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Ohio State Leads NCAA During First Night
Campus and City Clocks
To Differ by One Hour
Five Appointments Made by Regents;
Forestry School Ci rricuulni Changed
Michigan Dominates Sprints
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All clocks in the University will be
turned back one hour midnight, April
8, to conform with a ruling made by
the Board of Regents in their month-
ly meeting here yesterday to put the
campus on a Central War Time basis.
The new time schedule, in con-
flict with Ann Arbor's Eastern War
Time, was made after a request by
the state legislature which recently
passed a law putting most of Mich-
igan on slow time.
In other business the Regents an-
nounced a change in curriculum in
the forestry school, appointments of
five faculty members, granted leaves
Yanks Invade
Negros Island
in Visa yan Area
Bacolod Airstrip Falls
After 14-Mile Dash
By The Associated Press
MANILA, March 31, Saturday-
The U.S. 40th Division of the Eighth
Army landed Thursday on Negros Is-
land in the central Philippines,
Headquarters reported today. Brush-
ing aside enemy resistance on the
west coast near, Bago, the Yanks
raced 14 miles inland, captured Bac-
ald airstrip and approached the out-
skirts of the capital city of Bacolod.
U.S. Fifth Fleet battleships and
carrier planes continued pounding
the Ryukyu Islands southwest of
Japan yesterday, the eighth straight
day, and smashed a Nipponese attack
Wednesday night, shooting down 17
enemy planes and destroying four
torpedo boats. Fleet Admiral Chester
W. Nimitz reported.
With the presence of a strong Brit-
ish task force in the Ryukyu opera-
tion, the Japanese radio estimated
that "one-fourth to one-third" of
Allied naval strength was operating
in that archipelago, and predicted
that the invasion of Okinawa, princi-
pal island in the chain, was "but a
matter of time".
The 40th U.S. Division, which pre-
viously had invaded Panay Island,
surged ashore on Negros, one of the
last of the important Philippine Is-
lands held by the Japanese.
Nazi Attempt
On Canal Foiled
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 30.-(A)
-The influential newspaper La Na-
cion declared today that an attempt
to destroy the Panama Canal had
been uncovered with the detention of
a German saboteur named Von Ap-
pen and linked the purported attempt
with the destruction of several Chile-
an ships which the paper laid to
sabotage.
The newspaper made the assertion
in a story headlined "Shipwrecks of
the Sailing Vessel Lautaro and the
Steamship Mapocho and Others Were
the Work of Sabotage."
CAMPUS EVENTS
Today "Grand Illusion," French
prize-winning film with
English sub-titles, to be
presented at 8:30 p. m. in
Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
tre.
Today Registration 'for ASTRP
examination closes.
Today Petitions for League Lx-
of absence to nine faculty members
and accepted gifts totalling more
than $220,000.
The change in time, the Regents
announced, will affect only the
University. Because the city of
Ann Arbor is scheduled to remain
on EWT, students will attend clas-
ses one hour earlier according to
University clocks but the usual time
according to city clocks.
This device will forestall the neces-
sity of University personnel altering
their private schedules to conform
with the EWT of Detroit, Ann Arbor
and neighboring factories. Under the
plan classes which now begin at 8
a.m., EWT, will start at 7 a.m., CWT.
The lunch hour will thus run from
11 a.m. to 12 noon. Students will
leave classes when University clocks
read 11 a.m., eat lunch in a non-
University dining-room at 12 noon,
Ann Arbor time, and return to the
class-room an hour later to find Uni-
versity clocks registering 12 noon.
Mrs. Mary Bromage, Assistant
Dean of Women, revealed that final
decision of what women's hours
would be under the new time change
would depend on. a meeting of the
directors of the residence halls and
the office of the dean of women.
Mrs. Bromage predicted that the
women's houses wold conform
with the rest of the University.
"I guess the girls will have to be
in 9:30 p.m., CWT, on week nights.
That will be 10:30 p.m., Ann Arbor
time," she said
It was understood the time ruling
was made to conform with a request
by the state legislature now consider-
ing the University's budget.
