I I I - -- . MEM Fair and Warer. ig Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication tiix Editorial How About A Safety Island?.. VOL. LI. No. 168 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Regents Stand Pat On Board Increase ichig British Squadron Smashes German Landing Attempt Ic gan Whips Purdue In Slugfest Under Lights Wakefield Hits Homer As Wise Pitches Wolverines Nearer Conference Crown By MYRON DANNed only fou (special to The Daily) adalwdol orsatrdht LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 23.-Play- and two runs in the remaining six ing the first night game in the innings of the ball game. history of Big Ten competition Two Unearned Runs Michigan's rampaging baseball team With the score tied going into the downed the Purdue Boilermakers, 7-5. This victory gave the Wolverinesfoth, Pudue decided to be their seventh win in nine conference to its visitors from the Lake State1 starts and an ironclad grip on first and gave the Wolverines two unearnedJ place in Big Ten standings. runs by wild pitches and fumbled Cliff Wise went the distance for Michigan, allowing eight hits and ground balls. issuing but one walk, while his team Purdue tallied another run in the mates got nine hits and eight bases fifth inning to make the score only on balls off of Don Blanken. 5-4 in favor of Michigan when the Wakefield Homers s Dick Wakefield, the Wolverines' usually reliable Bud Chamberlain let Darlan Denies Submission To Nazi Fleet Demand In Radio Declaration Axis Convoys Sunk In Action Off Crete ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 23 -(P) -Five thousand-or more Nazi soldiers bent on a surprise landing on Crete were drowned when a ,British naval squadron smashed into the center of their hodge-podge convoy and blasted to the bottom an Italian destroyer, two merchantmen and 40 sailing ves- sels, British naval officers related to- night. Not a single German managed to reach the embattled island to rein- force the airborne Nazis already there, the officers asserted. Describing the carnage wrought in a three-hour engagement which be- gan about 11 p.m.,. Wednesday. The captain of one British cruiser which took part in the Cretan operations said: German Boats Sunk "We sank the German boats with four-inch guns and pompoms. Cruis- ers and destroyers rammed them. The sea was full of thousands of Germans clinging to the wreckage and shout- ing for help. "The havoc we wrought was so great that no Germans managed to lang in Crete that night.." Thus, the officers said, was a great German convoy of sailing caiques and small merchantmen, escorted by a single Italian destroyer, completely destroyed or dispersed. The might of the fleet met them in pitch darkness on Wednesday night. Steaming Eastward "We were' steaming eastward," said the cruiser captain, "when suddenly, at about 11 p.m., our destroyer ;screen opened fire on a darkened ship. "This was the first intimation that we were in contact with the enemy. "We. altered course and entered the fray. "Our destroyer fire was very effec- tive. A great bonfire appeared on the ocean, apparently a merchantman burning from end to end. Darlan Denies Submission To German Government VICHY, Unoccupied France, May 23 -Adolph Hitler has not demanded possession of the French fleet, colonial concessions or a French declaration of war on Britain, vice premier'Admiral Jean Darlan told the French people today in a radio address on his nego- tiations with Genany. Admiral Darlan did not disclose the nature of the arrangements being made with Germany, but declared they presented a choice between life and death and the French govern- ment had chosen life. Brief Sentences In brief sentences suitable to the quarterdeck, he stated: "The chancellor (Hitler) did not ask me to hand over our fleet to him. "Everyone knows - and the Eng- lish better than anyone - that I will never hand it over. "The chancellor did not ask me for any colonial territory. He did not ask me to declare war on England. "Why has he acted so? "Germany began the war alone and judges herself able to end it alone against no matter what coalition. "At no moment in the conversa- tions was there any question of France abandoning in any way her sovereign- ty." France Chooses Road "France freely is choosing the road she is taking. "On her depends her present and her future. "She will have the place in the or- ganization of Europe which she will have made for herself." Ad al , ,ln._ re m 7..71. . . .. Trustee Denies Ayres' Claim s About Haisley Challenging certain remarks made by Trustee Louis Ayres at the board of education meeting Wednesday in defense of his opposition to dismissed Superintendent of Schools Otto W. Haisley, M. H. Waterman, Trustee supporting Haisley, asserted yester- day that a legally-forced hearing for Haisley would result in "a potent lesson to the inert school electorate of Ann Arbor." Part of Waterman's statement answering Ayres is reprinted here: "I refer to the implication that the board of education has knowledge of facts which would be offensive in dis- closure and yet which formed the basis for the majority decision of the board both in refusing to re- employ Mr. Haisley and in refusing to comply with the law in the matter of granting a hearing in the case. "As one of the minority, I