THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1942
New Defense Courses
Will Open Tomorrn
Phi Eta Sigma
To Meet Today
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Defense Stamp
To Be Discussion
Buying
Topic
EIxtension service To Offer
TechnicalTraining
By CHARLES THATCHER
Leading off in a program which
will give extra technical training to
almost one thousand men, 13 of the
33 Engineering, Science and Man-
agement Defense Training Courses
scheduled to begin this week will be
opened tomorrow in Ann Arbor, De-
troit, Dearborn and Ecorse.
Sponsored by the U. S. Office of
Education and implemented by the
University Extension Service, a to-
tal of 35 courses will be opened by
the middle of February, instruction
being given by College of Engineering
faculty men and engineers secured
from industry.
Raising the curtain on -Ann Ar-
bor's part in the program will be a
course in descriptive geometry to be
taught by Prof. J. C. Palmer of the
engineering drawing department. It
will be followed Tuesday by a course
in mechanical drawing under Prof.
Maurice Eichelberger of the same de-
partment.
Most Classes In Detroit
In Detroit, where the majority of
the courses will be held, ten classes
will be opened, offering instruction
in welding, pyrometry, metallurgy,
aircraft power plants, air condition-
ing,, air sampling and analysis, soil
mechanics, practical mechanics, stress
concentrations and machinability of
metals.
Simultaneously a course in the
purification and conditioningof wa-
ter supply will be presented in Dear-
born, while a second course in met-
allurgy will get under way in Ecorse.
Other Detroit courses, starting
Tuesday, will be in engine design, air
!sanitation, motor vibrations, dynam-
ics, mechanical vibrations, welding,
die casting, ordnance inspection and
graphical methods.
Flint, Jackson and Royal Oak will
enter the program as well, Flint of-
fering cours'es in airport runways
and traffic control, Jackson giving
instruction in arc welding, thermo-
dynamics, machinability of metals,
pyrometry, circuit analysis and elec-
trical engineering and Royal Oak
taking up the treatment and dis-
posal of industrial wastes.
Tehninal Work
aupplementing the courses open to
working men, a credited course in
ultra-high-frequency techniques, un-
der Prof. L. N. Holland of the elec-
trical engineering department will be
opened to senior and graduate elec-
trical engineers during the second
semester.
Also new to the ESMDT progrm
will be a full-time course in ordnance
materials inspection, to be com-
menced on campus Jan. 19. At that
time 100 trainees, on government
pay, will arrive here for the 12-week
course, followed by 100 more each
succeeding month until the quota of
300 is filled.
Unlike the other courses which
meet four hours a week for eight
weeks, the inspection course will meet
eight hours a day for five days a
week, and will be conducted by en-
gineering faculty men- assisted by
Rtudent instructors.
Presenting tomorrow's Detroit
courses will be Prof. W. E. Lay and
Prof. F. N. Calhoon of the mechani-
cal engineering department, Prof. W.
G. Dow of the electrical engineering
department, Prof. W. S.,Housel of the
civil engineering department, Prof. R.
A. Dodge and Prof. F. L. Everett of
the engineering mechanics depart-
ment and L. V. Colwell of the metal
processing department.
Other Instructors
Subsequent courses will be handled
by Prof. ZE. L. Eriksen and Prof. H.
14. Hansen of the engineering me-
chanics departient, Prof. 0. W. Bos-
ton and Prof. W. A. Spindler of the
metal processing department, Prof.
L. C. Maugh of the civil engineering
department, Prof. E. T. Vincent of
the mechanical engin'eering depart-
ment and Prof. L. J. Rouse of the
mathematics department.
Flint courses will be taken by Prof.
R. L. Morrison and Prof. W. J. Em-
mons of the transportation engineer-
ing department, while Prof. H. E.
Keeler of the mechanical.engine ,ing
department, Prof. W. W. Gilbert of
the metal processing department,
Prof. W. P. Wood of the metallurgi-
cal engineering department and Prof.
M. B. Stout of the electrical engi-
neering department will head the
Jackson roster.
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor
society, will hold the most important
meeting of the year at 4:45 p.m.
today in the Union, Herbert Heaven-j
rich, '44E, announced yesterday. 1
During the meeting a committee'
will be appointed to finish up the
work of passing out defense ques-
tionnaires in men's dormitories ,and
houses, a job which Phi Eta Sigma
has assumed in part responsibility
with the Union. Defense saving
stamp booklets will also be passed out
to each member with one stamp in
every booklet as a starter.
