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w fjt News Briefs Italy Protects Allied Persons In War Zones Italian Forces Protect Jews BERN, April 6 (UP) Ital ian occupation forces in France have refused to turn over Ameri can and British men in their ter ritory for deportation to Ger many and have held back at the muzzles of machine guns secret police who tried to seize them, Swiss press dispatches said to-i day. The advices also said the Ital ians were protecting Jews in their zone and the many Jews were fleeing German occupied France to Italian occupied terri tory. German Submarines Taking Large Ship Toll WASHINGTON, April 6 (UP) More German subma rines than ever before are prow ling the Atlantic and are taking an increasingly larger toll of Al lied shipping, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox announced today warning grimly that "it's a se rious situation." American-Allied Airmen Make Raids Over Burma NEW DELHI, April 6 (UP) American and French airmen and Howard Thomas, acting head teamed yesterday to deal de-of the art department of Wo structive blows to Jap objectives jmeis 4 College, to discuss the over a widespread area of Burma topic "The Artist's Place in the T- 1 TXT TTT 1 1 and RAF fliers raided a large i enemy formation attacking Al lied bases in Southeastern Ben gal, it was announced tonight. Large Corporations Held On Black Market Charges Newark, N. J. April 6 (UP) Federal indictment of seven corporations and 11 individuals on charges of operating a nation wide black market ring, which supplied 10 million pounds of il legal meat to consumers in four eastern states, was announced today by Nathan L. Jacobs, New Jersey OPA attorney. Bankhead Asks Senate To Return Farm Bill WASHINGTON, April 6 (UP) Senator John H. Bank head, Democrat, Alabama, today called on the Senate to return his farm price bill to committees, when it became apparent the farm bloc attempt to override President Roosevelt's veto of the measure was doomed to defeat. British Eighth Army Moves Further Up Tunisian Coast AALIED HDQS., N. Africa, April 6 (UP) The British Fio-fcv, rocnoH it off. .i m J i 1 sive un trip Tunisian coast iouavi"oiiuxui iui"fa . and captured all its initial objec tives while American troops, closing a trap from the west drove forward five miles in the See NEWS BRIEFS, page U Former Indian Official To Speak On India Question IHR Speaker Yahkub Close Friend of Ghandi The "India question" in its re lationship to world peace will be examined in the Institute of Hu man Relations by one of the fore most experts in America on the affairs of this sub-continent, Thomas Yahkub of Harvard uni versity. Indian-born Yahkub, during his association with the govern ment of Madras and service on such diversified posts as the Tar iff board of the Indian govern ment, board of directors of the Tata Iron Works, dean of the University of Lahore and direc tor of education of the Cochin State, had an unparalleled op portunity to study the symptoms of the political disease afflicting British-rule in his homeland. VOLUME LI Baalneu and Circulation: 8641 Webs A. v Workshop . . v '' Adler Moves To Complete Spring Slate Well-Knowri Novelist Joins Other Artists The Carolina Workshop Coun cil, moving to complete the slate for its first all-North Carolina Spring Festival, has signed Struthers Burt, well-known American novelist to participate in the opening panel discussion on April 19. "I think that the idea of an an nual art festival and a panel dis cussion of such a vital topic are worth some sacrifice on my part in order to be there and I am pre pared to make it," he wrote chairman Richard Adler. He will join James Boyd, fel low author from Southern Pines, r0Sl" vv ar worm. Writer . A writer of short stories and verse as well as novels, Burt has been a contributor to the Satur day Evening Post, the Country Gentleman, Pictorial Review, McCall's, Collier's, Scribners Magazine, Harper's Magazine, ana tne cmeago lriDune. His first novel, "In the High Hills," written in 1914, was fol lowed by a book of verse entitled "Songs and Portraits" which was published in 1921. He is also the author of "The Diary of a Dude Wrangler," 1924, "When I Grow Up to Middle Age," 1925, "They Could Not Sleep," 1928, "The Other Side," 1929, "Festi val," 1931, "Entertaining the Is landers," 1933, "Escape from America," 1936, "Powder Riv er," 1938, and "Along These Streets" in 1941. ; Born in Baltimore, Burt was See WORKSHOP, page 3 Forwarding Addresses Must Be Left For Y-Y All students planning to leave school before the end of the quarter were asked to come by I the Yacketv-Yack office to leave 'nnrnnn nm A -Vwi 7 Q vrH T"l IT n fj fl YVQSPS The staff will not assume re sponsibility for delivering Yack-ety-Yacks to these students un less this is done, acting editor Karl Bishopric said yesterday. A close friend of Mohandas K. Ghandi and many of the Nation alist leaders, Yahkub is firmly convinced that a definite solution for the India question