weather Cooler. ' y Cit r~r 4it Editorial British Demand That Churchll Act ,. VOL. L. No. 160 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1942 Z-323 PRIOE FIVE CENTS Proposed Bill Hits Industries Now Earning Large Profits New . Corporation Taxes Take $94 Of Every $100 Excess Income; Affects All Gains Over $10,000 Measure Estimated To Raise 2 Billion -BULLETIN - SALT LAKE CITY, May l.-P) -Police said tonight a plane, be- lieved to be a United Airlines Mainliner, crashed into the moun- tainside just outside Salt Lake City limits. WASHINGTON, May 1. --4)P-A new corporation tax program built around a flat levy taking $94 out of every $100 of excess profits-those exceeding normal-and estimated to raise $2,500,000,000 in additional rev- enue was approved today by the House Ways and Means Committee. Reaching tentative agreements on principal corporate taxes, the com- mittee also decided to retain the present 24 per cent tax on normal porfits of corporations with net in- come of more than $25,000 and jumped the present 7 per cent surtax to 16 per cent. This latter levy ap- plies, in addition to the 24 per cent tax, on normal profits exceeding $25,- 000. To Discuss Suggestions Chairman Doughton (Dem.-Nev.) announced that the committee would discuss Monday suggestions that the government return to corporations after the war some part of the taxes collected under wartime rates. Randolph Paul, tax adviser to Sec- retary Morgenthau, and Rep. Cooper (Dem.-Tenn.) estimated that the combined new program indicated it might go as high as $2,604,700,000. The 94 per cent tax, double existing rates in many cases, was designed, members said. both to raise new.rev- enue and to control profits of cor- porations enjoying lucrative war con- tracts. For Profits Over $10,000 It applies to all profits a corpora- tion may have in exress of $10,000 Nine Loses To Hoosiers-; Thinclads To Face Illini British Air Fleet Sweeps Channel In Heaviest Raid Netnen In To Encounter Toughest Opponents Of Year Meet Today With Strong Chicago Team On Nazi Coast; By. BOB SIIOPOFF (Special to The Daily) BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 1- One error by the Michigan baseball team cost them their opening game against Indiana here today. The Hoosiers downed Coach Ray Fisher's crew, 6-4, for its firs defeat in the Conference. Iry 'Pro' Boin was on the mound for Michigan, but he lacked his usual stuff. After Michigan had given him a 4-0 lead. going into the fifth he lost his touch momentarily and Indi- ana loaded the bases. Then an error by Bill Cartmill, who was playing first in place of the injured Don Boor, let a grounder get away from him and three runs romped home. From then on the Michigan boys couldn't get back in the tilt. Fisher gambled when e played Cartmil at first instead of Art Berg- ensen, who has been substituting~for Boor, but the gamble didn't come out right and it cost Michigan the game This was the first time that the "Wheel" had been on the first sack. Three Wolverine hurlers tried to stop the Hoosiers. Boim, Bill Cain and Dick Savage were all on the Turn to Page 3, Col. 3 Dr. Schuman, Noted Scholar, To Give Talk Famous Political scientist Will Lecture Tomorrow On 'Road To Victory' Interpreter of world affairs, Fred- erick L. Schuman, professor of gov- ernment at Williams College, will speak at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in Rack- ham Auditorium under the auspices of Hillel Foundation and the Michi- gan Post-War Council. Titling his lecture "The Road to Victory," Dr. Schuman will present his ideas, backed by years of study, 'n the methods of winning the war. An accurate prophet of coming events of world importaice, Dr. Schuman is a specialist on world governments. His amazing forecasts include the prophecy of this war as long ago as 1933. Trips to Europe for first hand ob- servation as well as study there give a high degree of accuracy to Dr. Schu- man's information. He has studied government in England, France, Rus- sia, Germany and most of the other continental countries. In Germany at the time of the Nazi victory over the von Papen, Dr. Schuman saw Hitler's accession to cower. He also witnessed the in- auguration of the .Soviet "Five Year Plan." Dr. Schuman, interested in post- war reconstruction, is familiar with the workings of the League of Na- tions and is connected with the inter- Democracy Federal Union work. Teaching now at Williams College, Dr. Schuman took his doctorate at the University of Chicago. He taught there until 1936. Holding the Woodrow