Weather Little change in Teamrture. sfilr igazi i5attH Editorial NYA Should Include Out-Of-School Youth VOL. LII. No. 175 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1942 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS m Annual Hopwood Contest Winners Awarded Prizes AX McCormick, Obermeyer Early Win In Fiction; Other Fields Rewarded Famous Writers Serve As Judges Seventeen University students di- vided more than $6,000 in prize money yesterday in the eleventh an- nual Avery and Jule Hopwood crea- tive writing competition. Major and Minor awards were made in the divisions of drama, es- say, poetry and fiction. Fiction .. . Majors: Jay McCormick, '42, of Detroit, $750 for "November Storm"; Raymond Robert Early, Grad., De- troit, $750 for "Mightier Than the Sword"; Rosemary Jean Obermeyer, Grad., Iron Mountain, $750 for "Golden Apples of the Sun"; and Leslie G. Cameron, Grad., Petoskey, $400 for "My Mother Is a Carpenter" Minors: Hilda Jane Slautterback, '44, Fremont, Mich., $200 for "Kin"; William J. Kehoe, '44, Spencerport, N.Y., $100 for "A Part of Being"; and Burton S. Gavitt, '42, Detroit, $100 for "Call Me Hidalgo." Essay .. . Majors: Awards of $400 went to the following: Mrs. Laia Hanau, Grad., New York. City, "Two Dollar House"; Lois Helene Van der Meulen, Grad., Ann Arbor, "Fugue in E Minor"; Celia Hwaguen Chao, Grad., Shanghai, "All Condescension Aside"; and G. Nelson Bentley, Grad., Ply- mouth, "Song of the Sightless Heart." Minors: Awards of $150 went to the following: Virginia Mary Wal- cott, '42, Ann Arbor, "The Diviner's Rod"; and Anthony Stampolis, '42, Kalamazoo, "Illusion and Reality." Drama... Majr Jk Brithell, '42, Detroit, $500 for his 'play, "Brita." Minor: Alvin Lamkay Ureles, '43, Rochester, N.Y., $150 for "Two One Act Plays." Poetry .. . Major: Robert E. Hayden, Spec., Ann Arbor, $500 for his manuscript, "The Black Spear." Minor: Elmer Samuel Moon, '44, Detroit, $150 for "Another Darkness or Another Light." Six of the 17 winners were re- peaters in Hopwood competition. In winning a fiction major award, Jay McCormick received his fourth award. The awards were announced yes- terday afternoon following the an- nual Hopwood lecture, presented this year by John Crowe Ransom, poet, critic and editor of the "Kenyon Review." Judges of the essay contest were novelist Louis Adamic, Freda Kirch- wey, editor of The Nation, and James Truslow Adams, historian. Fiction judges were A. J. Cronin, Bernard DeVotoand Mildred Walker Schemm, a former Hopwood winner. The poetry competition was judged by three persons well-known in the world of poetry-Marianne Moore, George Dillon, John Neihardt. Drama judges were John Anderson, critic, Paul Osborn and Carl Van Vochten. Red Army Moving Ahead At Kharkov As Nazis Attack MOSCOW, Wednesday, May 20.- (A-The Russians announced today that the Red Army still was rolling ahead on the Kharkov front, but ac- knowledged that a German counter-' offensive had begun 80 miles south- east of that key point in the Izyum- Barvenkova sector. On the Kerch Peninsula the com- munique said the Russians still were battling the Germans in the vicinity of the port of Kerch. (The Ger- mans officially claimed the occupa- tion of the entire peninsula and the destruction of three Soviet armies there.) The German counter-stroke south of Kharkov was some 30 miles east of Lozovaya, an important junction on the north-south Nazi highway Board Selects Daily Staff For Summer HOMER SWANDER * * * Homer Swander, '43, of Kalamazoo, was named managing editor of the Summer Daily yesterday, as the Board in Control of Student Publi- cations announced appointments and plans for the summer session. Swan- der was recently appointed to the same position on the 1942-43 Daily staff. At the same time the, Board an- nounced other students who will be in charge of The Daily for its pro- posed ten-week summer run. Edward Perlberg, '43, of Standish, will be business manager, with Fred M. Ginsberg, '43, of Detroit, acting as assistant business manager. City editor of the editorial staff will be Will Sapp. '43. of Novelty, 0. Also on the edit staff are Bernard Hendel, '43, sports editor; Barbara De Fries, '43, women's editor; Hale Champion, '44, Leon Gordenker, '44, John Erlewine, '44, and Robert Preis- kel, '43, night editors. The Board announced plans for a ten-weeks Summer Daily, to start June 16 and to be published five days a week, Wednesday through Sunday. Although there will be no subscrip- tions