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adopted the American pattern and must

adopted the American pattern and must
have American goods.
1t has been the aim of Litvinoff
throughout his career as trade ennis
sary and diplomat to turn such huge
orders over to the United States as
soon as diplomatic and credit facili-
ties should make this possible. AS he
has frequently explained, the Soviet
Union has been paying heavily in in
terest and commissions to Berlin, to
London and to other capitals in Eu-
rope for American articles bought in
those cities. The Soviet Union
now wants to deal with the United
States direct. 1t will be a saving,
both in money and in dignity.
M. Litvinof viii go long way to
attain this aim.
(Copyright, 1893. by North American News
paper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1933-11-16
LAUDS MEXICAN SYSTEM

MEXICO, D. F., November Is (P).-
That Mexico is ahead OF other coun-
tries in educating the Indian and
bringing him to civilization and that
the United States could adopt the sys-
tenn used here, is what DR.. Carson
Bureau of Washington, said before de-
parting for the United States.
DR.. Carson came to Mexico to study
the system used in educating the In
dian In rural zones and will leave to-
night for Washington accompanied by
A. C. Cody, chief of the Indian Agri-
cultural Bureau, and r. M. Tesinger.
Evening star., 1933-11-16
SIGNS MOVIE CONTRACT
Henrietta Crossman, Stage Star 40
Years, Goes to Hollywood.

HOLLYWOOD, November Is CP.-
Henrietta Crossman, who was elevated
to stage stardom in 1900 when. she
played Nell Gwyn, in Mistress Nelis' at
the Bijou Theater In New York, was
signed today by Fox Studios to long
term contract.
Miss Crossman has been ON the stage
for neaE& 40 years, and recently made
her flrst'1ppearance before the camera.
Evening star., 1933-11-16

to Washington to represent the hos
pitfalls and already has been in confer
ence with the Consumers Advisory
Board over the possibility Of obtaining
relief for the hospitals through the
amendment of the milk codes already
adopted. He hopes also to have clauses
inserted In pending marketing agree
ments excluding hospitals and other
charitable organizations from the effect
of the codes.
Possibility that many free wards for
babies and charity maternity hospitals
might be forced to close was foreseen
by the N. r. A. Consumers Board. 1t
was explained that such institutions
operate under extremely close budgets
and that they could not remain open
If forced to buy milk at market prices.
If they failed to adhere to the milk
marketing agreements, it was pointed
out, they would be liable to prosecution
under the A. A. A. act.
Other Institutions on List.
In addition to hospitals, schools, jails.
relief organizations also are affected by
the milk code.
In the event the N. r. A. Consumers
Board and DR.. Howe cannot relieve the
situation, the hospitals intend to take
the matter direct to Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace, it was said.
Evening star., 1933-11-16
LUMBER CODE WINS
BACKING IN OREGON
Even Those Adversely A.
fected by Program See Need
for Its Reform Effect.

Ralph w. Page, son Of the Am
bassador to Great Britain during
the World war, is touring the coun-
try investigating the attitude of peo-
pie toward changing conditions
and the workings of N. r. A. In
the following article ne describes
conditions in Oregon.
Evening star., 1933-11-16

Union Is not only willing but anxious
to spend in the United States, If proper
credit arrangements can be made. Ac-
cordtng TO reliable estimates, which have
come TO the attention Of the Moscow
government, there Is in the United
States surplus Of nearly 10000, 900
pounds of butter and an equally large
surplus of lard. American farm and
meat interest, it is said, would part
with these products at an exceedingly
moderate price.
The critical shortage Of fats In the
Soviet Union is rivaled by an equal
If not greater shortage in textiles.
While negotiations are being conducted
for 1000 900 bales of cotton, 1t is esti-
mated that twice the amount is what
the Russians need in order to keep their
textile machinery active
1t Is further stated that the Soviet
Union Is today badly In need Of l00,-
100000 yards of unbleached linen, or
gray cloth, monthly. The Soviet textile
industry has more stamping and finish
ing than spinning and weaving ma
chimes. They put this gray cloth
through these machines and give it
popular colors and designs Of the coun-
try.
In line with the clothing shortage in
Russia is the shortage in shoes. Only
in the cities do people wear shoes day
in and day out. In the villages peasants
wear their shoes on Sunday only. Mil
lions of peasants have no shoes what
ever The shoe factories throughout
the United States. it is said, have been
studied keenly by Soviet agents in this
country against the day when proper
trade arrangements can be made with
them.
Live Stock In Great Need.
Vast amounts of live stock are needed
in the Soviet Union today. The coun-
try has not recovered from the slaugh-
ter OF these animals by the peasantry
in retaliation for the governments COL
lectivization policy. 1t must buy In
the near future millions of heads of
cattle. large and small. 1t Is anxious
to buy them from the United States.
The Soviet Union has trade relations
and trade agreements with most coun-
tries in Europe and with many corn-
tries in Asia. 1t must buy from those
countries If 1t wishes to sell them. Ger
many Is a heavy importer of Soviet raw
materials. England less so, but still an
importer. The same is true of Italy.
1t is not the intention of the Soviet
government to strain the business re-
lations with its immediate neighbors
in Europe.
But Russia is developing industrially
along American lines. 1t Is q country
which aims at mass production. 1t has
Evening star., 1933-11-16
Rail Work Rushed.

