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VOL. I.. No. 163 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1941 Z-323
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Track Team Loses
Big Ten Title; Nine
Beats Indiana, 8-3
'Male Animal'To Open
1941 Drama Festival
Nagel Will Take Leading Role In Initial Presentation
Of Twelfth Annual Play Season Tomorrow
German Bombers Attack
British Positions In Iraq;
U.S. EyesFrench Islands
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Illinois Hands Linksmnen
'First Conference Loss
Of Season,_231/2-121/2
Indiana's 48 Points.
Win Track Crown
By BOB STAHL
(Special to The Daily)
MINNEAPOLIS, May 17.-Fighting
desperately all the way in a vain
attempt to overcome the lead built
up by Indiana in the first two events,
the Wolverine track team went down
to defeat at the hands of the Hoos-
iers, 48-43, in the 41st annual Big
Ten outdoor track meet, held at
Memorial Stadium here today.
It was Indiana's individual stars
who gave them their first Western
Conference outdoor title since 1936.
Campbell Kane sensational Indiana
middle-distance star, accomplished
?n almost super-human feat in win-
ning both mile and half-mile, and
setting a new Big Ten record of
1:51.3 seconds in the half. The Hoos-
iers also gained a second place in the
mile when Paul Kendall followed
Kane to the tape. Michigan's hopes
were dealt a severe blow in the second
event of the afternoon, when Indiana
again placed first and second in the
440 ;yard dash, this time little Roy
Cochran and Marc Jenkins doing the
honors.
The best Michigan could do in the
quarter-mile, in which they had ex-
pected to place at least second, was
forth and fifth.
Even above all expectations, the
half-mile was the most brilliant race
of the day. Runnng like a thorough-
bred, Warren Breidenbach, the fast-
est half-miler in Michigan's history
took an early lead with a very fast
start. Kane, the lanky Hoosier star,
was boxed in by Wolverines Dave
Matthews and Bill Ackerman on the
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Indiana Succumbs
To Wolverine Bats
By MIKE DANN
The Wolverine bats which have
been strangely silent for tie last few
games came to life today long enough
to pound out an 8-3 victory over
Indiana.
Big Cliff Wise's six hit pitching
gave the Varsity an even break in
the series with the Hoosiers and
strengthened Michigan's first place
hold in the conference standings.-
The Wolverines chased Hoosier
pitcher Don Hundley from the game
with a five run blast in the fifth
inning and scored enough runs to win
themselves a ball game. The local lads
were extremely fortunate that they
scored seven runs off Hundley in the
four innings he worked, because
troublesome Don Dunker, who re-
lieved him, held Michigan to one run
and two hits. Dunker was the lad who
beat the Varsity yesterday, 6-5.
Michigan had a one run lead going
into the fifth inning and it was be-
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Golfers Drop First
Conference Match
(Special to The Daily)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 17.-Mich-
igan's varsity golfers took it on the
chin from a Big Ten opponent for
the first time here today when they
lost 23%/2 to 12% to powerful Western
Conference Champions Illinois.
Losing their third match of the Sea-
son out of ten starts, Michigan's
green linksmen added more evidence
to the long-proved maxim, "exper-
ience counts." The defending cham-!
pions had just a little too much past
intercollegiate experience for Coach-
Ray Courtright's boys.
Ben Smith and Johnny Barr led
the Wolverines, each with 148 for the
day's two 18-hole rounds, with Bob
Fife closely following with 149.
The invading Wolverine eightsome
held their own in the morning four-
ball matches. Bob Fife, coming
through with his season's lowest score,
a 69, and teammate Dave Osler took
three points from John fBuzick and,
Inter frate r it y
Song Tryouts
Are Scheduled
Asking that all houses make a spec-
ial effort to be on time, the committee
in charge of the Interfraternity Sing
has announced the tryout schedule
for the elimination contests to be
held tomorrow at the Union and
League.
Scheduled to try out at the Union
are Psi Upsilon at 7 p.m., Zeta Psi
at 7:10, Beta Theta Pi at 7:20, Al-
pha Sigma Phi at 7:30, Sigma Chi
at 7:40, Kappa Sigma at 7:50, Al-
pha Delta Phi at 8 and Theta Delta
Chi at 8:10 p.m.