The newly announced curriculum
in the forestry school will permit
specialized study in the field of wood
technology omitting many engineer-
ing courses and accenting non-for-
estry subjects in the literary and bus-
iness administration school.
Among the five appointments an-
See CAMPUS, Page 4
U' Research
Assistant Will
Aid Filipinos
Jose V. Santos, research assistant
in the University Botanical Gardens,
was granted a leave of absence to
carry on work for the Philippine
Commonwealth government, it was
announced at the monthly Board of
Regents meeting yesterday.
After going to Washington Santos
will be sent to Mindanao, where he
will help to establish quinine and
rubber plantations in the reconquered
territory. The Philippine govern-
ment, said to possess some of the
finest areas in the world for growing
both these products, hopes to chal-
lenge the former monopoly of the
Dutch East Indies after the war.
Formerly a member of the botani-
cal staff of the University of the
Philippines, Santos attended the Uni-
versity on a Philippine fellowship.
During the past two years he has
been on leave of absence at the re-
quest of the Philippine government
to study methods used on rubber and
quinine plantations by experiment
stations in Mexico and Central Amer-
ica.
'~raad Illusion'
To. End Today
Cornell, Colunibia
Behind Pace Setter
By HANK KEISER
Ohio State's swimming squad
forged ahead of the field of college
and university competitors in the
NCAA meet here last night to grab
the lead at the end of the first day
of championship competition.
Snagging one first, two seconds,
and four fourth places in the five
eyents on the night's program, in
addition to a first in the 1500-meter
freestyle race, which was run off in
the afternoon, the Buckeyes manag-
ed to amass 30 points, nosing ahead
of their closest rival, Michigan, which
grabbed 23.
The other teams finished in the
following order: Cornell, 11 points;
Princeton, 6; Canisius, 5; Northwest-
ern, 4; Indiana, 4; Purdue, 3; Min-
nesota, 3; Michigan State, 2, and
Iowa, 1.
Schlanger Tops Scorers
Top scoring honors of the eve-
ning were shared by Seymour
Schlanger of Ohio State, and Eu-
gene Rogers, Columbia's "one-man
team," both of whom amassed 10
points. Schlanger led the Buckeye
crew's attack, capturing a first in
the 1500-meter and finishing second
to Rogers in the 220-freestyle. Rog-
ers also grabbed the number two spot
in the 50 freestyle.
The Red and Gray took the lead
as a result of the one-meter diving
competition, in which they placed
three men, Hobart Billingsley, first;
Ted Christakos, second; and Bob
Stone, fourth.
Wolverines Take Three Places.
The Wolverines offset this killing
40,000 Germans
Trapped in Iuhr
U. S. Tanks Cross Eder River, 182
Miles Southwest of Berlin's Suburbs
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
Associated Press Correspondent
PARIS, Sat., March 31-U. S. tanks thundered unopposed across the
formidable Eder River 182 miles southwest of Berlin in a 21-mile sweep
yesterday and American breakthrough forces to the north threatened at any
hour to trap 40,000 crack German troops in the toppling Ruhr.
Five Allied armies, powered by at least 18 armored divisions beyond
the Rhine, drove almost at will through the broken German front, weak-
ened to an almost fatal point by 60,000 captives swept up by Gen. Eisen-
hower's forces in the last two days.
German Defenses Crumbling
WANT 13TH NCAA CROWN-Michigan's veteran swimming coach,
Matt Mann, counts on his three companions, (left to right) Captain
Merton Church, who won the 50-yard freestyle event last night, and
Heini Kessler, breaststroker, to pace his team to the title at last session
of the National Collegiate meet here today.
somewhat by taking three of the collegiate title in this event, while
five places in the 50-yard freestyle. Gordon Pulford copped third, and
Mert Church, captain of the Maize Bob Breen, fifth.
and Blue squad, won the national (see page 3--Ohio State)
COOPERATION 'GUARANTEED':
Latin American Legal Officers
Feted at International Center
In an address on behalf of the 22
visiting Latin American Judge Ad-
vocates, Brigadier General Paul Fer-
nandez of Mexico, thanked the Unit-
ed States Judge Advocate General
Department, at a reception held last
night at the International Center,
for the "happy opportunity you have
given us to learn the superb progress
of your industry, culture and organ-
ization."