Keys and "shingles" will bepassed
out to the 13 new members recently
initiated, and reports will be heard
on the tutoring project which was
begun a month ago.
A discussion will also be held, led
by Norman Peterson, '44E, concern-
ing a dinner to be held next semester
with AIpha Lambda Delta, freshman
girls' honor society.
Prof. Bennett Weaver is to be the
speaker for the afternoon.
Phi Eta Sigma is a scholastic honor
society for University freshmen who
attain a half "A" and half "B" aver-
age in their studies.
Rifle Team
Tops Detroit
In First Win
Easily outshooting their University
of Detroit competition, the Univer-
sity ROTC Rifle Team yesterday won
its first shoulder-to-shoulder match
of the year by a score of 1781 to 1670.
Firing high score for the Michigan
team was Richard 0. Jones, '43E, who
shot a score of 369 out of a possible
400. Other members of the five-man
team were Charles Munger, '45,
Verne C. Kennedy, '42E, Saul War-
shaw, '43, and David Weisburg, '43E.
Also fired yesterday was a postal
match, the first in Big Ten competi-
tions, with the University of Iowa.
Results are received by mail, and will
be available next week. Iowa took
second place in the Big Ten compe-
titions of last year.
Although numerous postal engage-
ments arie scheduled for the team,
no shoulder-to-shoulder firing will
be done until they shoot against Law,
rence Tech in Detroit next month.
A return match with the University
of Detroit is also scheduled~ for the
second semester.
The University is also represented
by a Naval ROTC rifle team, cap-
tained by Art Thomson, '44E, and
coached by Lieut. K. S. Shook, U.S.N.
24- Hour Basis
Still Far Away
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steps had already been taken; the
most common were a change from a
five to a six-day week, or an in-
crease in the number of shifts each
24 hours.
The varied picture of the country's
progress toward full time use of its
suitable plant facilities for war,
comes from officials of such indus-
trial giants as General Motors, Beth-
lehem Steel, Glenn L. Martin, West-
inghouse Electric, American Car &
Foundry. Boeing, American Locomo-
tive, and a host of other big and
small concerns, some of which re-
vealed interesting information with-
out permitting use of their names.
Generally speaking the seven-day,
full time operating schedule seemed
universal in major steel, airplane,
rubber manufacturing and ammuni-
tion plants,.
In many other factories where the
168-hour week was not yet in opera-
tion individual departments which
constituted plant bottlenecks were
said to be going full-time, even
where final assembly operations, for
lack of enough materials from these
departments, were, held to a slower
schedule.
The speed-up was not confined
wholly to plants producing the actu-
al arms of war.
Newsman Tells Harrowing Story Of Galatea Sinking
i Alights
On, Campus
Toda ..h .
Color Films
Will Be Shown .. .
The Thaw family - who think
nothing of dropping into the depths
of Africa for a six months jaunt-
who have really earned the title of
"modern Marco Polosi"--will display
their documented professional color-
films on "India" at 8:15 p.m. Wed-
nesday in Hill Au-
ditorium under the
sponsorship of the
Oratorical Associ-
ation. Tickets will
be on sale at the
Auditorium Tues-
day and Wednes-
day. Said to excel
the best of Holly-
wood's technicolor
films, "India" will Lawrence Thaw
show the beautiful result of courage,
imagination, time, thousands of miles
of travel, rarely granted photogra-
phic privileges and 15 tons of exten-
sive equipment-the gardens of Shal-
imar, the white marble Tai Mahal,
funeral ghats on the banks of the
Ganges, the Juggernauts at Puri, and
the ruins of the world's largest .;ity
on the island of Ceylon.
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Zionists
Sponsor Movies .. ,
Reclamation of tb e barren Palestive
lands through, cooperative enterprise
will be shown in three motion pictures
to be exhibited under the sponsorship
of the Jewish National Fund-and
Avukah, student Zionist organiza- i
tion, at 8 p.m. today at the League.
Titled "Collective Adventure," the
movies were filmed during Arab dis-
turbances. Graphic representation of
the pioneers' efforts to carve Woduc-
tive communities from the unused
soil of the Holy Land iS shown by
movies of the new communities.
