e , Weather tartly cloudy; slightly warmer. ,5 Jr 4ir Ar :43aiti Editorial Students Confer On Democracy ... Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication VOL. LI. No. 128 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Swim Team Leads NCAA Meet; Yale! Makes Strong Bid Natators Hold Three-Point Margin Over Bulldogs As Heydt, Barker Win Michigan Captures. Medley Relay Event By WOODY BLOCK EAST LANSING, March 28-Cling- ing desperately to a slim three point lead at the end of the first day of the 18th annual national collegiate swimming meet, Michigan's tank squad received a rude jolt from an inspired and fighting Yale aggrega- tion here tonight. Michigan had 36 to Yale's 33 points but indications were that this was going to be far from the walk- away previously predicted for the Big Ten champions. Challenging the Wolverines from start to finish, the Bulldogs took two first places which together with a raft of place points brought them within scoring distance of Matt Mann's crew which made off with three firsts tonight. The failure of Michigan's distance corps to come through as expected hurt as much as anything else. Jim Welsh, counted on to cop possibly all three distance events, failed to hit his stride and took seconds in the 150,0-meter and 220-yard race instead. However, Wolverine victories in the 50, the 150 backstroke and the 300 yard medley relay pushed the Maize and Blue total a shade above Yale's violent attack. This morning's 1500 meter grind, which Welsh had his heart set on, turned out to be the closest race of the day. Rene Chouteau, swimming for Yale, led practically all the way with Jim'hanging within a foot or two of his churning hands. It was so close at the finish that their times were identical, 19:43.4, but Chou- teau's touch whipped the plucky Wol- verine senior. The 50-yard free style event start- ed the evening's festivities off as lanky Charley Barker dethroned Guy Lumsden with a sparkling :23 flat performance which tied the existing NCAA mark. All six sprinters hit the 25 yard turn even, but 15 yards from home those flashing arms and legs of Charley's pulled him in two feet ahead of Wayne's Bill Prew Lums- (Continued on Page 3) Regents Grant Leave To Nine- Deny CIO Plea Reappoint Two Members To Board Of Law Club At Yesterday's Meeting The Board of Regents granted nine faculty sabbatical leaves, reappoint- ed two members of the Board of Gov- ernors of the Lawyers Club and de- nied the petition of Local 269 of the Municipal, County and State Workers of America (CIO) for an audience to discuss collective bargaining for the University employ'es, at its March meeting yesterday. The Board granted professor of Community Culture, Arthur Dunham, a sabbatical leave for the year 1941- '42. Sabbaticals for the first semester of the year 1941-'42 were granted to Profs. Kenneth C. McMurry, Jesse S. Reeves, Ralph L. Belknap, Nor- man R. F. Maier, Chester A. Arnold, and Ernest A. Philippson of the Col- lege of Literature, Science and the Arts and to Prof. Louis H. New- burgh of the Medical School. Dr. R. G. Adams was given leave of absence for the second semester of the current year on account of ill- ness, and Mr. Lloyd A. Brown, Cur- ator of Maps in the Clements Li- brary, was appointed acting director during his absence. The Board grant- ed Prof. Valentine B. Windt leave of absen1ce from May 27 to June 30 in order to direct the Dramatic Fes- tival. During the absence of Prof. Ken- neth C. McMurry on sabbatical leave, Prof-Preston E. James has been se- Backstroke Champion New Heredity Department Is Established Clinic To Be Open Also; Dean A. C. Furstenberg Recommnends Project Will Be Associated With Medical School A new Department of Human Heredity and Clinic-the first of its kind in America-was established by the Board of Regents yesterday at its March meeting. The new department will be a di- vision of the Laboratory of Verte- brate Genetics but will be closely as- sociated with the Medical School. It was established upon the recommen- dation of Dean A. C. Furstenberg of the Medical School and will be un- der the direction of Dr. Lee R. Dice, Director of the Laboratory of Ver- tebrate Genetics, it was announced. The department and clinic will represent the first concerted and or- ganized effort to investigate the role of heredity as a factor in human disease, Dr. Furstenberg explained. It is the eventual outcome of studies of heredity in animals which have been conducted at the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics, a program that was expanded this year through a grant from the Rackham Research Fund, to include certain problems of human heredity, he said. The function of the Clinic, he ex- plained, will be the securing of the necessary data for the determination of the role played by heredity in the production of or predisposition to malformations and disease. Medical men recognize, it was pointed out, that a better understanding of this matter is necessary for a more com- plete knowledge of the etiology, course, and treatment of many hu- man ailments, and it is therefore proposed to havethe new department cooperate closely with investigators and various others who are studying denatal abnormalities, body propor- tions