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VOLUME L
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1941
Etsrial: 2&t; Km: 4S51; Vlsbt: $90
NUMBER 18
$9,000 'Errand Boy'
Tillage i Merchants ;
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Frat Rushing Ends Tonight,
Expect More Men to Join
Than Ever (Before in History
WAYNE COY, EMERGENCY SURPRISE PACKAGE, who speaks for
the CPU Monday night in Memorial hall. The story goes that Mr. Coy
won't turn off the electric lights in hi3 office. He's too busy, so he runs
up the federal electric bill. "
One Man Clearing House,
GoyProved He GanTake It
CPU Speaker Won't
Change His Stand
Despite Pressure
By Paul Komisaruk
Wayne Coy can take it. The 36
year old emergency package who
won't shut his office on time and
iuns up the federal electric bill,
won't call it quits with life or
dishonesty.
President Roosevelt's number one
defense coordinator has had his eye
popped, his head cut open and a ses
sion in a Baltimore hospital when medi
cal men gave him up for lost three
times but he pulled out of everything,
refused to alter his position. Today
he is very much alive.
Coy s'peaks here Monday night in
Memorial hall under the auspices of
the Carolina Political union. He's ex
pected Jtp tell Chapel Hill what he
knows. He knows plenty. He's a one
man clearing house between a dozen
defense agencies, and the chief execu
tive. He has a sideline. He manages the
700 odd administrative employees in
the Office of Emergency Management.
These employees check on personnel,
budget and finance for the "constitu
ent defense agencies." Coy. checks on
the employees.
Washington correspondents insist he
rarely sees any of the thousands of
job applicants whose records pass
through his office. Henry Gemmill
, See WAYNE COY, page 2
Draft Question
Discussed Tonight
At Phi Meeting
The Phi Assembly will hold its reg
ular meeting tonight in the Phi hall
on the fourth floor of New East at
7:15. The meeting will be over in time
for those who wish to attend the stu
dent entertainment program.
The bills for discussion are: Resolv
ed, that college students should be
deferred from the draft until after
graduation and. Resolved, that the
United States should establish naval
bases in the Caribbean and in Ireland
as in Iceland today.
Elections will be held for a treasur
er and one member of the Ways and
Means committee.
All freshmen and transfer students
are invited to attend and participate
in the discussion.
Benefit Tickets
On Sale at the Y
Tickets for the Gracie Fields Brit
ish Relief Program at the Carolina
Theatre in Durham Friday night
can be bought at the YMCA for
$.55. There will be no reservations
but there is a seat for each ticket.
Honor System
Divides Duke
Men, Women Clash
During Discussion
;x Panel discussion on the topic
"Should Duke Have an Honor Sys
tem?" in Duke University's York
Chanel Sunday mornine climaxed a
clash between men's and women's stu
dent governments over the honor sys
tem question at Duke.
Richard Rigsby Connar, last year's
president of the Men's Student Gov
ernment Association, presided over
formal discussion and open forum
among a great part of the student
body. Speaking against adoption of
an honor system was Jimmie Walker,
men's student government vice-president,
and Audrey Bracken of the
Women's College Judiciary Council
debated for the system. .
Walker revealed to the Daily Tar
Heel that in denouncing the Honor
Code he described a "scandal" which
occurred at Carolina five years ago
"that would not liave happened under
strict supervision." Miss Bracken re
vealed to the Duke student body, the
successful methods employed at the
University of Virginia.
Duke maintained an honor system
until five years ago, when the wo
men's government requested its ter
mination because of "regrettable in
cidents." '
"Stimulated" was the word Walker
used to describe Duke's reaction to the
Sunday Chapel discussion. "Students
seemed to feel that this was a matter
to be looked into further."
"However, the men's student gov
ernment is definitely and completely
See HONOR SYSTEM, page 4,
Coeds Receive
Bids Todayx
Approximately 75 coeds will report
to Mrs. H. M. Stacy, Adviser to Wo
men, this morning and receive sorority
bids.
Each rushee will write her first, se
cond, and third choice in houses, hand
it to Mrs. Stacy, and receive the ribbon
representative of the sorority to which
she has been bid. Silence continues
until 4 o'clock this afternoon when
pledges call at sorority houses to in
dicate acceptance of their invitations.
Pledge ceremony dates will be set by
individual houses. ' -
"We have had, on the whole; a most
successful rush reason," Jennie Wells
Newsome, president of Pan Hellenic
Council, announced yesterday. "We've
had little trouble with rule violation,
and there's been the finest group of
rushees Carolina has had in years.
