Weath er d+A' Suirprise! 4it #aitjlwwr Editorial Mayer Article Is Challenge To America. VOL. LH. No. 130 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1942 Z-323 iU PRICE FIVE CENTS Yale Mermen Capture Lead At Half-Mark Of Collegiates Ahead From Initial Race Of Opening Day; OSU Annexes Second Place; Wolverines Take Third Patten Sets New 220 Pool Record By BUD HENDEL (Special to The Daily) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27.- A blue-trunked package of swimming dynamite exploded all over spacious Harvard Pool today, and the light- ning mermen of Yale surged to the fore at the half way mark of the National Collegiates. Ahead from the first race of the day, the 1500 meter battle, the Elis never once lost the lead, and when the final results of the day's activ- ities were tabulated tonight, Coach Bob Kiphuth's Bulldogs had almost doubled the point total of their near- est rival, Ohio State. Yale led with 38 points, while the Buckeyes were second with 22. Mich- igan, the defending champion, rested within catching distance of the lead- ers with 17 markers. The rest of the field was far behind, with North- western pacing the rear guard with its seven tallies. Wolverines Stand Chance Despite its 21 point deficit, the Wolverine crew, on the basis of the fight and unwavering determination it showed today, is still conceded a faint chance to repeat as National Collegiate king. Tomorrow the Maize and Blue tanksters will throw their+ greatest strength into their strongest events, and if they can win them the title will once again be theirs.- Coach Bob Kiphuth's Bulldog ma-+ chine jumped off to a four point ad-+ vantage over Ohio State in the open- ing event of the day. Rene Chouteau,+ out to again win the 1500 meter+ crown, did just that in the spectacu-+ lar time of 19:24.9, the fastest re- corded for the distance since the days of Jack Medica. Dick Peters cap- tured the third place markers for the Blue Wave with a 20:06 clocking, while Ohio State's Jack Ryan was second in 19:37.4. Steve Grimm gave the Buckeyes their other point in the race, finishing fifth, and Arnie Elch- lepp of Minnesota wound up fourth. Michigan's Walt Stewart was caught in 20:50, just out of the money. Patten Provides Thrill It was a Michigan man who pro- vided the greatest thrill of the night for the 1,000 assembled spectators. Jack Patten, the husky junior who was recently elected captain for next year, brought the crowd to its feet' in roaring cheers of approvalas he broke fast, swam fast, and finished first in the most electrifying 220 yard free style race ever seen in this huge natatorium. Swimming against the heretofore invincible Howie Johnson of Yale and the latter's teammate, Rene Chou- teau, Patten found tonight the flaw- less smooth stroke that has been missing since the beginning of the season. The Wolverine blazed the eighth of a mile in the torrid timej Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 Oklahoma A&M Leads In Mat Quarter-Finals ' By HOE SELTZER (Special to The Daily) EAST LANSING, March 27.-De- fending champions Oklahoma A&M took the first step toward capturing its sixth consecutive National Col- legiate mat title by placing five men1 in the quarter finals tonight. Mich- igan and Michigan State each havei four men remaining in the playoffs. The Wolverines are Dick Kopel, Johnny Johnson, Bill Courtright and Captain Jim Galles. As expected the Middle West has dominated the field so far although entries from Penn State, Cornell and Navy have shown up strong for the East. Wolverine 121 pounder Dick Kopel appeared to have the old driving fire back again as he won a bitterly fought 7 to 6 decision over Big Six champion Gaylord Bales of Iowa State. Cut Jennings, Michigan State's, defending national oitlist, neverthe- less appears to be the top notcher in; this division in winning an easy fall victory. Charlie Ridenour of Penn State, who holds a decision over Ko-; pel this year, is also in the thick of, the battle.E The featherweight scrap looks like; a 1ad ritnh .trnaal hM'urten Okla- i Regents Define Wartime Policies For University Formulate Yardstick To Guide Schools And Colleges In Drafting Budgets, Planning Programs With the budget plan still up in the air, the Board of Regents ap- proved yesterday a set of principles for the wartime operation of the Uni- versity, establishing a yardstick by which the various schools and col- leges should draft their budgets and plan their programs. Presented by President Alexander G. Ruthven, the plan included the follwingpoints: Plan Is Outlined "The administrative authority of each school, college or other unit will examine its curriculum and opera- tions with the view to: 1. Eliminating courses with small enrollment. 2. Combining courses. 3. Eliminating duplication of cour- ses. 4. Bracketing courses. 5. Alternating courses. 