and growth, speech defects, deafness, and the like. In the course of years a reservoir of discoveries made by experimenting on non-human vertebrates has been gathered. This will be valuable in the present study of hereditary factors in human beings, Dean Furstenberg disclosed. Van Wagoner To Address 500 Alumni Ruthven To Open Meeting; Engineers Will Honor Outstanding Graduates Ninth Open House To Sponsor Tours Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner will address a group of more than 500 University graduates on "The Engin- eer in Public Life" at a luncheon meeting today in the Union, high- lighing the College of Engineering's first Ann Arbor Alumni Reunion. Twelve outstanding American en- gineers, all graduates of the Univer- sity, will be cited for their work in engineering, industry, public health, education and public affairs at the meeting. Their names will be an- nounced in tomorrow's Daily. Other speakers at the luncheon will be President Alexander G. Ruthven who will give the welcoming address and Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the College of Engineering who will speak on "Engineering at Michigan." Prof. A. H. White of the chemical engin- eering department will preside. The alumni will be entertained at their luncheon by a short program by the Varsity Glee Club consisting of several classical selections and Michigan songs that the club will sing in its annual spring concert at 8:15 Thursday in 'Hill Auditorium. Being held simultaneously with the Alumni Reunion is the Engineering Council's ninth Open House which will be open to sight-seers from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. today in the East and West Engineering Buildings and the Randall Laboratory of Physics. Five tours have been organized for visitors to the Open House, all start- ing from the lobby of the East En- nineering Building. The first includes exhibits of aeronautical and metal- lurgical engineering and metal pro- cessing; the second, chemical engin- eering: the third, electrical, mechan- ical and civil engineering and naval architecture; the fourth, engineering mechanics and automotive engineer- ing, and the fifth, physics. Other exhibits include several fa- tigue machines used for testing var- ious objects, tensile strength testing machines, heat testing apparatus, different forms of propeller blades, x-ray equipment used for the inspec- (Continued on Page 6) Nazis Retaliate, Threaten Yugoslavs With Internal Disorder In Latest Move Ohio State Dean Will Address Greek Week Pledge Banquet. Alfred Connable, Jr. (right), president of the IFC 17 years ago, con- fers with James Harrison, '41, (center), present head, and John Devine, '41, secretary-treasurer, concerning the panels of Greek Week which ends today. * * * < ..- --- -- - - - FRANCIS HEYDT Co-Op Groups Will Convene For Two Days Mamagement, Purchasing, Personnel, Accounting Are Discussion Topics The first annual Michigan Cooper- ative Conference, a state-wide parley of all Michigan cooperative organiza- tions, will begin here at 10 a.m. to- day with registration in the Union. The convention is being sponsored by the University's Intercooperative Council and will be attended by co- operative leaders from throughout the state. All of Michigan's famous campus cooperatives will hold open house today and tomorrow and towns- people and students as well as dele- gates are welcome to visit any of the houses or convention parleys. Registration will be followed 6y a tour of the student cooperatives, the Wolverine and the Ann Arbor Co- operative Society, according to the program arranged by Betty Zunk, '42, chairman of the Intercooperative Council Education Committee. SThegeneral meeting will begin at 1 p.m. with an introductory speech by Miss Zunk. Edward Fried, '41, chair- man of the Intercooperative Council, will state the purposes of the con- vention, and Rev. H. L. Pickerill, Ann Arbor cooperative leader, will speak on "Development and Implications of Cooperatives." The discussion groups will convene at 2 p.m. Topics will be "Problems in Organization of Cooperatives," Harold Guetzgow, Grad., chairman, and "Specific Problems in Manage- ment of Cooperatives." Purchasing, personnel, education, accounting, and financing will be discussed, with Richard Shuey, '42E, Laurence Mas- cott, '41, Miss Zunk and Robert Mor- row, '42BAd, respectively as discussion leaders. Dean Frederick Stecker, of Ohio State, will address more than 7001 fraternity initiates at 6:15 p.m. today4 at a formel pledge banquet in the Union Ballroom, the closing part of the Interfraternity Council's Greek Week ceremonies. A scholarship cup, won last year by the initiates of Sigma Alpha Mu, will be presented to the pledge class with the highest scholastic average. Dean Joseph Bursley will make the pre- sentation, James Harrison will act as toastmaster. Four discussion panels, begun yes- terday, will continue at 2:30 ,p.m. today in the Union. University: Relations will meet in Room 304; Rushing Problems, Room 305; Defense Issues, Room 116; Home Management and Finance, Room 306. Greek Week opened yesterday with alt address by Alfred B. Connable be- fore the general assembly of fra- ternity men. Commending the fraternity