taken, adequate free distribu- tion will be assured to give everyone access to the paper. At the meeting yesterday the Board also announced appointments of W. (Buck) Dawson, '43, and Ben H. Douglas, '43, as editors of the Summer Directory. Dawson and Douglas were recently named man- aging editor and business manager, respectively, of the 1943 Michigan- ensian. Any student who would like to work on the summer publications is urged to report to the new editors. Previous experience is not a nec- essary requisite. Class of '42 To Graduate OnMay 30 Degrees To Be Presented To 2,000 At Exercises In Yost Field House Two thousand University students will graduate May 30 in what many officials prophesy will be a final fare- well to Michigan'sdhundred-year-old pattern of higher education. A graduating class that came to college during a great social revolu- tion is going to commencement in a nation that is at war; there were 8,000,000 unemployed in their fresh- man year, the nation now pleads for every man. With rare exception, the 1942 grad- uate, man or woman, has had his immediate future laid out before him for many weeks. There will be no job-hunting-that era of college graduation faded from the American scene when the gears of war first began to spin. Here's the report on that by Dr. T. Luther Purdom, director of the Michigan "job-placement bureau;" For every engineer who will grad- uate there are at least 20 well-paying positions available; The new doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, and botanists are only a trickle when a flood is needed; Coeds--for the first time-can have any kind of employment they desire. Airplane factories, drug stores, industrial offices-all industry -has joined in one frantic appeal for all the female help that can be sup- plied; Civil service jobs by the thousands are open to economists, political sci- entists, lawyers and their kind. Without exception, the men have registered for Selective Service, and many of them received deferments only until they could complete their education. Approximately 75 men will be commissioned immediately as officers in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 Class Of '42 To Be 98th In History Of Michigan Michigan's 2,000 candidates for de- grees, their parents and friends and hundreds of returning alumni will participate in the 98th Annual Com- mencement Week, which will be held Thursday, May 28, through Saturday, May 30. Commencement exercises will take place in Yost Field House rather than in Ferry Field, as a war economy measure. Senior Swing Out, a tra- ditional highlight through the years, has been abandoned by action of the Men's Judiciary Council. Commencement exercises are sched- uled to begin at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, May 30. The academic procession will assemble at 5:40 p.m. as follows: literary school, Main Diagonal walk between Library and Engineering Buildings; Education, walk in front of Physiology and Pharmacology Buildings; Engineering, Main Diag- onal walk in Engineering Court. Architecture, Main Diagonal walk in Engineering Arch (behind Engin- eers); Medical, Diagonal walk be- tween Chemistry Building and Libra- ry; Nursing, Diagonal walk between Chemistry Building and Library; Law, East and West walk, west of the intersection in front of Library; Pharmacy, East and West walk, west of the intersection in front of Library (behind law). Turn to Page 7, Col. 2 Wolverines Take ig Ten Golf Crown Jim McCarthy Of Illinois Beats Out Ben Smith For Medalist Honors Great Lakes Team To Play Nine Today By BUD LOW The Michigan linksmen, paced by Ben Smith and Capt. John Leidy, won their sixth Western Confer- ence golf crown yesterday on the University course when they finished three strokes aheaddof secondsplace Minnesota. Maize and Blue squads previously won five championships in a row from 1932-1936 during the era of Johnny Fischer and Chuck Kocsis, and in this, the 23rd Big Ten tournament, the Varsity had a four man total of 1,255. The biggest upset of the tourney was provided by Jim McCarthy, a red headed Irishman from Illinois, who finished with 301 strokes to take in- dividual medalist honors as Ben Smith and Gopher Spero Daltas deadlocked for second place with 303 each. McCarthy, who had not won his letter up until the meet had started, was not even given an outside chance to take the title by pre-tourney dope- sters. It was a close battle all the way, both for individual