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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Theatre Ticket Prices
Cut to 80 Cents Cancelled for Eve
ming; Continues for Afternoon

In view of the announcement
made a few weeks ago, that the
price of admission to the Caro-
lima theatre would be 80 cents
henceforth, citizens of Chapel
Hill have been wondering why
the tickets are sold at 35 cents.
E. c. Smith, the manager, asked
yesterday for an explanation,
said:
"The exchanges from which
we buy the plays have refused
to sell them to US at figures
which would permit the 3O-cent
price in the evening but for af-
ternoon performances we are
continuing the summer price of
80 cents.
"At 35 cents, Chapel Hill
people are still paying less than
is charged for first-run pictures
in other places. And we do not
charge more for special plays
like Grand Hotel for example
for which an extra charge is
made elsewhere. We bring to
Chapel Hill the best pictures on
the screen, when they are new,
and maintain the uniform price
of 35 cents"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Sent Books to Himself
Harlands Absent -Mindedness RObs
George Howe of Good Reading

George Howe and J. ?. Har-
land are both classical scholars,
but classical scholarship is not
their only common interest.
They are both passionately de-
voted to detective stories. Mr.
Howe, in fact, once wrote de-
tective story that ran as a serial
in a magazine. Mr.. Harland has
not written one-at least, not
openly-but his avid consump-
ton has qualified him as An ex
pert on this class Of fiction.
When he was in Cincinnati
this summer he occupied most
of his leisure hours in reading
novels of crime and mystery.
The volumes piled up around
him and one day he decided he
would send a few to his fellow
addict in Chapel Hill. He Sc
lected six, wrapped them up, ad-
dressed and stamped the pack
age, and put it in the post-office.
Weeks passed, and no note of
thanks came from Mr.. Howe
The summer wore on to a close,
and early in September Mr.
Harland returned home.
"That's a swell way to be-
have" he remarked to Mr.. Howe
when they met on the street
81 send you the best stories of
the year and don't even get a
'thank-you.' r"
The Latin professors face
registered astonishment.
What do you mean?" he
asked. 81 didn't get any stories
from you"
Here, then, was a homemade
detective problem. But it was
soon solved. In an hour or SC
Mr.. Harland found the package
in mass of mail that had &C.
cumulated during his absence
Instead Of to George Howe, il
was addressed to 81. P. Har-
land, Chapel Hill, N. c."
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
''Farmine Gold" in North Carolina
Points Way to a New Prosperity.
Says Sharp, University Alumnus

Henry Talbot Sharp of Ashe-
Vile, alumnus of the University,
has set out to develop the extrac-
ton of gold from the soil of
North Carolina. He does not
call it gold mining-he calls it
farming gold
1t is not a get-rich-quick en-
terprise," he says in a letter he
sent out this week. ITO win
gold from our soil requires sys-
tematic work Gold commands
$20.67 an ounce at the Philadel-
phia mint, and with the help of
new placer machines, which cost
$3.50 each, the recovery of gold
is definitely assured.
"WonderfuI as they are, these
machines are not miracle work
ers. They do not dig pits
They do not crush ore. Their
function is to separate the gold
from disintegrated rock The
Vibratory process eliminates the
use of the primitive pan and the
sluice box"
Mr.. Sharp's letter recalls a
phase Of North Carolina history
that is known to historians but
probably to very few other peo-
pie. A century ago, before the
Gold Rush to California, North
Carolina was the leading gold
producing state in the Union.
There was mint in Charlotte,
and there is now in that city a
thoroughfare known as Mint
street. In western North Caro-
lima gold dust and gold nuggets
were frequently used in trading.
The richer deposits were ex-
hausted, and to get the metal
from low-grade ore cost more
than the work was worth. Hence
gold production in the Old North
State was abandoned
During the first half of the
10Th century," says the EncycIo-
pedia Brittanaca, North Caro-
lima was a mining state of the
first Importance" It's impor-
tance was due largely to it's gold.
In the recent statistics gold is
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Graham Recommended
He Receives Unanimous Vote of the
Trustees Executive Committee