Work is being rushed between Taxa
and Fez on the last section Of rail-
way which will give Fee through COM
munication to Tunisia and link up
North Africa.
Evening star., 1933-11-16
DESCRIBES BARGE FATE
BY WILLIAM PARKER.

CAMERON BAY. N. w. T.. November
15.-I was ON the barge beinAtowed by
the Speed. We left Frankly on oc-
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Other Institutions on List.
Explorers Father Is stylist.

Arraying ballets In Splendor Is the oc-
cupation of the father of Nicholas Po-
lunin. the young giant who returned to
England recently from exploring the
wildS of Labrador.
Evening star., 1933-11-16
Smpipor Tells of Cruel Trip
On Arctic in Tiny Open Boat
Drift Across Mountainous Seas in Bitter
Gale Left Pair Frozen IN Clothes as,
Solid Blocks of Ice-2 Others Dead.

8. Currie, who drifted two days In
an open boat in the Arctic Ocean
with Capt. Vic 1ngraham, after their
vessel, the Speed, blew up and
sank, tells here the story Of his har-
rowing experience.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
Public Works Office Is
Opened Here With Baity
AS the Chief Executive
He Has His Staff Organized and Is Receiving
Applications for Grants of Government
Money for Construction Projects

Bearing up cheerfully under
the formidable title, "State En-
gineer, Federal Emergency Ad-
mlnistratiOn of Public Works. -
Herman G.. Baity has establish
ed ed his hfiiss headquarters in the east
end of Phillips hall and is receiv-
ing applications for federal aid
for construction projects in
North Carolina. The applica-
tions thus far received call for
about $l,00O,00O.
This is a small fraction of the
government money that will be
allotted to North Carolina if
public and private agencies in
the state come forward with
proposals for what are judged to
be sound and useful construction
enterprises. Proposals are in
vited and will be attended to as
promptly as possible.
Mr.. Baity is on indefinite leave
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
School Begins Monday
II. f. Munich in Command; There Are
Only a Few Changes in Faculty

The Chapel Hill school will
open at 8:30 Monday morning
All who expect to attend the
school should be present at that
hour.
There is to be a teachers
meeting at 10 o'clock tomorrow
Saturday morning. All pu-
pills who are to take examina
tions on work they did during
the summer should report at
the school building at 1880 Mon
day.
II. f, Munich, the superintend-
ent, who will occupy that post
during the leave Of absense Of
j. Minor Gwynn, has taken Wig
orous hold Of his new task.
Besides Mr.. Gwynn, two mem
bers Of last years faculty are
missing. A. X. King is on a
years leave Of absence, and
Miss Minnie Sue Flynn, the ply
sical education teacher, accepted
an offer elsewhere because she
was not sure that, under the
new public school law, her de-
partment would be continued
here. Whether it will or not
depends upon the outcome of
the special election October IL.
If the voters approve the sup
plement, a new physical educa-
ton teacher will have to be en-
gagged.
ut is not possible, Of course,
to know exactly what the enroll
ment will be-" Mr.. Munich said
yesterday. 1T was 681 last year,
in the elementary and high
schools combined. We have an
enrolment Of 712 in sight for
this year, but the figure is apt
to be somewhat larger than
that. There are always a few
neWcomers-maybe a dozen or
sO-WhOm we know nothing
about until the opening week"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
The Pratts Are Leaving
Have Leased Home to Mrs. Patterson
and Will Live in Washington

