jAC=E T770 T~~r Mi-HiGAr1DI ~- 1$4~ ................. Only ROTC Basic Course To Be Given StidentW Will Enter' Army T.rough iDaft, Take Usual Training With the completion on May 29 of the present ROTC advanced course offered at the University for junior and senior students, the pro- gram will be discontinued and only the basic course will be given in thea future, Capt. Swyler, Assistant Pro- fessor of Military Science and Tac- tics, said yesterday. Basic training for freshmen and sophomore students will be rede- signed to cover as much ground as is possible in the subjects dealt with in Army basic training, to give the men an advantage after they are in- ducted. Will Go Through Draft From now on everyone taking basic courses at the University will enter the Army through the draft and take basic training with other selectees, Capt. Swyler said. They may apply for commissions in competition with other selectees, but nothing will be guaranteed. "The basic courses here will be like any other college course. It will train them, but it won't guarantee them a job when they get out," he added. "They will have an advantage in being on familiar ground in their Army basic training, but they will need a lot the ROTC hasn 't been able to give them because of lack of time and space. But nobody can ever have too much training. Advanced Men Will Go to OCS Under the present setup second se- mester seniors taking the advanced course here will go to Officers Candi- date School at the end of this se- mester, while first semester seniors and juniors will first take basic training ad then go to OCS. The four-semester basic course originally led to the advance course and eventually to a commission. Now it will continue to be offered here indefinitely but will serve merely as a preparation for OCS, provided the candidate is accepted for officers training after he enters the Army through the draft. Navy Mothers To Give Dance Ann Arbor Service Men Are Invited To Attend All army and navy personnel sta- tioned in Ann Arbor are invited to attend a dance at 8:30 p.m. today at the USO in the Y.M.C.A. Building. Men in uniform may come alone or bring along their dates. Coeds and girls from the various churches will serve as hostesses for the affair. Refreshments will be served. The Navy Mothers Club of Ann Arbor is sponsoring this entertain- ment as part of a regular program to provide members of the armed forces stationed here with adequate entertainment facilities. Mrs. Alice B. Askren, president of the Navy Mothers group, announced yesterday a partial list of chaperons. These include: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas SKIERS EAT FIRST: Second Day Maneuvers Begin with Breakfast Marine Ucr At Hoiii .Iditor's Note: Thef ollowi ng rticle is the weoid in : series of six ldepit- ing the life o sl(i troopers) By CAPT. HAROLD W. SULLIVAN Judge Advocate General School "The second day of our maneuvers 1 dawned clear and cold," continued Lt. Larry W. Lon Ee, who is attend- ing Judge Advocae General School, in narrating his experiences on ma- neuvers with the famed 87th Regi- ment of Mountain Infantry composed of ski troops. "Reveille sounded at 7:30 a.m. with the men refreshed by the long sleep. Soon the camp was astir, preparing a hot breakfast. We all melted snow for cooking water and tossed in our cereal, milk and butter. Cooking in the wilderness is reduced to the ut- most simplicity. A pinch of sugar seasoned the cereal and we wolfed our cereal down as many of us had in civilian life when we made an early start on deer hunts with a breakfast of hot porridge. Our but- ter was in solid form, but the milk was powdered. The men were munch- ing. concentrated apricot bars and drinking hot coffee made from pow- dered coffee. "Meanwhile, the medical officers Program for Liberal Arts Honors To End After 'four years of training for outstanding students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Michigan's Degree Program of Hon- ors in Liberal Arts will be suspended at the close of the summer term be- cause of the war, according to Prof. Stanley D. Dodge of the geography department, Chairman of the Board of Tutors. About six of the twelve students now in the program will be gradu- ated in June, while the remaining half will receive their degrees at the end of the summer term. After that, a skeleton organization will be main- tained to revive the program after the war, when students will once more be interested in liberal rather than technical training and when they will be free to pursue such a peacetime program, Prof. Dodge said. The members of the Board of Tu- tors, which will maintain a skeleton organization of the honors program for the