THE MIt fl1tAP~ DAILY 7,r It U' Band Spring Concert Tit Be CiVefi Thursday 30th Annual Program To Open and Close With Patriotic Theme The thirtieth University of Michi- gan Spring Band Concert will be giv- en Thursday night at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. The University of Michigan band, conducted by Prof. William D. Revel- li, is an organization acclaimed throughout the United States for its standard excellence. The concert prepared for Thursday night prom- ises to merit the enthusiastic approval of all who attend. The program now receiving finish- ing touches at Morris Hall will open and close on a patriotic note, opening with the National Anthem and clos- ing with "The Stars and Stripes For- ever" by John Phillip Sousa. The intervening numbers will in- clude the Overture to the opera "Ob- eron" by C. M. von Weber, and the second movement from "Symphony in C Minor" by Ernest Williams. "March Courageous", G. E. Holmes's latest composition, will also be fea- tured. Among the more familiar numbers will be Wagner's "Fire Music" from his opera "Die Walkure", and the in- troduction to the third act of "Lohen- grin". Another favorite will be the first movement from Rimsky-Korsa- kov's "Scheherazade", "Sea and Sind- bad's Ship." Other arrangements will include Wotan's "Farewell and Magic", and a special number entitled, "American Salute", by Morton Gould. Tvice during the program the con- ducting will be taken over by stu- dents. William Fitch, student con- ductor of the band, will conduct "Song of the Bayou" by Rube Bloom, and George Roach will conduct his own arrangement of "Ritual Fire Dance" by Manuel De Falla. Many traditions have been foregone this year because of the war, butnthe annual spring band concert, one of the finest traditions, remains the free gift of the band to all who wish to attend. Wood To Lead Post-War Panel Group Will Discuss FDR's Security Plan The cradle-to-grave security plan of President Roosevelt will be dis- cussed at a: panel discussion on the topic, "Freedom from Want in the United States", at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the League. Prof. Arthur E. Wood of the soci- ology department will open the dis- cussion with a short presentation of the topic. Prof. Leigh J. Young of the silviculture department of the forestry school and mayor of Ann Arbor, and Prof. Harold McFarlan of the geodysey and surveying de- partment will then express their views. Following this the topic will be thrown open to the audience. Student chairman will be Harvey L. Weisberg, '46. The panel will attempt to analyze the President's plan, and to discuss a situation in which over-production and poverty exist simultaneously. This is one of a series of weekly panels on post-war topics, both eco- nomic and political. Frosh Project Meeting Will Be Tomorrow A mass meeting will be held at 4:30 P.m. tomorrow in the ballroom of the League forall second semester fresh- men women interested in working on Freshman Project. At that time the central committee will disclose its plans for the rest of the semester, and the organization of the project and the activities of the various committees will be explained, Jean Gaffney, general chairman, said yesterday. After the meeting the wo- men will have an opportunity to sign up for the committees in which they are interested. Freshman Project- will concern it- self with entertaining the members of the armed forces of the United States who are stationed on campus. Present plans include an open house to be held every Saturday. Dancing will take place in the Grand Rapids room, and entertainment in the Kala- mazoo room will be provided by card games, bingo and a coke machine. Women who are unable to attend the meeting are requested to get in touch with the chairman of the com- mittee in which they are interested. The publicity committee will be head- ed by Rudy Bales; Shirley Sickels and Shirley Cobb will take charge of the entertainment committee; the hostess Uncle Sam's Big Plane Busters t A battery of 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, heaviest used by the U.S. Coast Artillery for defense against planes, gets a workout in the field. These guns can be set up ready to shoot in 13 minutes, are manned by a crew of 15 and fire 18 rounds per minute. They are now in use in North Africa, the Solomons, and on other United Nations fronts. TWO IS. COMPANY, BUT: Freshman Engineer To Date 50 Stockwell Beauties on Bet Moscow Battle fere pir1'iiI 10 Woman Air Warden Will Speak To Help Russian War Relief Mrs. Nila Magidoff, eye-witness of the Battle of Moscow and wife of that city's NBC correspondent, will speak in the Rackham Auditorium at 8 p.m. April 10, under the auspices of Russian War Relief. Now on a lecture tour of the United States, Mrs. Magidoff not long ago was in the heart of Russia serving as an air raid warden, guarding, roof tops from incendiary bombs and spending her nights in the subway raid shelters. As a yesult of her experiences and her intimate knowledge of the Rus- sian people, she has received innum- erable requests to speak and has toured hundreds of cities in a cam- paign to raise $6,000,000 for medical and emergency aid to Russia. Although a native Russian, she was forced to leave her country because of the requirement that the wives and children of American war corre- spondents be evacuated. Since that time she has been con- stantly at work for Russian war re- lief and attempting to cement Rus- sian-American relations because, she says, "I looked upon my idleness in America as disgraceful at a time when women in