TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tjj!Tjj, j'o, -f, ktl, IIART N, B42 T1W~flY, ANARYU._94 University Trainsn Srh" Courses:,Men For Service U. S. Ambassador Greets Sumner Wells At Buenos AiresI (Continued from Page 1) cal trigonometry. It offers one hour credit and will be given at 9 a.m. Wednesday in 202 South Wing under Prof. Edwin Beckenbach. Both this course and Mathematics 9 combine defense training previously spread through several courses. Mathematics 149, exterior ballis- tics, is aimed at students intending to enter the artillery branch of the service. Offering two hours credit, it will be given at 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in 305 W. Eng. under Prof. Peter Field. Economics 71 and 72 head the list of accounting and cost accounting courses useful in the aimed forces. Time and place schedules can be found in the literary college an- nouncement." Cost Accounting First course in cost accounting, Business Administration 113 offers three hours credit and will be open next semester, time and place to be announced. It is a prerequisite for New Changes In Curriculum To Be Drafted (Continued from Page 1) of Feb. 13. The semester will end on Feb. 6. (This necessitated a change in the dates for the two-night J-Hop or- iginally scheduled for Feb. 13 and 14. Under the accelerated plan, the J-Hop will be held on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6 and 7.) Registration and classification for the second semester will be held Feb. 5-7, allowing for the opening of the new term on Feb. 9 instead of Feb. 16. Another 10 days will be saved by the elimination of spring vacation. Second semester final exams will be held May 20-27 rather than June 6-16. Commencement will be held on May 30. Only the Law School will be ex- cepted from the blanket Jan. 28 opening exam date. Their examina- tions will begin on Jan. 24 and will end Feb. 2. To comply with legal requirements for bar examinations, the Law School must work in 15-week semesters. Japs Employ Nazi Ruthless Practices In Manila Fighting (Continued from Page 1) weak spots in the defense line, fol- lowing a previous Japanese defeat in a full-scale assault by artillery. Word of the enemy tactics in Ma- nila had been communicated in part to the Department by MacArthur. They were contained, he said, in a proclamation signed by the com- manding general of the Japanese; Army of Occupation and published in Manila newspapers. It said: "Warning. "1. Anyone who inflicts or at-. tempts to inflict an injury upon Jap- anese soldiers or individuals shall be1 shot to death.. "2. If the assailant or attempted assailant cannot be found we will hold 10 influential persons as host- ages who live in or about the street or municipality where the event has happened. "3. Officials and influential per-1 sons shall pass this warning on to your citizens and villages as soon ast possible and should prevent these crimes before they happen on your ( own responsibilities.- "4. The Filipino should understand our real intentions and should workt together with us to maintain publicc peace and order in the Philippines."X Business Administration 114 which will meet at 8 and 9 a.m. Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in 206 Tap- pan. A University effort to fulfill the army demand for chemical labora- tory technicians, Bacteriology 105 (water analysis) will be given from 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays in 1552 E. Med. under Prof. Herbert W. Emerson. Two hours credit are offered. Special problems in this sub- ject will be discussed in Bacteriology 105a, a continuation of 105 in the second half of the semester. Geology 75 is specially set u for army meteorology training, and will be given by Prof. Ralph Belknap and Mr. James Wilson. Lecture group will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesdays and Thurs- days, with two recitation sections convening at either 8 a.m. Wednes- day or 9 a.m. Saturday in 3065 N. S. This is a three-hour course. Laboratory work in this subject will be handled by Geology 77, meeting from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday in the same room. This course, giving one hour credit, will also be taught by Professor Belknap and Mr. Wilson. Photography In the field of photography and aerial mapping, Surveying 21 re- quires elementary chemistry and physics as prerequisites. It will be given at 8 a.m. Tuesdays and Thurs- days in 229 W. Eng. under Prof. Ed- ward Young. It is listed as the "basic course in photography. Surveying 22, an advanced course in photography and aerial mapping, offers 2 hours credit and will meet at 11 a.m. on Mondays with a four- hour laboratory period to be ar- ranged. Professor Young will teach this course in 201 W. Eng. Radio communication men, a growing military need, will be trained