Hope for close cooperation among
American republics was voiced by Dr.
Esson M. Gale, director of the Inter-
national Center, who welcomed the
guests at the reception, sponsored by
the International Center and the
JAG School. "Today," Dr. Gale said,
"the Americas tower up strong in the
present and hopeful for the future."
Sees Cooperation
"Nothing could be more signifi-
cant," he added, "than the gather-
ing here tonight of the distinguished
officers representing both the mili-
tary and the law from other Ameri-
can countries. Their presence in the
United States at the Judge Advocate
Conference at Chicago and their tour
of military installations at other
points in the United States from
March 15 to April 24, 1945, is a guar-
antee of the continued cooperation of
the leaders of the Western Hemi-
sphere."
Harriet Porter, formerly a music
student at the University, made a
special trip from New York City to
sing for the visiting officers. Her
three selections, "The Man I Love,"
"Estrellita" and "Begin the Beguine"
were received with enthusiastic ap-
plause by the guests.
Reunion Held
Three studentssat the University
and Captain Jose Phillips of the
Colombian Navy held an unexpected
reunion at the reception. All four,
Mary Fantos, Manuel Jose Puyana
and Herman Alarcon and Capt. Phil-
lips are from the same town, Bucar-
amaimza, Colombia.
The Latin American officers will
visit the Legal Research library and
the River Rouge plant this morning,
the Detroit Athletic Club in the aft-
ernoon and will have dinner at the
Latin Quarter, Detroit, this evening.
Qualified students who wish to
take the Army Specialized Train-
ing Reserve Program qualifying
test and who have not already reg-
istered, must register today at the
Dean of Students office, Rm. 2,
University Hall.
Pi Phis Oust
Critic of Greek
Letter Societies
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO, March 30-Mrs. Glenn
Frank, widow of the former presi-
dent of the University of Wisconsin,
said today she had been ousted from
Pi Beta Phi sorority because of an
article she wrote recently criticizing
the American college sorority-frater-
nity system.
She said she received notice of her
ouster in a letter from Amy Burn-
ham Onken, Chapin, Ill., grand pres-
ident of the sorority.
Mrs. Frank's article, which ap-
peared in the April issue of the
Women's Home Companion, criti-
cized the system of sororities and
fraternities in American schools.
It urged abolition of "exclusive"
school organizations and branded
them as un-American, snobbish
and undemocratic.
"The, article I wrote was sincere
and true," Mrs. Frank said. "I saw
what sororities and fraternities can
do to over-sensitive young persons at
the University of Missouri, and later
when I came to Wisconsin I saw these
things repeated. There is too much
sorrow, tragedy and heartbreak when
a student outside of the exclusive club
cannot enjoy its membership. If my
article does any good at all I will not
,mind the sacrifice."
"There is not any organized line of
defense between you and Berlin," a
high-ranking German officer told his
U. S. Third Army captors. "There
is not any organized system of gov-
ement left in Germany. When you
reach Berlin the whole situation will
quickly dissolve."
At least two U. S. First Army tank
divisions and three U. S. Third- Army
armored divisions were on the high
road to Berlin, brushing past the
scant resistance in gains of 20 and 21
miles respectively.
Eder Dam Captured
The U. S. First Army scored one of
the biggest tactical victories of an-
other sensational day by capturing
the great Eder Dam near Hemfurt.
It was taken so swiftly it was not even
prepared for the demolitions that
would have flooded the route to Ber-
lin.
Westward, Canadian and British
forces had cut back into Holland, pos-
sibly to seal off the V-bomb coast..
On the south end of the front, the
U. S. Seventh Army captured the
ancient University city of Heidelberg
and pressed on East along the Neckar
River Valley, cutting in behind the
Black Forest toward the Bavarian
Alps, where the last Nazis may be
brought to bay.
The U. S. First and Third Army in
mile-eating strides toward the cap-
ital were 16 miles or less from the
big locomotive-manufacturing center
of Kassel by admittedly belated ac-
counts.
