Weather Moderately Cold. it 4 :4aii4 tt Editorial Campus Gets Dose Of Bad Tasteg I VOL. LII: No. 131 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1942 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS -- - - i ommummmoomm Yale Captures National Tank Title, 71-39; 'M' Is Second Four Records Shattered As Elis Break Michigan Jinx After Eight Years' Quest For Championship Michigan Grapplers Take Fourth Place (Special to The Daily) By BUD HENDEL CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 28.- Amidst a breath-taking onslaught upon existing records, a gallant crew of Yale natators scored 71 points and won its first National Collegiate swimming championship in history tonight here in the Harvard pool. For eight years, the Elis have been trying to pry loose the Michigan strangle-hold on the coveted trophy. Tonight they did it in a manner which left no doubt in any mind as to Yale's overwhelming supremacy. Coach Bob Kiphuth's Blue Wave garnered five first places, four seconds and four thirds while ending the eight year title-quest. Michigan, the defending champion, finished second in the meet with a total of 39 points. Ohio State was third with 34 tallies, leading Michi- gan until the final 400-yard free style relay. Princeton and Rutgers were tied for fourth with nine mark- ers apiece. Although four records fell during the course of the two-day meet, Yale only broke one of them, the pool mark in the 440-yard free style. Coach Matt Mann's battling Wolver- ines smashed the others in the 200 yard breast stroke, the 400-yard free style relay and the 220-yard free style, the latter broken by Jack Pat- ten last night. As last night, it was again a Michi- gan man who gave the huge crowd of 1500 screaming fans its greatest in- dividual performance. Jim Skinner, exerting every ounce of effort, bulling his way don' the 'laie in spectacu- lar fashion and butterflying through- out with the same.rhythmical stroke, broke the Harvard pool record as he successfully defended his 200-yard breast stroke crown in the time of 2:23.7, the fastest recorded time this year. Leading at the end of 150 yards, but half, a body length behind the' flying Johnny Meyer of Yale at the 175 post, Skinner staged the most miraculous last lap sprint of the en- tire meet to speed past the streaking Eli and win the race by over a yard. And as the husky Wolverine made his sensational bid, the bellowing crowd rose as one man to shower ac- claim and admiration upon the na- tive Ann Arborite. Meyer could not Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 Aggies' Wrestling Team Retains National Mat Title (Special to The Daily) By HOE SELTZER EAST LANSING, March 28.-This is of course no man bites dog but Oklahoma A&M took its sixth con- secutive National Collegiate mat title here tonight with a total of 31 points as it placed individual champions in the 145, 155, 165 pound and heavy- weight divisions. Michigan State with 26 points was runner-up for the second straight year, based almost entirely on the stupendous performance of its trio of lower weight lads, 121 pounder Cut Jennings, 128 pounder Bo Jen- nings and 136 pounder Bill Maxwell. Cut and BO both retained the na- tional titles they won last year by repulsing the strong bids of Purdue's Malcolm MacDonald and Oklahoma's Sid Marks respectively. Maxwell cap- tured his first National crown by pin- ning Fred Bishop of Cornell with such a colorful and unorthodox exhi- bition of mat work as to bring back memories of Michigan's erstwhile Harlan Danner. Maxwell's fall was effected in 5:16 by an indescribable hold. Penn State was third in the team rankings with ten points and Michi- gan followed with eight. Of the four Wolverines who went into the semi-finals this afternoon only Johnny Johnson won through to a shot at the title. He had been paired with Penn State's rough wrestling captain Glenn Alexander and had to keep the heat on all the way to pile up a 5 to 0 win. Then in the evening, with 'the glory of being acclaimed the best in the nation ly- ing within his grasp he poured all his All-Campus Post-War Conference Scheduled British Commando Troops Blast Submarine Base At St. Four Panel Discussions To Take Place April 17, Meetings Will Review Various Problems 0N______________ 18; v With a personal letter from Vice- President Henry A. Wallace testify- ing to the importance of its program, the Michigan Post-War Council yes- terday announced the discussion pan- Iels for the all-campus Post-War Con- ference scheduled for April 17 and 18. The conference will open with a general session the first day, to be keynoted by a nationally-famous speaker, and will continue the follow- ing afternoon with tour panel groups which will discuss various phases of the post-war