The executive committee Of
the board Of trustees voted un-
animously, at it's meeting We'd
nesday in Raleigh, to recon-
mend Frank P. Graham as presi-
dent of the consolidated Uni
versitW The board will meet
November IA, .and it is certain
to rati{y the committees Sc
lection.
Mr.. Graham has been Presi-
dent Of the University in Chapel
Hill since June of 1880. Since
the consolidation law was enact
ed last year there has not been
any doubt that he would be
chosen as head Of the new insti-
tuition, which embraces the
University here, the State Col
lege in Raleigh, and the College
for Women in Greensboro.
The executive committee de-
cided that it was without juris-
diction to recommend the vice
presidents Of the three units. 1t
decided, also, to defer the Sc
lection Of a comptroller. The Sc
lection of this officer was en-
trusted to the committee at the
July meeting of the trustees.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Lower Telephone Rates
Company Will Put New Schedule into
Effect Tomorrow. October lst

The notice of tho raductioo
n +olanho,o ratos IN C,baral t4Il
and Carrhoro avarag;ng about
X nor .rent can,a in il,st a. tba
naner was goipa IN tho nross
last week and 50 only brief
announcement co,Td ba nuh-
isbed
Tho on,,nInto ycbod,,1o of ro
ductions in monthly rentals in
aaact TOMORROW Octoha,. ! j.
as follows:
Business telephone. one
party, reduced from S5.25 to
S4.75 per month.
Business teleph0ne two
party reduced from S3.75 to
$3.50 per month.
Residence telenhone one
narty reduced from S3.25 to
S2.75 per month.
Residence telenhone. two
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Encounters in q Hotel
G.. Wallace Smith and Uncle Brought
Together by the Bells

When Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Bell
were in hotel in New York re-
Gently, Mr.. Bell, walking through
the lobby, saw man reading the
Raleigh Nea0s and Observer. He
accosted the stranger, and it
turned out to be Mr.. Bronson,
husband of the former Mrs.
Della Clark Battle Of Chapel Hill.
The Bronsons introduced the
Bells to Mr.. Smith, and at a
bridge game Mr.. Smith said:
"I've got a nephew down in
your town of Chapel Hill, G.
Wallace Smith. | wish he were
here"
A day or so later G. Wallace
Smith, who had been in Michi-
gan for the year and was soon to
come on to Chapel Hill, called on
the Bells at the hotel.
"Tve got an uncle somewhere
in New York." he said, "but I
don't know how. to find him. I'm
afraid I'll have to go home with
out seeing him."
SO the Bells brought the uncle
and the nephew together.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
CLAIM ON NOTES
IS SETTLED BY A
$4,000 PAYMENT
Court Action against Chapel
Hillians Comes to End
with Compromise
ECHO OF BOOM IN FLORID \

An echo of the Florida boom
was heard in Greensboro this
week when three Chapel Hill
citizens-M +. Hogan, Dr. f..
A. Abernethy, and Wallace Pat
terson-came into the United
States district court to defend a
suit for $4,000 on notes they
had given in part payment for
land near Miami
They contended that the per-
sons who sold the land to them
had been guilty Of fraud, i'm fail
ing to make promised improve
ments and in other respects, and
that therefore they should not
be held liable for the payment Of
the notes.
After long arguments, and af-
ter many questions and COM
ment9 and rulings by Judge
Hayes, the lawyers for both
sides got together and. agreed to
a compromise settlement for
$4,000.
Back in 1925, when the boom
was in full swing, group Of
promoters bought a tract Of
land, d little way from Miami,
which they named the Bird Road
Estates. They made tall prom
ises. Splendidly paved streets
were to be built and brilliantly
lighted. Right over there the
Seaboard Air Line was going to
build a half-million-dollar sta
ton, and here was to go up a
million-dOllar hotel. The Uni
Versity Of Miami was to move
out from the city and establish
itself in fine lot Of new build
ings. There were to be shops
and theatres and restaurants.
DR.. Abernethy and Wallace
Patterson signed contract for
Continued on last page
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Chapel Hill Chaff

Father, you're getting a
double chin
These words were addressed
to Jess Mebane a month or so
ago by his daughter, Miss Esth-
er Mebane. He was engaged in
taking a bite from a we'll but
tered slice of white bread, and
on his plate, to be attacked in
a moment, were liberal mounds
Of rice and potatoes.
He went through his meal,
but not as gaily as he had be-
gun. Somehow, the SAVIOR of
the food was impaired AS he
left the table he glanced furtive-
~ at a mirror, and what he saw
there made him sorroWful
He put the distressing revela-
ton out Of his mind, and it
eight have stayed out except
for Miss Esther. A day OF so
later, when he was letting out
his belt a notch after a meal he
caught her accusing eye upon
him. You don't want to look
old and fat, do you?' she asked.
You eat too much butter ydld
starches.
"Oh, Well" he replied, in a
tone Of resignation
Mr.. Mebane is a man Of tortr-
tude, but there is one thing he
finds it hard to endure, and that
is the disapproVal Of his daugh-
ter. And so he is doing with
out the things he likes best to
eat. No more butter, no more
sugar in his coffee, no more rice
or potatoes, and onl y about one
tenth the bread he has the APP
petite for. He has fallen off |
pounds since he began this re-
Continued on last page
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Copperhead in Kitchen
Serpent in Hoefer Home; Probably
1t Came up the Cellar Steps