system as a builder of scholarship and loy- alty, Connable warned fraternity men that their system will last only if they are willing to recognize and ful- fill their obligations to the group, the University, the faculty 'and their alumni. "The University of Michigan owes a debt to its Greeks," Connable said. "Past generations have more than justified the fraternity system. Deal- ing in human values as they do, fra- ternities must be used as tools of con-, struction through training and skill." At the Fraternity-University Rela- tions panel, it was recommended that members of the faculty should be in- vited to house dinners as guests of individual fraternity men rather than of the entire house. Along the same line, chaperons should be invited as guests to a party, rather than as chaperons. The Rushing Panel concerned it- self with the revision of present rules to conform to recognized practices. The dormitory influence and de- ferred rushing were also discussed and it was decided to recommend lectures to freshmen and rushing chairmen on whatever rules are adopted. More efficient methods of collect- ing bills and delinquent accounts' were suggested to the Finance panel by M. Homer Heath of the Ann Arbor Trust Co. Under Doug Gould, '41, the De- fense panel passed a resolution that efforts should be made to awaken an interest in the defense work among fraternity members. Plan To Exploit Slav-Croat Hatred; New Officials Repudiate German Pact Armies Mobilized On North Frontier BELGRADE, March 28. -P)- Yugoslavia today repudiated, in ef- Fect, the Axis alliance and informed quarters close to the new government predicted that Germany would with- 'Zold military assault at least momen- tarily while trying to break up the ,ountry from within. Hitler would try to achieve this goal, it was suggested, by exploit- 'ng old Serb-Croat hatreds. The Yuogslav army, 1,200,00 strong, ,tood mobilized at the frontiers, 'eady for any military threat, but °harpest' interests shifted to Zagreb, where the Croat leader, Vice Premier 7lIadimir Macek, debated with his 'ieutenants whether to remain in the Zew cabinet. Macek, a holdover from the "Axis" government which was forced out Thursday, was said to fear that Croa- tia, the northern part of the country, would bear the first fury of any Ger- man or Italian attacks, and thus he desired fulfillment of the Vienna agreement of last Tuesday. German news agencie§ circulated stories, cautiously as yet, that Macek had been forced at pistol point to enter the new cabinet and that the Croats were "restless." (That Germany hoped to exploit this rift to the fullest extent was in- -icated by Belgrade dispatches of DNB, official German news agency, stressing Macek's indecision and not- ng the political differences between the Serbs and Croats, largest indi- -7idual segments of the quilt-work kngdom of Yugoslavia.) The Governor of Croatia was un- derstood, however, to be negotiating with Macek and the new premier, Gen. Dusan Simovic, for continued Croat representation in the cabinet. It is recalled here that the "divide and conquer" tactic was used success- fully by Germany against Czecho- slovakia after Hitler's setback of May, 1938, when President Eduard Benes mobilized the Czechs to defy the Nazis. Roosevelt Recognizes New Slav Government WASHINGTON, March 28.--A)- President Roosevelt gave full recog- nition tonight to the new Yugoslav- ian government headed by the boy king, Peter II, and sent him a mes- sage encouraging him to resist Axis aggression. The message threw the whole weight of the government behind the encouragement given yesterday to the new Yugoslavian regime by Sumner Welles, undersecretary of State, who virtually promised the Balkan kingdom that aid would be forthcoming under the Lease-Lend policy if Germany launched an at- tack. Regents Accept Gifts Totaling $85,000 At March Meeting Gifts totaling $84,991.71 were ac- Student Good Will Aid fund for Men, cepted by the Board of Regents yes- and $34.54 for the fund for Women; terday on behalf of the University at the Allied Chemical and Dye Corpo- the Board's March meeting. ration donated two fellowships of The largest grant was that of the $750 for 1941-42 in organic chemistry Carnegie Institute of New York which and chemical engineering; the Rock- gave $50,000 to the Department of efeller Foundation contributed $3,000 Library Science as part of the Car- for the expense of establishing in the negie Library and Endowment Fund. Summer Session an English Lang- The Board accepted a bequest of uamge Center for Latin Americans $22,500 in stocks from the estate of coming to the United tates for study Mrs. Alida K. Knapp of Monroe, 'to and research. found a loan fund four the medical Another anonymous donation was students as a memorial to her hus- that of 100 shares of automobile band, Lewis Charles Knapp, '91M. stock to be used at the discretion For Medical Work of the dean of the Medical School. The Medical School was also the Mr. Samuel Frank of Detroit and beneficiary of income from real prop- Pontiac gave $1000 to the Kate Frank erty and a trust estate of the late Memorial Loan Fund available to all Grace W. Biddle of Detroit. The in- students except freshmen. The Stan- come from both