and team honors. Ben Smith was by far the favorite at the beginning of the morning round, when he led the oth- er two by a stroke, for it was ex- pected that his opponents would wither under the pressure. But the determination of the Irish had not been reckoned with, and the Illinois star finished the morn- ing round with a 76 to go one up on Smith who had a 78. Daltas prac- tically bogeyed himself out of the top three when he carded an 82 for the third 18 hole round, but he made an amazing comeback in the afternoon to card a 74 and tie Smith for sec- ond place. The last 18 holes saw McCarthy Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 Michigan Nine Set For Great Lakes By BOB S1OPOFF> Riding high after copping four Big Ten tilts and- the Conference lead, Michigan baseball team will clash With the pride of the Navy, the Great Lakes Naval Training Station nine, at 6:45 p.m. today. It is the first twilight game in the history of the Wolverines.1 For the benefits of exam-con-1 scious fans, Coach Ray Fisher de- cided that a twilight tilt would give everybody an opportunity to see this important game. Led by Lieut. Mickey Cochrane, who piloted the Detroit Tigers to American League titles in 1934 and1 1935, the Sailors boast of the most1 powerful batting order that the Var- Turn to Page 3, Col. 5 Heads War Board ' Doo little Given Congressional Medal For Daring Tokyo Raid Hero's Son Is Michigan Man Planning To Follow Dad's Army Life; Set To Enter West Point July 1 WASHINGTON, May 19. -() attack. Crews who had volunteered The recent American air-raid on Ja- for a "hazardous, important and in- pan was revealed today as a foray teresting" mission, without knowing which found American airmen flying Japan was the objective, manned so low they could see the amazed ex- them. They trained especially for pressions on faces below, dropping the mission for weeks even before bombs when within sight of the Im- leaving the United States. perial Palace in Tokyo and leaving "They were the finest group of of- a swath of destruction 40 miles long ficers with which I ever had the good and five to 20 miles wide, fortune to be associated, and that Its leader was Brig.-Gen. James H. goes for the enlisted men, too," said Doolittle, "Jimmy" Doolittle,. the Doolittle, who was unstinting in his famous speed record holder of the praise both for the courage, effici- days of peace. President Roosevelt ency and accuracy. pinned a Congressional Medal of Turn to Page 7, Col. 7 Honor to his tunic at the White House and with that ceremony, num- War Hero's Son Proud erous details of the attack were dis- , . closed. Of Dad's Tokyo Rad Direct hits left a nearly completed A proud Johnny Doolittle was still cruiser or battleship near Tokyo in wandering around campus in a daze flames. The Mitsubishi Aircraft Fac- after hearing the news that it was tory at Nagoya was strewn with in- his dad, America's newest war hero, cendiary bombs. Industrial concen- Brig.-Gen. James H. Doolittle, who trations, shipyards, docks, fuel stores, led the recent raid on Tokyo. "Yip- collections of fuel tanks, ammunition pee," was the first thing Johnny dumps at Yokesuke, Kenagawa, Kobe blurted out when he heard the news and Osaka, all felt the destructive ef- over the radio yesterday afternoon. fect of explosives made in America. Doolittle, a freshman engineer, re- On Doolittle's behalf the War De- cently received an appointment to partment issued a statement, and West Point and is scheduled to enter later, the slightly built, balding flier July 1. He had planned on entering held a press conference. From the the academy last summer, but he two, newsmen pieced together this broke his leg in an automobile acci- story of the raid: dent and was still on crutches when A squadron of B-25 medium bomb- itc e timetoos ers was specially equipped for the iAmedtito Asked how it feels to be the son of the recipient of the greatest war decoration our country gives, the Congressional Medal of Honor, John- , ny beamed, "Naturally if makes me Over nvas1 pretty proud and I sure got a big kick out of it." f Contine t A scrapper like his dad, Johnny Of was co-captain of the boxing team 01 ' n~in ilL at Culver. Hoping to follow his fa- ther's footsteps along other lines as Attlee Promises Offense, ( well, Johnny has concentrated on But Members Criticize aeronautical engineering courses while here at Michigan and plans to War Policy Of Churchill join the Army Air Force upon grad- uation from West Point. For he says, LONDON, May 19.