problem. Chairman Outlines As outlined by Chairman Cliff Straehley, '44, the four panels are: International Problems After the War; Relations of Capital and Labor After the War; How to Combat Ele- ments of Fascism Now and Insure Democracy After the War; Social Rehabilitation After the War. Straehley emphasized that the two- fold purpose of the Post-War Coun- cil is first to combat student com- placency, concerning the problems' British Forces Straighten Out Burma Lines of both the war and post-war recon- struction, and second to assimilate and corelate the feelings of the cam- pus into specific ideas and action. He said that representatives of business, labor, agriculture, religion and government will be present at the conference panels, but that the dis- cussion itself would be done by the students, while the experts would act only in an advisory capacity. At the conclusion of each panel votes will be taken in an attempt to determine what the majority opinion is on solutions to the various prob- lems. The results will then be an- nounced at the concluding session in the evening. The Council is composed of repre- sentatives from 13 major campus or- ganizations, including the Student Senate, the Intercooperative Coun- cil, the Interfraternity Council, Pan- hellenic, Congress, Assembly, The Daily, the Union. Hillel, the Dormi- tories, the Student League of Ameri- ca and one independent member. Finest Committee It boasts of one of the finest facul- ty advisory committees of any cam- pus organization. Headed by Presi- dent Alexander Ruthven, it includes Prof. Harlow Heneman, director of the War Board, Prof. James K. Pol- lock of the political science depart- ment, and Prof. Arthur Smithies of the economics department. Straehley said that the Council is a permanent organization based up- on the premise that "universities comprise the intellectual center of the nation and if a decent post-war settlement is to be achieved those of us in the universities must plan for it now." Munition Plant Has Explosion; Deaths Feared (By The Associated Press) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 28. Six persons were missing, presum-! ably killed, after an explosion and' fire that demolished today a small: brick building of the sprawling Rem- ington Arms Company plant, one of the nation's biggest munitions cen- ters. A company official reported to- night, seven and a half hours after the explosion, that no bodies had as yet been recovered from the wrecked building, but added that a careful check had failed to locate any of the Allied Anzac, American Troo Concentrate In AustrY To Repel Jap Invad Nipponese Planes Bomb Port Mores] BULLETIN (By The Assof lated Press) The survivors of five torpedo vessels have reaqhed the safety widely scattered Atlantic po MELBOURNE, March 28.-(- Huge Allied planes'ranged hund of miles to sea at the northern, e ern and western approaches of I tralia today in a vain search fi Japanese invasion armada as continent prepared for what might come. Allied bombers striking aga Koepang in Dutch Timor, 300 ni off the northern port of Darwin, set a Japanese ship afire. The enemy, using ever-weaker bomber formations, attacked ] Moresby in southern New Guinea the 21st time but did little dam Two marauding planes were dowi there yesterday and an Allied c was lost. Darwin had its seventh raid shc after noon but the bombs droppe( seven planes caused no matE damage, an Australian communi said. New Zealand troops and fl joined Australian and United St; troops massing to repel any Japa invasion attempt and their c{ mander, Gen. Sir Thomas Blar declared that "next year will de whether Australia will live or di( a nation."~ (The Sydney correspondent of London Star, quoting "authorita sources," said United States subn ines preying on the long-ten Japanese Pacific supply lines sunk five destroyers, an aircraft < rier and about 30 transports and s ply vessels were damaged "aro Australia." A full Netherlands Indies divis armed and eager to fight, was ported by the correspondent to 1 arrived in Brisbane.) The New Zealand and Austra' Planes Hunt Ja~p !al Nazis Try Open-Field Tactics In Spring-Push Preparations Chinese Right About Troops, Bolster Flank Of Allies Prome Sector (By The Associated Press) NEW DELHI, India, March 28.