Tryouts at the League will be Phi
Gamma Delta at 7 p.m., Theta Xi
at 7:10, Alpha Tau Omega at 7:20,
Delta Upsilon at 7:30, Zeta Beta
Tau at 7:40, 'Phi Delta Theta at
7:50, Pi Lambda Phi at 8, Sigma Phi
at 8:10 and Acacia at 8:20 p.m.
Working on the committee in
charge bf the sing are John Fauver,
'43E, Tom Poyser, '43E, Jim Wolf,
'43, John Fletcher, '43, and Aaron
Kahn, '42.
Tag Day Fund
Nearing Quota
Contributions Now Total
More Than $1,200
With $1283.73 already counted and
with more money yet to come in, the
University Fresh Air Camp committee
views the realization of its 1941 Tag
Day goal of $1500.
Students stationed at various points
on the campus yesterday took in
$1081.68, sororities collected $74.35
and fraternities, $48.50, and mer-
chants handed in $79.20. The goal, set
by Prof. H. N. Menefee of the ,me-
chanical engineering department, di-
rector of the camp, will be even near-
er when collections from 30 fratern-
ities and two campus stations have
been turned in.
Total weight of the contributions
was 123 pounds. It was gat.hered
through the cooperation of a number
of student organizations, directed by
the Fresh Air Camp committee.
As a result, more than 300 under-
privileged boys from Ann Arbor, De-
troit, Jackson and Flint will be able
to attend the University Fresh Air
Camp on the shores of Patterson
Lake this summer.
First organized 20 years ago, the
Camp, besides providing a four-week's
vacation for city boys, serves as a
laboratory for graduate students of
psychology, education and sociology,
who work with the students as camp
counsellors and study their problems.
Year-around counsellors follow up
the cases, of each boy after he leaves
the camp, and give advice during the
entire year.
. rrny Will Train
University Pilots
In Separate Units
WASHINGTON, May 17-(IP)-The
Army, ordering an intensive cam-
pus recruiting campaign for air corps
pilots, announced today a decision
to train flying cadets from each col-
lege as an individual unit.
The decision was admittedly in-
tended as an incentive to qualify
youths to become army pilots. The
Army did not say so, but it appeared
it might also mean carrying college
athletic rivalries into flight training
with, for instance, the Cornell squad-
ron vying with a Pennsylvania outfit
in progress.
Cadets for the same city also will
be trained together, raising the possi-
bility that the "Bronx bombers" may
soon mean an air corps unit as well
as a baseball team.
Instruction went to corps area com-
manders to concentrate recruiting ef-
frtse o n idents in the few vmrain-
By GLORIA NISHON
When the curtain rises at 8:30 p.m.
tomorrow Ann Arbor audiences will
be seeing their twelfth annual drama
festival as the 1941 Dramatic Season
opens its run with the first of the
five plays, "The Male Animal," star-
ring 'Conrad Nagel.
"Skylark" starring Ilka Chase,
"Ladies in. Retirement," with Ruth
Gordon, "Man and Superman" with
Madge Evans, and "Golden Boy" with
Luther Adler and Sylvia Sidney will
be the other plays on the Season's
program.
Key Actors To Appear
Appearing with Nagel in Thurber
and Nugent's hilarious comedy of
college life are all of the key actors
of. the original Broadway cast. Ruth
Matteson will play the distracted wife
of shy academic Professor Joe Turner,
portrayed by Nagel.
Leon Ames, who has been ill for a
large part of this week, has recovered
and will take over his part of the
demon ex-football player, while Matt
Briggs will continue in his role as
the stadium-boosting trustee who ab-
hors anything red.
Robert Scott, also of the original
players, will enact the part of the
college editor, and Ivan Simpson, the
oppressed Dean. Others in the cast
include Perry Wilson, Eula Belle
Moore and Dorothy Blackburn.
Nagel Here Monday
Conrad Nagel, because of his con-
mittments to "The Silver Theatre of
the Air," which he has been directing,
was unable to step into his role as
the professor until Monday when he
started learning his lines. The hard
work and long hours the entire cast
has been putting in at rehearsals will
. undoubtedly show results when the
play opens Monday.