-()P)-Domin- "I'm itching to do my share along ions Secretary Clement R. Attlee with dad and all the rest." Plans Now Being Drafted By WPB; Will Probably Go Into Effect By July Pipeline Demands May BeDropped WASHINGTON, May 19. -()- Nationwide gasoline rationing by July 1 to slow down automobile wheels estimated to be wearing out irreplaceable rubber at the rate of 250,000 pounds a day arose today as a distinct possibility. President Roosevelt indicated at his press conference that country- wide rationing was being considered and immediately after he had spoken, word came from War Production Board sources that the board had directed Joseph B. Eastman's Office of Defense Transportation, in con- sultation with Petroleum Coordina- tor Harold Ickes and Price Adminis- trator Leon Henderson, to draft plans for such a step. WPB Impressed By Data If the plan is definitely adopted, July 1 would be the logical date for its inauguration since that is the time the stop-gap rationing system now in effect in the 17 Eastern states is scheduled to be replaced by a per- manent program to last probably for the war's duration. The War Production Board-was re- ported impressed by data to the ef- fect that American motorists were burning up tires and tubes at the rate of 45,625 tons a year and that there are no prospects for synthetic rubber to augment present stocks before late 1943. The wearing out of tires now on the road might cause serious impairment of war production in plants where many workers must depend upon their own cars to reach their jobs. Tank Cars To Be Freed Although rubber conservation would be the principal reasn for any nationwide gas rationing, the WPB was understood to have had in mind also that'thereduction of oil ship- ments to 'Central and Western states would free numbers of tank cars for hauling gasoline and fuel oil to the East, where the shortage is critical, and also would lessen some of the burdens on the railroads entailed by heavy movement of tank cars. The diversion to the East of tank cars and other facilities now serving interior states also might end de- mands for the construction of a new pipeline from the southwest to the Atlantic Coast, a project twice vetoed by the old Supply Priorities and Allo- cations board because of the steel it would take to build it. Ickes had planned to send to the WPB this week a new application for priorities on steel to build the pipe- line, trimming the amount sought in the previous estimates. Ickes also announced a broad program to relo- cate existing pipelines in order to in- crease the eastward flow of petroleum by 200,000 barrels a day. Cab Calloway Is BallChoice New Senior Ball Selection Forced After Protests Cab Calloway superseded Ted Weews as the official maestro of this year's Senior Ball yesterday as long-distance telephone wires smoked following that precedent-smashing decision designed to pacify irate tick- et-holders. With the change came a half-hour advance in the time for the Ball, dancing now being scheduled for-9:30 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. instead of from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. as previously an- nounced. Although Weems' band was the only one available when the annouce ment was made last week, the intense dissatisfaction of the campus forced the reopening of negotiations, Ball Chairman Tom Williams, '42E, stated, and Calloway was secured after a se- ries of long-distance calls yesterday afternoon. Already signed for a benefit en- gagement in New York the afternoon of May 30, the day following the Gas Rationing For Nation To Conserve On Rubber Considered As Possibility i promised a sharply inquisitive House of Commons today that Allied offen- sive action would be taken against Germany "in due course," but insur- gent members angrily called this a "schoolboy essay" and demanded that Prime Minister Churchill ap- pear to face their criticism of war policy. Members of Churchill's own Con- servative Party joined in the attack. The war debate, which started mildly and ended with a storm of charges of slackness in the war ef- fort, came just as victory-starved Britain was encouraged by arrival in Ulster of tens of thousands of addi- tional United States soldiers with all the weapons of war. A reliable military observer said the Allies now had the balance of military power in Western Europe but the vigorous debate in Commons brought out only