through a series of courses with Electrical Engineering 23n as a base. This course requires no prerequisites and is intended for non-engineering students. It will stress radio con- struction work. Physics Needed Electrical Engineering 23b (ele- ments of radio communication) calls for a year of physics and will be given at 9 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays with a 2-5 laboratory period on Mon- days. It will be taught by Prof. Lewis Holland in 111 W. Eng. A stu- dent completing this course should be able toa obtain a government radio license. Courses in surveying, and mapping will be offered both i the literary and engineering colleges. Geology 74, dealing with plane-table mapping, has been added to the University curriculum and will be given by Profs. Armand Eardley, Kenneth Landes and George Stanley. Time schedule will be announced. Surveying 1, meeting from 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days in 222 W. Eng., offers three hours credit hnd requires Mathemat- ics 14 as prerequisite. Next course in this series is Mechanism and Engin.- eering Drawing, a three hour credit course with eight sections all meeting in 437-439 W. Eng. Following these two courses, Sur- veying'2 offers four hours credit and topographical field work and map- ping. Final course in this program is Civil Engineering 1, meeting from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in 302 W. Eng. A non-credit course in shorthand and typing, designed to meet the Army's need of clerical personnel, will be offered for three two-hour periods a week throughout the year. Time and place will be announced. Nelson, Production Czar, Takes UpGigantic Task (Continued from Page 1) program, and the problem of con- verting these industries to 100 per cent war production "may and prob- ably very often will call for utterly revolutionary changes" in industrial operations. The address asserted that "nothing on earth counts from now on but doing this job just as fast as it can possibly be done." Group Of Three Directs Scouts' Defense Plan Townsley, Boys, Mayfield Organize Service Unit For Civilian Defense Organization of the Boy Scouts in- to a working unit of civilian defense is being directed by Dr. Elmer Townsley of the physical education department, Mr. Richard Boys of the English department, and Officer Mayfield of the city police force. A program has been arranged whereby the older group of Boy Scouts, ranging in age from fifteen to seventeen, will receive training in emergency work. University fresh- men who are interested should get in touch with any member of the committee for further details. The course will include training in first aid, firemanship, fingerprint- ing, public health, messenger work and various other emergency jobs. The period of training will be at least three months. Meetings will be held for three hours every Satur- day afternoon in Waterman Gym- nasium. In order to qualify as a member of the group a boy must be a first class scout, must pass a physical examination, and must have par- ental consent. Education Leaders Open Meet Today State educational leaders will hold a three-day Conference on Teacher Education beginning at 8 a.m. today in the Union. The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the train- ing of teachers with emphasis on specific subjects. Prof. Harold M. Dorr of the po- litical science department Will serve as chairman of the social science discussion, Prof. Hayward Keniston of the romance languages depart- ment will lead the group discussion of language teacher training, and George E. Myers of the education school will serve as co-chairman of the vocational education discussion. Students Fear New Schedule Repercsswons We'll go nuts!" Well, anyway, general campus opinion following the announcement of the change in the University pro- gram yesterday favored a definite increase in cases of mental strain due to the increased load on the student body. Josephine Cole, '43, does not sanc- tion the changes. "It will create war hysteria," she said. "and mental troubles will result from the unset- tled states of mind." Graduation and a consequent job in one of the defense industries was brought nearer for Fred Peterson, '42E, who likes the idea of the re- vised schedle. Also in favor is John Riopelle, '44E, who wants to get through school and organize his life before becoming involved in the present7 war. Bud Brandt, '44, considers the move a vital necessity, but added that having no summer vacation will prevent a number of students from earning their tuition fees. "It doesn't matter to me," re- marked Ruth Paley, '44, "I was going to flunk out anyway." Jefferson Caffery (left), United States Ambassad or to Brazil, and President Getulio Vargas (center), of Brazil, greeted Under-secretary of State Sumner Welles (right) after