Ada McFarland, '42, Whitfield Con-
School Board
Will Select New
Superintendent
Trustees To Hold Special
Conference Wednesday
On Haisley's Successor
Ann Arbor's Board of Education
continued yesterday in its determined
effort to make final the dismissal of
School Superintendent Otto W. Hais-
ley.
President of the board, V. E. Van
Amerigen, announced that a special
meeting of the trustees will be held
next Wednesday night at which time
a committee will be appointed "to
take under consideration the hiring
of a new superintendent of schools."
Haisley has already petitioned the
board for an official hearing so that
he might be allowed for the first
time to present his case. The superin-
tendent did not attend the part of the
meeting last Wednesday in which hie
was ousted. He has had no opportun-
ity therefore, to formally defend him-
self.
Another reason for the hearing, ac-
cording to Haisley, is so that every-
one concerned may hear the board's
real grounds for his dismissal.
Van Ameringen said that the trus-
tees would also consider Haisley's pe-
tition in their coming session.
What attitude the board would take
in this matter could not be deter-
mined. Van Ameringen refused to
comment, asserting that "the board
members must settle it for them-
selves and I cannot speak for tt'em."
The four other trustees who voted
for the ouster were just as reluctant
to make any statement until the
meeting next Wednesday. The ques-
tion was raised, however, by George
Sidwell, a board member who voted
in favor of retention, as to whether
it would be possible to' find a com-
petent man to replace Haisley.
"There seems to be an attitude in
some circles that all we need do is
advertise for a superintendent and we
will be overrun with competent men,"
he said. "Such an attitude, however,
seems to me to have no basis in fact.
Great difficulty is apt to be encoun-
tered."
Neil Staebler, local businessman,
has announced another meeting of
Chinese Students Will Sponsor
Final Drive For Relief Funds
CONRAD NAGEL
nor, Grad., and Norman Oxhandler,
'42, all students of Play Production,
will take minor roles in the show.
"The Male Animal," acclaimed as
one of the most amusing hits of the
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'Engine School
Aid Recipients
Are Announced
College Releases Names
Of 37 Students Picked {
To HaveScholarships
Thirty-seven student in the College
of Engineering were named to re-
ceive grants under one of five dif-
ferent engineering scholarships yes-
terday.
Named to receive the Simon Men-
dlebaum Scholarship of approximate-
ly $375 were Charles E. Goodell, War-
ren M. Parris and Thaine W. Rey-
nolds, all '43E. The scholarship is
awarded on the basis of character,
necessity for financial aid and schol-
arship.
Harriet Eveleen Hunt Scholarships
were awarded to Harold Ludlow Eh-
lers, '42E, Sylvester Paul Gentile,
'43E, Leland James Quackenbush,
'42E, David Fillmore Robertson, '43E,
and David Carl Wohlander, '42E.
Established in 1937 by Ormand E.
Hunt, a University graduate in en-
gineering, these scholarships are an-
nually awarded to students who are
American citizens enrolled in the Col-
lege of Engineering, wholly or partial-
ly self-supporting and who have com-
pleted at least 45 semester hours of
work with an average of at least 2.5.
Donald Charles Loveys, '41E, was
selected to receive the Boyer Schol-
arship, set up by Mrs. Henry E. Cand-
ler in memory of her father, Joseph
Boyer, for the benefit of a member
of the junior or senior class in the
engineering college who is wholly or
partially self-supporting.
Awarded the Robert Campbell Gem-
mell Scholarships were James Dean
Campbell, Howard William Kamme-
raade and William Edward Pickard,
all A4E. Qualifications for the award
are 15 hours of work with an average
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By GEORGE W. SALLADE
University Chinese students will
sponsor tag days on Friday and Sat-
urday for Chinese civilian relief in
conjunction with Michigan's "China
Sunday," set by Gov. Murray D. Van
Wagoner in an official proclamation
for May 25..
According to Cheng K. Tsang,
Grad., president of the University of
Michigan Chinese Students Club, the
tag day drives will be the final con-
tribution of local Chinese students to
the United China Relief campaign
which climaxes with "China Sunday."
Families Impoverished
Many of the students are sons and
daughters of wealthy families who
have been impoverished by the war.
Although organized into a single club
unit they live in dormitories, room-
ing houses and fraternities just as
the American students.
Several Michigan alumni have re-
turned to China to take their place
in the ruling hierarchy. Dr. Yi-Fang-
Wu, a former university co-ed is a
member of the five-member ruling
Chungking, Praesidium. In Hong Kong
there is a large alumni club.
