flu 4AlniL WXIEATHEIR Clouidy and NMdwithll 5eCafttercd -Soors VOL. LV, No. 157 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Wolverine Squads Will Battle in Big Ten Competition Indoor Track, Tennis, Baseball, Golf Teams Will Swing Into Action Today Nazi Reads Book By Prof. Slosson Marianas-Based Superforts Raid Central Tokyo Business District Using 4,000 Tons of Fire Bombs Four Michigan spring sports squads will have their eyes on Western Con- ference championships today when three Big Ten meets and a crucial baseball doubleheader get underway at widely scattered points around the Conference circuit. Indoor track, tennis, and golf rep- resentatives from the University will swing into action against the rest of the Big Ten to determine team cham- Dean Perry Granted One Year Leave Assistant Retires After 15 Years of Service Miss Jeannette Perry, Assistant Dean of Women and counselor to thousands of coeds for 15 years, will retire on July 1, the Board of Regents announced yesterday. She was granted a terminal leave of one year. During her term of office here Miss Perry has watched enrollment of women students nearly double un- til it has reached the present figure of more than 4,500. Her duties included the admini- stration of student loans for women, special permission regulations and the problems of housing. Miss Perry received her A. B. from Vassar and her A. M. in rhetoric from the University. Between 1922 and 1925 she was director of Betsy Bar- bour dormitory.' Warren Chase Appointed to Professorship Dr. Warren W. Chase, senior bi- ologist in the Soil Conservation Ser- vice of the Department of Agricul- ture, was named by the Board of Regents yesterday to the professor- ship of wildlife management in the School of Forestry and Conservation. His appointment becomes effective July 1. Dr. Chase will fill a vacancy caused by the death of Prof. H. M. Wight in July, 1942. A native of Minnesota, Dr. Chase took his A.B. from Macalester Col- lege in 1926 and an M.S. in forestry at the University of Minnesota in 1928. He received his Ph.D. in 1933 from the University of Minnesota. Between 1928 and 1934 he was assistant instructor in forestry at the University of California and in- structor in forestry at the University of Minnesota. Since 1934 he ha been connected with the Soil Con- servation Service as a game conser- vationist, forester and senior biol- ogist. At present he has charge of all biological activities of the Service in the eight states covered by a region with headquarters in Mil- waukee. He is an active member of the Society of American Foresters and of the Wildlife Society. CAMPUS EVENTS Today Two films, "Declaration of Independence" and "Give Me Liberty," de- picting events in Ameri- can history will be shown at 7:30 p. m. EWT in Rackham Amphitheatre. Today A Spring Hop will be held 9:30 to midnight EWT in the League Ballroom under the sponsorship of Cannon Post, American Legion. Today Class Games classic will be held at 2 p. m. EWT at Ferry Field. Today Auction sale will high- light "UJA Over-the- Top" mixer from 9 to midnight EWT at Hillel Foundation. Today Prof. Pfrston W. Slosson will address the Annual National Convention of Sigma Rho Tau at 7:30 p. m. EWT in Rm. 318 of pionships. The baseball team can virtually assure itself of first place in the Conference scramble by beat- ing Wisconsin twice at Madison. Michigan Teams Favored All four cortingents have been in- stalled as favorites to haul down top honors and make it two years in a row that Michigan has managed a clean sweep of Conference spring sports competition. Highlight on the day's program is the Big Ten outdoor track meet at Champaign, Ill., where Michigan's thinclads will try to stave off a ser- ious threat from a determined Illi- nois squad and repeat its victory scored indoors earlier this year. All indications point to another hot duel between the two arch cinder rivals with the Wolverines accorded a slight pre-meet edge. Tennis Teams Undefeated The tennis and golf squads will go into action at Evanston. Coach Leroy Weir's racqueteers, undefeated in ten outings this season, are rated a sizeable edge over the rest of the field, with Ohio State and Northwest- ern providing most of the competi- tion. Coach Bill' Barclay's linksmen are expected to have a somewhat tougher time, but drew the favorite role for themselves by beating Ohio State, the number one challenger, last week, after losing to the Bucks earlier in the campaign. Northwestern and Minnesota are also given a chance to sneak through in front. Wisconsin Only Opponent At Madison, the Wolverine nine has only to get by a formidable Badger crew in both ends of a doubleheader to all but wrap up the Conference flag and bring it home. Undefeated in Big Ten play, Michigan cannot mathematically eliminate the other squads from titular hopes this week- end, but Wisconsin is conceded to be the only team left on the schedule with any chance to bowl over Coach Ray Fisher's pupils.I For further details, see sports page. Sale of Poppies Begins Today Proceeds To Assist Rehabilitation of Vets Poppy sales honoring dead, and assisting living veterans of World Wars I and II will be held in Ann Arbor today by University coeds and Legionnaires. American Legion Erwin Prieskorn Post, Unit No. 46 of the American LegionAuxiliary, and Graf O'Hara Post No. 243 of the Veterans of For- sign Wars will conduct the sales. Proceeds will be used in the rehabili- tation of disabled veterans, and as assistance to children of the dead and disabled. Historical Fi t 1o Be Pesent ed Today Two films, "Declaration of Inde- pendence" and "Give Me Liberty", lepicting events in American history: LT.