duration, are Prof. Stanley D. Dodge of the geography depart- ment, Prof. Howard B. Calderwood of the political science department, Prof. Palmer A. Throop of the his- tory department, Prof. Mischa Titiev of the anthropology department, and Prof. Warner G. Rice of the English department. Petitions for Engine Council Due Today Noon today is the deadline for the acceptance of petitions for En- gineering Council positions, Howard Howerth president of the Council, announced yesterday. Because of the few petitions re- ceived so far the deadline has been postponed once. All petitions must be signed by at least 15 students and state the applicant's qualifications and program. Appointments for pictures of the candidates will be made when the petition is turned in. The pictures will then be posted on the Council's bulletin board in the Engineering College. reported five men with frost-bitten feet and two others with bad colds. I had talked with them the night before and, not without protest from the men themselves, ordered them tagged and returned to our base camp. "By ten o'clock we were ready to take to the trail. A;;ain it was up- hill. We passed the word to themen, reached a point beyond which even' the snowmobiles do not travel. There we stopped for lunch. A short rest and we resumed, the slope getting steeperahd steeper. Sometimes we had to rest after only fifteen or twen-°<: ty yards. Oftentimes one would ac- tually gasp for breath, which is none too plentiful at 12,000 feet. The afternoon wore on with its beauty, Capt the long purple shadows lengthening Corps, over the vast solitude of white, and planes the rims of the billowing mountains fo o tipped with gold. Sioux "As the sun melted away it col- tion w umned the Western sky with rivers Falls T of crimson and shafts of gold. Ev- - eryone felt a tug at his "heart for the beauty of it all, and thought 14 L perhaps of one far distant with whom he would have liked to have shared that natural touch of eter- } ity M "The majority of the men were from the East, New England, New York and New Jersey. The outdoor life was natural to them. They all had skied in civilian life as a hobby and had fished and hunted all over the United States. As we ate our - nightly mess around the camp fire Its d there was a fine sense of comrade- clarifica ship as officers and men ,discussed "harmo lonely trails they have hunted, fished the cost and skied over throughout the coun- tended try in other days. A common love wish a of sports is a tie that strongly binds tions o men together during the arduous Steel fo hours of duty and their own free increase time after retreat is sounded. level of "It is a good rule of the woods Brow to pick your campsite before sun- cent cu down, and as the last glow of light meant faded from the sky our tents were apply t up, the wood laid by, and the camp to beco fires were aflickering gaudily. The Brow aroma of wood blended with the mendin fragrance of pine. We had earned merce a night's repose. But first there paymen was chow. The inner man had to the com be fed. I bunked in with Privat e the red Schroeder and shared my stove adverse with him. We all had chips of Thex pork cut up in the beans, crackers been a and cheese, hot lemon drink and Econom chocolate. also wa "Though it was warmer that night, necessa a driving snow came hard upon us. feet." Our commanding officer, Col. Willis, Since dropped in on us out of nowhere and seemed checked on the condition of the men, Roosev the supplies, and on our plans and the general situation. The Colonel Luc] appeared satisfied, though it took us two days to make that leg of the Will trip instead of one, for I explained that I had put the safety and physi- For cal condition of the men before want to speed. time, f "Immediately after eating we all have t climbed into our sleeping bags in- Marsha side our tents, put our heads on three a the pillow of boughs and in a split Thos second, it seemed, we had fallen bers 50 asleep and it was morning. ceipts o "Anyway the bugle was sounding the thr off reveille and another day of ad- venture, work and enchantment with Fr our new surroundings lay ahead of CHU us. There lay the mountainous hills. anewe] As Kipling said: "Something lost shores behind the mountains, go and find line mi it," and off we started. Huan (To Be Continued)H . } I 3 i , I }3 J33 I I I A j I i _ Third Company Of NROTC To Receive Colors Award To Be Given to Ollstanding(i0ro1p at 1giegentizog Pirad Honor will be paid to the Third Company of the NROTC, under the command of Student Lt. A. Maitland Comb, '44E, at the Color Presentation Parade to be held 7:15 p.m. Wednes- day at Palmer Field. Miss Harriet Pratt, '43, has been (-hosen