Each stage of the movies show the
cooperative enterpri6es struggling
and finally surviving to progress.
Yeas To Speak ...
"World-wide Christian Fellowship"
as a means of a better understanding
and cooperation with other nations
will be discussed by Hypaha Yeas,
Grad., at 5:30 p.m. today in the Dis-
ciples Guild House.
Now studying law here, Miss Yeas
was forced to flee from Lithuania
after its invasion, and during Christ-
mas Vacation her mother has finally
rejoined her.
Her attendance of the world wide
Amsterdam Holland Bible Confer-
ence in 1939 made a basis for her
principles of thought. In addition
Miss Yeas went to Mexico City last
summer for theq, World Sunday
School Association convention.
th Band Clinic,
Will Open Here
January 24'
Orchestra, Band Leaders
To Hear -Roy Harris,
Other Famous Artists
High school band and orchestra
conductors from all over the state
will converge on Ann Arbor Jan. 24
and 25 when the fifth annual Band
Reading Clinic, sponsored by the
Michigan School Band and Orchestra
Association and the University School
of Music, will be conducted by Prof.
William D.- Revelli, conductor of
the University Bands.
Guest conductors for the occasion
will be Roy Harris, outstanding
American composer; Erick Leidzen,
nationally known arranger and com-
poser; Gustav Langenus, famous
clarinetist, and August Helmeke, per-
cussion artist and a former member
of the famous Sousa band.
Under the direction of Professor
Revelli, the University Concert Band
will play all class A and B selections
at the clinic, while the Boland High
School Band, under the direction of
Eugene Hetter, wil be on hand to
render the class C and D numbers.
Inaugurated in 1938, the reading
clinic was so successful that it has
become an annual event with an
ever expanding program so that it
has now grown to national promi-
nence.
Chief purpose of the clinic is to
read and study the latest in band
literature and to perform for the con-
ductors present the material com-
positions which are on the state and
regional festival programs for next
spring.
Concluding the clinic will be a for-
mal concert by the University' Con-
cert Band, to be given at 4:15 p.m.,
i Sunday, Jan. 25, in Hill Auditoriu(n.
Roy Harris and Erick Leidzen will
be guest conductors.
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Community- Forum
Plans iletory .L-No '1
W ashtenaw County's contribution
to "The Victory Program" will be the
theme of the Ann Arbor Community
i Forum meeting at 8 pm. tomorrow
in the high school auditorium.
The entire program will "be con-
ducted by the Washtenaw County
t Defense Council. Officers of several
county defense organizations will
participate i' in a panel discussion to
determine how; Washtenaw residents
can complete the local defense effort.
s Prof. Albert C. Jacobs, gn sabbati-
cal leave from the Columbia Univer-
sity Law School, a member of the
Council, will act as. chairman of the
panel.
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By LARRY ALLEN
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 10.-
(AP)-When the British light cruiser
Galatea, stabbed three times in her
side by torpedoes, heeled quicklyover
and sank with a muffled blast, an
heroic naval story just began.
The Galatea was sunk by a U-boat
in the pre-dawn blackness of Dec. 16
only 32 miles off Alexandria.
It was a cold, choppy sea and the
lurking menace of the U-boat was
always present, but for 10 hours Bri-
tish destroyers stuck to the dangerous
job of rescuing the cruiser's survivors.
They picked 119 of the Galatea's
580 officerskand men out of the oily
scum that marked her grave in the
sea and one more, myself.
All that time they were trying to
find and depth charge the submarine
but they never got it.
The submarine had attacked at
close range while the Galatea was
speeding at 26 knots along with other
cruisers and destroyers after fending
off a seven-hour attack by Axis
bombers.
Three torpedoes ripped gaping holes
into her portside, aft, amidships and
forward near the bow.
There were three vivid flashes of
flame, then torrents of water poured
into the wounded cruiser. In three
minutes she had vanished as if by
magic, spraying a huge mass of oil
over the sea.
This is the story of those three
minutes and the 45 which followed
before I was hoisted, more dead than
alive, to a destroyer's deck.
Torpedoes literally chased me up
the port side of the Galatea's quar-
terde6k as I raced to the bridge when
the first warning came just about
midnight: "First, degree readiness
heavy armament.'
