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VOL. LI. No. 129 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1941 Z-323
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Reports Say Yugoslav Coup Contested By Croat Leader'
Win Over
Yale Team
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Vice-Premier
States Loyalty
To Axis Pact
Revolts Branded As Serb
Plot Against Croatia;
Autonomy Demanded
ZAGRE,;, Yugoslavia, March 29.
-(R')-Dr. Vladimir Macek, leader of
millions of Croats, was reported au-
thoritatively tonight to have insist-
ed that Yugoslavia's'new government
publish a declaration affirming this
kingdom's adherence to the Axis al-
liance. The Croat peasant leader was
said also to demand a declaration
guaranteeing Croat autonomy.
Macek, who was Vice Premier in
the overthrown cabinet of Dragisa
Cvetkovic which signed the Three-
Power Pact for Yugoslavia, was car-
ried over in the new government of
Premier General Dusan Simovic.
n osition Not Clarified
(His position, however, has not
been clarified. What course Macek
decides to take-whether to revert to
the opposition or stay in the govern-
ment-is expected to weigh heavily
on determining Yugolslavia's home
and foreign policy.)
The leader of the Croats, who
buried their differences with the
Serbs only in 1939 in a Croat home
rule agreement, was expected, mean-
while, to remain silent on all over-
tures that he be active in the new
regime at least until he can go to
Belgrade Tuesday or Wednesday andI
investigate the situation at first hand.
An important member of Macek's
intimate circle asserted that the "new
government has decidedcly won .the
confidence of all Serbs but has lost
'Right About There .
Engineering New efense
Alumni,Dean Board Settles
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Stretch Drive Gives Skinner Jialiory
By 61
-58
Are Honored
citation
Work
Other
For Distinguished
Given Governor;
Awards Are Made
First Strike
Unionists Vote To Continue
Allis-Chalmers Walkout
Despite OPM Requests
Federal Mediation
Openis .ersev Plant
Cooley And~Campbell
Receive Recognition
- Daily Photo by Will Sapp
W.A.A. President Jane Grave,
'41, tells Dr. Margaret Bell all
about it. The "it" is the site of the
proposed women's swimming pool.
Proceeds from Elsa Maxwell's
Tuesday evening lecture will go to
Sthe fund for the pool.
Elsa Maxwell
Will Give Talk
Here Tueday
the confidence of all Croats."
Coup A Serb Stroke
Croats say there is a widespread
feeling that the coup was a Serb
stroke directed more against Croatia
than against the Tri-Partite Pact.
Neither Macek nor other Croat
peasant party officials attended the
thanksgiving service cele brating
young King Peter's assumption of
power.
Croat suspicions are said to have
strengthened extremists who long
have wanted an independent Croatia
and have contended that autonomy
was a fiction.
TypicalCoed
Tio Be Chosent
By S'Ens ian Poll'
Who is Michigan's ,most represen-
tative girl?
That's what the campus at large
will decide at nominations next Wed-
nesday and at the final polling April
9, according to Jack Cory, business'
manager of- the 'Ensian. And this typ-
ical girl will be sent, expenses paid,!
to the Drake Relays in Des Moines,I
Iowa, April 25 and 26, as the guest
of Quax, Drake.University Yearbook.
What's this all about? Well, next
Wednesday you'll be given a ballot
at any one of the three polling places,
Angell Hall, Main Library or Engin-
eering Arch-and you'll be asked to
place your nomination. The editors
of the Drake Yearbook set the follow-E
ing qualities by which the most repre-t
America's No. 1 party-giver will
set off her verbal fireworks at 8:151
p.m. Thursday on the vastly import-
ant subject: "The Science of Laugh-
ter." Her avowed goal in life is to getj
a big laugh out of it-in her ownj
words. "I loathe bigotry, prejudice,
intolerance and hatred. I believe in
laughter and hate to see it go out
of the world. Dictators," she contin-
ued irrepressibly, "snuff out laugh-
ter-and give you hysteria."
The vivacious and original Elsa
is internationally known for her fab-
ulous parties and the mixtures of
celebrities that make up her "cafe
society." Included among her list
of "most amusing" are names which
would make the Hall of Fame lookf
bleak by comparison. ,Dorothy
Thempson, James Cagney, Arturo
Toscanini and Walter Chrysler are
only a few of the "names".that would
put over any party without the aid
of the former Californian's versatili-
ty and brittle wit.