Colonel and Mrs. Joseph Hyde
Pratt have leased their home on
East Franklin street to a Mrs
Patterson from the North and
will live in Mrs. Pratt's home at
LIZA 22nd ST., NV, in Wash
ngton, for the next three or
four months. They plan to go
to Florida about Christmas time
and to return to Chapel Hill in
the spring When they come
back here they will take a small
house or an apartment, or per
haps they may be at the Inn.
Mrs. Pratt expects to leave
for Washington within the
early next week, and Colonel
Pratt will follow a few days
later.
They have rented all their cot
tages along the edge Of Battle
Park.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08

of absence from his post as
dean of the University school of
engineering. 1t is practically
certain that William J. Miller. of
the electric engineering depart
nent, will be the acting dean
during the period of the emer-
gency. Nobody knows how long
this period will be.
Stanley H. Wright, former
city engineer in Asheville is Mr..
Baity's assistant T. jeff Jones
is chief clerk and accountant.
and Miss Elizabeth Lyme is sec
retary- -stenographer.
The state advisory committee
on public works is composed of
Frank Page Of: Raleigh, chair
man; John DeVane of Fayette-
vile, and George w. Coan, Jr.,
of Winston-Salem. According
to the scheme of organization
promulgated from Washington,
this committee is superior to Mr.
Baity. He is the executive Of
ficer and of course has a large
part Of the responsibility decid-
ing upon the merit of proposed
projects, but only those will be
recommended to Washington
which have the approval of the
committee. Messrs. Page, De-
Vane and Coan have the final
say-so in North Carolina. Their
recommendations are passed on
to Washington.
The committee will hold fire.
quent sessions, most of them at
the headquarters here in Chapel
Hill. One was held Tuesday OF
this week.
The public or private agency
applying for federal aid, and
having it's application approved,
obtains not all, but only 80 per
cent Of the amount needed for
its project. 1t must itself f.
nance the other 70 per cent.
That means issuing bonds, and
the issuing Of bonds is not pop
ular in North Carolina now.
The great bonded debt Of the
state and it's subdivisions,
around $55O,O00,OO0, has been
Continued on page thres)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
New Negro Principal
Harold Holmes Engaged to Conduct
Orange County Training School

Harold M. Holmes has been
engaged by Superintendent
Munich, with the approval of the
school board, to be the principal
Of the Orange County Training
School, Chapel Hills Negro In
stitution.
He has been a teacher in the
Dudley high school, the Negro
high school in Greensboro, for
the last five years, and he comes
here with the best Of recommen-
dations from the people who
have closely observed his work.
He is anxious for the cooper
alton Of the people Of the COM
munity in order that the Orange
County Training School may
render the greatest possible SER
vice to our colored people.
The school will open Tuesday
morning at the usual hour.
There will be a meeting of the'
teachers at 3 o'clock tomorrow
Saturday afternoon.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
Chapel Hill Chaf

W. A. Olsen, member of the
University faculty, was telling
me one day this week of the
worst golf stroke he ever made.
1t happened two days before
his marriage when he was a
guest in the home of his be-
trothed'S family in Greenwood,
South Carolina. While every
body else was engaged in max
ing ready for the nuptials, the
bridegroom-to-be felt rather lost.
Naturally, there was little at
tention for him amid the dec
eratt ing the the last las sewing,
and all the other preparations.
He wandered about the house
and the yard, neglected and
forlorn.
On one of his passages
through the hall he spied bag
|of golf clubs. Pulling out a
driver, he advanced into the liv-
ing room. A clear space in the
middle of the floor seemed to
be an excellent place for few
practice swings. This was not
an exciting sport, but it was bet
ter than the inaction he had
been enduring for the last three
hours. He moved two or three
chairs to make absolutely certain
that he would not do any damage
to the ancestral mahogany,
After he had taken his stance
and given the head of the driver
a few preliminary wiggles, he
took the precaution to look about
again, in order to remove the last
lingering fear that one of the
chairs might be too close by.
All safe. He fixed his eye upon
Continued on last page
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
Aldermen Fix the School Tax Rate;
Levy to Be Much Smaller than Last
Year Even if Supplement Is Voted