First Army Enters Fritzlar
The First Army's Seventh Armored
Division, jumping off from positions
north of Frankfurt on the Main, reel-
ed off 20 miles, forged across the
Eder and entered Fritzlar, 182 miles
southwest of Berlin and 16 miles from
from Kassel.
Veteran Wins
B v ve
Science Award
Robert Owen McWilliams, '45, a
veteran since September, 1943, has
received the William Jennings Bry-
An award for outstanding work in
political science, Prof. Everett Brown
announced yesterday.
Mr. McWilliams, who entered the
Army in August, 1942, worked for a
year after his discharge as a veteran
employment representative of the
U. S. Employment Service. He re-
entered the University in November,
1944, under the G. I. Bill of Rights
and has maintained a 3.71 scholastic
average.
The Bryan award was established
in 1899 when the orator spoke here
and left a gift of $500 to the Good
Government Club. Through subse-
quent contributions, the amount has
increased to $2,000.
Soviet Troops
Capture Baltic
Port of Danzig
Powerful Offensive
Advances on Vienna
By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 30 - Russian
troops invaded Austria tonight as
two new Soviet offensive drives
toward Vienna and Italy erupted in
Hungary and southern Slovakia, and
Red Army troops far to the north
captured the big Baltic port of Dan-
zig, hoisting the flag of the "Polish
state" over the former Free City.
Moscow's nightly communique an-
nounced that Marshal Feodor I. Tol-
bukhin's Third Ukrainian Army had
entered Austria-seven years after
that country was annexed to Adolf
Hitler's greater Reich-after cross-
ing the frontier north of captured
Koszeg, 52 miles south of Vienna.
New Offensive
Earlier, Marshal Stalin had an-
nounced that the second and third
Ukrainian Armies, on the North and
South Banks of the Danube, had
opened two powerful new offensives.
On the Danube's. north bank, Rus-
sian columns burst 31 miles across
southern Slovakia, breaching Vien-
na's Nitra River defense line.
At the same time, Marshal Tolbuk-
hin's Army opened a big drive south
of Lake Balaton in southern Hungary
in the 42-mile gap between the Lake
and the Drava River. This force
advanced to within 12 miles east of
the great oil center of Nagykanizsa
after a 20-mile advance across terri-
tory previously won and then lost.
They captured Boehoeny in their
closest approach to Nagykanizsa.
Near Yugoslav Border
They also drove to within nine
miles of the Yugoslav border by tak-
ing Nagyatad,'72 miles northeast of
Zagreb, puppet Croat capital.
More than 10,000 German troops
were captured and 39,000. killed in
the collapse of German resistance in
Danzig city, where the first shots
of World War two were fired. Forty-
five German U-boats and 151 other
ships were taken in the great naval
base, internationalized by the League
of Nations. Danzig was the first
German prize of the present war.
The raising of the Polish flag indi-
cated Russia's intention of giving the
European tinderbox to the Poles.
Pacific Veteran
Visits Campus
Graduate '43 NROTC
Unit Sees Active Duty
A member of the first Naval ROTC
unit to be trained at the University,
Lt. (j.g.) Richard M. Orlikoff, yes-
terday visited the campus after see-
ing a year of active service in the
South Pacific Theater,
g Orlikoff, who served aboard the
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SUNRISE PROGRAM, PAGEANT PLANNED:
Special Easter Services Are Scheduled by City Churches
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Special Easter services commem-
orating the resurrection of Christ
will be held Sunday in many Ann
Arbor Churches, from 6 to 11 a.m.,
with a number of churches schedul-
bers will meet at the Guild House
at 7:15 a.m. for breakfast and then
proceed to Cedar Bend for the 9:30
service. At 11 a.m. they will hold
sher ic ril,r.iu,v orsZhipour
The First Presbyterian Church has
scheduled two Easter ceremonies, the
first at 9 a.m. when Rev. James Van
Pernis will speak on "Beyond Trage-
dy". The second service at 10:45 will
night at the First Congregational
church. "The Best Is Yet To Be"
will be the topic of Dr. Leonard A.
Parr. The Lyra Chorus will be fea-
tured with Charles Taylor as the
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