vo THE MiCHIGAN DAILY WE13NED V- ziAR U I_ i tl1y44 d adagascar--- (Continued from Page 1) ported maneuvers aimed at the island flanking the east coast of Africa, the Tmkish radio said today that six li t naval units of the Vichy French fleet had been dispatched from Dakar to Madagascar. This reported Vichy -gesture came in the midst of discussion in unoffi- cial London quarters on the possibil- ity that Allied troops might soon move on Madagascar with the intent of beating the Axis to the jump in cider 'to hold the western Indian Ocean from the enemy which ,has sealed its eastern end with the con- quest of Malaya and the Indies. The presence of a Japanese mission on the island--the world's fourth largest-was considered particularly significant in view of Vichy's yielding attitude regarding French Indo- China which set the springboard for thae whole Pacific holocaust. Nelson Sounds Production Call (Continued from Page 1) capacity and the third shifts using only 20 per -cent. "This, as you can readily under- stand, means that thousands of ma- clhines needed for war production now stand idle part or all of every weekend and from eight to 16 hours e eiy day. And, I might add, idle tools work for -Hitler." Nelson named as two industries having considerable unused facilities the 31 aircraft engine and propeller plants and the 153 plants manufac- t^ring machine tools. 'If all the facilities of the aircraft engine and propeller plants were utilized to the same extent as the three with the best records, the total output of the industry could be boosted 25 per cent, Nelson esti- mated. And if all 153 machine tool plihts were operating at the same itil42ation level as the best three, fie could increase machine tool ot- ptit 45 per cent immediately." PUtE On DUse Tires,_Tubes WASHINGTON, March 30.-()- The :government imposed a price cei- ling today on used tires and tubes, effective after March 16, -in answer to wide spread complaints of 'price gouging." The order uses prices existing be- tween Oct. 1 and Oct. 15 as a guide In establishing the ceilings. It also sets up a complex schedule of prices based on the size and condition of the used tires. It affects tires for both passenger cars and trucks. Price Administrator Leon Hender- Jon said the ceiling was intended to maintain- reasonable prices in "the only remaining market for tires and tubes open to the ordinary citizen who cannot satisfy rationing regula- ,ion requirements for purchase of bew or retreaded tires." Dealers in many instances, he as- nerted, had seized upon the rubber shortage to sell used tires at prices considerably higher than the maxi- mum prices allowed for new tires. Passenger car tires are divided into these four categories, based on the amount of wear evident: 1. Tires which retain 7/32's of an inch or more of tread design depth. 2. Tires retaining more than 3/32's of an inch but less than 7/32's of an inch of tread design depth. 3. Tires that have been regrooved or which retain 3/32's of an inch or less of tread design depth. 4. Tires worn smooth but usable as carcasses for retreading or recapping. One-Line Seven - r In News Bits Rie gel Speaks Today Manning of war industries and the change in the cost of living will be discussed by Prof. John W. Riegel of the School of Business Administra- tion in a lecture on "Labor and the War," to be addressed to the Ameri- can Association of University Wom- en at 3:30 today in the Hussey Room of the League. The talk will follow the regular meeting of the Ann Arbor branch of the AAUW, which is scheduled for 3:00. An exhibit on consumers' .Problems is being held in the con- course.J Greene House Week Guests this week in the Union's new Dormitory Cooperation project are the freshmen of Greene House. Special privileges in the use of the Union's facilities will be extended to these men. Today the billiard room will be available at half price from 11 a.m. until 5-p.m. Tomorrow and Friday the swim- ming pool may be used from 11 a.m.t to 7:30 p.m. for five cents. This same offer is good any night after 10 p.m. Faculty Men At Meeting Eight members of the faculty of the School of Dentistry will attend two meetings from March 23 through March 29 in New York City. The American Association of Den- tal Schools will hold a conference beginning March 23 and running un- til March 26. Following that meet- ing, the sessions of the International Association of Dental Research will take place March 28 and 29. Dean Russell W. Bunting, Dr. Paul H. Jeserich, Dr. John W. Kemper, Dr. Oliver C. Applegate, Dr. Ken- neth A. Easlick, Dr. Floyd A. Peyton, Dr. Philip Jay and Dr. Marcus L. Ward, all of the dental school, are planning to attend. Alumni Pledge Loans Last Monday night, at their Annu- al Banquet, the University of Michi- gan Alumni Club of Mt. Clemens entered the Michigan Alumni Asso- ciation's Ten-Year Scholarship Pro- gram. A Loan Fund was established for the -benefit of Michigan students from Macomb County. The funds for the project, to be raised over a period of years, will be the Club's gift to the University. * * * At the Annual Meeting of Class Officers of the Council of the Alum- ni Association, held last Friday -at the Horace H. Rackham Memorial Building in Detroit, Charles Del- bridge, '91, was elected to the Na- tional Board of the Alumni Associa- tion. * * * "Music Among the Greeks and Romans," an illustrated lecture with original arrangements on the violin and piano, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow by Prof. Bruno Mein- ecke in the West Lecture room of the Rackham Building. Exhibit Of City Planning On Display At Art School An exhibit of city planning in and about Detroit, consisting of plans, perspectives and detailed models of highway, street and housing projects, has been prepared by the Detroit City Planning Commission and is now on display at the exhibition hall of the College of Architecture and Design. 