Her amusing anecdotes, which she
can relate to hilarious extent, include
the tales of how she rode into Eng-
lish society on the wrong end of a
horse and how she accompanied John
Hay Whitney on the ride to the Pied-
mont Hounds--sitting astride a
donkey!
. Citations for distinguished work
in engineering, industry, public (By The Associated Press)
health, education and public affairs The Defense Mediation Board suc-
were awarded to 11 graduates of the ceeded last night in settling the first
College of Engineering and a form- strike on which it acted, a 20-day
er dean at an Alumni Reunion lun- AFL walkout at the Cornell Dubilier
Theon yesterday in the Union. orporation. South Plainfield, N. J.,
The awards were given to Gov. but CIO unionists voted to continue
Murray D. Van Wagoner, Dean- their work stoppage at the Allis-
Emeritus Mortimer E. Cooley, Alva B. Chalmers plant near Milwaukee.
Clark. Roy S. Campbell, Alexander After negotiations in New Jersey
H. d'Arcambal, Ralph A. Hayward, Friday night and in Washington last
James H. Herron, John H. Hunt, night, the Board announced an agree-
Lawrence V. Kerber, Elmer H. Neff, ment by which the Cornell Dupilier
Clifford E. Paine and Henry F. strikers would return to work Tues-
Vaughan. day and negotiations would be re-
University Graduate sumed on the wage demands of the
A graduate of the University in electrical workers union.
1921, Governor Van Wagoner was OPM Officials Accused
director of the State Highway De- The Allis-Chalmers strikers, in de-1
partment for seven years before being ciding against ending their 68-dayl
elected to his present office. He also walkout in the face of a request from
spent some time as Oakland County Secretary of the Navy Knox and Di-
Drain Commissioner. rector William S. Km dsen of the
The only non-Michigan graduate is OPM, accused the two officials of
' Dean Cooley, an alumnus of the Unit- conspiring to force a "back-to-work
ed States Naval Academy, who has 'movement."r
been connected with the University In a statement, the Union said its
I since 1881. He is a former president members would not go back to work
of the Michigan Engineering Society. until they' received the security which
the American Engineering Council, "the United States Government has
and prsident of the Ann Arbor City promised us." It added that the Of-
Council. fice of Production Management had
Clark, a resident of Maplewood, promised to force the Allis-Chalm-
N. J., graduated from the College of ers management to accept a "union
Engneering in 1911 and has been security" provision if the union
with the American Teelphone and agreed to other proposed conditions
Telegraph Company since that time for returning to work.
At present he is Director of Systems Plant Reopens
Development at the Bell Telephone About $45,000,000 worth of defense
aboratories N orders have been awarded the Allis-
Another resident of New Jersey Chalmers Company. The plant re-
CAoter resCden of Nw Jhery opened and the management said
Campbell of Camden, was in the Class about one-third of the normal day
of 1912 and is now vice-president and shift reported. The CIO claimed no
general manager of the New York mr than 100 of 7,800 production
Ship Building Company. d'Arcambal, workers were on th job.
12E, from Hartford, Conn., is a con- Another government effort to get
:ulting engineer and president of the Adefensemachinery wheels turning re-
American Society of Tool Engineers, suited in at least temporary failure.
Chairman of the Kalamazoo City A spokesman for the International
Mlanning Commission for the pastHarvester Company announced the
ight years, Hayward, '17E, is also concern had cancelled plans to re-
fic-president of the American Paper open two of its four strike-bound
fnd Pulp Association. Herron, '09E, plants on Monday. It had found he
Cleveland, Ohio, is president of the said, that the strikers "are demand-
American Society of Mechanical E- 'innconditions which make their po-
gineers and director of the engineer .ition very unclear."
ing division of the Cleveland Wa r i'y.
fndustries Board. I An official of the CIO Farm Equip-
(Contiued on Page 31)
Hunt, a resident of Detroit and
a member of the Class of 1905, is;
;he director of the New Devices See- llflnoH leelfletits
.ion of the General Motors Corp. He
was the first president of the Engin-lS-TO B n
lering Society of Detroit and presi- SdlC oe 9
lent of the Society of Automotive
:engineers,
Former chief of the aeronautical Orders Taken lhjs Week
Wontnued on Pate " By Senior Engineers
JIM SKINNER
President Urges Citizens
ToBe United In War id
..PORT EVERGLADES, Fla., March
29.-RP)--President Roosevelt sum-
moned Americans of every political
creed tonight to stand united in a
[determination that "with all our re-
zources and all our power, we shall
help those who block the dictators
in their march toward domination
of the world."