David Hoefer was getting his
clothes and equipment ready to
start out on a Boy Scout camp
ing trip last Friday afternoon
The final step in the prepara-
tions was the packing of lunch
and Mrs. HOefer was helping
him in the kitchen.
While her son was out of the
room for moment she saw
something on the floor against
the wall. She thought it was a
rag that had fallen from the
table, and she went toward it
to pick it up. All at once she
found herself looking into a
pair of glittering eyes. What
she had taken for a rag was
snake.
She cried out, and David ran
into the room.
"It's copperhead," he said.
Just let me think a minute, how
to kill it. | could shoot it, but
| don't want to shoot a gun in
the house. I'll get my baseball
bat"
He went for the bat, and just
then they heard the sound of
car entering the yard. A few
seconds later Mr.. Hoefer walked
in, took the bat, and despatched
the copperhead. The intruder
made the job simple by remain
ing motionless.
The coal chute opening into
the Hoefer cellar is in a con-
crete enclosure below the ground
level, and it is thought that the
copperhead entered there, when
the family was off on vacation
recently, stayed in the cellar a
while, and then came up the
steps into the kitchen.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
OLD CHURCH LENT
BY CONGREGATION
FOR RELIEF WORK
Building in Heart of Village
viii BE Ideal Center for
Committees Activities
AN EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

The Methodist congregation
has lent its small old church,
which adjoins the big new
church, to the Central Welfare
Committee as a center of relief
activities during the coming
winter. Thus the committee will
be enabled to conduct its cam
paign from a headquarters in the
heart of the village. The place
will be heated and electric-ligl1t-
ed.
Here will be conducted an en-
ployment bureau for the benefit
Of men and women in search of
work, and here will be received
contributions of clothing and
canned goods.
Exactly what days and hours
the place will be open is not vet
determined. This depends upon
the extent Of the volunteer serv-
ice offered. The schedule will
be announced soon, probably in
next weeks $ issue of the paper
I'VE are going to have a tele-
phone" said Joseph Hyde Pratt,
chairman of the committee, yes
terday, "and we want everybody
who has Jobs to be done-car-
pentry, bricklaying, housework,
gardening, or whatever it is-to
let us know. We will have list
of persons seeking employment,
and we can fit the worker to the
JOB.
Just now we have many calls
for clothing, and we hope every
body who can give clothing will
do so. We are not settled in our
new quarters yet, but packages
can always be left at the NJ.
Store. The clothing will be dis
tributed by the Kings Daughters
here in the village and by George
Lawrence out in the country"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Club to Meet Today
Women Will Assemble This After
noon in the Parish House

The Community Club will
launch its activities of the new
year with meeting at 3 80 this
(Friday) afternoon in the Epis-
copal parish house.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed to women who are newcomers
in Chapel Hill and also to those
who have lived here before but
have not yet Joined the club.
At today's meeting the COM
mittee chairmen will outline
their programs for the year. The
committees are: literature (Mrs.
Urban T. Holmes, chairman) !;
health Mrs. George B. Logan
music (Mrs. r. H. Wettach) !;
American home (Mrs. Clarence
Heer) American citizenship
(Mrs. n. b. AdamS) education
(Mrs. Raymond Adams) art
Mrs. Cecil Johnson).
The officers of the club are
Mrs. A. w. Hobbs, president !;
Mrs. D. d. Carroll and Mrs.
Shipp Sanders, vice-presidents !;
Mrs R. w. Bost, secretary; and
Mrs. H. F. Munich, treasurer.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30