6. Reducing the variety of offer- ings and the number of electives at both undergraduate and graduate levels. 7. Utilizing its personnel to the full- est extent either, in its own unit or elsewhere in the University. 8. Making other economies in its instructional program. Staff To Handle Three-Term Year "The teaching staff will perform the services necessary to provide the instructional program of the three term year. Individual staff members must expect to render service for longer periods than heretofore. The period of service may be distributed throughout the three terms as de- termined by departments and schools or colleges concerned and other prop- er administrative authorities. "The University will maintain its basic programs during the emergency. Special programs may be offered, to the extent that finances permit, in each of the three terms. In addition, the various schools, colleges, and other units will provide such special courses as may be required for the conduct of the war." The report implored administrators Plot To Steal Big Slide Rule Is Successful Lawyers Capture Trophy But Engineers Retaliate In RoughSkirmish As the war continued in the Pacific and battles raged in Russia yester- day Ann Arbor became the battlefield for a war "extraordinaire." At 5 p.m. engineers proudly hung their giant slide-rule in the Union Ballroom in preparation for the Slide Rule Ball to be held tonight. It was 6 p.m. when an expedition- ary force from the Law Quadrangle invaded the Union, seized the slide- rule, shoved it through the window and carried it off to the Quadrangle. But despite their noble attempt to re- gain the "sacred" bit of complicated machinery, which no one but an en- gineer could possibly understand, the engineers failed. Today engineers continued their frantic search for the missing slide- rule. And in the Union Ballroom hangs the first victim of the war under a bright spotlight. It is a large dummy bearing the sign "This is the lawyer who stole our slide-rule." Military experts classify this as being only a "grudge fight" since this year the lawyers' Crease Ball does not come on the same night as the engineers' Slide-Rule Ball. Dr. J. D. Bruce Heads Council Adult Education Group Reelects Faculty Man Dr. James D. Bruce, vice-president of University relations, has been re- elected president of the Michigan Council on Adult Education, it was announced in Lansing yesterday. Dr. Bruce, who was prominent in the Council's reorganization nearly a year ago, was again elevated to the organization's presidency when repre- sentatives of nearly 30 state organi- zations gathered at its annual meet- inr fnr +hn alnM-inno f ffiei-m- to institute all possible economies not inconsistent with the effective func- tioning of the University. It was indicated by the approved recommendation that determination of academic programs, adjustment in personnel and matters pertaining to the budget will rest with the teach- ing unit and the Committee on Fac- ulty Personnel, which is composed of Dr. Ruthven, Provost E. Blythe Stason, Dean C. S. Yoakum and a representative of the school under discussion. Third Term Not Obligatory The three term plan adopted by the Board of Regents does not obligate students to attend the University throughout the three terms. The year-around program permits those who so desire to accelerate their pro- grams. It was emphasized in the President's report that the three semester pro- gram was not a plan to remake the University under the guise of the war Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Campus Board To Coordinate War Activities, Group Of Three Six Men Will Committee Of Women, Replace 1942 With the Committee of 1942's last gasp still echoing in campus circles, six men and three women have been chosen from the student body to serve on an entirely new board whose pur- pose is complete coordination of all student activities dealing with the war. This new Student War Board, an- nounced yesterday by the University Student Affairs Committee, is com- posed of Norm Call, '42, Emile Gele, '42, Robert Sibley, '42E, Art Rude, '42, Donald Treadwell, '42L, Roberti Wallace, '42, and senior women Mar- garet Campbell, Virginia Frey and Margaret Sanford. Nominated by a group representing the campus at large, the Student War Board has been set up "to elim- inate confusion and duplication of effort in campus war activities," ac- cording to Prof. Burton D. Thuma of the University War Information Committee. Professor Thuma, whose group will work directly with this new body, de- clared yesterday that the nine stu- dents selected will represent the en- tire campus, not themselves nor any particular organizations. "In setting up this Student War Board, we are striving for a group that will work unhampered by poli- Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 Soviet Forces Flank German Lines In North MOSCOW, March 27.