Arising from an "alliance of dictat-
or nations," the President warned, is
a threat to America, its union, its
.democracy, and its cardinal princi-
ples of freedom-a threat which
draws more tightly around us day by
day.""
No Party Politics+
But, speaking to fellow-Democrats
attending party rallies throughout
the country, Mr. Roosevelt declared
that to meet the threat nearly all
Americans had risen above the con-
siderations of party politics and had
remained devoted to cbuntry and
democratic ideals.
The chief executive spoke by radio
from the officers' wardroom of the
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newed promise of American help for
nations resisting them, the address
was in many ways repititous of other
presidential speeches in recent
months.
The very repitition served to em-
phasize blunt words.
The address was delivered at the
ccnclusion of a week's fishing trip
among Britain's northern Bahama
Islands.
Senate Begins
To Plan Parley
Vote For Student Offices
To Be HeldMay 2
Activities of the Student Senate
will highlight the school week on re-
turn from vacation-the annual
Spring Parley opening a two-day run
Vicious Bulldog Challenge
Barely. Misses Victory;
Skinner Takes Honors
Barker Declared
Best Swimmer
By WOODY BLOCK
EAST LANSING, March 29.-Un-
-oaten but bowed, Michigan's great
swimming team fought off a vicious
hallenge from Yale University in
he Jenison Field House pool tonight
o retain, for the eighth consecutive
vear, its National Collegiate tank
itle.
Piling up 61 points in the two-day
,ompetition, Matt Mann's undefeated
natators barely edged out Bob Kip-
huth's Bulldogs who were able to
score the amazing total of 58, with
-I stunning victory in the final 400-
}bard free style relay pulling them
so close.
Wayne, OSU Tied
Wayne and Ohio State had a feud
of their own far in the background
with 19 points each, Minnesota fol-
.Owing with 10. It was strictly a dual
affair with both the Wolverines and
the Bulldogs fighting it out tooth
and nail all the way.
Surprisingly enough, despite the
degree of competition, the hard-
fought races throughout, and the
superb condition of all entrants, there
were no records erased from the
books-Charley Barker's '23 flat in
the 50-yard sprint coming closest
and it merely tied an existing mark.
IBesides taking the team cham-
pionship, the Wolverines walked off
with another honor-probably as
great as winning the huge team tro-
phy- when it was announced just
before thefinal relay that the coaches
had chosen Michigan's Charley Bark-
er as the most outstanding swimmer
of the year, supplanting Al Patnik,
Ohio State's wonder-diver of last
year.
Welsh, Skinner Win
White House yacht Potomac to on April 25 and the Senate's spring The Wolverine margin of three
"Jackson Day" dinners held to raise elections scheduled for May 2. points was provided when the big
money for the Democratic Party. At yesterday's meeting of the Par- guns of the Wolverine attack started
The en'emies of democracy, M. ey Continuations Committee a call booming with Jim Welsh's first vic-
Roosevelt asserted, are "trying to de- was issued to all campus organiza- tory of the meet i the 440 yard free
stroy our unity," using as their chief tions to send representatives to a 'tyle.
weapon a propaganda of increasing meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the He was followed to the victory
quantity and violence. Union, to suggest names of students stand by Jim Skner who npped
na i cand members who would be Ned Parke, Princeton's top-notcher,
Nazis Act As Pacifists ilty in a thrilling race. Blanked without
un- willing to participate in the Parley'sto any points in the high board dive,
witting helpers, he said, have at- pathe Wolverines had the final relay to
tempted to exploit the natural love Ruth Basy, '42, of the Senate elec- [go and a comfortable, though shaky
of Americans for peace. tion committee announced that pe- lead of five points.
titions will be accepted for candi- Jack Patten led off and pulled in
'They have represented themselves dacy April 21-25 for 18 Senate posts,ascntwfethadoTmBr-
as pacificist," he said, "when actually d pi 12 or1 eaepss a scant two feet ahead of Tam Brit-
Prospective candidates must have eli- ton, Yale's first man. Dobby Bur-
they are serving the most brutal gibility cards to petition for candi- Contid P
warmongers of all time. They have dacy. (C inueonPage 4)
preached 'peace' in the same way the This semester a $.50 filing fee will
devil can quote scripture. F t c ie
devl cn qotescrptue.be charged all those seeking a place IF
"Of course, the purpose of all this on the ballot. One dollar will be re-
has been to spread the terror among turned if the candidate is not suc- ePo
us. The effect of it has been only cessful. Otherwise the dollar will betNyProposal
to fortify our determination," Iapplied towards a Student Senate
Coupling together a denunciation key. Petitions will be accepted in For R ush ng
of dictators and Naziism with a re- Room 304 of the Union.