Wilson Pro- fessorship of Government, Dr. Schu- man's books and studies of govern- ment have brought wide acclaim to" him. His latest book is "A Primer of By ED ZALENSKI Michigan's powerhouse track squad begins its quest of the 1942 Confer- ence crown this afternoon at Ferry Field against a star-laden Illinois crew in the opening meet of the cur- rent outdoor season. The first event starts at 2 p.m. This twenty-fifth meeting between the two schools is dedicated to Dr. George A. May, a member of the University's physical education staff since 1901 and official starter at virtually every meet here since then. Dr. May reached the University re- tirement age of 70 this summer, and the tribute is in honor of his 41 years of uninterrupted service. The Maize and Blue trackmen are Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 Tough Match Enisaged For Tennis Team Today By BART JENKS Primed for their toughest match of the year, the Varsity netmen this afternon face a powerful Chicago team on the new Har-Tru courts at Ferry Field. Looked at from any standpoint the match this afternoon should be one of the top Michigan sports attrac- tions of the spring season. Michi- gan has lost only one match this season and then to one of the most powerful squads in Notre Dame his- tory. Chicago boasts an even better record with no loss to mar its slate. Included among the teams beaten by the Maroons this season are Wis- consin, Iowa, and Northwestern's strong outfit. Nor does the match record present a false idea of the Chicago squad for they will have what no team to face Turn to Page 3, Col. 2 Three Schools Get $30,000 Kellogg Grant Medical, Dental, Health Students To Accelerate Programs With Funds A $30,000 grant to the University from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation will provide financial aid for stu- dents taking wartime accelerated programs in the medical, dental and public health schools, President Alex- ander G. Ruthven announced yes- terday. Three separate funds of $10,000 have been offered to the Medical School, the School of Dentistry and the School of Public Health, Presi- dent Ruthven said. Each school will decide whether the money is to be used in revolving loan funds or in outright scholarships to sbidents who are financially unable to under- take year-round study. The Kellogg Grant, according to President Ruthven, was made at the present time to aid students until some form of federal aid is made available. ThPe Wartime Commission of the United States Office of Edu- cation is working on a plan of fiman- cial assistance to students preparing for fields in which there are critical shortages of personnel. Year-round study would have been impossible for many medical, dental, and public health students, President Axis Heads Ponder Future Moves plus: 1. Nin'ety-five per cent of its aver- age net earnings in the period 1936- 39, inclusive, or 2. A return of 8 per cent on the first $5,000,000 of invested capital; 7 per cent on the second $5,000,000; 6 per cent on the next $190,000,000 and 5 per cent above $200,000,000. Schools Urged To Stay Open New War Plan Proposes No HighSchool Recess WASHINGTON, May I.2P- Year-around operation of America's 25,467 high schools--elimnating sum - mer vacations-in a plan for full mobilization of education behind the war effort was urged today by the U.S. Office of Education's war-time commission. Among the courses pro- posed for the summer was "aviation education." A wide range of activity was rec- ommended for "all types" of schools, meanings that thousands of elemen- tary schools might also remain open during the summer, along with high schools-not for ins trurction of pupil: but to render special1community serv- ices. "To America's schools,' the com- mission said, "this summer comes not as a time for vacation but as an opportunity for pointing up their services toward certain basic objec- tives highlighted by the war needs of the armed forces and of war produc- tion. "Every school system should con- sider how its personnel, plant and equipment may be used during the coming summer to contribute to war services and to provide war service training courses- Fresh Air Camp Drive Nets $1,384 Yesterday's Tag Day for the Uni- versity Fresh Air Camp netted a to- tal of $1384.62, including contribu- tions received from campus collec- Rigid Discipline At Home, Aid For Russian Front is Planned By Dictators Jap A mbassador Misses War Paley BERN, Switzerland May 1.