would like to state that in all of the board discussions, in open meetings and closed, no statements of conditions or situations were called to my at- tention which were not, in my opin- ion, either untrue or irrelevant. If the majority of the board does have at its disposal facts which it has not communicated to the full board, this -alone is reason for proceeding with the hearing according to law. If all of the available facts are as I know them, there can be but one result of such a hearing; namely, a potent lesson to and a pointed accusation of the inert school electorate of Ann Arbor." Cory Announces 'Ensign Distribution For Monday Those who have purchased, 1941 Michiganensians will be able to obtain their copies between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday, according to Jack Cory, '41, business manager. Presentation of the receipt stubI on the first floor of the Publications Building will insure each purchaser his copy. Students are urged to re- member the receipt, to help eliminate any confusion in the Publications Building. Also requested of the students is a 10 cent fee to partially cover the sales tax it was necessary to add this ,year. A limited number of yearbooks arel still available at $5 each. These were copies ordered for students who made the initial payment, but who failed 1 r 1 fence buster, hit the longest drive ever made in the Columbia Park Stadium.' The blow which came in the ninth innin 'ith n n n n rr ltrl inning wiz no one on carrned well over the center field wall, 410 feet from the plate. After the Wolverines had scoredl three runs off of Blanken in the first inning it appeared as if Michigan would have an easy time of it, but Purdue tied it up when it tallied three runs in the third to make it a new ball game. In that frame Wise was touched for three hits and most of the 3,000 fans who jammed the stadium thought the big fellow was through for the evening but Wise settled down 'Male Animal' WillEnd Run 'Skylark' To Open Monday With Matteson In Lead "The Male Animal," currently showing at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, will conclude its week's run with a matinee and an evening per- formance today. Conrad Nagel is appearing as Pro- fessor Tommy Turner in Thurber and Nugent's comedy of college life in which Ruth Matteson portrays the distracted wife. Miss Matteson will take over the part left vacant by Ilka Chase. She will rehearse this week for the show- ing of the second play of the season, "Skylark," which opens Tuesday. Leon Ames, who is starring in "The Male Animal" at the present time, will reappear next week in the lead opposite Miss Matteson as the well- intentioned advertiseri wedded to his business. Hiram Sherman will play a charm- ing and sardonic lawyer, while Wil- liam David of the original cast will continue as Ned Franklin. Today is the last opportunity to buy season tickets for the festival al- ;hough single performance tickets will be on sale until the end of the sea- an easy grounder go through his legs allowing the Boilermaker catcher Ernie Young to score from third. Purdue continued its good neighbor policy toward the Wolverines by giv- ing them another run in the sixth without the necessity of Michigan making a hit. Harms and Wise worked the erratic Mr. Blanken for a pass. Nelson Safe On Error Fisher sent Nelson up, sacrificed Wise over to second and Harms to third. After Nelson bunted the first one foul the Purdue infield held a conference with their pitcher and de- cided to anchor George Doherty, Pur- due infielder, on his sack. In an at- tempt to flag Harms, Nelson laid down a poorbunt and a good throw from Blanken to Doherty would have had the Wolverine catcher out by ten feet, but the ex-basketball star tried to back hand the ball to his third baseman with the result the ball went into the Michigan dugout and Harms came all the way in on the error. Landes Named New Geology Dept. Chairman 20 Junior College Awards Established By Regents; New Buildings Approved In its monthly meeting yesterday the University Board of Regents ap- pointed Dr. Kenneth Knight Landes, at present on the University of Kan- sas faculty, new professor of geology and Chairman of the Department of Geology, to take office upon the re- tirement of Prof. Ermine C. Case, who will be 70 years of age Sept. 11, 1941. Landes has had a rapid rise to pro- minence in the field of geology. Be- ginning his teaching experience in 1924 ashan instructor at Wellesley College, he has since risen from assist- ant professor to Chairman of the Geology Department at the Universi- ty of Kansas. Also State Geologist of Kansas, Lan- des has been very successful in de- veloping within that state a con- sciousness of the extent and value of its mineral resources. The new appointee gained a great deal of field work experience with the U.S. Geological Survey" during the summers of 1921, 1924, 1925 and 1926 in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Alaska. He has also done inde- pendent work in several other states and in Canada. . Other actions taken by the Re- gents included the establishment of a group of Michigan Public Junior College Scholarships for graduates of the nine junior colleges in this state who wish to continue their studies at the University. The statement of