a THE MICHIGAN DAMlY INDAY, The 'Captain Rickenbacker' Warms Up Spanish Club Outlines Activit *' Offering a wide opportunity for students of Spanish at the University to hear and speak the language, La Sociedad Hispanica will sponsor five lectures and their annual play during the spring term. The first lecture on "Espana, Fu- ente de la Cultura Hispano-Ameri- cana" will be given by Mr. Charles Staubach at 8 p.m. next Thursday, Feb. 18, at the League. Mr. Robert Friers will give a movie-lecture, "Wheels over the Andes" at 8:15 p.m., Feb. 23 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Other lecturers and'dates include Mr. Arthur S. Aiton, Feb. 25, Mr. Julio del Toro, March 11, Prof. Irving A. Leonard, March 31. Selected for the annual play to be given April 6 is "Sueno de Una Noche de Agosto" by Martin Sierra. La So- ciedad Hispanica gave this same pro- duction four years ago. Tickets for these lectures may still be secured from the office of the Department of Romance Languages, 112 R.L- or from professors of Span- ish. Although the present trend in aca- demic education has shifted from lit- erary subjects to technical pursuits, Ivan C. Crawford, Dean of the engi- neering college, stated in an interview yesterday that "I do not feel the pres- emphasis on technical education will have any adverse effect on liberal arts education after the war." Dean Crawford was on campus over the week-end on leave from his posi- tion in the Navy Department. He was loaned temporarily by the Board of Regents to the Navy and accepted his pbresent post in Washington last Jan. 4. Discussing the place of the engineer in the present war, Dean Crawford stated "men with an engineering backgroundI are vital to the successful prosecution of this war.". He is now working in Washington as a Consultant of the Bureau of Per- sonnel of the United States Navy and is assisting with tle formation of cur- ricula 'for the Navy's college war training program. These programs will be used by the Navy in training men selected by the Selective Service or who are now in the Navy when they are chosen to, be sent to colleges and universities for technicar" training. Prof. Crawford was offered a Navy commission at the outset of his pres- ent position, but his duties as Bean of the engineering college forced him to refuse. * Its crew members at their stations and prop ellers churning, this B-24 Liberator bomber, the "Captain Rickenbacker," starts from the apron of the airfield at the Ford Willow Run bomber plant near Ypsilanti. The Ford hangar is in the background. Sub-Assemblies In FullSwing At Willow Rum r<' (Continued from Page 1) The experts at Willow Run admit disappointments; they explain also that many design changes have been made and incorporated in the B-24D bomber since the factory first was blueprinted. They admit production still is far from peak level, but they are moving in that direction and each month's volume will increase. They see top volume as a possibility by late sum- mer. Just what they will be satisfied to call "peak" output of fly-away bombers is a military secret, but it will be counted in the hundreds each month, supplemented by an even greater volume of complete sub-as- semblies and parts. Manpower Problem A recent survey by the War Pro- duction Board brought out the state- ment that the most serious problem at Willow Run was manpower-the difficulty of getting and retaining competent workers, skilled machinists and other experts and a tremendous turnover of workers because of hous- ing and transportation congestion. At the same time, the survey de- scribed the tooling job at Willow Run as more efficient than generally be- lieved. This phase of the problem has been so thoroughly and completely handled that the total number of workers at peak production probably will not be more than half those orig- inally contemplated. 10,000 Women Already at work are more than half the ultimate total. Something like 10,000 of those in the factory are wo- men who do everything from cement- ing canvas for ailerons to riveting and operating great overhead travel- ing cranes. Willow Run, which cost upwards of $60,000,000 has been described as the largest airplane producing factory un- der one roof and with the greatest potential production capacity in the world. Floor area, including hangars, totals more than 3,700,000 square feet. Inside the plant are acres upon acres of machine tool equipment, es- pecially designed to accomplish that which never before had been even attempted-the assembly line produc- tion of massive bomber planes. Political Adertisement r We Recommend City Attorney <