The campus Chinese group, largest
of any in universities outside of
China proper, has already exchanged
letters with Governor Van Wagoner
thanking him for his help in the
relief drive by setting a day especially
for that purpose.
Ambulances Donated
In the past two years local Chinese
students with the generous contribu-
tions of the townspeople have been
able to collect sufficient funds to pur-
chase two ambulances for service in
China. In 1938 an opera and concert
Stimson, Knox
Are Defeatistsi
Sen. ,Taft Sys
WASHINGTON, May 17.-(.P)-
Senator Taft (Rep-Ohio) said tonight
that "the real defeatists in this coun-
try are Secretaries Stimson and Knox
who say that this country, with the
greatest natural resources and the
greatest productive capacity in the
world, is unable to defend itself with-
out the British NTavy."
"Knox," Taft said in an address
prepared for an NBC broadcast, "is
openly for war." The Senatorcquoted
Stimson as advocating "the use of our
navy to make the seas secure for the
delivery of our munitions to Great
Britain."
The latter course, he added, "means
the destruction of German submar-
ines, airplanes and raiders which may
attack British ships over in EuropeaiL
waters."
"That," he said, "is frankly war.',
Taft prefaced his application of the
word "defeatists" to Knox and Stim-
son with an assertion that President
Roosevelt had called Charles A. Lind-
bergh a "defeatist" for saying that
England could not win.
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netted $600 and a Chinese Christmas
card sale $400. In 1939 a bazaar and
ice cream social brought $2300 while
another card sale contributed $200.
At the present time the most con-
servative estimate places the number
of refugees in the China war zone at
40 millions. There is a pressing need
for medical supplies sch as drugs,
ambulances and anesthetics. Food
and clothing are also sadly lacking.
The majority of China's universities
have been destroyed by war action,
but progress is still being made in
education. Money obtained by the
tag day efforts may eventually be
used to aid struggling Chinese stu-
dents desiring to come to the United
States.
The United China Relief group
has set its goal at $5,000,000. The na-
tional effort numbers among its lead-
ers Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas
W. Lamont, John D. Rockefeller,III,
Wendell L. Willkie, Mrs. Pearl S. Buck
and William C. Bullitt. - Madame
Chiang Kai-Shek has previously ex-
pressed the public gratitude of China
for American aid.
Meter System
Called Unfair
By Governor
Van Wagoner, Karpinski
Agree On Detroit Gas
CompanyControversy
Governor Van Wagoner made clear
yesterday that he agreed with Prof.
Louis C. Karpinski of the faculty that
the metering system followed by the
Michiga6 Consolidated Gas Company
in serving the Detroit area is "un-
fair," it was reported in the Detroit
News.
The Governor's statement followed
receipt of a telegram from Karpin-
ski, Prof. John H. Muyskens and L.
A. Wike, local druggist, asking that
the Public Service Commission be
dismissed as incompetent in protect-
ing the public interest in the matter
of gas rates.
The chief executive said he has dis-
cussed the "DGU" system which has
been in effect in Detroit since the in-
troduction of natural gas with en-
gineers.
"There is no reason for a compli-
cated rate base that only a Philadel-
phia engineer can figure out," he
said. "Any consumer should be able
to tell from his own meter how much
gas lie has used and what his bill
will be."
He pointed out that he has asked
the Public Service Commission to re-
view its recent decision to increase
the rates for gas used for house heat-
ing purposes.
"It would be unfair to the many
people who installed gas furnaces in
the expectation that natural gas was
going to mean lower, not higher
rates," he said.
Word also came from Lansing that
Representative Frank J. Calvert, of
Highland Park, is expected to try to
attach his bill limiting the penalty
for delinquent payment of gas billas
to 10 per cent, to a House bill re-
quiring gas consumption to be billed
according to British thermal units.
Calvert has hitherto been unsuccess-
ful in attempting to pry his bill out
of the House Utilities Committee.
Fourth Platoon Wins
NROTC Sailing Meet
The Fourth Platoon was the win-
ner yesterday afternoon of the first
Inter-Platoon Regatta of the NROTC;
it's boat, skippered by William Mac-
coun, '43E,I piled up a total of 10%/
points.