due to the fact that the state,
which paid for only a 6-months
term last year, now pays for an
8-monthS term; and the state
bears certain administrative
costs which have heretofore
fallen upon the town.
Tax assessments on real es-
tate have been reduced by a
flat 25 per cent, but assessments
on personal property are not
changed. Of course the net re-
ductiOn is not uniform for The
whole number of property own
ers, because the proportion OF
real estate to personal property
is not uniform. Each Of two
men may have a total assess
ment of $1,000, but one of them
may be assessed $4,000 on real
estate and $1,000 on personal
property, while the other may be
assessed $4,000 on real estate
and $4,000 on personal property
The man whose property is
mostly real estate benefits more
than the other by the 25 cent
reduction in assessments. The
average reduction, based on
total assessments in the town
school district (Which embraces
some territory outside of the
town, is % % per cent. For
the purpose of the Illustration
presented above, it was assumed
that the man with total as-
sessment of $1,000 got the bene-
fit of the average reduction.
With this average of 22.29
per cent again assumed, the
school tax bills of property
|owners-if the supplement is
p0ted october Twill be as fol-
lows:
Assessment Of $4,000 last
year: school tax last year, $11
school tax this year, $6.O6.
Assessment Of $4,000 last
year: school tax last year, SIG
50; school tax this year, 5000
Assessment Of $4,000 last
year: school tax last year, $22
(EOntinued on merit pa0e)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
FIRE-BREAKSCUT
THROUGH WOODS
BACK OF CAMPUS
Swaths IL Feet Wide Are Made
BY Force from Civilian
Conservation Camp
OTHER WORK TO BE DONE

A force of about 25 men are
engaged in cutting swaths
through the University's woods
to the south Of the campus.
. About II feet wide, these swaths
are TO serve as fire. breaks. A
fire-break is a cleared space the
purpose Of which is to prevent
the spread Of forest fires.
The men are members of the
Civilian Conservation Corps
and come from the government
reforestation camp alongside the
road from Durham to Roxboro.
They were brought here in com
pliance With.a request from the
University authorities. A grad
uate Of the forestry division of
the State College in Raleigh is
in command of the force.
The iire-breaks will probably
be used TO some extent as roads,
They will not be surfaced, but
no doubt drivers Of automobiles
as well as horse-draWn vehicles
will find them passable when the
weather is not too bad. They
are not apt to be any rougher
than most country roads were
before the automobile era,
One Of them starts at the
Pittsb0ro highway, opposite
University drive (three or four
hundred yards from the railroad
undcrpass), and goes through
the woods back Of the Kenan sta
dium to the southeast corner Of
Continued on page SIR
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
The Registration
Books Open for Entry Of Names Of
Voters in Special Election

The books are open for the
registration Of voters in the
special school tax election
Thursday, October II. Paul Rob
ertson is the registrar. He will
have the books at his office over
the Carolina theatre every week
day except Saturdays through
out September; he will have
them at the school all day long
on Saturdays.
For elections for political offic-
cs it is not necessary for per
son who has registered in pre-
vious year to register again, but
for this school tax election the
law compels special registra-
ton. No registration, no vote.
In order for the special tax
18H cents on the $100) to be
carried, a majority Of the per
sons registered must vote for
it. This means that anybody
who registers and then fails to
vote is voting against the tax.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
PahlOWs Are Coming
History Professor and His Wife,
Novelist, viii BE Here 8 Months

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin w. Pah-
low are coming from Columbus
Ohio, TO live in Mrs. Thornton
Graves's house on East Frank
lin street for the next nine
months. They will probably get
here tomorrow Saturday
They have son and a daughter
On leave Of absence from Ohio
State University, where he is
professor Of history, Mr.. Pah-
low will be engaged, during his
stay in Chapel Hill, in complet-
ing book for publication. He
was graduated from the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin in 1893
and holds both the M. A. and
the Ph.D. degrees from Har-
ward. He taught at Wisconsin,
Princeton, the Lawrenceville
school, and the Ethical Culture
School in New York before going
to Ohio in 1925. In the World
War and Armistice period he
was dean Of the United States
Army Educational Corps in
Great Britain.
Mrs. Pahl0W, native Of Mass
achusetts, who was Gertrude
Curtis Brown before her marri-
age in 1905, in a novelist and
short story writer. Among her
novels are The Guded Chrysdlis
and The Cross Of Hearts Desire.
Her stories have been published
in Golfers, the C0smOpolitdn,
and other magazines.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
HOwe's Gift to Library