-GEN. ULRICH KESSLER Captured German General reads Prof. Preston Slosson's "After the War-What?" after being removed from the surrendered 1,600-ton U- 234 submarine. Luftwaffe Lt.-Gen. Ulrich Kessler, seated in the galley of a Coast Guard boat en route to Portsmouth, N.H., speaks English with an Oxford ac- cent, Navy crewmen said. Prof. Slos- son explained that the book was written in response to a request by Houghton-Mifflin publishing house for a discussion on the prospects of peace. The book has been used in high schools and has been distributed to the Army and Navy. Prof. Slosson suggested that Kessler may have ac- quired the book from a prisoner of war. Said Prof. Slosson, "It would be interesting to know what he thou- ght of it." Dr.. F. Huntley Gives TFalk on Jap History "We've got to know the Jap better in order to beat him, and in order to live with him after the war." D2. Frank L. Huntley, instructor in the Civil Affairs Training School, said in an address last night at the Hillel Foundation. Looking into Japanese history, Dr. Huntley pointed out that with the entrance of the western world into Japan the country had to prove that she could take care of herself in order to maintain her sovereignty. Japanese Theocracy "Japan is a theocracy. We cannot separate Shinto from politics. This is the secret of the great strength of our enemy." These are the religious factors which Dr. Huntley said we must take into consideration. Another point to remember about Japan, Dr. Huntley emphasized, is that four or five families control 85 per cent of the wealth of the country. Encouir 'e Democracy our duty in the post-war world is to make sure that Japan will not be able to wage war again, Dr. Hun tley declared. This can be accomplished by removing her heavy industries, encouraging democratic institutions and breaking up economic combina- tions, he asserted. But in destroying her heavy indus- tries Dr. Huntley emphasized the fact that we must leave sufficient means for the people to make a liv- ing. Intellectual Myopia "Japan has been living in an intel- lectual myopia for years," he said. "and if we give her a free press, opposition to the military dictator- ship will follow." Bretton Woods Discussed by Prof. Watkins Plan Should Be Tried No rOther Alternative "The risk we take in not giving the Bretton Woods plan a trial is much greater than the risks involved in the plan itself," said Prof. Leonard Watkins of the economics depart- ment yesterday during an informal talk on the Bretton Woods Proposal held at the Robert Owen Cooperative House. Prof. Watkins began his discus- sion with a background sketch of the conference. The Keynes and White plans, from England and America respectively, formed the basis for the international eco- noi cooperative program. Rep- resentatives from 44 nations met and formulated the Bretton Woods proposal, the plan of which has passed through our House of Rep- resentatives and is now pending ratification by the Senate. The two principal divisions of the plan are the World Stabilization Fund and the International Bank. The world fund is set at eight billion dollars which will be collected from its members. Each nation is 'to con- tribute a proportionate quota, the United States' quota is set at two and three-quarters billion. The chief functions of the fund will be to man- age exchange rates and provide lim- ited, temporary loans to countries behind in their international pay- ments. The second part of the plan is the international banking system which will have a fund of nine billion or more. It is to aid in long run reconstruction purposes. The International Bank is to be a sup- plement to private leners and insures the loans of owners of private capital. Prof. Watkins com- pared it to the Reconstruclion Fin- ance Corporation in the United States. Prof. Watkins prefers the Bretton Woods proposal to the other choices we can make. One of them is the old gold standard which failed in its functions after the last world war: Monetary nationalism followed, which Prof. Watkins described as "little more than economic warfare among nations." The results of this system are chaos and competitive depreciation between countries. Our third choice is that which Germany followed under the Nazi regime, exchange control. This means complete control of the imports and exports of the country by the state. In the discussion following the talk, the question was raised as to what Russia's position would be a- mong the free enterprise nations of United States and Great Britain. Prof. Watkins answered that he sincerely hoped that Russia's fight for world peace would lead her to cooperate with the system. Japs Damage S1hips In Okinawa Attack GUAM, Saturday, May 26.