'Ann Arbor Slelter' For'Blitz Babies Language Play, To Be [LV d1fled' By Cosiiimiig Spanish Club Names Four Student 'Committees For P roduetion War Governs C7 etTrend. I-11Langagties Sj an ish, Show Fr c h German Classes Great Increase - Courses Drop Cornwall . 100-Year-Old Retreat Prof. Nelson Provides Refuge For Homeless British Children. By BERYL SHOENFIELD Thirty-three English boys and girls, all "under fives," now live in gabled, 16-room Trevince House, Redruth, Cornwall, the ancestral home of Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, di- rector of International Center. These "blitz babies" are here be- cause their homes have been targets Defense Chain Letters Draw P ..Rejeetio. for "direct hits" or because they have temporarily been orphaned, with fathers away in the service and mothers employed all day long in defense industries. And some, like little Anthony Smith, aged two, were "picked up in the street after a blitz and no relatives have ever been traced." It was an odd coincidence when this 100-year-old nursery retreat, known as the "Ann Arbor Shelter," since local funds contributed through the American Save the Children Fed- eration are maintaining it, was re- vealed as the family home of Profes- sor Nelson. A 'life-long dream was realized by Professor Nelson shortly after the last World War when he journeyed to Cornwall with his wife and son and saw for the first time the birth- . nir f hic mth r-Trevine House. Enrollment figures in the various Vivid boleros and sashes will cre- modern European languages taught ate a typical "Spanish air" in the in the University have undergone costuming for "La Independencia," considerable fluctuation since the en- try of the United States in the war, La Sociedad Hispanica's annual all- with increases marked up for Span- Spanish play to be presented at 8:15 ish and German and a noticeable p.m., Tuesday in Lydia Mendelssohn decrease shown in French attend- Theatre. ance. The play will be costumed as of New interest in Spanish, parallel- the early 19th century in Spain, an- ing hemispheric policies, has brought the enrollment in Spanish classes up nounced Dr. Charles Staubach of to 1.118, 'representing a gain of 264 the Spanish department. Much of or 31 percent over the second semes- the exuberance of the comedy will ter of last year. depend on the colorful garb of the French Registration Falls peasants and soldiers who make up Along with this change has come a corresponding fall in the French the mob scenes. registration, which was decreased by Helping La Sociedad Hispanica in 149 students since last year, 15 per- collecting the many properties neces- cent of the previous enrollment, and sary are students of Play Production now has a total of 830 students. and The Children's Theatre. Student Although Portuguese is spoken ex- committees taking care of the tech- tensively in Latin America, only a nicalities of production have been small registration was recorded in named as follows: properties, Donald this language. However, the courses Mela, Jane Restin, '43; costumes, will continue to be offered. Italian, Carmelita Rosasco, '42, Lila Sanchez, also, has only a small enrollment. '43, Laura Wingo, Grad., Florence Accounting for a considerable part Rowe, '43; stage and scenery, Law- of the gain noted in the romance rence Aronsson, '43, Joseph Lefkof- languages, the so-called "war" sky, '45, Eric Zalenski, '44; make-up, courses in French, Spanish and Ital- Virginia Appleton, '42Ed. ian have all been well received by Rehearsals are being held for sev- advanced students of languages. eral hours every day, and La Socie- Increased Interest In German dad promises that "La Independen- One of the most noteworthy cia" will be "the biggest and best" changes, in relation to both the last production in its history. Parts are year and the last war, has come still open for the mob scenes and about in the Department of German, for production workers; all those which now has the second largest students interested in participating registration among modern European should see Dr. Staubach very soon. languages, 909, representing an in- crease of almost 14 percent over the " second semester of last year. Technic S mi f F o s S While elementary German courses show only little gain, the more ad- J. V JWith New vanced groups have a larger enroll- d " w. ment, and about 50 percent more ~e t ek g German concentrates have registered this semester. Old man weather slipped in a The most conspicuous part of the double-cross and as a result the increase, according to Prof. Henry W. Nordmeyer, chairman of the De- flashing electric sign over the Union partment of German, has come about steps, advertising the annual Slide in courses in scientific German and Rule Ball, to be held March 27 in in the "war" courses, two of which the Union ballroom, is going to have ! have been newly introduced. But its face lifted. l also the other junior and senior courses, and notably the graduate Originally made of cardboard-the sections, he stated, are full. Technic staff designers were under the impression that the only pre- cipitation would be snow-the sign was forced to retreat victoriously in Brigt Sud Rei-e the recent rain, and is now but a a sad-looking replica of its former self. (By The Associated Press) Officials SUb.ect Under Say Offenders To Prosecution, Lottery Statutes I In response to numerous telephone calls and