The University Library re-
ceived this week a gift Of more
than 200 volumes from George
Howe's private library. The
most valuable single title in
the collection is famous &C.
clesiastical history written by
Claude Fleury in the early part
Of the 18th century. This work
is in fifty-five volumes. Anoth-
er important set is the Minutes
of the General Assembly Of the
Presbyterian Church in the
United States covering q long
period Of years.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
Negro Dance Suddenly Transformed into Riot

fusal to admit Kirkland was
blamed upon the orchestra by
the Chapel Hill Negroes. Any
way, it became a war between
Chapel Hill and Florida, and
Florida, being heavily outnum-
bered, suffered all the serious in.
juries.
Policemen Maddry and Hearn
who were on the street not faf
away, came on the run, entered
the building, and sought to quel
the riot. For a while they were
as helpless as a leaf in a storm
but at last they restored peace.
Nine Of the Chapel Hill Ne.
groes were tried in the record
er's court yesterday. Five were
convicted. The heaviest penal
ty, a fine Of $50 plus costs, was
imposed upon Floyd Norwood
he was the one who, according tC
the evidence, clouted Small, the
Floridian, over the head.
Several of: the Florida mer
were in court az witnesses.
The orchestra is playing foi
a dance in Raleigh this evening
Small is reported out of danger
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08

A Negro dance in the Stan
dard theatre on West Franklin
street was suddenly transform
ed into a riot night before last.
For ten minutes the place was
a pandemOnium. Knives, black
Jacks, and chairs were used az
weapons. A Negro named Small,
a member Of the visiting or
chestra from Florida, was sent
to a Durham hospital with a
hemorrhage Of the brain. -Four
Of his fellow musicians were Sc
verely cut, and DR.. Abernethy
had to sew up their wounds.
The dance was arranged by
Durwood O'Kcily. He engaged
the Florida orchestra, composed
Of about 20 men, on an agree
ment to divide the gate re-
ceipts on percentage basis.
Offie Kirkland demanded free
admission because he was part
owner of the building. His de-
mand was refused. Whereupon
he and several other Chapel Hill
Negroes rushed the door.
That was when the fight
started. 1t appears that the re-
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08

The Chapel Hill school tax
rate has been fixed, tentatively,
at 80 cents. Of this, 1872 cents
is contingent upon the outcome
of the election to be held Octob-
er IL to determine whether or
not the town shall supplement
the allowance from the state.
The rate last year was 55
cents, so that the 80 cents, in
Guiding the tentative 1872 cents,
represents a decrease of 16 cents.
But the total tax valuations in
the town school district have
declined by 22.29 per cent, so
that, on the assessment basis of
last year, the tax rate shows a
decline Of 25 cents.
An illustration will make this
clear: Suppose citizen was
assessed last year, on real estate
and personal property combined,
for 5000. AS a school tax he
paid 55 cents on the 500, or
$27.5O. The same property is
assessed this year at $3,885. 80.
If he pays 80 cents on the 500,
his school tax is $15.15. That
is equivalent to a rate Of 80
cents on his last years valu-
alton, a net decrease Of Is
cents.
The state school commission
has not yet decided upon the
schedule of teachers salaries,
and there is uncertainty about
some other items Of expense.
Therefore the budget as it now
stands is subject to alterations
That is, it is partly an estimate.
The school board believes that
the estimates it made, In items
upon which its information was
incomplete, will not differ sub
stantialIy from the actual ex-
pcnditures.
Chapel Hill spent upon its
school last year $24,368. The
budget for this year, including
the supplement that depends
upon the vote October IL, calls
( for $13,448, a decrease Of Al per
cent. This large decrease is
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
+. =. Brooks in Detroit

After receiving his license to
practice medicine from the
North Carolina Board Of Medica!
Examiners, DR.. f. p. Brooks
served during the summer as
research chemist at the Simp-
son Memorial Institute for Med.
ical Research in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and now he is inferno
in the Henry Ford hospital in
Detroit. His address is 917 10th
rop street, Detroit, Michigan.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
Mrs. Logan Brings Bagpipes

Mrs. George B. Logan, who
passed the summer with her
people in Scotland, came home
this week. She brought with
her a set Of bagpipes for young
Milton Heath.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
1t. Ericsson at Fort Bragg

Lieutenant Ervid f. Ericsson
has been called to active duty at
Ft. Bragg in connection with
the Civilian Conservation Corps.
He is a second lieutenant in the
Field Artillery Reserve.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
ID. A. X. Meeting Tuesday

There will be call meeting Of
the Daughters Of the American
Revolution at 4:30 Tuesday af-
tern0on at the home Of Mrs. w.
s. Bernard.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08
Shields Opens Tomorrow

Charles w. Shields will open
his new store on Franklin street
two doors east Of Columbia
street at 7 O'Clock tomorrow
Saturday morning. 1t is call
ed the Shields Home-Ond Food
Store.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-09-08

Mrs. J. v. Jordan has return
ed to the home Of her son, A..
M. Jordan. She was in Suffolk,
Va, this summer.