--(P)- Eleven light American naval ships were damaged in a strong 18-hour Japanese air attack on America's Okinawa forces Thursday night and Friday, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nim- itz announced today. At the height of the attack, Japa- nese made fantastic attempts to land grenade-armed forces on Yontan airfield in west central Okinawa. JAPAN K h Government Operated argsi W arIndu stries a ebuchJ - Sek, Old "f ( Electoc R R, City Limits C'0 ~~~Nakano :i~ 1 IO FlIterBede - *1 _ TOK YO - ;g Sh buya.S Cholu Ee /t / $'8eolwo Per SHINAGAWA fortsof Ton~o hinagawa RAIL YARDS fFacory f Distrit, oy o o " NakaharaI Haneda SKamata R$,Airport r I 0 _ 2 d STTU E LE awasaki WHERE GREATEST PACIFIC AIR BLOW FELI-The Shinagawa industrial district (circled) of Tokyo was the target of nine million pounds of fire bombs as 550 U. S. Superfortresses made the greatest raid of the Pacific war on May 23. Heavy Blows SANITATION PLANS: Brig.-Gen. Simmons Discusses health Problems of Germany * *v By PHIL ELKUS "When one has criminals in jail, he attempts to sanitate the prison, and that is the general policy that we will take in Germany," Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, chief of Prevent- ive Medicine Service, Office of the Surgeon-General, United States Army, said yesterday. The general, who is to leave the United States shortly for Germany, was in Ann Arbor yesterday to ad- dress the Alpha Kappa Kappa med- ical fraternity. He has recently inspected many Pacific Islands, among them Guadalcanal, Guam and Saipan. When Gen. Simmons arrives in Germany, he is scheduled to take over the Public Health problems until a permanent plan for Germany has been prepared. While his hatred of Hunt Urged for Lidice Children LONDON, May 25.- (P)- The Prague radio appealed tonight "to all people of good will and good hearts" to help trace the children of Lidice. The broadcast said nothing had been heard of Lidice's children since the Germans consigned them to "ed- ucational institutions" after razing the village, killing its men and send- ing its women to concentration camps in reprisal for the assassina- tion of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia. All efforts to trace the children have been in vain, the radio said. Its appeal was directed especially to men and women who have been con- fined in concentration camps and thus might have clues. the Nazi methods are deep, he be- lieves "that the United States, to insure that the German people will never again become the criminals of the world, must give the popula- tion at least the minimum nutrition, so that when rational reason prevails again, the German people may look back and see the difference between the Nazi method and the American." No lover of soft peace plans, he objects to the kind of peace that Germany would have made if she had won. "The United States, with its Allied nations, must show that they can prepare a rational peace, so that five years hence the German people can be prepared physically and mentally for a peace," he said. "The exact policy for Germany depends upon the San Francisco Conference and the forthcoming meeting of the Big Three," he ad- ded. While in the South Pacific, Gen. Simmons was able to get a "first hand view of the way in which the Army's health program is being car - ried out in these important theatres where the conservation of our mili- tary strength is essential to the de- feat of Japan." The Army is doing a magnificent job taking care of the sick and wounded, in insurmountable environmental handicaps, he declar- ed. being a preventive medical man himself, he was proud "of the ef- fectiveness of the Army's prevent- ive medicine program which is be- ing reflected in the relatively low disease morbidity and the extreme- ly low disease mortality rates throughout the year." Gen. Simmons, who was Director of the Philippine Research Institute, will leave Ann Arbor today for Wash- ington, D. C. Prof. Slossonl Speaks 'Today The Annual National Convention of Sigma Rho Tau, engineering speech fraternity, will begin at 7:30 p.m. EWT today in Rm. 318 of the Union with Prof. Preston W. Slosson as feature speaker. Prof. Slosson will discuss the gen- eral courses of action open to the United States emerging from the war as the world's greatest power in his address, entitled "America, Imperial- ist? Isolationist? Internationalist?" Representatives of Sigma Rho Tau chapters in three Detroit universities will attend the convention. Leave Region Smoking Ruins No Report of Losses Or Anti-Aircraft Given By The Associated Press GUAM, Saturday, May 26-Amer- ican Superfortresses turned more heat on Tokyo 'today with a down- pour of more than 