air- -- -. - - - im T - W V - rw - mft"--M* * -. A , A . . ________________a____ E U, IV"I5a I 4E -,c IN Ity 1.IT~ .111 Y C.,::l t4 1 S 111:i1, 1 i 'l f I 72I tato Methodist Stu dents To Hold Meetig Talk by Dean Faulkner, Ypsi Tour To Highlight Michigan Conference "Where Cross the Crowded Ways" will be the theme of the State Con- ference of the Methodist Student Movement in Michigan which will meet Friday and Saturday at the Wesley Foundation at the First Methodist Church. Students from many Michigan col- leges will take part in the program that will begin with a banquet at 6:30 p.m. at the Foundation. Dean William J. Faulkner, dean of the chapel and religious life at Fisk Uni- versity and Meharry Medical College, will be the speaker. He has become well known as a lecturer on race rela- tions, religion and Negro folk lore. The group will leave for a tour of projects in Willow Run Village and Ypsilanti Saturday morning and re- turn in the afternoon for a discussion and evaluation of the morning's trip. James Stermer of the Willow Run Study Project, Dean Faulkner and Dr. H. D. Bollinger, executive secre- tary of the Movement, will act as leaders. A business meeting will be held afterwards with election of new offi- cers. Dr. Bollinger will install the officers. A brief worship service and dinner will conclude the conference. OPA To Check WPB Freezes Prodiieicm t Manpower Shortage Necessitatesin ting Priority Ma11 * erials By 'rhe Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 11.- The War Production Board (WPB) has placed limitations on civilian pro- duction in 103 areas of stringent labor shortage, it was learned to- night. The action in effect "freezes" civil- ian production at the level of the last three months, so far as grants of material or priority aid are con- cerned, in order to prevent civilian goods manufacture from draining manpower from munitions plants. The decision was expected to result shortly in a reducing production of electric irons in 1944 from 2,000,000 irons to 200,000 through the cancel- lation of contracts in cities desig- nated by the War Manpower Com- mission as shortage areas. In another action of more direct military significance, but similarly unannounced, the WPB raised heavy artillery to top priority status along with invasion craft, in response to military demand for more big guns in a hurry. The directive to producers of heavy artillery was said to reflect the Army's finding that light guns were not sufficiently powerful to blast the Germans from their positions in Italy, as well as the failure of aerial bombardment to knock out Cassino. USE FAKENEWSPAPERS: rVcis. Feed Propaganda to Captives .,w MR. GEOFREY P. MORGAN-manager of the Speakers Bureau of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., will speak on the topic, "The Shape of Wings To Come," at 8:15 p.m. today in the Rack- ham Auditorium. MAN'S ,BEST FRIEND: Chaplain's Pup, Lulabelle Helps Cure Soldiers in Anzio Hospital NEW YORK, April .-(I)- De- layed)-United States airmen held captive in Germany are being fed underhanded Nazi propaganda through fake "prisoners'" newspa- pers distributed as though they were exchanges between different camps. The two small newspapers, printed in English, are called "Okay" and "The Camp News." They purport to be written by American prisoners in other camps and contain various innocent bits of news from America that reach Germany. But the airmen I spoke to from prison camps said they also con- tain subtle Nazi propaganda. No copies of these newspapers are known to have come out of Germany as yet. Only 19 American fliers have been released from Ger- man imprisonment so far, and we spent nine days on the Gripsholm with them. None was allowed to take any writ- ten matter on his person when he left camp. And it is extremely un- likely that any who may have escaped would have loaded themselves with printed souvenirs. In answer to the propaganda news- papers, the American aviators, in their main prison camp at Sagan, post a daily news bulletin of their own with camp news plus whatever real world news can be gleaned from the German newspapers by the few who know German. It is part of a battle of morale. with the spirit of the prisoners at stake-and the Americans appear to be winning hands down. The test is that they all say they want to fly again as soon as pos- sible. Even those seriously wounded have a boundless faith in the mira- cles of American surgery, which they are confident will restore them to service. They are quite serious about all this, and discuss what types of planes they would