my own country were devoting all their energies to fighting the war." Col. Hume Will Speak Today To Discuss Present Army Health Activities ColoneltEdgar Erskine Hume, Med- ical Corps, U.S. Army, will present a lecture on "The Health Activities of the U.S. Army in Wartime" at 4:15 p.m., today at the Kellogg Auditor- ium. Brought here under the auspices of the Medical, Dental, Public Health, and Pharmacy schools, Col. Hume will discuss the training of physicians and scientific personnel in the Medi- cal Department, and explain the pos- sibilities of University students ob- taining commissions in that Depart- ment, in addition to discussing the various health activities of the Army. . Colonel Hume has a long record of distinguished medical service in the Army. After obtaining his medical degree at Johns Hopkins, he contin- ued his studies in Munich and Rome. During the last world war he com- manded Base Hospital No. 102 in Italy By EVELYN PHILLIPS Fair femmes in paint-daubed over- alls and slacks wielding brushes and hammers are becoming an accepted sight in the lab theatre as Play Pro- duction of the speech department prepares to take in its stride the loss of men to the armed forces. "The show must go on" gets a little practical application these days, be- coming the byword of these Play Production members. The call of the Air Force and the ERC has greatly damaged the dramatic potentialities but they say that they will use what few men they have until they leave and then use women exclusively. And what to do when plays be- come harder and harder to select because there aren't enough men to play the parts? You just find a play that has fewer men in it and more women. This has been done this past year. The use of such plays as "Stage Door" and "Heart of a City", which call for large women casts, are examples. The present production, "Caste", by Thomas W. Robertson, requires few men and the technical staff is composed entirely of women. From evidences, the women are doing all right in the physical aspects of the technical work too. Chief of stage managing for "Caste" is Barbara Wisner. For the first time a woman will be the elec- trician-the work being done by El- eanor Guy. Others on the technical staff are Zabellen Adrounic, Olive Beebe and Marjorie Leete on props: crew, Rebecca Kynock; bookholder. Barbara White: Thelma Davis, as- sistant to the director: call girl. Margaret Coxan; Bette Harvey and Rae Larson. head ushers. High School Juniors To Give (lass Play "Letters to Lucerne", one of the outstanding plays to come out of the war, will be presented by the Junior Class of the Ann Arbor High School at 8:20 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Pattengill Auditorium. The play is listed by Burns Mantle, New York critic, as one of the ten best of the year. A representative of the Derma- tology Department will talk on "Deep Skin Grafting" to the Pre- Medical Society Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock p.m. in the Union. SHORTAGE IS MET: PMay P rdwtchar Cfqi stfs Spanish Prof. Prof. Irving A. Leonard of the De- partment of Romance Languages will discuss the United States as seen by a South American, "Los Estados Uni- dos vistos por dentro", at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in Room D, Alumni Mem- orial Hall. Prof. Leonard. who has traveled widely in South America, will base his dis on a 1ookwritten by Sarmiento, who was at one time Pres- ident of Argentina, and who visited the United States in 1846 and again in 1866. When Sarmiento was in Ann Arbor he was granted an honor- ary degree from the University of Michigan. He then returned to South America and wrote his impressions of the United States. Prof. Leonard will discuss Sarmi- ento briefly and will then read ex- cerpts from his book to show how the United States impressed a South American a century ago. lull-. - . ___ By HARRIET PIERCE If there is one man on campus who can date fifty girls at once, it is Dolph Jaeger, '46E. That is his statement and he in- tends to prove it tonight when he escorts fifty Stockwell girls, the most prominent of whom is the house- mother, Mrs. Ray, to the League for cokes. Dolph just hopes that "none of them will stand me up" as his fu- British Smash Mareth Lie, Rommel Flees (Continued from Page 1) the Mareth Line were but 20 miles south of Gabes. Farther north, the eager American divisions of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., advanced through diffi- cult country east of El Guetar and stood on high ground ready to vent their offensive fury on Rommel's flanks should he try to flee the 200 miles north for a junction with Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim in the north around Tunis and Bizerte. Entrapment Threatened Other American columns mena- cing Mezzouna and Kairouan farther north likewise gravely imperiled the Germans and Italians with entrap- ment and consequent slaughter. Rommel had suffered heavy losses in the Mareth Line from a virtual non-stop assault by land and air since the night of March 20, and there were indications that the en- emy realized the threat to his flank and was intent upon racing up the coast to momentary safety, if he could. Frontline dispatches said enemy landing fields west of Gabes had been plowed up, a sure indica- tion of flight. British Smash Nazi Positions The Allied offensive in Tunisia be- came general as the British First Army in the north opened an assault from Debel Abiod sector, smashing against German positions straddling the Tarbaca-Mateur road. The Al- lied communique .said, "Successful local advances