y_ Weather V'Y Cloudy and Warmer Fit tiatn Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication I atii Editorial An Editorial .. . VOL. LI. No. 157 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1941 Z-32 m Z32 PRICE FIVE CENTS I Track Team Beats An Editorial London Suffers Another osU 90-,41; Nine Defeats Illinois, 7-2 I Tennis Squad Takes Nintli Straight Victory; Trounc BuckeyeNetters, 7-2 Breidenbach Sets Half Mile Record By BOB STAHL Starting off in high gear and gain- ing added momentum in every event the powerful'Wolverine track jugger- naut rolled over a hard-striving crew of invaders from Ohio State at Ferry Field yesterdlay to the-.tune of a lop- sided score of 90-41. Setting a new dual meet record in one event, Michigan gave up first place in only four contests and proved that it will offer plenty of opposi- tion to Indiana, the Big Ten indoor champions, in the Conference meet at Minneapolis next weekend. Warren Breidenbach, Michigan's ace midde-distance runner, cap- tured the spotlight honors for yester- day. Entered in the half-mile Breid- enbach set a new dual meet record of 1:52.4 seconds, which is also the fastest time this distance has ever been covered by a Michigan varsity runner. Buckeye Capt. Les Eisen- hatwas withdrawn from the list of entrnts in the 880 just before the race started and Breidenbach's early lead was never threatened by the others, which, coupled with the fact that he was bucking a strong wind all the way makes his feat utill more ;impressive. The Buckeyes' speedy blond timber- topper, Bob Wright, gained individual scoring honors for the day, leading the field to the tape in both the high and low hurdles. Wright had it all his own way in the highs, coming in several yards ahead of' Michigan's Frank McCarth 'n the smaller (Continued on Page 3) Wolverines Smash Illinois, 72 By ART HILL Wally Roettger,. Illinois baseball coach, sent two pitchers to the mound in an attempt to make it two in a row over Michigan yesterday but he made the mistake of using the best hurler in a relief role after the Wol- verines had already clinched a '7-2 victory. , Johnny Drish, who started for the Illini, was ineffective and the locals cuffed him for six hits and six runs before he retired with none out in the sixth. He was relieved by-Chuck Campbell who set the Wolverines down without a hit in the last three innings, fanning six of the last seven men to face him. The Wolverines were paced by the slugging of Dick Wakefield who rapped a home run and a single, the ir uit clout coming in the third in- ning with one aboard to give Michi- gan ai 3-2 lead which they never re- linquished. It was a trenmendous drive, the longest hit ever made at Ferry Field, according to Ray Fish- er, the Michigan coach. Mickey Stoddard, who went the distance on' the hill for Michigan, gave up seven hits and three walks but none of the bingles was good for more than one base. He was never in trouble except in the second inning when the visitors made both their runs. Michigan scored first, pushinig a (Continued on Page 3) Varsity Netters Win Over Ohio State By DICK SIMON Coach Leroy Weir's varsity netters continued to play excellent tennis as they garnered their sixth straight Conference win by soundly trounc- ing Ohio State's heretofore unbeaten squad, 7-2, yesterday on. the Palmer Field courts. It was the Wolverines' 12th victory in 13 starts and their ninth consecu- tive triumph of the season. North Carolina is the only team that has been able to register a victory over the Maize and Blue and that came early during the southern campaign. Jerry Rosenthal, number three man of the Buckeyes, helped account for both of Ohio State's points by beat- ing Jim Porter in singles, 6-1, 6-1, and then teaming with John Lewis. Center Holds Open House To morrow The International Center will con- clude its scheduled activities for the year with an open house from 7:30 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at the Intra- mural Building. Both sport and cultural exhibitions will be featured at the Second Annual ,International Night. The evening's program will be a cross-section of the Center's activities during the year and also has the purpose of acquaint- ing foreign students with the Intra- mrral Building. the open house will be free to the public, and guides will be dressed in their picturesque native costumes. A diving demonstration will be given by the Varsity swimming team while two American-Japanese students, Mi- nom Togasaki, Grad., and Taft Y. Toribara, Brad., will put on a Jiu Jitsu exhibition. A Turkish soccer team will be pre- sented with the trophy for winning the Center's fall championship. There will also be tennis, handball and squash events. Heifetz Recital Wins Applause Of Audience' University's Thor Johnson Conducts Final