-(P)- Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini were reported tonight to have dwelt in the main during two days of con- ference at Salzburg on measures for increasing the number of effective Axis troops in the Russian front and on rigid enforcement of home dis- cipline both in Germany and Italy. They also were believed by com- petent diplomatic analysts to have given up any hope of negotiating a peace this spring, after three weeks of unofficial overtures. Axis communiques today disclosed the bare facts of the dictators' elev- enth meeting Wednesday and Thurs- day, and Axis commentators said, as usual, that it was a preface to "great political and military events" early this summer, Japs Not Present Contrary to expectations, the Jap- anese ambassador to Berlin, Lieut.- Gen. Hiroshi Oshima, was not on hand, and it was noted that official German accounts of the meeting spoke of "the uniform war plan of the Axis and beyond that of the Tri- Partite Pact powers," and of the "hard determination of Germany and Italy and their allies to render final vic- tory secure"-(as though Japan was a separate entity in the totalitarian strategy.) The German radio broadcast to- night an interview in which Oshima said at Munich-only a short hop from Salzburg-that "Germany and Japan, although spacially separated, are waging common war in the clos- est unity and for the same great aim; in the two spheres established by them they will be working and sup- plementing one another most hap- pily." Oslima At Munich This broadcast said Oshima was at Munich for the opening of the German-Japanese Society and made no mention of any meeting with Iitler. It was believed however, that Osh- ima might meet Hitler and Mussolini in the near future for a detailed dis- cussion of Axis war efforts. Foreign military observers here thought this would involve an effort to get Japan into the war against Russia by sum- Law Limiting All CityRents AId Students An Office of Price Administration order placing a ceiling on all rents in the Ann Arbor area, yesterday, was seen to be a great aid to the thous- ands of University students living in rooming houses, cooperatives, fra- ternities and sororities. The order placed all owners who rent rooming houses, apartments and homes in Ann Arbor and the rest of Wastnaw county on an honor sys- tem from now until about July 1 to maintain rents at prices not higher than they were on April 1, 1941 Fines For Violations Anyone violating this ruling after July 1 will ultimately suffer at least a suit for triple damages and at the most a $5,000 fine or a year in a fed- eral prison or both. This legislation insures many stu dents against paying increased rents which were anticipated as a result of the great influx of defense workers into this area. It not only controls rents of student rooming houses but a so protects fraternities, sororities and cooperatives from increased housing costs. Ann Arbor comes under this OPA ruling since it was recently classified as a defense rental area. Under this rent control order the OPA does not "move into" a defense rental area such as this until 60 days after maxi- mum rents have been fixed, This gives landlords an opportunity to show that they are not going to prac- tice profiteering. Check To Be Made Samuel D. Estep, '43L, of Emporia, Kansas, was named editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review yester- day for the year 1942-43. Junior law students appointed to associate editor positions by the fac- SAMUEL D. ESTEP ulty are: Lee B. Brody, Detroit; Wil- liam H. Buchanan, Jr., Ann Arbor; Neil McKay, East Tawas, and H. Marshall Peter of Bethesda, Md. Other editors to work on the all- Allied Airmen Bomb Planes In Soith Seas Jap New Guinea Attacked, Airdrome Left Burning; PhilippinesStruck Again ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus- tralia, May 1.--(/P)-Allied airmen swept down on an enemy airdrome at Lae in New Guinea yesterday, bombed and machine-gunned 30 planes lined up on the ground in a surprise attack and roared off after starting numer- ous large fires, a communique an- nounced today, In another raid on Salamua, 20 miles to the south, other Allied bombers shot down three Japanese defending planes, and then unloaded their explosives on ground installa- tions. Allied losses were described as slight in the communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters. It mentioned no opposition by the Japanese at Lac, indicating the raid- ers found the Japanese unprepared, despite almost daily Allied raids on the area. Eight Japanese bombers raided Horn Island off Cape