like to fly. Most of them say they wouild rather serve in lower- flying and lighter bombers next time in preference to Flying Fortresses. "In a 'fort' you feel divorced from the world," one exchange prisoner put it. "The scene below you has got no character-you would like to be farther down where it means some- thing." In their determination to rejoin the Air Force, many captured air- men try to escape. At the Sagan camp one barrack at the edge of camp had to be evacuated because so many tunnels had been started under it that there was danger of a cave-in. The camp is surrounded by sound detectors every 15 yards to locate tunneling operations by prisoners. Most tunnels are detected as they pass camp bounds. The soil is clayey, so the Nazi guards simply fill them with water. Red Cross prisoners' parcels are delivered open to the captives, with the cans punctured to make sure that food cannot be saved over any length of time for an escape. The prisoners agree that the YMCA, bombarding them from Geneva with books, games, musical instruments and phonograph records, was their most valuable ally in maintaining morale. The Sagan camp consists of four isolated compounds designed for about 800 prisoners each; two for British and two for American. No prisoner may leave the camp or even his compound, which, how- ever, has a sports field and large grounds inside the barbed wire. In compensation, the prisoners re- ceive double the usual number of Red Cross packages-one British and one American parcel per week for every man. Such items as can be cooked are contributed to a common pool, added to the highly inadequate Ger- man prison 6amp fare. At first the cooking was done by 20 German women-"where four were needed," prisoners said-but too many articles disappeared, so the pri- soners took over the cooking them- selves, each room taking turns at the stoves. Since many of the prisoners knew one another at flying fields in Eng- land, every new arrival finds him- self among acquaintances and is in turn pumped for the latest news. Some of it the prisoners know themselves-from their camp near Dresden they can hear the bomb- ings of Berlin, well over a hundred miles away. Comstock Is Chairman DETROIT, April 11.-(P)-Wayne County's new 84-man Board of Sup- ervisors, streamlined from a member- ship of 161, elected former Governor William A. Comstock chsairman at its first meeting today. Comstock is a Detroit City Councilman. Derot itCunilan r On Restaurants Local Price Survey To Omit 'U' Dining Rooms The current survey being taken by the OPA Price Panel here to check prices and posted regulations in Washtenaw County restaurants will not affect the University dining rooms and cafeterias in the League and Union, Mrs. A. Van Duren, of the local office said last night. As part of a nationwide OPA pro- gram the survey of 226 local eating places has been under way for two days and will continue through April 29. Volunteers have been called for to check and compare the present prices of specific foods and plate combina- tions with the prices that were charged April 4 through April 10, 1943. According to OPA regulations current prices may not exceed those charged during the above period. All restaurants have been required for some time to post the OPA legend stating the restaurant's price regula- tions on either the menu, or, if they are lacking, on the wall, in a con- spicuous place. The compliance of restaurant managers with this rul- ing will also be checked during the survey. Prof. Price To Give Recital on Carillon Prof. Percival Price, University carilloneur, will give an informal re- cital at 7 p.m. Friday in the Burton Memorial Tower, featuring several Latin American songs. His selection of music from our southern neighbors include four songs, all anonymous: "Chiapane- cas," "Peruvian Planting Song," "Adios, De Rigo" and "Las Altenitas." Prof. Price will play Bach's "Theme and Variations," also "Theme and Variation" (for carillon) by Hyp- polite Coomans. The latter part of the recital wil lhe composed of se- lections from Tschaikowsky's famous "Nutcracker." Sarah Hanby Will Give Piano Recital Presenting a piano recital in par- tial fulfillment of the B.M. degree, Sarah Hanby, '44SM, will highlight her program at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building, with sonatas by Cimarosa and Beethoven. Miss Hanby, a pupil of Joseph Brinkman, will also play the Bach- Busoni "Choral Prelude," Bach-d'Al- bert "Prelude and fugue in D major" and Tschaikowsky's "Theme and Variations, Op. 19, No. 6." DAILY O FFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 