to present the colors to the Third Company, which, because of its excellence in drill and intra- platoon athletic competition, was chosen to be the Color Company. The individual awards were won by the various platoons and squads of the Third Company as follows: The Infantry Cup was won this year by the second platoon of the Third Company, headed by NROTC Ensign Robert V. Martelli, '44E. The best individual squad was the fourth squad of the second platoon, led by David M. Saulson, '44. The individual Manual-of-Arms Spelldown was won by Herman C. Kranzer, '46E, of the first squad of the first platoon of the Third Com- pany. Tops in inter-platoon athletic com- petition was the first platoon of the Third Company under NROTC Lt. (j.g.) Mark J. Van Aken, '44. A spe- cial award will be presented to them by the Saline Post of the American Legion at the Color Presentation Pa- rade Wednesday. U. S. Warship Drivesoff Enemy in Pacific Battle Crew of 'Big Bastard' Gives Eye Witness Account of Sinking Three Jap Warships Joe Foss of the U.S. Marine who shot down 26 Japanese is shown operating a trac- Fahis other's farm near Falls, S. D. A civic celebra- as held in his honor at Sioux Tuesday. E ditor's Note: This is the second of two articles about the "Big Bastard," a United States battleship which pro- tected American carriers in the South Pacific from aerial attack. NEW YORK, May 3.-(A)-"Rufus Mathewson, Yeoman Second Class, took his post as a talker in the con- .ning tower . . . shortly after mid- night the loudspeaker carried a cold, steady voice from plot room. Target 20,000 yards, bearing 240 degrees ... target 19,$00 yards, bearing 241 de- grees . . . "There was a terrific explosion up ahead. Mathewson dashed to one of the slits and felt his stomach drop as he saw a battleship ahead silhou- etted by flame. 'Fire When Ready' "From over the phone came the Admiral's voice: 'Fire when ready.' . .. shells screamed out. The cap- tain and the navigator were jarred away from the 'scopes, but voices came in over the phone. "'Right on!' "'The danned thing has Jis- solved!' "'Looked like a cruiser.' "'That was a battleship!' "In rapid succession Mathewson heard a loud crash, a rolling explo- sion, and then the searing rattle of metal fragments as they crashed into cables, guns and superstructure. The ship shrugged, leaned back into A Cuts 't Pricles' Per Cent Continued 1roni Page 1l eclaration. however, that thej ation it seeks would be inI ny" with moves to roll back of living apparently was in- as assurance that it did not Board relaxation of restric- n wage increases. The Little ormula limits general wage es to 15 percent above the Jan. 1, 1941. n emphasized that the 10 per- it in prices cents-per-pound present prices, and thus would o the meat ceilings which are me effective May 17. n said that he was "recom- g to the Secretary of Com-' (Jesse Jones) that subsidy ts be made to processors of nmodities involved to prevent Iuced prices from having an effect on production." program, Brown added, has pproved by James F. Byrnes, nic Stabiliyation Director, who s asking Jones "to take the ry steps to carry it into ef- Byines had approved, there no question that President elt also had given his consent. ky ("iustoners Wi (jocks all ambitious students who get to their eight o'clocks on or defense plant workers who o make that assembly line, all's Drug Store is offering larm clocks Saturday. e customers who pull out num- 0, 750, and 1,000 from the re- f the cash register will receive ee clocks. ee China Menaced NGKING. May 7.-(AP)-Jap- landings on the southern of Tungting Lake only 50 air- Les from Changsha, Capital of Province, were viewed today cating that a new Japanese n the capital was under way ith it the possibility of a de- a volley of 6- and 8-inch shells that raked through the sky control tower, Students Attend Senate Finance USSA Meeting Convention To Discuss Post-War Problems Marv Borman, '44, former head of the Manpower Corps, is attending the United States Student Assemb.,, conference this week-end in New York City as official University dele- gate appointed by Men's Judiciary Council. Other members of the Michigan delegation include Elizabeth Hawley, '45, Chairman of the Post-War Coun- cil; Mary Lee Grossman, '46,head of the Speakers Bureau; and Ethel Shirwindt, '45, and Mildred Dansker, '44, both of Inter-Racial Association. The USSA convention, a national youth conference, will discuss and act upon current issues which affect the post-war world. Four topics on the agenda are: the Hatch-Hill-Ball- Burton Act, United States relations with the Soviet Union, the National Resources Planning Board report and United States policy in North Africa. Resolutions will be drawn up con- cerning the above items. The Michi- gan delegation. will be allowed three votes. The Michigan chapter of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers will hold their annual spring picnic today at 2 p.m. in the east part of the Arboretum. Committee OK's * .1 Ship . Year (Continued from Page 1) Texas, Byrd of Virginia,. Johnson of Colorado - and LaFollette (Prog.