the Regents in- dicated they felt the students of two- year colleges had been neglected in past years by the University, for there were almost no scholarships to which they were eligible. It was estimated that for the first year the number of Junior College awards would be 18 or 20. They will be awarded to the graduates of schools at Bay City, Flint, Fordson, rtrnni a nidnm Hihlan d ark '2ron-. i Axis Reported To Be Asking Russian Help Effort Is Being Set Forth Tio 1orce Switzerland Tfo Cooperate Ini War Invasion Of Britain Hinted At As Near ROME, May 23-Diplomatic circles heard rumors tonight of an imminent 1move to bring Switzerland into the Axis and an effort to gain Soviet per- mission to move Axis troops across Russia to the Persian Gulf for the German-Italian assault on the British in the Middle East. Failing the latter, it was said that the Russian Ukraine itself . , . (here the censor cut the Rome correspond- ent's telephone conversation to the re- lay office at Bern, Switzerland). Press Hints Demands While Axis circles professed ignor- ance of -either diplomatic move, the Fascist press has envisaged not only the Russian possibility, but hinted to- day that a similar demand might be made of Turkey to permit access of Axis ground forces to Syria. Much was said to depend on the outcome of the battle of Crete. If the Axis suffered a setback in the Eastern Mediterranean, moves elsewhere could be expected. If Germany and Italy are successful at Crete, then observers said that the long-awaited invasion of England with concurrent drives through Spain and Portugal against Gibralter perhaps would follow. General Demoted Amid this conjecture, a commu- nique announced that Premier Musso- lini had removed as vice chief of staff and undersecretary of war Gen. Alfredo Guzzoni, who led the Italian invasion of Albania. Gen. Guzzoni was replaced as un- dersecretary by Division Gen. Antonio Scuero, now general superintendent of the Italian Army, while the general staff post held by Guzzoni was abol- ished. Alluding to the possible diplomatic moves in the Near East, Il Polo di Roma acknowledged that the "politi- cal evolution" necessary to Axis priv- ileges in Turkey was not yet foreseen, but added: "Anti-British ferment in the Middle East was re-enforcing cur- rents favorable to the Axis in both Turkey and Russia." State Trooper IJured In Motorcycle Accident State trooper Brower was seriously injured yesterday when he was thrown from his motorcycle at the corner of Huron River Drive and Main Street. Riding alongside a companion trooper, Brower was hurled to the pavement when the other machine struck an object in the road and jumped sideways against him. Suffering from a fractured skull and a broken wrist, Brower was rushed to a Ypsilanti hospital by sheriff's officers. Action Overrides Student Pttin Against Changes Kipke Says Consent Of Publications Board Is Certain; Claims Membership Ad lition Will Improve University-Daily Relations; Committee Recommendation Followed Disregarding the expressed opposition of more than 4,350 students, the Regents of the University went ahead yesterday in their determination to increase faculty control of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Acting upon the report of the Committee on Public Relations, which met early in the afternoon with members of the Publications Board, the Regents announced that they saw "no reason to rescind or change their former action on this by-law." Following the meeting, Regent Harry Kipke said that the proposed change in membership, as provided in the by-laws adopted at the December Smeeting of the Regents, was neces- Men's Dorms Will Hold Huge WVictory Dinner' Residence Halls Banquets To Feature Presentation Of Awards To Athletes The Men's Residence Halls will conclude another year of active par- ticipation in Intramural Sports next Wednesday night when the second annual "Victory Dinner" takes place simultaneously in the halls of the West Quadrangle. The East Quad- rangle will hold its celebration the following Wednesday. The giant banquet had its initia- tion last year at the end of the first year on campus of the West Quad. All of the halls will participate in honoring team champions, All-Star players, and winners of Varsity awards and freshman numerals who reside in the dormitories. Williams House succeeds Lloyd House as the All-Residence Champion. William Riordan, grad, who has been in charge of Intramural Activi- ties of the Residence Halls, will cony elude his term of active participation with the planning on the tremendous fete. Aiding Mr. Riordan throughout the past year have been the Athletic Directors of each hall. In the West Quadrangle, George Jaquillard has directed Winchell's activities; Harry X1\oorstein worked at Williams; Dick Bieneman, at Allen Rumsey; Bill Bogedain, at Lloyd; Theodore Go- siewski, at Wenley; Ray Wise, at Ad- ams; Carl McNicholas, at Chicago House, and Henry Dongvillo, in Michigan House. The following have been in charge in the East Quadrangle: Pete Speek, Greene House; Ralph Heide and John Riopelle, co-directors in Pres- cott House, and John Lack, Tyler House. sary to "improve relations between The Daily, the University and the public." He explained that now the only action necessary to make the change final is the approval