hints as to when and how it will be used. Attlee, speaking for the Govern- ment in lieu of Churchill, refused to say when a Western Front might be opened, but asserted: "Every month increases our strength. In due course we shall change from the defensive, which we still have to hold in many areas, to the offensive." I - - i FDR Hints More Men To Be Sent To Ireland -- ---- -- 11 I i . With this issue The Michigan Daily suspends publication until June 16. WASHINGTON, May 19. --(A)-- President Roosevelt aroused new con- jecture as to the purpose of concen- trating American troops in Northern Ireland today with a statement strongly implying that more are to be added to the thousands already there. Speculation centered upon the much-discussed possibility that ulti- mately the forces there are to be used for opening a second continen- tal front against the Nazis. Contingents of American troops started arriving in Northern Ireland in January. Yesterday it was an- nounced that a force larger than the previous ones had arrived safely. At his press conference today, Mr. Roosevelt was asked for comment and replied that there would more in the future. Subscribers, to The Michigan Technic may obtain their copies of the May issue, or any back copies, any time today in the of- fice of The Michigan Technic. r IL a Crisler Reveals More Details On New Physical Fitness Plan Further details of Michigan's new physical hardening plan, under which virtually every male student will go through an intensive program of muscle development, were announced yesterday by H. 0. "Fritz" Crisler, director of athletics. All available athletic facilities of the University will be used in the program, which goes into operation June 15, Crisler said, adding that facilities will be adequate for the de- mands. Waterman Gymnasium, Yost Field House, Ferry Field and the Sports Building were listed by Cris- ler as probable centers for the activi- ties of the thousands of students af- fected by the program. Crisler explained that the one and one-half hour sessions will be sched- uled during both morning and after- noon periods so that students will have no difficulty in fitting the train- ing course into their programs. The schedule of sessions for the Summer Term will be published either in the coaching staff and of the regular physical education staff. Included in the program will be gymnastics, cal- isthenics, running, wrestling and oth- er body building athletic activities. It is likely that all students will be re- quired to pass swimming tests while taking the program. Asked whether he would remain at the University to direct the new pro- gram next fall rather than accept a post at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, as has been rumored, Crisler declared that he had "No comment" to make. Also unconfirmed is the possibility that the intstructing staff for the program will include physical instructors from the Naval Reserve Specialists' Class V-6. In explaining the purpose of the program, Crisler declared: "Since Dec. 7 the term 'physical fitness' has taken on new meaning for civilians and soldiers alike. Army and Navy authorities have reported that many Local Broach Workers Continue Strike For Government Control Robert Matthews, '43, president of the Men's Judiciary Council, has been named chairman of the new Student War Board. Charlotte Thompson, '43, president of the League, will be secretary. Navy Swears Kipke Into Flight Reserve DETROIT, May 19. -U(P)- Harry Kipke, whose football exploits both as a player and coach brought him Continuing their demands that the Government take over the plant, more than two-thirds of the approximate- ly 300 day workers at the American Broach and Machine Co. were out on strike today, according to CIO esti- mates. According to James Morgan, CIO representative, Lieutenant Sparks of the War Department visited Ann Arbor yesterday to investigate con- ditions at the plant, and a statement is expected from the Government today concerning future control of urged that the day men did not go into the plant. No violence was re- ported. "Almost all the men now working are on the assembly line, and nearly, every one of the skilled workers, such as the grinders, is on strike," said Edwin Hills of the CIO. Strikers' statements were keynoted by the belief that the only way to get production up at the plant was to settle the issue quickly. They all agreed that output was far below capacity, and that the mediation