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Development And Organization
Discissed At Co-op Conference
sentative girl is to be judged: in- I --
telligence, personality, poise, activi- I
ties, beauty and scholarship. I "Development and Implications of labor. The keynoting speech of the1
Each college participating in the Cooperatives" and "Specific Problems convention was delivered by Edward
relays has been invited to send a con- in the Organization of Cooperatives" Fried, '41, Chairman of the Inter-
estant, and the winner in a grand were the main problems discussed Cooperative Council, after the dele-
contest will rule over the Relays. yecterday during the first day's meet- gates were welcomed by Miss Zunk,i
In Wednesday's election, ten nom- ing of the first annual Michigan Co- Inter-Cooperative Education Chair-
inees will be chosen. From these nom- operative Conference in the Michigan man, who is in charge of the con-
inees three winners will be selected in Union. ference.
the final April 9 vote. Michigan's The ecnference, which is sponsored At 4 p.m. there was a panel dis-
representative girl will then be judged by the University of Michigan Inter- cussion upon the relation of the co-
from these three by a group of repre- Cooperative Council, is a state-wide operative method to expansion. Par-
sentative Michigan men, named by parley on the problems besetting all ticipating were Betty Guntley, '41,
the 'Ensian. consumer cooperatives. Jean Fairfax, '42, and Joshua Doma-
R Lshevitzky, Grad.
Rev. H. L. Pickerill, local coopera- Today's programs will include re-
Tickets To Go On SAe tive leadei', gave the address on the ports and summaries from the discus-
Tickets for Plav Production 's nres-, development and implications of co- son -rou ts. frefnifiono ft he
*Orders for commencement an-
nouncemnents are being taken by sen-
iolr5 in the College of Engineering to-
morrow and Tuesday on the sec-
ond floor of the West Engineering
Building above the Arch and Thurs-
day and Friday in the lobby of the
East Engineering Building.
The announcements, which will be
sold by all schools and colleges be-
fore graduation, contain a schedule
of commencemerr activities, a list of
University officers and a list of those
students who are graduating. The an-
nouncements are not invitations to
the June ceremonies.
Two announcements are being sold,
one of which is only for students in
the School of Dentistry, the Law
School and the School of Medicine.
This second book, in addition, lists
the members of the faculties of these
schols
By A. P. BLAUSTEINI
Denouncing "buck-passing" andl
partisan government, Gov. Murray D.
Van Wagoner declared at an Alumni
Reunion luncheon here yesterday
that if certain flaws in the state's
governmental structure were not
eliminated "it would be because a
certain few influential legislators
were putting partisanship ahead of
the needs and desires of the whole
people."
"There is a need," the Governor
asserted; "to adopt a centralized tax
collection agency, to revise our ab-
ominable intangible tax law, to take
politics out of the department of agri-
culture, to provide a fair educational
a 11tmpvnts a d a.hiima-a-. itian-, nrl
Governor Flails B uck-Passing'
In Alumni Luncheon Address
real issue in labor controversies "is
whether or not one side is sharing the
burdens and advantages equally with
the other side" and added that the
approach to the problem was the en-
gineering approach, "the search for
facts before making statements."
"We sorely need in public life to-
day men whose ethics are high, and
who can make the factual, planning
approach to governmental problems,"
he said, adding that the engineer was
the man trained to fill these quali-
fications.
Claiming that tIle modern world
was an engineering world, Governor
Van Wagoner praised the University's
engineering faculty for realizing the
Michigan fraternities may have a
new rushing system next year if the
Interfraternity Council accepts a
resolution prepared yesterday by an
assembly of fraternity meri in Greek
Week's rushing panel.
The new plan calls for "split ses-
sion" rushing. According to Norman
Call, '42, who headed the panel, rush-
ing would begin with a two-day open
house period at all fraternities. This
would be followed by a week o; "re-
stricted" rushing during which each
rushee is to be allowed only a cer-
tain number of dates with each
house.
A two-day silence period would
follow, in which time fraternities
would send invitations to well-liked
rushees -who would then return dur-
ing the second week of rushing, a
concentrated rushing period, similar
to the system now existing. During
this second week, there would be no
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