Weather Partly clody & c eooi today; showers probabie tomnozrow. L 4iigan DIaitg Editorial Tribute To A ScholanTr, VOL. L. No. 156 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940 r p. PRICEZ FIV ET Dr. McKenzie, Eminent Head Of Sociology Faculty, Dies Pioneer Of Wide Renown In E cology Succumbs After Extended Sickness Deparntment Loses Chief And Expert Dr. Roderick D. McKenzie, inter- nationally famed sociologist and chairman of the sociology depart- ment of the University of Michigan since 1930 died early yesterday at the age of fifty-five after a long illness. Dr. McKenzie is credited with be- ing a pioneer in the field of human ecology, the study of population dis- tribution in reference to material and social causes and effects. He was also a student of oriental immigra- tion Started In 1930 Dr. McKenzie came to the Uni- versity in 1930 as professor of so- ciology and chairman of that de- partment from the University of Washington where he held similar positions for 10 years. He had been suffering from ill health since Octo- ber, 1938. He took a leave of ab- sence starting in December of that year, and resumed part time teach- ing last fall. President Ruthven described Mc- Kenzie's passing as "a very great loss to the University and a severe shock to the many friends he made here among the faculty and students. We had come to respect him as in- deed his sociological colleagues all over the country did for the origin- ality of his research and the sound- ness of his judgment," he said. "Dr. McKenzie's death is a great loss," Dean Edward H. Kraus stated. "He was recognized as a leading so- ciologist who developed the special field of human ecology. This gave him a national and international reputation." Dr. Robert C. Angell, who has been acting chairman of the department during McKenzie's illness, declared that he "represented all that is best in the academic tradition-careful, scholarly research, able administra- tion, stimulating teaching, and help- ful advice to colleagues and grad- uate students. More than that he was the true friend of all in his department. His gentle kindliness is our most cherished memory." Appointed Investigator Dr. McKenzie was appointed as special investigator of urban prob- lems on President Hoover's research commission in 1929 and 1930. He later incorporated the results of his studies in a book on metropolitan communities. Before coming to the University of Washington he held teaching po- sitions at the University of Virginia and Ohio State University. He was the author of many books and con- tributed chapters to sociological books and articles to various publica- tions. The discussion of human ecol- ogy in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences is by Dr. McKenzie. He was consulting editor of Sociology and Social Research and Social Ab- stracts. He was affiliated with the Amer- ican Sociological Society, the Amer- ican Council Institute of Pacific Re- lations, and American Statistical As- sociation. In Ann Arbor he was a member of the University Club and Phi Kappa Phi. He was born in Carman, Mani- toba. He received his bachelor of Continued on Page 6) Reed Names Six Chairmen Student Senate Committee Heads ToBegin Work Student Senate President Bob Reed, '42, yesterday announced the chairmen of six committees, to serve for the rest of the term, which ex- pires approximately four weeks after the beginning of school next Fall. Heading the Parley Committee will be Daniel Huyett, '42, who was also chairman of the recent Spring Par- ley. Reed himself will head the Stu- dent Government Committee; Jack Callouette, '40E, and Al Hendrick, Addresses Convocation -Courtesy Ann Arbor News DEAN HAROLD BENJAMIN Linksmen Gain 16'/2O.2 Win Over Wildcats Palmer Leads Wolverines In Defeat Of Defending Conference Champions By WOODY BLOCK With scores blown high and wide but hardly handsome by a stiff wind, Michigan's varsity linksmen defeated Northwestern, defending Big Ten golf champion, yesterday at the Uni- versity course, 161/2-10%, to register their fifth Conference victory of the season. Medal score was taken by Capt. Bob Palmer who shot a 74 in the morning best ball matches in which the Wolverines took a commanding 61/2-212 lead. Surprise of the day was the col- lapse of little Jack Emery, who shot a sub-par 71 Saturday. Jack took an 82 in his morning match and followed that with an 80 in the in- dividual play. Despite the score, Emery took 21/2 points from Wildcat Capt. Chet Bland, who also turned in a card of 80. Bob Palmer was matched with Chase Fannon, Fig Ten singles champion in the afternoon round, and after 18 holes of the toughest kind of golf imaginable they were still all even, splitting the three points. On the first nine only one (Continued on Page 3) KEurani, Noted Educaior, Talks At Rackham Today Dr. Habib Kurani, Professor of Comparative Education and Regis- trar at the American University of Beirut, Syria, will speak at 4:30 to- day in the Rackham Amphitheatre on "The Arab Renaissance in the Near East." Al-Thuqafa, local Arab culture so- ciety, is sponsoring Dr. Kurani, who is in the United States on a teaching, fellowship and visiting the Univer- sity. Dean To Talk To Education Majors Here H. Benjamin, Southern Educator, Will Greet Prospective Teachers New Certification Plan Is introduced Dean Harold Benjamin of the Uni- versity of Maryland School of Edu- cation will