must be found before there can be any permanent peace settlement. "It is a moral issue which if left un solved will become the rallying point of the revolution of the East against the West." Born in Palghat in 1897, Yah kub was educated at Malabar and Madras Christian colleges in In dia. He received his B.S. Cum Laude and M.A. in English Lit erature from Middlebury college in the United States. He also is a graduate, S.T.B., of Harvard Theological School. While at college here he en CHAPEL HILL, N. 7D- ronnse Signs Strutters Burt For Opening Panel : - ; " . ; Di and Phi To Probe Jointly Swain Hall Business Records ... - ; Controllers Rogerson and Carmichael Decline Invitations To Attend Meeting The Phi assembly will meet in a tonight in Phi hall to further examine facts about alleged unrea- sonable prices at Swain hall including financial records compiled by the business office. W. D. Carmichael, and L. B. Rogerson, con troller and assistant controller of the University have, however, declined the group's invitation tof appear at the meeting. Statement In declining the invitation, Carmichael and Rogerson issued the following statement: "It is, at all times, the policy of the University Business Ad ministration to serve to Univer sity students the best quality food at the most reasonable prices. Both the Assistant Con troller and the Controller wel come criticism and suggestions for the improvement - of food or service, or for any change that will result in lower costs. Student Committee "The Business Administration suggests that a permanent Com mittee representing the student body be authorized to meet at regular intervals with the Busi ness Officers to survey the ever changing problem with the view of assuring the most efficient and economical operations of all Interdorm Council Resumes Plans for Dance This Month - Coeds Consider Summer Senate Heads Prepare To Continue Work . Plans for the first permanent coed summer school government may be formulated in a senate meeting slated to be held this af ternoon in the Horace Williams lounge of Graham Memorial at 5 o'clock. Mary Lou Truslow, newly elected speaker of the senate, has announced that if the coed stu dent body is sufficiently large during the two summer school 1 KPSSinTtS Tlf "nTVlC sessions the present coed student government may continue. . If a permanent coed student government is not set up for the summer session, the plan will be See COEDS, page U gaged in special work with Rob ert Frost and John Erskine at Amherst college. After complet ing his schooling he returned to India on such important mission as Secretary and director of the Refugee camp and Calicut, India during the Moplah rebellion, He returned to the United States to do social work at the South End Settlement House' in Boston and received a five year grant as a research fellow of the Rockefeller foundation. Close Contact ' All during his studies both here and in India he has kept in close contact witK the free India move ment and the bitterness and strife it has caused. When the See YAHKUB, pageU C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1943 "ID' Ian joint session with the Di at 7 : 30 student dining halls and to fur ther cooperation and under standing between the students and the Business Administra tion." Phi committeemen working on the food costs in Chapel Hill have been busy this week checking their findings on relative costs which last week showed that the average cost per meal at Swain was considerably higher than at fraternities or at many commer cial eating places. ' These figures will be checked against the records which the Business Office is preparing to ascertain if there is any way that costs at Swain can be reduced, i Speaker IL, O. Brogden and Aaron Johnson have invited all interested students to attend the meeting which will be held in Phi hall in New West and he has particularly urged student lead ers to attend. Group Prepares Full Statement Planning for the annual Inter- Hnrmi'tnrv rlnnrps nHnnrlrvnpfl earlier in the year, has begun again and the set may yet be held this quarter the Interdormitory dance committee said yesterday. Requests Spurred by requests from stu dents who want a "final fling" at the University, the committee has indicated that the dances will probably take place this month in spite of the decreased budget and i the drop in student registration. Statement A definite statement on the dance may be released this week, See INTERDORM, page U Cobb Announces Campaign Aides Bill Cobb, chairman of the cur rent YMCA drive to collect clothes for distribution all over the world yesterday released the names of the dormitory manag ers for the campaign. Pat Porter is manager for Old East, Dick Allison for Old West, Harding Hughes for Steele and Marvin Cowell for BVP. Due to a misunderstanding, the name of the Red Cross was used in the Daily Tar Heel story yesterday. Actually, this drive is being conducted at the request of the American Frienas