York at the northeast tip of Australia with lit- tle damage, while another Japanese formation raided Tulagi in the Solo- mon Island "without effect," the communique said. junior staff are: Joseph R. Brook- shire, Joplin, Mo.; James E. Dunlap, Ann Arbor; Edward P. Dwyer, Jr., Joplin, Mo.; Paul J. Kellar, Grosse Pointe; James L. McCrystal, San- dusky, O.; John Potter, Toledo, O.; Andrew J. Sawyer, Jr., Ann Arbor; Milton D. Soloman, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Robert Walsh of Hartsdale, N, Y. Since the law school will be in ses- sion for a full four-month term dur- ing the summer and since a summer Law Review will be published, the I new officers will assume their duties much earlier than usual. Editorship of the Michigan Law Re- view, professional publication, most of whose subscribers are practicing attorneys, is considered one of the highest honors which a law student can receive. Half of the publication is devoted to articles by noted law- yers throughout the country and the remainder is devoted to writings by student editors. Retiring editor-in-chief is David G. Laing, '42L, of Dowagiac, Mich. Campus To Vote For Six Union Vice-Presidents Candidates for the six vice-presi- dential posts of the Union to be filled at the all-campus elections May 8° have been chosen by a committee ap- pointed by the Board of Directors of the Union. Additional nominations may be. made by presenting petitions signed by students in the candidate's school or college at the student offices of the Union before 9 a.m. Tuesday. Juniors representing the School of Literature, Science and the Arts, are Robert Templin, Carl Riggs, Fred Ginsberg, Edward Tann and Andrew Caughey. Candidates from the School of Dentistry, also juniors, are Howard Stafford,' John Golden and Harry Luton. The committee has appointed George Brooks, Joseph Warzniak and Harvey Sparks, all juniors, to repre- sent the School of Medicine, while juniors in the Law School who will run in the May 8 elections are Clar- ence Sahlin, Richard Wade and For- rest Hainline. Students in the College of Engi- neering and the School of Archi- tecture will vote together in electing a candidate from Richard Schole, '43E, William Schoedinger, '43E, Bruce Renaud, '43E, and Stewart Gil- dart, '43A. One candidate will be elected by the School of Business Administra- tion and the School of Forestry from LaMont G. Engle, '43F&C, James Snodgrass, '43F&C, John Murray, '43BAd, and Ralph G. Stawert, '43BAd. Members of the Board in Control of Student Publications and other groups will also be elected May 8. Samuel Estlep Is Named Editor Of Next Year's Law Review Faculty Appoints Brody, Buchanan, McKay, Peter To Associate Posts; Summer 'Review' Planned RAF Loses Eight Planes During Attack Following Nazi NeutralDispatches Factory In Occupied BelgiumBlown Up LONDON, May L.-(P)-Hundreds of British planes swung across the Channel at late twilight today in what coast observers called one of the war's greatest single thrusts against the Nazi-held continental coast. Resumption of the massive British attacks followed a weather-enforced overnight break in the nine-day-old, round-the-clock offensive and came on the heels of neutral dispatches from Germany which some London quarters interpreted as hints that the Nazis were more than willing to call off their aerial duel with Britain now, but which brought only an ex- pression of scorn from an authori- tative source here. Raiders Fill Sky The grey cliffs of northern France were clearly visibl6 to watchers on this side as the late day raiders, fly- ing at altitudes between 20,000 and 30,000 feet, filled the sky between Calais and Dungeness, Kent. The Air Ministry said eight British fighters were missing in the day's operations and that one German plane was destroyed. The late afternoon attacks, carried out by fighter - escorted Boston (Douglas) bombers and bomb-carry- ing Hurricanes, were made on the station and railway yards at St. Omer, Calais, and other targets. Commenting on the reported Nazi willingness to call quits in the aerial war, one informant gave this British response: "We are going after those blighters wherever they are and at every chance we get, and that is final." Dislike Bombing Duel He referred specifically to a Berlin dispatch to the Swiss Journal de Gen- ,ve as reprinted by the London Daily Mail. It said: "It is semi-officially stated here that Germany will call off the bomb- ng of English towns if the RAF will ,hange its methods of bombing Ger- man cities. The present bombing duel is highly unpopular with the German people." As to the so-called "Guide Book Blitz" by the Nazis-that directed it the historic points of England- Home Secretary Herbert Morrison is- sued a challenge in the Shakespear- man spirit of "Lay on MacDuff and damned be him that first cries, hold, mough." Calls Hitler 'Mad Lout' Speaking at Shoreditch, the Min- ster declared that Hitler's attacks on British monuments were but "the frenzied blows of a mad lout who, stung by the carefully timed and aimed blows of a cool and skillful opponent, loses all self control and uns amuck." F~actory In Occupied felgium Blown Up LONDON, May 1.