THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1942 New Defense Courses Will Open Tomorrn Phi Eta Sigma To Meet Today w 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 (Continued from Page 1)- 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. s 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. s 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. 4 I 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. 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