- Wis.) Those who supported it were five Democrats-Clark, Gerry, of Rhode Island, Radcliffe of Maryland, Walsh of Massachusetts, Lucas of Illinois- and the Committee's eight Republi- cans-Vandenberg of Michigan, Da- vis of Pennsylvania, Lodge of Mas- sachusetts, Danaher of Connecticut, Taft of Ohio, Thomas of Idaho, But- ler of Nebraska and Millikin of Colo- rado. Senator Bailey (Dem.-N. C.) and Guffey (Dem.-Pa.) were not present and not recorded by proxy. Of those who favored the Clark motion, Senators Walsh and Lucas were reported to have insisted upon the reservation that satisfactory "windfall" provisions be inserted. Clark told reporters his motion was, in effect, that the Committee adopt the Ruml Plan and proceed to write any needed restrictions into it. All fraternities and sororities are urged to contact the Michigan Historical Collections of Racklham ' Building where their records and periodicals may be deposited safe- ly for the duration. topmost position on the ship ... . Big B Starts Gunning Her rangefinders set on the enemy fire, "Big B" swung her heavies into play, sunk her first target and- blew up her second. Meanwhile Jap guns exploded three U.S. destroyers. The third target was a Kongo class bat- tleship that passed the starboard beam of Big B and was cut in half by a salvo from her No. 3 turret aft. Her secondary batteries continued to pour fire into eight Jap destroyers hiding in a cove .. Tom Page, Seaman First Class, of Greensburg, Pa., retiembers it was a beautiful night. There was a big moon ... the smell of gardenias was strong from off Florida Island. The association of the gardenias with the action that followed caused Page to lose all desire to smell gardenias again. Hits Jar Control Room "Page sat on an overturned bucket in a corner of the auxiliary control room, feeling comfortable now that the big guns were booming. Then he was knocked off his bucket by a shell hit. The molten metal from the shell ran across the floor like lava. Steampipes were broken, electrical fires sputtered. Noise and heat from the steam were unbearable. "Robertson, a Quartermaster Third Class. came through the opening from the catwalk and said, 'I've lost my shoe, help me find my shoe.' Ev- eryone helped him, even two com- manders. The shoe was not found until next morning-under a body on the catwalk. Helmsman Stands "Bernard Wenke, Seaman First Class, the auxiliary helmsman, was thrown from behind the wheel and lodged in between the bulkhead and the deck. He stayed there, keeping one hand stretched out to hold the wheel. Not until flames from below made the deck almost red hot and set his pants afire did he move." "One of the l.ookouts kept repeat- ing in a low voice: 'Lord, I'm scared. Nobody has any idea how scared I am. How could anybody be this scared.' He said that over and over. Nobody' thought it strange. Admiral'sShip Assists There was a lull then. The ship steamed alone in a circle of btiring ships. The Admiral's vessel ,had dis- appeared in the darkness. Into the narrowest part of the cove came four more enemy ships. The second one threw searchlights on Big B and she opened fire. From her rear came supporting salvos, indicating that the Admiral's ship was still in the fight. The assistance was welcome for Big B was being pounded heavily by the guns of three hard-punching Jap warships. Six- and eight-inch shells ripped through the top of her super- structure, then put into her second- aries. Her deck was riddled with shrapnel. Fire broke out in the tat- tered superstructure. Wreckage lay everywhere. Spilling, Mr. and and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. John Andres, James R. Slocum. I WAR BONDS ISSUED HERE 704fillf 25C to 5 P.M. ATTENTI ON rANN AA4ROK'S NEWEST rHEATRET5 Last Day LUPE "LADIES VELEZ DAY" - Starts Sunday - They Burn Up On The Musical Cruise Of Your Dreams! AY MARTIN i " RACK RUDY j ~VALLEY : : Dirded by CURTIS BERNHAROT Sceen May by Waenr no.a, CLASSiFIED ADVERTISING as indic drive o and wit. termined China. attempt to crush Free LOST and FOUND CLASSIFIED RATES * Non-Contract $ .40 per 15-word insertion for one or two days. (In- crease of 10c for each additional 5 words.) $1.00 per 15-word insertion for three or more days. 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