Each house expects to pledge between
20 and 30 girls."
Six Coeds
Nominated ;
A
For Senate
Final Elections '
Thursday to Decide
Two Winners ;. "
Six graduate coeds, Jo Bone,
Dorothy Drake, Nell Mills,
Frankie Moose, Elizabeth Sartin
and Beth Torpin, were "nominated
yesterday for the coed Senate.
Election of two of these nomi
nees will take place Thursday,
with results announced at the Senate
meeting Thursday at 5 o'clock in; Cald
well hall. . . -
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Polls Thursday will be located in the
Book Ex and will be open from: 10:30
to 4 o'clock. Only graduate students
will be qualified to vote.
Nominations were held all yesterday
for the two graduate representatives
to the Senate, new governing organi
zation set up last spring in the coed
government reorganization.
These two graduate members of the
Senate will represent the 98 coeds liv
ing in Kenan dorm, and the 88 graduate
coeds located in town.
Nominees whose names will appear
on the ballots Thursday were selected
by thenumber of nominations received.
Scattered votes were cast for .Xitty
Wicker, Ann Dawson, Doug West, Lib
Kellerman, Virginia Hayes, Ethel
Thompson, Charlotte Stephenson, Janet
Lockwood, and Charlotte Mosley, in
addition to a large number of votes
cast for the six nominees.
Student Directory
Goes toPress Today
The student section in the student
directory goes to press today. All
those students who have not yet en
tered their names in the list at the
YMCA are advised to do so within the
next few days or their names will be
eft out.
The student directory is published
each year by the YMCA as a service
to the students. In it are the students'
names, addresses, religions, and class
es. 1 '
Men Will Receive
Bids Thursday
Hitting' the lastlap with a re
newed burst of enthusiasm, 22
campus fraternities enter the
last period of the official 1941-42
rushing season tonight- at 7
o'clock.
Indications last nieht led to
the general belief that more new
men were planning to join - frater
nities this year than ever before in
the history of the University.
A selected number, residue of the
original 1,200 new men who tramped
the rounds of the Greek houses for
the first time ten days ago, enter the
frat houses tonight to view and be
viewed for the last time during the
.official "open season."
Promptly at 9 o'clock the fraterni
ties will colse their doors to the pros
pective neophytes and start listing
their choices to be turned over to the
Interfraternity council. New men re
ceiving a bid frfny fraternity will
be notified bj? puncil to appear
at Memorial K jirsday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. v
Dr. J. C. Lyons, faculty adviser on
fraternities, will greet each new man
and receive his three preferences.
Lyons will then direct the freshman
to the house of highest choice from
which a bid Was received to be offi
cially pledged by the members of that
fraternity.
John Thorp, president of the Inter
fraternity council, yesterday remind
ed the new men that they must post
a one dollar pledging fee with the
council before receiving their bid.
Thorp also stressed the fact that to
morrow is included in the period of
silence which extends from 9 tonight
until the prospective fraternity man
Comer Claims Violators
Will Be Brought Into Line
Nazis Crumble
Red Defenses
In Wild Drive
Russians Admit
Loss of Zyma
In Fierce Battle
By United Press
MOSCOW, (Tuesday) The
Germans have captured Zyma on
the broad highway 130 miles west
of Moscow after a terrific battle
lasting several days, a commun
ique admitted today, indicating
that the battle for the Soviet cap
ital was now entering a new and
critical phase.
The Russian defenses were being
rolled back in spite of tremendous flows
of reinforcements to the front and the
German Blitzkrieg army, thundering
along the same Minsk to Moscow route
over which Napoleon's conquering ar
mies came, were reported dangerously
close to the Soviet capital.
The Russians clung stubbornly to
their defenses since a defeat from Zyma
would open a further stretch of the
battle scarred Moscow highway to the
advancing German war machine.
Today it was acknowledged that the
Russians had not been able to weather
the German storm in one of the most
vital sectors of the front, and had
withdrawn.
A Swedish newspaper reported Mon
day that a British Expeditionary force,
"several tens of thousands""had landed
at Archangel. There were simultane-
has appeared before the council ous reports from Canada that Britain
Thursday afternoon
his choice.
and has stated
He also reiterated the fact that
several fraternities have been fined
for breaching of the rushing rules and
action was pending on several others.
"Fraternity men," he said, "aje abso
lutely prohibited from conversing or
communicating with freshmen or
transfers during the period of silence."
By Sylvan Meyer
Out of the melee that was business in Chapel Hill last week
end are emerging reports of retail profiteering, and although alle
gations checked by the Daily Tar Heel have produced but scanty
evidence, reliable sources report jacked-up prices to men in uni
form, discriminations in beverage charges.