4) tional meeting of the MYDA folk- dance group Friday at 9 p.m., in the Union. Everyone is invited. Phi Delta Kappa membership meet- ings will be held Thursday and Fri- day at 4 p.m. in Rm. 3203 University High School. The Michigan swimming team will By KENNETH L. DIXON Associated Press Correspondent ANZIO BEACHHEAD (delayed). The chaplain walked down to the hospital tent with Lulabelle in his arms. The chaplain is Lt. Col. William E. King, who used to preach at the May- wood Baptist Church at Kansas City. Lulabelle is a very diminutive dog about six inches long but not quite that tall. He often carries her around in his trench coat pocket or sitting, papoose style, in the hood or parka designed to go over his head but which usually hangs down between his shoulder blades. Dog Interests Wounded Lying there on their cots, the wounded lads looked up as the chap- lain and his dog came by, most of them showing more interest in Lula- belle than her owner. King stopped to chat here and there, letting the boys pet the dog. Finally he reached a cot where a quiet soldier lay. For days the sol- dier had said not a word except in reply to questions. Stony-eyed, he lay there, staring straight up rather than look at the two stumps of arms where his wrists and hands used to be. The stumps were encased in some sort of cast which covered his chest. "He's lucky to be alive," a nurse whispered. "But he doesn't seem to care. He hasn't shown the slightest interest in anything, even staying alive." The chaplain walked over to the cot, stood there a moment looking down at the lad. Suddenly the boy saw Lulabelle. He started to speak, swallowed and remained silent. Dog Licks His Face "What is it, son?" King asked. "Say," the boy stumbled through the sentence, "would you just let the pup lick my face?" King leaned over, sat Lulabelle down on the plaster-encased chest between the stumps of arms. Wag- ging her tail like mad, she stuck her tiny head forward and licked the sol- dier's face. In the stillness the sound of the lad's swallowing seemed loud. Tears began to trickle down his cheeks. Finally he spoke: "I used to have a dog, sir," he said, "and he'd sneak up and lick my face while I was sleeping. That's the first time a dog has licked my face since I left home, sir." King nodded, said nothing. When he started on to the ward tents he left Lulabelle there on the cot. When he came back he found her snuggled up into the soldier's armpit under one of the stumps, her head lying on his shoulder. King Leaves Lulabelle "Certainly is nice to have a dog around, sir," said the boy. "Every patient ought to have one." Sudden- ly his face broke in a broad grin at the idea of a whole tent full of dogs. King grinned back. When he left the hospital an hour or so later Lula- belle stayed. They call her "The Chaplain's As- sistant." Eisenhower Gives American Ace DSC A U.S. FIGHTER BASE, England, April 11.-(P)-Capt. Don S. Gentile, America's leading fighter pilot and "one-man airforce," was rewarded for his deeds today by the supreme allied commander for the western front invasion. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who called the handsome, 23-year-old Piqua, 0., youth a "one-nian air- force," decorated Gentile with the Distinguished Service Cross-second highest American medal-and said his citation read like one of the great deeds of heroism in this war. The Mustang pilot, top American ace with 30 planes shot down, includ- ing seven destroyed on the ground, was cited for "extraordinary cour- age. Highlights On Campus .. . 1 Dr. Dice To Speak... The problems of human heredity will be discussed by Dr. Lee R. Dice of the Heredity Clinic in a lecture for Phi Sigma, scientific society, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Amphi- theatre. Dr. Dice will talk on the results of the heredity research work supported by the Rackham Board and will pre- sent an outline of the problems of the research. Slides picturing some of the pedigrees of human heredity will also be shown at the lecture. Luncheon To Be Held . An Inter-Guild luncheon will be held at noon today in the Fireside Room of Lane Hall. Prof. Preston Slosson will speak and anyone interested may attend. Hass To Be Given ... Robert Taylor, '46E, will present a recorded version of Buckner's Mass in E Minor at 7:30 p.m. today at Lane Hall as one of the regular Student Religious Association music hours. He will interpret the music and discuss its background and history. All students and servicemen are in- vited to attend. 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