Weather Fair and Warmer. Y R41vr4A4P AWORWFV"wt t an ~4Iuitr Editorial Sub -Contracting Plan Aids Defense Industry . . 4 Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication VOL. I.. No. 163 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1941 Z-323 E PRICE ]FIVE CENTS 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 4----- 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 (Continued on Page 3) 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- (Continued on Page 3) 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 (Continued on Page 2) '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 (Continued on Page 2)t 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. - - I 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 -i.,. - .-AR , -- - / - -I- - _ ..- 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 fnernnc4C af+N. in oI.a h +a +hara 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"