Concert As May Festival Ends READERS OF THE DAILY will have noticed that since the new editors have taken over, the word "acking" has not been used to describe the Regents' by-law which increases faculty-alumni voting power on the Pub- lications Board as compared to student members from a 4-3 ratio to an 8-3 ratio. The reason is not that the new editors do not feel that such a Board will be dominated by the older generation-Prof. Axel Marin, who headed the University Council committee which drafted the revision, frankly tells us that he believes it must be so-but rather because the word "packing" connotes motives on the part of the committee to stifle student expression in The Daily. Such is not the case, we think, so we have written this edi- torial to discuss the issues, not impugn the motives, behind the reorgan- zation plan. FRANKLY, the editors believe that The Daily and the student body which elects the student members to the Publications Board are intended to become the wards of a benevolent dictatorship of the older generation. According to Professor Marin the new faculty dominated Board would not, interfere with the expression of student opinion except to require ad- herence to The Daily code of ethics. The editors believe Professor Marin and the Council committee in what they say, but we should like to ask, first, why must a faculty dominated Board administer a code of ethics formulated by students to govern themselves-and, is not the present Publications Board of three students and four'faculty members capable of seeing that the editors "toe the line" of the code of ethics? That's the question we asked Professor Marin. Keep it in mind as we discuss his answers. * ~ * * * THE DAILY CODE OF ETHICS was formulated by the two preceding senior staffs together after there had been some complaints about Daily practices. It was drawn up by students to regulate themselves, and the direct responsibility for living up to it has been assumed as an im- portant part of the senior editors' job. Last fall the senior editors were charged with violating a portion of the code, and were duly censured by the present Publications Board of three students and four faculty. All members of the Board voted the editors guilty, though the student members favored a more moderate pun- ishment than was subsequently administered. Here, as in the overwhelm- ing majority of the Board's actions, the decision was a result of the com- bined intelligence of students and faculty. Why then should such a set-up be abandoned, and for it be substituted a Board of six faculty, three students and two alumni? THE FIRST REASON that the Council committee gives is that the facul- ty are more "mature" than the students. Yet in fact the question of faculty or student maturity per se has never arisen in the Publications Board. Both faculty and student members of the Board have told us that the overwhelming majority of the Board's decisions have not been along faculty-student lines. The question as to who is more "mature" on the Board is simply not a germane question. And if, in that very ex- ceptional case, students and faculty do disagree with each other as a body, the faculty will have the say every time as the Board is now constituted. The second reason given for the change further develops our thesis that fundamentally there is, and need not be, any abyss between the inter- ests of the faculty and students if only they be allowed to discuss these in- terests on a basis of equality. The committee says that The Daily property is owned by the University, and that The Daily is taken to a degree as the opinion of the University. But who may we ask is'the University? Is it solely the faculty? No, and neither is it solely students and alumni, but, rather, all of them together constitute the institution of the University. Though it has not been sufficiently recognized, the students have as much of a vested interest in the welfare of the University as do the faculty. Why then should it be implied that they will misuse University property, or why imply that students will misrepresent that University by word of mouth or through a college newspaper. Such a situation is conceivable only if students are made to feel that they are not a part of the University, that they are only wards to be handled by a faculty who must dominate them. Not only may students curse the University under their breath in such a situation, but others may too-for example the state-wide distributed De- troit newspapers-who are more antagonistic when they feel they must deal with an institution dominated by faculty alone, rather than a faculty- student controlled endeavor such as the Michigan Daily. WHEN PROFESSOR MARIN was asked why he thought more students. should not be added to the Board if, as it was suggested, more faculty were added to "achieve additional viewpoints," he said that he thought three students adequately represented the viewpoints of students. Why four faculty do not sufficiently represent approximately 800 of their number, and three students sufficiently represent about 11,000 students (Continued on Page 4) Savage Tobe y Plan Nazi Air Attack; Defeat Seen ! ) v _- Informal Polls Indicate Anti-Convoy Pr op os al Lacks Majority Vote Senator Stands Pat Despiteoppositiqu By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Mpy 10.