were made and a con- siderable number of prisoners were taken." William B. King, Associated Press Correspondent with the Army In the North, called the First Army action an offensive that followed an Allied withdrawal totaling 25 miles earlier in March. (Among Allied troops participating were the Goums, pig- tailed warriors from northern Mor- occo, under French officers. They fought with guns and knives.) Allies Take 400 Prisoners A French communique said the Goums and Allied troops had cap- tured 400 prisoners and cleaned out a large area. Strong French recon- naissance patrols in the Ousseltia Valley farther south were said to have advanced toward the east branch of the Grand Dorsal encoun- tering no determined opposition. Several dozen Germans were cap- tured by one patrol. The final assault that cracked the Mareth Line started during the af- ternoon of Friday, and Allied Head- quarters credited the flanking col- umn which had swept around the line with generating the pressure that caused its fall. The communi- que said: "oin tbp ETihth Arm front the ture financial status is dependent on the results of his dates. It all started when he jokingly remarked to several engineers at Lloyd House that he could get fifty dates for one evening. It is a cus- tom at the house that any exagger - ated statement must be proved or else the speaker pays money to all comers., To back up his statement, Dolph enlisted some confederates at Stock- well and with a little campaigning, the dates were sig ned up. Mrs. Martha L. Ray, housemother; Mrs. Margaret Rekemeier, her as- sistant, and Miss Rachel Kaufman, Miss Helen Hebblewhite, and Miss Helen Shirk, dietitians, are all on the list, which is now 53 names long. One technicality of the agreement specifies that Dolph must not only take the girls to the League but they must all come home with him. He will lose about twelve dollars if he is not able to meet all of these terms. And there will be engineers aplenty on hand to persuade his dates to "'leave him in the lurch". But the girls declare themselves incorruptible. "It is only good sportsmanship for the girls to return with him so that he may win his wager," said Mrs. 'Ray. In the meantime, Dolph's hair is turning grey. - "I don't care what they look like," he said, "I just hope they all show up. It'll sure be good to have it over with so I can study." Could be he doesn't appreciate the fair beauties of Stockwell. But will they appreciate him? Tonight they'll know. Glee Club Is To Be Featured In 'Singtimne' From its beginnings as light enter- tainment at tea parties held in Bar- bour Gymnasium the University Wo- men's Glee Club has grown into an organization that will fill Hill Audi- torium, April 7, when they are fea- tured in the Manpower Corps' "Sing- time-a Symphony in Song." Organized in 1904 with only eight girls singing, the group had its direc- tor, Mrs. George Hastreiter and the then Dean of Women, Mrs. Myra P. Jordan, to guide it through the early years of its existence. Today, the group broadcasts weekly over WJR presenting "Music That America Likes To Hear". The Glee Club broadcasts directly from campus and can look back to the day of their first broadcasts in 'acrudely installed studio in University Hall where the acoustics were bad and the mechan- ics of broadcasting were worse. Glee Club Mother Miss Nora Crane Hunt, now associated with the Alum- nae association, directed the activi- ties of the club from 1905 until 1933. The present director, Bill Sawyer, took over two years ago and he admits that he has been directing the group for one quarter of that time and they directed him the rest of the time. Justifiably proud of the tremendous success the Glee Club had in Detroit last Thursday, Sawyer anticipates "overwhelming tribute to be accorded them when they perform in 'Sing- time". The women in the club have a wid- er range of voices than have most choruses and theirvoices go within 5 tones of the normal range of basses. Sawyer has arranged all the music for the group except "Mary's Lulla- B \We re on theline to promote our Advertis rinF Welfare The Michigan Daily believes that new readers bring new COL. EDGAR ERSKINE HUME and also saw active service in France. Later, he directed the campaign against typhus fever in Serbia, and served as Red Cross Commissioner in the Balkan states and in other parts of Eastern Europe. On his return to the United States, he served as Librarian in the Sur- geon General's Library, generally considered the largest medical library in the world. He also was Editor of the Index Catalogue and of the Mili- tary Surgeon. More recently he has been the second ranking officer of the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Colonel Hume holds a Distin- guished Service Medal from his own country and 35 decorations from for- eign countries. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- ences and a member of many dis- tinguished medical organizations here and abroad. In the past few months, he has given similar talks at many universi- ties including Harvard, Yale, Prince- ton, and Johns Hopkins. The public is invited. U. of Iowa Food Expert To Lecture Here Today Dr. Genevieve Stearns of the Uni- versity of Iowa will speak on "The Relation of Changes in Body Compo- sition to Food Requirements and Utilization during Growth" at 8 p.m. life to Odvertisers' businesses. This is why we now point with pride to our increased circulation among service- men. Our paper offers its accounts an opening to a field hitherto untouched by advertising. 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