That told the gunners to stand by
for action.
(Larry Allen came perilously close to never telling this story, the
best in his thrilling catalogue of experiences as an eye-witness to every
important battle fought. by the British Fleet in the Mediterranean dur-
ing this war. Word came to the Associated Press on Dec. 16 that Allen,
who had survived unscratched the violent German air attack on the
British aircraft carrier Illustrious, was in an Alexandria hospital recu-
perating from oily water he had swallowed and from cuts and bruises
suffered in a 45-minute plunge into the sea. Now that the British have
announced the loss of the cruiser Galatea, he has been permitted to tell
the story of the death of a warship and his own narrow escape from
death.)
The first torpedo crashed aft, just
behind me. The second hit amid-
ships. The third tore under me for-
wrd as I crossed to starboard.
It wgs a moment for quick decision.
I had never swum a stroke in my life.
But I knew, too, that the cruiser
might be blown to bits any moment if
fire reached her magazines.
Instinctively, I tried to ,tcling to
something solid as long as possible as
the ship, with mighty convulsions,
rapidly tipped overgito port.
In those precious seconds before she
dipped under the sea, I blew with all
the power of my lungs into the life-
belt hanging around my neck, and
clutched the starboard rail.
Then, as the cruiser took the
plunge, I slipped like a greased pig
into the sea and went through the
most terrifying, the most agonizing
experience of my life.
As I was flung overboard along
with hundreds of officers and men,
I heard Alexander Massey Anderson,
the Reuters naval correspondent,
shout something to an officer. I
never saw him again.
I was afraid the deep dive would
collapse the old lifebelt I was trying
to hold high and close to my chest.
But I came up and half a dozen
times more I slipped under the oily
sea, swallowing what seemed to be
gallons of water. Each time I ex-
pected would be the last. But some-
how, I kept bobbing up again.
The cruiser was gone. She had
disappeared with a tremendous suc-
tion. The oily lake on the sea was
dotted all around with the heads of
men. ,
I battled to live with all the
strength I could summon.
I went under once trying to reach a
small motorboat several sailors had
salvaged. But I came up and a sea-
man helped me aboard. A score of
others had the . same idea, however,
and the motorboat finally lurched
over, dumping us all back into the
sea, and sank.
The muscles of \my arms and legs
were knotted from the cold and my
desperate effort. My brain pounded.
My throat seemed to be seared with
flame.
I repeatedly gasped cries for help,
as did the others who remained
afloat.
Then at last the towering form of
a destroyer loomed just 75 yards
ahead.
"Help, I'm drowning," a sailor
puffed from the water nearby.
"Keep going," I answered weakly.
"Look, there's a destroyer ahead."
He swam toward it, as though
with new energy. But I couldn't get
closer, try as I did. The waves
seemed to carry me further away
and I screamed for help.
Everything was in utter darkness.
They dared not flash a searchlight for
fear of an enemy attack.
Limp, exhausted, helpless, I prayed.
Then, as though in answer a big wave
caught me, swamped me and washed
me almost under the destroyer's pro-
pellor.
I called for help until I thought
my voice would leave me.
Suddenly a long, oily rope dangled
over the side. I grasped at it but my
strength was gone.
The officer told me to come closer
and somehow I did, managing to grip
a rope ladder. dv.
I realized that safety was within
reach. I held on. But I couldn't even
pull myself up the first rung.
Just then a life raft drifted against
the destroyer's side and banged my
head again and again against the
ship.
Sailors on the raft grasped the rope
ladder and clambered up, several
stepping on my head and pushing me
down into the water, while I called
on my lasts strength to keep from
drowning.
I kept calling
At last, a sailor aboard the raft
saved my life. He tied a heavy rope
under my arms, flung it to the quar-
I terdeck of the warship. Three sailors
slowly' hoisted me out of the oily mess
and flopped me like an exhausted
fish, flat on the deck. I was covered
from head to foot, with thick, oily
scum.
I dimly recall hearing someone say
"This fellow's an American," as they
pressed the water from my lungs.
Then they carried me to the mess, deck
below and for the next 10 hours I lay
on greasy rags and oil soaked clothes,
too weak to get on my feet, while the
Navy searched for the Galatea's sur-
vivors and her attacker.
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