inquiries as to the legaiy pae oii - o i e of defense stamp chain letters eur- about which so many stories had rently circulating through the mail, been told. the answer, according to post office His Mother's Home authorities, is a very definite no. There, his mother, then a small Orders to clamp down on such let- girl, played, "probably swinging on ters have been received by ,11 post the white gates or picking snails offices, and offenders will be dealt from the garden walk." In the same with by existing fraud and lottery spot, practically unaltered by time, statutes. Not only will all such mail the 33 war babies stroll with their be withheld from delivery, if dis- "nannies." covered, but the senders are liable to "The house is fine for its present a $1,000 fine, two years imprisonment use," Professor Nelson said, "for the or both.a-ise in the fact tha extensive grounds, the conservatory conscientious citizens with patriotic with fruit under glass and the house motives are taken in by these letters set way back faygro d for young thinking they are sponsored- by the i an e nt r government. Some of the letters, children." postal authorities say, have claimed And this is not the first time that to be authorized by the Government. I a Nelson familv home has been As with most chain letters,' the turned into a children's shelter, for trouble arises, not so much from the in the last World War Belgian refu- workings of the process, but from the gee children were housed in 125- fact that certain persons have "in- year-old Gweallantop, built by Pro- terrupted the chain," and very few , fessor Nelson's great-uncle Josepl of the signers receive any benefits. I Jewell, in the same village. In this case, the stamps are turned, - $120 For Each Child. in by the first people who receive It costs $120, with the British gov- them, thus' not only breaking the ernment making up the deficit, tc chain but depriving the government support an "under five" at Trevince of any of the results which the for one year. To date, $1,500 has stamps, if saved, would bring, been contributed through the SCF to - -___the Ann Arbor Shelter, collaborating with a sister branch in England, and M iehiganboth divisions of the International Save the Children at Geneva, organ- MILITARY MEN ized at the close of World War I. The local SCF group, founded last By The Gunner spring, under the co-chairmanshi: of Mrs. Edward W. Blakeman and Mrs. Preston W. Slosson, offers un- Capt. Otto H. Donner, '34, is re- usual opportunities for service to the ported among those fighting on Ba- cause. A sorority, church group, pub- taan Peninsula. Stationed with an lic school-any local organization, 01 American-Filipino company, he was individual may "adopt" one of the last reported on the island of Cebu, children of Trevince, by giving $120 south of Luzon. At the time of the to SCF. Japanese attack he was on Mindinao "The "godparent" then receives a Island, where he had been sent to en- description and picture of the child- list and train Filipinos. plus the knowledge that the war- :1. j: orphan will be safe and have ade- Dr. Kyril B. Conger, '33, '36M, quate food, clothing and medical of the University urological surg- care for the year. i 2 5 1 t 1 a r l 1 r. Consequently, repairs are in order, and Technic staff designers now pre- dict confidently that the result will be so substantial that it will be used to advertise other Slide Rule Balls for generations to come. Probably unnoticed except by the more Sherlock Holmes-like campus goers and comers, the sign not only barks for the Ball, but it also V's for Victory, as. the lighting system has been designed to flash three shorts and a long. Chief electrician for the impres- sive structure was Kenneth Moehl, '43E, assisted byaJacks-of-all-trades George Snow, '44E, and Sid Shell, '43E. Bill Koffel, '42E, turned in the lettering work. Ball tickets will be placed on sale to engineers at 1 p.m. Thursday in the lobby of the East Engineering Building. Engineering identification cards must be present- ed by prospective customers. Daily 2-4-7-9 P.M. STARTS TODAY! Rising temperatures and a bright sun brought surcease Tuesday from a 'ROYA L DE UT h week-end cold wave, but a dozen PIPES communities in Michigan remained cut off from long distance telephone service as a result of sleet and snow squalls, drifted snow still blocked many main highways. The State Highway Department characterized the 48-hour March storm as the most demoralizing to $35 travel within the memory of present : .- maintenance employes. Every high- way traversing' the state from north i1 i to south was blocked at some point alongdits length, the department re- Write for chart picturing ported. 18 beautiful styles. Snow - fighting equipment was it describes advantageso rushed from the southeastern coun- MAREOSPATENTED F ties, which escaped the brunt of the MARVELOUS PATENTED FLTEK storm, to southwestern Michigan. Win. Demuth & Co., Inc., N.Y.C. i 508 E. WILLIAMS Formerly. University Musk House offers I/ fC oi v ery department, has been called to active duty with the Army Medical Corps. He is stationed at Ran- dolph Field, Texas. Together with the word that Lieut. George A. Graves, '37E, a Marine Corps' pilot, died in the Hawiian Is- lands, comes word that his wife has given birth to a son. Mrs. Graves has only recently returned from Hawaii, as she had accompanied him when he was stationed there. Miller To Address Club Col. H. W. Miller, of the engineering drawing department, will be guest speaker before the ninth annual meeting of the Propeller Club of the Port of Detroit at 6:30 p.m. today. 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