Society, another of the nation's agencies which is aiding the homeless and bomb-shattered peoples of the world. Graduate Club Meets The Graduate Club meets to night at 7 : 30 in Horace Williams Lounge of Graham Memorial. Editorial: F-8141, News: v H OF New Legislature Meets For First Time Tonight By Jud Kinberg , Terrell Webster, incumbent speaker of the Student legislature, yesterday pledged formation of definite plans for freezing of stu- government as tle first project of the new body taking office tonight. In an inauguration-eve statement, Webster announced that he would appoint part of the freezing committee tonight and add to it as investigation proceeded. Two Speakers Accept Bids To Join IHR Hamilton and Martin To Make Final Talks The names of Earl Hamilton, noted authority on Latin Ameri can economics, and Professor Charles Martin, head of the Uni versity of Washington political science department, were added yesterday to the lineup of speak ers for the April 8-16 Institute of Human Relations. Hamilton, professor of eco- nomics at Duke university, will share the experts' chair with Hu bert Herring in the Friday and Saturday panels on South and Central American relations, con centrating on the economic issues in our "ddllar-lined" Good Neigh bor policy. Herring and Hamilton Both Herring and Hamilton will speak at the Friday after noon luncheon conference deal ing with "Progress in Inter American Relations." During the Saturday morning discussion of the "economic implications of our j p00 Neighbor plan " Hamilton's knowledge of the facts and fig ures of this phase of the policy should enable him to present a clear 'pattern of the results American financing has produced in our sister republics. Since his graduation from See SPEAKERS, page 4 Inter-Town Group To Meet Tonight All members of the Inter-Town Council must be present at a meeting tonight at 7 :30 in the Country Club room of the YMCA. At this time nominations will be made for representatives to the University club and plans rendered for dances April 23-24. All districts wishing to be rep resented in the University Club must be present at this meeting. Former Carolina Student Praises Training in CVTC "The Army Air Corps is not as strict as was the CVTC in drill and I'll bet the latter could show up the former in uniforms and drill any day," writes Pfc. Joe H. Morehead, '45, who left the Uni versity recently to enter the Army Air Corps at Miami Beach. "My training did all right for me," eaid Morehead, "I was made a drill instructor before I ever saw the drill field down at Miami Beach." In Chicago Morehead is now at the AAF technical school in Chicago tak No Bandwagon . . . Earnheart Explains, Di Reinforces . . . Weary Women . . . CPU Hound Table . . . Williams and hectic UNC convene F - S14S. F-S147 NUMBER 138 . o reeang "jAr & "Probably John Robinson will want to work in conjunction with us and so I've decided to leave the committee setup elasticc enough to include such additions." Final Result Final result of the study of the group and the legislature as a whole, according to the state ment, will be the setting up of freezing machinery which can be put into immediate effect when it "becomes necessary to halt stu dent government for the dura tion." The 1943-44 group will take over tonight when returning speaker W. J. Smith turns over the gavel to the new leader after election of the six holdover mem bers. After consideration of the freezing study group, elections for heads of all legislature com mittees will be held. Appoint- ment of the members of these bodies will be made at a later date. Webster's statement concern ing freezing is the first definite See WEBSTER, page 4 D'Amico To Judge Student Art Show In Local Gallery Victor D'Amico, director of the educational project of the Museum of Modern Art, will judge the sixth annual North Carolina school art exhibition opening in Person hall Sunday, April 11. Chairman of the Committee on Art in American Education and Society which "fosters and pro motes creative arts during the war and plans for their increased functioning in the reconstruction to follow," D'Amico has been par ticularly successful in teaching young children. He also serves as head of the Fieldston school in New York City and teaches art courses at Columbia University. Including representative art from elementary schools, high schools, and colleges over the state, the exhibit will continue on display through May 1. ing a course in radio training. He did not apply for OCS at Miami Beach because of his interest in radio work. May Return "I hope to return to UNC and be able to finish there after the war," said Morehead in a letter received by the Alumni office this week. "The reputation of the physics courses, at Carolina is one of the highest, according to the head physicist of Radio Cor poration of America in New York and the engineer of Allied Radio Corporation here in Chicago." INSIDE
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