address the annual con- vocation of the School of Education honoring students who are entering the teaching profession on "Prologue to Civilization" at 4:15 p.m. today at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The Southern educator will be in-, troduced by President Ruthven to the 236 students and faculty mem- bers invited to the program. Nation- ally known for his book, "The Saber- Toothed Curriculum", a satire on the current secondary school practices, Dean Benjamin will outline the task of making education effective in a democracy faced by recurring crises. For the first time students enter- ing the teaching profession this year will be awarded three types of certi- ficates issued under the new code. Under these regulations a teaching certificate is given in the field of ele- mentary, secondary, or junior college education upon the recommendation of the faculty of the School of Edu- cation. Certificates awarded to this year's students are valid for five years and may be exchanged for a perm- anent certificate if the student has been actively engaged in teaching.I Mimes Will Honor Hodge On Friday With Union Dance Honoring Max Hodge, '39, former editor of Gargoyle and author of this year's Opera, "Four Out. Of Five," the spring dance sponsored by Mimes, honorary dramatic fra- ternity, will be held Friday in the Union, with all swingsters invited. At the dance, which has been la- beled "Ham-Dram," scenes and songs from the Opera will be pre- sented. The Opera cast will sing the Opera's theme song and "When Night Falls Dear," a song written for the dance by Tom Cooke, Spec., will be presented, and the Sorority and Mosher-Jordan scenes will be repeated. Special guests include: W. Lloyd Berridge of the University Hospital staff, Prof. Herbert A. Kenyon, di- rector of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre; Robert Mellencamp, de- signer of the Opera sets; Prof. Valentine B. Windt; Roy Hoyer, di- rector of the Opera; William Col- lins, assistant director; and Stanley Waltz, manager of the Union. , Bill Sawyer's orchestra will play. Slosson, YCL Debate Today On U.S.S.R. Professor To Meet Head Of Finnish Organization In Science Auditorium Program Climaxes Series Of Letters Culminating a long series of dis- putes with the Young Communist League at parleys, in class-rooms and in the letter column of The Daily, Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department will meet E. R. Multila, district organizer of the Finnish Workers Federation, speaking for the YCL, in a verbal clash at 8 p.m. today in the Natural Science Auditorium. Professor Slosson will uphold the negative of the question: "Resolved, That the sovereignty of the small countries of Europe is better secured by closer cooperation with the Soviet Union." Multila will uphold the af- firmative. In a prepared statement to The Daily last night Professor Slosson declared: "I hope there will be a good turn-out, because at the Par- leys one has always wanted to see a more complete and representative body of students attending, and this is, in a sense, a sort of footnote to the Winter and Spring Parleys." Mary Cummins, '42, recently elect- ed YCL delegate to the Student Sen- ate said: "The Young Communist League welcomes this opportunity to show the role of the Soviet Union as the leading force for world peace. We heartily endorse the practice of thrashing out questions in the pub- lic forum. We are glad that the right of students to hear speakers of their own choosing on all sides of issues is respected." The debate will be conducted in the style of the Town Hall Meeting of the Air, according to Carl Pete- sen, '40, managing editor of The Daily, who will chair the meeting, with the audience being given an opportunity to question each speaker. Fall Advisers For Orientation Are Announced Program For Freshman Is Scheduled To Begin Monday,_September 23 Announcement of student advisers for freshman and transfer student orientation programs next fall, was made yesterday by Robert Sibley, '42E, in charge of transfer orienta- tion, and Robert Shedd, '42, in charge of freshman work. Freshman orientation in the fall will begin Monday, Sept. 23, instead of Tuesday, as in the past. The transfer students' program will be- gin Tuesday morning. Both pro- grams will continue through the week. Shedd announced that a meeting of all advisers will be held at 4:15 p.m., May 15, in Room 319 of the Union. Attendance is imperative, he said. Anyone unable to attend is asked to make arrangements with his chairman. The men selected as freshman ad- visers in the literary college are: Leonard Perry '42, Leroy Perry '42, William Caruthers '42, Frank Morley '42, Jerome Fink '41, Dean Burdick '42, Fred Linsell '41, Charles Boyn- ton '42, Francis Mackey '41, Wesley Caire '41, Richard Strain '42, Jack Woods '42, James R. Harrison '41, Thomas Quinn '42, Richard Molthop '42, James Hoff '42, Arnold White '41, Owen Mays '42, Bruce Forbes '42, William Langford '42, John Shields '42, John Dighton '42, Roger Kelley '42, Howard Porter '42, Elwin Hen- dricks '42, Kenneth Rhoads'42, Burns Huttlinger '41, Almon Copley '41, William Hurley '42. James Gormsen '42, William Alt- man '42, Gordon Andrew '42, Ted Mc- Logan '42, Leo Federman '41, Stan- (Continued on Page 2) TagDay Sales Promise Vacations To 260 Boys Approximately 260 underprivileged boys from the Southeastern Michi- gan area will