4,000 tons of fire bombs from around 500 planes, mak- ing a total of more than 8,500 tons of incendiaries dropped on the city in less than 48 hours. The Marianas-based B-29s sped over the Nipponese capital at med- ium altitude in early morning dark- ness. Crewmen could see the smould- ering remains of at least a 3.2 square mile area sprayed with 4,500 tons in the record breaking 550-plane raid early Thursday. Hit Business District Target for today was the Marun- ouchi business district which includes the imperial government center and many so-called earthquake proof buildings, best and most modern in the empire, and neighboring war plants and docks. The area is in south central Tokyo, between the imperial palace and the Shinagawa district, which was hit Thursday. It includes part of, the famied Ginza, Tokyo's Broadway, and buildings such as the Imperial Hotel, designed by the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The hotel sur- vived the 1923 earthquake. 24th Tokyo Raid Today's raid was the 24th on the Tokyo area since the first attack on the city by Marianas-based B-29s last November. It also was the sev- enth fire bomb attack and will add additional ruined areas to the 35.9 square miles of the city blackened in previous, incendiary blows. No Report of Losses There was no immediate report of losses among today's striking force, nor the reception the planes received from antiaircraft fire or in- terceptor aircraft. Twentieth Air Force Headquarters in Washington announced the loss of 12 planes in Thursday's raid. It was the heaviest blow yet suffered by the B-29s. Class Games Classic To Be Played Today Sophomores sporting dark shirts and freshmen garbed in light will mix at 2 p. m. E'WT today on Ferry Fieldhto decide which class has the more physical prowess in the Class Games Classic. Both classes have promised a fine showing for the afternoon encounter. The freshman promise is somewhat the stronger, with over 50 frosh guar- anteed to appear. "If the sophs don't get over being afraid of us, we'll probably wingthe games by default," one freshman leader said yesterday. Other fresh- men have offered to scour the campus for recalcitrant sophomores if the second-year men do not show up at the games of their own accord. Coach Vic Heyliger and Earl Ris- key, intramural sports head, will direct the activities of the freshmen and sophomores and also act as ref- erees. The games will be mass -con- tests, scored on a point basis. In the last Class Games Classic in 1940, the sophomores won, 60-50. The weatherman predicted yester day that there would be cloudy skies and maybe light scattered showers during the afternoon, but this did not dampen freshman enthusiasm. There was no comment on the pre- dicted clouds from the sophomore class, but several of them were heard to mumble something about term papers and final exams. U. S. Troops Find imler's Hoard PARIS, May 25-(P)-U. S. troops in Berchtesgaden unearthed today Heinrich Himmler's currency hoard -valued at around $1,000,000-as the .. will be shown at 7:30 p.m. EWT We must also get rid of the em- today in the Rackham Amphitheater. peror, but this must be done by the The films, presented by the Uni- Japanese themselves, Dr. Huntley versity Bureau of Visual Education, suggested. But above all, we must Post-War Council, MYDA, and IRA, remember that the Japanese people will be open to the public. are human beings, he concluded. EXPANDS UNIVERSITY SERVICES: ~r New 'U' Prjects A Three major projects designed to of "excellent citizenship practices" in expand the University's functions representative Michigan high schools. and services to the state were ap- Results of- the study will be circu- proved yesterday by the Board of lated through all Michigan high Regents in their monthly meeting schools and libraries. here. Other Business Transacted A fund of $25,000 was earmarked In other business the Regents ac- by the Regents for the development cepted gifts totalling more than $6,- and improvement of Camp Filibert 300, announced engineering research Roth in the Upper Peninsula, the contracts totalling $20,300, and made University's experimental forestry public faculty appointments and station. leaves of absence, pproved by Regents i i t carrying on a permanent program of research and instruction, Dean Sam- uel T. Dana, of the forestry depart- ment, pointed out. A three-part program for the camp will provide a new water system, san- itary and sewage disposal systems and electricity to replace gasoline' lanterns. The camp will ultimately serve as a research center for the lumber industry of Michigan and will operate as teaching institution, train- search in a field in which relatively little work has been done. Placed under the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Institute will be governed by a 12-man board of University scientists. The bequest of the Daughters of the American Revolution will inau- gurate a study which will emphasize four points: 1. Citizenship through participa- tion in student government.