his arrival at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the Pan-American conference. (This photo was sent by radio from Buenos Aires to New York.) Employers Rush To Hire Engineers In Unprecedented Demnand For Men By CHARLES THATCHER An employment boom such as was never felt before runs rampant through the College of Engineering today, as desperate industries stam- pede to sign up an ever-diminishing number of available prospective en- gineering graduates. Speaking for the whole college, Dean Ivan C. Crawford stated thatI 'never in the history of the collegeI has the graduate been in such de- mand as he is at the present time. His services are not only sought by industry, but he is also indispensable to many branches of the military and naval services." But in the various engineering de- partments themselves, the report was even more enthusiastic. Typical is the estimate of Prof. A. D. Moore of the electrical engineering depart- ment, who declared, "The demand is terrific! We haven't one-twentieth the men we need to fill the positions which are open." Demand Is Out Of Sight "We are placing men as fast as possible," he continued, "but the de- mand is completely out of sight. We have never had a year like this one." Equally amazed is Prof. R. S. Haw- ley of the mechanical engineering de- partment, who reports that the sit- uation in his department is so acute that the students won't even sign for interviews because they realize that they can just about pick the job they want for themselves. "Many offers have been made by the industries," he said, "but only about ten percent have been ac- cepted by the students." Last year, he added, interviewers showed up early in November, but this year they were hard at work the second week of school and have been hard at it ever since. Hundreds More Needed In the Department of Civil En- gineering Prof. L. M. Gram laid the cause of the rush to the fact that men are being called by the govern- ment and industries holding defense contracts, and testified that he could place "hundreds of more men than we have available." Going from bad to worse, Prof. D. IMICHIGANI W. McCready of the chemical en- gineering department reported that the demand was so great that more than one large industry has even written to ask information on stu- dents who had dropped out or were flunked out of school. "It is interesting to note," he pointed out, "that the Army and Naval Reserves are taking 15 to 20 percent of the men, and that these men are usually the better students from the standpoint of grade aver- ages." "Interviewers as well as students Nurses Will Carry On With Exams As Usual According to a report from the office of Miss Rhoda Reddig, Direc- tor of the School of Nursing, the changes in the University school year made yesterday by the Board of Deans will have very little influence on the students enrolled in that school. Their semesters will not be changed and their examinations will be given as usual whenever the course is over. are still choosy," he went on, "but by February I expect that about 60 percent of the June graduates will be placed. And there isn't a single graduate on the department's files looking for a job. There was never a year like this one!" No less harried, Prof. R. L. Morri- son of the highway engineering de- partment lamented, "I haven't had anyone to place in so long I can't remember when I did have. Prospec- tive employers keep howling for men we just haven't got." Contrary to intermittent rumors, nothing has yet Ibeen done to give blanket deferment to engineering students. However, it is expected that the prospect of an accelerating demand for engineers until the end of the war must soon force some ac- tion designed to keep abreast of that demand. Professors Join In Trip Prof. William S. Housel of the soil mechanics department and Prof. Walter J. Emmons of the traffic en- gineering department will leave Mon- day for a meeting of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists in Chicago. SPEECH DEPARTMENT PLAY PROI)UCTION "GEORGE WASH INGTON SLEPT HERE" by Kaufman and Hart TON IGHT Also Friday and Saturday 83c 8:30 P.M. 5Sc 39c Phone 6300 n Theatre Lydia Mendelssohn I{ EI WEEK DAY SHOWS at 2-4-7--9 P.M. i . .. . / Y .. ' 1 .V i r( y "e {/ V t Where's the best place to eat??? at the TAVERN, of course. Good food - Reasonably priced - Conveniently located I gy inuu The telephone plays a vital role in army communications. So the Bell System is helping to school Signal Corps men in practically every phase of telephone construc- tion, operation and maintenance. This training job is but a small 'art of the tremen- dous task Bell System people are doing in this national crisis. They're setting up telephone sysfems for new camps, bases and factories-handling an enormous volume I IN' 1 * UWEUU , , r s 3 i