sources will be used dard Oil Company of California con- for post-graduate work in medicine. tributed $800 to renew its fellowship; for potrat dy the Parke-Davis Corporation gave a Among other gifts, accepted by the total of $1100 to renew scholarships Regents at the meeting were three for 1941-42; Mr. James Ingalls do- from donors who preferred to remain nated $500 to the Frank N. Wilson anonymous--$1,500 for the income lectures in Cardiology. account of the Rackham Sociologi-_ cal Research Fund, $300 for the president's special fund, and $40 to R. Erwin Bowers constitute the Mary A. Cabot award for this year. Is Named Oratory Other gifts were received from Mr. James Milton Barnes, Evanston,Ill, Co11eso $1,000 for student aid; from nthe Na- tional Re e i uc (Oi1oari, a[further 1t.. Erwin Bowers, '41, was named grant of $1,000 for Dr. Edward B. the winner of the University oratory Green's investigation of the use of the Link Trainer,1)om .i eWomen's finals and representative in the North Auxiliary or the West Michigan State Central League Contest to be held Dental Society, $100 for the Amnericati here May 2. Dental Association hoal F nd. H1e won over four other contest- A gift of $2060 for tuition schol ants in yesterday's finals, with his arships was received from the Uni- speech entitled, "The Second Eman- versity of Michigan Club of Ann Ar- bor; the 1940 Senior Ball Committee cipation." The finals were judged by contributed $60 for the University members of the speech department Hospital Aid Fund; the Michigan faculty. tmo m ...e9A vk4 - .;,a;- ,ns ifa i 11O r;(,m ..n .. - l a . , i ai Yugoslavs, Turks May Endanger NaziCampaign,_McDowell Says, Trained Engineers Need Personality, Clyde Patn States Emphasizing the need of "human engineering training," Clyde Paton, chief engineer of the Packard Motor Car Company, asserted in a College of Engineering speech at the Union last night that technical knowledge alone was not sufficient for success; it must always be accompanied by personality. "Civilization will be making a great step forward when it puts psycho- analysts to work on the problem of personality in the schools," he said "because their help is needed in' makingu sd liscnver nur shorteom- By EDMUND GROSSBERG r "There is a fifty-fifty chance thatY Germany will decide itot to provoke a conflict in the Balkans at this time."t This was the opinion expressed byt Robert H. McDowell of the arche- ology department in an interview yesterday. McDowell has spent a total of 22 years in the Near East- a good part of which time has beeni passed in Turkey. His last visit end-{ ed in 1937. "With Yugoslavia and Turkey ready to fight, the Nazis would be risking a major - campaign whiclP would seriously weaken the Ger- man attack on Great Britain," he explained. McDowell expressed the belief that "if Turkey fights Germany, it is al- Faculty Men bers To Address Voters Dr. Russell Smith of the Law School and Dr. George T. Benson of the political science department are faculty members scheduled to speak at a "voters' information town hall" to be held at the City,Hall chambers April 2. Under the joint auspices of the League of Women Voters, the speak- I ...m mii ii - y -c anH5-fp smp and most certain that Russia will send munitions and supplies to the Turks." He estimated the size of the Turk- ish army at about 800,000 first class troops and an equal number of well trained reserves. These soldiers are well officered and have an excep- tionally high fighting morale. "There has been a tendency to underestimate the equipment of the Turkish army," McDowell, who served in the British army fighting the Turks after America's entrance into the last war, declared. "Turkey can produce the basic armaments and munitions, but could not supply itself in a long campaign, and if they enter this conflict must be assured of supplies from Great Britain and, [he United States," 'he asserted. / 'The ''i.roks are short on tanks, air- planes and anti-aircaft guns, and consequently would not be very ef- fective against the Nazi army in the plains regions, McDowell added. "But with their experience in mountain fighting and equipment for that type of warfare, T would re- gard them as superior to the Ger- mans in any fighting that may occur in the Balkan Mountains," he de- clared. Another idea that lie regarded as overplayed was the possibility of Hit- ,. -L .. -, - TI. 1 , . -. 4F 4" l; t i r Ehrensperger Opens Parley Of Methodists As the featured speaker of their opening banquet yesterday at the First Methodist Church,dHarold A. Ehrensperger, editor of "Motive," newly formed magazine of the Meth- odist Student Youth Movement, ad- dressed delegates to the state con- ference for Methodist students on the subject, "Motives-Action-Life." Democracy's defense must begin in America, stated Ehrensperger, with the college students, who are leading in intellectual interests, first remov- ing the prejudices and class distinc- tions attached to our society. Stu- dents can, he said, find their goal by attaining the fineness and b.Qauty to be got through religion, and by working diligently with a perspective. Meditation and worship periods and lectures will complete the pro- gram for this morning's session. The , r . s t