not even mentioned among the
state mineral products. But If
Mr.. Sharp's hopes are realized,
the next edition Of the Brittanlcd
will have a different tale to tell.
In the Weekly a year or so
ago Collier Cobb, geology profess
sor in th1t University, was quot
ed as saying that there did not
seem to be any prospect of the
resumption of gold production
in North Carolina. Nobody will
be more pleased than Mr.. Cobb
if his forecast is confounded by
the new machine.
Mr. Sharp. who has the word
GOLD in big gilt letters on his
letter head, writes:
There is no stampede to the
hillS-no mad rush But the re-
viyal Of gold mining throughout
the nation is one of the vital in
dications of returning prosper
ity. North Carolina forges
again to the front in a normal
quest of the precious metal
In the light of recent adj
Nances in the scientific recovery
of gold, it is simply impossible TO
escape the significance Of our
placer deposits. They are truly
valuable. The wonder is not
that so manA*Af our people are
now answering the challenge Of
our gold fields. it is strange that
they have so long resisted the
call.
Nov, by the use Of this new
placer machine, the recovery of
gold is definitely assured, espe-
cially when you grasp the truth
that the smallest type of this la
bor-saving device handles from
8 to 10 cubic yards of stone and
gravel a day, 10 times the
amount of the average panner of
gold now at work on our stream
beds.
This is a great big book for
all of us to study-this story of
North Carolinas most valuable
mineral resource that offers a
new path to prosperity"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Miss Phillips Coming

Miss Frances Phillips of New
York, a cousin Of Phillips Rus
sell and Miss Cornelia Love, is
coming to Chapel Hill Sunday
with her friend, Miss Estelle
Feuille, and they will be at Mrs.
Wheeler's. Miss Phillips great
grandfather, James Phillips, and
her grandfather, Samuel Phil
lips, lived in Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
TaylOrs Visiting the Bullitts

Mr.. and Mrs. George Coffin
Taylor came in from the North
last night and are guests Of the
Bullitts. They are going on to
South Carolina soon.. Mr.. Tay-
lor is on leave of absence from
the University for several
months, and until he returns to
the faculty Mrs. Taylor will be
in South Carolina.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
An Organ Recital Tonight

Mr.. Patterson, who plays the
new organ in Memorial hall at
the daily assembly, will give a
recital there at 8 o'clock this
friday evening. The selec-
tions are designed to reveal the
versatility of the instrument,
The, public is invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Vanderbilt Here Tomorrow

The football teams of Wander
bilt University and the Univer-
sitv of North Carolina will meet
at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon in
the Kenan stadium.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Satire on Walker Tonight

''The Night Mayor" a satire
based upon the career of James
j. Walker, recently mayor of
New York, will be presented at
80 tonight friday at the
Carolina theatre.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
First of the Readings

The first of the Playmaker
readings, "The Tanning of the
Shrew," will be given Sunday
evening, October 8.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
Ellery SedgWick Here

Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the
Atlantic Monthly, is here. He
came to visit his son Cabot,
who entered the University this
month.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-30
More Law Books

About TOO volumes have been
added to the library of the Uni
versity law school in the last
year. The total number is now
24,700.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-08
Steel Traps Click Dollar Tunes
Throughout Maine.

Augusta, Maine.-Steel traps have
clicked cash register song through
out the state Of Maine during the past
year, reducing the number of wildcats
by nearly 1000 and enriching the trap
pers to the extent of nearly $4,000.
The forest felines, widest of the
wild creatures sought by sportsmen,
as elusive as shadows when stalked
by the man with gun, have suffered
heavy casualties in traps because of a
weakness which they share with hui
mans-the desire for something for
nothing.
When roaming the woods in search
of his natural food, live game, the
wildcat enjoys comparative safety, for
his habitat breeds no animals capable
Of engaging him in combat and he is
gifted with uncanny ability to sense
the presence of and evade his most
deadly enemy-man.
But the tawny untamable, like his
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-08
VETERAN BUREAU
GROWING RAPIDLY