Twenty-five thousand people swarmed this "one street village"
bought out restaurants, gleaned but
ton venders of their wares, gave town
merchants their busiest day of the
year last Saturday.
Strong rumors indicated that vil
lage restaurants altered prices, levied
flat rates on ,f ood, placed all com
modities on a strictly a la carte basis
and increased table d'hote prices.
Saying they "needed higher prices
to pay extra workers" ' a Franklin
Street drug store charged students
$.15 for beer, men in uniform 2& for
the same beer, a soldier reported. No
additional employees over normal con
ditions were working in the store, a
local informant said.
Further allegations hinted that lo
cal restaurants substituted more ex
pensive menus when the rush began,
boosted flat prices on meals, and rais
ed tariffs on a la carte orders.
This was flatly, denied by one mer
chant and others refused to comment,
leaving the entire matter up to the
Merchants association. Same source
that denied the statement said that
"some . places always raise prices on
the afternoon of a football game."
A student said that "a friend of
mine told me" that a soldier was
charged double price for an article of
regular and standard value. -
Checking for the Daily Tar Heel,
the staff "of the Xaw department said
that there is no law controlling price
raising either in the Fair Trade Prac
tices act or in legislation concerning
the national defense emergency.
Local United Service Organization
Chairman Harry Comer said that only
one report (the above) has reached
him. Minimizing the significance of
the reports, Comer said that the local
Merchants association will meet in
executive committee Thursday and
discuss the matter.
"Violators will be brought into lino
by the association," Comer said, "be
cause . a meeting pertaining to this
See PRICE RISE, page 2
had launched a military venture which
would involve the use of Dominion
troops.
LONDON, (Tuesday) British
planes raked occupied France again
early today as a series of raids, started
last Friday, entered the fourth day.
The raids included an hour long at
tack on Boulonge, France, and followed
See NEWS BRIEFS, page 2.
Reggiani, Tokatyn, Burney Head Tonight's
Cast of 'Barber of Seville 9 in Memorial Hall
Opera First Shown
In February, 1816
Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan,
and John Gurney head the cast of all-
star opera singers who will appear in
"The Barber of Seville" at 8 :30 tonight
, in Memorial. Hall. This is the first
of the student entertainment series for
the fall quarter. .
Miss Reggiani has met with success
in the fields of radio and opera alike,
and has sung the" role of "Rosine" in
which she appears tonight, over 100
times.- . ,
Tokatyan recently appeared in the
Broadway production "Crazy with the
Heat", and Gurney, young American
bass-baritone, was selected for the lead-
role in "The Devil and Daniel Web
ster" in 1939. He has made concert
tours for the past 6 years.
. The singers will be accompanied by
two pianos instead of the usual or
chestra. "The Barber of Seville" is a
continuation of gay songs, and comedy
which made its premiere in Rome in
February 5, 1816 and was a failure.
Three days later the audience received
it favorably however, and it has since
come to hold the place of honor among
the twenty operas written by Rossini.
Pharmacy Senate Meets
The Pharmacy Senate meets tonight
at 7:30 o'clock in the Pharmacy build
ing.
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HILDE REGGIANI AND ARMAND TOKATYN featured in tonight's
"Barber of Seville," first of the student entertainment series programs.
Di Senate Holds
Open Meeting
Tonight at 7:15
The first open meeting of the Dia
lectic Senate will be held tonight at
7:15 in Di Hall. All freslimen and
transfer students are welcome to at
tend both the meeting and the reception
which will feature refreshments and
introduction of the new students to the
officers and senators.
Di president, Louis Poisson urges
all members to attend this meeting.
The bills on the calendar at present
are : ( l ) JKesoivea : tnat tne iionor uoae
be amended to eliminate the clause re
quiring every student to report infrac
tions of the code. (2) Resolved: that
the debate council be elected by the
debate squad instead of the present
method.
All suggestions in regard to bills
placed on the calandar will be welcomed
by the ways and means committee,
Wesley Bagby, chairman, announced. '
French Club to Hold
First Meeting Today
The French Club holds its first meet
ing of the year tonight at 7:30 in the
Episcopal Parish house, Nancy Wat
ers, president, announced. Lr. J. C
Lyons, head of the Romance Language
department, .will speak.
Debate Squad Meeting
Called of f This Week
There will be no meeting of the De
bate Squad Council tonight owing to
conflict with the -Student Entertain
ment program, Carrington Gretter,
chairman, announced. There will be a
meeting next Tuesday at the usual
time, however.