members Of the Univer-
sity entertainment committee,
faculty and students, went into
a huddle Tuesday, wrinkled
their brows, looked questioning
ly at one another and repeated
helplessly the words:
Empire chair"
Angina Enters had declared
this piece Of furniture necessary
for one of her pantomimic acts
on the stage of Memorial hall
and had called upon the commit
tee to produce it.
J. P. Harland had a happy
idea. well borrow one from
Steene," he said. This sugges-
ton had only one flaw in it: the
Steenes had left town ten days
before and had taken all their
furniture to Mississippi.
"How about Burch?" one
member of the committee asked.
His shop can turn out anything. !"
Mr.. Horner, Mr.. Burch's as
sistant, was called into consulta-
tion at two o'clock and was told
(1) what an Empire chair was
and (2) that it had to be ready
by evening. Mr.. Horner and
another man in the Burch force
got to work, and they had the
Empire chair ready by four
o'clock-four hours ahead of the
time limit. 1t had the required
two arms, and no back; uphol-
stery, consisting Of a pillow
covered by red cloth; a sub
structure in the form Of two
letter U's, the lower one invert-
ed and supporting the other; and
a coat Of bright gilt paint on all
the woodwork.
It was used by Miss Enters
and has now been passed on to
the Playmakers to be stored
among their properties.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Georgia Lands on Cot
Logan Girl Is Lucky to Fall upon
Something Soft

Mrs. George B. Logan, ac-
companied by her youngest
daughter, Georgia, went to the
school last Friday to hear the
children sing and recite. While
she was standing near the stage
she heard a cry behind her and,
turning around, saw Georgia dis
appearing through a hole in the
floor.
The hole was an opening into
the furnace room, and Mrs.
Logan, fearful lest her child was
falling into the furnace, uttered
a loud scream. Life-savers came
on the run. But Georgia was
lucky; the cot which the young
man who fires the furnace uses
for repose in the intervals OF
stocking was directly beneath the
hole, and she lit upon it and
was not hurt.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
GREET PLAYERS ;
WILL APPEAR IN
HAMLET HERE
Celebrated Troupe Will Per-
form in Memorial Hall
Tuesday Evening
SIR PHILIP AS POLONIUS

The Ben Greet Blayers, cele-
brated for their presentations
Of Shakespeare's plays in the
simple settings of the poet ssown
time, will appear in Hamlet"
next Tuesday evening in Memo
rial hall. The curtain rises at
$50.
The leader of the troupe has
recently acquired new title. He
is now Sir Philip Ben Greet.
King George knighted him for
his achievements as actor and
producer.
One unusual aspect of the
performance here will be that
the price of admission will be
only 81. All over the United
States the standard price has
been $3.50, but by some hyp-
motto process Frederick H. Koch
persuaded Sir Philips booking
agent to agree to a lower figure
for Chapel Hill; perhaps the
Piaymakers' director sent on to
the agent a batch of newspaper
clippings telling of the extra
ordinary scarcity of money in
this region.
1t is the First Quarto version
Of Hamlet" that will be pre-
sented here. This is different
from the version with which
most readers of Shakespeare
are familiar. "The production
gained in brevity and sim
pIicity," one review has said,
what it has lost through the
omission of some familiar lines. "
Sir Philip himself appears as
Polonius, or, as he is called in
the First Quarto, Carambis; and
then, after Polonius is killed, as
one of the grave-diggers. Rus
sell Thorndike has the role of
Hamlet, and Enid Clark is
Ophelia.
Tickets for the play are on
sale at the Students Supply
Store and the Book Exchange.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
A Mean March
Last Month Wet and Cold; Departed
Snarling Like a Hyena

The report from the United
States weather bureau station
in Chapel Hill confirms the in
fabitants' recollection of March
as a mean month. After doing
it's best to make everybody mis-
cradle for the larger part of it's
duration, it did not even have
the grace to take an agreeable
farewell; it went out snarling
like a hyena.
OF the 81 days, 18 are record
ed as being either cloudy or
partly cloudy. Rain fell on 10
days, and on one day, the 4th,
snow. But the station report
contains on the margin the ex-
culpatory note: 'The snow melt
ed as it touched the ground"
The temperature did not go
as high as 70 on a single day,
and it reached IS on only 6 days.
There were II days on which it
did not mount above IS. In
most years March gives Chapel
Hill several balmy days; this
year it gave not one.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
$724,OOO

The latest figure for the Uni
versity appropriation for each
of the next two years is
$724,OOO.
This, however, is not neces-
sarily final. 1t is the figure set
by the house appropriations
committee which seeded from
the joint senate-house commit
tee and voted to report a SUBJ
stitute bill recommending a re-
duction in the maintenance
funds for institutions. The
joint committees recommended
tion for the University had
been 100000. Nobody can
tell what is going to happen
when the appropriation meas
ures reach the floors of the sem
ate and the house.
The original budget bill called
for $4,000 for the University.
The joint appropriations COM
mittee raised it to $875,000 and
later brought it back down to
$S00,000. Since then there has
been a struggle in the commit
tee between the members who
want the state to curtail its
educational activities and those
who favor a more liberal sup
port of education.
The original appropriation
voted by the 1929 legislature for
the University for this present
year, 193O-1931, was 1915, 900.
This was reduced 20 per cent,
by the state budget bureau, SO
that the actual operating fund
is 100000.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
COUNTY SCHOOLS
PUT ON SHOW IN.
HILLSB0RO TODAY
Feature Will Be Sixth Grades
Presentation of a Drama,
'Joscelyn Cheshire"
TOMORROW is FIELD DAY