Army and navy pensions, 1925, O0O,-
600.
Adjusted service certificate fund,
| $150,0O0,0OO.
Military and naval service, $11O,-
100000.
In his budget message President
Hoover asked $1,000, $4,000 for vet
Grams administration affairs, approx
mately one-fourth of the entire fed
eral budget.
OF this sum $150,000,O0O was for use
in making loans to veterans on their
bonus certificates. The house appro-
priations committee cut this figure to
$949, 237,795. Virtually no cut was
made at all inasmuch as the $5O,0OO,-
600 reduction was effected by cutting
down the figure for bonus payments
with the definite understanding Gen.
eral Hines can go to congress to get
this sum, if it is needed, in deficiency
bill next December.
AS of December 81, 1881, 1925 vet
Grams whose disqualification was au-
thorizcd by the veterans administra-
ton were receiving treatment. Three
hundred and twenty-five hospitals were
utilized: GA by the administration
itself, PIG belonging to state and civil
institutions, IL to the public health
service, 16 to the United States navy,
z to the United States army, and to
the Department of the Interior.
On December q, 1881, the veterans
administration was afforded domi-
ciliary care for 1920 additional vet
Grams. During the 1881 year the de-
partment treated S5O,469 out patients
and gave 2,14S,432 physical examin-
atoms.
AS of December 81, 1881, 31S,114 vet
Grams were receiving compensation for
disability incurred in, resulting from,
or aggravated by military service dur
ing the World war. Compensation was
also being paid to the dependents of
97,543 veterans whose death occurred
in, or resulted from service in the
World war; The amount of compensa-
tion payments, depending upon the de-
gree of disability, ranges from So per
month for temporary partial condi-
ton to $500 per month for what Is
known as a double permanent and
total disability.
General Hines said the number of ac-
tive awards for disability compensa-
ton has increased by 135,024 since
June 20, 1923.
A big increase in the number Of
those receiving benefits for disability
resulting from other than military and
naval service was recorded last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-08

requires doll that can walk and
speak French, or an electric train that
lays down its own track as II PUSHES
about the nursery to get even an ordi-
nary rise out of young child. The
nigh school boy might once have been
In the seventh heaven If he could own
bicycle, but he yawns today unless
he can have snappy high-powered
motor car which will speed along at
70 miles an hour. 1t puzzles parents
now to devise some new amusements
for their children or to find something
new and startling to give them.
Far be it from me to long for the
"good old days" There were many
things in our youth which were crude
and inadequate, but our amusements
We're simple and rare enough to be
appreciated when they came. There
were the Fourth of July celebration in
the summer, and the annual visit Of
the circus in the fall, and these two
events were looked forward to with
the keenest interest, and prepared for
as well. The old buggy was washed
up, and the harness creased, and the
horses groomed to a high polish. We
saved what little money we could get
our hands on, made date with the
prettiest girl available and set out to
have glorious time. The anticipa-
ton and the two events in retrospect
served US for six months at least.
In winter there were occasional par
ties, or dances at neighbours house.
noticed in the account of a re-
cent social affair held in a nearby
city that the favors presented to each
guest at the dinner which followed
the dance were Persian cats and ca
naries.
Our young people must be thrilled
and amused at any cost!
20. 1882, Western Newspaper Union.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-08
Billion a Year Concern, With
II Costs Mounting.

Observation-Disclosures agitation for
the passage Of legislation permitting
World war veterans to borrow the re-
naming 80 per cent of the value OF
their bonus insurance certificates
served to focus attention on the ire
mendous growth in recent years of
the funds expended by the war vet
Grams administration.
Testimony delivered before the house
appropriations committee by Brig. Gen.
Frank 7. Hines, administrator of vet
erans' affairs, disclosed that the vet
erans' administration is now a billion
dollars a year concern with expendi-
lures still growing. His figures re-
vealed that in 1888 the veterans adj
ministrator expected to expend in ex-
cess Of billion dollars on admins
tration of veterans matters, payments
to beneficiaries, on adjusted compensa-
EfOn certificates, disqualification and
other activities
During the past twelve years the in
dependent establishment handling vet
erans' matters has expanded by leaps
and bounds until today it is estimated
It will take 10000 civilian employees
to care for the interests Of the hum
dreds of thousands of veterans now
receiving aid from the government in
one form or another. During the next
fiscal year this department will utilize
facilities at more than 300 hospitals
and furnish beds for in excess Of &c.
900 patients.
Build New Hospitals.
With the approximately billion dol
lar appropriation, which it now seems
assured Of receiving, new hospitals
win be built, new beds provided, ap-
proximately a million veterans given
treatment Of some kind, or funds for
some particular reason, loans made to
other veterans on bonus certificates,
compensation paid to disabled veterans
and salaries paid to the army Of en-
plcyees.
In event legislation is passed permit
ting the veterans to cash the full value
of their compensation certificates an
other two billion dollars would be add
ed to the sum which the veterans ad-
ministration would handle in the next
few years.
The big items in the veterans ad-
ministration bill as requested for 1888
by General Hines follow:
Administration, medical, hospital and
domiciliary services, $116,OOO,OOO.