enjoy a four week vaca- By Allies; Faces Parliament Test Aging Premier Faces Most Severe Test Of Regime In Full Dress Debates Opposition Prepares To Blast' Ministry LONDON, May 6. -(P)- Prime Minister Chamberlain, who has guid- ed Britain from Munich to Namsos, lined up his forces tonight for the fight of his political life in Parlia- ment while the Allies reported the loss of three destroyers in the Nor- wegian campaign whose failure thus far has placed Chamberlain's gov- ernment in jeopardy. The elderlyistatesman will open two days of full dress debate in the House of Commons tomorrow with a lengthy statement on the Norwegian affair. He will defend and explain Britain's military setback in an at- tempt to stave off a critical offensive bent on breaking the Premier and his Ministry. To counter opposition demands for a new Government, some of which include the naming of Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, in place of Chamberlain, the Prime Minister it; expected to announce greater pow- er for stocky Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. A month ago Churchill was named chairman of a ministerial committee on military coordination, but since then Chamberlain has let it be known he himself still was in control. Veteran political observers weigh- ing the case for the determined op- position against the Government's voting power and debating strength expressed belief that the conserva- tive government would ride out the storm but would be faced with an aroused and fighting opposition on every future measure. ltalo-Rumanian Border Clashes Reported BUDAPEST, May 6.-()-Rumania tonight imposed censorship on for- eign newspaper correspondents and mobilized her entire military and civilian defense organization for com- plete air raid exercises. The censorship regulations were announced as an Italian was report- ed killed and an Italian airplane re- ported shot down in two week-old incidents on the Yugoslav-Italian border. Italian troops were reported rein- forced to 300,000 men in the sector north of Fiume near the Yugoslav frontier. Propaganda Minister Giurescu said that henceforth all "important or sen- sational news" must be submitted to the Rumanian Ministry for verifica- tion before being dispatched. Penalties for sending news the Government deems inexact will range up to a seven-year jail term, al- though up to the present expulsion has been the severest penalty ever imposed upon foreign correspondents in Rumania. Varsity Meets Western State. War Sum mary (By The Associated Press) BERLIN-Germans, rushing relief overhead to Narvik garrison, locate British and French units that failed to catch boats; airmen report cap- ture of British submarine; Hitler agrees with King Gustaf on "future political attitude" of Germany and Sweden. ROME-Mussolini discusses mili- tary problems with Crown Prince Umberto; "Precautionary measures" reported taken near Yugoslav border due to "French-British intrigues." WASHINGTON-President Roose- velt pledges support to any inter- national agreement to prevent bombing non-combatants. Council Heads To Be Chosen By Engineers Thirty Candidates Register For Elections Today; Voting ToBegin At 9 Thirty candidates from three classes in the engineering college will vie for six posts on the Engineering Council, governing body of the col- lege, at the annual election from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today. Polling stations will be open in the lobby of the East Engineering Building and the Arch entrance of the West Engineering Building. Up- on presentation of an engineering identification card, each student will be allowed two votes for candidates from his own class. Chosen in the election will be two candidates from each of the Junior, Sophomore and Freshman classes; the candidate in each class with the highest vote will receive a long-term tenure, effective until graduation, and the second nominee will serve for a single year. Candidates from the Class of '41E whose petitions have been accepted by the Union Council are: Jeffries Pace, George P. Hogg, Spencer Reitz, Seymore Furbush, Donald Hartwell and Charles Tieman. Students from the Class of '42E included on the ballot are: William Angst, Robert G. Brown, Henry Fielding, Richard C. Higgins, Har- per Hull, Tex Kennedy, Verne Ken- nedy, William Lundin, Jack Marrow, George Pusack, Carl Rohrbach, Rob- ert Summerhays and Henry Zeller. Civic Planners Will Meet Here City Delegates To Report On Home Progress More than 200 Michigan residents who are actively interested in civic, regional, and state planning will meet here in a one-day session Thursday to discuss methods of arousing organized citizen support for systematic planning of govern- ment. Sponsored by the American Civic and Planning Association and the University College of Architecture and Design, the informal meeting will be headlined by addresses by Mr. Walter Berendt, city planning con- sultant of Buffalo, and Miss Harlean James, executive secretary of the organization. Delegates from Michigan cities will give short reports concerning civic improvements in their own communities Frank A. Picard To SpeakTonight Unemployment will be the sub- ject of a talk entitled "Where Do We Go From Here?" which will be given trvniaht at 1the annual vnring,n- . Troopships Return Men Safely To Home Port Despite Nazi Bombers Ironside Praises Order Of Retreat LONDON, May 7 (Tuesday).