- The British defending the Central Burma oil fields effected a straight- ening of their lines today in the Prome area on their right flank but reported that the situation on their left-about Toungoo-had improved greatly as the result of stoic resist- ance by the Chinese. The British maneuver about Prome, involving a slight withdrawal caused by earlier Japanese advances on the Allied left, was effected without a major contact with the Japanese- only "large parties of mixed Bur- mans, Japanese and local freeboot- ers" were reported active in the area. But the Allied lines in that sector had stretched approximately 40 miles south of a line through Toungoo and were endangered by the possibility of a sudden westward thrust. The British lines were said to be still well in front of Prome, protect- ing the Yenangyaung oil fields to the north. A Chinese communique said the fighting for Toungoo, 120 miles north of Rangoon, was growing fiercer and that some Japanese troops had infil- trated the southwest corner of theI railroad town. Bitter hand-to-hand fighting, in which the Chinese in- flicted considerable losses, had been in progress for two days. The Chinese said the main Jap- anese pressure was from the south. The arrival of reinforcements for the Chinese troops commanded by the United States Lieut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell improved the position of the defenders. These forces were encircled Wed- nesday when Japanese, penetrating the Yoma area, circled behind Toun- goo and captured an airport to the north of that defense center. Germans Counter-Attack In Desperate Attempts To Regain Lost Initiative -BULLETIN HELSINKI, Finland, March 28. -(P)-The Finnish High Com- mand reported tonight that its forces had captured the Island of Suursaari, in the middle of the Gulf of Finland, north of Estonia and west of Leningrad. MOSCOW, March 28.-.P)-Driven back upon the defense of fortified villages and cities by the crushing waves of the Soviet winter offensive, the German armies have switched tactics to open-field fighting in say-' age counter-attacks aimed at shak- ing off the Russians' iron grip and gaining fresh footholds for a spring push. That was the picture of the mili- tary situation as it was drawn to- night both by an authoritative for- eign military source who has been with the Red Army at the front, and by the army newspaper Red Star. Nazis Counter-Attack Each conceded that the Nazis, on all sectors of the huge front, are counter-attacking furiously at tre- mendous cost in this all-or-nothing effort to regain the initiative. But both agreed that the initiative still was firmly held by the Russians and that the present German Army can- not compare in power to the divisions which blasted their way into Russia last summer. While the foreign military obser- ver expressed the utmost confidence in the current Soviet campaign with its constant threat of out-flanking and encircling the Germans, he de- Prof. Slosson To Inaugurate War Lectures Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department will speak on "Why America Is At War," at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The lecture will be the first of six to be presented weekly under the auspices of the University War Board on topics of interest in a nation at war. On April 7 Prof. John Dawson of the law school will speak on "War and Civil Liberties." He will be fol- lowed by speakers who have not yet been chosen but who will discuss "War and National Health," "Objec- tives of American Foreign Policy," and "Mobilization of Inventions," and other topics centering on the problem of defense. The speakers, soon to be an- nounced, will be experts in the fields which they will discuss. All of the ~lectures will be held on successive Tuesdays in Rackham Lecture Hall. The lectures will be open to the gen- eral public as well as students and faculty. clared that it would be essential for the Allies to open a second front against the Nazis in order to enable the Red Army to deliver a knockout blow this year.- (Most observers consider an Allied drive through northern Norway and Finland as the most feasible means of creating a new front-one that would attack the rear of the Ger- mans' far northern flank and simul- taneously aim at union with the Russian forces in that area. Possible Russian Move (The possibility that the Russians already may be paving the way for such an operation was indicated in reports that Soviet warships have carried out a surprise troop landing behind the German lines in the Mur- mansk area north of the Arctic Cir- cle. Murmansk itself is a vital Soviet receiving port for supplies from Brit- ain and the United States.) U.S. To Cease Trust-Busting For Duration Government Will Defer Pending Investigations To Help War Effort WASHINGTON, March 28.