Platoon Three was second, with 9
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Syria, Lebanon To Protest
RAF Raids On Airports
Used ByHitler's Planes
Senators Advance
Seizure Suggestion
BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 17.-(P)
Bombers presumed to be German and
Italian attacked the British positions
in Iraq today in a stern resurgende
of the war in that oil-wealthy king-
dom.
The pro-Axis Iraq government,
which has heretofore been on its
own" in the 16 days of fighting with
Britain, claimed results were vastly
successful, notably that the British
air base at Dhibban on Lake Habban-
iyah was set afire, and said Iraq
land forces were locked in battle with
the British at Basra.
What remains of the Dhibb (Ein
El Debane) base after heav Iraqi
shelling was badly damaged by the
bombers, and several British planes
were destroyed, the Iraqi said.
Axis Not Mentioned
The Iraq communique, received
here from Baghdad, did not mention
the Axis in any way, but its an-
nouncement of the air war was the
first since the British last week an-
nounced virtual annhilation of the
small Iraq air force, and it was a-
knowledged here that Axis planes al-
ready had gone to Iraq.
(Rome dispatches said Italian
planes had reached Iraq.)
General Henri Dentz, high commis-
sioner from Vichy to the French
Mandated States of Syria and Leban-
on, said the Axis planes which stopped
off at airdromes in these two coun-
tries. en route to Iraq had all de-
parted, and he thus hoped there
would be no repetition of the Wed-
nesday, Thursday and Friday attacks
on Syrian and Lebanese airdromes by
the British.
The Axis planes - he mentioned
15 of them - merely were forced
down in these countries while in tran-
sit to Iraq, he asserted. He has pro-
tested to the British Consul General
at Damascus, and, the Syrian and
Lebanese airdromes by the British.
British Gain Initiative
(The British, however, said in Lon-
don that they had gained the initia
tive by raiding the airdromes and
would continue to do so until they'
were useless to the Germans and
Italians. In Cairo, the British mid-
dle east command said the situation
"remains quiet" in both the Basra ad±
Habbaniyah areas.)
Planes of the pro-British free-
French forces continued today to
scatter pamphlets throughout Syria
and Lebanon, calling on Frenchmen
and natives to join them against the
Axis.
The French communique said the
British bombed Palmyra airport in
Syria on Wednesday and Thursday
"without any warning," and Rayak,
just east of Beirut, on Thursday,
"despite the fact that no German
planes landed there."
Senators Advance
Seizure Suggestion
WASHINGTON, May 17. -(IP) -
Four Democrats on the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee -- Clark
of Missouri, Reynolds of North Caro-
lina, Pepper of Florida and Murray,
of Montana - suggested today that
the United States take over French
islands possessions in this hemisphere.
While differing widely on other
foreign policies, the four agreed, in
seperate interviews; that this coun-
try should assume control of the
French possessions in view of Marshal
Petain's talk of collaboration with
Berlin.
"The boa constrictor is tightening
his coils around us," Pepper said.
"If we do not establish ourselves in
positions where it cannot crush uswe
will have a terrible fight later on.
"If we hold the outposts, they can't
get at us. If we have to take the
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Dow Strike Delayed; Peaceful
Picketing Continues At Hudson
(By The Associated Press)
Decision of officials of UMW-CIO
yesterday to postpone until Tuesday
noon their threatened walkout against
the Dow Chemical Company at Mid-
land brightened the outlook for a
quiet week-end on Michigan's strike-
scarred labor front.
Announcement of the Dow strike
delay was made only a short time
before workers affiliated with the
UMW-CIO were scheduled to leave
their jobs in a move to strengthen
their demand for union recognition.
Leaders of United Mine Workers
1aim a , mainritv membershin of Tnw's
free of the labor troubles with which
it has been beset in recent weeks.
A company spokesman said Hudson
officials would be willing to resume
negotiations with United Auto Work-
ers (CIO) leaders in an effort to end
the three-day strike, but added that
such a conference probably would not
be held before Monday.
The company is willing, the spokes-
man said, to offer an immedate pay
increase of three cents an hour with
further increases July 1 to be ne-
gotiated by the union and manage-
ment.
The UAW is asking a 15-cent hourly
wage increase. Union officials said
TTdon now nav a "minimnm rate"