-(P -British and French soldiers, worn from German bombing in the Trondheim sector of Norway, were disclosed early today to have re- turned to England just after the Allies had admitted the loss of three destroyers defending troop convoys. Safe arrival of the troops, but destruction of a British, a French and a Polish destroyer, was an- flounced as Prime Minister Cham- berlain prepared to explain failure of the Norwegian campaign that has jeopardized his government. Allied troops,, just landed in a northern British port, were praised by General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the Imperial BritishGeneral Staff, for having "come back with your tails up." "Don't think you were driven out of Norway," General Ironside said. "You were ordered out of Norway, and the great thing is that your discipline brought you out. You were an advance guard, and we had thought that we would be able to get to you the guns and aviation which make it possible to fight such a machine as you were opposed to. But, as you know, very soon the race went against us." The 1,870-ton British destroyer Afridi, was bombed and sunk off Namsos in defending the troop ship convoy which brought the Allied force back to England. The Afridi normally carried 219 men and there was no word as to how many were saved, if any. Allies Reinforce Mediterranean Fleet ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 6.-(P) -The guns of a newly arrived squadron of Allied cruisers, reinforc- ing French and British battlefleets, gleamed in Alexandria harbor today and British warplanes stood with bomb racks loaded fo a quick take- off. "We are ready to meet Italy on land, sea and air should she decide to fight," said.British official circles as this display of naval and air might spread itself out to defend, in any emergency, the vital Suez Canal. "The test has already started," these sources said of the question whether Italy might decide to fight, hinting the answer was expected within the next seven days. "In the fact the Allies' attitude is defiant," these spokesmen contin- ued, "because it is tantamount to a reply, not to a diplomatic note, but rather to a naval demonstration of great significance." Old Leg In jury Forces Kromer From Gridiron By MEL FINEBERG The "1937 Kiski jinx" struck Mich- igan football its third blow yester- day afternoon when halfback Paul Kromer, after weighing gridiron glory against the risk of permanent injury, decided to withdraw from collegiate competition. The 152 pound triple threat back, shackled by a torn ligament in the back of his right knee since the 1939 opener against Michigan State Oct. 8, had been considering the move since the end of the football season and a combination of factors finally influenced his decision. He had reported for spring prac-. tice two weeks ago, worked out a few days but had not participated in any contact work. The Lorain, Ohio, halfback's with- drawal marks him as the third Kiski Prep backfield star who came here in 1937 and who has been forced, by a leg injury, to retire from football. Three Destroyers Lost Chamberlain Visiting Author Carl Van Doren Comments On Pulitzer Winners By WILL SAPP Carl Van Doren, 1939 Pulitzer biog- raphy winner, slipped inconspicuous- ly into Ann Arbor town early Satur- day morning to spend a month here in the Clements Library browsing through 170 volumes of Benedict Arnold's correspondence, spy notes, ciphers and codes to ferret out ma- terial for his new book, temporarily entitled "Treason Plot," to be pub- lished in the fall of 1941. Biographer of "Benjamin Frank- lin" and historian in "Treason Plot", Van Doren revealed plans for a third book "in the future" to be a novel of the same period, thus completing a trilogy of Revolutionary War days. "When I finish this book," he said in his Union room last night, "people will be surprised to find that Arnold's actions were quite comprehensible- he wasn't such a devil, you know. Speaking of traitors, I'm not inter- ested in tagging a name onto a per- son, I want to tell what he did." Chain-smoking as he talked, Van Doren turned from his book to to- day's announcement of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize winners. "They were excellent choices!" he exclaimed, "there was no question about Stein- beck's "Grapes of Wrath." Sand- burg's "Lincoln's War Years," was ,unmnistakl aarnize book. andiSaro- Game Today Week For Begins Hectic Baseballers CARL VAN DOREN By NORM MILLER It looks like another heavy after- noon for Michigan's frustrated Wol- verines as Coach Ray Fisher's war- riors entertain a crack Western State Teachers' College team at Ferry Field today at 4 p.m. The game will be the beginning of a busy week for the Varsity. To- morrow the Wolverines travel to Hills- dale for a breather with the Hillsdale nine, while the weekend will find Ohio State here for a two-game series. The usual split-pitching assign- ments will prevail for the contests with Michigan's non-Conference op- ponents. Lyle Bond and Mickey Stoddard, who is rapidly becoming the workhorse of the Varsity pitching staff, will divide the mound chores cropped greyish hair, Carl Van Doren is no new visitor to Ann Arbor, for it was only last year that he came here to give the Hopwood address. He praised highly the work of Mich- igan's Hopwood writers and called Ann Arbor "the most attractive Uni- versity town in the United States."