-UP)- Some backers of the Tobey Anti- Convoy Resolution conceded today 'that it faced almost certain defeat and undertook to dissuade the author, Senator Tobey (Rep-NH), from press- ing it to a Senate vote. With informal polls indicating that supporters could muster less than 40 votes for the proposal, Senator Nye (Rep-ND) told reporters he was "afraid it hasn't a chance." Nye said he was attempting to con- vince Tobey that he ought not to offer the resolution as an amend- ment to an Administration-sponsored bill which would permit the govern- ment to take over dile foreign ships in American harbors. Tobey, however, was reported standing pat on his announced inten- tion of following this course despite indications that such leading op- ponents of convoys of Senator Wheel- er (D-Mont) and Johnson (Rep- Calif) also opposed the move. A development expected to figure extensively in the Senate debate on the ship bill was a disclosure that Chairman Emory S. Land of the Maritime Commission had advised the Senate Commerce Committee that some seized ships might be put to use under their own crews, but with American guards aboard. Land also told the committee last Thursday that some of the foreign ships might be chartered "and used in the blackout area if they run un- der their own flag." He said, however, that no ships with American guards - to be Navy or coast guardsmen - would be sent into the war zone. The testimony made public by the Senate Committee did not elaborate on the possible use of ships under their regular crews. It was discovered, however, that some Danish seamen had volunteered to sail in American trade. The American guards'presum- ably would be aboard such ships to assure that they were not sailed to Axis ports. The split among opponents of con- voys over whether an attempt should be made to attach the Tobey Reso- lution to the ships bill was widespread. Z I. I Editor To Talk On Isolationist Question Here Bombing Called Reprisal For Attacks On Berlin; Damage Is Widespread RAF Claims 33 A crescendo of applause rang down on Jascha Heifetz, famed violinist, yesterday after his rendition of the difficult and seldom-played Concerto in D minor, b'ut it failed to draw the expected encore. After the violinist had been called back again and again, he finally ap- peared on the stage without his in- strument and the audience *vas balked. But all was not lost as far as the audience was concerned. The last note of Sibelius' First Symphony had scarcely died away, when a deafening ovation began and did not stop until Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, held up his hand for silence. "I know you all want an encore,"E Ormandy told the expectant 5,000 people, "and you shall have one." The encore proved to be the popular "Fin- landia" and the music lovers went home happy. Pretty Jarmila Novotna made a hit with the audience at the evening con- cert and Tenor Charles Kullman, as Lenski, in Tschaikovsky's Episodes from "Eugene Onegin," drew a good round of applause for his perfor- mance. The male members of the Univer- sity Choral Union, wearing formal at- tire and sitting three-deep in the rear of the stage, made a colorful con- trast with the women who occupied both sides in, various evening gowns. Thor Johnson took the podium to lead the Philadelphia Orchestra in the final concert. The final flourish of his baton concluded this year's May Festival series. Torch Vicetim NOW Identified Charred Body Is Thought To Be Detroit Woman Charred remains of a body and the contents of a purse found on a farm near Manchester late Thursday after- noon by two small boys were identi- fied yesterday as Hazel Briggs, 38, of Detroit. Missing since April 10, Miss Briggs' Four Orchestras,, Famous Artists To Appear In Choral Union Series KARL DETZER Isolationist arguments will under- go critical examination on two oc- casions tomorrow when Karl Detzer, Roving Editor of the Reader's Digest, will speak on "Let Us Face the Truth" at 4:30 p.m, in the Rackham Lec- ture Hall, and, at 9:45 p.m., when he will join with Prof. James K. Pollock of the political science department over station WJR in a discussion of "Shall We Let Hitler Win?" The talk at 4:30 is under the aus- pices of the Ann Arbor chapter of the Committee To Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Prof. Bradley M. Davis of the botany department, chairman. Theradio discussion, in which Lee Hardy, '41, and Robert Ingalls, '42, will take part, will hear Detzer pre- sent his answer to the views of iso- (Continued on Page 7) New Of ficers Are Announced For Wolverine Prof. Mueschke, Spooner, Sibley, Phillips, Donnelly And Westbrook Elected The Board of Directors of the Michigan 'Wolverine, with four new members elected at the annual busi- ness meeting here last Monday, has completed its reorganization and yes- terday afternoon announced election of officers for the coming school year. The new board members are Robert Sibley, '42E, Al Phillips, '43A, and Phil Westbrook, '43L, elected for two years, and Paul Donnelly, '42E, elected for one year. The board is composed of seven students and two faculty mem- bers. Prof. Paul Mueschke of the Eng- lish department and Mr. Charles W. Spooner of the engineering college were elected faculty members of the board, Prof. Muschke for two years and Mr. Spooner for one. The student- members carried over from last year are John Scheibe, '42M,. F. Arthur Kepka, '41L, and John Spencer, '42BAd. At their first meeting the new board re-elected Scheibe president and elected Sibley vice-president and sec- retary. Sibley, Donnelly and West- brook were named to the executive committee. The executive committee is the body which carries on the busi- ness of the corporation between meet- ings of the Board of Directors. The next job before the board is the appointment of a~ministrative officers. 'Flying Grandmother' Grounded By Accident BLYTHBE, Calif., May 10.-)- Raiders Downed (By The Associated Press) LONDON, May 11.-Roaring fires set by hordes of Nazi bombers en- gulfed whole blocks in London this morning and a gray pall of smoke hung over the battered city as dawn brought an end to a deadly reprisal raid in which the British said 33 German warplanes were shot down, The raiders, racing through bril- liantly moonlit skies, appeared short- ly after midnight and loosed thous- ands of incendiaries -and their biggest explosives on the capital in one of the hardest assaults of the war. The all clear sounded just before dawn, after six hours of bombs. Dazed Londoners watched firemen battle to stem the march of the greedy flames set by the raiders but whole blocks of buildings blaed skyward with gigantic roars and columns of smoke mounted into the sky to cover the bombed sections with a funereal pall. The full moon which lighted the heavens, was an ally of the raiders but proved a good hunting compan ion for the night fighters, too, the British said, crediting them with bag- ging 31 Nazi warplanes during the night. Anti-aircraft guns got two others, bringing to 124 the total of raiding planes shot down at night thus far in May. With casualties mounting, large concentrations of the Luftwaffe raged for several hours across the sky un- der the light of a full moon, start- ing fires and then raining explosives into the very center of the flames. A stiff breeze billowed smoke, flames and sparks across the metro- polis, clouding the brilliant moon which reached full stage this morning. The sound of the zooming planes, the incendiaries and the blasting orce of bombs from huge Molotov 'askets felt hundreds of yards away made the night hideous for the empire capital. The RAF night fighters, who have bagged a major share of the 124 Ger- man bombers shot down so far at night this month, played a part in attempting to break the full force of the Nazi attack. Their spluttering nachine guns were frequently heard amidst the roar of the planes and bombs., Dirama Tickets To Go On Sale 'Male Animal' Will Start Rehearsals On Monday Single performance tickets for the 1941 Dramatic Season will go on sale tomorrow at the box office of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in. the Michigan League, it was announced yesterday by Mrs. Lucille Walz, busi- ness manager of the festival. Season tickets may still be obtained through the first week of the show. Contrary to popular opinion, good seats are still available for all per- formances, she emphasized. As in previous years,,great interest in the dramatic festival is shown by the many ticket orders received not only from towns in Michigan, but those in Ohio and Indiana as well. Rehearsals for the first play of the season wil begin Monday as ac- tors arrive in town by car, train and plane tp begin work on "The Male Animal." Several new stars have been signed to support Conrad Nagel, Leon Ames and Ruth Matteson, who will take leading roles. Matt Biggs will con- tinue his interpretation of Ed Keller, Ivan Simpson will come from New York to play Dean Damon and Robert Scott will also perform. Scott is well- known for his nortraval of Mistol, I 4 i