-UP)-A Rus- sian seaborne force has landed be- hind the Germandlines on the Mur- mansk Coast under the protecting guns of the Red Fleet in a surprise Arctic offensive to clear the Allied northern supply lanes and menace the Nazi-Finnish northern flank, it was announced tonight. Meager accounts of the action, broadcast by the Moscow radio, said the Russian landings- (presumably on the Rybachi Peninsula northwest of Murmansk)-caused vast confu- sion among the German troops who have holed up there all winter. Small Soviet submarines, operating in adjacent waters, were reported to have sunk at least 10 German trans- ports in operations connected with the Russian troop move. The landing had deep implications, for the area between Murmansk and the north cape of Norway has long been regarded as an extremely logi- cal setting for the opening of a sec- ond front by Russia's U.S. and British lines. Meanwhile at Bern advices from both German and neutral areas in- dicated tonight that the German Army has been ordered to hold six main points on the Russian front at all costs while Nazi transportation experts effect the difficult move- ment of new supplies for a spring offensive now reported timed for the third w eek in Anril. Kellogg Grantj Of $113.000 Aids Dentists Equipment To Be Loaned To Dentistry Students For Cost Minimization Regents Announce Wartie Changes By HOMER SWANDER The University's accelerated war program was given another boost yes- terday as the Board of Regents ac- cepted a gift of, $113,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation which will be used to decrease the cost of at- tending the dental school and thus enable more students to take advan- tage of the new three-term plan. Previously, dental students have been required to purchase their own equipment at a cost of approximately $725. The Kellogg grant, by allowing the University to acquire new instru- ments and technial equipment which can be loaned to students, will cut the cost nearly $450. High Costs Are Problem In view of the extraordinary mili- tary demand for dentists brought about by the war it became apparent that high costs in the dental school must be done away with if the nec- essary number of students were to be trained. The fact that a new, continuous three-term plan had been announced for the dentists also increased the seriousness of the problem by making it impossible for the students to earn their tuition money during the sum- mer. Loaning of instrument outfits is also intended to help further the war effort by preventing a yearly drain of between $40,000 and $60,000 worth of instruments from the nation's lim- ited supply of dental equipment, which is now badly needed by the Army and the Navy. To Purchase Equipment Approximately $59,000 of the Kel- logg gift is to be used for alterations in, and the purchase of equipment for, the undergraduate technical lab- oratories and operative clinics of the School of Dentistry. These changes are necessitated by the rapidly in- creasing enrollment in the school. Freshman dental enrollment has jumped one-third this year and is expected to double the last year's figure by next fall. The improved facilities will also be used for the present and anticipated postgraduate instruction offered to officers in the Army Dental Corps. Foresters' Summer Camp To Be Extended The need for more trained men in every field also precipitated the ap- proval of a recommendation made by the School of Forestry and Conser- vation that for the duration of the emergency the length of the forestry summer camp be increased from ten to sixteen weeks, and that the re- quirement of 130 credit hours for the bachelor's degree be reduced to 120. In this way the forestry program will be accelerated to correspond with the three-term year and the bache- lor's degree can be earned by contin- uous study in two years plus two terms. The reduction of hours will be accomplished by the omission of free electives not forestry courses. NROTC Changes Approved The Regents also approved two changes in the NROTC division. They accepted the resignation of Lieut.- Comm. Robie E. Palmer as Associ- ate Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, effective March 31. Lieuten- ant Palmer has been ordered else- where by the Navy Department. Archibald Hunt Atkinson, B.S., Lieut. Junior Grade U.S.N.R., was ap- pointed Assistant Professor in his place. One new leave of absence occa- sioned by the war was granted by the Regents. Asst. Prof. Alan S. Foust of the chemical engineering department, a captain in the Army Reserve, was ordered to active duty at the Edge- wood Arsenal, Maryland, March 15. Appointments Made, Other Grants Listed The Regents also named Assoc. Prof. Ralph Smith of the pharma- cology department assistant secretary of the Medical School. Another move by the Board made the University ofews Service an in- dependent unit of the University with Donald Anderson as director. It had previously been under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Alumni Relations. in addition to the grant to the den- Other Forces In Atlantic Cooperate Effectively, Communiques Disclose WASHINGTON, March 27.