-(A"- President Roosevelt has approved a plan under which all pending and future Federal Court investigations, prosecutions or suits under the anti- trust laws would be temporarily de- ferred where it was shown the action would interfere with the progress of the war effort. The President's action was made public byrthe White House today in an exchange of letters showing that the plan had been worked out by Attorney General Francis Biddle, War Secretary Henry L. Stmson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general in charge of anti-trust prosecutions. The four officials notified the Pres- ident of the plan in a memorandum March 20. Mr. Roosevelt gave his approval the same day. The memorandum said that in the present all-out effort to produce, quickly and uninterruptedly a maxi- mum amount of weapons, antitrust investigations, suits and prosecutions "unavoidably consume the time of executives and employes of those cor- porations which are engaged in war' work." "In those cases," the memoran- dum added, "we believe that contin- uing such prosecutions at this time will be contrary to the national in- terest and security." The memorandum asserted, how- ever, that care would be taken to see that no one who had violated the law would escape ultimate in- vestigation and prosecution, and that no such persons would be per- mitted to postpone investigation or prosecution under a false pretext that his undivided time is necessary to the war effort. Nazaire; Arm ada U.S. Destroyer Is Turned Into Giant Time Bomb, Blown Up At Main Gate Bulgaria Promises War Against Russia (By The Associated Press) LONDON, March 28. - Britain's combined force of commandos, air- men and sailors making their most spectacular raid yet upon the Ger- man-occupied French coast convert- ed a former United States destroyer into a giant time-bomb, laden with five tons of explosives, and blasted the main dock gate of the big Ger- man submarine base at St. Nazaire early today. In a special communique tonight, the British said "there is every hope" that through this daring assault the gate of the large dock at St. Nazaire, - GERMAN VERSION - BERLIN, (from German broad- casts), March 28.-(P)-The Ger- man High Command, in a special statement tonight on the British raid at St. Nazaire, said it was modeled after the "Zeebrugge en- terprise" of the World War-a British naval action which bottled up the Germans in the Belgian harbor. (Noteworthy in this third offi- cial German story of the raid is the fact that the Germans re- frained from repeating the earlier specific claim that nine motor torpedoboats and four larger tor- pedoboats were sunk. (The statement declared, how- ever, that none of the British craft which entered the bay at St. Nazaire "was observed to have es- caped." Several British destroyers which lay at the, mouth of the Loire, however, admittedly made a getaway.) A Berlin newspaper said the raiders were "accounted for before they were able to inflict heavy damage." (The High Command earlier had acknowledged not even the slightest damage to the oc- cupied French naval base.) the largest on the Atlantic Coast, was destroyed. Special service troops were landed and carried out pre-arranged demoli- tions in the dockyard before the 1,090-ton destroyer Campbeltown, formerly the U.S.S. Buchanan, was sent nosing toward the main gate with her giant load of explosives. "This ex-American destroyer had had her bows specially stiffened and filled with five tons of high explo- sive," the communique said. "A de- layed action fuse had been fitted to give our forces sufficient time to complete other demolition work and withdraw before the main explosion took place." The British acknowledged the sortie was made "not without some casual- ties" and indicated some of those lost may have been aboard the de- stroyer. Premier Pledges Aid; Fails To Mention Troops BERN, Switzerland, March 28.-(W) -Bulgaria was pledged in principle to war against Russia today by her Premier, Bogdan Philov, but he avoided an outright promise of the troops which Adolf Hitler has de- manded of King Boris. "Thanks to our army," Phil6v told the Bulgarian Parliament," "the lit- tle Balkan kingdom could fulfill her tasks in the Axis and was ready for all sacrifices." He declared "the de- struction of Bolshevism" was essen- tial, the French news agency Havas reported from Sofia. "Although we are not fighting we are in a state of war with all its dangers," Philov declared. The Pre- mier added that Bulgaria's duty was to "increase as much as possible our production by exploiting all possi- bilities." 