of the Publica- tions Board itself. "There 'is no doubt, however, that the members of the Board will agree to the increase. We shall probably appoint the two new faculty repre- sentatives at the next Regents' meeting June 20." Add Two Faculty Members The plan would not only add two faculty members, but would also give votes to the two non-voting alumni, thus making the ratio nine to three against the students as compared to the existing four to three set-up. Nothing was said to indicate that the signatures of almost 4,500 stu- dents opposing the increase, which were presented to President Alexan- der Ruthven before the meeting, were considered in the action. The signatures were submitted to the president by a committee of five students representing different sec- tions of campus opinion. The mem- bers included Emile Gele, '42, man- aging editor of The Daily; William Slocum, '42, president of the Judi- ciary Council; William 'Clark, '42, president of the Student Religious Association., Robert Speckhard, '43, Daily editorial director, and Donald Stevenson, '42, president of the Inter- fraternity Council. Letters 1P'resented At the same time the committee presented Ruthven with letters from the junior and senior editorial' and business staff of the Daily, Garg- oyle and Michiganensian expressing unanimous disapproval of the pro- posed changes in the membership of the Board in Control. Condemnation of the plan came also from the three student members of the Board when Philip Westbrook, '43L, declared that "no doubt many of the supporters of the change sin- cerely believe that it would not affect the rights of students to ,express themselves freely but our experiences indicate that the likely result would be an immature college sheet, falling far below the stahdards of the present Daily." Sunderland Agrees Prof. Edson R. Sunderland, faculty member of the Publications Board, agreed with Kipke, however, that in- creased faculty representation should and would be approved in the next meeting of the Board. "The Board in Control of Student Publications is only a subsidiary or- ganization of the Board of Regents," he said, "as it was incorporated with that body's consent." The adoption of the by-law by the Regents seems to have come out of the disturbances caused a little over a year ago by the appearance of two or three "radical" editorials in The Daily. Adopted In December It was in the December meeting of the Regents that the change was adopted as a part of their new by- laws. On May 3 the Board of Con- trol, notified that it should consider a resolution to make the Board's cor- poration laws conform to the newly- passed by-laws. decided. instead, to to keep the installments up to date. son, June 21. Fielding1 . Yost Is Honored With Emeritus Professorship -, - .-y Secretary Of Navy Knox Urges U.S. To Aid In Control Of Sea By BUD LOW Fielding Harris Yost, the life-blood of Michigan athletics for the past 40 years - now on his sickbed in a Nashville hospital-was honored yes- terday by the Board of Regents by having the title, Professor Emeritus of the Theory and Practice of Ath- letics, conferred upon him. The title, which becomes effective on his retirement as Athletic Director July 1, was bestowed upon Mr. Yost by the Board as a token of gi'atitude and appreciation for his long and de- voted service to the University which began in 1901 when he assumed the duties of football coach. In regard to Mr. Yost's loyal asso- cation with the University, a Regents resolution said, "it has meant much more than a record, however impres- sive, of contests won and national acclaim. To very many, Mr. Yost's example of hard play, fine sportsman- ship, clean living and good citizenship WASHINGTON, May 23.-()-In a fervent appeal for stronger -mea- sures to -defeat Germany, Secretary of the Navy Knox declared today, "This is fight for control of the high seas, and God help us if we don't bear our share in that fight for the control of the sea and against human slavery." Following up his recent denuncia- tion of the Neutrality Act as a ter- rific blunder, Knox told the Society of Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers that if the nation is to keep its self-respect it must "recapture a principle for which we fought twice, the principle of the freedom of the seas." Halifax Receives Ovation Near the naval secretary as he spoke sat Lord Halifax, the British ambassador. Halifax did not make an address, but received a rising ovation as he was escorted into the ameliorate this situation of ships, ships and more ships." Air Power Important The navy chief said, in expanding his comments on the high importance of sea power, that he included air power as a part of ocean domination. The time would never come, he said, when any nation could "successfully achieve world domination without a combination of those powers, and at the base, sea power." On the other hand, he said, the world could not achieve peace until America was "prepared to put be- hind our devotion to peace the power that we can control on the seas and in the air." Meanwhile, Congress was putting legislative machinery in shape for President Roosevelt to take formal possession of Axis and other ships in American harbors and press them into any service he deems fit. FIELDING H. VST