-(P)-A tremen- ious explosion has wiped out the aerman-controlled gas and explo- sives factory at Tessenderloo in eething North Belgium, killed 250 persons and injured upwards of 1,000, advices from the Nazi-occupied na- ion disclosed today. The blast occurred in an industrial and mining area where sabotage has been rife, and the impression was strong in London that the secretly- armed Belgium "white brigade," a band of patriots which is preparing for the day when they can assist Allied invasion of the low countries, had now struck a hard first blow at the conqueror. Cause Unascertained The German Army was in com plete charge at Tessenderloo, and the German account of the blast, dis- tributed by the Berlin radio, said cryptically that "the cause of the disaster, which has not been ascer- tained, is the subject of an inquiry." But later in the day the German radio reported that 100 "Commun- ists" were being deported from Bel- gium to the east for fomenting sabo- tage in factories and elsewhere and for causing strikes. r Power Politics." Ruthven pointed out. Inwasion Of China Threatened As Japs Contimue Burma Drive - - -__ CH UNUKING, China, May 1. -/-I -Free China, endangered as never before by a ,Japanese back-door thrust which has penetrated within 45 miles of her border, sent rein- forcements streaming down the Bur- ma Road today in a supreme attempt to stop the Japanese columns raging through northeastern Burma, Forging due north from captured, blazing Lashio, where the Mandalay railroad meets the twisting supply route through the mountains, the Japanese reached the vicinity of Hsenwi, 22 miles northeast of Lashio along the Burma Road. The Chinese High Command said tonight that the Chinese defenders were holding steadfast in the Hsenwi sector under heavy pressure, and that some of the south-bound reinforce- ments already had reached Hsenwi from China's Yunnan province, on India. At their present location in the Hsenwi area, the Japanese riot only are enveloping the actual Burma Road but are in a position to men- ace the new and incomplete India- China route to the north, the 2,300- mile Assam-Sikang Road. (Moreover, one Axis report today placed first on a list of possible Japa- nese moves a drive into China to menace Chungking, the Free Chinese capital, itself.) Far south of Lashio, isolated Chi- nese units in the Shan State area of Taunggyi and Loilem still were at- tacking in an effort to cut the ex- tended Japanese supply lines and, a communique said, were inflicting heavy casualties. Fighting NearI Iyaukse To the west, the Japanese frontal attack on Mandalay had progressed to a point 20 miles south of that citv and fighting was nroceeding in Press Con ference Hears Lecture On ITeclniq.ue Of Interviewing The art of interviewing, a demon- stration by 3. Iay iakcr, special writer of the Dooth Syndicate, was the outstanding fea1ure of the first day of the Michigan lte rscholastic Press Association Coni erence which is meeting here yesterdav and today. Mr. Baker, in a general assembly at 2 p.m. yesterday conducted an in- terview, and answered questions con- cerning the correct technique. The assembly, at which nearly 500 stu- dents from 53 Michigan high schools were present, was preceded by an opening session and executive meet- ing. Slosson Will Speak The program. as arranged by the ballroom. Professor Slosson's topic, "The World Tomorrow" is directly related to the convention theme-to- morrow whose world? From the delegate's point of view the 10:30 a.m. session of publications clinics will hold a great deal of in- terest as they will provide specific suggestions for improvement of news- papers and magazines. At clinics led by Professor J. L. Brumm, D. H. Haines, W. H. Maurer, Mr. Donald Anderson and Mr. Cleland Wyllie, student newspapers from individual high schools Will receive comments and criticisms, Awards To Be Made Publications awards will be cnn-