-(I)- The command of Army planes hunt- ing U-boats off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts was turned over to the Navy by an order announced today as a new move to increase the effec- tiveness of the war on submarines. The order, issued Wednesday by Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, Fleet Commander in Chief, was dis- closed by the War and Navy Depart- ments, which asserted in. identical communiques that cooperation al- ready was "close and effective" in other respects. The Army air units were made sub- ject to orders of Naval commanders of the "sea frontiers" to end any un- certainty over control of the weapons used in the anti-submarine cam- paign. Andrews Commands Atlantic The Atlantic "sea frontier," extend- ing from the Canadian border to the Caribbean, is commanded by Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, who was relieved of shore administrative duties 10 days ago to devote his full atten- tion to the anti-submarine war. The newest action toward unity of command closely followed a com- plaint by North Carolina's governor, J. M. Broughton, that a "shocking lack of cooperation" existed between "already exists for all Army and Navy forces in the Hawaiian Islands and the Caribbean." Off the western coast of the United States, the task of guarding against enemy sea activities is divided be- tween Rear Admiral John W. Green- slade, commander of the western sea frontier, and Rear Admiral C. S. Freeman, the northwest sea frontier commander. Centers Already Combined In voicing reassurance that in gen- eral the cooperation between Army air forces and the Navy had been "close and effective," the communi- ques said that "in most ports the op- eratingcenters of these commands have already been combined in one room." The new order appeared aimed pri- marily at intensifying the war on U-boats off the Atlantic coast, where shipping has been ravaged most dan- gerously. 200 Students To Be Guests Of University Seniors From Michigan's High Schools Will Make Tour OfCampus Today Navy Given Command Of All Air Units In Anti-Sub Campaign Liquidation Of Jap Force At Toungoo Brings Relief To Hard-PressedChi nese the Army and Navy and that the war More than 200 high school students on U-boats was "wholly inadequate" from all over the state will invade and "frequently inept." Ann Arbor today as special guests of Unity of command, it was noted, the Union and the University. Coming here for the sixth annual W ar .issues University Day, the high school sen- ,iors will begin their program with To Be Tlo picregistration at the Union at 9:30 a.m. and will proceed to a tour of the campus. The staff of the Union is scheduled to act as guides for a day and make A series of six weekly lectures on certain that the students get a gen- the issues and problems raised by the eral picture of college life and of the war will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday in campus. thewRckar wLbe cturHal. tesdar i Consultations have also been ar- the Rackham Lecture Hall, the War ranged for the visitors with depart- Board announced yesterday. ment heads on the matter of schol- Prof. Preston W. Slosson, of the arships, dormitories, academic re- history department, will speak Tues- quirements and extra-curricular ac- day on the subject "Why America tivities. Is At War." The lectures are open. A special tour has been planned in the morning for those who wish to the general public as well as stu- to see the engineering college. Gen- dents and the faculty. eral tours will include the library, The remainder of the lectures, all the Carillon Tower, the Union, the of which will be given on successive League ,the Rackham Building and Tuesdays, have not been completely the Student Publications Building. determined. Other topics which will Afternoon tours to the West Quad, be discussed include "War and the museums and Stockwell Hall will Civil Liberties," "War and National be compl'eted by 3 p.m., at which Health," "Objectives of American time there will be a free period so Foreign Policy," and "Mobilization of that the students may attend the Inventions." football movies at the Union or swim Plans are under way to secure in the Union pool. A regular campus prominent experts to speak on some coke bar exclusively for the visitors of the topics. Preliminary plans in- is scheduled for 3:45 p.m. dicate that outsiders may be chosen There will also be a special luncheon to fill some of the posts. All of the j served at the Union at 12 noon for lectures will be held in the Rackham1 those who care to take advantage Lecture Hall. of it. Literary College Scholarships Deadline Is Set For Wednesday