The school children of Orange
county will perform in a series
of entertainments ln the Hills
boro school auditorium today
friday. And tomorrow will
come the outdoor activities of
Field Day.
The primary grades appear
this morning, the grammar
grades in the afternoon, and the
high school in the evening.
There will be choral singing, toy
band music, instrumental music.
recitals, lantern pictures, and
drama.
Perhaps the most ambitious
project is that of the sixth
grade of the Hillsboro school.
These students are presenting a
play, "Joscelyn Cheshire" with
an accompaniment of lantern
slides. 1t is based on the novel
'of the same name by Sarah
Kennedy.
Reading the book in the course
of their study of the Revolution
ary period of American history,
the boys and girls found that
the scene was laid in their own
town of Hillsboro. This gave
them the idea of making a
drama of it. They consulted old
paintings and engravings for
appropriate costumes. Then, un-
der the direction of their teach
er, Mrs. J. B. Midgette, they
made the costumes, enacted the
scenes, and were photographed.
r. w. Foister of Chapel Hill
made the slides.
In the tale Joscelyn is Tory.
At first she will have none OF
her lover because he is Con-
tinental, but when the British
come to capture him she con-
ceals him in her house and helps
him to escape. It all ends hap
|pily, with wedding bells.
The cast is made up Of Marie
Chance, James Faucette, Estelle
Strum, Oscar Bivins, Ida Louise
Hughes, Mary Bivins, Mabel
|O'Briant, Helen Williams, John
Horner, Herman Wilson, Hubert
Walker, and Dace Maddox.
The play will be given at 3
o'clock and again at 8.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10

During the spring recess J. P.
Harland went on a tour to tell
the country something about
archaeology. He gave lectures
at Marietta and Springfield,
Ohio, and Huntington and Par
kersburg, West Virginia. Mrs.
Harlalld, who had been visiting
her people in Ohio, came back
home with him.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Miss Lawson on the Links

When this paper went to press
Miss Estelle Lawson was still
among the survivors in the
Fourth Annual Dogwood Tour
nament for women golfers at the
Sedgfeld club, Greensboro. She
finished fifth in the first division
in the qualifying round Tuesday.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
School Named for Neville

The new $500,0OO school build
ing in Monroe, La, has been
named the Neville High School
in honor Of E. L. Neville, for
merly Of Chapel Hill. He was
graduated here in 1900 and went
to Monroe as a teacher 80 years
ago.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Will Rogers Next Tuesday

Will Rogers will appear at the
Carolina Theatre next Tuesday
in "A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court" This is
said to be one Of the greatest
dramas put on the screen in
many years.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
DR.. Manning H0nored

DR.. Isaac H. Manning was one
of the nine North Carolinians
elected fellows of the American
College of Physicians in Balti-
more recently.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10
Movie Guild Gives Trees

The The Chapel Hill Hill Movie Guild
gave the town $25 for trees, and
the money was used for the
purchase and planting of twelve
sugar naples out at the west
end of Franklin street.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10

Mary Dirnberger's designs for
stage scenery and costumes will
be exhibited in the Playmakers'
scene shop in Person hall at a 80
next Friday afternoon, April IL.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10

Julia Booker, while confined
with measles, is making scrap
book for her old age. She is
pasting in it newspaper reports
of happenings in Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-10

Carolina Is, Princeton 3
The University Of North Caro-
lima defeated Princeton at base
ball here Wednesday, Is to 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-24
GAMBLERS SEEM
 TO ENJOY OPEN
 HOUSE IN NEVADA

Reno, Nev. March 24.(UP) -
 Dress suits, inverness capes and wing collars mingled with rought woolens and corduroys in Reno City today as men-and men only--from all sta- tions in life answered the call of luck. From out of Nevadas desert came cowmen and prospectors, in their shiniest boots and best l0-gal : lon hats. They found men from other sections ahead of them. who dress in dinner clothes" in the continental gambling fashion. And here and there were typrical old time gamblers, fiashily dressed who seek the now almost forgotten chance to play roulette, chuck-a-luck and faro under the indulgent eyes of the law. since gambling is now legal in Ne vada.
 Women have been refused per- mission to play in public halls with in the city limits, and apparently did not choose to enter as spectators only. There are, however, many swanky resorts in the country where the women players outnumbered the men. Bright casinos with an es- pecial appeal to women are beins; rushed to completion in Reno, and may be ready as soon as the new six weeks divorce bill goes into ef- feet. There women may while away the hours as they await their di- vorces. learning the intricacies oe baccarat. dice and blackjack. Vast sums. estimated in some quarters to reach $50,000 day, already are changing hands in the casinos now operating