'Eyes Of The Navy' Featured At Union i 4 ~ fl 1. T nn t' ,rn.flc ,t I ,irning six missing workers, three women " '" "' "' " "'"'" 1 and three men, either at their homes defend their homeland after two or in hospitals years campaigning in such places as More than 25 other workers were Tobruk, Crete, the Libyan Desert, listed as injured in the blast which Malaya and Singapore, included con- shook the huge munitions plant about tngents of the army, air forces and 2 p.m. (EWT), sent bullets whizzing navy. New Zealand pilots were among dangerously through the vicinity, the first arrivals. touched off a general fire alarm and brought a rush of ambulances to he scene. A freight car and an auto- Ra fl ia ie mobile were also destroyed. Most of the injured, cut by flying Air Corps glas, worked in an adjoining build- ing where windows and skylights were shattered. Wahea ony Lg About 25 other employes were treat- Washtenaw County Lags ed for shock at the company's emer- In Enlistment Goal gency hospitals. The first explosion, followed by a Still lagging behind its set goal, the series of smaller blasts, started a drive for Washtenaw County air fire in the ruins of the building, corps enlistments will be stepped up Trust Prosecution During War Advocated By Prof. Peterson (Editor's Note: The interview below was set in type before the President's decision on trusts suits was announced in Washington. It is entirely con- sistent, nevertheless, with the White House observations.) By MORTON MINTZ Prosecution of combinations which restrain trade and do not aid the war effort must not be postponed during wartime to "lure" recalcitrant cor- porations into greater production, Prof. Shorey Peterson of the econom- ics department contended yesterday. Critical of reports that the War Department made "desperate at- tempts" to stop the Standard Oil and other anti-trust suits on grounds that Thurman Arnold's charges would hamper the war effort, Pro- fessor Peterson, a specialist in public control of industry, declared: "En- forcement of the anti-trust laws can have just the opposite effect." He asserted that strict enforce- ment of the laws before the war and pared to cope with trusts after theJ war."I Concerning cases in restraint of trade which developed before the war, Professor Peterson expressed his belief that a policy of moderation and discretion based on standards applicable to the war situation is ad- visable. He stressed, however, that there should not be "a general cessa- tion of activity by the Anti-Trust Division." Citing the additional value of the anti-trust laws in their latent capac- ity as a "big stick" over inflated prices, he said that Leon Henderson is likely to find the cooperation of the Division useful in controlling them. "Henderson wielded this 'big stick' before specific price control legislation with apparent effect when voluntary methods failed," Professor Peterson commented. He credited Thurman Arnold with "outstanding foresight and perspec- tive about the situation." Turning to with a rally of all men interested in flying cadet positions at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Union. The rally, co-sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Washtenaw County Air Force Sponsors Association, will feature a talk by Lieut. George Comte, public relations director of this area's air corps examining board. The board will be in Ann Arbor Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the Health Service. With the waiving of all educational requirements, opportunity for air corps enlistments has been opened up to a much larger group. Univer- sity students, however, still have the prerogative of finishing their semes- ter before induction. ROTC Will Train In Summer 'Term The University's year-round sched- ule will be extended to the Depart- ment of Military Science and Tactics when,' for the first time, the ROTC unit offers academic training during the summer. With this announcement comes the information from the War Depart- Wartime Vocational Guidance Will Be Offered At Conference The University's Bureau of Ap-' pointments and Occupational Infor- mation will sponsor a guidance and occupational information conference on government and industrial work for men and women in a period of wartime on Wednesday and Thursday in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The conference is divided into three sections: opportunities in United States government employment, in defense industries and in Michigan State government employment. These fields are being emphasized because of their importance to the war ef- fort. At the present time civil serv- ice commissions in municipal, state and federal government units are at George Washington University. He is a recognized authority in governmental, industrial and educa- tional examination methods. He has spent the greater part of his life studying the nature and require- ments of government positions and devising the best means of determin- ing the possession of the necessary qualifications. John Haien, director of youth training and aircraft training for the Chrysler Corporation, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on jobs for men in defense industries. Thomas P. Garrity, assistant director of voca- tional training for war workers in Detroit, will discuss defense industry jobs for women.